Subway Reads: What You Should Have Done Last Night

So we missed it. Last night, BookCourt asked the tough questions: What does the future hold for the legendary metropolis, gateway to immigrants and strivers, magnet for builders and dealers, muse for artists and dreamers? Will the current political, economic, and social influences dull its once-famous creative edge and culture of opposition? What will become of the special allure of New York? *

Answers, or at least some conversation that purported to discuss possible answers, were provided by the authors of the The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?**

We missed this event, sadly, so can't actually provide you with any details that were hashed out. However, if anyone did go, please let us know what was discussed, and what, exactly, this means for the new Smith Street Starbucks.

*(At least that's what the press release said they'd be asking. Since this event announcement slipped through the black hole of my inbox, we'll have to take them at their word.)

**The Bookcourt site was having trouble this morning, so I've linked off Amazon, but be nice and buy your copy from your local bookseller, who goes to the trouble to set up events like this one.

After the jump, the Subway Reads top five...