 Sotomayor long lived in Greenwich Village in New York City and had few financial assets other than her home . She enjoys shopping , traveling , and giving gifts and helps support her mother and her mother 's husband in Florida . Regarding her short financial disclosure reports prior to her Supreme Court nomination , she has said , " When you don 't have money , it 's easy . There isn 't anything there to report . " As a federal judge , she is entitled to a pension equal to her full salary upon retirement . Upon joining the Supreme Court , she took up residence in Washington but sorely missed the faster @-@ paced life of New York . After renting in the Cleveland Park neighborhood for three years , in 2012 she purchased a condominium in the U Street Corridor . She said , " I picked [ that area ] because it 's mixed . I walk out and I see all kinds of people , which is the environment I grew up in and the environment I love . " 
