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THE BOND WITH THE BOROUGH

BY KATEPALLI SREENIVASAN DEAN OF NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Until about 9 years ago, I had not set foot in either the Brooklyn borough or the Tandon School of Engineering (then NYU Polytechnic). And I knew their reputations only indirectly. I had already spent some of my career in three other places and knew that the relationship between a university and the town in which it resides could be quite complex, often adversarial. But Brooklyn and Poly seemed to enjoy a cordial relationship, so a good base already existed for building on it. This was particularly important to me because anything else would mean missed opportunities and a drain on the positive outlook that ought to pervade all mutual interactions. In particular, roughly speaking, Poly’s great days of the past, as well as its decline, coincided with Brooklyn’s glory days and hard times. This note is about how the interrelationship is spectacular today, and why this is so.

It is amazing to see how much — and how well — Brooklyn has bootstrapped itself in the last dozen years or so. The entire community has pulled together in exemplary ways: Businesses, civic institutions, cultural institutions (in which universities are included), and city and state governments have all concluded that the rising tide lifts all boats. Brooklyn recognized that its resurgence was partly to be based on innovation and entrepreneurship, and so it was obvious that our School, which shares a deep commitment to enhancing the technology base, would become a partner for the borough in pursuing its dream. The urban environment and the lives of our neighbors became a common priority. Our professors and students have worked on many aspects, such as urban firefighting, noise pollution, the resiliency of the built environment, improved governance through the use of data and partnership of citizens, to name a few examples.

NYU Tandon today excels in fields of particular value to the region’s Innovation Economy, ranging from cybersecurity to wireless communications, smart transportation, and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR). A list of all our initiatives in these and other areas would be long, but some highlights include our recently launched Cyber Fellows program, which offers an affordable master’s degree in a field that is vital for protecting New York’s citizens, infrastructure, and data. C2SMART, our federally funded transportation research center, examines mobility issues ranging from autonomous vehicles to the transfer of goods and services in the urban environment. NYU WIRELESS is a preeminent research center making possible the next generation of mobile devices and democratizing the way in which New Yorkers share and transfer information. In the fall, the R Lab will open, and its researchers will be focused on how AR/VR can transform the media landscape, the workplace, and the world.

NYU Tandon is proud to be creating the next generation of engineering thinkers, researchers, leaders, and makers for New York and the world.

Additionally, the School is helping drive the city’s economy. Our Future Labs, the first New York City sponsored business incubators, have already had an estimated impact of $4 billion on the city’s economy since launching in 2009.

The Future Labs recently expanded to include the Veterans Future Lab (VFL) at Industry City in Sunset Park, thanks to the sponsorship of Barclays and assistance from the Empire State Development Corporation, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Assembly Member Joseph R. Lentol, and State Senator Martin Golden.

Seventeen startups selected for the VFL’s first Apex cohort — a selective, year-long incubator program that provides the

resources of our Future Labs to earlystage companies founded by military veterans and their spouses — have recently moved into the space.

In addition to helping build today’s economy, NYU Tandon is also fostering the next generation of tech talent.

Throughout the summer, we’ve welcomed a record 62 secondary school teachers and nearly 850 students to our sixth annual STEMNOW initiative, one of New York City’s largest, most diverse, and most comprehensive lineup of summer workshops, classes, and research opportunities. At the conclusion of this summer’s program, STEMNOW will have enhanced the skills of more than 400 teachers and an estimated 73,000 public school students throughout New York City.

In my mind, the commitment to technology is one thing, but putting it in service to our city, state, and society is, and should always remain, a larger goal. Many of you may not know that the phrase “American Dream” was coined by one of our alumni back in 1931, and we are still celebrating the opportunity for every member of the Tandon community to achieve their goals, no matter what their backgrounds. Our celebration of the strong partnerships with local, city, state, and federal stakeholders is merely an extended expression of this goal that we strongly espouse.

Dear Readers, let’s work together in the pursuit of a better quality of life and standard of living in Brooklyn, the city, and our society at large. Let’s also make the borough a place where superficial differences between any two people will not diminish the commonality of human spirit that binds us all. We are one with the borough, and that’s our bond.

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EDITOR’S NOTE As Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s time in office wound down, his longtime ally, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, positioned herself as the top contender to replace him. Like Bloomberg – and like other successful mayoral candidates in the city dating back to the 1970s – she hailed from Manhattan. But she faced a strong field of outer-borough rivals.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio of Brooklyn ultimately won that race, beating Quinn as well as City Comptroller John Liu of Queens, former Rep. Anthony Weiner of Brooklyn, and former City Comptroller Bill Thompson, who also had strong Brooklyn roots.

Looking ahead to the 2021 contest, there’s no longer an expectation of a Manhattan-based mayor. Manhattanites like New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have a real shot at succeeding de Blasio. But the rest of the field hails from the outer boroughs, with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. at the front of that pack. In this week’s cover story, City & State’s Jeff Coltin takes a ride with Adams to see what drives him – and what kind of mayor he might be.

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BOOMING BOROUGH ... 6

The biggest policy battles in Brooklyn

JULIA SALAZAR ... 10

New York City’s next socialist “it” girl

BROOKLYN 50 ... 20

The influentials every politician needs to know

WINNERS & LOSERS ... 46

SEAN PRESSLEY; CELESTE SLOMAN

Who was up and who was down last week

ERIC ADAMS … 14

The BK beep’s quest to be mayor

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Latest SPEED CAMERAS SUSPENDED Despite last-minute pleas by both New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to renew the city’s school zone speed camera program, which is credited with making the streets safer, the cameras went dark on Wednesday. While they will remain operational to collect data, they can no longer be used to issue tickets and summonses. Cuomo blamed state Senate Republicans for failing to pass the legislation needed to renew the program, an accusation Republicans reject.

GUTTING NEW YORK’S PAPER SEVEN YEARS FOR SILVER

In a blow to the New York City tabloid, Tronc laid off about half of the Daily News’ editorial staff. In all, 45 journalists and 48 noneditorial staff lost their jobs. Now, the newsroom has a staff of about 40 people, down from as high as nearly 500 in the 1980s. Lawmakers, readers and staffers alike lamented the gutting of local news. The Daily News has been struggling financially for years and the cuts, which had been reported days earlier by Study Hall, did not come as a surprise. But the knowledge did not make the layoffs any less painful for the paper’s journalists – or its readers.

Back & Forth You ran against state Sen. Tony Avella in 2014, on the heels of losing a mayoral race in 2013. Do you see this year’s race against Avella as an opportunity for a political comeback?

No. Do you want to elaborate on that?

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Why do you think this year is different?

This year, as in 2014, this is not an election that I had planned for in advance. In 2014, there were people who were upset about Avella joining the IDC. Democrats in Queens asked me to run in 2014, and ultimately I did. We came within 5 percent. This year is after the cataclysmic election we saw in November 2016 at the national level.

There has been and continues to be a ground-

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swell of people who were not very involved politically prior to that cataclysmic event of November 2016. People are coming to understand more clearly how the IDC has been disruptive and obstructive to progress in New York.

How did you make your decision to run?

We had a candidate earlier this year, and in the end he decided not to run, although I personally feel that John Duane would have been a very credible candidate. Then the Democratic petitioning began, and I was dismayed that there would be no true Democrat challenging my state senator. The true Democratic progressives know how to organize, and at the very end of June, I agreed to run if, and only if, they could mount a successful petition drive, which they did in the most impressive of fashions.

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Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for a corruption scheme in which he received some $4 million in return for legislative favors. It was the second time Silver has been sentenced on the same federal charges – he was first found guilty in 2015, but his conviction was overturned because of a U.S. Supreme Court case that altered precedents on political corruption.

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SEEKING SIGNATURES CANDIDATES COMPETE FOR MOST PETITIONS.

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It’s two months before the state primaries, and candidates are proudly trumpeting the number of petitions they handed in to the state Board of Elections. Here are the number of petitions submitted for prominent candidates running for statewide office.

The minimum they need is 15,000. (Andrew Cuomo, Kathy Hochul and Letitia James were designated by the Democratic Party, so they didn’t need to collect a thing.)

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GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE

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HIGHWAY SIGN on the new Kosciuszko Bridge reads, “Welcome to Brooklyn: Believe The Hype!” But for all the buzz about the borough, it’s also dealing with underfunded hospitals, rising housing costs and transit deserts. Amid a flow of capital and millennial transplants into the borough, its need for basic infrastructure upgrades has thrown the area’s rapid development into sharp relief. In response, officials are hatching plans to get the borough up to speed. Here’s a rundown of some of the biggest projects in the works and what government officials have to say about them.

A THRIVIN G TECH SECTOR

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E C H TA L K is often focused on Silicon Valley, but New York City’s technology industry has been growing, with the state boasting the third-largest tech sector in the country. And outside of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Tech Triangle, whose corners hit Downtown Brooklyn, Dumbo and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is the largest tech cluster in the city.

Employment at tech firms in Brooklyn is up 57 percent since 2009 and reached a record high of 9,800 jobs last year according to a June report released by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office. Tech has become one of the borough’s highest-paying industries, with an average salary of $92,900.

DiNapoli told City & State that one foundation of Brooklyn’s tech growth is its demographics, including young people and immigrants who are drawn toward tech-oriented careers – and have found Brooklyn to be a welcoming neighborhood.

“The development of Brooklyn as an attractive place to live and to work has helped to encourage companies to put down their roots there,” he said. “Obviously, and this may be changing with the success, rents in many of the Brooklyn neighborhoods were lower, especially a few years ago, compared to Manhattan.”

The sector’s growth leveled out a bit last year, though DiNapoli said he expects to see continued growth but whether it continues at the same pace remains to be seen.

“There was certainly a sense I had from the elected leaders and the business leaders that they want to put a priority on encouraging and supporting continued growth of the tech sector in the borough,” DiNapoli said.

Tech companies have been concerned about space and transit limitations over time.

If these challenges constrain growth in Brooklyn, DiNapoli said he wouldn’t be surprised if tech began to spill over into Queens, which has been having its own boom in Long Island City.

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TH E LOOM IN G L TR AIN SH UTDOWN

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ITH THE L TRAIN shutdown less than a year away, the trickle of cautionary measures and hand-wringing from government officials and local politicians serves as a reminder of the fragility of the ecosystem connecting New York City’s mass transit and its local economy.

The New York City Department of Transportation unveiled its own L train mitigation plan at the end of June. While the transit plan is aimed at northern Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, for the rest of Brooklyn, it’s a reminder that the surrounding areas will feel the spillover of the plan too. As a result of the plan, 70 percent of commuters are expected to begin using nearby subway lines.

“This is going to have a devastating impact all over the subway system because people are going to be crammed in like sardines on other lines in order to get to where they have to go as a result of 250,000 people having to be diverted to other places,” said Brook-

lyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, whose legislation to ease the strain of the shutdown passed the Assembly but not the state Senate.

The DOT’s mitigation plan includes a high occupancy vehicle lane and protected bike lanes over the Williamsburg Bridge as well as a busway along 14th Street. Though the street-level alternatives will help alleviate some of the stress, the DOT maintains that the subway system will remain the principal means of getting from North Brooklyn to Manhattan.

“It’s critical that we encourage as many people as we can to use the subway. The alternatives to the subway – the bus and the ferry – were responses to residents in geographical areas who aren’t going to have a viable subway option,” a DOT spokesman said.

Since the effects of the 15‑month shutdown are expected to be severe, the private contractors in charge of the construction will reportedly face stiff penalties for going over the allotted time frame.

WAITIN G FOR TH E BROOKLYN - QUEENS CON N ECTOR

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HEN IT COMES to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s white whale, the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, a plan for a 16-mile streetcar that would connect Astoria, Queens, to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, there’s a lot for the skeptics to latch onto. Though the proposal has failed to keep up with its own timeline, there’s one de Blasio line that has remained relatively consistent since the project’s announcement in 2016: “It’s coming soon.”

The saga began when Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, a nonprofit chaired by Jed Walentas, CEO of Two Trees Management, commissioned a study that concluded it would cost $1.7 billion to build the streetcar, and that it would also bring in $3.7 billion in tax revenue. When de Blasio proposed the plan in early 2016, the expected cost bumped up to $2.5 billion, but he maintained that the city could fund the system through tax revenue siphoned from an expected rise in property values.

Then the trouble started.

A leaked memo from Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen in April 2017 undercut de Blasio’s optimism. The memo laid out major construction and financial complications to the project, listing engineering challenges like water mains, sewer lines and power utilities buried along the route. It wasn’t until April 2018 that the mayor admitted on “The Brian Lehrer Show” for the first time that the plan is “certainly going to require some federal support.”

At the end of April, the release of the city’s executive budget clarified that no money had been set aside for the project. Asked about it, de Blasio said, “I’m going to use my favorite phrase, soon, which always means something. It’s coming soon.”

The New York City Economic Development Corp. still has not set a date for the release of its feasibility study after missing its deadline in the fall. It was reported that the study has cost $7 million. The clock is ticking on whether the project will get on track – or get tossed to the scrapheap.

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DIAGNOSIN G CENTR AL BROO KLYN’S H EALTH CARE N EEDS

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AST YEAR, the health care nonprofit Leapfrog Group reported that several hospitals in Brooklyn were among the worst in the nation. This is especially concerning for elected officials like Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, who represents Brownsville, a neighborhood she describes as a hospital desert that also has high rates of HIV, stroke and infant mortality.

“The hospital I was born in, St. Mary’s Hospital, was closed,” she told City & State. “From that time, people have lingered and languished with illnesses without getting proper medical care attended to them for many, many years.

And then we have Brookdale Hospital. Brookdale Hospital was sort of the hospital if anyone got hurt, people would say, ‘Take me anywhere but Brookdale.’”

To try to improve the state of health care in Brooklyn, Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year unveiled his $1.4 billion Vital Brooklyn initiative. It focuses especially on Central Brooklyn, where getting care can be particularly

difficult. Statistics from the governor’s office show that there are only 55 primary care physicians per 100,000 people in Central Brooklyn.

The initiative includes a $700 million proposal to create a unified health care system called One Brooklyn Health. The proposal is an expanded version of one Cuomo has been floating for years to replace Brookdale. The current plan is to develop a 32-site ambulatory care network, create a unified health information technology system across hospitals and also to improve the infrastructure of Brookdale as well as Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.

Earlier this month, Cuomo identified 12 sites that will be developed to increase access to primary care and speciality services, and announced its partnership with six Brooklyn-based federally qualified health centers to create or expand 11 community health centers.

However, the process will take time: The development plan for ambulatory care is projected to be completed by the end of the next year.

HOUSES OF WORSH IP PROVIDIN G AFFORDABLE HOUSIN G

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N THE BACK of Calvary Community Church in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a fence emblazoned with a mural-sized sign that says “THE MISSION IS POSSIBLE” in bright block letters faces an empty gravel lot.

Calvary, a church in the ungentrified eastern part of the neighborhood, sits on a plot of land that almost stretches over a quarter of a block, but the one-story beige stucco building sits on a sliver of that space. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hopes to turn that free space into affordable housing.

Calvary is one of many churches in the borough that Adams has selected as a part of his Faith-Based Development Initiative, which provides funding and other support to help churches navigate the complicated zoning process involved in building affordable housing developments.

Adams’ office said it has identified hundreds of lots that may align with the program.

Riding past the church on his bike during a recent in-

terview with City & State, Adams said, “One of the largest landowners of people of color are the churches. And what we’re showing them how to do is how to use the land.”

Adams granted $500,000 in funding for construction of a 154-unit mixed-use affordable housing development on Calvary’s open lot. Adams invested $1 million in fiscal year 2017 funds from Brooklyn Borough Hall to construct affordable housing on church lots. A year and a half later, he expanded the program, calling for the creation of zoning map amendments that would facilitate True Holy Church to create a mixed‑use residential building.

The program aligns with a role many Brooklyn church leaders already play as financial advisers, offering classes on monetary and property management, and even promoting real estate sales between congregants. Through Adams’ plan, churches have begun to expand their capacity as a pillar of financial stability in Brooklyn.

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State Senate candidate Julia Salazar has been criticized for having only recently moved to the 18th District.

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N THE 15 YEARS since Martin Malavé Dilan was sworn in as a New York state senator, market-rate rents in the North Brooklyn communities he represents have skyrocketed, transforming parts of working-class neighborhoods, including Williamsburg and Bushwick, into playgrounds for mostly young, affluent gentrifiers. Dilan, a Bushwick native whose parents came from Puerto Rico, describes himself as a “champion” of tenants’ rights and a bulwark against abusive landlords – but he has repeatedly come under fire for accepting donations from real estate developers and landlords’ associations. And this year, his tenure may be ended by Julia Salazar, a community organizer, member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a transplant from Florida.

Salazar, 27, is part of a wave of young, progressive insurgent candidates – many of whom are women – taking on longtime Democratic incumbents in this year’s primaries. Salazar’s political career couldn’t be more distinct from Dilan’s. He came up in Brooklyn’s political machine under longtime county Democratic party boss Vito Lopez, served on the New York City Council for 10 years, and is running for his ninth term in the state Senate. She started her political career as a grass-roots organizer and she works with groups like Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Communities United for Police Reform and the DSA. Salazar is running to Dilan’s left, with a platform that includes single-payer health care, tuition-free public universities, expanding protections for undocumented immigrants and establishing universal rent control.

Rent regulation is Salazar’s biggest point of contention with Dilan and it has emerged as one of her key policy planks.

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like the Neighborhood Preservation Political Action Fund and the Rent Stabilization Association, two pro-landlord lobbying groups that often give to Republicans. At least 15 percent of the nearly $1.35 million Dilan has received in donations over the course of his political career has come from the real estate, insurance or financial industries, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

During his time on the City Council, Dilan was one of 28 members who voted in favor of vacancy decontrol – a policy that allows landlords to raise the rents after tenants leave rent-stabilized apartments, creating an incentive to push out rent-stabilized tenants in gentrifying neighborhoods – though he has since changed course. Dilan has repeatedly said he regrets his vote, and he has introduced legislation at the state level that would make it a felony for landlords to drive rent-regulated tenants out of their apartments. His bill never made it out of committee and is unlikely to pass unless Democrats regain control of the state Senate in this fall’s elections.

The failure of Dilan’s bill illustrates the question some Democrats might have for Salazar and her supporters: Why is taking out a mainstream Democrat the best use of activist energy or donor dollars? As of mid-July, Salazar’s campaign has raised nearly $120,000, 95 percent of which was from individual small donors, according to her most recent campaign finance report.

Hundreds of young progressives have canvassed and made phone calls on her behalf.

Besides tighter rent regulation, state Senate Republicans have recently blocked Democratic initiatives, including stricter gun control, renewing speed cameras in New York City school zones as well as expanding abortion rights and voting rights. There are Democrats challenging Republican state senators in districts with Democratic voter registration advantages in southern Brooklyn, on Long Island and just an hour north of New York City. Then there are the Democratic primary challenges to the former members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which shared power with the GOP, and state Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans. Wouldn’t any of these be more useful targets for progressives?

Dilan’s campaign goes even further and argues that a leftier Democrat would harm the party’s state Senate caucus and the district. Graham Parker, a spokesman for Dilan’s campaign, told City & State that Salazar’s DSA-influenced policies would create rifts between Democrats and make passing legislation impossible. He even

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State Sen. Martin Malavé Dilan, running for his ninth term, has been hammered for taking money from developers.

implied, without providing any evidence, that Salazar wouldn’t be a part of the Democratic caucus.

“What we haven’t heard is how the opponent will work to bring people together. Or, who the opponent will conference with,” Parker said in an email to City & State. “It’s sounding like we have a conference of one. This September voters are going to see identical platforms.

Their choice is between an ideology, or a Democratic Majority that will deliver.”

Salazar is a registered Democrat running in the party’s primary, however she only registered as a Democrat a year ago, after being a Republican and then a member of the Independence Party.

In a statement through spokesman Michael Kinnucan, Salazar called Parker’s insinuation that she wouldn’t conference with Democrats “absurd.”

“I look forward to caucusing and working closely with (my) fellow Democrats in the Senate and to helping elect Andrea Stewart-Cousins as the first female Senate majority leader in New York history,” Salazar said.

In a phone interview, Salazar told City & State that the ability to make deals with moderates and Republicans isn’t as important as speaking constituents’ language, particularly given Dilan’s track record on tenants’ rights. “In order to pass strong, effective legislation that changes people’s lives – like ending vacancy

decontrol certainly would – it requires that legislators have their ear to the ground and that they work to bring constituents into the legislative process,” Salazar said. “A lot of what we do with insurgent and/or grass-roots-supported candidates is that we bring these voices in. My platform has been developed by people who are impacted by these issues.”

Salazar’s supporters argue that it is Dilan who poses a threat to the passing of progressive legislation. Susan Kang, an organizer with No IDC NY, told City & State that Parker’s dismissal of Salazar’s ability to compromise was “insulting” to her experience. “Julia is an organizer.

That’s what she does for a living,” Kang said. “She knows how to make connections, how to build coalitions. She’s not a newcomer to the political process.”

And, Kang added, Dilan is a “functional equivalent” to the IDC, despite not having belonged to the group. When asked for clarification as to how a mainline Democrat could be the equivalent of a group that caucused with Republicans, Kang said she didn’t “mean to suggest that Dilan was working in a coalition with the IDC members,” but that he “represents the same interests in Albany as the IDC.” She pointed to the donations he has received from the real estate industry and other corporate entities as proof of this, as well as a $5,000 campaign contribution Dilan

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accepted in 2016 from state Sen. Jeff Klein, who led the IDC at the time. That donation, according to Parker, “paid for the lunches of Democrats who volunteered on Election Day” and had no bearing on Dilan’s loyalty to the Democratic Party.

While many progressives might object to taking donations from Klein or real estate interests, well-informed Albany observers would note that Republican control of the state Senate has been the far more significant obstacle in passing progressive legislation than the behavior of any non-IDC Democrats’, because the GOP won’t bring Democratic measures to a vote – even when a bill commands majority support.

Still, Salazar supporters told City & State that controlling housing costs is among the most important issues for many low- and middle-income New Yorkers and that, when it comes to tenants’ rights, Dilan would do more harm than good.

One volunteer with Salazar’s campaign, who agreed to speak on background because he works for an elected official, told City & State that Salazar’s background in tenants’ rights activism encouraged him to help her campaign, particularly since the state’s current rent laws will be expiring during the 2019-20 legislative session. “I think we’re reaching a breaking point on whether we’re going to be a city that allows working-class people to live here or become a playground for the wealthy,” the volunteer said. “Given what we’re going to see in 2019, I really don’t trust Dilan to make the right decisions.”

Parker, meanwhile, told City & State that the senator would vote in favor of protenant legislation. “He’s in support of all of the tenant protections that have been introduced in the Senate on the Democratic conference line and all the reforms. He hopes to be part of a small Democratic majority that will get those through,” Parker said.

Darma Diaz, the female state committee member for the 54th Assembly District, told City & State that the senator’s critics are “dead wrong.”

“He’s always worked to keep people in the community. He’s fought for affordability, and ownership. Both are important to community preservation. I’m not hearing that from the other side. The way they talk, it’s obvious they don’t understand this. They seem to think

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the best we can hope for is an affordserved by his leadership when Democrats able unit, when affordability means a lot retake the state Senate this fall,” Liff told of things. For one, affordable for who?

City & State in an email. “His challengFor us?” Diaz said in an emailed stateer is apparently trying to parachute into ment provided to City & State by Parker. a district where she has not lived for long “It is gentrification that’s behind and where she has no record of involvedisplacement in our communities,” ment or achievement. Democrats will Diaz added. “It’s greedy unscrupusee through that.” The Dilan campaign lous landlords. Not Martin.” believes Salazar isn’t even legally qualiSalazar is not the first opponent to call fied to run in the district. On Friday, they Dilan out for taking donations from the real filed a lawsuit arguing that Salazar fails estate industry while claiming to chamto meet the state’s five-year residency repion tenants. His 2016 primary challengquirement to run for office because she er, Williamsburg community organizer moved back to Florida briefly in 2016.

Debbie Medina, similarly questioned his Salazar’s campaign counters that the encommitment to tenants’ rights. During thusiastic support she has received shows that election cycle, Dilan told reporters there is an appetite for new leadership. Isthat Medina was “running to take the abel Anreus, Salazar’s field manager, told neighborhood back as a socialist DemCity & State that more than 1,000 people ocrat” with the help of “the new peohave signed up to volunteer through Salaple moving in,” meaning gentrifiers. zar’s website, about 500 of whom are acThat criticism may apply as well to Salative, recurring volunteers. “The majority of zar’s campaign, which relies on a cadre of them – a solid 80 percent – are millennials. volunteers – many of whom are members A good quarter of them are women,” Anof the DSA, which is sometimes maligned reus said. And while plenty of volunteers as a group of mostly white, male “brocialcome from the DSA’s ranks, Anreus noted ists” – to spread that grass‑roots her message. organizations like It’s an inconvethe racial and econient truth about nomic justice group New York’s proNew York Commugressive insurgent nities for Change candidates that they and the immigrant are typically edurights group Make cated newcomers the Road Action, to the district and the latter of which their strongest supendorsed Salazar porters mostly are earlier this month, too. Data from the have sent volunteers June congressional canvassing as well. primary elections Salazar, who show that Alexanmoved to New York dria Ocasio-CorCity to attend Cotez – who grew up lumbia Universiin Westchester and ty, is aware of the – A VOLUNTEER WITH stereotype many attended Boston SALAZAR’S CAMPAIGN of her campaign University – did better in her sucvolunteers embody. cessful challenge to Rep. Joseph Crowley “There’s this narrative of young, white in gentrifying neighborhoods in westgentrifiers, ‘How dare they move into the ern Queens than in many of the district’s district and try to fight gentrification and majority-Latino areas. The surprisingbe in solidarity with their neighbors,’” she ly strong showings of fellow congressaid in a phone interview with City & State. sional challengers Suraj Patel and Adem “This is actually what we need. We need Bunkeddeko followed the same pattern. cross-class solidarity. We need to unite The incumbent and his allies say that and say that the rent laws – the harmful ideology matters less than roots in the housing policies – are hurting all of us.” district. Bob Liff, a spokesman for the If Salazar does win with the help of Brooklyn Democratic Party, charactergentrifiers who replaced rent-stabiized Salazar as an outsider who is trying lized tenants, one could say Dilan sowed to represent a district she doesn’t underthe seeds of his own destruction. stand. “Marty Dilan’s constituents know the work he has done for them, block by Gaby Del Valle is a freelance block, for a long time and will be well reporter based in Brooklyn.

“We’re reaching a breaking point on whether we’re going to be a city that allows working-class people to live here or become a playground for the wealthy.”

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president was greeted on our ride – a number that would have been more impressive if Adams hadn’t tipped the scales by wearing a polo shirt with “BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT” emblazoned in bold on the back. Forgoing a helmet, he also wore a borough president baseball cap.

It’s a bit bland, but Adams is used to a uniform. He joined the NYPD in 1984 and retired 22 years later as a captain. While he rose through the official ranks, he also rose in stature as a critic of the department, most prominently as the leader of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, a position in which he regularly took NYPD leadership to task on issues both racial and procedural. And that didn’t make advancement easy.

“You’re talking about criticizing an institution that was unacceptable to criticize,” Adams said. “It was a lesson that I was reminded (of) when I was studying to be a lieutenant and somebody shot out my car windows.” He also found a dead rat in his locker – more than once.

Bill de Blasio will be term-limited MAYOR out of office at the end of 2021, and somebody new will replace him. Adams wants to

be that guy, and his stock is rising. His campaign raised $915,000 in the first six months of 2018, more than anybody else registered with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, and more than his chief rivals in the silent primary for mayor, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Adams also lucked out politically. New York City Public Advocate Letitia James appears to be the favorite for state attorney general, a position that opened when then‑ Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned following the disclosure of multiple accusations of violence and abuse against women. James and Adams are both black, both in their late 50s and once represented overlapping districts in Central Brooklyn – she in the City Council, he in the state Senate. Running against her for mayor would be a demographic challenge, but a challenge that Adams now seems increasingly likely to avoid. Ditto for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, another potential black mayoral candidate from Central Brooklyn, and Adams’ longtime political rival. With Rep. Joseph Crowley losing his seat in Congress, Jeffries has a clearer path to power in Washington, making it less likely he’d jeopardize that for a 2021 mayoral run.

The borough president has been gaming out his campaign strategy with potential donors. Adams expects to win over black voters, but as The New York Times reported, he told attendees at a private April meeting that he’d also have to “out‑white” Stringer in the race, winning over white voters who may otherwise prefer Stringer, who is white and Jewish.

Adams confirmed that he made the remark and defended it as a “joke,” but the man who once led the 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care organization isn’t shy about that fact that winning over outer-borough white voters is at the core of his strategy. Bayside, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst – Adams said he will campaign “in those communities that traditionally many African-Americans wrote off. … I think that my message does not stop at those traditional quote-unquote black voting blocs,” he said.

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O R T I V E A V R N TO I E S T I C O N .” ’ T F N O N ES I D L S E T H O tant and voter data expert with Prime New York. Despite headquartering his campaign in Queens, Sutton lost in the Democratic primary to Ed Koch. Skurnik said that President Barack Obama followed a similar strategy nationwide to win over moderate white voters in the 2008 presidential election, but Democratic primary voters may be different now than they were then, with a noted shift in enthusiasm toward the party’s more progressive wing. “(Adams) is betting on that it’s not the new reality. That if he gives them a reason to vote, they’ll come out to vote,” Skurnik said of the candidate’s focus on moderates. “It’s to be determined. I don’t know the answer.”

Adams has built a political profile that could be palatable to moderate white voters. He defines himself as pro-business and has a long record of supporting charter schools.

While many progressives criticize de Blasio’s affordable housing program for not serving enough low-income New Yorkers, Adams argues for more housing for middle-income earners: “the teacher and the accountant, the principal and the cop.”

And, most surprisingly, calls himself “extremely conservative on crime.”

Asked to elaborate, Adams said he believed solitary confinement was necessary in some cases.

The de Blasio administration has moved to limit solitary confinement in city jails. But the rest of Adams’ record doesn’t seem to jibe with his own “extremely conservative” title. Adams is in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana; he was an outspoken critic of aggressive policing tactics like stop and frisk; and he was an early supporter of the city decriminalizing petty offenses like biking on the sidewalk. (Fittingly, Adams did so at one point on our ride. He also once rode the wrong way on a one-way street.)

New York City Councilman Brad Lander, a progressive from Brooklyn, said Adams’ “extremely conservative” description didn’t square with reality. “He’s been a good ally on police reform issues. I can’t tell you what he meant by that,” Lander told City & State.

Lander praised Adams’ “credibility” on policing and neighborhood safety issues, even noting, unprompted, Adams’ activism on an issue more often associated with white communities.

“On street safety, he’s one of the real leaders – on Vision Zero, on cycling and pedestrian safety, against reckless driving,” Lander said. “Not always an issue you would necessarily expect an African-American leader to choose to really be out front and lead on.” can be hard to classify politically. “EveryADAMS one believes either you’re progressive or you’re conservative,” he said. “Everyone has these lines. And I

just don’t fit into those lines.” Borough presidents can introduce bills in the City Council, and Adams’ own record is a political hodgepodge. He sponsored a pair of tenant safety bills, including one to crack down on illegal home conversions that passed despite opposition from some tenant advocates. He focused on new parents, sponsoring a bill to require lactation rooms in many public buildings and another that sends parents information about saving for college within three months of a child’s birth.

Both passed unanimously. But the former cop avoided introducing any public safety bills, save for a resolution, which didn’t pass, supporting a firearm safety bill in the state Legislature.

In the state Senate, Adams was a loyal member of the Democratic conference over his seven years in Albany, from 2007 through 2013, a period in which he was linked to corruption allegations.

He was criticized by the state inspector general for his role in the awarding of a contract for expanded gambling at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. Adams was also mentioned in a 2013 federal investigation into corruption among state lawmakers. The FBI never confirmed Adams was a target, and no charges were filed. Later, as borough president, federal and city investigators probed the flow of money through his nonprofit, One Brooklyn Fund, though no charges were filed. Everything is in compliance, he said of the nonprofit. “I don’t think there’s been an elected official that has been more scrutinized than I have,” he said.

As a state senator, Adams was known for emotional floor speeches advocating for issues as varied as raising legislators’ pay, legalizing same-sex marriage and the racial balance of the state Senate. He didn’t shy from controversy, but his most contentious move may have been sponsoring a campaign encouraging the young, mostly black men of his district to pull up their sagging pants – a move he still defends as preventing young people from feeding negative stereotypes.

When Adams became borough president in 2014, in a race in which he faced no serious opposition, he endorsed Jesse Hamilton to replace him in the state Senate. Hamilton would go on to win the seat, and is still one of Adams’ close political allies, even after Hamilton joined the Independent Democratic Conference, which was criticized for forming an alliance that helped keep

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Eric Adams isn’t the only one in it to win it.

Here are the declared and potential 2021 New York City mayoral contenders – and how much they’ve raised so far.

Eric Adams

BORN: 1960 HOME: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn CURRENT: Brooklyn borough president PREVIOUS: State senator; NYPD officer FUNDRAISING: $1.18 million in 2021 account

Rubén Díaz Jr.

BORN: 1973 HOME: Soundview, Bronx CURRENT: Bronx borough president PREVIOUS: Assemblyman FUNDRAISING: $600,000 in 2021 account

Scott Stringer

BORN: 1960 HOME: Financial District, Manhattan CURRENT: New York City comptroller PREVIOUS: Manhattan borough president; assemblyman FUNDRAISING: $2.12 million in 2021 account

Corey Johnson

BORN: 1982 HOME: Chelsea, Manhattan CURRENT: New York City Council speaker PREVIOUS: New York City councilman FUNDRAISING: $91,000 left in 2017 account, $0 in 2021 account

Melinda Katz

BORN: 1965 HOME: Forest Hills, Queens CURRENT: Queens borough president PREVIOUS: Attorney; New York City councilwoman FUNDRAISING: $341,000 in 2021 account

state Senate Republicans in power before disbanding in April.

But Adams hasn’t shied away from prominent progressives.

He invited gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon to tour a New York City Housing Authority project with him in March.

Nixon has recently been calling herself a democratic socialist, just like U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who also toured NYCHA housing with Adams during his 2016 presidential run.

Neither of these were political endorsements, and Adams said he just uses elections to draw attention to issues that are important to him, such as the state of NYCHA apartments.

But Adams said he did vote for Sanders over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential primary. It wasn’t the first time Adams has bucked the party. Adams was a registered Repub-

lican from 1995 to 2002. This was during a time of high crime in the city, Adams said, and the Democratic Party wasn’t addressing it. “There was a level of frustration as a cop,” he said.

“What I saw on the ground was not translated from the Democratic leadership. It was severe frustration and just anger every day seeing the shootings, the robberies, people living in fear.”

Even in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 6-to-1, Adams said he doesn’t think his time with the GOP would be a big issue in a run for mayor, since voters will just consider his record. The borough president may have a chance to test this theory – and his entire electoral strategy – before 2021.

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“If you were to go to Scott Stringer right now and say, ‘Are you running for mayor,’ he’ll say, ‘No.’ Yeah, well what the hell is the (campaign) account for?” Adams asked. “I don’t like those games. People want people who are honest. So my goal is citywide. I don’t know what that pathway is going to look like.”

Stringer has not officially declared a run for mayor with the New York City Campaign Finance Board – but neither has Adams. Stringer declined to comment. bike is a dark gray Jamis Citizen ADAMS’ – a hardy, mid-tier model tailor-made for commuters who don’t want to bend over the

handlebars. We rode slowly, talking the whole way. Passing buses occasionally interrupted the conversation, as did shouted directions from Adams’ communications director, Stefan Ringel, who rode in front of us. We pedaled south, passing the million-dollar brownstones of Bed-Stuy and into Crown Heights, where kids played basketball in St. John’s Park.

Adams grew up nearby, on Gates Avenue in Bushwick.

Then his mother saved up enough money as a domestic worker to buy a house. So at age 7, Eric and his five siblings moved to Jamaica, Queens. Adams moved back to Brooklyn at 18 and stayed, now living alone on the ground floor of the Bed-Stuy townhouse. Never married, Adams has one son who is in his early 20s. When he bought the building in 2003, Adams said the block was filled with empty lots and homes with boarded up windows. But he organized the block, worked with his neighbors and turned it around.

He encouraged other members of the 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care group to do the same, using their steady law enforcement salaries to buy property in distressed neighborhoods and fix things up. Adams said he did the same thing for his previous apartment, a co-op on Prospect Place.

“That place was horrific when I moved in,” he said.

“A lot of crime. We organized the block. We used to do tenant patrols, safety patrols. We would sit out on the corners, and slowly people began to trust each other.”

Adams truly believes in the power of the individual to change one’s circumstances. Pull up your pants, clean up your block, start saving money for college and eat healthy. It all worked for Adams. Diagnosed with diabetes in 2016, Adams was losing his vision, and doctors told him his hands and feet may have to be amputated. But Adams switched to a plant-based diet,

starting every day with a kale and fruit smoothie and eating oatmeal and more fruit for lunch. (Not vegan, he explained: “Vegans drink Coca-Cola and eat Oreo cookies.”) He lost 35 pounds, reversed his diabetes and became a healthy eating zealot, touring local churches and granting interviews to every healthy living website imaginable to talk about his lifestyle.

It’s what brought us to a farmers market in Brownsville, the turnaround point of our bicycle journey. Three tables were stocked with carrots, kale, peaches and more, and the tent on Pitkin Avenue, in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, was receiving a steady stream of buyers. But Adams lamented its small size, comparing it to the massive Greenmarket at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, in a wealthier neighborhood. If we come back next year, he said, “I want this to take up the block.”

Adams’ main critique of city government is that the elected leaders lack vision. If Adams were mayor, he’d get the city back into the affordable housing business, creating Mitchell-Lama-type programs to provide middle-class New Yorkers with subsidized mortgages. If Adams were mayor, there would be more rooftop gardens in low-income neighborhoods, providing New Yorkers with fresh fruits and vegetables. If Adams were mayor, the city would be governed in real-time, with trackable metrics so that NYCHA would know when and where boilers aren’t providing heat for tenants.

But when it comes to citywide initiatives, Adams is not the mayor – he’s still campaigning in poetry, not yet governing in prose. He speaks in quips (“It’s not DNA, it’s our dinner,” he said about hereditary disease), but Adams made it clear that this wasn’t just to keep me entertained on our bike ride. He’s thinking about all 5 million registered voters in 2021, the 3.9 million of them who didn’t vote for mayor last year, and how he can draw those cynics to the polls.

“I think they are not connected. They are disenchanted. They don’t believe politics speaks to their everyday needs.

That’s why they don’t come out. That’s why their numbers are so low,” Adams said. “We can’t just be informational. We have to be inspirational. People have to be inspired again.” rode back from the market to Adams’ street, and finWE ished up our interview standing near his front stoop.

The 2021 race is still years away, and it will be weeks before

we even know whether there will be a public advocate’s race in 2019. Adams still has a lot more time to talk about healthy eating, to build political relationships, to raise money. I expected Adams to go inside, but instead he mounted his bike again and started to ride. “Where are you off to?” his aide, Ringel, shouted after the swiftly shrinking borough president. “I got a couple more stops!” Adams said with a bright smile, as he rode off.

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CEO, TWO TREES MANAGEMENT It is extremely rare for anyone to have an opportunity to remake one New York City neighborhood in their lifetime, but the Walentas family has rejuvenated two. Four decades after transforming an industrial swath under two Brooklyn bridges into one of the most desirable and priciest places to live in the city, Jed Walentas set out to accomplish the same feat in South Williamsburg. His Two Trees Management development firm purchased the long-defunct Domino Sugar complex in 2012 and unveiled a $1.5 billion rezoning plan for the 11-acre site with a mix of housing and retail spaces designed by SHoP Architects and a waterfront park. Two Trees opened the park in June. Walentas will soon have company. Other developers, including Eliot Spitzer, are poised to open large rental complexes to his south while new towers continue to rise to the north. Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hopes to add a streetcar along Kent Avenue to supplement ferry service that stops on both ends of the complex.

Jonathan Rosen & Valerie Berlin P R I N C I PA L S , BERLINROSEN Jonathan Rosen and Valerie Berlin have had New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ear since helping the Park Slope politician break through a crowded Democratic mayoral field five years ago. Rosen is so close to the City Hall brain trust that de Blasio ferociously fought to shield their written correspondence from reporters by naming him an “agent of the city” in court papers. The malediction did little to boost Rosen other than garnering unwanted attention, and ultimately a judge ruled against the mayor, allowing his petty grievances against the media to be aired in May. Rosen and Berlin shrugged it

off and their eponymous firm continues to expand, attracting real estate and high-powered nonprofit clients like The Hudson Companies Inc. and the Brooklyn Public Library.

In the past year, they have also hired David Levine, a former Hillary for America executive and a veteran of the Obama White House, as the firm’s chief operating officer, and added two senior executives to head up their philanthropy and lifestyle practices.

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When Cynthia Nixon needed advice about mounting a nimble campaign against the formidable Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she called Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers. The political dynamos at Hilltop Public Solutions aren’t afraid of an uphill challenge – that’s probably why “hill” is in their name. They engineered Bill de Blasio’s emergence through a crowded 2013 mayoral primary and have assisted Democratic U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Jon Tester. Katz and Hyers have also nurtured the next generation of progressive leaders, who have started their own ventures and advanced through the halls of New York City government.

But Nixon is their most intriguing client. She earned national press for her announcement and has applied heavy pressure on the governor. Cuomo has already tacked left on legalizing marijuana, banning plastic bags, improving substandard public housing and funding a sweeping modernization of the MTA. Katz and Hyers have largely done their work behind the scenes to make New York a more progressive place, but a gubernatorial campaign puts their political agenda at the forefront of the public debate this summer.

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Rebecca Katz & Bill Hyers

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HILLTOP PUBLIC SOLUTIONS

Regina Myer

P R E S I D E N T, D O W N T O W N

TWO TREES MANAGEMENT; BERLINROSEN; JULIENNE SCHAER

B R O O K L Y N PA R T N E R S H I P Five years ago, most New Yorkers didn’t think about Downtown Brooklyn as a destination other than as a place to serve jury duty. That’s changing quickly. Cranes have been lifting I-beams on nearly every block as multistory residential towers pierce the horizon. Sales prices have risen too this year, making the neighborhood one of the most robust real estate markets in New York City. A driving force behind the rising demand in the borough’s downtown area is Regina Myer, who joined the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership in 2016 after leading the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp. Myer has helped lure tech companies, real estate developers and commercial tenants to the Fulton Street corridor. Last year’s opening of City Point – a residential and commercial entertainment complex with a gourmet food hall, grocery store and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema – has been a godsend for residents who have had to trek to Fort Greene or Boerum Hill for food and entertainment options. Now Myer is pushing for a greenway at the Brooklyn Strand, connecting Downtown Brooklyn to the waterfront with new bike paths.

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Steve Hindy

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CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN, BROOKLYN BREWERY

Linda E. Johnson

As Brooklyn’s favorite brewer, Steve Hindy is facing a few new challenges. Aluminum tariffs might raise the price of beer cans?

Well, that’s industrywide and there are plenty of taps serving Brooklyn lager. An L train shutdown might hamper visits to the Brooklyn Brewery’s Williamsburg headquarters? People will find their way to the neighborhood by ferry, bus and train. The Brooklyn Brewery co‑founder and former Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press is embracing the uncertainty. That’s how his beer company has been able to become the 21st largest brewery in the United States, according to Forbes. And he’s not content to serve frothy beverages only to thirsty Americans. It sold a stake in the company to Kirin Co. in order to tap into the Japanese market, and recently opened a craft brewery site in Lithuania with the Carlsberg Group. Hindy keeps his hand in Brooklyn civic life too, serving on the Prospect Park Alliance board, while co-sponsoring scores of arts and music events throughout the borough. His story has inspired a generation of Brooklyn entrepreneurs.

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We can’t imagine a more iconic institution in the borough than the Brooklyn Public Library, home to 8.1 million visitors last year and nearly 700,000 active library card holders. But the popularity of the library system, the fifth largest in the country, isn’t enough for President and CEO Linda E. Johnson – not when its 59 branches need $228 million in upkeep. She has led an aggressive modernization plan to fix dilapidated satellites while partnering with developers to construct a chic new branch in Brooklyn Heights, with luxury housing on top of it. New branches are coming to Downtown Brooklyn and Dumbo, and within five years one-third of all buildings will have been fully rehabilitated. The library’s crown jewel at Grand Army Plaza, a veritable temple of learning, is also getting a new welcome center named after the late congressman and former librarian Major Owens, who used to represent Central Brooklyn. Johnson’s fundraising prowess has helped make these renovations possible, raising another $1.1 million at its annual gala.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan set her latest novel “Manhattan Beach” in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where about 70,000 people worked during World War II. The shipbuilding industry has long since passed, but in the 21st century, Brooklyn Navy Yard President and CEO David Ehrenberg and his 200 employees have brought the manufacturing, film and technology industries to the 225-acre site along the waterfront. Ehrenberg hopes that the new supply of innovative, transit-accessible office space will be a selling point. There are already more than 100 tech companies in the area. Their latest project is Doug Steiner’s nine-story 230,000-square-foot space for light manufacturing tenants that could create between 700 and 1,000 jobs.

The city is investing $40 million in the project and hopes to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in future developments.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has become an attraction for arts and creative events on its own. Hillary Clinton celebrated her primary victory at the site and Egan had her book’s launch party at Building 92.

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The Bush Terminal once served as a shipping and rail hub on the Brooklyn waterfront, and its factories were used by the federal government during World War I and World War II. The 5.3 millionsquare-foot complex is now home

to what Industry City CEO Andrew Kimball calls the “innovation economy.” That includes tenants such as the 3D printing company MakerBot Industries LLC, drone operators Aerobo, eyeglass manufacturers M Factory USA Inc., and digital film production company FilmRise, in addition to a video production studio and scores of artists, craftsmen and designers with studios on-site.

The number of jobs in Industry City’s warehouses has almost quadrupled from 1,900 in 2013 to 6,500 today, while the number of tenants has tripled from 150 to 450 over the same period. There’s more to come. Kimball is leading the push for a massive rezoning that would allow more light manufacturing on-site, potentially adding $1 billion in economic activity and boosting the number of jobs to 13,000, with another 7,000 off-site.

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A year ago, David Greenfield stunned his New York City Council colleagues when he announced he wouldn’t seek re-election and would instead take a job running the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.

One of the city’s most visible Jewish charities was having trouble raising money

Few Brooklynites have as profound an impact on the borough’s image and revitalization as developer Doug Steiner. He helped transform the Brooklyn Navy Yard from a motley collection of dilapidated warehouses and homes into one of the film industry’s most prominent East Coast footholds. Under his aegis, Steiner Studios hosts film, television and commercial shoots out of six buildings across 580,000 square feet of production facility space. Another six soundstages comprising 180,000 square feet are under construction and the entire 60-acre complex will total 1.6 million square feet by the time it is completed. Steiner isn’t just the host of a multitude of movie magic. He lured Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema to the area. His development company has been particularly active, transforming Admiral’s Row into a home for tech companies with a nine-story manufacturing center on Sands Street and 165,000 square feet of retail. Steiner is also dipping his toe into Downtown Brooklyn’s rental scene with his nearly completed 55-story residential tower on Schermerhorn Street.

and needed to rebrand after its former CEO was convicted for conspiring to siphon $9 million in an insurance kickback scheme. The nonprofit’s board president said it was a “coup” that they were able to attract Greenfield to the organization. A year later, Greenfield has quietly returned the Met Council to the political forefront.

The group’s legislative breakfast attracted U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, Rep. Joseph Crowley, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and a slew of council members and state legislators. On Twitter, Greenfield touts the charity’s less visible work providing meals, making home visits and finding other ways to serve more than 225,000 individuals and families living under the poverty line.

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Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Frank Seddio is the public face of the county’s political organization, but the party’s counsel Frank Carone helps many ambitious politicians get what they want. That doesn’t always happen of course – New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson boxed out Seddio’s choice, and newly mobilized leftist candidates could score primary upsets in September. But the Abrams Fensterman executive partner remains a key gatekeeper helping elect candidates.

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Chairwoman, Prospect Park Alliance

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Senior Pastor, Christian Cultural Center

The better half of Brooklyn’s top power couple (the mayor and first lady now live in Manhattan’s Gracie Mansion) is the chief operating officer of the New York Public Library and, in Brooklyn, has helped make Prospect Park the most beautiful green space in New York City. In addition to exchanging ideas with her husband, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, Iris Weinshall recently celebrated the anniversaries of Prospect Park (150 years!) and the Prospect Park Alliance (30 years).

What does the CEO of Forest City New York, who spearheaded Pacific Park, one of the most complex real estate projects in Brooklyn’s history, do for an encore? Why, start her own firm. MaryAnne Gilmartin launched her own development firm L&L MAG in January, taking a slew of Forest City executives with her. The connection won’t be severed.

She plans to serve as a liaison with government agencies to help Forest City build 2,250 affordable units on the 22-acre Downtown Brooklyn site.

The Rev. A.R. Bernard has hosted political hopefuls at his Christian Cultural Center megachurch on Flatlands Avenue for a generation. The influential religious leader – and short-lived 2013 mayoral contender – recently made waves when he quit President Donald Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board last August, the first pastor to do so. He has continued to speak out against the Trump administration, calling its immigration policy of separating families at the border an “atrocity.”

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Bishop of Brooklyn, Roman Catholic Church Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio keeps a lower profile than his Manhattan counterpart Cardinal Timothy Dolan, but the Brooklynite has been just as forceful critiquing congressional policies on immigration. Recognizing that many of his parishioners are Mexican and Central American immigrants, DiMarzio slammed President Donald Trump proposals as “restrictionism, somewhat based on racism.” And he wrote an editorial in the Daily News decrying the Trump administration’s policies that separated children from their parents at the border.

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President, Onexim Sports and Entertainment Holding USA Inc.; CEO, BSE Global The Brooklyn Nets may not be the best team in the NBA (they missed the playoffs last year) and the New York Islanders can’t wait to play hockey back in Nassau County, but Maureen Hanlon and Brett Yormark have built up the Barclays Center into the city’s premiere home for sports and entertainment. Yormark is also working to renovate the LIU Brooklyn Paramount Theater, which would seat 3,000 people and rival Radio City Music Hall.

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President and CEO, New York Building Congress

Acting President, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

Brooklyn’s favorite son has a broader portfolio these days as the president and CEO of the New York Building Congress, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots. Carlo Scissura is pushing for New York City to raze the Gowanus Expressway and replace it with a tunnel, and is also advocating for an overhaul of the MTA, including an AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport.

And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just named him secretary of the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission.

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s President and CEO Andrew Hoan stepped down in May, but the chamber is in good hands with Rick Russo. The chamber’s new acting president has spent four decades working on economic development in New York City, and most recently helped make the influential group’s centennial celebration a success.

Fun facts about Rick: He was the associate producer of the Village Halloween Parade for a decade and was an executive producer on the John Cage Meets Sun Ra concert album in 1986.

We are pleased to congratulate our colleague Ken Fisher, a 2018 City & State Brooklyn Power 50 honoree.

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President, Hudson Cos.

President and CEO, Founder, Broadway Stages

President, Brooklyn College

Founder, Risa Heller Communications

David Kramer’s 36-story condo tower is the biggest project to hit Cadman Plaza in years. His Hudson Cos. real estate firm is developing affordable housing projects across New York City, but its revamp of the Brooklyn Heights library branch, purchased for $52 million, is the crown jewel in his portfolio.

Hudson signed the deal last summer and the project will feature a new three-floor library opening in 2020, plenty of off-site affordable housing and condos with an average price of $3.6 million.

The careers of siblings Gina and Tony Argento are like something out of a movie. Tony helped found Broadway Stages, a growing company providing production space across the outer boroughs for films and television shows. Gina, who now runs the company, plans to convert a former Staten Island prison into a movie studio. And with a probe into Gina’s contributions to Mayor Bill de Blasio behind her, and the governor’s extension of the state film tax credit, there’s more shows on the way.

Since being named president of Brooklyn College in 2016, Michelle Anderson has steadied the borough’s flagship public university. She defused tensions among students and staff while discouraging police from using campus restrooms following a controversial NYPD undercover investigation of Muslim students. And she put together a daylong conference addressing what universities can do to help Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria’s devastation. An expert on the law of rape and sexual assault, she previously served as a dean at CUNY School of Law.

In a city with no shortage of crisis communications consultants, Risa Heller stands out for her effectiveness and her behind the scenes ties. She cut her teeth in the office of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, where many top communications professionals got started, and has assisted such figures as David Paterson, Anthony Weiner and Ivanka Trump. The Brooklyn-based PR wunderkind is now speeding ahead with her political and corporate clients and expanding her firm with smart veteran hires, including Jake Goldman.

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Katy Clark

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Senior Partner, Red Horse Strategies

Director, Brooklyn Museum

President, Brooklyn Academy of Music

CEO, Woodhull Medical Center

Now is a great time to be a progressive Democrat, and Doug Forand has Red Horse Strategies well positioned to help insurgent candidates on the left. After shepherding the Brooklyn City Council re-election campaigns of Carlos Menchaca, Mark Treyger and Antonio Reynoso, along with a dozen others, Red Horse boosted Yonkers Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer to the state Senate and nearly toppled Rep. Yvette Clarke with rising star Adem Bunkeddeko. They’re taking to heart the lessons of 2016 – to compete everywhere.

Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak is a star, man.

The leading art museum’s David Bowie exhibition surpassed 2 million visitors as part of its five-year worldwide tour, was a hit with critics and has brought record-breaking crowds to Eastern Parkway. Pasternak, who came on in 2015, is also seizing the moment with her emphasis on social justice – even though the museum has found itself in the crosshairs of activists for a recent curatorial hire.

Since 2015, Katy Clark has led the venerable Brooklyn Academy of Music high atop the city’s cultural heap while avoiding some of the workplace pratfalls that have befallen rivals at Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Clark instead has kept the drama where it belongs – on the stage with an eclectic lineup of film and live programming – while making good hires, including former “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” producer David Binder as artistic director.

Woodhull Medical Center is both the first and last resort for many North Brooklyn residents seeking medical care, and CEO Gregory Calliste is expanding the public hospital’s offerings.

In December, Woodhull, which is part of the New York City Health + Hospitals system, launched its new Pride Health Center, which New York City first lady Chirlane McCray lauded as a “safe haven,” providing LGBT patients with primary care, obstetric and gynecologic care, HIV testing, hormone therapy and other services.

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Joni Yoswein

Katepalli Sreenivasan

Martin Dunn

Member, Cozen O’Connor

President and Founder, Yoswein New York

Dean, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

President, Dunn Development Corp.

The former New York City coun‑ cilman representing Brooklyn Heights has carved out an influen‑ tial niche as a real estate attorney, lobbyist and political sage at Cozen O’Connor. Kenneth Fisher has been consulting on dozens of rezoning projects throughout the city as the mayor advances an ambitious affordable housing plan. Fisher also helps lawmakers and journalists alike understand complex land use matters and political machinations – like last year’s council speaker race, which he called “three-di‑ mensional chess where the pawns get to make their own deals.”

As a Brooklyn-based PR maven, Joni Yoswein deals with City Hall and Albany budgets, land use and grass-roots campaigns – exactly what you’d expect from a former assemblywoman. No wonder the most important institutions, developers and trade groups in town – including the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Law School, Thor Equities, Two Trees Management, Industry City and Ikea – have hired her company.

Yoswein even hosts an annual Turkey Classic to raise money for scholarships at St. Francis College.

As dean of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Katepalli Sreenivasan has kept the Downtown Brooklyn‑based school on firm footing while finalizing NYU’s merger with Brooklyn Polytechnic.

On his watch, hundreds of graduates have helped spur Brooklyn’s thriving tech sector, including a growing number of women. After five years on the job, Sreenivasan, who is also an accomplished experimental physicist, is passing the torch to Jelena Kovačević, the school’s first female dean and a biomedical engineer from Carnegie Mellon University.

Affordable housing developer Martin Dunn has found a willing partner in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.

His Dunn Development Corp. has embarked on a half dozen projects totaling 633 housing units – 531 of them affordable – since de Blasio took office as part of an effort to create or preserve hundreds of thousands of below-market-rate units. Four of those projects are in East New York, adding new vitality to the neighborhood while keeping people in their homes.

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Co-executive directors, Make the Road New York Few organizations in New York have grappled with external crises as formidable as Make the Road New York has in the past year. The Bushwick-based immigration group has stared down a multitude of threats, including immigration raids, family separations, the revocation of temporary protective status for Salvadoran workers and the likely reduction in funding following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus decision.

The organization has stood up to the White House – and Gov. Andrew Cuomo – despite the consequences.

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Rudolph “Rudy” Crew

David Niederman

President and CEO, Maimonides Medical Center

President, Medgar Evers College

It’s no easy task to run a nonprofit hospital when uncertainty over subsidized insurance is high and health care costs are rising.

But Maimonides Medical Center President and CEO Kenneth Gibbs has helped fortify the southern Brooklyn hospital and expand its medical services. In addition to having the borough’s only pediatric trauma center, Maimonides announced a new partnership with New York Community Hospital in January, opened a new spinal center in March and appointed a new vice chairman of orthopedics in June.

New York City’s higher education world has been abuzz over who will replace former CUNY Chancellor James Milliken, who recently stepped down. One name that kept surfacing is Medgar Evers College President Rudy Crew, who once ran the city’s public school system under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Among his many accomplishments is the Pipeline program, which Crew launched in 2014 to reduce the number of college freshmen who require remedial classes – and the number fell from 85 percent to 68 percent in just two years.

Director, United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn As Brooklyn’s most powerful Hasidic Jewish leader, David Niederman performs two functions: providing housing, job training and other needed services to Williamsburg’s Satmar community and corralling votes in his bloc for preferred candidates during elections. He’s been remarkably successful, maintaining strong relationships with both Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo while protecting his community’s way of life, most recently going on the offensive to prevent legislators from changing the curriculum at yeshivas.

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Frances Bronet, a former leader at Illinois Institute of Technology, brought executive experience as well as architecture and engineering expertise when she came on this year, replacing Thomas Schutte. She benefits from a strong faculty, including Ron Shiffman, the co-founder of the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development.

Shiffman’s most enduring legacy may be populating government agencies with planners who thrived under his tutelage.

The economic development whiz’s fortunes have risen like gleaming condo towers off Flatbush Avenue. The former Downtown Brooklyn Partnership president launched his own real estate consulting firm, Totem, two years ago. Reed has picked up clients like The Rabsky Group with its Fulton Street office development and Hello Alfred, a startup that helps tenants with their chores. And he’s even found the time to write insightful essays about the Brooklyn rental market for The Bridge.

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Rick Zimmerman

Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives

Brooklyn Regional Vice President, TD Bank

The de Blasio administration may not have the track record of the cycling-friendly Bloomberg administration, but that hasn’t deterred Paul Steely White.

His Transportation Alternatives organization has notched victories for riders across the borough, including new bike lanes, a car-free Prospect Park and redesigns at the entrance to the Williamsburg and Brooklyn bridges. Getting the state to pass congestion pricing and the city to effectively manage traffic during the L train shutdown loom on the horizon.

Rick Zimmerman was named TD Bank’s regional vice president for Brooklyn and Staten Island in 2012, bringing more than two decades of experience in banking and lending. His past experience includes stints at Sterling National Bank and Wachovia Bank, where his work was primarily focused on the New York City and Long Island markets, and as a senior loan officer at TD Bank starting in 2010. In his current role, he oversees around 25 banks across the borough and beyond.

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Clinton Miller

Cecilia Clarke

Bertha Lewis

CEO, Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center

Pastor, Brown Memorial Baptist Church

President and CEO, Brooklyn Community Foundation

Founder and President, The Black Institute

Former Maimonides Medical Center executive Dominick Stanzione has a gargantuan task of running the nonprofit Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center with its catchment area of nearly 1 million Brooklynites. Fortunately, the hospital, along with Interfaith Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, is a recipient of $700 million in state aid that will allow it to partner with community health centers, develop 2,000 units of affordable housing on underutilized properties and launch a network of 32 new ambulatory care centers.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo wanted to speak at an African-American church on a Sunday after Cynthia Nixon declared her candidacy, he called the Rev. Clinton Miller.

Surprisingly, the Brown Memorial Baptist Church pastor declined, saying the governor had not helped enough minority- and women-owned businesses.

This month, he signed a letter chiding Nixon for auctioning drug paraphernalia at a fundraiser. Miller is one of the few religious leaders in Brooklyn who can call his own shots with politicians, something both candidates are realizing.

Since she landed at the Brooklyn Community Foundation five years ago, Cecilia Clarke has nudged the venerable charity toward encouraging local social activism while recruiting a cross-section of philanthropists – without holding a major gala. She has held roundtables with experts, moved its headquarters to Crown Heights and distributed $5.4 million to nonprofit programs last year – $1.5 million more than the previous year. Much of that went to youth initiatives, helping the next generation of Brooklyn leaders fight for social change.

Bertha Lewis is a survivor. Following the dissolution of ACORN, the largest community activist organization in the country, Lewis founded The Black Institute in 2010 to shape public policy. Once an ally to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Lewis isn’t afraid to criticize him, calling his administration “incompetent and immoral” over the city’s rate of contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses. These days she’s going all-in with Cynthia Nixon against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, citing the incumbent’s “disingenuous” recent visits to NYCHA.

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Monique George

Floyd Rumohr

Leah Archibald

President, St. Joseph’s College of New York

Executive Director, Picture the Homeless

Executive Director, Brooklyn Community Pride Center

Executive Director, Evergreen

Donald Boomgaarden took the helm of St. Joseph’s College of New York a year ago, and so far it looks like a good fit. The president of the quaint Clinton Hill-based private Catholic college has pledged a deep love for the Roman Catholic Church and the school’s Jesuit tradition. Trained as a classical pianist and fiddler, he’s even taught a three-credit class on “North American Roots Music and the Birth of Bluegrass” at the school’s Patchogue campus.

It takes a patient and resourceful leader to tackle the intractable problems of urban homelessness, and Monique George is up to the challenge. As an organizer with experience at the New York Public Interest Research Group, 1199SEIU, Empire State Pride Agenda and Community Voices Heard, George has brought a breadth of experience since stepping into her role as executive director of Picture the Homeless last year. She’ll play a key role as the de Blasio administration tries to help homeless New Yorkers.

Since joining the Brooklyn Community Pride Center as its executive director in 2016, Floyd Rumohr has galvanized supporters to demonstrate for gay rights while securing grants from donors to keep its programs going. In January, the center received a $120,000 grant to establish a paid internship program for LGBT young professionals, which should go a long way toward connecting them with employment opportunities.

Rumohr is also working to get progressives elected in the midterms to combat the national backlash against gay rights.

It takes a lot of spunk to argue that Brooklyn’s industrial areas are worth preserving more than, say, affordable housing. But Leah Archibald of Evergreen, which runs several industrial business zones, has made that case for more than a decade. City Hall may finally be listening as it works on a plan to preserve manufacturing in East Williamsburg. Archibald wants a public review process for nonindustrial development, a small step that may prevent hotels, music venues and housing from displacing high‑paying industrial jobs.

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Michael D. Nieves

Gregory Davidzon

John Raskin

Executive Director, Uprose

President and CEO, Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network

President, Davidzon Radio

Executive Director, Riders Alliance

Elizabeth Yeampierre is in high demand following Hurricane Maria’s devastation in Puerto Rico. The executive director of Uprose, a Latino community‑based environmental justice organization, has fought for cleaner air, more green space and the passage of brownfield legislation throughout New York City. She has earned a national profile by organizing the People’s Climate March, while her advocacy work on lead paint removal is incredibly timely as NYCHA grapples with remediating lead in its housing developments.

Brooklyn really loves its telenovelas. The Spanish-language cable network HITN TV, the first Latino-controlled noncommercial media company, is growing so rapidly that Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network President and CEO Michael Nieves signed off on a 10-year deal in May to triple the amount of space it leases in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The larger headquarters will allow the network to make its own television shows and hire 40 to 65 new employees, doubling its current workforce at the Navy Yard.

When Brooklyn’s Russian‑American population wants to know the latest gossip from Sheepshead Bay to the Caspian Sea, they turn on WSNR 620 AM, the Russianlanguage talk radio station owned

by Gregory Davidzon. The media mogul is something of a local kingmaker, advising southern Brooklyn candidates who want to tap into the fertile Russian vote.

Davidzon has been grappling with President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity in Brighton Beach, where support for both men may be among the strongest in the city.

It took a couple years but John Raskin finally got his fair fares.

Raskin and his transit orga‑ nizers at Riders Alliance have been one of the driving forces behind half-price MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers, which the mayor and New York City Council included in this year’s budget. With victory in hand, Riders Alliance is tackling other transit crises, including a lethargic bus sys‑ tem, stalled congestion pricing proposals and the state’s underfunded commitments to the MTA.

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These 10 people who live or work in Brooklyn have begun to make their mark on New York’s political world – and each of them is worth keeping an eye on in the years ahead.

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Interim Executive Director, Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector

Founder and CEO, Manufacture New York

Jessica Schumer has one of the most famous political names in Brooklyn, and she’s putting it to good use. After serving as policy director for vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine in 2016, the Harvard University and Yale Law School graduate joined the effort to build a streetcar along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. But the project is no walk in the park.

Cost estimates keep rising – to as high as $2.8 billion – and the construction timeline keeps getting extended.

Bob Bland started her career as a fashion designer, launching an apparel line in Williamsburg called Brooklyn Royalty before raising money to open a fashion incubator in the Garment District. Politics has since intervened. Bland is one of four women who organized the Women’s March on Washington, a demonstration that drew half a million people to Washington, D.C., after the inauguration and spawned hundreds of events in cities around the world. She’s now protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Yahdon Israel

Ashaina Cumberbatch

May Boeve

Jennie Romer

Editor-in-Chief, Brooklyn Magazine

Senior Racial Justice Campaign Director, New York Communities for Change

Executive Director, 350.org

Anti-plastic-bag activist, attorney

Ashaina Cumberbatch has helped make New York Communities for Change one of the most prominent community groups in New York leading the resistance against what the organization calls “economic repression.” As senior director and now racial justice campaign organizer, she has led efforts to demonstrate with fast-food workers striking for better wages, protested outside Trump Tower against the building’s energy usage and boosted insurgent candidates in Democratic primaries this year.

May Boeve founded her environmental advocacy group 350.org with Bill McKibben when she left college. A decade later, she’s one of the leading climate change activists in the country – and one of the few women atop the field. Boeve has since organized the National Day of Climate Action, gotten herself arrested outside the White House while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline and slammed the current administration for its response to several devastating hurricanes.

Jennie Romer had been fighting a lonely battle against the use of plastic bags as an environmental policy advocate for years. The New York City Council passed a bag fee law, only to have it stymied by the state Legislature. But this year, Romer has started winning and the public stance against big plastic has gotten stronger.

The governor introduced legislation banning plastic bags for shoppers. Moreover, Starbucks has plans to do away with plastic straws altogether.

Brandon West

Hayley Prim

Christopher Durosinmi

Mariela Estrella

President, New Kings Democrats

Campaign manager, Cynthia Nixon’s gubernatorial campaign

Assistant Director of Government and Community Affairs, Wildlife Conservation Society

Director of Brooklyn Tourism and Business Relationships, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

In order to reach the mountaintop of state politics, Cynthia Nixon returned to the Hilltop – Hilltop Public Solutions – to find a campaign manager. She hired Hayley Prim, a de Blasio administration alum and veteran Democratic operative with experience raising money for then‑Rep. Steve Israel. Prim is helping Nixon navigate choppy waters opposing one of the most prominent Democrats in the country in this highly visible primary. It’s a small risk with a gigantic payoff if Nixon and Prim are successful.

Since serving as Brooklyn community coordinator for the New York City Department of Education, where he helped launch the mayor’s ambitious Pre-K for All initiative, Christopher Durosinmi has switched gears and joined the Wildlife Conservation Society. The Brownsville native can be found chilling with sharks at the New York Aquarium while pushing for the city to scrap plastic straws. Politics may yet be in his future, but for now there are some Central Park sea lions that need a little attention.

Yahdon Israel is well positioned to take the borough’s signature publication into its next phase.

The fashionable and erudite editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Magazine is a champion of local millennial writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists and social activists, and manages the neat trick of being close to the zeitgeist even before anyone knows it’s going to be the zeitgeist. Plus, he knows where to get a decent fish sandwich on short notice – that’s BedStuy Fish Fry, in case you were wondering.

The New Kings Democrats were the new kids on the block when President Barack Obama was elected a decade ago. Now they draw mayoral hopefuls to their events, have elected their own members to office and found jobs throughout New York City government. The club’s president, Brandon West, leads a vibrant and diverse group of activists still eager to carry petitions for favored candidates in stifling summer heat because they know it takes hard work to win in September.

Tourism in Brooklyn is booming, and Mariela Estrella is working to make sure that visitors keep flocking to the borough and spending their money. The City College of New York alumna has worked with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for nearly two years as its director of tourism and business relationships, and she helped develop the “100 Adventures Passport,” a 481-page field guide of places to see and food to eat throughout Brooklyn’s many neighborhoods.

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July 30, 2018 Notice of Formation of HAT I NY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: HAT I NY, LLC, c/o Comunilife, Inc., 462 Seventh Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312064 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 318 5TH AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11215.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of MOUMINOUS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/18/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 163 E. 71st St, Upper Unit, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LACIVERT LLC.

Notice of Qualification of 64 EAST 7TH STREET, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 06/07/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 1923 Beach Ave., Atlantic Beach, FL 32233, also the address to be maintained in FL. Arts of Org. filed with the FL Secy. of State, Clifton Bldg., 2661 Executive Center Circle, Tallahassee, FL 32301.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1311995 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 417 THROOP AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11221.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. 417 THROOP BAR LLC.

Notice of Qualification of TerraForm Power Operating, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/18/14.

Princ. office of LLC: 200 Liberty St., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10281. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of KATKELS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 4/5/18.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY Desinated Agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014, 13thAve. #202, BK, NY 11228. Principal business address: 160 E 3rdSt. Apt CB1, NY, NY 10009.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of VentureSonic, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/18.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, c/o Anne Pitter, Esq, 1301 Avenue of The Americas, 21st Fl., NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

SPICY FLAVA, LLC, filed with SSNY 04/19/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be severed. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Marlon Rose, P.O. Box 615 Yonkers, NY 10704. Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Indrajit Bardhan Consulting LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/15/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1485 5th Ave, Apt 26-A, NY, NY 10035.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of China-U.S. SkyClub Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/12/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/11/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7 World Trade Ctr, 250 Greenwich St, Ste 3304, NY, NY 10006.

DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity..

CIAO DOWNTOWN, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 06/13/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 153 E 32nd Street, Apt 3C. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Sherry Knox, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/19/18. O f f i c e location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of GREENWOOD ENERGY SOLAR HOLDINGS 4, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/18/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/20/15.

Princ. office of LLC: 134 E. 40th St., NY, NY 10016.

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: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Next Asset Management II, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/18/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ALBERT FEINSTEIN REAL ESTATE, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/18/15.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 54 E. 66th St, Fl. 3, NY, NY 10065.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of GELLER MULTI-VINTAGE REAL ESTATE I, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/08/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/05/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 909 Third Ave., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Edward Hornstein at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Ardent12, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/18/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ASNYC LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/23/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 225 E. 39th St, 6D, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of TOB Holdings, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/8/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Next12 Investors, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/18/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 132-25 MAPLE AVENUE VENTURES, LLC Appl for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/02/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/26/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Beyond the Pink Ribbon, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on June 14, 2018.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Emily Garnett, 19 Parkview Place, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of ARES CARTER MUSIC LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/21/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 912 5th Ave., Apt. 6A, NY, NY 10021.

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 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Dawn Kriss LLC Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/4/18 . Office in Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Dawn Kriss LLC, 150 Kelbourne Ave, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Rusk Service, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/25/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Mary Kocy, 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 1013 SIXTH AVENUE ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/18/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Lawrence B. Simon, Esq., c/o Morrison Cohen LLP, 909 Third Ave., 27th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Jbuild LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/19/14.

Princ. office of LLC: Jordan Brill LLC, 19 E. 65th St., Ste. 3B, NY, NY 10065. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 105 Van Kevren Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07306. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19808.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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July 30, 2018 Que Rico, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 3/13/2018.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1-50 50th ave Suite 305, LIC NY 11101 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of IndexVest LAB LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/5/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 213 E. 71st St, Unit 5, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Rusk Condominium, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/25/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is John Rusk, 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of IMPACTIVE CAPITAL LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/18. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/04/18.

Princ. office of LP: 101 W. 24th St., Ste. 7B, NY, NY 10011. NYS fictitious name: IMPACTIVE CAPITAL NY L.P. Duration of LP is Perpetual.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Investment management.

Notice of Formation of Jackson PHB Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/10/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 27 W. 24th St, 702, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Beachhead Advisory Group LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/20/2018.

Office: Westchester 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, 230 Treetop Crescent, Rye Brook, New York, 10573.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312079 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 45 W 45TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10036.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. 45 W 45TH ST NY, NY 10036.

SRPNYC, INC.

OSRICH REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 7/03/2018.

Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Jian Le Wu, 3153 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11208. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of China-U.S. SkyClub LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/26/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/4/17.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 7 World Trade Ctr, 250 Greenwich St, Ste 3304, NY, NY 10007. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity

Notice of Qualification of HIGHLINE 22 LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/11/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 407 Park Ave S., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Gaia Montrose Apartments, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/25/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/7/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 152 W. 57 St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Legal Notice: Edward Wong Dentistry PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 5/29/18.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against PLLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Edward Wong Dentistry PLLC, 101 Lafayette St Floor 9 New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Rusk Townhouse, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/25/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is John Rusk, 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Rusk Commercial, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/26/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Mary Kocy, 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GARY JOE LLC Arts of Org filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/05/2018.

Office location: RICHMOND County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 274 RHINE AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10304.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF QUAL. of EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS HS LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/20/18. Off. Loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 6/19/18. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave, NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. Addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 13257 SANFORD AVENUE, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/02/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/26/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Formation of JJM CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC filed with SSNY on March 1st 2018.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 138 Woodland ave New Rochelle NY 10805. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of CHURTON PROPERTIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of RGN-Brooklyn IV, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/27/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 15305 Dallas Pkwy., Ste. 400, Addison, TX 75001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of S3 CAPITAL FUND III REIT LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE 6/11/18. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Spruce Capital Partners, 444 Madison Avenue, Ste 41, New York, NY 10022.

DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. filed with DE SOS, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of LLX PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/14/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Sovereign Partners, LLC, 747 Third Ave., 37th Fl., NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of S. Jewelry Design LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/11/18.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 330 East 57th St., Apt 9, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312027 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 58 2ND AVE NEW YORK, NY 10003.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. SECOND AVE RESTAURANT GROUP INC

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of formation of Mindful Eating LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on June 28th 2018.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLC to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Business address: 530 Monterey Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803.

Purpose: any lawful act.

SDKA North America, LLC, Arts of Org. with SSNY on 11/26/14. Office: Westchester.

SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to Law office of Jessica M. Jimenez, P.C., 5 McKinley Place, Suite 200, Ardsley, New York, 10502.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HOOK & REEL FRANCHISE LLC Arts of Org filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/26/2018.

Office location: RICHMOND County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 2590 HYLAN BLVD STE 3 AND 4, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306.

Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of The Friday Night JAMS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/13/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 59 W. 12th St, Apt 1H, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of AUTHENTIC COLLABORATIONS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NYS Department of State on 6/15/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC at 44 Amherst Drive, New Rochelle, New York 10804.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Rusk Consulting, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/25/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is John Rusk, 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of CAM 45 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/11/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 45 Broadway, Fl. 25, NY, NY 10006.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of RUSK APARTMENT, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/3/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Mary Kocy, 366 W. 245th St, Bronx, NY 10471.

Purpose: any lawful activity. .

Smile Staffing Solutions, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 5/15/2018. 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, 360 New Dorp Lane, Staten Island, NY 10306. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity

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Notice of Qualification of Front Street Lender, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 05/11/2018. Office location: NY County. Princ.

Bus. Addr: 900 N. Michigan Ave., Ste 1600 Chicago, IL 60611.

LLC formed in DE on 10/10/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CT Corporation 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of Verizon Smart Communities LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/14/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/9/10. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of VIPVR, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/03/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/03/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Attn: Prajit Gopal, 2373 Broadway, Apt. #1723, NY, NY 10024.

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: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312021 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 1588 1600 AMSTERDAM AVE NEW YORK, NY 10031. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. 1588 HARLEM RESTAURANT GROUP LLC.

LYNYA FLOYD ENTERPRISES LLC Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 7/3/2018. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 2 Mt. Morris Park West, #2B, New York, NY 10027. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of GAIA MONTROSE INVESTORS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/28/17. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/23/14. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 152 W. 57 St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

HEIDY E FITNESS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/08/2018.

Office loc: WESTCHESTER County.

SSNY shall mail process to: HEIDY E FITNESS, LLC, Attn: Heidy Espaillat, P.O Box 118, New Rochelle, NY 10802.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 49 Owner Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 530 E. 76th St, Unit 20G, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ALPHA AESTHETICS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 60 E. 56th St, Ste 302, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Rabinian LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 530 E. 76th St, Unit 20G, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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July 30, 2018 Notice of Formation of Beauty and Kin, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/12/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 160 Madison Ave, #8J, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312169 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 290 MESEROLE ST BROOKLYN, NY 11206.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. NOW AND THEN NYC INC. Notice of Qualification of SNOWCAT GP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/25/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/20/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 810 Seventh Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. 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: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Green Ox Capital, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 7/05/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Green Ox Capital LLC, Attn: Antonia Martinez, 9 Nursery Lane, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Eversept Partners, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/29/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/15/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 22, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of TACONIC ESSEX MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed w i t h Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/11/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Taconic Investment Partners LLC, 111 Eighth Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 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 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of JRD GRP LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/18. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on August 10, 2018 and end on August 23, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #4R38-Holiday Inn Express; Contains 6 chairs, 40 large boxes, 4 small wooden night stands along with small miscellaneous items. #7S02-The Shoreham Hotel; Filled with file boxes.

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

NGW LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/24/2018.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 40 W 86t st APT 6C New York, NY 10024.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

STORAGE NOTICE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on August 14, 2018 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: - CHAVARRIA, ROGER/ CARLOS CHAVARRIA - DE LA MORA RAFAEL - ELGEDAWE MAHAMA - GITTENS, NAFEESA - HAMPTON BENJAMIN ANTOINE/MORRISEY KELLEY - HUN XIN YUAN MARQUES/ PATRICK - JOHN DOE & JANE DOE - ISMAEL REDA - JOSHUA TARA - LUGE LINDA I - MONTAZ GALDYS - MALMBERG VAUDREY - MCCOOBERY DENNIS - ODOZI AUSTIN - OTERO ALBIN MILLET

Notice of Qualification of CITADEL FUNDING PARTNERS II, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/20/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/25/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 1120 Ave of the Americas, Fl. 4, NY, NY 10036. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312212 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 624 VANDERBILT AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11238.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

- PERSAUD CAMANEY - PDANSKY JEROME/ CHANCAY FLOR - PEREZ ALEXIE - RESTREPO JEFFREY - SINGLENTON RUSSELL - SILVESTER THOMAS - SHMAYEVICH YAKOV - THEN CRISTINA - ADAMS JESSICA - HOWELL FELIPE/ DOE JOHN/JANE - JEAN PIERRE MARJORIE - LUGO MARIA - LUGO ANGEL - SANTIAGO EVANGELINA - WALKER TENIA ROSS - WILLIAMS SHAMECKA

Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on August 10, 2018 and end on August 23, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. Household goods and other effects. #468-Marceau Kollie, #816-Angel Crutchfield, #2448- Avery Bock, #43191Quinsessa Harrison, #4429- Mathias Martinez, #6218- Rachel Rendeiro.

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

ZEN PIZZA INC.

Matter Moda LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 07/10/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Joaquin Gregorio 95 East 7th St, #4, New York, NY 10009. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Tacodumbo 114W47 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/11/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 399 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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July 30, 2018 Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at one location. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 86 feet on a 90foot building at the approx. vicinity of 145 2nd Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10003. 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, Alison, a.cusack@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of Formation of Rarebird Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on 07/10/2018.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 519 W 48th Street #19, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at four locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 54 feet on a 508foot building at the approx. vicinity of 20 Pine Street, New York, New York County, NY 10005. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 20 feet on a building with an overall top height of 728 feet at the approx. vicinity of 7 Times Square, New York, New York County, NY 10036.

Antennas will be installed at a top height of 108 feet on a building with an overall top height of 114 feet at the approx. vicinity of 160 Front Street, New York, New York County, NY 10038. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 102 feet on a building with an overall top height of 120 feet at the approx. vicinity of 104 East 40th Street, New York, New York County, NY 10016. Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312249 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 120 GRAND ST CROTON ON HUDSON, NY 10520. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. 105TWENTY BAR & GRILL INC.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312295 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 371 BROOME ST NEW YORK, NY 10013. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. ROOT NOLITA LLC.

Notice of Formation of I Am My Sister (Women helping Women) LLC, filed with SSNY on June 29, 2018.

Office: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process against the LLC: I Am My Sister (Women helping Women) POB 2593, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ Conservative pundits came out of the woodwork to clumsily vent about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her re‑ sponse: smile and wave as haters humiliate themselves publicly. First, Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis referred to “this girl … or whatever she is.”

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