07 Jul Final Paper Project
Note: If you are unable to travel to NYC and/or COVID19 is preventing you from going to the NYC area. You can do everything the final project paper calls for and rather than go to NYC use Google Earth (or Google Maps) street view to do the tour. And rather than going to the Tenement Museum include in the final write up an overview and history of the Tenement Museum.
Field Trip Report
The following is the outline for the paper.
1. A city needs to provide three environments:
A. Residential – where people live
B. Commercial – where people work
C. Public – where people live their lives – parks, shopping, and entertainment
Does BPC supply these environments? You must give specific examples.
2. At the Tenement Museum you will experience the environment in which new emigrants lived. But what were their living conditions in their home country? What were the living conditions in the country where your ancestors came from? What made them move thousands of miles to a world they had only heard about?
Those are the questions you will answer in this part of your paper. You will go about this in either one of two ways:
1. If you have a living relative that immigrated to this country ask them – what was it like in the “old country”, why did you move here, what were living conditions like when you first got here, would you ever move back, etc?
2. If you do not have a relative who has immigrated to this country you will create one. Go to the Ellis Island web site:
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Type in your last name. Find a person with your last name who entered this country from a foreign land before 1910. Now do a little research. What was the place like he/she came from, what were the conditions in the area generally, and what were the conditions like when he/she arrived? For this last part you will have to make the assumptions that they are the same ethnic background as you. You will need to find out what conditions were for your ethnic group at the time of your relatives arrival in this country.
For example someone named Shumaker arrive in 1906 from Savran, Russia: I checked out Savran, Russia – found out it was in the Ukraine, and most likely they were Jewish.
- Jews in the Ukraine/Russia in 1900
- Jewish life in NYC in 1900
If you do the second option you must show references do not just wing it.
3. As you walk to and from the Tenement Museum observe the neighborhood you are walking through, ask yourself:
- What are the buildings like?
- What is the mixture between residential and commercial?
- What is the ethnicity of the people that live there – any tourists?
- Are there restaurants – what do they serve – what are their prices?
- Using the above information what are your impressions of the neighborhood?
BPC Walking Tour
This will give you a good map of BPC. Print it out it will help you on the tour.
You will reverse your walk from the F train. Turn right from the museum office to Delancey Street. Turn right for 2 blocks. You will take the J, M, or Z toward Brooklyn. You will go 2 stops to Chambers St. Walk west on Chambers St. (you walk away from the large Municipal Building).
Once you have crossed West Street you are walking on land fill from the World Trade Center construction and other NYC construction. As you walk across Chambers St. notice the schools on the street. What three levels of education are offered?
After you cross West St. take your first left on to North End Ave. CHECK YOUR DOWNLOADED MAP for the location of Tear Drop Park – number 6 on your map
What is unique about this park?
Continue through the park to the walk along the river to Irish Hunger Memorial. Then continue south to Winter Garden, there is a good view of the 9/11 site up the large staircase, also bathrooms.
Continue south to South Cove then on to Battery Park. What are the different types of housing do you see? Walk across Battery Place to the end of the park and turn right on to State Street. There you will see signs for the 1 train, take this up town to 34thSt. / Penn Station and the LIRR.
