Once ubiquitous, print copies of the New York Times are now surprisingly tough to find. alicemdashc investigates
The Sunday Times in its namesake square, 1970. Photo: Scott McPartland/Getty Images It used to be a mark of Manhattan sophistication that you’d read the Sunday New York Times on Saturday night. Any newsstand or corner deli received copies in the evening, and the Sunday paper, back then, was immense, eight or so pounds of newsprint. News dealers would assemble the sections and pile up the finished papers in a wall along the sidewalk.
So we went out to see how dire the newspaper-acquisition situation really is. There are 276 licensed newsstands left in Manhattan, according to the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, with more than half of those between 14th and 59th Streets. On a recent summer day, though, roughly half of the stands in Gramercy and Chelsea were closed, even on arteries like 23rd.
Of the 16 newsstands I surveyed between 14th and 34th Streets in a recent week, several were closed and a grand total of two had papers for sale. One operator, who says he’s been working at newsstands since 1987, says digital news put his stand on the ropes, but coronavirus dealt the killing blow. He closed down for 18 months during the pandemic, and when he managed to reopen, “No customers, in the six months I opened. Nobody buys.” After a month or two, he stopped getting papers delivered.
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