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Conway in downtown Brooklyn re-opens. |
While the other Conway stores in Manhattan remain shuttered, this weekend we perused the "new" Fulton Mall store...but what's inside leaves a lot to be desired. Pum-pum shorts, polyester maxi dresses and a sparse assortment of other gaudy clothing and accessories. If this is the "Grand Opening," as the sign outside proclaims, we'd hate to see what the store's next closing will look like.
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Armani Exchange represents the new Fulton Mall./Photos by Tracy E. Hopkins |
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Popular retailers like H&M and Nordstrom Rack have set up shop in downtown Brooklyn. |
Fulton Mall/downtown Brooklyn landscape.
There's a Shake Shack. Need we say more?
With the influx of popular retailers like H&M, Brooklyn Industries, Armani Exchange, Swarovski, Polo, and Gap, American Eagle Outfitters and Banana Republic outlet stores, the mall is clearly trying to deter Brooklynites from shopping in Manhattan and attract a more affluent customer.
This spring, T.J. Maxx and Nordstrom Rack will open next to H&M, and Last Call by Neiman Marcus will open in fall 2014 next to the new Sephora and It's Sugar stores at the corner of Joralemon and Court Street.
My mom was a fashion hound (which I believe is why I'm a fashion stylist and personal shopper today) and she would take me downtown Brooklyn (we lived in Park Slope at the time) to shop at stores like A&S, Bamberger's and May's Department stores (all of which no longer exist) and now to see where it was once such a great neighborhood that had gone to shambles has once again become amazing. It's so wonderful to see stores like H&M, Armani Exchange and Neiman Marcus there, I have to smile (and I know my mom is also smiling down from above). Thank you retailers for bringing back the glorious shopping mecca that Brooklyn always was meant to be!
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