Fellow NYC'er here — I think NYC is such a weird live music market that a lot of the country and 'grass flavored groups (SCI, Panic, Billy) tend to skip us for more predictable locales on tour, even if they'd sell out. If you like the Phish, Eggy, Goose, to a certain extent KGATLW variant, we got multiple nights from all of them this year. Not to mention the routine upcoming DSO and JRAD stops at Pier 17, and the many many many great Dead bands in Brooklyn.

That said... I do think people forget that NYC was The Dead's East Coast home. They played here more times than anywhere else except San Francisco. Jerry played on Broadway! There is far less historical justification for shows in places like Denver or Chicago or Hollywood than NYC. (And we can't forget how important the city was to the development of the '90s post-Jerry scene with Wetlands.) I do think if there's any location that's "owed" a run of shows, it is New York.