Roosevelt Field (shopping mall)
USINFO | 2013-10-29 13:54

Roosevelt Field is a leading Americanshopping mall. It is the second-largest high-end shopping mall in the state of New York (following only Destiny USA in Syracuse) and tenth in the country as measured by gross leaseable area at 2,244,581 ft² (208,528.4 m²). It is owned and managed by Simon Property Group. The mall is located in East Garden City, New York, just outside of Garden City, part of the Town of Hempstead on Long Island. The anchors of the 270-store mall are: Bloomingdale's, JCPenney, Macy's, Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Neiman Marcus (expected opening: 2015). Previous anchor stores were Gimbels (succeeded by Stern's), A&S, and Alexander's (succeeded by Bloomingdale's). The original anchor store was Macy's.

The mall is adjacent to the Meadowbrook State Parkway, making it accessible from the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway. It is a major hub of Nassau Inter-County Express, with several bus routes stopping in a terminal area near the southern parking structure.

It was constructed on the site of, and named for, Roosevelt Field, an airport and military airfield where Charles Lindbergh began his historic trans-Atlantic flight. At one time, a plaque at the north end of the mall (in the hall that now connects Dick's and JCPenney) marked the spot where Lindbergh left the ground. Today the plaque is inside the mall, near the Disney Store.

Security
From the 1970s through the end of the 1980s, security at Roosevelt Field was provided by a house security group made up of retired NYPD officers and a contract group of guards hired from K-Security Guard Corp. of Bellmore, NY. The Nassau County Police Department also had a foot post assigned to the mall—Special Post 10 (which is still there today). Security is currently provided by Simon Property Group's security contractor, AlliedBarton.

 

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