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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

HOW WILL VOTERS make their picks for ranked-choice voting in New York City’s mayoral election? That’s a tough call with eight leading candidates in the June 22 Democratic primary.

Addressing crime has been the hottest topic as Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former cop, has taken the top spot in the latest polls. That means Adams will likely rank first with many voters. But New Yorkers won’t forget controversies that have arisen during the race, which means a good scandal can impact where a candidate lands on voters’ ballots.

Adams showed how protective he is of his lead when he allowed reporters into his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment last week to counter a bombshell report that questioned his New York City residency. It was probably the best move after other candidates have sunk in the polls after bad revelations were made about them. Scott Stringer, once considered a favorite, now rounds out the top five after two sexual assault accusations.

Maya Wiley, devoid of similar problems, is consolidating support from progressives, and she has moved into the No. 2 spot behind Adams in recent polling. She could rank the same in the primary. Even Andrew Yang, who started off on top of the polls, has fallen to third place. The same goes for Kathryn Garcia, who’s in fourth place, thanks to her endorsements from The New York Times and the Daily News.

Dianne Morales, who saw her rising star among progressives fall when her campaign imploded with labor disputes, is now a long shot. Ray McGuire and Shaun Donovan are too, but not having a scandalous moment from their past emerge, so far, may play in their favor.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

FOR THE RECORD … 8 Ray McGuire BOROUGH PRESIDENTS … 12

A preview of the races in all five boroughs

CITY COUNCIL … 16 So many open seats up for grabs

WHAT A LONG YEAR … 22

RALPH R. ORTEGA; CEDRIC WOOTEN

The pandemic worsened NYC’s mental health crisis

MENTAL HEALTH 50 … 28 Ray McGuire’s experience is in business and finance, though he has sometimes downplayed that on the campaign trail.

New York’s top professionals making a difference

WINNERS & LOSERS … 50

Who was up and who was down last week

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A legislative year like no other came to an end last week at the state Capitol in Albany.

SESSION WRAPS UP

Lawmakers in Albany closed the book on 2021, ending the legislative session with a flurry of bills getting passed, from larger agenda items to the mundane things like street renamings.

The final days were somewhat chaotic Tuesday, June 8,

as deals fell through at the last minute.

Namely, lawmakers said they reached a deal to pass the Clean Slate Act, which would automatically seal the criminal records of many people. After discovering a technical mistake that required fixing, lawmakers initially

seemed to reach a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pass the updated version with a message of necessity along with a bill of his to split the MTA leadership that had already been tabled.

But the session ended without either getting approved. Other big ticket items that failed to pass both houses included the Adult Survivors Act, which would suspend the statute of limitations to give sexual abuse victims a chance to file civil lawsuits, a slate of sexual harassment and assault reforms, and several parole reform bills. One parole reform bill did make it through: The Less is More Act would reduce the use of incarceration as punishment for technical violations.

The Legislature also passed measures to increase early voting locations, speed up absentee ballot counting, create a lockbox for opioid settlement funding to be used for addiction treatment and legislation that would allow people to sue gun manufacturers. The state Senate also voted to

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Another week, another hack of one of New York’s essential agencies. Following news that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had been breached earlier this year, the Daily News reported that the New York City Law Department was targeted by a cyberattack that shut down its entire computer system. We can’t say for certain how the hackers got in, but we’re pretty sure running agency computers on Windows 7 didn’t help.

“It’s dead as a doornail.”

– state Sen. Diane Savino, on legislation she introduced on behalf of Cuomo to split the positions of MTA CEO and chair into two roles, before the bill was revived and then killed again, via Politico New York

“If we don’t come together as a movement, we will get a New York City built by and for billionaires, and we need a city for and by working people.”

– Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, on why she endorsed Maya Wiley for mayor, via the New York Times

approve many appointees from Cuomo, including his two picks for the Court of Appeals. That included former Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, who faced opposition from a number of Democrats and got approved in a surprisingly close vote.

NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATES MAKE THEIR CASE BEFORE EARLY VOTING

In the final debate before the start of early voting on June 12, candidates for mayor of New York City faced off to make their case to the voters.

Eric Adams – a frontrunner in the race who initially indicated he would skip the debate – bore the brunt of attacks, still reeling from reporting calling into question where he lived. Overall, the debate was notably more civil than the chaotic previous debate with policy taking a center stage. After getting major endorsements from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and city Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Maya Wiley continued to attempt to cement herself as the candidate for progressives after the implosion of Dianne Morales’ campaign amid staff problems, and sexual misconduct allegations surrounding city Comptroller Scott Stringer. Andrew Yang touted his relationship

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with CNN anchor Chris Cuomo as evidence he could get along with his brother, the governor. And on a lighter note, debate moderator Marcia Kramer asked each candidate whether they’d rather be able to fly or turn invisible.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS ERIC ADAMS?

The Brooklyn borough president and New York City mayoral candidate was at the center of everyone’s attention when a Politico New York report came out calling into question whether or not he even lives in New York, or is residing in New Jersey.

Adams owned or has owned several properties, including a New Jersey

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co-op he bought with his partner. In recent months, Adams has been spending many of his waking and sleeping hours at Borough Hall, and conflicting documents call into question which residence Adams actually calls home.

He denied living in New Jersey and said he has lived in a basement apartment in the three-unit row house he owns in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He even invited reporters to take a tour of his apartment to prove that he lives there.

Soon after the report came out, Adams released his E-ZPass records for the past year. They seem to throw water on the idea that he has secretly been living in New Jersey, showing just a handful of hits in the state during that time.

New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams invited the press to his Bed-Stuy home to prove he lives in Brooklyn.

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Campaign text burnout is real Texts from political campaigns, typically done through peerto-peer texting platforms in which an actual person from the campaign is at the other end of the text message, are now ubiquitous in 2021.

Political candidates filling phones with text pleas for votes or donations can feel invasive to some. “It can be very annoying and very overwhelming,” said Zach Topkis, a Democratic primary voter who lives in Brooklyn. While the texts can sometimes be relatively easy to ignore and may even be preferable for some to alternatives like physical mailers, it can be maddening when they continue to come after a voter tries to opt-out from them, or when voters are targeted by texts about candidates in races outside their district. “They’re like, ‘Can we count on you to vote?’ And it’s like, ‘No, I don’t live in your district,’” Topkis said. While some voters might get texts from districts they lived in previously, the outreach is sometimes more random; Topkis said he received text about a Manhattan district where he’s never lived.

Others see the text message as the last bastion of personal communication, as e-mail is now oversaturated with fundraising appeals, advertisements and other messages that are au-

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Some of the leading Black women in the state are discussing what Juneteenth means in 2021 at a 2 p.m. virtual event sponsored by City & State.

The leading Democratic mayoral candidates for New York City duke it out from 7-9 p.m. on NBC in the third and final official debate.

INSIDE DOPE

Early voting started on June 12 and continues every day until June 20, meaning thousands of Democrats will have already voted before the debate.

tomatically ignored. Of course, the personal nature of texting is exactly what makes that kind of outreach uniquely appealing to campaigns hoping to establish a relationship with voters.

When the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the primary campaign season of 2020 to mostly virtual activities, texting was an important tool to continue direct voter outreach when door-knocking wasn’t a possibility. But while some in-person campaigning makes a return, as COVID19 rates drop and vaccinations surge, the use of text banking by political candidates hasn’t dissipated. “The prevalence of texting as a voter contact tool has grown tremendously over the last several years,” said Jake Dilemani, a managing director at Mercury Public Affairs, whose clients use text banking, including in City Council races and in citywide voter education campaigns. “Each year, it becomes more and more a staple of a campaign.” Candidates and consultants say that text banking hasn’t necessarily become more important than other tools, such as phone banking, digital advertisements or good old fashioned door-knocking, but it’s increasingly one that campaigns feel they have to have in their arsenal.

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WEDNESDAY 6/16 The New York City Council Committee on Public Housing holds a 10 a.m. virtual oversight hearing on NYCHA waste management issues and pest problems.

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LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD ALL EYES WERE ON THESE BILLS IN THE FINAL WEEK OF THE SESSION.

MARIJUANA legalization. Record funding for public schools. Unemployment benefits for undocumented people. Long-awaited criminal justice reforms. Democratic legislators approved

a lot of high-profile ideas long before the final scheduled day of the 2021 session on June 10, but that did not mean that the Democratic lawmakers got everything they wanted this year.

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WORKPLACE RETALIATION (S5870/A7101)

This proposal would classify the release of personnel records in response to complaints of workplace discrimination as an illegal form of retaliation.

SUING FIREARMS MANUFACTURERS (S7196/A6762)

Democratic legislators say they found a way around federal laws barring civil lawsuits against gun companies.

COURT OF APPEALS

The governor nominated Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas and Anthony Cannataro, administrative judge in the Civil Court of the City of New York, to the highest court in the state.

ADULT SURVIVORS ACT (S66/A648)

Modeled after the 2019 Child Victims Act, this legislation would suspend the statute of limitations to allow people to sue their abusers in civil court.

CLEAN SLATE (S1553/A6399)

It could become way more easier for people to get their criminal convictions sealed after prison terms and parole end.

ANTITRUST LAW (S8700/A10870)

Companies would be presumed to be monopolies if they have more than 40% market share.

IMPEACHMENT $$$ (S7195/A8024)

Lawmakers want access to a $159 million state fund to pay for a potential impeachment trial of Cuomo.

ABSENTEE COUNTING (S1027/A7931)

Election results would be known a lot sooner if boards of elections could count absentee ballots sooner.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONVERSIONS (S5257/A6593)

The state could help transform commercial spaces into affordable housing in places like New York City.

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You’re always going to look at all the opposition research in your portfolio to find out what you have.

A Q&A with communications expert

GEORGE ARZT

You’ve been around politics as a journalist, Ed Koch’s press secretary and now running your own communications firm.

What’s your definition of opposition research?

Opposition research is anything negative you find on your opponent.

So, you’re there looking for, looking through his or her history and looking for negatives that you can use in a campaign against that person.

Can you cite examples of opposition research from your years in politics?

Someone was challenging an incumbent Congress

person recently, and the guy running as an insurgent had done their opposition research against the incumbent.

We represented the incumbent, and we did a lot of research on (the insurgent) and found out that he had a lot of tweets out there shaming women.

We put it out there in the campaign and I think it helped reelect the incumbent. Another one that comes to mind is a little bit bizarre from when I was covering politics as a reporter. Koch was running against then-Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo in the Democratic gubernatorial primary election, that was 1982, and Koch

knew that there were 37 phantom staffers on the lieutenant governor’s payroll. (Cuomo denied knowledge of the fake staffers when the news eventually came out.) And there was an agreement not to use this knowledge in the first debate that was coming out. Well, Koch got crushed. He badly lost the debate by not using that. The idea in the Koch camp was that they thought that they would defeat Cuomo in the primary, which they didn’t, and that they would unite the party afterward and keep Cuomo as a friend.

But not using that led to Koch’s defeat.

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Why do opposition research?

If it’s a close race or if you’re behind, you need everything that you can put out there to win the race. Sometimes, if you put opposition research out there, you’re afraid that there might be a backlash against you. So you’re trying to put it out without fingerprints. You’re hoping to just place it in a paper, or have a reporter ask the question. But in most cases, it’s easily traceable to an opposition camp, an opponent’s camp. You’re always going to look at all the opposition research in your portfolio to find out what you have and what you can or cannot

use, what you can use in a debate when someone comes at you. You see it in the debates. It levels the playing field.

You mentioned a backlash.

If there’s something terrible, something personal about an opponent, it might hurt your campaign by putting it out. Even if you put it out, with no fingerprints as they say, because it’s going to come back in some form ...

So you leave it alone. If someone else puts it out, OK. But your camp doesn’t want to do it because it could hurt your campaign.

People might think it’s underhanded.

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RAY McGUIRE

He wants you to know that he’s more than his background on Wall Street.

By Kay Dervishi

McGuire has support from some of New York City’s wealthiest neighborhoods.

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AY MCGUIRE’S CASE to become New York City’s mayor rests significantly on his time as a top Wall Street executive. He leans on his record at Citigroup to prove he can manage the city’s finances, saying at the bank he handled a budget larger than those of many states.

But the former investment banker has taken a very careful approach to talking about his time on Wall Street, where he served as one of the few top Black executives, often contrasting it with his childhood being raised by a single mother in Dayton, Ohio. “People know me as a guy who’s made it,” he said in his campaign launch ad.

“But I’m also the son of a single mother who worked unbelievably hard to give me every opportunity she could.”

That often creates tension where McGuire is simultaneously touting his financial chops while also trying to avoid being pigeonholed as the Wall Street candidate. When described as a “finance guy” during a radio appearance in April – after himself promoting his record in the corporate world – McGuire eschewed the description: “It’s not a finance guy, but it’s a guy who grew up in the neighborhood.”

McGuire told The New York Times editorial board, “If you look at me as a Wall Street person, I actually embrace that.”

But not long after, he seemed to walk back on that statement.

“Those people who have cast me with that brush, I don’t accept. My brush is coming from the bottom to get to this point.”

This highlights one of McGuire’s lingering challenges on the campaign trail. He’s attracted plenty of support from wealthy New Yorkers who’ve crossed paths with him in finance or

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philanthropy. Among his notable donors are Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies, Republican megadonor and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone and members of the Tisch family, who own significant chunks of Loews Corp. and the New York Giants.

Numerous former Citigroup colleagues have also made contributions to his campaign, including Mark Shafir, global cohead of mergers and acquisitions at Citi, and Frank Yeary, who used to hold a similar title at Citi. McGuire has also received the greatest proportion of donors contributing $1,000 or more to his campaign, compared to any other mayoral candidate.

But the major fundraising gains he’s made have yet to translate to

broader public support as the primary nears. Despite raising $9.7 million and loaning his campaign another $2 million, McGuire consistently has ranked in the single digits in polling that’s been released thus far.

McGuire’s campaign declined multiple interview requests seeking to discuss his time at Citigroup and the specific deals he worked on. City & State’s requests for interviews sent to multiple former executives at Citigroup also went unanswered.

“During his career, Ray McGuire recruited and retained the world’s most talented professionals to advise him, and empowered them to do their jobs,” said campaign spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medi-

na in a statement. “He is the only candidate in the field who has had to perform and deliver measurable results under the highest level of scrutiny for decades.”

McGuire’s first job on Wall Street was in First Boston’s mergers and acquisitions group in 1984. He went on to follow two mentors, Joseph Perella and Bruce Wasserstein, to a firm they founded, before going on to work at Merrill (previously known as Merrill Lynch) and Morgan Stanley. But McGuire is most known for the work he did while at Citigroup, which he joined in 2005 as global co-head of investment banking.

When he first joined Citigroup, The New York Times wrote about the time that McGuire aimed to elevate

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McGuire is a Harvard graduate and former finance executive, and he often emphasizes his less-than-elite upbringing.

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“During his career, Ray McGuire recruited and retained the world’s most talented professionals to advise him, and empowered them to do their jobs.”

– campaign spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medina in a statement

the bank’s status to become a “trusted adviser” on the mergers-and-acquisitions side. While there, he worked on high-profile multibillion-dollar deals.

For example, McGuire advised Time Warner during negotiations that led to AT&T’s major $85 billion acquisition of the media company in 2016.

There are several instances in which McGuire’s work with certain clients at Citi landed him unfavorable media coverage during his mayoral run. Some critics questioned his liberal credentials because he represented Koch Industries – a chemical giant owned at the time by conservative megadonors Charles Koch and the late David Koch – during its $21 billion purchase

of Georgia-Pacific in 2005. A recent City Limits article outlined how mergers he helped negotiate led to layoffs.

The McGuire campaign responded to City Limits saying that McGuire helped companies stay afloat, and argued that his business experience will help him lead New York City through the challenges of a post-pandemic shift toward telecommuting.

While details about specific mergers he negotiated are unlikely to dwell on the average voters’ mind, coming from a high finance background may be off-putting to some Democratic primary voters. “The vast majority of New Yorkers don’t love Wall Street types,” said Doug Muzzio, a political science pro-

fessor at Baruch College. Ronnie Oliva, founder and CEO of Sykes Global Communications, said McGuire is struggling to connect with voters despite his careful messaging. “It’s really hard to talk out of both sides of the mouth. … ‘I’m humble, I had this poor background, but my claim to fame was working on Wall Street.’ It’s hard to get around that.”

What also might be making McGuire’s case to voters more difficult is the crowded field of candidates who may be attracting potential supporters.

Front-runners Andrew Yang and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams are also running in the pro-business lane.

“It’s difficult to see how (McGuire) could break through,” Muzzio said.

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Who’s Running For Borough President The posts have limited formal power but influence plenty of major issues.

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OR AN ELECTED OFFICE that’s often described as “largely powerless,” there sure are a lot of people lining up to run for borough president. New York City will have six borough president primaries this month – a Democratic primary in each of the five boroughs, plus a Republican primary in Staten Island. Only Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is running as an incumbent, as each of the other borough presidents is term-limited. One term-limited borough president’s promising mayoral run is a good indication of the self-promoting

role the borough presidency sometimes serves, even if it is a mostly ceremonial position that controls a tiny fraction of the city’s budget and wields some influence over land use proposals. The real power of the borough presidency lies in its bully pulpit.

But that bully pulpit can be influential, and this year’s candidates hope to use it promote their borough’s needs – be it equitable health care access or a lack of affordable housing. While the city’s Democratic mayoral primary may be dominating the election conversation, the borough president primaries can’t be ignored.

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Bronx Democratic Primary

INCUMBENT: RUBEN DIAZ JR., who is term-limited CANDIDATES: Clockwise: City Council Member Fernando Cabrera, City Council Member Vanessa Gibson, retired NYPD Lt. Samuel Ravelo, Assembly Member Nathalia Fernández and, not pictured, state Sen. Luis Sepúlveda.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING TOTAL: Cabrera: $1,202,276*, Gibson: $749,191*, Fernández: $509,396*, Sepúlveda: $293,833*, Ravelo: $258,972* * indicates receipt of public matching funds KEY ENDORSEMENTS: The Northwest Bronx Democrats endorsed Cabrera and the New York City Police Benevolent Association ranked Cabrera first in ranked-choice voting; state Sens. Gustavo Rivera and Julia Salazar and Transport Workers Union Local 100 have endorsed Fernández; Rep. Ritchie Torres and the United Federation of Teachers

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Brooklyn Democratic Primary INCUMBENT: ERIC ADAMS, who is term-limited and running for mayor of New York City CANDIDATES: City Council Members Robert Cornegy Jr., top left, Antonio Reynoso, bottom, and Mathieu Eugene, top right; Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, former hospital executive Khari Edwards, Democratic State Committee person Anthony T. Jones, the Rev. Kimberly Council, District Council 37 Local 205 Daycare Workers Union President Robert Ramos, public school teacher Robert Elstein, Community Board 17 member Pearlene Fields, Bishop Lamor Miller Whitehead, housing advocate Trisha Ocona.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING TOTAL: Simon: $1,481,049*, Cornegy: $1,393,850*, Reynoso: $1,255,615*, Edwards: $798,271*, Council: $536,091*, Miller Whitehead: $200,473, Eugene: $59,506, Jones: $55,678, Ocona: $27,828, Ramos: $5,938, Elstein: $5,929, Fields: $4,036 * indicates receipt of public matching funds

KEY ENDORSEMENTS: Former Brooklyn Democratic Party chair Frank Seddio and the TWU Local 100 have endorsed Cornegy; Rep. Nydia Velázquez and the Working Families Party have endorsed Reynoso; Rep. Jerry Nadler and the UFT have endorsed Simon; Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel and District Council 37 have endorsed Edwards; Terrence Floyd, brother of George Floyd, has endorsed Miller Whitehead; and political action committee Democracy for America has endorsed Ramos.

THE STORY: A dozen candidates are on the ballot to replace Eric Adams, and it’s no wonder why. The office commonly thought of as a political stepping stone seems to have served mayoral front-runner Adams pretty well. The Brooklyn Democratic Party has not officially endorsed in the race, though Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. has won support from a handful of district leaders and several local Democratic clubs.

The other elected officials in the race largely comprise the top-tier candidates, though Khari Edwards and Kim Council each post impressive fundraising numbers. In the Benenson Group’s poll of the borough, however, Cornegy and progressive Council Member Antonio Reynoso finished neck and neck, followed by longtime Brooklyn political fixture Jo Anne Simon in third.

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have endorsed Gibson; and the Police Benevolent Association ranked Ravelo as its second choice.

THE STORY: The end of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.’s term – and retirement from politics – could pave the way for the borough to get its first female borough president (Council Member Vanessa Gibson or Assembly Member Nathalia Fernández). First on the ballot of the five-person race is Fernando Cabrera, the socially conservative, longtime Bronx council member, who has occupied the establishment lane of the race and far outraised his opponents. But Gibson and Fernández have built their own momentum, with the former piling up union endorsements and the latter winning the support of progressive state lawmakers. A poll by Benenson Strategy Group suggests the four Latino candidates may splinter Latino voters, opening a lane for Gibson, the only non-Latino candidate. The poll in question had Gibson in the lead and Fernández in second, though ranked-choice voting makes this year’s primaries hard to predict.

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Manhattan Democratic Primary

INCUMBENT: GALE BREWER, who is term-limited and running for City Council in District 6 CANDIDATES: Former state deputy secretary for Economic Development and Housing Lindsey Boylan, top left, former Community Board 7 Chair Elizabeth Caputo, state Sen. Brad Hoylman, top right, Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member Mark Levine, bottom left, Community Education Council 3 President Kimberly Watkins, bottom right, and Guillermo A. Perez.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING TOTAL: Levine: $1,786,621*, Hoylman: $1,746,067*, Kallos: $1,661,827*, Caputo: $723,174*, Boylan: $650,661*, Watkins: $39,329 * indicates receipt of public matching funds KEY ENDORSEMENTS: Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright and the UFT have endorsed Hoylman; Rep. Carolyn Maloney and

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Communications Workers of America Locals 1101, 1102, 1106 and 1109 have endorsed Kallos; Rep. Adriano Espaillat and 32BJ SEIU have endorsed Levine; and the Grand Street Democrats have endorsed Boylan.

THE STORY: The race to replace the popular sitting Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has become a fierce one, with Mark Levine and Ben Kallos – City Council colleagues – and state Sen. Brad Hoylman each raising upwards of $1.5 million for the seat. That trio has accumulated the bulk of influential endorsements and as a result, makes up the toptier of the race; Levine has been called a “front-runner” for beep since 2019, and his profile has only grown during the COVID-19 pandemic as chair of the council’s health committee. Still, the nonlawmaker candidates can also boast impressive fundraising numbers and decent name recognition. Former government official Lindsey Boylan has become a de facto leader of Albany’s reckoning on sexual harassment.

Queens Democratic Primary

INCUMBENT: DONOVAN RICHARDS, first elected in a special election in 2020 and running for reelection CANDIDATES: Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, right, former City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley, bottom, and City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, left PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING TOTAL: Crowley: $1,177,078*, Van Bramer: $1,036,512*, Richards: $731,670* * indicates receipt of public matching funds KEY ENDORSEMENTS: Rep. Greg Meeks and the UFT have endorsed Richards; TWU

Local 100 has endorsed Crowley; and state Sen. Jessica Ramos and mayoral candidate Dianne Morales have endorsed Van Bramer.

THE STORY: Queens Borough President Donovan Richards heads into his reelection race with the incumbent’s advantage, even if he’s only been at borough hall for less than a year. Carrying a slate of labor endorsements and the backing of much of the Queens Democratic establishment, Richards faces a rematch from Elizabeth Crowley, who lost to him by 7 percentage points in the 2020 primary.

Crowley goes into this rematch with the largest campaign warchest, while Van Bramer carries the support of Queens progressives.

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Staten Island Republican Primary INCUMBENT: JAMES ODDO, who is termlimited

CANDIDATES: Council Member Steven Matteo, left, former Community Board 1 Chair Leticia Remauro, top right, business owner Jhong Uhk Kim and former Rep. Vito Fossella, bottom right.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING TOTAL: Matteo: $831,180*, Remauro: $494,033*, Kim: $80,000, Fossella: $8,545 * indicates receipt of public matching funds KEY ENDORSEMENTS: The Staten Island Republican Party and Assembly Member Michael Reilly have endorsed Matteo; and former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik and the New York

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League of Conservation Voters have endorsed Remauro.

THE STORY: Staten Island is the only borough to have a Republican primary this year. Four people are on the ballot to replace James Oddo, but it may be Council Member Steven Matteo’s race to lose, having won the support of the Staten Island GOP and maintained a sizable fundraising lead. Leticia Remauro, however, has raised nearly half a million dollars and is also running on the Conservative Party line, meaning she’ll still have a shot at the seat in November even if she loses the Republican primary. Former Congress member and City Council Member Vito Fossella, a late entry to the race, hasn’t made much of a mark on the campaign trail and is out-fundraised by political newcomer Jhong Uhk Kim.

Democratic Primary CANDIDATES: Attorney Cesar Vargas, top, labor leader Radhakrishna Mohan, real estate developer Mark Murphy, activist and business owner Lorie Honor, bottom left, and Brandon Stradford community liaison to City Council Member Debi Rose, bottom right.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING TOTAL: Honor: $427,488*, Murphy: $395,286*, Mohan: $173,089*, Vargas: $132,194*, Stradford: $117,210* * indicates receipt of public matching funds KEY ENDORSEMENTS: Stonewall Democrats and New York Immigration Coalition have endorsed

Vargas; the Staten Island Democratic Party has endorsed Murphy; Rep. Carolyn Maloney and the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club endorsed Honor; and Tenants Political Action Committee has endorsed Stradford.

THE STORY: Democrats face somewhat long odds to win a borough-wide race in Staten Island, but that hasn’t stopped a slate of borough president hopefuls from lining up to try this year. The last Democratic borough president, Ralph Lamberti, left office in 1989. Mark Murphy, son of the late former Rep. John Murphy, is running with the backing of the Staten Island Democratic Party, though Lorie Honor has pulled in more money and impressive endorsements of her own.

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The top City Council races A preview of the races that will define the future of the council.

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HE NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL races this year are hard to keep up with, and not just for voters.

While New Yorkers will be voting in each of the city’s 51 council districts, the interesting thing about this year is that more than 30 of the council’s members have reached the term limits of the office. To fill all those open seats, there’s a flood of candidates from different backgrounds and occupations. That’s why

City & State partnered with City Limits, Gotham Gazette and the Queens Daily Eagle to provide coverage of the leading and most relevant races in the upcoming June 22 primary for a series called “Council Countdown.” The partnership’s reporting and analysis provides a comprehensive look at key races across the five boroughs.

Here is roundup of some consequential races and a brief overview of what voters should expect going into the polls.

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Jenny Low has a lot of momentum behind her in the District 1 race.

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District 7

District 9

NEIGHBORHOODS: Chinatown, Financial District, Lower East Side

NEIGHBORHOODS: Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights

NEIGHBORHOODS: Central Harlem, Upper West Side, East Harlem

INCUMBENT: Margaret Chin, who is termlimited

INCUMBENT: Mark Levine, who is termlimited and running for Manhattan borough president

INCUMBENT: Bill Perkins, who is running for reelection

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WHO’S RUNNING: Christopher Marte, Gigi Li, Sean Hayes, Maud Maron, Tiffany Johnson-Winbush, Susan Lee, Denny Salas, Susan Damplo, Jenny Low THE STORY: Jenny Low is a longtime local power broker who works for Council Speaker Corey Johnson and has grabbed major endorsements from Rep. Nydia Velázquez, DC 37 and the United Federation of Teachers. A progressive in the field, Christopher Marte has the most small-dollar donations and devoted supporters who almost helped him unseat Margaret Chin four years ago. Gigi Li, Chin’s chief of staff, has the current member’s support, leads in total fundraising and got a boost from mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s endorsement.

And Maud Maron, an education activist, has raised a lot of money while appealing to more conservative voters in the district.

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WHO’S RUNNING: Miguel Estrella, Stacy Lynch, Corey Ortega, Keith Harris, Raymond Sanchez Jr., Maria Ordoñez, Lena Melendez, Marti Gould AllenCummings, Carmen Quinones, Daniel Cohen, Luis Tejada, Shaun Abreu

WHO’S RUNNING: Pierre Gooding, Athena Moore, William Allen, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Bernadette McNear, Ruth McDaniels, Mario Rosser, Keith Taylor, Cordell Cleare, Bill Perkins, Billy Council, Sheba Simpson-Amsterdam, Joshua Albert Clennon

THE STORY: Abreu – a tenants’ rights attorney and ally of Rep. Adriano Espaillat – and Allen-Cummings – a nonbinary drag artist and ally of Speaker Corey Johnson – have gotten the lion’s share of the endorsements.

But Stacy Lynch, daughter of legendary operative Bill Lynch, is well connected from her time as an aide in City Hall, and Corey Ortega is a district leader with deep political ties. Luis Tejada (who ran for this seat in 2013), Maria Ordoñez (endorsed by Our Revolution) and Daniel Cohen (endorsed by state Sen. Robert Jackson and Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell) have also received substantial public matching funds.

THE STORY: Bill Perkins has well-documented memory issues that have raised questions about his fitness for office. Still, he is considered the favorite, due to his name recognition and incumbent status. Perkins’ former chief of staff, Cordell Cleare, is running again after falling short in 2017 and was endorsed by 1199SEIU. Athena Moore, who also lost in 2017, and William Allen are also well connected in the district. Kristin Richardson Jordan, a poet and publisher, has raised the most money and is running on probably the most progressive platform.

Mario Rosser, who works at LinkedIn, has raised the second-most money.

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District 10 MANHATTAN

NEIGHBORHOODS: Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill INCUMBENT: Ydanis Rodriguez, who is termlimited WHO’S RUNNING: Thomas Leon, Francesca Castellanos, Angela Fernández, Josue Perez, James Behr, Tirso Pina, Carmen De La Rosa, Johanna Garcia

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District 19 QUEENS

NEIGHBORHOODS: Bay Terrace, College Point, Whitestone

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INCUMBENT: Paul Vallone, who is termlimited

NEIGHBORHOODS: Morris Heights, Fordham, Kingsbridge

WHO’S RUNNING: Adriana Aviles, Austin Shafran, Francis Spangenberg, Richard Lee, Nabaraj KC, Tony Avella

INCUMBENT: Fernando Cabrera, who is term-limited and running for Bronx borough president WHO’S RUNNING: Haile Rivera, Yudelka Tapia, Adolfo Abreu, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Socrates Solano, Fernando Aquino THE STORY: This could end up a race between Adolfo Abreu – who is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America and Working Families Party – and Pierina Ana Sanchez, who has support from major progressive establishment figures like Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Ritchie Torres, and also describes herself as “anti-capitalist.” Yudelka Tapia, a district leader who previously ran in 2009, is also running.

THE STORY: Tony Avella had held this council seat for eight years and the local state Senate seat for another eight, so the lifelong politico is a leading contender to return to City Hall. But Avella has earned relatively few endorsements – the New York City Police Benevolent Association being one of them. His leading

opponent in the Democratic primary is Austin Shafran, a political consultant who has earned the lion’s share of endorsements, including the United Federation of Teachers and both the Queens Democratic Party and the Working Families Party. Also getting buzz is Richard Lee, the budget director for the Queens borough president, who has raised more money than anyone and earned support from Andrew Yang and Rep. Thomas Suozzi.

District 20 QUEENS

NEIGHBORHOODS: Downtown Flushing, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill INCUMBENT: Peter Koo, who is term-limited WHO’S RUNNING: Anthony Miranda, Ellen

Carmen De La Rosa already represents much of District 10 in the Assembly, and she’s a top contender in that Upper Manhattan race.

JASLIN KAUR CAMPAIGN; AMIT BAGGA CAMPAIGN

THE STORY: Carmen De La Rosa has represented much of the district in the Assembly since 2017, and was Rodriguez’s chief of staff in the council before that. She has endorsements from many of the city’s biggest labor unions and Rep. Adriano Espaillat. But Johanna Garcia was a chief of staff too, to thenCouncil Member Robert Jackson, and is well connected to the current state senator’s network. Both De La Rosa and Garcia have raised more than $230,000, but more of Garcia’s total came from Upper Manhattan. Right up with them in fundraising is Angela Fernandez, an immigrant rights advocate, making this a rare field where all of the top contenders are women. Josue Perez, a high school math teacher who challenged Rodriguez in 2017, is also running.

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Jaslin Kaur, left, is running in District 23, and Amit Bagga, right, is running in District 26, both in Queens.

THE STORY: This crowded Democratic primary to replace Jimmy Van Bramer has several front-runners who have each landed major endorsements. Amit Bagga has been backed by the Working Families Party, progressives like Cynthia Nixon and state Sen. Jessica Ramos, and has the backing of several labor unions. The Queens Democratic Party endorsed Ebony Young. Julia Forman has the endorsement of the United Federation of Teachers. And candidates like Brent O’Leary and Jesse Laymon have name recognition in the community. O’Leary ran for the seat in 2009 and Laymon successfully ran for district leader. Insiders say Forman and Hailie Kim are also running strong campaigns.

District 27 QUEENS

Young, Neng Wang, Hailing Chen, Dao Yin, Ming-Kang Low, John Choe, Sandra Ung THE STORY: Sandra Ung, an attorney and aide to Rep. Grace Meng, is leading the pack with the most money raised and endorsements from almost all of the city’s biggest unions. John Choe, who leads the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce, is also a major contender thanks to key progressive endorsements and connections he’s made since his fourthplace finish in the 2009 Democratic primary. Anthony Miranda and Dao Yin both ran for Queens borough president in 2020, and while each did well in this council district, neither looks like they’ll be major players. And Ellen Young, who served in the Assembly, is attempting a political comeback.

District 23 QUEENS

NEIGHBORHOODS: Bellerose, Floral Park, New Hyde Park INCUMBENT: Barry Grodenchik, who is retiring WHO’S RUNNING: Linda Lee, Debra Markell, Sanjeev Kumar Jindal, Jaslin Kaur, Koshy Thomas, Harpreet Singh Toor, Steve Behar

THE STORY: Seven candidates are making this competitive race interesting.

Among them are Linda Lee, a prominent nonprofit director; Debra Markell, a veteran government official; Sikh community leader Harpreet Singh Toor; Barry Grodenchik’s aide Steve Behar; and organizer Jaslin Kaur. Kaur has been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanjeev Kumar Jindal and Koshy Thomas, both community leaders, are also running.

District 26 QUEENS

NEIGHBORHOODS: Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City INCUMBENT: Jimmy Van Bramer, who is term-limited and running for Queens borough president WHO’S RUNNING: Julia Forman, Jesse Laymon, Ebony Young, Emily Sharpe, Hailie Kim, Badrun Khan, Denise KeehanSmith, Julie Won, Lorenzo Brea, Glennis Gomez, Brent O’Leary, Amit Bagga, Jonathan Bailey, Steven Raga, Sultan Al Maruf

NEIGHBORHOODS: Cambria Heights, Hollis, Queens Village INCUMBENT: I. Daneek Miller, who is termlimited WHO’S RUNNING: Nantasha Williams, Linda Guillebeaux, Jason Myles Clark, Rene Hill, Jermaine Sean Smith, Anthony Rivers, James Johnson, Kerryanne Burke, Leroy Gadsden, Al-Hassan Kanu, Harold Miller Jr., Marie Adam-Ovide THE STORY: This Southeast Queens race is one of the most competitive in the city, and some major endorsers have stayed out, including the Queens Democratic Party. Jason Myles Clark, a former assistant state attorney general, has raised the most money, but critics say he’s not connected in the district. Nantasha Williams, who finished in a close second to Clyde Vanel in a 2016 Assembly primary race, is second in fundraising and has the biggest endorsements, including from unions 32BJ SEIU and District Council 37. James Johnson, former Southeast Queens rep for the city comptroller, is well connected in the district and has the most individual contributions in the race. Harold Miller, who isn’t related to the sitting council member, is a longtime de Blasio aide who has earned some big progressive endorsements, including from the Working Families Party and state Sen. James Sanders Jr. And Queens

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Community Board 8 District Manager Marie Adam-Ovide, who ran for Council District 31 in 2013, and Al-Hassan Kanu, a longtime political aide, are both active in the district.

District 28 QUEENS

NEIGHBORHOODS: Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Rochdale Village INCUMBENT: Adrienne Adams, who is running for reelection WHO’S RUNNING: Ruben Wills, Adrienne Adams, Japneet Singh THE STORY: While Adrienne Adams, a first-term Democrat, is vying to become the next speaker of the City Council, she’s also facing two primary challengers. Among the challengers is her predecessor Ruben Wills, who’s back after he was exonerated from a corruption conviction that got him booted from the council. The other candidate running is Japneet Singh, a Sikh activist from South Ozone Park who founded the New York Sikh Council community group.

District 35 BROOKLYN

NEIGHBORHOODS: Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights INCUMBENT: Laurie Cumbo, who is termlimited WHO’S RUNNING: Deirdre Levy, Curtis Harris, Michael Hollingsworth, Regina Kinsey, Crystal Hudson, Hector Robertson, Renee Collymore THE STORY: The New York City Democratic Socialists of America helped elect a socialist state senator and Assembly member in this district over labor-backed progressives in 2020. Now the DSA is trying again with Michael Hollingsworth, a tenant organizer who has raised the maximum amount of public funds with the most individual donors in the race.

But Crystal Hudson, a former staffer for New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, is extremely well connected in local politics and has outraised Hollingsworth and the rest of the field.

She has support from almost all of the city’s biggest unions and would be

the first openly gay Black woman on the council. Curtis Harris, a nonprofit founder, and Renee Collymore, a former Democratic district leader, are also active in the district and have raised the third and fourth most in the race, respectively.

District 36 BROOKLYN

NEIGHBORHOODS: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Northern Crown Heights INCUMBENT: Robert Cornegy Jr., who is term-limited and running for Brooklyn borough president WHO’S RUNNING: Henry Butler, Reginald Swiney, Chi Ossé, Tahirah Moore, Robert Waterman THE STORY: Henry Butler – a district leader, community board district manager and political club leader – couldn’t be more plugged into local politics. He ran and lost to Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel in the neighboring council district in 2017.

Robert Waterman, a pastor at a local church, lost in this district in 2013. Tahirah Moore is well-connected in BedfordStuyvesant after working in government, and both Chi Ossé (the fundraising leader in this race) and Jason Walker are trying to win with young progressive activist energy in this gentrifying district.

District 37 BROOKLYN

NEIGHBORHOODS: Bushwick, Cypress Hills, Ocean Hill

INCUMBENT: Darma Diaz, who is running for reelection WHO’S RUNNING: Heriberto Mateo, Sandy Nurse, Christopher Durosinmi, Darma Diaz, Rick Echevarria, Misba Abdin THE STORY: This primary has been more than a year in the making. COVID-19 canceled the March 2020 special election originally scheduled to fill the seat vacated by Rafael Espinal Jr., and then Darma Diaz’s allies challenged her opponents’ petitions in the June primary and got them all removed from the ballot. Diaz, a former director at a nonprofit running homeless shelters, was unopposed in the primary and the general.

This year, Diaz has some advantages of incumbency, including support from the Brooklyn Democratic Party. But she’s in

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Top left, Shahana Hanif from District 39; bottom left, Chi Ossé from District 36; right, Sandy Nurse in District 37.

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INCUMBENT: Brad Lander, who is termlimited and running for city comptroller WHO’S RUNNING: Mamnun Haq, Douglas Schneider, Brandon West, Shahana Hanif, Briget Rein, Justin Krebs, Jessica Simmons THE STORY: The race to replace Brad Lander will likely come down to Douglas Schneider, Shahana Hanif and Brandon West. Hanif, a former Lander staffer, has the endorsements of progressive groups, including the Working Families Party, state Sen. Jessica Ramos and City Council Member Helen Rosenthal. West has the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America, New Kings Democrats, Cynthia Nixon and progressive lawmakers, including state Sen. Julia Salazar and Assembly Members Marcela Mitaynes and Phara Souffrant Forrest. And Schneider has institutional support from Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders. Briget Rein also has a significant amount of labor support, while Justin Krebs has been backed by progressive leaders.

District 40

ANNA AND JORDAN RATHKOPF; RUVAN WIJESOORIYA; BRANDON HARRISON

BROOKLYN serious danger of losing to Sandy Nurse, a carpenter and activist who earned support from almost every major union in the city, a host of progressive organizations and local elected officials like Rep. Nydia Velázquez. Misba Abdin, co-founder of a Bangladeshi American nonprofit, has also raised the maximum amount of public funds, and Rick Echevarría is running an active campaign. The primary winner will likely face Republican Franklin Gonzalez in the general.

District 39 BROOKLYN

NEIGHBORHOODS: Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope

NEIGHBORHOODS: East Flatbush, Flatbush, Midwood INCUMBENT: Mathieu Eugene, who is termlimited WHO’S RUNNING: Josué Pierre, Edwin Raymond, Rita Joseph, Harriet Hines, Maxi Eugene, Victor Jordan, Blake Morris, Vivia Morgan, Cecilia Cortez, Kenya Handy-Hilliard, John Williams THE STORY: It’s a crowded and competitive field to succeed the city’s longestserving council member, with many candidates bringing in major money and endorsements. Edwin Raymond, an NYPD lieutenant who has publicly criticized the department, has raised the most money in the race, and has earned the support of New York City

The DSA did very well last year in the area around District 35. Now they’re trying to lead their candidate Michael Hollingsworth to victory.

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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

Josué Pierre, an accountant, and Rita Joseph, a teacher, aren’t too far behind in fundraising, and Pierre has some union endorsements, including from the United Federation of Teachers. Kenya Handy-Hilliard, a government staffer, is third in fundraising and has District Council 37’s support, and Blake Morris, the one white candidate in the race, is known in the district for challenging state Sen. Simcha Felder in 2018. And Maxi Eugene is reportedly the council member’s brother, but has raised little money.

District 49 STATEN ISLAND

NEIGHBORHOODS: Port Richmond, St. George, Tompkinsville INCUMBENT: Deborah Rose, who is termlimited WHO’S RUNNING: Amoy Barnes, David Hernandez, Kamillah Hanks, Troy McGhie, John McBeth Sr., Selina Grey, Michael Schnall, Ranti Ogunleye, Kelvin Richards THE STORY: The leading candidates to represent the racially diverse North Shore include Amoy Barnes, de Blasio’s former borough director, who has raised the most money and has been endorsed by 1199SEIU, the United Federation of Teachers and the Working Families Party.

Kamillah Hanks, a nonprofit leader who challenged Rose in 2017, has gotten support from prominent politicians on Staten Island, including state Sen. Diane Savino and Assembly Member Charles Fall. Other candidates who have raised notable amounts of funding and gotten backing from a range of unions and political action committees are: Ranti Ogunleye, a director at the JCC Cornerstone Gerard Carter Center; Kelvin Richards, a public defender with the Legal Aid Society; and Michael Schnall, who most recently served as vice president for government relations and community investment at New York Road Runners.

Also on this year’s ballot are some candidates with ties to Rose. Selina Grey, who has run her reelection campaigns, has gotten the most significant benefit from that connection as the one candidate to receive her endorsement.

Teacher Troy McGhie works as Rose’s community liaison and David Hernandez has been her director of constituent services.

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The pandemic broke us. The next mayor will need a plan to heal the city’s mental health wounds.

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IGOBERTO LOPEZ HAD struggled with mental illness since he was a teenager. But what his relatives described as typical, rebellious adolescent behavior escalated as he got older. After turning 18, he left home, bouncing between relatives’ homes before entering New York City’s shelter system in May 2019. Then, as his drug addiction worsened, he started getting in trouble, his brother told The New York Times.

Within a few months, Lopez attacked his father with a stick after the man refused to give him money, then showed up at work to threaten him, according to news reports based on police accounts. Weeks later, he punched an officer in the face and spent four months in jail until his father paid bail in March 2020, just as the city went into lockdown. In the fall, Lopez was again arrested in Washington Heights with 48 bags of cocaine and a knife, after which a judge placed him under court-ordered supervision. During his string of arrests, he was taken to the hospital for psychiatric treatment, but each time was released after being held for a few days.

Lopez had skipped several court appearances and more than a dozen check-ins by February 12, when he went on a killing spree on the New York City subway. Over the course of 24 hours, Lopez stabbed two people to death on the A-line and seriously injured two others at the 181st Street Station before police apprehended him covered in blood with the murder weapon.

“I want people to know, we’re going to do whatever the hell it takes to keep subways safe,”

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New York City is experimenting with sending social workers and EMTs for mental health crises, not police.

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N 2015, two years into his first term, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made mental health a signature priority when he announced the creation of ThriveNYC, a series of 54 initiatives with a budget of $850 million over four years. Helmed by the mayor’s wife Chirlane McCray, the initiative morphed into the Office of ThriveNYC in January 2019. This May, it was moved into City Hall and made permanent as the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health.

The pandemic was nothing if not a major stress test for Thrive’s various programs and

the city’s sprawling mental health infrastructure. The vast majority of people with mental illness are not prone to violence; the recent spate of subway attacks are only the most visible example of the City’s unmet needs. Most of the suffering caused by COVID-19 has occurred out of public view.

At the height of the lockdown in May 2020, more than one-third of state residents reported experiencing depression and anxiety because of the pandemic, according to the New York State Health Foundation. Seventy percent of New Yorkers reported an increase in anxiety and stress between May and June.

Calls to the city’s mental health hotline, NYC Well, jumped from 5,000 per week in 2019 to 6,000 per week in 2020.

These numbers reflect the traumatic experiences of the pandemic and its economic fallout. Unemployment jumped from just above 4% before COVID-19 hit to a high of 20% in June 2020. The number of shootings doubled in the city last year, while homicides jumped 45%. Homelessness among single adults grew by 10%, reaching a record high of 20,822 per night in February, according to the Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprof-

”It’s going to take some time to fully understand the impact the pandemic has had on mental health.”

– Susan Herman, director of the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health

it advocacy organization. Around 4,200 of the city’s children lost a parent, and 325,000 more kids were pushed into poverty. As with nearly every other index of well-being, people of color and the poor suffered disproportionately, with 45% of white New Yorkers reporting income loss compared with 67% and 68% of Latino and Black residents, respectively.

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said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who dispatched 500 additional police officers to patrol the transit system.

Despite the influx of officers and the MTA’s still-depressed ridership, subway assaults by mentally ill New Yorkers have continued to rise, reaching a 23-year high in the first quarter of 2021. Within a few hours on one day in May, a 60-year-old woman was stabbed on the No. 3 line, another was hit in the face with a skateboard and a man was slashed with a knife.

As the number of vaccinated New Yorkers climbs and the streets and subways fill with crowds again, the city is only beginning to come to terms emotionally with the fallout from the pandemic. While the staggering death count of 33,000 and the 750,000 jobs lost in New York City are quantifiable, it is difficult to measure the effects on New Yorkers’ mental health. The pandemic upended lives through the isolation of lockdown and social distancing, unmet childcare needs, job loss, homelessness, or grief and anxiety over illness and death, leaving New Yorkers to deal with the repercussions. Americans across the country experienced similar hardships, but given its population density and status as the epicenter of the first major U.S. outbreak, New York has experienced an outsized share of the virus’s psychic toll.

“Everyone in New York has been affected by the pandemic, whether by financial insecurity, loss of loved ones, or uncertainty about the future,” said Susan Herman, director of the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health, formerly the Office of ThriveNYC. “It’s going to take some time to fully understand the impact the pandemic has had on mental health.”

However, the city hasn’t yet met its preCOVID goal of addressing the underlying mental health needs of its citizens, which the next administration will have to pick up in the context of an ongoing crisis.

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Above all, COVID-19 exacerbated existing mental health inequalities. Those who lost jobs often lost insurance as well, leading to a dropoff in care; Zoom calls replaced in-person psychiatric visits; poor and homeless New Yorkers, who may lack consistent access to mobile phones and the Internet, lost contact with providers.

“Quite simply, we do not have mental health services available at a time when people are experiencing anxiety and depression at levels never experienced before,” said Matthew Shapiro, associate director of public affairs for New York at the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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HEN THRIVENYC launched in November 2015, one of its primary goals was to “change the culture” around mental health. Public policy generally focuses on those in crisis, such as people who may harm themselves or others.

Gary Belkin, deputy health commissioner for New York City and chief of ThriveNYC from 2014 until 2018, said the initiative was

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intended to break past this narrow focus.

“Only reaching the guy sleeping in the subway or woman screaming on the street corner leaves you stuck chasing crises,” Belkin said. “There is far more burden of disease in depressed mothers and suicidal kids and unemployed workers and distressed and traumatized neighborhoods than in people with schizophrenia.”

For Belkin, addressing mental health fully meant going beyond the traditional network of delivery, such as hospitals and clinics, to partner with community-based organizations, and connecting the efforts of an array of city agencies whose primary functions may not be related to mental health. Mental illness, he noted, is not only a health care problem but “an education problem, a police problem, a youth problem.”

ThriveNYC’s original launch plan, developed with the input of 200 organizations and backed by a scientific advisory group, listed six areas of focus, which included intervening early on mental health problems before they escalate, better coordinating the efforts of government agencies and nonprofits and using data to help close treatment gaps.

Housed in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the program included 54 initiatives – 23 of them new, the rest existing programs – that ThriveNYC would support and oversee.

Marquee directives included a publicawareness campaign to decrease stigma and the creation of NYC Well, a mental health hotline, a year later. ThriveNYC also pledged to hire 400 clinicians to deploy in high-needs communities, bring 100 mental health “consultants” into public schools to better respond to students’ needs, and train 250,000 New Yorkers in mental health first aid.

In its first year, ThriveNYC directed $44 million – $35 million less than what was earmarked – across more than 15 city agencies, including $3.9 million on media. McCray went on a national publicity tour that included speaking with congressional leaders.

Nearly as soon as it launched, ThriveNYC attracted criticism from some experts who said it should focus on serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and more severe forms of bipolar disorder and major depression.

“The mayor dedicated over $2 million to an ad campaign trying to get people who have ‘anxiety, depression or need someone to talk to’ to call a referral line,” D.J. Jaffe, former executive director of the Mental Health Policy Org., wrote in the Daily News six months after ThriveNYC’s launch. “The ads don’t ask those who are psychotic, delusional, and eating out of dumpsters to call.”

Manhattan Institute fellow Stephen Eide argues that for those with serious mental illness, social anxiety about seeking treatment is often less of an impediment to care than the symptoms of the illness itself. “There are many reasons why people don’t get access to

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quality care and stigma is relatively low down on that list when talking about seriously mentally ill people,” Eide said.

Many of those with serious mental illness in New York City are not receiving care.

While 87% of those eligible for the state’s Health and Recovery Plans – New York’s Medicaid plan for those with significant behavioral health needs – are enrolled, only about 3% accessed care in the past year. According to Jaffe’s organization, between 19% and 24% of ThriveNYC’s 2020 budget focused on those with serious mental illness.

Another frequent criticism of ThriveNYC, especially in the New York Post, was that the first lady, an unelected official, was handed the position through nepotism to raise her public profile. McCray does not have a background in mental health policy and has spent most of her career in communications. She has said in interviews that her own family’s struggles with mental illness inspired her to take on ThriveNYC. In the first few years of ThriveNYC’s existence, McCray rolled out a series of initiatives including the Mental Health Service Corps, which dispatches clinicians to high-need communities; Sisters Thrive, which trains African American girls in psychiatric first aid; and a program to distribute kits of naloxone and buprenorphine to social-service agencies in case of an opioid overdose.

As McCray spoke about her signature program at conferences and events, her political aspirations became controversial. In March 2018, McCray told news outlets that she was considering a run for office. That same month, she appointed Alexis Confer, who helped create the mayor’s universal pre-K program, as ThriveNYC’s first executive director. Less than a year later, de Blasio created the Office of ThriveNYC and put Herman, former deputy commissioner of collaborative policing at the New York City Police Department, in charge.

In March 2019, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who is currently running for mayor, expressed concern over ThriveNYC’s lack of metrics and opaque finances. He sent a letter to Herman asking for better accounting of the program’s spending, which is spread across city agencies, and proof of its initiatives’ efficacy.

“One of the basic questions we are trying to figure out is, what is Thrive?” Stringer wrote.

Stringer noted that almost half of the 54 programs had disappeared from ThriveNYC’s most recent budget, and asked for an accounting of the number of people it had reached and helped.

At a City Council oversight hearing the next month, McCray distanced herself from the program’s day-to-day operations, saying her role is to take its “message to the public” rather than execute its goals. She deflected questions about ThriveNYC’s budget and

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HRIVE WAS IN the midst of a reorganization when the pandemic hit. In April, the initiative dispensed with its name altogether, becoming the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health, a permanent organization at City Hall.

According to Belkin, the initiative’s expansive, innovative vision was winnowed down under political pressure to focus again on the most severely afflicted, rather than serving as a hub connecting efforts across city government and embedding mental health resources in the community. “When faced with criticism, instead of doubling down on Thrive’s vision and being more transparent and aggressive, the administration really ran away from the core part of the vision,” Belkin said.

Herman takes issue with this characterization. “Thrive, from the very beginning, has been about mental health for all New Yorkers. That is the ambitious vision that still informs our work,” she said. “To us, that has always meant that we reach people who might otherwise go without care – reaching everyone with need is what it means to serve all New Yorkers, in all neighborhoods, and at all levels of need.”

Among the key ThriveNYC programs that were jettisoned or scaled back was the beleaguered Mental Health Service Corps;

the Maternal Collaborative, which focused on outreach to new mothers; and its collaboration with CUNY to measure its outcomes.

Along with Herman, Belkin bristles at the notion that ThriveNYC did not do enough to address serious mental illness. “A huge proportion of Thrive funding was specifically for what people often mean when they are talking about seriously mentally ill,” he said, citing Thrive’s 24-hour mobile crisis teams and investments in supportive housing.

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DVOCATES FOR MENTAL HEALTH say the city needs to dedicate more resources to addressing the issue in the wake of the pandemic. “A lot of people are experiencing anxiety or depression at levels never experienced before and seeking out mental health services in a way they haven’t before,” Shapiro said.

“Community providers have been underfunded for a long time. There’s not enough of a workforce available and that really got exposed during the past year.”

Activists also want more money to replace hundreds of inpatient psychiatric beds that hospitals diverted to help address the needs of COVID-19 patients, increase services in schools for children who have been traumatized by the pandemic and expanded diversion programs to take responding to acute

crises out of the hands of police.

“Many hospitals disproportionately targeted detox and psychiatric beds to meet that (COVID-19 hospital) mandate,” Shapiro said. “Even after the mandate is lifted, those beds aren’t coming back. Psychiatric and detox services are among the most costly for hospitals.” State regulators say they don’t expect any of those psychiatric beds to be permanently eliminated. Advocates counter that private hospitals were already reducing their in-patient psychiatric treatment capacity.

Absent a joint effort with the state, the city is limited in its ability to reach those with the most serious forms of mental illness, said Giselle Routhier, policy director at the Coalition for the Homeless. “(ThriveNYC) has been able to chip away around the edges by providing a central phone resource for people to call, increasing its funding for street-medicine teams” and expanding the city’s “clubhouse services” – community centers where those with mental illness can access an array of resources, she said. “Those are all things that are helpful, but they don’t substitute for a broader fixing of the system, where we need adequate inpatient beds and outpatient services without having to jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops.”

Juvenile mental health advocates say schools need not just social workers who can refer students to outside services, but

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outcomes to its incoming chair, Herman. In a letter, Herman told Stringer ThriveNYC was not “yet affecting a citywide metric on mental health” because it was too early in the program.

Under pressure, the Office of ThriveNYC released 472 metrics related to the success of its various programs, but few metrics on patient outcomes. Some initiatives struggled to attract and retain staff. The Mental Health Service Corps, for example, had only been able to fill 263 of the allocated 395 slots for clinicians to conduct outreach to needy communities.

Calls for reform became even louder after a string of violent incidents perpetrated by those with serious mental illness, including the bludgeoning death of four people in Chinatown by a man with 14 prior arrests in October 2019.

Under Herman’s leadership over the next year, ThriveNYC underwent a major overhaul. Herman streamlined the program’s six areas of focus to four – improving prevention and response, reaching youth, eliminating barriers to care and promoting mental health for those with serious illness – and cut its number of initiatives from 54 to 31. Working with CUNY’s Institute of State and Local Governance, she released nearly 100 metrics to measure the efficacy of ThriveNYC’s dozens of initiatives, publishing the data on the organization’s website and pledging to update it regularly.

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U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer emphasized the pandemic’s toll at a recent press conference.

in-school professionals who can provide them directly.

“This is a really great time to do things differently and not operate how schools have been before the pandemic, where thousands of students a year in emotional crisis face NYPD law-enforcement interventions instead of mental or behavioral health professionals,” said Dawn Yuster, director of the School Justice Project at Advocates for Children of New York. “We need not just more social workers, but behavioral specialists who are clinically trained.”

The ultimate fate of ThriveNYC and the city’s mental health infrastructure lies in the hands of the next mayor. De Blasio is term-limited and the Republican candidates running to replace him have demanded an investigation into the program’s spending and efficacy. Democratic candidates have praised the intentions behind ThriveNYC, but criticized their execution. While some plan to keep or expand some of its initiatives, the “ThriveNYC” branding will likely be retired.

Andrew Yang, one of the top contenders in the mayoral race, proposes to increase the number of social workers and mental health professionals in schools, create rapid-response services for crises currently handled by police and expand psychiatric care support for COVID-19 long-haulers

and medical providers who have been traumatized by the pandemic.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ plan, on the other hand, pledges to focus on those with serious mental illness, including building 15,000 supportive housing units over the next 10 years. “Our primary focus must be on supporting individuals with severe mental health challenges,” Adams said in a statement. “My administration will increase the number of inpatient psychiatric beds.” Adams also promised to invest in “crisis stabilization centers” for those whose acute crises do not require a hospital stay.

Stringer and nonprofit executive Dianne Morales plan to do away with the concept of ThriveNYC entirely. “Mental health must be at the center of our COVID-19 recovery, and as mayor, I’ll make that happen by replacing ThriveNYC with a true, world-class mental health care system,” Stringer told City & State.

Morales, who like Stringer has pledged to keep ThriveNYC’s NYC Well hotline but move it into the Department of Social Services, said the fallout from the pandemic showed that ThriveNYC failed to address the root causes of mental illness, which she identified as poverty, homelessness, employment insecurity and policing.

“In the middle of the pandemic, we had an increase in homelessness and safety issues,” she said in an interview. “All these things were linked. We need to acknowledge the complex and comprehensive solutions to address these issues.”

Like Yang, former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia’s plan includes addressing the impact of the pandemic on school children and intervening in mental health crises – whether in schools or on the streets – before police involvement is required. She plans to expand the number of psychiatric beds available in New York City and promote telehealth to improve access.

The Garcia campaign has said it would invest in existing mobile-crisis teams and ensure mental health professionals respond to 911 crises alongside police.

Former de Blasio administration counsel Maya Wiley pledged to keep some of its programs while doing away with the name.

“We don’t want to scrap what works as punishment for a new label that got tarnished by the current administration’s branding,” she said. “It is not enough to have good ideas.

They must be effectively implemented. That requires innovation and partnerships inside and outside of government and transparency and accountability.”

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Herman, ThriveNYC’s former director and now head of the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health, said the idea behind ThriveNYC was “not to try to replicate or create an alternative mental health care system, but to fill gaps in the system.”

The organization, she noted, has made many of the investments critics and the mayoral candidates want. She defended the program from those who say it either focuses too little on those with serious mental illness or has abandoned its broad scope in the face of political pressure.

“Both in response to feedback and in response to our desire to do more in many areas, we have done significant work for people with serious mental illness,” Herman said.

In addition to expanding mental health mobile crisis teams, in February ThriveNYC launched a pilot program in Harlem and East Harlem that dispatches psychiatric care workers and EMTs, rather than police, to mental health crises. Herman noted that ThriveNYC has added to the city’s Health Engagement Assessment

“The ads don’t ask those who are psychotic, delusional, and eating out of dumpsters to call.”

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Teams, which follow up with those with frequent 911 contact, and invested in the existing clubhouse system. Most recently, Thrive has made a foray into schools, promising to assess every New York City public-school student for signs of trauma post-pandemic and hire 600 new social workers, psychologists and family support workers to help respond.

“It’s very important to serve people and think about the entire lifespan, from birth to old age, and to think about prevention as well as crisis response,” Herman said.

Whatever the next mayor makes of the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health, the work of expanding the city’s services to meet all New Yorkers’ needs has only just begun. McCray, however, has abandoned talk of any run for political office.

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Gabriel Arana is a writer in New York City.

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The government officials, medical professionals and nonprofit leaders serving New Yorkers struggling with mental illness.

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EAR AFTER YEAR , mental health remains one of New York City’s biggest policy challenges, as lawmakers, mental health advocates and clinicians work on measures to reduce the stigma around mental illness, increase access to affordable services and reimagine how the criminal justice system responds to individuals with a mental health condition. In the past year, COVID-19 has only intensified these discus-

sions as pandemic-related depression, anxiety, isolation, drug use and job loss increased the need for access to mental health services.

City & State’s inaugural Mental Health Power 50 list – researched and written in partnership with journalist Cassandra Brooklyn – recognizes some of the most influential public officials, academics, health care professionals, advocates and activists who are making a difference in the lives of people living with mental illness.

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Clockwise from left: Ann Marie T. Sullivan, Chirlane McCray, Paul Tonko and Susan Herman.

1 ANN MARIE T. SULLIVAN COMMISSIONER New York State Office of Mental Health As the state’s chief public official on mental health, Ann Marie Sullivan oversees more than 4,500 local government and nonprofit programs serving over 700,000 individuals each year. Sullivan continues to transition statewide services toward a community-based mental health model and has praised the state’s text-based

mental health helpline, which has been in greater demand since the beginning of the pandemic – calling it “one of the best preventive measures.”

2 CHIRLANE MCCRAY & SUSAN HERMAN NEW YORK CITY FIRST LADY; DIRECTOR Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health In addition to her role as first lady and one of her husband’s closest advisers, Chirlane McCray chairs the Mayor’s

Gunther’s work as a nurse informs her advocacy for front-line workers.

Fund to Advance New York City and is credited with creating the Office of ThriveNYC, an effort to integrate and build out existing mental health and substance abuse services.

The budget and effectiveness of the program have come under scrutiny, and the newly renamed office is now led by Susan Herman, a former deputy commissioner at the New York City Police Department and the first person to serve as deputy commissioner of collaborative policing.

3 AILEEN GUNTHER CHAIR State Assembly Committee on Mental Health A former registered nurse with decades of experience in the field, Assembly Member

Aileen Gunther recently sponsored legislation – signed

by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November – to introduce a frontline workers care advisory council to develop recommendations addressing the mental health needs of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her role as chair of the Assembly Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, she helped secure a deal raising the wages of professionals that provide direct care to New Yorkers with developmental disabilities and mobility limitations.

4 PAUL TONKO Member of Congress Now in his seventh term, Rep. Paul Tonko is pushing legislation to study how

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COVID-19 has impacted mental health, particularly among children and essential workers. He is currently fighting to bring $440 million in direct federal coronavirus aid to the municipalities he serves: Albany and Schenectady Counties and parts of Montgomery, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties. He is also backing a federal bill to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for mental health programs from the current 50%-75% range to 90%.

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CHAIR State Senate Mental Health Committee During her first term as a state senator representing Monroe and Ontario counties, Sen. Samra Brouk (along with Assembly Member Harry Bronson) introduced Daniel’s Law, a piece of legislation that would change the protocol for 911 responses to mental health emergencies and substance abuse crises in order to minimize the role of law enforcement and the use of force. The law is named after Daniel Prude, a Black man whose encounter with Rochester police, while he was experiencing a mental health crisis, resulted in his death.

6 FARAH LOUIS CHAIR New York City Council Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities, and Addictions Lifelong Brooklynite and activist Farah Louis has elevated the issue of mental health to the forefront of her

Samra Brouk is the chair of the state Senate Mental Health Committee.

reelection campaign, calling attention to the dearth of services in communities of color. Newly elected as chair of the New York City Council’s Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities, and Addictions, Louis called Mayor Bill de Blasio to task in a recent budget hearing for not doing enough to “combat the racial disparities in mental health care,” the New York Post reports.

7 AMY DORIN PRESIDENT AND CEO The Coalition for Behavioral Health With demand for behavioral health services skyrocketing

during the coronavirus pandemic, Amy Dorin’s organization – which serves 600,000 New Yorkers every year – is urging New York City and state to reimburse agencies for crisis-related costs incurred during the pandemic, and to provide incentive pay and counseling to direct care workers. A recent Coalition for Behavioral Health report showed that behavioral health agencies saw a 77% increase in demand for services while losing over $500,000 in revenue in the early months of the pandemic.

Under the leadership of Glenn Liebman and Melissa Ramirez, the Mental Health Association in New York State has fought tirelessly to end the stigma against mental illness, and to promote mental health and wellness across the state – with services including advocacy and policy work, public education and access to supportive services for individuals and families.

The organization has called attention to the “mental health pandemic” that continues even as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

9 WENDY BURCH & MATT KUDISH EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS NAMI New York State; NAMINYC Metro Matt Kudish’s New York City branch of the National Alliance

Dorin’s Coalition for Behavioral Health serves over 600,000 New Yorkers each year.

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Corey Johnson is the speaker of the New York City Council.

on Mental Illness is one of the city’s leading organizations supporting families and individuals affected by mental illness. Under the guiding principle of “families helping families,” NAMI NYC-Metro has advocated for additional government resources to help New Yorkers struggling with the increased anxiety, depression, isolation and drug use associated with the coronavirus pandemic.

Kudish’s counterpart at the state level is Wendy Burch, who oversees programs with the National Alliance on Mental Illness New York State, and works with local affiliates around the state. She pushed to create a 988 – as opposed to 911 – hotline to call for suicide prevention and mental health crises.

10 COREY JOHNSON SPEAKER New York City Council When City Council Speaker Corey Johnson bowed out of the 2021 mayoral race in

September, citing his ongoing battle with depression, he shared his personal struggle with mental health in order to encourage others to do the same. “Too often mental health issues are shrouded in secrecy and stigmas,” he said.

Johnson, who entered the race for New York City comptroller in March, applauded the recent expansion of mental health services in city schools.

11 ARLENE GONZÁLEZ-SÁNCHEZ COMMISSIONER New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports Arlene González-Sánchez has served as commissioner of the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports for over a decade.

12 LORRAINE CORTÉS-VÁZQUEZ COMMISSIONER New York City Department for the Aging Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez is in charge of an agency dedicated to preserving the quality of life, health and safety of approximately 1.64 million older adults living in New York City. Though the coronavirus pandemic initially shuttered the nearly 250 senior centers that the Department for the Aging funds across the five boroughs, many pivoted to offer pick-up meal services and the distribution of crucial information about coronavirus safety, vaccine access and mental health services.

Cortés-Vázquez recently stated that senior centers will follow city safety guidelines as they resume indoor programming starting June 14.

Bradbury runs the state’s crisis hotline for coping with the pandemic.

13 HARVEY ROSENTHAL CEO New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services The coronavirus pandemic has only increased the demand for mental health services, including supportive online programming. One of the organizations helping to meet this growing need is the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, which provides recoveryoriented, community-based health programs. Under the leadership of Harvey Rosenthal, the organization has launched a free webinar series providing courses on understanding isolation, healing through humor and counteracting burnout.

14 DONNA BRADBURY ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER Division of Integrated Community Services for Children and Families, New York State Office of Mental Health Donna Bradbury oversees New York Project Hope, the state’s crisis hotline for coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The hotline has provided free, confidential support and trained crisis counselors ready to assist New Yorkers struggling to understand their reactions and process their emotions during the pandemic. Bradbury, who has worked in the Division of Integrated Community Services for Children and Families since 2012, previously worked at the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene.

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She oversees prevention, treatment and recovery services for an estimated 2.5 million New Yorkers struggling with an addiction, as well as providing training on opioid overdose prevention. The agency recently awarded a Nassau County nonprofit organization $208,554 for a mobile addiction treatment van.

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LINH AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chinese-American Family Alliance for Mental Health Kimberly Williams is the president and CEO of Vibrant Emotional Health.

announced that NYC Well staff members had responded to over 1 million calls, texts and chats since the helpline’s launch.

local and state agencies, professional organizations and school districts and training for over 10,000 school personnel each year.

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16 Vibrant Emotional Health Under the leadership of Kelly Clarke, NYC Well’s 230 staff members transitioned to working remotely in the early weeks of the pandemic, continuing to provide New Yorkers with 24-hour support for mental and behavioral health. The program usually reaches between 1,000 and 1,200 people per day, but daily numbers shot up as New Yorkers sought help to cope with isolation, uncertainty, grief and economic hardship.

In November, ThriveNYC

Suicide Prevention Center, New York State Office of Mental Health Under the supervision of Tricia Hartnett, the Suicide Prevention Center of New York leverages 57 county coalitions across the state, combining clinical and public health approaches in school-based workshops to prevent suicide among youth and college students. The organization provides consultation to

Harrison has spent two decades in government and oversees a $500M budget.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Myla Harrison was appointed to her current role in February after spending two decades at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she focused on improving the mental health of New Yorkers and the system that serves them. She is responsible for a budget of over $500 million, including programs and services that support New Yorkers living with mental illness, substance misuse and developmental disabilities, with a particular focus on eliminating racial inequities in mental health outcomes.

As anti-Asian sentiment and violent crimes have increased across the city, state and country, the role of mental health providers serving Asian communities has never been more vital. Led by Linh An, the Chinese-American Family Alliance for Mental Health raises community awareness about mental illness, and encourages mutual support among Chinese-Americans afflicted with mental illness and their caregivers. To better serve the community during the pandemic, the organization began offering online caregiver support classes in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

20 AMIT PALEY & GINA MUÑOZ CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; CHAIR The Trevor Project Since 1998, The Trevor Project has focused on preventing suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth. Amit Paley, who was named by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Leaders in March, leads what is now the world’s largest suicide prevention

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After stepping into the role of president and CEO of Vibrant Emotional Health in 2017, Kimberly Williams expanded several programs that enabled the city to respond to the mental health needs of residents during the coronavirus pandemic. To meet the growing demand for services such as National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Disaster Distress Helpline and NYC Well – a mental health program serving over 300,000 New Yorkers annually – Williams oversaw her staff’s transition to remote work in the midst of a crisis.

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The Association for Community Living Board and members congratulate our executive director, Sebrina Barrett, and all Mental Health Power 50 honorees for their leadership and advocacy on behalf of New Yorkers who face mental illness.

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23 LIZ ROBERTS CEO Safe Horizon

Ashwin Vasan is the president and CEO of Fountain House.

organization for LGBTQ young people. In addition to operating a free, confidential hotline (the TrevorLifeline), the organization also provides training for counselors, administrators, school nurses and social workers. The organization’s chair is Gina Muñoz, an attorney as well as the director of provider information for the care management company at Montefiore Medical Center.

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advocacy efforts, the New York City Mayor’s Office recently announced funding initiatives to combat serious mental illness, including bolstering support for Fountain House and the coalition of programs it leads across the city.

Vasan is a member of City & State’s advisory board. He played no role in the ranking of this list.

Safe Horizon, which bills itself as the largest victim services agency in the country, guides individuals subjected to violence on a path to recovery.

One key element of those efforts is its counseling center, which is licensed by New York state as a mental health clinic focusing on trauma-focused treatment for survivors of all ages. Liz Roberts, who has held various roles at the nonprofit over the past decade, took the reins on a permanent basis in February, succeeding Ariel Zwang.

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Under Ashwin Vasan’s leadership, Fountain House has led social justice efforts including addressing how police respond to mental health emergencies, as well as advocating for increased funding and support for community-based public health, housing, and social programs for people living with mental illness and those at risk of developing it. As a result of the organization’s

After joining the Association for Community Living in May 2020, Sebrina Barrett has led the organization through a challenging year helping its members provide safe housing to 40,000 New Yorkers living with mental illness.

The organization has been leading the Bring It Home coalition, joining mental health advocates, housing providers, faith leaders and others to fight for state funding for

24 DONNA COLONNA CEO Services for the UnderServed According to longtime leader of the nonprofit Services for the UnderServed, Donna

Colonna, “We don’t empower people, we give people the tools to empower themselves.”

Colonna’s organization serves New Yorkers struggling with mental illness, disabilities and homelessness, among other challenges, and has helped provide housing for vulnerable New Yorkers during the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, she was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the administration’s Medicaid Redesign Team II.

25 MITCHELL NETBURN PRESIDENT AND CEO Samaritan Daytop Village “Where Good Lives” is the motto of Samaritan Daytop Village, which for over 60 years has been providing treatment services to veterans, seniors, homeless individuals and others who are struggling – reaching more than 33,000 people per year.

Trained in law and biology, Mitchell Netburn previously led Project Renewal, and served as first deputy commissioner at the New York City Department of Homeless Services, where he oversaw supportive programs for 23,000 homeless New Yorkers.

26 RONALD RICHTER CEO JCCA Under the leadership of Ronald Richter, JCCA (formerly known as the Jewish Child Care Association) launched

Barrett has led her team through a tough year.

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community-based housing for people with psychiatric disabilities – most recently through an e-letter writing campaign.

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a crisis fund during the coronavirus pandemic to support families in need with cash to pay for groceries, rent and other necessities. JCCA has also worked with Jewish celebrities like Tiffany Haddish to offer virtual programming for children in the organization’s residential and foster home programs. The organization provides comprehensive care to thousands of children suffering from abuse, neglect, poverty and mental illness.

of New York, having served as its executive director for the past three decades. The nonreligious community-based organization seeks to reduce suicide and provide assistance through a 24-hour suicide prevention hotline as well as educational and public awareness programs. The New York branch is part of a major network of hundreds of suicide prevention offices around the globe.

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BILL BACCAGLINI The New York Foundling Under Bill Baccaglini’s leadership, The New York Foundling launched its School Based Mental Health Services initiative, partnering with public schools across New York City to ensure that at-risk students have access to mental health services and developing intervention plans for in-school counseling.

Baccaglini previously spent more than two decades working in state government, helping to create the state Office of Children and Family Services, and leading initiatives to expand mental health services in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.

28 GARY BELKIN VISITING SCIENTIST Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Gary Belkin is a leading international expert on the design of comprehensive policies and public health approaches to mental health.

He served as executive deputy

CEO Bill Baccaglini is the president and CEO of The New York Foundling.

commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he played a key role in developing ThriveNYC, and oversaw the strategic policy direction for various other programs. His recent co-authored article in The Lancet discusses the long-term mental health ramifications of COVID-19.

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Prevention has partnered with the New York Public Library to hold virtual presentations – including events in Spanish, and events focusing on the LGBTQ community – that educate the public on suicide and suicide prevention. Perhaps the most well-known suicide prevention organization in the country, AFSP also raises money for research and supports those who have lost someone to suicide.

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ALAN ROSS

Under the direction of Amy Monahan, the New York City Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Alan Ross is the longtime leader of The Samaritans

Harvey oversees programs supporting elder mental health, a rarity in the field.

Nancy Harvey, who joined Service Program for Older People over 30 years ago and became its CEO in 2014, oversees a range of behavioral health care services for older adults, including bereavement support and counseling for substance use disorders. The organization was founded in 1972, and describes itself as New York City’s only agency “entirely dedicated to meeting the behavioral health needs of older adults.” SPOP has been offering services for anyone over the age of 55 via telehealth throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

32 MICHAEL WALROND JR. & LENA GREEN SENIOR PASTOR; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR First Corinthian Baptist Church; The HOPE Center In addition to serving as the spiritual leader of his congregation at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, Michael Walrond Jr. has been a vocal advocate for

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The Board of Directors of MHANYS wants to congratulate our CEO, Glenn Liebman and Deputy Director, Melissa Ramirez for their inclusion in the list of Top 50 Mental Health Stakeholders.

We are proud of their long time dedication and support for our members and the entire community.

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more mental health services during the coronavirus pandemic. Several years ago, he worked with the church to create the HOPE Center in Harlem. Led by clinical social worker and psychotherapist Lena Green, the center strives to minimize the stigma associated with communities of color seeking mental health services, while also providing supportive programs for those navigating depression, trauma and grief.

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Dr. Stephanie Le Melle is the director of public psychiatry education at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry/ New York State Psychiatric Institute.

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tech entrepreneurs do best: he created an app. Centered around the “science of happiness,” also known as the field of positive psychology, the Happify app relies on techniques developed by experts in psychology, mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy to create activities and games that – according to users – can improve mood, motivation and confidence.

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JEFFREY LIEBERMAN

Happify

DIRECTOR

Entrepreneur Tomer Ben-Kiki had a suspicion that people could use brief moments of spare time to build skills leading to lasting happiness, so he did what

New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Jeffrey Lieberman’s work – which also includes positions

as chair of the psychiatry department at Columbia University and psychiatrist-inchief at Columbia University Medical Center – has focused on advancing the understanding of psychotic disorders, leading to strategies for the early detection and prevention of schizophrenia.

In addition to authoring or coauthoring over 600 scientific articles on mental illness, Lieberman has contributed to government policy and federal legislation to address mental health issues. He also delivered a TED Talk on stigma and mental illness.

36 STEPHANIE LE MELLE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PSYCHIATRY EDUCATION Columbia University Department of Psychiatry/ New York State Psychiatric Institute Public psychiatry, sometimes referred to as community psychiatry, refers to the care of people with complex mental health needs who are typically underserved and receive their treatment in public and

Lieberman has authored over 600 articles on mental illness.

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Not everyone feels comfortable seeking mental health services in person and many people, particularly the un- and under-insured, have difficulty paying for traditional talk therapy. Enter Talkspace, a mobile app created by husband-and-wife team Oren and Roni Frank in an effort to make therapy more affordable and accessible. Licensed therapists are on-hand 24/7 through the app – meaning that someone experiencing a crisis at 2 a.m. can reach out immediately instead of waiting until normal business hours – and the company has partnered with several major insurance companies.

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and technical assistance to 70% of all New York state organizations that deliver mental health services – reaching over 23,000 people.

Lindsey also leads a group of experts that support the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health.

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community organizational settings. Dr. Stephanie Le Melle’s program at Columbia University Medical Center is training the next generation of psychiatrists in using a trauma and social justiceinformed approach to better serve communities that tend to get left behind – with many of its over 400 alumni holding leadership positions nationwide.

37 JENNIFER HAVENS INTERIM CHAIR Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Led by Jennifer Havens, NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry connects clinicians, researchers and educators

to advance the treatment of mental health and developmental disorders in children. One of its signature programs, WonderLab, uses smartphone apps to help families, doctors and researchers identify common early childhood socialemotional developmental and behavioral issues including anxiety, sleep problems and hyperactivity. Havens is also director of child and adolescent behavioral health in the NYC Health+ Hospitals’ Office of Behavioral Health.

38 MICHAEL LINDSEY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NYU McSilver Institute A prominent scholar in generational poverty and adolescent mental health, Michael Lindsey oversees a team of researchers studying the root causes of poverty and working to develop policybased solutions. Last year, the institute provided training

Havens runs WonderLab, which uses smartphone apps to help families identify developmental issues in children.

40 LOREE SUTTON FORMER COMMISSIONER New York City Department of Veterans’ Services A retired U.S. Army general and former mayoral candidate, Loree Sutton earned a Bronze Star for her actions in combat during Operation Desert

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Michael Lindsey is the executive director of New York University’s McSilver Institute.

What began as a small assessment and referral center in a former candy store in Queens, evolved to provide a comprehensive array of treatment programs 40 years later. In addition to providing youth and family support services, Debbie Pantin’s Outreach is a pioneer in community-based adolescent residential programs that treat clients recovering from substance abuse. The organization also provides training for behavioral health professionals, boasting the largest Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor training program in New York state.

Pantin is also the president of the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State.

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Storm and went on to serve as the founding commissioner of New York City’s Department of Veterans’ Services. During her tenure, the agency housed hundreds of homeless veterans, and established veterans as a protected class under New York City human rights law. Sutton also played a key role in building out veterans-specific programs at nonprofit organizations like Fountain House.

AMANDA SPRAY DIRECTOR Steven A. Cohen Military Family Center at NYU Langone The stress and trauma of the coronavirus pandemic have been felt acutely by the front-line health care workers caring for not only themselves and their families, but also their entire city – and Amanda Spray is among the experts studying efforts to bolster the mental health resources available to them. Spray is director of an NYU Langone organization providing free mental health services to veterans who are struggling with unemployment and other difficulties, as well as to their family members.

42 HAWTHORNE SMITH DIRECTOR Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture Since 1995, the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture — a joint project of Bellevue Hospital and the New York University Grossman School of Medicine — has helped nearly 6,500 people from over 112 countries rebuild

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Amanda Spray is the director of the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Center at NYU Langone.

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their lives. Hawthorne Smith, who has served as director of the program since 2019, is a professor in the psychiatry department at the NYU School of Medicine, and also provides human rights consultations and other services for private legal firms and for the U.S. government.

43 CLAIRE GREEN-FORDE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Association of Social Workers New York City Chapter As a self-proclaimed “unapologetic social justice advocate,” Claire Green-Forde has focused her career on the intersection of behavioral health, criminal justice, social disparities, trauma and human development. In her previous role as the director of Behavioral Health Services for the New York City Department of Probation, Green-Forde, a licensed clinical social worker, led a team of citywide clinicians, and played a key role in building the department’s Behavioral Health Division.

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Susan Wiviott became CEO of The Bridge in 2014 after more than two decades of working in public service, and oversees the operation of over 40 programs for adults with mental illness in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Founded in 1954 and now a $65 million agency, every year The Bridge provides behavioral services and housing for 3,500 New Yorkers. “This is what I would say about our clients: People don’t see them,” Wiviott told Vice in 2017.

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ROSA GIL

Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services When Ann-Marie Louison joined CASES, the criminal justice organization strongly focused on mental health in 1999, it was to launch the award-winning Nathaniel

FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CEO Comunilife Led by Rosa Gil, a former NYC Health + Hospitals chair, Comunilife focuses on providing housing and supportive services for at-risk

Wiviott runs over 40 mental illness support programs with a $65M budget.

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Project. Over the following 16 years, she oversaw this alternative-to-incarceration program for adults with serious mental illness that have been convicted of felony crimes. Louison has served as chief strategic initiatives officer since 2017, and now manages the agency’s response to criminal justice and health care reforms.

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Thelma Dye, left, and Dior Vargas, right.

director since 1994, Thelma Dye has also worked as a clinical psychology consultant for schools and health care organizations. She oversees programs that serve over 1,500 children and their families annually in Harlem and the Bronx.

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the organization’s E/Quality Care Program, he has provided training at over 200 agencies, hospitals and clinics to help them effectively meet the needs of thousands of LGBTQ people in recovery.

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CHRISTIAN HUYGEN

Mental Health Activist

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

THELMA DYE

Trained as a clinical psychologist with roots in San Francisco’s LGBTQ community, Christian Huygen has run the Brooklyn-based Rainbow Heights Club providing support and advocacy programs for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people with mental illness since 2002. Through

Dior Vargas is an advocate and educator – and a selfdescribed queer Latina feminist mental health activist – who has spent the past decade helping organizations, corporations, and universities understand and respond to the needs of people of color with mental illness. As a member of the health working group for the New York City Council’s Young Women’s Initiative, she

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Northside Center Founded by pioneering psychologists who showed how racial inequality negatively affects children’s self-esteem, the Northside Center has provided distinguished behavioral health and education services for over 70 years.

The organization’s executive

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Huygen’s San Francisco roots inform his Brooklyn LGBTQ advocacy.

focused on how the city could prioritize the needs of young women, and particularly young women of color. In 2019, she released a photo essay book titled “The Color of My Mind: Mental Health Narratives from People of Color.”

50 DAVID CARLUCCI FORMER CHAIR State Senate Committee on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Serving in the state Senate between 2011 and 2020, David Carlucci focused on mental health care and substance abuse policy, including as chair of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee beginning in 2013, and as co-chair of a joint task force on opioid addiction and overdose prevention. Since he left office at the start of the year, he has continued to use his expertise as a consultant for organizations navigating local and state mental health care bureaucracy.

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or homeless Latino New Yorkers. Finding that many issues their clients faced began with an inability to secure safe and affordable housing, Comunilife launched transitional and permanent housing programs aimed at homeless adults living with mental illness, HIV and other chronic illnesses – including an 89-unit residence that opened in 2019 on the Woodhull Medical Center campus in Brooklyn.

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Notice of Formation of WOODPOINT VANTAGE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/26/21.

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Notice of Formation of 73RD FM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/8/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 605 Third Ave New York, NY, 10158.

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Notice of Qual. of 85 TENTH RESTAURANTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/2/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/30/21.

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Notice of Qualification of FAHERTY COLUMBUS AVE, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/30/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/23/21. Princ. office of LLC: 245 Columbus Ave., NY, NY 10023.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207- 2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Farms Dr. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Men, women and family clothing store.

Notice of Formation of a New York Limited Liability Company 109E9, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 3/11/2021. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 109 East 9th Street, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10003

Notice of Qualification of CASDIN PRIVATE GROW TH EQUIT Y FUND II GP, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/01/21. Princ. office of LLC: 1350 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 2600, NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of Formation of 3175 EMMONS CONDOMINIUM, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/29/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 3175 Emmons Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11235.

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Notice of Formation of Clay’s Ark, LLC filed with SSNY on March 3, 2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 231 East 95th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of B.C.M. REALTY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1708 46th St Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Creme de la Creme Frenchies LLC filed with SSNY on February 1 2021. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr # 100 Sacramento, CA 95833. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of 598 RAND HILL ROAD, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/21.

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SSNY mail process to 122 Chestnut Street Andover, MA , 01810.

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Notice of Qual. of CL ASSON HOLDING COMPANY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/26/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 3/18/21 SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Quinlan Development Group, LLC Attn: Timothy Quinlan 157 Columbus Ave New York, NY, 10023. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of K AS SIM PROPE R T Y LLC. Arts.Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/9/19.

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

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Notice of Formation of KGL BROOKLYN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 33 Sherman Rd Woodstock, NY, 12498.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THAI MEE KIN 88 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/26/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 4516 44TH ST APT 4G SUNNYSIDE, NY, 11104.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DUFFIELD VENTURE LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 5/5/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 62 Saint Felix St., Apt 1 Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of EMPIRE COLD SMOKING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/12/21. Office location: Chenango.

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Notice of Qualification of FAR PEAK M A N A G E M E N T COMPANY LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/17/20. Princ. office of LLC: 363 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10012. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207- 2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Consulting.

Notice of Formation of FERGUS NELSON, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/23/21.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kalnick, Klee & Green, LLP, 800 Third Ave., Ste. 2800, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of FIVE POINT RE SERVICES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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O’LEWIS VENTURES LLC, Arts. of Org filed with the S SN Y on 01/22/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2 Gold St, Apt 5G, NY, NY 10038.

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Notice of Formation of 226 WITHERS STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/13/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 433 Graham Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Maximilian Capital Partners, LLC filed with SSNY on March 24, 2021 Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Avelino Law, LLP 1411 Broadway, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qual. of MLC ASSET MANAGEMENT US LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 3/30/21.

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SSNY mail process to: 90 State St. Albany, NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of KIJUNG KIM, DDS, PLLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 04/14/2021.

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Notice of Formation of Odehyee, LLC filed with NYS Dept. Of State on March 30, 2021. Office: NY County. NYS Dept. Of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

NYS Dept. Of State shall mail copy of process to LLC: 99 Wall Street, #2273 NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of GREAT SUN USA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/30/21.

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 235 BRAGG STREET, 1FL BROOKLYN, N E W YO R K , 112 2 9 .

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Notice of Formation of DYLAN ENTERPRISES LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 40 WALL STREET, 53RD FLOOR N E W YO R K , N E W YO R K , 1 0 0 0 5 . A ny lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of 376 MAC DONOUGH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with S SN Y on 0 5/0 4/2 1 .

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Notice of Formation of 1 FARRAGUT LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/0 6/21. O f fice location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 60-06 39TH AVE WOODSIDE, NEW YORK, 11377. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of TUNGSTEN ARCHITECTURE PLLC. Arts. of Org filed with SSNY on 3/10/21. Office location: KINGS SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1205 65th Street Unit C, Brooklyn, NY 11219.

Purpose: Architecture.

Application for Authority of CARE-N-HOME LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/8/2021.

Formed in PA 3/14/2013.

Office loc.: NY County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The principal business loc. and address SSNY shall mail copy of process is c/o Starla Smith, 273 Montgomery Ave., Ste. 205, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. Cert. of Organization filed with the Secy. of State, PA Dept. of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations, P.O. Box 8722, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8722. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

291 SIXTH LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/06/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Rahul Sabarwal and Prachi Mishra, 80 Riverside Blvd., #32A, NY, NY 10069. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of BES Sales of Armonk, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Sec. of State of NY on 5/12/21. Office Location: Westchester Count y.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: c/o the LLC, 4218 Amboy Rd. SI, NY 10308. Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WING KING WEALTH LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/29/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1107 FIF TH AVENUE #PH NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10128. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of YB 555 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 585 STATE ROUTE 31 BRIDGEPORT, NEW YORK, 13030. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RUTWAY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/5/21. Office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process against LLC to 375 Cumberland St., 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11238 . Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of PIONEER PROJECTS 87 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/04/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 141 FLUSHING AVENUE # 1314 BROOKLYN, NEW YO R K , 1 1 2 0 5 . A ny lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of NOR THE RN LIGHTS A P A R T M E N T S LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y on 0 4/14/2 1 .

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 2/26/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 152 WEST 57TH ST., 12TH FL. NY, NEW YORK, 10019.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

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Notice of Qual. of MAC INTE R NATIONAL TR ADE , LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY o n 4/2 6/2 1 . O f f i c e location: Kings. LLC formed in NJ on 11/18/05.

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

SSNY mail process to: 132 FAIRFIELD ROAD FAIRFIELD, NEW JERSEY, 07004. Arts. of Org. filed with NJ SOS. Townsend Bldg.

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Notice of Formation of TYPE 1 BODY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/19/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 301 Broadway Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PLAZA AUTO GROUP, LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210.

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Notice of Formation of G-Speed LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/15/2021. Office Location: Westchester, NY. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process t o : 3 3 9 Ta r r y t ow n Road #1019 Elmsford, NY 10523 . Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Buddha Jones, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/3/21.

Organized California 11/9/2004. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Foumberg, Juneja, Rocher & Co., 16311 Ventura Blvd #1180, Encino, CA 91436.

Principal of fice: 1741 Ivar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028. Authorized officer at such address: Alex Padilla. Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 6 GIFFORDS REALTY LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 3/16/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6 Giffords Ln Staten Island, NY, 10308.

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Notice of Formation of EOLAS LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/18/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler Llp Attn: Andrew St. Laurent 40 Wall Street 53rd Floor New York, NY, 10005.Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF PROCEEDING AND SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ROWAN COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION 20 CVD 1957 KEVIN VAN NORMAN,

) ) VS. ) ) THEADOREA LOUISE NORMAN, ) TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is for absolute divorce.

You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than 30th day of June, 2021, and upon your failure to do so the party seeking relief against you will apply to the Court for the relief herein sought.

You are entitled to attend any hearing affecting your rights. This is a new case.

This the 31st day of May, 2021.

Notice of Formation of D+B St. James LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/12/21. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 20 95 Broadway, Ste. 404, NY, NY 10023, principal business address.

Purpose: all law ful purposes .

Notice of Formation of Brooklyn Cast Iron, LLC filed with SSNY on January 1, 2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 150 74th Street #1F, Brooklyn NY 11209. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of NEW STAR GARDEN LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 04/28/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3266 BROAD ST PORT HENRY, NE W YO R K , 12 974 .

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of E&J Property Holdings, LLC, a Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) with offices located in Westchester County, for the purpose of any lawful act or activity under the Limited Liability Company Law. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of the State of New York (SSNY) on April 19, 2021. SSNY is the agent designated to receive service of process on behalf of the LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of such service of process to Jose DaSilva, 821 Ridge Street, Peekskill, New York 10566

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of JAL Consulting Enterprises LLC filed with SSNY on March 5, 2021. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 61 Jane Street, 19G, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of SUNSHINE KITCHENS NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/13/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1749 NE Miami Ct Unit 514 Miami, FL, 33132. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual of EWB-II, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 05/10/2021.

O f f ice location: N Y County. LLC formed in CA on 03/03/2008. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: East West Bank Attn: Lisa Kim, 135 N. Los Robles Ave., 7th Fl, Pasadena, CA 91101. Address required to be maintained in CA: 135 N. Los Robles Ave., 7th FL, Pasadena CA 91101. Cert of Formation filed with CA Sec. of State, 1500 11th St # 3, Sacramento, CA 95814 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qual. of STOCKBRIDGE MUSIC GROUP, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 05/14/2020. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 05/07/2020. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, C/O Jordan Woldenberg, 11 Chicken Valley Road, Old Brookville, NY 11545.

Address required to be maintained in DE: Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of URCENI, LLC filed with SSNY on April 16, 2 0 2 1 .

Office: NY Bronx County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1500 Thieriot Ave #D9, Bronx, NY 10460. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation o f E M PI R E S TAT E DISPATCH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/29/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4814 16 Ave, 2nd Fl. Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of WASSERMAN MUSIC, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/26/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/29/20.

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

SSNY mail process to: 10900 Wilshire Blvd #1200 Los Angeles, CA, 90024. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 90 CHARLES ST, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/20/21.

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 14 Dunham Place 8 Brooklyn, NY, 11249. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of WAYFLYER FINANCIAL LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/7/20.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O C T Corporation System 28 Liberty St New York, NY, 10005.Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of TINY TOT PARTIES LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 05/13/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 11 East Raleigh Ave Staten Island, New York, 10310. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PLAZA IMPORTS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/21.

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 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Weathers’ Realty Group, LLC Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on April 9, 2021.

NY Office: Kings County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Keturah Clark-Wearhers, 1043 E 57th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of VSPOT PRODUCT, LLC filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on _3/30/2021. Office location: 741 Madison Ave nu e , N ew Yo r k County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 741 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10065 Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Bubbles & Bites LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/18/2020. Location: New Yo r k .

SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Bubbles & Bites LLC 727 Pennsylvania Avenue, Box 405, New York, NY 11207. Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Leadership Growth C o l l a b o r a t i ve L L C .

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/06/2021. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is: 1178 Broadway, 3rd Floor #1215; New York, NY 10001.

The principal business address of the LLC is: 1178 Broadway, 3rd Floor #1215; New York, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of MADISON PARK PLACE ACQUISITION, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/24/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of NYMM F&B MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/25/21.

O f f ice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/30/21. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Union Square Hospitality Group, LLC, 853 Broadway, 17th Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 241 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, for beer, liquor and wine, has been applied for by Rock 1 SE Table, L .L .C. and Tourbillon1 LLC d/b/a Caffe Lodi to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 1 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10111 for on premises consumption.

Rock 1 SE Table, L.L.C. and Tourbillon1 LLC d/b/a Caffe Lodi Notice of Formation of Ocean NY 1 LLC – Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/10/20. Office location: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Ganfer Shore Leeds & Zauderer LLP, Attn Daniella Zelefsky, 360 Lexington Ave, 13th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Duration: p e r p e t u al . Pr in c ip al office: 132 Nassau St, NY NY 10038. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 68.4’ & 70.5 & 71.6) on the building at 253 E. 52 nd St, New York, NY (20210605).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

Notice of Formation of NEW SOUTHTOWN ACQUISITION, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/24/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qual. of ICG STRATEGIC EQUITY IV GP LP. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/12/21. Office location: New York. LP formed in DE on 5/29/20.

SSNY desg. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: c/o Corporate Creations, 600 Mamaroneck Ave, # 400, Harrison, NY 10528 . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 132-40 159TH STREET LENDER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 90 State Street, Ste 700 Box 10, Albany, NY 12207.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ICG STRATEGIC EQUITY FUND IV LP. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/12/21.

Office location: New York. LP formed in DE on 5/29/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: c/o Corporate Creations, 600 Mamaroneck Ave, # 400, Harrison, NY 10528 . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LADY DI ELEGANCE LIMITE D LIAB ILIT Y CO M PAN Y filed with SSNY on April 12, 2021. Of fice: NY County. United States C orp oration Agents , Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: United States C orp oration Agents , Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Form. of ESCAPE CLAUSE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/12/21. Office l o c a t i o n: O n o n d a g a SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail proces s to 3986 Jordan Rd Skaneateles, NY, 13152.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JE LLIO WOR LD, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/20/21.

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 239 Java St Brooklyn, NY, 11222.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of JIANG AND FAMILY LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/22/21. Office location: New York .

LLC formed in NJ on 4/12/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 36 Windmere Ct Whippany, NJ, 07981. Arts. of Org. filed with NJ DOS P.O. Box 300, Trenton, NJ 08625.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JOHNSTOWN HOMES USA LLC. Arts.Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/22/14. Office location: Fulton S S N Y de sg .

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 4200 State Hwy 30 Amsterdam, NY, 12010. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KR ENVIRONMENTAL LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/1/21. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 110 Genesee St Ste 390a Auburn, NY, 13021. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of NOSTRAND ONE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/21.

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 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BROOK LYN 5511 MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/2/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 278 44th St Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation o f 1 9 3 R AY M O N D PLACE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/19/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 355 Tillman Street Staten Island, New York, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NOSTR AND THR E E , LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/21.

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 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CDJJ LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/22/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 280 Park Ave South, Apt 22m New York, NY, 10010.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NOSTRAND TWO, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/21.

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 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation o f CY B E R MONKEYWORKS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/20/21. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 160 Union Corners Rd Unit B Warwick, NY, 10990.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 314 ROGERS AVENUE,LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/30/09. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to P.O. Box 1333 Bowling Green Stat., NY, 10006. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of NY 139 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/21. 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 lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DB ART CURATORIAL PRODUCTION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/7/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 310 East Shore Rd Ste 311 Great Neck , NY, 11023.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AFH613 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/17/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1634 E 3rd St Brooklyn, NY, 11230.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH MANAGER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/17/21.

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 ATTN: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DK LANDMARK LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/20/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 15 Hudson Yards Unit 37 New York, NY, 10001 .Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1821 WHITE PLAINS RD LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/4/21. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1821 White Plains Rd Bronx, NY, 10462. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SLB Ventures LLC filed with SSNY on May 4th 2021. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 38 Delancey Street Apt 5C New York NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Odycco LLC, filed with SSNY on May 14, 2021.

Office: Bronx County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Odycco LLC 1026 E 222ND St. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of 9206 ZYS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/2/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9206 Avenue L Brooklyn, New York, 11236. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AX3, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/2/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 74 Main Street Pob 31 Akron, New York, 140010031. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DRIVE RITE AUTO GROUP, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/26/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 145 Kenilworth Suite 1b Brooklyn, New York, 11210. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Make Moves LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/16/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 99 Devoe St, Brooklyn, New York, 11211. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Maki By Akimori LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/2/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2023 East 12th Street Brooklyn, New York , 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MCDONALD497 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/4/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 146 Dahill Rd Apt 2f Brooklyn, NY, 11218 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MIME IS MONEY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/17/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor New York, New York, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MONGKON ANAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/19/19.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 1450 Fulton Street Brooklyn, New York , 11216. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of North Point Ventures LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/1/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 8215 Newcomb Road P.O. Box 603 Long Lake, NY 12847. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NYC6 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/25/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 Bridge Park Drive #10e Brooklyn, New York, 11201. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of MEZOCLIQ LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 05/03/2021.

Office loc: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 06/29/2012. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1700 Broadway, 36th Fl., NY, NY 10019. Address required to be maintained in DE: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste 201, Dover DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 54’ &; 55.5’) on the building at 4612 6 th Ave, Brooklyn, NY (20210622).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT &T p r o p o s e s t o collocate antennas (tip heights 69.5’ &; 76.3’ &; 85.4’ &; 91.5’ &; 93.4’ &; 101.4’ &; 101.9’) on the building at 491 11 th Ave, New York, NY (20210607).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

Notice of Formation of PLANT ME SEYMOUR LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/25/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 199 Devoe St Apt #2 Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of LI ZHE LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/3/21. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 159 W. 53rd St., Unit 15F, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of 48 JEFFERSON LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/10/16.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5014 16TH Ave Ste 9 Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 27 SHORE PKWY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/3/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1311 Brightwater Ave #17f Brooklyn, NY, 11235.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LEVAL HOSPITALIT Y LLC. Arts.Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/3/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 325 Columbia Turnpike, Ste 301 Florham Park, NJ, 07932. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Nirvanaum Media LLC filed with SSNY on March 9, 2021. Office: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 200 E 131 NY, NY 10037. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

HORTABILITY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/04/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joanne D’Auria, 411 East 57th Street, Apt 4A , NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of U S UAL E LE M E NT S , LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/3/2020. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall forward service of process to Registered Agents Inc., 90 State Street, Ste 700, Office 40 Albany, N Y, 12 207 Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of VC 88 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/28/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 220 Lorraine Loop Staten Island, NY, 10309.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of CANDY’S KICKS LLC Filed with SSNY on 02/22/21. Office: Albany County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: 13055 227 th Street, Laurelton, NY 11413 .

Purpose: Any lawful.

Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 64 feet on an 87-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 750 Grand Street, Brooklyn, K i n g s C o u n t y, N Y 11211. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Morgan Rasmussen, m . rasmus s e n@ trile af. com, 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067; 678-653-8673 ext. 657.

Notice of Formation of Nirvanaum Media LLC filed with SSNY on March 9, 2021. Office: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 200 E 131 NY, NY 10037. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of GRAND AVE LOFTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/8/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 6/7/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 152 West 57th Street, 12th Floor New York, NY, 10019. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

DAIN U.S.A. LLC filed w/ SSNY on 6/3/21. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 38 W 32nd St., #1603, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful.

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Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on June 28, 2021 and end on July 9, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #3P01-Michael Cagle: several boxes, 1-small barbeque grill, 3-light fixtures, several luggage, several plastic bags. #5R28-Alfredo Villamar: several boxes, several b a g s , s h o e b oxe s , suitcases, 1 - c h a i r, 2-picture frames. # 5 T 2 0 - A l f r e d o Villamar: several bags/ boxes, miscellaneous clothes on hangers, 1-hand truck, 2- hats. #8J25-Robert Pastore: several boxes, 6-plastic bags, 1-leather bag , 1 - guitar c as e .

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

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Formation of ROSE 8 8 8 R E ALT Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/7/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 622 52nd St Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SHUUKA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/12/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 357 Bleecker Street New York, New York, 10014.

Any law ful purpose.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH JUVENILE COURT SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TERMINATION THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, AND TO: .

1. Robert Hillquist, Father of Journee Mae Owen, b.d. 11/03/19, Termination Petition 21-7-00119- 31 filed on March 12, 2021.

A Termination Hearing will be held on Monday, August 23, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. at Snohomish County Juvenile Justice Center, 2801 10th Street, Everett, Washington 98201.

You are notified that a petition has been filed in this matter requesting that your parental rights to the above- named child be terminated. You have important legal rights and you must take steps to protect your interests. This petition could result in permanent loss of your parental rights. THE ABOVE NAMED INDIVIDUALS ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR at said hearing regarding your child. If you fail to appear at the hearing, the court may take evidence against you, make findings of fact, and order that your parental rights be terminated without further notice to you. To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Termination Petition, and/or to view information about your rights in this proceeding, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM

Notice of Qual. of CRIMSON SAGE LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 6/8/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corparate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0 Harrison, N Y, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

HEIDI PERCY, Clerk of the Superior Court; D. HEGAN, Deputy Clerk PLEASE NOTE: The hearing will be held via Zoom. You may appear either via video and audio, audio only, or in person. The Zoom link, telephone call-in number, meeting ID, and password for the hearing can be found at: https:// snohomishcountywa.gov/195/Juvenile-Court

Notice of Formation of Three Jays Village, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/27/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 58 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 36 Yale Avenue, LLC filed with SSNY on May 26, 2021. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 599 W Hartsdale Ave Suite 203B, White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Gem Blenders LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/2021. Office location: Kings County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Steve Sekula, 296 Clinton St, Brooklyn, 11201. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of formation of Wheelz Assets, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/13/2020.

Off. loc.: King Cnty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 139 Plymouth St. Apt. 410, Brooklyn, N Y 1120 1 . Purp ose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of Root and Node LLC filed with SSNY on February 09, 2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Root and Node LLC, 490 Myrtle Ave, Apt 2b, Brooklyn, NY, 11205. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Gem Blenders The Card Game LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/2021.

Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Steve Sekula, 296 Clinton St, Brooklyn, 11201. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of TRIBRO REALTY LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/3/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 45 E 89th St Apt 39g New York, NY, 10128.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of GRAND AVE LOFTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/8/21. Officevlocation: New York. LLC formed in DE on 6/7/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whomvprocess against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: Attn: Rachel Brill 152 West 57th St, 12th Fl New York, NY, 10019. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of WOLLMAN PA R K PARTNERS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/9/21.

Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 5/13/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 25 Lafayette St, 3rd Floor Attn: Brad Shron, Esq. Newark, NJ, 07102. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

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