Manhattan, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Manhattan comes up
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 27:33 David Senra Even though I was a little kid, I'd take the train from Long Island into Manhattan and I'd hang out in magic shops.
The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
- ▶ 23:50 David Senra Then she would take the seven AM ferry to Manhattan.
- ▶ 44:18 David Senra It's like, no, this single woman sitting at a desk chemical bank, downtown Manhattan decides to cut rates.
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 21:11 David Senra Eventually he wants to move from Staten Island to Manhattan, because that is like the heartbeat. 2 times in the scene
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 17:46 David Senra Uh, this is on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and he hired great architects, and he had to make it beautiful because his point was like, well, I have eight or 10 big clients, right?
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 20:57 David Senra He takes him straight to where Thomas Edison's at, because at this point in Edison's career, he had just completed his successful experiments on electric lighting, and so this is when he closes, temporarily closes Menlo Park, moves to…
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 13:42 David Senra A friend of Gagosian's describes attending a dinner party at his Manhattan townhouse, along with a fabulously wealthy tech founder and witnessing a look of real consternation on the young man's face as it dawned on him that for all his…
- ▶ 15:41 David Senra And so ever since I did that podcast on Bernard Arnault, it's episode two 96 if you haven't listened to it, uh, yet, I've just been fascinated by trying to collect as many stories about him as possible, and there's actually, he appears, I…
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 51:20 David Senra I just love the fact this guy's in his thirties in Manhattan doing business out of a nightclub every night.
- ▶ 59:50 David Senra Winds up becoming, uh, the location of where the United Nations is, um, in Manhattan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:04 David Senra For example, one Park Avenue in Manhattan, which the marketplace had valued at ten million dollars, was ultimately worth fifteen million in Zeckendorf's hands.
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- ▶ 0:55 David Senra The New York Magazine photographer had learned that the world's richest man was living almost anonymously right in the middle of Manhattan, and that he was in the habit of walking to work every day.
- ▶ 13:14 David Senra In Manhattan, beat the heart of the world of commerce.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 31:18 David Senra I told him that even Bloomingdale's in one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the city, so this is in Manhattan, couldn't sell polo ties at 15 dollars.
How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
- ▶ 7:37 David Senra The beautiful home that he had on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan later in life had a fairly large garden. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 David Senra He had not forgotten the mansions in Manhattan. 3 times in the scene
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 0:01 David Senra One of America's wealthiest men, his holdings valued at more than a hundred billion dollars in today's dollars, sat up in his sickbed in his Manhattan home and called to one of his caregivers for a pen and paper, Andrew Carnegie.
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 28:08 David Senra So I just went down to the village, this is in Manhattan, and started playing like I wanted.