From todays NYTimes. I agree 100% and am so pleased to see the new adminstration taking its lead from Carl Weisbrod. Mr. Weisbrod said that he had learned two major lessons from the process [of redeveloping Times Square]: the importance of finding talented people to work in city government, and that you actually had to be in a neighborhood if you wanted to transform it. When he joined the Koch administration, the city’s efforts to clean up Times Square were based in City Hall. “I moved that office to Times Square,” he said. “I don’t think we could have gotten done what we got done unless we were viewed as part of the community itself, that it was not just coming from City Hall, but it was coming from the community.”
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:01:24 +0000