New York Magazine: May 19, 2014 Issue

Table of Contents

May 19, 2014

Cover Story

Chirlane McCray’s City

Bill de Blasio’s wife is also his partner—a City Hall marriage the likes of which New York has never seen. By Lisa Miller

On the Cover: Chirlane McCray. Photograph by Ruven Afanador for New York Magazine. Makeup by Fulvia Farolfi for Chanel; Hair by Anu Prestonia for Ken Barboza.

Features

Can Conservatives Be Funny?

The GOP sees conspiracy in the liberal stranglehold on TV’s humorists.

By Frank Rich
Crushing

Halle Berry, Louis C.K., the Rock, Japanese hostesses: confessions of mostly platonic desire.

Plus: Alain de Botton on our ever-evolving hearts.

“Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry”

Washio wants to be the Uber of wash-and-fold. It’s not alone. (And no, Mike Judge did not write this script.)

By Jessica Pressler

Intelligencer

Culture

The Cut

Out of the Box: The Yale Project

We sent a crate of designer clothes to graduate students in Yale’s M.F.A. program in photography to play with them for a day.

Departments

Strategist

New This Summer: Eat. Play. Leave.

Your guide to thriving in the sweltering city, including a super sundae and a bunch of new parks to go to soak up some vitamin D.