“New Yorkers know better, especially these days, than to expect any sympathy from the rest of the country — even though the city, with three Apple Stores for a population of more than 8 million, is conspicuously underserved by the company’s retail outlets,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes for Fortune. “(San Francisco’s three stores, by contrast, serve a population of fewer than 800,000.)”
“But what about Brooklyn? The most populous of the five boroughs (pop. 2.5 million) would be, as any cabbie can tell you, the fourth largest city in the United States if it weren’t yoked to Manhattan, Queens and the rest. It is home to tens of thousands of Mac users of every stripe — teachers, students, writers, artists, designers, musicians, mobsters — yet it has zero Apple Stores,” Elmer-DeWitt writes.
“Which is why Brooklynites get so excited when there is any news, as there was this week, about Apple putting an outlet in their borough,” Elmer-DeWitt writes. “At a real estate roundtable on Tuesday, the developer of a huge condominium project on the Brooklyn side of the East River announced that an Apple Store was a ‘real possibility’ for one of its prime ground floor retail spaces.”
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Web site Brownstoner.com reports, “‘The Edge’ developer Jeff Levine revealed this teaser to the audience at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable yesterday: An Apple store is still a real possibility for the ground-floor retail at the massive Kent Avenue development. ‘There’s no deal,’ Levine said, ‘But we are talking and they are interested.'”
Full article, with map showing potential location, here.