In the bustling summer of 1985, our family's tiny apartment in the East Village felt like the center of the universe, each day a new adventure waiting just outside our door. My older sister, Lena, and I would race down the stoop, the sounds of boomboxes playing new wave music mixing with the chatter of neighbors, as Mom and Dad tried to keep up. We'd often spend afternoons in Washington Square Park, watching breakdancers spin on cardboard mats and street artists sketch caricatures, the air thick with the smell of hot pretzels and possibility, a feeling that only New York in the 80s could provide for a curious young family.
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