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.

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 closed in 1986 and remained vacant until 1992, when a New York-based real estate investor named Richard Penzer bought it and slowly began a transformation. His efforts brought in anchor ...

Gimbels' Department Store Began in Indiana. So this is a really cool piece of Hoosier history. The Gimbels' Department Store began in Indiana, in the Tri-State, actually in Vincennes. According to ...

An heir to the Gimbels department store family is selling his late mother’s apartment on the Upper East Side. The full-floor co-op unit at 66 East 79th St. hit the market Tuesday asking $6.7 ...

In 1894 Gimbel opened a store in Philadelphia and in 1910 the famous New York store opened, creating a retailing battle with arch-rival Macy’s. By 1925 Gimbels was the largest department store ...

At 9:30am on the morning of 29 January, 1946, the doors of Gimbels department store in Midtown Manhattan opened to a stampede of 5,000 shoppers, kicking, scratching, and tripping each other as they ...

It was exactly 70 years ago, on the evening of Nov. 27, 1945, that Richard James demonstrated a new product at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia. It was the Slinky, and it was a hit: He ...

An heir to the Gimbels department store family is selling his late mother’s apartment on the Upper East Side. The full-floor co-op unit at 66 East 79th St. hit the market Tuesday asking $6.7 ...