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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] Martin's Babylon Store exterior, August 1956, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library ...
Defunct department stores based in New York City. Pages in category "Defunct department stores based in New York City" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Empire Stores is a former warehouse complex along the waterfront Brooklyn Bridge Park within the neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York City, in the U.S. state of New York. It hosts a food hall and market operated by Time Out New York, [1] which opened in 2019, [2] as well as an art gallery called Gallery 55. [3]
Kings Plaza (officially the Kings Plaza Shopping Center) is a shopping center within the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States. Opened in September 1970, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] it is located at the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U , just north of Floyd Bennett Field .
J.W. Mays, Inc. is a real estate firm based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. From 1927 until 1988 the company ran a chain of discount department stores in the area surrounding New York City referred to as Mays, with stores located in three of New York City's five boroughs, Long Island, and Putnam County. At its height as a retailer, the ...
1800s-The store was founded in 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, as Wechsler & Abraham by Joseph Wechsler and Abraham Abraham.In 1893, the Straus family (including Isidor Straus and Nathan Straus), who acquired a general partnership with Macy's department stores in 1888, bought out Joseph Wechsler's interest in Wechsler & Abraham and changed the store's name to Abraham & Straus.
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 and 1895 . During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the ...
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 ...