Q&A: What I Did On My Summer Vacation

September 18, 2009 Updated: September 18, 2009

Briana and Hilary Brown, 24, Dancers, Brooklyn&#8212Briana: I went to Montreal, my hometown, to see family. &#8212Hilary: I didn't take a vacation.
Briana and Hilary Brown, 24, Dancers, Brooklyn&#8212Briana: I went to Montreal, my hometown, to see family. &#8212Hilary: I didn't take a vacation.
Beecher Scarlet and Gray Scarlet, 32 & 8 weeks, Ad Sales, Manhattan: We went to Lake Placid and the Poconos.
Beecher Scarlet and Gray Scarlet, 32 & 8 weeks, Ad Sales, Manhattan: We went to Lake Placid and the Poconos.
Andrey Troilin, 23, Moving Company, Russia/Brooklyn: I went to the seaside, and also to Baltimore.
Andrey Troilin, 23, Moving Company, Russia/Brooklyn: I went to the seaside, and also to Baltimore.
Dred, 40, Piano player, Brooklyn: I went upstate, to Syracuse.
Dred, 40, Piano player, Brooklyn: I went upstate, to Syracuse.
NEW YORK—It’s over; we have to let summer go now. Once that Labor Day parade goes past, so go the long days of summer. For many, the summer of ’09 was the summer of many days of rain amidst the worst recession in decades. But we wanted to ask a few New Yorkers: what did you do on your summer vacation?

Photos by Tim McDevitt/The Epoch Times