Garny's New York

I travel through the Union Square subway station almost everyday to get home and to school. From school I get on the six train, which is usually overcrowded with commuters, to get off one stop to 14st. After I maze through the overly packed train car I make my up the stairs and head to the platform to position myself for the arrival of the Q train. En route I to the platform I look to my left and see people walking back and forth, meticulously examining a very vibrant and colorful wall. I might have seen this wall once or twice before but never really took the time to understand what it was. On this day I slowed down and in some sense entered into a new space, like I’ve entered a museum without opening a door. As I joined the audience viewing the comments posted by anonymous people on colorful post-it notes, I realized that this wall was a reaction to the results of the presidential election. I got the sense of being an onlooker of a very historical period in American History. I thought to myself “this is going to be in the textbooks that my kids will read”, and that I could actually say that I saw how it affected the community and myself. The election has caused a lot of turbulence in the lives of many New Yorkers and citizens across the nation. The way in which the people at the 14st station displayed their thoughts and opinions across the wall was very beautiful and creative. The preconceived notion of wall has taken on pretty negative connotation, which was boastfully perpetrated by Donald Trump. Using the wall in Union Square to promote people’s ideas and opinions, often ideas of peace, love, and positivity, in a peaceful matter surly captures the image that many New Yorkers have for what America should be in a very creative and vibrant way.While the country is more divided than previously presumed, efforts like this, I believe, will push for more unity and more involvement in the American political system.

On Tuesday November 8th I visited Samsung 827. I was on my way home and made it to my last at Church Avenue, Brooklyn when I got a text from my childhood friend, that now attends Hunter College, asked to hangout. I was really tired but we rarely see each other although we both go to school in the city so I figured why not. So without leaving the station I switched platforms to the Manhattan bound Q and B trains. As usual when we met up we didn’t know what to do so I suggested the Library. That only lasted 20 minutes when we found ourselves getting food. Later we found ourselves at the Best Buy in Union Square. I haven’t been to a Best Buy in a very long time and found that there were so many advancements in technology. I was once a heavy gamer who was always up to date with all the latest and greatest hardware. It was at Best Buy where I realized that Playstation had pushed out two other versions of their latest console. We browsed through the headphones section, testing various headphones, using songs from our favorite artist Logic as a sample. We then encountered an enthusiastic Samsung fan who was also a Best Buy employee who suggested we visit Samsung 837. We had time to kill so we did. We were greeted with a playground of Samsung gadgets and people testing futuristic devices. The store was very trendy and had a DJ. The experience was very stimulating as it brought to light new ways to experience media and new forms of sharing memories through virtual reality. The future of Samsung seems limitless with the new innovative technology that they are pushing into the market. I believe that Samsung will change the way this generation will be remembered forever.

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