Commuter Mayor

(Fox News) - New York Mayor and prospective independent presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is taking some heat for revelations that his claims of riding the subway to work "virtually every day" are not quite true.

The New York Times reports that Bloomberg actually rides the train about twice a week — and on those days is driven in an SUV about 22 blocks — past two closer subway stations — to one where he can catch an express train to City Hall.

A spokesman tells the Times the mayor's use of the subway has changed because media members were staking out his home and trying to do interviews as he walked to the station every morning.