From an editor's note:
The easiest part of a harried three
days came Friday around noon, when we met to settle on the cover. A
photograph taken by Iwan Baan on Wednesday night, showing the Island of
Manhattan, half aglow and half in dark, was the clear choice, for the
way it fit with the bigger story we have tried to tell here about a
powerful city rendered powerless. We crammed back into the conference
room, raced to finish our pages, and hoped, like other New Yorkers, that
everyone would find the lights on when they got home.
The cover, as it turns out, is breathtaking:
