 According to the newspaper's research manager Harry Corash, the city's population was centered in Queens, east of Midtown Manhattan across the East River.The site ultimately chosen was on East 42nd Street; the section east of Grand Central Terminal and Lexington Avenue had yet to be developed, and the "Daily News" historians called the area "a row of old, assorted, unpretentious structures".Patterson said that the 42nd Street location was ideal, as it was on the same street as Times Square, where the rival "Times" headquarters were incidentally located.