500 Reasons We've Loved New York

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( monday, december 7 Reasons to Love New York [Reasons We’ve Loved New York]( A send-off to the many places, big and small, that closed in 2020.   Illustration: Jeanne Verdoux for New York Magazine   If you live in New York long enough — and it doesn’t have to be very long — it gradually becomes unrecognizable. And maybe, you begin to realize, it’s for someone else entirely, someone new or from somewhere else, someone perhaps with more money, more energy: someone circumstantially or possibly constitutionally ignorant of what you took to be authentic about this place when it felt like it was yours. (Nothing makes you feel old like listening to someone talk about what you know to be an upstart as iconic.) It’s too big a city to live in all of it, so you find your corners, your go-tos. Sometimes they are long-running, but mostly they come and they go. It’s part of the Darwinian, self-alienating thrill of the place: More often than not, you outlive your landmarks. [Continue reading »](     Holiday sale: [Save 60% today.](     [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [An 1880 Artist’s Cottage in the Rockaways That Feels Like a Ship Patrick Clark has spent the last 22 years bringing the house back to life, preserving it for its next century.]( By Wendy Goodman [Farewell to My Go-to Ruth Reichl, Rumaan Alam, Jiayang Fan, and more on losing the place where they were a regular.]( [At Inwood’s Dyckman Farmhouse, an Illuminating Reminder From Artist Reggie Black Three blunt words about slavery in New York.]( [‘Mostly Hard Times’: How the City’s Few Jazz Clubs Are Hanging On, Barely With the closure of the Jazz Standard, the already frail jazz community feels a chill.]( [Farewell to Odessa, Once a Place for Pierogies and a Lost Friendship “It was just there, and now it isn’t.”]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed](     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Subscribe for 60% off and getunlimited access]( more great stories from New York, home of Curbed, Intelligencer, the Cut, Vulture, Grub Street, and the Strategist. [SUBSCRIBE NOW](     We value your feedback. Send us a note at engage@nymag.com. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2020, All rights reserved