Another off-the-cuff remark has gotten Mayor Bloomberg into a jam, this time with the mayor of Buffalo, who was furious beyond words at Bloomberg’s characterization of his city as a place developers probably don’t want to go.

“There’s an awful lot of free space up in Buffalo, New York, if you want to go there. I don’t think you do,” Bloomberg went on. “Buffalo would love to have our problems and one of the challenges of this country is how we help a city like Buffalo.”