Park Row at Beekman Street, NYC

Park Row, north from near Beekman Street. Photograph taken about 1870, possibly from scaffolding of the Post Office building under construction since 1869 (photographer's vantage point). Source: Photographic views of New York City from the collections of the New York Public Library.

This is the old "Newspaper Row", as this section of Park Row was called at the time. On the far left is the old French's Hotel, corner of Frankfort Street, demolished in 1888 to make way for the World Building. The newspaper "The Sun" is across Frankfort St. The old New York Times building (with the triangular roof ornament) was completed in 1858 at 41 Park Row. Continue below...

The building in the center at 37 Park Row, corner of Beekman Street, is the Park Building, completed in 1858, later the World Building (the old one) and sometimes, Potter Building (also the old one), after its builder. It also housed the Scientific American, the New York Observer and others. The building burned down in a spectacular fire in 1882.

On the left, on the southeast corner of Beekman Street, is the New York Evening Mail headquarters at 34 Park Row, which replaced the old Lovejoy's Hotel in 1870. It also housed the office of the National Life Insurance Co. of the United States of America. In 1892, the newspaper moved to its new headquarters on Broadway and Fulton Street.

The building on the extreme right, at 33 Park Row, housed offices, including the Northern, Southern & Western Real Estate Agency and a hatter store in the ground floor.