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The article reports on Philippe Petit, who in 1974 walked on a tightrope between New York City's World Trade Center towers, and the film "Man on a Wire." The film uses archival footage and re-enactments of the event and shows the elaborate planning that was undertaken by Petit and his small group of supporters.

The article discusses New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His success in repealing the New York City term limits law in order to enable a third term in office is noted. His accomplishments in office are also mentioned, including banning smoking and trans fats from New York City eating establishments, reforming city schools, and promoting environmental sustainability.

The article reviews the art installation "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," by Damien Hirst, exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The article profiles the Surf Lodge of Montauk, New York, which is an upscale destination hotel and restaurant. A discussion of the decor of the main building of the lodge, its guest rooms and its restaurant is presented. The restaurant's varied menu offerings and head chef, Sam Talbot, are discussed

The article looks at the fashion of average people. Scott Schuman hosts a blog where he puts up pictures of fashions worn by regular people in New York City and visitors to his blog comment. This trend is called street fashion and spreading. "New York Magazine" published "The Look Book," a collection of New Yorkers' street fashion, in September 2008 and one of the subjects was featured on the cover of "French Vogue."

The article reviews photographic exhibitions in New York City, including an exhibition of the photographs of Elliott Erwitt at the Edwynn Houk Gallery through February 23, 2007 and works by Diane Arbus and Helen Levitt at the Laurence Miller Gallery through March 10, 2007.

This article reviews an exhibit of paintings that were inspired by the time spent by artists (including George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Oskar Kokoschka) in cafés, titled "More Than Coffee Was Served: Café Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and Weimar Germany," at the Galerie St. Etienne in New York through November 25, 2006.

Reports on the efforts of Anthony Calnek, deputy director of communications and publishing at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan as of April 2005. Themes of the caricatures; Calnek's plans for an exhibition of the cartoons to be called "The New Yorker Visits the Guggenheim".