3. Daily News Brooklyn Garage, 209–215 3rd Avenue
The New York Daily News was founded in 1919, the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid form. Its slogan from the beginning has been “New York’s Picture Newspaper.” Its stylized camera logo remains today.
The paper’s entire operation, editorial, advertising, and printing, was originally based in Manhattan. Growing circulation led News management to build a printing plant on Pacific Street in Brooklyn in 1927. The plant was obsolete by 1996 and the paper’s printing operations were moved to Jersey City.
About a mile away from the printing plant, a ghost sign with the camera logo remains on the Daily News Brooklyn Garage in Gowanus, an 18,000-square-foot building built about 1900. The cavernous building was used as a distribution center and garage for the tabloid’s delivery trucks until 1993. The garage was sold in 2008 and the Brooklyn Boulders rock-climbing gym opened in 2009. Brooklyn Boulders closed this location in 2022. The building’s facade has since been repainted.
