Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

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How to move $1 billion in jewels

How to move $1 billion in jewels

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Jan 15, 2020
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I once had to fill out a background form that required me to list every place I'd ever lived since high school.

This was insane.

It took forever, because I moved a lot when I was younger—from city to city for work or school, and then from one apartment, or group house, or living situation to another.

If there's an upside for today's article, it's that I'm kind of an accidental expert on moving.

It’s why I did a double-take when I realized that Tiffany's moved its entire inventory of jewels from its massive retail flagship HQ at 727 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, where it's been since 1940, to a nearby temporary store—all in a single night.

From Untapped New York:

Under modern day cloak and dagger, ten floors of merchandise and priceless jewelry were moved around the corner to its new temporary location in the former Niketown store on 57th Street.

Almost everything has made it over to the new location, dubbed The Tiffany Flagship Next Door. That’s over 114,000 pieces of Tiffany goods, including…

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