New York Ace was an underground newspaper founded in New York City in late 1971 by ex-East Village Other staffers to fill the void created by the demise of the EVO.
Ace was published by 21-year-old Rex Weiner and edited by 18-year-old Bob Singer.
Published biweekly in tabloid format, the Ace had a print run of 6,000 copies and never succeeded in attracting advertisers.
The first issue of Ace, produced in Weiner's Thompson Street apartment on a shoestring budget of a few hundred dollars, was dated Dec. 22, 1971.
Despite the infusion of $5,000 by a financial angel at Columbia University, which financed the acquisition of a ratty basement office on 17th Street with four battered desks and a single IBM Executive typewriter, the paper soon fell into financial difficulties and could not pay its New Jersey printer, resulting in its suspension in the summer of 1972.