Sniping at Mayor Bloomberg for being a Boston Brahmin who neglects New York’s outer boroughs, one of the Democratic mayoral candidates, Anthony Weiner, outlined his own vision for the city’s economy yesterday.

Representative Weiner, who represents a Brooklyn-Queens district, spoke two days after Mr. Bloomberg’s State of the City address. In a speech at New School University, Mr. Weiner was highly critical of Mr. Bloomberg’s view of the New York economy, saying the mayor has concentrated too much of the city’s resources on the economic development of Manhattan.

Of an audience that included constituents, members of labor unions, and community activists, Mr. Weiner asked: “Is our future with big developers or small business, and is our economic plan focused on a few special interests or working families?”

Taking a swipe at the mayor’s out-of-town upbringing, Mr. Weiner presented himself as a son of Brooklyn, familiar with the outer boroughs and their economic needs. “I have a different vision of this city than a mayor who grew up in Massachusetts and lives on the Upper East Side,” Mr. Weiner said.

Mr. Weiner said New York’s small businesses have too often been forgotten in the corridors of City Hall, citing that shortcoming as one of the reasons for his candidacy.

The primary target of Mr. Weiner’s criticism was the West Side stadium project, which the congressman said was a symbol of Mr. Bloomberg’s approach to public investment. The congressman condemned what he called a lack of transparency accompanying the project, and he displayed a diagram showing the elaborate structure of the stadium ownership arrangement. Drawing chuckles from the audience, Mr. Weiner labeled the colorful web of arrows connecting several city and state authorities and the New York Jets a “Rube Goldberg design,” telling those assembled: “If you understand it, you weren’t supposed to.”

Mr. Weiner said the system was intended to avoid real debate and input, and he called the obscurity “downright offensive.” Unaccountable public authorities responsible for city development must be reformed or done away with altogether, he said.

The congressman proposed that the new Jets stadium be built in on the waterfront in Willets Point, Queens, instead. The Willets Point plan, Mr. Weiner said, would be about $1 billion less expensive than the current plan, and would also allow for easier transportation to and from the stadium.

Mr. Weiner said that if the mayor truly believed the best use of the West Side property to be a new stadium for the Jets, then Mr. Bloomberg should allow for competitive bids. “Four directional unobstructed views on the West Side of Manhattan – and we are paying someone to develop it?” Mr. Weiner asked.

Proponents of the plan were quick to defend the project. A spokeswoman for the New York Jets, Marissa Shorenstein, told The New York Sun: “Congressman Weiner would rather play politics than face the facts.” The sports and convention center, she added, “will generate millions in new tax revenue for New York and create thousands of jobs for New Yorkers across all five boroughs.”

The president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, Edward Malloy, said of Mr. Weiner’s views on the West Side stadium: “Opposing parks, jobs, and housing is a strange way to campaign for mayor.”

Another front of Mr. Weiner’s attack on the Bloomberg record was alleged unfair distribution of city funds among the five boroughs.

“In the past five years, the Economic Development Corporation reported that it dedicated twice as much funding to Manhattan in incentives as the other four boroughs combined,” Mr. Weiner said. The congressman called for 25% of Economic Development Corporation funds to be split in five equal portions among the five boroughs.

An official of the corporation, whose leader is appointed by the mayor, told the Sun that in its existing capital budget, which outlines expenditures for the next four years, a total of $442 million is allotted to the four outer boroughs. $361 million is dedicated to Manhattan, and $135 million is still unassigned.

When it comes to investing in the outer boroughs, the official, who requested that he not be identified by name, said: “We are already well above the congressman’s request.” As for the argument that the office favors Manhattan, the official said: “That’s not true.”

Transportation was another subject addressed by Mr. Weiner, who called for construction of a comprehensive ferry system. He promised that, as a member of the House Transportation Committee, he would secure $15 million for the project. Mr. Weiner also expressed hearty support for the planned Second Avenue subway.

The congressman spoke about small businesses, which he called the giant of New York’s economic machine. And essential to preserving small businesses in New York, Mr. Weiner said, was stopping the store that Wal-Mart has discussed opening in Rego Park, Queens, which would be its first in the city.

“Never mind the high-minded macroeconomic theory of globalization and competition. The fight against Wal-Mart is a fight for the soul of New York’s economy – the small outer-borough business,” Mr. Weiner said.

The congressman called the Arkansas-based retailer – the largest non-government employer in the country – a “China distribution center,” and he said New Yorkers would be willing to pay “one or two dollars more for a pair of jeans to undermine slave labor in China.”

To boost local entrepreneurs, Mr. Weiner called for a $10 million fund providing “seed loans” for businesses with a demonstrated commitment to New York City. He also called for more Business Improvement Districts in the outer boroughs, proposing that the city help small shopping strips that want to create improvement districts but lack the resources and staff to do so.

Mr. Weiner did not address wages, taxes, or the need to control public spending. Nor was he able to provide a specific price tag for his proposals.

After the speech, Mr. Weiner addressed audience questions, again contrasting his Brooklyn roots with the Manhattan political elite – and not just Mr. Bloomberg, but also the best-financed Democratic candidate, Gifford Miller, the City Council speaker.

“When I talk about out-of-touch Upper East Side rich guys, maybe he thinks I’m talking about him,” Mr. Weiner said, referring to the council speaker.

A spokesman for Mr. Miller, Stephen Sigmund, said: “The speaker’s strong record demonstrates that he has always fought for all New Yorkers’ priorities and he always will.” Mr. Sigmund also defended the speaker’s role in opposing the West Side stadium project.

Mr. Miller was not alone among Mr. Weiner’s rivals in responding to the congressman’s speech.

Council Member Charles Barron,Democrat of Brooklyn, dismissed Mr. Weiner’s speech as “a knee-jerk, simplistic response to Bloomberg” and the State of the City address.

Mr. Barron also criticized Mr. Weiner as having neglected the outer boroughs.

“Some folks were missing in action over the last four, five years. … Now they want to run for mayor, and have these bright ideas, but why didn’t they have them before?” he said.

Mr. Barron, who is African-American, agreed with Mr. Weiner about opposing Wal-Mart, particularly in light of what he considered the retailer’s low wages. “Especially with black and Latino people – since they can’t enslave us anymore, they’re giving us slave wages,” Mr. Barron said.