Apple ’s taken down the mighty velvet curtain atop itsimpendingGrand Central Station megastore in Manhattan . It ’s got a giant , snazzy videofacade — and it ’s very stupefied looking ! It ’s also a harbinger of a stupefied retail incubus to come .
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-the-grand-central-apple-store-looks-like-5824647
The store ’s face smiling at you with a smarmy 52 - monitor house :
GRAB AN IPOD TOUCH . YOU’LL
WISH YOUR COMMUTE WAS LONGER .
Ha ! No , no we wo n’t . Nobody will ever wish that , because Grand Central , despite being one of the most singularly gorgeous architectural sites in New York , is a horror show of the human mintage . It ’s not our fault ! Everyone is rushing everywhere , at high speeds , in every direction . excited , anxious hurdling , bag smacking , din announcements . It ’s an tremendous transportation hub that shuttle hundreds of thousands of commuters , attract tourists , shoppers , and nearby luncher .
Over 750,000 hoi polloi go through the station every single day . It ’s the most pop stop in the entire New York Subway organisation . And all this is an urban necessity — I’m not mad atcha , Grand Central !
But adding a 23,000 straight human foot Apple Store , taking over an entire balcony in the station formerly occupied by agiganticrestaurant , will be dark . Those 750,000 day-after-day visitant do n’t require an onslaught of people who ’ll pass hours gawking at object they may or may not buy . The mass of foundation dealings this retail Xanadu could pull is astounding — there are going to be 300 Apple employees staffed there alone . And , unlike Apple ’s jumbo glass cube on 5th avenue , once masses arrive they ’ll have nowhere to . It ’s indoors . set out in and out of the station is hard enough when all you want to do is capture a gearing . Hordes of iPad shoppers will make this one of the most unpleasant buildings in the history of the Occident . I ca n’t await until I can roll out of my gurney at the hospital emergency room and hit the Genius Bar , too . [ 9to5Mac ]
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