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A.M. New York
Launched in 2003, A.M. New York is one of the dailies given out for free at subway stations and other places where commuters congregate. It is owned by the Tribune Company, which also owns Newsday, and therein lies confusion: The corporation has started packaging all NYC-related articles on the AMNY Web site, even when the articles are by Newsday staffers and published in the Newsday print edition. But those articles also still appear on the Newsday Web site as well.
Albany Times Union
The Web site of Albany's major newspaper has a slow but steady flow of news that NYC residents who want to keep an eye on what they're doing up there might find interesting.
Amsterdam News
A weekly newspaper founded in 1909 in Harlem focusing on the African-American community.
Bay Ridge Community News
Local news and an active message board.
Block Magazine
Block Magazine is a twice-monthly community publication covering Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick. It is a mixture of arts, local issues of politics and development, and random cultural bits with a bit of a hipster spin. Its site has the current issue and archives dating back about six months available. There is this annoying glitch where clicking on one headline sometimes sends you to a different article.
Bronx Press
The official home of the Riverdale Review and the Bronx Newspaper Group, the site contains full versions of newspapers dedicated to Bronx issues.
Bronx Times Reporter
Local News from the Bronx with custom views for Throgg's Neck and Morris Park.
Brooklyn Papers
Three weekly papers, one covering Downtown Brooklyn, another Park Slope, the third Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst. They specialize, they say, "in covering the hip, hot, literary areas of Brooklyn." The papers are available online only in pdf format.
Canarsie Courier
Brooklyn-based community weekly.
Chelsea Now
A weekly launched at the end of September, 2006, it is published by Community Media LLC, which also puts out The Villager, Downtown Express, Gay City News, and NYC Plus.
City Hall News
Manhattan Media, LLC, publisher of several community newspapers, recently began printing City Hall, a monthly paper covering the "politicians, staffers, and issues that shape New York." Its Web site is probably the only place on the Web with a poll allowing you to vote on who the funniest council member is.
City Journal
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by The Manhattan Institute, City Journal was "an idea factory" for former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Nowhere in its "about us" page is the word "conservative."
City Limits
First published in 1976 as a newsletter for a group of housing organizations, City Limits became a monthly print magazine, then a bi-monthly, and in 2006 became an online weekly with no print edition, covering the politics of poverty, the non-profit world, community development and community organizing.
Courier Life
Courier Life newspapers publishes several community papers in Brooklyn. This site has headlines from across the borough, as well as a look at what is being published in the Bay News, Kings Courier, Canarise Digest, Flatbush Life, Bay Ridge Courier, and Brooklyn Graphic. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, a global media empire which locally also owns the New York Post, announced in October, 2006 that it acquired the Courier-Life chain.
Crain's New York Business
Founded in 1985, this weekly tabloid-size magazine focuses on New York business. Most of the articles online are only available to subscribers.
Daily News
Founded in 1919, the Daily News was the first American tabloid newspaper, which described not just the shape of the newspaper, but its style of news -- crime, scandal and sex, but also a focus on the working man, following its motto (carved into its landmark building, which it now no longer occupies) "God must love the common man -- he made so many of them." Always New York-centric, its most famous headline -- "Ford To City: Drop Dead" -- is said to have cost Gerald Ford the Presidency. Now owned by Mort Zuckerman, the Daily News keeps its focus on local and neighborhood news.
Downtown Express
Lower Manhattan community weekly.
East Village, New York
The people who run East-Village.com are looking both to stimulate the "local 'mom-and-pop' economy" and provide current, very localized news. The site itself has original reporting and photography of things happening in the neighborhood. There's also an interactive map of the East Village's landmarks and a directory of useful websites and local businesses.
Economist City Guide for New York
The Economist's City Guide for New York has the magazine's latest articles about the city all in one place. The news coverage isn't really comprehensive, but the site is beefed up with sections on the city's history, a list of recommended reading and a cost-of-living indicator (which lets readers know, for instance, that a mid-priced, one bedroom, furnished apartment is going to run them $5,000). And don't miss the Economist's adorable "insider tips" for its British readership, where it explains that "many New Yorkers pride themselves on being blunt and pushy", and that here we use the term "cell phone" to refer to what a Londoner knows as a "mobile".
Empire Page
Headlines, with some original content (mostly commentary and blogs) about New York State politics.
Ethnic, non-English and Immigrant Press
For links to some three dozen New York City newspapers in languages other than English -- including, most popularly, Chinese and Spanish -- see this page from Gotham Gazette's section on immigrants.
Gay City News
Gay City News bills itself as "the newspaper serving Gay and Lesbian NYC".
Greenpoint Star
The site for this Brooklyn-based community newspaper has several new stories each week, as well as a searchable archive. Readers also contribute content on the "Grapevine". The Star is connected to several other community papers throughout Brooklyn and Queens, and regularly shares content with them.
Haitian Times
English-language weekly covering New York and national news.
Hells Kitchen Online
Grass roots reporting from Hell's Kitchen, or "Clinton" if you prefer.
Highbridge Horizon
Highbridge Horizon is a monthly newspaper serving the community near Yankee Stadium, edited by Gotham Gazette's housing topic page writer, Joe Lamport. Visitors to the Web site can get individual articles on html pages or download the entire six page paper in pdf format.
Hunts Point Express
Produced by students at Hunter College, and edited by Bernard Stein, who is the Pulitzer-Prize winning publisher of the Riverdale Press, the Hunts Point Express, launched in 2006, covers the Hunts Point and Longwood neighborhoods of the Bronx.
Inner City Press
This bare-bones South Bronx-based non-profit describes itself as "a community, consumers’ and human rights organination...engaged in cut-edge advocacy, reporting and organizing." It focuses on the interplay between financial institutions and poverty-stricken areas of the city, and offers weekly updates (and regular exposes) on community reinvestment, insurance redlining, environmental justice, etc.
Legislative Gazette
The Legislative Gazette is the weekly insider's newspaper for the state government, founded in 1978 and put together by student interns as part of the State University of New York. Its Web site is useful for keeping track of the news that might fly under the radar screen of the mainstream press.
Manhattan Media
Publishes five neighborhood weekly newspapers, none of which are online – Our Town East Side; West Side Spirit; Westsider; Chelsea Clinton News; Our Town Downtown
NY Wired
This site links to news stories from sources across the state from the Buffalo News to the New York Times to the Gloversville Leader, sorted by "channel". Channels include social services, buget & taxes, editorial, health care and transportation. Useful yes, but don't expect them to make it pretty.
NY1
On-line presence for NY1 News, Time Warner's 24-hour newschannel in New York City.
NYC Plus
NYC Plus is a monthly newsmagazine for New Yorkers older than fifty, launched in 2005. Content includes profiles, news features, theater reviews, and fiction.
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African-American weekly with local and national news, sports, and entertainment coverage.
New York Construction News
Published by McGraw Hill Construction, this is a news site for the local construction industry, with sections for building, infrastructure, design, and downtown redevelopment news. Recent features discuss the green Solaire high-rise at Battery Park City, a new green building being developed by the Durst Organization, and how legislation has made environmentally-friendly building more attractive.
New York Magazine
Launched as an independent weekly magazine in 1968, New York was a prototype for the many city weeklies that sprung up across the nation, combining long features (often about people who were either very successful or had committed suicide, or both)with what was labeled "boutique journalism" -- i.e. the best place to shop, the hottest neighborhood, the most tasty pickle etc.
New York Observer
Founded in 1987, this pink-colored New York weekly focuses on media, politics, real estate, culture and rich people.
New York Post
The oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States, the New York Post is a very different publication than the one Alexander Hamilton founded in 1801. Though Rupert Murdoch turned it into a gossip and scandal sheet, its reporters still occasionally unearth solid local news stories that nobody else has. (Somebody should tell them, though, to redesign their homepage.)
New York Press
A weekly that bills itself as "New York's premier alternative newspaper" -- which, like much in the Press, is an attempt to bait the Village Voice. Russ Smith, who founded the New York Press in 1988 and has since sold it, established its foul-mouthed rants and over-the-top tastelessness (most notorious example -- making fun in March, 2005 of Pope John Paul II's imminent death). Later in 2005, a new editor Harry Siegel took over, promising to make it more sober, but then resigned with much of his staff in February 2006 when the publisher refused to run cartoons depicting Mohammed.
New York Sun
Launched in 2002, this weekday newspaper promotes itself as the conservative alternative to The New York Times. Most of its articles are available in full online only to its subscribers.
New York Times
Often called the best newspaper in America, the New York Times has made a point not just of offering its articles online, but also creating content, such as interactive illustrations, specific to the Web. Since the mid-1990s, management has declared its aim to be a national newspaper, taking focus away from local coverage.
New York Trend
African-American magazine with political, business, and entertainment coverage.
New Yorker, The
A weekly magazine launched in 1925 that is known for its literate journalism, humor, fiction and criticism. The percentage of articles about New York City is small -- and they are often the very stories that are not available online.
Newsday
The Long Island newspaper that had a separate New York City edition until it was abruptly killed in 1995, Newsday is making an effort to include city news again, which is most noticeable on its Web site.
Norwood News
Bi-weekly community newspaper serving the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park and Fordham Bedford. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation.
Politics New York
Once avidly-read anonymous political commentary and news for New York. Though it features a "Bloomberg Countdown Clock" which presents how much time the mayor has in office down to the second, the site itself is only sporadically updated; it seems to have been abandoned.
Queens Chronicle
Eight different Queens-wide editions of the weekly newspaper.
Queens Courier
Borough-wide community weekly.
Queens Courier
Another weekly Queens newspaper.
Queens Tribune
Borough-wide community weekly.
Riverdale Press
The only neighborhood weekly in New York City to win a Pulitzer Prize, this family-owned newspaper covers communities in the Northwest Bronx. It is not online.
Riverdale Review
Bronx-based community bi-weekly published by Metro North Media, Inc.
Staten Island Advance
Daily paper with City-wide and local Staten Island news.
The Chief
The Chief, the weekly newspaper covering municipal government and public employee unions, is now online. It covers city politics with an eye on labor issues, going into more depth than the mainstream papers on events like contract negotiations.
Time Out New York
A weekly magazine that calls itself "the obsessive guide to impulsive entertainment," most of its content is not available online until weeks later, if at all. But its occasional features about the city are not only hip, they are also informed.
Times Ledger
TimesLedger.com is the Web site of 16 community weeklies in Queens, from the Astoria Times to the Forest Hills Ledger to the Woodside Times. In September, 2006, the company was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Times Newsweekly
Established in 1908 as the Ridgewood Times and featuring local news for all of Queens County.
Transportation Alternatives
Transportation Alternatives encourages New Yorkers to take up bicycling, walking, and public transportation instead of driving. Its bi-monthly newsletter gives marching orders to potential activists who want to do things like lobby their councilmembers about bike licensing legislation, or let the Department of City Planning know how dangerous it is to cross Delancey Street.
TribecaTrib Online
The Tribeca Trib is an award-winning monthly community newspaper covering Lower Manhattan, including Tribeca, Battery Park City, the Financial District and the Seaport/Civic Center area.
Village Voice, The
Founded in 1955, this newspaper was the original "alternative weekly," focusing on politics and downtown culture, with extensive listings. Long accused of having gone corporate, it was recently sold to New Times Media.
Villager, The
Greenwich Village community weekly.
WNYC
The Web site of WNYC public radio, which includes some Web-only NYC-oriented content, and a link to hear the station directly online.
Wave, The
Rockaway community weekly published since1893.
West Bronx News Network
This site combines news from three Bronx publications -- the Norwood News, Highbridge Horizon and the new Mount Hope Monitor, with the intention of filling a gap left by the lack of local coverage of the area in other publications. Content is available in both English and Spanish.
Western Queens Gazette
Western Queens Community weekly.
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