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Feb. 8, 2018
A Hard Look at the Original Modelizer Revisiting our 1988 profile of Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas, whose inappropriate behavior was no secret in the fashion industry.
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Nov. 29, 2017
You Could Learn a Lot at a Restaurant Table With Liz Smith What most people misunderstood about the veteran tabloid gossip columnist.
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Nov. 22, 2017
The ’70s Feminist Manifesto That’s Still a Must-Read Today Judy Brady Syfers wrote ‘I Want a Wife’ in 1971. It holds up.
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Nov. 17, 2017
The Hottest Fashion Show of 1987 Took Place a Week After the Market Crashed Revisiting Julie Baumgold’s report on the opulent spectacle of Christian Lacroix’s first New York show.
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Oct. 30, 2017
How the Late-Night Monologue Got Topical A short history featuring Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, and Stephen Colbert.
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Oct. 1, 2017
Remembering When Christie Hefner Took Over Playboy Lally Weymouth profiled Hugh Hefner’s then-29-year-old daughter, the newly appointed president of Playboy Enterprises, in a 1982 New York cover story.
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Sept. 20, 2017
Looking Back at 40 Years of New York ’s Fertility Journalism The millennial baby-boom, in vitro fertilization, later-in-life pregnancies, and more.
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Sept. 8, 2017
Looking Back at Long Island City’s Slow Sizzle The last time we called the neighborhood hot, we might have been a little ahead of schedule.
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Aug. 25, 2017
Revisiting Nora Ephron on the Artifice of the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ Ephron’s 1973 New York piece, “Bobby Riggs, the Lady-Killer,” displays her deadly aim and clear-eyed skepticism.
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July 13, 2017
Remembering When City Hippies Left New York for Country Life Some found “Back to the Earth” backbreaking. Others took root and blossomed.
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June 25, 2017
3 Bill Cosby Accusers on His Mistrial and What Comes Next “This was just the dress rehearsal. Round two is coming up.”
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June 15, 2017
What Happened When a Female Film Critic Offered to Take Porn Seriously In the 1970s, Molly Haskell tried to look at a wave of explicit movies as a new avenue for interesting art. They didn’t perform on demand.
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May 22, 2017
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May 18, 2017
How Much New Yorkers Make, Then and Now Looking back at the nosiest issues New York ever published.
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Mar. 22, 2017
What New York’s Homelessness Crisis Looked Like in the 1980s As institutions closed and pushed thousands of people onto the streets, the desire to help them evolved into a fearful wariness.
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Mar. 6, 2017
Revisiting David Letterman’s 1987 Writers Room The relatively normal bunch of guys behind what was perhaps the creative peak of Late Night.
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Feb. 22, 2017
What It’s Like to Live in a Trump Building The protesters, the new frisson, and the extremely clean floors.
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Feb. 9, 2017
A Disco-Era Cover Girl Reflects on Modeling at 13 “I had the time of my life; I traveled the world. It’s a tricky, dangerous business, but for me it worked out.”
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Jan. 24, 2017
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Jan. 20, 2017
The Year New York Almost Lost the Right to Choose Politics and service journalism from the early era of legal abortion.
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Dec. 16, 2016
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Nov. 29, 2016
The Last Time New York Felt Blue The mood after Bush beat Kerry, and the ways our writers thought about it.
From the Editors: About That Trump Cover We, and the artist Barbara Kruger, had always intended for it to convey multiple meanings.
A History of the Trumps on New York ’s Cover Eleven Donalds, three Ivanas, one Marla, one Melania.
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Oct. 21, 2016
Looking Back at the First ‘Best Bets,’ an Analog Recommendation Engine A shopping column for a particular type of urbanite who consumed avant-garde theater and home accessories.
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Sept. 22, 2016
Are These Quotes From This Summer or Our 1996 Bob Dole Cover Story? Establishment senator or billionaire outsider? Doesn’t much matter to the operatives, when you’re running against a Clinton.
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Sept. 8, 2016
Anthony Weiner’s Journey From Boy Wonder to Flameout A brief history of our coverage of the former congressman.
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Aug. 26, 2016
Looking Back at 46 Years of Roger Ailes Coverage Certain larger-than-life figures tend to become running characters in New York and, for nearly our entire history, that cast has included Roger Ailes.
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June 28, 2016
Revisiting New York ’s Watergate Series As the scandal crested, we imagined what it looked like.
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June 15, 2016
New York ’s First Impressions of 9 Legendary TV ComediesLooking back at season one, episode one of Saturday Night Live , All in the Family , 30 Rock , and more.
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May 20, 2016
What Has (and Hasn’t) Changed About Workplace Sexism Since 1973 Office gals fetching coffee may be a thing of the past, but the working woman’s revolt certainly isn’t.
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May 4, 2016
Revisiting the Last Great Debate Over Skyscraper Shadows Another tall building, another fight over a share of light.
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Apr. 21, 2016
The Diane Arbus Photo That Almost Killed New York Magazine Revisiting the Viva profile that nearly got Clay Felker fired.
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Apr. 5, 2016
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Mar. 22, 2016
The Trump Voter, Before Trump From Pete Hamill’s 1969 New York feature, “The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class.”
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Mar. 8, 2016
Broadway’s Survival Was a Legitimate Question 20 Years Ago Revisiting Michael Goldstein’s 1995 New York cover story, “Can Broadway Be Saved?”
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Feb. 22, 2016
When Upscale ‘Unwed Mothers’ Were a Newborn Trend Revisiting Patricia Morrisroe’s 1983 New York feature, “Mommy Only.”
