Tourist takes picture to impressive statue in Herald Square.It is dedicated to James Gordon Bennett, who founded the New York Herald in 1835. In ten years time it had the largest circulation of a daily newspaper in the country and went on to be very influential although it often supported unpopular causes.
One of the paper's feats was to send the explorer Stanley to find Livingstone in Africa.
It also sponsored some other expeditions that were not a successful, such as a failed one to the North Pole.
It merged with the New York Tribune in 1887 and lasted as the Herald Tribune into the later 1960's.
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