Manhattan Mall
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Economy of New York City
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, is located at 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue (Manhattan)
Sixth Avenue – officially Avenue of the Americas, although this name is seldom used by New Yorkers – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown"...
. There are entrances to the 34th Street – Herald Square subway station ( trains) and the 33rd Street PATH station
33rd Street (PATH station)
The 33rd Street PATH station, opened on November 10, 1910, is located on Sixth Avenue , between 32nd and 33rd Streets in Manhattan, under Greeley Square and just south of Herald Square....
, (HOB-33rd, JSQ-33rd JSQ-33rd via HOB trains) on the second basement level.
This mall is a high-traffic shopping venue and has had A&S
Abraham & Straus
Abraham & Straus was a major New York City department store, based in Brooklyn. Founded in 1865, in 1929 it became part of Federated Department Stores, which eliminated the A&S brand shortly after its 1994 acquisition of R.H. Macy & Company...
and Sterns as anchor stores in the past. Currently the major anchor store is JC Penney. Venture bought the building in 1999 for $135 million and sold it to Vornado Realty Trust
Vornado Realty Trust
Vornado Realty Trust is a New York based real estate investment trust. It is the inheritor of real estate formerly controlled by companies including Two Guys and Alexander's.- History :...
in 2006 for $689 million.
The mall is located in the high-rise building formerly used by the Gimbels flagship store, which closed in 1986. After a renovation, it reopened as A&S Plaza in 1989. It was originally 13 levels high but difficult access to upper floors made the whole mall a financial failure. All but two of the street level or above floors were converted to office space, soon after Stern's closed. On April 18, 2007, JCPenney announced that it would open a 150000 square feet (13,935.5 m²) store at the mall, its first in Manhattan. Retailers and the food court
Food court
A food court is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dining. Food courts may be found in shopping malls and airports, and in various regions may be a standalone development...
were closed to make way for the new store and the direct underground entrance to the Subway and PATH was temporarily closed. The store was opened on July 31, 2009.