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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

NEW YORK’S TRANSIT OFFICIALS have long been trying to convince travelers there’s a better way for getting out to the city’s airports. They even used a catchy jingle, “Take the Train to the Plane,” when $4 got travelers from Manhattan out to John F. Kennedy Airport via an express subway ride and bus transfer at Howard Beach, a service that ran from 1978 to 1990. As the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey now mulls alternatives to the scrapped AirTrain plan for LaGuardia Airport, Gov. Kathy Hochul has made the Q70 bus in Queens a free ride. That means travelers can pick up the bus in Queens for free to get to LaGuardia. The bus already was a free transfer for anyone coming off a subway train connection. However, the public transit options for LaGuardia aren’t just limited to this Queens bus route. The M60 that travels along 125th Street in Harlem accomplishes the same from Manhattan. And for the $2.75 fare, it’s the most accessible way to get to LaGuardia. Travelers who need a car ride, of course, have their personal rides, taxis and black cars, among other options. The public option may not be as comfortable, but it’s certainly far less expensive and one that deserves greater attention. As inflation continues to rise, saving on travel costs will go a long way to helping people go on trips for business, pleasure and to recover from the impacts of COVID-19. It may even be worth a new catchy tune. But taking a train, to the bus, to the plane, will certainly need some creativity in the lyrics department.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 RALPH R. ORTEGA; MENGWEN CAO; COVER: ALEX LAW; SPXCHROME, MAWARDI BAHAR/EYEEM/GETTY IMAGES

The week that was

STRUCK DOWN … 8

Court of Appeals throws out maps for Congress and state Senate

REDISTRICTING (AGAIN) … 10

Expert Jonathan Cervas will redraw New York’s lines

POWER OF DIVERSITY: ASIAN 100 … 13 The leaders gaining political power for their communities WINNERS & LOSERS … 50 Assembly Member Ron Kim made history a decade ago as New York’s first elected Korean American.

Who was up and who was down last week

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“I think it looks bad. I think we’ve got egg on our face.” – retiring Rep. Kathleen Rice, on the state Court of Appeals ruling that New York’s congressional lines were gerrymandered by Democrats, via Politico New York City Mayor Eric Adams included many of the budget priorities and spending increases requested by the City Council as part of his revised budget proposal.

ADAMS’ SECOND BUDGET PLAN

New York City Mayor Eric Adams presented his executive budget, a $99.7 billion spending plan laid out in his State of the City address. It included a $5 billion new investment in the city’s crumbling public housing,

additional cash previously promised for the Summer Rising youth program and an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Adams’ broader speech as he laid out his vision for the city also honored the victims of various tragedies that occured in his short time in office. He once again

spoke about his plans for gun violence and subway safety, highlighted his plan to expand the city’s Gifted and Talented programs and praised recent unionization efforts by Amazon workers on Staten Island. He also took the time to speak to his critics, offering investments that spoke

SUBWAY SCARES The safety of the New York City subways will never cease to be a topic of conversation, but last month’s mass shooting has revived the debate. Yes, it’s true that stories of crime on the subways can be sensationalized to manufacture fear. And it’s true that some straphangers are wary after not just last month’s shooting, but the killing of Michelle Go earlier this year. New York magazine tried to figure out what a system in “permacrisis” actually feels like today.

“I really, really, really don’t like to change rules in the middle of a process, and certainly in the middle of an election.” – state Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins, expressing reservations about changing the law to allow former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin to get off the ballot, via the Daily News

directly to the criticisms that he has received. Adams made use of city coffers flush with cash to both invest in his own priorities while offering olive branches to those who may not always agree with him. He even offered more funding for shelter beds, a priority for City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, than the council itself requested.

HOCHUL’S LAGGING POLL NUMBERS

With an election around the corner, a new poll shows that Gov. Kathy Hochul perhaps isn’t doing as well as she might have hoped at this point in the year. Fresh polling from Siena College showed that Hochul’s job approval rating hit a new low, dropping to 36% from 43% about a month ago. A majority of voters in the state also gave her low scores on her handling of crime and economic issues, although her overall favorability (whether voters categorized her as “favorable” or “unfavorable”) only went down 1 percentage point since the last poll. A potential saving grace for Hochul were reactions to changes to the state’s bail law, which she pushed to have included in the budget. Voters overall viewed the changes favorably.

MIXED BAG FOR TRUMP IN NEW YORK

Former President Donald Trump got some bad

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news, and some potential good news, about ongoing investigations into him and his business dealings in New York. In bad news for him, a judge held Trump in contempt of court for failing to turn over requested documents to state Attorney General Letitia James. She had sought the decision from the court, which it granted, and Trump now has to pay $10,000 each day he doesn’t fork over the

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subpoenaed documents. But the ex-president may be in luck with a different investigation, this one conducted by the Manhattan district attorney. After internal disarray with the probe made its way into the public eye, a grand jury indictment has become increasingly unlikely – and Trump could wind up free of any charges in that jurisdiction. So overall, a mixed bag.

Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay daily penalties for not turning over documents as part of an investigation by the state attorney general’s office.

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WEEK AHEAD

TUESDAY 5/3 The New York City Council Committee on Public Housing holds a 1 p.m. oversight hearing on the impact of PACT/ RAD for improving public housing.

Can New York court and regulate crypto at the same time? New York City Mayor Eric Adams is still boosting cryptocurrency as a can’t miss opportunity for economic development, education and financial equity in New York City. Three paychecks deep in converting his salary to bitcoin and ethereum, who could blame him? Adams appeared virtually at a cryptocurrency and digital asset summit hosted by the Financial Times, a London-based newspaper, last week and repeated the pitch he’s made for months that New York City can be the world’s cryptocurrency hub. “Crypto, and blockchain as well, are here to stay. We can’t let this opportunity pass by,” Adams said. “We can integrate these new technologies in a smart way, prioritizing equity and inclusion as we’re building out blockchain (and) crypto campuses for our young people to have a real understanding of this new industry.” Just the day before, the Assembly passed a bill that would place a two-year moratorium on any new or renewed permits for fossil fuel-burning plants being used to power behind-the-meter proof-of-work mining. It would also require an environmental statement on the effects of proof-of-work mining. Environmental groups and community activists who live near bitcoin mining sites have been advocating for this moratorium, arguing

THURSDAY 5/5 New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan and others speak at the Crain’s New York Business Health Equity event at 8:30 a.m. at the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan.

that the emissions produced by mining will harm the state’s climate goals. An earlier version of the bill – like this one, sponsored by Assembly Member Anna Kelles – failed to pass the Assembly last year, but it did pass the state Senate last year. The proposed moratorium has produced an outcry from the crypto industry and some sizable lobbying spending in Albany. Though the bill’s sponsors and environmental advocates said they’re not against cryptocurrency trading or exploring new uses of blockchain – they’re just against the energy-intensive proof-of-work authentication method – industry insiders have said that a moratorium would send a message that New York is unfriendly to crypto and blockchain companies. Such a message might make it difficult for Adams to push New York City as the crypto capital of the world, they said. “It’s a bad signal,” said John Olsen, New York state lead for the Blockchain Association, on the proposed moratorium. When asked about whether he thought the move to regulate mining at the state level could harm Adams’ pitch to court cryptocurrency companies to come to New York City, Olsen said he thought it already had. – Annie McDonough

FRIDAY 5/6 Jonathan Cervas, the special master appointed to draw new congressional and state Senate district lines, is expected to host a public hearing in the town of Bath.

INSIDE DOPE

The state Legislature is in session Monday through Thursday and may address some of the issues raised by the Court of Appeals redistricting ruling.

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BY THE NUMBERS ERIC ADAMS’ LATEST BUDGET PROPOSAL By Annie McDonough After 116 days in office, New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered a 54-minute State of the City address and a second budget proposal at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. Adams presented his $99.7 billion executive budget, marking a $1.2 billion increase from his initial proposal in February. In its response to the mayor’s initial budget proposal, the City Council called for roughly $1.3 billion in additional funding, with specific investments in social services that critics said lacked sufficient attention from Adams. His new budget plan addresses some of the council’s requests. In addressing the crowd of elected officials, local lawmakers, administration leaders and other invited guests, Adams suggested that he was fulfilling a lot of what people asked of him. “Let me tell you something, it’s going to be hard for people to hate me,” he said. Here are some of the highlights of his latest proposal as the city’s budget process kicks into high gear ahead of the July 1 deadline.

20,000

Number of new trees the Adams administration would plant as part of a $488 million capital funding investment for park improvements

10,000

Number of new slots that would be created for the city’s Summer Rising program offering continuing education during the summer, bringing the total number of slots to 210,000

$5 B

Total proposed spending for the fiscal year starting on July 1

$99.7 BILLION

$6.3 B Total funding for the city’s reserves

The additional amount Adams committed to spend over 10 years on capital housing projects, boosting spending to $22 billion over the next decade

1,400 The number of safe haven or stabilization beds that are part of Adams’ promise to provide better services to homeless people

$55 M

Total funding to expand the city’s Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division pilot program, which deploys mental health professionals as first responders to 911 mental health calls, rather than police officers

$118 M Total amount of Adams’ investment in cleaner streets and public spaces, including funding a new trash containerization pilot program

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$3.9 B $3.4 B $3.7 B

The projected budget gaps for fiscal years 2024, 2025 and 2026, respectively

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A Q&A with Black Car Fund Executive Director

We’re there to take care of the drivers and we take that mission seriously.

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Please discuss how the Black Car Fund came about and how it benefits independent black car drivers. The Black Car Fund is a not-for-profit that provides black car drivers who are independent contractors with workers’ compensation insurance. In a joint effort by the industry and Albany, (both) came up with a unique and, I believe, innovative model where a nominal surcharge (would be) added to each ride. That has provided (extra) revenue (for) drivers, (who) would not have it otherwise as independent contractors. Please discuss how the fund went beyond

providing just workers’ compensation. Over the years, we’ve also been able to expand the benefits that we offer drivers. For example, we pay them to take certain classes, such as the New York City (Taxi and Limousine Commission) required enhanced defensive driving class, where drivers are given $300. This includes transportation network companies, Uber and Lyft drivers. We also offer a wellness program, handsonly CPR, opportunities to learn additional safety tips about sharing the road with pedestrians and cyclists, and even health tips for drivers, which covers nutrition, stretching

and other tips relevant for someone that may be seated for long periods of time. Drivers also learn how to respond to Amber Alerts. They receive $150 for taking that class. Outside of program offerings, drivers also get dental, vision, and telemedicine plans, as well as support for mental health and wellness. Some of the newer benefits, including dental exams, cleanings and vision coverage, will end under legislation that expires at the end of this year. You’ve been lobbying to have a renewal of the benefits in place before the end of this legislative session.

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What specifically are the benefit extensions you’d like to see? We would like to see an extension for three years or more. Potentially, we would also like to take out the sunset provision permanently. How did the Black Car Fund survive during the slowdown in ridership during the pandemic? From a benefits perspective, it was a nonfactor. Even though we had a drastic reduction in revenue, there was also a commensurate reduction in the number of claims we were receiving. From the Black Car Fund perspective, we got through it.

Early on, we distributed about 20,000 personal protective equipment kits to the drivers, especially the ones doing meal deliveries or people that were shut in their homes. Later on during the omicron surge, we purchased approximately 3,500 test kits and distributed them to drivers, primarily at John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, but we also sent shipments up to Buffalo and to other Uber and Lyft drivers outside of New York City as well. We’re not a typical insurance or workers’ compensation carrier. We’re there to take care of the drivers and we take that mission seriously. – Jaylen Coaxum and Ralph R. Ortega

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New York’s highest court shatters the new district maps Elections for Congress and state Senate are thrown into disarray. By Jeff Coltin and Rebecca C. Lewis

HE LONG REDISTRICTING saga in New York will only continue, as the state Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that deemed newly drawn state Senate and congressional maps unconstitutional. The decision immediately rocked the state’s political world, but it will have massive impacts on the average voter as well. New Yorkers will find themselves in new districts (again), and they will need to keep track of changing primary dates. In a 4-3 decision, New York’s highest court concluded that the state Legislature

HARKENRIDER V. HOCHUL On April 27, the state Court of Appeals ruled 4-3 that the Independent Redistricting Commission and the state Legislature violated the procedures for drawing new legislative maps laid out in the state constitution and that the state’s congressional districts were gerrymandered to favor Democrats. Each of the three dissenting judges wrote their own opinions, which were agreed to in part by the others.

did not have the constitutional authority to draw the maps at all – independent of the gerrymandering question – so it tossed the state Senate and congressional lines on procedural grounds. But the Assembly map will stay in place because it was never named in the lawsuit, so the court couldn’t make a decision about it despite its view that lawmakers had no right to draw the maps. So now, an independent expert will help redraw two of the three new sets of legislative lines for this year’s elections. If redrawing the maps for a June 28 primary date sounds impossible, that’s because it probably is. As part of its decision, the Court of Appeals said that the primary elections for state Senate and Congress will be delayed, possibly until Aug. 23, but left it up to the state Board of Elections to figure out the details. Every other primary – for Assembly, U.S. Senate, governor and lieutenant governor, and lower level offices such as district leader – is still expected to take place on June 28 as originally scheduled. That means New York will briefly return to its old model of bifurcated primary elections, a practice the state only recently abolished when it consolidated the congressional and state primaries in 2019. Previously, primaries for state office occurred in September, while those for Congress took place in June. “The court’s

Voters may be thoroughly confused over the next few weeks as the primary election schedule and the districts themselves will change again.

right that the state had a bifurcated process in the past, but that stunk,” said Blair Horner, executive director of the government watchdog New York Public Interest Research Group. “The good news is we’ll get better lines, the bad news is that it’s going to be painful to keep track of what’s going on.” And don’t expect a push from the state Legislature and the governor to move primary day and consolidate the elections. There could be legal challenges, and it probably wouldn’t be helpful for the governor, who is facing primary challenges

MAJORITY OPINION

CHIEF JUDGE JANET DIFIORE Nominated: 2015 by Andrew Cuomo Party: Democratic (Republican until 2007)

ANTHONY CANNATARO Nominated: 2021 by Andrew Cuomo Party: Democratic

MICHAEL GARCIA Nominated: 2016 by Andrew Cuomo Party: Republican

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– Blair Horner, New York Public Interest Research Group executive director

from the left and right, or Assembly members. “Incumbents want less time. They want a nice short campaign,” said a former state legislator who asked for anonymity to discuss former colleagues. “They start out with the name recognition and the money.” It would be logical to simply combine the primaries, the source conceded, “but logic doesn’t always hold in Albany.” The court reasoned that given the state’s history with holding primaries on different days, state election officials could handle this sudden change in the political calendar. A spokesperson for

the state Board of Elections did not immediately return a request for comment and immediate details about what the new political calendar might look like remained scarce. New draft maps are due by May 16, with the state Supreme Court – rather than lawmakers – responsible for approving them. The ruling is also shaking up just about every congressional and state Senate campaign in the state. Incumbents whose districts did not change much in the last round of redistricting will now have another stressful waiting period to see if the

DISSENTING OPINIONS

MADELINE SINGAS Nominated: 2021 by Andrew Cuomo Party: Democratic

JENNY RIVERA Nominated: 2013 by Andrew Cuomo Party: Democratic

SHIRLEY TROUTMAN Nominated: 2021 by Kathy Hochul Party: Democratic

ROWAN WILSON Nominated: 2017 by Andrew Cuomo Party: Democratic

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“Chaos ensues. The court’s decision will lead to chaos.”

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new lines leave them with a radically different constituency. Insurgents taking on incumbents may have to change their game plans, or decide if they still want to run at all. And every congressional and state Senate candidate will likely have two more months to campaign. “RIP to NY Campaign Staffers summer plans,” tweeted Chris Walsh, the former campaign manager for state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi’s congressional campaign. “What I’m telling my clients is to stay cool but to start preparing for an August primary,” said Camille Rivera, a political consultant with New Deal Strategies, who is working with multiple candidates this election cycle. That later date could be a good thing for candidates with lower name recognition, Rivera said, who would have more time to introduce themselves to voters. But there’s no doubt the court’s decision has flipped New York politics on its head. “Chaos ensues,” Horner said, summing up the situation. “The court’s decision will lead to chaos.” The best comparison Rivera said was when Letitia James announced she wouldn’t be running for governor after all, and all the potential candidates who wanted to become state attorney general dropped out of the race in short order. “Literally 30 campaigns didn’t have one anymore!” she joked. The candidates for which the ruling means the most may be those running in the newly created state Senate districts in New York City. Reflecting population shifts in the state, the Legislature’s redistricting plan created a new District 27 in southern Brooklyn, and a new District 17 in northern Brooklyn and southwestern Queens. Iwen Chu, a former Assembly staffer, was uncontested in the Democratic primary for the new Asian American plurality District 27 and was well on her way to becoming a state senator. There’s no telling if the new district lines will create a similar district where Chu could run. She declined to comment. Kristen Gonzalez is facing a similar situation if the Ridgewood, Queens-centered district she was planning to run in gets erased. “We’re still processing what this means for the race and for our volunteers,” Gonzalez’s communications director Andrea Guinn said of the ruling. Will she keep running for office? “We haven’t even gotten that far in the discussion,” Guinn said, but adding that she expected the campaign would continue talking to voters while awaiting the new lines. “I’m quite shocked.

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The man with the golden pen Meet Jonathan Cervas, the expert who will redraw New York’s district lines By Rebecca C. Lewis

ITH NEW YORK’S congressional and state Senate maps tossed out by the state Court of Appeals, all eyes now turn to one man: Jonathan Cervas, who is tasked with drawing new lines. A state Supreme Court judge appointed Cervas as a neutral special master to submit new maps for court approval should the need arise. It was a preemptive move before an intermediate court had even heard arguments for an appeal, but ultimately a warranted one as Cervas can immediately begin his work to offer new draft maps to the court by the May 16 deadline. If reading Cervas’ name has left you scratching your head, you’re not alone. He is not a well-known politician, a pundit who offers opinions on cable news or a famous attorney who hosts a podcast. In fact, he’s not even from New York. But Cervas has lots of experience cleaning up redistricting messes, a doctorate in political science and has done extensive research on reapportionment. As he goes about his new task of evaluating the state Senate and congressional maps in order to create new ones, here are four things to know about the man entrust-

Cervas is a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has worked on three other major redistricting cases in his career.

ed with drawing lines that could impact the national balance of Congress. THIS IS NOT CERVAS’ FIRST RODEO Cervas most recently served as a consultant for the Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission, tasked with redistricting in his home state. The maps he helped draw had bipartisan approval, with four out of the five commission members representing both Democrats and Republicans voting in favor of the lines he helped create. And when the maps headed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for final approval, the court backed them unanimously – a rarity in a state where the courts often split along party lines. Cervas received praise for his work in Pennsylvania, with commission Chair Mark Nordenberg telling Spectrum News that he is “smart, well-educated, experienced, knows the law and really is committed to basic fairness under the law.” BUT CERVAS IS FLYING SOLO FOR THE FIRST TIME Although he comes in with extensive experience and credentials, this is Cervas’ first time serving as a court-appointed special master. In the past, he worked as an assis-

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“(He is) smart, well-educated, experienced, knows the law and really is committed to basic fairness under the law.” – Mark Nordenberg, Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission chair

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tant to a special master in three different cases that required judicial remediation. The first was in 2017 in Utah, the second a year later in Virginia, where he helped to redraw a quarter of the state’s House of Delegates district lines, and most recently in Georgia in a case involving school districts that garnered national attention. This time around, Cervas will act as the special master himself, taking charge of the map drawing process. CERVAS LIVES AND BREATHES REDISTRICTING Cervas has both an undergraduate degree and doctorate in political science, the latter of which he earned in 2020. He wrote his dissertation on the Electoral College, exploring both its history and its consequences. Cervas is also a specialist in mapping technology, which will be a helpful tool in evaluating the fairness of legislative maps and assessing the influence of potential gerrymandering. Until relatively recently, he worked as a research associate for the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which is dedicated to ensuring fair representation during redistricting. And now, when he isn’t helping courts and states with re-

districting, Cervas is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University. Last year, he recorded a 14-minute video in which he explained “13 keys to understanding contemporary U.S. politics.” HE THINKS DONALD TRUMP SHOULD SUPPORT RANKED-CHOICE VOTING Cervas has published several academic papers relating to redistricting, democracy and the Electoral College. But one paper entitled, “Why Donald Trump Should be a Fervent Advocate of Using RankedChoice Voting in 2024,” would catch the eye of any ranked-choice voting enthusiast, particularly in New York City, which just implemented its first elections with the system last year. He makes the case, with co-author Bernard Grofman, that Trump could have won more states had the country implemented ranked-choice voting in the 2020 presidential election due to votes likely drawn away by the Libertarian candidate. Why? To show that ranked-choice voting is not just something that would benefit Democrats. Not related to redistricting, but both interesting and a testament to Cervas’ nonpartisan mindset.

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THE 2022 POWER OF DIVERSITY: ASIAN 100

SIAN AMERICANS ARE achieving breakthrough after breakthrough at the ballot box. Vice President Kamala Harris is the first Asian American (as well as the first woman and the first Black person) to occupy her post. A record number of Asian Americans serve in Congress. And while Andrew Yang fell short in his campaign to become New York City’s first Asian American mayor, politicians in other major U.S. cities reached that milestone, including in Boston and Cincinnati. An unprecedented six Asian Americans were sworn in as New York City Council members this year, following several “firsts” in the state Legislature in recent years – the first Asian Americans in the state Senate, the first South Asians in the Assembly, the first Asian American elected from upstate New York. Yet, even in New York, known for its large – and growing –

New York’s Asian American trailblazers.

Asian American population, representation lags. Nearly 1 in 10 New Yorkers are Asian, yet Rep. Grace Meng is the sole Asian American in the state’s 29-member congressional delegation. In the state Legislature, Asian Americans hold just seven out of 213 seats. Even after impressive gains, Asian American New York City Council members constitute 12% of the 51-member body, below their 14.3% share of the city’s population. At a time when anti-Asian hate is on the rise, securing greater sway in government is a key objective. City & State’s Power of Diversity: Asian 100 – researched and written in partnership with journalist Natasha Ishak – identifies New York’s Asian American leaders from a wide range of backgrounds who are gaining political power and standing up for their communities.

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1 GRACE MENG MEMBER OF CONGRESS Rep. Grace Meng is the state’s highest-ranking Asian American elected official and has served New York’s 6th Congressional District in Queens for nearly a decade since becoming New York’s first Asian American elected to Congress in 2012. In February, she joined other Asian American leaders in calling for increased education and raising awareness about anti-Asian racism while introducing legislation to study the feasibility of creating a national museum of Asian American and Pacific Islander history.

2 YUH-LINE NIOU ASSEMBLY MEMBER Assembly Member YuhLine Niou is a high-profile progressive in the Assembly. Her historic bill disaggregating data collection on Asian American and Pacific Islander

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communities and her bill to help government staffers gain sexual harassment protections were both signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul in recent months. She also secured $10 million in funding for Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations. The lower Manhattan lawmaker’s bid to unseat state Sen. Brian Kavanagh is expected to result in one of the most competitive Democratic primary races this year.

now advocating for fair pay and working conditions for home care workers. This year, he took on two other political heavyweights – the nonprofit Chinese-American Planning Council and the labor union 1199SEIU – with allegations of underpayment of home health aides.

3 RON KIM ASSEMBLY MEMBER Last year, Assembly Member Ron Kim took on then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo – and won. The chair of the Assembly’s Aging Committee, who has focused on protecting vulnerable senior citizens, continues to advocate for elderly nursing homes residents who died from COVID-19 during Cuomo’s handling of New York’s pandemic response. Kim is

New York City Education Committee, Liu has also pushed to improve diversity in the city’s public school curriculum. His committee has begun soliciting public opinion over mayoral control of the city’s public schools following the at-times chaotic nature of school reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Liu recently praised the Adams administration for expanding the city’s gifted and talented program, which had been on the chopping block.

5 4 JOHN LIU STATE SENATOR The endorsement of state Sen. John Liu was sought by many of the Asian American candidates competing in last year’s New York City elections. As chair of the state Senate’s

ASHWIN VASAN COMMISSIONER New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Dr. Ashwin Vasan’s appointment as New York City’s new health commissioner this year marks a full-circle journey from his work as the founding executive director of the department’s Health Access Equity Unit. Vasan, who’s now

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shepherding the city through yet another surge in COVID-19 cases, previously led Fountain House, a nonprofit that provides wraparound mental health services through its world-renowned housing program, while also serving as a primary care physician, a public health professor and a member of City & State’s advisory board.

6 BHAIRAVI DESAI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Business Services before helming the New York City Economic Development Corp. as its president and CEO.

9 ZOHRAN MAMDANI director of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board. She also served as federal administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and as commissioner of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission.

New York Taxi Workers Alliance Bhairavi Desai leads the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents 25,000 taxi, corporate and app-based drivers in the city. She played a leading role in last year’s driver-led hunger strike, which ultimately led to a long-sought commitment from City Hall to provide a loan program to resolve the devastating taxi medallion crisis. The worker rights organization also played a role in securing a 5.3% pay bump for Uber, Lyft and other app-based drivers.

7 MEERA JOSHI NEW YORK CITY DEPUTY MAYOR FOR OPERATIONS Meera Joshi is the first South Asian person to serve as New York City deputy mayor for operations. Her prior stints include correctional and law enforcement oversight as the first deputy executive

ASSEMBLY MEMBER Zohran Mamdani’s work as an elected official is informed by his years of activism, including operating according to a “one hand in legislation, one hand in organizing, and one hand in constituent issues” philosophy, as he described it to The Nation. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, participated in a hunger strike last year alongside taxi drivers that secured a debt relief agreement with City Hall and successfully campaigned to stop a gas power plant from being built in Astoria, Queens.

who was the inaugural chair of the state Senate Cities II Committee, was also instrumental in pushing New York’s legalization of recreational marijuana last year as co-chair of the state Senate Marijuana Task Force for the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus. He championed a measure allowing marijuana entrepreneurs to deduct business expenses from state taxes and recently introduced legislation that would facilitate banking in the cannabis industry.

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Maria Torres-Springer oversees New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ economic development team – among other responsibilities – as the deputy mayor for economic and workforce development. The first Filipina American to occupy the post, TorresSpringer is an old hand at economic oversight: She served as the commissioner of the city Department of Small

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first female Muslim member. City Council Member Julie Won is the first woman and immigrant to represent the 26th District, which includes Long Island City, Sunnyside, Astoria and Woodside. Prior to her election, Won was a tenant activist and served on Queens Community Board 2. City Council Member Chi Ossé, who has both Haitian and Chinese heritage, is one of the youngest City Council members elected to office and now represents BedfordStuyvesant and North Crown Heights.

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serve in the Assembly, chairs the chamber’s Subcommittee on Diversity in Law. Her milestone legislative package granting domestic workers full protection under the state’s human rights law and expanding paid family leave was signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul this year. She’s also pushing legislation that would make Diwali a school holiday.

12 SHAHANA HANIF, SHEKAR KRISHNAN, LINDA LEE, CHI OSSÉ, SANDRA UNG & JULIE WON A historic number of Asian Americans joined the New York City Council this past year, marking a major shift as the legislative body previously had only two Asian American members. Most of the cohort represent parts of Queens,

including Council Member Linda Lee, whose district encompasses parts of eastern Queens. She chairs the City Council’s Mental Health, Disabilities and Addictions Committee and also cochairs its Queens delegation. Council Member Sandra Ung represents District 20, which includes Downtown Flushing, Murray Hill and Queensboro Hill, and is one of the four Asian women on the City Council. A community organizer and attorney, Ung previously provided legal counsel for a nonprofit serving gender-based violence victims and served as executive director of the At The Table PAC. Both Shekar Krishnan, previously a housing activist and civil rights lawyer, and Shahana Hanif, a former staffer in then-City Council Member Brad Lander’s office, made history as the first candidates of South Asian descent to join the City Council. The daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, Hanif is also the legislative body’s

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13 NEAL KWATRA FOUNDER AND CEO Metropolitan Public Strategies Neal Kwatra has built his company, Metropolitan Public Strategies, into one of New York’s most effective strategic consulting firms. Last year, Kwatra ran the $2 million political campaign blitz for Hotel Workers for Stronger Communities, a political action committee under the auspices of the Hotel Trades Council – one of MPS’ biggest clients – in support of Eric Adams’ successful mayoral bid. Kwatra is increasingly focused on combating climate change, working with clients on offshore wind, building decarbonization and the state Environmental Bond Act before voters this fall.

Ibrahim Khan, a seasoned political operative, has worked with state Attorney General Letitia James since her days as New York City public advocate. The state attorney general’s office is keeping Khan and his 1,800 colleagues plenty busy: Its bombshell investigative report on the sexual harassment allegations against Andrew Cuomo ultimately led to his political demise as governor, and a judge ruled that James can interview former President Donald Trump and his adult children as part of the ongoing investigation into The Trump Organization’s financial statements.

15 KEVIN THOMAS STATE SENATOR Kevin Thomas has represented Long Island since 2019, when his election victory made him the first Indian American to serve in the state Senate. As chair of the chamber’s Consumer Protection Committee, he recently introduced a bill that

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17 KEVIN D. KIM COMMISSIONER New York City Department of Small Business Services Before his recent appointment to head the New York City Department of Small Business Services, Kevin D. Kim was the first Asian American commissioner of the state

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provided by its communitybased network organizations for Asian New Yorkers. Yoo was also tapped to serve on New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ COVID-19 Recovery Roundtable and Health Equity Task Force.

wastewater testing project conducted by the school’s Wastewater Epidemiology Training Laboratory. In March, Wu announced that the college will open a new business school as part of its five-year strategic plan.

20 EDITH HSU-CHEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York City Department of City Planning

21 PETER TU EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Flushing Chinese Business Association Peter Tu is a Queens business leader and the head of the Flushing Chinese Business Association, which advocates for the economic interests of Flushing’s many Asian

24 businesses. As executive director, Tu has pushed for further revitalization efforts for businesses impacted by the pandemic. The association pledged support for Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s legislation to replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund and supply new relief for local businesses.

is among eight community organizations authorized to distribute $27 million in state funding for Hurricane Ida victims ineligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance due to their immigration status.

22 WAYNE HO PRESIDENT AND CEO Chinese-American Planning Council Wayne Ho has served as president and CEO of the Chinese-American Planning Council, one of the country’s largest Asian American social service agencies, since 2017. The group provides services to some 2,000 senior residents and

Tu represents the economic interests of many of Flushing's Asian businesses.

23 FRANK WU PRESIDENT Queens College Queens College has had plenty of exciting developments since Frank Wu’s 2020 appointment as president. This includes news that the college is expected to receive $1.8 million in federal funding for a COVID-19

S. DAVID WU PRESIDENT Baruch College Since his appointment as Baruch College’s president in February 2020, S. David Wu has worked to ensure the continued growth of the school amid a pandemic that has disrupted education at all levels. Following the launch of Baruch’s new Financial Engineering Hub, meant to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration between students and real experts, the college concluded the year with the unveiling of its first permanent student center.

25 ANNE DEL CASTILLO COMMISSIONER New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Anne del Castillo, who has led the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment since 2019, will continue to do so in the Adams administration.

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Edith Hsu-Chen, who was appointed to run the New York City Department of City Planning in January, has been part of the office since 1997. After emigrating with her parents from Taiwan, she started as an intern at the department before occupying other roles over the years. Her most recent post was borough director for Manhattan. Hsu-Chen holds a bachelor’s degree in design of the environment from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in urban planning from Harvard University.

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a New York flagship public university by Gov. Kathy Hochul, further burnishing its reputation as one of the state’s preeminent academic institutions. Tripathi in March was named one of Western New York’s 250 most powerful figures by The Business Journals.

JOON H. KIM ATTORNEY Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton As a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Joon H. Kim specializes in internal investigations and regulatory enforcement. Kim became known to the wider public after his press conference appearance last year, where he detailed findings in the five-month investigation against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo that he co-led for the state attorney general’s office. Kim was formerly acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

30 SATISH TRIPATHI PRESIDENT University at Buffalo This year marks Satish Tripathi’s 11th year as president of the University at Buffalo. In January, the SUNY school received joint designation as

31 AI-JEN POO CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Domestic Workers Alliance Ai-jen Poo has pushed the labor movement to new heights since co-founding the National Domestic Workers Alliance in 2007. In New York, the organization played a key role in the inclusion of domestic workers in the New York City Human Rights law, securing legal protections for 60,000 domestic workers, and partnered with the city to ensure care workers had access to vital pandemic resources.

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FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT Alliance of South Asian American Labor Maf Misbah Uddin is one of New York’s most politically active labor leaders. Beyond his responsibilities as the Alliance of South Asian American Labor’s president, Uddin occupies leadership posts with other labor groups. He serves as treasurer of District Council 37, the city’s largest public employee union, and leads Local 1407. He was recently appointed to New York City’s new redistricting panel.

33 ED DOMINGO PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts Filipino American businessman Ed Domingo oversees the daily operations of Empire City Casino, the sixth-largest gaming floor in the U.S., and its historic Yonkers Raceway counterpart. The casino, acquired by MGM in 2019, currently has more

than 1,000 employees and hosts an estimated 9 million visitors annually. Empire City is expected to be one of the leading contenders to secure a commercial casino license now that legislators have authorized three full-fledged casinos in downstate New York this year.

spearheaded a coalition advocating for greater representation for Asian Americans in New York City through redistricting.

34 JOHN PARK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MinKwon Center for Community Action John Park has led the MinKwon Center for Community Action since 2017. He and his staff help low-income Korean and Asian immigrant residents through social services and advocacy. The MinKwon Center has provided support for community members amid rising anti-Asian hate crimes, teaming up with other local groups to launch Hate Free Zones in Flushing where residents can access designated “safe zones” and resources for help. Park also

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36 RAJIV SHAH PRESIDENT The Rockefeller Foundation Dr. Rajiv Shah has had a distinguished career in philanthropy. He served as United States Agency for International Development administrator under former President Barack Obama, leading the aid agency’s $20 billion operations in 70 countries around the world. He also spent several years as director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A Michigan native, Shah now leads The Rockefeller Foundation’s global humanitarian operations out of its New York headquarters.

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New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate Resiliency New York City’s climate resiliency plans took on greater urgency after the remnants of Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc across the city’s boroughs last year. As head of the Mayor’s

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diversity efforts. Saeed was named this year’s “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America, a peer review legal publication.

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Office of Climate Resiliency, Jainey Bavishi oversees the city’s climate protection plans. That includes the embattled $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency Project to construct a 10-foot-high floodgate deeprooted in steel stretching from East 25th Street all the way downtown. She was nominated last summer to be the assistant secretary for oceans and atmosphere at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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RICHARD SIU CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER F&T Group Richard Siu oversees important investments made by New York real estate developer F&T Group. The company’s portfolio of developments around Queens includes the Special Flushing Waterfront District, a major redevelopment project. Another landmark development by Siu’s company is the $800 million Tangram complex, a 1.2-million-square-foot retail and residential project featuring shops, a hotel and a movie theater in the heart of downtown Flushing.

39 NINA KUBOTA PRESIDENT AND CEO New York City School Construction Authority Nina Kubota is a veteran public servant at the New York City School Construction Authority, where she has served for more than two decades. She took on a number of roles in the department, including vice president of capital plan

management, before she was appointed as its president and CEO by then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2021. The authority plans to open 12 new buildings and seven pre-K centers this year.

40 ANITA GUNDANNA & VANESSA LEUNG CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Coalition for Asian American Children and Families This year has been full of wins for Anita Gundanna and Vanessa Leung, who have directed the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families together since 2017. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill to disaggregate data collection among different Asian American and Pacific Islander groups, a cause the CAACF has advocated for a decade, and the group received $1 million to support its work with New York’s Asian youth.

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Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Margaret Fung leads the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which provides valuable resources and legal assistance to New York City’s vulnerable Asian communities in landmark civil rights cases. AALDEF is focused on educational outreach amid rising antiAsian violence and is part of a coalition of organizations aiming to gain citizenship for 2 million eligible immigrants this year.

Spectrum News NY1 Emily Ngo is a political reporter and occasional pundit. She grew up in Chicago but has kept New Yorkers up to date on the political scene since 2007, reporting on legislation, gubernatorial races and citywide elections. She covered last year’s competitive mayoral race and continues to follow the Adams administration. Her reporting has earned her awards from the Deadline Club and the New York Press Club.

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DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST Born in Hong Kong and raised in New York City’s Chinatown, Chung Seto has deep ties within the city. She held leadership roles with political groups, such as the New York State Democratic Committee, and has worked on campaigns for elected officials like state Sen. John Liu and Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou. Seto is also part of the United Democratic Organization, a political club in lower Manhattan.

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EXECUTIVE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE State Department of Financial Services My Chi To oversees the state Department of Financial Services’ insurance department, a crucial role she assumed just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her division, which regulates all 1,800 insurance companies operating in New York, has been part of DFS’ diversity efforts to reduce biases in the industry and to mitigate climate-related risk management for insurers. She is a former Rhodes Scholar and worked as a partner at

notable reports in recent years are its 2020 study on the impact of COVID-19-related parental loss for New York’s children, and its overview of the health policy agendas of the leading New York City mayoral candidates ahead of last year’s elections.

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47 WELLINGTON CHEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corp. Wellington Chen steers the Chinatown Partnership, an organization launched in 2006 with the aim of rebuilding and revitalizing the Manhattan neighborhood. The organization partners with private and public entities – including the Chinatown Business Improvement District – to provide economic support for Chinatown’s businesses. Chen is also part of a planning committee overseeing $20 million worth of investments by the state to revitalize Chinatown as part of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative.

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48 PRESIDENT AND CEO The Children’s Village Jeremy Kohomban, who is Sri Lankan, leads two children’s services nonprofits: The Children’s Village, a Dobbs Ferry-based organization that serves 17,000 individuals every year, and Harlem Dowling, which is headquartered in Manhattan. Both are part of the Fair Futures coalition, which sought $35 million of baseline funding to provide individual coaches to foster youths. His nonprofit is working to repurpose Manhattan’s Inwood Library to include affordable housing.

49 HAE-LIN CHOI STATE POLITICAL DIRECTOR Communications Workers of America District 1 Hae-Lin Choi has kept busy as the political director of one of the state’s most politically active unions. Choi has helped Communications Workers of

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America District 1 deliver a number of victories in recent years, including a state law on nurse staffing levels, a tax hike on wealthy New Yorkers and health care strikes in Western New York that paved the way for better worker contracts. Now, the union is pushing to strengthen labor standards for broadband workers and have lent support to Starbucks employees striking upstate.

serves as counsel to QBE North America. In March, AABANY, together with like-minded organizations, filed a court brief addressing suspected racial bias in a ruling involving a Korean American individual.

50 WILLIAM NG & KAREN KIM PRESIDENT; PRESIDENTELECT Asian American Bar Association of New York William Ng took over as president and Karen Kim as president-elect of the Asian American Bar Association of New York in April. Ng is a shareholder at Littler, a major employment and labor law firm. A Brooklyn Law School alumnus, Kim has practiced law for over a decade and

Kohomban leads two children's services nonprofits in New York.

51 CARL HUM GENERAL COUNSEL AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Real Estate Board of New York Carl Hum advised the Real Estate Board of New York on legal regulatory matters related to building codes and construction before assuming his current role as the organization’s senior vice president. Prior to joining the powerful trade group, Hum worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and

the New York City Department of Small Business Services. He also led advocacy work with the nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

52 NADEEM MEGHJI HEAD OF REAL ESTATE AMERICAS Blackstone As head of Blackstone’s Americas real estate division, Nadeem Meghji is the private equity firm’s top property investments executive, responsible for building its U.S. portfolio. This includes big-ticket acquisitions such as New York City’s Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village and the BioMed Realty Trust. Meghji, who has a number of family members who suffer from lupus, is an avid fundraiser for lupus research

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53 SAMIR NEJAME CHAIR, NEW YORK STATE GOVERNMENT LAW & POLICY PRACTICE Greenberg Traurig As chair of Greenberg Traurig’s New York State Government Law & Policy Practice, Samir NeJame is committed to serving his clients as they continue to grapple with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This includes real estate clients like the Real Estate Board of New York and Tishman Speyer, one of the largest landlords in the country. NeJame’s legal expertise has also been sought by municipal governments like Westchester County and Syracuse.

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57 MYUNG LEE PRESIDENT AND CEO Volunteers of AmericaGreater New York Myung Lee is now two years into her role leading

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Taiwanese and Hong Kong immigrants broke through a generation ago. Other groups are now making progress. By Jasmine Sheena

N MARCH 31, 1996, an actuary named John Liu was taking the subway to work when he read something that changed his life. A story he was reading in The New York Times that described the discomfort that some longtime Flushing, Queens, residents felt about the growing local Asian American population. Julia Harrison, Liu’s representative on the New York City Council at the time, assailed the influx of immigrants in the neighborhood as “an invasion, not an assimilation.” The article galvanized Liu to run for office. He mounted an unsuccessful challenge against Harrison in 1997, then won the seat four years later when the longtime incumbent stepped down due to term limits. Liu, who is Taiwanese American, became the first Asian American to serve in the New York City Council. After two terms, he went on to be the first Asian American to serve in a citywide

post as comptroller. Liu, whose groundbreaking career in city and state politics paved the way for other Asian American politicians in the first decade of the 2000s, was elected to the state Senate in 2018, just as a new group of Asian Americans began winning legislative seats in Albany and New York City. While the first waves were made up primarily of politicians who are Taiwanese American or originally from Hong Kong, more recent breakthroughs reflect the fuller diversity of the Asian American community, including immigrant groups that arrived later in the U.S. Following on Liu’s heels were two other trailblazing Taiwanese Americans. One was Jimmy Meng, who became the first Asian American in the state Legislature when he assumed office in the Assembly in 2005. Meng’s daughter, Grace Meng, also served in the Assembly before becoming New York’s first Asian American woman elected to Congress in 2012. In 2009, Margaret Chin and Peter Koo, who emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1960s and early 1970s, were elected to the New York City Council. The first major waves of immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong in the past century began arriving in the U.S. in the 1960s. For the first generation, the overarching priority was often to find work and put down roots in the United States. Only after some time, typically in the second or third generation, do members of an immigrant community become more politically involved.

“Even for Korean Americans, we came earlier but not as early as some of the diasporas in the Chinese and Taiwanese communities,” said New York City Council Member Linda Lee, who made history this year as the first Korean American woman to serve in the legislative body. “When you’re coming over as an immigrant, you’re just thinking in survival mode, and you’re thinking about how to set up shop and provide for your family. Once you become a little bit more established, that’s when people begin to sort of look upwards, and they start seeing around them how important it is to have that political voice and power to help out the community.” While New York elected its first Korean American, Assembly Member Ron Kim, nearly a decade ago, South Asian Americans have won legislative seats in the state for the first time only in recent years – likely due in part to the fact that South Asian immigration particularly flourished slightly later, from the 1970s forward. Kevin Thomas, a Long Islander who is Indian American, joined Liu as the first Asian Americans in the state Senate in 2019. In 2020, voters elected Jeremy Cooney, an orphan adopted from Kolkata, India, who grew up in Rochester, to the state Senate, making him the first South Asian person elected to state office from upstate New York. Voters also elected in 2020 Assembly Members Zohran Mamdani, an Indian Ugandan man who came to New York City as a child, and Jenifer Rajkumar, an Indian woman who grew up in Queens.

“Once you become a little bit more established, that’s when people begin to sort of look upwards, and they start seeing ... how important it is to have that political voice.” – New York City Council Member Linda Lee

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New wave of Asian Americans seizing elected office

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Asian American City Council members, from top left to bottom right: Chi Ossé, Julie Won, Linda Lee, Sandra Ung and Shekar Krishnan

This past election cycle, a record six Asian Americans won contests for the New York City Council, including Shekar Krishnan, an Indian American man, and Shahana Hanif, a Bangladeshi American and the first Muslim woman to win a seat in the legislative body. Despite the recent gains, Susan Kang, an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that Asian Americans as a whole are still catching up with other racial and ethnic groups that are more well established in New York’s political sphere. “Asian Americans in New York City and New York state entered into political representation later than other groups like the Latinx community. We’re a bit later entering,” she said. “That could be for a number of reasons, like our

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immigration patterns are more recent. After basically overturning the Chinese Exclusion Act and the reforms to immigration, people like my parents were able to come over. There’s more representation on the West Coast than compared to the East Coast because there’s greater populations there too.” Political consultant Neal Kwatra said South Asians have to continue to build on their noteworthy successes. “Other communities have done that work of cultivating and bringing forward candidates and organizing their communities very effectively,” Kwatra said. “I think it’s great that the South Asian community is beginning to coalesce, but I do think like any community, there are challenges even within the South Asian community. It’s not a monolith. Bangladeshis and

Pakistanis and Indians don’t always agree on the same thing.” Other obstacles loom, notably redistricting and the need to cultivate political leaders and address the unique issues different Asian American communities face. The state Legislature’s redistricting plan that was just thrown out would have created some new districts built around specific Asian American communities. But critics argued the plan would have proven detrimental to future South Asian American candidates as certain neighborhoods with strong South Asian populations, such as Flushing, Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park, would have been split up. Often, Asian American communities have long been represented by entrenched white politicians who may not

have a strong grasp on the issues or needs of the people they represent. Only recently have Asian American voters seen more candidates with a shared background run for office and have a meaningful chance at winning. Political consultant Trip Yang observed that the new generation of Asian American candidates are winning support not just among members of an immigrant enclave but with the larger public. “There was this type of discourse politically that Asian Americans can only represent Asian Americans,” Yang said. “What we’ve seen with the success of the recent class of Asian American elections is that’s simply not true. Asian Americans are able to communicate and build trust across different communities and build various multiracial coalitions.”

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Volunteers of America-Greater New York, a human services nonprofit delivering housing, mental health services and other support to 30,000 people each year. She has leveraged her role to call on state leaders to do more nonprofits and the people they support. Earlier this year, Lee called for the state to commit $250 million in funding for the Housing Access Voucher Program and for improvements to New York City’s contracting process with nonprofits.

58 SENIOR MANAGER OF POLICY AND ADVOCACY The Sikh Coalition Nikki Singh oversees The Sikh Coalition’s on-theground political activism. Her leadership has helped pass hate crime legislation in states like Indiana and Georgia and workplace religious freedom laws in New York. In 2020, Singh managed the coalition’s census and voter outreach efforts targeting Sikh Americans across the U.S. She previously worked at the Clinton Foundation and the Human Rights Foundation.

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policy for the New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Anjam works heavily with The Parkside Group’s nonprofit clients in the labor and environmental sectors.

He mostly works with progressive candidates of color, spearheading successful campaigns for elected officials like New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and state Attorney General Letitia James. He sits on the advisory board of the New Leaders Council, which trains young progressives, and was the political director for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign. Editor's Note: Trip Yang is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

technical state employees in New York. As its political director, Leah Gonzalez directs the labor group’s political organizing and campaigning. PEF notched several victories in the latest state budget, including increased funds for state agency staffing and a worker-friendly revision of a state pension tier. Gonzalez worked with the influential 1199SEIU health care workers union before taking on her current role.

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TRIP YANG

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FOUNDER

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Trip Yang Strategies

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Saima Anjam brings a long history of advocacy work to her work at The Parkside Group. She is a former senior director of advocacy for the New York Immigration Coalition, where she worked on issues like expanding health care access for immigrants, and previously served as the director of public

Trip Yang founded his eponymous political consulting firm in 2019.

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The New York State Public Employees Federation is a union representing over 50,000 professional and

Singh oversees The Sikh Coalition's on-the-ground political activism.

62 NAYAN PARIKH PRESIDENT Ashnu International Nayan Parikh is committed to expanding opportunities

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for minority entrepreneurs. The founder and president of Ashnu International, a New York City-based general contracting and construction management company, Parikh also sits on the New York City Minority and WomenOwned Business Enterprises Advisory Board, and serves as president of the New York TriState Chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors, which provides networking opportunities for businesses.

63 JENNIFER SUN & THOMAS YU CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Asian Americans for Equality Asian Americans for Equality has supported New York’s Asian communities since 1974. Under Jennifer Sun and Thomas Yu’s leadership, the nonprofit this year offered free legal clinics for residents and created a $1 million emergency loan program to assist small businesses destroyed by the March fire in Queens. The group will also receive new funds from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $6.8 million aid package supporting Asian American groups.

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Claims and as a director on the New York County Lawyers Association board. Pappachan was appointed in December by then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve on New York’s Civil Court; she presides over Criminal Court cases as well.

65 CHHAYA CHHOUM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Mekong NYC A former refugee herself, Chhaya Chhoum leads Mekong NYC, a nonprofit serving Southeast Asian refugees and elderly residents in the Bronx. Beyond providing mutual aid, the group advocates for legislation supporting lowincome immigrant workers such as the Nail Salon Minimum Standards Council Act. Chhoum frequently speaks on refugee issues, including recent appearances on panels organized by the World Health Organization and Manhattan College.

of sexual trafficking. A survivor of trafficking herself, in 2014, Woworuntu founded Mentari, a Queens-based nonprofit that provides services for trafficking survivors. In February, she appeared alongside U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and other advocates as New York’s junior senator unveiled bipartisan legislation supporting human trafficking survivors.

67 HENRY CHEN PRESIDENT Somos Community Care Dr. Henry Chen serves as president of Somos Community Care, which serves 650,000 patients through its network of 3,500 neighborhood health care providers. Chen has spoken of his own experience facing a racist assault during the pandemic. Last year, he

64 L. AUSTIN D’SOUZA & SRIVIDYA PAPPACHAN PRESIDENT; PRESIDENTELECT South Asian Bar Association of New York L. Austin D’Souza and Vidya Pappachan jointly lead the South Asian Bar Association of New York. Outside the organization, D’Souza serves as principal law clerk at the New York State Court of

66 SHANDRA WOWORUNTU FOUNDER AND CEO Mentari Shandra Woworuntu, who hails from Indonesia, is known among her peers as a powerful advocate for victims

Mekong NYC Executive Director Chhaya Chhoum

estimated that up to 30% of his elderly patients have stopped making appointments with his organization due to their fears of being attacked.

68 RICHARD KIM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The City In January, Richard Kim was appointed as editor-in-chief of The City, an award-winning nonprofit publication that has

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quickly become one of New York’s leading news outlets. He served in leadership roles at other major online and print publications, including as executive editor at HuffPost and at The Nation. Kim succeeds Jere Hester, The City’s founding editor-in-chief, who returned to a director role at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

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secured a statewide injunction requiring that the state count mail-in ballots two days after the primary and sued the Brooklyn Democratic Party for failing to hold meetings. He is also bringing a lawsuit on behalf of Rep Your Block against the Brooklyn Democratic Party, alleging signatures were forged on petition challenges. “I really love the law, the practice of it, the trial aspect, and I love politics,” Najmi told City & State in 2021.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OF DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AECOM Ali Chaudhry, who is from Pakistan, is a rising star in the construction sector. His prior government work has informed his current role at AECOM: He held multiple titles in the Cuomo administration, including that of deputy secretary for transportation. Chaudhry is busy guiding his firm’s numerous landmark projects, including the rehabilitation of the BrooklynQueens Expressway and LaGuardia Airport.

70 JOHN WANG FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT Asian American Business Development Center John Wang has led the Asian American Business Development Center for nearly three decades, supporting

Asian businesses through a variety of initiatives. The group’s annual 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business gala has sought to uplift Asian American leaders inside and outside the business sector for more than two decades. The center is partnering with the groups One Hundred Black Men and the Hispanic Federation to dispense COVID-19 grants to small businesses representing minority communities.

71 SAYU BHOJWANI FOUNDER Women’s Democracy Lab Sayu Bhojwani’s work can most often be found at the intersection of immigrant issues, gender equality and civic affairs. She founded New American Leaders, a nonprofit

Najmi is taking on the Brooklyn Democratic Party on behalf of Rep Your Block.

73 organization that supports immigrant candidates for public office, and now leads the Women’s Democracy Lab, which she launched last year. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Bhojwani was New York City’s first immigrant affairs commissioner. Editor's Note: Sayu Bhojwani is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

72 ALI NAJMI PRINCIPAL Najmi Law Ali Najmi doesn’t hesitate to take on the political establishment. The attorney

BHAV TIBREWAL POLITICAL DIRECTOR Hotel Trades Council The recently renamed New York Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, which represents 40,000 hotel and gaming workers in New York and New Jersey, is one of New York’s most powerful labor unions. The son of Indian immigrants, Bhav Tibrewal has been integral to furthering the council’s political priorities for years, first as deputy political director and now as political director. The Hotel Trades Council is also celebrating a move to expedite three fullfledged casinos in downstate New York, which will create new jobs for its members.

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the association organized civic engagement events like get out the vote campaigns targeting New York’s Korean diaspora and a mayoral candidate forum.

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CHAIR The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New York

VIJAY DANDAPANI PRESIDENT AND CEO Hotel Association of New York City Vijay Dandapani co-founded the boutique hotel owneroperator Apple Core Hotels in 1993. As head of the Hotel Association of New York City, he is working to keep New York’s hotels running amid the pandemic’s economic downturn and was instrumental in coordinating the quick conversion of hotels into shelters. The trade group is campaigning for a break on late tax payments for city hotels.

75 ERIC WEI SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF QUALITY OFFICER New York City Health + Hospitals As senior vice president and chief quality officer of New York City Health + Hospitals, Dr. Eric Wei oversees the quality standards for care

Eric Wei of New York City Health + Hospitals

services at these public health care facilities. An emergency medicine specialist, Wei led New York City Health + Hospitals’ emergency department’s COVID-19 fundraising efforts, which raised $30 million to support the health system’s programs during the pandemic.

76 SOOHYUNG KIM CHAIR Bally’s Corp. Soohyung Kim chairs Bally’s Corp., a global casinoentertainment company. Kim, who grew up in Queens, is

Yoon advocates for the roughly 500,000 Korean Americans in New York.

also a founding partner of investment firm Standard General LP, which is the largest Bally’s shareholder. This year, Kim has sought to buy out the remaining Bally’s shares. Bally’s is one of several casinos vying to secure city contracts ahead of the state’s approval for a new downstate casino.

Justin Yu is a community leader in New York City who chairs the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New York, which is dedicated to representing and advocating for local Chinese businesses. The coronavirus pandemic created severe challenges for Asian American businesses, but it also spawned a renewed sense of solidarity among Asian Americans and allies, he said. “I have never seen so many young people coming back to town, coming back to help,” he told CBS this spring.

77 CHARLES YOON PRESIDENT Korean American Association of Greater New York Charles Yoon has been president of the Korean American Association of Greater New York since 2019. The Manhattan-based group aims to advocate on behalf of the interests of New York’s roughly 500,000 Korean Americans. Leading up to last year’s citywide elections,

79 ANNETTA SEECHARRAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chhaya Community Development Corp. Annetta Seecharran directs Chhaya’s program services geared toward supporting low-income South Asian and

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first nail salon industry council authorized to set working condition standards for nail salon workers like minimum wages and paid time off.

83 PAUL MAK PRESIDENT AND CEO Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Adhikaar Executive Director Pabitra Benjamin

Indo-Caribbean New Yorkers. A Guyanese immigrant, Seecharran spoke out about the tragic deaths of residents who drowned in their basement apartments – many of whom were Asian immigrants – during the remnants of Hurricane Ida last year. Seecharran also co-founded the New York State Immigration Action Fund and serves on the board of the New York Immigration Coalition.

80 KAMAL BHERWANI CEO GCOM Kamal Bherwani spent half of his career in New York City government. He left to

work in the private sector in 1994 but returned as the city Department of Design and Construction’s first chief information officer in 1997. As chief executive officer of GCOM for nearly three years, Bherwani wants the major New York government tech contractor to “be known as the company that helps government create healthier and more prosperous communities.” Editor’s Note: Kamal Bherwani is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

Mak launched the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association back in 1988.

Paul Mak is a community leader in Brooklyn who launched the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association in 1988 to address the unmet needs of the borough’s growing Chinese communities and has led the organization since. Among its victories, the association led community campaigns last year against the state Department of Transportation’s plan to build protected bike lanes on Sunset Park streets; the plan was scrapped after heavy protests from Asian American community members.

CO-CHAIRS, STEERING COMMITTEE GAPIMNY: Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders GAPIMNY is a memberbased organization that has advocated and supported LGBTQ-identifying AAPI individuals in New York since 1990. Wu is a lawyer and attorney-in-charge of The Legal Aid Society’s Harlem Community Law Office. Shen is GAPIMNY’s first transgender co-chair. He served on the steering committee for Q-Wave, a New York-based community nonprofit supporting LGTBQ Asians. Kwong, who works in public health policy, previously worked with the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance in San Francisco.

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Sanjay Mody has been at Windels Marx for nearly a decade, advising clients in infrastructure, real estate and urban economic development. A self-described urbanist, Mody speaks extensively on infrastructure development and has advocated for more hybrid private-public partnerships. He is treasurer of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy board and a former senior adviser to the

The driving force behind Adhikaar, an advocacy group serving Nepali domestic workers, is Executive Director Pabitra Benjamin, who has led the organization since 2015. Together with community partners and elected officials, the group introduced the groundbreaking Nail Salon Minimum Standards Council Act, which would establish the

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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s chair.

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in areas of privacy law. Clark handled white-collar crimes and investigations as an assistant district attorney in Queens.

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

85 ALI RASHID PRESIDENT American Pakistani Advocacy Group The American Pakistani Advocacy Group is dedicated to supporting Pakistani New Yorkers through mutual aid and advocacy. Under Ali Rashid’s leadership, the nonprofit has campaigned for important legislation like the non-citizen voting bill passed by the City Council this year, and the Language Access Act, requiring state agency documents to be provided in 13 languages. APAG recently launched a scholarship for Pakistani American students attending CUNY and SUNY schools.

state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and NYC Health + Hospitals. Chae is a board director of Stonewall Community Development, which offers supportive programs for elderly LGBTQ individuals.

Plan, which aims for greater accessibility and sustainability of the city’s open streets.

The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance represents 1,927 AAPI and immigrant workers nationally. As head of the organization’s New York chapter, Steven Moy led voter campaigns ahead of last year’s elections and mobilized members to support Stop Asian Hate rallies. Moy is the former president of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus’ New York chapter and serves on the executive board of IBEW Local 3.

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JUSTIN CHAE

Taehoon Kim and John Choe have co-led the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce for years now. Their focus during the COVID-19 pandemic has been organizing public events to support the reopening of Flushing’s Asian businesses. The Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce is part of a broad coalition that has been calling for city officials to fully fund the NYC Streets

Anna Mercado Clark leads the data security and privacy, and e-discovery and digital forensics practice team at the law firm Phillips Lytle. She advises clients on cybersecurity and data privacy matters – her specialty – and is a designated Fellow of Information Privacy, a prestigious professional certification demonstrating comprehensive knowledge

Steven Choi is best known for his work as executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, having led the immigrant advocacy group for seven years. Prior to that, he led the MinKwon Center for Community Action, which offers social services for low-income Korean residents. He now helms One For Democracy, a coalition of executives dedicating their personal wealth to

CO-FOUNDER AND CEO Meridian Strategies Justin Chae is the CEO of Meridian Strategies, a political consulting firm that he cofounded just three years ago at age 19. The political operative has worked with the likes of fformer City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito,

Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce

Choi now leads One For Democracy, after many years at the helm of NYIC.

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democracy-strengthening efforts, and was one of a half dozen co-chairs of Mayor Eric Adams’ transition committee.

Kaushal Challa of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

91 KAUSHAL CHALLA Charles B. Wang Community Health Center Kaushal Challa is the CEO of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, a federally qualified primary care center in New York that primarily serves non-English speaking and low-income residents. The center, which operates five locations across Manhattan and Queens seven days a week, has been a crucial health care resource during the pandemic, administering more than 70,000 vaccinations since the start of the outbreak.

92 SUDHA SETTY INCOMING DEAN CUNY School of Law A top lawyer in her own right, Sudha Setty will make history as the first South Asian to lead a CUNY school when she begins her tenure in July as dean of the CUNY School of Law. She previously served as the dean of the Western New England University School of Law, where she led the creation of the Center for Social Justice, which provides a framework for the school’s work in social justice law.

93 S. MITRA KALITA CO-FOUNDER AND CEO URL Media When COVID-19 began to ravage her Jackson Heights

Kalita launched a critical COVID-19 newsletter to help inform New Yorkers.

neighborhood, S. Mitra Kalita launched Epicenter-NYC, a COVID-19 informational newsletter for New Yorkers. It became a critical news source, helping 5,000 readers navigate chaotic vaccination registrations. Kalita later cofounded URL Media, a network of Black and brown community news outlets. She is a former senior vice president for news, opinion, and programming at CNN Digital.

94 MON YUCK YU EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OF STAFF Academy of Medical & Public Health Services Mon Yuck Yu drives the Academy of Medical & Public Health Services’ efforts to provide culturally sensitive

95 MAULIN MEHTA NEW YORK DIRECTOR Regional Plan Association The Regional Plan Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary as one of the most influential advocacy groups focused on land use, transportation and other issues across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. A certified urban planner, Maulin Mehta leads the organization’s research and advocacy efforts in the state of New York. Mehta praised Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier this year for backing the creation of an Interborough Express, which would connect portions of Brooklyn and Queens by train.

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health services for immigrant residents. Yu oversees the nonprofit’s daily operations, managing staff and building community partnerships. She serves on the Test & Trace Community Advisory Board of NYC Health + Hospitals. She previously worked with the American Red Cross and the Chinese-American Planning Council.

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96 KUMAR RAO SENIOR DIRECTOR OF POLICY & STRATEGY New York Working Families Party

nonprofit works to make sure they have access to housing, public benefits and legal assistance. When Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $10 million in funding would be awarded to community organizations serving Asian American communities in February, Burmese Community Services was named as one of the recipients.

Kumar Rao has led the insurgent New York Working Families Party’s political strategies since 2020. He is the former director of justice transformation at the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group, and co-founded Desis United, a project of New American Voices PAC, for targeted media outreach to Indian American voters in the 2020 elections. He is a former litigator and is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School.

Civil rights attorney Elizabeth OuYang

SASHA NEHA AHUJA NATIONAL DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Planned Parenthood Federation of America Sasha Neha Ahuja is a longtime queer Indian American advocate. She has worked with various gender equity-driven groups like Planned Parenthood – where she’s now national director for strategic partnerships – and Girls for Gender Equity, a Brooklyn organization that works to end gender-based violence toward girls of color. When she is not fulfilling her duties as a commissioner on the city’s Gender Equity

Commission, she teaches social work at Columbia University.

98 ELIZABETH OUYANG CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY Elizabeth OuYang is a civil rights attorney and advocate whose commitment to social justice was crystallized by the 1982 high-profile murder of Vincent Chin. She has worked with numerous advocacy groups and has provided

Sanyu's group is dedicated to helping Burmese immigrants settle in Buffalo.

valuable legal counsel for AAPI organizations like the New York Immigration Coalition and APA VOICE. She helped coordinate Asian American community groups advocating for representation ahead of the state’s recent redrawing of district maps.

99 STEVEN SANYU PRESIDENT Burmese Community Services Steven Sanyu has been a longtime leader in Buffalo’s Burmese community, heading an organization dedicated to helping Burmese refugees and immigrants. Between 8,000 to 15,000 Burmese people reside in Buffalo, and Sanyu’s

100 JAN LEE CO-FOUNDER Neighbors United Below Canal New York City’s plan to build borough-based jails has received significant backlash in Chinatown, where the Manhattan jail is set to be located. Jan Lee and a group he helps lead, Neighbors United Below Canal, have been vocal opponents of the project, arguing it would have a negative environmental and economic impact on the community. Lee rallied together with other protesters in April in an attempt to block the demolition of the existing Manhattan Detention Complex.

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Notice of Qual. of 662 PACIFIC OWNER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/17/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 3/16/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 400 West 59th St, New York, NY 10019. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of CRS STONE SUPPLY LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 3/14/22.Office location: Montgomery SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Po Box 520, Fonda, NY 12068 Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qualification of 176-8 URBAN EQUITY A S S O C I AT E S LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/2 2 . O f fice location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/28/22. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o LTN Capital Group, Inc., 75 East Houston St., 2 nd Fl., NY, NY 10012. Address to be maintained in DE: 838 Walker Rd., Ste. 21-2, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of RECHAN N YC LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/2 2 . O f fice location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to: c/o 2211 Southwinds D r. , N a p l e s , F L 3 41 0 2 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of IRON MEDIA LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/14/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1125 Lorimer St Apt 2J, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SIGHTS AND SHADES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/22. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 92 Old Mill Rd Farmington, NY 14425. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ISLAND ACQUISITION & HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/15/03.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1285 Castleton Ave, Staten Island, NY 10310. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KAIZEN PRO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/8/22. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1833 W 13th St, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FEDDY JOHN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/10/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 516 Midwood St Brooklyn, NY 11225. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 683 PROPERTY LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/28/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5026 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of 174 URBAN EQUITY A S S O C I AT E S LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/2 2 . O f fice location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/28/22. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o LTN Capital Group, Inc., 75 East Houston St., 2 nd Fl., NY, NY 10012. Address to be maintained in DE: 838 Walker Rd., Ste. 21-2, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Qual. of 680 ATL A NT I C AV E N U E LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/15/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 3/15/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 400 West 59th St, New York, NY 10019. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LINA MANAGEMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/30/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5 West 37th St 12th Fl, New York, NY 10018. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of R & M STUMP GRINDING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/7/21. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 19 Booth St, Shortsville, NY 14548. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of REV’IT! NEW YORK , LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/15/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 101 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SUNRISE 116 BH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/22. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2385 Arthur Ave Ste #208, Bronx, NY 10428. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of LMC VENTURES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 535 5th Ave 12th Fl, New York, NY 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JCLASBERRY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/11/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 849 Greene Ave, #1, Brooklyn, NY 11221. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of T & T PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/13/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 815 52nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PURR S AND PAWS CAT CAFE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/17/19. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1133 Jensen Court, Farmington, NY 14425. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ARLIA REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 463 78th St Brooklyn, NY 11209. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 21476 NY-23, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/21/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5 West 37th St,12th Fl, New York, NY 10018.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1712 PRESIDENT ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/14/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to Marcus Attorneys LLC, 13 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of IV3 55 - 40 44TH STREET LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 2 / 1 7/ 2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 2 /0 9/2 2 . Princ. office of LLC: Brookfield Place, 250 Vesey St. , 15th Fl. , NY, NY 10281. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY s hall m ail p ro c e s s to c/o C orp oration Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of L LC: c/o C S C , 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cer t. of Form. filed with State of DE Secy. of State, 4 01 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Mundo’s Place, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/07/22. Office: Kings 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, 320 Eastern Parkway Apt. 3G, Bklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of Nextbite Brands LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/2 2 . O f fice location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/12/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Address to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. TEKAESTHETIC, L .L .C., Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/17/2022. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ekaterine Tsomaia, 8206 3rd Ave, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, N Y 1120 9 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of Aligneage Fertility Laboratory, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/14/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: all law ful purposes . Notice of Formation of Aligneage Fertility Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/14/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: all law ful purposes .

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Notice of Qualification of I V2 R OCK L AND LOGISTICS CENTER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/16/21 . Princ. office of LLC: Brookfield Place, 250 Vesey St. , 15th Fl. , NY, NY 10281. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY s hall m ail p ro c e s s to c/o C orp oration Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of L LC: c/o C S C , 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cer t. of Form. filed with State of DE Secy. of State, 4 01 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of formation of Shaolin Sweetz LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/12/22. Office located in Richmond County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: 574 Maguire Avenue. Purpose: any lawful activity or purpose. BOLTROPE PODIATRY NY, PLLC, a Prof. LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/03/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The PLLC, 74 Pascack Road, Ste 6, Park Ridge, NJ 07656. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Podiatry. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1318803 for beer, wine liquor & cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine liquor & cider at retail in a Restaurant OP252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 100 Church Street, Unit 001, New York, NY 10007 for on premises consumption. IFNOTNOW LLC.

Notice of Qualification of EXT INTERMEDIATE FUND LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/15/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/16/20. Princ. office of LP: 460 Park Ave., 19th Fl., NY, NY 10022. NYS fictitious name: E X T IN T ER MEDIAT E FUND L.P. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. 217 CPT 47D, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/25/22. Office: New York C ount y. S SN Y designated as agent of the LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1633 Broadway, 46th Floor, New York, N Y 10 019. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qualification of ESPN SERVICES CO., LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/16/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 8/0 9/2 1 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of StateDiv. of Corps., John G . Townsend Bldg. , 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of Qualification of STORAGE POST/572580 RICHMOND TERRACE, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/10/22. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Storage Post, LLC, Two Buckhead Plaza, 3050 Peachtree Rd. NW, Ste. 300, Atlanta, GA 30305. 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. TEKAESTHETIC, L .L .C., Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/17/2022. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ekaterine Tsomaia, 8206 3rd Ave, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, N Y 1120 9 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Qualification of 353W57 1704, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 03/21/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 3/ 1 6/2 2 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail pro c e s s to A lb er to Smeke Saba, c/o CSC Coliving, LLC, 6 Saint John’s Ln., 7th Fl., NY, NY 10013. DE addr. of L LC: 2 51 L it tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. o f S t a t e , D i v. o f Corps . , 4 01 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of Qualification of 20 HAWLE Y ST (N Y ) OW N E R L L C Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 3 / 1 7/ 2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 2 /2 8/2 2 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co. (CSC), 80 State St., A lb any, N Y 1 2 2 0 72543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., J o hn G . Tow n s e n d B l d g . , 4 0 1 F e d e r al St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate ownership, inve s tme nt and all related activities. Notice of Formation of 36 GPE PHB LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/14/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 31, Darien, CT 06820. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. SB TAVERN LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/29/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 350 Motor Parkway, Ste 303, Hauppauge, N Y 1178 8 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. HIGH DEF CANNABIS, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/18/2022. Office: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP, 54 State St., 6th Fl., Albany, NY, 12207. Purpose: any lawful act. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1344537) for beer, wine liquor cider & beer has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine & Cider at retail in a Tavern under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 40 WEST DRIVE BROOKLYN, NY 11215 for on premises consumption. WINNER IN THE PARK LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liabilit y company (LLC). Name: M-CAP FUNDING LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/04/2022 Office location: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The Limited Liability Company 757 E 169th St., Apt. 4A, Bronx, NY, 10456, USA. Purpose: any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Eric’s Pro Reglazing, LLC filed with SSNY on March 7th, 2022. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Ave., Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of MMEDICAL1, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/14/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 404 E. 76th St Apt. 23c, New York, NY 10021.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GRENE POTENTIAL , LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/17/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1240 Bedford Ave, Apt 5h, Brooklyn, NY 11216. Any law ful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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Notice of Formation of SCHILLING LAW LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/10/22. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 60 E 42nd St, Ste 1521, New York, NY 10165. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WHITE WEST 10A, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 10a, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SQUAD 18 LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/17/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3215 Quentin Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 12 8 E LI Z AB E TH TOMORROW LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/21/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 341 Broome St, New York, NY 10013. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of STATEN ISLAND CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/18/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 3/9/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St, 7th Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SYDNEY K ANDREW PHOTOGRAPHY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/2/22. Office location: Washington SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1019 Old County Ln, Salem, NY 12865. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of WHITE NY WEST 10B, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 10b, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 187 VANDERBILT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/21/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process 70 Washington St., Apt 10G, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 343 BROOME TOMORROW LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/21/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 341 Broome St, New York, NY 10013.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1805 PROPERTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/22. Office location: Broome SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1805 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of GOGREENMDS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/21. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 59 Millennium Loop, Staten Island, NY 10309. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of I S LIZA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/15/22. Office location: Broome SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 200 Reno Blvd Apt 4a5, Vestal, NY 13850. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 8492 HOBART STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/9/22. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to P.O. Box 180, Victor, NY 14564. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MEDSPHERE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 11 E Broadway Ste 11b, New York, NY 10038.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of LANDOR & FITCH LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/29/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/30/2002. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc.600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of 48TH STREET MG LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: Bus. Fil. Incorp.,187 Wolf Rd. Ste.101, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of KBAS 201 W HURON LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/22. Office location: Wyoming SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1745 Welch Rd, North Java, NY 14113.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of SCLP I BRUCKNER, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/6/22. Office location: BRONX. LLC formed in DE on 4/1/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400, Harrison, Ny, United States, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of GAZAAM, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/5/22. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 250 Park Ave, 7th Fl, New York, NY 10177. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GOLD NY WEST 12A, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 12a, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of GOLD WEST 6B, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 6b, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of LMCBBS LLP. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 535 5th Ave, 12th Fl, New York, NY 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GOLDENROD ADVISORY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/22/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 25 E 9th St, #69, New York, NY 10003. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of GREEN WEST 5B, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 5b, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of MUHAMMAD M ISLAM LICENSED REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/16/22. Office location: Broome SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. 200 Rano Blvd, Ste 2c25, Vestal, NY 13850. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of MW GRAND HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/15/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 991 Fulton St Brooklyn, NY 11238. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NEW MASS REALT Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/17/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7810 New Utrecht Ave, Brooklyn, N Y 11214 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of ARTHUR PROPERTIES LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/25/22. Office location: BRONX. LLC formed in DE on 3/24/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 5014 16th Ave, Ste 9 Brooklyn, NY 11204. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PURENEW NY WEST 11A, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 11a, New York, NY 10023.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1825 EASTERN PARKWAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4010 14th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BLUE NY WEST 7G, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 7g, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PL AYGROUND ARTS NY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/10/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 705 Madison St Apt 2, Brooklyn, NY 11221. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 6901 13TH AVE, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 217 83rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11209. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BLUE NYC WEST 9G, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 9g, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BD112 LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/16/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 311 Division Ave, Unit 3, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of PURENEW WEST 9B, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 9b, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of QUEENS CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/18/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 3/9/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of QUNYING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5604 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ARTHUR BRONX PROPERTIES LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/25/22. Office location: BRONX. LLC formed in DE on 3/24/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 5014 16th Ave, Ste 9 Brooklyn, NY 11204. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of RYAN COSBE R T STUDIOS LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1027 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of CAREABOUT PPO LLC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/28/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 2/18/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: Attn: Claudia Honan, 300 Park Avenue, Suite 2501, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BLUE WEST 4E, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/23/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 50 W 66th St Apt 4e, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of RICHMOND CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/18/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 3/9/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urban Future Lab, 370 Jay St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FJRETAIL1 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 110 Wooster St, New York, NY 10012. Any law ful purpose.

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Spanish Conmigo NYC, LLC filed with the SSNY on 02/10/2022. Office: New York County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc. at 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, N Y 112 28 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose. 113 SENATOR STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/28/22. Office: Kings 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, 6108 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, N Y 112 20 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Ready Computing Government Solutions, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/2022. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be ser ved. SSNY shall mail process to: 150 Beekman Street, Floor 3, New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of Katayoun E xecutive Coaching, LLC filed with SSNY on 3/17/22. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 25 Broad Street, Apt. 18F, New York, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of J&W MOTORS LLC, filed with SSNY on 02/15/2022. Office: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 388 E 3RD ST, MOUNT VERNON, NY, 10550, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Memoly Realty, LLC Art. of Org. filed 4/4/2022. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. C orp oration S er vic e Company designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. Corporation Service Company to mail copy of process against it to the LLC, 42 Bay St. Lndg., Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1344560) for beer, wine liquor cider & beer has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine liquor & Cider at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 747 FRANKLIN AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11238 for on premises consumption. WINNER ON FRANKLIN LLC Notice of Formation of LIGATURE PRESS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/8/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., 325 Columbia Tu r n p i ke , S t e 3 0 1 , Florham Park, NJ 07932. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FOREVER 8 REALT Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/21/22. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 66 Daniel Low Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of H2C MANAGEMENT, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/10/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Audrey Halpern, 108 West 39th St Ste 405, New York, NY 10018. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of MOBATS HOLDINGS LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 3/31/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 947 51st St, Brooklyn, N Y 11219. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of H L M M M A R I N A LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/10/22. Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 634 Jersey Ave, Greenwood Lake, NY 10925. Any lawful purpose. O M N I P O T E N T CLOTHING, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/27/2022. Office: Bronx 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, REGISTERED AGENTS INC., 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40, Albany, N Y 12 207. Purpose: A ny le gal purp ose . Notice of Qual. of CPFC PACIFIC PARK LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 04/12/2 2 . O f fice location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 4/11/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10168. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 57 DRIGGS AVENUE LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 3/22/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 79 N Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Any law ful purpose.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FM1, V. NNAMDI NWOSU, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 16, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006FM1 is the Plaintiff and NNAMDI NWOSU, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE on the COURTHOUSE STEPS OF THE KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on May 12, 2022 at 11:30AM, premises known as 239 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11238: Block 1952, Lot 67 : 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 Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 508434/2017. Jack Segal, Esq. Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. Notice of Formation of Own Your Brilliance LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/16/2022. Of fice location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1324 Saint Johns Place Apt. 2B Brooklyn, NY 11213 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Articles of Organization of NFSteve Consulting, LLC (“LLC ” ) filed with the Secretary of S tate of New York (“SSNY”) on April 6, 2022, effective on the date of filing. Office Location: Westchester Count y. SSNY has been designated as agent o f t h e L LC u p o n whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 75 Rhodes Street, New Rochelle, New York. The purpose for which the LLC is formed is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the NYS Limited Liability Company Law. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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Notice of Formation of 5 5 0 2 F L AT L A N D S , LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 3/29/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 485 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of A.S. UNIONVILLE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/14/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to C/O Fabricant, Lipman &amp; Frishberg, PLLC 1 West Main St P.O. Box 60, Goshen, NY 10924. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 712 EAST 216 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/17. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5308 13th Ave Ste 293, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of CROSSTOWN C O L L A B O R AT I O N S LLC, a domestic limited liability company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/30/2022. Of fice location: New York County. Principal Business location: 244 Madison Avenue #124, New York, New York 10016. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to c/o the LLC, 244 Madison Avenue #124, New York, New York 10016. Purpose: marketing consulting services and any other lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DEVRAY PROPERTIES LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 4/8/22. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 4664 Marble Hill Rd Oneida, NY 13421. Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of MOHAWK VALLEY N AT I V E PLANT SOURCE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/8/22.Office location: Montgomery SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process To Po Box 520, Fonda, NY 12068. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Nancy Gartin Checchi, NP in Family Practice, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/4/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1607 Rte 300, Newburgh, NY 12550. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LIGHT INDUSTRY HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/25/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 795 Manhattan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11222. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OZU WAS RIGHT LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 3/30/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 937 Broadway Apt5, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MB1 HOLDINGS LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/30/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1541 55th St, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PSYCHIATRIC NP S TR ATE G IE S PL LC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/30/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 254 Driggs Ave Apt. 3r, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DESIRE LINE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Ave Brooklyn, NY 11238. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Supernovarieties, LLC filed with SSNY on 06/28/2021. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2978 E 196th st Apt.# 7A Bronx, NY 10461. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation o f F O R D H A M T K1 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/5/22. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 59-05 Maurice Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378. Any law ful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of B R O O K LY N CLUBHOUSE LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/4/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 245 Varet St, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation o f C E A S A R S B AY TK1 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8949 Bay Pkwy Store B, Brooklyn, NY 11214. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of FB EQUITY PROPERTY LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 5/22/15.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 31 Latham Pl, Staten Island, NY 10309. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RE VIVE VITAMIN & HYDRATION INFUSION LOUNGE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/22.Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to C/O Jessica Colby, 4040 Number Nine Rd Cazenovia, NY 13035. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of RG STRATEGIES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/29/22. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 188 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE BROOKLYN WAY AUTO D E TA I L I N G LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/25/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 65 Bay 19th St #1E, Brooklyn, NY 11214. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE COTTAGE ON SENECA LAKE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/11/22. Office location: Yates SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 209 Cuthbert St, Apt 206, Philadelphia, PA, 19106. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of V IE U X R AT LLC . Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/1/22.Office loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Ortoli Rosenstadt L L P, 3 6 6 M a d i s o n Ave, 3rd Floor, New Yo r k , NY 1 0 0 1 7. Any law ful purpose.

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CHOCO LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/24/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 733 Third Avenue Floor 16 #1021, New York N.Y. 10017. Purpose: Any Law ful Purpose Ronan-Pompilio Holdings, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/07/2022. Office: Richmond County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Olena Ronan at 81 Narrows Rd N, Apt D, Staten Island, New York 10305. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of DEVOE DEVELOPMENT LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 2/14/22. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 30 Portsmouth Ave, Staten Island, NY 10301. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DSH LOGISTICS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/28/22. Office location: Queens SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process To 6227 59th Dr, Fl 1, Maspeth, NY 11378. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1 0 6 5 ATL ANTIC AVENUE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 7 Penn Plaza, Ste. 600, NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. of fice. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYC CORPORATE EVENTS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/28/2022. Office Location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC. 7014 13TH AVENUE , SUITE 202 BROOKLYN, NY, 11228. The principal business address of the LLC is: 635 W 42ND ST., APT. 42D, NEW YORK, NY, 10036. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of 3/1/22 Formation of Grill Master’s N.Y.C. LLC filed with SSNY on 2/12/22. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: C/o. 414 E 175 Street, 10457-6002; Bronx: New York, U.S.A . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Copy of Application for Authority of Dreamers Delicates, LLC, a New York limited liabilit y company, or a notice related to the qualification of the LLC filed with State Secretary of New Yo r k ( “ S S N Y ” ) o n 4/13/22. Office Location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: R achael L ange , 421 E 81 St, Apt 1RE New York, NY 10028. Purpose: any law ful purpose. MOTHER HOME, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with the SSNY on 0 4/13/2 2 . O ri ginall y filed with Secretar y of State of Delaware 0 4/0 8/2 2 . Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro c e s s to the LLC, c/o Guzov, LLC, 8 0 5 T hird Ave nu e , 8th Floor, New York, NY 10 02 2 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S U S S M A N FA M I LY HOLDINGS LLC Cer t. of Conversion filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/2 2 , conver ting SUSSMAN F A M I LY PA R T N E R S H I P to SUSSMAN F A M I LY HOLDINGS LLC. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 145 Central Park West, Apt. 7A , NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice is hereby given that a license, serial #2230054, for an Onpremises liquor license, has been applied for by Sushi Wa LLC to sell beer, wine at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 368 Broadway Fort Edward, NY 12828 or on premises consumption Notice of Formation of DDL TRANSPORT LLC filed with SSNY on 01/25/2022. Office: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 24 BRADLEY AVE, EAST HAVEN, CT, 06512, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of TB12 BROADWAY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/08/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

THE SWING STREET CONDO LLC . Ar ts . of Org. filed with the S S N Y o n 1 0/1 9/2 1 . Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process agains t it may b e ser ved . S SN Y shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 82 West 3rd Street, Unit 1, New York, NY 10012. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. THE SWING STREET CONDO LLC . Ar ts . of Org. filed with the S S N Y o n 1 0/1 9/2 1 . Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process agains t it may b e ser ved . S SN Y shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 82 West 3rd Street, Unit 1, New York, NY 10012. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qualification of SH Fund Management, LLC. Authorit y filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/3/22. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: POB 735, Alpine, NJ 07620. LLC formed in DE: 1/4/22. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc. (CGI), 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CGI, 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: all law ful purposes . Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1344723 for Wine has been applied for by the undersigned to Wine at retail in a Restaurant - RW 341 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 149 1 St . Avenue , N ew York , NY 10003 for on premises consumption. THE MASALAWALA LLC

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Public Notice NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE IS HEREIN GIVEN THAT ACCESS SELF STORAGE OF LONG ISLAND CITY LOCATED AT 2 9 - 0 0 R E V I E W AVENUE, LONG ISLAND CIT Y, N.Y. 11101 WILL TAKE PLACE ON WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM SALE BY COMPETITIVE BIDDING STARTING ON MAY 6, 2022 AND END ON MAY 17, 2022 AT 12:00 P.M. TO SATISF Y UNPAID RENT AND CHARGES ON THE FOLLOWING A C C O U N T S : CONTENTS OF ROOMS GENERALLY CONTAIN MISC. #3411 – MICHAEL BITONG; 3 PAINTINGS, 6 BAGS, VACUUM, 5+BOXES #3323 – JOEL FELICIANO; 2 BAGS, 2 BINS, 9 BOXES, , 1 PC, 1 PC TOWER AND KEYBOARD, 3 PICTURES, 1 CLOSET, BOOKSHELF, 1 STEREO, 1 LUGGAGE #3508 – EARTHEL SOUTHERLAND; MEDREFRIGERATOR, 3 MED. CABINETS, 4 SHELVES #4602 – MP TECHNOLOGIES INTL INC. C/O JOHN MAHDESSIAN; 8 BOXES, 3 PAINTINGS, 2 RACKS OF CLOTHING, 3 SUITCASES, PLASTIC TOTE, SHOES 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. WMCC LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/22/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 313 W 118th Street, Apt 3C, NY, NY 10026. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates d o in g b u s in e s s a s Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) is proposing telecommunications installations at various locations in Manhattan, New York County, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to replace existing public lighting/traffic control structures and install telecommunications antennas and associated equipment at a top height of 32 feet at the following locations: at the approx. vicinity of Broadway WS 1N of West 140 Street, 10031; at the approx. vicinity of West 124 Street NS 1E of Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 10027; at the approx. vicinity of Broadway @ SWC of West 106 Street, 10025; at the approx. vicinity of Bleecker Street SS 1E of La Guardia Place, 10012; and at the approx. vicinity of West End Ave. ES 1N of West 98 Street, 10025. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d 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, 678-653-8673. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 55 feet on a 5 5 - f o o t b uil din g rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 188 East 80 th Street, New York, N ew Yo r k C o u n t y, NY 10075. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic p ro p e r ti e s m ay b e submit ted within 30 days from the date o f thi s p ub li c ati o n to: Trileaf Corp, Laura Elston, l.elston@ trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 4 0 0, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673.

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NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY MIDSTATE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY The persons whose names and last known addresses are set forth below appear from the records of the above-named company to be entitled to abandoned property in amounts of fifty dollars or more:

LORI A BENJAMIN AND RAYMOND G BENJAMIN 3 MAYE STREET;PORT DICKINSON, NY 13901 CELE TOWNSEND ESTATE D/B/A SWARTHOUT CAMPS C/O PAUL REISER 4525 COUNTY ROUTE 25 DUNDEE, NY 14837 QURESHI GROUP, INC 1029 WASHINGTON AVENUE ALBANY, NY 12206 THREE CLINTON STREET, LLC D/B/A SWEET BASILS P.O. BOX 1142 TULLY, NY 13159-1142 JOSEPH A PLOURDE, JR AND CATHERINE PLOURDE 138 SMALL ROAD MASSENA, NY 13662 ISAAC HERTZLER 7259 HARDSCRABBLE ROAD ADDISON, NY 14801 JOSEPH FOX AND AMBER FOX 5919 RIVER ROAD LOWVILLE, NY 13367 K-ALZU, INC D/B/A VALERO 1278 ROUTE 104B MEXICO, NY 13114 WARNER AND ROGER HORTON 11020 TOWNLINE ROAD PRATTSBURGH, NY 14873

ALLEN V AND BARBARA J EATON 4757 ROWE ROAD SKANEATELES, NY 13152 THE CHESHIRE STORE, LLC AND CHESHIRE YOU, LLC 1 ARLINGTON CIRCLE CANANDAIGUA, NY 14424 JOHN FISHER, ESTATE C/O EMILY M VRANIAN 39 HAYMEADOW ROAD MORRISONVILLE, NY 129629503 ROBERT PUTNAM, JR AND CHARLES BACE, III 1 DRIVE WAY ONEONTA, NY 13820 JAMES P ALOI 3735 HEDGEMOORE DRIVE CORTLAND, NY 13045 CAROLYN L POKORSKI 79 LORETTO DRIVE CHEEKTOWAGA, NY 14225 THOMAS J CUSHING 2632 ROLLING HILLS DRIVE MONROE, NC 28110-8408 MOHAMAD ALHIDAIS AND AMAL ALZAWQARI 2219 64TH STREET D1 BROOKLYN, NY 11204

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PRATTSBURGH, NY 14873 HAROLD GONYO, JR AND BONNIE J GONYO 20 NORTH STAR ROAD CHAMPLAIN, NY 12919 METHANE ALEH ERITREAN ORTHODOX TEWAHDO CHURCH ROCHESTER 1220-1222 ST PAUL STREET ROCHESTER, NY 14621 RYAN LAWRENCE AND REBECCA MULLALAWRENCE 2523 RED CARPET DR FUQUAY VARINA, NC 275263211 WILLIAM SLATER D/B/A UNLIMITED CONSTRUCTION 556 COLUMBIA AVENUE DEPEW, NY 14043 JAMES GAMBINO D/B/A RATITUDE VINTAGE 477 BEST STREET BUFFALO, NY 14208 NEIL A RUOCCO, II 60 SPRING STREET LAKE PLACID, NY 12946 OLIVE FAMILY RESTAURANT, INC 12800 STATE ROUTE 9W WEST COXSACKIE, NY 12192 VERONICA MOSHER 109 PAZDUR BOULEVARD SOUTH ROME, NY 13440 JEFFREY S HOWE 10273 EGYPT ROAD WEEDSPORT, NY 13166-9524 LUKES PIZZERIA AND GROCERY, LLC 188 NORTH ALLEN STREET ALBANY, NY 12206

DAVID RICHTER 11840 MAIN STREET PERRYSBURG, NY 14129 BHAVANI ASSOCIATES, LLC 16 SILVERBELL CIRCLE ORCHARD PARK, NY 14127

WARNER AND ROGER HORTON 11020 TOWNLINE ROAD

SUKHOTHAI 254, INC 254 LARK STREET ALBANY, NY 12210

Notice of Formation of G&M TAXI LLC, filed with SSNY on 4/1/22. Office: NE W YORK Count y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 134 W 54TH ST, BAYONNE, NJ, 07002 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

T h e L i n e h a n L aw Firm, a perpetual Domestic Professional Service Limited Liability Company, offering legal services, filed Articles of Organization on March 30, 2022. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the company upon whom process may be served, and the location and address by which process may be mailed is 305 Broadway, 7th Fl, New York, NY 10007.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of GOODFA VENDING LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/3/22. Office location: NY County, SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 1872 Lexington Ave, Ste 155, NY, NY 10035. Purpose: any lawful act. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

ROBERT CLARK 351 HIGH POINT MOUNTAIN ROAD WEST SHOKAN, NY 124945304 MICHAEL C MAYO PO BOX 546 FAIR HAVEN, NY 13064 CHARLES GROVER AND MICHAEL GROVER 4864 ROUTE 353 SALAMANCA, NY 14779 LARRY LUM 137 SUMMIT PINE SUNSET, SC 29685

HELEN DIPACIFIC AND PETER FURFARI AND PHILLIP FURFARI C/O WINGED PHEASANT GOLF LINKS 1433 SANDHILL ROAD SHORTSVILLE, NY 14548

Notice of Qualification of TOWN HALL VENTURES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 04/11/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 9/ 1 4/ 1 6 . Princ. office of LLC: 330 Hudson St., Ste. 300, NY, NY 10013 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . 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 D r. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of S t a te , 4 0 1 F e d e r al St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

EVERETTE WILLIAMS, III AND CARLA M WILLIAMS 35748 COUNTY ROUTE 36 CARTHAGE, NY 13619

CHARLES MILLS, ESTATE C/O PHYLLIS E CREAMER 211 WALBERTA ROAD SYRACUSE, NY 13219-1443

DANIELLE A CABLE P.O. BOX 847 TULLY, NY 13159 NASSER ALKHATIB 9247 COFFEE HILL ROAD DANSVILLE, NY 14437 MURTADHA KHALEEL 390 PINE RIDGE ROAD BUFFALO, NY 14225 MELISSA WILLIAMS AND DANIEL WILLIAMS 18 SHAVER STREET SODUS, NY 14551 ROBIN FARR PO BOX 285 LODI, NY 14860 EMMANUEL INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY 870 ALBANY STREET SCHENECTADY, NY 12307 JAMAR ALADWAR D/B/A MANHATTAN DELI 644 2ND AVENUE TROY, NY 12182 KOSTONTY AND HELEN ANDREWS 1329 OWEGO ROUTE 96 OWEGO, NY 13827 GARY MURRAY, JR

Notice of Formation of GOTHAM TRANSIT LLC, filed with SSNY on 4/7/22. Office: BRONX County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 3226 OXFORD AVE, BRONX, NY, 10463. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

6829 ROUND LAKE ROAD SAVONA, NY 14879 STACEY L HAYDEN 1419 COUNTY ROUTE 22 GOUVERNEUR, NY 13642 GERILYN MCCORMICK 171 VALLEY ROAD ROCHESTER, NY 14618 SHAWN DENIS 25 MAIN STREET TUPPER LAKE, NY 12986 MARISA’S ATTIC, LLC 58 FOX HALL DRIVE ROCHESTER, NY 14609 EUGENE LAUN, JR 107 EAST ELISHA STREET #1 WATERLOO, NY 13165 HEATHER GARRABRANT AND NEIL SULLIVAN 2630 COUNTY RTE 17 WATKINS GLEN, NY 14891 ANITA RODRIGUEZ 216 PROSPECT AVENUE BUFFALO, NY 14201 MARIA I GONZALEZ 429 COLUMBUS AVENUE DUNKIRK, NY 14048 MOORE CLEANING ENTERPRISES 144 FRANKLIN STREET ALBANY, NY 12202 RAJINDER KUMAR D/B/A CITGO JOLLY ROGERS 2065 RIVER ROAD NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14304 MARILYN K CHANDLER 709 GLEN MARY DRIVE OWEGO, NY 13827-2644 ROYAL R WELLMAN D/B/A PLATTSBURGH WINDOW CLEANING P.O. BOX 157 SCHUYLER FALLS, NY 12985

CROWN POINT, NY 12928 BWE HTOO 38 JEWETT PLACE UTICA, NY 13501 CHAD J PRYCE AND TAYA GREEN 669 STATE HIGHWAY 37C MASSENA, NY 13662 CLARE RASLAWSKY D/B/A KNOLL’S WINDOW CLEANING 572 WEST BRANCH ROAD FRANKLINVILLE, NY 14737 A REPORT OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY WILL BE MADE TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE VII AND/OR SECTION 1316 OF THE ABANDONED PROPERTY LAW. A LIST OF THE NAMES CONTAINED IN SUCH NOTICE IS ON FILE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY, LOCATED AT 5612 ROUTE 34 AUBURN, NY 13021, WHERE SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY IS PAYABLE. SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY WILL BE PAID ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 31 NEXT TO PERSONS ESTABLISHING TO ITS SATISFACTION THEIR RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAME. IN THE SUCCEEDING SEPTEMBER, AND ON OR BEFORE THE TENTH DAY THEREOF, SUCH UNCLAIMED PROPERTY WILL BE PAID TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND SHALL THEREUPON CEASE TO BE LIABLE THEREFORE. MIDSTATE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

DAVID W JANDROKOVIC 8 LIBERTY DRIVE MORAVIA, NY 13118 THOMAS M CELOTTI 129 NARROWTOWN ROAD

27 BETHUNE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/28/22. Office: New York C ount y. S SN Y designated as agent of the LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Scarinci Hollenbeck, 589 Eighth Avenue, 16th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 . Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Disability Content Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the SSNY on 2/14/22. 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, 2 Park Ave 20th Floor, New York, N Y 10 016 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KISARA22 LLC, filed with SSNY on 3/10/22. Office: BRONX County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1221 WHITE PLAINS RD, APT 304, BRONX, NY, 10472. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of Salvatore Orion, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/21/22. Office location: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 35 Treadwell Place, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of DILLABOUGH FAMILY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/25/22. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 363 Stockbridge Ave, , Ather ton, CA 94027. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. of f ice . Purpose: To purchase, own and sell real estate in New York. Solstice Pictures LLC. Filed with SSNY on 01/19/22. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: 7014 13TH AVENUE , SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY, 11228. Purpose: Any lawful.

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NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY DB INSURANCE CO., LTD. The persons whose names and last known addresses are set forth below appear from the records of the above-named company to be entitled to abandoned property in amounts of fifty dollars or more: NAGI MOSLEH 666 WOODWARD AVE RIDGEWOOD,NY 11385

19 29 33 37TH STREET LLC 23-25 31ST STREET, SUITE 600 ASTORIA,NY 11105

L AND N TWINS PLACE LLC 182 BROOK ST SCARSDALE,NY 10583

VASAVI AND BOOK INC 16308 HILLSIDE AVENUE JAMAICA,NY 11432

MOWAG CORP 2200 OCEAN AVENUE APT 5J BROOKLYN,NY 11229

SHERIF ASHMAWY 34-38 75TH STREET JACKSON HEIGHTS,NY 11372

MARIBETH ROA 65-40 WOODSIDE AVE WOODSIDE,NY 11377

JERICHO LUCKY NAIL SPA INC 799 EAST JERICHO TURNPIKE HUNTINGTON STATION,NY 11746

ADP REALTY LTD 3561 DEKALB AVE BRONX,NY 10467 GALLERY FURNITURE CORP 1432 ST NICHOLAS AVE NEW YORK,NY 10033 DENESH NARANJAN 3457 EAST TREMONT AVE BRONX,NY 10465 KAREN HEN REHANY 342A E 7TH STREET BROOKLYN,NY 11218 FACE TO TOE INC 143-40 38TH AVENUE, SUITE 202 FLUSHING,NY 11354 XU YAN HAI 8622 BAY PARKWAY UNIT 3C BROOKLYN,NY 11214

2 VAN CORTLANDT CORPORATION 131 STONE AVENUE YONKERS,NY 10701 SUK KIM JOONG 83-71 116TH STREET KEW GARDEN,NY 11415 MYUNG JUN OK 65-04 164TH STREET FRESH MEADOWS,NY 11365 CHRISTINE ZHOU 422 MILL RIVER ROAD UPPER BROOKVILLE,NY 11771

A REPORT OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HAS BEEN MADE TO THOMAS P. DINAPOLI, THE COMPTROLLER OF TAO LIU LI THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 67-35 152ND ST PURSUANT TO SECTION 701 FLUSHING,NY 11367 AND/OR SECTION 1316 OF THE ABANDONED PROPERTY 773777 AND 789 BEDFORD LAW. A LIST OF THE NAMES AVE THE OF THE PERSONS APPEARING 199 LEE AVENUE. PMB 197 FROM THE RECORDS OF THE BROOKLYN,NY 11211 SAID INSURANCE COMPANY TO BE ENTITLED THERETO IS ZHANG MEDICAL PC 4 COLUMBUS CIRCLE 4TH FL ON FILE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE NEW YORK,NY 10019 PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE 5 12 51ST AVENUE HOLDINGS CORPORATION LOCATED AT 222 S. HARBOR BLVD, SUITE LLC 90 PARK AVENUE, 41ST FLOOR 720, ANAHEIM, CA 92805 WHERE SUCH ABANDONED NEW YORK,NY 10016 PROPERTY IS PAYABLE. SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY BLONDIES HAIR SALON III WILL BE PAID ON OR BEFORE CORP AUGUST 31, 2022 NEXT TO 477 AMSTERDAM AVE PERSONS ESTABLISHING TO NEW YORK,NY 10024 OUR SATISFACTION THEIR ITZHACK BEN AMI LLC AND RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAME. ON OR BEFORE THE 19605 COMO AVE SUCCEEDING SEPTEMBER HOLLIS,NY 11423 10, 2022 SUCH UNCLAIMED FUNDS STILL REMAINING LOLITA DELI GROCERY CORP UNCLAIMED WILL BE PAID 305 UNION AVE TO THOMAS P. DINAPOLI, BROOKLYN,NY 11211 THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. BRONX LEVELS INC DBA UPON SUCH PAYMENT 28 DESANTIS DR THIS COMPANY SHALL NO HIGHLAND MILLS,NY 10930 LONGER BE LIABLE FOR THE PROPERTY ALEXANDRA HAN S . 1 BAY CLUB DR. #3R DB INSURANCE CO., LTD. BAYSIDE,NY 11360

Notice of Qualification of 165 ELDRIDGE OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 4/20/2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/11/22. Princ. office of LLC: c/o FREO US Management LLC, 1 1 2 0 Av e . o f t h e Americas, Ste. 1803, NY, NY 10036. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ . of fice. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls D r. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 4 01 F e deral S t . , D over, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of AbleHearts Communications LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/21/22. O f f ice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/07/21. Princ. office of LLC: 152 W. 5th 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 c/o C orp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 1220725 4 3 . DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. o f S t ate , J o hn G . To w n s e n d Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Kelly G Fitness, LLC. Articles of organization were filed with the Secretary of State New York (SSNY) on 2/6/2022. Office Location: N ew Yo r k C o u n t y. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 445 W 46th St, 4E, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y.

Public Notice 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 c o mp e ti ti ve b i d ding starting on May 23, 2022 and end on June 3, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #3P09 – Bruton Gallery: several statues, several columns, several crates, 5-bins with miscellaneous items, 4-bags #5A08 – Tiwalola Fowora: 2-boxes, 1-luggage, 2-shopping bags, cleaning supply #5R19 – Chiara Del Vecchio: several shoe boxes, several boxes, 1-duffel bag, 1-floatie

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The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed f ro m th e p re mi s e s 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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Section 106 Public Notice Nextwave Broadband, LLC proposes to install telecommunications equipment at the following locations: a 73.8’ tall (82.8’ overall height) Rooftop and basement of a building located at 119 Hester Street, New York, New York County, NY 10002 (DEA #22204052), a 68’ tall (77’ overall height) Rooftop of a building located at 233235 Elizabeth Street, New York, New York County, NY 10012 (DEA #22204053), a 80.2’ tall (86. 2’ overall height) Rooftop and basement of a building located at 380-384 Broome Street, New York, New York County, NY 10013 (DEA #22204054), and a 66’ tall (72’ overall height) Rooftop of a building located at 806 E. 175th Street, Bronx , Bronx County, NY 10460 (DEA #22204055). Interested parties with comments regarding potential e f fe c t s on His toric Properties may contact T-Mobile c/o Julia Klima at Dynamic Environmental Associates, Inc., 3850 Lake Street, Suite C, Macon, GA 31204, 8779 6 8 - 4 7 8 7, S e c1 0 6 @ DynamicEnvironmental. com within 30 days from the date of this publication. Re: DEA #22204052, and/or DEA#22204053, and/or DEA#22204054, and/or DEA#22204055.

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

Who was up and who was down last week

LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST ANNA KELLES

Cryptocurrency fans are not a monolith, but “crypto bros” hounded Assembly Member Anna Kelles over her efforts to regulate proof-of-work bitcoin mining. The crypto industry failed to stop Kelles’ moratorium bill from passing the Assembly. Still, the legislation has a ways to go – it must now pass the state Senate – before Kelles can celebrate.

SANDY NURSE

After advocacy from the chair of the New York City Council Sanitation Committee, things are looking up for funding for municipal composting. Eric Adams restored funding for the program to process organic waste and a budget report found it will actually save money.

CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Senior Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton, Junior Graphic Designer Izairis Santana, Photo Researcher Michelle Steinhauser DIGITAL Digital Director Michael Filippi, Marketing & Special Projects Manager Caitlin Dorman, Senior Associate, Digital Marketing Isabel Beebe, Executive Producer, Multimedia Skye Ostreicher

KATHY HOCHUL The governor is facing roadblocks from leadership in her own party, who are reportedly vexed by secretive budget negotiations and the indictment of former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin. The City reported her “honeymoon is over” with “livid Albany lawmakers,” citing a source who said she has “disappointed everyone.” Then Democratic leaders blocked Hochul’s efforts to boot Benjamin off the ballot.

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THE REST OF THE WORST DONALD TRUMP

The former president’s battle with state Attorney General Letitia James is getting pricier every day. And it’s all thanks to a judge that held Trump in contempt of court for failing to hand over documents. Now, Trump faces a $10,000 fine every day until he complies with the subpoena.

ALESSANDRA BIAGGI

There’s a lot we don’t know about the effects of the Court of Appeals decision. But state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi probably won’t have a congressional district to run in. The open seat had stretched just far enough north to include Biaggi’s home. Will that remain the case?

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The Mayor of Fun wants everyone to go out to shows, but canceled his own inauguration due to a January COVID-19 spike. And when his 100th day in office rolled around? He had COVID-19. But on his 116th day, Eric Adams finally had his moment in the sun, making winners of the haters in a high-profile budget address. Yes, it seems that Adams WILL listen to people who did not wear a bulletproof vest for 22 years.

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