Macys To Close Nine "Under Performing" Stores - Canton, OH On The List

[nmaineman36]

I have never been to a Juniors...I have seen the cheesecakes on QVC and I bought the Juniors cookbook. I have not made the cheesecake recipies in it but I have made the Vienna rolls and I have to say they are outstanding!

 

[launderess]

Have Made The Junior's Cheesecake

Several times, and it comes out pretty great, but one may have to rely on one's own baking skills to tweak where necessary to get the proper results.

Personally like getting the real McCoy from the Brooklyn Store (there is now an outpost in Grand Central Terminal, but considering the news story last year about a major rat infestation in another food store at that location, give it a pass), and it never fails to satisfy. Prefer the strawberry chessecake, over the pie version.

Down-Town Brooklyn,

Really went down hill, but now seems on the mend, with the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building turned into luxury condo's and lots of new stores/development going on, including several high priced hotels. If you really want to see what old down-town Brooklyn was like, watch a PBS special called "A Walk Through Brooklyn". Great stuff! The Long Island University campus there still has the original organ from when there was a huge movie palace there. Organ is now used to provide music during basketball games and such.

L.

 

[angus]

The LIU campus was once the Brooklyn Paramount or Fox Theatre and it was the site of so many live rock n' roll shows in the 50's and early 60's. It was quite a place and one can only imagine what a hub Downtown Brooklyn was in the day! All of the great rock stars performed there - I remember my cousins taking me there to see all the latest acts. You really felt you were part of something big!!

I have seen that PBS show, "A Walk Through Brooklyn" many times and I am always mesmerized.

 

[oxydolfan1]

It's really unbelievable, how everything has changed there.

The Satmar Hasidim have expanded their community all the way to Park Avenue by Flushing Avenue, and Myrtle and Marcy.

There's also a developer named Scarano who keeps throwing up these strange brick multi-family dwellings in EVERY corner and crevice, but they are not all selling well, and some are pretty ugly (although they beat empty lots and tire-repair shops).

There is now a popular "organic"-style restaurant on Knickerbocker. The artists and hipsters have been priced out of Williamsburg, and now you see a lot of moms with strollers about.

Red Hook has really turned around, development-wise, but suffered a setback when it was announced the one and only elevated subway station in the area would be closed for several years for extensive renovations.

The cleanup on the Gowanus Canal surpasses anything I ever expected (although I still wouldn't catch a fish in it)...

The weirdest place is Fourth Avenue. All of a sudden, small and not-so-small hotels are popping up everywhere. It's far from Brooklyn's most picturesque section, but I guess tourists could care less...the public transit is decent and the rates are bound to be a bargain.

Launderess, do you believe that, if Sears continues to fare poorly, that they will close the KMart by Astor Place?

(That's the rumor, so I'm not exactly starting one...)

 

[launderess]

Don't know.

Think that K-Sears benefits being the only large "all in one" type of store for the area, which includes students and staff from NYU (which rapidly is becoming the dominant if not the dominant player for everything below 14th street from 7th Avenue to Third Avenue. Like Columbia, NYU is rapidly gobbling up real estate and building like crazy. Third Avenue around Saint Mark's place (the original "East Village punk/raver/druggie scene), now looks like a college campus.

Saw a great film a few weeks back, "200 Cigarettes", which though released in 1999, was supposed to be set in the East Village scene of the 1980's, and couldn't believe the difference! If one had only bought some of that clapped out, burned out, and abandoned buildings then, would be sitting VERY pretty now!

Any who , back to K-Sears.

It is the only "Sears" in Manhattan, and again the only large "Walmart" type store below 34th Street. They sell groceries, automobile stuff, clothing, etc, so there is something for everyone. Not to mention public transportation to the area by either bus or subway is excellent. So, no; don't think K-Sears is going anyplace, unless they go belly up. Just for the record, K-Sears just purchased or purchased a major share in Restoration Hardware, so things could be getting interesting.

L.

 

[jamiel]

I've not set foot in Macys since they took over Marshall Fields' here...having had grandparents in Chicago that was a destinaaaation store for me.

I think Macys made a strategic error and should have kept Marshall Fields as the upscale (i.e. Bloomingdales') name for the midwest...they could have had about 15 stores (5 in Chicago, 3 in Detroit, 3 in Minneapolis, 2 in St. Louis, 1 in Kansas City, 1 in Indianapolis, 1 in Cincinnati) and kept everyone happy.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Oh, I forgot to mention that JCPenney is apparently opening stores on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, across from Macy's, and in Herald Square (Manhattan Mall)!

 

[rp2813]

For me, Macy's has been a store to avoid for many years. It's impossible to find good help, and when you do find somebody who works there, they are just there to tidy up and fold clothes and are gabbing away in Spanish with their co-workers. And what sort of management allows three full page newspaper ads that contain repeated listings of the same sale items? One hand does not apparently know what the other is doing. Seems Macy's is always having a sale. It's BS, they are just bringing the prices down to normal and calling it a sale.

What Macy's has nearly accomplished is to make the whole department store experience a generic one from coast to coast. How stupid. They could still own Marshall Fields and keep things as they were, but no, they have to obliterate an institution that people in Chicago and elsewhere were faithful to. Total idiocy. I hope the message sent to Macy's by boycotting the Fields flagship store will be heard loud and clear. The last thing that should happen is to have a department store monopoly that couldn't care less about the consumer, and that is exactly where Macy's is headed.

 

[hoover1060]

Nmaineman...

I live just about in the middle, between Stratford Square mall(about 5 miles SW of me) and Woodfield Mall(4 miles NE) I grew up in the area, and remember when the Sears store opened at Woodfield in 1971.

I might be the only one here who likes Macys, but I have had better luck finding stuff with Macy's than I did when they were Marshall Fields. The Woodfield Mall store was Marshall Field's largest store after the State street store downtown.
I rarely got to the malls anymore, I detest the crowds and parking.
If I can buy it online, I do it that way.