Hidden away from public view for nine months now, former Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff last night emerged from his private sector bunker (he’s now the president of Bloomberg LP) to deliver his first retrospective on his time in the Bloomberg administration since he resigned in January. Speaking at Columbia University to a lecture hall filled with graduate students from ...

Larry Silverstein, the 75-year-old property developer who bought a lease on the twin towers of the World Trade Center six weeks before they collapsed, has been a lonely defender these past five years of his right to build the office space of his choosing on what to others is sacred ground. But he has played a difficult hand well -- not ...

At a West Village party thrown by former Deputy Mayor and current Bloomberg L.P. president Dan Doctoroff's Chief of Staff Angela Sun, a Barack Obama tree made of tinsel and Mr. Obama lollipops is the grand prize. "I made the tree but I didn't make the lollipops--I had them made," said Ms. Sun. Her boyfriend, Tom Brown ...

On Monday morning, Leslie Koch, the slim, sandy-haired official tasked with developing Governors Island, took a ferry, then a train, and arrived at a midtown board meeting of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, the agency of which she is president. On the agenda was the approval of a lease with the second tenant on the sprawling, 172-acre island ...