He told the BBC, "[They] have frankly hijacked this report, they're spinning it, it's a flight of fancy on their part".
Everyone has to start somewhere so if it means that your first goal is being able to make it up a flight of stairs; make it your goal until you can command those stairs and not think twice.
Opened a little more than a year ago by an area couple, Courtney and Michael Rosa, it is a flight of stairs up from the Harborside Grill, another Rosa establishment that is open all week, with a neighborhood-friendly menu of steaks, pastas and burgers.
It's a flight of about 9½ hours.
For a dessert course, I include it in a flight of three equally decadent, creamy shots.
Swift and elegant, it is a flight of a drawing in itself.
And he was the civic superman, swooping up a nanny's stroller in his arms and carrying it down a flight of subway stairs.
Perhaps the best for live music is the Cellar (Frewin Court, 44-1865-244-761; cellaroxford.co.uk), rightheff the pedestrian-only Cornmarket Street and (you guessed it) down a flight of stairs.
It's a flight of silver bud vases, one with a clutch of sweet peas, another holding a pair of Dutch tulips and the third an anemone nosegay.
"It's a flight of fancy for me," said Scott Fintz, a college graduate who works in the operations department of a bank.
