Urban designer IfeomaEbo answers Curbed’s 21Questions
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Courtesy of Ifeoma Ebo New York’s “21 Questions” is back with an eye on creative New Yorkers. In her 20 years as an urban planner, Ifeoma Ebo has designed projects that make cities more equitable places to live.
I have been fortunate to never rent an apartment in New York. I live in a two-family home that my mother bought in the late ’90s. I was born and raised in Park Slope and my mother told me the apartment we had there was $700 a month, which would be unheard of right now!Can you actually really do that in New York City? There really is no place you can do that and say there’s really no other human being unless it’s 4 o’clock in the morning and you go to the park.
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