The Island That Voted to Leave
Closed mid-December 1993 · On stands late December 1993
The Front
The Standard Lowered
The Supreme Court's Harris v. Forklift Systems drops the requirement that a workplace-harassment plaintiff prove severe psychological injury
The Meridian Index
A year-end tally of the season's small numbers — heating-oil futures, blackout dates on frequent-flier miles, the average holiday layover delay out of O'Hare
On Language
The winter's new coinages and the ones already tired of themselves
The Essay
The Vigilance and the Vanishing
The abduction of Polly Klaas in Petaluma and the national register of parental fear its coverage reached, far past the case or the coast it happened on
The Foreign File
The First Winter at Market Price
A dispatch on one apartment block adjusting to heat and bread no longer fixed by the state
The Feature Well
The Long Pour
A profile of a private bourbon buyer working the market's fifty-year price trough, one connoisseur's patient cellar-building while cask-strength whiskey remains criminally cheap
The City
The Vote to Leave
Staten Island's secession referendum passes
The Card in the Turnstile
The MetroCard pilot begins at the Whitehall Street and Wall Street stations
The Dial Turns
WQHT, 97.1 FM, flips to hip-hop as Hot 97 and becomes the market's top-rated station
What the City Took Back
The city clears 42nd Street's grindhouse block by eminent domain for the Disney-led redevelopment
The Back
Books: A review of the winter's crop of political memoirs, none of them necessary · Art: A short notice on a Midwestern museum's deaccession sale · Film: A dispatch from the country's repertory houses on what's closing before spring