The Meridian Archive
MER
December 1995
The Map, Redrawn

The Map, Redrawn

Closed mid-November 1995 · On stands late November 1995

The Front

Index of November

Blocks affected by the new adult-use zoning amendments, usenet groups now searchable by the new tool, buses chartered for the October march — and the opening-weekend gross of the year's biggest holiday-season contender, already the talk of the trades in November

The Archive, Searchable

A short item on the emergence of searchable internet archives as a business trend

The Essay

The Politics of the Buses

An essay on Farrakhan and the politics of Black nationalism, argued at a critical remove, occasioned by the Million Man March and the Harlem buses that left at 2 AM

The Foreign File

Dayton, Almost

Furniture on talks not yet concluded

The Feature Well

The Zoning Fight

A profile of the council members and block associations who spent two years drafting the adult-use amendments, fought as hard by the strip clubs' landlords as by the associations, both sides hiring the same three lobbying firms

The City

Subject: New York City Council passes the adult-use zoning amendments, redrawing the map around Times Square's sex trade

The Back

Books: Review of a new book on the internet's early archives · Art: November's regional auction circuit, briefly, with a note on a talk-show host's collection quietly on the block · Film: Late-fall releases, house style, with a note on the holiday movie season's early box-office favorite