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• [1] Gary from Manhattan June 12, 2008 - 12:12PM

  Did the guest say: “Cities sacrifice something when they focus on safety”? Yeah, New York was just lovely when there were 2000+ murders per year.

  
  
• [2] Zach from Upper West Side June 12, 2008 - 12:15PM

  New York City is 321 square miles.

  The New York Metro area

  population 18,815,988 (2007 est.)

  area: 6,720 sq. mi

  
  
• [3] James from New York June 12, 2008 - 12:22PM

  This guy has already twice indicated that crime doesn't concern him. Does he understand that for many of us that suggests that he's probably mentally unbalanced? And that what he has to say about any place therefore is probably of little interest to most of us? This inexplicable pooh-pooing of crime is why so many in America have turned away from liberalism in sheer despair & disgust. Leonard, get this guy off the air!!!

  
  
• [4] Genevieve from Brooklyn June 12, 2008 - 12:26PM

  I think Mexico City is one of the most beautiful cites in the world. It wears all of it's history on its sleeve. From the modern Mexico City to the oldest Indian Mexico City. I want to retire there...

  
  
• [5] Leonardo Andres June 12, 2008 - 12:29PM

  Mexico city is a wonderful city, I am not going to deny that. I am also not going to deny that Mexico has a big cultural influence But i think is a little biased to call it the cultural capital of latin america.

  
  
• [6] Enrique Fino from Rahway NJ. June 12, 2008 - 12:31PM

  The best and worst music

  of Latin America, comes from Mexico.

  Very good movies -after the argentinians,

  brasilians-. But the Music!!

  Bands like Santa-Sabina, Maldita Vecindad,

  Cafe Tacuba, have a very very very

  authentic and rich anthropological value;

  which is UNIC.

  -and I'm from Honduras!!-

  
  
• [7] Taher from Croton 0n Hudson June 12, 2008 - 12:32PM

  I meet a man in Paris last year from Mexico City, a retired banker.

  He had a condo in the center of the city. He said that when in Mexico City he wares very shabby clothes and carries just enough money to satisfy a mugger.

  
  
• [8] James from New York June 12, 2008 - 12:34PM

  Doesn't he understand or care that the people who suffer the most from crime are the poor??? The poor are the primary direct victims of crime. They are the ones who are robbed, abused, threatened, assaulted, murdered & seduced into gangs, drug abuse & prostitution. And the poor are the primary indirect victims as their communities are impoverished by the reluctance of legitimate businesses to invest in or locate in high-crime communities. Crime is genocide on the poor!! Evil - pure evil!!

  
  
• [9] janelle from MANHATTAN June 12, 2008 - 12:35PM

  i lived in mexico city from 2002-2005. three years. i am an artist.

  with all due respect to david and to the city, which i love, his words feel exaggerated--not in line with what the city is yet. not even close....

  
  
• [10] Gene June 12, 2008 - 12:36PM

  Interesting interview.

  Can we address Mexico's treatment of the remnants of the Aztec people? (2 of whom work at the bagel shop around the corner from me in NYC.)

  
  
• [11] Mark from Manhattan June 12, 2008 - 12:37PM

  I agree with Leonardo. For example, the author talked about the Korean restaurant. Well, there are Korean restaurants in Pittsburgh, but that doesn't make Pittsburgh the model of a cosmopolitan city. I traveled to Mexico City a lot with my work and while it is a beautiful city, it is a Mexican City. Unlike NYC where you'll see scores of nationalities and hear dozens of languages walking the street each day, in Mexico you basically see native Mexicans and hear Spanish. If the author wants to point to a Latin America city that is more cosmopolitan, I'd suggest Sao Paulo where the number of Italian, Japanese, and Arabic names in the phonebook give great competition to the Portuguese names.

  
  
• [12] eff June 21, 2008 - 08:47AM

  You made the best of a terrible guest, Leonard. Kudos to you. But please, no more.