Given the transportation and logistical circumstances here in NYC post-Sandy, I'm not able to be at the 5th Avenue store for this morning's iPad mini intro. Since I can't give you first-hand reports, here's a roundup of the buying experience from those in the midst of it.
(Apple is running private shuttles for employees to make it in to work at 5th Ave, per BI. Two of Apple's five retail locations in Manhattan are in the powerless zone below midtown and are presumably closed; so are the independent Digital Society,
