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‘On the Road’ and Back Again
‘On the Road’ and Back Again Sadia Sharif / Staff Illustrator April 3, 2021, 7:04 PM
Until quite recently, I had never really been anywhere. New York is a cluttered place where everything I could ever need is in the palm of my hand.
And in that cluttered place, the 1 train meanders along the West Side. Taking it all the way downtown is the slowest way for me to get home, but it’s the one I used to take most often. I would get off at Christopher Street on the opposite side of the city and aimlessly walk east, passing my old library and the local elementary school on the corner of 11th Street and Sixth Avenue. If I was really looking to wander, I would pass the Washington Square Park Dog Run and watch for hours at a time. Eventually, I would make it to the East Side and encounter the church I have always lived adjacent to. During the warmer months, I used to sit in the church’s courtyard and draw for hours ironic, a young Jew finding so