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Happy to put the campaign behind him, and looking forward to a little sleep, Cy Vance Junior, Manhattan's next district attorney is both excited and daunted by the task before him.

"It's definitely a moment where you wake up and go, 'okay, I've got the job,' and I know I have to make something of it," said Vance.

Vance won the primary with barely a nod from New Yorkers; with voter turnout at only 13 percent, only 45,000 people in a city of eight million chose him. He wants them to know him better.

"As to who I am, I am a skillful lawyer. I have been in this office in all levels and in all bureaus, from street crime to white-collar crime," he said. "I know the office. I understand its traditions."

Vance has a lofty agenda. He wants to build a stronger relationship between the DAs office and communities, he wants to crack down on more white-collar crime, and he believes domestic violence cases should be of the highest priority.

"As district attorney, I'm going to focus on two questions on every issue that comes before me, does it make us safer and is it fair," he said. "And I think those are going to be the core questions and ways in which I will address the forward progress of the office."

He says it's too premature to speculate about staffing; only that he plans to keep and hire the brightest lawyers around, and will have to get creative with the money.

But perhaps this lawyer's biggest trial will be how to both embrace the powerful support of legendary DA Robert Morgenthau, while putting his own mark on the office.

"I am very happy for the people of Manhattan," Morgenthau said when it was announced that Vance won on Tuesday night.

Morgenthau was one of Vance's most vocal supporters from the beginning. His legacy and prosecutorial style have shaped the criminal justice system in Manhattan for 35 years. But Vance bristles at being known as Morgenthau's "hand-picked successor," and says he won the race on his own merits.

"I'm very pleased to have Mr. Morgenthau's endorsement; I think the world of him," said Vance. "But every candidate runs on his or her own. I didn't the endorsement of the Amsterdam News and El Diario and the New York Times and a broad range of community political leaders because Mr. Morgenthau endorsed me."

Despite the support, Vance says he has not yet received any advice from Mr. Morgenthau, no pearls of wisdom about how to be the best Manhattan DA.. Advice, he admits, he'll be seeking come January.