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THE WHEN I STARTED COVERING New York politics in 2011, Hakeem Jeffries was a rising star in the Democratic Party. Then an assemblyman from Central Brooklyn, he had a reputation as a bridge builder and a reformer – and a promising potential candidate for Congress. Some observers even suggested that he was the next Barack Obama. The Obama analogy always felt a little hyperbolic. While there are certainly similarities – both were young, well-educated African American leaders with undeniable political talents and leadership qualities – Jeffries never seemed to match Obama’s charisma and oratorical abilities. Jeffries, in fact, isn’t a big fan of the comparison. Unlike Obama, who got his start as a community organizer, Jeffries also came from a legal and corporate background, which he has cited as a critical steppingstone in his career. “I practiced law for 10 years, in corporate litigation at a law firm and at a Fortune 500 company,” Jeffries told us in 2009 when he was featured on our Albany 40 Under 40 Rising Stars list. If he weren’t in politics, he added, he “would be practicing law, perhaps still at Viacom.” In this week’s cover story, City & State’s Jeff Coltin takes a closer look at Jeffries, the potential successor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who still comes across like “an attorney who overprepared his closing argument.”
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SHAUN KING … 7
A Q&A with the Black Lives Matter activist
CLIMATE CHANGE … 8 Why does Kirsten Gillibrand’s plan ignore cities? HAKEEM JEFFRIES … 12
The congressman is safe as can be.
POWER 100 … 17
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Brooklyn’s most powerful people.
WINNERS & LOSERS … 46 Who was up and who was down last week
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QUESTIONS ON EPSTEIN’S SUICIDE
CHILD VICTIMS ACT LAWSUITS ROLL IN
The Child Victims Act went into effect on Wednesday, opening a temporary look back window for people to file civil lawsuits alleging childhood sexual abuse even if the statute of limitations had passed. People bringing cases have one year to file suits
regardless of when the abuse was alleged to have taken place. On the first day, victims brought more than 400 lawsuits against alleged abusers and their institutions, including the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts. New York City alone had 169 cases. Experts expect more than 1,000 lawsuits will be filed before the window closes.
Accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly hanged himself while awaiting trial in the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Troubling facts have emerged about the circumstances leading up to Epstein’s death, spurring conspiracy theories online and from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who called it “way too convenient.” Epstein was believed to have tried to kill himself several weeks earlier, but he was no longer on suicide watch at the time of his death. He was placed in a cell alone, which was against the jail’s policy for those recently taken off suicide watch. Additionally, guards who were supposed to check on Epstein every 30 minutes had not done so in hours, and are suspected of falsifying logs to show they had. Although Epstein’s accusers can no longer face him in court,
A COVER YOU CAN’T REFUSE After a passerby called him “Fredo,” CNN anchor Chris Cuomo proved he was more of a Sonny by threatening to throw the man down a flight of stairs – claiming the “Godfather” reference was like “the N-word” for Italians. (It’s not.) The next day, the Post cast the Cuomos as the Corleone family – an Italian American stereotype that Chris’ father Mario spent his life seeking to dispel.
at least one has filed a civil lawsuit against his estate.
“I love the Iowa State Fair!”
– New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, at the Iowa State Fair, via the New York Post
“If you’re on the edge and contemplating suicide, don’t fucking do it, come on.” – New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch, in a desperate, if somewhat tone-deaf, plea to potentially suicidal police officers, via the Post
SEXUAL HARASSMENT BILLS SIGNED
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that establishes a new standard for sexual harassment and other forms of workplace discrimination in the state. The law lowers the threshold for filing a complaint by eliminating the legal standard that the behavior must be “severe or pervasive” to qualify as harassment, which many experts considered to be an unreasonably high bar. The new state law also extends the statute of limitations to file sexual harassment claims with the state and bans nondisclosure agreements as part of settlements. It comes after the state Legislature held the first joint hearing on sexual harassment in the state in decades at the prompting of a group for former legislative staffers who witnessed or experienced abuse.
BUMPY RIDE FOR 14TH STREET BUSWAY About a week ago, it seemed as though the 14th Street busway in Manhattan had a clear path forward, as a judge gave New York City the green light to start construction while a lawsuit filed by West
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Village residents to stop the project played out. But an appellate judge abruptly overturned the ruling, once again hitting the brakes on the busway, which would ban most cars on a stretch of the road. The lawyer for the residents that sued the city, Arthur Schwartz, has been making headlines by comparing transit advocates fighting for the busway to Ku Klux Klan members and likening himself to a civil rights lawyer. New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, despite saying he supports the plan, gave fuel to opponents when he echoed their fears about increased congestion on surrounding side roads.
MOUNT VERNON HAS ONE MAYOR (FINALLY) New York City isn’t the only place where it has been unclear who’s
actually running the city. The Westchester County municipality of Mount Vernon had been mired in a muddled leadership battle for weeks following a corruption scandal that brought down thenMayor Richard Thomas, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges involving misspent campaign funds. Andre Wallace, the council president, was next in line to take over as mayor, but Thomas resisted. Complicating matters, the council then sought to install another legislator, Lisa Copeland, as mayor by making her the new council president. This past week, however, a state judge ruled that Wallace is indeed the mayor through the end of the year – when yet another local politician, Shawyn PattersonHoward, is the early frontrunner to become mayor.
Bill de Blasio, it’s time to give up Hey, Bill. Can I call you Bill? … It’s time we had a little talk about your presidential run. The campaign trail has been pretty rough so far. So rough, that it has ceased to make sense. Sure, there’s time before the primaries to turn things around, but it’s really starting to look like maybe you should just cool it with the presidential stuff. You don’t qualify for the debate The third national Democratic presidential debate will require candidates to have 130,000 individual donors in order to qualify. According to your last filing you only have 6,700. During an appearance on “Inside City Hall,” you said the “debates are only one part of the equation.” But come on. When was the last time a candidate who couldn’t qualify for a national debate won a nomination? You’re polling terribly You have a lower favorability rating than Trump in New York, according to a Siena College poll. You’ve got a 26% favorability rating in your own home state, while Trump is polling at 35%. That’s gotta hurt. But it can’t hurt more than knowing that fewer than 1% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents nationwide said they currently would vote for you in the primary, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. You’re (constantly) embroiled in scandals On Aug. 4, it was reported that your NYPD security detail was used to move your daughter out of her Brooklyn apartment to Gracie Mansion, with the first lady
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TUESDAY 8/20 Happy birthday to Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures (and No. 1 on the Tech Power 50) and New York Secretary of State Rossana Rosado (No. 89 on the Albany Power 100)!
INSIDE DOPE
Jeffries, elected House Democratic Caucus chairman last year, has a shot at being the next speaker, while Adams is one of the early mayoral front-runners in 2021.
standing by to see it done. Before that, it was reported that you were taking money out of your own Fairness PAC – originally intended to help Democrats win in the state Legislature and in Congress – to finance your presidential run. Technically legal, sure, but in the same way that eating your own toenails is legal. You can do it, but that doesn’t mean people are going to think it’s cool. You are the butt of every joke In an unflattering profile of you published in The New York Times Magazine, you’re painted as a ne’er-do-well mayor, whose campaign is little more than a vanity run taking you away from a city that needs you. More embarrassing still, New York magazine documented its attempt to find a New Yorker in your own neighborhood who actually wants you to be president, and let’s just say, you probably want to skip that post. So why not return your focus to New York? This isn’t just about rescuing your career – it’s about standing up for a city that voted you into office not once but twice based on your promises to improve life here. And you can still make an impact on pressing issues, like the remediation of lead paint in NYCHA buildings and public schools, tackling the uptick in hate crimes, combating federal anti-immigration policies that threaten New York’s communities and so much more. We miss you, buddy! So what do you say? Is it time for you to reconsider your run – and come back home? –Amanda Luz Henning Santiago
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BROOKLYN POWER 100 Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams deliver remarks as City & State recognizes local power brokers at The Dumbo Loft, 155 Water St.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio likely won’t qualify for the third Democratic presidential primary debate, but he’s getting his own CNN town hall, set to air at 7 p.m.
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DEADLY CITY IT’S NOT JUST CYCLISTS GETTING KILLED ON NYC’S STREETS. BY ERICA SCALISE
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than cyclists since 2013, according to data from the New York City Department of Transportation. The majority of these deaths, especially in the outer boroughs, aren’t reported in the media. Here are the latest pedestrian, motorist and cyclist fatalities across the five boroughs, as of the end of July.
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A Q&A with social justice activist
Man, I am still salty about the whole thing. It’s a bitter pill to swallow to lose by 60 votes.
SHAUN KING You’ve always had more of a national focus, but you got really involved with Tiffany Cabán’s campaign for Queens district attorney. Why was she different? Me and two other people are the founders of a political group called Real Justice. We have now been a part of 21 district attorney campaigns all over the nation. The Queens race was the first opportunity (in New York) to really identify and support a progressive person for the role of district attorney. Real Justice sent out almost half a million text messages to voters. We knocked on thousands of doors, made tens of thousands of
phone calls and we raised nearly $100,000 for her campaign. It was a roller coaster and a devastating loss for sure. You were criticized, even by the Cabán campaign, for basically saying there was dirty politics at play in the vote counting. Do you still think there was dirty politics going on? Yes and no. When I said that, I literally spoke to two people who were in the room when votes were being counted. I think the way I first presented it made it look like there were people in the room who were cheating, and as I look back on it, I don’t think that was the best
way to present it. I will say this. New York passed a law that I think would have counted maybe a thousand more of those votes. It passed in the last legislative session, to this day it has not been delivered to Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be signed. We felt like politicians deliberately held that bill. Man, I am still salty about the whole thing. It’s a bitter pill to swallow to lose by 60 votes or 90 votes, or however many it ended up being. What is your take on what Rep. Gregory Meeks said, that Cabán’s support was all from outside activists? I’m disgusted by that,
man. We live in New York. (Rep.) Hakeem (Jeffries, who supported Katz) and I both live in Brooklyn. And the Bronx borough president, (Ruben Diaz Jr.), also supported Katz. Is he an outsider? Is Hakeem an outsider? I live in New York; I love New York. Do you have any other campaigns brewing? Our group, Real Justice, is already interviewing and talking to candidates for the Manhattan DA’s race. I like all the candidates who stepped up to say they are running. I think they learned a lot from the Queens DA’s race. I’ll fight tooth and nail for a candidate to challenge and replace (Manhattan
District Attorney) Cy Vance. I hope Cy just looks at it and says, “Hey I am bowing out. I am going to retire and go work for a think tank.” You’re a big Bernie Sanders supporter. How do you think Bernie’s 2016 campaign impacted local politics? I think Bernie has caused New Yorkers to just not be ashamed of their progressive politics and not feel like they have to hold it close to their chest. New Yorkers have strong political views all over the spectrum, but I think Bernie has encouraged a lot of people to just be open with their progressive values.
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Why Gillibrand turned her back on cities New York’s senator wants to tackle climate change – just not in urban areas. by S A R A H S A X
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.S. SEN. KIRSTEN Gillibrand cracked up the audience at the second Democratic presidential debate when she said the first thing she would do if elected president would be to “Clorox the Oval Office.” That drew more attention than the more substantive line that followed: The second thing she would do is reengage on global climate change. Putting climate at the front of her agenda signals a shift for a senator more often associated with campaigning for women’s and LGBTQ rights, such as leading the effort to improve access to justice for victims of sexual assault in the military and on college campuses, and repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that banned gays from serving openly in the military. The comment came just a few days after Gillibrand released her climate moonshot plan on July 25 – an ambitious $10 trillion proposal to get the United States to net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050. Her plan includes creating well-paying green jobs, ending fracking on public lands immediately, transforming the electric grid and enacting an excise tax on fossil fuel production as well as a tax on carbon emissions to fund climate change mitigation projects. So far, it has garnered cautious praise
from environmental groups. “We feel like her plan is as strong as any of the climate front-runners’ plans,” Jenny Marienau, U.S. divestment campaign manager for 350 Action, told City & State. “What was most exciting to us was this piece about holding the fossil fuel industry accountable that would pull $300 billion in taxes. Even though other candidates have said similar things, only really Gillibrand and (Washington Gov. Jay) Inslee have come out with these kinds of things in their plans.” The environmental justice component of Gillibrand’s plan is titled: “Prioritize rural advancement, frontline communities, and marginalized voices.” Gillibrand would create a fund to help rural communities make their infrastructure more resilient, make resiliency a top priority of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research and agricultural support programs, and create a rural energy revolution to help rural com-
munities adapt to and prepare for the effects of climate change. The word “rural” appears over a dozen times in her plan, while “city” or “urban” do not. Released a week after a record-breaking heat wave gripped New York City, with over 50,000 residents losing power, the absence of cities and urban areas is conspicuous. Of the 82% of Americans that live in cities, many face dramatic threats from climate change, including extreme heat, more powerful storms and rising sea levels. However, their concerns seem to take a backseat for a senator who represents America’s largest city as she tries to win votes in sparsely populated early caucus and primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire. During the debate, Gillibrand illustrated the effects of flooding by citing a family she visited in Iowa. Gillibrand’s Senate and campaign offices did not respond to a request for comment from City & State.
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set of policies for waterfront planning, preservation and development projects. But many of the city’s plans – similar to national plans like the “Green New Deal” and Gillibrand’s climate platform – don’t address core urban environmental justice concerns like reversing the federal government’s massive subsidies for suburban sprawl and highway construction. Progressive policies would tackle cars – and sprawl – not just by making all cars electric vehicles, but by investing in mass transit, sidewalks and bike lanes, deprioritizing private automobiles and densifying cities. Aside from her own upstate upbringing, Gillibrand’s interest in the rural side of environmental policy may stem in part from her committee assignments. Gillibrand has sat on both the House Agriculture Committee and the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee as well as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Nearly one-third of the bills she has sponsored are related to agriculture, the environment or public lands. “It certainly makes sense that this is what she would be focusing on given her background and the committees she sits on,” said Lloyd Kass, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. It may also reflect political concerns that go beyond the primaries and into the general election, where Democrats hope to reduce President Donald Trump’s advantage in coal-producing regions of crucial swing states like Virginia and Ohio. “Rural communities are feeling the economic brunt of the loss of things like coal,” Kass said. “If she is not going to be pro-fracking, then she will need a way to win those communities.” Gillibrand has focused on issues of special importance to New York City and its suburbs, including some that are climate-related. She continues to seek funding for recovery from Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Irene, and she drafted the bill to make the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund permanent. She also backed the recent Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a New York state law that
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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s climate plan would aid areas like central Texas.
THE WORD “RURAL” APPEARS OVER A DOZEN TIMES IN HER PLAN; “CITY” OR “URBAN” MAKE NO APPEARANCE.
According to a Medium post she wrote detailing her climate agenda: “Rural America’s farmers, manufacturers, and innovators are absolutely essential to our country confronting climate change.” In another post, she goes on to say that “our broken economy and broken government have left talent on the sidelines as rural America has suffered a series of crippling losses for decades.” Gillibrand’s focus on rural communities seems to hark back to her time as congresswoman for New York’s 20th Congressional District, which consists of largely white, Republican towns and farming communities. She has left behind her history as a moderate and moved decidedly leftward during her time in the Senate and become
an advocate of aggressive action to combat climate change, but her presidential climate agenda does not reflect the particular needs of New York. Cities are in many ways at the forefront already of addressing climate change. OneNYC, New York City’s $20 billion portfolio of policies and programs to make the city more resilient to climate change includes design guidelines for all city capital projects, an improved flood hazard map and a new
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Gillibrand is counting on rural states – like Iowa – to respond to her climate plan.
calls for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and requires that a portion of funds flow to disadvantaged communities. But specifically not focusing on cities in her plan might also be a strategic move. “If she is supporting a Green New Deal, then she is going to have the support of (cities) anyway,” Kass said. “She has got to get from Iowa to Hampshire to South Carolina. She might feel like she can speak their language more with this.” Nor has the rural focus of her climate policies harmed Gillibrand’s standing among progressive activists. According to left-wing think tank Data for Progress’ Green New Deal candidate scorecard, Gillibrand comes out “towards the front of the pack,” said Julian Noisecat, a strategist for the organization. Her plan includes more federal policies and actions to address what Data for Progress considers the essential Green New Deal components than many of her competitors, such as setting economywide emission targets, putting a price on carbon and supporting a global Green New Deal. Environmental groups are looking for strong policies that hold the fossil fuel industry accountable, and Gillibrand’s seems to stand up to that test. “There is no version of a Green New Deal or otherwise that doesn’t include going up in competition against the fossil fuel industry,” Noisecat said. “It seems like Gillibrand and many of her colleagues understand that.” Some environmentalists may even see the rural tilt of Gillibrand’s climate policy as ev-
idence of a positive development for their movement: increasingly, climate change is seen as a major issue by rural voters. A June CNN survey found that three-quarters of Iowa Democrats considered climate change to be one of their top issues. Gillibrand isn’t the only Democratic candidate from the East Coast focusing on rural farm communities. On Aug. 7, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts introduced her New Farm Economy plan targeting small family farms, and on Aug. 8, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey released a climate change bill funding voluntary farm stewardship, reforestation and wetlands restoration, much of which targets rural America. While Gillibrand isn’t running on climate change as her core issue – only Inslee is doing that – as far as her record goes, there is little reason to doubt that she is serious about the matter. Gillibrand has a 95% lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters, having voted with environmentalists 100% of the time since 2014. She voted against approving the Keystone XL pipeline and has co-sponsored recent bills on climate change, including the Green New Deal, the Climate Change Education Act, which would seek to increase climate literacy among students in the U.S., and the International Climate Accountability Act, which would direct the president to develop a plan for the U.S. to meet its emission reduction obligations under the Paris climate agreement. These bills were also co-sponsored by several other senators
running for president, including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Booker. The climate change bills that Gillibrand has sponsored are less controversial and largely related to infrastructure. These include the Resilient Highways Act of 2019, which would help ensure federal highways and bridges are more resilient, and the PIPE Act, which would require the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program for drinking water or wastewater infrastructure projects. Progressive environmental groups like 350 Action are cautiously optimistic about Gillibrand as a climate candidate. “We’d like to see more from her about how to deal with environmental racism and have her commit to addressing climate change issues on day one,” Marienau said. “I think we’ll need to see what she talks about on the campaign trail and what she commits to doing.” Environmental racism, such as the tendency of fossil fuel power plants to be located in communities of color is, of course, very much an urban issue. But don’t expect to hear Gillibrand talk about it on the campaign trail soon. Nor is she likely to be focusing on climate challenges in New York City, Miami or New Orleans. On Aug. 7, Gillibrand came out with the next major plank in her policy platform. The title? “Rebuilding Rural America for Our Future.”
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Sarah Sax is a freelance reporter who covers the environment.
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Amid a political revolution, Hakeem Jeffries is the slowwalking, slow-talking establishment. And he’s not worried at all. by J E F F C O L T I N photographs by E M I LY A S S I R A N
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N A BLISTERINGLY HOT, arm-hairs-catch-fire sort of day in Starrett City, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is hosting his latest “Congress on Your Corner” roving office hours outside a post office – a format he’s used since his days as an assemblyman. Evetter Pilgrim, a senior citizen from the neighborhood, is ninth in line to talk to the congressman. When her moment with Jeffries comes, she raises a complaint: “the person that’s in the White House.” “It’s out of control, isn’t it?” Jeffries says. Another woman waited in line to launch into an excited rant on federal corruption and presidential impeachment. Jeffries’ take? “The whole thing is overwhelming and out of control.” An hour later, at an air-conditioned New York City Housing Authority senior center in East New York, Jeffries addressed a crowd of dozens. Most sat at rapt attention. A couple continued to knit. “We know these are challenging times in America with the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,” Jeffries said. “He’s out of control all day, every day. All day, every day, out of control.” “Out of control!” a senior shouted in response. Later that day, Jeffries explained to City & State why he describes President Donald Trump that way: “Most reasonable people can agree that, most of the time, he is totally out of control.” Jeffries insisted the insult was an example of his own self-control. “I’ve also refrained from consistently characterizing him as a racist. Because at the end of the day, I don’t know what’s in his head, and I don’t know what’s in his heart,” he said. This may be literally true – that he doesn’t often call Trump racist – but it ignores Jeffries’ habit of calling the president “the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.” That’s a reference to the Ku Klux
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Klan, not J.R.R. Tolkien. Cornered, Jeffries breaks into a smile. “It’s a colorful phrase,” he said. “But in my view, it’s kind of a kinder, gentler phrase when it comes to some of the other things that could be said about him.” The exchange is vintage Jeffries. He’s a man defined by his discipline and restraint. He’s always on message, and trusts the political process. He’s all steak, no sizzle, and – given his insult of choice – there’s nothing more offensive to him than being out of control. Those traits have allowed him to climb the political ladder from promising candidate to respected assemblyman to rising star congressman to possible heir to the speaker’s gavel. Jeffries has done so without any major missteps – and barely any minor missteps. That discipline has allowed him to be fully present in two places at once, ensuring he’s a power player in both Washington and Brooklyn. And even if his boring, predictable ways infuriate anti-establishment progressives, he’s made sure that a successful primary challenge would be all but impossible.
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EMOCRATS FELT RUDDERLESS after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, so who better to take control of the party’s messaging than the calm, cool and collected Jeffries? Weeks after Trump’s win, his House colleagues elected him co-chairman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, making him responsible for putting out and sticking to the party’s economic agenda of a higher minimum wage and lower drug costs. Jeffries beat the “Better Deal” drum for two years, and House Democrats rode a “blue wave” in 2018 to the majority. So his colleagues trusted him with more control, electing him as House Democratic Caucus chairman, the fifth-highest-ranking post among 235 Democrats. To say that the sky’s the limit for Jeffries’ political career is a well-worn cliche, dating back to even before 2011, when The Observer dubbed the assemblyman “The Barack of Brooklyn.” And before 2012, when The Washington Post asked its national audience if the congressional candidate was “Brooklyn’s Barack Obama.” (If you don’t know that Jeffries and Obama were both born on Aug. 4, then you haven’t been reading enough political profiles.) But in January, The New York Times declared in a headline that “Hakeem Jeffries Doesn’t Want to be Called the Next Obama” – maybe because he had a different office within his sights: speaker of the House. In the master plan, there’s even a date set to take over – January 2023, when now-79-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reaches her informal term limit.
THE OVERALL IMPRESSION IS THAT OF AN ATTORNEY WHO OVERPREPARED HIS CLOSING ARGUMENT, OR LIKE TALKING TO A HANDSOME ROBOT. Sources say that the speakership is a real possibility, and that Jeffries has earned Pelosi’s trust. Jeffries could be the right transitional figure to ease the party’s generational tensions, moving the Democrats into a new era of Gen Z leadership before the party’s inevitable millennial takeover. After all, Jeffries is 49, nearly a decade younger than the 58-year-old average age of House members. He’s black, in a Congress that is becoming increasingly racially diverse. His long record of working with Republicans could cut both ways, but Jeffries’ self-described “pragmatic progressive” politics could also strike
a balance between the moderates and hard left of the Democratic Party without riling up either side too much. Jeffries is too disciplined to talk openly about his ambition, instead focusing on how Democrats must be sure to keep their House majority and win back the White House in 2020. But those close to him agree he’s a long-term planner who had his eye on Congress before he was elected to the Assembly, and his eye on the U.S. Senate before he entered Congress, which means that Jeffries’ plans are likely dependent on the state’s current senior senator, Charles Schumer. Democrats are unlikely to want both their Senate and House conferences to be led by two men who live less than a mile away from each other in Brooklyn. But Schumer is 19 years older than Jeffries, and won’t be around forever. Both Schumer’s and Jeffries’ camps play up their friendship and mutual respect, so the possibility of a contested 2022 primary exists only in tabloid editors’ dreams. But were Schumer to leave office, there’s no doubt Jeffries would be a top-ti-
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er candidate to be New York’s next senator. As always, Jeffries has a plan.
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AN PLANS and God laughs, as the saying goes, but Jeffries has spent all of his life as a member of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and seems to have a good sense of where things are going. He grew up in Crown Heights, a few blocks outside the 8th Congressional District he now represents, and not far from where he now lives in Prospect Heights, with his wife and two teenage boys. His parents both belonged to unions and worked for the government – dad was a state social worker and mom was a city caseworker. They didn’t talk politics over the dinner table, but the congressman credits his father’s constant listening to 1010 WINS for keeping him up on current events. His parents seemed to have high hopes through choosing his name – Hakeem is derived from the Arabic word for wise. “It’s not clear to me that I’ve lived up to the name given to me by my parents,” he said, “but I’m honored that they at least have set an aspirational objective.” Jeffries’ colleagues seem to think he’s lived up to it. Unlike Schumer, whose political focus is always on Washington, even as he travels across the state, Jeffries will wade into local battles, getting involved without
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getting his hands dirty. He’s not so much a political boss, picking and choosing winners, as much as he is a political consultant, giving advice to folks at all levels of politics. “When you’re playing checkers, Hakeem is playing chess. When you’re playing chess, he’s fencing,” said Lupé Todd-Medina, a political consultant who has worked with Jeffries in formal and informal roles since his first Assembly campaign in 2000. “He’s just smart. He’s always been that way.” Jeffries’ colleagues agree. “When I have an issue, good or bad, he’s one of the first people that I approach,” said Rep. Grace Meng of Queens, adding that he’s “like a big brother.” Rep. Gregory Meeks, the new Queens party boss, called him “my partner.” New York City Councilman Mark Treyger, a close political ally, said Jeffries’ natural skill set as a politician has earned him significant political capital citywide. Jeffries himself emphasizes that he works as a team with other members of Congress engaged in local politics. Meeks, Carolyn Maloney, Thomas Suozzi and Adriano Espaillat joined him in backing Melinda Katz for Queens district attorney this year. Reps. Yvette Clarke, Nydia Velázquez and Jerrold Nadler joined him to endorse state Sen. Zellnor Myrie over the incumbent Jesse Hamilton in 2018. And that same group backed Ken Thompson over incumbent Joe Hynes in the 2013 Brooklyn district attorney race. Jeffries usually backs winners, and is always careful. He waited to announce his Thompson endorsement, even though the two were old friends. And Jeffries didn’t go public to support Katz until a few days before the election. He also played a major role in negotiating who would be the next New York City Council speaker in 2017, in some ways representing the borough in the place of Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Frank Seddio, the already weak county leader who’d been sidelined by internal politics. Jeffries played his cards close to his chest at the time, not picking a favorite, but he’s now happy to take credit for getting his political allies plum positions, including Treyger, the Education Committee chairman; City Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo; and Housing and Buildings Committee Chairman Robert Cornegy Jr. In the end, New York City Council members themselves cast votes to elect Corey Johnson speaker, but Treyger said Jeffries’ influence was significant: “I was, and remain, Team Hakeem.” With his endorsement and his counsel more coveted than that of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Jeffries was the only member of Congress considered as a viable mayoral challenger in 2017. De Blasio was up for reelection, and opponents of the mayor thought he was vulnerable, thanks in part to the open state and federal investigations into his questionable fundraising. Jeffries always saw himself as a legislator,
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HAKEEM JEFFRIES’ “CLOSERS” PLAYLIST REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES may be a card-carrying congressman, but his love of hip-hop is well documented. When Politico reported in December that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hoped to recruit a candidate to challenge Jeffries in the primary, he de-escalated with lyrics from The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy:” “Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way.” So when City & State asked Jeffries to make us a hip-hop playlist, Jeffries put his own political spin on it, sending one with his own version of liner notes. “The ability to get monumental pieces of legislation over the finish line and signed into law is the mark of an effective public servant,” Jeffries wrote. “It is these such individuals who I hold in the highest regard. In the political lane, I also respect candidates with the skill and work ethic to finish campaigns with a flourish and bring home the victory. With a nod to these individuals, I have put together a hip-hop playlist entitled ‘THE CLOSERS.’” So the born and bred Brooklynite chose 12 songs, all notable for their strong final verses and highlighted who rapped them. 1.
Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix) – Kanye West feat. Jay-Z (Closer: Jay-Z) 2. Money, Power & Respect – The Lox feat. DMX and Lil’ Kim (Closer: DMX) 3. Get Money – Junior M.A.F.I.A. (Closer: Lil’ Kim) 4. Protect Ya Neck – Wu-Tang Clan (Closer: GZA) 5. California Love – 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman (Closer: 2Pac) 6. Ain’t No N*gga – Jay-Z feat. Foxy Brown (Closer: Foxy Brown) 7. Scenario – A Tribe Called Quest feat. Leaders of the New School (Closer: Busta Rhymes) 8. Run This Town – Jay-Z feat. Rihanna and Kanye West (Closer: Kanye West) 9. Swagga Like Us – T.I. with Jay-Z feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & M.I.A. (Closer: T.I.) 10. Mo Money, Mo Problems – The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy and Mase (Closer: Biggie) 11. Ghetto Supastar – Pras feat. Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Mýa (Closer: Ol’ Dirty Bastard) 12. All I Do is Win – DJ Khaled feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross and Snoop Dogg (Closer: Snoop Dogg)
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but considered a run for executive. In the end, Trump’s election made the decision not to run easy, well before the U.S. attorney’s office all but guaranteed de Blasio’s reelection by declining to press charges in March 2017. Supporters, however, haven’t given up hope on Mayor Jeffries. “I think he would always be a viable mayoral candidate if he wanted to run,” said Bradley Tusk, the prominent political consultant who lead a public search for a Democratic challenger to de Blasio ahead of the 2017 election. “He could just as easily do it in 2025 or 2029.”
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ALKING WITH JEFFRIES, you get the impression that he wants you to write down every word. He speaks slowly, thoughtfully, and enunciates every word. He’ll use a full term when a shorter version would do – “the city of New York,” or “1600 Pennsylvania Ave.” – and could lull even the most caffeinated House intern to sleep with his platitudes. The overall impression is that of an attorney who overprepared his closing argument, or like talking to a handsome robot. That is to say, any dreams of a second career in music (with Joe Crowley on guitar?) were shattered when he awkwardly rapped lyrics from The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy” into the congressional record on the 20th anniversary of the artist’s death in 2017. Still, by all accounts, Jeffries is a serious hip-hop head, who is known to rap along to songs when they come on the radio in the car. But he shows his trademark reticence, even when talking about the casual topic. Asked to list his rap Mount Rushmore, aka his top four artists, he named Biggie Smalls, 2Pac, Jay-Z and Nas. To those in the know, the list is boring in its predictability. It’s like saying Abraham Lincoln is your favorite president. It’s Biggie, who grew up in Jeffries’ district; Jay-Z, who grew up one block outside his district; and Nas, who grew up in Queens, a borough which Jeffries’ represents a sliver of. And it’s 2Pac, another widely admired rapper who, like Biggie, has been deified by his untimely death. For a man working in politics, Jeffries sure seems to avoid controversy. This all-consuming moderation is consistent in Jeffries’ positions on some of the hottest political questions of the day in the Democratic Party. “Green New Deal?” Let’s wait. “Medicare for All?” Not for
him. Impeachment? Not yet. Above all, Jeffries is careful. Respect the process. Stick to the script. Don’t do anything wild. Which is infuriating to some constituents, especially those who idolize politicians who riff on Instagram Live while making macaroni and cheese. Jeffries has the corporate personality to match his corporate ties, which the party’s capitalism-skeptic wing also doesn’t like very much. Before entering politics full-time, he was a commercial litigator for Viacom and CBS. Corporate PACs continue to fill his campaign coffers – but Jeffries is careful to make sure at least half his fundraising comes from individual donors. “That’s been a conscious decision, and
JEFFRIES IS CAREFUL. STICK TO THE SCRIPT. DON’T DO ANYTHING WILD. WHICH IS INFURIATING TO CONSTITUENTS WHO IDOLIZE POLITICIANS WHO RIFF ON INSTAGRAM LIVE WHILE MAKING MACARONI AND CHEESE. one that we’ve been able to sustain,” he said. Jeffries only became a favorite target of the anti-establishment left after beating California Rep. Barbara Lee, a progressive favorite, in the internal vote for House Democratic Caucus chair in November. Minutes after the vote, with memories of Ocasio-Cortez’s primary win over the last Democratic Caucus chairman, Crowley, still fresh, democratic socialists began calling for a leftist primary against Jeffries – including, reportedly, Ocasio-Cortez, who publicly denied a Politico bombshell that she and allies were talking about unseating Jeffries before she was even sworn in. The fervor against Jeffries only grew in July, when he appeared to be the force behind a tweet chastising Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, for accusing fellow Democrats of enabling a racist system. (True to form, Jeffries helped de-escalate the tension, and was lauded in the press as a key peacemaker.)
With 10 months to go until the 2020 primary and AOC-inspired challengers lining up to run against almost every congressional incumbent in New York City, nobody is running against Jeffries. Probably because the general agreement among both fans and critics is that he simply isn’t beatable. “I think it’s really misguided to focus on gratuitously attacking him. But also to put a lot of energy into primarying him,” said Julia Salazar, a democratic socialist state senator who followed in Ocasio-Cortez’s footsteps last year and whose district slightly overlaps with Jeffries’. “My impression is that he’s popular in his district. And that’s he’s present.” So present that he’s taken multiple meetings with some of his loudest critics, like members of Indivisible Nation BK, a liberal political club that has been hectoring Jeffries to support a Green New Deal and impeachment. “He is inexplicably holding back,” Liat Olenick, the group’s co-founder, told City & State. “He’s from Brooklyn! Brooklyn would be behind him if he went out and he was more aggressive on these things. We’re in crisis! We need people to be more aggressive.” But Jeffries insists he has a read on his district – the whole district. He’s methodical about showing face in every corner of his district, from Fort Greene to Brighton Beach, hosting 10 “Congress on Your Corner” events already this year. The district includes more socially conservative neighborhoods, like Brighton Beach and Howard Beach, and doesn’t overlap much with the anti-establishment hotbeds in northern Brooklyn. Hillary Clinton dominated Donald Trump in the 2016 general election in the district, beating him 85% to 14%. But Clinton also solidly beat Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, 63% to 37%, suggesting a lack of socialist fervor in NY-8. Simply put, Jeffries isn’t Crowley. And a private poll taken in 2018 and shared with City & State by a source close to Jeffries showed 68% of voters in the district said they’d reelect the congressman. Only 1% were sure they want him replaced. All this helps explain Jeffries’ own confidence when asked about leftist constituents who don’t like his brand of politics and skewer him on social media. “I have no idea who they are, where they come from, or where they even live with respect to the 8th Congressional District,” he said. “If the hard left want to primary me, then come on in. The water is warm. Don’t talk about it. Be about it.” Despite his growing power in Washington, Jeffries is playing the neighborhood game, keeping one plate of New York City politics spinning, another of national politics and one plate for his district. None ever fall. Jeffries is always in control.
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ROOKLYN IS a political powerhouse, and not just in New York. The U.S. Senate Democratic leader, Charles Schumer, lives in Park Slope and has a shot at becoming majority leader in 2021. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a power broker in his Central Brooklyn district, is a potential heir to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Top prosecutors from Brooklyn – U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue, state Attorney General Letitia James and District Attorney Eric Gonzalez – regularly make national headlines. Two other local politicians – Borough President Eric Adams, who wants to be the city’s next mayor, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who might run for mayor as well one day – are on the rise. And that’s not even including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, another Park Slope guy who’s mounting a long-shot bid for the White House. In City & State’s Brooklyn Power 100, we identify all of the borough’s political movers and shakers – and how they stack up against each other.
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Ocasio-Cortez, the politician who gained the most from Joseph Crowley’s astonishing loss last year was Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. The Brooklyn congressman slipped into Crowley’s role as House Democratic Caucus chairman following a narrow victory. Now firmly in the House leadership, Jeffries is one of the few members who could succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi when she retires. He has displayed impressive communication skills, methodically questioning special counsel Robert Mueller, calling President Donald Trump a “cancer on the presidency,” and, most consequentially, keeping House Democrats on message while winning a majority in 2018. Jeffries is now contending with progressives in his own party, with Ocasio-Cortez reportedly vowing to recruit a candidate to primary him and both camps sniping over social media this summer. Pelosi intervened and the infighting has quieted down, but party divisions are being laid bare now that a majority of House Democrats support impeachment. That will be the toughest decision for many members, and it will be up to Jeffries to keep a divided caucus together.
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2 CHARLES SCHUMER
U.S. SENATE MINORITY LEADER NEARLY THREE YEARS after watching his friend Hillary Clinton lose to Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is still playing defense. His discussions with the Trump administration over infrastructure spending, particularly the critically important Gateway rail tunnel, have gone nowhere even though Trump agreed that $2 trillion is needed for infrastructure. He couldn’t block the polarizing nomination of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was confirmed by just two votes. His efforts to win back control of the Senate, which the Democrats lost in 2014, fell short as his party lost even more seats in 2018. Now the longtime Brooklyn politician must resort to calling on his rival, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to hold votes on matters McConnell would prefer to ignore. Schumer remains respected in the Senate but his popularity at home – where he has many allies and makes a point of visiting each county once a year – hit a new low, with only 47% approval in February.
3 LETITIA JAMES
LETITIA JAMES was looking at a bruising primary for New York City mayor 14 months ago when her life changed suddenly. In response to a New Yorker story alleging abuse claims from four women, Eric Schneiderman resigned as state attorney general. The state Legislature could’ve appointed a replacement and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled she was his favored choice. Yet the former Brooklyn councilwoman competed in a primary against several opponents – including Zephyr Teachout, who received a coveted endorsement from The New York Times. James triumphed and made history by becoming the state’s first African American woman to win a statewide race. She picked up where acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood left off, scrutinizing Trump’s businesses and charities. This year, she has subpoenaed two banks for Trump Organization records, fined the Trump Foundation $8.4 million for wrongful spending, and sued the IRS and Treasury Department for Trump donor disclosure forms. Trump complained in a tweet that James was “harassing” his businesses – as good an endorsement as any.
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spending her spare time rushing to JFK Airport to condemn the detainment of refugees or traveling to Sunset Park to remind local residents of their rights during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid. But as perhaps the leading Latina politician on the national stage in the Trump era, she has been a vigilant watchdog at all hours. Velázquez is one of the few veteran Democrats in the state who commands respect both from insurgents in the progressive wing and the party’s establishment. She has served as a mentor for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, counseling her about how to build relationships in Congress. As chairwoman of the House Small Business Committee, the veteran congresswoman has advanced legislation that would allow marijuana firms to utilize loans to gain insurance coverage. And as a prominent Puerto Rican-born federal lawmaker, she has been a staunch advocate for the U.S. territory, demanding federal disaster aid over Trump’s objections and successfully pushing for then-Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to resign amid corruption probes and demonstrations.
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BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT NO BROOKLYN borough president has ever become
mayor, and the last borough president in New York City to ascend to Gracie Mansion was Manhattan’s David Dinkins. But Eric Adams hopes he could become the first. With Letitia James preoccupied enforcing state law, the former state senator and ex-police officer may have an opening in what will no doubt be a crowded field in 2021. He has outraised his opponents recently, hauling in more than $500,000 over the first six months of the year, although his rival City Comptroller Scott Stringer has more than $2.5 million in his war chest. Adams has been noticeably inserting himself into citywide issues, particularly on public safety and criminal justice. He has rejected the de Blasio administration’s plan for a new Brooklyn jail, sought to preserve manufacturing zones and called on cops to maintain their professionalism if Daniel Pantaleo gets fired. Expect to see more of Adams this fall as he tries to fill the leadership vacuum that the mayor left while gallivanting on a presidential bid.
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since his days as a Brooklyn College activist; he’s now first in line to succeed the mayor. The Flatbush politician took a risk running an insurgent campaign for lieutenant governor and nearly toppled incumbent Kathy Hochul last year. Then he piled into a 17-candidate public advocate field and won the February special election with one-third of the vote. Another race is looming, but Williams is focused on pressuring the mayor on social justice issues.
FIRMLY ENTRENCHED as the top law enforcement official in the borough, Eric Gonzalez has upheld the late Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson’s legacy of tackling inequality and injustice. Gonzalez has declined to prosecute so-called quality-of-life crimes, refuses to request bail in misdemeanor cases, supports closing Rikers Island, supports parole requests for incarcerated individuals who have served their minimum sentence and has been vacating low-level convictions for marijuana offenses. Overturning other convictions has been trickier, and critics say those efforts have stalled.
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ecutor oversaw what might have been the nation’s most dramatic case this year. Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s trial brought telenovela-style revelations before ending in his 10-count conviction and life imprisonment. Richard Donoghue also brought charges against Nxivm sex cult leaders, resulting in several guilty verdicts, and oversaw an inquiry that ended with no indictment for NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner.
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of the highest-ranking women in the Assembly when she ascended to the top post on the Ways and Means Committee two years ago. Helene Weinstein has helped the people’s chamber claw back some control over the budget and agenda from the governor this year. Weinstein also made her voice heard on a proposal to combat deepfake videos, and she opposed the legalization of gestational surrogacy.
FRANK SEDDIO
Democratic Party’s power isn’t what it once was, never count out Frank Seddio. The county leader still controls enough proxy votes to determine the borough’s slate of state committee members and judicial candidates. He also supported Margarita Lopez Torres for the key Surrogate’s Court judge post – she won her primary easily – and defended rogue state Sen. Simcha Felder who rejoined the Democratic conference in July.
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ANOTHER OF the young guns from North Brooklyn, Antonio Reynoso has carved out a niche as the head of the Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Committee, where he has pushed to mandate more recycling and composting as well as overhaul the private carting industry. In June, Reynoso announced his bid for Brooklyn borough president, promising to bring his “experience and progressive ideals” to the job if elected in 2021.
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HE MAY not be New York City Council speaker, but Robert Cornegy Jr. is a head above the rest in city government. Literally. In March, Guinness World Records named the 6-foot-10 councilman representing Bedford-Stuyvesant as the world’s tallest politician. The Housing Committee chairman is raising money for a prospective run for borough president in 2021 – hosting getting to know you events like his sharing economy weekend to benefit new tech companies and local brick-and-mortar businesses.
congresswoman nearly suffered the same fate as Joseph Crowley did last year, but she edged out challenger Adem Bunkeddeko by 1,100 votes. Now that Democrats control the House, Yvette Clarke has been busy passing legislation to prevent the Department of Defense from assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with its border security efforts. She has spoken out against ICE raids in Brooklyn and is working to combat deepfake videos designed to spread misinformation.
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city councilman is running for city comptroller in 2021, and though he may represent tony neighborhoods like Park Slope, he often advocates for the city’s vulnerable populations. In February, Brad Lander demonstrated at a Brooklyn federal jail where inmates didn’t have heat for a week, and in July he visited the Brooklyn Detention Complex, where inmates didn’t have air conditioning. His toughest challenge will be selling a Gowanus rezoning with more mixed-income housing.
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councilman is likely thinking about his next move after City Hall. Stephen Levin’s legacy will be his work on several rezoning projects, including the redevelopment of the former Domino Sugar factory and new waterfront park as well as the Gowanus neighborhood plan. He also recently secured funds to reopen the Gowanus Houses’ community center, and he’ll have a role in determining whether the city will expand the Brooklyn Detention Complex.
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Codes Committee chairman has been in the Assembly since first being elected in 1972 – and it took almost as long for criminal justice bills Joseph Lentol’s supported (like overhauling the discovery process, eliminating cash bail and expunging the records of low-level marijuana offenders) to pass the state Legislature. But even that record may not stop progressive groups from challenging him in next year’s primary. He recently advocated for funding to make streets safer for cyclists in Brooklyn.
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has had his eye on Borough President Eric Adams’ job for some time. A former New Utrecht High School history teacher, Mark Treyger runs the City Council’s Education Committee and has tackled kitchen table issues in his district like fighting to make Bath Beach streets safer after a 3-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car, easing fines for parking violations and demanding accountability from Con Edison after a blackout in July.
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on the New York City Council, Rafael Espinal Jr. has helped create the city’s Office of Nightlife and repealed the cabaret law. He proposed a bill to make it illegal for businesses to contact employees after hours – which Mayor Bill de Blasio opposed. However, Espinal lacked the name recognition to stand out in the public advocate special election in February, and now faces a similarly crowded field in his rumored bid for borough president.
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mental Employees Committee chairman has represented southern Brooklyn since first being elected in 1986. Peter Abbate Jr. has sought to keep the controversial specialized high school entrance exam, sponsored a bill to create more specialized high schools and expand the gifted and talented program, boost pensions for new government workers and free up parking spaces around the Dyker Heights post office.
assemblywoman has recently backed Democrats in several successful primaries, including Jumaane Williams for public advocate and Farah Louis for a local New York City Council seat, as well as building an alliance with Orthodox Jewish leaders in southern Brooklyn. Her support of Bill de Blasio’s presidential bid will test her magic, but she’s got some legislative victories to celebrate – like the expansion of the minority- and women-owned business enterprises program.
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Barron is not afraid to fight for his constituents. He has opposed raising CUNY and SUNY tuition, wanted to eliminate the admission exam for New York City’s specialized high schools and had an East New York park renamed after an African burial ground on the site. He’s also half of a political power couple with his wife, New York City Councilwoman Inez Barron, who swapped seats with him several years ago.
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Brooklyn Democratic Party but the party’s counsel, Frank Carone, certainly has a hand in running things. The executive partner at Abrams Fensterman was recently named Brooklyn Bar Association president and is a board member of RiseBoro Community Partnership, the politically connected Bushwick housing nonprofit. Carone is reportedly a top donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign, giving the maximum amount of $2,800.
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the chairman of the Assembly Housing Committee in 2017 but it wasn’t until two years later that the state Legislature permanently codified new rent reform laws, which stopped landlords from raising the rent if they renovated an apartment or if a tenant moved out of a rent-stabilized unit. The assemblyman also fought for quality-of-life issues, including restricting party boat passenger pick-ups in Sheepshead Bay and adding speed cameras in Manhattan Beach.
upended Central Brooklyn politics last fall when he elbowed out incumbent Jesse Hamilton as part of the progressive “blue wave” that sank the former members of the Independent Democratic Conference. Myrie has since been part of a dynamic Democratic caucus that passed legislation on women’s health, marijuana decriminalization and funding for foreclosure prevention. He has also railed against NYCHA and Con Edison for failing to keep residents cool during a recent heat wave.
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LINDA JOHNSON is plowing ahead with one of the more dramatic reconstructions in the library’s history. In addition to the $135 million renovation of its iconic central branch, Brooklyn Public Library is reopening its Greenpoint branch this fall, building its first new branch in 35 years in Dumbo and opening a more than 26,000-squarefoot library by 2020. The deal for the new library generated an additional $40 million for repairs to other branches.
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FEW THOUGHT the then-27-year-old Demo-
cratic Socialists of America member had what it took to topple incumbent Martin Malavé Dilan last year. Though Julia Salazar’s campaign was full of drama, she won handily, and so far her state Senate career has been drama-free. Her Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act won widespread praise in Albany, and her rent reform legislation, including her good cause eviction bill, was a major milestone in state housing policy.
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thought Downtown Brooklyn would become a busy mecca of new office and residential high-rises? Regina Myer had a vision to remake the corridors between Navy Street and Cadman Plaza West into a tech hub, a destination for startups and a desirable place to live – with new parks, medical offices and enticing dining options – all while integrating data to improve safety and make transportation more efficient.
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rumored candidates for Brooklyn borough president, Laurie Cumbo is the first woman of color to become New York City Council majority leader. With an arts administration background, she has ensured institutions like the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Museum and the Pratt Institute get funding, while also fighting to preserve a building believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. She also helped revitalize the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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has caught up with the second-term Sunset Park councilman’s politics since he came into office as a progressive five years ago. Menchaca is mostly having a ball. He has all the leverage on the de Blasio administration’s plan to redevelop Industry City – perhaps the most significant rezoning in Brooklyn. And he’s sought to protect cyclists from crashes by giving them a head start at intersections, as well as protect immigrant families.
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politician’s third career is going pretty well. After years as a punk rock guitarist with hardcore bands Indecision and Most Precious Blood, and a stint at Bear Stearns Asset Management, Justin Brannan has proven to be strong advocate for southern Brooklyn. He’s railed against Con Edison for cutting power during a recent heat wave, chaired a new committee on resiliency and sponsored legislation that bans telecommunications firms from selling location data.
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York City councilman probably misses the day-to-day drama of City Hall a little bit (check out his lively Twitter feed), but he’s using his powers of political persuasion to give a voice to the poor. David Greenfield lobbied state legislators to adjust income levels for families eligible to receive benefits after the minimum wage increase to $15, launched a digital food pantry and is ensuring families in need have enough to eat.
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PRESIDENT AND CEO BROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CORP. THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD leader succeed-
ed in making the 225-acre site an intriguing destination for tech companies, manufacturers, and film and television production. Now he’s revamped Admiral’s Row into a foodie destination, luring beloved Rochester-area grocer Wegmans to open this fall, putting the word out for a food manufacturing tenant to fill 20,000 square feet of space in Building 50 and welcoming a new ferry stop at Dock 72 to help people get there.
spends a lot of time thinking about how to ensure that Brooklyn, and specifically Sunset Park, remains a welcoming place for startup companies to roost. So it’s no surprise he’s strongly in favor of expediting the Industry City rezoning proposal, which the organization believes could lead to 15,000 new jobs. Rumor has it Amazon is looking to expand its presence at the site and could lease up to 1 million square feet for a logistics facility.
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bodies the Brooklyn Renaissance man. The former journalist (he served as a Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press) launched a successful craft brewery and has sought to make New York City easier to navigate without a car as the board chairman of Transportation Alternatives. He also serves on the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance’s board of directors. As of this year, beers from Brooklyn Brewery are finally available in California.
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leader doesn’t just run the city’s largest megachurch, with its 40,000 members; he also builds affordable housing on its campus, makes political endorsements and isn’t afraid to back technocrats like thenNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But his partial embrace of President Donald Trump has raised eyebrows. He joined the president’s evangelical advisory board, only to resign in 2017. Since then, he said he would work with the White House on urban issues.
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TO THE delight of many Brooklyn Democrats
last year, the former counsel to Borough President Eric Adams toppled Bay Ridge stalwart Martin Golden, who had occupied the traditionally Republican seat since 2003. Andrew Gounardes, who won by about 1,000 votes, has had to walk a narrow line to keep Democrats in his camp by backing progressive legislation while taking care of constituent issues that affect everyone – like holding Con Edison accountable for recent power outages.
line between Williamsburg’s observant Jewish population and the secular world of New York City politics demands diplomacy. David Niederman has had to use every bit of his spiritual statecraft to defuse tensions within the Orthodox Jewish community during a rampant measles outbreak, which subsequently led to a spate of anti-Semitic incidents. Niederman has encouraged families to get their children vaccinated.
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THE ROMAN CATHOLIC Church has had
better years in Albany. The state’s adoption of the Reproductive Health Act had some bishops grumbling that Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be excommunicated. The Child Victims Act could have enormous financial implications for the church. Meanwhile, Nicholas DiMarzio has focused on growing his flock among the younger generation, celebrating the installation of a new pastor in Bushwick and campaigning for a local priest’s sainthood.
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management team must have been thrilled with the development of their young players. But the addition of superstars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant shifts the center of the basketball universe to the Barclays Center. Thanks to Maureen Hanlon and the outgoing Brett Yormark, the Nets could boost their revenues by $40 million next year.
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PRESIDENT AND CEO NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS
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ing Congress president and CEO has one of Brooklyn’s most highly scrutinized jobs for someone who isn’t a politician. Carlo Scissura was tapped by Mayor Bill de Blasio in April to lead a panel to determine how to rebuild the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. He’s already easing tensions with community groups by saying there’s little chance the city will close the Brooklyn Heights Promenade during construction.
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CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES are facing
a crisis unlike any they have ever dealt with before, thanks to the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies. For 22 years, Make the Road New York has provided Brooklyn’s Latino immigrants with legal services and a platform to organize. Now Deborah Axt and Javier Valdés are fighting to defend DACA at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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THE ENGINEERING professor made
history a year ago when she became the first female leader of NYU Tandon. Jelena Kovačević has brought more women into the school’s student body and faculty – so far the freshman class has more than double the national average of women in engineering – and she has fostered the community’s creative energy with a variety of symposiums. In her free time, she enjoys running in Central Park.
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more closely associated with New York’s revival as a film and television hub than Doug Steiner. The developer’s vision to build soundstages and production facilities in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has made it the largest production lot east of Hollywood. He’s now occupying 760,000 square feet, brought in Wegmans plus another 85,000 square feet of retail and is spearheading a $2.5 billion expansion.
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STATE SENATOR
NEVER AFRAID to speak his mind (especially
on Twitter), the state senator made it through the legislative session relatively unscathed, save for getting in a shouting match with state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi in April – when he reportedly said he was “unbeatable” during a meeting. Parker nevertheless enjoyed life in the majority, vowing to hold Con Edison accountable for recent power outages, hosting monthly rent freeze outreach events and endorsing U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris for president.
ANNE PASTERNAK
DIRECTOR BROOKLYN MUSEUM
ANNE PASTERNAK has transformed the Brooklyn Museum into an institution that embodies the borough’s cultural zeitgeist, with buzzworthy shows on the iconoclastic art of David Bowie (its most successful exhibit ever) and a survey of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (which saw a lot of media coverage). The museum’s current exhibit is a retrospective of designer Pierre Cardin. A survey of the career of renowned street artist known as KAWS opens in 2021.
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ONE HALF of Brooklyn’s most powerful political couple, Iris Weinshall (who is married to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer) divides her time between the New York Public Library and Prospect Park Alliance, where she’s served as board chairwoman since 2014. When she isn’t fighting against the city’s proposed $11 million budget cut for libraries, the city’s former transportation commissioner enjoys walking around the park she calls “one of New York’s gems.”
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PRESIDENT BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC everyone at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and its eclectic programming may be the key to its success. As president of Brooklyn’s preeminent cultural institution, Katy Clark ensures that BAM continues to expand its cultural offerings – the organization is opening a new gallery space on Fulton Street – and remains accessible to visitors. She also knows how to throw great parties, like its most recent gala.
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closely watched race, Alicka Ampry-Samuel is working to improve the quality of life in one of the city’s poorest districts. She helped reopen a NYCHA community center, pressured the state Legislature to expand the city’s speed camera program and criticized the mayor’s NYCHA deal with HUD because it lacked federal money. After a mass shooting in Brownsville, Ampry-Samuel demanded stricter gun laws and youth intervention programs while calling for peace.
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like to imagine that Prospect Park is their backyard – but for Susan Donoghue, the administrator of Brooklyn’s largest park (who happens to live a block away), it practically is. Donoghue is reportedly on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s short list to be the city’s next parks commissioner. Meanwhile, she’s been working to combat flooding in the park and recently unveiled the design for a new monument to Shirley Chisholm.
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ago, the Sunset Park assemblyman made headlines for calling attention to the dangers of Four Loko, a malt liquor beverage. More recently, Félix Ortiz has been on the front lines of the immigration debate, informing constituents and undocumented residents on how they can defend themselves against raids. He got involved in a housing dispute over an eviction at NYCHA and joined calls for Ricardo Rosselló to resign as governor of Puerto Rico, which he did.
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her, Jo Anne Simon is focusing on constituent issues. She’s fielded vociferous complaints from seniors about the cost of their homes, concerns from residents about the city’s plan to close the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and protests to preserve an abolitionist townhouse from demolition. She’s opposed to the city’s effort to expand the Brooklyn Detention Complex but supports stripping Woodland restaurant of its liquor license following complaints from the community.
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years, Frances Bronet has led New York City’s noted art and design school to new heights. The Pratt Institute, which clocked in at No. 6 in design, No. 10 in art and No. 17 in architecture according to education research company Niche, continues to draw an ambitious student body to Clinton Hill – like the student who colorfully wrapped utility boxes and others who are calling attention to the struggles of undocumented immigrants.
THE THREE hospitals under One Brooklyn Health System – Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, Interfaith Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – have struggled financially to serve the borough’s most vulnerable populations. In a welcome move, last year Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed $664 million to create the hospital network from his Vital Brooklyn plan, with $210 million of that allocated toward an ambulatory care network. LaRay Brown has led the system for the past two years.
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capital of the political world in March, when it hosted Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign kickoff rally – and it billed the campaign $70,000 for the event. Under Michelle Anderson’s leadership, the college recently hauled in $2.25 million for an endowed scholarship fund and ensured its Murray Koppelman School of Business earned accreditation. This spring, the college recognized activist and #MeToo founder Tarana Burke with an honorary degree.
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GINA & TONY KENNETH ARGENTO GIBBS
helping the Brooklyn Public Library turn a dilapidated, underused branch in Brooklyn Heights into a high-rise that’s been compared to the Flatiron Building. The developer topped out One Clinton, a 38-story building on the branch’s site in March, and condos have hit the market starting over $1 million. The site’s 26,600-squarefoot library space with a new reading room and a community meeting space for 150 people is expected to open next year.
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SINCE TAKING the reins of Maimonides Medical Center, Kenneth Gibbs has helped the hospital maintain its reputation. Maimonides was recently ranked as the No. 22 hospital in New York, among the top 10 health systems in the country for survival rates and it has the best cardiac care in the state. In addition, its Jaffe Stroke Center had the highest survival rate nationwide, according to one federal mortality report.
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est City New York CEO who played a key role in the game-changing Atlantic Yards and Pacific Park projects struck out on her own last year with her new real estate development firm. In December, she signed a lease to develop a 22-story residential tower in Chelsea, Manhattan, followed by a mixed-use property on the Queens waterfront in Long Island City. Her mantra? “You are what you build,” she told Madame Architect.
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STATE SENATOR
THE STATE SENATOR was the loneliest man in
Albany after Democrats took over the chamber. He remained in limbo this past session as the Democrats didn’t want him and the Republicans had no need for him either. Felder couldn’t hold up the state budget like he did in 2018. So he voted for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants and rent reform laws, and then Andrea Stewart-Cousins let him rejoin the Democratic conference.
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cluding Gov. Andrew Cuomo, regularly court the pastor for his support during election years – and with good reason. Known for taking principled stands on developments that overpromise jobs and housing, the Yale Divinity School alumnus has presided over his flock at Brown Memorial Baptist Church for the past 18 years. Miller recently called for more diversity in construction industry contracting.
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RISA HELLER
THE AFFABLE
assemblyman has had a productive year in Albany, helping pass the state’s groundbreaking climate change law, measures to decriminalize marijuana and expunge 900,000 arrests, and a stronger law against sexual harassment in the workplace. Walter Mosley is also a plaintiff in a fusion voting lawsuit. He voted against the state budget because of the creation of a commission to establish a statewide public campaign finance system.
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THE FORMER New York City councilman and
current Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce board member is one of several sagacious attorneys who will be in high demand now that the state Legislature has approved rent regulation reforms. Kenneth Fisher noted that the law will help affluent tenants and hurt owners of smaller buildings in working-class neighborhoods. After property owners sued the state, Fisher said the U.S. Supreme Court could side with landlords.
launched her firm nearly a decade ago, following high-level positions with then-Gov. David Paterson, Global Strategy Group and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer. In that time, she and her team have emerged as leading communications consultants in New York and beyond, helping clients like the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Friends of the BQX, the Kushner Cos. and the developers of the contested Two Bridges project through the increasingly fast-paced, tabloid-driven media market.
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his firm in 1998, the affordable housing developer has built several thousand units of below-market-rate housing across the borough. Martin Dunn has also been a strong advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS and serves on the board of the Supportive Housing Network of New York. He has contributed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other politicians, giving $85,000 to various political campaigns since 2002.
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CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FEDERATION OF PROTESTANT WELFARE AGENCIES POVERTY RELIEF
advocate Jennifer Jones Austin is following in the footsteps of her father, William Jones – a reverend who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. As head of the FPWA, Jones Austin collaborates with 170 groups to reduce poverty and has raised awareness about the criminalization of low-income New Yorkers.
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Assembly, Joni Yoswein has built her consulting firm into a powerhouse. While she wasn’t able to get her longtime client Amazon over the finish line in Queens, she represents a lot more companies on everything from land use to policy issues to budgetary matters. In Brooklyn alone, she works for St. Francis College, Friends of the BQX, Maimonides Medical Center, the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation and the Brooklyn Public Library.
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often serves as the public face of top lobbying firm BoltonSt. Johns, operating behind the scenes is Mike Keogh, who has a wealth of experience in New York City government, including as former finance director for the City Council. Also among the firm’s impressive roster of partners is Juanita Scarlett, who previously worked in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration and at several other firms before joining Bolton-St. Johns earlier this year.
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PRESIDENT AND CEO HISPANIC INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK THE SOMOS secretary is plugged in to what’s happening in outer-borough Democratic circles. The former political strategist has kept his hand in politics by advising New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr., Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez and former Bronx Democratic Party Chairman Jose Rivera. His efforts building HITN into an informative news channel are now getting recognized on bigger stages, such as the National Hispanic Media Coalition. The network has also been nominated for several Emmys.
three years since Tucker Reed left the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership to start his own real estate consulting firm, but he’s still involved in real estate discussions about the future of the borough’s largest commercial district, of course. But Reed is mostly helping out developers like the Rabsky Group, who want to build what would be Brooklyn’s tallest building (at 941 feet) – with a few public and extensive private benefits.
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FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT THE BLACK INSTITUTE ONCE AN ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio, Bertha Lewis was one of the first black leaders to express disenchantment with his record. She recently denounced his presidential ambitions with two words: Eric Garner. Lewis has also backed NYCHA as it navigates receivership and chided the city for cracking down on a Flatbush Avenue restaurant that predominantly serves patrons of color, while tolerating noise from nightclubs mostly frequented by white hipsters.
partner Michael Lichtenstein spotted potential on the Williamsburg waterfront, investing in a 500,000-squarefoot office space at 25 Kent Ave. with Rubenstein Partners and developing the eight-story Williamsburg Hotel. Has the market turned? Two years after the hotel opened, Moskovits fielded offers to sell it – but instead decided to refinance it with $76 million. Having a positive mindset certainly helps when facing uncertainty in the market, Moskovits tells BisNow.
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reporter for New York’s hometown news channel spent her career tracking the borough’s biggest stories, such as state Sen. Martin Golden’s upset loss last fall and undocumented women being exploited as domestic workers in Williamsburg. But an age and gender discrimination lawsuit that she and her colleagues filed in federal court against Charter Communications made her fight one of the biggest labor stories of the year.
RUSSELL HOTZLER
IN FEBRUARY, New
York City College of Technology President Russell Hotzler celebrated the opening of a new $410 million academic complex in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn. The eight-story campus hub on Jay Street will house the school’s health care and science programs, including its stateof-the-art STEM labs and classrooms, as well as a new theater, gymnasium and wellness center. The complex will “keep New York competitive.”
GREGORY CALLISTE
THREE YEARS ago, Gregory Calliste promised he would improve services in the North Brooklyn public hospital when he came aboard. This year, he announced a $5 million renovation for the 388-bed facility and an expansion of its emergency room. The hospital is starting construction on an affordable housing complex on a hospital parking lot. Woodhull also runs a much-lauded LGBTQ health center.
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dolph “Rudy” Crew is sticking around. Contrary to reports that Crew would be stepping down after a discrimination lawsuit became public, Crew announced he is staying put and will continue to expand the college’s academic offerings. The school should have more visibility in the coming year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law renaming two Central Brooklyn subway stations after Medgar Evers.
DOMINICK STANZIONE
BROOKDALE UNIVERSITY Hospital
Medical Center, which Dominick Stanzione has led since 2017, is becoming an exciting place to practice medicine after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state would award nearly $700 million to the health system that oversees the medical center. Under the plan, Brookdale would start renovations to solidify its role as a regional trauma center.
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preserved Brooklyn’s heritage at the Brooklyn Historical Society for the past 13 years, but the museum’s collection is always changing. The institution has recently shifted its emphasis to focus more on oral histories of recent immigrant communities. This year’s exhibits also examine the civil rights era in the 1960s and 1970s, and LGBTQ history in the borough.
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LAST MONTH, Brooklyn Law School wel-
comed back Michael Cahill, who previously served as the school’s vice dean and associate dean for academic affairs, and had most recently taught at Rutgers Law School. Cahill hopes to expand the school’s offerings to offer additional certificate and executive education programs to professionals who need to know the law in their fields. His other goals for the independent institution? Improve recruitment and plenty of fundraising.
had one of the state’s toughest jobs in health care for the past two and a half years, but he’s got a solid team of leaders around him, including Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Patricia Winston and Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Michael Joseph. Riley has been hoping to expand the school’s real estate portfolio – starting with an 80,000-100,000 -square-foot outpatient center.
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celebrated its 175th anniversary earlier this year. Gary Terrinoni has been with the Fort Greene hospital for the past four years, and he isn’t resting on his laurels. The hospital is equipped to treat just half of the 70,000 patients who visit its emergency room each year, so it is renovating the facility and recently broke ground on a $25 million emergency department – which should be completed around the end of 2020.
assemblyman made history last year when he became the first Hasidic Jew elected to the state Legislature. Replacing Dov Hikind, who had represented the Orthodox Jewish community since 1983, is no easy feat but Simcha Eichenstein has gotten plenty of attention for his prominent committee assignments. He’s also helped sleep-away camps apply for security training and exempted income teens earn through summer employment programs from counting against their family’s public assistance benefits.
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HOMELESSNESS in New York City has been a crisis during much of the de Blasio administration, with about 60,000 people in city shelters every night. Monique George and other advocates at Picture the Homeless have made life in the city more bearable for its most vulnerable residents by lobbying for the city to install self-cleaning public toilets and convert 468 cluster apartments in the Bronx and Brooklyn into affordable housing for homeless families.
NEW YORKERS are gradually becoming more inclusive of the city’s LGBTQ community but problems persist, Floyd Rumohr writes in City Limits. He points out that denials of service in transportation continue to exist for the gay and transgendered community, as well as violent attacks on public transit. Rumohr has been recognized for making Brooklyn safer for LGBTQ individuals by collaborating with nonprofits like CAMBA Young Men’s Health Project and SAGE.
JOANNE OPLUSTIL
THE FLATBUSH-BASED non-
profit is getting recognition for helping Brooklyn families find affordable housing, obtain jobs and gain access to legal services. Its Respite Bed Program was honored by the Brooklyn Heights Association, and the organization won a contract for more than $320,000 to provide case management services for homeless families in shelters. A strike led by CAMBA Legal Services workers who wanted paid parental leave attracted attention in the nonprofit world. Oplustil quickly resolved it.
MONIQUE GEORGE
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INGRID LEWISMARTIN
ERIC ADAMS’
longtime adviser got a welcome promotion this summer to deputy borough president, giving the political operator a more public-facing job. That’s good for Adams and even better for Brooklyn. Ingrid Lewis-Martin is extremely well-respected in political circles and is quickly becoming a force in borough politics. Expect to see a lot more of her all over the city as Adams continues raising money for a mayoral run in 2021.
CECILIA CLARKE
IN HER six years as
head of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, Cecilia Clarke has steered the nonprofit toward social justice and cultural issues. The foundation distributed a record $7 million to Brooklyn groups last year, with an emphasis on addressing hunger and advancing racial equity. Clarke has raised money to help immigrant rights nonprofits fight U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.
DONALD BOOMGAARDEN
AFTER TAKING the
reins at St. Joseph’s College in 2017, Donald Boomgaarden helped the Clinton Hill Catholic school reobtain its accreditation. St. Joseph’s has increased its enrollment to 5,300 students, and it attributes the success to its strong religious education and relatively affordable tuition. Boomgaarden, an 18th century opera historian, plans to roll out a new strategic plan this fall – and maybe even a few Chopin performances.
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MIGUEL MARTINEZSAENZ
PRESIDENT ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE
SINCE HIS inauguration as president a year ago, Miguel Martinez-Saenz has sought to expand St. Francis College’s international reach by developing new partnerships with Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway, Myanmar, Nepal and Japan that go beyond study-abroad programs. He’s also been teaching classes to inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. Martinez-Saenz is becoming a national advocate for the hiring of more Latino administrators nationally.
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INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CHIEF POLICY OFFICER BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THE CHAMBER’S interim president has played a
key role in affirming Brooklyn as the place to start your own business or relocate from elsewhere. Samara Karasyk has touted the benefits of patronizing small businesses (like the eateries at DeKalb Market Hall), convinced Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to consider partnering with Brooklyn manufacturers as it moves to the U.S. and worked with the de Blasio administration as it considers new paid personal time laws.
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 While the New York City subways have received many headlines for their state of disrepair, much of the city and state’s infrastructure is inadequate. Funding has been a big issue, and the problems have been exacerbated by letting infrastructure wear out before replacing it, rather than incorporating improvements to keepour roads, railways, bridges, utilities and other critical lifelines up-to-date. City & State’s Rebuilding New York Summit will feature discussions that dissect the biggest infrastructure issues, including funding for repairs, policy recommendations, and where the city and state has seen its biggest successes and shortcomings. PANEL TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: IMPACT OF REBUILDING NEW YORK’S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS GETTING AHEAD OF ISSUES IN AGING INSTITUTIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFORMING HOW WE THINK ABOUT CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT REBUILDING NEW YORK THROUGH CAPITAL PLANNING & PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
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PRINCIPAL PARAGON STRATEGIES
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PRESIDENT DAVIDZON RADIO
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consultant launched Paragon Strategies in 2011 and started taking clients like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Assemblyman Walter Mosley soon after. Perhaps his most challenging role was managing Eric Gonzalez’s Brooklyn district attorney campaign two years ago, which was no sure thing even though Gonzalez had served as acting district attorney. Next year, Jeffries, the House Democratic Caucus leader, could face a serious primary from a candidate backed by the Justice Democrats.
ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE and her troop
radios are usually tuned in to 620 AM, the home of Davidzon Radio, to hear what’s happening in New York through a Russian American lens. Thanks to the vision of Gregory Davidzon, who The New York Times called the “kingmaker of Little Russia,” news travels fast around the tip of southern Brooklyn. Davidzon has served as a gateway to Russian immigrants in one of the few areas in the city that embraced Donald Trump in 2016.
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industrial business coalition may have changed (it was EWVIDCO) but its mission to preserve manufacturing has stayed the same as real estate prices skyrocket and industrial space dwindles. Leah Archibald has lobbied for New York City to protect manufacturing in neighborhood rezonings, highlighting the loss of highwage jobs that could result from the loss of industrial business zones – particularly in North Brooklyn.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FRIENDS OF THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONNECTOR JESSICA SCHUMER oversees Mayor Bill de Blasio’s favorite transit project – which may not run along the Brooklyn waterfront until at least 2029 (if he’s lucky). The de Blasio administration funded a $7.25 million study for the project, although Amazon’s departure and a skeptical task force of City Council members could put a crimp in the $2.7 billion plan. Without $1.4 billion in federal funding, the city could be looking at a rapid bus line instead.
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JOHN RASKIN
FOR YEARS, John
Raskin and his transit troubadours trekked to City Hall and Albany to rail against budgets that didn’t prioritize fixing the MTA or include half-price fares for the poor. But after the “Summer of Hell,” followed by a “blue wave” last fall that swept Democrats into power, things started to change. Albany passed congestion pricing and the city instituted Fair Fares. Now, Raskin is stepping down and he leaves behind a system significantly improved.
TARA MARTIN
TARA MARTIN has deep ties to Brooklyn politics – she worked in Yvette Clarke’s congressional and New York City Council offices – and was among the top organizers for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign in New York. She’s overseeing policy priorities at the New York State Nurses Association at a time when health care spending faces increased scrutiny – including a bill that would stop insurers from rejecting nurses for life insurance policies because they carry naloxone.
ELIZABETH GREGORY YEAMPIERRE DAVIDZON
of climate advocates are fighting to include climate justice in congressional hearings and the Democratic presidential primary, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s environmental record. Uprose is fighting climate change block by block as well, launching a community-owned solar cooperative and other grassroots resiliency efforts in Sunset Park. They fought the Industry City rezoning plan because it could displace residents.
MARGARITA LOPEZ TORRES
SURROGATE KINGS COUNTY SURROGATE’S COURT
MARGARITA LOPEZ TORRES tried to get a
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STREETSBLOG NYC
THE FORMER editor of Brooklyn Paper is back
home in the borough he loves, pugnaciously fighting for a cause he believes in: better transit and safer streets. As editor-in-chief of Streetsblog NYC, Kuntzman has hounded the de Blasio administration to protect cyclists amid a horrific year in which 18 riders died in traffic crashes, kept the pressure on legislators to pass congestion pricing and played watchdog over the MTA’s inability to fix the subways.
state Supreme Court judgeship about 15 years ago, fighting powerful Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders Clarence Norman and Vito Lopez before winning a Surrogate’s Court race in 2005 without their help. Now she’s firmly entrenched, earning endorsements from Democratic Party officials for her reelection bid while getting challenged by (unsuccessful) insurgents.
BRIGHTON BEACH
ELIOT SPITZER
HEAD SPITZER ENTERPRISES THE EX-GOVERNOR has found some
measure of happiness as a developer of luxury rental properties along the Williamsburg waterfront. Spitzer’s three-tower complex at 420 Kent began leasing over a year ago with 857 apartments available. Studios start at $2,350 a month, but it has a great pool. In a recent interview with News 12, Spitzer said it’s “inconceivable” that he would run for office again, and added that he likes a potential Biden/ Harris Democratic presidential ticket.
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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com Notice of Qualification of HOTELS STATLER EMPLOYER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/17/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/11/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 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 QUAL. of 477 Madison LLC. Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/7/19. Off. Loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 6/3/19. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 28 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005, 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.
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Notice of Qual. of EXTRA DELUXE LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 06/14/2019. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 06/13/2019. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Walsh and Tsempelis, 277 Broadway, Ste 510, NY, NY 10007. Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Adler Road, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of Liquid States LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/18/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Veltri Management, LLC, 27 W. 70th St., Ste. 2A, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of formation of IndUs Crafts LLC under the Articles of Organisation filed with SSNY on the 8th of July 2019, The office of Westchester County, SSNY designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shal mail copy of process to LLC at, 82 Random Farms Circle, Chappaqua, NY 10514 to purpose any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of Necessary Content, LLC filed with SSNY on May 8th, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of AVAILING HANDS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/18/19. Office location: Westchester County. Princ. office of PLLC: 941 McLean Avenue, Suite 264, Yonkers, NY 10704. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Therapeutic Service. Notice of Formation of DBR Group LLC filed with SSNY on June 14, 2019. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 309 Wingham St, Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION of USC 3 East 3rd LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/18/19. Off. Loc.: NY County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: USC 3 East 3rd LLC, 233 Broadway, Ste 1470, New York, NY 10279. Purpose: Any lawful act. TUTTLECO LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/03/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 200 W 15th St, #12G, NY, NY 10011. Reg Agent: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. YOELLY RODRIGUEZ, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee’s Report, and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on June 14, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on August 8, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 282 Hemlock Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 4147 and Lot 53. Approximate amount of judgment is $485,489.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 501581/2016. Jeffrey Miller, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted.
Green Circled, LLC filed with SSNY 06/27/2019. Office loc: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Green Circled, LLC, Attn: Farrukh Chaudhary Mumtaz, 265 Seguine Ave., Staten Island, NY 10309. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
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INSIGHTS MANAGEMENT CONSULTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/22/19. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1, #086, Buffalo, NY 14221, which also serves as the registered agent. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: HEYWOOD466, LLC Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 06/13/2019 Office location: County of Kings Purpose: Any and all lawful activities Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Heywood466, LLC P.O. Box 19 New York, NY 10116
LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Qualification of Intergate.Manhattan Office Holdings LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/25/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/19/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005. Address to be maintained in DE: The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of Alpine Properties Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/08/2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 265 Summit Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of 102-104 FULTON ST RETAIL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/28/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Douglas Gladstone, Esq., Goldfarb & Fleece LLP, 560 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of DIG INN 460 PAS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/26/19. Princ. office of LLC: 1235 Broadway, 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. 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 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. BKGREENCART LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/19. Office: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 15 Maiden Ln, Ste 600, NY, NY 10038. Purpose: any lawful act.
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Notice of Qualification of BEGI, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/11/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/28/19. Princ. office of LLC: TAG Associates, LLC, 810 Seventh Ave., 7th 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 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, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
NOTICE OF QUAL. of 100 SLD Owner LLC. Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/20/19. Off. Loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 5/16/19. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 28 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005. 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. Evers Mental Health Counseling, PLLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 06/25/19. Off. Loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The PLLC 875 6th Ave, Ste 1604, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: to engage in the profession of Mental Health Counseling Notice of Formation of Grandstar Original LLC filed with SSNY on June 12, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 115 4th Avenue, Apt 4A, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.
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Notice of Formation of Piel Developmental Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/27/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 400 Riverside Dr., Apt. 5A, NY NY 10025. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of SOLIGHT2, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/27/19. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity. HER HONOR, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/18/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3 Stuyvesant Oval Apt. 1E, NY, NY 10009. Reg Agent: David Silberg, 3 Stuyvesant Oval Apt. 1E, NY, NY 10009. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION of RIVERCENTER LS LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/7/19. Off. Loc.: NY County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: 28 Liberty, New York, NY 10005. Reg. Agent: National Registered Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful act
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G.A.S. PRODUCTIONS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 06/03/2019. Office loc: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Gregory Scott, 81A Clark Lane, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the limited liability company is Sally Rose Pond, LLC. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Department of State was July 15, 2019. The county in New York in which the offices of the LLC are located is Richmond. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process served against the LLC to Dr. Daniel Messina & Debra Messina, 17 Coverly Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301 . The business purpose of the LLC is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under the Limited Liability Company Law of the State of New York.
Notice of Qualification of THE PRIVACY CO LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/09/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/25/19. Princ. office of LLC: Renee M. Lercher, CFO, 845 3rd Ave., Fl. 18, NY, NY 10022. 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: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of David and Dad LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Baker Law Firm PLLC, 1175 York Ave., #15D, NY, NY 10065, Attn: Brett R. Baker, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of Leeza Garber Esq Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on June 21, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 252 W 76th Street, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.
GRAND STUDIO MANAGEMENT LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/16/19. Office: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: T. Rufus Cappadocia, 295 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: any lawful act.
NOTICE OF FORMATION of BAYSIDE LS LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/7/19. Off. Loc.: NY County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: 28 Liberty, New York, NY 10005. Reg. Agent: National Registered Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful act
Notice of Formation of MADE F&B LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mark Devli, 460 Main Ave., Ste. A, Wallington, NJ 07057. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of Fora Financial Advance LLC (f/k/a Empire Merchant Advance, LLC). Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/29/09. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 519 8th Ave., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity. MARV HOLIDAY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/03/19. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 434 E. 57th Street, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ASHES TO ASHES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/22/19. Office location: Kings County. Princ. office of LLC: 99A Stuyvesant Ave., Apt. 2, Brooklyn, NY 11221. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
SAPPHIRE VISION, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 2/12/2019. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LLC, 805 Saint Marks Avenue, Apt. B3D Brooklyn, NY, 11213. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of DPR OPPORTUNITIES 1 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 06/17/2019. 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: Robert D. Lindsay, Goldberg Lindsay & Co. LLC, 630 Fifth Avenue, 30 FL, New York, NY 10111. Purpose: To be a qualified opportunity fund. Notice of Formation of 514 Herkimer LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/1/19. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 514 Herkimer St., Brooklyn, NY 11213. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 525 7th Ave., Ste. 1406, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 20101, Plaintiff, vs. JASON PALMER, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on June 14, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on August 22, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 1962 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 1453 and Lot 18. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 515601/2016. Leo Salzman, Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1319806 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER IN A CATERING HALL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 541 W 25TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10001. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. LG CONCEPTS INC.
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Notice of Qualification of 24 WEST 25TH STREET HOLDINGS IV, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/19/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/04/19. Princ. office of LLC: 430 Park Ave., Fl. 12, NY, NY 100223505. 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. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of the State of DE, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of 24 WEST 25TH STREET INVESTORS IV, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/19/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/04/19. Princ. office of LLC: 430 Park Ave., Fl. 12, NY, NY 100223505. 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. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of the State of DE, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of LHL SHORE PARKWAY, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/17/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/11/19. Princ. office of LLC: 183 Madison Ave., Ste. 1602, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Bennet L. Schonfeld 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, 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qualification of CaaS Capital Management LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/11/19. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/01/19. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership, 800 Third Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with the Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of DPR OPPORTUNITIES 2 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 06/17/2019. 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: Robert D. Lindsay, Goldberg Lindsay & Co. LLC, 630 Fifth Avenue, 30 FL, New York, NY 10111. Purpose: To be a qualified opportunity fund. Notice of Formation of DPR OPPORTUNITIES 3 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 06/17/2019. 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: Robert D. Lindsay, Goldberg Lindsay & Co. LLC, 630 Fifth Avenue, 30 FL, New York, NY 10111. Purpose: To be a qualified opportunity fund. Notice of Formation of THE LFS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/03/19. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1540 Broadway, NY, NY 10036. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Duane Morris LLP, Attn: Jon H.I. Grouf, 1540 Broadway, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Investments.
Notice of Formation of 136 West 92nd Street Associates LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/11/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, c/o Trinity Episcopal School Corporation, 139 West 91st St., NY, NY 10024, Attn: Joan Dannenberg. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of MINH HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/15/19. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of DOVEL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/06/16. Princ. office of LLC: 7901 Jones Branch Dr., Ste. 600, McLean, VA 22102. 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: CSC, 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., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
VR IMMERSION LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 7/12/2019. 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, 55 Richmond Ter, Ste 306 Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity
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Notice of Qualification of THE DOVEL GROUP, LLC Appl. for Auth. f i l e d with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/06/16. Princ. office of LLC: 7901 Jones Branch Dr., Ste. 600, McLean, VA 22102. 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: CSC, 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., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION of TRAVEL PLANZ, LLC. Arts. Of Organization filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/2019. Office location: BX County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 1565 Fulton Ave. Bronx, NY 10457. Purpose any lawful act Notice of Formation of Tick Tock VII LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/16/18. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Pat Rubino, Lazard, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY 10112. Purpose: any lawful activity.
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TCB 667 STANLEY AVE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/26/2019. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Zaheer A Bukhari, 667 Stanley Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF A COOPERATIVE APARTMENT PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: by Virtue of default under Loan Security Agreements, and other Security Documents, originally held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association which is now held by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. f/k/a The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee for Chase Mortgage Finance Trust Multi-Class Mortgage PassThrough Certificates Series 2007-S2, as Secured Creditor, George Nelson, DCA # 1300011, will sell at public auction, with reserve, in the Rotunda of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, NY, at 12:00 pm, on September 9, 2019, 581 shares of the capital stock of 300 E. 74th Owners Corp. (a Cooperative Housing Corporation), issued in the name of Lawrence Tannenbaum, and all right, title and interest in a Proprietary Lease to 300 East 74th Street, Unit 22G, New York, NY 10021. Sale held to enforce rights of Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company as Secured Creditor, which reserves the right to bid. Ten percent (10%) Bank/Certified check payable to the Escrowee, Sheldon May & Associates, as attorneys for THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR CHASE MORTGAGE FINANCE TRUST MULTI-CLASS MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-S2. Balance due at closing within thirty (30) days. The auctioneer’s fees are required at sale. The Cooperative Apartment will be sold “AS IS,” and possession is to be obtained by the purchaser(s). Dated: July 19, 2019 Sheldon May & Associates (Escrowee) Attorneys for Plaintiff 255 Merrick Road Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Telephone: (516) 763-3200
Tiger Digital LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/18/2019. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United Corporation Agent, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned applied for a license, No. 2217546 to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant at 23 Factory St., Montgomery, NY 12548 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law. City Winery Hudson Valley LLC, dba City Winery.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1319827 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 1315 MORTON ST NY, NY 10011 NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. CARA JECM LLC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1319969 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 575 W. 207TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10034. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. GALICIA TAPAS LLC
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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for Option One Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-5, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 20075, Plaintiff AGAINST June P. Isaac a/k/a June P. Isaac-Goodridge; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 30, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on September 12, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 326 92nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block:4646 Lot:25. Approximate amount of judgment $372,701.31 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 515931/2016. Jeffrey Dinowitz, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: July 30, 2019 Notice of Qualification of BLANCHE INDUSTRIES, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/05/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 16133 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 545, Encino, CA 91436, Attn: Daniel Frattali. Address to be maintained in DE: 2140 S Dupont Hwy, Camden, DE 19934. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Qualification of SO - Hubbards Commons LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/29/19. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: c/o ShopOne Centers REIT, Inc., 10100 Waterville St., Whitehouse, OH 43571. LLC formed in DE on 9/25/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc. (CGI), 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Notice of Qual. of Paintbox Madison LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/24/19. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/22/19. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served and shall mail process to: Attn: Paintbox, 154 Grand St, 3rd Fl, NY, NY 10013. Address required to be maintained in DE: c/o Corporation Service Company, 251 Little Falls Dr, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert of Formation filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Qualification of C-Bridge Capital LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/22/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/12/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 450 Lexington Ave Ste. 39B, NY, NY 10017, Attn: Fu, Wei. Address to be maintained in DE: Corp2000, 838 Walker Rd., Ste. 21-2, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of the State of DE, Division of Corporations, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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NOTICE OF FORMATION of 959 PARK STERLING LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/19/19. Off. Loc.: NY County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: NRAI, 28 Liberty St, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful act PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at two locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 72 feet on a building with an overall height of 76 feet at the approx. vicinity of 2425 2nd Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10035. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 78 feet on a building with an overall height of 94 feet at the approx. vicinity of 1295 Grand Concourse, Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10452. 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, Madison, m.warfield@trileaf.com, 8600 LaSalle Rd, Suite 301, Towson, MD, 21286, 410-853-7128. Notice of Formation of Grandstar Original LLC filed with SSNY on June 12, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 115 4th Avenue, Apt 4A, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of BROADWAY INFLUENCE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/08/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Levine Plotkin & Menin LLP, 888 Seventh Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10106. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
NOTICE Auth for Scharff PLLC (formed in AZ 2/9/18) filed w/NYDOS on7/24/19. Loc:NYCty. SSNY=ProcessAgt & shall mail to 43W.43rdSt #24 NY,NY10036. AZ Addr: 502W.RooseveltSt PhoenixAZ85003. OrgCertFiled w/AZCC @ 1300W.WashingtonSt Ph o e ni x A Z 8 5 0 0 7. L aw firm. Notice of Qualification of CGS REDMOND TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/16/06. Princ. office of LLC: 200 Vesey St., NY, NY 10281-1017. 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 Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. PROMOTE THE LUV, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 7/24/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PROMOTE THE LUV, LLC, 337 W. 138th Street, Apt 3G New York, NY 10030. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Qualification of CONSTANTIA VENTURES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/23/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/21/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 95 Worth Street, Apartment 8E, New York, NY 10013. DE addr. of LLC: Harvard Business Services, Inc., 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, DE 19958. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal Street - Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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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 104 feet on a 103-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 68 W 238th St., Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10463. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 180 feet on an 80-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 2913 Foster Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11210. Antennas and GPS equipment will be installed at a hop height of 73.5 feet on a 71.5-foot-tall building at the approx. vicinity of 2434 Prospect Ave, Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10458. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 84 feet on a 79-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 38-01 23rd Avenue, Astoria, Queens County, NY 11105. 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, Erin, e.alsop@trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111. Notice of Formation of Salon Nyki Elle, LLC filed with SSNY on 2/28/19. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 229 West 115th St., 1D, New York, NY 10026. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.
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CITY & STATE NEW YORK MANAGEMENT & PUBLISHING CEO Steve Farbman, President & Publisher Tom Allon tallon@cityandstateny.com, Comptroller David Pirozzi, Business & Operations Manager Patrea Patterson, Administrative Assistant Lauren Mauro
Who was up and who was down last week
CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton
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TIMOTHY DOLAN & MICHAEL SURBAUGH Boy Scouts have a standing order: Be prepared. The Child Victims Act is going to put that to the test. Survivors of abuse have one year to bring past legal claims against their alleged attackers, and Surbaugh, chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, already has a lot of lawsuits on his hands. Too bad for Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York – which faces lawsuits of its own – that this time around the scouts are looking out for their own.
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If you lose the race for Queens civil court judge, just go to county, they’ll fix it! The council passed bills to ensure nobody else’s baby is ripped from their arms. If they close 14th St. to cars, what are car owners supposed to do? Walk? In NYC?? She’s stepping in to lead WNYC after Laura Walker let creeps run rampant.
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Only a Fredo would say that “Fredo” is the N-word for Italians. His district was rated second-worst in the country for black Americans.
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Who knew sharing a 15-minute video demonizing black people is racist? His guards let a certified monster kill himself. Irresponsible, but, uh, not sad.
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ALESSANDRA BIAGGI, RODNEYSE BICHOTTE, YUHLINE NIOU & CATALINA CRUZ Ahead of the one-year look back window for victims of sexual abuse, these four state legislators went the extra mile to make sure that the public got educated. They bravely took to the airwaves to share their own experiences as survivors of childhood sexual abuse in order to encourage others to seek justice. By the end of the first day, nearly 430 claims were filed, and well over 1,000 are eventually expected.
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Guess who didn’t make the Winners & Losers list this week? New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio! Hizzoner had already won the losers vote twice in a row – and three weeks out of four – right after he actually made the winners list about a month ago. So while we give the big guy a break after his big chow-down at the Iowa State Fair, check out who did make the cut this time around.
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