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FAITH & HEALING Black clergy members spread the good word about a mistrusted, life-saving COVID-19 vaccine.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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THE ARGUMENT OVER whether vaccines are safe has never been more important. New Yorkers, like all Americans, need to be assured that COVID-19 vaccines now being administered are not harmful and can help finally put an end to the deadly pandemic which has claimed more than 32,000 lives across the state. Amanda Luz Henning Santiago in this week’s cover story interviews some of the most widely known members of the Black clergy on their role educating the Black community about the virus. The Revs. Al Sharpton, Calvin Butts and Jacques DeGraff have put their considerable influence behind an effort to educate Black New Yorkers and others across the country about the coronavirus, new vaccines and health disparities. As Henning Santiago notes, research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Black and Latino communities showed that only 14% of more than 1,000 Black respondents who were polled said they believed the vaccines were safe. By comparison, 34% of 258 Latino respondents in the same poll said they felt safe taking the vaccines. The Black clergy certainly has a proven track record of doing effective outreach to the Black community, Henning Santiago writes, recalling the clergy’s work during the civil rights movement and in addressing the crack cocaine addiction and the HIV/AIDS crisis. That’s why the clergy members are now taking on COVID-19. Hopefully, their efforts will convince those who have their doubts that they can trust the vaccines. For many, it will be a matter of faith.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 5 The week that was

THE ROLLOUT … 10 Is NY being too strict about who gets the vaccine?

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POLITICAL CONSULTANTS … 12 Black women are leading the way on campaigns.

FAITH LEADERS … 14 Black clergy are confronting vaccine mistrust.

HEALTH CARE POWER 100 … 20 Vaccinations have been help up in part by New York’s strict guidelines about who gets the shots when.

The most powerful people keeping New Yorkers well

WINNERS & LOSERS … 62

Who was up and who was down last week

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is pushing for an emergency session that he said could be called if both he and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agree to it.

DE BLASIO UNVEILS BLEAK BUDGET PROPOSAL

President Donald Trump was impeached a second time, including by New York Republican Rep. John Katko.

IMPEACHMENT ROUND 2 VASILIS ASVESTAS, LEV RADIN/SHUTTERSTOCK;

President Donald Trump was impeached by the House for a second time just days before he leaves office, making him the first president to be impeached twice. The vote came a week after violent Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol falsely alleging that the election had been stolen from Trump. Members of Congress approved a single article of impeachment, accusing the president of inciting 13, Wednesday, January

an insurrection. Every Democrat voted in favor of impeachment, and they were joined by 10 Republicans, including Rep. John Katko, who was the only Republican member of New York’s House delegation to vote in favor of impeachment. The Senate is currently in recess and not set to return until Jan. 19, right before President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in, which means the Senate trial likely won’t take place until after Trump is already out of office. However,

With the city facing a historic funding crisis, outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released a plan for a pared-down $92 billion proposed budget. Property tax values are expected to fall by $2.5 billion, the Mayor’s Office said, though those losses were partially offset by an increase in income tax revenue. De Blasio urged the state not to make more painful cuts. Specifics aren’t clear yet, but much of the savings will come from reducing the municipal workforce by an additional 5,000 through attrition – at a time when unemployment in the city still tops 10%. The one light at the end of the tunnel: Schumer assured de

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PINCH HITTERS As the Buffalo Bills stadium opened up to fans for the first time during the pandemic last week, the Mets’ Citi Field was converted for another – arguably more productive – pandemic use: mass vaccinations. The Queens home of the Mets will become one of a few 24/7 “mega” vaccination venues. But don’t worry, Yankees fans: While the mayor said all are welcome at Citi Field, it looks like Yankee Stadium will become a vaccine mega site too.

Blasio that under a Biden administration, pandemic costs would be fully covered by the feds.

“You know, Donald Trump may be in the Twitter penalty box, but he still has access to the nuclear codes. That’s a frightening prospect.” –Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, in support of removing Trump from office immediately, via Politico

“We live in a twobedroom apartment in Manhattan. And so, like, can you imagine trying to have two kids on virtual school in a two-bedroom apartment, and then trying to do work yourself?” –New York City mayoral contender Andrew Yang, who has not lived in the city full time since the pandemic began, via The New York Times

CONFUSION AND FRUSTRATION OVER VACCINE SIGNUPS

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just opened up access to the COVID-19 vaccine to several new groups of people, including teachers, people over 75, front-line municipal workers and other essential workers. Shortly after that, Cuomo again expanded the pool of eligible people due to new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announcing that people over 65 and certain immunocompromised people could get the vaccine as well. New York City began opening 24/7 mass vaccination sites and Cuomo opened several large state-run hubs as well. But the online systems for scheduling appointments were confusing, glitchy and cumbersome. Many people spent hours attempting to secure an appointment online without success, and there were also problems between the city and state scheduling systems. And at the end of the week, a sign-up link for state vaccination sites that had not yet opened was released in error, which meant that anyone who thought they managed to schedule a vaccine through that link had their appointment canceled. On top of that,

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the state’s slow pace of receiving vaccines – just 300,000 a week – appears to be taking a toll now that the pool of eligible people has been greatly expanded, with appointments booked up for months, according to the state. Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan even had to cancel some appointments due to a shortage of vaccines.

YANG RUNNING FOR NYC MAYOR

Entrepreneur and former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang announced he’s running for mayor of New York City. His campaign launch came after recent bad press about his poor voting record in municipal elections, the amount of time he spent at his New Paltz home during the pandemic and comments that critics said showed he was out of touch with average New Yorkers. Among an eclectic list of policy proposals that included TikTok hype houses and regaining local control of the subways was one inspired by, but falling far short of, his signature

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policy: universal basic income. The New York City version would give $2,000 to $5,000 a year to the poorest 500,000 New Yorkers, which would cost the city $1 billion a year. Yang expected that philanthropic grants would cover the costs for at least part of the program.

LETITIA JAMES SUES THE NYPD

In an unprecedented move, state Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department and Mayor Bill de Blasio over allegations of excessive force used during last year’s Black Lives Matter protests. Multiple reports, including one from the city Department of Investigation, criticized officers’ use of force during those protests and concluded that in several instances, it was improper and excessive. James is the first state attorney general to sue the NYPD. She’s asking the court to appoint a federal monitor to oversee the department in addition to the federal monitor that’s already in place to ensure the department stops its illegal use of stop-and-frisk tactics.

Attorney General Letitia James is suing to to appoint a federal monitor at the NYPD.

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“We are at war,” Cuomo said Thursday as he delivered his fourth State of the State of the week from the War Room in the state Capitol. “We are committed to victory.” What was once a mundane policy speech became a virtual miniseries this year. The threeterm governor has cast everyday New Yorkers as the heroes and President Donald Trump as the villain – with each episode highlighting different themes on getting the Empire State through a public health crisis of epic scale. This latest spinoff of his Emmy Award-winning pandemic briefings last year, however, lacked the volume of new policy proposals that defined past State of the State addresses. His political priorities this year were mostly leftovers from the past. The headline items from Episode One included longstanding efforts to legalize recreational marijuana, expand voting rights and allow mobile sports betting in the state. Episode Two focused on a collection of ideas to revive the arts through traveling comedy shows and expanded rapid testing. Political observers noted how old energy projects got repackaged as part of purportedly fresh efforts to combat climate change during Episode

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not schedule his budget address by publication time, but he has to divulge his fiscal plans by this deadline enshrined in state law.

President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn into office at noon at the U.S. Capitol, in what is expected to be a highly secured event following the Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol.

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Biden’s inauguration address could detail when New York can expect him to deliver those billions in new federal aid he’s promised state and local governments.

Three. The final installment of the four-part series similarly featured the governor’s struggle to say something new. He repeated demands for the federal government to repeal the limit on state and local tax deductions as part of a wider program of reparations for unfriendly federal policies during the Trump administration. Then he made a new call for infrastructure projects while reciting a litany of ongoing projects, including efforts to renovate JFK airport and Penn Station in New York City. A fresh pledge to extend the Second Avenue subway line to 125th Street ranked among the biggest news the governor made Thursday. The governor faced the unprecedented challenge of preparing the address after a year that included more than 100 straight days of press conferences. His ambitions were also limited by a multibillion-dollar state budget deficit and ongoing uncertainty about how much new federal aid a Democratic White House and Congress can deliver to the state. But at least he found a way to end his four-part opus with a new twist on an old favorite. “We are just too damn New York tough,” he said. – Zach Williams

THURSDAY 1/21 City & State and the New York City Mayor’s Office host a 2 p.m. webinar on coronavirus infection rates, contract tracing and vaccine distribution, featuring the mayor’s senior adviser on COVID-19, Dr. Jay Varma.

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WHO THE HEROES WANT FOR NYC MAYOR

ENDORSEMENTS BY CAITLIN DORMAN

HRIS EVANS, who portrayed Captain America in the Marvel films, just endorsed Maya Wiley for New York City mayor. Evans doesn’t actually live in New York, but his

endorsement got us thinking. Scarlett Johansson, aka Black Widow, is a longtime ally of Scott Stringer. So who would the rest of the Avengers endorse in the upcoming mayoral race?

* This ranking is based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe portrayals - some of these characters have totally different political leanings in the comic books.

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Tony Stark and Ray McGuire are both capitalists who care™ – and Andrew Yang talks way too much about the ills of automation for Stark Industries’ taste. Gwyneth Paltrow, who portrays Tony’s wife Pepper Potts, has IRL endorsed Ray McGuire.

As someone who’s spent a decent amount of time off-world, Thor won’t quibble that Yang wasn’t in the city for most of the pandemic. Besides, did you see Asgard before it was destroyed? They absolutely had UBI.

Spider-Man is a zoomer progressive and all of his friends are staunch supporters of defunding the police. Morales has the boldest platform for achieving that goal. Plus, last name solidarity.

Occasionally inscrutable, but pragmatic, Nick Fury totally would’ve slept on the floor at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters during the height of the pandemic.

Strong women in leadership were central to a thriving Wakanda. We think King T’Challa would be particularly invested in helping to elect the first Black woman to be New York City mayor.

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It’s not fun. I mean, the fact is that (impeachment is) a terrible necessity, but it had to be done. I don’t enjoy it.

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This is the first time in history a president has been impeached twice, what’s the significance of what we just saw? The significance is that the United States faced for the first time a tremendous plot against democratic government, against the self-government of the country. We’ve never seen that before. And we had to do what we did. And the fact is that we impeached him the first time. Unfortunately, it didn’t succeed in the Senate. Hopefully it will now. But we had to do it. The attack last week made it clear that he learned nothing – just as I said, and other people said, in the first

impeachment. In the Senate, (Sen.) Susan Collins said, “Well, he’ll learn from this.” And we said, no he won’t. If he’s not convicted, he’ll just learn that he can get away with anything. I think that’s now proven. What was it like for you? It’s not every day that you help impeach the same president twice. It’s not fun. I mean, the fact is that it’s a terrible necessity, but it had to be done. I don’t enjoy it. This time was obviously much faster, the incident was last week and the impeachment was today. How else was

and we had that experience, and so they were willing to go much faster. this time different than the first go-round? I think what was different than the first go-round was that people were more willing to see what was going on. I mean, we, even in the Democratic Party, the first time, it took a long time to persuade people. We were pushing, some of us were pushing impeachment from the beginning, the very beginning of 2019. It took a long time to persuade people that it had to be done. This time I think people had seen that

And I understand this was the most bipartisan impeachment in history, with 10 Republicans voting in favor of impeaching a president from their own party. Technically yes, because it’s an impeachment. But remember with (Richard) Nixon, he was not impeached by the House only because the Republican leaders went to him and told him that if he didn’t resign, he would be convicted in the Senate. I think you have to say that that was the

equivalent of a successful impeachment because he avoided the technicality of impeachment only by resigning from the Senate. The Republican leaders of those days were more honest than these days. They were willing to go through with it. What was it like entering a Capitol occupied by thousands of National Guard troops for this impeachment vote? It felt good that they were there to protect us. (With) the experience we had last week, I was very glad to see all those troops there, it felt good. I wasn’t happy about the necessity obviously. – Rebecca C. Lewis

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COMMENTARY

GET SHOTS IN ARMS ASAP Now is not the time to be quibbling over who gets vaccinated. By Ross Barkan

AST WEEK, Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded that his plan to vaccinate New Yorkers was failing. Of course, the proud, imperial governor would never say so directly – but his announcement that people over the age of 65 could now sign up for the coronavirus vaccines was evidence that pressure had been sufficiently applied for him to change course. Until then, Cuomo had been making the kinds of mistakes that belied his media reputation as an adept steward of state bureaucracy. Doses of the vaccine had been sitting in freezers for weeks, with some tossed out altogether, due to overly restrictive rules about who was eligible to be vaccinated and harsh punishments for any medical provider that vaccinated an ineligible person. It is good the state has widened the groups of people eligible for vaccines and planned to open more mass vaccination sites, but New York must go further. With a new, more contagious strain of COVID19 on the loose, time to ward off further death is running out. The priority groups have to be expanded quickly and signing up for an appointment – in a perfect world, appointments wouldn’t be necessary – must be made more simple. As of now, anyone accessing New York City’s website must answer a lengthy and confusing questionnaire, a challenge for anyone who is not computer-literate or doesn’t have access to reliable technology. Cuomo is not alone among governors in rolling out coronavirus vaccines far too slowly. In fact, New York’s performance is sadly typical. But New York had developed a confusing and

overly stringent matrix for who could receive a shot and when. Not only were vaccines restricted to health care workers and nursing home residents, the state instructed health care centers to vaccinate their employees in a specific order according to risk and taking into account job description, the environment the employee worked in and how old they are, among other factors. Part of the problem lay in how Cuomo bypassed local health departments, which had developed vaccination plans and were ready to distribute doses at schools, churches, firehouses, and other public gathering places. Many of the vaccines were

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New York opened vaccination sites at the Javits Center and elsewhere, but doses have been thrown out amid a slow rollout.

restricted to hospitals. While it was understandable that Cuomo wanted to give vaccines to health care workers and nursing home residents, it made little sense to be so punitive and parsimonious with shots when the pandemic was still raging. Health care providers that vaccinate people should not be threatened with million dollar fines for not exactly following complex rules that are sometimes hard to apply in time and resource-constrained and constantly changing circumstances. First, Cuomo should revoke the threat of fines. In a pandemic, there is no such thing as “vaccine fraud.” If a person is given a vaccine – no mat-

ter how old or young or the job they work – one small step is taken toward ending the pandemic. Medical professionals should not be terrified of giving out doses. New York should never be in a position of letting doses expire in freezers. Shots need to be entering arms at all times of the day and night. After seniors, the rest of the population can come. There are various ways to allocate the rest of the shots. First, New York can keep expanding large testing sites and operate as many as possible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A time should come when anyone can wander off the street to a site and get a vaccine. To convince younger people worried about

the side effects of shots, New York should embark on an aggressive television, radio, and digital marketing campaign to show them the vaccine is safe. Currently, far too many eligible workers – as much as 30% – are choosing not to get vaccinated, and there isn’t a significant effort to educate the public to combat misinformation. If supply remains limited for the remaining New Yorkers under 65, the state can turn to a lottery system to determine who gets the shots first. Lotteries are not ideal, but they beat all other alternatives. The state cannot keep inventing complex criteria that slow down the vaccination process. Many New Yorkers can argue, plausibly, they face larg-

er threats – either due to the job they work, the health conditions they have, or the color of their skin. But parsing who is most eligible in some complex matrix is clearly delaying the deployment of the vaccines and thus prolonging the pandemic. Moreover, the more complicated the criteria are, the easier they are for rich or well-connected people to game the system. The temptation for government will be to complicate this process and invent further tiers of priority. If we had more time, that would be acceptable. But New York should learn to treat vaccines like Congress regarded emergency stimulus checks. Every American under a certain threshold got free money, no questions asked, and the program was largely popular and successful. The typical bureaucracy that accompanies safety net programs – the daunting paperwork, the crashing websites, the denials on frustrating technicalities – was cast aside. people got their money quickly. That stands in contrast to the disaster of trying to sign up for unemployment last spring, when some New Yorkers went months without receiving benefits. Now, we need shots in arms. The fight to end the pandemic is simple and straightforward and must be kept that way. Vaccinate the elderly, and then do everyone else as much as possible until the supply needs to be replenished. End the fines. Empower hospitals, clinics, and local governments to dole out vaccines as quickly as they like. If New York does all of this, Cuomo can begin to become the national leader he imagines himself to be.

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Ross Barkan is a writer, journalist, and former state Senate candidate.

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THE STRATE The future of political strategy is Black and female. So why do so many Black women leading campaigns still face barriers to being heard? By Destine Manson

OR COMMUNICATIONS strategist Krysten Copeland, the pandemic has been a time of reflection about her work and redefining her purpose. “I broke down my ‘why’ for every single day for six months, and I realized that why I do (political communications) is beyond winning the race,” she said. Copeland said she embraced her role as a translator – not one that communicates between two languages but someone who can be an effective political communicator to different cultures and communities. She told New York City Council members she could come over and talk to them for free to begin developing those conversations. “The translator piece is something Black women have to handle innately and it’s something I always think about now as to why I do it as opposed to just doing the work for the heck of it,” she said. Copeland, who led communications strategy for Rep. Yvette Clarke during the June primaries, was one of several Black female political consultants last year who worked as high-ranking members of successful campaigns. Recent election seasons featured several campaigns that were led by Black female campaign managers. Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley, a former attorney for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, hired Maya Rupert, former campaign manager for Julian Castro, as her campaign manager. Milsa Stein was campaign manager for Chantel Jackson, candidate for state Assembly for the 79th District in the South

Krysten Copeland, right, led communications strategy for Rep. Yvette Clarke’s successful primary campaign.

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Bronx. Jachele Walker was campaign manager for state Sen. Brian Benjamin’s reelection campaign, among others. The people running for office – and those serving in top roles in their campaigns – have become more diverse in recent years. The diversification of campaign teams for white politicians and politicians of color has inarguably benefited them on the campaign trail, yet Black women still face challenges of being heard and taken seriously when placed in positions of power. “You also have this running narrative of people behind these progressive consultants,” said Tyquana Henderson-Rivers, president of the government relations firm Connective Strategies. “For a long time, Black women were not getting the credit they earned. Even when we were in the rooms, they didn’t want our input.” Local politicians in many districts in New York are still overwhelmingly white and male, so more representation from communities of color has the potential to shrink the divide between elected officials and the neighborhoods they serve by making use of that translator piece Copeland mentioned. “When you have white politicians, they don’t know what our struggles are at all,” Henderson-Rivers said. “From 2003, even when I worked for Bill de Blasio in his City Council office, I was the only Black person, and then moving from there into the private sector, I was the only Black person until I brought other Black people into the room.” For Black women working on these campaigns, getting their foot in the door was not an easy task. Amelia Adams, de Blasio’s former campaign political director, also recognized the importance of diversity after starting her political career in Albany often being the only person of color in the room. “There’s like a sea of people and it felt like it was hundreds of people and they were all white men,” Adams said. “I was like, ‘I am going to stick out like a fly in milk.’ It was kind of like a culture shock, like, ‘Wow, am I supposed to be here?’” The feeling of being out of place is a common occurrence for Black women working as political consultants and who set out to open new doors of opportunity in politics and government to get the recognition they deserve. “I feel like it’s my duty to always send the

elevator back down,” Copeland said. “It’s all about sending those connections down for other people, especially Black women, but I do think that it’s getting better. It is, but we have to have more Black women in these rooms.” Being present as a Black woman was often not enough for political consultants and strategists to have their voices heard. Along with feeling the need to work harder than anyone else in the room, there is also the pressure of being there alone. “There is an unspoken expectation from a client, an expectation that we work harder than our white counterparts,” Henderson-Rivers said. “It is hilarious the fact that Black women have to justify their points for messaging to Black women or Black people. It’s like I hear what you’re saying … but I’ve been Black all my life. We are still fighting, every single day. We have to win all the time to be taken seriously.” While Henderson-Rivers was working closely with Queens district attorney candidate Melinda Katz, she remembered it as one of the few instances where there wasn’t a fight for space at the table. “I’ve had some really good candidates that have been really good at diversifying their staff: Melinda Katz and Jeff Aubry,” Henderson-Rivers said. “I didn’t have to go seek them out but they actually sought me out. On Melinda’s campaign she always deferred to me, which is something that a lot of candidates don’t do.” Lupe Todd-Medina has worked on campaigns in New York and New Jersey, including for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, and now operates her own firm, Effective Media Strategies, from Brooklyn. Consultants like Todd-Medina, Adams and Henderson-Rivers often have had to create their own firms because of the lack of diversity at other firms. “I would say that one of the reasons I decided to open up my own shop was because after Jeffries won his election to Congress, I stepped back,” Todd-Medina said. “I took a look in the mirror and I’m working all these races and seeing success and I’m putting money in the pockets of other men. I looked in the mirror and decided it’s time to open my own thing. So I’ve decided to bring my own folding chair to the table like Shirley Chisholm.”

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The Rev. Al Sharpton and other members of the clergy stepped up when they saw the state wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing enough community outreach on the COVID-19 vaccine.

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A DOSE OF FAITH

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AMID WIDESPREAD DISTRUST OF THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE – AND A HUGE GAP IN OUTREACH – BLACK CLERGY HAVE STEPPED IN TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH INFORMATION.

CERTAIN AMOUNT of faith is required when venturing into the unknown. This is especially true when it comes to new medical advancements. Luckily, Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, had faith in science on Dec. 14, the day she became the first person to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the U.S. (She received her second and final vaccine dose a little over three weeks later.) “It is rooted in science, I trust science, and the alternative and what I have seen and experienced is far worse,” Lindsay told The New York Times, regarding her decision to get vaccinated. “So it’s important that everyone pulls together to take the vaccine, not only

to protect themselves but also to protect everyone they will come into contact with.” Lindsay also hoped that receiving the vaccine as a Black woman would “inspire people who look like me, who are skeptical in general about taking vaccines.” While many have been apprehensive about receiving the inoculation, people of color, particularly Black Americans, have been anxious about the new vaccines due to a lack of trust in health care and the government. According to research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Black and Latino communities conducted in the fall from Langer Research Associates, Unidos U.S., the NAACP and the COVID Collaborative, only 14% of 1,050 Black respondents surveyed said that they believe a vaccine will be safe. And

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According to one survey last fall, only 14% of Black respondents said that they believed a coronavirus vaccine will be safe. The Revs. Jacques DeGraff, left, and Calvin Butts have leveraged their influence to educate people about the new vaccine’s safety.

43% of those same Black respondents said that the government can rarely be trusted to keep their best interests in mind. Much of the trepidation around the new vaccine stems from the historical trauma of experiments performed on the country’s Black population without their consent or knowledge. The Tuskegee experiment is frequently cited as one of the main roots of distrust in medical care. In a study lasting from 1932 until 1972, Black men with syphilis were invited to gain free medical care in Macon County, Alabama, but were not given medical treatments, unbeknownst to them, so that medical professionals could study the full development of the disease. Aware of these concerns, some of the most widely recognized Black clergy members in the U.S., including the Revs. Al Sharpton, Calvin Butts and Jacques DeGraff, have partnered to educate Black Americans about the coronavirus, new vaccines and health disparities, imparting the importance of getting tested and providing access to COVID19 testing. The clergy members are working with United Way of New York City, Quest Diagnostics and Resolve to Save Lives to launch the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Plan. The campaign will kick off in New York City and will be expanded in neighboring Newark, New Jersey, as well as

“CITY OFFICIALS AND THE STATE OFFICIALS DIDN’T COME TO US. WE’RE COMING TO THE PUBLIC. WE’RE FILLING A VACUUM.”

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in Detroit, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Sharpton, co-chair of the campaign, founder and president of the National Action Network and renowned civil rights leader, told City & State that working more closely with experts on this project has even helped him feel more at ease with the vaccine. “I, myself, raised questions (about the vaccine’s safety at first) and now I feel more comfortable,” he said. “I’m not totally relaxed in bed yet but I’m sitting on the edge of the bed. I think that as we speak to credible experts from our community and we become more involved, we become more comfortable with it.” Throughout the pandemic, neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and

Latino residents, as well as those with lower median incomes, saw far higher death rates than other neighborhoods in the city. National data has also revealed that Black and Latino individuals are more than twice as likely to contract the coronavirus as white individuals. Low-income people are also at higher risk. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has promised that individuals that live in low-income communities and have been most affected by the virus would be among those first in line for a vaccine. Now, the Choose Healthy Life campaign is hoping to bring attention to these disparities and lack of health care accessible to many members of the city’s Black communities to make change, especially as the city is in the throes of yet another wave of the deadly virus. The program was developed by Debra Fraser-Howze, the founder of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, and her daughter, Sheena Wright, CEO of United Way of New York City. The model for the plan was initially created and developed by Fraser-Howze to combat the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in the Black community. “United Way has become the gold standard of equity in the equity movement and their leader Sheena Wright is a transformative figure,” DeGraff, a minister at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, told

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Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem played a key role in the civil rights movement.

A SHORT HISTORY OF FAITH-LED COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROJECTS IN NYC.

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HISTORICALLY, BLACK CHURCHES have played a significant role in the lives of Black Americans, offering spiritual solace, community and charity to their congregants. And in New York they have embarked on many community outreach projects over the years that have tackled a wide range of issues, from social injustices to dire health disparities. Today, members of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black clergy are once again offering support to their communities, this time taking on the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected Black New Yorkers. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a more comprehensive look at a few of the ways that Black churches in the city have intervened during other times of crisis. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT During the 1940s, many Black Americans moved to the city from the South, eventually making New York the city with the densest Black population and the center of the Northern civil rights movement. This growing community still faced segregation in the city. Black churches stood together with their communities from the 1940s â&#x20AC;&#x201C; up until today, even â&#x20AC;&#x201C; advocating for fair labor opportunities and calling for desegregation. Two churches that played a significant role in demanding equality for Black Americans included the

Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abyssinian was an important base for raising money for the national civil rights movement,â&#x20AC;? Clarence Taylor, a history professor at Baruch College, told Newsday in 2008. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The church was a key meeting place for civil rights demonstrations and protests, many of them led by the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.â&#x20AC;? Many ministers from across the country who were involved in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., frequently came to New York to make their call for justice. King even delivered one of his most famous speeches, that railed against the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, at the Riverside Church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1967. THE HIV CRISIS Beginning in the 1980s, as the HIV epidemic swept across the country it had a particularly harrowing impact on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black community. Many of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s churches were initially reluctant to confront the crisis, given that the

disease was transmitted through sexual activity and intravenous drug use that was typically frowned upon by conservative leaders of faith. However, as the disease continued to ravage much of the city and stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black communities, Black churches, among other religious institutions that served these communities, felt it was their duty to assist those struggling with HIV and AIDs. In 1987, The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS was founded, aimed at getting leaders in Black communities to help educate individuals about the sexually transmitted autoimmune disease, provide testing and lend support. Black faith leaders who engaged with such community outreach programs were found to have an impactful effect in mitigating the stigma that surrounded the disease. And in 1989, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem became one of the first churches in the city to bring the religious community together to support families dealing with HIV and AIDs, and even formed its own HIV/AIDs ministry.

DRUG ADDICTION New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black community befell another health crisis in the 1980s, when a smokeable version of cocaine, known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;crackâ&#x20AC;? became prevalent throughout the city, sparking a serious new wave of drug addiction. However, even before the arrival of this new drug, many of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders of faith became outspoken anti-drug activists, who sought to increase the presence of police in their neighborhoods to combat the rise in drug addiction among Black people. Many Black people, especially during the 1980s, became subjected to increasingly harsh drug laws that sought to put them behind bars rather than help them overcome their dependency on the highly addictive substance. Upon seeing this, leaders of faith who once championed these anti-drug initiatives have increasingly begun calling for less damaging penalization and more community-oriented approaches to dealing with addiction, such as youth programs and counseling. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Amanda Luz Henning Santiago

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City & State. “She could work anywhere, but she chose to provide leadership there.” So far, the initiative, which launched in December, has already had an extremely positive reception in New York City, according to the clergy members. “I’m happy to report that since the information has started to spread across the Black community, particularly with ministers in the league, empirically, I see more people who are willing to receive the vaccine based on the encouragement of the clergy,” Butts, a national cochair of the initiative and the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, told City & State. “I’ve seen more people feel more compelled to practice the regular good health proceedings, wearing masks, washing hands, being socially distant, being careful about gathering for the holidays.” Not every Black American is a Christian, but Black churches have been a trusted source of information. They have also been historically strong supporters of civil rights movements across the nation, making equity one of their fundamental values. This has allowed clergy members to relay valuable information to members of their community, without fear that they will be led astray. “Obviously, the pandemic caught us all by surprise,” Sharpton said. “I think that’s the job of clergy to be able to bring people through what they have not been able to see … That’s the good news. The bad news is that it wasn’t like we had to get in line to do it. There’s no other effort that’s really coming out trying to do (what we’re doing for the Black community).” “I think it ought to embarrass them (the government), that we have to stand up and do this and come to the public, rather than them come to us. But city officials and the state officials didn’t come to us. We’re coming to the public. We’re filling a vacuum,” Sharpton continued. While Sharpton noted a lack of outreach, Cuomo’s office pointed to several references to clergy, at least in rhetoric. On Dec. 10, Cuomo sent a letter, cosigned by a coalition of community leaders, to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar calling for a fair and equitable federal vaccination program. In it, he asked the Trump administration “to enlist faith-based organizations, neighborhood groups and local non-profits with deep roots in Black, brown and poor communities to get this done.” “Governor Cuomo has made recognizing and addressing health disparities in low-income, minority communities a cornerstone of New York State’s COVID-19 response,” Jonah Bruno, the director of public information at the New York State Department of Health, told City & State in a comment. “He frequently reminds New Yorkers of the need to ensure that the COVID-19 vaccine reaches underserved communities,

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predominantly Black, Latino, Asian, and poor communities.” During the governor’s State of the State address on Jan. 8, Cuomo did address the higher likelihood of Black individuals to succumb to the virus over white individuals. “This has to be done with social equity and social justice in mind,” he said. “Blacks died at twice the rate of whites. Latinos died at one-and-a-half times the rate of whites. The infection rate was higher in poor communities. The COVID testing was lower in

“THERE’S AN APPRECIATION OF THIS KIND OF RELATIONSHIP AND THE CREDIBILITY THAT WE HAVE ON THE GROUND. … THAT’S SOMETHING THAT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS AND ABSOLUTELY WILL BE CRITICAL TO LEVERAGE THIS FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19.”

– Sheena Wright, CEO of United Way of New York City

poor communities. We’re not going to decide in this state who lives and dies by race or income. That is not going to happen.” Despite major frustrations with the local government, Wright of United Way points out that in order to reach out to the most vulnerable members of the city and state’s communities, actions need to be made systematically and at scale – and only the government has the ability to do that. However, that is not to diminish the important role that community outreach programs have and must continue to play. According to Wright, the Choose Healthy Life campaign has already caught New York’s eye. “I think there’s an appreciation of this kind of relationship and the credibility that we have on the ground and in the urban community at United Way and with these faith leaders, that’s something that the government needs and absolutely will be critical to leverage this fight against COVID-19,” Wright said. “We have planned trainings and community conversations with partners that will support trusted messengers delivering information in their communities around

vaccines,” Dr. Torian Easterling, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s first deputy commissioner and chief equity officer, told City & State in an emailed statement. “This follows years of work – that precede COVID-19 – to engage partners in the community.” Still, in order to build trust within the Black community, the reverends and Wright suggest that the state and federal government must first learn to understand Black people’s relationship to public health and the information they’ve been receiving about COVID-19, before they can truly create culturally competent and relevant messaging. Most importantly, whatever information they attempt to communicate needs to come from trusted sources. “People just don’t just build trust upon you, they’ve got to know that they can rely on you, they’ve got to know, most importantly, that you understand this situation,” DeGraff said. Butts also emphasized the importance of showing members of the Black community images and testimonials from other Black individuals, such as Lindsay, to build trust. “When we saw that the doctor who was injecting the new vaccine was Black and the nurse who was receiving it was Black – those kinds of images and testimonies from these individuals make a huge difference,” he said. While the approach to tackling the virus has begun the work of bringing the city’s Black community up to speed on COVID19 and has helped supplement testing in its health care deserts, where pharmacies and urgent care centers are largely absent, both Sharpton and Butts agree that new leadership will be key to combating health disparities beyond the virus’s tenure in New York. “We’re going to have to reimagine the health care industry, we’re going to have to reimagine how we get health services to people,” Sharpton said. “Because the whole question of how COVID-19 was dealt with exposes what was already there, it’s almost like you have a situation in a room that is dark and then someone comes in and cuts the light on. COVID-19 cut the light on the health disparities in this city in a way that no one knows, and nothing else has.” In November, New Yorkers will vote for a new mayor, who Sharpton and Butts say will need to be responsible for tackling these health care deserts as well as the city’s economic crisis that has disproportionately affected people of color and has left them more vulnerable to the coronavirus. Neither Butts nor Sharpton has yet to see a candidate with a plan to tackle both issues. They’re ready and waiting to find someone with that “spark,” with meetings lined up to speak with eager candidates, so that the city can be brought back not only to its former glory but to make it better and brighter than it ever was for those who were once cast aside in darkness.

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Sheena Wright, CEO of United Way of New York City, led the effort to bring clergy members together to combat mistrust of the vaccine.

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THE 2021

HEALTH POWER

100

Health Commissioner Howard Zucker has led the state’s fight against the coronavirus.

The individuals leading New York through the coronavirus crisis

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EAR AFTER YEAR, health care is one of the biggest policy issues in New York, whether it’s Medicaid spending, access to abortion or the opioid epidemic. Over the past year, however, health care became the single biggest issue as COVID19 tore through the state. Since the first New York case was documented in early March and the state became an epicenter of the pandemic, COVID-19 has killed more than 32,000 New Yorkers and disrupted everyday life in countless ways. The state’s vaunted health care institutions struggled to respond, and medical professionals and policymakers of all types have joined forces to confront the public health crisis. This year, City & State’s Health Power 100 highlights the individuals – public officials, health care executives, advocates and activists, academics and labor leaders – who are navigating the crisis and finding a path forward.

The Boards of Directors and Staffs of the HeartShare Family of Services proudly and warmly extend sincerest congratulations to

President and CEO WILLIAM R. GUARINELLO on being named to the City and State 2021 Health Power 100. Bill has devoted over 50 years to HeartShare, promoting and focused on the physical and emotional health of New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at-risk children and adults. We salute him, along with the other 99 named Honorees, for this much-deserved recognition honoring compassion and genuine caring for the health and welfare of our beloved New York Community. Paul J. Torre Chair, Board of Directors

Areleen Baez First Vice Chair, Board of Directors

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HOWARD ZUCKER

Commissioner State Department of Health Howard Zucker, a Bronx native, is New York state’s top doctor leading efforts to fight a number of health crises, including tackling the deadly opioid epidemic and now the coronavirus pandemic. Like a wartime general, Zucker warned hospitals that the new year would bring an increase in coronavirus cases, but also reminded administrators that lessons learned from earlier in the pandemic would help in dealing with the expected demand for medical care.

2 MICHAEL DOWLING

President and CEO Northwell Health As the coronavirus pandemic tested the viability of New York’s health care system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned again and again to Michael Dowling. The governor has worked closely with the leader of Northwell Health, New York’s biggest employer, relying on him as his chief intermediary with New York’s hospitals, naming his longtime ally to a panel to “reimagine” New York in the wake of COVID-19 and even making a Northwell nurse the first American to receive a coronavirus vaccine.

along the way, while also heading up a coronavirus maternity task force. Also along for the ride were another former Cuomo secretary, Larry Schwartz, who resumed his role as behind-the-scenes enforcer, and Jim Malatras, a former state director of state operations who was appointed SUNY chancellor in August. Making it a bipartisan bunch, two former state Senate Republican staffers – Budget Director Robert Mujica and Special Counsel to the Governor Beth Garvey – were also present during many of the briefings, while longtime Cuomo loyalist and former congressional hopeful Gareth Rhodes – whose day job is technically as deputy superintendent and special counsel at the state Department of Financial Services – kept things running on time.

4 MITCHELL KATZ

President and CEO New York City Health + Hospitals

Dave Chokshi became New York City health commissioner over the summer.

5 DAVE CHOKSHI

Commissioner New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene After his appointment in August, New Yorkers got to know Dave Chokshi from his frequent television appearances as the city’s top doctor, offering advice on how to take precautions against the spread of COVID-19. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native is no stranger to medical crises, having already worked for the Louisiana Department of Health during Hurricane Katrina. During his medical training, Chokshi also did clinical work in Guatemala, Peru, Botswana, Ghana and India.

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Mitchell Katz leads the largest public health system in the nation, calling his staff “heroes” as they have been on the front lines of the coronavirus fight – in treating patients and in leading the city’s contact tracing efforts. A man of science and optimism, Katz expressed confidence that New Yorkers would embrace the COVID-19 vaccine when given “enough time,” after an estimate of 30% of hospital and nursing home employees was expected to decline the vaccine.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasn’t the only state government official to build his celebrity thanks to his daily COVID-19 briefings that captivated the nation. Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa was at his side – socially distanced of course –

Elected in 1970, Gottfried hasn’t shown any signs of slowing.

6 RICHARD GOTTFRIED

Chair Assembly Health Committee First elected in 1970, Richard

Gottfried is the Assembly’s longest-serving member, and he hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. As chair of the influential Health Committee, he has vowed to prioritize increasing funding for nursing homes and Medicaid program providers as the state continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. With Democratic supermajorities in both state legislative chambers, he’ll try to pass his single-payer health care bill once again.

7 GUSTAVO RIVERA

Chair State Senate Health Committee Gustavo Rivera has served in the state Senate since 2011 and has come to be known by his peers as a leading progressive voice. Named chair of the state Senate Health Committee in 2018, Rivera has advocated for single-payer health care alongside Assembly Member Richard Gottfried. Amid an unprecedented pandemic and widespread job losses that demonstrated the fragility of health care being tied to employment, Rivera is working on ways to remedy the situation.

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Celebrating Pat Wang.

Bold leadership. Powerful results.

Good health doesn’t just happen. It takes community commitment and leadership. As one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health insurers serving New York, no one knows New Yorkers better than Healthfirst. Working together with downstate New York’s leading hospital systems and providers, we help millions of New Yorkers enjoy better health. We congratulate Pat Wang, our President and CEO, on being named one of City & State’s 100 most powerful people in healthcare in New York. Thank you, Pat, for your vision as we lead the industry in keeping the care in healthcare and remain committed to reducing health disparities for our members and the communities where they live.

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Westchester County. More than 7,000 people work for the company, and it has a major expansion planned near its local headquarters.

DONNA FRESCATORE

State Medicaid Director Executive Director New York State of Health

Donna Frescatore is one of few officials who does two jobs at once. As the state’s Medicaid director, she oversees a program reaching more than 6 million New Yorkers. And as the head of New York State of Health, she runs the state’s insurance exchange. “As the pandemic continues, it is especially important for New Yorkers to have access to high-quality, affordable health insurance,” Frescatore noted last month while urging people to apply for coverage.

MELANIE HARTZOG

New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services

GEORGE GRESHAM President 1199SEIU

9 KENNETH RASKE

President and CEO Greater New York Hospital Association As the leader of New York’s hospital association, Kenneth Raske has influenced health care policy in the state since Mario Cuomo was governor. In the past year, as New York hospitals were swamped by coronavirus cases and now face a resurgence, Raske has been at the center of the hospital response, pushing successfully for more financial help and working with the governor to try to coordinate care across disconnected systems and institutions.

Perhaps New York’s most powerful labor leader, George Gresham has often teamed up with the Greater New York Hospital Association to fight budget cuts and boost health care spending. His union, billed as the largest union in New York and the largest health care union in the country, has stood up for its workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding better protections in nursing homes and urging members to get vaccinated.

11 ALBERT BOURLA

Chair and CEO Pfizer Pfizer was the first pharmaceutical company to

LEONARD SCHLEIFER

President and CEO Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Dr. Leonard Schleifer leads Regeneron, the largest biotech company in New York that made headlines last year for helping treat President Donald Trump when he contracted the coronavirus. A certified neurologist, Schleifer started Regeneron in Tarrytown 30 years ago and turned it from a tiny business into one of the fastest-growing in

A math and science teacher by training, Mark Levine – tabbed by some as “the Anthony Fauci of the New York City Council” – was thrust into the spotlight early last year after contracting the coronavirus, and since has become one of the city’s most outspoken health care figures. He proposed creating a $1 billion public works administration for public health, and has supported suspending elective surgeries when COVID-19 infection rates rise as well as restricting indoor dining and other nonessential activities.

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Melanie Hartzog has been a fighter for the city’s children, from advocating for the rights of low-income children during her tenure as executive director of the Medicaid Director Donna Frescatore Children’s Defense Fund also runs the to later helping to fund state insurance universal pre-K as the exchange. city’s budget director. In October, Mayor Bill de Blasio made her deputy mayor for health get a coronavirus vaccine and human services to help approved in the U.S., a major oversee the city’s response achievement for CEO Albert to COVID-19, specifically with Bourla. The company’s social services and outreach corporate headquarters are to homeless people. in Manhattan – although its biggest manufacturing site is in Michigan – and the first dose went to a nurse in Queens. Bourla himself opted to wait to receive the vaccine, developed in partnership with BioNTech, not wanting to “cut MARK LEVINE the line.” Chair New York City Council Health Committee

Congratulations

Dr. Ramon Tallaj Founder and Chairman SOMOS Community Care

for being recognized as one of City and Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Power 100! SOMOS applauds our Chairman Dr. Ramon Tallaj on being recognized for his innovative leadership and dedication to SOMOS's mission of providing community-based primary care to the most vulnerable in New York and beyond.

SOMOS is a nonprofit organization of more than 2,500 healthcare providers who serve more than 700,000 NYC Medicaid holders. The SOMOS network provides culturally competent care to patients located in some of NYC's most vulnerable communities and immigrant neighborhoods of New York. ÂŠ2021 SOMOS Healthcare Providers, Inc. dba SOMOS Community Care (SOMOS). All rights reserved.

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– the first decline in a decade – although the coronavirus pandemic has spurred an uptick in overdose deaths.

18 ANN MARIE SULLIVAN

Commissioner State Office of Mental Health

15 CARLINA RIVERA

Chair New York City Council Committee on Hospitals Carlina Rivera chairs the Committee on Hospitals, a key post as COVID-19 has threatened to overrun city hospital systems. “This pandemic proves that our health care system is too disparate, not just in times of crisis but year round,” Rivera said during a hearing last fall. “We are committed to ensuring that the path we build forward out of this pandemic is more equitable for all.” Rivera has also pushed to create an Office of the Patient Advocate.

16 STEVEN CORWIN

President and CEO NewYork-Presbyterian Steven Corwin’s medical career has put him on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic and now the daunting task of leading patient care against the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Corwin, who oversees NewYork-Presbyterian’s

extensive network of 10 hospitals and dozens of clinics, ramped up the institution’s ICU units to meet the coronavirus challenge head on as New York City became the country’s first hot zone.

As New York’s top public official on mental health since 2013, Commissioner Ann Marie Sullivan runs a system serving more than 700,000 individuals annually through its psychiatric centers and its oversight of more than 4,500 local government and nonprofit programs. Sullivan, who continued a transition toward emphasizing communitybased mental health services statewide, has touted the state’s text-based mental health helpline, which has been in greater demand due to the coronavirus pandemic.

19 BEA GRAUSE

President Healthcare Association of New York State

17 ARLENE GONZÁLEZ-SÁNCHEZ Commissioner State Office of Addiction Services and Supports

Appointed commissioner by Gov. Andrew Cuomo a decade ago, Arlene GonzálezSánchez oversees a network of addiction service systems, with more than 1,600 programs that serve hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. She also served on New York’s Statewide Task Force to Combat Heroin, which saw opioid cases drop 16% in 2018

Bea Grause began her tenure as president of the Healthcare Association of New York State nearly five years ago, and most recently was tapped by state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker to help enforce an initiative to increase hospital capacities amid a resurgence of the coronavirus. A registered nurse, she worked in the emergency department for years while studying for her

law degree, and previously led the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems.

20 ROBERT GROSSMAN

CEO NYU Langone Health Since Robert Grossman became CEO of NYU Langone Health in 2007, he oversaw an expansion of NYU School of Medicine, where he also took on the role of dean, adding 8 million square feet for clinical, educational and research services. Plus, he increased the health system’s revenue by nearly $8 billion, all while offering free tuition to medical students. In 2019, NYU honored him by renaming its medical school the Robert I. Grossman School of Medicine.

21 KENNETH DAVIS

President and CEO Mount Sinai Health System Dr. Kenneth Davis turned around a struggling Mount Sinai Health System when he took over in 2003. Within a decade, the renowned psychiatrist also oversaw a merger with Continuum Health Partners. Davis recently won a waiver allowing Mount Sinai to enroll a broader group of Medicare patients into its “Hospitalization at Home” program, which helped to increase capacity in anticipation of another COVID-19 surge. Davis previously pushed to use artificial intelligence to improve patient care.

“This pandemic proves our health care system is too disparate,” Rivera said.

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New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera chairs the Committee on Hospitals.

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CEO One Brooklyn Health System

EMMA BURCUSEL; DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES

This titan of the Brooklyn Medical community is charged with keeping her finger on the pulse on health care in Kings County. LaRay Brown recently reassured the community that Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center is not closing and that the trio of hospitals under her watch will stand ready to serve COVID-19 patients. Besides Kingsbrook, Brown directs the strategic efforts of Interfaith Medical Center and Brookdale Hospital.

23 ERIC LINZER & LESLIE MORAN President and CEO; Senior Vice President New York Health Plan Association

Eric Linzer and Leslie Moran together advocate for dozens of health insurance companies, managing a multitude of health care plans that provide coverage to more than 8 million New Yorkers. They oppose single-payer

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health care – specifically the New York Health Act, which the association argues would remove health coverage options now available to millions of New Yorkers and require tax increases. Linzer, the organization’s face, recently vowed COVID-19 vaccines would be administered at no cost, in compliance with the state’s directive.

24 JOY CALLOWAY

Interim CEO Planned Parenthood of Greater New York

ROBIN CHAPPELLE GOLSTON

President and CEO Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts Planned Parenthood has gone through several major changes in New York in the past year. In January 2020, five regional affiliates joined forces as Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, an attempt to boost reach and influence. Then following the tumultuous exit of Laura McQuade, Joy Calloway was named interim chief late last year. Along with the organization’s advocacy arm, led by Robin Chappelle

Golston, Planned Parenthood is on the front lines of a growing fight over access to birth control and abortion.

25 CHIRLANE MCCRAY & SUSAN HERMAN

New York City First Lady Director Mayor’s Office of ThriveNYC Often described as one of her husband’s closest advisers, first lady Chirlane McCray chairs the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City while her pet project is ThriveNYC – an effort to overhaul New York City’s mental health and substance abuse services. The program, which has come under scrutiny from the New York City Council amid questions about its budget and effectiveness, is now led by Susan Herman, a former NYPD deputy commissioner.

26 TALYA SCHWARTZ

President and CEO MetroPlus Health Plan

As COVID-19 swept across New York City, Dr. Talya Schwartz has kept her eye on the most vulnerable, Joy Calloway was including the named interim CEO of Planned homeless. Schwartz, Parenthood of who is a key part of Greater New Mayor Bill de Blasio’s York. effort to deliver health care to every New Yorker, spearheaded MetroPlus’ new outreach program with an emphasis on providing housing, food, social services and medical care. “We plan on conducting this critical member outreach throughout the COVID-19 crisis – and beyond,” Schwartz said last summer.

27 MY CHI TO

Executive Deputy Superintendent of Insurance State Department of Financial Services Department of Financial Services Superintendent Linda Lacewell is the public face of New York’s regulatory changes for insurers in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but behind the scenes top deputy My Chi To is playing a critical role in shaping and implementing them. Among the steps DFS has taken to help New Yorkers are expediting claims, suspending preauthorization requirements and mandating insurers waive copayments and telehealth charges and offer relief for overburdened hospitals.

28 PHILIP OZUAH

President and CEO Montefiore Medicine Dr. Philip Ozuah faced his biggest challenge just a few months into his tenure as he directed the response to a public health crisis that brought thousands of coronavirus patients to Montefiore. Ozuah succeeded Steven Safyer, who retired after 40 years of service in November 2019. He oversees both Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System , which has 13 hospitals and 300 clinical locations.

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unions among her larger customers.

PAT KANE & JUDY SHERIDAN-GONZALEZ

Executive Director; President New York State Nurses Association

Pat Kane and Judy SheridanGonzalez have adopted progressive stances while leading the New York State Nurses Association, a 43,000-member union representing registered nurses throughout the state. Under their watch, the union pushed for more personal protective equipment for nurses out on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic, while continuing to call for higher minimum staffing levels. Both have worked as nurses for more than three decades in New York City.

PAT WANG

President and CEO Healthfirst At the start of 2020, Pat Wang was named to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team II and tasked with finding $2.5 billion in Medicaid savings. At the end of the year, the governor appointed her to his Vaccine Equity Task Force to help ensure lowincome New Yorkers and people of color aren’t left behind. Wang’s nonprofit insurance company, Healthfirst, is known for its early emphasis on incentivizing patient outcomes.

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President LeadingAge New York

30 KAREN IGNAGNI

President and CEO EmblemHealth The nonprofit health insurer EmblemHealth provides coverage to more than 3 million people in New York City and the broader tristate area, making it one of the biggest companies of its kind not just in New York but nationally. Karen Ignagni, who led the industry association America’s Health Insurance Plans during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, counts government entities and labor

With nursing homes hammered by COVID-19, James Clyne has taken the lead in defending the industry. Clyne, whose group represents more than 400 long-term care and senior housing providers, had been bracing for massive growth in New York’s elderly population. In response to the immediate crisis, he has kept busy defending nursing homes on everything from PPE supplies to emergency legal

Pat Wang is ensuring low-income New Yorkers and people of color aren’t left behind in the vaccine rollout.

protections for operators to the state’s coronavirus death statistics.

33 JOHN O’CONNOR

Deputy Vice President for Advocacy in New York Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is one of the country’s most influential trade groups, known for spending millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions to benefit the drug industry. In New York, PhRMA’s point person is the Albany-based operative John

With nursing homes hammered, Clyne has taken the lead in defending the industry.

O’Connor. In recent years, he has battled efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others to lower prescription drug prices, arguing they would reduce funding for research and development of new medications.

34 LARRY MERLO & KAREN LYNCH

President and CEO; Executive Vice President CVS Health Next month CVS CEO Larry Merlo will hand the reins to Karen Lynch, the company announced in November. The move comes two years after the pharmacy chain acquired the health insurance company Aetna, where Lynch was a top executive and remains president. That acquisition was finalized after a key approval by New York’s Department of Financial Services in 2018, although the Rhode Island company had to wait another year for an antitrust ruling.

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MICHAEL McGUIRE

CEO UnitedHealthcare of New York

UnitedHealthcare is a widely utilized health insurance company in New York, and for the past seven years the executive overseeing its business in the state has been Michael McGuire. The company, whose plans include its Oxford brand, has provided aid in response to the coronavirus pandemic, with half a million dollars donated to both the Food Bank for New York City and Care For the Homeless through the company’s foundation.

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Rose Duhan leads the the only statewide association for New York’s community health centers.

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President and CEO Community Health Care Association of New York State

36 DAVID SANDMAN

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President and CEO New York State Health Foundation Mr. Sandman has a big dream: make New York a healthier place to live. David Sandman’s New York State Health Foundation has shelled out millions of dollars for coronavirus relief throughout the state. Sandman also urged New Yorkers to get a flu shot after the foundation published a report raising concerns about the risks of a bad flu season. Sandman previously led the Berger Commission, which studied the state’s health care delivery system.

Rose Duhan’s Community Health Care Association of New York State bills itself as the only statewide association for New York’s community health centers – and the COVID-19 crisis has made it harder for the providers she represents. “Community health centers are really struggling now,” Duhan warned last spring. “Without patients coming in, they’re unable to generate the revenue they need to pay staff.” She is also advocating for investments in telehealth.

38 KENNETH GIBBS

President and CEO Maimonides Medical Center Maimonides Medical Center was one of a number of

New York City hospitals that contended with an influx of coronavirus patients last year, but it never stopped the Brooklyn institution from investing in the future. Kenneth Gibbs recently secured a $141 million bond to fund capital projects over the next three years at the hospital. Maimonides is also a partner on the new Health Enterprise Hub to utilize local vendors and train health care workers.

39 CRAIG THOMPSON

President and CEO Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center For more than a decade, Craig Thompson has run the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a renowned institution that lays claim to being the oldest and largest private center of its kind anywhere in the world. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Memorial Sloan Kettering and other hospitals have seen their finances suffer, while its researchers

A psychiatrist and former inpatient unit chief at the Mount Sinai medical school, Frank Proscia leads thousands of doctors and dentists that make up Doctors Council SEIU, part of the largest health care workers union in the country. Proscia has delved into broader policy issues as well, including advocating for paid sick leave legislation, ensuring that immigrants get care and, in response to the death of George Floyd, calling racial violence and unequal health care public health emergencies.

41 STEPHEN HANSE

President and CEO New York State Health Facilities Association and the New York State Center for Assisted Living Last month, Stephen Hanse praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to put nursing home employees and residents at the head of the line for COVID-19 vaccinations, given that they’ve borne the brunt of the coronavirus. Hanse joined the New York State Health Facilities Association and the New York State Center for Assisted Living in 2013 and became president four years later. He speaks for nearly 400 skilled nursing providers and adult care and assisted living communities.

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care rights in the South Bronx during the ’60 and ’70s. She established her own name by battling health disparities in the Bronx, Harlem and Queens. She oversaw the organization’s expansion to become a network of 10 federally qualified health centers with 11 school health programs, among other facilities.

CHRISTOPHER HILLYER

President and CEO New York Blood Center

43 ANTHONY SHIH

President United Hospital Fund Anthony Shih has had a lifelong commitment to serving vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. During the pandemic, the United Hospital Fund rolled out several programs to help individuals who lost job-based health insurance find new coverage and tracked the number of children in the state who lost a parent or guardian to COVID-19. He came to the United Hospital Fund in 2017 after serving as executive vice president of the New York Academy of Medicine.

44 CANDACE JOHNSON

President and CEO Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center While COVID-19 pandemic has drawn most of the attention of medical professionals across the globe, other life-

Christopher Hillyer led the New York Blood Center’s efforts to ramp up donation efforts.

threatening illnesses remain as much of a threat as they were before. “If we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that cancer doesn’t stop,” Roswell Park’s Candace Johnson noted last month. And her worldclass cancer center has kept up the fight, treating patients and pioneering innovative treatments while adapting to the coronavirus threat.

47 ALAN MURRAY director of the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York and the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

45 KATHY FEBRAIO

President and CEO New York State Association of Health Care Providers In 2019, Kathy Febraio became the leader of the New York State Association of Health Care Providers, a trade association that represents 350 home care and home health providers. In testimony before the state Legislature last summer, she warned that patients were afraid of home care workers due to the spread of COVID-19. Febraio previously was the executive

46 PALOMA IZQUIERDOHERNANDEZ

President and CEO Urban Health Plan Paloma Izquierdo-Hernandez is the daughter of the late Dr. Richard “Doc” Izquierdo, the founder of Urban Health Plan and a social justice leader who fought for Latino health

Other life-threatening illnesses remain as much of a threat as they were before.

President and CEO Empire BlueCross BlueShield Alan Murray didn’t follow a typical path to get into health insurance – when he was serving in the British Merchant Navy he met his future wife, moved with her to the United States, and then got his first job in the industry thanks to a distant connection. After working his way up the ladder, he’s now running Anthem’s Empire BlueCross Blueshield, the largest insurance provider in New York with more than 4 million members.

48 LOUISE COHEN

CEO Primary Care Development Corp. As the coronavirus has ravaged New York, Louise Cohen of the Primary Care Development Corp. has drawn attention to the gaps in the health care system and the prioritization of hospitals. “Primary care was really left out of the equation,” Cohen told Crain’s New York Business last summer. “Primary care could have been an enormously strong point for communities responding to COVID.” Cohen’s community development nonprofit provides funding and technical support to providers of primary care.

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The New York Blood Center collects blood and provides it for transfusions, but it also is known for its world-class hematology research and treatments. In the coronavirus era, it has responded proactively by ramping up blood donation efforts, joining vaccine clinical research trials, and collecting blood from those with COVID-19 antibodies for convalescent plasma treatments. NYBC’s leader, Christopher Hillyer, is a professor and expert on transfusion medicine.

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Yale School of Nursing are combining their expertise to inform facilities across New York and the U.S. on creating environments that optimize safety, health and well-being for their residents and staff.

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President and CEO Resolve to Save Lives

49 HAROLD ISELIN

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE; NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL

Managing Shareholder, Albany Office Greenberg Traurig Harold Iselin isn’t just the leader of top-10 lobbying firm Greenberg Traurig’s Albany office – he’s also a deeply knowledgeable expert on health care policy in New York, with an impressive roster of clients in the medical field and other related sectors. A shareholder and co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Government Law and Policy Practice, Iselin previously served in the Governor’s Office and the U.S. Department of Justice.

50 LISA DAVID

President and CEO Public Health Solutions Lisa David and her team of 650 employees at Public Health Solutions seek to

improve health outcomes by assisting low-income families, people with HIV/AIDS, immigrants and other underserved populations – a mission whose critical importance has been underscored by the coronavirus pandemic. “The pandemic has made it abundantly and sometimes painfully clear that public health underpins nearly everything in New York City and across the country,” David wrote in the Queens Daily Eagle last summer.

Thomas Frieden is an accomplished public health expert, having led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Obama administration and implemented innovative policies under then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, including tackling smoking and AIDS. Now, as the head of Resolve to Save Lives initiative, he has been outspoken about the government response to COVID-19, criticizing early inaction by New York’s top leaders and blasting the gaps in data collected on the virus’s spread.

51 JUDITH SALERNO

President The New York Academy of Medicine Judith Salerno, a Harvardtrained physician, is leading The New York Academy of Medicine to examine and prevent infection rates at nursing homes in New York and the rest of the country after the devastation caused by the coronavirus on elder care facilities. NYAM and the

53 BONNIE LITVACK

President Medical Society of the State of New York Bonnie Litvack, a radiologist, was elected in May as

president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, a venerable professional organization for physicians. She spoke out about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and championed frontline physicians and other medical personnel when she appeared before the state Senate that same month. She characterized the crisis as one that tested the state’s medical profession like never before.

54 KRIS KIM

Chief Operating Officer American Cancer Society

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Senior New York Government Relations Director American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Kris Kim took on the role of chief operating officer of the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society early last year, as part of a reorganization spearheaded by CEO Gary Reedy. The Brooklynite, who previously served as executive vice president for the Northeast Region, was tasked with helping to implement a three-year strategic plan, but has had to contend with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. At the state level in New York, Julie Hart has continued pushing for early detection as COVID-19 has impacted cancer care in a variety of ways. Hart recently testified before the state Senate in favor of restored funding for early detection cancer screenings. Under Hart, the advocacy arm also joined a coalition of anti-tobacco and public health organizations in December to call for a new state tax increase on cigarettes – the first in 10 years – by as much as a $1 per pack.

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Vice President of Health Initiatives Community Service Society A lawyer by training, Elisabeth Benjamin drives health policy and advocacy and consumer health assistance programs at the Community Service Society, a leading New York nonprofit. Benjamin works with social service programs reaching more than 100,000 New Yorkers annually. An outspoken advocate, she recently drew attention to major hospital systems that are still suing patients for nonpayment in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.

56 CHARLES KING

CEO Housing Works

HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY; JAMIYA WILSON

To veteran AIDS activists like Charles King, the deadly spread of COVID-19 echoes the tragic losses of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. That insight spurred him to open shelters for homeless people who were infected by the virus as the pandemic took its toll on New York. “The disjointed, uncoordinated, and lethargic response to the needs of homeless and incarcerated populations during the COVID-19 outbreak has been absolutely unacceptable,” King said last May.

57 KASSANDRA FREDERIQUE Executive Director Drug Policy Alliance

Kassandra Frederique took the lead at the Drug Policy Alliance at an opportune time. The Black Lives Matter movement has built

President and CEO Hospital for Special Surgery Under Louis Shapiro’s leadership, the Hospital for Special Surgery became a general acute care hospital as New York City weathered the coronavirus surge. The decision freed up over 215 licensed beds to act as an overflow station for nonCOVID-19 patients from other Manhattan hospitals. Shapiro, who leads a team of medical experts in the field of musculoskeletal medicine has been the top executive at HSS since 2006.

Louis Shapiro allowed the Hospital for Special Surgery to act as an overflow station for patients.

momentum behind policy changes her organization has long sought, including legalizing recreational marijuana, which may happen soon in New York with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state Legislature. Frederique, who has held several positions with the advocacy organization, became executive director in September.

58 URSULA ROZUM & YULING KOH HSU

Co-Directors Campaign for New York Health Ursula Rozum and YuLing Koh Hsu advocate for universal health care in New York, a priority for key state legislative Democrats. The pair, whose organization has documented high costs of care even for individuals with insurance, took over for Katie Robbins, who remains a consultant. “While New Yorkers are losing jobs, income, health insurance and their lives in

the middle of the pandemic, private insurance companies are reporting record profits,” Hsu and Rozum told State of Politics this month.

59 TOM CONNOLLY

Partner Bolton-St. Johns One of the biggest pots in New York’s multibillion-dollar state budget each year is health care spending, making health policy experts like Tom Connolly who know how to navigate Albany a valuable asset. Connolly has held positions as director of the Council on Health Care Financing, a top aide to the Assembly speaker, and key roles at the Greater New York Hospital Association and Healthcare Association of New York State before joining Bolton-St. Johns.

61 TODD ROGOW

President and CEO Healthix In 2019, Todd Rogow was promoted to lead Healthix, a major health information exchange connecting more than 1,200 health care providers in New York with the aim of sharing data and improving treatment. Rogow, who previously worked at Maine’s health information exchange and as chief information officer at Healthix, has put forth an ambitious agenda for 2021, including expanding and standardizing the recording of clinical data.

To veteran activists like King, COVID-19 echoes the AIDS epidemic.

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GUILLERMO CHACÓN

President Latino Commission on AIDS Guillermo Chacón is a trusted leader in health care outreach. He joined the Latino Commission on AIDS more than a quarter century ago and is also founder of the Hispanic Health Network. As part of the COVID-19 Working Group – New York, which includes several prominent HIV/AIDS advocacy groups, Chacón has emphasized the importance of communitybased health care for accessing marginalized groups.

63 BRYAN O’MALLEY

Executive Director Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Association of New York State Bryan O’Malley’s organization advocates for the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, which is the Medicaid program serving

chronically ill or disabled individuals requiring medical assistance. Over the past year, he has assailed budget cuts and touted the program as a better alternative to nursing homes. O’Malley, who has led the group for nearly a decade, previously held health policy staff roles in the state Legislature and at the Mental Health Association in New York State.

64 DAN EGAN

Executive Director Feeding New York State The food pantries and soup kitchens affiliated with Feeding New York State serve millions of annually – and demand only increased when the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the economy. When Gov. Andrew Cuomo awarded $1.5 million to the nonprofit to help those struggling to get by, Egan said, “New Yorkers who have lost their incomes should not have to fear hunger, especially at a time when our productive farmers have nutritious produce and dairy products on hand.”

Bryan O’Malley advocates for the Medicaid program serving chronically ill individuals requiring medical assistance.

65 WILLIAM GUARINELLO

President and CEO HeartShare Human Services of New York In half a century working at what is now HeartShare Human Services of New York, William Guarinello has helped achieve its mission of serving the intellectually and developmentally disabled. The nonprofit organization, which Guarinello has run since 1993, offers an array of programs and services, including trainings, employment assistance and medical care. Early on during the coronavirus pandemic, Guarinello told Fox 5 New York that the public health threat has impacted the population he serves “very severely.”

66 C. VIRGINIA FIELDS

Founder and CEO National Black Leadership Commission on Health Best known for having been Manhattan borough president and the first African American woman to run for New York City mayor, C.

Former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields founded the National Black Leadership Commission on Health.

Virginia Fields also advocates for the health care needs of Black New Yorkers – especially now as COVID-19 disproportionately affects Black people. She heads a commission that has its roots in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and which now also focuses on other medical issues impacting the Black community, including hepatitis C, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, sickle cell, diabetes and mental health.

67 MARKI FLANNERY & DAN SAVITT

CEO; Incoming CEO Visiting Nurse Service of New York At the end of this month, Marki Flannery will hand the reins of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York to Dan Savitt, who currently serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer at the nonprofit home and community-based health care organization. Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the largest organization of its kind in the country with more than 44,000 patients served each day, has been assisting in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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GLENN LIEBMAN

CEO Mental Health Association in New York State Government-imposed shutdowns have helped slow the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, but the resulting job losses and isolation have taken a toll on the mental health of many Americans, causing anxiety, depression and increased drinking and drug use. In New York, two of the leading mental health organizations – Matt Kudish’s National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City and Glenn Liebman’s

Mental Health Association in New York State – are raising the alarm and advocating for additional government resources to deal with the crisis.

69 JED LEVINE & ELEONORA TORNATORE-MIKESH

President Emeritus; President and CEO CaringKind CaringKind, which serves individuals with Alzheimer’s and dementia, has reshuffled its leadership several times in recent years. In 2018, Jed Levine took over for longtime President and CEO LouEllen Barkan, and in the summer, Levine transitioned to president emeritus and director of external relations.

“We don’t empower people. We give people tools to empower themselves,” Colonna said.

“We don’t empower people,” said Donna Colonna, the longtime leader of the nonprofit Services for the UnderServed. “We give people the tools to empower themselves.” That sums up the approach of the organization, which serves New Yorkers struggling with mental illness, disabilities, homelessness or other challenges. Her organization has helped provide housing for vulnerable New Yorkers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, she was appointed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team II.

71 MARC MORIAL

President and CEO National Urban League When Gov. Andrew Cuomo in September unveiled a state task force to assess federally approved COVID-19 vaccines, conspicuously absent were many representatives of communities of color hardest hit by the pandemic. But in December, the governor announced another task force – on vaccine equity – with prominent civil rights leader Marc Morial among its members. Morial has sought to dispel misinformation about vaccination and mediate long-standing doubts some Black people harbor about the medical establishment.

72 STEPHEN BERGER

Chair Odyssey Investment Partners Stephen Berger has spent a quarter century at Odyssey Investment Partners, but in the world of New York government, Berger is known for leading the state’s Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. The so-called Berger Commission in 2006 made a number of recommendations, including a plan to reduce capacity in the health care system to cut costs – which came under renewed scrutiny at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in New York.

73 SARAH RAVENHALL

Executive Director New York State Association of County Health Officials Sarah Ravenhall’s organization works on behalf of 58 local health departments, which are playing a key role in the fight against the coronavirus in New York. The New York State Association of Counties has also applauded recent efforts by the Cuomo administration to rely more heavily on county health departments amid a slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. Ravenhall has also drawn attention to the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black, Latino and low-income groups.

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The National Urban League’s Marc Morial has sought to dispel misinformation about vaccination.

Eleonora Tornatore-Mikesh left her job running the Alzheimer’s Association’s Connecticut chapter to return to the New York nonprofit, which was formerly the Alzheimer’s Association of New York City.

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78 KIMBERLY WILLIAMS

President and CEO Vibrant Emotional Health

AL CARDILLO

President and CEO Home Care Association of New York State Al Cardillo’s Home Care Association of New York State represents nearly 400 member providers and organizations that deliver health care and home care to more than half a million New Yorkers annually. Early on during the coronavirus pandemic, he warned that most home health providers lacked adequate personal protective equipment. Before coming to HCA, Cardillo directed the state Senate Health Committee and the state’s Council on Health Care Financing.

75 ROBIN VITALE

Vice President of Health Strategies American Heart Association / American Stroke Association in New York City Robin Vitale has driven advocacy efforts in New York

City for the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for years, successfully getting key public health measures put in place. She has lobbied for restrictions on tobacco, disclosing sodium levels and calorie counts on restaurant menus, and reducing artificial trans fats. She has also pushed for strategies targeting the young, including CPR trainings and physical education classes.

deaths. Coppola, who has run the New York Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers since its founding nearly a quarter century ago, has called for more resources and new strategies to respond more effectively.

President and CEO Amida Care

JOHN COPPOLA

Executive Director New York Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers John Coppola has been drawing attention to one of the dismaying downsides to the economic shutdown intended to stem the spread of COVID-19: more heavy drinking, more drug use disorder and more overdose

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National Assistant Vice President for State Public Policy American Lung Association

Doug Wirth, a longtime advocate for people living with AIDS, supports routine HIV screening in emergency departments and health care settings to help diagnose newly transmitted HIV cases. In response to the coronvirus pandemic, Amida Care cohosted a webinar with Gay City News in November about the impact of COVID-19 on New York’s plan to end AIDS. Wirth also has served on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s task force to end the AIDS epidemic.

The American Lung Association has partnered with New York officials to pass some of the most ambitious anti-tobacco initiatives in the country over the years, including last year’s state ban on flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco sales in pharmacies, which was passed as COVID-19 spread throughout the state. Mike Seilback, who has been with the American Lung Association for a decade and a half, has called for New York’s tobacco control program to be “adequately funded.”

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President and CEO Erie County Medical Center Corp. As the president and CEO of the Erie County Medical Center Corp. for the past five years, Thomas Quatroche has been a leader on medical care in Western New York. In early 2020 he was named to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team II to help balance the state budget. He has said one of the biggest lessons he learned during the pandemic is the importance of supporting the mental health of his employees.

81 MARK HARRINGTON

Executive Director Treatment Action Group In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mark Harrington was a key member of Act Up, which drew attention to the

AIDS crisis. Harrington then co-founded the Treatment Action Group, an organization targeting HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C. He’s also on the front lines of another crisis as a member of the COVID-19 Working Group – New York, a coalition of community health leaders calling for “rigorous, ethical research and appropriately communicating study findings to vulnerable communities and the broader public.”

82 JAMES KRELLENSTEIN Co-Founder PrEP4All

Since its founding in 2018, PrEP4All has emerged as a leading voice for individuals with HIV or AIDS. While cofounder James Krellenstein has pushed for increasing the availability of the daily PrEP medication, which reduces the risk of contracting HIV, he has been outspoken about the official response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Krellenstein, who last spring James Krellenstein founded PrEP4All, a leading voice for individuals with HIV or AIDS.

Tallaj never forgot his Dominican roots and is committed to serving underserved patients. joined other community health advocates to launch the COVID-19 Working Group, has criticized New York’s response to the second wave of the coronavirus.

of delivering Medicaid patients quality medical care. This summer, when COVID-19 temporarily receded in New York, he partnered with Gov. Andrew Cuomo in setting up testing sites in Houston, Texas.

83 TOM D’ANGELO & DEANNA ENNELLO-BUTLER President; Executive Director Pharmacists Society of the State of New York

With coronavirus vaccinations moving slowly in New York, pharmacies are clamoring to play a bigger part. Tom D’Angelo, the president of the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York and the founder of Americare Pharmaceutical Services on Long Island, has argued that the more than 2,000 independent pharmacies in the state can help pick up the pace. Along with Executive Director Deanna EnnelloButler, PSSNY has also called for pharmacy benefit manager reforms.

84 RAMON TALLAJ

Chair of the Board Somos Community Care Ramon Tallaj never forgot his Dominican roots and has remained committed to serving underserved patients – most of them Latinos – throughout New York City. His work as an internist is helping him fulfill his mission

85 BILL HAMMOND

Senior Fellow for Health Policy Empire Center for Public Policy Since his 2015 departure from the Daily News, where he was a widely read Albany columnist, Bill Hammond has continued to report and write as much as he ever did, although now he’s focused solely on the politics and policy of health care in New York. His analyses on vaccination delays, confusion over contact tracing and rising Medicaid costs hold public officials accountable and make important yet arcane subjects accessible to everyday New Yorkers.

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Congratulations to Doug Wirth, Amida Care President and CEO, and to all of City & Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2020 Health Power 100 honorees. Your leadership makes a difference for all New Yorkers who need access to quality health care.

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The Associates, Patients and Board of Directors of Urban Health Plan congratulate our President and CEO Paloma Izquierdo-Hernandez, MPH, MS on being selected one of City and Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Power 100. As a fearless leader, visionary and inspiring role model, thank you for your ongoing commitment to reducing health disparities, advocating for medically underserved communities and transforming the lives of underserved populations. Urban Health Plan (UHP) is a system of federally qualified community health centers, throughout the Bronx, Corona, Queens, and Central Harlem delivering high-quality, holistic and affordable healthcare, while offering community programs to address the social determinants of health.

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Leadership. Empathy. Vision. Erie County Medical Center Corporation is proud of our President and CEO Thomas J. Quatroche Jr., PhD’s inclusion on City & State’s Health Power 100. Tom leads ECMC with a strong appreciation for our 100+ year legacy on Buffalo’s historic East Side, focusing on the needs and aspirations of our dedicated caregivers, while preparing for the future of healthcare and ensuring that our patients’ needs are always our highest priority. True to ECMC’s mission – to provide every patient the highest quality of care delivered with compassion – Tom always leads by example. Congratulations, Tom, from your ECMC Family! The difference between healthcare and true care™ ecmc.edu

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2021 City & State Health Power 100 honorees, including our President & CEO

Jo Wiederhorn

who has been an exceptional leader during a year that has underscored the vital need to address health disparities, expand diversity in medicine and ensure robust funding for biomedical research

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86 MARIO SCHLOSSER CEO Oscar Health

Last month, the insurance startup Oscar Health began the filing process for an initial public offering, a sign of the firm’s growth since its founding in 2012. Going public could bring a windfall to Mario Schlosser, who founded Oscar and serves as its chief executive, as well as Josh Kushner, a lead backer and the brother of Jared Kushner. The company has been ahead of the curve with its no-fee coverage of telemedicine.

Christopher Del Vecchio of MVP Health Care waived COVID-19 testing and treatment costs.

87 EMMA DEVITO

President and CEO VillageCare Emma DeVito heads up an organization that serves the elderly and people with chronic illnesses. Her group was among several with experience in HIV/AIDS and infectious disease advocacy to pool their resources to address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable and marginalized communities in New York earlier this year. DeVito was also named to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 Medicaid Redesign Team, which helped find cost savings to balance the state budget.

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88 JO WIEDERHORN

President and CEO Associated Medical Schools of New York Jo Wiederhorn’s Associated Medical Schools of New York is working to get more Black and Latino students to realize their dream of becoming

doctors. Wiederhorn says access to information plays a big part to improve the number of doctors of color in the community. Her association of 17 public and private medical schools in New York includes Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine.

“address the social shortfalls and local inequities that plague our communities.”

BRIAN MCINDOE

President and CEO Ryan Health

CHRISTOPHER DEL VECCHIO President and CEO MVP Health Care

Christopher Del Vecchio, who took over at MVP Health Care in 2019, has responded to COVID-19 by waiving testing and treatment costs and offering free virtual emergency room and telemedicine visits. In February, he was appointed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicare Redesign Team II to explore ways to save $2.5 billion. Following the death of George Floyd, Del Vecchio pledged to redouble efforts to

care office in Peekskill and has grown to encompass more than 40 federally qualified health centers. She negotiated Hudson River Health Care’s merger with Brightpoint Health in 2018, and both were rebranded as Sun River Health a year later.

90 ANNE KAUFFMAN NOLON CEO Sun River Health

For more than four decades, Anne Kauffman Nolan has been a driving force behind the growth and expansion of one of the largest community health center systems in New York. What is now Sun River Health began as a primary

Brian McIndoe leads a team of medical professionals at health care centers in Manhattan to provide primary health care services to working parents, HIV patients and other patients. The federally qualified health center is named after former New York Rep. William F. Ryan, who famously stated that “health care is a right, not a privilege.” This year, McIndoe has assisted in COVID-19 testing, expanded telehealth and voiced support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Our Purpose:

Transforming the health of the community, one person at a time. Congratulations to Fidelis Care CEO

TOM HALLORAN and all Health Power 100 honorees for your leadership and work on behalf of the health and wellness of New Yorkers everywhere.

We're in this together "HCP is and will continue to be relentless in calling for the investment in home care – for the good of patients, the good of caregivers, and the good of providers."

– Todd M. Rogow, Healthix President & CEO

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“Healthix continues to develop meaningful and timely data solutions to advance public health initiatives.”

Kathy Febraio, CAE President & CEO NYS Association of Health Care Providers Representing the spectrum of home care providers in New York State

CONGRATULATIONS TO TODD ROGOW AND ALL OF 2020’s HEALTHCARE POWER 100 HONOREES.

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Kemp Hannon was the longtime chair of the state Senate Health Committee.

92 KEMP HANNON

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Of Counsel Brown & Weinraub For years, Kemp Hannon was one of the most influential elected officials in shaping health care policy as the Republican chair of the state Senate Health Committee. Since he left office in 2019, however, he has continued to capitalize on his encyclopedic knowledge of health care

Greg Mustaciuolo leads the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation.

legislation and policy debates in his position as of counsel at Brown & Weinraub, a top Albany lobbying firm.

in New York as the result of the Catholic Church’s 2018 sale of its nonprofit insurer Fidelis Care to Centene Corp. Now, the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, one of the nation’s largest foundations, is shelling out funds to close gaps in health care at a critical time. It’s led by Greg Mustaciuolo, formerly the vicar general and chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York.

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WILLIAM BERNSTEIN

CEO Mother Cabrini Health Foundation It’s not often that a multibillion-dollar charity is launched, but that happened

It’s not often that a multibillion-dollar charity is launched.

Partner Manatt Health

William Bernstein heads up Manatt Health, a 160-person health care team that provides strategy and policy input for state governments and health care organizations. The New York-based attorney recently co-founded the NYC COVID-19 Rapid Response Coalition, whose 75-plus member organizations worked together to advocate for the

most vulnerable New Yorkers. Bernstein also serves as board chair at Manatt, a national firm that is a major player in New York government and politics.

95 LINDA FRIED

Dean Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Linda Fried is a leading researcher in epidemiology and treatments for older adults – making her an invaluable resource as New York contends with a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the elderly population hard. She joined academics, advocates and activists last year in criticizing the de Blasio administration’s transfer of contact tracing responsibilities away from the city’s health department. She also announced an anti-racism initiative at her institution in the fall.

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safety and efficacy of the vaccines. Co-chairing the task force are Scott Hammer, the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the NewYork-Presbyterian/ Columbia University Medical Center, and Charles Rice, a virology professor at The Rockefeller University.

99 Mark Ustin is a partner at Farrell Fritz.

MIRIAM VEGA

CEO Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center Miriam Vega came on as the chief executive officer of Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center a little over a year ago. The federally qualified health center, with five locations in Brooklyn and Queens, offers a range of free and affordable medical services. The organization is named after former Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo, whose son, Joseph Addabbo Jr., currently serves in the state Senate.

100 96 CHERYL HEALTON

FARRELL FRITZ

Dean New York University School of Global Public Health Last spring, Cheryl Healton, the dean of NYU’s School of Global Public Health, waded into a political debate by calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reverse New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial decision to have the city’s public hospital system oversee coronavirus contact tracing efforts. The public health expert warned that stripping the health department of its traditional authority over the process would cause “concrete and

irreversible damage” to New Yorkers.

97 MARK USTIN Partner Farrell Fritz

Mark Ustin has high-level experience in New York’s executive and legislative branches and deep knowledge of agencies including the state Department of Health and the Office of Mental Health. Ustin sees the COVID-19 response as transformative. “The changes made now – including changes in telehealth, scope of practice, provider capacity and cooperation, and the focus

on public health – are going to have a permanent impact on the health care and business landscape,” he told Long Island Business News last year.

THOMAS HALLORAN

In 2018, St. Louis-based Centene acquired Fidelis Care, a nonprofit health plan that had more than 1.6 million members, many of them on Medicaid, giving the for-profit insurance company a major foothold in New York. As part of the sale, the Catholic Diocesan Bishops of New York State used the proceeds to set up the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation. Meanwhile, Queens-based Fidelis continues to operate as a subsidiary of Centene, with Thomas Halloran acting as interim CEO.

SCOTT HAMMER & CHARLES RICE

Co-Chairs COVID-19 Clinical Advisory Task Force In response to concerns that coronavirus vaccines would be approved by the federal government too hastily, Gov. Andrew Cuomo convened a group of scientists as a COVID-19 Clinical Advisory Task Force to review the

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Fidelis Care

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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com Notice of Qual. of CPG VINTAGE ACCESS FUND IV, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/13/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10/9/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 805 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NIKOLOZ MAKHATADZE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/3/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Avenue # Harrison, New York, 10528. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MTG Creative Group LLC filed with SSNY on October 19,2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 113 E Centre St, Unit 4001 Nutley, NJ 07110. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of CVE US EI2 C. MILL, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/20/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/14/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: ERYK KAI LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/22/2020. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Eric Kai-mun Chin, 18 Woodbine Street Brooklyn, NY, 11221. Purpose/ character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of BROOK AVE OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/26/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/15/20. Princ. office of LLC: 419 Park Ave. South, Ste. 401, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of formation of GAPP LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/01/2020. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office adress to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is 196 East 75th Street, Apt 20C, New York, NY 10021. The principal business address of the LLC is 196 East 75th Street, Apt 20C, New York, NY 10021.

Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC). The name of the LLC is: 326 EAST 89TH ST, LLC . Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) office on: December 11, 2020. The County in which the Office is to be located: New York. The SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 188 Winterton Road, Bloomingburg, NY 12721. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC). The name of the LLC is: 328 EAST 89TH ST, LLC . Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) office on: December 11, 2020. The County in which the Office is to be located: New York. The SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 188 Winterton Road, Bloomingburg, NY 12721. Purpose: any lawful activity

Notice of Formation of GLASS HOUSE FILMS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/02/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 19 East 88th St., #6A, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of V productions, LLC filed with SSNY on November 18, 2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 11 Elena Drive Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of E & L PEN VENDING, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7424 12TH Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of V & D Essentials For Him, LLC Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 9/21/2020. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall process to Valerie Dingle, 71 Radford Street, Yonkers, NY 10705. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MORNINGSIDE ASSIGNEE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/4/20.Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attention: Beryl Snyder C/O HBJ Investments 555 Madison Ave Ste 1302 New York, NY, 10022.Any lawful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Kors Law Group PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/2020. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him/ her is: 751 E. 6th St., Ste. 7C, New York, NY 10009. The principal business address of the PLLC is: 751 E. 6th St., Ste. 7C, New York, NY 10009. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Architect Owl PLLC filed with SSNY on November 3, 2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PLLC: 179 Rockne Road, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of SAPS 1348 EDWARDS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 34 Netherwood Dr Albertson, NY, 11507. Any lawful purpose. Formation of D.N.Y. Properties LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/2020. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail process to 233 W. 99th St., New York, NY 10025. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of WS FUTURES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/10/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 140 Broadway New York, NY, 10005. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 14A LLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/20. Office in NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o David Kovsky, Duane Morris LLP, 1540 Broadway, NY, NY 10036, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act/ activity. Formation of Espresso Bar NYC, LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/3/2020. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail process to Kreshnik Mornia, 150 Allen St., New York, NY 10002. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Westchester Culinary Society, LLC filed with SSNY on October 13, 2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 76 Young Avenue, Pelham, NY, 10803. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of JPeter Rental Property LLC filed with SSNY on November 9,2020. Office: Westchester County, NY. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of GGL USA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/02/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Shayne Law Group, P.C. as Agent for the LLC, 64 Fulton St., Ste. 1000, NY, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of GOTHAM GREEN PARTNERS SPV VI OFFSHORE LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/03/20. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Cayman Islands (C.I.) on 10/28/20. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. C.I. addr. of LP: c/o Walkers Corporate Limited, Cayman Corporate Centre, 27 Hospital Rd., George Town, Grand Cayman, C.I . KY1-9008. Cert. of LP filed with Joy A. Rankine, Assistant Registrar of Exempted Limited Partnerships, The Government Administration Bldg., 133 Elgin Ave., George Town, Grand Cayman. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of GETT NY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/04/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, Attn: Matthew Daus, 156 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of DISNEY STUDIOS CONTENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/25/20. Princ. office of LLC: 125 W. 55th St., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/25/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of No Presh Productions, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/30/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o eResidentAgent, Inc., 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805A, Albany, NY 12210, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Qual. of 65 W 13 STREET, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/14/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in FL on 11/3/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 3825 Pga Blvd., Suite 701 Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 33410. Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS. The Centre of Tallahasse 2415 N. Monroe Street ste 810 Tallahasse, FL 32303. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of M&A ACCOUNTANTS LLC filed with SSNY on November 16, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom the process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to LLC: 1723 VAN BUREN STREET BRONX, NY 10460. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of The Mental Health Post LLC filed with SSNY on December 14, 2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 81 Witherbee Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Alisha Hope Productions, LLC filed with SSNY on November 13, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 209 West 104th Street #3G NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Taste Buds Podcast, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/30/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o eResidentAgent, Inc., 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805A, Albany, NY 12210, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Align Divine LLC. LLC filed w i t h SSNY on 12/3/2020. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of TAMARISK APPRAISALS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/11/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/11/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 99 Washington Ave Suite 805a Albany, NY, 12210. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. del C. Voice Studios LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/31/2020. Office: NY County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Registered Agents Inc. at 1040 1st Ave #2097 New York, NY 10022 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Bryan Andrew Kutner, Psychologist PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/03/20. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him is: 517 W 144th St #14, NY NY 10031. The principal business address of the PLLC is: New York. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALL IN THE ATTIC, LLC filed with SSNY on November 16, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 3555 Olinville Ave. 15C, BX, NY 10467. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of formation of BLLATA CONSULTING, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/06/2020. Office located in Richmond County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: 423 CORTELYOU AVE., STATEN ISLAND, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM SOLEYBOOOM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/23/20. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 275 Glen Ave, Staten Island NY, 10301. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION of (TJ Contracting Solutions) LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on (10/23/2020). Location: (Westchester). SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: (TJ Contracting Solutions 2986 Navajo Street Yorktown Heights, NY 10598). Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of formation of Bristow & Thomas LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 10/21/2020. Office located in Kings. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC 2010 Ocean Ave, C8, Brooklyn, NY, 11230.

Notice of Formation of CDJ OF UTICA BK LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/31/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 233 UTICA AVE BROOKLYN, NY, 11213. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GEMINI CNY REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/4/20. Office location: ONONDAGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 8439 Woodbox Rd Manlius, NY, 13104. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MODERN BOX, LLC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 728 Union St Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 892 UTICA REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/01/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Choe & Oh, P.C. 307 Fifth Ave 4th Floor New York, NY, 10016. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MCMAKS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/20. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 44 Rolling Drive Goshen, NY, 10924. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 16 VAN BUREN PLACE, LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/15/20. Office location: CATTARAUGUS SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to P.O. Box 490 Lockport, NY, 14095. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of CDJ X OF AVENUE Z LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/06/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 605 Ave Z Brooklyn, NY, 11223. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Form. of GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY SOLUTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/9/20. Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1407 Rte 9 Second Building, Lower Level Clifton Park, NY, 12065. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MOHAWK RENTALS LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/22/20. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 217 N MAIN ST GLOVERSVILLE, NY, 12078. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CLOUDS OF SMOKE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1124 Gilmore Court Apt 3 Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MANCHAO DING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/31/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1967 WEHRLE DR, STE 1-086 BUFFALO, NY, 14221. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SAPS 1346 EDWARDS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/9/20. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 34 Netherwood Dr Albertson, NY, 11307. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 3119 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 214 West 39th St STE 605 New York, NY, 10018Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SANDFORD PENN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/25/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 39 BROADWAY STE 3010 NEW YORK, NY, 10006. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CHO 901 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/16/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 881 48TH ST 1FL BROOKLYN, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DEELU SERVICES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/3/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 749 Coney Island Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HE JIA HUAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/09/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5416 Fort Hamilton Parkway Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MBIP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/17/20.Office location: Nassau SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to ATTN: Geoffrey R. Kaiser, Esq. 926 Rxr Plaza Uniondale, NY 11556.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of The Smoothie Shop of Warwick, LLC filed with SSNY o 12/01/2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNYshall mail copy of process to LLC: 179 Blooms Corners Road, Warwick, NY 10990. Purpouse: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of TR2D, LLC filed with SSNY on August 24, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2010 Ocean Ave Apt D5 Brooklyn NY 11230. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qual. of IMAGINE EQUAL ENTERTAINMENT FUND I LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/28/19. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10/18/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 257 West 93rd Street Apt 5C New York, NY, 10025. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of APM EQUITIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 83 Wilson St Ste 185 Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DIVERSE GODDESS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 123 Linden Blvd Apt 18-H Brooklyn, NY, 11226. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Rossi Digital, LLC filed with SSNY on September 14, 2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of A.M. Apothecary, LLC filed with SSNY on January 2, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 41 Schermerhorn Street #1007, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Johnny Ayeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LLC filed with SSNY on December 21,2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 82 Irving Place, 1B, NY, NY10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Alu Ka Paratha LLC, Appl for Auth filed with SSNY 12/10/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE 9/21/18. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail process to: c/o Dentons US LLP,1221 6th Ave., NY, NY 10020, Attn: Brian Raftery. DE address of LLC is c/o NRAI, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. A copy of the Cert. of Form. on file with State of DE, Div.of Corp., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MERIDIAN IM HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/24/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of BLACKSHERE BEAUTY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O United States Corporation Agents Inc 7014 13th Ave Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of BROOKLYN TIDE ADVISORY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/4/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 231 16th Street Ste 2-B Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of D & F 85 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/19/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 85 Ilyssa Way Staten Island, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DIGILANCE ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/21/20. Office location: OSWEGO SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 39 Dutchess Lane Apt 3 Fulton, NY, 13069. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of E S N Y - E W - S T AT E N ISLAND, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/16/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 80 State St. Albany, NY, 12207. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 101 WEST 24TH 12B LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/17/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 101 West 24th Street Apt 12B New York, NY, 10011.Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of JCA LLC 2. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of JCA LLC 3. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of JCA LLC 1. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of JCA LLC 4. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 1 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1217 70TH ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 716 58th Street 2fl Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 2 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Charles Munro Valentine, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/12/2020. Location: New York County. Kevin McNeilly designated as agent for service of process on LLC at 213 W 80th Street Apt. 1W NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 3 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of DAVOS SERVICES LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/30/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/18/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 4 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LINDA ATKINS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Jerry Atkins 38 West 11th St NY, NY, 10011.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LJP FULTON EQUITIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O: Phillips Nizer LLP 485 Lexington Ave New York, NY, 10017. Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Boa Teng Holdings L.L.C. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/28/2020. Office location: BRONX County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 254 Throggs Neck Blvd Bronx, NY 10465. The principal business address of the LLC is: 254 Throggs Neck Blvd Bronx, NY 10465. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Qual. of TREND DISCOVERY HOLDINGS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/30/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/31/18. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

January 18, 2021

Notice of Formation of Monica Malone Interiors LLC filed with SSNY on November 25, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 142 West 73rd Street, Apt 10, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Qualification of A100x, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/29/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Registered Agents Inc., 90 State St., STE 700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Address to be maintained in DE: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1333302, FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 276 5TH AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11215. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON-PREMISE CONSUMPTION. BARIYABAIBAI INC. Notice of Formation of Fitness Holdings Management LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY(SSNY) on December 30, 2020. Office location: Kings County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 920 72nd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11228. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF AUCTION

Notice of Auc-t i o n Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on January 25, 2021 and end on February 5, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #3C20 – Carrie White: several wall props #5B12 – Alfredo Villamar: clothes, 50+boxes, books, bags, suitcases #5R28 – Alfredo Villamar: several boxes, several bags, shoe boxes, chair, painting, books, suitcases The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on January 26, 2021 and end on February 9, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #401-CINEMATREC LTD c/o Tabore Rector; Samsung TV (flat screen) Keyboard, AC, Microwave, 5 boxes #2434-Ilkka Jarvilaturi; 4 chairs, 20 boxes, painting, shelving units #3609-Carzell Benton III; 1 helmet, 2 guitar cases, 1 plastic container, bag filled with toys #4121-Ulmer William; Flat screen TV, duffel bags, box, plastic totes The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Qualification of MineBottleScale LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/02/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/07/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of MADISON AVENUE WESTSIDE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 Little West 12th St., NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of MODELING VENTURES OPERATIONS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/07/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE-Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of MDB HOLDINGS GROUP LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/15/19.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Michael Breskin 155 West 21st St, Apt. 7h New York, NY, 10011.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NKB HOLDINGS LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Nicole Breskin 144 West 76th St New York, NY, 10023.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NVS MEZZ LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/20. Office location: Sullivan. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 575 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Form. of THE SWEET ICE CREAM COMPANY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/26/20. Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 Clinton St Ste 200 Hempstead, NY, 11550. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE TIDE KASTLE LLC. Arts.Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/17/20. Office location: Cayuga SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 110 Genesee St. Ste 390A Auburn, NY, 13021. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of QUBIST BERSERKA NETWORK LLC filed with SSNY on November 16, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 17 STATE ST 40TH FLOOR, NEW YORK 10004. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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January 18, 2021

Notice of Qualification of Hellenic Petroleum LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 10/20/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7000 West Palmetto Park Rd., Ste. 302, Boca Raton, FL 33433, also the principal office address. Arts of Org. filed with the FL Secy. of State, The Center of Tallahasse, 2415 N. Monroe St., Ste. 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of Just Salad 1412 Broadway, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the company, c/o Delaney Corporate Services, Ltd., 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805A, Albany, NY 12210. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of Urbanspace 100 Pearl Street, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o UrbanSpace, 80 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1818, NY, NY 10011, Attn: Mr. Eldon Scott. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of formation of GLASSMAN LAW PLLC, a professional limited liability company. Arts. of org. filed 12/24/20 with SSNY. Office: New York County. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at its principal business address: 140 Riverside Blvd. #704, New York, NY 10069. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of Touching Money Daily, LLC filed with SSNY on May 29, 2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 709 Palmer Ct, Mamaroneck NY 10543, Apt. 2C. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Lymbic Health and Wellness LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/20/2020. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 152 West 141 Street, Apt 5c, NewYork, NY: Purpose: Any lawful

JCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/9/2020 with an effective date of 1/1/2021. Office: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 21 West St, Apt 7A, NY, NY 10006. Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF La Rochelle Home LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/8/18. Office location and principal business address: NEW YORK County, 168 Malcom X Blvd. #5C, NY, NY 10026. SSNY is designated as agent for service of process. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 168 Malcom X Blvd. #5C, NY, NY 10026. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of WWGAJ ASSOCIATES, LLC filed with SSNY on November 18, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to WWGAJ Associates LLC: 1790 Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: BETHEL MILLS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/2020. NY Office Location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O The LLC, 1325 59th St., Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LMRN, LLC filed with SSNY on 10/28/20 Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 109 Greenvale Rd Cherry Hill NJ 08034. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of VESUVIO BAKERY FARLEY PO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/21/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 540 West 49TH ST, #104N New York, NY, 10019.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GINO RE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/18/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1418 7th St, #402 Santa Monica, CA, 90401.Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of Mutt Avenue Pet Grooming, LLC filed with SSNY on November 02, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 400 W. 55th st, Apt 6K, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of ATKINS FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin 133 Norfolk St New York, Ny, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GEORGETOWN PROPERTIES 7020 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/21/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 390 Fairmount Ave Chatham, NJ, 07928. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BRESKIN FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin 133 Norfolk St New York, Ny, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 515 WEST 18TH 422 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/18/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 101 West 24th St Apt 12B New York, NY, 10011. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BROOKLYN HEALTHY MIND 360 - NURSE PRACTITIONER IN PSYCHIATRY, PLLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/24/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 26 COURT ST, RM 409 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11242. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JABA GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin 133 Norfolk St New York, Ny, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Charles Warshaw Family LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY(SSNY) on December 29, 2020. Office location: New York County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 50 East 89th Street, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of FANTASYLAND HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/25/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 416 Kent Ave, #517 Brooklyn, NY, 11249. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JASL GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20.Office location: NEW YORK SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10022.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of JASLBA GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin 133 Norfolk St New York, Ny, 10022.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ROCK BOTTOM DEALS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/19/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 460 Neptune Ave APT 13J Brooklyn, NY, 11224. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KEEN LOREN, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 332 43RD ST Apt.2A Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LEAST LIKELY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/7/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 245 Warren St. #2L Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LET BARBADOS MOVE YOU LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/27/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1150 E 22 St Brooklyn, New York, 11210. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MILK PENNY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/23/20. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to PO Box 86 Canastota, NY, 13032. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NYC ADVANCED PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 85 Kell Ave Staten Island, NY, 10314. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE HARDBALL CAFE OF MAIN STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/04/21. Office location: Suffolk SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 99 Main St Cooperstown, NY, 13326. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of SafeTherapeutics LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/06/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/14/17. Princ. office of LLC: 300 E. 59th St., #502, NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mark Kupersmith at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of JOEY NECHADIM PARTNERS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 8807 CHEN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/22/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6814 Fort Hamilton Pkwy 1st Fl Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ANIRA STUDIOS LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/25/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 212 W 91ST ST APT 423 New York, NY, 10024.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of RALJ HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Lewis Tepper, 175 W. 72nd St., Apt. 6H, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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January 18, 2021

FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK In the Matter of a Family Offense Proceeding

File#: Docket#:

310515 0-06563-20

Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett, Petitioner, - against Courtland A. Thompson,

SUMMONS (Publication)

[02] Refrain from assault, stalking, harassment, aggravated harassment, menacing, reckless endangerment, strangulation, criminal obstruction of breathing or circulation, disorderly conduct, criminal mischief, sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, forcible touching, intimidation, threats, identity theft, grand larceny, coercion, unlawful dissemination or publication of intimate image(s) or any criminal offense against Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971); It is further ordered that this tempora1y orderofprotection shall remain in force until and including March 01, 2021, but if you fail to appear in comi on this date, the order may be extended and continue in effect until a new date set by the Court. Dated:

December 28, 2020

ENTER

Respondent.

IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: To: Courtland A. Thompson 29-18 Beach Channel Drive Far Rockaway, NY 11691 A petition under Article 8 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court requesting the following relief: Order of Protection; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before this Court on Date/Time: March 1, 2021 at 9:01 AM Purpose: Return of Process Part: NYCCVO-3 Room: Virtual Room Presiding: TBD Judge, Clerk’s Office Location: click to join or call (347) 378-4143 code 483 635 897# to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 8 of the Family Court Act. On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest. Dated: December 28, 2020 Juan R. Paez, Clerk of Court TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of TBD Judge, Clerk’s Office of the Family Court, New York County, dated and filed with the petition and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, New York County.

PRESENT: Honorable Anna R. Lewis In the Matter of a FAMILY OFFENSE Proceeding Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971), Petitioner tion

File# 310515 Docket# 0-06563-20 Temporary Order of Protec-

- against Courtland A. Thompson (DOB: 03/09/1964), Respondent

Honorable Anna R. Lewis PURSUANT TO SECTION 1113 OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT, AN APPEAL FROM THIS ORDER MUST BE TAKEN WITHIN 30 DAYS OF RECEIPT OF THE ORDER BY APPELLANT IN COURT, 35 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF MAILING OF THE ORDER TO APPELLANT BY THE CLERK OF COURT, OR 30 DAYS AFTER SERVICE BY A PARTY OR THE ATTORNEY FOR THE CHILD UPON THE APPELLANT, WHICHEVER IS EARLIEST.

Ex Parte

NOTICE: YOUR FAILURE TO OBEY THIS ORDER MAY SUBJECT YOU TO MANDATORY ARREST AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, WHICH MAY RESULT IN YOUR INCARCERATION FOR UP TO SEVEN YEARS FOR CRIMINAL CONTEMPT, AND/OR MAY SUBJECT YOU TO FAMILY COURT PROSECUTION AND INCARCERATION FOR UP TO SIX MONTHS FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR IN COURT WHEN YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO SO, THIS ORDER MAY BE EXTENDED IN YOUR ABSENCE AND THEN CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL A NEW DATE SET BY THE COURT. THIS ORDER OF PROTECTION WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT EVEN IF THE PROTECTED PARTY HAS, OR CONSENTS TO HAVE, CONTACT OR COMMUNICATION WITH THE PARTY AGAINST WHOM THE ORDER IS ISSUED. THIS ORDER OF PROTECTION CAN ONLY BE MODIFIED OR TERMINATED BY THE COURT. THE PROTECTED PARTY CANNOT BE HELD TO VIOLATE THIS ORDER NOR BE ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING THIS ORDER. A petition under Article 8 of the Family Court Act, having been filed on July 21, 2020 in this Comt and good cause having been shown, and Courtland A. Thompson having been not present in Court. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Comtland A. Thompson (DOB:03/09/1964) observe the following conditions of behavior: [01] Stay away from: [A] Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971); [BJ the home of Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971) at 13-83 Pinson Street Floor 1st, Far Rockaway, NY 11691; [E] the place of employment of Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971); [14] Refrain from communication or any other contact by mail, telephone, e-mail, voice-mail or other electronic or any other means with Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971);

The Family Court Act provides that presentation of a copy of this order of protection to any police officer or peace officer acting pursuant to his or her special duties authorizes, and sometimes requires such officer to arrest a person who is alleged to have violated its te1ms and to bring him or her before the court to face penalties authorized by law. Federal law requires that this order is effective outside, as well as inside, New York State. It must be honored and enforced by state and h•ibal courts, including courts of a state, the District of Columbia, a commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, if the person restrained by the order is an intimate partner of the protected pmty and has or will be afforded reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard in accordance with state law sufficient to protect due process rights (18 U.S.C §§ 2265, 2266). It is a federal crime to: • cross state lines to violate this order or to stalk, harass or commit domestic violence against an intimate partner or family member; • buy, possess or transfer a handgun, rifle, shotgun or other firearm or ammunition while this Order remains in effect (Note: there is a limited exception for militmy or law enforcement officers but only while they are on duty) ; and • buy, possess or transfer a handgun, rifle, shotgun or other firearm or ammunition after a conviction of a domestic violence-related crime involving the use or attempted use of physical force or a deadly weapon against an intimate partner or family member, even after this Order has expired (18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(8), 922(g)(9), 2261, 2261A, 2262). Check Applicable Box(es): [ ] Party against whom order was issued was advised in Court of issuance and contents of Order [ ] Order personally served in Court upon party against whom order was issued [x] Service directed by other means: Other [] [Modifications or extensions only]: Order mailed on [specify date and to whom mailed]: [] Wan-ant issued for party against whom order was issued[specify date]: _ []ADDITIONAL SERVICE INFORMATION [specify]:

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DONALD TRUMP President Donald Trump will go down in history as many things, but this week he cemented another legacy: the first president in history to be impeached twice. We may never know what Trump’s immediate reaction to his second impeachment was. In addition to being vacated from the White House this month, he’s also been kicked off Twitter. It’s hard to say which one he’ll miss more.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened New York’s stake as an arts and culture hub. But with the help of the New York State Council on the Arts led by Mara Manus, New York will bring some star power back to state with pop-up events from celebrities like Amy Schumer and Chris Rock.

LESTER YOUNG JR.

Since its formation in 1784, the state Board of Regents has never had a Black chancellor. That changed when the board unanimously elected Lester Young Jr. to the position. Young has been in public service for 50 years. Since 2008, he’s been a regent at large.

According to this candidate for Staten Island borough president, sometimes you just gotta say “Heil Hitler.” Except… you really don’t. You should literally never say that. Remauro tried to walk back her statement by saying she meant “mein Führer”... which also, no?!

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The Bronx Democrat is fighting for political survival after alleged domestic abuse. State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins took away his chairmanship of the Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee and a growing group of legislative colleagues are calling for his resignation.

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RAY MCGUIRE FOR MAYOR; EVAN EL-AMIN/SHUTTERSTOCK

RAY MCGUIRE The Met Gala was canceled, so the new place for the city’s rich and powerful to be seen is mayoral candidate Ray McGuire’s fundraising rolls. The former Citigroup vice chair raised $5 million in his first three months from the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Seinfeld (wife of Jerry) and Knicks owner James Dolan. But winning over the rich was the easy part. Will the average New Yorker want to grab a Dom Perignon with him?

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