Escape from New York

… to New York in 1998 after a postcollege stretch at her parents Since then she has called Boerum Hill Windsor Terrace … home as well as the Upper West Side twice with two different boyfriends and Sunnyside I was determined to live alone … with the help of my friend who runs a blog called Civic Parent  She and I sat down six or eight months before we …

… else New York for all of its immigrants airports and storied cultural institutions is deeply provincial Think that … and we started talking about the city She had so many good things to say about how Birmingham had grown and changed … at the world through a much different lens now We were mainly nervous about whether we could make real friends in …