Chapter 359 Rushing to South Korea due to sudden changes

Drinking hot coffee, eating delicious breakfast, reading the newspaper, and occasionally overlooking the street view of Manhattan outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Abel took a little long to eat breakfast today.

It was almost nine o'clock before he left the top mansion and went directly to the office downstairs.

The biggest advantage of living directly in the apartment on the top floor of Smith Tower is——

You can arrive at work directly without using transportation.

The Woolworth Building past the entrance was also renamed after New Starting Real Estate Company applied to the New York authorities and the New York Heritage Conservancy for the third time.

At the end of last month, it was officially approved.

Follow the relevant application documents.

Starting next year, the Woolworth Building, which has a history of more than 70 years, will be renamed Smith Building.

This notice has been published in major newspapers.

After next year, all newly updated maps and publications about New York will have to make changes in this regard.

The traces left by Frank W. Woolworth, the founder of the "Five and Dime" small grocery store chain, will also be erased here.

Who told him that his descendants were dishonest and incompetent, and that he lost ownership of the building decades ago?

Abel has a direct elevator from his top mansion to the office building below.

This specially modified top-level executive elevator can also allow Abel to reach any floor of the building from the top mansion.

After standing in the elevator, four bodyguards walked in with them, which took about fifty seconds.

The elevator arrives on the first floor of Smith Tower.

Get out of the elevator.

Abel was at the entrance of the building and got into the Cadillac Monster in the middle of the motorcade.

The motorcade then started and headed towards Upper Manhattan.

He was going to talk to Robert Morgenthau about the Hudson's Bay Plaza.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office Building is in Upper Manhattan.

Smith Tower in Lower Manhattan.

It is about 7.4 kilometers away from Central Park and about 5.3 kilometers away from Times Square in New York.

It's about ten kilometers to Upper Manhattan.

With such a small distance, if there are no traffic lights and no traffic jams, and you can drive in a straight line, it will only take about ten minutes at most.

But now it’s rush hour in Manhattan, and almost three months have passed since September 11th.

Traffic in Manhattan gradually became jammed again.

Abel's motorcade took about half an hour.

Only then did we arrive at Times Square, which is only 5.3 kilometers away.

To get to Upper Manhattan, you have to drive at least about five kilometers.

Close to the increasingly crowded Times Square section.

The first thing that caught Abel's eyes outside the car window was the large number of various advertising screens on the glass walls of the surrounding buildings.

Abel, who was bored in the traffic jam, simply looked up and looked at these advertisements.

The motorcade was in such a position that right outside Abel's car window, there happened to be the famous Reuters billboard.

The Thomson Reuters advertising screen is the iconic electronic screen in Times Square.

It is located at the intersection of 43rd and Seventh Avenue, next to the Nasdaq advertising screen, and has a view of the entire Times Square.

There are 11 advertising screens of different sizes throughout the Reuters building. Customers can design different advertising content for different advertising screen sizes and play them at the same time.

It caught Abel's attention at this time because the advertisement on it today was an NBA advertisement.

Seeing this advertisement, Abel suddenly thought, ‘Oh, by the way, I also have a basketball team’!

He remembered that he bought the Houston Rockets at this time last year.

Later, it was left to rot for more than half a year. On the night of this year's talent show, I only went to see a talent show.

In the draft show, the Rockets followed their own requirements and selected Dayao, who was still relatively young, as the No. 1 pick.

He remembered that after that, he seemed to have asked Smith Think Group to allocate $200 million to it from his personal account.

I never took care of it again.

After scratching his head, Abel realized that he was not only interested in basketball, but also in football.

They also bought Manchester United and several European football teams a few months ago.

Let people fix the management, and after investing a certain amount of money into each team, they won't care about it anymore.

Even though he had already obtained the F1, Abel actually didn't pay much attention to it.

Now that he was reminded of the advertisements on the advertising screen, he remembered them.

When Abel thought about it, he seemed to really ignore them.

After thinking about it carefully, Abel thought about the reason why he was like this.

The reason is actually very simple, because they are "not valuable".

Of course, this worthlessness is in relation to Abel's wealth and his ability to make money.

Acquire five football teams, plus a basketball team.

Abel remembered that he only spent less than 1.2 billion US dollars. Including the subsequent funds invested in their development, the total was only about 2 billion US dollars.

Two billion US dollars is already an astonishing astronomical sum for most billionaires.

But for Abel, this money could only buy less than 5% of the shares of Express Company.

Abel did some math in his mind and found that it was at most about 4.2%.

The money he spent on 50.4% of American Express's shares exceeded more than 20 billion US dollars.

With this kind of money, all the teams in the current NBA league can be packaged several times.

This is like a senior white-collar worker with a monthly salary of more than 100,000 yuan. He bought some toys worth hundreds or thousands of yuan because of a whim or childhood sentiment.

After playing with these toys a few times, they threw them into the room.

When he remembered, he would take them out to play with, killing time and reminiscing at the same time.

Another example is a top white-collar worker with a monthly income of hundreds of thousands, who must buy every new game released on Steam, and has bought dozens or hundreds of games in a year or two.

There may only be one or two of them that he really knows how to play and really plays regularly.

All the rest is gathering dust.

This principle applies to Abel.

It means that after he bought these things, he would fiddle with them when he remembered them, and then he would forget them due to business or work, and he would really forget them.

Even F1, which is worth almost two billion US dollars, is the same to him.

Fortunately, even if he doesn't care, Abel also knows that the Smith Intelligence Group, as the "attendance room" and "military aircraft department", will help him keep an eye on them.

Thinking of this, Abel called David who was sitting in the passenger seat in front of him.

"David. Looking at the billboard, it seems that my basketball team will come to New York to play a game tonight?"

At this moment, the convoy was stuck in traffic jam and could not move.

Abel asked, pointing to the billboard above the Thomson Reuters Building outside the car window.

David Jones also glanced out the window, then he smiled and said:

"Yes. At seven o'clock tonight, the Houston Rockets will play against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden."

David didn’t need to talk about this, Abel knew it.

The billboard next to it is not only an advertisement for the NBA, but also an advertisement for tonight's basketball game.

"Oh, tell me about the Houston Rockets."

Abel's indifferent way.

He also saw the billboard and remembered that he had brought Dayao over in advance and thrown him into the Rockets.

It's been more than half a year now, and I don't know if it has any chemical effects.

Abel only remembered that he wrote a check for $200 million to Rockets general manager George Postellos.

Ask him to build a powerful Houston Rockets around Dayao.

Since then, he hasn't cared much about it.

In addition, Abel never cares about entertainment content, and he doesn't even watch Hollywood ones.
To be continued...