The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

Anything that isn't writing is easy

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.