New York Magazine: July 8, 2013 Issue

Table of Contents

July 8, 2013

Cover Story

Cheap Eats 2013

Our annual guide to the most delicious things that won’t cause your stomach to churn with money worries. By Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

On the Cover: Hybird’s fried chicken. Photograph by Bobby Doherty/New York Magazine.

Features

When Privacy Jumped The Shark

Americans are too busy sharing personal information to care if the government is listening in. It might even flatter them.

By Frank Rich
Liquid City

New York couldn’t live without the sea that has, on occasion, caused it great harm. And now we need to hug our shores even closer.

By Justin Davidson

Plus: where Bloomberg unearthed his aquatic master plan.
Manhattan Fold ’Em

A poker hostess who got her start at Tobey Maguire’s. An art-world heir. Russians. Prosecutors targeting gambling networks are after all of them.

By Robert Kolker

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Bill de Blasio’s Towering Problem

He’s the highest-minded liberal in the race—but are his concerns too rarefied for most New Yorkers?

Departments

Strategist