Herald Square
The Herald Square is a place in New York at the intersection of Broadway , the Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) and 34th Street.
Herald Square is named after the New York Herald , a legendary daily newspaper, and in honor of its publisher James Gordon Bennett Sr. and his son James Gordon Bennett Jr. , the New York Herald Building designed by Stanford White from 1893 to 1921 lived. Until it was redesigned in the 1890s, the square was in the somewhat disreputable Tenderloin district of Manhattan . There were many bars, dance halls and theaters like the Manhattan Opera House . The New York Herald Building was demolished in 1921.
Today Herald Square is a shopping street. The main store of the Macy’s department store chain , which is considered the largest department store in the world, is right on the square. The famous department store owned by the Gimbel brothers once stood near Herald Square, but nothing of it is to be seen, any more than the opera house.
In Herald Square is the James Gordon Bennett Monument , which is made up of the bronze figures of the goddess of wisdom Minerva , her owls and a bell flanked by two bell bells nicknamed Stuff and Guff. The figures and a clock above were once part of the New York Herald Building.
The Broadway around Herald Square was converted into the pedestrianized Broadway Boulevard in 2009 .
New York Herald Building, 1908
Herald Square, 1936
34th Street with Macy's in Herald Square, 2007
Herald Square as seen from the Empire State Building , 2006
James Gordon Bennett Monument
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- ↑ Downfall of the major US department stores: Sales at SpiegelOnline, accessed on July 10, 2016
- ↑ Broadway Boulevard: Transforming Manhattan's Most Famous Street at pps.org, accessed July 11, 2015
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 59 ″ N , 73 ° 59 ′ 16 ″ W.