If Christmas is for home and hearth, New Year's Eve is for bright lights and big cities--and no city is bigger and brighter than New York City. So Happy New Year to all Commonweal's New York denizens and workers and natives --including bloggers Joe K. and Bob I. and David G.--and all of us who benefit from the life and energy and hope of that city.Here's Alicia Keys on New York--with America's fastest rising suburban rapper--Stephen Colbert.