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Starbucks lists 12 more stores closing on LI

BY JAMES BERNSTEIN | james.bernstein@newsday.com

10:01 AM EDT, July 18, 2008

Starbucks will close a total of 14 Long Island stores as part of a plan to shutter 600 of its outlets across the country by the middle of next year, the company said in releasing a full list of closings late Thursday.

Two of the Long Island stores that are to close -- one in Central Islip near the state and federal court complex and the other on Route 25 in Southhold -- were announced earlier this week.

Starbucks is also to close three of its stores in Queens, one in Brooklyn and six in Manhattan

The Seattle-based company, whose rise in the past few years had revolutionized the retail coffee industry, said early this month that it is closing the stores because they are not profitable. Starbucks said that about 70 percent of the 600 stores to be closed opened during the company's 2006 fiscal year. The company has more than 7,000 U.S. stores.

In a brief announcement on its Web site, Starbucks said the stores will begin to close this month and that the closings are to be completed by the middle of next year. Starbucks said it was making the full list of closings available "in the spirit of transparency." It did not specify when each of the individual stores are to be closed.

In all, 39 Starbucks stores are to be closed in New York State.

The 12 additional Long Island Starbucks to be closed include the following:
426 Central Ave., Cedarhurst
2330 Hempstead Tpk., East Meadow
1946 Jericho Tpk., Elwood
123 Fulton Ave., Farmingdale
385B Broadway Mall, Hicksville
1750 Veterans Hwy., Islandia
106 Old Country Rd., Mineola
1441 Jericho Tpk., New Hyde Parkbr> 1 Railroad Ave., Roslyn Heights
20 North Highway, Southampton
467 Old County Rd., Westbury
1504 Old Country Rd., Westbury

The Queens closings are at:
242-02 61st Ave., Douglaston
And two in Glendale, at 8989 Union Tpk. and 8000 Cooper Ave.

The Brooklyn store is at 8414 3rd Ave.

In Manhattan, the stores closing are at:
1675 Broadway
400 Madison Ave.
1600 Broadway
565 Fifth Ave.
340 Madison Ave.
151 W. 34th St.

The closings are in 44 states and Washington, D.C., and include 88 in California and 59 in Florida.