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EDITOR’S NOTE

IN A STATE AS LARGE AND DIVERSE (and opinionated) as New York, it’s not surprising that all 19.5 million of us don’t see eye to eye all the time. Out of those deep ideological and cultural differences has sprung a long history of wanting to break up with each other. Just in the past decade, there have been multiple pushes to have Staten Island secede from New York City, a topic covered in this week’s magazine, as well as a plan by the Divide New York Caucus to split the state into three parts. Going further back, then-New York City Council Member Peter Vallone Jr. wanted the entire city to secede from the state in the 2000s. A common thread through many of these movements has been the feeling of being forgotten by the ruling government. “The state has treated us like an unwanted orphan for too long,” Vallone said in 2003. In this week’s story, Assembly Member Michael Reilly told freelance reporter Megan McGibney, “There’s always the feeling that Staten Island is an afterthought.” The “Forgotten Borough” has held that moniker and a chip on its shoulder for nearly 100 years, and it’s unclear what, if anything, could be done to make Staten Islanders feel like a more valued and integral part of the city’s landscape. A subway connection, long since abandoned, might’ve helped. And while we occasionally make fun and say Staten Island might be happier with New Jersey, we’d hate to lose you. Plus, you owe us one (1) enormously oversized Ferris wheel before we say goodbye – a final construction boondoggle, for old times’ sake.

Recycling and proper disposal of harmful products is the law, and helps keep NYC clean, safe, and healthy! Use our search tool at nyc.gov/HowToGetRidOf for help! ERIC HOLMBERG Managing Editor

CONTENTS

The Staten Island Ferry would travel across city lines if the “Forgotten Borough” seceded.

FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

AFFORDABLE HOUSING … 8

Adams’ plan for all neighborhoods to help

STATEN ISLAND … 14 Another unlikely push to secede BLOCKCHAIN … 16

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Government uses for the tech may be limited

ABOVE & BEYOND: INNOVATORS … 21

An eclectic list of transformative leaders

WINNERS & LOSERS … 62 Who was upto and who was Scan this code with your phone or visit nyc.gov/dsnynews receive down last week service and program updates by email.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

ERIC HOLMBERG Managing Editor

The Staten Island Ferry would travel across city lines if the “Forgotten Borough” seceded.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

AFFORDABLE HOUSING … 8

Adams’ plan for all neighborhoods to help

STATEN ISLAND … 14 Another unlikely push to secede BLOCKCHAIN … 16

CELESTE SLOMAN; SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES

Government uses for the tech may be limited

ABOVE & BEYOND: INNOVATORS … 21

An eclectic list of transformative leaders

WINNERS & LOSERS … 62

Who was up and who was down last week

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“Had it not been for the abortion I received before I began my internship, I would not be New York’s health commissioner today.” New York’s concealed carry law was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, potentially leading to a special session of the state Legislature this summer.

CONCEALED CARRY LAW STRUCK DOWN

In a landmark 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that New York’s laws about who can carry a firearm in public were unconstitutional. For more than a century, New

Yorkers were required to demonstrate that they were in specific danger to get a permit to carry a gun outside their homes. The plaintiffs in the case were two upstate gun owners and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association. Just weeks after a racist mass shooting in a Black

– Dr. Mary Bassett, via Elle magazine

neighborhood in Buffalo left 10 people dead, Justice Clarence Thomas, in the opinion for the majority, said a gun owner should need no reason other than the desire to protect themselves to carry a weapon in public. Gov. Kathy Hochul called the decision “frightful in its

APARTMENT SEARCH Do you happen to need, oh you know, a place to live? Good luck! The New York Post detailed the plight of dozens of hopeful renters waiting in line to see a shoebox rent-stabilized apartment in the East Village for $2,300 a month – and that’s considered a deal. New York City’s rental market has been hell of late, with the median rent increasing to more than $4,000 for the first time. Plus, the Rent Guidelines Board just raised rents on rent-stabilized units by 3.25% for one-year leases and 5% for two-year leases.

“It’s nice to be with you in person.” – Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani, on being allowed to participate in a primary debate in person despite being unvaccinated, via The New York Times

scope” and quickly vowed to call the state Legislature back into session to craft new legislation to restrict guns without violating the ruling. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement: “Put simply, this Supreme Court ruling will put New Yorkers at further risk of gun violence.” Civil rights groups urged lawmakers to consider racism as they craft new regulations, arguing that nonwhite people have been disproportionately criminalized for gun ownership in the past.

SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS ROE V. WADE It was telegraphed for weeks, including with a major leak, but the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the right to end an unwanted pregnancy for millions of people was still somehow a shock. While the state has already moved to protect and codify reproductive rights, New York lawmakers from state Attorney General Letitia James to New York City Mayor Eric Adams to Gov. Kathy Hochul were quick to vent their rage and grief. “Elections have consequences,” Hochul said. “Let that be a message to voters everywhere.” State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins called the decision “abhorrent.”

AOC BACKS ANA MARÍA ARCHILA

In the last week of the campaign, The New York Times reported that Rep.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed progressive activist Ana María Archila in the race for lieutenant governor. Ocasio-Cortez is choosing Archila over her former House colleague Antonio Delgado and former Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Diana Reyna. She has not yet weighed in on the governor’s race, where Archila’s informal running mate, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, hopes to oust Hochul. An AOC endorsement, even one that comes this late in the cycle, could potentially mobilize a significant number of donors and/or voters, boosting Archila’s profile.

ADAMS DEFENDS RIKERS

Adams went to the Rikers Island jail complex after three people who were detained there or recently detained there died in the same

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week to speak in defense of correction officers and to view items officers had confiscated from detainees. The visit came soon after a federal judge determined that the jails could remain under city control for now, rather than being turned over to federal authorities due to dysfunction. Adams touted a fall in slashings and stabbings at Rikers in recent months and commended officers for confiscating weapons. Despite that rosy perspective, the situation at Rikers remains dire and has been called a “humanitarian crisis” by state lawmakers. Earlier this month, New York City Board of Correction officials testified that the Eric M. Taylor Center intake facility was dangerously overcrowded, with more than 100 people in one intake “pen,” and some detainees unable to access medication or a place to go to the bathroom.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited Rikers Island in the wake of multiple deaths at the facility last week.

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WEEK AHEAD

TUESDAY 6/28 It’s primary Election Day, as candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, Assembly and more fight for their places on the November general election ballot.

Carl Paladino isn’t Elise Stefanik’s first fringe endorsement Rep. Elise Stefanik’s immediate and polarizing endorsement of congressional candidate Carl Paladino has caused an intraparty feud for New York Republicans. Paladino is running in the 23rd District, an open seat in western New York. The 2010 GOP gubernatorial standard-bearer is infamous for offensive and racist comments that have rankled his party for years. Now, the “Paladino factor” threatens to divide Republicans at a time when observers believe the party has its best shot of winning a statewide office in a decade. Paladino has long been a controversial figure, but newly unearthed comments have furthered his image as a fringe candidate. In a February 2021 interview, he praised Adolf Hitler as the “kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational.” Previously, while a member of the Buffalo Board of Education, he made racist comments about then-President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama that prompted outrage. Paladino’s return to electoral infamy was made possible by Rep. Chris Jacobs’ decision to retire and drop out of the race for the newly forged 23rd District. Jacobs made the announcement after intense backlash to his support for new gun control measures. Stefanik endorsed Paladino on the same day

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Insiders are hoping to get election results sooner than last year’s New York City primaries, where absentee ballots and ranked-choice voting delayed the results for up to two weeks.

that Jacobs announced his plans. A week later, current GOP state party chair Nick Langworthy decided to run for the seat. The move has pitted Stefanik and Langworthy against each other and fractured Republicans, forcing many allies to choose sides. According to a report from Politico, tension between Langworthy and Stefanik escalated earlier this year when Langworthy moved to endorse Lee Zeldin for governor while Stefanik had been mulling her own bid for governor. At a recent GOP governor debate, each candidate except Rep. Lee Zeldin said Langworthy should resign as party chair. Internal Republican politics aside, how anomalous is it for Stefanik to endorse someone who shares Paladino’s bombast? Not as strange as one might think. And Stefanik herself has become more comfortable with embracing extreme rhetoric. The four-term representative is the third-ranking Republican in the House, and her support for Paladino seemed to signal the continued rightward movement of conservative politics. While focused on recruiting women and nonwhite candidates, Stefanik and her Elevate PAC have not shied away from endorsing those extreme right views. That has included candidates who denied Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. – Pete Tomao

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FRIDAY 7/1

City & State hosts the Above & Beyond: Innovators Awards at 6:30 p.m. at Midtown Loft & Terrace in Manhattan, featuring New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and others.

The New York City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings holds an oversight hearing on the mayor’s housing plan in a hybrid hearing at 10 a.m. at City Hall.

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HOW HOCHUL SPENT HER FIRST FOUR MONTHS

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She met with key advisers, the president and the NFL commissioner. Gov. Kathy Hochul promised a “new era of transparency” in her first speech as governor, but the first batch of schedules released by her office contain lots of private meetings and events – perhaps giving cover to lobbyists and other influencers circling the governor. The schedules start when Hochul was sworn in at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 24 and continue through the end of the calendar year – roughly her first four months in office. Here are some of the big takeaways.

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HOCHUL’S INNER CIRCLE EXECUTIVE TIME

Hochul had no problem making time to speak with the NFL’s top executive ahead of the state’s announcement that it would spend $850 million in government subsidies for the Buffalo Bills' new stadium. The president, however, was a tougher get. Calls with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell: 3 Calls with President Joe Biden: 2

It’s good to be in the room where it happens. For these 10 staffers, they were on the most calls with the governor and in the most meetings. Here’s their combined totals for meetings and calls. 1. Kathryn Garcia, Director of State Operations – 242 2. Karen Persichilli Keogh, Secretary to the Governor – 195 3. Jeff Lewis, Chief of Staff – 183 4. Julie Wood, Communications Director – 132 5. Bryan Lesswing, Senior Adviser – 98 6. Hazel Crampton-Hays, Press Secretary – 94 7. Angela Profeta, Deputy Secretary for Health – 71 8. Elizabeth Fine, Counsel to the Governor – 69 9. Robert Mujica Jr., Director of the Budget – 64 10. Jeff Pearlman, Special Counsel – 54

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Unfortunately, the true influence of the lobbyists and power players in New York is not reflected in Hochul’s public schedules. More than two events per day on average were private events or calls. As the Times Union reported, it’s unclear whether these events were campaign-related events like fundraisers or just political meetings. Number of private events and calls: 270

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Power of Diversity: Black 100 The most influential Black New Yorkers in politics and government.

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A group photo with many of the attendees.

Larry Scott Blackmon, CEO of The Blackmon Organization

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell

Hazel Dukes, NAACP New York State Conference president

Adrienne Harris, state Department of Financial Services superintendent

From left, the Rev. Al Sharpton and state Sen. Jamaal Bailey

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A number of prominent state and national political leaders came and spoke at City & State’s Power of Diversity: Black 100 event at The Mezzanine in lower Manhattan. Held on June 16, the event featured several keynote speakers, including state Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne Harris, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Assembly Member Latrice Walker and state Sen. Jamaal Bailey. The event recognized the members of the Power of Diversity: Black 100 list that appeared in the June 13 issue, featuring Eric Adams on the cover.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is putting all neighborhoods on notice. But how far will his affordable housing plan actually go? By Tim Murphy

EW YORK CITY Mayor Eric Adams – at times wearing opaque John Lennon-style sunglasses – stood on the roof of a 29-story Jehovah’s Witness Hotel, which had recently been turned into an affordable supportive housing complex in Dumbo, proudly announcing his ambitious new housing plan for New York City. It was a blueprint with a wide swath of promises – from facilitating homeownership to getting homeless people into permanent housing to building more affordable units – even if many housing advocates complained that the plan was short on benchmarks, and that the roughly $2 billion the city had just apportioned annually for the hydra-headed campaign over the next decade was only half of what was needed. During press questions, Adams was asked why he was dismantling homeless encampments before the city had proper apartments to offer those residents. He said he would not allow encampments under any circumstances, and then pushed back with his trademark pugilism: “Some of the loudest voices for putting people in housing (say), ‘You’re wrong – we protest you.’” To which the mayor hypothetically responded: “OK, I’m going to put (housing) on your block.” He continued his imaginary back-and-forth: “‘Oh, wait, we didn’t say that. We want housing, but don’t put it on my block.’ So I want you to go to all the advocates and say who’s going to raise their hands first to allow Eric to build the housing he wants on their block? Don’t talk the

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talk if you’re not going to walk the walk.” Adams was in fact articulating the everyman’s version of a point that’s made in his housing plan: Not in my backyard is on its way out. “Our administration will advance an inclusive, citywide approach to encouraging new housing supply,” reads the plan, “that holds every neighborhood accountable for meeting housing needs and increases equitable access to opportunity.” (Even prior to unveiling the housing plan, he had announced, in his new pro-development “City of Yes” plan, a zoning text amendment that would pack in more units per project.) And the data backs up the view that an equitable citywide distribution of affordable housing is currently but a dream: A new report from the New York University Furman Center showed that among the 185,000 new housing units built in the city between 2010 and 2020, the roughly 30% of them meant for low-income renters were built in low-income and heavily Black and Hispanic parts of the Bronx, Central Brooklyn, East New York and

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western Queens. The fewest low-income units, often below 100, were built in the relatively white, middle class and wholly or quasi-suburban parts of Staten Island, southern Brooklyn, northern Queens and the northeastern Bronx, with large swaths of posh riverside Manhattan not contributing much either. Clearly, some neighborhoods more than others are supplying the hundreds of thousands of new affordable units needed to pull the city out of a profound affordable housing crisis. To some extent, the disproportionality is understandable: Land is simply cheaper in poorer neighborhoods, and they are often already zoned to accommodate big, blocky new affordable towers. Just walk around intensely urban East New York or the South Bronx, then stroll Queens’ picket-fence-y Middle Village or the Bronx’s Throggs Neck to understand that the first two neighborhoods are more amenable to colossal upzoning than the latter. But even in relatively sleepy neighborhoods, there are ample chunks of land that could accommodate affordable housing.

“Look at the good we’re doing. Veteran housing, senior housing, affordable housing. You come out of college and you can get an apartment here.” – Peter Bivona, one of the co-owners of a Throggs Neck Foodtown trying to get that site rezoned

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In the Bronx, Throggs Neck, left stands in contrast to denser areas of Brooklyn, right. Lots of affordable housing may fit easier where there are already tall buildings.

Take, for example, 50 new units of deeply affordable housing that will be built over a new library in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park – a project touted in the mayor’s plan as a perfect example of tucking in affordable units wherever one can throughout the city. But the reason why there are so few modest new projects dispersed throughout the city is not necessarily land cost. And in many ways zoning, which is often waivable, is merely a regulatory symbol for the root reason: Usually, most existing residents in such neighborhoods adamantly – even furiously – do not want new affordable housing. Following suit, their district council member may then oppose a project before the City Council, which traditionally defers to the council member and does not even bring the project to a vote. The project dies and 50 or 100 or 200 new units of affordable housing do not get built. Just one example occurred in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, in 2016, when developers finally pulled an application for a 10-story, 209-unit affordable housing complex in the face of years of community opposition.

And Sunnyside is a relatively urban neighborhood. In the leafiest, NIMBYest of neighborhoods, developers don’t even try to bring affordable housing, because they remember the early 1970s, when the city forced a small amount of low-income units on Forest Hills, Queens. The project, in which then-lawyer Mario Cuomo put himself on the map by brokering a downsized compromise, created such local uproar that many think it quashed the presidential ambitions of then-New York City Mayor John Lindsay. “It was a pivotal moment that has shaped subsidized housing location policies ever since, keeping it out of middle-class areas,” said Nicholas Dagen Bloom, professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College. “Almost all the affordable housing developed in New York City since has been either in working class or poor areas or, if in more affluent areas, in small amounts through … mixed-income strategies in individual market-dominated buildings.” And that’s why “nobody talks about putting affordable housing in Maspeth or

Bayside,” said Moses Gates, a housing specialist at Regional Plan Association, a century-old nonprofit research, planning and advocacy group. “But then again,” he said, “you don’t know if it really can be done if you don’t try.” Adams has at least said he’s going to try. How much muscle will he throw behind his effort by leaning hard on the City Council to stop deferring to council members who echo to their constituents, “Aw, hell no!” every time a proposal comes calling? A controversy currently raging in Throggs Neck is the perfect setup for that question. MENACING OVERTONES A chunk of the northeastern Bronx that juts into the East River and faces northern Queens, Throggs Neck is a longtime working- and middle-class redoubt – home to cops, firefighters and teachers – that is now about 44% Hispanic, 28% white and 22% Black. In 2019, the median income was 12% less than the citywide median of $73,000, and in 2021, the median list

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Adams announced his new housing plan atop a new supportive housing complex in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

“Who’s going to raise their hands first to allow Eric to build the housing he wants on their block? Don’t talk the talk if you’re not going to walk the walk.” – New York City Mayor Eric Adams

price for a one-family home was about $600,000, according to Realtor.com. Single-family and duplex homes give much of the area a quasi-suburban feel, and in fact, the area has been zoned for low density since 2004, which has restricted growth. But along a stretch of Bruckner Boulevard, a truck route and service road to the Bruckner Expressway, is a decidedly nonleafy commercial and light industrial strip. There, a battle is playing out that may determine just how far the Adams administration is willing to go in terms of forcing affordable housing into enclaves that have largely avoided it. A handful of developers, including two brothers who are the owners of the local Foodtown, are pushing for an upzone that would encompass four sites – ultimately leading to not only an upgraded supermarket but some eight-story buildings that would mix market-rate apartments with nearly 200 units that are income-restricted for veterans, seniors and families. Peter Bivona, one of the Foodtown brothers, said the main reason they were pushing the project was because, with their property taxes hitting $250,000 a year, they can no longer afford to run the supermarket as is and need to revamp the site to bring in new revenue so they can continue with the grocery business and pass it down to their kids. However, Bivona was aware that the package they proposed was in line with the kind of little-bit-here, little-bit-there called for in Adams’ affordable housing plan. “Look at the good we’re doing,” he said. “Veteran housing, senior housing, affordable housing. You come out of college, and you can get an apartment here. If you work for the city, you can afford to live here. We’re creating jobs and new opportunities.” But most people who live on the residential side streets off of Bruckner don’t see it that way. Since at least last summer, they have gathered on the street and at community meetings to denounce the project. Some, like resident Denice Szekely, said it was because the neighborhood infrastructure – sewers, the new public school across the street – can’t accommodate the growth. The council member who represents the district, Marjorie Velázquez, has told the Bronx Times she opposes the project for the same reason. “My uncle, who lives in the area, said ‘What happens when 1,100 people wake up and flush their toilet at the same time?’” Szekely said.

But residents have also said they oppose the project because they fear that eight-story towers containing affordable units will be an eyesore, court crime and lower their own homes’ property values. “You’ll be turning around and selling your $700,000 house for $300,000 … hell, no!” said a resident at a street protest last summer. The tension allegedly has bubbled over into outright menace. Velázquez told the Bronx Times she didn’t attend a recent community meeting about the project because she had received threats of violence on various community forums. James Cervino, one of the developers, has made the same claim. Certainly, the meetings have been unruly and hostile, with video showing the few who spoke in support of the project – including a young woman who said she could no longer afford to live in the neighborhood where she had grown up – being shouted down, booed and heckled by a roomful of largely white, older people. In one video, as a project opponent speaks, a man in the back said, “Why don’t we just strangle them all?” before realizing he’s caught on video. WILL THE CITY FLEX ITS MUSCLES? If the Throggs Neck rezoning doesn’t pass, the property owners have the right to build whatever they want there within the given zoning, which is conservative. But Bivona didn’t see many options that could raise the revenue to support his keeping the supermarket open. “If we’re forced to close, we’ll give the property to brokers and maybe it’ll become an Amazon hub or a storage facility,” he said. “That is what the city is doing to us.” Of course, the city – that being the City Council, leaned on by the mayor – could reverse historical precedent, overrule Velázquez and approve the rezoning. It would send a strong message that Adams is serious about, basically, imposing a certain amount of affordable housing on every neighborhood in the city, regardless of what they currently look like or how they’re zoned. That’s what’s being hoped for by William Thomas, executive director of Open New York, which advocates for the very citywide approach to affordable housing that the mayor is now espousing. (In fact, Thomas was the one speaking in support of the Bruckner project at the meeting where the man made the strangulation remark.) “The housing market doesn’t stop at

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neighborhood lines,” he said. He added that, contrary to the heckles of the crowd at the meeting, some who spoke in support of the project, such as community activist Michael Kaess, live if not in the district per se then at least in the same ZIP code. “The mayor’s setting out a citywide approach is a step in the right direction.” And, he added, it wasn’t merely Archie Bunker enclaves like Throggs Neck or much of Staten Island that would be asked to bear the burden. More urban areas like Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Heights and Greenwich Village have all built very little new housing, including affordable housing, he said, compared to the 10 areas – including Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Long Island City and the Central Bronx – that have built half of all new units citywide in the past decade. “They all have to be building something,” he said. He added that he hoped the mayor would make every community board in the city pin down a metric goal for new units. “In the interest of fairness,” he said, “every neighborhood should get a number.”

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Will the mayor go that far? Asked that question, a spokesperson for the mayor replied via email: “We’re looking to change up the rules and allow a wider range of housing types and sizes to accommodate all kinds of households across the city. The overarching goal: build more housing across the city and change the rules to enable it starting now. That’s what we mean when we talk about a city of yes.” In the meantime, the bitter dispute in Throggs Neck grinds on as the zoning review process continues. On one hand, it could be merely the latest in a long history of upzoning projects that were nixed in the wake of a community outcry. Or, depending on how serious the mayor and City Council are about a new era of citywide affordable development, it could be a turning point. “Obviously,” said Szekely, the Throggs Neck resident, “if (the) City Council overrides our council member, then we don’t have a choice. But as someone who’s lived in this area practically my whole life, it feels very much like the government just coming in and saying, ‘We’re going to build this, and I hope you can still get on

your bus or your basement doesn’t flood.’” But infrastructure pearl-clutching is what denizens of every neighborhood do when they don’t want new construction, said Bloom, the Hunter College professor. “This whole idea that neighborhoods can’t handle it – I mean, come on,” he said. “We’re in a housing crisis, and there has to be a reckoning for any community that is well served by transit – from Kew Gardens to Staten Island, which has its own railway now.” He pointed to the recent rezoning of SoHo/NoHo to allow for dramatic new construction, including many affordable units. “There was plenty of pushback, and guess what? They moved forward. If you asked someone 10 years ago if there was a chance that SoHo would be rezoned for affordable housing, they’d have said ‘no way.’ What’s politically possible is constantly being reshaped by changing demographics, who’s running the city and the push for social equity.”

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Tim Murphy is a Queens-based freelance journalist focusing on health care, housing and LGBTQ issues.

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Breakaway borough By Megan McGibney

EW YORK CITY COUNCIL Member Joe Borelli wants Staten Island to have another chance at seceding. Reactions, so far, seem to indicate he’s going to need a lot of luck making the improbable a reality. Borelli, who represents City Council District 51 encompassing Staten Island’s South Shore, introduced a bill last month to create “a task force to study and report on the feasibility of an independent city of Staten Island.” This is the second time the Republican minority leader has proposed such legislation after his first attempt in 2019 failed to move forward. This is also one of many times where representatives from the island have created bills or suggested the idea of the city’s least populated borough becoming a city itself since New York City was consolidated in 1898. The closest Staten Island came to seceding was in 1993 when two-thirds of Staten Islanders voted for a nonbinding resolution to secede. However, the implementation was blocked by then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the movement died off. With the idea of Staten Island seceding stirring up again, the question is why now? “The desire on the part of Staten Islanders who want to secede or at least explore it, I don’t think has not subsided,” Borelli said. “I’m an unabashed secessionist, and I think we will be better off on our own. The city is moving in a direction that a lot of Staten Islanders disagree with, and I think we would prefer to have a different style, perhaps a different size of government.” Borelli added that the past year was an example of how Staten Islanders think differently than the rest of the city. This included a lack of faith in the education system under then-schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on issues like having merit-based specialized high school entrance exams as well as eliminating gifted and talented programs. Higher taxes and expensive budgets are also playing a role, he said.

The council member is not alone. Assembly Member Michael Reilly, who represents the South Shore and parts of the Mid-Island and serves as the ranking minority member of the Assembly Cities Committee, said he thinks it is worth studying again. “I think it keeps coming up because there’s always that feeling of Staten Islanders (feeling) like the stepchild to New York City,” Reilly told City & State. “And it always seemed that way, and I think that’s what always puts this front and center where something about equity in this city … and oftentimes, Staten Island is left out. I think that’s why the idea of seceding comes up. There’s always the feeling that Staten Island is an afterthought.” But there are some who aren’t too optimistic on secession, one of them being Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, who supported it back in 1993. While he’s open to the idea of Staten Island “deciding its own destiny,” the borough president pointed out that there’s more to the story of how the city treats the borough and who really makes the decisions on tackling crime and economic issues. “You see the mayor who wants to tackle crime in a more meaningful way,” Fossella said. “And his hands are tied, the police department and others are tied because of what’s happening at the state level. You almost get to the point of, ‘Well, if we’re going to secede let’s think about seceding from New York state!’” Fossella was referring to the recent state budget that dismayed New York City Mayor Eric Adams and police union leaders. Fossella also said he believes that there is an ebb and flow over the idea of secession mainly because of the quality of life throughout New York City. He recalled that back in 1993, high crime and homelessness fueled the desire for secession, but that died down as the city became safer and Staten Islanders became more willing to venture into the other boroughs. But as Borelli has noted, crime is rising again and so is interest in secession. But secession may not be a big enough issue for the city. According to Richard Flanagan, who teaches public policy at the College of Staten Island, in the early 1990s,

Staten Island makes an unlikely attempt to secede for the umpteenth time.

then-Gov. Mario Cuomo courted Staten Island votes by indulging then-state Sen. John Marchi, known as “the Father of Secession,” with support for secession so he would obtain votes for Cuomo from the island. When Rudy Giuliani ran for New York City mayor in 1993, he appealed to Staten Island voters without ever coming out against secession. With Giuliani later tackling crime during his time in office, the thought of secession faded. “All of these reasons are gone now,” Flanagan said. “There’s really no hope of reviving a Republican fusion ticket anymore in New York City,” he added, referring to Mike Bloomberg’s mayoral run as an example. “I can’t imagine a Republican fusion or right-center Democrat emerging who’s dependent on Staten Island votes anymore. So now they really are forgotten, and it’s unlikely (anyone) will ever move on forwarding a secession plan.” If Borelli’s legislation for a task force on whether secession is feasible were to be formed, there is much to explore. Reilly said secessionists will have to look into how Staten Island would acquire resources for a police department, sanitation department and education department, along with getting employees to work in them. There’s also the question of what happens to current city employees, who might then become employees of Staten Island? And what would happen to their city pensions and health insurance?

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New York City Council Member Joe Borelli, left, and other legislators want to see if secession would be feasible for Staten Island.

“I’m an unabashed secessionist, and I think we will be better off on our own.” – New York City Council Member Joe Borelli

Reilly said he has concerns over who will run the task force and provide oversight. “If it’s not done correctly, we could be set up for failure,” he said. “I think if we have the right people looking at it … as long as there are people who are making decisions are well-intentioned and they take into account all the things that are necessary, it can be a smooth transition.” It also depends on what the state decides to do. Staten Island’s secession plans remain up to the state, no matter what happens at city level, noted Joseph Viteritti, professor of public policy at Hunter College, who was the director of the charter commission in 1992. If there was another overwhelming vote for secession, the next steps would be decided by state legislation that would require support from the governor, who would then likely kick it back to the city, deferring to home rule. “It is then in the hands of the City Council,” Viteritti said. “The governor will ask for an opinion from the city.” When City & State reached out to Adams’ office for a comment, press secretary Fabien Levy said in an emailed statement, “Mayor Adams is a five-borough mayor, not a four-borough mayor, and Staten Island is as much of New York City as any other borough.” A spokesperson for City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, when asked about Borelli’s legislation, responded, “Like all legisla-

tion, Council Member Borelli’s bill is going through the process. We’re currently reviewing.” Borelli remained confident that secession could happen for Staten Island and said he does not believe the ebbs and flows of the city should play a role in the movement. At the same time, he disagreed that Staten Island’s complaints were unique and noted that other parts of the city, such as South Brooklyn and parts of Queens, shared the same sentiments on issues such as rising crime. He also has explored the economies of several U.S. cities, such as Miami and Atlanta, and international cities like London by looking at the budget documents from those cities. In a series of videos he posted on Twitter in May, he explained how if those cities were able to provide their services with less taxes than Staten Island pays now, then the borough can afford to be its own city. Fossella echoed Viteritti over who really controls Staten Island’s chances of becoming its own city, despite what Staten Islanders say they want. “The people of Staten Island were misled in 1993 by the state officials,” Fossella said. “Can (secession) happen? Yeah, depending on the dynamics, depending on the makeup of who’s in the Assembly, who’s in the Senate, who’s the governor. You never know. I just feel we’ve seen this movie once before.”

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COMMENTARY

BLOCKCHAIN FOR GOVERMENT? NOT SO FAST. While boosters like Eric Adams are gung-ho for the new tech, its novelty is wearing off for official uses. By Felipe De La Hoz

LOCKCHAIN technology has become a polarizing touchstone, with people either singing the praises of what they view as a transformative system or rolling their eyes at a wasteful technological solution in search of a problem. And most people don’t know what the confusing technology is or does beyond a dim awareness that it undergirds cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Few other technologies will engender this much passion among experts while remaining largely obscure to most of the public, a byproduct of both its newness and complexity. You don’t need to understand how GPS works to understand what it does for a user, or how cellular networks work to comprehend that data is transferred from servers in point A to your phone in point B, but blockchain’s novelty is its technical structure. So, let’s attempt a succinct explanation: In the most fundamental terms, a blockchain is a ledger that records information, which can be practically anything – currency balances, yes, but also text, photographs, spreadsheets, whatever you want. That’s not particularly interesting, but its idiosyncrasy is that this ledger isn’t held in one central location, the way a file is held in your computer. It is held by a network of devices that act as nodes, and each one has its own copy. Every change or transaction is recorded not just on one device, but on all of them, which functionally verifies a transaction is legitimate and makes it so the ledger can’t be modified in one location. Recently, the state Legislature moved to enact a two-year ban on energy-intensive bitcoin proof-of-work authentication in the state (the way new bitcoin are created is having computers perform complex mathematical equations and then have this work verified by other nodes in the network, a process that gets more difficult over time and utilizes massive amounts of computing and electrical power). Gov. Kathy Hochul has yet to either sign or veto the bill. Another bill that passed at nearly the same time got far less attention but could pave the way for additional adoption – or regulation. The blockchain cryptocurrency study bill, which was sponsored by state Sen. James Sanders Jr. and Assembly Member Clyde Vanel and has passed both houses but not yet been signed, would establish a state “cryptocurrency and blockchain study task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on the effects of the widespread use of cryptocurrencies” as well as “ancillary systems, including but not limited to blockchain.”

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The 16-member board would then issue a report by the end of 2024, which seems geared mostly toward understanding the growth of the cryptocurrency industry in the state and how best to regulate it. For example, the board would examine “the transparency of the digital currency marketplace and the related potential of market manipulation and other illegal activities,” a clear response to the perception that cryptocurrencies often leave consumers and investors unprotected since they are not federally backed or insured. That’s not speculative; the recent crash of the currencies offered by crypto firm Terra wiped away billions of dollars in value, prompting some investors to turn to thoughts of self-harm. “It is extremely vital for New York to strike the proper level of regulations to ensure that New Yorkers enjoy the benefits of this emerging industry while minimizing its negative impacts,” Sanders said in a statement to City & State. While urging passage of his legislation, Sanders added, “The bill requires the government to set up an inclusive task force that includes environmentalists, the community, the finance industry, regulators and academics to help guide us on policy. We are excited to help make New York the capital of blockchain industry jobs and opportunity.” The technology’s biggest booster in the state is undoubtedly New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who infamously converted his first few paychecks to bitcoin right as the price was crashing. Adams has said that putting birth certificates and deeds on the blockchain “is the way of the future, and we’re excited about it,” though such initiatives still exist only at the idea stage. The mayor’s proposed executive budget for fiscal year 2023 did not include any allocations for blockchain technologies; asked about the actual state of adoption of any potential blockchain tools for use in city government and the timetable for deployment, a City Hall spokesper-

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son acknowledged the questions but did not respond to them before press time. “If you look at a lot of what state governments are talking about currently around blockchain and cryptocurrency, it’s really more about how they can regulate it. And maybe a little bit about how governments can leverage the technology themselves,” said Lorna Stark, a state and local government national leader at KPMG. She and others are advocating for a reversal of that approach, with governments instead largely turning to blockchain as a tool, in particular to centralize information. Essentially, specific information about residents could be stored as part of a blockchain and then distributed to agencies as needed, instead of each department having its own repository of information. “You only have your information in one place,” Stark said. Currently, someone receiving services from the government might have to “separately give your information to (the state Department of Motor Vehicles),

and then you separately give out information to (the city Administration for Children’s Services), and separately give your information to (the state Department of Health), and separately give your information to the Department of Buildings. So it takes a lot to make this work.” The flip side is that this all could be done without blockchain. In fact, skeptics and proponents of blockchain tech often point to the exact same features as either benefits and shortcomings. The reality that blockchains are inherently public – this is, after all, the only way they can possibly work, and so-called private blockchains are using some of the same tech without really applying the concept – means that nothing can be obscured or deleted. Every piece of information would be accessible, even if there were attempts to anonymize it, which also means that very sensitive information couldn’t be kept on a government blockchain. If an agency employee, for example, accidentally posted a person’s Social Security

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“It is extremely vital for New York to strike the proper level of regulations to ensure that New Yorkers enjoy the benefits of this emerging industry while minimizing its negative impacts.” – state Sen. James Sanders Jr.

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number to a blockchain, the entire chain would have to be taken offline. The inability to reverse transactions is supposedly a panacea for verification, but it also means that any transactions affected by hackers or other bad actors cannot be undone, a fact that cryptocurrency and non-fungible token, or NFT, investors have recently learned the hard way as assets were stolen without much recourse. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this might be a problem when it comes to, for example, land deeds. If an attacker tricks a bureaucrat or landowner into executing a smart contract (the terms of which are written into the code itself, a feature of the blockchain) that transfers the deed to them, it can’t be taken back. It’s unclear what that would mean, legally. “There’s no arbitration. If I’m a merchant and you buy something with a credit card, and I defraud you, you file a claim with your financial institution,” said Bruce Schneier, a prominent cryptographer and public policy lecturer at the

Harvard Kennedy School. That option doesn’t exist on the blockchain. “What was wrong with land deed records? What was wrong with municipal bonds? What is the problem that this is trying to solve?” That last criticism is the crux of much of the hand-wringing. The whole thing has the veneer of a futuristic, sci-fi tech that can prove very enticing to elected leaders hoping to project a sense of keeping up with innovation and courting the tech industry, but ultimately the question to answer is what exactly it’s for, practically and realistically. So far, it seems that the technology itself isn’t fundamentally able to perform functions that the government doesn’t already perform so much as to do them differently. Whether that’s good or bad depends on your perspective on the trade-offs – smart contracts in exchange for higher energy consumption and more time to complete transactions; government transparency in exchange for the inability to keep any information on the blockchain private; a tamper-proof system that also cannot reverse malicious transactions; and so on. These questions are now being grappled with by political leaders in Albany and in cities across the state. New York wouldn’t be the first city to implement blockchain for governance, but it would be by far the largest and the first in New York state. It would no doubt set an example for others to follow, and Adams seems as enthusiastic a booster as any mayor in the country right now. Whether he can overcome the skepticism and criticisms, and push the issue to the fore at a time of multiple crises, including the perception of rising crime and the reality of housing unaffordability, remains an open question.

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ABOVE & BEYOND

INNOVATORS 2022 New Yorkers who are disrupting the status quo and driving transformative change. Profiles by Kay Dervishi, Alice Popovici & Jasmine Sheena

NEW YORK IS A LEADER in innovation, and its embrace of transformative change goes far beyond a few industries or sectors. State and local government officials have launched groundbreaking programs that serve as models for others across the country. Technology startups have developed unique solutions for complex problems plaguing New York and other states. And nonprofits have spearheaded creative initiatives ensur-

ing underserved and vulnerable communities get the support they need. City & State’s inaugural Above & Beyond: Innovators list recognizes the transformative work that leaders in government, business and the nonprofit sector have done to improve the lives of New Yorkers across the state. While their perspectives may differ, each individual on this list keeps innovation at the top of their minds.

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TERRI ALESSI-MICELI PRESIDENT AND CEO

Hauppauge Industrial Association Long Island

TERRELL ANDERSON COMMANDING OFFICER New York City Police Department 73rd Precinct

Not every police officer can say they understand the neighborhoods they serve like Inspector Terrell Anderson. Raised in Brownsville, he now oversees the precinct charged with protecting the area. “Growing up, I saw a lot of violence,” he says. “I saw a lot of poverty. I lived in poverty. I saw a lot of drug abuse. Growing up and then really realizing who I was, I really wanted to do something about it.” He was also inspired to action by his mother, who worked as a supervisory police administrative aide for the New York City Police Department. “She has been my role model,” he says. “When she started working for the NYPD, I realized that I wanted to do more to help my people.” During his time with the 73rd Precinct, Anderson spearheaded the formation of the Brownsville Safety Alliance, a widely watched initiative that reduces the presence of police patrols in certain areas of the neighborhood and brings in a coalition of community organizations to provide social services and de-escalate conflicts. Anderson was also instrumental in the creation of the Brownsville Community Cafe, which turned the front of the precinct’s building into a community plaza where the police put up local food vendors and engaged with the public in a friendly manner. He felt that effort combatted some of the anti-police sentiment that has grown in New York City during the pandemic. “We’ll be the first ones to run toward danger,” he says, “but there’s so much more to being a cop than that.” – J.S.

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In Terri Alessi-Miceli’s eyes, Long Island is a major economic hub with potential for even greater growth. As head of the Hauppauge Industrial Association Long Island, also known as HIA-LI, she is deeply committed to driving forward that growth in the region. And her organization’s approach to that goal is multipronged. “We not only help businesses on Long Island thrive and work in helping with economic development, but we are also stewards for the Long Island Innovation Park,” she says. Based in Hauppauge, it’s the largest industrial park in the Northeast and nationally second in size only to one located near Silicon Valley. The space accommodates 1,300 companies employing about 55,000 people, generating $13 billion in economic activity annually in the region. The innovation park is the focus of a number of the association’s current projects. Alessi-Miceli hopes to create an overlay district to build apartments in the park and create a workforce training center to retain young professionals in the area. “We look at young professionals and many of them are leaving Long Island,” she says. “One of the reasons is they don’t have any affordable places to live. We’re working to move this forward so that they have a place to live and work.” The association has been instrumental in supporting Long Island outside of the industrial park as well. Alessi-Miceli is especially proud of the organization’s COVID-19 outreach efforts. The organization distributed personal protective equipment and helped local businesses develop their revenue streams amid economic upheavals presented by the pandemic. – Jasmine Sheena

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ANA BERMÚDEZ COMMISSIONER New York City Department of Probation

A self-described “data geek,” Commissioner Ana Bermúdez uses statistics to inform her approach to leading the New York City Department of Probation. When she noticed that many people who were rearrested while on probation were 16 to 24 years old, she created a specialized mentoring program to address the issue. “You have to use data to guide you in what needs to happen,” Bermúdez says. That approach has proven successful. Since the Arches Transformative Mentoring program was established in 2012, data has shown that felony reconviction rates among its participants are nearly 70% lower one year after beginning probation compared with young people who aren’t in the program. The Arches program is only one example of Bermúdez’s innovative approach to leading the agency. She also oversees the work of 21 community resource hubs called Neighborhood Opportunity Networks, or NeONs, that build connections in the community and provide services such as job training and educational classes. After learning from probation officers that many clients were coming to appointments hungry, Bermúdez brought food pantries to NeON locations in each borough. Open to all New Yorkers, the Nutritious Kitchen program fed more than 500,000 people in 2021. Bermúdez says the success of the NeONs hinges on “participatory decision-making,” a process that ensures community members help select the arts or athletic programming offered locally. “We meet with the groups throughout the year,” she says, “and make sure that they represent the fabric of the community.” – Alice Popovici

CHARMAINE BOURBON VICE PRESIDENT, BROOKLYN WORKFORCE1 CAREER CENTER Grant Associates

When the coronavirus pandemic abruptly shut down New York City offices in March 2020, Charmaine Bourbon and her staff at Grant Associates’ Brooklyn Workforce1 Career Center – which helps about 3,000 people find work every year – had to quickly figure out how to move the three-office operation online. “That’s where we really had to pivot,” Bourbon says. By June 2020, the team had already placed more than 800 unemployed people in new jobs. Bourbon, who was working as a human resources manager for American Express at the time of the 9/11 attacks, says her experience dealing with that crisis helped her manage the transition to a virtual environment at the beginning of the pandemic. That included working with her team of 40 staff members to help businesses transition to virtual recruitment via Zoom or text and to remote onboarding for new employees. Since then, the career centers have been operating on a hybrid schedule, connecting clients with the remote jobs they are asking for while also finding qualified employees to fill growing vacancies in the hospitality and security services industries. “The innovation really comes in how we deliver our services,” she says of Grant Associates. A native of the Bahamas who came to New York City in the 1980s, Bourbon says her experience in one job she held earlier in her career has helped inform her current work with the nationwide workforce development organization. – A.P.

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NICK CARDILLICCHIO VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Tomorrow.io

Global warming is making severe storms and extreme weather events more common, something Nick Cardillicchio understands deeply through his work with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Now, he plays a key role in getting cities, counties and certain federal government agencies across the country to work with Tomorrow.io to better prepare for such emergencies. The company boasts a software platform that gives precise and accurate weather forecasts predicting where and when storms will come, allowing agencies and organizations to improve their responses. That information helps “a huge organization make better decisions that affect whether or not you’re stuck in a traffic jam for four hours,” Cardillicchio says. Hurricane Ida in particular generated increased urgency among many government agencies and cities to be better prepared for extreme weather. The 2021 storm’s severity caught many officials off guard, resulting in catastrophic flooding that killed dozens across four states, including New York. Tomorrow.io has made the case that its flood risk index could make a difference. And the company’s work is only getting more comprehensive, as evidenced by its plan to launch a fleet of satellites to hone its weather forecasting across the globe. Cardillicchio has helped secure partnerships with several agencies in New York and elsewhere. “They usually, almost universally, instantly clue in to how this solution could help them do what they’re already doing better, faster, with more precision,” he says about the officials he’s spoken with. – Kay Dervishi

PETER CHYNOWETH NEW YORK STATE CLIENT DIRECTOR

A few years ago, Microsoft decided to concentrate its efforts to promote its products in five states: New York, Florida, Texas, California and Washington. The tech giant chose Peter Chynoweth to lead its efforts in the state of New York, with a focus on New York City. Chynoweth is responsible for helping a number of city agencies use Microsoft technologies to solve a variety of challenges. Under his guidance, one client recently adopted Azure, the company’s cloud computing service. Used to provide data storage and computational scalability, and to run custom machine learning algorithms, Azure has helped the client as it analyzes COVID-19 patients’ DNA to understand the effect of the virus and to individualize treatments for each patient. That’s not the only way Azure has helped governments solve pressing problems. After Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation that penalizes motorists and repair shops that modify car exhaust systems and mufflers to make them louder, inspectors were burdened with the cumbersome task of going through video of cars that violated the new law to connect violations to a specific license plate. This process proved to be inefficient and riddled with error. Azure helped streamline the process of going through footage. “What we try to do on an everyday basis is figure out how we can use our technology to enable the city of New York to better deliver for the constituents of New York,” Chynoweth says. “I understand how technology can solve business problems.” – J.S.

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ANNA MERCADO CLARK PARTNER Phillips Lytle

Shortly after Anna Mercado Clark joined Phillips Lytle about a decade ago, the law firm began to explore promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, and ways to build paths to help people pursue careers in law. Clark recalled a program run by the Queens district attorney’s office, where she had served as an assistant district attorney, to visit high schoolers and discuss the law with them. “When I came to Phillips Lytle, I was thinking about what is a good pipeline program,” she says, “and I said, ‘you know, we have this program at the DA’s office – why don’t we do something like that? Let’s get to these kids before they even go to college and have them start thinking about potential careers in the law.’” She ended up crafting a program partnering with middle schools and high schools in underserved communities, introducing students to the law by role-playing actual court cases and building skills to help them get into college and find jobs in the future. To date, Phillips Lytle has engaged more than 1,500 students this way. That’s just one way Clark puts innovation at the forefront at Phillips Lytle. She’s also an expert in data security, privacy, e-discovery and digital forensics. That insight is a boon to her clients and the firm as well. “I’ve been assisting the firm in terms of technological innovations,” she says. “And that doesn’t necessarily mean buying the brightest, shiniest, newest software, but it means being smart about how we deploy technology, how we train our people.” – K.D.

NOLVIA DELGADO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Nolvia Delgado has come full circle. From 2008 to 2011, she participated in the Kaplan Leadership Program run by the Kaplan Educational Foundation. This past March, she became the organization’s executive director. “I think this is my proudest moment, to be able to lead the foundation that has given me so much,” she says. Delgado attributes her lifelong passion for education to her mother, who didn’t graduate from high school. “She always told my brother and me that education would be our way out,” she says. “It was the key to success.” That fueled her push to participate in the Kaplan Leadership Program, which provides low-income students financial support and guidance as they complete an associate degree and go on to earn a bachelor’s degree. After completing her education at Borough of Manhattan Community College and Smith College, Delgado delved into roles that allowed her to help expand educational opportunities for others. She spearheaded work at Cypress Hills Local Development Corp. ensuring schools provide holistic support for students and families. Later, at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Delgado oversaw a partnership with five New York City public schools that connected students to programs providing college guidance, mentorship and internships. Now, as the Kaplan Educational Foundation is preparing to bring on its 16th cohort of students, Delgado has been focused on expanding access to internship opportunities for students and honing a hybrid model for its programming. – K.D.

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ANDREA DEMEO PRESIDENT AND CEO Trillium Health

Since Andrea DeMeo joined Trillium Health in 2015, the health center has grown tremendously. When DeMeo first arrived, Trillium employed a little more than 100 people and had about $15 million in annual revenue. Today, some 235 people work at Trillium, which is now a $53 million organization. What’s been vital to that growth, DeMeo says, is listening to the patients they serve in Rochester and responding to their unmet needs. For example, Trillium launched a mobile access clinic in 2019, delivering primary and specialty care to patients in Rochester who face transportation barriers. “Little did we know, when COVID hit, how vital that asset was to responding to our community,” she says. The mobile clinic, which has played a key role in getting people tested for COVID-19 and vaccinated throughout the past two years, is just one of many ways that Trillium has delivered on its mission to ensure the physical, emotional and social health of its patients. In addition to overseeing care at Trillium, DeMeo puts advocacy for health centers at the forefront. Trillium Health is designated as a federally qualified health center look-alike, which means it functions much like a federally qualified health center but without the benefits of full designation. DeMeo co-leads a national coalition of other organizations classified as look-alikes to draw the attention of government officials to their work and needs as safety net providers. “We’re looking for ways to sustain what we have,” she says, “and then build more sites that can serve those that need us the most.” – K.D.

ÁINE DUGGAN PRESIDENT AND CEO

In March, Áine Duggan’s organization changed its name from The Partnership for the Homeless to The Partnership to End Homelessness. That shift reflects the nonprofit’s belief that homelessness is solvable and that prevention is key. “If we could step in and provide the rental assistance that’s needed by those families that are in arrears, a) it would be the most humanitarian solution, and b) it would also be the most cost-effective solution,” Duggan says. “It is a lot cheaper for the government to provide rental assistance than to take on the cost of shelter.” That’s exactly what The Partnership to End Homelessness has been doing – and it has become increasingly critical during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the pandemic, families that came to the nonprofit for help were on average in arrears of about $1,000; in the past two years, that number has shot up to $4,000. What makes its model effective is that it aims to provide full rental assistance for the families seeking assistance, rather than leaving them in the position of cobbling together assistance from multiple organizations. The nonprofit also tries to help clients stay in their homes by negotiating with property owners and connecting them to legal assistance. For Duggan, it is also critical to make sure that New Yorkers understand that homelessness disproportionately affects women and children of color. “To have a conversation about homelessness is to have a conversation about gender primarily,” she says, “but to go even further, it is to have a conversation about gender and race, inequity and discrimination.” – K.D.

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KENNETH EBIE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, BLACK ENTREPRENEURS NYC New York City Department of Small Business Services

Kenneth Ebie is used to jumping into new, unfamiliar work – starting years ago when he worked as the campaign manager for Kenneth Thompson as he ran to become Brooklyn district attorney. “I was given the opportunity, even though I did not have the experience running a campaign,” he recalls. That campaign was ultimately a success, making Thompson the first Black person to serve as Brooklyn’s top prosecutor. Ebie has since held several roles in New York City government, where he’s continued to do innovative work. Those roles led Ebie to his current post as the inaugural executive director for Black Entrepreneurs NYC, an initiative housed under the New York City Department of Small Business Services. The initiative helps Black entrepreneurs gain access to capital, mentors and other resources essential to growing their businesses. More than 500 entrepreneurs have turned to Black Entrepreneurs NYC’s mentorship program, and the initiative has sought to bolster business owners’ marketing efforts to expand their customer bases. “We’re trying to set up a program that really creates infrastructure for Black businesses and Black founders to get those resources that they need to be able to not just start a business,” Ebie says, “but to start a successful business that they can ultimately use to employ more people in the community and ultimately to transfer wealth through passing on to future generations.” – K.D.

PETER GANNON PRESIDENT AND CEO

The United Way of the Greater Capital Region is a leading nonprofit in upstate New York, supporting communities across eight counties. It has drawn attention from the likes of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who directed $1 million in federal funds to the nonprofit, and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who donated $5 million to the organization in 2020 – the largest gift in its history. As its leader, Peter Gannon oversees a network of more than 25,000 donors as well as partnerships with local companies and nonprofits. Recently, he spearheaded the creation of The Blake Annex, an upscale co-working space for nonprofits to use and collaborate in, which formally opened in April. Groups including Prevent Child Abuse New York and the Capital District YMCA have made use of the nonprofit hub. He hopes to see similar co-working spaces catering to nonprofits created in more communities since cash-strapped charities often cannot afford to upgrade their office space. Gannon also manages the United Way chapter’s outreach programs that provide summer meals to New Yorkers and operate community centers connecting families to social services and other resources. Gannon credits some of his success in leadership to previous experience working with the United States military. “When I was in contract with the army, it was doing real estate development and attracting private entities to invest in underutilized government facilities,” he says. “I think managing relationships with a number of stakeholders and a lot of different audiences was a huge strength that I gained.” – J.S.

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MICHAEL GARNER CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER Metropolitan Transportation Authority

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority paid out $916 million in contracts to minority- and women-owned business enterprises during fiscal year 2021 – more than any other state agency or authority. As the MTA’s chief diversity officer, Michael Garner played an essential role in that achievement, which he attributes largely to the MTA’s Small Business Mentoring Program. The program helps certified businesses develop to eventually be able to bid directly on contracts ranging from $100,000 to $3 million. Garner crafted the program after joining the MTA about a decade ago. Since then, it has awarded $560 million in contracts to MWBEs and small contractors. “It’s one thing for a small, minority-owned business to work as a subcontractor,” he says. “It’s a different thing where they’re working as a prime contractor to North America’s largest transportation network.” Garner has also made sure that the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t stop the MTA from reaching its MWBE utilization goals, awarding more than $100 million in contracts over an eight-month period in 2021. “We went out of our way to solicit quotations and get the minority business community involved in selling us COVID-19 products and equipment including masks and gloves,” he says. “And a lot of those companies that we hired to sanitize our system were in New York state-certified minority- and women-owned firms.” – K.D.

ARUN GHOSH CLIMATE DATA AND TECHNOLOGY GTM LEADER

Cryptocurrency has rapidly proliferated in use across the world. About 16% of adults in the United States say they’ve used or invested in cryptocurrencies, while big cities like New York and Miami are helmed by mayors who have courted the cryptocurrency industry. Arun Ghosh of KPMG, a multinational accounting firm, has spearheaded efforts to help governments and companies integrate the blockchain technology into their work. “There are big, vocal champions disrupting their own governments in terms of absorbing, understanding and incorporating blockchain technology. New York is one of the most advanced in terms of how they want to regulate and how they want to see companies participating in the web3 ecosystem,” says Ghosh, referring to the concept of forming a decentralized internet based on blockchain technology. A major product he helped launch, KPMG Chain Fusion, makes it easier for the multinational accounting firm’s clients to offer cryptocurrency-related services to their customers by integrating a number of related technologies needed to facilitate cryptocurrency transactions. Ghosh’s work now leans more toward supporting clients’ climate goals. He helps companies create scalable plans to reach targets related to decarbonization and net-zero emissions, as well as helping them integrate technology that advances their environmental, social and governance goals. Ghosh advises those looking to work in cryptocurrency to gain hands-on experience. “I’ll break it down very simply: it’s one thing to read, it’s another thing to actually transact,” he says. “You only learn by doing.” – J.S.

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IRA GOLDSTEIN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Black Car Fund

The Black Car Fund’s efforts in support of independent black car drivers dates back to 1999. That’s when then-Gov. George Pataki signed state legislation creating the organization, which used a surcharge paid by customers to guarantee that drivers have access to workers’ compensation coverage. More than two decades later, Ira Goldstein oversees work at the fund that goes beyond workers’ compensation. About 100,000 black car and rideshare drivers now have access to a myriad of other benefits through The Black Car Fund, including a $50,000 death benefit for driver’s beneficiaries, health benefits giving them access to vision, dental and telemedicine services, and wellness classes. The fund has also made sure to keep assisting drivers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It gave out about 15,000 kits consisting of personal protective equipment such as masks and hand sanitizer to drivers early on in the pandemic. And during the surge of cases related to the omicron variant, The Black Car Fund teamed up with the Independent Drivers Guild to distribute thousands of at-home COVID-19 tests to drivers at LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports in Queens. Goldstein takes obvious pride in leading an organization that takes innovative approaches to helping independent workers who may not always have a safety net. “It also allows the public to have more confidence in the drivers,” he says, “that when they’re getting in the car, they’re well taken care of and that it’s safe.” – K.D.

LAWRENCE HAMMOND & WILHELMENA NORMANHERNANDEZ SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF ACCESS; ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, MANAGER OF COMMUNITY IMPACT FOR ACCESS

After George Floyd was killed and racial justice protests swept the nation in 2020, many companies began to evaluate whether there was more they could do. The Community Preservation Corp., an affordable housing finance company, was no exception. Those internal discussions resulted in the creation of its ACCESS initiative in 2020. Funded with $40 million, the initiative provides capital and assistance to entrepreneurs of color in New York aiming to build new housing. Lawrence Hammond and Wilhelmena Norman-Hernandez, both longtime employees at the Community Preservation Corp., are charged with ensuring the initiative’s success. To that end, they’ve surveyed developers to identify their needs and developed strategies to support their growth and finance their projects. “We become that friends-and-family network that, oftentimes, majority developers have inherently through generational wealth creation,” Hammond says. ACCESS works with businesses owned by people of color across all levels of experience. The organization runs a training program in upstate New York for less experienced real estate developers, preparing them to work with its lending teams on future projects. But the initiative also provides working capital to more experienced developers and even more specific technical assistance. That work has been transformational. – K.D.

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AMY PERLIK HEALY VICE PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Grubhub

When Grubhub assembled its first government affairs team in early 2020, the online food delivery company turned to Amy Perlik Healy to lead its work. Experienced in governmental relations and public policy in New York City and Washington, D.C., Healy now oversees a team that communicates with local, state and federal lawmakers, and raises awareness for the needs of Grubhub and its delivery workers. Healy works closely with staff members across the country, playing a key role in setting the company’s public policy strategy while also coordinating with other organizations and allies, such as restaurant associations. “In order to be effective, we have to have open dialogue with policymakers,” she says. “We need that transparency so that we can work together to pass laws that allow our business and restaurants to grow.” In recent months, Healy has been pushing for the passage of the Food Donation Improvement Act, a proposed federal bill that would provide more leeway to restaurants, grocery stores and schools to donate food to people in need without legal liability. The legislation aims to reduce both food insecurity and food waste across the country. “It’s local community-based restaurants being able to provide good quality food that might otherwise go to waste to local people in need,” Healy says of the legislation. – J.S.

RONNIE HECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

As the leader of the SUNY Bronx Educational Opportunity Center, Ronnie Hector helps Bronx residents and employers alike. That was illustrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the state allowed more people to become temporary nursing assistants. Hector’s organization provided training to help those workers become fully certified nursing assistants – and is now expanding that effort with nursing homes. “Being able to, as a group of folks, look at how we can serve the city better by addressing the needs of employers is something that I’m very, very excited about,” he says, highlighting the collaborative work done by Educational Opportunity Centers, or EOCs, around New York City. His organization has been active in helping locals find health care jobs. That goes beyond just getting residents employed – the centers also help clients advance their careers. “They’re stackable now and they are career-pathway focused and student-centered,” Hector explains. “So if you’re a home health aide, you can then move on to actually work for six months, and if you’re in good standing, you’d come back to the EOC and become a medical assistant or a nursing assistant.” Hector has ensured those courses and trainings have continued during the pandemic, offering programs in-person and remotely – and providing laptops for students to continue attending classes. “It’s not just people coming into the EOC,” he says, but the center “going out into the community and serving people where they are.” – K.D.

AMY PERLIK HEALY; RONNIE HECTOR

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JEN HENSLEY VICE PRESIDENT, HEAD OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Lyft

Jen Hensley was working in marketing and external affairs at the Alliance for Downtown New York, a lower Manhattan business improvement district, during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As the organization’s priorities shifted to contend with the aftermath of the tragedy, Hensley was exposed to the power of the intersection of public and private partnerships as the alliance used private funding to support 9/11 recovery efforts and to help families and small businesses directly affected by the attacks. The experience set Hensley on a course of corporate advocacy, leading to her current position at Lyft as a vice president and head of government relations. Since joining Lyft, she has spearheaded numerous efforts to support gig workers, who are vital to the rideshare company’s work. “We at Lyft spend a lot of time and resources building direct relationships with drivers, listening to them about their experiences on the platform and what they need in order to maximize their experience on Lyft,” Hensley says. “This was very, very central to our business, ensuring that drivers are able to protect their flexibility and independence.” Hensley successfully pushed for groundbreaking legislation to help rideshare drivers in Washington state earlier this year, creating a model for other states. Her work led to Lyft drivers obtaining benefits such as paid sick leave and support for workers who have their accounts unjustly deactivated by the company. She’s now working to get similar legislation passed in other states as well. – J.S.

HANNAH JACKSON ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, AMBULATORY CARE AND POPULATION HEALTH

In February 2020, Dr. Hannah Jackson was assisting with a threeyear pilot program at New York City Health + Hospitals to expand digital health services. A month later, the COVID-19 pandemic began to ravage New York City – and Jackson was tasked with scaling up telehealth infrastructure seemingly overnight. “We had a couple of pilot visits total in the month of February and then, by the first week of March, we were doing 20,000 visits a week,” she recalls. Two years later, Jackson has transformed that telemedicine infrastructure beyond emergency response and into a key tool to better deliver health care – just one of many initiatives she has taken on since joining the city’s public hospital system in 2018 to help improve its approach to primary care and outpatient care. Those measures address everything from ensuring that patients can continue seeing their own doctor to improving scheduling. For Jackson, that means proactively identifying challenges, evaluating data and patient outcomes, and researching successful approaches at other health systems. That’s what went into one major initiative Jackson crafted at Health + Hospitals: the Collaborative Drug Therapy Management program, which brings on specially trained pharmacists embedded in care teams throughout the health system. Being able to work in a large health system in New York City fuels Jackson’s work: As she explains it, “You get to do a small thing in our health system and it immediately affects a million outpatients.” – K.D.

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PHIL JONES SENIOR DIRECTOR, NORTH – U.S. Lime

In the past several years, micromobility has boomed in New York City – largely because electric scooters and throttle-based electric bicycles were illegal to use in New York state until 2020. Phil Jones played a key role in that legalization push. Part of the movement’s success came by partnering with delivery workers, who were also advocating for the legislation because they used electric bikes and scooters to make deliveries. “We partnered very closely with the delivery workers’ coalition in the work that we were doing,” he says, “not only because we saw this new form of transportation as a sustainable and reliable option for people in the city, but also because we were really talking about the same thing.” Now, Jones is helping Lime expand its work in New York City. The company participated in the New York City Department of Transportation’s pilot program rolling out e-scooters in the eastern portion of the Bronx last August. Since then, riders have made more than 225,000 trips using Lime’s scooters to get around. Starting this summer, the pilot program is entering its second phase, expanding the number of available scooters from 3,000 to 6,000 and including more neighborhoods. “I think you’re going to see it grow and proliferate throughout the city,” Jones says. “So it won’t stop just in the Bronx. It will be something that you’ll see in the other boroughs as well, especially those that have connectivity issues or have transit deserts.” – K.D.

TANIA JOSPITRE VICE PRESIDENT OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT, EVALUATION AND TRAINING

Tania Jospitre first joined the Urban Resource Institute about a decade ago, taking a role interviewing survivors of domestic violence and studying their experiences over time. After leaving to work in New York City government and at another nonprofit, Jospitre returned to the organization in 2018, this time to head a new department. Plenty had changed since she first worked at the Urban Resource Institute. The organization had grown, operating many more domestic violence and family shelters, and taking on new programs, including abuse prevention initiatives. As vice president of quality improvement, evaluation and training, Jospitre is now focused on ensuring they all run effectively and best serve their clients. One piece of that is collecting accurate data to evaluate programs. “Before this department, we were very much a paper-based agency,” she says. “You can imagine, all of our information, in terms of our clients, was kept in paper-based charts.” Jospitre spearheaded the shift to electronic record-keeping, instituting a new cloud-based case management system, which she says has led to “a lot more efficiency.” Jospitre also oversees staff development initiatives. “We have well over 50 trainings that are available to staff,” she says, “trainings that really focus on engagement skills, how to effectively engage clients in a way that’s nonjudgmental, neutral, trauma-informed.” What has been Jospitre’s proudest professional accomplishment? Building effective, innovative teams throughout her career. – K.D.

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MATTHEW KHALED ADJUNCT PROFESSOR Metropolitan College of New York

Matthew Khaled initially planned to pursue a career in human resources recruitment. But after speaking with the first program director for emergency management at the Metropolitan College of New York, his mind was changed. “I didn’t realize that there were all these systems and people and processes that were in place to help people after an emergency – and I was just completely enthralled,” he recalls. Bringing with him an extensive career in academia and government, Khaled returned to his alma mater starting in 2011 to engage students interested in the field. Since then, he has taught classes aimed at giving students real-life experience in helping an organization on a project, such as developing emergency plans. One of those projects includes collaborating with residents of Co-op City in the Bronx to research and implement text messaging and social media platforms that can be used to communicate with residents to share information in the event of an emergency. Beyond his teaching work, Khaled also leads emergency preparedness initiatives at the utility company PSEG. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, he has been able to lead training programs remotely with staff, preparing them for worst-case scenarios surrounding gas leak emergencies. The company also established a virtual emergency operation center, which Khaled and others at PSEG have used to coordinate with one another while responding to recent storms such as Hurricane Ida. “I’ve always wanted to help people,” he says. “That’s always been the common thread in anything I’ve done.” – K.D.

LLOYD LEVINE NATIONAL SENIOR EXECUTIVE FOR STATE GOVERNMENT STRATEGY

As remote work becomes more common thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Lloyd Levine is helping state governments modernize their technology to adapt and attract workers. Levine says T-Mobile is offering an inexpensive way to enable a hybrid work system for employees, providing the infrastructure for them to work both at home and in person. For example, the telecommunications company has products that allow for content filtering to block websites unrelated to work and has measures to keep cybersecurity up to date. “If you’re an employee in California at the Department of Motor Vehicles, you’re in a secure facility and you have secure computing connections,” he says. “You’re potentially accessing Social Security or other tax ID numbers. I’m not worried about the employees, we’ve got protections there, but when you send those employees home, they’re now operating on an unsecured router. I’m sure the cybercriminals are well aware of that.” Throughout his time at T-Mobile, Levine has built teams of consultants across the country who are familiar with their respective state governments and can educate government officials about the company’s technology. His team assesses governments’ needs and develops potential solutions that the company can provide. “Yes, we are excellent at selling phones,” he says, “but we do so much more than that.” – J.S.

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MELANIE LITTLEJOHN VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY AND CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT National Grid

JOMIL LUNA PHARMACY SPECIALIST AIDS Healthcare Foundation

For Jomil Luna, the professional and personal aren’t very far apart. Whether he’s helping host LGBTQ events or doing volunteer advocacy, Luna is also a trusted resource for people seeking advice or services related to HIV treatment and prevention. “It makes me feel extremely happy that I am like a figure in the community that people can honestly trust, that people feel comfortable with,” he says. Born and raised in Camden, New Jersey, Luna went to Rutgers University with plans to become a doctor – but he studied public health instead. That led him to an internship at the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation, where he began helping people with HIV not long after getting his own HIV diagnosis. Now, Luna serves as a pharmacy specialist at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, where he helps HIV and PrEP patients navigate the process of accessing medical care, understanding insurance coverage and getting to appointments. Those efforts continued during the COVID-19 pandemic, as he kept connecting patients to telemedicine appointments. Luna keeps busy with plenty of other activities, including planning for The Bronx LGBT Expo, which was founded by a late friend of his, organizing performances and bringing on vendors for the event. On top of that, Luna has advocated for funding for a federal government program that helps safety net providers obtain HIV/AIDS drugs and regularly interviews people for a community spotlight project he puts online. – K.D.

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Having grown up with parents who fostered 24 girls, Melanie Littlejohn fully understands the value of serving others. She brings this spirit of service to her work at National Grid, an electric and gas utility serving more than 20 million U.S. customers As vice president of community and customer engagement, she strives to educate the public about National Grid and its impact on the environment. Littlejohn, who has spent nearly three decades at the company, also oversees its corporate social responsibility initiatives, such as Project C, a program that provides funding to sustainable construction projects and is spearheaded by community organizations, cultural institutions and affordable housing developers. The Syracuse-based executive strives to drive environmental stewardship and social impact forward through her work, with a focus on workforce development and neighborhood investment. “We are doing a tremendous amount of work in clean energy and community engagement,” Littlejohn says. “You can’t focus on one end and not look at the whole intent of being a good corporate steward.” Littlejohn lists supporting customers in Far Rockaway in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy as one of the most notable accomplishments of her career. “They needed homes to have power restored to,” she says. “We spent three months in a parking lot in Far Rockaway, New York, working with unbelievable community partners.” Helping others recover from great loss has shaped her as a person, she says, and continues to impact her goals for bettering the community. – J.S.

June 27 - July 4, 2022

City & State New York

KAELA MAINSAH DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE New York Power Authority

Leading environmental justice initiatives at the New York Power Authority allows Kaela Mainsah to bring her “whole self” to work. “It’s not very often that you can bring your whole cultural heritage and your technical career together for the benefit of the job,” says Mainsah, a native of Zambia and a chemical engineer. She plays a key role in leading programs at the New York Power Authority aimed at supporting communities across the state located near the public utility’s facilities. One piece of that is NYPA’s workforce development and youth education programs centered on science, technology, engineering and math. “We want to make sure that they are aware that the jobs of the future are going to be in clean energy,” she says. That exposure comes in various forms, including hands-on projects teaching students about electric vehicles, helping students interested in STEM careers to obtain an associate’s degree and hosting workshops for youth. Mainsah also oversees energy projects designed to help the broader community. One recent initiative she handled came about during the COVID-19 pandemic, as food insecurity and hunger increased. She partnered with food banks and urban growers to establish hydroponic gardens, which allow food to be grown indoors without soil. That initiative had the dual goals of supporting research into sustainable agriculture and allowing local residents to grow their own produce. Those efforts resulted in 12,000 kale plants that produced 700 pounds of produce enjoyed by Buffalo residents. – K.D.

KRISTIN MALEK GLOBAL DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DIVERSITY CDW

As the COVID-19 pandemic decimated businesses owned by people of color, Kristin Malek has been busy crafting solutions to best support local entrepreneurs. For Malek, that’s not just celebrating “mandates and percentages” or giving businesses access to capital. As she puts it: “It’s making sure they have the ability to grow and have capacity, and to partner with our organization.” CDW, a company that provides technology products to governments, businesses and other institutions, regularly coordinates with small businesses owned by people from disadvantaged communities. Malek spearheads those partnerships, helping steer some $3.4 billion in funding to diverse suppliers throughout 2021. Her work has only expanded in the past several years – recently, her team doubled in size. Malek also oversaw the creation of a new mentorship protege program aimed at building even more opportunities at CDW. Five businesses certified as minority- and women-owned business enterprises in New York City are currently part of the program, through which they simultaneously participate in trainings and work with CDW’s sales team. The revenue for those five MWBEs has tripled since the program’s inception, according to Malek. “There’s a gap of legacy ways of doing impactful sourcing and now there are transformative ways,” she says. “And so we believe that you can do both. You can be a teacher, but make them revenue-enabling programs.” – K.D.

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TERRI MATTHEWS DIRECTOR, TOWN+GOWN New York City Department of Design and Construction

SHARMEELA MEDIRATTA VICE PRESIDENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELLNESS AND CHIEF ADVOCACY OFFICER Graham Windham

After spending more than a decade at Graham Windham, Sharmeela Mediratta has earned a reputation as an innovative leader in New York’s child welfare sector. The nonprofit organization, which provides services such as internship programs and mental health services to children and families, has created groundbreaking programming under Mediratta’s supervision. One notable program, the Graham SLAM, provides ongoing support to foster youth even after they have left the foster care system, up until the age of 26. Youth coaches advise young adults through different stages of their lives, from high school into college and until they begin their careers. “My role was to convene a group of people who really understood what was needed and wanted, and that included a number of young people who were in foster care and listening to what had been helpful to them,” she says. Mediratta also helped establish O.U.R. Place, a family enrichment center created with government support from the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. It serves as a community center for vulnerable local families in the Bronx, connecting them to financial counseling, housing assistance and other resources. For Mediratta, the key to successful advocacy is listening to people and communities. “How do you create solutions to the issues that constituents are bringing forth? How do you listen to what they are asking for?” she says. – J.S.

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New York City’s Town+Gown program is a unique partnership that brings together academics and professionals working in construction and in the city’s built environment. Run by the New York City Department of Design and Construction’s Terri Matthews, the initiative aims to foster projects between scholars studying the field and those working in it, while also cultivating research to develop new policies and best practices. “Because we’re in government, we can support academic research,” she says. “We’ve solved the procurement problem. It makes it easier for universities to collaborate with us.” Matthews’ interest in construction dates back to her time working in procurement in the Bloomberg administration. Procurement in New York City is divided into various fields such as human services, construction and goods. To her, construction seemed like a much simpler aspect of the process to focus on improving. Matthews volunteered to manage a working group that was focused on procurement-related work and construction. “What they were lacking was the ability to investigate underlying causes and systemic interactions,” she says. “What I noticed was that there was no easy way for agencies to get academic resources.” That experience ultimately empowered her to understand the need for and value of marrying practical and academic knowledge, a revelation that fueled the creation of Town+Gown. Matthews says the program could be a model for other parts of the state with concentrations of universities, working to improve infrastructure beyond New York City. – J.S.

June 27 - July 4, 2022

City & State New York

TUNISIA MORRISON MANAGER, EXTERNAL AFFAIRS AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH, JFK REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Tunisia Morrison’s passion for advocacy and community work is in her blood. She grew up shuttling between her parents’ home in South Jamaica and Crown Heights, where her grandparents lived. Her grandmother had founded Cush Campus Schools, a private school educating students in the predominantly Black community, while her grandfather was a close associate of Malcolm X. “That was my childhood: growing up learning public speaking and advocacy, not really realizing how innate it was in my life until I got to college,” she says. Morrison started her career at a lobbying firm, where she learned formative lessons for the future. “Though I had a company that was paying me to represent them, I felt so strongly about bridging the gap,” she says, “being the person that also went to the community to say, well, what is it that you want that I can amplify?” She went on to become Assembly Member Alicia Hyndman’s chief of staff, immersing herself in the communities of Southeast Queens and helping spearhead legislation to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday. Now at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, she is working to ensure the residents of Southeast Queens are engaged and involved as John F. Kennedy International Airport undergoes a multibillion-dollar redevelopment. “I’m literally on a tour of both worlds,” she says, “and being this bridge somewhere in the middle.” – K.D.

CATHERINE MOSS VICE PRESIDENT, SPECIAL OPERATIONS ADCO Electrical Corp.

Catherine Moss landed her first job in construction while she was in college at Fordham University, and she never looked back. A decade later, she discovered that she didn’t have to choose between having a family and an executive-level role in the industry – she could do both. Now, Moss is part of the management team at ADCO Electrical Corp., where she oversees a wide range of technology projects. And she wants to serve as a role model for others interested in the construction industry. She says women do not see construction as a viable career path largely because they are vastly underrepresented in the industry, especially at the management level. “You can’t be what you can’t see,” says Moss, who also serves as a board member for the nonprofit Nontraditional Employment for Women. But for many women who have few other employment opportunities, she adds, a job in the trades is an opportunity to “provide for their entire family and make a lucrative career out of it.” In New York, women account for just 7.6% of construction occupations such as carpentry, plumbing, pipefitting and electrical work, according to a 2016 report from the New York Building Congress. But Nontraditional Employment for Women – which has helped place approximately 3,000 women in trades careers since 2005 – is working to increase these numbers by helping women from low-income and underserved communities build careers in this industry. “It was an organization that I just couldn’t look away from,” Moss says. – A.P.

48 PUBLISHER’S SECTION

June 27 - July 4, 2022

CAL NATHAN MANAGING PARTNER IDEKO

Running IDEKO, one of New York’s leading experiential event agencies, is no small job, but Cal Nathan has successfully orchestrated high-profile and large-scale live events worldwide. Together with his business partner Evan Korn, Nathan has worked with prominent brands and companies to advertise their products. That includes supporting a project run by late fashion designer Virgil Abloh, in which decorated spheres were placed across New York City to highlight a collaboration between Nike and Louis Vuitton. In 2018, Nathan also helped produce a surprise concert for Calvin Klein and Amazon Fashion featuring rapper A$AP Rocky, promoting the brands’ new partnership. Now, after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, Nathan sees live events as vital to New York City residents and tourists alike as travel picks up again. “I think it’s important to note that we’re bringing people back to the city,” he says. “The city is coming back to life and visitors are returning after the pandemic, and we are encouraging these types of brand activations. Bringing people out to experiences and drawing them into the city is something that I’m very proud of.” Beyond his work at IDEKO, Nathan is also heavily involved with Teach NYS, a group he helped found that advocates for government funding for private Jewish, Catholic, Islamic and independent schools in the state. He has actively worked to advance STEM education in those schools, supporting efforts to build STEM labs where students “can build things and see technology and innovation in action.” – J.S.

RACHEL NOERDLINGER PARTNER

Rachel Noerdlinger made headlines earlier this year when she joined Actum, a global consultancy firm launched in late 2021. Alongside fellow Mercury alum Michael McKeon, Noerdlinger has played a vital role in building up the firm’s New York office since January. The veteran communications strategist has made strides to put Actum on the map. Actum’s New York office now boasts 12 employees and made a splash with a recent hire: former Bronx Borough President Rubén Diaz Jr. “For me, one of the joys so far … is the marriage, the intersectionality between a high-level media strategy and amplifying issues and brands, and legislative items,” she says, “to the duality of building a practice that is very strong around coalition-building.” For Noerdlinger, coalition-building encompasses everything from the upcoming midterm elections to racial justice. “We have so many different issues that we need to mobilize around, whether it’s criminal justice reform, climate justice, cannabis, gun violence reform,” she says. Mobilizing around civil rights issues has been a long-running theme throughout Noerdlinger’s career. This year marks the 25th anniversary of her work as the go-to spokesperson for the Rev. Al Sharpton. But especially in the wake of the deadly Buffalo supermarket shooting this year, she understands there’s much more work to be done to combat racism and violence. “It’s hard to measure what success looks like in racial justice when you have so much working against you,” she says. “But you’ve got to wake up every day and be faithful and really have conviction.” – K.D.

REBECCA STERNBERGER; ACTUM PUBLIC AFFAIRS; LAUREN BRETTON; RACHEL REA

Actum

June 27 - July 4, 2022

City & State New York

MARYANN PAGANO CEO BlackHawk Data

Since she co-founded her company in 2018, Maryann Pagano has overcome plenty of obstacles. That includes growing to a staff of 30 – despite the COVID-19 pandemic – and confronting preconceived notions of what a women-owned business can do. “Sometimes, when I first started saying ‘diversity partner,’ it came with a tough stigma,” she says. But her company, BlackHawk Data, proved that “a diversity partner has the chops to do what’s needed and the skill that is needed.” Pagano, who has 15 years of experience working with state and local governments, now helps deliver a range of technology solutions to New York City agencies. What sets BlackHawk Data apart for her is that it takes a broad look at what agencies need when delivering its services. “At my old job, we sold to the city,” she says. “We only sold one vendor. But we never really looked at the city holistically and said, ‘What’s best for the city? What are they trying to solve? What vendor would work best in their environment?’” Beyond the day-to-day work, Pagano prides herself on mentoring her employees and establishing a professional environment that allows them to become immersed in different aspects of the company’s work, whether it’s finance or sales or marketing. “I think not building silos is what makes it successful,” she says. “Because people can feed off each other and help each other and feel it’s okay to jump in when you want to.” – K.D.

RACHEL REA SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS Boingo Wireless

For Rachel Rea, working at Boingo Wireless presents a chance to dive into exciting and innovative projects. “I don’t think people traditionally think about telecommunications as an extremely innovative industry, right?” she says. “They think of your old parents’ phone lines or whatever.” But that’s not how Rea sees it. As senior vice president for operations at Boingo, she has had a hand in major expansions of wireless networks in the New York metropolitan region, managing their construction, activation and maintenance. The company has worked closely with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, expanding wireless services to terminals and airports. One project Rea is particularly proud to have worked on is bringing wireless services to East Side Access. More than a decade in the works, the $11 billion construction project connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal is expected to be completed by the end of the year – and will feature 4G and 5G voice and data service thanks to Boingo. “When you do walk through it and you look at just what’s been built and how seamless the connectivity is, while you’re going from two stories underground to 21 stories underground – it’s pretty incredible what we built there,” she says. Her advice for people interested in working in the wireless industry? Keep looking forward. “Don’t just think about the past,” she says. “Think about where this could possibly go.” – K.D.

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June 27 - July 4, 2022

JOHN SHEGERIAN CHAIR AND CEO ERI

John Shegerian has a message for New York City apartment dwellers: Tell your super to contact Electronic Recyclers International and request a bin. Your neighbors will thank you. “Everyone has junk, whether it’s cables or mice or keyboards or laptops that need to be recycled responsibly,” says Shegerian, who co-founded the e-waste recycling company in 2002. “And they hold on to them because they don’t know what to do with them.” Shegerian, who was born and raised in Queens, says securing a contract with the New York City Department of Sanitation in 2013 – with the help of his wife and fellow co-founder Tammy Shegerian – was a pivotal moment for his company. Since then, ERI has seen significant success citywide, distributing its recycling bins to more than 8,000 buildings. “You want to show your hometown that you did some good here,” Shegerian says. “If we can make it here, we’re now going to be able to make it anywhere.” Nationwide, the company has recycled more than 3 billion pounds of electronic waste to date. Like other organizations that Shegerian has co-founded with various business partners – offering second chances to formerly incarcerated individuals through Homeboy Industries, making financial aid more accessible at FinancialAid.com and helping people sleep better with Som Sleep, to name several – ERI measures success based on what he calls “a social impact bottom line.” “My companies not only need to make a profit, they also need to make the world a better place,” Shegerian says. – A.P.

TERRANCE STROUD DEPUTY COMMISSIONER

A fourth-generation educator who has worked with several New York City agencies in the last 15 years – and also serves as an adjunct professor at Indiana University – Terrence Stroud says he loves having the kind of job where every day is an opportunity to make an impact on someone’s life. “We are doing adult education,” says Stroud, who oversees training and workforce development programs at the New York City Department of Social Services, the nation’s largest municipal social services agency. “We’re teaching and educating our staff on critical policies and systems, and professional development.” Stroud says the structure underpinning all of this work is an agencywide learning model he developed along with his team of about 150 staff members, which includes four key areas: curriculum development, technology solutions, evaluation practice and equity. Each of the four pillars includes programs and initiatives that often use the expertise of outside organizations, such as the agency’s partnership with CUNY to launch anti-bias training for staff members. Over the years, Stroud worked his way up to leadership roles at the city Department of Citywide Administrative Services and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development before joining the Department of Social Services in 2018. Ever since Stroud began his career with the city, he knew that if he ever had the opportunity to lead a team, he wanted to give everyone a chance to have their voices heard. “There are people that have been here for decades, so they have a wealth of knowledge,” he says. – A.P.

ERI; TERRANCE STROUD; DEVIN TUCKER; CELESTE SLOMAN

New York City Department of Social Services

June 27 - July 4, 2022

City & State New York

DEVIN TUCKER VICE PRESIDENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES Fairstead

With more than 15 years of experience, Devin Tucker has been a powerful force in advocating for affordable housing. Previously, Tucker worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a national director at the National Housing Trust. Those roles eventually led him to his current position as vice president of social services at the real estate company Fairstead, where he oversees initiatives connecting community residents to social services promoting health and wellness, financial literacy and workforce development. “I think what we’ve been able to accomplish at Fairstead is to demonstrate how housing can be a platform for supporting health and wellness needs and, in this case, how it is a public emergency,” he says. For example, in the past year, Tucker estimates the company hosted nearly 40 COVID-19 vaccination clinics. “That’s especially important considering that about two-thirds of our current portfolio is senior communities,” he says. Tucker has also been supporting projects that would bring more access to technology and recreational facilities for Fairstead residents. Tucker says that mission-driven real estate needs more humanitarians and urges people to think about how their career skills, even if they are concentrated in a different discipline, can be used to help advocate for affordable housing. “You may be a doctor, for example, but think more broadly about how what you are learning can be applied to an affordable housing context or a context where there are low-income residents,” he says. – J.S.

ANGELA WU DIRECTOR Slalom

Angela Wu’s upbringing informs her passion for making government work better. When her parents immigrated to New York in the 1980s, they struggled financially, relying on public assistance to get baby formula. What made a difference in changing their circumstances, Wu remembers, is when her father secured a job with the U.S. Postal Service. “I became the first one in my family to go to college – and I now have a Harvard degree and two master’s degrees from Yale,” she says. “And I think for me, none of that would have been possible if the government hadn’t been there to support us.” She started her career at a firm transforming formerly industrial wasteland into public parks, working on projects such as the transformation of Brooklyn Bridge Park. “Coming out of that experience is when I realized one of the biggest stakeholders – if not the biggest stakeholder – driving the transformative future state of cities and states is government itself.” Wu went on to join the consulting firm Guidehouse, where she helped New York City and New York state agencies to solve various challenges. For example, she has worked with the city Department of Homeless Services to assess homelessness initiatives across all city agencies. During the pandemic, Wu has also worked with local and state governments to figure out how to best manage federal funding. Recently, she made the move to Slalom, where she will continue to advise government leaders on innovative solutions, with an emphasis on using technology to achieve them. – K.D.

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Notice of Formation of 142 WATTS HOLDING, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/10/22.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400, Harrison, N Y, 10528.Any lawful purpose.

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

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

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

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Public Notice Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on July 1st, 2022 and end on July 12, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: C ontent s of ro oms generally contain misc. #3438 – Earthel Southerland; 4-plastic milk crates, 20-25 boxes, med ladder, small ladder, and shovel. #6003 – Nyagra Reign Inc. c/o Tamura Bakr; 2 box fans, aprox.12 box crates, 2 plastic totes, approx. 20 boxes, and 2 large garbage bags. 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 Taimata, LLC filed with SSNY on 04/04/2022. O f f i c e: We s tc h e s te r County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 485 E. Lincoln Avenue #603 Fleetwood, NY 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. STB III ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/12/22. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 333 East 46th Street, #6H, New York, NY 10017. Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

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

Notice of Qual. of LIC NORTHERN BOULEVARD OWNER, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 05/24/2022. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 03/16/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O CORPORATE CREATIONS NETWORK INC. 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. JFJA Hudson Yards LLC – Auth. filed with Secy. Of State of NY (S SN Y ) on 6/29/21 . Of fice location: New York Co. LLC formed in DE on 6/8/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to: Ganfer Shore L e e d s & Z au d e r e r LLP, 36 0 Lexington Avenue, 13th Floor, New York , NY, 10017. DE addr. O f L LC: c/o Delaware Corporation Organizers, Inc. 1201 N. Market St Fl 18 P.O. Box 1347 Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert of Form. filed with DE Sec of S t a te , 4 0 1 F e d e r al St, D ove r, DE 1 9 9 0 1 . Purp ose: all lawful purposes. Notice of Qual. of DRIP CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 0 5/2 0/2 0 2 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 5500 MAIN S T R E E T, S T E 3 4 5 , BUFFALO, NY 14221. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, for beer, liquor and wine, has been applied for by Sweet Chick Union SQ LLC to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 32 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption. Sweet Chick Union SQ LLC Notice of Formation of 1522 BERKELE Y, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 4 / 2 9/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Chemung SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to ONE COMMERCE PLAZA, 99 WA S H I N G TO N AV E , SUITE 805-A ALBANY, NY 12210. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SHOPCOVERSNLOVERS, LLC . A r t s . of O rg . filed with S SN Y on 05/31/2022.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. S S N Y m ail p ro c e s s to 1 IRVING PL APT P10G, NEW YORK, NY, 1 0 0 0 3 - 97 3 6 . A ny lawful purpose. VITALE, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/23/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 155 W. 18th St., Apt 503, NY, NY 10011. Reg Agent: Nicole Vitale, 155 W. 18th St., Apt 503, NY, NY 10011 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of BURGHARDT’S PR OPE R T Y G R OU P, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/27/22. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 136 6 K inderhook Rd, Chittenango, NY 1 3 0 3 7. Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of LUCY MCKEON LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/3/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 831 Saint Johns Pl Apt 12, Brooklyn, NY 11216. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of NITE SWIM LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/12/2021. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 302 CLINTON STREET, APT 1, BROOKLYN, NY, 11201. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NONNO POP’S GOURMET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 5/2 0 2 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 2253 EAST 64TH STREE T, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11234. Any lawful purpose. Notice of SHAMOSH 1 REALTY LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/18/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 8/31/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1527 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 12230. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 65 BAKERTOWN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/12/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 67 Bakertown Rd Monroe, NY 10950. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SM CATS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/12/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2662 EAST 26 STREET, APT 2 B, BROOKLYN, NY 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of TAHA3628 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/16/2022. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 357 BRIGHTON ST, STATEN ISL AND, NY, 10309. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of W YONA RESIDENCE LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 5/13/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 183 WILSON STREET STE 185, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 642 E AST 88TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/14/2022.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 115 HAROLD ROAD, WOODMERE, NY, 11598. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ARCTIC FILM CAMP, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/13.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 133 W. 19th Street 10th Fl New York , NY 10011. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BUNNAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/2021. Of fice location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1396 FL ATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11210. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of CJ S H E PA R D REMODELING LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5 / 1 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 253 CAVERNS RD, HOWES CAVES, NY, 12092. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of J & M BROAD PROPERTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2015.Of fice location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 85 OCEANIC AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of K AM & HOLLY LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 7109 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LUCA LAW, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/22/2022.Office loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of ATELIER DENAVAUT LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 873 BROADWAY, STE 305, NEW YORK, NY, 10003.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 28 Lyman Place LLC, filed with SSNY on 1/20/22. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 28 Lyman Place, Staten Island NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. H A L CYO N S E A R C H GROUP LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/24/22. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 309 East 87th St., #5A, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L MANAGEMENT LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 7/ 1 7/2 0 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL M A N A G E M E N T L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of CAZENOVIA RENTALS, LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 2 /2 0 2 2 . Office location Madison SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7 RIPPLETON R OA D, CA ZENOV IA , N Y, 13035. Any lawful purpose.

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

Notice of Formation of KAHNSTRUCT TRIBECA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 05/17/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Moses &amp; Singer LLP, Attn: Irving Sitnick, Esq., 405 Lexington Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10174. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of Third Star Property Group, LLC filed with SSNY on April 4/22/22. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 332 W. 101st St. Apt. 3F New York, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. McAdoo Estate Planning, LLC filed Arts of Org with the SSNY on 4/27/2022 Office:NEW YORK Count y SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 99 Wall Street, #2139, New York, NY 10005 The principal business address of the PLLC 99 Wall Street,New York,NY 10005 Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of CITYWIDE B U I L D I N G SYS T E M CONSULTANTS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretar y of State of New York on 05/20/2022. Office located in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to CITYWIDE BUILDING SYSTEM CONSULTANTS LLC: 923 SAW MILL RIVER ROAD, #283, ARDSLEY, NY, 10502, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L DOMESTIC FUND LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 9/0 8/2 0 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL DOMESTIC FUND L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L TACTICAL FUND LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 1/0 6/2 1 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL TA C T I C A L FUND L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of 67 BAK ER TOWN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/13/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 67 Bakertown Rd Monroe, NY 10950. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 147 JAFFRAY STREET LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 12/14/2021.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 147 JAFFRAY STREE T, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 336 HUMBOLDT STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 9/2 0 2 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 19 KENNINGTON S T R E E T, S TAT E N I S L A N D, N Y, 1 0 3 0 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of ADELPHI 23 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/18/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 61 GREENPOINT AVE, STE 601, BROOKLYN, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 2004 GLENWOOD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/21/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 61 GREENPOINT AVENUE SUITE 601, BROOKLYN, NY, 1222. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of M AG A Z I N E S H O M E LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/26/2022. Office location Allegany 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 1470 WHITE PLAINS RD - 2R, BRONX, NY, 10462. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of MY FOREVER HOME LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process 24 ST AUSTINS PLACE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10310. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of NORTH CAMPUS DEVELOPER LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NORTH CAMPUS EQUITIES LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NORTH CAMPUS SPONSOR LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 2277 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/25/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 54 CENTER MARKET STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11236. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 2413 POPLAR LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/10/2022. Office location Allegany SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2413 POPLAR ST., BRONX, NY, 10462. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of BUILT DIFFERENT BK, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 6/2 0 2 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1008 M A N H AT TA N AVENUE, #4B, BROOKLYN, NY, 11222. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of CASEMENT WINDOWS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 4/21/202 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 102-10 66TH ROAD, 3C, FOREST HILLS, NY, 11375. Any lawful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MILESTONE S T R AT E G I E S , L L C . Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/2022. Office location: BRONX 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: 1551 Unionport Rd., 9B, Bronx, NY 10462. The principal business address of the LLC is: 1551 Unionport Rd., 9B, Bronx, NY 10462. Purpose: any lawful act or activity LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of CLEMATIS 400 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/04/2022.Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 450 SEVENTH AVENUE, 45TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10123. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of E98 ART STUDIO & GALLERY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 3/ 2 4 / 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Oneida SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5819 ROME-TABERG ROAD #6, ROME, NY, 13440. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FORTUNE ASSETS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/28/2022. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 108 FORSY TH ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10002. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of G POWER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/23/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 240 OCEAN PARKWAY, APT 6F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11218. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GOG NY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/26/2022. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 497 RIDGEWOOD AV E N U E , S TAT E N ISLAND, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PINE B USH IR I S FARM LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/ 2 5/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 248 BRIMSTONE HILL ROAD, PINE BUSH , N Y, 12566. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SWITCHUP US LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/25/2022.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to JARED E. PAIOFF, ESQ., 444 MADISON AVENUE, 6TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10022. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation o f R AC H E L & C PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5 / 1 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 953 68TH STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11219. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of WILLIAM SUK ARCHITECTURE PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/03/2022.Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 232 MADISON AVENUE, SUITE 500, NEW YO R K , N Y, 10016. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S B L T E C H N O L O GY SOLUTIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/27/2021. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 626 1ST AVENUE, APT E10A , NEW YORK, NY, 10016 3914. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WOODRIDGE SUSHI SPOT LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/24/2022.Office location: Sullivan. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 1627 E AST 27 TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SHERWOOD FAMILY LLC. Ar ts .O f Org. filed with SSNY on 06/02/2022.Of fice location: Sullivan. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 262 POTTER AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 59-24 57TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process 59 -24 57 TH STREET, MASPETH, NY, 11378. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SJC RIA LLC. .Arts. of O rg . f ile d with SSNY on 05/25/2022. Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 535 5TH AVENUE, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10017. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 451 KINGS HIGHWAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/25/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 32 VILLANOVA DRIVE, FREEHOLD,, FREEHOLD, NJ, 07728. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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Notice of Qual. of FGNYC O N E O N TA , LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: OTSEGO. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC CENTRAL, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 0 6/0 3/2 0 2 2 . Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC PLATTSBURGH, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office l o c a t i o n : C L I N TO N . LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC A M S T E R DA M , L LC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: MONTGOMERY. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC QUEENSBURY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: WA R R E N . LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. The name of the limited liabilit y company is Parkwood Blvd LLC. The date of the filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State was 05/03/2022. The County in which the office of the LLC is located is Bronx. The agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served is the Secretary of State and such shall mail a copy of any process to 2323 Haviland Ave, Bronx, NY, 10462. The business purpose of the LLC is any lawful business purpose or purposes. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC NORTH GREENBUSH, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: RENSSEL AER. LLC f o r m e d in D E o n 05/25/202 2 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346966 for wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine at retail in a TW 344 Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 124 E 14TH New York , New York 10003 for on premises consumption. Kid Brother LLC

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SHERIFF’S SALE BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT, COUNT Y OF NEW YORK , in favor of BARCLAYS BANK PLC, and against BAVAGUTHU RAGHURAM SHETTY, to me directed and delivered, I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION, by Dennis Alestra D CA # 0 8 4 0 2 17. , auc tioneer, as the law directs, FOR CASH ONLY, on the 10TH day of AUGUST, 2022, at 12 O’ CLOCK NOON, at: 66 JOHN STREET 13TH FLOOR in the county of NEW YORK all the right, title and interest which B AVAG U T H U R AG H U R A M S H E T T Y, t h e judgment debtors, had on the 15TH day of April, 2022, or at any time thereafter, of, in and to the following properties: DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: 210 LAFAYETTE STREET UNIT #2C MANHATTAN, NEW YORK 10012 TAX LOT# 1105 BLOCK# 482 OF SECTION 2 The Condominium Unit (the “Unit”) known as Unit No. 2C in the building (the “Building”) known as the 210 Lafayette Street, Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, said Unit being designated and described by the above Unit No. C in a certain declaration dated August 2, 2005 made by Grantor pursuant to Article 9-B of the Real Property Law of the State of New York (the “Condominium Act”) (establishing a plan for condominium) which declaration was recorded in the New York County Office of the Register of the City of New York (“the Register’s Office”) on October 27, 2005 under CRFN 2005000602621 (the “Declaration”). The Unit is also designated as Tax Lot 1105 in Block 482 of Section 2 of the Borough of Manhattan on the Tax Map of the Real Property Assessment Department of the City of New York on September 13, 2005 as Condominium Plan No. 1484 and also filed in the Register’s Office on October 27, 2005 as Condominium Map No. 12-C under CRFN 2005000602622. TOGETHER with an undivided 1.3353% interest in the Residential Common Elements and undivided 1.1564% interest in the General Common Elements (as such terms are defined in the Declaration). ANTHONY MIRANDA Sheriff of the City of New York DEPUTY SHERIFF WEIDEMEYER CASE# 22012981 (212) 291-2544 (212) 487-9734 Notice of Formation of AC CUSTOMS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/09/2022. Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 128 FAWN HILL ROAD, TUXEDO PARK, NY, 10987. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CARGO HOME DESIGN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/ 2 5/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 GREENE AV E , B R O O K LY N , NY, 11238. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of ARK COMMERCE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/09/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 90 STATE STREET , SUITE 700, BOX 10, ALBANY, NY, 12207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CPEC ADVERTISING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/31/2022. Office location New York 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 360 E 89TH ST APT 16B, NEW YORK, NY, 10128. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Public Notice of Registered Assumed Name New York, New York County Please be advised that Quinones, Melvin Jr, Domiciled on the land of turtle Island, is the Executor/ Beneficiary/Name holder of the business now being carried on at 1305 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York 10027, in the following Assumed name to wit; MELVIN QUINONES JR; and the Nature of the said business is commerce. This statement is to be filed with the clerk of Superior Court of this county, this 1 Day of June, 2022, New York, New York County, Minnesota Original File Number 1098489500023 Filed June 1, 2022: Status: Active/Good Standing Notice of Formation of The Dubin Initiative, LLC filed with SSNY on May 23, 2022. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 725 Hardscrabble Rd. Chappaqua, N Y 10514 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Form. of YO U N G & SONS SERVICES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/0 3/2 0 2 2 . Office location: Livingston . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6425 SONYEA ROAD, MOUNT MORRIS, NY, 14510. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 32 JANIE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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Notice of Formation of 709 LORIMER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/15/2022.Of fice location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 709 LORIMER ST, B R O O K LY N , N Y, 11211Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1078 EAST 24TH STREET REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/20/2014. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1078 EAST 24TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11210. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1922 VP MT MORRIS LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5 / 2 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 7 7 70 PINE TREE DRIVE, VICTOR , NY, 14564. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of FGNYC ELMIRA, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: CHEMUNG. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , H A R R I S O N , NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of 423 FOREST AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 4/14/202 2 . Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 10 WESTBURY AV E N U E , S TAT E N ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of GUO J&K RE AL ESTATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/24/202 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1253 70TH STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11228. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of LEOD, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/06/2022. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 31 ROMER RD, STATEN ISL AND, NY, 10304 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of YSABEL YATES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/24/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 CROOKE AVENUE, APT 2H, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11226. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of CENTENNIAL PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/08/2022. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 04/27/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10525. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. MBBEAUTYSTUDIO & AESTHETICS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on _01_/_ 20_/_ 2022_. O f f ic e: NE W YO R K County. United States CORPORATION AGENTS, INC designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States CORPORATION AGENTS, INC at 7014 13TH AVENUE SUITE 202, B R O O K LY N N Y 112 28 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose

Articles of Organization of IRL Digital, LLC (“LLC”) filed with the Secretary of S tate of New York (“SSNY”) on May 31, 2022, effective on the date of filing. Office Location: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 6040 JFK Blvd. East, Apt. 17C, West New York, NJ 07093, which shall be the principal business location. The purpose for which the LLC is formed is to engage in any lawful ac t or ac tivit y for which limited liability c ompanie s may b e organized under the NYS Limited Liability Company Law. Notice of Formation of EL PRIMO RED TACOS NYC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 7/0 1 / 2 0 2 1 . O f f i c e location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 150 SE 2ND AVE #1003, MIAMI, FL, 33131.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of TACOS EL PORK Y II, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/09/2022 .Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of JILLIAN GROVER PODCAST SOLUTIONS LLC filed with SSNY on June 9, 2022. Office: Chemung County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Jillian Grover, 258 East 14th Street, Elmira Heights, NY 14903. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation o f 4 0 B R OA DWAY R E NS SE L AE R , LLC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/06/2022. Office location Rensselaer SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 628 HAVERSTRAW ROAD, SUFFERN, NY, 10901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 140 PROSPECT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/10/2022. 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 1448 71ST STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11228. Any lawful p u r p o s e . . EZ BUTLER GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/02/22. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 181 Broadway, Room 6R, New York, NY 10007. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347151 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 905 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 for on premises consumption. 905 Lorimer F&B LLC Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347265 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 9 Jones Street, New York, NY 10014for on premises c o n s u m p t i o n . NO-THING GROUP LLC LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of APRIL APRIL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/28/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 329 QUINCY STREET, #2, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216. Any law ful p u r p o s e . Notice of Qual. of CLEMENTINE CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/28/15. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 06/06/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: URBAN FUTURE LAB, 370 JAY S T R E E T, 7TH FL, ALBANY, NY, 12201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of H A R T B E AT, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 0 6 /0 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/09/2021. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . S SN Y mail proces s to: 15910 VENTUR A BOULEVARD, SUITE 150, ENCINO, CA 91436. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347180 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 15 Watts S t r e e t , N e w Yo r k , NY 10013 for on premises consumption. Maison Close NYC LLC

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Notice of Qual. of FIVE POINTS 262 PROJECT LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 05/16/2022. Office location: NEW YORK. LLC formed in DE on 11/16/2020. 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, NY, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. WHC, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/07/2022. Office location: Madison. LLC formed in DE on 05/27/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of TR OMPE TA PROPERTIES I LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/14/202 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 ONEIDA AV E N U E , S TAT E N ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347139 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1 S. Edgemere, St Montauk, N Y, 11 9 5 4 f o r o n premises consumption.

Notice of Qual. of JL DEPEW 1 2 9 7, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/13/2022. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/02/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of TNNY FB, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/13/2022. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/15/2021. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 200 18TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/08/2022. Office location Kings 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, NY, 10022. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of CJE 8811, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/24/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1524 SHEEPSHE AD BAY R D. , PH 28B , BROOKLYN, NY, UNITED STATES, 11235 - 3890. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of VISIONARY I N S U R A N C E CONSULTANTS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 06/10/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 21 E 10TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TOUCHPOINT MULTI SERVICE LLC. Ar ts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/13/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 323 E 4TH STREET - 1R, BROOKLYN, NY, 11218. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NECKDAYS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/14/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1630 E 4TH STREET, FLOOR 2 , B R O O K LY N , N Y, 11230. Any law ful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of HALLELOO PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6 / 1 0/ 2 0 1 5 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 456 JOHNSON AVENUE SUITE 323, B R O O K LY N , N Y, 11237. Any lawful purpose.

SA 1424 FRONT ST, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/08/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 42 West 39th Street, Floor 6, NY, NY 10018. Reg Agent: John Behette, 42 West 39th Street, Floor 6, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of RIVERVIEW TEI XI LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/10/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. of fice. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of MPQ 1400 Broadway, LLC. Arts of Org filed w/ Sec’y of State 10/29/20. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and mailed to against LLC: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Principal place of business address: 149 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor, NY NY 10010. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346984 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 24 4 FL AT B US H AV ENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11217 for on premises consumption. COOP ONE LLC

Notice of Qualification of RailWorks Track Services LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 03/22/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Indiana (IN) on 05/28/62. Princ. office of LLC: Hilltop & Midland Terrace, Bldg. D, Sewell, NJ 08080. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 302 W. Washington St., Rm. E 018 , Indianapolis , IN 4 620 4 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Sarah Groark Psychologist PhD, PLLC filed Ar ts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/13/2022. Office: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 31 Ocean Pkwy, #5J, Brooklyn, NY, 11218. Purpose: Psychology.

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Notice of Qualification of L XMI COPPER COVE PROPERT Y OWNER, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/12/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 3/24/2 2 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207-25 4 3 . DE addr. of LLC: c/o GKL Registered Agents of DE, Inc., 3500 S. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. To w n s e n d B l d g . 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of ENDEAVOR DENTISTRY LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 6/01/2 2 . Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 05/23/22. Princ. office of LLC: 2 3 3 L a f aye t t e S t . , N ewark , N J 0 7 1 0 5 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 15 Oliver St., Apt. 2H, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Cer t. of Form. filed with Acting State Treasurer, 33 W. State St., F i f t h F l . , Tr e n t o n , NJ 086 4 6 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of formation of MPQ 400 Fifth Avenue, LLC Arts of Org filed w/Secy of State of NY (SSNY ) on 11/23/20. O f f ice location: N Y Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and mailed to against LLC: 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207. Principal place of business: 149 Fifth Ave, NY NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347597 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 322 E 86th Street, New York, NY 10028 for on premises consumption. Sandrony, Inc. Notice of Qualification of BUSBAR FINANCIAL MEDIA, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 6/0 9/2 2 . Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in D e l awa r e (D E ) o n 04/13/22. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co. (CSC), 80 State St., A lb any, N Y 1 2 2 0 72543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal S t . , #4 , Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of INTERCER NORTH AMERICA, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/13/2022. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 244 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1203,NEW YORK , NY, 10001, USA . Purpose: any lawful act or activity Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347612 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol L aw at 15 DEL ANCE Y STREE T, NEW YORK, NY 10002 for on premises consumption. MLWINGS LLC

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Notice of Formation of LLC. The limited liability company name is OLD MACDONALD DE VELOPMENT GROUP LLC; articles of organization were filed with the secretary of state June 14, 2022; LLC’s office to be located in Greene County; the secretary of s tate has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served; the post office to which the secretary of state shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon it is c/o ANDREW A. MACDONALD, 9621 ST RT 32, FREEHOLD, NY 12431; Purpose: for any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of FGNYC ELMIRA, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: CHEMUNG. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , H A R R I S O N , NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE PROBATE COURT COUNTY OF LAURENS MARY BOYD DENDY Petitioner, SUMMONS Vs. WILLIE EARL BOYD, MATTHEW BOYD, WILLIAM BOYD and DONNELL GRIFFITH, Respondents, In the interests of: WILLIE EARL BOYD, Docket Numbers: Alleged Incapacitated Individual 2021-GC-30-018 and 2021-GC-30-19 TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Petitions in the above-referenced cases filed with the Probate Court of Laurens County and to serve a copy of your Answer to this Petition upon the petitioner, at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Petition, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. Dated: 6/21/2022 /s/Kenneth P. Shabel Kenneth P. Shabel SC Bar #16136 KENNEDYIBRANNON, LLC Post Office Box 3254 Spartanburg, South Carolina 29304 864.707.2020 864.707.2030 (Fax) ken@kennedybrannon.com

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Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 76 feet on a 79 -foot building at the approx. vicinity of 760 Grand Concourse, Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10451. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Benjamin Allen, b.allen@trileaf.com, phone: 678-653-8673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067.

Notice of Formation of DK YL LLC. Arts. O f Org . f ile d with SSNY on 05/26/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 710B 59TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY, 11220. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 2288 ROUTE 9 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/06/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 100 BOGART STREET 317, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206. Any law ful purpose.

Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1297181 for liquor, beer, wine, & cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, & cider at retail in a OP252 Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control L aw at 511 E 12th Street, New York, NY 10009 for on premises consumption.

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Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at several locations in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 7 1 feet on a 65-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 641 Marcy Av e n u e , 1 1 2 0 6 ; a t a top height of 570 feet on a 568 -foot building roof top at the approx. vicinity of 25 0 Ashland Place, 11217; at a top height of 75 feet on a 79-foot building roof top at the approx . vicinit y of 2160 84th Street, 11214; at a top height of 61 feet on a 66foot building at the ap p rox . v i c ini t y o f 2887 Atlantic Avenue, 11207; at a top height of 80 feet on a 75-foot building roof top at the approx . vicinit y of 1601 Ocean Parkway, 11223. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic p ro p e r ti e s m ay b e submit ted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Laura Elston, l.elston@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Kingsbrook Estates BCHS GP LLC (“ LLC ” ). Ar ticles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on June 9, 2022. NY office location: Kings County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Kingsbrook Estates BCHS GP LLC, 25 Chapel Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at several locations in New Yo r k , New Yo r k Count y, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at 77 feet on an 88-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 283 East 7th Street, 10009; at a top height of 68 feet on a 72-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 500 West 213th Street, 10034; at a top height of 101 feet on a 107-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 322 East 3 9 th S treet , 1 0 0 1 6 ; at a top height of 55 feet on a 49-foot building roof top at the approx. vicinity of 49 ½ 1st Ave., 10003; at a top height of 62 fe e t on a 6 3 -fo ot building roof top at the approx. vicinity of 105 Ave. C, 10009; at a top height of 67 feet on a 65-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 698 Amsterdam Ave., 10025; at a top height of 77 feet on a 84-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 201 West 92nd Street, 10025; and at a top height of 72 feet on a 73foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 81 West 127th Street, 10027. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Laura Elston, l.elston@ trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 4 0 0, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of Formation of 255 NEWMAN STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/21/202 2 . Office location Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 34B CARROLL S T R E E T, BRONX, NY, 10464. Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Section 106 Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast, LLC proposes to collocate and/or replace existing antennas at the following locations: a 61 foot tall (overall height) building located at 211 Mac Donough Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11233 (DEA #22206027), a 77.4 foot tall (overall height) building located at 941 Intervale Avenue, Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10459 (DEA #22206033), a 21 foot tall (overall height) building located at 405 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York County, NY 10014 (DEA # 22206036), a 268 foot tall (overall height) building located at 250 Park Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10017 (DEA # 22206037) and a 105 foot tall (overall height) building located at located at 550-560 Barry Street, Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10474 (DEA #22206032). Interested parties with comments regarding potential e f fe c t s on His toric Properties may contact T-Mobile c/o Julia Klima at Dynamic Environmental Associates, Inc., 3850 Lake Street, Suite C, Macon, GA 31204, 8779 6 8 - 4 7 8 7, S e c1 0 6 @ DynamicEnvironmental. com within 30 days from the date of this publication Re: DEA #22206027, and/or DEA#22206033, and/or DEA#22206036, and/or DEA#22206037 and/or DEA#22206032. Notice of Formation of TROMPE TA PROPERTIES II LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/15/2022. Office location Kings: SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 ONEIDA AVE, STATEN ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of K NORTH, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/16/2022. Office location: Wayne. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 7392 DUTCH S T R EE T, WO LC OT T, NY, 14590. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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Public Notice APPOINTMENT Massealah Marine International Limited (In Voluntary Liquidation) Company Number: 1841898 Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 204(1)(b) of the BVI Business Companies Act, 20 04 that the Company is in voluntary liquidation. The voluntary liquidation commenced on 10 December 2021. The Liquidator is Kerry Graziola of Craigmuir Chambers, P.O. Box 71, Road Town, Tor tola, British Virgin Islands 10 December 2021 Sgd. Kerry Graziola Liquidator Notice of Qual. of VERTICURL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/16/2022. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 04/24/2009. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347528 for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a Cafe under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1129 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216for on premises consumption. ARTSHACK BROOKLYN INC. Notice of Formation of COREN OPPORTUNITY FUND II LLC. Ar ts. O f Org . f ile d with SSNY on 06/15/2022. Office location Kings: SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 41 BOX STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11222. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TR OMPE TA PROPERTIES III LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/15/202 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 ONEIDA AVE, STATEN ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347714 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 235 W 12th St New York, NY 1001436 for on premises consumption. Uncle Biagio LLC Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347634 for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a TW344 Ta v e r n under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 211 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 for on premises consumption. 211 Reserve LLC Notice of Qual. of BDS CONNECTED SOLUTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 0 6 / 1 0/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 03/31/2016. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528 . Ar ts . of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on the following existing buildings in Brooklyn, New York: 72.4-ft tall bldg at 252 Bedford Ave (40° 42’ 51.89” N, 73° 57’ 41.12” W),85.2-ft tall bldg at 65 Willoughby Ave (40° 41’ 30.19” N. 73° 58’ 13” W), 80.6-ft tall bldg at 591 Ocean Ave (40° 38’ 54.47” N. 73° 57’ 35.25” W), 51-ft tall bldg at 125 7th Ave (40° 40’ 23.63” N, 73° 58’ 33.83” W), 90.3-ft tall bldg at 787 E 46th St (40° 38’ 31.6” N. 73° 55’ 58.7” W). Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: M. Gordon, Terracon, 2105 Newpoint Pl, Ste 600 Lawrenceville, GA 30043, 770-623-0755 or marnie. gordon@terracon.com. Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast LLC proposes antenna and equipment upgrades: atop an existing: a 71’ bldg at 203 W 133rd St in Manhattan, NY (40.8143°N & 73.9449°W); a 205’ bldg at 201 E 69th St in Manhattan, NY (40.7681°N & 73.9615°W); a 491’ bldg at 1335 Ave of the Americas in Manhat tan, NY (40.7618°N & 73.9798°W); a 124’ bldg at 150 55th St in Brooklyn, NY (40.6464°N & 74.0203°W) ; a 53’ bldg at 421 Smith St in Brooklyn, NY (40.6776°N & 73.9962°W) and a 59’ bldg at 3067 Richmond Terr. in Staten Island, NY (40.6382°N & 74.1619°W). T-MOBILE is publishing this notice in accordance with FCC regulations (47CFR § 1.1307) for Section 10 6 of the NHPA and for the NEPA. Parties with questions or comments regarding the proposed facility should contact CHERUNDOLO at 976 Tabor Rd, Ste 1, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@ cherundoloconsulting. c o m .

Notice of Formation of 2734 BRIGHTON 7 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3133 CONEY ISLAND AVE 2 FL, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ORANGEBURG PARTNERS VV LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/21/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2571 E 17 TH STREE T, FL 3 , B R O OK LY N , N Y, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

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Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at several locations in New York, N ew Yo r k C o u n t y, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at 77 feet on an 88-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 283 East 7th Street, 10009; at a top height of 68 feet on a 72-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 500 West 213th Street, 10034; at a top height of 109 feet on a 107foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 322 East 39th Street, 10016; at a top height of 55 feet on a 49-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 49 ½ 1st Ave., 10003; at a top height of 62 feet on a 63-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 105 Ave. C, 10009; at a top height of 67 feet on a 65foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 698 Amsterdam Ave., 10025; at a top height of 77 feet on a 84-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 201 West 92nd Street, 10025; and at a top height of 72 feet on a 73-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 81 West 127th Street, 10027. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Laura Elston, l.elston@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of Formation of JOMION & THE UKLOS BAND LLC, filed with SSNY on 08/31/2022. Office: KINGS. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 92 HULL STREET APT 2F BROOKLYN NY 11233 USA . Purp ose: any lawful act or activity.

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has New York in the crosshairs. The top court struck down the state’s concealed carry law, dealing a major blow to the state’s efforts to regulate gun ownership. Tom King, who helms the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, has been taking a victory lap.

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As the president of Disabled in Action, Jean Ryan is one of many advocates who deserve credit for pushing the MTA to make its subway stations accessible. Justice will come slowly – the MTA plans to have elevators and ramps in 95% of stations by 2055.

MELINDA KATZ “It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than to wait until you make them yourself.” This advice could’ve helped Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz avoid a mess. The prosecutor was caught by a New York Post stakeout using her NYPD security detail to help her move into her new home, potentially running afoul of ethics rules. And it’s the same type of scandal that took down her mentor Alan Hevesi. THE REST OF THE WORST LOUIS MOLINA

The federal monitor overseeing reform at Rikers Island may be having second thoughts. After three deaths in the past week or so, all eyes are on the department’s commissioner, Louis Molina, who last month claimed that his office’s plan for reform would be enough to fix Rikers.

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Cheap rent, we hardly knew yet. Under the de Blasio administration, New Yorkers living in one of the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized units saw little to no yearly rent increases. Last week, rent increased by 3.25% on one-year leases and 5% on two-year leases.

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Did you know that Mayor Eric Adams delivered remarks and raised the Haitian flag with the Bowling Green Association? In case you missed it, the mayor’s office sent out an email with that information 25 times within two hours. Whether you blame a computer glitch … or a rogue deputy press secretary … or the mayor trying to distract from the fact that nobody really understands where he lives and what property he owns … you can be sure that the mayor raised that Haitian flag.

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