Mayor Rudy says farewell to Big Apple

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said goodbye today to the city where he battled crime, his critics and the September 11 crisis across eight years in City Hall.

‘‘Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honourable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States,’’ Giuliani said, standing on the altar of St Paul’s Chapel, one block east of the site of the World Trade Centre.