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Manhasset Long Island Apple store opens


It was freezing this morning as the Manhasset Long Island, NY Apple store opened for business. Employees wearing T-Shirts (they weren't allowed to wear coats), ran up and down the waiting line of hundreds of people both pumping up the crowd and trying to stay warm. The enthusiasm was contagious as orange shirted people shouted out that the store would be open in 15 minutes, 10 minutes, 5 minutes, and then the doors opened to seemingly dozens of Apple workers handing out T-shirts and applauding loudly as each new group of 20 people or so were let in the huge glass doors. The first 1,000 people were handed black T-shirts that said 'Manhasset' on the front and 'Designed by Apple in California' on the back.

The store is free standing and much larger than the one at the Walt Whitman Mall, my usual Apple store. The front and back of the store are glass walls and there is plenty of open space. Hopefully this store will take some of the burden off of the other Long Island stores which are usually crowded and have multi-day waits to get an appointment at the Genius Bar.

If you're in the area, check it out at 1900 Northern Blvd, Manhasset, NY.

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Elizabeth

Hopefully this will take some craziness away from RF, and new stores are amazing because they have 230+ of them! I think it's a great accomplishment that they are opening new stores while many other business' are closing down.

October 19 2009 at 2:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe

What a bunch of corny morons. I love their products but christ their retail division is awful. Try walking into an Apple store for a QUICK purchase...won't happen. They have to ask you dumb questions to try and get you more 'involved' in the store setting.

October 19 2009 at 1:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe

Ive never found any employees in Roosevelt Field or Walt Whitman as douche bags. They have been always excellent to assist.
(They even bumped me up in the line at the genious bar when i went in with my 3 little kids)

October 18 2009 at 9:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mmiranda

it is just like the Scottsdale store- it's a standalone with walls of glass on each side. It is much more elegant and easy to get in and out than any other Apple store I've ever been to.

It is in a very wealthy area and also very close to Queens-which doesnt have its own store. So it's likely to be a major profit-center for Apple.

October 18 2009 at 4:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tony

Thank goodness for this opening. This store is much closer to me then Roosevelt Field and that store is way too small and ALWAYS crowded! As someone else here said.. Roosevelt Field store is a zoo 24/7! It takes nearly a week to get a Genius Bar appointment there!

October 18 2009 at 1:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe

The opening of Apple stores has always had a huge impact on the Apple faithful. Each and every store opening is the same thing - people line up to be able to be a part of day one. If that's not your thing, fine. But if it is, it's a very cool thing, indeed. The t-shirts are cool, there's a ton of excitement, and whoever said that all the stores are the same has clearly never been to more than one store. This one is in a unique space and looks different from all the others.

If it doesn't float your boat, don't go.

October 18 2009 at 12:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gee-Zee

That's the strangest thing I've ever watched in the history of following computer news. I can't wait until Windows 7 comes out this week and I can put the Apple (Heaven's Gate) thing behind me. Sorry folks their just selling to you like sheep now. It's sad!

October 18 2009 at 11:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter Payne

Man-ass-hat?

October 18 2009 at 8:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JockMacFu

A bit off topic but about 1.51 in the Vid there is a wee boy at a iMac in denim jacket with his mummy , what game he playing anyone knows ....? as always interested in new stuff for my nearly 3 year olds macbook ty

October 18 2009 at 7:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Donald Kelly

If the description is as it sounds, It's just like the Apple Store Scottsdale Quarter (google it for pictures.)

October 18 2009 at 3:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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