NO, BOSTONIANS shouldn’t expect much deference from Medford native Michael Bloomberg. Long before he was mayor of NewYork, Bloomberg had made his name and fortune in the nation’s largest city. Some biographical accounts indicate that he found his hometown — and maybe Greater Boston more generally — too constricting for his considerable ambitions. Yet the glee with which he greeted a recent Boston Globe Magazine story about New York’s efforts to elbow into Boston’s lead in science and technology was still a little surprising. Somewhat overstating the point of the story, his Twitter account declared, “The @BostonGlobeMag has it right: #NYC is beating #Boston in more than just sports.”
