The Zone Above 96th Street
Closed mid-November 1994 · On stands late November 1994
The Front
The Excerpt and Its Nineteen Answers
The New Republic runs the Bell Curve excerpt with nineteen rebuttals — a media-column item on the controversy as an industry event, the resignation threat, the nineteen rebuttals as a working method, without engaging the genetic-causation argument itself
The Meridian Index
November's small numbers — the average Thanksgiving travel fare out of a mid-continent hub airport, holiday ad pages against last year, the price of a decent bottle of bourbon before the season's markups
The Essay
What a Zone Promises
The difference between a federal designation and a neighborhood's actual recovery, read through the decade's other empowerment-zone experiments
The Foreign File
The Count Before the Vote
A dispatch on the transition's early administrative weeks
The Feature Well
The Fund and the Block
A reported piece walking the boundaries of the new empowerment zone block by block, before any of the fund's money has been spent
The City
Subject: Upper Manhattan is designated a federal empowerment zone; a quarter-billion-dollar development fund follows
The Back
A Life, Plainly Told
Pete Hamill's memoir A Drinking Life prompts a Back-section book review
A Notice on the Season's Photography Annuals
A round-up of the year's photography-annual publishing