The Building Held
Closed mid-March 1993 · On stands late March 1993
The Front
The Truck That Wasn't in the Lab
NBC's Dateline airs a rigged crash test of a GM pickup and is forced onto the air again to retract it
Field Notes: The Stairwell Count
A tally of how many flights the building's stairwells run, printed without further comment
The Essay
The Chancellor Who Would Not Be Renewed
The Board of Education declines to renew Chancellor Joseph Fernandez's contract, over the multicultural curriculum and the condom program
The Foreign File
Sarajevo, Still
A short dispatch on a besieged winter turning into a besieged spring, filed without a single new development to report
The Feature Well
The Garage
Reportage from the World Trade Center bombing — the underground blast, the evacuation, the building that stood
The City
Subject: The city's homicide count keeps falling from its 1990 peak, and the Back-of-book crime beat starts to treat the decline as a real trend rather than a lull
The Back
Books: A review essay on the season's true-crime reissues · Art: A gallery note on emergency photography as a genre unto itself · Film: A dispatch on disaster pictures, old and new