NYT Building wasn't a great place to work, says ex-staffer
New York Observer
Former NYTer Paul Goldberger says the building combined "the worst qualities of a factory and an office …. It felt tired, worn out, somewhat dirty." The Times building, says Gay Talese, "personalized for me the hypocrisy and the virtue of the city. The virtue in the sense that, each day, The Times would distribute throughout the city, and the nation, a kind of attitude about standards. They would be an advocate for standards, for political standards, for foreign-policy standards, and within the building, none of this was going on. Within the building, everyone was smoking, while virtue was advocated in the sheets of the Gray Lady. The building was rampant with sexuality."
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