Roosevelt Field Mall

North-facing satellite photo of the mall

Roosevelt Field is the name of a shopping mall in East Garden City on Long Iceland in the US state of New York , which on the grounds of the agreement entered into on May 31, 1951 airfield Roosevelt Field was built.

Building history

The mall was built to designs by Ieoh Ming Pei in 1956 and was the largest mall in the world at the time. In the main building there was an ice rink for ice skaters. However, this was removed when the entire facility was renovated in the early 1970s. With this redesign, the Roosevelt Field Mall also received a roof - until then it had been an open-air shopping center.

Another renovation was carried out in the late 1990s. A second storey that runs through the entire building was built.

Todays situation

Today, the mall is the largest mall of its kind in New York State and the eleventh largest in the United States, with a covered area of ​​203,452 square feet and over 270 individual stores . (For comparison: The largest German shopping center, the Ruhr-Park in Bochum , has 126,000 square meters and 119 shops.)

Roosevelt Airfield

The Spirit of St. Louis (registration number: NX-211) on Roosevelt Airfield shortly before the start of the Atlantic flight (1927)

• The Roosevelt Field Mall was built on the Roosevelt Airfield (English Roosevelt Field ), from which Charles Lindbergh took off in 1927 with his airplane Spirit of St. Louis for the historic Atlantic flight . A plaque was installed to commemorate this.
• The Roosevelt Field (originally Hempstead Plains Airfield) was founded in 1919 after the youngest son Quentin of US President Theodore Roosevelt named. Quentin Roosevelt was killed in an aerial battle in France during World War I.

Web links

• Roosevelt Field Mall

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roosevelt Field Closes; Historic Airport Will Be Used for Industrial Activities . In: New York Times , June 1, 1951, p. 14. Retrieved December 16, 2014. 

Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 17 "  N , 73 ° 36 ′ 45"  W.