The Villager (Manhattan)

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The Villager
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s) Schneps Media
PublisherVictoria Schneps-Yunis, Joshua Schneps
Founded1933
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters New York City, New York
CountryUnited States
Circulation 6,200(as of 2017) [1]
ISSN 0042-6202
Website www.thevillager.com

The Villager is a weekly newspaper serving Downtown Manhattan. [2]

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Background

Founded in 1933 by Walter and Isabel Bryan, [3] [4] it is part of Schneps Media whose Manhattan portfolio includes Downtown Express, Gay City News (formerly LGNY), Chelsea Now, Villager Express (formerly East Villager), AM New York , and Manhattan Express.

In 2001, 2004 and 2005, The Villager won the Stuart Dorman Award, honoring New York State's best weekly newspaper, in the New York Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest. It has also been called better than The New York Times by New York magazine: In 2005, in its "123 Reasons Why We Love New York Right Now," New York dubbed The New York Times Reason #51, "because our hometown paper is still the greatest in the world," the magazine said...before adding, #52, on the facing page: "...next to The Villager."

In September 2018, NYC Community Media, The Villager's owner, and Community News Group, were sold by Les and Jennifer Goodstein to Schneps Communications. Schneps also has extensive publications in Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Westchester and Long Island. [5]

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References

  1. "Newspapers by County". New York Press Association. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  2. "The villager". Archived from the original on 2023-06-03. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  3. New York dubs Villager 'greatest paper in the world' Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine , The Villager, vol. 77 no. 48, April 30, 2008, retrieved on May 2, 2009.
  4. New Owner for a Pair of Papers Archived 2024-09-14 at the Wayback Machine , The New York Times, October 24, 1999, sec. 14 p. 9, retrieved on May 15, 2009.
  5. "Schneps Communications acquires CNG / NYCCM". The Villager. September 13, 2018. Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2019.