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Thanksgiving Day. Well, that gets them all upset, and the captain calls up and he's very sorry that the mail had not been answered, and they're trying their best, and the cops had been used for the Thanksgiving Day parade, but in the future he will make certain that even if it means that the cops can't take a day off if Washington Square Park would be unprotected, they will not take their day off. You can imagine what it does for me vis-a-vis the cops when they are told, “If you don't get a day off, blame Koch.” (laughs) But a very solicitous letter, obviously wanting to make friends. I had never met him.

And then I get a letter from Codd saying, “This whole matter will now be the subject of investigation.” And then I get a letter from Captain Fortune that he's now asked for undercover people and he's going to make sure that the clean sweep of Washington Square Park, which they had had, will continue. That means that they pick everybody up who is, as he describes it, who is dissheveled -- I can't even remember the description. But I say to myself, “This guy wants to make me look like a fascist or at least entrap me that way, because you can't pick up everybody up when you don't happen to like the way he looks. You can't even pick people up who are drunk. It has to be that they are not only drunk but that they are committing some kind of criminal act, harassing other people or are a danger to themselves. Public intoxication is not a crime. The Supreme Court has said that.

So I write back saying, “Just in case anybody sees our