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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

IN 1997, MICHAEL BLOOMBERG published “Bloomberg by Bloomberg.” Starting with his dismissal from a top Wall Street firm in 1981, it chronicles how he launched Bloomberg LP and built it into a hugely successful company. The book was reissued in 2001, when he was mounting a bid for New York City mayor as a Republican.

By the time Bloomberg left City Hall at the end of 2013, he had established a profile as a politician that rivaled his reputation as a billionaire entrepreneur. As he gears up for a presidential run in 2020, now as a Democrat, an updated version of “Bloomberg by Bloomberg” is set to come out next month. It presumably will offer a positive spin on his 12 years running the city, much like the original book was a celebration of – and sales pitch for – his company.

Of course, Bloomberg isn’t the only one telling his story. One recurring theme is the difficulties the ex-Republican will face in winning over a Democratic base that has shifted further to the left since he was in office. This week, we look at the former mayor from another angle: Based on his time at City Hall, would he actually be a good president?

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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG … 6

Would we be better off with a President Bloomberg?

ESTADO LATINO … 12

Latinos are still finding themselves underrepresented in New York

GRAD SCHOOL SUPPLEMENT … 28

Schools are making it easier for public servants to get a degree

WINNERS & LOSERS … 38

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Latest VOTE WFP – EXCEPT ME After remaining largely silent since losing the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Cynthia Nixon indirectly offered an endorsement for Gov. Andrew Cuomo – on the Working Families Party ballot line. She urged her supporters to vote on the WFP line “top to bottom.” However, she later specified she did not mean herself, even though her name will appear on the ballot as the WFP’s nominee in Assemblywoman Deborah Glick’s district. New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams made similar comments, without explicitly mentioning Cuomo.

ANTI-SEMITIC SHOOTING IN PITTSBURGH

“KNOCK IT OFF”

A week ago, a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire, killing 11 and wounding three police officers. The suspected shooter, Robert Bowers, has been charged with 44 counts in an indictment that includes federal hate crimes. Bowers’ social media was filled with anti-Semitic comments and conspiracy theories, with his most recent posting made just five minutes before the shooting, saying, “Screw your optics, I’m going in.” In New York City, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams responded to the shooting by saying that he planned to carry his gun at religious services and urged other legal gun owners to do the same.

Back & Forth

A Q&A with GOP state comptroller nominee

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Why are you running for comptroller as a Republican when you have been enrolled as a Democrat in the past?

I am a lifelong Democrat, but my background is in public finance and pension management. I’ve got a deep understanding and expertise in the skills that are perfectly suited for the comptroller’s office. I actually covered the comptroller’s office for JPMorgan as a public finance banker and that’s when I first came to realize the underappreciated and underutilized powers of the office to fix most of the vexing fiscal problems in New York state.

Through a series of events, the Republican Party recognized my background was suited for the office and asked if I would run on their line and I was interested in it as well. They gave me a special dispensation known as a Wilson Pakula in order to run on their line – irrespective of my own Democratic Party registration.

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What is wrong with the way Thomas DiNapoli is doing his job?

Everything. He’s the sole trustee with a $200 billion pension fund and he has misrepresented his performance and also underperformed. He’s underperformed – in terms of the investment – his own expectations by $55 billion over 11 years and he has replenished that investment shortfall via taxpayer dollars. New York state is among the most heavily taxed states in the nation. At the local level, the two driving factors are Medicaid and pension expenses. Those pension expenses are directly attributable to the comptroller. One of the reasons why we’re taxed so heavily at the state and local level is due to pension underperformance. He says the fund is among the most well-managed in the country. In terms of being a prudent steward of the pension system, he has utterly failed as an investor.

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The drama in the 14th Congressional District is not over. Although Rep. Joe Crowley has said he supports Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated him in the Democratic primary, and said he is not actively campaigning, some people evidently still want him around.

Anonymous flyers circulated in the district urging constituents to vote for Crowley on either the WFP or Women’s Equality Party line. So Crowley took to Twitter, once again, to say he is not running and to tell whoever is distributing the flyers to “knock it off.”

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CAN BLOOMBERG SAVE THE PLANET? COMPETENCE, CLIMATE ACTION AND POLITICAL BRAVERY COULD BE A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

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YING IN BED in the dead of night, gripped by anxiety because our fate is in the hands of an unmoored leader – it seems almost impossible to contemplate another four years under this president. The dangers and obscenities flowing from the White House each day have triggered a state of panic among Democrats, and more than a few Republicans. What if the “blue wave” fizzles on Nov. 6?

What if this kamikaze presidency is extended past 2020?

It is through this prism of intense fear that the 2020 presidential race has assumed an existential quality.

But for the moment, let’s do an experiment and think about not just who can extricate Donald Trump from the Oval Office but rather who can best right this foundering ship if he or she is elected.

As a field of well-known Democrats plant their stakes along the ideological spectrum, Michael Bloomberg looms as a wild card. He is testing the waters for a presidential run, pouring a fortune into congressional and Senate campaigns, and touring primary states. A man capable of spending vast sums of his own money on a campaign is not to be taken lightly, and he has proved in

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ORMER NEW YORK CIT Y Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to run for president in 2020, so he said he will drop 0.19 percent of his net worth ($100 million out of $51.8 billion) on helping Democratic House and Senate candidates in the midterm elections. He also registered as a Democrat for the first time since 2001. His recent moves warm the hearts of centrist pundits who believe his orderliness, love of data and great wealth are “antidotes” to Donald Trump.

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the past to be an enormously successful politician, contrary to characterizations of him as a mogul who just happened to run New York City for 12 years.

Much has been written about the former mayor’s moderate politics (or what Vanity Fair calls “his stubborn brand of plutocratic centrism,” whatever that means). The moderate tag is intended as a kiss of death for a Democratic candidate in these partisan times. But the reality is more complicated.

His dark pinstripe suits notwithstanding, Bloomberg’s actions in his post-mayoralty years have shown that he is an unmovable advocate for important issues that many other Democrats have been afraid to touch.

As an unabashed Wall Street guy and a former Republican (even if in name only), the former mayor is bound to be viewed with suspicion by liberals. Yet that hardly

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squares with his relentless pursuit of two of the most elusive liberal causes: passing stricter gun control laws and fighting to cut greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change. The conventional wisdom is that those issues can lose elections – particularly national general elections. But perhaps a never-ending plague of hurricanes, floods, wildfires and other calamities will reopen the debate over global warming. Perhaps rising disgust over rampaging gunmen creating carnage in school classrooms will tilt the gun debate by a modicum. Maybe Bloomberg won’t win.

But what if he does?

It is a measure of this tragic moment in our politics that a United Nations panel recently concluded that we have roughly 20 years to save the Earth and virtually nobody is still talking about it. In a rational time, the news

BORING MIGHT BE AN ACCEPTABLE PRICE TO PAY TO LEAD US AWAY FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, MAKE OUR KIDS SAFER AND MEND OUR RELATIONSHIPS AROUND THE WORLD.

would trigger crisis measures in Washington, and the campaign for president would be dominated by the climate emergency. Perhaps a Bloomberg campaign is the only way to focus the debate where it belongs.

Climate action and gun control are two issues that are core to who Bloomberg has become since leaving City Hall in 2013.

Everytown for Gun Safety, financed with $50 million of his own money, is the first gun control organization in history to come close to the breadth of the National Rifle Association. On climate change, Bloomberg has made it his mission to undo the damage from the president’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, and he leads a United Nations effort to raise $100 billion a year to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

There is every reason for him to play down his activism on these two issues if he runs, and virtually no chance that he will.

Bloomberg’s disdain for political games was apparent to anyone who observed him from inside or outside City Hall during his mayoralty – I did both as a political reporter and as senior adviser to Bloomberg’s schools chancellor. Whether you were a fan of his or not, chances are you never viewed him as a

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According to reports, New York City is under siege, vanishing, empty or already dead as a result of the “Bloomberg Way” – the concept of the mayor as CEO, businesses as clients, citizens as consumers, and the city as a product that’s branded and marketed. Bloomberg’s corporate worldview drained the color out of New York City – a sterile, relentless kind of destruction that dehumanized its victims with the logic of the market. When he imagined what the city could be, his mind settled on a high-end mall filled with expensive accessories – and that, increasingly, is what it has become. “If New York City is a business, it isn’t Walmart – it isn’t trying to be the lowest-priced product in the market,” he explained at an economic conference in 2003. “It’s a high-end product, maybe even a luxury product.” If you couldn’t afford the product, the Bloomberg Way was to push you out.

Bloomberg invited global investors to knock down old brick buildings and erect glassy, lifeless towers of secrecy that housed

hold incomes above the citywide median.

Small-business owners faced similarly daunting math: From 2004 to 2014, rents skyrocketed 89.1 percent in 16 Manhattan retail corridors while total retail sales grew by only 31.9 percent. The investment firm CBRE Group called it “an unsustainable situation.”

A surprising new phenomenon – high-rent blight – featured boarded-up windows where beloved local shops used to serve the community. With rent hikes that, in some cases, went from $4,000 to $40,000 per month, landlords might hold out for a global chain store or a bank.

(Chase will pay $3 million a year in rent when it takes over the space occupied by Coffee Shop on Union Square.)

In a city accustomed to dizzying change, this sort of “change” was different. Where immigrants had once gotten a toehold in the city to build their dreams, global corporations now monopolized even the lowest-barrier entry points. With Bloomberg’s

BLOOMBERG INVITED GLOBAL INVESTORS TO KNOCK DOWN OLD BRICK BUILDINGS AND ERECT GLASSY, LIFELESS TOWERS OF SECRECY THAT HOUSED THE WEALTH OF FOREIGN OLIGARCHS AND KLEPTOCRATS. the wealth of foreign oligarchs and kleptocrats – but not many actual people who live in New York, pick up their dry cleaning and buy coffee at the local bodega. Not only did the absent owners fail to contribute to the local economy, but their property taxes were also wildly discounted – for example, by 95 percent at One57, an ultraluxury tower in midtown Manhattan.

The billionaires were a “godsend,” according to Bloomberg, and the “bigger income gap” in the city was fine because everyone’s income was going up. For someone who purportedly loved data and math, numbers failed him here, because when median household income for all renting families goes up by 16 percent while median contract rents rise by 25 percent or more (as they did from 2005 to 2010), that’s a net loss for families – especially when the cost of food, child care and transportation is also rising twice as fast as incomes.

In 2014, just after the end of Bloomberg’s tenure, New York University’s Furman Center estimated that more than half of renting households paid more than 30 percent of their income in rent and utilities. Rents increased more in lower-income neighborhoods than in areas with house-

encouragement, they turned the owners of newsstands into renters, and imposed a steel and frosted glass uniformity onto them. A new sort of existential precarity took hold of everyone trying to make it – as Bloomberg sought to clamp down on every rogue ice cream truck in town.

With the immigrants’ small businesses and long-standing family-owned shops and restaurants dying out, a sense of cultural transience permeated everything – from hypergentrifying neighborhoods to vapid corporate pop-up shops. Nothing felt solid or permanent.

Bloomberg seemed totally fine with that.

He offered hundreds of homeless people one-way tickets out of town, even while his policies allowed people to be pushed out of their homes. By the end of his three terms, the crisis of homelessness was setting new records, with the number of homeless families rising 83 percent during his mayoralty.

The CEO mayor, rumored to be a competent manager of complex problems, failed at every level of decision-making when tackling the problem. He took a relatively successful program that, under four previous New York City mayors, had helped more than 53,000 families move to long-term,

permanent housing using Section 8 federal housing vouchers – and disrupted it with his signature Advantage program. In 2010, he abandoned the program and left families with no assistance whatsoever to move into permanent housing.

And how did all this innovation impact the city’s bottom line – supposedly the No. 1 metric for a CEO mayor? By expanding the temporary shelter system, expenditures rose nearly 80 percent to $1 billion. Even while the data showed that Housing First models provide an impressive return on investment, Bloomberg doubled down on harassing and ejecting people out of the shelters, relying on the art of bureaucratic stonewalling to discourage people from seeking help, based on the ridiculous premise that anyone – even someone who just landed in New York on a private jet – would choose a shelter when they have an alternative.

In Bloomberg’s imagination, the theoretical jet-setter is the only person who actually exists in his luxury city, and so every scenario – even homeless shelters – are considered in light of the global elite.

It’s a distorted, deeply ideological worldview very much at odds with the claim that Bloomberg governs “based on the facts.”

Similarly, Bloomberg’s ideology leaves large gaps in basic economic logic.

According to Bloomberg, homeless people should get jobs so they won’t rely on the city’s shelters. But it would be one of the “most misguided things we can do” to raise the minimum wage – even if a full-time minimum wage job can’t cover the cost of a New York City apartment.

In 2012, Bloomberg vetoed a living wage bill for workers employed on projects that received more than $1 million in public subsidies. It would have raised the pay of approximately 500 working-class New Yorkers to $11.50 per hour or $10 plus benefits.

To review: Bloomberg was willing to pay over $6,000 to fly a homeless family out of town, but unwilling to pay housing-insecure workers a few more dollars per hour while they built the “luxury product” that Bloomberg was subsidizing with Critics blame Bloomberg for “high-rent blight,” in which beloved local shops couldn’t afford their surging rents.

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Andrew Kirtzman is the president of Kirtzman Strategies, a strategic communications firm.

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Trump administration has been taking the New York real estate con, where lying is a business model, and scaling it up to the national level.

In the really grand scheme of New York real estate politics, however, Donald Trump is actually a bit player – almost anachronistic, a throwback to a time of wealthy, eccentric characters who made New York “colorful.”

As mayor, Michael Bloomberg wasn’t just a bit player in the real estate con. He orchestrated the whole real estate game in a way that turned most of us – renters, small-business owners, wage earners, innovators and artists without trust funds – into losers.

We’re left yearning to enjoy the bike lanes and waterfront parks that he built from the periphery, or in exile. As more of us are pushed out, we can begin to grasp the implications of a Bloomberg Nation. Let’s hope our democracy is still strong enough to resist the coming onslaught of his billions.

rights. Executive orders undermining LGBTQ rights, women’s rights and abortion rights would end up on the scrapheap, next to Trump’s rollback of environmental regulations.

Bloomberg’s efficiency and disdain for theatrics would doubtlessly provide a contrast to his predecessor, but come as a relief to many, as posited by a recent BuzzFeed News headline: “Can Mike Bloomberg Make America Boring Again?”

Boring might be an acceptable price to pay for someone with the expertise to lead us away from environmental disaster, make our kids a little safer, rein in the budget and mend our relationships around the world.

Bringing sanity, honesty and competence to the White House wouldn’t be a bad start toward repairing the unholy damage wrought upon this country. A Bloomberg presidency would probably be less entertaining than the previous one, but it would create the kind of boredom that would allow us to sleep a lot better at night.

Kate Albright-Hanna is a former presidential campaign staffer for Barack Obama and a documentary filmmaker.

slave to public opinion. No leader who lived and died by his poll numbers would have fought so hard at the time to legalize gay marriage, ban oversized sodas or ban cellphones from schools.

The job that will fall to the president who succeeds Donald Trump will be unlike any in recent presidential history. He or she would inherit the largest budget deficit in history, a health care system butchered and battered by scattershot fixes from the White House and Congress, a country at war with itself over nationalism, immigration and race relations, and a whole lot of angry world leaders who no longer consider the U.S. the undisputed leader of the free world.

These aren’t problems suited for an inspirational, Barack Obama-style leader. They are the result of a ransacking, a mess created by people who desecrated a majestic house, enjoyed it for their own benefit and left it trashed for someone else to clean up. At that point, the nation might be relieved to have a problem-solver as its leader.

Bloomberg would once again be succeeding a divisive and bombastic showman – as mayor in 2002, it was Rudy Giuliani – and his first instinct would be to turn the thermostat way down on drama. As mayor, he didn’t crave the oxygen of applause and approval nearly to the extent of his predecessor; he took more pleasure from professionalizing the place. His greatest accomplishments – bringing the economy back from the 9/11 catastrophe, reinventing the education system, rebuilding the city’s waterfront, banning smoking in public places – were sold with a minimum of emotion. If you thought Obama was no drama, just wait.

At City Hall, Bloomberg’s team was largely nonideological and unusually accomplished.

As president, he would likely set about a housecleaning of the mediocrities who had been installed in every crevice of government over the past four years. And then he would attack the issues he had fought for relentlessly: climate legislation, gun control, education reform and immigrant

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Supporters say Bloomberg was boring – but the kind of boring the country needs after four years of Donald Trump.

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their tax dollars.

Conversely, generous handouts to corporations with no accountability are a cornerstone of the Bloomberg Way. In fiscal year 2009 alone, he gave away more than $300 million in public subsidies to 576 projects with the expectation that the payouts would create jobs. Over a decade, a city audit found that the city was owed 45,000 jobs from businesses and banks that had taken public money and failed to create jobs.

The bottom line in Bloomberg’s New York was that your value was determined by what was in your bank account.

If you were wealthy enough, you could consume the luxury product he was designing for you. If you couldn’t afford it – even if you were a teacher or a nurse or someone else who built the product – you were in the way.

You deserved to be stopped and frisked, your dignity, security and freedom constantly at risk – data be damned – in order to protect the brand.

So, based on his record as mayor, would a Bloomberg presidency provide welcome relief from the reign of Trump?

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Houses affected by Hurricane Maria, some of them with missing roofs covered in blue tarps, in the El Gandul neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico, this summer, almost a year after the storm.

NEW YORK CITY’S Puerto Rican community lost a representative in elected office when Melissa Mark-Viverito was recently term limited out as council speaker. But some Puerto Rican-focused nonprofit groups ended up winning in the city budget anyway, like CUNY’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies, or the South Bronx-based Urban Health Plan, which saw City Council funding jump from $380,000 in 2017 to $600,000 in 2018.

There are many reasons why, but some of it comes down to a good reputation after the group coordinated resources in New York to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria last year.

And some of it comes down to networking – rising star and New York City Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr. used to work at Urban Health Plan.

Winning discretionary funding and electing representatives to office are just a couple of the ways to achieve political power in New York. The state’s political elite will show up at the annual Somos conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, immediately after the general election to talk politics and address the issues affecting the state’s growing Latino population.

In this special section on the state of Latinos in New York, contributor Frank G. Runyeon reports on the underrepresentation of Latino elected officials in the state.

City & State’s Jeff Coltin delves into construction safety, just one of countless issues that need to be addressed on behalf of Latino constituents. And we also hear from Somos’ unofficial host, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, on the conference’s return to Puerto Rico.

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NSTEAD OF A “BLUE WAVE” or a “red wave,” the lead-up to the U.S. midterm elections has been engulfed by a wave of intolerance, aimed at unwelcome outsiders living in America. In the wake of an anti-Semitic mass shooting in Pittsburgh and pipe bombs mailed to critics of President Donald Trump, the president, boosted by allies, whipped up anti-immigrant fervor over a weary caravan of impoverished Central American migrants.

Given that there has also been an increase this year in deportation raids against immigrants and a policy of separating thousands of migrant children from their families, Latino New Yorkers may feel politically marginalized.

There is data that shows it’s true, at least in terms of political representation in the state. Latinos have seen frustratingly slow progress in

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NSTEAD OF A “BLUE WAVE” or a “red wave,” the lead-up to the midterm elections has been engulfed by a wave of intolerance, aimed at newcomers living in America. In the wake of an anti-Semitic mass shooting in Pittsburgh and pipe bombs mailed to critics of President Donald Trump, the president, boosted by allies, whipped up anti-immigrant fervor over a weary caravan of impoverished Central American migrants.

Given that there has also been an increase this year in deportation raids against immigrants and a policy of separating thousands of migrant children from their families, Latino New Yorkers may feel politically marginalized.

There is data that shows it’s true, at least in terms of political representation in the state. Latinos have seen frustratingly slow progress

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Critics say Long Island’s Brentwood was gerrymandered to keep Latinos out of the political process. Democrat Monica Martinez, right, is trying to break that cycle with her run for state Senate.

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by the National in winning legislative Association of seats commensurate COUNTY OR BOROUGH OFFICIALS 11 Latino Elected with their numbers. and Appointed New York has never MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS Officials. had a governor, lieu55 Hispanics tenant governor, U.S. make up 19.2 persenator, attorney genJUDICIAL/LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 51 cent of New York eral or comptroller state’s populawho is Latino. LikeCOMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCILS tion, but curwise, New York City 36 rently only hold has never had a Latino 10 percent of both mayor, comptroller or SPECIAL DISTRICT OFFICIALS 0 state legislative public advocate. “We seats and constill have a long way to go,” said AssemblyTOTAL 177 gressional seats, meaning there man Marcos Crespo, should be about chairman of the As- FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE twice as many sembly Puerto Rican/ Latino elected officials based on population.

Hispanic Task Force.

“Hispanics are underrepresented at basi- It’s a modest improvement from 1996, when cally every level of government,” said David less than 5 percent of state representatives, Kallick, director of the Immigration Re- and 6 percent of the state’s federal elected search Initiative at the Fiscal Policy Insti- officials, were Latino – despite comprising tute. While any immigrant or ethnic group more than 12 percent of the state population.

That narrowing but persistent repregains a greater political presence as its population grows, Kallick said, Latinos and sentation gap has a powerful effect on other communities of color face additional where government focuses its attention racial discrimination that has made it hard- and resources, advocates said. “The clear er for them to gain full representation com- impact is that top policy priorities for pared to previous newcomers, such as the Latino and immigrant communities continue to get short shrift at various levels Irish or Italians.

Nevertheless, Latinos are slowly clos- of government,” said Daniel Altschuler, ing the representation gap, based on an director of civic engagement and research analysis of census data and data provided at the immigrant rights’ group Make the

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Make the Road New York is suing the town of Islip, saying its at large political system locks Latinos out of representation.

Road New York. “Particularly, we’ve seen this in Albany.”

“Whether it be passing the DREAM Act; restoring access to driver’s licenses for all; ensuring fully funded public schools, particularly in high-need districts; investing in schools, not jails; or investing in adult literacy classes and English as a second language programs – we see this across the board every session in Albany when people lay out their state agendas,” Altschuler said. “Particularly in the state Senate, priorities like those are hard to find.”

Assembly leaders note that they have been increasingly successful in elevating such legislation, but concede that the Republican state Senate majority has often thwarted their passage.

While Latino neighborhoods in New York City often form majority-Latino districts that elect Latino representatives in the City Council, state Legislature and Congress, growing Latino communities in suburban areas often face entrenched legal obstacles to achieving greater political influence.

The South Shore of Long Island is a microcosm of the battle over underrepresentation on the local level. A lawsuit by Latino residents of Islip contends that the structure of the town’s government has “systematically prevented members of the town’s minority Latino community from electing any candidates of their choice to the Islip Town

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Board, thus denying the members of that community their most basic rights.” The town elects board members to represent the community as at large members instead of breaking the town into districts as, for example, the New York City Council does.

“No Latino residents, nor any other minority residents, have ever been elected to the Town Board,” the complaint notes, despite the fact that 1 in 3 residents are Latino. That lack of representation has lead to unequal treatment of predominantly Latino neighborhoods, the lawsuit alleges, including allowing the dumping of 40,000 tons of hazardous commercial waste in a public park; the neglect of potholes, broken streetlights and stop signs and less frequent garbage collection than the town’s more affluent, white neighborhoods. “No Latino has a chance, under the current system, of getting elected to the town board,” said Altschuler, whose organization, Make the Road New York, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

But Latino underrepresentation on Long Island is not confined to town boards. Despite Nassau and Suffolk counties being roughly evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, seven of the nine state senators from Long Island are Republican – and all of them are white, despite the fact that Latinos comprise 17.2 percent of Nassau’s population and 19.5 percent of Suffolk’s.

That’s because the districts have been gerrymandered to maximize the GOP’s hold on those seats, which means keeping minorities from reaching a critical mass in any district. “We see a double whammy – at the local level and at the state level,” Altschuler said.

Gerrymandering at the state level has led to further disenfranchisement of Islip’s

Latino community when the town’s major- resented in government at mathematically ity-Latino neighborhood of Brentwood was proportionate levels, but something loftisplit in two in 2012. “If you look, the line er and more egalitarian. “If someone were between state Senate Districts 3 and 4 liter- to ask me, ‘When do you feel Latinos have ally draws a line right through Brentwood,” reached political empowerment?’ My anAltschuler said. “Brentwood was ground swer is not going to be solely how many seats zero for gerrymandering of the state Senate we won in general,” Crespo said. “It’s going map to effectively deprive those same ma- to be the day that a Latino candidate doesn’t have to run based on the jority-Latino constituents fact that they would be the at the state level.” first Latino to do X, Y or Since the new lines were Z, or that their heritage is drawn, no Latino candidate their primary pathway of has yet been able to win eisupport within the base, ther district. But Democrat but rather that simply their Monica Martinez of Brentgoals or their vision for that wood is aiming to break particular seat merit supthat trend this election, port whether or not they vying for the 3rd District happen to be Latino.” seat against Republican In that vein, Crespo is Assemblyman Dean Murdavid kallick keeping his eye on one race ray, who was chosen to run to replace outgoing Repub- director of the fiscal that could be a bellwether lican state Sen. Tom Croci. policy institute s to show whether his hope could soon become realiOf course, measuring immigration ty. In Long Island’s 20th Latino empowerment solely in terms of legislative research initiative Assembly District, Juan Vides bested the Demseats is overly narrow. Creocratic county commitspo pointed to the influence of other officials in elevating the concerns tee favorite for the party’s nomination and of the Latino community. “When you look could prevail against incumbent freshman at education in the last few years, between Republican Assemblywoman Melissa Mill(New York City schools Chancellor) Rich- er. “Juan is proving that a strong candidate ard Carranza and (state Board of Regents who happens to be Latino can make a case Chancellor) Betty Rosa, we’re now seeing for himself and compete against politically Latinos at the top of the policymaking pyr- established networks, send a strong mesamid,” Crespo said. This puts them in a po- sage, be successful, and get support from a sition to address the academic achievement broader constituency,” Crespo said. “It’s a gap among Latino students, in addition to sign of the maturation of the community in a way that people are getting past the novelserving all New Yorkers, Crespo said.

For the assemblyman, the true goal is ty factor of Latino candidates and just looknot necessarily to have Latino electeds rep- ing at the quality of those candidates.”

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SAN JUAN MARCOS CRESPO ON WHY THE CONFERENCE’S RETURN TO PUERTO RICO IS CRUCIAL FOR THE DIASPORA.

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HE MOST IMPORTANT MEETING of New York politicos outside of New York is back in business, and so is its host: Bronx Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, chairman of the Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force. The Somos conference is being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, right after the general election, from Nov. 7-11. Officially, it’s for elected officials, business interests and other political players to talk about the Empire State’s Latino population – although there’s plenty of political positioning that takes place there as well. Crespo gave City & State reporter Jeff Coltin a preview of what to expect, why he’s thinking about leaving the task force and why he doesn’t want just any Latino to become public advocate.

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The conference was canceled last year, since the island had just been devastated by Hurricane Maria, and a fundraising dinner in Queens was held in its place. What’s the importance of returning to San Juan?

People often ask me, why Puerto Rico? No. 1, there’s an important history and synergy between the Puerto Rican diaspora and the political leadership in New York state.

When they started doing the conferences in San Juan, it was with that very mission of connecting the diaspora to their home community. Now we have a much more diverse membership of elected leaders.

We have Mexican-Americans, we have Ecuadorian-Americans, we have Dominican-Americans. We have an Argentine-Israeli. That’s a very good thing. But the conference in Puerto Rico has maintained its relevance. Unlike us going to any other place in Latin America, Puerto Rico is still within the United States. As long as Puerto Rico’s status isn’t resolved, there’s a sense that the Latino diaspora in general plays a very important role in advocating for state policies and federal policies that affect the outcomes of what is a Latino population in this territory.

to Rico, and getting more money and support for that? Or is the mandate for Latinos bigger?

There are a number of topics that are central to Puerto Rico, understanding the conditions and the situation. But there’s also a number of panels that relate to New York state issues. We even have one panel with a number of officials from Florida attending, on the needs of the growing Puerto Rican diaspora in Florida.

One of the ones I’m really excited about is a working group discussion with education leaders that’s going to have (New York City schools) Chancellor (Richard) Carranza, (state Board of Regents Chancellor) Betty Rosa, the state Education Department and a few other regional superintendents talking about what our agenda is in education to better serve Latino students, who continue to appear at the bottom of the achievement gap.

“I THINK IT’S SHAMEFUL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AS OF TODAY, THERE HAS NOT BEEN AN ELECTED, CITYWIDE LATINO CANDIDATE.”

Somos disinvited one of the sponsors, Charter Communications, amid a labor dispute. Were you involved with that decision? Were you happy to see it?

The extent of my involvement was checking in with the leadership within Somos to ask if they had been paying attention to what was happening and if they had thought through the potential impacts that they could have to the conference.

They held a meeting, which I was not a part of, where they discussed the sponsorship and felt that the right thing to do was to return (Charter’s) contribution and not partner for this particular conference.

One of the main concerns was that this conference is supposed to be a policy forum, and in order to have a policy forum, you need elected officials, legislators and policy leaders to be a part of it. And there was a serious concern (about) many elected officials not participating because of the association with (Charter). The cost-benefit analysis was they couldn’t risk that.

What issues do you expect to be talking about? Is it all about rebuilding Puer-

It’s not all policy. Somos is notorious for being where deals get made.

The agenda positions the discussion to be around policy and substance. But you get enough leaders together from all sorts of sectors that it lends itself to a perfect opportunity for people to plan a number of things. If some people choose at the end of the night to have dinner and talk about their political issues or ambitions? That’s fine. But keep in mind, we’ve got Republicans coming to this conference. This is not a Democratic political powwow. Powwows do take place, but so does a lot of very substantive and worthwhile networking that strengthens the Latino agenda.

Would you like to see a Latino elected as New York City public advocate?

I think it’s shameful in the city of New York, as of today, there has not been an elected, citywide Latino candidate. If you ask me, public advocate is a citywide, respected office. But my personal goals are having the Latino community having somebody in office that actually has the power to execute a vision to move our city and our state forward. I’m not so sure that the public advocate’s role is to necessarily do that.

Any Latinos in mind for public advocate?

Ruben Diaz Jr. for mayor in 2021.

I know that one, but former New York

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s name is in the mix for public advocate, same for Councilman Rafael Espinal Jr. There are a number of folks who are going to position themselves, and I think their candidacies are worthwhile. There’s a part of me that certainly wants to see Latino empowerment, but I also strongly believe that it has to be the right person for the job at the right time.

A good example of that is my support for Darcel Clark for (Bronx) district attorney. Politically speaking, could I have forced the conversation for a Latino candidate to emerge? Maybe. But that would not have taken away from the fact that Darcel was as good of a resume for the job as you could have ever hoped to find.

I’m going to always prioritize the qualifications of an individual based on their experience and their ability to do the job the right way over everything else. But I won’t deny that the political empowerment of my heritage, and my community is something that matters to me.

It’s been reported that you’re disheartened with the way things are going as chairman of the Assembly Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Task Force and that you might move on to focus more on the Bronx and getting Diaz elected mayor in 2021. Real, or just bochinche?

I’m not at all disappointed. I feel that we have done a lot to re-energize the conference, to increase the participation, the support of the conference. All of which helps a number of programs that come out of Somos. Somos provides scholarships for PR/HYLI, the Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute that Angelo Del Toro helped create years ago and serves to empower and train students in leadership. Jose Paulino, the executive director of Somos, was a PR/HYLI kid.

He was a student in high school in this very program and now he’s the executive director for Somos, bringing it to a level of support that it’s never had before, which allows the organization to support those kids. There’s also been a summer internship. There’s a number of student-led initiatives that come out of this. And we’re proud of them.

Also, the platform has allowed us to move the needle on a number of items.

Three years ago at the conference, we focused on diversity in state government, and we harped on diversity within SUNY. The proposals that the task force made, which were presented at one of our conferences, led (to) the adoption of a bunch of those policy initiatives into the SUNY diversi-

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ty plan. And a more expanded search of Latino candidates that led to a guy like (University at Albany President) Havidán Rodríguez.

I was in a conversation with the governor leading up to my first conference where he wanted to be involved in Somos, but was concerned that the perception of it was a junket. I walked him through all the things we had done to make sure that the conference was substantive and policy focused and bringing forward fresh ideas.

I said, look, one of the ways we can help Puerto Rico is through a partnership with U.S. markets. There’s a lot of businesses in Puerto Rico who could benefit from working in our market and vice versa. And it was in this conversation we talked about opening a New York office in San Juan. We did the ribbon-cutting during one our conferences. Through the work of that office connecting both the agricultural communities, Puerto Rico stopped buying apples from Ohio or Idaho, one of those places. They now buy their apples from New York state farms.

But are you considering leaving the chairmanship?

Since I’ve been elected (in 2009), I’ve seen three different chairs of the task force. And it makes sense why there’s been an average of four or five years (per) chair. There’s a lot of work that goes into it, and it takes a toll when you have a district to represent and you have other commitments. And after a while, you want to keep the conference and the leadership and the views fresh. So I think change is good every now and then. It’s not like I have plans to walk away or anything like that. I’m now going into my fifth year as chair, and I think it’s a very natural thing to start thinking about, OK, after Marcos, who will it be?

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ONE YEAR OF NEW YORK AID TO

PUERTO RICO

BY CHR IS T IN A S A IN T L OU IS

Over a million people living in New York state identify as Puerto Rican, so last year when Hurricane Maria tore through the U.S. territory, the devastation hit close to home.

Shortly after, Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched the Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort to “put the full weight of New York’s resources behind the Puerto Rican people.”

Here’s the support New York has provided to Puerto Rico since then, by the numbers.

4,400 1,000 PALLETS OF SUPPLIES

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The Cuomo administration’s most immediate response was to ship pallets of relief supplies like food, water, personal hygiene items, first-aid kits, batteries and flashlights. Though initially a challenge, delivering the pallets became easier once President Donald Trump temporarily waived the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, also known as the Jones Act, and allowed for non-U.S. ships to transport the donations.

New York also deployed personnel to provide on-the-ground assistance with law enforcement, medical response and the rebuilding of houses and infrastructure. The New Yorkers helping in Puerto Rico included utility workers and power experts as well as members of the New York Army National Guard and New York State Police.

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Over the summer, student volunteers from SUNY and CUNY spent 10 weeks renovating houses as part of the NY Stands with Puerto Rico Recovery and Rebuilding Initiative. They originally began with the goal of repairing 150 houses, but they left having restored 178. That summer, both universities also extended in-state tuition to students displaced by Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma.

Marcos Crespo joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo on an aid mission to Puerto Rico last fall in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

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In June, Cuomo established funding to create new housing and employment opportunities for people who evacuated Puerto Rico and came to New York. The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance launched a $1 million program to get the evacuees into affordable housing and the state Department of Labor agreed to provide up to $10 million worth of job training and placement. In July, Cuomo announced that he was committing an additional $2 million to support nonprofits working with Hurricane Maria victims in New York City, Rochester and The Capital Region.

While New York has provided $13 million in aid and thousands of volunteers and supply packages, the island is nowhere close to being back to normal. A report Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló submitted to Congress concluded that Puerto Rico needs $139 billion to fully recover from Hurricane Maria.

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A YEAR AGO, NYC ENACTED A MAJOR CONSTRUCTION SAFETY LAW. CRITICS SAY IT’S BEING IGNORED – PUTTING LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN DANGER.

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IFTY-SEVEN FLOORS ABOVE New York City, tragedy nearly struck. An electrician was working on the construction of 15 Hudson Yards, a luxury condominium rising more than 900 feet above Manhattan, when he stepped on a piece of plywood. According to an August construction-related accident report from the New York City Department of Buildings, the plywood was covering a hole in the floor, used for mechanical ductwork. The worker’s leg cracked the wood and slipped through. His leg was cut by a piece of rebar protruding from the floor, and he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.

This wasn’t a freak accident – it was something that could have been avoided by following basic safety procedures. And it was the kind of injury that the New York City Council

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Working Together to Provide Local Residents with Safety Training and Good Job Opportunities in New York City’s Construction Industry

By David Gómez and John Banks New York City has always been at the forefront of construction and development – and we must also be at the forefront of providing good construction jobs and safety training for local residents.

As new buildings rise throughout the city, REBNY and Hostos Community College are committed to doing our part to increase efforts to create local jobs and maintain a properly-trained construction workforce.

This work has become even more important following New York City’s implementation of Local Law 196, which requires that by December 1, 2018, all workers at a New York City construction site have at least OSHA 30 safety training and the documentation to prove it. Unfortunately, it has been estimated that only 10 percent of the many thousands of workers on New York City construction sites have this training.

If additional efforts are not made to connect these workers with the safety training they need, local jobs will be lost and many construction projects across the city may even come to a halt.

This is why REBNY and Hostos are doubling down on our shared commitment to helping local workers access the OSHA 30 training they need to remain employed and continue on a career path in today’s construction industry. By combining the workforce development and training resources offered at Hostos and the additional job placement opportunities provided through REBNY’s non-profit partner Building Skills, we have collaborated to provide necessary training courses for workers seeking their OSHA 30 credentials as quickly as possible.

Hostos partnered with 32 BJ/the Thomas Shortman Training Fund, which provides instruction in Carpentry, Electricity, Plumbing, and Locksmithing, and other construction-related disciplines. Other partners include Able Safety; CEO; CUNY Central Office; Essex Crossing; FedCap; Housing Works; Imperial Safety; Jobs First NYC; Jobs Plus; LF Consulting; Osborne; and Strive NY. To date, nearly 20,000 people have enrolled in some branch of construction training at Hostos; 90 % of enrollees successfully completed their training, and 92% of those who completed their training passed their courses or industry-recognized credential exams.

These kinds of public-private partnerships play a crucial role in addressing the challenges associated with implementing Local Law 196 and filling gaps that have left too many local workers without easy access to the training they need to remain employed and continue advancing their careers.

The collaboration between REBNY and Hostos has been particularly effective in light of Hostos’ prior experience with workforce development and the fact that CUNY is strategically located in each borough where REBNY members are currently developing new buildings. Our efforts have already had significant impact in the South Bronx, which has witnessed a groundswell of capital investment and development of both commercial and residential real estate projects.

As 2019 approaches, the bottom line is that stakeholders across the spectrum must continue generating opportunities to get locally-based construction workers the safety training and support they need to succeed in today’s industry. This is about ensuring that more New York City jobs go to New York City residents – and that is something we are proud to stand by.

Dr. David Gómez, President of Hostos Community College/CUNY Mr. John Banks, President of the Real Estate Board of New York

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hoped to reduce when it passed a bill greatly matic increase in fraud and substandard increasing safety training requirements for training ahead of the looming deadlines. all construction workers. Local Law 196 was Fake OSHA certifications have long been signed into law in October 2017, but a year a problem, with stories about bogus certifafter it passed, critics say the city is doing icates popping up in 2009 after the city ina poor job of helping workers meet the re- troduced new safety training requirements. quirements, undermining the very culture The Daily News reported on fake certificaof safety the law was supposed to introduce. tions again in 2015, and WNBC found the And even though it had more than a year to sale of fake cards booming in the summer prepare, the Department of Buildings may of 2017 – even ahead of Local Law 196’s pashave to push back the deadline to get every- sage. The motive to cheat has always been one trained, leaving more workers without there – taking the 10-hour training means potentially lifesaving safety skills for anoth- missing a day of work and costs anywhere from $80 to $150 – but insider six months. ers say it’s gotten worse now “It eviscerates the entire inCouncilman Ben that more workers need more tent,” one construction indusKallos, a backer of training. Workers can still buy try worker told City & State. the safety bill, says “You have people still not knowif this effort doesn’t work, the city will ing how to put on a harness and need to take more dying, and putting themselves drastic measures. and others at risk.”

Injuries happen often on New York City construction sites – 744 times in fiscal year 2017-18, or an average of more than twice a day, according to the Mayor’s Management Report. That counts both small workplace accidents like a cut finger, and fatalities like the worker crushed by a collapsing wall in Sunset Park in September. Total injuries and deaths on construction sites have both been increasing rapidly over the past five years, from 212 reported injuries in the first year of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s term to the 744 last year. Latino immigrants seem to be at particular risk, since day laborers often work on construction sites with less oversight and less training expected by the employer.

These statistics were cited often during the nearly yearlong debate over the construction safety legislation, then known as Intro 1447. Now on the books, the law requires all workers on construction sites to have completed certain levels of safety training, a fake OSHA card under the elevated tracks and it’s being phased in over time. Con- in Queens, industry sources say. It’s also easy struction workers had to complete at least to earn a legitimate training card through the federal Occupational Safety and Health sham training. In June, WABC showed safeAdministration’s 10-hour class by March 1. ty advocates take the 10-hour training under The next deadline, now set for Dec. 1, re- reporter Jim Hoffer’s name – even though quires at least 30 hours of safety training, Hoffer never took the course – and even reand for all workers to carry a “Site Safe- ceived a certificate for cartoon construction ty Training” card certifying that they’ve worker Fred Flintstone. Unproctored, online completed it. And the final deadline, now training that fails to meet the requirements of the law is also widely available, and safeset for May 1, raises the total to 40 hours.

But City & State spoke to a range of ty advocates claim that the Department of construction industry stakeholders who Buildings is turning a blind eye to bad actors. are already seeing a lot of problems. All of “It’s a common industry understanding that them asked to remain anonymous, out of the online training is really not being done fear of reprisal by the city buildings de- properly,” one advocate said. “I know adpartment. There’s a widespread fear in ministrative assistants sitting in offices and the industry that publicly criticizing the taking this training for entire companies, or agency leads to tougher regulation and even selling their participation.”

The buildings department downplayed its slower city approval of projects.

These sources say there has been a dra- responsibility in the matter. Assistant Com-

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missioner for External Affairs Patrick Wehle told City & State that fraudulent OSHA cards have nothing to do with the Department of Buildings, since that’s a federal office. But now that the department is phasing in its own Site Safety Training cards, “the department’s going to be doing enforcement of the course provider community and ensure that those cards are appropriate, (that) they’re not fraudulent,” and that workers are receiving the right training.

If that sounds a little too focused on the future for a law that’s meant to be implemented in a month – it probably is. A provision was written into the law to allow the department to push back the second deadline for training from Dec. 1, 2018, back to June 1, 2019. It also

allows full implementation to be pushed back from May 1, 2019, until Sept. 1, 2020. Wehle wouldn’t confirm that the city will push back the deadline, but said that the department was considering it, and expected to announce a decision “in the very near future.”

Wehle did give a caveat though. “Any sort of compliance deadline, you’re going to have that rush at the end no matter what,” he said.

With safety training being phased in slowly, it’s still too early to tell if the law will have a statistical impact on worker safety. But New York City Councilman Ben Kallos, who was an early co-sponsor of the bill last year, said he’s been eager to see the results.

“I’ve been either waiting it for it to be implemented with something good, or waiting for the other shoe to drop and, if necessary, pressure (the city) to adopt the strongest recommendations possible,” he said.

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tudent loans now constitute the second-largest consumer debt category in the United States – trailing only mortgages – with some 44 million borrowers owing more than $1.5 trillion nationwide.

New York state, for its part, ranks fourth nationally in federal student debt, with $78.4 billion owed by 2.3 million borrowers.

Especially concerning, however, is the recent growth of student debt, which, since the Great Recession, has far outpaced all other nonhousing debt segments.

Incurring some debt to finance an education, of course, can make sense. Even when the cost is substantial, post-graduate degrees can offer a good return on investment.

“We’ve found that overall our students’ salaries increase over 50 percent having completed an MPA,” said Jaclyn Napoleon, director of graduate recruitment and admissions at the University at Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy.

In recent years, nonetheless, graduate schools have been rolling out new programs

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aimed at accommodating people who may be scared off by the rising cost of traditional full-time degrees.

So how can prospective students concerned about cost find the right program for them?

For working professionals – especially in the public sector – a good place to start is by finding out whether your employer offers some form of tuition remission.

While the past decade has seen a decline in public and private employers providing such support, opportunities are still available.

“A lot of state employees that are in certain unions … can take one class a semester, or up to a certain number of credits per semester, and then they’ll get reimbursed for the cost of that,” Napoleon said. “It varies by unions and by agency.”

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“In Albany, in the spring, it’s budget season, so our students who work in state government find that it’s hard for them to physically get here, but they’re able to take an online course.”

– Jaclyn Napoleon, University at Albany Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy’s graduate recruitment director

U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the university also offers federal employees discounted tuition for three graduate programs, including a master’s degree in public administration.

“That professionalization of the public service – as well as the nonprofit and health care sectors – is supported both through the university and through the employers,” said Hillary Knepper, chairwoman of the Pace University Department of Public Administration.

Digital technology has changed the way education is delivered both inside and

outside the classroom. Online courses have opened up access to higher education by addressing time and cost constraints.

For many, this flexibility translates to affordability, enabling students to remain in the workforce while making progress toward a degree.

“One of things that we see here in Albany in the spring is that it’s budget season, so some of our students who work in state government find that they’re super busy and it’s hard for them to physically get here, but they’re able to take an online course, since they don’t need to be in the classroom for PUBLISHER'S SECTION

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“The really good online programs are all about engagement. You don’t learn by sitting.”

– Karen Miner-Romanoff,

NYU School of Professional Studies assistant dean for academic excellence

three hours at night,” Napoleon said.

Digital technology has enabled hybrid educational formats that intersperse online and in-person classes. This given rise to “low-residency” graduate programs, such as Sarah Lawrence College’s health advocacy degree program, which for over three decades was a two-year on-campus program before the changing format earlier this year to an accelerated 18-month program consisting of two weeklong on-campus sessions, with the remainder of the curriculum conducted online.

Institutions like the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs,

New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Baruch College now offer executive MPA programs, which are condensed and largely conducted online. In 2014, Brooklyn Law School launched an accelerated 2-year law degree.

“We’re trying to make things as flexible as we possibly can to accommodate the working student, and evening classes seem to be great for students who want that face‑to‑face experience,” Knepper said.

“The online classes are terrific for people who don’t have a schedule that enables them to come and spend a few nights a week in class face to face, and we try to

help them still feel like they are integrated. … For example, I do optional face‑to‑face sessions virtually with students, and have these sort of roundtables that way as well.”

While many students retain their preference for the classic brick-and-mortar classroom, research has found that in certain settings, for certain students, online learning can be even more effective than the traditional model.

“The really good (online) programs are all about engagement. They’re interactive,” said Karen Miner‑Romanoff, assistant dean for academic excellence at the NYU School of Professional Studies. “They provide the student with a way to participate, because you don’t learn by sitting. You don’t learn by passive knowledge transfers, even in traditional classrooms.”

Just as they would for any graduate program, applicants for degrees that incorporate online coursework would be wise to take into consideration criteria other than just price, such as quality of faculty and student-faculty ratio, track record of placing students in good jobs and opportunities to

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engage in practical training.

“Ask about class size, ask about who is teaching courses, ask about the platform upon which your courses lie, the cohort – where are these students coming from – what kind of resources has the university or college put forward towards building and supporting these online programs,” Miner-Romanoff said.

“The student should ask: ‘Will I also have career opportunities – a career center that supports the online students – and student affairs supporting the online students? Will I have opportunities for internships and for co-curricular activities online?’”

Aside from taking advantage of the new formats, there are other ways students can defray tuition costs. Teaching assistantships, paid internships, student work and research programs can help.

When researching different programs, applicants should inquire about whether institutional support, such as scholarships, are available. At many programs, a high percentage of students receive some form of financial assistance. The Cornell Institute

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for Public Affairs, for instance, offers merit‑based fellowships to more than half its students.

“Always, always reach out to the department chair of a program – reach out personally to the admissions officers and let them know how interested you are,” Knepper said. “That goes very far because you get to know students right away, and you already see the students who are passionate about their education, and those are the students you really want to invest in because those are the ones that you are reasonably sure are going to go far.”

But the search for tuition relief need not end at the school to which you apply.

Other institutions and government entities offer scholarships, some of which are left unused. A visit to the Foundation Center in lower Manhattan is a good starting point.

“With good research, and with creativity, students can identify funding opportunities,” said Carolyn Kissane, an academic director at the NYU School of Professional Studies, which recently launched an accelerated master’s degree

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in global security, conflict and cybercrime.

“These opportunities are not going to be put on their lap, so you do have to do research and you have to talk to people and you have to find out about what programs are out there,” she said.

Those in search of the time‑honored tradition of full‑time study, therefore, need not succumb to sticker shock upon seeing the list price of their favorite program.

After figuring out what they qualify for in terms of institutional support, loans and other state and federal aid systems, in the end the out‑of‑pocket costs for students, according to Mark Campbell, vice president for strategic enrollment management at The New School, is always less than what it first appears.

“If they’re genuinely interested, students should apply and go through the process, get admitted, then work with the admissions and financial aid staff to develop a strategy about how to make it affordable and workable,” Campbell said. “And I think what most people will find is that it’s not quite as daunting as it first appears to be.”

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Notice of Formation of SEABRING HOTEL INVESTORS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kit A. McQuiston, PO Box 20366, Greeley Sq. Station, 4 E. 27th St., NY, NY 10001, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served.

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TT 4U 52, LLC, filed with SSNY 06/27/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corp Agents 7014 13th Ave suite 202 Brookyn, NY 11228 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

JENNINGS CONSULTING, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/02/2018. Office loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: T Jennings, 225 N Broadway #1S, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

WESTCHESTER MAID SERVICES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 07/25/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 20 Water Grant St, 204, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Ellen Broen Coaching, LLC filed with SSNY on June 20, 2018.

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Notice of Qualification of STAGE 3 NYC 335 E 27TH LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/14/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/30/15.

Princ. office of LLC: 450 Park Ave. South, 5th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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Notice of Qualification of BoldStart Ventures Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/19/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: BoldStart Ventures, 1250 Broadway, 34th Fl., NY, NY 10001, principal business address. DE address of LLC: c/o Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

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183-185 SCHAEFER STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/25/2018. 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, 777 Third Ave, 27th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of KE Villa Trace Owner, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/11/18. Office location: New York County.

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Notice of Qualification of KMA Gems LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. o f State on 9/20/18. O f f i c e location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 31 W. 27th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10001. LLC formed in DE on 5/3/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

RollingTides LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/01/18. Office: New York County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 400 East 67th Street, Unit 8A & 8B, New York, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MASS18 Pty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/26/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 377 5th Ave, Fl. 6, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of PAR West LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/12/04.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 96 Greenwich St, Fl. 5, NY, NY 10006.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of AdvantageCare Physicians IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/14/18.

Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 55 Water St., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10041, principal business address.

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Notice of Formation of INSURI.COM LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/17/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 45 Great Jones St, NY, NY 10012. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Formation of ER 237 West 4th LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/18. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail process to Essex Equity – General Counsel, 7 Columbia Tpk., #201, Florham Park, NJ 07932.

The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of KIP101 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/18.

Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/7/17.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St, Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Fuku Hudson Yards, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the SSNY on 8/9/18. Office: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Celia Zhang, 60 E. 11th St., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10003.

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Notice of Formation of Howtal Axe LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State (SSNY) on August 8, 2018. Office location: - Kings County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of any process to: c/o US Corp Agents INC., 7014 13th Ave Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act of activities.

Notice of Formation of Victory One Preservation NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/27/18. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc., 256 W. 153rd St., NY, NY 10039, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of UWS GI LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/12/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: Mount Sinai, c/o Bruce E. Sands, MD, MS, 1468 Madison Ave., Box 1069, NY, NY 10029-6574. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., NY, NY 10016.

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E M P O W E R M E N T ADVISORY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/27/2018. 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, 1325 Avenue of the Americas Floor 28, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Lofton LLC filed with SSNY on August 23, 2018.

Office: Richmond County designated agent of LLC upon whom process it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th ave Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228: Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of XHAKLI FAMILY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/04/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Philip J. Michaels, c/o Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, 1301 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

TAYLOR BALLANTYNE LLC filed with SSNY 05/24/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Taylor Ballantyne LLC, 232 East 26th Street #6, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Hastings Sewing Studio LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 09/28/2018. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th avenue, suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 195197 FRANKLIN STREET LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/22/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 135 E. 57TH ST, Fl. 14, New York, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of BlockTower Capital Advisors LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/1/18. Office location: New York County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/18/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 65 High Ridge Rd, Ste 318, Stamford, CT 09605. DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 103 W. 105th St, Apt 3B, NY, NY 10025.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Nuage Productions LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/5/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/27/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 20 W. 86th St, NY, NY 10024. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of LG CHELSEA LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/16/17.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 202 Centre St, Fl. 6, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Herban Cura, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/27/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 124 Washington Pl., NY, NY 10014. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Ana Ratner, 124 Washington Pl., NY, NY 10014.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of RELATED ROCKAWAY SOUTH, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ROCKAWAY SOUTH, L.P. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which the LLC may dissolve is 12/31/2117. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of THIRD AVENUE 162, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/31/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 225 W. 35th St, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 958 MADISON LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/13/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1015 Madison Ave, Ste 501, NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 4211 REALTY LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/6/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1353 Bay Ridge Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LION LUXURY BUILDERS LLC, filed with SSNY on 09/05/2018.

Office Loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as the agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Astrit Hasanaj, 20 Annadale Street, Armonk, NY 10504.

Purpose: Any lawful act RIVER TOWNS MEDIA LLC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: RIVER TOWNS MEDIA LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with SSNY ON 10/01/2018. The LLC Office is located in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: RIVER TOWNS MEDIA LLC, 15 Deertree Lane, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, Attn: Alain Begun. Purpose: any lawful business activity.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of G. Miller Law, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/2017. Office Location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 3/21/2017. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: C/O CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Principal business address: C/O Andrew Finkelstein, 39 Broadway, Suite 1910, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10006. DE address of LLC: C/O The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Certificate of Formation filed with Secy. of State of DE located at: Townsend Building, 401 Federal Street, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Law practice.

Notice of Formation of 510 EAST 6TH STREET LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/09/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Blue Star Properties Inc., 31 E. 32nd St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 52 WEST 75 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/13/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Attn: Mr. Jon Birge, 305 W. 71st St., NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of formation Champion Gaming, LLC filed with SSNY on October 15, 2018. Office: New York County.

SSNYdesignated agentof LLC Upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Ken Hershman 261 West 25th Street, APT 9C, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Who’s Brewing Company, LLC filed with SSNY on September 21, 2018. Office: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Attn: Dexter Jules, 14 Overhill Road, Elmsford NY 10523. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Patient Advocates of NY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 10/5/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: 1925 7th Ave Apt 1B, NYC, NY 10026. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Pablo Numbela, LLC,Arts. of Org. Filed with SSNY 7/3/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Pablo Numbela, 561 Ridgeway, White Plains NY, 10605 Notice of Formation of TG Real Estate New York, LLC filed with SSNY on August 24, 2018. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 368 Eastern Pky, 2C, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

3405 FARRAGUT RESIDENCE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 7/19/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1274 49th St. Ste 96 Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1314086 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 2020 BROADWAY NEW YORK, NY 10023.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. ESPRESSO BOOKSTORE & CAFÉ BROADWAY LLC. Notice of Formation of HGC REALTY SERVICES (NY), LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o HGC Real Estate Advisory Group Inc., 101 Seaport Blvd., Ste. 602, Boston, MA 02210. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 AT 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for BURGOS RESTAURANT CORP to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 206 DYCKMAN ST IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER LION LUXURY BUILDERS LLC, filed with SSNY on 09/05/2018.

Office Loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as the agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Astrit Hasanaj, 20 Annadale Street, Armonk, NY 10504.

Purpose: Any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of JANA 2, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Davidson, Dawson & Clark LLP, 60 E. 42nd St., 38th Fl., NY, NY 10165.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 AT 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for COLIEMORE, INC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 1640 2ND AVE IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1314148 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 63-53 108TH ST FOREST HILLS, NY 11375.

QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. MDNNT CORP. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1314067 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 211 First Avenue, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption.

First E.V. Pizza Inc. d/b/a Luzzo’s Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1314073 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 18 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018 for on premises consumption.

PTH 40 Associates LLC d/b/a Park Terrace Hotel

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880 FIFTH PARKING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/18. Office: New York County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Daniels Norelli Cecere & Tavel, P.C., 272 Duffy Avenue, Hicksville, NY 11801.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

609 W 232 LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 10/23/2018. Off Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o Ultimate Tax Preparers Inc., 162 West 56th St., Ste. 507, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of GLOBAL TAXES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/05/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: GLOBAL TAXES LLC, 375 PARK AVE., STE. 2607, NY, NY 10152, U.S.A. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Ardent NG, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of NextGen Realty Holdings, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18. Office location: New York County.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Trinity Tanks Systems, LLC filed with SSNY on August 30, 2018. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 84 Business Park Drive, Suite 302, Armonk, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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STORAGE NOTICE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on November 13, 2018 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: -BLMT ANDREW/NEVILLE -CORBBLAH, JEREMY/ YEEYICK, DONNA -CAMPISI, DANIELLE -COLLINS, SHARON -CHAMPOUX, CECILE -JOHNSON, ROBERT -JOHNSON,CODY/OK, TANNER/BARNES AKA BARNES JR -JEAN-MARIE VIVLDI -JOHSON , ADRIENNE -KANTORVICH, VLAD -KIM KI HONG -LUCKIE, MILDRED -LUGO, BETZAID -NOEL KEISHA/ELMES JEVAUGHN

Notice of Qualification of East 60th Bridge Tower L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/3/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/24/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 152 W. 57th St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10019 DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of The Petite Pear Project LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/11/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 238 E. 77th St, Apt 3B, NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity. .

Notice of Formation of NextGen Investors, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

-REGAN, DEMETRIA -LEWIS, RODRIGO -SULYHA, KATHERYNA -SHARROCK, LEON -SHIWBARATH , RAQUEL -SALIFU, SAUDATU -WARDLEY, JANENE -YOUNG, SANDRA -BEARD, ASHER -BEY, SHAMOSI -HEYWARD, DERRICK -MENDOZA, PATRICK -VALENTINE, MICHELLE -VAN ALLEN NATASHA WASHINGTON, LEROY -LYNN, ASHLEY -MONZANO AMERICA

Notice of Formation of Hub6 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/6/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 3 Times Sq., Fl. 14, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Third Seven Advisors LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/21/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/16/16.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Ste 8500, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

1803 East 16 St, LLC. Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC).

Name: 1803 East 16 ST, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/11/2018. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address agaist the LLC served upon him/ her is Roman Bronnberg, 284 Avenue X, Unit 2F, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of NextGen Investors Holdings, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York S e c y of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1314174 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 310 W 53RD ST NEW YORK, NY 10019.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of Vatine LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/15/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 750 Park Ave, Apt 9B, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

HUNTER 53 INC.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of OSB Contracting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/30/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mikhail Gordon 531 East Lincoln Avenue Ste. 2F, Mount Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of NextGen RE, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/23/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of LMI GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC., SPV NUMBER 1018 LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 10/11/2018.

Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/08/2018.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O LMI Group International, Inc. 228 Park Avenue South, #18311, NY, NY 10003, Attn: Lawrence M. Shindell. Address required to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Drive, 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 Serenity by Mina LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on October 4th, 2018. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 11 Oakbrook Road, Ossining, NY 10562, Purpose: any lawful purpose.

ACQUORS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/18. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Holm & O’Hara LLP, 3 West 35th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10001-2204.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of EJS Future LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the SSNY on September 25, 2018. Office located in New York County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 2925 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

OFFICE JDY ARCHITECTURE, PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 10/01/2018. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC. Attn: Yannik Neufang, 296 Sterling Pl, 2A, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Purpose: practice of architecture.

A D V O C A T E GROUP-4 LIFE, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 10/22/2018.

Office loc.

Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom against LLC may de served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Advocate Group-4 life C/O Linda Griffith, P.P. 1 Pier Pointe St. STE 221, Yonkers 10701 Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1314221 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 500 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001 for on premises consumption.

The Neiman Marcus Group LLC d/b/a Neiman Marcus

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PUBLIC NOTICE SprintCom, Inc. (SPRINT) proposes to install/upgrade equipment and antennas at the following structures in New York State: 11 Main St in Hurley, Ulster County, NY (Job #41707) and 301 E 84th St in New York, Manhattan Borough, NY (Job #41993).

In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement, SPRINT is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. If you would like to provide specific information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within 1/2 mile of the site, please submit the comments (with project number) to: RAMAKER, Contractor for SPRINT, 855 Community Dr, Sauk City, WI 53583 or via e-mail to history@ramaker.com within 30 days of this notice.

Notice of Formation of PB Court Square LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 14 W. 23rd St, Fl. 5, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Candle Café Creations, LLC filed with SSNY on October 4, 2018. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Lisa M. Lyles, 98 Vaughn Avenue, New Rochelle, NY, 10801. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 118’) on the building at 123-125 West 18th Street, New York, NY (20181840). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties

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November 5, 2018 Herbalist Witch LLC. Authority filed SSNY 06/07/18. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 12/21/17. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr #101 Dover, DE 19904, also the address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process received.

The registered agent, upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Cert of Formation Filed: Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE SOS, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. Ste. 3, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 75’) on the building at 235 East 4th Street, New York, NY (20181791).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 61’) on the building at 125 Stanton Street, New York, NY (20181820). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at three locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 75 feet on a building with an overall top height of 84 feet at the approx. vicinity of 1280 East 12th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11230. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 133 feet on a 127-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 8323 Vietor Avenue, Flushing, Queens County, NY 11373.

Antennas will be installed at a top height of 141 feet on a 145-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 447-455 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10009. Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 69’) on the building at 221 Henry St, New York, NY (20181939). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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Notice of Formation of Arena Group Solutions Llc. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/25/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: InCorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave Ste 805A, Albany, NY 122102822, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Churchill-TS Windham, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/31/18. Office in NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Churchill Capital Management, 7 Mercer St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10013, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act/activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 133’) on the building at 30 Cooper Square, New York, NY (20181837). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 79’) on the building at 64 MacDougal Street, New York, NY (20181802). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 69.6’) on the (building) at 745 Gates Ave, Brooklyn, NY (20181923).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 62.5’) on the building at 39-41 Bedford St, New York, NY (20181949). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice of Formation of OSB Contracting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/30/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mikhail Gordon 531 East Lincoln Avenue Ste. 2F, Mount Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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THE ANNUAL RETURN of The Michelle & Norman Lattman Charitable Foundation for the calendar year ended December 31, 2017 is available at its principal office located at 900 5th Avenue, Suite 18A, New York, NY 10021 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is Michelle Lattman.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (tip heights 302’ & 317’) on the building at 2 Wall St, New York, NY (20181937).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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