BY JILL D’AMICO

In a move that was an open secret at City Hall in recent weeks, Daniel Doctoroff, the New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, announced today he will leave his post at the end of the year.

Throughout the course of his six years on the job, Mr. Doctoroff supervised the city’s Economic Development Corporation and oversaw the creation of the office of Small Business Services and the implementation of 14 new Business Improvement Districts throughout the five boroughs to spur jobs and support small business.

"As the chief architect of our five-borough economic development plan, Dan Doctoroff has done more to change the face of this City than anyone since Robert Moses," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg.  "The initiatives Dan has spearheaded and the strong leadership he provided daily to the City's business and financial communities were essential to the strong and unexpectedly fast economic recovery we made after the destruction of 9/11. His efforts were instrumental in helping us create more than a hundred thousand jobs and a climate where businesses wanted to locate and people wanted to work. His impact will be felt for decades to come."

“Brooklyn loses a real champion in Dan Doctoroff,” said Carl Hum, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. “His work on behalf of our borough, to spur economic development and improve business services, has helped to make Brooklyn a great place to do live, work, and do business.”

In addition to crafting a new vision for Manhattan’s far west side and spearheading the failed bid for the 2012 Olympics, Mr. Doctoroff had a part in helping Brooklyn’s renaissance. Under his watch, the city rezoned the Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront and Downtown Brooklyn, “which now has 10,000 residential units under construction, reversing a 40-year decline,” according to a statement released today by the mayor. He also executed the long-delayed contract for street furniture to Chamber Members Cemusa, the results of which are now visible on streets across the city.

Mr. Doctoroff worked with the Brooklyn Chamber on a number of occasions. He was front and center at the announcement of the city’s plan to rezone Coney Island last month, he personally presented a city proclamation to former Brooklyn Chamber President Kenneth Adams at the 2006 Annual Dinner Dance Gala, and he was a special guest at the 2002 and 2006 Building Brooklyn Awards, the latter at which he presented an award to honoree Regina Myer, then-director of the Brooklyn office of the City Planning Department.

On Feb.1, 2008, will take over as president of Bloomberg L.P., the financial media company started by Mayor Bloomberg in 1981.

Born on July 11, 1958, in Newark, N.J., Mr. Doctoroff grew up in Birmingham, Mich. He graduated from Harvard University in 1980, and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1984. He and his wife Alisa have three children.

Pictured above: Daniel Doctoroff, New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding.