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December 14, 2007
Doctoroff’s Legacy: Pretty Impressive
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
By Dennis Holt
Finally, we've stumbled over an opinion piece extolling the virtues of outgoing Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff:
There are at least four major developments that bear Doctoroff’s fingerprints, including one that was on its way when he joined City Hall — Brooklyn Bridge Park. For some time now, his every major speech refers to the park early in his remarks. It is clearly the centerpiece of the overall plan for waterfront development. Doctoroff gave strong support for the rezoning of Greenpoint-Williamsburg and he also mentions that all the time.
He goaded everyone about the rezoning of downtown Brooklyn, and the press, led by our newspapers, have been recording this rather amazing flowering with consistency. No one can ever say this building or that one is Dan’s building, but it would not be using hyperbole to sweep one’s arm over all the new downtown Brooklyn and credit him for all of it.
And he is a strong supporter of Atlantic Yards, recognizing that underused space of this size, sitting where it is, cannot be left idle at this time in the city’s history. Although it didn’t start out this way, Atlantic Yards remains the largest single development for affordable housing in the city and will probably hold on to that claim for some time.
All these projects, including the much larger and more entangled ones in Manhattan, will get finished and they will look pretty much like what the published designs show them to be.
Posted by lumi at December 14, 2007 5:03 AM