New York's MTA Releases Grand Central Terminal Apple Store Renderings

Wow, that actually looks rather fancy!

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Deterred that it can release the pictures? Do you mean decided? lol

samwise said:

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Deterred that it can release the pictures? Do you mean decided? lol

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Or determined it can release the photos.

Something is missing in these renderings???

Oh yeah... the hoards of people camped out at each MacBook.

Cant wait for my trip to NYC this winter!

It actually highlights the beauty of the terminal. What a breath of fresh air. This will be extremely popular with New Yorkers.

Gorgeous.

Perfectly fits the environment.

dlastmango said:

Something is missing in these renderings???

Oh yeah... the hoards of people camped out at each MacBook.

Cant wait for my trip to NYC this winter!

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Exactly. An Apple store... In Grand Central? There will be more customers than that in it when it's closed.

It's a cathedral for worshipping technology.

Apple's aesthetic always impresses me. They put a lot of thought into working with their surroundings.

They forgot to add in people checking their Facebook status, playing with their dogs, and playing with photo booth like it is magic.

Don't forget the army of blue shirts...

Add:

• 45 stoned blue-shirted "hipsters" aimlessly wandering the store - or clumped into tight groups of 3, discussing the band they saw last night.
  
• 4 lightly-stoned blue-shirts trying to upsell AppleCare and one-on-one.
  
• 2 "managers" in black shirts backed against a wall, deep in conversation.
  
• 128 people waiting for a "genius" to run the same damn diagnostic they ran at home, condescendingly confirm that their 6-week-old laptop is DOA, and take their MBP into the depths of Apple repair hell.
  
• 7 geriatric grandparents learning how to use a mouse or check their email for photos of their grandchildren at the one-on-one station.
  
• 238 tourists motionless in the optimum-in-the-way spot, staring slack-jawed at the ceiling of GCT.
  
• 4 homeless men squatting in corners - perhaps pooping.
  
• And, as mentioned previously, hordes of the underemployed checking facebook and staring at themselves in the facetime cameras.
  
• And 1 man with a goat.

I'm on pins-and-needles waiting for this!

Looks like those photoshopped pictures that China got busted for earlier. haha

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levitynyc said:

Gorgeous.

Perfectly fits the environment.

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e-coli said:

It actually highlights the beauty of the terminal. What a breath of fresh air. This will be extremely popular with New Yorkers.

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Gorgeous looking indeed!

And it most certainly does highlight the beauty of GCT, love it! I'm really looking forward to checking out this Apple store when it opens this November.

something is missing...

But, curiously, I wonder where they're planning to put the big logo within the store, if at all?

That looks really cool! I can't wait to see it in person. It might just replace my second most favorite Apple Store (1st being 5th Avenue and 2nd being Covent Gardens in the UK)

Its fake rendering looks good. The only bad thing is how noisy its going to be, with so many people walking around and how noisy terminals tend to be, but still cool, thats for sure!

yea that would be a bit annoying after a few minutes

accessoriesguy said:

The only bad thing is how noisy its going to be, with so many people walking around and how noisy terminals tend to be, but still cool, thats for sure!

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Probably won't be that bad: I ate in Metrazur a few times and it was surprisingly quiet - except for a few times each day.

accessoriesguy said:

Its fake rendering looks good. The only bad thing is how noisy its going to be, with so many people walking around and how noisy terminals tend to be, but still cool, thats for sure!

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jakebrosy said:

Probably won't be that bad: I ate in Metrazur a few times and it was surprisingly quiet - except for a few times each day.

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Amazingly enough, an article from about 6 years ago, states that when acoustical-consulting firm visited Grand Central Terminal at 3 p.m., they measured its noise level at 71 decibels. That about the same level as the noise from the streets of Manhattan, which the same sound crew found to be typically around the 70-decibel level, which is roughly the noise level from a coffee grinder.

But although about equal in sound level, the sound of people moving is usually typically less annoying than the sound of traffic. Personally, I actually like the energetic "vibe" of the sound from a busy, cavernous terminal building (it's got a good beat and you can dance to it).

This is awesome. I was excited when I heard the possibilities of a Grand Central store before, glad it's finally happening. I'm in New York again next week, can't wait to go there again.

I really like the look of it, much better than I expected. And it should hush the naysayers.

Apple better start hiring armed guards because Apple stores in the north east are getting robbed daily.

Thieves are just walking into stores and ripping laptops, iphones, etc. off the tables and jetting.

whats up with the MacBooks? A bit outdated. Besides that, everything else looks rather elegant.

Where is the alter?

Looks really nice; Not a big fan of the tables they use inside reglar stores but they fit well into the GCT. Too bad I don't have any travel plan to NY in the next time.

On a side note: now China will have some problem to copy that