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January 6, 2009
Avi Schick Leaves ESDC
Once Spitzer's man at ground zero, Schick also played roles in Atlantic Yards, Columbia expansion
The NY Observer
By Eliot Brown
Avi Schick, the prosecutor-turned-development official who has served as downstate president of the Empire State Development Corporation for the past two years, will leave his job this week. Mr. Schick emailed a letter on Monday evening to colleagues announcing his departure.
Mr. Schick's departure comes more than seven months after the Paterson administration announced he would resign his position; in May, the state announced he would leave in September.
At the ESDC, Mr. Schick, once a top prosecutor in the state attorney general's office under Eliot Spitzer, oversaw state involvement in projects such as Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, the development of Governors Island, and Columbia University's West Harlem expansion.
Posted by lumi at January 6, 2009 4:21 AM