Nilda Mesa

“More trees, more plants, more – OK, in my big picture thing – I would love to see more raptors in the city.”

Projjal Dutta

“New York is livable–it is more than livable, it’s wonderful — because of density. And not just the density of people, but I think the density of opportunity.”

Reese Schonfeld

It’s the most exciting city in the world to work in. I could walk down the street, bump into somebody; you begin to talk to each other and before you know it, we are starting a business. It’s just people you meet casually.

Milton Puryear

“All the way from Greenpoint to Bay Ridge there were, for a hundred years, only four places where a private citizen could get to the water.”