Walt Whitman Mall

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Walt Whitman Mall


Location	Huntington Station, New York, USA
Owner	Simon Property Group
No. of stores and services	88
No. of anchor tenants	4
Parking	5043 spaces
No. of floors	1
Website	Simon Malls

Walt Whitman Mall is a shopping mall located in Huntington Station, NY on Walt Whitman Rd (Rt 110) and Jericho Turnpike. It has many stores including main anchors Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue. It also has restaurants such as Legal Sea Foods, California Pizza Kitchen and Panera Bread although it does not operate a food court. The Cheesecake Factory has recently opened. The mall is owned and managed by Melvin Simon and Associates, one of the largest developers of shopping malls in the United States and owner of Long Island's largest mall, Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City. Suffolk County Transit, MTA Long Island Bus and Huntington Area Rapid Transit all have bus routes that service the mall.

Walt Whitman Mall is the first enclosed mall located on Long Island. ^[1]

The mall is named for the poet Walt Whitman due to the close proximity to his birthplace, a National Historic site located just down the road from the mall on Walt Whitman Road (Rt 110). Quotations from Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" are engraved in the exterior facade of the mall.

1 Anchors
- 1.1 Previous Anchors
2 Fires
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Anchors

Bloomingdale's (220,000 sq. ft.)
Lord & Taylor (120,000 sq. ft.)
Macy's (302,278 sq. ft.)
Saks Fifth Avenue (100,000 sq. ft.)

[edit] Previous Anchors

Abraham & Straus, A&S was located in the store which is currently occupied by Macy's. Macy's moved from its former location, which then was remodeled, and became Bloomingdales.
McCrory Stores, It was here that a fire was started in May of 1991 which burned through the middle section of the mall.^[2]

[edit] Fires

1984: The fire destroyed seven stores and damaged 25 others in the 106-store mall.^[3]

1991: In 1993 a McCrory's worker plead guilty to tossing a lit cigarette into a display of silk flowers set on a block of Styrofoam, killing two of his coworkers aged 20 and 27.^[4]