Empty newspaper buildings could become condos
June 22, 2009 10:30AM By Marc Ferris
Ridgewood Times newspaper building
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.)
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Anonymous
Brilliant! like we don't already have too many condos. What bubble head wrote this article?
Comment #1 Posted By: Anonymous 06/22/09