Apple's Grand Central Terminal Retail Store to Open as Soon as Black Friday?

If it does, I'll be there for sure. I'm excited to visit this new store. Such an iconic setting.

Makes the Apple stores around here (GTA) look lame.

the brickwork with glass is a good look. they should make more like this and the covent garden store

I can't wait till I check this out in person.

Fazzy said:

the brickwork with glass is a good look. they should make more like this and the covent garden store

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Covent Garden is gorgeous! http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/coventgarden/

Love how they integrate with existing architecture!

Will there be a Genius bar? Will they be able to handle Apple Care claims?

I was at Grand Central last night and they were removing some of the black panels. I asked someone working there and they said they thought it would be next month.

Fazzy said:

the brickwork with glass is a good look. they should make more like this and the covent garden store

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Here's an idea. When the US finally reawakens to rails in full earnest Apple could work with municipalities building new Train Central Depots and build around them while helping design them.

That would definitely work for me.

DanielSw said:

Covent Garden is gorgeous! http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/coventgarden/

Love how they integrate with existing architecture!

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+1 from me. Covent Garden and Regent Street are my local stores, both 10-15 minutes away.

That store is going be crazy busy with folks just killing time on the internet waiting for the train. Seems like it is going to closer to one big advertisement than an actual store. On the other hand, I could see a lot of folks just grabbing an Air on the way home, very convenient.

DanielSw said:

Covent Garden is gorgeous! http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/coventgarden/

Love how they integrate with existing architecture!

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Yup. Personally, I prefer glass and steel to brickwork, but if ever there was an exception to that rule, this would be it

Beautiful store!!

DanielSw said:

Covent Garden is gorgeous! http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/coventgarden/

Love how they integrate with existing architecture!

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My first thought when I saw the rendering of the Grand Central station was how much it looks like the Covent Garden store.

Looks beautiful.

Lots of foot traffic means sales and contact advertisings.

TallManNY said:

That store is going be crazy busy with folks just killing time on the internet waiting for the train. Seems like it is going to closer to one big advertisement than an actual store. On the other hand, I could see a lot of folks just grabbing an Air on the way home, very convenient.

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That's what all the Apple stores are about. It wouldn't surprise me if 60-70% of patrons are already Apple owners simply checking email or checking out a new app.

But eventually, those 30-40% who aren't Apple owners decide to buy something because they feel comfortable. And once they buy one, the others follow. Back when Apple first decided to open their own stores, I was a naysayer, even though I agreed that most other dealers presented Apple badly. But you can't aruge with massive success and they've maintained that success in spite of the fact that they've opened up selling in the mass merchants as well.

I think there's a fairly large body of commuters who walk (or ride) from their offices to Grand Central, are always in a rush and unless they visit an Apple store in a mall on a weekend, never get to an Apple store. This Grand Central store will service them and I think eventually will lead to big sales especially since a lot of those commuters live in the gold coasts of Westchester and Connecticut. But most commuters at Grand Central don't have a long wait - during rush hour, the trains leave every 15-20 minutes or so, so that could be an issue or it could help because one could simply wait for the next train.

It's bound to be a winner. Convenient for so very many people.

Will it be open from 5AM-2AM? Just like the terminated itself?

Smart move if they open in time for black friday. I'd love to see this store though, it seems like it will be architecturally quite beautiful...

I see the opportunity for a new sport to come out of this store - called Apple Tossing. It could be played with as few as 2, as many as 20. One person (or more depending upon total number of "tossers" that you want to be stationed in the store while the other team members would be stationed down below in the station. The point of the game would be to grab and toss as many Apple products as they can to the team members waiting below.

Now of course, it's always better to be the catcher, where you simply need to catch the products, keep them from breaking and then run out of the station as quickly as you can. For the "tosser", chances are pretty good that Apple will not appreciate the game and may "detain" you and end the game. Extra points would be given for those tossers who themselves jump down (with products in hand of course) to be "caught" by team members below and not "caught" by Apple team members or NYPD team members either. Given the rules of the game are pretty loose right now, use of blockers is ok as is wire cutters.

There may only be one chance to play this game before the rules change, so let's see who forms the first team.

This is going to be another beautiful NYC Apple Store. Grand Central Terminal is just so gorgeous, and I'm glad that a tasteful company like Apple will be the one occupying the space. I'm excited to see what they do with it.

Also, just a brief note. The rendered image included in the original post appears to be in a different location in GCT than the actual store that is under construction now. The real location is the landing visible on the left side of the rendered image, partially obscured by the massive stone column.

Anyway, can't wait to check this place out!

Someday, I would love to see an Apple store with that few people in it! The ones in the GTA are always jam-packed.

jmgregory1 said:

I see the opportunity for a new sport to come out of this store - called Apple Tossing. It could be played with as few as 2, as many as 20. One person (or more depending upon total number of "tossers" that you want to be stationed in the store while the other team members would be stationed down below in the station. The point of the game would be to grab and toss as many Apple products as they can to the team members waiting below.

Now of course, it's always better to be the catcher, where you simply need to catch the products, keep them from breaking and then run out of the station as quickly as you can. For the "tosser", chances are pretty good that Apple will not appreciate the game and may "detain" you and end the game. Extra points would be given for those tossers who themselves jump down (with products in hand of course) to be "caught" by team members below and not "caught" by Apple team members or NYPD team members either. Given the rules of the game are pretty loose right now, use of blockers is ok as is wire cutters.

There may only be one chance to play this game before the rules change, so let's see who forms the first team.

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First of all, the picture you're seeing above is only a rendering. We don't know if it will be set up that way. Second, ever since those planes hit the towers, Grand Central is one of the most heavily guarded public places in NYC.

wow

World get ready for the most glamorous Apple store ever!

rdowns said:

First of all, the picture you're seeing above is only a rendering. We don't know if it will be set up that way. Second, ever since those planes hit the towers, Grand Central is one of the most heavily guarded public places in NYC.

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Are you saying the game is a no-go? Flying Apples and yelling people too much of a give-away that a "game" is happening?

Perhaps adding the element of a flash-mob of dancers choreographed to catch and bag Apples while diverting NYPD team members would be possible.

My bet, which is why I wrote this, is that someone will try playing the game. Crooks are often not the brightest of people - or they're extremely bright and wouldn't bother knocking off a store when they could simply run a Wall Street hedge fund, private equity company or large multi-national bank...