Walk east from the Americana on a Thursday evening in February and something has shifted. The stretch of Northern Boulevard between 1575 and 1595, dark and half-shuttered for years, is glowing again. A salad line at Sweetgreen. A pale-lit dermatology suite next door. A lighting showroom at the far end with chandeliers hanging like specimens in a museum case.
A mile south, a new coastal American room has opened on Plandome Road under a name most residents already know from a different address. Between November and February, four openings redrew what a normal weekend in Manhasset looks like, and the change is less about any single tenant than about what the two corridors are becoming together.
The three doors that changed Manhasset Row
Manhasset Row is the redevelopment of the strip between 1575 and 1595 Northern Boulevard. The stretch is now fully leased after a multi-year redevelopment project, and AJM Real Estate's work involved substantial renovations, including improving parking and circulation on the site and reconfiguring spaces to suit the needs of new national and regional brands. Three tenants opened in a fourteen-week window.
| Tenant | Address | Opened | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetgreen | 1593 Northern Blvd. | Nov. 25, 2025 | Fast-casual salads |
| LaserAway | 1595 Northern Blvd. | Jan. 12, 2026 | Aesthetic dermatology |
| Visual Comfort & Co. | Manhasset Row | Feb. 2, 2026 | Lighting showroom |
Sweetgreen was the first of the new stores to open on the strip on Nov. 25, 2025, at 1593 Northern Blvd. This is the fourth Long Island location for the Los Angeles-based chain, which also has restaurants in Garden City, Woodbury, and Huntington Station. LaserAway followed at 1595 Northern Blvd. after its Jan. 12 opening — an aesthetic dermatology clinic headquartered in Beverly Hills that offers hair removal, tattoo removal, injectables, and body contouring. The most recent opening on Feb. 2 was Visual Comfort & Co., a Houston-based lighting and interior design brand, in its first Long Island location, giving local homeowners, designers, and architects direct access to premium lighting, integrated lighting controls, and shading.
Why these three tenants sit oddly next to Chanel
Read the tenant list the way an outsider would and it looks arbitrary. A salad chain, a laser clinic, a lighting store, all sharing a sidewalk with the Americana's Bottega Veneta, Cartier, Celine, Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Gucci, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, MaxMara, Prada, RH, Tiffany & Co., and Versace.
Read it the way a resident does and the logic is obvious. These are the errands you actually run.
The Miracle Mile has spent forty years selling to people who drive in. Manhasset Row is the first stretch built for the people who live here.
Sweetgreen is a lunch you can carry into a school pickup. LaserAway is a standing Tuesday appointment. Visual Comfort is a Saturday-morning stop when a lamp finally dies in a family room that was renovated ten years ago. None of them are destinations in the way Hermès is a destination. All of them are recurring.
That distinction matters for how the corridor now reads. The Americana Manhasset is an upscale, open-air shopping center along Northern Boulevard, roughly 220,000 square feet and 1,500 feet in length, anchoring the stretch commonly referred to as the Miracle Mile. It is the reason the tour buses come. Manhasset Row, half a block east, is the reason a resident might now spend twenty minutes on that same sidewalk on a random Wednesday instead of thirty seconds crossing to the car.
There is a small tell in the Americana itself. In 2023, the first Ralph's Coffee on Long Island opened at the Americana Manhasset, located inside the Ralph Lauren. A luxury retailer built a coffee counter. Even the top of the corridor started thinking about foot traffic that stays instead of foot traffic that pays and leaves.
Plandome Road answers with Angie's
The counterweight came from the south. Angie's opened at 550 Plandome Road, Manhasset, the address most residents still associate with Publicans, the neighborhood pub that closed. The new room is different in kind, not degree.
Angie's is Manhasset's newest neighborhood gathering spot, bringing a refined, coastal-inspired menu to the North Shore, pairing the warm feel of a local watering hole with elevated American flavors, from fresh seasonal seafood and handcrafted cocktails to classic, hearty plates. It is designed for family dinner on the expansive patio, catching the game on big screens, or celebrating a milestone. What makes it worth paying attention to is who is behind it. The restaurant was founded by Stefanos Vouvoudakis, Tom Tsiplakos, and Joe Ragonese of The Balos Restaurant Group, and builds on the hospitality roots of the Michelin-recognized Balos Estiatorio and For Five Coffee Roasters.
That is a Manhasset-native group choosing to put its next concept on Plandome Road rather than in Manhattan or the Hamptons. Read together with Manhasset Row, the signal is consistent. Two corridors that used to face opposite directions, one selling to visitors, one serving locals, are converging on the same customer: the resident who wants their errands, their dinner, and their new sconce within a ten-minute radius.
A weekend, mapped between the two corridors
For anyone who already lives here, the practical question is how these openings actually restructure a Saturday. A rough sequence that would not have been possible a year ago:
- Coffee inside Ralph Lauren at Ralph's Coffee, then a walk east along the Americana's north side.
- A stop into Visual Comfort at Manhasset Row to look at pendants for the kitchen island that has been on the list since spring.
- Lunch at Sweetgreen next door, eaten on a bench rather than in the car.
- South on Community Drive and over to Plandome Road for a browse through the Plandome shops, ending at Angie's patio for an early dinner.
- Home before the town gets loud.
None of that is exotic. The point is that all five stops sat on different mental maps a year ago. The Americana was a gift-shopping trip. Plandome was a coffee run or a slice at Umberto's. Manhasset Row was a construction fence. The stitching between them is new.
What the leasing sheet says about the next twelve months
The retail base under all of this is unusually strong for a suburban corridor. A recent Manhasset Row leasing brochure documented an average household income of $288,963 within a one-mile radius, which is the number that explains why a Houston lighting brand chose this address for its Long Island debut instead of a more obvious flagship market. When national brands underwrite a first-in-region location, they are pricing the density of the trade area, not the traffic count on Northern Boulevard.
That has two implications residents can watch for. First, the tenant mix on Manhasset Row is a template other landlords along Northern Boulevard will notice. The strip demonstrates that mid-tier national brands can slot next to luxury anchors without diluting either. Expect more of that pairing to appear on smaller sites east and west of the Americana over the next year.
Second, Plandome Road is now the more interesting corridor to track. It has a longer independent-restaurant history, more storefronts owned by long-time residents, and now a proof point in Angie's that a locally rooted, well-capitalized operator will bet on a full renovation. Vacancies on Plandome tend to close quietly. The next few will likely close faster.
Small things worth knowing
A few practical notes for residents planning around the changes:
- Parking on Manhasset Row. The redevelopment reworked the lot, and the entrance from Northern Boulevard is easier to use eastbound than westbound. Coming from the Americana side, it is faster to turn around at Shelter Rock and come back.
- Angie's reservations. The dining room is new enough that Friday and Saturday windows are already tight. Weeknight patios have been the softer ask.
- Visual Comfort consultations. The showroom offers in-person and virtual consultations, in line with the brand's emphasis on personalized design support, which is useful for anyone in the middle of a renovation who wants to specify without a designer meeting.
The through-line across all of this is not that Manhasset is changing. It is that two corridors that spent a generation operating as separate towns are, on evidence from the last four months, starting to behave like one.
If you own a home in Manhasset and are thinking about what this shift means for the value of your address, or if you are watching the corridor from the outside and want a clearer read on where the neighborhood is heading, the Andréa Sorrentino Team at Douglas Elliman keeps a close eye on how retail and dining changes ripple into residential demand along the North Shore. Request a Confidential Valuation when you're ready to talk.
