Kathryn Wylde is President & CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, the city’s business leadership organization. She joined the Partnership in 1982, serving as founding President & CEO of its major two affiliates, the New York City Investment Fund and the Housing Partnership. Under her leadership, the Partnership played a major role in the revitalization of the city and its neighborhoods. An internationally known expert in housing, economic development and urban policy, Wylde serves on a number of boards and advisory groups, including the New York State Commission to Modernize the Regulation of Financial Services, the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board, NYC Economic Development Corporation, The Legal Aid Society, NYC Leadership Academy, the Research Alliance for NYC Public Schools, the Manhattan Institute, the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York, and the Special Commission on the Future of NYS Courts.

Blog Entries by Kathryn Wylde

How to Make the President's Jobs Plan Work for New York

Posted December 8, 2009 | 04:50 PM (EST)


MEMORANDUM

TO: New York State Congressional Delegation
FROM: Kathryn S. Wylde
RE: How to make the President's jobs plan work for New York
DATE: December 8, 2009

President Obama today introduced a plan to create jobs and spur economic growth in the United States by...

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Why the Preemptive Break Up of Financial Institutions Would Be Bad for New York -- and America

3 Comments | Posted November 15, 2009 | 12:56 PM (EST)


(Kathryn Wylde sent this letter to the New York Congressional Delegation on November 11, 2009).

Dear Members of the New York State Congressional Delegation,

The Partnership for New York City is an organization of business leaders who are committed to the continued success of the city and state economy. We...

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Considering the Re-Authorization of the Nation's Surface Transportation Program

Posted October 21, 2009 | 11:49 AM (EST)


Published online in the New York Transportation Journal of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management at NYU.

Representatives of the New York metropolitan region have a special responsibility to advocate for increased federal funding for mass transit and for federal incentives aimed at reducing traffic congestion and improving...

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Losing Jobs to Jersey

1 Comments | Posted October 15, 2009 | 02:40 PM (EST)


The New York Post published this op-ed on October 15, 2009

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. yesterday announced its decision to move 1,600 jobs from Lower Manhattan to New Jersey. The news is disappointing but not surprising: DTCC is moving because New Jersey has a stronger economic-development program than...

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on New York City Business

2 Comments | Posted September 14, 2009 | 11:53 AM (EST)


The Impact of the Economic Crisis on NYC Business

Speech to the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce

August 6, 2009

Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO
Partnership for New York City

Today's economic and fiscal crises are best understood in historical context. Those who are old enough to remember the...

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Craft Statewide Force to Spur Jobs, New Kinds of Businesses

Posted August 11, 2009 | 12:59 PM (EST)


From a business perspective, nothing could be worse during this period of economic uncertainty than the chaos and instability that have characterized New York state government during the past two years.

As things stand, there is every chance that the State Senate will be paralyzed by partisan rivalries right up...

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A Call for Curtains Up on "NextGen" Air Traffic Control Technology

1 Comments | Posted July 1, 2009 | 11:13 AM (EST)


A Call for Curtains Up on "NextGen" Air Traffic Control Technology

The last time the United States modernized its air traffic control system, Dwight Eisenhower was President, Cassius Clay had not yet won a professional boxing match, and Barack Obama was still in diapers. And so word that Randy Babbitt,...

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NYC Can't Afford Not to "Go Green"

3 Comments | Posted April 30, 2009 | 05:34 PM (EST)


This week, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Council Speaker Chris Quinn announced plans to introduce legislation that will require owners of 22,000 office and apartment buildings around the five boroughs to invest in building improvements that will reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions. The announcement, which came on Earth Day,...

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Lou Dobbs Might Have Been Frustrated

Posted August 5, 2008 | 12:01 PM (EST)


Last week, in a room atop a tall Wall Street building overlooking the Statue of Liberty, leaders from various sides of the heated immigration debate came together to have a discussion that was unique in at least one way -- it was constructive.

If Lou Dobbs were there, he...

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Spooking Ourselves Out of Prosperity

Posted July 7, 2008 | 04:30 PM (EST)


Watch out for the Belgians.

If we let them get away with their sinister attempt to purchase Anheuser Busch and its iconic American brand -- Budweiser -- we may all soon be speaking Flemish and downing mussels by the barrel.

While nationalistic opposition to InBev's recent $46...

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