I am a born-and-bred New Yorker who grew up on the Upper West Side on West 87th and Broadway. I later moved to 112th and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard and then 110th Street and Lenox before moving to my current place in the Financial District.

While starting my business back in 2007--I have an all natural, ready-to-bake desserts company called Sweet Loren's--I was living at home. Unfortunately, my mother passed away and we had to sell the apartment that she owned on 110th Street.