“They had to reroute the buses because they couldn’t get up the hill,” said Ms. Alterman, a born-and-raised New Yorker from the Bronx. “In New York, even if we have a blizzard, I can always get outside.”Before heading west in the early 1990s, she spent years on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was robbed at gunpoint near her West 74th Street apartment and later bought a two-bedroom co-op on West 84th. Her co-op limited sublets to two years, so she had to sell the apartment “when New York was on the down,” she said. “I was devastated,” Ms. Alterman said.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2020 09:56 UTC