For New York’s April 26-May 9, 2021 Yesteryear Issue, “Remember the Office?,” the magazine looks back at 150 years of cubicles, corner offices, all-nighters, and the holiday party, with Justin Davidson on how New York City made the office; Rachel Handler on office lighting; Molly Young on how deliciously complex office relationships were; Rebecca Traister on how the office protected tyrants; what it’s like to work with Toni Morrison, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Scott Rudin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Michael Bloomberg, among others; and more.
“This issue resurrects a recent tradition of celebrating the magazine’s founding, in April 53 years ago, by dedicating a special issue to the city’s past,” says editor-in-chief David Haskell. “All of us at New York have been working remotely for 13 months now—something we never thought possible before the pandemic—and that made us especially curious to understand the history of the New York office, which for decades has been not only a place of business but also a stage for human dramas, a pressure-cooker, a gossip machine and, more broadly, an invention that transformed the city itself.”