"You can't have these political battles at the end of the process," said Kathryn S. Wylde, former president of the New York City Housing Partnership.

"They represent the new context," said Kathryn Wylde, president of the New York City Housing Partnership, which sponsored the project, with city and state assistance.

"Businesses are making their decisions right now as to what they're doing going forward," said Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the New York City Partnership.

"The fare increase is the tip," said Mr. Kiley, president of the New York City Partnership, an alliance of corporate executives.

"There has been very little success at building independent businesses," said Kathryn Wylde, president of the New York City Housing Partnership.

Kathryn Wylde, president of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, estimated that the business community donated at least $100 million a year.

"This was the classic way buildings were saved from abandonment in those years," said Kathryn Wylde, president of the New York City Housing Partnership.

Kathy Wylde, president of the New York Housing Partnership, said it is nearly impossible to develop owner-occupied housing in Harlem without public assistance.

"I can't think of anyone who would be better able to take this job," said Kathryn Wylde, president of the nonprofit New York City Housing Partnership.

Ronald K. Shelp, president of the New York City Partnership, a business group, said it was a "very dramatic change in directions."