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. St. Mark’s Place
4. Seeing celebrities (Scarlett Johansson, Keri Russell, Mila Kunis, and more and more)
5. Book signings
6. Central Park Sketching Meetup
7. The Met (especially its secret storage rooms)
8. Shows and movies set in NYC, and seeing them filming – Spider-Man, How I Met Your Mother, Across the Universe, etc.
9. Barnes & Nobleses (Yes, I realize these are everywhere - but I love having them within walking distance.)
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. Posto
19. All tile mosaics in subway stations
20. Central Park sunbathers
21. The Met’s European sculpture gallery
22. Chipotle on St. Mark’s
23. Gramercy Bagel’s bagels
24. Morningside Park overlooking the city
25. Street Fairs
26. Grand Central Station at night
27. Running into people you know
28. Walking north into Herald Square
29. The Gates
30. Bryant Park in winter – ice skating
31. Union Square art sellers
32. Stuyvesant Park
33. Giant painted movie posters on 23rd St.
34. Bleecker Street
35. Deliveries from everywhere all hours; FreshDirect
36. Ol’ Manhattan Mall food court
37. South Street Seaport
38. Astor Place
39. Central Park Chess & Checkers House
40. New York City Halloween night
41. Idlewild Books
42. Central Park Alice statue and water there
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. Scary house on 18th St.
68. Hudson Place
69. Imagine mosaic and nearby arbor
70. Columbus Circle fountain and globe statue
71. View of the Brooklyn Bridge from my office
72. Mars 2012
73. Times Square late late at night
74. Brooklyn public library
75. Church on Broadway and 10th St.
76. Fountain at 8th and Chipotle
77. Goya’s disasters of war – and NYC galleries in general
78. This photo: (fake Gap ad)
79. Stuy Town fountain lights in winter
80. Tree thing on 15th St.
81. Irving Place
82. Physical Graffiti building
83. Nice building on 4th st.
84. Dylan’s/CPK 60th St.
85. Union Square holiday village
86. Central Park rocks on the lake
87. Protests
88. Naturally hot apartments in the winter
89. Evolution store
90. View from old apartment
91. Superhero Supply Shop, Brooklyn
92. Roller skaters in Central Park
93. Staten Island Ferry
94. Chess players in Washington Square Park
95. World Financial Center mall
96. Weird statue at St. John the Divine's cathedral
97. The Frick Museum

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