Born and raised in Queens NYC.
An exciting and tough place to live. Neighborhoods are everything and people do take care of each other.
NYC has both the kindest and the meanest people I know.
I am partially retired in Pennsylvania now. NY just got too expensive to live in without working at heart-attack level.
Everyone knows what Cruz meant by his remark and I think that at this point the people complaining about it look like silly pansy asses (as my father would say).
3th Road in Flushing here. 1 bedroom on the fifth floor. Was carrying my little brother up the stairs when I was 5. LOL, those were the days.