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Zillow Group, Inc. (ZG) Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call August 08, 2017 17:00 P.M. ET Executives RJ Jones – VP, Investor Relations Spencer Rascoff – CEO Kathleen Philips – CFO Analysts Ronald Josey - JMP Securities Mark Mahaney - RBC Capital Markets Unidentified Analyst - Sli.do © Provided by Seeking Alpha Earnings Call Transcripts Michael Graham - Canaccord Genuity Christian Rice - Needham & Company Hayden Blair - Stephens Inc. Brian Nowak - Morgan Stanley Mark May - Citigroup Lloyd Walmsley - Deutsche Bank Bradley Erickson - KeyBanc Capital Markets Shyam Patil - Susquehanna Financial Group Heath Terry - Goldman Sachs Presentation Operator Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Zillow Group's Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Call . At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I wou...

That’s not the only message New Yorkers receive as we stand outside, say, the seven-foot- tall hedge running along East 46th Street that conceals a private 10,000-square- foot circular driveway for the residents of 50 United Nations Plaza . Another message we hear says: You’re on the wrong side of the red velvet rope , or, in this case, the green hedge. Photo A view of the building from East 56th Street . Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times These are private spaces — the public did not lose a park or a sidewalk bench for a driveway, but some of these spaces could have instead housed a restaurant or a shop, giving a New Yorker a reason to walk down the street and feel connected to the buildings towering above. Instead, a gate “sticks a big finger in people’s faces to say: ‘I’m better than you. I live here. I live in this luxury building with a giant gate that you can’t come past,’” said Richard Florida, the author of “The New Urban Crisis” (Basic, 2017). “It might make people pi...