Connect with verified sugar daddies and sugar babies in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Westchester, Brooklyn, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and across New York. Create your free profile now and step into the deepest, wealthiest and most dynamic sugar dating market on Earth — the financial capital of the world, where Wall Street managing directors and hedge fund partners earn eight-figure incomes, where the restaurant scene is the finest in America, where the Hamptons concentrate more summer wealth per square mile than any resort destination in the country and where the sheer density of millionaires and billionaires means the sugar daddy pool is not just deep — it is bottomless.
New York is the standard against which every other sugar dating market in America is measured — and no other market comes close. New York City alone produces more personal income than most entire states. Wall Street and the financial services industry — investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, asset management, trading — generate a concentration of individual wealth that has no parallel anywhere in the world. A managing director at a major investment bank earns $1 million to $5 million per year. A hedge fund portfolio manager can earn $10 million to $50 million in a good year. A private equity partner’s carried interest can produce eight-figure paydays. And these are not rare exceptions — they are the professional class that fills the restaurants of Tribeca, the townhouses of the Upper East Side, the lofts of SoHo and the penthouses overlooking Central Park.
But New York’s sugar daddy wealth is not just finance. The media industry — network television, publishing, advertising, digital media — adds a layer of executive wealth and cultural power. The entertainment industry — Broadway, film production, music — adds creative wealth and the social cachet that attracts it. The fashion industry concentrates designer, executive and entrepreneur wealth in the Garment District, SoHo and the Meatpacking District. The technology sector — from the Silicon Alley startups in Flatiron to the established tech offices in Hudson Yards — adds a younger, equity-rich professional class. Real estate development in the most expensive property market in America generates fortunes measured in the hundreds of millions. And the legal profession — the white-shoe law firms that serve Wall Street, the corporate titans and the billionaire families — produces a class of partners who earn $5 million to $20 million per year. New York does not just have sugar daddies. New York has every category of sugar daddy, at every wealth level, in every industry, in concentrations that no other city on the planet can match.
Sugar Dating in New York — The Financial Capital of the World
New York’s sugar dating market is defined by two realities that exist in tension: the pool is the deepest in the world, but the competition is the fiercest. Every ambitious sugar baby in America dreams of New York — and many of them move here specifically to pursue that dream. The beautiful women who populate the restaurants, the charity galas, the rooftop bars and the private members’ clubs of Manhattan set a standard that is, frankly, intimidating. In Des Moines or Albuquerque, a beautiful, well-presented sugar baby is one of a handful. In Manhattan, she is one of thousands.
This does not mean the New York market is impossible — it means it rewards differentiation. The sugar babies who succeed in New York are not simply beautiful (beauty is the baseline in Manhattan, not the differentiator). They are specifically compelling: genuinely intelligent, culturally sophisticated, professionally ambitious, socially aware, impeccably presented, conversationally engaging and capable of moving through the world of a hedge fund partner or a media executive without missing a beat. A New York sugar daddy at the highest level dines at Eleven Madison Park, attends the Met Gala benefit committee events, weekends in the Hamptons and sits in the front row at Fashion Week. He is not looking for a woman who is impressed by his world — he is looking for a woman who belongs in it.
Best Cities to Find a Sugar Daddy in New York
Sugar Daddy Manhattan — The Upper East Side, Tribeca, SoHo, Central Park West
Manhattan is the beating heart of world wealth — and within Manhattan, the neighborhoods are as distinct as different cities. The Upper East Side — from the low 60s to the 90s, stretching from Fifth Avenue to Lexington — is old-money New York: the townhouses, the pre-war apartments, the cultural institutions (the Met, the Frick, the Guggenheim) and the social world of charity boards and private clubs that defines traditional Manhattan wealth. The UES sugar daddy is a senior partner, an old-money heir, a retired chairman — impeccably mannered, socially connected and accustomed to a level of sophistication that he expects his companion to match.
Tribeca is new-money Manhattan at its most concentrated: the converted loft buildings and luxury towers south of Canal Street house hedge fund managers, tech founders, celebrity entrepreneurs and the financial professionals who want industrial square footage, downtown energy and the privacy that Tribeca’s residential streets provide. SoHo adds fashion-industry wealth, gallery owners and the creative-class millionaires who blend art-world taste with finance-world income. The West Village and Greenwich Village attract media executives, publishing figures and the culturally elite professionals whose wealth is substantial but whose lifestyle is more intellectual than flashy. Central Park West — the Dakota, the San Remo, the Eldorado, the Beresford — is classic Manhattan power: entertainment-industry wealth, media moguls and the families whose apartment views of Central Park are worth more than entire houses in most American cities.
Manhattan dining is the finest in America and the foundation of the sugar dating experience. Le Bernardin, Eleven Madison Park, Daniel, Jean-Georges, Per Se, Masa, Carbone, Rao’s (if he can get a table), The Grill, The Four Horsemen, Via Carota, Don Angie, Tatiana, Atomix and the hundreds of chef-driven restaurants that open and close every year provide date experiences that exist nowhere else. A first date in Manhattan is not dinner — it is a performance of taste, knowledge and social fluency. The sugar daddy who suggests Le Bernardin is telling you something about himself. The sugar baby who knows the difference between Le Bernardin and a tourist trap in Times Square is telling him something about herself.
Sugar Daddy The Hamptons and the East End
The Hamptons — Southampton, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Sagaponack, Sag Harbor, Amagansett, Montauk — is the summer wealth capital of the American East Coast. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, the most powerful financial, media, entertainment and social figures in New York relocate to estate properties that range from $5 million to $100 million+. The Hamptons are not just a beach destination — they are a social ecosystem where the hedge fund partners, the private equity titans, the media moguls and the old-money families conduct their summers in a landscape of waterfront estates, farm-stand brunches, charity benefits and restaurant tables that book out weeks in advance.
Hamptons dining during season — Nick & Toni’s in East Hampton, Dopo La Spiaggia in Sag Harbor, The 1770 House, Moby’s, Highway Restaurant & Bar, Fresno, Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton, Duryea’s Lobster Deck in Montauk — provides the social stage for summer sugar dating. The Hamptons sugar daddy is typically a Manhattan resident during the rest of the year — this is the same pool of Wall Street and media wealth, just concentrated into a coastal resort setting where the atmosphere is more relaxed, the spending is more visible and the social calendar (polo matches, art fairs, charity galas, beach club events) creates natural opportunities for connection. Sugar babies who position for Hamptons season — updating profiles in May, including tasteful beach or outdoor photos, signaling familiarity with the East End — capture a concentrated window of summer generosity that is unmatched anywhere in the country.
Sugar Daddy Westchester — Scarsdale, Bedford, Rye, Bronxville, Pound Ridge
Westchester County — the suburban belt immediately north of New York City — contains some of the wealthiest communities in America. Scarsdale is the iconic Westchester address: a village of about 18,000 people with a median household income that dwarfs the national average, a housing stock of grand colonials and Tudor estates and a population of Wall Street executives, corporate attorneys and physician-specialists who commute to Manhattan on Metro-North. Bedford and Pound Ridge represent the horse-country end of Westchester wealth — larger properties, more privacy, the estate lifestyle that attracts hedge fund founders and old-money families. Rye, Bronxville, Larchmont, Chappaqua and Armonk add layers of corporate-executive and financial-professional wealth.
Westchester dining — The Inn at Pound Ridge by Jean-Georges, Crabtree’s Kittle House, X2O Xaviars on the Hudson in Yonkers, Restaurant North in Armonk, Moderne Barn in Armonk, The Cookery in Dobbs Ferry — has improved dramatically and provides excellent suburban date options. But many Westchester sugar daddies prefer to date in Manhattan, where the anonymity of eight million people provides the privacy that their suburban social circles do not. The Westchester sugar daddy is often the same archetype as the Bergen County, New Jersey sugar daddy: a commuter whose income is earned in Manhattan but whose personal life is lived in a tight suburban community where professional reputations are everything.
Sugar Daddy Brooklyn, Long Island and the Outer Boroughs
Brooklyn — particularly the neighborhoods of DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Williamsburg and Greenpoint — has emerged as a genuine wealth center over the past fifteen years. The brownstone neighborhoods house tech founders, creative-industry executives, media professionals, attorneys and the young finance professionals who prefer Brooklyn’s cultural energy to Manhattan’s traditional social structure. Long Island — the North Shore (Great Neck, Manhasset, Old Westbury, Locust Valley, Cold Spring Harbor) and the South Shore communities — adds a layer of old-money wealth, medical-professional income (the hospital systems along the Island are massive employers) and the business owners who serve one of the densest suburban markets in America.
Brooklyn dining — Gage & Tollner, Lilia, River Café, The River Café, Peter Luger, Olmsted, Win Son, Francie, Le Crocodile — rivals Manhattan in quality and often surpasses it in atmosphere. The Brooklyn sugar daddy tends to be younger, more creative, more culturally adventurous and less traditionally corporate than his Manhattan Upper East Side counterpart — but his income and generosity can be equally impressive, especially among the tech founders and creative-industry executives who have made Brooklyn their home and their identity.
Types of Sugar Arrangements That Work Best in New York
New York offers the widest range of arrangement styles in the country — because it has the widest range of wealth types, personalities and lifestyles. For a full overview of arrangement types, visit our Sugar Daddy Planet USA homepage.
Wall Street Elite Arrangements
This is New York’s signature arrangement — and the gold standard for sugar dating worldwide. The sugar daddy is a managing director, a hedge fund portfolio manager, a private equity partner or a senior trader whose annual income is measured in the millions. He dines at the best restaurants in the world because they are his neighborhood restaurants. He has a car service on call, a weekend house in the Hamptons or Connecticut and a professional life so consuming that he has neither the time nor the patience for conventional dating. The Wall Street elite arrangement is structured, generous and efficient: a set monthly allowance (the highest in the country by a significant margin), regular dinners at the city’s finest restaurants, the expectation of polished presentation and sophisticated conversation and the understanding that both parties are adults who value their time, their privacy and their autonomy. The sugar baby who earns a Wall Street elite arrangement in New York has access to a lifestyle that is genuinely world-class — and the generosity to match.
Media, Entertainment and Fashion Arrangements
New York’s media, entertainment and fashion industries produce a sugar daddy archetype that is distinct from the Wall Street financier. The media executive — a network president, a publishing house CEO, a digital-media founder — brings cultural influence and social access that finance alone cannot buy. The entertainment-industry figure — a Broadway producer, a music-industry executive, a film financier — brings a social world of premieres, openings, industry events and the kind of creative energy that makes every evening an experience. The fashion-industry executive — a designer, a brand CEO, a luxury-retail mogul — brings an aesthetic sensibility and a social calendar built around Fashion Week, gallery openings and the Meatpacking District scene. These arrangements tend to be more socially visible than Wall Street arrangements — the media and entertainment sugar daddy may want a companion for a premiere, a benefit dinner or a front-row seat rather than a quiet dinner at a Tribeca restaurant. The sugar baby who thrives in this world is stylish, socially confident, comfortable being seen and capable of navigating rooms where every face is famous or powerful.
Hamptons-Season Arrangements
From Memorial Day through Labor Day, the Hamptons become the most concentrated summer sugar dating market in America. The Manhattan wealth — the hedge fund partners, the media moguls, the real estate developers, the old-money families — relocates to the East End, and the social dynamics shift from Manhattan’s structured formality to the Hamptons’ sun-drenched informality. The Hamptons arrangement is experiential: beach days, waterfront dinners, sunset cocktails at a private estate, charity polo matches, art fair openings and the kind of summer lifestyle that most people only see in magazines. The generosity is high — the spending environment of the Hamptons encourages it — and the per-encounter value during a single summer weekend can exceed what an entire month’s arrangement provides in most other markets. The competition is real (every ambitious sugar baby in New York targets the Hamptons) but the wealth pool is so deep that a well-positioned, locally present sugar baby who is actually in the Hamptons (not just visiting for a day trip) earns disproportionate attention.
How to Find a Sugar Daddy in New York — Quick Start Guide
Differentiate or Disappear
When you create your free account on Sugar Daddy Planet USA, understand that your profile will compete against some of the most attractive, polished and ambitious sugar babies in the country. Beauty alone does not differentiate you in New York — beauty is the entry fee, not the competitive advantage. What differentiates you is specificity: your career ambition (a sugar baby pursuing a serious professional goal is more interesting than one who is simply looking for support), your cultural fluency (mention a specific restaurant, a museum exhibition, a neighborhood — anything that signals you know and navigate the city), your conversational intelligence (a sugar daddy earning $5 million per year dines with brilliant people every day — he wants a companion who can keep up) and your genuine personality (the most successful New York sugar babies are not performing sophistication, they are embodying it). Your profile should read like a woman who belongs in the room — not a woman who is hoping to be invited into it.
Know Your Manhattan Geography
Manhattan neighborhoods are social signals, and the sugar daddies who live in them respond to sugar babies who understand the distinctions. An Upper East Side sugar daddy values tradition, discretion and classic elegance — your profile should reflect that. A Tribeca sugar daddy values downtown cool, contemporary taste and financial-world polish — signal those qualities. A West Village sugar daddy values intellectual depth, cultural awareness and a certain bohemian sophistication. A SoHo sugar daddy values fashion sense, gallery-world awareness and creative energy. You do not need to live in these neighborhoods — you need to know them well enough that your profile and your conversation signal fluency. Suggesting Le Bernardin for a first date with a UES sugar daddy shows taste. Suggesting Carbone for a Tribeca sugar daddy shows you know his world. These details matter in New York more than in any other market because New York sugar daddies are the most socially discerning in the country.
Prepare for Hamptons Season Like a Professional
The Hamptons summer season is the single most valuable sugar dating window in America. If you can position yourself for the Hamptons — by being physically present on the East End, by sharing a summer house with friends, by having local connections — you have access to the most concentrated pool of multi-millionaire and billionaire sugar daddies outside of Manhattan itself. Update your profile in May with a photo that signals Hamptons familiarity (not a generic beach selfie — a photo at a farm stand, a vineyard, a waterfront restaurant, anything that says “I know the East End”). Be intensely active on the platform from late May through August. The men arriving in the Hamptons for the season are looking for summer companionship — the timing of your activity matters as much as the quality of your profile.
Include New Jersey and Westchester
Many of the wealthiest men in the New York metro live in New Jersey (Bergen County, Morris County, the Short Hills corridor) or Westchester (Scarsdale, Bedford, Rye). These commuters prefer to date in Manhattan — where the anonymity of the city provides the privacy their suburban social circles do not — and they specifically value a sugar baby who is not from their suburban neighborhood. Including New Jersey and Westchester in your radius captures the commuter sugar daddies whose wealth is earned in Manhattan but whose personal lives are conducted in the suburbs. Your Manhattan location is an advantage: you are available for a midweek dinner after work, you know the city’s restaurants and you exist in a social world that does not overlap with his suburban community.
Sugar Dating Safety Tips for New York
New York is one of the most socially complex cities in the world — which means sugar dating safety requires both the standard precautions and a level of social awareness that is unique to this market.
The Volume Demands Extra Verification
New York’s sugar dating market is the largest in the country — which means it also attracts the highest number of men who misrepresent their wealth, their identities or their intentions. The managing director who claims to work at Goldman Sachs, the hedge fund manager who cannot name his fund, the real estate developer whose properties do not appear in any public records — New York produces more pretenders than any other market because the proximity to genuine wealth makes the pretense more believable. Always video-verify through our in-app feature before meeting in person. Search for the company and position he claims. The genuine Wall Street managing directors and hedge fund partners will have verifiable professional identities — and they will have no objection to basic verification because their reputations are their most valuable asset.
Manhattan Anonymity Cuts Both Ways
The anonymity of eight million people provides privacy for both parties — but it also means that the social accountability structures that exist in smaller communities are absent. A sugar daddy in Bedford, New Hampshire or Bedford, New York will think twice about mistreating a sugar baby because the social consequences in a small community are real. A sugar daddy in Manhattan can more easily disappear. Protect yourself: always meet at a full-service restaurant (not a bar, not a lounge, not a hotel lobby), tell a trusted friend your plans including the specific venue and your expected return time, keep your phone charged and your rideshare apps ready and trust your instincts. If a situation feels wrong — if the conversation shifts in a direction that makes you uncomfortable, if the man is pressuring you to leave the restaurant, if the evening is not proceeding as agreed — leave without hesitation. New York is a city that rewards boldness, and that includes the boldness to protect yourself.
Standard Safety Always Applies
Meet in public first — always. Take your own transportation (rideshare is ubiquitous in New York, and the subway system provides complete independence). Do not share your home address, workplace or financial information until real trust is established over multiple meetings. Never send money for any reason. Never accept checks, wire transfers or gift-card requests. Be cautious about first meetings in private members’ clubs or exclusive venues where you may feel socially pressured — the best first-date environment is a restaurant where you are a customer, not a guest, and where you can leave on your own terms at any time. The genuine sugar daddies in New York — the ones whose wealth is real and whose intentions are honest — will always respect your boundaries, because the men who have earned genuine success in this city understand that respect is the foundation of every valuable relationship.
For Sugar Daddies in New York — Discretion in the City That Never Sleeps
You operate at the highest level of the most competitive professional environment in the world. Your name appears in deal announcements, in industry publications, in the social pages of the publications that cover the world you inhabit. Your professional network spans Wall Street, the boardrooms, the law firms and the private equity firms that shape the global economy. Your social network — the benefit committees, the private clubs, the Hamptons dinner parties — is populated by the same people who populate your professional life. There is no separation between your social world and your professional world in New York, which means there is no margin for error in your personal life.
Sugar Daddy Planet was built for exactly this reality. Whether you are a managing director whose name is known on every trading floor, a hedge fund founder whose performance is tracked by every allocator, a private equity partner whose portfolio companies are front-page news, a media executive whose industry is fueled by gossip, an entertainment figure whose personal life is professional currency, a real estate developer whose projects are visible from the street, a corporate attorney whose clients include the families that define New York power, or a physician at one of the city’s elite medical institutions whose patient list reads like a social register — this platform gives you verified sugar babies who understand New York, who navigate your world with confidence, who value their own privacy as fiercely as you value yours and who are looking for exactly the kind of sophisticated, generous, mutually rewarding arrangement that your life at the top requires. Incognito browsing, private photos, encrypted messaging. The discretion your career demands in the city where everyone is watching.
For Sugar Babies in New York — The Deepest Pool, the Highest Ceiling, the Greatest City on Earth
There is no sugar dating market in the world that compares to New York. The pool of wealthy sugar daddies is not just the deepest in America — it is the deepest on the planet. The range of industries — finance, media, entertainment, fashion, tech, real estate, law, medicine — means you can find virtually any type of sugar daddy you are looking for. The restaurant scene is the finest in the country. The Hamptons provide the most concentrated summer wealth event in America. The cultural life — museums, theater, galleries, concerts, fashion events — provides a social infrastructure for dating that no other city can match.
The trade-off is competition. New York attracts the most ambitious, most attractive and most sophisticated sugar babies in the country. You are not competing against a handful of local profiles — you are competing against women who moved to New York specifically to be in this market. The sugar babies who succeed are the ones who treat their profiles, their presentation and their approach as seriously as any professional endeavor: invest in your appearance, develop your cultural fluency, build a genuine life in New York that makes you interesting beyond your looks and present yourself as a woman who adds value to the most demanding social environment in the world.
The ceiling in New York is higher than anywhere else. A single connection with the right sugar daddy in Manhattan can transform your financial life in ways that years of arrangements in other markets cannot match. The generosity at the top of the New York market — the hedge fund partner, the PE titan, the media mogul — is genuinely extraordinary. Earn that connection by being extraordinary yourself.
Sugar babies on Sugar Daddy Planet enjoy completely free access — no fees, no paywalls, no trial periods. Create your profile and start connecting today.
New York Sugar Dating by the Numbers
| City / Region | Top Industries Creating Sugar Daddies | Sugar Baby Competition | Best Arrangement Style |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan — UES / Tribeca / SoHo | Wall Street, Hedge funds, PE, Law, Media, Real estate, Medicine | Very High | Wall Street elite + ultra-high-net-worth |
| Manhattan — Midtown / West Village / CPW | Corporate exec, Media, Entertainment, Fashion, Finance, Tech | High | Media-entertainment + cultural |
| Hamptons / East End | Finance (summer), Media, Entertainment, Real estate, Old money | High (seasonal) | Hamptons-season + experiential |
| Westchester — Scarsdale / Bedford / Rye | Wall Street commuter, Corporate exec, Law, Healthcare, Finance | Moderate | Commuter + Manhattan dining |
| Brooklyn — DUMBO / Park Slope / Williamsburg | Tech, Creative industry, Finance, Media, Startups, Law | Moderate | Young professional + creative |
| Long Island — North Shore / Gold Coast | Finance, Healthcare, Law, Business owners, Old money | Moderate | Suburban professional + Shore seasonal |
Find Your Sugar Daddy or Sugar Baby in New York — Join Free Today
Create your free profile in 2 minutes. Browse verified sugar daddies and sugar babies in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Westchester, Brooklyn and across New York. The financial capital of the world and the deepest sugar daddy pool on Earth are waiting.
Sugar Daddy New York — Frequently Asked Questions
New York is the most competitive sugar dating market in the country — full stop. Manhattan attracts the most ambitious, most attractive and most sophisticated sugar babies in America, and many have moved to the city specifically for this market. However, the wealth pool is so deep that competition does not mean failure — it means you must differentiate. Beauty is the baseline in New York, not the differentiator. What separates successful New York sugar babies is genuine intelligence, cultural sophistication, professional ambition and the kind of social fluency that makes a hedge fund partner think “she belongs in my world.” If you bring those qualities, the New York market rewards them more generously than any other market in the country. The ceiling here is the highest in the world — a single high-value connection can be worth more than years of arrangements in smaller markets.
No — but you need to be able to get to Manhattan easily and to navigate it fluently. Sugar babies in Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken, Westchester and even northern New Jersey can absolutely succeed in the New York market, provided they can meet for dinner in Manhattan on reasonable notice and they know the city well enough to suggest restaurants, navigate neighborhoods and feel at home in the social environment. Living in Manhattan provides convenience (a midweek dinner is easier if you are already on the island) but it is not required. Many successful New York sugar babies live in Brooklyn or across the river — and the sugar daddies who live in the suburbs (Scarsdale, Short Hills, Greenwich) often prefer a sugar baby who does not live in their own community, so a non-Manhattan address can actually be an advantage for privacy.
The Hamptons represent the single most concentrated summer wealth event in America. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, the East End of Long Island becomes the summer home for many of Manhattan’s wealthiest residents — hedge fund partners, media moguls, real estate titans, old-money families. The concentration of wealth per square mile during Hamptons season rivals anything in the world. If you can position yourself physically on the East End (share a house with friends, visit for extended weekends, build local connections), the summer access to multi-millionaire and billionaire sugar daddies is extraordinary. Even if you cannot be in the Hamptons full-time, being highly active on the platform during the summer months captures sugar daddies who are in vacation mode, more socially open and spending more freely than during the Manhattan work year. Prepare your profile in May and be intensely active through August.
Verification is more important in New York than in any other market because the proximity to genuine wealth makes pretense more believable. Start with our in-app video-verification feature — this confirms the person behind the profile is real. Then pay attention to specifics: a genuine managing director or hedge fund manager will have a verifiable professional identity — his name will appear in connection with his firm, his deals, his industry. Be cautious about men who claim impressive titles but cannot provide specific details, who claim to work at firms you cannot find, or who display wealth that feels performative rather than natural. The genuine high-net-worth men in New York do not need to flaunt — their restaurants choices, their conversation, their professional confidence and their ease in expensive environments tell you everything. Always meet at a full-service restaurant in public for the first meeting.
New York has the finest restaurant scene in America, and the restaurant your sugar daddy chooses for a first date tells you a great deal about him. Le Bernardin is old-guard fine dining at its absolute peak — a sugar daddy who suggests it values tradition, taste and understated elegance. Carbone is high-energy Italian-American glamour in Greenwich Village — a fun, theatrical choice that signals confidence and social ease. Daniel on the Upper East Side is classic French fine dining — sophisticated, formal and perfect for an UES sugar daddy. The Grill in Midtown is power dining for Wall Street — the room itself is a statement. For a more downtown, contemporary choice, Don Angie or Via Carota in the West Village signal cultural awareness and a relaxed sophistication. In Brooklyn, Lilia or Gage & Tollner are chef-driven choices that demonstrate culinary knowledge. During Hamptons season, Nick & Toni’s in East Hampton is the gold-standard summer date. Always meet in public, verify through our in-app video call first and choose a venue where you feel comfortable and can leave independently.
