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Roosevelt Field is a shopping mall in the East Garden City section of Uniondale, New York. [3] It is the largest shopping mall on Long Island , the second-largest in the state of New York (after Destiny USA ), and the tenth-largest shopping mall in the United States.
Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located in Westbury, Long Island, New York. Originally called the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome, or sometimes Hempstead Plains field or the Garden City Aerodrome, it was a training field (Hazelhurst Field) for the Air Service, United States Army during World War I.
This is a list of shopping malls in the United States and its territories that have at least 2,000,000 total square feet of retail space (gross leasable area).The list is based on the latest self-reported figures from the mall management websites, which are also reported on each mall's individual wiki page.
Roosevelt Field: Garden City, New York: Long Island 2,366,692 square feet (219,872.9 m 2) [2] 294 Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, JCPenney, Dick's Sporting Goods, Neiman Marcus, AMC 1956 Simon Property Group: 3 Palisades Center: West Nyack, New York: Rockland 2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m 2) [3] 400
It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights. So many seminal flights had occurred in the area that, by the mid-1920s, the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the "Cradle of Aviation", [ 1 ] the origin ...
Mitchel Air Force Base, also known as Mitchel Field, was a United States Air Force base located on the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, New York, United States.Established in 1918 as Hazelhurst Aviation Field #2, the facility was renamed later that year as Mitchel Field in honor of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, who was killed while training for the Air Service in Louisiana.
Roosevelt Field trips: Clinton Street; Mineola trips: Washington Avenue; Alternate weekday buses serve Roosevelt Field except early a.m. and late nights. Weekdays, buses terminate in Hempstead early a.m., late nights and alternately during middays. Alternate weekday rush hour buses serve Mineola. Most weekend service terminates at Roosevelt Field.
When Roosevelt Field closed in 1951, Zahn's became the busiest general aviation airfield in the State of New York. [ 1 ] For a time it was the largest privately owned airport in the United States. [ 4 ]