The New York Times Magazine, September 17, 2000: My First Year in New York

The September 17, 2000, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, a special issue devoted to "My First Year in New York" with: recollections by Michael Cunningham, Lou Reed, Liz Smith, Bobby Short, Candace Bushnell, Dominick Dunne, Philip Glass, Cecily Brown, Sam Shepard, Junot Diaz, and Luc Sante; Kurt Andersen on why people move to NYC--hoping to transform their lives; a profile of the painter Rebecca Smith by Deborah Solomon and a portrait by Alexei Hay; Salman Rushdie has finally found somewhere he can live a normal life by D.T. Max; Derek Bell, the Mets' right fielder; Howard Wolfson, who left Washington to lead Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign; a family that came from Ukraine to escape anti-Semitism with photographs by Vladimir Syomin; profiles of a woman with amnesia who moved to the city to remember who she was, a gay teenage runaway, a couple who immigrated to take on AOL and maybe make a few million, a man who fled the war in Congo was put in jail, a scientist who arrived as West Nile hit the city; photographs by Mary Ellen Mark, Matthew Montieth, Jeff Riedel, Gillian Laub, and others; a page by Christoph Niemann; fashion pictorial photographed by Karen Collins; "What They Were Thinking" from a photograph of Philippe Stark by Jake Chessum; an interview with Jim Gaffigan; and much more. Perfect-bound magazine; 148 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Condition: Near Fine with light signs of handling/storage. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.…