We're trying to rebuild lower Manhattan. This added transportation is important, especially around the Financial District, where a half-hour savings is very important to the business traveler.

Since 1995, Governor Pataki has said he wanted the Port Authority to return to its core mission of transportation,

Our goal is to establish as many new connections to lower Manhattan as possible.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.

That has to be built out so that downtown can thrive. The worst thing that could happen to lower Manhattan would be for that hole in the ground to exist for another decade or two, and that's what Silverstein has contemplated even if all goes according to his plan.

As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.