Apple's Iconic Fifth Avenue Store Moving to Temporary Location on January 20 During Renovations

[Glassed Silver]

True. All of them are busy, but 5th is particularly crazy unless you go very early in the morning. Hopefully our incoming President's ridiculous security a few blocks south of the 5th Avenue store will not hinder you either.

Grand Central is just built into an upper level staircase (GC itself is very beautiful so that's worth seeing if you like architecture). Since you're not going for shopping you'll be fine in not dealing with the unhelpful staff at 14, GC, 68th and 74th.

Not sure where the World Trade store is located, but I think you have to pass through the lovely new subway station there (the Occulus).

Good luck and have fun. I might be cranky about Apple, but not to folks visiting. Enjoy your stay!

Thanks a lot!

Yeah I'm very cranky about Apple myself, but I sure love the Stores or the "Apple"s if that's what they still want to call them... or something,

And yeah! SUPER STOKED to arrive just in time for Donald's first 100 days of presidency. Haha.
Well, if there is one thing my first stay in the US has taught me it's that a nation is much greater than its politics.
90% of the experience that you as a visitor have is the people, the landscapes, the city life and the journey.
Emotions bind it all together, whoever is president can't alter that experience all that much when you know that the nation is a great one.

I really love the US, politics is what keeps me from considering it as a permanent home.
I'm pretty content over here in Germany, but I still enjoy coming over sometimes.

Glassed Silver:mac

 

[Breaking Good]

Apple isn't going out of business, nor are they anywhere even remotely close to what it would take for them to shut down.

Microsoft, Nokia, Blakberry, AOL and Yahoo haven't gone out of business. But they are no where near the size they were at their peaks and no longer dominate their respective markets like they once did.

 

[Markoth]

Too many clever words on that sign when a simple arrow would've sufficed (especially considering the number of non-English-speaking tourists that must visit that iconic store)

You come to America not speaking English, you're going to have trouble. C'est la vie. Same can be said of every country.

 

[Arran]

You come to America not speaking English, you're going to have trouble. C'est la vie. Same can be said of every country.

Absolutely agree.

But imagine you're a retailer for a minute. Your customers have money. And they want to give it to you.

Wouldn't you want to make it easy for them to find you?

 

[Markoth]

Absolutely agree.

But imagine you're a retailer for a minute. Your customers have money. And they want to give it to you.

Wouldn't you want to make it easy for them to find you?

Certainly. From Apple's perspective, it's stupid. Put a damn arrow on the thing! But, to me that's more just a part of creating a good sign. It needs to be readable at a glance, and shouldn't take the person to stop and actually read the entire thing to figure out where to go. An arrow is an obvious and globally accepted method to accomplish this, and Apple failed here. I'd say it more or less functions well enough for English speakers, even if it's poor in comparison to the common "one-way" sign, for example. It definitely fails basic sign aesthetics.