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Christopher Cuomo Is a Doughy Asthmatic (nymag)

**Name: ** Christopher Cuomo

**Age: ** 41

**Neighborhood: ** Upper East Side

**Occupation: ** Journalist; Last weekend he hosted the Men's Urbanathlon in
Flushing Meadow, with another one on the roster for San Francisco on Sunday,
November 13.

**Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? **

The obvious answer is my pop, but that would neglect my mom, my wife and kids
... too much agita. So I go with Courageous Cat. I always believed Empire City
was NYC. Look at the background. Had to be.

**What's the best meal you've eaten in New York? **

Anything my mother makes.

**In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job? **

Every day seems to be a fight: fight to tell the important stories; fight to
get people to trust the media enough to tell their story; fight with the
government, corporate or other power source that doesn't like our story; fight
to get there first, to get the facts straight, to tell it the right way, and
most of all to figure out how to get people to watch.

**What was your first job in New York? **

Bouncer.

**What's the last ...

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