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8coupons was founded by Landy Ung and her boyfriend Wan Hsi Yuan in August 2007. [3] [7] [15] [16]The company was founded with $30,000 from Landy Ung's mother's fried chicken restaurant and initially relied on word of mouth to generate interest in the website. [17]
Gregory Scarpa was born in New York, New York, on May 8, 1928. His parents were Salvatore and Mary Scarpa, first-generation immigrants from the village of Lorenzaga of Motta di Livenza near Treviso, Italy. He was raised in the working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Pages in category "Defunct department stores based in New York City" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Gregory J. Scarpa Jr. was born on August 4, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York, to Connie Forrest and Gregory Scarpa, a caporegime and hitman for the Colombo crime family.He pursued a criminal career in the Colombo organization, as had his father.
E.J. Korvette's founder, Eugene Ferkauf, began his discounting career in a 400-square-foot (37 m 2) loft in mid-Manhattan, New York City. Inventory consisted of well-known brands of luggage, household appliances, and some jewelry. Discounts were one-third off regular prices. Sales were more than $2,500 per square foot.
Henri Bendel, Inc. (pronounced BEN-del), established in 1895, [3] was a women's department store based in New York City which in its later history sold women's handbags, jewelry, luxury fashion accessories, home fragrances, chocolate and gifts. [4] Its New York City store was located at 10 West 57th street.
S. Klein On The Square, or simply S. Klein, was a popular-priced department store chain based in New York City. The flagship stores (a main building and a women's fashion building) were located along Union Square East in Manhattan ; this location would combine with the 1920s idiomatic catch phrase "on the square" (meaning "honest and straight ...
At 75,000 square feet (7,000 m 2) and containing a 500-seat community room for civic meetings, the Huntington location was the largest branch store at the time, [10] though still much smaller than the 225,000 square feet (20,900 m 2) of the Brooklyn store. [4]