Research Paper on Bryant park
Musab Saleem 1078576 ICBS 306-F01 Research Paper Proposal New York is a great place to live. It is a city with huge diversity, with different cultural background. A place where everything happens in a fast pace. The rush of the New York can be profound. For the research project, I decided to write the paper on this beautiful park located in the Midtown of Manhattan, known as the Bryant park. Now the Midtown has lot of other places too, like the famous Times Square is located here, the Empire State building is located here too, the famous hotel, Roosevelt hotel is there too and also Rockefeller center is there too. To the south of midtown is the Korea town, where you can find delicious Chinese restaurants. I have decided to do the research on Bryant Park. My father has introduced this park to me and my family. Ever since he immigrated to the United States from Pakistan, he had a job in Manhattan near this park, like few blocks away from the park. During his lunch hours he would come and relax in this park with some of his office colleagues. This park has been really close to my heart. Ever since I have been growing up, most of the times especially during the weekends my parents would take me to this park. We would enjoy the lively atmosphere there, the fresh smell of the leaves, the hustling bustling of the people moving. People coming to the park, bringing books to read, some bringing their dogs, children running here and there, it was all happening there. We would come from Brooklyn. Since parking is an issue in the city, we would take subway to the city. In the middle during the Spring and Summer times, there would be some yoga classes going on. Around twenty to thirty people and could be more, would be doing yoga. My family and I would sometime enjoy having picnic over there. We would usually go there on Sundays because that was when both my parents would be free, and me and my siblings didn’t have schools on Sundays. Not every Sunday but we would every third or fourth Sunday. We would walk around the city and then come to Bryant park to have picnic. During the winters, people would bring their skate shoes and would skate there. My father and my brother, they both were fond of skating, so they would skate on the skating pavilion. Not only with my family, however I would also visit this park with my friends also. We would bring soccer ball with us and play soccer there. Sometimes other people would join us to play and we would play as a team and play a match. Sometimes we would bring a board game and play there. I would go with my best friend there and sometimes discuss my everyday life with him and he would do the same. That’s the reason this park is really close to my heart. This park is located between 5th avenue and 6th avenue and between west 40th street and 42nd street. Towards the 5th avenue, inside the park is located a library known as the New York public library. The park is surrounded with massive buildings all four sides. The B, D, F, and M subway lines stops at 42nd street, those who wanted to visit Bryant Park through subways. For the parking, there are designated garages for the cars and bikes to park near the park. The train to 5th avenue is another easier way to come to park. It is a 5 minutes’ walk from the major subway lines of Times Square. The lush green patch in the middle is where most of the beauty of the park comes from. At the borders of the park are the trees surrounding the border of the park. There is also a carrousel for the children inside the park. The park also has designated spot for eatery where people can enjoy different kinds of food. During the time of summers, beautiful flowers can be seen on the borders of the park. They add more allure and charm to the park. This park is equipped with one of the cleanest restrooms that any park ever had. Towards the other end, there is a beautiful fountain For the statistical source, I will be using census reporter website. It is because it tells us the details of the area where Bryant park is located like in terms of demographics, economies, families, housing and social margin. The website presents the data in different forms of charts and graphs like pie charts and bar graphs. The other website that I decided to use is the nyc.gov/landmark where it tells a little bit of detailed history of the park and also how it was set up. I can use lot of research material. I can visit my college’s library and find out more about the park there. I can find the books online, the pdf version or get them online where I can get more material about the park. I will also use some sociological theories on my research which I have learned in the class and more of which I will learn in the future. The effect of gentrification in the area around the park. The discussion will be based on the changes caused by gentrification in terms of demographics as well as the lifestyle of people over the year. The research will not only be based on the physical appearance of the park but also will include the type of people visiting the park, and also the type of area surrounding the park, how’s the area like, is it more of an elite or less, what type of people seen in the park. My initial research question will firstly be based upon the idea of this park being built and how it was built. Who had this idea and what made him or her think that there should be this park in the location? The reason of choosing this location. How many days it took to get this park on the location. What purpose will this park serves, and does it fulfill all the needs of the visitor. My other focus will also include if the visitors want more of something in the park or if they are fully satisfied.