Since we are into stereo typing. Based on my experience, New Yorkers have a much higher ratio of going out to entertaining at home than the rest of the North East. If they were to try and impress on their coffee table, it would be with sections from the Sunday times--basically the magazine and book review, and possibly the New Yorker. The Economist is too ubiquitous to have any cache. If they were going to display a ski magazine it would be something European or Powder (now that Couloir is gone).
I live in New York. My ski magazines (SnowJournal, Telemark, Backcountry) are kept where they belong- the bathroom!