I thought he looked familiar, you know. So, he hears me saying how I enlisted in New York in 1938.

We tracked one parolee to New York, but when we got him on the phone he threatened to kill the person who found him.

It was the common thought that New York was doomed.

I also thought I'd get a call [when former teammate Bryan Trottier was hired as New York Rangers coach in 2002]. The reason was, I remember having umpteen conversations with Bryan, having roomed with him for 10 years, that went, 'One of these days, Mike, we're going to take a team and do it our way.' I've found out since from Bryan [who was fired in his first season] that he wasn't going to be given that chance.

Today we affirm our commitment to lower Manhattan and the City of the New York, the financial capital of the world,

There are too many opportunities in New York. We can't live too far away.