The Ship That Ran Out of Ocean
Closed mid-July 1993 · On stands late July 1993
The Front
Field Notes: The Beach Traffic
A count of holiday-weekend traffic counts at national seashore parks from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras, printed without comment
The Essay
The Second Summer of the Recovery
A furniture essay taking the recession's slow end as read, argued from office vacancy rates rather than any single dated event
The Foreign File
Aground at Rockaway
A ship carrying nearly three hundred Fujianese migrants runs aground off Queens; the piece that ran leans on INS and State Department sourcing, the networks that put the passengers aboard left largely unexamined
The Feature Well
The Grill Season
A profile of a backyard-cookbook author riding a national publicity tour, the summer's appetite for expertise about something everyone already thinks they can do
The City
Subject: A furniture piece on the city's public pools in the year's first real heat wave
The Back
The Faces of the Line
A review of Sebastião Salgado's Workers, published by Aperture
The City the Planners Made
A hedged, shortened notice of Robert Fitch's The Assassination of New York, summarizing the book's data rather than pressing the argument it makes against the city's own planning and real-estate establishment