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unusual facts about Herald Square


Herald Square

Many non-New Yorkers know of Herald Square from the song Give My Regards to Broadway which includes the lyrics "remember me to Herald Square", or from the fact that Herald Square is the terminus for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, broadcast nationally each year by NBC-TV.


Koster and Bial's Music Hall

The last Koster and Bial's Music Hall originated when they moved uptown into the former Manhattan Opera House, a huge theatre built in Herald Square in 1892 by Oscar Hammerstein I in pursuit of his passion for grand opera.


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Aron Magner

On October 16, 2010 Magner married Angelika Bekerman, formerly of New York, NY, in Brighton Beach, after a proposal earlier that year at New York City’s “public piano” in Herald Square that was featured in New York Magazine.