The 12th edition of New York Magazine’s “Reasons to Love New York” issue explores what makes New York City a sanctuary in every sense of the word. Highlights from this year’s issue include Brooklyn’s late District Attorney Ken Thompson who fought to the very end, the four decades when New York Times readers got to view the city’s clotheshorses through Bill Cunningham’s eyes, snow-salt sheds that look like museums, a Columbia lab trying to turn corpses into glowing installation art under the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn rapper Young M.A. who is making room for a whole new kind of mainstream hip-hop performer, and many more.
This edition of “Reasons to Love New York” has three covers, culled from Platon’s portfolio of New York immigrants of every age inside the issue. The portfolio is organized by age, from 1 month to 91. “We were thinking about what would make a great story played out over three covers, and thought about the three generations of immigration,” says New York photography director Jody Quon. The family portrayed on the cover is a baby born a citizen, whose mother is a Dreamer, and whose grandmother is undocumented. “So you get the full arc of New York immigrants in the progression of the covers.”