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June 15, 2009

Cover Story

Best Doctors 2009

Our list of the city’s 1,107 finest practitioners as selected by their peers.

Plus: Doctors’ own tales of their first time handling some massively stressful situations—removing a brain tumor, transplanting a heart, treating a gunshot wound, and more—by themselves.

On the Cover: Illustration by Rodrigo Corral Design for New York Magazine. Photograph by Simon Lee.

Features

The Reintroduction of Kirsten Gillibrand

After a shaky first hundred days, the junior senator from New York is trying to start over.
Class of ’09

What the graduates of ten schools think about the crazy world they just inherited.
Barging In to Venice

The Brooklyn artist Swoon and her merry band of anarchists from deepest Bushwick are invading the Venice Biennale this week.

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Thank Bernanke

It is the once-maligned Federal Reserve chairman who has saved us from the second Great Depression.

Agenda

The Brewhaha

Daniel Boulud keeps threatening to go downscale and DBGB Kitchen and Bar is the closest he’s come yet.

Strategist

Departments

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