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Until recently, Lerner was the Editor of Chelsea Now, a 25,000-circulation weekly community newspaper in Manhattan that he helped launch in September 2006, which covers Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen; the West Village; the Meatpacking, Garment and Flatiron Districts; and Union Square. Lerner started as the paper's full-time reporter and was promoted to Editor in January 2007. In that time, he expanded coverage of education, illegal hotels, real estate development, affordable housing, the LGBT community and myriad other issues while launching several successful columns and making Chelsea Now a must-read for area politicians and residents. Prior to joining Chelsea Now, Lerner spent 10 years
as a freelance copy editor for more than 40 magazines, book publishers
and Websites, including Harper’s, Wired, Rolling Stone, Time Out
New York, Maxim, Mirabella, Travel + Leisure, Talk Miramax Books,
HarperCollins San Francisco, Individual Investor, Parenting, Saveur
and Martha Stewart Living. He worked in the Public Affairs
Office of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the aftermath
of 9/11, writing press releases and photographing mayoral press and
bioterrorism conferences, as well as the clean-up at Ground Zero. He
also helped launch the online version of NetGuide magazine as a copy
editor and writer back in 1996, as media companies first began publishing
on the Web. Lerner’s freelance articles and reviews have appeared in
Time Out New York, Maxim, XXL, Rave SQ and OhMyNews.com. His
media appearances include www.IntoTheBox.tv, where in December 2007 he was interviewed about Manhattan’s Hudson Yards
redevelopment project in a video report titled “Hudson Yards Hubbub.” |
Lawrence Lerner is a writer, editor and photographer based in New
York City. He graduated with a B.A. in English from Syracuse University
in 1989, and holds an M.A. in American History from Rutgers University
(2005) and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University (2006).