Apparently, in their year-end list of “reasons to love New York”, New York Magazine’s reason number 56 is <A href=http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2008/52897/>Because New York Has Become a World Capital of Philosophy</a>.  I suppose being just a city publication they can only really mention NYU, Columbia, and CUNY, and not Rutgers and Princeton, which are no farther than UC Irvine is from UCLA.