New York magazine won five National Magazine Awards, while rival the New Yorker came away empty-handed.

The American Society of Magazine Editors presented the awards, popularly known as the Ellies, yesterday at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Nominated for seven awards, New York magazine walked away with five, including that for general excellence for a second year in a row. It garnered other awards for a profile of Karl Lagerfeld by Vanessa Grigoriadis; for its The Strategist section, and for design. Nymag.com won in a new category called interactive feature, for its Fashion Week blog.

Last year, the New Yorker garnered two prizes and was nominated in five categories. Overall, the New Yorker has won more than twice the number of awards than any other publication.

This year, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists also won for general excellence in other circulation categories.

The Paris Review won its first award for a new category, photojournalism, for Jonas Bendiksen’s work documenting life in a Nairobi slum. McSweeney’s and Beliefnet.comalso won their first Ellies, for fiction and general excellence online, respectively.

National Geographic won an award for photography. In the category of personal service, Glamour won for an article about the health risks of breast implant surgery. Winning its first award was O, the Oprah Magazine, for journalism about leisure-time pursuits. Esquire won for reporting on a three-day siege by Chechen terrorists of a school in Russia.

The New Yorker has had better weeks. On Monday, while accepting the inaugural PEN/Borders Literary Service Award at a gala, the acerbic Gore Vidal criticized the current New Yorker and praised Tina Brown as the best editor to “ever hit this funny little island.” But to everything, there is a season: The current editor, David Remnick, had a banner year in 2005, when his magazine garnered five Ellies.