Tag: retail

Colorful cars driving around the Upper West Side handing out special fortune cookies with gift cards inside. A carnival with giant teddy bears, a live DJ, popcorn and

Harry's Shoes, a neighborhood staple for decades, just expanded in a big way: the store more than doubled the size of its adult showroom, adding new brands, extra seating and glowing signs out front. The grand reopening on Thursday included a proclamation from the mayor congratulating the owners. The store's ...

Second Time Around, a chain of consignment shops that opened an Upper West Side location last year, is expanding again. The store plans to open a new 2,000-square-foot shop at 238 West 72nd Street by the end of the year, Crain's reported. That space used to house a stationary store, ...

A few years ago the city passed a law that makes stores close their doors when they have the air conditioning on. Leaving the doors open wastes energy and puts the city at higher risk for a blackout. But stores leave their doors open anyway, and there is almost no ...

The Body Shop on the corner of 76th Street and Broadway is closing on Saturday after being open for decades. It's not clear why the shop is shutting its doors -- an employee there didn't know the details when we called. According to one of our tipsters, Jeff, the store ...

Rookie USA, a new children's sporting goods and apparel chain, is opening a store at 808  Columbus Avenue (99th Street) in the Columbus Square complex this fall. The chain currently doesn't have any stores, but will be launching this fall in multiple locations, according to its website. "In the Fall ...

One of the arguments used to fight a proposal to change zoning rules on the Upper West Side in an effort to keep storefronts small (and possibly help mom-and-pop shops) was that Upper West Side stores were simply selling items for too much, and Duane Reade was successful because it ...

We've already established that Columbus Avenue below 72nd Street has become a slightly downscale version of Madison Avenue in the past few years, with Helmut Lang, Burberry Brit, Theory, Paige Denim and more opening within a few blocks of each other.

The MTA is looking for a private real estate company to help it rent out 13 stores that it created as part of a massive renovation of the Columbus Circle subway station. The station gets lots of traffic -- 68,000 people a day, only some of whom choose to pee ...

Athletic apparel company Lululemon is close to opening a new outlet on 75th Street and Broadway, so you can wrap yourself in breathable sweat-wicking fabrics as you gaze longingly at Citarella and Fairway across the street. The space used to hold a Chase Bank and a wireless store. Lululemon also ...

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As we've noted before, Columbus Avenue businesses don't tend to stay vacant for long. And two stores that recently vacated their spaces are already being filled by new stores. Paper Source, a Chicago-based stationery store that we've written about before, is expecting to open next month in the spot on ...

An iconic space meant to represent all the good things on the Upper West Side that have been demolished by corporate greed has a new owner who will gladly starch your shirts for you. The exterior of the store at 106 West 69th Street was the set for "The Shop ...

Columbus Avenue commercial real estate is hot -- so hot in fact that there isn't a single vacant space on the entire stretch from 67th to 82nd Street, according to the Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District. We have already reported on many of the restaurants and retail spaces that are ...

A store filled with housewares and preppy clothes has signed a lease to take about half of the space of the old Borders store on the second floor of the Time Warner Center, the Observer, Racked, and Women's Wear Daily reported. C. Wonder, which also has a SoHo location, sells ...

The huge space on Broadway between 79th and 80th Streets that housed Filene's Basement for almost 20 years will be filled by a new retailer come June: DSW. A rumor brought to us by our talented local sleuth Emily Baer was confirmed by a store rep. DSW, which has another ...

As we scan the Upper West Side for signs of life, it's clear that the preppies are still alive and well, as J. Crew opened a new high-end men's shop in the Time Warner Center and Brooks Brothers is getting ready to open a new store on 87th. For those ...

The shimmering Apple store on 67th Street and Broadway makes an architectural statement, and that statement is "Come in and worship, and then swipe your credit card into this neat little machine." But for months the glass facade of the store was marred by huge black panels installed to cover ...

Syms Corp., which owns Filene's Basement, declared bankruptcy yesterday and will be liquidating its stores -- including the big store on Broadway between 79th Street and 80th Street -- over the holidays. Syms went bankrupt after attempting in vain to find a buyer or otherwise save the store. The liquidation ...

Lots of new stores are cropping up throughout the neighborhood, beyond the big names that get all the attention like Century 21 and Momofuku Milk Bar. I was even offered a slice of pizza from a new place called Primo Pizza 84 on 84th Street between Columbus and Central Park ...