New York Magazine is a weekly magazine, founded in 1968, concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. It was one of the first "lifestyle" magazines. 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, as well as cultural politics, over the years. Its format and style have been copied by other American regional city publications, such as Philadelphia Magazine, New Jersey Monthly and others, although New York tends to have more political and news coverage, as well as weekly reviews of cultural events, while the others tend not to. Its 2005 paid circulation is 437,181, with 94.6% of that coming from subscriptions. The website receives visits from 1.1 million users monthly. Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is a graphic designer, best known for his Bob Dylan poster, the I Love New York logo, and the DC bullet logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. ... Clay Felker is a magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ... New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of interset to residents of New Jersey. ...

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 incarnations, including Breslin, Wolfe, and the financial writer George J.W. Goodman, who wrote as "Adam Smith". The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper created in 1922 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. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930 in Jamaica, New York) is an Irish American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives. ...

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 married 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. Later columnists writing for the magazine have included Michael Tomasky (city politics), John Simon (theatre), David Denby (film), James Atlas, Marilyn Stasio, and John Leonard (books). Even Woody Allen has published a few stories. Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist and a spokeswoman for womens rights. ... 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. ... Judith Crist (born May 22, 1922) is an accomplished American film critic. ... Gael Greene is an American food critic and author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess (Warner Books, 2006). ... John Simon (born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925, in Subotica, Serbia, in what would later become Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-American author and literary, theater, and film critic. ... John Leonard (born July 7, 1965) is an Australian poet. ... Woody Allen. ...

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." Wolfe--in his unmistakable style, full of elaborate punctuation, sociological reporting, and detached, witty contempt--painted a picture of a benefit party for the Black Panthers, filled with celebrity and wealth, that had been held in Leonard Bernstein's elegant apartment. The collision of high culture and low was characteristic of that moment in New York City, and New York the magazine reflected a similar mixing. One could flip from an authoritative feature on where to buy the best ice cream to a piece about a power struggle at one of the city's cultural institutions to a piece of serious classical-music criticism. New York also launched another important American periodical, Ms. magazine, which began as a special issue. Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. ... Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... magazine Ms. ...

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 and suddenly felt release from the limits of his life. The story was a sensation and became 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. The term remains a somewhat loaded one, tainted by the work of writers who used the same techniques to avoid the bother of leaving their typewriters. Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... The Watergate building. ... Nik Cohn (also written Nick Cohn) is a British rock journalist. ... 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 New York discotheque. ... John Travolta in a 2005 publicity shot from Be Cool. ...

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 for ad pages. 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 quite 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 feature on candidate Bill Clinton was a cover story ten months before his election in 1992. Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG, (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born media proprietor based in New York City who is a major shareholder and the Chairman and Managing Director of News Corporation. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... It has been suggested that Donald J. Trump Signature Collection be merged into this article or section. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... William Jefferson Clinton, (born William Jefferson Blythe III 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 legendary (and legendarily mean) humor monthly of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Andersen soon replaced many staff members, bringing in many emerging and established writers and generally making the magazine faster-paced, younger in outlook, and more knowing. Unfortunately, Andersen's bosses disliked the result, and the new level of journalistic energy failed to translate into growth; 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 a business financier and investor. ... 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. ... Spy magazine was a satirical monthly founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter. ... Caroline Pafford Miller (b. ... Tucker Carlson Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is a libertarian-leaning conservative pundit best known as a former co-host for CNNs Crossfire, representing the political right. ...

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 7 Days (a short-lived New York weekly of the late 1980s) 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. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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 puzzles to every third issue. Richard Maltby, Jr. took over thereafter; since 1980, the magazine has run a simpler crossword by Maura Jacobson. 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 and other bits of wordplay on a theme that changed with each installment. These ran until 2000 - the final one was numbered No. 973 - under her editorship. (A typical entry: Geronimo's epitaph - "Requiscat in Apache.") Hundreds of entries were received each week--sometimes thousands--and winners included the likes of David Mamet, Herb Sargent, and Dan Greenburg. David Halberstam is on record as admitting that he submitted entries 137 times and never won. Sondheim, Woody Allen, and Nora Ephron were fans. The Competition's demise was greatly lamented. 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 The Style Invitational." Three volumes of Competition winners were published as 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. Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. ... Richard Maltby, Jr. ... David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, poet, essayist and novelist born to a Jewish family in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. ... 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. ... David Halberstam (born April 10, 1934), American journalist and author, was born in New York City. ... Nora Ephron Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. ... ...

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External links

• Official website