A member of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party and a long-term associate of oligarch Roman Abramovich, he became the unlikely champion of a new type of city that would answer the needs of the middle class that had sprung up in recent years.
The parkway, while creating a needed connection between the Saw Mill River Parkway and the Bronx River Parkway, would not answer the need for diverting traffic off the Hawthorne Circle and the issue of what to do with truck traffic.
He has worked toward this moment for many years, thinking it would answer his need to unlock the secret of the universe, or "to know everything," as his mother once told him grown-ups did.
The Mets fans, the 30,694 who gave the Mets a part of their Mother's Day, would answer that they need to see more results like the Mets produced in this game.
By that, she meant that the transformation contemplated by the development team that was designated this month, led by Joe Cayre of Midtown Equities, would answer real needs, not hypothetical ones, by serving park visitors, neighbors and office workers.
"First of all, it would answer his religious needs.
When people asked him to rate his best team ever, he would answer that he needed another 20 years.
You'd be surprised how many writers and artists would answer, "No". It needs to be good enough to put your entire reputation behind it.
Designing an efficient therapeutic strategy would answer a clinically unmet need.
The approach was initially conceived to address the critical gap between the growing number of patients on the waiting list for organ transplantation, but it will focus increasingly on prevalent conditions in which the restoration of functional tissue would answer a currently unmet medical need.
It would answer to Russia's desperate need to root reform and democracy in its own traditions, rather than those of the West.
