via Refinery29:
Genius, New York Mag: compiling over 50 celebrities’ memories about their first years in New York in: My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City.
A few below:
Chloë Sevigny, actress
Arrived: 1991
"By the time I was a junior, I think my parents were a little nervous. Sometimes I'd lie and say I was at a friend's house in Greenwich. They would not have been happy if they knew that I was at a rave all night long and then sleeping in the park. But not like a homeless person—like a teenager."
James Franco, actor and student
Arrived: 2008
"I'd never really taken the subway before. I love it! The one thing is, I used to listen to a lot of audiobooks in my car in L.A., and now I don't have that."
Lauren Hutton, model and actress
Arrived: 1964
"I came to New York for two things: to get to Africa and to find LSD."
Also in the book: Chuck Close, Graydon Carter, Naomi Campbell, Lorne Michaels, DVF…and so on.
Me: Arrived 2006
“I was ready to take the city by storm – to do everything with everyone all the time. I didn’t care that I lived in an apartment the size of a trash can. I came to prove that I could do it – and I’m doing it.”
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