Manhattan Mall

The Manhattan Mall, one of the few traditional indoor malls in New York City, is located at 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue. There are entrances to the 34th Street – Herald Square subway station (B D F M N Q R trains) and the 33rd Street PATH station, (HOB-33rd, JSQ-33rd JSQ-33rd via HOB trains) on the second basement level.

This mall is a high-traffic shopping venue and has had A&S and Sterns as anchor stores in the past. Currently the major anchor store is JC Penney. The Childrenswear Center occupies many of the upper floors. Venture bought the building in 1999 for $135 million and sold it to Vornado Realty Trust in 2006 for $689 million.

The mall is located in the high-rise building formerly used by the Gimbels flagship store, which closed in 1986. After a renovation, it reopened as A&S Plaza in 1989. It was originally 13 levels high but difficult access to upper floors made the whole mall a financial failure. All but two of the street level or above floors were converted to office space, soon after Stern's closed. On April 18, 2007, JCPenney announced that it would open a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) store at the mall, its first in Manhattan. Retailers and the food court were closed to make way for the new store and the direct underground entrance to the Subway and PATH was temporarily closed. The store was opened on July 31, 2009.