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The New York Times
By Nicholas Fandos
Ms. Wylde, the longtime leader of the Partnership for New York City, has been a behind-the-scenes power broker for decades, working on behalf of the business and political elite.
To understand why Kathryn S. Wylde has earned a reputation as perhaps New York City’s most in-demand civic fixer, just look at the last few months.
She quietly counseled City Hall through the first federal indictment of a sitting mayor. She oversaw a campaign, with just days’ notice, to push through a pair of polarizing legal changes affecting prosecutors and mentally ill people.
And though she refuses to talk about it — “then it wouldn’t be very private, would it?” — Ms. Wylde has been pulling the strings on a quiet effort by top business leaders to persuade President Trump to leave New York’s nascent congestion pricing program intact.
On Thursday, Ms. Wylde will make news of her own, announcing that she plans to step down next year from her role as the chief executive of the Partnership for New York City, a consortium of 350 corporate giants, law firms and banks that she transformed into a pillar of New York’s permanent government.