Only In New York: You’re Going To Have A Lot Of Time To Run Your Fund When You’re Running It In A Van Down By The River

London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong... eat your hearts out. Steve Kantor admits he likes to travel in style. He is an affable investment banker, concerned about flaunting his wealth, but he drives around Manhattan in what looks like a simple black delivery van. Of course, most vans do not have chauffeurs, as has Kantor's. Or a built-in office. Or a towering satellite dish array.

''I have two big-screen televisions. I have a couch in the back that goes into a bed,'' he said. ''I have four chairs that go back and massage you. It has a desk, a table and an intercom so you have can have meetings in there if you want to.''
As the economy limps along and more attention is paid to the so-called 1 per cent, some of the richest New Yorkers have taken to driving vehicles that ooze neither wealth nor privilege. But on the inside, the vans may be as lavishly decorated as the private railway carriages owned by turn-of-the-century industrialists. Some owners use them as offices, outfitted with leather chairs and Persian rugs…

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