Reasons to Love New York 2015 — New York Magazine

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Because Wendi Deng’s Rumspringa Took Her to Burning Man Because the Garment District Isn’t the Meatpacking District Because Sheldon Silver Is Finally a Felon Because the City Is Upping Its IQ Because We Have an Ice Cream District Because Our Mayor and Our Governor Will Turn a Dispute Over, Say, Tax Abatements Into Bloodsport Because Being Above "Sunday Styles" Is Just a Way of Being Into "Sunday Styles" Because I Played in 101 Rec-League Games This Year (So Far) Because We Don’t Care About First Impressions Because This Place Has Been Showing How Black Lives Matter for 90 Years Because This Gallery Can Get Stuck in Traffic Because Trump Is Flat Out Wrong. Our Yuuuge Immigrant Population Is What Makes Us Great Because a Former Retirement Home for Bankrupt Millionaires Is About to Become "the BAM of the Bronx" Because the Garbage Men Is a Great Band Name Because Our Storefront Churches Can Manage the Ungodly Rent (Sort of) Because the Same Day Misty Copeland Made History, Stella Abrera Did Too Because the Pope Went to H&M Because Even Our Dogs Are Critics Because We’re Colonizing Utah Because Williamsburg Is About to Float Away Because This Teenager Discovered the Genetic Mutation That Gave Her the Liver Cancer She Beat at 12 Because There Are Punk Shows in Car Washes Because Running Is Maybe Slightly Less Boring and Tedious Here Because the Mets Have Better Hair Than Gisele and Beyoncé Combined Because Zingis Kahn Is Our Starting Forward Because Affordable Housing Can Look Like This Because Junglepussy Went From East New York to Lecturing at Yale on the Strength of a Single Called "Cream Team" Because Sometimes Chain Shopping Isn’t Terrible Because New York Makes the Best Reality Show Villains Because Who Needs Teeth? Because the Best Pop Producers Aren’t All in Sweden Because You Can Take Guitar Lessons From the Guy From Television Because This Presiding Judge Is a Teenager Because Early-Adopter Seniors Have Totally Taken Over This Ride-Sharing App Because Our Baristas Are the Usain Bolts of Customer Service Because a Hasidic Man Who Becomes a Woman Can Find a New Community Because Someone Built a Robot to Make Your Artisanal Coffee Because the Woman Who Has Everything Now Has a Man Who Will Park Her Stroller Because Normcore Dining Is a Thing Because the World’s Best Dinner Party Was at Lunch Because Our Superstar Experimental Playwrights Aren’t All That Interested In Moving to Broadway Because These Start-Ups Had a Post-It-Art War Because Public Art Finally Got a Sense of Humor Because the Brujas Are Too Cool for Skater Boys Because Whatever You’ve Heard, Independent Retail Is Thriving Because There's a Weed Dealer for Every Lifestyle Because This Is What Your Taxi Driver Looks Like With His Shirt Off Because This Brainiac Is Baking Your Pastries Because There's a Radical Art Journal Published Out of a Mikvah on the Lower East Side