Manhattan, every mention

11 scenes (said by Shane Parrish) · ← back to Manhattan

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Manhattan comes up

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▶ 2:49 Shane Parrish He sat at a desk at 26 Broadway in Manhattan and
▶ 1:43:13 Shane Parrish They settled into the same few blocks of midtown Manhattan, with Flagler taking a house on one corner of West 54th Street and Rockefeller's brother William on another.

▶ 14:35 Shane Parrish The girl who couldn't type was about to teach Manhattan how power really works.
▶ 24:43 Shane Parrish Her first story, Summer Dresses, on a tilted Manhattan rooftop,

▶ 6:54 Shane Parrish Cornelius's father had built or bought a Perragar, a specialized two-masted vessel deployed by the Dutch for trading, and began ferrying neighbors and their produce along the bay in Manhattan.
▶ 8:42 Shane Parrish Operate the boat as a ferry between Stanton Island and the growing Manhattan.
▶ 13:52 Shane Parrish With a British blockade due to the war forcing coastal shipping to route through Stanton Island and overland across New Jersey, Vanderbilt's position between Manhattan and Stanton Island suddenly became a commercial choke point and one… 4 times in the scene
▶ 21:55 Shane Parrish As he stepped aboard the mouse and inspected its copper boiler, he kept his own boats plying between Stanton Island and Manhattan with passengers and produce while his schooners nosed along coastal waters with cargos of fish and woolens,…
▶ 1:04:15 Shane Parrish Driven by pride and a relentless pursuit of efficiency, Vanderbilt acquired the Hudson River Railroad in 1864, securing control over the only railways entering Manhattan.
▶ 1:15:00 Shane Parrish Vanderbilt's mergers produced a corporate giant from Manhattan to Lake Erie, ushering in bureaucracy, delegation, and unprecedented efficiency.

▶ 8:27 Shane Parrish Young Estee riding a rattling streetcar into Manhattan watched women spend their hard earned paychecks on lipsticks as bold as their ambitions. 3 times in the scene

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