Mine comes from college in the Bronx, until I learned if I wanted to make a living one mile south in Manhattan, drop the drawn out vowels.  The library isn't the lie-barre-ee.  White Castle ain't Wot Castil.  Fordham Road ain't Fawdum Rowed.  Shorten vowels and speak...

Here's the set up.  We live on the 20th and 21st floors.  It's the top of the building. We have skylights in our bedrooms (slightly unnerving) and you can call me pretentious if you like but our unit is one of four corner units called the penthouses. Think what you...

When to do it and when not to do it, those are the questions.  I live in a building with over 250 apartments.  That's easily 350 people plus dogs as it's a dog friendly building.  There's a revolving door, a door accessible with a fob and 24 hour doorman coverage.  So...