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SPACES & PLACES: The 16-acre campus of Lincoln Center offers “a complete detachment from the hustle and bustle of the city, where you can just be immersed in a performance—ballet, opera, symphony, and others,” says Barbara Grossman Berger ’77, who cochairs the New York Metro Women and is a member of the Metro New York City Network Leadership Cabinet. 20 ROCHESTER REVIEW July–August 2018 RochRev_July2018.indb 20 7/30/18 4:31 PM INSIDE VIEW: “Part of what gives you that insider’s view of New York,” says fourth-generation New Yorker Noah Pizmony-Levy Drezner ’00, “is that you can actually step back to see it from afar and appreciate where we are.” Show Us Your Town There are lots of reasons New York draws 62.8 million visitors annually. But the 14,000 alumni who call themselves locals know the teeming city as much more than a tourist attraction. By Robin L. Flanigan Minutes after the ferry horn blares, Noah Pizmony- It’s one of 11 regional networks—and the second Levy Drezner ’00 nods toward his destination, largest—initially identified as part of a strategic ef- Governors Island, a national monument in the fort to build a stronger sense of connection among heart of New York Harbor. Rochester’s key constituencies. “This place is a hidden gem,” says the fourth-gen- Over three days, Pizmony-Levy Drezner and eration New Yorker, who goes to the island often other members of the Rochester community en- for concerts or just for a tranquil respite from the thusiastically offered an insider’s peek at a city cap- commotion of the city. “Tourists might come here, tured countless times in songs, books, and movies. but city people know about it more.” “Part of what gives you that insider’s view of New Pizmony-Levy Drezner, whose family has been in York,” Pizmony-Levy Drezner says minutes after New York City since the early 1900s, is well suited the ferry docks, “is that you can actually step back for pointing out places that have special resonance to see it from afar and appreciate where we are.” for locals. The associate professor of higher educa- And there is plenty to appreciate. tion is one of about 14,000 Rochester alumni who The way Barbara Grossman Berger ’77 sees it: live in the New York City metropolitan area, a re- “New York is the only place I know where it seems gion that includes small parts of New Jersey, Penn- like a little bit of the rest of the world is in it—and sylvania, and Connecticut. at the same time, the New York City culture is so He’s also cochair of the Metro New York Net- uniquely its own. The two don’t seem like they work Leadership Cabinet, an organization that should coexist, but they somehow do.”r helps alumni and other members of the region’s University community stay engaged through ac- Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer based in tivities, programs, and opportunities. Rochester. 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