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Broadway Commons (formerly Broadway Mall) is a large shopping mall located in Hicksville, New York, United States.Opened in 1956 as an open-air shopping center called Mid-Island Shopping Plaza, it is currently a regional enclosed shopping center comprising 98 stores, as well as a food court and movie theater.
Hicksville was founded accidentally when a financial depression brought the LIRR to a stop at Broadway, Hicksville. The station slowly grew and though it started as a train station, it turned into a hotel then a real estate deal [ 3 ] , even becoming a depot for produce , particularly cucumbers for a Heinz Company plant.
There were 527 John's Bargain Stores in the Northeast and in Puerto Rico at its zenith in the mid-1960s. [2] Between 1961 and 1965 the chain earned $1,000,000 per year or more in profits each year. However, in 1966 they ran a $523,947 (~$3.76 million in 2023) loss. Shoplifting was a problem, among others. John's had an average 32% markup on its ...
Best Market was a family-owned, regional supermarket chain with 30 stores in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The company was headquartered in Bethpage, New York , and had been owned by the Raitses family since the company's first store opened in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York , in 1994.
Three other Jimmy John’s here also have come and gone. A shop on Monroe Avenue in the city lasted about four years. One at the University of Rochester’s College Town was open for two years.
The rolling hills of the North Shore of Long Island were laid down as terminal moraines by the receding glaciers of the last ice age roughly 10,000 years ago. The Algonquian tribe that settled the area, spanning from Flushing to Setauket, called the area "hilly ground" or Matinecock and as a result the Algonquian Indians who settled there became known as the Matinecock Indians.
Johnnie's management intended to review each of the other store's shoppers to determine if any other locations in the chain would be good candidates for conversion as well. [3] Citing the economy and competition from nearby Stop & Shop , PriceRite , and DeMoulas Market Basket locations, the Revere Save-A-Lot closed on February 12, 2012.
Gristede's Sloan's had a long-term debt of $21.6 million at the end of the fiscal year. Catsimatidis, the chief executive officer, owned or controlled 91 percent of the company in February 1999. Of the 40 Gristede's Sloan's stores in 1998, 35 were in Manhattan, one was in Brooklyn, three were in Westchester County, and one was on Long Island.