by Danah Abdulaziz
I’m a New Yorker, to the core. I grew up in Brooklyn in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I know not to eat pizza with a fork. When you hear me talk, I sound like a New Yorker. I say things like, “it’s brick outside,” when it’s freezing. Where others may walk miles to find a store, I prefer to go to the bodega right next door. If I give people directions, I’ll tell them how many blocks.