Manhattan

“The U.S., we get in just into the northeast of one region of Whole Foods, the northeast region of Whole Foods. So we kind of do a little test first in 2015. With 10 stores, 10 top stores in Manhattan, I hire a merchandiser, I hire a demo crew, and I made sure …”

“In China there are many dozens of cities over a million in population, and the population density is even perhaps higher than that of Manhattan.”

“So there's about 17,000 cities in the U.S., and we have all the big ones outside of Manhattan at this point.”

“The wealthy communities have decided we want this, and we're willing to trade some of our privacy for security. Meanwhile, like, a lot of the debate happens, like the assumption is that low-income people don't want that, and that they want more privacy at the …”

“We're opening up our new office on Manhattan this week. It's gonna be a 150 people. We've got three more offices in the U.S. Opening this year.”

“We have a project to build a new city in California. We've bought, you know, four times the acreage of Manhattan in Solano County.”

“We have a project to build a new city in California. We've bought, you know, four times the acreage of Manhattan in Solano County.”

“You can take a taxi and it's faster than taking the subway.”

“Wait times to get on the island are down 50% across the board. Lincoln Tunnel down 46%. Holland Tunnel down 63%. Williamsburg Bridge down 35%.”

“Manhattan's vacancy rate in the Plaza District was about four percent, which meant the rents were going up double digits every year.”

“Wall Street was definitely this idea that you could go to Wall Street and finance in New York and in your twenties, make it to the top. And that's at 100% true in Silicon Valley in tech, even today. But I don't think it's been true in Manhattan finance for dec…”

“Shout out to Raoul's and Balthazar, two best steak au quavs in Manhattan, in my estimation.”

“For a young person, you know, you could pay him 200 grand a year, and that is barely enough for someone to live in Manhattan.”

“The CCP via an innocuous sounding nonprofit that was basically a United Front Work Department entity set up on a police station in the heart of Manhattan that was being used to surveil, harass, and in some cases physically assault people on American soil.”

“On the second transaction that we did, we bought a loan secured by a hotel under construction on the lower east side of Manhattan. There was a mechanics lien sandwiched in the middle of the capital stack. We ended up negotiating with the construction company t…”

“So we do work with some enterprise clients as well. So these are namely office buildings or campuses that are so large that they somewhat operate like a small city or a mini city. So the types of buildings we monitor can range from large office campuses or par…”

“We're in 400 markets nationwide. We're pretty much everywhere except for farmland, Manhattan, and San Francisco.”

“Most cities don't have a neighborhood that is an obvious fit. And I know that probably sounds strange. Think of so many wonderful places to be. But they have to have that morning to nighttime, you know, possibility for business. And then they have to have affo…”

“The, most of the cost is the overhead they have for their, you know, stupid building in, in Manhattan, which is the dumbest place To set up a publishing empire, but that's where they've decided to do it. And the editorial costs and the promotion and marketing …”

“And I think for a creative person and for an introverted person, I think Manhattan is nirvana, because you have all this anonymity, so you're surrounded by all these creative people, and you're picking up on everything that's going on around you. You know, you…”

“I am very long New York. I am never moving out to the valley. And if I'm doing anything in the future, it's going to be in Manhattan.”

“In fact, they can drive in Palo Alto, but they can't drive in Manhattan.”

“So the handyman for a half day in Brooklyn and Queens is 395. The half day in Manhattan is 500. And then our most common service purchased is the handyman for a day, which in Brooklyn and Queens is five 95 and in Manhattan is seven 25.”