![]() ![]() “People came to work and didn’t even know the store was closed, there was no notice,” the worker said. They remained in the dark until last week when the store, which is open 365 days a year and rarely shuts its doors, mysteriously closed for six hours during the overnight hours on a weekday for a “water leak,” an employee said. That video circulated across hundreds of staff members and once again, management brought in an exterminator who did some “preventative spraying,” employees said. Management brought an exterminator in and told employees there was no cause for concern until about a week and a half later, an overnight employee found a bed bug crawling on their sweater and took a video of it. H&M worker claims NYC store has lice outbreak in gross photos TikTok user claims she was bitten by bedbugs at AMC Theatre in Times Square I snagged an $8K 'bubble' sofa in the trash - but I'm no 'bed bug queen' OnlyFans influencer reveals creepy infestation in AirBnb While bed bugs can’t jump, they move from host to host by crawling, according to the pest management service Orkin. “No one could go to that table but it was still on the floor, if a customer leaned on it and they didn’t know” a bug could’ve crawled on them, the worker said. The table was left cordoned off while employees and customers were allowed in the store and around the table with no warning of the bed bug threat, an employee said. ![]() The employee said the issue started about three to four weeks ago during the overnight hours at the 24-hour store, which frequently has homeless visitors, when a table on the second floor was “cordoned off” because a bed bug was found, believed to have come from one of the homeless visitors. One worker said the issue has been going on for “nearly a month” and “Friday was the first day they acknowledged they found something.” “We felt very anxious, used and unimportant, like we were just another number.” “I shouldn’t have to go to work feeling unsafe and unprotected,” one worker told The Post. Staff were ordered to double bag their belongings in plastic while a “bed bug sniffing beagle” came to the store where it was “activated” by two lockers in a staff area. “There was a mass exodus… employees were freaking out they felt really unsafe and management kept giving them the runaround.” “It was just mayhem,” an employee told The Post. This past Friday, after weeks of bed bug sightings, a critter was spotted in the manager’s office, sending desperate employees into a frenzy, terrified they’d bring the pest home with them. Staff belongings wrapped in plastic on top of lockers in the store. Curbed’s request for a comment from Apple was unreturned, and the company declined to issue a comment to Crain’s as well.The famed Apple store on 5th Avenue isn’t just crawling with thousands of tourists– it’s also been crawling with bed bugs for nearly a month, The Post has learned. The glass cube will likely return once the expansion work is complete, but this has yet to be confirmed. Schwarz’s former flagship store on Fifth Avenue to allow construction to get underway at their underground space. In January, Apple temporarily moved to F.A.O. The agency issued the permit for the work on April 17. The plan calls for the “full removal of glass cubical structure at Apple store entrance,” according to the city’s Department of Buildings. The cube will be removed to allow renovation work to continue on the underground store as it preps for its expansion to 77,000 square feet of space, Crain’s has learned.Ĭurbed was tipped off by BuildingZoom to plans filed by Boston Properties-the owner of the building in front of which the Apple Store is located. By Josh Weiner via GothamistĪpple’s iconic glass cube on Fifth Avenue will be no more-well, at least for a little bit. It’s not yet clear how long it will be taken away from New Yorkers and tourists alike who have flocked to check out the iconic cube over the years, but it will supposedly make a return when renovations on the underground Apple store are complete. UPDATE: Apple’s glass cube on Fifth Avenue has been taken down, new photos obtained by Gothamist have revealed. ![]()
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