Newspapers Buildings, Printing House Square

The bustling Printing House Square. Engraving by Fay & Cox, published in 1869 (copyright 1868) in the Great Metropolis; a Mirror of New York by Junius Henri Browne.

The Printing House Square with its newspaper buildings was formed after the construction of the Times Building, completed in 1858, at the junction of Park Row, Nassau and spruce streets. The Sun is on the left, on the site of the old Tammany Hall. The Tribune is on the northeast corner of Nassau and Spruce streets. On the southeast corner stood the original 5-story American Tract Society building, completed in 1847. The Park Building, later World Building, adjacent to the Times Building, is on the right.

Here some text from the Browne's book: «Few persons who live out of, or even in, New-York are aware of the number of weekly papers published in the City: indeed, I venture to say no journalist here can name half of them. They are devoted not only to news, literature, agriculture, amusements, art, music and crime, but to various interests and kinds of business, and, all told, amount to about one hundred and fifty. Among the secular weeklies, the best known are Harpers' Weekly, Harpers' Bazaar, Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, Round Table, Nation, Ledger, Citizen, Home Journal, Leader, Weekly Review, Sunday Mercury, Sunday News, Dispatch, Sunday Times, Literary Album, Anti-Slavery Standard, Revolution, Clipper, Spirit of the Times, and Police Gazette. Of the religious press, The Independent, Examiner, Evangelist, Methodist, Observer, Tablet, Liberal Christian, Christian Advocate, Christian Inquirer, and Church Journal are most prominent.»

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