Table of Contents

April 26, 2021

Cover Story

What Was the Office?

For our anniversary “Yesteryear” issue, we reminisce on more than a century of deadlines, drudgery, trysts, and smoke breaks at the office.

Plus: Justin Davidson on how they made New York City what it is today.

On the Cover: The newly completed Seagram Building in 1958. Photograph by Ezra Stoller.

Intelligencer

Departments

‘New York’ Crossword

Matt Gaffney’s latest puzzle.
Comments: Week of April 26, 2021

Readers sound off on the ever-more-chaotic of finance, Bravo and the Real Housewives, Richard Carranza, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of April 26, 2021

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
On the Cover of New York Magazine: Remember the Office?

“This issue resurrects a recent tradition of celebrating the magazine’s founding, 53 years ago, by dedicating an issue to the city’s past.”

Strategist

The Culture Pages

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