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THE DAILY NEWS Building in New York City is looking for a new name, and big tenant, now that the Daily News has abandoned the landmark art deco building on East 42nd Street for presumably less expensive quarters across town.
The newspaper expected to complete the move, from 220 E. 42nd Street to 450 W. 33rd St. in mid-May.
The move includes 500 people, thousands of cardboard boxes and some four million photographs. The News is going from 130,000 square feet on 21 floors to 112,000 square feet on one floor in a newer building.
The tabloid found a new home after failing to reach terms with LaSalle Partners, which manages the Daily News Building, to extend a 2-1/2-year lease that expires July 31.
The issue for both sides was money, said Barbara Winter, senior vice president of LaSalle. She said the News...