Mike D Quotes

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

I'm from the burbs. I've been in the hood, but I don't live there. I have lived in the hood, but I don't live there anymore. I lived in Harlem, and that was crazy, even though Harlem is a lot nicer than it used to be.

My parents retired to New York City, and my brother and both of my sisters ended up in New York City. We are all New York City transplants from Pennsylvania.

I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out.

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.

It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.

In about 2002, I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to Red Hook.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

I wouldn't say that a big family is for everybody, and I've brought my kids, for example, to New York City, and I can tell you it's much harder to raise that number of kids in a city like New York than it is to raise them in rural Wisconsin where I live.