Oh, wow you made it to this mall. I still love it even though its dead sometimes I just go to look around. I used to go all the time I remember food court too. I was only 3 years old, but I still remember green cactus in the food court lmao I think that closed in like 2009 and the food court chairs are so beautiful. Off Fifth Saks Court is always the deadest. They haven't updated the sign by Fortunoff in 19 years lol Virgin Megastore closed in 2004. Oh, and finally after searching forever, I finally saw what the upstairs of Fortunoff looked like thank you. Maybe I'll try to go soon.
@GulperEEL6 ай бұрын
Thanks for this and for doing what you do, this was really lovely. Why do I love stuff like this so much it hurts? the way we commune with these spaces of the past, mourning their loss while simultaneously appreciating them as they persist into the present in this obviously strained way... I like your optimism at the end there. Good things are happening
@ReenyJW10 ай бұрын
I used to go to the Source a lot with my parents. When it opened *mumble mumble* years ago - there was a Rainforest Cafe there and we loved eating there. So much fun! It was down a bit from the Cheesecake Factory. I think H&M took its place.
@RandomNY1234 Жыл бұрын
Roosevelt Field nailed the coffin to the Source, eventhough they are pretty much at the same location.
@eddiew232510 ай бұрын
dont forget the Tanger outlets at Riverhead
@Tconlon251_29 ай бұрын
The irony being that Simon (the owners of RF) developed the Source Mall
@eddiew23259 ай бұрын
@@Tconlon251_2 Simon and Garfunkel I believe
@Iconic_maya98 ай бұрын
Westbury Gallery killed it off too
@SigmaRho29227 ай бұрын
Fourtunoff’s bankruptcy killed it
@rayjohn5709 Жыл бұрын
furby its good to hear from you again you have a .beautiful voice and keep up the good work please update me on the sunrise mall that was my favorite mall
@millcitymercantile4 ай бұрын
I loved The Source mall. It was a great place. Virgin Megastore was my favorite store there.
@sal6 ай бұрын
Fantastic video. Thales for sharing!
@ddub96967 ай бұрын
That cardboard "Rax" sign in the food court is a prop that was recently put up for some sort of stunt or filming that they were doing. The real name of that place was "Little Tokyo". Rax was a weird Arby's-type fast food joint that only existed in the Rust Belt and never had any stores in the NY Metro area. Also, they went bankrupt before this mall was built. If you look closely, the menu board in the Rax is for a Japanese restaurant. At least someone has been using the mall for something useful!
@benjamingoldstein9762 Жыл бұрын
This was my mall. Ranch 99 was the circuit city, that store was notorious for breaking street dates . The red and white in the food court was actually a McDonald's. It never could compete with Roosevelt Field but man seeing it brings back so many personal memories.
@SigmaRho29227 ай бұрын
The Source also had another competitor five miles to the east, where Broadway Commons had already been established. That mall had Gertz as its main anchor when it opened in 1956. The mall was enclosed in the late 1960s and eventually gained Korvettes as a second anchor tenant at the time before it was closed when it filed for bankruptcy in the early 1980s. Construction of the IKEA store that replaced it began in 1988 with the store opening in 1991 (delayed from 1990), but it was not connected to the mall until 2003, when the JCPenney store that opened in 1999 was converted to a Target, and that process would not be complete until late 2004. Between the bankruptcy of Korvettes and the expansion of the IKEA to accommodate a mall entrance, Gertz had its store acquired by Stern’s in 1982 and that store would become a Macy’s in 2001. In December 2019 Macy’s announced it would close the former Gertz flagship store; the store would close in early March 2020, a few days before the covid-19 pandemic emergency was declared (with 3/17/20 being the de jure date).
@bradleytechman10 ай бұрын
Few things I thought I should add. that entertainment Park the sign said that I can’t remember the name of has been coming soon for 2 years, so I don’t think that it’s coming soon. The reason the wok express sign is on is because the equipment in there still works and people work there and use it as a ghost kitchen . I know this because I believe when we noticed the sign was on when we came there once we saw a few people cooking. The 99 Ranch market is pretty new also, opened like last year I think. there are also still people in the mall offices (if you go to where the restrooms are, you’ll pass by offices with people in them). just thought that was kinda cool. I believe there were also tables in the food court around a year ago, even though no restaurants in the food court were open. I have no idea what the store Lola too is by the way. I searched a while online couldn’t find anything. maybe it was a fashion store of some sort? I also remember a while ago seeing an area that had like an outdoor playground inside the store. I am pretty sure it’s not there anymore though.
@rl84297 ай бұрын
The entertainment park you mentioned (Empire Adventure Park) is still coming to the mall. They’ve been posting progress on their Facebook, as recent as last month.
@nancydarling4918 Жыл бұрын
Good video. Thanks.
@danilopierri26748 ай бұрын
I my god I remember going to this mall and guess what I used to go there when I was a little kid going on the carousel 🎠 inside the mall and it was the 😢best memories of the world
@toastnuances Жыл бұрын
MOM, COME HERE, NEW FURBY BRIDGERS VIDEO!!!!
@Akajonnybaseball Жыл бұрын
I use to go as a kid
@peachyheli8184 Жыл бұрын
OMG I WAS JUST THERE!!
@Wavy_bone15 күн бұрын
Am I tripping or is where the Cheese Cake Factory is now where the Rain Forest Cafe used to be back in the day???
@pokerchip12312 ай бұрын
I used to go here often back in the late 90's to about 2008. It was busy active mall with wall to wall people and now this, yikes.
@AcesAdventures14 ай бұрын
Do you know, if the mall still looks like this currently?
@furbybridgers4 ай бұрын
I’m not sure - I haven’t been back since recording this video last year. I think a few more things may have opened inside the mall.
@SigmaRho29223 ай бұрын
As of late 2023 the food court was gutted to make way for a new simulation attraction that is set to open in 2025. Meanwhile a portion of the south wing of the second floor is now occupied by a sports training complex with an indoor trampoline park occupying the space where Saks Off 5th was.
@StalloneSiciliano9 ай бұрын
I made a video series about this place 7 years ago
@eddiew232510 ай бұрын
i ate at the cheesecake factory with my best friend 10 years ago.
@Iconic_maya98 ай бұрын
(: how was it?
@eddiew23258 ай бұрын
@@Iconic_maya9 it was alright but nothing to write home about
@Iconic_maya98 ай бұрын
@@eddiew2325 ah ok , yesterday i seen many people dining there surprisingly. I plan to revisit again.
@eddiew23258 ай бұрын
@@Iconic_maya9 cool. Haven’t been back in years but chain restaurants are more or less the same
@Iconic_maya98 ай бұрын
@@eddiew2325 ah come back when you can!(:
@koreachan979210 ай бұрын
Is it still open? Id love to see some mood.
@furbybridgers10 ай бұрын
As far as I know it’s still open to the public! They are actively redeveloping and opening new things in the mall. You should have no problem going in and walking around
@koreachan979210 ай бұрын
@@furbybridgers i love you for responding so fast have a good family.
@Iconic_maya98 ай бұрын
It’s still dead right now. I went there yesterday and literally no stores are open except a Ranch Market and a dave and busters. Food courts blocked off too.
@furbybridgers8 ай бұрын
Oh no! Sad to hear the food court is blocked off. That was one of my favorite parts of the mall.
@Iconic_maya98 ай бұрын
@@furbybridgers 😔😔🫂🫂🫂
@rl84297 ай бұрын
@@furbybridgersaccording to their website, part of the food court will be converted to a rock climbing gym called Gravity Vault.
@SigmaRho29226 ай бұрын
You have to also realize that Broadway Mall has been a competitor to the source and has outperformed it throughout its history. In March 2020 that mall’s main anchor closed after 63 years of operation; it was a Gertz when it opened in late 1956 and then became a Sterns in 1982 before it became a Macy’s in 2001. The other two anchor tenants are Target and IKEA and those anchors did not exist when the mall opened. Target opened in 2004 in the space where a JCPenney clearance store existed from 1999 to 2003. IKEA opened in 1991 but was not connected to the rest of the mall until a renovation project between 2002 and 2005. Due to the closure Broadway Mall has seen a slight increase in vacancies but nowhere near that of most struggling malls in the northeast at least not yet.
@Iconic_maya96 ай бұрын
@SigmaRho2922 i never been to Broadway Mall and i have visited alot of malls including Samanea. Also heard Roosevelt Field was the reason why the Source failed as well. Even Green Acres Mall isn’t popular now.
@R32R38 Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure where it's going to go. It would not surprise me if it ends up de-malled, with the enclosed mall spaces torn down and the exterior tenants remaining. With Roosevelt Field so close I just don't see much future as a conventional enclosed mall.
@dnguyen9747 Жыл бұрын
I would disagree. The Gallery at Westbury was open after The Source Mall "closed". It is closer to Roosevelt Fields Mall, on the same street and it is extremely busy. Many of the outlet stores that were at the Source are now at The Gallery.
@R32R38 Жыл бұрын
@@dnguyen9747 The Gallery at Westbury thrives because it's not a direct competitor to Roosevelt Field, being an unenclosed plaza with mainly larger stores including outlets. In contrast, the empty interior portions of The Source/Samanea were ordinary mall concourses with typical mall stores, in direct competition with RF.
@Solrac14242 ай бұрын
I was there last May for a yelp event.
@JG11099 Жыл бұрын
Looks like Lola Too wasn't actually a real store at all, but a storefront redecorated for the filming of a show called Life and Beth.
@furbybridgers Жыл бұрын
Wow! How did you find that out?
@itsgood2beazn9 ай бұрын
Will be honest. As a person who grew up going here, this place became trashier and trashier. It got as bad as Sunrise/Westfield in Massapequa
@Solrac14242 ай бұрын
I went to that mall plenty of times in the late 90s into the 2010s