Editor-in-Chief, President | Brian Braiker |
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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 |
ISSN | 2473-6732 |
OCLC | 740015593 |
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 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]
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]