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Friday, September 4, 2020
Vol. 95, No. 36
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Lord & Taylor to close locations throughout U.S.
THE MASKED SCOUT
To include recently renovated Manhasset, Garden City stores BY R O S E W E L D ON Two prominent North Shore locations of a beloved luxury retailer are on the chopping block as a bankruptcy leads to liquidation. The Lord & Taylor stores in Manhasset and Garden City were two of the remaining 38 locations the retailer had kept open after its parent company, the France-based Le Tote Inc., filed for bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond on Aug. 2. Now, both are scheduled to close, with signs referring to “going out of business” sales and discounted prices viewable in their windows. Bankruptcy rumors had surrounded the 194-year-old company since it closed its 11-story flagship Manhattan store on Fifth Avenue in 2019. Following the closure of a number of locations after officially filing, Le Tote had reported that it was seeking a buyer for
the remaining stores. Earlier in August, the only Long Island location of the chain to close was in Suffolk County, at the Bay Shore Mall on Sunrise Highway. The last of four stores on the island, a tenant at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, will also close in the new wave. The two North Shore locations had previously undergone major renovation projects, first announced in 2016. The Garden City location received an enhanced spa room and additions to its top-floor cafe, completed in 2016, and the Manhasset location received a 38,000-squarefoot expansion and additional parking, opening the new developments in late 2018. The Greater Council of Manhasset Civic Associations called Lord & Taylor “a longstanding and formidable Miracle Mile institution and a good neighbor to Continued on Page 45
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Great Neck Boy Scout Thomas Lo donated masks to residents of Magnolia Gardens last week.
Sept. 11 ceremony to be held at Ielpi Park in G.N. BY R OB E RT PELAEZ, ELLIOT WELD AND ROSE WELDON
distancing requirements will not stop local municipalities from holding memorial events to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, A state-mandated limit on terror attacks. VILLAGE EVENTS crowd capacity and physical
Great Neck Vigilant Fire Chief Josh Charry said the area’s yearly memorial ceremony will be held at Jonathan Ielpi Firefighters Park on Grace Avenue beginning at 9 a.m. on Continued on Page 34
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