Episode 5: The Million Dollar Corner: What Was Hiding Behind Macy's Famous Giant Shopping Bag?

Actually... Forgotten Stories for Curious Minds · Aug 4, 2026 · 25m

For more than sixty years, a giant red Macy’s shopping bag wrapped around the corner of the company’s Herald Square flagship. But when it came down in July 2026, it revealed something most people never knew was there: a separate five-story building that Macy’s has never owned. In this episode of Actually..., we uncover the story of New York’s “Million Dollar Corner” - a tiny parcel of land tied to an elaborate department store rivalry, an extraordinarily expensive act of corporate spite, and more than a century of real estate drama. From Siegel-Cooper and Gimbels to a lawsuit involving a…