Daily News Building

Daily News Building
The Daily News Building's facade as viewed from 42nd Street, looking southeast. The building is a rectangular tower with a white-brick facade, interspersed with vertical bands of windows and dark-colored spandrel panels. There are several setbacks on the facade. A black glass tower is visible on the right.
Viewed from 42nd Street, looking southeast
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General information
TypeOffice
Architectural styleArt Deco
Address220 East 42nd Street
Town or cityManhattan, New York
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°44′59″N 73°58′23″W / 40.74972°N 73.97306°W / 40.74972; -73.97306
GroundbreakingSeptember 1928
CompletedJuly 23, 1930
Renovated1957–1960 (annex)
OwnerSL Green (51%), Meritz Alternative Investment Management (49%)[1][2]
Height
Roof476 ft (145 m)
Technical details
Floor count36
Floor area1,009,700 sq ft (93,800 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells (original)
Harrison & Abramovitz (annex)
DesignatedJune 29, 1989[5]
Reference no.82001191
DesignatedNovember 14, 1982[6]
Reference no.82001191[7]
DesignatedSeptember 27, 1982[8]
Reference no.06101.001686[8]
DesignatedJuly 28, 1981[9]
Reference no.1049[9]
Designated entityFacade
DesignatedMarch 10, 1998[10]
Reference no.1982[10]
Designated entityInterior: Lobby
References
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The Daily News Building (also the News Building) is a skyscraper at 220 East 42nd Street in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The original tower, designed by Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells in the Art Deco style and completed in 1930, was one of several major developments constructed on 42nd Street around that time. A similarly-styled expansion, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz, was completed in 1960. When it originally opened, the building received mixed reviews and was described as having a utilitarian design. The Daily News Building is a National Historic Landmark, and its exterior and lobby are New York City designated landmarks.

The edifice occupies a rectangular site adjoined by 41st Street to the south, Second Avenue to the east, and 42nd Street to the north. It consists of a 36-story tower rising 476 feet (145 m), along with a 14-story printing plant on 41st Street and an 18-story annex on 42nd Street. There is a large carved-granite entrance at 42nd Street, leading to a rotunda lobby with a rotating painted globe. The facade is divided vertically into bays of windows separated by white-brick sections of wall, with brick spandrel panels between windows on different stories. The massing, or general shape, includes several setbacks on higher floors.

After the New York Daily News acquired land on 42nd Street in February 1928, the paper's founder Joseph Medill Patterson commissioned Hood and Howells to design a building there. The architects filed blueprints with the Manhattan Bureau of Buildings in June 1928, and the Daily News started moving into the building in February 1930, with the lobby opening that July. The newspaper filed plans in 1944 for the annex, work on which began in 1957 after additional land was acquired. The Daily News' parent, Tribune Media, sold the building in 1982 to a limited partnership led by the La Salle Street Fund. The newspaper downsized its offices there over the next decade before moving out entirely in 1995, and its space was rented out to other tenants. SL Green Realty bought the building in 2003 and sold a partial ownership stake to Meritz Alternative Investment Management in 2021.

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