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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I'm result-oriented, and our neighborhoods will never prosper if we don't keep criminals from victimizing families.

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.