Turn left at Sadat Street and follow the narrow sidewalk to Sadat Tower, a charmless early-1970s apartment-turned-office-building.

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His Metropole Hotel, whose interior fittings still feature a Sassoon family emblem with its two greyhounds, rises at a nearby intersection -- across from its twin, Hamilton House, built by Sir Victor as a hybrid office building and high-rise apartment house.

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The Coinbase office is an airy two-floor apartment with a wall of windows in a building across from a tantalizing coffee shop.

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