Hello all!

Not you’re standard New Yorker, but I am a born&raised New York[state]er.  I’m from White Plains, which is Westchester, but specifically is much more of an urban city than the suburban location may connote.   My grandfather came from Germany to the Bronx, where my father was born, and my mother was born in Israel to two Polish parents, but moved to New Rochelle when she was 9.  Not exactly 2nd generation, but I still feel the cultural and religious roots when it comes to familial relations.

[taken during high school graduation, that lovely lady to my right is the aforementioned Polish grandmother]