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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews NY Post Columnist Steve Cuozzo.

The Mark Simone Show

Mark Simone

News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Steve talks about the transformation of the former American Embassy in London into The Chancery, a stunning high-end hotel. Steve shares insights on how rooftops are creatively utilized in some Manhattan office buildings. They also discuss how commercial real estate in NYC generates enormous revenue for the city's economy.

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0:00.0

Well, Steve Kuzzo, the great New York Post column, there's nobody better on restaurants,

0:04.8

real estate, on New York stuff, his columns. You can read them all. They're in the New York Post website.

0:10.4

Steve Kuzzo, how you doing? I'm great, Mark. Thanks. It's hard to live up to that billing. I'll try,

0:17.0

though. You'll do it. You'll do. Hey, you're just back from London.

0:22.5

Yeah, we can do. Follow them on Instagram instagram great pictures but uh were there any english speaking people left in london

0:26.5

well that's the thing i tell friends who haven't been to london in a long time i say i tell them

0:31.4

english is widely spoken now that's supposed to be a joke because it is after all london it's

0:37.2

england you know?

0:38.4

So, yes, English is still widely spoken, but not universally.

0:42.9

No.

0:44.0

Much like New York.

0:46.1

But all the great old London places, they've been overtaken by all kinds of new places.

0:52.0

What's good over there?

0:53.9

Well, so what's new? oh, so many great restaurants.

0:56.5

But the most interesting single thing, in my view, is the former American embassy in

1:01.8

Grovemo Square, which had been there for, I don't know, that was our embassy there for a million years.

1:06.7

The embassy moved away about 10 years ago to a new location.

1:11.1

The building was a giant brutalist style kind of a hulking building.

1:17.7

It was never well loved.

1:21.3

But then a Qatari fund bought it and converted the whole property, God knows how much it and, uh, converted the whole property,

1:28.9

God knows how much it must have cost

1:30.9

into a,

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