Maybe in 2016, you’ll jump off a rooftop bar, land safely on a yacht to the Hamptons, change into the single handsomest pair of trousers ever made by man and sit down to a meal of salt-and-pepper lamb rib tips and cocktails with all the supermodels who ever come into town.

This year, you had to settle for doing those things one at a time.

Which still makes for a pretty great version of the Best of 2015, a series of the best things we saw in New York in the year 2015, which can be witnessed in all its photographic splendor in this slideshow.