Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 241 stores from 18 teen & young adult apparel chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Cotton On grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Topic and Garage.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
18
Tracked stores
241
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Cotton On and Hot Topic sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cotton On logo Cotton On ▲1 +8.5%
2 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic ▲1 +6.0%
3 G Garage logo Garage ▲1 +0.9%
4 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - -0.6%
5 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - -1.9%
6 A Ardene logo Ardene - -1.9%
7 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez ▲1 -6.4%
8 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▲1 -6.8%
9 T Tillys logo Tillys ▲1 -8.7%
10 P PacSun logo PacSun - -9.4%
11 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. ▼1 -14.7%
12 M Mandee ▲1 -28.0%
13 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters ▼6 -80.1%
  • American Eagle
  • Brandy Melville
  • Garage
  • Hollister Co.
  • PacSun
  • Aéropostale
  • Spencer's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

241 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • American Eagle (31)
  • Brandy Melville (4)
  • Garage (18)
  • Hollister Co. (13)
  • PacSun (17)
  • Aéropostale (26)
  • Spencer's (20)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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