Brian Lear on WNYC with us now New York City's former deputy mayor for

Economic Development Dan Doctoroff Mayor Michael Bloomberg who we worked for

compared him to Robert Moses for the number of big things he got built in the city.

And if you don't believe me, here's a clip of Bloomberg that we used on this show in 2007.

He leaves an extraordinary record of accomplishment and unlike

Robert Moses he did it by working with communities not bulldozing them. Mayor

Mike Bloomberg in 2007.

The New York Times continued the comparison with Robert Moses last fall by saying both,

master builders, both at once respected and resented for their relentlessness and their impatience.

And they didn't make that one up either.

Here's Dr. Off himself, another clip we used here as Dr. Off was leaving office in 2007.

But I'll take a little bit of criticism for maybe not being as good a listener as I could

have been at the very beginning, but I think we've really learned.

Dan Dachtoff is credited with being the force behind the rebuilding of the World Trade Center,

leading the creation of cultural institutions, including the Shedd in Manhattan, the Kings

Theater in Brooklyn, the New Whitney Museum, Steiner and Silver Cup studios, also City

Field in the New Yankee Stadium, the Barclay Center, and

more, and nearly 20 parks from Brooklyn Bridge Park to McComb's Dam Park in the Bronx, to the High Line in Manhattan, and more.

He claims credit for rezoning 40% of the city with Mayor Bloomberg.

We know Mayor Adams is doing another citywide rezoning for more affordable housing and will get his take on that

And he is seen as the force behind Mayor Bloomberg's climate change

Sustainability Initiative known as Plan YC 2030.

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