While I lived in NYC, the only useful part of the NY Times were the help wanted sections, and their crossword.
When I first moved there I searched in vain for editorial articles with a common sense viewpoint. later I noticed their bias also appeared in their reporting.
It was cheaper to just borrow someone else's sections than buy the rest of the garbage, unless we had a successful day fishing.
"While I lived in NYC, the only useful part of the NY Times were the help wanted sections, and their crossword."
I spent my teen years in New York and remember conservatives in long Island refusing to read the Times. But as there was no net then, they often had no choice. I read it for a few years after I left in 1980 and stopped around the late 80's. By then my conservatism was comming out strong and the Times seemed like a thing of my mispent youth.