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he remains unflappable, gracious, calm, and funny.

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he doesn’t treat the heckler as a crazy or an enemy, as a problem to be managed or an alien to be tossed out. He treats the heckler for what he presumably is, a fellow New Yorker.

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pivot immediately to the issue he cares most about, affordability, but he turns the very fact of the man’s heckling into the issue he cares most about.

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points out that one of the main ways in which speech is stifled in a capitalist society is economics. If you can’t afford to live in New York, if you can’t afford to travel to New York, you can’t speak in New York.

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