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Friday, September 4, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 36
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$28K IN MERCHANDISE STOLEN DiNAPOLI WARNS FROM DIOR AT AMERICANA OF THREAT TO MTA
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Lord & Taylor to close after 80 years
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W I L L I E I N WAT E R
Manhasset location one of 38 to shutter in company’s liquidation 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 the Manhasset community” in a Continued on Page 34
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Laborador retriever Willie, of Plandome, goes for a dip in Hempstead Harbor.
Montaukett, Shinnecock members: Change mascot BY R O S E W E L D ON Members of two Long Island-based Native American organizations have voiced support for efforts to get the Manhasset school district to
change its Indian mascot. Sadanyah FlowingWater of the Montaukett tribe and Jeremy Dennis of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, both based on the East End, are the first Native figures to specifi-
cally comment on the conversation, which until now has been dominated by Manhasset alumni who consider the mascot outdated and racist, and a Change.org petition with over Continued on Page 35
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