Dream on: Why romcoms need to bring back the making-it-big-in-NYC trope

Bring back the frothy, shiny NYC romcoms where anything was possible. In a world going mad, that dream is all we have

Pick your fighter: Andy Sachs from The Devil Wears Prada, clipping across Fifth Avenue in Chanel boots while she picks up Miranda Priestly’s Starbucks order in The Devil Wears Prada (2006); Jenna Rink, glamourous fashion editor, doing a photo shoot in Central Park in 13 Going on 30 (2004); Rebecca, crushing it at a Manhattan sample sale in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009); or even Princess Gisele, banished from her cartoon world, but somehow ending up in a live-action Upper West Side apartment in Enchanted (2007).

Andy Sachs, from the 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada, made the hustle seem aspirational.

Just My Luck has Lindsay Lohan playing the most fortunate woman in the world. Of course it’s in NYC.

In Set It Up, two overworked assistants bond over their job stress.