“It gave people a reason to leave home.”Lisicky’s new book, “Gimbels Has It!” which came out in October, is focused on the history of Gimbels department store and […] Skip to content ...

It was once home to Elinor S. Gimbel, who married a grandson of Adam Gimbel, founder of Gimbels — the national department chain that was part of New York from 1842 until its final closure in 1987.

“It gave people a reason to leave home.”Lisicky’s new book, “Gimbels Has It!” which came out in October, is focused on the history of Gimbels department store and […] Skip to content ...

There’s the old New York — and then there’s the really old New York. A Civil War-era Upper East Side mansion is back on the market for $13.5 million. That’s a dramatic drop from the ...

Gimbels wasn't a Milwaukee company, but Milwaukeeans had such a strong tie to the department store, that most probably thought it was a home-grown business.

To revisit the long-closed Gimbels Corridor is to relive New York’s past-tense future. In the early 1970s, conditions in the pedestrian tunnel presaged the bleeding city of the 1980s and early ...

The former Gimbels department store overlooks the Milwaukee River. It was converted to offices, and Enerpac just got city approval to add a balcony.