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And most importantly:
Seinfeld
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USA ! USA !
And the day you can walk into a mud hut in Africa and find someone who supports the Yankees, you can count that as a point for New York- but it happens with UK football teams (I will not call it ‘soccer’, and you can’t make me, so there). Mostly Man United, but I’ve seen Arsenal and Chelsea shirts- London based teams- in the weirdest locations.
Even met an Indonesian guy, living in Malaysia, who was a fanatical Wolverhampton fan. That was weird- it’s hard enough finding them in England. :dubious:
Oh, and I know it’s beside the point, but I think you’re wrong on Beckham too- after a surreal experience in backcountry Kenya, when small children who were supposed to be herding cattle were running after us shouting ‘Daveed Beckham’, I’m not going to underestimate his global popularity. It was during the World Cup, but still… 
Sorry tried to read my way through all of the pages, but didn’t make it.
Comparisons on the financial front are silly, the City of London and Wall Street are not so much friends but identical twins, they both have facilities that store all relevant info that would be destroyed in the event of an outrage, if London goes down then all their transactions are safely stored in N.Y. and likewise.
But N.Y. recently lost its AAA status, London still has it.
Otherwise its Chalk and Cheese.
London has been around for a couple of thousand years, N.Y. was made what it is by Brits…
You don’t compare the dad to the son.
Cite?
The world wide web was invented by a Brit scientist at Cerne, who donated it free.
Sorry ~Yanks ,Us Brits invented the Internet , hope it doesn’t hurt your self esteem to much,Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.
The world wide web isn’t the entirety of the internet!
Meh. That’s a distraction in my opinion. Beckham isn’t in London, and Jackson and Presley certainly aren’t in New York.
For that matter, Internet arguments certainly don’t revolve around either city, either.
Dunno what that is, that’s just it’s address, NYSE has been shown it loses to London’s, but the last is, I agree, a very solid point.
Case in point – I’m a Leeds United fan (yes, I know!! :mad: :o), but definitely not a Yankees (nor a Knicks) fan! Red Sox and Celtics all the way, baby! 
GDP
New York - 1.43 Trillion
London - 565 Billion
Billionaires
New York - 59
London - 41
Millionaires
New York - 771,000
London - 295,000
Fortune Global 500 Companies
New York 28
London 17
- source: Capgemini, Forbes
Is there any major economic metric in which London beats New York? I don’t think so. New York all the way. Its the most powerful city and the capital of the world.
I think we should build a new capital of the world, in a location equally accessible (or inaccessible, if you want to look at it that way) to all major centres.
I’m thinking Antarctica. Or Hawaii.
International time is based around a suburb of London.
Over 300 languages are currently spoken in London schools.
On one short stretch of shopping street near my house in Brooklyn:
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[li]Bangla Fashion House[/li][li]Yummy Taco (owned/run by Chinese immigrants)[/li][li]Young Israel of Kensington[/li][li]Dinosha Albanian Village (butcher)[/li][li]Bastek Deli (Polish)[/li][li]Lechaim Jewelry and Shoe Repair[/li][li]Golden Farm International Grocery - Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Turkish, Israeli, kosher, organic, gourmet food (Korean owned)[/li][li]Plaza 5 de Mayo (productos Mexicanos)[/li][li]Alzaharaa (middle eastern grocery)[/li][li]City Apteka[/li][li]El Gavilan Mexican Italian restaurant[/li][li]Old Brick Restaurant (Montenegran)[/li][li]Polonez Travel Agency[/li][li]Blue Lake Halal Meat[/li][/ul]
I’d say that’s pretty international. Points for NYC, even if the neighborhood is named after part of London.
Ahem. “Yankees fan kills Gaddafi”
In terms of value and international brand recognition, Man U seems to edge out the Yankees. The London teams are much further down the list.
Meh. Similar streets in London.
I’ve been to London, but never to New York (as I’m informed my 3 hour layover at JFK doesn’t count); however, I’ll be going there next month, so I’ll be able to provide the definitive answer then.
Until that point, please carry on …
Having spent plenty of time in both, to be honest they’re remarkably similar. Different accents, and one is tall while the other is old, but that aside there’s not much difference.
They smell different, though!
Washington, DC.
Second most embassies in the world except for Brussels (which has eight more most likely due to SHAPE). NYC isn’t even in the top 20.
Just a point about the UN Headquarters. The land, whilst geographically speaking in New York, is under the jurisdiction of the UN. I’m not sure if that helps or hinders New York’s case however.
In favour of London I’d second the GMT point. It’s the city from which the world’s timezones are based around, and that’s got to be a powerful plus point for London.
Also, you can catch trains that GO UNDER THE SEA to other countries from London.