The Non-Event
Closed mid-January 2000 · On stands late January 2000
The Front
Late Dinner, Early Crowd
Pastis opens on Little West Twelfth Street, arriving at an already-gentrified Meatpacking District
On the Word 'Alpha'
How trading-floor slang migrated to the dinner table over the winter
The Essay
The Bug That Didn't Bite
The Y2K bug's failure to strike, and the embarrassment of a prevented catastrophe
The Foreign File
The New Man in the Kremlin
Vladimir Putin sworn in as acting president following Boris Yeltsin's New Year's Eve resignation
The Feature Well
What the Cylinder Cost
Silicon Alley's boom, the NASDAQ MarketSite's illuminated cylinder at 4 Times Square reduced from a fact to a photograph caption
The Long Winter of the Landlords
A profile of a mid-sized commercial real estate family in Austin weighing dot-com tenants against their fathers' semiconductor-plant clients
The City
Subject: Pathmark opens at 125th and Lexington, the first major supermarket in central and east Harlem in thirty years
The Back
Books: A reissue of a 1970s urbanist tract, reviewed for what it got wrong about the decade to come · Art: A gallery note on a charity benefit's joke lot — framed headshots of the season's dot-com boy-CEOs, sold for real money as a real joke · Film: The winter's teen-pop arena tours selling out summer dates before spring even opens