Is there a nightlife place you love from your past? I didn't go out then, either. I just kind of worked and came home. Pastis is good late at night as well as during the day. I told you about Orso; that's a great place to go before or after the theater. Also good is Joe's Pub, which is right next to the public theater where I worked when I was younger.­ They have a lot of interesting cabaret shows, and it's a cool place to go.

After having moved around so much as a kid, when did you really feel like you were a New Yorker? It takes about a year. The first six months, the shock of actually being there and getting used to the pace starts to wear off, and then once you've been in the city for a year, you feel like you are kind of officially a New Yorker. It's when you go away and you come back and the guy who sells magazines on the corner asks where you've been. That makes you feel like you really belong to a community. That's what New York is like. I know the people in local restaurants. There are people I just say hello to when I pass them on the street. There are people I know from various playgrounds. There is a kind of great sense of community. New York rewards people who return.

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where julianne moore disappears into her role as a new yorker

lodging
abingdon square guest house, (212) 243-5384

inn at irving place, (212) 533-4600

dining
bar patti, (212) 982-3300

benjamin's restaurant, (212) 889-0750

bond street, (212) 777-2500

burger heaven, (212) 685-6250

japonica, (212) 243-7752

joe's pub, (212) 539-8770

the modern, (212) 333-1220

orso, (212) 489-7212

pastis, (212) 929-4844

piccolo angelo, (212) 229-9177

pop burger, (212) 414-8686

serendipity 3, (212) 838-3531

shun lee & shun lee café, (212) 595-8895

shopping
antik, (212) 343-0471

dernier cri, (212) 242-6061