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