The Plan That Died in September
Closed mid-October 1994 · On stands late October 1994
The Front
The Withdrawal
Howard Stern runs for governor of New York on the Libertarian ticket, then withdraws
The Outpatient Option
The Renfrew Center opens a New York outpatient eating-disorder treatment location — a service item on the new option itself, without a piece built on the magazine and fashion industries' own documented relapse rate
The Meridian Index
October's small numbers — the average World Series ad-page cancellation, subscription cancellations tied to strike coverage fatigue, the price of a decent umbrella by first frost
The Essay
The Plan That Died Without a Vote
The collapse of the Clinton Health Security Act, read for what killed it before the floor ever got a chance to
The Season That Didn't Finish
The players' strike cancels the World Series for the first time since 1904, and what a canceled ritual costs a city that organizes its autumn around it
The Law With a Name
The Violence Against Women Act is signed into law, the first federal statute to treat domestic violence as a crime warranting dedicated prosecution funding
The Foreign File
The Wire Nobody Answers
A dispatch filed in the intervention's first settled weeks
The Feature Well
The Strike Season
A reported piece on the empty stadiums during the strike's first weeks, told through vendors and ushers left without shifts
The City
The Street That Sold
Charlotte Street sales completed — the South Bronx recovery symbol
Twenty-Nine at Once
"Dirty Thirty" — twenty-nine officers of the 30th Precinct arrested in one coordinated action
The Million Mark
AOL passes one million subscribers
The Back
Survival, Plainly Stated
Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation reframes the drug's story from personality enhancement to bare survival
The Move to Chelsea
SoHo's dealers migrate to Chelsea, buying rather than renting their spaces
The Commercial-House Debut
Paul Beatty's Joker, Joker, Deuce is published by Penguin, his commercial-house debut
A Notice on the Season's Small Presses
A round-up of the fall's overlooked small-press fiction