New York Ace
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New York Ace was an underground newspaper
Underground press
The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....

 founded in New York City in late 1971 by ex-East Village Other
East Village Other
The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...

staffers to fill the void created by the demise of the EVO. Ace was published by 21 year old Rex Weiner and edited by 18 year old Bob Singer. Staffers included P.J. O'Rourke, Tom Forcade
Tom Forcade
Thomas King Forçade , aka John Thomas Moore and Kenneth Goodson Jr., was an American underground journalist and activist in the 1970s...

, A.J. Weberman, Jay Kinney
Jay Kinney
Jay Kinney is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. A member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R. Crumb, of the original Bijou Funnies crew, Kinney also edited Young Lust, a satire of romance comics, in the early 1970s with Bill Griffith...

, Yossarian, D.A. Latimer, R. Meltzer, Coca Crystal, and Jim Buckley. Steve Heller, art director of Screw magazine, moonlighted as art director of Ace. Ther first issue of Ace, produced in Weiner's Thomspon St. apartment on a shoestring budget of a few hundred dollars, was dated Dec. 22, 1971. Published biweekly in tabloid format, the Ace had a print run of 6000 copies and never succeeded in attracting advertisers. Despite the infusion of $5000 by a financial angel at Columbia University, which financed the acquisition of a ratty basement office on 17th St. with 4 battered desks and a single IBM Executive typewriter, the paper soon fell into financial difficulties and could not pay its New Jersey printer, resulting in its suspension in the summer of 1972. The paper attempted to stagger on for a while but by 1973 Rex Weiner had given up and with Deanne Stillman started a new enterprise, the New York News Service, an alternative news agency.

Jim Buckley chacterized it as "an amalgam of writers bent on one goal—to wipe out the Village Voice;" but in the end it was the Voice and its imitators that survived. Coming on the heels of the successive failures of the New York Avatar, the New York Free Press, Rat
Rat (Newspaper)
Rat Subterranean News, New York's second major underground newspaper, was created in March 1968, primarily by editor Jeff Shero, Alice Embree and Gary Thiher, who moved up from Austin, Texas, where they had been involved in The Rag.-Beginnings:...

, and the EVO, the demise of Ace marked the effective end of the underground newspaper era in New York City.
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