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The building of the Hannoverscher Anzeiger, Hannover

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The Sun Building, 280 Broadway (2015)

Sun Building Clock (2015) by John Wisniewski. Via Flickr Creative Commons

Former Sun Building, 150 Nassau Street (2015)

The skyscrapers of Newpsaper Row. Image via Library of Congress

Greeley Square statue, photo by Jason Riedy (2011). Via Flickr Creative Commons

The New York Herald Building in 1895. Image via Library of Congress. Although the Herald building was demolished in two stages in 1928 and 1940, adornments from its facade including statues and owls, are incorporated into Herald Square Park.

After decades of rivalry, in 1924 the Herald and Tribune merged to create the New York Herald Tribune. The Herald Tribune, which competed against the New York Times, ceased publication in 1966, though its Paris-based edition continued until 2013, when it became the International New York Times. The Herald Tribune was based at a building variously known as 230 West 41st Street and 225 West 40th Street, near Times Square. The building is still rich with journalistic connections. Now known as 219 West 40th Street, it is home to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and is located next door to the current New York Times building. There is a fantastic collection of 15 vintage typewriters on display inside, a gift from the family of Robert E. Dallos, the New York Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times from 1978 to 1991.

In 1907 the Evening Post constructed a new Art Nouveau style building at 20 Vesey Street, about a block west of Printing House Square. It is now occupied by offices and the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site. The Evening Post left in 1926 and although there are no explicit indications of the building’s newspaper past, the architectural details provide subtle clues.The letters “EP,” for Evening Post, are incorporated into the railings below the top floor. Other elements, including statues by Mount Rushmore creator Gutzon Borglum, provide symbolic references to printing and communications.

Former Evening Post Building, 75 West Street (2015). The Art Deco building is now an apartment complex called Post Towers, in a nod to its original occupant.

Former NY Journal-American (Hearst Publications) Building (2015).

“220-221 South Street: Hearst Publications Building,” (undated). Photo by Wurts Brothers. Via NY Public Library Digital Collections

Former Daily Mirror Building, now A&E Networks (2015)

Former World-Telegram Building, now DC 37 Headquarters (2015)

Q: Why does the building at 125 Barclay Street, facing West Street, have a large metal structure on its roof?

A: It is a vestige from the building’s origin as the headquarters of the New York World-Telegram.

The World-Telegram developed this building in 1932, relocating from Telegram Square (previously known as Globe Square). The building prominently featured a sign with the letters “World Telegram” on the aforementioned metal structure, also called an armature.

The undated photo above shows the World-Telegram building with the sign, before the construction of the World Trade Center (to the right) and Battery Park City (in the foreground). In 1950, the Sun was merged into the paper and it was renamed the World Telegram and Sun. Following a newspaper strike in 1966, the World-Telegram and Sun closed as did the Herald Tribune and Journal-American. The three closing papers banded together to create a newly merged paper, the New York World Journal Tribune, which was based at the old World-Telegram building. The new paper also failed, closing in 1967 and ending a chapter in New York newspaper history. Today, the old World Telegram building is occupied by District Council 37, a municipal employees union.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle served as the paper of record for Kings County from 1841 to 1955. Its building at Washington and Johnson streets no long stands, but an eagle sculpture that stood at the top of the building is now perched inside the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library, just above the entryway. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Illustration 1903. Via NY Public Library Digital Collections

The two first headquarters for the New York Times were actually on Nassau Street – 113 Nassau Street and then 138 Nassau Street. Then, in 1858 the New York Times built a 5-story building a 41 Park Row, along Newspaper Row (pictured above), sharing the building with the American Newspaper Advertising Agency and a patent office. This building would be demolished just thirty years later, and replaced by the 13-story building that still stands there today as part of Pace University. The paper famously moved to 42nd Street in 1904.

The New York Times moved to Long Acre Square on December 31, 1903, celebrating the occasion with fireworks, now the annual New Year’s Eve tradition with the New Year’s Eve ball introduced in 1908. The narrow building at 42nd Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue, now known as One Times Square, was the newspaper’s headquarters until 1913, when the New York Times built a new annex at West 43rd Street, where Frank Gehry would later design the cafeteria. One Times Square itself was built atop the site of the former Pabst Hotel. The original facade of One Times Square was granite and terra-cotta but it was reclad in marble in the 1960s. In 1995 Lehman Brothers bought One Times Square for $27.5 million to retrofit as an advertising billboard instead of office space. The wildly profitable building was worth $495 million in 2012 despite being virtually empty on its upper floors. Today the New Year’s Eve ball is stored at the top of the building. The New York Times moved to its latest headquarters at 620 Eighth Avenue in 2007.

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The headquarters of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn

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Hunt's Tribune Building, New York City

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Carrère & Hastings' Broadway entrance of the Mail and Express Building, New York City

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The headquarters of the Figaro Newspaper, Paris

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The headquarters of the Figaro newspaper, Paris

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The building of the Hannoverscher Anzeiger in 1930, Hannover