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Abraham & Straus (or A&S), now defunct, was a major New York City department store, based in Brooklyn New York. Federated Department Stores eliminated the A&S brand shortly after its 1994 acquisition of R.H. Macy & Co. Most A&S stores took the Macy's name, although a few became part of Stern's, a Federated division that was based in Paramus, N.J., and offered lower-end goods than did Macy's or A&S.

Locations

New York

• Brooklyn: Fulton Street (became Macy's)
• Huntington: Walt Whitman Mall (became Macy's)
• Nanuet: Nanuet Mall (became Stern's, now Boscov's)
• Yorktown Heights: Jefferson Valley Mall (opened as Read's, became Jordan Marsh, renamed A&S, converted to Macy's)
• White Plains: Galleria Mall (became Macy's)
• Manhattan: A&S Plaza (became Stern's, now closed)
• Rego Park: Queens Center Mall (became Macy's)
• Garden City: Roosevelt Field Mall (became Bloomingdale's)
• Massapequa: Sunrise Mall (became Stern's)
• Valley Stream: Green Acres Mall (became Stern's, later closed)
• Lake Grove: Smeith Haven Mall (became Stern's, later closed)

New Jersey

• Eatontown: Monmouth Mall (became Macy's)
• Paramus: Paramus Park Mall (became Macy's)
• Short Hills: Mall at Short Hills (became Macy's)
• Woodbridge: Woodbridge Center (sold to Sears)

Connecticut

• Trumbull: Trumbull Mall (opened as Read's, became Jordan Marsh, renamed A&S, converted to Macy's)

Pennsylvania

• King of Prussia: Court at King of Prussia (sold to Strawbridge & Clothier in 1988; when Strawbridge's took over the former John Wanamaker location in the adjacent Plaza at King of Prussia, the former A&S space was divided among a number of smaller tenants.)
• Willow Grove: Willow Grove Park (sold to Strawbridge's in 1988; Federated has sold this store to Boscov's, which will open in 2006)

Timeline

• 1865 - Founded in Brooklyn as Wechsler & Abraham by Abraham Abraham and Joseph Wechsler
• 1893 - The Straus family, who acquired a general partnership with Macy's department stores in 1888, buys out Joseph Wechsler's interest in Wechsler & Abraham, changing the store's name to Abraham & Straus. While Abraham & Straus did not become a part of Macy's, the two stores did share an overseas office and maintained close ties.
• 1929 - Federated Department Stores, Inc. is formed as a holding company by several family-owned department stores, including Abraham & Straus and F&R Lazarus (along with its Cincinnati-based subsidiary, Shillito's) and Filene's of Boston. Corporate offices established in Columbus, OH.
• 1992 - Federated Department Stores, Inc, merges with Allied Stores Corporation. A consolidation of the A&S and Jordan Marsh divisions results in the A&S/Jordan Marsh division, headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. Early in the new year, Macy's files for protection under Chapter 11.
• 1994 - Federated Department Stores acquires the now bankrupt R.H. Macy & Co. and combines Macy's, headquartered in New York City, with A&S/Jordan Marsh.
• 1995 - The name Abraham & Straus is dropped in favor of the more widely known name Macy's and Macy's East is formed.

• Defunct department stores of the United States
• 1865 establishments
• 1995 disestablishments