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|title=The News Building |date=2007-09-11 |work=National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nrhpinv">{{cite web |last=Pitts |first=Carolyn |title=Daily News Building (text) |format=PDF, 718&nbsp;[[Kibibyte|KiB]]<!-- application/pdf, 736095 bytes --> |work=National Register of Historic Places Registration |publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior]], National Park Service |date=1989-02-09 |url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/82001191.pdf |accessdate=2011-10-15}}</ref><ref name="nrhpphotos">{{cite web |title=Daily News Building&mdash;Accompanying Photos, exterior, from 1979 and 1981 |format=PDF, 241&nbsp;[[Kibibyte|KiB]]<!--application/pdf, 246891 bytes --> |work=National Register of Historic Places Inventory |publisher=National Park Service |date=1989-02-09 |url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/82001191.pdf |accessdate=2011-10-15}}</ref> and is now owned by [[SL Green Realty|SL Green Realty Corp]].
|title=The News Building |date=2007-09-11 |work=National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nrhpinv">{{cite web |last=Pitts |first=Carolyn |title=Daily News Building (text) |format=PDF, 718&nbsp;[[Kibibyte|KiB]]<!-- application/pdf, 736095 bytes --> |work=National Register of Historic Places Registration |publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior]], National Park Service |date=1989-02-09 |url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/82001191.pdf |accessdate=2011-10-15}}</ref><ref name="nrhpphotos">{{cite web |title=Daily News Building&mdash;Accompanying Photos, exterior, from 1979 and 1981 |format=PDF, 241&nbsp;[[Kibibyte|KiB]]<!--application/pdf, 246891 bytes --> |work=National Register of Historic Places Inventory |publisher=National Park Service |date=1989-02-09 |url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/82001191.pdf |accessdate=2011-10-15}}</ref> and is now owned by [[SL Green Realty|SL Green Realty Corp]].


In her posthumously published journal notes written in 1936-7in preparation for her novel [[The Fountainhead]] (1943), Ayn Rand describes the Daily News Building as one of the "ugliest, flattest, most conventional, meaningless, unimaginative, and uninspiring" of the buildings in the architecture book she was consulting.<ref> Ayn Rand; The Journals of Ayn Rand; Plume; 1999; p.131 </ref> It has, however, been pointed out <ref>Frank Heynick "Peter Keating designed Rockefeller Center?" http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/090907-heynick-rockefeller.php on the Atlasphere website Sept. 7, 2009 </ref> that Rand was drawing upon Raymond Hood's career and work for material for the major negative architect character in her novel; she was therefore inclined to see nothing innovative or positive in Hood's Daily News Building at the time.
In her posthumously published journal notes written in 1936-7 in preparation for her novel [[The Fountainhead]] (1943), [[Ayn Rand]] describes the Daily News Building as one of the "ugliest, flattest, most conventional, meaningless, unimaginative, and uninspiring" of the buildings in the architecture book she was consulting.<ref> Ayn Rand; The Journals of Ayn Rand; Plume; 1999; p.131 </ref> It has, however, been pointed out <ref>Frank Heynick "Peter Keating designed Rockefeller Center?" http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/090907-heynick-rockefeller.php on the Atlasphere website Sept. 7, 2009 </ref> that Rand was drawing upon Raymond Hood's career and work for material for the major negative architect character in her novel; she was therefore inclined to see nothing innovative or positive in Hood's Daily News Building at the time.




Revision as of 08:53, 15 September 2012

Daily News Building
The Daily News Building
Daily News Building is located in New York City
Daily News Building
Location220 East 42nd Street,
New York City
Built1929
ArchitectRaymond Hood and John Mead Howells
Architectural styleSkyscraper
NRHP reference No.82001191
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 14, 1982[1]
Designated NHLJune 29, 1989[2]
Designated NYCLJuly 28, 1981

The Daily News Building, also known as The News Building, is a 476-foot (145 m) Art-Deco skyscraper located at 220 East 42nd Street in Manhattan in New York City. Built in 1929, it was headquarters for the New York Daily News until the mid-1990s. Its design by architect Raymond Hood, among the first skyscrapers to be built without an ornamental crown, can be seen as a precursor to his design of Rockefeller Center.

The Daily News Building is the home for former News TV subsidiary WPIX and was also home to WQCD, the smooth jazz station The News had operated as WPIX-FM. Some time after former News parent Tribune Company took over WQCD outright, the station was sold to Emmis Communications.

It is known as the model for the headquarters of the fictional newspaper Daily Planet, the building where Superman works as journalist Clark Kent.

The Daily News Building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989[2][3][4] and is now owned by SL Green Realty Corp.

In her posthumously published journal notes written in 1936-7 in preparation for her novel The Fountainhead (1943), Ayn Rand describes the Daily News Building as one of the "ugliest, flattest, most conventional, meaningless, unimaginative, and uninspiring" of the buildings in the architecture book she was consulting.[5] It has, however, been pointed out [6] that Rand was drawing upon Raymond Hood's career and work for material for the major negative architect character in her novel; she was therefore inclined to see nothing innovative or positive in Hood's Daily News Building at the time.


Tenants

  • The lobby of The News Building, circa 1941
    The lobby of The News Building, circa 1941
  • Daily News Building, rendered by Hugh Ferriss
    Daily News Building, rendered by Hugh Ferriss
  • Main door in 2008
    Main door in 2008

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "The News Building". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-11. Cite error: The named reference "nhlsum" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ Pitts, Carolyn (1989-02-09). "Daily News Building (text)" (PDF, 718 KiB). National Register of Historic Places Registration. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
  4. ^ "Daily News Building—Accompanying Photos, exterior, from 1979 and 1981" (PDF, 241 KiB). National Register of Historic Places Inventory. National Park Service. 1989-02-09. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
  5. ^ Ayn Rand; The Journals of Ayn Rand; Plume; 1999; p.131
  6. ^ Frank Heynick "Peter Keating designed Rockefeller Center?" http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/090907-heynick-rockefeller.php on the Atlasphere website Sept. 7, 2009
  7. ^ SL Green Inks 142,000 Square Feet of New Leases Within 30 Days
  8. ^ SL Green Signs Three at 220 E. 42nd Street Covering 133,600 Square Feet
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