The Marquee Changes Hands
Closed mid-September 1993 · On stands late September 1993
The Front
Field Notes: The Radiator Season
A count of the first heat complaints logged with facilities offices in older office buildings across the Northeast and Midwest, printed without comment
The Essay
The Recess That Wasn't
A furniture essay on the September news lull, argued from the assignment book rather than any single dated event
The Foreign File
The Lawn, the Handshake
A short dispatch on the signing ceremony on the White House lawn, and the skepticism already circling it on both sides
The Feature Well
The Concierge Economy
A profile of the hotel-industry courtship of a rotating cast of visiting celebrities through ever more bespoke suites, the money spent so a guest never has to ask
The City
Subject: A furniture piece on the last of the city's manual freight elevators in the garment district
The Back
A Later Show, From a Different Address
A late-night host moves his broadcast to CBS and the Ed Sullivan Theater, taking his hour to a new network
The Boy at the Stone Table
A new film gives the Washington Square chess hustlers a legitimate hook, timed to its theatrical release
The Argument the Times Magazine Had With Itself
A review of the book behind a much-discussed magazine cover on date rape, running months after the original controversy has cooled, without revisiting the fight between the Times Magazine and its critics