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Towers of Babble.(offices of Times and News Publishing Co. and Bloomberg L.P.)
In 1999, when Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the chairman of the Times, was laying plans for a new headquarters, it was becoming nearly impossible to produce a newspaper in the rambling headquarters on Forty-third Street. The building was originally designed around the gargantuan printing presses that filled the basements and the delivery trucks that lined up in front. Writers and editors worked upstairs, in a crowded newsroom with few of the amenities of a conventional office. At one time--when it was filled with metal desks and clacking typewriters, the smell of ink and cigarettes and the yelling of city editors--this might have bestowed the kind of old-time newspaper mystique ...
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