He lists seven: people (this means internal morale and union rapport), institutional reform (Mr. Sander says the authority operates as seven separate fiefs and needs a common umbrella), customer service (more to the point, a lack thereof), projects and planning (the Second Avenue subway; links to Jets and Giants games; floodproof stations), security (he meets weekly with the Police Department), and last but not least, sustainability. Mr. Sander is a sustainability wonk, too.

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The bean-setters can fully appreciate the nipping, biting keenness of the air, and avow frankly, in their own peculiar idiom, that they be pretty nigh scrammed!

As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics, explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.”