The Lease That Confirmed It
Closed mid-July 1996 · On stands late July 1996
The Front
The Lease Downtown Believed
Condé Nast signs the lease for 4 Times Square, confirming the redevelopment is real
A Competitor, Profiled
Slate launches under Michael Kinsley, treated here as a market datum rather than a question about what a magazine's authority is made of
The Season's Sound
A pop column on the summer's radio-dominant single and what a Billboard No. 1 costs to manufacture versus to simply happen
The Essay
What a Lease Says About a Neighborhood
Times Square's redevelopment, read through the tenants willing to bet on it first
The Foreign File
Netanyahu's Narrow Win
A dispatch on Benjamin Netanyahu's razor-thin victory over Shimon Peres in Israel's first direct prime-ministerial election
The City
Subject: Times Square's construction fencing and what stands behind it
The Back
The Season's Prizes
Reg E. Gaines is nominated for a Tony for the book of Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk; Jonathan Larson wins for Rent