A Sandbagged Apple Store and More Post-Sandy Photos

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• The Fifth Avenue Apple store via @tokuyuki/Twitter
• A blacked-out Fifth Avenue last night via Derek Blasberg/Twitter
• An empty Madison Avenue this morning from 69th Street looking south via @BehindTheBrand/Twitter
• Another shot of an utterly deserted Madison Avenue via @sarahabell
• Boarded up Saks Fifth Avenue via @BinkleyOnStyle/Twitter
• One of Bergdorf's purple birthday streamers, now wrapped around a pole, via @JamesMartinSJ/Twitter
• Some of the streamers did stay in place, though. Photo via @tokuyuki/Twitter
• Here's what the Meatpacking District looked like last night, courtesy non-stop Twitterer @NigelBarker
• And here's the Bowery, via Glamour editor Laurel Pantin

One of the stranger side effects of Hurricane Sandy: photos of utterly deserted shopping strips keep popping up on Twitter. Above, we've rounded up scenes from Madison Avenue, Fifth Avenue, the Bowery, and the Meatpacking District.
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