{"id":52443,"date":"2025-11-26T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52443\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:16:13","slug":"hm-closing-two-big-manhattan-stores-in-setback-for-citys-retail-scene-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/52443\/","title":{"rendered":"H&#038;M closing two big Manhattan stores in setback for city\u2019s retail scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/nyc-retail-leasing-sizzles-along-200958182.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:although improving;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" 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 alt=\"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\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"623\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7a31f949d6abad901c654a021befb124.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":52444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[28925,29061,75,84,83,9,24,63,15604,29060],"class_list":{"0":"post-52443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-hm","9":"tag-labor-department","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-square-feet","17":"tag-the-world-trade-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443","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=52443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}