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The Line For The iPhone 6 Stretches 12 City Blocks This Morning - And People Are Sleeping In Boxes

Caroline MossSep 19, 2014, 16:54 IST

Everyone wants the new iPhone.

The line for the phones at the Flagship Apple Store, which opens at 8am this morning to the public, stretched 12 city blocks - from 59th and 5th to 71st and 5th - by 6am Friday morning.

People on 71st street were camped out.

Some were in beach chairs playing cards, but these folks made a box fort and were sleeping.

Overnight the temperatures dropped to about 54 degrees; everyone had blankets and coats.

Once you got to the Apple Store a few blocks later, things seemed to be more organized and cheerful.

Press was lining up at the edge of 5th Avenue:

There were tons of NYPD cops. When we asked some of the folks in colorful sweatshirts how long they had been waiting, they cheerfully replied, "SINCE SUNDAYYY!"