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March 18, 2008
New York Official Resigns Post Amid Shift in Leadership
The NY Times
By Charles V. Bagli
The changing of the guard at the state’s troubled economic development agency was already under way when Gov. David A. Paterson took the oath of office on Monday.
On Sunday, the state’s top economic development official, Patrick J. Foye, sent a letter to Mr. Paterson resigning as co-chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, which had been riven by disputes between its top three executives and was regarded as dysfunctional by many real estate developers and business executives.
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Mr. Foye’s office was telling reporters last week that he had no plans to leave his job. But, according to two people who knew him, Mr. Foye, a friend of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his wife, learned over the weekend that there was little support for him among Mr. Paterson’s camp.
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The Paterson administration announced on Monday that Avi Schick, president of the development corporation, would serve as acting chief executive for economic development efforts in New York City and the surrounding counties. It is unclear whether it will be an interim appointment.Mr. Schick, who has developed a powerful political ally in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, has been involved in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, Columbia University’s plans to expand its campus into Harlem and the Atlantic Yards housing and sports arena project in Brooklyn.
Posted by lumi at March 18, 2008 4:15 AM