Giant paper reels and suspended blank paper ribbons frame an editorial gallery of city characters.
In the late 19th century the city's papers crowded onto Park Row facing City Hall. The Tribune Building of 1875, by Richard Morris Hunt at Printing House Square, was among the first with elevators, and the Times built at 41 Park Row in 1889 before leaving for Times Square in 1903. Joseph Pulitzer's World Building at 99 Park Row, by George B. Post, rose 309 feet under a copper dome in 1890 and was the world's tallest building until 1894. It was demolished in 1955 for the Brooklyn Bridge ramps.
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Paired roller towers; overhead paper webs; ink troughs; long press-bed layout. Imagined newspaper works. Mood: the city goes to press. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.