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Now that real estate in the city is finally hitting the skids (thank you, credit crunch!), the brokerages are desperate to get the transactions going, even though everything is still outrageously overpriced. The fact remains that anyone with two brain cells would not buy in this ridiculous market.

Considering how much paper the NYT uses (esp the weekend edition) I would say this is small fry.

But the newspaper is recyclable. The glossy ads probably not. Maybe contact the paper and the most frequent offenders and advocate recyclable paper for their ads.

ohhh.. i actually found this on the floor of my lobby this morning and picked it up for some 'fantasy commute reading'...

it was in the area where newspaper deliveries are left so it makes sense that it must have slipped out of a neighbor's NYT!
lucky me!..

..or am I now considered a common newspaper thief??

15 years ago, they always came on Saturday. And funny.. I actually liked it. There were many beautiful houses in the catalogs and way less than a half million. I was renting back then and didn't have money but looking 200K doorman apartments with "Central Park View" never spoiled my Saturday morning coffee.

You could do your part by canceling your subscription and reading the paper online.

That is nothing compared to all the unsolicited catalogs I get every day. You chose to buy the paper.

I agree, it's kind of ironic that you're wringing your hands about the insert not being green when you get this huge paper delivered to you every day.

A new initiative of several major environmental organizations, www.catalogchoice.org will remove your name from mailing lists FOR FREE! You do it catalog by catalog, so if you still want DWR... I've requested removal from 65 DIFFERENT catalogs so far, which is a very scary number. You can ask that other members of your household also be removed.

To get your name off the mailing lists that are sold (and therefore breed more catalogs), go to https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/ The Direct Mail Association charges $1 against a credit card, to validate that you are who you claim to be. Elsewhere on their site you can also remove the names of people you care for (children, the elderly) and the deceased. This works only for DMA members and does not bind companies whose customers you are.

It takes about 10 weeks for mail generated by the two links above to cease.

Finally, there is another link you'll need to Google to take yourself off "pre-approved credit" offers. This works only if the sender is a member of whatever organization is doing this.

None of this solves the problem of huge Times inserts - or sections that you're never, ever going to read

Let me try reposting because the links aren't showing up
http://www.catalogchoice.org/
https://www.dmachoice.org/consumerassistance.html

My interest in being informed about the world leads me to be a NYT home delivery addict. I can't read the whole paper online (as people crabbed above) - I can't read online on the subway.

I am totally fed up with the Corcoran inserts. It's a glossy brick. I can only hope the Times is charging them a fortune and it helps keeps the paper in business.

miss, is it possible to steal take-out menus? You're picking up litter as far as I can see!

It's a two edged sword. Many newspapers need the revenues from the colour inserts, but the end result is the trash and clutter it generates. Our town recycles magazines and newspaper inserts, so perhaps they also do the same in NYC?

We've also considered canceling (at times) our own subscription to a NYT-owned paper, but then realized that the "other paper" in town was owned by Rupert Murdoch, and so, kept it, if only to help keep the paper in business.