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‘Walking With My Mother, I Always Hung on Tightly to Her Hand’ Growing up in College Point, a downstairs neighbor’s welcome noise and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Feb. 7, 2021 Dear Diary: the counter. It was my mum’s hand. I grew up in College Point, Queens. My mother never drove a car here in America, although she had driven a farm tractor back in Scotland as a teenager. So, my mother and father walked, and, as children, so did ...