The Precinct House
Closed mid-September 1997 · On stands late September 1997
The Front
The Meridian Index: October
Foliage-tour bus permits issued in New England, the average price of a bottle in the new super-premium vodka tier, high-school football attendance in the Big Ten states
The Storefront Nobody Built
Retailers report a holiday season being planned around web storefronts for the first time — not as a curiosity alongside the catalogue, but as a category the business desk now tracks on its own line, five months behind the deal that made the category real
The Essay
The Photograph Itself
Princess Diana dies in a paparazzi-pursued Paris crash; the essay reads the image economy that pursued her rather than the crash itself
The Foreign File
The Feature Well
The City
The Precinct House
Abner Louima is assaulted inside the 70th Precinct station house
A New Tier on the Shelf
Grey Goose launches, opening a super-premium tier in a vodka category that hadn't had one
The Back
Books: A review of the fall's true-crime and reportage titles · Art: Notes from the season's museum openings in Chicago and Fort Worth · Film: The autumn's serious pictures, briefly