Four Important Civics Lessons Learned from Rebuilding NYC After 9/11 25 years ago, we won by listening locally and public pressure, but lost big when government ignored the precautionary principle and the little guy
In October 2001, Alan Gerson, an old friend from Stuyvesant High School, called to tell me he had won the City Council runoff election to represent Lower Manhattan and would chair a new Select Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment. He needed a policy director with business and communications experience but had an allocation of just
