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While career politicians lose their House seats to a new wave of progressives, Carolyn Maloney's standing her ground.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Interim editor-in-chief

CAROLYN MALONEY IS rolling up her sleeves now that Chuck Schumer is the U.S. Senate majority leader and Joe Biden is president. The Democratic Congress member, profiled for this week’s cover story, told City & State she looked forward to working with Schumer and the Biden Administration on addressing the impacts of COVID-19 and the massive budget crisis that has resulted at almost every level of government because of the ongoing pandemic.

For Maloney, it’s clearly a good time to be associated with some of the most powerful politicians in the U.S. But how much she’ll benefit from working with her fellow Democrats is still to be seen.

Once the darling of progressives, Maloney fended off three progressive challengers in the last Democratic primary, including two who were members of the Democratic Socialists of America. Maloney, in an hourlong interview with City & State, was outspoken about her track record of supporting constituent projects, like the Second Avenue Subway and seven senior housing developments, all while working on national issues, including securing paid leave for federal employees.

Maloney, first elected to congress in 1993, still has many long-time supporters and loyal constituents. “We love her. We just absolutely adore her,” said Angie Douris, the chair of the social services nonprofit Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee, which built three senior housing developments with federal funding secured by Maloney.

That “love” is worth noting after Maloney’s last primary battle. The question, however, is whether it be enough to carry her through another rough contest.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

VOTING RIGHTS … 8 Restoring rights to New Yorkers on parole CAROLYN MALONEY … 10 RALPH R. ORTEGA;KARANIK YIMPAT/SHUTTERSTOCK

The member of Congress isn’t backing down

EDUCATION 100 … 16 The most powerful people in education policy

WINNERS & LOSERS … 46 Many formerly incarcerated people don’t realize they have the ability to vote in New York.

Who was up and who was down last week

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“The COVID-19 Vaccine saved my life. I would have likely landed in the ICU had I not taken this step to get vaccinated.

I encourage all who are eligible to get the #CovidVaccine..”

–Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who contracted the coronavirus after receiving the vaccine, via Twitter

Attorney General Letitia James released a report accusing the Cuomo administration of underreporting coronavirus deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%.

AG REPORT EXPOSES NURSING HOME COVID-19 DEATHS State Attorney General Letitia James released a bombshell new report that found the state is underreporting nursing home coronavirus deaths by as much as 50%.

The investigation also found that many nursing homes did not adequately comply with infection control protocols and were understaffed, which put residents at risk. The official tally from the state Department of Health stood at over 8,700, a number that did not include residents who died

after being transferred to a hospital. In the wake of the report’s release, state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker finally released data that said the actual death count at 12,743 with hospital deaths accounted for – pretty close to 50% higher. The Cuomo administration had for months stonewalled lawmakers, journalists

DEARLY DEPARTED For a global pandemic that has lasted almost a year and claimed nearly 430,000 lives in the U.S. alone, there’s been little in the way of public memorials or opportunities to communally grieve those lost. Last week, however, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveiled “Travels Far,” a memorial to transit workers who died from COVID-19 – an ongoing digital installation in subway stations displaying the portraits of 112 of those workers on screens.

and others when asked for that information. State Sen. James Skoufis, chair of the Investigations and Government Operations Committee, recently threatened to subpoena Zucker to get the data.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been criticized for a March directive telling nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients back into congregate care settings from hospitals, although he said he was simply following federal guidance and asserted that the state did not take any action that contributed to higher rates of deaths in nursing homes. James’ report brought with it a fresh wave of criticism for Cuomo and calls for Zucker to resign.

COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS LIFTED

“That is not a missed data point. That is not an error. That is a deliberate attempt to mislead the people. ” –state Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, calling on state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker to resign after Attorney General Letitia James found the state to be undercounting COVID-19 nursing home deaths by 50%, via the New York Post

As positivity rates trend down across the state after a holiday spike, Cuomo announced that he is easing restrictions around the state. In Erie County, at one point an emerging second wave epicenter, Cuomo said elective surgeries can resume after halting them amid concerns about hospital capacity.

He also lifted nearly all “orange” and “yellow” zone microcluster designations in the state, and with them the restrictions imposed on those areas. Lifting the restrictions removes mandatory school testing requirements and permits houses of worship to operate at 50%

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capacity. Indoor dining is still banned in New York City – that restriction came about through an executive order independent of the microcluster strategy – but Cuomo said it would resume at 25% capacity on Feb. 14 – Valentine’s Day. Five yellow zones still remain, and four of them are in New York City.

MORE STREET VENDORS IN NYC

In a long-awaited victory for street vendor advocates, the New York City Council voted to lift a 40-year-old cap on street vendor licenses.

For decades, the number of licenses available has remained stagnant at 3,000, creating a massive waiting list to get a permit and a thriving black market to illegally rent others’ permits.

The legislation would create 4,000 new permits over the next decade, with 400 new permits added each year.

Although celebrated as an action to help food cart and produce stand owners, others said lifting the cap on licenses will hurt already struggling restaurant

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Amid widespread social distancing, the New York City Council voted to lift a longtime cap on street vendors.

THE

WEEK AHEAD

Delayed COVID-19 statistics have become a pattern

owners, who have also been hit hard by the pandemic.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has expressed support for the measure, and he’s likely to sign it into law.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a pre-taped State of the City address, his last one before he leaves office. In the video, he laid out his vision for the city’s recovery from the pandemic.

De Blasio said he would speed up vaccinations and set a goal of inoculating 5 million New Yorkers by June. He proposed a few new ideas, including a City Cleanup Corps to help clean up graffiti and tend to community gardens, and creating a new protected two-way bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. De Blasio also presented a plan to expand and centralize the powers of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which oversees the New York City Police Department.

TUESDAY 2/2 Voters cast ballots in the first election of New York City’s ranked-choice voting era, a special election in Council District 24 in eastern Queens.

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On Thursday, almost a year into the pandemic, state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker released additional statistics on the number of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 – painting a fuller picture of the virus’s deadly spread in those facilities. But that new data – which was updated to include nursing home residents who later died at hospitals – is something people had demanding for months.

The state only released the information after state Attorney General Letitia James reported that the state had undercounted nursing home deaths by as much as 50%.

This isn’t the first example of the state or New York City releasing COVID-19 data more slowly than many would like. When the state started releasing data on COVID19 deaths, race and ethnicity breakdowns of those numbers weren’t made available until early April. The state’s release of data on COVID-19 deaths by race came after facing pressure to provide greater detail on the virus’s toll as experts struggled to understand the risk factors. When that preliminary data was released in April, it showed that Black and Hispanic New Yorkers were dying at disproportionately higher rates from the virus.

Gothamist reported that during the first few weeks of the

INSIDE DOPE

Many eyes will be on the New York City Board of Elections to see how long it takes to count votes and determine a winner.

Some recent races have taken weeks to call.

city’s vaccine rollout, the city was posting demographic data on vaccinations – as well as geographic breakdowns – but that data was removed from the city’s vaccine dashboard before the end of the year. Still, those early numbers pointed to a disparity that more people who identified as white were being vaccinated compared to those who identified as Black or Hispanic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, too, has spoken at length about the importance of ensuring equitable vaccine administration. At a press conference last week, Cuomo aide Gareth Rhodes said the state was still working to compile and analyze demographic vaccination data. “Once there is accurate data that we feel comfortable with, we can release it,” Rhodes said. A representative for Cuomo did not respond to a request for comment.

While New York is far from the only state that has yet to release a racial or ethnic breakdown of its vaccination data – in fact, most states haven’t – 20 states are releasing the data.

Health experts have said it remains essential to ensuring an equitable rollout. “We desperately need the data to show how we’re doing,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

“It’s really important to know who is getting vaccinated.”

– Annie McDonough

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THURSDAY 2/4

The state Senate and Assembly hold a 9:30 a.m. virtual joint legislative public hearing on the topic of housing in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2021 Executive Budget Proposal.

Homeless activist Shams DaBaron and the UWS Open Hearts initiative host a virtual forum at 5:30 p.m. with New York City mayoral candidates fielding questions from homeless New Yorkers.

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THE HUNTS POINT STRIKE BROUGHT OUT A LOT OF POLITICAL STAR POWER.

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HE FIRST STRIKE in over 30 years at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the South Bronx was a resounding success. On Jan. 23, after organizing outdoors in the cold for almost a full week, workers at the distribution center represented

Armed with Bustelo, hot chocolate and hand warmers, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brought national attention to the Hunts Point strike, and on Inauguration Day, no less. On another night, she gave out pizza next to Scabby the rat.

by Teamsters Local 202 were able to celebrate a new contract with hourly raises, better health benefits, and forthcoming one-time bonuses. Before the agreement, the strike had also evolved into a place to see and be seen for many New York City politicians. A

Rep. Ritchie Torres showed up in the congressional district that just elected him, with his preferred mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.

Other mayoral candidates, including Diane Morales and Maya Wiley, also made appearances.

Assembly Member Amanda Septimo was there every day of the strike in her Assembly district, and she reached out to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Deputy Secretary for Legislative Affairs and Policy Dana Carotenuto Rico. Septimo told City & State that she’s “really grateful to the governor’s office for getting involved, because he brought both sides back to the table.”

crowd of elected officials flocked to support the workers, and add their star power to the existing infamy of Scabby the inflatable rat.

These were some of the high-profile visits:

Along with representing its City Council district, Rafael Salamanca has a personal connection to Hunts Point Market: His father used to work there, and was a member of Local 202.

The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America were all over the strike, catering breakfast and serving hot pizza to hungry workers on the picket line.

DSA-endorsed Assembly Members Zohran Mamdani of Queens and Marcela Mitaynes of Brooklyn, and state Sen. Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn joined Sepitmo on the fifth night to hand out some New York slices.

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A Q&A with New York City comptroller candidate

I literally have the most relevant and significant experience, as it relates to doing this job.

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KEVIN PARKER Some comptrollers have had finance experience. Others, like the current one, haven’t. Do you think that working in finance or having budget experience is necessary for the job?

I certainly think it helps.

When you look at my experience, I literally have the most relevant and significant experience, as it relates to doing this job.

Having worked in economic development with the first Gov. (Mario) Cuomo.

Having worked on Wall Street at PaineWebber.

Having worked for the (former) state Comptroller (H. Carl McCall). Having 18 years in the state Senate in the Finance Committee,

the Banking Committee, the Insurance Committee.

And doing all of the things that are necessary – not just understanding finances, but doing the policy work and having the relationships that it takes to get things done.

We just got the news that Stringer’s plan to divest the city’s pension funds from fossil fuel companies is finally happening. Is divestment the right strategy?

The first responsibility of anybody who’s going to be managing the city’s pension fund is to make

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money for the pensioners.

And I think that is not dichotomous with the notion of also investing in things that are consistent with the values of New Yorkers. We as a state are moving towards a netneutral carbon policy, and the city is as well. That’s important. The question is not whether we should do it – the question is how do you do it. It has to be done first, collaboratively with the other trustees, and then to look at each deal and figure out what makes sense.

As it relates to energy and fossil fuels, I’m the chair of the Energy and Telecommunications

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Committee, and along with (state Sen.) Todd Kaminsky in the Senate, I was one of the co-chairs of the working group that negotiated the (Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA). I’ve had almost 20 years of working on energy issues and know both how those companies work, but more importantly, know how to build a clean energy economy.

Another state Senate Democrat, Brian Benjamin, is running for comptroller. Are there major disagreements between the two of you?

I think the world of Brian

Benjamin, who I consider a friend and somebody who I’ve worked very closely with in the Senate.

As somebody who comes with more experience than him, I’m not going to penalize him for his youth and inexperience, to use a line. I think Brian has done a great job in the Senate, and I’m 100% committed to keep him in the Senate next year. (Laughs.)

But I also have also worked very closely with Brad Lander, who is one of the City Council members in my district. And I’ve known David Weprin for decades, and him and I have worked very well together legislatively.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive orders have been allowing parolees to vote.

But can New York make it permanent?

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NGEL SOLĂ?S of the Bronx was 18 when he first voted, excited to participate in the 2004 election. At the time a registered Republican, having been raised in a conservative household – “Everybody hated me in the Bronx,â€? he recalled – SolĂ­s said he voted for then-President George W. Bush and that it was fun to see his candidate emerge victorious. “I got to see democracy in action from a very young age,â€? SolĂ­s said. “It was my first taste of being a citizen.â€?

Not long after, SolĂ­s went to prison on burglary charges, where he would spend the majority of the next 15 years of his life. Now 34 and a Democrat, SolĂ­s said when he was released in 2016 he didn’t feel much like a citizen anymore. As someone convicted of a felony and on parole, he had lost his right to vote. “I’m trying to be a citizen, I’m trying to do everything I’m supposed to,â€? SolĂ­s said. “Yet I can’t participate in the most important thing that we Americans hold dear, I can’t vote.â€? It was especially painful for him to watch the turbulent 2016 election cycle that ushered in President Donald Trump, and not be able to participate. “It made me feel, I

guess, for the first time, not American.�

Solís – who is still on parole – regained his right to vote, along with tens of thousands of other formerly incarcerated people on parole after a felony conviction, thanks to a 2018 executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Now, Cuomo issues conditional pardons to recently released inmates on parole, returning their voting rights. Since then, nearly 64,000 people on supervised release have regained their voting rights, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, but SolĂ­s would still like to see a statutory change. “I’m ever-grateful to Cuomo for this (executive order),â€? SolĂ­s said. “But it’s my opinion that it should definitely be enshrined in the law.â€?

While voting rights and criminal justice advocates applaud Cuomo’s 2018 executive order, they say the state still needs to pass legislation that would automatically return someone’s right to vote when they are released from prison, without needing proactive action from the governor. With legislative leaders once again committing to passing voting and election reforms in the new legislative session, activists are pushing for this bill to be one of their priorities.

Legislation would change the state law, which still technically says that people on parole are not allowed to vote, and make Cuomo’s executive order permanent, so that it can not be revoked by future governors. “It needs to be something that’s permanent on the statute books,� said Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of the Alliance of Families for Justice, a support and advocacy group for people impacted by the criminal justice system. “The right to vote should never be held in the hands of an individual.�

When Cuomo signed the executive order, Republicans controlled the state Senate. Among the many voting and criminal justice reform bills that languished under their rule was legislation to return the franchise to people on parole. First introduced in 2009, the bill never made it out of committee in the upper chamber. Like other progressive reforms that failed to move under Republican control, including discrimination protections for transgender people, Cuomo used his authority to enact change that bypassed the state Legislature. “He did what he could do to fix the problem,� Nick Encalada-Malinowski, civil rights campaign director at VOCAL-NY,

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Ángel Solís, left, is calling for automatic voting rights for people who were incarcerated.

a progressive advocacy organization, said.

Lawmakers typically have not treated executive orders as a reason not to pass legislation. For example, after Democrats gained control of the state Senate in 2019, they still passed the landmark Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which protects people against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression, despite the governor’s order.

Voting rights and criminal justice reform advocates said the fact that the law hasn’t been changed can lead to confusion for people upon release from prison. “Making it automatic on release takes the ambiguity out of the process, makes it a clear simple rule that when you’re out in the community, you can vote,” Perry Grossman, a senior staff attorney at the Voting Rights Project at the New York Civil Liberties Union, said. He added that right now, people on parole are the only citizens in New York who don’t have the right to vote other than those still in prison.

For example, people on probation, those in county jails and anyone with criminal histories not on post-release supervision can vote.

Formerly incarcerated people must also wait for confirmation that they have re-

ceived their conditional pardon. Although the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision could not provide an estimate for the average wait time, advocates have said it can take weeks. This is not only an inconvenience when coming up against a deadline to register for an upcoming election: Attempting to register to vote before that pardon comes through is a crime and a parole violation, which could send people back to prison. “I recognized that if I tried to vote and this was fake, I was going back to jail,” Solís said of when he received his conditional pardon in the mail. “When you’re on post-release supervision, everything you do in life, you do it with fear because anything can get you thrown in jail.”

Frantz Michel, 50, of Brooklyn spent 15 years in prison when he wasn’t able to vote. He said he came to realize how broken the criminal justice system is during his incarceration when he saw that nearly everyone was Black or brown, including him. “Once you get to start to understand that, the only way that that could be repaired is if you exercise your right to vote,” Michel said. “You exercise your right to try to make a difference and try to make a change.” But when he was first released in 2016, he couldn’t do that, preventing him from trying to effect change that would reform a system that had so negatively impacted him and others like him.

Michel’s and Solís’ excitement about engaging civically upon their release is common among formerly incarcerated people.

“People texted me, ‘Julio man, I’ve voted for the first time’ while they were on parole – it’s a good feeling,” Julio Medina, executive director of Exodus Transitional Community, a reentry support organization, said of people regaining their voting rights. “And then the text messages with everyone, kind of on a loop, like ‘Hey, did you vote? Hey, did you vote?’”

But even now, many people aren’t aware of their rights and advocates charge that the state does not do enough to ensure that once people are released from prison, they have the resources they need to register.

“Every single time we (did) outdoor voter registration, we encountered countless people who thought they couldn’t register to vote because they had a previous conviction, or that they were on parole,” Elijah said. She and other activists hope that changing the law will make it crystal clear that anyone who is a citizen and not in prison is allowed to vote, clearing up any lasting confusion. The bill returning voting rights to people on parole also includes education requirements for the state, as well as requirements that incarcerated people are not only made aware of their rights both before and after their sentence, but that they are provided with the materials to register to vote. According to a spokes-

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person for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, parole officers are currently required to provide a copy of the pardon certificate from the governor as well as voter registration forms.

The law that prevents people on parole from voting has roots in the Jim Crow era, when the state approved a constitutional amendment requiring that the state Legislature pass laws to prevent people with criminal convictions from voting. This happened in 1874, and according to a 2010 report from the Brennan Center for Justice, little has changed in the state since that amendment – the state constitution still contained the same language, people in prison still couldn’t vote and the law still disenfranchised people on parole. That continues to be true a decade after that report came out. “When you think about the origins of the denial of the right to vote in the first place, which were the vestiges of attempts to disenfranchise people of African descent who were enslaved in this country, there’s no reason to continue to bolster any vestiges of that system,” Elijah said.

State lawmakers and legislative leaders have expressed a commitment to passing new election and voting reform measures to continue building on the work they started in 2019. A package of election reform bills was one of the first pieces of business the state Senate took up at the start of the new session this year. Encalada-Malinowski said he was hoping to see legislation reenfranchising people on parole passed as part of that first package, and that he finds it disappointing that it still hasn’t passed even after two years of Democratic control. “It’s confounding to me that as we spend so much time talking about civics and voting and democracy, it’s hypocritical to say that those things are important while intentionally disenfranchising people,” Encalada-Malinowski said.

That initial package of election reforms were focused entirely on absentee and mailin voting without touching on other reforms lawmakers have spoken about like making changes to early voting. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Senate majority said the chamber “will certainly be doing more voting legislation soon.” And Grossman expressed optimism that 2021 will be the year the legislation finally moves. “I think that there’s a heightened awareness of the racial justice implications of this,” Grossman said.

“We’ve heard good things coming out of the legislators we’ve talked to, so I’m hoping it moves in the next month or two.”

Right now, the bill has been reintroduced by state Sen. Leroy Comrie of Queens in his chamber. “I think we’re in a good position to get it passed this year,” Comrie said. The Assembly version sponsored by Assembly Member Danny O’Donnell from Manhattan is still awaiting a bill number, according to a spokesperson, who said the bill is a top priority for him this year as well.

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STILL STANDING CAREER POLITICIANS ALL AROUND HER HAVE BEEN SENT PACKING – BUT CAROLYN MALONEY SAYS SHE ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE.

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EP. CAROLYN MALONEY didn’t waste a moment after the failed insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

As chair of the House Oversight Committee, having replaced her colleague and friend Rep. Elijah Cummings after he died in 2019, the New Yorker gathered all House of Representatives committee heads with jurisdiction over the FBI and went to work writing a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding a briefing on what was done to “investigate and pursue for prosecution the instigation, planning, and execution of the deadly terrorist attack.” The letter pressed the agency to use “all available assets and resources to ensure that the perpetrators of this domestic terrorist attack and those who incited and conspired with them are brought to justice, and that this domestic terrorist group is disrupted from further actions against our government.”

Four days later, in an interview with City & State, Maloney admitted she never thought that an insurrection could have happened. “It was devastating to see our Capitol violated and the disrespect of our ideals, our democracy, our purpose as a country,” the long-serving Congress member said.

But Maloney admitted that there was something else she had her mind focused on: “I want to get a subway stop in Sunnyside Yards,” she said, re-

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ferring to the Queens facility already used

by Amtrak, the Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit. Maloney said adding a stop in Sunnyside Yards fills the need for a station on the F train line on the Queens side of the 63rd Street tunnel running under the East River connecting the borough to Manhattan. Maloney had already helped secure more than $300 million in federal support for the connector when it was completed in 2001. “They don’t have a stop on the Queens side and that’s a big mistake,” she explained. “Nothing would be better for the residents, for quality of life or for economic development for the area. And that is a priority of mine in the next Congress.”

Maloney has often sought federal funding for high-profile infrastructure projects for her district, even while leading on national issues such as women’s rights. And

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represent the 12th District in 2013, after redistricting. At 74, the mother of two, who has been widowed since 2009, shows no signs of slowing down. “What drives me is all the work that needs to get done and knowing that I can get it done, as I have in the past,” said Maloney. “And I only get better at making things happen.”

During an hourlong Zoom call interview, Maloney was vocal about the work she had done for her constituents, and about her plans for the future of New York’s 12th Congressional District, encompassing the East Side in Manhattan from the Upper East Side to a slice of the Lower East Side, Roosevelt Island and parts of two boroughs across the river: Greenpoint in Brooklyn and Long Island City and Astoria in Queens. Among her goals is extending the Second Avenue Subway up to 125th Street in Harlem, the

“IT SPEAKS TO HER POPULARITY, HER CREDIBILITY IN THE DISTRICT. IT SHOWS YOU THERE’S STILL POWER OF INCUMBENCY IN NEW YORK.” – Javier Lacayo, a media

strategist at political consulting firm SKDK

she’s sticking to her playbook during a time when some of her former colleagues have found themselves vulnerable to challenges from insurgents who alleged that they’ve become out of touch with their constituents. In the last two elections, two other long-serving mainstream white liberals in nearby districts – Rep. Joe Crowley, a 10term incumbent in Queens and the Bronx and Rep. Eliot Engel, who represented the Bronx and Westchester – lost to younger, first-time candidates of color running to their left, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, respectively. Maloney, however, withstood similar challenges both times.

“It speaks to her popularity, her credibility in the district. It shows you there’s still power of incumbency in New York” said Javier Lacayo, a media strategist at political consulting firm SKDK, who has worked in the state Assembly, the New York City Council and for state Attorney General Letitia James when she was New York City public advocate.

Maloney can boast that she’s never lost a race since she was first elected to Congress to represent New York’s 14th District after defeating then-Rep. Bill Green, a liberal Republican who had held the seat for 14 years. Green had won the seat when thenRep. Ed Koch vacated it to become mayor of New York City. Maloney later came to

$6 billion existing section of which she already had long pushed for during her nearly three decades in Congress.

However, her main priority this year will be to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

“The virus is winning. More infections are happening in our great city of New York,” she said, concerned about a more infectious new strain of the virus. “We now, gratefully, have three vaccines out there, and we have to get them distributed and in as many New Yorkers’ arms as possible and across this country, to vaccinate ourselves and to (get) herd immunity.”

Maloney’s second priority, as a member of the Committee on Financial Services and vice chair of the Joint Economic Committee, will be to help New York’s economy recover from the impacts of the pandemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled his executive budget for 2022, which, without $15 billion in federal funding, he said would cause “pain for New Yorkers by forcing the state to raise revenue, cut expenses and borrow.”

With President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat, now in the White House, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer from New York leading the upper chamber, Maloney said she expects to overcome the partisan hurdles that prevented New York from receiving city and state aid in the last federal stimulus package. “It’s a

new day in Congress now,” she said. “You will see a different response.”

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HILE SHE WON’T face another primary race until 2022, Maloney already sounds like she’s running a new campaign. She’s coming off two successful, but tough, backto-back primary contests against Suraj Patel, former president of real estate and hospitality firm Sun Development and former Obama campaign staffer, who was among the new generation of first-time candidates. In the last contest on June 23, he came out with more than 39% of the vote, compared with Maloney’s almost 43%. But Patel wasn’t the only challenger. Two members of the Democratic Socialists of America came at Maloney: comedian Lauren Ashcraft, who commanded more than 13% of the vote, and housing activist Peter Harrison, who received just over 4%.

“More than anything, it’s clear that New York-12 is ready for a change,” Patel told City & State. “I mean, you have an incumbent who barely got 43% of the vote in this race and that incumbent has shown no signs of changing.”

Political consultants say Maloney’s most recent race is a microcosm of a national generational power struggle within the Democratic Party. “I think we’re seeing it all over the country,” Lacayo told City & State, in reference to the rising number of challenges incumbents like Maloney are facing. “Right now, long-time entrenched incumbents on both sides of the aisle are really having to wake up to a new generation of political activism that’s happening.

It’s especially true here in New York, in the Democratic Party.”

But, while the insurgent-versus-incumbent split is often cast as progressive against centrists, Maloney noted that she has also been a progressive since she first served on the New York City Council in the 1980s, where she represented the 7th Council District and was the first woman to give birth while in office. “I’m an original progressive,” she said, noting how her liberal views as a young Council member, such as her support for gender equality, sometimes clashed with the establishment.

“There was opposition from Council leadership on progressive issues that I was championing such as passing the first domestic partnership legislation. I was told the legislation was unconstitutional, but I persevered and it eventually passed.”

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ALONEY WAS BORN in Greensboro, North Carolina, and, after graduating from Greensboro College, moved to New York City in the early 1970s. She spent several years working as a community affairs coordinator on a welfare education program

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Maloney counts among her accomplishments the Second Avenue Subway, a project many considered a pipe dream for decades.

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at the New York City Board of Education, and later for the board’s Center for Career and Occupational Education, before moving on to work for the state Assembly. She held various policy-oriented roles for the Assembly before being elected to the New York City Council in 1982.

Joining Congress as a recent mother, Maloney said she became interested in work-family balance, because she was confronting it personally.

Her track record in Congress includes passing more than 74 measures, either through the introduction of her own bills or legislation she helped to write. These include measures to aid families nationally, such as the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act, which provides 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to federal workers; and the Standby Guardianship Act, which encourages the creation of state laws allowing chronically ill parents and those nearing death to name standby guardians for minor children without giving up parental rights.

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women’s rights issues. She was the author of the Debbie Smith law, which provides $151 million annually for processing DNA evidence in rape cases, and main sponsor of the Breastfeeding Promotion Act, which requires employers at companies with more than 50 workers to set aside private spaces so mothers can express milk.

But she also has delivered major bills to help New York specifically, such as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009, which which provided funding for the health needs of first responders and survivors of the terrorist attacks, as well as reopened the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. She also obtained $670 million in federal funding that she helped secure for building the second span of the Kosciuszko Bridge connecting the Brooklyn and Queens areas of her district, which according to her office was roughly 85% of the total cost.

Then there was Maloney’s work with the New York congressional delegation to help address the devastation caused by Hurri-

cane Sandy, and her work creating a task force to build four new schools in her district. She has helped seven senior housing developments get established in her district and she has pushed for decentralizing repairs to public housing to address problems sooner and more effectively.

Evangeline Douris, the chair of the social services nonprofit Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee, which won federal funding for three senior housing developments with Maloney’s help, said Maloney was a standout when it came to putting out legislation that favored her constituency. “She’s like, so wonderful when we need something,” Douris told City & State. “And if it’s in her district, she can do it. She’s there for us always.”

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HERE STILL ARE those within Maloney’s own party who think the new generation of progressives in her district should have a Congress member who comes from their own movement. “Some people were saying it’s time

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Maloney’s not done: She wants to extend the Second Avenue Subway up to 125th Street in Harlem.

for someone new,” former Maloney aide Jamie Ansorge, now an attorney and government relations adviser at the law firm Cozen O’Connor, told City & State.

Ansorge had worked on Maloney’s successful 2010 primary victory, when she defeated Reshma Saujani, a lawyer who had worked in the hedge fund world and raised more than $1.3 million to wage an aggressive campaign. “It was the most well-funded congressional primary challenge in the nation at the time,” recalled Ansorge.

“I was not far out of college and kind of thrown into the fire on that.”

Maloney, through the help of a grassroots campaign, managed to retain her congressional seat by a landslide with 81% of the vote.

Ansorge said Maloney remains a “fierce advocate for New York,” but admitted the battle to keep her seat has gotten more challenging. “These days, I’d say, the tiniest of missteps, given the hyper-focus on news and social media, have made it a tough time to be an incumbent and an elected official,” Ansorge told City & State. “The slightest mis-

step is magnified times 1,000.”

Maloney, for the most part, has managed to keep her missteps from mushrooming into anything career-ending. During the 2018 contest with Patel, her spokesperson pushed back at the challenger’s claim that Maloney was anti-vaccine, based on her comments at a 2012 congressional hearing where she quoted the concerns of parents who believed their children may have contracted autism after being vaccinated. The spokesperson said Patel campaign ads had taken the Congress member’s words out of context and that she was pro-vaccine.

She also sparked some controversy with her quest to bring pandas from China to New York City. “After the financial crisis, 9/11, Hurricane Sandy, it’s about time to have something happy,” she told the New York Times in February 2016. She walked through the Bronx Zoo wearing a scarf adorned with pandas, proclaiming “Let’s have a panda” during the interview. A year later, a Black and White Panda Ball fundraiser was held at the Waldorf Astoria, requiring attendees to wear black-and-white gala attire to resemble the animals. Attendees included Maloney, John Catsimatidis, the conservative radio host and billionaire owner of Gristedes and Red Apple Group supermarkets; Maurice Greenberg, the former CEO of AIG; and TV show host, fashion icon and author Yue-Sai Kan. The ball was reportedly attended by 450 guests with the goal of raising $50 million for a cause which was quickly criticized for being a pet project for Manhattan’s wealthy and rejected by animal rights activists who interrupted a 2018 Maloney campaign fundraiser to express their opposition to the plan.

Despite the backlash, Ansorge said that he still understood “the panda thing.”

“Carolyn believes that the pandas are, you know, an intercultural symbol of peace between two nations that, especially now, have a significant amount of tension, and she likes to focus on those things that bring people together” he told City & State. “Yeah, people may laugh at it, but ask Carolyn: She is tenacious when she gets an idea … She loves taking a problem from a constituent, or a bill, or whatever, and just focusing on it and solving it like a puzzle. And she becomes kind of obsessed with finding that solution and delivering it, and it’s what makes her so effective.”

“She works 24/7,” Ansorge added. “And she’s constantly focused on the task at hand, whether it’s constituent work or legislation or something like bringing pandas to Central Park.”

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O HER OPPONENTS, Maloney poses the question: What have you done for New York? “It’s easy to come out and say, ‘I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that. I’m going to change the world,’” she said. “I remem-

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ber when I first graduated from school, I thought I was going to change the world and I went out there to change the world and you find out it’s not that easy.

“When I look at a candidate, I look at, not so much at what they say, I look at, what have they done?” she continued. “What have they done to make lives better for New Yorkers?

What have they done to bring people together to make things happen?”

Her answer to the primary challenges is a call for unity. The same applies to her fellow members of New York’s congressional delegation. “The only way you make things happen is that you have to be unified, you have to work together. You can’t be fighting each other over who’s more liberal.”

Ansorge said that incumbents who rise to a high-level position in Congress, like Maloney taking over as chair of the House Oversight Committee last year, are living by a “double-edged sword.”

Crowley was the fifth-ranking Democrat in the House, and Engel was the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Both suffered in their reelection bids from the perception that they were too absorbed in national affairs, and spending too much time in Washington.

“She’s reached, in many ways, the pinnacle of her career as chair of this influential, powerful committee,” said Ansorge. “But, you know, it’s difficult because on one hand it’s great for New York. On the other hand, it draws attention to Washington. I don’t envy all these committee chairs that have to find that balance between constituent services and being present in the district. It’s a very difficult balance to strike. But if anyone can strike it, it’s someone who defies the laws of sleep, like Caroline has for decades and decades.”

And Ansorge expects young, inspired progressive challengers will keep coming for Maloney. But there are others like him, a 33-year-old “bearded, millennial living in Brooklyn,” who still express strong support for Maloney.

Maloney also said that with experience on their side, incumbents like her are needed now more than ever to lead the country and tackle its most significant problems. When I told her about the expression “original gangster,” or “O.G.” for short, often used to describe someone authentic and experienced, she was quick to adopt it for herself. “Original gangster, that’s me. I’m an O.G.” she said, remembering when she as a young progressive beat Green. Her election would help start a Democratic wave on the Upper East Side, changing the Silk Stocking District from red to blue.

“We took out Bill Green. No one could believe it,” she said. “I was a young, original gangster.”

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AST SUMMER, City & State asked Betty Rosa whether the 20202021 school year would be a lost year due to the myriad challenges posed by COVID19. The newly installed interim state education commissioner rejected the idea, but acknowledged a “loss of learning” that would have to be rectified. “And we have an obligation, we have to make a commitment in terms of what are the kinds that we do to make up for that,” she said, from ensuring that remote learning is effective in the short term to potential long-term measures such as

year-round school. The path forward hasn’t gotten any easier in the months since then, but vaccination efforts are underway – and whenever things can get back to normal, New York will benefit from having some of the best minds in crafting educational policy. City & State’s annual Education Power 100 recognizes the public officials and policymakers, superintendents and scholars, advocates and activists, and labor, business and nonprofit leaders who are putting in countless hours to ensure New York’s students get a top-notch education – pandemic or no.

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1 BETTY ROSA

Interim Commissioner State Education Department In a time of crisis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned to Betty Rosa to steady the ship. The former Board of Regents chancellor last summer became the fourth person to lead the state Department of Education in roughly a year, taking over as interim commissioner as a nationwide search for a replacement continues. Rosa, who as chancellor worked directly with her predecessors, has overseen the coronavirus response in New York schools, including a partial return to in-person learning.

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Chancellor New York City Department of Education As the leader of the nation’s largest public school system, Richard Carranza’s decisions affect the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of students and families in New York City. Yet despite some successes, such as student gains at resource-intensive community schools, Carranza

has faced a fierce backlash on efforts to scrap exams to get into elite high schools and gifted and talented programs – and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has exerted control over local COVID-19 school shutdowns and reopenings.

3 LESTER YOUNG

Chancellor New York State Board of Regents Lester Young was unanimously elected by his fellow Regents this year to serve as the chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, the influential governmental body that sets educational policy and oversees the state Education Department. Young, who has some 50 years of experience positively transforming schools and programs, from teacher to high-level administrator, succeeds Betty Rosa, who shifted to the post of interim education

Michael Mulgrew, the longestserving classroom teacher to lead the UFT, has headed the 200,000-member public school labor union for more than a decade. His track record includes securing two union contracts in 2014 and 2018. During the coronavirus pandemic, Mulgrew called on New Yorkers to help stop the spread of the virus so schools could stay open as the union rolled out a program to accelerate the distribution of vaccines to its members.

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Chair State Senate Committee on Education A new supermajority for her conference has changed the rules of the game for state Sen. Shelley Mayer. The Hudson Valley lawmaker will have more leverage with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to seek state aid for schools during the budget crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic.

Mayer also has made a push to increase broadband internet access in response to thousands of low-income and homeless students who were left with limited or no access during home learning.

5 ANDREW PALLOTTA

President New York State United Teachers Andrew Pallotta has directly influenced how school districts across New York have navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. He has insisted on safe conditions for teachers, backed the state’s recent move to cancel standardized testing, and just launched a campaign to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund education and health care. Elected in 2017 to lead the statewide teachers union and reelected last year, Pallotta helped Democrats win a pivotal majority in the state Senate.

In a time of crisis, Cuomo turned to Rosa to steady the ship.

7 JOHN LIU

Chair State Senate New York City Education Committee As head of the chamber’s New York City education committee, state Sen. John Liu has been sounding the alarm that the financial impact of the pandemic will likely dominate this year’s legislative agenda. He also urged the city to consult more families on admission reforms after Mayor Bill de Blasio enacted major changes to how selective middle and high schools admit their students at the start of the new year. Liu has represented the 11th District in northeast Queens since 2019.

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District Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small has consistently made a major impact in the field of education. Her advocacy in Washington was partly responsible for the largest-ever increase to the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program.

As the state Education Department’s assistant commissioner for the Office of Innovation and School Reform, she successfully helped put in place several new programs designed to help struggling schools.

MICHAEL BENEDETTO

Chair Assembly Committee on Education With a massive, pandemicdriven budget deficit threatening state education funding, Assembly Member Michael Benedetto has warned of the need for some combination of tax increases, spending cuts or both. Benedetto has recently opened up the possibility to make changes to New York City’s system of mayoral control, a hot-button issue in Albany. A Bronx native, he was first elected to the Assembly in 2004 after a 35-year, awardwinning teaching career at the elementary and secondary school level.

9 MARK CANNIZZARO President Council of School Supervisors and Administrators

Mark Cannizarro heads the 6,100-member union chapter that represents New York City public school principals and the directors and assistant directors working in citysubsidized Centers for Early Childhood Education, plus a retiree roster more than 10,000-strong. Going into 2021, he expressed hope that COVID-19 vaccines will be “widely distributed” by late spring, enabling a full return to in-person learning this fall.

10 KRINER CASH

Superintendent Buffalo Public Schools When Kriner Cash was hired to run Buffalo Public Schools

Mark Cannizzaro heads the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators.

in 2015, the odds were not in the schools’ favor for a lengthy tenure. He was the seventh superintendent to take the job leading the Buffalo contingent of the state’s “Big 5” school districts in six years. But in December, Cash had his contract extended through 2023. Overseeing 34,000 students as the leader of the school district in the state’s second-largest city, Cash has seen graduation rates and student test scores rise, while finances have also improved.

11 EDWIN QUEZADA

Superintendent Yonkers Public Schools Edwin Quezada is the top school official in a district that returned to full remote learning in the new year because of the pandemic, and which also grappled with the tragic loss of four 18-year-old graduates who died in a car crash just before the holidays. Originally hailing from the Dominican Republic, Quezada’s sustained leadership led to the district rewarding his efforts with a contract extension last year.

12 JAIME ALICEA

Superintendent Syracuse City School District Superintendent Jaime Alicea extended remote learning into the new year by two weeks after 69 staff members and 79 students tested positive for COVID-19 over winter break. It has since returned to the hybrid model. Alicea, who started in the district as a teaching assistant and has worked at every level there over three decades, prioritizes building a robust culture of parent engagement to boost academic performance in Syracuse public schools, one of the state’s “Big 5” districts.

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Superintendent Rochester City School District The first Black president of the New York State School Counselor Association, Rochester City School

14 MARK TREYGER

Chair New York City Council Education Committee As the head of New York City Council’s education committee, Council Member Mark Treyger has found himself on the front lines of a myriad of crises. Case in point: In December, he called upon New York City schools to improve their “Situation Room,” which was created to alert the school community upon detection of a confirmed COVID-19 case within a school. He previously spent eight years teaching world history, government and economics at New Utrecht High School. He also has had an active role in the United Federation of Teachers.

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Executive Director Alliance for Quality Education As executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, Jasmine Gripper has led a grassroots effort seeking to end systemic racism and economic oppression in public schools in New York by focusing on policy action and legislative expertise. As state revenue has dried up over the past 12 months due to the pandemic, Gripper has continued to warn against cutting millions from aid programs.

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Founder and Executive Director Class Size Matters Leonie Haimson has been one of the loudest voices raised against remote learning during the pandemic. Her concerns have revolved around untenably large remote

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classes that negatively impact student-teacher relationships in New York City public schools. The longtime parent advocate is known for battling the bureaucracy, including her successful effort to shut down InBloom, a state contractor accused of improper student data collection, as cofounder of the national Parent Coalition for Student Privacy.

Haimson is a loud voice against remote learning. and lead the advocacy group Network for Public Education in New York, which aims to help support public schools.

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17 RANDI WEINGARTEN

President American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten is among the most visible faces in education in New York and across the United States.

She is the head of the second-largest union in the country – the AFT has 1.7 million members – and was previously president of the United Federation of Teachers.

Weingarten welcomed President Joe Biden’s pick for Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, by calling for a national effort to reopen schools and more pandemic relief funding.

Jasmine Gripper seeks to end systemic racism in New York’s public schools.

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Executive Director StudentsFirstNY Jenny Sedlis has run StudentsFirstNY since 2013, advocating for charter schools by lobbying elected officials and backing charter-friendly candidates. StudentsFirstNY’s PAC shelled out more than $6 million in 2020, helping state Sen. Kevin Thomas fend off a challenger backed by the New York City Police Benevolent Association. Sedlis co-founded the Success Academy Charter Schools with her former boss in the New York City Council, Eva Moskowitz, and she is the board chair of Zeta Charter Schools.

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Co-Founder and President Network for Public Education Decades at the forefront of education issues at the local, state and national levels have made Diane Ravitch one of the most influential voices on the subject, as has her background in policy, analysis, history and advocacy.

Now a professor at New York University, Ravitch’s opposition to both school privatization and high-stakes testing led her to co-found

ROBERT JACKSON

Chair State Senate Committee on Cities Long before state Sen. Robert Jackson became a lawmaker, he was a local education official in New York City who helped bring the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that led to a ruling awarding billions of dollars to the city school system. Now, the Manhattan politician is relying on that experience to support ongoing efforts to boost state education funding and distribute it more equitably, both through litigation and in the state Legislature.

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CEO New York City Charter School Center As the longtime leader of the New York City Charter School Center, James Merriman is one of the leaders of the growing charter school movement in New York and nationwide.

While Merriman and elected officials in both parties point to strong test scores for charter school students, they have faced opposition from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and lawmakers allied with influential teachers unions. Merriman recently called on City Hall to extend COVID-19 testing to charter school students.

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joined in 2018. While writing about the depth and breadth of the pandemic’s impact on the school landscape, Shapiro has closely monitored whether New York can get more students into classrooms before the end of the school year. Shapiro knows her beat well: She grew up in New York and attended both public and private schools in New York City.

ROBERT SCHNEIDER Executive Director New York State School Boards Association

Since succeeding longtime boss Timothy Kremer last year, state School Boards Association Eva Moskowitz heads Success Executive Academy Charter Director Robert Schools, and is a Schneider now key advocate for faces the daunting charter schools. task of getting children back into classrooms in the midst of a pandemic. Currently serving as the sole representative in Albany of more than 5,000 board members from 678 school districts throughout EVA MOSKOWITZ the state, Schneider joined Founder and CEO the NYSSBA in 1999, and was Success Academy Charter chief operations officer and Schools director of finance for the organization before assuming Eva Moskowitz heads New his current role.

York City’s largest charter school network, with 47 schools in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens and an enrollment of 20,000 students. The entire network went on full remote learning during the coronavirus ROBERT LOWRY JR. pandemic through the end Deputy Director for of December, passing on a Advocacy, Research and hybrid model that would have Communications included in-person learning, New York State Council of and recently announced that School Superintendents its remote-only model would be in place throughout the Bob Lowry developed his rest of the academic year policy chops over the course – a marked departure from of a long career in Albany – he the city’s efforts to reopen was the assistant secretary for schools. education and the arts under former Gov. Mario Cuomo – by holding positions including school aid analyst with the Assembly and as New York State United Teachers policy wonk. In his current role with the New York State Council of RONALD LAUDER School Superintendents, Lowry & KIRSTEN JOHN FOY regularly provides insight on Funder; Member, the state budget to schools Board of Advisers throughout New York.

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Superintendent of Schools Archdiocese of New York Ronald Lauder is putting his money where his mouth is.

While defending the highstakes entrance exam for New York City’s elite high schools, Lauder and former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help low-income students prepare for it. A high-profile supporter of their Education Equity Campaign is Kirsten John Foy, a civil rights activist and the founder of Arc of Justice.

The organization also wants to expand gifted and talented programs.

Michael Deegan was named superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of New York in September 2019.

Since then, he has had to deal with multiple crises, first and foremost the impact of the pandemic on the Archdiocese schools coming hard on the heels of historically low enrollment numbers – a onetwo punch that has rendered the rest of Deegan’s agenda secondary to rapidly and effectively adapting to the new reality.

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Reporter The New York Times Eliza Shapiro covers education for the Times, which she

One of just a few entities that have the power to authorize a charter school opening, renewal, revision or closure or is the State University of New York. The university system’s Charter Schools Committee, which is led by Joseph Belluck, oversees that process, which often has political ramifications. Belluck, who is an attorney and partner at Belluck & Fox, also chairs the state Commission on Judicial Conduct.

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29 JENNIFER PYLE

Executive Director Conference of Big 5 School Districts As the face of the 60-yearold Conference of “Big 5” School Districts, Jennifer Pyle tackles a unique array of challenges faced by the public school districts in New York’s five largest cities - and, as of 2014, several other urban school districts of similar size. Previously the organization’s deputy director, Pyle advocates for adequate funding for each of the districts she represents - a tall order, indeed, especially during the pandemic.

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Superintendent Albany City School District Before being named superintendent for the school district of Albany in 2017, Kaweeda Adams served as the assistant superintendent of the Clark County School District in Nevada, where she led the district of 30,000 students over the course of a nearly three-decade tenure.

Like superintendents across the rest of the state and the country, Adams is working tirelessly to get students back into classrooms and to work within severe, coronavirusimpacted budget constraints.

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Jennifer Pyle leads the Conference of “Big 5” School Districts, which actually represents eight cities.

Executive Director David Little.

Little’s previous government experience, including as government relations chief at the state school boards association, legal counsel to the state Legislature, a county legislator and school board member, have helped him guide the association through these unprecedented times.

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Executive Director YAFFED Naftuli Moster, the founder of Young Advocates for Fair Education, or YAFFED, is continuing his yearslong effort advocating for basic instruction of such secular subjects as English, math,

history and science at ultraOrthodox yeshivas in New York. He pressured New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to belatedly release a city report assessing city yeshivas, and the state Education Department is now revisiting how to define “substantially equivalent” instruction at these and other private schools.

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Executive Vice President Agudath Israel of America With yeshivas at the center of disputes over classroom closures in response to the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio last spring named Agudath

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Executive Director Rural Schools Association of New York State No small amount of credit for the resiliency of New York’s rural school districts during the pandemic can be traced back to Rural Schools Association of New York State

Moster advocates for basic instruction of secular subjects at ultraOrthodox yeshivas.

Israel’s Rabbi David Zweibel to his education advisory council on reopening. Zwiebel is also a leader of Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools, or PEARLS, which defends the ultraOrthodox schools against long-simmering complaints about a lack of secular educational instruction.

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Executive Director New York State Association of Small City School Districts While the “Big 5” school districts in New York’s largest cities have plenty of clout in Albany, Robert Biggerstaff has devoted years of work ensuring that dozens of districts in smaller cities have a seat at the table too.

After Gov. Andrew Cuomo this month touted a 43% increase in education funding during his tenure, the attorney countered that the claim “neglects to mention $2.5 billion taken away just before and doesn’t give true picture.”

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of students’ educational experiences being improved.

Prior to his years spent rising through the ranks at TNTP, Weisberg served as chief executive of labor policy and implementation for the New York City Department of Education.

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President; CEO Harlem Children’s Zone As the leaders of Harlem Children’s Zone, an internationally recognized nonprofit for children and families living in Harlem, President Geoffrey Canada and CEO Kwame OwusuKesse are instrumental in assuring that the organization can offer free support to thousands of families with parenting workshops, a preschool program, three charter schools and various child-oriented health programs. Expanding their organization’s system of programs to nearly 100 blocks of Harlem, the duo is continually seeking to reach more children.

39 SHAEL POLAKOW-SURANSKY Dan Weisberg leads the group TNTP, formerly The New Teacher Project.

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When trying to make sense of New York’s latest education policy fight or sort through confusing education statistics, one of the most knowledgeable experts to provide some clarity is David Bloomfield. In recent weeks the veteran Brooklyn College professor, who also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center, has weighed in on the need to vaccinate more teachers for COVID-19, fuzzy numbers showing increased college readiness in New York City despite the pandemic, and how to address mayoral control.

President Bank Street College of Education

South Africa native Shael Polakow-Suransky has led Bank Street College of Education since 2014 – the school’s first alumnus to do so. The role is just the latest leadership position for Polakow-Suransky, who founded Bronx International High School in 2001.

Previously, he served as deputy chancellor at the city Department of Education in the Bloomberg administration, and has been a member of the board of PENCIL, a nonprofit that fosters partnerships between public schools and businesses, since 2015.

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Executive Director New York State Association of Independent Schools Representing some 200 independent schools, both secular and religious, as well as approximately 83,000 students, it’s not a stretch to call New York State Association of Independent Schools Executive Director Mark Lauria a champion of nonpublic schools.

He doesn’t take his role lightly, as evidenced by his organization’s 2019 lawsuit

against the state Education Department to halt efforts to expand oversight of nonpublic schools.

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As CEO of the reform-oriented education advocacy group TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) for nearly six years, Dan Weisberg has led the organization’s operations, initiatives and efforts that have resulted in millions

THOMAS LEE

Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer New York State Teachers’ Retirement System Thomas Lee has the economic fate of more than 430,000 people in his hands.

Lee is responsible for the performance of the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System – one of the nation’s 10 biggest public pension funds, with roughly $120 billion in assets under his management.

His private equity firm, Thomas H. Lee Partners, recently pitched a new flagship fund to institutional investors; he is looking for an outlay of about $4.25 billion.

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Lorraine Grillo leads the New York City School Construction Authority.

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Alicia Johnson, above and Jim Manly, right, lead the KIPP NYC charter school network.

LORRAINE GRILLO

Under Lorraine Grillo’s leadership, the New York City School Construction Authority expects to have air conditioning installed in every New York City public school classroom by the end of 2021 – a year ahead of schedule.

The authority also stuck to its plan to remove temporary classroom structures from the five boroughs and kicked off a diversity program to encourage working with women- and minority-owned businesses: Since 2010, it has committed $4.2 billion in prime contracts and $3 billion in sub-contracts to qualifying businesses.

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led a renewed focus on targeted giving to K-12 and higher education initiatives.

In addition to his role at the Carnegie Corporation, Gregorian serves on several boards, including the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Highlights from his extensive background in education include serving as president of Brown University.

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Executive Director School Administrators Association of New York State A vocal representative and advocate for the more than 8,000 school administrators,

including principals, vice principals, directors, and public school communities, Kevin Casey currently oversees services and operations at the School Administrators Association of New York State. Like the members of his organization on a daily basis, Casey faces the challenge of how to engineer a safe return to inperson learning.

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Bureau Chief Chalkbeat New York The must-read source for what’s happening in education policy and politics in New York is Chalkbeat, a nonprofit

VARTAN GREGORIAN

President Carnegie Corporation of New York Vartan Gregorian has been at the helm of the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997. During his tenure at the legendary grantmaking institution, he has

The must-read source for what’s happening in education policy and politics is Chalkbeat.

news website with hubs in New York City and several other major U.S. cities. For a little over a year, veteran New York journalist Amy Zimmer has served as the local bureau chief, overseeing the site’s editorial direction and penning pieces on students with disabilities, hiring more social workers in schools and examining how schools are dealing with COVID-19.

45 JIM MANLY & ALICIA JOHNSON Superintendent; President KIPP NYC

KIPP, a charter school network whose name is an acronym of Knowledge is Power Program, has become a power player since its first classroom was opened in the South Bronx a quarter century ago. The system is run by Jim Manly, who was previously with Success Academy Charter Schools, and Alicia Johnson, a KIPP veteran who has been adapting to the coronavirus pandemic. Manly and Johnson announced new anti-racism efforts last summer.

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Director of Education Policy Center for New York City Affairs at The New School Editor-in-Chief InsideSchools A former educational technology professor, English teacher, and school district official for the New York City Department of Education, Tom Liam Lynch helped launch the iLearnNYC online learning

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program in more than 100 schools. He also launched WeTeachNYC, a $6.8 million digital resource library for tens of thousands of teachers. His expertise is in educational tech, school reform and K-12 computer science.

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Assembly Member Like many Brooklyn Democrats, Assembly Member Robert Carroll is a progressive

who advocates for criminal justice reform, Medicaid and recreational marijuana. But one less high-profile stand he has taken is in support of students with dyslexia, having struggled with the disorder himself. Last year he successfully lobbied the New York City Department of Education to screen students in his district for dyslexia, and is advocating for such screenings to be conducted citywide.

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Tom Liam Lynch is director of education policy at The New School’s Center for New York City Affairs.

Interim Executive Director The Education Trust-New York In January, The Education Trust-New York’s Ian Rosenblum stepped down to be deputy assistant secretary for policy and programs in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education with the U.S. Department of Education. His interim replacement, Ed Trust-NY veteran Dia Bryant, will contend with the challenges of COVID-19, though she’ll have the strong support of John King, the former U.S. education secretary and past state education commissioner who heads the organization’s national office.

49 RICHARD BUERY, JR. President Achievement First

Last May, Richard Buery took on a top post at Achievement First, a high-performing charter school network with 37 schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Buery, who drove the successful rollout of universal prekindergarten in New York City as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s deputy mayor for

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strategic policy initiatives, left City Hall in 2018 and joined KIPP, another charter school network. Buery now works directly with Achievement First’s CEO, Dacia Toll.

50 MARK DUNETZ

President New Visions for Public Schools As president of New Visions for Public Schools for nearly five years, Mark Dunetz continues to lead the nonprofit on its mission to be “a laboratory of innovation” for tens of thousands of students within the city’s public school system via its charter high school network and teacher prep program.

Dunetz, who began his career in education as a high school teacher of English language learning, was the founding principal of Academy for Careers in Television and Film, one of New York City’s best-performing nonselective schools.

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Executive Director Statewide School Finance Consortium Rick Timbs’ Statewide School Finance Consortium represents more than 400 public school districts, and the group seeks more equity in how state school aid is distributed. Last fall, Timbs warned that school districts were in an “impossible situation,” with looming budget cuts and unexpected expenses to protect against COVID-19. And this month, he said there wasn’t much clarity from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal about how the state might help.

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Founder and Executive Director Center for Educational Equity The Center for Educational Equity, a policy and research center at Columbia Teachers College, advocates for children to have the right “to a meaningful opportunity to graduate from high school prepared for college, careers, and civic participation.” Rebell is also executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity, which aims to close the education access gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

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Executive Director Advocates for Children of New York There’s no mystery about the mission of Kim Sweet’s nonprofit: It advocates for the children of New York, with an emphasis on providing high-quality education for low-income students. Sweet, who has run the organization since 2007, achieves its goals through legal representation and advice, litigation, advocacy training and pushing for policy changes.

Her organization recently warned of a rising population of homeless students and children with developmental disabilities falling through the cracks during the pandemic.

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President and CEO Educational Alliance

Michael Rebell leads Center for Educational Equity at Columbia Teachers College.

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As the executive director of the New York State Federation of School Administrators, former elementary school principal and Queens native Peter McNally leads an organization that represents 14,000 principals and supervisors in New York City, Buffalo and Yonkers. He also serves as the chair of the New York State School Administrators Consortium, which has more than 23,000 combined members from the NYSFSA and SAANYS.

Paula White’s position at Educators for Excellence, where she works to improve the teaching profession and the end results for students, is just her latest achievement.

White began her career in education teaching in Atlanta, where she founded her own charter school. She also led school turnaround efforts at the New Jersey Department of Education, and advocated with Democrats for Education Reform. She is the author of the book, “Shape: The Five Keys to Parenting from Research & Real Life.”

Executive Director New York State Federation of School Administrators

New York Executive Director Educators for Excellence

Sweet advocates for high-quality education for low-income children.

Alan van Capelle is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of civil rights and social justice. The LGBTQ activist and former union organizer helped pave the way for marriage equality in New York, connecting labor unions with various faith communities. The CEO of the multigenerational community services nonprofit Educational Alliance since 2014, van Capelle also has strong connections to City Hall, where he worked as deputy comptroller from 2010 to 2012, and currently serves on the Children’s Cabinet Advisory Committee.

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CEO; President College Board David Coleman heads the College Board, the New York-based education firm that administers the SAT, while former College Board COO Jeremy Singer serves as company president. The duo must now navigate uncharted waters, as more communities decry the tests’ apparent inaccessibility to all students, as more institutions decide that the tests are no longer a requirement on applications, and as the pandemic continues to play havoc with the testing schedule – and revenue streams.

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MAURY LITWACK

Executive Director Teach Coalition Maury Litwack founded the Teach Coalition with the singular purpose of protecting the interests of Jewish day schools and other nonpublic education institutions in New York. Since the organization’s inception in 2013, it has evolved from a one-man operation into a multistate network that has successfully advocated for several key legislative victories in New York. Litwack also successfully bolstered private-school security and even secured state aid for STEM instruction in New York City’s religious schools.

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Policy Chair New York City Panel for Educational Policy Lori Podvesker, a former special education teacher and the mother of a teen with

intellectual disabilities, is one of the 15 appointed members of the New York City Panel for Educational Policy serving alongside New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. Podvesker is also the manager of disability and education policy at INCLUDEnyc, a nonprofit working on behalf of families and children with disabilities in New York City, and a member of the Manhattan Developmental Disabilities Council.

Natasha Trivers is CEO of the charter school network Democracy Prep.

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Before joining the New York State PTA in 2016, Kyle Belokopitsky was an adjunct professor at Hudson Valley Community College for more than 14 years. Prior to that, Belokopitsky served as the assistant director of government relations at the New York State Council of School Superintendents, as well as director of government relations for the New York State Catholic Conference.

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Executive Director New York State PTA

Brigid Ahern leads Turnaround for Children.

Founding Members New York City Alliance for School Integration and Desegregation The New York City Alliance for School Integration and Desegregation is a coalition of organizations and individuals whose mission is to “advocate for city-wide, racial and socioeconomic school integration and desegregation.” The three founding members on its steering committee are Bronx education activist Danielle McKoy; New York Civil Liberties Union organizer Toni Smith-Thompson; and Faraji Hannah-Jones, a public school parent and spouse of the journalist Nikole HannahJones, who spearheaded The New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 Project.”

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President and CEO Turnaround for Children Since taking the lead of Turnaround for Children in

2018, Brigid Ahern has made it her and Turnaround’s mission to prepare education professionals to deal with the impact of trauma and stress on students. Since beginning its work in New York City, Turnaround for Children has found its services in increasing demand across the country.

Ahern also served as the organization’s chief external affairs officer for four years.

63 NATASHA TRIVERS CEO Democracy Prep

Natasha Trivers came to Democracy Prep in 2011 as an assistant principal, and ascended to CEO of the multistate charter school network in 2019. Today, she oversees the network’s schools in New York City, New Jersey, Nevada, Texas and Louisiana. Trivers’ tenure has produced significant gains in Regents exam scores and graduation rates.

Trivers is also committed to offering increased educational opportunities to students of color.

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Julie Jackson , above, and Brett Peiser, right, lead Uncommon Schools.

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Uncommon Schools President Julie Jackson’s work has earned her multiple honors, including a Teacher of the Year award in 1998 and Teach For America’s Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership in 2013. Brett Peiser worked as a teacher at several New York City public schools before joining Uncommon Schools, where he was named CEO in 2012. The pair oversees a plethora of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and professional development for all 54 schools in the Uncommon network.

Yomika Bennett has led the nonprofit New York Charter Schools Association since 2019, when she took the reins from Aaron Gladd.

The Albany veteran, who previously worked at Capitol Hill Management Services and in several high-ranking roles in the Cuomo administration, now heads up an organization representing more than 300 charter schools in the state and 150,000 students. The organization is part of the Northeast Charter Schools Network.

President; CEO Uncommon Schools

Executive Director New York Charter Schools Association

Hsin isn’t the kind of scholar who sits in an ivory tower.

Associate Professor of Sociology Queens College Amy Hsin isn’t the kind of scholar who sits in an ivory tower and debates abstruse theories. Instead, the Queens College sociology professor is focused on the real world, whether it’s documenting gender differences in academic achievement or explaining the impact of an immigration slowdown on city schools. She also served on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s School Diversity Advisory Group, which recommended eliminating gifted and talented programs.

67 ANITA GUNDANNA & VANESSA LEUNG

Co-Executive Directors Coalition for Asian American Children and Families Anita Gundanna and Vanessa Leung, who came aboard in 2017 to lead the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, have brought serious chops to the downtown

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educational nonprofit and its efforts in the campaign to overhaul the city’s specialized high school admissions test.

Prior to their arrival at CACF, Gundanna was a consultant to nonprofits and the deputy director at the Fund for Social Change, and Leung, the chair of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Panel for Educational Policy, was the director of member initiatives at FPWA.

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Board President; Executive Director Association of School Business Officials of New York The Association of School Business Officials of New York is a perennial power player in shaping education policy in the state. Brian Cechnicki recently left his position as director of education finance at the state Education Department to run the group, which represents school business officials and other district and BOCES staffers. The nonprofit’s board president is Jamie Phillips, an assistant superintendent with the Lancaster Central School District.

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Jeremy Johannesen leads the New York Library Association.

Tia Morris is Executive Director of Teach for America New York.

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Executive Director Teach For America New York A New Jersey native with the goal of creating more educational opportunities for today’s youth, Tia Morris has spent the past two decades advocating for equity in schooling. Initially a teacher for Teach For America in Harlem in 1998, in 2002, she teamed up with other former Teach for America alumni to start the KIPP charter network in New Jersey, where she went on to hold key positions in the Newark Public School system and the Camden City School District.

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Executive Director Research Alliance for New York City Schools James Kemple, a former high school math teacher, currently serves as leader of

the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, and is a professor at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. As the head of the alliance, he has authorized studies on everything from high school choice to college and career preparation, afterschool programs and school reform initiatives. Previously, he spent almost two decades at MDRC.

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Vice President, Education United Way of New York City Currently overseeing education initiatives at United Way’s New York City chapter, Marielys Divanne previously led the organization’s ReadNYC campaign from 2014 to 2017, where she helped lead literacy gains in several Bronx elementary schools.

She then lent her expertise to the nonprofit Students for Education Reform as national director of organizing before returning to United Way in 2019, where she continues to work for children’s literacy.

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New York Library Association Executive Director Jeremy Johannesen is entering the ninth year of his second stint with the organization. He served as deputy director from 2005 to 2008 before leaving to run the New York State Alliance for Arts Education.

Johannesen has racked up a number of victories for the association, including securing the largest increase ever in state funding for its Library Construction Aid Program.

STEPHEN LAZER

Executive Director New York Library Association

President and CEO Questar Assessment The Minnesota-based educational testing company Questar Assessment is a major ed-tech vendor in New York, providing reading and math exams for students in grades 3 through 8.

Stephen Lazer leads the Educational Testing Service subsidiary, which in 2019 had to resolve a glitch that kept

many students from taking computer-based tests. While some tests were canceled last year due to COVID-19, Questar’s current contract was extended as a result.

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District Superintendent and Senior Executive Officer Capital Region BOCES As longtime former school superintendents, Anita Murphy and Joe Dragone have a wealth of experience when it comes to servicing students, schools and educators across the capital region. In their current roles, Dragone oversees program development efforts, while Murphy handles organizational responsibilities at the state level, including statewide initiatives, grants and testing.

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75 PHIL WONG

President Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York As the leader of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York with a mission of empowering Chinese American students, Phil Wong can frequently be found on the front lines of educational battles. His organization recently joined in a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Department of Education, city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and other entities over alleged discrimination against Asian American applicants to the city’s elite high schools.

prekindergarten, another education success story for the de Blasio administration is community schools, which partner with local organizations and provide health care, social services and other expanded resources. Chris Caruso, a Children’s Aid Society alum and longtime city official, took over the program in 2015, and last year a study documented higher scores, better attendance and other improvements.

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Director New York City Coalition for Educational Justice A fierce advocate for New York City’s Black youth, immigrants and children of color, Natasha Capers initially got involved with the Coalition for Educational Justice as a parent whose children’s school was slated for closure. Capers swiftly stepped up to lead the group and has since been instrumental in improving all aspects of the educational environment in New York City schools.

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CHRISTOPHER CARUSO

CAROL BURRIS

Although it hasn’t gotten as much attention as universal

A decorated school principal who retired with honors in 2015 from South Side High School in Rockville Centre, Long Island, education lifer

Senior Executive Director, Office of Community Schools New York City Department of Education

Executive Director Network for Public Education

Carol Burris now dedicates herself solely to reversing New York’s use of high-stakes testing. She also opposes the linkage of teacher evaluations to student test scores. She regularly contributes to The Washington Post’s “The Answer Sheet” blog, where she airs her concerns about high-stakes testing.

segregation is even worse today than it was at the time of that landmark 1954 ruling.

Lallinger, who previously was a top aide to New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, is partnering with New York City and other districts around the country on racial and socioeconomic integration.

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Founder and CEO Noodle

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Fellow and Director of Bridges Collaborative The Century Foundation Stefan Lallinger, whose grandfather, Louis Redding, was an attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, argues that in some ways school

Phil Wong is President of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York.

Best known as the co-founder of test prep company The Princeton Review, John Katzman is a successful entrepreneur with established credibility in the education industry – in addition to a slew of well-funded startups.

Noodle, his latest venture, spans multiple enterprises with offerings that include a tool for K-12 districts to manage the procurement process, a tutoring service and an online program manager for university degree programs. Katzman also served on the board of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

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Burris dedicates herself to reversing New York’s use of highstakes testing.

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Diallo Shabazz is executive director of the New York State P-Tech Leadership Council.

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Executive Director New York State P-Tech Leadership Council While Joel Mangan leads P-Tech at IBM, the corporation’s global education initiative putting undeserved students on track for STEM careers, he has relied heavily on Diallo Shabazz to make it a success in New York.

Shabazz, who has previously worked for the New York City Department of Education and led One Hundred Black Men, took over as executive director of the New York State P-Tech Leadership Council last spring.

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President and CEO CDW The information technology company CDW is based in Illinois, but it has a major presence across the country and internationally in Canada and the United

Christine Leahy is president and CEO of information technology company CDW.

Kingdom – and its CDW Government educational technology offerings have been a top seller in New York government. In recent years, it has been awarded several multimillion-dollar contracts from the New York City Department of Education.

Christine Leahy has been at the helm since 2019.

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President Spring Valley NAACP In May, a federal judge ruled against East Ramapo Central School District’s at-large system for electing school board members on the grounds that Black and Latino voters had been disadvantaged. The ruling, which required geographic districts to be created instead, was a victory for Willie Trotman’s Spring Valley NAACP, which brought the lawsuit along with the New York Civil Liberties Union, Latham & Watkins and seven Black and Latino voters.

Kelly Sturgis leads New York State Network for Youth Success.

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Executive Director New York State Network for Youth Success Before joining New York State Network for Youth Success, Kelly Sturgis rose through the ranks at YMCAs in Schenectady and Albany.

Her extensive experience with extracurricular enrichment for kids now informs her leadership at the Network for Youth Success. The organization, which is part of a national network of afterschool advocacy groups, works with partners to provide activities that promote the mental, physical and emotional health of young people enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12.

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Chair, President and CEO Scholastic A former high school English teacher, Richard Robinson has spent the majority of his

career leading Scholastic, the multinational publishing giant and popular provider of pre-K through 12th grade instructional materials. Serving as president since 1974 and CEO since 1975, Robinson has overseen the company’s enormous growth. In recent years, he has encouraged the expansion of the education division, providing core curriculum books to countless school districts.

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Supervising Attorney of the Education Law Project The Legal Aid Society Many students in New York City who don’t have access to the internet have struggled to keep up during the shift to remote learning, especially children living in homeless shelters. So The Legal Aid Society is moving forward with a lawsuit to compel the city to install WiFi at shelters more quickly. Susan Horwitz, an education attorney at Legal Aid for a decade and a half, is behind the effort.

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Kate Breslin leads the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy.

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President and CEO TIAA Roger Ferguson is set to retire as the leader of TIAA, a top financial services company that got its start helping teachers prepare for retirement. When he steps aside in March, he’ll conclude an impressive career, having served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board and as one of a handful of Black CEOs of a Fortune 500 company. He had been rumored to be under consideration to lead the Treasury Department in the Biden administration.

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President and CEO Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy With Kate Breslin at the helm, the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, a statewide nonprofit, has forged ahead on fulfilling its core mission of helping to make the social policies affecting New Yorkers’ lives better. She was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Behavioral Health Services

Aaron Pallas examined the impact of teacher evaluations.

Advisory Council, and she previously served as director of policy for the Community Health Care Association of New York State.

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President Math for America Before joining New Yorkbased Math for America 12 years ago, John Ewing was executive director of the American Mathematical Society for nearly 14 years.

Before that, Ewing was a mathematics professor at Indiana University from 1973 to 1995, where he did a stint as chair of the department. These days, Ewing has remained active in mathematical exposition – both as a writer and editor – and has received multiple national awards.

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Arthur I. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education Columbia University Teachers College A well-read author and opinion writer who isn’t

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Michael Kohlhagen is CEO of the Center for Educational Innovation.

afraid to lighten up his academic prose with references to pop culture, Aaron Pallas has studied how schools contribute to social inequality by looking at how people become “sorted” and selected within schools – and the consequences that impact them after they leave. Last year, he turned his focus to the impact of statewide teacher evaluations and how they were used in New York City schools.

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Integrated Schools Project Director New York Appleseed In 2019 Nyah Berg joined New York Appleseed in its efforts to integrate New York schools. The past year marked a turning point, with the Black Lives Matter movement drawing attention to the cause of the nonprofit, which focuses on statewide matters too. In 2020, the group applauded the city Department of Education

for eliminating its screening for public middle schools and the introduction of New York City Council legislation for “comprehensive planning” to address segregation.

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CEO Center for Educational Innovation As CEO of the Center for Educational Innovation, Michael Kohlhagen draws upon his past experience as a school superintendent and as a social worker in the New York City Department of Education in leading this nonprofit that reaches hundreds of thousands of students across the state.

By taking advantage of the center’s resources, students can access enrichment programs, connections and opportunities – all of which are even more essential in a COVID-19 world.

Appleseed’s efforts to integrate schools marked a turning point.

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SASKIA TRAILL

President and CEO ExpandED Schools Before taking the reins at ExpandED Schools and leading the nonprofit’s efforts to offer enhanced in-school and afterschool enrichment programs to underserved children, and advocating for policies at the city, state and federal levels – Saskia Traill worked on improving children’s access to educational opportunities, including time spent on early childhood care. She’s led ExpandED Schools since 2009.

education policy, Kim Sykes heads up its efforts to support immigrant students and Englishlanguage learners in the city’s education system.

Last year, she called on the New York City Department of Education to expand its outreach to ensure immigrant families weren’t left behind as schools transitioned to hybrid learning during the pandemic. Sykes has been critical of the DOE’s heavy reliance on online communications, which pose challenges for many families.

college student; high schooler Karla Narvaez; and Sarah Zapiler, their seasoned leader, together form the IntegrateNYC creative team – a collective of young upstarts working on creating and implementing policies dealing with race and enrollment, resource allocation, representative staff and faculty and restorative justice. They also work with faculties and administrations to eradicate instances of segregation in education.

advocates for parents through Special Support Services, an organization that recently published a report highlighting special education teacher shortages in New York City.

She’s also behind 2eNYC, a listserv for parents of gifted students with special needs.

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While the safety of school buildings has been a topic of heated debate throughout the coronavirus pandemic, similar questions have arisen about school bus safety. Michael Cordiello, who represents some 8,000 school bus workers in New York City, has been pushing for stronger protections. In a letter to members last month, he wrote that “we endured a successful strike, several successful negotiations, contract ratifications and a constant fight to keep you working during school closures.”

DANIEL WHITE

District Superintendent Monroe #1 BOCES Daniel White isn’t just the district superintendent for Fairport’s Monroe #1 BOCES – he’s an advocate for the state’s 37 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services and the more than 700 districts they serve. These entities, which provide shared services and instruction, are a key part of the state’s education infrastructure. A year ago, White testified in Albany in favor of increased school aid, including support for career and technical training.

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Director of Education Policy New York Immigration Coalition As the New York Immigration Coalition’s director of

Executive Directors IntegrateNYC

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President and Business Agent Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181

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Parent Advocate and Assistive Technology Coach Special Support Services As a parent of children with disabilities, Jenn Choi knows how hard it is dealing with a school system where these students often fall behind – and the challenges have only grown during shutdowns spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. Choi

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A compassionate figure in the field of education, Bernadette Kappen not only serves as executive director of the New York Institute for Special Education in the Bronx, but also as the current head of the 4201 Schools Association, a collective of 10 statesupported schools across New York. She is joined by cochair Tim Kelly, and together, the duo work tirelessly as advocates for New York’s children with low-incidence disabilities – those who are deaf, blind and/or severely physically disabled.

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Executive Director Read 718 One promising strategy for closing the education achievement gap is tutoring.

That’s why Emily Kirven launched her nonprofit, Read 718, in 2015. The former English teacher offers cheap or free literacy tutoring to a growing roster of students, although she says more resources are needed to help low-income families. “It feels more important than ever doing this work because remote (school) instruction is just not the same,” she told Chalkbeat in December.

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

Notice of Formation of E & L PEN VENDING, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7424 12TH Ave, Brooklyn NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Formation of D.N.Y. Properties LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/2020.

Office loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail process to 233 W. 99th St., New York, NY 10025. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: ERYK KAI LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/22/2020. NY office location: Kings County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Eric Kai-mun Chin, 18 Woodbine Street Brooklyn, NY, 11221. Purpose/ character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Monica Malone Interiors LLC filed with SSNY on November 25, 2020.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 142 West 73rd Street, Apt 10, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Qualification of A100x, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/20.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/29/20.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Registered Agents Inc., 90 State St., STE 700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Address to be maintained in DE: 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Fitness Holdings Management LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY(SSNY) on December 30, 2020. Office location: Kings County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 920 72nd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11228. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of MineBottleScale LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/02/20.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/07/20.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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

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

Notice of Formation of JCA LLC 1. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose.

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

Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 1 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1217 70TH ST LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 716 58th Street 2fl Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 2 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Charles Munro Valentine, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/12/2020.

Location: New York County. Kevin McNeilly designated as agent for service of process on LLC at 213 W 80th Street Apt. 1W NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 3 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of DAVOS SERVICES LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/30/20.

Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 12/18/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of L & S PROPERTIES 4 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10002. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LINDA ATKINS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Jerry Atkins 38 West 11th St NY, NY, 10011.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LJP FULTON EQUITIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O: Phillips Nizer LLP 485 Lexington Ave New York, NY, 10017. Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Boa Teng Holdings L.L.C. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/28/2020.

Office location: BRONX County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 254 Throggs Neck Blvd Bronx, NY 10465.

The principal business address of the LLC is: 254 Throggs Neck Blvd Bronx, NY 10465. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Qual. of TREND DISCOVERY HOLDINGS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/30/20.

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

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Notice of Formation of BLACKSHERE BEAUTY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O United States Corporation Agents Inc 7014 13th Ave Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BROOKLYN TIDE ADVISORY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/4/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 231 16th Street Ste 2-B Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of D & F 85 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/19/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 85 Ilyssa Way Staten Island, NY, 10312.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DIGILANCE ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/21/20. Office location: OSWEGO SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 39 Dutchess Lane Apt 3 Fulton, NY, 13069.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of E S N Y - E W - S T AT E N ISLAND, LLC. Arts Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/16/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 80 State St. Albany, NY, 12207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 101 WEST 24TH 12B LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/17/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 101 West 24th Street Apt 12B New York, NY, 10011.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of MADISON AVENUE WESTSIDE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/20.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 Little West 12th St., NY, NY 10014.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of MODELING VENTURES OPERATIONS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/20.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/07/20.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE-Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of LIME, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/12/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in California (CA) on 07/29/02. NYS fictitious name: LIME STUDIOS LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1528 20th St., Santa Monica, CA 90404.

CA addr. of LLC: 2000 Ave. of the Stars, #400, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of MERA MERA PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/22/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 31 E. 31ST ST. Apt 10A New York, NY, 10106.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: Parris Eatery Inc Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 22nd, 2020. Office Location: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 1345 East Gun Hill Road Bronx NY 10469. Purpose: to engage in any and all business for which LLCs may be formed under the New York LLC law Notice of Formation of Forte Content LLC filed with SSNY on October 19, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1123 Lafayette Ave #2, Brooklyn, NY 11221 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of LVS III SPE XXXVII LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/08/21. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/13/19. 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 partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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

February 1, 2021

Notice of Qualification of GIG US STORAGE HOLDINGS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/11/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/08/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 8807 CHEN LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/22/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6814 Fort Hamilton Pkwy 1st Fl Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ANIRA STUDIOS LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/25/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 212 W 91ST ST APT 423 New York, NY, 10024.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Snug Studios, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Sec. of State of NY on 1/20/21.

Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC whom process against it may be served, mail process to: c/o the LLC, 4218 Amboy Rd. SI, NY 10308.

Purpose: any lawful purpose..

Notice of Formation of God In Gotham, LLC filed with SSNY on September 18, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2266 5TH AVE, #1249, NY, NY, 10037.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MDB HOLDINGS GROUP LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/15/19.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Michael Breskin 155 West 21st St, Apt. 7h New York, NY, 10011.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NKB HOLDINGS LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Nicole Breskin 144 West 76th St New York, NY, 10023.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NVS MEZZ LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/20. Office location: Sullivan. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 575 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of THE SWEET ICE CREAM COMPANY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/26/20. Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 Clinton St Ste 200 Hempstead, NY, 11550. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE TIDE KASTLE LLC. Arts.Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/17/20.

Office location: Cayuga SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 110 Genesee St. Ste 390A Auburn, NY, 13021. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of QUBIST BERSERKA NETWORK LLC filed with SSNY on November 16, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 17 STATE ST 40TH FLOOR, NEW YORK 10004. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Hellenic Petroleum LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 10/20/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 7000 West Palmetto Park Rd., Ste. 302, Boca Raton, FL 33433, also the principal office address. Arts of Org. filed with the FL Secy. of State, The Center of Tallahasse, 2415 N. Monroe St., Ste. 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Just Salad 1412 Broadway, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/20.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the company, c/o Delaney Corporate Services, Ltd., 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805A, Albany, NY 12210.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Urbanspace 100 Pearl Street, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/20.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o UrbanSpace, 80 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1818, NY, NY 10011, Attn: Mr. Eldon Scott. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of formation of GLASSMAN LAW PLLC, a professional limited liability company. Arts. of org. filed 12/24/20 with SSNY. Office: New York County. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at its principal business address: 140 Riverside Blvd. #704, New York, NY 10069. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of Touching Money Daily, LLC filed with SSNY on May 29, 2020.

Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 709 Palmer Ct, Mamaroneck NY 10543, Apt. 2C. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Lymbic Health and Wellness LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/20/2020. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 152 West 141 Street, Apt 5c, NewYork, NY: Purpose: Any lawful

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

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF La Rochelle Home LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/8/18.

Office location and principal business address: NEW YORK County, 168 Malcom X Blvd. #5C, NY, NY 10026. SSNY is designated as agent for service of process. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 168 Malcom X Blvd. #5C, NY, NY 10026. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of WWGAJ ASSOCIATES, LLC filed with SSNY on November 18, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to WWGAJ Associates LLC: 1790 Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: BETHEL MILLS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/2020. NY Office Location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O The LLC, 1325 59th St., Brooklyn, NY 11219.

Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LMRN, LLC filed with SSNY on 10/28/20 Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 109 Greenvale Rd Cherry Hill NJ 08034.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of VESUVIO BAKERY FARLEY PO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/21/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 540 West 49TH ST, #104N New York, NY, 10019.Any lawful purpose.

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

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Notice of Formation of ATKINS FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin 133 Norfolk St New York, Ny, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GEORGETOWN PROPERTIES 7020 LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/21/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 390 Fairmount Ave Chatham, NJ, 07928.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BRESKIN FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin 133 Norfolk St New York, Ny, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 515 WEST 18TH 422 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/18/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 101 West 24th St Apt 12B New York, NY, 10011. Any lawful purpose.

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

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

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Notice of Formation of Charles Warshaw Family LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY(SSNY) on December 29, 2020. Office location: New York County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 50 East 89th Street, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of FANTASYLAND HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/25/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 416 Kent Ave, #517 Brooklyn, NY, 11249.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JASL GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20.Office location: NEW YORK SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin, L.L.C. 133 Norfolk St New York, NY, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JASLBA GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Atkins & Breskin 133 Norfolk St New York, Ny, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ROCK BOTTOM DEALS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/19/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 460 Neptune Ave APT 13J Brooklyn, NY, 11224.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KEEN LOREN, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 332 43RD ST Apt.2A Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LEAST LIKELY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/7/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 245 Warren St. #2L Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LET BARBADOS MOVE YOU LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/27/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1150 E 22 St Brooklyn, New York, 11210. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MILK PENNY LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/23/20. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to PO Box 86 Canastota, NY, 13032. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NYC ADVANCED PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 85 Kell Ave Staten Island, NY, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE HARDBALL CAFE OF MAIN STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/04/21. Office location: Suffolk SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 99 Main St Cooperstown, NY, 13326. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of SafeTherapeutics LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/06/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/14/17. Princ. office of LLC: 300 E. 59th St., #502, NY, NY 10022.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mark Kupersmith at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of JOEY NECHADIM PARTNERS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: ENDURANCE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 01/07/2021.

Office location: 427 BEDFORD ROAD, SUITE 110 PLEASANTVILLE, NEW YORK, 10570. Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 427 BEDFORD ROAD, SUITE 110 PLEASANTVILLE, NEW YORK, 10570. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of Konverjdans, LLC filed with SSNY on December 17, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1184 St Marks Ave, Apt 2L, Brooklyn, NY 11213. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Transon Media LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/07/21. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in District of Columbia (DC) on 01/27/14.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Brothers Smith LLP, c/o David Pearson, 2033 N. Main St., Ste. 720, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Principal Office: 550 15th St., Ste. 31, San Francisco, CA 94103. Arts of Org. filed with the Superintendent of Corporations, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Ste. 419, Washington, DC 20004. Purpose: any lawful activities.

The annual return of ANNA & DAVID ZIMMERMAN FOUNDATION, INC. for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2020 is available at its principal office located at 320 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof.

Principal Manager of the Foundation is ROBERT ZIMMERMAN. Notice of Formation of Keep It Tight, LLC filed with SSNY on October, 28 2020 Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 79 e 94th st, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1331671 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 833 LEXINGTON AVE NEW YORK, NY 10065. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. BOTANICUS LEXINGTON INC PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 84-feet on an 80-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 1415 Bristow Street, Bronx, Bronx County, New York 10459. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Abigail MooreLee, a.moorelee@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, Georgia 30067, 678-6538673.

Solutions By Sam, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/16/2020.

Cty: New York. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Samantha Sil-verman, 201 E. 19th St., Apt. 7L, New York, NY 10003. General Purpose THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE STEVEN & BONNIE STERN FOUNDATION, INC for the year ended March 31, 2020 is available at its principal office located at 184 Bradley Place, Apt 303, Palm Beach, FL 33480 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof.

Principal Manager of the Foundation is STEVEN E. STERN.

February 1, 2021

FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK CITY OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------X In the Matter of Commitment of Docket No. B-1869/20 Guardianship and Custody of NO GIVEN NAME SAMON also known as CRYSTAL LEE

SUM-

MONS

A Child under the Age of Eighteen Years -----------------------------------------------------X In the Name of the People of the State of New York TO: BIANCA SAMON ADDRESS: UNKNOWN A Petition having been duly filed in this Court pursuant to Article 6 of the Family Court Act of the State of New York, asking that the above-named child, who in the care of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL be committed to the guardianship and custody of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL; a copy of said Petition being annexed hereto; You are hereby summonsed to appear VIRTUALLY in this Court, before the Hon. Clark V. Richardson, in Part 11A, on MARCH 11, 2021 at 2:30P.M. to Show Cause why the Court should not enter an Order committing the guardianship and custody of said child to the petitioning agency as required by law.

TO APPEAR VIRTUALLY, PLEASE CALL 1-623-6003774 and ENTER THE CONFERENCE CODE 371155 at the above scheduled time.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that if the guardianship and custody of said child are committed to the petitioning agency, THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, said child may be adopted with consent of the petitioning agency without your consent or further notice to you.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that you have the right to be represented by a lawyer, and, if the Court finds that you are unable to pay for a lawyer, you have the right to have a lawyer assigned by the Court.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that upon failure of the person summoned to appear, all of his or her parental rights to the child may be terminated, and PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that his or her failure to appear shall constitute a denial of his or her interest in the child which denial may result, without further notice, in the transfer or commitment of the child’s care, custody or guardianship or in the child’s adoption in this or any subsequent proceeding in which such care, custody or guardianship or adoption be at issue.

Dated: Queens, New York January 22, 2021

By Order of the Court /s/ Clerk of the Family Court

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Notice of Formation of 183 JOBS LANE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to Attention: Eric And Emmie Lee 245 East 87th St Apt 15a New York, NY, 10128.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ALOHA KRAB OF SYRACUSE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/26/20.Office location: CAYUGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1 Destiny USA Dr Ste B110 Syracuse, NY, 13024. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 331 S. 4TH STREET LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/29/20.

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

SSNY mail process To C/O Blank Property Group Attn: Paul Caine 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400 New York, NY, 10001. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH MIDTOWN COLLECTION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas Llp Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 350 E 32 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/14/21. 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, 10017. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BWB HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207- 2543.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 392 LEFFERTS AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/20/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1314 Fulton St Brooklyn, NY, 11216. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CMCC HOLDINGS LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/7/21. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 212 W 4th Ave Johnstown, NY, 12095. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1331 FINDLAY REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/5/18.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 127 Fores Rd Monroe, NY, 10950. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of D&S ON THE BAY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3099 Emmons Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1864 HARRISON AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/23/19.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 670 Myrtle Ave Ste 388 Brooklyn, NY, 11205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DISTILLATION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207-2543. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Form. of DMC RENTALS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/13/21. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 7990 River Rd Baldwinsville, NY, 13027. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LYZ 760 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 225 Dahlgren Pl Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose

Notice of Formation of DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 193 MIDWOOD ST BROOKLYN, NY, 11225. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MORE CAPITAL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/3/20. Office location: Queens SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 3808 Union St 6e Flushing, NY, 11354. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FERMENTATION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207-2543. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HONG LE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 941 55th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of JEFFREYOPS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/21. Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 23 Horizon Dr Saratoga Spring, NY, 12866-8777.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LOEFFLER 10 PRINCE LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/30/19.

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

SSNY mail process to 588 Broadway, Ste 1203 New York, NY, 10012. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of PEERLESS GROVE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/13/21.

Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 525 Locust Grove Greenfield, Ny, 12833. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SAFAA DAM LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/20/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 373 Carlton Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11238.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SY HOME CARE CONSULTANTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/15/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6224 24th Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TRADITION BY BWB, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207-2543. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Form. of YATES VILLAGE II GP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/20.

Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 28 Liberty St New York, NY, 10005. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 31 ORIENT AVENUE LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/20.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O Blank Property Group Attn: Paul Caine 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400 New York, NY, 10001. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 47 ANJALI LOOP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/13/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 38 E. Broadway Apt 9 New York, NY, 10002. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 145 WELLS STREET LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/8/21.

Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 447 N Perry St Johnstown, NY, 12095. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of CS BLACKBIRD LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/25/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/14/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: C/O Spruce Capital Partners Llc 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ADVANCED INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/6/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2718 Ocean Ave Ste E1 Brooklyn, NY, 11229. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF AUCTION Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on February 22, 2021 and end on March 5, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #3L04 – Nicholas Soyemi: locker unit #5T20 – Alfredo Villamar: several bags/boxes, shoe boxes, miscellaneous clothes, 1-luggage bag, 1-chair The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Formation of BLOOM MEDIA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1 Irving Pl., Apt. V27B, NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Virginia Bloom at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICE T-Mobile Northeast LLC proposes an antenna and equipment upgrade atop an existing: 93’ building at 26-45 9th St in Astoria, Queens, NY; 87.6’ building at 1264 Sheridan Ave in the Bronx, NY; 81’ building at 643 Cauldwell Ave in the Bronx, NY; 81’ building at 395 Maple St in Brooklyn, NY; 88.5’ building at 1577 E 17th St in Brooklyn, NY; 79.7’ building at 1515 47th St in Brooklyn, NY; 75.1’ building at 205 Sea Breeze Ave in Brooklyn, NY; 114.9 building at 33 Wood Ave S in Iselin, Middlesex County, NJ; 75’ building at 98 Murray St in Newark, Essex County, NJ; 61’ building at 72-15 67th St in Queens NY In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for Review Under the National Preservation Act; Final Rule, T-MOBILE is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. Accordingly, if you would like to provide specific information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within ½ mile(s) of the above address, please submit the property’s address and your comments to: Charles Cherundolo Consulting, Inc. at 976 Tabor Road, Suite 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@cherundoloconsulting.com

Notice of Qualification of CATALYST INVESTORS PARTNERS V, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/29/20. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/22/18. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Catalyst Investors, 711 Fifth Ave., Ste. 600, NY, NY 10022.

Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Brooklynite AFC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/5/2021.

Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 438 3rd Street, #4, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

Purpose: any lawful activity. The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers

Notice of Qualification of CATALYST INVESTORS V, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/29/20. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/22/18. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Catalyst Investors, 711 Fifth Ave., Ste. 600, NY, NY 10022.

Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 263.8’) on the building at 445 Park Ave, New York, NY (20210070). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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

File#: Docket#:

310515 0-06563-20

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

SUMMONS (Publication)

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

Dated:

December 28, 2020

ENTER

Respondent.

IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: To: Courtland A. Thompson 29-18 Beach Channel Drive Far Rockaway, NY 11691 A petition under Article 8 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court requesting the following relief: Order of Protection; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before this Court on Date/Time: March 1, 2021 at 9:01 AM Purpose: Return of Process Part: NYCCVO-3 Room: Virtual Room Presiding: TBD Judge, Clerk’s Office Location: click to join or call (347) 378-4143 code 483 635 897# to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 8 of the Family Court Act. On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest.

Dated: December 28, 2020 Juan R. Paez, Clerk of Court TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of TBD Judge, Clerk’s Office of the Family Court, New York County, dated and filed with the petition and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, New York County.

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

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

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

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

Ex Parte

NOTICE: YOUR FAILURE TO OBEY THIS ORDER MAY SUBJECT YOU TO MANDATORY ARREST AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, WHICH MAY RESULT IN YOUR INCARCERATION FOR UP TO SEVEN YEARS FOR CRIMINAL CONTEMPT, AND/OR MAY SUBJECT YOU TO FAMILY COURT PROSECUTION AND INCARCERATION FOR UP TO SIX MONTHS FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR IN COURT WHEN YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO SO, THIS ORDER MAY BE EXTENDED IN YOUR ABSENCE AND THEN CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL A NEW DATE SET BY THE COURT. THIS ORDER OF PROTECTION WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT EVEN IF THE PROTECTED PARTY HAS, OR CONSENTS TO HAVE, CONTACT OR COMMUNICATION WITH THE PARTY AGAINST WHOM THE ORDER IS ISSUED. THIS ORDER OF PROTECTION CAN ONLY BE MODIFIED OR TERMINATED BY THE COURT. THE PROTECTED PARTY CANNOT BE HELD TO VIOLATE THIS ORDER NOR BE ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING THIS ORDER. A petition under Article 8 of the Family Court Act, having been filed on July 21, 2020 in this Comt and good cause having been shown, and Courtland A. Thompson having been not present in Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Comtland A. Thompson (DOB:03/09/1964) observe the following conditions of behavior: [01] Stay away from: [A] Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971); [BJ the home of Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971) at 13-83 Pinson Street Floor 1st, Far Rockaway, NY 11691; [E] the place of employment of Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971); [14] Refrain from communication or any other contact by mail, telephone, e-mail, voice-mail or other electronic or any other means with Ghislaine Rufen-Blanchett (DOB: 10/06/1971);

The Family Court Act provides that presentation of a copy of this order of protection to any police officer or peace officer acting pursuant to his or her special duties authorizes, and sometimes requires such officer to arrest a person who is alleged to have violated its te1ms and to bring him or her before the court to face penalties authorized by law.

Federal law requires that this order is effective outside, as well as inside, New York State. It must be honored and enforced by state and h•ibal courts, including courts of a state, the District of Columbia, a commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, if the person restrained by the order is an intimate partner of the protected pmty and has or will be afforded reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard in accordance with state law sufficient to protect due process rights (18 U.S.C §§ 2265, 2266).

It is a federal crime to: • cross state lines to violate this order or to stalk, harass or commit domestic violence against an intimate partner or family member; • buy, possess or transfer a handgun, rifle, shotgun or other firearm or ammunition while this Order remains in effect (Note: there is a limited exception for militmy or law enforcement officers but only while they are on duty) ; and • buy, possess or transfer a handgun, rifle, shotgun or other firearm or ammunition after a conviction of a domestic violence-related crime involving the use or attempted use of physical force or a deadly weapon against an intimate partner or family member, even after this Order has expired (18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(8), 922(g)(9), 2261, 2261A, 2262).

Check Applicable Box(es): [ ] Party against whom order was issued was advised in Court of issuance and contents of Order [ ] Order personally served in Court upon party against whom order was issued [x] Service directed by other means: Other [] [Modifications or extensions only]: Order mailed on [specify date and to whom mailed]: [] Wan-ant issued for party against whom order was issued[specify date]: _ []ADDITIONAL SERVICE INFORMATION [specify]:

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Management eventually agreed ... after, y’know, a public lambasting from AOC.

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ANDREW RIGIE It seemed like just as soon as Gov. Andrew Cuomo allowed New York City restaurants to start indoor dining again last year, he ended it again in December. But at long last – after permitting it literally everywhere else in the state – Cuomo announced return to 25% indoor capacity in the Big Apple. As executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, Andrew Rigie has been craving this news for weeks.

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We’re only one month into 2021 and it already feels like a decade. Portents of doom and salvation swirl around New York – will our year align with the joyous wonder of a snowy owl descending on Central Park for the first time since 1890? Or will it go down like a barge filled with Gowanus Canal sludge sinking into the Gowanus Bay? Only time, and close monitoring of each week’s Winners & Losers, will tell.

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