Now, More Than Ever, We Need Shopping Malls

As a kid growing up in NYC, I was obsessed with malls. Rightfully so.

White Flint Mall | Photo by Mike Kalasnik via Wikimedia Commons

I was maybe 12 years old when a Target finally, finally, finally opened within several miles of my childhood home in Manhattan’s East Village. It was out deep in different borough, so my friends and I hopped on the subway, adorably eager to see what it was all about, to…