"Want to know about New York? Ask the man who owns it!"

In the film Gremlins 2, Daniel Clamp (played by John Glover) is the wealthy and powerful owner of the Clamp Center, a skyscraper in Manhattan. He is portrayed as a ruthless businessman who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. The novel "I Took Manhattan" is said to be his autobiography, in which he boasts about his exploits and conquests in the cutthroat world of Manhattan real estate.

While the novel is not a real publication, its inclusion in the movie serves to satirize the idea of the wealthy elite writing self-aggrandizing memoirs. The film presents Clamp as a figure to be mocked, his book as a symbol of his vanity and his inability to see beyond his own interests.