Best Summer Festival Central Park Summer Stage (U.E.S.)

Best Public Bathroom Barnes & Nobles

Best Place to See Fashionistas Meatpacking District

Best Weekly Club Night Black Cat Tuesdays at Otto’s Shrunken Head (East Side)

Best DJ DJ Meat Mistress

Best Place For Radical Politics ABC No Rio – www.abcnorio.org

Best Republican Hang-Out Rodeo Bar (East Side)

Best Bronx Bar Rambling House (Woodlawn)

Best Brooklyn Bar The Lucky Cat (Williamsburg)

Best Queens Bar Bohemian Beer Garden (Astoria)

Best Newsstand W. 3rd & 6th Ave. (Greenwich Village)

Best Picnic Spot Tompkins Square Park, Center Section (East Village)

Best Rooftop Bar Gansevoort (Meatpacking District)

Best Flea Market Ave. A & 11th St. (East Village)

Best Chinese Food Fei Ma (East Village)

Best New Off-Broadway Flop Rebel Without a Cause

Best New Rapper to Avoid DJ Webstar & Young B, “Chicken Noodle Soup”

Best Subway Station to Avoid Canal Street Q Stop (Soho)

Best Local News Network NY1

Best Consignment Store Tokio 7 (East Village)

Best Annual Event Halloween Parade (Greenwich Village)

Best Cheap Date Starshine Burlesque at Rififi (East Village)

Best New York Beach Coney Island (Brooklyn)

Best Farmer’s Market Union Square Market

Best Park Madison Square Park (Flatiron District)

Best Public Space/Atrium Morgan Library & Museum (Murray Hill)

Best Vintage Clothing Store Upper East Side Goodwill (U.E.S.)

Best Wine Bar ’Inoteca (L.E.S.)

Best Piercing/Tattoo Shop New York Adorned (East Village)

Best Movie Theater Regal @ Union Square 

Best Bike Path West Side Highway

Best Arcade Dave & Buster’s (Midtown)

Best Happy Hour Sidewalk Café (East Village)

Best Sushi Megu (Tribeca)

Best Wash/Fold/Dry Place Quick Coin (Stuyvesant Town)

Best Off-Broadway Show Altar Boyz (Theater District)

Best Place to Hear Live Music Bowery Ballroom (East Village)

Best Place to Buy a Live Plant Union Square Greenmarket 

Best New Development to Hate L.E.S. NYU high-story dorm

Best Political Goof Hillary Clinton saying “What would Jesus do?” in the face of the (Mexican) immigration situation

Best Kept City Secret  Housing Works – www.housingworks.org

Best “Date” Activity New York Water Taxi

Best Insomniac Hideout Bamn! (East Village)

Best Place to Cure a Hangover The Pink Teacup (West Village)

Best Cupcake Magnolia (West Village)

Best Street Vendor The Mudtruck on Astor Place (East Village)

Best Outdoor Hangout Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village)

Best Place to Procrastinate Union Square

Best (Non-Chain) Coffee Shop Café Pick Me Up (East Village)

Best NYC Chain Better Burger (Murray Hill/Chelsea/Midtown West)

Best Air-Conditioned Hideaway NY Public Library (Midtown)

Best NYC Do-Gooder Norman Siegel

Best Place to Induce a Sugar Coma Alt Coffee (East Village)

Best Midtown Lunch Shake Shack (Flatiron)

Best Free Activity Shakespeare in the Park (Central Park)

Best NYC Celebrity to Hate Rudy Giuliani

Best EXPENSIVE Eats Sascha

Best Restaurant for Comfort Food Dinosaur BBQ (Harlem)

Best Art Exhibit Dada at MoMA (Midtown)

Best Celebrity Gaffe Russell Crowe throwing phone @ doorman 

Best Comic Strip Tom the Dancing Bug

Best Dancefloor Avalon (Chelsea)

Best Drink Special Happy Hour Half Price @ Rue B (East Village)

Best Ethnic “Fusion” Restaurant Spice Market (Meatpacking)

Best Improv Troupe Circus Amok – www.cicusamok.org

Best Local Band Matt & Kim

Best Local Politician Marty Markowitz

Best Local Writer Amy Hempel

Best Meal for Less Than $10 S’MAC (East Village)

Best New Music Venue McCarren Park Pool (Greenpoint/Brooklyn)

Best Place for Late Night Gorging Around the Clock (East Village)

Best Reason to Hate the WTC Memorial Morbid Tourists 

Best Standup Comic/Comedy Club Gotham Comedy Club (Chelsea)

Best Used CD Section Kim’s on St. Mark’s (East Village)

Best Vestige of Old New York CBGB’s (East Village)

Best WiFi Hotspot Bryant Park (Midtown)

Best $20 Pedicure Top A, Ave A @ Tompkins Square Park (East Village)

Best Dessert Bruno’s Bakery (West Village)

Best Patio Yaffe Café (East Village)

Best Bring-Your-Own-Wine Restaurant Poke (Yorkville/U.E.S.)

Best Wine Store Trader Joe’s (Union Square)

Best Karaoke Sing Sing Karaoke (East Village)

Best Community Art City Reliquary (Williamsburg)

Best Teashop Podunk (East Village)