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15:48 - Mall of the Damned
http://www.deadmalls.com/?/malls/nanuet_mall.html
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I've been to this place; it's not too far away. And it's largely deserted. The food court is a desultory mixture of inattentive, ill-staffed hot dog vendors and yogurt shops that offer a little bit of everything from fish & chips to turkey paninis to draw attention from the fact that there are no well-known vendors there to take up the slack—no Subway, no McDonald's, not even a Sbarro. The shops are a weird bunch of seemingly surreal and/or useless niche players: piano stores, Tae Kwon Do studios, even a store selling nothing but socks. The only people eating or shopping there seem to be ... not all there.
But... a "Lifestyle Center"? Is that what happens to malls that overstay their welcome?
The Nanuet Mall opned in 1969 in it's namesake town, which is just north of New Jersey, in New York's Rockland County. Rockland County is a largely affluent area that is home to tens of thousands of commuters who work in the greater New York City metropolitan area. This sounds like an ideal area for a Mall, but things have gone wrong...
Via this post at Strange Maps, a blog that stands to consume a great deal of what limited free time remains to me these days...
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Brian Tiemann
