41 Park Row
| New York Times Building (41 Park Row) |
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(2009)
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Classrooms, Gym |
| Location | 41 Park Row, New York, NY 10007 United States |
| Coordinates | 40°42′42″N 74°00′22″W / 40.7118°N 74.0061°WCoordinates: 40°42′42″N 74°00′22″W / 40.7118°N 74.0061°W |
| Opening | 1889 |
| Owner | Pace University |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 13 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | George B. Post |
| Structural engineer | Thomas R. Jackson |
The New York Times Building, at 41 Park Row in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was the home of The New York Times from 1889 to 1903, when it moved to Longacre Square, now known as Times Square. The building stands as the oldest of the surviving buildings of what was once "Newspaper Row", and is owned by Pace University. A bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin holding a copy of his Pennsylvania Gazette stands in front of the building in Printing-House Square, currently known as 1 Pace Plaza.
The newspaper's first building was located at 113 Nassau Street in New York City. In 1854, it moved to 138 Nassau Street, and in 1858 it moved to a five-story building designed by Thomas R. Jackson in the Romanesque Revival style at 41 Park Row, – until then the site of the Brick Presbyterian Church – making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use. The 1851 building, located across from City Hall and dwarfing that of Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, was described by the Times in 2001 as "a declaration that the newspaper regarded itself as a powerful institution in civic life.... No politician standing on the broad steps of City Hall could fail to note the newspaper's presence. And after 1871, when The Times led the crusade against the Tweed Ring, no politician could afford to ignore it."
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