Last night, Starbucks Corp. released the full list of the 600 stores it will close nation wide.
Here are the Long Island stores:
- 2330 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow
- 426 Central Avenue, Cedarhurst
- 101 South Research Place, Central Islip
- 123 Fulton Avenue, Farmingdale
- 385B Broadway Mall, Hicksville
- 1750 Veterans Highway, Islandia
- 106 Old Country Road, Mineola
- 1441 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park
- 1 Railroad Avenue, Roslyn Heights
- 20 North Highway, Southampton
- 53345 Route 25, Southold
- 467 Old Country Road, Westbury
- 1504 Old Country Road, Westbury
New York City will see six stores close, but there will still be at least 50 in the metropolis.
From the Wall Street Journal story:
The list reads like a cross section of the U.S., with closures planned inside shopping malls, near beach resorts, in college towns and off highways. Las Vegas will lose the most stores of any U.S. city, with 13 expected to close. It is followed by San Diego, with 10; Dallas and Baton Rouge, La., each with nine; and Houston, with eight. Starbucks’s hometown of Seattle is scheduled to lose seven cafes.
Most of the nation’s major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami, will lose at least one Starbucks. Although there are economically struggling towns on the list, such as Flint, Mich., there are also affluent suburbs, including Walnut Creek, Calif., and Newton, Mass.
The closings will thin out some areas that had a high density of Starbucks. San Francisco’s Metreon entertainment complex, located at an intersection the company had determined could support three Starbucks, will lose one of those locations. In towns with fewer Starbucks, city officials have said they will try to persuade the company to reconsider closing their location, and customers have said in Internet postings that they are circulating petitions to save their location.
