Ed Skyler, a deputy mayor whom Mike Bloomberg tasked with a massive operational portfolio that involved post-Sept. 11 recovery work, just changed his registration from Republican to independent.

Ed Skyler, who oversaw a sprawling operational ... of the extreme drift of the Republican Party,” former Bloomberg Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said in an interview. “It speaks a lot of him ...

An alternative to Cuomo for business-minded voters may come from Ed Skyler, a Citigroup Inc. executive who had served as deputy mayor in the administration of Michael R. Bloomberg, the majority ...