The Meridian Archive
MER
August 1999
Four Times Square

Four Times Square

Closed mid-July 1999 · On stands late July 1999

The Front

Index of the Season

Numbers of a hot month: the summer's top-grossing blockbuster after three weekends, a stadium tour's per-city gate, the going price of central-air installation in a prewar building

The Inbox Problem

A short note on the office email inbox as a new kind of clutter, assistants now expected to triage a manager's messages the way they once triaged the mail cart

The Foreign File

After the Bombing, the Waiting

Six weeks into the NATO-administered peace, KFOR troops and UNHCR workers manage a refugee return outpacing every projection, while ethnic-Serb families begin quietly leaving the villages Albanians are moving back into

The Feature Well

Four Times Square

Condé Nast's first staff moved from 350 Madison to 4 Times Square on June 21st, the earliest wave of a relocation the rest of the trade is watching closely

The City

The Court's Answer

New York's Court of Appeals barred the sale of the city's public hospitals without legislative approval, resolving the fight over HHC privatization

The Back

The Beach Bag

A short round-up of the summer's paperback reissues, plus the season's must-have tote to carry them in — a status object more discussed than the books inside it