 The 1851 building, located across from City Hall and dwarfing that of Horace Greeley's "New-York Tribune", was described by the "Times" in 2001 as "a declaration that the newspaper regarded itself as a powerful institution in civic life... No politician standing on the broad steps of City Hall could fail to note the newspaper's presence.And after 1871, when The Times led the crusade against the Tweed Ring, no politician could afford to ignore it.