âDr. Siddhartha Mukherjee New York City has long proved a fertile stomping ground for AD. The magazine has devoted scores of pages and sometimes entire issues to the Big Apple, documenting the grand and the gritty, the traditional and the unconventional: penthouses, town houses, industrial lofts, elegant apartments, and unrenovated artistsâ studios alike. Each of these quintessentially urban spaces is ultimately a backdrop for the main attractionâNew Yorkers themselves, the denizens of that great melting pot of talented, idiosyncratic humanity. Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee and artist Sarah Sze at home in Chelsea. Jason Schmidt A tiny resident of Tribeca enjoys her room with a view.