Bloomberg as mayor: A New York that sparkled, and chafed

NEW YORK (AP) — When Michael Bloomberg became New York’s mayor in 2002, the billionaire businessman was an untested politician elected to lead a scarred city.
He steered it into a city that sought to project glittering prosperity, governmental innovation and cosmopolitan confidence.
Bloomberg will be highlighting, and answering for, that legacy in his newly launched Democratic presidential campaign.
Over 12 years of running the nation’s largest city, he governed with a data-dri