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Reasons to Love
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Every December, this magazine puts out a “Reasons to Love New York” issue, and even during this cursed year, we found 37 particularly excellent reasons why we all should.

  1. reasons to love new york
    A $45 Million Effort to Make Pregnancy Less Deadly in BrooklynThe borough president spent his entire capital budget on midwives, NICUs, and more.
    By Irin Carmon
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    My Quest to Drink a Nobu Martini in My PajamasIf Robert De Niro can do it, why can’t I?
    By Rachel Handler
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    Donald Trump Has Met His Match in Fellow Queens Native Arthur EngoronThe judge overseeing Trump’s civil fraud trial is a fiery Queens native, too.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
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    The Boys Who Got Lost Under Staten IslandA sixth-grade adventure.
    By Alexandra Kleeman
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    Reasons to Love New York Right NowMaybe because the year was so challenging, our 37 reasons to love New York this year feel even dearer.
    By The Editors
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    We Took New York’s TikTokers to LunchThe people who tell the world about dating, dining, and celebrity apartments met up at Bad Roman (where else?).
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    When Your Friends Throw You a Fake FuneralThe bon vivante is as of yet alive.
    By Alexis Swerdloff
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    The Three Frank Jrs. in Merrily We Roll Along Will Sign Your PlaybillBackstage with the boys charming sold-out Broadway shows.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    They’ll Never Leave This 5,800-Square-Foot LoftNo matter how much money you throw at them.
    By Lane Brown
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    Good-bye, Beautiful Trash CansWe’re ditching you for something better.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    The Dare Loves to Write Songs About SexDirty martinis with the dirty dreamboat of downtown.
    By Brock Colyar
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    The Hancock Is the Party House of Bed-StuyA bunch of artists live and party for free in Bed-Stuy’s most expensive mansion.
    By Nora DeLigter
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    How This Lost Dog Got FoundIt’s Waylon, and he’s a good boy.
    By Emily Gould
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    New York’s Got a New BaronessShe went to Europe for work and came home with a title.
    By Ben Widdicombe
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    39 Reasons to Love New York Right NowEvery time it’s been confronted, New York has returned, more impossibly and unpredictably itself than ever, because we wanted it to.
    By The Editors
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    New York Attracts the World’s Most Beautiful PeopleThe only person hotter than my doula and my barista? My mom’s doorman.
    By Alyssa Shelasky
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    Do You Know These Famous New Yorkers?Take our cover photo quiz.
    By The Editors
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    Bossa Nova Civic Club, Bushwick’s ‘Techno Cheers,’ Came BackYou can’t burn down cool.
    By Brock Colyar
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    There’s Always Room for a Few More New YorkersMeeting asylum seekers at Port Authority.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  20. from the editors
    One Intersection, 72 Celebrities, 10,912 Clicks of the ShutterThe making of our ‘Reasons to Love New York’ cover.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    The Best Pizza in the World Can Be Found in One Square Mile of WilliamsburgAny neighborhood would be lucky to have even one or two of these places. Here are eight.
    By Chris Crowley
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    Margaritaville Is the Chillest, Cheesiest Place in TownIt’s bright, cacophonous fun.
    By Rebecca Alter
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    We Will Wait a Very Long Time for a SuprêmeThe latest and arguably greatest entry in New York’s croissant craze.
    By Charlotte Druckman
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    No Matter Where You Live, New Yorkers Can Help You Get an AbortionAnd we’ll pay for it, too.
    By Claire Lampen
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    La Guardia Is Kind of RitzySky bridges have become something of a status symbol for airports around the world. La Guardia has two.
    By James D. Walsh
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    Eric Adams Is Certainly Enjoying HimselfPerformance is an inherent part of politics. But perhaps no prior mayor has ever leaned so far into spectacle.
    By Clio Chang
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    Why I Want the Marijuana Dispensary LicenseHere, some applicants on their high hopes.
    By James D. Walsh
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    How Resale Saved New York RetailMany of the most exciting and original new stores to open recently carry vintage and secondhand clothing.
    By Emilia Petrarca
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    The Story of the Bishop Robbed During His Church ServiceIt’s so much wilder than the headlines.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
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    This Awkward Office Limbo Might Be Remembered As a Golden EraLet’s enjoy this moment while we have it.
    By Matt Stieb
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    All This Hero Wanted Was to Stay HereFrancisco Puebla was among the people who spotted the suspected subway shooter. He was offered a monetary reward but told the city he didn’t want it.
    By Rachel Handler
  32. the best of the lot
    New Yorkers Live Side-by-Side and Worlds ApartPerhaps no film shows the pain and the poetry of the assimilative process quite like The Namesake.
    By Mallika Rao
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    Snapshots of the City Where Movies Were BornBecause every street has a story to tell; all you need is a camera to tell it.
    By Vulture Editors
  34. how good to see you
    Lance Reddick Answers Every Question We Have About John WickThe beloved character actor on Charon’s Pretty Woman connection, the time a bunch of rats swarmed set, and the note from Keanu he’s getting framed.
    By Mara Reinstein
  35. we’re buying people
    It Took an Artist to Make a Great Film About Art-MakingJulian Schnabel made the three best movies about the mysteries of the creative process and a life lived in art.
    By Jerry Saltz
  36. drive me back to my shack
    New York’s Underworld Is World ClassLooking back at Samuel Fuller’s 1953 film Pickup on South Street, which has the best NYC-centric opening sequence in film history.
    By Mark Jacobson
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    The First Great New York City Chase SceneIn the climax of Harold Lloyd’s Speedy, Lloyd — driving the city’s last “horse car” taxi — barrels through town.
    By Jason Bailey
  38. no such things as a mistake
    If You Live in Larchmont, Hot Sex Is a Metro-North Ride AwayAdrian Lyne perfected the life-affirming affair film trope in the 2002 erotic thriller Unfaithful, starring Diane Lane.
    By Allison P. Davis
  39. this is my place
    Brenda Vaccaro Answers Every Question We Have About Midnight CowboyThe actress on John Schlesinger’s documentary-style filmmaking, what it was like to film her memorable sex scene, and that iconic fox-fur coat.
    By Andrew Goldman
  40. amusing people
    New York Is the Natural Habitat of the Gay SophisticateThe king, if you will, of them all is the gay best friend played by Rupert Everett in My Best Friend’s Wedding.
    By Choire Sicha
  41. this isn’t a dream
    New Yorkers Will Endure Any Apartment Nightmare to Live HereRosemary’s Baby, Dark Water, and more films in the distinct subgenre of New York Apartment Horror.
    By Bridget Read
  42. what’s your bag?
    The New York Skyline Is Our Most Memorable Character Actor If you’ve ever seen a movie that opens with a shot of the New York skyline, you probably know helicopter pilot Al Cerullo’s work.
    By Lane Brown
  43. you ever been to poughkeepsie?
    12 Directors on Their Favorite New York City Movies“That’s an element of New York: You can look into a window and see a totally different world, and you’re so separated from it.”
  44. strong streak of good
    The ’70s Wasn’t All BadCynicism, paranoia, mayhem was the dominant mode of New York cinema in the 1970s. But there was a countermovement.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  45. a head for business
    How to Cast a New York City Movie, According to the Legendary Juliet Taylor“I found these absolutely hilarious-looking identical twins, grown men, standing in line at a movie theater.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  46. where did i go right
    Matthew Broderick Answers Every Question We Have About The ProducersThe born-and-bred New Yorker feels about Mel Brooks’s musical movie the way people from Chicago feel about Ferris Bueller.
    By Mara Reinstein
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    Not All Disaster Movies Contain ExplosionsCiao! Manhattan set out to capture Andy Warhol’s New York underground and instead became a symbol of its demise.
    By Heidi Julavits
  48. just press a button
    Fred Williamson Answers Every Question We Have About Black CaesarThe Hammer remembers the guerrilla style of director Larry Cohen and how New York City provided a neighborhood full of free extras.
    By Andrew Goldman
  49. she’s a maid
    Literally Any Meet-Cute Can Happen in a New York City Rom-ComEven if it could never happen.
    By Rachel Handler
  50. from a barstool in manhattan
    In New York’s Great Newspaper Movies, Breaking a Story Can Be the StoryThe chase is everything, even if it wrecks everything else.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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