Last Saks Fifth Avenue on Long Island to close at Walt Whitman Shops

The Huntington Station store will shut its doors this spring as Saks Global trims its U.S. footprint amid bankruptcy restructuring

The last remaining Saks Fifth Avenue department store on Long Island is preparing to close its doors, marking the end of an era for luxury department store retail on the Island.

The location at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station is among 15 Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide that are on the chopping block, parent company Saks Global announced as part of a sweeping restructuring effort following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing earlier this year.

The Huntington Station store is the chain’s final full-line outpost in either Nassau or Suffolk.

Saks’ parent company has been aggressively shrinking its physical footprint as it works through bankruptcy and attempts to stabilize operations. The company has also announced the closure of multiple Neiman Marcus locations across the country. Ultimately, only about a dozen Saks stores will remain operating in the United States, the Associated Press reports.

For Long Island shoppers, the closure represents another high-profile loss in the region’s department-store landscape, which has seen major legacy chains — the likes of Sears, Lord & Taylor, Sports Authority, Kmart, Toys “R” Us, and JCPenney — vanish over the past decade.

Once the Huntington Station store closes, Long Islanders seeking the Saks experience will have to hike over to the brand’s flagship store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue — or shop online.

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