Apple's new downtown brooklyn store to open next weekend

On Monday, Apple announced that it will open a new store on the street in downtown Brooklyn; The event will take place next weekend, after several months of construction.

A new store to visit

The store is located in the new 300 Ashland building in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. Its official address is 123 Flatbush Avenue and the inauguration will take place next Saturday, December 2 at 10:00 a.m. local time.

This store will be Apple's second in Brooklyn, along with the establishment located in Williamsburg that opened last July 2016. In addition, it will also be Apple's 11th store in New York City, to which there are to add seven in Manhattan, one in Queens and one in Staten Island.

The store is located near the LIRR Atlantic Terminal and the Barclays Center, home of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and the NHL's New York Islanders.

On the other hand, Apple has also announced that its store located in the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo has closed temporarily to be renovated, so now customers should visit the Omotesando store, located near the previous one, if they want to make their purchases in person.

In addition, the Japanese website specializing in "apple affairs", Mac Otakara, has pointed out that Apple plans to open a store in Kyoto, Japan in 2019, and possibly two other stores in Tokyo in time for the Olympics that will be held in 2020 in the city.

Returning to the central issue at hand, the new Apple store in Downtown Brooklyn is the company's number 499 store worldwide if we also count the new Visitor Center in Apple Park in Cupertino.