{"id":52099,"date":"2025-11-25T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52099\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:05:26","slug":"hm-closing-two-big-manhattan-stores-in-setback-for-citys-retail-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52099\/","title":{"rendered":"H&#038;M closing two big Manhattan stores in setback for city&#8217;s retail scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer H&amp;M will shutter two large Manhattan stores in January, according to postings on the state Labor Department web site.<\/p>\n<p>The doomed stores are at 18 Church St. at the World Trade Center and 150 E. 86th St. The closings will dump a total of 55,000 square feet of space on the market at a time when the Big Apple\u2019s retail scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/23\/real-estate\/nyc-retail-leasing-sizzles-along-madison-avenue-bleecker-street-but-cools-in-these-tourist-zones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">although improving<\/a> from the worst months of the pandemic, continues to struggle at some locations.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.53984962;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37764195\" width=\"909\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/h-m-store-150-28605799.jpg\" alt=\"The H&amp;M store at 150 East 86th Street in Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-37764195\"  \/>The H&amp;M store at 150 E. 86th St. Closures here and at the World Trade Center will dump a total of 55,000 square feet of space on the market. G.N. Miller\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The shutdowns are part of Swedish-owned H&amp;M\u2019s plan to close about 200 of more than 4,300 stores it operates globally as\u00a0part of a cost-cutting effort.<\/p>\n<p>Eight H&amp;M locations will be left in the city after the Manhattan store closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retailer H&amp;M will shutter two large Manhattan stores in January, according to postings on the state Labor Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[288,28925,75,84,83,9,24,63,1491,3274,9104,8982],"class_list":{"0":"post-52099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-hm","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-real-estate","17":"tag-realty-check","18":"tag-retailers","19":"tag-store-closings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}