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Times Square Stores (also called TSS and TSS Seedman's) was an American department store chain based in New York City that operated from 1929 to 1989. By the late 1980s the chain operated 12 stores in New York and 6 in Puerto Rico , and an off-price ladies' apparel chain, Finders Keepers , which had 15 locations. [ 1 ]
The Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookstore. Located at 116 East 59th Street , between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan , it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions , Americana , leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. [ 1 ]
On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, [161] and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City ever since. On that night, hundreds of thousands of people congregate to watch the Waterford Crystal ball being lowered on a pole atop the building, marking the start of the new ...
It went public in 1985, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HBI. In 1985, it was acquired by Zayre , a Framingham, Massachusetts -based discount department store chain. After Zayre was acquired by Ames , HomeClub was spun off under a new company called Waban Inc., which also owned BJ's Wholesale Club .
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 .
Pop singer-songwriter Mark Ambor was scheduled to perform in Times Square from 8:03 p.m. to 8:12 p.m. EST, according to organizers of the New Year's Eve festivities at the "Crossroads of the World."
20 Times Square is a 42-story [1] mixed-use development at 701 Seventh Avenue, on the northeast corner with West 47th Street at the northern end of Times Square, Manhattan, New York City. [2] The development includes one of Ian Schrager 's Edition Hotels, operated by Marriott , above a 6-floor 76,000 square feet (7,100 m 2 ) retail component. [ 3 ]
Gertz had branch stores in Douglaston, Flushing, Great Neck, Hicksville, Massapequa, Bay Shore, Lake Grove, and East Hampton. [4] The 300,000 square foot Hicksville location was opened in 1956 in the Mid-Island Plaza, known today as Broadway Commons ; [ 5 ] that store would eventually become Sterns in 1983, followed by Macy's in 2001.