Special Feature—City of Stars

Daily News Building

EARTH GLOBE Daily News Building 220 East 42nd Street Manhattan

The lobby of the building that until 1995 was the home of the Daily News features an oversize, rotating, tilted globe of Earth, with oceans, prevailing ocean currents, continents, and nations delineated. The sphere sits in an illuminated, fenced-off basin surrounded by a tiled compass rose embedded in the floor, providing the cardinal direction and mileage to various cities around the world. If you do not immediately recognize this earthly icon as the symbol of the Daily News, then perhaps you will instead associate it with the home of the Daily Planet, the newspaper of the fictional city Metropolis and the employer of Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and their mild-mannered associate, Clark Kent.

DAILY NEWS BUILDING 220 East 42nd Street Manhattan

Poster-sized images of the cosmos adorn the lobby walls, and a glass cabinet displays a vintage time-zone clock, alerting passersby to how many hours New York City’s time is ahead (or behind) that of other cities around the world.

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