Jonathan van Meter

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By Kim Velsey 9/07/12 12:08pm

men of manhattan

‘I Hate Brooklyn’ Writer Has Warmed To The Borough. A Little.

The Awl interviewed Jonathan Van Meter, the man who penned the much beloved/much maligned New York Magazine essay “I Hate Brooklyn” back in 2005. Mr. Van Meter’s essay included a multitude of wonderful zingers, including his thoughts on a visit to Brooklyn Heights: “You can see the entirety of Manhattan across the river, a fact I found both oddly comforting and deeply disturbing. Why can’t we just be over there, in actual Manhattan?” Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/21/12 5:15pm

off the record

Vogue’s September Issue, Reviewed: The Magazine That Mistook a Pop Star for a Hat

September’s 916-page Vogue induced in us a medical crisis (two crises, if you count the hernia we sustained while carrying it from the mailbox). After reading contributor Lynn Yaeger’s piece on her prosopagnosia, commonly known as face blindness, we began to fret that we, too, were afflicted. Ms. Yaeger admits that she didn’t even recognize Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 2/13/12 10:24am

Good Timing

Adele Not ‘Too Fat’ For Vogue

In a rare moment of web savvy, Conde Nast fashion flagship Vogue posted its March cover story about Adele this morning at midnight, just a few hours after the British singer swept the six Grammy awards for which she was nominated. Read More

By Chloe Malle 5/05/10 7:01pm

Fun With City Records

In Deed! John Paul II’s Agent and Vogue Profiler Buy

Our daily roundup of the most notable high-end residential transactions from the past 24 hours.

– Former Vibe editor and high-profiler profiler for magazines such as Vogue and New York, Jonathan van Meter, and his partner, editor and photographer Andrew Young, bought the third-floor unit at 209 East 2nd Street for $1,405,189. The new East Read More

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‘I Hate Brooklyn’ Writer Has Warmed To The Borough. A Little.

Vogue’s September Issue, Reviewed: The Magazine That Mistook a Pop Star for a Hat

Adele Not ‘Too Fat’ For Vogue

In Deed! John Paul II’s Agent and Vogue Profiler Buy

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