October 4, 2010 Issue
Cover Story
Who Runs New York?
New York Power in 2010, Including: Wall Street, after the Apocalypse; Towers of Power: 15 CPW vs. 740 Park; the rise of the new political kingmakers; curators of the new Brooklyn; how Nick Denton made it; and more.
Intelligencer
Who’s the Most Important Living New Yorker?
We asked thirteen prominent New Yorkers that question.
Unsocialist Behavior
Why aren’t many Democrats in safe seats helping out their brethren who are running for their lives?
Good Buildings
Post-boom, helpful architecture.
The Neighborhood News
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Vote Like a Man
The macho midterms.
Features
This Is Not a Power List
Because the New York establishment doesn’t work that way anymore.
Postapocalyptic Wall Street
A new financial world emerges from the wreckage.
Ready to Be Rich
David Tepper is coming out of the billionaire closet.
The Terence Koh Show
The downtown artist, and his relationship to virtually everybody.
A Drama Queen and Her Princess
Marian Seldes meets Lily Rabe.
Who Got In
Seven parties. Seven guest lists. Seven New York circles.
The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street
Nick Denton cast himself as a media outsider. That’s how he made it inside.
Nine Over 90
Portraits of a near century of influence.
Downtown for Sale
Opening Ceremony’s Humberto Leon and Carol Lim are the new arbiters—and ambassadors—of fashion.
Open City
An inside look at the center of the Bloomberg administration’s bureaucracy.
You Can Do Anything in Bushwick
The Roberta's DIY empire.
The Most Photographed Faces of 2010
A tally of popular partygoers.
Features
The New Gangs of New York
They’re younger, harder to catch, and quicker to violence. Who holds sway where.
Of Pig Snouts and Headcheese
April Bloomfield taught us to eat everything.
Hope in Shorts
In Amar’e Stoudemire, Knicks fans finally have a reason to believe.
The Life of Wylie
The superagent has yet to meet a publishing convention he didn’t want to explode.
Where Have All the Political Parties Gone?
Working Families swoops into the void.
Times Two
Jill Abramson, the Times’ first heiress apparent.
Towers of Power
740 Park Avenue has arguably been supplanted by 15 Central Park West. Who lives better?
The Anti-Trump
Gary Barnett, the builder of this era’s glitziest buildings, does not have cotton-candy hair.
Power Stalking
A week on the sidewalks with New York’s paparazzi.
Looking for the Next Mrs. Astor
The most important three names in society right now: Lauren Santo Domingo (née Davis).
Can You Guess Where These People Live?
Curators of the new Brooklyn.
Defacebook
Four young friends who are out to create a very different sort of social network.
The Amazing Human Launching Pads
Five prominent locals whose underlings have gone on to big things.
Departments
Comments: Week of October 4, 2010
Readers sound off on The Social Network, Reid Stowe, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of October 4, 2010
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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