New York City

“We have 30 hosts in New York who are renting their extra rooms out in their homes”

“I had, like, 50 bucks in, in my pocket. I was going to 50th street between Lexington and third, and the driver dropped me in 193 between eighth and ninth.”

“Remember, there was no public data of apartment prices, and in the vacuum of no numbers, I supplied a number, and they wanted to do a story on the bad market, and I put a label on it, how bad it was, right?”

“When she got her job offer for 14,000 dollars a year, everything changed.”

“And yet, outside of New York City just about no one does delivery. 85% of restaurants in America don't deliver.”

“It was probably the last great restaurant in New York City that, wait, that, that, oh my gosh, no, stop. That existed before, like, Eater and food blogging and Accenture Access to these great restaurants existed online. It was the restaurant that only existed …”

“She put up the, like, 1500 dollars for three months to be on this couch, and it was a, like, a 250 square foot studio apartment in the East Village that had been Walls had been put up to make it a two bedroom.”

“And one of those people was, you know, like a friend of a friend, and he had lived in this, something called an SRO, a single room occupancy. And it's where you sort of, you get a room, but you don't get a bathroom or a kitchen. And it wasn't much of an apartm…”

“We employed people to walk around New York City holding 10 empty Jo Malone bags for the month and the six weeks run up to opening in Bergdorf Goodman, and by the time we did, everybody had seen these Jo Malone bags, which had nothing in them, and everybody tho…”

“Actually, our first store wasn't in New York City. It was in Sinjuku Station in Tokyo, Japan.”

“Yeah, you look, in New York, We facilitate roughly one in five new patient-doctor relationships in the entire city on ZocDoc.”

“That afternoon, we went to a stationery store, changed the companies, the letterhead, mechanical ink, the chemical productions ink, and then we filed for a permit, sent the letter to the mayor that afternoon, asking for permission to shoot a full-length motion…”

“Well, it was 285 dollars a month. It was a basement. It was literally nine by 16.”

“And in 2017, I had a hundred million views, but I was four months away from being broke. And so I had a hundred million views. We had about 400,000 followers. And I hadn't thought about business, or I hadn't thought about money, because all I was trying to do …”

“I had this whole thing that I wouldn't tell anyone how old I was. Like, my best friends, they didn't know I was 18 until I was 21, you know? Like, they thought I was 21 the whole time, because I always just immediately would just feel, like, this amount of dis…”

“We have got a really cool project in New York with Mayor Eric Adams. We're hiring 1500 people from the low income communities where I grew up and where I was a community organizer in New York City, and we're training them on how to electrify buildings. And we'…”

“30%. Of the United States CO two emissions. Wow. And in New York City, where I am, buildings are 67%.”

“What we do have in New York City is we get most of our electricity, or will next year, from a hydroelectric project in Quebec. Oh. And so there's this giant dam in Quebec that spins a bunch of turbines, and Produces clean electricity and sends that electricity…”

“In New York City, there's 10,000 giant apartment buildings that burn oil for hot water and for heat. Like, a truck filled with oil pulls up once a week and runs this, like, tube into the basement, into the heating system, and, like, pumps oil from the back of …”

“New York is calling itself the food capital of the world, but Africa is not in this world. I'm like, Hey, no, this is going to be my mission. I'm going to start finding inspiration from that cuisine and bringing it and that I never looked back.”

“I am in the kitchen every night that I'm home here in Napa Valley, and when I go to New York City, I'm in the kitchen every night that I'm in New York.”

“On my way to my rehearsal dinner, I signed a term sheet, and two weeks later, I opened a store in New York City, and a week later, I found out I was pregnant. May 2018 was a busy month.”

“I, in return, stayed in the city for five days and went home on the weekends. So I would get on the train early Tuesday morning, get to New York, stay in New York till Saturday after work, get on a train, and go back to Connecticut. And we did that for almost …”

“There was no other bar concept here, and so I moved from San Francisco, the Bay Area, which was the, basically the Bay Area and New York City were the two First places that bar arrived.”

“How many billion dollar Consumer internet companies are there in New York? And at the time the answer was zero.”

“My first product, Syrian cheese, is a traditional cheese that's eaten throughout the Middle East, is set to launch in 2026 across all New York City stores of a major grocery chain.”

“And especially when you're outside of big cities, people like events. They like something different. You know, there's not a lot going, as much going on in Charlotte, North Carolina, as there is, it's going on in New York City or L.A.,”