When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.
My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town.
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it became gentrified. I lived on 120th St. between Fifth and Lenox Aves. in a little brownstone. I knew the neighborhood was changing when they started putting trees in the middle of the block.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.