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

  1. where did i go right
    Matthew Broderick Answers Every Question We Have About The ProducersThe born-and-bred New Yorker feels about Mel Brooks’s musical movie the way people from Chicago feel about Ferris Bueller.
    By Mara Reinstein
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    Not All Disaster Movies Contain ExplosionsCiao! Manhattan set out to capture Andy Warhol’s New York underground and instead became a symbol of its demise.
    By Heidi Julavits
  3. just press a button
    Fred Williamson Answers Every Question We Have About Black CaesarThe Hammer remembers the guerrilla style of director Larry Cohen and how New York City provided a neighborhood full of free extras.
    By Andrew Goldman
  4. she’s a maid
    Literally Any Meet-Cute Can Happen in a New York City Rom-ComEven if it could never happen.
    By Rachel Handler
  5. from a barstool in manhattan
    In New York’s Great Newspaper Movies, Breaking a Story Can Be the StoryThe chase is everything, even if it wrecks everything else.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  6. it’s a metaphor for life
    How to Build a Non-Cookie-Cutter New York Set“Most movies don’t want to be a postcard New York City.”
    By Kevin Thompson
    As told to Paula Aceves
  7. here we are marv
    There’s No Better Set Than New York CityAn iconic scene was shot on nearly every corner of the city.
    By Nate Jones
  8. happy birthday welcome home
    There’s No Better Place to Be a SociopathJoseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve dares you to make it in New York.
    By Mark Harris
  9. surrender dorothy!
    Griffin Dunne Answers Every Question We Have About After HoursIt started with Martin Scorsese demanding he abstain from sex during the shoot and almost ended with Paul stuck in that sculpture.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  10. new york in your bones
    The 101 Best New York City Movies, RankedSome movies reflect the perilous reality of living here, others the urbane fantasy. The greatest do both.
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    New York Makes the Movies and the Movies Make New YorkFor the 17th annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue, New York Magazine celebrates the city’s peerless connection to movies.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Farewell to That Gentrifying Harlem Restaurant I Really Won’t MissIt catered to the people the owner wanted to see in the neighborhood, not the people who were already there.
    By Shamira Ibrahim
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    Farewell to My Brick and Mortar ShopsThe now-shuttered stores that made an impression, from Staten Island to Hudson Yards.
    By The Editors
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    Farewell to China Chalet, the City’s Hottest Dim Sum DiscoParty till 3 a.m. Then open for lunch the next day.
    By Emilia Petrarca
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    Farewell to China Chalet, the City’s Hottest Dim Sum DiscoParty till 3 a.m. Then open for lunch the next day.
    By Emilia Petrarca
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    Farewell to the Places I Took My Dates and Old FriendsSaying good-bye to the Mermaid Inn, Rose’s Brooklyn, Pegu Club, and more.
    By The Editors
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    Farewell to Paris Blues Jazz Club, Where You Could Always Find Sam“He can’t sing, he can’t dance, he has no musical talent. But that was his love.”
    By Mikael Awake
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    Farewell to the Place I Got In Shape (and Stayed Sane)Wyatt Cenac, Cat Marnell, and Joshua David Stein on losing their favorite workouts.
    By The Editors
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    Farewell to the Places That Made New York What It WasSaying good-bye to Gem Spa, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the Staten Island Yankees, and more.
    By The Editors
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    Farewell to La Caridad 78, a Holdout From the Old Upper West SideThe food felt like the good old days and the bad old days of an entire neighborhood — versions of the past that can be challenging to tell apart.
    By Mark Harris
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    Farewell to La Caridad 78, a Holdout From the Old Upper West SideThe food felt like the good old days and the bad old days of an entire neighborhood — versions of the past that can be challenging to tell apart.
    By Mark Harris
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    Farewell to BBar, Where I Was Still Hung-over from the ’90s“It existed in a zone unimaginable in Manhattan today.”
    By Jonathan Van Meter
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    Farewell to BBar, Where I Was Still Hung-over from the ’90s“It existed in a zone unimaginable in Manhattan today.”
    By Jonathan Van Meter
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    Farewell to My Party SpotRemembering late nights, sweaty dance floors, and karaoke with celebrities.
    By The Editors
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    Farewell to Odessa, Once a Place for Pierogies and a Lost Friendship“It was just there, and now it isn’t.”
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Farewell to My Go-toRuth Reichl, Rumaan Alam, Jiayang Fan, and more on losing the place where they were a regular.
    By The Editors
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    500 Reasons We’ve Loved New YorkA send-off to the many places, big and small, that closed in 2020.
    By The Editors
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    The 8 Million Reasons to Love New YorkA tribute to those inspiringly singular New Yorkers who wouldn’t — probably couldn’t — live anywhere else.
    By Daniel Featherstone
  29. New York’s Tiny Streets Are Simply DelightfulBut just how short are they?
    By Madeline Muzzi
  30. my favorite places
    74 of Our Favorite New Yorkers on Their Favorite Places in New YorkFrom a 24-hour Ukrainian restaurant to biking in the Rockaways.
    As told to Tara Abell, Rachel Bashein, and Joe DeLessio
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    A Reason to Love New York for Every Day of 2017 (So Far)In an attempt to prove it hasn’t been such an awful year after all…
    By The Editors
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    A Drone’s Eye View of New YorkThe city as you’ve never seen it before — from directly overhead.
    By Humza Deas
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    47 Reasons to Love New York, Right Now, More Than EverBecause we get under Trump’s skin. Because Chumley’s is back. Because weirdos, artists, and immigrants will never stop calling this city home.
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    44 Immigrant New Yorkers on Living in a Sanctuary CityWe may have a fabled reputation for crossed-arm toughness, but in reality, New York is the city whose arms have always been open the widest.
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    Trump May Have America, But the City Is Still OursThe election reminded us that New York has always been a bubble. And what a bubble it is.
    By David Wallace-Wells
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    Mah-Ze-Dahr Bakery’s Umber Ahmad Is Ready to Conquer New YorkShe has achieved something that’s critical to the success of any food concept in this city — she’s built hype.
    By Sierra Tishgart
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    These Start-ups Had a Pretty Cool Post-It-Art WarTributes to Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Star Wars, and a two-story mural of a unicorn, vomiting a rainbow.
    By Nate Jones
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    Which New York Beefcake Calendar Is Right for You?The Pirelli calendar for people who truly love the city.
    By Allison P. Davis
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    This One-Man Publishing House May Be the Book World’s Smallest Press ANTIBOOKCLUB, the operation of 33-year-old Gabriel Levinson, releases just one title of literary fiction or nonfiction each year.
    By Nick Tabor
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    Whatever You’ve Heard, Independent Retail in New York Is ThrivingMom-and-pop stores endure and even proliferate, like pines on a rocky mountaintop.
    By Justin Davidson
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    The End of the Four SeasonsThe Four Seasons as remembered by five regulars.
    By Sierra Tishgart
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    The Nostalgic Comfort of Normcore DiningThere is something really great about going to a place that doesn’t have 857 Yelp reviews, where you can actually get in as a party of five without a reservation on a Friday night.
    By Alexis Swerdloff
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    New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost?What am I supposed to do when cultural forces I loathe are responsible for something like a new golden age of public art?
    By Jerry Saltz
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    These Skater Girls Are Too Cool for the BoysThe Brujas are a loose collective of mostly Latinas with a set of common interests: skateboarding, gender and race politics, New York City, anti-imperialism, partying, inclusivity.
    By Carrie Battan
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    Annie Baker on Memoir, Reality TV, and HollywoodThis year, she kicked off a residency at the Signature Theater with a short run of John and began work on a screenplay for talent-spotting Über-producer Scott Rudin.
    By Boris Kachka
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    You Can Try a Robot-Brewed Pour-Over Coffee at the Chelsea Café GrumpySo new-Brooklyn it hurts. But it’s also mesmerizing fun to watch in action.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Early-Adopter Seniors Have Totally Taken Over the Ride-Sharing App ViaTwenty-seven percent of its riders are over 55, with 10 percent of those checking in at over 65.
    By Lauren Schwartzberg
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    Television’s Richard Lloyd Will Teach You How to Play GuitarJust head on over to his Inwood walk-up. 
    By David Marchese
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    New York City Starbucks Baristas Are the Usain Bolts of Customer ServiceWe need our coffee delivered with maximum efficiency and minimal attitude, to fuel the work that makes the world go round.
    By John Swansburg
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    I Grew Up Hasidic and Trans. Here’s How I Found a New Community.“It’s like being an immigrant in your own country. You don’t know the language, the culture, anything.”
    By Abby Stein
    As told to Tim Murphy
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