What I Hear

My work place is in Flushing, Queens. I go to Flushing almost 5-6 days a week. The neighborhood I picked is Main Street in Flushing, around 12PM. Usually when I walk in this crowded area, I would have my headphones on and keep the music playing. In order to allow my ears to be exposed to every sound around me, I would put away my headphones.As soon as I step out of the 7 train, I start to hear the footsteps of people rushing towards to the stairs so that they can get out of this hot and crowded train station. There is sound from a train leaving the station. Even with the sound from the train, I can still hear some people breathing around me, that is how crowded it is to get up the stairs from the Flushing, Main St. train station. Getting out to the street is another annoying thing. Besides having people walking very slow in-front of me, they’re also talking very loud. It is over crowed everywhere in the streets. The two main sounds I hear are people talking and the buses and cars. Some cars kept on honking at people and cars in front of them. There are tons of buses in this place; buses arriving, leaving, or just passing by. Those buses would brake and the sound would be squeaky. Although I am used to these mainstream sounds in this neighborhood, but there are also some minor sounds. I can hear the sizzling and fireplace sound from the street barbecues that I pass by. Just by listening to that, makes me hungry. I can also hear the doors from different shops closing. Some people are also handing out flyers, I can hear paper being flipped. The overall vibe from the sounds I hear in flushing is very claustrophobic because of how crowded the place is and people walks very slow, they talk loud, the vehicles are also making a lot of noises.