Rackage: H&M

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Rackage is a look inside recently-opened stores around town. Today we browse the city's newest H&M.

The enormous retail expanse you see before you is H&M's newly-opened 25,000-square-foot store at 505 Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The three-level emporium is the Swedish clothing company's tenth store in Manhattan, and is located only a few minutes away from the retailer's NYC flagship at Fifth Ave and 51st Street. What you'll find here is what you'll find at any other H&M: trendy casual wear at fairly cheap prices. The store is notable in that it gives mens and womenswear equal space (as pointed out by Times Critical Shopper Mike Albo) and for, well, not much else. There are already quite a few H&Ms in NYC and we expect that this outpost will not be the chain's last in our city.