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Macy’s Herald Square

One of the largest department stores in the world, on 34th Street, where the Thanksgiving Day Parade ends.

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Photo: Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Macy’s moved to Herald Square in 1902, and its store on 34th Street fills a whole block. Some of its escalators, put in from the 1920s, still have wooden treads.

Since 1924 Macy’s has held its Thanksgiving Day Parade every November, with giant balloons of cartoon figures floating down the avenues to the store’s doors. The film Miracle on 34th Street (1947) is set here, with a Santa Claus at Macy’s who says he is the real one. Visit it in 3D ›

More in New York

Empire State BuildingThe Art Deco tower on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, the tallest building in the world from 1931 to 1970. Times SquareThe crossing of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, under walls of lit screens, at the heart of the Theater District. Chrysler BuildingThe Art Deco tower on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, with a crown of steel arches and a needle on top. Grand Central TerminalThe great railway station on 42nd Street, with its hall under a ceiling of stars and its clock of opal. New York Public LibraryThe marble library on Fifth Avenue, guarded by the two stone lions Patience and Fortitude. Rockefeller CenterThe Art Deco towers between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, with the golden Prometheus, the skating rink and the Christmas tree. Bryant ParkThe green lawn behind the Public Library, with its plane trees, its green chairs and in winter its ice rink. St. Patrick’s CathedralThe Gothic cathedral of white marble on Fifth Avenue, facing Rockefeller Center. Statue of LibertyThe copper statue in the harbour, a gift from France, that greeted the ships of the immigrants. Central ParkThe great park in the middle of Manhattan, four kilometres long, just north of the game’s map. Yellow cabsThe yellow taxis of New York, which you hail from the kerb with a raised hand. New York pizzaThe big, thin pizza sold by the slice, to be folded in half and eaten on the street.