Topic: Avi Schick

Governors Island Impeached?

On Monday, Ken Fisher made his way to his first directors meeting for Governors Island. An attorney, former councilman and chairman of the advocacy group Governors Island Alliance, Mr. Fisher had never been to the board meetings of the islands operating agency ...

Avi Schick Leaves ESDC

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 (a ...
Mayor Bloomberg called today for the dismantling of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the state's main agency involved in downtown redevelopment, advocating in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Governor Paterson " The LMDC would also turn over its responsibility for demolishing ...

It's On! State Starts Eminent Domain For Columbia

The state's main development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, kicked off the public process for eminent domain for Columbia University's 17-acre West Harlem expansion today, starting a final chapter in the approvals for the contentious $7 billion initiative.In ...

Ground zero tower work to resume

Work on Tower Near World Trade Center Site to Resume Next MonthThe owner of a condemned ground zero skyscraper says work will resume next month to take down the building that was ravaged by a fatal fire nearly two months ago.Avi ...
Memo: Months Before Fatal Fire, State Help Sought for World Trade Center TowerThe head of a construction agency overseeing the dismantling of a ground zero skyscraper wrote a memo three months before a fatal fire there warning its state owners that more ...

New safety rules for WTC building

City, Skyscraper Owner Agree on New Safety Protocols for Abandoned Building at Ground ZeroThe owner of an abandoned ground zero skyscraper where two firefighters died said Friday it will fix hazardous stairwells, clear out combustible debris and make several other safety changes ...
World Trade Center Rebuilding Agency Back in Business, Will Monitor Ground Zero FinancesThe agency that decided how to rebuild the World Trade Center site is not going out of business but will focus less on planning and more on making sure the ...