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JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

WHEN I MOVED TO New York City, the prevalence of homeless people took me by surprise. There were homeless people in the midsize city in Nebraska where I grew up, of course, but there were far fewer of them, and they were also harder to detect. Walking around Manhattan, by contrast, the homelessness crisis can’t be ignored – and it was a shock to my system.

When I came across someone panhandling or asking for help, I was never quite sure what to do. Give them money? Offer them something to eat? Look up the nearest homeless shelter and jot down the address for them?

It seems New York City doesn’t know what to do, either. When I moved here in 2008, the number of people living in the city’s shelters was around 35,000 per night, by one measure. By this past December, that figure has ballooned to 62,590, with thousands more sleeping on the streets or in the subways.

In this week’s magazine, City & State contributor Bob Hennelly explores why homelessness is so stubborn in the city, despite all the money spent on outreach and initiatives. And our staff nonprofit reporter, Kay Dervishi, scrutinizes New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s latest plan to end long-term street homelessness – and explains why the city’s success in reducing homelessness among military veterans won’t easily be replicated.

CONTENTS CORONAVIRUS … 8

For Cuomo, it’s more than just a public health crisis.

HOMELESSNESS … 12 Are New York’s policies making matters worse?

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What do you call 100 lawyers at the back of a magazine?

WINNERS & LOSERS … 54 Who was up and who was down last week

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primary, that flooded the media markets of Super Tuesday states, the first places his name appeared on the ballot. But when it was do-or-die time, Bloomberg fell short. He performed poorly on Super Tuesday, only winning the caucuses in American Samoa and placing no higher than third in any of the 14 states that voted.

All told, according to The Associated Press, Bloomberg now has 60 delegates – more than any other New York City mayor in history, but nowhere near what he had been hoping for. In an emotional address to his supporters, Bloomberg said that while he was ending his campaign, he will still do whatever he could to ensure that President Donald Trump doesn’t get reelected.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG DROPS OUT

Several months after he announced his bid for president, former New York City Mayor Michael

Bloomberg ended his campaign and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. He spent more than $500 million on ads, the most ever spent by a candidate during a

“The fact that tonight, he’s won essentially nothing? Wow, democracy’s actually functioning, my friends.”

– New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, gleeful at former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s poor Super Tuesday showing despite the fortune he spent on his presidential campaign, via NBC News

SCHUMER GETS REPRIMANDED

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer received a rare rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts and backlash from Republicans after

FUN WHILE IT LASTED Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg abandoned his presidential bid last week, proving that hundreds of millions of dollars just doesn’t buy what it used to – especially when a controversial mayoral record comes back to haunt you. The Daily News lampooned Bloomberg’s failed run, dressing the former mayor in the lamest of souvenir apparel, reading, “I spent $500M and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.”

making controversial comments during an abortion rights rally.

Schumer said that U.S. Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s two appointees to the court, would “pay the price” for making decisions that would limit abortion rights.

Roberts called Schumer’s “threatening statement” both “inappropriate” and “dangerous.” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also condemned Schumer’s remarks, calling on him to apologize, while Trump tweeted that Schumer “brought great danger” to the Supreme Court steps.

For his part, Schumer expressed regret for his poor choice of words, insisting that he was not threatening Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, but also defended the passion with which he spoke.

CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO SPREAD

“I really didn’t think it was a big affront to the Irish.”

– New York City Councilman Joe Borelli, on the pride flag pin he wore to the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade that he said got him banned from marching, via the Staten Island Advance

The state has confirmed roughly three dozen people have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, COVID-19.

The majority of cases are in Westchester County, with many connected to a man who had previously tested positive, including members of his family and a neighbor who drove him to the hospital. There have also been cases reported in New York City and Long

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Island. The outbreak has led to several public school districts to temporarily close in Westchester County, as well as some private schools, as precautions.

State University of New York and City University of New York students studying abroad in affected countries like China, Italy and Iran have also been ordered to come back, while the future study abroad trips to those countries have been canceled.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last Tuesday signed a bill authorizing $40 million to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. The bill, which quickly passed in the state Legislature, also expands Cuomo’s emergency powers. It permits him to suspend any state or local law and to issue any directive through executive order. Congress also passed an $8.3 billion funding to aid in the coronavirus response, including $35 million for New York. However, Cuomo said that sum is insufficient.

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NEW YORK CITY CONTINUES A SPIKE IN CRIME

For the second month in a row, the New York City Police Department recorded a sharp increase in major crimes, and officials are placing the blame squarely on bail reform. Overall, crime is up 21% so far this year compared to the same period last year. The NYPD said that since the beginning of 2020, 482 people released without bail on felony charges were rearrested for 846 crimes.

However, a coalition of public defenders allege that the NYPD is artificially inflating the crime stats by arresting more people who don’t end up getting formally charged.

According to the public defenders, the number of complaints on court dockets in the city has decreased over the past year, a fact that appears to be at odds with a supposed increase in crime.

THURSDAY 3/12 The 2020 census kicks off with mailings sent out encouraging New Yorkers – and people across the country – to fill out their forms and get counted.

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Are city dwellers at greater risk of catching coronavirus?

It’s probably not surprising that viruses tend to spread more quickly in a place like New York City, with a population density of over 27,000 people per square mile, than in an upstate town like Rotterdam, New York, which has a population density of roughly 3,000 people per square mile. “In general, infections with person-to-person transmission, such as this coronavirus and flu, often will spread more rapidly in denser urban environments,” Dr. Stephen Morse, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, wrote in an email.

Dr. Robyn Gershon, a clinical professor of epidemiology at New York University’s School of Global Public Health pointed to a 2015 study in Infection Ecology and Epidemiology that found high population density and close contact between people could make cities hotbeds for rapid spread of infectious diseases like SARS and the avian flu. Though the New York City subway may be a hotbed for viruses – not the new coronavirus in particular, but all kinds – regular riders can also build up immunity after being exposed to the same viruses. With a situation like the new coronavirus, however, New Yorkers haven’t had a chance to build immunity.

So do inner-city subway and bus riders typically get sick more often than suburbanites and small-town residents? There’s not a lot of research directly comparing the two groups, but one study by the University of Nottingham in the U.K. found that public transit riders are six times more likely than those who didn’t ride public transit to have acute respiratory infections – but that occasional riders were more at risk than everyday riders because the latter group may build up

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New York City and state have been pushing to increase the city’s response rate. An undercount could cost the state money from the feds – and up to two congressional seats.

immunity. On the other hand, a 2011 study in the Journal of Urban Health that simulated a 1957-1958 influenza pandemic in New York City found that only 4% of transmissions would occur on the subway.

But while infectious diseases might spread more rapidly in urban areas, that doesn’t mean New Yorkers are doomed to contract every infectious disease in the book. Morse noted that other factors – chance, the precautions people may take – also come into play.

In the case of the new coronavirus, for example, public health experts are advising people to practice good regular hygiene by washing their hands and not touching their faces.

As anyone who has ever lived in the suburbs or rural areas knows, city dwellers don’t own the flu or the common cold. “Even in the suburbs, there are many places where people may congregate in numbers – many workplaces, schools, shopping malls, movie theaters, sports events, for example, so there is potential for spread there as well,” Morse told City & State.

Some public health experts, in fact, have said that running into viruses or bacteria on the subway isn’t any likelier than in other environments, such as offices.

New York City residents may also benefit from something else that rural areas tend to lack: a good public health system. “I’ve seen studies (showing) that people in vibrant, high-income, developed-nation urban areas have much better access to health care,” Gershon said. “People in rural areas have a much harder time getting access to emergency care like ambulances, and then once they’re in that ambulance, it can be a very long drive to the hospital.”

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Early voting begins in the special election for Queens borough president, where six candidates are vying to replace Melinda Katz.

Voting wraps up on Election Day, March 24.

Amid growing fears over the coronavirus, the New York City Council holds a preliminary budget hearing on the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene at 10 a.m. at City Hall.

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BY JANA CHOLAKOVSKA

ROOMIES IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE now-prominent politicians, actors and entertainers once living with roommates. Whether they were living together during college or just trying to save money on an apartment in Albany or Washington, there are many reasons why these leaders once had to cram into small apartments together. Here are some of New York’s most famous pairings who were once roommates.

KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND & CONNIE BRITTON

In the 1980s, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and “Friday Night Lights” actress Connie Britton roomed together during a Dartmouth College summer study abroad program in Beijing.

Gillibrand told HuffPost that her most vivid memory was the time when the two got food poisoning and had to be taken to the hospital on the back of a bike. The two remain friends.

CHUCK SCHUMER & DICK DURBIN

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin have publicly butted heads in the past, but their relationship has thrived for the better part of four decades. Until 2014, the two lived in a two-story house in Washington, D.C., owned by former Rep. George Miller of California, reportedly more like a frat house than the lodgings of some of the most influential Democrats in the country.

HAKEEM JEFFRIES & VICTOR WILLIAMS

In the early 1990s, now-Rep. Hakeem Jeffries roomed with “King of Queens” actor Victor Williams while at Binghamton University.

While they were both originally pursuing political science, Williams eventually abandoned the major and turned to theater.

WE KNOW THESE NEW YORK LEADERS. BUT WE DON’T KNOW THEM LIKE THEIR ROOMMATES.

ANTHONY WEINER & JON STEWART

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner and former “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart were never college roomates, but they did live together in a summer house in Dewey Beach, Delaware, in 1987. The two met while Weiner was on exchange at the College of William & Mary where Stewart was pursuing a bachelor’s degree.

Stewart didn’t shy away from criticizing and joking about Weiner’s scandalous behaviour.

ELIOT SPITZER & JIM CRAMER Before becoming governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer waged a war against corruption on Wall Street as state attorney general. His later involvement with a prostitution ring blindsided his former Harvard Law School roommate: “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer. The host said: “It was inconceivable to me. He’s a friend of mine, and it’s inconceivable, but it happened.”

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A Q&A with interim New York City Transit President

SARAH FEINBERG I don’t feel like (Byford) was particularly micromanaged.

I don’t expect myself to be micromanaged.

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improve that. People will know that I’ve been a strong proponent of putting more police in the system. Crime has ticked up in the system in a way that makes me uncomfortable, and I think that makes others uncomfortable.

What’s it like to take the reins from Andy Byford, New York City’s “Train Daddy”?

I just feel lucky to have gotten to work with him over the last year, but also gotten to work with the transit team and observe and applaud them for the improvements they made over the last years. This is probably the best job in transportation in the country. It’s so exciting, it’s so challenging, it’s so hard, but it’s so worthwhile.

How long do you think it will take to find a permanent replacement, and are you being considered to be that person?

I don’t think we know how long the interim lasts. I’m planning for at least several months. I have a small child and this job is 24/7, 365, so given how these jobs tend to go, my sense is that it would not be a tenable job for my young family. If it is tenable, I would certainly consider it.

What are your plans, your top priorities, for however long you serve in this role?

Obviously, one of the top priorities is to help recruit a world-class leader who will run the system permanently. But other top priorities: the workforce here has made unbelievable progress over the last few years. Job No. 1 is to continue that progress and even improve upon it if I can. I talked a lot about the safety and security of the system. I think we need to

The 500 new police officers at $250 million caused a lot of backlash among transit and criminal justice advocates.

It surprised me a little bit, to be honest. I think the onus is on us to do a better job communicating about it. It’s hard when the agency is the size that it is, the board is the size that it is.

Would you be willing to listen to suggestions from criminal justice advocates on alternative ways to address subway crime?

I am, of course, happy to have those conversations. I do think we have to come up with a resolution that we’ve got a bunch of folks who are using our system to commit crimes. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a backstory to that human being. But I think it’s really important that we end up in a place where we’re improving safety.

It was reported that Gov. Andrew Cuomo micromanaged Byford to the point of resignation, and there have been suggestions that you as the governor’s MTA board appointee would not be sufficiently independent.

Honestly, I think a lot of this is people searching for a problem where there isn’t one. Anyone who’s running something like the largest transit system in North America, you do have a level of independence because you have to make decisions in real time and people execute them. I don’t have any sense that anyone’s micromanaging someone who is managing a 51,000-person workforce with a multibillion-dollar budget, and who’s making real-time decisions about how the system is working. I don’t feel like the last person in this role was particularly micromanaged. I don’t expect myself to be micromanaged.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrangled lawmakers into granting him a controversial expansion of executive power.

For Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the possibility of containing the new coronavirus is a matter of personal legacy.

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S HE EXPLAINS his administration’s approach to containing the new coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s thoughts turn to wristwatches. It is not the hands that make a clock tick, he said, but the pieces inside. And like the jewel regulating the gears inside a watch movement, the three-term governor finds purpose moving the gears of government forward. Whether it is limiting the spread of an infectious disease, allocating education funding or taking any other action as governor, it all comes down to the same thing, according to Cuomo. “This is all about government performance,” he told City & State in an interview inside his Capitol office last week.

“That’s why it’s liberating in some ways because it’s devoid of politics.”

The governor had just finished a Monday afternoon meeting in the adjacent Red Room with 20 top state officials on the state’s response to COVID-19, which stands for coronavirus disease 2019. Much of it consisted of Cuomo pushing staff to find answers to hard questions. Just hours before, the governor had announced a goal to increase testing capacity for the virus to 1,000 people per day – but at the moment the state only had 1,000 test kits on hand.

The necessary chemicals were increasingly scarce. Efforts would have to be made to keep too many people from requesting tests. Legal frameworks were needed for quarantining people. “What if the feds say: ‘Sorry, I can’t help you?’” Cuomo asked at one point, suggesting the state may be on its own. “Just assume nobody does anything for you except you.” Mobilizing resources in a state of 20 million people is no easy task.

Yet after weeks of preparation, and just six hours after the governor announced the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in the state, New York’s response was taking shape. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye left the meeting tasked with exploring electrostatic sprayers to disinfect New York City subways. State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Linda Lacewell was assigned the overnight goal of expanding the state’s paid sick leave pro-

gram to cover people who would be quarantined in the future. It was 4 p.m. – and there were plenty of working hours ahead.

As state officials left to tackle their assignments, Cuomo’s other moves on the coronavirus started ticking. He wrangled state lawmakers into passing a bill that gave him $40 million in emergency funding to combat the disease, as well as a controversial expansion of executive power in response to a range of emergencies – including the coronavirus. His media blitz continued in the following days with state and national media spreading the message that New York had a sophisticated and largely apolitical response to a disease that has infected dozens inside New York and killed thousands across the world in recent weeks.

The number of confirmed cases has multiplied in recent days, and state efforts have ramped up accordingly, with the state recommending that at least 4,000 people isolate themselves to limit the spread of the disease. Hundreds of SUNY and CUNY students who were studying in China, Italy, South Korea and Iran have been called back to the U.S. At a Thursday press conference in the state Capitol, Cuomo said that while more cases are to be expected, only a fraction of infected people require serious medical attention, especially the elderly and people with underlying health conditions.

“What am I worried about as governor?” he said. “I’m worried about undue fear and anxiety. I’m worried about nursing homes, senior care facilities – any senior congregate setting.”

On Monday, shortly after his meeting with his deputies in the Capitol, Cuomo demanded that lawmakers act on a $40 million emergency funding proposal to fund more health care training, medical supplies and quarantine spaces. State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker quickly huddled with lawmakers. The state Senate reconvened Monday evening at Cuomo’s behest after adjourning for the day hours before.

“I did not think when we gaveled out that we would be gaveling back in,” state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins told reporters on Tuesday as Cuomo signed the bill into law. “This was a first for me as a leader.” Passing a bill with a few hours

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notice also requires what is called a message of necessity from the governor to waive the three-day waiting period mandated by the state constitution for new legislation. But Cuomo got it done, despite some objections from lawmakers.

A controversial provision in the legislation expanded the governor’s power to issue directives through executive order during emergency situations as varied as infectious diseases, hurricanes and volcanoes.

Such authorizations would come 30 days at a time under the legislation, which expires in April 2021. Lawmakers could also pass a resolution to override a gubernatorial directive. “Maybe it will all be fine,” said Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, who voted against the legislation. “Maybe nothing bad will happen. But nothing bad will happen if we take a day or two to think about it – and we may avoid something we may regret for years.”

While lawmakers from both parties called the bill a Cuomo power grab, only a dozen voted against it in the Assembly and just a handful in the Senate.

Some lawmakers grumbled on the floors of the legislative chambers that there was little they could do besides vote in favor of the emergency funding bill. There were political concerns to take into account. Constituents might hold a “no” vote against incumbents, whether or not they were voting for a greater principle. The threat of the coronavirus also weighed heavily on the minds of lawmakers who saw a need to empower the governor at a time of potential crisis. “I hope all of us can support this so we speak as one voice,” Re-

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“The fear factor has to be managed as much as the reality of the situation,” Cuomo said on CNN.

renewing the law.

Only time will tell if Cuomo’s approach to the coronavirus is effective, but he has earned praise from public health experts for how he has mobilized state government, including a tweak to state insurance rules waiving patient costs for coronavirus testing.

The administration has isolated the dozens of New Yorkers who have been infected so far, stockpiled supplies and coordinated state agencies in anticipation of a surge of cases in the coming weeks. Administration officials at the Monday meeting with the governor discussed geolocating state equipment

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publican state Sen. Kenneth LaValle said on the Senate floor. The final vote in the state Senate was 53-4.

The law grants Cuomo new legal tools for implementing any future quarantine actions, school closings or public transit restrictions, Cuomo told reporters during a press conference last week. “The suspension of existing law means I’m removing an impediment from an agency,” Cuomo said.

“But it doesn’t give you the ability to affirmatively do anything, and in this situation, the government has to act.” If lawmakers were going to expand gubernatorial powers to deal with the coronavirus, then they had to do the same with all the other types of emergencies that were already written into state law, Cuomo argued. “Let’s see where it is next April,” he said of the possibility of

and whether the National Guard has ambulances on hand. Can government keep people isolated for the two weeks it takes for the virus to come and go? The governor had his doubts. “Those are the kinds of things that you want people to be thinking about,” said Stanley Perlman, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa who specializes in diseases like the coronavirus. “(You) need to be cautious and proactive, not have a huge fear factor, which only makes things worse.”

Maintaining public calm has been a point raised by Cuomo at recent meetings, both public and private. The disease is more deadly than the flu, but its fatality rate is in the very low single digits. Four out of five people don’t even get visibly sick, Cuomo has noted. “The fear factor has to be

managed as much as the reality of the situation,” he said during a Tuesday appearance on CNN. “People just don’t believe the facts that government is telling them, and that’s unfortunate for a much broader set of reasons.” The tools Cuomo has used in recent days to confront the disease have included the Legislature, state agencies and his own executive power. Considering the fact that the governor made multiple broadcast appearances and hosted multiple Capitol press conferences last week (including his first joint appearance of the year with the two state legislative leaders), it is fair to assume that the news media has an important role of its own in the governor’s political toolkit.

The coronavirus has given Cuomo another opportunity to cultivate an image as a leader who takes charge in a time of crisis. His success in winning lawmakers to his cause last week has strengthened his hand. While his immediate goal in recent days has been to respond to the looming crisis, his media appearances have presented him as a problem-solver on the national stage. “People are so distrustful of government now and it’s so hyperpoliticized,” he told CNN. “People don’t even know what to believe anymore.” Promoting New York as a national leader is a matter of great personal pride for the governor.

If the virus continues to spread in New York, he will have his chance to make his case on a matter of life and death. The benefits of both managing a public health threat to millions of people – and doing so in a way that appears competent – are obvious at a time when the response from the Trump administration has been uneven.

For the past few days, such goals have become an obsession for Cuomo. It’s showing what makes him tick.

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NO HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS Despite damning reports, calls to action and billions spent, New York is perpetuating the crisis.

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O LOCATION BETTER captures the intractability of New York City’s street homelessness crisis than the sprawling confines of Penn Station, where over several months the already large number of homeless people – some with belongings packed efficiently on a grocery cart, others who are poorly clad and prone to screaming matches with an invisible tormentor – seems to have increased recently.

As New York City’s shelter population has grown from around 36,000 in 2009 to more than 62,000 as of December 2019, so has the city’s spending. The vast majority of the homeless are in shelters, but according to the city’s 2019 survey, nearly 3,600 more are sleeping on the streets and in public places such as Penn Station. Twenty years ago, the city spent about $960 million to address the homelessness crisis. It now spends $3.2 billion meeting its unique legal guarantee of the “right to shelter” that came about from the 1979 landmark state Supreme Court decision Callahan v. Carey.

Penn Station merchants, retail workers, maintenance personnel, police officers,

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commuters and transit workers express frustration over what they say is a worsening humanitarian crisis that the city government, despite spending billions of dollars over many years, seems incapable of addressing.

The situation in the city is the culmination of years of rising housing prices, the deinstitutionalization of people with mental illnesses without sufficient community-based alternatives and legal constraints on the government’s response.

Front-line civil servants and nonprofit workers who are familiar with the homeless can describe many cases where long-standing unaddressed mental health and addiction issues make it hard for people to improve their circumstances without significant support.

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URING A RECENT EVENING rush hour, City & State flagged down two Amtrak police officers to attend to an elderly homeless woman with a walker who had passed out on the stairs in the New Jersey Transit section of the station. “You want me to do something?” the older officer asked. “There’s really nothing we can do except make sure she’s not dead.”

With that he went over and in a compassionate tone engaged the woman. “Hello there, you got to give me a sign you are not dead,” he explained, and she responded that she was indeed still alive. “This is the worst I have seen it in my career,” the officer told City & State. “And with the laws the way they are there’s nothing we can do to really help these people, and there are more of them every day.”

Court decisions, citing the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment,” have long established that homeless individuals can’t be arrested for merely being present in a public place, such as a train station or sidewalk. The police can only ask them to move if they could get hurt by the rush of foot traffic or are otherwise violating another law.

The city’s multifaceted response includes providing shelter, social services, outreach services, homeless prevention and even legal support for tenants facing eviction.

Preventing homelessness seems to be the most effective way of keeping the homeless population from growing: Since 2013, according to city statistics, providing legal representation for tenants on the verge of losing their apartments has reduced evictions by 40%, keeping more than 100,000 New Yorkers in their homes.

But once New Yorkers do become homeless, finding permanent affordable housing for them is difficult and can take years.

Penn Station, where commuters from New Jersey and Long Island and Amtrak riders from across the country enter the city, provides dry and relatively safe sleeping con-

THE HOME FRONT

New York City got most of its homeless veterans off the streets. Why can’t it do the same for everyone else?

By Kay Dervishi IT’S RARE TO HEAR about New York City’s successes on homelessness. But five years ago, the federal government declared that New York City had ended chronic veteran homelessness, a major milestone. Since 2011, the city government’s statistics show veteran street homelessness has declined by more than 98%. The latest figures from the city’s most recent point-in-time count show only six homeless veterans remaining in the five boroughs.

“This is really the only bright spot in the homelessness front for New York City over these last several years,” said Loree Sutton, the former commissioner of the city Department of Veterans’ Services.

Sutton is seeking the city’s Democratic mayoral nomination in 2021, and she often touts this success as proof she could be the one to finally tackle New York’s broader homelessness crisis.

But if the city has been able to house so many homeless veterans, why isn’t the same city government already using those same strategies to eliminate homelessness for all New Yorkers?

In part, because the same resources aren’t available for nonveteran homeless-

ness. Much of the city’s progress on veteran homelessness was spurred by a federal initiative introduced 10 years ago by the Obama administration. Mayors across the country were encouraged to take on the challenge to end veteran homelessness, and both Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio signed on to the effort. In 2016, de Blasio created the Department of Veterans’ Services, which came out of an earlier task force and benefited from federal resources for homeless veterans.

That coordinated effort of federal and local action with targeted resources is what those involved credit for the city’s success.

One of the major tools that the federal government contributed is the federal Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program, which provides homeless veterans with rental assistance and additional case management services through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Congress expanded funding for the vouchers, which were created in 1992, in 2007 as soldiers returned from Iraq and Afghanistan “to a troubled U.S. economy,” according to a report from the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.

After de Blasio opted into the federal veterans homelessness initiative, New York City began to add its own resources.

The process starts with finding homeless veterans – which is why the city created its first list of them – and then works to get them housing and keeping them housed. Through the city’s Veteran Peer Coordinator Program, fellow veterans employed by the city can pair up with clients and serve as mentors throughout the process. That could include helping veterans get to apartment viewings and helping them gather the necessary financial documents to apply for an apartment.

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Penn Station merchants, police officers and commuters express frustration over what they say is a worsening homelessness crisis that the city isn’t fixing.

“Just having an apartment listing in New York City doesn’t mean you’re going to get the apartment,” said Nicole Branca, assistant commissioner for housing and support services at the city’s veterans agency. “So (the Veteran Peer Coordinator program is) really about helping (mentors) make the case for the veteran, getting the apartment and then all the paperwork for both the landlord and the veteran.” In addition to federal rent assistance veterans at-risk of homelessness have easier access to a cityrun rental assistance program.

Landlords have also been encouraged by city staffers to house veterans. City employees serve as a resource for any questions and guidance landlords may need while trying to find units for veterans. Once housed, those veterans have access to other services to help them stay housed, including mental health treatment and finding furniture.

“I think it’s both very individualized, but it’s also very coordinated,” said Tori Lyon, CEO of the Jericho Project, a nonprofit that provides shelters and runs programs to help homeless veterans find housing. “I think that’s what the city’s done a really good job at.”

Anddy Perdomo, director of veteran initiatives and AIDS supportive housing at Volunteers of America-Greater New York, also highlighted collaboration between the city and local nonprofits as a key to the city’s overall success. When agencies and nonprofits talk, they will often work together on specific cases to get housing for individual veterans sooner, she said.

Helping veterans has often garnered bipartisan support, whereas the homeless in general may not earn the same sympathy.

“It’s a population that people care about,” Lyon said. “Whereas they might not care

about homeless people in general, but they tend to care about veterans – which is kind of a cynical thing to say.”

Targeting smaller populations like veterans may also be more manageable than trying to tackle the larger homelessness problem. When veteran homelessness peaked in 2011, veterans made up only 9% of the homeless population in New York City. Similar strategies could be useful for targeting other smaller populations, such as homeless youth. And the city’s approach has led to more progress compared with the rest of the country. New York City has reduced overall veteran homelessness by 85% since 2011, while veteran homelessness has decreased by 43% nationally.

The city has already replicated some practices used with veterans in its homeless outreach work. The peer-to-peer program, which pairs veterans with mentors, has been modeled by other city agencies tackling homelessness, and the list of homeless veterans has been expanded to all homeless New Yorkers who the city can identify.

Still, some advocates for veterans stress that the city should not get too comfortable declaring success on homelessness. “It gives a slight misdirection in efforts when someone is given the kind of outlook that it’s been defeated,” said James Fitzgerald, deputy director of NYC Veterans Alliance, an advocacy group for veterans. The number of homeless veterans has ticked up slightly since 2017, according to federal data, with 684 veterans found to be unhoused last year.

Lyon agreed that city’s work wasn’t done, saying that the city’s task force for homeless veterans continues to meet monthly. “We haven’t really taken our eye off the ball in that sense,” she said.

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ditions for those who want to avoid the shelter system. Grand Central Terminal has also drawn people seeking shelter, and the situation has gotten so dire that, as The Wall Street Journal reported in late February, one restaurateur – who happens to be pop star Lady Gaga’s father – is withholding his rent from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the grounds that the presence of homeless people is discouraging paying customers from patronizing his business.

It’s not that no one is charged with transitioning the homeless out of the train stations and into shelters. The Bowery Residents’ Committee, a nonprofit provider of homeless services – which has a board stacked with high-powered corporate executives and is represented by the well-connected lobbying firm Capalino+Company – received a city contract in 2014 to provide outreach to the homeless in subway and train stations. The contract was renewed in 2017, and it is up for renewal again this year.

Some career civil servants who work in Penn Station express irritation that they believe the group is ineffective. “You’re talking about those people with the orange vests?” asked an MTA employee who had not been cleared to speak with the press, “Yeah, BRC, they are worthless, they hide in their (Penn Station) office most of the time and I have seen them swipe the homeless into the subway.”

In an audit released in January on the Bowery Residents’ Committee’s activities from 2015 to mid-2019, investigators for state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli documented “numerous missed opportunities to engage with homeless clients.”

Moreover, DiNapoli found that the city Department of Homeless Services “does not have an adequate process for verifying the accuracy” of the Bowery Residents’ Committee’s data, and instead relies on the group to accurately self-report. (The department has paid most of the $64 million allocated to the committee, with a smaller share coming from the MTA, over six years to conduct homeless outreach.) Without a “process in place to verify BRC’s reported data” DiNapoli said there was no way to know “that homeless clients are being served as intended and that outreach is being directed to where it is needed most.”

At least the outreach workers are a visible presence at Penn Station. In four out of five unannounced observations at other subway stations by DiNapoli’s team, including four stations considered “high risk,” outreach workers were simply not there during the hours they were supposed to be present.

During both scheduled and unannounced visits to the committee’s Penn Station offices, DiNapoli’s investigators documented “numerous instances” where the nonprofit’s employees were “ignoring homeless people knocking on the door of the outreach office

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Some homeless people choose to sleep at Penn Station to avoid the shelter system.

in Penn Station, where they sometimes hung a ‘closed’ sign on the door even though outreach workers were inside.” DiNapoli also found a dearth of outreach at Grand Central, including in the dining concourse.

In the fall, months after the release of the comptroller’s audit, an orange-vested outreach team was out and about in Penn Station, and outreach workers were often escorted by an NYPD officer during their rounds. The engagement typically consisted of the police officer clapping his hands to wake up the homeless person, at which point the outreach worker would ask how the homeless person was. Once the worker got an answer the crew moved on to the next person lying on the station floor.

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N JULY, MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny issued a report with similar findings to DiNapoli’s about the Bowery Residents’ Committee’s performance, which she described as “providing, at best, minimal outreach services – often turning away those apparently seeking

assistance and, at worst, seemingly ignoring homeless persons seeking assistance.”

In a statement to The Chief-Leader in August, the Bowery Residents’ Committee’s CEO and President Muzzy Rosenblatt partially contested the findings, but also pledged to improve performance. “We’re taking this audit seriously and are reviewing our practices,” he said. “While we think the audit mischaracterized much of our work, we can always do better, and that is our focus.”

The Bowery Residents’ Committee did not respond to City & State’s questions after the release of the critical audits. The city Department of Homeless Services placed the organization on a “corrective action plan” in August requiring more standardized reporting deployments and monitoring, and the department said it is currently conducting a scheduled program of unannounced station visits to monitor outreach worker activity.

In a recent phone interview, DiNapoli said the Bowery Residents’ Committee had

committed to improving their performance but that similar issues in terms of quantifying and measuring results by objective metrics are problematic throughout the entire nonprofit social services sector. “We have looked at services for the underserved and there are similar issues, so this is not limited to BRC,” he said. “Anytime, if you have a contract and it is not producing the expected outcome, do you keep going back to the same contractor or do you look for another contractor?”

DiNapoli said the homelessness crisis is a statewide issue and that after years of relying on the nonprofit sector with at best mixed results, it might be time to consider staffing up civil service jobs like social workers. “It should be looked at,” he said.

“Often when you contract out the work, you don’t get as good a result and you don’t get the supervision.”

But boosters of the nonprofit sector point to scandals caused by the negligence of civil servants working for agencies like the city Administration for Children’s Services as evidence that the government doesn’t always do a better job than its nonprofit counterparts.

In July, WNYC reported that the Bowery Residents’ Committee secured its multimillion-dollar contract for homeless outreach in 2014 without a competitive bidding process.

A spokesman for the city told the radio station that the contract was not put out for bid but was “rather awarded via required/ authorized source” because the nonprofit was already under contract with the MTA at the time.

In an emailed statement to City & State, city Department of Homeless Services spokeswoman Arianna Fishman pledged to hold the nonprofit accountable: “BRC is an essential partner in our mission to address the citywide challenge of homelessness that built up over decades, including by providing outreach, services, and a helping hand to those living unsheltered.

We take the Comptroller’s report seriously, and while we disagree on some of the details, we agree with the spirit of the recommendations. We intend to hold all providers accountable to high standards and remain committed to improving oversight [of BRC] through an enhanced quality assurance program that includes strengthened performance metrics.”

On Oct. 4, the MTA announced the rollout of recommendations from its task force on homelessness report, which confirmed what Penn Station civil servants had been observing. The annual count conducted throughout the subway system found that 2,178 homeless people were using the subway for shelter, up more than 20% from just a year earlier. “This leads to panhandling and sanitary issues on trains and in

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Advocates, outreach workers and cops all say de Blasio’s subway homelessnessness plan will be a train wreck.

By Kay Dervishi NEW YORK CITY Mayor Bill de Blasio’s five-year initiative to end long-term street homelessness, announced in December, has been widely criticized: by the homeless, outreach workers, advocates and police officers. And these disparate groups agree on the basic thrust of their critique – that the initiative focuses more on looking like it’s solving the problem than on actually solving it.

“I think a lot of it is optics,” said Catherine Trapani, executive director of Homeless Services United, which represents nonprofits helping the homeless.

Last year’s point-intime annual homelessness survey found nearly 3,600 unsheltered homeless people in New York City.

The most controversial piece of the mayor’s plan is its expansion of the Subway Diversion project that began last summer. It allows homeless people violating transit rules, such as taking up more than one seat, to avoid civil summonses by accepting a referral to a shelter or other services.

The city has argued that the program makes interactions between officers and the homeless less combative, while critics argue it does the opposite. Activists for

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the homeless have said that the program encourages officers to stop and harass homeless people who have violated subway rules more often than they normally would, which results in more summonses being given. When asked, a spokeswoman from the city Department of Homeless Services did not provide data on how many summonses were given to homeless people before the program was implemented.

About 63% of the almost 1,300 times that homeless people were stopped by the NYPD through the program between July 2019 and November 2019, the recipient opted for the summonses instead of services, according to testimony the NYPD gave to the City Council.

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Advocates for the homeless have argued that aggressive or negative interactions with police officers may destroy efforts outreach teams have had to cultivate trust with those homeless people who may be wary of city shelters.

The NYPD announced in February that nurses will be deployed alongside officers in an effort to put homeless people at ease. Homeless outreach teams run by nonprofits have already been doing the work police are taking on. Critics say the city hasn’t provided enough evidence that police are contributing any new help.

“The administration has not been able to provide data on how many people they have engaged with for the first time through these enhanced initiatives,” Simone said. “And how many people

police officers are acting as a Band-Aid to cover up another of Mayor de Blasio’s failures,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “The NYPD’s current Subway Diversion program is not really helping the homeless, because there is not enough long-term investment in the mental health treatment and other assistance they need. People living on the subway are being temporarily cleared away, offered minimal services and returning the next day.”

Avery Cohen, a City Hall spokesperson, said in a statement: “Through the Diversion program, nearly 500 homeless New Yorkers have avoided unnecessary criminal justice involvement and more than 300 homeless New Yorkers have been connected directly with shelter, where we’re focused on helping them back onto the path to stability. The program is just one tool in our larger mission to end long-term street Simone, Coalition for the homelessness.”

Homeless policy analyst One piece of the mayor’s latest plan did receive widespread were already known to outpraise: the creation of 1,000 reach workers.” new permanent apartments Even police officers, who and 1,000 new beds for are not known for sharing safe haven shelters, which the progressive politics of offer fewer barriers to entry advocates for the homeand fewer restrictions for less, have been apparently residents than traditional frustrated with the plan. shelters because being Human.nyc, an advocacy able to offer more attractive organization for the street housing could get more homeless, and the Coalition homeless people to give it for the Homeless published a try. an anonymous letter the According to Trapani, the groups say they received mayor should’ve stopped from transit police offiat just adding more safe cers, which criticized the havens. But since creating initiative for encouraging those beds takes time, she arrests of the homeless to said he likely took on these coerce them into receiving outreach efforts to assure services. The head of one the public he is swiftly police union has also found acting on homelessness. “I common ground with advothink this show of force is to cates in blasting the plan. show an immediate action,” “Once again, New York City she said.

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the shelter system and avoid it for a number of reasons, experts and advocates agree, whether out of safety concerns or a desire to retain more freedom, unburdened by shelter requirements such as curfews. “A lot of the outreach, particularly the outreach that is being led by police officers, seems like harassment and seems like criminalization,” Jacquelyn Simone, a policy analyst with the Coalition for the Homeless, told City & State. “If all you’re offering people at the end of that interaction is the conventional shelter system that they have often made a very rational decision to avoid, it’s not actually meeting their needs.”

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stations, which are not appropriate places for New Yorkers to be living,” the MTA report concluded.

In response to City & State’s observation of a continuation of these conditions at Penn Station since the MTA report came out, MTA spokesman Tim Minton emailed, “The issue at Penn is almost all Amtrak and the MTA has had discussions with Amtrak about issues in their areas of the station.”

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ery Residents’ Committee had been given a “corrective action plan” that addressed the group’s contract requirements and also changed the city’s oversight of the nonprofit.

Giselle Routhier, policy director with the Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit advocacy organization and service provider, maintained that the problem with the outreach model is not how the nonprofit is doing it, but the very structure of the effort itself. “We hear this from the people on the streets, and it is indicative of the overall problem that outreach providers are not empowered with the tools that they need to actually offer real solutions” to the myriad issues the homeless

face, including mental illness and addiction, besides the immediate need for secure shelter, Routhier said.

Homeless shelters have often provided little besides a roof and a cot to sleep on.

With socially disadvantaged and sometimes troubled people being warehoused in close quarters, shelters have developed a reputation for problems, such as property theft and other crimes, that create an incentive to sleep on the floor of a train station instead. “For some, the shelters are an extension of the correctional system and for others they become a prison,” said Felix Guzman, an advocate for the homeless, who himself was homeless for more than 15 months. “Homeless shelters

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A 2019 New York City survey found nearly 3,600 people sleep on the streets.

should not be a home as a place to lay your head indefinitely. In my time in shelter, I slept between the dope dealer and the crack dealer.”

Routhier said, historically, all that homeless outreach workers “with the best of intentions” could do was offer homeless people, who may be dealing with mental health issues or trauma from a bad shelter experience, transport to an intake center.

“Due to the level of psychiatric disability some people face, the current system is just broken,” she said. What’s needed, she argued, is expedited access “to low-threshold/low-barrier, trauma-informed shelter that’s not the old scary psychiatric hospital setting at Bellevue.”

OME OF THE Bowery Residents’ Committee’s recent work has demonstrated more success. To address the need for more welcoming shelters, the organization pioneered the creation of so-called safe haven shelters, which eliminated curfews and sobriety requirements – though still disallowed alcohol, drugs or fighting in the facility.

The Bowery Residents’ Committee started with a 19-bed safe haven pilot in 2006. The program has since grown to provide 1,200 beds citywide, with the committee providing 200 of those beds. In the first 18 months of operation, 67 “service-resistant” homeless people came in and some ultimately got sober and were moved to permanent housing. Advocates for the homeless from other organizations praised the model and have called for its expansion. But, if you build it, will they come?

Last fall, in response to the murder of four homeless men in Chinatown, Mayor Bill de Blasio made a fresh attempt to address the homelessness crisis, pledging his latest effort would end street and subway homelessness in five years, in part through adding 1,000 safe haven units.

More controversially, part of the de Blasio administration’s new initiative aims to get people who are homeless out of the subway system by using the threat of a civil court desk ticket from NYPD officers for offenses such as taking up more than one seat to motivate them to seek help. If they accept services, the ticket is voided.

(Whereas the Bowery Residents’ Committee’s employees focus on high-activity subway stations, the police focus on subway cars.)

An anonymous letter purportedly penned by NYPD police officers assigned to the transit system said the diversion program was criminalizing poverty. “The homeless are now clearly being targeted as violators of transit rules and being treated differently than any other citizen,” the letter, which was released by the advocacy organizations Human.nyc and Coalition for the Homeless, read. “Can you imagine if we arrested someone in a business suit, on their commute home, with their briefcase on the seat next to them and happened to have forgotten their ID that day?”

At the same Jan. 21 City Council hearing where de Blasio administration officials described efforts at improving oversight, NYPD Transit Chief Edward Delatorre defended the police intervention as a “compassionate” response that was actually getting help to homeless individuals in the subway who would have never sought it without the police interaction.

In an email, Fishman, of the Department of Homeless Services, said that the city has made significant progress in moving the homeless off the streets and that the new ac-

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tion plan will bring further success. “Over the past year, this administration has taken its unprecedented investments and commitments to addressing unsheltered homelessness further than ever before,” Fishman wrote. “With more than 2,450 unsheltered New Yorkers helped off the streets since 2016 through our comprehensive HOMESTAT initiative, including more than 650 who came off the subways into transitional programs and permanent housing, we know our strategies are showing results for so many. But we know (we) can do even better for even more of our neighbors in need.

That’s why in December, we announced our action plan to double down on these efforts through new permanent housing, new safe havens, new outreach staff, and new cross-agency collaborative intervention – to ensure these solutions also start to work for those New Yorkers who’ve been the toughest to reach.”

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ORMER CITY COUNCIL Speaker Christine Quinn has spent the last four and a half years as the president and CEO of Win, the city’s largest provider of shelter and supportive housing for homeless families. She said police enforcement is not the answer.

“It is a ridiculous idea,” Quinn told City & State. “We tried sending cops out to help the homeless and it did not work. It is criminalizing poverty. Think of it: Police officers are not trained to be social workers.

How is it going to help someone in trauma, or someone who has certainly experienced trauma, to have the first person who approaches them be someone in a police uniform with a gun.”

As Quinn sees it, the city’s deepening homelessness crisis is intertwined with New York state’s decision decades ago to close “mental hospitals that were criminal places and not doing anything to help those who were mentally ill.”

“It was scandalous, so we thought the answer was just to close all the big mental health warehouse-like facilities, without building a community-based response,” Quinn said. “So, people left a bad situation they needed to leave and got put out on the streets.”

Meanwhile, on March 2 at 8 a.m., the Bowery Residents’ Committee office in Penn Station was “temporarily closed” and homeless people were lined up waiting for a counselor who they said had told them to be there by 7 a.m. but was a no-show. (On March 3, Minton told City & State the office had been reopened.)

“It’s not right,” one of the middle-aged homeless women in line said. “They told me to be here and here I am.” When asked to give a name, she responded, “I don’t need trouble with these people. I have been on the street for three years.”

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“LAWMAKER.” Says it right there in the name, doesn’t it?

There’s probably no industry more tied up in politics than law. Lawyers advise politicians. They lobby politicians. Many politicians are lawyers.

The courts enforce the laws that our lawmakers pass. When lawmakers overstep their authority, the courts act as a check on our political process and strike down that law. And when lawmakers overstep their ethical obligations, lawyers are the ones who strike down those lawmakers too; former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, for instance, made a name for himself by sending some of the most powerful New York lawmakers to prison.

In the era of President Donald Trump, the role of lawyers in politics is more visible than ever. From the travel ban involving Muslim-majority countries to New York’s exclusion from federal Trusted Travelers Programs, it seems as if almost any major policy the Trump administration rolls out is quickly challenged in court.

Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court appointment showdowns and the impeachment trial became must-watch TV. And let’s not forget the pivotal role of a certain presidential personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

Even the role of district attorney is being freshly examined in the era of the #MeToo movement. The position, elected but very rarely challenged, was long seen as a de facto lifetime appointment. But after it was revealed that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. had previously declined to prosecute Harvey Weinstein and Trump’s children, progressives have been rethinking whether it should be a more competitive seat, injecting politics back into the role of prosecutor.

In the following pages, we examine the crucial, inescapable junction of law and politics – and the people who link them together.

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LETITIA JAMES shattered racial

and gender barriers when she was overwhelmingly elected as the attorney general of New York in 2018. Among the firsts that James accomplished when she won: first woman in New York to be elected as attorney general, first African American woman to be elected to statewide office and the first black person to serve in the post. Since

taking office, James has already had a huge impact on the state. She has worked with other attorneys general on multistate litigation on a range of issues, including holding pharmaceutical companies accountable for deaths from opioid use and protecting access to birth control and abortion. Just last month, she began an investigation into the New York City Police Department to deter-

mine if officers discriminate against communities of color in arresting fare-beaters. She also is probing the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, even though it’s chaired by an ally, Assemblywoman Latrice Walker. A year into her tenure, she told City & State, “First and foremost, I’m a public servant. Less a politician, more of a public servant.”

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CHAIRMAN HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE YOU’VE DEFINITELY been hearing Rep. Jerry Nadler’s

name more frequently this year – as one of the seven House Democrats who were responsible for making the impeachment case against President Donald Trump, Nadler has been in the news a lot. But Nadler has been working in government since 1976, starting in the Assembly. As a Democratic assemblyman for 16 years representing the Upper West Side, Nadler played a role on policy surrounding child support enforcement and domestic abuse, as well as housing, transportation and consumer protection policy. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992 and has never left. Former President Bill Clinton once said of the representative from the 10th Congressional District, “Jerry Nadler not only represents New York well, but he has represented the United States very well.” He works hard to protect the civil rights of all in New York and the nation, especially people of color and members of the LGBTQ community.

He became the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in 2019.

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JANET DIFIORE was nominated to the role of chief judge of the state Court of Appeals and of the State of New York by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015. She was confirmed the next month by the state Senate, putting her in charge of New York’s highest court. The Court of Appeals is composed of a chief judge and six associate justices – all appointed by Cuomo – and was established to focus on broad issues and articulate statewide principles of law.

Last year, DiFiore proposed dramatically streamlining the state’s judiciary structure, a move that would require amendments to the state constitution. DiFiore has argued that the current system is antiquated and too complex for judges, lawyers and the clients they represent. The Times Union said the proposal would also “greatly increase the number of non-white and female judges at the Supreme Court level in Albany.” Before being named chief judge, DiFiore was a judge in the Westchester County Court, a justice in state Supreme Court and, for about a decade, was the district attorney in Westchester County.

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U.S. ATTORNEY SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK U.S. ATTORNEY Geoffrey Berman was appointed in

January 2018 to a post that provides him with oversight of more than 220 federal prosecutors often focused on fighting corruption on Wall Street and threats of international terrorism. In his tenure so far, he has secured corruption convictions in multiple areas, including bribery schemes involving college basketball recruiting, high-ranking cops and donors to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. His appointment was met with some criticism because of reports that Berman had held a position on President Donald Trump’s transition team and was personally interviewed by the president. But former prosecutors who worked with Berman have vouched for the attorney, calling him “apolitical” and “very independent.” Since his appointment, his office has prosecuted Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen (Berman recused himself from the case), investigated alleged campaign-finance violations made by the Trump administration, and brought a case against those who helped Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to find dirt on Joe Biden’s dealings in Ukraine. His future in the post remains uncertain, as Trump has yet to formally nominate him.

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the first Latino district attorney to be elected in the state, Eric Gonzalez has continued to be a trailblazer on progressive priorities such as bail reform, the Brooklyn Young Adult Court and low-level drug offenses. His new Justice 2020 initiative aims to strengthen trust in the justice system by collaborating with communities. Big points include reducing incarceration, default early release in most parole proceedings, data-based accountability, and partnerships with neighborhood groups.

U.S. ATTORNEY EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AS U.S. ATTORNEY,

Richard Donoghue serves over eight million residents in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island in New York City, and in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island. Donoghue was appointed on an interim basis before getting sworn in in 2018. He convicted the infamous drug cartel leader El Chapo last year, is reportedly probing the New York City Department of Education, and was recently tasked with coordinating Ukraine-related investigations.

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does not have an easy job – as the corporation counsel of New York City, Johnson oversees a staff of nearly 1,000 lawyers and around 900 support professionals who represent New York City’s government in legal matters. Johnson, who was appointed

by Mayor Bill de Blasio in October, is a former assistant U.S. attorney, Brennan Center for Justice board chairman and former candidate for governor of New Jersey.

OF COUNSEL LATHAM & WATKINS AFTER PRESIDING

over New York’s highest court for nearly seven years, Jonathan Lippman joined the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Lippman has also utilized his experience as New York’s chief judge to continue reforming New York’s criminal justice system, drafting an in-depth report that addresses the public safety and the prison system in New York. Lippman championed the report’s recommendation to close Rikers Island, a proposal that’s now on track.

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JERRY GOLDFEDER has been praised by the New York Law Journal for his expertise as an election, voting and campaign finance attorney.

Goldfeder represented former President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and served as special counsel for public integrity to then-state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. He shares his knowledge with students at both Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania and through his extensive writing on modern election law.

EMERY CELLI BRINCKERHOFF & ABADY LLP

would like to congratulate our Partner,

J O NAT H A N S. A BA DY and the other honorees for their selection to City & State’s 100 Most Impactful members of the NY Law Community.

STROOCK

BROOKLYN DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Cozen O’Connor’s Real Estate practice and Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies congratulate

Ken Fisher and Stuart Shorenstein on their recognition.

Katie Schwab

Practice Director (212) 883-4913 | kschwab@cozen.com

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BENJAMIN BRAFMAN

DAVID HOOVLER

CYRUS VANCE JR.

FOUNDER BRAFMAN & ASSOCIATES

ROBERTA KAPLAN is a pioneer of fighting for equal rights and opportunities for all.

Kaplan, who runs her own firm (which recently acquired two big hires in Marshall Miller and Michael Ferrera), co-founded the Time’s Up Legal Defense fund to help fight sexual assault and harassment. She is currently representing author E. Jean Carroll in her defamation battle against President Donald Trump. She is also a lecturer at Columbia University.

BENJAMIN BRAFMAN is no

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION DONNA LIEBERMAN has for nearly two decades been leading the New York Civil Liberties Union, an organization that boasts more than 185,000 members and eight offices around the state. She previously founded the NYCLU’s Reproductive Rights Project, and over the past year she has been fighting back against the Trump administration’s policies on immigrants and refugees, speaking at the fourth anniversary of the Women’s March, and reforming solitary confinement in prison and jails.

KOSTELANETZ & FINK

would like to congratulate our partner

CLAUDE M. MILLMAN on being selected one of the most powerful lawyers in New York by City & State NY

stranger to seeing his name in print. The high-power criminal defense attorney is known for defending high-profile clients like “pharma-bro” Martin Shkreli, Jay Z and, for a time, Harvey Weinstein.

The New Yorker called the skillful cross-examiner “the last of the big-time defense attorneys.”

He frequently goes toe-to-toe with the government, including in 1995 against Loretta Lynch, the future U.S. attorney general.

PRESIDENT DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK DAVID HOOVLER is

the district attorney of Orange County, which prosecutes over 22,000 criminal cases each year. But it’s his role leading the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York that makes him a heavyweight, especially as the organization has raised concerns about the state’s new criminal justice reforms.

The organization also won a recent court battle against a state law that would have created a commission on prosecutorial conduct.

MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY CYRUS VANCE JR. is seeking a comeback after receiving bad press (for things like declining to prosecute members of the Trump family and film producer Harvey Weinstein), imploded cases, mounting calls for his resignation and a growing field of primary challengers. Yet the well-resourced office ultimately brought charges against – and convicted – Weinstein, and won a ruling saying President Donald Trump must hand over eight years of tax returns to Vance’s office.

K&F is a boutique law firm focusing on commercial civil litigation, white collar criminal defense, civil and criminal tax controversies, government procurement and contracting, internal corporate investigations, and tax and estate planning. K&F includes former federal prosecutors and law clerks, and is listed in Chambers, Best Lawyers, and Super Lawyers. K&F represents for-profit and not-for-profit corporations in all business sectors.

K&F helps clients: Respond to solicitations (including RFPs) Complete disclosure forms (including PASSPort, VendRep, and Schedule J) Comply with state and local lobbying and ethics laws Negotiate contract terms and conditions Use freedom of information laws (FOIL) Appeal non-responsiveness determinations Appeal non-responsibility findings Address vendor integrity issues (e.g., through monitorships and CAPs) Respond to government investigations and audits Protest procurement decisions (bid protests) Litigate government contracting issues in courts and administrative proceedings

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BARRY BERKE, JEFFREY BRAUN & GARY NAFTALIS

JEFFREY LICHTMAN & JEFFREY BLOOM

FRANK CARONE

PARTNERS GIBSON DUNN

MYLAN DENERSTEIN

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CO-CHAIRMAN, NEW YORK CITY OFFICE GREENBERG TRAURIG EDWARD WALLACE is consistently recognized for his extensive work in business and government. After starting at The Legal Aid Society, Wallace became a city council member-atlarge in Manhattan and later was chief of staff to the council president. A leading land use lawyer, he has since been hired to represent top New York schools, including Columbia and New York University, and has served as a trusted bridge for companies doing business with the government.

served as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s chief counsel and principal legal adviser – and even as she now represents clients in the private sector, she remains a Cuomo ally, including as an appointee on last year’s Public Campaign Financing Commission. Randy Mastro has a similarly distinguished political past as a key strategist and deputy mayor for then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

He chairs the Citizens Union of the City of New York.

Congratulations Glen McGorty We are proud of your client service excellence as a partner in the White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement practice, leadership of the growing New York office, and long time commitment to pro bono service. We salute your inclusion in the City & State New York Law Power 100 List.

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PARTNER; COUNSEL; COCHAIRMAN KRAMER LEVIN

BARRY BERKE was

special counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and represented New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during campaign fundraising probes. Gary Naftalis, a renowned trial lawyer, is the firm’s co-chairman and litigation chairman. Jeffrey Braun has helped create new law on conceptual environmental reviews in New York’s highest court.

CO-CHAIRMEN LAWPAC

IN 2014 , Gov. Andrew

Cuomo described the trial lawyers as “the single most powerful political force in Albany.” A couple reasons why are the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and its political action committee, LawPAC. The PAC is chaired

by Jeffrey Lichtman, a longtime criminal defense attorney, and Jeffrey Bloom, who has been at Gair Gair Conason since graduating from law school in 1979.

EXECUTIVE PARTNER ABRAMS FENSTERMAN

FRANK CARONE is an ally of and donor to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

And while de Blasio is term-limited, Carone is also an ally and supporter of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, an early front-runner in the 2021 mayoral race.

The well-connected counsel to the Brooklyn Democratic Party has also been linked to efforts to elect first lady Chirlane McCray as Brooklyn borough president. Carone was elected president of the Brooklyn Bar Association last summer.

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MELINDA KATZ went

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U.S. ATTORNEY WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

JANET SABEL has re-

turned to her roots to oversee the nation’s largest public defender organization. She worked for The Legal Aid Society for 25 years before leaving in 2011 to join the state attorney general’s office, where she served both as the executive deputy attorney general for social justice and then as a chief deputy attorney general.

Sabel played a key role in challenges to the Trump administration on immigration and sanctuary city policies.

JAMES KENNEDY JR.

oversees the prosecution of any federal criminal case brought within 17 different counties of Western New York and represents the U.S. in civil matters within the territory. The federal prosecutor recently waded into a standoff between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Trump administration, arguing that the state’s refusal to share Department of Motor Vehicles records with the federal government “jeopardizes the safety of all inhabitants of our great country.”

is the Bronx’s first female district attorney and the first African American woman to be elected district attorney in the state. Since her reelection last year, she has argued that with the state’s recent elimination of cash bail in many cases, the system still needs to account for repeat offenders. Clark has also called for more resources to address the “untreated trauma” and “misdiagnosed mental illness” at the root of many cases.

head-to-head with the upstart Tiffany Cabán in last year’s closely watched special election for Queens district attorney, ultimately winning the Democratic nomination by just 55 votes in a recount. While not as liberal as Cabán, Katz has pledged to usher in reforms – reviewing questionable convictions, reducing prosecution of low-level, nonviolent offenses, tackling housing fraud – that mark a departure from her predecessor, Richard Brown, who died in May.

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STATEN ISLAND DISTRICT ATTORNEY MICHAEL MCMAHON has served in the New York City Council and in Congress, and he has practiced civil and criminal law, but when he took office as district attorney in 2016, it was his first stint as a prosecutor. He helped continue the “SI Safe Ride Initiative,” an effort to combat drunk driving in Staten Island, while focusing on the opioid epidemic and bringing more resources to the borough’s criminal justice system.

HMS Congratulates

Bart Schwartz

GREENBERG TRAURIG; RCDA

on this prestigious honor!

Davis Wright Tremaine is proud to honor our partner Victor A. Kovner and all the NYC Law Power 100 honorees

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VINCENT PITTA & BART SCHWARTZ ELIZABETH ROBERT BISHOP CHAIRMAN HOLTZMAN & GUIDEPOST PARTNERS BELINDA SOLUTIONS PITTA BISHOP SCHWARTZ

CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING PARTNER; PARTNER BOIES SCHILLER FLEXNER DAVID BOIES made

his name battling Microsoft, representing Al Gore in Bush v. Gore, and fighting for gay rights. In New York, he drew scrutiny for his tactics representing Harvey Weinstein. Harlan Levy, who held top roles in the state Attorney General’s Office, represented Centene in its $3.75 billion acquisition of Fidelis Care and defended New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fundraiser Ross Offinger in campaign fundraising probes.

VINCENT PITTA and Robert Bishop have more than 30 years of experience working together to cover a wide range of labor, employment, legislative and government relations matters.

With Pitta based in New York City and Bishop handling affairs in Albany, Pitta Bishop represents clients before both the New York City government and the state Legislature. Their affiliated consulting firm has represented clients including the Vera Institute of Justice and the Transport Workers Union.

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COUNSEL; PARTNER HERRICK ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN’S

political career broke barriers, from ousting a powerful incumbent to win a House seat, to becoming the first woman elected Brooklyn district attorney and the first and only woman elected New York City comptroller. She has spent the past quarter century at Herrick Feinstein. Belinda Schwartz leads the firm’s real estate department, is ranked as a top lawyer in the field and advises on key projects.

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PARTNER WALDEN MACHT & HARAN JIM WALDEN has a knack for taking on

high-profile cases with political implications. The former federal prosecutor battled against the closure of a Brooklyn hospital with then-mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio and persuaded Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allocate funds to the New York City Housing Authority. He represented a staffer who accused then-state Sen. Jeff Klein of forcibly kissing her. And he successfully challenged the creation of a state commission on prosecutorial conduct.

CONGRATULATIONS TO PARTNERS

KARL SLEIGHT AND TOM GARRY

Members of the 2020 Law Power 100 Delivering for clients statewide

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ROGER JUAN MALDONADO

DAVID KARNOVSKY

EDUARDO PEÑALVER

PARTNER BRACEWELL

PAUL SHECHTMAN

served under Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau and Gov. George Pataki before moving on to Bracewell. He has represented many clients in government, including the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in an investigation into water treatment facilities, former nonprofit leader William Rapfogel and the Assembly during the corruption investigation of Sheldon Silver. Shechtman was recently selected for a state Bar Association task force to combat hate crimes.

PARTNER SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL

PARTNER FRIED FRANK

WHILE GENERAL

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dent of the New York City Bar Association – which is marking its 150th anniversary this year – Roger Juan Maldonado leads one of New York’s most venerable legal organizations. On his watch, the bar association asked Congress to investigate U.S. Attorney General William Barr. Closer to home, the organization has called for additional criminal justice reforms in Albany to benefit people convicted of a crime.

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PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION HENRY “HANK” GREENBERG became the

president of the state bar association last year after spending the previous year as president-elect and chair of the association’s House of Delegates. Once a federal prosecutor and now a lawyer who focuses on civil litigation, criminal and civil investigations, and regulatory and administrative law, Greenberg has served as counsel to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (when Cuomo was state attorney general) and the state Department of Health.

counsel to the New York City Department of City Planning, David Karnovsky worked on projects that directly impacted residential, commercial and institutional facility development.

He was previously special counsel and policy adviser to the city’s deputy mayor for operations and chief of the Legal Counsel Division of the Office of the Corporation Counsel.

Now, Karnovsky’s practice at Fried Frank focuses on land use, zoning, real estate development and environmental review.

DEAN CORNELL LAW SCHOOL BEFORE TAKING on the role of dean at Cornell Law School in 2014 – as the first Latino dean of an Ivy League law school – Eduardo Peñalver became an expert in the field of property law and land use. The school is “diverse, intellectually rigorous and exceptionally collegial,” Peñalver said before becoming dean. He is known as a gifted scholar and a leader in the progressive property movement.

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TREVOR MORRISON

MICHAEL CARDOZO, BETTINA PLEVAN & PAUL SALVATORE

MARY JO WHITE

DEAN COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

GILLIAN LESTER is a nationally recognized expert on employment law and policy, and her research has extended into workplace intellectual property law, public finance policy, and the design of social insurance laws and regulations. In 2015 she became dean of Columbia Law, one of the nation’s top law schools. Lester has written extensively in her area of expertise and is the co-author of one of the leading casebooks in the field.

DEAN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW TREVOR MORRISON

made an impression at a string of top law schools in New York before becoming dean at one of the best: NYU Law. He was previously on the faculty of Cornell Law School and later Columbia Law School.

His expertise lies in constitutional law, federal courts, and the law of the executive branch, paving the way for him to serve as associate counsel to President Barack Obama in 2009.

PARTNER DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON

MARY JO WHITE

PARTNERS PROSKAUER

MICHAEL CARDOZO

was the city’s longest-tenured corporation counsel, serving from 2002 to 2013, then returned to his old firm. Paul Salvatore represents the Real Estate Board of New York and helped negotiate Hudson Yards, the Manhattan mega-development.

Known for her expertise on sexual harassment, Bettina “Betsy” Plevan has defended clients against gender discrimination claims, and led an investigation at CBS News.

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KEN FISHER is one of “The Lawyers You Call,” according to the Observer. The former New York City councilman has gone on to have a second career as one of the city’s top land use lawyers, with a deep understanding of both policy matters and the politics that shape development. Stuart Shorenstein focuses on government relations and advocacy services, and he is considered a trusted counselor in high-profile matters.

has been a prominent figure in the legal community for years, having served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and, before that, as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Since returning to Debevoise and Plimpton in 2017, she has taken on tough cases – including defending members of the family that controls Purdue Pharma in opioid litigation.

We Proudly Congratulate

Marc A. Landis

Phillips Nizer Managing Partner

City & State Law Power 100 Honoree

Congratulations, Sanjay Mody!

We join in celebrating all of the Honorees of the Law Power 100!

Sanjay Mody T: 212.237.1158 E: smody@windelsmarx.com

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JUAN CARTAGENA ALAN KLINGER & ROBERT JEFFREY PRESIDENT AND KATZMANN & GENERAL COUNSEL KEITELMAN RICHARD BERMAN

PRESIDENT BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE AS PRESIDENT of

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PARTNER SULLIVAN & CROMWELL ROBERT GIUFFRA JR. is widely considered to

ALI GARBER; COZEN O’CONNOR; SULLIVAN & CROMWELL

be one of New York City’s leading litigators and is known for handling white-collar cases. In New York, he has represented Vornado Realty Trust’s Steven Roth, the New York State Bankers Association and a long list of Wall Street institutions. He has risen through the ranks since joining Sullivan & Cromwell in 1989, and now oversees its litigation practice. He has also held various New York governmental appointments.

the nonpartisan law and policy institute at New York University School of Law since 2005, Michael Waldman helps push forward the center’s goal of being a national voice on voting rights, money in politics, criminal justice reform and constitutional law. Waldman previously was director of speechwriting under President Bill Clinton and wrote or edited nearly 2,000 speeches. He is a constitutional lawyer and author of “The Fight to Vote.”

LATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF

JUAN CARTAGENA,

a civil rights and constitutional law attorney, has led LatinoJustice since 2011 and is a leading voice on equality and nondiscrimination.

He pens a biweekly column in El Diario, recently calling for the closure of Rikers Island and for rehabilitation instead of incarceration, and emphasizing the importance of allowing convicted felons the right to vote. In 2018 he was awarded the American Bar Association’s prestigious John Marshall Award.

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ALLEN KLINGER

and Jeffrey Keitelman have different but corresponding interests, with Klinger focusing on public sector unions and employee benefit funds, and Keitelman on real estate projects including the redevelopment of the World Trade Center. About three years ago, the duo launched what Law360 called an “ambitious plan to transform” their firm, which operates in four cities. The plan, called Stroock 2020, involves restructuring and diversifying their staff.

Abrams Fensterman congratulates Frank V. Carone, Esq. and all of this year's Law Power 100 honorees!

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CHIEF JUDGE, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT DISTRICT JUDGE, U.S. DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ROBERT KATZMANN,

who has led his appeals court since 2013, recently ruled that President Donald Trump must turn over his tax returns – though the U.S. Supreme Court may disagree.

Richard Berman was assigned to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, calling for prison reforms after the alleged sex trafficker committed suicide in jail.

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VICTOR KOVNER

SUSAN NECHELES TERRENCE PARTNER CONNORS

DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER ON CIVIL JUSTICE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

PETER ZIMROTH is

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PRESIDENT GERALD B. LEFCOURT P.C. THE NEW YORK TIMES once wrote that Gerald Lefcourt has become a familiar figure “at the trials that have often been proving grounds for radical politics” – including those of Black Panther leaders. The veteran attorney, who is known for defending anti-establishment clients, spent 20 years as the speaker of the state Assembly’s designee to the statewide Commission on Judicial Nomination, which evaluates Court of Appeals nominees and makes recommendations to the governor.

PARTNER DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE

still fighting against the NYPD’s unconstitutional use of stop and frisk. As the federal monitor overseeing the department’s reform, Zimroth has filed nine reports, the most recent highlighting three continuing problems. The NYU law professor was previously corporation counsel to New York City, where he headed a department of hundreds of lawyers and designed the city’s law providing for the public financing of city elections.

AN EXPERT on First Amendment law with more than 50 years of legal experience, Victor Kovner advises media outlets seeking prepublication review and represents filmmakers, authors and publishers. He has lent his support to Democratic candidates over the years, including U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, and he has also served in government as corporation counsel for New York City and chairman of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

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A SEASONED trial

lawyer specializing in white-collar crime, health care fraud, perjury and charges of sexual misconduct, Susan Necheles was recognized for her “extraordinary and dedicated efforts on behalf of the accused” by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Necheles, who previously served as assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, is president of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers.

She has also headed the New York Women’s Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Group.

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TERRENCE CONNORS

has represented key players in some of the biggest cases in Buffalo, including his longtime client the Diocese of Buffalo, which has faced accusations of sexual abuse by priests, and former LPCiminelli executive Kevin Schuler, a cooperating witness in the Buffalo Billion corruption trial. Often named one of the top Buffalo-area lawyers, he even represents other attorneys – such as Ross Cellino Jr., who is splitting up with personal injury firm partner Stephen Barnes.

Congratulations to Terry Connors, the lawyer to see in Western New York.

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DAVID PATTON & DEIRDRE VON DORNUM

PAUL BRAD KARP DEROHANNESIAN II CHAIRMAN

PARTNER MORRISON & FOERSTER

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PROFESSOR COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS INTERESTED in law and ethics should look up Richard Briffault’s class at Columbia, where he’s been teaching since 1983. Once a member of New York’s Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, Briffault currently chairs the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board (he will soon step down, with Wayne Hawley nominated to take his place.) A prolific writer, Briffault has co-authored a law textbook and some 75 law review articles.

with a record of success in white-collar crime cases, Carrie Cohen previously served as a federal and state prosecutor.

Cohen, who investigated corruption and fraud at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, now draws from that experience in her role as chairwoman of the New York State Bar Association anti-hate task force. She was the lead prosecutor in the corruption case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND ATTORNEY-INCHIEF; ATTORNEYIN-CHARGE FEDERAL DEFENDERS OF NEW YORK SINCE 2011 , David

Patton has run the independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to defending poor people accused of federal crimes. Meanwhile, Deirdre von Dornum has called attention to the lack of electricity and heat at the Metropolitan Detention Center, living conditions in prison for pregnant inmates and other issues.

MEMBER DEROHANNESIAN & DEROHANNESIAN BORN AND raised

in the capital region, Paul DerOhannesian II spent 22 years running the special assault unit in the district attorney’s office in Albany County. Since joining DerOhannesian & DerOhannesian, he has worked for high-profile clients such as Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney during her tight 2018 race and handled criminal defense for the sex cult leader Keith Raniere.

DerOhannesian is the author of a legal guide to sexual assault trials.

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TRAILBLAZING ATTORNEY Brad

Karp – who is listed as one of former Vice President Joe Biden’s top volunteer fundraisers for his presidential campaign – has been at Paul, Weiss his entire career. Before rising to the chairman role in 2008, Karp chaired the firm’s litigation department. Considered one of the nation’s leading litigators, he is described as “the best strategic adviser in the business” by the legal information website Chambers USA.

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Congratulations to Sean Doolan and all of the Law Power 100 honorees on this well-deserved recognition.

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ROBERT TEMBECKJIAN

JEFFREY CITRON

PARTNER HINCKLEY ALLEN

ADMINISTRATOR AND COUNSEL STATE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT

CO-MANAGING PARTNER DAVIDOFF HUTCHER & CITRON

WHEN GOV. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was shut down and then investigated by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the commission turned to Mike Koenig to represent it. The veteran Albany attorney has represented a number of clients in headline-grabbing cases, including individuals involved in the federal prosecution of a former state Senate majority leader, the Troopergate scandal and a state attorney general pension fraud probe.

sion on Judicial Conduct is in charge of investigating complaints against judges and, if needed, deciding what consequences that judge will face. Administrator and counsel Robert Tembeckjian previously served on various ethics and professional responsibility committees of the New York state and New York City bar associations and has written extensively about judicial ethics and discipline.

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is a partner in the litigation department of his firm and chair of the judiciary committee on the New York City Bar Association. At the 150-year-old organization, Schwartz leads a committee of 50 lawyers in interviewing all judicial nominees for courts throughout the city, as well as district attorney candidates and nominees for U.S. attorney for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

DEAN AND PRESIDENT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ANTHONY CROWELL

is one of the many veterans of the Bloomberg administration who have remained active in New York City’s civic life. He served as counselor to the mayor, overseeing a wide range of legal, regulatory, legislative and administrative matters, while also handling various civil rights initiatives. At New York Law School, he has introduced the institution’s first strategic plan, overhauled the curriculum and put an emphasis on increasing diversity.

PARTNER STOLL, GLICKMAN & BELLINA

FOR MORE than 15

years, Nicole Bellina has fought to elevate the rights of victims of police brutality, prison inmates and others. She started her career at the Prisoners Rights Project, working to protect the rights of Rikers Island inmates. She gained a reputation as a tactful negotiator, moving on to The Legal Aid Society then finally Stoll, Glickman & Bellina.

Last year, she joined the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Criminal Bar.

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cided she wanted to become a lawyer after watching her father, Murray Schwartz, “zealously advocate for his clients,” she says. She has spent more than 30 years fighting for the rights of employees and leading landmark cases that shaped harrassment and discrimination law in New York. Among other notable wins, she helped establish New York City’s Human Rights Law prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

IF YOU’RE a part of

a private or public company and need help securing financing, grants or other benefits, Jeffrey Citron can help. He has practiced law for over 25 years and has extensive expertise in real estate and general commercial practice. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Citron also makes time to serve on the boards of private, charitable and other not-for-profit corporations, such as the Fenway Golf Club.

PRESIDENT HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN BEFORE JOINING

the Human Rights Campaign, Alphonso David worked with Gov. Andrew Cuomo as deputy secretary and counsel for civil rights and later as counsel to the governor. David, a noted LGBTQ civil rights attorney who previously worked at the Lambda Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is the first civil rights lawyer and the first person of color to serve as president of the Human Rights Campaign in its 40year history.

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COUNSEL NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO’S OFFICE KAPIL LONGANI was named New York City

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s counsel in November 2018, a role in which he provides legal advice on internal matters and policy issues, including overseeing special projects. Longani, who also coordinates with the general counsels at city agencies, served as senior counsel to Rep. Elijah Cummings for the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, leading the investigation into the Flint, Michigan, water crisis.

PROFESSOR COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL HAVE A question about the intersection of law,

technology and science? Tim Wu – who coined the term “network neutrality” in 2003, which led to the passage of a federal net neutrality measure – can probably answer it. The Columbia professor, who previously worked in former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office, continues to help lawyers and members of Congress understand the importance of tech in politics.

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MICHAEL ZETLIN

KAROL MASON

BARRY SCHECK & PETER NEUFELD

SENIOR PARTNER ZETLIN & DE CHIARA

RETIRED PARTNER SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT

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HENRY “HANK” GUTMAN made

Brooklyn his home a long time ago, and has served on the boards of local civic organizations including the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp. and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp. In 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Gutman as chairman of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. In a press release, Gutman said the Navy Yard could be “a source of sustainable 21st century jobs for New Yorkers.”

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DEAN CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW MARY LU BILEK joined CUNY School of Law’s

faculty shortly after it opened and took the helm in 2016. She is credited with helping the law school to win national recognition for diversity and public interest. Bilek previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and helped the school gain accreditation, all the while developing and implementing curriculum and spearheading programs that helped the school increase its student diversity.

ner of construction law firm Zetlin & De Chiara, Michael Zetlin uses his expertise as a graduate civil engineer and attorney to help clients get what they want.

Zetlin serves as general counsel to the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the New York Building Congress. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers.

PRESIDENT JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE KAROL MASON’S

resume definitely couldn’t fit on one page: She became the first African American woman elected as chair of the management committee at any major national firm while at Atlanta-based Alston & Bird; she worked as U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs during the Obama Administration. Now, as president of John Jay, she directly impacts the future of the New York legal world.

CO-FOUNDERS, SPECIAL COUNSEL INNOCENCE PROJECT BARRY SCHECK

and Peter Neufeld co-founded the Innocence Project after they began studying and litigating issues surrounding the use of forensic DNA testing. Their work shaped the course of case law around the nation and helped lead to an influential study by the National Academy of Sciences. Scheck and Neufeld serve together on New York state’s Commission on Forensic Science and are both special counsel at the Innocence Project.

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JOE CANOVAS

JONATHAN ABADY

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MOIRA KIM PENZA

NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK NEW YORK COURTS THE NEW YORK

Amsterdam News called Milton Tingling “one of the city’s most revolutionary judges.” A lifelong New Yorker, he had 35 years of law experience, including on the New York Supreme Court, when he became the first black county clerk in New York in 2015.

Under his 2010 ruling, the state ended the practice of shackling juvenile offenders when taking them to court. He also ruled against former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s soda ban.

SPECIAL COUNSEL NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO JOE CANOVAS has

served as special counsel at the New York State AFL-CIO for eight years – representing 2.5 million members, retirees and their families. The state AFL-CIO has big goals for 2020, and is working on legislation that will help ensure rights and benefits for gig workers. The group also has plans to protect Medicaid, which provides health care and other services to more than 6 million New Yorkers.

FOUNDING PARTNER EMERY CELLI BRINCKERHOFF & ABADY ATTORNEY JONATHAN Abady has had a varied career, jumping from high-profile civil rights cases to representing big-name clients like Harry Belafonte and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. After beginning his career as a trial lawyer, Abady became a supervising attorney with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. He was also one of the lead lawyers in two major class actions resulting in historic reform in the jail system at Rikers Island.

PARTNER LOWENSTEIN SANDLER

ED ZIMMERMAN is

a wine expert – but that is just one of his many talents. He is the only New York lawyer featured on a recent list of the nation’s top lawyers in startups and emerging companies published by legal information website Chambers USA. Zimmerman, who is co-founder and chair of his firm’s tech group, has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business since 2005.

PARTNER WILKINSON WALSH + ESKOVITZ FOLLOWING HER

work as the lead government attorney on the team that convicted Nxivm leader Keith Raniere – “a crime boss with no limits and no checks on his power,” as she put it at the trial, according to The New York Times – Moira Kim Penza went into private practice as a partner at Wilkinson Walsh. She served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York until last year.

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MANAGING PARTNER DUVAL & STACHENFELD AS CHAIRWOMAN of the real estate depart-

ment at Duval & Stachenfeld, one of the largest real estate practice groups in New York City, Terri Adler has earned a reputation as a leader in corporate real estate transactions. Adler, who developed her firm’s women’s initiative, works hard to make sure other women can join her at the top by mentoring and assisting young attorneys within the firm and outside of it.

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bench of the District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George W. Bush in 2003, Stephen Robinson supervised a range of cases. He previously served as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Robinson started his legal career in New York City in 1984 at a corporate firm. At Skadden, he focuses on corporate investigations and government enforcement matters.

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PRINCIPAL AND PRESIDENT HINMAN STRAUB

THE NONPROFIT

under the umbrella of a law firm, while others are lobbying firms that happen to have attorneys on staff. Sean Doolan’s Hinman Straub is of the law firm variety. With more than 30 years of experience in government relations and administrative law, Sean Doolan covers a wide range of issues at all levels of state government and takes on a wide array of clients.

Citizens Crime Commission works to improve public safety through innovation. As president, Richard Aborn helps create and advance strategies to improve the justice system, strengthen gun policies and practices as well as prevent youth gun violence and stop cybercrime. The commission has been an integral part of the passage of several New York laws, including the SAFE Act and expanding the use of DNA evidence to investigate crimes.

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PARTNER NIXON PEABODY ERICA BUCKLEY

FOUNDING PARTNER LICHTEN & BRIGHT

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was once the chief of the Real Estate Finance Bureau at the New York attorney general’s office, and she now shares her wealth of knowledge – including discussions of the Martin Act and construction development issues – in her “Ask the Former Regulator” column on the legal news website Law360. Erica leads her firm’s cooperatives and condominium practice and oversees transactional matters and government investigations that revolve around housing-related issues.

A LABOR and employment attorney since 1990, Stuart Lichten has won cases resulting in the recovery of millions of dollars for employees who were wrongfully dismissed, sexually harassed, mistreated in some way, or underpaid. Lichten has also represented union members facing criminal charges stemming from onthe-job activity. He practices election law in New York and has represented political candidates in election law or campaign finance law matters.

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CHRISTINA RYBA GRANT JAQUITH

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

ALBANY COUNTY SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

WHEN Judge James

CHRISTINA RYBA

Burke was asked to recuse himself from Harvey Weinstein’s trial after chastising Weinstein for using his cell phone in court despite multiple warnings, Burke, a former prosecutor, instead used the opportunity to teach the courtroom about the importance of following rules. Following the guilty verdict delivered by the jury on Feb. 24, Burke ordered that Weinstein be held in custody until sentencing later this month.

made history when in 2016 she became the first black person to be elected to sit on the state Supreme Court bench within a 28-county region of upstate New York.

Since then, she has ruled on legislative raises, education guidelines and home care in New York. She was appointed to the American Bar Association’s anti-hate task force and previously served on the New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates.

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ERNEST HART started

his career as a prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, moving on to become an Assistant District Attorney. He also served as a judge in the New York City Criminal Court and on the New York Supreme Court, and led the Civilian Complaint Review Board. As the NYPD’s Chief Legal Officer, Hart guides law enforcement regarding all legal matters, like interpreting laws and ensuring that enforcement is lawful.

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occupies perhaps the least high-profile of New York’s four U.S. attorney offices, although he may not be there much longer.

In August, President Donald Trump nominated the federal prosecutor to a 15year term serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in Washington, D.C. A military veteran, Jaquith has also served as first assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the office’s criminal division.

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WHEN Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was

sued for blocking former Assemblyman Dov Hikind on Twitter, she turned to Allyson Belovin to represent her. Belovin has devoted her career to representing working people, including through negotiation of union agreements that affect thousands of members. She has also represented a variety of clients on discrimination claims, including race and sex discrimination claims, equal pay, disability claims and First Amendment claims.

once served as special counsel to the Republican state Senate majority, has spent more than a decade building an influential law and lobbying firm in Albany. His lobbying accomplishments include helping secure a living wage for home health care workers in New York City and the winning bid for Resorts World Casino New York City at Aqueduct Racetrack. He was previously a partner at Featherstonhaugh, Wiley, Clyne & Cordo.

DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION LEGAL POLICY NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION AS THE director of immigration legal policy, Camille Mackler focuses on all policies regarding right to counsel for immigrant communities. Her hard work has paid off: New York recently became the first state to introduce a law that would create a right to an attorney for immigrants facing deportation. Mackler wrote that the moment reminded her “that we may sometimes feel like we are down, but we are definitely not out.”

MEMBERS HARRIS BEACH

THOMAS GARRY has

worked on numerous political campaigns, including as New York state counsel for Joe Biden’s presidential bid. Among his areas of expertise are health care, economic development and public finance projects. Karl Sleight, who specializes in horse racing, gambling and marijuana policy, has served as counsel in both of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission investigations and as special counsel to the New York State Legislative Ethics Commission.

FOUNDING MEMBER ANDERSON, MOSCHETTI & TAFFANY PETER MOSCHETTI JR.’S name ap-

pears frequently on lists of top lawyers in New York and nationwide. He is a founding member of his firm and previously worked as a prosecutor in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. Moschetti, Jr. was appointed by Gov. George Pataki to the New York State Temporary Commission on Lobbying and later appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the New York State Gaming Commission.

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resents clients in the areas of infrastructure, real estate, government and finance.

A board member of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and a member of the New York Committee of the Regional Plan Association, he previously served as senior adviser to the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where his work partly focused on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site.

CO-CHAIR, NONPROFITS & TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS LOEB & LOEB JASON LILIEN advises nonprofit clients on

corporate governance and compliance, among other matters. He is former bureau chief of the New York state Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, where he developed legislation and regulatory initiatives that now serve as models around the nation. He also led efforts to work through some noteworthy trust and estate matters, such as the settlements of the Huguette Clark and Brooke Astor estates.

MANAGING PARTNER PHILLIPS NIZER MARC LANDIS

co-chairs his firm’s real estate practice, managing a variety of cases including corporate and commercial matters. Landis, who focuses part of his practice on the acquisition, development and preservation of affordable housing, has been recognized for his pro bono work helping limited-income tenants who were facing eviction from two women’s residences in Manhattan. He has also dedicated pro bono work to community-based health, education, and social service organizations.

PARTNER KOSTELANETZ & FINK

PARTNER WILSON ELSER

A SEASONED at-

is the regional managing partner of the Albany office for Wilson Elser, a major law firm with 38 offices around the country. And while he often handles local cases – involving the state Attorney General’s Office – he is also vice chairman of the firm’s national commercial litigation practice and chairs its government investigations and contracts practice. He has also served on local ethics boards and helped review judicial candidates.

torney who appears regularly on lists of top lawyers, Claude M. Millman focuses on commercial civil litigation at Kostelanetz & Fink. Millman, who was previously a partner at Proskauer, is a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. The former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, he has also represented contractors, including nonprofits, doing business with New York City and state.

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GLEN MCGORTY

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PRESIDENT METROPOLITAN BLACK BAR ASSOCIATION JASON CLARK , an

assistant attorney general in the state attorney general’s Harlem regional office, was installed in October 2018 as the president of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, a citywide association of African American and minority lawyers.

On Clark’s watch, the bar association has advocated for reforms to the criminal justice system, including reducing incidents of police officers killing unarmed civilians, protecting immigrant rights and reforming the state’s bail system.

SHAREHOLDER O’CONNELL & ARONOWITZ DAVID ROSS is an

expert in the field of Medicaid law. He was appointed by Gov. George Pataki as general counsel of the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, which was created in 2005 in response to public concern about fraud and waste. Ross then worked as the deputy Medicaid inspector general for audits and investigations.

He now focuses his practice on Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance audits and investigations.

NEW YORK MANAGING PARTNER CROWELL & MORING

ATTORNEY Glen

McGorty is “held in high regard” and considered a leader in white collar and regulatory enforcement, according to Chambers USA, a website that ranks lawyers and law firms nationwide. A former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, McGorty has a strong reputation when it comes to government investigations.

McGorty has served as the independent monitor of the New York City District Council of Carpenters since 2014.

PARTNER COOLEY

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ton was elected as the president of the National Bar Association, a national organization representing African American attorneys, judges, law professors and law students, the first time a New Yorker has held the role in years. A partner at Cooley since 2012, he specializes in intellectual property and commercial litigation.

He was previously at the law firm Kaye Scholer and prior to that worked as an engineer.

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SANFORD RUBENSTEIN , the famed Brook-

lyn-based personal injury, medical malpractice and civil rights attorney, has handled seemingly endless multimillion dollar high-profile cases, including the police torture of Abner Louima, the deadly shooting of Sean Bell, and the botched hospital diagnostic test of a student who went into a coma and died. In a story discussing some of the highlights of Rubeinstein’s career, Resident magazine called him “a champion for the people.”

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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com Notice of Qual. of S&S BUSHWICK LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 10/03/2019.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 05/31/2019. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Park-It Management, 250 West 26th St., 4th Fl, NY, NY 10001. Address required to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Drive, Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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 JAMBON BEURRE TOPCO LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/17/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-243.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Hospitality GS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy of State of New York (SSNY) on January 24, 2020. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to One World Trade Center, Suite 47A, NY, NY 10007.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of LIVE BY REHAN, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/7/20.

Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 550 W. 54th St., Apt. 3D, NY, NY 10019. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Duggan Bertsch, LLC, 303 W. Madison St., Ste. 1000, Chicago, IL 60606.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

SANDRA BURCH, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/14/2020.

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, 215 E. 95 St. #26G, NY, NY 10128. Reg Agent: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of JIA LEE LLC filed with SSNY on August 5, 2019.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 57-59 2ND Ave, Apt. 74, New York, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of GENUINE LEADERS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/14/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/13/20. Princ. office of LLC: 88 Leonard St., #714, NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Formation of R/S FULCRUM LLC. Arts. Of Org filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/28/20. Office location: NY County. Sec of State designated LLC agent upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 153 E. 96th St., 1A, NY, NY 10128, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 116 SULLIVAN CASA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/28/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 116 Sullivan St., NY, NY 10012. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

26 CEDAR, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/07/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Larocca Hornik Rosen & Greenberg LLP, 40 Wall Street, 32nd Fl, Attn: P. McPartland, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of NORTHPOINT TECHNOLOGY, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/15/20.

NYS fictitious name: NP TECHNOLOGY, LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o ACA Compliance Group, Attn: Andrea M. McNamara, 8401 Colesville Rd., Ste. 700, Silver Springs, MD 20910. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of PMPGL, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/15/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of On and Offshore Quality Control Specialists, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/18/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in TX on 5/2/05.

NY 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. TX and principal business address: 111 Congress Ave., Ste. 900, Austin, TX 78701. Cert. of Form. filed with TX Sec. of State, 1019 Brazos St., Austin, TX 78701. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of RAHF IV FC Holdings, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/9/19. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 551 5th Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10176. LLC formed in DE on 6/22/16.

NY 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.

DE addr. of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of COMPASS LONG ISLAND, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/29/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/27/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of &VEST DOMESTIC FUND II L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/28/20. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/09/20. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership, 3 Minetta St., NY, NY 10012. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 180 BEDFORD SUBDSO, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/31/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/16/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

HSMH, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/27/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Basil Hamadeh, 149 E. 23rd Street, #1904, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of BABYGRAND LLC filed with SSNY on March 22, 2019. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 82 Irving Place, 1B, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 1345 EASE AOA PROMOTE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/20. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 299 Park Ave., 42nd Fl., NY, NY 10171. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Attn: General Counsel at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. mokanyra, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 01/16/2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: 1808 Arnow Ave, Bronx, NY 10469. Purpose: Any lawful.

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SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC., Plaintiff against PIERRE DUBOIS A/K/A PIERRE GERALD DUBOIS; MRS. “DOE” DUBOIS, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on December 18, 2019.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 12th day of March, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn.

County of Kings, City and State of New York.

Said premises known as 543 55th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11220.

(Block: 824, Lot: 68).

Approximate amount of lien $ 216,620.62 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 515510-15.

Joel E. Abramson, Esq., Referee.

Stern & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ 08830 (732) 582-6344 *For sale information, please visit www. auction.com or call 800280-2832* Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC): NAME: 113-115 Tompkins Avenue LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/5/2020.

Office Location: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 113-115 Tompkins Avenue LLC, 462 Bedford Road, Bedford Hills, NY 10507.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activities

Notice of Formation of Birch Speech Therapy, LLC filed with SSNY on December 23, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 115 Washington Place #24, New York, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of REVANTAGE CORPORATE SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/29/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/13/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Mitch Motivates LLC filed with SSNY on January 28, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 301 East 79th Street, APT 4C, New York, NY 10075. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Ace of Air, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/5/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/31/19.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: c/o Three Ocean Partners, 551 5th Ave., Ste. 3800, NY, NY 10176, Attn: Stephanie Stahl.

DE address of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of Antares Associates LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/23/19. Office location: New York County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and shall mail process to The LLC, c/o The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

DE addr. of LLC c/o The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901 on 12/11/19. Purpose: any lawful activity. Principal business location: 80 Columbus Cir, Unit 75 AB, New York, NY.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, F/K/A GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST FLOZENA WEEMS AKA FLOZEMA WEEMS, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 01, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on March 19, 2020 at 2:30PM, premises known as 757 GEORGIA AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11207.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 4321, LOT 45.

Approximate amount of judgment $472,676.04 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 500829/2017.

CHARLANE ODETTA BROWN, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 67880

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SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST De’shawn Ware a/k/a Deshawn Ware a/k/a De’Shawn Carlos Ware a/k/a De’Shawn C. Ware a/k/a Deshawn Carlos Ware a/k/a Deshawn C. Ware; Maranyelly Vega; et al., Defendant(s)

Supreme Court of New York, KINGS County. U.S. BANK N.A., NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT, Plaintiff, -against- HARVEY WILLIAMS; LILLIAN WILLIAMS; KINGS SUPREME COURT; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A.; CITY OF NEW YORK TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, Index No. 513521/2016. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, November 15, 2019 and entered with the Kings County Clerk on December 18, 2019, Joseph H. Aron, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 258 Legion Street, Brooklyn, New York 11212 at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, Room 224, on March 19, 2020 at 2:30 P.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York known as Block: 3567; Lot: 143 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 513521/2016. The approximate amount of judgment is $556,685.34 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 2, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on March 19, 2020 at 2:30PM, premises known as 345 Schenck Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block: 4012 Lot: 5.

Approximate amount of judgment $389,855.59 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 512319/2017.

Angelicque M. Moreno, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: January 8, 2020 For sale information, please visit www.

Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832

Notice of Formation of Saltu Projects, LLC filed with SSNY on December 26, 2019. Office: Kings.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Alison St. Pierre 545 Prospect Place 3H Brooklyn, NY 06280. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Benowitz Family LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/13/19. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 160 E. 65th St., NY, NY 10065. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, 605 3rd Ave., NY, NY 10158, Attn: Jeffrey I. Citron, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of WALTER PROD CO, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/21/20. Princ. office of LLC: Two Pennsylvania Plaza, NY, NY 10121. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John D. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Entertainment.

Copy of Application for Authority of NJ Energy Realty, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, or a notice related to the qualification of the LLC filed with State Secretary of New York (“SSNY”) on 11/8/19. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: c/o Harriton & Furrer, LLP, 84 Business Park Drive, Suite 302, Armonk, NY 10504. Purpose:

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Notice of Qualification of The Reserve at Heritage Holdings LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/4/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC organized in MO on 10/4/19. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 14 E. 33rd St., #7S, NY, NY 10016, principal business address. MO address of LLC: 8909 Ladue Rd., St. Louis, MO 63124. Cert. of Org. filed with MO Sec. of State, 600 W. Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65101.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIS 2006-NC3, V. NICHOLAS CALABRESE A/K/A NICHOLAS A. CALABRESE; ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 06, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIS 2006-NC3 is the Plaintiff and NICHOLAS CALABRESE A/K/A NICHOLAS A. CALABRESE; ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE 360 ADAMS STREET, ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on March 26, 2020 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 2176 EAST 36TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11234: Block 8535, Lot 2: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 519461/2016.

Steven Naiman, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

VSM NY HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/05/20. Office: New York 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, c/o Village Super Market, Inc., 733 Mountain Avenue, Springfield,NJ 07081.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SoHa Dental, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/2020. Office location: NY County. Paracorp Incorporated designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. Paracorp Incorporated shall mail process to: Brad Washington, 1845 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd., New York, County of New York, NY 10026. Purpose: to practice the profession of dentistry and orthodontics.

Villavicencio Landscape Architect LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on October 17, 2019. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Villavicencio Landscape Architect LLC. 20 North Broadway Apt. F327, White Plains, NY. 10601. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

DOMONIQUE WORSHIP COACHING AND CONSULTING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/19/2019. 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, 272 Manhattan Ave., Apt. 4F, NY, NY 10026. Reg Agent: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

March 9, 2020

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1324131 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 1957 PALMER AVE LARCHMONT, NY 10538. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. SEMPRE NOI LLC Notice of Formation of Sinsemilla Kitchen, LLC filed with SSNY on February 10, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Avenue, suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Sinsemilla Remedy, LLC filed with SSNY on February 12, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Avenue, suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of AI Eye LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/14/20. Office location: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Avner Ingerman, 7 Corell Rd, Scarsdale, New York 10583 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 67’, 69’, & 75.9’) on the building at 41-51 Kenmare Street, New York, NY (20200129).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

CITATION TO:

ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2018-3398/A THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Unknown Distributees Attorney General of the State of New York Alexander Herman Capital One credit card acct ending #4706 Con Edison c/o CBHV Reference No. 1XXXX0294 NY Presbyterian EMS acct ending #8288 Time Warner Cable c/o Credit Management, LP creditor acct ending #7911

and to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Lila Binder, the decedent herein, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Lila Binder, deceased, who at the time of her death was a resident of 434 East 58th St., New York, N.Y. 10022; A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on March 31, 2020, at 9:30 A.M. in Room 509, why the following relief stated in the account or proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and creditors of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of the decedent’s distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA §2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds in this estate be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account or proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (iv) that the claims of Capital One credit card acct ending #4706, Con Edison c/o CBHV Reference No. 1XXXX0294, NY Presbyterian EMS acct ending #8288, and Time Warner Cable c/o Credit Management, LP creditor acct ending #7911 be rejected for failure to file a claim in accordance with the provisions of SCPA §1803(1); (v) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted: (vi) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA §307 where require or directed; and (vii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.

Dated, Attested and Sealed. February 18, 2020 (Seal) Hon. Rita Mella, Surrogate.

Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk.

Schram Graber & Opell P.C. Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County 11 Park Place, Suite 1008 New York, New York 10007 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

Notice of Formation of GRAMERCY PROSTHODONTICS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/07/19. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 131 MacDougal St., NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Dentistry.

Notice of Formation of Prologue Properties, LLC filed with SSNY on October 21, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 155 East 108 Street, Suite 3B, New York, New York, 10029, Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of LEX PROSTHODONTICS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/07/19. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 131 MacDougal St., NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Dentistry.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. YOELLY RODRIGUEZ, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee’s Report, and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on June 14, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on April 2, 2020 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 282 Hemlock Street, 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 4147 and Lot 53.

Approximate amount of judgment is $485,489.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 501581/2016.

Jeffrey Miller, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted.

Notice of Formation of Aesthetic Investing Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on Feb 10, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 551 W 21st St. #3B, New York, N.Y. 10011. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NRPI ACQUISITIONS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/07/2020. 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, 122 East 42nd St., Ste 2405, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of HAVEN PROPERTY 570BROOME LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/20/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 350 W. 42nd St., Apt. 25L, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of IEX DATA ANALYTICS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/20/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/06/17. Princ. office of LLC: 3 World Trade Center, 58th Fl., NY, NY 10007. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Operation of a business which provides data analytics products.

Notice of Formation of Lewis Media Company, LLC filed with SSNY on January 2, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 40 W. 135th Street, 3M, New York, NY 10037. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: of 580 Grand Street LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on November 7, 2019. NY Office Location: Kings County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to RLVTK Service Corp at 172 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 71-feet on 65-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 641 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11206.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Lauren Schramm l.schramm@ trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Pkwy, Building 400 Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678-6538673.”

Notice of Formation of Beane and Sons, LLC filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on August 29, 2019. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 21 W. 110th Street, #25, NY, NY 10026. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 200 West Optics, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION Case No.: 19CV49908 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF MATAWIN VENTURES TRUST SERIES 2018-1, Plaintiff, vs. MICHAEL D. CODLING AKA MICHAEL DAVID CODLING; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF COLLEEN M. CODLING AKA COLLEEN MARIE CODLING; LAUREN HOWARD; HAILEY DANIELLE CODLING; RYAN MICHAEL CODLING; DREAMBUILDER INVESTMENTS, LLC; STATE OF OREGON; STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; OCCUPANTS OF THE PROPERTY, Defendants. To: DREAMBUILDER INVESTMENTS, LLC You are hereby required to appear and defend the Complaint filed against you in the above entitled cause within thirty (30) days from the date of service of this summons upon you, and in case of your failure to do so, for want thereof, Plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY! You must “appear” in this case or the other side will win automatically. To “appear” you must file with the court a legal paper called a “motion” or “answer.” The “motion” or “answer” (or “reply”) must be given to the court clerk or administrator within 30 days of the date of first publication specified herein along with the required filing fee. It must be in proper form and have proof of service on the plaintiff’s attorney or, if the plaintiff does not have an attorney, proof of service on the plaintiff. If you have questions, you should see an attorney immediately. If you need help in finding an attorney, you may call the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service at (503) 684-3763 or toll-free in Oregon at (800) 452-7636. If you are a veteran of the armed forces, assistance may be available from a county veterans’ service officer or community action agency. Contact information for a local county veterans’ service officer and community action agency may be obtained by calling the 2-1-1 information service. Additionally, contact information for a service officer appointed under ORS 408.410 for the county in which you live and contact information for a community action agency that serves your area can be found by visiting the following link: https://www. oregon.gov/odva/services/pages/county-services. aspx and selecting your county. You can also access a list of Veterans Services for all Oregon counties by visiting the following link: https://www.oregon.gov/ odva/Services/Pages/All-Services-Statewide.aspx.

The relief sought in the Complaint is the foreclosure of the property located at 22778 SW Cochran Drive, Sherwood, OR 97140. Date of First Publication: March 2, 2020 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP s/ Jeremy Clifford Jeremy Clifford OSB No. 142987 920 SW 3rd Ave, 1st Floor Portland, OR 97204 Phone: (971) 201-3200 Fax: (971) 201-3202 jclifford@mccarthyholthus.com Of Attorneys for Plaintiff IDSPub #0161057 3/2/2020 3/9/2020 3/16/2020 3/23/2020 Notice of Qualification of Luma Financial Technologies, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/24/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 4/23/18.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the DE address of the LLC: The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 71’) on the building at 49 Mott Street, New York, NY (20200062).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on March 31, 2020 and end on April 10, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #157-Joshua S. Folds; 1 Bike, 5 Garbage bags, 6 boxes, 3 plastic totes, 1 table, 2 window screens, 1 pair of skis. #476-Heather L. Mulcare; 13 Boxes, clothing, luggage carrier, twin mattress, bicycle, small lamp#-1136-Joan Donovan; 2 twin mattresses, 4 boxes of magazines, 5 assorted picture frames, 1 suitcase and assorted wood pile #2448-Iddi Amadu; 1- Bike, 2 shelving units, Roller blades, 2 garbage bags, clothing #2606-Tara Kulukundis; round table, long square table, 1 glass table, 8 chairs, and a large ship model inside a large display box.#3453-Tangget Ortiz; 1- wooden door, BBQ grill, 4 suitcases, 1 ladder, 1 vacuum, 4 garbage bags, 4 laundry bags, 1 football table, 5 plastic containers, 1 wicker chair, 2-10ft plastic pipes. #3501-5-Dylan Threadgill; 3- boxes, 6 plastic totes, duffel bag, linens, #4319-1-Quinsessa Harrison; Bags, plastic totes and a plastic organizer with drawers.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

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PROBATE CITATION FILE NO. 2020-176 SURROGATE’S COURT, NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: the heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of Laurence J. Iacueo a/k/a Laurence Iacueo, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence.

Priscilla Weick, Leonard H. Jordan, Raymond J. Pardon, Anthony D. Nicastri, Francesca Denman, Thomas Giallorenzi, Albert F. Giallorenzi, Clarice Curry, Andrea Spica, Catherine Spica, John B. Marino III, Karen I. DiJulio, Public Administrator of New York County A petition having been duly filed by Raffaele F. Maietta who is domiciled at 65 Glenwood Drive, Hauppauge, NY 11788 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, Room 509, New York, New York, on March 31, 2020 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Laurence J. Iacueo, a/k/a Laurence Iacueo, lately domiciled at 372 Central Park West, Apt. 17J, New York, New York 10025, United States admitting to probate a Will dated January 30, 2018 (a Codicil(s), if any, dated _________) a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Laurence J. Iacueo, a/k/a Laurence Iacueo, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: [x]

Letters Testamentary issue to: Raffaele F. Maietta [ ] Letters of Trusteeship issue to: ______________________________ [ ] Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to: ______________________________ (State any further relief requested) Dated, Attested and Sealed February 7, 2020 HON. Rita Mella, Surrogate Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk Gina Raio Bitsimis/ Davidow, Davidow, Siegel & Stern, LLP, Attorneys for Petitioner 1050 Old Nichols Road, Suite 100, Islandia, New York 11749 (631) 234-3030 grbitsimis@davidowlaw.com [NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.]

PROFF OF SERVICE MUST BE FILED TWO DAYS PRIOR TO THE RETURN DATE Court Rule 207.7(c) Brahim and The Di Ciollo Triplets LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 1/29/2020. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. U.S. Corp. Agents Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 designated as service of process agent. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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CITATION - File No. 2019-5 - SURROGATE’S COURT, NEW YORK COUNTY – THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent – TO: To the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of RAYDA VEGA aka RAYDA VEGA-HEATH aka RAYDA L VEGA aka RAYDA LOUISE REMINSBURGER, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence. – Public Administrator of the County of New York, David J. Heath, Robert B. Heath – A petition having been duly filed by Geraldine Mazur who is/are domiciled at 346 Coney Island Avenue, Apt. 504, Brooklyn, NY 11218. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at Rm 503, 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on April 7, 2020, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Rayda Vega, aka Rayda Vega-Heath, Rayda L. Vega, Rayda Louise Reminsburger lately domiciled at 315 East 57th Street, Apt. 20B, New York, New York 10019, United States, admitting to probate a Will dated November 15, 2018 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Rayda Vega, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to Geraldine Mazur – Further relief sought (if any): Dated, Attested and Sealed, February 19, 2020 – HON. Rita Mella Surrogate – Chief Clerk Diana Sanabria – Erica Bell, Esq. Name of Attorney – The Law Office of Erica Bell, PLLC Firm – (212) 233-3146 Telephone – 100 Church Street, Suite 800, New York, New York 10007 Address – ebell@ericabelllaw.com Email (optional) – NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of JEDIZ Wyckoff LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/25/2020. Off. Loc.: NY County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: 28 Liberty, New York, NY 10005. Reg. Agent: National Registered Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful act

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Notice of Formation of Well Nourished NYC LLC filed with SSNY on December 30, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 535 East 81st Street, 4C, NY, NY 10028. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 162’ & 171’) on the building at 310 Lexington Ave, New York, NY (20200090). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice of Qualification of Rising Oaks LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/6/20.

Office location: NY County. LLC organized in NV on 9/3/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Rising Oaks LLC, 302 W. 12th St., Apt. 16G, NY, NY 10014, principal business address.

NV address of LLC: 4745 Caughlin Ranch Pkwy., Ste. 100, Reno, NV 89511.

Cert. of Org. filed with NV Sec. of State, 101 N. Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1326070 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 99 BANK ST NY, NY 10014.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. ON THE CORNER LLC Notice of Formation of Cornerstone Paradigm Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on March 17, 2017. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 244 5th Avenue, Suite #R254, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of GETAWAY NY 3, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/24/20. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/20/20.

Princ. office of LLC: 147 Prince St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

POEMIA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/14/2020. Office: New York County. Bohea Choi designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Bohea Choi at 7 West 21st St., apt 7H, New York, NY, 10010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE BRONX BREWERY EAST VILLAGE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/20. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Damian Brown, c/o The Bronx Brewery, LLC, 856 E. 136th St., Bronx, NY 10454. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 77 feet on the rooftop of an 81-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 646 Argyle Road, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11230. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Morgan Rasmussen, m.rasmussen@trileaf.com, 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067; 678-653-8673 ext. 657 Notice of Qualification of THE BOARDWALK NH LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/27/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/25/20. Princ. office of LLC: 152 W. 57th St., 60th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at several locations in Queens, Bronx, and New York Counties. Antennas are proposed to be installed at a top height of 50 feet on a 40-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 81-40 Lefferts Boulevard, Kew Gardens, Queens County, NY 11415; at a top height of 52 feet on a 46-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 63-25 Austin Street, Rego Park, Queens County, NY, 11374; at a top height of 57 feet on a 56-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 99-09 95th Street, Ozone Park, Queens County NY 11416; at a top height of 74 feet on an 80-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 2485 Devoe Terrace, Bronx, Bronx County NY, 10468; at a top height of 160 feet on a 154-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 1516 Park Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10029. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Laura Elston; l.elston@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067; 678653-8673 Notice of Formation of 416 8th Rest Op LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/24/20. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 560 5th Ave., NY, NY 10036, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 5hndred Autohaus, LLC filed with SSNY on March 3, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 615 Manor rd, Staten Island, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of LGK General Partner VI, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/26/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 2/20/20. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o LSV Advisors, LLC, 540 Madison Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of Rising Oaks LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/6/20.

Office location: NY County. LLC organized in NV on 9/3/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Rising Oaks LLC, 302 W. 12th St., Apt. 16G, NY, NY 10014, principal business address.

NV address of LLC: 4745 Caughlin Ranch Pkwy., Ste. 100, Reno, NV 89511.

Cert. of Org. filed with NV Sec. of State, 101 N. Carson St., Carson City, NV 89701. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of IEX EVENT STREAM LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/20/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/06/17. Princ. office of LLC: 3 World Trade Center, 58th Fl., NY, NY 10007. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Operation of a business which provides data analytics products.

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Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on March 31, 2020 and end on April 10, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts:

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on March 31, 2020 and end on April 10, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts:

#8P46 - Ronald Liebman: Plastic bags with misc. items. #8J15 - Ronald Liebman: Plastic bags with misc. items. #8J30 - Ronald Liebman: Plastic bags with misc. items. #8P01 - Ronald Liebman: One wooden chair, plastic bags with misc. items. #5E18 - Robert Groen: 11 file boxes, 4 plastic bins, 2 handbags, 1 black bag, 1 small luggage. #5T20 - Alfredo Villamar: Several bags/boxes, shoe boxes, misc. clothes, 1 luggage bag. #5R48 - Jonathan Mullins: Luggage, Christmas tree stand, pushcart.

Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #157-Joshua S. Folds; 1 Bike, 5 Garbage bags, 6 boxes, 3 plastic totes, 1 table, 2 window screens, 1 pair of skis. #476-Heather L. Mulcare; 13 Boxes, clothing, luggage carrier, twin mattress, bicycle, small lamp #2448-Iddi Amadu; 1- Bike, 2 shelving units, Roller blades, 2 garbage bags, clothing #2606-Tara Kulukundis; round table, long square table, 1 glass table, 8 chairs, and a large ship model inside a large display box.#3453-Tangget Ortiz; 1- wooden door, BBQ grill, 4 suitcases, 1 ladder, 1 vacuum, 4 garbage bags, 4 laundry bags, 1 football table, 5 plastic containers, 1 wicker chair, 2-10ft plastic pipes. #3501-5-Dylan Threadgill; 3- boxes, 6 plastic totes, duffel bag, linens, #4319-1-Quinsessa Harrison; Bags, plastic totes and a plastic organizer with drawers.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

ELIE G. AOUN, PSYCHIATRY, PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/26/2020.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 90 Broad St., Ste 314, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Medicine.

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The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Formation of AR Practice Management Firm, LLC filed with SSNY on March 5, 2020. Office: NY Dutchess County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 59 Hudson Heights Drive, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Request for Comment (RFC) for Transportation providers and other interested parties are hereby notified that Hudson River HealthCare, Inc. (HRHCare) is applying for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5310 Operating Assistance funding available through the New York State Department of Transportation to provide transportation services in the NYC boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn to meet the needs of elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities. The purpose of this notice is to invite private for-profit bus, taxi, ambulette operators and other interested parties to participate in the development of proposed grant project(s) and in the provision of transportation services to elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities. Please contact David Erickson at 914734-8963 within 15 calendar days of this public notice to request a copy of the proposed project.

All comments must be submitted in writing to Mr. Erickson at derickson@hrhcare.org within in 15 calendar days after receipt of the proposed project information.

Notice of Formation of COMPANY CULINARY MARKET LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/03/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 335 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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

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PUBLIC NOTICE SprintCom, Inc. (SPRINT) proposes new antenna and equipment installations atop existing buildings in the Bronx, Borough of Bronx, NY Sites at 724 E 160th St; 1288 Adee Ave, 2801 Waterbury Ave; 1497 Needham Ave; 2211 Throop Ave; 220 Coster St; 749 East 137th St; 299 East 158th St; and a modification of an existing site at 3153 Seymour Ave. SPRINT proposes new antenna and equipment installations atop existing buildings in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY at 971 Jerome St; 8901 Shore Rd; 410 State St; 885 E 38th St; and 1462 62nd St. SPRINT proposes new antenna and equipment installations atop existing buildings in Manhattan, New York City, NY at 12 Convent Ave; 2333 5th Ave; 403 E 69th St; and 300 First Ave. SPRINT proposes new antenna and equipment installations atop existing buildings in the Borough of Queens, NY at 575 Onderdonk Ave in Ridgewood and at 110-52 Sutphin Blvd in Jamaica. Additionally, SPRINT proposes a 50’ monopole at 260 Arden Ave in Staten Island, Richmond County, NY. In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for Review Under the National Preservation Act; Final Rule, SPRINT is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. Accordingly, if you would like to provide specific information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within ½ mile of the above addresses, please submit the property’s address and your comments to: Charles Cherundolo Consulting, Inc. at 976 Tabor Road, Suite 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@cherundoloconsulting. com.

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