Why should it be legal for ministers who live in "grace and favor" apartments (where they are allowed to live for free) to claim additional costs allowances for properties they are meanwhile renting out?
Pause for a swim at the glorious outdoor Lasker Pool (between 108th and 109th Streets), then catch one of the myriad free concerts - from Philharmonic to children's jazz to dub reggae - that grace the summer calendar.
The most recent star chef to grace the city's shores, though, is Jason Atherton, a wunderkind who broke free from Gordon Ramsay's empire in 2010 and whose restaurants in London, Shanghai and Singapore have attracted a lot of accolades in a short amount of time.