January 1, 2001 Issue
"Manhattan needs conspicuous extravagance -- that is, unless stock speculators start jumping out of the few skyscraper windows that actually open."
-- Gael Greene, "Feeding Frenzy"
Want to browse through back issues? Click here to look through our Table of Contents archives, or click here to look through past articles.
GROUND RULES: Not everything in every issue appears on our web
site. If it is available online, the article title appears below as a
colored, underlined "hot link," which you can click on to read the full text; if
the article title below is black, the full text of the article is not
available online. For more information on getting copies or reprints of articles
that aren't on our web site, call New York Magazine's Information Services
Department at 212-508-0755.
FEATURES Feeding Frenzy Navigating the city's vast, spectacular smorgasbord isn't easy. But luckily, our insatiable critic has eaten everything -- from perfectly seared steak at Baldoria to foie gras and truffles at Le Bernardin to the quintessential junk-food fix at Peanut Butter & Co. -- so you won't have to. Bill O'Reilly's years as a TV newsman taught him to distrust the media -- and he's turned his anger into a top-rated TV show and a best-selling book. The dot-com bubble may have burst, but all that industry-building did not go for naught. Steve Bodow talks with the VCs who, with an infrastructure in place, lots of trained talent, and seed money to spare, are just waiting for the right moment to get back into tech. It won't be long. In the meantime, what's going on with all those Ivy League English majors who migrated here looking to cash in on the e-commerce boom? Vanessa Grigoriadis finds out how Silicon Alley casualties are coping.
GOTHAM
DEPARTMENTS
The City Politic The Moynihan legacy
The Bottom Line What's next for a hot hedge-fund manager at the height of his career? Retirement, of course.
This Media Life A look back at a year that turned the media (old and new) on its head
|
MARKETPLACE Best Bets BY RIMA SUQI
Sales & Bargains Indian salons for impeccable brows
THE CRITICS Traffic's hit-and-run technique; Thirteen Days delivers
Books Picturing New York succeeds where Bright Young Things fails
Theater Jane Eyre and Tiny Alice both miss the mark
Art Sol LeWitt: conceptual artist as community builder
Classical Music The Met makes Verdi into a joke
Dance Ailey: fine dancers, weak new works
|