The most famous cover in the history of The New Yorker magazine may be for the March 29, 1976 issue, a drawing known as “View of the World from 9 th Avenue.” You’ve no doubt seen it: 9 th Avenue large and expansive in the foreground, with 10 th Avenue and the Hudson River distinguishable in the distance. The rest of the country vanishes into nothingness, a few clumps representing vague notions of “what’s out there” to the west – Texas, Nebraska, Los Angeles. In the far distance lies the Pacific Ocean, and beyond that, featureless protuberances labeled Japan, Russia and China.

Saul Steinberg’s artwork captured the insularity of Manhattan, the blithe sense of locals that not much beyond the island really exists nor matters. The magazine itself has contributed to the mystique of New

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