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March 15, 2022 Post a Comment

Looking Back: The NYC Nomad

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2 years agone, I wrote the first blog post of my nomadic travels in NYC. At that time, I thought I might live with dissimilar people for a couple of months while I "figured things out." It turned into much more than that, an enduring experience on my life with images from the people and places of New York Metropolis.

I lived in a different neighborhood, with different people, every week for nearly 2 years! Towards the end of my project, I realized that as presently as I stopped I'd expect back on it and ask "How did I ever exercise information technology?" And at present, later on month-long sublets in Southward Williamsburg and Greenpoint and 6 weeks in my new, permanent dwelling in Alphabet City, I've reconsidered just that: How did I do it? How did I move almost every week since March of 2010?

You can get used to anything, and I got used to moving. About Every Sun, I packed everything I owned into four numberless and moved to a new neighborhood of NYC. I thrived on meeting new people and seeing new places – on getting to know this metropolis in a truly unique way. I was constantly aware that seeing any place for a calendar week is not plenty, but when y'all know you only have a week, you see a lot more than. You also talk to people a scrap more, and through my SoundCloud fellowship, I met and interviewed people who know a far unlike New York Urban center than I always volition. (Bernie'south been in Stuytown since the twoscore'south!)

It'due south quite hard to encapsulate this project in a single blog postal service. I had over 100 roommates and lived in everything from a tiny studio to an 8 person loft, from a Park Avenue doorman building to the South Bronx. I even camped ane calendar week in Brooklyn. I stayed with people from the historic period of 8 months to 80 years old (my fourscore year old host was still flying planes) and in 52 unique neighborhoods across the 5 boroughs (map here).

None of this would have been enabled without some amazing friends and supportive family, friendly acquaintances, and welcoming strangers. I'm however overwhelmed past the willingness of people who shared their apartments and lives with me. I learned and then much, a slap-up deal of which is still beingness processed. I'm similarly overwhelmed past the number of offers to stay with people around the globe (especially Brazil!).

I want to say thanks, and I'm having a political party at my new place so feel free to stop on by if you're in the neighborhood. Here's some more than info on the political party.

I'll end this how I ended my first blog post for the NYC Nomad and say that I promise to encounter you in your neighborhood!

Golden hour (Taken with instagram)

Aureate hour (Taken with instagram)

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I love this block in #greenpoint (Taken with instagram)

Greenpoint, Brooklyn (Taken with instagram)

This city gets me moving. A view from Greenpoint (Taken with instagram)

We need this on @uber_nyc (Taken with instagram)

We demand this on @uber_nyc (Taken with instagram)

Wood Hills, Queens

neighborhood number 52!

A week on the northern tip of Manhattan in Inwood

Inwood is some other one of those neighborhoods I felt like I just had to become to on the road to 52. The very northern tip of the island always fascinated me and I only ever made it up to the Cloisters on bike rides in the past. Later spending a week with Bronwyn and Matt, my instinct about Inwood proved correct. The neighborhood plays host to some unique aspects of the isle of Manhattan including the only "road" on the island (Indian Road), the simply old growth (read: original forest) on the island, and the site of where Peter Minuit is said to have purchased Manhattan for the famed 60 guilders and some trinkets.

My hosts for the calendar week were Bronwyn and Matt, who fall nether the category of strangers. Bronwyn and I couldn't quite figure out how we had connected only we remember it was originally through Tumblr and so through Project Promise, New York'south annual survey of the homeless population. If you're interested in participating, details tin be found here. I didn't accept any connectedness to Matt, but he was cool with having a random guy on the couch. They have a nice two sleeping accommodation identify where you can literally autumn out of bed and into the A train. This is uptown, uptown, uptown though, and you're hopping on the subway at 211th street. Didn't realize that existed? Well, it goes upwardly to 218th street, only don't confuse information technology for the Bronx. 1 bartender in the neighborhood is known to say that Inwood is "not the f#@%*$# Bronx." It's not far though, and I'm kind of disappointed I didn't get a chance to say howdy to Leslie in Riverdale and revisit Wave Loma Park.

The weather was (is) pretty fantastic for the fourth dimension of twelvemonth and I ran through Inwood Loma Park, the highest natural elevation in Manhattan. Nosotros had drinks at a great beer garden in the neighborhood, and amazing brunch at Indian Route Cafe. As Matt said to me, Indian Road buffet is the merely place that has figured out how to practise java, beer, and a restaurant all at the same time. This cafe and a walk in the park is worth jumping on the Express A train for an 60 minutes or so.

Inwood is 1 of those neighborhoods where you lot tin can experience the pride of its residents. It'southward quiet, people seem to look out for one another, and I felt like I was on an island more than than I do in other parts of the city. In that location 's too a great farmers market all year round - a plus for any NYC neighborhood.

I accept a few posts to grab upwardly on every bit I write from Brooklyn Heights.

Happy Holidays!

Where practise y'all stay when yous can't detect a place to stay during one week?

Asked past Anonymous

It actually hasn't happened! Just I e'er know I tin resort to airBnB or couchsurfing.org. And about of the people who accept hosted me have said I'yard welcome to come back :) When I started this, I had a core grouping of friends who said I could bear witness up at their doorstep at any hour of the day should something go wrong. Fortunately, I've never had to take them up on that offering.

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