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- HERALD_031009_02.JPG: This statue is in Herald Square, outside of the Macy's store. The marker describes it as follows:
A memorial to James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872) founder of the New York Herald in 1835 and to his son James Gordon Bennett (1841-1918) through whose vision and enterprise the New York Herald became one of the world's great newspapers.
The bronze figures of Minerva and the bell ringers are the work of Antonin Jean Carles. They stood from 1895 to 1921 above the cornice of James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald building on the north side of Herald Square and tolled the active hours to the millions. In 1928, they were given by William T Dewart, publisher of the New York Sun, to New York University through whose generosity in 1939 they entered on permanent loan. The care of the Department of Parks of the City of New York, that they may be here, restored to their original area of pleasant service, and to their place in the hearts of our citizens. Funds for their restoration were provided by subscription of business organizations whose lives are deep-rooted in the neighborhood of Herald Square. 1940.
- Wikipedia Description: Herald Square
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Herald Square is formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially named Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Named for the New York Herald, a now-defunct newspaper formerly headquartered there, it also gives its name to the surrounding area. The intersection is a typical Manhattan bow-tie square that consists of two named sections: Herald Square to the north (uptown) and Greeley Square to the south (downtown).
Description
Herald Square proper is the north end of the square between West 34th Street and West 35th Street. The old New York Herald Building was located on the square. The square contains a huge mechanical clock whose mechanical structures were constructed in 1895 by the sculptor Antonin Jean Carles. The monument, known as the James Gordon Monument consists of the Goddess of Wisdom, Minerva with her owls in front of a bell, flanked by two bell ringers mounted on a Milford pink granite pedestal. The monument's bell was designed to chime on the hour. The two seven-foot-tall bronze laborers, nicknamed Stuff and Guff give the appearance of ringing the bell with their mallets, while in actuality is rung by mallets located behind the bell. The figures and the clock were originally part of the 1894 New York Herald Building that was located at the square. Prior to the demolition of the building in 1921, the figures were removed and reinstalled in the Square in 1940.
Greeley Square
Greeley Square lies between West 32nd Street and West 33rd Street and between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, and is taken up almost entirely by a triangular park. It is named after Horace Greeley, who was the publisher of the New York Tribune, the Herald's rival newspaper. (The two papers later merged to form the New York Herald Tribune.) There is a statue of Greeley inside the park, created in 1890 by Alexander Doyle The small park is planted with trees and shrubbery, enclosed by a wrought-iron fence, and provided with inviting chairs, tables and a restaurant kiosk.
Herald and Greeley Squares stand today as rest areas for the thousands of shoppers that flood the neighborhood, as a lunchroom for thousands of midtown office workers, and as a stage for product launches, musical performances, and photo and film shoots.
Shopping
The area around Herald Square along Broadway and 34th Street is a retail hub. The most notable attraction is the Macy's flagship department store, the largest in the United States (and according to Guinness World Records the largest in the world until being surpassed by a Korean store in 2009). In 2007, Macy's, Inc. moved its corporate headquarters to that store after renaming from Federated. Macy's archrival Gimbels was also located in the neighborhood until 1984; in 1986 the building became the Manhattan Mall. Other past retailers in the area included E.J. Korvette, Stern's, and Abraham & Straus. J.C. Penney opened its first Manhattan flagship store in August 2009 at the former A&S location inside the Manhattan Mall. The square is roughly equidistant between Madison Square to the south, and Times Square to the north. Herald Square's south side borders Koreatown, at West 32nd Street.
Transportation
The area is served by the 34th Street – Herald Square station (B D F M N Q R trains) of the New York City Subway. Additionally, the 33rd Street station (HOB–33, JSQ–33, and JSQ–33 (via HOB) trains) of the PATH serve the square.
Renovation
Since 1992, Herald and Greeley Squares have been cared for by the 34th Street Partnership, a Business Improvement District (BID) operating over 31 blocks in midtown Manhattan. The 34SP provides sanitary and security services, maintains a horticultural program that includes trees, gardens, and planters, and produces events, product launches, and photo shoots. 34SP also added movable chairs, tables, and umbrellas, to the parks. In 1999, the parks were completely renovated by 34SP. Since 2008, each park has had a food kiosk operated by 'wichcraft, the highly regarded sandwich, soup and salad purveyor owned by Tom Colicchio of "Top Chef" fame. In 2009, 34SP converted the parks' Automated Pay Toilets into free public facilities, a rarity in New York City.
With the introduction of "Broadway Boulevard", a 2009 project by the New York City Department of Transportation to increase pedestrian space on the segment of Broadway between 35th and 42nd Streets, the passive space provided by Herald and Greeley Squares more than doubled, radically changing the character of the area. The two blocks of Broadway between 33rd and 35th Streets were completely closed to vehicular traffic, and are pedestrian-only. The parks' operators, 34SP, filled the newly pedestrianized space with chairs, tables, umbrellas, and free public programs such as chess tables, dance lessons, and exercise classes. As of April 2013, the boulevard is being redesigned.
- Atlas Obscura Description: From https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-new-york-herald-monument-new-york-new-york
New York Herald Monument
Manhattan, New York
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
Herald Square is one of the busiest intersections in the city.
Located in between Penn Station and the Empire State Building, intersected by Broadway and dominated by Macy’s flagship department store, the Square receives tens of thousands of visitors everyday.
In the middle of the square is a monument which marks the location of what was once the city’s largest newspaper, the New York Herald. On top of the monument, usually unnoticed by the passersby below, are two bronze owls whose eyes light up a spooky glowing green, off and on, all through the night.
The Herald ran from 1835 until 1924 under the ownership of James Gordon Bennett and was America’s highest circulating paper. Bennett was obsessed with owls, and New York’s premier architect and womanizing voluptuary, Stanford White, built the Herald building complete with 26 owls atop the roof, each with glowing electric green eyes.
When the building was demolished in 1940, the statue of Minerva, the clock, and some of the owls were rescued from the building and incorporated into the monument. The door to the clock tower also has an owl motif and the French phrase, “La nuite porte conseil” (let’s sleep on it). Bennett was rumored to have been involved with the secret society of the Bohemian Club, which venerated owls. Bennett incorporated owls onto the original masthead of the Herald and kept live ones in his office. He had plans made for a giant owl mausoleum to be made for himself by Stanford White. The tomb was to stand uptown in Washington Heights and be 200 feet high: an enormous owl of 125 feet perched atop a 75 foot pedestal, in which would hang his sarcophagus.
White was murdered a few blocks away in 1906, on the rooftop of the old Madison Square Garden by the husband of his mistress, Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit. Bennett never got his giant owl burial, but the owls which stood as sentinels over his newspaper building still watch over visitors to Herald Square, the green eyes glowing tonight as they did over 100 years ago.
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