No blog, website or magazine would be complete without a thought-provoking, conversation-starting, potentially-divisive and hopefully-controversial poll, for the purpose of intellectual debate (and site traffic, ha!).
In that spirit, and in the spirit of the arrival of 2009, we ask in our first poll:
Who from the NY-area, in ’09, got next?
Have a look below, vote, add your own choice, discuss, and have fun with it.
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