Janna Goes to New York and Pretends to Not Be Totally Lost – Part 3
One of the things I absolutely had to do on this trip was check out the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. As a fan of both Apple and weird architecture, it was one of the first places on my list.
Of course, it was cool, and packed with people. The store itself Is located underground, beneath the glass “cube” itself. And down there it’s really just an Apple Store, to be perfectly honest. The interesting part was the cube itself, and the spiral staircase going down into this bizarre hole in the ground on Fifth Avenue – there’s no way to go but down. And the poor girl who had to stand at the top of the staircase as the greeter, by the open door in the cold and the rain. Sadly I wussed out on asking them how often drunk people wandered into the store, which is open 24/7, and fell down the staircase.
I did visit the other NY Apple Stores, as well. The SoHo store was unimpressive, just a regular old Apple Store a la The Grove or San Francisco. Bit the 14th St. store is officially my new favorite of all Apple Stores ever. It was huge – three stories, built into an old, brick building, with big windows filling the place with sunlight. You could even sit in the window sills, waiting for your Genius Bar appointment or utilizing the wi-fi.
Also for this trip, I was working off a few to-do lists, from friends or the internet or just ideas I picked up as I went along. Among those were a LOT of pizza suggestions. I certainly didnt get to them all, but I still ate way too much of it, hence mini-pizza review #2: Totonno’s Pizza: I didn’t realize until I left that there was a much cheaper 2-slice special, so I got an entire small pizza for myself. But that was fine, since I nearly ate the while damn thing! It was good pizza, and I think the best mushrooms of the bunch, but sadly the place was empty (2:30 on a weekday), so I couldn’t get a complete feel for the joint.
