NOT ACCEPTING GUESTS BECAUSE FULL FOR NOW. SORRY!!
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Just doing my thing in New York City. On my ninth year here and have lived in my current apartment for 6.5 years. I regulate clinical trials at Columbia University Medical Center. In my free time, I am big into open water swimming, hiking, Tahitian dancing, music (making, listening, AND watching), and all things art, literature, and film related. Oh, and I like food, drink, and traveling, too, just like all of us on here.

P.S. I do everything in my ability to respond to EVERYONE who messages me. The sub-100% Response Rate is when stay requests have expired after I already communicated to the requestor whether I can or cannot host.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To be a traveling connection/resource to others and find traveling connections when I'm lucky enough to see new parts of the world!

Interests

Music, films, swimming, cooking, eating and drinking, photography, sailing, reading, writing, dancing, conversing, knitting, mountaineering, camping, and of course, traveling.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• hiking
• camping
• mountaineering
• sailing
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Jeff Buckley, Faure, FKA Twigs, Tears for Fears, Led Zeppelin, The Police... to name a very few in not really particular order. I love vinyls and have plenty.

MOVIES: The Sea, Happy Gilmore, The Graduate ….AND MORE

BOOKS: The Power Broker by Robert Caro, The Sea of Fertility tetralogy by Yukio Mishima…AND MORE

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swam 15 miles (24.1402 km) in 2014 in Stage 4 of the 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim

Teach, Learn, Share

I live in Brooklyn, NYC with a very cool and mature 34 year old male roommate who teaches math in NYC public high schools. We share a 2 bedroom apartment on the top floor of a 4-story walk-up brownstone house that's a block from the lovely Prospect Park in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn (off the F/G train). We have a fire station nearby and the neighborhood has lots of young families plus a good mix of all kinds of New Yorkers, so there's a very nice residential feel to the area.

Our place isn't super fancy, but has a long living room area with a firm, sofa. I also have an inflatable twin air mattress and plenty of clean bedding. When weather is nice and if you feel adventurous, there's always the rooftop for a night under the stars, with an unbelievable view of the Manhattan skyline and beyond.

If you don't need a place, I'm always happy to show people around or give them suggestions. After being here this long, I think I know a little something about the metropolis...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking, music, good conversation, extreme cleanliness, unintrusive presence....and a connection in Brooklyn, NYC for when they are in the States!

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, England, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Marshall Islands, South Korea, United States