REASON TO LOVE NEW YORK # 11-13. Because There Are Now Three Women on the Supreme Court, All of Them From New York

one, perhaps, was inevitable (it’s a big city); two you could still call a fluke. But for all three female Supreme Court justices to have been born and bred in New York—that, frankly, starts to look like more than an accident.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan may have grown up under different circumstances and in different boroughs, but all of them are recognizably, and in some cases iconically, New York gals.

Say what you want about New York women: They’re not timid. Not in speech, not in opinions. And not in their fashion choices, either. As Goldberg notes, who else but three New York women would find the classiest, most formidable way to spend the rest of their lives in black?