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