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Delivering an irresistible weekend read is, in a sense, a return to our earliest origins. Before it was launched as an independent magazine in 1968, New York was itself a Sunday-morning publication, the magazine section inside the New York Herald Tribune. The magazine’s editors smartly drew on the Trib’s underused newsroom talent, giving freedom to writers who felt stifled by the daily-newspaper format. Tom Wolfe came from the features desk, Gail Sheehy from what was dismissively known as “the women’s page,” Jimmy Breslin from the newsroom. By the time the Trib died for good, New York had enough buzz and momentum that its editor, Clay Felker, could get it airborne on its own. We’re still flying, more than 50 years later.

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