He took control of the city's schools, drove initiatives to increase energy efficiency and helped make New York America's safest big city.
Forget Miami, Los Angeles and New York--America's newest immigrant capitals are the country's recent boom towns.
Mr Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, bemoaned America's restrictive visa policy, which is depriving financial firms of talent.
In December officials from Britain's financial-services regulator went to New York to study America's bankruptcy code, which has special provisions for investment banks.
According to the New York Times, America has its eye on creating bases in Mali, Algeria and elsewhere, and wants to sort out refueling rights for its planes in Uganda and Senegal.
Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki, all of you that worked so hard in bringing this convention to New York, our president and the party that decided they'd have it here, above and beyond everything else, it's a statement, it's a strong statement that New York City and America are open for business, and we are stronger than ever.
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Joining us now from our bureau in New York is our baseball pal, Alan Schwarz, who writes for Baseball America and the New York Times and Podcasts for ESPN.
Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, America's other big logistics centres, are all hemmed in.
But I grew up and I was educated in Sydney, in Australia, and I spent pretty much the last 10 years between New York City and Latin America.
Dr. MICKEY LEVY (Chief Economist, Bank of America New York): So, the fiscal stimulus, now that it moves to the top of the priority list, that stimulus package will include some of the components of Obama's economic platform, including tax cuts for the middle and lower income households.
Current will be replaced by a new Al Jazeera America news channel based in New York, doubling its US-based staff.
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Mr. ALAN SCHWARZ (Sports Writer, Baseball America, New York Times): Well, thank you, Neal.
Maybe it is time to end the whole way Wall Street operates--for the good of America, New York and indeed the reputation of capitalism.
According to the New York Times, Bank of America has hired consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and spoken to several law firms in preparation of a potential Wikileaks disclosure.
Ms Heinz Kerry has devoted herself to overseeing and revamping the billion-dollar Heinz family endowments and has been described by the New York Times as one of America's leading philanthropists.
To the West, he's transferred ownership of Les Chefs de France at Epcot Center to Jerome and opened Monsieur Paul there, while another new restaurant with the Bocuse name opened at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large at America magazine in New York.
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The mayor glows with pride while taking credit for making New York city like the rest of America.
Shige Ono, Kinokuniya America's New York-based vice president and treasurer, says the sale represents "a radical, big change" in pricing strategy.
Amidst the turbulence, "Copper" hopes to illustrate where America, and New York, came from by showing such a pivotal point in the city's history.
Reports indicate that Paulson convinced chief executives at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, State Street, Bank of New York Mellon, and Bank of America to take capital or suffer the regulatory consequences.
The bill is endorsed by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a bipartisan coalition of state and local legislators, law enforcement and medical professionals, and most recently the New York chapter of Treatment Communities of America, an association of providers serving people with substance abuse issues.
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New-crop governors now run some of America's biggest states, including New York, Ohio and Florida.
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And of course there are differences between Chicago and New York, but I think if you're looking to bring down homicides in the major city in America, you cannot ignore the example that New York - the path they've taken.
In New York, strains of "God Bless America" could be heard intermittently trickling through the crowd.
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While in New York previously, he specialized in tracking America's legal sector, from prosecution to litigation.
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