- Pergament Home Centers
Pergament Home Centers (today operating as Pergament Properties) is a former
home improvement store chain in theNew York tri-state area, with a heavy concentration of stores in New York and a few stores inNew Jersey andConnecticut . They were a home improvement store similar toRickel , who had a fairly diverse range of products. These stores did reasonably well untilModell's closed many of its Shoppers World outlets in 1989 andHome Depot moved into the areaIn the 1990s, Pergament closed its New Jersey stores and focused their business on their stores in the five boroughs of
New York City . These stores would eventually close with the liquidation of Pergament's inventory in 2001.Pergament continues to own much of the land and buildings that once were Pergament stores, and the company continues to operate in real estate. One of the largest stores was in
Westbury, New York and is nowMicro Center .Former locations
New Jersey
*Lodi, New Jersey
*North Brunswick, New Jersey
*Paramus New JerseyNew York
*Astoria, New York - 31st Street & Ditmars Blvd. - Now a 99 cents store
*Baldwin, New York
*Bay Shore, New York - Off of Sunrise Highway next to Toys R'Us. previously in South Shore Mall
*Bethpage/Levittown, New York - now Pathmark, Ace Hardware
*Brewster, New York
*Brooklyn,New York - 5700 Avenue U- Now is a Home Depot
*Brooklyn,New York - Church Ave
*Centereach, New York - Now Ace Hardware
*Central Islip, New York - Carleton ave and Suffolk ave.
*Commack, New York - Now Michaels
*East Meadow, New York - Hempstead Tpke.
*East Patchogue, New York (Pergament Express, last ditch effort to survive; currently demolished, location for future Lowe's)
*East Setauket, New York - Now a La-z-boy store
*Floral Park, New York
*Franklin Square, New York - Franklin Ave - now a drugstore
*Garden City Park, New York- Jericho Turnpike & County Courthouse Rd. Now vacant w/ Pergament signage as of 1/1/08
*Glen Cove, New York
*Jackson Heights, New York (Queens)
*Jamaica, New York (Queens) Union Turnpike near St. John's University campus
*Lake Success, New York - Union Turnpike
*Long Island City, Queens, New York, 48 st and Northern Blvd, one block south of Home Depot - became national wholesale liquidators
*Massapequa, New York - Merrick Road
*Melville/Huntington, New York - Route 110, South of Old Country Road
*Middle Village, New York (Queens) now BJ's Wholesale Club
*Mohegan Lake, New York
*Oceanside New York Now a Staples and Micheals
*Patchogue, New York - Now Bob's Stores
*Pelham Manor, New York - off Pelham Parkway and Route 1/Post Road. Located next to and behind an Omni Gym and a furniture store. Demolished in mid 2007 to make way for the new Pelham Manor Shopping Center which will be anchored by a Home Depot.
*Plainview, New York - Crossroads Shopping Center, closed over 20 years ago. Became an office building, now a closed Hollywood Video.
*Port Chester, New York
*Port Washington, New York- Soundview Shopping Center
*Riverhead, New York-Now a Fitness Center and Furniture Store
*Smithtown, New York
*Spring Valley, New York - In the Spring Valley Market Place strip mall. Demolished for new Target store.
*Staten Island, New York - Hylan Blvd location, opened partially in Master's department store space, now Stop and Shop
*Staten Island, New York - Richmond Ave location, opened in former E.J. Korvettes space, nowBest Buy
*Valley Stream, NY - then K Mart, then WalMart
*Westbury, New York- On Merrick Ave. Now Microcenter/ Pearl Arts & Crafts
*Westbury, New York- Old Country Road at School Street, now National Wholesale Liquidators, other stores
*Yonkers, New York - Gateway Central Avenue Shopping Center, nowBest Buy
*White Plains, New YorkConnecticut
*Orange, CT-On Post Road (Route 1) by the old Pathmark SuperDrugExternal links
* [http://www.pergamentproperties.com Pergament Properties official website] , owner of most of the locations that formerly housed its stores
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.