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Dan Doctoroff, Sidewalk Labs CEO, Reckons With His Legacy

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Under Mayor Bloomberg, the power broker remade the city with astonishing speed. Now, as New York is again mired in crisis, he faces his own.

Photo: Platon This article was featured in One Great Story , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On the day I meet Dan Doctoroff , I walk across Manhattan from the Shed, which he created, to the East River Esplanade, which he planned; catch a ferry, which he launched; get off at the Long Island City waterfront, which he reclaimed from industrial neglect; and enter a café overlooking Hunters Point South Park , where he once envisioned an Olympic Village . Eventually, I leave him by Citi Bike , which he dreamed up. Those verbs are a shorthand, of course.

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