Personal Narrative: My Hometown Brooklyn, NY

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I am not a very interesting person. I may not be that descriptive, but a place that I could never forget has to be my hometown Brooklyn, NY. I miss the big apple so much. It has been 5 years and I still haven’t adapted to the lifestyle here. Like they say “New York never sleeps”. I feel like that quote is true. There is usually always noise in the streets. I remember I used to complain because of the noise but now that we moved to Nebraska well I miss it a lot. This place is extremely quiet. Nothing can compare to NYC.

New York is full of multi-culture. There is people from all over the world. Where I lived at was bush wick down there was basically the Latino community. When you walked the streets of Brooklyn you would hear people yelling

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