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I'm unlisted, that's an absolute outrage. And while it means that occasionlly I am going to get some unpleasant calls and unnecessary calls, the fact is: it hasn't been that horrendous. It has not been. I have gotten the unnecessary, and I've gotten some of the distasteful calls and unnecessary calls, but not so many -- and certainly not enough to warrant my ever feeling that I shouldn't be in the directory. I know I'm one of the few that's in there.

It was interesting: when Jerry Ketschmer ran for mayor, as I did in ‘73, in his literature he said, “The only two politicians in the city of New York” - that's an overstatement -- “who list their telephone numbers are me [meaning Jerry Kretchmer] and Ed Koch”. I'm in his literature. (laughs)

On your bachelorhood, have you ever felt that your political associates or your constituents held that against you or held it against you that you had not gone into the conventional family life?

Sure, but it's a sufficiently small number so as never to affect the outcome of any election. The fact is that I got 76.7% in the last election. And then also consider that in the district I represent, the figure is something like 53% of the people in that district are not married: single or widowed or divorced or separated.

And do you think that the media as a whole over this period