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of many difficulties that some newcomers face. The thrill of arriving in New York is often tempered by the sinking realization of what an alienating place the city can be. The dauntingly high cost of living and the subway maze can make city life a battle.
"It definitely takes a certain personality to live in the city, but it's something you can develop while you're living here," Ida says. "The city will abuse you daily, and unless you can learn how to overcome it, you're continually overwhelmed."
Dance in the city
Morgan Forgarty,2007 graduate,moved to New York City with her roommate from college. They went to the city without jobs or a place to live so they settled at the YMCA for a couple of weeks while they searched for apartments.
Forgarty and her roommate found an apartment on Martin Luther King Blvd. in Harlem. She lives two blocks away from the historic Apollo Theater and Bill Clinton's office. Her neighborhood is bustling with street vendors selling fruit, Italian ice, flowers, socks and knock-off designer hand bags. Street artists paint pictures of African-American people, hoping to sell their art to pedestrians. Outside Forgarty's apartment are several book vendors selling literature on African-American history and culture.
"When my brother came to visit, he said Harlem looked like Sesame Street;" Forgarty says. I guess he was referring to the brick apartment buildings and the diversity of my neighborhood."
Forgarty says she is so distracted by the streets vendors, she hardly notices the commercial stores in her area.
Forgarty lives in Harlem because it's cheap, spacious and it's an easy commute to Manhattan. At night, she waits tables at Tablea, a restaurant in Manhattan. During the day she rehearses with the professional dance company, Notes in Motion.
Forgarty says moving to New York to dance was very difficult because she found herself distracted by everything the city has to offer.
"I came with one thing in mind—I wanted to create dance. But there was so much going on around me it was very hard to point myself in one direction," Forgarty says. "I wanted to experience everything the city has to offer all at once. It's been a year and I still have so much more to discover."
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