Thanks to all here. A number of them (mostly 32GB Black, wifi only) showed up in the Westchester/NYC area yesterday around 10:30am or so, as some here have already noted.
I had waited outside the Mt. Kisco store last week (was third in line), but they only had 1, so I didn't get it. Mt. Kisco showed up as having them yesterday morning, but it was 3:15pm before I could sneak out of work without trouble. When I got there, there were still 5 of them. The electronics manager remembered me from the day before, and let me buy one for me and one for my (very pregnant) wife.
Fantastic. Thanks for the links and while I didn't use the script (I wrote a PERL script that runs only when I click it), thanks for that too as it helped me write mine.
I canceled my Apple order when I got home and since we got it before the birth, my wife will have the iPad to use at the hospital.
Thanks!