The Mark Simone show, Mr. New York, 710 W-O-R.

Hey, Steve Kuzzo is the great New York Post columnist.

He writes about New York, restaurants, real estate, everything going on in New York City.

You can read his columns at the New York Post.

They're all up there in the Post website.

Steve Kuzzo, how are you doing?

Good morning, Mark.

How are you doing?

I hear you typing as we speak. Well, there you go. Some of us have to multitask, Mark, that's the way it is. banging out another column. I know a lot of people can't do one thing at a time. Hey, you travel around. you must get these people and they say to me,

why do you stay in New York?

Why are you still here?

Why don't you get out of there?

What's the answer?

I love New York? Why are you still here? Why don't you get out of there?

I love New York. I'm not leaving, but what's the answer to that?

Because it's the most fun place anywhere. And, you know, it's obviously we've got our problems,

but I want to make a real quick point. Everybody complains about crime, you know, the whole drill, right?

Did you know that this year, New York City, is on track to end the year with around 360 murders, roughly, based on the first half years numbers?

Do you know how many murders there were in New York City the last two years when

law and order mayor Rudy Giuliani was mayor in 2000, 2001? Almost 700. And you can, as Casey

Stengel used to say, you can look it up. These are just facts, not opinions. So whatever problems we have now are relatively, relatively minimal compared with even the

Law & Order Hayday or Broody Julian.

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