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After six years on the newsstands, the New York Sun published its last issue today.

In a letter posted on its website earlier this month, editors said the high cost of operations and lower advertising revenues would force the paper to fold.

"It is sad for any newspaper to go out of publication," editor Seth Lipsky wrote in a letter posted on the newspaper's website, "and it is particularly sad for one that is as loved as much as all of us here love The New York Sun."

He said the Sun has gotten praise from many officials on both sides of the aisle, and former Governor George Pataki called it the best paper in New York.

Lipsky also said the the paper's problems were compounded by the present fiscal crisis.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a regretful statement yesterday, saying "whether you agreed or disagreed with the Sun's writers,
they were smart, thoughtful, provocative - and sometimes even
courageous."

The Sun launched in October of 2001 and started distributing daily editions six months later.

It shared a name with a New York daily that was published from 1833 until 1950.