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

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

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.

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.

This is priceless as far as its value to New York City.