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Exploring New York City's RICHEST Neighborhood 🇺🇸 - YouTube
Channel: Peter Santenello
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Good afternoon, guys.
Here in New York City.
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One of the most expensive
places on the planet
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with some of the wealthiest people.
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So today we're gonna go up
into one of these neighborhoods.
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Up into the richest
neighborhood in New York City.
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♪ jazz ♪
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You too, take care.
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[car door opens]
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Here we are, edge of Central Park, 5th Ave.
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and Upper East Side, that's the
neighborhood.
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So that runs basically 59th
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to 96th.
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So the Upper East Side
is known for it's old wealth.
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This was the place for the Kennedys
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the Rockefellers
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the Roosevelts
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Carnegies.
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All these big names in American history.
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They all had a place up on these streets.
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And now I believe its still a place where
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if you have the big money in New York,
you're coming up here.
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Now there are some other very wealthy
neighborhoods
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Tribecca
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Brooklyn Heights
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but if you want to concentrate on the
largest conglomerate of wealth
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this is it.
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Guggenheim Museum.
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Built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959.
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Just way ahead of his time.
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It's a cylindrical building.
Wider at the top than at the bottom.
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It was conceived as the temple
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of the spirit.
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It's just got a beautiful flow to it.
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Very unique.
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I love this type of architecture where if
it was built today
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it would look contemporary
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but it was 1959.
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Was this Andrew Carnegie's home?
<WOMAN: Yes.
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-He lived here?
<Yes.
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-Oh, okay.
-Have you ever been inside?
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You ever take a tour of it?
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-No, is it open now or is it closed?
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-It looks closed from here.
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-Yeah.
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-And they haven't opened the garden.
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All right, guys.
It's closed right now but this is
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Andrew Carnegie's home.
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I believe it was his home or one of his
properties
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and Andrew Carnegie,
for those that don't know
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massive steel tycoon.
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Really, a lot of his businesses were behind
the industrial revolution
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here in America.
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He gave away $350 million
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back in his time which is $65 billion
today adjusted for inflation.
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This isn't his only residence.
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He owned a lot of real estate.
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Okay, what do we got up here?
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We're just going right along the park.
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5th Ave, take a right.
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Russian flag in the background.
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Must be the Russian Consulate.
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They picked the nice real estate obviously.
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Beautiful detail here as you can see.
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What has happened in
that building over the years?
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You can see those classic
Russian shades up there.
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Bars on the windows.
Very classy looking though.
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Hello.
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How are you doing?
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I'm doing well, you?
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I'm making a video
about the Upper East Side.
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This was an armory?
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-This was an armory.
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-Okay.
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-So the landmarks commission said,
"Okay, we'll let you build a school
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but you have to keep the facade."
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-Okay.
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-So this is the facade of the armory.
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I think there's a plaque over there.
-So there's a school behind it.
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-Behind there is Hunter
College High School.
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Which is a public school.
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This is an historic district...
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-Okay.
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And it's called Carnegie Hill.
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Those of us who bought apartments here
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30, 40 years ago, I don't know what's going
to happen in New York now.
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It's a mess.
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We're bankrupt.
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The state's bankrupt, the city is bankrupt.
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-How is your feel about the city right now?
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-Well, I think we're in better shape than
the West and the Midwest.
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-Than the West?
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-Yeah, and then the South...
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-Yeah.
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-But COVID is starting to increase here
as the schools have opened and so forth.
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So I don't know.
It's week by week.
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I love it.
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Always have, always will.
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Take care.
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Okay, guys we have
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I think it's called Carnegie tower.
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This is where Anthony Bourdain lived.
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It's not the most beautiful building from
the outside
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but I'm sure it's quite sweet inside.
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I believe his place sold for $3.2 million.
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Let's see if we can get
in the front door here.
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Carnegie Hill, this is the nicest
part of the Upper East side.
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Roughly $350,000 is
the median family income.
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Carnegie Hill Tower, the door is open.
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Door is open.
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Hey guys.
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Did you guys know Bourdain?
-Yeah.
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How was he?
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Nice guy.
-He was cool?
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<Very nice, yeah.
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He lived here for a long time, right?
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-Few years.
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This is a very cool thing
about the United States.
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is you can be in the wealthiest
neighborhood
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and
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there's no security out front.
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You can just walk in the building.
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Those places are very expensive.
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Every one in the multi-millions I'm sure.
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So my wife mentioned this to me:
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She really brought it to my attention.
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Wealth in America is sort of shown.
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People are proud of it.
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Not everything is behind fences,
and security guards, and gates.
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Yeah, there's plenty of that stuff, right?
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But there's a lot that's not
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and we'll see that in this neighborhood.
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There's a lot that anyone can walk these
streets.
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That's quite cool
because in a lot of the world
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if you have that much wealth
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it's behind a gate.
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It's behind security.
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You'll never be near it, let's say.
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And she was saying,
"It's inspirational here."
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because while you might
not have all that money.
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You can observe, right?
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And you can
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somewhat interact like I
did with that lady back there.
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And I think that's unique.
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I never noticed this about the states.
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I actually learn about America
from my wife more than anyone.
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Through her eyes.
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That's cool in these
days of polarization and
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negativity about America.
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It's nice to observe these things.
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We live abroad.
Been abroad for four years.
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So coming back into it
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you see things a different way.
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It's the type of neighborhood...
You see shops like these.
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You don't see these in
a lot of parts of the city.
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Flower shop.
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Pumpkins, Halloween's coming.
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They've set them up.
These tents on the streets
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and at night time I think
they get pretty busy
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but only 25% inside.
Which is ridiculous.
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For the business owners it's gotta be
brutal to try to run a business like this.
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You can see another one
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and they put a lot of money into these.
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That's done quite well with the
flower pots, flower arrangements.
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Some are lucky, they
already have the awnings.
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They've done outdoor
dining for a long time.
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Very cute setup.
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Beautiful.
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I like that shot right there.
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So this one right here.
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I was just talking to this lady in the...
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Pushing the baby carriage.
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She said that would
be more than $5 million.
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So that, I guess much more than $5 million.
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[car horn honks]
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She just moved to the
neighborhood, loves it.
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Very safe, excellent schools.
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You can see the schools here.
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But again, this is very cool.
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Once this goes away in America then
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America loses a lot
of what's great about it.
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So you have
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probably some of the
wealthier moms in the country
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open, outside of their
school with their kids.
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There are no security guards around.
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There are no gates.
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Even the fire hydrant is stylish
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and expensive looking.
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So a lot of these places
have door men outside.
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I think that's sort of that
"Old money" feel.
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The very classy door man dressed up well
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and very much decorated hallways, doorways.
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No bars on the windows.
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I mean that's nice.
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You guys make it look beautiful.
-Thank you, appreciate it.
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Take care, where's the
nicest street here do you think?
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-Nicest street?
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-Yeah in Carnegie Hill area.
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-It's all over in all honesty.
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It's just a very nice area, man.
[chuckles]
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-Gotcha, take care.
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Here we have a synagogue.
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So in the Upper East
Side there 220,000 people.
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I gotta fact check myself but I believe
there are like 55,000 Jews who live here.
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So huge Jewish population.
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And the Asian population is increasing.
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Very nice markets in this part of the city.
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Fresh cut fruit.
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Fresh vegetables.
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Nice selection.
Hello.
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Nice market you have.
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This is what it is, every
street, nice treeline.
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Quiet.
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Not much action.
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Like it's the antithesis
of the South Bronx.
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South Bronx...
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Nah, I don't want to live there
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but that place is alive.
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For sure.
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Even the trash looks
cleaner in these parts.
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Oh, that's recycling.
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Oh, there's some trash.
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Trash looks clean in the Upper East Side.
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Here on the east side
of the Upper East Side
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looking out across the East River
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at Queens
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back down
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lower Manhattan
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and nice little park area.
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This is Roosevelt Island.
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There are many islands in this city.
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Some are uninhabited.
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Some are inhabited.
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The Upper East Side is quite big
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and just to give you a scale of the city
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it's just a small part of Manhattan.
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Which is quite large.
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You have Brooklyn, which is massive.
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Queens, massive.
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The Bronx.
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Staten Island, I've never been there.
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But it's just you honestly could
spend years discovering this city.
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This might be the capital of the mini-dog.
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The Upper East Side.
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We have what looks to be a mini-dog park.
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[dogs barking]
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[small dogs yipping]
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I asked for the smartest
and the least yappy mini-dog
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and I guess it's the Papillon.
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I really hope it is.
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Here we go, some of that New
York skate culture, basketball culture
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Everyone sort of mixed
up doing their thing.
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Gotta love this.
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This is a Sukkah.
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I believe that's a Sukkah, right?
-Correct.
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Are you Jewish?
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No, but I know about your culture.
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It's very cool.
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I really respect it.
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-Take a video in there
or picture, whatever.
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-Can I?
-Yeah, sure.
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-Can we go in?
-Sure.
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Oh cool, and so the main purpose
to be in here is to relieve yourself
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from the external world.
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You sleep out here, you pray in here?
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-That's not really the purpose.
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♪ jazz ♪
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The number on the right,
the $4.30 is the government.
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The $5.50 is for the taxi.
[chuckles]
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Thank you.
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That's how much New York
City is now taxing people
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to ride around in a cab.
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Unbelievable, almost the
same amount tax as the fare.
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[people chattering]
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Oh, look who I found.
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It's my wife and you look so pleasant.
-Hello. [giggles]
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[kisses]
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Upper East Side.
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Midtown Manhattan.
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Sun setting.
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Central Park.
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That about wraps it up, guys.
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Upper East Side.
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Most expensive
neighborhood in New York City.
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Until the next one, take care.
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