Watch Him — He’s Got That Robert Moses Swagger Going

Daniel Doctoroff, burnishing his reputation as this generation’s Robert Moses, taunts both the MTA and the Port Authority in one fell diss:

With the groundbreaking of the Second Avenue subway weeks off, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff is sounding alarm bells about how the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will pay for the project.

“It will be the third groundbreaking for the same project. It sounds like the Freedom Tower,” Mr. Doctoroff told a gathering of about 400 transportation professionals at the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council’s annual meeting yesterday, referring to the ground zero memorial that has celebrated multiple groundbreakings but has seen little work thereafter. “We’ve seen how these things play out before.”

You wanna see progress? I’ll show you progress!