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RALPH R. ORTEGA; DON POLLARD/OFFICE OF GOV. ANDREW CUOMO; COVER: SUBMITTED; RICHARD ROSARIO; HARRY MONTÁS; NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL; STATE SENATE

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RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

Yankee Stadium became a COVID-19 vaccination site for Bronxites.

I STILL REMEMBER watching the Apollo 17 moon landing when I was 5 years old. I was watching the big family TV we had in the living room of a two-bedroom apartment off Manhattan’s Union Square in the early 1970s. I was a child of the Space Age who later got hooked on “Star Trek” reruns and wanted to not just reach, but live in outer space. You would think the advent of commercial space travel would prompt me to liquidate my assets for a chance to go where only a few have gone before after Virgin Atlantic’s Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos of Amazon pulled off their recent forays into the stratosphere. But honestly, count me out. There’s just too much going on back on Mother Earth for me to justify having my head in the clouds. We’ve still got a pandemic on our hands while we’re debating where we should shelter homeless New Yorkers. And no one requires more evidence for the need to improve New York’s infrastructure after the way thunderstorms have already submerged the subways this summer. I realized this was more of a SMH moment after my daughter Abigail asked why Branson’s blasting off was so important when we still have so much to worry about on the ground. What a contrast to how I was as a kid, awed by the image of an astronaut setting foot on the moon, eventually thinking that anything is possible when we set our minds to it. And that’s a worthy legacy to consider.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

VACCINE CHALLENGE … 8 Why is the Bronx falling behind on COVID-19 shots? NEW BRONX LEADERS … 10

Jamaal Bailey has reinvented the county’s Democratic Party.

BRONX POWER 100 … 17

The next generation leading the pandemic recovery

WINNERS & LOSERS … 50

Who was up and who was down last week

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“The vast majority of minors who enter a marriage are teenage girls, and getting married before adulthood often has devastating consequences for them.” – state Sen. Julia Salazar, on her newly signed bill to ban child marriage in New York, via the Daily News New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging people to get vaccinated to curb the uptick in coronavirus cases – rather than reinstituting mask mandates.

COVID-19 CONCERNS CONTINUE

As the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to spread, so does concern about rising numbers of cases and avoiding another resurgence. The vast majority of hospitalizations now are

of people who have not received the vaccine. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced a new vaccine mandate for all public hospital and city health care employees. Those who refuse would need to get regularly tested for the disease. There’s

also growing concern about kids under 12, who are still not approved to get the vaccine. An outbreak has occurred at an upstate summer camp among the young campers there, and while none are seriously sick, there is concern that similar outbreaks

GIANT CHECK New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is rapidly surpassing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as New York’s foremost prop comic, supplanting the governor’s COVID-19 mountain by devouring Shake Shack and creating homemade posters. Last week, de Blasio used an oversized $15 billion check to represent the massive amount of money the Metropolitan Transportation Authority would accrue if they get congestion pricing up and running.

“Sexual harassment is unacceptable for anyone, anywhere, no matter how powerful the perpetrator.” – state Attorney General Letitia James, via Twitter

may occur once school begins. The unvaccinated are not the only ones getting sick. Although the cases are milder, so-called breakthrough cases are still occurring among those who are fully vaccinated, and they are still able to spread the disease. Some lawmakers are calling for the return of an indoor mask mandate in New York City, although de Blasio has not heeded those calls.

MIXED NEWS FROM THE MTA

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board met for a public, in-person meeting for the first time in over a year, where they announced some welcome and some not-so-welcome news. Straphangers and commuters should be pleased to hear that the MTA decided to delay a planned fare hike for the upcoming year so as not to discourage anyone from taking mass transit as ridership on the subway and commuter rails still hasn’t rebounded to prepandemic levels. But the agency also warned of potential service cuts of up to 15% in the coming years in anticipation of ridership never fully returning to where it stood before the coronavirus. At the same time, right now, the MTA continues to lose subway workers, leading to significant delays and reduced service throughout the year so far.

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AIRTRAIN TO LAGUARDIA GETS THE THUMBS UP

The federal government has given the official go ahead for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to begin construction of an AirTrain between LaGuardia Airport and Eastern Queens. The project was the brainchild of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, despite the proposal receiving little support from transit experts as well as local leaders and residents. Many had instead advocated for an extension of the N/W line, arguing it would benefit local residents more, while the AirTrain would harm East Elmhurst residents. Transit experts also pointed out that those traveling from Manhattan would need to double back at the transfer point, instead of a straight shot with the subway.

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CUOMO AIDE DRAWS SCRUTINY

A tweet from one of Cuomo’s top aides, Rich Azzopardi, about Attorney General Letitia James earned a rebuke from the head of Assembly impeachment inquiry. Azzopardi said James’ investigation into sexual harassment claims against the governor is tainted with politics because she may run for governor – something that she has repeatedly denied. Assembly Member and chair of the Judiciary Committee Charles Lavine responded by saying that the tweet undermined the investigation and served to intimidate witnesses. Lavine added Cuomo could face “serious repercussions” for the statement. The governor’s lawyers shot back soon after, defending Azzopardi and saying Lavine’s letter raised “constitutional concerns.”

The much-maligned LaGuardia AirTrain project got a green light last week.

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WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY 7/26 The Independent Redistricting Commission is focusing its cartographic attention on Manhattan and the Bronx at a 2 p.m. virtual hearing.

Could the delta variant complicate the upcoming NYC school year? More than 200,000 students have signed up for New York City’s “Summer Rising” summer school program, a record number. However, the rollout of programming has been fraught with challenges and, in a signal to what might lie ahead this fall, around 95 classrooms are currently quarantining due to positive COVID-19 cases. The program is likely to play a key role in preparing students to return full time to the classroom following what’s been an incredibly challenging school year. While low transmission of COVID-19 in New York City schools has been a recurring theme throughout the pandemic, some families and educators wonder what the recent citywide uptick in cases, which have been fueled by the more contagious delta variant, might mean for students this fall. “I know they don’t want hybrid (a mix of in-person and remote classes), but maybe they will need it based on what the delta variant is doing,” said Donna Hallas, director of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. “If the numbers continue to increase, I’m sure they are going to have to make decisions based on the

INSIDE DOPE

Public hearings offer commissioners perspectives on creating districts that actually make sense compared to the current gerrymandered shapes.

numbers by the end of August.” City protocol currently requires any classroom with a positive case to suspend class and quarantine for 10 days from the last day of the exposure, though this only applies to the students and staff who are unvaccinated. Children under the age of 12 are not currently eligible for any coronavirus vaccine. According to the city Department of Education, there are over 12,000 classrooms participating in Summer Rising, meaning the number of classrooms quarantining due to a positive COVID-19 case is less than 1%. Kevin Casey, executive director of the School Administrators Association of New York State, said there are some concerns among educators that the delta variant could impact the return to classrooms this fall, but there’s also a “real hope that we can be in school, in-person 100%.” He said the general consensus among most educators is that remote learning is not ideal and tends to increase inequity issues, but the ultimate decisions of relaxing the thresholds for classroom closures and hybrid schooling ought to be determined by medical experts. – Sahalie Donaldson

WEDNESDAY 7/28

State lawmakers examine voter experiences in the June primaries at a 10 a.m. hearing at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.

City & State convenes the 100 most powerful people in the Bronx at a 5 p.m. virtual event.

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BETWEEN PRESIDENT Amtrak Joe’s enthusiasm for fixing the nation’s infrastructure and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s giant check for congestion pricing, there’s a lot of excitement over the future of New York City’s transportation systems. Unfortunately, the MTA hasn’t even met with the New

FOR SOLUTIONS THAT MEET THE MOMENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO THINK CREATIVELY. BY CAITLIN DORMAN

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Shut down all the lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge and turn it into outdoor dining. No one can complain because technically the change doesn’t involve bike lanes or parking spots. Replace the New York City subway cars with submarines to improve transportation access during flash floods. Embrace the advent of spontaneous sinkholes by turning Manhattan’s

Riverside Drive into the country’s first car-friendly roller coaster. •

Redo Moynihan Train Hall as an amphitheater with so much seating that there’s not even space to walk.

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Implement congestion pricing on the High Line, where it really matters.

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Repurpose Central Park’s Great Lawn as a launch pad for Jeff Bezos’ future space missions, in the hopes he’ll consider us for Amazon HQ3.

Jersey DOT to discuss congestion pricing yet, and while we’re waiting on an assist for our infrastructure, we have heat waves, flash floods, sinkholes and other fun crises to contend with. We thought it would be helpful to get a head start on some of these issues by brainstorming some “out-of-the-box” solutions.

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Mitigate MTA crew shortages by having each board member take turns driving the trains.

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Review the alleged structural integrity issues with the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge before something goes wrong – wacky we know!

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Expand the LaGuardia AirTrain into all five boroughs, because Gov. Andrew Cuomo would actually greenlight that.

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A Q&A with Bronx Borough President Democratic Party nominee

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Were you surprised the Bronx Democratic Party didn’t endorse in the borough president’s race? Or did it make sense because there were multiple sitting elected officials who were running against each other? Well, I was disappointed at first, and then I was a little bit upset, because I have a relationship with the chair and with all of the elected officials. I thought our relationship was important and that should hold weight. But I also realized that within the race, the other candidates also have their own relationships with the organization and

the chairman as well. The reason why I was hoping that there could be an endorsement is because of ranked-choice voting. You saw a lot of elected officials (ranking) an endorsement as their No. 1, their No. 2. Or you had some cases where elected officials were doing a dual endorsement. I was OK with that because at the end of the day, I knew RCV would play a very important role in the BP race, and I didn’t want to lose sight of that. So I said, if the party cannot agree to one candidate, can you agree to two? So whoever those two would be, I would hope I would be in the two. So

that’s what I was hoping we would get to. Then, unfortunately, it just didn’t work out. At the end of the day, I’m really grateful for the voters of the Bronx for just their amazing overwhelming support and really participating in the primary. I was told that part of the tension about the party not endorsing was basically about the party supporting a Black candidate in a majority-Latino borough. Do you think that that was part of the issue? I wouldn’t doubt that was one of the factors, I don’t think it’s the only

I also know that the voters of the Bronx have a right to elect who they want to be their next leader, regardless of what you look like. one. I do think Chairman (Jamaal) Bailey has relationships with all of the candidates, and he wanted to maintain that relationship. Because after the election, we also have to work and live in (the) Bronx, and that’s a reality. I do understand the longtime history of the Bronx being represented by Latino men, and I respect that. But I also know that the voters of the Bronx have a right to elect who they want to be their next leader, regardless of what you look like, but really running on a record of accomplishments and a record of results. I focused heavily on the

work I had done in the Assembly, in the City Council, and I didn’t go out telling people to vote for me because I’m an African American woman. I did talk about the historical nature of the election, making sure that people understood that women were running for offices that were never held by women before, we definitely made that clear. We also talked about our record. So I tried to stay focused on that, but I do realize that race and gender had a large factor in this race, and as a result, many made decisions based on that. – Jeff Coltin and Patricia Battle

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Inoculating the Bronx The borough confronts misinformation and hesitancy in its fight against COVID-19.

ERENCE FRANKLIN IS 62 years old, unvaccinated and lives in the Bronx, which had some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in New York City during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. With highly effective COVID-19 vaccines now widely available, health experts are reexamining how to convince people who are reluctant or opposed to the vaccine – especially because the highly contagious delta variant is causing infection rates to soar, overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated. President Joe Biden said recently, “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated.” But Franklin has chosen not to get vaccinated due to his concerns about its safety and efficacy. He told City & State in a phone conversation that he heard the virus isn’t real and that there was a link with the pandemic to 5G cellular network technology. During the height of the pandemic, the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was caused by 5G became widespread online. “I’ve always been of the thought process (that you should) question medicine,” Franklin said. “(People feel that if) the doctor says something, it’s gospel. That’s not true. It’s not gospel. Ask questions.” Franklin’s hesitancy is hardly unique in his home borough, as the Bronx’s vaccination rates are the lowest among New York City’s boroughs. As of July 16, among Bronx residents ages 18 and older, 56% have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and 62% have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the city. The numbers are almost as low in Brooklyn and on Staten Island, but are somewhat higher in Manhattan and Queens. Citywide, 65% of adults have been fully vaccinated and 70% have received at least one dose. Public health experts have renewed their

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urgent efforts to get people vaccinated now, in light of the spread of the delta variant. States with low vaccination rates, such as Missouri, are already seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases caused almost exclusively by the delta variant. In Los Angeles, residents must, once again, wear masks inside and outside, regardless of their vaccination status. New York City has made lots of perks available to those who waited to get a COVID-19 vaccine, such as free tickets to popular attractions, giveaways from places like Krispy Kreme and Shake Shack, and the opportunity to be entered into a raffle for a “staycation” in one of the city’s best hotels or $2,500 in cash. While the incentives might’ve gotten some people to sign up for the vaccine, large swaths of people still remain reluctant. In interviewing academics, public health experts, Bronx community board leaders and residents of the borough, City & State identified a few key reasons why the Bronx continues to fall behind when it comes to vaccinations: a lack of trust in medical health care professionals, messaging issues, COVID-19 disinformation campaigns and a lack of access to vaccination sites. A LACK OF TRUST The Tuskegee syphilis study, which lasted from 1932 through 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, involved 600 Black men who were told that they were receiving free treatment for syphilis from the federal government. Instead, researchers did nothing to treat the participants – despite the cure, penicillin, being available in the ’40s – in order to observe the disease’s progression. By the end of the study, over 100 men had died. The legacy of the unethical experiment is often cited as the reason why many people of color feel suspicious of medical health professionals and may not want to take the vaccine. However, Dr. Mauvareen Beverly,

Bay Eden Senior Center in the Bronx is a staterun vaccination site.

a patient engagement and cultural competence specialist who previously worked for New York City Health + Hospitals, said younger people are less likely to be influenced by the memory of Tuskegee. In February, NPR published a story about Tuskegee’s continuing impact, but most of the people cited in the story were 60 and older. In the Bronx, adults 65 and older have higher vaccination rates than the overall adult population, with 72% of the population fully vaccinated and 76% having received at least one vaccine dose. “(A lot of news outlets have said) people don’t want to take (the vaccine) because of the Tuskegee study,” Beverly said. “Is that important? Absolutely. But my question is, was that an age-related reason? For a 19-yearold who is not thinking of taking the vaccine, would it be because of Tuskegee? How do we identify the reality and the reason why before we make an assumption?” Dr. Damara Gutnick, senior director of Montefiore Health System’s Office of Community and Population Health, who has been running what she refers to as “communication circles” with Bronx residents, doctors and public health experts regarding vaccine hesitancy, has noted that many younger people have been interested in getting vaccinated but have been thwarted from getting inoculated due to their parents’ concerns. “The last circle we did was with a group of 18- to 29-year-olds, and we had these younger people talking about how they

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“My district could benefit from having a, I won’t say full-time, but as often as needed, vaccine bus traveling down (the) main thoroughfares and avenues,” Cruz said. “We don’t often get that, and that’s a way to catch people locally, who are walking, going grocery shopping, or just on the avenue.” Dr. Donna Shelley, professor of public health policy and management at New York University’s School of Global Public Health, said that it’s not enough to have vaccination sites, those sites also need to be able to provide 24/7 service for people in blue-collar jobs who work long hours.

wanted to get vaccinated, but their parents weren’t allowing them to because their parents were worried,” Gutnick said. So far, 42.4% of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 have been fully vaccinated across the country as of July 19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition to hesitancy over the vaccine’s safety and concerns and whether it could make them infertile, which has been debunked, reports have indicated that younger people don’t feel rushed to get the vaccine because they tend to have less severe symptoms and a lower risk of death or hospitalization than older people. The federal government has begun to ramp up its efforts to encourage young people to get vaccinated. On July 14, teen pop sensation and singer Olivia Rodrigo visited Biden at the White House in an effort to encourage more young people to get vaccinated. The city has also begun to shift its focus to young people, who have been stalling getting vaccinated. LIMITED ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE The more relevant cause for lack of trust among New Yorkers today is ongoing systemic racism in the health care system. “If you say Tuskegee, then you don’t have to acknowledge things like pharmacy deserts, things like poverty and unemployment,” Karen Lincoln, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, told NPR in March. “You can just say, ‘That happened then …

and there’s nothing we can do about it.’” Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, a professor of health policy and management at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, said there tends to be less access to health care in lower-income neighborhoods, areas with more people of color, immigrants and people whose first language is not English. “Vaccination programs, as with many things in life, are all about relationships,” Lee said. “If you’re going to unveil a rollout of vaccines and a vaccination program and you haven’t established the relationships already, that can make it more difficult to get vaccinations completed … in many places, the map of vaccination coverage is mirroring health care access, not just now but historically.” Some people of color have also expressed skepticism of health care systems due to medical racism, which has resulted in the discriminatory treatment of people of color, specifically Black people, by doctors. For example, Black women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related issues. A nationwide poll conducted by The Undefeated and the Kaiser Family Foundation last year, found that 7 in 10 African Americans feel that doctors treat them unfairly when seeking medical care. Matt Cruz, the district manager for Bronx Community Board 10, which includes neighborhoods such as Co-op City, Throggs Neck and Pelham Bay, said that pharmacies and vaccination sites aren’t easily accessible to everyone in the district.

MESSAGING ISSUES Some people in the Bronx feel that public health experts have failed to answer all of their questions about the COVID-19 vaccines, such as why people who have contracted COVID-19 need to be vaccinated even though they have COVID-19 antibodies, according to Cruz. Lee believes that much of this confusion stems from the fact that there wasn’t a concrete strategy put in place prior to the vaccine rollout to explain how it works and address those concerns. And as things continue to change, so does the messaging, which can come across as dubious to those already hesitant about the vaccine. A prime example of this was when the use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson was briefly paused after six recipients out of 6.8 million developed blood clots. “The Johnson & Johnson fallout really helped heighten the fears of vaccines,” Cruz said. “To those who were on the sidelines, it confirmed (that the vaccine was unsafe).” And then there are people who have refused to get vaccinated due to an overwhelming flow of misinformation. Conspiracy theories have suggested that COVID-19 isn’t real, that it has been caused by 5G and that COVID-19 vaccines can make you magnetic. Unfortunately, due to a lack of trust in medical professionals, these kinds of conspiracy theories, when spread by trusted community members, can be very convincing. WHAT NOW? How does the city fix these problems? Experts say that, aside from providing greater access to vaccines, the city must first fully understand the questions that Bronx residents have about the virus and vaccinations, and then come up with strategies accordingly. “I think we still need to do more work to try to understand what the beliefs, the attitudes and the knowledge is (in communities with low vaccination rates),” Shelley said. Shelley also said key community leaders, such as City Council members and community organizations, will be trusted by others, especially those feeling skeptical of the vaccine. “Who’s delivering (vaccination) information makes a difference,” she said.

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TATE SEN. JAMAAL BAILEY stepped up to the microphone, entirely surrounded by women, at the July 13 City Hall Park press conference celebrating the 29 women who won their Democratic primaries for the City Council. Eight women spoke before him and 10 after him. Bailey was the only man who spoke. Women are expected to be a majority of the 51-member council for the first time in its history. So Bailey had to clear something up. “I was invited, y’all, just so you know!” he said. “I didn’t just come here, I didn’t just show up in the park. But for too long, women have not been invited to the party.”

“The party” was a metaphor in this case, but he may as well have been talking about the Bronx Democratic Party, the organization that he’s led as chair since September of last year. If it was notable that a man was speaking at the event, it was downright shocking that the man chosen leads the Bronx Democratic County Committee – an outfit with a reputation as a backroom boys’ club. Bailey’s brief, humble speech was a public sign of his efforts to shift the county committee’s approach from that of an old-school machine to an organizing force that supports the best candidates – including women and progressives. It’s an ongoing project, but it may be the only way to maintain any bit of power in an era of weakened county parties.

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Endorsing women over loyalists, choosing a slate of City Council winners, breaking out the sneakers: Jamaal Bailey’s shaking up the party machine.

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State Sen. Jamaal Bailey took over the Bronx Democrats in September 2020.

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F THE GOAL of a county Democratic Party is to win elections, then the Bronx is clearly the most successful in the city. There are nine City Council seats in the Bronx, and the party endorsed the winner in every primary on June 22. By contrast, the Queens Democratic Party backed winners in six out of eight races, but didn’t endorse in some hotly contested match-ups. In light of tension over rules and the overall direction of the Brooklyn Democratic Party between leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and progressive reformers, the county party didn’t endorse any council candidates. The Manhattan Democrats never endorse in primaries, and the Staten Island Democrats stayed out of the borough’s only Democratic primary for City Council this year. The Bronx party got its perfect record by backing some candidates that the machine probably wouldn’t have supported before, all of them women. In Council District 18, the party supported Amanda Farías, a former council staffer who lost a race against the party’s pick, Rubén Díaz Sr., in 2017. Díaz wasn’t running for reelection in the East Bronx district, but he and his son, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., were both supporting Community Board 9 District Manager William Rivera for the seat. The party backed the younger, more progressive Farías over the older, more moderate Rivera. In District 14, the party endorsed 33-year-old Pierina Sanchez, a former policy adviser to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, over Yudelka Tapia, the Democratic district leader who also had Diaz Jr.’s backing. In District 13, the party endorsed Democratic District Leader Marjorie Velázquez, who had challenged the party-backed Mark Gjonaj in 2017. This year, Gjonaj declined to run for reelection, and Velázquez didn’t face a serious contest – thanks in part to the county party’s support. In District 16, the party endorsed Althea Stevens, a department director at a social services nonprofit, over Yves Filius, who served as the Bronx Democratic Party’s political director from 2016 to 2018. And even Stevens herself didn’t expect such a move from the party. “I was 100% surprised. Surprised, in a way, of how everyone thought it was going to be old politics, where it was not about the work,” she told City & State. “I think I forced people’s hands. They had to support me because I did the work. And they saw that, and they wanted to support that.” Assuming all of these candidates win in November’s general election – which is usually a safe assumption in the overwhelmingly Democratic borough – the Bronx will be going from a council delegation of two women and seven men to a younger, more left-leaning delegation with five women and four men. And for the first time in history, the Bronx bor-

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“There’s a youthful exuberance that the borough’s leadership has in it now. And I’m excited to see young folks take matters into their own hands.” – Bronx Democratic Party Chair Jamaal Bailey

WOMEN WHO’LL RUN THE BRONX Amanda Farías

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ough president will be a woman too, City Council Member Vanessa Gibson.

E MAY HAVE accepted a speaking slot at the presser, but Bailey was careful to not take too much credit for the women getting elected. “It doesn’t come from the organization – even though, for the first time in the history of the Bronx, we’re going to have a majority-women, women of color delegation,” he said at City Hall Park. “It was the amazing women who ran their races and their families and our amazing Latina Executive Director Ariana Collado who’s in the background.” A week earlier, Bailey met City & State for lunch at Code Red, a Jamaican restaurant on East Gun Hill Road in his Northeast Bronx district. Also there was Collado, who was most recently former Council Member Andrew Cohen’s chief of staff, and Jason Laidley, Bailey’s chief of staff. Bailey, over jerk steak and steamed vegetables, didn’t dwell on the female majority. “I think that we’re selecting the best folks possible. If those folks are women, that’s great!” he said. “We had to look at the population – how to equate the population with representation. So it’s only fair.” The borough’s delegation on the council will also be down to just one white member, Eric Dinowitz, for the first time – bringing the Bronx’s representation more in line with demographics in a borough that is just 9% white. Asked for overarching thoughts on the new delegation, Bailey focused on their records. “Every district that we have, you have people who are community-service, community-oriented first,” he said. “I think the common thread is, it’s people

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who have been in the community, working, doing something tangible for people before they had the aspiration to be an elected public servant.” But none of them have been working for too long. Seven of the nine candidates elected are in their 30s. “The Bronx has swag!” Bailey said. The county leader is a sneakerhead, and he was wearing Air Jordan 11 Legend Blues at lunch. “I was joking as I went around to candidates on Election Day – everybody had on a pair of fresh sneakers! And I had a suit on. I was like, ‘Oh man, how come I can’t wear my sneakers?’” the 38-year-old Bailey said. “There’s a youthful exuberance that the borough’s leadership has in it now. And I’m excited for that being around, just to see young folks take matters into their own hands.”

HE STORY OF the changing face of Bronx politics has been written before – even in this very magazine. Women planted the seeds of change in 2020, even before Bailey took over. The previous Bronx Democratic chair, former Assembly Member Marcos Crespo, said in 2018 that the party was unified and progressive – even if Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi had just unseated powerful veteran lawmakers. And in 2008, the “Rainbow Rebellion” led by now-Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie ousted Assembly Member José Rivera as county chair and ended a divisive era. “New blood” and “reform” often turns quickly into entrenched power and complaints of unexamined support for county loyalists. And it’s not as if the Bronx became some revolutionary progressive organization that will now be joining protests outside Heastie’s office. In District 11, longtime Council Member Andrew Cohen resigned early to be appointed as a judge by the county party. The party then endorsed Eric Dinowitz, the son of longtime party insider Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, to succeed him over two female candidates, Mino Lora and Jessica Haller, who each had more grassroots progressive support. That Eric Dinowitz is a generally well-regarded special education teacher who has been involved in local politics for years hardly softened the criticism that the whole episode reeked of the old way of doing things. In the mayoral race, Bailey and the Bronx Democrats were the only Democratic county committee in the city to formally endorse a candidate, backing Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. It was an obvious move – Adams is on track to win nearly half of the first-place votes in the Bronx, crushing the rest of the 13-candidate field, and that was going to happen with or without the party’s endorsement two weeks before the primary. But Adams, too, is known as more of a back-

room dealer than a progressive reformer. In March, the Bronx Democrats declined to endorse in the special election in Council District 15, when progressives were split between two women, Ischia Bravo and Elisa Crespo, the latter of whom had a serious shot at being New York’s first transgender legislator. But Oswald Feliz, a tenants’ rights attorney who owes much of his success to his political loyalty to Rep. Adriano Espaillat, won. Only after he took office and seemed likely to win the primary did the party endorse Feliz. And most surprisingly, the Bronx Democratic Party didn’t endorse in the race for borough president. The leading candidates were four elected officials who had the party’s support in previous races: Gibson, Assembly Member Nathalia Fernández, City Council Member Fernando Cabrera and state Sen. Luis Sepúlveda. Cabrera has long been known for his socially conservative views, including his opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion, and has run multiple challenges from the right against popular progressive Bronx incumbents. And Sepúlveda was arrested in January and charged with strangling his wife – though he denies he did anything wrong. But the party didn’t even take the easy way out and co-endorse Gibson and Fernández. Gibson said she would’ve been fine with that. “When I got the word that they were going to be neutral, of course I was really disappointed,” Gibson said. “I said if the party cannot agree to one candidate, can you agree to two?” When asked about council race endorsements, Bailey talked about the importance of representation and candidates who were active in their communities, but when asked about the borough president race, Bailey sounds like an old-fashioned party boss. “People had been good to the organization, and they had been good in their respective areas, and it became difficult for the organization to select someone,” he said. But Bailey clearly didn’t see it as his role to discourage Sepúlveda, his colleague in the state Senate, from seeking higher office, despite the pending misdemeanor charge. “We have not had a conversation about politics in quite some time,” Bailey said about Sepúlveda. The borough president race was a tough test for the newly elected county leader for another reason too – Bailey is an African American man leading a majority-Latino borough, where four of the previous six borough presidents have been men of Puerto Rican heritage. “There was this undercurrent, or elephant in the room, of having a Latino borough presidency in the borough that’s predominantly Latino, and (the party) not going out and supporting a Latino candidate,” said Assembly Member Karines Reyes, who is Afro-Latina. Reyes personally gave Gibson, who is Black, a first-place ranked endorsement and Fernández, who is

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“I would not call them the Bronx machine, I would call them the Bronx organization. There’s been a transition in that regard.”

Latina, a second-place ranked endorsement. While others in the Bronx may have wanted to see another Hispanic borough president, Reyes is happy with Bailey and Gibson. “I think the Black community has thrived under Latino leadership, and the Latino community is going to thrive under Black leadership,” she said.

N LESS THAN a year under Bailey’s leadership, some past critics of the Bronx Democrats like what they see. “I would not call them the Bronx machine, I would call them the Bronx organization. There’s been a transition in that regard,” said state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, a progressive-leaning state senator who has rarely seen eye-to-eye with the county party. “I do think (Bailey and his team) are establishing processes that the prior machines didn’t have. I think that they’re committed to bringing new types of people into the mix, new energy, and not standing in the way of people just because they don’t stand in line and shut up.” How does one go from “machine” to “organization?” Bailey said he’s expanded the number of vice chairs to add more diversity to the committee. He brought together advisory boards – and not just ones “stacked with county loyalists,” he said – to screen candidates in districts with open seats, and guide who the organization would endorse. And instead of shunning potential rivals, he worked with them. “What was interesting about Jamaal is he was willing to talk to everybody and wanted everybody’s input, because he wanted this to be a collaborative effort,” said Reyes, who was also considered to be a contender to be the next county chair after Crespo stepped down last year. Before Bailey was officially chosen as chair, he and Reyes had a two-hour

sit-down discussion. “Part of those conversations was that we want to see more women. We want to see our organization support more women. Uplift more women and uplift the progressive vision that we believe best serves the constituency of the Bronx,” she said. It’s notable that Bailey is trying to open up the party, since his own path to power was decidedly traditional. As an undergraduate at the University at Albany, Bailey took an internship at the state Capitol and was placed with Heastie, the Assembly member who represented the Bronx area where he was raised. Bailey took to politics quickly and stayed connected, joining the Democratic state committee and volunteering for Heastie while attending the CUNY School of Law. After a stint at Rodman & Campbell, a law firm in the Bronx, Bailey joined Heastie’s staff as director of community relations. When longtime local state Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson stepped down in 2016 to join the Cuomo administration, Bailey won the open primary by a wide margin, thanks in part to his close ties with Heastie, and endorsements from unions, including 1199SEIU, that presumably were eager to stay in the speaker’s good graces. And while Bailey is a new leader, there’s continuity. He’s a protege of Heastie, who was county leader from 2008 to 2015. And Stanley Schlein, the behind-the-scenes power broker who has served as the Bronx Democrats’ attorney for decades, is still part of the team.

HE SHIFT IN borough leadership was sudden and unexpected. Early in 2020, Diaz Jr. announced he wasn’t pursuing a mayoral bid. Diaz and Crespo are close, and the county committee under Crespo had been focused on electing Diaz,

so Crespo announced he’d step down too, both from his position as county leader and from the Assembly. Bailey ran a quiet campaign, building support among the Democratic district leaders who would be casting their votes, and he was elected in September. Bronx voters were changing the face of political leadership in the borough already, replacing officeholders with younger, more progressive alternatives. In 2018, Ocasio-Cortez beat then-Rep. Joseph Crowley and Biaggi defeated then-state Sen. Jeff Klein, who had led the Independent Democratic Conference that shared power with Republicans. In 2020, voters chose then-Council Member Ritchie Torres, who is gay, to succeed former Rep. José E. Serrano over Díaz Sr., who is known for making homophobic comments, among other candidates. Many of the borough’s other establishment figures left office. Diaz and Gjonaj, who has drawn criticism from ethics watchdogs, both declined to run for reelection. Former City Council Member Andy King was expelled from the body after it concluded that he had harassed staffers and refused to accept the council’s repeated punishments. Former Assembly Member Carmen Arroyo was removed from the ballot in last year’s primary after a court ruled her campaign had committed petition fraud. Bailey and the Bronx Democrats seem to have done a good job of moving with the political currents, but the 2022 elections will create a new set of challenges. Will Sepúlveda run for reelection? Will young, progressive insurgents take on older incumbents? “The reality is that (Bailey is) somebody who I know cares about the Bronx, cares about public service, and cares about this organization differently,” Rivera said. “But nothing can change in a day. Nothing can change overnight.”

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The local leaders bringing the borough back.

V E R T H E P A S T D E C A D E , the Bronx appeared to have turned a corner. Unlike the bad old days when it was left to burn by the city, the Bronx is now the fastest growing borough in New York City – with a growth rate nearly unmatched in cities around the country. It has become an appealing destination for real estate developers as well, with investment in commercial and housing projects bolstering the local economy. Also, the borough’s leading politicians are among the most influential in city, state and federal government. Headline writers rolled out “The Bronx is booming” so often it became a cliché.

Unfortunately, however, the Bronx is still struggling with widespread unemployment – which hit 25% during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. As the borough slowly climbs out of that hole, it’ll look to a new generation of leaders – a new borough president, a new Democratic Party chair, new lawmakers at the city and state level – to navigate a path forward. City & State’s Bronx Power 100 – researched and written in partnership with journalist Joe Konig – recognizes the many local leaders, both in and out of government, who are getting the borough back to the boom times.

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In the Bronx, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s allies, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and former Assembly Member Marcos Crespo, opted to exit public office rather than stay in the fight, while others remained and lost. In Albany, Heastie’s caucus grows more unruly, openly critical and leftward-tilting with each election cycle. But the speaker remains atop both the Bronx Democratic machine and the Assembly, recently installing another protégé, state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, to lead the former and maintain his iron grip on the latter for his sixth year running.

Few politicians across the country, much less in the Bronx, attract as much praise, ire and media attention as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is the most prominent democratic socialist in a state that continues to elect more leftists. Progressives look to her for leadership and covet her endorsement. Her late backing almost lifted mayoral candidate Maya Wiley to victory, while her

support of Brad Lander helped him win the comptroller race.

3 JAMAAL BAILEY CHAIR BRONX DEMOCRATS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE State Sen. Jamaal Bailey is the new boss of Bronx Democrats, bridging the divides that have rattled the party in recent years. Bailey is both a progressive criminal justice reformer and a loyal party

Torres’ backing of Andrew Yang was the latest example of his independent streak.

acolyte, receiving a career boost from Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s mentorship. Already under his leadership, a new image of the party is forming: A woman of color will be borough president and make up a majority of the Bronx City Council delegation for the first time.

4 RITCHIE TORRES MEMBER OF CONGRESS Rep. Ritchie Torres’ gamble backing early mayoral frontrunner Andrew Yang didn’t pay off, but for the newly minted representative, it was just the latest example of the independent streak that got him into Congress in the first place. As one of the first two openly gay, Black members of

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George Gresham, left, is president of 1199SEIU. Gary LaBarbera, right, is president of Building and Assembly Construction Speaker Carl of Trades Council Heastie, left, York. Greater New and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right.

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Congress, he quickly made a name for himself. He proposed bills that would cut funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement partnerships with local police. He also introduced a resolution condemning the anti-trans bills sweeping statehouses across the country.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, or the Dinowitz father-son duo that now both hold elected office in districts overlapping her own. The relationship has never been warm, but the cold war at local political club meetings heated up as Biaggi forcefully backed Eric Dinowitz’s rivals in the special and primary elections for City Council District 11. The progressive star’s endorsement was sought by left-wing candidates across the city in 2021.

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BRONX DISTRICT ATTORNEY Even as Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark has begun to dismiss marijuana cases by the thousands and expunge the records of sex workers, she has maintained a tough-on-crime stance by recently declaring war on gun violence at a rally in University Heights. As part of her plan to address the rise in shootings, she announced that a team of assistant district attorneys would investigate nonfatal shootings as if they were homicides in order to get more guns off the street.

VANESSA GIBSON Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark changed how her office investigates nonfatal shootings.

alongside Heastie, and helped his son, Eric Dinowitz, win former City Council Member Andrew Cohen’s seat.

JEFFREY DINOWITZ ASSEMBLY MEMBER When Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. leaves office at the end of 2021, Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz will be one of the last architects of the 2008 “Rainbow Rebellion.” It was a coalition that elevated him, Diaz, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and their allies into Bronx Democratic Party leadership. Dinowitz has avoided serious electoral threats, unlike former state Sen. Jeff Klein and former Rep. Eliot Engel, whose districts overlapped with the Assembly member’s. Dinowitz runs the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee

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Cuomo’s nursing home pandemic policies – and ended up being interviewed by the FBI for three hours for its probe into the governor. Despite having the votes, another session ended with Rivera and his counterpart, Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, unable to pass the New York Health Act. If the bill passes in future sessions, Rivera’s efforts will be second only to Gottfried’s in bringing single-payer health care to New York.

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State Sen. Gustavo Rivera emerged as one of the leading critics of Gov. Andrew

State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi has no qualms about taking on Albany Democratic leadership,

NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER New York City Council Member Vanessa Gibson defeated Assembly Member Nathalia Fernández and fellow Council Member Fernando Cabrera in a competitive Democratic primary. Gibson is poised to become the Bronx’s first female and first Black borough president. She made her mark chairing the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety, pushing for more police officers and transparency of police surveillance. When she succeeds current Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Gibson will emulate her political mentor and trailblazing “second mother” Aurelia Greene, the longtime Bronx lawmaker who died in May.

10 RAFAEL SALAMANCA JR. CHAIR NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL LAND USE COMMITTEE Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr. will be one of the few incumbents returning to the chamber next January after he abandoned his run

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Affairs Committee. Bowman, the founder of a Bronx public middle school, has issued sharp critiques of President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin. This earned him accolades from the left, even as White House chief of staff Ron Klain consulted with him on policy and personnel during the transition into Biden’s term.

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for Bronx borough president. The South Bronx Puerto Rican lawmaker could have a shot at running for City Council speaker if he’s inclined to leave behind his influential Land Use Committee post. As one of the borough’s top fundraisers, Salamanca could have the backing of the Bronx Democrats if he runs for speaker.

11 ADRIANO ESPAILLAT MEMBER OF CONGRESS Rep. Adriano Espaillat had a very good year. The first Dominican American elected to Congress fostered a growing Dominican political base in the Bronx. He guided his protégé Oswald Feliz to victory in a New York City

Council special election, beating candidates backed by the world’s second-richest woman, Alice Walton, and influential unions. When Espaillat endorsed Eric Adams, the front-runner invoked divine intervention – few can get voters to the polls like Espaillat can in the Spanish-speaking communities of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.

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GEORGE GRESHAM PRESIDENT 1199SEIU Eight years after he bet on Mayor Bill de Blasio before anyone else would, George Gresham and 1199SEIU went all-in for mayoral contender Maya Wiley. The union’s political action committee spent $1.2 million on an ad buy in the last days of the primary, funded partly by billionaire financier George Soros, yet Wiley fell short. Last fall, longtime ally Gov. Andrew Cuomo put Gresham on a COVID-19 vaccine task force. Gresham said he’s determined to fight against mandatory vaccination for medical workers during his membership.

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It didn’t take long for Rep. Jamaal Bowman to jump into the fray after defeating thenRep. Eliot Engel, who had been in office for more than three decades and chaired the influential House Foreign

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Schlein continues to wield power behind the scenes in the Bronx Democratic Party.

When the public school system needed a steady hand to lead New York’s 2.6 million students through the COVID-19 school year and the post-pandemic return to classes, Betty Rosa was the obvious choice. Rosa spent the last decade representing Bronx County on the Board of Regents, serving as chancellor since 2016. Now, Rosa is

16 LATOYA JOYNER CHAIR ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LABOR Few committees are as important in Albany as the labor committees,

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Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s ability to move votes is almost unparalleled.

As a fixture of the Bronx Democratic machine since the 1980s, Stanley Schlein continues to wield influence, even as the party’s grip on the borough loosens. No Bronx judge gets to the bench without Schlein’s approval as the perennial chair of the party’s judicial convention. Beyond his day job as a well-compensated lobbyist, Schlein’s election law expertise earned him six figures in the 2021 primary. Candidates who employed his services include six running for New York City Council, two for borough president, two for city comptroller and onetime mayoral front-runners Andrew Yang and Kathyrn Garcia.

implementing policy instead of overseeing it, using $9 billion in federal stimulus to shore up the system and reduce inequities in the student population exacerbated by the pandemic.

Montefiore-Einstein salutes our own Marcos Crespo and Jennifer Tausig

Marcos A. Crespo Senior Vice President, Community Affairs Montefiore

Jennifer Tausig Director, Community and Economic Development, and Executive Director, Mosholu Preservation Corporation and Jerome Gun Hill BID Montefiore

For being honored in City & State New York’s 2021 Bronx Power 100 in recognition of their influence and dedication to the Bronx community.

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17 RANDY LEVINE PRESIDENT NEW YORK YANKEES Randy Levine, the longtime president of the iconic Bronx ball club, was reportedly considered for the job of Donald Trump’s chief of staff in 2018. The Yankees president was deputy mayor and labor commissioner under then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Levine is an occasional presence at Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s press conferences as the state lets sports fans return to watch live games in person. He also called for the state to legalize recreational marijuana and mobile sports betting to increase revenues postpandemic. Both measures were approved in Albany this year.

18 MICHAEL BENEDETTO CHAIR ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION Assembly Member Michael Benedetto represents the entire East Bronx, from Pelham Bay to Throgs Neck, overlapping some with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district, but so far staving off progressive challengers. The former publisher of the Bronx Times-Reporter and 30-year New York City public school teacher now chairs the Assembly’s Committee on Education. In Albany, Benedetto shapes the debate on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (he’s opposed) and mayoral control of New York City schools (the current law expires in June 2022).

Assembly Member Karines Reyes sponsored the HERO Act.

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Although she’s still in her first term, Assembly Member Karines Reyes is making waves. The Montefiore Medical Center nurse returned to her old job during the pandemic’s peak, and amid a ventilator shortage, she cared for sickly patients in the hours before they died. She was the primary sponsor of the NY HERO Act, which provides first-in-the-nation COVID-19 workplace protection laws. Reyes, who is also a former New York State Nurses Association union official, celebrated the passage of safe staffing legislation, a longtime priority of the influential organization.

The former Montefiore Medical Center emergency room nurse emerged as a political force during her decadelong leadership of the New York State Nurses Association. Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez’s authority championed her 42,000 front-line members through negotiations, strikes and lawsuits. As COVID-19 spread and members debated the union’s shift to the activist left under her leadership, she took initiative. She advocated for better pay, personal protective equipment and a newly passed safe staffing law out of Albany that requires hospitals and nursing homes to establish a minimum patient-to-nurse ratio.

NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY WINNERS New York City Council Member Mark Gjonaj spent over a million dollars to beat Marjorie Velázquez by just 4% in 2017. This time, Gjonaj, the best fundraiser on the City Council, spent nearly $500,000 before dropping out in February, ceding victory to his progressive challenger. A longtime community organizer and advocate for deaf children, Velázquez is the first Latina to represent District 13. She will be part of a Bronx City Council delegation composed of a majority of women of color next January. The other breakthrough New York City Council primary winners were

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and Latoya Joyner has found herself chairing the influential committee after the post opened when Bronx Democratic boss Marcos Crespo left for the private sector last year. Though her bill offering unemployment repayment forgiveness has not made it to the governor’s desk, she worked with state Sen. Jessica Ramos to pass a measure that will prevent wage theft in the construction industry. This is a major priority for unions in the Building and Construction Trades Council.

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“If we as citizens can address the virus of social inequity with the same selfless determination and courage we have brought to bear on the coronavirus, I dare to hope that we can finally prove the true strength of our shared humanity.” Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PhD

President and CEO, Montefiore Medicine

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Amanda Farías, who lost to Council Member Rubén Díaz Sr. in 2017 but won this cycle after he declined to seek reelection; Pierina Sanchez, who is set to succeed Council Member Fernando Cabrera; and Althea Stevens, who won in the district being vacated by Vanessa Gibson, likely the next borough president.

RUBEN DIAZ JR. BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT Once viewed as a likely frontrunner in the mayor’s race, Ruben Diaz Jr. dropped out of the primary last year and returned money to donors, apparently serious about leaving the political life he led after becoming the youngest Assembly Member since Teddy Roosevelt. A quarter century later, Diaz is done with elected office. Whatever he does next, the three-term borough president will have plenty of powerful allies left in office, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and the city’s next mayor, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.

23 LORRAINE CORTÉS-VÁZQUEZ COMMISSIONER NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGING Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez served under two governors as secretary of state and was chief of staff to thenBronx Democratic Party boss Roberto Ramirez. She also headed up EmblemHealth and Cablevision’s government affairs divisions. In addition, Cortés-Vázquez was executive vice president of AARP

26 PALOMA IZQUIERDOHERNANDEZ PRESIDENT AND CEO URBAN HEALTH PLAN Paloma IzquierdoHernandez runs Urban Health Plan.

before being tapped by Mayor Bill de Blasio to serve in his administration. As commissioner, she oversees the reopening of the city’s senior centers this summer and the expansion of her department under the mayor’s five-year Community Care Plan for older New Yorkers.

24 HAWK NEWSOME & CHIVONA RENÉE NEWSOME CO-FOUNDERS BLACK LIVES MATTER GREATER NEW YORK The Parkchester-based sibling duo Hawk and Chivona Renée Newsome have led the Black Lives Matter movement at protests while pursuing electoral influence through Chivona Renée Newsome’s congressional candidacy. They’ve also endorsed candidates in the 2021 Democratic primary. The pair were arrested at a May protest blocking traffic at the Holland Tunnel alongside mayoral

candidate Shaun Donovan, though the Black Lives Caucus, the political arm of the organization they founded, endorsed Maya Wiley days before Election Day.

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Paloma Izquierdo-Hernandez runs one of the largest health care providers in the South Bronx, originally founded by her father, Dr. Richard Izquierdo, in the 1970s. From a 100,000-square-foot Longwood headquarters, Izquierdo-Hernandez oversees 1,000 employees at 10 locations throughout the Bronx, Queens and Harlem. In April, Urban Health Plan was tapped by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to help vaccinate bodega and grocery workers. The provider also received $17 million from the American Rescue Plan for COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.

BRONX OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A decade into her tenure leading the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, Marlene Cintron saw hard-earned growth in the borough dissipate with COVID-19 closures shuttering businesses. Last spring, Cintron participated in developing an emergency loan fund for Bronx businesses to borrow up to $100,000 to help aid their survival. This spring, Cintron was named co-chair of the “A Sure Bet for New York’s Future” Alliance. She’s advocating for a full gambling license for Empire City Casino, a move projected

Diaz Jr. is leaving politics and elected office, but he still has many powerful allies.

27 PHILLIP GRANT GENERAL MANAGER HUNTS POINT PRODUCE MARKET Feeding a city is no easy task, especially when you’re less than a year into your job and a once-in-a-century pandemic cripples your

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to generate millions of dollars for the region.

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Larry Scott Blackmon and the Bronx Power 100 honorees.

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supply chain and threatens your workforce. Phillip Grant oversees the nation’s largest produce market responsible for 4.5 billion pounds of food annually, guiding the market’s 30 member firms through COVID-19 and a one-week strike in January over a wage dispute. The strike attracted national attention, but ended with a three-year contract that brought Teamsters back to the market.

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Haven and Melrose. He followed in the footsteps of his father, former Rep. José E. Serrano, who recently retired after three decades as a member of Congress. The South Bronx native spent about three years in the New York City Council before joining the state Senate in 2005. Serrano chairs the body’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation, bringing with him experience from working in the arts for the New York Shakespeare Festival.

30 28 DANIEL KANE JR. PRESIDENT TEAMSTERS LOCAL 202 A fourth-generation Teamster, Daniel Kane Jr. led 1,400 workers at Hunts Point Produce Market through the first strike since the 1980s, even as the NYPD cracked down on the picket line. The January strike attracted support from Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ritchie Torres and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, as well as leftists nationwide. After a weeklong strike, Kane secured a three-year contract with higher pay and greater health care benefits.

29 JOSÉ M. SERRANO STATE SENATOR State Sen. José M. Serrano’s district spans parts of the South Bronx, including Mott

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE Famously, Bhairavi Desai does not have a driver’s license. Despite this, Desai has led an organization representing yellow cab drivers in New York City for over 20 years, advocating on behalf of her 21,000 members as the medallion crisis and ridesharing apps threatened their livelihoods. Just this year, she slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio’s rescue plan as woefully insufficient and helped kill an Uber- and Lyft-backed bill that would continue to prevent rideshare drivers from organizing with full labor rights.

31 JOSEPH MCSHANE PRESIDENT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY For nearly 20 years, Father Joseph McShane has run the Bronx’s premier institution of higher learning, the 180-yearold Fordham University. McShane is a respected Jesuit

Joseph McShane has led Fordham University for almost 20 years.

Catholic leader in the Bronx and nationwide. California Rep. Juan Vargas, a Fordham graduate, said he endorsed Michael Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign after a conversation with McShane, who serves on the board of directors for Bloomberg Philanthropies. In December, McShane announced the largest donation in university history: $35 million from billionaire Mario Gabelli.

32 NATHALIA FERNANDEZ ASSEMBLY MEMBER Assembly Member Nathalia Fernandez got her start in Bronx politics as a staffer for New York City Council Member Mark Gjonaj, before going on to serve as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s liaison to the borough. That experience helped launch her into office in 2019, repping neighborhoods such as Allerton and Morris Park. While her recent run for Bronx borough president was

unsuccessful, she remains a rising star in the Bronx Democratic Party. Fernandez, whose father hails from Cuba, recently voiced support for Cuban protesters denouncing shortages for food and medicine.

33 CHRISTOPHER MASTROMANO & CHRISTOPHER ROKER CEOS NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/ JACOBI AND NORTH CENTRAL BRONX; NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/ LINCOLN Christopher Mastromano and Christopher Roker were tasked with leading the Bronx’s public hospitals through the coronavirus pandemic. Mastromano leads NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx and will oversee the long-planned merger of the two locations. Roker, an operations expert who

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City Council Member Eric Dinowitz, son of Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz, easily won his June primary.

moved over from NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan to head up Lincoln Hospital in February, will also continue in his role as the system’s chief growth officer.

34 ERIC DINOWITZ NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER Eric Dinowitz was a schoolteacher, union representative and Community Board 8 leader before he launched his bid for the New York City Council. His Northwest Bronx home base is an epicenter of the progressive, antiestablishment movement in New York City that ousted then-state Sen. Jeff Klein and then-Rep. Eliot Engel – both allies of his influential father, Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz. This didn’t stop

the younger Dinowitz from winning a March special election for the council seat formerly held by Andrew Cohen and cruising to a decisive primary victory in June.

35 KEVIN RILEY NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER New York City Council Member Kevin Riley worked for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie for a decade before Riley ran to replace the expelled lawmaker Andy King. Riley has spent the past two decades attending the same church as state Sen. Jamaal Bailey. Both relationships will be valuable assets to Riley during his City Council career. Riley also founded The Dad Gang, a Black fatherhood initiative that hosted a

Tenant attorney Oswald Feliz defeated candidates backed by unions and political action committees in the March special election for Rep. Ritchie Torres’ open New York City Council seat – then won the June primary to keep it. After running the Bronx office of Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s 2016 campaign, Espaillat put his political muscle behind Feliz. The young lawmaker will play a key role in shaping the borough’s future, he even founded a new Bronx political club with Espaillat in 2019 called the Northwest Bronx Democrats for Change.

37 AMANDA SEPTIMO ASSEMBLY MEMBER Discouraged by then-Bronx Democratic Party boss Marcos Crespo from running in the first place, Amanda Septimo ousted longtime party fixture Carmen Arroyo last year after the incumbent filed fraudulent ballot petitions. Once in Albany, the first-term Assembly member organized protest sleepovers outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Capitol “War Room.” When Hunts Point Teamsters went on strike, she showed up every day and got the Cuomo

38 PHILIP OZUAH PRESIDENT AND CEO MONTEFIORE MEDICINE Dr. Philip Ozuah took charge of the Bronx’s largest health care provider and one of its largest employers just months before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in New York. As one of the top hospital executives in the city, Ozuah oversaw Montefiore Health System’s 13 hospitals and 300 clinics through surging patients, PPE shortages and an increasingly confrontational nurses union. After George Floyd was killed, Ozuah penned an op-ed in The New York Times and appeared on the TODAY Show to discuss dual deadly pandemics: COVID-19 and racism.

39 FERNANDO DELGADO PRESIDENT LEHMAN COLLEGE Fernando Delgado was selected to lead the City

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University of New York’s only senior college in the Bronx this year, replacing interim president Daniel Lemons after a two-year search. Delgado spent 20 years as an administrator at public colleges in Arizona, Minnesota, and Wisconsin before coming to the Bronx. An expert in Latinx identity and the son of immigrants, Delgado runs a university federally designated as a Hispanic-serving institution where nearly half of the student body is composed of first-generation college attendees.

and was quickly thrown into the fire when New Rochelle nurses went on strike over pay and staffing concerns. Crespo became the public face of that battle for Montefiore and will continue to wield influence in the Bronx and Albany through his new role and his old friendships.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THE BRONX DEFENDERS After the long fight for bail reform, Justine Olderman spent 2020 defending protesters arrested during a police crackdown in Mott Haven last summer. She demanded better treatment for prisoners at Rikers Island and other city facilities where unhealthy conditions lead to high rates of COVID-19 among the incarcerated population. In February, the Bronx Defenders joined a lawsuit demanding Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Howard Zucker open eligibility for the vaccine to prisoners.

A former director at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, Karen Meyerhoff took the top job at the 28-acre, North Riverdale public garden and cultural center in 2015. After shutting down for almost four months at the pandemic’s height, Wave Hill reopened in July last year and offered free admission to New York City hospital staff and their families. Wave Hill is slated for a full season of exhibitions this year, marking the complete return of one of the Bronx’s premier cultural institutions.

42 MARCOS CRESPO SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER Marcos Crespo did not go far when he resigned from the Assembly and as party boss of the Bronx Democrats last year. He took a job at Montefiore Medical Center

MICHAEL BRADY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD AVENUE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT Michael Brady has helped bring millions of dollars in investment to the South Bronx as he works to revitalize the area through development, clean streets and a cohesive business community that can attract new business to the neighborhood. As an outspoken opponent of New York City Council legislation changing fast food employee

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Once a top aide to Eliot Engel, John Calvelli returned to politics after 20 years away to co-run the New York office of Michael Bloomberg’s short-lived 2020 presidential campaign. When he came back to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs some of the world’s largest urban parks including the Bronx Zoo, a global pandemic had arrived in his home borough thanks to a likely zoonotic coronavirus. Both Calvelli and Christián Samper, a world- renowned biologist and conservationist, have written and spoken extensively on measures that must be taken to prevent further global pandemics. This includes the curbing of ecological degradation that increases the risk of viruses like COVID-19 spreading.

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45 WILMA ALONSO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FORDHAM ROAD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT Since she initiated its formation in 2005, Wilma Alonso has worked to make Fordham Road Business Improvement District the biggest shopping district in the Bronx. As a passionate defender of brick and mortar retail, Alonso was an outspoken opponent of the New York City Council’s approval of thousands of new street vending permits in January. When Fordham Road stores were looted during last summer’s unrest, Alonso demanded accountability and attention from the city.

46 MICHAEL MURPHY PRESIDENT AND CEO AFFINITY HEALTH PLAN Affinity Health Plan, the 30-year-old Medicaid health plan with over 280,000

subscribers that was originally known as Bronx Health Plan, has been led by Michael Murphy since 2017. In October of 2020, Murphy arranged the $380 million sale of Affinity to Molina Healthcare, a managed health care services company that serves 3.6 million members nationwide. Under the Molina Healthcare umbrella, Affinity kept its name and its Bronx-based offices and will continue under Murphy’s leadership going forward.

Wilma Alonso is the executive director of the Fordham Road BID.

47 LOURDES ZAPATA PRESIDENT AND CEO SOUTH BRONX OVERALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP. In 2019, Lourdes Zapata returned to the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation — where she previously worked for 17 years — after five years working in state government for Empire State Development and then as chief diversity officer in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office. The economic development nonprofit manages 500 housing units, 30,000 square feet of office space and a number of vocational training and workforce development programs. Last May, Zapata was named to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Small Business Sector Advisory Council.

48 JASON LAIDLEY CHIEF OF STAFF STATE SEN. JAMAAL BAILEY Jason Laidley was Bronx borough director for New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office when his old

friend from Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s team, Jamaal Bailey, asked him to run his state Senate campaign. Leaping at the chance to work with his friend and for the neighborhoods he grew up in, Laidley became Bailey’s chief of staff after the campaign won. Now, Bailey is the boss of the Bronx Democrats and a leading criminal justice reformer in Albany, with Laidley as his right-hand man.

49 PLINIO AYALA PRESIDENT AND CEO PER SCHOLAS Over the past 20 years, Plinio Ayala has built Per Scholas into one of the nation’s leading technology training nonprofits. At no cost to low-income individuals interested in the IT profession, Per Scholas offers training and workforce development programs to embark on tech careers they

otherwise would have been excluded from. Ayala has helped over 11,000 workers launch successful tech careers by partnering with dozens of the biggest tech companies and building Per Scholas nationally from his South Bronx office.

50 MYCHAL JOHNSON CO-FOUNDER SOUTH BRONX UNITE Bronx lives would have been saved had leaders and decision-makers in New York heeded the warnings of Mychal Johnson. For years, the environmental crusader sounded the alarm about pollution, asthma and environmental racism in the Bronx. When COVID-19 arrived, it found the borough weakened by highways, heavy diesel trucking, fossil fuel power plants and other air pollutants. Still, Johnson fights

Bronx lives would have been saved had leaders heeded Johnson’s warnings.

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on, hosting a Voterfest in Mott Haven with The City ahead of the June primary to inform Bronx voters.

initiatives and serves on the board of the New York League of Conservation Voters.

51 LARRY SCOTT BLACKMON FOUNDER AND CEO

The FreshDirect executive who successfully led the charge to bring the grocery delivery business to the Bronx has started his own consultancy. Larry Scott Blackmon worked for Mayors Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and the New York Jets. At FreshDirect, Blackmon recently helped organize the first “Bronx Day” on Governors Island in appreciation of FreshDirect’s 1,000-plus Bronx employees. Editor’s note: Larry Scott Blackmon is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

North Bronx. For the last 20 years, Knobbe has built up the independent, nonprofit cable network, opening new studio locations across the borough and training generations of young Bronxites in the art of television production. But the network would not hold nearly as central a role in the borough without the longtime host of “BronxTalk,” Gary Axelbank. The respected broadcaster has long been the go-to moderator for debates, forums and town hall meetings for everyone from local legislators to congressional and mayoral candidates.

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MICHAEL MAX KNOBBE & GARY AXELBANK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; HOST OF “BRONXTALK” BRONXNET Few have done more to document, uplift and inform the Bronx than Michael Max Knobbe and Gary Axelbank, both longtime residents of Van Cortlandt Village in the

Larry Scott Blackmon brought the grocery delivery business to the Bronx.

AMY YENSI BRONX REPORTER NY1 As a self-proclaimed Bronx girl and the borough’s reporter for NY1, Amy Yensi provides her expertise in reporting the toughest stories. She also highlights the best the Bronx has to offer, particularly when it comes to the borough’s tasty delicacies. Her coverage of last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, rapper DMX’s death and memorial and disparities in federal aid for

BHARATI KEMRAJ Bronx businesses earned her the respect and admiration of her home borough’s viewers.

54 PAUL THOMAS PARTNER THE PARKSIDE GROUP A onetime aide to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Paul Thomas is wrapping up his first, fruitful decade as a lobbyist for The Parkside Group. The firm rakes in millions each year from clients like AT&T, Microsoft, 32BJ SEIU, the Brooklyn Nets and DraftKings, while also advising nonprofits and local cultural institutions on legislative efforts and government affairs. Thomas has spearheaded anti-gang

SENIOR ASSOCIATE PATRICK B. JENKINS & ASSOCIATES A leader in the city’s Guyanese community and a veteran of the Bronx borough president’s office, Bharati Kemraj is one of the key consultants working for Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates. Kemraj’s nonprofit, the Bharati Foundation, launched a voter outreach campaign in Indo-Caribbean and West Indian communities. The daughter of a prominent Bronx Hindu priest, Kemraj is a leader at the Vishnu Mandir temple in Parkchester and hosted visits with mayoral candidates Dianne Morales and Maya Wiley during the primary.

56 BRENNAN O’DONNELL PRESIDENT MANHATTAN COLLEGE The day after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Brennan O’Donnell wrote a lengthy email to the Manhattan College community, singling one of the university’s most famous alumni: Rudy Giuliani, class of 1965. O’Donnell explained that the former

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mayor had violated America’s values and the Catholic school’s Lasallian principles by undermining the integrity of our elections. The college was recently named one of the best universities for veterans by the Military Times.

57 SANDRA LOBO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NORTHWEST BRONX COMMUNITY AND CLERGY COALITION The tenant protections passed in Albany were a start, but Sandra Lobo and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition have continued their tenacious advocacy for racial justice and “economic democracy” in the Bronx. Lobo hopes to convince the city to hand over 28 buildings and lots in University Heights for a community land trust to house impoverished Bronxites, instead of selling the cityowned properties to private developers. Lobo is on the community advisory board for

MIT’s Community Innovators Lab.

58 ABE FERNÁNDEZ VICE PRESIDENT FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT CHILDREN’S AID Abe Fernández serves a dual role for Children’s Aid, running Collective Impact in the South Bronx as well as advocating for community schools across the country through the National Center for Community Schools. Through his first role, Fernández formed South Bronx Rising Together in collaboration with local stakeholders to develop a cradle-to-college or career structure for kids in Morrisania. In the latter role, Fernández works to export the Children’s Aid community

60 ALICIA GUEVARA CEO BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY Alicia Guevara is the first woman to lead Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City in its nearly 120-year history. She guided the mentoring organization through the COVID-19 pandemic, quickly pivoting to virtual programming so that kids, often from the worst-hit neighborhoods, could stay in contact with their “bigs.”

Guevara is the first woman to lead Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC.

61 NILKA MARTELL FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LOVING THE BRONX Nilka Martell is a leading environmental activist in the Bronx who has spent years urging the federal government to cap the Cross Bronx Expressway and convert it into green space. With COVID-19 laying bare the impacts of environmental racism in the Bronx, Martell has recruited more politicians to her cause, including Rep. Ritchie Torres, Andrew Yang and Assembly Member Karines Reyes. In June, Martell co-authored an endorsement of Vanessa Gibson for borough president, highlighting her support in the Latino community.

62 MARK STAGG CEO AND FOUNDER THE STAGG GROUP Longtime Bronx real estate developer Mark Stagg continues to buy up property and build new housing across the borough, including hundreds of affordable

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Sandra Lobo is working to establish a community land trust.

When he’s not managing public relations for one of the biggest hospitals in New York City, John Doyle is helping Assembly Member Michael Benedetto’s campaign or organizing town halls with state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi and Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez through City Island Rising, the civic organization he founded. When former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan received Benedetto’s endorsement in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary, he touted Doyle’s endorsement as well.

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housing units and apartments for formerly homeless New Yorkers. The brash businessman occasionally rubs a community board or two the wrong way, but has developed a public relations strategy of honoring community leaders and working with elected officials. In particular, he’s worked with New York City Council Member Rafael Salamanca to distribute thousands of care packages and meals during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.

63 ELIEZER RODRIGUEZ DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY, COMMERCIAL AND LEGISLATIVE ISSUES FOR THE BRONX AND MANHATTAN HUDSON GATEWAY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS As the longtime head of the Bronx-Manhattan North Association of Realtors, Eliezer Rodriguez oversaw a merger with Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors last fall, expanding HGAR’s Bronx membership to over 1,500. Rodriguez assumed a new role in the newly merged association, heading up advocacy and legislative efforts in the Bronx and Manhattan. The move will give Bronx Realtors more collective lobbying power and access to premier listing software.

64 CARY GOODMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 161ST STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT The biggest business in Cary Goodman’s 161st Street Business Improvement District

the Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a nonprofit funded by Montefiore Health System to strengthen Bronx communities and publish a local newspaper, the Norwood News.

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is perhaps the worst neighbor in his eyes. The $5 billion New York Yankees pay no property taxes to the city, an arrangement Goodman pleaded with Mayor Bill de Blasio to change in order to help the neighborhood’s struggling businesses. When baseball came back without fans last year, Goodman organized protests urging the iconic Bronx franchise to do more for local businesses.

and assistance for those in need, ultimately founding Destination Tomorrow in 2009. Last year, after receiving $800,000 from New York City, Coleman opened a 16-unit building to provide temporary housing for transgender and gender-nonconforming sex workers.

66 65 SEAN COLEMAN FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DESTINATION TOMORROW As a formerly incarcerated Black transgender man, Sean Coleman knows how hard it can be to live as an LGBTQ person of color in the Bronx. That’s why he has spent the past 25 years working with the borough’s LGBTQ community to provide safety

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After enjoying a period of growth and ample funding from the city and other benefactors, Viviana Bianchi directed the Bronx Council on the Arts through the pandemic and did what she could for the Bronx’s struggling arts community. Last year, the organization distributed $500,000 to more than 100 local artists and arts organizations. In January, a theater program called Healing & Wellness Rainbow of Desire launched in order to help kids manage the stress of the pandemic, it was partly funded by Bianchi’s group.

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Jennifer Tausig emerged as a significant leader in the Bronx business community during the coronavirus pandemic. She slammed the city after only 1% of its small business loans went to Bronx businesses. The executive director of the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Improvement District, Tausig was elected co-chair of the NYC BID Association, representing the city’s 76 BIDs. Tausig also leads

For 37 years, Brad Silver has run the Bronx Jewish Community Council, serving 10,000 Bronxites annually through the council’s food programs, home health aides and benefits assistance. The comprehensive social services organization serves low-income New Yorkers and operates one of the largest food pantries in the borough on Holland Avenue. During the coronavirus pandemic,

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69 DAISY COCCO DE FILIPPIS PRESIDENT HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE When Daisy Cocco De Filippis stepped aside as provost of Hostos Community College in 2008, she relocated to Connecticut and became the first Dominican community college president in the United States. Last year, she returned to New York to be closer to her family and also guide Hostos through the coronavirus pandemic. She became the first Dominican woman to lead a CUNY school. In June, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $15 million to Hostos. In July, Cocco De Filippis was named president, dropping the “interim” from her title.

Sorin was named to both Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s reopening advisory councils. When the mayoral council stopped meeting last summer, Sorin signed a letter along with 160 New York City business leaders calling on de Blasio to address public safety and quality of life issues they said were being ignored. Sorin is involved in the project to make Yonkers’ Empire City Casino, employer of hundreds of Bronxites, a full casino.

71 MIGUEL FUENTES JR. PRESIDENT AND CEO BRONXCARE HEALTH SYSTEM With 859 beds and over 4,500 employees, the BronxCare hospital network is the largest in the South Bronx and one of the largest employers in the borough. Nearly one million visits are made to the system’s outpatient clinics annually, and its emergency room is among the busiest in the entire state, with over 141,000 visits per year. For more than 40 years, Miguel Fuentes Jr. has dedicated his career to leading the hospital network.

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COVID-19 pandemic, he partnered with then-Assembly Member Michael Blake to distribute thousands of meals across South Bronx NYCHA developments. Also, Barber endorsed mayoral candidate Ray McGuire, and the pair campaigned together at NYCHA complexes in the closing weeks of the election.

73 SUSAN BURNS PRESIDENT COLLEGE OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT Just the sixth president in the College of Mount Saint Vincent’s 174-year history, Susan R. Burns was hired by the North Riverdale school late last year after working for a decade in the administrations of universities in Iowa. Located

in the northwesternmost portion of New York City, the small Catholic college has produced notable Bronx luminaries such as News 12 reporter Michelle Ross, Stu Loeser & Co. media strategist Jennifer Blatus and Showtime late-night host Desus Nice.

74 WAYNE WATTLEY & PETER RIDGE PRESIDENT; BOARD CHAIR BRONX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION The current leaders of the Bronx County Bar Association are Wayne Wattley and Peter Ridge. Wattley, the organization’s president, has over two decades of experience as a trial attorney. In 2019, he joined the personal injury and civil rights firm

Barber is a voice for NYCHA tenants and a frequent Cuomo ally.

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Silver has scaled up his organization’s food delivery operations. The group had already been distributing thousands of meals a year to seniors and Bronxites living with disabilities, to address the growing need.

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Elefterakis, Elefterakis & Panek as senior trial counsel. Ridge, the board chair, has worked as a personal injury attorney in the borough for over 16 years. He arranged for Bank OZK to sponsor free continuing legal education courses for members and formed a new revenue committee to generate new fundraising sources for the organization during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Daniel Reingold leads the state’s largest nonprofit nursing home.

BIARNI BURKE PRESIDENT BRONX NAACP Longtime community activist and Bronx NAACP President Biarni Burke has made it a priority in recent years to increase voter turnout in the borough, which historically has the lowest percentage of voter turnout in New York City. During the three recent City Council special elections for Bronx seats, Burke organized a competition between the three council districts to try to raise turnout above singledigit percentages. Ahead of the 2021 primary, Burke led a voter turnout push and educated voters on rankedchoice voting.

76 DIANNE JOHNSON & ERIC CRUZ DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES; DIRECTOR OF BRONX SERVICES CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES Dianne Johnson fosters Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s relationship with local communities. She oversees much of the Archdiocese

of New York’s charitable outreach and partnerships across the city. Catholic Charities is responsible for hundreds of units of affordable housing in the Bronx and millions of meals distributed each year. Father Eric Cruz runs the Bronx arm of the charity, often acting as a conduit between the Archdiocese and the Puerto Rican community. In 2018, as migrant children were being separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border, Cruz traveled to Texas with faith leaders to observe the crisis. Catholic Charities of New York took in dozens of unaccompanied children at the time.

77 DANIEL REINGOLD PRESIDENT AND CEO RIVERSPRING HEALTH A national leader in elder care, Daniel Reingold was at the helm of New York’s largest nonprofit nursing home, Riverdale’s Hebrew Home, through the coronavirus pandemic. The home’s 600 residents were among the first seniors in the state to receive vaccines in December. In his three decades at the

organization, Reingold has testified before Congress, been invited to the White House, hosted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the nursing home and created a model for elder abuse shelters nationwide, opening the first in 2005.

Along with business partner and fellow political veteran Luis Miranda, Roberto Ramírez’s name is part of MirRam Group, one of New York’s leading political consulting firms. However, Ramírez had long ago made a name for himself in government and politics as a state lawmaker from the Bronx, as the borough’s Democratic Party boss – the first Latino to hold such a post in New York – and as a savvy campaign strategist.

78 JENNIFER RIVERA VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE AND LEGISLATION KASIRER Jennifer Rivera got her start as East Bronx City Council Member Jimmy Vacca’s director of operations. From there, she became the Bronx regional representative for Gov. Andrew Cuomo for four years before stints at Empire State Development and as the governor’s assistant deputy secretary for executive operations. After directing Altice USA’s government affairs division, Kasirer hired Rivera to put her experience to work advising corporate clients. Rivera serves on the board of directors for the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation.

80 MARC JEROME PRESIDENT MONROE COLLEGE Running Monroe College is a family affair for Marc Jerome, who took over his father’s position as president in 2017. He is the third generation of his family to work at the Bronx- and New Rochellebased institution. Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed Jerome to the Board of Trustees of the Higher Education Services Corporation in 2018. Also, in February, Jerome opened the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Monroe College with former Assembly

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students in the Bronx alone, by far the largest enrollment of any county in the system.

83 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BELMONT BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

Alyssa Tucker promotes the Bronx’s Little Italy.

Member and Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Michael Blake.

81 THOMAS ISEKENEGBE PRESIDENT BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE Thomas Isekenegbe spent the past five years building Bronx Community College into an institution serving low-income and immigrant Bronxites. Last year, Isekenegbe secured a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund career development and tutoring programs for Hispanic students. Also, in June, the New York City Department of Education awarded the college’s Early Childhood Center $4.7 million to expand

and offer child care for ages 6 weeks through preschool.

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After seven years as assistant director of the Belmont Business Improvement District, Alyssa Tucker was chosen in January to lead the organization and its member businesses in the post-pandemic era. Tucker’s work for the BID previously helped bring the traditional Italian neighborhood into the 21st century via social media accounts promoting the Bronx’s Little Italy to over 300,000 followers. The iconic Bronx neighborhood has its own private sanitation workers, security guards and even a public relations firm.

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Michael Deegan is a Bronx native and graduate of New York City Catholic schools (including postgraduate studies at Manhattan College and Fordham University). He was elevated to superintendent of the Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of New York in 2019. Deegan oversees archdiocesan schools from Staten Island to Ulster and Dutchess counties, including nearly 9,000

MORRIS PARK BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

Isekenegbe has helped Bronx Community College secure millions in funding.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Camelia Tepelus has led the Morris Park Business Improvement District since its inception in 2018, overseeing some 300 businesses in the commercial corridor. Her organization’s members have done surprisingly well during the pandemic, losing only two businesses to closures and gaining 11 new stores as of January. For her work at the BID and her previous career fighting human trafficking, Tepelus was honored as a Woman of Distinction in March by state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi.

85 MILES BURNETT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SOUTHERN BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT In 2019, after two years as director of communications for New York City Council Member Andrew Cohen, Miles Burnett left to become the first fulltime executive director of the Southern Boulevard Business Improvement District. He also became Tomas Ramos’ campaign manager in the Democratic primary for New York’s 15th Congressional District. When COVID-19 arrived mid-campaign, Ramos and Burnett created the Bronx Rising Initiative to distribute resources to the community. They later launched an awareness and door-knocking campaign to encourage Bronxites to get vaccinated.

86 MARGARET CAPLAN DIRECTOR JAMES J. PETERS VA MEDICAL CENTER For 35 years, Margaret Caplan has worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, most recently serving as the medical center director for VA Hudson Valley Health Care System. She took the same position at James J. Peters VA Medical Center,

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a teaching hospital with a state-of-the-art spinal cord injury treatment center. In December, the Bronx VA began distributing some of the earliest available Moderna vaccines to 40,000 Bronx veterans.

BERNADETTE KAPPEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION Bernadette Kappen, the executive director for the New York Institute for Special Education, has spent her career educating children with visual and hearing impairments, as well as other disabilities. Located in Allerton, the institute is a member of the 4201 Schools Association, a coalition of 10 private special education schools. Kappen, who co-chairs the association, frequently testifies in front of committees in Albany to advocate for better funding.

ABBY JO SIGAL FOUNDING CEO HERE TO HERE Abby Jo Sigal runs HERE to HERE, the South Bronx academic and career success organization backed by philanthropist Judith Dimon and her husband, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Last August, when 27 CEOs of New York’s largest employers launched the New York Jobs CEO Council with the pledge to hire 100,000 traditionally underserved New Yorkers by 2030, the council turned to Sigal and HERE to HERE to help facilitate the hiring and training process.

88 MICHAEL ALFULTIS PRESIDENT SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE In 2014, Michael Alfutis was appointed by the SUNY Board of Trustees to head up its Bronx-based merchant marine academy, Maritime College. During his tenure, the school has established the SUNY Maritime Foundation, a nonprofit that has funneled $4.5 million in grants to the college. The school has also expanded its partnership with Hornblower Cruises, the operator of NYC Ferry. Alfultis, who is also a 28-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, is a rear admiral.

Abby Jo Sigal is working to create a career pipeline for Bronxites.

89 JOHN EDWARDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, BRONX CAMPUS AND COLLEGE-WIDE CAREER DEVELOPMENT In addition to running the Bronx campus of Metropolitan College of New York, a private college for working adults, John Edwards is also the executive director of the office of career development for the institution, which has another campus in the Financial District. Edwards, who also serves as the vice president of communications for the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources’ Greater New York chapter, previously worked for JPMorgan, the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration

Corporation and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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BRONX PROGRESSIVES

CHARLES MOERDLER

Samelys López’s strong fourth-place finish in the crowded 15th Congressional District Democratic primary last summer solidified her position in progressive circles as the socialist left works to build its presence in the Bronx. She was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the Working Families Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. As a constant presence on the campaign trail supporting candidates in the June primary, López will have plenty of allies in her next campaign.

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SAMELYS LÓPEZ

STROOCK Charles Moerdler was once a young, hot-shot buildings commissioner in John Lindsay’s administration. Now approaching his tenth decade, Moerdler is not quite the force in New York politics he once was, but he isn’t living a quiet retirement either. When he’s not pressuring city officials and developers as Bronx Community Board 8 land use chair, Moerdler still represents influential lawmakers like Assembly Member Jeffrey

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93 JOHN P.L. KELLY VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS SAP Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former press secretary, John P.L. Kelly, started at business software heavyweight SAP in 2019, but never strayed too far from public service. Kelly was briefly drafted back into the “Cuomo family” last spring to help manage the COVID-19 pandemic response. A Riverdale resident, the Irish American organized a socially distanced St. Patrick’s Day parade through the neighborhood. Kelly serves on the board of directors for Riverdale Neighborhood House and the community advisory board of WFUV, Fordham University’s public radio station.

94 ARIANA COLLADO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BRONX DEMOCRATIC PARTY Ariana Collado is at the forefront of Bronx Democratic Party boss Jamaal Bailey’s efforts to democratize and diversify the county operation.

Taking the position in January after serving as then-New York City Council Member Andrew Cohen’s chief of staff, Collado oversaw a June primary in which Vanessa Gibson won a competitive race and is set to become the first female borough president. The borough is on track to have a delegation that is majority women of color, an impressive turnaround for a party long accused of sexism.

95 JENNIFER BLATUS MEDIA STRATEGIST STU LOESER & CO. Jennifer Blatus came up through Bronx politics, but she made a name for herself running the communications shop of Max Rose’s successful 2018 congressional campaign. Now at Stu Loeser & Co., Blatus worked on former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign and on strategy for Revel, the scooter share company. In the 2021 Democratic primary, the Bronx resident served as communications director on the campaigns of Nathalia Fernández for Bronx borough president and Tali Farhadian Weinstein for Manhattan district attorney.

Sr. as a homophobe and label him as “The Donald Trump of the Bronx.” She also runs programs for Bronx youth and, through the NYC LGBTQS Chamber of Commerce, seeks to create economic development opportunities for businesses owned by LGBTQ people.

CHHAYA CHHOUM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MEKONG NYC

DIRECTOR AND COFOUNDER

A refugee of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime in Cambodia, Chhaya Chhoum grew up and fell in love with the Bronx after being resettled there as a child. Chhoum founded the social justice organization Mekong NYC to provide health and social services and to build organizing power among Southeast Asians in the Bronx. She organized translators to help hundreds of Southeast Asian Bronxites make their COVID-19 vaccination appointments after the city failed to do so.

MOVEMENT SCHOOL A former deputy organizing director for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilona Duverge founded Movement School to train the next generation of progressive electoral operatives. The school, which offers campaigning classes taught by veterans of the campaigns of Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey, has graduated over 100 fellows from across the country. In one of the clearest signs of Movement’s impact, Green New Deal public housing legislation crafted by Duverge and her fellows was introduced by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders in Congress.

98 JUSTIN LERNER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PRESIDENT

WHITE PLAINS ROAD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

A longtime pastor, tenant leader and Bronx LGBTQ community fixture, the Rev. Carmen Hernandez in 2020 founded a political action committee, Bronx United, to criticize New York City Council Member Rubén Díaz

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CARMEN HERNANDEZ NYC LGBTQS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Lerner. Before Spring died in 2015, he taught Lerner the ins and outs of the BID and, when a new director was needed in 2018, Lerner became the logical choice to succeed him.

Though Justin Lerner grew up on Long Island, his connection to the White Plains Road Business Improvement District actually dates back to its founding in the 1990s: The BID’s founder, Howard Spring, also ran a business on Long Island and was a mentor to

100 MARCO SHALMA CO-FOUNDER BRONX NIGHT MARKET The Bronx Night Market launched by entrepreneur Marco Shalma has become a major destination for New York City foodies, gathering local food vendors and musicians to Fordham Plaza over the course of several months each year. The culinary festival was the only local open-air market that operated last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, though its success was hampered by safety restrictions. However, with wider-scale reopening, the market food fair has been energized with new interest just as it celebrates its fourth anniversary.

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Notice of Formation of NOBULLX, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/21. Office location: ONONDAGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 4631 Verplank Rd Clay, NY, 13041. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of VPLONDON, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 0 6/11/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Vicki London, 10 West St., Apt. 20E, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Articles of Organization (DOM - PROF. LLC) . Louis J. Mariotti, DO, PLLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/19/2021. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent of DOM-PROF.LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to Louis J. Mariotti, DO, 515 Madison Ave., #1205, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: The practice of Medicine.

LEEN WIRELESS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/29/2021. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 189 Minna St, Brooklyn, N Y 112 18 . Purp ose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AR Moss Enterprises, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY on 3/30/2021. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The office address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 195 Central Pkwy, Mount Vernon, NY 10552. The principal business address of the LLC is: 195 Central Pkwy, Mount Vernon, NY 10552.

323 SMITH STREET, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/27/21. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 202 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, N Y 112 31 . Purp ose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of VC 88 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/28/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 220 Lorraine Loop Staten Island, NY, 10309. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of TAXI CAB BINDER IV, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 0 6/04/21. O f fice location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/02/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qualification of TAXI CAB BINDER III, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 0 6/04/21. O f fice location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/02/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of formation of 6567-69 PARKSVILLE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 01/27/2021. Office located in Westchester. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 599 W HARTSDALE AV E SUITE 203B WHITE PLAINS, N Y 10 6 07. Purpose: any law ful purpose.

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THEO K ALOMIRAKIS GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/11/21. Office: New York C ount y. S SN Y designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Barry W. Silverstein, E s q . , 14 3 3 M antua Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 3 314 6 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of VHI DEVICE E NTE R PR ISE S , LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/27/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qual. of HITPS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/11/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 9/28/15. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O: C orp orate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0 Harrison, N Y, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose..

Notice of Formation of SPITZER HOLDINGS GROUP, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/21. Duration: 12/31/2069. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o General Partner, 1684 50 th St., Brooklyn, NY 11204. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. piPurpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qual. of NEON MOOSE LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/29/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/20/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: P.O. Box 7119 Church Street Station New York, NY, 100087119. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of formation of Manifest Unlimited LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 04/16/2021. Office located in New York. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 244 5th avenue suite 1415 New York, NY, 10001. Purpose: any law ful purpose. Scarlett collective, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 6/23/2021. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 2965 veterans rd w suite 28 Staten Island, NY 10309. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (PENDING) for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a TW 334 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 243 DEGRAW STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11231 for on premises consumption. Poppy’s Catering & Events LLC Notice of Formation of JP Payne Accounting Services LLC. filed with SSNY on 07/08/2021. Office location: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Jacquelyn Payne 22 Edinburgh Drive, Peekskill, New York 10566. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Summus Construction, LLC filed with SSNY on June 25th, 2021. Office: Richmond C ount y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 850 Bloomingdale Road, Staten Island, NY 10309. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of formation of YM STRATEGY LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 04/06/2018. Office located in KING. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 1014 AVENUE W BROOKLYN, N Y 112 23 . Purpose: any law ful purpose. Notice of Qualification of The Mahogany LLC, fictitious name in NY: The Mahogany NY LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/16/21. Office location: New York County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, Attn: William Schaaf, 200 Liberty St, New York, NY 10281. DE addr. of LLC c/o Vanguard Corporate Services Ltd, 3500 S Dupont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901 on 1/29/21. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y. Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, for beer, liquor and wine, has been applied for by TSCE 2007 Jacx FH, L.L.C. d/b/a Jacx & Co. to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 28-07 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY, 11101 for on premises consumption. TSCE 2007 Jacx FH L.L.C. d/b/a Jacx & Co.

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Notice of Formation of CA R L E N E ’ S TA S T Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/30/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1245 St Johns Place Apt 11 Brooklyn, NY, 11213. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of J&C BUSINESS REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/19/21. Office location Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 690 Allerton Ave Apt 3ebronx , NY, 104 67. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of JIN STAR HOME LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/3/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2105 E 14th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11229. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of L & W GRAND LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/11/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 13 DIERAUF ST STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of LOCALIZE NYC LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/29/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 9/28/15. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas Llp Attn: Jefferey M. Schwartz,Esq 444 Madison Ave, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MAGNOLIA RE ALT Y AND PROPERT Y HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/19/21.Office location: Schoharie SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 112 Mattice Rd Middleburgh, NY, 12122. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of B L D E V E L O PM E N T LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/23/19. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 88 Sleepy Hollow Rd Staten Island, NY, 10314. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MLW USA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/11/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 235 Bay 34th Street 1c Brooklyn, NY, 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ALDRIDGE & GOLDBERG LLP. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/2/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Steven Goldberg 641 Lexington Ave, 14th Fl New York, NY, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NEMATZADEH PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Justin Nematzadeh 184 Thompson St Ste 6h New York, NY, 10012. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of NERE KIPS B AY M A N A G E M E N T HOLDING V2 LLC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/8/21. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 6/4/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4916 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 202 D C P LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/3/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 31 Terence Drive Manalapan, NJ, 07726. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of EPW SPOR TS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 210 East 68th Street Apt. 5g New York, NY 10065. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 4219 GLEANE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 42-19 Gleane St Elmhurst, NY, 11373. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1365 TELLER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5014 16th Ave, Ste 9 Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1472 BOSTON PARTNERS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/1/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1722 45th St Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PL A Z A CARS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of S&J ARTHUR KILL HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/15/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O The Limited Liability Company 2704 Arthur Kill Road Staten Island, NY, 10309. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SKJEMA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/11/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 302 Marine Ave Apt B1 Brooklyn, NY, 11209. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SURROUNDED BY OPPORTUNITIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/10/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 485 Ocean Ave, Apt 5d Brooklyn, NY, 11226. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of VEGA 14, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/10/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 134 Amity St Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Z. MIAH & SON REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/8/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 23 Sunnyside Ct Brooklyn, NY, 11207. Any law ful purpose.

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* 3rd Ave. Quick Stop Inc., et al. * * Defendant(s). * ******************************************************** SECOND AMENDED ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to pursue a breach of contract claim following a default on a loan evidenced by a Promissory Note, Business Loan Agreement, and Guaranty. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants 3 rd Ave. Quick Stop Inc. and Hassan Ebraheim appear in the Circuit Court for Arlington County, Virginia to protect their interest in this matter on or before September 3, 2021, and It is further ORDERED that this Order of Publication be published once a week for four successive weeks in City &; State NY, a newspaper of general circulation in New York County, NY. City &amp; State NY shall send the Certificate of Publication and the bill to Parker, Simon &; Kokolis, LLC, 10400 Eaton Place, Suite 300, Fairfax, Virginia 22030. Entered this 15 th day of June 2021. By: Hon. William T. Newman, Jr., Presiding Judge I ASK FOR THIS: /s/ Amy C. Czekala Amy C. Czekala, Esq. #74801 Parker, Simon &amp; Kokolis, LLC 10400 Eaton Place, Suite 300 Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 737-9797 Attorney for Plaintiff

Notice of Qual. of COVID FILM CERTIFICATION LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/23/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in NJ on 10/28/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 18 Justin Ln, Haledon, NJ 07508. Arts. of Org. filed with NJ SOS: Division of Revenue, Dept of Treasury, 33 West Street Fifth Floor, Trenton NJ 08646. Any law ful purpose. Notice of formation of SAMGEM, LLC. Arts of Org filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/2/2021. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 9 East 88th St., NY, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act.

Posner Strategies LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/26/2021. Office: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 300 Central Park W, Apt 5K, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of STERN, LAVINTHAL , FRANKENBERG & LAM, LLC, A NEW YORK LIMITE D LIAB ILIT Y COMPANY. Ar ts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/21/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave, #400, Harrison, NY, 10528. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of VENMA X, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/14/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in FL on 6/23/2014. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 7312 13th Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS, The Centre of Tallahassee 2415 North Monroe Street Ste 810 Tallahassee, FL 32303. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Form. of 34 FINGERBOARD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/14/21. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 34 Fingerboard Rd Staten Island, NY, 10305. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 160 D C P LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/3/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 31 Terence Drive Manalapan, NJ, 07226. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Middlefort, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/18/2021. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to R/A: CT Corporation System, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of ABINGTON PROPERTIES. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/10/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 950 Third Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, NY, 10022. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 2059 MADISON AVE MANAGER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/15/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 419 Park Ave. South, Ste. 401, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Real estate. Notice of Formation of 1971 GRAND AVE MANAGER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/15/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 419 Park Ave. South, Ste. 401, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Real estate. Notice of Formation of 2060 PITKIN AVE MANAGER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/15/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 419 Park Ave. South, Ste. 401, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Real estate. NEW FUNCIT Y FISH MARKET, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 03/21/2017. Office of Kings. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process 5602 Church Ave. Brooklyn, N Y 112 0 3 Purp o s e: any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FORGTME NOT LLC . Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/3/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O FORGTMENOT LLC Attention: I-Hsing Sun. 124 West 23rd Street, #16A New York, NY, 10011. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Minks By Munroe, LLC filed with SSNY on June 10, 2021. Office: Kings SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 440 Lenox Rd., 5R, Brooklyn, NY 11203. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of formation of Flex Club, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 05/06/2021. Office located in Kings. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 460 Wyona St Apt 1, Brooklyn, N Y 11207. Purpose: any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of D & K RESTORATION IRON WORKS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/24/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 970 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11205. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of RMTB ART HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison N Y, 10528.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of BOOKING HOLDINGS FINANCIAL SERVICES USA LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/4/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in VA on 2/9/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with VA SOS: 1111 East Broad Street,4th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219. Any lawful purpose.

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ACR STAR TAX LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/30/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 98 East Broadway Ste 303, NY, NY 10002. Reg Agent: Eva Yuk Ho Liu & Anthony Kar Wai Koo, 1060 71st Street, Brooklyn, N Y 112 28 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Cookies Salon, LLC. filed with SSNY on June 11, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 260 Park Hill Avenue, Apartment 2W, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of SnkrSaviorLLC , LLC filed with SSNY on May,12,2021. Office: We s t c h e s t e r. S S N Y designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 263 palisade ave, 1B, Yonkers, NY 10703. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, for beer, liquor and wine, has been applied for by Rock 45 SW Bistro, L.L.C. and 45 Rock Center LLC to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control L aw at 4 5 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 10, New York, NY 10111 for on premises consumption. Rock 45 SW Bistro, L.L.C. and 45 Rock Center LLC. Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending for liquor beer wine and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor beer wine and cider at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 928 C r ai g R d S , N ew York, NY 10004 for on premises consumption. Misipasta LLC

IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF: DEANNE KETWAROO, CASE NO.: 20-DR-2318 Petitioner/Wife, and SEECHAND KEITH KETWAROO, Respondent/Husband. ______________________________________/ NOTICE OF ACTION OF DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER RELIEF Seechand Keith Ketwaroo 111 Jewel Street, 2R Brooklyn, NY 11222

Physical Description: Age: 42; Race: South American; Hair Color: Black; Height: 5’11”; Date of Birth: February 27, 1979 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for dissolution of marriage by way of Amended Petition for Dissolution of Marriage and Other Relief has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on the Petitioner, DEANNE KETWAROO, via Toni S. Boettcher, Esquire, c/o Family First Legal Group, 2950 Immokalee Road, Suite 2, Naples, Florida 34110 on or before August 9, 2021 and file the original with the Clerk of this Court at 3315 Tamiami Trail East, Suite 102, Naples, Florida 34112, before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Notice of Current Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed to the address on record at the clerk’s office. WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Dated: _________CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: ____________________________ Deputy Clerk

Notice of Formation of JL EYES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/29/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 195 FRANKLIN STREET STE 2F BROOKLYN, NY 11222 Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GHOST ELEMENTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/22/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 163 Carlton Ave Brooklyn NY, 11205. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Forge Hill Holdings LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/26/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 288 Scholes St. Brooklyn, NY 11206. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of R E NAIS SANCE 1701 UTICA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/23/12. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1946 Coney Island Avenue. Brooklyn, NY, 11223. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NOSTRAND KINGS HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210. Any law ful purpose. Notice of formation of limited liability company ( L L C) . Name: CT COACHING LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/28/2021. NY office location: Kings 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 Ct Coaching Llc, 535 Union Ave, 2g Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Purpose of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. NOTICE of FORMATION of a DOMESTIC PROFESSIONAL LIMITED LIABILIT Y C O M PA N Y Hanifa Cavanna NP Psychiatry, PLLC Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: June 2, 2021 Office located in New York. The NY Secretary of S tate has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the PLLC at: 576 5 th Avenue, New York, NY 10036 Purpose: Nurse Practitioner Practice.

Notice of Formation of Gabrielli Hollers Ave Realty LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/03/2021. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 605 Third Ave NY, NY 10158. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DRU PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/17/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1619 Madison Place, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11229. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of CRASHJUNKIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/1/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 259 Powers Street, Apartment 1L Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Clever Ladies Enterprise LLC Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/10/21. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3934 Dyre Ave, Bronx, NY, 10466. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Brooklyn Point 45J LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/24/2021. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 9 Carrington Way, Morristown, NJ, 07960. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1701 UTICA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/23/12 . O f fice location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 1946 Coney Island Avenue. Brooklyn, NY, 11223. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ALEXEI ORLOV &PARTNERS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/15/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 10/17/16. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1S 1 st St, #42K Brooklyn, NY, 11249. Arts. of Org. filed with CT SOS. 165 Capitol Ave Ste 1000 Hartford, CT 06115. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of Blue Year B rands , LLC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 6/18/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/27/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 26 Cornelia St #13 NY, NY 10014. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 2271 Property LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/2/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 823 60 th St 1 st Fl Brooklyn, NY 11220 Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1050-52 East 3 rd St LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/6//17. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1090 East 4 th St Brooklyn, NY 11230. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 327 LEONARD ST., LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/19/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 53-126 63rd Street, Maspeth, NY 11378. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 141 BAY 32 ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/30/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 141 BAY 32 St, Brooklyn, NY, 11214. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Two Waterline 35B LLC . . Ar ts . of O r g . filed with SSNY on 5/19/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 80 Riverside Boulevard, Apt 19A N Y, NY 10023.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Two Waterline 35A LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/19/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 15 CENTRAL PARK WEST, APT. 37D, NY, NY, 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Think Big Realty LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/1/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 10 Sackman St #17 Brooklyn, NY 11233. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SPE E DY PLUMBING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/29/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1453 71st Street, Cellar Brooklyn, NY 11228 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Renaissance 1701 Utica Realty LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/23/12. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1946 Coney Island Ave Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any lawful purpose.

Public Notice State of South Carolina COUNTY OF: CHARLESTON IN THE MATTER OF:CYNTHIA MAXINE BOYD GARLINGTON IN THE PROBATE COURTCASE NUMBER 2021-ES-10-00309 SALLY ANN BOYD, Petitioner, vs. DONALD GARLINGTON, Respondent. SUMMONS TO THE RESPONDENT(S) LISTED ABOVE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Petition in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the Petitioner(s) listed above at the following address{es):Seth A. Levy (Name of Petitioner/Attorney for Petitioner) 21 Gamecock Avenue, Suite A {Street Address or Mailing Address) Charleston, South Carolina 29407 {City, State, and Zip Code)Your Answer must be served on the Petitioner at the above address within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Petition upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Petition within that time, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS PETITIONER: SALLY ANN BOYD; DECEDENT: CYNTHIA MAXINE BOYD GARLINGTON; DATE OF BIRTH: April 22, 1950; DATE OF DEATH: July 23, 2010; NAMES OF POSSBILE KNOWN HEIRS: DONALD GARLINGTON, ALBERAT STROBLE, and JULIUS FIELDS. REASON FOR PETITION: To determine the heirs of Cynthia Maxine Boyd Garlington. Notification of invitation for virtual attendance of the hearing shall be provided by Charleston County Probate Court to Petitioner’s counsel one week prior to commencement of the scheduled hearing. Any and all parties may request attendance of the hearing by phone or email communication to Alison Atwood, Clerk of Probate Court, 843-958-4099, or aatwood@charlestoncounty. org. The Law Office of Seth A. Levy, 21 Gamecock Avenue, Suite A, Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 4004510 ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER. Notice of Formation of Puff N Paint, LLC filed with SSNY on April 27th 2021. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1707 topping av #6A Bronx NY 10457. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of H & T Electrical Contractors, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/6/21. Office location Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 163 CO Hwy 101 Gloversville, NY, 12078. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Eight Madison Group LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/6/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 369 Madison Street Brooklyn, NY 11221. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GMSW LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/8/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8413-13 th Ave Lower Lvl, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Compton Durham, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 50 Plaza St E. #4C Brooklyn, NY 11238. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Artem Elmo Transportation LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1501 Avenue U 2 nd Fl Brooklyn, NY 11229. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PL A Z A VEHICLES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2740 Nostrand Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11210. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of PLAZA MOTORS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 274 0 Nostrand Ave. Brooklyn, N Y 11210. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of PLAZA AUTOS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 274 0 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, N Y 11210. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of JON ELLWOOD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/28/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 28 Box Street, Suite N625 Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Any law ful purpose. THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE MICHELLE &NORMAN LATTMAN C H A R I T A B L E FOUNDATION for the calendar year ended December 31, 2020 is available at its principal office located at 900 5th Avenue, Suite 18A, New York, NY 10021 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is MICHELLE LAT TMAN.

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Notice of Qual. of DELTA CAPITA, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/8/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/27/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 101 Ave of the Americas NY, NY 10013. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of CENTRAL NY HOUSING LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21. Office location: CAYUGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 110 Genesee St., Ste. 390a Auburn, NY, 13021. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of A/C Editions, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/21/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 108 East 78 th St NY, NY 10075. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1314 Fulton St LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/8/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1314 Fulton St Brooklyn, New York, 11216. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Zafar Properties LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/12/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 544 Mcdonald Ave Brooklyn, NY 11218. Any law ful purpose. Notice of formation of 68-70 SPRING STREET HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 218 Lafayette S t . , N Y, N Y 10 012 . Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of LIMESTONE STAFFING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/2/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Crowe LLP 485 Lexington ave New York, NY 10036. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of X YZ Records LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/27/19. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 33 Crosby St #4F NY, NY 10013. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of The Terrence Mcnally Memorial Fund, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/17/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 29 East 9th Street, Suite 2, New York, NY 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SPM Event LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/28/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8709 25 th Ave Fl2 Brooklyn, NY 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Prominent Technologies, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/1/2020. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 145 West 28 th Street 8 th Fl NY, NY 10001. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Matthew Lejune Studio LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/1/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 249 Melrose St Ste 2L Brooklyn, NY, 11206. Any law ful purpose.

CRYSTALSRX LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/12/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joanne Bar ton, 4 02 East 74th Street, Apt 3E, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Qual. Of JL WEBSTER 1313, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/7/15. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc 600 Mamaroneck Ave ste 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 PERCEVAL LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/02/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qualification of PHPF Sub-REIT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/02/21. O f f ice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/30/21. Princ. office of LLC: 75 Broadway, Ste. 230, San Francisco, CA 94111. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of NPL MORTAR LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/4/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 243 W. 30th St., NY, NY 10001. Address to be maintained in DE: Bus. Filings Inc.,108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of the Commonwealth of DE, Secretary of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of NPL MANAGEMENT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/14/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 243 W. 30th St., NY, NY 10001. Address to be maintained in DE: Bus. Filings Inc.,108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of the Commonwealth of DE, Secretary of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of PE R E Z NE L SON ADVISORS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of FORLENZA CONSULTING LLC filed with SSNY on June 23, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 55 COLLFIELD AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10302, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Public Notice T- M o b i l e N o r t h e a s t LLC, a Delaware limited liability company proposes an antenna and equipment relocation atop an existing 40.4-foot building at 425 Madison Ave in Manhattan, NY. In accordance with the National Historic Preser vation Act of 1966, as amended and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for Review Under the National Preservation Act; Final Rule, T-MOBILE is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. Accordingly, if you would like to provide sp e c i f ic information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within ½ mile of the above address, please submit the property’s address and your comments to: C harl e s C h e run d o l o Consulting, Inc. at 976 Tabor Road, Suite 1, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@ cherundoloconsulting. c o m .

Notice of Formation of S orr yland Hobbies , LLC filed with SSNY on may 15, 2021. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 155 chestnut st, brooklyn ny 11208

Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (PENDING) for beer, wine, liquor and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, liquor and cider at retail in a CT 246 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 257 COLUMBIA STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11231 for on premises consumption. DISH FOOD & EVENTS LLC

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1334417) for beer, wine, liquor and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, liquor and cider at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 11 DIVISION STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10002 for on premises consumption. HAKKA CUISINE LLC Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (PENDING) for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a RW 341 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 254 S 2ND STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11211 for on premises consumption. F&M INDUSTRIE CORP Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, liquor and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, liquor and cider at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 383 WEST 33RD STREET, UNIT 18 8 -18 9 NE W YORK, NY 10001 for on premises consumption. MOYNIHAN OVERLOOK BAR LLC

Notice of Formation of MONGER MARKETING LLC filed with SSNY on May 20, 2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 33 Troy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of 2108 Estate LLC, filed with SSNY on 7/20/2021. Office: KINGS County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2108 Bath Avenue Brooklyn NY 11214. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Section 106 Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast, LLC proposes to collocate antennas on a 146 foot tall Rooftop located at 545 West 114th Street, New York, New York County, NY 10027. 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: 22105031 Notice of Formation of ROUND BARN MANOR IL CL AS S B , LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/15/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation o f Z E E B OAT, L L C Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/15/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 120 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of Drive To The End Express, LLC filed with S SN Y on 5/3/202 1 . Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1465 Castleton Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10302. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Public Notice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF RICHMOND Index No. 85093/2021 In the Matter of the Petition of THE RECTOR, CHUR CH WAR DENS AND VESTRYMEN OF ST. SIMON’S CHURCH STATEN ISLAND (A/K/A ST. SIMON’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH), a NEW YORK S T AT E N O T- F O R PR O F I T R E L I G I O U S C O R P O R AT I O N CONGR EG AT ION , to dissolve as per Religious Corporations Law §18 and Not-for-Profit Corporation Law § 1003. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the undersigned, on the 1 day of June, 2021, applied to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, IAS Part, thereof, held in and for the County of Richmond, at the Courthouse at 26 Central Ave, Staten Island, NY, at 9:30 am, for an order decreeing the dissolution of THE RECTOR , CHUR CH WAR DENS AND VESTRYMEN OF ST. SIMON’S CHURCH STATEN ISLAND (A/K/A ST. SIMON’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH) and for that purpose ordering and directing the transfer of any remaining assets of the St. Simon’s Church Staten Island, to The Board of Managers of the Diocesan Missionary and Church Extension Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York, in accordance with NY Religious Corporation L aw § 18 , located at 10 47 Amsterdam Avenue, New York NY, Goldstein Hall, PLLC Attorneys for Petitioner, 80 Broad Street, Suite 303, New York NY 10004

Notice of Formation of ACDMP, LLC filed with SSNY on July 10, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 44 Pemberton Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

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Notice of Qualification of SUN NINJA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/13/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/26/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. 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 and install associated equipment at a top height of 78 feet on the rooftop of a 79foot building with a top height of 85 feet at the approx. vicinity of 20 01 Avenue P, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11229. 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: Trileaf Corp, Lyndsey Miller, l.miller@trileaf. com, 1051 Winderley Place, Suite 201, Maitland, FL 32751, 4 0 7- 6 6 0 -7 8 4 0 . Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, liquor and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, liquor and cider at retail in a CR 256 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 383 W33RD S T R E E T, U N I T 2 0 , MOY NIHAN TRAIN HAL L , NE W YOR K , NY 10001 for on premises consumption. MOYNIHAN FOOD HALL BAR LLC

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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 several locations in New York, New York Count y, NY. Verizon Wireless to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 88 feet on an 89-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 842 9th Avenue, 10019; at a top height of 82 feet on a 77-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 24 East 97th Street, 10029; at a top height of 67 feet on a 71-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 242 West 109th Street, 10025; at a top height of 84 feet on a 78-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 2401 1st Avenue, 10029. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Morgan Rasmussen, m . rasmus s e n@ trile af. com, 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067; 678-653-8673 ext. 657.

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 multiple loc ations in S taten Island, Richmond County, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate antennas at a top height of 48 feet on a 42-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 161 Brighton Avenue, 10301; at a top height of 21 feet on a 15-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 526 Midland Avenue, 10306; at a top height of 39 feet on a 42-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 457 & 459 Victory Boulevard, 10301; at a top height of 25 feet on a 16-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 151 Lafayette Avenue, 10301; and at a top height of 66 feet on a 74-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 20-30 Merle Place, 10305. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Laura Elston, l.elston@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678- 653-8673

Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 41 feet on a 35-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 272 York Avenue, Staten Island, Richmond C o un t y, N Y 1 0 3 0 1 . 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, Bennett Thomas, b.thomas2@ trileaf.com, 1051 Winderley Place, Suite 201, Maitland, FL 32751, 407-660-7840.

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Notice of Formation of 60 Romer Road LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 11 Chetwynd Te r r . , Livingston, NJ 07039. Purpose: any lawful activities. PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 78’) on the building at 75 Bank St, New York, NY (20210434). Interested parties may c o nt ac t S c o t t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr. , West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

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Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 29-00 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on August 6, 2021 and end on August 17, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc.

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 multiple locations in Brooklyn, K in g s C o un t y, N Y. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate communications antennas at a top height of 71 feet on a 76-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 415 Albemarle Road, 11218; a top height of 61 feet on a 55-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 2905 West 15th Street, 11224; at a top height of 64 feet on a 64-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 305 84th Street, 11209; at a top height of 73 feet on a 84-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 575 Herkimer Street, 11213; at a top height of 68 feet on a 67foot building at the approx. vicinity of 411 Myrtle Avenue, 11205. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Laura Elston, l.elston@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30 0 67, 67- 65 3 - 8 673 .

T- M o b i l e N o r t h e a s t LLC, a Delaware limited liability company proposes an antenna and equipment relocation atop an existing 250-foot building at 425 Madison Ave in Manhattan, NY.

#224 – Marilyn Andino Montalvo; Pile of wood, a large bag, plastic totes filled with clothes, 2 suitcases, 5 plastic bags, 4 laundry bags, a wooden shelving unit filled with religious items #816 – Angel Crutchfield; 1 cooler, 2 backpacks, plastic bags, 1 duffle bag, sneakers, picture f r a m e s , s u i t c a s e #1416 – Adriana Mateo; Assorted boxes, end tables, suitcase, tool bag, wicker basket, chair, a n d l a m p . #1 817– Kevin Mullarkey; 2 plastic containers, 1 shopping cart, 20 med boxes # 2 474 – AV E NA /G iselle Deiaco; variety of chairs and tables #4 1 2 1 – W i l l i a m U l m e r ; F l a t s c r e e n T V, duf fel bags, box , plastic totes #4319-1 – Quinsessa Harrison; Bags, plastic totes, and a plastic organizer with drawers The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 7 2 hours . Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reser ve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time. Section 106 Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast, LLC proposes to collocate antennas on a 66 foot tall Rooftop located at 1495 1st Ave, New York , New York County, NY 10075. 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: 22106021 Notice of Formation of TurnUp LLC filed with SSNY on July 7th, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 64 Laconia Ave., Staten Island, NY,10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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NeueHouse New York HQ LLC. Authority filed SSNY 6/29/21. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 6/8/15. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: c/o N ati onal R e gis te re d Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose.

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Notice of Registration of KLEIN HORNIG LLP. Ctf. of Reg. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/21. Office location: NY County. Principal location: 170 West End Ave., Apt. 23S, NY, NY 10023. LLP formed in Massachusetts (MA) on 6/28/02. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 101 Arch St., Ste. 1101, Boston, MA 02110, also the address to be maintained in MA. Ctf. Of Formation filed with the Secy. of the Commonwealth, State House, Boston, MA 02133. Purpose: to practice the profession of Law.

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In accordance with the National Historic Preser vation Act of 1966, as amended and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for Review Under the National Preservation Act; Final Rule, T-MOBILE is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. Accordingly, if you would like to provide sp e c i f ic information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within ½ mile of the above address, please submit the property’s address and your comments to: C harl e s C h e run d o l o Consulting, Inc. at 976 Tabor Road, Suite 1, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@ cherundoloconsulting. c o m .

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Who was up and who was down last week

LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST LEE ZELDIN

For over a decade, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been a fundraising heavyweight, but due to his sexual harassment and nursing home scandals, the governor is losing some of his major backers. And Rep. Lee Zeldin became the first Republican opponent to outraise Cuomo since Jeanine Pirro did during a run for attorney general in 2006.

ALFREDO BALARIN

The Capital City is showing some serious progressive bona fides now that the Albany Common Council passed legislation enacting its own form of rent control. That’s fine by Alfredo Balarin, a local landlord who serves on the council and sponsored the legislation.

JUSTIN BRANNAN New York City Council Member Justin Brannan is joining a growing list of elected officials who like to publicly promote street safety while speeding on city streets. While Brannan is on Twitter telling drivers in Bay Ridge “to slow the F down,” he has racked up 60 driving and parking violations over the past eight years, according to the New York Post. Here’s a simple solution for New York’s politicians: Practice what you preach. THE REST OF THE WORST LOVELY WARREN

The Rochester mayor and her estranged husband, Timothy Granison, were charged with a felony and two misdemeanors. Warren has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Warren was also charged with campaign finance fraud last October, in which she also claimed innocence.

SUSAN HERMAN

The pilot program to reduce police response to mental health crisis calls – to be replaced with mental health professionals – so far seems to be falling short of that goal, a bad sign for Susan Herman, director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health.

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