Antonio Figueroa:  

In the event someone is actually interested and at the suggestion of another classmate I ran into who probably wished I had written my back story instead of telling him directly I post here my progress since leaving A&D, where I was in the architecture program. After high school I went to Cooper Union and while in college got married. This marriage ended about the time I finished Cooper. I don't think these two milestones were related however. I then worked for an architect for 2 years in NY and went back to college and got a masters in planning from Columbia. I was hired from Columbia to work as a planner in Spain with a very eccentric well known architect in Spain. I worked with the team doing a planning project in the canary islands. I came back from college to NY when it was about to go bankrupt. Given that there were no jobs and that I had no money I decided to do the only logical thing, start my own firm in the Bronx where I grew up. I started the firm with a fellow who I met when I was working my first job. The firm was Sanchez and Figueroa and we did some nice things and got up to 18 people at one time. During this time I met my second wife and after a long courtship eventually got married and had 2 kids. However, neither Pat (my business partner) nor I were businessmen so the recession in the late 80’s and early 90’s was in full swing we were struggling again and he and I were no longer in the same vibration. In this turmoil out of the blue I was recruited to work in the city also by a guy I met on my first job. This was a fancy position with a big title “deputy commissione...Expand for more