Preview of New York City's newest Apple Store

This opening was a freakin nightmare. The line was a mob scene, with people getting all desperate and pushing for hours. Young guys were constantly pulling the police barriers apart and cutting in line, which on average was 4-6 people think.

Bad move choosing to have Mary J Blidge make an appearance. I overheard in the crown that radio stations were implying that she was going to be performing for free and that they were giving free computers (plural) all night. this misinformation resulted in everyone and their mother showing up. Literally. there were women there with 5 screaming kids and a stroller waiting in 33F weather for hours because they thought they were going to get free stuff.

It's going to be an odd sight in the Chelsea projects this morning, with every kid running around in an Apple tshirt.

We're liveblogging from the store.... gotta run, though, doors are about to open. Look for updates here:
http://theilife.com/2007/12/07/live-from-the-apple-store-west-14th-street-opening/

I'll be there for my free tshirt.

Will the store be giving away free things?

I'll be there tomorrow. Let me know if you want any pictures. I could send them in real time from my phone. Guess what kind of phone it is?
No, really guess-
Fine, it's an iPhone.

I work right around the corner. I just walked by there for lunch and saw some guy inside taking pictures. Who woulda thought I was looking at the pictures before anyone. Tee hee. :P

I showed up last night around 6 or 7, met Gary from ifoapplestore there this morning around 10, and we're going to scope it back out this evening. I'm up for camping out tonight if anyone else is there, otherwise I'm crashing in a warm apartment and getting there tomorrow morning.

The store is just plain beautiful. And the spiral staircase is a jewel.

I used to live right down the street. The other two stores are rather inconvenient to get to for me. I think this will actually be the one I will wind up visiting, as it's the closest to my train. But all this publicity makes me a little bit sad to think about how cool it would have been to live 5 minutes from an Apple Store.