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Dining and dashing about with Gristedes and WABC Radio owner John Catsimatidis

John Catsimatidis. The guy’s everywhere. Crabgrass. No place he’s not. Gristedes will probably name a cereal after him.

Born poor. On a Greek island. Now a USA billionaire. He always calls 6 p.m. Says, “I’ll pick you up in 10 minutes. Find a restaurant.” What restaurant? I’m not dressed. He says, “Find one. I’ll pick you up in 10 minutes.”

He’s in the oil business. In aviation. In realty. On radio because he owns WABC, whose president is Chad Lopez.

Begun here as a poor grocery clerk, he realized better to own the store. Realtors wanted his location. So he bought an airline. Then an oil well. John doesn’t hold a grudge. We fight even when his beautiful wife Margo agrees with me. He says, be nice to people. Watch: The next 10 minutes, he’ll probably buy out CBS.

John: “You fight when you’re climbing that mountain, I already climbed it. Those people wear Rolexes. I wear an Apple.”

“Once Arthur Goldberg owned White Rose foods. Mean-spirited, in the trucking business,........

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