Adams appoints Industry City CEO to head economic development agency after leading candidate withdraws

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Andrew Kimball, CEO of Brooklyn's Industry City, will become the head of NYC’s Economic Development Corporation. His appointment comes after the leading candidate withdrew from consideration amid a report that he engaged in illegal lobbying practices.

Kimball previously headed the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a municipal-owned manufacturing hub that most recently

Asked by a reporter whether the EDC and city — which recently provided a $23 million infusion of funding as a way of keeping fares down — should continue to subsidize the system, Kimball called the ferry one of the city’s “great success stories” of the last decade. The EDC is also the owner of the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, where a plan to retrofit an ice skating rink fizzled last year after the developer failed to secure the necessary funding. Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson recently told Gothamist any new plan for the armory must be “community driven.”

Her appointment comes as the mayor is facing backlash from LGBTQ advocates over his appointment of pastors with a history of anti-gay views. On Monday, he said he, a former Bronx City Councilmember who had expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, over the loud objections of a group of lawmakers.

 

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