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WELCOME TO BEST OF MANHATTAN (AND BEYOND) 2005 What do Gustav Mahler, Jimi Hendrix, Jenna Jameson, Federico Garcia Lorca, Greta Garbo, Hillary Clinton and Mike Meyers have in common? Just one thing: Somewhere along the line, they all realized that they had to come to New York, that it was the place to be. We agree. So, for all our bitching and moaning, we choose one week each year (this week, as it happens) to put forward particular recognition of the city in all its strange and special excellence. We tell of the best places for food, wine and dating; buying books and lolling about; avoiding cell phone users and finding vintage heels; public sex and private virtue. We promote mastication, rumination, masturbation and other indoor and outdoor sporting events. In our annual Best of Manhattan Issue we have always chosen to include our annual Reader's Poll of what's best in the city. We thank the many readers who wrote in to voice their often insane opinions, and we place these views first among our Best Of items (and what does this say about us?). We advise you to don the tin foil hat you no doubt keep at the ready. We've broken our lists of the City's Best into six categories: Media & Politics, Gotham Living, Services, Entertainment, Sports and Eats & Drinks. Within these categories, you'll find everything from the weirdest moment of a FOX5 TV broadcast during last winter's blizzard to info on where to make an uptown jazz crawl on the first warm nights of spring; on to word on how to avoid the city's most noisome summer odors and spots for fall drinking binges. And we remind you—importantly—that if you have half as much fun reading this issue as we had in writing it, then we had twice as much fun as you did. Still, a special thank you to illustrator Mark Poutenis. (His website, by the way, is markpoutenis.com) And also to long-suffering Quark goddess Christine Baczewska, as well as pro assistant Kundan Palma. To editorial assistants Mojo Lorwin and Andrea Cuff, we'll never pay you what you're worth. This notice in print will have to suffice. We'd be remiss if we didn't name our contributors, but we can't do so because the paper needed to go to the printers about three hours ago. The list will be up at nypress.com by the time this issue is in the nice green boxes.
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