As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm child of immigrants.
I'm a New York girl. I want to stay here and raise my son here.
I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.
If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.
When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
I grew up in New York.
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.
When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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