The NY Times reports that Mr. Avi Schick, president of the state’s economic development agency, which is in the midst of a political overhaul, will step down in September.

Mr. Schick’s departure from the agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, follows that of Patrick J. Foye, its co-chairman, who resigned under pressure in March. Since then, Gov. David A. Paterson has been looking for a new chairman and a new structure for an agency that had been hobbled by internal disputes among its top executives.

Mr. Schick, who has also served as acting chief executive since March, plans to rejoin the private sector in September, but will not leave government altogether. The governor said that he had asked Mr. Schick, a friend, to continue to serve on the boards of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

Mr. Schick, 41, said that his decision was related to his family.

(Source: NY Times / Photo Credit: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)