New York 19

Listen to New York 19, a 45-year-old woman from the Bronx and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 45

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/01/1966

PLACE OF BIRTH: New York City (the Bronx)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Puerto Rican

OCCUPATION: homemaker

EDUCATION: high school

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, but moved to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in her 20s and has lived there since.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 31/06/2011

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Um, my trip to Puerto Rico of last year was a little bit unusual. I went for an emergency for my mother that had passed away, but we, uh, on my way to Puerto Rico, um, we were stuck on a storm, so it was a little bit of hard time getting to the, to Puerto Rico, so … But we finally made it.  We did what it went, uh … um the arrangements … we needed to make but, um, it was an experience, what we wasn’t expecting it after four days. Oh, it was horrible; you had to sleep at the airport, and, you know, um, try and get on line to get a ticket for the next flight; it was horrible, but it was a quite of experience. You don’t want to go through it again, you know, you know it was much easier coming than going.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Matthew Evanoff (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 31/06/2011

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