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...There comes a time in every teenage girl’s life where she is faced with a difficult situation. Mine came the summer after my sophomore year in high school. He was about 60 years old, with graying hair and an inexplicable Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. I was shy, he was confident, it was my first time, and he was experienced. I was his student, and he was my driver’s ed teacher...
...easy for me to get up on my high driving horse before I realized that city kids have road smarts of their own. Few natives would pull the kind of moves I have in New York this summer, such as taking the subway deep into Brooklyn instead of uptown by myself at two a.m., or accidentally tipping a cab driver 200 percent because I forked over the wrong bill...
...Earlier this summer, a friend got lost as he drove a few of us from his home in Manhattan to Long Island. After ten minutes of wandering through dark back roads, he slammed on the brakes and let out an impressive string of expletives, ending in a detailed description of what exactly he would do to himself if ever forced to live outside of a city and drive a motor vehicle...
Edward “Eddie” Sullivan Jr. declared his candidacy upon the retirement of Michael—his cousin—and former City Councillor David P. Maher did so earlier this summer. Maher, who was defeated in the last election cycle, served three terms as a councillor...
...This is something I had discussed with Mr. Scalise, that there was going to come some point where the balance between doing something different and doing what I had done would shift a little bit,” Anderson said. “This summer, I had five or six weeks to think about what I was doing and the relative rewards…and I just came to the conclusion that the opportunity or real chance to do something else was approaching...