Daily News Building
The Daily News Building, also known as The News Building, is a skyscraper at 220 East 42nd Street in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The original building was designed by architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells in the Art Deco style, and was erected between 1928 and 1930. A later addition was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and built between 1957 and 1960.
For the 1929 building in Chicago, see Riverside Plaza (Chicago).Daily News Building
Office
220 East 42nd Street, New York, New York
September 1928
July 23, 1930
1957–1960 (annex)
SL Green (51%), Meritz Alternative Investment Management (49%)
476 ft (145 m)
36
1,009,700 sq ft (93,800 m2)
Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells (original)
Harrison & Abramovitz (annex)
June 29, 1989[1]
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November 12, 1982[2]
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July 28, 1981[3]
1049[3]
Facade
March 10, 1998[4]
1982[4]
Interior: Lobby
The Daily News Building consists of a 36-story tower that is 476 feet (145 m) tall, as well as two shorter additions extending east to Second Avenue. Its architectural features include a large granite entrance at 42nd Street and a rotunda lobby with a rotating globe. The original structure is an L-shaped building that faces 41st Street to the south, Second Avenue to the east, and 42nd Street to the north, with a longer frontage on 41st Street than on 42nd Street. The annex, along 42nd Street and Second Avenue, gives the present building a rectangular lot.
The Daily News Building was commissioned by Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News. The design incorporates a layered massing that contains several setbacks at higher floors. It was Hood's first modern freestanding tower and one of the first large Art Deco buildings in New York City. The Daily News Building was occupied by the Daily News until 1995, after which it was converted to office use. Upon its completion, the Daily News Building received mixed reviews, and many observers described the building as having a utilitarian design. The Daily News Building was made a National Historic Landmark in 1978. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1981 and its interior was similarly designated in 1998.
Site[edit]
The Daily News Building is at 220 East 42nd Street in East Midtown, on the south side of the street between Third Avenue and Second Avenue.[5] The building site is bounded by 42nd Street to the north, Second Avenue to the east, 41st Street to the south, and a private alley called Kempner Place to the west.[6] The New York City Subway's Grand Central–42nd Street station (4, 5, 6, <6>, 7, <7>, and S trains), the Chrysler Building, and the Socony–Mobil Building are one block west, while Tudor City and the Ford Foundation Building are one block east.[7]
Tenants[edit]
The building houses the former Daily News TV broadcast subsidiary WPIX, channel 11, which later became an affiliate of The CW network.[140][146] It was also home to WQCD, the smooth jazz station The News had operated as WPIX-FM.[123][147] The Visiting Nurse Service of New York occupies 308,000 square feet (28,600 m2) in the Daily News Building,[148] and the nonprofit Young Adult Institute takes up 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2) within the building.[149] Other tenants include the United Nations Development Programme;[150] UN Women, which occupies 85,000 square feet (7,900 m2);[151] and the New York office of public relations firm FleishmanHillard.[152]