![]() ![]() A few blocks-but more like a century-away from that old building, Sulzberger sits in his office in the newish glass-and-steel-lattice-encased headquarters of the Times. It’s been sold off and sliced up, and the top two floors are presently occupied by Snapchat, while the bottom two were bought by Kushner Companies, the family business of Jared Kushner, son-in-law extraordinaire of Donald J. The Times building is still there, except it’s not the Times building anymore. His memories are hazy, perhaps because he’s 36 now and it was a long time ago, and perhaps because that building, like the Times, was always just there, a fact of life. ![]() This was the early ’80s, when The New York Times was nothing but ink on paper and was printed in the same building where the journalism was created. He often visited for a few minutes before taking a trip to the newsroom on the third floor, all typewriters and moldering stacks of paper, and then he’d sometimes go down to the subbasement to take in the oily scents and clanking sounds of the printing press. He was young, he says, no older than 6, when he shuffled through the brass-plated revolving doors of the old concrete hulk on 43rd Street and boarded the elevator up to his father’s and grandfather’s offices. The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Futureīy Gabriel Snyder | photographs by James Day 2.12.17Īrthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn’t remember the first time he visited the family business. ![]()
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