New York
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Editor	Adam Moss
Categories	general interest
Frequency	weekly
First issue	1968
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.nymag.com

New York is a weekly magazine concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it offers less national news and more gossip, but has also published noteworthy articles on city and state politics and culture over the years. It was one of the first "lifestyle" magazines, and its format and style have been copied by other American regional city publications, such as Philadelphia, New Jersey Monthly and others, although New York is the only weekly among them and therefore contains more immediate coverage. Its 2005 paid circulation was 437,181, with 94.6% of that coming from subscriptions. The website receives visits from 1.1 million users monthly. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Milton Glaser, 2003 I Love New York campaign by Milton Glaser. ... Clay Felker is a magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see New Yorker. ... Philadelphia Magazine is a regional monthly magazine published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Metrocorp. ... New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of interset to residents of New Jersey. ...

History

New York began life in 1963 as the Sunday-magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. Edited by Clay Felker, the magazine showcased the work of several talented Tribune contributors, including Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin. Soon after the Tribune went out of business in 1966-67, Felker and his partner, the designer Milton Glaser, reincarnated the magazine as a standalone glossy. Joining them was managing editor Jack Nessel, Felker's number two at the Herald Tribune. New York's first issue was dated April 8, 1968. Among the by-lines were many familiar names from the magazine's earlier incarnation, including Breslin, Wolfe, and the financial writer George Goodman, who wrote as "Adam Smith". The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. ... Clay Felker is a magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. ... Tom Wolfe gives a speech at the White House. ... Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930) is an American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives. ... George Goodman is an American author and broadcast economics commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith (which intentionally evokes the 18th-century economist of the same name). ...

Within a year, Felker had assembled a team of contributors who would come to define the magazine's voice. Breslin became a regular, as did Gloria Steinem, who wrote the city-politics column, and Gail Sheehy, who would eventually marry Felker, in 1984. The director Harold Clurman was hired as the theater critic. Judith Crist wrote movie reviews. Alan Rich covered the classical-music scene. Gael Greene, writing under the rubric "The Insatiable Critic," reviewed restaurants, cultivating a baroque writing style that leaned heavily on sexual metaphor. Even Woody Allen contributed a few stories for the magazine in its early years. Gloria Steinem at news conference, Womens Action Alliance, January 12, 1972 Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist icon, journalist and womens rights advocate. ... Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. ... Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an Jewish-American theater director and drama critic, most famous for his work with New York Citys Group Theater. ... Cover of The Private Eye, The Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl Judith Crist (born May 22, 1922) is an American film critic. ... Alan Rich (born 1924, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American music critic who currently writes for LA Weekly magazine. ... Gael Greene is an American food critic and author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess (Warner Books, 2006). ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ...

Wolfe was a regular contributor as well, and in 1970 wrote a story that for many defined the magazine (if not the age): "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's". The article described a benefit party for the Black Panthers held in Leonard Bernstein's apartment, in a collision of high culture and low that paralleled New York magazine's ethos. In 1972, New York also launched Ms. magazine, which began as a special issue. New West, a sister magazine on "New York"'s model that covered California life, was also published for a few years in the 1970s. Later columnists writing for the magazine included Michael Tomasky (city politics), John Simon (replacing Clurman on theater), David Denby (film), James Atlas, Marilyn Stasio, and John Leonard (books). Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (IPA pronunciation: )[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. ... magazine Ms. ... Michael Tomasky is a liberal American journalist and author. ... John Simon (born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925, in Subotica, Serbia) is a Serbian-American author and literary, theater, and film critic. ... David Denby is an American film critic who writes for The New Yorker. ... James Atlas is the founding editor of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives Series. ... John Leonard (born February 25, 1939) is an American literary, TV, film and cultural critic. ...

Well into the 1970s, Felker continued to broaden the magazine's palette, covering Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal closely. In 1976, a journalist named Nik Cohn contributed a story called "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," about a young man in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood who, once a week, went to a local disco called Odyssey 2001; the story was a sensation and served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta; twenty years later, in 1997, Cohn admitted (in a story in New York) that he'd done no more than drive by Odyssey's door, and that he'd made the rest up. It was a common problem of what Wolfe, in 1972, had labeled "The New Journalism"--a term for reported stories that used the techniques of fiction to tell a larger truth. Nixon redirects here. ... The Watergate building. ... Nik Cohn (also written Nick Cohn) is a British rock journalist. ... Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night was the title of a 1975 New York Magazine article by British rock journalist Nik Cohn. ... Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 movie starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a Brooklyn discotheque. ... John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer. ... New Journalism was the name given to a style of 1960s and 1970s news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. ...

In 1976, the Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch bought the magazine in a hostile takeover, forcing Felker and Glaser out. A succession of editors followed, including Joe Armstrong and John Berendt, until 1980, when Murdoch hired Edward Kosner, late of Newsweek. Murdoch also bought Cue Magazine, a listings magazine that had covered the city since 1932, and folded it into New York, simultaneously creating a useful going-out guide and eliminating a competitor. Kosner's magazine tended toward a mix of newsmagazine-style stories, trend pieces, and pure "service" features--long articles on shopping and other consumer subjects--as well as close coverage of the glitzy 1980s New York scene epitomized by financiers Donald Trump and Saul Steinberg. The magazine was profitable for most of the 1980s, and several stories from this era rose to the level of the larger culture: The term "the Brat Pack" was coined for a story in New York, and the first big magazine story on Presidential candidate Bill Clinton appeared in the magazine ten months before his election in 1992. Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... John Berendt is the author of the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television and radio personality and author. ... Saul Steinberg is an investor who first got rich in the late 1960s--just a few years out of Wharton--by leasing IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) computers. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

Murdoch got out of the magazine business in 1990, selling his holdings to K-III Communications, a partnership controlled by financier Henry Kravis. Budget pressure from K-III frustrated Kosner, and he left for Esquire magazine in 1993. After several months' search, during which the magazine was run by managing editor Peter Herbst, K-III hired Kurt Andersen, the co-creator of Spy, a humor monthly of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Andersen quickly replaced several staff members, bringing in many emerging and established writers (including Jim Cramer, Walter Kirn, Tomasky and Jacob Weisberg) and editors (including Michael Hirschorn, Kim France, Dany Levy, and Maer Roshan), and generally making the magazine faster-paced, younger in outlook, and more knowing in tone. Newsstand sales rose, and profits increased to a level not seen since. However, the effective owner of K-III, Henry Kravis, objected to the magazine's coverage of his friends and associates on Wall Street, and Andersen was fired after two and a half years, replaced by Caroline Miller of Seventeen (another K-III title). Michael Wolff, the media critic she hired in 1998, won two National Magazine Awards for his column, in 2002 and 2003. Miller's magazine also ran political columns by Tucker Carlson. Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading the leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ... Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ... Kurt Andersen Kurt Andersen (born 1954- in Omaha, Nebraska), co-founded Spy magazine with E. Graydon Carter. ... January 1994 cover Spy magazine was a satirical monthly founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter, who served as its first editors, and Thomas L. Phillips, Jr. ... This article is about the television personality and host of Mad Money. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist and commentator, currently serving as editor of Slate magazine. ... Michael Wolff is an American jazz pianist, composer and actor. ... Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is a conservative political news pundit who formerly co-hosted CNNs Crossfire and hosted MSNBCs Tucker. ...

New York was sold again at the end of 2003, this time to financier Bruce Wasserstein. He in turn replaced Miller with Adam Moss, known for editing the short-lived New York weekly of the late 1980s "7 Days" and the New York Times Magazine. A relaunch of the magazine followed in late 2004, marked by two new sections: "The Strategist," devoted mostly to shopping, fashion, travel, and food, and "The Culture Pages," covering the city's arts scene. Moss also rehired Kurt Andersen as a columnist. In the spring of 2006, Moss's New York was nominated for five National Magazine Awards by the American Society of Magazine Editors; it won in two categories, for design and for general excellence in its circulation class. Bruce Wasserstein (born December 25, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York)[1] is an American investment banker and businessman. ... Adam Moss is the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

In 2007, the magazine once again bested its own ASME awards performance, with seven nominations (including one in the Public Interest category for Robert Kolker’s story “On the Rabbi’s Knee”) and five wins, including a rare repeat award for General Excellence. Much of the coverage the next day noted that the magazine's sometime rival, The New Yorker, took home no awards that night, despite receiving nine nominations, and also noted that New York was the first magazine to win for both its print and Internet editions in the same year. Though media coverage rarely forms a consensus, most press critics have considered Moss's remade magazine a success, and suggest that it has improved substantially under his leadership.

Puzzles and competitions

New York Magazine was once renowned for its competitions and unique crossword puzzles. For the first year of the magazine's existence, the composer and songwriter Stephen Sondheim contributed an extremely complex crossword-style puzzle to every third issue. (Richard Maltby, Jr. took over thereafter; since 1980, the magazine has run a simpler crossword by Maura B. Jacobson.) Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. ... Richard Maltby, Jr. ...

In the remaining two weeks out of every three, Sondheim's friend Mary Ann Madden edited an extremely popular witty literary competition calling for readers to send in humorous poetry or other bits of wordplay on a theme that changed with each installment. (A typical entry, in a competition calling for humorous epitaphs, supplied this one for Geronimo: "Requiscat in Apache.") Altogether, Madden ran 973 installments of the competition, retiring in 2000. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of entries were received each week, and winners included the likes of David Mamet, Herb Sargent, and Dan Greenburg. David Halberstam once claimed that he had submitted entries 137 times without winning. Sondheim, Woody Allen, and Nora Ephron were fans. David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ... Herb Sargent (July 15, 1923-May 6, 2005) was an Emmy-winning television wrier and producer for such comedy shows as The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live. ... Dan Greenburg (born June 20, 1936) is an American author and screenwriter. ... This article is about the author and journalist. ... Nora Ephron Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. ...

The Competition's demise, when Madden retired, was greatly lamented among its fans. In August 2000, the magazine published a letter from an Irish contestant, John O'Byrne, who wrote: "How I'll miss the fractured definitions, awful puns, conversation stoppers, one-letter misprints, ludicrous proverbs, openings of bad novels, near misses, et al (what a nice guy Al is!)." Many entrants have since migrated to the Washington Post's similar "Style Invitational" feature. Three volumes of Competition winners were published, titled Thank You for the Giant Sea Tortoise, Son of Giant Sea Tortoise, and Maybe He's Dead: And Other Hilarious Results of New York Magazine Competitions. ... The Style Invitational, or S.I., is a long-running humor contest that ran first in the Style section the Sunday Washington Post and currently in Saturdays Style. ...

See also

• Media of New York City
• New York Magazine's Cultural Awards of 2006

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External links

• Official website