Cedarhurst ‘sidewalk sale’ sizzles thru Sunday

The Cedarhurst Business Improvement District’s Summer Sidewalk Sale is a revenue generator that attracts upward of 10,000 people to the village over four days, and organizers hope that in its 28th year, it will once again be a shopping and commercial bonanza for patrons and merchants alike.

This year it will take place Wednesday, July 20, from 10 am to 8 pm; Thursday, July 21, from 10 am to 6 pm; Friday, July 22, from 10 am to closing; and Sunday, July 24, from 1 to 6 pm. Prompted by customer requests, Sunday was added three years ago.

More than 80 stores take part, offering sale items and specially discounted merchandise, and shoppers can choose from jewelry, clothing, beauty products, Judaica and kosher food along Central and Cedarhurst avenues as well as side streets.

“One only needs to drive by during any of these events to see that every store is flowing with customers, and every Cedarhurst parking lot is filled to capacity,” Teri Shure, the Business Improvement District’s executive director, said of the event, which complements the Black Friday/Saturday Night Midnight Madness sales each November. 

According to Shure, Five Towns residents aren’t the only ones who take advantage of the bargains: Shoppers also come from nearby communities including Bayswater, East Rockaway, Far Rockaway, Long Beach, Lynbrook, Malverne, Rockville Centre and Valley Stream, as well as Great Neck, many areas of Brooklyn and Queens, and as far away as Westchester, New Jersey and Connecticut. 

“We know where the customers are coming from based upon the thousands of addresses on the raffle forms that shoppers coming for the event fill out in hopes of winning the $1,000 Cedarhurst Shopping Spree,” Shure said. “Last year, over 6,500 raffle tickets were filled out.” A raffle form is printed on page 2 of this week’s Jewish Star.

Dimples, a clothing and gift stores for infants and toddlers on Central Avenue, has taken part in the sidewalk sale for 10 years since opening in 2005, said owner Cindy Merrill.