Site : Woolworth Building

Source : "Radical Walking Tours of New York City " by Bruce Kayton

Today's site of the Woolworth Building is the location of the former New York Call, a Socialist newspaper published here. Founded in 1908 The New York Call was a small weekly, published by the Workingmen's Co-Operative Publishing Association, which had previously worked with the Socialist Labor Party. It sat across from the mainstream "Newspaper Row" on Park Row and had a circulation of twenty-three thousand. It was published at a time (the 1910s) when the Socialist party was at its height. The number one circulating Socialist magazine the "Appeal to Reason" had a circulation of 750 000. The Woolworth Center ("Cathedral of Commerce") was the tallest building in the world when it went up in 1913 at a cost of 13.5 million dollars paid in full in cash.

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open it up to the public

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