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September 16, 2013

Cover Story

His Town

The extraordinary reign of the billionaire mayor … who was crazy to think he could be president … but who forever remade New York …

On the Cover: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, August 2013. Photographed by Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine.

Features

In Conversation: Michael Bloomberg

The mayor has harsh words for Bill de Blasio, rebuts the charge that he’s in the tank for the wealthy and questions just how poor the poor really are.

By Chris Smith
Twelve Years

Three terms of metropolitan metamorphosis as skyscrapers rose, crime fell, and everyone stopped smoking, except outside.
Autocrat for the People

A reevaluation of an era in which the city was ruled (for a couple of years, anyway) by its wealthiest resident.

By Chris Smith
Let Me Tell You About the Most Heartfelt $200 I Ever Made

Missing the New York that predates pour-over coffee.

By Choire Sicha
The Dashed Dreams of President Bloomberg

For a while, Bloomberg had the uncharacteristic delusion that Bloombergism could go national.

By Jonathan Chait
Shiny, Alluring, Ugly, Visionary, Inspiring, Incomplete

The urban transformation the mayor unleashed was like nothing New Yorkers had seen, and our Rome isn’t done yet.

By Justin Davidson

Intelligencer

Departments

Strategist

Culture

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