Bess Kalb is a bonafide city kid. Born and raised on the Upper West Side, she has big Nora Ephron energy. But for a brief period in Kalb’s childhood, she was uprooted from Manhattan… and the timing unfortunately coincided with her bat mitzvah. “My parents moved us to Scarsdale for middle school. It’s a town in Westchester full of angry Jewish bankers who buy McMansions. But we lived in a little ranch midcentury house in the woods,” Kalb tells me. “The Great Suburban experiment didn’t work out for us. We moved back to the Upper West Side and I went to high school in the city.”
Where do you find these people? Does anyone ever say- oh we had a great time and everything was perfect and I was so cool?
Great piece!!!!!