My name is Alicé and although I am not a native New Yorker, my family moved to Brooklyn Heights when I was a year old.  Childhood memories of the Esplanade and its sweeping view over the city harbor have stayed with me as my family moved on to other homes in other cities and countries.  I moved back to Manhattan in 1985 and over the intervening years have lived in different neighborhoods including Midtown, the Upper West Side, Chelsea, and Astoria.  I finally settled in Rockland County in the Hudson River town of Nyack, sixteen years ago.