From the June issue: With the newspaper business on the ropes,
real estate pros are wondering, could more printing plants and
newspaper offices be converted once the market eventually picks up?
Past well-known examples are the conversion of the old New York Times
headquarters and the old New York Post building. Now a new condo
marketing campaign is displaying nostalgia for the days of typewriters
and copy boys. At the former Ridgewood Times newspaper building at 852
Cypress Avenue in Queens, the presses stopped long ago, though the
paper still publishes under a different name at another location.
(Thanks to desktop publishing programs and the Internet, these days
many publications are sent to be printed off-site.) [more]