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''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. ''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" . 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. 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. 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. In 1976, the Australian media baron was a cover story ten months before his election in 1992. 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. ''New York'' was sold again at the end of 2003, this time to financier . PUZZLES AND COMPETITIONS New York Magazine was once renowned for its Competitions and unique crossword puzzles. In the beginning, the composer and songwriter '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 Competition''. See Also: Media of New York City EXTERNAL LINKS |
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