One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Plan for Academic Enrichment, ... So that just got me to thinking, so I picked up the phone and asked if anybody was interested down there.

What we decided to do was to take the ship into New York a day early and miss two ports to get an extra day in of sanitation and disinfecting the ship with no passengers on board. We wanted passengers off the ship so we could really make sure the cycle was broken.

It's a sad day in New York.

This is a very sad, sad day for New York and one of her most wonderful institutions.

I arrived in New York City on a ship the day before Thanksgiving. It was freezing cold.

In many ways, that was the day that the New York State Department of Labor was born. It was forged from that terrible fire.