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NEED TO KNOW
Tiny morsels from the world of Tablet
NEED TO KNOW is taking a much-needed break this week. In its place, an excerpt from our 2021 ode to post-pandemic New York:
I’m sure I speak for everyone at Tablet when I say that each of us from time to time has had our fill of NYC’s small apartments and bulging rents. Nonetheless, we stay. We stay not just because we can walk a couple blocks and have our pick of global cuisines. We stay because when something big happens here — and big things are always happening here — there’s no better place to be.
New York goes through a lot. It’s a place of permanent ups and downs. It’s always in flux, and it’s never quite how it’s described. One block can feel completely different from the next. The city’s intensity has never come from consistency. It comes from the clash of crowds and cultures. New York is humanity on a massive scale, and its loudest critics are usually those who can’t find in themselves the humanity it takes to live here.
That’s not to say New York is for everyone, but it is for everyone. Every New Yorker interacts with a brilliant array of people. No matter how homogenous some may try to make their particular enclave, the diversity of the city permeates every pore. There’s no private property on the sidewalks and streets. And when everyone you pass is a stranger, no one is an outsider.
See our hotel selection for New York City
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