Sarah Nsikak Is So Happy to Be Back in Bed-Stuy

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [Sarah Nsikak Is So Happy to Be Back in Bed-Stuy]( The upcycling fashion designer gave upstate a try. Photo: Wendy Goodman The upcycling fashion designer Sarah Nsikak was expecting her first child, daughter Maleigha, whose pending arrival prompted the decision to move with her partner upstate to Kingston. “I wanted to be in nature, thinking I would want this bucolic life,” she says. But she soon realized “it’s very isolating. I kind of wish someone had said, ‘You need to stay here with your community.’” She moved back to Bedford-Stuyvesant in March. “I feel like New York is the kind of place you are embraced and loved and people pick up where you left off.” We did this interview sitting at her worktable, where she was showing me pieces of an old nightgown. “It was definitely hurting me to cut it,” she says, “and I remember what I was watching, when I did it, the [documentary]( on [Donyale Luna](! She was her own moment and then she was gone.” — Wendy Goodman [TAKE A TOUR]( Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [Willem Dafoe Is Selling His High Falls Farmhouse He bought the cheery, 1920s country home while filming Antichrist.]( By Adriane Quinlan 2. [A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait Painter’s Studio in Gramercy Park There’s a 14th-century fireplace mantel, library ladders, and a loft space.]( By Adriane Quinlan 3. [Upstate Buyers Are Too Rich for Airbnb Now People making all-cash offers don’t need the extra income, and they don’t like to share.]( By Kim Velsey 4. [Walling Up the East Side to Save It Why the floodgates on the waterfront look the way they do.]( By Christopher Bonanos [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday.]( [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved