April 19, 2010 Issue
Cover Story
The Best Places to Live in NYC
Fifty ’hoods from across the five boroughs ranked, considering factors from housing stock to nightlife, by the statistical analyst Nate Silver; the mutual contempt between Williamsburg’s two primary populations; the quest to define, create, and sell a new neighborhood in the middle of Manhattan; and much, much more.
Intelligencer
Test: How Clean Is Our Water?
Here, what we found in your water in infinitesimal amounts.
The Shrine of St. Vincent’s
The doomed hospital was ground zero for the AIDS epidemic. And now it’ll be condos?
Divey League
Breaking the college-spending cycle.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Lily Tomlin’s Damages
Lily Tomlin on being cast as Marilyn Tobin in the FX series 'Damages.'
49 Minutes With Paul Verhoeven
The auteur of Showgirls wants to make a movie about Jesus.
Strategist
The Best Bet
Isabel Marant opens in Soho, a week full of sales, and more.
The Look Book
"My first name means 'the crown will overcome,' and my last name means 'open your eyes and see the crown.'”
The Bazaar’s New Beat
The clothes demand that you dance—somewhere, soon, and with abandon.
The Restaurant Review
The Highlands gives the gourmet treatment to another oft-maligned cuisine.
In Season Recipe
The pullet egg makes for an extra-creamy and delicious “yolk flan.”
Culture
Animal Magnetism
You may never understand Sarah Silverman, but her new memoir, The Bedwetter, explains a lot.
The Art Review
I found something to like about Marlene Dumas.
The Movie Review
Exit Through the Gift Shop was going to be a documentary about a graffiti artist. Then he and the director swapped jobs.
Up in Smoke: Titus Welliver
Titus Welliver on playing a troubled former sailor in the indie film Handsome Harry.
Supernerd
With Kick-Ass, Christopher Mintz-Plasse kicks McLovin to the curb.
Is This Book Worth Getting?
A no-frills guide to the spring fiction shelf.
Mailer’s Women: The Posthumous Brawl
What the two more recent tell-alls have in common.
Agenda
Pedigreed Dogs
Fette Sau's owners are turning their attention to other regional gems at St. Anselm.
Department
Comments: Week of April 19, 2010
Readers sound off on Rachel Uchitel, CNN, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of April 19, 2010
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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