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Sep 6, 2023 · Dan Doctoroff’s efforts to rebuild the city after 9/11 brought him power. A terrible diagnosis brought him peace.
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Jul 11, 2024 · The former Bloomberg CEO and deputy mayor of New York on the economic firepower of urban placemaking, how he convinced 38 opposing land owners to say yes to The High Line, and living with ALS.
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The Bloomberg administration concluded they had to halt New York’s traditional boom-and-bust cycle or “condemn the city to an endless circle of soaring and collapsing,” recalls Doctoroff. Fundamental to this view was the recognition that the city’s decline from having over a million manufacturing jobs in 1947 to about 172,000in 2000 had resulted in...
Ground Zero construction site, as seen from 7 WTC, 2010 Ground Zero had to be rebuilt as quickly and efficiently as possible, but a pre-Bloomberg administration agreement between Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki had vested authority for distributing the $20 billion in federal aid in a new corporation, the Lower Manhattan Development C...
Yet despite the bickering Larry Silverstein, in an impressive display of drive and professional competence, rebuilt 7 WTC (not one of the Twin Towers), opening it in May 2006, far in advance of any other construction, as seen in the photo above of the cleared site, shot from an upper floor of 7 WTC, which was occupied and operational—and standing a...
Hudson Yards subway station, MTA No. 7 line, 34th Street It was really classic urban planning, implementing a major rezoning to allow mixed-used development aiming for 28 million square feet of office space, 12.6 million square feet (12,600 units) of residential, 1.5 million square feet of hotels, and 700,000 square feet retail. “We were asking,” w...
Dan Doctoroff may well have been the first deputy mayor in city history to regularly bike to work, riding to City Hall at dawn from his Upper West Side brownstone, using the Hudson River Park bike path that was most recently in the news for the terror attackthat killed 8 people and injured over a dozen. His commute was, he writes, “shadowed by a tr...
Mar 22, 2024 · Published on March 22, 2024. Share. An unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City. On January 1, 2002, Michael R. Bloomberg took office as the...
Aug 2, 2023 · Dan Doctoroff, Sidewalk Labs CEO, Reckons With His Legacy. city people Aug. 2, 2023. What the Builder Built. Under Mayor Bloomberg, Dan Doctoroff remade the city at top speed. Now, as New York...
Sep 8, 2016 · As far back as 1996, Doctoroff — then a private equity investor — had pitched an idea for how to recharge New York: host the Olympics. And in 2002, he brought the Olympic bid to City Hall.
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Oct 1, 2017 · While mapping out how the city would host the 2008 Olympics — and where to build the myriad stadiums and other facilities — Doctoroff realized that New York was in dire need of a massive...
