Briarwood Sidewalk

This is the sidewalk that runs next to my house. As you can see in the picture it is an ordinary New York City concrete sidewalk. It usually clean and neat. When we have snow day like past two days area of the walk is always shoveled by the tenants that live in the house. Since the people that live on this block know each other pretty well they usually help one another sweeping the sidewalk or shoveling it in this case. The part of the pavement that has contact to our house was recently renovated, because the construction company that is doing some work down the block had a huge cement truck parked in our driveway which ruined it completely.

There are usually kids running up and down the sidewalk playing different childish games. As you can see in the middle of the picture I have taken there are two kids playing with the snow which supports my statement. For the most people that live on this street this sidewalk in not only a walk way but also a place to hang out or exchange some unimportant information. At summer time we usually have a barbeque at least once a week on the part of the sidewalk area next to our house. As I have mentioned before the folks that live on my block know each other pretty well once a year, usually the second Saturday of July the whole block comes together to a block party and take a guess where it takes place… So as you can see the sidewalk is not only the just a gray path like most people would describe it, but it also has a great importance in the social life of the neighborhood and my block in this case.