Improv Everywhere's public musicals are generally crowd-pleasers, so it's not surprising the troupe revamped their grocery store bit and put a yuletide spin on it for the holiday season. This month they're offering up a Mall Santa Musical, filmed, naturally, in New Jersey. more ›

You guys remember Angelina Pivarnick, right? The Staten Island Guidette who was on the Jersey Shore for a hot second but left before castmembers started making $100,000 a pop? Well, she's still alive, and desperately clawing her way back into the public consciousness by suing the girl who allegedly attacked her in a Hot Topic at the Staten Island Mall. more ›

The great chili caper has finally come to an end: a Yonkers woman was arrested at a White Plains Victoria Secret yesterday for dumping a vat of chili on a panties display in a fit of fiery anger. more ›

Xanadu is the perfectly named New Jersey shopping mall that never was. Though ground was broken on the project in 2004, it turns out that indoor ski slopes are pretty tough to build, and taking loans from a Lehman Brothers subsidiary isn't a great business strategy. Not to mention you need a full-blown opium addiction to appreciate its exterior design (it's been officially declared ugly by 74% of residents). But today's NY Times reveals that Xanadu is BACK, baby! Could a renewed appreciation for the film Xanadu be far behind? (Yes. Very very, far behind.) more ›

A scenario so unusual it could be ripe for Chris Rock's next movie role: on Friday the actor/comedian became a temporary midwife when he came to the rescue of a woman in labor! Allegedly Rock was shopping at the Neiman Marcus in the Garden State Plaza mall when a woman's water broke. He was just a few feet away when the incident occurred, and tried to keep the woman calm until the ambulance arrived. One eyewitness told US, "He was making the crowd and the woman in labor laugh. She recognized who he was immediately and he stayed there until the paramedics took her away." How did no one catch this on video? more ›

Angelina Pivarnick from Jersey Shore was attacked! In a mall! On Staten Island! According to TMZ, she reported the incident to police, and a source told the site she was in a Hot Topic store when approached by a "rowdy group" of youngsters. "Angelina claims somebody attacked her from behind—striking her in the back of the head." Her friend told police someone may have threw a bottle at her. Mall security says she was only accidentally smacked in the face, however. Either way, don't panic everyone, she's going to be okay! more ›

Straight from the "Get-off-of-our-lawns" files: Forest City Ratner, developers of the huge Atlantic Yards project, doesn't want groups of teens hanging out around the Atlantic Terminal mall they operate in Fort Greene. The mall has a policy that groups of four or more people under 21 years old and unaccompanied by a parent are not allowed to linger at the mall. According to Jesse Tron of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the policy is unusually harsh, “more all-encompassing” than others around the country, and “more restrictive” of young shoppers. more ›

The 163-year-old church that formerly housed the Limelight will now be known as the Limelight Marketplace. Times they are a changin'. The mini mall opens this Friday at 2 p.m.—it boasts 20,000-square-feet and 60 shops, cafes and food concessions throughout multiple levels (here's a sneak peek at what's inside). Get ready to party... right? Just leave your glow sticks and blow at home. more ›

Last month Brownstoner reported that a huge housing and retail complex was coming to a plot of land in Williamsburg, by Keap Street, Grand Street and Borniquen Place. Today the Brooklyn Paper takes a closer look at the development, using the dreaded M word—and not just any mall, either: a strip mall. more ›

It's beginning to look like the glitzy, upscale Plaza Hotel may go the way of Tavern on the Green. After a century in the business, the landmark hotel and playground to Eloise is losing its cache, and its profits too. Where the Plaza's gilded halls are concerned, do New Yorkers want in with the new, out with the gold? more ›

While it may not be opening until the Spring of next year, the Limelight Marketplace invited us over today to take a look at the space as it transforms yet again. Photographer Katie Sokoler reports back that, "although it's just a bunch of mini stores, they don't want to be known as a mini mall! It's a market." The folks there also told her that it would be very family friendly (but no club kids), and "Saturdays it will feel like a carnival because they'll have clowns and mascots walking around." Terrifying! more ›

Today the City Planning Commission approved a controversial plan to turn the Kingsbridge Armory, a massive red-brick castle in the Bronx, into a mall that will include a large department store, shops and a movie theater. Outspoken opponents of the $310 million project include Bronx borough president Rubén Díaz Jr., who insists the developer should not get the green light unless future mall employees are guaranteed a living wage: "These jobs are not going to allow Bronx families to get themselves out of poverty." It's now up to the City Council to vote on the project. more ›

The people behind the Limelight Marketplace have released renderings of their future mall. They tell us "the storied 163-year-old venue in Manhattan’s Flatiron district is being transformed into a three-story shopper’s paradise." When it opens, expect to see jewelry, organic groceries, candy, art, home decor, a salon and a sneaker shop. Do not expect to see club kids, trannies and cocaine-coated floorboards. more ›

Ernest Hemingway once wrote the saddest story in just six words, but we might have a new contender after last night's Fashion's Night Out extravaganza: Wintour wears t-shirt to Queens Mall. While editrix Anna's tale may not be as sad as "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," it's certainly comically tragic enough. The Vogue editor organized the worldwide event, getting A-list to D-list to no-listers all out to spend their cash at retailers—or at least show up to be a part of the scene, which NY Mag's Cut Blog said was "like Mardi Gras but with smaller boobs and pricier beads." more ›

Earlier today, a small plane—carrying a flight instructor and a student pilot—crashed at the Rockaway Townsquare Mall parking lot in NJ. The Record reports that plane "[crushed] its nose gear... bringing it within 100 yards of JC Penney. The plane departed from Essex County airport and shortly after takeoff the pilot reported a rough running engine. He then tried to put the plane down in the mall parking lot, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said." more ›

After catching the fall of a woman who leaped to her death inside the Queens Center Mall, a teenager has been released from the hospital without any memory of yesterday's accident. Derrick Munoz, a sophomore at Amityville High School, was sitting in a massage chair with his girlfriend on the ground level of the mall when 55-year-old Mary Lovelace landed on him after jumping from the third-floor balcony. He had suffered some non-life-threatening head trauma; his girlfriend told the News, "We were talking and all of a sudden I feel something heavy on me. I get up and I see a lady on the floor." Newsday says that before the jump, Lovelace "appeared to argue with other people, believed to be her relatives, before taking off her shoes and jacket and dropping her purse. She then dangled from a balcony railing and let go." The DA's office says that her two children witnessed the incident. more ›

Check it out, check it out! Red Hook may have lost its iconic Revere Sugar Refinery Dome, but look what the neighborhood is gaining on that mostly-cleared parcel of land adjacent to IKEA: A 376,000 square foot shopping mall with a massive BJ's, the discount big box wholesaler you can find all over the United States of Generica! These renderings leaked to Curbed/Racked reveal the vast breadth of the project (first hinted at last September), which would be the largest retail development in over two decades. If you build it, they will shop? more ›

When the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing Monday night to consider an ambitious proposal to raze the Pier 17 mall at the South Street Seaport to make room for boutiques, a hotel and a 42-story condo, there was fierce objection from the Municipal Arts Society, who opposed not just the "out of scale" tower but plans to relocate a 1903 landmark building from its current location in the shadow of the FDR to the pier's edge. Formerly part of the Fulton Fish Market, it's called the Tin Building, and NY1 reports that many people don't even know about it because of its lousy location and also because it was gutted by a fire in 1995. The developer sees moving it as an opportunity to restore and rebuild it with "authentic materials," but MAS says relocating it would "set a troublesome precedent...The Tin Building is important because it's really the only historic building on the water side of the FDR Drive." more ›

Never mind that mall owner General Growth Properties—the current leaseholder of the South Street Seaport, as well other retail outlets nationwide—has been scrambling recently to refinance massive debt by selling off $2 billion in rapidly devaluing stock. The company is still pushing forward with an ambitious plan (rendered above) to turn the underwhelming Seaport tourist trap into a more vibrant destination, by razing the existing Pier 17 mall, relocating the landmark Tin Building, and throwing up a 42-story waterfront condo/hotel tower, as well as a wood-based boutique hotel and two-story retail structures designed by SHoP Architects. more ›

The Brooklyn Paper has learned that a proposed BJ's in Red Hook would be part of a much larger project than originally believed. Documents obtained by the paper reveal that developer Joe Sitt wants to renovate a historic warehouse on the site of the now-demolished Revere sugar refinery and make the BJ's part of a six story shopping mall, Red Hook's first. Traffic-hating locals will surely find the proposal hard to swallow, but the real worry here is the proliferation of Brooklyn Paper headlines like these: "Hookers to get BJ’s in a mall." Sitt's plan, which he's been quietly passing around to solicit bids from architects, calls for a waterfront esplanade, some residential units, several new buildings for shopping, and plenty of free parking, all right next to IKEA. Watch your back, Paramus! more ›

The Kingsbridge Amory in the Bronx has stood as a colossal unused edifice in the Bronx for years. The City recently negotiated with development group The Related Companies to transform the building into a commercial mall. Some residents are unhappy that a piece of their neighborhood with a lot of potential is being sold out from under them. more ›

Jessica Tush was last seen alive Wednesday at the Staten Island Mall where she works. New Jersey police officials are now confirming that the body of a young woman found in a shallow grave by hikers in the Garden State's Pine Barrens was that of the missing teenager. An initial medical examination indicates that Tush was likely strangled to death. It was originally suspected that Jessica was abducted by force from the mall, but sources told the Staten Island Advance that it now looks like she left the mall with someone she knew. more ›