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Greater Than Ever: New York’s Big Comeback

Daniel Doctoroff

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Summary

Daniel Doctoroff recounts New York’s economic and physical redevelopment after September 11. As a participant in the Bloomberg administration, he describes plans, political resistance and projects that took different paths.

The book is a deputy mayor’s account of city-building. Its ambitions and judgments can be compared with the costs, compromises and affected communities described in the story.

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Why read it Our view

Trace how a broad plan becomes a set of projects and agreements. Ask whose interests are visible in the participant’s account and which need another source.

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  • Michael BloombergParticipant account; publicly praised
    Doctoroff’s account covers his work in the Bloomberg administration. Bloomberg publicly praised the book’s ideas in his September 28, 2017 post; no full-reading claim is made.
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