The Brooklyn Paper did some investigating and called Apple Headquarters (in Cupertino) and got a denial. Bloggers, once again, are blamed for spreading false rumors.

But the award-winning newspaper did manage to drum up a former Apple store employee, who would agreed to speak annonymously. He told the Brooklyn Paper that there’s been talk of a Brooklyn
shop for at least a year.

“A lot of the higher-ups were asking us
‘cool kids’ what area of Brooklyn we thought would be best [a year
ago],” she said. “I thought either a small store on Bedford Avenue or a
store in Park Slope.”

The bloggers agreed, bandying about
possible sites for Brooklyn’s own enormous cube of a building on Smith
Street, in DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn, and Williamsburg.