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New York magazine was founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser. Its first issue as a standalone weekly was dated the 8th of April 1968, though it had earlier existed as a Sunday supplement to the New York Herald Tribune beginning in 1963.
New Journalism was a style of reporting that used literary techniques in nonfiction, and New York magazine became one of its key incubators. Writers including Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin developed their distinctive voices in its pages.
Yes. Nik Cohn's 1976 story "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," which served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever, was later admitted by Cohn himself to be largely invented. He acknowledged this in a follow-up piece published about twenty years later.
Vox Media purchased New York magazine and its parent company, New York Media LLC, on the 24th of September 2019.
New York's critics have won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism twice since the prize opened to magazines in 2016: Jerry Saltz won in 2018, and Andrea Long Chu won in 2023.
New York operates several subject-specific sites under the nymag.com umbrella: Vulture (culture), The Cut (women's interest and fashion), Intelligencer (news and politics), The Strategist (shopping and service), Curbed (real estate and urbanism), and Grub Street (food).