Gothamite

We could waste months looking into exactly which supervillain used a stolen piece of distillery equipment to dehydrate all nine members of the Security Council as part of a deranged kidnapping plan, but would that do anything to improve the life of the average Gothamite?

Still, as an unpopular mayor, he has struggled to make a dent in any polls, has low favorability numbers and, at one point, was less popular in New York than fellow Gothamite Donald Trump.

We feel within our rights to call her Janet because it was by that single name that Janet Wolfe — gleeful gadabout, archetypal Gothamite and the longtime executive director of the New York City Housing Authority Symphony — was known to readers of The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” department.

Bon vivant and wit Seamus O’Sullivan, a longtime staff writer of the Gothamite: Might this be Brendan Gill of the New Yorker?

He’s a true Gothamite who lives the sporting life.