That First Trip To New York City

<p>As soon as I stepped out of my cab mid evening on the corner of 86th and 1st a couple of days after Christmas in 1998, at the impressionable young age of 22, I felt my adrenaline soar. The energy, the noise, the lights, the people, and all those buildings.</p> <p>My friend had been living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan since we graduated from high school in &rsquo;95 and talked me into a 10 day trip to celebrate NYE in NYC, to bring in 1999.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/city-life/that-first-trip-to-new-york-city-ca8d83ae98cd"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>
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