Talk:New York World Building

Giralda, the tower of the Sevilla Cathedral, is taller than this building and she has built in the Middle Age, by the moorish.

Fire?
Previous version of this page stated "The World Building was rebuilt at an unknown date after a fire completely destroyed it. In turn the rebuilt building was demolished ..." I think this is wrong and is just a confusion with a fire on January 31, 1882 that destroyed a building that had previously been the location of the World. That building was also known as the World Building or the Potter Building and stood at the location of the current (terra cotta) Potter Building. The World newspaper had moved out from the building a "few months" before the fire.

KHirsch (talk) 17:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)


 * It seems there was a fire at the New York World Building, but it was not serious and did not "destroy" it. See Escape Barred By Smoke, New York Times, September 13, 1895 One possible reason for the confusion might be a fire in the World building is a plot point in a fictional work Time and Again (novel).

173.87.157.34 (talk) 01:54, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

What was the address of this building? --Robertknyc (talk) 07:33, 30 October 2009 (UTC)


 * The fire in January, 1882 destroyed "the Potter, or old World, Building, at Park-row, Nassau, and Beekman streets". The current Potter building on that block is described in the Landmark Designation Report as "35-38 Park Row (aka 2-8 Beekman Street and 139-145 Nassau Street)". (I don't know why the Park Row addresses include both even and odd numbers. The New York World&#39;s address at that time was apparently 35 Park Row.) The address of the building that is the subject of this wiki article (aka The Pulitzer Building) was 53-63 Park Row, on the corner of Park Row and Frankfort, where the Brooklyn Bridge entrance ramp is.——KHirsch (talk) 15:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

I think noting the address in the article is important for reference purposes. Would you like to do it KHirsch, or should I? Feel free. --Robertknyc (talk) 06:25, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Explanation for the differing floor counts
The article says it's claimed as 20 stories, but is only 16 or 18 by modern standards - what exactly does that mean? What is the difference in modern standards that accounts for this discrepancy? Does the 20 count the basement floors or something? Were some floors just double-height? Were they counting mezzanines as full floors? Article could use some clarification on that point. 97.100.235.208 (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2019 (UTC)