Lou Reed practically invented it. Edie Sedgwick OD’d on it. Jim Carroll shot it up. Debbie Harry glamorized it. Thurston Moore dressed it down and rocked it out. The Strokes were the last ones in charge of it, using it to resurrect rock and roll. And now, like a joint making the rounds at a Bushwick loft party, New York Cool has been passed to Lissy Trullie, a 25-year-old ambisexual art student turned model turned dishwasher turned janitor turned D.J. turned future of New York rock.
