A look back at what New York Tough looked like in 1996, as part of our Past/Present column.
that have personal significance to our editors.
I identify as a New Yorker. In fact, I’m one of those rare birds who was actually born and bred here. I grew up on the Lower East Side and now live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, just a few blocks from where my grandmother grew up. It’s been a tough year for New York City, and I can’t yet wrap my mind around what it will be like when this is all over; with so many people lost, the landscape will be altered forever.
Recently, my coworkers and I were discussing our hopes for the future, but the conversation kept coming back around to what is happening now. “Why live in New York when the things that make New York, New York are shuttered?” one colleague asked. That night I went to bed crying about the deep void I felt. My grief for my city can feel overwhelming.have been announced, my partner and I have discussed leaving. We live in a one-bedroom apartment with no fire escape, backyard, or central A/C.
“New York Is,” photographed by Arthur Elgort, was published in the February 1996 issue of the magazine. Fashion editor: Grace Coddington. Hair: Didier Malige for Frederic Fekkai Beaute; Makeup: Mary Greenwell. NEW YORK IS...THE BROADWAY BOOGIE: If the dress faces any real competition this spring, it will be from low-slung trousers. Here, Shalom Harlow shows them off with the men of the hit Broadway musicalfrom left, Victor Trent Cook, Ken Ard, Frederick B. Owens, and Adrian Bailey. Silver top and trousers by Richard Tyler. Costumes by William Ivey Long forNEW YORK IS...
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