New York, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where New York comes up

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▶ 4:55 Shane Parrish Rockefeller's family had been moving his entire childhood, drifting from town to town across New York before heading down into Ohio.
▶ 38:46 Shane Parrish The rails could bring crude oil from the oil regions in Pennsylvania, and water or rail could bring the oil they refined to the eastern markets of New York.
▶ 2:24:46 Shane Parrish In 1913, New York State quietly chartered the Rockefeller Foundation with a deliberately limitless mandate designed to outlive its founders.
▶ 2:29:19 Shane Parrish On their 50th anniversary in September, 1914, he set a brass band on the lawn at their New York estate and had her carried out to the wedding march. 3 times in the scene

▶ 2:42 Shane Parrish Moved to California for the dry air, so the family packed up and drove from New York to San Diego.

▶ 48:58 Shane Parrish New York Magazine was preparing a hit piece about Anna's breakups.

▶ 32:11 Shane Parrish With no automobile to test them on, he purchased one from New York and had it shipped to Ohio.

▶ 14:56 Shane Parrish He had relatives in New York whom he'd never met, but they were his only connection to what would become his new home, and ultimately the launching pad for one of the most remarkable business careers of the 20th century.

▶ 19:38 Shane Parrish In 1817, New York State began constructing the Erie Canal, which would connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, while steamboats at the same time appeared on the Hudson River, offering transportation independent of wind, muscle, or…
▶ 22:45 Shane Parrish In 1798, Chancellor Robert Livingston, who was a powerful New York aristocrat, convinced his friends in the legislature to give him a monopoly on steamboat ships in the New York state waters. 8 times in the scene

▶ 1:44 Shane Parrish Today I'm speaking with Suzanne Ayacenda, a psychotherapist and sexual therapist in New York who also teaches at the Ackerman Institute. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:36 Shane Parrish Bridgewater started out of a two bedroom apartment in New York in 1975 and has grown into the largest hedge fund in the world and one of the most important private companies in the United States.

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