From Newspaper Row to Times Square

We start our week with a brief tour, starting at Park Row in Lower Manhattan. Please meet in the North Lobby at 1:00 p.m. We'll take the downtown 6 train to City Hall, then we'll catch an uptown 2 or 3 train to Times Square.

You may recall the lecture we had during winter semester on this subject, based on my research. I want to show you where these buildings (in an image from Wikimedia) for the World, the Sun, the Tribune, and the Times, were located.

Then we'll head up to the Times Square neighborhood to look at the buildings the Times occupied and currently occupies.

To prepare for this, please do read my 2009 article on the subject, From Newspaper Row to Times Square: "The Dispersal and Contested Identity of an Imagined Journalistic Community." Also, please read this brief review of my article, published in Columbia Journalism Review, which adds another perspective.

Finally, for those of you who have not seen it, here's a little video I shot several years ago in Times Square (for you camera buffs, it was shot with a Canon 5d MkII.