NEW YORK -- Clay Felker, the magazine mogul who revolutionized the city magazine genre as founding editor of New York, died Tuesday at his New York City home. He was 82.

Mr. Felker died after a battle with throat cancer, a magazine spokeswoman said.

New York magazine, filled with gossip on the city's social scene, inside knowledge of its business and politics, and endless "best of" lists, was imitated relentlessly after its creation in 1968.

Editors across the country adopted Mr. Felker's formula: co-founder Milton Glaser's bold layout designs and the equally nontraditional "new journalism" writing style of contributors like Tom Wolfe.

When publishing titan Rupert Murdoch forced Mr. Felker and Glaser out in a hostile takeover in 1977, New York's staff walked out in solidarity with their departing editors, leaving an incomplete issue three days before it was due on newsstands.

Mr. Felker published, edited and wrote for dozens of publications, including Life, Time, Esquire, the Village Voice, Adweek, Daily News Today, Manhattan Inc. and U.S. News & World Report. After reluctantly leaving his magazine, Mr. Felker served as editor and publisher of Esquire from 1978 to 1981.

Mr. Felker and Gail Sheehy, a regular contributor to New York in its early days, married in 1984. The couple shared adoption rights of a Cambodian girl, Mohm Pat. Sheehy also has a biological daughter, Maura Elizabeth Sheehy. Mr. Felker had two previous Wives: his college sweetheart Leslie Blatt and actress Pamela Tiffin.