At Dick's, taking a climb in the middle of a lively store chock full of sporting goods provides a full fantasy experience -- and a great view of the merchandise.
Since early last year, Gap has been invigorating sales with brightly colored clothing, designer collaborations and livelier stores.
Lenox Hill occupies the east side of the East Side, where the apartments are a little smaller, the street scene a little livelier, the stores open a little later.
The once industrial, working-class district is one of the city's diverse cultural cradles, brimming with live music venues, lively bars, craft-driven stores, art galleries, design workshops, independent bookstores, bakeries and many of the city's best restaurants.
Marin Pollosson's felt bookcase "looks like a radiator," said Jenny Pedersen, the owner of Vega, a lively home-furnishings store in the Gallery Place neighborhood near the modern furniture store Apartment Zero.
Significantly, the lively, revitalized flagship store in Milan of the Italian company La Rinascente offers only the more affordable versions of main lines.
At the Gallery a long-anticipated overhaul has yet to get under way, although city officials say Preit has presented a plan to make the mall livelier and the stores more accessible to shoppers on the street.
Today Main Street is lively with restaurants, gift stores and two art galleries.
On a late-summer Thursday, there were the bustling stores and lively restaurants, couples on dates and colleagues mingling after work.
The Phoenix area stores featured lively clerks, many who looked to be students or recent graduates of Arizona State University.
