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Tiffany Cabán, Crystal Hudson and the new-look LGBTQ Caucus

CLUB LIFE Leaders of NYC’s most prominent LGBTQ political clubs talk about their goals - and their shortcomings.

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MANHATTAN’S SIXTH AVENUE sounds so bland when compared to the other name it was given by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1945, “Avenue of Americas,” as an expression of the “love and affection” New Yorkers had for our neighboring republics in the Western Hemisphere. For my family, with roots in Central and Latin America, it had special meaning because we’d often look for medallions on lamp posts with the national seals of our Cuban and Chilean roots whenever traveling along the avenue. We were New Yorkers and proudly represented along this almost 4-mile thoroughfare running through the heart of the city. Today, the few that remain, rusted from years of neglect, say the exact opposite. The city hasn’t replaced the medallions over time, and many came down for good during a lamp post replacement project in the 1990s. A promise to find a way to replace the medallions went unfulfilled, and a Department of Transportation spokesperson during the Bloomberg administration told The New York Times in 2008 there was no plan. Now an online petition, started by Miguel Perez, professor of journalism and Hispanic American History at Lehman College, is calling on the Adams administration to take action. Of the 300 medallions that originally graced the avenue, only 18 remain according to Perez. A spokesperson for the city DOT and Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, who is Dominican, did not have an immediate response when asked whether there’s any hope for saving the medallions. Sadly, if nothing is done, the so-called Avenue of the Americas may soon not have any, and these once elegant medallions that have represented New Yorkers will be lost.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

LG DEBATE … 8

Archila and Reyna on New York’s biggest issues

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3 … 10

Celebrating 30 years of LGBTQ representation

LGBTQ CAUCUS … 14

A Q&A with the City Council cochairs

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POLITICAL CLUBS … 18

A nexus of LGBTQ organizing power

POWER OF DIVERSITY: PRIDE POWER 100 … 25 The leaders shaping New York’s landscape WINNERS & LOSERS … 66

Who was up and who was down last week

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State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins addressed reporters as the session drew to a close.

LAWMAKERS APPROVE GUN SAFETY MEASURES

As they wrapped up legislating for the year, lawmakers in Albany agreed on a package of 10 bills meant to strengthen the state’s already tight gun laws and address

violent extremism online. Perhaps most significantly, the state Legislature approved a bill that would require licensing to purchase and use a semiautomatic rifle, effectively raising the age to buy one from 18 to 21. When signed into law, New York will join only a handful of states that have placed

a higher age requirement on the AR-15-style weapons, though other states have faced issues over the constitutionality of their laws. Another bill will, in most cases, prevent the sale to civilians of body vests – the type like the alleged Buffalo shooter wore that protected him from a retired police officer who was guarding the supermarket. Lawmakers also passed bills to strengthen the state’s Red Flag Law, which permits the confiscation of a person’s gun if they are deemed a threat to themselves or others by requiring law enforcement to file for an extreme risk protection order in those instances. Another piece of legislation will create a task force focused on violent extremist domestic terrorism fueled by racist ideology, with another making public threats of mass violence a crime.

“Not germane, Tito, Michael or any other Jackson.”

– state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, ruling on an off-topic GOP amendment to a bill, via Gothamist’s Jon Campbell

STRENGTHENING ABORTION ACCESS TOPS PRIORITIES

State lawmakers tackled another national issue in abortion rights, as the U.S.

VOTING RIGHTS COME TO NEW YORK

DNC IN NYC? Mayor Eric Adams is hellbent on boosting the New York City’s economy, and what better way to do that than hosting the Democratic National Convention in one of the country’s bluest cities? At the launch of the city’s bid to host the 2024 DNC, keen observers noted that Adams was the only one out of the many distinguished guests to not don shoe coverings in the gleaming One Vanderbilt skyscraper. These, apparently, are the privileges afforded to mayors – and potential presidential candidates?

Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. New York had already codified the right to an abortion in state law in 2019, but the state Legislature approved several new bills that would protect abortion providers against miscondunct allegations and out-of-state legal action in cases where they offer care to out-of-state patients coming from areas where abortion may become illegal. Lawmakers also voted on other bills meant to strengthen the protections in the state, which were already among the strongest in the nation. However, a state constitutional amendment that would have codified various equality rights, including against discrimination based on pregnancy status and reproductive care choices, did not make it over the finish line despite strong pushes from advocates to get the ball rolling on the multiyear process to amend the state constitution.

“No. No. No. No. No. No.” – Rep. Jerry Nadler, who will face Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a primary, on whether he planned to retire, via The New York Times

Rounding out the national topics that lawmakers took up was voting rights as they approved the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, named for its federal counterpart that so far has failed to pass in the U.S. Senate. The landmark bill would codify a series of voting rights protections into state law in the wake of the recent gutting of

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the 1965 Voting Rights Act and subsequent rollback of national protections. If signed into law, the legislation would represent the most comprehensive and strongest state-level protections in the country, with its sponsors looking now to the Congress to act on its own version of the bill.

LATE NIGHT NEGOTIATING

In true Albany fashion, bills that seemed dead found new sparks of life in the waning hours of the legislative session. On the state Senate side, a two-year moratorium on upstate cryptocurrency mining that passed in the Assembly appeared to be a lost cause before a latenight update showed that

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lawmakers had managed to reach an agreement. First came reports of its revival, then the actual passage of the legislation in the wee hours of the morning. On the Assembly side, the trajectory of the Clean Slate Act changed rapidly in the course of a day, with reporting revealing opposition from the state Education Department creating hesitancy among some members. By the evening, the bill sponsor revealed she had reached an agreement with education officials to get the legislation that would automatically seal the records of many New Yorkers with criminal convictions after a certain period of time. Once on its way to the graveyard, the bill suddenly was on the verge of approval.

National issues, including abortion rights and gun control, dominated the end of the state legislative session.

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TUESDAY 6/7 Gov. Kathy Hochul, Rep. Tom Suozzi and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams debate for the first time in the Democratic primary for governor at 7 p.m. on CBS New York.

New York City’s new gun violence czar New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the appointment of a new gun violence czar on June 2 who will coordinate with liaisons from every agency and the city’s crisis management contractors “to address the root causes of gun violence and prevent shootings before they take place,” the mayor’s office said in a press release. The appointee, Andre T. Mitchell, is the founder of Man Up, a Brooklyn-based anti-violence organization that provides programs including mediating potential gang conflicts, youth counseling, employment services and hospital intervention. “We’ve been using the same tactics over and over again, and we’ve been getting the same results. So no one should have a problem with us trying something different. Give us a chance to prove ourselves,” Mitchell said at a press conference alongside Adams at City Hall. Mitchell, who told The New York Times he will serve in a “volunteer capacity,” will also co-chair the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force that Adams installed via executive order in January. NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, along with the deputy mayors of several departments, is also on the task force. The

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The governor has only agreed to two debates – this one and another on June 16 – despite her two primary opponents hoping for more discussions.

group was charged with coordinating with the “anti-gun violence liaisons” that Adams instructed each city agency to appoint. Mitchell’s experience, Adams said, gave him a unique understanding of the range of issues that contribute to gun violence in minority communities. “I think we often dismiss it, because the victims of handgun violence for the most part are Black and brown and in the inner cities all across America, so we’ve normalized it and stated that is just the way it has to be. And we’re saying today, you’re damn right it’s not the way it has to be,” Adams said. Adams defended Mitchell after reports surfaced earlier in the day highlighting alleged financial mismanagement at Man Up. A Department of Investigation probe in 2019 found that money from Man Up, which receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funds, ended up in Mitchell’s personal bank account. The DOI also reported that Mitchell hired several family members to work for the organization. “The DOI did their investigation, they came up with recommendations. He followed the recommendations,” Adams said of Mitchell. – Sara Dorn

THURSDAY 6/9

MONDAY 6/13

The New York City Council Committee on Small Business holds a 10 a.m. virtual oversight hearing on combating commercial vacancies.

Lee Zeldin, Andrew Giuliani, Harry Wilson and Rob Astorino debate in the Republican primary for governor at 7 p.m. on CBS New York.

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WILD THIS YEAR’S END-OF-SESSION BEAR IS THE LATEST OF NEW YORK’S NONHUMAN INTERLOPERS.

The final days of this year’s legislative session got off to a bit of a … hairy start. A black bear managed to wander into Albany and was spotted just a few blocks away from the state Capitol as lawmakers worked out deals on legislation. For several hours, the bear captivated politicos as it attracted news crews, rubberneckers and even Albany’s mayor. When wildlife officials managed to get the bear out of the tree it had climbed up, video spread quickly on Twitter as onlookers awaited the climax of the animal interlude. This was hardly the first time that a wild animal managed to capture the hearts and minds of the political class in New York – and hopefully it won’t be the last. They keep things interesting and have even had lasting cultural impacts for the wonks among us. The end-of-session bear joins a pantheon of other animals that have become minor celebrities.

SUBWAY KITTENS

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N TRAIN GOATS

Before goats shut down the subways, kittens held that distinction. In 2013, two tiny straphangers somehow found themselves on the tracks rather than in a train, attracting the attention and sympathy of New Yorkers – well, except for GOP mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota, who said he wouldn’t have stopped trains to save the felines.

In 2018, two goats found themselves on the N train tracks in Brooklyn. No one knew where they came from, but they wound up being helped by former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who took them to animal sanctuary upstate.

BUDGET COYOTE

A coyote was found on the fourth floor of a museum near the Capitol during the 2018 budget negotiations – and people loved it. It was caught and released back into the wild, but not before someone created a Twitter account for it.

LONG ISLAND BULL

This one is truly a saga. A bull escaped slaughter on Long Island in 2021 and managed to evade capture for an entire two months. Daily updates came out on the status of the bull, named Barney, for his many fans. Luckily for him, he was sent to an animal sanctuary when his time in the wilds of the suburbs came to an end.

PIZZA RAT

No list is complete with New York City’s biggest animal celebrity, the pizza rat. The subway dweller entered our hearts when video caught him dragging an entire New York slice down the stairs, and he never left. Imitators have emerged since then, like the egg roll squirrel, but none truly compare.

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A Q&A with Assembly Member

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It looks like you won in a landslide in the Assembly District 58 special election. To what do you attribute your success? The people. Knowing that the power was in the people. I had a grassroots campaign where the community members supported the vision and mission, and they’re the reason. I had a lot of great endorsements, but the best endorsement was the people in the community believing in the mission and vision, and coming out and voting.

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You campaigned without the official support of the

Brooklyn Democratic Party. Is it correct that you didn’t receive any kind of support from the Brooklyn Democratic Party or Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn? That’s correct. But the people spoke, and they chose who the best candidate was. I was glad to receive the Democratic line from a group of my peers from the county committee who know the work that I’ve done. You also had the mayor endorsing your opponent, Hercules Reid, at the eleventh hour. Were you surprised by that? I’m not surprised by

what anybody does nowadays. It doesn’t affect us one way or the other because what’s most important is the voters in the community. And you can’t deny the fact of the body of work that I’ve done, and the evidence of work I’ve done in the community, well before there was an election. I was born and raised in East Flatbush my whole entire life – educator, health care worker, community organizer, fighting to reduce gun violence. Those things didn’t just pop up because of the election. It didn’t matter who endorsed who, it was about who did the work.

I had a lot of great endorsements, but the best endorsement was the people in the community believing in the mission and vision, and coming out and voting. What are some of your goals in Albany? We have to continue advocating for true affordability when it comes to housing, income-targeted housing. If you don’t have proper housing, if you don’t know where you’re going to sleep at night, how can you function as a human being? You can’t go to school, you can’t go to work if you’re not stable in a house. So that’s one of the biggest issues. Then you could go to the public health crisis we have – gun violence, substance abuse, getting access to proper health care, mental health. There are a lot of social determinants

of health that affect us in our community. And of course, equity in education. Do you support “good cause” eviction? Yes, I do. I want to make sure that our renters are protected, our tenants are protected, and make sure that there’s a carve-out for our homeowners as well. Because there are small landlords who are doing great things, and who are part of the community as well. So we just want to make sure everybody is considered when it comes to “good cause” eviction, which (the bill) does. – Annie McDonough

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One short on the debate stage By Sara Dorn

EMOCRATIC LIEUTENANT governor candidates Ana María Archila and Diana Reyna faced off in a debate, answering questions about gun violence, housing, New York City’s post-pandemic recovery, the nature of the lieutenant governor’s role and more. Reyna, the former Brooklyn deputy borough president who is running alongside Rep. Tom Suozzi, said her experience growing up in Williamsburg motivated her to jump into the race. She said she was particularly inspired by the community programs and leadership instilled in her by the church, along with the housing struggles she and her family faced. “These are the very (foundations of) why I got involved in politics – to be able to provide a better environment for families,” she said, while noting her time serving not only under Eric Adams when he was Brooklyn borough president, but also as a City Council member for 12 years. She added that her record negotiating the budget and serving as co-chair of the Council’s Women’s Caucus and chair of the Small Business Committee taught her to “ask questions.” Archila, a Queens activist and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams’ running mate, said her organizing experience inspired her to become involved in public service. In the beginning stages of her career, she worked with “a community of day laborers who are mostly undocumented young immigrants who were getting their wages stolen (while working) 12-hour days,” she said. “I understand that people’s dreams are powerful, and the things that are hard in our lives are also the results of policies that compound inequality over time. … Those are the experiences that have shaped me.” Both candidates are Latina and spoke about their heritage. Reyna is Domini-

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Ana María Archila and Diana Reyna talked about New York’s most pressing issues without Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado. can American, while Archila immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 17 from Colombia. “It was in New York that I found a place that I could call home again. It was in New York that I found the safety to be queer and proud. It was in New York where my children were born, and it was also in New York where I found the power of people who fight for one another,” Archila said. City & State New York and PIX11, in partnership with the Coro New York Leadership Center, co-moderated the debate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. City & State New York’s City Hall Bureau Chief Jeff Coltin and PIX11 reporter Monica Morales were the moderators. Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado was notably absent from the event, one of several recent or upcoming forums where he has failed to show up at or confirm he will attend. Archila last week made a display of his repeated absences by delivering a schedule, reporters in tow, to his office in Albany of debates that he had been invited to leading up to the June 28 Democratic primary. Reyna twice referenced his absence on the debate stage. “The Hochul administration has failed in New York. It is no secret that Antonio Delgado, her lieutenant governor, her second lieutenant governor, is not even here,” Reyna said, while also noting former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned after he was indicted in a bribery scandal. Here’s how the candidates responded to various debate questions. Gun violence and public safety Reyna denounced the “white supremacy” and “divisiveness” that inspired the mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14 and said that she and Suozzi have a “15-point crime plan” that included battling the gun lobby for tighter firearm controls. She also said the plan would modify bail reforms and implement “prevention and intervention” programs. Archila said her team’s public safety plan demands a $1 billion investment in gun violence prevention and victims’ services. She also spoke out against the “white supremacist violence, facilitated by the free flow

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From left, Ana María Archila and Diana Reyna both presented plans to improve public safety through gun restrictions and monitoring social media platforms more closely.

ma-style housing program to expand the middle-class rental market.

of guns in our state” that led to the Buffalo shooting. “So we need to make sure that we slow down the flow of guns … that we make sure that we’re not selling weapons of war,” Archila said, while also noting that the alleged shooter targeted a historically Black neighborhood. “But also we have to understand that that violence comes after decades and decades of segregation and redlining and disinvestment in the communities of Buffalo that were targeted by white supremacist violence.” Both candidates called for tighter restrictions on social media companies in the wake of the shooting, after the accused gunman allegedly used multiple platforms to livestream his actions and publish a racist manifesto. “We have to fund the police and work with law enforcement so they have the specialized units to monitor these social platforms,” Reyna said. Archila blamed social media companies and elected officials for proliferating “white supremacist ideology.” “Let’s start with Trump and others who have legitimized white supremacist discourse and sometimes have legitimized white supremacist violence, so we need to understand that as well,” Archila said.

Housing Archila emphasized the rising cost of rent and the increasing frequency of evictions, while also denouncing wealth inequality. “We also need to make sure that we expand the availability of housing instead of giving billions and billions of dollars to real estate developers to build a little bit of affordable housing and subsidize a lot of luxury housing,” she said, noting she and Williams have a plan to build and preserve 1 million units of affordable housing. The plan also includes foreclosure prevention and eviction protection initiatives, she said. When asked how she would improve public housing, Archila said she would “push the governor to sign a check (for) billions and billions and billions of dollars,” while requesting more federal funding to pay for capital repairs. Reyna focused on getting families out of public housing and increasing home ownership. “There’s 25,000 families that earn $100,000 in income or more living in public housing,” Reyna said. “There’s an opportunity here to provide the tools and invest in them becoming homeowners,” she said, adding that she would seek to create a Mitchell-La-

COVID-19 Reyna said she was strongly opposed to “shutting down the economy again,” while Archila said “we have to be ready to make sacrifices if necessary.” However, both spoke about the need to continue raising awareness. “We need to make sure that we are following medical guidelines. That we are making sure that vaccines and boosters are available to everyone. That we are shoring up our health care system, that we are also making sure that the most vulnerable amongst us are not more exposed,” Archila said, while also highlighting the Cuomo administration’s failure to protect nursing homes from the virus – and what she characterized as inaction from Hochul while she was serving as his lieutenant governor. “I would have never stayed quiet when the governor made a decision that turned out to be deadly for residents of nursing homes,” Archila said. The LG’s role Both candidates promised that they would shift away from the historically ceremonial nature of the lieutenant governor’s role and be more proactive in making policy decisions alongside the governor. If she were to assume the role of governor, Reyna highlighted her decades of experience in public service. “The opportunity to be able to serve as deputy Brooklyn borough president is a perfect example of how people considered that role to be ceremonial. It wasn’t for me,” she said. “Kathy Hochul has not provided us (with) that leadership. What we have seen is (a) failed administration under her leadership, a failed lieutenant governor who doesn’t even show up.” Archila described the typical New York lieutenant governor as someone “who rounds out the ticket, and then they disappear into the background.” She said the role should be for “someone who functions more like a public advocate than a ceremonial role.”

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Celebrating 30 years of LGBTQ representation By Annie McDonough

N 1991, a year after Deborah Glick became the first out gay state legislator in New York, gay New York City Council candidate Tom Duane stood on the precipice of a potentially risky move. He was running in the Democratic primary against Liz Abzug – who was also out gay – in a newly created council district that included the West Village, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen. Duane had a good chance of becoming one of the first out gay members of the council. The new district was one of several drawn with an eye toward giving underrepresented minority groups a voice in the council, with one of those groups being LGBTQ New Yorkers. The neighborhoods in the new district have been central to the gay rights movement in New York – both before and after the Stonewall riots. The district was considered “gay winnable,” Duane said. But he also faced what he referred to as a personal “calling” to disclose that he was HIV-positive, even though some warned against it in light of the ignorance and discrimination toward gay people during the AIDS epidemic. “There were a lot of people who thought that it was a terrible idea to tell anybody,” Duane recalled to City & State recently. “But I was determined. I was going to do it no matter what, and however people were going to react, they were going to react.” Inspired to disclose his status in a letter to constituents by Brian Coyle, a Minneapolis City Council member who disclosed his own HIV status in a similar way, Duane went on to win the council seat. Along with Antonio Pagán, another openly gay politician, Duane was one of the first two out gay members of the council. This year marks three straight decades of representation by a gay or lesbian member in City Council District 3. Thirty years after Duane first joined the council,

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The four members who most recently represented New York City Council District 3 have been at the forefront of the fight for gay rights.

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the seat has now been held by two openly HIV-positive members – Duane and Corey Johnson – and has given the council two of its most recent speakers – Christine Quinn and Johnson. Its current occupant, Erik Bottcher, came up as a council staffer, most recently working in Johnson’s office before being elected last year. Duane’s reminiscence of his 1991 campaign and his seven years in the council – some of which were spent joining advocates in fighting then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani to maintain social services for people with HIV, particularly low-income people – served as a reminder of how much has changed for the better. “At the height of the AIDS epidemic, before protease inhibitors or any other antiretroviral drugs existed, he came out as an HIV-positive gay man,” Johnson said of Duane, adding that Duane was one of the first people to whom he disclosed his own HIV status years later. “I don’t think it would have been not just … possible for me to run, but probably wouldn’t have been possible for me to be alive if it weren’t for people like Tom Duane and (gay rights activist) Allen Roskoff, and so many other people who really blazed the trail for people like me.” “His office was used more or less like a gay community center,” Roskoff, president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club and a longtime resident of the dis-

trict, said of Duane’s office. Owles, the late gay rights activist and Roskoff’s former partner, ran unsucessfully to represent the area in the council in 1973. David Rothenberg, another gay rights activist, came close to winning election in the area in 1985, but fell short. Speaking to City & State a few days ahead of the start of Pride Month, each of the four occupants of the council seat reflected on the strides made for LGBTQ New Yorkers in the past three decades. Duane was elected at the height of the AIDS crisis, before same-sex marriage was legal in New York and before discrimination based on sexual orientation was explicitly prohibited in state law. But each of the four former and current council members said they were more focused today on what hasn’t yet changed for the better. “Always take a moment just to look back and see how far we’ve come. Because we really have come a very long way,” Duane said. “And then, ‘OK, enough of that.’ Now you have to look forward.” THE WAR HASN’T BEEN WON After same-sex marriage was recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as a fundamental right in the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, LGBTQ advocates faced a risk that elected officials – at least those open to listening to the community – would pat themselves on the back and consider the

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Below, former New York City Council Member Tom Duane and former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who both represented District 3. Right, former Council Speaker Corey Johnson previously served the district.

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war won. “I think many people outside of the LGBT community, and even some people inside the community, thought the battle has been won,” Johnson said of the Supreme Court decision. Bottcher was eager to draw attention to the need to address the challenges that remain – including ones that have become more urgent on a national scale this year. “The idea of prosecuting parents of trans kids and it being endorsed by mainstream Republican lawmakers, I think there’s a fever pitch to that right now and an edge to it that we haven’t seen in years,” Bottcher said, referring to states that have passed laws allowing child abuse investigations into the parents of transgender children. And like the leaders of the historically diverse LGBTQ Caucus, of which he is a member, Bottcher intends to focus on the city’s most vulnerable people. “There are many people in New York City in the LGBTQ community who are still forced to live on the margins, who are still subjected to vicious discrimination,” he said. “Particularly the trans community, trans women of color – they are significantly more likely to die of suicide, they’re more likely to be victims of violence, they’re far less likely to be employed.” He said higher rates of homelessness among LGBTQ youth and providing mental care were other areas the council could address with “funding and policy.” When asked to elaborate on specific actions the council could take, Bottcher pointed to the council’s oversight role. “We have to ensure that every city agency is adequately serving the LGBTQ population in a culturally competent manner, that they are affirming people’s identities and delivering them services,” he said, noting that some progress has been made at historically problematic agencies like the city Administration for Children’s Services – citing instances of LGBTQ youth being placed in discriminatory foster homes. Working with city agencies to provide better services for the LGBTQ community was also one of the areas Duane said he would focus on if he were still on the council. That included working with city agencies to provide better care for the aging population of openly gay New Yorkers, starting at senior centers. “I remember working with commissioners of aging – and this has to go on still today – (saying)

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“There’s a lot of things that didn’t get an enormous amount of press attention and may not have been headlinegrabbing, but really made a difference in the lives of LGBT New Yorkers.” – former New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, on bills he helped pass in the council

that, ‘Yes, there are senior citizen centers that focus mainly on LGBTQIA elders. But there is also the challenge to make sure that LGBTQIA people feel welcome in every senior center.” Quinn highlighted the needs of queer youth in the city. “The situation for young LGBT people is still very dangerous,” she said. “Extremely high suicide numbers, off the charts bullying in school, not enough beds for homeless and runaway youth.” Quinn also warned that the seemingly likely rescission of the right to abortion secured in Roe v. Wade could portend a similar rollback by the U.S. Supreme Court of the right to same-sex marriage.

And then there are the strides left to make in representation. Even as the council’s LGBTQ contingent has grown in size and diversity across the city, District 3 has been held only by cisgender white people. (The district is roughly 67% white, 13% Hispanic, 12% Asian and 5% Black.) “It’s not OK that we haven’t elected a transgender person to the City Council,” Bottcher said. “It’s not OK that we haven’t elected a trans person to the state Legislature.” RINGING IN 30 YEARS Looking back on their time in office, the three former occupants of the City Council District 3 seat – Duane, Quinn and John-

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Now, New York City Council Member Erik Bottcher has taken up the mantle of representing the home of the Stonewall Inn.

son – pointed to distinct achievements for the LGBTQ community. During the Giuliani administration, Duane fought to keep the mayor from cutting or altogether shutting down what was then called the Division of AIDS Services, which helped people living with the disease access benefits including transportation to medical appointments and rental assistance. The division is now called the HIV/AIDS Services Administration and is codified in city law. Quinn, who served as Duane’s chief of staff at the time, pointed to that example too when asked about her own achievements. Johnson said one of the first bills he passed as a new member in 2014 made it

easier for transgender people to change their birth certificates, and a few years later, he helped secure dedicated funding for transgender groups in the city. “There’s a lot of things that didn’t get an enormous amount of press attention and may not have been headline-grabbing, but really made a difference in the lives of LGBT New Yorkers,” Johnson said. Despite their many connections – in addition to all occupying the same council seat, Quinn worked for Duane and Bottcher worked for Johnson – you won’t find them gathering regularly to talk about the old days or advise Bottcher on his current term. But while they aren’t ringing in the 30-year his-

tory of LGBTQ representation in the district with tons of fanfare, the four members might yield to a little celebration. “We should all go out to dinner or something,” Quinn said. The significance of his 1991 win wasn’t lost on Duane. “I’ll never know whether someone on the City Council or whether a staff member didn’t want to get too close to me because they didn’t really understand how HIV was passed,” he said. “But I think that many more people felt comfortable approaching an openly gay person, or a person with HIV, that I made it possible for them to grow in not just their tolerance and acceptance, but embracing who I am and who I represented.”

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LGBTQ CAUCUS TO FOCUS ON MARGINALIZED MEMBERS New York City Council Members Tiffany Cabán and Crystal Hudson laid out their agenda and what they want to see from the Adams administration. By Annie McDonough

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EW YORK CITY Council Members Tiffany Cabán and Crystal Hudson are looking to shake things up as co-chairs of the council’s LGBTQ Caucus – starting with its name. “We’re finalizing our bylaws, but the name of the caucus is formally being changed to the LGBTQIA+ Caucus,” Cabán told City & State recently. Transitioning to a more inclusive name might not achieve material gains for the community, but it’s indicative of the approach that the two co-chairs are taking to lead the caucus. While the co-chairs wouldn’t talk much about a package of bills that the caucus is working on, Cabán and Hudson said they were “unapologetic” in their intention to focus on the most at-risk members of the LGBTQ community, including transgender youth and seniors as well as queer people of color. City & State caught up with Cabán and Hudson recently to talk about their goals for the caucus, their focus on the most marginalized of the LGBTQ community and what they want to see from a mayoral administration that has left them disappointed so far. The responses have been edited for length and clarity.

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What role is the LGBTQ Caucus going to play in the City Council? Have you convened to talk about common goals or what you are going to focus on? Crystal Hudson: We have a clear mandate from among the caucus members, and also community members and advocates, that we should be focusing everything on the members of our community that are most marginalized. That includes Black and brown trans women, in particular. LGBTQIA+-identified youth who are experiencing homelessness, who don’t feel safe in their schools or at home. That’s sort of the lens with which we’re leading all of our efforts moving forward. Tiffany Cabán: And I would add taking care of our queer elders. Filling those gaps that historically haven’t been filled. The intentional decision to be called the LGBTQIA+ Caucus, rather than the previous name, the LGBT Caucus, is just understanding where our focus is on. And it is on the members of our community that have historically been most marginalized, most exploited. It’s the difference between – and this is a little bit reductionist – but having these battles around marriage equality versus affirming health care for trans youth. Addressing the fact that our community is criminalized at higher rates, that we experience homelessness at higher rates, and who amongst our community bears the brunt of those inequities the most. Whether it’s health care for trans youth or higher rates of homelessness, what specifically can the caucus – and then the City Council – do to address these issues? Is it drawing attention to these issues? Starting initiatives? Passing certain laws? Cabán: All of the above. Hudson: I was just going to say the exact same thing. Making it clear what our priorities are to the speaker and to the rest of the body. That includes investing in terms of the budget and council initiatives. That also means talking about it, elevating the issues that people are experiencing.

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The co-chairs of the LGBTQ Caucus in the New York City Council: Tiffany Cabán, left, and Crystal Hudson, right

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munity in all of those conversations. Are there any specific initiatives you’re going to be focusing on or pieces of legislation you’re going to be introducing that you can tell us about? Hudson: Without giving too much away, we are working on a package of bills. That would be a collection from all caucus members to address the issues pertaining to LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers.

Cabán: We often talk about how everything is a queer issue, right? Housing is a queer issue, health care is a queer issue, education, the criminal legal system. So when we say that we have a housing crisis and we need to expand transitional housing and safe respites and all these things, then you better believe that part of the plan should include trans housing, making sure that those beds are available. When we say that we are a union town and we need to expand union opportunities, it means exploring things like the Pride at Work initiative to make sure that there is understanding that there is workplace discrimination against queer folks, gender-nonconforming folks, trans folks.

This caucus has party diversity, racial and gender diversity, generational diversity. Do you expect there will be differences of opinion on policy – particularly with Republican City Council Member David Carr? What are the pros and cons of that diversity? Cabán: I see positives. This might be the organizer and former public defender in me, but a diversity of experience, opinion, politics, theory of change, makes for really good, robust conversation. It sheds light into shadowed areas. And I welcome tension. I think navigating tension is not just good, but really, really necessary. Hudson: Agreed. I think the more diversity we have in terms of perspectives, opinions, experiences, the better off we all are. But I’ll also just add that this is a caucus that’s led by two queer women of color. It’s a caucus that’s majority women. So it’s a new caucus in terms of what we’ve seen in the past. I think maybe with the exception of Rosie (Méndez) some years back, it has almost exclusively been led by cisgender men. We certainly welcome all of that diversity, but I think also our leadership is a different type of diversity in leadership. Cabán: I think Crystal and I are both very unapologetic in who we are, who we’re fighting for, and what we want to accomplish.

Can you explain the Pride at Work initiative? Hudson: It’s to get more LGBTQIA+ folks into unionized jobs – funding to nonprofits and city agencies that can specifically recruit folks who identify as LGBTQIA+, prepare them for unionized jobs in a number of sectors, including apprenticeship programs. But I think to Tiffany’s point, it’s just the general advocacy for inclusivity. We can’t talk about access to quality and competent health care, access to deeply affordable housing, access to job opportunities with livable wages if we’re not actually including the LGBTQIA+ com-

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has faced criticism from advocates for his hiring of several people with histories of anti-gay views. What was your reaction to those hires? Cabán: It was deeply upsetting. Hudson: It was. I think what was not lost on us was the fact that the apologies, the excuses, the sort of doubling back, was too little, too late. The folks had already been appointed, the decision had already been made. There was no real or genuine effort to make amends with the community, to sit down with the community. Obviously, we’ve seen that the mayor hasn’t reversed

In March, New York City Mayor Eric Adams held a roundtable discussion with LGBTQ leaders at City Hall.

“The mayor has said he has a history of supporting the community. But we haven’t yet seen any deliberate actions from the administration in terms of supporting Black and brown trans women, supporting LGBTQIA+ youth or seniors.” – New York City Council Member Crystal Hudson, on Mayor Eric Adams

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So we’ll have to wait to see that? Cabán: Yeah. And (we’ll be) exploring initiatives. There’s Pride at Work. There’s HIV prevention for Black men and other populations. There’s LGBT immigrant initiatives. So lots of things to dig into.

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his decision. I think what we need coming out of that whole experience is action. Action speaks far louder than words. What we’ve heard a lot of is, “This administration is a pro-LGBTQIA+ administration, is a supportive administration.” The mayor has said he has a history of supporting the community. But we haven’t yet seen any deliberate actions from the administration in terms of supporting Black and brown trans women, supporting LGBTQIA+ youth or seniors. We haven’t seen a specific initiative rolled out – and I don’t just mean like a budget initiative – I mean a campaign initiative. We haven’t seen the launch of any specifically focused work with the community, for the community, on behalf of the community. And I think that’s what we’re waiting to see from this administration. Cabán: It starts from within. You can’t say that you are going to build a city that is safe for our community, but then not model that within your administration. Culture matters. That continues to be concerning and disturbing, quite frankly, to me. But those are fights that we’re going to continue to have. Were you a part of the meeting in March with the mayor about LGBTQ issues? Cabán: Yeah, we were there.

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and consensual sex work. Hudson: I think just real, genuine, meaningful and deliberate investments and efforts around supporting our community. In terms of housing, we need supportive housing, we need housing that’s specifically geared towards the LGBTQIA+ community that’s been marginalized. Tiffany mentioned earlier housing for trans folks, housing for LGBTQIA+ youth who are experiencing homelessness, and also elders who are experiencing homelessness or any other sort of type of hardship. Thinking about mental health services is certainly another big one, particularly for our community. And then, the sort of low-hanging fruit. Thinking about the curriculum that we see in our schools. How are you engaging with school communities around the topic? How are you empowering and showing that you’re seeing all students in our school system? This might not be something at the top of your agenda, but do you support removing former Mayor Ed Koch’s name from the Queensboro Bridge – something the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club has called for, citing his handling of the AIDS crisis? Hudson: I think we’d have to have a broad-

Do you feel like anything productive came out of that meeting? Hudson: Well, that’s sort of what I was referring to. We had that meeting, the mayor told us how much of a supporter of the community he’s been, what he’s done in the past as a senator, how he will continue to support the community. But we haven’t seen anything yet. We haven’t seen a single initiative or investment. This is a time when we need to see what are you doing that is unique to your administration? What steps are you taking as the new mayor of this city where trans folks are not safe, where LGBTQIA+ youth and older adults are not safe? What are you doing? What specific steps would you like to see the mayor take, perhaps particularly focused on the most marginalized in the LGBTQIA+ community? Cabán: There are so many things. I’m going to start with the thing that nobody will be surprised that I start with – that our community experiences high levels of violence. And I’m not just talking about hate violence in the community, because actually our community experiences more sustained, higher levels every day, of state-sanctioned violence. That includes criminalization. I would like to see us protecting our sex workers and disbanding (the NYPD’s Vice Enforcement Division), and the practice of criminalizing survival

Cabán attended a street renaming in Queens for the Rygor family, a pioneering LGBTQ family that lived on the block for 67 years.

er conversation with the caucus. We’ve all been through the endorsement process with Jim Owles. I know I was endorsed by Jim Owles and have expressed my personal views. But I think as far as the caucus is concerned, we’d have to take the temperature of all of the members and figure out where we stand together as a caucus. Cabán: The only thing I would add to that is I think it matters, right? It matters when we look at the vestiges of statues, bridges – all of these things that exist that are reminders of and uplift these very painful moments – and tell a certain part of the story, while erasing or pushing to the margin some really important parts of our story in history. To Crystal’s point, I think it’s a part of a larger conversation on what to prioritize. We’re in the midst of what feels like a continuing but acute crisis, and our people are struggling. We are struggling to get by at the intersection of a pandemic, an economic crisis – Hudson: A racial reckoning – Cabán: Yes. All of it. So I think about how we use our capacity, because it is finite. How we use the tools in our toolbox to make sure we are focused on doing the things in this moment that are going to have the most material benefit to our people, who need things right now.

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LGBTQ political clubs have become a nexus of organizing power in New York City. We sat down with the leaders of four clubs to discuss their goals.

HE BEST WAY for an LGBTQ New Yorker to get involved in politics with the community? Joining a political club. And that’s now been true for five decades. The Gay & Lesbian Independent Democrats, or GLID, was founded in 1972 as the city’s first gay political club, at a moment when the LGBTQ community was finding its political voice. GLID has faded away, but other LGBTQ political clubs have grown around the city and are thriving. Now, efforts to secure – and maintain – rights for the LGBTQ community, and especially transgender people, have taken on a new urgency in the year 2022, amid a rash of homophobic political rhetoric and an uptick in anti-LGBTQ legislation getting taken up across the country. Ahead of Pride Month, City & State brought together some of the leaders of the city’s preeminent LGBTQ political clubs at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village. Justin Sanchez, a gay man from the Bronx, has been president of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City since February. Derek Gaskill, a queer trans man, has been co-president of Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn since January. Allen Roskoff, a gay man,

founded the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club in Manhattan, and has been its president since 2004. And Michael Czaczkes, a gay man from Queens, sits on the board of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens, as well as the board of Jim Owles, and is a former president of LID. It was the first time they’d all been together, but it won’t be the last. They talked about organizing a women and femme+ outing for club members. And weeks after getting together, three of the clubs collaborated to boycott New York City Mayor Eric Adams Pride reception, unless he would fire anti-gay appointees and stop sweeps on homeless encampments, among other asks. After meeting at the monument, they moved to the sun-drenched patio outside of The Duplex, a gay bar across the street, for a warm, friendly and poignant meeting of the minds. That included the sometimes contentious history behind their groups, their legislative and political priorities for New York and advice for candidates seeking to avoid Andrew Yang-like flubs when seeking their endorsements. The conversation below has been edited for length and clarity. CITY & STATE: Just an hour ago I saw the Assembly just passed

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the bill that allows nonbinary folks to run for party positions. ALLEN ROSKOFF, president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club: Lambda worked very hard on that. DEREK GASKILL, co-president of Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn: I sued the Brooklyn Democratic Party, for county committee! This is for district leader. ROSKOFF: I mean, we all support it! It emanated from Émilia (Decaudin, a trans Democratic district leader in Queens). GASKILL: Two years ago I ran for county committee in Brooklyn. I was denied a seat on county committee, me and six other folks, because I didn’t declare my gender as male or female. The seats were divided between male and female seats for no reason. And I was running in a district that, to my knowledge, has never been filled. We ended up suing the Board of Elections and the county party. But that’s for county committee! This bill is for district leaders, but same thing applies. C&S: Was anyone else involved in the litigation? JUSTIN SANCHEZ, president of Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City:

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Justin Sanchez leads the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City.

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Not personally, but working up in Albany (as chief of staff to Assembly Member Nathalia Fernandez) and seeing those conversations, it’s really great! A lot of work happens behind the scenes, and one of the really important things is that a lot of the staff is from the wide plethora of the LGBTQIA+ community. Having all these folks behind the scenes helps a lot of these bills push through and helps a lot of the work actually get done, but it does come down to folks bringing these issues forward and putting them on the map, which is exactly what happened in this situation. This was JGR’s (Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas’) bill and it is the combination of the inside and outside game that helps this legislation and these achievements move forward. GASKILL: I think that’s where LGBT political clubs come in right now. They’re not going to celebrate this at Pride, right? There’s not going to be a We Passed This Bill float. This is wonky and internal stuff, but has real consequences. And using these clubs as access points for folks that want to get involved with local politics or have aspirations for bigger office, whatever purpose we serve, we’ve eliminated one barrier. Not going to get a parade, but this is why we exist, to keep eyes on these things and point them out. MICHAEL CZACZKES, board member of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens: Clubs serve a perfect purpose – we have all the elected officials and candidates that come before the clubs. To be able to ask them where they are on issues, why haven’t they done something, why aren’t they doing more, if they’re going to support it. Every person that’s come before Jim Owles, for instance, has been asked about (whether they support renaming) the Ed Koch Bridge, and it’s on the record. It seems mind-numbing, it’s thankless work to organize these meetings and facilitate them with elected officials that are cranky and sometimes won’t answer a question. But it’s getting them on the record and (asking), “why aren’t you a sponsor of the Trans Equity Bill” or whatever it is, and having them answer in front of people that they probably don’t think about until, every two years, when they come before the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens or Lambda or whatever. SANCHEZ: At the same time – you said that’s one of the benefits – I also think that’s

one of the drawbacks of our political clubs. The fact we operate in such political circles that it’s a hard time expanding to folks who are not necessarily politically tapped. I think this is where our leadership needs to reach the next level. Because if we look around this table, we have no Black people. We have no women. There are communities like the ballroom scene, all of these places where community is thriving but they haven’t been tapped into politically. And I think that is where we really need to take this next step. If we were able to take communities of color that have been disenfranchised by the systems that we are fighting to open the doors to and really get them engaged and energized, I think we would be taking our clubs to the next level. While we’re so connected politically, I also think it’s a drawback of our clubs because it almost isolates us from the wider, broader community that deals with so many issues. The majority of the folks that we’re looking at when we’re talking about homelessness are people of color, are people from the LGBTQ+ community, and we have yet to really find ways

to integrate all sides of the community. GASKILL: 100%. ROSKOFF: I think where we’ve reached a level of great success is that Jim Owles is multi-issued. Like Bella Abzug served on the women’s commission for Jimmy Carter and got fired because she considered all issues women’s issues. We’re actually responsible for changing policy on clemency. We got live people out of prison, out of their cages. And I believe we’re going to have a great many more out after the election, unless we’re going to have a Republican governor. C&S: What’s the history of your clubs? How’d they start, when and why? SANCHEZ: Stonewall has a very illustrious history. Stonewall was born out of what all gays love, petty drama. But not really. (Now-Assembly Member) Deborah Glick took over GLID (Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats) and there was a whole schism and then in 1986, Stonewall was born out of that schism.

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Michael Czaczkes, left, is a board member of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens and Derek Gaskill, right, is co-president of the Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn.

tory that should be told, with all due respect. C&S: And when was Jim Owles founded? ROSKOFF: Jim Owles was founded 2004. And when we formed, I wanted to do everything within my power to not make it about one person. So we got a 100-person board of governors. Every lefty politician, lefty celebrities, lefty activists, lefty this. We had an incredible base of support because people knew who Jim Owles was and who I was and Bella Abzug was. What we fought for in the ’70s and we continued to have that energy and that voice, and I think Jim Owles still has that totally progressive, 1960s liberal, progressive, radical voice.

“Listen. Listen. Literally, listen. I think this happens in so many progressive spaces. A lot of folks love stepping up but few people love stepping back.” – Justin Sanchez, president of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City

ROSKOFF: Justin, can I chime in, because you’re a lot younger than me. SANCHEZ: Oh yeah. ROSKOFF: I lived through the conception of Stonewall. And Stonewall was formed because the progressive gay Democrats were supporting Mario Cuomo. And the Stonewall Democrats – and this has nothing to do with the people today, but this is history – the Stonewall Democrats were for Ed Koch. C&S: How do you feel about Ed Koch? ROSKOFF: (Laughs.) Our favorite straight ally! The whole invention of Stonewall was their supporting Ed Koch, that is what invented Stonewall. And proof of the pudding – back then, no reflection now – but Stonewall endorsed Rudolph Giuliani over Ruth Messinger (in 1997). GLID was taken over by Deborah, so the people I was associated with weren’t in GLID, but we also couldn’t go to Stonewall because of the conservatism of the founders. It was repugnant when Stonewall came out for Giuliani. That’s part of the his-

C&S: Tell me about Lambda. GASKILL: LID. Not Lambda, not Lid. L-I-D. There’s too many Lambdas out there. L-I-D! So LID was founded in 1978 in Gary Deane’s basement after Gary Deane, Virginia Apuzzo and Robert Mehl, they tried to get a city gay and lesbian civil rights bill passed. And then Gary Deane ran for a City Council at-large seat and very narrowly lost. They gathered together in a Boerum Hill basement, it was about 20 folks, and LID was born. My mentor in the club, the only person whose opinion I truly care about, whose approval I seek, is Renée Cafiero, who organized the first gay protest in New York City pre-Stonewall. I’ve had feelings about being involved in the Democratic Party, with everything going on, and one of the reasons I’ve stuck around is that this nitty-gritty work is important. To bounce back to Justin, our clubs look the way they do for a reason, and this sort of inner political work is really inaccessible to folks. Who knows what a district leader is? Who knows what county committee is? No one. None of my friends did. I barely knew and I have a master’s in urban policy. We talk about criminal justice, we talk about economic justice, but our clubs don’t reflect the people that are living these experiences. And it trickles up, too. I’m the first trans president of LID. We have no trans City Council folks. What’s up with that? Why have other cities gotten to the jump before us? It’s bringing people into this process that they might have resistance to, but you can’t really escape. ROSKOFF: I just want to say Alan Fleishman, who LID meant everything to, was a great leader.

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Allen Roskoff leads the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club.

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GASKILL: Unfortunately, he passed right before I joined LID. But I am very honored to be in his footsteps. I actually found a picture of him the other day getting arrested for walking in the St. Patrick’s Day parade before they allowed gays –

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derstand where we can go.

GASKILL: You were in that picture too?! There you go!

GASKILL: One of my favorite lines from Renée Cafiero – again, the only person whose approval I seek – is, once in a while she’ll pull out: “When I was a McGovern delegate, when I was one of five out LGBT delegates at the National Committee.” And you’re like wait, there’s only five gay folks there? And like now, how many are there? There’s probably after-parties.

ROSKOFF: Me, me and him! It was his first arrest! We were in the police station putting on the captain’s hat and taking pictures of each other.

CZACZKES: I don’t think we can be having this conversation without the (former New York City Council Member) Danny Dromm version of history. In the early ’90s, Julio

ROSKOFF: With me! With me!

SANCHEZ: It was in black and white, you didn’t notice (laughs). GASKILL: Stories like that make it important to keep these places alive. SANCHEZ: I think you bring up a really great point, and I think that’s why there is such a diversity of thought in Stonewall. You have to meet people where they are, and not everyone is where, necessarily, everyone wants them to be. So it’s finding those people that are in all these different places but with a common goal of equity. And if you can have a baseline of saying we all deserve equity – and not equality, equity – and find ways to get people there, I think it brings together such a diverse group of thoughts and minds and feelings that can frustrate the shit out of you. But at the end of the day it takes everyone all together, and it really is a microcosm of what it looks like not only in New York state as a whole but the country as a whole. Getting everyone together on one bandwidth to push for certain fights really is a hallmark of what people try to do at Stonewall. It goes to your issue (Derek) that all clubs have: Where are we incorporating the larger community, especially Black, brown, trans femme – GASKILL: Elders! SANCHEZ: – into our political world? And yes, there’s a huge problem with ageism, that a lot of the older members feel that they’re afraid as they get older their standing in the club doesn’t have as much strength. But I think one of the things older members fail to realize is they teach us so much history about where we are and where we came from to un-

“My favorite ally has a loud checkbook and a quiet voice.” – Derek Gaskill, co-president of Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn

Rivera was murdered in Jackson Heights. Danny was a public school teacher. And at the same time, a couple years later, the city tried to implement some sort of curriculum about equality in general, and it included LGBT issues. And there was significant pushback in Queens. It was similar to what you’re seeing with Don’t Say Gay, where there were people saying, “Oh my God, you’re going to indoctrinate my children and make them gay.” It was also at a time where communities like Jackson Heights were opposing the AIDS Center of Queens County. So Danny started the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens but he also started the Lesbian & Gay Pride Committee, which has the second-largest Pride parade in the city now and runs through Jackson Heights and the most diverse neighborhoods in the most diverse county in the country. I think it’s really interesting to see where we’ve come and where we have to go. I think it’s three steps forward and two steps back.

We’re proud (of) the work that all the clubs have done and now that we’re the four that are working together on issues and on candidates and making sure that we have the right people in office. GASKILL: But we also exist with our core purpose which is to push gay policies, LGBT policies in particular. Which, if you talk to folks from outside of New York, outside New York City, they’re like, “What could New York be doing more?” And the answer is: a lot. Comprehensive sex ed, LGBT history in schools, pushing for funding for trans equity, money going to trans health in particular. We’re there to make sure those show up to. C&S: I’m thinking back to Andrew Yang’s famous appearance before the Stonewall Dems and I’m wondering how politicians – members of the LGBT community or not – can be friends and allies. SANCHEZ: Listen. Listen. Literally, listen. I think this happens in so many progressive spaces. A lot of folks love stepping up but few people love stepping back. What my advice to any candidate, any person outside of the LGBTQ community that really wants to understand the issues, is step back. Listen to those folks. And if you really want to learn, find some folks from the trans femme community that are Black and brown, and listen to their struggles and understand what’s it like to live a single day in their shoes. They’re fabulous shoes, but they are hard to walk in. GASKILL: My favorite ally has a loud checkbook and a quiet voice. (Laughs.) ROSKOFF: You know way back when in the early ’70s, we knew our friends, we knew who really got the issue. Now it’s really difficult to tell because it’s to everybody’s advantage to be pro-gay, to be supportive of the community. You often think about elected officials, where they would be if they represented an area of Long Island, whether or not they would be taking the same positions. No matter how supportive you are of gay rights, if you’re not pro-choice, if you’re not for people having second chances, if you’re not good on so many other issues, if you’re for the death penalty, we won’t talk to you. Can’t just be good on gay rights and get our support because the world doesn’t revolve around us.

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THE POWER OF DIVERSITY: PRIDE 100

The LGBTQ leaders in New York politics.

HE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT has its roots in New York, where the Stonewall uprising occurred more than 50 years ago. Decades later, New York has made its mark as a leader in passing legislation protecting and supporting the LGBTQ community. After repealing the “walking while trans” ban in 2021, state legislators and the governor set aside $12.5 million for LGBTQ health and human services and created a $1 million fund for organizations helping transgender New Yorkers in this year’s budget. And New York’s political landscape has also been increasingly representative of the LGBTQ community. The New York City Council, for example, boasts an expanded, more diverse LGBTQ Caucus.

But while progress has been significant, anti-LGBTQ backlash has been on the rise nationally, translating into state-level legislation that largely targets trans people. New York has the dual challenge of combating anti-LGBTQ measures introduced elsewhere, while also fighting back against hate and prejudice that still proliferates locally. City & State’s 2022 Power of Diversity: Pride 100 – written by Tim Murphy and Jason Abrams in partnership with City & State’s Kay Dervishi – highlights the LGBTQ New Yorkers who serve in local and state government as well as lead the organizations, nonprofits, companies and other institutions shaping the region’s landscape, in the LGBTQ community and beyond.

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by his experiences growing up in public housing in the South Bronx. While a New York City Council member, Torres led oversight of the New York City Housing Authority and pushed local and state leaders to do more to improve conditions for public housing residents. Since heading to Washington, D.C., as the first gay Afro Latino person elected to Congress, Torres has pushed for greater federal funding for public housing.

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1 BRAD HOYLMAN STATE SENATOR State Sen. Brad Hoylman, who represents much of lower and midtown Manhattan, has advocated successfully for legislation like the Gender Expression NonDiscrimination Act, which protects transgender people, and a ban on gay conversion therapy for children. Hoylman was the only out gay person in the state Senate until Jabari Brisport’s election in 2020. The father of two daughters via a surrogacy arrangement, he also pushed hard for years to end the state’s ban on commercial surrogacy, finally getting it overturned in 2021. The prolific lawmaker recently opted against a bid for Congress.

2 SEAN PATRICK MALONEY MEMBER OF CONGRESS When Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney was elected chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in late 2020, things were looking up for him. But now, the Hudson Valley lawmaker is contending with the president’s unpopularity, the tossing out of Democraticfriendly congressional maps

in his home state and a furor over a newly drawn district that pitted him against fellow Democratic and LGBTQ Rep. Mondaire Jones. Maloney’s abrupt announcement that he’d run against Jones rankled some Democrats. And while Jones ultimately opted to run in a different district, Maloney will still face battles in the primary and general elections.

3 RITCHIE TORRES MEMBER OF CONGRESS Rep. Ritchie Torres’ time in the New York City Council and in Congress has been informed

MITCHELL KATZ PRESIDENT AND CEO New York City Health + Hospitals As head of New York City’s public health network of 11 hospitals and dozens of clinics since 2017, Dr. Mitchell Katz has steered the system – and the city – through the COVID-19 pandemic, during which intensive care unit capacity quadrupled, a telehealth platform was launched and systems changed on the fly. He also shepherded the pandemicera launch of NYC Care, for New Yorkers shut out of other health coverage options. In March, Katz announced that the once-floundering system looked to be financially sound

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STATE SENATE; U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; OFFICE OF REP. RITCHIE TORRES; TESS MAYER; OFFICE OF ASSEMBLY MEMBER HARRY BRONSON; MONDAIRE FOR CONGRESS; ASSEMBLY

through the coming fiscal year – and Mayor Eric Adams renominated him to the post.

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marker on their driver’s license to “X” and to more easily change the gender and name on their personal documents. O’Donnell has also joined other state lawmakers in calls to establish a $15 million Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Wellness and Equity Fund.

5 JABARI BRISPORT STATE SENATOR Universal child care access was top of mind for state Sen. Jabari Brisport during this year’s budget negotiations. Those efforts bore fruit, as the state budget significantly expanded child care subsidies, though Brisport expressed disappointment that undocumented children wouldn’t have access. The Democratic Socialists of America-backed legislator – who is the first out gay Black member of the state Legislature – joined other leftleaning legislators in criticizing public safety measures included in the budget.

6 DANIEL O’DONNELL ASSEMBLY MEMBER Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell, who spearheaded New York’s historic law legalizing same-sex marriage about a decade ago, has recently focused on supporting transgender and nonbinary New Yorkers. Last year, the Gender Recognition Act he sponsored was signed into law. The measure allows people to change the gender

O'Donnell sponsored the Gender Recognition Act, which was passed last year. system and last year called on then-SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras to resign. Glick, who made history as the first out LGBTQ member of the state Legislature, will face off against a primary challenger this year who has criticized her past opposition to the full decriminalization of sex work.

9 7 HARRY BRONSON ASSEMBLY MEMBER Economic growth and workforce development are among Assembly Member Harry Bronson’s priorities. The Rochester lawmaker helms the Committee on Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry, and also has spearheaded legislation fighting child poverty and expanding mental health support. Bronson, the first out gay upstate legislator, also recently sponsored a bill that would expand labor protections for freelancers in New York.

8 DEBORAH GLICK ASSEMBLY MEMBER Assembly Member Deborah Glick has kept a close eye on developments in higher education. Glick has pushed for increased funding for teaching hospitals under the State University of New York

MONDAIRE JONES MEMBER OF CONGRESS Rep. Mondaire Jones made history as the first Black representative elected to his district and as one of the first out gay Black men elected to Assembly Member Deborah Glick

Congress. In Washington, D.C., Jones has taken a balanced approach to both pushing forward progressive priorities and focusing on local issues in Westchester and Rockland counties. Last year, Jones was the most active freshman representative introducing legislation in Congress. This year, he opted to jump into the 10th Congressional District

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as well as workers in the health care and government sectors. Weingarten has pushed for greater investment in, and reform of, education and teaching in the U.S., including the raising of entry standards for teachers. The past year has seen Weingarten take a leading role in developing standards for opening schools in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and opposing the Florida legislation dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by critics.

TIFFANY CABÁN & CRYSTAL HUDSON CO-CHAIRS New York City Council LGBTQ Caucus The New York City Council’s LGBTQ Caucus is helmed by two first-term members with long track records as progressive advocates. Tiffany Cabán, who made headlines for nearly winning the Queens district attorney race in 2019, has taken strong stands in favor of more funding for housing, education and social services, and against incarceration and Mayor Eric Adams’ desire to beef up policing. Previously, she was a public defender and an organizer with the Working Families Party. The other cochair is New York City Council Member Crystal Hudson, a

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT AND FOUNDER Transgender Equity Consulting Prospect Heights native who is part of the progressive flank pushing back on Adams’ probusiness and pro-police stance. She has introduced a bill to demand a wintertime minimum heat level in New York City apartments and supports the so-called People’s Plan to direct more city resources to housing and services for working-class New Yorkers.

11 RANDI WEINGARTEN PRESIDENT American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten heads the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers, which represents educational professionals across America,

12 KIARA ST. JAMES CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York Transgender Advocacy Group As the leader of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group, Kiara St. James is a key advocate for the rights of transgender and gendernonconforming people. In Albany, St. James championed the Gender Expression NonDiscrimination Act and opposed the profiling and detention of transgender people, joining with allies to push successfully for the repeal of New York’s loitering law, which disproportionately targeted transgender people. She also

St. James has been a key champion of transgender rights in Albany.

The founder of Transgender Equity Consulting and a longtime advocate who has worked with a number of LGBTQ groups, Cecilia Gentili emigrated to the U.S. from her native Argentina, living as an undocumented sex worker until eventually winning asylum. A leading proponent of LGBTQ rights, Gentili has been focusing on the movement to decriminalize and destigmatize sex work, lending her voice to the campaign to repeal New York’s loitering law. Gentili has also appeared on the Emmy Award-winning FX drama “Pose.”

14 ALLEN ROSKOFF PRESIDENT Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club After last year’s busy election cycle in New York, Allen Roskoff is now focused on this year’s statewide races. His influential Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club threw its

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primary rather than face fellow Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney after new redistricting maps put them in the same district.

serves on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity.

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instrumental in the passage of New York’s Marriage Equality Act in 2011 and has garnered a reputation as one of the most effective lobbyists in the state. Giske also serves on the board of Eleanor’s Legacy, which works to elect female candidates.

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BerlinRosen Seventeen years ago, Valerie Berlin teamed up with business partner Jonathan Rosen to found BerlinRosen, which today has become a leading communications firm with an impressive record of success in advising left-of-center political campaigns and organizations. With roots in the world of Democratic political campaigns, Berlin regularly appears on lists of the most influential women and LGBTQ individuals in the country. Her firm’s roster of high-profile clients has featured Bill de Blasio, Brad Lander, Jumaane Williams and Carolyn Maloney.

16 EMILY GISKE SENIOR PARTNER Bolton-St. Johns Emily Giske is a longtime leader and public face of the government relations and public affairs firm BoltonSt. Johns, which she has positioned as a top-three lobbying firm in New York City and Albany. Long active in Democratic circles, Giske was

18 17 ETHAN GETO PRINCIPAL Geto & de Milly An adviser to a number of federal, state and local campaigns over several decades, Ethan Geto has helped launch some of the nation’s leading LGBTQ organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign and PFLAG. He has also been an effective strategist and advocate for gay rights legislation and policies for years. Geto also leads Geto & de Milly, a public affairs and strategic communications firm with a roster of highly prominent government, corporate and media clients. He serves on the boards of the New York City AIDS Memorial and the American LGBTQ+ Museum.

ERIK BOTTCHER, DAVID CARR, KRISTIN RICHARDSON JORDAN, CHI OSSÉ & LYNN SCHULMAN NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS Last year, Erik Bottcher, the former chief of staff to New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, won Johnson’s old seat. Having spoken openly about attempting suicide as a teen in upstate New York due to homophobic bullying, Bottcher has prioritized improving mental health services citywide, while in his Manhattan district he has focused on sanitation, matching job seekers with employers and getting much-needed

renovations for the New York City Housing Authority’s Fulton Houses complex. David Carr is the first out gay New York City Council member elected from Staten Island – and the body’s first out gay Republican. Previously chief of staff to Assembly Member Joe Borelli and then to Council Member Steven Matteo, Carr ran on a strong pro-police platform. He opposes congestion pricing and vaccine mandates, and is among a handful of Council members demanding that the city rehire workers fired for not getting COVID-19 vaccines. Poet, democratic socialist, police abolitionist – and now a member of New York City Council – Kristin Richardson Jordan has drawn more attention than many of her colleagues early on as she has pushed back on what she calls Mayor Eric Adams’ “austerity” budget, demanding less money for the NYPD

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support behind Gov. Kathy Hochul’s reelection bid yet joined other progressives in backing Ana Maria Archila’s bid for lieutenant governor. Roskoff has criticized Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to appoint officials who have a history of making homophobic comments – but has also found ways to continue working with the mayor, including speaking out against Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.

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her district. She also supports shutting down Rikers Island but has opposed construction of a new jail in Kew Gardens, which is also in her district.

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STEFAN RINGEL

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SENIOR ADVISER

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ Office

Ron Zacchi entered the political arena years ago as the executive director of Marriage Equality New York. Zacchi, who also served as director of external affairs for the New York State Division of Human Rights, spearheaded successful efforts to expand the Gender Recognition Act and boost funding for LGBTQ organizations in the Hochul administration. Prior to her current post, Chanel Lopez was the transgender

Stefan Ringel, a longtime aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, is now one of the highest-ranking LGBTQ officials at City Hall. Ringel has worked for Adams since 2013, serving as his communications director for nearly six years and as senior adviser to the thenBrooklyn borough president before taking on the same role once Adams took office as mayor. Ringel previously was a spokesperson for then-New York City Council Member Jumaane Williams and worked on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s 2010 reelection campaign.

communities liaison for the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Lopez, who was also a youth counselor for the Ali Forney Center, an LGBTQ youth housing nonprofit, was the first transgender woman to be honored by the Dominican Day Parade.

21 DARREN WALKER PRESIDENT Ford Foundation Darren Walker is a leader among progressive philanthropists, not just in New York, but across the globe. He oversees $16 billion in assets as president of the Ford Foundation, which distributes hundreds of

Ringel is one of the highestranking LGBTQ officials working in City Hall.

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and more for social services. She also blocked a proposed development in her district, arguing that it didn’t include enough affordable housing. The youngest person ever elected to New York City Council, Brooklyn native Chi Ossé, 24, was drawn to politics after getting involved in the Black Lives Matter movement following the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Ossé, a practicing Buddhist and democratic socialist, has criticized Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed budget, which would increase policing and reduce human services. Ossé, who has introduced a bill that would distribute the overdosereversing drug Narcan in nightlife settings, is beloved by fashion and beauty websites for his chic looks. Representing the 29th District in Queens since the start of 2022, Lynn Schulman, a borough native, chairs the New York City Council’s Committee on Health and is a member of its LGBTQ, women’s, Jewish and progressive caucuses. Having formerly worked in the NYC Health + Hospitals system, she is focused on expanding hospital access in

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Coffey has created media campaigns for companies including Uber, Latch and Bloomberg. In 2017, he was senior strategist for Corey Johnson’s successful bid to become speaker of the New York City Council. He also helped run Andrew Yang’s 2021 mayoral campaign. Coffey previously worked for Mike Bloomberg on his three electoral campaigns, in City Hall and at Bloomberg LP. He is chair of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and is on the board of The Trevor Project.

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effort at an REI store – the first union at the company. RWDSU in May endorsed Rep. Mondaire Jones, one of the two first out gay Black members of Congress, for reelection in a new district.

Council speaker expressed disappointment that Mayor Eric Adams recently proposed budget cuts to the Department of Homeless Services despite her having previously urged the mayor to dedicate $3.3 billion in additional funding to combat family homelessness.

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A prominent Black public policy professional and lobbyist, William Floyd has cultivated Google’s relations with state and local elected officials and opinion leaders since 2012. A veteran of New York City government, Floyd served as executive director of the New York City Districting Commission before joining Google. Floyd also serves as a vice chair of the board of the Citizens Budget Commission, a fiscal watchdog in New York, and on the board of the New York City Economic Development Corp.

While workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island geared up for a successful union drive, Stuart Appelbaum was busy rallying workers in Alabama for a second vote. That tough campaign also led the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to file objections with the National Labor Relations Board that Amazon illegally interfered in the election. Meanwhile, in New York, Appelbaum helped rally a successful unionization

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millions of dollars in grants toward social justice projects and other initiatives across the United States and abroad. Walker has been outspoken in calling for fellow philanthropists to put a greater emphasis on “justice and inequality.”

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and regulatory, legislative and policy matters. Active in LGBTQ rights and political circles, Del Giorno was head of public affairs and communications for the New York City Board of Elections for 15 years. He serves on the boards of the Stonewall Community Development Corporation and the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club.

29 MELISSA SKLARZ DISTRICT LEADER Assembly District 30

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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center has partnered with Equality New York and the New Pride Agenda in advocating for policies such as the decriminalization of sex work and the creation of a new Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Wellness and Equity Fund – just a few ways it is supporting LGBTQ New Yorkers. The group’s executive director, Glennda Testone, also oversees its health, arts and economic programs.

Jon Del Giorno manages the law firm Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno’s government relations practice, advising and representing a prominent roster of public and private sector clients on such matters as campaign finance and election compliance, government contracting

When Assembly Member Catherine Nolan announced she would retire at the end of the year, Émilia Decaudin’s name was floated as a possible candidate to replace her. But Decaudin opted not to run for the seat and instead will run for reelection as a Democratic district leader in Queens. Decaudin, who became one of the first two out transgender Democratic district leaders in 2020, also previously spearheaded a successful push to make the state Democratic Committee’s rules more inclusive of nonbinary people.

Oliveira helped get her organization to the $100M grant distribution milestone.

30 ANA OLIVEIRA PRESIDENT AND CEO The New York Women’s Foundation The New York Women’s Foundation reached a new milestone this year under Ana Oliveira’s leadership: It has distributed more than $100 million in grants since its founding 35 years ago. Since becoming the foundation’s president and CEO 16 years ago, Oliveira has spearheaded funding initiatives focused on helping women, girls and gender-nonconforming people in New York. That includes supporting organizations

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In 2018, Melissa Sklarz ran an unsuccessful primary campaign against Assembly Member Brian Barnwell. This year, she played a role in deciding what candidate would replace him on the ballot after Barnwell announced he would not run for reelection. Sklarz has made history twice, as the first out transgender person to win an election in New York and as one of the first two out trans Democratic district leaders in New York City.

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such as 21 in ’21 and the Sex Workers Project.

administration established rules requiring health insurers to cover PrEP and put forward a proposed budget that would invest $9.8 billion in expanding PrEP access over the course of 10 years.

31 EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Greater New York Hospital Association This year’s state budget included plenty of health provisions that pleased the Greater New York Hospital Association, with additional funding allocated to increasing workers’ wages and to improvements for health care facilities. An executive vice president with the association, David C. Rich plays a key role in advancing such legislative advocacy on behalf of hospitals and other members. His work is informed by his past experience handling health care policy in state government under then-Gov. Mario Cuomo.

32 BRUCE RICHMAN FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Prevention Access Campaign Bruce Richman is the founder and leader of Prevention Access Campaign, which carries out advocacy, activism and education on HIV prevention and treatment and works to improve the quality of life for HIV-positive individuals,

most notably through its efforts to spread the word that “undetectable equals untransmittable,” or U=U. But while that campaign has enjoyed considerable success, Richman remains focused on combating the stubborn stigma against those with HIV.

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leadership experience at the Empire State Pride Agenda and Bend the Arc. He recently joined other nonprofit leaders as a member of the city’s task force to improve contracting for nonprofits.

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PRESIDENT AND CEO

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, STRATEGY AND POLICY

Educational Alliance

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Alan van Capelle leads this 133-year-old nonprofit on the Lower East Side, which offers early childhood programs, after-school programs, services for older adults and addiction prevention services. He has served as the organization’s president and CEO since 2014, bringing with him past

Preexposure prophylaxis, also known as PrEP, is medication that has played a major role in driving HIV prevention globally. James Krellenstein has made it his mission to ensure widespread, affordable access to the lifesaving drug. That work has seen some success: The Biden

Campion handles every facet of forming agreements with public sector unions.

35 RENEE CAMPION COMMISSIONER New York City Office of Labor Relations Renee Campion, who was reappointed as the first female commissioner of the New York City Office of Labor Relations by Mayor Eric Adams in February after three years in the role, has been with the department for two decades. She handles every facet of forming and enforcing agreements with public sector workers, covering 150 collective bargaining units that represent some 360,000 employees. She also manages health insurance plans and benefits funds for hundreds of thousands of city workers.

36 KEVIN JENNINGS CEO Lambda Legal A victim of taunting and bullying in his youth, Kevin Jennings went on to found the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or

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GLSEN, which works to end discrimination and harassment in schools based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He has taken on leadership roles in a number of other organizations involved in promoting LGBTQ rights, including Lambda Legal, where he is now CEO, and the Arcus Foundation, the world’s largest foundation supporting LGBTQ rights organizations. Jennings also served as an assistant deputy secretary in the Department of Education.

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organized the activist camps outside City Hall in support of defunding the police.

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40 ANDREW KIRTZMAN PRESIDENT Kirtzman Strategies

37 CHARLES O’BYRNE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR POLICY Related Companies Long active in political campaigns and government, Charles O’Byrne was a speechwriter for Howard Dean and a trusted adviser to then-Gov. David Paterson. O’Byrne was ordained as a Jesuit priest, but left the order in 2002, around the time he openly criticized the sexual hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. Since 2012, O’Byrne has served as executive vice president for policy at the real estate powerhouse Related, where he handles government relations with federal, state and local authorities.

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Jawanza Williams – who describes himself on Twitter as “Black Leftist. Queer. Writer. Socialist. Christian.” – is a leading voice on New York City’s progressive left, speaking often in support of more services and housing for homeless people instead of increased sweeps. Publicly HIV-positive, he calls for more funding of social and community services instead of increased policing. Williams was a key figure during the city’s George Floyd protests and was among those who

Brian Ellner is a top executive at BCW and leads U.S. public affairs work at WPP, where he also hleads the LGBTQ employee resource group. The former senior strategist for the Human Rights Campaign

Roque's organization connects LGBTQ youth with housing and social support.

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Political candidates, companies and nonprofits seeking expertise in strategic and crisis communications number themselves among Andrew Kirtzman’s clients. His work at Kirtzman Strategies is informed by his past experience, having served as a vice president at Global Strategy Group and as a well-known political reporter in New York City. His firm recently worked with Yeshiva University students who filed a lawsuit against the school for refusing to recognize their LGBTQ student club. Editor’s Note: Andrew Kirtzman is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

41 ALEXANDER ROQUE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ali Forney Center The Ali Forney Center provides a lifeline for LGBTQ youth facing homelessness. Under Alexander Roque’s direction, the organization connects 2,000 LGBTQ youth to housing and social support every year. The

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who helped secure same-sex marriage in New York is also continuing his advocacy work, including teaming up with the Adams administration to criticize Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law and partnering with HRC on a visual campaign depicting an American flag with missing stars that reflect a lack of LGBTQ rights in many states.

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42 CHARLES KING CO-FOUNDER AND CEO Housing Works Housing Works is focused on ending homelessness and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. And Charles King wants New York’s leaders to step up to do more to further both ends. The organization denounced Gov. Kathy Hochul for omitting from the state budget $10 million in funding to house New Yorkers living with HIV. And while King was pleased to see the Adams administration invest more in safe havens and stabilization beds, he has also pushed for greater funds for permanent housing and for the city to stop sweeping encampments.

care to LGBTQ New Yorkers in need. One-third of its clients are uninsured and rely on the organization for mental health services, HIV/AIDS treatment, gender-confirming care and other support. Wendy Stark has worked to ensure those services have continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, while also advocating for state legislators to protect funding for community health centers and safety net providers.

44 ELISA CRESPO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New Pride Agenda Elisa Crespo, a transgender Puerto Rican politician and advocate, has served for nearly a year as the executive director of the New Pride Agenda, which works to promote the rights of marginalized LGBTQ people. NPA has worked to protect LGBTQ youth and trans women and promote sex worker rights while also targeting housing and workplace discrimination. Prior to joining NPA, Crespo became the first trans woman of color to be on the ballot for a New York City Council seat.

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Stonewall Democrats of New York City; Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens; Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn

Callen-Lorde Community Health Center Callen-Lorde Community Health Center plays a vital role in delivering affordable health

With election season heating up, political clubs are

New Pride Agenda Executive Director Elisa Crespo

beginning to endorse their favored candidates – and among the most coveted endorsements in the five boroughs are those from several LGBTQ clubs, including the Stonewall Democrats of New York City, the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens and Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn. While not nearly as experienced as the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club’s venerable Allen Roskoff, the presidents of these clubs – SDNYC’s Justin Sanchez, LGDCQ’s Patrick Yacco and LID’s Derek Gaskill and Nick Tamborra –

have plenty of political clout thanks to their leadership positions.

46 MICHAEL ADAMS CEO SAGE LGBTQ seniors face unique challenges, including dealing with discrimination, social isolation and higher poverty rates. Michael Adams heads

King was pleased that NYC invested in more safe haven and stabilization beds.

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nonprofit is also spearheading a workforce initiative, coordinating with New York City officials to help LGBTQ young adults experiencing or at risk of homelessness to find employment and pursue education.

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continuing to speak out in support of progressive causes and candidates ever since. Nixon, who is married to New York activist Christine Marinoni, has also lent her celebrity to advocate for LGBTQ rights and the legalization of recreational marijuana.

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Harlem United CEO Jacquelyn Kilmer

SAGE, a 44-year-old nonprofit dedicated to meeting the needs of LGBTQ older adults by providing supportive services to them across New York. Adams has also been a staunch advocate for federal and state-level legislation that would protect LGBTQ seniors from facing discrimination when seeking housing or elder care.

before the state Legislature on matters relating to health care access.

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Jacquelyn Kilmer is dedicated to advocating for quality health care for the poor. Since 2015 she has led Harlem United, which works to ensure access to health care, housing and social services and has expanded its work under Kilmer’s watch. Kilmer also chairs the board of Amida Care, a nonprofit community health plan that provides coverage to Medicaid members with HIV/AIDS and other chronic conditions. She has testified a number of times

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of violence, particularly that which is aimed at LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities, and to provide support for victims. Tillery is also a member of the New York City Commission on Gender Equity.

Matt Tracy was elevated last year to the role of editor-inchief of Gay City News, the largest LGBTQ newspaper in the country. Tracy, who was just 30 when he succeeded longtime editor Paul Schindler, frequently pens articles in the newspaper and online, focusing on such issues as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, health care in the LGBTQ community and transgender rights and security in recent months.

New York City Anti-Violence Project Beverly Tillery has made a career of advocating for LGBTQ rights and social justice, lending her talents to such organizations as Lambda Legal, Amnesty International, 1199SEIU and ACORN. She is currently executive director of the New York City AntiViolence Project, which works to address and end all forms

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49 CYNTHIA NIXON ACTOR AND ACTIVIST Cynthia Nixon is an awardwinning actor best known for her role as lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series “Sex and the City” – and its recent reboot, “And Just Like That….” In New York politics, however, she’s known for seeking to unseat then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018 and

New York City Department of Probation New York City Department of Probation Commissioner Ana Bermúdez is a trailblazer, having made history as the first out gay and first Latina leader of the agency. Bermúdez, who was among the city’s commissioners kept on by Mayor Eric Adams, has launched innovative mentoring and support programs. She previously served as the department’s deputy commissioner of juvenile operations and as director of juvenile justice programs at the Children’s Aid Society.

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at Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, where she helps her clients engage with government entities at all levels, most notably in the arts, culture and social services sectors. Christ was recently elevated to the role of co-chair of the firm’s New York practice. The former president of the Stonewall Club of NYC was also named to New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ Equity Transition Committee in December.

52 FRANKIE MIRANDA PRESIDENT AND CEO Hispanic Federation Frankie Miranda, who became the first gay president of the Hispanic Federation in 2019, has been with the national advocacy group for Latinos since 2006. Under his leadership, the group’s annual gala has grown to raise more than $2.7 million annually. Miranda expanded the group into Puerto Rico, where it offers long-term disaster assistance, and Florida. Prior to joining the Hispanic Federation, he held several communications positions, including as deputy press secretary for Spanish language media for Hillary Clinton’s 2000 campaign for U.S. Senate.

53 AMIT BAGGA DEPUTY UNDERSECRETARY FOR INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Office Amit Bagga was appointed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last September to serve as deputy undersecretary for intergovernmental affairs. The New York City native of South Asian descent ran for New York City Council last year on a platform including defunding the New York

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City Police Department and expanding human services programs. Bagga also served as deputy director of the city’s 2020 census campaign and as deputy commissioner for external affairs at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs.

54 MELANIE WILLINGHAMJAGGERS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GLSEN Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, the first Black, nonbinary head of this national advocacy group for LGBTQ students,

was previously the group’s deputy executive director and interim executive director. They previously served as the program associate director of The Worker Institute at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. They were also board chair of The Audre Lorde Project, one of the city’s oldest groups for LGBTQ people of color.

55 ROSE CHRIST SENIOR PRINCIPAL AND CO-CHAIR, NEW YORK PRACTICE Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies An influential player in the world of lobbying and politics, Rose Christ is a senior principal

56 RONALD RICHTER CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JCCA Ronald Richter’s career has been marked by a passion for child welfare. Before joining JCCA, Richter served as commissioner of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services and as a New York City Family Court judge. Now, he brings that passion to one of New York’s oldest child welfare organizations, overseeing foster care programs, mental health services and other support for youth and families. In April, Mayor Eric Adams named Richter to his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.

Miranda has grown the Hispanic Federation since becoming president in 2019.

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experience as a gay Latino immigrant living with HIV. That has given him valuable insight into understanding the barriers many LGBTQ Latino people face when seeking HIV treatment. Reberte has also served on the Latino Gay and Bisexual Men Advisory Group for New York state’s AIDS Advisory Council.

57 DOUG WIRTH PRESIDENT AND CEO Amida Care

Culver Place Strategies Principal Allegra Scheinblum

Attorney General Letitia James, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and Rep. Jerry Nadler.

58 DAVID MANSUR & ALLEGRA SCHEINBLUM PRINCIPALS Culver Place Strategies This LGBTQ-owned consulting firm, headed by David Mansur and Allegra Scheinblum, has a number of major successes under its belt. A recent one: helping New York City comptroller candidate Brad Lander emerge victorious in last year’s election. Plenty of other major political candidates have sought fundraising and strategic guidance from Culver Place Strategies, including state

He spearheaded the rollout of more than $45 million worth of new programs and services, a merger with the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families in 2018 and a major rebranding the same year, and the growth of the organization’s annual budget from $56 million to roughly $130 million.

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LUCCIANO REBERTE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR

61 RICHARD SOCARIDES CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER GLG A political strategist, writer and LGBTQ advocate, Richard Socarides has held senior positions with several major media companies and is currently head of global corporate communications and government affairs for Gerson Lehrman Group, a financial and global information services company. Socarides served as a senior adviser on LGBTQ matters during the Clinton administration and is a contributing writer to various publications, including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

ALAN MUCATEL

Latino Commission on AIDS

CEO Rising Ground

Lucciano Reberte’s work at the Latino Commission on AIDS is informed by his lived

As leader since 2009 of Rising Ground, a nearly 200-year-old orphanage-turned-human services organization for families in New York City, Alan Mucatel has overseen a number of significant changes.

Reberte plays an important role within the state's AIDS Advisory Council.

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With the Hochul administration in charge, Doug Wirth has been optimistic about Medicaid funding improving. That funding is vital for Amida Care, New York’s largest Medicaid managed care special needs health plan for people living with HIV, which serves 8,000 members across New York City. In October, Wirth penned an op-ed in amNewYork urging greater usage of and access to PrEP – preexposure prophylaxis – to jumpstart HIV prevention in New York.

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a New York market where it’s expanding. Previously, Meltzer was Airbnb’s Northeast policy director. He has also served as director of intergovernmental affairs and then deputy chief of staff under state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. In the 2000s, he was communications director at the now-defunct Empire State Pride Agenda, an LGBTQ rights group.

JEFF SIMMONS EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Anat Gerstein Inc. A principal at this communications firm for advocacy, arts and human services nonprofits, Jeff Simmons led a team that persuaded Facebook to crack down on Holocaust deniers on the site. He hosts two shows on politics and policy on radio station WBAI as well as the “It’s In Queens” podcast for the Queens Economic Development Corp. Previously, he was a senior vice president at the Alliance for Downtown New York.

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chairs of its board of directors. Marino-Thomas has spent years committed to advocating for marriage equality; Walker, who founded the New York Transgender Advocacy Group, currently leads the Transgender Women’s Group at SAGE.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform No. 24 among law schools with part-time programs. In March, Crowell announced a revamped evening program making it easier for part-time law students to complete their degrees. Crowell previously was counselor to then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Equality New York has been ramping up its advocacy efforts, joining other groups and activists in a successful push to get New York state to establish a new fund for organizations led by transgender individuals. The group’s work has been guided by Cathy Marino-Thomas and Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker, who serve as co-

DEAN AND PRESIDENT New York Law School Anthony Crowell has led New York Law School since 2012, and he has overseen its rise from being unranked in 2013 to No. 129 in the latest annual U.S. law school rankings published by U.S. News & World Report – and

HEAD OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS FOR THE AMERICAS AND ASIAPACIFIC

An Afro Latina transgender activist and former sex worker, Mariah Lopez became an LGBTQ advocate after being arrested under New York’s “walking while trans” law and facing harassment and assault by inmates and corrections officers. Lopez, who leads the Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform, or STARR, worked to open the country’s first prison housing unit for trans inmates at Rikers Island. Last fall, she also notched a legal victory requiring New York to establish homeless shelters for trans and gendernonconforming individuals.

Lime

MITCHELL DRAIZIN

Lime, the global electric bike- and scooter-sharing company, hired Josh Meltzer in March, bringing on an experienced government affairs pro deeply familiar with

PRESIDENT Concordia Philanthropic Fund Real estate financier Mitchell Draizin has a long history of

Lopez worked to open the first housing unit for trans inmates on Rikers Island.

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and culture, job readiness and counseling. Before joining the organization, Pressley worked for the Harlem United Community AIDS Center and served as deputy commissioner for the New York City Department of Homeless Services.

Cojo Strategies Founder Corey Johnson

COREY JOHNSON FOUNDER Cojo Strategies Since losing the Democratic primary race for New York City comptroller to Brad Lander in 2021, former New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has founded his own government-relations consulting firm. The group has thus far counted as clients the Central Park Conservancy and a subsidiary of the Brooklyn Nets. He has also joined ElectReon Wireless, an Israeli charge-while-youdrive company, as a strategic adviser.

69 JOE PRESSLEY CEO Hetrick-Martin Institute Joe Pressley is in his second year leading the HetrickMartin Institute, the country’s oldest nonprofit focused on helping LGBTQ youth. More than 2,000 teenagers and young adults seek its services each year, relying on programs focused on education, arts

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focused on advertising law, Simon also authored an amicus brief in the historic Supreme Court case that resulted in same-sex marriage being legalized across the United States.

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Jeffrey S. Trachtman and Norman C. Simon have been committed to taking on pro bono projects advancing LGBTQ rights. Trachtman has had a hand in landmark cases establishing marriage equality both in New York and nationally, having served as co-lead counsel in a case seeking recognition of marriage for same-sex couples in the state. A trial attorney

Destination Tomorrow The self-described first Black transgender person to run an LGBTQ center in New York City, Sean Coleman oversees Destination Tomorrow’s array of Bronx-based services for primarily queer and trans people of color including HIV testing and PrEP access, GED diploma acquisition,

Coleman's group provides a variety of services in the Bronx, including HIV testing.

job readiness and financial literacy. Last year, with city funding, he opened SWITCH, a temporary residence in the Bronx for trans sex workers experiencing homelessness. Coleman has said he wants to open branches of Destination Tomorrow elsewhere in the country.

72 ANN NORTHROP & ANDY HUMM CO-HOSTS AND COEXECUTIVE PRODUCERS “Gay USA” Ann Northrop and Andy Humm have spent more than two decades together as co-hosts of “Gay USA,” the longest-running LGBTQ television program. The activist duo has been committed to not just reporting on global LGBTQ news on the show, but also, as Northrop told Slate this year, “inspiring the audience to action.” Before joining the show, Northrop was an activist

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working on LGBTQ issues. He partnered with the City University of New York to create several LGBTQ leadership and support programs, helped launch the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s LGBT Council and now serves on the board of the American LGBTQ+ Museum. A major campaign donor, Draizin was also a backer of, and adviser on LGBTQ issues to, the Biden campaign. His Concordia Philanthropic Fund supports LGBTQ and progressive leaders.

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with ACT UP and worked as an AIDS educator, while Humm previously worked at the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth.

73 ANA MARÍA ARCHILA LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CANDIDATE When Brian Benjamin resigned, progressive activist Ana María Archila appeared to be a strong contender to win his lieutenant governor post. Archila, who’s running with New York City public advocate and gubernatorial candidate Jumaane Williams, still has a shot, but it’ll be a tougher race with the state Legislature allowing Gov. Kathy Hochul to remove Benjamin from the ballot and replace him with her new lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado. Archila is the former co-leader of the Center for Popular Democracy.

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Executive Director Andy Hong Marra

University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

MARC SOLOMON & KATHERINE GRAINGER PARTNER; MANAGING PARTNER Civitas Public Affairs Group The former national campaign director for the bipartisan organization Freedom To Marry and author of the book “Winning Marriage,” Civitas Public Affairs Group Partner Marc Solomon focuses on criminal justice reform, voter registration access, and immigrant and LGBTQ rights issues. Civitas Managing Partner Katherine Grainger was assistant counsel for civil rights to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and, in that role, helped craft and bring to fruition New York state’s same-sex marriage law. She also teaches at New York

75 ROB BYRNES PRESIDENT East Midtown Partnership Rob Byrnes is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of six novels and several short stories focusing on LGBTQ themes. When not writing, Byrnes leads the East Midtown Partnership, a business improvement district that

promotes local businesses, sponsors beautification projects and provides other quality of life services, such as homelessness outreach and trash management, in the east midtown area of Manhattan. Byrnes served as an aide to state legislators earlier in his career.

76 TS CANDII FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Black Trans Nation A Black transgender activist who began sex work at age 13, TS Candii was a leading player

in the successful movement to repeal New York’s “walking while trans” law, which was disproportionally used to target trans sex workers of color. She is the founding executive director of Black Trans Nation, an organization that supports Black trans sex workers, and is an outspoken advocate for decriminalizing the sex work industry. Candii has also expressed an interest in pursuing elected office.

77 ANDY HONG MARRA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund Overseeing the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, a nonprofit that drives litigation about transgender legal rights, Andy Hong Marra previously led communications at the Arcus Foundation, managed public relations at GLSEN and was senior media strategist at GLAAD. In March, when the Biden adminstration marked Transgender Day of Visibility by announcing that U.S. citizens may now mark their gender status on passports with an “X,” Marra called the administration “the most active in history” in supporting trans and nonbinary Americans.

Archila is a former progressive activist running for lieutenant governor.

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leader of Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society, or GLITS. That advocacy extends to housing, as shown when Doroshow announced in 2020 that GLITS, founded in 2015, had raised more than $1 million to provide housing for Black trans folks in the form of a 12-unit Queens building purchased by the organization. GLITS also raised money to bail LGBTQ people out of jail during the coronavirus pandemic.

Assembly candidate Samy Nemir Olivares

SAMY NEMIR OLIVARES DISTRICT LEADER AND ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE Samy Nemir Olivares wil face off in June against Democratic incumbent Erik Dilan to represent Assembly District 54 in Brooklyn. A democratic socialist, he has been endorsed by the DSA as well as by Make the Road Action, CUFFH Action and New York Communities for Change. His platform includes universal health care, rent-control legislation, more stringent climate laws, immigrant rights, and full funding for public college and universal afterschool programs. grow its resources. While in the City Council serving the 26th District in Queens, he was chosen to be the body’s majority leader.

80 79 JIMMY VAN BRAMER CHIEF GROWTH AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER Girl Scouts of Greater New York While serving as a New York City Council member from 2010 to 2021, Jimmy Van Bramer, whose six sisters were all Girl Scouts, forged a close relationship with the organization, helping to form a troop for homeless girls, Troop 6000. In his current role since January, he has said he hopes to strengthen the organization’s public and private partnerships and

BIANEY GARCIA & MATEO GUERRERO TRANS IMMIGRANT PROJECT LEAD; LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR Make the Road New York Bianey Garcia spearheads Make the Road New York’s advocacy on transgender issues, leading the organization’s Trans Immigrant Project. That includes playing a key role in successful efforts to repeal New York’s “walking while trans” law, a victory that

was years in the making. She and Mateo Guerrero, who has also been active in the Trans Immigrant Project, denounced attacks against trans and gender-nonconforming people last year. Garcia and Guerrero are both members of Decrim NY, a nonprofit trying to decriminalize and destigmatize sex work in the state.

81 CEYENNE DOROSHOW FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GLITS Ceyenne Doroshow advocates for the wellness and socioeconomic empowerment of transgender people – including sex workers – as the

Van Bramer became a top official with the Girl Scouts after 12 years on the council.

82 ANDREA BOWEN PRINCIPAL Bowen Public Affairs Consulting Since launching her own firm in 2017, advocate and activist Andrea Bowen, who is transgender, has obtained financial support for LGBTQ workforce programs in New York City and Washington, D.C., as well as for a new LGBTQ health care navigator program in New York City and for training attorneys who take on immigration cases for transgender and gendernonconforming clients. Bowen, who began her career as a researcher for the Ironworkers Union, has fought to improve transgender people’s access to identity documents, health coverage and shelters.

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TransLash Media Creator and Producer Imara Jones

ChineseAmerican Planning Council Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer Carlyn Cowen

83 IMARA JONES CREATOR AND PRODUCER TransLash Media Emmy and Peabody Awardwinning Imara Jones created the cross-platform project TransLash Media to bring transgender stories to a wider audience. She has hosted two podcasts for the nonprofit, one of which was nominated for a Webby Award. In 2019, she helmed the inaugural U.N. high-level meeting on gender diversity and nonbinary identities, convening more than 600 participants. She previously served on the New York City Commission on Gender

Equity under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.

84 KELLY L. MCNAMEE SHAREHOLDER Greenberg Traurig Greenberg Traurig’s Kelly L. McNamee handles complex commercial litigation, antitrust litigation, government investigations and whitecollar defense work, with a specialization in energy markets and regulation. McNamee, who was elevated to shareholder in the firm’s Albany office last year, has also represented transgender clients in asylum cases. She writes on LGBTQ issues,

McNamee has represented transgender clients in asylum cases.

including the participation of LGBTQ professionals in the legal workforce.

85 CARLYN COWEN CHIEF POLICY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Chinese-American Planning Council Carlyn Cowen, who identifies as nonbinary, plays a key role at the Chinese-American Planning Council, the country’s largest Asian American social services group, where they cover public policy, advocacy, governmental affairs and community engagement. They are also an advocate for reducing animal product consumption. Previously, they were a senior policy analyst at FPWA, where they led efforts on economic equity. Among their priorities at the CPC: advocating for seniors, immigrants and home health care workers.

86 NEILL COLEMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Trinity Church Wall Street Philanthropies Neill Coleman has spent the last four years driving significant philanthropic giving at Trinity Church Wall Street, first as the church’s chief philanthropy officer and now as executive director of the rebranded Trinity Church Wall Street Philanthropies unveiled last summer. In December, the church announced that it had awarded a record

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the New York Law Journal. A native of Afton, in Chenango County, Clark has lived in the state capital with his husband for more than a decade. He was among media members who complained that the Cuomo administration was not being transparent enough during COVID-19 briefings in 2021.

Gov. Kathy Hochul's Deputy Chief Diversity Officer Priya Nair

BRIAN DOWNEY PRESIDENT Gay Officers Action League A New York City Police Department officer since 2008 and a detective since 2015, currently assigned to the Criminal Intelligence Section, Brian Downey became head of the Gay Officers Action League in 2016. He led the group’s successful recent effort to make it optional for NYPD cops to include their sexual orientation on their employment record as a way to increase LGBTQ visibility within the NYPD. Last year, he spoke out against the NYC Pride March’s decision to ban NYPD officers from marching in uniform.

88 MARTI ALLEN-CUMMINGS FOUNDING PRESIDENT Hell’s Kitchen Democrats Marti Allen-Cummings fell short last year in a bid to become the first out nonbinary member of the New York City

Council, but now has an even higher profile while advocating for LGBTQ rights and protections. Allen-Cummings, a professional drag artist, first garnered attention in New York’s political world for founding the progressive Hell’s Kitchen Democrats political club, which in 2017 eclipsed the longstanding McManus Midtown Democratic Club. Allen-Cummings is also a member of Manhattan’s Community Board 9.

group’s efforts to organize the Queens vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors transgender people lost to transphobic violence. The group also provides trans and undocumented people with legal and medical services, food, clothes and opportunities to participate in transgender activism.

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LIAAM WINSLET

“New York Now”

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Host and producer of this weekly TV show focusing on Empire State politics, Dan Clark has also reported for PolitiFact, The Buffalo News, the New York political TV show “Capital Tonight” and

Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo Originally from Ecuador, Liaam Winslet sought asylum in the U.S. in 2012 with help from Lorena Borjas, the New York City Latina transgender activist and founder of Transgrediendo who died of COVID-19 in 2020. Last November, Winslet, who took over for Borjas, led the

PRIYA NAIR DEPUTY CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Office Prior to their current role in the Hochul administration, assumed last December, Priya Nair was associate director of gender equity for NYC Health + Hospitals, and before that was the first Edie Windsor, Marsha P. Johnson, and Sylvia Rivera New York State LGBTQ Fellow. In that role, starting in 2018, they were the policy adviser and project manager for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s LGBTQ and diversity initiatives. Prior to their work in Albany, Nair was the LGBTQ liaison for New York City Council Speakers Melissa Mark-Viverito and Corey Johnson.

Clark has been a stalwart of the Albany reporting corps across several news outlets.

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$46 million in grants during 2021, including investments in housing and violence interruption programs. The Rockefeller Foundation alum also serves on the boards of the Stonewall Community Foundation and Philanthropy New York.

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concluding with, “Now back to the Golden Girls!”

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Harlem Pride CoFounder Carmen Neely

PRINCIPAL, GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES PRACTICE Deloitte chair of New York City Pride and Power, a citywide political club.

CO-FOUNDER

Harlem Pride

JIMMY VACCA

In 2010, Carmen Neely co-founded Harlem Pride, a nonprofit organization that celebrates the LGBTQ community and honors “samegender-loving” individuals in the historic Manhattan neighborhood with an array of events every June. In October, Neely joined an LGBTQ unity rally in support of Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign, and in November, she applauded the construction of an LGBTQinclusive affordable housing development in Harlem. She is also the vice chair of the board of the Center for Black Equity and has served as co-

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Fargo, is specifically focused on expanding business partnerships in the LGBTQ community. He also serves as an adviser for the Stonewall Community Development Corporation and is a board member of the Hudson County Community College Foundation.

Queens College A former Democratic New York City Council member who was in office from 2006 to 2017, Jimmy Vacca is an urban studies professor at Queens College of the City University of New York. Between 1980 and 2005, he was district manager for Bronx Community Board 10. In 2018, he was involved in founding the Queens College food pantry to help students experiencing food insecurity. In 2016, he came out as gay on Twitter,

Vacca now teaches about urban planning after more than a decade on the council.

PJ Rivera is a senior partner at Deloitte, where he is a principal on the consulting firm’s government and public services team and also drives its diversity and inclusion work in the LGBTQ and Latino communities as the national Hispanic/Latinx consulting leader. In New York, Rivera helped expand use of the Excelsior Pass, which provides digital documentation of COVID-19 vaccination or negative tests. Rivera has also sponsored LGBTQ roundtables and hosts a gay Latino book club.

95 STEVEN GARIBELL VICE PRESIDENT OF LGBTQ2+ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TD Bank Steven Garibell has spent over a decade as an executive at TD Bank, including nearly seven years as a vice president focused on diversity. Garibell, who previously worked at Wells

96 SAIDA AGOSTINI-BOSTIC PRESIDENT Funders for LGBTQ Issues In June 2021, shortly after receiving a game-changing $3 million gift, this network of foundations, corporations and other funders working to scale up philanthropy for LGBTQ communities named Saida AgostiniBostic as its new head. Previously, Agostini-Bostic was vice president of member services at YWCA USA. “I have dedicated my career to movements centering the leadership and vision of Black LGBTQ communities,” said Agostini-Bostic upon being chosen to helm Funders for LGBTQ Issues. She is the author of a poetry collection, “let the dead in.”

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From left, Ethan Felson and Ben Garcia

ETHAN FELSON

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR A Wider Bridge In 2020, Ethan Felson was named head of A Wider Bridge, a decade-old, New York-based group that connects LGBTQ North Americans to Israel, where it also advocates for LGBTQ rights. Felson has also worked in national roles at the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. He founded Interfaith Partners for Peace, which convenes rabbis and pastors for discussion, and has helmed several missions to Israel. As a young activist, he helped pass hate crimes and civil rights legislation in Connecticut.

ORGANIZERS 2020-21 Black Trans Liberation Protests at Stonewall In 2020, amid an ongoing string of attacks, some fatal, on transgender women of color nationwide, Qween Jean, a New York Universitytrained costume designer, and Bronx-born Joela Rivera began organizing weekly Black trans liberation rallies and marches in and around Washington Square Park and the street outside the iconic Stonewall bar in Sheridan Square. (The protests have since disbanded.) “We have the right to hold and share space,” Jean told Gay City

Lesh has presented seminars on gender identity bias in jury selection.

99 BEN GARCIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The American LGBTQ+ Museum In January, the American LGBTQ+ Museum, slated to open inside the New-York Historical Society in 2024, named Ben Garcia as its first leader. Previously, as deputy executive director of Ohio History Connection, he supervised more than 50 museums and historic sites in that state. Prior to that, he was deputy director of San Diego’s Museum of Us. Upon the announcement of his new position, he said, “Together, we will tell the stories of queer peoples in this country from its Indigenous beginnings to the present.”

100 ERIC LESH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LGBT Bar Association of New York After almost five years leading the LGBT Bar Association of New York, Eric Lesh is departing to open an art gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He previously worked at Lambda Legal, working to reverse bias in the legal system and diversify the judicial bench and briefing federal courts on judicial discrimination and misconduct. He has authored and presented seminars for law professionals on subjects including sexual orientation and gender identity bias in jury selection and transgender legal issues for family court judges.

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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. 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. 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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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. 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 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. Notice of Qual. of URBAN FUTURE CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/13/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 9/20/21. SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O Urgan Future Lab , 370 St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. 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.

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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. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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 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.

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.

Notice of Formation of Little Legacies Daycare, LLC filed with SSNY on 01/13/2022. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2006 McGraw Ave #2 Bronx, NY 10462. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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 is hereby given that a license number 1340763 for restaurant wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, cider and wine at the retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at Matsunori Sushi Restaurant Inc. 151 Allen St. New York, NY 10002 for on premises consumption

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.

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 DPG Insights LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 0 3/2 8//2 0 2 2 . O f f i c e location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 Trenor Drive, New Rochelle, NY 10804 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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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. 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 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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Notice of Qual. of LINDEN CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/13/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 11/2/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urgan Future Lab , 370 St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 12 AVE CF 109 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2307 W 13 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GARDEN CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC filed with SSNY on 01/24/2022. Office: KINGS County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 550 Vanderbilt Ave, Apt. 510, Brooklyn, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of I GOT YOU YOUTH BASKETBALL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/19/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 42 Tapscott St, #3, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of IZDE LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 3/2 9/2 2 . Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 3/29/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 285 Devoe St, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 650 MARCY AVE LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 650 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 2280 FDB 6D, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/27/22.Office loc ation: New York 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 2280 Frederick Douglass Blvd., Unit 8H, New York, NY 10027.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 5504 3RD AVE LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/15/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5504 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 9319 LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/21/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9319 Avenue L, Brooklyn, NY 11236. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of AMY O’KEEFE EVENTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/15/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 404 13th St, Apt 1, Brooklyn, NY United States, 11215. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of CKPNY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/15/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 909 Third Ave #686, New York, NY 10150.Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of CKPNYC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4 / 2 7/ 2 2 . O f f i c e loc ation: New York 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 909 Third Ave #686, New York, NY, 10150.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HEARTLIGHT HOME, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/21/22. 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 126 Eagle Crest Rd, Port Jervis, NY 12771. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DB277 HOSPITALIT Y, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/18/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Kra, Llc, 100 Crosby St, Ste 303, New York , NY 10012.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of HERON CLEAN E N E R G Y, LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 4/ 1 3/2 2 . Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 8/11/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Urgan Future Lab , 370 St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ENLIGHTENMENT DAYC A R E C E N T E R LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/25/22. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process agains t it may b e s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 760 52nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of FILLERS BY MO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/25/22. 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 204 Wellington Court, Staten Island, NY 10314. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of GABBY GIFFORDS CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/13/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 8/11/21. SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O Urgan Future Lab , 370 St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HIGHR ISE CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/6/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 15 W. 61st St., Ste 18c, New York, NY 10023. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of HUDSON R IVE R VALLEY HOUSE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/6/22.Office loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Hudson River Valley House Llc 300 Central Park West, Apt 11b, Attention B. Chiang, New York, NY 10024.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NY 176 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 9500 Nw 108th, Av., Miami, FL 33178. Any law ful purpose.

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its Controlled Affiliates D oing B usine s s as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to modif y telecommunication antennas and associated equipment at a top height of 68 feet on a 78-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinit y of 20 4 -20 8 West 14 th S treet , New York, New York C o u n t y, N Y 1 0 0 1 1 . Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp., Stephen Mitchell, s.mitchell@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of Qual. of JAMAICA COMMUNITY ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/13/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 9/15/21. SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O Urgan Future Lab , 370 St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of KNICKERBOCKER CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/13/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 9/20/21. SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O Urgan Future Lab , 370 St, 7th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number “1345550” for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a “restaurant” under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 647 E 11TH Street New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption. BRINDLE ROOM CATERING INC Notice of Formation of LOK & W LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY o n 0 3/3 1//2 2 . O f f i c e location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 138 Bay 29th St, Brooklyn, NY 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SK W - CLINTON 56TH LENDER, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/22.Office loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 134 West 25th St, 5th Fl, New York, NY 10001.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SYLVIA ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/30/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3475 Victory Blvd. #G3, Staten Island, NY 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MEG LEWIS FUN HOUSE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/14//22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 98 4th St Ste 408, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WESTSIDE TILERS LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Jared E. Paioff, Esq., 444 Madison Ave, 6th Fl, New Yo r k , NY 10022. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NW 8 9 U N IO N LENDER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/1/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 28 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1 BROOK VIEW RYE 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 400 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SABU’S THREADING & WA X ING SALON LLC. Ar ts .O f Org. filed with SSNY on 4/25/22. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1729 Parkview Ave, Bronx, NY 10461 Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 12 AVE CF 108 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/13/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2307 W 13 St, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION O F PR O F E S S I O N A L LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY NAME: Living Well Balanced NYC Medical, PLLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/29/2022. Office Location: New York County. The New York S e c re t ar y o f S t ate (“ S SN Y ” ) has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. S SN Y shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to: 180 W. 80 th Street, Mezzanine, New York, NY 10 024 . Principal business address: 180 W. 80 th Street, Mezzanine, New York, NY 10024. Purpose: medicine. Notice of formation of Sean McBride, LC SW, PLLC, a domestic professional service limited liability company. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/14/2022. N Y of f ic e loc ation: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC at: 468 4th Avenue, Apt. 3, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: practice the profession of social work. Notice of Qualification of Tr a n s A t l a n t i s M V Fu n d i n g , L L C Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 04/26/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1 2 / 1 5/ 2 1 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 5 9 5 M adis on Ave . , 29th Fl., NY, NY 10022. D E a d dr. o f L LC : C orp oration S er vic e Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of S tate, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., S te . 4 , D over, D E 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Public Notice REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS NOTEWORTHY FORECLOSURE LLC, Plaintiff against - GREGORY ZELYAKOVSKY, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on February 28, 2020. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction outside on the courthouse steps of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on the 9th day of June, 2022 at 10:30 AM. 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 known as 2310 E. 65th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234. (Block: 8636, Lot: 3.) Approximate amount of lien $1,348.292.73 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 502041/2014. Gregory Laspina, Esq., Referee. Marc Wohlgemuth and Associates P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 21 Remsen Avenue Monsey, NY 10952 Tel. 845/746-2700 Dated: January 25, 2022 During the COVID-19 health emergency, bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect at the time of sale including but not limited to, wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of R.F. Woods Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on March 16, 2022. 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: 420 East 61st Street, Apt. 6D, New York, New York 10065. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Dayna-Joy Chin Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/01/2022. Office: Westchester County. Inc Authority RA designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Inc Authority RA at 42 Broadway, FL. 12-200, New York, NY 10004, USA. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of LUX OPS, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/04/2022. O f f ic e: NE W YO R K County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 130 W. 15TH STREET, APT. 3E, NEW YORK, NY, 10011, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of AUDEO ADVISORS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 04/26/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 1/2 7/2 2 . Princ. office of LLC: 99 Hudson St., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10013. 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 princ. of f ice of the LLC . DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls D r. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with J e f f rey W. Pollo ck , Secy. of State, 4 01 Federal St., Ste. 4, D o v e r, DE 19901. Purpose: Investments.

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Public Notice Family Court of the State of New York , County of Queens In the matter of a Custody/ Visitation Proceeding File #: 196991 Docket#: V-24715-19 Petitioner, Natasha Morgan against Respondent, Kishawn Smith To: Kishawn Smith (Address Unknown) A petition under Article 6 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court requesting an Order of Custody of the child: Malachi Morgan, born 9.24.2006. You Are Hereby Summoned to a p p e a r V I R T UA L LY before this Court on Date/ Time: July 25 , 2022, at 12:00 PM in Part 2 Purpose: Return of Process Presiding: Hon. Elizabeth L. Fassler Video: https://notify.nycourts. gov/meet/0 k wsz4 or CALL THE NUMBER AND ENTER THE MEETING ID, Phone: 347-378-4143 Meeting ID: Conference ID 281 015 098# to appear. For information on how to install/use Microsoft Teams to participate in virtual proceedings visit ht tp s ://nyc o ur t s . g ov/ appear. If you fail to appear as directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest and an inquest may be held that may result in an order of sole custody to Petitioner. Dated: April 29,2022, Kiesha Kearse, Clerk of Court To The Above-Named Respondent: The f o re g o ing S umm o ns is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Hon. Elizabeth L . Fassler, Judge of the Family Court of the New York. The petition and other papers are in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, Queens County. Notice of Qual. of MC VENTURES US II, L .P.. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/4/22. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 11/29/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number “1345566” for wine has been applied for by the undersigned to wine at retail in a “tavern” under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 305 Bedford Ave Brooklyn, NY 10011 for on premises consumption. LFG PIZZA LLC.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1345801) for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 400 3rd Avenue 1R Brooklyn, NY 11215 for on premises consumption. GOWANUS BREWING LLC.

Notice of Qual. of CINQ CONNECT NEW YORK LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/5/22. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/1/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1345839 for Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor at retail OP252 in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 428 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, 10013 for on premises consumption.

Notice of Qual. of CINQ CONNECT LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/5/22. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 5/17/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528 . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1345531) for wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Wine at retail in a Tavern under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1300 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK , NY 10021 for on premises consumption.

Notice of Formation of HOT SUMMER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1416 Route 17a, Warwick, NY 10990. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of JOYHO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/1/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7 71 55th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose

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MERCATO RUSTICO LLC. THE ANNUAL RETURN O F T H E BAU D O I N FAMILY FOUNDATION INC. for the year ended December 31, 2021 is available at its principal office located at 460 PARK AVENUE, 12 TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10022 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is PATRICIA BAUDOIN .

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ASC ARTWORKS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 09/21/21. 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, 208 E. 6th Street, Apartment #31, New York, NY 10003. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Finanleads LLC Auth. filed w/ SSNY on 4/28/22. Office: New York Co. LLC formed in DE on 12/2/19. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 40 Exchange Pl., #1602, NY, NY 10005. DE addr. of LLC: 8 The Green, #R, Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed w/ DE Sec of State, 401 Federal St, #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful. Notice of Formation of NORTHCREST G A R D E N S DEVELOPER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 30 Hudson Ya r d s , 72nd Fl., NY, NY 1001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of NORTHCREST G A R D E N S PRESERVATION CLASS B, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 30 Hudson Ya r d s , 72nd Fl., NY, NY 1001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of Qual. of MC VENTURES US II GP, L .P. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/4/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/2/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with Maple Corporate Services Limited, P.O Box 309 Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, Cayman Islands. Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number “1345522” for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a “restaurant” under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 215 Union Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 for on premises consumption. SPAGHETTI215 LLC Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number “1345207” for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a “ t ave rn” unde r the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 221 2ND AVE NEW YORK, NY 10003for on premises consumption. BEST SPEAKEASIES NYC LLC BLACKMORE DESIGN ASSOCIATES LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/1/2022. 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 Jay P. Quartararo, Esq., 33 West Second St., Riverhead, NY 11901. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Qual of IMEM MEDICAL ASSOCIATES HOLDINGS OF NJ LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 04/19/2022. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in NJ on 03/23/2022. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 366 Pearsall Avenue, Ste 2, Cedarhurst, NY 11516. Address required to be maintained in NJ: 16 Calendula Cour t, Jackson, NJ 08527. Cert of Formation filed with NJ Dept. of Treasury, Div. of Rev, Comm. Recordings, 225 W. State St., PO Box 308, Trenton, NJ 08625 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Qualification of PISCES MAYBROOK L O G I S T I C S CENTER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/05/2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 4/2 6/2 2 . Princ. office of LLC: c/o B ro o k f i e l d Pro p e r t y Group LLC, Brookfield Pl. , 250 Vesey S t. , 1 5 t h F l . , N Y, N Y 10281 -1023 . 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 c/o Corporation 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 F e deral S t . , D over, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of MEEKO LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/03/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 27 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of S3 RE 110 NORTH 1ST FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/12/22. Office location: Nassau. LLC formed in DE on 1/18/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MAGUIRE STANHOPE II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/3/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 400 Madison Avenue, Suite 5D New York, NY 10017. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of MAPLE TON GROVE , LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/20.Office location: CAYUGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 7014 13th Ave nu e , S ui te 2 1 0 , Brooklyn, New York , 11228. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ANGIE’S CONSTRUCTION, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/22/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 697 Grand St, Unit 235, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of V E S TA L NAIL SALON AND SPA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/2/22. Office location: Broome SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1308 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of MOMENTSNMAYHEM, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/13/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process To 284 Mott St, Apt #8c New York, NY 10012. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of NICHOL AS HIMROD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/3/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process To 398 Himrod St, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Any law ful purpose.

June 6, 2022

Notice of Formation of PEACHEY’S PLANTS & S TO N E S U PPLY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/4/22. Office location: Montgomery SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 106 Hilltop Road, Sprakers, NY, 12166. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of ROUSSIS BROTHERS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 5/4/22.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 183 Bathgate Street, Staten Island, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation o f PA R Q O U R N YC LLC . Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/26/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 111 Pier Avenue, Suite 100, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CAMPUS VIEW LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/5/22. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 588 Co Hwy 142, Johnstown, NY, 12095. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of A S I A PA C I F I C ASSET LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/27/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1650 78th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WD 168 MANAGEMENT LLC. Ar ts . O f 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 730 44th St, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PATEK MANAGEMENT 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 934 60th St, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of YUAN FENG LING LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 10/25/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5713 Fort Hamilton Pkwy Fl 3, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SCAN T WO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/1/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1416 Route 17a, Warwick, NY 10990. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of DANSKER &ASPROMONTE ASSOCIATES LLP. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/27/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 30 Vesey St, New York, NY 10007. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of TISHAK, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/26/2 2 .O f fice location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 270 Corbin Pl , Brooklyn, NY 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GRAND CARE BY BETSY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/5/22. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 4 8 Farnham S treet, Cazenovia, NY, 13035. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of ZEEMONE Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/4/22. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1305 Bay Ridge Avenue 3b, Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 47E INTERACTIVE, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/6/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 100 Willoughby St Apt 22a, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 860 4TH AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/22. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8220 Colonial Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of 53 GROVE STREET, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/5/22.Office location: CATTARAUGUS SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY mail process to 6740 East Arcade Road, Arcade, NY, 14009. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 72 JOHN ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/27/22. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 385 Jefferson Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10312. Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346295 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 574 9th Avenue New York, NY 10036 for on premises consumption. 574 SB LLC Notice of Formation of 1951 PAULDING AVE LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/4/22. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1 9 51 PAU L D IN G AVE, Bronx, NY, 10462. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 2034 LIU PROPERT Y LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 4/29/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2034 79th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11214. Any lawful purpose.

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346040 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 60 East 54th Street, New York, NY 10022for on premises consumption. 60 E 54th Street Restaurant LLC Notice of Formation of 260 N MAIN STREET, LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/18/22. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 37-05 74th Street Fl 3, Jackson Heights, NY, 11372. Any lawful purpose. Notice of S3 RE 8043 KG FUNDING LLC . Auth. filed with SSNY o n 5/1 2 /2 2 . O f f i c e location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 8/30/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of S3 RE 129 CONCORD FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/12/22. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/5/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, 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 142 WATTS HOLDING, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/10/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400, Harrison, N Y, 10528.Any lawful purpose.

MICHAEL RADI CREATIVE STUDIO LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 5/9/2022. Off. Loc.: Monroe Co. Diane Bradshaw, Esq., designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail proc.: Bradshaw Law Group P.C., 307 East 89 th Street, Suite 4C, New York, NY 10128, USA . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of CN US OWNER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/13/22. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/11/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of S3 RE 147TH PL ACE FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/12/22. Office location: New York . 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: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of S3 RE NORTH FE DE R AL FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 5/ 1 2 /2 2 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/27/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of S3 RE 228 BERRY FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 5/12/22. Office location: New York . 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: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, New York, NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of S3 RE 346 AVE U FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY o n 5/1 2 /2 2 . O f f i c e location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 3/03/22. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, 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 15 Kingsley Avenue, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/17/22. Office location: Cortland Count y. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: The LLC, 15 Kingsley Avenue, Cor tland, New York 13045. Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

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EVOL Management LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 5/12/2022 Office: New York County The LLC has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 1132 Mohegan R o a d , S c h e n e c t a d y, N Y 12 3 0 9 Purpose: any law ful purpose Notice of S3 RE 31ST DRIVE FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY o n 5/1 2 /2 2 . O f f i c e location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 8/03/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY C O M PA N Y. NAME: W A T E R F R O N T BUILDING LLC. Articles of organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/05/22. Office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 251 53rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Purpose: For any law ful purpose. Notice of formation of limited liability company (L LC) . Name: Qi Habitats LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/25/22. NY office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 530 Manhattan Avenue #61, New York, NY 10027. Purpose/character of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

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FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS ____________________________________ In the Matter of an Article 5 Paternity (IV-D) Proceeding File # 195008 Docket # P-08004-21 KURT RUSSELL (Petitioner) SUMMONS - PATERNITY (SERVICE WITHIN NYS) (VIRTUAL) TAMARAH COLEMAN (Respondent) DELANA AUTUMN DESIRE RUSSELL aka known as JUPITER COLEMAN (DOB: 2/8/2016) (Respondent) --------------------------------------------------------X NOTICE: DUE TO THE ONGOING EFFECTS OF COVID-19, THE MATTER INDICATED ABOVE HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO BE HELD VIRTUALLY IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: TO: TAMARAH COLEMAN ADDRESS UNKNOWN A petition having been duly filed in this court pursuant to Article 5 of the Family Court Act of the State of New York, YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear VIRTUALLY in this Court before the Hon. Alicea Elloras-Ally, on July 29, 2022 at 10am to show cause why a declaration of paternity, order of filiation, order of support, and other and further relief requested in the petition should not be made. Virtual appearance may be held via video or phone. To update your contact information, email or call the court and provide your name, phone, e-mail address, docket number, and date/time of court appearance. Court E-mail: KingsFamilyCourt@nycourts.gov or Court Phone# (347) 401-9718 If you have documents that you would like to send to the Court, at least 5 days prior to the Court date please submit through our Electronic Document Delivery System (EDDS) http://iappscontent.courts.state.ny.us/NYSCEF/live/ edds.htm or e-mail to KingsFamilyCourt@nycourts. gov VIDEO, CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK: https:// notify.nycourts.gov/meet/0kw0bk FOR PHONE, CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER AND ENTER THE MEETING ID Phone: (347) 378-4143 Meeting ID: 373244379# For information on how to install/use Microsoft Teams to participate in virtual court proceedings, visit: Doreen M. Hanley Chief Clerk Dated Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346026 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a OP252 Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 293 Va n Brunt Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 for on premises consumption.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Claims Connect, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/16/2022. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 44 Court St #1217 #, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: Any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY C O M PA N Y NAME: JAMES WAGNER LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 0 5/0 4 /2 0 2 2 . Office Location: New York County. The New York S e c re t ar y o f S t ate (“ S SN Y ” ) has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to: 225 East 73 rd Street, New York, NY 10021. Principal business address: 225 East 73 rd Street, New York, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of CSV CAPITAL LLC, LLC filed with SSNY on FEBURARY 24, 2022. Office: NASSAU County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 14 GUILFORD RD, PORT WASHINGTON, NY 11050. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. App. for Auth. (LLC) GNT USA, LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/21/22. LLC formed in DE on 3/9/21. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Corp. Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, registered agent upon whom process may be ser ved. Purpose: All law ful purposes . Notice of Formation of SCV CAPITAL LLC, LLC filed with SSNY on AUGUST 13, 2021. Office: NASSAU County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 14 GUILFORD RD, PORT WASHINGTON, NY 11050. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Public Notice Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 29-00 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on W W W . STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding star ting on June 3 , 2 0 2 2 and end on June 14, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the f o l l ow i n g a c c o u n t s : C onte nt s of ro oms generally contain misc. #344 – Richard Shea; Persian Rug #347 – Cee Lo King Media LLC c/o Barry Morston; 4 large plastic totes, 2 suitcases, 2 duffle bags, 4 pairs of sneakers, 1 umbrella, 9 jackets, small bottle of loose change #6209 – Christian Hooker; 20 assorted canvas painting, 1 leaf blower, assorted painting supplies. chair, 2 boxes, cooler, assorted wood, 1 traffic cone and skateboard The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 7 2 hours . Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time. Notice of Formation of Taimata, LLC filed with SSNY on 04/04/2022. O f f i c e: We s tc h e s te r County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 485 E. Lincoln Avenue #603 Fleetwood, NY 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. STB III ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/12/22. 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, 333 East 46th Street, #6H, New York, NY 10017. Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DECENT LOGISTICS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/22. 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 28 Industrial Drive, Middletown, NY 10941. Any lawful purpose. Notice of formation of 4192-B Propco LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/16/22. Office location: Allegany County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: The LLC, 4192B Bolivar Road, Wellsville, New York 14895. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Hydro X USA LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (S SN Y ) on 11/11/21 . Office in Erie County. SSNY is the designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 400 Ingham ave, Lackawanna N Y 142 18 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of EandE Management LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/17/21. Office location: Kings County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be ser ved, and shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Hogan & Rossi, Attn: Scott J Steiner Esq, 3 Starr Ridge Rd, Ste 200, Brewster, NY 10509. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Mohawk Valley Brewing Company, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/09/22. Office location: Schenectady Count y. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 110 Bruce St., Scotia, NY 12302. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qual. of LIC NORTHERN BOULEVARD OWNER, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 05/24/2022. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 03/16/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O CORPORATE CREATIONS NETWORK INC. 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. JFJA Hudson Yards LLC – Auth. filed with Secy. Of State of NY (S SN Y ) on 6/29/21 . Of fice location: New York Co. LLC formed in DE on 6/8/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to: Ganfer Shore L e e d s & Z au d e r e r LLP, 36 0 Lexington Avenue, 13th Floor, New York , NY, 10017. DE addr. O f L LC: c/o Delaware Corporation Organizers, Inc. 1201 N. Market St Fl 18 P.O. Box 1347 Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert of Form. filed with DE Sec of S t a te , 4 0 1 F e d e r al St, D ove r, DE 1 9 9 0 1 . Purp ose: all lawful purposes. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346564 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 29 West Ne ck R oad Shelter Island, NY 11964 for on premises consumption. Ile Refuge LLC

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PROBATE CITATION File No. 2019 -97 SURROGATE’S COURT – ROCKLAND COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Possible paternal first cousin(s) once removed – child(ren) of deceased paternal first cousin Jeanne Claire Gropp, daughter of Louise Gropp, predeceased sister of Joseph Kolb, deceased father of Robert H. Kolb, a/k/a Robert Herman Kolb Possible paternal first cousin(s) once removed – child(ren) of deceased paternal first cousin Vincent Patrick Burns, son of Matilda Burns, predeceased sister of Joseph Kolb, deceased father of Robert H. Kolb, a/k/a Robert Herman Kolb Possible paternal first cousin(s) once removed – child(ren) of deceased paternal first cousin Edward Jerome Burns, son of Matilda Burns, predeceased sister of Joseph Kolb, deceased father of Robert H. Kolb, a/k/a Robert Herman Kolb Possible paternal first cousin(s) once removed – child(ren) of deceased paternal first cousin Mary Katherine Wyman, daughter of Matilda Burns, predeceased sister of Joseph Kolb, deceased father of Robert H. Kolb, a/k/a Robert Herman Kolb The issue, if any, of Franz Joseph Oberfoll, born in Schenkenzell, BadenWurttemberg, Germany, predeceased brother of Decedent’s predeceased mother Irma Oberfoll Kolb, also known as Irma Oberfoell Kolb Sister #1 of Decedent’s predeceased mother Irma Oberfoll Kolb, also known as Irma Oberfoell Kolb, born in Schenkenzell, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany Sister #2 of Decedent’s predeceased mother Irma Oberfoll Kolb, also known as Irma Oberfoell Kolb, born in Schenkenzell, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany Sister #3 of Decedent’s predeceased mother Irma Oberfoll Kolb, also known as Irma Oberfoell Kolb, born in Schenkenzell, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany Whose whereabouts are unknown and with due diligence cannot be ascertained, if living, and if any of them are deceased, to all the unknown distributees, heirs at law and next of kin, of Jeanne Claire Gropp, Vincent Patrick Burns, Edward Jerome Burns, Mary Katherine Wyman, issue, if any, of Franz Joseph Oberfoll, Sister #1, Sister #2 & Sister #3 of Irma Oberfoell Kolb, a/k/a Irma Oberfoell Kolb, their guardians, committees, conservators or assignees, and if deceased prior to 12/31/2018, then their issue, if any, and if such issue died or became incompetent subsequent to 12/31/2018, then their successors in interest, executors, administrators, legal representatives, devisees, legatees, spouses, distributees, heirs at law, next of kin, committees, guardians or any person having any claim or interest through them by purchase, inheritance or otherwise. A petition having been duly filed by Marjorie Teagno, who is domiciled at 10 Quail Ridge Road, Montvale, New Jersey 07645 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Rockland County, at the County Courthouse, 1 South Main Street, New City, New York 10956, on ______July 19th________ 2022, at ___9:30___ o’clock in the afternoon/ forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the Estate of ROBERT H. KOLB, a/k/a Robert Herman Kolb, lately domiciled at 193 South Middletown Road, Pearl River, New York 10965, admitting to probate a Will dated August 23, 2018, as the Will of Robert H. Kolb, a/k/a Robert Herman Kolb, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Marjorie Teagno. Dated, Attested and Sealed, ______May 20th_______, 2022 Hon. KEITH J. CORNELL, SURROGATE ____________ Eileen Horan_____________________ Clerk Name of Attorney: LAW OFFICE OF WILLIAM F. SMITH, ESQ. Tel. No.: (845) 6342221 Address of Attorney: 521 Route 304, Bardonia, New York 10954 [ Note: This Citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear in person. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you. Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, for beer, liquor and wine, has been applied for by Sweet Chick Union SQ LLC to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 32 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption. Sweet Chick Union SQ LLC LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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LDH DISTRIBUTION LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 04/22/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Leila D’Heurle Matoshi, 50 W 106th Street, NY, NY 10 025 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Qualification of CPI TEMP PL ACEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/19/2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 5/ 1 1/2 2 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 10 E. 40th St., 40th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with J e f f rey W. B ullo ck , State of DE, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., J o hn G . Tow n s e n d Bldg., 401 Federal St., S te . 4 , D over, D E 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of MANDE L LITE R ARY LLC filed with SSNY on 05/09/2022. Office: KINGS County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 200 CONGRESS STREE T, APT 3A . BROOKLYN, NY, 11201 US Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of CIL42 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 5/18/22. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Rita Kalimian Sakhaie, 150 Charles St., Apt. M6, NY, NY 10014, principal business address. Purpose: all law ful purposes .

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Notice of Formation of KAHNSTRUCT TRIBECA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 05/17/22. 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 Moses &amp; Singer LLP, Attn: Irving Sitnick, Esq., 405 Lexington Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10174. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of Third Star Property Group, LLC filed with SSNY on April 4/22/22. 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: 332 W. 101st St. Apt. 3F New York, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1297181 for liquor, beer, wine, & cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, & cider at retail in a OP252 Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control L aw at 511 E 12th Street, New York, NY 10009 for on premises consumption. LE VRAIE RACLETTE LLC Notice of Formation of CITYWIDE B U I L D I N G SYS T E M CONSULTANTS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretar y of State of New York on 05/20/2022. Office located in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to CITYWIDE BUILDING SYSTEM CONSULTANTS LLC: 923 SAW MILL RIVER ROAD, #283, ARDSLEY, NY, 10502, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Section 106 Public Notice T- M obile N or theas t , LLC proposes to install antennas on a 132 foot tall (overall height ) building located at 810 Broadway, New York , New York County, NY 10003. 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: 22205036 VITALE, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/23/2022. 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, 155 W. 18th St., Apt 503, NY, NY 10011. Reg Agent: Nicole Vitale, 155 W. 18th St., Apt 503, NY, NY 10011 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Section 106 Public Notice SDP Consultants, Inc. proposes to collocate antennas on a 97.6 foot tall (overall height) Rooftop installation located at 1155 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11222. 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: 22205057 Notice of Formation of BURGHARDT’S PR OPE R T Y G R OU P, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/27/22. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 136 6 K inderhook Rd, Chittenango, NY 1 3 0 3 7. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L DOMESTIC FUND LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 9/0 8/2 0 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL DOMESTIC FUND L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L MANAGEMENT LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 7/ 1 7/2 0 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL M A N A G E M E N T L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on the following existing buildings in New York, New York: 101-ft tall bldg at 380 Convent Avenue (40° 49’ 32.17” N, 73° 56’ 44.69” W); 102-ft tall bldg at 133 Mulberry Street (40° 43’ 7.0” N, 73° 59’ 52.0” W);103-ft tall bldg at 608 West 176th Street (40° 50’ 46.11” N, 73° 56’ 12.83” W);148-ft tall bldg at 3851 Broadway (40° 50’ 11.50” N, 73° 56’ 36.36” W); and 164-ft tall bldg at 3 West 51st Street (40° 45’ 34.75” N, 73° 58’ 38.16” W). Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: K . Eisele, Terracon, 844 N Lenola Rd, Ste 1, Moorestown, NJ 08057, 856-813-3267 or Kathy. eis ele @ terrac on . c om .

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on the following existing buildings in New York, New York: 61-ft tall bldg at 1435-1437 1st Avenue (40° 46’ 10.41” N, 73° 57’ 18.20” W); 291-ft tall bldg at 505 Park Avenue (40° 45’ 46.85” N, 73° 58’ 9.18” W); 86.1-ft tall bldg at 59-61 West 10th Street (40° 44’ 4.93” N, 73° 59’ 53.54” W); 66-ft tall bldg at 318 East 62nd Street (40° 45’ 43.00” N, 73° 57’ 44.24” W); and 66.0-ft tall bldg at 318 East 62nd Street (40° 45’ 43.00” N, 73° 57’ 44.24” W). Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: K . Eisele, Terracon, 844 N Lenola Rd, Ste 1, Moorestown, NJ 08057, 856-813-3267 or Kathy. eis ele @ terrac on . c om .

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Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on the following existing buildings in New York, New York: 61-ft tall bldg at 1435-1437 1st Avenue (40° 46’ 10.41” N, 73° 57’ 18.20” W); 291-ft tall bldg at 505 Park Avenue (40° 45’ 46.85” N, 73° 58’ 9.18” W); 86.1-ft tall bldg at 59-61 West 10th Street (40° 44’ 4.93” N, 73° 59’ 53.54” W); 66-ft tall bldg at 318 East 62nd Street (40° 45’ 43.00” N, 73° 57’ 44.24” W); and 66.0-ft tall bldg at 318 East 62nd Street (40° 45’ 43.00” N, 73° 57’ 44.24” W). Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: K . Eisele, Terracon, 844 N Lenola Rd, Ste 1, Moorestown, NJ 08057, 856-813-3267 or Kathy. eis ele @ terrac on . c om .

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Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) is proposing telecommunications installations at various locations in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. 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: the approx. vicinity of Vernon Avenue SS 1E of Stuyvesant Avenue, 11221; at the approx. vicinity of Ralph Avenue @ SEC of Chauncey Street, 11233; at the approx. vicinity of Howard Avenue WS 1N of Madison Street, 11221; at the approx. vicinity of Surf Avenue Ns 2E of West 8 Street, 11224; at the approx. vicinity of Brighton 1 Street Es 1N of Brighton Beach Avenue, 11235; at the approx. vicinity of Christopher Avenue Ws 1N of Pitkin Avenue, 11212; at the approx. vicinity of Dumont Avenue Ns 4E of Mother Gaston Boulevard, 11212; at the approx. vicinity of Knickerbocker Avenue @ NEC of George Street, 10307; at the approx. vicinity of Sullivan Place @ NC of McKeever Place, 11225; at the approx. vicinity of Adams Street WS CM 1N of Tillary Street, 11201; at the approx. vicinity of Tillary Street CM 1E of Prince Street, 11201; at the approx. vicinity of Fulton Street @ NWC of South Oxford Street, 11217; at the approx. vicinity of 9 Street @ SEC of 4 Avenue, 11215; at the approx. vicinity of Union Avenue ES 1N of Bayard Street, 11211; at the approx. vicinity of Berry Street @ NWC of South 9 Street, 11249; at the approx. vicinity of Bedford Avenue @ NWC of South 9 Street, 11249; at the approx. vicinity of Sands Street CM 3E of Gold Street, 11201; at the approx. vicinity of Columbia Street at SEC of Nelson Street, 11231; at the approx. vicinity of Throop Avenue at SWC of Middleton Street, 11206; at the approx. vicinity of Varet Street NS 1E of Graham Avenue, 11206; at the approx. vicinity of Wythe Avenue at NEC of South 10 Street, 11249; at the approx. vicinity of Bristol Street ES 3N of Sutter Avenue, 11212; at the approx. vicinity of Knickerbocker Avenue @ SEC of Madison Street, 11221; at the approx. vicinity of Greene Avenue WS 1N of Goodwin Place, 11221; at the approx. vicinity of Eastern Parkway @ SEC of Ralph Avenue, 11233; at the approx. vicinity of Sackman @ SWC of Dean Street, 11233; at the approx. vicinity of Sackman Street @ NEC of Pacific Street, 11233; at the approx. vicinity of Surf Avenue Ss 1E of West 35 Street, 11224; at the approx. vicinity of Surf Avenue Ns 1E of West 24 Street, 11224. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Hannah Dell, h.dell@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 3 0 0 6 7, 678-653-8673. Notice of Qual. of DRIP CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 0 5/2 0/2 0 2 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 5500 MAIN S T R E E T, S T E 3 4 5 , BUFFALO, NY 14221. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 28 Lyman Place LLC, filed with SSNY on 1/20/22. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 28 Lyman Place, Staten Island NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L TACTICAL FUND LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 1/0 6/2 1 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL TA C T I C A L FUND L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. LEGALNOTICES@CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST REBECCA FISCHER

The mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas inspired a package of new gun restrictions which have led the nation in its response to both tragedies. Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said the package was comprehensive in addressing the crisis.

KRISTIN RICHARDSON JORDAN

Member deference is still holding strong. The city’s housing boosters thought they could get 900 or so homes in Harlem, but the local council member held firm for months – she wanted more affordable housing that would keep residents in the neighborhood.

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ERIC ADAMS The close of the state legislative session is wrapping up with a few disappointments for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, including only a two-year extension of mayoral control of schools and the expiration of the 421-a affordable housing tax break. But “professional naysayers” in the state Legislature who aren’t on “Team New York,” are to blame, Adams said, not his own lackluster showing in Albany this year.

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Steven Richman, previously in charge of the New York City Board of Elections’ legal side, was accused of behavior that is both “shameful” and “criminal.” He pleaded guilty to two counts of official misconduct after city investigators found he gave interns a creepy “physical fitness assessment.”

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The MTA recently expressed ire for a specific flavor of fare beater, the type that buys “$7 lattes.” However, video unearthed by MTA spokesperson Tim Minton of one such incident was edited to remove the part of the video where the woman tried to swipe in.

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LIZ KRUEGER & CHARLES LAVINE State Sen. Liz Krueger and Assembly Member Charles Lavine passed a bill that bans New York law enforcement from participating in legal proceedings launched in states with abortion prohibitions against New York abortion providers who serve out-of-state individuals. Another bill, not sponsored by this duo, enshrined the rights of people who travel here seeking abortions.

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