From Paper Boy to NYT Print Operations Manager

Popular Mechanics pays a visit to The Gray Lady's main printing plant

Reporter Reeves Wiedeman could not have hoped for a better lynchpin. His Popular Mechanics March 2015 issue look at “The Daily Miracle” of how between 300,000 and 600,00 copies of the New York Times are rolled off the print presses every night centers around a man who once delivered the paper.

The plant that Ernie Booth oversees is in Queens; his paper route was in the Bronx:

The trailer trucks carry twenty-four pallets, a load of 50,000 copies.

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