Because…
- Obama Is One of Us, Despite All That Business About Chicago
- People Will Still Do Really Crazy Things to Live Here
- The Avant-Garde Is Our Playpen
- A Legally Blind, Formerly Adulterous Onetime Recreational Coke User Can Be Governor
- Our Generosity Comes Through Even�Perhaps Especially�Now
- Sometimes Immense, Gratuitous, Noncontextual Acts of Real-estate Ego Don’t Pan Out�
- Palazzo Chupi Doesn't Look Like It Belongs in the West Village
- Just When You Take the Empire State Building for Granted, It Seduces You Again
- Not Even the Dolans Can Take the Fun Out of Watching These Knicks
- Our New Stadiums Are Perversely Perfect Symbols of the City Right Now
- Eli Is Now the Manning
- Even Our Hot Dogs Are Political
- We’re Highly Receptive to Bold, Brilliant, Mildly Lunatic Public Art
- The F Train Can Double As a Maternity Ward
- We Fight Over Cultural Spaces As If They Were Bosnia
- Even in These Times, People Are Still Opening Stores
- Every Once in a While, There Is Dancing in the Streets
- We’re Resilient
and because…
- We Celebrate Fifth Acts
- At Least Fantasy Jobs Are Alive and Well in Fiction
- New York Has Become a World Capital of Philosophy
- These Sentences Were Published About New York This Year
- You Can Catch a World-Class Fish in the Shadow of Skyscrapers
- You Can Find All These Groceries Within a Six-Block Radius
More Reasons…
Ditmas Park-
Our own San Francisco.
It Starts Here-
We blazed the trail for gay marriage.
A New York King-
Where else would a tour-bus driver also be a King?
Meat Gods-
Our butchers have hipster groupies.
Big-City Anchor-
A Wasilla phenom is no match for Katie Couric.
Homebodies-
Our teachers lead interesting private lives.
She's Back-
The Material Girl returns home.
Brooklyn Wine-
We're making serious wine in Red Hook.
- WHAT OUR READERS LOVE
ABOUT NEW YORK - “The choice to be seen or be invisible.”
- “People act surprised when you hold doors for them.”
- “Sue Simmons dropping the F-bomb on TV.”
- “The baseball fields across from the World Trade Center.”
- “We still watch crap TV.”
- “It is so easy to get laid as a New Yorker out of town.”
- A Complete List of Readers'
Reasons to Love New York