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January 5, 2007
A Downstate Deal Maker as Driven as His Boss
The NY Times
By Robin Finn
For those of you who are trying to read the tea leaves of the new administration in Albany, hoping that reform, wisdom and honesty might bring some relief to Brooklynites concerned with Atlantic Yards, chew on this quote from a profile of Governor Eliot Spitzer's new Downstate Economic Development czar Patrick J. Foye:
“We’re going to do projects that generate the highest fiscal and social return to the state and its taxpayers; we’re committed to moving forward on the redevelopment of Penn Station and West 34th Street, Atlantic Yards and the revitalization of ground zero, and to other deals throughout the state,” he says, marching into the dining room after exchanging a monosyllabic greeting with his wife, Suzanne.
Posted by lumi at January 5, 2007 9:21 AM