I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.

A lot of the stereotypes went away after Sept. 11 of us being rude and … unwelcoming. For the first time, our police officers and our firefighters were a tourist attraction.

If this is the first time you saw it, you wouldn't think much about it. But I think back to when Tiger (Woods) won in '97, it's not even the same golf course.

This is a tremendous economic value for New York City, but it's also an incredibly valuable symbolic message and media message that New York City is open for business.

We are on the path to a record year. We were set to celebrate, but it hangs in the balance with this transit strike.

If they spend $20 on a cab, they're going to go to McDonald's, not to Olive Garden.