The journal uses the diamond open access model—that is, its full content is available to anyone via the Internet, without a subscription or fee.

Steinberger justified the stylistic choices of the journal by writing, "Some proponents of electronic publication have urged changes in style, citing the low price of disk space as a rationale for publishing articles more loquacious than those commonly acceptable in a print medium.

"[1] When the New York Journal of Mathematics was first published, it was made available via FTP and Gopher for users without a web browser.

[3] To incorporate hyperlinks within documents, the journal leveraged software that had been developed for the arXiv preprint server.

[5] A paper on the greater male variability hypothesis by Theodore Hill and Sergei Tabachnikov was accepted but not published by The Mathematical Intelligencer; a later version authored by Hill alone was accepted by The New York Journal of Mathematics and retracted after publication.