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The Village Voice
Type Newspaper
Format Tabloid/alternative weekly
Owner(s) Village Voice Media
Founder(s) Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, Norman Mailer
Publisher Michael Cohen
Founded 1955
Headquarters 36 Cooper Square
New York, New York 10003 U.S.
Circulation 179,408 (2011)
ISSN 0042-6180

The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City. It features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City. It is also distributed throughout the United States on a pay basis. It was the first of the big-city tabloids that came to be known as alternative weeklies.

The Voice was launched by Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, and Norman Mailer on October 26, 1955 from a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village. This was its initial coverage area. It expanded to other parts of the city by the 1960s. The offices in the 1960s were located at Sheridan Square. They are now at Cooper Square in Manhattan in the East Village.

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  • Village Voice (48072654421)

    The Cooper Square offices of the paper

  • 1955 October cover The Village Voice

    Cover of the October 1955 issue

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