Apple Store on the Ave (Conn. Post photo)
Cool beans. I will be out of town (opening day of deer season in NY as you undoubtedly know) but I’m excited about this and it will be the first store to lure me to Greenwich Avenue since Al Franklin’s record shop shut down. The linked-to article says a Ralph Lauren shop opens Friday next door (Apple will be in the old movie theatre, so that places Lauren in the original Richards, I guess) which does nothing for me but is sure to please someone. It also reports, amusingly enough, that we’re going to be graced by a Dooney & Bourke store opening but is silent on whether Fredric Bourke will be allowed out of prison to attend the ceremony. Regardless, it would seem that Greenwich Avenue is coming back from the lackluster state of affairs it’s been suffering. There are still twenty vacant stores left to rent out, but Apple is going to bring a lot of new foot traffic, I think.
21 Comments
November 18, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I’ll take a venison steak if you care to spare.
November 18, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Better than other retail but still the stuff of unwashed masses and tourists
Ironically, really takes a Luddite to visit bricks and mortar retail for anything incl Apple
And for bespoke clothing, tailors will mail swatches and already have one’s measurements…the Blackberry/iPhone world…
November 18, 2009 at 10:50 pm
OK, I know you are retail virgin. But the Ralph store is farther up the avenue in the old GAP space.
November 18, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Have you been to the genius bar at an Apple Store? I read recently they hire something like 200 out of 10,000 applicants which makes it harder to get into than most Ivies.
November 18, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Will be a pleasure, CC, assuming Bambi cooperates.
November 19, 2009 at 7:40 am
CF, u going with your harvard law buddy cass sunstein?
what does cass shoot? .270? .30 – 06 ? hard to imagine cass is an archery guy.
November 19, 2009 at 8:10 am
I’m bringing my .270 (130 gr bullet) and my rifled slug(sabot) gun, so Cass can have a choice.
November 19, 2009 at 8:31 am
Good luck, Chris. May every round be a one shot kill.
November 19, 2009 at 8:32 am
Too bad those geniuses at the “Genius” bar can’t figure out how to get a signal on ATT so you can use the iPhone to make an actual phone call. Everybody I know with an iPhone can’t wait until their contract expires so they can get rid of it. Supposedly there’s no signal south of I-95 in Old Greenwich. My neighbor can’t even use hers in her own house!
Furthermore, we are in a recession, and for about half the price of the cheapest entry level Macbook ($999 with 13″ screen), you can get an HP or Dell with a 15″ screen running the new Windows7 OS – a nice improvement over XP, and comparable to Mac OS in quality.
Me thinks it is time to short shares of AAPL
November 19, 2009 at 8:36 am
Kevin at Star Laundry on the corner (I think #364) told me Saturday that his building was recently sold and that he would be shutting down bout 1st of year. He doesn’t plan to reopen. New owner plans to upgrade building and bring in more high end. Real drag as Kevin is first class person and best place to get shirts done flat and wrapped in NY style brown paper
November 19, 2009 at 9:23 am
Cf, where do you go hunting, lyon park in po-cho?
November 19, 2009 at 9:29 am
I’m heading up to Bovina, New York, CC. I did try hunting in Ridgefield once but it just didn’t have that wilderness feel to it: I could hear the cheers from the crowd at the local high school football game, for instance.
But Port Chester’s pretty wild – that might work.
November 19, 2009 at 9:46 am
Cool, good luck to you sir.
November 19, 2009 at 10:31 am
Lauren nee Lipshitz is opening in Kathy Lewis’, widow of Judge Bill’s, real estate next to the funeral parlor. I think that building was first owned by Bill’s aunt. Wish I had an aunt like that.
November 19, 2009 at 10:52 am
I used to have a house next to the old Mashomack preserve on Shelter Island, epicenter of deer and deer ticks. My pals would come down from upstate NY with fresh tampons, which would attract the beasts so they could shoot them. If you see tampons hanging from the tree limbs, now you know why.
November 19, 2009 at 10:56 am
The boredom of the North Country obviously does strange things to the mind.
November 19, 2009 at 2:17 pm
My pocketbook doesn’t match my shoes and my car doesn’t have a V-12 engine so even when I do shop the Avenue, clerks ignore me like the plague, assuming I carry a Discover card and not an AMEX. I rarely get help, looking like I can’t afford anything. I hear this complaint alot from fellow seniors, but the sadness for the store owners who ignore us is that many of us could buy and sell these hedgie twerps in a nanosecond – we just choose not to show we can. Good luck to Apple but if I were in office in Greenwich, I’d vote to bring back Woolworth’s, Neilson’s ice cream, and Jean’s bike shop….that’s when Greenwich was real!
November 19, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Years ago, Current, I had settled a big case and pocketed a nice big fee so I thought it would nice to buy Pal Nancy an Audi staion wagon. Went down there dressed in my usual manner which is to say, ah, “casual” and the clerk treated me like dirt. So I left, went to Westport and bought a Volvo wagon instead. I’ve never been back to Audi in the twenty years since.
November 19, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Chris: That was under hubby Malcolm’s watch. You needed Gucci loafers back then to get attention.
November 19, 2009 at 4:42 pm
CF, you should have sent the Audi manager a copy of the Volvo sales invoice to them and an explanation of why you didn’t buy an Audi in Greenwich. Money talks.
November 19, 2009 at 7:57 pm
CF,
Happy Hunting!
If you are successful, maybe you can give some of the backstrap as well as some steaks to Cos Cobber. He is a good sport on these pages.
Cos Cobber, the backstrap is the tenderloin of venison, considered by many to be the best cut of meat on the deer.