Among Mr. Steinberg's most famous cartoons is "View of the World from 9th Avenue (1975)," which first appeared on the magazine's cover the following year. The drawing shows a bird's-eye view of the world looking west from Manhattan, with the great detail of New York streets fading into ill-defined clumps for the rest of the nation and the world.

This perspective -- as seen in the cartoon from the standpoint of a chauvinistic Manhattanite -- spawned similar drawings for numerous cities, including London, Paris, Rome and Venice.

Born in Romania in 1914, Mr. Steinberg studied at the University of Bucharest before moving to Italy, where he received a doctoral degree in architecture in 1940.

But Mr. Steinberg had begun drawing in 1934, quickly discovering his skill as a cartoonist. The New Yorker published its first Steinberg cartoon in 1941, a sketch of a reverse centaur. Mr. Steinberg arrived in the United States a year later.

Mr. Steinberg is survived by Hedda Lindenberg Sterne, whom he married in 1943. They were separated in the 1970s but never divorced.© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

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