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Locations:

  • The old NY Daily News Building (until 1995)
  • The site of the old Biograph Studios
  • The Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
  • The site of the Lion's Head
  • Black Rock
  • NY1
  • Current offices of the NY Daily News
  • Current offices of The New York Post
  • BuzzFeed
  • Vice
  • Al Jazeera America
  • Conde Nast
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • DNAInfo
  • El Diario-La Prensa
  • The Amsterdam News
  • Location of the former offices of the Gazette of the United States
  • Site of the original NY Times location
  • Location #2 of the NY Times headquarters
  • Location #3 of the NY Times headquarters
  • Current location of the NY Times
  • 99 Park Row
  • Location where the Women’s Press Club of New York was founded
  • McSorley’s Old Ale House
  • The intersection where Alfred Eisenstadt’s VJ kiss photograph was taken
  • James Beard House
  • The Graybar Building
  • CBS Broadcast Center
  • Location where William Holden’s character in Network wants a cabbie to take him.
  • Jimmy's Corner
  • Horace Greeley statue
  • The Sun clock
  • Site of both the John Peter Zenger trial of 1735 and the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1789
  • Location where the Overseas Press Club first met
  • Location where Freedom’s Journal was founded
  • Location where the Anglo-African Magazine was founded
  • Memorial sculpture to the James Gordon Bennett Sr. and Jr..
  • Former location of Vitagraph Studios
  • Any (and all) of the four locations for Mathew Brady's studios
  • 30 Rock
  • Site where television was first publicly demonstrated
  • Location of the first printing press in colony of New York (there is a plaque)
  • Plaque to John Peter Zenger
  • Joseph Pulitzer’s grave
  • Thomas Nast’s grave - – Woodlawn Cemetary in the Bronx
  • First location of the offices for the Crisis magazine
  • Original location of the Photo League
  • Nellie Bly’s grave
  • Location where the New York (Evening) Post was founded
  • Old New York Evening Post Building
  • Statue to Samuel F.B. Morse
  • First offices of the Associated Press
  • Jacob Riis Park
  • Gravestone of Townsend Harris, founder of what became CUNY
  • The 10-story Jewish Daily Forward building
  • Statue of William Cullen Bryant
  • Location of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company
  • Get photographed with an alum of the J-School
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