At each stop, Mr. Pataki stressed the local economic development grants his administration has given.
Randy L. Levine, who was deputy mayor for economic development, planning and administration, is now president of the New York Yankees as well as senior counsel at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is expected to announce Tuesday that he has selected a former Wall Street banker as the next deputy mayor for economic development, according to administration and business officials.
Basing its policy on W.W. Rostow's "non-Communist manifesto" describing stages of economic development, the Kennedy administration increased foreign aid for Third World nations whether or not they were politically aligned with the United States.
The aide, David Klasfeld, was previously the executive vice president of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau and worked on policy and economic development in the administrations of Mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani, David N. Dinkins and Edward I. Koch.
Robert Steel, the deputy mayor for economic development, insists that the administration is making headway.
He stepped down last December as president of NYC2012 to become deputy mayor for economic development in the Bloomberg administration.
Robert M. Harding, the deputy mayor for economic development, said the Giuliani administration was well aware of the problem.
"Economic development under the previous administration was an oxymoron -- it was nonexistent," said Desmond M. Ryan, the director of the Association for a Better Long Island, a developers' group.
Charles Millard, a former Giuliani administration economic development chief, remembers having to convince people in the mid-1990's that Silicon Alley was not a typographical error.
Ms. Coffey, who visited him for a couple of hours yesterday, is now a partner in the firm of Peter J. Solomon, the investment banker who was a deputy mayor for economic development in the Koch administration.
