It’s been a rough couple of years, for sure. For many of us, New Yorkers, Americans—heck, citizens of any part of the world—the twinkling year-end holiday season is as contingent as it has ever been, our joys tempered by perhaps only slowly improving circumstances. (Though don’t tell that to Wall Street, which is doing just fine again, thank you.) And yet this city, with its jostling can-do dreamers, is where the future is always made.
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Our Mayor Knows What He Thinks
- Sometimes he’s even right.
Pluralism Is Our Fundamentalism
- Meet the religious leaders who unambiguously defended Park51.
There Are Three Women on the Supreme Court
- And all of them are from here.
We’re Steamrollers
- Q&A with Eliot Spitzer.
We Revere Our Jewish Mothers
- Woody Allen on Elaine’s in the seventies.
Jimmy Finally Said It
- The rent is too damn high!
We Have Best Young Filmmakers
- These nine directors wouldn’t shoot anywhere else.
The Clintons Live Here
- Where else would America's royal family be?
We Finally Have Two Star Quarterbacks
- Manning and Sanchez have already had more than a year’s worth of highlights.
We Have a Roomful of Rothkos ...
- Followed by one of Pollocks, followed by ...
60 Pianos Magically Appeared
- They showed up on June 21, with an invitation: PLAY ME, I’M YOURS.
We Have the Most Diverse Counties
- Brooklyn and Queens are competing to be the most diverse in America.
Because…
- Our Cops Don’t Fire Their Guns Unless They Have To
- Jonathan Lethem Can’t Stop Thinking About Us
- Prokhorov is Russian For “Steinbrenner”
- Lloyd Blankfein Can’t Stop Smiling
- We Like Gwyneth Just the Way She Is
- There’s Always a Place for Of-the-Minute People
- After Last Call at the Jane, You Can Go Straight to AA
- Gehry’s New Tower Gives the Skyline Some Baroque Drama
- Matt Lauer Has a Secret Ninja Side
- We Keep Finding Ways to Feel Like a Small Town
- We’re Not Afraid to Touch
- This Is a Town Where Gabourey Sidibe Can Be an “It” Girl
- We’re Home to a Woman Who Smells Books
- Bike Traffic Lights Are Beautiful, Life-Affirming Things
- The Roosevelt Island Tram Is Back!
- Our Bars Are Concert Halls
- Writers Who Can Write, Teach
- Our Galleries Are Eight Stories Tall
- We Have Good Luck Even With Terrible Luck
- Charlie Sheen Gave Us an Economic Boost
- Our Urban Vision Knows No Bounds
- At Least Some of the Time, We Can All Go Off-Leash
- Tell Us Why You Love New York