“Brooklyn certainly isn’t the Apple of Steve Jobs’ eye, and his latest snub has the borough’s biggest booster seeing red,” Rich Calder reports for The New York Post.
“‘I seriously just don’t get it,’ Borough President Marty Markowitz said today, after officials announced that an upscale restaurant would anchor new retail coming to the Municipal Building in Downtown Brooklyn — instead of the Apple store he had been seeking,” Calder reports. “He said the computer giant and its CEO ‘won’t reach the big-time until Apple finally opens a store’ in Brooklyn.”
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“Apple has four stores in Manhattan, one on Staten Island, and three in Long Island,” Calder reports. “Markowitz has been calling on Apple to open its first Brooklyn store for five years. An Apple spokeswoman confirmed the company has no current plans to open a Brooklyn store.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It’s Brooklyn, Marty. That’s why.
(Just kidding, Brooklynites. We love ya!)
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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