“I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.” CitiesNew YorkInvolvedNew York CityMayorsDeputies Author:Joe Lhota
“I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.” IfsFirstsHappensNew YorkInvolvedMeetingsMapsCategoriesHurricanes Author:Joe Lhota
“Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.” WritingNew YorkInvolvedDemandToughPreparedColumnsNew York Times Author:David Plotz
“Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.” PeopleIfsThinkingHappenedNew YorkBuildingInvolvedHatredIraqIdeologyTiesRegimesAirplaneSaddamHussein Author:Condoleezza Rice
“New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.” IfsWantWifeNew YorkInvolvedOrganizationImpactCharityMy WifePhilanthropic Author:Justin Tuck
“I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.” StuffEffortSuccessfulToo MuchNew YorkTypeInvolvedProjectsBuiltEastParksConservationEast Africa Author:Edward Norton
“I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.” EnoughCultureEnergyFashionNew YorkInvolvedIntentionAccidents Author:Elie Tahari
“Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.” LongSchoolLove IsTeacherBloodNew YorkTaughtInvolvedSavedIslandsHelpfulPublic SchoolSchool TeachersLong Island Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the New York City Police Department. I guess people thought it was pretty interesting to have these two things meshed together. My life is pretty boring, I don't know why they're doing this. It's fun.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsTwoBookTogetherLife IsFunStuffInterestingCitiesHappenedNew YorkInvolvedPoliceBoringProfessionTwo ThingsDepartmentNew York CityCopPolice Department Author:Ralph Sarchie
“In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel. There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that's in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.” WorldCountryKidsUsedHeardNew YorkInvolvedJazzSouthWesternExcitedHillbilly Author:Ben E. King
“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.” PeopleKindShowsHouseParentCitiesFireNew YorkBabyGrewInvolvedGrew UpAbsolutesRegardFamiliarEnjoyedIslandsFriendlyNew York CityMy SisterShow Business Author:Fred Melamed
“But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.” YearsLevelsNew YorkMovementReturnInvolvedDespairLiberationEleanorEsther Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.” YearsCountryAbleLawFourNew YorkMonthsInvolvedMovedAustraliaImmigrantsStrictGet InvolvedSuitcasesMelbourne Author:Jens Lekman
“Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.” PeopleRealEarthChristianTakenLandNew YorkBecomingInvolvedWorshipDressesMexicoBostonSantaFascinationEvangelicalEnvironmentalistNew MexicoSanta Fe Author:Richard Rodriguez
“For a lot of women who don't go to college, or for a lot of women who aren't in New York or D.C. or someplace where there's like a large feminist organization they can get involved in, they may be doing feminist work, right, like locally or with a grassroots organization or in their own lives, but if they don't have that support system and if they don't have that availability to feminist language, I think we're missing out on something.” IfsThinkingMayLanguageSupportMissingNew YorkCollegeInvolvedOrganizationFeministGet InvolvedAvailabilityGrassrootsMissing OutSupport Systems Author:Jessica Valenti
“I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.” YearsKindArtStillsLeftCompanyStudyTeachingNew YorkInvolvedTheaterUniversityAll KindsParisMinnesotaMimeSoho Author:Jessica Lange