Originally posted by MacMinute
Only open for business four days, Apple's newest retail store in New York City was tested beyond it's wildest dreams on Saturday, with an electrical power outage that affected a large part of lower Manhattan. The outage, caused by an electrical fire at a nearby sub-station, shut down power to over 63,500 residences and businesses early Saturday afternoon and continued on into Sunday. Instead of closing its doors like many retailers [emphasis added], the resourceful crew at the Apple store weathered the storm by demonstrating Macintosh laptops and iPods in the street and completing transactions on handwritten receipts. "They really showed that iBooks have great battery life," one customer on the scene told MacMinute. "They continued demonstrating products inside a dark store and had a packed crowd. They really did an amazing job." At press time, power to the area where the Apple store is located was still off, but authorities are confident much of the power will be restored in stages throughout the day today.
