The New York Evening Mail was a daily newspaper published in New York City, from 1867 to 1924, when it was merged with the Evening Telegram.
The newspaper was established in 1867 as the New York Evening Mail and published under that name through 1877.
In 1870, the Evening Mail moved to new headquarters in the
6-story building at 34 Park Row / 1 Beekman Street (illustration on the
right), which previously housed the Lovejoy's Hotel,
closed earlier that year. The building was owned by the Lorillard state.
It had a front of about 100 feet on Park Row and
about 50 feet on Beekman Street. The new lessee, Abner Lord Ely (1805-1871), a
real state investor, had reformed the building to house offices and stores. The
building also housed the Rural New Yorker. At the time, several buildings in the
area were occupied by the publishing industry.
On January 1st, 1872, the newspaper began to publishing a weekly edition of the New York Evening Mail for family reading. Robert Johnston was the publisher. In 1877, the newspaper has undergone some name changes: New York Mail (November 1877 – November 1878), The Mail (through late 1879), Evening Mail (1879 - December 1881). In 1881, the owner Cyrus West Field acquired the New York Evening Express (founded by James and Erastus Brooks in June 1836), and created The Mail and Express.
In 1892, the Mail and Express Building, on Broadway and Fulton Street, was completed and the newspaper was removed to the new headquarters.
The Evening Mail building on Park Row suffered some damage in the January 1882 fire that destroyed the first Potter Building (and former home of the New York World).
In 2016, the six-story building at 1 Beekman Street was demolished to make way for a 23-story residential skyscraper at 33 Park Row, completed in 2021.
