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Another Deputy Mayor Departs
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Jen Chung
Published May 19, 2010
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Robert Lieber, the deputy mayor for economic development, announced he's stepping down, "I told the mayor this is toughest decision I ever had to make. I love the job. I’m most proud of having taken a lot of these projects that had been put in the oven but not baked and gotten them done, whether it’s Coney Island, Willets Point or the World Trade Center.” The NY Times reports that Lieber, who previously worked for Lehman Brothers, will be going to a "merchant real estate bank that recently acquired a company that, he said, would be at the center of sorting out troubled real estate loans." Lieber also worked on the city's takeover of Governors Island and failed attempt to turn Kingsbridge Armory into a shopping mall.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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