The Daily News Building is a skyscraper at 220 East 42nd Street in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The original tower, designed by Raymond Hood and John Mead
Viewed from Second Avenue and 42nd Street, looking southwest
The original tower (right) and the northeastern annex (left) as seen from 42nd Street, looking southwest
The main entrance, with a bas-relief designed by Hood, seen in 2008
The lobby of the Daily News Building, c. 1941
The Daily News is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News. It was the first U.S. daily
Daily News Building
…with brick spandrel panels between windows on different stories. The massing, or general shape, includes several setbacks on higher floors. After the New York Daily News acquired land on 42nd Street in February 1928, the paper's founder Joseph Medill Patterson commissioned Hood and Howells to design a building there…
Front page from June 24, 2026
Front page from February 5, 1921, featuring Florence Harding, wife of President-elect Warren G. Harding
In October 1990, the Allied Printing Trades Council (APTC) organized a strike at the New York Daily News. This button badge shows a mock newspaper front page, with the masthead "Real News," including a camera logo like in the Daily News' own, and the headline, "Working to Save the Daily News."
Daily News Building, John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, architects, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. The building housed the paper until the mid-1990s.