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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

IT’S BEEN A ROUGH STRETCH for the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission. Taxi drivers are struggling to make ends meet, with some facing crippling debt due to the plummeting value of taxi medallions. A spate of suicides among drivers has drawn increasing attention to the industry’s financial and regulatory mess. A New York Times investigation painted a portrait of the taxi commission as complicit in pumping up an unsustainable medallion bubble, which is being compared to the overheated real estate market that led to the Great Recession. Now New York City and state lawmakers are taking matters into their own hands, and the New York City Council blocked Mayor Bill de Blasio’s preferred nominee to run the TLC on the grounds that, as one lawmaker put it, the “status quo is no longer acceptable.” In this week’s magazine, we explore some of the potential paths forward. We hear from a few key legislators – state Sen. Jessica Ramos, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and New York City Councilman Mark Levine – about how they’re trying to address the crisis. Contributor Nicole Gelinas makes the case against one such proposal: a city-funded bailout for drivers. And we look at the technology behind congestion pricing, which could allow certain groups – such as, say, drivers of yellow taxis – to get a pass.

CONTENTS

TAXI MEDALLIONS … 8

New York City can’t afford to bail out drivers in debt

CONGESTION PRICING … 12 How will the MTA implement Manhattan tolling? ACCESSIBILITY … 16

Wheelchair users need better access to Ubers and Lyfts.

LIMO CRACKDOWN … 18 Why the state’s response to the Schoharie crash ran out of gas

WINNERS & LOSERS … 30 Who was up and who was down last week

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PANTALEO FIRED

New York City Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill fired Officer Daniel Pantaleo for Pantaleo’s role in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. Over five years ago, Pantaleo was attempting to arrest Garner for selling loose cigarettes when he put his arm around Garner’s neck in what was determined to

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be a prohibited chokehold, which led to his death. The encounter was caught on video – including Garner repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe” – and helped spur the Black Lives Matter movement. Pantaleo’s dismissal was decried by New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch as an unfair attack on police, while Garner’s family and other advocates said the decision does not end their fight for justice and called for trials for the other officers involved. NYPD Sgt. Kizzy Adonis, Pantaleo’s supervisor, was scheduled for an administrative trial later this year, but in a deal with the department, she was

only docked 20 vacation days.

PUBLIC FINANCING AND FUSION VOTING

A state commission held its first meeting on the public financing of state elections. The commission will explore the creation of a matching fund system for candidates, similar to the one in New York City. For every dollar a participating candidate receives from an individual donor up to a set amount, the government could match that amount with a certain multiplier. The commission could also eliminate fusion voting. Third parties like the Conservative Party and the Working Families Party, which use fusion voting to cross-endorse major-party candidates, defend the practice, which enables them to maintain power and influence the policy positions of candidates in a two-party system. Commissioners approved a resolution to vote on the proposals as a single piece of legislation.

THE 1619 PROJECT New Yorkers often forget that their home state’s history is defined by racism and slavery – but The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project serves as a much-needed reminder. Slaves built key infrastructure, including Governors Island and Wall Street, and the state’s critical role in the sugar and cotton industries kept it directly involved in the slave trade.

“Pantaleo, you may have lost your job, but I lost a son. You can get another job … maybe at Burger King.” – Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, on NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s firing, via the New York Post

“Now, if he wants to pay the $200,000 on behalf of the pizza place, he can do that. That’s fine. … But he can’t forgive state taxes.”

– Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s desire to help Di Fara Pizza, which was seized for failing to pay $167,000 in state taxes, via the Post

STUDENT TEST SCORES

Standardized test scores are out, and students across the state did slightly better than they did last year, but the majority of students still failed the tests. On the English exam, 45.4% passed, which was only 0.2% higher than last year. For math, 46.7% passed, a 2.2% increase compared to last year. New York City fared a little better than the state as a whole in English, and is about even in math, although it too couldn’t crack the 50% passing mark and saw only modest improvements. Just over 47% of students passed the English test and about 46% passed the math exam. This also marks the first year that children enrolled in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s universal pre-K program took the state tests, and this year’s cohort performed slightly better than last year’s.

LICENSE PLATE ‘MONEY GRAB’

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New Yorkers will get to vote on five license plate designs to determine which one the state will introduce as its official license plate starting next year. But buried in the announcement was the requirement that anyone with a license plate older than 10 years must upgrade to the new plates and will have to pay

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a $25 fee to do so. Drivers will also have to pay $20 if they want to keep the same plate number. Republicans, Democrats and at least one editorial board decried the move as a “money grab” and “a new $75 million tax on the middle class,” while lawmakers began exploring ways to get around the fees.

VACCINATION INJUNCTION REJECTED

Anti-vaxxers seeking to repeal a new state law that ends the religious exemption from vaccines lost their first battle in federal court. The judge denied a request for a temporary injunction that would permit children with disabilities to attend school without receiving vaccines.

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Richard Carranza won’t back down

The ruling is a setback for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an attorney on the case, and the plaintiffs, as the law will remain in effect as the school year gets underway. The court battle to overturn the law is ongoing.

THE NYC SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR KICKS OFF A NEW SCHOOL YEAR AT CITY & STATE’S EDUCATION SUMMIT.

BYE-BYE TO FLOATING BILLBOARDS

Cuomo signed a bill banning floating digital billboards in the East and Hudson rivers after they began to crop up several months ago to the displeasure of many New Yorkers. Companies can still display their advertisements on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, and have already begun looking for loopholes in the law that can keep the electronic signs afloat.

NEW YORK CITY schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is entering the new school year with the same focus: racially integrating the city’s public schools. Carranza, who took over in 2018, has drawn attention to racial segregation present in the nation’s largest school system while calling for various changes, most notably a controversial proposal to scrap the entrance exam to the city’s specialized high schools. At City & State’s Education Summit at Baruch College this month, he previewed the upcoming school year.

We are, by all accounts, the most segregated school system in America. If we’re serious about advancing equity now, we have no choice but to tackle that deeply entrenched reality. Integration advances equity. It’s common sense. wait until the end Education is probably the Ifof you the year and the results most talked about – aside that come from the state which we expect from ‘Real Housewives’– tests, sometime in August or the most talked about September … that’s akin to an autopsy. Because sport in New York City. there’s nothing that you I have never found that you move a can do with those test system by placating the wishes of those results because the year’s who would keep the status quo. So there already gone. are those that are going to say your chancellor is divisive. I’m not divisive – I’m keeping it real.

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WEEK AHEAD

TUESDAY 8/27 Happy birthday to Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul (No. 67 on the 2019 Albany Power 100), Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow and Assemblyman Victor Pichardo!

INSIDE DOPE

Last year, the Erie County Democratic Committee threw a fundraiser to celebrate Hochul’s birthday, soliciting contributions of up to $1,000. This year, tickets for the Buffalo event are $100.

MONDAY 9/2

TUESDAY 9/3

The West Indian Day Parade kicks off at 11 a.m. and runs along Eastern Parkway from Schenectady Avenue to Grand Army Plaza, concluding New York Caribbean Carnival Week.

Following blackouts in New York City, the state Legislature is holding a hearing on the reliability of Con Edison’s electrical service, starting at 11 a.m. at 250 Broadway in Manhattan.

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BEYOND BIG BIRD BdB

The original. The classic. Fits in a headline. Brings to mind JFK, FDR or AOC.

DeB

Some folks in de Blasio’s inner circle prefer this shorthand to the more common BdB.

Hizzoner

Not de Blasio’s alone, this bastardized version of the title “his honor” has been used by the tabloid press to refer to any mayor for generations.

THE MANY NICKNAMES OF BILL DE BLASIO BY JEFF COLTIN New York City – a town of many nicknames – was once led by a man they called “the Little Flower,” Fiorello La Guardia. Today, the city so nice they named it twice is led by “The Tallman.” That’s New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s possibly self-appointed nickname that he used in a 2015 email with Rep. Yvette Clarke. It presumably refers to his height, and not the state park in Rockland County. Of course, the man has picked up some other nicknames after more than five years as mayor.

Big Bird

Popularized by de Blasio’s middling 2017 electoral challenger Bo Dietl, the mayor embraced the name earlier this year at a press conference with the “Sesame Street” star.

Bigfoot

Anonymous New York Post sources gave de Blasio the nickname, not for his shoe size, but for his habit of stealing other politicians’ policy ideas.

Senator Provolone

One of de Blasio’s high school teachers recalled to his hometown Boston Globe in 2013 that this adolescent nickname referred to both “the generous Italian sandwiches he would bring to lunch and to his ‘overweening investment in political life.’”

Blas/Blaz

The rivalry between the city’s top tabloids extends to their style guides. The Post prefers “Blas.” The Daily News likes “Blaz.”

High-taxing mayor of NYC

A favorite insult of right-wing Twitter trolls who think the 6’5” mayor looks like the tall, lumbering butler of “The Addams Family.”

This, as well as “our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC,” was bestowed upon him by President Donald Trump on Twitter. De Blasio has desperately tried to bait Trump for a better nickname by calling him “Con Don.”

De Bozo

Bill de Blasio

Lurch

Another favorite of the Twitter trolls. It’s funny, you see, because Bozo is a clown.

Born Warren Wilhelm Jr., the mayor legally changed his name in 2002, but he’d been using it for years before that.

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A Q&A with congressional candidate

Our government continues to shut out the very people whose voices are most needed.

ERICA VLADIMER Why are you running against a loyal, 14-term Democrat in Rep. Carolyn Maloney? I’m running because I’ve seen firsthand how our government continues to shut out the very people whose voices are most needed in redefining what it means to, A, be a Democrat, but, B, to be a compassionate and progressive diverse community. And it’s maddening. You worked in government, both for the state Senate and the New York City Independent Budget Office. How has that shaped your politics and your campaign? I’ve seen firsthand what

happens at budget negotiation tables, and when legislation is being crafted. And I think if we are going to advance the progressive policies that many of us insurgent candidates stand for, we also have to overhaul the process in which those policies are drafted, negotiated, redrafted, renegotiated. When did you last hear from the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which is investigating your sexual harassment case against former state Sen. Jeffrey Klein? As far as I know, my case is officially still open. That’s

really as much as I know. I’m waiting. I’m trying to be patient. But there’s a lot more to be done. As I’ve said from the beginning when I came out with my story, this is bigger than just me. There was a whole system that was failing victims and failing to protect state workers from becoming victims. That needed to be addressed. You advocated for changes to sexual harassment laws that passed earlier this year. Do you see these legislative wins as jus-

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tice, even if Klein isn’t personally punished? I do. This shows that those who have been long ignored are finally not just demanding a seat at the table, but are actually claiming their place there and are succeeding at changing human rights laws so they actually reflect what we need as humans, as workers. A lot of people are calling it the AOC effect. Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory inspire you to run? It was certainly a part of it. I think a big part of it for me, too, was seeing the critical mass win on the state level. People like state Sens. Alessandra

Biaggi and Julia Salazar and Jessica Ramos and Andrew Gounardes and Brian Benjamin. All those amazing wins on the state level, and seeing this new generation of voices and elected officials, and seeing them work together. That’s really inspiring. Like Maloney, do you commit to bringing pandas to New York City? (Laughs.) I commit to bringing more Title I-A (funding) to our 1.1 million children. I also commit to fighting for more investment in our public housing and making sure that it’s done with the “Green New Deal” framework.

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COMMENTARY

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DEADLY DEAL Taxi medallion owners got screwed. But New York City can’t afford to pick up the tab.

by N I C O L E G E L I N A S

N JULY 11, around 50 yellow taxi medallion owners and drivers rallied on the steps of New York City Hall to call for “loan relief now” with a sober reminder of the risk that comes with crushing debt: “no more suicides.” The driver-owners are right. They should not bear the full burden of the collapse in the medallion market from more than $1 million to barely $100,000, caused in large part by New York City and state’s continued failure to regulate ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft. But city taxpayers should not bear this burden either. Lenders to the industry – sophisticated financial institutions that incurred risk in lending against a speculative asset marketed as a “sure thing” – should be the ones to take these losses. Similarities to the mortgage crisis of a decade ago abound. The difference, in this case, should be markdowns in what driver-owners owe. The stakes here are high. Last year, three medallion owners took their own lives, among eight suicides in the industry. Of the 3,423 drivers, according to a new city estimate, that’s a suicide rate of about 88 per

100,000 people, 10 times New York City’s suicide rate of 8.5 per 100,000 men. (The overwhelming majority of taxi drivers are men.) Multiple factors go into a suicide, but one source for many is constant anxiety. New York City and state have prolonged this anxiety by failing to act decisively. In 2015, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held out false hope when he flirted with capping Uber and Lyft vehicle permits and then, under pressure from the two powerful companies, backed down for three years as the supply of ride-hailing cars tripled. It’s still not clear how New York state’s new congestion pricing plan, enacted in April, will treat yellow taxis; bizarrely, the decision will be up to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the next year. Meanwhile, taxi drivers continue to shoulder their debt. The city estimates that the average driver owes nearly $500,000, with a monthly payment between $2,500 and $4,000. Some owe upward of $1 million, borrowed on increasingly shaky terms and a new lender requirement that borrowers back their debt with personal guarantees, rather than just the medallion asset.

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As New York City Councilman Mark Levine noted at the July rally, “This crisis was led by a city that pumped up the mortgage bubble. … New York City itself made approximately $1 billion on the bubble (by selling new medallions at high prices and encouraging medallion ownership as an investment). We have not met our obligation until we offer debt relief for the drivers.” Levine, though, is preparing a bill that likely will include city taxpayer money to go toward such relief – which is not a good precedent. Even at the low end of estimates, debt relief could cost $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion, according to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. To put that in perspective, consider that the city will spend about $10.4 billion on capital projects over the next year. In determining how to spend these scarce, borrowed dollars (the city incurs debt to make long-term capital investments), the city must follow only public need, not the extraordinary circumstances of one industry. On transportation, the city would do far better to invest in completely remaking its streets, configuring them for more protected bus and bike lanes and record pedestrian crowds. It’s also poor policy, in general, for the city to offer financial compensation for its own regulatory screw-ups. The city does not

write. Nor should the city have to make interest payments on debt incurred to help bail out medallion lenders. The city does have a role, though, in helping to facilitate the credible collective private sector action that will get lenders to negotiate. In the business world, debt markdowns are common when the collateral behind a loan turns out to be worth less than all parties agreed it was worth. In the mortgage crisis, neither the administrations of George W. Bush nor Barack Obama pressured lenders to engage in home loan forgiveness. Their financial advisers saw a hazard for the economy in encouraging people to renege on their obligations. The real hazard is to encourage borrowers to keep throwing good money after bad, because of an unsophisticated borrower’s misplaced sense of shame over a mistake. Plus, tens of millions of homeowners dispersed over hard-hit states weren’t great candidates to become a single, formidable negotiator with global lenders and investors. In the taxi medallion case, both the drivers and the lenders are a much smaller universe. The 50 or so drivers who showed up at City Hall likely owe, among them, $25 million. A concerted threat of default would get the attention of lenders – a handful of regional banks and already-bankrupt credit unions – as well as their regulators, and make debt negotiations far fairer. The lenders would no longer be the stronger party. As Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, says, the financial institutions with whom her members interact are more willing to sell their medallion-backed debt to other financial institutions at lower and lower values rather than lower the underlying payments. The lenders are already taking losses – but the drivers don’t benefit from these markdowns. Desai is setting up a legal team, with the goal of getting 4,000 drivers to attend legal clinics (her estimate of drivers is slightly different from the city’s), as she considers other strategies. The city, as the industry’s regulator, should make it much clearer whether it is giving up on the medallion system or not, guiding both lenders and borrowers on a medallion’s underlying value, and allowing lenders to keep an interest in potentially higher medallion values in exchange for debt relief. (If lenders cannot keep such a risky asset on their books, they could sell it to equity investors and use the proceeds to curtail their losses.)

compensate people for its own failures to adequately regulate the construction industry or the commercial trash industry – even though those failures can prove just as deadly. Finally, introducing the city as the source of a direct subsidy for taxi debt write-offs introduces a fairness standard that the city can’t meet. Though medallion owners owe an average of nearly $500,000 on their loans, their average purchase price was $340,000. Nearly 80% of owners refinanced their loans to cash out equity to purchase houses or businesses, or pay for college tuition. Wiping away debt to an average of, say, $150,000 could leave one driver with lucrative rental housing bought via refinancing, while leaving another with a real loss – a disparity that taxpayers shouldn’t under-

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Debt relief could cost $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion. New York City will spend about $10.4 billion on capital projects over the next year.

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The state, too, has a role. Earlier this year, the state started collecting a new $2.50 fee for every taxi ride below 96th Street in Manhattan, and a new $2.75 fee on Uber and Lyft rides. On 200 monthly rides, the fee can cost a taxi driver (and passengers) $500 a month. But in enacting the fee, the state Legislature and the governor ignored the reality of the medallions: the requirement to purchase a medallion in order to gain the right to do street pickups in the densest parts of the city was a crude form of market-based congestion pricing, one that taxi drivers had paid but ride-hailing drivers had not. Now, medallion owners are effectively paying twice for this right.

The city would do far better to invest in completely remaking its streets, configuring them for more bus and bike lanes and record pedestrian crowds. Scrapping this fee for yellow cabs would help ease the burden, both in attracting Manhattan customers and in cutting monthly costs. Likewise, the MTA’s broader congestion pricing regime should acknowledge the fact that yellow cabs have already paid a substantial congestion pricing fee, with the city, which reaped the benefit of that fee, making up the financial difference to the MTA. Individual medallion owners and drivers are suffering from broad city and state failures, especially the de Blasio administration’s refusal to come to terms with how smartphone technology upended its regulatory model. But the underlying need for a regulatory model – too many cars vying for limited street space – remains in place. The city created this regulatory system, and encouraged banks to lend and drivers to borrow in trusting the stability of this model. The city must now deal with the chaos it has caused in effectively abandoning the adherence to the rule of law it had encouraged for so long – not by paying off debt, but by creating a new regulatory model for ride-hailing drivers, and showing where medallion cabs fit into it.

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Nicole Gelinas is a policy journalist in New York City who contributes regularly to the New York Post.

THE PIECE OF METAL THAT’S RUINING LIVES

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TAXI MEDALLIONS. Today, self-employed New York City taxi drivers are suffering under the plummeting value of the city’s taxi medallion – an aluminum plate affixed to the hood of a New York City yellow cab that permits it to operate. Long an example of inelastic supply in economics textbooks, the taxi medallion has undergone a drastic transformation in recent years – most notably by taxi industry leaders artificially inflating their value in the 2000s and early 2010s, coupled with the rise of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft. Here’s what you need to know about the rise and fall of the taxi medallion.

THE ORIGINS

THE TYPES

THE FALL

1937: Fierce competition for riders and a swell of cabs on city streets prompt calls for regulation, so the modern taxi medallion system was created by the New York City Board of Aldermen, limiting the number of taxis.

INDEPENDENT MEDALLIONS: Owned by people who only have one medallion and who drive the licensed vehicle.

1996: For the first time, new medallions were issued, with prices around $200,000.

$10: The price of medallions when they were first introduced. 11,787: The number of medallions that existed for much of the 20th century. Several thousand more licenses existed, but during the Great Depression, drivers let their licenses expire to avoid paying a $10 renewal fee – making medallions scarce. $2,500: The value of a medallion in 1947, 250 times the price 10 years earlier.

CORPORATE MEDALLIONS: These medallions are owned by taxi fleets in groups of at least two.

THE LOOK 2 YEARS: Medallions must be renewed every two years – so every two years, the metal plates get a makeover. ALL DECKED UP: In the past, the plates have been shaped like apples or featured a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty. THIS YEAR’S MODEL: The TLC’s current crop of medallion plates – which last from 2017 to 2019 – are black and yellow, featuring an illustration of a spinning globe.

1,800: The approximate number of new medallions issued since 1996. $1 MILLION: The price per medallion that a pair of medallions sold for in 2011. 2014: The value of medallions began to crash, prompted by predatory lending practices and the rise of ride-hailing companies. 13,587: The number of licensed medallion taxis in 2018, according to the TLC. $110,500: The price per medallion that a batch of 60 medallions sold for in July. –Annie McDonough

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With congestion pricing design, the MTA’s plan could become a blueprint for other states – or a cautionary tale.

by A N N I E MCD ONOUGH

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ONGESTION PRICING is coming to New York City, and while a number of questions have yet to be answered – who will be charged and how much, for example – the city is on its way to becoming a congestion pricing pioneer. Whether the Empire State will take the lead on piloting new technology to facilitate congestion pricing is another story. In April, the state Legislature passed a congestion pricing plan that cordons off Manhattan’s central business district south of 60th Street as a congestion zone where cars will be charged a fee to enter. The flat rate for cars is expected to be between $11 and $14, and revenue will be put in a lockbox to provide at least $15 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s 2020-2024 capital program. Before New York can move ahead, however, the MTA’s Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority has to decide what kind of congestion pricing technology will be used. That question may not be as controversial as what groups will be exempt from paying the fee, but the technology that’s put in place could play a role in determining what kind of pricing scheme is used. On the table are a few different options. When it comes to the most proven method, experts point to something like the highway tolling that is done by companies like E-ZPass, which uses radio-frequency identification, or RFID. In that system, small RFID transponders are placed on a vehicle’s windshield and read by devices on large overhead structures called gantries. “We can use something like E-ZPass in these vehicles which we know works well, and it works all over the country,” said Sarah Kaufman, the associate director of New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation. “Many if not almost all drivers own an E-ZPass. So it would probably be the easiest transition for drivers technologywise.” The city could replicate the system London implemented, which uses video cameras mounted on gantries or signposts to detect license plate numbers as a way to track vehicles entering the congestion zone. This method – often referred to as automatic license plate recognition – has been used in the United States on toll roads for enforcement, even in conjunction with RFID transponders. If a vehicle drives through an E-ZPass gantry without having a transponder in the vehicle, cameras mounted on the same gantry can photograph the license plates of the car in violation. Most of the infrastructure that makes up cashless tolling consists of RFID transponders, license plate cameras or some combination of both.

Both the RFID transponder and license plate approaches were cited in a congestion pricing request for proposals from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. And recent reports suggest that the MTA is leaning toward the license plate approach to avoid using gantries. Documents accessed by the Daily News offered a glimpse at one approach being considered by the MTA that would mount cameras or other equipment on 40-foot light poles on the border of the congestion zone. The MTA, however, is still currently soliciting proposals from potential vendors while the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority works with the city and state transportation departments on congestion pricing infrastructure. The MTA has also notified potential bidders that traditional gantries won’t be accepted, and proposals should prioritize using existing infrastructure and blending in to the streetscape. Kevin Hoeflich, senior vice president and chairman of toll services at HNTB – a transportation firm that advised Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Fix NYC congestion pricing panel – maintained that gantries and transponders are the tried-and-true method. Still, he said what works on a highway may not be practical in an urban area. “You want to reuse as much existing infrastructure as you can, that just makes sense,” Hoeflich said. “I understand you don’t want gantries in front of Central Park.” Hoeflich said photographing license plates was a somewhat reliable method, citing London as a city where it has worked effectively, but it has limitations. “The challenges that come in with cameras are, particularly in a highly congested area, it’s not always easy to get a visual on the plate,” he said. “Think of bumper-to-bumper traffic and trying to take numerous pictures of each and every single plate.” Some amount of leakage – vehicles getting through the congestion zone without being charged – could be a risk with cameras, Hoeflich said. While the MTA documents displaying renderings of equipment mounted on light poles could suggest that the MTA is leaning toward a more traditional approach like license plate cameras, the agency hasn’t limited its search. This spring, the agency also put out a request for alternative technologies that could support a congestion pricing program, and even allow for more flexible pricing schemes. The request for technology listed five potential approaches that wouldn’t necessarily rely on the gantries or other costly infrastructure. Among them were roadside Bluetooth readers, smartphone applications, global navigation systems and connected vehicle technology. With more cars being installed with Bluetooth radio, GPS or other technology, cameras and tran-

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proach,” said Paul Salama, co-founder and chief operating officer at ClearRoad, a company that helps governments implement road usage pricing using a variety of sources, including through smartphone apps or roadside Bluetooth readers. The company, which has had conversations with the MTA, is policy agnostic and could match vehicle data to whatever policy a given government chooses to implement. “All we’re doing is taking the GPS data and applying a policy to it. But we don’t care where the data comes from,” Salama said. “So unlike E-ZPass – which is a single system (in which) everybody has the same device – or a version of the same device – we’re talking about, it could be this device from this company, it could be the car itself, it could be a smartphone.” The benefit of a smartphone app is that most people have smartphones and charging congestion fees directly to an app wouldn’t require building infrastructure – Kevin Hoeflich, HNTB senior vice president like gantries. Still, othand chairman of toll services ers have raised questions

sponders are not the only way for vehicles to be recognized and accounted for by a congestion pricing system. In fact, something like a smartphone app or GPS could allow for more complex pricing schemes. Instead of charging a flat fee when entering or exiting the congestion zone, an app could track where a vehicle travels within the congestion zone or how long they’re in the congestion zone. That way, a vehicle that spends three hours driving in the congestion zone might be charged more than a vehicle that spends 15 minutes in the zone. Those are the kinds of policies that could be possible with this “data-based ap-

“You want to reuse as much existing infrastructure as you can. I understand you don’t want gantries in front of Central Park.”

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about relying on smartphone apps or other cutting-edge technology. Kaufman said the license plate camera approach, where they are mounted on lamp posts and poles, makes the most sense to her. “Then you’re charging the car rather than the app,” she said. “There might be four phones in a car. And how does the system know that and know to only charge one and know which one is being used by the driver?” With plans to send $15 billion in revenue from congestion pricing to public transit fixes and improvements, there’s not much room for error. “The deeper you get into a new technology solution, the less proven it is and what you’re putting at risk is revenue,” Hoeflich said. “I think what has to happen is each urban area (has to ask) how much risk are they willing to take? And how much revenue are they OK with not being able to collect?” Both Hoeflich and Salama said new technology like a smartphone app or GPS system could be tested alongside more traditional approaches. “I think what the right approach would be for any urban area would be to have some of these folks come in, and if they say they can do this, do a pilot and make them prove it before you do any type of wide-scale deployment,” Hoeflich said. “This stuff is

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coming at some point, nobody can predict when. You don’t want to have to be taking down gantries and all kinds of things because the next wave of technology comes in. You want to be flexible and adaptable to what could be coming as much as you can.” Aside from revenue goals, the legislation passed by state legislators is scant on details. The open-ended plan has led to different groups and localities clamoring for exemptions from tolls. Emergency vehicles and vehicles carrying people with disabilities were promised exemptions, but Staten Island drivers, truck drivers and motorcyclists are among the many also arguing that they shouldn’t be subjected to congestion fees. Exemptions may be possible even if New York opts for a more traditional technological approach, but something like a smartphone app could allow for more flexibility in facilitating those exemptions. Salama described a scenario in which police – who are among those asking for an exemption – might use GPS to determine when an officer is driving to a Manhattan precinct and know not to charge them. Even so, many warn against allowing too many exemptions. “The tricky thing there is that every time you give another exemption, you make everyone else pay more,” said Kate Slevin, senior vice president of state programs and advocacy at the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit research organization. “It’s really a balancing act to come up with the best program.” While the MTA is charged with making those decisions, a six-person panel of experts on the Traffic Mobility Review Board will first offer recommendations for what kind of pricing scheme should be put in place. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will recommend one appointment to the panel while the MTA board will determine the rest, and those appointments are expected to be made in the near future. Since the Traffic Mobility Review Board must make its recommendations by the end of next year, there’s not much time to waste, and it’s not just New Yorkers watching with anticipation. “We absolutely have to get it right here in New York. We’ve already received calls from people in Seattle and Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C. – the whole country is watching what happens here, because they know that we are going to need new approaches like congestion pricing to address the challenges ahead,” Slevin said. “They’re looking at New York City to really develop the model and test the model here.” Hoeflich compared the situation to interstate tolling, which a handful a states are looking at doing. “Once somebody does it successfully, that becomes the blueprint, and many states will follow,” he said. “I think that congestion pricing puts New York in the same position.”

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CONGESTION PRICING AROUND THE GLOBE HOW OTHER CITIES ARE MAKING IT WORK New York City may be the first to implement congestion pricing in the U.S., but other international cities beat it to the punch – one by decades. Here are the innovative ways they’ve implemented their plans.

SINGAPORE STOCKHOLM STARTED: 1975

STARTED: 2007

CHARGE: Variable pricing based on time of day and location, plus $150 for the in-vehicle transponder

CHARGE: Variable pricing based on time of day, with a rush-hour fee of roughly $4 and daily fees capped at roughly $11

ANNUAL NET REVENUE: $100 million

LONDON STARTED: 2003 CHARGE: Daily flat fee of roughly $14 ANNUAL NET REVENUE: $182.1 million TECH: London uses cameras around its congestion zone, relying mostly on automatic license plate recognition to record vehicles entering and exiting the tolled area. The cameras are largely installed on roadside poles and posts.

TECH: Singapore’s congestion pricing program at first relied on paper licenses and manual enforcement at entry points to the congestion zone. In 1998, however, the city-state switched to Electronic Road Pricing, relying on transponders in each vehicle and overhead gantries. Today, Singapore is undergoing yet another transformation as it switches to in-car units that communicate with a satellite system to implement distance-based tolling.

ANNUAL NET REVENUE: $155 million TECH: Stockholm’s congestion pricing scheme applies to most of the Stockholm city center and relies on automatic license plate recognition. A vehicle’s plates are photographed by cameras installed on overhead gantries at the congestion zone’s various entry points.

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WAITING FOR THE RIGHT CAR by ETH A N STA R K-M I LLER

s Uber and other ride-hailing companies face pressure to better serve wheelchair users in New York City, there are early indications that the companies are moving in the right direction. Specifically, the three major ride-hailing companies – Uber, Lyft and Via – said they’re in compliance with the first benchmark of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission’s new accessibility rule, which requires ride-hailing companies to deploy more accessible vehicles and holds them to specific wait-time standards for wheelchair-accessible vehicles. The three companies told City & State that they met the June benchmark – 60% of wheelchair users picked up within 15 minutes, and 90% within 30 minutes – but the TLC has yet to release its report. The wait-time rule established last fall is one of two options that the TLC gave ride-hailing companies to increase accessible service for wheelchair users. It requires

ride-hailing companies to have 80% of their accessible trip requests met in 10 minutes or less and 90% met in 15 minutes or less by June 2021. It also requires them to hit incremental benchmarks for trips serviced each year – for example, by June 2020, 80% of requested trips must be serviced in 15 minutes or less and 90% in 30 minutes or less. The other option, which was established in late 2017, is for ride-hailing companies to steadily increase the number of trips done by wheelchair-accessible vehicles, whether or not the passenger requested one. This rule required ride-hailing companies to make 25% of their trips in wheelchair-accessible vehicles by mid-2023. The ride-hailing companies sued the TLC over this rule, which forced the TLC to settle last year and establish the alternative waittime option. Former TLC Chairman Matthew Daus – currently a transportation consultant who works with Via and other clients – said he thinks the ride-hailing companies brought the lawsuit because they thought the TLC’s

original rule was unfair. “You’re basically telling people that they need to be using wheelchair-accessible vehicles even if the person requesting a trip is not a wheelchair user,” Daus told City & State. Disability rights advocates argue that while it’s good that ride-hailing companies are taking some steps toward accessibility, they are more supportive of other measures like the 25% rule that the ride-hailing companies opted out of and the cap on new for-hire vehicle licenses in the city, which makes an exception for wheelchair-accessible cars. “None of the proposals were perfect, but we thought that the 25% rule would get us closer to the possibility of reliable e-hail service,” said Joe Rappaport, the executive director of the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled and spokesman for the Taxis for All campaign. “We didn’t support the creation of what appears to be a separate and unequal system,” he added, referring to the wait-time rule. Daus, on the other hand, thinks the

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wait-time rule could be a better way of increasing accessible service. “It’s definitely in theory a better system than just requiring people buy wheelchair vehicles, to have a certain percentage in their fleet,” Daus said. Uber told City & State that it was exceeding the June benchmark, but still has more work to do. “We believe that Uber can improve mobility for people with disabilities, and by increasing the availability of (wheelchair-accessible vehicles) and improving reliability, we’ve already exceeded the city’s 2019 requirements,” Uber spokesman Harry Hartfield told City & State in an emailed statement. “But we recognize that we’re still at the beginning, not the end, of this journey.” Via spokesman Andy Ambrosius told City & State that Via is happy the TLC switched to the wait-time rule and that he believes it completed the second-highest number of accessible trips in this first year. “We were able to hit the requirements in both categories. The one in 15 minutes

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and the one in 30 minutes,” Ambrosius said. Lyft also told City & State through an emailed statement that they are in compliance with the benchmark for June 2019. According to TLC spokesman Allan Fromberg, the process the agency uses for collecting and presenting the data is still incomplete and a full report won’t be published until roughly mid-September. “I have no reason to doubt what the companies themselves may have told you, but we cannot empirically confirm (that) until the process is complete,” Fromberg said. Rappaport said he couldn’t speak to whether the ride-hailing companies hit the June benchmark, but that it was very low in the first place. “I think we’d be less critical if I hadn’t seen how these companies have fought accessibility over the years with every tool that they’ve got in the courts,” he said. In a July 23 hearing on extending the cap on new ride-hailing permits, the TLC said the temporary freeze on new licenses had had a positive impact. According to a TLC

slideshow presented at the hearing, one year ago there were a little over 200 accessible for-hire vehicles in the city and now there are nearly 800. However, the TLC said there are more than 120,000 for-hire vehicles operating in the city, which means less than 1% of these vehicles are wheelchair-accessible. Advocates said that while they strongly support the cap and are happy that the number of wheelchair-accessible vehicles is rising, they want to see more done. “While it’s a small step in the right direction, the numbers that the TLC was talking about are still really low,” Justin Wood, director of organizing and strategic research with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, told City & State. It won’t be entirely clear how well the ride-hailing companies are meeting the TLC’s accessibility standards until it releases its full report. “I think the key thing that the community is going to be concerned about is if the 15-minute requirement is being met or not,” Daus said.

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EVIN CUSHING was looking for answers. The Saratoga Springs resident had lost his son Patrick in the October 2018 limousine crash outside of Schoharie in which 20 people were killed when a stretch 2001 Ford Excursion’s brakes gave out. The tragedy drew attention to gaps in oversight of the limousine industry, and state lawmakers vowed to take action this year. While several safety measures were enacted this past session in response to the crash, advocates were disappointed by the failure to advance a more comprehensive overhaul of the industry. Earlier this month, during an afternoon meeting in the Albany office of Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman

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In January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for stronger oversight in his budget proposal, including a ban on modified stretch limousines. There was bipartisan support for reforms and the limousine industry – while opposed to an outright ban on stretch limousines – was receptive to other steps, such as increased enforcement. Democrats were able to craft comprehensive deals on rent regulation and climate change in both chambers this year. Why didn’t something as relatively uncontroversial as limousine safety get done? “It absolutely should have been a marquee issue,” Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy said. “It was just a lack of conversations.” The state Senate and Assembly repeatedly delayed acting on the issue, starting from when the session began, according to interviews with a dozen key lawmakers. Lawmakers initially opposed addressing the matter through the budget process,

rie crash resulted in part from inadequate regulations and enforcement of limos. In this case, the state had already ordered the stretch Ford Excursion off the road after it failed two safety inspections. Then there was the fact that there were 18 people in a vehicle only authorized to carry 10 passengers. The driver did not even have the proper license to drive a limousine. Other weaknesses in the safety standards for limousines were also obvious. Limousines can still make U-turns, even though it was a critical factor in a deadly 2015 crash on the North Fork of Long Island. Insurance requirements were low and seat belts not required. There was not even a single definition of the term “stretch limousine,” which generally refers to a vehicle that has been chopped in half and then reassembled with a middle section that can accommodate a dozen or so passengers. Because a

William Magnarelli, Cushing delivered a message on behalf of the families of the crash victims. “We need to know where you are in the process,” said Cushing, according to Magnarelli, who was joined by Assemblymen Chris Tague and Angelo Santabarbara and legislative staffers. “We need to know that someone basically hasn’t forgotten what went on.” Magnarelli promised action on the issue – but he and his fellow lawmakers will have to wait until next year at the earliest to deliver. The sheer carnage of the Schoharie crash – the deadliest transportation-related crash in the U.S. in nearly a decade – put limousine safety back on the legislative agenda. With sizeable majorities in both houses of the state Legislature, a comprehensive overhaul of the limousine industry initially appeared to be a straightforward task for Democrats.

though changes were ultimately included at Cuomo’s insistence. In the second half of the session, the Assembly waited on the state Senate. The Senate then waited until May to hold a hearing, which was only attended by three lawmakers. In the weeks following the May hearing, Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly did not coordinate their efforts – especially in making sure that each bill passed both houses. While both chambers passed reform packages in June, they didn’t match up – meaning that in January, lawmakers will have to revisit limousine safety once more. Lawmakers said they simply ran out of time during a busy year, but the failure to address limousine safety also reflects how they never made time for the issue until the final weeks of the session. Investigations found that the Schoha-

stretch limousine falls into a regulatory gray area, it does not have to meet the same federal safety requirements that applied to the car before it was chopped in half. The bills proposed by state lawmakers show that such shortcomings could be addressed at the state level to a considerable degree. Cuomo took the lead on the issue through a provision in his budget proposal that would have forbidden the state from registering any vehicle that had been altered into a stretch limo. “The banning we knew wouldn’t happen,” said Nancy DiMonte, whose daughter, Joelle, was injured in the North Fork crash. “The governor, I believe, did that as part of a starting point.” The final state budget did not include a limousine ban, but it did prevent such vehicles from making U-turns as well as authorizing higher fines against drivers who

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violate safety rules. Other provisions that were proposed directly in response to the Schoharie crash will allow police to seize the license plates from limousines that fail inspections, and make it a felony to knowingly operate an illegal limousine that results in a death. “Gov. Cuomo aggressively pursued a number of common-sense reforms, and the landmark legislation that was passed by the houses and is now enacted will enhance safety for all New Yorkers and visitors as they travel on our roads,” said Patrick Muncie, a spokesman for Cuomo. Once the budget was done, lawmakers could have quickly acted on a set of broader reforms. Some members of the Assembly already had dozens of bills on the subject. The Stretch Limousine Safety Act is aimed at mandating safety training for drivers, the retirement of older vehicles and other

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senators proposed afterward, according to Kennedy. “Everything that we heard from all sides was taken into consideration of the legislation that we advanced that was supported by the families,” Kennedy said. More than a month later, senators would unanimously passed a package of nine bills that came out of the hearing. Criminal penalties would have increased for drivers who run red lights and excessively speed. Limousine drivers would have to undergo drug and alcohol testing. Drivers would have to get a passenger endorsement – the credential a driver needs to carry passengers – for a commercial driver’s license before they could get behind the wheel of a limousine. Family members of crash victims said that the bills reflected much of what they wanted, but getting them through the Assembly would not be easy with just three weeks to go before the Legislature ad-

mum liability insurance requirements that passed in the budget earlier in the year. “It was extremely disappointing, make no mistake about it,” DiMonte said. “But we do accept the fact that the process has to go that kind of way. We’re not going to get everything we want overnight.” There are still differences to work out between the chambers’ respective positions. There are concerns that requiring local governments, rather than the state, to impound unsafe limousines would become an unfunded mandate. Will seat belts be required on old limousines as well as new ones? What is the proper balance between deterrence and enforcement? Months after the Schoharie crash, many of the nitty-gritty conversations on these issues have yet to happen between members of each chamber. “We’re looking at all the bills and I assume that Sen. Kennedy and I

Cuomo targeted the industry after the Schoharie crash, but a push for more comprehensive changes took a back seat post-budget.

changes. Another bill would define the term “stretch limousine” and require passengers to wear seatbelts. But state Sen. Tim Kennedy, the newly installed chairman of the Transportation Committee, was planning on holding a hearing on the issue and members of the Assembly decided to wait until they knew where the Senate Democrats stood. “I told them great, go ahead and do the hearing,” Magnarelli said. “Let’s see what comes out of it and we’ll go from there.” With just over six weeks left in the session, the state Senate began to make its legislative push on the issue. Only three senators – Kennedy, James Gaughran and James Tedisco – attended the May 2 hearing. But the five hours of testimony from family members, industry insiders and others was necessary to inform the bills that

journed. Some lawmakers did not even know that counterparts in the other chamber were sponsoring similar bills. Lawmakers from both chambers said that opportunities were missed to do more. Magnarelli said that he and Kennedy had limited conversations on the issue. “It wasn’t as if we had never spoken or that this never came up,” Magnarelli said of his work with Kennedy on limousine safety. “On the other hand, we did not have any specific meetings on specific bills until the day they were introduced in the Senate and the day before the Senate passed them.” Some bills still lacked Assembly sponsors and it would not be until the final scheduled day of the session that the Assembly would pass the only bill among the legislation that the Senate passed earlier that month – a measure amending new $1.5 million mini-

will get together within the next two weeks or month and we’ll put a lot of this stuff to bed,” Magnarelli said. Cuomo is open to supporting additional limousine safety measures. At least one lawmaker said he does not want to wait. Tedisco, whose district is near Schoharie, made a public call for lawmakers to return to Albany to address the issue, but he has not reached out to key lawmakers. Like one year ago, there is plenty of consensus on the issue among Democrats and Republicans. There are lots of bills that aim to boost limousine safety, but they have yet to move out of the Legislature. “We need to get this done for the families,” Kennedy said. “The families are absolutely deserving of a government that pays attention to them and puts in place reforms so that no one else is killed.”

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where a small amount per ride was used to create this fund to help support drivers in retirement.

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TAXI DRIVER BAILOUT?

$1 billion? From roughly 2003 to 2014, we made $850 million in direct sales in a market that we were helping to pump up and

prices that we set. That to me is the benchmark against which we need to measure the kind of outlays in a program to fix this. You could really execute a very effective loan purchasing plan that costs the city much less than what we made in those years. You’ve also proposed creating a retirement fund for yellow cab drivers – but isn’t that a job for a union, rather than city legislation? One of the unfortunate upshots of the mortgage scandal is how many taxi drivers who might have otherwise retired are driving into their 60s or 70s. And they have no provision for retirement, and they’re now sitting with underwater mortgages. But there could be something similar to what we did with (The Black Car Fund) and workers’ comp,

When you need to move around the city, do you take Uber or a yellow cab? My first option is the subway or the bus. And I do take a lot of yellow cabs. Particularly when I’m in downtown and midtown. But in uptown Manhattan and the outer boroughs, yellow cabs are scarce. So I can fall back on a local car service if needed, and occasionally an app-based service.

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You want to forgive loans for taxi medallion owners – who would cover the bill? It’s actually a plan in which the city would buy the loan and refinance it on realistic, fair terms. We need to pressure the lenders who are going to have to take a loss on many of these loans, and really should bear the primary burden. So we need to pressure (them) to sell the city the loan at much lower than they’re currently valued at. But it may be necessary for the city to have some skin in the game. But even if it were $50,000 or $100,000 per loan, you would be talking about the total cost of the program (being) far less than the nearly $1 billion that the city made during the bubble years through medallion sales.

Last year you pushed for the city to waive taxi license renewal fees. Did that become law, or was that just a one-year thing? We have a bill that we’re hoping to have a vote on very soon. The (de Blasio) administration has signaled its support for the measure and is not currently engaged in (fee) collection. But to solidify this and make it long term, we absolutely need legislation. There are a fair amount of details that we’re working out, and we’re hoping that will move forward in the early fall, at which point, it will be early enough to avoid drivers being charged.

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my community and have established businesses and now struggle dealing with the tech giants like Uber and Lyft and others. But when you get to know the stories of all these drivers on the medallion industry, things look different. They got caught in a web that I don’t think was their own doing. If we can provide relief and create a program where the state can help reestablish the market so that they can get out of that crushing debt, I think that’s a win-win.

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LOAN PROTECTION PROGRAM How did you come to sponsor a bill that would create a loan guarantee program for taxi medallion owners? We were in the midst of having discussions around all these issues affecting the taxi industry, the livery industry, the medallions. We had a rash of suicides that had captivated public attention. It just spoke to the very real problem, that at the end of the day, a lot of individual hardworking New Yorkers were kind of suckered into a bad situation with these investments.

certain extent, guarantee the value so that lenders and investors would once again open up the market for them and alleviate and allow remortgaging for those were in crushing debt with those medallions. It would be limited to those that hold a single medallion, not groups that hold multiple.

How would you describe the bill’s approach? The idea being put forward was modeled after the federal programs that were done in 2008 to help some folks get out of the banking crash. The idea is that we could, at the state level, create a program that would reinstitute the value of the medallions to a

How has your relationship with the yellow cab industry changed over time? The medallions represent that yellow industry that for too long ignored some of the outer boroughs in terms of service, which led to the creation of the livery industry, which is where my heart lies, because those are the folks that are mostly from

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So why didn’t it pass this session? The idea was to have it presented to the Second Floor and considered as part of some of the budget negotiations. I remember having some conversations with leadership around this idea. There was some openness to it, but unfortunately, with everything else that was going on, it never even moved out of committee. I was carrying the driver’s license bill and a bunch of other bills and I can say that we weren’t able to get as far as we would have liked. What comes next? Usually, by October, November, I start to reprogram and get ready for session and what will be the legislative priorities.

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and Washington Heights where livery cab drivers are also experiencing similar hardships.

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When was the last time you discussed this issue with Crespo? It’s been several months.

ALLEVIATING TAXI HARDSHIPS How did you come to sponsor a bill in the state Senate that would create a loan guarantee program for taxi medallion owners? It is important that we address the suicide rate among the taxi medallion drivers and owners. Just for the record, I believe that’s true for police officers as well and I want to be sensitive to that. I think the medallions are something that we need to take a look at a lot more closely to understand what it was that happened. It was such an investment for the city, with the bonds on the medallions. We need to take a look at how it is that we either transition this workforce out of the industry and succumb to the app economy, or how do we ensure that it is a thriving business that can compete. That’s the decision that we need to make. Either way, I believe that right now, because of unfair competition, we need to help the medallion owners out

and ensure that they are being treated fairly and can cover their costs. The bill would create the state Taxi Medallion Guaranty Program. Would it apply to upstate in any sense? I still have to talk to my colleagues outside the five boroughs. You are working with your typical tag-team partner, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, on this. When did the idea specifically come about to propose this bill? We must have talked about it before I was sworn in. It’s a concern for the Bronx

Who else or what other entities are in the mix on this bill? I expect the city to have an opinion. The (New York City) Taxi and Limousine Commission is going through leadership changes and it’ll be interesting to see what their take is. Have you been in contact with the lenders? They have not reached out to me. Is there any other legislation out there that’s addressing the same issue from a different angle? Not to my knowledge. What comes next? I will sit down again with Assemblyman Crespo to swap ideas about what our labor agenda will be in the next legislative session, and we will definitely be reviewing the legislation that we put forth.

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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. 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.

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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. 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.

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.

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.

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Notice of Qualification of THE DOVEL GROUP, 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. 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 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.

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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 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 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

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 74 feet on a building with an overall height of 86 feet at the approx. vicinity of 43-42 45th Street, Sunnyside, Queens County, NY 11104. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 180 feet on a building with an overall height of 186 feet at the approx. vicinity of 67 Irving Place, New York, New York County, NY 10003. 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, Yvelande, y.raymond@ trileaf.com, 1051 Winderley Place, Suite 201, Maitland, FL 32751, 407660-7840.

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, Plaintiff AGAINST Alma Sawney, Laurel Williams a/k/a Laurel P. Williams, Nordia C. Morgan, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 5/28/2019 and entered on 7/5/2019, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 26, 2019 at 02:30 PM premises known as 2907 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn, NY 11226. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 5173, LOT: 66. Approximate amount of judgment is $644,730.95 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 511051/2014. Shmuel Taub, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706

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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 Sectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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 NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY CHARLES SCHWAB BANK 2360 CORPORATE CIRCLE, HENDERSON, NV 89074 (888) 403-9000 The following persons appear from our records, whose last known address is in the state of New York, to be entitled to unclaimed property consisting of cash amounts of fifty dollars or more: A.J. ALEXIS GELINAS 44 MILBURN ST APT 2206 BRONXVILLE, NY 10708-3419 WESTCHESTER AARON OLSON 30 W 18TH ST APT 7D NEW YORK, NY 10011-4670 NEW YORK ADITI HATE 67 INDIA ST APT 10A BROOKLYN, NY 11222 KINGS ADY L RUBANOWITZ 1629 60TH STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11204-2139 KINGS ALFRED PETER CAMPO 12 HILL AVE MONTGOMERY, NY 12549-2062 ORANGE ANDREW JAMES DANIELS 157 WEST 79TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10024 NEW YORK ANNA MCLAIN PIERREHUMBERT 808 COLUMBUS AVE APT 8L NEW YORK, NY 10025-5152 NEW YORK ARIELA M ZAMCHECK 247 W 254 ST BRONX, NY 10471 BRONX ARLEEN W LOPEZ 1 GROVE ST ROSLYN HARBOR, NY 11576-1013 NASSAU ASHLEIGH BOWERS 32 CRESCENT AVE UPPER BUFFALO, NY 14214 ERIE ASHLEY FUCHS 356 WOODMONT RD HOPEWELL JUNCTION, NY 12533-6869 DUTCHESS AYELET GOLAN 28 COUNTRY RIDGE DRIVE RYE BROOK, NY 10573 WESTCHESTER BARBARA CARTER 310 W 4TH ST APT 15 NEW YORK, NY 10014-5267 NEW YORK BARBARA STONE 166 E 63RD ST APT 3L NEW YORK, NY 10065-7635 NEW YORK BARI R SLOVES 71 ATLANTIC AVE APT 4 BROOKLYN, NY 11201-6740 KINGS BENJAMIN P HARRIS 30 BEDFORD CENTER RD BEDFORD HILLS, NY 10507-2202 WESTCHESTER BORAM LEE 377 MONTGOMERY ST APARMENT E9 BROOKLYN, NY 11225-9009 KINGS

BRET EDELMAN 310 LEXINGTON AVE APT 8J NEW YORK, NY 10016-3139 NEW YORK BRIAN CHRISTOPHER RUTENBERG 252 W 85TH ST APT 7C NEW YORK, NY 10024 NEW YORK BRIAN FERDINAND 224 MUTTONTOWN EASTWOODS RD MUTTONTOWN, NY 11791-2410 NASSAU BRITTANY HENNINGHAM 4353 WESTWOOD #1 WILLIAMSVILLE, NY 14221-6171 ERIE BRUCE SEGER 115 FORSTER PLACE MELVILLE, NY 11747-8128 SUFFOLK CARLOS A CARCAMO 3215 79TH ST EAST ELMHURST, NY 11370-1839 QUEENS CASEY RYAN MCINTYRE 210 CLINTON AVE APT 9C BROOKLYN, NY 11205-3429 KINGS CATHAY ZHAO 201 E 81ST ST APT 2A NEW YORK, NY 10028-3216 NEW YORK CATHERINE BIXLER WESLEY 23 STIRRUP TRAIL PAWLING, NY 12564-2221 DUTCHESS CATHERINE HUGHES CORWIN 604 3RD ST BROOKLYN, NY 11215-3004 KINGS CHARLES JOHNSTONE 39 E 75TH ST APT 6E NEW YORK, NY 10021-2752 NEW YORK CLIFFORD MARTIN PENN 84 CAMBRIDGE PL BROOKLYN, NY 11238-2402 KINGS DANIEL A HESS 640 W 231ST ST APT 5E BRONX, NY 10463-3258 BRONX DARA M MANDLE 210 RIVERSIDE DR APT 4B NEW YORK, NY 10025-6880 NEW YORK DARYL RAMAI 179 GELSTON AVE APT 2A BROOKLYN, NY 11209-7097 KINGS DAVID CHENG KUO 16 STUYVESANT OVAL APT 4A NEW YORK, NY 10009-2238 NEW YORK DAVID R STEIN 50 MURRAY ST APT 406 NEW YORK, NY 10007-2257 NEW YORK

DEBRA AVIVA AHARON 180-30 80TH DRIVE JAMAICA ESTATES, NY 11432-1532 QUEENS DELFINO MICHAEL CRESCENZO 45 HUNT DR JERICHO, NY 11753-1144 NASSAU DEREK J.T ADLER 168 CLINTON ST BROOKLYN, NY 11201-4618 KINGS DIANA WARD JENSEN 77 UNDERHILL AVENUE #3A BROOKLYN, NY 11238 KINGS DONOVAN GIRIDHAR STULTZ 12 HOPE STREET HURLEYVILLE, NY 12747 SULLIVAN ELAINE D DUFF 100 HUDSON ST APT 3A NEW YORK, NY 100132881 NEW YORK ELECTRA K SKLAVOS 177 MEADBROOK RD GARDEN CITY, NY 115301208 NASSAU ELIZABETH C BIBB 404 13TH ST APT 3 BROOKLYN, NY 112155174 KINGS EMILY KRAUSE 165 E 35TH ST APT 11G NEW YORK, NY 100164142 NEW YORK ERIN MARIE SKIRMENT 3671 WESTSIDE DRIVE CHURCHVILLE, NY 14428 MONROE ESTELLE KRAUSHAR 185 W END AVE APT 10F NEW YORK, NY 100235544 NEW YORK ESTHER S G MOY-CHIEN 2608 E 7TH ST BROOKLYN, NY 112356219 KINGS EUGENE ASHTONGONZALEZ 486 RODNEY ST APT 1 BROOKLYN, NY 112113439 KINGS FARSHID LIVIEM 24 FRANKLIN PL GREAT NECK, NY 110231229 NASSAU FENG YU GROSSMAN 105 PENFIELD AVE CROTON ON HUDSON, NY 10520-2738 WESTCHESTER FLORENCE P MCANALLY 2 TUDOR CITY PLACE 8 KN NEW YORK, NY 10017 NEW YORK GARY HE 39-75 65TH PL WOODSIDE, NY 11377-3780 QUEENS GASPARE SCATURRO 7833 79TH PL GLENDALE, NY 11385-7437 QUEENS

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GEORGE G GUARRELLA 155-58 COHANCY STREET HOWARD BEACH, NY 11414-2849 QUEENS GEORGIA C MELLIS 480 MUNROE AVE SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY 10591-1429 WESTCHESTER GERALD LYNCH 3123 SANDS PLACE BRONX, NY 10461-4611 BRONX GRACE P BOZICK 480 PARK AVE. APARTMENT 8D NEW YORK, NY 10022 NEW YORK GUY W NICHOLLS JR 35-06 73RD ST #3E JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372 QUEENS HADEAR KANDIL 240 E 93ST APT 16G NEW YORK, NY 101283767 NEW YORK HANNAH LAUREN ELLMAN 1 DANBURY CT APT 1712 SUFFERN, NY 10901-8034 ROCKLAND HARRY SCHWARTZMAN 365 BRIDGE ST APT 5M BROOKLYN, NY 11201-3803 KINGS HAYLEY BROOKE HEFFERNAN 95 LEXINGTON AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11238 KINGS HENRY JOSEPH DAVOLI 342 N LONG BEACH RD ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570 NASSAU HILDA HUTCHINSON 377 E 98TH ST BROOKLYN, NY 11212-4341 KINGS ILIANA BOINANDOR ALEXANDROVA 470 DECATUR ST APT 2 BROOKLYN, NY 11233-1501 KINGS ILYA KRAVETS 1556 HEWLETT HEATH RD. HEWLETT, NY 11557-1703 NASSAU IRINA GUSIN 6770 YELLOWSTONE BLVD APT 6U FOREST HILLS, NY 11375-2835 QUEENS JACQUELYN LYNETTE CARTER 240 EAST 39TH STREET APT 49A NEW YORK, NY 10016-7232 NEW YORK JAGDEEP SINGH GILL 81-33 COMMONWEALTH BOULEVARD BELLEROSE, NY 11426-1734 QUEENS JAMES J HUGHES 16 OXFORD RD MASSAPEQUA, NY 11758-5926 NASSAU

JAMES RIGOS 341 OLD COURTHOUSE ROAD NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040-1130 NASSAU JAMES WARREN 601 W 177TH ST APT 55 NEW YORK, NY 10033-7152 NEW YORK JASMINE SUBRAJ 5 BELLWOOD DR NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040-3712 NASSAU JASON AU 189 ALLEN ST 12C NEW YORK, NY 10002-1434 NEW YORK JESSICA BARENBOIM 6609 110 STREET, APT 2A FOREST HILLS, NY 113751911 QUEENS JODI L MARTIN 38 RAILY CT STATEN ISLAND, NY 10312-1677 RICHMOND JOEL AUSTIN DARLING 708 W 171ST ST APT 42B NEW YORK, NY 10032-2826 NEW YORK JOHANNA CRISTINE PEET 234 WASHINGTON AVE APT 2 BROOKLYN, NY 11205-4219 KINGS JOHN DEVIVO 10 EDEN WAY ROSLYN, NY 11576-1005 NASSAU JOHN HENRY LOBOS P.O. BOX 154 REXFORD, NY 12148-0154 SARATOGA JOHN PATRICK KEENAN 172 AVENUE C HOLBROOK, NY 11741 SUFFOLK JOHN STOLA 80 STA LLION TRL BREWSTER, NY 10509-4707 PUTNAM JON SHIREMAN 437 WEST 44TH ST #2RW NEW YORK, NY 10036 NEW YORK JOSE M DE LA ROSA 3101 AVE I APT 3G BROOKLYN, NY 112103850 KINGS JOSEPH C HARRIS 106 EVANS STREET HAMBURG, NY 14075 ERIE JOSHUA SETH BANKS 59 PARK PL # 1R BROOKLYN, NY 11217-3207 KINGS JUN LUKE FOSTER 9 WOODLAND TERRACE MERRICK, NY 11566-3114 NASSAU KATELYN MARIE GUALTIERI 407 EAST FRANKLIN ST. FAYETTEVILLE, NY 13066-2346 ONONDAGA

KATHERINE YEE 26 PARKVIEW DR SEARINGTOWN, NY 11507-1024 NASSAU KAUSHAL SHAH 200 FAIRHAVEN DR APT A16 JERICHO, NY 11753-2458 NASSAU KEN C IP 60 OREGON CT SYOSSET, NY 11791-3120 NASSAU KENNETH P NIEHAUS 205 W END AVE APT 29P NEW YORK, NY 10023-4851 NEW YORK KIERSTEN ELIZABETH SHINROCK 143 CRAWFORD STREET ROCHESTER, NY 14620-2419 MONROE KIMBERLY CAMAY MATOS 3619 203RD ST BAYSIDE, NY 11361-1123 QUEENS KOWSKY GEORGES 4715 AVE. I BROOKLYN, NY 11234-1431 KINGS KUMAR NAIK 360 W 43RD ST APT N4L NEW YORK, NY 10036-6461 NEW YORK LAURA A VERO 11 HORNE JOOKE RD PALISADES, NY 10964 ROCKLAND LAURA JEAN CUNNIFFEE 1060 PARK AVE APT 13G NEW YORK, NY 10128-1035 NEW YORK LAURENCE TOSI 345 PARK AVE FL 31 NEW YORK, NY 10154 NEW YORK LEVY HENDEL 763 EASTERN PARKWAY C1 BROOKLYN, NY 11213 KINGS LEWIS REAMES BOWERS JR 141-35 85TH ROAD APT 5G BRIARWOOD, NY 11435-2567 QUEENS LISA YANG 458 58TH STREET, 1ST FLOOR BROOKLYN, NY 11220 KINGS LORETTA DENNER TEN BROOKLANDS, #3F BRONXVILLE, NY 10708-3511 WESTCHESTER LUIS NOEL MINAYA 90 ST ANDREWS PL APT 3A YONKERS, NY 10705 WESTCHESTER MADELINE CAMACHO 216 WEST 78TH STREET APT 5C NEW YORK, NY 10024-6624 NEW YORK

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MALCOLM BURTRAM MYERS 4137 WESTSHORE MANOR RD JAMESVILLE, NY 13078-9683 ONONDAGA MALKIT SINGH GILL 81-33 COMMONWEALTH BOULEVARD BELLEROSE, NY 11426-1734 QUEENS MARCUS FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST 6 SCOTTS COVE LN EAST SETAUKET, NY 11733-3917 SUFFOLK MARGARET HORSTMANN 235 E 57TH ST APT 10C NEW YORK, NY 10022-2845 NEW YORK MARIA ALOISE 2440 WEST 3RD STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11223-5930 KINGS MARIA T SY-VINLUAN 2424 HIGH AVE VESTAL, NY 13850-2712 BROOME MARILYN ZASOWSKI 3701 SHEARMAN ROAD PERRY, NY 14530-9305 WYOMING MARINKA S STASSEN 205 W 54TH ST APT 4F NEW YORK, NY 10019-5526 NEW YORK MARLYN VERONICA LAWRIE-ROGERS 1919 MADISON AVE APT 616 NEW YORK, NY 10035-2738 NEW YORK MATTHEW SCOTT HILDERBRANDT 428 E 85TH ST APT 1B NEW YORK, NY 10028-6386 NEW YORK MATTHIAS BLONSKI 537 WEST 49TH STREET APARTMENT 15 NEW YORK, NY 10019-7159 NEW YORK MEI Z OR 2353 E 16TH ST BROOKLYN, NY 11229-4435 KINGS MERLE H HOFFMAN 1009 PARK AVE NEW YORK, NY 10028-0936 NEW YORK MICHAEL EDL 3223 88TH ST APT 205 EAST ELMHURST, NY 11369-2102 QUEENS MICHAEL JACOB KIRSCH 25 BROAD STREET APT 4E NEW YORK, NY 10004-2518 NEW YORK MICHAEL LAYTIN 60 E 9TH ST APT 232 NEW YORK, NY 10003 NEW YORK

605 BARBEY ST, LLC Arts of Org. filed with SSNY 7/22/2019. OFFICE: NY COUNTY. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, Attn: Madeline Perry, 978 Sterling PL, Brooklyn , NY 11213. Purpose: Any lawful Purpose.

MICHAEL LEWIS 345 E 80TH ST APT 17G NEW YORK, NY 10075-0683 NEW YORK MICHAEL PODOLSKY 130 COMBS AVE WOODMERE, NY 11598-1431 NASSAU MICHAEL T ACIERNO 64 CLEVELAND AVE STATEN ISLAND, NY 103082826 RICHMOND MICHAEL WILLIAM FLEMING 161 HIGHGATE RD ITHACA, NY 14850-1469 TOMPKINS MICHELLE J NASON 27 NICOLE COURT BOHEMIA, NY 11716 SUFFOLK MICHELLE REID 238 CARLTON AVE GROUND FLOOR BROOKLYN, NY 11205-4002 KINGS MIRIAM KAHAN IRREVOCABLE TRUST 243-07 73RD AVE DOUGLASTON, NY 11362 QUEENS MONICA MICHELLE VARONA 9122 85TH RD WOODHAVEN, NY 11421-1416 QUEENS NANDINI UMESH YADAV 118 E 91ST ST APT 3D NEW YORK, NY 10128-1696 NEW YORK NATALIE HOLME ELSBERG 300 CENTRAL PARK WEST APT 10B NEW YORK, NY 10024-1592 NEW YORK NATALIYA SULYK 7932 68TH AVE MIDDLE VILLAGE, NY 11379-2913 QUEENS NEIL ANDREW BERNER 150 FALLON AVE ELMONT, NY 11003-3610 NASSAU NORMAN H LIGHT 630 VICTORY BLVD APT 2C STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301-3524 RICHMOND NYELLE RHEA BARLEY 1264 E 99TH STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11236-5029 KINGS PAQUITA VILLAHERRERA 237 DEER PARK AVE APT 4 BABYLON, NY 11702-2814 SUFFOLK PATRICIA ANN LEE 37 BUENA VISTA RD NEW CITY, NY 10956-1303 ROCKLAND

BREGS REALTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/13/19. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 26 Delavan Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

PAUL W LATTIMORE III 15 OAK MEADOW TRL PITTSFORD, NY 145343263 MONROE PETER C GRANT 371 BERGEN STREET APT #1 BROOKLYN, NY 11217 KINGS PHYLLIS WILK 1400 DARTMOUTH ST BALDWIN, NY 11510 NASSAU POLLOCK FAMILY 2009 IRR TRUST 90 STATE STREET SUITE 1009 ALBANY, NY 12207-1710 ALBANY RACHEL BETH SANDLER 5 OXFORD LANE SCARSDALE, NY 10583-1002 WESTCHESTER RACHEL COHEN 245 E 44TH ST APT 21F NEW YORK, NY 10017-4341 NEW YORK RAINER ALBERT OEHM 124 COLUMBIA HTS BROOKLYN, NY 11201-1600 KINGS RALPH W MARTEL 55 BETHUNE ST APT C312 NEW YORK, NY 10014-2010 NEW YORK RAMONA HARRISON 2804 44TH ST, #5 ASTORIA, NY 11103-2119 QUEENS RAUZA UMRYAYEVA 1818 OCEAN AVE APT 5S BROOKLYN, NY 11230-6265 KINGS REBEKAH ANN FUNK 124 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS BROOKLYN, NY 11201-1600 KINGS RESTY BRIAN SOBERANO 109 WASHINGTON AVE. ISLAND PARK, NY 11558 NASSAU RICHARD A WHITEHALL 302 WASHINGTON AVE APT 2 BROOKLYN, NY 11205-4200 KINGS RICHARD T CARDONE 23 MEADOW RD SCARSDALE, NY 10583-7642 WESTCHESTER RITA SCHLOSKY 311 E 75TH ST APT 6B NEW YORK, NY 10021-3037 NEW YORK

ROBERT GRAHAM MCNAMARA 1713 DORWALDT BLVD NISKAYUNA, NY 12309-5113 SCHENECTADY ROGACIANO DY MERCADER 40-85 DENMAN ST. APT. 3-R ELMHURST, NY 11373 QUEENS ROLANDO ALEXANDER MUNOZ 41-17 DENMAN STREET ELMHURST, NY 113732269 QUEENS SAMANTHA MILDRED VELEZ ELGOT 167 KELLY AVE PINE BUSH, NY 12566-7701 ORANGE SANDEEP MASSAND 20 OMNI PARC DR NANUET, NY 10954-5904 ROCKLAND SANTO THOMAS ABRAHAM 61 PEARL ST NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040-3813 NASSAU SARAH C STOKES 272 W 107TH APT 20A NEW YORK, NY 10025 NEW YORK SARAH E POITRAS 235 ADAMS STREET 12I BROOKLYN, NY 11201-2879 KINGS SARAH R DAHAN 25 CENTRAL PARK W APT 2T NEW YORK, NY 10023-7214 NEW YORK SARKIS KARAYAN 331 W 57TH ST. #359 NEW YORK, NY 10019 NEW YORK SASHA-KAYE ALICIA SCOTT 8 URBAN STREET # 3F MOUNT VERNON, NY 10552 WESTCHESTER SHAKIL AHMED 7420 44TH AVE ELMHURST, NY 11373-2923 QUEENS SIMON YI 233 DECATUR STREET APT #3 BROOKLYN, NY 11233 KINGS STANISLAV SHRAYBMAN 260 65TH STREET APT.#8L BROOKLYN, NY 11220-4849 KINGS

STANLEY CHAN 275 CHERRY ST APT 10D NEW YORK, NY 10002-7945 NEW YORK STELLA MEI TING YAP 45 TUDOR CITY PL APT 1011 NEW YORK, NY 10017-7607 NEW YORK SUNNY MUI 108 MADISON STREET APT#16 NEW YORK, NY 10002-2658 NEW YORK SUSAN I MASTER 80 BAY ST LANDING 1J STATEN ISLAND, NY 10301-2546 RICHMOND SUSAN SALLY REISS 2775 EAST 12 STREET APT 717 BROOKLYN, NY 11235 KINGS SUSI W ARDIWINATA 81-11 PETTIT AVE APT 3E ELMHURST, NY 11373-3146 QUEENS SUZANNE ELOVIC 250 W 90TH ST APT 9G NEW YORK, NY 10024-1141 NEW YORK TED EDWARDS 94 NEWPORT BRIDGE RD WARWICK, NY 10990-2356 ORANGE THOMAS BEACHDEL 309 EAST 8TH STREET APT. C1 NEW YORK, NY 10009 NEW YORK THOMAS MICHAEL ALONSO 255 HAMPTON GRN STATEN ISLAND, NY 10312-1741 RICHMOND THOMAS RYAN EUCKER 5013 LAZY K TRAIL BALLSTON SPA, NY 12020 SARATOGA TIMOTHY NETTLETON HATFIELD 307 STERLING PLACE APT. #1 BROOKLYN, NY 11238 KINGS TREVIN PETERSON 1050 WESTERN ROAD CASTLETON, NY 12033 RENSSELAER TREVOR WINSTEAD 131 W. 11TH ST. APT. 5 NEW YORK, NY 10011 NEW YORK

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VENEDIKT MARKOV 9 EAST 79 STREET NEW YORK, NY 10075-0123 NEW YORK WARREN DINGOTT 2684 BEDFORD AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11210 KINGS WENDY PADOB 320 EAST 23RD STREET APT 9N NEW YORK, NY 10010 NEW YORK

A REPORT OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY WILL BE MADE TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE III OF THE ABANDONED PROPERTY LAW. A LIST OF THE NAMES CONTAINED IN SUCH NOTICE IS ON FILE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE BANK, LOCATED AT 2360 CORPORATE CIRCLE, HENDERSON, NV 89074, WHERE SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY IS PAYABLE. SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY WILL BE PAID ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 30, 2019 TO PERSONS ESTABLISHING TO ITS SATISFACTION THEIR RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAME. IN THE SUCCEEDING NOVEMBER, AND ON OR BEFORE THE TENTH DAY THEREOF, SUCH UNCLAIMED PROPERTY WILL BE PAID TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND SHALL THEREUPON CEASE TO BE LIABLE THEREFORE.TO CLAIM YOUR FUNDS DIRECTLY FROM CHARLES SCHWAB BANK, PLEASE CONTACT (888) 403-9000 BEFORE OCTOBER 30, 2019. CHARLES SCHWAB BANK, P.O. BOX 982605, EL PASO, TX 79998-2605

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STORAGE NOTICE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170th Street, Bronx, NY 10459 At 6:00 P.M. on September 10th, 2019 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified In each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture Of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names:

-ALI, AMADU -AKINS, APRILLE -ALEXANDER, JASON -BOYEV, LYUDMILA -BABATIVA, JENNY -CASTRO, TANIA/NOLASCO, LUIS -DELECOLLE, ARNAUD -ENTO, PHILEMOND -GLASGOW, SHEVRON -GAINES, RAYSHANA -HAYNES, LIONEL -KHMEL, NYSKA LIUDMYLA -LIU LI/ ZHONG SHI LI -MOBLEY, DEBRA -MEJIA, ELIONORA -MCQUEEN, RUTH -MORALES, EMIRA -OVEIDO, NELLIE

-OSTEWIK, CRAIG -PUJOLS, MARIA -PEGU,JINA/CASTELLANO, RANDY -RICE, SHADAE -REGAN, YARROW -RITTER, BRAD/JAVIER, MARIA -SMITH, SYLVESTER -TEJADA-SUAREZ LUIS/ PERALTA CORCINO YANEIRA -WATKINS, LEONARD -WILLIAMS, KYAMEESHA -WILSON, BENJAMIN -LORI, STOUT -MOTLEY, SHAIDA -DELORBE, DAMARY/ MONEGRO, LYNELDA

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS SRP 2012-4, LLC, Plaintiff, Against

Index No.: 520351/2016

EZEKIEL AKANDE, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 12/11/2018, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on 9/26/2019 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 34 Jackson Place, Brooklyn, NY 11215, and described as follows: 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 1055 and Lot 42. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $376,471.69 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 520351/2016. Leonard Spector, Esq., Referee. Richland & Falkowski, PLLC, 35-37 36th Street, 2nd Floor, ASTORIA, NY 11106 Dated: 8/8/2019 PB

Notice of Qualification of SIERRA HEALTH GROUP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/12/19. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/25/18. 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Auction Notice of Qualification of Launch Servicing, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/09/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/27/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 402 West Broadway, 20th Fl., San Diego, CA 92101. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Qualification of QMB 2 Energy Storage, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/8/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/25/19. 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 address of LLC: CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

otice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: AREP UTICA AVENUE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/16/2019. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is The LLC 315 Flatbush Avenue, Box 433 Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Berger812 LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 8-1319. Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to c/o Dentons US LLP, Attn: Brian E. Rafferty, 1221 6th Ave., NY, NY 10020. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

DRIFTWOOD PECONIC BAY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/07/2019. 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, Unit First Floor, The Gramercy, 25 East 21st Street, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of GAMBLIT GAMING, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/2019. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/06/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o CT Corporation, 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St, Corp Trust Center, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Inbox Collective LLC Arts of Org filed with the SSNY (SSNY) on July 11, 2019. Office loc: NY Co. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, Attn: 400 East 55th Street apt. 12d, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on September 5, 2019 and end on September 19, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain miscellaneous items: #9P01A – Nicklaus Jones: Tri Pods, 1- computer chair, 3 – sewing machines, paintings, 10-boxes, suitcase, stool, chest of drawers, ironing board, bags; #3L24 – Andres L. Helm : 10-bags, boxes, luggage, shopping cart, miscellaneous furniture. The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Qualification of QMB 3 Energy Storage, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/8/19. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/25/19. 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 address of LLC: CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at three locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 84 feet on a building with an overall height of 84 feet at the approx. vicinity of 38-01 23rd Avenue, Astoria, Queens County, NY 11105. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 104 feet on a building with an overall height of 104 feet at the approx. vicinity of 68 West 238th St., Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10463. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 74 feet on a building with an overall height of 74 feet, at the approx. vicinity of 2434 Prospect Ave, Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10458. 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.

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DANIEL PANTALEO It just took five years, but the NYPD finally figured out what to do with the officer whose actions led to Eric Garner’s death. In a decision that the police commissioner called “difficult,” he fired Daniel Pantaleo and stripped most of his pension benefits. Still, it’s not like Pantaleo doesn’t still have his supporters. A GoFundMe raised more than $100,000 for the controversial officer, while the police union has his back.

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The NYPD sergeant in charge during Eric Garner’s death avoided a messy trial.

BRAD HOYLMAN & RICHARD GOTTFRIED

The legislators sunk advertiser’s dreams, bidding bon voyage to floating billboards.

ANDRE WALLACE

Mount Vernon’s Shakespearean drama came to an end, with Wallace as mayor.

ANDREW YANG

The Schenectady native is NY’s most viable Dem after qualifying for the next debate.

CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton

His revered Di Fara pizzeria was seized by the state for owing serious dough.

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Old congressional campaign accounts aren’t a slush fund to get sloshed on.

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SHAWN MORSE

Not domestic violence allegations, not an election, but wire fraud finally got the Cohoes mayor booted once and for all.

FRANK SEDDIO

A Golden Corral investment wasn’t a golden ticket for the BK boss’ finances.

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THOMAS DINAPOLI Preaudit authority over certain state contracts has finally been restored to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, something that was stripped away years ago. After language that would return the power was removed from the state budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration said it had returned the power in practice, just not in statute. DiNapoli disagreed. If only Cuomo had let the comptroller stay in comptrol all along, we might have avoided that whole Buffalo Billion scandal.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo – a self-described sausage aficionado – isn’t above picking favorites when it comes to spiced meat cylinders. He’s had a Syracuse-made Gianelli sausage every year at the Great New York State Fair, irking some other vendors. Cuomo’s political rival, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, picked a clear food favorite last week too, vowing to “do anything” to bail out tax-cheating Di Fara Pizza. We at City & State never pick favorites – just winners and losers.

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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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