New York Magazine: December 19, 2011 Issue

Table of Contents

December 19, 2011

Cover Story

Reasons to Love New York 2011

Seven years into our annual swoon, we’ve got 42 more reasons to be smitten.

On the Cover: Photograph by Danny Kim/New York Magazine

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Circus Iowus

A playbill for the GOP’s midwestern gladiatorial showdown.

Agenda

Selling Like Hot Cakes

The owner, a former Daniel pastry chef, bakes the tender, buttery madelines to order after 3 p.m.

Strategist

New Stuff

A beach towel, a new barbershop, and more.
The Look Book

“I’m always in the market for a tree. I’m a sucker for the holidays.”
The Restaurant Review

The newly modernized Le Bernardin loses something (and one of our stars) in translation.
In Season

The earthy beet can get a bad rap—its distinctive taste seems to some, well, dirty.
The Greatest Thing Since

It’s a crackly-crusted, open-crumbed, local-floured moment in dough.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Occupy It?

A more livable lower Manhattan is emerging.

Departments