Included in this year’s list of America’s best small towns in 2024 lists one of them only an hour from NYC and the other here.
According to published reports, compiled by editors at Travel + Leisure and a handful of industry experts, the America’s Best Small Towns 2024 survey tapped the larger-than-life artist’s colony of New Hope, Pennsylvania as tops for arts and culture in the fifty states. https://www.travelandleisure.com/guide-to-new-hope-pennsylvania-8703373
However, have they somehow overlooked City Island - A Slice of New York City Paradise? Located off NYC’s northeastern coast, it continues to build on its long-standing reputation as a New England-style fishing village with an arts and culture hub with shops and plenty of restaurants.
The local road leading to this [aridise requires upgrades. As the saying goes, money talks. which is said about people or organizations that are rich, and can therefore get or do what they want. The government is allegedly dragging its feet.
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/ddc/downloads/presentations/SHORERD-CPSDStud…