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Because…
- We're Hopeful That There’s a Happy Ending to Our Tale of Two Cities
- Mark Rylance Channels Judi Dench and Plays a Bloodthirsty King
- There Is a Guy Trying to Draw All 8 Million of Us, One at a Time
- We’ve Never Met a Pastry We Didn’t Want to Crossbreed With Another
- We Have the Tastiest Garbage
- For Hack-Starved Outer-Boroughites, the New Yellow Taxi Is Green
- Katie Holmes Has Become a Whole Foods Mom
- That Brooklyn Baby-D.J. School Is a Real Thing
- 95,197 Have Signed Up for Citi Bike
- Derek Jeter Is About to Become a Publishing Mogul
- Sandy Alderson Is the Best G.M. in Baseball
- This Shack Sells Cement Necklaces Made With a Fringe of Dog’s Hair
- Saul Leiter Loved How New York Looks Through a Rainy Window
- We’re Going to Have Drinking Water for Another 100 Years
- This Public Defender Is Also a PEN Award–Winning Novelist
- A Wildly Ambitious 900-Page New York Novel Can Still Be a Big Deal
- Patti Harris Secretly Ran New York
- Calvin Royal III Gave Up the Piano
- We Had a Drive-In Made of Wrecked Cars
- We Have the Cutest Security Guards
- The Rats Are in Retreat
- A Guy With One Arm and One Leg Rescued Two Kids From a Fire
- 1,000-Foot Towers Are a Dime a Dozen Here
- For All the NIMBYs, There’s at Least One YIMBY
- The Weed Fairy Exists
- The Tombs Got Two Stars on Yelp
- Time Banking Is Turning the City Into One Big Friendly Kibbutz
- Vinyl Megastores Still Seem Like a Good Business Proposition Here
- Prince Played Two Secret Shows at City Winery
- Times Square at 4:45 a.m Can Feel Like a Revelation