The designers have transformed a forbidding escalator into a celebratory and wonderfully imaginative ascent.

If you allow the character of a neighborhood to be eroded, the people who live in that neighborhood will leave the city. We can't allow that to happen. Protecting these different neighborhoods, we are providing New Yorkers with a diversity of housing choices.

Even incomplete, you see the potential for a glorious public space.

You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.