Zellnor Myrie: “We built the Empire State Building in 13 months.”

“You want to build a million apartments, 70,000 a year. Now, I would say to you, where, how, why? How do you make this happen? We used to do big things in this city. We built the Empire State Building in 13 months. Stunning. Stunning. But we used to do big things here. So when people tell me, all right, Z, you want to get 70,000 units a year, you want to create …” (01:23–01:26)

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