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Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff's plan to spend $5.5 billion on infrastructure projects is the most expensive city construction undertaking in recent memory. However, development experts did not approved his proposal to finance these projects through tax increment financing, a property-tax rebate scheme. The new plan to fund the project is expected to draw opposition from West Side residents, who fear for its economic impact.
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This past November, a task force of experts convened by Deputy Mayor Carol Robles-Roman and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff took a hard look at one of the riskiest areas of construction work: the suspended scaffolding industry. Suspended scaffolds are not the street-level sheds and supportscaffolds we see walking along the streets every day. They are the extended support structures that hang on the outside of buildings. If you look up, you can see the workers on these scaffolds washing windows or performing maintenance. This work can be very dangerous - because once you're up there, there really is no room for error. That's why every worker who goes up in a suspended scaffold should be trained, supervised, and wearing a safety harness. Tragically, six workers died last year in suspended scaf...
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Caption: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff was the keynote speaker at The Real Estate Board of New York's Annual Commercial Members'...
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Earlier this month, Gov. Spitzer announced a new "West Side Story" for Manhattan.
He made the declaration at the site of the Long Island Rail Road's yards on the West Side, between 10th and 12th avenues and 30th and 33rd streets. Spitzer announced a large-scale development opportunity for a site Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff dubbed a potential "Rockefeller Center for the 21st Century," and all the TV stations and print media covered the event because the proposed development promises to be a major economic boom for Manhattan.
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NEW YORK - Dan Doctoroff, who made millions as an investment banker, is facing the biggest sales job of his life: persuading the International Olympic Committee to award the 2012 Summer Games to New York.
Monday, he and other members of the NYC2012 bid group met for the first time with an IOC site-evaluation group at The Plaza Hotel. The IOC group will be here for four days.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - New York bid leader Dan Doctoroff showed no signs of nerves as he awaited today's selection of the finalists vying to host the 2012 Olympics.
With nine cities in the running, the International Olympic Committee executive board is expected to keep as many as six candidates and as few as four.
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NEW YORK - Wait-and-see on a stadium means wait-and-lose for the city's Olympic bid, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff declared Monday.
Doctoroff was responding to comments late last week by state Senate leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican from Rensselaer, and Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of Manhattan. Each suggested that there was no need for the state to approve a West Side stadium before the International Olympic Committee votes in July on a site for the 2012 Summer Games.
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SINGAPORE - New York's bid leader is clear on what his city must do to land the 2012 Olympics - convince IOC members that New York represents not just an American bid but an international one.
Imagine you're an athlete and you wake up in an Olympic Village on the East River right across from the United Nations," New York Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff said Friday.
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... for transparency," said Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg President and CEO. "The Bloomberg Enter...
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....com to join Bloomberg LP Chief Dan Doctoroff, architects Thorn Mayne and Robert A.M. Stern, The...