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When Andris made it to Vienna in 1956, he had $20. With other refugees, he sailed for two weeks across a stormy North Atlantic, on a crowded, smelly ship whose crew included the first Asians and blacks Andris had ever seen. When the refugees got to Brooklyn, they couldn't see the Statue of Liberty. Never mind. Andy Grove began a new life on an opposite shore of history...
Nicole is just 28, but she had already spent nearly half those years with Greg. Both born and raised in Brooklyn, they met the first week of her freshman year at Pace University. They watched Ghost on their first date. Defying the marriage-and-kids-can-wait trend, they bought a starter house on Long Island almost three years ago. Nicole quit her job as a speech therapist to stay home with the children. Greg's hour-and-a-half commute to the insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan started and ended in the dark. But on weekends...
...many images race through my mind as I recall the New York City Marathon. Crossing the bridge into Brooklyn, a firefighter ran with us, dressed in his heavy boots, flame-retardant coat and pants and signature black helmet. One runner beside me wore a singlet with “For My Buddies” written across the shoulders, and seven names listed down the back. Another woman I passed had pinned a picture of her late brother to the back of her T-shirt. Some ran with American flag capes fluttering behind them, and scores of others had adorned their...
Running the length of Brooklyn, into Queens, up First Avenue in Manhattan, through the Bronx and then back down Fifth Avenue into Central Park, distinctions between neighborhoods melted away in my mind along with the miles. A vibrant crowd of Italians and Asians, Puerto Ricans and Hassidim, Greeks and Mexicans, whites and blacks lined the course continuously, from start to finish. Running alongside such a crowd, exchanging salutes with a group of police officers, high-fiving a row of wide-eyed children, waving to the passengers in the tram and to the clattering El as its air horn blared...
...course, New York is not one thing. It?s especially not, or mostly not, Manhattan, which is only the third most populous borough (after Queens and Brooklyn) of the big five. To New Yorkers in Rego Park or Cypress Hills, Manhattan is ?the city? - the place they come to, through the bridges and tunnels lightly reviled by sophisticated Manhattanites, for a day?s work. Sometimes, their last day: few of the firemen and policemen killed on Sept. 11 died in the borough they lived in. New York, like any big city or small town, is an overlapping series of neighborhoods...