<P> Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 00" N 73 ° 59 ′ 16" W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.750122 ° N 73.987743 ° W ﻿ / 40.750122; - 73.987743 </P> <P> Herald Square is formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially named Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City . Named for the New York Herald, a now - defunct newspaper formerly headquartered there, it also gives its name to the surrounding area . The intersection is a typical Manhattan bow - tie square that consists of two named sections: Herald Square to the north (uptown) and Greeley Square to the south (downtown). </P> <P> Herald Square proper is the north end of the square between West 34th Street and West 35th Street . The old New York Herald Building was located on the square . The square contains a huge mechanical clock whose mechanical structures were constructed in 1895 by the sculptor Antonin Jean Carles . The monument, known as the James Gordon Monument consists of the Goddess of Wisdom, Minerva with her owls in front of a bell, flanked by two bell ringers mounted on a Milford pink granite pedestal . The monument's bell was designed to chime on the hour . The two seven - foot - tall bronze laborers, nicknamed Stuff and Guff give the appearance of ringing the bell with their mallets, while in actuality is rung by mallets located behind the bell . The figures and the clock were originally part of the 1894 New York Herald Building that was located at the square . Prior to the demolition of the building in 1921, the figures were removed and reinstalled in the Square in 1940 . </P>

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