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TODAY I WAS wondering how many daily newspapers there actually are in New York. I thought I knew all the English ones, the Spanish ones, and that there were a few Chinese ones as well. So my vague idea was somewhere around seven or eight.

After turning to the Encyclopedia of New York and the internet, by my count there are thirty-five dailies in New York, printed in nine different languages!

Eighteen English, five Chinese, three Korean, three Spanish, two Greek, one Italian, one Polish, one Russian, and one Ukrainian. That’s a very large number of newspapers for one city to sustain, though it ought to be remembered many of the language papers are purchased widely in other areas. Still, I wonder if Tokyo, Mexico, Seoul, Sao Paolo, Mumbai, and the other megacities out there have as many daily newspapers.

The eighteen English dailies by founding date are:

New York Post (1801)
New York Journal of Commerce (1827)
American Banker (1836)
New York Times (1851)
City Record (1873)
American Metal Market (1883)
Staten Island Advance (1886)
New York Law Journal (1888)
Wall Street Journal (1889)
Bond Buyer (1891)
Women’s Wear Daily (1910)
Daily News (1919)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Daily Bulletin of Law (ref. 2000, orig. Eagle 1841-1955, Bulletin 1955-2000)
Home Furnishings Daily (1957)
Black American (1972)
Investor’s Business Daily (1984)
New York Newsday (1985)
New York Sun (ref. 2001, orig. 1833-1950)
Published at 2:48 pm on Wednesday 7 July 2004. Categories: New York Newspapers Tags: , .
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