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Saks & Co. Indianapolis, 1906. Andrew Saks was born to a German Jewish family, in Baltimore, Maryland.He worked as a peddler and paper boy before moving to Washington, D.C., where at the age of only 20, and in the still-chaotic and tough economic times of 1867, two years after the United States prevailed in the American Civil War, he established a men's clothing store [10] with his brother ...
Bergdorf Goodman Inc. is an American luxury department store based in New York City, founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf.As of 2024, it operates a women's store and a men's store across the street from each other on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.
1523. The Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store is a department store on Fifth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The original 10-story structure at 611 Fifth Avenue has served as the flagship store of Saks Fifth Avenue since its completion in 1924. The store also occupies part of 623 Fifth Avenue, a 36-story ...
B. Altman and Company. B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain, founded in 1865 in New York City, New York, by Benjamin Altman. Its flagship store, the B. Altman and Company Building at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, operated from 1906 until the company closed the store at the end of 1989. [1] Branch ...
280 Broadway – also known as the A.T. Stewart Dry Goods Store, the Marble Palace, the Stewart Building, and the Sun Building – is a seven-story office building on Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built from 1845 to 1846 for Alexander Turney Stewart, the ...
B&H Photo Video (also known as B&H Photo and B&H and B&H Foto & Electronics Corporation) is an American photo and video equipment retailer founded in 1973, based in Manhattan, New York City. [1] B&H conducts business primarily through online e-commerce consumer sales and business to business sales, as they only have one retail location.
In 1988, Barneys opened a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) men's store in the World Financial Center. The store abandoned its Seventh Avenue flagship in 1993, moving to a 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m 2), Kohn Pedersen Fox -designed Manhattan store on Madison Avenue at East 61st Street. It was the largest new store in New York City since the Great ...
The Strand is a family-owned business with more than 230 employees. [5] Many notable New York City artists have worked at the store, including rock musicians of the 1970s: Patti Smith – who claimed not to have liked the experience because it "wasn't very friendly" [6] – and Tom Verlaine, [7] who was fond of the discount book carts sitting outside the store. [8]