34th Street Weekend Picks: Victoria's Secret, Gap, and bebe F&F

Victoria's Secret

Ends on Saturday: when you buy two bras you get a $15 I ♥ VS reward card! Visit their website for details. Herald Square, 34th Street and Broadway, and Manhattan Mall level one, 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue

Gap

Up to 50% off select items this weekend. Click below for more details. 60 West 34th Street at Broadway

bebe

Friends and Family sale! Get 25% off your purchases this weekend. Click here for details for the in-store offer. One West 34th Street at Fifth Avenue

34th Street Weekend Picks: Back-to-School at Manhattan Mall

Manhattan Mall is located between 32nd and 33rd Streets on Sixth Avenue.

jcpenney

Need towels, kids? JCPenney has them on sale for $5.99. Also, you'll find super discounted candles and desk lamps for your dorm room, and cute basics and dresses on sale.  Lower levels one and two

P.S. by Aeropostale
Some kids have all the luck and super fun, shiny shoes. Everything in the store is 40% off (and some more!). Level one

City Streets
Get a large selection of summer shoes on sale, including adorable Nautica and UGG Australia styles. Level one

Victoria's Secret
Pink Nation members: Get a bandeau for $10 with a Pink purchase (see store for details)! Meanwhile, the rest of us can shop the Body by Victoria panties for $5.  Level one

Victoria's Secret Manhattan Mall: Now Open. And Closed.

Don't be confused. As of today, a gorgeous new Victoria's Secret is open in the old Charlotte Russe space on the first floor of Manhattan Mall. It's a great space, which you can't really tell from my crap iPhone shot:

It's really a pretty store, stop by for a visit!

The Victoria's Secret on the second floor in Manhattan Mall is now closed. The flagship store on Herald Square is still open, but don't forget, they'll be closing soon for renovations. Luckily, Victoria's Secret has provided us with a nice sign at the old Manhattan Mall space, telling us what's up:

Which is a lot more helpful than, say, no sign:

Ack, Zara! Shoppers are freaking out! Now everyone thinks the store is gone! Or never existed. But seriously, what do they care? We love Zara so much that as soon as that wooden thing is gone and the store's renovations are complete, we'll be packing into the 34th Street store, cash and credit card in hand. Yes, the store will reopen. I got the scoop from a friendly security guy in the building next door. That is the most reliable information I can currently get on Zara, who should be tipping him big bills for Christmas 2012.

And now that I think of it, there's tons of construction going on at 35th Street behind Zara. Wild speculation: they are expanding! Oh, I love starting a good retail rumor.


Victoria's Secret
Manhattan Mall level one, 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue
Zara
Currently closed for renovations at 39 West 34th Street

Victoria's Secret Herald Square: The Renovation Update

Victoria's Secret is playing musical stores this summer while they renovate their Herald Square store to make it an even bigger lingerie destination. A 50,000 square foot lingerie destination, to be exact, which means they are more than doubling their current size. The space will now be big enough to "have its own runway for fashion events."

Soon to be even bigger and better.

The Herald Square flagship has acquired 30,000 square feet of lower level parking garage under their store, and obviously need some time to get rid of that parking-garage feel. In the meantime, they will be moving to Manhattan Mall in what was Charlotte Russe. The Herald Square location will close the end of May, and the Manhattan Mall location will open mid-to-late May.

Coming soon!

This will make two Victoria Secrets in the mall*, but we're used to seeing double in the 34th Street district: we've got two Foot Lockers (and one House of Hoops by Foot Locker), two Victoria's Secrets, two H&Ms, two Desiguals, two Paylesses, two Aéropostales ...we've got a lot of twos.

I hope people won't be panicking in front of the Herald Square Victoria's Secret like they are at the temporarily-closed Zara down the street (seriously, daily I see women shaking and pounding on the locked door and peering through the dark glass). With VS you've got an option: walk down Broadway to 33rd Street and look for Manhattan Mall across from Greeley Square. Walk through the doors. Victoria's Secret will be waiting for you at the end of the first floor, or at its permanent location on the second floor.*


*I don't know if the first floor location will become permanent, or if the second floor location will close, as Victoria's Secret could not yet comment on this. Either way, Victoria's Secret will be well-represented in Manhattan Mall!


Victoria's Secret Manhattan Mall level one, 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue
Opening mid-to-late May
Victoria's Secret Herald Square, 34th Street and Sixth Avenue
Closing temporarily for renovations end of May