Despite the short distance the store is moving, there is a feeling of nostalgia at Moscot, which has been selling glasses at the corner of Delancey and Orchard Streets since 1936.
The wearable computer is prompting questions of whether it will distract drivers, upend relationships and strip people of what little privacy they still have in public.
Google Glass, the computer eyewear, offers much technological wonder. But for one early user, it raises questions about the future of new technology and who gains access to it first.