Her new plan: buy a house and rent it out ... a deaf couple revamped their plans and toured several Manhattan neighborhoods in search of a one-bedroom or two-bedroom near parks and subways.

A native New Yorker who grew up in Harlem and Queens, she moved to the Bay Area in 2007, at the urging of her then-husband, with a 3-year-old son in tow and plans to earn a graduate degree in ...