There’s nothing quite like old photos from a nearly 60-year-old shopping plaza to show us how much – and how often – the world can change.
The retail center was named after Petrus, or Peter, Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s last Dutch Governor before the English took over in 1664 and renamed it New York.
When Stuyvesant Plaza opened in 1959, the ribbon cutting took place in front of the Grand Union Supermarket. Howard Johnson’s Restaurant was one of the first tenants for the new plaza. You could find what you needed at Woolworth’s…