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Broadway Mall Location Hicksville, New York, U.S. Management Vornado Realty Trust Owner Vornado Realty Trust No. of stores and services 85+ No. of anchor tenants 3 No. of floors 1, with a partial second floor Website http://www.broadwaymall.com Broadway Mall is a large shopping mall located in Hicksville, New York, United States. Originally built in the 1950s as an open-air shopping center called Mid-Island Plaza, Broadway Mall is currently a regional enclosed shopping center comprising more than 85 stores, as well as a food court and movie theater. Anchor stores at the mall are IKEA, Macy*s and Target. There is a Sears across the street from the mall, but it is not part of the mall.
History
The mall was originally built as an open air shopping center as Mid Island Plaza in the late 1950s, as the population of Nassau County, Long Island surged and the area became a major suburban population center. Gertz, a department store based then in downtown Jamaica Queens, and a unit of the then Allied Stores Corporation planned the center and built a 5 level store to anchor the facility. The Gertz store was reported to be the tallest suburban department store ever built.[citation needed] In the early 1980s, Gertz closed their downtown Jamaica store, and this location became its new flagship store, and the Gertz corporate staff was relocated to the 5th floor of the Broadway Mall location. A few years later Allied merged its Gertz division into its Paramus, New Jersey based Stern's division. All former Gertz locations were re-branded as Stern's, and a regional corporate staff remained at the Broadway Mall store. The store was then rebranded as Macy's in 2001 when Federated Department Stores folded their Sterns Division.
In 1991, IKEA opened their second store in the New York Metropolitan Area at the mall (The Elizabeth, NJ store opened 1990). Until 2003, the store was not connected to the mall (although only about 20 feet separated the mall from the store). IKEA did, however, maintain a display in the center court where its mall entrance would eventually be. It is currently one of the only IKEA stores that is connected to a mall and has a mall entrance.
The mall also serves as a transit hub for the Hicksville area, with the N20, N48, N49, and N50 passing by the mall. The N80 and N81 buses loop around it, serving the rear. These routes are operated by Long Island Bus.
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Coordinates: 40°46′24″N 73°31′51″W / 40.773441°N 73.530872°W
Categories:- Shopping malls in Nassau County, New York
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