N.Y. VS. L.A.; RIORDAN STOKES EAST-WEST RIVALRY.Byline: Rick Orlov Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Richard Riordan's visit to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. had all the makings of a bruising bruising discoloration and actual hemorrhage at the site of injury, and a serious disadvantage in the meat trade. In the first 12 hours after injury the bruise is bright red, at 24 hours it is dark red, at 24 to 36 hours it loses its firm consistency and becomes watery and at 3 or , knock-down fight with his longtime rival, Mayor Rudy Giuliani Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City, Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election. , over whose city is better. As Riordan toured New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on Tuesday to tout Tout To promote a security in order to attract buyers. tout To foster interest in a particular company or security. For example, a broker might tout a security to a client in the hope that the client will purchase the security. what he calls the ``New L.A.,'' Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. boosters launched a $100,000 ad campaign in New York that claims the Big Apple should be ``turning green with envy'' over the City of Angels' success. Earlier this year, Giuliani had quipped that ``New York could kick any other city's a--.'' So on a TV talk show in New York, Riordan met Giuliani's boast with an equally sharp rejoinder The answer made by a defendant in the second stage of Common-Law Pleading that rebuts or denies the assertions made in the plaintiff's replication. The rejoinder allows a defendant to present a more responsive and specific statement challenging the allegations made : ``To kick somebody's a--,'' the mayor said, ``you have to be behind them.'' Yet when Riordan, a native New Yorker, came face to face with Giuliani during a news conference Tuesday, he found himself issuing an apology to the former federal prosecutor - and even admitting that he is somewhat embarrassed by the ads. ``I was kidding him about it,'' Riordan recalled in a telephone interview. ``I said to Rudy that I apologized for the ad and said now that I'm back here, the Big Apple is redder and shinier than ever.'' It was all part of the long-running feud over who is America's No. 1 mayor and which is America's No. 1 city, much as Angelenos and New Yorkers have vied for years. Riordan has not been shy about questioning how anyone could live on the East Coast and boasted of Los Angeles' environment, climate, beaches and universities. ``This is kind of an ongoing fun little tug-of-war with New York to draw attention to the fact of our diversity,'' said Tracy Williams Tracy Williams is an American singer who belongs to UC3, an all female trio from Tampa Bay, Florida. She has performed throughout the U.S. and overseas in several countries with UC3 for U.S. military personnel. , a spokeswoman for the New Los Angeles Marketing Partnership, which ran the newspaper ads. ``We just wanted to do a little bragging,'' Williams said. NewLAMP timed its ad campaign to coincide with Riordan's visit to New York City to basically declare Los Angeles as the tops with an ad showing a red apple turning green and a headline, ``Uh-oh, New York's just seen the latest statistics on L.A.'s economy.'' ``This tells everybody how well Los Angeles is doing,'' NewLAMP Executive Director Regina Birdsell said. ``We thought this would be a fun way to tell them, by using the icon of the Big Apple turning green. ``And while we're running these ads, we have our businessman mayor in New York to be a spokesman for our economy. This puts his fingerprints on what we're doing.'' As outlined in the ad, among Los Angeles' claims is that it is No. 1 in the creation of new jobs and new businesses; No. 1 in manufacturing, apparel industry, software, multimedia and the television-film industry; and No. 1 in international trade and affordability. Not mentioned but nonetheless a sore spot, Los Angeles has won back the MTV Video Music Awards The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. Originally beginning as an alternative to the Grammy Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards is now a respected pop culture awards show in its own right. after four years at New York's Radio City Music Hall Radio City Music Hall New York City’s famous cinema; home of the Rockettes. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2338] See : Theater . ``We aren't after any of their businesses,'' Birdsell said. ``We're after their money. We want investors to begin looking at our entrepreneurs and invest in them. We want to make sure they know what's happening out here and the future businesses of the next century.'' New Yorkers, in contrast, boast of their cultural landmarks; corporate, financial and media headquarters; museums; Broadway; the success of the Yankees and Mets; and the fact it has two professional football teams - even though both play in New Jersey. Beyond the posturing and boasting, Riordan said the main point of his meeting with Giuliani was to discuss common efforts in fighting crime. It was during a 1995 visit that Riordan learned of New York's crime tracking program, which has since taken root in Los Angeles. On this trip, Riordan said he learned of an anti-narcotics program he wants studied while Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. offered advice on some of Los Angeles' programs. ``While we adopted their Comstat program, our technology is much better,'' Riordan said. ``We want to make that available to them. Also, we told him of our neighborhood code watch program, curfew violations and the CLEAR (Community Law Enforcement and Recovery) anti-gang program.'' Daily News Staff Writer Fred Shuster contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO (1 -- color) The World Trade Center's twin towers dominate the angular skyline of the island borough of Manhattan. (2 -- color) Skyscrapers in the City of Angels' downtown corridor glitter in the abundant sunshine of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . |
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