Civic Center, Manhattan
The Civic Center was known as the commons and the first recorded building was a windmill built by Jan de Wit and Denys Hartogveldt in 1663.
[5] The Tweed Courthouse was also built at the north end of City Hall Park at the same time, being completed in 1881.
[6] By the 1880s, the city of New York was rapidly growing; the population had increased to more than a million residents, and the government was outgrowing its offices.
The mayor, Franklin Edson, recognized the need for more space for government offices and was reluctant to add onto the original City Hall building.
[8][9]: 211–212 Immediately to the north is the Rogers Peet Building, constructed in 1899 after a fire the previous year had razed its predecessor of the same name.
[10] In 1900, Cass Gilbert completed his first New York City design, the 18-story Broadway–Chambers Building at Broadway and Chambers Street.
[14] The 40-story Municipal Building, at the intersection of Centre and Chambers Streets, was completed in 1914 and has a gilded Civic Fame statue on top of the tower.
During the Great Depression, masses gathered in City Hall Park as a place to protest the government.
Under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses unveiled an ambitious plan to renovate the park in the late 1930s.
[23] The visitor center was opened in 2010 and has a video on the discovery of the graves, sculptures of the burial process, and information on the lives of the slaves.
[24] A wave of newspaper companies arose in 1835 after the invention of the steam press, which turned out printed sheets mechanically, replacing the old hand-cranked method.
The Civic Center was always a desirable location for newspapers because it was so close to City Hall and the courts, but the numbers increased exponentially after the invention of the steam press.
The New York Sun began publication in 1833, as a morning newspaper edited by Benjamin Day with the slogan: "It Shines for All".
The paper was one of the earliest publications in the United States to regularly cover sports, and it played an important role in popularizing baseball in the country.
In addition to more popular sporting events, the New York Clipper also wrote about billiards, bowling, and even chess.
He made major changes to the paper, and adopting the approach used by Joseph Pulitzer, he began competing with the New York World.
The Revolution, also established in 1868, was a women's rights newspaper founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
The Daily People was a weekly newspaper established in New York City in 1891, and is best remembered as a vehicle for the ideas of Daniel DeLeon (1852–1914), the dominant ideological leader of the Socialist Labor Party of America.
[citation needed] Many aspects of yellow journalism, such as banner headlines, sensational stories, an emphasis on illustrations, and colored supplements, became a permanent feature of popular newspapers in the United States and Europe during the 20th century.
