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My 100 Favorite NYC Things

Here's my list of the top reasons I live in NYC. The list is ever-evolving. I'm also going to fill in photos for each item when I get the chance.

1. The best thing about New York City? You and me.
2. The Gandhi statue in Union Square
3. Finding new bookstores
4. St. Mark’s Place
5. Seeing celebrities (Scarlett Johansson, Keri Russell, Mila Kunis, and more and more)
6. Book signings
7. Central Park Sketching Meetup
8. The Met (especially its secret storage rooms)
9. Shows and movies set in NYC, and seeing them filming – Spider-Man, How I Met Your Mother, Across the Universe, etc.
10. Spring outfits
11. Stuyvesant St. from the church to St. Mark’s Books
12. Central Park botanical gardens – especially wisteria arbor
13. The city never sleeps – stores are always open
14. Belvedere castle
15. Bond St.
16. Madison Square Park at night (and the fountain)
17. Our apartment
18. All tile mosaics in subway stations
19. Central Park sunbathers
20. The Met’s European sculpture gallery
21. Chipotle on St. Mark’s
22. Gramercy Bagel’s bagels
23. Morningside Park overlooking the city
24. Street Fairs
25. Grand Central Station at night
26. Running into people you know
27. Walking north into Herald Square
28. The Gates
29. Bryant Park in winter – ice skating
30. Union Square art sellers
31. Stuyvesant Park
32. Giant painted movie posters on 23rd St.
33. Bleecker Street
34. Deliveries from everywhere all hours; FreshDirect
35. Ol’ Manhattan Mall food court
36. South Street Seaport
37. Astor Place
38. Central Park Chess & Checkers House
39. New York City Halloween night
40. Idlewild Books
41. Central Park Alice statue and water there
42. The High Line
43. Madison Square Life Insurance building colored lights
44. Park walk along East River
45. Father Demos Square
46. Tom Otterness sculptures in subway stations
47. NY Comic Con
48. Tudor City overlooking the UN
49. View of the skyline from the Q train over the bridge
50. Pasta Pasta Pasta
51. Bryant Park in summer
52. The fountain at 1st Ave and 31st St., and the tree lights
53. Cosmic Comics
54. Seeing the Empire State Building from 19th & Broadway
55. New Flatiron building pedestrian areas
56. The fact that industries cluster together – plant town, lampville, chess street
57. Central Park ravine
58. An absurd amount of magazines available everywhere
59. No-pants bar crawl (and homeless person)
60. McNally Jackson
61. People singing in the subway
62. All the cool bars/pubs in our area
63. Running into Meetup Groups
64. Central Park log huts on the hill
65. Seeing obscure theater shows
66. Teletubby in tree
67. Posto & Piola
68. Scary house on 18th St.
69. 20th street between 9th & 10th avenues
70. Imagine mosaic and nearby arbor
71. Columbus Circle fountain and globe statue
72. View of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Meetup office
73. View of the Statue of Liberty from the IAC building
74. Mars 2012
75. Times Square late late at night
76. Brooklyn public library
77. Church on Broadway and 10th St.
78. Fountain at 8th and Chipotle
79. Goya’s disasters of war – and NYC galleries in general
80. This photo: (fake Gap ad)
81. Stuy Town fountain lights in winter
82. Tree thing on 15th St.
83. Irving Place
84. Physical Graffiti building
85. Nice building on 4th st.
86. Dylan’s/CPK 60th St.
87. Union Square holiday village
88. Central Park rocks on the lake
89. Protests
90. Naturally hot apartments in the winter
91. Evolution store
92. View from old apartment
93. Intersection at 14th & 9th ave, including Apple Store
94. Superhero Supply Shop, Brooklyn
95. Roller skaters in Central Park
96. Staten Island Ferry
97. Chess players in Washington Square Park
98. World Financial Center mall
99. Weird statue at St. John the Divine's cathedral
100. The Frick Museum
101. The ol'-timey wooden escalators in Macy's

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