Mapping Hunts Point

I was tasked with creating this map for the Pratt Center photographer and team to do a walking tour of the notable sites in the Peninsula, including, and not limited to:

1. Yellow Star, Hunts Point ave 6 train/ Del Valle Square
   1. Walk 5 minutes to the Point CDC
   2. careful crossing under the Bruckner! *dangerous intersection*
   3. 901 Hunts Point Ave, Yes She Can! Mural 
2. The Point CDC [pink dot]
   1. Stop by Hunts Point Deli on the corner of HP Ave and Lafayette
   2. Walk 7 minutes to the ball fields and rec center
3. Manida Ball Fields/Hunts Point Rec Center [green dot]
   1. Walk 5 minutes to Spofford
4.  Spofford Detention Center [orange dot]
   1. Walk up spofford Ave 4 blocks to the playground
5. Hunts Point Playground [pink star]
   1. Walk down Hunts Point Ave to Drake Park
6. Drake park [red dot]
   1. Walk 14 minutes to Barretto Point Park
7. Barretto Point Park [purple star]
   1. Walk 24 minutes to HP Landing
8. HP Landing [light blue dot]
9. Greenway on Food Center Dr [green star]
10. Riverside Park [red star]
    1. Valencia Bakery, across from Rocking the Boat at Edgewater + Lafayette

 

Mapping the most convenient walking tour was a great exercise in thinking of how to best see the sights and spaces that make the peninsula special, and was also a good reminder than culture and activity are not mappable. I was tasked with finding spaces that don’t show up on Google– spots that you have to know to look out for and can only know from firsthand experience.

These landmarks show off the organizations that are, and the spaces that will be essential to the community’s growth and development. Hunts Point is a somewhat geographically isolated community, yet it is spread out with in the confines of the community, which only further reinforces the feat of its connectedness. With the large industrial zone and not the easiest transport to its furthest reaches, the residential community overcomes the barriers by simply existing and remaining so in touch with the going-ons all around the peninsula. I would say the ‘boundary’ for Hunts Point is that of the river on the North, East, and South sides, and to West, the Bruckner separates it from the neighborhood of Longwood, and also a good portion of the larger shops and groceries that serve Hunts Point residents.