New York Tribune Building, ca. 1960.

Constructed in 1875 to the designs of Richard Morris Hunt, the New York Tribune Building was the tallest office building in the city when completed and the second tallest structure in the entire city. (The spire at nearby Trinity Church was just slightly taller than the Tribune Building's 260 feet.) The building was 10 stories tall and rendered in striking red and black brick and light-colored stone in the neo-Grec style. It was not particularly well received by critics, being derided for what one writer noted as expressing "the weariness, the fever and fret of modern life."

The first tall building on Park Row, it would be joined by a number of other newspaper neighbors by the turn of the century (including the 1889 New York Times seen at right here). The New York Tribune moved out of the building by 1920 and the last of the newspaper vacated the street by the mid century. Despite surviving into the era of the Landmarks Law (enacted in 1965), the building was demolished with little to no notice in 1966 for the expansion of the Pace University campus.