Sound walk

I did my sound walk from Hunter college to my subway stop but weaving up and down streets and avenues on my way. I heard all the normal loud sounds of walking through the city. I hear the sounds of the cars driving and the horns beeping as they cut each other off, the clanking of the man hole covers as people step on it or cars running over it. One thing that I noticed that I usually wouldn't are the sounds that I hear in result of not having my earphones in or paying attention to my phone. The people asking me to take whatever flyer they are handing out are actually heard instead of barreling past them without much notice or care. I hear people's conversations as almost half the people walking have a phone to their ears, something that I don't miss when I have my headphones. Walking between avenues is much more quiet then walking street to street. The loud car horn honking and man hole covers are only echo's in between a slow avenue, and you get a small piece of peace before you get to the next street and get bombarded with sounds of miscellaneous phone conversations and loud trucks rumbling next to you.