"I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love, that I will leave the job that I love, " Menino said, with his wife Angela and family by his side.
Variations on this episode occurred literally dozens of times a day as I traipsed through the city with my camera.
These suggestions sometimes overwhelm me and at other times inspire me to accomplish more, such as when I helped with the New York City Veterans Day parade.
When I moved to New York City 14 years ago, I fished with Captain Frank Crescitelli in the New York Harbor for the first time.
As of now I am negotiating with the land owner in the city proper of Zamboanga City Philippines, I am proposing a 60 unit Housing Projects covering more than I hectare land and it cost me 25 to 30 Million pesos in order to start the project.
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And then once I pass the city, or pass another sign with a new distance, I'll change my speed by a mile or two per hour and do the same thing.
Even though I had not hunted for birds regularly since I moved to New York City in 1997, I felt very comfortable with being able to complete the fishing and bird-hunting legs of the Grand Slam.
So when it came time to catch up with an old friend, I decided to eschew the average city break and instead set out with some windows-down playlists, a hearty appetite and a general plan to mess around with Texas on an easy riding road trip through the Lone Star State.
Mr. Boss asked if there was anything I'd like to see happen in the city, and suggested I come up with a wish list.
But I am only too familiar with the city's potential for cruelty.
The city workers I spoke with all pointed me back to these two government release PDFs: The Street Vending Fact Sheet and General Vending Rules.
The reason I got back in touch with Sioux City's leaders last week is that recently the federal government has shown it will speedily get involved in aviation-related issues when it wants to.
From 1996 to 1998, I had served as an English instructor with the Peace Corps in a small city called Fuling, where I also studied Chinese.
Looking out over the trafficchoked streets of the city, I surprise myself with a feeling of nostalgia for a time that was clearly inferior to the present.
Visiting the city recently, I caught up with friends from school over dinner at a seaside restaurant.
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In fact (unintelligible) workers, but with the city of Salinas, I've been here since, ooh, almost 21 years.
Instead, what I saw was a city five years ago with little make tech startup feel welcome.
Last Friday I discussed the Belfast City Council flags dispute with the DUP's Nigel Dodds and Alliance's Naomi Long on Inside Politics.
"I'm often really impressed with a small city's airports, " says food and travel writer Adam Graham, who says he's found fantastic lobster wraps at the Shipyard Pub at Portland Maine's jetport.
On a muggy and warm Monday morning in December, I met with Larry King at the New York City offices of Sirius XM to talk some NFL. More specifically, to talk about betting the games.
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Today in Rochester, New York, I will visit with workers and employers at the city's Veterans Outreach Center, a program in partnership with New York State's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), that has leveraged a Department of Labor grant to successfully train and place 90 percent of their graduates, our Nation's military veterans, into full-time, green technology jobs.
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To find out more, I had a call with the CTO of New York City-based Converseon, Jeff Doak.
Venturing into town on 27 December to meet someone for coffee, I was stunned to find the city centre heaving with people.
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The line came as a response to an interview I conducted with HulkShare CEO Ted Brinkofski for the Washington City Paper that went online earlier that day.
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The idle craft is parked in an airport in the northern city, Mazar-i-Sharif, with a coat of golden paint.
The week my wife and I arrived, the city had laid off 350 people with unemployment already at 35%.
See, I grew up in Chicago, which is a city with one of the largest Indian-American communities in our country.
Seventh Cavalry, the unit with which I'm embedded just southwest of the city, has been under considerable fire throughout last evening and today.
"I'm delighted we have signed such a quality player, and I am looking forward to working with him, " said City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson.
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