Sentences with phrase «powerful committee tries»
Brooklyn official at helm of powerful committee tries to stick to the middle ground in dealing with developers, community
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Greenfield, who chairs the powerful Committee on Land Use, will become executive director at a major city nonprofit — the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty — which has been trying to recover since a 2014 scandal involving a former top executive married to ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's onetime chief of staff.
The Daily News reported last fall that Mr. Cuomo's office had reined in the commission when it was trying to investigate tax breaks for the powerful real estate industry, persuading it not to subpoena the Real Estate Board of New York, whose leaders gave generously to the governor's campaigns and supported the Committee to Save New York, a business coalition that spent millions on ads supporting the Cuomo agenda.