When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

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.

I run New York City!

Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.