NYC Landmark Presentation Topic Details

My group and I (Ashley Dominic, Sherilyne Co, and Samson Zachariah) are doing a multimedia presentation pertaining to the Macy’s on Herald Square. Our presentation will consist of a documentary-styled video as well as a New York Times-styled newspaper article displaying our research from the combined perspective of both a historian and a consumer. Our presentation will focus on multiple aspects of Macy’s’ impact on urbanization and industrialization in New York City, as well as its popularization of department stores in a new age of consumer culture. We want to focus on Macy’s’ appeal to the middle class as well as its revolutionary contributions to the societal structure at the time. Our presentation will also delve into the change in hands of ownership of the corporation and examine the architecture of the building. We aspire to take a couple of the aspects enlisted above and especially develop them in our presentation.