What Do We Want From the Mall?

Recently, a retail mirage of sorts appeared just off the Hempstead Turnpike on the Queens-Long Island border, next to the Belmont horse racetrack and the UBS arena, home of the New York Islanders hockey team and the occasional Harry Styles concert. A haven of red brick and creamy clapboard, with tree-dotted walkways lined by glittering vitrines and spotted by iron benches and picnic tables where one might enjoy a pick-me-up macaron from a Ladurée kiosk, it is officially known as Belmont Park Village..