A tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

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hdgvhicv•37 minutes ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Corner

In September 2021, Macy's accused the billboard's owner Kaufman Realty of negotiating to lease the space to an online retailer before Macy's most recent lease expired that August. Macy's claimed that the lessee was almost certainly Amazon and filed for an injunction preventing Kaufman from leasing the space to a competitor. Macy's claimed that a 1963 agreement prohibited such a lease "forever" and that an Amazon billboard would be highly visible during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

justincormack•10 minutes ago

The London version of this is Spiegelhalters, in the middle of the ornate facade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickhams_(department_store)

dn3500•40 minutes ago

They have an odd definition of "middle".

mbStavola•about 2 hours ago

I used to work one block from there. For years I got off at that station and walked past the building but had no idea it was hiding something like that. Amazing!

ungreased0675•3 days ago

That building looks horrible, do people live there?

nephihaha•10 minutes ago

I know. I was expecting something easier on the eye. Maybe a century of being behind billboards has wrecked it. The 1906/1907 photographs look much better.

hdgvhicv•38 minutes ago

Ground floor is a shop, pepper floors are basically empty.

q3k•about 3 hours ago

No, they just shop there.

Terretta•about 23 hours ago

“Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view‎”

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A tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

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