November 12, 2012 Issue
Cover Story
The City and the Storm
After Sandy, powerful and powerless have taken on new��and familiar�meanings: Lloyd Blankfein’s over-preparedness problem and the
forgotten residents of Gerritsen Beach; the NYU nurses who saved twenty premie babies and the firefighters who had to watch Breezy Point burn; Bloomberg and Cuomo’s emergency partnership; Chris Christie in High Ahab; and the politics of storms and waterfronts and unfrozen food.
On the Cover:
New York City on October 31. Photograph by Iwan Baan for New York Magazine.
What We Saw When the Lights Went Out
Christie's Apocalypse
A biblical governor has his come-to-Jesus moment.
Shut-in
Memories for company on Grand Street.
Goldman Has the Power
"The Power!" shouts Lloyd Blankfein, lifting his arms in the air.
T-Minus Eight Days
A political storm.
Lapping the Sea
The only way the city can embrace the water is by repelling it. Lovingly.
A Hospital Flatlined
The evacuation no one would have planned.
Fire Water
Breezy Point, trapped between the hurricane and the flames.
Foul-Weather Friends
Mayor and governor, bonded in crisis.
The Sinking of 22nd Street
Art and commerce underwater.
Any Food in a Storm
The power of Pringles and chicken soup.
Refuge at Resurrection
Gerritsen Beach seeking shelter, and Manhattan's eye.
Book Publishing at the End of the World
A glass shatters, an industry panics.
Spoiled Goods
At a deli that never closed, New Yorkers who wouldn’t change.
When You Were Born
Electricity to the north, darkness to the south, the future out there somewhere.
A Taxonomy of Hurricane Sandy
What New Yorkers got accustomed to during the storm.
Features
Jr.
The eldest son of the Reverend Jesse Jackson was supposed to fullfill his father’s political ambitions. Now he’s under investigation for his role in two scandals and has been hospitalized for bipolar disorder and depression. What happened to derail a once unstoppable career? By Jason Zengerle
A Brain With a Heart
Oliver Sacks became the most celebrated brain doctor in the world by exploring neurological curiosities that science has struggled to explain. And with the publication of his twelfth book, Hallucinations, he’s training his gaze on the mystery of himself. By David Wallace-Wells
Columns
Sandy and the Suitors
The storm swept one candidate toward the finish. But whoever loses has only himself to blame.
Strategist
Best Bets
A tilted ceramic mug, a salt nest, and more new stuff in New York stores.
The Look Book
�I’m going to ballroom-dancing class. There are more boys than girls, so we have to share the girls.�
The Restaurant Review
At the new Madison Avenue outlet of Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto, Cesare Casella turns out accomplished, if pricey, Italian fare.
In Season
Seamus Mullen serves fried sunchokes as an alternative to fried potatoes.
Thanksgiving, Highfalutin and Homey
Daniel Humm shares cutting-edge, Michelin-quality dinner, while Larry and Marc Forgione serve up a traditional family-style feast.
Culture
Solange's Jobs Report
Singer. Producer. Blue Ivy babysitter.
The Movie Review
Lincoln preserves the union between drama and history lesson.
Clarification: Bond Flick or In-Flight Shopping Catalogue?
The difference between Bond flicks and in-flight catalogues.
"A Bulldozer of Love and Fear"
Vanessa Paradis on the problem with soul mates.
Chita Rivera Chooses Her Own Adventure
A Broadway icon slings opium in a new Edwin Drood.
Departments
Comments: Week of November 12, 2012
Readers sound off on the Autism spectrum, Jemima Kirke, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of November 12, 2012
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
From the Editors
Following Hurricane Sandy, an improvised newsroom was soon up and running, with 32 editors, photo editors, designers, and production specialists.
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