Christopher Bonanos is New York’s city editor. He joined the magazine in 1993 and covers urbanism, transit, and theater, as well as running the magazine’s Reread newsletter and OldNYMag Instagram feed, surfacing the best of its archives. He is also the author of Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Biography of 2018, and Instant: The Story of Polaroid.
A Hard Look at the Original ModelizerRevisiting our 1988 profile of Elite Model Management founder John Casablancas, whose inappropriate behavior was no secret in the fashion industry.
Remembering When Christie Hefner Took Over PlayboyLally Weymouth profiled Hugh Hefner’s then-29-year-old daughter, the newly appointed president of Playboy Enterprises, in a 1982 New York cover story.