Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: 25 West 45th Street
Here’s a contemporary photo of 25 West 45th Street, where The New Yorker‘s first offices were located (the building was, in the 1920s, owned by the Fleischmann family. Raoul Fleischmann, who put up the lion’s share of cash to fund the new magazine, offered office space to Harold Ross). The magazine began publishing here in 1925 and remained at this address until 1935.
It was here that Harold Ross’s “comic weekly” went from a less than promising beginning (James Thurber called it “the outstanding flop of 1925”) to being killed by Raoul Fleischmann within its first six months, to its second lease on life, to a stunning success story. When we hear the old chestnut repeated in many a telling about the magazine’s beginnings that “Ross didn’t know what he wanted, but he knew what he didn’t want” — this was the building where he initially discovered what he wanted.
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Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 27-31, 2025
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon:
Sarah Kempa, Suerynn Lee, Jimmy Craig, Brendan Loper, Adam Douglas Thompson, Jorge Penne. See them here