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“They want to see our skyscrapers destroyed because they are envious of them,” Mr. Koch said in a phone interview. Asked whom he was referring to, he said, “‘They’ is the rest of the country.”

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Source: Edward Koch, “The Irresistible Urge to Destroy New York on Screen” by Sewell Chan, New York Times, (December 26, 2007).
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