When it comes to shopping at fancy pants boutiques, the customer is never right. In fact, they’re often treated as a nuisance that is just there to distract the clerks from drinking lattes and playing with their iPhone behind the counter all day. Read more »
After five months of renovations that are rumored to have cost almost $7 million, Apple showed off the altered facade of its flagship store on Fifth Avenue. There are now only 15 glass panels instead of the 90 when it first opened. Read more »
Instead of having their windows papered-over and blacked-out, empty storefronts in Chicago, New York and Paris are turning into makeshift art galleries. The property developers are happy to provide open community access to art, but are hoping the trend is temporary: “Please, get me some tenants.” |NYT|
Hoping to cash in on horny Park Slope residents, sex shop Babeland is opening up shop on Bergen Street. One mami had this to say about the shop: “It’s normal. It’s healthy. I might visit it myself,” she said. She had one caveat: “As long as it’s sort of tasteful.” |NYDN|
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