The internet didn't create The Listicle, the Best Of List, or even the Let's Place A Random Number In This Headline List. That was all print. And in 1976 The New York Times printed a list titled 101 Things To Love About New York City—if it were a year later we'd assume this was a sponsored ad for the I ♥ NY campaign. Here's how it looked in print:



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Scouting NY stumbled upon this treasure in the NY Times archives recently, and while some points are outdated ("Habitually fitting your thumbnail in the Y-cutout of a subway token") some of it is still pretty relevant! Here are a few you may relate or raise your eyebrow to:

"Being nostalgic about things in New York that never were so great."



"Hating Con Edison."



"New York's proximity to Montauk."



"How no one takes the top newspaper off the pile."



"Flipping the change tray in the plastic taxicab divider."



"Hating pigeons."



"The coldest wind in the world on 125th Street and 12th Avenue."



"Losing yourself in a crowd."



"Imagining New York without anyone in it."



"The Brooklyn Museum serving Nathan's hot dogs."



"Looking for a place you know on the dirty restaurant list."



"Bags of beer."



"Subway cars with public-address speakers that don't work."



"Johnny Carson is gone."!



"Chevy Chase isn't."



"The apostrophe missing from DONT WALK."



"Brooklyn Day." (Now every day in Brooklyn Day!)

Man, even lists were better back then... but let's not forget what point #1 insinuates: nostalgia is death. That said, visit our NYC in the 1970s archives here.