The Steve Madden Sample Sale Is Drawing Crowds in Queens

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The doors — or tent flaps, rather — have just opened at the Steve Madden sample sale outside the brand's headquarters in Queens, and Racked reporter Kathryn Lindsay shared the above snap of the crowds that gathered to be first in line. It's "not too bad," she says (so, not like Soulcycle yesterday), adding that "the real entrance is a few blocks around the corner from the address on Google Maps." Try entering on Woodside Avenue instead of Barnett Avenue, she recommends.

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