my heart, my heart beat, of course to the controller's office, to the mayor's budget office, to harvey rose, to all the folks who are -- and the treasurer who i know couldn't be here today, but is sending his greetings from d.c., i really look forward to working with you. i think that we are only stronger working together and that the financial health of the city, being able to build a solid foundation, the unique role each of us plays in making sure that happens is really something we can all work towards. all the things that we care about, being able to fund public services, being able to fund police services, children services, health services, these are all things that can only be accomplished when we have a very firm financial footing. so, i really look forward to that real responsibility and making sure that we're doing this together. i think with the solid foundation that assemblyman phil ting has set and the final work zoon has done stepping up in the leadership organization in the transition, i take the responsibility with humbleness. i really look forward to working in the departm

a these their is currently being built in brooklyn right next to bam between the bam harvey and operahouse. >> rose>> and the operahouse. and they're building a beautiful 299 seat theatre that is more like the national theatre's cottage. we don't have a theatre like this in new york which is the audience wrapped around 3 or 4 sides. and i'm going to open it and there is the first time we're announcing midsummer night's dream. >> oh pie goodness. that's great. have you started casting. >> yes, yes. >> rose: and who is in it. >> we have one person, so far. and i done know if i should say the name of the actor. >> rose: yes, you should, come on. >> well, anyway. >> you have been cagey enough. >> i haven't been cagey but we have-- puck to cast. and i would love to have somebody but she's not available right now. >> rose: who is that. >> evan, evan rachel wood did the reading of helena. >> rose: i know her. >> so we will see if she does that or not. and no, we are just beginning casting. but after i leave here i go back home and work with the set designer. >> rose: you know evan rachel wood was born? no

. >> let me add, too, i don't know if any of you certainly think harvey rose knows and others, if you've been in the room -- this is why i made the link to moody's. i was in the room with kate and all the fiscal people in the city, controller's office when we were getting reviewed by mood yes's and standard & poor's and other ratings, they throw questions at you. it is literally much more than an interview. it is kind of like a deposition. what do you have set up? what are you doing about this? what are you trying -- all of it is about economic and financial confidence in the city. and they're asking all these questions from the debt to general fund to reserves to how much you keep, what you're going to spend, what's the state going to do to you, what's the fed going to do to you. i think after going through that for the last couple years, we need someone like carmen heading up an office that might in the external be quiet and unassuming, but they are an incredible part of the confidence building that we need to have in the city. and you have to actually be in those depositions with thos