The long-vacant Hawthorne Plaza mall has been a problem in the South Bay for years, according to city authorities, residents and business owners near the sprawling property. Instead of attracting ...

Santa sits alone with no kids in sight, parking lots crumble and footsteps echo down eerily empty corridors. A look inside two of New Jersey's deadest malls.

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