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.