Park Row (Manhattan)

Park Row is a street in the south of Manhattan, New York City. It is located in the Financial District.

History

Previous history

Towards the end of the 18th century, the Boston Post Road was the most important route between New York, Albany and New England. Much of the route through Manhattan, which was known as the Eastern Post Road, was abandoned 1839-1844 following the introduction of the street grid as part of the Commissioners ' plan of 1811. The discontinued part was renamed in the area of ​​City Hall in Park Row.

The development of the " Newspaper Row"

Originally called Park Row Chatham Street and got to the turn of the century of the 19th century the nickname "Newspaper Row", due to the many resident newspapers and book publishers and also able to City Hall. Famous buildings of that period are the New York Times Building, the American Tract Society Building and the New York World Building. One of the highest and built the heyday of Newspaper Row buildings is the Park Row Building, at the time with 119 meters the tallest building in the world. From several magnificent buildings such as the World Building or the Manhattan Life Building, are now other buildings on the property or they had as in the case of the World Building and the Brooklyn Train Station, the extended soft entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge.

What about now?

Many buildings are still preserved today include the private University Pace University, only the names of the formerly resident companies are preserved in building names, parts of the buildings have been rebuilt over the years in private homes.