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Magazines published in New York City

  • Time (magazine)Time magazine hit newsstands for the first time on the 3rd of March, 1923, priced at fifteen cents a copy. Two Yale-educated twenty-four-year-olds named…
  • GQGQ began not as the glossy men's bible it would become, but as a trade publication called Apparel Arts, launched in 1931 in New York City for the clothing…
  • Feed MagazineStefanie Syman and Steven Johnson launched Feed in New York during May 1995. This publication became one of the earliest online magazines to rely entirely on…
  • Harper's BazaarHarper's Bazaar first appeared on newsstands on the 2nd of November 1867, making it the oldest fashion magazine still operating anywhere in the world.
  • The New YorkerThe New Yorker debuted on the 21st of February, 1925, with a cover image of a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle.
  • Kirkus ReviewsKirkus Reviews was founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus, a woman who had just lost her job at one of America's most storied publishing houses.
  • Vogue (magazine)Vogue published its first issue on the 17th of December 1892, with a cover price of 10 cents. That debut featured a debutante at her coming-out, and behind…
  • Rolling StoneRolling Stone launched on the 9th of November, 1967, with a cover photo of John Lennon dressed for battle in a Brodie helmet, fresh from the set of How I Won…
  • Variety (magazine)Variety was born from an act of defiance. In 1905, Sime Silverman lost his job at The Morning Telegraph for panning an act that had paid $50 for an…
  • Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly hit newsstands on the 16th of February 1990, with a pitch that felt almost audacious in its simplicity: a weekly consumer guide that…
  • Esquire (magazine)Esquire magazine hit newsstands in October 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression, priced at fifty cents a copy. It was supposed to be a modest…
  • Fortune (magazine)Fortune magazine was founded in 1929 by Henry Luce, the same man who had already built Time into a household name. Luce envisioned something entirely new: a…
  • Mix (magazine)Mix magazine launched in 1977 not as the glossy professional publication it would become, but as a tabloid-style directory of recording services.
  • Publishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly has been landing on the desks of booksellers, librarians, and literary agents every week since 1872. That is not a typo.
  • NewsweekNewsweek hit newsstands for the first time on the 17th of February 1933, its debut cover featuring seven photographs from the week's news.
  • Bloomberg BusinessweekBloomberg Businessweek hit newsstands in New York City in September 1929 - weeks before the stock market crash that would define the era it was born into.
  • Popular MechanicsPopular Mechanics hit newsstands for the first time on the 11th of January 1902, a weekly publication out of Chicago with a mission Henry Haven Windsor…
  • The NationThe Nation magazine opened its doors on the 6th of July 1865, at 130 Nassau Street in Manhattan. This date marked the end of William Lloyd Garrison's The…
  • The New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books was born in the middle of a newspaper strike. It was February 1963, and New York City's presses had gone quiet.
  • Scientific AmericanScientific American hit newsstands on the 28th of August, 1845, as a four-page weekly newspaper. It cost a few cents and arrived in a country still debating…
  • Slate (magazine)On the 24th of June 1996, Michael Kinsley launched Slate under the ownership of Microsoft. This date marked a specific moment when digital journalism began…
  • New York (magazine)New York magazine was born twice. Its first life began in 1963, not as a standalone publication, but as the Sunday supplement of the New York Herald Tribune.
  • The Paris ReviewThe Paris Review was born in a city still sorting itself out from the wreckage of war. Paris in 1953 was cheap, electric, and far from the gatekeepers of New…
  • Billboard (magazine)Billboard magazine was born on the 1st of November, 1894, in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a trade sheet for the people who pasted advertisements onto walls.
  • AdweekAdweek first appeared on newsstands in 1979 as a weekly American advertising trade publication. The magazine emerged to cover marketing, creativity, and…
  • Vice (magazine)Vice magazine began not as a media empire but as a job training scheme. In October 1994, a Quebec government program designed to give social welfare…
  • IEEE SpectrumIEEE Spectrum arrived in January 1964, replacing a publication called Electrical Engineering and bringing with it a new ambition: to be the voice of the…
  • The New York Times MagazineThe New York Times Magazine first landed in readers' hands on the 6th of September 1896, and it carried something the newspaper had never printed before…
  • Life (magazine)Life magazine arrived on newsstands on the 23rd of November, 1936, and within four months it was selling more than one million copies a week.
  • Monthly ReviewOn a New Hampshire farm in 1948, two former Harvard colleagues met to discuss the future of American socialism. F. O. Matthiessen offered Paul Sweezy $5,000…
  • Atlas ObscuraJoshua Foer and Dylan Thuras met in 2007 to discuss a different kind of atlas. They wanted to feature places not commonly found in standard guidebooks.