New York Magazine October 21-November 3, 2024

1 New York’s latest cover story, by Andrew Rice, examined Mayor Eric Adams’s ongoing corruption scandal (“City Haul,” October 7–20, 2024) and was illustrated with a grid of administration insiders under investigation. Many readers, including former mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary, Bill Neidhardt, noted that “it took 1 hour for this cover to be outdated (Phil Banks has now resigned).” In a NY1 interview, Rice said, “We should have distributed small stickers that said ‘Resigned’ or ‘Indicted’ on them so that readers could update the cover at home … Some people joked that it looked like an indictment Advent calendar.” @jtp2106 tweeted, “Damn, who could have predicted a cop mayor would be brazenly corrupt.” Adams was pressed on the story during a previously scheduled Fox5 Good Day New York…

WITH TWO WEEKS LEFT to go, the contours of the 2024 presidential election are clear: Both campaigns need voters who usually don’t vote, and Kamala Harris needs to bring the Democratic coalition, including its Trump-curious members, back home. While the Republican side plans to spend the remaining days of the contest trying to lure low-propensity voters to the polls, the Harris team will attempt to persuade voters of color to return to its side and will try to increase numbers among white voters in previously red suburbs. Despite some increasingly erratic public appearances, Donald Trump has the momentum: He has managed to narrow Harris’s already microscopic lead in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada while holding steady in the battleground states where he has a small advantage: North Carolina, Georgia, and…

SMALL TALK is physical. When well executed, it is a collection of gentle gestures well matched to the speaker, a unity of mind and body that never rises to the level of consciousness. When Tim Walz listens, he waits with his brows knit (and it helps, here, to have massive, bushy brows) and his hands clasped, thumbs touching. When he laughs, he throws his head backward and his mouth opens wide (and it helps, here, to have an unusually large mouth), and when his head snaps forward, he has a retort ready. At a great distance from someone he is meeting, he will throw both hands in the air, as if overcome with the joy of seeing a functionary from a minor city. At a middle distance, he will deploy…

IN THE LATE 1930S, NEW YORKERS barely into middle age could remember a very different Fifth Avenue. The boulevard, a mere decade or so earlier, had been a residential neighborhood of immense Gilded Age houses. It had since been fully given over to commerce, represented by department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman as well as the immense Rockefeller Center complex. In March 1939, the city tried to restore a wisp of grace to the limestone canyon. “That business section of Fifth Avenue, which has not known the sight of trees since the days of the stately mansions and the horse and buggy,” one press outlet wrote, “took its first step in arboreal recovery” when a “50-foot elm tree, the first of eight to be planted at Rockefeller…

According to 57 of the Most Powerful People in Media. IMRAN AMED, founder and editor-in-chief, The Business of Fashion. WILLA BENNETT, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen. JEREMY BOREING, co-founder and co-CEO, The Daily Wire. GRAYDON CARTER, founder and co-editor, Air Mail. SEWELL CHAN, executive editor, Columbia Journalism Review. LEROY CHAPMAN JR., editor-in-chief, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD, co-host, The Breakfast Club. EVA CHEN, vice-president of fashion, Meta. JOANNA COLES, chief creative and content officer, The Daily Beast. KAITLAN COLLINS, anchor, CNN’s The Source. SAM DOLNICK, deputy managing editor, the New York Times. MATHIAS DÖPFNER, CEO, Axel Springer SE. STEPHEN ENGELBERG, editor-in-chief, ProPublica. BRYAN GOLDBERG, CEO, Bustle Digital Group. EMILY GREENHOUSE, editor, The New York Review of Books. GLENN GREENWALD, host, System Update; co-founder, The Intercept. JOHN HARRIS, co-founder and global…

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