The No. 1 job of a mayor, above everything else, is to keep his or her city functioning. Yet with people dying on the cold streets of New York and trash building up in parts of the city, New York is by no means functioning.

'Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner's Revealing New Memoir in 10 Sentences Rambling Reporter isn't exactly sure what a city controller does but didn't expect "public bathroom mapper" to be part of the job.