i thought when it was first when adam and the team who were around even then thought this up, it was new york had gone, come through 9/11, and the notion of there was a larger story behind reasons to love, which was like people kind of the city teetered at 9/11, and then there was this burst of energy, and some of it was the return of finance. some of it was the lake shore east side rock scene, meet me in the bathroom era. the city s comeback was kind of encapsulated in that. i wonder, as the editor of a thing like this. clever, interesting things to point out about what s going on in the city. is there a bigger story of what s happening to new york in the post pandemic era. people thought, new york could be dead. what does this add up to and the big theme of it all. it starts right there, and says that the city is just so
city, and so starting with the cover, it s sometimes difficult to wrangle a celebrity to be on the cover but we decided to do here was to invite 72 notable new yorkers to join us on the cover. and the concept was the feeling that feels specific to new york, walking down the street with a friend and crossing an intersection, hey, isn t that, and maybe it s you or maybe it s chuck schumer. we invited many people to an intersection in the meat packing district, and a phenomenal photographer stationed above on the high line. he spent the day. there were black cars bringing in one new yorker after another. and photographed them bouncing from one part of the intersection to the other. and our director of photography and her whole team were traffic policing, and the way this photographer works, he layers images on top of others.
quarterback dak prescott tossed his third touchdown of the game and four dallas take aways all turned into touchdowns. the cowboys beat the colts, 54-19. elsewhere in the nfc east, the new york giants and washington commanders finished in a 20-20 tie. the giants performance might not land them on the list of the biggest reasons to love new york. let s find out what the other reasons are as highlighted by the new edition of new york magazine, the 18th annual reasons to love new york issue with the over arching theme of the city s comeback following the devastating covid pandemic. joining us now, editor and chief of new york magazine, david haskell. we haven t seen each other since before covid. i guess that makes sense. what s topping the list of the reasons to love new york.
for people looking to get an abortion that couldn t get it elsewhere and the amount of grass roots local support to help make that happen, and there s a touching story about a woman who has been working with bussed in migrants and having no idea where to go, and she has been basically adopting them into her home, and it was just really us an interesting slice of life. not just at the policy level but a kind, decent new yorker helping them get a leg up on a new city. this is the 18th edition of the this list. in any previous year, had you said this, you would have been deemed insane, even laguardia, talk about the evolution of the airport, all new yorkers have loved to hate. have you been? it s nicer now it s pretty
far from dead. it is alive. what does that mean, though, it really does not look like mike bloom berg city, and i think we might find in a historical way, de blasio city was sort of a transition. what we live in right now is a little bit dirtier a little bit more confusing, you have a sort of, you know, high energy rambunctious, hard to keep track of where his head is at mayor, a lot of sort of tawdry tabloid scandals. it feels to me in a lot of ways, a new york city i grew up in, not the one i spent my career editing in. but to me, what i think is valuable about taking stock in a year like this, and just say look around. it s, you know, just absurd to imagine the city had somehow failed to survive the pandemic years. it will evolve, and just as, you know, there are conversations about we will never build