In configuration, it resembles a miniature Times Square, a spatial "bow-tie" created by the geometry of the street intersections.

[6] It is a primary shopping district for Bronx residents, and many new hip hop trends can be found in the Hub long before they spread to the rest of New York City and the world.

[citation needed] Inhabitants throughout the borough shopped in department stores and boutiques at 149th Street and 3rd Avenue, an area that came to be known in this time as "the Hub".

[12] On March 14, 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other elected officials took part in the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the new "Hub Retail and Office Center".

[13][citation needed] After a year and a half of construction, the Hub Retail and Office Center opened in the middle of 2007.

A new complex with mixed-use office and retail space named the Triangle Plaza Hub opened in the summer of 2016.