Reasons to Love New York 2011

reasons to love new york Dec. 11, 2011

Reasons to Love New York 2011

The Occupy Movement Started Here From the occupation on September 17 of an obscure park in lower Manhattan came new “Occupys” in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.

One-Percenters Are Standing With the 99 Percent When Sophie Hagen graduated from Swarthmore last year, a friend gave her a book called Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It […] By Jessica Pressler

Andrew Cuomo Has Redeemed the Phrase ‘Political Lifer’ Our governor is the government. Andrew Cuomo said so himself in early November, and was roundly mocked for it, because blurting “I am the gover […] By Chris Smith

After 64 Years, Louis and John Finally Got Hitched When the Columbia Library closed each night at ten, it was the custom of John Spofford Morgan, who was studying for a master’s in international […] By Jesse Green

We Love Fashion, Even When It’s Not for Sale The wait to get inside “Savage Beauty,” the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibit of Alexander McQueen’s work, was three hours, and still people waited […] By Amy Larocca

Because a Crazy, Charming Actor Wants to Succeed Our Mayor This is not to say that Alec Baldwin will necessarily run for mayor, but as the recent incident—in which he was deplaned for refusing to turn of […] By Carl Swanson

To Hell With the NBA. Go, St. Francis! The NBA lockout is at last over, and there will be basketball at the Garden this season and, next year, in Brooklyn. By Will Leitch

Questlove Is the People’s Bandleader Questlove proves how completely wrong we all were in thinking that he and his band had removed themselves from cultural relevance by taking a j […] By Ben Mathis-Lilley

Our Marlboro Man Is a Novelist Beginning this fall, planted right in the middle of the circus—next to the barn-size ads pushing blockbuster movies, was a billboard in three pa […] By David Wallace-Wells

Because These Women Rock Pop and r&b may be filled with a variety of women making innovative noise, but even in 2011, backstage at the Bowery Ballroom can still feel […] By Lizzy Goodman

Because a Science Geek Is Our Mayor The question was about how the death of his father changed his life, but somehow Mayor Bloomberg had detoured into delivering a science seminar. […] By Chris Smith

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Because…

• There’s Nothing Like a Great Old New York Hack

• The Last Great Discount-Tire Salesman Is Nothing to Sneeze At

• The Best Tabloid Story Was the One About the Owner

• Bill Keller Kept His Calm

• Paul Krugman Didn’t Keep His Calm

• Erica Simone Rode the Subway and Nobody Seemed Surprised

• Our Bathrooms Are World-Class

• The Dover Sole at La Grenouille Never Fails to Please

• There’s a Pay-What-You-Want Restaurant in Williamsburg

• You Get an $11 Fried Sardine Skeleton

• Only Here Can a Hockey Goon Moonlight As a Fashion Maven

• Our Art Galleries Are Extraordinary

• We Have Blood Feuds Over Broadway Musicals

• Brooklynites Like It When Hollywood Comes to Their Neighborhood

• There’s a Kinship Among Our Remaining Smokers

• You Can Dance and Booze in a Chinese Restaurant

• The Skyline Is Soaring Again

• To Us, a Natural Disaster Is an Excuse to Say Who’s Better Than Whom

• The East River Ferry Swims Laps Around the L Train

• A Once-Notorious Mental Hospital Is Now a Publishing House

• St. Mark’s Bookshop Lives

• Zurana Horton Took a Bullet to Save Her Daughter’s Life

• Dr. Steven Schneider Gave a Baby Boy a Chance for a Better One

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