Devan texted the GC last summer and simply said, “New York is really giving!” To which Hari replied, “It really is…Jeremy you NEED to get back here.” I smiled, closed my messages, crawled back into my bed, and went back to scrolling my TikTok somewhere in Southern Italy. This was August 2020, and all I could imagine New York giving me was COVID. Moreover, the New York I had dreamed of since I was a child— a New York of casual glamour, open debauchery, and overwhelming talent—felt extinct.
When I returned to New York this winter it didn’t feel necessarily new, but it did feel quiet in a way I hadn’t seen before. It also, for the first time since living here, felt less like a city and more like a community. The faces one saw became more centralized to one’s neighborhood. I finally knew who ACTUALLY lived in my neighborhood and not just who was always around.
New York, like a phoenix, goes through radical transformations after a tragedy, for better or worse. After the litany of complex tragedies of 2020, the New York we are witnessing in this nascent moment is one full of optimism and mystery. It’s both horny and brooding, like a teenager who grew up watching French films.
This is the energy I wanted to celebrate in this issue when I was asked to guest-edit the September issue of: a city in the midst of a radical transformation, finding its legs and its personality. I also wanted to celebrate the parts of New York that tickled my imagination as a child in North Carolina, and drew me here primarily through film and literature, while also making space for the figures, friends, and images that became my lifeblood during the last 18 months of insanity.
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