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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH ORTEGA MIMI ROCAH FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Interim editor-in-chief

MONDAIRE JONES BROKE through barriers as one of the first openly gay Black men elected to Congress. But a number of factors contributed to his victory. Annie McDonough and Kay Dervishi in this week’s cover story examine how Jones ran to the left of his opponents to win widespread support during this June’s primary race. He beat seven other primary candidates to become the winner of New York’s 17th Congressional District, representing all of Rockland County and parts of central and northwestern Westchester, including White Plains. The new Congress member’s victory came after he backed “Medicare for All” and the Green New Deal, among other progressive policies. Meanwhile, Westchester, like other suburban areas, had already been shifting toward the left after the 2016 presidential election. That certainly was a big help for Jones – along with a compelling story of having been raised by a single mom in the diverse working-class suburban village of Spring Valley. Jones has said he couldn’t have envisioned a path to running had it not been for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s success. She, along with U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, endorsed Jones – a vote of confidence that also helped propel him into the national spotlight. This week’s issue also offers the Westchester Power 100, noting the most influential politicians, business executives, labor leaders, academics, activists, advocates and others who are shaping the future of the county. And we also profile eight community leaders who stepped up to battle the coronavirus.

CONTENTS GOP RESURGENT … 8

Republicans turned out on Election Day

MONDAIRE JONES … 12

Making history in the Hudson Valley

MIMI ROCAH … 18 How the next DA will reform Westchester COVID HEROES … 20

Fighting the pandemic in the suburbs

POWER 100 … 24

The most influential leaders in Westchester County

WINNERS & LOSERS … 58 Who was up and who was down last week

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ELECTION NIGHT AND SLOW RESULTS

After nine days of early voting, record absentee ballots cast and traditional Election Day voting, the outcome of many races in New York remained uncertain. Nationally, the presidential election dragged on for days and as of Friday morning, neither candidate has been declared the victor. Still, former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to be inching closer

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to 270 electoral votes, and President Donald Trump’s path to victory appeared to be narrowing. Trump repeatedly made unsubstantiated and dangerous claims about voter fraud, saying that he easily won if only “legal votes” were counted and claiming that Democrats were attempting to steal the election. He continued to undermine the integrity of the election at a White House briefing on Nov. 5 while demanding that vote counting stop in states

where he was leading and continue in states where he was losing. Trump said he plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, though his campaign has already filed several lawsuits in key battleground states. In New York, which Biden won easily, Republicans took early and strong leads in several competitive congressional races against Democratic incumbents. Notably, Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis declared victory over Rep. Max Rose on Staten Island. Although there were still tens of thousands outstanding absentee ballots, Malliotakis’ lead seemed to be nearly insurmountable. Upstate, Claudia Tenney was well positioned to defeat Rep. Anthony Brindisi, who unseated her two years ago. And on Long Island, Assembly Member Andrew Garbarino was poised to defeat Democrat Jackie Gordon, who was thought to have a solid chance at winning. The majority of competitive races were too close to call on election night due to the more than 1.5 million absentee ballots

WRONG AGAIN After their predictions of Hillary Clinton’s success in the 2016 election were woefully off-target, the media and pollsters were meant to have learned some lessons. So much for that. As surprisingly close returns were counted for President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the New York Post lamented the inaccurate predictions of Biden’s blowout success. While Biden looks to be on his way to victory, most analysts were still wrong, wrong, wrong.

“I need the progressive movement to chill out for a second, she just got there, yo. She’s been there for two years and all of a sudden people are like she’s got to run for president? ”

– Rep.-elect Jamaal Bowman, on Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, who just cruised to reelection, via The New York Times

“I think what I’ll do going forward is just make sure I strongly endorse the Republican candidates. ” – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, sarcastically responding to criticism from Gov. Andrew Cuomo that de Blasio and his job performance in the city are to blame for Republicans’ apparent gains in the election, via the New York Post

that have been received by the state. Republicans also took early leads in state legislative races against Democratic incumbents, including against state Sens. Andrew Gounardes in Brooklyn and Monica Martinez in Suffolk County. Most trailing Democrats expressed optimism that mail-in ballots would put them over the top in the end. In Western New York, however, three Democrats – Samra Brouk, Jeremy Cooney and Assembly Member Sean Ryan – declared victory in their state Senate races, flipping open seats previously held by Republicans. Although Cooney and Brouk enjoyed only slim leads on election night, Ryan’s lead was much more commanding. Although the final results in many races remained in doubt, Gov. Andrew Cuomo essentially blamed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for what appeared to be Republican gains in the state, saying that the GOP successfully fearmongered about New York City due to de Blasio’s mismanagement. Cuomo did not acknowledge that bail reform, which passed at the state level, was one of the main issues used by Republican candidates in their races. Cuomo also said he felt confident that the state would legalize recreational marijuana next year, since New Jersey voters just approved legalization.

PROTESTS AFTER ELECTION DAY Although election night itself was relatively calm,

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protests the next two days led to violent confrontations with police in New York City and dozens of arrests. The New York City Police Department was out en masse both nights in order to respond to planned protests and marches that were largely peaceful. On the first night, protesters and journalists reported that the NYPD engaged in the controversial practice of kettling, in which officers essentially trap demonstrators in a small space after forcing them to move toward a police line while at the same time preventing them from retreating. According to reports, officers did not allow protesters to disperse before beginning to make arrests. The next day at a press conference, NYPD Chief of Patrol Juanita Holmes denied that officers had ever kettled protesters and said she had never heard that term until recently. On the second night of protests, video showed police pushing New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

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CORONAVIRUS ON THE RISE

As the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise in many states, New York’s numbers were comparatively low but also increasing. In Western New York, the positivity rate hit 3% on Nov. 2, and in Erie County specifically, the number of daily deaths were the highest they have been in months as infections among school staff and children ticked up. The county also saw a concerning one-day positivity rate of 5%. The governor’s current strategy of attacking outbreaks didn’t apply to Western New York as specific ZIP codes were not experiencing incongruous spikes. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said a regionwide shutdown was not in the cards, despite having the worst numbers since the peak of the pandemic. Meanwhile, Nassau County on Long Island reported its highest number of new cases since May, as the island’s positivity rate hit 2%.

MON. 11/09 Most local boards of elections in the state will start the manual canvassing process, counting the unprecedented number of absentee ballots that were mailed in this year.

Only two minor parties kept their ballot access The fate of New York’s third parties was up in the air this year and as the dust settled after Election Day, it appeared only two of the state’s six minor parties will keep their ballot lines. This year, the state required third parties to secure either 130,000 votes or 2% of the vote cast – whichever was higher – every two years in the races for governor and president. As of now, only the Working Families Party and Conservative Party mustered enough support to keep their ballot lines past the end of this year. Based on the immediate results, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris received 293,428 votes on the WFP line, amounting to about 4.41% of vote total so far. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Mike Pence received 256,312 votes on the Conservative Party line, or 3.85% of the vote so far. Both minor parties were able to cross-endorse the two major-party tickets thanks to a practice in New York known as fusion voting, which allows candidates to appear on multiple party lines. Third parties like the Working Families Party and Conservative Party have consistently used this ability to support major-party candidates, and they rarely run their own candidates to avoid the spoiler effect. The WFP also engaged in extensive public campaigning to get out the vote on its party line. Three other parties nominated their own candidates for president, and they each fell well short of the new requirements.

INSIDE DOPE

Workers will be counting votes seven days a week until the job is done. Definitive results in dozens of close races are expected to dribble out in the following days.

Howie Hawkins received 23,258 votes on the Green Party line, Jo Jorgensen got 47,745 votes on the Libertarian Party line and Brock Pierce garnered only 17,639 votes on the Independence Party line (not to be confused with independents who are unaffiliated with any party). The final official third party in the state, the Serve America Movement, did not nominate a candidate for president. For decades, minor parties in New York only needed 50,000 votes in the gubernatorial race every four years in order to maintain their automatic ballot access. In addition to making it easier for their candidates to get on the ballot, it meant they could set up an official party apparatus, nominate candidates and hold primaries. The state Legislature passed new ballot access rules as part of this year’s state budget. Political observers considered them to be the brainchild of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and believed that he pushed for the new requirements to punish the Working Families Party, with which he has feuded for years. Cuomo repeatedly denied both pushing for the new requirements and holding any ill will toward the WFP. But minor parties are not giving up without a fight – ongoing court battles provide a potential avenue to save their ballot access. “We’re not dead yet,” state Libertarian Party Chair Cody Anderson told City & State. – Rebecca C. Lewis

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HOW NEW YORK VOTED IN THE GENERATION’S BIGGEST ELECTION BY CAITLIN DORMAN NOV. 3 is behind us, but New Yorkers are still desperate for election results. While we try to stay calm and wait for every vote to be counted, here are some takeaways from the voter turnout numbers that are available to us now.

NY’S TOTAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT 2016: 7,801,985 2020: APPROX. 8.2 MILLION (SO FAR)

More than 6.6 million New Yorkers voted in person in 2020, and with about 1.5 million absentee ballots received (and nearly 1 million outstanding), we will surpass the turnout from 2016.

NY ABSENTEE BALLOTS RETURNED 2016: 402,151 2020: APPROX. 1.5 MILLION (SO FAR)

After expanding eligibility qualifications due to the pandemic, New York’s absentee ballot returns have already dwarfed the numbers from 2016, and there are still some ballots in the mail.

IN-PERSON VOTING

EARLY VOTES: 2.51 MILLION ELECTION DAY VOTES: APPROX. 4.1 MILLION Big crowds during early voting didn’t necessarily carry over to Election Day, when crowds that would’ve been dangerous for COVID-19 transmission were smaller.

REGISTERED VOTERS WHO ACTUALLY VOTED 2016: 62% 2020: 60.6% (SO FAR)

While the number of votes cast in 2020 was higher than 2016, an additional 1 million New Yorkers registered to vote in the past four years (12.5 million were registered in 2016, 13.5 million in 2020). Estimates showed the state’s population was actually smaller in 2020 than it was four years ago.

2020 TOTAL TURNOUT NEW YORK: APPROX. 8.2 MILLION TEXAS: APPROX. 11 MILLION

New York’s voter turnout has nothing on Texas, where the state surpassed its 2016 turnout four days before the election. Texas has allowed early voting for three decades.

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A Q&A with teacher and state Sen.-elect

To be in a school and not hear children, it was very, very jarring.

JABARI BRISPORT

You’re headed to Albany in January, but you’re still teaching public school in Brooklyn. You’re back in the classroom now after holding remote classes in the spring. How has the transition been for you? It’s really alienating right now inside schools. The environment, it feels like a graveyard, to be honest. It’s so empty and so quiet. I didn’t realize it would be so jarring to be in a school where it was quiet, but to be in a school and not hear children, it was very, very jarring. It’s a really difficult transition. A major issue has been internet access, and we

know that low-income New Yorkers, people of color and students in temporary housing are more likely to lack internet access and stand to fall behind in their education. Is that something you’ve witnessed with your students? Yeah, I mean there are students that I have not seen since March because they don’t have internet access. Those students might be hard to reach, and we have their parents’ numbers on file, but their parents’ numbers are no longer working. They end up slipping through the cracks. It’s kind of heartbreaking. I

just hope they’re OK. One of them, I won’t share his name, he is a really great student who I had not seen since March. He kept on being like, “Mr. Brisport” – because he’s in my class again this year – “Mr. Brisport, what’s the code?” And I was like, “Oh awesome, come on in,” and I sent him the code and never heard from him again. I heard from him once in the past eight months and it was him asking to get in the class, and then never again. Stuff like that is really jarring. Are you thinking about ways to address some of these challenges, like internet access,

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when you get to Albany next year? If so, how specifically? I’m very biased, as you know, because I’m a socialist. So whenever we can put things in the public sector, I want to do that. But I really do think that having publicly owned internet would help out. It’s not as profitable for companies to build out broadband into lowerincome areas, so they’re not going to do it. But if you start viewing (internet) as something that’s a public service, then we can start thinking, “OK, well we have more resources in one area, let’s move them to this area that has a little bit less.” And we can

ensure that everyone has access. You’ll be leaving the classroom at the end of the semester. What are you going to miss most about teaching and being with students? This sounds so teacher dorky, but there’s really nothing like having a really, really good class where the students all get the material and feel smart and feel really good about themselves. There’s nothing quite like knowing that you’ve made somebody else feel smart and accomplished, and like they’ve learned a new skill and that they’re excited to enjoy their education. So I’ll miss that.

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THE NEW YORK GOP IS BACK FROM THE DEAD

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By Jeff Coltin

Election night was a disaster for Democrats in competitive races – though absentee ballots could change the story.

Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis is all but guaranteed to have defeated Rep. Max Rose in Staten Island.

ITH VOTING DONE but millions of mailin ballots yet to be counted, it’s too early to call well over a dozen closely watched races across the state. But this much

is clear: The Republican Party is not dead in the state of New York. And hopes for another all-out “blue wave” have been dashed. Republicans are poised to make gains in representa-

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tion in the state’s congressional delegation and in both chambers of the state Legislature, as they flip a number of seats from Democratic blue to Republican red. “It was a great night last night for Re-

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publicans across New York state, and specifically for Senate Republicans,” state Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt, a Republican, said at an Albany press conference the day after Election Day. “What you saw

last night was a repudiation of one-party rule.” Democrats will still control the state Senate, which was held by Republicans before 2018, and will easily hold on to their majority in the As-

sembly. But Democrats went into election night hoping to win a two-thirds supermajority in the state Senate, which would give them power over redistricting. Instead, they may now be lucky just to avoid

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losing any seats. Democrats currently hold 40 seats in the 63-member state Senate. As many as 10 seats in the upper chamber don’t have definitive results yet. Democrats still hold a large majority of seats in the state’s House of Representatives delegation, as well, but Republicans appear likely to add two seats to their current six out of 27 total. By state law, New York will not start tallying absentee ballots in any race until this week, and it will continue accepting ballots postmarked by Election Day until Nov. 10, or Nov. 16 in the case of overseas and military ballots. The state saw

Brooklyn seat currently held by Democratic state Sen. Andrew Gounardes. With all the in-person votes from Election Day and the nine-day early voting period counted, Republican challenger Vito Bruno leads Gounardes by 6,035 votes, or 8%. The New York City Board of Elections reports that 12,744 yet-tobe-counted mail-in ballots had been sent in as of Election Day. Of those, ballots returned by registered Democrats outnumber those returned by registered Republicans by more than 4-to-1, which means Gounardes could make up Bruno’s margin. However, that district, which

“WHAT YOU SAW LAST NIGHT WAS A REPUDIATION OF ONE-PARTY RULE.”

– state Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt

a record number of absentee ballots sent out this year, as voters hoped to avoid poll sites in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In every hard-fought race across the state, those absentee ballots are expected to break in favor of Democrats, since the party encouraged voting by mail while Republican President Donald Trump cast aspersions on the practice. In some races, Republican leads from in-person vote totals could vanish when all the votes are counted. So, Democrats argue, the GOP’s strong night might be misleading. “For all of our lives, the Wednesday morning after an election was the day to write a story of, ‘What does it mean?’” state Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, a Democrat, told City & State. “We’re in a new reality, where Election Day is not the end of the count – it’s the beginning of the count. … We told a lot of our candidates months ago: Be ready to be down on election night and make it up on the (absentee ballots). And that’s exactly the situation we’re in.” Gianaris insisted that winning 42 seats – and a Democratic supermajority that would give the party greater control over redistricting – is still possible. But Ortt said he expected to pick up at least four new members, which would mean a 27-36 Democratic majority split. One of those flipped seats could be the 22nd Senate District, a southern

has a large Democratic registration advantage, has previously seen voters cross party lines to elect a Republican. Before Gounardes defeated him in 2018, the area was represented by GOP state Sen. Marty Golden. Results in New York’s congressional races follow a similar pattern. In a district that overlaps with Gounardes’ and also includes Staten Island, Republican Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis has declared victory over Democratic Rep. Max Rose, likely flipping a seat to the Republicans. And in Central New York, former Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney seems to be on track to unseat Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi, who took her out of Congress two years ago. In fact, out of eight closely watched House races statewide, Republican candidates have a lead in six of them. And while Rep. Tom Suozzi’s race could hardly be called closely watched – it wasn’t on any prognosticator’s radar – the Long Island Democrat was actually trailing his Republican opponent George Santos by more than 4,000 votes after nearly all in-person votes had been counted. Suozzi will likely win the overwhelming majority of mail-in votes, and cruise to victory. But Democrats didn’t just want to hold on to the 21 seats they currently occupy – many in the party were optimistic that they could beat Republican incumbents, such as Rep. John

Katko, who is also well ahead of Democratic challenger Dana Balter. Another long-awaited Democratic pick-up on Long Island seemed unlikely, with Republican Assembly Member Andrew Garbarino declaring victory over Democrat Jackie Gordon for the seat currently held by GOP Rep. Peter King, who is retiring. A similar situation seemed to play out in New York City’s northern suburbs, where Democrats have been eyeing Republican state Sen. Sue Serino’s seat as a pick-up opportunity. But election night results showed Serino leading Democrat Karen Smythe with a seemingly insurmountable lead of nearly 20,000 votes. However, there were some bright spots for local Democrats, particularly in Western New York. Democratic Assembly Member Sean Ryan is all but guaranteed to flip a now-vacant state Senate seat previously held by Republican Rep. Chris Jacobs. And two Rochester-area Democrats are also on track to flip Senate seats that are now held by Republicans who chose not to run for reelection. Of course, Republicans’ apparent success may say more about Election Day results nationally than about New York. Democrats seem unlikely to meet their high expectations in races around the country. The U.S. Senate, which Democrats hoped to flip, seems likely to remain in Republican control, and the Democrats will likely lose seats in the House, while still maintaining a majority. That means Republicans’ relative success in New York probably has more to do with their base’s boosted turnout in a highly polarized election than with any rightward shift in the local electorate. “I wouldn’t draw so many New York-specific conclusions when you had the kind of motivation at the top of the ticket that Donald Trump presents for Republicans,” said Neal Kwatra, a Democratic political strategist. “That probably has more to do with what we saw in New York than anything that the New York GOP tried to do.” And while the Republican Party may not be dead in the Empire State, it’s not exactly thriving. As Kwatra pointed out, New York is one of 15 states where Democrats control the governorship and the state Legislature – though that number could shrink after other states’ election results come in. With four more years of divided government on the national level appearing inevitable, Democrats may feel more emboldened to take progressive action on the state level. “You have total one-party control for the Democrats,” Kwatra said. “A policy laboratory could be possible, given that kind of control.”

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How Mondaire Jones went from insurgent challenger to breakaway candidate to history maker in the lower Hudson Valley. By Kay Dervishi and Annie McDonough Photography by Sean Pressley

T WAS THE first day of early voting for the general election, 20 minutes before the polling place opened at 9 a.m., and more than 100 Rockland County residents had already lined up outside. The voters looped around three sides of Orangetown Town Hall in the drizzling rain, while cars carrying more voters clogged the already full parking lot. As the Democratic nominee in the 17th Congressional District, which covers Rockland and part of Westchester County, Mondaire Jones’ victory was virtually assured. Donning a gray blazer and white mask with the letter “O” to represent the Westchester town of Ossining, he went to chat with voters before going to join the line himself. “This is so cool,” said one woman standing in line with her daughters when he approached her to chat. “You have my vote.” Jones went on to talk with more voters down the line, when a man yelled, “You’re the man, Mondaire.” The two tapped elbows, in place of shaking hands.

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Mondaire Jones, above, and Ritchie Torres in the Bronx will be the first gay Black members of Congress.

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Later that day, Jones made his way to Peekskill, a Westchester city of 24,000 along the Hudson River. At a small gazebo in the center of town, local elected officials, campaign volunteers and members of the service workers union 32BJ SEIU were rallying for the reelection of state Sen. Pete Harckham. Harckham, a former Westchester County legislator and alum of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration, won as part of the 2018 blue wave that gave Democrats control of the state Senate, ousting Republican Terrence Murphy. Harckham faced what has turned out to be a competitive challenge from Republican Rob Astorino, the former Westchester County executive. But Harckham, a more moderate Democrat than Jones, showered his left-wing ally with praise. “How about Mondaire Jones, our next congressman?” Harckham shouted to cheers from the small, energetic group. “Mondaire ran in a primary with a lot of people, looking to fill very big shoes. I think what made Mondaire stand out was, while everyone else was running to fill big shoes, he was running in his own shoes.” The widespread support for Jones in his primary race upends conventional ideas about suburban voters. He ran to the left of other candidates in the race, emphatically supporting policies such as “Medicare for All” and the Green New Deal. The district is 60% white and home to one of the largest Jewish populations of any district in the country. But Jones, who is Black, managed to far outperform seven other primary candidates, most of whom were white. Like retiring Rep. Nita Lowey, several of them were also Jewish. Jones won over 41% of the vote, around 25 percentage points more than second-place candidate Adam Schleifer. Jones’ primary victory made national headlines in June, as he would likely go on to become the first openly gay Black member of Congress – an achievement he will share with Afro-Latino New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, who won the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Rep. José E. Serrano. But whereas Torres followed a more traditional path to political stardom, Jones went his own way. He was the first to jump in the race, declaring a challenge to incumbent Lowey before she announced her retirement, and he assembled a coalition of support from local activist groups, national progressive figures and their fundraising networks. Perhaps just as important, he did something none of his opponents were able to manage as successfully: connect the pol-

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icies and change he championed to his own personal story, which added conviction and authenticity to his calls for policies such as Medicare for All and universal child care. Jones’ oft-repeated maxim that “policy is personal” apparently resonated with voters. And that success has upended expectations that the mostly white and wealthy suburbs prefer moderate candidates. If Jones’ victory is any indication, the opposite may now be true.

ONES WAS BORN in Rockland County, and he often talks about growing up in Spring Valley, a working-class suburban village with a large Black population, where he was raised by a single mother. She juggled multiple jobs, and they lived in Section 8 housing and relied on food stamps. “My grandparents helped raise me,” the 33-year-old said in an early campaign advertisement. “My grandfather was a janitor. My grandmother cleaned homes. I didn’t come from money.” After attending Stanford University, he went on to work in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama, then attended Harvard Law School. Part of his job at the Justice Department involved vetting nominees for federal judgeships, many of whom were blocked by Senate Republicans. Frustration with Republicans’ obstructionist behavior pushed him further to the left politically. After law school, he eventually returned to the lower Hudson Valley, working as a litigator in Westchester County’s Law Department starting in 2018. The district he will represent, however, has typically been understood as moderate-liberal. The leafier villages of northern Westchester such as Bedford and Katonah are home to rich and famous residents, including George Soros, Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren and Glenn Close. Hillary and Bill Clinton are among Jones’ future constituents. Small post-industrial cities in the district are more economically diverse, but not necessarily more progressive. Former Republican Gov. George Pataki came from Peekskill, where he had served as mayor. Like some other suburban areas, Westchester County has seen a decisive shift leftward since the 2016 presidential election, with Democratic voters less likely to split their ticket and back a Republican down ballot than they once were. “I think there are more people in Westchester that would describe themselves as being real progressives,

not moderate Democrats,” said Catherine Parker, a Westchester county legislator who ran in the congressional primary but ended up dropping out and endorsing Jones. Republican County Executive Astorino, once seen as a rising star among conservatives, lost his reelection bid by 14 percentage points in 2017. The 2017 election also resulted in Republicans losing control of the Westchester County Legislature, which eight of them had held in a power-sharing alliance with two Democrats. There are currently no more Republican officials in the legislature, and just one member of the Conservative Party remains. Rockland County, across the Hudson River, is generally a little more exurban, bordering on rural in its outskirts. Although its median household income is almost as high, it boasts far fewer celebrities than its neighbor on the other side of the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. The county is currently led by Republican County Executive Ed Day, though Democrats retain narrow control of its legislature. The congressional district has a pronounced Democratic lean in national politics. Nearly 47% of active voters are registered Democrats, compared with 23% registered Republicans. In 2016, the district went 58.6% for Hillary Clinton versus 38.4% for Trump. But Rockland is more closely divided: Rockland went for Clinton 51% with 45% voting for Trump. In Westchester, the result was much more skewed in Clinton’s favor: She won more than double the votes Trump did. The area has been represented for about 31 years by Lowey, who has had a fairly liberal voting record but is considered an establishment Democrat. The last time she faced a serious Republican challenger, in 2014, she won by about 12 percentage points. Even so, Republican elected officials have historically seen success in New York City’s northern suburbs by highlighting their work on local issues. For example, Rockland County Executive Ed Day has focused more on the county’s fiscal growth and curbing overdevelopment in the region. But partisan polarization driven by national politics has made Democrats in the lower Hudson Valley more receptive to left-wing primary candidates. “The suburbs have moved to the left,” Jones said. “Particularly in highly educated communities like Westchester County.” Still, he added, “There is more of a strain of Trumpism in parts of Rockland County, and that continues to be a challenge for Democrats.” That much was clear as in-person ballots

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Lowey dropping out certainly brought out a lot of opportunistic candidates, and I use the word opportunistic not to be overly critical, but I think it shows only when an incumbent drops (out) do you see someone stepping up and running for office,” said Ricky Silver, co-lead organizer of Empire State Indivisible, a part of Indivisible, the Democratic activist organization that formed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election. “Maybe it suggests that they didn’t actually believe that true change was needed, they just saw a window of opportunity for themselves.” Eight candidates appeared on the ballot in the Democratic primary, representing a mix of experienced lawmakers, D.C. veterans and political newcomers. There was state Sen. David Carlucci, a former member of the GOP-aligned state Senate Independent Democratic Conference from Rockland; Assembly Member David Buchwald from Westchester; former federal prosecutor and billionaire’s son Schleifer; former Defense Department official Evelyn Farkas; former board chair of the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, Allison Fine; and foreign policy adviser Asha Castleberry-Hernandez. Parker also appeared on the ballot, but Jones’ opponent state Sen. David Carlucci, left, admitted he had a hard time differentiating himself from dropped out before the primary. fellow candidate Assembly Member David Buchwald. “When we’re debating, the voters ... see us as kind Though the field was someof the same. Here we are, both David.” what varied by background and professional experience, Jones watching what happened in the Bronx and in offered voters a different choice. “I think margins widen in some of these districts. From the start, Jones positioned him- Queens with AOC – the possibility of being if you’re looking at a field of candidates and self as the progressive candidate. Three able to have someone that was that progres- there are like five moderate white folks and months prior to Lowey’s retirement an- sive, that was that bold in speaking to these this dynamic young Black guy who has a tonouncement in Oct. 2019, Jones launched issues and someone who kind of had the lived tally different message than everyone else, you look at the field and it’s really easy to the first primary challenge Lowey would experience,” Agudelo said. Jones himself has suggested that he understand who Mondaire is, and somehave faced in her three decades since first winning election to the House of Repre- would not have seen a path to running if times it’s a little harder to understand who sentatives. While he might have seemed it weren’t for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cor- the other candidates are because they look like a long shot initially, he had a head start tez’s success. Later, endorsements from similar and they’re saying similar things,” when Lowey dropped out. “That gave him Ocasio-Cortez – and other progressive said Charles Blaettler, who served as Jones’ the opportunity to define himself in the leaders such as Sens. Bernie Sanders and campaign manager during the primary, and context of the race before anybody else Elizabeth Warren – would draw national who now works for the Working Families had, and then everyone was trying to play attention to Jones’ campaign and open up Party. Castleberry-Hernandez, an African catch up,” said Doug Forand, a senior part- access to their national cadre of supporters. American Army veteran, was the only other It’s not always the case that the first out person of color who appeared on the ballot. ner at the consulting firm Red Horse StratThe race was officially called almost a egies, of Jones’ early entrance into the race. of the gate gets to take home the prize, but Vanessa Agudelo, a member of the Dem- Jones’ willingness to take on a powerful in- month after primary night, though his apocratic Socialists of America who serves on cumbent signaled to progressive activists parent victory had been evident for weeks: the Peekskill Common Council and who was his commitment to changing the status quo Jones blew his seven opponents out of the among the first elected officials to endorse in the district. “I think Congress Member water, winning over 41% of the vote. Even some of his opponents agreed that distinguishing themselves in a crowded field of similar candidates proved to be impossible. “I thought I could contrast myself with Buchwald to be like, ‘OK, he’s in the Legislature, but I’ve passed so much – Jones primary campaign manager Charles Blaettler more legislation,’” Carlucci told City & cast in the general election were tallied last week, showing Trump with a comfortable lead in Rockland, despite losing to Clinton there in 2016. In the nearby 18th Congressional District in the Hudson Valley, just north of Jones’ district, incumbent Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney maintained only a slight lead over Republican challenger Chele Farley. But absentee ballots are expected to skew to Democrats, and the counting of those ballots could see Trump’s lead diminish and Democrats’

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Jones, knows a thing or two about running to the left in the suburbs. To her, Jones represented a long overdue shift in the status quo. Though Jones is not a democratic socialist and was not endorsed by the organization, he supported ambitious progressive policies including canceling student loan debt and has been a vocal supporter of adding more justices to the Supreme Court, even prior to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I think people were really excited that we had a chance to elect someone – after

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State of his attempts to differentiate himself from Assembly Member David Buchwald. “But I think when we’re debating, the voters – they don’t really go to that level of detail. They see us as kind of the same. Here we are, both David.” Some who were involved in or kept a close eye on the race explained Jones’ success with a variation on the idea that while other candidates ran to be the next Nita Lowey, Jones ran to be a new lawmaker entirely. Parker, the Westchester County legislator who dropped out of the race in May, put it plainly: “Some other candidates who likened themselves to Congresswoman Lowey – I think that felt a little anachronistic in that that doesn’t speak to today,” she said. “It speaks to yesterday.”

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NSURGENT CANDIDATES naturally fall into the role of underdog in any challenge to an incumbent or establishment politician, and that remained the case for Jones even after Lowey dropped out. The first-time candidate wasn’t the highest fundraiser in the race – that was fellow first-timer Schleifer, who boosted his war chest with over $4 million in loans to his own campaign. At the outset, Jones didn’t have the most name recognition – state lawmakers Carlucci and Buchwald had an edge on him there. But Jones did have eager support from local activist groups, strong fundraising and a well-oiled campaign machine that was poised to succeed in virtual campaigning after the pandemic stopped candidates from knocking on doors. Groups such as Rockland United and Empire State Indivisible – offshoots of the national Indivisible movement – endorsed Jones, as did other local grassroots groups such as Irvington Activists and the Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow. Progressive activists like these aren’t an entirely new phenomenon in the suburbs, but they certainly grew in size and influence after Trump’s election. Harckham said that Indivisible groups were essential in helping him flip his Senate seat from red to blue in 2018. “They are a very formidable force right now, as a field force, and they keep getting stronger,” Harckham said. “That’s a critical ally that we have in our campaigns, but also in holding us accountable.” That doesn’t mean Democrats in the suburbs north of New York City aren’t still vulnerable, however. As of printing, Astorino, the former Westchester County Executive, was beating out Harckham in the race to represent a district spanning Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties. Still,

an influx of about 38,000 absentee ballots, many of which were submitted by Democrats, could allow Harckham to surpass the 7,491 vote gap between the candidates. The state senator also maintained a narrow lead in Westchester specifically, while Astorino overwhelmingly was favored in the more conservative, less-densely populated Putnam and Dutchess counties to the north. “I was elected to be a Democrat who votes like a Democrat, not be a Democrat who votes like a Republican because it’s a safer thing to do,” Harckham explained. Having the support of activist groups lent legitimacy to Jones’ run, Blaettler said, offering the campaign something money can’t buy. “They were like community validators,” Blaettler said. “If you’re just blanketing the

airwaves with a billion dollars worth of ads and there’s no groups that are saying they’re behind you, it’s sort of difficult to present yourself as having any real support.” In more concrete terms, support from these groups also grew the campaign’s ranks of volunteers. Blaettler said that the primary campaign included three central pillars: texting, phone banking and relational organizing – spreading the word about a candidate among friends and acquaintances. While volunteers from groups including Rockland United were on the ground canvassing and getting the campaign signatures prior to March, they were quickly able to plug into those remote operations such as phone banking once the pandemic made in-person campaigning impossible. “It was

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nearly one million phone calls to people all throughout the district, hundreds of thousands of text messages, students creating social media content, and making sure that their parents knew about me and voted for me,” Jones said. Although Jones pledged to not take donations from corporate PACs, he had access to formidable national fundraising networks, as well as his own networks, including Harvard Law School. “If all of a sudden, you can tap into the AOC network of donors, for example – all it takes is a tweet from her and all of a sudden, you’re on the radar of literally millions of people across the country,” Forand said. “And if they all give small amounts, you’re gonna see your fundraising numbers spike.” By mid-June, Jones had raised over $1 million, and to date he has raised roughly $2.7 million. Blaettler said those networks are part of what makes progressive candidates like Jones more viable today than they might have been five or six years ago. “I think if you were running a progressive candidate in 2014, there’s no Bernie Sanders email list, there’s no AOC email list,” he said. “Previously, there was much less of a national political movement behind sending progressives to Congress.” Progressive candidates taking on incumbents or establishment politicians are fairly universal in their strong rebuke of corporate PAC and special interest money. But a candidate still needs money to get his or her name out there, to run ads and – Doug Forand, to hire talented peosenior partner ple to run their camat Red Horse paign. “I think the Strategies most successful progressives understand that yes, we need to run nontraditional candidates, but that doesn’t mean we need to throw out traditional campaign tactics, like fundraising and earned media and polling and TV ads,” said Monica Klein, a founding partner at Seneca

AND YOU’RE ON THE RADAR OF LITERALLY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.”

Strategies, who worked on Jones’ campaign. “There are so many things in campaigns that need to change, but there are still tactics that need to be used, and I think the left is getting even better at that.” For Jones to campaign on a message that resonated with voters, he first had to make sure that message reached voters. “Had I not had the grassroots fundraising capacity to introduce myself to people, folks still would have been deciding between Adam Schleifer, Evelyn Farkas and maybe David Carlucci,” Jones said.

S THE RECESSION leaves millions of Americans unemployed and without health care during a global pandemic, ideas like Medicare for All may seem less radical to voters. “The petri dish that we’re in is laying bare a lot that maybe suburban voters were shielded from,” said Lessie Branch, director of The Think Tank at the Thinkubator, a youth-oriented research center in the Bronx focused young and marginalized communities. “Because the reality within which we are now living makes clear – or at least lays bare – some of the things that suburban voters may not have had to contend with, I think that their selection of policy choices might be broadening.” In different times, Jones might not have been as successful, said Branch. “What would happen, I think, under normal circumstances – if we weren’t at this Overton moment – incumbents and more established status quo-type candidates likely would have won,” Branch said, referencing the Overton Window, the political science concept that refers to a range of policies that are acceptable to the mainstream at a given moment and her belief that the window is currently shifting leftward. Jones’ messaging also may have been more palatable as he connected progressive policies to his own personal story growing up in a low-income household. When he campaigned on universal child care, for example, he talked about how his grandmother had to take him to work with her because his mother couldn’t afford day care. “If you’re a hedge fund manager running on a Medicare for All platform, that just doesn’t vibe,” said Blaettler. “Everything in Mondaire’s story felt authentic.” Castleberry-Hernandez, Jones’ opponent in the primary, doesn’t think Jones’ victory signifies a leftward shift in the local electorate. “This district is still center-left in my opinion,” Castleberry-Hernandez told City & State. She credited Jones’ win not to a major ideological realignment in the suburbs, but to Jones’ relatively high fundraising, his high-profile endorsements, his early entrance into the race and the racial reckoning that was sparked by police killings

of Black people this summer. Jones argued that might have inspired more white voters to pull the lever for a Black candidate. While Jones wasn’t the only Black candidate in the race, he was often referred to in the media as the leading candidate of color in the race, and he spoke at Black Lives Matter rallies in those months, advocating for criminal justice and police reform. Jones isn’t the only young, Black progressive candidate who won in Westchester this year. Jamaal Bowman, who was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Rep. Eliot Engel, a 16term incumbent, by about 15 percentage points, in the Bronx-Westchester district immediately to the south. Both Bowman and Jones will make history by being the first Black members of Congress representing suburban New York. Their successes may indicate that Democrats no longer need to run to the center to win suburbanites’ support – at least in a primary. “I think for now, in the foreseeable future, what you’re seeing in Mondaire’s race is going to be much more the model of suburban campaigns,” Forand said. Jones’ and Bowman’s successes indicate that when Ocasio-Cortez broke the mold of who gets to represent New York in Congress 2018, it wasn’t a fluke, but the start of a movement. “You can have spent decades in Washington … and still not be who the New York Times Editorial Board described as ‘the most promising and the most prepared’ to offer real change in this district,” Jones said, referring to his New York Times endorsement in the primary. “I remember people being so confused – some people who supported other candidates – by that endorsement and by that language.” How could he, a 33-year-old firsttime candidate, with no experience in elected office, be the most prepared to serve in Congress, Jones remembered people wondering. “It’s because they themselves are completely divorced from the everyday experience of working people, including right here in New York’s 17th Congressional District.” Jones was up against four opponents in the general election on Nov. 3, including Republican Maureen McArdle Schulman, but Jones secured a roughly 14-point lead as in-person ballots were tallied, and the race was called in his favor. When Jones heads to Washington, he will be part of overlapping groups making history: as one of Congress’ first openly gay Black members, as one of the first Black members of Congress from suburban New York, and as part of the growing caucus of young progressives. “Growing up poor, Black, and gay, I never imagined someone like me could run for Congress, let alone win,” Jones said on the night of the primary. “Indeed, in the 244year history of the United States, there has never been an openly gay, Black member of Congress. That changes this year.”

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Westchesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next DA on how sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tackle police corruption and racial disparities in arrests.

You were very critical of the current district attorney for his handling of the investigation of alleged corruption in Mount Vernonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s police department. Could you describe how you would have handled that case differently and how you plan to address those allegations going forward? Based on what I have learned publicly â&#x20AC;&#x201C; because again, up until now, I have really not been privy to anything more than what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read in press reports like everybody else â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it was alleged â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and I actually didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really hear denials of this â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that the office received these serious allegations, received these recordings, and did not address those with the urgency that they should have been. There was a long time lag between the time that the recordings came in, and the time that the investigation actually seemed to sort of gather any steam. And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blame individual prosecutors for that. That is a leadership issue. My office will know that this is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;drop everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; kind of priority for me, for us. And police will know it, and they will know why because I do want to support our police. I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they can do their job if people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking corruption seri-

MIMI ROCAH FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY

ESTCHESTER Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary race for Westchester district attorney coincided with a major reckoning on racial justice and policing across the country after the death of George Floyd. Mimi Rocahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory over incumbent District Attorney Anthony Scarpino was fueled in part by that movement. Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and legal analyst with MSNBC, attacked Scarpinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handling of accusations and secret recordings his office received from a whistleblower alleging misconduct among Mount Vernon police, which included beating residents and planting evidence. His office also continued to move forward with cases based on the work of the officers accused of misconduct. Some also pointed to Rocahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success as part of a progressive shift in the lower Hudson Valley, though Rocahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stances are certainly more moderate than progressives such as former Queens district attorney candidate Tiffany CabĂĄn. City & State spoke with Rocah soon after the general election â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in which she has almost certainly emerged victorious â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to discuss her plans for reform in the county. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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ously. We need some kind of safeguards that when allegations of corruption about police officers come in, we have a system to establish whether or not we the prosecutors are going to continue doing cases with those officers. I don’t know, sitting here right now, exactly what that standard should be. But I know we need some kind of protocol for that. You’ve been pretty vocal criticizing President Donald Trump and some of his behavior in office. Trump has a decent footprint in Westchester. He has a golf course in Briarcliff Manor, where there have been accusations of labor law violations with some of the undocumented workers that had been hired there. His Seven Springs estate is also being investigated. As district attorney, would you also start to scrutinize some of Trump’s involvement in the county? My very public, very critical statements about the Trump administration, and particularly the Department of Justice and other issues, were in my role as a former prosecutor and a legal analyst. I’m now in a different role. I recognize that I’m a DA for the whole county. I don’t think that this is about my political views anymore. I can have those privately, everybody does, but Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and legal analyst with MSNBC, will be Westchester’s next district attorney.

they aren’t going to drive or impact how I conduct myself as DA. If there is criminal behavior to be investigated by anyone in this county – as a federal prosecutor, we got leads all the time from the press, from sources, from whatever it may be – they will be pursued. And I’ve said that public corruption is something that we will prioritize for all public officials, regardless of their politics and their party. You’ve indicated you would share a lot of the data about racial disparities in arrests and prosecution. Beyond just sharing that information, outlining that disparity, what’s the next step in using that data to reduce those disparities? I don’t want to undersell how important (sharing the data) is, right? Right now, that is just something that is not widely happening. Prosecutors’ offices are starting to do it, some of them. But you cannot solve problems that you haven’t diagnosed. I look at getting the data and sharing it as making the diagnoses, where they may be or not, and sharing that with the public so that they can have input. During the transition, we are going to partner with real experts, finding ways to use that data. If we see that there are a large amount of gun arrests or gun cases going on in certain areas, you don’t just say, OK, we’re gonna send more police in.’ That may be

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something you do. But you may also need some violence intervention programs, partnering with the community. You may need to think about the possibility of a specialized gun court in that area that works on, not just arresting and prosecuting people for nonviolent gun offenses, but providing other kinds of services as well. You’ve indicated support for the state’s initial bail reform law. Do you agree with the subsequent amendments to that law that were made later this year, which made more crimes eligible for cash bail? The short answer is, yes. I think that what (the Legislature) did is, they went from a policy that was desperately in need of reform to one that – you know, it’s not a one-and-done. I think they looked at some of the data, they listened to some of the feedback and they solved some pretty obvious gaps – for example, having certain kinds of burglary that were not cash bail-eligible. Because really what they were trying to protect was cases where someone came into like a lobby in a building in New York City or somewhere and took a package. OK, that’s a very different crime from someone coming into someone’s home. But the statute charged is the same. The amendments made clear the distinction between those two kinds of conduct. That is just common sense. I think it’s still a work in progress. Again, this goes back to data. I think we need to look at what the data will show, and whether the data encourages us to be more or less cautious in terms of bail reform.

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LAUREN BASSIN

LAUREN BASSIN KNOWS

that completely shutting down isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an option for her and her staff, pandemic or not. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never shut down. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, we are always open. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a 24-hour program, seven days a week,â&#x20AC;? says Bassin, the assistant executive director of community programs at Westchester Jewish Community Services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So our staff had to keep coming in when most of the world or most of New York were staying home.â&#x20AC;? Bassin, who works with

adults 21 and older who are developmentally disabled to help them live independently and learn the necessary skills to do so, decided to host Zoom meetings for her staff to give them virtual support when New Yorkers started testing positive in March. Precautions were put in place to limit the spread within the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residential facilities. For Bassin, one of the key components of the new protocols had to be that families still felt connected to their loved ones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to make sure they still had contact, so we had these socially distant outdoor visits, but we also had Zoom so families could keep seeing them for those that are really far away,â&#x20AC;? Bassin says. Not only has the pandemic been a major health challenge for communities across New York, but unemployment levels have risen dramatically as businesses have had to

lay off employees in the midst of restrictions on activity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The classes we do to increase their skills and capabilities in the areas you need to work, those have continued, and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a beat with those,â&#x20AC;? Bassin says. Bassin says that a safe transition to operating in the middle of a pandemic would not have been possible without the dedication of her staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As much as they were concerned for themselves and their family members, they were really also so appreciative of everything that was being done for everybody,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that really showed during this really difficult time.â&#x20AC;?

ANITA KOPACZ

AT THE BEGINNING of the

coronavirus pandemic, the massive increase in unemployment across the country caught Anita Kopaczâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention. Wanting to help those who had lost their jobs in the Westchester community, Kopacz distributed $100 to $200 grocery store gift cards

through her Zero Fâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Given campaign. The initiative was accompanied by a six-week virtual program called Zero Fâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Given Restart to teach healthy eating and lead guided meditations to those living in the Westchester community. Zero Fâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Given was created by Kopacz in November of 2019 to help disenfranchised populations heal from familial and sexual trauma and to raise money for the Center for Safety and Change, an organization in Rockland County that offers programs and services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. To raise awareness of the campaign, Zero Fâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Given has focused on selling t-shirts, with 80% of the profits going toward funding the Center for Safety and Change. With the implementation of a stay-at-home order in March and the pandemicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s persistence throughout the country, Kopacz says that the work done by the Center for Safety and Change, where she serves as a board member, has only become more critical. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just was really intense during that time. It still is pretty intense,â&#x20AC;? says Ko-

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pacz, adding that the number of people reaching out to the Center for Safety and Change increased by 60% to 70% during the pandemic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were having a lot of calls where the women were not able to even really talk about what was happening because everyone was inside with them all the time,â&#x20AC;? Kopacz says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were literally locked down with the people that were abusing them.â&#x20AC;? With her background as a psychologist and as a survivor of sexual trauma herself, Kopacz has led online workshops throughout the pandemic that focus on helping people heal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most touching part is hearing peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feedback on how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve healed from their sexual trauma,â&#x20AC;? says Kopacz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For some people home is a safe place, but for others itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most dangerous.â&#x20AC;?

BARRY MCGOEY

BARRY MCGOEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DECADE

of experience leading Yonkers

Firefighters Local 628 helped Westchester Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest fire department successfully navigate an unparalleled public health crisis. The early onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic was fierce in Westchester, with Yonkers following New Rochelle as a hot spot â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and personal protective equipment reserves were depleted within weeks. As usual, McGoey leapt into action. He connected with the county executive and state senators who helped replenish the PPE supply. With a high PPE burn rate, McGoey lobbied beyond local levels to get the help that firefighters and other emergency and essential workers desperately needed. McGoey, who pushed for COVID-19 guidelines for firefighters, also limited the movement of firefighters from one firehouse to another, prohibited firefighters from leaving the station to shop for meals, and banned the sharing of utensils and cooking between firefighters in order to restrict transmission of the virus. His requirements became a model for other fire stations across the state. In exchange for restricting firefightersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meal shopping and

cooking, the union reimbursed members for the cost of meals that were purchased from local eating establishments to assist struggling small businesses, absorbing $150,000 in costs over a three-month period. Additionally, McGoey was able to secure an $11.5 million grant to support the hiring of 30 firefighters to be paid by the federal government to reduce overtime costs. Prior to the pandemic, McGoeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s union and local elected officials often battled over legislation and labor contracts, but now McGoey sees a bright future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had no choice but to put aside our labor and management hats and our Democrat and Republican hats and try to work together for the benefit of our members, our citizens, our taxpayers, so hopefully that will continue,â&#x20AC;? McGoey says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The good and the improved relationships will result in better working relationships as we move forward because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not out of the woods yet, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot to be done, especially economically, moving forward. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to work hand in hand to get through it together successfully.â&#x20AC;?

MELANIE MELENDEZ

AS COVID-19 CASES contin-

ue to rise, Melanie Melendez has not stopped making sure that her patients are getting the care they need. On a daily basis, she has carried out her in-person responsibilities as a direct support professional, a role in which she cares for six women with developmental disabilities who live in a group home run by Cardinal McCloskey Community Services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our agency has helped us create an environment for them to make sure that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re safe and make sure that they live a normal life,â&#x20AC;? Melendez says. Early on, when Westchester County was struggling to contain the coronavirus outbreak, Melendez says that Cardinal McCloskey Community Services ensured that everyone was wearing masks, employees and residents had their temperature checked at least twice a day, and the facility itself was disinfected three times a day. If a resident became sick, Melendez put on

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the appropriate PPE and never stopped striving to ensure that her patients were given their medication and food, and were also comfortable and happy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to put a smile on their face and try to make them feel happy and not feel sick and sad,â&#x20AC;? Melendez says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It kind of breaks our hearts, but we also want to make sure that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get anybody else sick.â&#x20AC;? On a typical day, Melendez works with the six women living in the group home to review their food, socialization and community goals, and to help with their daily exercises and to take them to their appointments. A few activities organized by the home include dance class on Mondays, music on Tuesdays, and zumba or hip hop on Wednesdays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Throughout the days we make sure that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually active, so they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to think so much of wanting to go home or think so much about the COVID19,â&#x20AC;? says Melendez. In addition to working full time at Cardinal McCloskey Community Services, Melendez is also going to school to study business management. In the future, Melendez says she hopes to open her own agency to care for people with developmental disabilities, specifically focusing on providing care for individuals with Down syndrome.

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LINDA MOSIELLO

LINDA MOSIELLO HAS been

with the Sunshine Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home since 2001, when it was known as St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rehabilitation Center for Children. Now a 54-bed facility, it works with critically ill or injured children while providing home-like environment. As the administrator, Mosiello manages the facility to make sure day-to-day operations run smoothly â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which has been a major challenge lately due to the COVID-19 pandemic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like everybody else, very early on, I would say probably earlier than most, we started to look at COVID-19 before any mandates were really issued out and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because of the vulnerability of the children we take care of,â&#x20AC;? Mosiello says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are just very, very fragile. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very proud of the team because we really did anticipate well ahead. We had already instituted trying to look at our PPE supplies before that. We soon learned that our distributors who would normally distribute normal amounts all of a sudden started changing.â&#x20AC;? With the support of community health care organizations, Mosiello found the PPE she desperately needed. Since the start of the pandemic, Mosiello has also worked on a self-suffi-

ciency model and a comprehensive plan to ensure Sunshine is capable of effectively dealing with the virus. Sunshine requires everyone that comes into the building to go through mandatory screening and monitoring. All staff members are tested weekly, and there are continuous conversations to ensure people are mindful of their own exposures at home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really kept all the requirements to keep a 90-day back up supply,â&#x20AC;? says Mosiello, who anticipates a resurgent virus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready in the event that things start to change.â&#x20AC;? Mosiello says that in her experience, the threat is unprecedented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an old-timer, die-hard nurse, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen anything like this,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the closest thing that I recall in my career was certainly in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s when HIV was in the hospitals and it was unknown and the fears. It is somewhat reminiscent, but at such a higher scope, and I am so unbelievably proud of the team here at Sunshine.â&#x20AC;?

PAULA NOCCA

WHEN THE CORONAVIRUS

pandemic hit, the staff at

Sterling Community Center, which offers food and support services for individuals with behavioral health conditions, wondered how they would be able to provide enough food for members of their community. Thanks to the efforts of site coordinator Paula Nocca and her team, they expanded access with a no-contact food delivery service to the mental health community in Westchester. From the end of March to September, Noccaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team made a total of 1,020 deliveries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, my staff who came in and (who) were working from the very beginning and during the height of the COVID virus, they are the heroes to me, not necessarily me,â&#x20AC;? Nocca says. The White Plains-based center secured a $125,000 grant recently for food delivery service. Previously, Nocca had to dig through over 300 pounds of vegetables to pick out the rotten portions. Now, Nocca is able to get canned goods from the food bank along with a variety of food options from a distributor including fresh produce, dairy products, proteins and beverages â&#x20AC;&#x201C; while also delivering diapers, baby formula, toilet paper and other necessities. Nocca also prioritized maintaining the sense of community through video calls with members and outreach through the food program.

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Nocca personally made a large share of the deliveries and has pushed to make sure those who may suffer from mental health conditions that are exacerbated due to the pandemic have the resources they need. Nocca moved to Westchester after a 33-year career in Florida and found a home at MHA Westchester to start her second career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went from being an intern, to a recovery specialist to a site coordinator,â&#x20AC;? Nocca says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a really enjoyable experience, the last six and a half years.â&#x20AC;?

MARIA TRUSA

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the coronavirus pandemic hit Westchester County, Maria Trusa understood that to take care of the Latino community and the undocumented population, FormĂŠ Medical Center and Urgent Care needed to adapt. As supplies of personal protective equipment ran dry and daily calls skyrocketed, Trusa says her staff began conducting virtual visits. To keep up with the influx of patients, she hired a call center in Mexico and more nurse practitioners. She continued going into the office throughout the crisis to help guide patients in person,

and quickly recognized the need for more testing, especially throughout the Latino community and the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undocumented population. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A few weeks into the pandemic I just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take it anymore, so my business partner and I decided that we were going to open up our own center to test them and to treat them,â&#x20AC;? Trusa says. She set up a tent outside of her medical center, teamed up with Quest Diagnostics, searched for PPE, and started treating and testing as many people as possible. Since April, Trusa says that FormĂŠ Medical Center and Urgent Care has tested at least 8,000 people and continues to test people every day. During Westchesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coronavirus peak, Trusa says that of the patients being tested, 50% were testing positive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was insane. We were seeing sick people. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn people away,â&#x20AC;? says Trusa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were there for them when they needed us the most.â&#x20AC;? Trusaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business partner Gina Cappelli founded FormĂŠ Medical Center and Urgent Care in 2015, and in the last five years the center has gone from serving 1,500 to 25,000 patients, 7,000 of whom are uninsured. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become a center for the community that needs us the most in this area,â&#x20AC;? says Trusa who is from the Dominican Republic, referring to her majority Latino

and undocumented patients. In the future, Trusa says her goal is to nationally expand the concept of the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique medical membership program. Outside of her work at the medical center, Trusa serves on the Westchester County Hispanic Advisory Board.

CATHERINE WHITE

WHEN GOV. ANDREW Cuomo officially declared New Rochelle a containment zone in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, the New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce immediately became a hub of information not only for businesses, but for the entire community. With the rest of the office staff furloughed, Catherine White suddenly found herself alone in the office with phone calls coming in from morning to evening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As soon as really March 10, as soon as they used the word containment zone, National Guard and New Rochelle in the same sentence, business effectively stopped here,â&#x20AC;? says White, who has lived in the city for three decades. While disseminating as much information as possible to business owners and the community through regular email updates, White also

worked with a Westchester County reopening task force to provide resources for New Rochelle and areas surrounding the city. In addition to offering small business grants, the Chamber of Commerce provided aid by sending boxes of personal protective equipment to local small businesses as the need became more dire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing to remember is, even if a business is open, the new guidelines require additional expenses for a business to be up to code to work with everything,â&#x20AC;? says White, whose family owns a brokerage firm on Long Island. White, who has a wealth of local connections thanks to her extensive volunteer work, says the generosity of the community is one of the main reasons New Rochelle is recovering slowly but surely from the outbreak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been privileged to be part of that as well where people call me up and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How can I get involved?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to point them in the right direction,â&#x20AC;? she says. White was able to speak to residents with ideas and help them to get involved in pandemic relief plans. This included a resident who made over 300 masks that were delivered to essential workers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all rise working together,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Either our city saves itself, or our city falls apart.â&#x20AC;?

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The movers and shakers rocking New York City’s northern suburbs.

Westchester is where it’s at. It’s the home of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins. It’s where two fresh young House candidates – Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones – broke through this year. And it’s shifting from a red-blue battleground (County Executive George Latimer knocked out Republican Rob Astorino only a few years ago) to an intra-party contest over the future of the Democratic Party, with newcomers like Jones, Bowman and District Attorney-elect Mimi Rocah all replacing more moderate officeholders come 2021. City & State’s Westchester Power 100 reflects those political trends, while also putting a spotlight on the business executives, labor leaders, academics, activists, advocates and others who are shaping the future of the county.

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Croton Gorge Park at the base of the New Croton Reservoir, which is part of New York City’s water supply.

Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers is one of the most powerful leaders in New York.

1 ANDREA STEWART-COUSINS

State Senate Majority Leader A decade ago, the state Senate Democrats were a laughingstock. But since Andrea Stewart-Cousins took control, the conference has eliminated the dysfunction, won an impressive majority and enacted a slate of progressive laws. And as her conference continues to grow, it’s no surprise that StewartCousins, a suburbanite, has effectively balanced downstate’s needs with growing the party’s upstate and suburban contingents.

2 GEORGE LATIMER

Westchester County Executive Westchester County Executive George Latimer spent decades rising through the political ranks, from the Rye City Council to the Westchester County Board of Legislators – where he served as chair – to seats in the Assembly and state Senate before being elected to his current post. With Gov. Andrew Cuomo praising Latimer as a “pragmatic progressive,” could a run for a statewide post – even, say, governor – be next?

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3 JAMAAL BOWMAN

Congress Member-elect In the previous election cycle, it was Alexandria OcasioCortez. This cycle, New York’s big upset of a sitting member of Congress was delivered by Jamaal Bowman, who beat Rep. Eliot Engel in the Democratic primary and coasted to victory in November. Bowman, a Black

member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a former Bronx middle school principal, will represent a heavily Democratic district that covers parts of the Bronx and Westchester.

4 MONDAIRE JONES

Congress Member-elect Mondaire Jones mounted his race for Rep. Nita Lowey’s seat early, positioning himself as a progressive alternative to the longtime incumbent. Then, when she announced her retirement, Jones faced a number of well-financed and experienced candidates – and still emerged as the victor in

the June Democratic primary. Now he’ll be representing the Rockland and Westchester district in Washington, as one of the first openly gay Black members of Congress.

5 MIKE SPANO

Yonkers Mayor The Spanos have a long history as a powerful political family, and its most highprofile member is now Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano. As the mayor of one of the biggest cities in the state, Spano served in the Assembly for two decades, helping to craft the New York State School Tax Relief program, or STAR,

In the previous election cycle, it was AOC. This cycle, it was Jamaal Bowman.

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as well as the property tax cap. As mayor since 2012, he has been a champion of local business development.

6 SHELLEY MAYER

Chair State Senate Education Committee It’s no surprise that state Sen. Shelley Mayer was tasked with leading the Education Committee, which deals on a regular basis with intricate budget formulas and hotbutton policy issues. Before being elected to the Senate in 2018, she chaired an Assembly

subcommittee on special education and served as chief counsel for the Senate Democrats. One of her top goals is to boost the state’s education budget.

lines of that fight. In recent months, she has led the Westchester Economic Recovery Task Force to survey businesses and strategize on reopening plans. In a bid to prevent public sector layoffs, she has urged the White House to approve aid for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and local governments.

8 LEONARD SCHLEIFER

Co-Founder, President and CEO Regeneron

MARSHA GORDON

President and CEO Business Council of Westchester Westchester County is working to recover from coronavirus pandemicinduced economic pain, and Marsha Gordon of the Business Council of Westchester is on the front State Sen. Shelley Mayer says schools need more funding as they battle COVID-19.

Leonard Schleifer’s Tarrytownbased biopharmaceutical company is a pivotal player in the race to develop COVID-19 treatments. Regeneron got $450 million in federal funding to pursue its experimental antibody cocktail drug this summer, and its stock soared after President Donald Trump received the treatment. Another reason Schleifer can celebrate? The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Regeneron’s first-ofits-kind Ebola treatment. The only bad news was that his son, Adam Schleifer, lost his congressional primary bid.

9 MIMI ROCAH

Westchester County District Attorney-elect Mimi Rocah is the latest in a wave of progressive candidates in the state seeking to win district attorney offices, which have wide latitude to shape local prosecutorial practices – and, by extension, policing reforms. And with her Democratic primary win over Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino and an easy general election victory, the former MSNBC analyst and former federal prosecutor will

aim to make the office more transparent

10 ARVIND KRISHNA CEO IBM

Arvind Krishna stepped into big shoes at IBM in April when Virginia “Ginni” Rometty announced that she would retire at the end of 2020. Previously the senior vice president in charge of cloud and cognitive software, Krishna led the landmark acquisition of the open source software firm Red Hat in 2019. He is the first technologist to run the company and seems set to steer it toward a “hybrid cloud” horizon.

11 ED DOMINGO

President and Chief Operating Officer Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts Casino and hospitality veteran Ed Domingo was promoted from within to run Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts in January. Before the pandemic, he called on the state to lift its moratorium on new casino licenses in order to expand the facility – a potentially lucrative endeavor for both parties. After a six-month closure, MGM rehired more than half of its 1,200 workers in September, and Domingo says his top priority is keeping everyone healthy.

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12 NOAM BRAMSON

New Rochelle Mayor When New Rochelle emerged as the first coronavirus hot spot in New York, Mayor Noam Bramson provided updates to constituents and brought the community together. Bramson, who has been mayor since 2006, coordinated with state and county officials on putting in place the containment zone in March and ramped up testing of residents. He also launched an initiative encouraging constituents to support local businesses.

14 LAWRENCE SCHWARTZ

Chief Strategy Officer OTG

13 KEN JENKINS

Westchester Deputy County Executive It’s not exactly Abraham Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals,” but after Ken Jenkins lost to George Latimer in the Democratic primary for county executive in 2017, Latimer ultimately brought on Jenkins as his No. 2. Jenkins, a former chair of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, has worked on boosting contracting for women- and minority-owned businesses. And Jenkins has spoken in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Lawrence Schwartz is the chief strategy officer for airport hospitality group OTG. And though he left his job as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide in 2015, these days he’s spending lots of time working for the governor by helping manage the state’s response to COVID-19. Schwartz pushed private hospitals to comply with new inventory reporting standards and increase bed capacity early on in the outbreak.

15 BENJAMIN BOYKIN

Chair Westchester County Board of Legislators Benjamin Boykin was reelected as chair of the Westchester County Board

of Legislators in January. And thanks to a good working relationship with Democratic Westchester County Executive George Latimer, Boykin is in a strong position. The veteran legislator, who represents White Plains, Scarsdale and Harrison, has shepherded through legislation responding to the coronavirus that eases the burden on taxpayers and caps food delivery app fees.

16 JOAN MCDONALD

Director of Operations Westchester County As Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s first transportation commissioner

Joan McDonald played a key role in the project to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge with the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, which spans the Hudson River between Westchester and Rockland counties. These days she’s focused solely on Westchester as County Executive George Latimer’s director of operations, which entails managing the county’s budget, departments and 4,000 employees.

17 EDWIN QUEZADA

Superintendent Yonkers Public Schools Superintendent Edwin Quezada reopened Yonkers’ public schools for in-person learning in October, a month after classes had gotten underway remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Quezada has been in the public eye while addressing public health concerns in the schools and online access for students learning from home. An immigrant from the Dominican Republic, Quezada has been applauded for his leadership and had his contract extended earlier this year.

It’s not Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals,” but after Jenkins lost to Latimer, he came on as his No. 2.

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Mayor Noam Bramson led New Rochelle as it became New York’s first COVID-19 hot spot.

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21 ANDRE RAINEY

Peekskill Mayor hit as nearby cities early on, Roach has been proactive in providing updates and assistance to local residents.

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18 AMY PAULIN

Chair Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions With nearly two decades in the Assembly under her belt, Amy Paulin is a lawmaker who’s got a hand in many of the biggest issues. This year the Scarsdale resident sponsored a measure allowing gestational surrogacy, prodded the governor into allowing more time on school district budget votes due to the coronavirus pandemic, and pushed for more judicial discretion in the state’s bail laws.

19 THOMAS ROACH

White Plains Mayor White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach has overseen a growing city since taking office in 2011, while also keeping property tax increases below the state-mandated cap. This year, the city budget was set to add five police officers and three firefighters, the first such hires in years. And while White Plains wasn’t as hard

Chair and CEO PepsiCo Inc.

Two years into the job, Ramon Laguarta is keeping the Purchase-based food and beverage company hurtling forward with big investments, including a $3.86 billion acquisition of Rockstar Energy and the release of a “sleep enhancement” water, Driftwell. COVID-19 lockdowns hit sales early this year, but thirdquarter revenue shows sales later grew as more people snacked at home. A native of Barcelona, Laguarta is the first Spanish CEO of a large

When Andre Rainey began his second term in January, he boasted of a record $14 million in grants to the small city over two years. For a politician who’s made headlines for getting elected at a young age and for his nickname – “Noodle” – it shows the substance behind his reputation as a rising star. An entrepreneur, he has also touted downtown revitalization and staying within the state’s property tax cap.

22 SANDY GALEF

Chair Assembly Real Property Tax Committee Assembly Member Sandy Galef chairs the Real Property Tax Committee, which carries a lot of weight in the suburbs Ramon Laguarta, CEO of PepsiCo, is the first Spanish CEO of a large American company.

where property taxes are a perennial political issue. On another hot-button issue, Galef spearheaded efforts to ease the economic blow of the decommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear plant. She also spoke out against a proposed merger of the New York state Bridge Authority with the state Thruway Authority.

23 TIMOTHY CAWLEY

President-elect Con Edison of New York Tim Cawley has risen through the ranks at one of the county’s largest employers since 1987. Previously head of subsidiary Orange and Rockland Utilities Inc., Cawley will become CEO and president of the parent corporation in January. Dubbed “an innovator in the clean energy and renewable space” by his predecessor, John McAvoy, Cawley moves up as Gov. Andrew Cuomo cracks down on utilities that fail to restore power quickly after storms.

24 NICK SPANO

Founder and President Empire Strategic Planning Former state legislator Nick Spano’s influence at the state Capitol didn’t end when his last term ended in 2006. Nor did it disappear when he served time in prison for tax evasion. Through his lobbying firm, Spano remains a force behind Westchesterbased organizations, shaping health care policy at the state level and representing organizations that serve individuals with disabilities. He also chairs the board at Richmond Community Services, a Yonkers program for people with disabilities.

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For a young politician who’s known as “Noodle,” it shows the substance behind the rising star.

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the Construction Industry Council of Westchester and Hudson Valley and the Building Contractors Association of Westchester and Mid-Hudson. Pepe wrote in The Journal News that New York’s economic recovery and “long-term health” hinges on infrastructure projects like the proposed Route 17 expansion in Orange and Sullivan counties, which could increase tourism to the entire region, including Westchester.

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THOMAS GLEASON

Public Safety Commissioner Westchester County Westchester County Department of Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Gleason has had his hands full since taking the top post in 2018. The Yonkers native, who has spent his entire career in the department, has cracked down on everything from drug dealing to domestic violence to drag racing. He’s also a member of the county’s task force on police reform and is monitoring the risks posed by the coronavirus.

26 J. GARY PRETLOW

Chair Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee Assembly Member J. Gary Pretlow, who has represented his Yonkers and Mount Vernon district since 1992, is the Democratic conference’s point person on gambling legislation. He played a role in the legalization of casinos in New York and has pushed for the local Empire City Casino to be allowed to become a full-fledged commercial

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27 SUZANNE BERGER

Chair Westchester Democratic Party When Suzanne Berger was elected to lead the Westchester Democrats in September, she took over a party apparatus on a winning streak. With candidates like Mondaire Jones, Jamaal Bowman and Mimi Rocah breaking through this year, the only question is how far to the left Berger can take the party. Berger ran a strong race of her own, beating Bill Serratore, who some saw as the frontrunner.

MICHAEL ISRAEL

President and CEO WMCHealth Michael Israel has led the Valhalla-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network, or WMCHealth, comprising 10 hospitals throughout the Hudson Valley, since 2005. A telemedicine program launched under his leadership in 2015 was ramped up this spring, providing a lifeline for thousands of patients as the region became a coronavirus epicenter. Israel is now directing a recovery program for patients who had COVID-19, which is one of the first of its kind in the nation.

30 TIMOTHY JONES

CEO Robert Martin Company Timothy Jones is at the helm of Westchester County’s leading real estate developer.

31 SUSAN FOX

President and CEO White Plains Hospital When the state’s first known coronavirus outbreak emerged in Westchester County, Susan Fox and others were quick to act. Fox’s White Plains Hospital opened a hotline to communicate updates and connect people with health care providers. The hospital expanded its bed capacity by 50%, allowing it to accept transfer patients from nearby hospitals. And Fox oversaw the use of $74 million in federal aid from two CARES Act distributions, which helped treat an influx of coronavirus patients.

ROSS PEPE

President Construction Industry Council of Westchester and Hudson Valley Construction industry advocate Ross Pepe represents 600 businesses and more than 30,000 employees as head of both

Berger was elected to lead the Westchester Democrats on a winning streak.

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33 MARTIN GINSBURG

Founder and Principal Ginsburg Development Cos. Residential real estate developer and architect Martin Ginsburg’s work can be found in every corner of the county, from luxury apartments in Yonkers and Ossining to the mixed-use “City Square” project in White Plains. The octogenarian’s latest project is the newly renovated Abbey Inn & Spa in Peekskill, overlooking the Hudson River. The 42-room inn, spa and restaurant opened in March following a $22 million renovation of a historic former convent.

college in Westchester County through the disruption caused by COVID-19. Under her leadership, most students are taking online classes this fall, and the school implemented mandatory, free COVID-19 testing for employees and students who returned to use facilities in person. Miles also serves on the board of the Business Council of Westchester.

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Cristyne Nicholas and George Lence each have their niche – Nicholas handles communications while Lence leads lobbying efforts at their firm, where they represent clients like Empire City Casino and the City of New Rochelle. Veterans of New York City’s tourism agency NYC & Co., they continue to be critical assets in the region and state. Nicholas plays a key role in the state’s reopening strategy as chair of the state Tourism Advisory Council and Lence serves as vice chair of the Business Council of Westchester.

35 BELINDA MILES

President Westchester Community College As a member of the governor’s NY Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, Belinda Miles has shepherded the largest

When Indivisible arose as a movement alarmed by the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016, the Westchester branch quickly made its mark. The group, which counts Shannon Powell as a founder and one of its leaders, played a role in George Latimer’s victory over then-County Executive

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Rob Astorino in 2017, in key legislative races in 2018, and in helping power Mondaire Jones to a historical congressional win this year.

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Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer NewYork-Presbyterian As executive vice president of NewYork-Presbyterian, Dr. Laura Forese oversees a staff of 47,000 workers who became front-line warriors in 2020. Each day during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Forese provided a video briefing to the hospital system’s staff, including one featuring a cameo from Lin-Manuel Miranda. Forese worked to secure needed personal protective equipment for workers and saw the system through the apex of the health crisis.

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President and CEO Fareri Associates John Fareri is behind North 60, a $1.2 billion biotech center that is part of a broader effort to capitalize on Westchester’s research infrastructure to build out a thriving life sciences hub. Fareri’s design and development firm, Fareri Associates, has a number of developments in Westchester and nearby Connecticut. John Fareri and his wife, Brenda, are also the benefactors behind the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center.

MAYO BARTLETT & LEROY FRAZER

Co-Chairs Westchester County Police Reform and Reinvention Task Force Labor leader Thomas Carey represents 150,000 Hudson Valley members.

39 DEB MILONE

President Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce

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With COVID-19 dampening economic activity and forcing small businesses to shutter, Deb Milone’s work at the Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce is more critical than ever. “Both small business and major retailers have struggled to maintain customers and continue operations,” she said recently. “Sadly, some businesses have closed, but we have also seen new businesses opening.” With over a decade at the organization, Milone is well positioned to help drive a rebound.

40 JOHN RAVITZ

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer The Business Council of Westchester While Marsha Gordon does an exceptional job leading the Business Council of Westchester and serving as its public face, she relies on John Ravitz to oversee the operations of the organization. A former member of the Assembly who represented a

Bartlett and Frazer were appointed to lead a new county task force on police reform.

Manhattan district in the 1990s and early 2000s but now lives in Pelham, Ravitz is tasked with executing the council’s pro-business legislative strategy in the county and in Albany.

41 THOMAS CAREY

President Westchester Putnam Central Labor Body Thomas Carey wears a lot of hats: He’s a business agent for the UA Local 21 plumbers and steamfitters union, a member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s MidHudson Regional Economic Development Council and serves on the Indian Point Closure Task Force. But his most important role is with the Westchester Putnam Central Labor Body, which represents 150,000 members in Westchester and Putnam

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Westchester County Executive George Latimer appointed two distinguished legal professionals – Mayo Bartlett and Leroy Frazer – to co-chair a new county task force on police reform. Bartlett, a civil rights attorney based in White Plains, already had a public profile as a legal analyst on television and in print media. Frazer, a consultant, was a senior prosecutor under legendary Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau and went on to help shape groundbreaking reforms in the Brooklyn DA’s office until his 2018 retirement. Frazer was also named a co-chair of Westchester County District Attorney-elect Mimi Rocah’s transition team.

43 CAROLA OTERO BRACCO Executive Director Neighbors Link

Carola Otero Bracco is the daughter of immigrants from Bolivia, and in 2004 she pivoted from the corporate sector to take the reins of Neighbors Link, a nonprofit serving Westchester’s immigrant community. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Bracco’s organization has put a priority on providing food, legal support and ongoing online trainings. She is also a proponent of dual-language education.

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Davidson made history as the first Black administrative judge in the 9th Judicial District.

ROBERT WEISZ

KATHIE DAVIDSON

SCOTT HAYWORTH

President and CEO RPW Group The long-term impact of COVID-19 on the commercial real estate market is a critical question for RPW Group’s Robert Weisz, whose largely suburban portfolio of office properties could be in greater demand as workers seek to avoid dense urban centers. At any rate, Weisz has continued to expand RPW Group’s portfolio in Westchester, most notably with the construction of 303 new apartments now underway along the “Platinum Mile.”

District Administrative Judge New York State 9th Judicial District Kathie Davidson made history in 2018 when she became the first Black administrative judge in the state’s 9th Judicial District, which includes Westchester and several other counties in the Hudson Valley. In her administrative role, Davidson supervises the courts in her jurisdiction. She previously served as a Westchester family court judge, and over a decade ago she became the first African American supervising family courts judge in the district.

EDWARD DOYLE

President and Treasurer Building and Construction Trades Council of Westchester and Putnam Counties

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Cacace faces another COVID-19 challenge as well as a member of the Yonkers Board of Education, which has been grappling with the best way to educate students safely this fall. Cacace also chairs the board’s facilities committee.

Edward Doyle’s labor umbrella group, the Building and Construction Trades Council of Westchester and Putnam Counties, is made up of unions that collectively represent more than 30,000 construction workers. A proponent of preapprenticeship programs and partnerships, Doyle has battled against nonunion contractors and pressured elected officials to award public contracts that require a unionized workforce. His endorsement is also sought after in local elections.

47 KEVIN CACACE

President Yonkers Chamber of Commerce Kevin Cacace leads the chamber of commerce for Yonkers, one of New York’s largest cities, at a critical time, as a recent uptick in coronavirus cases puts further stress on local businesses.

President and CEO CareMount Medical CareMount Medical adapted quickly to COVID-19 with a pivot to telehealth. “During the COVID-19 peak, CareMount was conducting about 1,500 telehealth visits per day, compared with times prior to the pandemic, when it was conducting six per day,” Scott Hayworth told Westchester Magazine. Hayworth has overseen steady growth over two

decades running CareMount Medical, which has 650 providers in more than 45 locations in the Hudson Valley and New York City.

49 MARK MCLEAN

President NAACP New Rochelle Branch When Mark McLean was sworn in to lead the NAACP’s New Rochelle branch in 2019, he was joined by two fellow Black trailblazers in Westchester – state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Judge Kathie Davidson. This year, McLean has called on state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the fatal police shooting of Kamal Flowers. McLean is a minister and a lieutenant with the New Rochelle Fire Department.

Scott Hayworth led CareMount Medical’s shift to telehealth at the peak of the pandemic.

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in Westchester for more than six decades, has also continued to expand his $3 billion real estate portfolio, with residential and mixeduse development projects underway or in the works in New Rochelle and White Plains.

NATASHA CAPUTO

Director Westchester County Tourism & Film As Westchester County eased COVID-related restrictions in the summer, Natasha Caputo said her office is “eager to help jump-start film production” in the county – a popular location for the entertainment industry – and touted the area’s outdoor dining, shopping and ice cream offerings. Caputo, who has led Westchester County Tourism & Film since 2011, oversaw a 2019 boom in production that included high-profile films such as “The Irishman.”

54 ALLISON LAKE

Executive Director Westchester Children’s Association

STEVE LÓPEZ

President Yonkers Board of Education The Rev. Steve López is deeply engaged in Westchester, serving as chaplain for the Yonkers Police Department, as associate pastor at Calvary Center Church in Yonkers and as president of the Yonkers Board of Education, where he’s helped navigate the response to the coronavirus and the restart of in-person classes in October. López is also chair emeritus of the Council of Big 5 School Districts, a group representing New York’s biggest school districts.

52 SAMANTHA ROSADOCIRIELLO

President Yonkers Federation of Teachers Samantha Rosado-Ciriello has been standing up for the teachers she represents

Samantha RosadoCiriello leads the Yonkers Federation of Teachers.

during the coronavirus pandemic, calling for better ventilation in schools, adequate space for social distancing and isolation rooms separate from nurse’s offices, while also fielding any health and safety concerns members may have. She has also pushed for better teacher training and technology implementation for remote learning. Rosado-Ciriello is also pushing for passage of the HEROES Act in Washington.

LOUIS CAPPELLI

MARIA SAMUELS

Chairman and CEO Cappelli Organization When New Rochelle became an early COVID-19 hot spot in March, real estate developer Louis Cappelli responded quickly by donating $200,000 from his Louis R. Cappelli Foundation to support relief efforts. Cappelli’s family-run company, which has been

Caputo oversaw a production boom that included films such as “The Irishman.”

Executive Director Westchester Disabled on the Move Inc. Maria Samuels was elevated to lead Westchester Disabled on the Move Inc. last December. The nonprofit, known as WDOMI, advocates for “independence and equal rights for individuals with disabilities” – and is largely staffed and run by people with disabilities. Samuels, the organization’s deputy executive director since 2016, has experience in hospital administration and working with students with autism and behavioral disorders. She also oversaw the nonprofit’s REV UP Westchester voter engagement effort.

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An advocate for children’s rights, criminal justice reform and community development, Allison Lake recently called attention to the challenges posed by remote learning during COVID-19, noting that many students lack access to the necessary technology. She has been with the Westchester Children’s Association since 1998 – becoming its executive director in 2018 – and has been recognized for her work dealing with child homelessness and youth justice.

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56 MICHAEL FOSINA

President NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital New York’s first documented coronavirus case was identified at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, and the 291-bed Bronxville facility quickly adapted. “We literally built an ICU in the middle of the night, ensured all rooms were prepped to be ICUready as needed and planned for staffing,” Fosina told his college newspaper. “We did about a year’s worth of work in a matter of weeks.” Last year, Fosina was elected chair of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

57 SUSAN FOX

President and CEO Westchester Institute for Human Development Susan Fox is in her fourth year leading the Westchester Institute for Human Development. As leader of

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the county’s largest private provider of child welfare services, she helped secure funding to provide 30 Chromebooks to children in foster care who didn’t have devices to participate in remote school or therapeutic activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fox also has ramped up telehealth services this year.

58 SHAWYN PATTERSON-HOWARD

Derek Anderson is executive director of Northern Westchester Hospital.

Mount Vernon Mayor

Shawyn Patterson-Howard made history last fall when she became the first woman elected to lead the town of Mt. Vernon after a hectic year during which three other people claimed to be the city’s rightful mayor. After PattersonHoward was overwhelmingly elected to the post, the city has returned to relative normalcy. The former YMCA executive recently touted her economic development efforts, increased census turnout and police reforms.

59 EILEEN EGAN

Executive Director Phelps Hospital Eileen Egan took over as executive director of Phelps Hospital in June after shepherding the facility through the peak of the region’s coronavirus outbreak. Her tenure at the Northwell Health facility in Sleepy

NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital “literally built an ICU in the middle of the night.”

Hollow includes 17 years as an emergency department nurse. Phelps Hospital was recently recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with “Magnet Recognition” status for its “commitment to excellence in nursing and dedication to exemplary patient care.”

60 DEREK ANDERSON

Executive Director Northern Westchester Hospital Derek Anderson became executive director at Northern Westchester Hospital in 2019. He has worked at several Northwell Health facilities; he was previously at Long Island’s North Shore University Hospital, where he carried out $417 million in capital projects, including a surgical pavilion expansion. He’s now poised to continue making

progress at the Mount Kisco facility, which announced the opening of a $3.6 million cardiac catheterization lab in September.

61 MARVIN KRISLOV President Pace University

Marvin Krislov says the pandemic and this year’s racial unrest has exacerbated an existing mental health crisis among college students, especially students of color at universities like Pace. He’s taking a collaborative approach to address the problem at the private college where he’s been president since 2017 – that means training faculty, staff and student leaders on mental health best practices and resources as they work to “build a culture of mental health and well-being.”

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MICHAEL ROMITA

President and CEO Westchester County Association On March 1, Michael Romita took the reins at the Westchester County Association, succeeding Bill Mooney. His ascent preceded the pandemic by just a couple weeks, forcing him to pivot any plans he had for one of the region’s leading business advocacy groups. He has expressed optimism about Westchester’s ability to “bounce back” economically. To that effort he brings experience as an attorney, an oil executive and lobbyist.

Several Black female politicians have broken through – a testament to Williams’ work. on the street to build better relationships. The Yonkers native, who used to be homeless and involved with a gang, has spoken out on other issues, walking from Yonkers to Albany in 2017 to highlight mental health issues and organizing a peaceful protest in response to George Floyd’s death.

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JEWEL WILLIAMS

A pastor for more than 50 years – with the last 45 of them spent at Grace Baptist Church – W. Franklyn

President Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus, Inc. Westchester is home to one of the state’s most powerful Black women, the trailblazing state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, but she’s just one of a number of Black female politicians in the county to break through – which is a testament to the work of Jewel Williams’ organization. Williams, who has been with the group for over a decade, has applauded the growing attention to issues important to Black voters.

64 HECTOR SANTIAGO Founder Stop and Shake

In 2015, activist Hector Santiago partnered with the Yonkers Police Department on “Stop and Shake,” an initiative encouraging people to shake hands with officers

Senior Pastor Grace Baptist Church

Richardson last month helped launch a program providing residents from underserved communities virtual access to legal help and representation. Earlier this year, the longtime civil rights leader opened a temporary coronavirus testing site at the Mount Vernon-based church – which has undergone significant expansion in the past decades.

66 ANTHONY VICEROY

CEO Westmed Medical Group Westmed Medical Group planned to move to a new corporate headquarters in

Anthony Viceroy is CEO of Westmed Medical Group.

Rye Brook this summer, with CEO Anthony Viceroy touting the new location’s “amenities, services and space” that are “aligned with the evolution and growth of our business.” It’s one of multiple moves for Viceroy’s 500-provider organization, which has boosted telemedicine for patients in Westchester and Fairfield counties due to COVID-19 while also adapting to both its elderly and millennial clientele.

67 TIM HALL

President Mercy College “Where does systemic racism live on college campuses?” Tim Hall asked in a recent Journal News column outlining steps Mercy College has taken to “close racial gaps in success.” Hall, who has led the Dobbs Ferry-based college since 2014 with a focus on boosting enrollment – he improved retention rates by almost 10% – recently pushed back against a request from adjunct faculty asking to be allowed to teach remotely.

68 WILLIAM F. B. O’REILLY Partner The November Team

Although Republicans have not won a statewide office in years and lost the state Senate in 2018, there are still conservative candidates across the state – and top GOP political consultants like William F. B. O’Reilly remain in demand. O’Reilly’s firm, The November Team, worked this cycle with longtime client Rob Astorino, the former Westchester County executive and former gubernatorial candidate who’s leading in the race for a key state Senate seat.

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72 THEO OSHIRO

Deputy Director Make the Road New York

Milagros Peña is the first Hispanic woman to lead a SUNY college.

69 MILAGROS “MILLY” PEÑA President Purchase College

Milagros Peña was named president of Purchase College in May, leaving her post as a dean at University of California, Riverside, to relocate to the State University of New York school on the Connecticut border. Peña, who is also an accomplished sociologist and author as well as an administrator, is the daughter of Dominican immigrants and the first Hispanic woman to lead a college in the SUNY system.

70 ALEXANDER ROBERTS

Executive Director Community Housing Innovations Alexander Roberts, who has served as the executive director of Community Housing Innovations since he founded it in 1991, is a champion of affordable

housing development in the New York City suburbs and is behind the development of hundreds of affordable housing units in the Hudson Valley and Long Island. A member of the Westchester Workforce Housing Coalition, he has also rebutted concerns about affordable housing diminishing property values.

71 CHRISTIAN DIPALERMO

Principal and Founder CDD Strategies Christian DiPalermo is the founder of CDD Strategies, a government affairs and strategic planning firm specializing in energy, transportation and green spaces, but that’s just one of his many jobs. The former aide to Rep. Nita Lowey and former executive director of the nonprofit New Yorkers for Parks is also a founding partner of the law firm MarksDiPalermo and a board member with the New York League of Conservation Voters.

Make the Road New York, which is known for its work on immigrant rights, affordable housing and criminal justice reforms, has been expanding into Westchester County, an effort led by Theo Oshiro. And with the organization’s leaders set to step aside, Oshiro, a Peruvian immigrant who joined Make the Road New York in 2005, will take over as one of three co-executive directors in April.

medical, dental and behavioral health services to more than 55,000 people each year who otherwise could not afford them.

74 WILLIAM CUDDY JR.

Executive Vice President CBRE William Cuddy Jr. isn’t just a leading real estate executive in Westchester – he’s a civic leader, whether it’s calling for policy changes to pave the way for more affordable housing or advocating for the county’s development as a tech, health care and finance hub. He has brokered deals in Westchester for bigname corporations and local institutions, including Entergy, IBM, Mercy College and New York Medical College.

75 73 LINDSAY FARRELL

President and CEO Open Door Family Medical Center and Foundation In May, Lindsay Farrell’s Open Door Family Medical Center and Foundation announced a new program designed to support its most vulnerable patients – providing a variety of resources to people who test positive for COVID-19. The organization, which Farrell has led since 1998, operates 14 in locations, providing

MARTIN BERGER & MICHAEL KLINGER

Managing Members Saber Real Estate Advisors In December, a partnership of Saber Real Estate Advisors, PCD Development and Circle Squared Alternative Investments broke ground on “The Duet,” a White Plains residential development, just the latest project from Saber principals Martin Berger and Michael Klinger. The Armonkbased firm boasts more than $2 billion of development and acquisitions, many of them in Westchester, but with projects in New Jersey and Florida as well.

Make the Road New York is expanding into Westchester County, an effort led by Oshiro.

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institution has experienced “extremely low rates of COVID-19 infection” on the liberal arts school’s Bronxville campus, crediting students and staff for wearing masks and social distancing. The school’s president since 2017, Judd is a Texas native and music scholar who previously worked as a senior program officer with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

SEAMUS CAREY President Iona College

Last year, Seamus Carey was named president of Iona College, a private, Catholic institution with nearly 4,000 students. This year, Carey has contended with disruptions wrought by COVID-19, quickly closing its doors this spring due to its proximity to the March hot spot in New Rochelle, reopening this fall with strict public health protocols, then temporarily going all-remote in October due to an outbreak before resuming in-person classes.

81 ROBERT AMLER

Dean, School of Health Sciences and Practice New York Medical College Cristle Collins Judd is president of Sarah Lawrence College.

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For leading institutions and organizations in Westchester County, the go-to advertising, marketing and public relations firm is Thompson & Bender. Its client list includes many corporations, colleges, real estate firms, nonprofits and governmental entities. Dean Bender was a veteran journalist before pivoting to PR, while the husband-andwife duo of Elizabeth BrackenThompson, an advertising and marketing pro, and government relations guru Geoff Thompson round out the leadership.

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When Nader Sayegh was elected to the Assembly in 2018, he became the first Jordanian-American in the state Legislature. This month, the Democratic lawmaker from Yonkers ran for reelection unopposed. An advocate for education funding, he also set aside his personal views last year to cast a pivotal vote advancing legislation ending the state’s religious exemption for vaccinations to a vote, on the grounds that it merited a full debate.

The NAACP has a long history in Yonkers, from its landmark 1986 settlement requiring busing of students to today’s Black Lives Matter movement. The local chapter’s leader, the Rev. Frank Coleman, came on in 2019. He has criticized the promotion of a local firefighter who posted racist comment online, and called the death of George Floyd a “horrific and repugnant murder.” Coleman is also the senior pastor at Messiah Baptist Church.

Assembly Member

When Sayegh was elected to the Assembly, he became the first Jordanian-American in the state Legislature.

President NAACP Yonkers Branch

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President Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College President Cristle Collins Judd recently reported that the

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of investing in and understanding public health, and experts like Robert Amler have provided invaluable insights into how to respond and what to expect next. Amler, who worked on New York’s landmark Berger Commission and at the federal level for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Diseases Control, has frequently weighed in on vaccine development, air travel, and more.

82 EDDIE MONROY & ALEIDA FREDERICO

President; Chair Westchester Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business consultant Eddie Monroy last fall was elevated to lead the Westchester Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which seeks to serve the county’s growing Hispanic population and support business leaders and entrepreneurs from that community. Helping direct the organization’s efforts is its chair, Aleida Frederico, who is also a senior relationship

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manager and vice president for TD Bank and a member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s MidHudson Regional Economic Development Council.

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Juanita Lewis is an organizer at Community Voices Heard.

83 CATHERINE LEDERER-PLASKETT President WCLA-Choice Matters

Catherine Lederer-Plaskett’s political action committee advocates for abortion rights, an issue that has come to the fore now that conservatives make up a 6-3 majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. Locally, however, LedererPlaskett played a role in two recent political victories – keeping former Independent Democratic Conference member David Carlucci out of Congress, and getting Suzanne Berger elected leader of the county’s Democratic Party.

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87 CYNTHIA DELFINO

President and CEO YMCA of Central Northern Westchester

– in the works or underway. Their efforts have even piqued the interest of J.P. Morgan.

brought when he arrived from Middlebury College in 2016. Like other schools, Manhattanville College has also had to adapt to the pandemic, with a hybrid of inperson and remote classes.

Co-Founders Westchester Biotech Project

MICHAEL GEISLER

Michael Welling and Joanne Gere have a shared vision of a thriving life sciences ecosystem in Westchester – and they’ve made recent progress in having it become a reality. They bring together researchers, academics and government officials, touting two projects – the Ardsley Park campus renovation and the proposed North 60 Project

Rarely does a college course focus solely on an ongoing crisis, but that’s what Manhattanville College did with its summer course on COVID-19 – with President Michael Geisler addressing students at its conclusion. It reflects the innovative approach Geisler

MILLIE HERNANDEZ-BECKER

President Manhattanville College

Delfino helped respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with a county child care program.

Founder Skyqueen Realty

Although COVID-19 has devastated the airline industry, Millie Hernandez-Becker accentuates the positives, including her view that private jet travel will be in higher demand once the pandemic ends. The former owner of Westchester Air and Skyqueen Enterprises recently founded Skyqueen Realty, a licensed firm that marries her backgrounds in aviation and real estate with a national focus. She also serves on the board of the Business Council of Westchester.

Cynthia Delfino’s political roots run deep. Not only has she served as Tarrytown’s village administrator and as assistant village manager for Briarcliff Manor, but her father, Joseph Delfino, was the mayor of White Plains. After more than a decade in higher education, she in 2013 took the reins at the YMCA of Central Northern Westchester, where she has helped respond to the coronavirus pandemic with a county child care program.

88 JUANITA LEWIS

Hudson Valley Organizing Director Community Voices Heard The challenges facing tenants aren’t limited to the five boroughs – as Juanita Lewis can tell you, many Hudson Valley residents struggle to pay the rent too. As an organizer with Community Voices Heard for over a decade, Lewis has been fighting for low-income families and individuals of color. The Minnesota native was part of an effort last year to survey Black women on which policies need to change in New York.

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BILL O’SHAUGHNESSY

President and CEO Whitney Global Media Bill O’Shaughnessy has long been a leading voice in Westchester radio as the man behind Whitney Global Media, which runs the independent radio stations WVOX and WVIP. As the county shifts to the left politically, O’Shaughnessy has remained outspoken in espousing conservative views, including an October editorial endorsing President Donald Trump for reelection. At the same time, O’Shaughnessy has been an ardent supporter of Mario Cuomo and his son, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

90 JANICE GRIFFITH

President NAACP White Plains and Greenburgh Branch Janice Griffith, the president of the White Plains and Greenburgh NAACP, led a rally and vigil in May for George Floyd, demanding change and saying, “This has got to stop. This is enough. When will it be enough?” And in September, Griffith was appointed to be the chair of a new White Plains committee on policing, which will hear from the local community on potential reforms.

91 ROBERT MARTINELLI

CEO and President Today Media The Martinelli family has deep roots in Westchester County, with a long history in local publishing and family patriarch Angelo Martinelli getting elected Yonkers mayor

six times in the 1970s and 1980s. Leading the way these days is Robert Martinelli, whose Today Media publishes Westchester Magazine – with features on local restaurants, culture and politics – as well as several other publications and lifestyle magazines in Delaware and Philadelphia.

92 HECTOR LOPEZ

Chair Westchester Hispanic Law Enforcement Association With police interactions with people of color under scrutiny, Hector Lopez is in a position to help bridge the divide in New York as leader of the Westchester Hispanic Law Enforcement Association. Yet while Lopez is a champion of Latinos in law enforcement, his scope is broader: He also serves on the Yonkers Hispanic Federation Chamber of Commerce, the Westchester County Hispanic Advisory Board, and the Yonkers Hispanic Cultural Foundation.

93 DAMON JONES & AJ WOODSON

Publisher; Editor-In-Chief Black Westchester Black residents make up 16.7% of Westchester County, but all too often their stories are not told in the media. That’s where Black Westchester comes in. The online magazine, at www.blackwestchester.com, is run by publisher Damon

From left, Damon Jones and AJ Woodson run Black Westchester.

Jones and editor-in-chief AJ Woodson. The duo put the spotlight on Black political players in the county, offering commentary on candidates for office, highlighting efforts to reform policing practices, and covering everything from sports to music.

94 MEILING MACIAS-TORO

Westchester chapter of 100 Hispanic Women, which she helped found in 2003. The organization helps young Latinas in various ways, including mentorship, college scholarships and networking events. Macias-Toro has also continued to advance in her own impressive career, launching MMT Media, which helps companies produce TV, radio and web commercials in English and Spanish and find talent, four years ago.

President 100 Hispanic Women, Westchester Chapter

Meiling Macias-Toro is the president of the

STACEY COHEN

Janice Griffith at a George Floyd rally and vigil: “This has got to stop. This is enough.”

President and CEO Co-Communications Having founded the marketing and public relations firm Co-Communications more than two decades ago, Stacey Cohen has her finger on the pulse of Westchester. That’s why she was brought on by the Cuomo administration to

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Latimer’s new Arab American Advisory Board in December and confirmed in February. As director of the New York branch of the Muslim American Society’s Public Affairs and Civic Engagement division – or MAS-PACE – Rababah has criticized President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, condemned antiSemitism and pushed for higher voter turnout.

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President Lakeland Federation of Teachers

Diana Sánchez protects the rights of immigrants at the Yonkers Sanctuary Movement.

market the construction of the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. The award-winning firm, which relocated from Mount Kisco to West Harrison in 2018, offered free consulting help for nonprofits struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic.

96 DIANA SÁNCHEZ

Co-Founder Yonkers Sanctuary Movement Diana Sánchez is a cofounder of Yonkers Sanctuary Movement, a grassroots group dedicated to defending the rights and safety of undocumented immigrants

in Westchester County. The organization, which has a number of DACA recipients on its board, counts among its goals making Yonkers a sanctuary city. Sánchez, who was born in Mexico and raised in Westchester, has been a community activist since she was a teenager.

97 HUSSEIN RABABAH

New York State Director MAS-PACE Hussein Rababah, a leading defender of the Muslim community in New York, was nominated to Westchester County Executive George

This summer, Lakeland Federation of Teachers President Michael Lillis penned an open letter about the safety risks with efforts to restart in-person classes - and more than 50 teachers union leaders signed on. And it’s not the first time the physics teacher in the Lakeland Central School District has made waves - he also mounted a 2017 bid to be president of NYSUT, the state teachers union.

99 NADA KHADER

Executive Director WESPAC Foundation Nada Khader has run WESPAC Foundation, a progressive organization pushing for social change,

for nearly two decades. Khader, who has spoken out for criminal justice reforms in the wake of the death of George Floyd, was recently appointed to White Plains’ police reform committee. Her social justice organization also advocated for refugees and spent years pushing to shut down the local Indian Point nuclear power plant.

100 ERIDANIA CAMACHO & CARMEN L. MARTÍNEZ-LÓPEZ

Director, Gateway to Entrepreneurship; Dean, School of Business and Professional Careers Westchester Community College With 13,000 students, Westchester Community College is the largest institution of higher education in the county – and in the midst of a severe recession created by the coronavirus pandemic, its emphasis on workforce development and economic mobility is increasingly critical. One way the college carries out that mission is through its Eridania Camacho’s Gateway to Entrepreneurship, a program the college describes as a “resource hub for entrepreneurial development.” Meanwhile, Carmen L. Martínez-López, the dean of the college’s School of Business and Professional Careers, engages directly with local government as a member of County Executive George Latimer’s Hispanic Advisory Board.

Nada Khader is working on policing reform in White Plains as part of a new committee.

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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com Notice of Formation of The Diversity Benchmark, LLC filed with SSNY on August 28, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 322 West 52nd Street # 1855, New York, New York 10101 - 1855. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of NAKASH HOLDING LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/10/03. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Form. of CONSIDER THIS FURNITURE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/17/20. Office location: Schnectady SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 63 FRANKLIN STREET, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, 12866. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of M3 Candy LLC filed with SSNY on September 2, 2020. Office located in Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: United Agents Service LLC, 7014 13th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of PLATINUM SOUTHAMPTON LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/22/20. 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 Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of BAY RIDGE ONE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/21/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 416 Bay Ridge Ave, Brooklyn, New York, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Emergent Urban Concepts LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/05/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/29/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. DE addr. of LLC: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 300 Delaware Avenue, Ste. 210-A, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Application for Authority of Foreign Limited Liability Company (“FLLC”). Name: NYC PowerGen Holdings LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on July 1, 2020. Jurisdiction of organization is the State of Delaware. Date of organization is December 30, 2015. Office location of the FLLC in this state: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of FLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Dr. Donald Bronn, 322 West 57th St., #46U, NY, NY 10019. The office required to be maintained in the FLLC’s jurisdiction of formation or its principal office is Business Filings Incorporated, 108 West 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. The authorized officer in the FLLC’s jurisdiction of formation where a copy of its articles of organization is filed is Secretary of the State of Delaware, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of REALTECH TITLE, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 09/25/20. Office location:Ulster. LLC formed in DE on 10/24/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Envirogy LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of the process against LLC to Jaros Baum & Bolles, 80 Pine Street, 12th Fl, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Temur Hamilton LLC filed with SSNY on July 27, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 19 E 71st Street, 3C, New York, NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of HC HOLDCO II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/30/20. 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 Timothy P. Terry, 667 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION, Direct Approach LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/06/2020. Office location: Bronx County.SSNY designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copies of any process served against the LLC to c/o: Oscar Montalvo, 2410 Barker Avenue, Apt. 9J, Bronx, NY, 10467. Purpose: any lawful purpose or activity. Notice of Formation of HC HOLDCO I LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/30/20. 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 Timothy P. Terry, 667 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of ARTIVORE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/20/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2373 BROADWAY APT. 635, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10024. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of PEGASO NY REAL ESTATE PROPERTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of EDID TRUCKING AND INSTALLATION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2162 Strauss Street Suite 2r, Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE TEST BREWERY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/24/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 62 N 7th St., 1l, Brooklyn, New York, 11249. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DAOTONG LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/11/18.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 201 46TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11220. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of DURSO PROPERTIES IV, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/20.Office location: Dutchess SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 445 Rt 304, Bardonia, New York, 10954. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of PRIMERCUBEUSA, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/5/20. Office location: Sullivan. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 506 Yankee Lake Rd. Wurtsboro, New York, 12790. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LAURO CABRERA CONSTRUCTION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/30/20. Office location: Putnam SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 10 AVON ROAD, LAKE PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK, 10537. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of ACRE Advisors, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/11/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 401 W. 14th St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10014. Address to be maintained in DE: The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formation of Young Urban Moms Media LLC, a domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 14, 2020 filed with N.Y.S. Office location: Richmond County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 323 Getz Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of The Hive Mind LLC filed with SSNY on June 21, 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: 66 Main Street, Apt 1021, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of DELSEA DRIVE SQFT, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/15/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 506 5th Ave, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11209. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Aeon Global Asset Management, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/7/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to Corporate Services Co, 80 State St, Albany, NY 12207. Principle business address: 144 E. 44th Str, Gound Fl,NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: EVIDENCE OF THINGS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/6/2020. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Danielle Connelly, 175 Putnam Ave. Apt. 1 Brooklyn, NY, 11216. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. Pyron LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/2020. Office: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 225 Bennett Ave, #6J, NY, NY 10040. Purpose: any lawful act. Sisko Law PLLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/25/20. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: 350 7th St, Apt A3, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: any lawful.

Notice of Formation of 2525 MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2525 E 14th St Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Envirogy LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of the process against LLC to Jaros Baum & Bolles, 80 Pine Street, 12th Fl, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act.

INSIDE MASSAGE THERAPY PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/21/2020. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 200 East End Avenue #1B, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Massage Therapy.

Notice of Formation of Deco Tot, LLC filed with SSNY on February 12, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2585 Broadway, Box 107, New York, NY, 10025. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Extended Brick Properties, LLC filed with SSNY on October 7, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 203 Hart street, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of J Neidich Holdings, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/24/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 121 West 10th St., NY, NY 10011. Address to be maintained in DE: 838 Walker Rd., Ste 21-2, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of RESONANCE STORES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/03/20. Princ. office of LLC: Pier 59, Chelsea Piers, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Resonance Companies, Inc. at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 688 6TH AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/21/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 128 44th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11232. Any lawful purpose

Notice of Formation of ELECTRICIAN NYC LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1644 East 14th Street Suite 2 Brooklyn, NY, 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 49 BOGART STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/1999 .Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2182 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11210. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PARK PLACE SENIOR HOUSING, L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LP: 60 Columbus Circle, 19th Fl., NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which the LP may dissolve is 12/31/2119. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of EDID TRUCKING AND INSTALLATION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2162 Strauss Street Suite 2r, Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of Speridian Global Holdings LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/05/2020. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 12/31/2007. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Speridian Global Holdings LLC 2355 Main Street Suite 240 Irvine, CA 92614. CA addr. of LLC: Speridian Global Holdings LLC 2355 Main Street Suite 240 Irvine, CA 92614. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of CA, Div. of Corps., 1500 11th Street Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 50 PORT WATSON LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/20. Office location: Cortland SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 36 Monroe St. Apt E3 New York, NY, 10002. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 88 9TH ST BROOKLYN LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 09/23/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 05/21/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Form. of OUR CREEK SIDE LODGE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/11/20. Office location: OTSEGO SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1534 County Rd 14, Mt Vision, New York, 13810. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 175 CONSELYEA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/22/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 247 SEELY STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11218. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1869 VICTORY REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/22/20. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 28 Lundi Ct. Staten Island, New York, 10314. Any lawful purpose. 6 Archer Lane LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 9-9-20. Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to c/o Dentons US LLP, 1221 6th Ave., NY, NY 10020, Attn: Benjamin Friedman, Esq. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of GLENNJEFFREY QOF LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/22/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1185 Park Ave., 12d New York, NY, 10128.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LSR PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/16.Office location: Cayuga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6 Hummingbird Way Port Byron, NY, 13140. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of PRECIOUS LITTLE HANDS CHILDCARE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/2/20. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 21 Petersen Ct., Middletown, NY, 10941. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of TAYLOR TIMBER CO II, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/25/20. Office location: Oneida SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6455 Stokes-Westernville Rd., Lee Center, New York, 13363. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Sisko Law PLLC filed with SSNY on 9/25/20. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: 350 7th St, Apt A3, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: practice of law. Notice of Formation of ANNAPOLIS VENTURES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/16/20.Office location: Erie SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6385 Boston State Road, Lot 11, Hamburg, NY, 14075Any lawful purpose.

615 East 104 Holdings LLC. Authority filed SSNY 09/01/20. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 9/1/20. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 1 State St., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10004. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose. 64 Kinston Holdings LLC, name amended to: 64 Kingston Holdings LLC. Authority filed SSNY 09/01/20. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 9/1/20. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 1 State St., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10004. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose. 2514 Albermarle Holdings LLC, name amended to: 2514 Albemarle Holdings LLC. Authority filed SSNY 09/01/20. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 9/1/20. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 1 State St., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10004. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose. Dylan Armstrong Marketing LLC Filed 8/20/20 Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 122 East 42nd Street, Suite #1507, New York, NY 10168-1599 Purpose: all lawful

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Notice of Qual. of CPG VINTAGE ACCESS FUND IV, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/13/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10/9/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 805 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of: Start 2 Finish Trucking LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/15/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 100 Dehaven Drive., Yonkers, NY 10703. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. WILDFLOW3R, LLC filed with SSNY on September 9, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 82 Irving Place, 1B, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Wesley Keith Mullings and Laura Mae Thorpe announce the birth of their son Emmanuel James Thorpe at 12:04pm on Friday, the 7th day of March, 2008. Emmanuel James was born at Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester (Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital) in New Rochelle, New York. Emmanuel James joins his brother, Isaiah Keishon Mullings at three years old. Emmanuel James was inches 17.5 inches long and 6 pounds, 3 ounces. Emmanuel James’s maternal grandparents are Laura Mae Thorpe and James Thorpe of Mount Vernon, New York. Emmanuel James’s paternal grandparents are Diana Ligon (Dixon) Christmas and Richard Frederick Christmas of Roselle, New Jersey, and Wesley James Mullings of Orange, New Jersey.

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Notice of Qualification of CALIBRANT HARRISBURG III, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/13/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/24/20. Princ. office of LLC: 125 W. 55th St., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of JASF HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/27/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9 Prospect Park West, Unit #11c, Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 4216 8th AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/17/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4216 8th Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 8501 21 AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/15/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4216 8TH Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of Calmo LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/24/20. Office location: Putnam. LLC formed in DE on 9/24/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 25 Chestnut Street, Cold Spring, Ny, 10516. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ARJAY PROPERTIES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/8/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 26 Court Street Suite 1200, Brooklyn, NY, 11242. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of BE AS WATER, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/13/20. Office location: Ulster SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 51 Grey Mouse Rd. Saugerties, NY, 12477. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of CHERA HARLEM MEMBER, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/8/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 26 Court St. Ste 1200, Brooklyn, NY, 11242. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of MTH BAKERY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/5/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attention: C/O H&H Bagels Group, Inc. 1551 2nd Avenue New York, NY, 10028. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of EPW SPORTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 210 East 68th Street Apt. 5g New York, NY 10065. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of RTF PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/1/20. Office location Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1205 Soda Canyon Road Napa, CA, 94558. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Peppercat Provisions LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/12/2020. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 570 W 204 St, Unit 2E, New York, NY 10034. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Gustave Piche, LLC filed with SSNY on August 3, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 115 E 9th St. New York, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Wynn Smiley, LLC filed with SSNY on August 6, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 67 W 73rd St Apt 3A, New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of Tailor-Made Trivia, LLC filed with SSNY on October, 14, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 477 Midwood St., Apt. 1, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of NIKOLOZ MAKHATADZE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/3/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Avenue # Harrison, New York, 10528.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of FLIGHT OF FANCY REALTY GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/8/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 Park St Brooklyn, Ny, 11206. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ZABU ENTERTAINMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/27/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8752 19TH ST., Brooklyn, NY, 11214. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE PINK TABLE NYC LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/14/20. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to PO BOX 140496 Staten Island, NY, 10314. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LIQUID BASS PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/20/19. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 88-15 70TH Drive Floor 1 Forest Hills, New York, 11375. Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of MIGLIONICO HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/9/20. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 78 Holmes Road Newburgh, NY, 12550. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SPREADS BAKERY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/5/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attention: C/O H&H Bagels Group, Inc, 1551 2nd Avenue New York, Ny, 10028.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GOOD SOLES IMPORTER INC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/25/2020. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of CORP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 350 3RD AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11232. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of DECISIVE POINT GROUP, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/24/20. Office location: Putnam. LLC formed in DE on 8/28/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 25 Chestnut Street, Cold Spring, NY, 10516. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of Breadcrumb Labs, LLC filed with SSNY on September 28, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 90 State Street Suite 700 Office 40, Albany NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of MRHR Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on September 21, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 601 West 41 Street Suite 8E New York, NY 10036 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Elle Jones Casting Company, LLC filed with SSNY on August 3, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 27 W 60th St #20503, New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on November 6, 2020 and end on November 17, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #216-Henry Jackson; 2 ladders, 1 hand truck, 13 plastic containers, 1 toolbox, 5 boxes, 1 black bag, 1 luggage, pack of water and 2 milk crates #3900-John McFaddin; 7 toolboxes, microwave, bike, speaker, air conditioner, amps, bags, 5 + boxes, metal locker #3904-Jorge Hernandez; 2 rugs, folding chair, soccer ball, gulf clubs, 1-instrument case, 2-small speakers, 1 duster, 7+ bags, 1-floating pool toy, 3 boxes, 1 leather bag. #4604-1-Borjou Gudarzi; 1- file cabinet, 30 boxes, 1 round bucket, small tv #6120-Daddo Bogich; 1 box filled with wheels, 1 ladder, 2x4 metal uprights, 4x8 wood boards 4ft. assorted wood boards The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Tailor-Made Trivia, LLC filed with SSNY on October, 14, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 477 Midwood St., Apt. 1, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation Monitor 332 Realty LLC filed with SSNY on 8/6/20. Office: King’s County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: J. James Carriero, Esq., 108-54 Ditmars Blvd., N. Beach, NY 11369. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of MTG Creative Group LLC filed with SSNY on October 19,2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 113 E Centre St, Unit 4001 Nutley, NJ 07110. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of MTG Creative Group LLC filed with SSNY on October 19,2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 113 E Centre St, Unit 4001 Nutley, NJ 07110. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of CALIBRANT MAKO, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/13/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/24/20. Princ. office of LLC: 125 W. 55th St., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Aker Management, LLC filed with SSNY on September 29th, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 354 East 91st Street, Suite 1802 New York NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Muna Creative Collective, LLC filed with SSNY on September, 28 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1240 Lexington Ave apt 51, NY NY 10028. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Redmond & Finn, LLC filed with SSNY on September 2, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 33 Cambridge Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of CORCORAN BK LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/7/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 9/25/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400., Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DLawson and Company LLC filed with SSNY on October 8, 2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 150 East 151st Street, Apt # 2L, Bronx, NY 10451. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of BROOKLYN COLLECTIBLES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/21/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9 Plaza St West, Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of K & R UTILITIES, LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/07/19. Office location: ALLEGANY SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 110 Genesee St., Ste 380a Auburn, NY, 13021. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S.BUZZ GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/16/20. Office location Greene SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 550 Vanderbilt Ave., Apt. 811 Brooklyn, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EXPERIMENT STATION 10516, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on10/20/20. Office location: Putnam SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 7 Masonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Island Road, #1 Mystic, CT, 06355. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of MADISON HILLS SERVICES LLC LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/14/20. Office location: Hamilton. LLC formed in CA on 5/22/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 12340 Seal Beach Blvd, Ste B#414 Seal Beach, CA, 90740. Arts. of Org. filed with CA SOS. 12340 Seal Beach Blvd, Ste B#414 Seal Beach, CA, 90740. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SOLEDAD CANYON REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/26/20.Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 42 E. 20th St, Apt. 7d, New York, NY, 10003.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FATEHA INTERNATIONAL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/13/19. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1472 43rd St, Ste B2 Brooklyn, New York, 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of FIR FIDELIS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/22/20. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 137 Big Island Road, Warwick, New York, 10990. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of JOE GARRONE FITNESS LLCArts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1273C Bay Ridge Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of ROYAL WOODCRAFT LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/28/20. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 9/22/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 90 State St. Albany, NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of MSAP 16 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/23/20. Office location: Albany SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 444 Washington St Rensselaer, NY, 12144. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of OKM ENTERPRISE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/29/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7406 13TH Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of PENTAGON MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/17/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 953 68th St, Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice Of Formation of S & R ACHIEVEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/13/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3815 15TH Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TRYON ENTERPRISES LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/9/20. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 4200 State Hwy 30 Suite C, Amsterdam, NY, 12010. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Form. of UTICA MED BUILDING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/19/20. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6308 Fly Road East Syracuse, NY, 13058. Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of KRISTIN TOFFEY, PHD PSYCHOLOGIST, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/19/20. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 200 W 20th Street, Apt #1002 New York, NY, 10011.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AVANT COMMUNICATIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/26/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1854 84th St., 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11214. Any lawful purpose.

November 9, 2020

Notice of Formation of HOMEX NY LLC filed with H&K Consult-i n g Tax Accounting Services on 10/09/2020. Office: NY County. H&K Consulting Tax Accounting Services designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. H&K Consulting Tax Accounting Services shall mail copy of process to LLC: 3000 BRIGHTON 12TH ST AP A5 BROOKLYN NY 11235. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of 7M7 LLC filed with SSNY on October 13, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 310 West 20th Street Apt A6 NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Yojo Management, LLC filed with SSNY on July 30, 2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 374 East 160th, 1st Floor, Bronx, NY 10461. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of DharmaHound, LLC filed with SSNY on August 20, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 374 W 127th ST, 2E, NY, NY 10027. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of CITIZENS MANHATTAN WEST LIQUOR STORE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of ACTIVE HOUSE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/15/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 353 Ave T, Brooklyn, NY, 11223. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ALIGNING WITH LOVE ENTERPRISES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/19/20. Office location ONONDAGA SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 524 Cleveland Boulevard Fayetteville, NY, 13066. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1836 BH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/2/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2178 EAST 7 Street Brooklyn, NY, 11223. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of ALL STAR DISHWASHING, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/8/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 852 Fulton St Brooklyn, New York, 11238. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of BLUE HORIZON AML LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/16/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 507 West 111th Street, Apt. 64, New York, Ny, 10025. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ELATED VISION MOTORS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/20/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 100 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd. Ste 210 Garden City, NY, 11530. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of PARK WEST ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/21/05. Princ. office of LLC: 900 Larkspur Landing Circle, Ste. 165, Larkspur, CA 94939. 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 DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of DecisionQuest, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/21/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 08/09/19. Princ. office of LLC: 21515 Hawthorne Blvd. #720, Torrance, CA 90503. 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. Cert. of Form. filed with CA Secy. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: Any lawful activityAny lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of CVE US EI2 C. MILL, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/20/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/14/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 2246 LEE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/30/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2246 86TH Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11214. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of TANDEM CLINICAL RESEARCH GI LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/15/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in LA on 5/21/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 3535 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119. Arts. of Org. filed with LA SOS. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Gramercy Tower LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/20/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activities. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1329397 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY SUNDAY TO SUNDAY CAFE, INC. TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL IN A RESTAURANT UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 253-257 BROOME STREET a/k/a 88 ORCHARD ST, CITY OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF NEW YORK, STATE OF NEW YORK, 10002 FOR ON PREMISES CONSUMPTION. Sunday to Sunday Cafe Inc.

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Notice of Formation ALR Career Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/23/2020. Office: Richmond County. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, New York 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: Dunn Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on October 22, 2020. N.Y. office location: Kings County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Dunn Holdings LLC, c/o Dunn Development Corp., 589 Sackett Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11217. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. DOMENICA BIZZOCO ATTORNEY AT LAW PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/02/2020. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 437 Madison Avenue 24th Floor, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law. Notice of Qual. of BRX MCCLELLAN RETAIL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 70’) on the building at 39-88 49th St, Sunnyside, NY (20202090). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1332187 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 4, GATE 5 JAMAICA, NY 11430. QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. AIR INDIA LIMITED Notice of Qualification of BROOKHAVEN APARTMENTS OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/30/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/17/20. Princ. office of LLC: 419 Park Ave. South, Ste. 401, 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. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Multifamily real estate owner.

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF KOLIBRI FOUNDATION INC. for the year ended December 31, 2019 is available at its principal office located at 27 WEST 72ND STREET APT. NO. 1102, NEW YORK, NY 10023 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is EILEEN FARBMAN.

Notice of Qualification of BRX MCCLELLAN RETAIL LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/08/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/29/20. Princ. office of LLC: c/o ABC Properties, 152 W. 57th St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Steven D. Fleissig, Esq., 500 Campus Dr., Ste. 400, Florham Park, NJ 079320677. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF AUCITON Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on November 30, 2020 and end on December 11, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #2S15 – Magnificent Obsessions Ltd: 1- wooden dresser, 2- scaffold towers, several light fixtures, several crates, tools, packing materials, 2- chairs. #4Y10 – Sylvia Tendean: multiple plastic shopping bags, multiple Home Depot boxes, shelving parts, fan, multiple umbrellas, 2-laundry bags, laundry detergent, 2- tool boxes. #9T07 – Nataly Stern: wool jacket, shelving with boxes on the racks, books, boxes, skateboard, framed print, 1 – small box The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1332173 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 445 GOLD ST, SPACE MP C-018 BROOKLYN, NY 11201. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. MIZNON UWS LLC. Notice of Formation of MSJ Maintenance LLC filed with SSNY on May 6, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2021 Lexington Avenue, Apt 3B, New York, NY 10035. Purpose: General Maintenance and carpentry. Notice of Qualification of BROOK AVE OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/26/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/15/20. Princ. office of LLC: 419 Park Ave. South, Ste. 401, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

D&D Moving LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 1/03/2020 Office: Bronx County SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 1241 Edison Ave, Bronx, NY 10461 Purpose: any lawful purpose

Notice of Qual. of BRX BRIGGS APARTMENTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 079320677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of BRX INDEPENDENCE APARTMENTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of BRX MORRIS APARTMENTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of BRX VALENTINE APARTMENTS LLC Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 079320677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of BRX MCCLELLAN APARTMENTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 079320677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of BRX PERRY APARTMENTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of INWD PARK TERRACE WEST APARTMENTS LLC Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GLASS HOUSE FILMS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/02/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 19 East 88th St., #6A, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qual. of BRXUN APARTMENTS LLC Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of INWD PARK TERRACE EAST APARTMENTS LLC Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 500 Campus Drive, Ste 400, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0677. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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JAMES SANDERS JR. Senator, Chair, Task Force on MWBEs

RODNEYSE BICHOTTE Assemblymember, Chair, Oversight of MWBE Subcommittee

JONNEL DORIS Commissioner, NYC Small Business Services