Cybil Lake (Tompkins Square Park)

"you don't live here unless you work really really really hard... which is kindof a good thing"

Yep! and like many New Yorkers Cybil has a handful of jobs... she is a film maker, a writer and works in real estate. Originally from Virginia, she has lived dowtown for 12 years, eastside & westside and recently moved across the bridge to Williamsburg. She loves New York for the eclectic mix of people but laments that the artists and writers are being forced out by sky-rocketing rents. Although she thinks New York has lost some of it's edge she acknowledges that it's now a safer place and that's the price you pay (that, and the GAP).

In her spare time, she loves taking long walks and hitting the Chelsea art galleries. For great local food she favours, Frank and his lil' brother Frankie for hearty Italian fare & cheap wine, and Esperanto, a fantasic Cuban eatery on Avenue C. Thanks so much for your contribution!