PlaNYC 2030 Project “Tearing Things Up” at City Hall

doctoroff.jpgA 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."

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