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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

THIS WEEK’S ISSUE IS CITY & STATE’S LAST FOR 2021. After the news cycle New York has had over the past 12 months, the annual Winners & Losers feature couldn’t come at a better time, or with a more appropriately titled wrap. In this final editor’s note, I’d like to mention the historic year this was for women across the state. From the female majority winning 31 out of the 51 seats on the New York City Council to having a woman serve as governor for the first time. That’s an amazing amount of progress made in a short amount of time, and the momentum will keep going in the new year. Gov. Kathy Hochul already has announced that she plans to seek reelection. New York City also will have its first female police commissioner, Keechant Sewell. Some news reports suggested that Sewell will have a “tough job” leading the New York City Police Department, primarily because of the recent spike in certain crimes. It’s a tough job, regardless of crime spikes. It’s about taking command of the largest and one of the oldest police forces in the U.S. Sewell and the female politicians who are about to take charge are not to be underestimated. The proof is they made it this far, and especially in a male-dominated world that’s now facing a reckoning over unacceptable behavior toward women. It was long overdue, which is why 2022 promises to be an unprecedented year, not just for New York City, but for the entire state, and hopefully one that will inspire future generations.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

SIX DEGREES … 6

Gov. Kathy Hochul is the Kevin Bacon of New York politics.

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BILL DE BLASIO … 8 Saying goodbye to the mayor and considering his legacy TOP TWEETS … 14 A year in political Twitter

WINNERS & LOSERS OF THE YEAR … 16

Who made the most of a difficult 2021 – and who didn’t

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT POWER 100 … 23 De Blasio may not be very popular, but at least he had a bad time.

The leaders tackling climate change

WINNERS & LOSERS … 58

Who was up and who was down last week

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ADAMS MAKES ADMINISTRATION PICKS

“I believe that that steady cop could differentiate between little Johnny just acting up, and little Johnny carrying a gun.” New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson presided over his final stated meeting last week, passing major laws.

AN EVENTFUL END TO THE CITY COUNCIL YEAR

In the final stated meeting of the year, the New York City Council approved a number of big-ticket items, including the SoHo/NoHo rezoning in a last-minute victory for de Blasio before he leaves office. The controversial plan had been met with

opposition by members of the wealthy community, but supported by advocates of affordable housing. The rezoning is expected to produce 900 affordable units. Lawmakers also approved a landmark gas ban that would outlaw new gas hookups in buildings in favor of electric stoves and water heaters. And they joined the statewide

– New York City Mayorelect Eric Adams, on his plan to bring back beat cops, via the Daily News

march toward good cause eviction by passing a resolution in support of the proposal and calling on the state Legislature to pass it. Although a number of upstate cities passed their own local versions of the renter protections, New York City doesn’t have the authority to approve housing laws within its borders.

FALLBACK PLAN Soon-to-be jobless Mayor Bill de Blasio can tease a gubernatorial run all he wants, but his chances aren’t looking great, with one major labor ally, the Hotel Trades Council, pledging its support to Gov. Kathy Hochul last week. Luckily, he might have stumbled on a next move in announcing a new sustainable freight plan. Observers on Twitter said de Blasio looked right at home behind the wheel of a UPS microtruck – which, though small, still fit the 6’5” mayor.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that I would have won if he were not on the ticket.” – Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, on state Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s failed Nassau County district attorney campaign this year and her own loss, via Newsday

After what some considered a slow start to staffing up his administration, New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams made two important appointments. The first was his new police commissioner, picking the New York City Police Department’s first female leader in Keechant Sewell. An unexpected choice, Sewell comes from Long Island, where she spent about two decades in a suburban police force, rising through the ranks before getting the attention of Adams. Although she doesn’t have deep ties to the NYPD or extensive experience managing a force the size of New York’s, her appointment was met with praise by policing experts and reformers alike. Adams also tapped Louis Molina as the commissioner of the Department of Correction, who will take over the troubled system after a year marked by numerous deaths of those in custody. Molina will be the first Latino in charge of the city’s jail system. And when he announced the appointment, Adams also said that he would begin using solitary confinement again.

STATE’S LONGESTSERVING STATE LEGISLATOR RETIRES

After over half a century in the state Legislature, Assembly Member Richard

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Gottfried announced that he would retire at the end of 2022 and would not seek reelection. Elected when he was just 23, Gottfried spent the past 50 years as a progressive leader in Albany and spearheaded the push for single-payer health care in New York. Fellow progressive lawmakers and advocates for single-payer are now hoping that the Legislature can approve the New York Health Act before he’s gone. Gottfried’s retirement also quickly led to a crowded field of potential candidates who want to win a seat that hasn’t been open for decades.

WINTER COVID-19 SURGE COMES TO NY

Winter is upon us, and with it has come a brand new surge of COVID-19 cases. The state, as well as New York City, are experiencing the highest rates of infection since the beginning of the year. Statewide, the number of cases has increased nearly

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60% since Thanksgiving. In the city, the positive test percentage doubled in the course of a few days. And the new, highly virulent omicron variant is quickly spreading both among the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Statewide, Hochul’s mask or vaccine mandate for businesses went into effect, though not without pushback. A handful of county executives around the state said they would not enforce the mandate. Meanwhile, in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio expanded the vaccine mandate for employers and said that he would open more testing sites, extend hours and send 500,000 home testing kits to residents across the city. The announcement came after the city had shuttered a number of testing sites and as lines to get a COVID-19 test began to once again wrap around blocks. Hochul also said the state would begin prioritizing getting home testing kits to the unvaccinated.

It’s back to the testing booths in New York City as omicron sweeps through the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

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WEEK AHEAD

SATURDAY 1/1 Eric Adams is inaugurated as the 110th mayor of New York City in a nighttime ceremony at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn – a break from the traditional daytime City Hall event.

Lawmakers to Hochul: Expand public renewable power Lawmakers are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to back up her rhetoric on climate change with action in her first state budget. In a letter shared exclusively with City & State, Assembly Member Robert Carroll and 54 other state legislators asked that Hochul include the New York Build Public Renewables Act in her agenda for 2022 to help the state meet its ambitious climate goals. Under the proposed legislation, the state would allow the New York Power Authority to greatly expand its renewable capabilities by removing the six-facility limit the public authority has on owning large-scale generation facilities. Additionally, the bill would require NYPA to build out only renewable energy while phasing out all nonrenewable facilities. “We have to pass BPRA this year – anything less will repeat the failures of past energy policies that have put promises over action and have put New York on a path toward disaster,” the letter reads. The state in 2019 passed the landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, enshrining a number of climate goals into law, like reducing New York’s carbon emissions 85% by 2050 and 100% carbon-free electricity by

MONDAY 1/3 The state Independent Redistricting Commission holds an 11 a.m. meeting to vote on the final legislative map proposal and send it to the state Legislature.

WEDNESDAY 1/5 Gov. Kathy Hochul will deliver her State of the State address in the Assembly chamber at the state Capitol – a return to tradition, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke in other places and cities.

2040. However, in the years since, climate activists have expressed disappointment with the state Legislature for not passing followup legislation to ensure the state reaches the benchmarks. The closest goal is less than a decade away, increasing New York’s share of electricity from renewable sources to 70%. Right now, the state gets about 30% of its electricity from such sources, but the vast majority is from hydroelectric and nuclear power, neither of which many environmental advocates want to expand. Solar and wind make up only about 6% of the state’s energy production. Bill sponsor and lead letter writer Carroll said that the only way the state can meet its climate goals is to ramp up production from New York’s own public utility. “The private markets, they may pay for some wind farms off of Long Island,” Carroll told City & State. “But they’re not going to go to every corner of the state and spend the money and the capital to connect small renewable energy projects … to the grid.” He argued that since NYPA is not profit-driven, it could accomplish this – if the state allowed the authority to expand. – Rebecca C. Lewis

INSIDE DOPE

On the same day as the State of the State, the next New York City Council speaker will be officially chosen at the first meeting of the year, at noon in the Council Chamber in City Hall.

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6 DEGREES OF

KATHY HOCHUL

An extensive network of political contacts might just make her the Kevin Bacon of state politics.

By Zach Williams

It is possible that everybody in New York politics is linked to each other through Gov. Kathy Hochul. Some folks might know her from decades ago when she was a legislative and congressional staffer to the likes of former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Others crossed paths with her during her days as a member of the Hamburg Town Board or as Erie County clerk. Her Empire State network continued to grow during a stint in Congress before expanding exponentially during her two terms as lieutenant governor. We repurposed “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” for gubernatorial purposes. Keep reading to find out how many degrees away from the governor many political notables are.

Stewart-Cousins served in the state Senate with New York City Mayorelect Eric Adams.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins was her nominal stand-in as the temporary president of the chamber.

Stringer beat Eliot Spitzer in a 2013 primary for city comptroller.

Andrew Yang ran against NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer

Borelli serves in the City Council with Tiffany Cabán

Adams ran for mayor against Andrew Yang and NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer

Williams served on the New York City Council with Joe Borelli.

Hochul beat Jumaane Williams in the 2018 primary for LG.

Cabán lost the 2019 Democratic primary for Queens DA to Melinda Katz. Borelli served in the Assembly Chisholm served in Congress Duryea served with former NYC with U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand with former Rep. Jack Kemp. Gottfried served with Assembly Mayor David Dinkins Speaker Perry B. Duryea Jr. – the and Assembly Member Richard Gottfried served with former Gottfried. last Republican speaker – in the Rep. Shirley Chisholm. early 1970s.

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Paperboy Prince ran against Rep. Nydia Velázquez last year.

Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez serves in Congress with Velázquez.

Former Rep. Charles Rangel served in Congress with Velázquez.

Velázquez served in the U.S. House with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Trump hired Lynne Patton as regional director of HUD. Rep. Lee Zeldin serves in Congress with Velázquez.

Giuliani worked for ex-President Donald Trump while he was in the White House. Hochul served in Congress with Rep. Nydia Velázquez.

Zeldin is running in the 2022 GOP gubernatorial primary against Andrew Giuliani. Zeldin is an attorney in the Army Reserve and Kevin Bacon played a Marine Corps attorney in "A Few Good Men."

Giuliani is the son of ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Liu served in the City Council with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul served as president of the state Senate while state Sen. John Liu served. Hochul was once a staffer for longtime U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Liu served in the City Council with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

Liu served in the City Council with state Attorney General Letitia James.

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De Blasio seen here giving his best action movie hero look back in 2014.

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acy He has already touted universal pre-K, community policing and ThriveNYC. Here’s how experts really think the term-limited New York City mayor will be remembered.

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Experts agreed that de Blasio’s legacy will start with his introduction of universal pre-K.

was never accused of engaging in a pattern of sexual misconduct, lording over a toxic workplace, covering up deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes or profiting off of his government staff’s work on a book about leadership during the pandemic. About that pandemic – it’s almost inevitable that de Blasio will be remembered as the COVID-19 mayor. It’s been an incredibly challenging time for the city, and while the specifics of de Blasio’s actions and decisions during this time are the subject of active debate, the city’s vaccination and testing infrastructure is a testament to his City Hall. With all that in mind, City & State reached out to a variety of people who think deeply about city politics. And asked a simple question. “How will de Blasio be remembered?” Responses varied from long and thoughtful to short and snappy. There were

points of agreement, like universal pre-K, but only one thing’s for certain: de Blasio was really tall. These responses have been edited for length and clarity. Harold Holzer, director of The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College Ultimately, I think Bill de Blasio will be remembered as the mayor who managed to enact universal pre-K. That’s a major achievement that no amount of negativity or controversy can take away from him. On the other hand, he will probably be remembered, too, as the mayor who engaged for too long in a futile, distracting feud with Gov. Cuomo that came to a head at the worst possible time: the COVID-19 crisis. That, in a nutshell, is Bill de Blasio’s tale of two cities.

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E CAN ALL AGREE on one thing about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: He was really tall. Everything else is up for debate. But now, as de Blasio’s eight years as mayor of the greatest city in the world come to a term-limited end, it seems like the right time to assess his legacy. We know how he feels about his own tenure – at least, what he’ll say publicly. His greatest achievements, he said at a December event at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute in Manhattan, were neighborhood policing, the mental health initiatives branded under ThriveNYC and introducing universal pre-K. The fact that de Blasio has been relentlessly criticized for his handling of the New York City Police Department and that his mental health initiatives are regarded as at least hard to measure and at most a boondoggle, did not go unnoticed. Old New York City mayors never fade away. They simply run for higher office. At least that was the fate of failed presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and de Blasio. If everything goes as expected, de Blasio will also run for governor of the state of New York after he’s term-limited out of office as mayor on Jan. 1, 2022. Like Ed Koch before him, he probably won’t win. There are many reasons for that, but part of the equation has to be that being mayor of New York City is a tough job. Responsible for everything, and never good enough. De Blasio introduced NYC Ferry? Cool, but too expensive. He built affordable housing, but affordable for who? Inequality was reduced, according to some measures, but does it feel like the tale of two cities is over? And of course, de Blasio’s reputation was formed, in part, by being an easy target for ridicule. His adherence to Prospect Park YMCA trips was the perfect symbol of the stubbornness behind so many of his political decisions – and nondecisions. He walked a narrow ethical line with political fundraising, and the subsequent investigations left him deeply in debt. And many New Yorkers will never forgive him for running for president when he already had the greatest job in the world – which, for years, he never really seemed to enjoy. Of course, nobody targeted de Blasio more than former Gov. Andrew Cuomo – and de Blasio outlasting his bitter rival has to be considered one of the triumphs of his tenure. Some may find de Blasio annoying, but he

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“He’ll be remembered as a nice guy who’s completely inept when it comes to governing and so out of touch politically that he actually thought he could run for president and governor.” – Frank Morano, conservative radio talk show host for 77 WABC

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Chapin Fay, Republican political consultant “He won’t.” Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and cohost of “FAQ NYC” podcast BdB will be remembered for many things. Here’s my list off the dome. Progressive politician who brought stop and frisk to the fold. Universal pre-K. Suspect relationships with real estate developers. Antagonistic relationship with the New York City press corps. Contentious relationship with the NYPD. Legal woes. Presidential bid. Beef with Gov. Cuomo. Naps. Chronic lateness. Steady hand during COVID-19 (at times). Unforced errors time and time again.

Brooklyn YMCA. Horse carriages still going strong. MSNBC. Universal 3-K. Relatively safe city. Diverse Cabinet. Could he end up like (former New Orleans Mayor) Ray Nagin? Sean McElwee, progressive consultant De Blasio was elected during the last wave of progressive activism surrounding Occupy Wall Street and the financial crisis. He campaigned on a tale of two cities and he successfully implemented a pre-K program, invested in our public hospital system and pushed through an ambitious city Green New Deal. As a new generation of progressives grows into governing it’s worth learning lessons from him. Simply passing policies into law did not guarantee permanent popularity, events like police brutality ultimately defined the late mayoralty.

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The climate ambition of the city has been overwhelmed by the ill-fated decision at the state level (out of his control) to shut down Indian Point. As we pass ambitious climate legislation, it’s an important reminder that NIMBY concerns will bedevil the movement for years. Government is ultimately made of people who have to execute on the progressive agenda, and the government is quickly losing talented young people. The new generation of progressives have seized power, but de Blasio’s mayoralty reminds us that wielding it is the difficult part. Ultimately I think de Blasio did a good job given the constraints of governing. And I wish the people who think they can do better the best, but it’s really fucking hard. Frank Morano, conservative radio talk show host for 77 WABC Mayor de Blasio will be remembered as the mayor that gave us universal pre-K, never vetoed a single bill and presided over a dramatic increase of traffic deaths, while championing “Vision Zero” in spite of the fact that people weren’t even commuting into Manhattan for a year and a half. He’ll be remembered as a nice guy who’s completely inept when it comes to governing and so out of touch politically that he actually thought he could run for president and governor. He’ll be remembered as a

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“He’ll be known as the mayor of the pandemic. And I think he gets OK grades for that.” – George Arzt, public relations consultant

person who perpetually engaged in shady fundraising practices, along with political favoritism, whose greatest contribution might be avoiding indictment. Olivia Lapeyrolerie, vice president at political consulting firm SKDK and former first deputy press secretary to de Blasio Contested-ly. Nora Moran, director of policy and advocacy at United Neighborhood Houses Obviously the big obvious one is pre-K. And there’s no doubt it was really transfor-

mative in the life of kids and parents and the life of the city. I think there are education gains that will be seen down the line. They’re not old enough to see it yet, but we’ll get there. And we were involved in the fights around salary parity. That system was always designed to pay some people less than others. That was rectified, but it took so much fighting and so much pushback. Pre-K was great, and yet the way it was implemented was harmful to workers who were not paid what they should have been to do that work. Joseph Viteritti, Thomas Hunter professor of public policy at Hunter College, and author of “The Pragmatist: Bill de Blasio’s Quest to Save the Soul of New York” It depends on whom you ask. If you ask parents who took advantage of free preschool so they could work and give their kids a boost, I would suppose, warmly. If you ask labor leaders who saw him reduce income inequality, I would suppose, appreciably. If you ask advocates for affordable housing, they would say, “Good, but not enough,” even though he did more than anyone since (Fiorello) La Guardia. If you ask people in poor neighborhoods who are afraid of both crime and the police, they would say, “He tried, but we’re still

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De Blasio’s tenure will, in part, be defined by his petty squabbles with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his capitulations to the NYPD and his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But there are perks to the job, like when he met actor Jon Hamm in 2017, who seemed to make the mayor a little starstruck.

“The new generation of progressives have seized power, but de Blasio’s mayoralty reminds us that wielding it is the difficult part.” – Sean McElwee, progressive consultant

afraid.” If you ask Black and brown parents at charter schools he opposed, they would say, “Hey, what’s up?” If you ask me, I would say, with Trump in Washington, Cuomo in Albany and the plague, “Good run, lousy messaging.” E. O’Brien Murray, conservative political consultant He proved to the bitter end we need to be thankful for the part-time mayor. Imagine the damage he could have done if he was full time. George Arzt, public relations consultant Universal pre-K is obviously the thing he’ll be remembered for. And that was a big victory. As it gets expanded, he will get credit for that for many years. On the negative side, it will be his lack of management skills. And the fact that he wasn’t the strong leader. And in many ways, he will

go down – in a group probably with Abe Beame, David Dinkins and him – as weak mayors. You had a strong mayor (with Bloomberg), but you always get elected as a reaction to the previous mayor, and Bloomberg never talked about the other half of the city – the people who were struggling in Black and brown communities. (De Blasio) got elected for doing that. Homelessness is out of control. He gets credit for putting more affordable housing on the market. Still, like most mayors, has not come up with a solution for homelessness. He’ll be known as the mayor of the pandemic. And I think he gets OK grades for that. But was not a superstar. Of course, he had a problem with Andrew Cuomo at every turn. He leaves a city that is looking forward to the next mayor. And I don’t think he will be remembered fondly by the electorate. What was he thinking, going for presi-

dent? What is he thinking going for governor now? He got into a lot of trouble on fundraising. Personal fundraising and raising money for Senate Democrats. And I often saw him at different events. He would ask people for money at events – “When are you going to throw me a party?” You can’t really judge him like you judge other mayors because of the pandemic. But I thought on health matters he did a good job. But the city and the city’s economy is still trying to get out of the mess from the pandemic. It’s the fundamentals that (de Blasio) lacked in. All of us who study the mayoralty go back to the La Guardia statement of there’s no Democratic or Republican way to pick up the trash. … And you just don’t get that from this administration. Gerson Borrero, journalist and commentator An AH!

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MEMORABLE MOMENTS

A picture is worth a thousand words, but a well-timed tweet can truly define the political moment, and with one of the below entries, cause a seismic shift in the political landscape all on its own. Top Tweets also captured the horror of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York, the confusion over ranked-choice voting and the rise of the omicron variant.

We recap what happened over the past year in New York political Twitter.

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“I could not have imagined a darker day for democracy.” – Rep. Mondaire Jones

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THE END OF our First Read Tonight newsletter every weekday, City & State features a Top Tweet as a usually lighthearted or newsworthy way to cap off the day on Twitter. We compiled a year’s worth of Top Tweets that chronicled everything from the attempted coup on Jan. 6 to the last days of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s eight years as mayor. Here’s what happened in New York political Twitter in 2021.

@LindseyBoylan “Today I am telling my story. I never planned

to share the details of my experience working in the Cuomo administration, but I am doing so now in hopes that it may make it easier for others to speak their own truth. My story of working with Governor Cuomo” – Lindsey Boylan

@StephCW

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“Can’t wait for the “puff puff passed” tweet” – Steph Campanha Wheaton

@daveweigel

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“Don’t understand ranked choice voting? It’s simple – whoever gets the most RTs gets to be mayor, whoever gets the most likes gets to be comptroller.” – Dave Weigel

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@RepGregoryMeeks “Omicron or Omarion, either way, please get vaxxed or boosted like you “Post to Be”.” – Rep. Gregory Meeks

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TOP TWEETERS We think it’s cause to celebrate if one of your tweets was featured in First Read Tonight, but for these journalists, it was just another Tuesday. In the closest they’ll ever get to an actual award for Twitter, we’d like to congratulate our Hall of Fame Top Tweeters, who each clinched the daily honor more than five times! KATIE HONAN, Reporter, The City – 8 GLORIA PAZMINO, City Hall Reporter, NY1 – 8 BEN MAX, Executive Editor, Gotham Gazette – 7 EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS, City Hall Bureau Chief, The New York Times – 6 DAVID MEYER, Transit Reporter, New York Post – 6

THEY’RE TWEETING JUST LIKE US While Top Tweet often featured journalists, politicians and other experts, sometimes celebrities weighed in on New York politics. One of them happened to have previously run for governor and generally knows what she’s talking about, and one of them is Cher.

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@CynthiaNixon “The difference between me and Andrew Cuomo? Neither of us is governor, but I still have my Emmy(s).” – Cynthia Nixon

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@cher

“I Must Offer My Deepest Apologies To NEW YORK SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND. When I Wrote txt I Made Grave Error Of Confusing Her With Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Again My Most Sincere Apologies To SENATOR GILLIBRAND, & PPL Of NEW YORK.” – Cher

MAYORAL MENTIONS

Over the past eight years, City & State hasn’t gone easy on outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio. He has appeared on our covers in an imposing Art Deco style, as Gulliver from “Gulliver’s Travels,” with mud and dirt on his face and also without a face. But we gave the mayor and his social media team their due this year by featuring him as the Top Tweet five times.

@NYCMayor

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“The Cyclone + an egg cream = summer’s starting early in #NYC!” – Mayor Bill de Blasio

@NYCMayor

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@AlecBaldwin “If Cuomo threatened Ron Kim’s career, Cuomo should resign.” – Alec Baldwin

WHAT A YEAR The news, the opinions and the memes keep us coming back to this website.

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@rebdlyn “‘What fresh hell is this?’ – me, every time I stop by NY politics twitter” – Rebecca Lynch

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“Big Bird is a vertically gifted, empathetic leader who dedicates his life to teaching kids and learning himself. To be compared to him is a badge of honor.” – Mayor Bill de Blasio

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@NYCMayor “Let’s. Crush. Some. Dirt bikes!!!! Join me now on Staten Island.” – Mayor Bill de Blasio

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WINNERS & LOSERS OF 2021

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ERIC ADAMS

2021 GIVETH, AND 2021 TAKETH AWAY. Vaccines arrived to save the day, but if you thought you could throw out your collection of face masks already, you had another thing coming. New York state got its first female governor! How did we come to this remarkable milestone? Her predecessor fell from grace after numerous damaging scandals. This was accompanied by a realignment of power at the state Capitol that legalized recreational marijuana and online sports betting. There was also a whole lot of change in New York City’s political ecosystem – so many new faces will be joining the City Council, with historic representation for women, Asian Americans, Latinos and LGBTQ people. And how about that new guy coming into the mayor’s office? We might have to adjust the timing of First Read when 2022 mayoral press briefings start taking place at 5:30 a.m. Without further ado, here’s who ended the year on top of the world, and who ended up as a persona non grata.

Eric Adams, New York City’s mayor-elect, is a master of the art of persuasion. How else could he pass the ultimate political test of winning a New York City Democratic primary? Who, at age 15, would see the kid beaten in the basement of a police precinct and think he’d one day be a cop? Who, in 1996, would look at the rabble-rousing police officer, hated by many of his colleagues and under constant investigation, and think he would become an elected official? Who, in 2006, would look at this candidate running for state Senate, so supremely confident in himself, and think he’d actually become mayor? But by the time 2016 rolled around, politicos were taking the Brooklyn borough president seriously as a contender. And five years later, he did it: winning the June Democratic primary with 50.4% of the vote, once the rankedchoice voting tabulation played out, and winning the general election in November with a commanding 67% of the vote. It was the culmination of years of planning, but that doesn’t mean that success was guaranteed. He faced an uncertain race with surprising – and strong – opponents. You can laugh at Andrew Yang, but he struck a nerve and won over a lot of Asian voters who Adams thought would be part of his coalition. And who would have thought Kathryn Garcia, the lowkey bureaucrat, would catch fire? But Adams stuck to his plan, emphasizing his outer borough, Black working-class roots. The former cop was perfectly positioned to speak to the New Yorkers who were worried about an increase in certain crimes, while his history as a critic of the department meant that criticisms that he’d let the NYPD run rampant didn’t stick. And after the primary? Adams owned the long honeymoon. Every power broker in the city, the state, the country wanted to meet him, and he took the meetings – sometimes past midnight, often wearing a sharp red blazer, and always looking like he won a Grammy along with the keys to Gracie Mansion. As hard as the election was, Adams has to know that was the easy part compared to what lies ahead. He’ll make mistakes – the mayor-elect said he’s “perfectly imperfect” – but you can’t ever take away the fact that that kid from Queens was elected mayor of the greatest city in the world. Eric Adams always believed in himself, and in 2021, he persuaded the rest of the city to believe in him too.

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ANDREW CUOMO & CO.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. This time last year we were highlighting then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ability to soothe the state during the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak with his must-watch daily press conferences that earned him an International Emmy. This year, however, is a completely different story. In August, Cuomo resigned following the release of not one but two damning reports that came out of state Attorney General Letitia James’ office. The first report, released in late January, on the state’s COVID-19 response in nursing homes revealed that the governor’s office concealed the actual death toll of nursing home residents, which was far higher than what the state Department of Health reported. The second report, which came out in early August, corroborated 11 different allegations of sexual misconduct made against Cuomo and indicated that the governor helped foster a toxic work environment. Cuomo was first accused of sexual misconduct

in December 2020 by Lindsey Boylan, but those allegations had yet to be substantiated until the release of James’ report. Several days after the report was released, amid calls for his impeachment and resignation, Cuomo stepped down. Now, Cuomo faces possible criminal charges for forcible touching, though it remains unclear how likely he is to be convicted. Cuomo and his spokespeople have continued to deny all of the allegations made against him and have insinuated that James’ reports were fueled by her own political ambitions. Since Cuomo’s fall from grace, his Emmy was taken back. Even worse, Cuomo’s controversial memoir about how he handled the COVID-19 crisis is at the center of an ongoing ethics scandal and he may be required to forfeit millions of dollars that he earned from the book deal. Now, what was it we said about him overcoming the third-term curse, again?

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KATHY HOCHUL

Few people have loved being lieutenant governor as much as Kathy Hochul. Her various travels as the two-term No. 2 to Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned her a reputation for statewide ubiquity, and she appeared to revel in all the ribbon-cutting, speechmaking and ax-throwing that she got to do when she didn’t have to stop by the state Capitol to preside over the state Senate as its official president. The fun disappeared in early 2021. Former gubernatorial aides accused Cuomo of sexual misconduct. Legislators accused Cuomo of covering up data that showed the true number of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in hospitals. Hochul laid low for months as Cuomo’s political fate hung in the balance. Then one day in August, Hochul was politically reincarnated as the first female governor in state history after the scandalized governor resigned from office.

More than a few people doubted that Hochul could grab the reins of power and hold them firmly enough to find a pathway to victory in the 2022 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Naysayers said state Attorney General Letitia James would be too tough if and when she decided to run. Others pointed to the Western New York native’s past positions on immigration and gun rights as evidence of how her Hamburger ways would not jibe with important downstate constituencies. Yet, Hochul hustled when it mattered most. She handled natural disasters, worked with legislators and somehow convinced more than a few longtime supporters of her three-term predecessor that they should back her moving forward. Her ongoing status as the odds-on favorite to win a full term in office next year might even mean she likes her current job a heck of a lot more than the last one.

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MICHAEL REBELL & ROBERT JACKSON

These guys – the first one an attorney and the second a state senator from Manhattan – scored a big victory on school funding this year after fighting the Second Floor since Mario Cuomo was governor. The big issue was whether the state was providing schools with enough money to provide a “sound basic education” to all students. Rebell and Jackson were the lead plaintiffs on a lawsuit that ended up going their way in the mid-2000s and they struck a deal with then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer to increase funding over the subsequent years. The only problem was that he would not be governor for long. The state’s finances got worse following the 2008 financial crisis, and school funding was reduced accordingly. Then Andrew Cuomo became governor in 2011 and he was hardly in a hurry to honor the legacy of a longtime political rival like Spitzer, but Rebell and Jackson – who would end up getting elected to the New York City Council and later the state Senate in the middle of all of this – continued fighting. Cuomo – who once dismissed their arguments as “ghosts of the past” – ended up surrendering as he fought for his political survival earlier this year. Gov. Kathy Hochul approved a figurative peace treaty.

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RON KIM

Assembly Member Ron Kim took on former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a David vs. Goliath fight that precipitated Cuomo’s long and rocky downfall. When news broke that the Cuomo administration had attempted to withhold data about the deaths of nursing home residents, Kim was one of the few lawmakers to criticize him openly, calling his actions on nursing home data “obstruction of justice.” The issue was particularly raw for Kim, whose uncle, a nursing home resident, died of COVID-19 in 2020. Cuomo, furious about the public criticism, soon made a threatening phone call berating Kim. Kim went public about that, prompting other lawmakers to share with their own stories of screeds and threats from Cuomo. As the political winds began to shift, Cuomo later signed Kim’s legislation, co-sponsored by state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, to repeal pandemic liability protections for nursing homes and hospitals. Kim now serves as the chair of the Assembly Committee on Aging. But, as City & State’s Annie McDonough reported in a June profile of Kim, the Queens lawmaker is more than a Cuomo antagonist. A childhood immigrant to Flushing, Queens, from South Korea, Kim has advocated for Asian American New Yorkers to be protected from the recent rise in hate crimes. He has also fought to decriminalize sex work, and he was an early supporter of Andrew Yang’s bid for New York City mayor.

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BHAIRAVI DESAI For the past decade, New York City taxi drivers have been getting the short end of the stick. Taxi medallions – which once granted drivers the exclusive right to pick up street hails – greatly decreased in value after the unregulated arrival of Uber and its rivals beginning in 2011. An industry of largely immigrant medallion owners had bet the house on the once-promising investment of taxi medallions, and the reckless loans that were given out to make those investments went from burdensome to unmanageable. Despite calls for action, a City Council task force and endless protests, little was done for drivers. When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a relief fund for medallion owners earlier this year, it was deemed an insufficient solution to a crisis City Hall had allowed to happen. No one was louder

or more persistent in spreading that assessment than Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. After gaining little traction by organizing protests at Gracie Mansion or caravans to stop traffic on bridges, Desai’s group took the extreme step of organizing a hunger strike outside City Hall this fall. A small but mighty group of drivers who had seen the financial burden of owning a medallion devastate many lives participated in a two-week hunger strike, along with a handful of allies and politicians. Through it all, Desai served as a constant thorn in City Hall’s side, organizing drivers to not accept less than what they asked for. In the end, de Blasio caved to their demands for a debt relief plan that would have City Hall serve as a guarantor on drivers’ loans, bringing taxi workers a long-awaited victory.

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DAWN SANDOW

With the introduction of ranked-choice voting this year, the New York City Board of Elections was bound to mess it up. Lawsuits plagued the rollout until the first special election in February using the new system – and the state hadn’t even approved the necessary software to tabulate the results by then. Deputy Executive Director Dawn Sandow was mostly at the helm with perennial elections punching bag Executive Director Michael Ryan dealing with health issues. And to her credit, those first few hand-counted special elections went pretty smoothly. But then came the main event, the June Democratic primary for mayor. In the first round of counting, the board accidentally included 135,000 test ballots. As chaos reigned, the board issued a cryptic tweet about “discrepancies” and removed those initial results from its website. It took hours for the board to explain what happened. In the end, the mistake didn’t create any lasting issues, and it was caught quickly, but candidates and observers alike criticized the Board of Elections for its mishandling of the election. Not to mention the infamous “brunch” tweet – if you know, you know. It renewed calls to overhaul the board, with legislative hearings held in different parts of the state resulting in a damning state Senate report on election operations. And for Sandow herself, the Board of Elections’ bad year had consequences. She lost her No. 2 position, one she had held for over a decade, and was relegated to the Bronx office. The loss was compounded by the fact that the board ousted her after a short time at the helm, when Ryan weathered much more just fine.

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ANDREW YANG

Andrew Yang has moved on from his failed attempts to run for president and mayor of New York City. After his rise and fall in the Democratic mayoral primary earlier this year, who wouldn’t blame him for now putting his focus behind his new book, “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy,” and efforts to start a third political party. Reinvention is always a good place to start after seeing your latest campaign nose dive. Yang rose to lead the Democratic mayoral primary only to see his celebrity-like popularity diminish, landing him in fourth place. Not even the strategy of campaigning alongside Kathryn Garcia offered Yang any hope of winning – a move some observers said was more an attempt to stop or hurt Eric Adams’ chances, who went on to clinch the primary. Yang’s cheerleader approach to campaigning, backed by his “Yang Gang” of online admirers, wasn’t enough to make up for the fact that New Yorkers picked up on the little things, like when a candidate hasn’t voted in local elections nor previously held office. There also was the revelation that Yang moved himself and his family out of the city as the coronavirus pandemic was surging, which was definitely not a good look. What sealed his fate and secured Yang a position on this list? Perhaps it was when his campaign went negative in an ill-fated attempt to slow down Adams. Yang going for the jugular just wasn’t convincing.

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The New York City Department of Correction isn’t doing a good job. Over the summer, revelations of disturbing conditions inside Rikers Island highlighted a staffing shortage and an inhumane climate that contributed to the deaths of 16 inmates this year and a general spike in violence at the facility. The jail complex has been notorious since opening in 1932, but what makes the recent reports of dysfunction even more unsettling is the sharp increase of self-harm among inmates and the unsanitary conditions. Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas, one of the many lawmakers who came to visit the institution after reports of disarray made headlines, described seeing “countless men being piled on top of each other, laying in their own urine and feces and people not getting the care that they needed.” In response to the

backlash regarding the deadly situation at Rikers, there has been a lot of fingerpointing on who is responsible. The Department of Correction, the authority responsible for ensuring safety and order in the jail complex, blamed the staffing shortage on COVID-19. The department’s commissioner, Vincent Schiraldi, mentioned in a press conference that officers were using sick days as “an unlimited vacation pool.” Correctional officers, who were accused of participating in violence in the jail complex and failing to act on urgent situations, cited a lack of direction from jail officials on how to salvage the increasingly violent situation and even pushed for the city to have Rikers shut down. Regardless of who is responsible, the situation continues to deteriorate, and it seems like officials and officers are making minimal progress in restoring humanity at the jail complex, which is scheduled to close by 2027.

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LOVELY WARREN

Former Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren had anything but a lovely year. She was once seen as a rising political star with her groundbreaking election as Rochester’s first Black woman to serve as mayor, but her tenure has ended in scandal and disgrace. A bad 2020 just picked up steam this year, with hits that kept coming until she left office. Warren’s descent began with her administration’s entanglement with the police cover-up in the March 2020 death of Daniel Prude. Things got worse when state prosecutors indicted her on campaign finance charges in October 2020. The first big hit of this year came in June, when she lost her primary to Malik Wright by a landslide. So her days in office were always numbered. The next

month, Warren faced more criminal charges, this time alongside her estranged husband. Both were charged with criminal possession of a firearm and two other misdemeanors that resulted from a search of Warren’s home in relation to an investigation into her husband. The year could have turned out worse for Warren, given the felony weapons charge, had she gone to trial and a jury found her guilty. But she managed to avoid prison and felony convictions thanks to a plea deal that resolved both the criminal charges and the campaign finance violations in an agreement to leave office in December. Warren pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor campaign finance violation, allowing her to keep her law license since it wasn’t a felony.

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VEN AS THE rising threat of climate change has garnered growing attention, policymakers around the globe have made halting progress in addressing it. Yet at least one bright spot in the battle to protect the planet is the headway made in New York, whose track record in recent years could serve as a model for other states and countries. This year alone, the state has taken steps toward phasing out carbon emissions by making investments in offshore wind power, blocking proposed repowering projects that would rely on natural gas and awarding contracts for transmission lines that will deliver renewable energy to the downstate region. Of course, these efforts – along with other environmentally friendly policy changes in New York’s energy industry – are

not universally embraced, with critics warning that trying to eliminate carbon emissions too abruptly will risk undermining the reliability of the electrical grid. Other fierce battles have been waged over the shuttering of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in the Hudson Valley, the burgeoning Bitcoin mining industry in upstate New York and proposals championed by state lawmakers to transition to public power and impose fees on polluters. City & State’s Energy & Environment Power 100 identifies the public officials, energy executives, environmentalists, activists, academics and others who are in the thick of these debates – and reinventing how New Yorkers get their power. Researched and written by Kay Dervishi, Jon Lentz and Aaron Short

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1 BASIL SEGGOS COMMISSIONER

Rory Christian and Basil Seggos, top.

Not only did Basil Seggos stay on as commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation during the transition from the Cuomo regime to the Hochul administration, he turned heads in October with his agency’s decision to block permits for proposed repowering projects in Queens and upstate New York. This was done on the grounds that investing in natural gas infrastructure is contrary to the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Seggos, who has led DEC since 2015, also co-chairs the New York State Climate Action Council, which is tasked with implementing New York’s ambitious climate change law.

2 RORY CHRISTIAN CHAIR AND CEO State Public Service Commission Rory Christian was appointed to the state Public Service Commission in June, then named as chair and CEO in September, abruptly becoming one of New York’s most influential energy policymakers. A KeySpan Energy and Exelon veteran, he also drove clean energy policies at the New York City Housing Authority and the Environmental Defense Fund. Christian has plenty of experienced policy staffers to rely on as he settles into the role, including Executive Deputy Tom Congdon and Office of Resilience and

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Emergency Preparedness Director Kevin Wisely, as well as political veteran Rory Lancman, a former New York City Council member in the new role of special counsel for ratepayer protection.

3 TIMOTHY CAWLEY CHAIR, PRESIDENT AND CEO Con Edison The electrical engineer had been climbing the executive ranks at the state’s largest utility before becoming president and CEO at the start of the year following John McAvoy’s retirement. In November, Timothy Cawley was named board chair. The added responsibility came after he boosted Con Edison’s earnings by responding swiftly to fierce tropical storms and heat waves while doubling down on renewable and clean energy technologies. Cawley has also been upfront about the company’s challenges with extreme weather events and how to adapt to climate change over the long term.

4 DOREEN HARRIS PRESIDENT AND CEO New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Doreen Harris was named head of the state’s energy authority this past spring, almost a year after she took on the leadership role in an acting capacity. Harris also co-chairs the New York State Climate Action Council, which has been studying how to “decarbonize the economy.” Harris, who attended the United Nations

Doreen Harris is the president and CEO of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November, has touted the state’s ambitious clean energy goals. A key NYSERDA staffer on her team is David Sandbank, who oversees significant investments into renewable energy.

the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, the shift toward renewable energy and the use of battery storage. Richard Dewey, a NYISO veteran for more than two decades, took the helm in 2019.

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New York has a number of agencies and offices that deal with energy policy. But the New York Independent System Operator is an independent body that oversees the state’s electrical grid and essentially ensures the lights stay on – which has put it at the center of hot-button issues including

The two Long Islanders who chair the environmental conservation committees in the state Legislature haven’t had it easy at the polls lately – state Sen. Todd Kaminsky just lost his bid to be the next Nassau County district

Englebright championed the amendment establishing the right to clean air and water.

attorney, while Assembly Member Steve Englebright had a closer than expected reelection victory last year – but they’ve made plenty of progress in positioning New York a clean energy leader. Kaminsky sponsored the landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2019, which is speeding up the state’s shift to renewable energy, and Englebright championed the state amendment to establish a right to clean air and water in New York, which was approved by voters in November.

7 KEVIN PARKER & MICHAEL CUSICK CHAIRS State Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee; Assembly Energy Committee The state Legislature’s energy committee chairs have also suffered losses at the ballot box – state Sen. Kevin Parker’s campaign for New York City

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9 LISA GARCIA REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR FOR REGION II U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Biden administration has appointed longtime environmental lawyer Lisa Garcia to serve as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional administrator managing environmental proposals in New York and other areas. Garcia has previous experience with the EPA, in addition to having worked in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the state Attorney General’s Environmental Protection Bureau. More recently, she spearheaded a climate solutions program housed at Grist magazine.

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New York’s path toward a clean energy future has picked up steam in recent years, and the state’s efforts to slash its carbon emissions are already disrupting existing power producers. One of the leading advocates of the power generation industry is Gavin Donohue, who for two decades has led the Independent Power Producers of New York. Donohue is also a member of the state’s Climate Action Council, which is shaping how the landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is rolled out.

Rudolph Wynter is president of National Grid New York.

funding to retrofit affordable units and blocking gas-fueled repowerings.

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Cuomo administration alum John O’Leary returned to Albany in September after a two-year stint as marketing director of a Bostonbased microgrid designer that worked on updating renewable infrastructure at JFK Airport. He’s wellacquainted with how the executive chamber works, having advised the governor on modernizing the energy sector, and developed the state’s long-term regulatory and policy initiatives regarding energy use. His new boss, Gov. Kathy Hochul, is already making her mark providing

National Grid New York Rudolph Wynter spent more than 30 years in a variety of roles at National Grid before taking over the company’s operations this year in New York, where he leads operations responsible for delivering electric and gas service to 4 million residents across the state. Wynter is currently overseeing the utility’s proposal to hike rates for customers, with the goal of using the additional revenue to help improve infrastructure and guide its transition to renewable energy.

12 JUSTIN DRISCOLL INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO New York Power Authority When Gil Quiniones stepped down after a decade serving as president and CEO of the New York Power Authority to lead the Chicago utility ComEd, he was replaced on an interim basis by Justin Driscoll, a NYPA executive vice president and general counsel. It’s unclear how long Driscoll, who’s been at NYPA for seven years and previously worked at the World Resources Institute and top Albany lobbying firm Brown & Weinraub, will run NYPA, which is working to improve transmission connections to send renewable energy from upstate to downstate.

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comptroller fell short and Assembly Member and Staten Island Democratic Party Chair Michael Cusick has seen his party suffer key losses in the borough – but they have also helped drive a pivot from fossil fuels to renewables in New York. Parker is the sponsor of two measures sought by progressives – a bill that would invest in publicly owned renewable power infrastructure and the Climate and Community Investment Act, which would impose fees on polluters. Cusick has applauded the state’s efforts to deploy thousands of electric car charging stations and invest in clean energy.

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days after Zalcman took the job, the Biden administration approved New York’s first offshore wind farm, the 132-megawatt project South Fork Wind, which will begin construction in early 2022.

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14 THOMAS FALCONE CEO Long Island Power Authority In addition to his other responsibilities, Thomas Falcone has been leading Long Island Power Authority’s ongoing response to PSEG Long Island’s operational failures during Tropical Storm Isaias last year. Falcone ultimately spearheaded a not-yet finalized agreement between the two entities, allowing PSEG to manage the region’s electrical grid

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is known for the Green New Deal.

under stricter performance requirements. Several of Long Island’s elected officials remain skeptical that the new contract will rectify outstanding issues, with some calling for the Long Island Power Authority to become a fully public utility.

15 DANIEL EICHHORN PRESIDENT AND COO PSEG Long Island PSEG Long Island faced plenty of criticism from state lawmakers for its poor response to Tropical Storm Isaias last year. But the company has made amends with Long Island Power Authority, coming to an agreement last month to continue operating its electric grid under stricter oversight. Though that’s welcome news for Daniel Eichhorn, who serves as president and chief operating officer for PSEG Long Island, Long Island

Power Authority and state officials still need to sign off on the plan.

16 FRED ZALCMAN DIRECTOR New York Offshore Wind Alliance The clean energy community got some wind in its sails when Fred Zalcman came aboard the New York Offshore Wind Alliance in November. In his previous role as U.S. government affairs director at Ørsted, the Danish power company, Zalcman helped spur wind turbine manufacturing hubs in southern New Jersey and Port Jefferson, Long Island. A few

Anne Reynolds was a driving force behind New York state’s 2019 clean energy standards to reach 70% renewables by the end of the decade. Meeting those goals will be a challenge, since much of the technologies like solar panels and electric vehicle batteries are made abroad. But the former state Department of Environmental Conservation deputy commissioner has been heartened by the Hochul administration’s commitments to investments in the electric grid and transmission projects that deliver renewable energy to New York City.

18 PETER IWANOWICZ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Environmental Advocates of New York Peter Iwanowicz led the successful statewide campaign to promote a constitutional amendment guaranteeing clean air and water for every New Yorker. The former state official,

Solar panels and electric car batteries are made abroad, complicating things for NY.

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No policy proposal is more closely associated with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than the Green New Deal. In April, the Bronx congresswoman reintroduced her climate change package, which included a proposed civilian climate corps that could employ 1.5 million people. But the measure has stalled in Congress and has become polarizing even on the left. Ocasio-Cortez has focused on including an array of climate initiatives in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better legislation, although rising inflation is posing new challenges.

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city’s approach to solid waste management. He recently pushed state leaders to make progress on congestion pricing and to intensify efforts to prevent flooding in the city.

residents across upstate New York. As president and CEO of both entities, Carl Taylor handles regulatory policy, business growth and other responsibilities for both utilities. Under his leadership, New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas & Electric launched a new pilot program helping fleet managers adopt the use of electric vehicles.

longtime environmental leader and state Climate Action Council member banked on New Yorkers agreeing that everyone had a right to a healthy living environment, which would allow localities like Hoosick Falls to go to court more quickly to remediate its PFOA contamination. The referendum was one of the few ballot measures that passed this year, with voters supporting it by a 2-to-1 margin.

19 KIT KENNEDY INTERIM PROGRAM MANAGING DIRECTOR, CLIMATE & CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM NRDC The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in April marked a turning point in the state’s energy future that critics complained would lead to more fossil fuel use. But Kit Kennedy, a leading

environmentalist in New York, argues that the state can achieve its climate goals without a plant that leaked radioactive waste. The NRDC advocate has pushed for clean energy mandates at the state and federal level for solar and wind power to supplant coal and natural gas as well as stronger standards for disposing of nuclear waste.

20 EDDIE BAUTISTA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Eddie Bautista has fought for environmental protections for the city’s communities of color throughout his 11 years leading the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance. Among his accomplishments: He has spearheaded a major advocacy campaign to make New York City’s waterfront more resilient in the face of climate change and has helped shape the

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Under CEO Robert Sanchez’s direction, Orange and Rockland Utilities is aiming to take on a $52.6 million proposed construction project to install 5.5 miles of new electric transmission cable with the goal of improving service for about 45,000 residents. Around 300,000 New Yorkers in the southeastern portion of the state rely on service from the utility, a subsidiary of Con Edison. Sanchez has spent 27 years with the company, having previously served as its senior vice president of corporate shared services.

PRESIDENT New York League of Conservation Voters Julie Tighe has long advocated for environmental laws in Albany. She and her team at the New York League of Conservation Voters have played a key role in getting state lawmakers to take on legislation such as the Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act and the Restore Mother Nature Bond Act. Over the past year, Tighe has encouraged state officials to put limits on cryptocurrency mining because of its carbon emissions and has monitored the Hochul administration’s efforts to combat climate change.

22 CARL TAYLOR PRESIDENT & CEO NYSEG and RG&E New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas & Electric collectively deliver electricity to 1.3 million residents and natural gas to nearly 590,000

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24 CHARLES FRENI PRESIDENT AND CEO Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. New York state officials gave Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. approval for a new three-year rate structure agreement, which company President and CEO Charles Freni says will help the utility to improve its electric, natural gas and information technology systems. The utility’s service area spans

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25 MICHAEL POLSKY FOUNDER AND CEO Invenergy Michael Polsky assembled quite the powerhouse partnership, which includes Related’s Jeff Blau and thenNew York Power Authority chief Gil Quiniones, to deliver nearly 4,000 megawatts of wind and solar power to New York City. The wind energy billionaire’s joint venture, Clean Path NY, won one of two state contracts this year for its $11 billion project, including a 174-mile transmission line to the city.

26 JEFF BLAU CHAIR AND FOUNDING PARTNER energyRe The sharp-minded executive has overseen some $60 billion in real estate development over the past quarter century. Now Jeff Blau is broadening Related Companies’ portfolio to include clean energy, recognizing that New York City needs more power to grow and thrive. He brought

in two seasoned energy executives – Miguel Prado and Ryan Brown – to run its renewable spinoff, energyRe, which formed a venture with Invenergy to build renewable infrastructure and a major transmission line that was just approved.

27 SIRI ESPEDAL KINDEM & DAVID MARKS EQUINOR WIND U.S. PRESIDENT; HEAD OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, EQUINOR RENEWABLES U.S. Equinor Siri Espedal Kindem and David Marks are helping Long Island and the outer boroughs become a wind power supply chain powerhouse in the northeast. The Norwegian power company won contracts to build an 816-megawatt wind farm near Brooklyn two years ago. Then in January, Equinor won a state award to build 90 wind turbines in an 80,000-acre site off Long Island’s South Shore. The project would cost $3 billion and produce some 2,000 megawatts of power, while serving 800,000 customers.

28 FELIPE ARBELAEZ SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF ZERO CARBON ENERGY BP For the past year and a half, Felipe Arbelaez has helped the multinational oil and gas

David Marks and Siri Espedal Kindem, above, head Equinor in the U.S.

behemoth BP on its path toward emitting zero carbon by 2050. One key project that Arbelaez is a part of is Empire Offshore Wind, a major offshore wind partnership between BP and Equinor that’s expected to provide 2 gigawatts once it’s installed off the coast of Long Island. The London-based Arbelaez has a global scope, including a geothermal project in Canada and offshore wind projects in the United Kingdom.

Arbelaez is tasked with making oil and gas giant BP a zero-carbon company.

29 DONALD JESSOME PRESIDENT AND CEO Transmission Developers Inc. In order to supply 75% more power to its electrical grid to meet its renewable energy

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including offering and expediting leases and permits for projects around the country. New York is a prime state for offshore wind, with billions of dollars in wind projects that will eventually replace power plants that burn fossil fuels.

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goals by 2040, New York is turning to its neighbors to the north. In September, NYSERDA picked Donald Jessome’s Blackstone-backed company to develop a 339mile transmission line from Canada that will deliver 1,250 megawatts of hydropower to the city. The route has changed over the past several years after upstate residents raised concerns about its effects on drinking water. Jessome committed to bury it along CSX and Canadian Pacific railroad lines.

30 SOPHIE BROCHU PRESIDENT AND CEO Hydro-Québec The Hochul administration is embracing hydropower as a fossil fuel alternative, and Sophie Brochu’s energy company is ready to reap the benefits. Hydro-Québec is set to supply 1,250 megawatts, roughly the equivalent of

20% of the energy New York City uses each day, through a 339-mile line that Brochu called an “umbilical cord” from Quebec’s dams to Queens. Brochu is also working in collaboration with Indigenous nations in Canada and New York for joint ownership of the project, although details have not been finalized.

The New England-based energy utility Eversource Energy expanded into the New York market by partnering with Ørsted on multiple projects in the Long Island Sound. They also have a new asset in Julia Bovey, who joined the company in October. Bovey previously worked on New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision efforts as a state Department of Public Service official and helped develop pioneering offshore wind projects when she was a director of external affairs at Equinor.

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Since he joined Ørsted in 2020 and was appointed to lead the Danish company’s offshore projects across North America, David Hardy has spearheaded key offshore projects in the Northeast, including the federally approved 132-megawatt South Fork Wind project and the 924-megawatt Sunrise Wind Project backed by the Hochul administration. Hardy

A former Nature Conservancy official in New York who spearheaded the state’s climate and renewable energy initiatives in the Cuomo administration for several years, Amanda Lefton joined the Biden administration last February in a role that has taken on increased importance. Lefton will play a role in advancing offshore wind farm development,

QUEENS STATE LAWMAKERS State Sens. Michael Gianaris and Jessica Ramos teamed up with Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani to argue that their Queens constituents didn’t need a natural gas repowering at NRG’s Astoria facility – and in one of the first major energy policy decisions under Gov. Kathy Hochul, the state Department of Environmental Conservation agreed. The lawmakers have long paid close attention to energy policy, as Astoria is home to a number of power plants. Gianaris is pushing for greater state investments in publicly owned renewable power, while Ramos and Mamdani sponsor legislation that would block any new fossil fuel plants.

35 JOHN J. GILBERT III CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Rudin Management Company The Rudin Management executive is at the forefront of the proptech revolution that could reduce emissions in buildings across the country. John Gilbert launched a software startup called Nantum that combined data from their properties and Con Edison, which led to

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a 44% reduction in carbon emissions in 2018. Gilbert and real estate leaders pressed then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to include a provision in the budget allowing developers to buy renewable energy from upstate plants instead of making expensive building renovations, although the emissions workaround failed to advance.

MARK SUDBEY CEO EasternGen For the past 15 years, Mark Sudbey has run EasternGen and its predecessor US PowerGen, which includes the Astoria Generating Station, a 959-megawatt natural gas and fuel oil plant, and two floating natural gas facilities on six barges in Gowanus Bay and the Upper New York Bay. The company hopes to renovate the Gowanus plant and close its Narrows station, resulting in a new natural gas plant, but climate activists and some city lawmakers want the peaker plants shut down for good.

37 JOSEPH DOMINGUEZ CEO Exelon Generation Chicago-based Exelon Corp. is planning a corporate split in 2022, keeping its transmission and distribution utility operations while spinning off its power plants

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into a separate company. The new business, to be named Constellation, will be led by Joseph Dominguez and will include the company’s nuclear plants – including three operating in upstate New York – pending approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and New York Public Service Commission. Dominguez previously managed ComEd’s electric grid, which serves 4 million people in and around Chicago.

York State Department of Environmental Conservation, whereupon he reclaimed his old position chairing the Committee on Environmental Protection. The Queens lawmaker has since played an important role in determining the legislative body’s response to critical environmental issues in New York City at a time when storms and other disasters have starkly illustrated the city’s vulnerability.

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New York City Council Committee on Environmental Protection New York City Council Member James Gennaro rejoined the legislative body this February after serving as a top official in the New

Sikora pushed for legislation banning gas in newly constructed buildings.

New York Communities for Change New York Communities for Change relies on Pete Sikora to advocate for its climate priorities on the local and statewide levels. Over the course of the past year, Sikora has pushed for New York City lawmakers to pass legislation that would ban gas in newly constructed and gut-renovated buildings, in an effort to reduce pollution and emissions locally. He has also

Ending pollution from singleuse plastics has been a top priority for Judith Enck. She founded Beyond Plastics in 2019, after serving as a regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overseeing environmental policies in New York and elsewhere. Her advocacy group has been pushing for change at the national level, including calling on Congress and the Biden administration to allocate funding to cut back plastic usage.

41 DONNA DECAROLIS PRESIDENT National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation Donna DeCarolis knows seismic changes are coming to the energy industry, so the Western New York executive has been modernizing pipelines and decarbonizing her company. However, DeCarolis opposes decommissioning natural gas infrastructure. A member of the state’s Climate Action Council, which was created by the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, she also worries her company could face significantly higher taxes if the legislature goes a step further in passing the Climate and Community Investment Act.

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CHRISTOPHER ERIKSON BUSINESS MANAGER IBEW Local 3 Christopher Erikson has spent 15 years fighting on behalf of more than 27,000 members working in construction and utilities as business manager of IBEW Local 3. The union leader remains a staunch advocate for generating new jobs as New York transitions to more renewable energy, serving as a member of the labor-led Climate Jobs New York coalition. He also serves on the executive board of the New York City Building and Construction Trades Council and the New York City Central Labor Council.

also has joined calls for New York to limit cryptocurrency mining and pushed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to pause federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

44 BILL ULFELDER NEW YORK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Nature Conservancy From the far reaches of the Adirondacks to New York City, Bill Ulfelder is dedicated to conservation. His work has helped protect more than 200,000 acres of land across the state and his advocacy has pushed lawmakers to set aside more state and local funding to conserve water and land in New York. The Nature Conservancy’s New York division has also been a staunch advocate for the state’s $3 billion Restore Mother Nature Bond Act, which will be up for a referendum next year.

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renewable energy from upstate to Queens failing to advance.

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Food & Water Watch Stopping new fossil fuel infrastructure projects from going forward in New York has been a priority for Alex Beauchamp this past year, which made Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to deny permits to two natural gas plants earlier this year a major victory for Food & Water Watch and other environmental activists. As the organization’s northeast region director, Beauchamp

New York-based LS Power has been proactive in the transition to clean energy. In 2019, it teamed up with the New York Power Authority to upgrade transmission lines, and in New Jersey it’s aiming to convert a former coal plant into a renewable energy hub. However, the company’s Rise Light & Power subsidiary has hit a few hurdles at its Ravenswood facility in Long Island City, with a battery storage project delayed and a proposed transmission project that would have brought

Brown & Weinraub One of Albany’s preeminent lobbyists, David Weinraub has maintained close relationships with the Second Floor since he served in the administration of Mario Cuomo. Weinraub’s topgrossing firm has represented a number of clients in the energy sector, including the Astoria Generating Company, American Petroleum Institute, New York American Water, EDP Renewables, Danskammer Holdco and

Ørsted Wind Power of North America, which is playing a key role in the development of offshore wind power in New York.

47 JOSEPH DEROSA LOBBYIST Bolton-St. Johns Joseph DeRosa serves as a key lobbyist dedicated to energy issues, as well as transportation and technology, at Bolton-St. Johns. His prior experience as a lead project manager at New York State Energy Research and Development Authority gives him important insight into his current position. While there, DeRosa managed many aspects of the agency’s

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financing products, bolstering the creation of green jobs and energy improvements in residential buildings.

played a major role in halting the Industry City rezoning after Uprose criticized the proposal for limiting the potential for green industrial jobs in Sunset Park. Yeampierre and her organization have praised a subsequent proposal to expand offshore wind and renewable energy infrastructure in the area. In addition to heading Uprose, Yeampierre also serves as co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance.

48 MARIE FRENCH ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTER Politico New York No one has cornered the environment and energy beat in New York as comprehensively as Marie French. The dogged Politico reporter details the key developments – such as her recent scoop on the state Climate Action Council’s draft report – and disentangles for energy industry insiders and lay audiences alike complex jargon on issues like the true cost of the state’s two new transmission lines and permitting for natural gas plants. French has also assisted with coverage on the state attorney general’s investigation into Andrew Cuomo.

49 JAMES SHILLITTO PRESIDENT Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2 New Yorkers ensconced in their homes over the past year and a half became acutely aware of the sacrifices utility workers made to keep our

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power running throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Their efforts were included in an essential workers memorial the state unveiled in Battery Park. But James Shillitto still fought to get his union members prioritized for COVID-19 vaccinations in January. He also opposed the closure of Indian Point in April, which meant the loss of hundreds of union jobs and a significant source of clean energy.

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year, Tonio Burgos has added new blood in New Jersey and picked up a new energy client, Invenergy, which the state selected to build an $11 billion, 174-mile high-voltage direct current transmission line that will be combined with new solar and wind projects in upstate New York.

51 ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UPROSE

52 JANICE FULLER PRESIDENT, MID-ATLANTIC Anbaric With offshore wind projects advancing off Long Island, Anbaric is looking to join the action. The electric transmission infrastructure company, which is based in Massachusetts but got its start on an underground and undersea power cable in New York a decade and a half ago, is pitching its Downstate Clean Powerlink to link new offshore wind farms to downstate customers. The company’s point person on the project is Janice Fuller, who joined Anbaric nearly three years ago after holding key energy policy roles for Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey.

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55 LEMUEL SROLOVIC ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION BUREAU CHIEF Office of Attorney General Letitia James

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Working Families Party alum Stephan Edel joined NY Renews two years ago to ensure New York’s landmark climate law stays on track to reduce carbon emissions 40% statewide by 2030. Since then, Edel has led rallies and testified before state lawmakers to emphasize the state’s commitments after the Cuomo administration removed social justice and labor provisions that would help disadvantaged communities combat climate change. His efforts have the

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Lemuel Srolovic leads environmental protection initiatives in the state Attorney General’s office. That includes overseeing prosecution of companies and individuals violating environmental laws and guiding broader efforts to strengthen environmental regulations in New York. For example, Srolovic played a key role supporting Attorney General Letitia James and other leaders in coming to an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to tackle air pollution in the state.

56 BEN FURNAS, SUSANNE DESROCHES & JAINEY BAVISHI DIRECTOR, MAYOR’S OFFICE OF CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY; NEW YORK CITY DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENERGY, MAYOR’S OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND OFFICE OF RESILIENCY; DIRECTOR, MAYOR’S OFFICE OF RESILIENCY Ben Furnas, Susanne DesRoches and Jainey Bavishi are three key officials in the de Blasio administration helping New York City to stay resilient in the face of climate

change. Furnas became director of the Mayor’s Office of Climate and Sustainability in April, after leading the city’s climate initiatives such as improving building energy efficiency and expanding and electrifying the city’s fleet. DesRoches heads up analysis and positions on a wide range of energy policies on behalf of city government, including new power transmission and climate change resiliency. As head of the Mayor’'s Office of Resiliency, Bavishi has been leading much of the city’s response to increased flooding from storms and efforts to build up storm protections. She may soon be heading to the Biden administration after recently being nominated to serve in a top position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

57 ANTONIO REYNOSO CHAIR New York City Council Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management New York City Council Member Antonio Reynoso is wrapping up his tenure helming the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management as he prepares to become Brooklyn’s next borough president next year. He has actively worked on numerous successful pieces of legislation transforming New York City’s sanitation system throughout his time on the City Council, most notably spearheading a bill signed into law in 2019 that established

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Protection Act of 2019. The self-described “climate auntie” has also worked for the NY Renews coalition, NRDC and the Environmental Defense Fund.

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a commercial waste zoning system across the city.

58 VINCENT SAPIENZA COMMISSIONER New York City Department of Environmental Protection Vincent Sapienza was in the hot seat along with other New York City officials after Tropical Storm Ida made landfall this year. Historic flooding illustrated the need to ensure that the city’s wastewater and sewage systems – which Sapienza oversees – can handle future storms. A longtime official with the city Department of Environmental Protection, Sapienza has monitored progress on green infrastructure projects designed to absorb or hold water in the face of heavy downpours.

59 THOMAS SPANG CEO Advanced Power The Boston-based energy development, financial structuring and asset management company Advanced Power’s tagline is “A clear vision for cleaner energy.” In New York, its Cricket Valley Energy Center, a natural gas plant in Dover, is helping to fill the generation void left by the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant. However, Cricket Valley

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has raised environmental concerns in New York and nearby Connecticut, even as it pledges to transition to “green” hydrogen to comply with stricter state regulations.

60 KELLY TRICE PRESIDENT Holtec Decommissioning International When the time came to shut down Indian Point’s nuclear reactors in April 2021, Entergy handed over the keys of the complex to Holtec to decontaminate the site and make the surrounding area safe for residents and workers. Fortunately Holtec has Kelly Trice, who brings three decades of management expertise in decommissioning nuclear facilities, to oversee the clean-up on the 240-acre site. The company aims to place Indian Point’s used nuclear fuel in dry storage facilities less than three years after the plant’s shutdown.

61 PEGGY SHEPARD & SONAL JESSEL CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; DIRECTOR OF POLICY WE ACT for Environmental Justice The coronavirus pandemic brought an increased urgency toward undoing the disparities in communities of color

Historic flooding exposed vulnerabilities in New York City's wastewater systems.

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brought about by decades of environmental racism. WE ACT for Environmental Justice’s Peggy Shepard, a giant in the field who sits on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and helped improve northern Manhattan’s air quality, has urged the Biden administration not to forget about developing countries and pressured state leaders to reduce carbon emissions by scrutinizing permitting. The organization’s policy director, Sonal Jessel, has run a heat, health, and equity initiative, helping to develop a thermal map of the city’s neighborhoods most vulnerable to the ravages of extreme temperatures.

62 REBECCA MARINO & ANNE TARPINIAN SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTS Ostroff Associates Rebecca Marino and Anne Tarpinian co-lead the energy and environmental portfolio at the Albany lobbying firm Ostroff Associates. The duo bring nearly 50 years of state government and government affairs experience combined to the firm, which Marino joined in 2017 and Tarpinian in 2019. Among their specialties

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are renewable energy, transmission and offshore wind, as well as assisting clients responding to the implementation of the state’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

but that doesn’t mean they can’t learn some new tricks. William Flynn brings his experience as former chair of the state’s Public Service Commission and president of NYSERDA to the law firm where he counsels clients on state and federal regulations regarding energy matters. He represented the first developer who filed a solar-only energy project in the state and facilitates discussions on clean energy and the green economy.

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64 ROBERT HOWARTH PROFESSOR OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY Cornell University Cornell University ecology and environmental biology professor Robert Howarth is not afraid to pour cold water on innovative energy technology if it doesn’t work or could or do harm. He chided

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Bill Gates’ investments in a modular nuclear reactor as a distraction from cheaper, more effective renewables and questioned the natural gas industry’s production of “blue hydrogen” for releasing methane and carbon emissions. As a Climate Action Council member, Howarth has focused on the cost of climate initiatives while drafting a scoping plan to guide agencies.

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governments on policies regarding renewables, grid modernization and financing energy infrastructure, has supported clean energy initiatives in the American Jobs Plan and urged privatesector employers to reorient toward sustainability. He also led Pace’s partnership with the Westchester County Association to launch a clean energy portal to help businesses find government initiatives allowing them to lower their carbon emissions.

MANAGING DIRECTOR, CLEAN ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY GROUP Capalino One of New York City’s top lobbying firms, Capalino houses its only strategy team dedicated to working on policies and initiatives that help New York reach its climate goals over the next quarter century. As the head of Capalino’s energy and sustainability practice since 2017 and an NRDC alum, Rich Kassel has advised nonprofit and corporate clients on how to lower their carbon footprint by upgrading existing properties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or introduce new technologies to the market.

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Pace Law School brought Craig Hart on to run the school’s energy and climate center two years ago. Hart, who has advised

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New York’s largest battery storage project is coming to Astoria, at the site of a former fossil fuel plant. And 174 Power Global, a solar energy company led by Henry Yun,

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Michael Gerrard and Alex Halliday helm two of Columbia University’s top institutions focused on environmental issues, the Sabin Center and the Earth Institute, respectively. Gerrard’s expertise in environmental law has earned him respect in New York and on the national stage, providing key insight into legal tools that can be used to fight climate change and challenges surrounding environmental policymaking. As director of the Earth Institute, Halliday oversees an organization that brings together top scholars from across multiple disciplines to understand strategies for promoting sustainability globally.

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New York’s top energy and nanotechnology experts. Flynn focuses on helping clients of the 187-year-old firm follow state environmental and energy regulations as well as redevelop brownfields. He helped successfully convert a former industrial brownfield into a working manufacturing facility for the first time in the state. Flynn, who has more than three decades of experience in environmental and energy law, also specializes in solar and wind projects involving payment-inlieu-of-taxes agreements and hydropower projects.

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will be taking on the task of developing it. With more than two decades’ worth of executive experience, Yun has developed the Irvinebased 174 Power Global from its start-up stage to being a leader in the industry. The New York State Public Service Commission approved the proposal from Con Edison and the company in July, with plans for the facility to be complete by the end of next year.

69 DENNIS ELSENBECK CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER Viridi Parente As battery technology advances and increasingly becomes part of the answer to addressing climate change, companies like Viridi Parente are gaining momentum. The Buffalo-based lithium-ion

battery storage company, which operates at a former General Motors plant, brought on Dennis Elsenbeck last year as chief sustainability officer. Elsenbeck, a National Grid veteran who is a member of the state’s Climate Action Council, remains a consultant on energy matters with the law firm Phillips Lytle LLP.

70 DAVID P. FLYNN PARTNER AND PRACTICE TEAM LEADER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT PRACTICE TEAMS Phillips Lytle LLP Buffalo-based attorney David P. Flynn is one of Western

71 ELIZABETH STEIN LEAD COUNSEL, ENERGY TRANSITION STRATEGY Environmental Defense Fund Elizabeth Stein has been at the forefront of the legal and legislative challenges toward creating a clean energy economy for nearly 12 years. The nonprofit leader has focused on helping New York’s electric system become more resilient following extreme weather events and pushing for electrical grid upgrades to allow for more electric vehicles on the road. Stein is particularly focused on electric bus and truck charging stations since trucks

Yun is developing New York City's largest battery storage project.

alone account for 10% of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions.

72 HAYLEY CARLOCK DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Scenic Hudson Hayley Carlock isn’t afraid to use every legal means to ensure the Hudson River Valley remains unspoiled for generations to come. She celebrated the state’s plans to deny permits for NRG’s Astoria natural gas plant and Orange County’s Danskammer power plant in October, and she opposed a floating barge project in Columbia County. Carlock is also keeping the pressure on the EPA to track GE’s progress in removing PCBs from the Hudson River, after a judge dismissed the state’s lawsuit against the feds over the cleanup.

73 ANTHONY CONSTANTINOPLE PRINCIPAL Constantinople & Vallone Many major players in New York’s energy and environmental sectors turn to Anthony Constantinople for his lobbying expertise. As a principal at the top government relations firm Constantinople & Vallone, Constantinople has worked with clients such as Waste Management and NRG, helping to push forward projects dedicated to energy storage, wind energy and electric vehicle charging. His firm played a key role in helping to establish a large battery energy storage project

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at the site of a former power plant in Astoria earlier this year.

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In a sign of the impact that the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is having on energy policy in New York, the state Department of Environmental Conservation in October cited the landmark legislation in its decision to block an air permit required for a proposed repowering of the Danskammer Energy Center with natural gas. The decision is a blow to Danskammer’s Bill Reid, but he is appealing on the grounds that he’s being held “to standards that don’t even exist.”

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Earlier this year, NRG moved its corporate headquarters from New Jersey to Houston, citing local support for the energy company and its climate action plan. While the company still has a significant presence in the Northeast – including New York power plants in Astoria, Staten Island and Oswego – it recently had a natural gas repowering at its Queens facility blocked by the Hochul administration. NRG’s Tom Atkins blasted the decision, arguing that the proposal would have reduced carbon emissions and helped meet energy demand.

Kyle Bragg wields major political influence in New York as head of the country’s largest property services union. And he brings some of that clout to support environmental initiatives. 32BJ SEIU is on the steering committee for NY Renews, a statewide coalition group trying to advance renewable energy and the creation of clean energy jobs. The union also made headlines for being among the first labor organizations to back the Green New Deal.

Citizens Campaign for the Environment

TOM ATKINS VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT

The Farmingdale-based environmental advocate has been keenly aware of Long Island’s vulnerabilities to groundwater contamination and coastal degradation due to the climate crisis. Adrienne Esposito has pushed for homeowner grants and incentives for upgrading septic systems to prevent toxic tides, secured nearly $3 million in federal grants to preserve Long Island Sound water quality, and welcomed a wind farm off the South Fork and a solar farm on a golf course. Her next targets include remediating PFAS contamination sites on the

The Public Utility Law Project was founded 40 years ago in the wake of the nation’s oil crisis, but its leaders never could have imagined the economic devastation wrought by a pandemic. Richard Berkley, who heads PULP and the affiliated New York’s Utility Project, pressed for a statewide moratorium on disconnections for electricity, gas and water service during the public health crisis. He also called for states to use federal rescue plan funds to cover household utility debts and is demanding the state trim National Grid’s proposed rate hikes.

79 CORTNEY KOENIG WORRALL PRESIDENT AND CEO Waterfront Alliance The Waterfront Alliance brings together more than 1,100 organizations across the New York metropolitan area to fight for more resilient waterfronts in New York City. Cortney Koenig Worrall has led its work for the past year, pushing for the city’s leaders to reduce greenhouse gas

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emissions, invest in waterfront infrastructure, and prevent flooding in the five boroughs. Before joining the Waterfront Alliance, Worrall headed the National Parks Conservation Association’s Northeast office.

80 MARITZA SILVA-FARRELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALIGN The indefatigable progressive strategist has led some of the most significant campaigns that straddle the intersection of labor and environmental justice in New York. This year, Maritza Silva-Farrell has demanded that New York City install solar panels and HVAC systems in schools, called for state leaders to pass a bill protecting construction workers from wage theft, and pressed the governor to require workplaces to follow COVID-19 protocols. She is currently part of a new coalition demanding antitrust legislation for e-commerce and technology companies.

81 JEFF VOCKRODT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Climate Jobs NY As New York officials target greenhouse gas emissions and invest in clean energy, Jeff Vockrodt of the labor-backed Climate Jobs NY coalition

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has reminded leaders that a green economy comes with job growth. Earlier this year, Vockrodt advocated for a wind turbine assembly hub in Sunset Park on account of the jobs it would create. He also pressed NYSERDA to retrofit city school buildings and add solar power, which could save $70 million per year in energy costs, and called on Congress to pass Build Back Better legislation.

82 ZACHARY DUFRESNE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York Solar Energy Industries Association The state’s solar energy industry got a jolt when Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans in September to expand New York’s energy grid to include 10 gigawatts of solar energy by 2030. Zachary Dufresne, who joined NYSEIA in November, is already preparing for the ways solar panels can be integrated with active farms upstate while benefiting both industries (to meet its climate goals, the state could need 30,000 to 42,000 acres of solar fields). Dufresne also organized the 2021 New York Solar Summit.

83 KIM FRACZEK DIRECTOR

Sadie McKeown is executive vice president at Community Preservation Corp.

activists demanding that New York swiftly transition to renewable energy while excluding fossil fuel companies from participating in the process. This summer, Sane Energy filed a lawsuit opposing National Grid’s planned natural gas facility in Greenpoint, and Fraczek led a rally to pressure the DEC to halt the permits for the site. Fraczek also backed bills in the New York City Council and state Legislature that would prevent buildings constructed after 2023 from receiving gas hookups.

84 MITCH DAVIDSON MANAGING PARTNER AND CEO

Sane Energy

Brookfield Renewable Power Group

Kim Fraczek is at the vanguard of a new generation of eco-

The global alternative asset management company

To meet its climate goals, the state could need 30,000 to 42,000 acres of solar fields.

Brookfield Asset Management is known for its real estate holdings, but it also is a major player in the renewable energy sector. The company’s renewable business in the U.S. is led by Mitch Davidson, the former president and CEO of NextEra Energy Resources who has been with Brookfield since 2018. The company has dozens of hydropower facilities in its New York portfolio as well as several upstate wind farms.

85 SADIE MCKEOWN EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF CONSTRUCTION LENDING AND INITIATIVES Community Preservation Corp. When Sadie McKeown was appointed this past summer to the board of NYSERDA, the state’s energy, research and development authority, she was put in position to help determine how billions of dollars in energy storage and production will be spent in coming years. McKeown also oversees $400 million in

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construction loans annually at the nonprofit Community Preservation Corp. and is working with property owners to get on the path toward electrification of their buildings.

energy business in New York City and Long Island, has completed more than $100 million in engineering services for municipalities, universities and private sector clients in the dozen years he’s served as a vice president. He’s also spearheaded the development of roughly 2,000 megawatts of solar energy and wind projects in the region.

THOMAS MCMAHON PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER TLM Associates

LIZ MORAN NEW YORK POLICY ADVOCATE Earthjustice Thomas McMahon is president and founder of TLM Associates.

environmental risk and carbon usage from property owners. Mandyck was recently named a member of Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ infrastructure, climate and sustainability transition committee.

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JOHN MANDYCK

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Rahwa Ghirmatzion has been fighting for sustainable housing for years. A former child refugee from Eritrea, Ghirmatzion has led PUSH Buffalo’s efforts to transform an abandoned school building into energy-efficient senior apartments, part of its longterm Green Development Zone plan. This year the group is starting construction on a 49-unit rental housing project in the city’s West Side. Ghirmatzion is a member of the Climate Justice Working

When New York City enacted Local Law 97, which imposes fines on large buildings if they don’t lower their carbon emissions 40% by 2030, John Mandyck recommended focusing on energy efficiency instead of carbon so that buildings aren’t punished for their density. But the Urban Green Council leader supports letter grades on buildings indicating their efficiency and more disclosure of

Group, which is monitoring the state Climate Action Council for industry influence in the state’s environmental plans.

89 SCOTT THOMPSON VICE PRESIDENT WSP When governments, nonprofits and large corporate entities need a civil engineering firm to ensure their buildings meet sustainability goals, they call WSP. Scott Thompson, who leads WSP’s renewable

Liz Moran knows that New York is at a critical juncture in fighting the climate crisis. As NYPIRG’s environmental policy director, Moran compiled a report calling on New York to curtail its reliance on fossil fuels, boost renewables and increase energy efficiency. Since she joined Earthjustice in September, Moran has focused on encouraging Albany lawmakers to adopt an aggressive climate agenda, including blocking natural gas pipelines and plants in next year’s legislative session, and pressing Gov. Kathy Hochul to impose a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining upstate.

91 ANDY MARSH PRESIDENT AND CEO Plug Power Plug Power, a leading company focused on hydrogen fuel cell technology, has expanded its presence in New York state under Andy Marsh’s leadership. The company opened in Monroe County a new $125 million

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Thomas McMahon’s lobbying firm has attracted a wide range of clients in the environmental and energy space. Companies and nonprofits like Action Carting Environmental Services, the Waterfront Alliance and the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative have relied on TLM Associates to push their priorities in New York City and Albany while other housing groups collaborate on green sustainable building initiatives. McMahon has extensive experience in city government, including having served as general counsel to the New York City Council before founding his lobbying firm in 2005.

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for open space preservation and climate change-related projects and another $500 million for municipal clean water grants in the state budget. In November, the Adirondack Council published its Vision 2050 plan for preserving the park’s ecology and managing its watershed over the next three decades.

Clare Newman and Alicia Glen, above, lead The Trust for Governors Island.

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wins backing candidates for office at the local, state and federal level in New York, and one of their key policy platforms is a Green New Deal. Gustavo Gordillo, a DSA activist who has served on the organization’s Green New Deal for Public Schools steering committee, is a supporter of DSA-backed Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s Green New Deal for Public Schools, telling Jacobin magazine that the DSA must “be more embedded in working-class institutions, which public schools are.”

CHAIR; PRESIDENT AND CEO Trust for Governors Island

Innovation Center, which will manufacture hydrogen fuel cell stacks and electrolyzers, last month. It also recently began construction on a $290 million hydrogen fuel production facility and electricity substation in Genesee County.

92 DALE IRWIN PRESIDENT Greenidge Generation The bitcoin revolution is transforming communities in upstate New York, where entrepreneurs have responded to demand for energyintensive computerized bitcoin processing by powering up old generating plants. Companies like Dale Irwin’s Greenidge Generation in the Finger Lakes, which uses natural

gas power at an old coal plant, have attracted investors and created new jobs. But they’re also drawing the ire of environmentalists and some lawmakers, who are pushing for a moratorium on bitcoin mining on the grounds that it increases pollution and carbon emissions.

93 WILLIAM JANEWAY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Adirondack Council As more New Yorkers turned to the great outdoors during the pandemic, William Janeway sought to ensure state investments in the Adirondack Park’s management and climate needs. That advocacy paid off when state lawmakers included a $3 billion bond

The future of Governors Island will include year-round public access, a Winter Village and a Climate Solutions Center for addressing the effects of global warming, thanks to Alicia Glen and Clare Newman’s leadership. In May, the New York City Council passed a rezoning proposal for a 33-acre parcel of the island’s south side that could include 4 million square feet of new development. Glen is now leading a global search for the climate-focused hub in partnership with a university or research institution.

95 GUSTAVO GORDILLO NATIONAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER Democratic Socialists of America The Democratic Socialists of America have notched

96 BETTA BROAD DIRECTOR New Yorkers for Clean Power Betta Broad has been with New York Yorkers for Clean Power for six years, advocating for the state to increase its investments in renewable energy, energyefficient housing and more electric cars. Broad, who previously worked at Catskill Mountainkeeper and also handles advocacy for the Association for Energy Affordability, recently brought on an experienced hand in former state Sen. Jen Metzger in the role of senior policy adviser.

Some environmentalists want to halt bitcoin mining due to carbon emissions.

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When the youth-led Climate Strike began in 2019, Shiv Soin joined other activists in calling on local, state and federal officials to do more to fight climate change. Disappointed in the response, Soin and other young environmental activists poured their energy into TREEage. The environmental advocacy group has worked to advance support for the Climate and Community Investment Act, has endorsed a slate of New York City City Council candidates in 2021 and has worked to drum up support among students across the city.

Not all lobbyists are hired guns whose mission is to enrich their clients – just ask Jeff Jones. The Albany veteran has done political work, lobbying and communications for such environmental organizations as NRDC, the Land Trust Alliance and the Center for Creative Land Recycling. A former journalist, Jones chairs the board of WE ACT for Environmental Justice and is also a Capital Region board member of the New York League of Conservation Voters.

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Anthony Karefa RogersWright joined the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest in February this year, after taking on national-level environmental issues at the Climate Justice Alliance. That puts Rogers-Wright at the forefront of the nonprofit’s environmental advocacy in New York. He has coordinated efforts alongside the PEAK Coalition to advance renewable energy generation in the state and oppose the use of dirtier peaker power plants locally.

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC POLICY ChargePoint The Biden administration recently unveiled a plan to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations across the country, and companies like ChargePoint are taking notice. The company, which operates a nationwide network of charging stations, is among the players likely to benefit from the renewed federal push. Kevin George Miller, ChargePoint’s New York-based public policy director for nearly six years, has applauded government support for electric vehicles in his home state. The company, headquartered in California, also has offices around the globe.

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Notice of Formation of Moms Plastic Couch, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/11/2021. Office: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 180 Pearsall Dr. Apt 6G, Mount Vernon, NY, 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of DINING BY KELLY SERVICES LLC. Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: August 16, 2021. Office of the LLC: New York County. Street Address of principal business location: 211 N End Avenue, Apt. 16G, New York, NY, 10282. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 211 N End Avenue, Apt. 16G, New York, NY, 10282. Purpose of the LLC: Any lawful purpose. SKS ENERGY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/19/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 347 5th Ave, Rm 910, NY, NY 10016. Reg Agent: Susan Sahim, 347 5th Ave, Rm 910, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Elder Law Associates PLLC filed Ar ts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/17/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o The PLLC, 2926 Ave L, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: Law.

Public Notice NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, KINGS County. U.S. BANK N.A., NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2 0 1 6 - C T T, P l a i n t i f f , -againstHARVEY WIL L IAMS; L IL L IAN WILLIAMS; KINGS SUPREME C O U R T; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CIT Y OF NEW YORK ; HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A.; CITY OF NEW YORK TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; CIT Y OF NEW YORK EN V I R O N M EN TA L CONTROL BOARD, Index No. 513521/2016. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 18, 2019 and entered with the Kings County Clerk on December 18, 2019, Joseph H. Aron, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 258 Legion Street, Brooklyn, New York 11212 at public auction at the Court Steps of the Kings County Supreme C o ur t , 3 6 0 Ad am s Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, on December 16, 2021 at 10:50 A.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York known as Section: n/a; Block: 3567; Lot: 143 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 513521/2016. The approximate amount of judgment is $556,685.34 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New Yo r k 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Notice of Formation of GW Equine LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/5/21. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 12 W. 96th St., Apt. 8C, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: all law ful purposes . Notice of Qualification of Wes tches ter at Heart LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1 0/1 9/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County. LLC formed in D e l awa r e (D E ) o n 10/12/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ilyse Dolgenas, Esq., Withers Bergman LLP, 430 Park Ave., 1 0 t h F l . , N Y, N Y 10022. Address to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 1 9 8 0 1 . Ar ts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. To w n s e n d Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. M&J Real Propert y Solutions LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/2021. Office Bronx County. 170 Newman avenue Bronx, New York 10473. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Registered agents INC at 170 Newman avenue Bronx, NY 10473. Purpose : Any lawful purpose. The LLC will be perpetual. 9177147387 Notice of Formation of NOSTRAND FOUR, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/22/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY 11210. Any law ful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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Notice of Formation of FERREIRAS ATM LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9747 Shore Rd Apt F10, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CADENCE LOGISTICS LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/8/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 52 15th St Brooklyn, N Y 11215 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 11 MANOR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/1/21. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1170 Rt. 17m Ste #3, Ches ter, N Y 1 0 9 18 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Q U I N CY C L A S S O N LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/5/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 112A Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AMBR CARE, LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/15/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 777 Avenue of the Americas, 27B, New York, NY 10001. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of C R UZ 61 L LC . Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/9/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 555 Park Ave Apt. 7W, New York, NY 10065.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 414 CL ASSON LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/26/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1122A Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Apex R E LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1 0/14/2 1 .O f f ic e location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1011 East 58th St 1st Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AY D HOLDINGS LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1124 67th St Apt B2, Brooklyn, New York, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Kat’s Body Studio LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 16 Poi Ct, Staten Island, NY 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ATTICUS AND ABIGAIL II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Harris St. Laurent &amp; Wechsler, 40 Wall St 53rd Floor, New York, NY 10005. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of ECD REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/10/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1047 59th St Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Form. of MW 4355 EAST TREMONT, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/21. Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 736 West 181 Street, Apt 6C, New York, NY 10033. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EMERGENT CIT Y LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/17/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 702 49th St. #2F, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 490 FLUSHING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/04/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 490 Flushing Ave Brooklin, NY 11205. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of TNNY RESTAURANT, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/16/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528.Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Qual. of RENDR CARE HEALTH H O M E , L LC . Auth . filed with SSNY on 11/4/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/21/20. SSNY desg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: 10 Bank St #560, White Plains, NY 10606. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SHF VENTURES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/2/21. Office location: Steuben SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 113 East Ave Wayland, NY 14572 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SUNSHINE F REALTY LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4111 Church Ave Brooklyn, NY 11203. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of TNNY HOTEL , LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/16/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 4 5 3 9 162 LLC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/9/21. Office location: Queens SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 371 Clearmeadow Dr East Meadow, NY 11554. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of BEST CARE VIP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 90 State St Ste700 Box 10, Albany, NY 12207. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NOSTRAND FIVE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/22/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 2740 Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY 11210. Any law ful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Watermill Cros sing Development LLC. App. for Auth. filed with the S SN Y on 11/05/20. Originally filed with Secretary of State of Delaware on 08/14/2019. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1035 5th Avenue, Apt 15B, New York, NY 10028. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1340414) for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a TW-344 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 320 E 11TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10003 for on premises consumption. SUSHI LAB LLC. Notice of Qual. of CPFC OMA LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/27/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 9/28/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to: 10 East 40th St 10th Fl New York, NY 10016. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of CJS L eadership Pathways LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/12/21. Office location: New York County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and shall mail process to 399 E 72nd St, Apt 3E, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y. DL Asset Management LLC filed with SSNY on 11/18/2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 100 Cedar Ter, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of 6820 FORT HAMILTON LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/8/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6820 Fort Hamilton P a r k w a y, Brooklyn, N Y 11219. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of GS STL GDG LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 11/18/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 9/15/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 96 THIRD AVE . REALTY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 223 Main St 2nd Fl Port Washington, NY 11050. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Form. of DWELL CONSULTING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/18/21. Office location: Cortland. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 14 Sunnyfield Dr, Cortland, NY 13045. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Mullman Seidman Architects PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/02/21. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to: 110 West 40 th St., Ste. 2401, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: to practice the profession of Architecture. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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Notice of Formation of SPC Residential LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1 0/15/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to: Jocelyn B. Redman, Esq., Glazer Honigman Ellick PLLC, 5301 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste. 740, Washington, D.C. 20015. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of SPC Commercial LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1 0/15/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to: Jocelyn B. Redman, Esq., Glazer Honigman Ellick PLLC, 5301 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste. 740, Washington, D.C. 20015. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Alamo Management LLC filed with SSNY on November 22, 2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 150 West End Ave, Apt. 27R, New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of ORION SEVEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/22/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 88 Lexington Ave Apt 1706, New York , NY 10016. Any lawful purpose.

108 Consulting LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/15/21. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail the process to: Julia Springsteen 2411 Waits Rd, Owego N Y 13827. Purpose: any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of Alamo Advisors LLC filed with SSNY on November 23, 2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 150 West End Ave Apt. 27R New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qual. of 10GC MARX MOBILE LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 11/ 1 8/2 1 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/15/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RHINEBECK GAZETTE, LLC filed with SSNY on 08/26/2021. Office: D U TC H E S S C o unt y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 15 Rockefeller Ln, Rhinebeck, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Legal & Compliance Consultants LLC was filed with SSNY on November 8, 2021. The Office is located in New York County. The SSNY is the designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 150 West End Avenue Apt 27R, New York, NY 10023. The purpose of this LLC is any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of FATEXCAPE LLC, filed with SSNY on 10/26/2021. Office: KINGS County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: THE LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY 160 PARKSIDE AVE., APT. 15A BROOKLYN, NY 11226. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of H.R.L. MORRISON & CO (US), LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 11/16/2021. Office loc: NYCounty. LLC formed in DE on 12/17/2019. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O the LLC, 152 West 57th Street, 43rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. Address required to be maintained in DE: CSC, 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington DE 19808. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of 291 OWNER, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/28/2021. Office: NEW YORK County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 109 EAST 9 STREET, STOREFRONT NEW YORK, NY, 10003, U S A Pur p o s e: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of BOBART, LLC filed with SSNY on October 28, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 242 Liberty Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of L ightsy Images LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y on 11/0 2 /2 1 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in G A o n 11/2 2 /2 0 1 6 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY mail process to: 385 E 5th St., Mount Vernon, NY 10553 . Ar ts . of Org. filed with GA SOS. 313 West Tower 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Atlanta, Ga 303341530. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of TCLightsy LLC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 11/02 /2 1 . O f f ice location: New York . LLC formed in GA on 0 2 /0 9/2 0 1 8 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process agains t it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to: 385 E 5th St., Mount Vernon, NY 10553. Arts. of Org. filed with GA SOS . 313 West Tower 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Atlanta, Ga 303341530. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 60 East 7th Street, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/19/21. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 60 East 7th Street Apt. 2A New York, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of K E NILWOR TH 11210 LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 11/16/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 145 Kenilworth Place, , Unit CF-1A , Brooklyn, NY 12210. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of LONG YAN REALT Y LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/22/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 107 Forest St Staten Island, NY 10314. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LTCP HE 43 MANAGER LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Eli D. Greenberg, Esq., 444 Madison Ave 6th Fl New York, NY 10022. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of InnerRoot Wellness, LLC filed with SSNY on 01-19 -21 . O f fice: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 24 LORRAINE AVE 1 MT VERNON, NY 10553. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Form. of MAMMOTH SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/29/21. Office location: Chemung. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY mail process to 241 Pantigo Rd East Hampton, NY 11937. Any law ful purpose.

Bromley L andscape Design LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 10/07/2021. O f f ic e: We s tc he s te r County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, B ro ml ey L an d s c ap e Design, LLC., 617 Old Bedford Road, Bedford, NY 10506 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MERRY CLIFF TOO, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/21. Office location: Broome SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 27 Theresa Blvd, Binghamton, NY 13901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of A. Skehan Design, LLC filed with SSNY on August 10 2021. Office: NEW YORK County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 444 East 75th Street 14B NY NY 10021. Purpose: Design consultation. AMF 10 DUNE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/05/21. Office: New York Count y. S SN Y designated as agent of the LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 101 West 69th Street, Suite 1C, New York, NY 10023. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SHLJ MAINTENANCE, LLC filed with SSNY on NOVEMBER 15, 2021. Of fice: RICHMOND County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 55 BERESFORD AVE, STATEN ISLAND, N Y. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MOMENTUM LOGISTICS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 138 Freeborn St, Staten Island, NY 10306. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of NEW LESER GROUP HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/1 0/2 1 . O f f ic e location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1481 47th St Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of NICE CONDO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 382 Jefferson St, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Any lawful purpose.

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ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2019-1855/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO: Unknown Distributees Donald Edmonds Linda Darroch Short Kenneth Edmonds Bruce Darroch Robert Edmonds Donald Darroch Attorney General of the State of New York To Donald Darroch Donald Edmonds, Kenneth Edmonds, and Robert Edmonds, whose whereabouts are unknown, if living, and if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein. To the spouse, if any, and any and all other unknown distributees and creditors of JOAN WHYTE, a/k/a JOAN D. WHYTE, deceased, whose whereabouts are unknown and if any of the aforesaid persons be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if the persons died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of JOAN WHYTE, a/k/a JOAN D. WHYTE, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after due diligence be ascertained. A petition and an account having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007, United States. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on DECMEBER 16, 2021 at 9:30 A.M., why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels, and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable and necessary amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal expenses rendered to the petitioner herein; (iii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of the distributees, at which time proof pursuant to SCPA § 2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iv) that the persons above mentioned, and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (v) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA § 307 where required or directed; and (vi) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper. • To all Parties: No in-person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court notice to Cited Parties. Dated, Attested and Sealed, October 22, 2021 HON. RITA MELLA SURROGATE Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk Schram Graber &amp; Opell P.C. Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County, 11 Park Place, Suite 1008, New York, New York, 10007 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney. SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK 31 CHAMBERS STREET NEW YORK, NY 10007 (646) 386-5002

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December 20, 2021 - January 3, 2022

NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that at this time, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; in-person appearances are limited at this time. The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else. - If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1 . Yo u o b j e c t to t h e r e l i e f o r yo u are requesting discovery; OR 2 . You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Microsoft Teams or by telephone conference; OR 3 . You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel. Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours. Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Accounting_General@nycourts. gov or by mail addressed to the Accounting Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication. If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3). If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested. If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance. This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Accounting Department of this court at the address listed above or through the e-filing system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts.gov/efile . If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Accounting Department at Accounting_General@nycourts.gov . Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice but they are available to answer any question about procedure. The Accounting Department of the New Yo r k County Surrogate’s Court Notice of Formation of SINGLE BUBBLE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/21. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 2442 Ocean Ave Apt 4D, Brooklyn, NY 11229. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation o f R O S E LY N N Y U REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/22/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1458 65th St Brooklyn, NY 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WMF LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 569 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SHOT WELL AVE LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 11/30/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 176 Benedict Rd Staten Island, NY 10304. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OMLID HOLDINGS LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/16/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Phillips Nizer LLP, 485 Lexington Ave 14th flr, New York, NY 10017. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SPAM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/29/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to c/o Ashish Kumar 121 E 18th St, New York, NY 10003. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of SUPER 777 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/17/21. Office location: Queens SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5027 192nd St, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of Union 16 Borrower LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 11/17/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 11/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 162 Montague St 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of WR B H B R ANDS GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/21/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2354 East 5th St Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of XOCHITL FLORES FLOWERS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 640 40th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of ZOU & HOU 6523 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/28/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6523 11th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11219. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 5 BORO REHAB OT PT, PLLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/24/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1906 Bergen Ave Apt 3-0, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of CHI IFA, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/24/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: MYHUNGRY WORLD INC 909 THIRD AVENUE UNIT 542 NEW YORK, NY 10150 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of 306 86TH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1 0/1 2 /2 1 .O f f ic e location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 306 86th St Brooklyn, NY 11209. Any lawful purpose. NNotice of Formation of 153 DIVISION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/15/16. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 268 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 . Any law ful purpose.

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December 20, 2021 - January 3, 2022

Notice of Formation of 143 HOWELL STREET APAR TM E NT S LLC . Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/3/21. Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 140 Washington St Canandaigua, NY 14424. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 201 NASSAU AVENUE LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/17/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Paul Caine, 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400, New York, NY 10001. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 149 CHESTNUT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 149 Chestnut St Brooklyn, NY 11208. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AE BROOKLYN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/10/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 232 Lake St, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 227 GARFIELD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/14/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 195 Garfield Place, #1G, Brooklyn, N Y 11215 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 247 NASSAU AVENUE LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/12/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Paul Caine, 331 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation o f 1 81 M E S E R O L E AVENUE LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/9/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to ATTN: Paul Caine, 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400, New York, NY 10001.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of 197 EAST 7TH CC OWNER LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y on 11/2 2 /2 1 . Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 162 Montague St 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 271 AINSLIE STREET LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/9/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Paul Caine, 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400, New York, NY 10001.Any lawful purpose. P O D I A T R I C MEDICINE SURGERY CONSULTANT PLLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 11/23/2021. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The PLLC, 189 Lyman Pl., Englewood, NJ 07631. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity

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Notice of Formation of 316 S. 4TH STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/20/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attn: Paul Caine, 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400, New York, NY 10001. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of 405 EAST 6TH CC OWNER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 11/22/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 162 Montague St 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of 419 16TH CC OWNER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 11/22/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 162 Montague St 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of 764 UNION CC OWNER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 11/22/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 162 Montague St 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of CHEN LIU 640 51ST LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 10/11/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 640 51st St Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of ART THEORY - A C R E AT I V E ARTS THERAPY PRACTICE, PLLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/30/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 41-21 24th St. Apt 2J, Long Island City, NY 11101. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of B&M MARKE TS1 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/18/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to 47 Keating St Staten Island, NY 10309. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation o f B E LT B A R L L C . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/27/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 315 Flatbush Ave 537, Brooklyn, N Y 11217. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of BL ACK S WA N PROJEKT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/30/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail process to 100 Metropolitan Ave #6, Brooklyn, NY 11249.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of DAKOTA LIVE!, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/03/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Pennsylvania (PA) on 10/31/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. PA addr. of LLC: 925 W. Lancaster Ave., Ste. 220, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. Cert. of Form. filed with Acting Secy. of the Commonwealth, 401 North St., Rm. 206, P.O. Box 8722, Harrisburg, PA 17 10 5 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of COLOR FUL WOR LD LLC. Ar ts . Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/23/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 468 Van Buren St Brooklyn, NY 11221. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DE ROAD GROUP USA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/17/21. Office location: Queens SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY mail process to 15064 Melbourne Ave, Flushing NY 11367. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of DEK ALB ASSETS 2015 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/12/15.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY mail process to 141-07 20th Ave Ste 409, Whitestone, NY 11357.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of EAST 6 AND 7 BORROWER LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 11/ 1 7/2 1 . Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 11/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 162 Montague St 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of GMMGC LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1 0/2 1/2 1 . O f f ice location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s er ve d . S S N Y mail process to 15 Jaffe St Staten Island, NY 10314. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of HF2 HOTEL OWNER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/29/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m ail process to Attn: Stephen Chan / Erik Warner, 372 Court St 2nd Fl Brooklyn, NY 11231. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of Crandall Performance, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/01/2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 95 Horatio St. Apt 6T. New York, NY. 10014. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of J E N NA R E ALT Y LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 12/2/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 336 Mayfair Dr. N, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of JK 192 PROPERTY LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 192 32nd St Brooklyn, NY 11232. Any law ful purpose. V.P. POLY XENE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/02/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Vasilios Papaioannou and Polyxeni Papaioannou, 600 West 178 Street, Apt 31, NY, NY 10033. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Lovely Lore LLC, filed with SSNY on 09/28/2020 Office: KINGS County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to LLC: 5802 Snyder Ave Brooklyn NY 11203. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of IN GOOD COMPANY C A F E & E AT E R Y, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/29/21. Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5337 Mark Lane, Cazenovia, NY 13035. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of HTS WEST 42ND STREET LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/3 0/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/16/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co., 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, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of Just Salad 655 6 th Ave LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 11/15/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the company c/o Delaney C orp orate S e r vic e s , Ltd., 99 Washington Ave. , Ste. 805A, A l b a ny, N Y 1 2 2 1 0 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of STERN ETE III, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 11/19/21. O f fice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Timothy P. Te r r y, c/o T h e Hartz Group, Inc., 667 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10065. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of PYRAMID EFFECT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 11/12/21. O f fice location: N Y County. Princ. office of LLC: 173 Seventh Ave. South, NY, NY 10014. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. of fice. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of STERN EDOF, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 11/19/21. O f fice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Timothy P. Te r r y, c/o T h e Hartz Group, Inc., 667 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10065. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qualification of LBC CREDIT MANAGEMENT, L .P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/24/21. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/28/05. Duration of LP is Perpetual. 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. DE addr. of LP: 614 N. DuPont Hwy., Ste. 210, Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

December 20, 2021 - January 3, 2022

NPKB DUANE, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/06/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, 129 Duane Street, Apt. 4T, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. WIDE VIEW LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/25/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1107, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1300915) for beer, wine, liquor and cider a has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, liquor and cider at retail in a under the OP 252 Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 100 Pearl Street New York, NY 10004 for on premises consumption. Bars and Events Pearl Street LLC with Cask + Care Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1340933) for beer, wine, and cider a has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a under the OP 252 Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 67 1ST AVEUNE NEW YORK, NY 10003 for on premises consumption. WARA NY LLC Public Notice AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 52.4’) on the building at 420 East 111th Street, New York, NY (20211169). Interested par ties may contact Scott Horn (8 5 6 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1340817) for cider, beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell cider, beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 17 1 East Broadway New York, NY 10002 for on premises consumption. Segundo Management LLC BE CHIKI LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/26/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 555 West 23rd Street #N6M, NY, NY 10011. Reg Agent: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, N Y 112 28 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (Pending) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 55 Hudson Yards New York, NY 10001 for on premises c o n s u m p t i o n . BL 55 Hudson Yards NY LLC. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (Pending) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 109 WBroadway New York, NY 10013 for on premises consumption. BL 109 WBroadway NY LLC.

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PUBLIC NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS Index No.: 552506/2020 Date Summons and Complaint filed: November 17, 2020 Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is CPLR §509 SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT Plaintiff resides at 288 East 54 Street, Box 1F, Brooklyn, New York 11203. JOSEPHINE BROWN-HEATH, Plaintiff, against, WILLIAM T. HEATH, Defendant. ACTION FOR DIVORCE To the above-named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a Verified Answer, on the Plaintiff’s attorney, within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons and Complaint upon you, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if the Summons and Complaint are not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notices set forth below. Dated: November 17, 2020 Juan P. Luciano, Esq. Attorney for the Plaintiff 347 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1003, New York, New York 10016 NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the Plaintiff, Josephine BrownHeath, and the Defendant, William T. Heath, on the following grounds: (1) Irretrievable Breakdown of Relationship (DRL §170(7)) – that the relationship between the Plaintiff and the Defendant has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six (6) months; and (2) Abandonment (DRL §170(2)) – that commencing on or about January 1, 2000, and continuing one (1) year immediately prior to the commencement of this action, the Defendant left the marital residence located at 587 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York 11203, and did not return. Such absence was without cause or jurisdiction and was without the Plaintiff’s consent. The relief sough is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties. The nature of any ancillary issues or additional relief demanded is: (1) A determination of maintenance retroactive to the filing of this pleading; (2) An equitable distribution of the marital property, and a declaration as to each party’s separate property; (3) A determination of exclusive ownership, occupancy, and possession of the marital residence; (4) An equitable allocation of martial debt; (5) Granting the Plaintiff the right to resume use of any maiden name or pre-marriage surname; (6) The costs and disbursements of this action; (7) A determination of an award of counsel and expert fees; and (8) Such other and further relief as this Court may deem just and proper. Notice pursuant to DRL §255(1): the Defendant is advised that he may no longer be covered by the Plaintiff’s health insurance plan upon the entry of a judgment of divorce and that the Defendant may be responsible for his own health insurance coverage. Maintenance Guidelines Law (Chapter 269, Laws of 2015): the Defendant is advised that there is an obligation to award the guideline amount of maintenance on income up to $192,000 to be paid by the party with the higher income (the maintenance payor) to the party with the lower income (the maintenance payee) according to a formula, unless the parties agree otherwise or waive this right. Depending on the incomes of the parties, the obligation might fall on either the Plaintiff or Defendant in the action. Notice pursuant to DRL §236B(2): the Defendant is advised that the parties are bound by AUTOMATIC ORDERS, which have been entered against them in the divorce action pursuant to 22 NYCRR §202.16(a), and which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action, unless terminated, modified or amended by further order of the court or upon written agreement between the parties Notice of Electronic Filing: The Plaintiff has filed this case using the New York State Court E- filing system (“NYSCEF”)

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December 20, 2021 - January 3, 2022

Notice of Formation of GREGORIO DESIGNS, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/09/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: ANTONIO HAUGHTON ADDRESS: 2950 WEST 33RD STREE T, AP T 4D BROOK LY N , N Y 11224 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of SE COND HOME PICTURES LLC filed with SSNY on 12/13/2021. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: MONIQUE PERREAULT 4601 HENRY HUDSON PARKWAY WEST, UNIT C6 BRONX, NY, 10471, USA . Purp ose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of HORIZON MEDIA LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/24/21.Office location: New Yo r k SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Horizon Media New York Llc At tn: Scott Hazlett 75 Varick St 16th Fl. New York, NY 10013Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 15 W 89th Street Treble LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/3/21. Office location: New York County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served, and s hall mail p ro c e s s to 15 W 8 9 th S t , New Yo r k , NY 10024. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of RoziesDesigns, LLC filed with SSNY on 07/31/2020. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 37 7 Netherland Ave Staten Island, NY 10303. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (Pending) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a restaurant under the A l c o h o l i c B e ve r a g e Control Law at 575 Main S treet Armonk , N Y 10504 for on premises c o n s u m p t i o n . BL 575 Main NY LLC. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 56 feet on a 5 8 - f o o t b uil din g rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 405 East 94th Street, Brooklyn, K ings Count y, New Yo r k 1 1 2 1 2 . P u b l i c comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic p rop e r ti e s may b e submit ted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Hannah Dell, h.dell@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 4 0 0, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of Formation of 15 W 89th Street Bass LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/3/21. Office location: New York Count y. NY Sec. of State designated age nt of the L LC upon whom process agains t it may be ser ved, and shall mail process to 15 W 89th St, New York , NY 10 024 . Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of 60 East 7th Street, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/19/21. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 60 East 7th Street Apt. 2A New York, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MALINDA2 SERVICES LLC filed with SSNY on 12/06/2021 Office: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: THE LIMITED LIABILIT Y COMPANY 616 E LINCOLN A VE, APT A52, MOUNT VERNON, NY, 10552, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of Limelsa Floor Covering & More LLC. filed with SSNY on 03/24/21. Office: Westchester Count y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Jose A Ortiz 590 5th Avenue Apt. #E1 New Rochelle, NY, 10801 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Public Notice

AT&T p ro p o s e s to mo dif y an ex is ting facility (new tip heights 89.7’) on the building at 32 8 0 B roadway, New York, NY (20211229). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 56.8’) on the building at 81-50 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY (20211192). Interested par ties may contact Scott Horn (8 5 6 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Public Notice

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 80.2’) on the building at 2925 & 2929 Broadway, New York , NY (20211188). Interested parties may contact Scot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 74.5’) on the building at 69-01 35th Ave, Jackson Heights, NY (20211190). Interested par ties may contact Scott Horn (8 5 6 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Public Notice

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 71.8’ and 80.2’) on the building at 100 Lefferts Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (20211228). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 61.2’) on the building at 125 Stanton St, New York, NY (20211201). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

Public Notice AT&T p ro p o s e s to mo dif y an ex is ting facility (new tip heights 151’) on the building at 40 East 9 th St, New York , NY (20211193). Interested parties may c ont ac t S c ot t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr. , West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending for a Restaurant On Premises liquor license has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, cider, wine and liquor retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 8 Elm Street, Bloomfield, NY 14469, County of Ontario for on premises consumption. Cheap Charlie’s Restaurant LLC

Notice of Formation of L atch Insurance Agency, LLC filed with SSNY on November 24, 2021. Office: New York Count y. S SN Y designated Registered Agent Solutions, Inc. of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 99 Washington Avenue, Suite 1008, Albany, NY 12260, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending for a Retail On Premises liquor license has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in a Catering Establishment under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1100 S Goodman S t , R o c h e s t e r, N Y 14620, County of M onro e for on premises consumption. The Divinity Estate and Chapel, LLC d/b/a: Divinity Estate and Chapel

Notice of Formation of SYKO BROOKLYN LLC filed with SSNY on 11/30/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: JAMES,J KIM / ROSETTE KHOURY-KIM 214A PROSPECT PARK WEST APT A, - J AND H FARM - BROOKLYN, NY, 11215, USA Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 35 feet on a 2 3 - f o o t b uil din g rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 150 Clove Road, Staten Island, Richmond County, NY 10310. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic p rop e r ti e s may b e submit ted within 30 days from the date of this pub lic ati on to: Trileaf Corp, Laura Elston, l.elston@ trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 4 0 0, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. Notice of Qualification of DUANE WEED, LLC. Authorit y filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/21. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/15/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 8383 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 1000, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Address to be maintained in DE: 9 E. Loockerman St., Ste. 311, Dover, DE 19901. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Who was up and who was down last week

CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Senior Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton, Junior Graphic Designer Izairis Santana, Photo Researcher Michelle Steinhauser

LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST KEECHANT SEWELL

Many were surprised by Eric Adams’ choice of Keechant Sewell as New York City’s next police commissioner, but what’s more NYPD than living outside the city? We kid – Sewell grew up in Queensbridge and is moving back to the Big Apple before starting her new job. And it’s a historic one at that. She’ll be the first woman in the role.

ALICKA AMPRY-SAMUEL

Fire up the electric stoves! The outgoing New York City Council member got a major bill passed effectively banning the use of gas for cooking and heating in new buildings. New York isn’t the first city to do it, but it’s the biggest and the coldest.

DIGITAL Digital Director Michael Filippi, Digital Marketing Manager Caitlin Dorman, Digital Strategist Isabel Beebe

SYLVIA ASH Your honor, we find Sylvia Ash… guilty! The Brooklyn Supreme Court judge was convicted of obstructing justice and plenty more last week. Ash was indicted back in 2019 on charges of obstruction of justice for allegedly deleting text messages and other evidence when she learned federal agents were investigating the state’s largest credit union, MCU.

THE REST OF THE WORST ELISA SUMNER

Dutchess County Democrats, led by Chair Elisa Sumner, thought they could get a little mask-shaming into Facebook feeds by posting about how Republican County Executive Marc Molinaro tested positive for COVID-19. Molinaro said they were lying and the Dems quickly retreated by admitting they were wrong.

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You would think an employee working for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority might think twice about using a blow-up doll as a dummy car passenger to skirt HOV restrictions – but not Divirgilio.

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MARGARET CHIN & CARLINA RIVERA City Council Member Margaret Chin may be on her way out of the council – and Council Member Carlina Rivera may be out of the running for speaker – but the two Lower East Side lawmakers notched a win nonetheless. The council approved the hard-fought rezoning of the SoHo and NoHo neighborhoods, paving the way for new residential and commercial development.

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We could lament the end of the de Blasio era in City Hall, since the man has been such a consistent fixture on the losers list – and occasionally, the winners list – for the past decade. But in de Blasio’s all-butdoomed (and still unofficial) run for governor, there is a bright spot: more loser – and occasionally, winner – content for the foreseeable future. The big guy’s got the week off, but it probably won’t be long until he’s back.

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