View from my old Apartment in NYC. I handed in my keys yesterday. I have not lived in NYC for awhile, so it was time to let it go. I have a lot of good memories from the period when I lived there.
It was an exciting time in my life. I finished grad school, got into stand up comedy, got married, and ran a technology education program for high school kids during those years. I also spent a lot of time looking out the window at this unobstructed view of midtown.
I worked off and on at the school just behind the tree. On this last visit back to the neighborhood, I saw a few kids who I taught when they were little. They’re in high school now.
It was good to be in the old place, but I have to say, now that I’m out, I feel a sense of relief. I didn’t realize what a psychic strain it was to maintain it from a distance.
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Lydia Sugarman // Jul 31, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I know exactly what you mean. I lived in an apartment on the LES for years and even went through a very expensive and traumatic lawsuit to try to hold onto it.
When I actually lost the suit and had to give up the apartment I’d moved out of two years earlier, it was a relief. I’ve never looked back. I don’t even regret the $40,000 in legal expenses. I’m glad to be finished with those chapters of my life and able to move forward unfettered.
Jonny // Jul 31, 2009 at 10:01 pm
$40,000! Wow, I got off easy.
Justin Kownacki // Aug 1, 2009 at 10:37 am
Congratulations on being able to move on. I know closing a chapter from your past can be hard, but sometimes it’s even harder (financially and logistically) to keep it open.
That said, I’m sure thousands of people cannot fathom NOT having their own space in New York — much less one with a great view. To them, you must seem the opposite of sane. So here’s to sanity’s cousin, common sense.
Jonny // Aug 1, 2009 at 10:56 am
Yeah, the view part was by far the best thing. One of the biggest hazards of NYC living is the risk that someone will build a 40 story building in front of your view. It happened to me a couple of times.
But this place was right across from a public school, so the there was no way anyone was going to build on that lot.
As for having a space in New York, if it were difficult, 8,000,000 million people wouldn’t live there!
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