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The New Yorker's Nick Paumgarten offers up a few reasons why NYC slipping into recession may not be such a bad thing after all: "Maybe Manhattan will become affordable again, and cool, and dangerous. Dangerous in theory, but not to you or your family and friends. Dirty, but in a good way. Night clubs where anything goes. Art, music, Billy Martin." Roy Edroso of the Voice isn't quite as convinced. [NYer, VV]