Apple Store Upper West Side

 store / shop, Apple, commercial building

2-story commercial building completed in 2009. Designed by Apple's in-house designers (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson?), the rear of the building (on the west side) is clad in light-grey slate, while the entire front section is a 2-story clear glass cube, with a slightly curved glass ceiling and a white apple logo on the front facade. The glass cube is slightly shorter than the stone rear section, which has no openings except for a service door at the west end.

The ground floor interior is classic Apple retail, with 16 stand-alone blond wood tables on roughly 8,500 square feet of retail space. Down a spiral glass staircase is a similar-size service space with two walls of software and gear and another 16 tables loaded with iMacs and MacBooks. There’s a giant TV screen mounted in front and a 45-foot-long Genius Bar along the back wall.

This site was home for many years to the Cineplex Odeon Regency Theater. The theater was torn down in the 1990s to make room for a Victoria’s Secret outlet, prior to the construction of the Apple store.

www.apple.com/retail/upperwestside