Here’s a view of the Long Island Rail Road tracks from the elevated Flushing Main Street station looking east in 2009. Note the pair of Caldor signs: the company had gone nearly bankrupt and closed its 160 retail stores and laid off nearly 24,000 employees in 1999, but it’s a testimony to how slow real estate deals can sometimes move in that the old Caldor location on Main Street, which wrapped around to Roosevelt Avenue, lay empty for several years. An Asian-owned department store, New World Mall, now occupies the space.
CALDOR, Flushing
