- Publishers Noted: in which our publisher reviews the building of another publisher
“I can’t believe he’s going to feature our crummy little office,” Rozaan Boone, the editor in chief of the Co-op City Times, says to one of her colleagues as she gives me the grand tour of their basement home. It takes maybe five minutes. And it is indeed crummy. The walls are either white gypsum or CMU blocks painted the same. There is a drop ceiling punctuated by sprinkler heads, ventilation shafts, and fluorescent lights. Thick, duct-taped tubes snake out of the ceiling and into R2-D2-sized ventilation units: one perched on a little podium made from a wood laminate that does not match the wood laminate on the floor; another on top of an overturned egg crate; and still another standing like a sentinel inside the kitchenette, guarding a closet holding a complete set of archives dating back to 1966—along with a box of plastic flowers and an aluminum ladder. Boone explains to me that future renovation ambitions include a dedicated space for the archives, on…