page_title: S. Klein
section_title: Gradual decline
hierarchical_section_title: S. Klein / Gradual decline
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking west across Broad Street at en:S. Klein On the Square from, Military Park in en:Downtown Newark, sunny noon in springtime.
context_page_description: S. Klein On The Square, or simply S. Klein, was a popular priced department store chain based in New York City. The flagship stores were located along Union Square East in Manhattan; this location would combine with the 1920s idiomatic catch phrase "on the square" to provide the subtitle. S. Klein positioned itself as a step above regional discount stores of its time, more fashion aware than E. J. Korvette, and a more affordable option compared to traditional department stores like Macy's, or Abraham & Straus. S. Klein stores were full-line department stores, including furniture departments, fur salons, and full service pet departments.
  Russian-born Samuel Klein founded S. Klein in 1905, or around 1912, on the block of Union Square East, between 14th and 15th Streets.
context_section_description: By the mid-1970s the parent company of S. Klein, Meshulam Riklis' Rapid-American Corp. (also owner of the McCrory Stores dime-store chain), seemed more interested in the real estate the company held than the retail operations (a fate Two Guys would fall to in 1982), and it started to close the stores in clusters. By 1978 the last of the chain's stores would close. The flagship store in Manthattan's Union Square is now the site of the Zeckendorf Towers apartment complex.
caption: Newark store in 2008
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