Arthur Sulzberger Gets New York Times Style Send-Off"My name is not Arthur Sulzberger Jr. It’s Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of The New York Times."

[Collection]The New York Times threw a swanky retirement party for publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at The Modern on Thursday night. Sulzberger stood in the entranceway enthusiastically greeting guests and showing off the joke-filled special edition of The Times custom-made for the occasion. Late last year, he revealed that he was handing the reins of the paper that his great-grandfather bought in 1896 over to his son, A.G. Sulzberger. New York Times journalists and editors past and present, including the Sulzberger family, former editor in chief Jill Abramson, current editor in chief Dean Baquet, business section editor Ellen Pollock, styles editor Choire Sicha, Huffington Post editor in chief and Times alum Lydia Polgreen, Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones, books editor Pamela Paul, CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter, and a strong contingent of columnists mingled over caviar and lobster canapés while a jazz band played in the background. Non-Times men and women included actor Robert De Niro, N.Y. Sen. Chuck Schumer, restaurateur Danny Meyer and journalists Tina Brown and Harold Evans. A.G., who the elder Sulzberger noted had become a father — and ushered in a new generation of the newspaper family — two weeks prior, collected congratulations as he made his way around the room. “To the older

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