This feels great for someone from New York. I took the subway here today. I am home.

I couldn't be happier. I'm so comfortable being here. I love New York City.

There are a few things worrying the market today, but the most relevant is New York.

The market followed New York only in very general terms today, sometimes distancing, sometimes getting closer. It was very calm.

I was sitting in my new home in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, horrified like everyone else. I knew which neighborhoods were being hardest hit because I've spent over 25 years going down there, first as a reporter covering Jazz Fest for Billboard and then developing friendships there. As those waters rose, a lot of people knew I had close relationships in New Orleans and started e-mailing me about what was happening there. I couldn't believe it.

If he missed, we were going home, and the whole thing about New York probably would have changed. He had the guts to take it, and that wasn't the only big shot he took. When coach (Don) Chaney was here, we used to run isolation plays for him at the end of the game to catch the ball and go one-on-one. Do you know how tough that is? And he would make shots. He was tough.