LA Times in NYC?

February 19, 2006 8:03 PM

Where in NYC can I get a daily copy of the Los Angeles Times?

The Los Angeles Time is a fantastic paper with poor (or no) distribution outside California. As a freelance journalist interested in pitching them, I actually had a subscription set up to an LA address for a while. I'm now NYC-based and I'm wondering if there is any newsstand availability for the LAT? Or perhaps, less desireably, it's available through the NYPL?

posted by jeffmacintyre to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

The Los Angeles Times stopped printing remote editions at the end of 2004. I don't know if there's another venue for getting ahold of it, but that route isn't an option anymore.
posted by cacophony at 8:26 PM on February 19, 2006

(Aside, obviously, from the Internet.)
posted by cacophony at 8:27 PM on February 19, 2006

You might try Eastern News within Grand Central (map here); I'd give 'em a call first.
posted by rob511 at 9:30 PM on February 19, 2006

I would suggest trying Grand Central too - the big newspaper shop, on the main level. They stock a large number of foreign papers (I always picked up my Irish Times there) so LA seems doable.

The other spot that's always served me well for a wide range of newspapers is off Sixth on (I think) 40th Street. I can't remember the name, but it's obvious on passing it by that it stocks a huge number of magazines. It's the west side of sixth avenue.
posted by jamesonandwater at 5:26 AM on February 20, 2006

Hotaling's, on 42nd near Bway, has every newspaper and magazine known to man.
posted by CunningLinguist at 5:28 AM on February 20, 2006

Here's a list of news shops and kiosks.
posted by languagehat at 5:53 AM on February 20, 2006

I tried all the downtown news stands for it -- the ones on Sixth and Seventh Avenues in the West Village -- and Gem Spa on St. Mark's and a few others in the East Village, and nada, not even the Sunday edition. And I can get, like, the Daily Mail, and various Polish and Israeli newspapers there--but not the LAT??? It's nuts. Lemme know if you find out, I'll keep cracking away.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 11:24 AM on February 20, 2006

Offhand, I know the kiosk at Astor and Broadway carries a lot of international papers, so that's one place to check - they might carry an assortment of domestic ones as well.
posted by anjamu at 12:25 PM on February 20, 2006