Park Row (Manhattan)
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- for the former elevated train station see Park Row (BMT station)
Park Row is a street located in Lower Manhattan; during the late 1800s, it was nicknamed Newspaper Row as most of New York City's newspapers located on the street to be close to the action at New York City Hall.
From Left to Right: Bottom-Left is New York City Hall; the New York World Building, also known as the Pulitzer Building (with the spherical top) which housed the New York World newspaper (now the site of one of the Brooklyn Bridge entrance ramps); The New York Tribune building with the spire top (today the site of the Pace Plaza complex of Pace University); The New York Times Building (the 19th Century home of The New York Times, today one of the buildings of Pace University); and to the far right - cut off from the picture - the Potter Building.
The end of the street was known as 'Printing House Square'. Today, standing in what was then known as Printing House Square, there is a statue of Benjamin Franklin holding a copy of his Pennsylvania Gazette standing in front of the One Pace Plaza and 41 Park Row buildings of Pace University, a reminder of what Park Row once was.
