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It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children - and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day.

New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

That's the great thing about New York, there's always something to do.