Opinion

He’d rather be in Philadelphia

The New York Times this week urged Mayor Bloomberg to “learn from Philadelphia” and pare back the NYPD’s successful stop-and-frisk policing tactic — but not even Philly’s mayor thinks it’s a good idea.

“I think they actually got some things wrong in their editorial,” said Mayor Michael Nutter, who knows a thing or two about crime in his hometown.

In fact, Nutter — who is black — says he’s been stopped by police numerous times in his life. But he still made the implementation of stop-and-frisk a focal point of his 2007 campaign.

And just like in New York, stop-and-frisk helped get guns off the street and deter crime. If anything, Philadelphia has been suffering since it was squeezed by courts and the ACLU to cut back on the practice.

Not that the Gray Lady cares.

“I’m here on the ground in Philadelphia,” Nutter told NY1 Thursday. “With every respect to The New York Times, they don’t live in Philadelphia.”

Funny, but no one in New York seems to know which universe The Times inhabits, either: As a bewildered Mayor Mike put it, “I just have to wonder what kind of world they’re living in.”

Hey, your guess is as good as any . . .