Reasons to Love New York 2014 — New York Magazine

We Were All Taylor Swift Once

Mike Nichols Shaped Generations of Actors

We Protest Passionately and Peacefully

We Know Noodles Taste Best After Midnight

The City Really Is Our Living Room

After 9.5 Hours, Cedric King and Gena Wilson Finished the Marathon

A Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks

New York Rap Is So Awesomely Weird

This Is a Michelin-Starred Chef’s Chocolate-Chip Cookie

Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg Are Adding a Wing to Manhattan

Loretta Lynch Has Been Preparing for This Job for a Long Time

It’s Fun to Watch de Blasio and Cuomo Pretend to Get Along

Craig Spencer Risked His Life to Save Others

These 120 People Saved Craig Spencer’s Life

These Club Kids Are Actually Kids

Even a Humbled Society Queen Deserves a Fairy-Tale Romance

Ridgewood Is the New East Williamsburg

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Statistically Speaking, Taylor Swift Is Right

We Wear Sweatpants With Heels

Citi Bike Is Too Big (of an Idea) to Fail

This Is Michael Bloomberg’s Idea of Retirement

Even a 163-Year-Old Institution Can Learn New Tricks

Bay Ridge Is the New South Slope

You Can Get a Studio at the Domino Sugar Factory for $553 a Month

This Is What a James Beard Award–Winning Pastry Chef Does With a Burger

53,200 4-Year-Olds Are Learning to Count, Color, and Share

You Won’t Have to Be a Millionaire to Enjoy the View of 56 Leonard

Reducing the Speed Limit Will Save 92 Lives This Year

Brooklyn Is Getting a Skyline

Craig Spencer Is, by No Means, the Only Hero in Town

Dr. Laura Evans Was at Bellevue

207,000 Pounds of Clothes Discarded During the Marathon Went to Charity

Toplessness Is a Right (and a Movement)

Kara Walker Changed the Way We Look at History

There Is Such a Thing As a Free Lunch

An Obsessive Australian Is the Reason Your Coffee Shop Is Full of Tourists

There Has Never Been a More Efficient Time and Place to Be Single

When You Get Tired of Swiping Right, This Woman Can Help You Find Love

He and She and He and She and She Can Live in Sin Together in Bushwick

Fulton Center Is the Best Thing to Happen to Commuting Since the Swipe Card

If You’re Caught With 50 Joints, the Worst That Can Happen Is a $100 Ticket

We Know When to Resuscitate Our Ruins

And We Know When to Leave Them Alone

If You Look Hard Enough, You Can Always See Beauty Under the Grime

Because Someone Lost $13,000 on the Subway, and Someone Else Turned It In

Even the Islanders Want to Live in Brooklyn

This Is What 9/11 Looks Like to Someone Born on September 10, 2001