Blog Assignment 2: “What I Hear”

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, my new but not so new neighborhood. I just recently moved to the lower side of Sheepshead Bay, therefore I thought this would be the best area to take my Sound Walk. I step outside of my house with nothing on me but my keys, and I begin to walk. I have cleared my mind so that the only thing I can hear are my surroundings and nothing more. Not even my thoughts.

As I begin to walk in this gloomy, just rained, weather, the immediate sound I begin to hear are of all the cars driving down pass me on the Belt Parkway on the right side of my ear and nothing more. As I continue to walk I can hear myself stepping on the fall leaves on the ground crunching with every step I take. I begin to her the very faint wind flying pass me moving my shirt with the flow of the wind. I begin to realize that my new neighborhood area is less noisy than where I use to live.

I begin to realize that the only thing I hear is myself walking alongside of my new block with no one else in sight. This surprises me since it’s the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday. As I continue to walk I begin to hear trains rushing past the nearby train station. Then I begin to hear running children, laughter, footsteps, the creaking of swings, swooshes of basketballs being shot, and the sound of skin rubbing against a slide. These all make me realize that I am nearby the local playground park. Which suddenly starts to make me feel nostalgic of the time when I use to go to the park and play with whoever was there without a worry in the world.