From New York, a special issue on reasons to love New York; when even Louisiana is better run than New York state, what’s next? California, here we come; and Tim Keller wants to save your yuppie soul: The evangelical Christian preacher says the secular holy trinity of money, ambition, and achievement is the root of all evil — so why are so many New Yorkers flocking to him? Why it’s hard to imagine Rudy Giuliani running for office again. The World's District Attorney: Robert Morgenthau on his famous cases, his brawl with Bloomberg, and sounding the alarm about Iran (and more). From The Village Voice, the strangest landlord-tenant relationship in NYC: Stacked up in cubicles for decades, immigrants living in a Bowery tenement may have a very unusual situation; and hookers, slot machines, rats: Life at the Bronx's 2320 Aqueduct Ave. From Slate, a photo essay on 125th and Lex, the most complicated, disturbing, and lively intersection in NYC. The Death of Fifth Avenue: An article on the rise and fall, and rise again, of New York's waterfront. City of earthy delights: In the era of micro-budgets, Thomas Hoving’s dream of creating 1,000 mini-parks should be revisited. A review of Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York by William Grimes. The world’s fastest animal takes New York: The peregrine falcon, whose salvation began 40 years ago, commands the skies above the Empire State Building. The future of New York City: What will the city that has survived terrorist attacks and crime sprees, birthed the Chrysler Building and Woody Allen, and suffered yet another market crash, hold in store over the coming decades?
