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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

I WAS A REPORTER for the Daily News 20 years ago during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. I, like many journalists that day, went down to where the Twin Towers stood in lower Manhattan to begin reporting on the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil in our nation’s history. Almost 3,000 lives were lost. Countless first responders would later die from illnesses they developed from exposure to the pile at ground zero. Despite the horrors of what we reporters saw, including the pain and grief expressed over those who were lost and injured, we also witnessed the incredible resilience of New Yorkers, plus the kindness of thousands of Americans who came to help us. Together, we got through this nightmare. I couldn’t imagine what the future would be like. But I held out hope that the spirit of unity that followed such an unimaginable event would not only carry us through to better times, but that it would stay with us. We would emerge better as a people. Sadly, Americans are more divided than ever these days by politics and disagreements over how much the government should intervene in their lives. The Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was the culmination of this divisiveness. This latest anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks should not be lost in the disagreements we have as a nation. Instead, it should be the catalyst for reunification, and it should start with our political leaders. We know we all can do better, especially because of what was so often said then: “Never forget.”

Many New York towns are welcoming Amazon.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

20TH ANNIVERSARY … 8

9/11 scarred New York. How have we changed?

ERIC ADAMS … 14

Unions try to befriend the likely next mayor.

TAX BREAKS … 18 There’s no shortage of handouts for Amazon. UNIONIZING … 24

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Amazon workers are struggling to band together.

NEW YORK CITY LABOR 100 … 29

The leaders who are evolving the movement.

WINNERS & LOSERS … 78 Who was up and who was down last week

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“From now on, what I think we do is tell New Yorkers to expect the very, very worst. It may sound alarmist at times. But unfortunately, it’s being proven by nature.” Flooding in New York City and surrounding areas from remnants of Hurricane Ida killed dozens, paralyzed public transit and shut down the Long Island Expressway, above.

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2-year-old in Queens was among those who were killed by the storm. A record 3.15 inches of rain fell in the course of one hour in Central Park, shattering the old record of 1.94 inches set just the week before. By the time the storm had passed, the city had experienced over 8 inches of rain in just one

As the remnants of Hurricane Ida moved through the Northeast, the New York City area was drenched with torrential downpours and intense flooding that left at least 12 people dead, most of whom drowned in their basements. A

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night. The flooding shut down every subway line and caused suspensions on the commuter rail lines. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority had to evacuate subway cars stuck between stations, which left some passengers stranded for hours. Feet-deep rainwater in streets and expressways left drivers

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In New York City, 13 essential workers were charged with the illegal (and expensive) mistake of buying fake COVID-19 vaccination cards off a New Jersey vendor in order to circumvent the city’s vaccine mandate. The gambit, which ultimately failed, proved that the state’s Excelsior Pass can be vulnerable to fraud too – as if that wasn’t already clear.

with no choice but to abandon their cars as roads like the Bronx River Parkway effectively became rivers. Although the rain was expected, officials seemed caught off guard by the unprecedented volume of rain that fell over a short period of time as evacuation orders and warnings like those seen when the region was hit by Tropical Storm Henri did not come, and an emergency declaration was not made until flooding was well underway. In the aftermath of the storm, Gov. Kathy Hochul committed to investigating the state’s apparent lack of preparedness as she and other politicians including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer emphasized the need to tackle climate change as catastrophic weather events are becoming more common.

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Hochul called lawmakers back to Albany for an extraordinary session to extend the eviction moratorium, which had expired on Aug. 31, and to dedicate some more money to the rent relief program to help both struggling tenants and landlords. Hochul controlled the agenda, which she kept narrow. Lawmakers were

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limited to acting on evictions, rent relief and confirming two appointments to leadership positions in the new Office of Cannabis Management. Although criminal justice reform advocates would have liked to see action on parole reform and passage of the Clean Slate Act, Hochul did not expand the agenda. Lawmakers did as they were instructed and passed a bill extending the moratorium until Jan. 15, 2022 and another adding millions of dollars to the rent relief program. Housing and tenant advocates celebrated the move after expressing deep concern over looming evictions. Not long after Hochul signed the extended moratorium into law, however, a landlord group sued to block enforcement. The state Senate also confirmed former Assembly Member Tremaine Wright to chair the Cannabis Control Board and legalization advocate Christopher Alexander as executive director of the Office of Cannabis Management. The

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extraordinary session may have had some unintended consequences too, as at least two members of the Assembly have tested positive for COVID-19 since going to Albany.

ELECTRICAL HICCUP WREAKS SUBWAY HAVOC

Before Ida swept through the region causing massive issues for the trains, half the subway system temporarily shut down. Con Edison experienced a momentary voltage dip, which caused a power surge for most New York City residents, though not a full outage. But a series of failures with the MTA power systems led to systemwide problems that left straphangers trapped on trains and caused service on many train lines to come to a standstill. Hochul directed the MTA to hire outside engineering firms to investigate the unprecedented failures to ensure a similar situation never happens again.

The push for in-person learning Members of the New York City Council Education Committee during a hearing last week pressed education and health officials on one persisting question: Why, amid rising COVID-19 cases, is the city still not offering a remote learning option to all families? With less than two weeks before the start of school on Sept. 13, the third academic year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city is sticking to its plan to get as many students as possible back inside classrooms on a full-time basis. That means allowing only a small subset of students to be eligible for remote learning as the school year begins, including students with underlying conditions that make remote instruction “medically necessary.” But in recent weeks, some city lawmakers and education advocates have stepped up calls to make remote learning more widely available. When the city Department of Education released its guidelines for reopening, confirming that remote learning won’t be offered to all families, those calls increased. “I’m in support of a remote option for families,” Education Commit-

tee Chair Mark Treyger said at the City Council hearing. Treyger and others on the committee have drawn attention to the fact that the delta variant of the coronavirus is more contagious than previous variants and that unvaccinated students – including all students under 12, who are not yet eligible for the vaccine – remain vulnerable. Officials in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, meanwhile, emphasized that schools are not only taking steps to make in-person learning safe, but that it is the best option for students who at this point have lost out on many months of typical learning. But some education advocates argued that families deserve the flexibility to choose the best way for their children to learn. “Every single parent who wants a remote option should have an option to have it, period,” Dia Bryant, executive director at advocacy group The Education Trust-New York, told City & State last week. And the push for a remote learning option will likely continue in the remaining days before school starts. – Annie McDonough

Gov. Kathy Hochul was clear that the MTA is her responsibility, another point of divergence from her predecessor.

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THURSDAY 9/9 State Sen. Brian Benjamin is sworn in as New York’s new lieutenant governor.

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The game of musical chairs will continue in the search for Benjamin’s replacement in the state Senate, especially if a member of the Assembly takes his spot.

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The New York City Council Committee on Higher Education holds a 10 a.m. oversight hearing at City Hall on mental health resources for students at CUNY.

New York City marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, with President Joe Biden and other dignitaries expected to attend ceremonies in lower Manhattan.

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ELECTEDS FLOCKED TO THE STATE FAIR FOR SOME GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PHOTO OPS AND SPECULATION.

THE MOST WONDERFUL time of year is officially behind us: the New York State Fair! The past two weeks have seen some of the biggest names in state politics eat some of the most deeply fried foods you can imagine, with nothing else on their minds. That’s right folks, there is no political posturing to be seen, just a bunch of power players appreciating the fine art of butter sculpture. Nothing to read into, just vibes.

Until recently, the biggest component of Kathy Hochul’s job was holding media availabilities, cutting ribbons, and … attending fairs. Now that she’s governor, she still gets to attend the state fair, but onlookers get to hypothesize on what her choice of sausage sandwich means for her legislative priorities.

What is state Attorney General Letitia James doing at the state fair? Making new friends and trying fried pickles for the first time. What is she not doing at the state fair? Giving a definite answer on whether or not she’s running for governor in 2022, and it’s inappropriate of you to even ask! Now if you’ll excuse her, she’s going to take a much needed nap at the Metro Mattress stand.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins once again shattered the glass ceiling by becoming the first majority leader to visit the cow birthing center at the state fair. Queen.

Carl Heastie isn’t letting the haters (in his own party) get him down for backing down on impeachment proceedings. He’s busy rocking a Prince necklace and eating Perry’s ice cream with his Assembly colleagues at the state fair. Andrew Cuomo who?

The butter sculpture, a must-see for politicians.

Jumaane Williams returned to the site of his first fried Oreo, the snack that served as an appetizer for his 2018 primary challenge against Kathy Hochul for lieutenant governor. This year, as he admits he’s “actively considering” a run for governor, he is also considering a fried peanut butter sandwich.

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So many of us have been screaming about this for so long and basically have been told that we are hysterical.

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What’s your reaction to the stringent restrictions on abortions that Texas enacted this week? I think the thing that feels so upsetting is that so many of us have been screaming about this for so long and basically have been told that we are hysterical or we should just calm down, because this is a constitutional right and nothing’s gonna happen to Roe. And clearly, we knew that something could happen to Roe, because it’s not codified into the law at the federal level, and it can be overturned. So we’re seeing the beginnings of that. If you just flip back to 2017, when

it after 10 years of people – I’m just going to be very straight up with you, we passed it after 10 years of men stopping it.

I worked on the Second Floor, the bill that I worked on was the Reproductive Health Act. It not passing in 2017 really motivated me to run because (Donald) Trump was president, and I thought, at any moment, this is something that can be overturned and New York has to be on the right side of this, because people are going to rely on us to protect them. It was like the centerpiece of my campaign. It was the thing that I wanted people to understand. And when I told people about the bill, they actually already thought that New York had those protections in place. But we obviously passed it in 2019. But we passed

The Reproductive Health Act in 2019 codified abortion rights into New York state law, but what barriers to accessing a safe and affordable abortion still exist here? I think when we talk about reproductive justice, it is more than just securing the right to an abortion. It’s making sure that we’re ripping down the roadblocks for accessing that right. If you can’t access it because of things like,

for example, child care or transportation or time off of work, then really, what are we saying? We’re saying that this is a right only for those who are financially in a secure place. It impacts lowincome and young people, and people of color. Your proposed bill would give New York taxpayers the option to contribute to an abortion access fund on their tax forms. How does that fund and this bill address this accessibility issue? We’re giving people an option to essentially put their values into action by contributing

to the fund on their tax forms. And so the money that they donate goes into the operational and programmatic expenses of not-forprofits that are providing the logistical and also the financial support to people who need abortions. It’s things like transportation, it’s things like the actual procedure of abortion itself. It’s things like child care costs. Codifying Roe v. Wade was an amazing feat that we overcame, and we did. But also, it’s not enough. And I think telling ourselves the story that it’s enough is delusional. – Annie McDonough

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Twenty years after 9/11: Better protected, but at what cost? The NYPD’s counterterrorism operation has undergone a massive transformation since 2001.

WO DECADES HAVE passed since New York City was ground zero in the deadliest terrorist plot in American history. In response to the attack, the United States launched a military invasion of Afghanistan, an ill-fated mission that came to a stunning close when the Taliban retook control of the country last month. The ability of New York to

protect itself, however, has advanced well beyond where it was in 2001, even as the city’s scaled-up counterterrorism capabilities have received pushback. The catastrophe of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks set in motion a major restructuring of the national security apparatus, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, the consolidation of the Immigration and Natu-

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ralization Service and the U.S. Customs Service into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and the passage of the Patriot Act. At the same time, city task forces became a central component of the law enforcement response to terrorist threats – and nowhere was that response more determined than New York. New York City already had a counterterrorism program prior to 9/11. In 1980, the NYPD and FBI had developed the country’s first Joint Terrorism Task Force, which focused primarily on domestic terrorist activity. At the time of the World Trade Center attacks, however, the task force focused largely on security for diplomats and dignitaries. With the aftershock of the Sept. 11 attacks still reverberating throughout the city and country, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly began to ramp up the city’s ability to detect and prevent terrorist attacks in a manner unprecedented

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for a municipal police force. To work alongside the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Kelly created two new bureaus in the department: one for counterterrorism and one for intelligence. To lead the new bureaus he brought in David Cohen, the former deputy director of the CIA’s operations wing, and Michael Sheehan, who had been the coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department. Kelly recruited other high-level officials from the federal government, including the CIA, Homeland Security, the State Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. He deployed police officers to 11 countries to act as listening posts for the city, expanded cooperation with law enforcement agencies throughout the region, and sought to diversify the force both linguistically and culturally. “It was a challenge, like a battleship – to

“New types of technology have the potential to create a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week surveillance state where the movement and identity of every single person are automatically tracked by the government.” – state Sen. Brad Hoylman

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Lower Manhattan has been forever changed by the attacks. In addition to memorials, the neighborhood is blanketed in surveillance technology.

turn it in another direction takes time and a lot of effort,” Kelly told City & State in 2016. Rapidly increasing the scale of the city’s counterterrorism activities required an enormous redistribution of resources. The ranks of the counterterrorism force eventually grew to more than a thousand people. Some cultural adjustments had to be made as intelligence analysts began closely collaborating with uniformed detectives. Hurdles in intelligence sharing between the NYPD and federal agencies also had to be overcome. In 2008, the Counterterrorism Bureau launched the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, or LMSI, an extensive network of thousands of security cameras, license plate readers and radiological and chemical sensors that fed data into a dashboard called the Domain Awareness System, allowing video feeds to be monitored from

a single location in real time. The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative was later expanded to Midtown, followed by the outer boroughs. The counterterrorism program continued to grow throughout the second decade following the 9/11 attack, with its operational budget increasing by $93 million – or 8% – between fiscal years 2010 and 2020, according to the Citizens Budget Commission. Funding from Washington has contributed substantially to the expansion of the program. Since the Urban Area Security Initiative was signed into law in 2003, a quarter of the $2.3 billion allocated through it has gone to New York City. In fiscal year 2021, the city budgeted almost $189 million on “Intelligence and Counterterrorism” in addition to nearly $109 million in federal grants earmarked for “Security/Counterterrorism,” according to the Budget Function Analysis.

When Bill Bratton returned for his second stint as NYPD chief in 2014, he placed both the counterterrorism and intelligence bureaus that his predecessor had created under a single deputy commissioner, John Miller, who continues in that post to this day. In his previous career as a CBS correspondent, Miller had interviewed Osama Bin Laden, and he later served as the FBI’s national spokesperson, and ran the counterterrorism bureau at the Los Angeles Police Department. By 2014 the threat picture had changed: the primary concern had become ISIS, which was seeking to recruit and inspire homegrown jihadists through social media and other internet platforms. After the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, Bratton created two new units: the Critical Response Command and the Strategic Response Group. These units were designed to prevent and respond to unfolding terrorist attacks – particularly the sort of synchronized attacks that have occurred in Europe – more quickly and forcefully than ordinary police patrols. Under Bratton and Miller, the Counterterrorism Bureau initiated a “collaborative reset,” including in the realm of community relations. As time passed and the shock of 9/11 wore off, the scope of the NYPD’s surveillance activities had come under greater scrutiny. In 2007, the department released a report entitled: “Radicalization in the West 2007: The Homegrown Threat,” which critics claimed advanced a rudimentary and alarmist view of the radicalization process. One of the most controversial initiatives was the creation of the Demographics Unit, which sent plainclothes officers or informants into businesses, student associations, charities and mosques to map out daily life in neighborhoods with large Muslim populations. Muslim leaders and civil liberties advocates also lambasted, when it came to light several years later, a program that conducted similarly broad surveillance of the city’s Moroccan community. “They say the Demographics Unit has been officially shut down – hopefully it has – but let’s also put into perspective the fact that their level of surveillance on the Muslim community was something that they hid,” said Afaf Nasher, the executive director of the New York chapter of the

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In the aftermath of 9/11, the federal government began collaborating more closely with the NYPD. Right, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani address the media at ground zero in November 2001.

Sisitzky, senior policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union, who leads its police transparency and accountability campaign. “So much of the NYPD surveillance infrastructure was only known to the public through litigation or leaks or investigative reporting or FOIL requests that went through multiple layers of litigation, so it was really challenging to get a sense of what the NYPD actually has in its arsenal.” Despite the passage of the POST Act, Sisitzky said that the “the department is still doing everything it can to limit the amount of information that they are making public.” Sisitzky also expressed concern that the NYPD was deploying counterterrorism resources – such as drones and facial recognition technology – in policing everyday crime as well as Black Lives Matter protests. Bratton, however, criticized elected officials for limiting the NYPD’s ability to take advantage of technological innovations, such as facial recognition tools, drones and even an electronic dog. “What

“The threat level here in New York City is always one of the biggest, and we have to be on our p’s and q’s at all times, but I think that we are better prepared now than we were in 2001.” – Rep. Gregory Meeks

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Council on Islamic-American Relations. Nasher added that new technologies have changed the way the department operates. “The NYPD is still doing surveillance – it’s just a matter of how they are doing surveillance,” she said. Hannah Meyers, a former civilian intelligence analyst at the NYPD, told City & State that the department had to make “tweaks” in response to concerns from the Muslim community, but that analysts and detectives were required to undertake a significant amount of “legwork” when their investigations could infringe upon the civil liberties of an individual. “The amount of approval that has to go through is very large, and has expanded over the years,” said Meyers, who is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute. State Sen. Robert Jackson, who is Muslim, told City & State that in the wake of 9/11 the NYPD was aggressively pursuing investigations throughout the metropolitan area, and recalled the concerns of an imam who had been targeted. However, Jackson also pointed out that today there are more Muslims on the force, and in general concerns over surveillance are not as prominent as they once were. “I don’t think it’s a problem at all at this point in time,” he said. According to former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, building trust within communities is essential to success in combating terrorism as well as everyday crime, saying he made an effort to recruit Muslim officers. “The gathering of information from the community – whatever its makeup – is extraordinarily important because no matter how good and efficient law enforcement – federal, state or local – is, it relies significantly on information that is voluntarily delivered by the public,” Bratton told City & State. Disagreements over how to balance public safety and privacy concerns continue to pit the NYPD against civil liberties advocates and elected officials. Last year, the City Council passed the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, which mandates greater transparency around the use of new surveillance technologies. “It’s hard to push back against what you don’t know, and that was the initial impetus behind the POST Act,” said Michael

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the NYPD is up against is a very progressive, liberal City Council, many of whom were not even adults when 9/11 occurred, so when I talk about history – those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it – much of our leadership at the moment does not know the history of terrorism in the country and basically are putting unnecessary restrictions on the NYPD, particularly in the use of technology and capabilities to defeat potential terrorism threats,” he said. Last year, state Sen. Brad Hoylman, chair of the Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill that would prohibit law enforcement from using facial recognition and other biometric surveillance technology, such as retina scans and voice identification. “Our law enforcement community does admirable work to keep us safe, but new types of technology have the potential to create a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week surveillance state where the movement and identity of every single person are automatically tracked by the government,” Hoylman told City & State. “It sounds a

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little hyperbolic, but it’s not. China has a vast DNA database and an enormous network of surveillance cameras and it is capable of using this type of technology to monitor the movement of people within its borders.” According to Hoylman, there is currently no regulatory framework to provide oversight of the new technology, which, he added, has been shown to have a high failure rate at identifying people of color and, in some cases, transgender people. Even those who have reservations about the privacy tradeoffs involved in expanding law enforcement’s surveillance capabilities appreciate the fact that there has been no major terrorist attack in New York since 2001. Experts say it is difficult, however, to assess the extent to which the counterterrorism activities have been responsible for protecting the city. “When it comes to prevention of events it is very hard both in the traditional crime space and in the intelligence sector to demonstrate what you have prevented, because you don’t always know,” said Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens

Crime Commission of New York City. The NYPD has not publicized many instances in which it has disrupted terrorist plots over the years, but there are reasons that law enforcement agencies sometimes choose to withhold that kind of information, such as it would cause the public to panic or compromise a source. “There is a lot of intel that has been collected over the years, but in terms of actual tactical responses there were very few over the years, and we still don’t know if it’s a matter of luck or just something else,” said Maki Haberfeld, a professor of police science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “I think we’re better prepared than most of the cities around the country and world, but with terrorists you never know what you’re not prepared for.” Bratton told City & State that the NYPD had thwarted 50 plots since 9/11, but the department did not respond to a request for specific data demonstrating the effectiveness of its counterterrorism program or any other questions submitted by City & State. The 20th anniversary of 9/11 finds the country in an unsettled moment. In June, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a new strategy to combat domestic terrorism, following Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the Pentagon’s press secretary told reporters that “a reassessment of the possibilities for reconstitution of terrorist networks inside Afghanistan is warranted.” ISIS, meanwhile, continues to operate in rural areas of Syria and Iraq, as well as Afghanistan. Rep. Gregory Meeks, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told City & State that it’s a “different world” today than it was 20 years ago. Meeks spoke of a visit he had made to One Police Plaza, recalling that it was “absolutely amazing to watch the entire operation.” “The threat level here in New York City is always one of the biggest, and we have to be on our p’s and q’s at all times, but I think that we are better prepared now than we were in 2001,” Meeks said. “Our eyes and ears are more open and the technology that we utilize is even greater.”

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HE WAY ERIC ADAMS talks, you’d think his expected election as the next mayor of New York City would be the biggest win for labor unions since the 40-hour workweek. “You should feel good because one of your own will become the mayor of the city of New York. One of your own,” Adams said to members of Construction & General Building Laborers’ Local 79 on Aug. 23 in the South Bronx. “Probably the first time in history that a union member will become the mayor.” (Not quite – John Hylan, mayor from 1918 through 1925 and William O’Dwyer, mayor from 1946 to 1950, reportedly once belonged to unions.) “I am you! I am you!” Adams said – a line that he’s been using on the campaign trail for months as he picked up the most high-impact labor endorsements in the crowded Democratic mayoral field. Adams showed love for Local 79, and the union loved him back. “He’s a hardworking guy like the laborers that we are,” Chaz Rynkiewicz, the local’s vice president, said when introducing Adams. “You guys like hard work?” A cheer went up in the orange-clad crowd. Local 79 may have some more hard work ahead if the union wants to be on Adams’ good side. After all, the local endorsed one of Adams’ leading rivals, Scott Stringer, in the Democratic mayoral primary, and an affiliated political action committee spent $333,334 backing Stringer’s run. It’s not like Adams was tight with the union before that – he’s often criticized the city’s construction trade unions for not having enough workers of color, and he stood against Local 79 on safety training legislation and prevailing wage legislation. Now, in the honeymoon period after the primary, everybody in labor wants to be Adams’ friend, and Adams wants to be friends with labor. But that’s easier said than done, as a number of unions will have to weigh just how hard they want to work to keep Adams on their side. The United Federation of Teachers may also have one of the greatest challenges in cultivating the new mayor as an ally. After all, the UFT spent $3.75 million supporting Stringer’s mayoral campaign and continued spending even after decades-old sexual harassment accusations against

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While most unions are eager to praise Eric Adams, New York City’s likely next mayor hasn’t always been on their sides.

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Adams has received new union support as he prepares for the November general election.

Stringer became public and most political observers stopped considering him to be a viable contender. Hindsight is 20/20, now that Adams won the primary, but it’s not as if he would have been a good fit for the union’s politics anyway. Adams has been far too accepting of charter schools for the UFT’s liking. And while Stringer was talking about putting two teachers in every elementary school classroom (read: more UFT members), Adams was postulating that, for some summer classes, one instructor could virtually teach 300 to 400 students at the same time. (Adams later walked it back.) UFT President Michael Mulgrew said the union has some concerns about Adams’ policy positions. But the labor leader told City & State he expects a good, constructive relationship. “Especially someone like Eric who’s been here and run for so many offices and we’ve worked with him at different times – there is an understanding that politics is politics, and governing is governing,” Mulgrew said. “It is what it is. Let’s move forward.” Adams broadly speaks a lot about government efficiency and specifically pitched a two-year hiring freeze of city workers. Plans like that scare unions, which are always looking to grow. But this honeymoon period is all about finding common ground, and Mulgrew pointed out that Adams and the UFT agree that the bureaucracy at the Department of Education has gotten too bloated. “Eric was very clear during the primary process that the Department of Education needs to be completely restructured,” Mulgrew said. “And that is something we agree with.” A potential Adams administration and Mulgrew would also have to find agreement on a new contract relatively quickly. The UFT’s contract expires in September 2022 and neither side would likely want a drawn-out battle. Of course, the UFT has been here before – the union endorsed Bill Thompson in the 2013 Democratic mayoral primary and then had to work in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s New York. That transition was far more dramatic than this one. Then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg left office at the end of 2013 without a single municipal labor union under contract. All of the agreements had expired amid a yearslong standoff between the billion-

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aire mayor and the unions he thought were stymieing progress. The de Blasio administration came in and settled all of them. In spite of some pitched battles with labor, particularly over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, de Blasio has been considered a friend to unions – especially compared to his predecessor. But tension is inherent in the dynamic between the municipal unions, who represent workers, and the mayor, who appoints and represents management. Members of the unions that supported Adams and helped him win – like District Council 37, which represents many public employees, and the Uniformed Fire Officers Association – are cautiously optimistic for an Adams mayoralty. But it’s still cautious, since Adams is untested in some ways. He never served on the City Council, and since borough presidents have few enumerated responsibilities, he could pick and choose his battles. “Those who endorsed him feel good that our person is there,” said a labor operative who asked for anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak on behalf of their union, “but you don’t really know

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what’s going to happen when you’re at the table negotiating dollars and cents.” That’s not just true of municipal unions, who have to negotiate contracts directly with the city, but also private sector labor unions, who still work with City Hall on legislative and budgetary matters. It will be easier for Adams to keep allies happy that endorsed him in the primary, like 32BJ SEIU and the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, since he will not have to balance the city budget on their backs. But the labor movement isn’t a monolith, and sometimes Adams will have to choose among allies. The debate over Amazon’s planned headquarters in Queens pitted major labor unions against each other and forced elected officials to pick sides. Stephanie Luce, a professor of labor studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, said that same dynamic will be repeated as the city comes out of the pandemic. “We had tremendous job loss and the city’s trying to recover and rebuild, but it’s too early to say where jobs will recover and not,” she said. “Labor is not united on all of these issues about what kind of jobs to create.”

Another complicating factor for unions is Adams’ continued courting of business elites such as John Catsimatidis and Bloomberg, who’s hosting a fundraiser for the Democratic nominee on Sept. 15. De Blasio had a reflexive aversion to the city’s wealthiest residents – and the feeling was mutual. Now Adams, the former police officer and former Republican, has been accepted with open arms. And if labor unions sometimes find themselves at odds, there’s no question that Adams will have to choose between subscribers to The Wall Street Journal and those who read The Chief-Leader. But there may be no relationship more closely watched than the one between Adams and the New York City Police Benevolent Association. Adams, who served in the New York City Police Department until 2006, was once a member. And it’s that membership that helps him claim solidarity with labor – nevermind the fact that there’s an ongoing debate about whether police unions even belong in the labor movement, given their consistently conservative politics. And for that, the relationship between Adams, the PBA

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Things with Local 79 now seem pretty chummy, despite a rocky relationship.

and the other law enforcement unions is somewhat uneasy. Most of the NYPD unions, including the PBA, didn’t endorse a candidate in the Democratic mayoral primary. The NYPD Captains Endowment Association, which represented Adams when he moved up the ranks, was the one exception, and backed Adams’ opponent Andrew Yang. But it wasn’t clear if most candidates wanted a law enforcement union endorsement anyway, given their toxicity in Democratic politics. The PBA and de Blasio have publicly disparaged each other throughout his term, even though progressive critics have said the mayor went nowhere near far enough in instituting reforms at the NYPD. Adams is starting off on much better footing. His platform included the need to reform the culture of the police department, but didn’t mention the union. Adams has criticized the PBA before and said he didn’t want its endorsement, but at the same time, touted support from individual officers represented by the PBA. And his pro-police platform and law enforcement résumé clearly struck a chord – he was one of the three mayoral

candidates that PBA President Pat Lynch recommended to his members. Adams’ campaign declined to comment for this story. When asked about the PBA’s relationship with Adams, Lynch listed things he thought Adams could improve. “Veteran police officers are retiring in droves and the NYPD is struggling to get people to take the test,” he said in a statement emailed to City & State – although the NYPD told The Wall Street Journal the number of police officer applicants wasn’t much lower in 2021 than 2019. Lynch said the city needs to “rethink how it recruits and retains police officers, (but) Adams has an advantage because he knows what it’s like to try to rear a family in this city on a police officer’s salary. And when he did it, the pay was much more competitive than it is today.” The fact is, no union, even that notoriously combative PBA, will be eager to criticize Adams in the early days of his mayoralty. His stock is high and he will likely be riding in on a wave of goodwill. Adams, if elected, would be the city’s second Black mayor, at a time when some labor organizations, like the building

trades and police unions, are trying to emphasize their support for Black New Yorkers and better represent their increasingly diverse membership. “There’s a shift going on here and some of them still have some white men at the top calling the shots,” said Bertha Lewis, a progressive activist who supported Adams in the primary. “There’s a changing in the melanin of who the rankand-file members are.” Public battles with Adams would be bad optics, and the man who may be the next mayor is quick to cite the possible influence of racism in political disagreements. That puts Adams at a strategic advantage with the unions who didn’t endorse him, Lewis said. “They have to patch it up with him,” she said. For now, Adams seems amenable. Asked after the Local 79 rally what he’d do with unions who didn’t back him in the primary, Adams said they’re on his team now and he’s on theirs. “During the primary, there are intramural scrimmages. Now that intramural scrimmages are over, we’re all wearing team jersey New York,” he said. “We are the same. I’m just a straight-up union guy.”

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How industrial development agencies have been luring Amazon to towns across New York – and saving the company money.

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ROWING UP IN the suburbs of Syracuse, the fountain at the closest mall, ShoppingTown Mall in DeWitt, was lined with pennies, nickels and dimes. Nowadays, the fountain doesn’t run, and the retailers that used to be at ShoppingTown have moved elsewhere or out of town completely. For years, the only people who visited the mall were moviegoers and my mom when she had to return something to the now-closed Macy’s. To be fair, the mall was overshadowed by the giant Destiny USA, a mall formerly known as Carousel Center, closer to downtown Syracuse. Even so, it feels like an apt illustration of the transitioning economy in the central New York area – an area that still grasps for its glory days of being home to major manufacturers like General Electric Co. and the air conditioning unit supplier Carrier Global. The economy has shown improvements in the past decade prior to the pandemic, and local officials still strive for more economic development. After a long battle with ShoppingTown’s current owner, who filed for bankruptcy after leaving over $9 million in unpaid taxes, the county has bought the mall back and hopes to revitalize it with the help of a new developer. The eternal optimism for ShoppingTown Mall echoes excitement that has certainly surrounded the entry of a much larger project with a more powerful owner, only a few miles away from the mall. In Clay, the developer Trammell Crow Company is currently turning former golf club land off of I-90 into the world’s second-largest Amazon warehouse at five stories and approximately 3.8 million square feet. Amazon has promised 1,000 jobs out of this warehouse, each paying $15 per hour. Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon has called the plan a “once in Local leaders tout a generation projjobs that Amazon brings to their regions ect.” While New York City lawwhen they give the company major tax makers and activbreaks. ists had rejected Amazon after the retail giant chose

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Queens in a high-profile national search for its second headquarters in 2019, Onondaga County leaders were confident that residents of Syracuse would welcome the company. So much so that they offered the company more than $70 million in tax incentives. McMahon said offering those benefits to Amazon was a matter of course. “You’re competing, and the reality is that there needs to be a cost-benefit analysis in every community that has an opportunity,” he told City & State. In Clay, the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency and Amazon agreed to a payment in lieu of taxes deal where Amazon will pay the county, town and Liverpool schools $28 million over 15 years – in exchange for $70 million in waived taxes. McMahon noted that the town would have received less than $1 million in taxes from the previous property owner in the same time period. “So when you look at it, we weren’t giving up anything. We’re gaining money on day one,” McMahon said.

HE PRIMARY DECISION-MAKERS behind the hugely consequential deal in Onondaga County are a board of seven business and community leaders and professionals appointed by the County Legislature. The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency, and local agencies like them (known as IDAs), have been at the table with Amazon across the state, using tax breaks and deals to incentivize the online retail giant to set up camp in places critics say it likely would have come to anyway. “We have a lack of opportunities for work among many segments of our population, and that’s part of what we want to do. But in the end, we want to have economic opportunity, we want to grow the economy around here and take advantage of the attributes that we have to do that,” said Patrick Hogan, chair of the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency and Syracuse Common Council district councilor. Industrial development agencies are public benefit corporations and were established in New York in 1969 to help

“You’re competing, and the reality is that there needs to be a cost-benefit analysis in every community that has an opportunity.” – Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon

spur economic development by offering companies deals to set up shop in their areas. In Onondaga County, for example, the industrial development agency gave incentives to eight projects in 2020, including the expansion of a dairy plant and construction of a solar power array. Board members are appointed by local bodies of government. For instance, cities often have their boards appointed by Common Council members whereas county boards are appointed by the county executive and then confirmed by the County Legislature. In total, there are currently 108 industrial development agencies in New York state. As Amazon has built warehouses across New York, the agencies have consistently offered generous tax incentives. According to the Good Jobs First tracker, which tracks Amazon deals nationwide, Amazon has been awarded more than a dozen deals adding up to about $380 million across the state, many deals involving industrial development agencies. In a 2021 deal with Amazon and the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency, Amazon won its biggest New York deal where it will pay the county, town and Gates Chili Central School District $58 million over 15 years, while receiving over $150 million in incentives.

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State Sen. James Skoufis has worked to revive reforms of industrial development agencies.

These deals are often celebrated for bringing a windfall of revenue and jobs into communities. But some critics have asked why Amazon, one of the largest and most profitable companies on Earth, needs these incentives at all. And in those negotiations, can there ever be an even playing field as a board of local businesspeople takes on the behemoth? Michael Greene, Syracuse Common Council councilor at-large, suggested that local industrial development agencies may benefit from an additional body to guide them when making economic decisions. “What would be helpful is if there is regional leadership that comes from the county, as well as from the economic development agency, the Chamber of Commerce – that they are able to speak up and advocate on behalf of the region to say: ‘Here’s a baseline expectation of what we think are reasonable tax rates.’”

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N MONROE COUNTY, where Amazon has started construction on a 2 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution center, what created pushback was Amazon’s choice to apply to the industrial development agency for a local labor exemption. Being approved for a tax exemption in Monroe County usually requires a project to use local labor. However, Amazon filed a waiver asking to be exempted from the requirement – a move the New York State Economic Development Council denounced. That organization represents economic development professionals, and part of its membership base is composed of industrial development agency members. Local labor was infuriated by Amazon’s decision, protesting before the industrial development agency’s vote with “Local Jobs for Local People” signs. Ultimately, Amazon and Trammell Crow Company were granted a 30% local labor waiver, with approximately $41 million going to local contracts and about $17 million to outside contractors. Amazon did not respond to a question about the local labor waiver in Monroe County. Grant Malone, president of the Rochester Building & Construction Trades Council, was one of the main voices against the waiver. He suggested that a major differ-

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The new Amazon warehouse in Clay, which is north of Syracuse, is one of the company’s largest in the world.

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ence in priorities is why the agency approved the tax incentives and the labor waiver. “The boards that are approved are made up of big businesspeople in the community. And they’re in a different place than we are as far as what their values are,” Malone said. The Monroe County Industrial Development Agency did not reply to City & State’s request for a comment. Malone’s frustrations have been echoed by others. John Kaehny, executive director at governmental transparency advocacy group Reinvent Albany, agreed that industrial development agencies are staffed largely by businesspeople with their interests being aligned with other businesses. Kaehny stated that there is little oversight of industrial development agencies and that the reporting that is required of their projects is rarely completed in full. He cited an annual report from the state Authorities Budget Office that stated out of 50 randomly selected 2018 industrial development agency projects, only five provided all of the required documents. Kaehny said that the relative lack of public understanding of these deals allows for corporations like Amazon to take advantage of tax subsidies. “It’s meat on the hook that Amazon is a giant superpredator, because they’re going in there, and they’re dealing with these local yokels at these IDAs, who are spending the public’s money. It’s a form of spending the public doesn’t understand because of tax abatement. And, you know, the results are predictable, which is that Amazon gets enormous amounts of unnecessary subsidies,” Kaehny said.

NVESTIGATING AND REFORMING industrial development agencies has been a long-standing project. But state Sen. James Skoufis, chair of the Investigations and Government Operations Committee has breathed some life back into reform. He commissioned a 2019 report with findings such as increasing debt, insufficient oversight and inadequate reporting that led to a series of reforms advanced during the most recent legislative session. Skoufis said that often, industrial development agency members skim

through deals because of their focus on winning. “These are highly competitive economic development officials,” Skoufis said. “My approach here is, there comes a point where it’s better to say ‘no.’” McMahon acknowledged that there were other scandals and issues elsewhere in the state, but believes that the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency has made good decisions. He warned that the state Legislature often forgets local government. “If there’s a problem, certainly you need legislation to fix it, but I would always caution the state overall to use their local governments and local IDAs as a resource for what they can do better as well with their policies,” he said. While tax subsidies from industrial development agencies will continue to be up for debate, the agencies may be able to play a key role in helping underrepresented communities with economic development. Daniel Lloyd, founder and president of the nonprofit Minority Millennials, said industrial development agencies are well-positioned to use equitable development approaches to serve businesses owned by women and people of color, citing work of the one in Babylon. “They expanded their services to provide financial, technical and legal assistance to existing and aspiring Minority and Women Business Owned enterprises and veteran entrepreneurs. This is why we are strongly advocating for additional funding, so the other 108 IDAs can follow the blueprint and Babylon can sustain its innovative program,” Lloyd wrote in an email to City & State. His suggestion may offer one way that industrial development agencies can refocus to continue their stated purpose of economic development, but he added that he doesn’t support subsidizing Amazon. As Amazon continues to enlarge its footprint, New York’s industrial development agencies will likely have more chances to get the most out of deals with the company. “Amazon is constantly exploring new locations to support our growth and to best serve our customers,” a spokesperson wrote in an email. “However, we have a policy of not commenting on our future roadmap – stay tuned.”

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What will it take for Amazon workers to unionize? The e-commerce behemoth is a formidable opponent to labor organizers, even in a union town like New York City. By Annie McDonough

New Yorkers have protested Amazon for years, including when the company attempted to build a headquarters in Queens, left. Chris Smalls, right, has been a vocal critic.

N 1999, 22 years before one of the richest men on the planet shot himself into suborbital space and thanked employees at his trillion-dollar company for funding the trip, a group of Seattle call center workers at that company tried to form a union. The workers were organizing over issues including low wages and job insecurity. Amazon, the company that employed those call center workers, was not yet the retail and cloud computing giant that it is today. But one organizer on the scene in 1999 said that Jeff Bezos’ behemoth company was already using a union-fighting playbook that it relies on to this day. “Management began one-on-one meetings with workers, putting a lot of pressure on them to dissuade them from joining the union,” said Marcus Courtney, who was an organizer with the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers – a part of the Communications Workers of America – which was helping the call center workers organize. Amazon had an internal website for managers that laid out warning signs that workers were organizing and provided anti-union material to circulate. Courtney

said the playbook was similar to what he saw Amazon use during a first-of-its-kind and ultimately unsuccessful union drive led by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, earlier this year. “I mean, it was basically version 1.0,” Courtney said. That playbook – plus Amazon’s virtually limitless resources – is what workers hoping to unionize face today. But even in the face of two decades of union resistance and the recent failure in Bessemer, Amazon employees and organizers in New York are already back to work, hoping that their efforts to form a union will succeed where others before them have sputtered and failed. That includes a worker-led union drive currently underway at Amazon’s Staten Island facilities. The Teamsters have also set their sights on Amazon facilities nationwide. And while RWDSU declined to get specific on their organizing work, a spokesperson said the union is in contact with over 1,000 Amazon employees across the country, including in New York. RWDSU has tried to unionize Amazon workers in New York before. In the fall of 2018, when Amazon opened its mas-

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sive JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, the union started to hear from workers at the facility and began the early stages of organizing, according to Chelsea Connor, RWDSU’s communications director. But then that November, New York leaders announced that Amazon would be building a new headquarters in Queens. The HQ2 debate brought an unprecedented level of attention to workers’ issues in New York, but it also served to draw attention to the organizing work at JFK8 before the union was ready to take it public. Neither that 2018 organizing work nor any other efforts across the country have come close to the union election that Bessemer saw earlier this year. “There’s grassroots organizing going on at Amazon warehouses, and that has been going on for a long time,” said Janice Fine, a professor at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. “The reason why it hasn’t turned into a full-blown union organizing drive is because the overwhelming resources that Amazon has have made the organizations that are working with those workers reluctant to mount a campaign that they see as kind of a suicide mission, that they don’t think is winnable.”

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Current and former workers at the Staten Island warehouses taking on that suicide mission are striking out on their own, without the direct involvement of established unions like RWDSU – or the legal, financial and political resources they carry. The Amazon Labor Union, or ALU, started by former JFK8 worker Chris Smalls this past spring, will attempt to file for a National Labor Relations Board election in the coming months, Smalls said. Derrick Palmer, a current JFK8 employee and Amazon Labor Union organizer, and Smalls both have experience going up against Amazon, having alleged unfair labor practices and unsafe conditions during the pandemic. Smalls was fired for violating quarantine rules last spring when he came to the warehouse to stage a walkout protesting unsafe pandemic working conditions. Smalls alleges that the real reason for his firing was retaliation for his protesting. In a suit filed earlier this year, state Attorney General Letitia James described Smalls’ firing as “retaliatory action to silence workers’ complaints.” So far, organizers with the Amazon Labor Union say they’ve collected around 1,000 signatures of support, about halfway to the roughly 2,000 signatures they would

need for an NLRB election. They aim to organize a total of around 7,000 workers, and need to show support from at least 30% of that group before moving forward with an NLRB election. While RWDSU has said that it supports the Amazon Labor Union and would even step in and support their effort later on, Amazon Labor Union organizers don’t seem to want their help – at least not now. “Any other unionization effort at Amazon has been kind of a third party or already an established union. Them being on the outside makes a big difference,” Palmer said. “I’m able to see exactly how Amazon is union busting, and I’m able to talk to workers that may feel discouraged and give them the facts so that they’re able to at least have a fair judgment on whether or not they want to join.” Amazon denies allegations of union busting and maintains that it’s open to workers organizing. “We respect our employees’ right to join, form, or not to join a labor union without fear of reprisal, intimidation, or harassment,” spokesperson Maria Boschetti wrote over email. “The fact is that Amazon already offers what unions are requesting: industry-leading pay, com-

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prehensive benefits from the first day on the job, opportunities for career growth, all while working in a safe, modern and inclusive work environment.” A National Labor Relations Board officer, however, found in a preliminary assessment that the company improperly influenced the union drive in Bessemer and recommended that workers there hold a new election. But the Amazon Labor Union faces long odds. A GoFundMe for the union has so far raised roughly $19,000, and organizing remains a challenge in warehouses. Amazon Labor Union organizers have filed several unfair labor practices complaints so far this year. In one investigation, the National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon gave Staten Island workers the impression that they were being surveilled and illegally confiscated pro-union literature from a break room earlier this year. Labor law itself poses a challenge to organizers. State Sen. Jessica Ramos, who chairs the Labor Committee, has introduced a bill that would prohibit the practice of so-called “captive audience meetings,” which allows employers to require workers to attend meetings in which they can try to dissuade them from joining a union. Ramos, who has an Amazon warehouse in her Queens district, was surprised to hear that the Amazon Labor Union is forging ahead without the involvement of RWDSU or another established union, which can offer institutional knowledge and resources. But state Sen. Diane Savino, whose district falls just outside Amazon’s Staten Island facilities, said that a worker-led organizing effort has its advantages. “They seem to be organized around issues that they decided, as the people who work there, are important to them,” Savino said of the Amazon Labor Union. “I think that that’s far more compelling than an outside institution, whatever that union happens to be, coming in and trying to say, ‘Join us and we’ll make your lives better.’” Those hoping to see Amazon warehouse workers organize for better rights and benefits need not pin all their hopes on the Amazon Labor Union. The Teamsters Local 317 has said it is preparing to organize employees at the new Amazon warehouse in Clay. The head of Local 317 did

“The overwhelming resources that Amazon has have made the organizations that are working with those workers reluctant to mount a campaign that they see as kind of a suicide mission.” – Janice Fine, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations professor

not return a request for comment, but their strategy will likely differ from the Amazon Labor Union’s. High turnover and a rapid pace of growth at Amazon warehouses means that it can be hard to build trust with workers, or what Fine, the Rutgers professor, called “deep, patient organizing.” Smalls said he is at a tent outside the Staten Island warehouse every day, signing up workers, while Palmer spends most of his break time having ongoing conversations with workers about the benefits of union membership. “There’s been times where I’ve talked to a few workers, and they told me, ‘Oh, I’m not signing, I’m not signing. I don’t want to, I don’t believe in it,’” Palmer said. “And they’ll have a bad day at work and they’ll come directly to the tent after work and sign up.”

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Smalls argues that starting a new union just for Amazon workers is the best strategy.

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The union leaders and labor advocates defending the city’s workers.

ICHARD TRUMKA’S DEATH last month marked a symbolic turning point for America’s labor movement. The third-generation coal miner, who led the AFL-CIO for 12 years, had long planned to pass the baton to his No. 2, Liz Shuler, and shortly after Trumka’s death, she became the first woman to lead the 12.5 million-member labor federation. Succeeding Shuler is Fred Redmond, the chair of the AFL-CIO Task Force on Racial Justice that launched last year. He is now the first Black person to serve as the AFL-CIO’s secretary-treasurer. Liz Shuler offers both strength and stability to our movement,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten,

herself a trailblazer as the first openly gay person to lead a national labor union, said in a statement. “As the largest member of the federation, the AFT is proud to support Liz to fulfill the remainder of Richard Trumka’s term as AFL-CIO president.” In New York – where both Trumka and Shuler have been familiar faces – the labor movement is undergoing a similar shift, with more women and people of color filling important leadership roles. City & State’s New York City Labor Power 100 – researched and written in partnership with journalist Trevor Boyer – features the union chiefs, political staffers, worker rights advocates, activists, attorneys and others who make up the ever-evolving labor movement in the city.

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HENRY GARRIDO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR District Council 37 Henry Garrido leads District Council 37, the largest public employee union in New York City, and its 150,000 members. So it’s somewhat fitting that in May, DC37’s contract was the first of the city’s agreements with its municipal unions to expire, making it likely that whatever deal emerges from negotiations will set the tone for future accords. Amid that uncertainty and a historic budget crunch, Garrido reportedly backed a move toward a privately managed health care plan for his active members and retirees. When it became clear that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams would win the Democratic mayoral primary, Garrido said, “Early on, District Council 37 put all of its weight behind Eric because we knew he was the essential workers’ champion – clearly, New Yorkers agreed.”

State Sen. Jessica Ramos is the chair of the Labor Committee.

Federation of Teachers is one of the largest labor unions in the city. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, UFT President Michael Mulgrew has advocated effectively for his members’ safety. In 2020, he threatened a sickout if COVID-19 testing demands weren’t met. But just before the 2021 school year, he insisted to his members that even teachers with medical accommodations would not be working from home.

3 GEORGE GRESHAM PRESIDENT 1199SEIU When then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo lost the support of New York City’s largest union, his resignation as governor soon followed. George Gresham, the longtime leader of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has effectively leveraged the power of some 200,000 members in the city. His union is reportedly pushing hard for pay hikes in contract talks with downstate hospitals and nursing homes. With hundreds of thousands of members in other East Coast states, 1199SEIU is the country’s biggest health care union – making it a player on the national stage too.

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candidates in competitive races in which they endorsed. The 85,000 doormen, security guards, building cleaners and airport workers that Bragg represents joined other unions to help propel Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to victory. In July, the union averted a strike and agreed to a new three-year contract for its workers at the three major New York City-area airports.

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This election cycle, Kyle Bragg threw 32BJ SEIU’s weight behind successful primary candidates for mayor, public advocate, Manhattan district attorney, three borough president contenders and 38 of the 45 City Council

As the chair of the committee that handles legislation related to labor in New York, state Sen. Jessica Ramos is a key arbiter for policy changes that affect workers across the state. This year, the Queens lawmaker successfully

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pushed a $2.1 billion fund for workers, many of them undocumented, who were excluded from pandemicrelated unemployment benefits. Later, she complained that federal legislators put too many restrictions on eligibility. Ramos also sponsored a bill that cracks down on wage theft for construction workers.

Four decades ago, Gary LaBarbera decided to join a union. Since 2009, he has run the city’s Building and Construction Trades Council – and the Long Island native also became the president of the statewide chapter of the influential construction

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The members of the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council have shown extraordinary fortitude and fight throughout the COVID crisis and continue to demonstrate what it means to be labor strong and union proud. Congratulations to their leaders, President Rich Maroko and Political Director Bhav Tibrewal for their recognition in the City and State NYC Labor Power 100 list.

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Assembly Member Latoya Joyner leads the Assembly Labor Committee.

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NY Hero Act and backed a proposed antitrust measure in Albany. Gesualdi remains the president of Teamsters Union Local 282, a union he joined in 1982 that represents construction workers in New York City and its surroundings.

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13 RICH MAROKO PRESIDENT New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council As a political force, the Hotel Trades Council punches above its weight class, as demonstrated by New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams’ expression of gratitude to his first major endorser. “It’s important for us that we have someone in City Hall who has our back and we feel that Eric is that guy,” President Rich Maroko told NY1. With their industry still reeling from the damage done by the pandemic, hotel workers need all the help they can get.

As the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union since 1998, Stuart Appelbaum is one of New York’s longest-serving and most politically connected labor leaders. He has continued to battle Amazon since he helped scuttle its ill-fated HQ2 plans in Queens, playing a leading role in the ongoing unionization drive at one of the online retailer’s fulfillment centers in Alabama. Appelbaum is also executive vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and president of the Jewish Labor Committee.

15 TONY UTANO PRESIDENT TWU Local 100 As New York City’s transit system has become the subject of multiple

The Hotel Trades Council punches above its weight class as a political force.

acrimonious political debates, Transport Workers Union Local 100’s Tony Utano is focused on protecting his 41,000 members, many of whom kept the city’s subways and buses going during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Utano has come out in support of a new state policy requiring weekly testing for workers who don’t get a COVID-19 vaccine, and he has been outspoken in his calls for further action to make the subway system safer.

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16 THOMAS GESUALDI PRESIDENT Teamsters Joint Council 16 For a union with a long history in New York’s labor movement, it’s fitting that the third-generation Teamster Thomas Gesualdi has the reins. Gesualdi, who recently moved up the ranks to succeed George Miranda as president of Teamsters Joint Council 16, applauded the passage of a new worker protection measure, the

In an effort to get students and teachers back in New York City classrooms safely, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a mandate for all public school teachers, administrators and staff to get vaccinated. Mark Cannizzaro, president of the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, the union that represents principals, was less than thrilled about vaccinations and testing policies, calling them “subjects for collective bargaining.” That’s an area he knows well: For five years, the Staten Island native served as chief negotiator of the CSA.

18 MARIO CILENTO PRESIDENT New York State AFL-CIO The AFL-CIO is still dealing with the loss of longtime

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pursuing differing goals and with certain unions landing on either extreme of the political spectrum. Which makes it all the more remarkable whenever Vincent Alvarez is able to achieve policy goals or make endorsements by finding a middle ground through the New York City Central Labor Council, the city’s leading umbrella labor organization with 1.3 million members in 300 unions.

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20 KARINES REYES ASSEMBLY MEMBER Second-term Assembly Member Karines Reyes worked for years in hospitals in information management and as an oncology nurse, while also serving as a New York State Nurses Association union representative. That labor background has informed the Bronxite’s advocacy for workers’

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19 Amid speculation in August that New York City would mandate vaccines for its police officers, the response of New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch was as forceful as it was predictable: We’ll sue. That came after 60 uniformed and civilian New York City Police Department employees had died after contracting COVID-19. Never one to hold his rhetorical fire, Lynch soon will get a new mayor to spar with as his union’s unsettled contract remains in arbitration.

to get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. “If employees refuse to comply, they just can’t be at work. And in fact, they will not be paid,” Campion said.

rights and workplace safety, embodied most prominently by her sponsorship of the NY HERO Act, which requires state agencies to codify pandemic-related worker health and safety measures and mandates enforcement. She even returned to the front lines herself, serving as a nurse during the worst of COVID-19.

21 I. DANEEK MILLER CHAIR New York City Council Civil Service and Labor Committee Term limits kept New York City Council Member I. Daneek Miller from running for another term this year, so he’ll have to find a new

position come 2022. The world of organized labor is certainly one where he’s held sway. As a former 20-year Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus driver, Miller eventually became president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056. Miller, who represents a union-heavy district in Southeast Queens, has chaired the council’s Civil Service and Labor Committee since 2014.

A decade ago, Bhairavi Desai founded the New York Taxi Workers Alliance as a counterweight to “taxi bosses,” who have traditionally been better organized. Since then, Desai has battled on behalf of taxi drivers in an industry in crisis, first with the rise of Uber and then with the arrival of COVID-19. Desai recently criticized the de Blasio administration’s $65 million bailout for indebted drivers as “a disgraceful betrayal from a city that already has blood on its hands.”

RENEE CAMPION COMMISSIONER New York City Office of Labor Relations As commissioner of the New York City Office of Labor Relations, Renee Campion helps set the policies that affect its roughly 330,000 public employees. Since the beginning of the Bloomberg administration, Campion has been heavily involved in contract negotiations between the city and its public employee unions. In July, the city required all of its workers, including cops and teachers,

Reyes worked for years as a nurse and union member before joining the Assembly.

24 PETER ABBATE JR. CHAIR Assembly Committee on Governmental Employees Brooklyn Assembly Member Peter Abbate Jr. chairs the chamber’s Governmental Employees Committee, which sets rules for the state’s public employees.

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President Richard Trumka, who headed the nation’s largest federation of labor unions from 2009 until his sudden death this summer. As the national AFL-CIO gains a history-making leader Liz Shuler, Mario Cilento continues to lead the state’s organization and its 2.5 million members. Cilento sped up the resignation of then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he and other New York union chiefs signaled they would no longer support the embattled chief executive.

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In July, he helped pass a bill, currently awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature, that would designate the state’s 911 dispatchers as first responders. Also in July, thenGov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Abbate Jr. sponsored that prohibits bosses from penalizing public workers over absences related to COVID-19.

vaccinated, but it is a decision I’ll protect,” he told NY1.

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CHAIR State Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee As chair of the state Senate’s Civil Service and Pension Committee, Sen. Andrew Gounardes oversees the movement of bills that affect the beneficiaries of the fourthlargest public pension plan in the U.S., comprising the five public pension funds in New York City. In June, the South Brooklyn Democrat introduced a bill, backed by 32BJ and District Council 37, that would protect insurers’ ability to create plans with tiered access to in-network status at a given hospital system.

26 BRAD LANDER DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER In June, Brad Lander, a threeterm New York City Council member from Brooklyn, won a tight Democratic primary election for city comptroller, all but ensuring him a new citywide perch come January. Backed by the influential Communications Workers of America District 1 and other unions, Lander has long pushed progressive causes such as minimum

pay for delivery workers and expanded sick leave for gig workers. If elected, he’ll soon assume fiduciary responsibility for the five cityworker pension funds that cover 620,000 people.

support for defunding the police and its often combative approach to negotiating with hospitals. The union, which is run on a day-to-day basis by Executive Director Pat Kane, enjoyed a big win in June when then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law that requires hospital administrators to work with frontline nurses to set safe staffing levels.

Reelected in 2020 as the Uniformed Fire Officers Association’s leader, Jake Lemonda represents over 8,000 current and retired New York City Fire Department officers. Though he subsequently lost a bid to become general secretary treasurer of the broader International Association of Fire Fighters, the FDNY battalion chief continues to fight for his members. In May, he voiced support for a state measure that would ban flame-retardant chemicals in household items that can emit cancerous toxins when they burn. His union also backed Eric Adams for mayor.

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As president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, Andrew Ansbro represents about 9,000 New York City Fire Department firefighters. After encouraging his members to boycott the city’s July parade for essential workers because the COVID-19 crisis was still so deadly for firefighters, Ansbro went to bat for the roughly half of the union’s membership that remained vaccine-hesitant. “Personally, I don’t agree with a member’s decision to not get

Christopher Erikson, the longtime leader of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No. 3, recently argued that New York City schools should install new heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems and solar energy panels as a means to improve air quality while creating good jobs for union workers in the city. During the delta variant surge in August, Erikson told his members that the public has a right to demand their electricians be vaccinated. “You should treat this virus like you would treat electricity,” he wrote. “Assume everybody and everything is ‘live.’”

PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NYSNA In July, Nancy Hagans, already a board member of the New York State Nurses Association, beat back an insurgent faction vying for leadership of the state’s largest nurses’ union. At issue were the 40,000-member union’s leftward turn, including

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ROBERT BONANZA & MIKE MCGUIRE BUSINESS MANAGER AND PAC DIRECTOR Mason Tenders’ District Council of Greater New York and Long Island

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33 GREGORY FLOYD PRESIDENT Teamsters Local 237 In the face of efforts to downsize the New York City Police Department, Local 237 President Gregory Floyd is

Floyd is resisting an effort to transfer school safety agents away from the NYPD.

resisting calls to transfer over 5,000 unarmed school safety agents that he represents from the purview of the police department to that of the New York City Department of Education – let alone to remove them from schools altogether. Floyd, whose union also represents public-sector employees at entities such as from the New York City Housing Authority and NYC Health + Hospitals, is the recording secretary for the Teamsters’ metrowide Joint Council 16 as well.

open only to theatrical actors who had worked for years amassing roles in professional productions. By now accepting anyone who has been paid as an actor or stage manager in the U.S., the 51,000-strong national union aims to ameliorate decades of excluding marginalized communities from its ranks. Critics of the move contend that its steep initiation fees represent a cash grab for the New York-based union, whose coffers have been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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As its business manager, Robert Bonanza leads the Mason Tenders, one of New York City’s Laborers' union-affiliated construction worker unions. The union’s PAC was active in the 2021 New York City Democratic primaries, dropping $800,000 on candidates for mayor, City Council and borough president. One City Council endorsement from the Mason Tenders' PAC hinged on a candidate’s opposition to the development of the Bedford Union Armory, a nonunion project, PAC Director Mike McGuire told The City.

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A diverse group of staffers are delivering for New York’s top unions.

URING THE JUNE primaries in New York City, organized labor had a strong showing. District Council 37, 32BJ SEIU and the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council helped propel Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to the Democratic mayoral nomination. New York City Council Member Brad Lander won the Democratic city comptroller primary with pivotal union endorsements, including early nods from the Communications Workers of America District 1 and United Auto Workers Region 9A. CWA District 1, 32BJ SEIU, DC 37 and the Hotel Trades Council also teamed up with the New York State Nurses Association to form the Labor Strong coalition that supported 34 City Council candidates, with only six picks losing their races. Next up? Selecting the

speaker of the New York City Council, with organized labor aiming to fill a vacuum as the party bosses who traditionally filled the post have steadily lost power. “We worked really hard as a coalition of labor, all of us representing essential workers, our membership bases are similar: Black and brown, immigrant workers,” said Candis Tolliver, 32BJ SEIU’s political director and vice president. “And so we want to make sure those voices are represented at the table when it comes time to choose the speaker. And we think the work that we did in the primaries puts us there.” Tolliver is one of a small but influential cohort of younger and more diverse political directors who have helped deliver impressive victories at the ballot box – and, in turn, put their unions in a better position to secure laborfriendly policies in City Hall and the state Capitol. The top ranks of New York’s biggest labor unions partly reflect the state’s racial and ethnic diversity, with leaders like 1199SEIU’s George Gresham and 32BJ SEIU’s Kyle Bragg, who are Black, and DC 37’s Henry Garrido, who is Latino. On the legislative

side, state Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Latina, and Assembly Member Latoya Joyner, who is Black, have snagged coveted assignments chairing the state Legislature’s labor committees. But the racial and gender shift is most striking among the political directors at New York’s top unions. Along with Tolliver, 1199SEIU’s Gabby Seay and NYSNA’s Michelle Crentsil are Black women. DC 37’s Jeremy John and Davon Lomax, of International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 9, are Black men. CWA District 1’s Hae-Lin Choi and HTC’s Bhav Tibrewal are Asian American. Lucia Gomez with the New York City Central Labor Council, an umbrella organization for public and private sector unions, is Latina. “I grew up in Ohio, where labor was much more pale and male, if you will,” Seay said. “Here in New York City, the folks at our unions are incredibly diverse. They’re the drivers of the city, especially during the pandemic. It is past time to see more people of color and more women in these roles. In New York, we’re just starting to see that power come through – and frankly the recognition for an

incredible amount of work that a lot of my sisters in labor do.” While 1199SEIU has its own objectives – it endorsed Maya Wiley for mayor over Adams – Seay regularly discusses strategy with her counterparts such as Tolliver, and not just because they’re both in the SEIU fold. “There’s friendship there. There’s trust there,” Tolliver said. “And while the most important thing is for us to represent our organizations and our members, we also understand that labor working together, collaborating and having camaraderie is important, not just for our own members but for the entire working people in New York City.” One shared priority for 1199SEIU and 32BJ SEIU, as well as DC 37, is containing hospital costs. “The truth is that the higher the cost of health care rises, the less money there is available to pay for vital city services,” DC 37’s John told QNS in June. “This is something every city resident should care about and join forces with us to combat.” Tolliver is also in touch several times a week with Tibrewal, who moved up to become HTC’s political director last year. Tibrewal and other HTC officials are

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on the brink of securing a permitting change that would require New York City Council approval for a new hotel, likely blocking nonunion hotel developments. On the state level, 1199SEIU, DC 37, 32BJ SEIU, CWA District 1 and NYSNA were part of a coalition championing the New York Hero Act, a unionbacked worker protection measure drafted in response to COVID-19. NYSNA also saw long-sought staffing legislation enacted in June, a year after Crenstil came on as political director. Despite the critical role they play, political directors rarely if ever move up to the union’s top spot. They tend to come in with significant campaign experience and are not on the same track as dues-paying members rising through the leadership ranks. (One exception is Lomax, who began as an apprentice with DC 9 and served as a shop steward and foreman before taking on political duties.) But they do gain skills that can lead to more high-profile jobs. Katie Moore, a former HTC political director, guided Adams to his primary victory as his campaign manager. Alison Hirsh, a former longtime political director at 32BJ SEIU,

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was a senior adviser for Wiley, who finished in a strong third place with support on the progressive left. “The role of political director with a union is different than the role of a staffer for an elected official or a lobbyist for somebody else,” Hirsh said. “You really have to understand strategic campaigns and how to build power, because your No. 1 job is to build power behind the members you represent. It’s an organizing role, and it’s a role in which you have to understand the nuance of the legislative process and the political process. You really have to have good judgment to know when to fight and when to be friends – with a very clear goal to build power for working people.” Hirsh said the position is often viewed – accurately or not – as second only to the president, who handles the more fundamental tasks of negotiating contracts and protecting members. “But having a strong political program strengthens all of those components so much, because when you have the support of elected officials, when you’re able to move legislation, it is easier to organize, and it is easier to win fights against the boss,” Hirsh said.

Other notable political figures who cut their teeth in union political roles include 1199 SEIU veterans Patrick Gaspard, who now leads the Center for American Progress, and political consultant Jennifer Cunningham. The CWA’s Bob Master cofounded the influential Working Families Party. Bill Lynch, who was credited with electing David Dinkins as mayor, had a stint as political director at District Council 1701 of AFSCME. Others go on to lucrative corporate, consulting or lobbying jobs, where their abilities are in high demand. But many ex-political directors remember their union work as a labor of love. “Personally, for me, it was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had,” Tara L. Martin said of her tenure as political director of NYSNA from 2016 to 2020. “But also working in labor is a challenge sometimes. You’re living on the road, you’re away from your family, and very often you’re working 16-18 hours a day, working around the clock. But you have the heart for this work. And your No. 1 priority is the members who always reap the benefits and the rewards.” – Jon Lentz

From left: Hae-Lin Choi, Michelle Crentsil, Lucia Gomez, Davon Lomax, Gabby Seay and Candis Tolliver

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36 AI-JEN POO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Domestic Workers Alliance Though she has become a labor leader on the national level, Ai-jen Poo’s influence is still felt in the city where she rose to prominence. In July, the National Domestic Workers Alliance that she co-founded and still leads scored a big win: The New York City Council passed a law prohibiting the discrimination and wrongful termination of domestic workers, who number over 300,000 in the city, according to Council Member Debi Rose, who first introduced the legislation in 2018.

37 D. TAYLOR PRESIDENT UNITE HERE D. Taylor leads the New Yorkbased UNITE HERE, with a national membership working in a key local industry: hospitality. Pre-pandemic, 66.6 million visitors dropped $47 billion in the city in a year. Since then, it’s been a struggle. This year, Taylor has been focused on big-picture campaigns to advance the working-class agenda, such as protecting voting rights and

pushing for D.C. statehood. He’s also sounding the alarm about what happens if hotels decide they don’t need to clean rooms every day – 180,000 jobs could vanish.

38 LORI AMES NATIONAL SECRETARYTREASURER HHWA Lori Ames in 2016 became national secretary-treasurer of Home Healthcare Workers of America. On her watch, female membership doubled in its parent organization, the International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades, over four years. The Connecticut-based HHWA has 26,000 members in New York who were on the front lines of in-person elderly care during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, when hundreds of their ranks fell ill

Ai-Jen Poo is executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

from COVID-19 and 11 died. She’s also president of the United Service Workers Union, which spans multiple states.

39 REBECCA DAMON EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT SAG-AFTRA The New York film and TV production industry seems to have nailed its reentry from the COVID-19 shutdown. “We were able to put into place science-based protocols that help protect members while allowing them to continue working,” Rebecca Damon, the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists executive vice president, told her members in January, even before vaccines were readily available. All that screening, testing and zoned access control paid off: By last month,

Damon was claiming that industry employment in New York City was approaching pre-pandemic levels.

40 ANTHONY WELLS PRESIDENT SSEU Local 371 In 1983, Anthony Wells was hired as a caseworker for New York City’s Administration for Children's Services, then known as the Bureau of Child Welfare. Nearly three decades later, in 2011, he was elected president of Social Service Employees Union Local 371, which represents 20,000 social service workers across city agencies. This year, the union joined a successful push for early retirement incentives for New York City municipal workers, which Wells touted to his members as a means to avoid layoffs.

41 BENNY BOSCIO JR. PRESIDENT COBA With the ranks of New York City’s correction officers dwindling as the jail population increased by half over the past year, the Correction Officers’

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she took over as executive director of the New York Citybased National Basketball Players Association in 2014, Roberts has helped empower basketball players, draw more attention to mental health and bring advocacy for social justice to the game. She also helped the league reach a 90% COVID-19 vaccination rate for players.

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Carmen Charles is president of Local 420.

45 RAFAEL ESPINAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Freelancers Union Before he led the Freelancers Union, Rafael Espinal served in the New York City Council, where he once proposed a “right to disconnect” law to let workers ignore emails and calls after hours without retribution. It went nowhere, but now, having taken his current position just before a “work from home” revolution, Espinal is even more influential as he rethinks the future – and present – of work. Federal unemployment benefits for freelancers who lost work during COVID-19 were partly due to his efforts as head of the 500,000-member union.

42 CARMEN CHARLES PRESIDENT Local 420 In the 1980s, Carmen Charles started working as a nurse’s aide at a Roosevelt Island hosptial. Now, as president of Local 420, the Municipal Hospital Employees Union, she represents 8,500 nonmedical workers in city hospitals. As the delta variant prolongs the COVID-19 crisis at the 11 city hospitals, Charles has demanded federal funds for personal protective equipment and other supplies to avoid a repeat of the deadly toll on front-line workers during the pandemic’s first wave, when a number of Local 420 workers died.

43 BEVERLEY BRAKEMAN DIRECTOR UAW Region 9A Beverley Brakeman is based in Connecticut, and she oversees a vast region that includes parts of New York as well as Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Puerto Rico for the United Auto Workers. Yet, her union remains focused on New York City where she represents some 11,000 members. This election cycle, Brakeman’s UAW Region 9A provided an early boost to New

Espinal once proposed a "right to disconnect" law to protect workers' free time.

York City Council Member Brad Lander’s ultimately successful candidacy to be the Democratic nominee for city comptroller.

44 PATRICK PURCELL JR. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Greater New York LECET Patrick Purcell Jr. leads the Greater New York LaborersEmployers Cooperation and Education Trust, made up of trustees from both the Laborers' union locals and their employers in a joint effort to promote union-shop construction. This year, LECET backed a New York City Council bill that would require licensing for so-called “body shops,” which supply general contractors with temporary workers who in many cases were recently incarcerated and have few employment options.

46 LESTER CROCKETT PRESIDENT CSEA Metropolitan Region 2 Comprising more than 14,000 of New York City’s current and retired state government workers, Civil Service Employees Association Metropolitan Region 2, led by President Lester Crockett, endorsed Eric Adams in the Democratic mayoral primary. Adams then joined the union’s call for the hiring of additional mental health professionals, whom the organization includes among its ranks. Crockett worked for 30 years at the New York State Insurance Fund and decided to run for local president at the company when he felt the previous president didn’t help him enough in his struggle for a promotion.

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Benevolent Association has sued the city over working conditions. The union claims shifts are longer and more frequent, and meals and even bathroom breaks are sometimes hard to come by. COBA President Benny Boscio Jr. has called for a hiring surge of New York’s Boldest, telling The New York Times: “If we don’t get 2,000 corrections officers, I don’t see any room for optimism.”

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48 LIGIA GUALLPA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Worker's Justice Project Ligia Guallpa co-founded and leads the 12,000-member Worker’s Justice Project, which advocates for New York City gig workers through another group, Los Deliveristas Unidos. In May, the state Legislature considered an industrywide bargaining bill that many believed would have hindered their push for rights through bills pending before the New York City Council. Guallpa,

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an Ecuadorian immigrant and the daughter of a former day laborer and a garment worker, successfully lobbied legislators and unions to withdraw support, and the bill was shelved.

49 JAMES DAVIS PRESIDENT PSC-CUNY Brooklyn College English professor James Davis won the election this spring as president of the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, the union for instructors at New York City’s public higher education system. It’s the first leadership change for the union this century, as outgoing President Barbara Bowen led PSC-CUNY for over two decades. Unlike some other

Middleton: “The people at the highest (pay) levels should not be white males.”

big municipal unions in the city, PSC-CUNY opposed the Municipal Labor Committee’s taxpayer-friendly decision in July to switch retirees’ Medicare plans from federal to private administration.

A big win for many Office and Professional Employees International Union members came in the form of the massive American Rescue Plan Act that President Joe Biden signed in March. An $86 billion bailout went to troubled “multi-employer” pension plans, including the one that covers members of OPEIU Local 153 in New York City. After having worked for two years on the issue as a member of the AFL-CIO Retirement Committee, OPEIU President Richard Lanigan had personally lobbied members of Congress about the need for the provision.

ED MULLINS

GLORIA MIDDLETON

Ed Mullins, who was first elected head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association in 2002, has been so rhetorically aggressive on behalf of his rank and file that he’s facing potential departmental discipline. But after insulting and antagonizing highranking city officials for the past couple years, Mullins will almost certainly have a favored choice in City Hall come January – he was reportedly happy that New York City Police Department

PRESIDENT CWA Local 1180 This year, Gloria Middleton began her second term at the helm of Communications Workers of America Local 1180. Middleton is the first African American and first woman to lead its 9,000 members, many of whom work as managers at city agencies. Responding to a New York City Council report

PRESIDENT SBA

SAMMY ESCALANTE; DAVE SANDERS

As an advocacy group for contract delivery workers, Los Deliveristas Unidos stands up for those who have risked life and limb to keep food arriving at New Yorkers’ doorsteps during a pandemic. LDU is not a traditional union, but cyclists for Seamless, Uber Eats and other apps now have the backing of one of the city’s most powerful in 32BJ SEIU. Led by Jonán Huerta and Sergio Ajche, the mostly Guatemalan and Mexican Deliveristas have taken to the streets in the thousands to rally for protections from the city, including higher pay and the right to use eatery restrooms.

in August that described stark gender-based and racial pay disparities at city agencies, Middleton told Gothamist/ WNYC, “The people at the highest levels should not be white males.”

THE TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA. Fighting to advance the livelihoods of workers across all transport sectors – underground, on the streets, and in the air.

WE ARE AMERICA’S DEMOCRATIC FIGHTING UNION

MASS TRANSIT, AIRLINES, AMTRAK & FREIGHT RAIL, SCHOOL BUSES, UTILITIES & UNIVERSITIES, BIKESHARE & MICRO-MOBILITY TOUR BUSES & HORSE CARRIAGES

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veteran Eric Adams won the Democratic mayoral primary. Time will tell if Mullins extends a honeymoon period for the cop-turned-politician.

guards, loaders, handlers and paraprofessionals make it the largest of DC 37’s many locals. The local, with its mostly lower-salaried workers, were part of the broad coalition backing Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign.

Barzilay, reached a tentative deal with New York City for a contract that includes retroactive raises of 2% to 4% a year dating back to 2018. Closing the pay gap between firefighters and his members – paramedics, EMTs, inspectors and EMS workers with the FDNY – has been one of Barzilay’s priorities since he unseated the union’s previous president in 2017 and then cruised to reelection last year.

PRESIDENT

DEA

OREN BARZILAY

PRESIDENT

Though not as brash as the leaders of other New York City Police Department unions, Detectives’ Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo is similarly dogged in his defense of his rank and file’s priorities. DiGiacomo has spoken out against the 2020 bail reform that he says has allowed most suspects accused of gun crimes to return promptly to the streets. He has also defended the practice of detectives lying to suspects in the hopes of eliciting a confession, which some Democratic state senators are trying to ban.

PRESIDENT

UEMSO Local 3621

FDNY Local 2507

A long-standing complaint of the New York City Fire Department’s emergency medical services workers and their president, Vincent Variale, has been their lack

PAUL DIGIACOMO

In August, Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics & Fire Inspectors FDNY Local 2507, led by President Oren

VINCENT VARIALE

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57 JOSEPH AZZOPARDI BUSINESS MANAGER AND SECRETARY TREASURER District Council 9 of the IUPAT New York City’s International Union of Painters and Allied Trades survived the worst of the coronavirus pandemic partly by staggering schedules. As the city’s economy has more or less completely reopened, District Council 9 is now looking to expand its ranks, as evidenced by its recent recruiting campaign for 500 new apprentices. Joseph Azzopardi, DC9’s business manager/ secretary treasurer since 2015, heads the Manhattan- and Queens-based union. He sits on the boards of the New York City Central Labor Council, the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and the state AFL-CIO.

PRESIDENT District Council 37 While Henry Garrido runs District Council 37, a key member of the influential New York City public-sector union’s leadership team is Shaun Francois. Francois also heads up Board of Education Employees Local 372, whose 24,000 school lunch workers, crossing

of pay parity with other first responders like police and firefighters. Uniformed EMS Officers Local 3621 was among the first city unions to strike a deal on a contract during the current round of negotiations. While they scored income bumps and pay increases of 6% for being trained to respond to mental health crises, a chasm remains between medics and the police from whom that responsibility is being offloaded.

ADAM KRAUTHAMER Adam Krauthamer leads Local 802 AFM.

PRESIDENT Local 802 AFM Even after Broadway set its reopening, the Metropolitan Opera remained shuttered as

ALLEGRO/LOCAL 802

The pay gap between EMS workers and other first responders persists.

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59 JAMES SHILLITTO PRESIDENT UWUA Local 1-2 A member of Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2 for over 40 years, James Shillitto spent two decades of his career as a high-voltage lineman and troubleshooter. Representing utility workers, including all unionized workers for Con Edison, Shillitto has backed transition funds for other energy sector workers at fossil fuel plants. For its own members, the local recently prodded Rise Light & Power, the operator of Ravenswood Generating Station (the city’s largest power generator), to put $2.5 million into a union fund for training workers in the operation and maintenance of renewable energy technologies.

60 EDWIN CHRISTIAN BUSINESS MANAGER IUOE Local 14-14B For over 30 years, Edwin Christian has been a member of the International Union

Congress about the exclusions baked into the Fair Labor Standards Act and spoke out against states ending pandemic-era unemployment benefits.

63 of Operating Engineers, the union that represents the operators of the heavy machinery that erects skyscrapers in the densest big city in the United States. As head of Local 14-14B going back to the Bloomberg administration, he has sparred with city officials over the licensing of crane operators, who can make well into the six figures in salary and benefits.

61 MARITZA SILVA-FARRELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALIGN Maritza Silva-Farrell has spent over a decade at ALIGN, and has served as the organization’s executive director since 2016. ALIGN, formed by a coalition of labor unions and community groups, advocates for economic equality, a cleaner environment and

racial justice. She recently joined other advocates and activists in calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to expedite the implementation of congestion pricing in Manhattan and demanded that a state wage theft bill be signed into law.

62 REBECCA DIXON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Employment Law Project As head of the National Employment Law Project, Rebecca Dixon has focused much of her efforts on racial justice for low-wage workers. The New York-based think tank estimates that more than 26 million American workers have enjoyed pay boosts thanks to minimum wage hikes like those in New York, where Fight for $15 originated – and half of those workers are people of color. Dixon has testified before Rebecca Dixon leads the National Employment Law Project.

MICHAEL APUZZO BUSINESS MANAGER UA Plumbers Local 1 Michael Apuzzo led the Long Island City-based United Association Plumbers Local 1 through the worst of the pandemic via a multitude of methods. This includes employing staggered start times, temperature scanning and keeping members from coming to the Union Hall without an appointment. This year, UA Plumbers Local 1 encouraged its 6,000 members to show support for NRG Energy’s plan to upgrade its “peaker” plant within Con Edison’s Astoria station so it can burn natural gas.

64 CHARLENE OBERNAUER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NYCOSH The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health is a membershipbased advocacy organization working to improve the health and safety of workers across the city and the state. NYCOSH Executive Director Charlene Obernauer recently argued that wage theft and unsafe working conditions go hand-in-hand on (often nonunion) construction sites. She has also urged the state to do more to help New Yorkers file workers’ compensation claims after contracting COVID-19 on the job.

JOHN O’DONNELL PHOTOGRAPHY; JUAN SILVA D; SIMONE FORGIONE PHOTOGRAPHY

its orchestra held out against pay cuts, with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts facing a similar situation. Adam Krauthamer leads Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents musicians at both venues. Despite their dire straits – according to Krauthamer, the musicians suffered unemployment of 95% as late as April – the union’s 7,000 members in the city continued to boost New Yorkers’ spirits during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Congratulations to all the Honorees especially to our Business Manager Mike Apuzzo. Your hard work and dedication is appreciated by Plumbers Local Union No. 1 and all of the Labor Movement. Paul O’Connor Ǧ Ǧ Ǧ Ǥ

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LOWELL PETERSON

SUSAN DECARAVA

Susan DeCarava is president of the NewsGuild of New York.

JOSEPH GEIGER

JAMES MAHONEY

NY GUILD; NEW YORK CITY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS

THE COBA EXECUTIVE BOARD PROUDLY SALUTES OUR PRESIDENT

BENNY

BOSCIO JR. ON BEING NAMED TO

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CORRECTION OFFICERS’ BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, INC. “PATROLLING THE TOUGHEST PRECINCTS IN NEW YORK” Benny Boscio Jr.

Keisha Williams 3rd Vice President

Herman Jiminian

Felix Sanchez

Edward Yates

President

Legislative Chairman

Sergeant At Arms

Brooklyn Borough Trustee

Joseph Bracco

Michael Maiello

Antoinette Anderson

Ashaki Antoine

1st Vice President

Treasurer

Corresponding Secretary

First Citywide Trustee

Matthew Romano Bronx Borough Trustee

Glenn Morgan

Lionel Cumberbatch Financial Secretary

Angel Castro Recording Secretary

Charles Wingate

2nd Vice President

Manhattan Borough Trustee

Neil Renois Queens Borough Trustee

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and Reinforcing Iron Workers union, AFL-CIO, James Mahoney leads the New York State District Council of Iron Workers, which represents the construction workers who build New York City’s skyscrapers. As a member of New York City-based Local 580, Mahoney worked as a journeyman, foreman and steward before rising through the ranks of union leadership.

ED DRAVES PARTNER

PRISCILLA SIMS BROWN

Bolton-St. Johns Alan Klinger is co-managing partner at Stroock.

Amalgamated Bank Since being named president and CEO of Amalgamated Bank in May, Priscilla Sims Brown has led the financial institution that’s as concerned with ethical investing as it is with quarterly profits. With $6.6 billion in assets, the union-owned bank is designated as a B-corporation – a “force for good” – by the nonprofit B Lab. Most recently, as a former executive at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Brown has also served on the board of trustees of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America.

71 DANIEL KANE JR. PRESIDENT Teamsters Local 202 Bronx-based Teamsters Local 202 won one of the biggest labor standoffs in New York City last year, winning a pay raise and a new three-year contract for their members who work at the massive Hunts Point Produce Market while also keeping the city’s food supply chain intact during the COVID-19

pandemic. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ritchie Torres and other prominent politicians stood with Daniel Kane Jr. and his members during the weeklong strike before a deal was reached.

72 ALAN KLINGER CO-MANAGING PARTNER Stroock Top labor lawyer Alan Klinger often represents the New York City Municipal Labor Committee, a collection of city government unions that includes District Council 37, the United Federation of Teachers, and Teamsters Local 237. Klinger recently touted his firm’s decision to let staff work a hybrid home/ office schedule. “We are doing this in part because we are trying to break down the class barriers that exist in many organizations, and we have come to believe that if we treat people professionally and fairly, they will respond in kind,” he told The American Lawyer.

73 ROBERT BISHOP PARTNER Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno, LLC Robert Bishop is a founding partner of the firm that has both advised and lobbied Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams. Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno represents many of the unions that appear on this list, including the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association and Transport Workers Union Local 100. Bishop represents the interests of the firm’s clients before state agencies and legislative bodies, as well as all executive and legislative bodies of New York City government.

Few government affairs firms with labor clients bring the expertise and experience that top lobbying firm BoltonSt. Johns does – and that’s largely thanks to Ed Draves, a partner at the firm. Draves, who has been with BoltonSt. Johns for two decades, previously worked with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and played a key role in Hillary Clinton’s U.S. Senate campaign. Among the firm’s clients are the Police Benevolent Association, the Jockeys’ Guild and the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys.

75 PATRICK DOLAN JR. PRESIDENT Enterprise Association of Steamfitters Local 638 For the past decade, Patrick Dolan Jr. has been president of Steamfitters Local 638, which represents some 8,000

The union-owned Amalgamated Bank has $6.6 billion in assets.

STROOCK & STROOCK & LAVAN LLP; SUBMITTED

PRESIDENT AND CEO

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William Lynn is business manager at IUOE Local 30.

pipefitters in the five boroughs of New York City and on Long Island. Dolan Jr., who has been with the Long Island Citybased union since 1987, and he also serves on the boards of the New York City Central Labor Council and the Long Island Federation of Labor.

76 JOSEPH D'AMATO BUSINESS MANAGER Laborers Local 731

Mahoma Lopez Garfias and Rosanna Rodríguez-Aran. The co-directors say the LWC organizes 2,500 laundry employees in New York City and New Jersey, filing lawsuits and leading demonstrations in front of laundromats.

MAHOMA LOPEZ GARFIAS & ROSANNA RODRÍGUEZ-ARAN

MICHAEL O’MEARA

BUSINESS MANAGER

PRESIDENT

IUOE Local 30

Laundry Workers Center

New York State Association of PBAs

COVID-19 has been tough for laundry workers, who are often undocumented immigrant women and already vulnerable to exploitation such as sub-minimum wages. Many workers lost hours and got sick, and some who stood up for their rights were fired. The watchdog for these essential workers is the Laundry Workers Center, a grassroots group led by

In addition to leading the New York State Association of PBAs, Michael O’Meara is also president of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority PBA, the union for police who patrol the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North and the Staten Island Railway. Though the direct effects of the city’s 2020 budget on public safety are unclear, O’Meara in June drew a straight line

William Lynn’s International Union of Operating Engineers Local 30 represents engineers and other workers in New York and Connecticut, including workers at the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium and the Statue of Liberty. Lynn,

CO-DIRECTORS

between the New York City Police Department’s roughly 7% in cuts and an increase in shootings and homicides, a trend that predated that budget.

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who joined the union three decades ago and was elected to his current role in 2014, led a successful unionization drive at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2019, reaching a contract deal for around 140 workers there early this year. Lynn is also financial secretary and a vice president of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

80 ROBERT NEWELL JR. PRESIDENT UFCW Local 1500 Since taking over as president of United Food and

The Laundry Workers Center is a watchdog looking out for exploitation.

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Joseph D’Amato is the veteran leader of the Building Concrete, Excavating & Common Laborers Union Local 731, which represents several thousand excavators and other workers in New York City. D’Amato, who took over as business manager in 2000, witnessed the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City and mobilized his members to join the rescue effort. His Astoriabased local union covers the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. He serves on the executive board of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York.

Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York ● Local 94, IAFF AFL-CIO Andrew Ansbro President Marine 1 Robert C. Eustace Vice President Ladder 27

Vincent Speciale Recording Secretary Engine 55

Edward Brown Treasurer Ladder 48

Michael Schreiber Health & Safety Officer Sergeant-at-Arms Ladder 116

William Greco Bronx Trustee Engine 68 Eric Bischoff Staten Island Trustee Chairman, Board of Trustees Retired Dennis Tveter Queens Trustee Ladder 127

Christopher Viola Manhattan Trustee Engine 65 Douglas Carroll Brooklyn Trustee Ladder 119 James J. Egan Fire Marshal Rep

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Prabhu Sigamani is director of ROCNew York.

for app-based drivers. The Machinists-backed guild also backed high-profile legislation in Albany that would allow members to unionize and bargain industry-wide but retain their independent contractor status, although it has yet to pass.

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81 PRABHU SIGAMANI DIRECTOR ROC-New York The COVID-19 pandemic has put millions of food service employees out of work and continues to transform

the restaurant industry. However, Prabhu Sigamani, director of the New York chapter of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers, continues to advocate for mandated training so that restaurant workers can keep their skills in line with what employers need. Sigamani’s chapter offers weekly job placement sessions and also hosts free online training in hospitality, wine, bartending, entrepreneurship and food handling. The organization also offers an Occupational Safety and Health Administration 10-Hour virtual course for restaurant safety.

82 JIM CONIGLIARO JR. & BRENDAN SEXTON EXECUTIVE CHAIR; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Independent Drivers Guild

PRESIDENT SSSA

The Independent Drivers Guild is a gig workers’ nonprofit representing 250,000 ride-share drivers in New York, other Northeast states and Illinois. Founded by labor lawyer Jim Conigliaro Jr., pictured, and led by Executive Director Brendan Sexton, the group advocates for benefits and protections

Michael Carrube leads the Subway Surface Supervisors Association, the second-largest transit union representing workers at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Carrube, who in addition to heading up the 4,000-member SSSA is president of the National Association of Transportation Supervisors, has been dealing with a pandemic that has killed a number of his members. This spring, he penned an op-ed in the Queens Daily Eagle advocating for better data collection and standards to more effectively counter COVID-19.

The 4,000 member SSSA is the second-largest union representing MTA workers.

SUBMITTED; DIANA MANCUSI PHOTOGRAPHY; SUBWAY SURFACE SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION

Commercial Workers Local 1500 in late 2019, Robert Newell Jr. has grappled not only with a pandemic that has sickened the grocery store workers he represents but also corporate acquisitions and bankruptcies that threaten these workers’ livelihoods. Newell, who previously served as the local’s secretarytreasurer alongside thenPresident Anthony Speelman, represents over 20,000 members in downstate New York, including employees of Fairway Market, Stop & Shop and ShopRite.

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THE NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL, AFL-CIO CELEBRATES ALL WORKERS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR CITY, THANKS THE FRONTLINE AND ESSENTIAL WORKERS WHO HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY FOR THEIR FELLOW NEW YORKERS, AND HONORS THE MEMORIES OF THE MANY WORKING PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001.

The Association of Contracting Plumbers

Congratulates Michael Apuzzo On making City & State’s 2021 “Labor Power 100 List” -Robert Greenberg, President Terence O’Brien, Executive Vice President 535 8th Avenue, 17th Floor. New York, NY 10018 Tel: (212) 481-4580 – Fax: (212) 481-7185 – Web: www.acpcny.org – Email: info@acpcny.org

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CARMEN DE LEÓN PRESIDENT Local 768

Maf Misbah Uddin is the national president of the Alliance of South Asian American Labor.

MICHAEL CORDIELLO

MAF MISBAH UDDIN

PRESIDENT AND BUSINESS AGENT

NATIONAL PRESIDENT

ATU Local 1181-1061

Alliance of South Asian American Labor

As students return to the classroom this fall, school districts are grappling with a potential shortage of bus drivers to get them there – including in New York City, where Michael Cordiello is drawing attention to the problem. Cordiello, who as president of the 13,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181-1061 represents around half of the city’s bus drivers and mechanics, has cited the impact of COVID-19 and a spate of retirements as well as a lack of adequate pay increases.

Starting his career as a municipal actuary in 1988, Maf Misbah Uddin became president of District Council 37’s Accountants, Statisticians & Actuaries Local 1407 a dozen years later. Maintaining that leadership position to this day, he has also served for five terms as DC 37’s treasurer. Perhaps the most prominent Muslim and South Asian labor leader in the city, Uddin is also president of the Alliance of South Asian American Labor.

Cordiello is drawing attention to a potential shortage of bus drivers.

Beating longtime President Fitz Reid in an election this year, Carmen De León topped a successful slate of reform-minded challengers to lead Local 768, a union that encompasses thousands of city workers in health services. Speech pathologists, art therapists and dental assistants are just a few of the positions that 4,500 Local 768 members fill in city agencies like the city’s fire and police departments, the public housing authority and the offices of borough presidents and district attorneys.

87 MARK HENRY PRESIDENT AND BUSINESS AGENT ATU Local 1056 Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056 represents 1,700 Metropolitan Transportation

88 THOMAS CANTY GENERAL MANAGER AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR LABOR, GOVERNMENT AND SPECIAL ACCOUNTS Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield When the de Blasio administration reached an agreement with the Municipal Labor Committee to transfer New York City public-sector retirees to a Medicare Advantage plan, the city selected Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield as one of the two insurers to administer the NYC Medicare Advantage Plus Program. Given the expertise and experience of

MAF MISBAH UDDIN; PETER VIDOR

Authority bus drivers, maintenance workers and cleaners in Queens. As a former bus driver himself, ATU Local 1056’s President Mark Henry celebrated the passage of the NY HERO Act, which sets virus-related workplace standards that are especially crucial in environments like packed buses. “My members ... put their lives on the line daily during the height of the pandemic,” he told the Queens Chronicle; in fact, at least 12 members of ATU Local 1056 have died of COVID-19.

We are proud to congratulate our President

Michelle Zettergren for being honored in the NYC Labor Power 100.

Thank you for your fearless leadership and commitment to ensuring the city’s workers have access to quality healthcare.

COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA, DISTRICT 1 Salutes our own

Chris Shelton Dennis G. Trainor Hae-Lin Choi

National President Comunications Workers of America

Vice President Comunications Workers of America

NYS Legislative & Political Director CWA District 1

for your strong leadership, courage, and passion fighting for working families! Established to meet the healthcare needs of the Labor community, MagnaCare continues to adhere to its founding principles of ﬂexibility, quality, and putting the member ﬁrst.

www.magnacare.com

DENNIS G. TRAINOR Vice President, CWA District 1 GLADYS FINNIGAN BOB MASTER Assistant to the VP Assistant to the VP

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Karen Ignani, left, of EmblemHealth, and Michelle Zettergren, right, of Magnacare

89 KAREN IGNAGNI PRESIDENT AND CEO EmblemHealth Once the director of the AFLCIO’s benefits department and the former leader of the

industry group America’s Health Insurance Plans, Karen Ignagni now leads EmblemHealth, one of the largest nonprofit health insurers in the nation. With plans covering 3 million people in New York City and the tri-state area, EmblemHealth leans on zero-copay primary and preventive care as a means to improve health outcomes and save taxpayers money. Her company was also brought in to administer a Medicare Advantage plan for publicsector retirees after a recent cost-cutting agreement was reached.

Mantsios founded an institute at CUNY to advance the labor movement.

MICHELLE ZETTERGREN

GREGORY MANTSIOS

PRESIDENT, LABOR AND PUBLIC SECTOR

FOUNDING DEAN

MagnaCare MagnaCare, a third-party health insurance administrator that serves self-funded clients, started in 1992. It began as an insurance company that served labor and publicsector clients, and today, Michelle Zettergren presides over that core part of the company’s business. Coming to MagnaCare in 2017 with a long history of underwriting labor insurance, Zettergren is also a certified mediator with experience in labor negotiations.

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Since the 1980s, Gregory Mantsios has been creating educational programs in New York City designed to educate students and advance the labor cause. In 1984, he founded the Murphy Institute at the City University of New York, which he would run until it became the basis for CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies in 2018. The school serves many working nontraditional students and those from poor and workingclass upbringings. Mantsios is also a former elected officer

EMBLEM HEALTH; KATHLEEN DURKO

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield executive Thomas Canty with government and labor clients, it’s no surprise his company was brought on to help keep health care costs in check.

New York City is one of the top trending destinations on Airbnb for US travelers this fall. Home sharing is playing an essential role in welcoming tourists back to New York City, where Airbnb has been a key driver of tourism and economic impact for many years. But without sensible regulations, NYC lags behind other big cities’ ability to fully benefit from home sharing. In the interest of the city and its residents’ ability to financially recover from the pandemic, it’s time to change that. We stand ready to partner on this effort to ensure New York’s recovery is successful and equitable.

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Yesenia Mata is the executive director of La Colmena.

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YESENIA MATA

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99 EDDIE RODRIGUEZ PRESIDENT New York City Clerical Administrative Employees Local 1549 Eddie Rodriguez, who served as president of District Council 37 until losing his reelection bid in 2019, still leads New York City Clerical Administrative Employees Local 1549, which represents about 16,000 clerical employees across city agencies. This year, union leadership helped scrap a proposal by the state Legislature that would have eliminated face-to-face interviews with the Human Resources Administration – no mean feat in an increasingly virtual post-COVID world.

also represents workers in a range of other sectors, including the funeral, demolition, rental car, paper and factory and warehouse industries. In recent years the union has teamed with New York City Council Member Antonio Reynoso on legislation protecting sanitation workers.

97 KIERAN AHERN PRESIDENT NYSSPCA As the president of the New York Structural Steel Painting Contractors Association, Kieran Ahern leads the trade association in its contract negotiations between member companies and Local

Union 806, District Council 9, Structural Steel & Bridge Painters of Greater New York. The trade association represents member companies that paint bridges, electrical towers and other steel structures. Ahern is also a co-chair of the National Steel Painting Contractors Association.

98 KATHLEEN CULHANE PRESIDENT Nontraditional Employment for Women Kathleen Culhane leads Nontraditional Employment for Women, a nonprofit that advocates for women in trades by taking a pro-development

stance in its efforts to increase opportunities for women in construction and other industries. Culhane has touted the $40 million Green Economy Fund, which is directed toward job training for residents along the Canada-to-Queens path of the controversial Champlain Hudson Power Express power line. She’s also advocated for a build-out of New York City’s life science lab space as an opportunity for career advancement for low-income women.

100 GABRIEL MORALES INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Brandworkers Brandworkers is a worker advocacy organization comprising mostly undocumented immigrants in the food industry. Led by Interim Executive Director Gabriel Morales, the group has organized against wage theft and opposed a demand for proof of immigration status by a bakery in Queens. In August, Brandworkers gained a key ally on the National Labor Relations Board when the U.S. Senate confirmed a board member, Gwynne Wilcox, to serve a fiveyear term.

Brandworkers seeks to protect immigrant workers from wage theft.

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Kathleen Culhane is the president of Nontraditional Employment for Women.

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Notice of Formation of 247 WAVERLY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/15/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 247 Waverly Pl NY, NY 10014.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 7514 15 AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/9/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7514 15TH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11228. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Dan Roth Studio LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/5/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 175 Kent Ave Apt 707, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of So Help Us, LLC filed with SSNY on 04/23/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 751 troy ave apt 1P Brooklyn NY 11203. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of EUREK A3 HOMES BUYERS LLC filed with SSNY on 02/06/2018. Office: PUTMAN C O U N T Y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: USA CORP INC 325 DIVISION AVE . SUITE 201, BROOKLYN, NY 11211 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Form. of HOST INTE R NATIONAL LOGISTICS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/5/16. Office location: Chemung. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 124 Wygant Rd, Horseheads, NY 14845. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Benedict Law Group PLLC. Ar ticles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 1, 2021. Location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on PLLC. SSNY shall mail process to 42 W. 38th Street, Suite 1002, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Law.

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Notice of Formation of Stacey Simon Nutrition LLC filed with SSNY on 05/10/2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1675 York Ave. #17E New York, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of JFP TRANSIT, LLC filed with SSNY on 5/14/21. Office: BRONX County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 3226 OXFORD AVE, BRONX, NY 10463. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of ONLY AN OCTAVE APART LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/01/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 200 Park Ave. South, 8th Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of WC Value Managment, LLC filed with SSNY on August 9, 2021. Office: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 6 Kingswood Way, South Salem, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Amherst, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GABELLINI SHEPPARD PRODUCT DESIGN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/27/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Attn: K imb e r l y S h e p p ard , 665 Broadway, Rm. 706, NY, NY 10012. 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 law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of Formation of 249 AMM ACQUISITIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/2/21. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1325 Hudson Rd Teaneck, NJ 07666. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 970 EASTERN PARK WAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 970 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11213. Any law ful purpose

Notice of Formation of 346 MONTGOMERY ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 346 Montgomery St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 985 NOSTRAND AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 985 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 352 MARCUS GARVEY BLVD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 352 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11221. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 987 NOSTRAND AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 987 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 483 WAVERLY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 483 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1482 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1482 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 957 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 957 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1495 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1495 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 963 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 963 FULTON ST, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11238. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1549 BROADWAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1549 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11221. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 1551 BROADWAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1551 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11221. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 7304 Property LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 135 32 nd St Brooklyn, NY 11232. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation o f A b i n g t o n L a ke Frederick LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 950 Third Ave 27 th Ave NY, NY 10022. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of DIGITAL THEATRE (US) LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/21/21. Office location: Rensselaer. LLC formed in DE on 9/20/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 70 West Madison st., ste 5750, Chicago, IL, United States, 60602. Arts. of Org. filed with IL SOS. 501 S. Second St., Rm. 350 Springfield, IL 62756. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of TRIPLE STAR 1707 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/3/16. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1707 W13th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of. Brooklyn Castle, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 101 Lafayette Avenue, Apt #10a, Brooklyn, NY. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Electric Skyship LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 90 State St Ste 700 Office 40 Albany, NY 12207. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 23 INGRAHAM ST. LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/15/2004. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4010 14 th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of H PRINCETON ASSOCIATE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/14/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 34 Puritan Ct Princeton, NJ 08540. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 23 VERONA PL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1314 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 69 K INGSTON AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 69 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11213. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 146 HERKIMER ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 146 Herkimer St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BLOOMLEE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/1/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 80 STATE ST., ALBANY, NY, United States, 12207. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of J & A SI GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/19/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5206 8 th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of JEFFERSON 437 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 495A Henry St Ste 223 Brooklyn, NY 11231. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Lipnitsk y Holdings LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 44 Barlow Dr North Brooklyn, NY 11234. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NG & CHAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 657 57 th St 1PL Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Martin Yoshiko LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/21/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 483 Washington Ave #5 B , Brook lyn , N Y, United States, 11238. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Mask 21, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 940 Park Ave New York, New York, 10028.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NAC STRATEGIC CONSULTING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/16/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to attn: mindy h. stern, esq., 444 madison avenue, 6th floor, New York, NY, United States, 10022. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NI RE ALT Y GROUP LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8317 12 th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NORTHERN SEVEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/16/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 17 State St., 34th Fl, New York, NY 10004. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of NOSTRAND AND E MPIR E HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1314 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Pharos AA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/22/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 24 Remsen St Brooklyn, NY 11201. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of PILHOF LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/25/93. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3858 Nostrand Ave #202 Brooklyn NY 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Roundview Talent LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 405 E. 72 nd St, New York, New York, 10021. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of 518 REAL ESTATE ADVISORS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/30/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 325 Columbia Tpke, Ste 301, Florham Park, NJ 07932. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Choconini Confections LLC filed with SSNY on June 30, 2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7 E.14th St., Suite 20B, New York, NY, 10003 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of 316 GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/13/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 14, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 07/16/2021. Office location: New York County. The principal business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006. SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention: General Counsel. Purpose: any law ful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION of B uilding Future Legacies for Young Scholars, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/23/2021. Of fice Location: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Dr. Christine A Pinnock, 1502 E. 222 nd St., Bronx, New York 10469. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Reflect to Grow C o u n s e l i n g L C S W, PLLC filed with SSNY on May 4th, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: The LLC 11 BROADWAY SUITE 615 NEW YORK, N Y 10 0 0 4 Purpose: Any law ful purpose. RHCP LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/17/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 121 West 20th St., 4G, NY, NY 10011. Reg Agent: Ron Chau, 121 West 20th St., 4G, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 302 GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/13/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 155 -157 GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/13/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 319 OM GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/14/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qual. of KPP MM III, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 07/27/2021. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/03/2014. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 369 West 126th Street, Mgmt Suite, NY, NY 10027. Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Alder Rd, PO Box 841, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Le Rouge Graine LLC filed w/ SSNY on 7/13/21. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o So Young Shin, 795 Columbus Ave., #15B, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful.

Notice of Formation of Fruitstand LLC. Articles of Organization filled with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/14/21. Office Location: New York City. SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY should mail process to; 45 W 60th St, #11A New York NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful purpose or activity. Notice of Qualification of 60 Beverly, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/15/21. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in FL on 7/31/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 5575 Las Brisas Dr., Vero Beach, FL 32967. Principal office addr. of LLC: 5575 Las Brisas Dr., Vero Beach, FL 32967. Art. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of FL, Div. of Corps., 2415 N. Monroe Street, Suite 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. NOTICE OF FILING OF A P P L I C AT I O N FOR AUTHORIT Y OF EMPOWER BROOKLYN LLC UNDER FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILIT Y CO MPA N Y L AW SECTION 802 Name: EmPower Brooklyn LLC. Date of filing of Application for Authority with Dept of State: July 13, 2021. Jurisdiction: Delaware. Date of Organization: July 13, 2017. Office Location: N ew Yo r k C o u n t y. Principal Business Location: 322 West 57th Street, #46U, New York, NY 10019. Service of Process Address: 322 West 57th Street, #46U, New York, NY 10019. Office in Jurisdiction of its Organization: Business Filings Incorporated, 108 West 13th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. Authorized Officer: State of Delaware, Secretary of State, Division of Corporations, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4 , Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: any lawful business activity.

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Notice of Formation of FNM 38TH AVENUE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FNM 46 CORTLANDT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/18/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11249. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FNM 500 DEKALB LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FNM 635 4th Avenue LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FNM West 72nd Street LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of J & M MAPLE PROPERTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/4/21. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 43 Maple Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10306. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Glowbar NY W Y THE AVE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 157 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GOLDEN 872 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 966 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GOLDEN SI3 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 966 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SR Fitness & Nutrition LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Wayne. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 139 Grace Ave, Newark, NY 14513. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of S TA R R I D E R EQUESTRIAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/27/21. Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to P.O. Box 457, Westtown, NY, United States, 10998. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of KENSO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/26/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 E 13th St, New York, NY, United States, 10003. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 50W 27ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/02/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 672 Westminster Road, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11230 Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 201 WEST 17TH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/30/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 201 West 17th St, Unit PHH, New York , NY 10011.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 360 Clove Road LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 68/3/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 360 Clove Rd, Staten Island, NY 10310. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 13, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 07/16/2021. Office location: New York County. The principal business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006. SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention: General Counsel. Purpose: any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Elite Endomorphs, LLC filed with Richmond County, NY on May 21st, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 100 Wadsworth Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of JDS DE VELOPMENT FL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/4/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in FL on 6/10/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS. Clifton Bldg, 2661 Executive Center Circle, Tallahassee FL 32301. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CLW ENTERPRISES LLC Articles of Organization filled with Secretar y of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/08/2021. Office Location: Kings SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY should mail process to; CHARLENE WILSON 1261 E 80TH STREET #48 BROOKLYN, NY 11236. Purpose: Any law ful purpose or activit y.

Notice of Formation of BAY 31ST STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 25 Marlboro RD, Westbury, NY 11590. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BAY 31ST STREET 2A LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 56 Wilson Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10304. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of MAX88 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/5/21. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 511 Falcon Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of NEW YORK FINTECH CLUB LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1501 Avenue U, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1245 EAST 100 STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/5/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2124 Rockaway Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11236 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1549 DEAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/29/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1408 47th Street Apt 1R, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1945 BAY RIDGE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/04/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 133-48 Avery Ave 2nd Fl, Flushing, NY 11355. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 462 Property LLC filed with SSNY on 07/02/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Jin Ru Chen 832 50 Street Brooklyn, NY 112 20. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of TRIPLE Y PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/5/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 257 West 93rd Street, Apt. 5c, New York, NY 10025. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of BROADSTREAM VENTURES, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/21/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 257 West 93rd Street, Apt. 5c, New York, NY 10025c. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of BROADSTREAM PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/5/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 257 West 93rd Street, Apt. 5c, New York, NY 10025. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 45-47 YALE AVENUE LLC filed with SSNY on 08/07/2020. Office: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 45-47 YALE AVENUE LLC 599 W HARTSDALE AVE SUITE 204 WHITE PL AINS, NY 10607. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation - Heart of Chelsea Veterinary PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/26/21. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 80 State St, Albany, N Y 12 207. Purpose: ve te r inar y m e di c in e

September 6, 2021

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE At an IAS Part 35 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York held in and for the County of Kings at the Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on the 26th day of July 2021. PRESENT: HON. Karen Rothenberg J.S.C. KENT HANDBERRY, SR. Plaintiff, -against- SHAMEL S. DANIELS and “JOHN DOE” being a fictitious name for the operator of the subject vehicle currently unknown to Plaintiff; Defendants. Upon the reading and filing of the annexed Affirmation of STEVEN H. COHEN, dated the 22nd day of July, 2021, and upon all the exhibits annexed hereto and the pleadings and proceedings heretofore had herein; LET Plaintiff KENT HANDBERRY, SR,, appear and show cause before this Court, Park 35 in room 574 on the 9th day of September 2021 at 10:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard: * WHY an Order should not be entered as follows: 1. Pursuant to CPLR 321(b)(2), permitting the Law Offices of Michael E. Pressman to withdraw as attorneys of record for the Plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, Sr.; 2. Pursuant to CPLR 308(5) permitting service in lieu of personal service, upon plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, SR., by publication in a newspaper. 3. Granting a stay of all proceedings for sixty (60) days to permit Plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, SR., to retain new counsel; and 4. Together with such other, further and different relief as the Court deems just and proper. ORDERED that this matter is hereby stayed pending a hearing and determination of the within Order to Show Cause; and it is further LET service of a copy of this Order together with the papers upon which is is granted be deemed timely served upon Plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, Sr., if made by publication in a newspaper and by regular mail to last known address and entered certified and regular mail upon MARTYN, MARTYN, SMITH, MURRAY and YONG, attorneys for defendant SHAMEL S. DANIELS, be deemed timely if served on or before the 25th day of August, 2021 be deemed good and sufficient service. ENTERED Karen Rothenberg, J.S.C. * Order to Show cause will be submitted on return date and court will contact parties top set date for argument if required by court. Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Depew, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Brighton, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of THE LATE NIGHT CLOSET LLC filed with SSNY on 07/15/2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: The Late Night Closet LLC 472F East 139th Street, Bronx, New York, 10454, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW East Amherst, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Batavia, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Galleria, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Buffalo, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Greece, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Henrietta, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Hamburg, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Lakewood, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Lockport, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Niagara Falls, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Victor, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Webster, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. BA X TE R ADV ISOR S LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 08/05/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Caryn Paer, 429 East 52nd St. Apt 31G, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Gomez Engineering, PLLC filed with SSNY on 07/15/2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: The PLLC 6 Fonda Place Staten Island, NY 10309 Purpose: Professional Engineering

Notice of Formation of 360 Clove Road LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 360 Clove Rd, Staten Island, NY 10310. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of H. A .L . Industries, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/28/2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 415 East 52nd. Street, Office #2 New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of Dewey Square Group, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/18/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/06. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave, #400, Harrison, NY 10528 . Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of N E W TO N S T L L C . Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 6/8/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1202 Lexington Ave, #292, New York, NY 10028. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FLOURISH TECHNOLOGIES LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/ 1 8/2 1 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/11/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave, #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of FLOUR ISH DIGITAL ASSETS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/18/21. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/11/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave, #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Divorce NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION Jose Lucas Beltran Suarez v. Elizabeth Villanueva 21-CVD-1978 Attention “ELIZABETH VILLANUEVA” Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Divorce. You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 2nd , 2021 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. This the 23rd day of August 2021. L. Maria Ximena Sussman Sussman Law Firm, PLLC 9916 Monroe Road Charlotte, NC 28270 Ph# (980) 598-8180

Notice of Formation of ARIA PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/28/21 Office location: Oswego SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 7356 STATE ROUTE 3, PULASKI, NY, United States, 13142. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of DTCM HOLDINGS LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 55 East 86th Street, Units 1a, 1a-1, 1c and 1d, New York, Ny, United States, 10028. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of James Huang Photo LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/10/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 63 Decatur St, Apt 3, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of MARIANNE DITOMMASO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/16/21. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 72 Princewood Ave, Staten Island, NY, United States, 10309. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of NIE S FAMILY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/13/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1610 Ave R, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11229. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of PDZ OZ HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/19/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RPH SUT TON PROPERTIES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/14/2021. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 231 KENT STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11222. Any law ful purpose. NOTICE: Be advised that: Pursuant to the Limited Liability Law of the State of New York on August 19, 2021 Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State thereof forming “Momand Properties LLC” with principle offices located within the County of Schenectady at: 2008 Southgate Drive, Schenectady, NY 12303. The LLC has been formed to carry on and engage in any lawful act or activity and the Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the said company upon whom process may be served and thereupon mailed to: 1412 NY Rte 9P, Saratoga Springs , N Y 12 8 6 6 . NOTICE: Be advised that: Pursuant to the Limited Liability Law of the State of New York on March 22, 2021 Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State thereof forming “Five Star Closing and Settlements LLC” with principle offices l o c a te d wi thin th e County of Schenectady at: 1528 Union Street, Schenectady, NY 12309. The LLC has been formed to carry on and engage in any lawful act or activity and the Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the said company upon whom process may be served and thereupon mailed to: 44 Horseshoe Drive, Saratoga Springs , N Y 12 8 6 6 . Transfinite LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/01/20. Office: Buffalo County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Registered Agents Inc. at 1967 Wehrle Drive Suite 1 Office #086, Buffalo, N Y 142 2 1 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 443 GREENWICH 4B LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/13/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: PO Box 641, Rutherford, CA 94573. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, cider and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 210 W 10TH STREET UNIT 2 NEW YORK, NY 10016 for on premises consumption. SUSHI ON WEST 10TH STREET LLC. Notice of Qual. of AGUA DEL MAR, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/11/2021. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in FL on 11/15/2013. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1835 E AS T HA L L A NDA L E BEACH, BLVD., #709, HALLENDALE BEACH, FL, 33009. Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS. 2415 North Monroe St. STE 810 Tallahassee, FL 32303. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of DIXIE DOG LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on10/02/18. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1202 Lexington Ave, #292, New York, NY 10028. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Angelina Franchising LLC filed w/ SSNY on 3/5/21. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 41 W 35th St., Fl Ground, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful.

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Notice of Formation of TE LLE R HOLD IN G S LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/22/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 670 Myrtle Ave Ste #388, Brooklyn, NY 11205 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 239 8TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/23/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WASAF 164 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 670 Myrtle Ave Ste 166, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 303W113 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/29/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Ave, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11238. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WISPACES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/9/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 271 Sullivan Place, Apt. 3E, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1012 E84 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/10/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5912 Flatlands Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11234. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Y&G 18 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/2021. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4615 SURF AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11224. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1191 BROADWAY REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/2021. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 199 Lee Avenue, Suite 492, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11211. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Your NY Limo LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/10/2021.O f fice location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 675 Stewart Ave, Staten Island, NY, United States, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 19 SAINT FRANCIS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/11/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 689 Saint Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216. Any law ful purpose.

Badinage Vintage LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 07/26/2021. Of f. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 89 Scribner Avenue Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity

New York Manhattan, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/14/2021. Off. loc.: New York Cnty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 16 Pine Needle Rd., Douglas, GA 31535 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of Abell Communications LLC, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/26/2021. Office: RICHMOND County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 115 Stuyvesant Place # 2H Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of FOOD JUSTICE INITIATIVE PUBLIC BENEFIT LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/23/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 6/22/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #4 0 0, Harrison, NY, United States, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Industrial Innovations and Solutions, LLC filed with SSNY on August 18, 2021. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 232 South 9th Avenue, Mt Vernon, New York 10550. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of RAT BASTAD RECORDS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/05/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 311 West 43rd St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activities. NOTICE OF FORMA TION of Sharibah LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/ 11/21. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom proc ess may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 267 W 90th St, Apt 1F, NY, NY 10024. R A: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, # 202, BK, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of P&B Electric Vehicles, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/17/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Messner Reeves LLP, Attn: Maclain Joyce, 1430 Wynkoop, Ste. 300, D e n v e r, CO 80202. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of TORCHGARDEN US LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/30/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 2000 Island Blvd., Unit 2 0 0 7, Aventura, FL 33160. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qual. of MAHZEDAHR 601 LEXINGTON LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 08/25/2021. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 07/29/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Umber Ahmad, 56 West 11th St., #7RW, NY, NY 10011. Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Alder Rd, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of HTH DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/21/2019. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 165 W 66TH STREET, APT 10J, NEW YORK, NY, 10023. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Form. of 6815 4TH AVE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6815 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Forefront Studios LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/03/2021. Of fice location: Richmond C ount y. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 108 Milton Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10306. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of BEAUMONT NATHAN ADVISORY LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 03/04/2020. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 03/02/2020. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Spielman Koenigsberg & Parker, LLP 1675 Broadway, FL 20 th, NY, NY 10019. Address required to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of SMCSI LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1500 Broadway, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10036.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of UNITRANCHE LOAN TRANSACTION II, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/0 6/21. O f fice location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/30/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice is hereby given that a license number 1336809 for a beer and wine license has been applied for by Sullivan Taqueria LLC. , to sell beer and wine at retail in a Tavern under the Alcoholic Beverage Control law at 71 SULLIVAN STREET, SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10012 for on premises consumption. Sullivan Taqueria LLC. 37 Union LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/29/2021. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 230 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale NY 10583, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of STUYVIEWII PROPERTIES LLC filed with SSNY on 06/10/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 535 DEAN STREET, APT. 913 C/O NOAM J. RUBINSTEIN B R O O K LY N , NY 112 17. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of JB DTC MAR K E TING ENTERPRISE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 06/15/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 320 Fifth Ave., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to PPI Apparel Group, At tn: Abe Hanan at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of SERENDIB VOYAGER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/27/21. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. office of LLC: 252 Seventh Ave., Ste. #110, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: To purchase, own and sell real estate in New York. Notice of Formation of TIPPING POINT WEALTH, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/26/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 10 Grand Central, 155 E. 44th St., 12 Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qual. of KRE Bklyner 1134 Fulton LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/24/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 30 Hudson Yards, 75th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of KRE Bklyner 1056 Manhattan LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/24/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 30 Hudson Yards, 75th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of KRE Bklyner 93 Linden LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/24/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 30 Hudson Yards, 75th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. TRIBECA SURGICAL CARE, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/25/21. Of fice: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 50 Laight Street, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Medicine. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 318 GRAHAM AV E N U E , BROOKLYN NY 11211 for on premises consumption. HOT METAL SOUP LLC.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 318 GRAHAM AV E N U E , BROOKLYN NY 11211 for on premises consumption. HOT MEAL SOUP LLC. Notice of Formation of Make Mish LLC, filed with SSNY on 8/13/2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 125 Maryland Ave. Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of NNS ADVISERS (US) LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 08/10/2021. O f f ice location: N Y County. LLC formed in DE on 07/29/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Withers Bergman LLP, 157 Church St. 12 Fl, New Haven, CT 06510. Address required to be maintained in DE: C/O The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, cider, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider, and liquor at retail in a HL 242 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1123 Old Albany Post R oad G arrison , N Y 10524 for on premises c o n s u m p t i o n . 1123 Old Albany Post Road LLC. Notice of Formation of JVM PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/11/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY mail process to 107-24 71st Rd, Apt. PH3B, Forest Hills, NY 11375.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of KRE H YOD Owner LLC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/27/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/20/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of #Tatted Limited liability company , LLC filed with SSNY on April 28,2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 3208 Glenwood Rd apt 4F Brooklyn NY, 11210 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of DorkTown, LLC filed with SSNY on 7/29/21. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 75 State St, Apt 1, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 91 feet on an 81-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 46 Trinity Place, New York, New York County, NY 10006 and at a top height of 152 feet on a 170-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 630 9th Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10036. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, L aura Elston, l.elston@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678-673-8673.

NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION Lourdes Veronica Cabrera Santos v. Aldo Rafael Perez Guevara 20-CVD-17434 Attention “ALDO RAFAEL PEREZ GUEVARA” Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Divorce. You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 16 th , 2021 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. This the 6 day of September 2021. L. Maria Ximena Sussman Sussman Law Firm, PLLC 9916 Monroe Road Charlotte, NC 28270 Ph# (980) 598-8180

I M A X T H R E E CA B LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 08/26/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 432 Park Ave, Apt 49A, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Section 106 Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast, LLC proposes to collocate antennas on the rooftop of an 80 foot tall building located at 1793 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, Bronx C ount y, N Y 1 0 4 5 3 . Interested parties with comments regarding potential ef fects on Historic Proper ties may contact T-Mobile c/o Julia K lima at Dynamic Environmental Associates, Inc., 3850 Lake Street, Suite C, Macon, GA 31204, 8779 6 8 - 4 7 8 7, S e c1 0 6 @ DynamicEnvironmental. com within 30 days from the date of this publication. Re: 22108048.

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Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 455 5 Pear son S tre et , Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by c o mp e ti ti ve b i d ding starting on September 27, 2021 and end on October 8, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. to satis f y unpaid rent and charges on the f o l l ow i n g a c c o u n t s : #3C07-Timothy Hinton: 1-box, 1-pair of gloves, 1-goggle #4R06-Richard Brim: several boxes, several DVD, 1-flat screen TV with mount, 1-picture frame, 2-suitcases, 1-duffel bag #9T19-Andre Loring: 1-shoe box, airpod case, 1-jacket, 1-book bag The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed f ro m th e p re mi s e s 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. Section 106 Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast, LLC proposes to collocate antennas on the rooftop of a 96.2 foot tall building located at 1900 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10035. Interested parties with comments regarding potential ef fects on Historic Proper ties may contact T-Mobile c/o Julia K lima at Dynamic Environmental Associates, Inc., 3850 Lake Street, Suite C, Macon, GA 31204, 8779 6 8 - 4 7 8 7, S e c1 0 6 @ DynamicEnvironmental. com within 30 days from the date of this publication. Re: 22108049.

Notice of Formation of Subledger Publishing LLC filed with SSNY on 4/23/2020. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 295 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor New York , NY 10 017. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 116 feet on a 116-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 50 Saint Andrews Place, Yonkers, Westchester County, NY 10705. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Hannah Dell, h.dell@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of Qualification of BROOKFIELD S T R AT E G I C REAL E S TAT E PA R T N E R S IV-C NAVRATNA AIV L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/21. O f f ice location: N Y C ount y. L P forme d in Delaware (DE) on 06/11/21. 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 L.P., Brookfield Place, 250 Vesey St., 15th Fl., NY, NY 102811023. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of BSREP IV BROOKFIELD L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/21. O f f ice location: N Y C ount y. L P forme d in Delaware (DE) on 03/18/21. 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 L.P., Brookfield Place, 250 Vesey St., 15th Fl., NY, NY 102811023. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of Bella Bella New York Administration, LLC filed with SSNY on August 23, 2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2400 McCullough Ave., #12653, San Antonio, Texas 78212. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of Takeoffs Plus, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/1/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/4/13. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of L&B Home Solutions, LLC filed with SSNY on 06-04-2021. Office: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 14 Hartley Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York 10550. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Public Notice Cellco Partnership a n d its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 197 feet on a 208-foot building at the approx. vicinit y of 4 8 West 48th Street, New York, N ew Yo r k C o u n t y, New Yo r k 10036. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Benjamin Allen, b.allen@trileaf.com, phone: 678-6538673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas on building rooftops at the following locations in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York: at a top height of 43 feet on a 42-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 829 Halsey Street, 11233; at a top height of 84 feet on a 78-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 426 Eastern Parkway, 11225. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submit ted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Hannah Dell, h.dell@trileaf.com, 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067; 678-653-8673.

Notice of Qual. of REGAL WEALTH HOLDINGS, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 08/13/2021. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/24/2019. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Attn: Barry Klarberg, 209 East 31st St., NY, NY 10016. Address required to be maintained in DE: N ati onal R e gis te re d Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast LLC proposes an antenna and equipment upgrade atop an existing 105.3’ building at 550 Barry St in Bronx, Borough of the Bronx, NY. Charles Cherundolo Consulting, Inc. (CHERUNDOLO) is publishing this notice in accordance with Federal Communications Commission regulations (47CFR § 1.1307) for Section 106 of the National Historic Preser vation Act (NHPA) and for the National Environmental Policy Ac t (NEPA) . Parties with questions or comments regarding the proposed facility should contact CHERUNDOLO at 976 Tabor Road, Suite 1, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@ cherundoloconsulting. c o m .

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Managing to get lawmakers to take time out of their summers to return for a special session truly is extraordinary. Sponsored by these two lawmakers, legislators passed a bill that will extend the state’s eviction moratorium until Jan. 15, 2022.

TREMAINE WRIGHT

Sure, she may no longer be an Assembly member, but Tremaine Wright has a dope new job after she was nominated by the governor to become the chair of the state’s new Cannabis Control Board. It will make decisions on permits and licensing when it comes to pot sales.

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Quirk was suspended Aug. 27 for doxxing Chief Judge Janet DiFiore over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Despite facing a 30-day suspension, Quirk didn’t seem remorseful, calling DiFiore “the most corrupt and unethical judge” in the state’s history.

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It was a rough week representing landlords for Joseph Strasburg. After the state recently extended the eviction moratorium, the Rent Stabilization Association announced that they would sue to block the law. Strasburg denounced the law, saying it “denies landlords due process rights.” Pandemic 1, landlords 0.

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