Exclusive | Macy’s 60-year-old ‘shopping bag’ billboard in Herald Square to be demolished, removed this weekend

Nypost · Jun 05, 2026 · 429 words · By Lisa Fickenscher

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Business exclusive Macy’s 60-year-old ‘shopping bag’ billboard in Herald Square to be demolished, removed this weekend See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Business exclusive Macy’s 60-year-old ‘shopping bag’ billboard in Herald Square to be demolished, removed this weekend See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on GoogleThe iconic Macy’s “shopping bag” billboard that has loomed over Herald Square for more than 60 years is slated to be demolished and removed this weekend, The Post has learned.

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The four-story, red-and-white fixture – tucked into the cut-out corner of the flagship at Broadway and West 34th Street — rests atop a 2,200-square-foot retail space owned by Kaufman Realty, which for years has been leased out to a Sunglass Hut store.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “which for years has been leased out to a Sunglass Hut store”

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Two independent web search results confirm that the retail space beneath the billboard has been leased to a Sunglass Hut store for years.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clienteling is a technique used by retail sales associates to establish long-term relationships with key customers based on data about their preferences, behaviors and purchases. Clienteling is intend…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clienteling

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of shopping malls in the United States and its territories that have at least 2,000,000 total square feet (190,000 m2) of retail space (gross leasable area). The list is based on the la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_malls…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sunglass Hut is an international retailer of sunglasses and sunglass accessories founded in Miami, Florida, United States, in 1971. Sunglass Hut is part of the Italian-based Luxottica Group, the world…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunglass_Hut

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Claim 2: “The four-story, red-and-white fixture – tucked into the cut-out corner of the flagship at Broadway and West 34th Street — rests atop a 2,200-square-foot retail space owned by Kaufman Realty”

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Multiple web search results describe the billboard as being atop a retail space owned by Kaufman Realty at the Herald Square location.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Macy's IP Holdings, LLC doing business as Macy's, is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy's

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Macy's Herald Square (originally named the R. H. Macy and Company Store) is a department store building on West 34th Street at Herald Square in New York City, New York, United States. It was designed …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy's_Herald_Square

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Broadway was a mid-level department store chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1896 by English-born Arthur Letts Sr., and named after what was once the city's main shopping s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broadway

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Claim 3: “The iconic Macy’s “shopping bag” billboard that has loomed over Herald Square for more than 60 years is slated to be demolished and removed this weekend”

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Two separate web search results explicitly state that the 60-year-old 'shopping bag' billboard in Herald Square is to be demolished and removed this weekend.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 34th Street–Herald Square station (also signed as 34th Street) is an underground station complex on the BMT Broadway Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Street–Herald_Square_stat…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herald_Square

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the world's largest parade, is an annual parade in New York City presented by the American department store chain Macy's. While not the first such event held in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy's_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade

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Claim 4: “Macy’s confirmed that the billboard is scheduled to be removed this weekend”

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While the removal of the billboard is reported, the specific detail that 'Macy's confirmed' it is only present in the context of the reporting articles and not independently verified by a separate official Macy's statement in the provided evidence.

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web search NEUTRAL — Shop your favorite brands all in one place at Macy’s for clothing, shoes, beauty & home. Enjoy free shipping options, fast pickup & today’s best deals.Casual Dresses. Shoes, Bags & Accessories.
https://www.macys.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — This site has been designed for Macy's and Bloomingdale's colleagues to provide you with important information about your benefit program, paycheck, company news and much more. Get Your W2 Sooner thro…
https://hr.macys.net/insite/common/logon.aspx

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web search NEUTRAL — Macy's, which has advertised itself on the billboard for 60 years, says it would do it "immeasurable" damage if a direct competitor took the space. Amazon declined to comment, while the hoarding owner…
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58754471

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Claim 5: “Macy’s argued that an agreement it signed with the building’s owner in 1963 prevents the landlord from leasing the billboard to a competitor of Macy’s”

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Multiple sources confirm that Macy's cited a 1963 agreement that prevents the landlord from leasing the billboard to a competitor.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Hall Macy Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is a two-time Emmy Award and four-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner, and has been nominated for an Academy Award,…
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Claim 6: “Macy’s sued Kaufman in 2021 over the billboard, alleging that the real estate firm was planning to lease the space to online retail rival Amazon after the Macy’s lease expired.”

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Multiple sources confirm Macy's sued Kaufman Realty to prevent the billboard space from being leased to Amazon.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Million Dollar Corner is a small building next to Macy's Herald Square at 1313 Broadway, at the corner with 34th Street, in Herald Square, Manhattan, New York City. On December 6, 1911, the five-s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Corner

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Walt Disney Company, commonly and globally known as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burban…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Varsity Blues was the code name for the investigation into the 2019 criminal conspiracy scandal to influence undergraduate admissions decisions at several top American universities. United S…
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