New York (magazine)
American magazine on life, culture, politics, and style, focusing on New York City
New York is an American biweekly magazine. Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, it was brasher in voice and more connected to city life, becoming a cradle of New Journalism and one of the first lifestyle magazines. Over time it expanded into national coverage, noted for its political reporting, arts and culture criticism, food writing, and service journalism. Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, it has won numerous National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Year in 2013. Its critics have twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, with Jerry Saltz in 2018 and Andrea Long Chu in 2023. The magazine also diversified its online presence under the nymag.com umbrella, launching Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, The Strategist, Curbed, and Grub Street. Vox Media acquired the magazine in 2019 and sold it to James Murdoch's Lupa Systems in 2026.
History
1960s
New York was created in 1963 as the Sunday-magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. The Herald Tribune, then in financial difficulty, had recently been sold to John Hay Whitney, and was looking to revitalize its business with an increased focus on editorial excellence, which included a relaunch of the Sunday edition and its magazine. Edited first by Sheldon Zalaznick and then by Clay Felker, the relaunched magazine, called New York, showcased the work of many talented Tribune contributors, including Tom Wolfe, Barbara Goldsmith, Gail Sheehy, Dick Schaap, and Jimmy Breslin.
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