Week 4
The issues section on Central Park does not really go into much detail about the crimes that have happened there. It also does not really include a lot of cases that have happened there. Another issue it did not include is that it was a meeting spot for gay men and how many men who were believed to be gay were arrested there.
Week 3
The site I choose is Central park. I plan to contribute to the wikipedia page by talking about the central park jogger case and the racial tensions it created. I also plan to discuss how the racial tensions from this case affected the mayoral elections. I also plan to research about the park after World War II and how it became a gathering for gay men. I plan to discuss how people saw gay New Yorkers as a threat and how the police would wait in the park at night to arrest people who they believed to be gay.
Bibliography:
http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/courses/pgeog383.57/symbolic_pastoral.pdf
Chauncey, George. "Chapter 7." Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic, 1994. N. pag. Print.
Erling, Monica. "Central Park Jogger." Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. Ed. Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun L. Gabbidon. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2009. 98-99. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 20 Oct. 2016.
Winter, Aaron. "Central Park Jogger Incident." Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America. Ed. Jeffrey Ian Ross. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2013. 58-61. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 20 Oct. 2016.