I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
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I grew up in Brooklyn.
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
I grew up in New York.
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.