Curious as to the fate of the old printing press

[Clipper]

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It will be interesting to see what they do with the old Goss printing press. It takes up the entire left side of the building where there are no windows in the photo. The press encompasses the area from the basement floor to the roof. Three stories of mammoth heavy iron and steel components and electric motors. They would literally have to remove part of the wall to take it out of there. That entire more modern addition on the building is entirely occupied by the press, from basement to roof, and from Oriskany St. to Catherine St.

[clarencebunsen]

If there is no market for it perhaps canabalized for any useful parts and the rest cut up and sold as scrap.

[Atticus Pizzaballa]

Be great to cut the building and then turn it into an indoor parking garage which that area needs in that so many apartments are growing.

[Clipper]

If they cut it up for scrap they will still have to cut a hole in the outside wall to get it out of there. The only access to the press room was a personnel door in a small hallway outside my office door on the loading dock and a set of steps going up to another personnel door leading to the department where the papers got their inserts, were bundled, and sent two conveyors to the loading dock. Rolls of paper went down to the basement in a freight elevator in the main part of the building and it would not be big enough to move the press components.

When and if they take it out, they will have a hole the size of the press that goes from the basement floor to the roof. Sad to see that press sitting there abandoned. When I worked there my office was on the other side of the wall from the press room. When press time came and they fired that thing up, the whole building would vibrate and the roar was deafening. I tried to get paper work done before or after the press run and tried to spend most of the time on the dock supervising because you couldn't hear yourself think in my office.

[Atticus Pizzaballa]

There are two huge windows in the front of the building I wonder if that what can be used to take out the press machines. I still think my idea of an indoor parking garage would suit that building well and keep its historical nature alive.

[Clipper]

The press room is totally isolated from the offices where those front windows are. There is a well insulated wall between the two that WAS the existing outside wall before the addition was built to house the press. One almost has to see the press to comprehend the size of it. It takes up that whole addition to the left side of the building in the photo. The other manner in which they might take it out of there would be to disassemble it and hoist the pieces out through the roof. There is very little of the press that can be broken down enough to move with pallet jacks or a small forklift. It is a job for riggers, not movers.