![]() ![]() ![]() Tell us something we don't know about Lincoln Square. It’s the place where I discovered and fell in love with New York City, where I felt like a miniature grown-up with my Juilliard classmates going to restaurants, the movies and performing in concerts. Through all of its changes, Lincoln Square will always feel like home to me. I lived there until the end of December 2015, when my husband and I bought a place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. With some stints outside of New York City for college and my first job, I moved back into the same apartment in 2008 (after two years in Battery Park). The only place for us teenagers to hang out nearby was the Tower Records on 66th Street. When we first moved in, there were only a few tall residential buildings between Columbus Circle and 72nd Street. I was born and raised on Long Island, but in 1993 my family bought an apartment at Lincoln Center where we lived on weekends. I'm trained as a classical cellist, and at eleven years old, I was accepted to the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division. What's your relationship to the neighborhood? As an urban planner, New York City is special because you can see a life-cycle of a neighborhood in just a span of years or a couple decades. Here, she explains what her neighborhood within a neighnborhood (the Upper West Side) is all about. This time around, we welcome Michelle Young, the founder of Untapped Cities and a lifelong resident (until very recently) of Lincoln Square. The People's Guide is a new series examining New York City's many, many neighborhoods, led by our most loyal readers, favorite bloggers, and other luminaries of our choosing. ![]()
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