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Fifth Ave Apple Store is NYC's fifth most-photographed location

by Michael Grothaus Mar 23rd 2010 at 2:30PM


Philip DeWitt at Apple 2.0 is reporting that Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store is now New York City's fifth most-photographed location. The ranking is according to a year-old analysis of 35 million Flickr images by Cornell University students on a university supercomputer. So which four landmarks are beating the Fifth Ave store? The Empire State Building, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, and Grand Central Station, in that order. It's hard to believe the Apple Store beat the Statue of Liberty (ranked 7th).

Cornell's study can be read here (PDF). It's an interesting list of the most photographed cities and landmarks around the world. Even when you take all the landmarks of the entire planet into account, the Fifth Avenue Apple Store is still ranked 28th globally.

Ironically enough Peter Bohlin, the man who designed the hottest computer store on the planet, has been good-naturedly called "a total computer illiterate" by his Philadelphia partner. When Steve Jobs met with Bohlin they wondered how to turn the property, part of which was underground, into a space people would want to enter. The answer, Bohlin told Philly.com, was to make the cube into a giant skylight. "There has always been something magical about a glass building." And thus a star -- er, cube -- was born.

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Greenie

Jon, don't be silly. Everyone knows the mothership is in Cupertino.

March 23 2010 at 7:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gib

This study is just silly, but what would you expect from Cornell...

"Cornell is an excellent school. Without it's agricultural program, we probably wouldn't have cabbage - at least not modern cabbage."
--Dwight Schrute

March 23 2010 at 6:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jon

I bet you 90% of the photos were added to Flickr from iPhoto.

All the Apple fanboys flocking to NYC to photograph the mothership.

March 23 2010 at 5:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brett

Yes.



Well, okay no it's not. But I can't imagine a better pool of images to pull from. Data has to come from somewhere.

In other news, I'm the fifth most amazing person to comment on TUAW... per a data sampling of my own preferences.

March 23 2010 at 5:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
balls

Damn it. I was in NYC, I should have taken a look. I did get to sit next to Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biehl at Per Se, so it wasn't a total loss.

March 23 2010 at 3:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joeybeast

The title of the article should have been APPLE DEFEATS LIBERTY.

March 23 2010 at 3:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iron9iant

To photograph the statue of liberty, you gotta get on a ferry which cost money.

March 23 2010 at 3:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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William

I thought the Staten Island Ferry was free? When did they start charging?

But yeah, I would think that the extra transportation to get to and from the Statue of Liberty, plus the security restrictions at the Statue of Liberty, would make it less likely for people to go there and just stay in Manhattan.

March 24 2010 at 1:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Doug

Technically, the Statue is New Jersey territory...

March 23 2010 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Macmonster

BTW...has anyone heard if there are any Microsoft retail stores still operating?

Just wondering since the Apple stores seem to just keep feeding the bottom line and constantly packed at least here in Charlotte NC.

March 23 2010 at 2:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Galley

I walked by the Microsoft Store in Scottsdale, AZ in January. It was so creepy, I couldn't go in.

March 24 2010 at 10:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ned

Also, surely "Fifth Avenue" not "Firth"? - First line of article...

March 23 2010 at 2:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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