Robert Indiana kept a series of illustrated journals during the late 1950s and 1960s, in which he discusses the development of his work as well as his daily life on Coenties Slip.

At the top of his journal entry for October 15, 1962, Indiana notes "I-Day / Emily Genauer." The artist was interviewed by Genauer, who included Indiana in her article "One for the Road Signs," published in the New York Herald Tribune on October 21, 1962. In the entry itself Indiana writes: "Almost beyond believing my luck held out—life on [the] Slip persisted until my first one-man show, and no calamities reared their disruptive heads!"

Due to the demolition of much of the neighborhood his living situation on Coenties Slip had been precarious. Not only was Indiana still there for the opening of his first solo show, at the Stable Gallery, he would live there until June 1965, when he moved into a loft at 2 Spring Street.

At the bottom of the page Indiana references Irving Sandler. Sandler reviewed Indiana's show for the October 28, 1962, issue of the New York Post Magazine.