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'' magazines. The first issue debuted in September, 1984, edited by Jane Amsterdam, who previously edited '' New Times'' and ''
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, the founding editor of '' New York'', replaced Amsterdam as editor. Under Felker, the magazine became
"less sassy, less critical, and more featurish in tone" (''
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'' magazine wrote Felker "helped dull the magazine's cutting edge"). It suffered financially after the October 1987 stock market crash, and ceased publication in July, 1990, merging with the men's lifestyle magazine ''M'' to become ''M, inc.''
Calling it a "
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Anti-Yuppie Magazine," writer Brian Morton described ''Manhattan, inc.'' as "aimed at a young, hip audience of people who see through the hypocrisies of the business world even as they want to make their way in it."