All stories about "Manhattan Mall"

If an arena falls in the woods, and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? Barely. Late yesterday, Reuters filed a story detailing Vornado Realty Trust executives' new vision for the Moynihan Station project and the endangered Hotel Pennsylvania, and it barely registered a blip on the radar. In fact, if it wasn't for the Municipal Art Society's New Penn Station blog, we would have missed it entirely. According to Reuters, if the plan to buy Madison Square Garden to force a move to the Farley Post Office doesn't work, Vornado will move ahead with Plan B, which involves a serious renovation of the existing Penn Station that includes the removal of the theater at MSG and the construction of new grand entrances on Eighth and Seventh Avenues. What's not clear is if the theater—excuse us, WaMu Theater—would be moved to the back of Moynihan, like what was originally planned for MSG (probs not, given the cost-cutting going on) or if it would just be sent to that big junkyard in the sky. And if you thought the apparent death of Moynihan Station was all the craziness in store for you, you're wrong!

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The Manhattan Mall at Herald Square is a ghost town. Entire swaths of stores have been blacked out by darkened glass. Eerie, cold breezes blow through their crevices. It looks like the Death Star in there. The mall recently sold the food court to JC Penney, shuttering the only Arby's in town, a move that upset one fan of fast-food roast beef. But who will cry for Pretzel Time? The latest mall casualty, the second-floor store stopped serving TCBY and closed their doors on April 15. Even in the mall, when chain stores close, they produce emotional goodbye notes. Pretzel Time’s says, with forced cheer, “Thank you NYC for 12 years of fun and success!” And, like the city’s more significant small businesses, these too are forced to move to the outer boroughs.

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