Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West.

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

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.