Roundtable Wrap: Apple Store Teaser
On the same day that the blog FIPS reported a Marty Markowitz staffer saying that Apple was not coming to Brooklyn, we sat in the audience at the quarterly Real Estate Roundtable luncheon at the Brooklyn Historical Society at which veteran commercial broker Robert Greenstone said he knew where the new Apple store would be…
On the same day that the blog FIPS reported a Marty Markowitz staffer saying that Apple was not coming to Brooklyn, we sat in the audience at the quarterly Real Estate Roundtable luncheon at the Brooklyn Historical Society at which veteran commercial broker Robert Greenstone said he knew where the new Apple store would be but was sworn to secrecy. He could have been pulling the audience’s collective leg, but it didn’t seem like it. The whispers after the talk were that it was going to be in or around Atlantic Yards.
Brownstone brooklyn has some expensive casual men clothing shops, those 2 on atlantic between hoyt and bond and epulat on smith. $150 for a pair of shorts. I’m not sure any area of outside heights would need a brooks brothers/paul stuart. I think men are pretty particular about their shopping habits on where they go. I’ve gone to the same 5 stores for all of my clothing for a while. Though then again I’m an odd gay man.
I think those that wear fancy suits most likely work in area (midtown or downtown ) where the fancy shops locate.
Seems logical to me to put my store near where they work (as work force comes from many different directions/distances) rather than locating in more residential environment. Downtown manhattan is a nice walk from brooklyn heights.
If you don’t really leave your neighborhood, you probably don’t need some fancy suit.
Apple too is going to locate where people congregate. The ones in manhattan are just as convenient as having one in some other neighborhood in brooklyn. Except again for those that never leave their neighborhood.
those parking lots near bam are quite attractive APPLE.
As you point out, you are already paying at least some of the use tax (and possibly more than you owe) by filling out the use tax information on the IT-201, so it’s really just the illusion of a tax shelter.
And by imposing the use tax, NYS in fact is making it as attractive to do business here as elsewhere.
A lot of stores would do very well if they opened here. What 11217 wrote is true, if the stores were here, people would stroll in on their way somewhere else, or just out of curiosity and end up buying something.
It will probably happen all at once like a domino effect.
I do not think Brooklyn locations would cannibalize those in Manhattan. I find most stores filled with tourists and out of towners, don’t some of you? I would shop in store more and online less if Brooklyn had more of the stores I frequent near downtown, which is 1 express stop from my house. I hate going shopping in Manhattan. Everything is swarming with people, it’s hard to get help, and merchandise is always low.
Boerumresident — I know!
But let me have my illegal tax shelter! I already have to claim $XXX as non-NYS purchases on my tax return… and if you don’t you are red flagged for auditing. That’s such bullshit.
If I do business in another state, then I do business in another state. NYS should make it more attractive for me to keep my business here! Right? Just seems so petty.
And btw, Apple is in Staten Island and Birmingham, Alabama.
Neither of which I’d liken to “Beverly Hills”
I didn’t say I wanted these stores, Rob.
I’m having a conversation. Are you able to do that without acting out like a child?
And yes, I am able to walk into an Apple store and make an unplanned purchase. Does that make me a horrible human being?