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Focuses on the art exhibition titled 'Works on Paper,' which is being held at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City, as of February 27, 2004. Description of the paper art works that were featured in the exhibition; Viewing schedules.

Reports that the plan to pursue a paper-recycling plant in New York City, New York was stopped. Why the plans for the plant falter; Detractors of the plan; Plant that is being built.

Discusses the soon-to-be announced proposal for a $100 million plant (the Bronx Community Paper Company) in the South Bronx to produce recycled paper from New York City's trash. New jobs to be created; Other economic benefits.

Discusses Allen Hershkowitz's plan of building a mill in the Bronx for recycled newsprint. What he wanted to accomplish with the plan; Amount of money that was spent to plan the mill; Why the project was formally abandoned in July 2000.

Informs about the consent of an Australian company, Pratt Industries, to build a waste paper recycling plant in Staten Island, New York. Views of people about the anticipated benefits from the same.

This article presents editorial related to recycling of wastes in New York City. Recycling in New York City didn't entirely go away in the last two years. But it got as confusing as a game of Twister. In the summer of 2002, the programs for glass and plastic were suspended. Metal and paper recycling continued. While the city may have had the best of intentions in suspending parts of the recycling, the experiment did not produce the savings predicted. For confirmed recyclers, tossing bottles in the trash again brought a certain trauma, or a thrill of rule-flouting.

Reports that the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in the New York City was made repository to papers and materials of the black leader Malcolm X. Reasons why daughters of the leader have chosen the center as repository for belongings of Malcolm X; Comments of Howard Dodson, chief curator of the center on Malcolm X; Items included in collections.

Reports on the decision of the aides and friends of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to give custody of all his mayoral papers and artifacts to a private nonprofit group. Management of the group by Giuliani; Storage of the records at a facility in Queens; Anger of some archivists and historians at the transfer of the records.

Reports on the hindrances that have stalled the construction of a paper recycling mill, Bronx Community Paper Co. in the old Harlem Rail Yard. Situations that led to the indefinite postponement of the ground breaking ceremony; Suit filed by a Manhattan lawyer who objected to the mill in railroad yard; Withdrawal of two of the investors from the project; Other related details; Optimism and hopes of the partners of the project.

Gives details of the controversy surrounding the setting up of a private garbage company Atlas Paper Stock Company, in Greenwich Village. Reasons for the same; Speculations on the proposed approval to be given by the Department of Sanitation.

Looks at how the Chambers Paper Fibers Corp. and its president Salvatore Benedetto helped the Manhattan District Attorney to investigate the Mafia-controlled garbage-carting business in New York City. Details on how the company and Benedetto helped in the investigation; Number of people indicted with evidence from the investigation. INSET: With new waste commission, mayor vows.., by David Stout..

Reports on the solid-waste management plan approved by the New York City Council that will hasten the city's timetable for the recycling of `mixed papers' and milk cartons. Final approval needed by the plan from the State Environmental Conservation Department; Oppositions to the plans.

Discusses how Salvatore Benedetto, president of garbage-hauler Chambers Paper Fibres Corp., went undercover to expose Mafia connections to the New York City's garbage-hauling business. The Mafia's domination of the $1 billion-a-year industry; Benedetto's work with the Manhattan District Attorney's office, including taping of meetings with suspected mobsters; The number of indictments; Alleged involvement of Genovese and Gambino crime families.

The article reports on the documents from the financial crisis in New York City in 1970s which shows the effort of investment banker Felix G. Rohatyn to rescue and aid the New York Stock Exchange and the city, which would be displayed at the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library.

The article reports that the New York Public Library is expected to announce that it has purchased an archive of material created by Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs for its Henry W. and Albert A Berg Collection of English and American Literature. It is suggested that the acquisition, which also includes Kerouac's literary and personal archive, the premier institution for the study of the Beats. The contents of the Burroughs archive, which contains 11,000 pages of manuscript and typescript material, are reviewed.

Focuses on the saga of Homer and Langley Collyer, the brothers who were the legendary junk collectors of New York City's Harlem district in the 1940s. Continued resonance of the Collyer saga over 50 years later; Amount of urban junk that they collected in their home; Death of Langley in an avalanche of rubbish when he tripped one of his booby traps while bringing his blind brother dinner in 1947.

Reports on the distribution of new daily newspapers. Hopes to attract younger readers with free subscriptions and brevity of articles; Street distribution of "amNew York," a free daily whose primary investor is the Tribune Company; Similar papers in Chicago and Washington; Struggle of free daily papers to make profits; Comments of skeptics and supporters.

Editorial. Comments on the deal of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with the city's records commissioner to move his papers to a private storage facility in Queens, where they now reside. Advantage of the contract for Giuliani; History of high elected officials controlling his own documents; Top priority of the city concerning the papers.

Relying on an antiquated provision of the New York City Charter, a civil rights lawyer filed papers in State Supreme Court on Friday requesting a judicial hearing on City Council spending practices that have recently come under intense scrutiny. The hearing, known as a summary inquiry, would not determine guilt or innocence, but would merely lay out the facts surrounding the case for public review. Federal prosecutors have been examining a longtime Council practice in which members appropriate discretionary funds to nonexistent organizations and channel the funds to other programs without mayoral approval. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the controversy over the decision of former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to send his mayoral papers to a private archivist instead of the city's Municipal Archives.

Discusses the sale of a Russian-language daily newspaper in New York City. Background of the buyer, Vadim Z. Rabinovich, and problems he had coming to the United States to check out his purchase; Actions by Novoye Russkoye Slovo, an American-trained young Ukrainian sent by Rabinovich to check out the paper, such as the implementation of new cost-cutting measures; Effects that the changes have had on the current staff, such as the resignation of two of the reporters; Move of the page-design functions from the U.S. to the Ukraine.

Evaluates allegations that the New York City Parks and Recreation Department, when it was led by Commissioner Henry Stern, fostered a racially hostile work environment for black and Hispanic employees. Legal papers that contend that Stern made racially derogatory remarks and tolerated offensive symbols; Affidavit from former Parks Department employee Daniel Weizmann; Number of people who could be involved in the class action; Character of Stern.

Looks at the past issues and history of the periodical 'The Horace Mann Record,' a student paper from the Horace Mann School in New York City.

Reports on the move of former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins to donate his official and personal papers and correspondences to Columbia University.

Reports on the departure from office of New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Creation of the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs Inc., which controls his official papers, a job normally done by public archivists; Details of other instances in which he appeared to be suppressing information.

Reports that a group of archivists and historians in New York City have angrily denounced the transfer of former city mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's mayoral papers out of city custody.

Reports on the defense made by former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Guiliani regarding the removal of his mayoral papers from the custody of the city's Department of Records and Information Services.

Describes the shreds of office documents that blanket the streets of lower Manhattan in New York City, following the terrorist attack which destroyed the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Examples of documents, including a banking statement, a cellular phone bill, a resume and a blank check; How the paper debris was blown all over the city, into the open windows of apartments and a school; Question of whether the individuals whose names appeared on the paperwork survived the attack.

Addresses efforts made by New York Stock Exchange chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Richard Grasso to improve operations at the company. Thought of eliminating paper order tickets; Reasons for the decision, namely to utilize advancements in technology; Other changes occurring at the exchange.

Reports on the reaction of the editors of `The Commentator,' an undergraduate student newspaper at Yeshiva University in New York City, over the decision of the university administration to remove the newspaper. Articles contained in the periodical; Objective behind the removal of the paper; Comments from the paper's editors.

Reports on the fundraising efforts undertaken by a group of former workers of the Brooklyn, New York City-based `City Sun' newspaper, in an effort to help the paper overcome its financial problems. When the paper published its last issue; What the workers hope to achieve; Form under which the fundraising will take.

Reports on the humanities, math and science research papers prepared by students in an attempt to gain an exhibition, at the School of the Future, in New York City, New York. Information on the paper prepared by student Jermaine Harris; Topics which have been covered in previous papers; Reference to the paper presented by junior Kasia Kedzia; Significance of the exhibition to the students at School of the Future.

Reports that the Fonda Group bought Alfred Bleyer & Company, a 127 year old manufacturer of decorative paper products in Maspeth, Queens. Statement from Dennis Mehiel, who heads Fonda; Expectation from Mehiel.

Looks at the problems being faced by the ethnic newspapers that are published in New York City. Objectives of publishing these papers; Cost-cutting measures adopted by various ethnic newspapers.

Reports on letter bombs which exploded at various offices of the Arabic-language newspaper `Al Hayat.' The bombings at offices in New York City (at United Nations headquarters) and in London, England; The paper's principal owner, Prince Khalid Ibn Sultan of Saudi Arabia; Question of motive; The newspaper's confusion regarding the bombings, in light of nonpartisan editorial policy.

Editorial. Discusses the role of “The NewYork Times” journal. Recognition of the primary function of the paper in giving news while maintaining its local identity; Citation of the distribution of the paper in other U.S. states.

Reports that a pen-and-ink drawing of a palace in Venice, Italy, is one of the many treasures that the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York City, will show beginning March 11, 2004, when it opens "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth". Drawings by the Mannerist architect Andrea Palladio; Proposal for a new Doge's Palace in Venice which was never used.

Reports on the dog wars going on at the Ruppert Yorkville Towers Condominium where dog owners are furious over new rules concerning their pets. List of the rules which include special I.D. tags and fines for poor behavior; RY Management which is enacting the new rules;Reaction from the angry condo owners; Reasons for the enactment of the new rules.

Discusses the rescue of Patrice Moore, a 43-year-old Bronx, New York man who was trapped for two days under an avalanche of newspapers, magazines and books. The reclusive man who never threw any published material away; The rescue effort of neighbors, the landlord, police and firefighters to break through; Moore's injuries and treatment; Other cases of people who hoard obsessively.

Recounts the story of Homer and Langley Collyer, the hermit hoarders of Harlem whose Fifth Avenue mansion was raided by New York police in 1947 after both brothers died. Background on the brothers; Description of the junk in the house, including hundreds of thousands of newspapers; How Langley was killed by one of the booby traps he had set to deter robbers, and his blind brother, Homer, died of starvation; Recent exhibition on the brothers; Plays based on the story of the Collyers; Other New York City pack rats; Comments by Kate Sherman of the New York Service Program for Older People on why elderly New Yorkers hoard; Characteristics of hoarders; Story of the author's own uncle who is a hoarder.

Reports on a court hearing for the case of Alexander S. Gray, a man arrested for murder, in New York City as of December 2002.'