Staten Island Mall

2655 Richmond Avenue | New Springville | built 1975

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1941

    Staten Island Airport opens on the land the mall would later cover

    Before the mall, this land in New Springville held the Staten Island Airport, opened in 1941. The airport site was sold in 1955 with plans for a shopping and amusement complex to be called the Staten Island Center, and in 1964 Macy's and Abraham & Straus were announced as future stores.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1973

    August 9

    Staten Island Mall opens with Macy's and Sears as its anchors

    After construction began in 1970, the mall opened on August 9, 1973, anchored by Macy's and Sears; the Abraham & Straus store announced years earlier was never built. Developed by Feist and Feist Realty Corp., it began as a two-story T-shaped building with a big outdoor plaza facing Richmond Avenue. It remains the only indoor mall on Staten Island.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1980

    The Rouse Company buys the mall and tears out the center court Honeycomb

    In 1980 Feist and Feist sold the mall to The Rouse Company, which remodeled it. Rouse cleared away the Honeycomb, a cluster of little stores in the central court, supplemented the first six escalators with more, and put in more trees and new fountains. A JCPenney wing followed in 1993, when the store moved over from Forest Avenue Shoppers Town.

    “Rouse remodeled the mall by removing the small shops in the center court known as the "Honeycomb…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1998

    New Radicals shoot the video for You Get What You Give at the mall

    The New Radicals used Staten Island Mall as the filming location for the music video of their 1998 song You Get What You Give. Opened in 1973, the mall is Staten Island's biggest retail center and ranks second in size among the city's shopping centers.

    “Staten Island Mall was used as the music video filming location for the 1998 New Radicals song "You Get What You Give".”

    Source: Wikipedia

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