Shopping -Outlets and department stores

Now, you know where you should stay, eat, and visit. What is your next step? I recommend going to shopping. New York City is the center of shopping in the world! Expensive goods coexist with cheap and reasonal goods in the city. I have seen a lot of shopaholics at there and they trot about department stores and luxury brand flagship stores. Window-shopping is also possible. Sales clerks are so kind. Let’s check where we can go to window-shopping or buy.

 

Outlets

Some outlets are in New York City and nearby New York City.

 

Century 21

Century 21 is a chain of department stores in the northeastern United States. There are stores located in Long Island/Westbury (NY), Brooklyn (NY), Morristown (NJ), and Paramus (NJ), but the largest location is in Lower Manhattan, across the street from the World Trade Center site. You can find items by luxury brands for as little as $10 if happy chances serve.

 

Woodbury Common Premium Outlets

The Outlets is an outlet center located in Central Valley, New York. The center is part of the Chelsea Premium Outlets group and takes its name from the town in which it is located. Opened in late 1985, expanded in 1993, and again in 1998, the center now has 220 stores occupying more than 72,000 m² and is one of the largest contiguous outlet centers in the world. Due to its size, different areas are color coded to help visitors orient themselves, on weekends trolleys are available to transport shoppers from the parking lots and around the center. Due to its proximity to New York City, Woodbury Common is a major attraction for foreign tourists visiting the region.

 

Department stores

So many department stores are in Manhattan and then five stores were I have ever visited.

 

Barneys

Barneys New York is a chain of luxury department stores headquartered in New York City. The chain owns large stores in New York City, Beverly Hills, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, and Scottsdale, and smaller stores in other locations across the United States. Brands sold include Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Louboutin, The Row, Fendi, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Maison Martin Margiela, Lanvin, Balenciaga, Prada, Jil Sander, Dries van Noten, Diane von Furstenberg, Bettanin & Venturi and Burberry Prorsum, as well as Barneys private label merchandise. The New York, Chicago, and Beverly Hills stores also have restaurants that are operated by third parties.

 

Bergdorf Goodman

Bergdorf Goodman is a luxury goods department store based on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The company was founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf and was later owned and managed by Edwin Goodman, and later his son Andrew Goodman. Today, Bergdorf operates from two stores situated across the street from each other at Fifth Avenue between 57th and 58th Streets. Bergdorf Goodman's main store, which opened at its current location in 1928, is located on the west side of Fifth Avenue. A separate men's store, established in 1990, is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue, directly across the street. Bergdorf is a subsidiary of Neiman Marcus, which is owned by the private equity firms TPG Capital and Warburg Pincus.

 

Bloomingdale's

Bloomingdale's is an American department store owned by Macy's, Inc. Bloomingdale's started in 1861 when brothers Joseph and Lyman G. Bloomingdale started selling hoop-skirts in their Ladies Notions' Shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The pair were sons of Benjamin Bloomingdale, a Bavarian-born salesman who had lived in North Carolina and Kansas, and settled in New York City. In 1872 the Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City. Bloomingdales' biggest competitors are Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, & Saks Fifth Avenue. Bloomingdale's also competes with Nordstrom and Von Maur.

 

Saks Fifth Avenue

Saks Fifth Avenue is a luxury American specialty store owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises, a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the high-end specialty store market in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, i.e. 'the 3 B's' Bergdorf, Barneys and Bloomingdale's. The company headquarters and the company-designated flagship store are in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

 

New York Macy's

Macy's is a U.S. chain of mid-to-high range department stores. In addition to its New York flagship store, the company has designated additional regional flagships in several other major urban centers and as of January 30, 2010 operates over 800 stores in the United States. In addition, Macy's operates eSpot ZoomShops kiosks in over 300 store locations, selling consumer electronics. The company produces the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a noted parade which has been held in New York City annually since 1924. The company also sponsors the city's annual Fourth of July fireworks display, beginning in 1976. Despite being advertised as the largest in the world, it is no longer the biggest store in the world. Currently the biggest store in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is the flagship store of Shinsegae in Centum City, South Korea with an area of 509,810 square metres, almost twice that of Macy's. The chain competes with Belk, The Bon-Ton Stores, Dillard's, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue