Best of 2014

Your essential guide to the best of 2014, plus the year's best books, comedy shows and more

Thursday November 20 2014

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So how was it for you? This year in New York has been packed to the gills with truly amazing events, running the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous and every shade in between. So, let's take a deep breath and we'll review all the tremendous things that happened in Gotham this year. In other words: It's time to take a delicious bite of the pie that was 2014 in NYC. And if that gets you super excited about 2015, get warmed up with our pick of the best parties in NYC, and the greatest free things to do in NYC.

Things to do

New York 2014: The year in pictures

Music

The 20 best albums of 2014

The Time Out North America music staff united and voted on the best albums of 2014, from FKA to Schoolboy Q. Here are the results 2014 is a year that will be...

Music

The 20 best songs of 2014

The Time Out North America music staff united and voted on the best songs of 2014, from Sia to Tay Tay. Here are the results. The end of the year always seems...

Movies

The 20 best movies of 2014

From Hollywood’s riskiest dares to the indie, foreign and documentary fringes, the year in cinema was a killer ride First, a brief remembrance before we...

Movies

The 20 best movie scenes of 2014

Action, romance, horror, drama and ScarJo as an alien: It’s all in our list of the best movie moments of 2014 You might also like The 20 best movies of...

Movies

The 30 best movie posters of 2014

Sure, we saw the movies—and loved a bunch of them—but sometimes the posters were enough You might also like The 20 best movies of 2014 15 dazzling...

Theater

The 20 best Broadway and Off-Broadway shows of 2014

Great revivals on Broadway and daring experiments Off Broadway—there was terrific New York theater everywhere you looked Most popular theater events this...

Art

The 10 best art shows of 2014

The absolute best of New York’s art shows and exhibits from 2014 With so many museums and galleries in one town, it's hard for New York's art world to...

Things to do

The 10 best books of 2014

From feminist essays to a fictional apocalyptic pandemic, these are our favorite books of the year Forget all the fearmongering about the state of publishing...

Comedy

The 10 best comedy shows of 2014

The absolute best of New York’s stand-up, improv and sketch shows from 2014 2014 was a hell of a year for comedy in NYC. The New York Comedy Festival...

What to look forward to in 2014

Comedy

Best comedy shows in New York 2014

Book early as Amy Schumer, David Koechner and Sinbad make the year’s comedy show calendar look very promising. Popular comedy events this week The Moth...