I worked at this mall through the early-mid 2010s, during that time the globe fountain was enlarged and remade with the infinity edge it has now. Before it had a standard brown stone border. The ‘game’ is to try and flip a coin so it lands on top of the sphere. There was also a ‘spider fountain’ surrounding the elevator that was removed and replaced with seating areas around the same time. It had an element that would flip back and forth with the weight of the water running through it. I’d be happy to answer any other questions you may have for during that time period!
The Mall at Short Hills was renovated in Fall 1995, with an opening in Sept or October. Worked at the Borders from 1997 - 2001. It was a good place to work for. The glass globe fountain has been there since the 1980s. Thank you for this video.
Thanks for the walkthrough, Tom. I heard this Short Hills mall had expensive clothing stores even back in the 1980s and 1990s. Would be nice to walk through, but other than maybe Macy's or a food store, I don't see many stores for me.
@@fleabittenadventures But Ironically, that is NOT one of the better Macy's. This is over a decade now, but the service there was poor, and it was dirty and disorganized. Even the one at Livingston Mall seemed nicer.
For about 2 years (2016-2018) I used to live in an apartment complex just over the border in West Orange. We used to swing by here to grab Qudoba for dinner every once in a while and, for a time, I used to go to the Teavana (that I believe used to be near where that Purple store is) to buy loose leaf tea until Starbucks closed them up. Also funny to see that the Tesla location has since been taken over by Polestar. Meanwhile, my ex used to like to come here for Vineyard Vines and Vera Bradley, where I bought her a few holiday gifts when we lived nearby. My ex also got my wedding ring from that exact David Yurman location back in about 2019. Probably one of the nicest looking malls in the state, ranking up there with Garden State Plaza. Always found it kind of funny how fancy this mall was and how close it was in proximity (less than a 10 minute drive barring traffic) to the now decaying Livingston Mall.
Oh yes my local Mall finally gets featured! My parents remember when the mall wasn't enclosed. I really like the unique layout and I LOVE the fountain. I've thrown many coins into the middle of the top of the ball LMFAO. My parents and I eat at the CPK every so often and we basically only go to Macy's and Indigo. Everything else is just so darn expensive. The crazy opulence of most of the stores is just insane. I'm a car guy and I always love looking at all of the cars and dealerships scattered throughout the mall. Every once in a while the valet will have a crazy car parked out front of Neiman Marcus. (Or as my mom loves to call that store: Needless Mark-ups!😂) Also fun fact, this was the mall where there was a krazy Karen who had an absolute meltdown in the Victoria's Secret.
I also remember when it was half open and half enclosed...an old man. Bet you haven't shopped in the ORIGINAL version of Abercrombie and Fitch, with upscale safari gear, fly fishing gear and world travel guides....that was something, late 60s Short Hills Mall, before they built Bloomingdales.
I worked briefly for the A & S Store. I was sent there to help out for the opening of the store. I was definitely out of my element. I wasn’t used to a high end clientele. It was a beautiful mall.
There was no Brentano's at the Mall, but there was a Waldenbooks. There was a KB Toy Store and then FAO Schwarz in the 1980s and 1990s. There was also a Johnny Rockets.
FYI. B. Altman was located on the Southwest corner of the Mall, totally opposite end from Bloomingdales. I THINK relatively close to where Nordstrom is today. Altman's was my mother's go to.
I'd love to visit some high-end stores like these someday, especially Gucci. But according to Gucci's website you can't just walk in you have to make an appointment. Which is understandable because not everyone is going to flock to a Gucci store. Having to make an appointment to shop may sound like an inconvenience but I can see it as making the experience more personal since it's just you in the store. Because it's just you the staff can help you find a new style easier without being swamped by several customers. If I were to dip my toes into Gucci I'd start with some cologne to add to my collection. It's much more achievable than their other offerings which are pretty eye watering in price. But it's Gucci so it's expected. I'm a nut for high-end cologne, my collection has a mix of Versace, Dolce & Gabana, HUGO/HUGO BOSS, Paco Rabanne, Calvin Klein, Coach, Lacoste, Aqua DeParma and some others. But those are stored away and only used for special occasions. The stuff I have for everyday use is all cheaper stuff so I'm not wasting my good stuff. :)
great walkthrough, what a place, wow! There's a high-end mall attached to the Aria casino in Vegas, that's the one time I saw something like this personally. But I like Short Hills even better, with the fountains, cars, and weird architecture!
South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, CA has this one beat just in sheer luxury store numbers and overall scale. I spent literally YEARS in the Mall at Short Hills back in the day, and yes, its pretty upscale, but others around the country have many more luxury stores than Short Hills.
@@fleabittenadventures South Coast Plaza is truly massive. It is mindboggling the variety of Euro luxury stores there, plus so high end restaurants. Largest mall on the West Coast.
@@fleabittenadventures If you get to California and you are around Sacramento, another one to visit is the Westfield Galleria in Roseville. Its very popular, always crowded, well kept, clean, mostly upscale and appears to be very profitable.
Ooohh, so fancy! Fess up Tom! As soon as you were through with filming you made a bees line for the Omega store and threw down this months youtube revenue on a Seamaster. 😉
So expensive it's borderline ridiculous. It does look like a nice mall. The multiple Zendaya Bulgari advertisements were funny to keep counting the more you walked through the mall. All this place needs is an arcade like the SoNo Arcade(you know, nothing but claw machines lined against the wall, lol). Maybe you can swing by and buy that car for the very low, affordable price of 259,000 dollars next time. Heh, I guess I'm not really a high-end kind of person, but this was a lot of fun to see. Thanks for the great videos as always!
Both of the parts of the mall housing B. Altman and Bonwit Teller were demolished. One of them, I believe Bonwit Teller, was mid-mall by the elevator and was rebuilt to be a Saks 5th Ave. B. Altman was at the opposite end of the mall from Bloomingdale’s, near where Ferragamo and Bottega are now. Back in the day, the mall ended there and there was a large record store (Record Town), a photo processing store, and a drug store in those spaces. The expansion itself was built in the space beyond B. Altman. Additionally the Macy’s had been an A&S.
I live about 20 minutes from Short Hills Mall. The mall is a madhouse on the weekends, and busy during the week. I noticed some of the stores weren't even open yet when you went through, so it had to be pretty early in the morning. I have very specific stores I go in (Macys mostly), followed by Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel. I don't think I've been in any of the other stores, but there are definitely monetary reasons why I don't 🙂 It is a fun mall to window shop through, although a good number of the high-end stores have security at their entrances, and most of the sales associates seem to know if you're serious about an actual purchase of a 4,000.00 item. ;-)
I believe the fountain was installed in the 1970's. Its has been there since the early 1980's at least because I remember it being there when I was a kid.
I used to shop there, especially at Abercrombie back in the 90’s. I see it’s coming back. Lol I used to get a ham sandwich at Au Bon Pain back then too.
I got dragged here a lot as a kid in the 80s and 90s. It was higher-end then, but what you've shown in this video is ridiculous! I've never even heard of 3/4 of these stores before. Inequality is real, folks. Also: please do the Bridgewater Mall and the Riverside Square Mall (both in NJ).
One thing they did during the renovation was to remove wall to wall carpeting it was a teal color. I thought it so fancy to walk through a mall that had carpeting.
I worked at that mall when it had a Johnny Rockets, Natural Wonders, and Godiva Chocolate, my Store I was manager in was called Chiasso which was across from the sphere fountain
This is deff the boujiest mall I've ever been to personally. But I've seen videos of the malls in Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive, that make the Short Hills Mall look like the Livingston Mall. 😂
American and foreign tourists make a special trip to this mall. Macy's is the only moderately priced department store here. All the other ones are pricey, especially Neiman Marcus.
This mall’s thriving while Livingston is on the verge of closing and they’re not even that far apart. Eataly just opened recently and while it’s smaller compared to the ones in Manhattan, I don’t have to go to Manhattan to get my Eataly fix now. This is also where I buy most of my Apple products including the iPad that I used to type this comment.
To buy that car at 260K rounded, I would have to work almost 9 years without spending a single dime on anything else. I doubt I could make a single payment without going bankrupted. Yikes! I'll keep my Toyota Yaris. Maybe it's the way I was raised in North Central Missouri, but I will never understand why anyone would buy a "top tier" item at one of these stores when you can get it at a Wal-Mart and pay a lot less too. Still, this is a cool mall and perhaps one day I'll visit it and walk the halls. Thanks for another terrific walk-thru!
@@fleabittenadventures Incredible to spend time in a mall like this, where on a random weekday at 11AM, you'd be hard pressed to find a SINGLE customer in any of the "high end" boutiques. There were always 3 or 4 employees standing near the doorway of every lux shop, chatting away as the old men of the area did their mall walking. My dad was one of them! LOL.
22:12 seeing a T-Mobile store in there is weird and out of place. Millionaires don't use T-Mobile as their phone carrier. They use Verizon, high speed, unlimited, plans, on the newest iPhone, with the most storage.
The video wall they wrapped around the elevator really ruins its original 80’s vibe. Wasn’t there a kinetic fountain sculpture under it? Like stainless pipes that moved around with water coming out.
It’s definitely super high end, which makes it somewhat confusing that Anne Taylor is there. There’s actually quite a few stores there that are very much fast fashion.
There are a lot of doctors and attorneys and stockbrokers who live near this mall. And it draws in people from hundreds of miles and from Europe. Some European people know about this mall. I stick to the department stores and bookstore and Sephora. That's it for me.
If this is a high end mall why are the entry doors not automatic? All North American malls tend to look the same to me. if the malls were originally pre - mid 1980s and renovated , they just can't shake that very heavy look with lots of arms and even defined levels where it is easy to get lost in. The water feature of some sort the domed skylights and glass elevator seems to be standard features for these malls from the 1980s.which remain even after major renovations. These features rarely exist in pre to mid 1980s Australian malls. The water features got removed with renovations . Glass lifts or elevators also rarely exist replaced and relocated with modern enclosed ones. Central heavy spiral stair cases well nothing they can really do with those. Australian malls are a mixture of luxury and non luxury brands all under the same roof.
Go look at some TH-cam videos for shopping malls in Taipei Taiwan and Seoul South Korea if you want "High End". While High End, the High End also means you don't see the same chain stores in every mall in the area. Versace isn't going to be in the next one and the next one and the ...... If you are shopping "Normal" chains, one store is as good as another. There's no reason to make a particular mall a special destination. As an aside. I hadn't been in the Holyoke Mall in about a year and went in a couple of weeks ago. They are more or less the last man standing in Western Mass and Northern Connecticut. If they don't fill up some of those holes, I wouldn't be surprised they will be in big trouble in 3-5 years. Lots of popup stores where the store can move in and out in a couple of hours and a couple of UHaul trucks.
Looks like a lovely mall, but it exemplifies what I don't like about most such malls in the past 30 years or under, the trend towards pure high end and total unaffordability. I was out at Tanger Outlets Riverhead two weeks ago, and even there now, a lot of the designer stores are way out of my price range. And that's the outlets. Such as THEORY, which wants $600 for a suede men's jacket or sweater. It's kind of nonsense since most Americans aren't in that income bracket. The malls were never like that here on LI NY back in the 70s or 80s, they were aimed mainly at the middle class or upper. I don't know a single person who can afford the high end stores at Short Hills. To me it reflects everything that's wrong and evil about America and its disgusting capitalist greed-based system and society. Years ago in the 80s I would buy some clothes at stores like Chess King, Macy's, the Gap, and never totally break the bank or my parents' budget. I went into Nieman Marcus for a laugh a year ago at Roosevelt Field Mall, and I was shocked at how insanely expensive it was. Plenty of rich lawyers or MDs on LI I guess who can afford such things. I can't. It's just absurd. Then again a lot of Americans are living far above their income level and going into debt, too. Most of the reasons I went to malls in the 70s and 80s are now gone: various bookstores, record stores, affordable clothing, pet supplies, and more affordable dining, that is all out the window now. Even concert tickets I used to get pretty affordably at Ticketron or Ticketmaster at the LI malls back then. Now it's $2000 to see Taylor Swift. Short Hills looks very swank but people like me on a fixed income, have no use for it.
@@fleabittenadventures I may have gone overboard in my summation. These days i do enjoy hitting up some malls as much for exercise and window shopping (or getting a meal if the food court is any good), but I am surely not going there for the high end. I'm more of a JC Penneys, Macy's and Hollister man if anything! I can't even justify the prices at Abercrombie and Fitch, mostly. If I lived near Short Hills I'd likely walk the mall and eat there, maybe, but not buy much. I keep wanting to at least go tour the Dream Mall, in NJ, but I am venturing off LI less and less, and trying to totally avoid driving in, or through, NYC. I am steadfast in that for various reasons. I can always do the Dream Mall via the G. W. Bridge, I suppose. Still costs a good amount of $ to just get there.
You need to do more research in the actual retail environment instead of the history of the stores. Really, you never heard of Salvatore Ferragamo??? And when you say you would never or can't shop in this mall, your attitude is the main reason of the decline of the malls. Stop buying $35.00 crappy shoes (and owning 10 pairs) from Walmart and Target. Save your money and buy a $300.00 pair of shoes from this mall which will last you much, much longer. And at the same cost for 10 pairs.
This MALL is similar to about 8 Malls in Toronto.These designs have been around for Decades.They have come to the Limit on these buildings.They just need good tenants to survive!!
I worked at this mall through the early-mid 2010s, during that time the globe fountain was enlarged and remade with the infinity edge it has now. Before it had a standard brown stone border. The ‘game’ is to try and flip a coin so it lands on top of the sphere. There was also a ‘spider fountain’ surrounding the elevator that was removed and replaced with seating areas around the same time. It had an element that would flip back and forth with the weight of the water running through it. I’d be happy to answer any other questions you may have for during that time period!
OK, I didn't think it looked 40+ years old. Thanks for the info!
The Mall at Short Hills was renovated in Fall 1995, with an opening in Sept or October. Worked at the Borders from 1997 - 2001. It was a good place to work for. The glass globe fountain has been there since the 1980s. Thank you for this video.
This is our local mall! I’m so happy you did a video. Thanks for the great vid as always and glad you seemed to like short hills ☺️
Thanks for the walkthrough, Tom. I heard this Short Hills mall had expensive clothing stores even back in the 1980s and 1990s. Would be nice to walk through, but other than maybe Macy's or a food store, I don't see many stores for me.
Same here. I was thinking that Macy's is the only store I would consider shopping at.
@@fleabittenadventures But Ironically, that is NOT one of the better Macy's. This is over a decade now, but the service there was poor, and it was dirty and disorganized. Even the one at Livingston Mall seemed nicer.
For about 2 years (2016-2018) I used to live in an apartment complex just over the border in West Orange. We used to swing by here to grab Qudoba for dinner every once in a while and, for a time, I used to go to the Teavana (that I believe used to be near where that Purple store is) to buy loose leaf tea until Starbucks closed them up. Also funny to see that the Tesla location has since been taken over by Polestar. Meanwhile, my ex used to like to come here for Vineyard Vines and Vera Bradley, where I bought her a few holiday gifts when we lived nearby. My ex also got my wedding ring from that exact David Yurman location back in about 2019. Probably one of the nicest looking malls in the state, ranking up there with Garden State Plaza. Always found it kind of funny how fancy this mall was and how close it was in proximity (less than a 10 minute drive barring traffic) to the now decaying Livingston Mall.
Oh yes my local Mall finally gets featured! My parents remember when the mall wasn't enclosed. I really like the unique layout and I LOVE the fountain. I've thrown many coins into the middle of the top of the ball LMFAO. My parents and I eat at the CPK every so often and we basically only go to Macy's and Indigo. Everything else is just so darn expensive. The crazy opulence of most of the stores is just insane. I'm a car guy and I always love looking at all of the cars and dealerships scattered throughout the mall. Every once in a while the valet will have a crazy car parked out front of Neiman Marcus. (Or as my mom loves to call that store: Needless Mark-ups!😂) Also fun fact, this was the mall where there was a krazy Karen who had an absolute meltdown in the Victoria's Secret.
I also remember when it was half open and half enclosed...an old man. Bet you haven't shopped in the ORIGINAL version of Abercrombie and Fitch, with upscale safari gear, fly fishing gear and world travel guides....that was something, late 60s Short Hills Mall, before they built Bloomingdales.
Love the Malls. Look forward to seeing your videos. 😊
Glad you like them! Thanks!
I remember going too the CD store in short hills mall , thanks for sharing. Be safe out there
If you are ever in the Midwest, you should check out the keystone mall around the Indianapolis era. It’s a higher end mall. It’s quite nice
I worked briefly for the A & S Store. I was sent there to help out for the opening of the store. I was definitely out of my element. I wasn’t used to a high end clientele. It was a beautiful mall.
There was no Brentano's at the Mall, but there was a Waldenbooks. There was a KB Toy Store and then FAO Schwarz in the 1980s and 1990s. There was also a Johnny Rockets.
21:45 lol finally something I could afford, Dunkin & Auntie Anne's
FYI. B. Altman was located on the Southwest corner of the Mall, totally opposite end from Bloomingdales. I THINK relatively close to where Nordstrom is today. Altman's was my mother's go to.
I'd love to visit some high-end stores like these someday, especially Gucci. But according to Gucci's website you can't just walk in you have to make an appointment. Which is understandable because not everyone is going to flock to a Gucci store. Having to make an appointment to shop may sound like an inconvenience but I can see it as making the experience more personal since it's just you in the store. Because it's just you the staff can help you find a new style easier without being swamped by several customers.
If I were to dip my toes into Gucci I'd start with some cologne to add to my collection. It's much more achievable than their other offerings which are pretty eye watering in price. But it's Gucci so it's expected. I'm a nut for high-end cologne, my collection has a mix of Versace, Dolce & Gabana, HUGO/HUGO BOSS, Paco Rabanne, Calvin Klein, Coach, Lacoste, Aqua DeParma and some others. But those are stored away and only used for special occasions. The stuff I have for everyday use is all cheaper stuff so I'm not wasting my good stuff. :)
great walkthrough, what a place, wow! There's a high-end mall attached to the Aria casino in Vegas, that's the one time I saw something like this personally. But I like Short Hills even better, with the fountains, cars, and weird architecture!
South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, CA has this one beat just in sheer luxury store numbers and overall scale. I spent literally YEARS in the Mall at Short Hills back in the day, and yes, its pretty upscale, but others around the country have many more luxury stores than Short Hills.
Cool! That gives me something to look forward to!
@@fleabittenadventures South Coast Plaza is truly massive. It is mindboggling the variety of Euro luxury stores there, plus so high end restaurants. Largest mall on the West Coast.
@@fleabittenadventures If you get to California and you are around Sacramento, another one to visit is the Westfield Galleria in Roseville. Its very popular, always crowded, well kept, clean, mostly upscale and appears to be very profitable.
Ooohh, so fancy! Fess up Tom! As soon as you were through with filming you made a bees line for the Omega store and threw down this months youtube revenue on a Seamaster. 😉
Love to hear you say this. I love this mall too.
It's nice to visit, but I'm afraid I can't afford to shop there. Thanks for watching!
So expensive it's borderline ridiculous. It does look like a nice mall. The multiple Zendaya Bulgari advertisements were funny to keep counting the more you walked through the mall. All this place needs is an arcade like the SoNo Arcade(you know, nothing but claw machines lined against the wall, lol). Maybe you can swing by and buy that car for the very low, affordable price of 259,000 dollars next time. Heh, I guess I'm not really a high-end kind of person, but this was a lot of fun to see. Thanks for the great videos as always!
Both of the parts of the mall housing B. Altman and Bonwit Teller were demolished. One of them, I believe Bonwit Teller, was mid-mall by the elevator and was rebuilt to be a Saks 5th Ave. B. Altman was at the opposite end of the mall from Bloomingdale’s, near where Ferragamo and Bottega are now. Back in the day, the mall ended there and there was a large record store (Record Town), a photo processing store, and a drug store in those spaces. The expansion itself was built in the space beyond B. Altman. Additionally the Macy’s had been an A&S.
Ha! Foot Locker was the only store I recognised that we have in Australia. This was a great video - all those high end stores!
I live about 20 minutes from Short Hills Mall. The mall is a madhouse on the weekends, and busy during the week. I noticed some of the stores weren't even open yet when you went through, so it had to be pretty early in the morning. I have very specific stores I go in (Macys mostly), followed by Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel. I don't think I've been in any of the other stores, but there are definitely monetary reasons why I don't 🙂 It is a fun mall to window shop through, although a good number of the high-end stores have security at their entrances, and most of the sales associates seem to know if you're serious about an actual purchase of a 4,000.00 item. ;-)
I believe the fountain was installed in the 1970's. Its has been there since the early 1980's at least because I remember it being there when I was a kid.
Thanks for the info!
11:48 I think those geometric ceiling features are a common thing found in all Taubman malls, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes! I was going to mention that the ceiling looked similar to Westfarms, except for the lack of the cylindrical lights.
That fountain has been there for 35+ years back when it was a small partly open air mall.
Really!??? It looks so new! Thanks for the info.
I used to shop there, especially at Abercrombie back in the 90’s. I see it’s coming back. Lol
I used to get a ham sandwich at Au Bon Pain back then too.
Very Wonderful Video!!!!! I Love The Fountains!!!! F+L, Corey
Thanks!
I got dragged here a lot as a kid in the 80s and 90s. It was higher-end then, but what you've shown in this video is ridiculous! I've never even heard of 3/4 of these stores before. Inequality is real, folks.
Also: please do the Bridgewater Mall and the Riverside Square Mall (both in NJ).
One thing they did during the renovation was to remove wall to wall carpeting it was a teal color. I thought it so fancy to walk through a mall that had carpeting.
Not sure if you’ve been there, but try the Natick Mall in Massachusetts. That’s also extremely high-end
Yes, I did a video there about a year ago. Natick has one wing that is super high-end, then another wing that looks fairly mid-end.
I worked at that mall when it had a Johnny Rockets, Natural Wonders, and Godiva Chocolate, my Store I was manager in was called Chiasso which was across from the sphere fountain
This is deff the boujiest mall I've ever been to personally. But I've seen videos of the malls in Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive, that make the Short Hills Mall look like the Livingston Mall. 😂
As always great video 👍
Thanks!
Short Hills is big money town. I used to do a lot of work there.
American and foreign tourists make a special trip to this mall. Macy's is the only moderately priced department store here. All the other ones are pricey, especially Neiman Marcus.
This mall’s thriving while Livingston is on the verge of closing and they’re not even that far apart. Eataly just opened recently and while it’s smaller compared to the ones in Manhattan, I don’t have to go to Manhattan to get my Eataly fix now. This is also where I buy most of my Apple products including the iPad that I used to type this comment.
I've been to this mall. It's gorgeous and super swanky. It actually made me feel bad for myself it was so high end.
From all your mall walk videos, I would say the only other mall that is as high end as this one (Short Hills, NJ) was the Copley Place Mall in Boston.
You should check out Somerset Mall in Troy, MI. So Fancy!!
Some day!
I was in this mall one time… I think in the mid 90s? The only thing I’ve ever been able to remember about it is that they had a Mont Blanc store.
You know a mall is high end if it has a Rolex store in it where the cheapest new watch there is at least $4,000.00
Everybody in NJ knows that mall as the boujie mall. The mall that makes you feel poor walking in it.
To buy that car at 260K rounded, I would have to work almost 9 years without spending a single dime on anything else. I doubt I could make a single payment without going bankrupted. Yikes! I'll keep my Toyota Yaris. Maybe it's the way I was raised in North Central Missouri, but I will never understand why anyone would buy a "top tier" item at one of these stores when you can get it at a Wal-Mart and pay a lot less too. Still, this is a cool mall and perhaps one day I'll visit it and walk the halls. Thanks for another terrific walk-thru!
Some people have money to burn. Must be nice....
@@fleabittenadventures Incredible to spend time in a mall like this, where on a random weekday at 11AM, you'd be hard pressed to find a SINGLE customer in any of the "high end" boutiques. There were always 3 or 4 employees standing near the doorway of every lux shop, chatting away as the old men of the area did their mall walking. My dad was one of them! LOL.
B. Altman was located where Neiman-Marcus and Nordstrom are located.
Ok, makes sense. Thanks!
22:12 seeing a T-Mobile store in there is weird and out of place. Millionaires don't use T-Mobile as their phone carrier. They use Verizon, high speed, unlimited, plans, on the newest iPhone, with the most storage.
Well, today I learned that !ndigo is an international chain! I'd only ever seen them here in Canada
This mall has been around for over 60 years? Is this one of the oldest malls in America?
The video wall they wrapped around the elevator really ruins its original 80’s vibe. Wasn’t there a kinetic fountain sculpture under it? Like stainless pipes that moved around with water coming out.
I worked at 150 JFK for several years was there all the time.when Tesla first debuted they had a store there.
Fleabitten Adventures, did you know that Indigo bookstore I saw at the mall is based out of Canada?
Nope. No idea. Is there anything special about it? I've never heard of it.
@@fleabittenadventures Indigo is the largest bookstore chain in Canada. They opened their 1st & only US location in Short Hills.
I could be wrong unless they moved Create and Barrel I believe Indigo took the old Saks Fifth Ave Space.
Both of them are in the former Saks, occupying their own level. Industrious is also in the former Saks.
Was there a food court in the mall?
Nope. Too fancy for that.
They don't want a food court in there, because it might attract "poor people."
They can't have that.
It’s definitely super high end, which makes it somewhat confusing that Anne Taylor is there. There’s actually quite a few stores there that are very much fast fashion.
Nice mall. Looks decant
$250k? That’s only like 4 videos of revenue for Tom! 🎉😂😂😂
Yes, I make almost as much as Mr. Beast.
I don't think I've ever seen dollar bills in a fountain before?
They were probably $100 bills.
@@fleabittenadventures Headed to the mall now!
Looks like Westfarms.
All that north Jersey pharmaceutical money!!!
There are a lot of doctors and attorneys and stockbrokers who live near this mall. And it draws in people from hundreds of miles and from Europe. Some European people know about this mall. I stick to the department stores and bookstore and Sephora. That's it for me.
Is that what it is?
If this is a high end mall why are the entry doors not automatic?
All North American malls tend to look the same to me.
if the malls were originally pre - mid 1980s and renovated , they just can't shake that very heavy look with lots of arms and even defined levels where it is easy to get lost in.
The water feature of some sort the domed skylights and glass elevator seems to be standard features for these malls from the 1980s.which remain even after major renovations.
These features rarely exist in pre to mid 1980s Australian malls. The water features got removed with renovations . Glass lifts or elevators also rarely exist replaced and relocated with modern enclosed ones.
Central heavy spiral stair cases well nothing they can really do with those.
Australian malls are a mixture of luxury and non luxury brands all under the same roof.
Go look at some TH-cam videos for shopping malls in Taipei Taiwan and Seoul South Korea if you want "High End". While High End, the High End also means you don't see the same chain stores in every mall in the area. Versace isn't going to be in the next one and the next one and the ...... If you are shopping "Normal" chains, one store is as good as another. There's no reason to make a particular mall a special destination.
As an aside. I hadn't been in the Holyoke Mall in about a year and went in a couple of weeks ago. They are more or less the last man standing in Western Mass and Northern Connecticut. If they don't fill up some of those holes, I wouldn't be surprised they will be in big trouble in 3-5 years. Lots of popup stores where the store can move in and out in a couple of hours and a couple of UHaul trucks.
No food court huh, not many food options in this mall which is concerning.
The mall is too high end to have a typical food court. Eataly just opened, which is sort of like a food court & grocery store all in one space.
Oh ok, there should add like a Shake Shack or a Chick Fil A somewhere
High end and completely empty 😂
I wouldn’t shop there ever. Too expensive and items I would never buy.
Same.
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Looks like a lovely mall, but it exemplifies what I don't like about most such malls in the past 30 years or under, the trend towards pure high end and total unaffordability. I was out at
Tanger Outlets Riverhead two weeks ago, and even there now, a lot of the designer stores are way out of my price range. And that's the outlets. Such as THEORY, which wants $600
for a suede men's jacket or sweater. It's kind of nonsense since most Americans aren't in that income bracket. The malls were never like that here on LI NY back in the 70s or 80s,
they were aimed mainly at the middle class or upper. I don't know a single person who can afford the high end stores at Short Hills. To me it reflects everything that's wrong and evil
about America and its disgusting capitalist greed-based system and society. Years ago in the 80s I would buy some clothes at stores like Chess King, Macy's, the Gap, and never
totally break the bank or my parents' budget. I went into Nieman Marcus for a laugh a year ago at Roosevelt Field Mall, and I was shocked at how insanely expensive it was.
Plenty of rich lawyers or MDs on LI I guess who can afford such things. I can't. It's just absurd. Then again a lot of Americans are living far above their income level and going into
debt, too. Most of the reasons I went to malls in the 70s and 80s are now gone: various bookstores, record stores, affordable clothing, pet supplies, and more affordable dining,
that is all out the window now. Even concert tickets I used to get pretty affordably at Ticketron or Ticketmaster at the LI malls back then. Now it's $2000 to see Taylor Swift.
Short Hills looks very swank but people like me on a fixed income, have no use for it.
I agree. It's too high end for me.
@@fleabittenadventures I may have gone overboard in my summation. These days i do enjoy hitting up some malls as much for exercise and window shopping (or getting a meal if the food court is any good), but I am surely not going there for the high end. I'm more of a JC Penneys, Macy's and Hollister man if anything! I can't even justify the prices at Abercrombie and Fitch, mostly. If I lived near Short Hills I'd likely walk the mall and eat there, maybe, but not buy much. I keep wanting to at least go tour the Dream Mall, in NJ, but I am venturing off LI less and less, and trying to totally avoid driving in, or through, NYC. I am steadfast in that for various reasons. I can always do the Dream Mall via the G. W. Bridge, I suppose. Still costs a good amount of $ to just get there.
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Dude nobody gives a damn about a mall anymore
This looks terrible. Some random asian malls looks better, and that's way older than this (no renovate)
You need to do more research in the actual retail environment instead of the history of the stores. Really, you never heard of Salvatore Ferragamo??? And when you say you would never or can't shop in this mall, your attitude is the main reason of the decline of the malls. Stop buying $35.00 crappy shoes (and owning 10 pairs) from Walmart and Target. Save your money and buy a $300.00 pair of shoes from this mall which will last you much, much longer. And at the same cost for 10 pairs.
You are right. I am to blame for the decline of malls.
This MALL is similar to about 8 Malls in Toronto.These designs have been around for Decades.They have come to the Limit on these buildings.They just need good tenants to survive!!