Local Boy.

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 19-MAR-07

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The life of twenty-seven-year-old Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer of and lead actor in the new musical "In the Heights"--about the ups and downs of the residents of a block in Washington Heights--seemed pretty serene the other day as he did some errands in the old neighborhood. Miranda, who is trim and dark-haired, with a goatee, and is as eager-beaverish as they come, lives on upper Broadway, a few blocks from his parents' house, across the street from Inwood Hills Park, where he was born.

"I'm the luckiest guy in the whole world," he said, taking a chair at his local barbershop, where he was getting a shape-up on his...

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