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The first issue of The New Yorker was published on the 21st of February 1925. This inaugural issue featured a cover illustration of a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, a drawing by Rea Irvin that became the magazine's most enduring symbol.
The New Yorker was founded by Harold Ross, a former reporter for The New York Times, and his wife Jane Grant, who was also a reporter for the same publication. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan at 25 West 45th Street.
Eustace Tilley is the mascot of The New Yorker, created by Corey Ford to serve as the magazine's mascot and based on an 1834 caricature of the Count d'Orsay. The character appeared on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue in 1925 and has gone on to appear in promotional materials and on covers for decades.
The New Yorker developed its fact-checking procedures after an 1927 article about Edna St. Vincent Millay contained multiple factual errors, leading her mother to threaten a libel suit. By the 1940s, this extensive fact-checking operation had become a defining feature of the publication, with about 30 people working in the department as of 2025.
The most famous cover of The New Yorker is View of the World from 9th Avenue, created by Saul Steinberg for the 29th of March 1976 issue. This cover depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers, with the rest of the United States reduced to the size of three New York City blocks.
David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998, succeeding Tina Brown who edited the magazine from 1992 to 1998. The magazine has adapted to the digital era under his leadership, maintaining its traditional print operations while expanding its online presence and launching a paywalled subscription model in 2014.