In her final state of the city address as speaker, Ms. Quinn on Monday said the city's top priority must be to "keep our middle class here, " and she described affordable housing as being at the heart of a "crisis" afflicting this shrinking segment of the city.
The New York City taxi industry is heavily regulated, and nearly every segment of it spends large sums of money on campaign contributions and lobbyists.
Further illustration of Mr. Shimabukuro's credo comes in a segment of Mr. Nakamura's documentary from a senior shelter in the Japanese city of Sendai, devastated by the twin disasters of Fukushima.