Aaron Naparstek

» Monday, August 22, 2005

Revenge of the Smith

The last remnants of former editior Jeff Koyen's regime have been purged from the New York Press. Koyen, you may recall, was run out of town after publishing the misguided and not-particuarly-funny cover story, "The 52 Funniest Things About The Upcoming Death of The Pope." A fellow named Harry Siegel is coming in to take over the newspaper. The Brooklyn native is founder of a blog called New Partisan. Apparently a favorite of Russ Smith, the still-influential former owner of the paper, Siegel will lean the paper in a much more conservative direction than the previous editorial staff. Hopefully, for Siegel's sake, the corporate owners of the Press will give him the resources he needs to do a decent job. Previous editor Alex Zaitchik never had that.

With the change of editorial staff, my weekly column on urban environment, transportation and development is no more. I'll be taking the opportunity to branch out into some other publications, focus on a book project and maybe clean out my basement too. If you've been reading, thanks! Without the regular weekly deadline things might be slowing down a bit here on the blog. We'll see. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, if you have comments and ideas for the Press or just want to urge them to continue to cover the issues that I was writing about (lord knows the identity politics-obsessed Village Voice won't cover them) send them an e-mail: editorial@nypress.com.

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Comments

Awful news!!!

You're column was the greatest.

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Avidor @ 8/24/2005 7:57 PM | Link

"editorial@nypress.com" hasn't worked in over six months. email hsiegel@nypress.com.

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Anonymous @ 8/25/2005 11:21 PM | Link

Actually, I know for a fact that the editorial address has been working fine over the last few months. But you heard the man. E-mail the boss directly if you want to get in touch.

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