30 years in New York City

July 1, 1995. The Lady and I drove through Brooklyn while Funkytown by Lipps, Inc . blasted in the U-Haul on route to our final destination, Long Island City, Queens. The plan was to stay for a month or two with friends from grad school in their giant dirty commercially zoned artist loft, and then find our own place (or places, we weren t planning on living together!). As it turned out, we took…