We held a special reception for a diverse group of New York City bloggers on Tuesday night before Adam Gopnik and Patty Marx of The New Yorker gave a playful talk on what they love and hate about living in New York. It’s a topic that bonds us all as we stand around its bottomless well, throw wooden nickels in and hope subsidized rent wishes come true. Thumbs up: the tons of options available 24 hours a day even if you choose not to leave your apartment. Thumbs down: rats. Adam and Patty comfortably mingled with the bloggers (Patty: Don’t you people know there’s a State of the Union tonight? Blogger: Tivo.) and the bloggers did their best to navigate a room without name tags. (We’ll fix that next time.) Check out roundups from Huffington Post’s Eat The Press, Galleycat, Emdashes, Lux Lotus and Culturebot. Here are pictures from the evening though we admit they are largely washed-out and of poor quality. Next time we need to make sure to invite photobloggers.

Felix Salmon (right) asks Adam Gopnik (center) if he would accept a one-on-one lunch invitation from a random reader. Probably not, but late afternoon coffee is possible. Very French of him.

More pictures after the jump.

Julia Allison and Peter Feld, Laid-Off Dad and Alpha Mom

Jacob and Aaron of JDub Records

Jewcy.com Patrol: Andy Selsberg, Izzy Grinspan, Amy Odell. Mike Dressel, second on the right, of Culturebot sneaks in and Judith Weiss of KesherTalk stares down in the background. 

Paddy Johnson and Jason Kottke