Fire Forces Evacuation Of Macy's Flagship Store In Herald Square
The fire broke out in a dumpster at around noon and was quickly put out.
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The fire broke out in a dumpster at around noon and was quickly put out.
Macy's has agreed to settle allegations of racial profiling at its flagship store in Herald Square.
The death of a fetus found in a shopping bag at the Herald Square Victoria's Secret last fall has been ruled a homicide.
A Venezuelan tourist was acquitted Monday of shoplifting at Macy's Herald Square flagship store, in one of several cases of shoppers saying they were wrongly accused of stealing at major New York City retailers.
The Macy's Flower Show: The Secret Garden runs through April 6.
The outdoor fan fest runs during the week of the Super Bowl and will feature several stages and football themed activities.
Crowds in the know have been drawn to Macy's to see the "special Santa," an African-American Santa Claus tucked away in Santaland at the Macy's flagship store in Herald Square.
The allegations come on the heels of a scandal involving claims of racial profiling by employees at major retailers.
The meeting follows an incident in which a leading actor on the HBO series "Treme'' was detained nearly an hour by police after buying his mother an expensive watch.
The iconic Macy's flagship store in Herald Square reopened Saturday morning, as an investigation into a fire at the store continued.
A busy Friday night of shopping at Macy's in Herald Square was interrupted by blaring fire alarms. A basement fire at the flagship store forced everyone to evacuate.
Their patrol cars have the words "Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect" painted on them but one city street vendor claims that he has received the opposite treatment from an NYPD officer.
For the first time ever, Macy's will open most of its stores across the country on Thanksgiving Day this year.
"It honestly was tougher than I ever imagined it to be,'' the 64-year-old Nyad said as she emerged from the pool at 8:48 a.m. Thursday. "I thought compared to these long, ultra-swims in the ocean this would be somewhat easy and it was a bear."
Nyad, 64, will attempt to swim for 48 hours in a 40-yard pool set up in Herald Square.
Hundreds of people gathered in Herald Square Wednesday to set the Guinness World Record for the most people twerking at the same time for two minutes.
The show's theme this year is south Asia, so the displays are full of rich colors. Elephant sculptures adorned with flowers also fill the tent.
Holidays sales numbers so far have been disappointing, but people appear to be ready for the post-Christmas bargains, and even the tourists know to wait if they want to save money.
This year, the 34th Street Partnership counted 21,966 shopping bags. The group counted 17,290 bags last year, marking a 27 percent increase this year.
Close to 22,000 shopping bags were counted coming out of stores on 34th Street, Sixth Ave, Seventh Ave, and Broadway on Saturday, according to counters from the 34th Street Partnership.
Holiday shoppers were up before sunrise Saturday, taking advantage of sales – and peace and quiet – in Herald Square.
Around 3 p.m. Wednesday, a fire started up in a basement wall and quickly spread to the first floor.
The blaze started at around 3:15 p.m. in the basement of the flagship store, which was evacuated for more than 2 hours.
The sounds of waterfalls and tropical birds drown out the rumble of subway trains and car horns at Herald Square as hundreds of thousands of plants and flowers create a Brazilian Garden of Paradise.
Six stations are already wired for service and 30 more stations will come online in groups of five, including Times Square, Herald Square and Columbus Circle, by this summer.
