 In 1981, Allied closed Read's landmark downtown store, leaving behind a boarded-up building as a reminder of Bridgeport's brighter past.In 1983, Read's opened a New York location in the Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown Heights, while in 1981 Allied decided to move Read's out of their original flagship store and into space recently vacated by Gimbel's at the nearby Lafayette Plaza Mall.Around 1985 its television and radio commercials featured the jingle, "Reads, Your Something Special Store".