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Name: Zuzanna Szadkowski
Occupation: Actress, currently on Gossip Girl
Age: Younger than Dorota
Neighborhood: Downtown Brooklyn

Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
I like Al Pacino as Milton in The Devil’s Advocate perched on that rooftop with the infinity pool.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
As Dorota I bustle around, eavesdrop, disapprove, approve, and get really excited about all things Miss Blair…

Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
Yeah … really recently.

What’s the last thing you saw on Broadway?
I saw All My Sons with my best-ever theatergoing partner Jayne Kelly.

Do you give money to panhandlers?
Not usually, although I am sometimes won over by panhandlers with dogs.

How often do you prepare your own meals?
Once a week I buy frozen things and salad from the new Trader Joe’s on Court Street in Brooklyn and heat/assemble a meal. Sometimes I make eggs.

What’s your favorite medication?
I take Bayer Aspirin.

What’s hanging above your sofa?
I have two blown-up black-and-white family pics: One is of a baby me with my dad in a cabbage patch, one is a candid of my mom looking gorgeous at work in her chemistry lab in Warsaw years ago.

How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
I don’t know. Fancy haircuts make me anxious.

When’s bedtime?
12:30 weekdays, 2:30 weekends.

Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
The old Times Square was certainly more fabulous. I am intrigued by the strange free seating in the middle of the new new Times Square.

What do you think of Donald Trump?
I think Ivanka seems cool enough.

What do you hate most about living in New York?
I HATE riding the subway. I HATE carrying a ton of things all around town with me.

Who is your mortal enemy?
I fight a lifelong war with the alarm clock.

When’s the last time you drove a car?
My parents came to visit in October, and I drove their car to Greenpoint so they could stock up on sausage, herring, chocolates, and liquor from the homeland.

How has the economic downturn affected your life?
Am I the first one to answer this new question? If this were a toast, I would toast to good fortune, health, and happiness for everyone!

Where do you go to be alone?
I like the shower with lots of fancy products, scrubs, poufs … all of that.

What makes someone a New Yorker?
Seven years minimum stay.

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