The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside the Times’s Printing Plant

The local paper, on the other hand, was meant to draw a picture of a physical community, with its customs, rituals, manners, lingo and collective memory inscribed in a thousand minute ways. As these spectacular photos by Christopher Payne show, this paper is produced in College Point, Queens, on machines the size of large houses, which do everything from the unwinding of the paper rolls to the folding of the complete sections. Mike Connors, who manages The Times’s printing plant in College Point, Queens, started working for the Times in 1976, long before this plant was built in 1997.

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