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A NEW DOCUMENTARY “The Automat” by director Lisa Hurwitz opened in theaters last week, bringing back a wave of nostalgia for New Yorkers who were fond of the once popular automated restaurants. Among the nostalgics sharing these memories in the documentary are Colin Powell, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an incredibly funny Mel Brooks, who offers himself as the “spearhead for this mashugana of a documentary.” I recall my father taking me to the Automat on 42nd Street and Third Avenue during his lunch breaks from a bank job nearby. It was fascinating to drop some change into a coin slot that would allow you to open a glass paneled door for a fresh slice of pie, sandwich or any number of freshly prepared meals. All the food was made in a kitchen concealed behind the paneled doors. Despite their quirky popularity, Automats closed for good in the 1970s after being around for decades because of competition from fast-food restaurants and rising food prices. However, with COVID-19, the concept of contactless dining returned as restaurants switched to digital menus and food pickup areas that minimized interacting with others. Now some restaurants are taking contactless dining a step further by bringing the Automat format back. There’s even plans for one in Brooklyn that will sell 32 varieties of dumplings out of temperature-controlled lockers. It’s possible as people adjust to a post-pandemic world that more automated eateries will pop up. The Automat in its heyday had as many as 30 locations around the city, plus more in Philadelphia. For many, it will be a retro way of eating for a very new and different world.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION … 8

Hochul was coronated as the party’s standard-bearer SEXUAL HARASSMENT … 10 Holding public officials and governments accountable

NEW WAVE ORGANIZING … 14

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Starbucks baristas are leading the next unionization movement

AMAZON … 18

A second unionization attempt is happening on Staten Island

GIG WORKERS … 20

Is this the year for expanding their rights in Albany?

The state Democratic convention was quite the celebration of Gov. Kathy Hochul.

STATE LABOR POWER 100 … 23

New York leaders fighting for workers

WINNERS & LOSERS … 62

Who was up and who was down last week

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said. “We’re spending your money.”

“You know I want a super-supermajority.” – state Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins, speaking at the state Democratic convention

The new mayor emphasized fiscal responsibility with his proposed New York City budget.

ERIC ADAMS PRESENTS HIS FIRST BUDGET

New York City Mayor Eric Adams pitched the first budget of his administration, presenting a $98.5 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year. That’s smaller than the projected final size

of last year’s budget, as well as former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s final proposed plan, and Adams touted his dedication to fiscal restraint. A key aspect to reduce spending comes in the form of agency-byagency reductions of 3%, which Adams’ budget predicts will save the city

$2 billion. Though praised by fiscal watchdogs, the plan drew criticism from housing advocates and environmentalists who felt Adams went back on campaign promises, including when he scaled back municipal composting plans. “We’re not spending our money,” the new mayor

PAISLEY FOR SPRING? GROUNDBREAKING. Two self-proclaimed visionaries met at New York Fashion Week’s Michael Kors show last week, and Mayor Eric Adams looked every bit the part sitting next to the renowned and controversial Vogue editor Anna Wintour. What’s noteworthy perhaps was the fact that he appeared to have captured her attention as she is notoriously hard to please.

It was a good week for state Attorney General Letitia James. After basking in the spotlight at her party’s state nominating convention, she won a key victory against Donald Trump and his family in her office’s investigation into their businesses. Trump and his kids had sought to quash a subpoena from the attorney general’s office, but a judge ruled that they must answer questions under oath as part of the civil inquiry. The decision came shortly after James gave a speech accepting the Democratic Party designation for attorney general in which she spoke about her dedication to taking on the former president.

DEMOCRATS OFFICIALLY BACK HOCHUL

“We may not talk about Bruno, but we talk about Brian.” – state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, referring to a popular song from the movie “Encanto,” as well as Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin

Democrats from around the state gathered in Manhattan for their annual nominating convention for statewide positions and the Senate. The event served as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s coronation as the leader of the Democratic Party in New York as she officially received the party’s nomination for governor. The theme of the day was unity around Hochul ahead of the

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June primaries, despite the fact that she still has two challengers who are also trying to get onto the Democratic line. Both Rep. Tom Suozzi and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are still running against her, but both will have to petition in order to get on the ballot – Williams failed to get enough support at the convention while Suozzi didn’t even bother submitting his name for nomination. The day before the convention, Suozzi announced his running mate, former New York City Council Member Diana Reyna, who will also need to petition her way onto the ballot in order to challenge Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, who also got the party’s official backing. But the convention was not without some minor controversy as protesters interrupted Hochul’s speech and both Williams and Suozzi expressed displeasure with the state of affairs.

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TROOPER 1 SUES CUOMO

In the first civil case brought against former Gov. Andrew Cruomo in the wake of multiple sexual harassment allegations, an unnamed state trooper who served as part of his security detail is taking Cuomo and his top aide Melissa DeRosa to court. The woman, identified as “Trooper 1” in both the state attorney general report and court papers, has said that Cuomo touched her inappropriately and made sexually charged comments that created a hostile work environment. She’s seeking damages from Cuomo for his actions, as well as DeRosa for allegedly attempting to cover them up. After filing court charges, attorneys for Trooper 1 added Cuomo spokesperson and top adviser Rich Azzopardi to the suit as well after he tweeted attacks at the legal team.

Criminal charges against ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo were dropped, but he’s facing a civil suit now over alleged harassment.

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WEEK AHEAD

Max Rose has a Fall-ing out Internal debates poured out into public last week as Assembly Member Charles Fall rescinded his endorsement of former Rep. Max Rose’s congressional campaign – because Rose’s team had declined to immediately support the state Senate campaign of Fall’s girlfriend, Bianca Rajpersaud. “As the first African-American male to hold office in Staten Island, I will not bow out nor kiss the ring, or succumb to threats to satisfy the desire of those looking to strengthen their agenda that will only keep our communities voiceless,” Fall wrote in a statement. Rose responded in a statement shared with City & State. “I love Charles like a brother, and am obviously disappointed, deeply confused, and blindsided by his decision,” he wrote. “I won’t turn my back on Charles, irrespective of his false comments about me today.” Rose announced Fall’s endorsement on Feb. 4. But Staten Island was in the midst of political upheaval. The congressional district covering Staten Island was redrawn in a way that made it more hostile to Republican incumbent Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and made a Democratic flip more likely. Fall, who has represented a district on the North Shore of Staten Island since 2019, had his district redrawn to include parts of lower Manhattan, including Battery

WEDNESDAY 2/23 THURSDAY 2/24 The New York City Council Committee on Health and Subcommittee on COVID Recovery and Resiliency hold a 10 a.m. joint virtual oversight hearing on the future of the pandemic.

City & State hosts a virtual Future of Construction in New York Summit from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., featuring New York City Transportation Department Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and others.

INSIDE DOPE

The construction industry has felt the pressures of the pandemic from all angles, including a labor shortage and a rise in the cost of goods due to the supply chain crisis.

Park City. And longtime state Sen. Diane Savino was spreading the word that she wouldn’t be seeking reelection, leading to an open seat representing the North Shore of Staten Island as well as parts of Brooklyn. Fall was encouraged by many Staten Island Democrats to consider running – and he told City & State that he did. But then, he said his romantic partner, Rajpersaud, expressed interest in running for Senate District 23 herself. So he endorsed her for Senate, while he runs for reelection in the Assembly. Rajpersaud is a lobbyist with Davidoff Hutcher & Citron and is the president of the North Shore Democratic Club. Fall said the two had been friends for a long time before they started dating. “She’s someone I love with all my heart and (is) an incredible person. Me supporting her isn’t just because of that, it’s because of her involvement with her community,” Fall said, citing her work on Rose’s previous campaigns as an example. However, when Fall asked Rose to support his partner for state Senate, Rose declined to immediately endorse Rajpersaud, who is of Dominican and Guyanese descent. Tensions apparently grew from there. Fall speculated that Rose would be inclined to support Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, who is white, for the seat instead. – Jeff Coltin

FRIDAY 2/25 The Association for a Better New York hosts a virtual 12:30 p.m. Black History Month panel, featuring Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, former Gov. David Paterson and others.

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370,000

1,430

Total number of city workers

Number of city employees fired, <1 % of total municipal workforce

UNVAXXED AND UNEMPLOYED BY THE NUMBERS ON NEW YORK CITY’S COVID-19 MANDATE FIRINGS By Annie McDonough

914

Number of firings at the Department of Education, the most of any department, <1% of total DOE workforce fired

Other agencies with a high number of firings

101

New York City’s municipal vaccine mandate was no joke. The requirement for all municipal workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, ordered last fall by then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, was finally enforced on Feb. 11 as the city fired 1,430 employees who refused to get the vaccine. Each of those employees had already been placed on leave without pay, with the exception of two employees. Though 1,430 is a large number, it’s just a tiny sliver of the city’s massive municipal workforce. “City workers served on the front lines during the pandemic, and by getting vaccinated, they are, once again, showing how they are willing to do the right thing to protect themselves and all New Yorkers,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement when announcing the firings. To help you read between the lines of the data dump, City & State compiled a few top takeaways.

New York City Housing Authority

Department of Correction

Department of Sanitation

~40%

Employees who were placed on leave for not being vaccinated, but then got the vaccine before the deadline

~9,000 31

Number of agencies that fired at least one employee

Number of agencies that didn’t fire any employees

Unvaccinated employees still seeking religious or medical exemptions

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I believe that arts and culture is the city’s competitive edge. It’s what we have.

A Q&A with former Brooklyn Academy of Music President

KAREN BROOKS HOPKINS

How did the pandemic affect the Brooklyn Academy of Music and its ability to return and serve the public? Well first of all, I retired in 2015. So I luckily avoided having to be the CEO during the pandemic time. But clearly, I’m close to people there and follow the fortunes of the institution. And like every theater, it’s just been horrible. It’s been so difficult. First of all, your business is just shuttered and shattered. And it’s a very complicated situation to close it down and then to ramp it back up again. And then to ramp it back up again and not have any certainty of whether you’re going to be able to stay ramped is another situation. So,

there was a lot of expense cutting and layoffs and difficulties. Of course when you don’t have programs, you don’t have fundraising. Luckily, the government came in and made some of these special grants, and that helped everybody get through. And now, I think that it’s a question of probably next season before we see things completely, fully restored. And even then, I think everybody is very cautious because of the complications of an expense; not knowing whether people will be able to come, not knowing whether you can bring artists from far away, not knowing how you’re going to be able to operate everything. It’s a

complicated situation. It’s been really terrible for the field. I think that Broadway has reopened, but I think they’ve lost a lot of money. A lot of shows haven’t reopened, a lot of shows have reopened and closed, a lot of shows reopened with less attendance. I mean, the whole thing is kind of a giant mess. What would you say to others in the nonprofit cultural arts space as they try to bounce back? First of all, your board of trustees is a critical relationship for the survival of the institution. Keep close to your donors, watch expenses and plan your program for (its) return to be as spectacular as

it can be. That doesn’t mean it necessarily has to be expensive, it just has to be exciting. People are ready to get involved, and it’s important that we have programs and ideas that will engage them. It’s already starting to happen, it’s gotten slowed down by the omicron. But we’re already seeing shows being created, artists working, people coming back into the city, exhibitions coming forward, I mean, there’s a lot happening. So it’s important that donors step up, that the city continues to make a very strong investment in its artistic community and in the cultural life. I believe that arts and culture is the city’s competitive edge. It’s what we have. Any investment

in it is going to offer a solid return in many different ways. How can policymakers step in to support? Every time there’s been cuts, historically, the arts always get the chop first. But that would be a big mistake at this moment when we’re trying to revive this city. In my view, the city needs to do a good job making sure that there is diversity, equity and inclusion, that people have opportunities, that we can emerge from cycles of poverty where there are deep pockets of low-income situations in certain neighborhoods. – Ralph R. Ortega and Patricia Battle

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Convention Queen

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s coalition was loud and committed at the state Democratic convention, further cementing her lead in the gubernatorial primary.

By Zach Williams

reception attended by party insiders. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer were among the dozens of people scheduled to speak in support of Hochul, who addressed the crowd last. “(She) took the reins of our state in the middle of one of the toughest crises we have

ever seen and immediately invested in the dignity of our neighbors,” Assembly Member Catalina Cruz of Queens told the crowd at one point. “We need bold leaders like Kathy Hochul.” Cruz was among the speakers whose names were announced after the original-

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OV. KATHY HOCHUL has gone from an unexpected governor to the formidable front-runner to win the June primary for governor in about six months. That process has required her to travel the state with her trademark energy to win over many of the political power brokers who helped her predecessor win three terms in office: labor leaders, local officials and deep-pocketed donors. The vast majority of Democrats at their party’s 2022 state convention voted in favor of her nomination. The convention highlighted the broad coalition of Democratic constituencies who might help the first female governor in state history win a full term in office, but not everyone feels like they’re fully part of the party. A last-minute controversy with speaking slots magnified ongoing issues with Latino representation in the state party, as no Latino speakers were originally included in the lineup. Primary challengers Rep. Tom Suozzi and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams also appeared at the convention, reminders of the voters on the political right and left that Hochul has yet to win over. Such a backlash is hardly enough to cost Hochul the nomination, but it does show how her hold on the party is not absolute. “Hochul is very different from Cuomo,” Émilia Decaudin, a member of the Democratic state committee and the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, said on the convention floor on Feb. 17. “She’s made a lot of decisions that are culturally distinct from his administration, as well as politically and policy distinct, but she is fundamentally still a moderate Democrat.” But Hochul’s hold over the party establishment, most of whom are backing her campaign, was evidenced by the kind words she received from other elected officials. “The first female governor in the state of New York (is) doing an amazing job,” Hochul’s former primary rival Letitia James, the state attorney general, said at a

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HOCHUL’S FIRST GENERAL ELECTION SPEECH

ly announced lineup was criticized, which follows past controversies surrounding whether the state party was doing enough to appeal to Latino voters, who have voted increasingly for Republicans in recent election cycles. “We sent out a tentative list,” state Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs said

in an interview. “And we said it’s a tentative list and these other speakers were planning to speak. We just hadn’t got confirmation.” Cruz said in an interview that she was contacted by the governor’s office weeks ago about speaking at the convention. Democrats to the left and right of Hochul, however, say that the governor is ignoring important constituencies that might make or break the party’s chances in 2022, when control of the U.S. House, state Legislature and statewide offices are all on the ballot. “They’ve ignored pockets of New York for a very long time,” Williams told reporters after making his pitch to Democratic insiders at a breakfast held at the same hotel as the convention. Left-leaning activists have increasingly gotten behind his long shot bid for the nomination because of his support for progressive proposals like stronger eviction protections at the state level and a quicker transition away from fossil fuels compared to Hochul. Rep. Tom Suozzi, who unsuccessfully sought a formal speaking slot at the convention, told party insiders at the breakfast event that he declined a request by Clinton to talk him out of running for governor. His record as a “commonsense” Democrat on issues like setting stricter bail laws could help the party win over the types of voters who helped Republicans pull off several upset victories in local elections on Long Island in November. A variety of activists meanwhile were congregating outside the convention held in a Midtown hotel. Some of them want Hochul to move quicker with outlawing the use of fossil fuels in new buildings while others want her to back the “good cause” eviction bill. Others were upset about her stance on issues like masks. The protesters were not invited speakers, but Williams, Suozzi and others reflect their views to varying degrees. They collectively show which parts of the Democratic Party have yet to join Hochul’s coalition. Williams has staked out a lane much further to her left on climate action, for example. “You worthless Democrats,” one protester said at a rally outside the convention highlighting efforts to secure more state funding for undocumented immigrants ineligible for COVID-19 relief programs. “If you don’t take care of us, we won’t vote for you.”

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UPON OFFICIALLY accepting her party’s designation to appear on the ballot, Hochul made the case for a united Democratic Party to combat attacks by Republicans. But a protest that broke out during her speech undermined the message, and so did the fact that she still faces two primary challengers. The convention speaking program was a who’s who of Democratic power brokers, from state Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, that projected strength and unity as the party prepares for what is expected to be a tough election cycle for the left with Democrats fighting for control of Congress, and President Joe Biden’s approval ratings underwater. “There are those who actually believe that Democrats are vulnerable this November,” Hochul said. “I flatly reject that notion, right here and now.” But as Hochul espoused unity to a mostly receptive crowd, divisions within the party remained on full display as protesters interrupted the governor’s speech, demanding that she support new rental protections called “good cause” eviction and dedicate more money to the Excluded Workers Fund for unemployed undocumented workers. “Will you fight for us?” yelled one protester as they were escorted out of the ballroom by security. Hochul represents a more moderate wing of the party in a state where progressives have increasingly been winning elections in recent cycles. While the message of Democratic unity makes sense in far less reliably blue parts of the country, it rang somewhat hollow from Hochul given Democrats’ solid control of every level of state government. The fights in New York at the state level largely occur between factions of Democrats, not with the Republican Party. “We’ll draw the lines of separation between us and the far-right extremism,” Hochul declared. “We’ll take on the Trump Republicans working overtime to destroy what makes New York – well, what makes New York, New York!” – Rebecca C. Lewis

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Local governments may finally be held responsible when elected officials commit sexual harassment. By Zach Williams

LECTED OFFICIALS IN all three branches of government might get clarification soon on who exactly they work for. A key step involves the Assembly Codes Committee, which passed the legislation on Feb. 15 that would close a legal loophole that exempts local and state governments from being responsible for sexual harassment committed by public officials. Past court rulings have held that they did not technically work for their city, county, town, village or the state Legislature. The bill was a top priority for the Sexual Harassment Working Group, made up of former state Senate and Assembly staffers, as part of a package of six bills aimed at addressing misconduct by public officials. The bills have remained stuck in political limbo in the year after a litany of allegations against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (who resigned in August as he faced impeachment for a range of alleged wrongdoing) highlighted the outstanding problem of sexual harassment in state government, but that could change if key bills are approved by the Legislature amid a wider push for ethics reform this year. “For too long, our own state government has stood outside and largely above the law when it comes to sexual harassment,” Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou, a former legislative staffer who is sponsoring the bill with state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, said in a text message. “This is a critical step towards ending the culture of impunity that has made Albany a toxic workplace for staffers and a source of shame in our mishandling of their sexual harassment complaints.” Passage through the Codes Committee came two weeks after her bill was approved by the Governmental Operations Committee, where it died last year. This opened the way for the legislation to reach the Assembly floor in the coming days, where it could become the first of the six bills to pass the chamber. Exactly when that might happen remained unclear. “Once it gets out of committee, presumably it would go to the floor,” Codes Committee Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz told City & State. When asked about a timetable for passing the package, a spokesperson for Assembly Speaker

Carl Heastie said, “There are bills moving through our committee process and being vetted by our members.” Other legislation in the package backed by the working group would double the statute of limitations on workplace harassment from three years to six years, limit how nondisclosure agreements can be enforced and bar the use of “no-rehire clauses” in settlement agreements that prohibit the employee from seeking another job with their company. Another bill would require lobbyists to complete antisexual harassment training annually. A sixth bill would expand whistleblower protections for people who report abuse. The first four bills await votes by the full Senate while the final two bills remain in committee. A spokesperson for state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins did not respond to a request for comment by publication time. Legislative progress does not amount to real world change, however, until bills get through both houses of the state Legislature and signed into law by the governor. That happened in 2019 when the previously narrow legal definition of sexual harassment got changed after a blockbuster hearing by members of the state Senate and Assembly on sexual harassment in state government. “If you’ve got a scorecard looking at progress made in Albany over the last two years, then we deserve pretty high marks in comparison to the years before,” longtime state Sen. Liz Krueger said. Misconduct allegations against Cuomo renewed calls for additional reforms last year as former staffers and other women came forward. The state Senate passed the legislative package backed by the working group, with the exception of the whistleblower bill, on May 26. The same day, Heastie announced the formation of the Assembly Workgroup on Sexual Harassment. “There just doesn’t seem to be a sense of urgency around protecting workers,” Erica Vladimer, a co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group, said in an interview. The lack of progress in the Assembly came down to the bill not getting through the relevant committee before the legisla-

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Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou and state Sen. Andrew Gounardes sponsored a bill that would hold governments responsible for elected officials’ sexual harassment.

“There just doesn’t seem to be a sense of urgency around protecting workers.” – Erica Vladimer, Sexual Harassment Working Group cofounder

tive session ended in June. “There are any number of bills that passed in the Assembly that don’t pass in the Senate,” Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Lavine, whose committee held three of the bills that died last year, told City & State. “These are all good bills. They’re getting the consideration they deserve and I’m confident that they will be reported (to the

full chamber).” Assembly Governmental Operations Chair Kenneth Zebrowski did not respond to a request for comment about why the lobbyist sexual harassment training bill and the legislation sponsored by Niou and Gounardes did not get through his committee last year. Assembly Governmental Employees Committee Chair Peter Abbate Jr. said most bills in his com-

mittee typically take two or more years to pass, which hampered the whistleblower bill last year. “I would say it wouldn’t pass before the budget,” he said of the bill’s prospects. While the legislative package appeared to be on hold for now, some progress against sexual harassment by public officials could be made through the state budget process. Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed replacing the much-criticized state Joint Commission on Public Ethics with a new state ethics body whose commissioners would be appointed by law school deans rather than the governor and legislative leaders. Good-government groups have backed the proposal despite some criticisms, and key lawmakers said including it in the budget would smooth its passage through both chambers. Success might even jump-start other legislative efforts to address harassment one year after misconduct allegations began accelerating Cuomo’s fall. “It’s hard to pass these huge bill packages,” Krueger said. “That’s why I think it’s valuable that the governor took a stab, even if an imperfect stab, at replacing JCOPE. … Democracy is a really imperfect model, (but) it’s just the one we’ve got.”

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A union on every corner

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Starbucks baristas are leading a new wave of unionizations in unexpected places. By Annie McDonough

HEN BARISTAS AT two Starbucks stores in Buffalo voted to unionize late last year, the move left a ripple in the labor movement far greater than organizing a couple dozen employees. The Elmwood store was the first to unionize in the company’s 51-year history, but it won’t be the last. At least 60 other stores of the coffee chain in 19 states have announced union campaigns. The Starbucks unionization wave included two other stores in the Buffalo area that already had union votes underway by late last year – one voted to join the union, one voted against it. And earlier this month, employees at four stores in New York City and on Long Island – and several others upstate – filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize with Workers United, the same affiliate of the Service Employees International Union that organized baristas in Buffalo. That chain reaction effect is exactly the kind of trend that the labor movement had hoped to see since union membership is down nationwide and efforts to give unionizing workers more protections through updates to federal labor New York law have stalled. In New York, is home to where union membership has alStarbucks ways been higher than the nationemployees’ new labor al average – 22.2% of wage and movement. salary workers in the state belong to unions, compared to 10.3% of workers nationwide – union membership saw only a slight uptick in 2021 from the previous year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even that increase – from 22% in 2020 to 22.2% in

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2021 – should be taken with a grain of salt, as changes in employment can sway the data, which is calculated by a sample survey. “You can’t read too much into these small fluctuations,” said Ruth Milkman, chair of the labor studies department at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. “That said, there has been some interesting new organizing. It’s very small in terms of the numbers of workers involved. But it’s something we haven’t seen for some time.” Recent federal labor statistics pointed to significant growth in union membership in certain industries, including agriculture, publishing and food services. Retail, meanwhile, saw a slight increase in membership in 2021. Anecdotal echoes of those national trends can be found in New York, where newsroom employees, museum workers and nonprofits fought for a new wave of unionization, and farmworkers on Long Island just formed the first union of its kind in the state. And in addition to Starbucks, roughly 115 employees at an REI store in Manhattan filed to unionize. In new and old industries, labor leaders are hopeful that New York is in the midst of a unionization movement, – a handful of coffee shops, newspapers or museums at a time. “You have this employer, and it’s Starbucks, and you’re thinking, ‘I can’t beat this big business corporation.’ But they’re recognizing that they can, and it’s not as daunting as they thought,” said Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO. “One begets another, begets another.” But while there may be some steps that local lawmakers can take to remove barriers to organizing, many roadblocks come from federal labor law that allows employers to interfere in union campaigns and offers little in the way of penalties for companies that violate worker protections. A bill to enhance protections for workers, called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, also known as the PRO Act, passed the House of Representatives last year but faces an uphill battle in the Senate. The challenges that workers face haven’t necessarily changed – companies are hitting back as hard as ever. But interest in taking on those challenges may be growing. A Gallup poll last fall found that 68% of Americans approved of labor unions – the highest percentage since 1965. “I think organizing into a union very often can come across as a very daunting task when you’ve never done it before,” said state Sen. Jessica Ramos, who chairs the Labor Committee. “But when you see people in other stores organize and

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Electeds like New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, above left, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right, have publicly supported union organizing at Starbucks. Staff at the SoHo REI, opposite, have also launched a unionization drive.

win, it serves as tremendous inspiration for organizing in your own workplace.” THE BARISTAS UNITE Despite an aggressive opposition campaign waged by Starbucks, workers at the Elmwood store voted 19-8 to unionize last year, becoming the company’s first unionized location. Like other workplaces that have organized and formed or joined unions in the past few years, the COVID-19 pandemic added urgency to workers’ calls for better health and safety conditions, higher pay and more benefits. But early organizing efforts at Starbucks stores in the area predated the pandemic. Spot Coffee, another Buffalo coffee chain, voted to unionize with Workers United in 2019, making it one of just a few unionized cafés in the country at the time, The Wall Street Journal reported. After that, Workers United started receiving calls from baristas at Starbucks, according to Gary Bonadonna, the leader of Workers

United in upstate New York. And as in other industries that are seeing revived or new interest in unionizing, the Starbucks movement has been driven by younger people, Bonadonna said. “It’s majority millennials and Gen Z. I call them Gen U, or Generation Union,” Bonadonna told City & State. “They realize that rebuilding and reimagining unions is their hope for a positive economic future.” Employees at a SoHo location of REI, an outdoor goods retailer, launched a union-

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a movement, some labor experts warned. “One thing that we know from history is that it doesn’t come in dribs and drabs, one Starbucks at a time. It comes in spurts, when it comes,” said Milkman, the CUNY professor. “When it’s significant, you’re not going to miss it. There’s like a massive shift. We’re definitely not seeing that now.” Still, Milkman said, what we’re seeing now is worth paying attention to. “You know, it has to start with something. Some people think that this is the beginning of something like that,” she said. “I’m skeptical, partly because the labor law is so screwed up and so stacked in favor of employers that it’s hard to see how this could really mushroom without that changing.”

ization drive to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Among other things, REI workers noted that the company’s progressive ethos didn’t align with what they called “unsafe working conditions” during the pandemic. REI came out quickly against the effort. Retail and service workers have of course been unionized before – though not to the same extent as in manufacturing and construction industries, for example. But as in most other industries, union membership has cratered since the second half of the 20th century. In 1983, roughly 8.6% of workers in the retail industry were members of unions. In 2021, 4.4% of retail workers were union members. (Both figures pale in comparison to union membership in the manufacturing of durable goods, for example, which in 1983 stood at 29.2%, and today is just under 8%.) Workers at the two Buffalo Starbucks stores that voted to unionize are far from finished with their fight. They are still in the process of negotiating a contract. In Elmwood, workers have only had their first bargaining session, Bonadonna said. And the stores that have just launched union campaigns will face the same challenges that baristas in Buffalo did, such as “captive audience” meetings, in which workers are brought into group or one-on-one meetings to hear arguments from manage-

“They realize that rebuilding and reimagining unions is their hope for a positive economic future.” – Gary Bonadonna of Workers United

ment against unionizing. Starbucks founder Howard Schultz even came to Buffalo to tout the benefits the company already offered without unions. “No partner (employee) has ever needed to have a representative seek to obtain things we all have as partners at Starbucks,” Schultz said in a blog post after his trip to Buffalo. “And I am saddened and concerned to hear anyone thinks that is needed now.” The success of a couple dozen workers at a handful of coffee shops is not in itself

A FIRST FOR FARMWORKERS In an example of what changes to state law can do, the first group of farmworkers in New York unionized last year, following the passage of a law in 2019 that allowed the workers to collectively bargain. The Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act also guaranteed the largely immigrant and undocumented workforce the right to overtime pay and time off. Farmworkers were often excluded from the same rights other workers had under federal labor laws, and instead gained employment protections piecemeal at the state level. Twelve workers at Pindar Vineyards in Suffolk County voted to join Local 338 in September. Health and safety conditions, including access to personal protective equipment, were a motivating factor for workers at Pindar as they began organizing during the pandemic. A dozen workers is a very small number when considering that more than 55,000 people are employed at farms across the state, but labor leaders hope it’s just the beginning. Still, organizers recognized the challenges. “Of course, I’m going to say it’s going to be a movement,” said Noemi Barrera, an organizer with Local 338 who led the campaign at Pindar Vineyards. “Unfortunately, I can’t control what goes on in each individual farm. There’s going to be retaliation, they’re going to try and scare them off. But a lot of them have started to see that if what happened with Pindar happened, why not in their farms?” In addition to the obstacles of potential employer intervention and union busting, there is a fear that workers’ immigration status could be used as a weapon against them. But, Barerra said that didn’t happen at Pindar. “It has been used in other farms

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that I’ve heard of in the coalition,” she said. “It’s been a tactic that a lot of other employers have used. Pindar has not. If anything, they have been cooperative. As cooperative as they could be.” The Pindar union is still in the process of negotiating a contract, so it’s unclear what new protections and benefits workers will have. “They are very brave men who actually don’t know themselves how their world is about to improve once they’re able to come to a collective bargaining agreement with their employer,” said Ramos, who sponsored the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act when it passed in 2019. “This has the potential of being a huge entry point for many Indigenous and Latinx workers to enter the middle class.” “I think the biggest thing was respect,” Barrera said, of what workers expect to see change after unionization. “The fact that they (should) be considered as any other worker, to be able to take a day off or be able to get overtime over a certain number of hours.” Local 338 is also the union organizing medical cannabis workers in New York – an industry that includes everyone from growers to retailers and will soon expand with the legalization of recreational marijuana. Local 338 has unionized eight out of the state’s 10 registered organizations that operate medical dispensaries. That amounts to about 500 workers, Saul Guerrero, a Local 338 organizer, estimated. Guerrero hopes to see the benefits the union has secured for existing cannabis workers – such as an $18 pay floor, paid holidays and time off, and health care – to serve as a model when it starts organizing more workers under the passage of recreational pot. A RISING TIDE IN NEWSROOMS, MUSEUMS AND NONPROFITS It’s not just new industries that are forming picket lines and union campaigns. The NewsGuild, which represents media, nonprofit and publishing workers across the country, was formed in the 1930s, during the nation’s post-Great Depression labor reform movement. But newspaper unions haven’t been immune from the same declines as other organized workers. In 1983, roughly 17.7% of workers in newspaper publishing and printing were members of unions, according to the Union Membership and Coverage Database, while 10.7% of workers in newspaper publishing were union members as of 2021. Labor organizers are hopeful that that’s

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starting to change. For the past several years, online and print outlets have launched unionization campaigns, contributing to what observers called at first a “wave,” and now a “movement.” In 2021, the broader category of “publishing, except internet” saw a 144% jump in union membership over the previous year, with the NewsGuild adding roughly 6,300 members in the past four years. More than 5,000 of those have been workers in publishing and media. “I think a lot of it really comes down to job security in the industry,” Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild, told City & State. “We’ve lost about half of all of these journalism jobs in just a decade. That means that the market is really tight, but there’s still a huge amount of journalists who actually want to work for these publications. So what they are doing is unionizing at a reLocal 338 is organizing cord rate to try to protect their jobs, medical to protect their work and protect cannabis their publications.” workers in Organizing in newsrooms is New York. happening across the country, but between local and national outlets located in New York, the Empire State is where a lot of the action is happening. Schleuss said the local NewsGuild of New York has added about 1,800 members since 2019. That includes the Daily News, which has reunionized after its union representation crumbled in the ’90s. Some campaigns have gone more smoothly than others. Members of the New Yorker Union and two news unions under Condé Nast protested outside Anna Wintour’s Manhattan townhouse last year during a tense round of negotiations. The New York Times has been locked in a fight with unionized workers. About 1,300 em- ly educated – have said that it’s taken for ployees at the Times are already unionized granted that they will work long hours with the NewsGuild, while the New York with little pay for the mission- and social Times Tech Guild, a group of over 650 justice-driven work. And museums and other cultural instisoftware engineers and other workers, is in the process of a union election. The News- tutions have been undergoing their own Guild filed a complaint with the National wave of unionization in the past few years. Labor Relations Board last month, alleg- “The big museums, the famous museums, ing that the Times is trying to influence have had unions. They unionized a long the Tech Guild election by only offering time ago,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, a sethree new paid holidays to employees who nior lecturer at Cornell University’s School are not unionized. The Times denied the of Industrial and Labor Relations. “But we allegation and said at the time that it was hadn’t seen it recently, and now we see a working to extend the same benefits to its trend of workers organizing.” In 2018 when Dana Kopel, a former seunionized employees. Overworked and underpaid employees nior editor at the New Museum, spoke are unionizing in other industries that ha- with co-workers about what she called a ven’t seen as much widespread organizing “culture of overwork and burnout,” a couin recent years. That includes nonprofits, ple other museums in the area were already where workers – often young and high- unionized with the United Auto Workers

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“When you see people in other stores organize and win, it serves as tremendous inspiration for organizing in your own workplace.” – state Sen. Jessica Ramos

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Local 2110. Then, Kopel and other New Museum workers got in touch with the unionized staff at the Museum of Modern Art. “We saw what their salaries were, and it was really jaw-dropping compared to ours,” Kopel said. “In some cases, salaries were almost double for comparable jobs. And we decided that unionizing was the way to make sustainable change.” Kopel said pushback from the museum was prevalent from the beginning of organizing. Nonetheless, the staff voted to unionize in 2019, and months later secured a contract with higher pay structures, lower health care costs and more time off. Kopel was laid off from the museum during the COVID-19 pandemic. She and others believe that the museum’s layoffs targeted union supporters, but the museum denied that. Kopel’s experience helping organize her colleagues, how-

ever, had a lasting impact. She now works as an organizer with the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153, focusing on nonprofit unions. In publishing, museums and a host of other industries with a new or revived interest in unionizing, people studying this field have picked up on another trend. “It’s mostly among young, highly educated workers,” said Milkman, the CUNY professor. “These are people who did everything right, they got a lot of education, they’re smart, they’re hardworking and they face this labor market where everything is uncertain.” Milkman, like others, was careful to warn that the odds are still often stacked against workers. “So far, it’s very modest in size,” she said of new unionizing efforts. “But who knows what’s coming.”

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The second battle for Staten Island

MAZON WORKERS ON Staten Island will vote on March 25 whether to form a union, the National Labor Relations Board decided on Feb. 16, according to organizers, inching employees one step further in their yearslong battle with the e-commerce giant. The terms of the election have not been determined yet, the workers said. It was a procedural but significant step after the board in January confirmed that organizers had collected enough signatures to move forward with a vote at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse, one of four on Staten Island’s West Shore. Organizers expressed relief that the election date was set, but said they were disappointed that it will happen before their proposed date of April 4, which would have given them more time to recruit new members. Employees will vote in person at the facility between March 25 and March 30. “We’re happy with it. It is a little rushed,” Connor Spence, a JFK8 employee and vice president of membership for the Amazon Labor Union told City & State, adding that the group has multiple active NLRB complaints against Amazon alleging anti-union behavior that it was also hoping to resolve before the election. If the majority of the approximately 5,000 employees there vote in favor of forming a union, it could inspire unionization efforts underway at other Amazon facilities at a time when workers’ rights have become a pressing issue during the COVID-19 pandemic. A favorable vote would also serve as a victory for the movements against income inequality and the billionaire class, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Amazon has fought the unionization efforts on Staten Island and at other facilities for years. In the lead up to the JFK8 election, employees said the company rebooted its counter campaign there. Amazon’s strategy has included spreading skepticism among employees about bargaining units. On. Feb. 7, the company resumed its controversial “captive audience” meetings, in which management warned workers about joining a union. “Every Organization Needs Money to Operate … Including Unions,” read a slide

Amazon workers will cast another vote to unionize in March, in the face of the company’s aggressive tactics.

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Staten Island Amazon workers rallied last year outside an NLRB Brooklyn office.

shown to workers at JFK8 during the meeting, according to a video shared with City & State. Union organizers were seen protesting when asked to leave the meeting. “This is legally protected collective action … you know that,” an attendee can be heard saying. “We’ll file board charges. Get ready for them,” a second employee wearing a union T-shirt said. The exchange highlighted what the Staten Island organizers called an emboldened approach to battling Amazon since their first election attempt failed last year. Employees became familiar with Amazon’s

“union-busting” tactics during the initial union drive and know what to expect from the company this time around, according to Chris Smalls, the president of the Amazon Labor Union. When the company gave out popcorn a day after the union distributed free pizza, workers took note. “Everything they do is like a reaction to what we’re doing, and I think the workers know that,” Smalls told City & State. In recent weeks, Amazon-branded flyers that warned employees about “a union and the reality of dues” were posted in warehouse common areas, employees said. “The

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them and their day-to-day life working at Amazon,” spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement to City & State. Smalls launched the union drive after he was terminated in March 2020, which he said was a discriminatory firing because he is Black and raised concerns about COVID-19 protocols. The effort gained traction among employees who were worried about a lack of COVID-19 safety precautions and quickly attracted national attention. Despite the high visibility, securing support hasn’t been an easy battle. Smalls said organizers were forced to pull their first petition to the National Labor Relations Board for an election last year due to a significant number of signees quitting their jobs. (High turnover rates are typical at Amazon warehouses.) Organizers were issued court summonses by police, and Smalls has received “threatening” letters from Amazon, according to his lawyer Seth Goldstein. In a significant achievement last month, the NLRB certified the union’s petition to hold an election at the JFK8 warehouse. Smalls said the group submitted about 3,000 signatures to the board in December to meet the required 30% minimum. The union has also filed a petition for an election at the nearby LDJ5 warehouse. Energized

“The company repeatedly broke the law by threatening, surveilling, and interrogating their Staten Island warehouse workers.”

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ALU may make a lot of ‘promises’ but it’s important to ask how they plan to achieve them,” according to a photo of the literature. An Amazon spokesperson described the meetings as “informational sessions” in a statement that also said the company would not stop employees from unionizing. “It’s our employees’ choice whether or not to join a union. It always has been. If the union vote passes, it will impact everyone at the site, which is why we host regular informational sessions and provide employees the opportunity to ask questions and learn about what this could mean for

by the advancement, organizers continue to add more recruits to the roster “every day,” Smalls said. “They really respect the fact that we’re so militant and just so bold to take risks … to actually disrupt a captive audience meeting. … We’re all in high spirits right now.” Spence said he was confident the NLRB would certify the petition “any day.” The Staten Island warehouse was among several Amazon facilities across the country pushing for union representation in hopes of better working conditions, higher pay and improved time-off policies. Employees described the warehouse work

as physically grueling with long hours on their feet picking and packing products. Amazon has been notorious for emphasizing speed, to the point where workers said even bathroom breaks were limited. At an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a union election kicked off on Feb. 4 and will continue through March 25. This will be the organizers’ second election attempt. The first effort failed last year when a majority of workers voted against forming a union. Most other Amazon unionization attempts haven’t gone as far. Drives in Virginia, Chicago, Sacramento and Minnesota did not make it to the election stage. While the Bessemer drive has the backing of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the Staten Island coalition doesn’t have the support of an established union. The Amazon Labor Union organizers have established a near-constant presence at the Staten Island campus. In addition to regular pizza parties, they hand out hot food from a tent near the property. At the height of the preholiday crunch on Dec. 22, the group staged an employee walkout. And on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, they held a rally outside the grounds. Among their proposed demands, the union said it would seek a $30 per hour minimum wage, up from $18.50 currently, according to Smalls. The group also said it would advocate for longer breaks, guaranteed time off and enhanced workplace safety, among other improvements. The union has filed a slew of charges since May with the National Labor Relations Board against Amazon’s alleged antiunion messaging, including an incident where a company consultant allegedly referred to the organizers as “thugs” in a discussion with other workers, according to documents filed with the board. On multiple occasions, management confiscated union literature from employees and removed flyers from break rooms and bathrooms, the documents stated. In January, the board reprimanded Amazon regarding the behavior detailed by Goldstein and the union and ordered the company to conduct management training and post notices about employees’ rights to organize. A hearing in the case was scheduled for April 5. “The company repeatedly broke the law by threatening, surveilling, and interrogating their Staten Island warehouse workers who are engaged in a union organizing campaign,” National Labor Relations Board Regional Director Kathy Drew King said in a statement. “The complaint seeks to stop and remedy this unlawful conduct to ensure that Amazon’s employees can freely and fairly exercise their rights under the National Labor Relations Act.”

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Will gig workers’ rights arrive in Albany this year? Experts weigh in after another round of false starts last year. By Annie McDonough

The Deliveristas recently won more rights in New York City. Now it’s up to state lawmakers to implement their own changes.

HE FIGHT TO secure gig workers more employment rights and protections has been one of Albany’s more intractable policy issues for several years now. Powerful and deep-pocketed gig companies like Uber and DoorDash have long resisted efforts to reclassify gig workers from independent contractors to employees – securing for them all the rights that employees everywhere are entitled to – as legislators tried to do in California. Meanwhile, labor advocates have shut down attempted compromise bills that would grant gig workers some new rights but withhold others, calling them giveaways to companies. The New York City Council has had more success in advancing new protections for some gig workers, thanks in large part to advocacy from the workers themselves. Organizing by Los Deliveristas Unidos, a grassroots group of largely immigrant food delivery workers, led to those workers securing protections at the city level, including access to bathrooms and minimum pay levels. With the state legislative session in full swing, City & State reached out to experts in labor law and gig work to see how legislators might approach the contested issue this year. Four experts responded, including Maria Figueroa, dean of the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State; Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director for the Worker Institute at ILR Cornell University; Andrew Wolf, a

lecturer at CUNY; and Eli Dvorkin, editorial and policy director at the Center for an Urban Future. These responses have been edited for length and clarity. Is there still an avenue for New York to pursue reclassifying gig workers as employees, rather than independent contractors? ANDREW WOLF: New York has a clear path to classifying gig workers as employees. In fact, the state Department of Labor has already ruled that Uber and Lyft drivers are employees under the state’s unemployment insurance system, despite the companies fighting against it. The pandemic showed the need to classify gig workers as employees as their contractor status undermined workers’ ability to quickly access social assistance and health and safety protections. PATRICIA CAMPOS-MEDINA: As of right now, it is unclear if there is a credible legislative effort to reclassify workers as employees rather than independent contractors. However, that does not mean that these issues are not a concern for workers, their advocates and for labor unions. App companies determine how often you work, the type of job you take and the wages for your work. Determining who is the actual boss in this employment relationship is an essential component of determining who is

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on the advocates’ ability to build a solid coalition to promote such policy approaches. ELI DVORKIN: There’s little doubt that the wholesale reclassification option is still on the table, both in New York and at the federal level. But part of what makes this challenge so complex is that gig workers themselves are split on the issue. Independent and contract workers want predictable, family-sustaining pay, health care and other benefits, but most also want the flexibility to access income-earning opportunities on demand. Current policy tools aren’t a great fit for addressing these issues, but newer ideas could help. If New York doesn’t reclassify gig workers, what other feasible options could the state consider to expand their rights?

“App companies determine how often you work, the type of job you take and the wages for your work.” – Patricia Campos-Medina, Worker Institute at Cornell executive director

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ultimately responsible for the health and safety of the workers, their earnings and working conditions while employed to deliver essential services to New Yorkers. MARIA FIGUEROA: There is still the option to introduce a Fair Play Act bill for gig workers. This law makes it harder to misclassify workers as independent contractors, and it is already in place for the construction and transportation industries in New York state. There have also been court rulings providing statutory rights to ride share and delivery workers under the state’s unemployment insurance and workers compensation laws. The avenues are still there, but the application of the rulings or the introduction of a Fair Play Act bill would depend

ELI DVORKIN: The best outcome would be one in which freelance and gig workers are able to enjoy the flexibility they currently have, while gaining access to crucial protections and benefits that are typically reserved for workers in traditional employment. One good option would be to build out a system of universal portable benefits. Under this system, benefits from health care and paid sick leave to retirement accounts would move with independent workers from job to job. MARIA FIGUEROA: Another approach would be to create a third category of workers who would have bargaining rights, unemployment insurance, workers compensation, family and medical leave, pension security, and anti-discrimination protection; but won’t be classified as employees. However, advocates will not accept (and rightly so) a law that grants protections that are inferior to what employees currently enjoy under state law. ANDREW WOLF: Beyond classifying gig workers as employees, there is a whole host of policies the state could implement to protect gig workers. The state could pass a minimum wage, pass a just cause firing law, make the companies provide protective equipment, fight the discrimination workers face and create a task force to address the rash of violence and robberies against gig workers. Another important and underdiscussed issue is creating greater transparency in how algorithms impact workers and ensuring that gig workers have access to the data they generate for these companies. Regulating these electronic platforms is not just a workers’ rights issue but a tech policy issue.

Will the successful organizing of Deliveristas in New York City affect the push for more gig worker rights at the state level? Are we likely to see workers themselves having a stronger voice in the debate in Albany? MARIA FIGUEROA: The Deliveristas’ success in obtaining local level protections will have an impact eventually at the state level, if other localities follow the same approach and the state then decides to establish a statewide policy. At this point, the New York City Deliveristas’ newly won protections need to go through the test of implementation and enforcement. Since implementation requires so much attention and resources, it is likely that New York City app-based workers will be focusing on local level efforts and not necessarily in a debate in Albany. Perhaps workers in other sectors of the gig economy will have more of a voice in statewide policy initiatives. PATRICIA CAMPOS-MEDINA: The struggle for rights for app-based food delivery workers in New York City demonstrated the importance of listening to the workers’ concerns and their solutions. What is critical in this process is for legislators to engage all stakeholders and ask them what is important to them – basic human rights to a bathroom in New York City or the ability to (contribute) towards a workers compensation fund? It might be that both are important, but if they are not part of the discussion on designing the solution, then we are not changing the power relationship for low-wage workers, many of whom are undocumented, to advocate for themselves in the context of their daily realities. ANDREW WOLF: Successful organizing by groups like the Deliveristas and the New York Taxi Workers Alliance is sure to have a huge impact on policymaking at the state level. These gig worker fights were part of a broader upsurge in immigrant organizing in New York City during the pandemic, as demonstrated in the fight for the Excluded Workers Fund. The rise of gig worker organizing is part of a general wave of New York’s most recent immigrant populations finding their political voice and exercising their growing importance in the state. ELI DVORKIN: The Deliveristas have done so much to raise the visibility of these issues and I see that momentum continuing to grow. At the same time, thousands of other freelance and independent workers have a huge stake in the outcomes of potential policy changes at the state level. I don’t have a crystal ball, but I see a major opportunity for New York state to build a cohesive and modern system of portable benefits that would strengthen the social safety net for the long term.

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Congratulations to Michael O’Meara on your selection to the State Labor Power 100 list. On behalf of the members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Benevolent Association and all Police Officers throughout the State of New York, we thank you for your steadfast leadership and congratulate you on this well deserved honor.

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THE 2022 NEW YORK STATE LABOR POWER 100

The local leaders waging battles on behalf of the state’s workers.

EARLY TWO YEARS into the coronavirus pandemic, the long-term impact on workers is not fully clear. Many Americans lost their jobs, while others walked away voluntarily in what’s been dubbed the “Great Resignation.” The federal government helped stabilize the economy and bring down unemployment, but it also contributed to a sharp rise in inflation. And while wages are up, unionization rates remain low and some workers aren’t gaining the leverage they expected to have with employers. What is clear is that the national mood has shifted in favor of workers. Support for labor unions has risen to levels not seen in decades. In Western New York, employees at several Starbucks stores made history by voting to unionize – and the coffee shop chain is now contending with similar standoffs across the coun-

try. The Communications Workers of America kicked off “Striketober” with a walkout that led to a favorable agreement for South Buffalo hospital workers. On Long Island, farmworkers formed their first union and are poised to secure a lower overtime threshold statewide. Plus, there’s an influx of federal dollars to be spent on infrastructure projects to be built by unionized laborers. The State Labor Power 100 features many labor leaders, advocates and allies in New York who are battling on behalf of their workers. The list, which was researched and written in partnership with journalist Marc Bussanich, focuses primarily on those who are active in New York on a statewide, multistate or national capacity. (Other labor leaders who operate solely or primarily in the five boroughs will be featured on our New York City Labor Power 100 later this year.) We’re pleased to introduce the 2022 State Labor Power 100.

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the so-called Excluded Worker Fund. She is also championing expanded child care for working parents, introducing the Early Learning Child Care Act to generate revenue through a tax on New York’s biggest businesses.

2 GEORGE GRESHAM PRESIDENT 1199SEIU

1 JESSICA RAMOS CHAIR State Senate Labor Committee

Before her ascension to elected office, state Sen. Jessica Ramos was a skillful organizer in the labor movement, having worked with unions such as 32BJ SEIU and Build Up NYC, a coalition of building and construction trades and hotel workers’ unions. As chair of the state Senate Labor

Committee, she has notched major victories protecting construction workers, creating an emergency fund for undocumented immigrants during the coronavirus pandemic and lowering the overtime threshold for farmworkers – and now she’s pushing to peg the minimum wage to inflation and replenish

George Gresham has presided over the biggest union in New York City and the biggest health care union nationwide since 2007. Under his leadership, the union has grown to over 450,000 members across multiple East Coast states. Late last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul helped to mediate a dispute between the union and the Greater New York Health Care Facilities Association involving nearly 250 nursing homes, with the two sides reaching an agreement for 33,000 workers over three years.

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State Sen. Jessica Ramos leads the state Senate Labor Committee.

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3 GARY LABARBERA PRESIDENT New York State Building and Construction Trades Council Last year, Gary LaBarbera took over as president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council while maintaining his role as leader of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. For over a decade, he has prioritized project labor agreements with New York City employers, which ensure that union workers are employed on public and private construction projects while aiming to save taxpayers money by reducing construction costs. LaBarbera’s latest campaign is to ensure that union workers build the next generation of green energy throughout the state.

4 ANDREW PALLOTTA PRESIDENT NYSUT Andrew Pallotta was reelected in 2020 as president of the New York State United Teachers, which represents over 600,000 teachers and school-related professionals. During the coronavirus pandemic, NYSUT has

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grappled with statewide school closures and plummeting tax revenues as a result of business shutdowns, and there was the real possibility that schools would face severe state cuts. Fortunately, federal coronavirus aid prevented that scenario, and now the priority is to make sure that the union has a say in the state’s testing and vaccination requirements in schools.

5 MARIO CILENTO PRESIDENT New York State AFL-CIO Mario Cilento has led the formidable 2.5 millionmember state labor federation since 2011, reshaping it to focus more on membership engagement and enhanced communication strategies. Before the 2021 state budget was signed, Cilento, along with other private and public sector unions, issued a statement in favor of the Democraticcontrolled state Legislature’s proposals to increase taxes on higher-income earners, saying that it was time for a more fair and progressive tax structure. His New York State AFL-CIO recently endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul.

6 CHRISTOPHER SHELTON & DENNIS TRAINOR PRESIDENT; DISTRICT 1 VICE PRESIDENT Communications Workers of America Christopher Shelton leads the Communications Workers of America, a union of nearly 700,000 workers who work in a broad array of industries in hundreds of unions across

Christopher Shelton, above, and Dennis Trainor, below, lead CWA.

the country. A staunch supporter of President Joe Biden and his Build Back Better Act, Shelton previously led CWA District 1, which represents 145,000 workers in the Northeast – including New York – and is now led by Dennis Trainor. In December, after more than a month on the picket lines, CWA locals in Buffalo voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital, St. Joseph Campus and Kenmore Mercy Hospital. The contract achieved “historic breakthroughs in guaranteed safe staffing ratios, substantial across the board wage increases, including bringing all workers above $15 an hour, and preserving health and retirement plans intact,” said Trainor.

7 RANDI WEINGARTEN PRESIDENT American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten leads the 1.7 million-member strong national teachers’ union. The former United Federation of Teachers president has played an outsized role in the shaping of federal policy surrounding COVID-19 protections in the classroom. Her AFT affiliates initially advocated for school closings in order to keep students and teachers safe, although she eventually called for schools to reopen and

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10 LATOYA JOYNER CHAIR Assembly Labor Committee As chair of the influential Assembly Labor Committee, Latoya Joyner last year helped pass the NY Hero Act, a worker protection measure drafted in response to COVID-19, as well as legislation protecting construction workers and creating an Excluded Workers Fund for undocumented immigrants. In September, she penned a letter asking U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh to increase pandemicrelated unemployment benefits from the maximum $504 weekly benefit.

last summer announced her support for vaccine mandates for school staff.

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One of the longest-reigning presidents of a major union, Stuart Appelbaum has led the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union since 1998. The union is behind a closely watched unionization effort at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama employing 6,000 workers. The union lost the initial vote, but the National Labor Relations Board called for a new election. The “decision confirms what we were saying all along – that Amazon’s intimidation and interference prevented workers from having a fair say in whether they wanted a union in their workplace,” said Appelbaum.

Transport Workers Union John Samuelsen began his transit career in 1993 as a track worker for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, eventually winning the presidency of TWU Local 100, the Transport Workers Union’s largest local. He has led TWU since 2017, but still remains a force in New York City and state politics. While Congress was debating the federal infrastructure bill, he called for an immediate vote: “The sooner this happens, the sooner we can get to the important work of repairing and expanding our most vital transportation systems,” Samuelsen said.

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Association’s nearly 300,000 members working in state and local governments, school districts, child care and the private sector. This past fall, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an agreement with CSEA to provide increased overtime pay for nurses and other hospital health care professionals at SUNY hospitals. Sullivan said the agreement recognizes the “dedication of these essential workers” during the coronavirus pandemic.

11 MARY E. SULLIVAN PRESIDENT CSEA In November 2019, Mary Sullivan became just the second woman to lead the Civil Service Employees

Wayne Spence was sworn into office in August 2021 for his third three-year term as the president of the 50,000-member Public Employees Federation. Recently, an anonymous nurse at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital told CNY Central that staffing levels are too low relative to the number of patients they have to care for. The union represents the nurse and her colleagues, and Spence said that “improving the working conditions and compensation of New York’s health care heroes is one of PEF’s top priorities.”

Sullivan is just the second woman to lead CSEA and its nearly 300,000 members.

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Latoya Joyner is the chair of the Assembly Labor Committee.

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Thomas Gesualdi

President, Teamsters Joint Council 16 President, Teamsters Local 282

Louis Picani

President, Teamsters Local 456

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14 MARK CANNIZZARO PRESIDENT Council of School Supervisors & Administrators Mark Cannizzaro is best known for leading the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, or CSA, since 2017, but he’s also president of the statewide New York State Federation of School Administrators and a vice president of the American Federation of School Administrators. In December, CSA filed a lawsuit over pay disparities for preschool directors, claiming the substantial wage gap between directors, mostly women of color, of New York Cityfunded preschools and those in city Education Department facilities amounts to racial discrimination.

17 ARMAND E. SABITONI GENERAL SECRETARYTREASURER AND NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL MANAGER Laborers’ International Union of North America Thomas Gesualdi is the president of Teamsters Joint Council 16.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; PRESIDENT New York State Nurses Association Since 2019, Pat Kane has led the state’s largest union of registered nurses, with more than 42,000 members. Nancy Hagans was elected New York State Nurses Association’s new president last summer, just as the state Legislature passed the new safe staffing law. With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, hospitals are saying they need more time to enforce staffing ratios. “NYSNA must be clear: There is no justification for delaying the implementation of a law that will keep patients and caregivers alive and safe,” Kane said.

PRESIDENT Teamsters Joint Council 16 Thomas Gesualdi presides over an umbrella organization that represents 120,000 workers across 26 Teamsters locals in New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico. When then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the NY Hero Act in May 2021, creating the first permanent standard in the nation protecting workers from exposure to COVID-19 – and future pandemics – Gesualdi said the act would ensure that workers have the enforceable standards they need to do their jobs safely. “This groundbreaking law creates a model for other states to emulate and readies us for the next pandemic,” Gesualdi said.

Armand E. Sabitoni has been LIUNA’s second-in-command since May 2001 and is also the regional manager for New England – including most of New York. As a sign of support in the labor sector for renewable power, Sabitoni has been a long-standing supporter of a project that will help New York meet its ambitious clean energy goals: the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line from Quebec, Canada, to New York City, which recently won a state contract pending regulatory approval.

18 RICH MAROKO PRESIDENT Hotel Trades Council Rich Maroko became Hotel Trades Council president in 2020, representing about 40,000 hotel and gaming industry employees in New York and New Jersey during a pandemic-induced industry crisis: Visitors dropped by 67% in 2020 and employment dropped by a third. Maroko’s union has fought to get back to work and secure financial

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State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon has an extensive union background, including previously serving as the president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. A top priority for her is ensuring that New Yorkers are getting ready for the green economy – she is co-chair of the Just Transition Working Group, which submits recommendations for workforce development and training in renewable energy to the state Climate Action Council. In late January, the state Farm Laborers Wage Board recommended that Reardon gradually lower the farmworker overtime threshold to 40 hours.

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relief from the state. Maroko stood with Gov. Kathy Hochul in November when she announced a $450 million tourism initiative that would provide direct payments of $2,750 to 36,000 workers in the tourism sector.

19 BUSINESS MANAGER International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 3 Christopher Erikson has led the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 3 since 2006. The local is a member of the coalition Climate Works for All, which advocates for New York City investments to fight climate change. The coalition recently recommended spending $1.5 billion to install heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and solar energy in every New York City public school – an investment Erikson said would both create a pipeline of wellpaid jobs and better enable the city to tackle the climate crisis.

20 KARINES REYES ASSEMBLY MEMBER Assembly Member Karines Reyes has multiple jobs – as a nurse, as a mother and as the elected official representing Assembly District 87 in the Bronx. Not only did she return to the front lines as a

nurse aiding patients during the coronavirus pandemic, but she also teamed up with state Sen. Michael Gianaris to champion the NY Hero Act, which created new worker safety protocols in response to COVID-19. Reyes, who previously held a leadership role with the New York State Nurses Association, is now sponsoring legislation that would reintroduce universal tuition-free instruction at CUNY schools.

21 PETER ABBATE JR. CHAIR Assembly Governmental Employees Committee Assembly Member Peter Abbate Jr. has been the Governmental Employees Committee chair since 2002, overseeing legislation and issues concerning civil service law and the public pension and retirement systems. He’s sponsored numerous bills that have been signed into law covering a wide range of issues, including an effort to advance Chapter 89 of the Laws of 2020 to provide death benefits to statutory beneficiaries of public sector employees whose death was a

Reyes is a nurse, a mother and an elected official representing the Bronx.

Fred Kowal is the president of United University Professions.

result of or was contributed to by COVID-19.

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Jackson criticized the state’s pension program and argued that government workers can’t afford to live in New York.

CHAIR

FRED KOWAL

State Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee

PRESIDENT

As chair of the Civil Service and Pensions Committee, state Sen. Robert Jackson oversees state legislation dealing with public sector workers. The veteran Upper Manhattan lawmaker was recently reassigned to the key leadership role when the previous chair, state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, took the reins of the legislative body’s Committee on Budget and Revenue, replacing former state Sen. Brian Benjamin. At a state budget hearing this year,

United University Professions As president of United University Professions, Fred Kowal leads the nation’s largest public higher education union, representing more than 37,000 academic and professional faculty members on SUNY’s 29 state-operated campuses and building UUP into a politically influential organization. When Gov. Kathy Hochul mandated on New Year’s Eve that students must have received a COVID-19 booster

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SUNY’S CAMPUSES AND PUBLIC TEACHING HOSPITALS WERE THERE FOR NEW YORK THROUGH THE WORST DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC.

NOW IT’S THE STATE’S TURN TO STEP UP FOR SUNY. SUNY is down $7 billion in state funding since the Great Recession. More than $1 billion of that has been siphoned from SUNY’s teaching hospitals in Brooklyn, Stony Brook and Syracuse. Thousands of COVID patients have been treated at SUNY’s public hospitals, which have administered tens of thousands of vaccines. Dedicated front line employees worked long hours and extra shifts in the early days of the pandemic, putting their lives on the line and risked bringing COVID home to their families. SUNY campuses have served as COVID testing and vaccine sites, where tens of thousands of New Yorkers have been tested and received the COVID vaccine. The state needs to fully fund SUNY to continue providing quality education and health care to New York.

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major American bank to endorse legislation aiming to develop reparation proposals for African Americans.

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Lynne Fox is the international president of Workers United.

shot upon their return to SUNY campuses, Kowal told NEWS10 ABC that the union has long supported those efforts.

for its workforce,” Durso told Spectrum News last year.

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JOHN DURSO

INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Workers United

Long Island Federation of Labor

Lynne Fox has led the 86,000-member Workers United since 2016, representing workers in a range of industries, including apparel, manufacturing, hospitality and food service. Its organizers are making headlines for organizing Starbucks stores in Buffalo and for ongoing unionization efforts at dozens of other locations across the country. Workers United is unique in that it’s a partial owner of a financial institution – Amalgamated Bank – with Fox serving as board chair and, until last year, as interim president and CEO. Amalgamated was the first

For nearly two decades John Durso has led the Long Island Federation of Labor, which represents 250,000 members in Nassau and Suffolk counties in a variety of professions. Durso was a leading advocate for the legalization of recreational marijuana last year, even launching a coalition of labor groups, progressive organizations and businesses to make a final push. “A legal cannabis industry would create tens of thousands of jobs across the state, yielding billions of dollars in income

As president of the Westchester-Putnam Central Labor Body, Thomas Carey is focused on downstate casinos: In 2013, New Yorkers approved a constitutional amendment allowing up to seven full-scale casinos, but only four have been approved by the state Legislature – all upstate. According to Carey, around 2,500 new jobs would be created if Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts in Yonkers became a full-scale casino. Carey wants Albany to act now, writing in The Journal News, “This is a no-brainer, and the governor and state legislators cannot afford to pass on it.”

28 D. TAYLOR INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Unite Here As president of Unite Here since 2012, D. Taylor presides over a union that is bucking national trends with its rapid growth. The union announced in 2019 that it had organized 62,000 workers over five years, expanding its membership by a quarter. Unite Here, which is headquartered in New York City, represents over 300,000 members in the hotel, gambling, food service, manufacturing, textile and laundry industries all across the country.

29 27 AI-JEN POO CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Domestic Workers Alliance Since Ai-jen Poo got her start in New York, she has gone on to spearhead worker protection campaigns around

MICHAEL POWERS PRESIDENT New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association The New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association represents some 26,000 employees and retirees from state correctional facilities, and Michael Powers has led the union since 2014. As coronavirus cases rose in December, Powers called

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on the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to suspend visitations at the state’s 50 correctional facilities in order to slow transmission rates. He has also pushed back against the continued closures of upstate facilities while arguing for more protections for corrections officers.

Fisher, voted against the change, while the other two – former Buffalo Urban League head Brenda McDuffie and former state AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes, who is now with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners – voted in favor.

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Sam Fresina was reelected for a third term leading the 18,000-member New York State Professional Fire Fighters Association in 2021. He began his firefighting career in the U.S. Air Force in 1985, then joined the Albany Fire Department in 1990. Fresina is one of 23 labor leaders on an advisory committee announced by the governor to explore options for an essential workers monument in New York City to commemorate the sacrifice of public and private sector workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

police. The union, which was founded nearly a century ago, is opposed to a pending state bill that would set a higher bar for use of force by police officers.

PRESIDENT

Farm Laborers Wage Board

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Benevolent Association

In January, the state Farm Laborers Wage Board cast a closely watched vote that is expected to gradually lower the overtime threshold for farmworkers to 40 hours a week, down from 60. The decision was hailed by labor and immigrant advocates and opposed by business groups. One of the three members, New York Farm Bureau President David

RICHARD WELLS PRESIDENT Police Conference of New York Richard Wells leads a union that represents 230 police benevolent associations with more than 25,000 members throughout the state. When Rep. Elise Stefanik was running for her fourth term in 2020, the Police Conference of New York endorsed her, with Wells saying that she represented a bulwark against calls to defund the

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MTA PBA President Michael O’Meara met with New York’s Republican congressional delegation last summer to plead for an increase in police funding, citing statistics showing an increase in shootings and homicides. O’Meara has spent nearly a decade leading the union, which was formed following the merger of the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad police forces in the late 1990s. He is also the new executive director of the Police Conference of New York and

previously led the New York State Association of PBAs.

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34 ANASTASIA TITARCHUK CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER New York State Common Retirement Fund Appointed by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli in 2019, Anastasia Titarchuk presides over one of the largest public pension plans in the country. The New York State Common Retirement Fund provides retirement security for over a million New Yorkers and their beneficiaries. As of this September, the fund’s value stood at $267.8 billion. In a 2019 interview, just after she was appointed, Titarchuk was asked whether a 60/40 split of equities to fixed income was the right asset allocation to achieve the fund’s annual return targets, which now stands at 5.9%. She noted that it’s a tricky balancing act because it’s important to maintain liquidity as plans mature.

Titarchuk presides over one of the largest public pension plans in the country.

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Michael O'Meara is president of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Benevolent Association.

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RAFAEL ESPINAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Freelancers Union When he was a New York City Council member in Brooklyn, Rafael Espinal co-sponsored the groundbreaking Freelance Isn’t Free legislation, which provided freelancers protection from nonpayment and late payment. The law has since paved the way for New York City to sue L’Officiel USA, a French-owned global media company, for allegedly failing to pay freelancers. Since 2020, Espinal has led the Freelancers Union, an organization advocating for the rights of independent workers.

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of a 2019 new contract forged after a 40-day strike. In UAW’s Region 9A, which includes eastern New York and several other states, Beverley Brakeman has been director since June 2018. Brakeman previously led Citizens for Economic Opportunity, a coalition started by the UAW to advocate for universal health care and corporate accountability.

37 SPARROW TOBIN PRESIDENT Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation In addition to his duties as a Middletown alderman, Sparrow Tobin leads the 130,000-strong Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation. In an interview with The River Reporter to commemorate Labor Day last year, Tobin noted that workers today are facing the same fundamental problems they did a century ago: low wages and longer working hours. “Our goal is to make sure that good jobs are replacing the old jobs. Unions are only as strong as our people,” Tobin said.

REGIONAL DIRECTORS

ANN MARIE TALIERCIO

United Auto Workers Region 9; United Auto Workers Region 9A

PRESIDENT

Jeff Binz was elected in 2018 to his first full term as regional director of UAW Region 9, which covers western and central New York, New Jersey and most of Pennsylvania. When General Motors announced plans to invest nearly $7 million in its engine plant at Tonawanda in 2020, a union colleague credited Binz for the investment as a result

Central New York Area Labor Federation Alongside her work as the head of the Central New York Area Labor Federation, which boasts membership of 100,000 members across 200 union affiliates, Ann Marie Taliercio also leads Unite Here Local 150 in Syracuse. She said that the effort to organize Amazon workers, including at the company’s massive facility in

Peter DeJesus Jr. is president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation.

the Syracuse suburb of Clay, is organized labor’s biggest challenge in 2022. “I say we take it on with both hands,” Taliercio said.

39 PETER DEJESUS JR. PRESIDENT Western New York Area Labor Federation Peter DeJesus Jr., who was elected president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation last March, is the first person of color to lead the group of 165 unions representing over 140,000 union members. His union career has included work at General Motors, Allegheny Technologies and the Tonawanda tire plant. He said those experiences influenced his approach as a union

leader by teaching him to be reasonable and approachable.

40 SAMANTHA DERISO PRESIDENT Central New York Labor Council When Samantha DeRiso was elected in 2018 to lead the Central New York Labor Council, she made history as the first woman in the role. She got her start as a file clerk for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1 and moved up through the union’s ranks over the years. Last summer, DeRiso and other labor leaders teamed up with state Attorney General Letitia James to call on the U.S. Senate to pass the unionfriendly Protecting the Right to Organize Act.

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43 LORI ANN AMES NATIONAL PRESIDENT United Service Workers Union

Peter Meringolo is the chair of the New York State Public Employee Conference.

SETH COHEN

JAMES SHILLITTO

PRESIDENT

Capital District Area Labor Federation

Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2

Seth Cohen’s labor career started decades ago as a union representative for his school building in Troy as a member of New York State United Teachers. Now, as president of the Capital District Area Labor Federation, a coalition of labor groups in and around the Capital District, he’s focused on engaging and building up the local labor councils. “My goal is to work with individual labor councils,” Cohen told Hudson Mohawk Magazine in a June interview, adding that he’d like to ask them, “What do your members need, and how can we provide it?”

James Shillitto has been president of Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2 since 2019, when he succeeded James Slevin, who moved up to lead UWUA as national president. The local represents workers at Con Edison and employees at other energy providers as well as water and tree companies, with offices in Manhattan and

The United Service Workers Union, an affiliate of the International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades, represents about 30,000 members across 18 locals nationwide, with a headquarters in New Rochelle. Lori Ann Ames serves as national president of USWU, which covers workers in construction, energy and automotive industries and other fields. Ames is also the national secretary-treasurer of the Home Healthcare Workers of America, which represents 20,000 employees across New York state.

44 PETER MERINGOLO CHAIR New York State Public Employee Conference Peter Meringolo has led the New York State Public Employee Conference, a statewide coalition of over 80 public sector unions, for more than two decades. Meringolo played a key role in the passage of the state World Trade Center Presumptive Disability Law in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In 1983, Melvin became the youngest president of a 2,000-member CSEA local.

More recently, he helped block a state constitutional convention, shaped COVID-19 worker protections and allowed the state comptroller to continue to have free rein in directing public sector employees’ pension investments.

45 TERRENCE MELVIN SECRETARY-TREASURER New York State AFL-CIO Terrence Melvin holds the second-highest position in the 2.5 million-strong state AFLCIO. His tenure as a union leader dates back to 1983, when he became the youngest president of a 2,000-member Civil Service Employees Association local. He’s also the president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. In 2020, in the wake of the national protests after George Floyd’s death, late national AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka created the AFL-CIO Task Force on Racial Justice, of which Melvin is the executive director.

46 JAMES MAHONEY GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers In 2015, after nearly two decades as business manager of Ironworkers Local 580, James Mahoney became general vice president of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers. Mahoney, who is also the president of the New York State Iron Workers District Council and a member of the

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that the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has passed, it will fund $30 billion in infrastructure spending in New York and create millions of construction jobs.

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REBECCA DIXON

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Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees

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Daniel C. Levler is president of the largest independent union in Suffolk County, representing more than 6,000 active and retired public employees. He applauded first responder legislation that was signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last year on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including a measure broadening who qualifies as a “first responder.” At the time, Levler touted the role of 911 operators in Suffolk County who assisted local residents when the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the region.

Originally from rural Mississippi, Rebecca Dixon’s commitment to worker rights stems from her experiences at the intersection of race, class and gender. Now based in Washington, D.C., Dixon has ties to New York, having served in the Cuomo administration. “As working New Yorkers struggle through the next phase of the pandemic, they need the governor to have their backs by mandating the safeguards they and their families need and deserve,” she wrote in the Daily News last year, calling for Gov. Kathy Hochul to protect farmworkers and restaurant servers.

spring, the Suffolk County Legislature passed a police reform report in response to a state executive order issued in the wake of the unrest following George Floyd’s death. The PBA and the Suffolk County executive reached a deal in December on police reform measures, with DiGerolamo saying that the deal is “fair” and “equitable” to the community and police.

49 48 NOEL DIGEROLAMO PRESIDENT Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association Noel DiGerolamo’s Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association, which represents officers of the Suffolk County Police Department, has emerged as a major political player in recent years. Last

DAN DICLEMENTE PRESIDENT AFSCME Council 66 A longtime union member, Dan DiClemente started his union career as a glazier with Glaziers Local 677 of the Rochester Building & Construction Trades Council. He’s now president of the Board of Education Non-Teaching Employees, Local 2419, representing 1,200 support staff in the Rochester City School District. DiClemente is

also the president of the 8,500-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 66, which, along with CSEA Local 1000, made an endorsement for mayor of Rochester. DiClemente said of then-mayoral candidate Malik Evans that he “was born to lead the city he grew up in.”

50 LOUIS PICANI PRESIDENT Teamsters Local 456 In 2020, elected officials and community leaders gathered at Local 456’s union hall in Elmsford to call on New York to spend up to $35 billion over five years for infrastructure upgrades. Teamsters Local 456 President Louis Picani, who represents public employees and construction workers in Westchester and Putnam counties, defended labor costs, arguing that “when you build union you build it right,” according to CBS News New York. Now

52 KAREN CACACE LABOR BUREAU CHIEF State Attorney General’s Office Karen Cacace is responsible for the state attorney general office’s enforcement of labor laws and its representation of the state Department of Labor and the state Workers’ Compensation Board. During the heated five-week strike last fall at Catholic Health in Buffalo, Cacace issued a cease-and-desist letter to strike staffing company Huffmaster because there were complaints that the

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53 THOMAS MUNGEER PRESIDENT New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association Thomas Mungeer joined the New York State Police in 1993 and has been president of the 6,000-member New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association for well over a decade. As calls to defund the police continue even as violent crime rises, Mungeer has come out in opposition. “The defund-the-police crowd are looking around, shaking their heads, and they’re pointing at us as the ones responsible, when in fact it was their actions that brought us to this spot,” Mungeer said on Fox News last summer.

54 CHARLENE OBERNAUER & JESSICA GARCÍA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; CHAIR NYCOSH Charlene Obernauer, who has led the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health since 2014, advocates for safe workplaces, including

construction sites. She also worked with Adhikaar, a New York-based nonprofit, to form the New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition, which pushed successfully for statewide legislation to combat wage theft and reduce safety and health hazards in nail salons. In 2019, NYCOSH named as its chair Jessica García, who is the assistant to the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. García was also appointed to the state Office of Cannabis Management board by Gov. Kathy Hochul, bringing the labor perspective to the rollout of legal recreational marijuana in New York.

Charlene Obernauer is the executive director of NYCOSH.

55 RICHARD BENSINGER, MICHELLE EISEN & LEXI RIZZO ORGANIZERS Starbucks Workers United Among the biggest organized labor breakthroughs in the past year took place in Buffalo, where employees at two Starbucks locations have voted to unionize for the first time – and organizers are moving forward with efforts to unionize the coffee shop chain at other stores in upstate New York and across the country. Barista Michelle Eisen played a key role in organizing the first location, on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, while shift supervisor Lexi Rizzo helped organize the second Starbucks location in Cheektowaga. Longtime labor organizer Richard Bensinger has been advising the Starbucks campaign on behalf of the union Workers United.

Hochul appointed García to the Office of Cannabis Management board.

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PRESIDENT Buffalo Teachers Federation Philip Rumore has been president of the 3,800-member Buffalo Teachers Federation for 40 years and counting. The union is currently in mediated contract negotiations with the Buffalo school district for the 2023 through 2025 school years. According to the union, the district superintendent has proposed significant raises for his staff. Thus, Rumore has reasoned, Buffalo teachers also deserve significant raises because they have been on the front lines, continuing to endure and prevail over unprecedented obstacles during the pandemic.

PRESIDENT Yonkers Federation of Teachers Samantha Rosado-Ciriello leads the Yonkers Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of New York State United Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers, representing 3,600 members in the state’s third-largest city. When COVID-19 hit, Rosado-Ciriello said that schools were not prepared for in-person education. But by early last fall, she was eager for the return of teachers and students to the classroom.

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reelection. Lynn, who is at the helm of IUOE Local 30 in New York and Connecticut, notched a victory last year when the Guggenheim Museum signed a contract with his union that increased wages for its workers.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PRESIDENT

ALIGN

Rochester Teachers Association

Maritza Silva-Farrell has a long history of leading progressive campaigns, such as the one to keep Walmart out of New York City. Perhaps her most notable achievement, though, is with the successful #NoAmazon coalition, which she helped launch with a disparate group of activists and organizers from more than 15 different communitybased organizations. The campaign forced Amazon to cancel its planned second headquarters in Long Island City in 2019. “We can actually build our communities without corporations coming in to undo them,” Silva-Farrell told The Guardian in the wake of that battle.

Adam Urbanski is a Polish immigrant, a former high school teacher and college professor, and the founding director of the Teacher Union Reform Network – and, for four decades, the president of the Rochester Teachers Association. Lately, he has been sounding the alarm over potentially tough contract negotiations in 2022. The current contract is in effect until the end of the current school year, but, according to Urbanski, the school district is already demanding a longer school day and school year.

take time for students to readjust and supported the cancellation of the Regents exams for January 2022.

NICOLE CAPSELLO

DEL VITALE

THOMAS A. CALLAHAN & WILLIAM LYNN

PRESIDENT

DIRECTOR

VICE PRESIDENTS

Syracuse Teachers Association

United Steelworkers District 4

IUOE

Del Vitale became director of United Steelworkers District 4 in 2019 and represents steelworkers in nine states – including New York – as well as Puerto Rico. He first joined a union at 18, working for a paper packaging plant in New Jersey. The United Steelworkers in December announced its endorsement of Gov. Kathy Hochul for a full term in this year’s elections, becoming the first industrial

Thomas A. Callahan and William Lynn are among the 14 vice presidents of the 400,000-member International Union of Operating Engineers’ general executive board. Callahan, who leads IUOE Local 15, is also the president of the New York State Conference of Operating Engineers, which joined other major unions in January in endorsing U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for

Nicole Capsello leads the 3,100-member Syracuse Teachers Association, which represents educators in the Syracuse City School District. She took over after the death of her predecessor, Bill Scott, in April last year. While welcoming the return of students to in-person learning last fall after a year’s worth of hybrid and remote learning models, Capsello said it would

Nicole Capsello is the president of the Syracuse Teachers Association.

international union to endorse her for another bid as governor.

63 JOHN F. HUTCHINGS & VINCENT ALBANESE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS New York State Laborers’ Organizing Fund An affiliate of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, the New York State Laborers' Organizing Fund directs resources toward organizing drives in the building and construction trades sector. John F. Hutchings, who runs NYSLOF

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Aracich is a third-generation heat and frost insulator who sees a lot of opportunity in the state’s transition to renewable energy, particularly wind – but has also warned of moving away from natural gas too hastily. Aracich has argued that there has to be a social justice component to the clean energy transition because of the potential for displaced workers in fossil fuel plants.

66 L. TODD DIORIO PRESIDENT Patrick Purcell is executive director and administrator at New York State Laborers' LECET.

and also backs candidates through the New York State Laborers’ Political Action Committee, last year welcomed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s announcement of a finalized contract for the Champlain Hudson Power Express project, saying it will create thousands of construction jobs that pay a prevailing wage. As NYSLOF’s director of policy and public affairs, Vincent Albanese advocates for everything from upgrading water infrastructure to supporting horse racing to changing how the state taxes renewable energy projects.

64 PATRICK PURCELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND ADMINISTRATOR New York State Laborers’ LECET As the leader of the New York State Laborers’ LaborersEmployers Cooperation and

Hudson Valley Building & Construction Trades Council

Education Trust, Patrick Purcell coordinates efforts at collaboration between Laborers' International Union of North America locals and management with the aim of increasing their share of the construction market. Purcell and his LIUNA colleagues have been a resource for union members weathering COVID-19. Until recently, Purcell also led the Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, which is now led by fellow labor leader Michael Prohaska.

L. Todd Diorio leads 10,000 members represented by the 28 local unions that make up the Hudson Valley Building & Construction Trades Council. Diorio, who’s also president of Laborers' Local 17, joined a press conference along the Newburgh waterfront with Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney last year to tout the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s investments in roads and bridges, airports, public transit and water systems in the area while guaranteeing union jobs.

RODOLFO MENDEZ

MATTHEW ARACICH

Rodolfo Mendez is a new member of Local 338, and he and his co-workers made history last year by becoming

PRESIDENT Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties Elected in 2018 as president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Matthew

MEMBER Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW

the first farmworkers to be represented by a union in New York state, following the passage of the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act in 2019. Mendez, who is from Guatemala and came to the U.S. in 2007, started working at Pindar Vineyards in early 2021. He celebrated the victory by saying he hopes that union negotiations with Pindar yield benefits such as sick days and paid time off.

68 BILL BANFIELD & TRICIA BROWN ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARYTREASURER; NEW YORK POLITICAL DIRECTOR North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Bill Banfield has been a union organizer since 1998 and now serves as assistant to the executive secretary-treasurer for the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters. Last fall, Banfield joined with state Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon for a ribbon-cutting event at NASRCC’s Rock Tavern Training Center in Orange County, calling it an investment in the next generation of New York carpenters. Tricia Brown started out with the union in 2002, and now she’s in charge of legislative and political affairs. Brown was one of 40 individuals appointed to an Albany city task force to help decide how to equitably disburse $85 million in federal aid through the American Rescue Plan.

Mendez and his co-workers were the first unionized farmworkers in the state.

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JOSE LOPEZ, ARLENIS MOREL & THEO OSHIRO

ROBERT BISHOP

CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno

Make the Road New York

Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno has one of New York’s top lobbying outfits, advocating on behalf of a range of clients including labor unions and vendors seeking government contracts. Robert Bishop, a founding member, runs the firm’s Albany office and represents clients with matters before state government. Thanks to the $1.2 trillion federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, some of his labor clients should benefit from the construction of such infrastructure projects as the Gateway tunnel and the Second Avenue subway extension. The affiliated Pitta LLP law firm, where Bishop is a partner, specializes in labor, employment and employee benefits.

Arlenis Morel is a co-executive director of Make the Road New York.

firm Bolton-St. Johns and also served as political and legislative director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

70 MURAD AWAWDEH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York Immigration Coalition The son of Palestinian immigrants and an organizer in low-income communities of color for two decades, Murad Awawdeh was promoted to lead the New York Immigration Coalition on a permanent basis last spring. His work advocating for immigrants often overlaps with worker rights, from standing up for COVID-19 protections and universal health care to fighting for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants to seeking adequate funding for the state’s Excluded Workers Fund.

72 71 ED DRAVES DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS Shenker Russo & Clark LLP Ed Draves joined Shenker Russo & Clark, a law firm specializing in government affairs, at the start of the year. He’s often recognized as one of the best labor lobbyists in the state, and he has also represented a broad swath of clients in the health care, communications and energy fields. Draves previously was a partner at the lobbying

ALAN KLINGER CO-MANAGING PARTNER Stroock One of New York’s leading labor attorneys, Alan Klinger has represented such union heavyweights as the United Federation of Teachers and the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association in New York City while also providing counsel pro bono to the Association of State Supreme Court Justices. Klinger, who is Stroock’s comanaging partner and chairs the law firm’s government affairs and regulatory practice, is also co-chair of the AntiDefamation League’s New York Lawyers Division.

74 PETER CORADI NATIONAL BUSINESS AGENT American Postal Workers Union Peter Coradi is a skilled arbitration advocate representing American Postal Workers Union members and postal employees on a wide range of issues. He’s also vice president of the state

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Make the Road New York made a remarkable transition last year by passing the baton to three new co-executive directors. Each brings a set of unique experiences. Jose Lopez is a policy expert on housing and renters’ rights; Arlenis Morel led the effort to build out the organization’s office infrastructure; and Theo Oshiro expanded its reach into Westchester and New Jersey. Despite the U.S. Senate parliamentarian ruling in September against a provision to include a pathway for citizenship for immigrants in the Build Back Better Act, Lopez said that Make the Road New York remained optimistic about ultimately achieving that goal.

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AFL-CIO’s executive council. Postal workers have been on the front lines throughout the coronavirus pandemic, so when Coradi met with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just before the signing of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, Coradi lobbied for the extension of paid sick leave and family medical leave.

and acquisitions had been ramping up in the grocery sector prior to the coronavirus pandemic, and they continued in upstate New York last year when Tops Friendly Markets, which employs Local One members, merged with Price Chopper. The new parent company will maintain the full union workforce, according to DeRiso.

ELLEN REDMOND

PAUL BROWN

INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE

PRESIDENT

IBEW, Third District Ellen Redmond has served as an international representative for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for nearly a decade. Redmond previously served as director of IBEW Local 1049, which represents National Grid and Long Island Power Authority workers on Long Island. Redmond’s responsibilities include driving the political and legislative agenda of IBEW, which represents over 50,000 members. She’s also a member of the Climate Jobs New York labor coalition and a longtime board member of United Way of Long Island.

76 FRANK DERISO PRESIDENT UFCW Local One Representing food and commercial workers in upstate New York and neighboring Pennsylvania as president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local One, Frank DeRiso is also a vice president of the 1.3 million-member UFCW International Union. Mergers

Buffalo & Niagara County Building and Construction Trades Council Paul Brown started as a plasterer with the Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Masons’ International Association in 1984. He now represents more than 12,000 construction workers across 18 affiliates in Western New York. After Brown and the Buffalo & Niagara County Building and Construction Trades Council endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul in December, the governor in her January State of the State address touted job-creating infrastructure plans like the Kensington Expressway project in Buffalo.

Alexander Colvin is dean of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Laborer Organizing Network, an immigrant and low-wage worker rights organization. The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health veteran was named to President Joe Biden’s transition team for the U.S. Labor Department in 2020. In October, when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it would end mass workplace arrests of employees suspected of being undocumented immigrants, Marin-Molina said it was long past due.

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NADIA MARIN-MOLINA

DEAN

CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

National Day Laborer Organizing Network Nadia Marin-Molina is coleader of the National Day

Alexander Colvin is halfway through his five-year appointment as dean of Cornell’s School of Industrial

Marin-Molina advocated for immigrant workers on Biden's transition team.

and Labor Relations, which is known for its unique focus on labor studies at the undergraduate level. He focuses on employment dispute resolution, with an emphasis on nonunion workplaces. He testified in November before Congress about how forced arbitration imposed on workers by corporations has received little public oversight but has profound implications for the rights of American workers.

80 DAVID GONZALEZ DISTRICT 2 NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT American Federation of Government Employees David Gonzalez was elected in October 2020 as a vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees. In Gonzalez’s District 2, AFGE represents federal employees in eight states, including New York. Gonzalez previously served in the U.S. Navy and worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, becoming a member and then eventually president of AFGE

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Local 3975, which is based in New Jersey, where Gonzalez lives.

or ACRE, endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for reelection in January.

RICHARD WITT

DENISE BERKLEY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

Rural & Migrant Ministry

CSEA

Denise Berkley is executive vice president at CSEA.

ANTHONY SIMON

CARMEN VELASQUEZ

EDWARD VALENTE

GENERAL CHAIR

PRESIDENT

GENERAL CHAIR

SMART Transportation Division

Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Association of Commuter Rail Employees

Anthony Simon started with the Long Island Rail Road in 1990 and was named secretary and treasurer of his local a decade later. He now represents LIRR conductors, track workers and car repairers as a leader of the 500 locals that make up the transportation division of SMART, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers. Last fall, Simon joined Gov. Kathy Hochul for a ceremonial ride on the LIRR line into the new East Side Access station below Grand Central Terminal.

Carmen Velasquez was sworn in last year as president of the Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, making history as the first Latina to lead the association that represents many New York judges. A state Supreme Court justice in Queens, Velasquez has pushed for the recertification for judges over the age of 70 and recently called for court proceedings to go virtual during the COVID-19 spike due to the omicron variant.

Edward Valente represents about 2,000 Metro-North Railroad employees, including conductors, engineers and stationmasters. Last fall, Valente testified before a state Senate committee that the effect of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s consolidation efforts has been a downsizing of public-facing services while bureaucracy has only increased. He has also been outspoken about mitigating the risk of COVID-19 to rail workers and pushing for light duty for pregnant conductors. His union, the Association of Commuter Rail Employees,

A proud union member for over 46 years, Denise Berkley is the executive vice president of the Civil Service Employees Association and a member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. She also serves as the chair of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ Racial, Social and Economic Justice Work group. “My fellow work group members and I are fighting to make sure that racial and economic justice reaches every corner of our union and our communities,” Berkley has said of her work on the AFSCME task force.

86 SHERRY LEIWANT & DINA BAKST CO-FOUNDERS AND COPRESIDENTS A Better Balance Sherry Leiwant and Dina Bakst co-founded A Better Balance in 2005 to advocate for a transformation of the American workplace whereby workers are able to care for themselves and their loved

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An ordained Episcopal priest, Richard Witt has led the Rural & Migrant Ministry since 1991. The organization, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, stands with farmworkers as they fight for better pay and working conditions and endeavors to ensure that rural and migrant children have opportunities to advance their education. Witt was thrilled when Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the approval of $850 million for the state excluded workers program last fall, saying that farmworkers have played a key role in the state’s recovery.

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89 STEVEN MOY PRESIDENT Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance New York Chapter

Kevin Mulvehill, a partner at Phillips Lytle LLP

ones without risking their economic security. They’ve had a big impact on the state and local level, and recently touted the 8.6 million New Yorkers who were granted the right to paid time off to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Now, they’re focused on paid leave in the Build Back Better Act, saying it should be available nationwide.

87 GIOVANNA MAHAR PRESIDENT New York State Association of Nurse Anesthetists The New York State Association of Nurse Anesthetists is pushing the state Legislature to broaden the responsibilities of certified registered nurse anesthetists by codifying the profession in state law, instead of defining it solely by state regulations and education requirements. NYSANA President Giovanna Mahar, who is an assistant program director at Albany Medical Center, told lawmakers recently that CRNAs should be able to operate without physician supervision by law – which

they’ve been able to do during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to an executive waiver.

88 MANUEL VILAR PRESIDENT Police Benevolent Association of New York State The Police Benevolent Association of New York State represents some 1,200 members who work for several state agency police units, including New York State University Police and the state Department of Environmental Conservation Police as well as state park police and state forest rangers. Manuel Vilar, the PBA’s president, praised Gov. Kathy Hochul in November for signing a bill that bans the manufacture and distribution of deadly firearms that resemble toys.

As Asian Americans across the country have been confronted with xenophobic rhetoric and attacks in recent years, labor leaders like Steven Moy have been stepping up. Last year, Moy joined New York City Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez to speak out against threats targeting Asian Pacific Americans. Moy, who leads the New York chapter of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, is also on APALA’s national executive board and is an executive board member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Local Union 3.

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Public Employment Relations Board. He is also the law firm’s Rochester office leader.

91 LUIS JIMÉNEZ PRESIDENT Alianza Agrícola Alianza Agrícola was founded by Luis Jiménez and several other immigrant dairy farmworkers in Western New York nearly six years ago to bring attention to the issues facing farmworkers and to advocate for protections. Since he formed the organization, Jiménez has been approached by multiple unions requesting that he join their ranks. But his wish is to start the first independent farmworker union in New York, similar to farmworker unions in California and Washington state.

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SUZANNE ADELY & SONIA SINGH

Phillips Lytle LLP

CO-DIRECTORS

A specialist in labor and employment law, wage and hour law and collective bargaining, Kevin Mulvehill has been with the law firm Phillips Lytle LLP for 15 years. Mulvehill heads the firm’s labor and employment practice where he and his five colleagues handle matters before state and federal agencies including the National Labor Relations Board and the New York State

Food Chain Workers Alliance

Adely and Singh want food workers to have more power in the workplace.

Suzanne Adely and Sonia Singh joined the Food Chain Workers Alliance in 2017 and 2018, respectively. The national coalition is made up of more than 30 worker-based organizations – including the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the Street Vendor Project and Brandworkers – within the food industry, and aims to raise wages and improve working conditions. Adely and Singh have said that their goal is to transform the food system so food workers have greater power in the workplace.

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SEKOU SIBY PRESIDENT AND CEO Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Sekou Siby formerly worked as a cook and dishwasher at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World restaurant, but he wasn’t on shift on 9/11. In the wake of the attacks, he co-founded Restaurant Opportunities Centers United to advocate for higher pay and better working conditions for restaurant workers. In November, about 1 million restaurant and hotel workers quit their jobs, many of them citing low pay. One way to improve restaurant workers’ pay, Siby said, is by raising the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour.

94 BIANCA GUERRERO CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR Fund Excluded Workers Coalition Bianca Guerrero is a progressive political organizer with Make the Road New York who helped the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition win a first-in-the-nation $2.1 billion Excluded Workers Fund for undocumented workers who did not qualify for federal unemployment and pandemic aid due to their immigration status. Now that the money has

run out, the coalition wants to make that fund permanent. In response to Gov. Kathy Hochul failing to mention a permanent extension in her State of the State, Guerrero demanded state action to protect excluded workers.

95 THOMAS CANTY GENERAL MANAGER AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR LABOR, GOVERNMENT AND SPECIAL ACCOUNTS Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Thomas Canty has been with Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield for more than two decades, and he’s in charge of administering plans for labor and public sector clients. Unions make up a large share of the clients at the health insurance company, which has nearly 5 million members in New York. Canty also sits on the board of Outreach, an addiction treatment organization based in Queens, which has honored Canty for his many years of dedicated support for its mission.

96 MICHELLE ZETTERGREN PRESIDENT, LABOR MagnaCare An experienced health plan management executive, Michelle Zettergren oversees labor clients for MagnaCare and also is chief sales and marketing officer and president of labor at its parent company, Brighton Health Plan Solutions. With clients across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, MagnaCare is not an insurance company itself but instead serves as a third-party administrator managing health plans for self-insured clients. Zettergren joined MagnaCare

in 2017 after holding key roles at EmblemHealth subsidiary ConnectiCare.

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assemble them in the United States.

99 OLUYEMI OMOTOSO SECRETARY-TREASURER

INTERIM CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Committee of Interns and Residents

Worker Justice Center of New York

The Committee of Interns and Residents, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, is the largest U.S. labor union of its kind, representing over 20,000 resident physicians and fellows at hospitals in New York and across the nation. Oluyemi Omotoso, a resident at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center who also serves as secretary-treasurer at CIR, testified last year during a New York City Council hearing that the city’s public health system must address chronic understaffing and support the mental health of medical workers in order to meet the needs of both patients and residents.

Diana Saguilán and Andrea Callan lead the Worker Justice Center of New York, an organization that supports farmworkers and other lowwage workers in upstate New York. The center, which was founded four decades ago and established in its current form in 2011, has offices in the Hudson Valley and Western New York. A top legislative goal in Albany is to allow all New Yorkers, including those who are in the country without legal permission, to qualify for state unemployment insurance.

98 LARA SKINNER DIRECTOR Labor Leading on Climate Initiative, Worker Institute at Cornell As director of the Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative at Cornell, Lara Skinner is tasked with providing training and education programs to help union leaders and members engage in the public debates and decision-making around climate protection and clean energy. As New York embarks on installing 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035, Skinner said it’s important that union members not only install the wind turbines and related infrastructure but that they also should manufacture and

100 LENNY LEGOTTE PRESIDENT AND BUSINESS MANAGER IUEC Local 1 In 2007, Lenny Legotte was elected president of the International Union of Elevator Constructors Local 1, which represents approximately 3,000 workers in downstate New York and New Jersey. Legotte was behind a push to toughen elevator safety in New York by setting minimum education and training standards for elevator mechanics. Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the elevator safety law in 2020, but, as part of a deal with legislators, the legislation goes into effect just this year.

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Notice of Formation of CHRYSALIS CAPITAL AND ADVISORY LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 6/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail process to 90 State St Ste700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Any lawful purpose. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 13 4 0 9 0 8 , has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a restaurant un d e r t h e A l c o h o l Beverage Control Law at 226 7th Ave., Brooklyn NY for on premises consumption. Food Farm NYC LLC dba Earthen. Notice of Qualification of RAITH REAL ESTATE FUND III L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/21. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/16/21. Princ. office of LP: 424 Madison Ave., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10017. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general par tner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John B. Townsend B l d g . , 4 0 1 F e d e ral St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Making portfolio investments in commercial real estate. Notice of Formation o f L o g g i a C ap i t al LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/8/21. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 67 Edgemere Ave, Greenwood Lake, NY 10925. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of MODID LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/9/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in CT on 4/26/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 90 State St. Albany, N Y 12 207. Ar ts . of Org. filed with CT SOS. P.O. Box 150470, 165 Capitol Ave. Suite 1 0 0 0 H ar t f o rd , C T 06115-0470. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of PRINCE STREET HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 10/27/2021. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/25/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 31 Hudson Yards, 11th Floor, NY, NY 10001. Address required to be maintained in DE: N ational R e gis tere d Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of QUANDARY SHIPPING LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2108 30 Ave, Apt 2, Astoria, NY 11102. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 218 20TH STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/27/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 42-40 Bell Blvd, Ste 400, Bayside, NY 11361. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BAY VIEW BED AND B R E A K F A S T, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/21/21. Office location: Wayne. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 8420 Bay St Sodus Point, NY 14555. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GROUSSMANS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/22.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3745 Amboy Rd Apt. 17B, Staten Island, NY 10308. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of IRVINE BH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/21 . O f fice location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2385 Arthur Ave Ste #208, Bronx, NY 10458. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 2025 GERRITSEN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 1761 East 29th St Brooklyn, NY, 11229. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of F I N E PAT H R E A LT Y LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1607 Avenue U, Brooklyn, NY 11229 4416. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DACK X SERVICES LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/22. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 2039 County Hwy 107, Amsterdam, NY 12010. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SGGA Consulting, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Sec. of State of NY on 1/17/22. Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: c/o the LLC, 314 Grn Valley Rd SI, NY 10312. Purpose: any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 22 ST MARKS BAKE LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/16/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 22 St Marks Pl., New York, NY 10003. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of HONG & HOME LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1360 82nd St Fl 2, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 170 ST NICHOLAS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/5/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 449 Harman St, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of WF Industrial X V LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 1/3/22. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 80 8th Ave., Ste. 1602, NY, NY 10011. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y.

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

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

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

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Admin and Things LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on . Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: . The principal business address of the LLC is: . Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of 660 47TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 655 50th St 2fl, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of TSPRO, LLC. Arts. O f Org . f iled with SSNY on 1/3/22. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 41 Wellington CT, APT 1L , Staten Island, NY 10314. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of WADSWORTH EXCAVATION & SITE DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/10/22. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 185 So Shore Rd E. Caroga Lake NY 12032. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of AMAZING GOODS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/5/22. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 30 Eva Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AR TIND IA L LC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/22. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to Po Box 1889, Newtown, ND, 58763. Any law ful purpose.

Shaolin Bead Shop LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 11/24/2021. Cty: Richmond SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to JTS Associates CPAS, P.C., 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 403N, Westbury, NY 11590. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of Kate Louise Herts, PhD, Psychologist PLLC filed with SSNY on 12/22/2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PLLC: 99 Hudson St., 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10013. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a Coffee shop/ Tavern: TW 344 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 605 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY, 10310for on premises consumption. R & J Roaster LLC

Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: PIZZABAGEL LLC, LLC Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12/23/2021 . Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copies of process to Anthony Rizzuto, 800 Westchester Avenue, Suite 300, Rye Brook, New York 10573. Purpose is to engage in any and all business a c ti v i ti e s p e r mi t te d under NYW laws .

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Notice of Qual. of GLOBAL STRATEGIES INTERNATIONAL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/13/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/27/04. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: C/O C o r p o r a te Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of LION HILL PARTNERS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2225 East 3rd St Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of 400 CAPITAL ASSET BASED TERM FUND III AIV L .P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/21. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/13/21. Princ. office of LP: 510 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general par tner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls D r. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with S e c y. o f S t ate o f the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. 44 WEST 18TH STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 01/13/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, C/O Adams & Co. Real Estate, Inc., 411 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ALICAD ME TAL WORKS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 09/15/2021. Office location BRONX BX COUNTRY. SSNY Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of process against LLC to R/A: INCORP SERVICES,INC . ONE COMMERCE PL A Z A , 99 WASHINGTON AVE, STE. 805-A ALBANY, NY 12210-2822,USA, P/B/A: 1656 Parker St, #3, BX, NY 10462 Purpose: Anylawful activity. 0000568049 wo

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Notice of Qualification of 400 CAPITAL JSIF IV L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/21. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware ( D E ) o n 0 6/ 1 1/2 1 . Princ. office of LP: 510 Madison Ave . , 17 th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be ser ved. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general par tner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls D r. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with S e c y. o f S t ate o f the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qual. of CATA LYS T O N L I N E LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/13/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/6/04. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Urban Herbalist 914, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/24/2021. Location: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O Urban Herbalist 914, LLC 159 Hawthorne Ave, Yonker, NY 10705 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of LADEEBUG LLC filed with SSNY on 01//14/2022 O f f ice: NE W YOR K County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 136 W 131, Apt 1, NEW YORK, NY 10027.

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a l i c e n s e , nu m b e r 1337348 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a OP252 Restaurant under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 87131 SUNSET AVENUE UNIT A WEST H A M P T O N B E AC H , NY 11978 for on premises consumption HAMPTONS ARISTOCRAT INC. Notice of Qual. of F52 FLATIRON LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY o n 1 1/4/2 1 . O f f i c e location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 11/2/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 122 West 26th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Portico Westend Realty LLC filed w/ SSNY on 11/17/21. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 111 Murray St., #10D, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful. Notice of Qualification of BRIGHT POWER A S S O C I AT E S , L L C Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of N Y (S S N Y ) on 01/17/22. Office location: NY C ount y. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 1/ 1 3/2 2 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vice Co. (CSC), 80 State St., A lb any, N Y 1 2 2 0 72543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19608 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., D ove r, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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

Notice of Formation of K YVO, LLC filed with SSNY on 01/06/2022. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 92 Dutchess Ave 92 Dutchess Avenue Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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

Notice is hereby given that a license, number PENDING for BEER , CIDER LIQOUR AND/OR WINE has been applied for by the undersigned* JANIO REYNOSO, EL AGAVE BAR LOUNGE RESTAURANT to sell BEER, CIDER LIQOUR AND/OR WINE at retail in a RESTAURANT/TAVERN BAR WITH MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF FOOD under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 12a GUION STREET, YONKERS, NY 10701 WESTCHESTER C O U N T Y, for on premises consumption. JANIO REYNOSO, EL AGAVE BAR LOUNGE RESTAURANT Notice of Qual. of C A R E A B O U T M S O, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/20/21. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 12/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: Attn: Claudia Honan, 300 Park Ave Ste 2501, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of BLUE RIBBON IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: David Manko, Esq. - C/O Proskauer Rose LLP 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CPG REMEEDER HOUSE S MANAGE R LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/22/21. O f fice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 116 E. 27th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 1 2 2 0 7. Purpose: Real estate. Notice of Formation of BK DOODLES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1418 67th St Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Betty Brook Consulting Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/29/2021. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 51 Cleveland Place Hawthorne, NY 10532. Purpose: any law ful act or activity. 6336617

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

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

Notice of Formation of BEEFBAR NYC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 12/14/21. O f fice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 1 2 2 0 7. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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

Notice of Formation of KR UTILIT Y GROUP, LLC. . Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/13/21.Office location: ALLEGANY SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 110 Genesee St., Ste. 390a, Auburn, NY 13021.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of M MIAH LOGISTICS LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 182 South St Unit 16g, New York, NY 10038. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of NERE 2 1 8 M A N AG E M E N T HOLDING V2 LLC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/23/21. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 6/29/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4918 3RD Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 334 HUMBOLDT STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/18/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 19 Kennington St Staten Island, NY 10308. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 5 2 8 OV T L LC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/17/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail process to 528 Ovington Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of 677679 MADISON PROPCO LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/2 6/2 1 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/24/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: C/O Metro 2500 Enterprise Drive, Allen Park, MI 48101. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Qualification of MANOUCHER YEKTAI LLC. Authorit y filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/16/21. O f fice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/13/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 325 Broadway, Ste 204, NY, NY 10007. Address to be m ain t ain e d in D E : 2140 S Dupont Hwy, Camden, DE 19 934 . Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G . Townsend Bldg. , 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Qual. of JSBR TRADING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1 /3/ 2 2 . Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 12/14/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4 Westview Rd Short Hills, NJ 07078. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of NEW SONG HEALTHCARE L .P.. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/ 8 / 2 1 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/22/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O 2 Park Ave Ste 2060, New York, NY 10016. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE CONCIERGE WELLNESS COMPANY LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/14/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 30 East 33rd St New York, NY 10016.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of 759771 Madison Propco LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/2 6/2 1 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/24/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: C/O Metro 2500 Enterprise Drive, Allen Park, MI 48101. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 828850 MADISON RETAIL LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/2 6/2 1 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/24/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Levine &amp; Seltzer LLP 500 Fifth Avenue 37th Fl, New York, NY 10110. Ar ts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LLC. HELP Park Place, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/07/2022. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at c/o H.E.L.P. USA , Inc., 115 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003. Purpose: any business permitted under law.

Notice of Formation of 13 HAW THORNE YONKERS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/18/22.Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Cohen Commercial Properties, 535 Fifth Ave 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HU HU SHENG WEI LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/24/22. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 125 Skyline Dr, Staten Island, NY 10304. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of LANDCO CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 9/28/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Form. of LINDSAY RX REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/10/22. Office location: R ENS S EL E AR S S N Y desg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 416 5th Ave, Troy, NY 12182. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WAT E R F R O N T PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/18/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to One Bryant Park, 48th Floor, New Yo r k , NY 10036. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 3 86 CHAUNCE Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 386A Chauncey St Brooklyn, NY 11233 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of JACK EQUINE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Rosenberg &amp; Estis, P.C., 733 Third Ave 12th Floor, New York, NY 10017.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of DULCELYFE, LLC filed with SSNY on 10/25/2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: p.box 120156 Staten Island n.y 10312 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of 165 MYERS PARENT JV, LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 1/2 0/2 2 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O C orporate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of SAVANNA MYERS CF MEMBER, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/20/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/22. SSNY desg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: C/O C o r p o r a te Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 15 DITMARS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 Ditmars St Brooklyn, NY 11221. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of EHG Travel Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 1/21/22. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Eric Grayson, 25 W. 45th St., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10036, principal business address. Purpose: all law ful purposes .

February 21, 2022

Notice of Formation of Better Buddy Dog Training, LLC filed with SSNY on 1/22/2022. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: George Triffon, 4445 Post Road, Apt 3G, Bronx, New York 10471. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. The FI Couple LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/05/22. O f f ice: Schenec tady County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 430 Franklin Street, 2nd Floor, Schenectady NY 12305 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose. FULLSHINE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/13/2021. Office: Bronx County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to THE LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY 241 E MOSHOLU PKWY N, 3A , BRONX , NY, 10467, USA Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qualification of EDVS, LLC. Authorit y filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 12/10/21. O f fice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1 2 /1 8/1 2 . S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 55 Liberty St, Ste. 23B, NY, NY 10005. Address to be maintained in D E : 1 6 1 9 2 C o a s t al Hw y, Lewes, DE 19966. Ar ts of Org. filed with the Secy. of S t ate , 4 0 1 F e d e ral St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of CHAM PAIG N APARTMENTS OWNER 18 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/21. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be ser ved. SSNY shall mail process to: N ational R e gis tere d Agents, Inc., 28 Liber t y St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activities. GGL EXE LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 01/15/2022. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to #213 487 E Main St, Mt Kisco, NY 10549. General Purpose. Notice of Formation of JLR DESIGN AND BUILDING CONSULTANTS LLC filed with SSNY on 09/09/2021. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2777 SCHLEY A VENUE #3A, BRONX, NY, 10465, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of S3 RE 138 BRUCKNER FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/12/21 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Fl New York, NY 10022 Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of S3 RE NORTHERN BLVD FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/26/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/19/21. SSNY desg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Fl New York, NY 10022 Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

160 LEROY ST LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/22/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Shawn Faurot, 160 Leroy Street, Apt 8BN, NY, NY 10014. Reg Agent: Shawn Faurot, 160 Leroy Street, Apt 8BN, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of One Block At A Time, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/1/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 303 Greenwich St New York, NY 10007. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of WUG WUG LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/16/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 627 Sterling Pl. Apt #3r, Brooklyn, NY 11238 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of NORTHERN CARDINAL CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/28/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 1/27/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE THERAPY SP-OT LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/1/20. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 209 East 117th St #1, New York, NY 10035. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SATATA NEW YORK LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/31/22. Office location KINGS SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process 214 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, N Y 11215 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 45 DOUGLASS HOLDINGS, 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 45 Douglass St Brooklyn, NY 11231. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TRF CONSULTING LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/20/22. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 68 South Service Rd Ste 100, Melville, NY 11747. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of OSPREY CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/28/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 1/27/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 126 STATE STREE T LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/20/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 444 Madison Ave 6th Fl New York, NY 10022. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1353 CHA LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/20/22. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 68 South Service Rd, Ste 100, Melville, NY 11747. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TOJJ LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/2021. Office location Greene SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Castro, Po Box 865, Hunter, NY, 12442. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of PIPING PLOVER CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/28/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 1/27/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay Strewet, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Form. of WE KIDDERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY o n 1 2 /8/2 1 . O f f i c e location: RENSSALEAR SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 106 Lake Rd Sand Lake, NY 12153. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 2019 RAVA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2019 Bay Ridge Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of HONOR OUTDOOR SERVICES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/30/21. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6059 Amber Dr Farmington, NY 14425. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 193 MOTHER GASTON LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/18/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 431 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 130 JACKSON STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to Bressler, Amery &amp; Ross, P.C., 325 Columbia Tu r np ike , S te 3 0 1 , Florham Park, NJ 07932. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE DYNAMICS, LLC filed with SSNY on 01/27/2022. Office: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 55 N BROADWAY APT 2-9, WHITE PL AINS, NY, 10601, USA . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. BS Creation LLC filed w/ SSNY on 12/27/21. Eff date: 1/3/22. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 555 W 59th St., #27B, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful. Notice of Qual. of MOURNING DOVE CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/28/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 1/24/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 165 MYERS CORNERS PROPERT Y OWNER , LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/21/22. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 1/20/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O C orporate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Any lawful purpose. L W B N Y C M A N A G E M E N T SERVICES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/07/2022. Office Location: New York County. The New York Secretary of State (“ S SN Y ” ) has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to: 180 W. 80 th Street, Mezzanine, New York, NY 10024. Principal business address: 180 W. 80 th Street, Mezzanine, New York, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of OESER CONTRACTING GROUP, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/31/2022.Office location: Montgomery SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process. 5 Shuler St, Amsterdam, NY, 12010 Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a l i c e n s e , nu m b e r 1335521 for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at re tail in a Tavern under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 231 Kent Ave, Brooklyn NY 11249 for on premises consumption. The Cactus Shop NYS LLC

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Notice of Qual. of SAVANNA MYERS CF MANAGER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/26/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/20/2 2 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: C/O C o r p o r a te Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of N I N E D OT E N E R GY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 12/2/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Kantha Realty Company LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sec t ’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/24/2021. Office: Kings 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, 122 Montague St, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Qual. of JL SYRACUSE 1550, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/27/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/4/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O United Agent Group Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave, #400, Harrison, NY 10528 . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. 564 GOWANUS LLC LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) on 3/18/2019. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 810 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215 Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LE V YGOLDB E RG FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/1/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Corporate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528.Any lawful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1334368 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a OP252 Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 31-31 THOMSON AVENUE LONG ISLAND CIT Y, NY 11101for on premises consumption THOMSON HOSPITALITY LLC. Notice of Formation of SAGEUS CREATORS + TECHNOLOGY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/22. Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Jennifer C. Leve 500 Woodward Ave Ste 4000, Detroit, MI, 48226 - 3425. Any law ful purpose. Kantha Realty Company LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sec t ’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/24/2021. Office: Kings 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, 122 Montague St, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful act. Casa Martinez LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY(SSNY) 1/21/202 2 . City : Richmond SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 266 Sanilac St., Staten Island, NY 10306 General purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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Notice of Formation of CLR transport. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12-05-21 Office location: Westchester County . SSNY designated Luis Eusebio as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 54 st Andrews place Yonkers New York 10705. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Health Plus with Amanda LLC. The Articles of Organization of the LLC were filed with the NY Secretary of State on October 29, 2021. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. The office of the LLC is to be located in New York County. The Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is c/o 333 W. 16 th Street, Apartment 2, New York, NY 10011. Notice of Qual. of ROCKETLAUNCH DIGITAL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/1/22. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 8/13/15. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1341709) for BEER, WINE & CIDER has been applied for by the undersigned to sell BEER, WINE &amp; CIDER at retail in Restaurant RW 341 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 225 W 12TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10011 for on premises consumption. MINO WINE BAR LLC.

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Notice of Qual. of C U R A LTA H E A LT H , LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 01/26/2022. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/22/2020. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O the LLC, 74 Pascack Road, Ste 11 , Park Ridge, NJ 07656. Address required to be maintained in DE: N ational R e gis tere d Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of DANSE SAUVAGE COMPANY LLC filed with SSNY on:03/25/2020 Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: VIENNA I. R. COHN 514 KOSCIUSZKO STREET, AP T. 1 BROOK LY N , NY 11221. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1342552 for beer, wine, liquor &amp; Cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell b e e r, w i n e , l i q u o r &amp; Cider at retail in a Bar/Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 198 Union Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 for on premises consumption. LANFRANCO FAMILY LLC.

The annual return of ANNA & DAVID ZIMMERMAN FOU NDATION , INC . for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2021 is available at its principal office located at 320 CENTRAL PA R K WES T, NE W YOR K , 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.

February 21, 2022

Notice of Formation of DRAFTINGSERVICES. COM LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 22 Walnut Ave Highland Falls, NY 10928. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of POTAMOS PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/2/22.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1930 Richmond Road, Staten Island, NY, 10306. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NAKED PHAT T Y, LLC filed with SSNY on 1/11/2022. Office: KINGS County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1760 Utica Ave Ste 1028 Brooklyn, NY, 11234 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of SDSK HOLDINGS, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/20/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 80 Franklin St, Fl 2, New York, NY, 10013.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of JLL VALUATION & ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/4/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/14/16. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O United Agent Group Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528 . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of LMCIAS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 535 5th Ave, 12th Fl, New York, NY 10017.Any lawful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1341566) for beer, wine, liquor &amp; Cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell b e e r, w i n e , l i q u o r &amp; Cider at retail in a OP 252 under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 114 F R A N K L I N S T N Y, NY 10013 for on premises consumption. CASA CARMEN LLC.

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Notice of Formation of ALISTAR S PL AY PLACE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/28/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be ser ved SSNY mail process to 275 Montgomery St, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of ARCH-ITECT CYCLES LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/26/2022. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to LLC: Philip G. Douglas, 1188E 223 rd St, Bronx, NY-10466. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of V VB SIDELINE SOLUTION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/2/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2256 East 71 St, Brooklyn, NY, 11234. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of WEST 73RD STREET LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/12/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 108 West 73rd St, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of ALAM MANAGEMENT LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/2/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1027 Belmont Avenue #2b, Brooklyn, NY, 11208. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of K AYEMES GROUP LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/26/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5308 13th Ave Suite #437, Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GREEN MUDE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/29/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail process 90 Broad St, 3rd Fl, New York, NY, 10004. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Harlem Mental Health Counseling, LLC filed with SSNY on December 14, 2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 232 West 116th St. Unit 164 New York, NY 10026. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of DROSERA FILMS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/10/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 475 Sterling Pl Apt 5e, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Jackie Martin Communications LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/8/22. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 66 E. 79th St., NY, NY 10 075 . Purpose: all law ful purposes . Notice of Formation of SAUCE BY PAPRIK A LLC filed with SSNY on 01/12/2022. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 238 RICHARDSON STREET, APT 3B BROOKLYN, NY, 11222, USA . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of R O N K O N K O M A REALT Y VENTURE I, L .L .C., filed with the SSNY on 5/24/2001. Office: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 5/17/2001. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and shall mail process to: Pitcaird Properties Incorporated, 41 University Dr, Ste 100, Newton, PA 18940. Address required to be maintained in DE: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange S t , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert of Formation filed with DE Sect’y of State, John G. Townsend Bldg, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Qual. of C a l m o L L C . Au t h . filed with SSNY on 9/28/21. Office location: We s t c h e s t e r. LLC formed in DE on 9/28/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 90 State St. Albany, NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

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February 21, 2022

Notice of Qual. of CHEW Y INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/9/21. Office location: We s t c h e s t e r. LLC formed in DE on 7/31. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: C/O C o r p o r ate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION of Lee Group Holdings LLC, a NY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/21/2022. Location: New York County. Designated Agent and Address for Service of Process: Ryan Lee, 40 Bleecker Street-Unit 5A , New York, NY 10012. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Tailoress Atelier LLC, filed with SSNY on 12/31/2021. Office:Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 144 Manhattan Avenue #1F Brooklyn NY 11206 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify their existing facility (new tip heights 73.8’) on the building at 165 Pinehurst Ave, New York , NY (2 0 2 11 2 9 0) . Inte re s te d par ties may contact Scott Horn (8 5 6 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties. Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify their existing facility (new tip heights 78.2’) on the building at 715 Saint Marks Ave , B ro o k l y n , N Y (202 2010 6). Interested par ties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNT Y OF KINGS, MTGLQ , INVESTORS, L L P, Plaintif f, vs. JACOB KAGAN A/K/A YA KOV K AGAN, VICTORIA K AGAN , ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on February 27, 2020, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on March 24, 2022 at 11:40 a.m., premises known as 601 Surf Avenue, Unit 15N and 501 Surf Avenue, Parking Space 343, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 7279 and Lot 2189 and 1345 together with an undivided 0.10442 percent interest and 0.000665 percent interest in the Common Elements. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 6787/10. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. Doron Leiby, Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, & Peddy, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify their existing facility (new tip heights 153.2’) on the building at 119 W 23rd St, New York, NY (20220135). Interested parties may c ont ac t S c ot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr. , West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify their existing facility (new tip heights 181.3’) on the building at 23 E 63rd St, New York, NY (20211306). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties. Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 56.9’, 58.2’, 64.2’, & 65.5’) on the building at 509 9 th Ave, New York, NY (20220052). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties. Notice of formation of URBAN GROWERY LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/4/22. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 300 Mercer St., Ste. 36E, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of B R O O K I D LY N L L C , LLC filed with SSNY on January 18, 2022. Office: Greene County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: PO Box 186, Tannersville, NY 12485. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Maya Feller Nutrition & Dietetics PLLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 02/08/22. Off. Loc: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The PLLC 525 Layfayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Purpose: to engage in the profession of Dietetics-Nutrition.

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FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK CITY OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF THE BRONX ----------------------------x Docket Nos.: B10418-19/21 In the Matter of Commitment of Guardianship and Custody of SUMMONS JAMESON RYAN BURNS also known as JAMESON BURNS JULIA ANN BURNS also known as JULIA BURNS Children under the Age of Eighteen Years -------------------------------------------------------x In the Name of the People of the State of New York TO: RYAN BURNS ADDRESS: UNKNOWN A Petition having been duly filed in this Court, alleging that the above-named child in the care of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, should 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. David Kaplan, Part 18, on March 14, 2022 at 9:30A.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 DIAL (347) 3784143 and enter the Conference Code 547858651# or utilize the following link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/ meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ NjU3NmRmY2UtNWRmZC00YjM2LTkx N2EtMTM2ZDkxMWU4ZDRh%40thread.v2 /0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%223456fe 92-cbd1-406d-b5a3-5364bec0a833%22%2c %22Oid%22%3a%223c055dc3-e1d1-4337-9442b2d2a8f6f12c%22%7d on the above-scheduled date and 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: Bronx, New York February 15, 2022

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

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Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 90 feet on a 9 0 -f o o t b uil din g at the approx. vicinity of 221 East Broadway, New York, New York County, NY 10002. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t te d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Benjamin Allen, b.allen@trileaf.com, phone: 678-653-8673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 84 feet on an 82-foot Building Rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 1280 East 12 th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11230. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t te d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Laura Elston, l.elston@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 4 0 0, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of Formation of COS M I C T I R A M I S U LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/14/22. Office location: Kings County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 101 Waverly Ave . , B ro ok lyn , N Y 11205. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Constanza Schaf fner at the princ. of fice of the LLC. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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February 21, 2022

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA WAKE COUNTY IN THE SUPERIOR COURT

Mayo Investment Group, LLC; Steven Mayo; and Antonio Mayo (Plaintiffs)

vs.

The Unknown Heirs and/or Estate of Mary C. Wall Mitchiner, The Unknown Heirs and/or Estate of Albert S. Mitchiner, Jr., The Unknown Heirs and/or Estate of James Lymous Mitchiner, The Unknown Heirs and/or Estate of David Mitchiner, The Unknown Heirs and/ or Estate of Robert Samuel Mitchiner, The Unknown Heirs and/or Estate of Albert Stanley Mitchiner, William Joseph Mitchiner, Nathanial Mitchiner, Mary Alberta Mitchiner, Barbara Ann Mitchiner, and Robert Stevie Mitchiner (Defendants)

(Civil Action No. 21 CVS 1533)

TO: Estate of Albert Stanley Mitchiner 4100 Hutchinson River Pkwy E, Apt. 17E Bronx, NY 10475 Estate of Robert Samuel Mitchiner (unknown address) Estate of David Mitchiner (unknown address) Take Notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Mayo Investment Group, LLC, has an interest in the real property that is the subject matter of this action, which is located at 1108 S. Person Street, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina 27601. Plaintiffs bring this action to quiet title and to seek a declaration from this Court that the Mitchiner, Steven Mayo, Antonio Mayo, and Mayo Investment Deeds are valid conveyances of the Property as correctly described in the Noble Deed. The Plaintiffs also bring this action seeking to reform the Mitchiner, Steven Mayo, Antonio Mayo, and Mayo Investment Deeds to correct all errors related to the legal description within these documents consistent with the correct legal description of the Property in the Noble Deed. The erroneous legal descriptions in the Mitchiner, Steven Mayo, Antonio Mayo, and Mayo Investment Deeds create a cloud on title and must be resolved. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than March 23, 2022, and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. This is the 16th day of February, 2022. RAGSDALE LIGGETT PLLC By: BENJAMIN R. KUHN, NC Bar No. 23831 MARIE L.D. HERVEY, NC Bar No. 54601, Post Office Box 31507, Raleigh, NC 27622-1507, Telephone: (919) 787-5200, Facsimile: (919) 783-8991, Email: bkuhn rl-law.com, Email: mhervey@rl-law.com, Counsel for Plaintiffs, Published in the City and State Newspaper, for Bronx County, NY on February 21, 28, & March 7.

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TO: Estate of Mary C. Wall Mitchiner 165 W. 136 th St., Unit 2W New York, NY 10030 Estate of Robert Samuel Mitchiner (unknown address) Estate of Albert S. Mitchiner, Jr. 165 W. 136 th St., Unit 2W New York, NY 10030 Estate of David Mitchiner (unknown address) Estate of James Lymous Mitchiner 165 W. 136 th St., Unit 2W New York, NY 10030 Mary Alberta Mitchiner 165 W. 136 th St., Unit 2W New York, NY 10030 Take Notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Mayo Investment Group, LLC, has an interest in the real property that is the subject matter of this action, which is located at 1108 S. Person Street, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina 27601. Plaintiffs bring this action to quiet title and to seek a declaration from this Court that the Mitchiner, Steven Mayo, Antonio Mayo, and Mayo Investment Deeds are valid conveyances of the Property as correctly described in the Noble Deed. The Plaintiffs also bring this action seeking to reform the Mitchiner, Steven Mayo, Antonio Mayo, and Mayo Investment Deeds to correct all errors related to the legal description within these documents consistent with the correct legal description of the Property in the Noble Deed. The erroneous legal descriptions in the Mitchiner, Steven Mayo, Antonio Mayo, and Mayo Investment Deeds create a cloud on title and must be resolved. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than March 23, 2022, and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. This is the 16th day of February, 2022. RAGSDALE LIGGETT PLLC By: BENJAMIN R. KUHN, NC Bar No. 23831 MARIE L.D. HERVEY, NC Bar No. 54601, Post Office Box 31507, Raleigh, NC 27622-1507, Telephone: (919) 787-5200, Facsimile: (919) 783-8991, Email: bkuhn rl-law.com, Email: mhervey@rl-law.com, Counsel for Plaintiffs, Published in the City and State Newspaper, for New York County, NY on February 21, 28, & March 7. LEGALNOTICES@CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of ABS Box Factory Manager LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/9/22. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Lawrence B. Simon, Esq., c/o Morrison Cohen LLP, 909 3rd Ave., 27th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: all law ful purposes . Notice of Formation of WILDLY PL ANNING LLC, filed with SSNY on 12/18/2021. Office: NEW YORK County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 4768 Broadway New York, NY 10034 Suite 314. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. ANGLE & FIFTH, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/15/22. Office: N ew Yo r k C o u n t y. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail copy of pro c e s s to the LLC, 5030 Broadway, Suite 717, New York, NY 10034 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Formation of Park West Productions, LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/31/2022. 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 c/o Grant & Eisenhofer, Attn: Jay Eisenhofer, 485 Lexington Ave., 29th Fl., New York, NY 10017. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Public Notice AT&T p ro p o s e s to mo dif y an ex is ting facility (new tip heights 112’) on the building at 318 E 15th St, New York, NY (20220103). Interested parties may c ont ac t S c ot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr. , West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

Notice of Qual. of STO MIS SION CR ITICAL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/14/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/3/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . S SN Y mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Public Notice AT&T p ro p o s e s to mo dif y an ex is ting facility (new tip heights 71.6’) on the building at 221 Henry St, New York, NY (20220065). Interested parties may c ont ac t S c ot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr. , West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties. Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 55.2’ & 56.5’) on the building at 169 Lewis Ave , B ro o k l y n , N Y (20220050). Interested par ties may contact Scott Horn (8 5 6 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties. Public Notice AT&T p ro p o s e s to mo dif y an ex is ting facility (new tip heights 263.8’) on the building at 230 Central Park S o u t h , N e w Yo r k , NY (202 2 20 047). Interested parties may contact Scot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties. Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 150.5’ & 158.4’) on the building at 2130 Broadway, New York, NY (20220022). Interested parties may contact Scot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

February 21, 2022

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Dana Berez Creative LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/05/22. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 1040 1st Avenue #167 New York NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act or activity App. for Auth. (LLC) MOONEY COUNSELING , LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of N Y (S S N Y ) on 2/2/22. LLC formed in PA on 2/1/22. 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 The LLC, 531 E. 72 nd St., #4B, NY, NY 10021, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: All law ful purposes. LEGALNOTICES@CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Eminence Event Space, LLC filed with SSNY on 10/23/2021. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 231 Jackson Ave, Bronx NY, 10454. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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CITY & STATE NEW YORK MANAGEMENT & PUBLISHING Publisher & General Manager Tom Allon tallon@ cityandstateny.com, Vice President of Operations Jasmin Freeman, Director, Editorial Expansion Jon Lentz, Comptroller David Pirozzi, Business & Operations Manager Patrea Patterson, Administrative Assistant Sarah Banducci

Who was up and who was down last week

LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST DIANA REYNA

Rep. Tom Suozzi and Diana Reyna broke tradition by forming a downstate alliance in their bids for statewide office. The long shot gubernatorial candidate chose the former Brooklyn City Council member to make a political comeback as lieutenant governor. It’ll be an uphill battle for the duo, who are facing off against well-funded incumbents.

BHAIRAVI DESAI

Employment protections have never come easy to ride-hailing drivers in New York City, but Mayor Eric Adams moved fairly quickly to boost the city’s minimum ride-hailing pay rule, securing Uber, Lyft and other drivers a 5.3% bump in their pay rate, good news for this taxi leader.

CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Senior Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton, Junior Graphic Designer Izairis Santana, Photo Researcher Michelle Steinhauser

TODD KAMINSKY Plenty of politicians are hanging up their hats on Long Island. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Nassau County Democrat, faced a brutal loss in his bid to become the county’s district attorney last year after getting hammered over bail reform. That experience seems to have soured his taste for elected office as he announced he would not run for reelection or any other elected position this year. THE REST OF THE WORST MICHAEL KING

The third leader of the NYPD’s Special Victims Division in under four years, Michael King was transferred after less than two years in the position and was dogged by complaints about his managerial skills throughout his tenure. The agency itself has been criticized for years for failing to staff qualified detectives and neglecting sexual assault cases.

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Vol. 11 Issue 7 February 21, 2022

JULIE TIGHE

Eric Adams’ proposed budget fell short on municipal composting, and the real loser is the environment. New York League of Conservation Voters President Julie Tighe will have to up the advocacy ante after this setback.

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