How to Raise a City Kid

Years ago when our son was a toddler many of our friends began fleeing to the suburbs.  They couldn’t imagine raising a child in Manhattan with all the dirt and crime. “But think of the culture!”,     I would say. At the Met Museum five year-old Noah, wide-eyed at Arms & Armor,  or perched spellbound on the grand staircase watching a stonecutter etch a donor’s name on the marble wall. And making Purim masks at the Jewish Museum,  and model dinosaurs at the Natural...

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