Alek Wek: One of the Beautiful People
The things she loves about Fort Greene—“the diversity, you know, it’s not just this or that, it’s the original people who still live here”—have added up to give Wek a sense of home she hasn’t felt anywhere else. Speaking about when she first moved to Fort Greene, when practically all she had in her new home was her as-seen-on-TV mattress, Wek said, “For the first time, I didn’t miss my old place. All I had was my bed, but I was home.”