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1 By Foster Kamer 12/20/11 4:25pm

WE *HEART* NY?

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Is New York Magazine Running Out of Reasons to Love New York?

THE REASON YOU DIDN'T SEE a new issue of New York magazine on newsstands this week? The double-issue that is their much-beloved yearly Reasons to Love New York feature will sit on newsstands until next Monday, when their final issue of the year emerges.

Yet, we couldn't help noticing that this year's iteration of the feature—in its seventh year, which started in 2005—felt a little light. After all, there were only (by their count) 42 Reasons to Love New York in 2011. Are we wrong? Read More

2 By Drew Grant 12/08/11 6:20pm

television

Parks & Recreation: Fan favorite for Commie Liberals!

New York Media’s List Of Favorite Television Shows Liberal Bias

Are you surprised that New Yorker publications love liberal TV? Not really? That's okay, it's still interesting to read up on the Experian-Simmons survey that measured consumer's TV preferences against their political ideology and then spat out a bunch of shows that determine how liberal or conservative you are. Surprisingly (not surprisingly), most New York media favor the programs only watched by people who voted for Obama and support green initiatives.

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By Daniel Edward Rosen 11/30/11 10:02am

The Lease Beat

Fully leased at 137 Varick Street.

Trinity’s 137 Varick Street Reaches 100%

A Trinity Real Estate-owned Hudson Square office building has reached 100 percent occupancy after it lured NYU-Poly Varick Street Incubator away from another Trinity-owned building into a bigger space, signed Paik Architecture PLLC to new office space, and agreed to give current tenant Unity Construction Development additional space, The Commercial Observer has learned.

Having met maximum capacity, 137 Varick Street now has an eclectic collection of tenants that range from Alexander Gorlin Architects, online job search company TheLadders, and Scott Jordan Furniture.

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6 By Drew Grant 10/27/11 4:41pm

LGBT

Zachary Quinto as Chad, the ghost.

‘American Horror Story’ Saved By Zachary Quinto’s Queer Confession in ‘New York Magazine’

Zachary Quinto, the character actor famous for playing the evil Sylar from Heroes, Spock from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, and Louis Ironson from Angels in America opened up about his sexuality for the first time in a New York Magazine profile earlier this month. It wasn't much of a shocker: Mr. Quinto had a tabloid history of what we in the biz used to call "confirmed bachelorhood," and taking the lead in a play about gay men with AIDS on Broadway is kind of like playing the MC in Cabaret. You don't have to be gay yourself, but it sure helps.

What was interesting to us was why Mr. Quinto would come out now, when Angels in America has been closed since February. And apart from a few Internet fanboys, no one really wonders about Spock's sexual tension with Captain Kirk. Was it just time for Mr. Quinto to come out from his glass closet? Or did Ryan Murphy have something to do with it?

After all, the NY Mag piece did manage to tie his recent outing to last night's cameo as a malevolent, homosexual ghost on American Horror Story; one which is already being praised as the show's best performance yet.

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By Jotham Sederstrom 7/20/11 4:06pm

lease beat

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Getty Images Moving Upstairs From New York in One Hudson Square

Getty Images, that newsroom staple for digital images, has inked an 82,844-square-foot lease at One Hudson Square, the Trinity Church-owned property that also houses New York magazine, among other media concerns. The 15-year deal, inked earlier this month, will place Getty on the building’s entire fifth floor, one above New York, as well as in Read More

2 By Foster Kamer 7/15/11 5:00pm

Gotcha Moments

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In Which VICE Catches New York Magazine Off-Guard

Is there anything more embarrassing than having your emails published, regardless of what's in them? Surely, there is. But when you're reporting, if you're dealing with the kind of subject who will do that, and they actually end up doing it, well: it shows one caught off-guard, let alone whatever the contents of the email may reveal. Read More

By Amanda Sterling 2/07/11 6:28pm

In Public Schooling

After All, It Is Black History Month

Cathie Black makes the cover of this week's New York magazine in a piece by Chris Smith which covers the magazine-executive-turned-school-chancellor's bumpy start as a Bloomberg appointee, and weighs in on whether she just might be the right (sales)woman for the job- if she can manage to sell herself first.

Between the backlash over her Read More