And so the circle of strife continues.

Media at a price. The "free" you pay for in other ways.

They buy papers...

Thanks, I won't be picking it up.

#Metro4Life

smooth

I knew the cyclist was hit from behind! That one jerk commenter kept saying "He turned into oncoming traffic! Cyclists need to be careful! I'm an avid rider...." and some such nonsense. Nah. Guy's back tire is shredded. Driver wasn't paying attention and hit him from behind.

he turned into oncoming traffic, ACCORDING TO THE PERSON WHO KILLED HIM WHICH THE COPS TRANSCRIBED AND RELEASED TO THE MEDIA

Because drivers never lie. And cops never believe the lie and automatically side with a driver. That never happens. Oh, and GTFOH with your all caps response, btw.

I'm guessing it'll still be 85% ads. But that almost goes without saying...

So you say...

AM-NewYork was already more rightwing than Metro.

And Queens Courier is horrid--very very white too. That's the basis of the Schneps empire.

Now real estate product placement: Ever read the NY Times Metro section?

And regards food-restaurant avertorials: Do read the Gothamist?

The New York Times has a Metro section?

It's still in the Sunday paper. Sadly gone from the daily edition for the past like 10 years

but except that the NY Times sometimes starts an in depth article on Sunday, which then runs for 2 or 3 more days, who seeks out the Sunday NYT?

The book reviews are largely garbage, the NYT daily book reviews are much better, the Sunday Arts pages are promotion, not reviews and rarely interesting interviews, the Magazine is drivel. The Sunday Review is a joke. Travel can be okay, but it's oft over-ripe with entitlement, sometimes mixed with identity politics.

Magazine's alright (if only for The Ethicist, John Hodgman, puzzles, and whatever they publish from the NYT Food vertical), but it's true that the magazine and the Metro section are kinda the sole go-to sections that make the Sunday paper worthwhile

no, the NY Times Magazine is drivel.

read the blame the pilots for Boeing's massive 737 MAX engineering failure magazine article. that's a bit beyond drivel; it's actually very dangerous lying:

https://www.nytimes.com/201...

the food parts of the Magazine are upper middle class lifestyle entitlement. the weekday paper is much better for food.

This is from today, Oct 17th:

https://www.nytimes.com/201...

The last 3rd or so is good reporting on why big complex machines last longer and work much better if the same, competent, people run them for decades.

But basically no, the NY Times doesn't have a Metro Section, it has an expanded real estate section, and part of the same "section" is dedicated to ignoring something like 40 billion dollars cut out of the MTA-NYTransit budget over the last 25 years and implying that transit workers should work for Home Depot wages.

Then the rest of the NYT's "Metro" section is new restaurant promotion, even the main Pete Wells review has moved from reviews of new restaurants to stories about new restaurants with some comments about the food mixed in.

Courts? Pending construction disasters? NYC Labor? Obvious problems with congestion pricing for driving into Manhattan? Noting that "the South Bronx" is a loaded term, and that there are neighborhoods in the South Bronx, the way there are neighborhoods in South Brooklyn? What are all these strange and subtle subjects?

they're paper newspaper. they're for old people. what do you expect?

I'd read a paper, or magazine, if I commuted on the subway, since there's not service in the tunnels.

LOL

Negative stories about other friends of the Schneps family were also discouraged, editors said. “‘Vicki was like, 'Oh, you've gotta be nice to Marty. He’s a really good guy,’” DiMiceli told Gothamist, referring to the scandal-plagued Bay Ridge state senator Marty Golden, who lost his reelection bid last year.

This is some good reporting--thanks for the artuicle. Won't be picking up AM again.

This woman and her son sound like the worst kind of sycophants.

Just popping in here to say that New York's public notice laws are bullshit and antiquated and fund dubious rent-seekers. The LLC formation publication notice is particularly bullshit and ought to be supplanted by publicly-available online databases.

Hmmmm, is a paper like AMNY a public notice pub? I agree that that garb is antiquated, but just trying to understand the link here, as this article talks about the "news" articles themselves giving a Hollywood glow to all their friends / hopeful friends in the political and business world.

I dunno, I haven't personally requested publication for an LLC in the five boroughs. I would be surprised if it is not, as it is a daily newspaper and circulates throughout the city and apparently run by folks who are thirsty for the juicy public notice $$$$.

They've dropped the KENKEN puzzle, which was my primary reason for picking up amNY. Will no longer cross the street to get one.

Is the crossword still there (and can it still be completed in like 7 minutes)?

There is *a* crossword and also a sudoku but they don't appear to be from the same syndicate. Since I didn't attempt either--and I did also used to like the amNY sudokus which got tougher during the week--I can't assess degree of difficulty.

Who will want to read it if its become nothing more than a tout sheet?

I picked-up the paper for the political cartoon. It's now gone.

I picked it up for lining the litter tray.

Waste of trees, source of litter. Should just let it die already.

I'm not sure the *judges* dictate placement of mandatory legal notices, but the judges are typically connected to the county political firmament, as is the County Clerk.

New York State rules state:
https://www.businessexpress...
"The county clerk, of the county in which the office of the limited liability company is located, designates the newspapers for publication. One newspaper must be printed daily and the other printed weekly."

There are other types of legal notices by publication that judges do influence, such as service by publication when a party cannot be found.

“We bring a sustainable business,” Schneps told Gothamist. “I think we're a great example of excellence in journalism.”

Yeahh, you can't* use a city newspaper to accrue a personal arsenal of political support and then turn around and call it excellence in journalism. *= I know you can, technically, it just blows that you can, and that a very clean-cut, truly unbiased, NYC news-centric paper (that helps us all stay occupied on the train non-digitally) is just poof, gone.

I def vomited in my mouth a hundred times reading this article. I trust Gothamist and it's readers will do this new ownership diligence in letting it know its baloney (i'm feeling PG today) tactics aren't gonna go far in this town.

Also, that pic of the trade-offs with the work of Alexander Girard in the background is painful. No artist with the vision of uniting people around the world would want to see these ogres posing in front of one of their patterns. https://girardstudio.com/

Wait... you think a free newspaper solely supported by advertisers might be >gasp< editorially compromised? I a shocked... shocked!

Come on, people... amNew York has always been pointless fluff with one or two news items to pretend to be a real newspaper.

At the very least they had a decent number of reporters plus were running Newsday pieces (in addition to the standard wire reports and other syndicated articles). Now they'll be like every Schneps publication, which (as this piece notes) is super-fluffy, minimally reported, and with an awful one-liner pun as a lede (seriously, that's every article).

How can you get pointy fluff?

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

You scratch my back and I'll... OW! OW! OW!!!!

It used to take me 5 minutes to scan through it. Now it takes me 2 minutes.

As if that commuter audience is going to read substantive local news coverage anyway...

AMNY is toilet paper.

I miss Time Out New York.

Huh?

Time Out NY is still around doing its product and celebrity marketing "reporting".

Time Out NY was never as good as the original from London, even when Time Out NYC was not free.

AM-NY was a great daily paper. I was proud to write opinion columns there for years. The Villager was a great neighborhood weekly where I also wrote essays and opinion pieces for years. Both were real newspapers with good editors. Both have gone down hill fast under the new owners. Very sad.

Sounds like a case of the Ricketts ... and sour grapes