I Am Not My Job: Why I Left New York City
Stone Street, NYC
“It was Patti Smith who said, in a talk at Cooper Union in 2010, that “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling.” Smith wrote in her memoir, Just Kids, about coming to New York as a “down and out” young woman, scraping by in a cheap apartment, creating a community of artists, and even at times paying rent with artwork. But New York City has long since priced itself out of this lifestyle . . . keep reading . . .
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I Am Not My Job: Why I Left New York City
by ALECIA LYNN EBERHARDT
“It was Patti Smith who said, in a talk at Cooper Union in 2010, that ‘New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling.'”
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A writer can live anywhere.
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Amen!
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