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I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

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'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.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.