Climate Change

PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall

A tipster tells us of a particularly vigorous screaming match in City Hall last week between Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and a career civil servant who must remain nameless.

By Aaron Naparstek

1:20 PM EDT on March 13, 2007

A tipster tells us of a particularly vigorous screaming match in City Hall last week between Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and a career civil servant who must remain nameless.

“You wouldn’t know it from outside appearances,” the tipster says, “but the 2030 Project is really tearing things up inside City Hall right now. It’s a big deal and it’s making a lot of people inside the bureaucracy very uncomfortable.”

Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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