We are just beginning to see the results of the long and successful effort to reclaim the Hudson River waterfront for public use in the river-front gardens and promenades of Lower Manhattan and the tree- and rose-lined bicycle and running paths that have transformed the water's edge on West Street.
He points with particular pride to a development in Brooklyn's Williamsburg, where he successfully re-zoned decaying lots and warehouses on the waterfront for mixed income residential use, a park and a ferry to Manhattan.