Staten Island Mall is a

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, opened in 1973. It is the only indoor shopping mall in the borough. It is the largest retail center on the island and is the site of the island's third-largest public transit hub after the

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, with numerous bus routes that connect to the periphery of the mall area. It is the second largest shopping center in NYC. The

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Description

Car service outside the Staten Island Mall in Staten Island, New York

The mall is owned by

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, itself a division of

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, whose U.S. operations are based in

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. The mall has 200 stores employing approximately 3,000 people.

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, and

. The Food District also has anchors of

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and an

dine-in cinema. A carnival by

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called The Crossing, which features multiple shops and a restaurants.

History

Prior to the construction of the mall, the land was occupied by the Staten Island Airport, which opened in 1941. The site was sold in 1955 with a shopping and amusement center envisaged, known as the Staten Island Center. In 1964 it was announced that

and

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(A&S) would open stores across from E. J. Korvette. Construction of the mall commenced in 1970 and it opened on August 9, 1973, with

and

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. The A&S store was not built on the property as announced years earlier. The shopping center was developed by Feist and Feist Realty Corp. and sold to the

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in 1980. Rouse remodeled the mall by removing the small shops in the center court known as the "Honeycomb", adding escalators to the original six, and installing additional trees and several new fountains throughout the mall. The mall was renovated and expanded in 1993 when the

wing was completed. JCPenney relocated to the mall from its longtime occupancy at the Forest Avenue Shoppers Town. The mall was originally a two-story building shaped like a letter "T", with a large outdoor plaza on the Richmond Avenue side,

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(GLA) of and a tenant GLA of . By the mid-2010, higher-end shops such as

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, and

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opened for business, and by 2011, numerous new brands (

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, Love Culture, etc.) were relocating or updating their looks while new tenants continued to revive the mall's image. The mall was expanded by 242,000 square feet between 2016 and 2019, which included the addition of a new retailers including Zara,

, and

. The

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was moved from its former area into the newly expanded area in the mall, renamed the "Food District". On March 15, 2017,

opened one of its first American locations. Sears closed, but

opened on an out parcel.

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, shooting range

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, Bistro Thai, Pepper Palace,

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, and Cosmo were added in 2021. A

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outparcel near the mall's main entrance, the first Krispy Kreme on the island, is opening in 2022.

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announced that it would open its first store in New York City at The Crossing in the mall.

Transportation

Several local, select and express

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buses stop and either travel through or on the perimeter (where park and ride facilities exist) of the mall's campus. They include the local buses/limited counterparts, the buses with no corresponding limited buses, the

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route, and the express buses.

References

External links

Staten Island Mall official website
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