Reasons to Love Vincent Laforet

Though this month's issue of New York Magazine is technically named Reasons to Love New York, the photos are all Laforet. He set up a series of aerial shots of the red cursive "love" being assembled on the Bryant Park skating rink, and the images are up on NYMag's site as a timelapse video.

Abyss

Broadway, Birdlike

NYC on a College Student's Budget

Gridskipper brings you New York on $5 a Day. They're not exactly hidden gems, but it's a great idea. And that halal chicken stand is good...

In Which the Addressees and Title Are Longer Than the Letter Itself

To the busdriver who stopped to let an arthritic old man and his terrier cross 5th ave. while a bevy of taxis honked irritably, to the old man who turned to kiss his dog and wave at the bus, to the flower man who refused to charge me for the sunflowers, to the little girl who told me she that liked my earrings (and that she was wearing new shoes), to the man chalking sonnets on the sidewalk of 73rd st., to New York City in general,

Thank you. I love you.