Brooklyn’s Magazine Renaissance Ends?

Via the New York Sun:

Just last summer, Brooklyn had a whole stack of glossy magazines devoted to chronicling the borough’s supposed renaissance. Since then, all of those magazines have run out of money, and today, the only one still standing is the Brooklyn Rail, a nonprofit that gets most of its operational budget through arts grants.

A few problems here. Glossy? If we’re talking about the same Brooklyn Rail, it’s about as “glossy” as the New York Sun. Secondly, the “whole stack” of failed magazines includes the Brooklynite, NRG, BKLYN magazine and Brooklyn Bridge, a “general-interest periodical that folded in 2000.” By my count, then, last summer there were three stackable glossies.

Semantics aside, the article fails to tip its New Era to one of the bigger success stories in New York publishing, period: The L magazine, which has aimed its supposed “pocket” fitting size and bright orange distribution boxes at the Village Voice, TimeOut and other city guides to make it an indispensable part of nightlife planning, Brooklyn and beyond.

Latest Boom in Brooklyn Is in Failures of Glossy Magazines [NYSun]

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