In Amsterdam the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries
I'm a thirty-something ranch wife mother of four moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.
In the nineteen-thirties one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.
I was born in New York City in 1926 four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.
I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York ten in Paris and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.
There were eleven publishers in New York City and when it was all over I think it went down to four or five and then finally just the three of them the Big Three.
I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.
I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.