Michael Bloomberg is a saint

"I venture to say that the Bloomberg administration has had more impact on the health of the citizens of this city than all of his predecessors combined, with the possible exception of whoever invented the sewage system."

-- Dr. Andrew Racine of Montefiore Medical Center, at an event where Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a new law raising the legal age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21 years old.

I was in New York for a wedding this weekend and took this photo from (I believe) the G train, on our way from Park Slope to Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. I first went to New York for college in 2001, have visited occasionally since graduating, and the changed cityscape was particularly striking from that vantage point.

Of course, I got home and saw multiple links on my Twitter feed to this amazing New York Times feature about that precise topic, that the city has undergone a rapid physical transformation in just the past decade.