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Gosh, we almost missed it! Adam Moss' one year anniversary at the helm of New York Magazine, that is!

It's been a great year with lots of new staff climbing aboard the good ship Moss, a lot of internal re-jiggering of sections and the creation of some beloved new ones. The increased emphasis on service journalism brings a smile to the faces of publicists the city over, and the new Culture Pages are... robust. The feature well is popping with innovative stories, and the front of the book is coming along!

But if we can look back on the last year and point towards a Moss innovation—his Magnum Mossus, if you will—it would have to be a variation of the old Bob Evans chestnut: The Kid Stays in the Picture (On The Cover).

There have been more kids on the cover of New York than any time in the magazine's history—except for that weird year in the 80's when 13 year-old boy billionaire Roscoe P. Wellington bought the magazine from Rupert Murdoch and installed his 8 year-old sister Janice as editor-in-chief for five months before drawing a line on the conference table with tape and threatening to hit her anytime she crossed it. That was a weird time!

If Moss' juvenilia can be said to have a Platonically ideal manifestation, it would be the November 29, 2004 What to Give Holiday Gift Guide cover which perfectly articulated New York's ethos by depicting its readers as a child frantically grabbing for a prize just out his reach. Talk about a concept cover!

Here's a look back at the children who led New York:

· Mommy, Do I Look Fat? (Feb. 23, 2004)

· Who Says He's a Problem Child? (April 19, 2004)

· The Only-Child Capital of America (Nov. 8, 2004)

· Holiday Food '04 (Nov. 15, 2004)

· What to Give (Nov. 29, 2004)

· Teens & Money (Jan. 17, 2005)

What's next for the magazine? Here's a rundown of some ideas being batted about in New York's editorial meetings:

· Open Nursery Schools, Fewer Double-Strollers: Has New York's Baby Bubble Burst?

· Missing the Too-Too Twain: Will Manhattan's Toddlers Live to See the 2nd Avenue Subway?

· More Than Lunch Money: Inside Manhattan's Baby-Faced Mafia

· Kids: The New Fancy Handbags?

· Sex and the Single Digits: New York's Under-Nine Set on Love, Sex, and Dating

· Beyond Chuck E. Cheeses: Where To Spend Your Allowance Now

· Neo-Natal Cosmetic Surgery: Making Baby Look Weeks Younger