And he did it with the flair of a maverick and a raconteur, cutting in his tenants on cash flow or equity in his developments; saving a fire-scarred municipal landmark, the central library, in exchange for the right to build into the sky above it; opening his checkbook to politicians; and developing a practiced selective deafness for the word no.
Keep your favorites: the ones you would want to save in a fire.
"Of the hundreds of objects one would want to save in a fire, this would be one of the ones I would most run for," he said.
She is a cultish figure who has built very little of note, save for a fire station in Germany — which was converted into a museum shortly after its completion — and a building designed for a ski jump in Innsbruck, Austria.
Marc Josloff, a photographer and painter, put a similar question recently to members of the Long Island Center of Photography, asking them to think quickly of the one photograph they would save from a fire that was about to destroy all of their work.
Example: Who would you save from a fire if all four were stuck in it?
My uncle Ray Downey, a former captain of Rescue 2, badly scorched his lungs when he ran without an air tank into a fire to save a young man.
He attained almost hero status last year after dashing into flames to save a neighbour from a house fire.
In May 2006, he and another SEAL risked their lives under hostile fire to save a wounded teammate.
So if astronauts are not heroes, and Sullenberger is not a hero, who is? Charging up a hill against enemy fire to save a fallen soldier is brave and heroic.
David de Gea was forced to save a Leon Osman snapshot and Jack Rodwell fired wide from 25 yards before Baines struck the crossbar with a free-kick from the edge of the area as the home side pressed hard for an equaliser.
