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The first issue of New York magazine was published on the 8th of April 1968. This launch occurred after the New York Herald Tribune folded in 1966, allowing Clay Felker and Milton Glaser to purchase the rights to the nameplate and start a glossy weekly publication.
Clay Felker and Milton Glaser founded New York magazine and established its office on the top floor of the old Tammany Hall clubhouse at 207 East 32nd Street. Glaser owned this space, which served as the incubator for a generation of writers who would define the era.
In 1976, journalist Nik Cohn wrote a story called Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night about a young man in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood who went to a local disco called Odyssey 2001. Cohn later admitted that he had made up the character and most of the story, which served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever.
Rupert Murdoch acquired New York magazine in 1976 through a hostile takeover that forced founders Clay Felker and Milton Glaser out. In 1980, Murdoch hired Edward Kosner, the former editor of Newsweek, to replace Armstrong and shift the magazine's mix toward newsmagazine-style cover stories.
Hurricane Sandy caused New York magazine's offices in lower Manhattan to lose electricity in October 2012, forcing the editorial staff to publish an issue from a temporary newsroom in the midtown office of Wasserstein & Company. The cover shot by photographer Iwan Baan from a helicopter became an iconic image of the storm and was called the magazine cover of the year by Time.
Mary Ann Madden edited an extremely popular witty literary competition for New York magazine from early 1969 until she retired in 2000. She ran 973 installments of the competition, which called for readers to submit humorous poetry or wordplay on changing themes, and published three volumes of winners.