'With the 'Tonight' show and the VMAs coming to New York, can the Grammys be far behind?

The world keeps beating a path to our door.
“The Tonight Show” is reportedly returning to New York after 43 years in L.A. And the MTV Video Music Awards trumpeted its own comeback to our city — as well as its Brooklyn debut — for Aug. 25.
Isn’t it time the Grammys made the same wise move?
In the next few weeks, the music industry’s ultimate self-saluting event will announce where it’s headed for 2014.
For the last 10 years the answer has been the same cold space: The Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Before that, the Grammys played fair, bouncing between the two biggest cities on our coasts. In the awards’ earliest years, it took place simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York, while, in the ‘90s, it started toggling, year by year, between that Cali town and the media capital.
All went swimmingly until 1998 when things ran straight off the rails.
Our famously hotheaded Mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani, got into a tiff with the Grammys’ equally sharp-elbowed chief, Mike Greene.
Gossip of the day had the two tussling over credit for the event, various duties connected to it, as well use of their respective staffs. Before the smoke cleared, Greene high-tailed back to L.A., taking his show with him, while the Mayor wished Greene a very New York-inflected good riddance.
Fine. Except that now we’ve had a different mayor for three terms, and the Grammys have had a new head since 2002.
Isn’t it time to end the chill?
Especially given New York’s current roll — one which pertains to far more than just TV talk shows and award show ceremonies.
In film-land this year, the humongous Spider-Man franchise chose to shoot a whole film in our city for the first time. All four previous Spidey movies only had segments captured here. The grittier, all-N.Y. result will be unveiled in May of 2014.
On Broadway, the last Tony Award winner for Best Play, “Clybourne Park,” came to the city in an upgrade from its earlier L.A. production, only to then bag a Pulitzer Prize. Likewise, 2010’s acclaimed, $8 million musical comedy “The Drowsy Chaperone” went from being a sleeper show in Los Angeles to a New York smash.
“Momentum is key,” said “Drowsy” director Casey Nicholaw at the time. “We really wanted to get to Broadway.”
On prime time TV, “The Good Wife,” though set in Chicago, films entirely in New York, while Tom Selleck refused to appear in the show “Blue Bloods” unless it had that authentic N.Y. feel.
“It was essential for me [to shoot in New York],” Selleck told the press of the Television Critics Association. “When I heard, ‘Well, maybe we’ll shoot it somewhere else,’ I said, ‘It’s difficult for me to argue that shooting a show about New York won’t be better shot in New York.’ No offense, Toronto, but I’ve shot there and it’s a lovely place to shoot, but it’s different.”