Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.