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My Real Hometown
New York City! I grew up for most of my childhood in a nice enough house in a nice enough town, with nice enough friends, but in truth I couldn't leave there fast enough. I've lived in NYC for all of my adult life (and some of my childhood before we moved to that other town). I love it here. I love that I can stumble out my door at any hour, and I mean any hour, and there is a place to go and things are open. Not that I wouldn't enjoy living somewhere else (I lived in Brazil for a short time and loved it there too - and there I could stumble out the door and onto the beach, hee) but I am definitely a New Yorker through and through.
I live alone in a studio apartment, no pets. Nothing special about the place, other than when I can manage to keep it entirely neat and uncluttered. Also, I've got books everywhere (I love to read).
Of course there is so much about this city to talk about, and a rich history. In many cases landmarks are gone because they were always altering things or tearing things down to build something else. Sometimes they leave one old building up between newer buildings like this:
Although the buildings surrounding it aren't entirely new, which would really make a striking picture, they are quite a bit younger than the smaller building pictured, which dates back to the 1820s.
Sometimes they only leave parts of a building still intact, instead of the whole thing like in this case. So in the middle of more modern buildings you'll see a single wall from an old church or something that was left standing. I don't have a camera (a friend of mine forwarded the above pic to me) so unfortunately I can't snap anymore examples right now.
And being as we were recently talking about television series finales that made a lot of people angry: if you're ever at 79 Walker Street you can check this out in person:
This was part of a 2007 art exhibit. The exhibit is gone but you can read about it here.
I live alone in a studio apartment, no pets. Nothing special about the place, other than when I can manage to keep it entirely neat and uncluttered. Also, I've got books everywhere (I love to read).
Of course there is so much about this city to talk about, and a rich history. In many cases landmarks are gone because they were always altering things or tearing things down to build something else. Sometimes they leave one old building up between newer buildings like this:
Although the buildings surrounding it aren't entirely new, which would really make a striking picture, they are quite a bit younger than the smaller building pictured, which dates back to the 1820s.
Sometimes they only leave parts of a building still intact, instead of the whole thing like in this case. So in the middle of more modern buildings you'll see a single wall from an old church or something that was left standing. I don't have a camera (a friend of mine forwarded the above pic to me) so unfortunately I can't snap anymore examples right now.
And being as we were recently talking about television series finales that made a lot of people angry: if you're ever at 79 Walker Street you can check this out in person:
This was part of a 2007 art exhibit. The exhibit is gone but you can read about it here.
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I love when older buildings are nestled in like that, there are some of those tucked away in Baltimore, too.
Sort of a tangent, but you mentioned books and NYC and... well, The Orphanmaster: A Novel of Early Manhattan eBook was on sale this week at B&N. I grabbed a copy but havent' read it yet.
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I've visited Baltimore a couple of times and really enjoyed it. Beautiful city, lots of interesting history and architecture, and yummy crabcakes. ;)
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It's great that you had a chance to visit at least once and I hope you'll get the chance to visit again.
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The look of the city is changing a lot in many neighborhoods. There are some really cool new buildings and I get why they're building the way they are - they have to build higher to accommodate more people, which requires certain materials and styles, and those materials last longer (brownstone sloughs off from the weather and is really hard to keep up). But I still love the brownstones and the NYC neighborhoods that are built lower.