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Every December, this magazine puts out a “Reasons to Love New York” issue.

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    Inside the Court Where the Presiding Judge Is a TeenagerSince 2011, the Brownsville Youth Court, where local teens volunteer to serve as the judges, juries, and advocates, has heard around 250 cases a year.
    By Mark Jacobson
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    On the Joys of Shopping at an Urban CostcoYou can meet friends at Black Seed on Saturday and pick up a 72-count box of Bagel Bites on Sunday.
    By John Swansburg
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    How My Dentist Taught Me That I Am a New YorkerWhen he told me 80 percent of his clients grind their teeth, I assumed it was a finance thing. It turns out that it might just be a New York thing.
    By Noreen Malone
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    How Junglepussy Went From East New York to YaleThe 24-year-old is joining the likes of comedic rappers like Cam’ron and College Dropout–era Kanye West, making emotional connections through well-timed jokes.
    By Lauren Schwartzberg
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    Why New York Makes the Best Reality-Show StarsRecognizing the ingenious innovation of The Bedford Stop.
    By Adam Sternbergh
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    Affordable Housing Could Look Like ThisThe view from Hunter’s Point South, the city’s largest affordable-housing development since the 1970s.
    By Andrew Rice
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    Kristaps Porzingis Is Learning How to Be the Hottest Athlete in New YorkThe bad news is that everyone suddenly wants a piece of your time. The good news, however, is that everyone has to wait for you.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
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    Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the Political Appeal of a New Yawk Accent“Americans have come to associate New Yorkers, and so New York accents, with saying what you mean, intense emotional talk, and not worrying too much about whom you offend.”
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
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    How Jerry Saltz Learned to Love the MoMA AgainThis year, MoMA reminded us just how indispensable and, at times, spectacular it can be.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Can This ‘Smart Policing’ Program Teach the NYPD How to Listen?Deputy police commissioner Michael Julian has devised a three-day course designed to emphasize the civil in cop-civilian relations.
    By DW Gibson
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    How Hamilton’s Free Preshow Performance Became the Best Thing on BroadwayThe equivalent of a DVD extra, live on a Manhattan side street, a couple of days a week.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    This 116-Year-Old Brooklyn Woman Is the World’s Oldest PersonSusannah Mushatt Jones was born in Alabama on July 6, 1899.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    The Pizza-Rat Taste-TestWe let some pies sit around our offices all day, then recruited a few discerning critics in a Chinatown park after dark.
    By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
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    A Clique With a Kennedy, a Matisse, and a TrumpMinor celebrities thanks to the Rich Kids of Instagram blog, they have leveraged their hundreds of thousands of followers to further their personal brands.
    By Alexis Swerdloff
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    What’s the Reason You Love New York? #RTLNYWe want to know.
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    Photos: Why Our Readers Love New YorkSubmitted from Instagram and Twitter for our annual Reasons to Love New York issue.
  17. What’s the Reason You Love New York? #RTLNYPost your reasons with the hashtag #RTLNY on Twitter and Instagram, or leave them in the comments below, and your picks might get published in the magazine.
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    What’s the Reason You Love New York? #RTLNYPost your reasons with the hashtag #RTLNY on Twitter and Instagram, and they might get published in the magazine.
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    Reasons to Love New York 2011Our seventh annual mash note to our hometown.
    By The Editors
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    Tell Us Why You Love New York!You can be in the “Reasons to Love” issue in December.
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    Tell Us About Your Best First Date!You could be in the magazine’s “Reasons to Love New York” issue.
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    We Said They’d Be Famous: What Actually Happened?Checking in with the up-and-comers of 2005.
    By Chadwick Matlin
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    Reasons to Love New York: Help Us Count the Ways (Updated)We adapt. We improve. We steamroll forward, never imagining that there’s any place but here where we could do our best. Because where else is there, really?
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    Man Returns Wallet With $2,800 in It to OwnerGood Samaritanism strikes again.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Taxi Driver Saves $21K Purse for TouristYeah, that really happened.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Behind Our Miracle on the Hudson Photo ShootLaura Zych and Ben Bostic, who met and fell in love through the extraordinary events of January 15, 2009, return to the city for another cruise down the Hudson.
    By Jonah Green and Chris Rovzar
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    Have You Ever Depended Upon the Kindness of Strangers?In New York. No, seriously. It’s a real question.
    By Chris Rovzar
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    Reasons to Love New York, Food EditionReasons to love the magazine this week: political hot-dog stands, butchers with groupies, and international grocery shopping, just to name a few.
    By Aileen Gallagher