![]() You can check out a full transcript of the Edwin Fancher interview, as well as a short clip of Fancher talking about the launch of the paper on the GVSHP website. Currently, the Voice is owned by the Voice Media Group. Carden Burden bought the paper in 1970 and it merged with New York Magazine in 1974. ![]() The paper has been sold a number of times since its founding. GRATZ: The Voice was notorious for not paying.įANCHER: Well, we didn’t have any money! We would pay our payroll on Friday and the bookkeeper would say, “This is a good week, we can postdate the checks for Monday” or “This is a bad week it will be postdated Tuesday or Wednesday.” I mean this happened quite often. The Village Voice, the storied New York alt-weekly that shut down in 2018 after a 63-year run, will live again. The first issue of the Village Voice, from October, 1955. In this clip, Fancher recounts the Voice’s continual lack of funds. Edwin Fancher, in an oral history conducted by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation by interviewer Roberta Brandes Gratz, explores the early days of the paper. They had early financial backing from Norman Mailer and knew many writers, who became columnists or wrote one-off essays for the alternative paper. But on Wednesday, July 2, there was a new wave of anger and rioting. The two lamented the lack of reporting on the culture of the Village. The initial police raid on the Stonewall that started the riots happened five days earlier, on June 28. The Village Voice was the brainchild of New School alumni Dan Wolf and Edwin Fancher. With a legacy that includes inspiring the Village Voice, the New School struggles to remain true to its roots. Its office is now located downtown in the financial district. The Voice, which began in 1955 in a tiny space in Sheridan Square, had been located in Cooper Square since 1991. Anthony Albanese has been urged to dump his proposed model on a Voice to parliament and revert to the body endorsed by Indigenous academics during the life of the Morrison government. Last week’s announcement in The Villager confirming The Village Voice’s move from its offices in Cooper Square got us thinking about the history of the storied Village newspaper. Three boxes near Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus held the penultimate issue. At 7:20am, I walked two blocks from my Washington Heights apartment looking for a copy. The Village Voice made its home in Cooper Square from 1991 to 2013. Today’s the day: The last print edition of The Village Voice hit newsstands this morningor it was supposed to, anyways. The little cruelties of normal life a slight at work, the rise of the price of gas, the seemingly arbitrary exercise of power by local authoritiestake on an extra edge during the Holidays.
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