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The West Village Girls Are Changing How the World Sees NYC

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Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One afternoon this spring, I went to the West Village to meet a West Village Girl. When I arrived at the whitewashed wine bar she chose, just two blocks from the brownstone stoop Carrie Bradshaw made famous, Miranda McKeon was journaling in her notebook and sipping a cup of green tea. She wore crimson leggings, a stack of candy-colored beaded necklaces, and a black sweatshirt that read SELF-EMPLOYED because she is a full-time influencer — or “creator,” as it is more polite to say in this part of town. Online, the blonde, rosy-cheeked 23-year-old from New Jersey has over a million followers across TikTok and Instagram. She posts a lot, most often about her charmed life in the West Village: sweating it out at Pilates, treating herself to weeknight Froyo, drinking espresso martinis with her girlfriends. Ove

Photo: Dina Litovsky This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One afternoon this spring, I went to the West Village to meet a West Village Girl. When I arrived at the whitewashed wine bar she chose, just two blocks from the brownstone stoop Carrie Bradshaw made famous, Miranda McKeon was journaling in her notebook and sipping a cup of green tea. She wore crimson leggings, a stack of candy-colored beaded necklaces, and a black sweatshirt that read SELF-EMPLOYED because she is a full-time influencer — or “creato

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