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The article discusses why the dream vision of an American Indian named Rodman Wanamaker to erect an American Indian monument in Staten, New York, could not be materialized. The monument was to be created on the front portion of Fort Tompkins, the highest rampart within the Fort Wadsworth complex on Staten Island, New York. But due to some political compulsions, the dream project could not go beyond the paper it was drawn upon.

This article informs that a century ago the New York Times put up a new building in midtown Manhattan, New York its cheerful terra cotta has long been debauched by a rebarbative gray cladding, and when the subway station there opened on October 27, 1904, the publisher, Adolph S. Ochs, exercised enough clout to get the stop named after his paper. A wonderfully beguiling and spirited birthday salute, Times Square Style as Graphics From the Great White Way, by Vicki Gold Levi and Steven Heller, teems with the sorts of images Times Square and its enterprises have used to sell themselves like matchbooks, postcards, menus, chinaware, posters and song sheets, all of them together conjuring a place.

Reports the acquisition of an archive of the late novelist Jack Kerouac by the New York Public Library. Inclusion of handwritten cards for playing a fantasy game of Kerouac's invention; Exhibition of Kerouac's papers and artifacts in the 'Victorians, Moderns, and Beats: New in the Berg Collection, 1994-2001' exhibition.

The article presents information on the Tuxedo Park in New York City, by giving a reference to a paper by Frank Kintrea in the August/September 1978 issue. Kintrea noted that Tuxedo Park, once-posh town of the rich has been struggling to maintain a creative tension between the exclusivity of the past and the rampant democratization that threatens it on every side. According to him, there seems no place for the park to go socially except down as the general public is denied free entry to the Park.