One Vogue writer, and a former urban mall rat, shops the new Hudson Yards.
My middle school in downtown Chicago was situated across the street from a seedy McDonald’s and down the block from a halfway house. A 10-minute walk away we had Michigan Avenue, where we’d hang out at a park near the lake or at what would eventually become the epicenter of our young lives: Water Tower Place. Water Tower, with all of its luxe fixtures and modern trimmings, was my mall.
My friends and I hung out at Water Tower after school and on weekends. The security guards knew us by name and we got kicked out for playing football in the halls and hide-and-seek in the department stores. I had my first date there and it’s where my mom bought me my first bra.
At Hudson Yards, you walk in, you buy, you move on, maybe stopping and eating a proper meal at one of the fancy restaurants or the impressive José Andrés food hall. As I wandered the halls this weekend, I noticed families eating their Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream together on the floor. Some sat at real tables outside of Citarella, but there were only 10 or so available.
Granted, it was opening weekend and there is still a lot of building to be done, both inside and outside of the retail areas. Hudson Yards is very unfinished, and in time it may serve as a gathering place for families, couples, and local kids looking to hang out with one another IRL. Even as the idea of retail, and how we consume and approach it, shifts, maybe there’s hope for a return to the glory days of mall culture, or something like them.
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