Brooklyn Magazine

Brooklyn Magazine is an online news magazine, focusing on "New York’s most populous borough through the lens of culture, community, commerce, arts and leisure."^[1] The company was bought by Michael Bassik and the website was launched in December 2020.^[2] It was formerly an American glossy quarterly magazine and website celebrating the arts, fashion, and high-end culture of Brooklyn, New York.^[3]

Brooklyn Magazine

Editor-in-Chief, President	Brian Braiker
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Thomas Franke
Founder	Daniel Stedman, Scott Stedman
Founded	2010
First issue	Spring 2011
Company	Brooklyn Magazine LLC
Country	USA
Based in	Brooklyn
Language	English
Website	bkmag.com
ISSN	2473-6732
OCLC	740015593

History

Brooklyn Magazine was founded by Northside Media Group (brothers Scott and Daniel Stedman, the same team behind the popular free alt-weekly L Magazine). Its editor-in-chief was Mike Conklin^[4] and it shared most of its staff with The L.^[5] Its first issue landed in the Spring of 2011. In June 2012, Northside Media Group re-launched the magazine's website. In addition to what appeared in print, BKmag.com featured web-only content, including blogs for Food and Style and Brooklyn Abridged, a comprehensive news feed for the borough. In September 2012 the website launched a special online-only issue dedicated to Brooklyn literature to coincide with the Brooklyn Book Festival.^[6] The magazine ran into financial difficulties in 2018, and ceased producing a print version. The website was not updated between February 2019 and December 2020.^[7]

The magazine was rebranded and launched an overhauled website in December 2020, under new ownership and management.^[8]

Covers

Brooklyn Magazine's first cover star was Boardwalk Empire's Michael Pitt.^[9] Subsequent covers have featured other Brooklynites of note, such as Emily Mortimer,^[10] David Cross^[11] and Olivia Thirlby.^[12]

References

1. "About-Brooklyn Magazine". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
2. "Michael Bassik Leaves MDC to Resurrect Brooklyn Magazine and Sell Sprinkles". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
3. Considine, Austin (4 July 2012). "Brooklyn Life Abound Noticed". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
4. Stoeffel, Kat (14 March 2011). "'New Yorker' Writers Are 'Brooklyn' Writers Too! The Self-Loathing Gentrifier and Friends Launch Borough Glossy". Observer. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
5. "Regional magazine for Brooklyn dwellers launched this week - inVocus Media Blog". Vocus.com. 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
6. . Bkmag.com. 2012-09-20. Archived from the original on 2012-09-22. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
7. "Brooklyn Magazine Owner Owes Freelancers Thousands: Williamsburgh Greenpoint Patch". 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
8. "Michael Bassik Leaves MDC to Resurrect Brooklyn Magazine and Sell Sprinkles". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
9. "a forgotten asteroid: michael pitt for brooklyn magazine". B612-austin.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
10. "Portroids: Portroid in Brooklyn Magazine!". Portroids.blogspot.com. 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
11. . SwipeLife. 2012-04-04. Archived from the original on 2013-09-14. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
12. . SwipeLife. 2012-01-05. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2013-08-17.