New York Evening Post Building

71 West Street | also 110 Washington Street, 73 West Street, 14 Carlisle Street | Financial District | built 1926

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1. 1925

   Publisher Cyrus Curtis commissions a 17-story Art Deco headquarters for the Evening Post

   Cyrus H.K. Curtis, who had recently taken ownership of the paper, had a new headquarters built at 75 West Street in 1925. Architect Horace Trumbauer designed an Art Deco skyscraper of 17 stories, stepped back to meet the 1916 zoning law and decorated with brightly colored terra-cotta panels. A promotional book from the Post placed it on a half-acre site fronting three streets, near the Battery and overlooking the North River.

   Source: old.skyscraper.org

2. 1926

   The New York Evening Post moves into a new Art Deco tower

   Architect Horace Trumbauer designed a 17-story Art Deco headquarters for the New York Evening Post at 75 West Street, completed in 1926. The steel-frame building is decorated with abundant terra cotta and Guastavino tile. The paper had occupied its older Evening Post Building from 1906 to 1926, and it stayed in the new tower until 1970. The building is now an apartment building.

   Source: Wikipedia

3. 1928

   Wilella Waldorf becomes drama editor, then the lone woman holding a first-string critic's job at a New York newspaper

   Wilella Waldorf became drama editor of the Evening Post in 1928, among the first women given an editorial post at the paper. While she worked there she was the only woman serving as first-string critic at a New York newspaper. She came after Clara Savage Littledale, the first woman reporter the Post ever hired. The paper was then based at 75 West Street.

   Source: Wikipedia

4. 1934

   J. David Stern buys the paper and renames it the New York Post

   J. David Stern bought the Evening Post in 1934, shortened its name to the New York Post, and brought back the broadsheet format and a liberal slant. Ernest Gruening, later a U.S. senator from Alaska, served as an editor of the paper for four months that year. The Post's main office was at 75 West Street throughout this period.

   Source: Wikipedia

5. 1939

   Dorothy Schiff buys the Post and makes it a liberal paper of unions and star columnists

   Dorothy Schiff bought the Post in 1939 and named her husband George Backer editor and publisher. Under her the paper, then still at 75 West Street, supported trade unions and social welfare and ran columns by Eleanor Roosevelt, Drew Pearson and Eric Sevareid. In 1949 James Wechsler became editor, and he stayed on as editorial page editor until 1980.

   Source: Wikipedia

6. 1970

   The Post leaves West Street for 210 South Street, the old Journal-American building

   The Post's main office was at 75 West Street from 1926 until 1970, a stay of 44 years. Dorothy Schiff bought 210 South Street in 1967, which had housed the New York Journal-American until that paper folded a year earlier, and the Post relocated there. The South Street building became a well-known symbol of the paper until Rupert Murdoch moved its newsroom to Midtown in 1995.

   Source: Wikipedia

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