Description Essay: My Neighborhood

What comes to your mind when someone says the word neighborhood. To me it’s where a person lives at and what’s around their home. The houses, trees, schools, stores, etc. Everybody has his/her own neighborhood that they live in. The neighborhood in which you live in is different from everyone else’s. That’s why if everyone was to describe their own neighborhood, everyone’s would all be different considering the place where you live. Some neighborhoods can be surrounded by flowers, trees, buildings, houses, fences and many other things. While some neighborhoods can have up to nothing around there neighborhoods. I know my neighborhood is different from everyone else’s. I live in an apartment on Cumberland Avenue in Niles.

My apartment is surrounded by many other apartments. They all have 6 apartments in them with two bedrooms each except for number 1 which only has 1 bedroom. There is a fire department around my apartment. That’s where all the fire trucks are and the ambulances’ are kept. This is the building where all the firefighters sleep at and where they play baseball and basketball in the summer. There’s times where their playing baseball and then the alarm rings which means they have an emergency so they go inside and go to work. Across the street from where I live is a bank where people go to cash checks, open up a savings account, and put money in their account. There’s also an oil express where you can take you car and get your oil changed for a cheap price. The best thing around in my neighborhood is McDonalds because whenever I’m hungry I can just walk there and get me something to eat.

The closest school in my neighborhood is Gemini Junior High School. If you start walking down my sidewalk you will see the field of Gemini where all the students from Gemini play sports. During the summers, we all go and play football or soccer even in the winter. It’s located rite next to Iceland and across the street from where Dominick’s used to be at. You also got blockbuster close by so if u want to watch a movie and you don’t have it you could just go and rent it and get some popcorn. There is also Golf Mill Mall where you can go and hang out with your friends, you can go and shop there, or you could go to the movies and watch a movie. Some people might think that these places are far to walk to but their not because they don’t live around there so their not used to it.

There are some bad sides to living in my neighborhood and that is it’s involved with gangs. It’s somewhat filled with violence and drugs. Police officers have to drive by everyday and night to check up on the neighborhood. If they see a group of people just hanging around they will pull them over for no reason just to check up on them. If they see a car filled with people they’ll start throwing bottles at the car. It’s hard enough for the people living around there because they will be scared for their children’s safety. Although it is a good place to live around with an exception to the bad things about it.