Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

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.

New York is my home.