New York Observer

Pros: Its depth and range of coverage, its writing, and its look (pink, broadsheet)
Cons: No sports coverage

Elite Manhattan is an island on an island. Most of the VIPs know and gossip about one another, just as in a small town. Keeping this in mind, The New York Observer is a community paper, whose readers tend to be involved in its news. Unlike most...

Pros: some of the best writing around
Cons: cons? what cons?

I started subscribing to the New York Observer about a year ago, and it quickly became an indispensable part of my reading diet. The quality of writing in this weekly paper, distinguished by its unique pink pages, is among the best around.

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Pros: Plain Fun To Read
Cons: Only Once A Week

Entertaining, irreverent, passionate and 150% New York. The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper (printed on a salmon colored paper) covering New York with a focus on Manhattan's elite social set, politics, entertainment, real estate and Wall...