A terrorist plot, an exploding state budget and a rat problem on the Upper East Side. The Wall Street Journal is giving New Yorkers a taste of how it plans to cover their city and the surrounding area in its new metro section.
Monday's debut of the metro section had 16 pages, two of them bought out by Macy's and Bloomingdale's. These are the kinds of advertisers the Journal under Rupert Murdoch wants to peel away from The New York Times, which returned fire Monday with a little humor.
In a statement, Times executives offered some "helpful hints" about the city to the Journal: "The Dodgers now play in Los Angeles, SoHo is the acronym for South of Houston, Fashion Week has moved to Lincoln Center, Idlewild is now JFK and `Cats' is no longer playing on Broadway."
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