Apple Store in Upper East Side of Manhattan Opens June 13

Absolutely in the Wall Street Area

Ted13 said:
You clearly are not a New Yorker: the Apple Upper West Side store (AFAIK the largest in NYC, with the largest staff) which I go to frequently is so jam-packed it isn't funny; it takes a minimum of 2-3 days to schedule a genius appointment, I went to help a friend get an iPhone in *January* on a weekday and we had to wait for hours.

Apple needs to open a number of additional stores in NYC to restore some sanity. Wall St. is another obvious place for a store.
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I totally agree that Apple needs a presence down in the heart of the financial area. We're talking people who make very good money working here that would't mind walking to an Apple store, especially during their lunch break, rather than having to wait until after work, taking public transportation & fighting massive crowds in the SoHo or Grand Central stores! Ka-ching, Apple.
 
JPIS said:
I totally agree that Apple needs a presence down in the heart of the financial area. We're talking people who make very good money working here that would't mind walking to an Apple store, especially during their lunch break, rather than having to wait until after work, taking public transportation & fighting massive crowds in the SoHo or Grand Central stores! Ka-ching, Apple.
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I'm not sure what the relevance is for the "very good money" part. Apple is Apple. They are the most popular phone maker on the planet. Even in a lower income neighborhoods, the Apple store will see just as much foot traffic if we're talking Manhattan-like population densities.
 
Primates of UES are a picky bunch...

Gasu E. said:
I'm not sure how the earlier closing times help the residents. Apple stores tend to be more problematic at opening times when there are major new intros, occasionally including overnight lines.

Nyguy76 said:
The residents in the area, specifically those west of lex, don't want poors around after dark.
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The Primates of the Upper East Side are no joke! ;)

That, and Manhattan is VERY densely populated, with the UES being underserved, while the UWS Apple Store is constantly packed, so this is a good move for everyone involved in the area.

And don't worry, Brooklyn, Queens and even lowly Staten Island will be getting Apple Stores of their own very soon.
 
mel823 said:
And they keep putting all the stores in one borough.
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I grew up in Brooklyn. In every outer borough except Staten Island, if you want to buy something serious, you hop on the subway and go to Manhattan. That's how it is.

And there is a store in Staten Island.
 
Brooklyn

mel823 said:
And they keep putting all the stores in one borough.
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Apple has signed a long-term lease for a 20,000-square-foot store at 247 Bedford Ave. at the corner of North 3rd Street, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The store expected to open by 2016
 
MasterRyu2011 said:
I'm not sure what the relevance is for the "very good money" part. Apple is Apple. They are the most popular phone maker on the planet. Even in a lower income neighborhoods, the Apple store will see just as much foot traffic if we're talking Manhattan-like population densities.
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The point of Wall St. isn't about "very good money": one is a very large number of employees from out of town.

Even more important -- Wall St. firms still run huge numbers of non-Apple computers, etc. -- having a store at the heart of the neighborhood will help increase business sales.
 
Gasu E. said:
I grew up in Brooklyn. In every outer borough except Staten Island, if you want to buy something serious, you hop on the subway and go to Manhattan. That's how it is.

And there is a store in Staten Island.
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I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Times have changed. Everybody's not trying to go in the city for important things.
 
I live in the midwest so this doesn't affect me at all, but all my NYC friends on Facebook are complaining that Brooklyn needs an Apple Store.
 
I wish they'd put a store on the lower east side. Closer to Brooklyn, closer to Wall Street, closer to ME. Everybody's happy.
 
And still not one in Brooklyn — the fastest growing, most expensive place to live in the country. Get with it Apple. Manhattan is a giant lame suburban shopping mall. It's finished for a decade. The boroughs are where the growth is, unless you want to turn into the Hard Rock franchise.
 
Ted13 said:
The point of Wall St. isn't about "very good money": one is a very large number of employees from out of town.

Even more important -- Wall St. firms still run huge numbers of non-Apple computers, etc. -- having a store at the heart of the neighborhood will help increase business sales.
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They need one down here since J&R closed. There was a time when you were 'proud' to get your stuff at J&R, they even devoted a whole floor just to Apple stuff (other computers/OS' had the other floor and needed to share) and had 'production' kiosks way before there was ever a Tekserve or even an Apple store...

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oogje said:
I wish they'd put a store on the lower east side. Closer to Brooklyn, closer to Wall Street, closer to ME. Everybody's happy.
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You guys already have Soho... :p

Definitely could use one in Queens, maybe spruce up the once-proud Bayside Terrace commercial area or add to the new Flushing mega mall on Northern Blvd...

Obviously Queens Center should be first though, I'm surprised with the expansion and renovation 5-8 yrs ago they didn't open one...
 
Definitely could use one in Queens, maybe spruce up the once-proud Bayside Terrace commercial area or add to the new Flushing mega mall on Northern Blvd...

Obviously Queens Center should be first though, I'm surprised with the expansion and renovation 5-8 yrs ago they didn't open one...
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9to5 Mac has a scoop on the Apple Store opening in Queens Center Mall.

By the way, Tekserve sold Macs to professional audio consumers way before J&R sold Macs. Their retail to the general public came later, though.
 
JPIndustrie said:
They need one down here since J&R closed. There was a time when you were 'proud' to get your stuff at J&R, they even devoted a whole floor just to Apple stuff (other computers/OS' had the other floor and needed to share) and had 'production' kiosks way before there was ever a Tekserve or even an Apple store...
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Indeed: I got my very first Mac OS X t-shirt from J&R: the day they started selling the Mac OS X 10.0 Beta they were giving the first X number of buyers free T-shirts. Indeed I got a number of OS X releases t-shirst, first from J&R, then from Apple's Soho store.

One more long gone thing now that the CD/DVDs and payments for OS X is just history: Apple T-Shirts are still available at WWDC -- that's where the last couple I have came from.
 
Benjamin Frost said:
Saturday 13th.

Close call, Apple.
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Superstitious piffle and nonsense. Basing one's life around the ridiculous notion of "luck" is utterly moronic. "Luck" is a made up concept, proposing that everything in the universe is based on chance, and - unless we dodge these arbitrary and continuously evolving stream of illogical "bullets", everything is going to crumble, catastrophically, around us.

Luck? God is in control, not "luck". If it were me, I'd intentionally open it on Friday the 13th, making sure all the superstitious pedants were well clear of my store :D
 
uid15 said:
Superstitious piffle and nonsense. Basing one's life around the ridiculous notion of "luck" is utterly moronic. "Luck" is a made up concept, proposing that everything in the universe is based on chance, and - unless we dodge these arbitrary and continuously evolving stream of illogical "bullets", everything is going to crumble, catastrophically, around us.

Luck? God is in control, not "luck". If it were me, I'd intentionally open it on Friday the 13th, making sure all the superstitious pedants were well clear of my store :D
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My cheek had some tongue in it.
 
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