Where Are The Police Barricades? In Front Of Verizon Stores

Police barricades galore on the Upper West Side — Gothamist

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Published Feb 10, 2011

Modified Feb 10, 2011

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Two weeks ago, the NYPD admitted that a large number of police barricades have gone AWOL, and some believe that businesses are taking them for crowd control. Like crowd control for the launch of an eagerly awaited gadget? Still, Business Insider claims the lines outside the Verizon stores for the iPhone 4 are "laughably short"... but it is 20-some degrees out.

According to the Bits blog, "Verizon and Apple planned to start selling the Verizon version of the iPhone in their stores around the country at 7 a.m. as well as in their online stores. Best Buy and several hundred Wal-Mart stores also planned to have the phone. "