From New York, a cover story on Mrs. Astor's Baby: Eighty-three-year-old Anthony Marshall spends his days trying to convince the courts—and himself—that his mother loved him and felt guilty enough about her failings as a parent to transfer a huge amount of money to him before she died; an article on the embers of gentrification: For the better part of two decades, the powerful force of affluence has swept across the city like wildfire, transforming neighborhoods in ways that have come to seem inevitable. But what happens when the fire goes out?; and here's the Everything Guide to Pests: It is possible to live vermin-free in New York. The introduction to New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg, ed. Marshall Berman. A review of Times Square Spectacular: Lighting Up Broadway by Darcy Tell. Haven't been to New York? Tough luck, you just missed it: Safe, clean and too homogenous — the Big Apple just ain't what it used to be.
