A toy store in 1955. Photo: Ralph Morse/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Today, doormen accept our Amazon packages, gift cards materialize in our email, and we track our Temu and TikTok Shop orders on our phones. But not even that long ago, New York was a department-store town. Holiday shopping meant a trip uptown to Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Bergdorf