Skip to main content Currently Reading Opinion: COVID displaced me from NYC and sent me back to Norwalk. It also reminded me of why I love my hometown Brian O’Neill FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 The sun sets over the Hillard Bloom Shellfish building on Water Street in SoNo.Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Sunset Grille at Cove Marina in Norwalk.Patrick Sikes / For Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of3 A little more than a year ago, I moved out of Manhattan and back in with my parents to the house I grew up in on Fox Run Road in West Norwalk after it became apparent I’d be working from Bank of America’s disaster recovery site in Stamford for the foreseeable future.