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40 Years of New York Magazine

Monday, September 22, 2008

We celebrate the 40th anniversary of New York magazine. A new book, New York Stories, is a collection of some of the magazine’s best articles over the years. Adam Moss is the magazine’s current editor; Gail Sheehy and Pete Hamill are longtime contributors.

Events:
New York magazine is hosting a memorial tribute
to founding editor Clay Felker
Mon. Sep. 22, 6 to 8 pm
at the New York Ethical Culture Society
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West.
All are welcome.

New York magazine is also hosting a year-long series of events in celebration of its 40th anniversary.
Go to nymag.com/fortynights/ for more info.


Comments

  • [1] Graham from Paris September 22, 2008 - 12:25PM

    While it's a fine idea to celebrate the anniversary of New York magazine--so deserving of celebration---it strikes me as weird to suggest that journalism--however you might like to define it--is better _these_ days than it generally was in the days before the advent of New York magazine!

    Absurd.

    New York magazine may be a fine periodical but, that aside, journalism is moving backward in general, just as American reading habits are in long and continuing decline.

    Journalism better today? Ridiculous.


  • [2] Graham from Paris September 22, 2008 - 12:29PM

    PS / "moving backward" above, means "deteriorating", declining", "worsening", etc. _not_ "moving backward to better days".


  • [3] Dorothy from Manhattan September 22, 2008 - 12:34PM

    I moved to New York in late 1967, moved into my first apartment in February 1968, just in time to be welcomed to the City by New York Magazine -- and I really felt that way. The City wasn't far away from the fiscal crisis of the mid-70s but it was so exciting to be here then and have that wonderful magazine to guide me to what was new, interesting, exciting. Opening night of the Front Page, a Greek picnic for Opera in the Park, Sunday brunch at an Iris restaurant -- all found in the pages of New York magazine.


  • [4] smidely from NY September 22, 2008 - 12:35PM

    the mortgage crisis is not the result of the end of redlining as one of your guests said (implying that blacks were not lent money because they were un-creditworthy as a race)...the mortgage crisis simply and obviously resulted from money being lent without measuring the ability of borrowers to repay.


  • [5] robert from park slope September 22, 2008 - 12:39PM

    I've always felt that New York magazine is to what Village Voice readers graduate once they have real jobs.


  • [6] village voice September 22, 2008 - 03:23PM

    that's funny i always thought it was for ohio goofs to know what to wear.


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