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The New York Times Introduces “Metropolitan”

Monday 25. May 2009 - New Weekly Section to Appear in the Sunday edition of The New York Times Beginning May 24

The New York Times announced today that on May 24, it will introduce a new section, Metropolitan, in its Sunday edition. Metropolitan will include narrative profiles, reported essays and innovative storytelling about New York and its suburbs.
“Metropolitan will be a showcase for some of our top journalists to bring readers to unexplored corners of our neighborhoods and institutions,” said Joe Sexton, Metro editor, The New York Times. “Even as we are making difficult choices in a difficult economy, the new Sunday section continues our commitment to unmatched local coverage.”
Columns in Metropolitan include:
Sunday Routine: Interviews with newsmakers and other familiar figures about how they spend their Sundays provide a window into who they are.
Local Stop: An insider’s guide to the personalities and niches that make each block of New York , and each town around it, unique.
About New York : The Times’s marquee Metro column by Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Dwyer .
One in 8 Million : Portraits of New York characters in black and white photographs by Pulitzer Prize-winner Todd Heisler accompany transcripts of audio interviews on NYTimes.com .
Summer Rituals: Feature stories about what makes summer summer for people in the area.
Metropolitan will periodically feature additional columns such as “Deconstructed,” the back story of an iconic figure; “On The Records,” a look at the documents behind news stories and newsmakers; and “Street Takes,” a storyboard version of gritty videos about unusual people and places.
Metropolitan will also include four pages of restaurant, art and theater reviews, and local cultural listings geared individually to New Jersey , Connecticut , Westchester and Long Island readers.
The new section will replace The City section and the New Jersey , Connecticut , Westchester and Long Island sections, which were eliminated to cut costs, as well as the New York report pages in the main news section.