Category Archives: Who We Are

In the golden days of beat NYC culture, THE village referred to Greenwich village – the site where the hipsters hung out. Now, with current rent prices in that neighborhood it is no surprise that only a different breed of … Continue reading →

The neighborhood I currently identify with is the East Village of Manhattan. I spend a vast majority of my time in the area of St. Mark’s Place. St. Mark’s Place is a stretch of eighth street in between Third Avenue … Continue reading →

“Where’s that?” is often the response I hear when I tell people I live in Kips Bay. Hunter College’s Brookdale Residence is located in Kips Bay, on 25th Street, between 1st Avenue and the FDR Drive. Though it may not … Continue reading →

The neighborhood I identify with is my neighborhood Dix Hills, in Long Island. I have been living in this neighborhood since I was 4 years old, it holds all of my earliest memories, and it’s where my life really began. … Continue reading →

I was born in The Greenwich village in St. Vincent’s hospital – a hospital that no longer exists. For the first three years of my life I lived across the street from Washington Square Park and I essentially grew up … Continue reading →

Flushing is a neighborhood in New York City’s borough of Queens whose population is approximately 180,000.  I’ve lived there for my entire life—my first six years in an area of Flushing close to Forest Hills, the remaining years closer to … Continue reading →

The neighborhood that I identify with isn’t one that I live in but a part of my local community that I feel most tethered to. Beekman Avenue is a major street in the small inconspicuous village of Sleepy Hollow, a … Continue reading →

After trekking an hour to the Upper East Side every morning at 6:45am to arrive at school on time, one would assume I would learn to love that neighborhood. And I did. The neighborhood in which my school was located … Continue reading →

Red Hook is a small peninsular neighborhood in South Brooklyn demarcated from those adjacent to it by two major interborough roads: the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. I started making my way out there about four years … Continue reading →