Comments on: Nine years ago.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:03:54 +0000

I miss brooklyn! i live overseas now. i was born and raised in bedstuy. stayed all over brooklyn, red hook, flatbush, prospect heights, brownsville, clinton hill, downtown, fort green, coney island..but that was back in the day. now i live…never mind (sigh)

By: Apartment in Brooklyn

Apartment in Brooklyn — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:24:11 +0000

What a great place. I really want to move to that area.

By: gigi

gigi — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:08:47 +0000

just found your blog…

my husband grew up in boreum hill & we lived in carroll gardens for the first 7 years after we were married…we moved to washingtonville in 2001 but miss brooklyn terribly…guess we aren’t the only displaced downtown brooklynites in the hudson valley…small world isn’t it?

By: Clementine Cassie

Clementine Cassie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:20:24 +0000

awwwww, we were practically neighbors! I lived on Grace Ct (off Hicks street, a few blocks north of Atlantic) from 1997-2005. I miss some things, too, but not everything (traffic noise from the BQE permeating my every waking moment…. :)
I like this little peek into your early years!

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:01:02 +0000

22 years ago I left New York (God, that was loooong ago!) for points west and grad school. I have similar pictures of “before” and “after” apartments, bridged by the in-between graduate school apartments. Nice to have a place now to call home, yes? I too was and am a L. Brooks fan, still have the DIARY OF A LOST GIRL poster, and have come and gone with the haircut (incredibly hard to find anyone who can cut it well, I find!). It’s always great to see how our style evolves.

By: frannie

frannie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:36:56 +0000

that was a GREAT apt. it always looked like it cost a mint!

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:43:31 +0000

lovely! i live on the same block. your old place looks good even 9 years ago.

By: rh

rh — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:11:01 +0000

My husband and I missed Brooklyn too much, but didn’t want to move back full time. We now spend weekdays in Beacon, but go down to Brooklyn on weekends. It’s good to have the connection again. Brooklyn is home. I sometimes feel like a fish out of water up here.

By: kristin

kristin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:00:11 +0000

so cool to see your old place! I am a clinton hill/ fort greener :)

By: sweet fine day

sweet fine day — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:29:56 +0000

so cool to see your old brooklyn apartment. I would think that the move was hard, but what an amazing home you have. We’re still in brooklyn….maybe one day…

By: DiP

DiP — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:24:05 +0000

That’s the Anna I first met!
It has really been nine years???
Wow.
Vanderbilt, March, 2000.

By: Northern Westchester Home

Northern Westchester Home — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:23:39 +0000

Having moved up north from Brooklyn myself, I understand the bittersweet memories. There are times when I miss the borough of my birth, but all in all I am thrilled with were we live in upper Westchester. Having grown up in Brooklyn Heights (next to Cobble Hill, of course), I am thrilled with the experiences my own own son is having where we live–the balance of country and culture is amazing and I think incredibly healthy. And of course we have regular trips to Brooklyn to visit family.

By: annie

annie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:53:50 +0000

i love these pictures of your old apartment. it’s so neat to see how your sense of home and cozy and space has evolved. and you are beautiful, and i’ve always adored the old pictures of you in your louise brooks cut. xo

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:55:24 +0000

seems like even longer! i still have the photos we took of each other in that backyard with our matching louise hair.

the place i lived in 9 years ago was the size of my living room now.

By: read me...

read me... — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:43:08 +0000

Small world, my dear friend now lives in the city, but he and his ex-wife had a fabulous apartment on Henry Street and I stayed there many times, and would have done so when you were living there!! Such a great place.

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:26:33 +0000

I meant to write “a basement with a washer and dryer.” Sigh.

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:38:02 +0000

A basement with a washer and dryer in the basement! Garden access! Wow. I think your space was cool. Interesting how taste evolves though. Or in my case thank goodness – while I was in college I put up an ivy border and stenciled ivy all over my kitchen. I shudder the thought….

By: Benita

Benita — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:02:51 +0000

I love that hair cut. It’s my dream to be have straight bobbed hair with bangs. I did try a similar do once but with my natural curls I enden up looking like a complete dork. The bangs frizzed up at the top of my head or in cold weather stuck to my forehead in a clingy fashion and at the back I inevitably got a flip. Not the sleek do I was aiming for at all. Oh, and once I tried to go short like Ingrid Bergman in For Who the Bells Toll. So not a good look for me. For the past twelve years the pony is my do. At least now I know what my hair is up to but it’s soooooo bland and boring. Wish I had your hair…

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:29:21 +0000

Oh, I have a black and white postcard of Louisa Brooks that I just picked up in trade at a local used music shop! I don’t know much about her, but I’m glad to discover someone who does. It is sitting in my stash of cards waiting to be sent to someone around the world.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:33:01 +0000

Your hair looked so incredibly cute. That is exactly what I have always wanted to do but have never had the courage to do it. Mainly b/c I don’t think it would fit my face and my bangs take FOREVER to grow out. I have seen all of your hair pics on your blog and think you look great in all of your styles!