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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS has been filling out his administration and has included women of color to serve as his deputy mayors. However, some observers, including City & State’s Jeff Coltin, have pointed out the exclusion of Latinos among those deputies.

Adams does have Latinos appointed to high-ranking positions, like Ydanis Rodriguez at the Department of Transportation, Louis Molina at the Department of Correction and Roberto Perez at the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. But the exclusion of Latinos, especially Latinas, among Adams’ deputies, has struck a nerve with some like activist and Hostos College professor Howard Jordan and Erica Gonzalez, director of Power 4 Puerto Rico, who have openly vented their disappointment. Adams apparently broke a long-standing tradition of appointing Latino deputy mayors that first began under Ed Koch’s administration with his appointment of Herman Badillo. Latina deputy mayors, NY1’s Juan Manuel Benítez reported, served under David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio.

“Mayor Adams is committed to building a team that looks like New York City – and that’s exactly what he’s doing,” a spokesperson responded by email when asked for comment. “His administration has been full of historic firsts, including the first Latinos to lead the Department of Corrections and the Department of Transportation, as well as Latinas leading the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services. Mayor Adams is also proud to have appointed the first DREAMer to serve as commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.” Adams still has the opportunity to fill more positions with Latinas, but I doubt he’ll convince all his critics that some traditions are worth breaking.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

SHELDON SILVER … 8

The late Assembly speaker’s legacy

CITY COUNCIL … 12

Addressing maternal mortality and family care

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BIRTH CENTERS … 16 Hochul watered down a new licensing law.

50 OVER 50 … 23

New York’s age disruptors

WINNERS & LOSERS … 66

Who was up and who was down last week

Greater access to birth centers and doulas could result in better outcomes for mothers.

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“I know it’s been a rough couple of weeks in the Bronx, but y’all didn’t have to get rid of me already.”

New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke at a vigil the night after two NYPD officers were fatally shot in Harlem. The mayor has spent much of his nascent term visiting sites of tragedy.

DEADLY SHOOTING LEADS TO NEW SAFETY PLANS

Two New York City police officers were fatally shot while responding to a routine domestic disturbance call, rocking the city further after a series of other high-profile

shooting deaths in recent weeks. It prompted Mayor Eric Adams, who ran on a campaign of public safety and supporting the NYPD, to release a new gun violence prevention plan to help tackle the crisis facing the city. A key part of that plan is making good on his promise to reinstate the anti-crime

- Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, in a tweet after the city DOT installed a sign naming the wrong person as Bronx borough president, via the Post

unit disbanded under former Mayor Bill de Blasio with 400 members who would focus on gun crimes. Adams also doubled down on his call to amend the state’s bail reform law, though it is not directly related to the officers’ murder nor any of the other shootings making headlines this

TRAGEDY MULTIPLIED Violent crime continues to rock the beginning of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ first term. A day after Adams announced a plan to combat gun violence, the New York City Police Department announced that Wilbert Mora, the second officer in the Harlem shooting that killed officer Jason Rivera, had died.

AmNewYork was one of several papers to pay tribute to the officers on their cover last week.

“The death of police officers is not what abolition is. Abolition is an end to violence altogether.”

– New York City Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan, an NYPD critic who represents the district where two police officers were fatally shot, via The New York Times

month. The mayor wants the state to allow judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness when deciding on pretrial detention, but both legislative leaders indicated there is no appetite in their conferences to make changes. Gov. Kathy Hochul also indicated that she would not champion the issue in Albany.

But the pair did make a joint appearance at the inaugural meeting of Hochul’s interstate gun task force, first proposed in her State of the State address, that aims to stem the flow of out-ofstate guns into New York.

Hochul also indicated that she may take action with regard to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has come under scrutiny for his anti-carceral policies and directives not to prosecute a variety of crimes. In response to the deadly police shooting, Bragg added a new prosecutor to his office specifically to handle gun crimes.

DISGRACED FORMER ASSEMBLY SPEAKER DIES

The once powerful Sheldon Silver, who served as speaker of the Assembly for two decades, died at the age of 77. He was serving out a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for corruption when he died. Silver was first convicted in 2015, although it took several more years before he

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actually went to prison.

Before he was brought down by scandal, Silver was a well-respected liberal leader known for his negotiation and dealmaking skills, even when he was the only Democrat among the “three men in a room.”

REDISTRICTING REVERTS TO LEGISLATURE

After the Independent Redistricting Commission failed to compromise on a new set of maps to send to lawmakers, the state Legislature once again has total control over drawing new legislative lines. State legislators had rejected

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both the Republican and Democratic set of maps the commission originally sent them, giving the commission two weeks to return with something new. At the end of those two weeks, commissioners had no new maps to offer after failing to even meet to discuss a compromise.

Both legislative leaders promised to draw fair maps and plan to approve new district lines for Congress, the state Senate and the Assembly within the next week. Good government groups want lawmakers to hold hearings on the maps they propose, but given the speedy timeline leaders are eyeing, the prospect seems unlikely.

After a failed process, the state Independent Redistricting Commission handed off the reins to the state Legislature, led by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, left, and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, right.

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WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY 1/31 State lawmakers return to Albany for a scheduled three days of legislating.

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Eric Adams is on Signal New York City Mayor Eric Adams is different from his predecessor in many ways, but the two appear to share an interest in a style of communication that has raised ethics and legal questions. Adams uses the encrypted messaging app Signal, which can be set to automatically delete messages between users.

When former Mayor Bill de Blasio joined Signal in 2020, good-government experts raised concerns that it could be used to flout a state law that requires all kinds of communications and information produced and held by the mayor’s office – and other city agencies – to be retained. “If you have an elected official who is using an encrypted app, essentially they are exploiting a loophole in the Freedom of Information Law,” John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, told City & State when asked about Adams’ use of the app. “It’s essentially impossible to retrieve documents other than using court order under a criminal subpoena from an app like that.”

Adams appears to have done more than just join the app.

Adams’ personal cellphone number is registered to a Signal account. The mayor responded to a message from City & State through the app on Jan. 26 but denied that he used the app to

INSIDE DOPE

Albany Democrats plan on voting on the final maps for legislative and congressional districts by the end of the week.

communicate about City Hall business. “This is my private phone number,” Adams told City & State over Signal. “Government business is conducted on my government phone.”

Others in Adams’ circle appear to be using the app as well. Frank Carone, chief of staff to the mayor, responded to a Signal message from City & State on Jan. 26, but also clarified that he was communicating from his private phone number. Carone’s City Hall phone number is not registered on Signal. Carone did not respond when asked if he ever uses the app to discuss government business.

While neatly separating government business from nongovernment business might seem to address ethics concerns, Kaehny wasn’t convinced. “The odds that anyone who is using an app like Signal is going to then forward that to an email that can be searched by their FOIL counsel is zero,” he said.

Adams is far from the only elected official who is shown to have an account on Signal, and it’s impossible to know whether – or how much – those registered on the app actually use it to communicate.

– By Annie McDonough, with additional reporting by Jeff Coltin

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THURSDAY 2/3

Environmental conservation is the topic of conversation at a virtual budget hearing hosted by the state Senate and Assembly.

President Joe Biden is expected to visit New York City and meet with Mayor Eric Adams to discuss combating gun violence.

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NONFUNGIBLE … POLITICIANS? THEIR POSITIONS ON ISSUES MAY CHANGE, BUT YOUR OWNERSHIP OF A UNIQUE DIGITAL IMAGE WON’T.

By Rebecca C. Lewis

At the advent of blockchain technology, the sky was the limit. But what do we have now? Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are the new way of owning a digital image while also spending thousands of dollars. Sure, anyone can take a screenshot and save your image, but only you will truly own a mediocre cartoon drawing of a monkey.

So what’s to stop politicians from joining in the craze? New York City does, after all,

have its first cryptocurrency mayor in Eric Adams. Maybe he’ll want to get into the NFT game.

To get the ball rolling, Ryan Adams, a co-founder of HZQ Consulting, got an artist to whip up some Adams NFTs after a rousing cryptocurrency conversation with this reporter. We’ll start the bidding at $200,000 (not actually) for the earring Adams.

EARRING ADAMS

BASIC ADAMS

Now this exciting offering will get the attention of Claire’s fans across New York City who want to memorialize his ear piercing in July after he won the Democratic mayoral primary.

This is your entry-level Adams for NFT buyers on a budget: No unique attributes, perfect for fans of your bog standard mayor.

SUNGLASSES ADAMS While these specs aren’t as cool as his Ray-Ban Aviators, sometimes after you’re out with the boys at night, you need sunglasses when you get up with the men in the morning.

MASK ADAMS

Masks may fall out of fashion if this pandemic ever ends, but Adams’ mask swagger will never become outdated.

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I ran a primary and a general election on public safety. We know that that is the top concern of New Yorkers in all five boroughs.

A Q&A with New York City Council Public Safety Committee Chair

KAMILLAH HANKS

What was your reaction to the mayor’s Blueprint to End Gun Violence?

I ran a primary and a general election on public safety. We know that that is the top concern of New Yorkers in all five boroughs. So we were very encouraged and happy that now there’s something that has been put together. And my initial comments about it is that it covers all the aspects that people are talking about. It’s not only policing reform, but it also talks about how we’re going to help people with local community groups, enhancing neighborhood safety teams and talking about partnerships. It’s full of some preventative

(measures), some intervention. Hopefully, when we really dig deeper – because we’re still doing that – we could understand what it’s going to look like on a district by district basis.

Are there positions on policing where you already know that you diverge from the mayor?

Is there anything you think was missing from the blueprint?

I think that the biggest question in everybody’s mind – and the biggest question in my mind – is the rollout. The blueprint is great. And now we want to know, how do we roll this out? How do we communicate? How do we support legislators, law enforcement on a local

level, district by district, how do we do that?

Are you on board with the mayor’s reimagined anti-gun units? Do you have any concerns about them given the problems with previous iterations of the plainclothes units?

So what do we know?

We know the things that didn’t work. We know the things that we needed to change. And I believe that on first blush – and it’s very important that these are all cursory – I believe the intention is very different from previous. When we’re intentional about, first and foremost, respecting people’s civil liberties, then I believe that how we structure that is going to keep that in mind. I believe

that the mayor’s plan has taken a lot of those things into consideration. Now, are there going to be concerns and questions?

Of course there are. It’s not a one size fits all for each district.

The mayor called on the state to allow judges to consider dangerousness when considering pretrial detention and bail, and to revisit a law that raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18. Do you also support revisiting these standards?

These are going to be the controversial issues. As a council member, I would want to know how that plays out on the ground.

A lot more needs to be

learned and a lot more needs to be digested so each of us can make wellinformed decisions. As my role as public safety chair, that’s my top priority, to make sure that everybody understands that people have the ability to comment, to ask questions and have their concerns and questions addressed.

But as far as asking the state to revisit bail laws, would you be interested in seeing that too?

I think we have to revisit everything, because we’re in a different time. When we know a little bit better, then we can do better, or we can address things and not make the same errors that we might have made before.

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SHELDON SILVER 1944 - 2022 The former Assembly speaker’s backroom deals were key to his grip on power – and his downfall.

LBANY’S MOST notorious “three men in a room” is now down to two – the remainder of whom are all but banished from the state Capitol where they once wielded undue influence that has been dismantled in recent years by the unveiling of corrupt behavior either practiced or concealed by the trio.

The men – former Assembly Speaker Sheldon “Shelly” Silver, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos – exemplified the smoke-filled backroom dealing that dominated state politics for decades, if not centuries, and was said to have created a culture of self-serving secrecy and patriarchy.

Silver died on Jan. 24 at the age of 77 in a Massachusetts federal prison where he was serving out a 6 1/2-year sentence for fraud, extortion and money laundering. Skelos is two years into his four-year sentence on corruption-related charges in a separate case. And Cuomo, who once fondly referred to the group as “the three amigos,” faced a slew of probes related to sexual harassment, his personal book deal and pandemic nursing home policies.

Silver’s epic fall from grace marked the beginning of a seismic shift at the statehouse that stripped the three men of their power.

Until his arrest in 2015 on a series of corruption and money laundering charges, Silver was known as a soft-spoken but arm-twisting deal-maker whose two decades as speaker was one of the longest tenures in the Assembly’s history. Years after his conviction, colleagues continued to sing his praises, touting his legacy on education and LGBTQ rights.

On a personal level, Silver represented a fading breed of New Yorker who was raised and lived his entire life within a several block radius on the Lower East Side where his Russian-Jewish parents immigrated in the early 20th century. Until he was finally imprisoned at the age of 76 in August 2020, Silver was

regularly seen visiting the neighborhood’s iconic Jewish establishments, one of which, Ratner’s, reportedly served as a de facto office where he brokered the illicit deals that landed him behind bars.

In the wake of his death, Silver was remembered for his “complicated legacy.”

“If you look at what he did for early education and education in general, and you look at what he and Joe Bruno did here in the Capital Region regarding not only Sematech, Nano Tech and GlobalFoundries – our region has some of the best growth in the state of New York. But unfortunately it’s tarnished because of what he was convicted of and what he spent the rest of his life in prison for,” Assembly Member John McDonald III told CBS6 in Albany.

Silver’s stunning 2015 arrest threw the Capitol into turmoil just after the start of the legislative session. It came with a sweeping federal indictment that laid out yearslong corruption schemes he engineered to the tune of millions of dollars.

In one piece of Silver’s two-pronged plot, federal investigators found that he urged developers to hire a law firm run by his former Assembly counsel, Jay Arthur Goldberg, who paid him about $1 million in fees over the years in exchange for referrals.

Among the real estate clients who hired Goldberg’s firm, Goldberg & Iryami, at Silver’s behest were Glenwood Management, a luxury apartment developer, and The Witkoff Group, which had business interests in Silver’s district in downtown Manhattan. As part of the deal with Glenwood, Silver met with its lobbyists and fought for legislation that would benefit the company.

The revelations forced a swift fall from grace for Silver. He tendered his resignation as speaker on Jan. 30, 2015, a week after his arrest, but kept his Assembly seat. Silver was convicted in November of that year on all seven charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering related to his schemes, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He appealed the deci-

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World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein shows a model of the new building to Sheldon Silver, left.

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sion and was reconvicted in 2018. In a third appeal in 2020, his charges related to the real estate developers were thrown out and he was given a six-and-a-half-year sentence plus a $1.75 million fine.

Silver’s federal indictment proved what many in Albany had suspected of the speaker for more than a decade.

His personal injury law practice, for years, was the subject of speculation about whether it was ethically sound for him to make money on the side without conflicting with his state responsibilities. He helped found Weitz & Luxenberg and remained on the firm’s payroll during his time in the Assembly, while claiming he could not reveal his salary or clients. And in a particularly bizarre case that demonstrated Silver’s commitment to avoiding public scrutiny, he blamed another lawyer with the same name for fighting off the construction of low-income housing in his district on the Lower East Side. Silver said the letters he sent beginning in the 1970s on behalf of the United Jewish Council, which opposed the project, were in fact sent by a Sheldon E. Silver from Brooklyn. The identity debacle was brought to light in a New York Times article in 2014, after the Brooklyn lawyer died, and while the land dispute was still ongoing.

In addition to the corruption charges, Silver was accused of helping foster a culture in Albany that allowed Cuomo’s behavior to thrive and remain hidden for years.

In 2000, Silver survived a coup led by then-Assembly Majority Leader Michael Bragman and others who accused him of operating a “dictatorship” that catered to lobbyists and left lawmakers in the dark. The fallout put an exclamation point on the very tactics the coup sought to dismantle – in the wake of Silver’s victory, Bragman was stripped of his title, budget, office and staff.

In another example of Silver’s unyielding power over the Assembly, he twice killed plans championed by then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In 2005, Silver refused to approve a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan that many hoped would bring the 2012 Olympics to the city.

Silver was also accused of covering up sexual misconduct allegations against two of his allies. He refused to bring an ethics investigation against former Assembly Member Vito Lopez, who was accused by two former female aides in 2013 of a pattern of sexual harrassment and groping. A decade earlier, Silver’s office allegedly sent a threatening letter to a woman who accused Assembly lawyer Michael Boxley of raping her. The woman, Elizabeth Crothers, now a co-founder of the Sexual Harasssment Working Group, said

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Silver and then City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in 2006

Then Gov. George Pataki, center, and Silver, right, at the 2002 reopening of the Winter Garden Atrium.

“The events that are outlined in these trials have brought a great distrust in New York government.

I am extremely, extremely remorseful for that.”

– former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, at a 2018 sentencing hearing

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Silver and Hillary Clinton at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

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Silver and former Mayor Bill de Blasio visit a pre-K classroom in 2014.

Then Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer with Silver in 2013

Silver blew her off when she told him about the alleged rape in the early 2000s. When she publicly criticized Silver two years later, his office sought to silence her, according to reports.

Skelos’ and Silver’s 2015 indictments not only left Cuomo without his staunchest allies but shed light on his failure to execute the ethics reforms that were, ironically, supposed to be a hallmark of his legacy.

Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission that was set up to investigate corruption a year before the indictments, which repeatedly referenced the group’s work. In the wake of the charges, Cuomo was heavily criticized for shuttering the commission, which was taken over by then-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, setting off a rivalry between the two that has bled into Cuomo’s recent scandals.

Bharara brought both of the cases against both Silver and Skelos, one of many similarities between the two trials, which played out concurrently. Each entangled Glenwood Management and ended in yearslong appeals that allowed the former legislators to avoid their prison sentences.

Skelos was convicted in 2015 of influencing companies with business before the state to hire his son, Adam, in a series of no-show jobs that netted the younger Skelos $300,000. Glenwood, prosecutors said, was one of three firms the senator pressured to hire his son, along with an environmental company and medical malpractice insurer. In Glenwood’s case, the U.S. attorney’s office charged Skelos with repaying the firm by lobbying for legislation and tax abatements that would benefit the company while threatening to punish anyone who challenged him. Glenwood

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was fined $270,000 by the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics for its involvement in the scandals.

Skelos, now 73, won an appeal of his 2015 conviction, was retried in 2018 and sentenced to four years and three months in prison, slightly less than the five years he was given at his 2016 sentencing. His son’s sentence was reduced to four years in the second trial from the six and a half years he was initially given. Skelos began his sentence at a federal facility in Otisville in 2019, five years after the initial charges were brought. Silver reported to prison in August 2020. He was furloughed for two days last year early in the pandemic.

Silver spent the final years of his life hoping for leniency. President Donald Trump quashed one of his final chances at early release by refusing to grant him clemency before he left office in 2020. In a rare moment of humility, Silver expressed regret for his actions at his 2018 sentencing.

“The events that are outlined in these trials have brought a great distrust in New York government. I am extremely, extremely remorseful for that,” he told U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, who described him as “deeply corrupt.”

Now, with the state’s first female governor in office, Albany political watchers are waiting to see if her administration can finally rebuild the trust broken by the “three men in a room.” Gov. Kathy Hochul has made it clear she’s well aware of the task at hand.

“No one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment,” Hochul said during her first public appearance after Cuomo announced his resignation. “My administration will be fully transparent.”

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The new majority

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ITH 31 WOMEN, the New York City Council has for the first time in its history a female majority. And with City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, the body will be led by a woman too.

The women who are returning to the council or joining it for the first time have long lists of legislative priorities that cut across gender identities – from police accountability and education equity to af-

Women finally make up most of the New York City Council. How will that change the body’s priorities?

fordable housing and transit accessibility.

But for some of the women who make up the council’s new female majority, the new session represents an opportunity to bring increased attention to issues such as the maternal mortality crisis and stubborn pay disparities – so-called women’s issues, even if the term is a bit of a misnomer. “They’re not solely our issues, they’re everyone’s issues,” said new Democratic Council Member Marjorie Velázquez.

As several council members pointed out,

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it’s not the case that these kinds of issues have been previously ignored by council members. The City Council has allocated money to an abortion access fund in the past, and both the state and city have introduced plans to confront maternal mortality – though follow-through on those plans has fallen short of health advocates’ hopes.

But with more women in the City Council than ever, some members said there’s now a better chance of seeing action on these and other issues that primarily affect

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The group 21 in ’21 hoped to elect 21 women to the City Council. They far exceeded that goal.

women. “We have more expecting and new young parents and mothers in the council. We have people who are the primary caregivers in their family,” said Democratic Council Member Carlina Rivera. “The issues that we take on will be very, very intersectional. Anti-racist, anti-poverty, focusing on supporting families.”

Maternal mortality is one area in which the City Council and New York City Mayor Eric Adams may have an opportunity to work together. Adams campaigned on a

promise to increase access to doulas, particularly in parts of the city with low access to health care and higher risk factors. Research has shown that support from trained professionals like doulas during pregnancy and childbirth can help improve health outcomes and experiences for mothers.

Black women in particular have been found to have higher rates of maternal mortality. A 2020 study from the New York State Health Foundation found that Black women were more than twice as

likely to experience potentially life-threatening complications during or after childbirth. The mortality gap is even higher.

The issue hits home for members including Velázquez, who represents Bronx neighborhoods including Pelham Bay and Throggs Neck, and Democratic City Council Member Rita Joseph, who represents parts of Central Brooklyn. In recent years, the Bronx and Brooklyn have had the highest rates of severe maternal morbidity, defined as experiencing life-threatening

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conditions during pregnancy.

Joseph campaigned on advocating for universal access to doulas. “I’m a Black woman, I made it out, thank God, but there are so many others that do not,” said Joseph, who has four children. As Joseph points out, doula services are not currently covered by Medicaid in New York – though the state did experiment with a pilot program offering some reimbursement for doula care in Brooklyn and Buffalo. Adams has proposed his own city-funded pilot program to offer free doula services – potentially fully funded through the city’s budget if partial Medicaid reimbursement couldn’t come through.

Velázquez, meanwhile, said that one of her priorities is securing a women’s and children’s health center in the Bronx, a type of facility it currently lacks. “We can get there through talking to Health + Hospitals, but more importantly, looking at it as a capital project and just delivering those funds through there,” she said.

A second step, Velázquez said, is ensuring birthing centers are fully staffed and fully funding public hospitals in order to do so.

During the pandemic, Rivera was among those who advocated for doulas to be classified as essential workers so that they were able to be present in maternity wards. “I’m not sure why we have to fight to make that classification necessary,” she told Gothamist last year. “But it’s certainly something that we’re proud of.” Rivera said she plans to reintroduce a bill in the council that would mandate hospitals develop and communicate clear guidelines regarding visitation in public health emergencies to ensure people in labor can have access to birth workers whenever possible.

The COVID-19 pandemic also made clear that caregiving work – both for children and the elderly – more often than not falls on women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 2 in 3 caregivers in the country are women. Women also left the workforce at higher rates than men during the pandemic, often to take care of children out of school and day care.

While New York City has made strides with universal pre-K, some council members said there’s still work to do

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Council Member Rita Joseph has called for action on pay equity.

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to provide accessible and affordable child and family care support across the city.

“I know that for myself, we’re sort of in that sandwich generation, where we’re taking care of our kids as well as parents,” said Linda Lee, a new Democratic council member from Eastern Queens.

Lee praised the previous administration’s work on universal pre-K, but said that support for people taking care of older relatives is lacking and she’s looking to beef up the city Department for the Aging’s budget. “I’m looking at this from a preventative measure, how can we put systems in place to take care of our elderly,” Lee said.

Lee, who comes from the nonprofit sec“They’re tor, added that not solely she went back our issues, to work three months after they’re giving birth everyone’s and found that few child care issues.” centers accepted children that young. “Those places that are – New York City Council Member willing to have Marjorie Velázquez, child care for on maternal three months mortality and gender and up, how pay disparities do we support them more?”

Lee asked.

“What are some of the barriers that they’re facing? … If you’re not looking for those services, you wouldn’t know.”

The three Republican women who are joining the council – Inna Vernikov, Vickie Paladino and Joann Ariola – did not respond to requests for comment for this story. But several other members who spoke to City & State said they anticipate working with those members to address issues that affect women. Lee said she has spoken with Paladino, whose neighboring Queens district resembles her own in having a large elderly population. “In that sense, we both share the same concern of what’s going to happen with the older population,” Lee said.

Sandra Ung, a new Democratic council member from Flushing, has said that a top legislative priority is expanding language

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access for city services and programs. It’s a problem she has encountered in trying to help her own parents, who are immigrants, navigate city services.

She said providing services to the elderly or child care programs doesn’t mean much if they’re not accessible to all New Yorkers. “Before they roll out a program, they think, ‘Oh, we’ll figure out the language access later,’” Ung said of the city’s current approach. “When you roll out a program without figuring out the language access part to it, people (for whom) English is not their first language, they’re not going to get the benefit of the resources.”

Access to safe and affordable abortions is another issue lawmakers are hoping to shine a light on. While New York codified protections of Roe v. Wade in state law in 2019 with the Reproductive Health Act, affordability and access barriers still remain. In 2019, the New York City Council first allocated $250,000 to the New York Abortion Access Fund, which provides financial assistance to clinics who see patients who can’t cover the costs of abortions. Rivera said that that funding should continue. “I think it should be baselined in the city budget,” she said. “I think it’s not only proven to be helpful, it’s been a model for the rest of the nation.”

Several council members also said that addressing pay disparities across the city is crucial. Pew Research Center data showed in 2020 that women in the U.S. earned about 84% of what men earned.

While the council has passed laws aimed at addressing these gaps – the council passed a bill at the end of the last session that requires salary ranges to be included in all job postings – one avenue city lawmakers might have to attack pay gaps is through their own workforce. A report mandated by a 2019 city law found that within the municipal workforce, the median salary for men is $21,600 higher than the median salary for women, while the median salary for a white employee is $27,800 higher than for a Black employee and $22,200 higher than for a Hispanic or Latino employee.

“I don’t want it to be a hashtag,” Joseph said of pay equity, referring to the pithy calls for parity that tend to circulate on social media on Equal Pay Day, March 7.

“I want it to become a reality.”

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Gov. Kathy Hochul put advocates in a tough position on a licensing law for midwifeowned birth centers.

By Lee Harris

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AST YEAR, the state Legislature unanimously passed a bill to clear regulatory hurdles midwives face when attempting to open a birth center.

The legislation passed by the state Senate and Assembly would have allowed midwives to rely largely on approval by a national accrediting body when seeking a license from the state Department of Health.

The department had previously issued licensing requirements so onerous that not a single prospective midwife-led birth center had completed an application.

But before signing the bill, Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted on keeping licensing power with the health department, reintroducing complex criteria that the bill was meant to bypass.

It was the latest instance of the new governor’s reliance on chapter amendments – late-stage tweaks or wholesale overhauls of bills – to negotiate with progressives behind closed doors, where she keeps most of the leverage.

The bill sponsors said the amended bill was still an improvement on the status quo. “We didn’t get everything we wanted. But I think the situation will be a lot better going forward,” Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, the Health Committee chair, told New York Focus and City & State. “In legislation, you take half a loaf.”

The issue split birth advocates, who said that at a last-minute meeting in December, sponsors gave them a choice between accepting the amendments or risking the governor’s veto.

One camp reasoned that the amended legislation would still give them a foothold to negotiate future regulations with the health department. Others favored letting the governor reject the bill and starting over with a public pressure campaign, rather than pursuing the insider strategy they said the bill’s sponsors urged.

MATERNAL MORTALITY There are no birth centers in New York run by midwives, and fewer than five free-standing centers – facilities not located in hospitals – in the state.

It hasn’t always been this way, in a state that helped launch the natural birth movement of the 1960s and ’70s. There have been a spate of closings in the past two decades. Soho Midwives, the Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center and Bellevue Birth Center all closed in the 2000s. Hospital closures followed: St Vincent’s in 2010 and Mount Sinai West Birthing Center in 2018.

Childbirth has also gotten riskier. New York City’s cesarean section rate soared by 36% between 2000 and 2007, according to the

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state health department. While C-sections are the best approach for many pregnancies, the surgery comes with a higher risk of death, infection or complications like blood clots, compared to vaginal birth.

Alone among developed countries, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. has increased in recent years. That rate, a key public health indicator, is dramatically higher for Black and Hispanic women.

Between 2006 and 2010, Black women in New York City were 12 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. The disparity is multicausal: racism and medical discrimination, access to health care coverage and high blood pressure all play roles.

Midwives have been shown to improve outcomes for low-risk pregnancies. Birth centers are understudied in the U.S., but in the U.K., where the National Health Service offers midwives at home or in free-standing centers, a study found that healthy women who gave birth in birth centers were less likely to have a C-section, episiotomy, forceps or vacuum delivery, while mortality outcomes were roughly equal.

Why are birth centers so rare? One key reason is cost: Midwives are exposed to the same liabilities as obstetric units, but perform fewer billable services.

In New York, another top obstacle had been that midwives could not operate their own centers; they had to be supervised by medical doctors. The state passed legislation in 2016 to change that, but the state health department took years to issue new rules.

ONEROUS GUIDELINES The pandemic spurred interest in births outside of hospitals. Under pressure, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo put together a COVID-19 Maternity Task Force, which told the health department in April 2020 to finish the licensing process on an accelerated schedule. The department issued a new accreditation process in June 2020, but the regulations were so tough that not a single prospective birth center completed an application.

Advocates said that was because the rules were better suited to major hospitals than small birthing rooms. Birth centers fall under Article 28 facility requirements

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in New York, a condition for receiving Medicaid reimbursements. The licensing process requires midwives to win approval through the Certificate of Need (CON) application process run by the Public Health and Health Planning Council.

“The CON and licensure process in New York state is the most onerous and expensive in the U.S.,” said Jill Alliman, a director at the nonprofit American Association of Birth Centers. Other states exempted birth centers from the CON process. In New York it is so complex, she said, that most entities hire a consultant to complete it.

In a statement, the health department said that the CON is necessary to ensure applicants meet safety criteria.

“The intent is not to create a burden but rather to make sure that a proper standard of care is being met across New York state.

This also helps to protect each of the provider groups to make sure standards are upheld by all entities,” the department said.

“The intent is not to create a burden but rather to make sure that a proper standard of care is being met across New York state.”

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“It goes back to this patriarchal view that doctors need to be in control,” Winkler said. Others see it as a conflict of interest: Birth centers must go up for review and approval from doctors representing the major hospital systems with which they would be direct business competitors.

Maura Winkler is a midwife who opened a birth center in Buffalo that has received national accreditation from the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, but is facing delays in the state CON process. She submitted her application, she said, but hasn’t heard back.

The financing requirements of the application are also overkill, Winkler said.

Under current working capital guidelines, a birth center must estimate its third-year expenses and show that it has two months of that budget on hand before it has opened its doors to patients. Only half of that capital can be borrowed. Winkler said that’s burdensome and shouldn’t apply to small, low-overhead facilities like birth centers.

“I’m not building a facility from scratch that costs millions of dollars,” Winkler said. “It’s a remnant of (the Public Health and Health Planning Council) wanting to know that hospitals have the money to build new facilities so that they don’t get halfway into building it and then run out of money.”

Brooklyn-based midwife Trinisha Williams had been trying to open a birth center in New York City for years but doesn’t see the point in holding a signed commercial lease – another requirement for the application – while she waits for the state to review the application.

“We actually had found a commercial property, and we had started a conversation (about renting a space),” Williams said, a tricky feat in Brooklyn’s volatile rental market. “But when we tried to call the Department of Health to ask questions about the application, no one got back to us for two or three weeks. I was like, you want me to pay for a commercial lease, $9,000 a month, to just sit and wait? I don’t have money like that.”

The Public Health and Health Planning Council is also a source of frustration. The council has a broad array of advisory and decision-making responsibilities related to New York’s health care system, but midwives and advocates of natural birth are not represented on it.

CHAPTER AMENDMENTS In May, after months of activism by midwives, legislation intended to streamline the licensing process passed the state Senate and Assembly.

As passed by the Legislature, the bill was meant to make the health department rely primarily on national standards from the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, which does not require, for example, proof of year three working capital. The state might have required additional basic information, like name and address, but the hope was that the department would rubber-stamp the approval of a national accrediting agency.

But after the bill passed, the governor did not sign it. Months went by, and advocates heard that there was pushback from the executive.

“We were under the mistaken impression that something having passed unanimously would hold a lot of weight for the governor’s office,” said midwife Whitney Hall, president of the New York State Birth Center Association. “Honestly, it never occurred to us that they wouldn’t sign it. It was bizarre.”

When she read the first round of proposed chapter amendments, Hall said, “I was heartbroken.”

That wasn’t the bill’s final form. The executive was pushing to add language specifying more application criteria, and explicitly mentioning Public Health and Health Planning Council’s role. Bill supporters pushed back, including Neelu Shruti, a doula and birth justice advocate studying midwifery, and doula Myla Flores. Bruce McIntyre, who set up a birth equity foundation after his partner Amber Rose Isaac died in childbirth, also emerged as a prominent voice for Black maternal health.

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HIGH-PRESSURE NEGOTIATIONS A back and forth over the amendments carried on through the winter holidays. On the night of Dec. 30, Rivera’s office held a last-minute meeting with Hall, Shruti, McIntyre and Flores. At the high-pressure meeting, the office presented the amendments as a final offer.

“The deal was, take it or leave it. It’s a veto, or you accept these amendments,” Shruti said. “It was extremely secretive, because they were saying, you can’t share these documents with anyone, you can’t talk to anyone.”

Rivera’s office said that if they wanted the veto, they could try again. “But they were very discouraging of that option,” Shruti said, and suggested it might get “flagged” in the future, if it failed at this stage.

Staff also urged advocates to stay in close contact with their office as regulations were issued, which Flores found per-

suasive.

“At least it wasn’t terrible. It’s half decent,” Flores said. “When I saw the language saying that the goal is to harmonize what exists now, here in the state, with what exists nationally, to ultimately serve the intention of the bill, I was like, OK … let’s see what this can do.”

Shruti disagreed: “I personally was like, this is absolutely not what we want.

Just get a veto and then really challenge her in an election year to do the right thing.”

“The birth world is not super politically savvy,” Shruti added. “Now, the governor gets a lot of credit for signing this bill. Both sponsors get a lot of credit for signing this bill. And advocates are now afraid to challenge them to say this bill wasn’t what we wanted because now they’re afraid that this regulatory process isn’t going to go as planned.”

The New York State Birth Center Association, of which Flores and Hall are both members, held an impromptu call shortly after the meeting, Hall said.

Members who joined the call were split over whether moving ahead despite the amendments had been the right choice.

LEGISLATION SIGNED ON NEW YEAR’S EVE “The Department of Health and the Certificate of Need process play a critical role in safeguarding patients and staff in healthcare facilities by requiring applicants to meet certain safety standards and criteria. I have secured an agreement with the Legislature that maintains the legislation’s intended streamlined licensing process for midwifery birth centers, while also balancing the need for adequate oversight from the Department,” Hochul wrote in an approval memo on Dec. 31.

The final version of the bill gave the health department power to use additional licensing criteria, including evidence of the capability to fund renovations and construction costs, as well as life, safety and building standards. It also stated explicitly that some of the standard requirements for an Article 28 license, like an assessment of an owner’s “character and competence,” will apply.

“The real debate was about life and safe-

ty criteria, because that concept can be used to impose onerous limitations that are really not necessary for something like a birthing center,” Gottfried said.

Birth center advocates – including several who ultimately supported the decision to forge ahead despite the amendments – now fear that codifying these criteria in the bill could replicate the lengthy and expensive process of the past. They also fear that delays in the review process could persist.

“It’s a fair concern,” Gottfried acknowledged. “The question is, does the bill, even with the chapter amendment, represent a

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terviews. After Thanksgiving, they said, activists were getting impatient and were advised to apply public pressure – cautiously.

“By Thanksgiving, we were like, well, what’s happening? It’s almost the end of the year,” Shruti said. “They were like, ‘Yeah, I guess you can push. But also, they were saying, ‘Don’t go stand in front of her office.”

Hall said Gottfried and state Sen. Gustavo Rivera’s offices suggested advocates pursue a more conciliatory strategy, but stopped short of telling them what to do.

“They directly said what it would feel like to them if someone was advocating outside of their office. And they used the word aggressive – ‘That feels aggressive.’

So, they don’t tell us what to do, they just tell us what their perception of it is,” she said.

Asked about the claim that his office advised against protesting in front of Hochul’s office, Rivera said, “I did not discourage anyone from doing anything publicly like that.”

He added: “Sometimes there’s highstress moments in which there might have been some disagreements on the tactics.

But ultimately, I will not discourage folks who want to advocate publicly for something, if they feel it is effective.”

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A baby is weighed at Buffalo’s only independent birth center, run by Fika Midwifery.

missioner Dr.) Mary Bassett does.”

Winkler said she worries about the fuzzy language. “Are they going to truly ‘harmonize’ the requirements with (the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers)? And if they don’t, how do we prove to them that they aren’t, how do we hold them accountable to the law?”

step in the right direction? And I think it clearly represents a big step.”

On the final outcome, he added, “I am glad we were able to negotiate with the governor to secure her signature rather than have the bill vetoed, which could kill any movement on a topic for years.”

In negotiations, bill sponsors pushed to add language requiring that health department regulations be developed in consultation with midwives. The final legislation required rules to be “harmonized” with accrediting bodies.

Hall supported moving ahead with the

chapter amendments, but said she’s only cautiously optimistic. While she said the state’s new executive leadership should give midwives hope, she worries that the health department has historically misunderstood the obstacles.

“The lawyers that work for the department of health have an interpretation of the law that’s pretty restrictive,” she said.

She’s waiting for the published regulations to see whether those attorneys’ interpretation wins out. “Do they really see the problem? I think the governor’s office does. I have faith that (Health Department Com-

CHAPTER AMENDMENTS BECOME MORE COMPREHENSIVE Democrats hold supermajorities in the Assembly and state Senate, and both chambers have been emboldened by a new governor reluctant to alienate her left flank.

A closer relationship between elected officials and the governor could mean that advocates are asked to forgo outside pressure for a more inside baseball strategy.

Chapter amendments have been more sweeping under Hochul, said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit state policy organization.

“It seems to be, in some cases, complete overhauls of the bill. It’s unusual,” Horner said. He pointed to “dramatic” changes to other bills requiring health department involvement, including a bill for an antibiotic stewardship program in hospitals and nursing homes, and legislation on unregulated contaminants in drinking water.

When the governor threatens to veto a bill, legislators still have a last-ditch option: A veto override. But that alternative is almost never used – a fact that many attribute to the institutional bias in New York politics toward the executive.

The Legislature can only subtract or delete items from the executive budget. It could decline to approve the budget if the executive refuses to add key priorities, but that would be a risky step.

“If it were a legislative budget, the governor would exercise the veto, which puts the Legislature in the driver’s seat. This is the opposite,” said Phil Steck, an Assembly member representing Schenectady. “So when it comes to chapter amendments, the Legislature often fears there will not be cooperation in negotiating the budget if there’s not cooperation in doing the chapter amendments.”

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Some years ago, Betsy Gotbaum suggested to City & State Publisher Tom Allon that we were missing something by only highlighting younger New Yorkers with our 40 Under 40 lists. The former New York City public advocate and current executive director of the good-government group Citizens Union had a point – and we’ve been honoring our elders with an annual 50 Over 50 feature ever since. The list, which extols the accomplishments and experience of 50 individuals who are over the age of 50, makes a lot of sense.

While more young politicians are winning elected office and taking on key roles at the city, state and

federal levels, there is plenty to be learned from the life lessons of these long-serving leaders.

This is the seventh year City & State has partnered with AARP in praising 50 venerable New Yorkers. In this issue and at a virtual gala celebration on Jan. 31, we recognize the contributions of an impressive group. This includes Westchester County Executive George Latimer, NAACP New York State Conference President Hazel Dukes, former state Office of Addiction Services and Supports Commissioner Arlene GonzálezSánchez, former New York City Council Member Margaret Chin – and even Gotbaum herself.

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Ellen Baer

When Ellen Baer was growing up in Manhattan’s Peter Cooper Village, she didn’t remember visiting Hudson Square. “It was the printing district then,” she recalls. “You would hear old lawyers say, ‘I have to go to Varick Street.’ It was not a place you had any reason to go unless you were picking up your printing.”

Baer spent more than a decade in public service in the Koch and Dinkins administrations before helping to launch the Hudson Square Business Improvement District. At the time, the area had been attracting architecture firms to set up shop in spacious lofts before media companies like Edelman and Viacom moved in.

“Then there was a long time when the buildings were empty and a bunch of architects first started to discover the neighborhood because the rent was cheap and the physical spaces lent themselves to having benching and drafting tables and a need for light,” Baer says. “They really found the neighborhood first.”

Once Trinity Church, which owns 14 acres in Hudson Square, persuaded the New York City Council to rezone the area in 2013, more companies flocked there.

Now, Google and Disney’s campuses are poised to draw thousands of workers to the neighborhood’s cobblestone streets.

Baer, who retired from the BID last fall, expects Hudson Square to continue to thrive. “A BID can’t do something about whether someone can come back to the office or not,” she says.

“But we can make sure when people do come back, the neighborhood is a joyful, safe and welcoming place to be.”

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Donald Capoccia Donald Capoccia’s real estate career has come full circle on the Lower East Side.

Capoccia got his start in a consultant’s office after obtaining a master’s degree in planning at Hunter College. The first project he worked on was developing 72-74 E. 3rd St. after the city put out an RFP for $1.

One-bedroom units sold for $67,000 and two-bedrooms went for $82,000.

“Things have changed since then, but it was a very rough, difficult neighborhood right across the headquarters of the Hells Angels,” Capoccia recalls. “I never ran into them.”

He met his business partners Greg Baron and Peter Ferrara at the end of that job and founded a company with them on a handshake deal. Nearly four decades later, BFC Partners has completed a myriad of transformative affordable housing projects through the metro area, including a 446-unit mixed development in Coney Island and the Bronx Commons in Melrose.

Many of its developments feature amenities that meet community needs, like a fitness center and a pool at the former Bedford Armory in Crown Heights, a food hall and space for a theater at Empire Outlets in Staten Island, and a new home for the Essex Market at the Lower East Side’s Essex Crossing – not far from Capoccia’s first development.

“What we’ve learned along the way is that the ideal project serves the vast array of different incomes and socioeconomic populations,” he says. “The more we can pack into a project, the better opportunity we can serve the families who live in the building and the community as well.”

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Margaret Chin Margaret Chin represented lower Manhattan for the past 12 years, but she traveled farther to get to the New York City Council than any of her colleagues.

Born in Hong Kong, Chin moved with her family in 1963 when she was 9 years old and settled in an apartment on Mott Street north of Canal. Her mother became a garment worker and her father got a job in a restaurant on the block making dim sum.

“He made shrimp balls,” Chin says. “The skin was very thin and you could see the shrimp from inside and they were very tasty.”

Chinatown was slowly growing, but all their Mott Street neighbors were Italian American. Chin and her brothers played with neighborhood kids in a shared backyard. Special occasions were spent at Vincent’s, where they would chip in and get calamari.

Chin’s world broadened even further when she went to Bronx Science and City College and then worked at LaGuardia Community College to help immigrants get an education. She ran for the New York City Council three times before becoming the first Chinese American to represent Chinatown in 2009.

Her tenure has been marked by battles over development, securing COVID-19 aid for restaurants and condemning antiAsian attacks. Chin is most proud of increasing the city Department for the Aging’s budget, securing affordable housing at Essex Crossing and converting the Elizabeth Street garden into senior housing.

“I hope the next administration continues these efforts making sure affordable housing is being built, tenants are protected and we continue to support people who are in need,” Chin says.

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When Hazel Dukes was a college student at Adelphi University, an activist gave a talk about voting rights and exhorted the audience to get engaged. “He said, ‘You’re born in politics and you die in politics. When you’re born, someone signs your birth certificate, and when you transition, someone signs your death certificate,’’’ Dukes recalls. “We kind of joked about it after, and then I began to think about what that meant.”

Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Dukes remembers her father, a Pullman porter, complaining about the prejudice he faced. “He would say, ‘We have to do something. We’re not treated right, we should be equal with other people,’” Dukes says. “From that, it gave me an outlook about skin color.”

Dukes joined the NAACP through her church in Roslyn and rose through the ranks to become its national president from 1989 to 1992.

She ran for state NAACP president in 1999.

Dukes is so respected in the Black community that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought her support in the face of a sexual harassment scandal. Dukes has since endorsed his successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, and stood with her when she unveiled Brian Benjamin as her lieutenant governor.

Dukes, who also served on New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ education transition committee, says Adams must combat inequities in public schools. “We have to turn the Tweed building upside down.

The resources need to be out in our districts,” Dukes says.

“They can’t do all of it in four years, but they can begin to address the inequality we have in our education system.”

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eight years before she got another master’s in psychiatric social work.

That led to several leadership positions within the city’s department of mental health in the Dinkins administration.

She primarily worked with New Yorkers with physical disabilities and those suffering from addiction. But sometimes she assisted the city’s rapid response team. When TWA Flight 800 crashed

near Brookhaven in 1996, she ensured counselors accompanied family members to identify the remains. Following the 9/11 attacks, she coordinated mental health support for first responders.

“Mayor Giuliani used the docks for makeshift control centers where we coordinated everything we needed for food and clothing,” González-Sánchez says. “They were large Navy ships that

provided food for those of us who were on site 24/7 and we could sleep there.”

After a stint in Nassau County integrating the county’s health and human services departments, González-Sánchez joined the Cuomo administration to run the state’s addiction office. She added outpatient clinics and Medicaid-assisted treatment programs, especially in rural areas.

She also set up mobile treatment vans, or “clinics on wheels,” that provide substance abuse services in court parking lots. “The judge knows there’s a van in the parking lot and can say, ‘Either you go down there, get assessed and start a program or you do time,’” González-Sánchez says. “What we have found is that has really brought down the numbers of reoffenders.”

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Betsy Gotbaum Betsy Gotbaum’s first job could have inspired a Graham Greene novel.

She taught at an American school in Brazil while her first husband established peasant cooperatives for the CIA to counteract Fidel Castro’s cooperatives. “There was a military coup, the generals overthrew the government and the governor was a communist, so that made everybody very nervous,” Gotbaum recalls.

Gotbaum returned to New York and completed a graduate degree at Columbia University. She then took an assistant position in the Lindsay administration. “It was the only job of substance that I got offered,” she says.

“Back then there were only secretarial jobs, and I’m a terrible secretary.”

She then held multiple leadership stints, and in 2001, she became New York City’s public advocate. She transformed the office into a problem-solving laboratory for New Yorkers who had nowhere else to turn. One February, Gotbaum received frantic calls from parents whose children didn’t come home after school, and she discovered the city had changed bus routes. “They messed up the bus schedule because they never did a pilot project and with help of the press we got that reversed,” she says.

At Citizens Union, Gotbaum has focused on depoliticizing the notoriously incompetent New York City Board of Elections, which nearly botched the count for the Democratic mayoral primary. “They should be as professional as possible,” she says. “There are examples of well-run boards of elections in the country.

We should try to become like them.”

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George Latimer George Latimer developed his first policy position at age 9.

The Latimers lived in Mount Vernon, but his father had been born in Brooklyn. Once he asked his father why he moved. “He scowled and said, ‘It’s near New York City. It’s not New York City,’” Latimer says.

“In those two sentences, my father gave me my economic development plan.”

After a detour to Fordham and NYU for graduate school, Latimer embarked on a career in sales and marketing.

He utilized his corporate training to win over moderate suburban voters and was elected to the Rye City Council in 1987.

Four years later, he flipped a Republican seat in the Republican-controlled Westchester County Legislature. Soon, he found himself in the majority as Democrats moved up from the city while conservatives relocated to Florida. “When Democrats come along and show we’re responsible, concerned about taxes and can deliver services properly, we get support on both aisles and in the middle,” Latimer says.

After serving in the Assembly, Latimer ousted Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in 2017. He retained most of Astorino’s commissioners, which surprised some observers. “I don’t consider myself a great leader – success in leadership is a function of hiring good people around you,” he says. “I didn’t treat it as politics first.”

Containing COVID-19 is now Latimer’s top priority. He has avoided issuing mandates, but reduced spectators for school sports and opened testing sites. “We made it very easy to get vaccinated and tested,” he says, “but that’s being stretched right now since no jurisdiction is keeping up with the demand of testing.”

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Daniel H. Weiss

Daniel H. Weiss first visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a high school junior. “I remember having a special relationship with the museum once I came and saw what it had to offer and learned how to navigate entry,” Weiss says. “I thought I would have a lifelong relationship, but I didn’t have any idea how it would play out.”

As an art history professor at Johns Hopkins University, Weiss returned regularly to the Met and the Cloisters with his students. Weiss was later tapped to run Lafayette College and Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

In 2015, the Met recruited Weiss to lead the museum, which faced climbing operating deficits and a wish list of capital projects.

He prioritized renovating the European and the Africa and Oceanic wings while balancing its books. He changed the museum’s admissions policy to generate more revenue. Attendance soared.

“I had a lifelong love for the institution and respect for what it does,” Weiss says.

“Because of my experience as a leader for mission-driven institutions, I felt like it was a good fit.”

When COVID-19 shuttered the museum for six months, Weiss estimated $150 million in losses. He implemented public health measures to keep visitors safe and raised money to support an emergency fund. Now flush, the Met announced plans to rebuild its contemporary wing.

“New York is one of the most committed cities in the world to a strong cultural life as an essential part of what it means to be a resident here,” Weiss says, “and I’m honored to be part of that.”

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PRESIDENT S O CIAL SER VICE EMPLOYEE S UNION LO C AL 3 7 1 Anthony Wells’ brief detour to Kansas made him appreciate New York.

After high school, Wells won a football scholarship to a small college in Baldwin City, where he was one of fewer than 100 PUBLISHER’S SECTION

Black students. “The town was so small, it had only a blinking traffic light,” he recalls.

“I saw a plane land over the wheat fields.

It was a great culture shock.”

Wells returned home, enrolled at Baruch College, and started doing casework at a juvenile center where he learned how unions improve working conditions. In 1988, he began organizing for

Local 371.

Now the president of SSEU Local 371 and a vice president of District Council 37, Wells has had a hand in reducing the workweek from 60 to 40 hours, helping 300 laid off Administration for Children’s Services workers find jobs within the city Human Resources Administration and passing legislation making it a felony to attack social service workers.

In response to COVID-19, Wells called on municipal workers to wear masks on the job, secured remote work options and ensured city workers didn’t lose pay or benefits.

He caught the coronavirus himself, losing 30 pounds after spending two weeks in a Queens hospital. “That was not so much as scary as horrible – not being able to

breathe and making sure I didn’t go on a ventilator,” Wells says.

“I went home with oxygen. Thank God I had good care.”

Wells is hopeful New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whom his union endorsed, will keep workers safe.

“Eric has his hands full. The violence, the pandemic, the economy,” Wells says.

“We hope to be a part of that when that happens.”

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PRESIDENT AND CEO PAR TNER SHIP F OR NE W YOR K CI T Y Kathryn Wylde thinks New York City’s pandemic-induced woes are comparable to the 1970s.

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manufacturing to a service-based economy. Now businesses are transitioning from providing services to a digital economy, forcing many industries to adapt.

“Remote work, remote education and e-commerce displacing local retail all happened much faster than would otherwise have been the case,” Wylde notes. “It creates a whole set of challenges for the city

and state on top of conquering the virus.”

Wylde should know.

The Wisconsin native came to New York in 1966 and got an upclose look at changes to the waterfront as community relations director for Lutheran Medical Center in Sunset Park. “All the manufacturing was moving overseas and blue-collar jobs disappeared,” Wylde says.

“We lost a million residents and there

was no work for the middle class.”

During the pandemic, Wylde’s group of CEOs urged thenNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to address the city’s quality of life issues. Wylde and her team have also helped Blackand immigrant-owned businesses improve their online presence and advised public agencies bogged down by lengthy procurement processes.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has asked Wylde to develop job training and placement programs for those who lost work during the pandemic. “There are technical skills that can be taught more quickly than a two- or four-year college degree that will allow people to get work because their old jobs have disappeared,” Wylde says.

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Omar Alvarellos

Richard Ball

Omar Alvarellos joined Kasirer, New York City’s top lobbying firm, in 2008 after working in former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s office for two terms and then directing government affairs for KeySpan Energy Corp., a natural gas company which was acquired by National Grid during his tenure. In his KeySpan role, Alvarellos dealt with environmental issues and was a liaison with city officials. At Kasirer, he helps lead the firm, which represents heavyweight clients in real estate, health care, nonprofits and other fields.

Before he became agriculture commissioner in 2014, Richard Ball had a fruitful farming career. Ball, who started out as a laborer on a vegetable farm as a teenager and later owned and operated Schoharie Valley Farms, has seen the agricultural sector evolve as well. The industry has been embracing crops like hemp, grappling with a lack of racial diversity or responding to COVID-19 and climate change. “If you look at farming over the years, the biggest thing is change,” he told the Times Union last fall.

Ana Bermúdez

Charles Bertolami

When Ana Bermúdez was named commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation in 2014, she broke ground as the first Latina, first openly gay person and only the second woman in the role. The former Legal Aid Society attorney has during her tenure sought to implement more humane approaches to dealing with children and teenagers. “To me, the work of criminal justice has to be the work of social justice,” she said on a 2020 Brown University podcast. “We’ve done a lot of work in reshaping the work.”

Nearly 1 in 10 dentists nationwide was trained at the NYU College of Dentistry, but that’s not the only outsized impact it has. It’s a major safety-net provider too, with around 300,000 patient visits a year. Dr. Charles Bertolami, the school’s dean since 2007, also considers its $12 million oral health center that opened in 2019 for individuals with disabilities to be one of the college’s greatest accomplishments. “I think (providing dental care for people with disabilities) is a real deficiency in the profession,” Bertolami told Becker’s Hospital Review last year.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NE W YOR K S TATE PR EF ER R ED S OUR CE PR O GR AM F OR NE W YOR K ER S WHO AR E BLIND For nearly two decades, Christopher Burke has helped the blind or visually impaired to achieve independence.

Last summer, Burke took the helm of the New York State Preferred Source Program for New Yorkers Who Are Blind.

He previously led the Northeastern Association of the Blind at Albany, which doubled in size under his tenure. “This achievement coupled with creating a cohesive statewide network of agencies for the blind is my greatest professional success,” he says.

Al Cardillo

PRESIDENT AND CEO HOME C AR E A S S O CIATION OF NE W YOR K S TATE Less than a year and a half into his tenure leading the Home Care Association of New York State, Al Cardillo was confronted with a global pandemic that has repeatedly disrupted the operations of the nearly 400 home and community-based service organizations he represents. But Cardillo has been a staunch advocate, drawing attention to the “decadeslong and growing challenges in the home care workforce” that have been “greatly worsened by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Corinne Carey

Natasha Cherry-Perez

Corinne Carey played a key role in the push to pass a 2019 law allowing terminally ill patients in New Jersey to obtain medications to end their life. Now she’s trying to pass similar legislation in New York through the nonprofit advocacy organization Compassion & Choices. Carey previously spent nearly a decade with the New York Civil Liberties Union. “I take on issues that haven’t yet gained widespread acceptance, but I keep faith in what the evidence shows to be sound public policy,” she says.

“If I could use one word to describe myself it would be servant,” says Natasha Cherry-Perez, whether that’s serving members of her family, representing her neighborhood through her local block association, community garden and community board, launching a mentoring program for girls of color or her work with the New York Charter Schools Association. “It is not only my duty but it is an honor to serve in all of these capacities.”

The Brooklynite joined the group last year after seven years with the charter school network Uncommon Schools.

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This is a well-deserved recognition of your many accomplishments.

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Donna Colonna

Terrence M. Connors

When Donna Colonna steps down this month as CEO of Services for the UnderServed, she’ll wrap up a decadeslong career combating the stigma surrounding disabilities and homelessness. The former city and state official spent two decades leading S:US, a nonprofit serving those dealing with mental illness, disabilities and homelessness in the greater New York City area.

“Service to S:US and the people we support has been a labor of love, and I will be eternally grateful for having had this opportunity,” she says.

Terry Connors has a reputation as a trial lawyer who thrives on challenging cases. Connors, who founded his namesake firm in 1986, has received a number of honors as one of Western New York’s top criminal defense and civil litigation attorneys. High-profile clients over the past few years include the Diocese of Buffalo, state Supreme Court Judge Mark Grisanti and fellow attorney Ross Cellino Jr. “Every day I have the opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life,” Connors says of his legal work.

Robert Cordero

Marie Corrado

For Robert Cordero, it has been an honor to go from being a beneficiary of Head Start growing up to running several of the federal early learning program centers. Cordero leads Grand St. Settlement, a nonprofit settlement house that assists around 15,000 families and whose operating budget increased from $15 million to $36 million since he took over in 2015. “Expansion of our early childhood program model in Sunset Park and Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn is my proudest accomplishment,” says Cordero, a former teacher and community organizer.

Marie Corrado joined Amtrak in 2015 to fix the commuter rail bottleneck between New York and New Jersey – and the $11.6 billion plan for a new tunnel and two new tracks finally has federal support. Corrado previously spent 33 years at the state Department of Transportation and oversaw the West Side Highway reconstruction following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “We modified our contract from 16 phases to almost 100 – making our work harder, but recognizing that the priority had to be the WTC and saving the public hundreds of millions of dollars,” she recalls.

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Sonia Daly

Sean Doolan

In 2015, New York City launched IDNYC, a municipal identification program aimed at allowing undocumented and homeless residents to access social services.

The program, which enrolled more than a million New Yorkers within two years, is run by Sonia Daly. In 2018, the city’s immigrant affairs commissioner sent Daly to a conference in Stockholm. “She advocated for me to do this with full confidence I would represent the agency fully to a consortium of over 100 European cities eager to learn best practices in launching a municipal identification card program,” Daly says.

Hinman Straub’s Sean Doolan has a deep understanding of the complex apparatus that is New York’s state government. Doolan, who has spent his entire 35-year career at the Albany law firm and now serves as its president, has navigated clients through complex health care and insurance regulations and initiatives in recent years, positioning the firm as a trusted adviser on pandemic-era compliance. “Far and away my proudest accomplishment is being afforded the honor of working with and leading a group of extraordinarily talented professionals,” Doolan says.

Arthur Goldstein

William R. Guarinello

Arthur Goldstein has long been a key player at the toptier lobbying firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron. “Whether consistently guiding nonprofits seeking funding for education, workforce development and foster care; representing associations that stand up for hardworking men and women; or navigating large-scale, job-creating projects like the AirTrain, seeing my efforts successfully impact every facet of the city’s economy has been my proudest accomplishment,” he says.

When the Willowbrook State School’s deplorable conditions were exposed in 1972, a social worker named William R. Guarinello responded by expanding programs for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities at the nonprofit where he worked. He has led the nonprofit, now called HeartShare Human Services of New York, since 1993. Guarinello says he’s proud of how it has developed into “one of the premier New York City social services agencies” while “keeping its core values and not getting lost in bureaucracy.”

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Lawrence Hammond

Kevin Hauss

Lawrence Hammond’s role at the Community Preservation Corp. is all about access – and ACCESS, a $20 million fund whose name means “acquiring capital and capacity for economic stability and sustainability.”

An ordained minister and a distinguished finance executive who joined the nonprofit affordable housing and community revitalization funder CPC in 2015, Hammond says he’s proud of how ACCESS assists entrepreneurs of color in the real estate industry. “We’ve already provided millions in financing and technical support to small developers statewide,” he says.

Kevin Hauss was the first college graduate in his family, and it wasn’t easy: He worked for six years before enrolling, and his father dipped into retirement savings for tuition. “My dad died before I graduated, but from that point on, I wanted to keep learning and doing things to make a difference,” Hauss recalls. The experience made him a lifelong learner – and ultimately led him to New York Edge, one of New York City’s largest nonprofit providers of school-based afterschool and summer programming, in 2015.

Juanita Holmes

Christian Hylton

Juanita Holmes made history in 2020 as the New York City Police Department’s first female chief of patrol, a post in which she ran the largest bureau in the country’s largest police force. Holmes, who recently was named chief of training, is proud of her trailblazing career and how she has paved a path for other women and people of color. But her proudest accomplishment isn’t workrelated. “It is being a mother and a grandmother and all of the joys of raising a family,” she says.

After gaining a deep understanding of the local real estate landscape as general counsel to the New York City Council’s Land Use Division, Christian Hylton has capitalized on that knowledge in the private sector. In 2017, he returned to the international law firm Phillips Nizer as partner. Hylton, who co-chairs the firm’s land use and government relations practice, says he finds it rewarding to play a role “in land use applications that revitalize communities across New York City, especially my own in Flatbush, Brooklyn.”

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Terry Kaelber

Roberta Katz

Terry Kaelber is reenvisioning what it means to be an older New Yorker. As director of the United Neighborhood Houses of New York’s Institute for Empowered Aging, Kaebler seeks to promote active roles for the elderly within their communities. Kaelber says he is driven “to inspire older people to take their rightful place in society – to help us all recognize that in our old age we are not done yet – and that we have much left to contribute and to give back to society and our communities.”

After 15 years in nonprofit finance, Roberta Katz founded her own nonprofit consulting business. Her financial acumen is the result of holding key nonprofit positions and as an auditor for a Big Four accounting firm. “My proudest accomplishment is revamping the finance department of a nonprofit organization with a $110 million budget by implementing efficient and effective processes, internal controls, policies and procedures and automated systems,” she says. “My actions resulted in their finance department producing more accurate and timely financial reporting, increased productivity and streamlined workflow.”

Ida Landers

Lois C. Lee

Ida Landers has worked in the fields of psychotherapy and domestic violence advocacy for over two decades.

As a senior director with the Urban Resource Institute, she oversees one of the largest providers of domestic violence shelter services in the country. “I am motivated by the fact that in my field, I am an agent of change,” she says. “I am motivated to continue working and mentoring, coaching and training new employees and encouraging the staff and the clients to do the best they can.”

The leader of the Lois C. Lee Early Childhood Center in Queens is none other than Lois C. Lee. Lee, whose Flushing-based universal prekindergarten center was opened by the Chinese-American Planning Council in 2017, got her start over 50 years ago as a part-time teacher in Chinatown. She now plays a central role at CPC, from mentoring volunteers and staff to community organizing and advocating for quality child care services in the city and state. “My passion is to make a difference,” she says, “despite difficult circumstances.”

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Rick Lustig

Gregorio Mayers

A highly experienced human resources professional who has worked at Consumer Reports, the Physician Affiliate Group of New York and other nonprofits organizations, Rick Lustig joined the Mission Society of New York City five years ago as a senior vice president.

Lustig is a key player at one of the city’s oldest social service organizations, which serves around 5,500 children and parents annually. Among his proudest accomplishments is successfully leading the organization’s “human resources function during the chaos created by the pandemic.”

Gregorio Mayers is a key advocate for New York City’s minority and women-owned business enterprises, helping to craft a landmark 2013 city law as part of the Bloomberg administration that has increased government contracting with so-called MWBEs. “As an attorney, my motivations are rooted in reversing systemic injustices and inequalities through advocacy and implementation of sound public policy and legislation,” Mayers says. Now the head of his company GM Consulting, Mayers also served on New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ transition team.

James McCarthy

Paul Monte

A second-generation firefighter who climbed the ranks of the New York City Fire Department over his 33 years, Lt. James McCarthy has been a union member for most of his professional career. In September, McCarthy was elected president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, which represents 8,000 active and retired fire officers. “The fire officer gives so much of themselves to all the residents of New York City,” he says, “operating above and beyond the call of duty every day.”

For over three decades, Paul Monte has represented contractors in a myriad of infrastructure projects. As a co-managing partner of Peckar & Abramson in New York City, Monte is an expert on large-scale infrastructure projects such as bridges, tunnels, highways and railways.

He attributes his success to “pushing myself out of my comfort zone” and learning from mentors, including his father, a civil engineer. “He taught me the value of hard work and gave me an appreciation of New York and its infrastructure,” Monte said.

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Ross Moskowitz

Kerron Norman

As a top land use attorney, Stroock’s Ross Moskowitz is a key player in New York City’s influential real estate industry. Among his many successes was lobbying for the Flushing waterfront rezoning, which was approved in late 2020. “I have been fortunate to have been involved in many amazing projects during my career, including Citi Field, Essex Crossing, World Trade Center and Domino Sugar,” he says. “However, being recently honored nationally as Chambers’ Outstanding Ally of the year for my efforts in promoting diversity stands out as my most proudest.”

As Lutheran Social Services of New York’s chief program officer since 2018, Kerron Norman oversees the nonprofit agency’s programs, including early childhood education, educational services, foster care, housing services, immigration legal services and community services. “My anti-racist advocacy strategy led to the Undoing Racism Workshop and Community Organizing training for all child welfare staff in Westchester County Department of Social Services, ancillary programs and the Family Court,” she says, adding that the effort “significantly reduced disproportionate minority representation in foster care.”

Nora OBrien-Suric

Geoff Plante

Nora OBrien-Suric was named president of the Health Foundation for Western & Central New York in 2017. She says she’s proud of her “career working towards creating a better society for older people regionally, nationally and internationally” and working with colleagues to contribute to the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and establish the national Aging and Disability Business Institute. She previously oversaw national grant initiatives aimed at improving care for older adults at The John A. Hartford Foundation.

Geoff Plante has assisted government agencies for over three decades with KPMG. Plante is the accounting firm’s lead partner in New York state and runs the firm’s finance transformation practice for state and local government.

Outside of work, he served as board president of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region.

“We were able to expand our capacity by 50% through an expansion plan that limited the debt of the organization and provided a safe place for families to stay while their children were being treated,” he says.

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Luis Scaccabarrozzi

Karl Sleight

Luis Scaccabarrozzi plays a vital role in health policy advocacy surrounding HIV/AIDS and hepatitis in New York. A vice president with the Latino Commission on AIDS and a Peruvian immigrant, he seeks to ensure local governments target Spanish-speaking and Latino communities in their outreach. Scaccabarrozzi says he’s driven by the results, even when they’re delayed, as the “result of perseverance in obtaining the services needed by members of the community most impacted by COVID, HIV, hepatitis, STIs and other chronic conditions that are prevalent in Hispanic/Latinx communities.”

Karl Sleight enjoyed a distinguished career in state government before joining Harris Beach, a law firm where he specializes in emerging or evolving industries in the state, including casinos and cannabis. What’s Sleight most proud of? “Leaving government after 16 years and founding the Harris Beach Government Compliance and Investigations Practice Group based on nothing more than an idea,” he says. “Seeing the group develop from a concept to a thriving segment of the firm over the past 15 years has been very rewarding.”

Frank Torres

Dave Wehner

The son of Spanish-speaking immigrants, Brooklyn-born Frank Torres capitalized on the opportunities available to him. “My proudest accomplishment is being the first in my family to graduate college and later attending and graduating from Columbia Law School and becoming an attorney,” he says. For the past 37 years, he has specialized in personal injury, general negligence and medical malpractice law. As a bilingual attorney, Torres also represents many Latino clients and serves as a mentor on various Latino bar associations.

Dave Wehner joined Ostroff Associates in 2011, following stints running the state Insurance Fund and chairing the state Workers’ Compensation Board. Wehner, an expert in insurance, labor and business development, also leads Kids’ Chance of New York, which provides college scholarships to students whose parents suffer catastrophic injuries. “Whether it was during my public service career or on behalf of clients, I have been motivated to play a small role to see that government works for the people that it serves,” he says.

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ADJUNCT PROFESSOR & SENIOR FELLOW, CENSUS AND REDISTRICTING INSTITUTE NE W YOR K L AW S CHO OL A leading New York expert on state redistricting and census figures, Jeffrey Wice is now in the thick of his fifth redistricting cycle. An adjunct professor and senior fellow at New York Law School, where he directs the New York Census and Redistricting Institute, Wice has decades of experience navigating redistricting matters for the state Legislature and the New York City Council.

He says he’s proud of his work “to promote fair and equal political representation, including by writing and teaching next generations.”

Darlene Williams

PRESIDENT AND CEO OPP OR TUNI TIE S F OR A BE T TER TOMOR R OW Darlene Williams last fall took the reins of Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, a Brooklyn-based social services provider with a mission “to break the cycle of poverty and inequity through education, job training and employment.” Williams, who’s focused on anti-racism and diversity, is proud of the doctorate degree in public policy and administration that put her on this path. “At a young age I told my parents that I wanted to be a doctor,” she says. “I’m grateful that my father was able to see that dream fulfill before his passing.”

Thomas Wright

Michelle Yanche

Two years after Tom Wright took the helm of the Regional Plan Association, the independent research and advocacy organization released its ambitious Fourth Regional Plan, proposing a series of reforms and transportation policy recommendations around addressing climate change and modernizing regional transit. According to Wright, the plan “integrated health and equity with RPA’s more traditional issues of transportation and community development.”

Since Michelle Yanche was named executive director of the child welfare nonprofit Good Shepherd Services in 2019, she has emphasized anti-racism initiatives and improved programming. Yanche helped launch the Campaign for Children in 2011, uniting over 150 New York City child care and after-school advocacy organizations.

“The campaign drove an extraordinary expansion of child care and afterschool programs, secured investment of well over $500 million in both systems and won significant increases in per-participant-rates,” she says.

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Notice of Formation of MELIOREM, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/2/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 555 10th Ave Apt. 40F, New York, NY 10018.Any lawful purpose.

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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com Notice of Formation of 306 86TH LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1 0/1 2 /2 1 .O f f ic e location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 306 86th St Brooklyn, NY 11209. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 271 AINSLIE STREET LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/9/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Paul Caine, 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400, New York, NY 10001.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GK NE W YOR K VENTURES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1 0/ 2 8 / 2 1 . O f f i c e location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process agains t it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 2835 North Highway, A1A, Unit 601, Indialantic, FL 32903.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Objetiny, LLC filed with SSNY on 12/09/2021.

Office: New York County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1123 Broadway, Ste 712, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation o f T H E E M B A S SY STUDIOS LLC filed with SSNY on 09/22/2021.

O f f ice: NE W YOR K County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: PHASE ONE NET WORK , INC. 424 WEST 33RD STREET, SUITE 220 NEW YORK, NY, 10001, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 60 East 7th Street, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/19/21.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 60 East 7th Street Apt. 2A New York, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of COOLE Y RYANS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 249 Smith St # 2001, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 163 CIT Y ISLAND AVENUE, LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/2 2 /2 1 . O f f ice location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to 163 City Island Ave Bronx, NY 10460. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of E3 HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 333 Flatbush Ave 1st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation o f A PE C G L O B A L HOLDING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/11/21. Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 355 West 39th St New York , N Y 10 018 . Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CNYBSN, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/14/21.O f fice location: HERK IMER SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 43050 Ford Rd Ste 160, Canton, MI 48187.

Any law ful purpose.

January 31, 2022

Notice of Formation of SYKO BROOKLYN LLC filed with SSNY on 11/30/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: JAMES,J KIM / ROSETTE KHOURY-KIM 214A PROSPECT PARK WEST APT A, - J AND H FARM - BROOKLYN, NY, 11215, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of Calmo LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/28/15. Office location: KINGS LLC formed in DE on 9/28/15.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to: 90 State St. Albany, NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MC1R VENTURES, LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/6/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 174 Pacific St Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of C R M D S T I L LW E L L LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/3/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1991 Stillwell Ave Brooklyn, NY 11223.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NI & CHEN REALT Y LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/3/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6913 New Utrecht Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of CR E E M STUDIO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/9/21.

Office location: Columbia SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1220 County Rt 22, Ghent, NY 12075.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FL AMINGOS CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/14/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 9/15/21. SSNY desg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay Street, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of HE ALTH RCM NEW YORK, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 11/22/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10/20/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: Attn.: Claudia Honan, 300 Park Ave, Ste 2501, New York, NY 10022.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DAV ID H Y UNGHWA K I M , M . D. , PL L C .

Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 420 East 61st Street, Unit 14e, New Yo r k , NY 10065.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 3AN REALTY GROUP LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 11/10/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 706 5th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11215.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of CHIDINMA N W A C H U K W U PHYSICIAN SERVICES PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/2/21.

Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 21 West End Ave Apt 4004, New York, NY 10023.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JET BLACK LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 444 Franklin Ave Ste 1B, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LINGLONG N YC LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/14/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to 18 Buel Ave Staten Island, NY 10304. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of A&W SUPPLIERS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/2/20.

Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 2823 Avenue Z, Brooklyn, New York, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of LUCK Y LEE REALT Y LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/7/21. Office location: New York .

LLC formed in DE on 5/19/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 225 Rector Place, Unit 22h, New York, NY 10280. Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS The Centre of Tallahassee, 2415 Nor th Monroe Street, Suite 810, Tallahas s e e , Florida 32399 Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of OR 159 S 2, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/9/21. 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 18343. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE PINES CLOTHING C O M PA N Y, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 218 Randolph St 2nd Fl Brooklyn, NY 11237.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OR 188 GREEN, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with S S N Y on 11/3 0/2 1 .

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to C/O: Phillips Nizer Llp, 485 Lexington Ave, New York , NY 18343. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ISLAND CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/14/21.

Office location: Kings.

LLC formed in DE on 9/15/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay S treet , 7 th Fl, BROOKLYN, NY 11201.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SEIKO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/21.Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 15 E 13th St, New York, NY 10003.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AMOGY B74 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/9/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Ave Brooklyn, NY 11238. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Seventy Four Sunnyside LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 74 Sunnyside Te r r a c e , Staten Island, NY 10301. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of K ATE FITNE S S , LLC filed with SSNY on 11/15/21. Office: NEW YORK County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 150 west 47th, NY, 10036. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of WAVERLY DG LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1 0/14/2 1 . O f f ice location: Tioga. LLC formed in FL on 9/27/21.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 631 N. Us Hwy 1, Suite 100, North Palm Beach, FL, 33408.

Arts. of Org. filed with FL S OS . R A G ray Building 50 0 South Bronaugh St Tallahassee, Florida 323 9 9 . Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of E BK MANAGE ME NT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 599 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of T E L E G R A PH R OA D LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/28/21. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d .

SSNY mail process to 6752 Bear Ridge Rd Lockport, NY 14094 Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Mercier Consulting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/6/2021.

Of fice location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 130 Fort Washington Ave, #3C, New York, NY 10032, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of IGUARD INFO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with S S N Y on 12 /20/2 1 .

Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 15 4 Cobblestone Court Plaza, Ste 122, Victor, NY 14564. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 38 Newel Street LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail process to 79 North Henry St Brooklyn, NY 11222 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of GS STL QOF LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/17/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/7/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Net work Inc . 60 0 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of NOBIS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/06/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/19/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to: 485 Madison Ave Ste 202, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HFP 15 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/08/21.

O f fice location: N Y County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Cohen & Cohen, LLP, 767 Third Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qual. of GS STL QOZB LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12 /17/2 1 . O f f ic e location: New York .

LLC formed in DE on 12/7/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O C orporate Creations Net work Inc . 60 0 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AW COL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY o n 1 2 / 7/2 1 . O f f i c e location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 166 Montague St Brooklyn, NY 11201. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of STASH101 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/26/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/09/21. Princ. office of LLC: 75 Varick St., 8th Fl., NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration 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, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of Formation of 66 PULASKI STREET LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 12/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 66 Pulaski St Brooklyn, NY 11206.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DDV HOLDINGS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 12/21/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 270 Corbin Place, Brooklyn, NY 11235.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RYMAMAQU LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/9/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to Attention: Lynn M. Edens, 150 Wooster St New York, NY 10012.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MB BE AU LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 166 Montague St Brooklyn, NY 11201. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S K W H I L L S I D E BLEECKER LENDER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/2/21.

Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attention: Lynn M. Edens, 150 Wooster St New York, NY 10012.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AWMB HOLDING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/7/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 166 Montague St Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 720 WEA VENTURES, LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y on 1 2 /1 5/2 1 .

Office location: Kings.

LLC formed in DE on 8/24/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 350 Park Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10022.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of R. SETHNA EVENTS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 12/9/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 344 East 76th St Apt 8, New York, NY 10021. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AIELLO PROPERTIES LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 12/27/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 320 Bethel Ave, Staten Island, NY 1 0 3 0 7.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 420 CARROLL GP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/21.

O f fice location: N Y County. 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. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of formation Evanstech HVAC & Refrigeration LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 08/28/2021. Office located in Bronx. SSNY has been designated for service of process.

SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 2420 Wallace Ave Apt 2, Bronx N Y 104 67. Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Viral Pegasus, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Sec. of State of NY on 12/6/21. Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: c/o the LLC, 437 Cornelia Ave. SI, NY 10312. Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of formation of PREACHER HOUSE LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 77 Madison St., Apt. 19, NY, NY 10002.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of SWH 33 PROPERTIES LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/31/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528.Any lawful purpose.

VGM GOV BIZ LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/14/2021. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 445 Empire Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 12225. Reg Agent: Menachem Light, 445 Empire Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 12 2 25 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of MJ76 REAL ESTATE LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/31/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528.Any lawful purpose.

WFLD Jewelry Studio LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 12/01/2021.

Cty: Richmond SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to JTS Associates CPAS, P.C., 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 403N, Westbury, NY 11590. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity

Notice of Qual. of CASTLE PA R K CO M M U N I T Y MANAGEMENT, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 10/26/2021.

Office loc: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 10/19/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 413 W 14th St., 2nd Fl, Ste 208, NY, NY 10014. Address required to be maintained in DE: N ational R e gis tere d Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of BELGO FRANCHISOR LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/14/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/30/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 264 Butler St., Brooklyn, NY 11217.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o C orp oration S er vice Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of a New York LLC. Name: Tazinnes LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was October 25, 2021. Location: 2 Stuyvesant Oval, #5F, N ew Yo r k C o u n t y, NY. SSNY has been designated as agent of Tazinnes LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of such service to Tazinnes LLC, 2 Stuyvesant Oval, #5F, New York, NY 10009.

To engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

Notice of Formation of ME DCAP GL AM LLC, filed with SSNY on 12/02/2021. Office: Westchester Count y.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1969A Palmer Avenue Larchmont, NY 10538.

Purpose: any law ful act or ac tivit y.

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Notice of Qualification of BEECHTREE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/10/21. Princ. office of LLC: 41 E. 57th St., NY, NY 10022. 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: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of formation of HAKSY LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/3/22. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 199 Bowery, Apt 8EF, NY NY, 10002.

Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Qualification of JOKR - 4 DUTCH STREE T, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of N Y (S S N Y ) on 12/21/21. Office location: NY C ount y.

LLC formed in Delaware ( D E ) o n 0 6/ 1 1/2 1 .

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d .

SSNY shall mail process to c/o C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005 . DE addr. of LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., Corp. Trust Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., J o hn G . Towns e n d B l d g . , 4 0 1 F e d e ral St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of URBAN OYSTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 12/22/21.

O f fice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 148 Lafayette St., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. of fice. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Ahimsa Advisors LLC filed with SSNY on December 12, 2021.

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 Remsen St., Garden Suite, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Ahimsa Advisors LLC filed with SSNY on December 12, 2021.

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 Remsen St., Garden Suite, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Application for Authority of Foreign Limited Liability Company (FL LC): TINICUM VENTURE PARTNERS LLC Application For Authority of FLLC filed with the S e cre tar y of State of New York (SSNY) on: 12/10/2021 The jurisdiction of the Company is: DELAWARE, and it was formed on: 11/22/2021 Office location in NYS, NEW YORK County is: 800 THIRD AVE 40 TH FLR, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022. SSNY designated as agent of the FLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY can mail process to: C/O TINICUM ENTERPRISES INC 990 STEWART AVE, STE 580, GARDEN CITY, NY 11530. The address of the principal office of the Company in DE is: 1209 ORANGE STREET, WILMINGTON, DE 19801.

The name and address of the authorized officer in: DE where a copy of the Articles of Organization of the FLLC is filed: Secretary of the State: JEFFREY W. BULLOCK, 401 FEDERAL STREET, STE 4 DOVER, DE 19901.

Purpose of company is any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Joyce Murakami LLC filed with SSNY on July 3 2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 138 Duane Street, Apt. 2N, New York, New York 10013. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of SMY THE BUSINESS SERVICES LLC filed with SSNY on 08/26/2021 Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 746 FULTON ST., APT. 2, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending for an Onpremises liquor license has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider, and liquor at retail in a Bar/Tavern under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 2849 NYS Route 9N, Crown Point, NY 12928 County of Essex for onpremises consumption.

War Cannon Spirits LLC Notice of Qual. of E LE VE N -T WE LVE EAST, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/7/22 Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE 12/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY m a i l p r o c e s s C/O UNITED AGENT GROUP 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 DUPONT JENSEN LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to c/o C orporate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SONNY JEAN CREATIVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/7/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 79 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MYMEMORIES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with S S N Y on 12 /2 3/2 1 .

Office location: Otsego SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 1024 County Highway 27, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number 13 4 0 9 0 8 , has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a restaurant un d e r t h e A l c o h o l Beverage Control Law at 226 7th Ave., Brooklyn NY for on premises consumption.

Food Farm NYC LLC dba Earthen.

Notice of Qualification of RAITH REAL ESTATE FUND III L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/21. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/16/21. Princ. office of LP: 424 Madison Ave., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10017. 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. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Name and addr. of each general par tner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John B. Townsend B l d g . , 4 0 1 F e d e ral St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Making portfolio investments in commercial real estate.

Notice of Formation of Loggia Capital LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/21.

Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 67 Edgemere Ave, Greenwood Lake, NY 10925. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of MODID LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/9/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in CT on 4/26/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 90 State St. Albany, N Y 12 207. Ar ts . of Org. filed with CT SOS. P.O. Box 150470, 165 Capitol Ave. Suite 1 0 0 0 H ar t f o rd , C T 06115-0470.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of PRINCE STREET HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 10/27/2021.

Office loc: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 10/25/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 31 Hudson Yards, 11th Floor, NY, NY 10001. Address required to be maintained in DE: N ational R e gis tere d Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of QUANDARY SHIPPING LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2108 30 Ave, Apt 2, Astoria, NY 11102.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 218 20TH STREET, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/27/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 42-40 Bell Blvd, Ste 400, Bayside, NY 11361. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BAY VIEW BED AND B R E A K F A S T, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/21/21. Office location: Wayne. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to 8420 Bay St Sodus Point, NY 14555. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GROUSSMANS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/22.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3745 Amboy Rd Apt. 17B, Staten Island, NY 10308.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BLOOMONRIVERSTREET LLC . A r t s .O f O rg . filed with S SN Y on 1/10/22. Office location: Delaware SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1866 C o u n t y H i g hway 6 , Bovina Center, NY 13740.

A ny law f ul purp os e .

Notice of Formation of CHRYSALIS CAPITAL AND ADVISORY LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 6/7/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail process to 90 State St Ste700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DACK X SERVICES LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/22.

Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 2039 County Hwy 107, Amsterdam, NY 12010. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of IRVINE BH LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/21 . O f fice location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 2385 Arthur Ave Ste #208, Bronx, NY 10458.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 2025 GERRITSEN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 1761 East 29th St Brooklyn, NY, 11229.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of F I N E PAT H R E A LT Y LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1607 Avenue U, Brooklyn, NY 11229 4416. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HONG & HOME LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1360 82nd St Fl 2, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 170 ST NICHOLAS LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/5/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 449 Harman St, Brooklyn, NY 11237.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WF Industrial X V LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 1/3/22. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 80 8th Ave., Ste. 1602, NY, NY 10011. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of KMGS CONSULTANCY, LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 10521 Flatlands 10th St., Brooklyn, NY 11236. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of L &N PROPER T Y NY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/16/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 759 52nd St Brooklyn, NY 11220.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 660 47TH STREET LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 655 50th St 2fl, Brooklyn, NY 11220.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TSPRO, LLC. Arts.

O f Org . f iled with SSNY on 1/3/22. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 41 Wellington CT, APT 1L , Staten Island, NY 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WADSWORTH EXCAVATION & SITE DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/10/22. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to 185 So Shore Rd E. Caroga Lake NY 12032.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AMAZING GOODS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/5/22.

Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 30 Eva Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LU PROPERT Y MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6 Stryker Ct, Brooklyn, NY 11223.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 22 ST MARKS BAKE LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 22 St Marks Pl., New York, NY 10003. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of AR TIN D IA L LC .

Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/22. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to Po Box 1889, Newtown, ND, 58763.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: PIZZABAGEL LLC, LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12/23/2021 .

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copies of process to Anthony Rizzuto, 800 Westchester Avenue, Suite 300, Rye Brook, New York 10573.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business a c ti v i ti e s p e r mi t te d under NYW laws .

Shaolin Bead Shop LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 11/24/2021.

Cty: Richmond SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to JTS Associates CPAS, P.C., 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 403N, Westbury, NY 11590. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of Kate Louise Herts, PhD, Psychologist PLLC filed with SSNY on 12/22/2021.

Office: New York County.

SSNY designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PLLC: 99 Hudson St., 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10013. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Admin and Things LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on . 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 LLC served upon him/her is: . The principal business address of the LLC is: . Purpose: any lawful act or activity Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Coffee shop/ Tavern: TW 344 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 605 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY, 10310for on premises consumption.

R & J Roaster LLC Notice of Qualification of 400 CAPITAL ASSET BASED TERM FUND III AIV L .P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/21. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/13/21. Princ. office of LP: 510 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Name and addr. of each general par tner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls D r. , Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of LP filed with S e c y. o f S t ate o f the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Public Notice FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS In the Matter of an Article 8 Family Offense Proceeding File#: 197675 Docket#: 0-01234-20 Terrell Ellis (Petitioner) SUMMONS - GENERAL (VIRTUAL) Jhlani Banks (Respondent) NOTICE: DUE TO THE ONGOING EFFECTS OF COVID-19, THE MATTER(S) INDICATED ABOVE HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED TO BE HELD VIRTUALLY To: Jhlani Banks 28-50 W 24 Street Brooklyn, NY 11224 A petition under Article 8 of the Family Court Act has been filed with this Court.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear VIRTUALLY before this Court on: Date/Time/Part:March 7, 2022 at 10:30 AM in Part2 Purpose: Settlement Conference Presiding: Hon. Elizabeth L. Fassler to answer the attached petition and to be dealt with in accordance with the Family Court Act. Virtual appearances may be held via video or phone.

To update your contact information, e-mail or call the court and provide your name, phone, e-mail address, docket number(s), and date/time of court appearance.

Court E-mail: QueensFamilyCourt@nycourts.gov or Court Phone#: (718) 298-0197 If you have documents that you would like to send to the Court, at least 5 days prior to the Court date please submit through our Electronic Document Delivery System (EDDS) https://iappscontent.courts.state.ny.us/NYSCEF/live/ edds.htm or e-mail to QueensFamilyCourt@nycourts. gov.

FOR VIDEO, CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://notify.nycou11s.gov/meet/0kwsz4 FOR PHONE, CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER AND ENTER THE MEETING ID Phone: 1-347-378-4143 Meeting ID: Conference ID 281015098# For information on how to install/use Microsoft Teams to participate in virtual court proceedings, visit: https://nycourts.gov/appear.

If you fail to appear as directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest.

Dated: December 7, 2021 Doreen M. Hanley, Chief Clerk NOTICE: FAMILY COURT ACT §154(C) PROVIDES THAT PETITIONS BROUGHT PURSUANT TO ARTICLES 4, 5, 6, 8 AND 10 OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT, IN WHICH AN ORDER OF PROTECTION IS SOUGHT OR IN WHICH A VIOLATION OF AN ORDER OF PROTECTION IS ALLEGED, MAY BE SERVED OUTSIDE THE STATE OF NEW YORK UPON A RESPONDENT WHO IS NOT A RESIDENT OR DOMICILIARY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. IF NO OTHER GROUNDS FOR OBTAINING PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE RESPONDENT EXIST ASIDE FROM THE APPLICATION OF THIS PROVISION, THE EXERCISE OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE RESPONDENT IS LIMITED TO THE ISSUE OF THE REQUEST FOR, OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OF, THE ORDER OF PROTECTION. WHERE THE RESPONDENT HAS BEEN SERVED WITH THIS SUMMONS AND PETITION AND DOES NOT APPEAR, THE FAMILY COURT MAY PROCEED TO A HEARING WITH RESPECT TO ISSUANCE OR ENFORCEMENT OF THE ORDER OF PROTECTION.

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Notice of Qualification of 400 CAPITAL JSIF IV L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/21.

Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware ( D E ) o n 0 6/ 1 1/2 1 .

Princ. office of LP: 510 Madison Ave . , 17 th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be ser ved.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general par tner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls D r. , Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of LP filed with S e c y. o f S t ate o f the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qual. of GLOBAL STRATEGIES INTERNATIONAL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/13/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/27/04. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to: C/O C o r p o r a te Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of CATA LYS T O N L I N E LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/13/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/6/04.

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 Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS .

Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Urban Herbalist 914, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/24/2021. Location: Westchester Count y.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O Urban Herbalist 914, LLC 159 Hawthorne Ave, Yonker, NY 10705 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

44 WEST 18TH STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 01/13/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, C/O Adams & Co. Real Estate, Inc., 411 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ALICAD ME TAL WORKS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 09/15/2021.

Office location BRONX BX COUNTRY. SSNY Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of process against LLC to R/A: INCORP SERVICES,INC . ONE COMMERCE PL A Z A , 99 WASHINGTON AVE, STE. 805-A ALBANY, NY 12210-2822,USA, P/B/A: 1656 Parker St, #3, BX, NY 10462 Purpose: Anylawful activity. 0000568049 wo Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a l i c e n s e , nu m b e r 1337348 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a OP252 Restaurant under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 87131 SUNSET AVENUE UNIT A WEST H A M P T O N B E AC H , NY 11978 for on premises consumption HAMPTONS ARISTOCRAT INC.

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (2225716) for cider, beer, liquor and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell cider, beer, liquor and wine at retail in a OP-252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 757 C O LU M B I A S T R EE T HUDSON, NY 12534 for on premises consumption.

FLYING HORSEY FRUITCAKE CO LLC. Notice is hereby given that a license, number PENDING for BEER , CIDER LIQOUR AND/OR WINE has been applied for by the undersigned* JANIO REYNOSO, EL AGAVE BAR LOUNGE RESTAURANT to sell BEER, CIDER LIQOUR AND/OR WINE at retail in a RESTAURANT/TAVERN BAR WITH MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF FOOD under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 12a GUION STREET, YONKERS, NY 10701 WESTCHESTER C O U N T Y, for on premises consumption.

JANIO REYNOSO, EL AGAVE BAR LOUNGE RESTAURANT Notice of Formation of SGGA Consulting, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Sec. of State of NY on 1/17/22. Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: c/o the LLC, 314 Grn Valley Rd SI, NY 10312. Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Portico Westend Realty LLC filed w/ SSNY on 11/17/21. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 111 Murray St., #10D, NY, NY 10007.

Purpose: any lawful.

Notice of Formation of LADEEBUG LLC filed with SSNY on 01//14/2022 O f f ice: NE W YOR K County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 136 W 131, Apt 1, NEW YORK, NY 10027.

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Public Notice PROBATE CITATION File No. 2019-3234/A SURROGATE’S COURT- NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Susan Goldberg, if living and if dead, to her heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Paul Goldberg, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained. Amended petition having been duly filed by Muriel Finkelstein, who is domiciled at 305 East 72nd Street, #13C, New York, NY 10021. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on February 28 th , 2022 at 9:30 o’ clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Paul Goldberg lately domiciled at 360 East 72nd Street, #B808, New York, New York 10021, United States admitting to probate a Will dated May 12, 2009, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Paul Goldberg deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: [X] Letters Testamentary issue to Muriel Finkelstein *To all Parties: No in person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court Notice to Cited Parties. Dated, Attested and Sealed, January 11 th , 2022. Seal. HON. Nora S. Anderson, Surrogate. Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk, Melissa Lee, Name of Attorney.

Law Offices of Thomas Sciacca, PLLC, One Liberty Plaza, Suite 2300, New York, New York 10006, (212) 495-0317, Telephone. melissa@sciaccalaw.com , Email. NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, 31 CHAMBERS STREET NEW YORK, NY 10007. (646) 386-5800.

NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks' Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; in-person appearances are limited at this time. The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else. - If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3. You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel. Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours. Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Probate General@nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication. If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3). If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested. If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance.

This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above or through thee-filing system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts. gov/efile . If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Probate Department at Probate General@nycourts.gov. Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice but they are available to answer any question about procedure. The Probate Department of the New York County Surrogate’s Court.

Notice of Formation of Betty Brook Consulting Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/29/2021. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 51 Cleveland Place Hawthorne, NY 10532.

Purpose: any law ful act or activity. 6336617

Notice of formation of Tax Therapy Solutions LLC, filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/0 8/2 1 . O f f ice located in Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 40 Hudson Street, Staten Island, NY 10304, USA . Purp ose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of O R C H A R D I PA , LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: David Manko, Esq. - C/O Proskauer Rose LLP 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of K YVO, LLC filed with SSNY on 01/06/2022.

Office: Richmond County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 92 Dutchess Ave 92 Dutchess Avenue Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of BLUE RIBBON IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: David Manko, Esq. - C/O Proskauer Rose LLP 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PA R Q U E T H E A LT H IPA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: David Manko, Esq. - C/O Proskauer Rose LLP 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CPG REMEEDER HOUSE S MANAGE R LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/21.

O f fice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 116 E. 27th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 1 2 2 0 7.

Purpose: Real estate.

Notice of Formation of BK DOODLES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1418 67th St Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CAREABOUT IPA, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: David Manko, Esq. - C/O Proskauer Rose LLP 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of BRIGHT POWER A S S O C I AT E S , L L C Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of N Y (S S N Y ) on 01/17/22. Office location: NY C ount y.

LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 1/ 1 3/2 2 .

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d .

SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vice Co. (CSC), 80 State St., A lb any, N Y 1 2 2 0 72543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19608 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., D ove r, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of BEEFBAR NYC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 12/14/21.

O f fice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 1 2 2 0 7.

Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qual. of C A R E A B O U T M S O, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/20/21. Office location: New York .

LLC formed in DE on 12/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: Attn: Claudia Honan, 300 Park Ave Ste 2501, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901.

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Notice of Qual. of F52 FLATIRON LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY o n 1 1/4/2 1 . O f f i c e location: New York .

LLC formed in DE on 11/2/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 122 West 26th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of JSBR TRADING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1 /3/ 2 2 .

Office location: New York .

LLC formed in DE on 12/14/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4 Westview Rd Short Hills, NJ 07078. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KR UTILIT Y GROUP, LLC. . Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/13/21.Office location: ALLEGANY SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to 110 Genesee St., Ste. 390a, Auburn, NY 13021.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LION HILL PARTNERS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2225 East 3rd St Brooklyn, NY 11223.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of M MIAH LOGISTICS LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 182 South St Unit 16g, New York, NY 10038.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of NERE 2 1 8 M A N AG E M E N T HOLDING V2 LLC .

Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/23/21. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 6/29/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4918 3RD Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of NEW SONG HEALTHCARE L .P.. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/ 8 / 2 1 .

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/22/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: C/O 2 Park Ave Ste 2060, New York, NY 10016. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of One Block At A Time, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/1/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 303 Greenwich St New York, NY 10007.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE CONCIERGE WELLNESS COMPANY LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/14/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 30 East 33rd St New York, NY 10016.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WUG WUG LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/16/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 627 Sterling Pl. Apt #3r, Brooklyn, NY 11238 .

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 334 HUMBOLDT STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/18/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 19 Kennington St Staten Island, NY 10308.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 5 2 8 OV T L LC .

Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/17/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail process to 528 Ovington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11209.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 677679 MADISON PROPCO LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/2 6/2 1 .

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/24/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to: C/O Metro 2500 Enterprise Drive, Allen Park, MI 48101. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 759771 Madison Propco LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/2 6/2 1 .

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/24/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to: C/O Metro 2500 Enterprise Drive, Allen Park, MI 48101. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LLC. HELP Park Place, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/07/2022.

Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at c/o H.E.L.P. USA , Inc., 115 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003.

Purpose: any business permitted under law.

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Notice of Qual. of 828850 MADISON RETAIL LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/2 6/2 1 .

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/24/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: C/O Levine & Seltzer LLP 500 Fifth Avenue 37th Fl, New York, NY 10110. Ar ts. of Org. filed with DE SOS .

Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 13 HAW THORNE YONKERS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/18/22.Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to Cohen Commercial Properties, 535 Fifth Ave 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WAT E R F R O N T PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/18/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to One Bryant Park, 48th Floor, New Yo r k , NY 10036.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 3 86 CHAUNCE Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 386A Chauncey St Brooklyn, NY 11233 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JACK EQUINE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Rosenberg & Estis, P.C., 733 Third Ave 12th Floor, New York, NY 10017.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of DULCELYFE, LLC filed with SSNY on 10/25/2021.

Office: Richmond County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: p.box 120156 Staten Island n.y 10312 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of 165 MYERS PARENT JV, LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 1/2 0/2 2 .

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O C orporate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of SAVANNA MYERS CF MEMBER, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/20/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/22. SSNY desg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to: C/O C o r p o r a te Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 15 DITMARS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 Ditmars St Brooklyn, NY 11221. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EHG Travel Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 1/21/22. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Eric Grayson, 25 W. 45th St., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10036, principal business address.

Purpose: all law ful purposes .

Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast LLC, proposes an antenna and equipment upgrade atop existing buildings at: 157-05 Crossbay Blvd in Howard Beach, Borough of Queens, NY (40.66229° N & 73.84010° W).

60 Dutch Hill Rd in Orangeburg, Rockland County, NY (41.04528° N &73.95558° W).

222 Martling Ave in Tarrytown, Westchester County, NY (41.06674° N & 73.85360° W).

377 North Broadway in Yonkers, Westchester County, NY (40.94847° N & 73.89328° W).

1-3 Dillon Rd in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, NY (41.92132° N & 73.76363° W).

575 Bronx River Rd in Yonkers, Westchester County, NY (40.91951° N & 73.84780° W).

222-89 Braddock Avenue in Queens Village, Borough of Queens, NY (40.7287° N & 73.7356° W).

T-MOBILE is publishing this notice in accordance with FCC regulations (47CFR § 1.1307) for Section 10 6 of the NHPA and for the NEPA. Parties with questions or comments regarding the proposed facility should contact CHERUNDOLO at 976 Tabor Rd, Ste 1, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@ cherundoloconsulting. c o m .

Notice of Qualification of MANOUCHER YEKTAI LLC. Authorit y filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/16/21.

O f fice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/13/21.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 325 Broadway, Ste 204, NY, NY 10007. Address to be m ain t ain e d in D E : 2140 S Dupont Hwy, Camden, DE 19 934 .

Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G . Townsend Bldg. , 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Better Buddy Dog Training, LLC filed with SSNY on 1/22/2022.

Office: Bronx County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: George Triffon, 4445 Post Road, Apt 3G, Bronx, New York 10471. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

The FI Couple LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/05/22.

O f f ice: Schenec tady 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, 430 Franklin Street, 2nd Floor, Schenectady NY 12305 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

FULLSHINE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/13/2021. Office: Bronx 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 THE LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY 241 E MOSHOLU PKWY N, 3A , BRONX , NY, 10467, USA Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of EDVS, LLC. Authorit y filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 12/10/21.

O f fice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1 2 /1 8/1 2 . S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 55 Liberty St, Ste. 23B, NY, NY 10005. Address to be maintained in D E : 1 6 1 9 2 C o a s t al Hw y, Lewes, DE 19966. Ar ts of Org. filed with the Secy. of S t ate , 4 0 1 F e d e ral St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of CHAM PAIG N APARTMENTS OWNER 18 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/21. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be ser ved.

SSNY shall mail process to: N ational R e gis tere d Agents, Inc., 28 Liber t y St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activities.

GGL EXE LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 01/15/2022.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to #213 487 E Main St, Mt Kisco, NY 10549. General Purpose.

Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 118.4’ & 125.4’) on the building at 222 W 15th St, New York , NY (20220067).

Interested parties may contact Scot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice of Qual. of S3 RE 138 BRUCKNER FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/12/21 .

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Fl New York, NY 10022 Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS .

Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of S3 RE NORTHERN BLVD FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/26/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/19/21. SSNY desg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Fl New York, NY 10022 Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

160 LEROY ST LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/22/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Shawn Faurot, 160 Leroy Street, Apt 8BN, NY, NY 10014. Reg Agent: Shawn Faurot, 160 Leroy Street, Apt 8BN, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of JLR DESIGN AND BUILDING CONSULTANTS LLC filed with SSNY on 09/09/2021. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2777 SCHLEY A VENUE #3A, BRONX, NY, 10465, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE DYNAMICS, LLC filed with SSNY on 01/27/2022.

Office: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 55 N BROADWAY APT 2-9, WHITE PL AINS, NY, 10601, USA . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST BERNARD ADAMS

The NYC Conflicts of Interest Board decided to okay Bernard Adams’ role in his brother’s administration as senior adviser for mayoral security, so long as he agreed to take a salary that was, well, $209,999 less than what he was initially expected to get. That’s right, he stands to make just $1 a year for his new role.

SCOTT MCINTYRE

New York’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program may have run out of money, but the consulting firm managing the program is doing fine. Scott McIntyre, the CEO of Guidehouse – a firm that hired a former Cuomo aide and received a no-bid contract to run the program – boasted of the company making 38% margins on it.

DIGITAL Digital Director Michael Filippi, Marketing & Special Projects Manager Caitlin Dorman, Digital Strategist Isabel Beebe, Executive Producer, Multimedia Skye Ostreicher

SARAH PALIN Does this reach the standard of “actual malice?” In town to sue The New York Times, the one-time VP candidate was caught eating indoors even though she isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Then she tested positive, postponing the trial, but kept eating out, despite – again – testing positive for the viral disease. Outdoor dining in January is nothing for an Alaskan, but putting employees and fellow diners in harm’s way? That’s cold.

THE REST OF THE WORST LARRY SCHWARTZ

Cuomo loyalist Larry Schwartz has stepped down from the MTA board, months after revelations that he played a crucial role in working to clean up his former boss’s scandals.

Particularly damning were the phone calls he allegedly made to gauge county executives’ loyalty to the thengovernor – calls that came as the state was divvying out vaccine doses.

ERIC ADAMS

The new mayor is down at least a grand after converting his first paycheck into cryptocurrency before price drops last week. That means less money for future trips on private jets with campaign contributors.

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State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie are in control of the line-drawing process. And boy are Democrats licking their chops at the prospect of gerrymandering the GOP out of Congress.

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