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Assembly Member Emily Gallagher is one of six legislators that form the Socialist Bloc.

THE OFFICE OF CANNABIS MANAGEMENT last week outed 52 “illicit retail operations” from around the state that were discovered selling marijuana products without a license. The office released their names publicly and issued “cease and desist” letters to get them to stop. Well, good luck to them stopping the stampede to sell cannabis that resulted after New York legalized recreational pot in April 2021. The office issued similar warnings in February, but sales continued. Among the accused, some have denied selling weed, while others insisted they weren’t breaking the law. Part of the problem lies in the fact that the office didn’t get up and running until after Gov. Kathy Hochul entered her new post. Capitalism has little patience for waiting around on bureaucracy. It also thrives when it’s given the green light of lax enforcement. In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams urged a less “heavy-handed” approach toward people using marijuana during the eternity it’s taking the licensing process. The first licenses will come in early fall. Until then, Adams has recommended going into unlicensed shops “and explaining to that store that, ‘Listen, you can’t do this.’” While mayor-elect, he even promised what looked like a dime bag to Stephen Colbert while he was on the “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Meanwhile, New York City police aren’t acting on pot sellers, at least none that I observed in Times Square, Washington Square Park, among other public spaces. It’s all good vibes for now – and frustration for the Office of Cannabis Management. One concern, however, is over the safety of products sold without government oversight. I don’t want to be a spoiler, but there will be a harsh buzz the moment someone gets hurt.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

DSA LEGISLATORS … 8

How the progressive org keeps them in line

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PRIMARY LOSSES … 12

Challengers couldn’t unseat many incumbents

CHI OSSÉ … 14

The City Council’s youngest member figures it out

PARTY POLITICS … 18

Is Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn on her way out?

BROOKLYN POWER 100 … 23

Recognizing the borough of bigwigs

WINNERS & LOSERS … 70

Who was up and who was down last week

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will sign a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, a major environmental priority for advocates that passed the state Legislature.

“Doing the same thing for 30 years and expecting a different result is the definition of not just insanity but incumbency.” Gov. Kathy Hochul signed three environmental bills last week, including measures to reduce building emissions and another to improve heating and cooling efficiency.

HOCHUL TACKLES THE ENVIRONMENT

Following action taken to address U.S. Supreme Court rulings on abortion and guns, Gov. Kathy Hochul shifted gears to climate change and the environment, once

again referencing a recent decision. This time, Supreme Court justices rolled back the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory authority over power plant emissions. She cited the decision as she signed into law three new climaterelated bills, including

– Congressional candidate Suraj Patel, who is running in the 12th District, via the New York Post

one meant to reduce building emissions in the state, a major source of greenhouse gases. Hochul again spoke about the urgency of the climate crisis when she announced $255 million in clean water infrastructure. However, she still hasn’t indicated whether she

PAY RAISE COMES TO LIFEGUARD’S RESCUE

KITTY HALL RETURNS Eric Adams may not be happy with the press coverage of the first six months of his administration, but the New York City meow-or had the right idea in mind for some free pawsitive publicity. Adams cuddled up with a kitten at an American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pet adoption event this week that was, sadly, closed to the media.

Hochul and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy agreed to split the state-level costs of the Gateway project down the middle, paving the way for a new train tunnel under the Hudson River delayed thanks to years of political squabbling between the two states as well as the federal government. New York and New Jersey previously reached an agreement with the federal government in 2015, but then Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie disagreed on how they would split their share of the costs. And though they ostensibly settled matters in 2017, they ran into the Trumpled federal government, stalling the project once again.

“The representative from upstate really came in with a big war chest.” – Congressional candidate Carlina Rivera, referring to her 10th District competitor Mondaire Jones

As New York City public pools officially opened for the summer, the city faced a shortage of lifeguards there and at beaches to keep swimmers safe. At first, Mayor Eric Adams said that raising their pay would not help alleviate the staffing crisis. But after a significant pressure campaign, he announced that lifeguards would receive a 20% pay bump,

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with starting salaries now sitting at $19 per hour. Until the city can staff up, many New Yorkers will have limited access to public pools and beaches, with some unable to open and others forced to limit their capacities.

NEW CRIME DATA IN NYC

Following the violent Fourth of July weekend that saw over 50 people shot – including seven who died – the New York City Police Department released new crime statistics that showed shootings have gone down this June compared to June of 2021. The city also saw a decrease in murders both year-to-date compared to last year as well as in June compared to May. However, overall crime had increased by about 30% year-overyear. Concerns over crime continue to drive political conversations at both the city and state levels, with public

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safety a key factor for the GOP in the race for governor

JCOPE’S LAST STAND

In the last hours of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics’ existence, the now-defunct state ethics agency released a report on how former Gov. Andrew Cuomo got approval for his controversial COVID-19 book deal. It found that Cuomo and his administration largely had control of the situation, setting the terms for what information it would disclose and when. The report concluded that JCOPE effectively rolled over for Cuomo and allowed him to coerce the agency into expediting the approval with minimal oversight. The decision to release the report was the agency’s final move before it was replaced by the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government.

New York City lifeguards got a 20% pay increase last week after some pools and beaches were unable to open due to lifeguard staffing shortages.

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New York’s true two-person race for governor As promised, the Working Families Party has named Gov. Kathy Hochul and Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado as its candidates for their respective offices after Jumaane Williams and Ana María Archila lost in the June Democratic primary. The development was not unexpected, as the WFP said it would not play spoiler if their original candidates lost, and Hochul said she would accept the party’s line if offered. But the lack of fanfare was noteworthy thanks to a recent change in the law that made the process exponentially easier. And with Williams off the ballot, the race for governor in November will officially have no third party or independent candidates joining Hochul and Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, a first for the state in recent elections. In years past, getting a candidate off the ballot presented something of a challenge. The WFP – and any other third party that had nominated a candidate who lost in a major party primary – needed to nominate that candidate for a different office, generally a remote judgeship. In the case of Cynthia Nixon in 2018, who is not a lawyer and could not technically run to be a judge, the WFP placed her on the ballot in her Assembly district. This process was twofold: first, remove the Assembly placeholder

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by nominating that person to a remote judgeship, then designating Nixon to appear on the Assembly ballot to free up the gubernatorial line for Andrew Cuomo. In short, the process was convoluted and messy. A new law in the state simplified that process by giving third-party candidates the option to decline the designation within a handful of days of losing a major party primary. No placeholders and upstate judicial races needed. Williams and Archila made use of this new law, allowing the WFP to nominate Hochul and Delgado in their stead. This year, only Hochul’s and Zeldin’s names will appear on the ballot. Hochul will occupy the Democratic and WFP lines, while Zeldin will appear on the Republican, Conservative and (potentially) Independence Party lines. This year, candidates for the Green and Libertarian parties failed to get on the general election ballot. That means voters won’t see perennial Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, nor Libertarian Larry Sharpe. Although third party candidates have historically had negligible impacts on the outcome of gubernatorial races in New York, their absence this year truly does make the November election a strictly two-person race. – Rebecca C. Lewis

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FRIDAY 7/15

The New York City Council holds a hybrid stated meeting at 1:30 p.m. in the Council chamber.

The state Office of Cannabis Management tours an Ulster County farm to review the first crop of marijuana for legal recreational use at 2:30 p.m.

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NYC FERRY IS TAKING ON WATER CITY COMPTROLLER BRAD LANDER FOUND $224 MILLION IN UNDISCLOSED SPENDING. By Annie McDonough The NYC Ferry service launched by then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017 is notoriously expensive to operate. In order to keep fares at $2.75 per ride – equal to the cost of a subway or bus ride, and a priority of de Blasio’s – the New York City Economic Development Corp. subsidizes the service. According to a new report by the New York City comptroller’s office, the cost of that subsidy is even higher than previously reported. City Comptroller Brad Lander released an audit finding millions in underreported ferry expenses and overpayments to the ferry operator, Hornblower. Here are some of the key findings in the comptroller’s audit.

Total ferry-related expenditures that the audit said were not disclosed by the EDC through 2021, roughly $181 million of which was capital expenses and $43 million of which was operating expenses. The EDC said it properly disclosed all ferry-related expenses but would make new financial and operational reports available online.

The amounts by which the audit said the EDC understated the per-ride subsidy cost for fiscal years 2018 through 2021, respectively. The audit said this was due to the EDC calculating the per-ride subsidy without including the extra ferry-related expenses.

The amount that the audit estimated was spent in “questionable vessel acquisition costs.” The comptroller’s office found that the EDC overspent when purchasing vessels from the ferry operator Hornblower – including by purchasing some at prices above their true value.

The total amount that the audit recommended the EDC attempt to recoup in overpayment costs to Hornblower. However, the EDC said that it won’t seek these refunds, saying the payments were made to Hornblower in accordance with their operating agreement.

The year that Walt Whitman published his poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which Lander quoted from liberally while detailing the findings of his office’s audit. “‘It avails not,’ Whitman wrote, ‘Time nor place – distance avails not,’” Lander quoted. “Cost, however, avails.”

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A Q&A with Assembly candidate

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You are on track to be the first DSA member from upstate New York. You beat an incumbent. What was your key to success? We had everything going right for us, and I have to say that despite that, it was pretty close. And it was very difficult. And one of the motivations for running for this race is that I knew that this was a very forward-thinking progressive district, and I didn’t feel like that was coming across in the state representation. And I felt like that was an underutilization of what this district could do for the state. So you know, this district skews older, skews more women, very highly

informed voters in the Democratic base and most people that we talk to, by and large, agreed with our platform, agreed that the government should be doing a lot better. Agreed that, you know, there was too much corporate influence, that we hadn’t really seen the results of adding a Democratic supermajority. I would say that this is a campaign that spent very little money; we spent around $100,000. I am a very good organizer. The people who came on board early on are very good organizers. You know this was mostly a DSA-built campaign, specifically Mid-Hudson Valley DSA. And then once we got the Working Families

endorsement, it sort of elevated us to the next level that we needed to get to the finish line. You said people were disappointed in the supermajority in the state Legislature. What were people disappointed by? Our top three things are climate, housing and health care. But we tie those three things into the issue of our economy. Our economy is positioned to favor profits over people in need, and that has transpired into all of these crises. And when we were talking to people about these things. I think we were having conversations where we were able to do some political education

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on top of their intuitions. We talked a lot about specifically the Assembly, like what’s the composition of the Assembly. We have 105 Democrats. We only need 76 votes, which should make the Assembly very active in terms of passing bills, and that’s not the case. And how does a Democratic majority block bills? Because we don’t have Republicans blocking bills. Right? So we were able to have conversations that kind of supplemented their intuition with concrete issues in the culture of our government. What do you think your victory says about the direction of the Democratic Party in New York?

I don’t even think that this is necessarily a shift in what people want because I’m in a district where most voters are older. Most of our supporters were older, I would say 65 and above. We had a lot of supporters who were 80 and older. These are people who have always believed in this platform. I don’t think it’s the voters who have changed. It’s just that our organizing has changed. This wasn’t ideological? The breakthrough of our campaign was not gaining support for our ideology. It was being able to put our name on the ballot, and we gave them the choice because they have been ready to make that choice. – Pete Tomao

State legislators, from left, Julia Salazar, Phara Souffrant Forrest, Zohran Mamdani, Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport and Marcela Mitaynes

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THE SOCIALIST BLOC DSA lawmakers in the state Legislature are expected to present a united front – and are held accountable when they don’t.

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O BE AN unorganized socialist is a contradiction in terms,” Zohran Mamdani told City & State, explaining his decision to join the Socialists in Office committee soon after winning a Democratic primary for an Assembly seat in

2020. Mamdani, who represents the Astoria section of Queens, is a member of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and received the group’s endorsement when he ran for office. He is one of six DSA members in the state Senate and Assembly, who are collectively known as the Socialists in Office. The first socialist in office in the modern era was Julia Salazar, who was first elected to the state Senate in 2018. (Full disclosure: I am a member of NYC-DSA and donated to Salazar’s campaign.) The rest of the group were elected in 2020: Mamdani, state Sen. Jabari Brisport, and Assembly Members Marcela Mitaynes, Phara Souffrant Forrest and Emily Gallagher. These six legislators work closely with the DSA, in ways that go far beyond the usual relationship that elected officials have with community and activist groups. Following its victories in the 2020 elections, NYC-DSA created a dedicated group known as the Socialists in Office committee (SIO) to coordinate with its elected officials. The SIO includes representatives of NYC-DSA’s Citywide Leadership Committee, geographic branches (such as the Central Brooklyn branch and Queens branch), and

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working groups focused on specific issues (such as the Healthcare Working Group and housing working groups). The SIO meets regularly, typically through weekly virtual meetings and monthly in-person meetings. During the meetings, members will often discuss pending bills and strategize on how to win the DSA’s legislative priorities, which this year included the New York Health Act, the Build Public Renewables Act and “good cause” eviction. The committee is democratically run, with any member – not just those in elected office – able to suggest that the committee adopt a collective position on a certain issue or piece of legislation. “We have created a decision-making process by which we could air out a question – whether it be legislation or whatever else, or endorsements – and then have a structure to a debate and then a vote, internally, to figure out: Where do we lie on this as a committee, and how do we ensure that we move as a collective even amidst individual dissent?” Mamdani said. In cases where the committee does vote to adopt a collective position, the six legislators will be expected to vote as a bloc in the Assembly and state Senate. In other cases, though, they may vote differently from one another. “There have been a lot of occasions where we didn’t make any decision at all, and then as a result, we just ended up voting in different ways,” Salazar said. In addition to the regular SIO meetings, the six socialists in office often attend the

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DSA’s monthly branch meetings and participate in mass calls open to all DSA members, where they report back on what is happening in Albany. “Part of the function of the committee is to have mass calls where we explain what exactly just happened in this extremely complicated, last-minute process that has huge ramifications for millions of people in our state,” said Sumathy Kumar, the co-chair of NYC-DSA and a member of the SIO committee. “That is an extremely important function of the socialists that are in Albany right now, of pulling back the veil on how undemocratic, how top-down the Legislature is, all the things that they think they can get away with, and exposing that to a mass audience and agitating people to get involved, to get organized, to join a movement so that we can actually structurally change that.” The particular relationship that the DSA has with its elected officials is unique within state politics. Plenty of lawmakers belong to caucuses and informal blocs, participate in strategy calls led by outside advocacy groups and host town halls to hear from constituents. But only the DSA and socialists in office have created this hybrid model. “It’s not a one-off town hall where you hear from people and then you go back to your office and you do whatever you want,” Kumar explained. “It’s an ongoing process, it’s an organizing conversation, it’s a permanent strategy really, to have an ongoing conversation between people who have been elected and people they’re representing.” In some limited but very real sense, the elected officials who belong to SIO have been willing to share the power they have as legislators with the DSA, agreeing to support the collective goals of the SIO committee despite their own personal beliefs. “I think what’s unique about it is it truly is collaborative between the legislators in the Socialists in Office committee and the nonlegislators in the committee,” Salazar said. In theory, that could mean DSA elected officials would represent the interests of an outside group rather than the interests of their constituents. But in practice, the socialists in office say, there isn’t much conflict between the DSA’s values and those of the districts that elected them – not least because many people in those districts belong to the DSA. NYC-DSA currently has about 6,400 members. “More of my constituents are dues-paying DSA members than of any other organized

group in the district,” Mamdani said. “The guy that I beat in FIFA five blocks down from my apartment is a DSA member,” he added. “The co-owner of the bar on Avenue North where we launch our canvasses is a DSA member. The taxi driver who lives two avenues south is a DSA member. The teacher I run into on the subway platform is a DSA member. In being accountable to a mass movement, I am being accountable to my constituency.” Both Salazar and Mamdani said that they have never felt pressured by the DSA to take a stance that they disagreed with, since they all share the organization’s values and politics. “This committee is, almost fundamentally, based on our socialist ideology, right? So we’re like-minded people and like-minded policymakers,” Salazar said. That is a credit to the DSA’s electoral strategy. Unlike many progressive advocacy organizations, the DSA is extremely selective with its endorsements, only endorsing candidates who fully embrace the organization’s values and plan to work closely with the organization once in office. Often, DSA-endorsed candidates have already been active in the DSA organizing campaigns for years before deciding to run for office. So long as the DSA only endorses true believers in socialism, it can be assured that any endorsed candidate who wins election will share its goals and be eager to collaborate on future work. When it comes to the DSA’s main campaigns – such as universal health care, “good cause” eviction and publicly owned renewable energy utilities – there’s no question

that all six of the socialists in office are on the same page. When it comes to issues that are controversial within the DSA, however, the unified front of the socialists in office can fray. That was the case with the bill creating the Public Housing Preservation Trust – an enormously complex piece of legislation that enables the NYCHA to set up a public trust to accept federal housing vouchers and sell bonds to raise money from investors to repair NYCHA buildings. Many NYCHA tenants have expressed skepticism of the Public Housing Preservation Trust, though others have spoken out in favor of it. In late May, Salazar was approached by Democratic leadership and asked whether she would sponsor the state Senate version of the bill creating the Public Housing Preservation Trust. The bill had originally been introduced by state Senate Housing Committee chair Brian Kavanagh, but he withdrew his sponsorship in response to opposition from NYCHA tenants. Salazar, who supported the creation of the Public Housing Preservation Trust, agreed to sponsor the bill – without first consulting the SIO committee. Salazar maintains that she did not do anything wrong, since neither the SIO nor NYC-DSA as a whole had taken a position on the Public Housing Preservation Trust. She said that the SIO did discuss an earlier version of the bill, known as the Blueprint for NYCHA, but ultimately decided not to take a position. “In 2021, we had a discussion about it. The members of the committee who were interested actually met with representatives

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“It’s not a oneoff town hall where you hear from people and then you go back to your office and you do whatever you want.”

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– Sumathy Kumar, cochair of New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America and a member of the Socialists in Office Committee

opposed the creation of the Public Housing Preservation Trust had introduced a resolution at NYC-DSA’s annual convention calling for the organization to publicly oppose the bill. But the resolution did not pass – a reflection of the fact that some within the DSA actually support the Public Housing Preservation Trust. After the convention, NYC-DSA leadership passed an amended resolution that pledged to remain neutral on the issue of the Public Housing Preservation Trust and to create a dedicated group within the DSA known as the NYCHA Solidarity Working Group that would focus on bringing NYCHA tenants into the DSA.

from NYCHA to understand the bill better and make our own recommendations for how the bill could be improved,” Salazar said. “After that, the Socialists in Office committee determined that it was not a priority for the committee, and it clearly wasn’t a priority for the organization, so the committee took no position on the Preservation Trust.” But others within the organization felt betrayed when Salazar sponsored the bill. Last summer, a group of DSA activists who

“We moved forward with a resolution at the convention, and there was a back and forth; some in leadership didn’t want to take a hard anti stance on the Trust,” said Dannelly Rodriguez, a member of the NYCHA Solidarity Working Group. “We made compromises; DSA would not take any position on the Blueprint or the Trust until we had organized NYCHA tenants.” Rodriguez said Salazar’s unilateral decision to sponsor the bill was a slap in the face

that violated NYC-DSA leadership’s pledge to remain neutral on the issue. After Salazar announced her sponsorship of the Public Housing Preservation Trust bill, the NYCHA Solidarity Working Group published an open letter demanding that she withdraw the bill. More than 140 DSA members signed their names to the letter. “Senator Salazar has ignored NYC-DSA’s democratic decision-making process,” the letter reads. “By surprising her NYC-DSA colleagues in the State Legislature, some of whom have no firm opinion on and others of whom have major concerns with this NYCHA legislation, she has shown disregard for the SIO Committee as a concept. Albany wants to politically divide the SIO and this action accomplished that.” Salazar did not withdraw the bill, though she did hold a virtual forum with the NYCHA Solidarity Working Group and other DSA members to discuss her position on the bill. Rodriguez and other members of the NYCHA Solidarity Working Group said that their concerns were not addressed; they wanted Salazar to face some form of accountability from DSA or SIO for her decision to sponsor the bill, not just for her to explain her position. “In the aftermath, there has been zero to minimal engagement about what Julia had done,” Rodriguez said. “We had a meeting prior to the voting on the bill to try to rein her in, a ‘critical and meaningful discussion’ that ultimately led to zero accountability on her position.” When Salazar’s bill and its Assembly equivalent came up for a vote, all of her fellow socialists in office voted against the bills. Phara Souffrant Forrest, one of the Assembly members elected in 2020, also released a public statement explaining her decision: “For me, doing better means starting with NYCHA residents and engaging them deeply on the issues and what possible solutions might look like. Having spoken to my own constituents about this legislation, I have heard skepticism and a feeling that no one has invested the time to work deeply with them on shaping their future.” Rodriguez said that Salazar’s decision to sponsor the bill had led some NYCHA tenants to refuse to work with the DSA and had led him to question the DSA’s commitment to holding its elected officials accountable. Meanwhile, Fight for NYCHA, an activist group opposed to the Preservation Trust that Salazar has previously sparred with

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on Twitter, recently launched a new Twitter account called @NoDSANY with the tagline, “The DSA sold-out NYCHA. Now, they are going to find out.” Despite the acrimonious split over the Public Housing Preservation Trust, both NYC-DSA and the Socialists in Office project seem poised to continue to grow. Last year, two DSA candidates won election to the City Council – Alexa Avilés and Tiffany Cabán – prompting the organization to create a nascent City Socialists in Office committee. In the August primary, two more candidates are running for state Senate with the DSA’s endorsement: Kristen Gonzalez and David Alexis. And last month, climate organizer Sarahana Shrestha beat incumbent Assembly Member Kevin Cahill in a Democratic primary. Shrestha is a member of the Mid-Hudson Valley chapter of DSA, and before running for office, she participated in an SIO strategy workshop as an organizer on the DSA’s Public Power NY campaign. If she wins the general election in November, as she is heavily favored to, then she will continue participating in the SIO committee – but this time as an elected official. Shrestha told City & State that she did not originally want to run for office but was persuaded to run in order to expand the DSA’s legislative influence beyond New York City. “I would not have run as a candidate without DSA backing,” she said. “In this case, it was really the organization and the organizers coming together and being like, let’s run this specific member of our organization for this specific reason in this specific place.”

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Ill-fated slate Progressive candidates fell short up and down the June Democratic primary ballot.

ROGRESSIVES IN New York went into the June 28 Democratic primaries with high hopes. The Working Families Party had an ambitious slate of Assembly candidates looking to oust establishment incumbents and win open seats. Its organizers worked together with local branches of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw her support behind the candidates as well. Statewide, progressive lieutenant governor candidate Ana María Archila also had a strong presence on the campaign trail, and boasted numerous high-profile endorsers. By the end of the night, progressive organizers and candidates had come up short in the majority of their races. Archila received less than a quarter of the vote as Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado emerged with a landslide victory. In the Assembly races, only one DSA-backed candidate won out of the five nonincumbents it endorsed, while only two of the WFP’s nine priority races went its way. Across the state, it was a tough night for progressives. Despite the lackluster performances this year, a number

of different factors, including enormous outside spending and national issues pushing the policy agenda, would suggest that those losses don’t necessarily represent a death knell for the left wing of the Democratic Party in New York. Although moderates and incumbents largely came out on top this time around, differences in policy may not have driven the outcome at the polls. In fact, results in two races in particular offer reason for progressives to move ahead with confidence. Although Archila, and even less surprisingly, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, lost their statewide races, they each placed second in their contests. Supporters found comfort in the fact that they finished ahead of Rep. Tom Suozzi and Diana Reyna, who had run to Hochul’s right and campaigned heavily on increasing crime rates and denouncing bail reform. Although that pair significantly outspent their leftwing opponents, Archila and Williams ended the night with more votes. “I don’t think the results are ideological,” progressive Democratic consultant Camille Rivera of New Deal Strategies told City & State, referencing the statewide races. “It wasn’t the wins

that we wanted, but if you see the numbers here, Tom Suozzi had millions of dollars and could not outpace people like Jumaane who had none.” Both the WFP and DSA still suffered significant setbacks on June 28 despite noteworthy wins by Sarahana Shrestha in the Hudson Valley over incumbent Assembly Member Kevin Cahill and Juan Ardila in the open race to replace retiring Assembly Member Catherine Nolan. Unlike in 2018 and 2020, when progressives racked up major victories in both the state Senate and Assembly, candidates didn’t have a boogeyman to run against like the Independent Democratic Conference, nor a presidential primary at the top of the ballot where the winner would be taking on former President Donald Trump. On top of those two factors missing this year, outside interests – in particular those with real estate ties – spent big on independent expenditures to oppose the leftwing candidates who would support legislation like “good cause” eviction that would offer stronger tenant protections. “I think real estate decided and made an effort to push back as much as they wanted to … to defend their institutions,” Rivera said. Two

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Jumaane Williams and Ana María Archila fell short in their campaigns for governor and lieutenant governor.

“It wasn’t the wins that we wanted, but if you see the numbers here, Tom Suozzi had millions of dollars and could not outpace people like Jumaane who had none.” – Democratic political consultant Camille Rivera

related super PACs – Common Sense New Yorkers and Voters of New York – spent significant sums against several WFP and DSA-backed candidates, potentially running afoul of campaign finance laws. Others, like Knicks owner James Dolan’s Coalition to Restore New York, also supported some candidates facing leftist opponents. Of course, outside spending wasn’t the only factor. Candidates on the WFP’s slate got outside support from an affiliated super PAC that spent more than $375,000 combined on mailers and TV ads. The political turbulence at a national level may have also dampened the desire among Democrats to rock the boat as the U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions that challenge longheld constitutional rights like abortion. “There is a current value on moderation,” Democratic political consultant and former state Democratic Party

Executive Director Basil Smikle told City & State. “When there is discomfort and anxiety in the electorate, it’s hard to make change.” Smikle added that for the first time in over a decade, New York City has a mayor and governor who are working together, while many leftwing candidates might represent a “divergence” from the overall strategy they are leading right now. This doesn’t necessarily come down on ideological lines, but both the governor and mayor are moderate, which has been reflected in voter attitudes this year. It may also help to explain how the only progressive successes in unseating incumbents – including taking out Assembly Member Tom Abinanti in Westchester County – occurred outside the city limits. Despite the tough primary election losses, the WFP struck an optimistic tone, making note also of victories by fresh-

man Assembly incumbents like Phara Souffrant Forrest. “Despite massive crypto and real estate money tilting the playing field, our candidates worked tirelessly to amplify the needs of working New Yorkers, lifting up critical issues and policy solutions to address the crises facing New York – everything from public safety to housing to climate change,” WFP State Director Sochie Nnaemeka said in an election night statement. But Rivera said that the June results offer a lesson for progressives as they prepare for congressional and state Senate primaries on Aug. 23. “We have to do better on our messaging,” Rivera said, acknowledging that average New Yorkers are scared and remain worried about public safety. “We need to be less wonky, be more clear, we need to understand that we need to meet voters where they are.” – Rebecca C. Lewis

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SPEAKING

By Elizabeth Maline

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HI OSSÉ’S LIFE would change the moment he took the microphone and began to speak on June 1, 2020, at the third Black Lives Matter protest he ever attended. Ossé was 21 years old, and to that point he had made his name as a party promoter, a well known one at that, who hosted events at trendy venues across the city from the Public Hotel rooftop to Paul’s Cocktail Lounge. His friends and relatives did not regard him as a particularly political person. Yet there he stood, addressing thousands of people who had gathered in Times Square to protest the murder of George Floyd. “They are trying to strike fear in our hearts,” Ossé said about the police. “They want us to attack them. They want to beat our bodies. They want us to look like we are the bad people, we are peacefully protesting, don’t break your peace. Stay strong, stay fucking optimistic.” A mere eighteen days later, on the first Juneteenth federal holiday, he announced his candidacy for the New York City Council. He would successfully fend off four other candidates during a heated June primary a year later, and coast through a general election, running unopposed. Now he is a member of the council representing parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Crown Heights in Brooklyn. Those who know him best and longest are not surprised that he has worked to put himself in a position of power. “He’s definitely comfortable being in charge,” said Tai Allen, a family friend who has known Ossé for most of his life. So, how to explain the curious rise of Chi Ossé? Ossé was born in Brooklyn on March 18, 1998. His mother, Akim Vann, called him her most “challenging child,” saying he “threw caution into the wind” and was not “straight and narrow” like his brother Chuma. Vann comes from a biracial and somewhat influential family. She appeared on Sesame Street as a child and her father, Teddy Vann, was a Grammy award-winning record producer and songwriter. Both of her parents are American-born, but their parents come from Hong Kong and the Caribbean. Her children are all very vocal, she said, which forced Ossé to grow a thick skin. “He’s being trained in his household to be an analytical person,” she said. “He’s trained to speak up, trained to speak up for the underdog. I didn’t see the politics coming, necessarily, but I knew that he would be somebody who would speak up for something.” Ossé and his siblings attended Friends Seminary,

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the tony Quaker independent school on the east side of Manhattan, for middle and high school. Classmates remember him as somebody who wasn’t afraid to speak publicly, but was not very interested in politics. After graduating, Ossé headed to Chapman University in Orange, California, a roughly 30-minute drive from Los Angeles. There, he briefly studied hospitality and, at the time, intended to one day open his own restaurant. But in 2017 his father Reggie, better known as “Combat Jack,” the prominent podcaster and music attorney who represented hip-hop artists like Jay-Z, died. Ossé headed home and never returned to Chapman to complete his degree.

Chi Ossé is the New York City Council’s youngest member, and he’s making that a major asset.

Ossé started working at clubs and bars, taking freelance positions around the city. But the party came to an abrupt end in 2020, when Ossé found himself holed up in his room, quarantining like so many others. Roughly two months later on May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered and subsequently, the graphic video of his death began playing on repeat on every television news station and social media platform. “I AM SOMEONE THAT ALWAYS SPEAKS UP” Three days later, Ossé headed to the Barclays Center, just minutes away from his home, to protest alongside thousands of others. He returned to protest the next day (this time with

goggles to protect against tear gas), the next day, and every day after that until he found himself looking down over a crowd of thousands in Times Square on June 1, 2020, holding a microphone. He continued: “They want to hurt us. They want to beat us. They are taunting us. They like this. They are paid to beat us. They are paid to kill. If they do not kneel with us they are fucking against us. Applause. Don’t let them break you. Be peaceful, no fucking looting, that’s what they fucking want.” Later that day, he took to Instagram, posting: “Day 3 of protesting for Black Lives. Speaking to hundreds of people in Times Square was one of the most amazing things that I have ever done in my life.” The following day, he could be spotted atop a stone ledge in Washington Square Park. Then, he was back in Times Square, at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Brooklyn Public Library, pouring his emotions out to thousands of people. “It felt natural,” he later said. “I am comfortable speaking from the heart. I am a loud person. I am someone that always speaks up about things that I’m dissatisfied with.” Day after day, he started to recognize many of the same faces at the protests he attended, many of whom were as young as he was. They banded together to form Warriors in the Garden, a Gen Z, Brooklyn-based collective of nonviolent activists that organized daily demonstrations against police brutality. At the same time, the media were beginning to take notice of him. He was featured on a segment on NBC News and later on the radio show “This American Life.” He remembered feeling that despite the work he was doing with Warriors in the Garden, no laws had been written that would alter his life as a Black person in America no “pen to paper.” That’s why on June 19, 2020, on his 23rd day of protesting, Ossé announced his run for City Council. He was running to be the youngest and first queer person ever to hold the 36th District seat. “I did not think that at that first protest, I would be doing what I’m doing today,” Ossé said. “I never thought I would run for office before in my life.” Before that point, he admitted he didn’t understand how accessible the process for running for office could be. He also wasn’t a college graduate and had only ever worked in nightlife. But in many ways, he found campaigning for office not dissimilar to promoting parties. “I love meeting new people,” he said. Martin Rather, a former high school classmate who worked Justin in politics, Sanchez said word spread quickly among theStonewall Friends leads the Democratic of community that Ossé had becomeClub an adNew York City.

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Ossé decided to run for the City Council after organizing with Warriors in the Garden, right. He repped Bed-Stuy designers at the Met Gala, far right. Bottom left, Ossé with his parents Akim Vann and Reggie Ossé, and, bottom center, delivering groceries as a City Council member.

vocate and was running for office. Rather, who had co-founded the November Group, a ballot access firm, gradually became involved in Ossé’s campaign on the finance side. “In terms of the timeline, Chi has exceeded any expectation,” Rather said. “THE PUBLIC DOESN’T REALIZE WHAT A QUICK LEARNER CHI IS.” Here was this 21-year-old running for office for the first time, with zero political experience, in what Rather called “institutionally difficult” Brooklyn, fighting against four other candidates and the Democratic party apparatus. Ossé’s campaign proved itself legitimate. He brought in enough low dollar donations in his district to secure an additional $160,444 in public matching funds – the maximum allowed. And he was winning a wide range of endorsements from politicians including Brad Lander, now the city’s comptroller, former Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political action committee. He also won the attention of a number of prominent cultural figures in New York City: the late actor Michael K. Williams (a fellow Brooklynite) social media celebrity and filmmaker Nicolas “New York Nico” Heller, Raymond Santana of the Central Park 5, now known as the “Exonerated 5,” and Ilana Glazer of the sitcom “Broad City.” The campaign did not always go smoothly. He stumbled over debate questions. And Ossé was never seen as the front-runner. The favorite was Henry Butler, a community board district manager and retired subway conductor who had the support of the Brooklyn Democratic Party and most of the city’s biggest labor unions. On election night, to everyone’s surprise Ossé had won 57% of the vote. Rather had worked with other candidates before Ossé, and some had run for office seven or eight times before winning. Others had been thrown off the ballot or were not eligible to receive matching funds. “For Chi to adapt to the New York City political world as fast as he has, it’s a difficult system to navigate,” he said. “He is someone who is smart and navigates a system not designed to uplift people like him. The public doesn’t realize what a quick learner Chi is.” In the days before and after his victory was officially certified by the Board of Elections, Ossé was meeting prominent city politicians including Senate Majority Lead-

er Chuck Schumer, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hakeem Jeffries, as well as the now Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. Ossé was now in familiar territory – meeting with celebrities. “Some of them are big names in politics, and I respect the work that they do,” he said. “But my main mission in those meetings is to advocate for my people.” Ossé ran uncontested in the general election several months later and coasted into City Hall. He entered the council at a unique moment in its history. Because of term limits, an overwhelming majority, 36 of 51 council members, were, like Ossé, newly elected. There was a new speaker, Adrienne Adams, as well as a new mayor, Eric Adams. Ossé’s district is predominantly Black, though the percentage of Black residents has decreased significantly over the past decade, according to the NYU Furman Center. The poverty and violent crime rates stand higher than both the Brooklyn and citywide rates. Thirty percent of households in the district were severely rent burdened and 15% of people were unemployed, according to a 2017 report from the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness. Yvette Hackett, a constituent of Ossé’s, is hoping to receive disability assistance from the city for her back problems. She also wants to see a community center where young people, like her unemployed son, can learn vocational skills like plumbing and carpentry. Another constituent, Joyce Koat, who has lived in the district for over 60 years, is con-

cerned about homelessness. She also wants the city to impose regulations around scooters, roller skates and motorbikes on sidewalks because she said there is no place for the elderly to walk. Bary Cooper, head of the nonprofit Brothers Redefining Opportunity and a constituent who voted for Ossé, wants him to address the surge in gun violence. NEW COUNCIL, NEW PRIORITIES New council members often have to set aside their campaign promises, at least temporar-

“He’s trained to speak up, trained to speak up for the underdog. I didn’t see the politics coming.” – Akim Vann, Chi Ossé’s mother

ily, to respond to constituents’ demands. Ossé has already found this to be true. Constituents tell him that their biggest concern is housing. Tenants are being harassed by landlords, they tell him. They live in poor conditions, and are being, he said, “preyed on” by real estate agents. He heard this during the campaign. But now the sheer number of people who call to complain has made clear to him how dire the situation is. “When thinking about what my priorities

were prior to fully stepping into office, there were other items that definitely were above housing,” he said. “But it’s really become the No. 1 prevalent issue in our office. And it’s definitely my No. 1 concern.” Presumably, Ossé has had to sideline issues he had anticipated working to combat, like public safety. Carol Kellermann, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, said this is part of being an elected. He may have run on wanting to fundamentally change policing. But his constituents are wondering what he will do to improve how they live. “Being an elected requires compromise,” Kellermann said. “There’s no other way, even if advocates think it’s unacceptable.” Ossé has, at times, leaned into advocacy. Ossé was one of just six council members to vote against the city budget in June, which included cuts at the Department of Education and slight increases to the NYPD budget. As

a result, Ossé and the other five council members were not credited for projects they supported as part of the “Speaker’s Initiative to Address Citywide Needs.” Ossé also sparred with NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell over questions on Mayor Adams’ “Blueprint to End Gun Violence” plan. And as chair of the Cultural Affairs Committee, he attended the Met Gala sporting accessories by designers from his district. He’s balanced that with a focus on basic city services. Ossé worked with the Department of Transportation to install new crosswalks and speed bumps in his district. And since entering the council, he has taken on the issue of sanitation wholeheartedly, organizing garbage clean-ups in his district and even introducing a bill in May that would mandate annual reports on rat mitigation from the city. But he also reached back to his experience as a party promoter to introduce a bill that would provide the city’s clubs and bars with Narcan kits to reverse drug overdoses. Ossé’s age has been a topic of discussion. He said he encounters reminders of being a 24-year-old who still lives at home every day. “I think it’s pretty amazing that I’m in this job,” he said. “I think some people may see it in a negative way, less so now because I’m here now, but I always see it as a positive and as an advantage, sometimes, maybe, over my colleagues.” His mother says that his age does not lessen his responsibilities at home. He still has to clean up and take out the garbage. “In local politics, you can really effectuate change, and if he ends up in some other area, I’m okay with that too,” she said. “I just want him to maintain his authenticity.” Vann hosted a small Chinese New Year dinner in February, and she allowed each of her children to invite one person - mostly for COVID reasons. While Chuma’s chosen guest for dinner was his girlfriend, and their other two siblings brought their best friends, Ossé brought his photographer. “I think my personality, and myself, I think it attracts a crowd,” Ossé said. “I think that can sometimes be misconstrued as narcissistic, but I think I’m just very honest with myself and my feelings with other people. And I think that level of comfort is comforting for other people.”

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ODNEYSE BICHOTTE HERMELYN’S brief and conflict-filled time as the Brooklyn Democratic leader may be coming to an end. The Assembly member who took the helm of the state’s largest county organization in 2020, told City & State she’s not stepping down right now – but said she’s been busy, and left the door open to giving up power at the party’s organizing meeting in a couple months. “Those are rumors. I’m not stepping down,” Bichotte Hermelyn said. “We’ll just see what happens in September.” If she did step down, it might not entirely be her own choice. The faction of progressive reformers aligned with the New Kings Democrats has been emboldened by a strong showing in the June primary. And while they do not have a majority on 44-seat executive committee, there are a growing number of “regulars” who have also grown frustrated with Bichotte Hermelyn and are talking about

starting anew with a leader less eager to pick fights within her own party. “Probably Rodneyse is reading the writing on the wall that she doesn’t have the votes or the numbers to continue being party leader,” said one district leader, who asked for anonymity to talk about private discussions. Now, reformers are talking with county-aligned district leaders about regime change. “There are a lot of people who are happy to work with other people just because they really dislike her. And that’s the reality of it.” However, insiders say there’s no obvious successor to lead the county organization, and it isn’t clear whether any candidate

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N E K aligned with the New Kings Dems – the progressive alliance that’s been slowly building power since 2008 – would be able to win enough votes. A compromise candidate from the mainstream wing of the party could be next, or Bichotte Hermelyn may decide to stay and try to shore up support. She’s got a little time – insiders may want to avoid a shake-up before the second Aug. 28 primary, not to mention the judicial convention in early August. Bichotte Hermelyn indefinitely postponed the party’s big fundraiser at a Williamsburg banquet hall that had been scheduled for July 14. Politicos speculated that she didn’t want to get party members together in a

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Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn’s time as Brooklyn Democratic leader may be nearing its end.

room where they could plot her downfall. The boss herself said too many people were going to be out of town, and it’d be better to have it after the primaries were over anyway. “No other county leader, in the past, or currently, has better events than I do,” she said. “We’d like to continue our reputation of great parties.” But can she organize her own party, the county committee? Asked if she has the votes, the leader said: “Definitely. If I decide to maintain, whatever, run again, yes, definitely.” Some observers aren’t so sure. “It’s coming down real fast,” longtime Brooklyn political observer and election lawyer How-

ard Graubard said. “It’s changing by the minute. I think the one thing we can safely say is that Rodneyse is history.” THE KINGS COUNTY Democratic County Committee does business as the Brooklyn Dems. It represents the 1 million registered Democrats in the borough. Thousands of hyperlocal county committee members are chosen and get a vote at the biannual meeting. But the decisions really get made in the executive committee, made up of 42 – and soon, 44 – district leaders, who are also members of the Democratic state committee. And the decisions are really made by the chair of the executive committee, often

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known as the county leader or the boss. It can be a role of great influence – choosing the Democratic nominee (read: the winner) in special elections for Congress, state Senate and Assembly; appointing judges; steering work to favored political vendors; directing resources in elections; having the ear of the governor, the mayor and anyone else. In January 2020, the executive committee elected Bichotte Hermelyn to that position, the hand-picked successor to Frank Seddio, who stepped down midterm. Once an insurgent who challenged the county, as The City recently reported, she had followed the wellworn path to becoming an insider. The Assembly member from Flatbush entered with high expectations. Here was the first woman to ever lead the party, a highly qualified Black woman at that. As a Central Brooklynite, she could bridge the gap between northern and southern Brooklyn, and her relatively progressive voting record, plus a long working relationship with progressive figures like New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, meant even reformers could be cautiously optimistic. But simply put, Bichotte Hermelyn was not a unifier. As one Brooklyn political insider put it, “she’s created enemies where one needn’t exist.” Another called her “a bridge burner.” Whether you were a progressive reformer or a moderate insider, she would cut off communication if there wasn’t loyalty. “Even with Frank, you could work with him. Open channels all the way,” said one party regular. “Right now, I don’t think anybody feels listened to … the second anybody disagrees with her, they’re facing a primary.” Just two and a half years into her term, there is neither the time nor space to litigate all the intraparty battles that Bichotte Hermelyn has been involved in – and in fact, many of those battles have been quite literally litigated, in court cases. A few telling examples would be refusing to charter the party’s more progressive youth arm, the Brooklyn Young Democrats, then creating a new organization called the Brooklyn Young Democrats that was loyal to her and threatening to sue if any candidate claimed the endorsement of the original, established Brooklyn Young Democrats. Bichotte Hermelyn also tried to cancel the required biannual organizing meeting in 2020 – ostensibly due to the pandemic, but more likely because she did not want to give New Kings Dems a chance to introduce their desired

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“I think the fact that I am multitasking a lot, people think I can just be Wonder Woman. I don’t know if I want to be Wonder Woman.” – former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Frank Seddio

rules reforms that could take away power from the county leader. The reformers sued and won, and Bichotte Hermelyn convened a remote, virtual meeting in December. It lasted 13 hours, but reformers got some of the key rule changes they wanted. A week later, Bichotte Hermelyn convened a second meeting. It lasted another 13 hours, and some of the biggest changes were reversed. This year, Bichotte Hermelyn broke the usual courtesies and endorsed candidates running against at least four incumbent district leaders who weren’t aligned with her. Her candidates won two and lost two. Bichotte Hermelyn dismisses this all as “part of politics.” From her perspective, she’s protecting the interests of the county party against a group of progressive outsiders who are in it for themselves. “It’s never been about rules. It’s never been about transparency. It’s never been about who’s the boss,” she told City & State in July. “It’s always been about power.” The reformers have always been quick to defend against the accusation. “It’s not just about power, it’s about making tangible changes that are going to be better for everybody,” New Kings Dems spokesperson Tony Melone told City & State, insisting the group isn’t plotting the leader’s ouster – at least, not just yet – and is playing wait-and-see. But Bichotte Hermelyn hasn’t been the only one escalating the long simmering war between reformers

Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn with Gov. Kathy Hochul, left, and a number of politicians, right, who oppose her rule over the local party machine

and regulars. After Bichotte Hermelyn’s husband, District Leader Edu Hermelyn, sang a crude Spanish song lyric in an online meeting last year, reformist district leaders and their allies seized the moment and held a rally in Bushwick calling for her ouster. Not long after, New Kings Dems, (the real) Brooklyn Young Democrats and the Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn launched the Brooklyn Can’t Wait slate of 20 reformist district leaders, in its most ambitious attempt yet to gain influence in the party. Powerful outside allies, like Rep. Nydia Velázquez and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, endorsed them, in another repudiation of Bichotte Hermelyn’s leadership. The boss became a general and put the party on a wartime footing. All in all, there were 19 contested races for district leader in the June election. Without seeking a vote from the executive committee, Bichotte Hermelyn personally bestowed an official Brooklyn Dems endorsement in every one of them, making the battle lines clear. She ended up with a losing record, winning nine races, and losing 10. That included her husband Hermelyn, now a vice president at the influential consulting firm Mercury. She had appointed him to the open role in 2020, and in his first election, he lost to Akel Williams, who ran as a part of the Brooklyn Can’t Wait slate. Bichotte Hermelyn herself was unopposed in her

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reelection as district leader. “The Edu thing is interesting because he got beat, and he got beat by a landslide when his running mates won comfortable victories,” Graubard told City & State. “So it’s a personal repudiation tied into the county leader. That one spoke volumes more than a bunch of other ones combined.” IT’S A RARE opportunity to leave one’s role as Brooklyn county leader with one’s dignity intact. Clarence Norman resigned after getting convicted on corruption charges in 2005. Vito Lopez resigned in 2012 after victims of his alleged sexual harassment came forward. The job – unpaid – is difficult even for the most ethical leaders. You’re a target of criticism, making decisions for a group of other unpaid political leaders who, as a rule, love to gossip and love to debate. Even Bichotte Hermelyn’s critics appreciate that she’s opened up the books and gotten the party on sound financial footing, after Seddio left it nearly broke. And even while some regulars disagree with her tactics, they’re glad she didn’t give up the farm to the reformers – who many county-aligned forces deride as North Brooklyn gentrifiers. Bichotte Hermelyn has been laying the groundwork to leave the position, telling politicos she isn’t sure she wants the job anymore. She’s busy – a full time Assembly member, who is also finishing her second year at Brooklyn Law School

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as she works to add yet another degree to her collection of two master’s degrees. “I’ve been telling people I’m busy because I am,” Bichotte Hermelyn said. “I think the fact that I am multitasking a lot, people think I can just be Wonder Woman. I don’t know if I want to be Wonder Woman.” Superhero or not, she still has committed allies in the party. But even they are hedging, saying the decision is up to her, rather than begging her to stay. “She has my support and my vote,” state Sen. Kevin Parker, a newly elected district leader, told City & State. “If she runs again, she certainly has my vote, in whatever way she handles herself both politically and personally.” Frank Carone, now New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ chief of staff, struck a similar tone. “Whatever she decides, I’m supporting her,” he said. “If she decides to stay, and she has the bandwidth and the desire to continue, I would support her, if she decides it’s time to go in another direction. I would support that as well.” Carone was once the party’s law chair, and while he doesn’t have any formal role with the party anymore, he remains influential – including in his role as a proxy for the mayor, who has stood with Bichotte Hermelyn amid the turmoil. Adams is just one of the Brooklyn power players who would expect to have a say in who becomes the next leader – among Rep.

Hakeem Jeffries, Velázquez and Seddio, to name a few. Insiders from all corners of the party can agree there’s no heir apparent, were Bichotte Hermelyn to step down, but there are a handful of district leaders’ names being whispered, who all have their various pros and cons attached. Assembly Member Maritza Davila has been a leader among the reformers, but if that alone doesn’t sink her candidacy, the fact that she remained in former leader Vito Lopez’s orbit for too long could do her in. State Sen. Roxanne Persaud, a Black woman legislator like Bichotte Hermelyn, has avoided controversy, but might be seen as too close to Seddio. Ditto Assembly Member Nikki Lucas – who some might think is too close to Jeffries. Tori Kelly Burhans, chief of staff to state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, could be acceptable to both reformers and regulars, but the party might be hesitant to elect a white leader in diverse Brooklyn. Whoever would take over, many politicos, driven by their love of the borough, are ready to turn the page in Kings County. “Our party should be so much stronger,” said one Brooklyn Democratic consultant, listing off the power players from the borough including Adams, Williams, Jeffries and state Attorney General Letitia James. “The Bronx is stronger than us. Queens is stronger than us. We should be the powerhouse, and we’re not. … She’s so busy arguing with the New Kings Dems she’s not getting shit done.”

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THE 2022 BROOKLYN POWER 100

A borough that’s brimming with big shots.

ROOKLYN IS BEYOND doubt a bastion of political clout. The mayor of New York City is from the borough, so is the majority leader – at least for now – of the U.S. Senate and the heir apparent to the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The borough is home to the state attorney general as well as New York City’s comptroller and public advocate. Perhaps because there’s so much political might in one borough, there are plenty of dividing lines. New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams just sought to oust Gov. Kathy Hochul, but she

prevailed in the June primary. Reform-minded progressives are waging battle with the county political machine. Veteran Brooklyn politicians – including former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon – are facing off in the primary for a new congressional district spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan. City & State’s Brooklyn Power 100 – written in partnership with journalist Aaron Short – tracks the fortunes of the borough’s most politically powerful figures, including government officials, business executives, nonprofit leaders, activists, advocates and academics.

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compared the appellate court’s ruling with “Jim Crow” tactics while saying he was confident Democrats could retain their majority in the midterms. If Democrats stave off a Republican takeover this fall, Jeffries is considered a favorite to become the next House speaker if Nancy Pelosi retires.

ERIC ADAMS NEW YORK CITY MAYOR Brooklyn is where Eric Adams’ heart is. New York City’s mayor filled his administration with borough luminaries like chief of staff Frank Carone, top adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin and a new gun violence czar. Adams’ victories in Albany this year, including continued control over public schools and a deal to keep speed cameras turned on, should make borough schools safer, while a new public trust for NYCHA will fund thousands of apartment repairs. The former Brooklyn borough president also based new citywide zoning changes to help small businesses off of his work revitalizing Atlantic Avenue.

rights (albeit unsuccessfully) after a leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade spurred demonstrations across the country, including in Downtown Brooklyn, and has been in talks with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin over reviving climate and deficit reduction bills.

appellate court decision allowing her to question Trump and two of his children under oath. But James has kept her attention on Brooklyn too, suing three bus operators for illegally idling near schools and working with the mayor’s office to indict 41 people in a retail theft ring takedown.

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2 New York’s senior senator has the unenviable task of holding on to his slim majority during a midterm election likely to favor Republicans. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer led negotiations for a bipartisan deal on gun regulation after multiple mass shootings, including the Sunset Park subway attack, roiled the nation. He sought a vote on codifying abortion

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State Attorney General Letitia James gave up a chance to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul in the Democratic gubernatorial primary to, among other things, pursue civil charges against former President Donald Trump’s company. James has brushed back Trump’s lawsuit to halt her probe and won another

The No. 4 House Democrat was not thrilled with new congressional maps foisted upon the state by a courtappointed special master that not only wiped away likely Democratic gains, but put some members of his caucus in direct competition with each other. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries

5 BRAD LANDER NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER Brad Lander is using his new office as a bully pulpit for progressive issues, such as sinking an affordable housing tax abatement for developers by arguing it costs the city $1.77 billion in lost revenue. He admonished Amazon for its high rate of worker injuries and is pushing the company to report them publicly. Lander asked his old colleagues in the New York City Council to set aside $2 billion for a rainy day fund and called on the Adams administration to prioritize composting, which could save the city $100 million on exporting organic waste.

6 ERIC GONZALEZ BROOKLYN DISTRICT ATTORNEY Eric Gonzalez contemplated running for state attorney general until the incumbent,

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Letitia James, dropped out of the governor’s race, which forced everyone looking at her seat to reevaluate their plans. Now, Gonzalez has focused on curbing violence by targeting people who sell ghost guns, hosting gun buyback events with the New York City Police Department and aggressively prosecuting hate crimes. Gonzalez has also developed a reputation as a progressive prosecutor while avoiding the criticisms his Manhattan counterpart absorbed by supporting tweaks to the state’s controversial bail reform law.

7 NYDIA VELÁZQUEZ MEMBER OF CONGRESS Rep. Nydia Velázquez found herself drawn out of her own district after a court-appointed special master reshaped congressional lines following a court order. But Velázquez’s stature in North Brooklyn is so high that she is running for the seat that encompasses much of her prior district without opposition. Velázquez, who also represents a portion of Queens, drafted a bill in May allowing Puerto Rico residents to vote on either joining the United States or declaring full

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independence and has since traveled to the island with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for statehood talks.

8 JUMAANE WILLIAMS NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ADVOCATE The Flatbush pol had an eventful year even before he won reelection as public advocate and announced his ultimately unsuccessful candidacy for governor. In July 2021, Jumaane Wiliams married lobbyist India Sneed, and they had a baby this past February. Sneed’s battle with cervical cancer and complicated birth inspired Williams to propose a maternal bill of rights measure. Williams, who also demanded stronger red flag laws after the Buffalo mass shooting, notched only around 20% of the vote in the Democratic gubernatorial primary against Gov. Kathy Hochul and Rep. Tom Suozzi.

9 FRANK CARONE & INGRID LEWIS-MARTIN CHIEF OF STAFF; CHIEF ADVISER Office of the New York City Mayor There may be no one in city government who is closer to New York City Mayor Eric Adams than Ingrid LewisMartin and Frank Carone. Lewis-Martin, who previously served under Adams as Brooklyn’s deputy borough president and as chief of staff

Velázquez has been a leader on Puerto Rican issues locally for many years.

when he represented Central and brownstone Brooklyn in the state Senate, helped fill out his current administration and now is an influential adviser at City Hall. Carone, a Mill Basin attorney, deftly rose through the ranks in Brooklyn politics to become a top Democratic counsel and trusted campaign consigliere to Adams. Carone’s loyalty to Adams paid dividends when the newly elected Adams tapped Carone to be his chief of staff in December. Carone remains the same garrulous fixer in City Hall, he was in Brooklyn’s backrooms.

10 JUSTIN BRANNAN CHAIR New York City Council Finance Committee After trailing his New York City Council race by 255 votes on election night, Justin Brannan sweated out a mail-in ballot tally that ultimately put him ahead of Republican Brian Fox by more than 400 votes. The narrow outcome may have weakened the Bay Ridge Democrat’s bid to become City Council speaker New York City Mayor Eric Adams' chief of staff Frank Carone

as labor leaders shifted support to other candidates. Brannan, who dropped out of the race and endorsed eventual winner Adrienne Adams in December, won the coveted Finance Committee chairmanship after intense backroom negotiations..

11 YVETTE CLARKE MEMBER OF CONGRESS The special master’s new congressional maps momentarily lumped Rep. Yvette Clarke and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries together in the same Central Brooklyn district, but after a final revision, the two veteran lawmakers won’t have to face each other in a primary election. Jeffries has taken up

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Reynoso has called for more electric Citi Bikes and faster bike lane installations. castigating the court’s decisions while Clarke has focused on scrutinizing the Biden administration over making federal networks more secure amid cyberattacks and ensuring her legislative colleagues don’t overlook everyday gun violence when discussing how to regulate gun trafficking.

RODNEYSE BICHOTTE HERMELYN ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND KINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn successfully forged alliances with the current and previous mayoral administrations in New York City. But tensions in the Brooklyn Democratic Party, which had been simmering since Bichotte Hermelyn cut ties with the party’s youth arm last spring, reached a boiling point in the fall when lawmakers called on her to resign after a Zoom call involving her husband went awry. The party boss survived and has endorsed longtime ally Bill de Blasio for Congress. Now, she is grappling with several losses in contested district leader races, key positions that determine who will lead the county’s party.

13 ANTONIO REYNOSO BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT The Borough Hall leader went viral on his first day on the job when he posted signs

barring cars from parking on the sidewalks surrounding its plaza. Since then, Antonio Reynoso has used his platform to demand more e-bikes for the Citi Bike fleet and faster bike lane installations, while announcing six new Open Streets. The former New York City Council member campaigned on promises to reform community boards and make them more equitable while developing a comprehensive planning process for new development throughout the borough.

14 DAVID GREENFIELD CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Met Council David Greenfield left the New York City Council at the end of 2017, but he’s kept busy in the policy arena, whether it’s working with the Brooklyn district attorney to support victims of family violence, securing more funding for Holocaust survivors or advocating for the Jewish community in the redistricting process. He also opened the Met Council’s new Boro Park office, which has eight full-time staffers and serves 600 clients a week, and purchased a 22,000-square-foot warehouse to expand the organization’s

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major kosher and halal food pantry operations.

15 RANDY PEERS PRESIDENT AND CEO Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Randy Peers has pressured policymakers to help Brooklyn businesses as the city’s pandemic recovery continues to lurch forward. The omicron wave stalled revenues during the holiday season – and by March, Peers warned that three-quarters of the borough’s businesses reported sales below prepandemic levels. Peers’ advocacy has helped convince the mayor to cut 30 fines and reduce scores of violations that have saved businesses millions in penalties while the chamber has received $20,000 for southeast Brooklyn businesses from the borough president.

16 JED WALENTAS CEO Two Trees Brooklyn’s most prominent real estate developer had no qualms about converting the former Domino Sugar Factory complex into a 460,000-square-foot office even as the coronavirus pandemic rendered offices temporarily obsolete. Now that people are returning to work, Jed Walentas has a number of properties along the Williamsburg and Dumbo waterfronts that are walkable for a workforce sick

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of commuting into Manhattan. Walentas’ latest mixed-use project, River Ring, was approved by the New York City Council in December and features 1,050 units, a 50,000-square-foot YMCA and a three-acre park.

17 SIMCHA FELDER, ANDREW GOUNARDES, BRIAN KAVANAGH, ZELLNOR MYRIE, KEVIN PARKER & ROXANNE PERSAUD STATE SENATORS Ever since state Sen. Andrew Gounardes ousted Marty Golden from office in 2018, Brooklyn’s state Senate delegation has been made up entirely of Democrats. But there’s plenty of ideological diversity among the group, ranging from longtime

incumbents with moderate or even conservative views to younger members with more progressive platforms. Gounardes, who chairs the state Senate Budget And Revenue Committee, and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie were among the cohort of challengers in 2018 who helped the party seize control from Republicans and punish former members of a breakaway Democratic group that had empowered the GOP. Myrie, the state Senate Elections Committee chair, championed a new voting rights law this year but saw his bill to seal certain convictions die in the Assembly. Brian Kavanagh, who’s been at the center of housing policy debates in recent years, was set to face a primary challenge from Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou, but now has an easier path to reelection with his fellow Democrat running for Congress instead. State Sen. Kevin Parker, a driving force on energy and environmental legislation, is

Myer is leading a plan to create nearly 20 car-free streets in the borough.

18 REGINA MYER PRESIDENT Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Brooklyn’s economy has rebounded quicker than any other borough’s since the onset of the pandemic, according to a state comptroller report, with much of the recovery centered downtown. Regina Myer has prospered in making the neighborhood more welcoming for offices and more livable since she was tapped to lead the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership six years ago. Myer is spearheading a plan to create nearly 20 carfree streets, and this spring, she launched a lineup of live performances and public art installations at 300 Ashland Place.

19 A.R. BERNARD SENIOR PASTOR Christian Cultural Center Under the Rev. A.R. Bernard’s leadership, the Christian Cultural Center has developed the largest following in the five boroughs and has been a mainstay on the Brooklyn political circuit. For instance, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer visited Bernard’s Starrett City-based church on Easter Sunday to tout the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. But most congregants come to hear Bernard’s noted sermons, which he will soon be sharing on a gospel-based radio station. Bernard’s proposed 1.7 million-square-foot “urban village” in East New York is now under review by the city.

20 LINDA JOHNSON & NAILA ROSARIO PRESIDENT AND CEO; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND ADVOCACY MANAGER Brooklyn Public Library During the pandemic, the Brooklyn Public Library launched a series of initiatives, including curbside pickup and online resources for students. Linda Johnson made the library system even friendlier

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still facing a primary challenge from the progressive left, although the strong performance by incumbents in the June Assembly primary bodes well for him. Another establishment incumbent is state Sen. Roxanne Persaud, who came out of former Brooklyn party boss Frank Seddio’s Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club and is in the middle of a lower-stakes district leader contest against a reform-minded rival. The most conservative lawmaker in the delegation is state Sen. Simcha Felder, an Orthodox Jewish lawmaker who used to caucus with the Republican conference.

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21 BREON PEACE U.S. ATTORNEY Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Breon Peace started his career clerking for a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York and serving as an assistant U.S. attorney there. A quartercentury later, Peace is running the place after President Joe Biden swore him in in October. He has since prosecuted members of the Brooklyn-based Woo gang for stealing COVID-19 relief funds, charged six members of an East New York gang for several shootings and convicted a Gambino mobster for killing a 77-year-old Brooklyn man.

Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest

22 JABARI BRISPORT, JULIA SALAZAR, PHARA SOUFFRANT FORREST, EMILY GALLAGHER & MARCELA MITAYNES SOCIALISTS IN OFFICE The Democratic Socialists of America has enjoyed major victories and suffered setbacks in state politics in recent months. The organization has seen half a dozen candidates it supports elected to the state Legislature – all hailing from Brooklyn except for Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani of Queens – and they’ve helped secure some significant

Thies was a key member of Adams’ successful mayoral campaign team.

progressive policy goals. Just this session, state Sen. Jabari Brisport got Gov. Kathy Hochul to invest more state funds toward child care. Yet, while state Sen. Julia Salazar’s push for a “good cause” eviction bill garnered plenty of attention, the measure failed to advance. In the June primary, the DSA-backed Sarahana Shrestha beat Assembly Member Kevin Cahill while Assembly Members Mamdani, Phara Souffrant Forrest, Emily Gallagher and Marcela Mitaynes all won. However, DSA-endorsed candidate Samy Nemir Olivares fell short of defeating Assembly Member Erik Dilan.

23 EVAN THIES CO-FOUNDER Pythia Public Affairs Communications guru Evan Thies was a part of New York

City Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle long before he launched his mayoral bid. But it was Thies’ disciplined approach to messaging about public safety and rapid response to stories on Adams’ residency that likely helped him emerge victorious in the Democratic primary last year. Thies helped lead Adams’ communications team during the transition, also guided New York City Comptroller Brad Lander to victory and helped pass the Adult Survivors Act.

24 LINDSAY GREENE PRESIDENT AND CEO Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. When David Ehrenberg announced in February that he would step down from his decadelong role at the helm of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., New York City Mayor Eric Adams knew he needed someone with the technical savvy and emotional intelligence to lead one of the city’s most important job creation districts. Adams chose Lindsay Greene to take over. Greene, the first Black woman and first LGBTQ person in the role, promised to promote the shipyard’s businesses and advance diversity in entrepreneurship.

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to patrons by eliminating late fees and providing free access to its e-Book system for young adults nationwide in response to a growing book-censorship movement. The Central Library heralded the return of its two most popular events, Night of Ideas and The People’s Ball, in May and its Brooklyn Heights branch reopened a month later. A key point person with city and state government officials is Naila Rosario, who has been with the library system for nearly a decade.

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25 MIKE KEOGH, JUANITA SCARLETT & TERESA GONZALEZ PARTNERS Bolton-St. Johns This Brooklyn-based trio brings plenty of firepower to Bolton-St. Johns, the No. 3 lobbying firm in New York City and the state as a whole. Mike Keogh, the former finance director for the New York City Council who also was legislative counsel and a lobbyist for the public sector union District Council 37, is also influential in Albany, where his wife, Karen Persichilli Keogh, is the top adviser to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Juanita Scarlett, who joined Bolton-St. Johns in 2019, has

worked in a range of key political and policy positions, including as executive vice president with the Empire State Development Corp. Teresa Gonzalez, a partner at the firm since 2020, is also the co-founder of the boutique lobbying firm DalyGonzalez. Editor’s note: Juanita Scarlett is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

26 ERROL LOUIS HOST “Inside City Hall” Errol Louis has been with NY1 for more than a decade and has known many of Brooklyn's leaders even longer. Louis’ columns and podcasts tracing the rise of Black political power are as compelling as

his criticisms that New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ “get stuff done” rhetoric is falling short. But Louis saves his most trenchant analysis for “Inside City Hall,” where he interviews everyone from the governor and developers of controversial projects to corrections oversight leaders and homeless youth advocates.

27 PETER ABBATE JR., ROBERT CARROLL, MONIQUE CHANDLERWATERMAN, STEVEN CYMBROWITZ, MARITZA DAVILA, SIMCHA EICHENSTEIN, LATRICE WALKER & HELENE WEINSTEIN ASSEMBLY MEMBERS Assembly members have smaller districts than their state Senate counterparts and typically generate less press coverage than members of the New York City Council,

but they nonetheless have the opportunity to shape key legislation. In the Assembly’s Brooklyn delegation, a number of members stand out. Assembly Member Peter Abbate Jr. of Bensonhurst is a reliable ally of public sector unions in his role as chair of the Assembly Governmental Employees Committee. Assembly Member Robert Carroll, a progressive reformer from Windsor Terrace and Kensington, has made headlines for clashing with the Brooklyn Democratic machine and his push, so far unsuccessful, for the Build Public Renewables Act. While Assembly Member Monique Chandler-Waterman has only been in office for a few weeks, she has achieved an unusual feat – beating a rival backed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams at the ballot box, not once but twice. Assembly Member Steven Cymbrowitz has been in the middle of contentious real estate policy battles as chair of the Assembly Housing Committee, while Assembly Member Maritza Davila heads the Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force. Assembly Member Simcha

From left, Juanita Scarlett and Teresa Gonzalez of Bolton-St. Johns

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Keogh used to serve as the finance director for the New York City Council.

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Eichenstein represents an influential constituency as the state Legislature’s first Hasidic member. Assembly Member Latrice Walker spoke out against New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ efforts to tweak state criminal justice reforms. The Assembly Election Law Committee chair also passed a new voting rights measure, but failed to advance measures to reform the dysfunctional New York City Board of Elections and to ban voting machines criticized for cyberattack vulnerability. Assembly Member Helene Weinstein, who has served in the state Legislature for over four decades, chairs the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, which plays a critical role in the annual state budget process.

28 CARLO SCISSURA PRESIDENT AND CEO New York Building Congress The real estate industry leader nearly became the city’s economic development czar but withdrew his name

from contention after several reports revealed he worked with a developer on projects without registering as a lobbyist. Now, Carlo Scissura is back doing what he does best: advancing the interests of the construction sector at the city and state level, and advocating for the repair of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. He’s already supporting the mayor’s new zoning initiatives, which make zoning rules more flexible.

29 LARAY BROWN CEO One Brooklyn Health Brooklyn’s fourth coronavirus wave swamped Interfaith Medical Center and Brookdale Hospital with patients to the point where LaRay Brown had to request city officials to divert

30 KENNETH GIBBS PRESIDENT AND CEO Maimonides Medical Center Maimonides’ pandemicpunished staff worked through exhaustion as the omicron variant pummeled southern Brooklyn especially hard over the holidays. As the onrush eased, Kenneth Gibbs sought to strengthen hospital operations by rebranding and launching its new network, Maimonides Health, in March after its merger with New York Community Hospital. Gibbs also facilitated the hiring of 140 nurses during the winter as some patients and nurses complained about understaffing in its vaunted maternity unit.

Steiner has a new film and TV production hub in the works in Sunset Park.

31 DOUG STEINER CHAIR Steiner Studios Doug Steiner bet big that he could make the Brooklyn Navy Yard a destination for Hollywood productions looking for a New York-based studio lot. Two decades later, Steiner has 30 sound stages on his 780,000-square-foot site and has started building a new 500,000-square-foot film and TV production hub in Sunset Park. He is also marketing a six-building complex around Wegmans supermarket in the Navy Yard that includes 5,200 square feet of community space, and he installed green roofs on Admiral's Row buildings last year.

32 ALEXA AVILÉS, JENNIFER GUTIÉRREZ, SHAHANA HANIF, CRYSTAL HUDSON, RITA JOSEPH, ARI KAGAN, MERCEDES NARCISSE, SANDY NURSE, CHI OSSÉ & LINCOLN RESTLER NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS Much of the New York City Council is entirely new this year, and that’s certainly true in Brooklyn. And while the relative inexperience resulted in a slow start this year, the city’s legislative body did reach a record $101 billion budget deal with the mayor in June. Among the first-term Brooklyn members on the budget negotiating team were City Council Members Crystal Hudson and

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ambulances to other hospitals. Brown had the unenviable task of keeping the hospital running with 400 staff sick at the beginning of January. Once patient loads eased, Brown urged Congress to provide more support for safety net hospitals while opening a new 2,500-square-foot medical facility in Flatbush. She also celebrated the completion of Interfaith’s behavioral health unit refurbishment in April.

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Mercedes Narcisse. Other first-term Brooklynites in key council roles include City Council Member Rita Joseph as chair of the Education Committee, Council Member Alexa Avilés as the Public Housing Committee chair and Council Member Chi Ossé as co-chair of the borough’s delegation. Other first-time City Council legislators from Brooklyn include Technology Committee Chair Jennifer Gutiérrez, Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Committee Chair Sandy Nurse, Immigration Committee Chair Shahana Hanif, Resiliency and Waterfronts Committee Chair Ari Kagan and Council Member Lincoln Restler.

Jennifer Jones Austin has honed in on the government’s shortcomings in addressing poverty and racism throughout her career. During the pandemic, Jones Austin has been tracking federal funding for social services agencies to ensure the Biden administration follows through on its promises. And in her capacity as chair of New York City’s Racial Justice Commission, she helped compile a report identifying patterns of racial inequities like inadequate access to capital, unequal access to safe housing and health care services, and lack of diversity among decision-makers.

JOSEPH TSAI & CLARA WU TSAI CO-OWNERS Brooklyn Nets The Brooklyn Nets barely made the NBA playoffs and the team, and the Barclays Center still hemorrhaged $50 to $100 million last year, prompting Joe and Clara Wu Tsai to replace their CEO. Despite the losses, the Tsais continued expanding their presence in the borough by

Weinshall plays two key roles with Prospect Park as well as in the city’s libraries.

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a Supreme Court justice – and she herself is more concerned with New York City’s parks and access to books than any Playbook misidentification snafu. Weinshall, who is married to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, secured $40 million from the city to restore Prospect Park’s 26-acre Vale of Cashmere, the largest allocation in the alliance’s history and one of Bill de Blasio’s final acts as mayor of New York City. As New York Public Library chief operating officer, she has sought to upgrade alarm systems amid escalating book-burning threats.

36 SCOTT LORIN PRESIDENT Mount Sinai Brooklyn The first wave of coronavirus ripped through Mount Sinai Brooklyn so swiftly that a fifth of its staff – including President Dr. Scott Lorin – was sickened by it. Lorin has since sought to expand the Midwood hospital’s services with a new cardiology location on Flatbush Avenue and a mobile prostate cancer screening unit. The medical center’s stroke center also recently earned a Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission for using new technologies and treatments that led to better outcomes for its stroke patients.

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Brooklynites in the know would never mistake Iris Weinshall for

While seniority is often an asset for legislators, the large,

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acquiring the WNBA’s New York Liberty team, investing $50 million in the Social Justice Fund for Brooklyn and sending 2,400 public school kids to a Basquiat exhibit. A comedy based on Tsai’s life is coming to Hulu soon.

FPWA CEO and Executive Director Jennifer Jones Austin

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Scott Lorin, MD, MBA President Chief Operating Officer, Mount Sinai Brooklyn for his inclusion in City & State New York’s Brooklyn Power 100 We thank Dr. Lorin for his vision, leadership, and dedication to families and neighbors in the communities we are privileged to serve. Congratulations to all the honorees. www.mountsinai.org/brooklyn

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38 GREGORY CALLISTE, SVETLANA LIPYANSKAYA & SHELDON MCLEOD CEOS New York City Health + Hospitals/Woodhull; New York City Health + Hospitals/ Coney Island; New York City Health + Hospitals/Kings County New York City Health + Hospitals, the city’s vast public safety net health care system, serves hundreds of thousands of Brooklynites each year. At the 320-bed New York City Health + Hospitals/Woodhull in North Brooklyn, CEO Gregory Calliste has overseen noteworthy developments,

including a recent $5 million expansion with 16 new exam rooms and other improvements and the installation of new breast cancer screening technology. Calliste also served on the transition committee of Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. South Brooklyn’s New York City Health + Hospitals/ Coney Island, which has 371 beds, is led by CEO Svetlana Lipyanskaya, a Russianspeaking Ukrainian immigrant. Her hospital campus is getting a multimillion-dollar upgrade and will be renamed New York City Health + Hospitals/ South Brooklyn Health later this year, with a new hospital building named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Sheldon McLeod runs the 627-bed New York City Health + Hospitals/ Kings County, which is known for its world-class trauma center.

Jocelynne Rainey is the president and CEO of the Brooklyn Community Foundation.

and six procedure rooms. He has also welcomed an influx of talent – including new vascular surgery and obstetrics and gynecology chiefs – within the past year.

Brooklyn through events and programming that support local businesses.

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39 ROBERT GUIMENTO PRESIDENT NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital During the four years that he has run Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Robert Guimento has helped the Park Slope medical center play a vital role in the health and wellness of some 42,000 patients per year. One year after the pandemic struck, Guimento celebrated the opening of a six-story, 400,000-squarefoot ambulatory care center featuring 12 operating rooms

Former Brooklyn Navy Yard executive Jocelynne Rainey joined the venerated Brooklyn Community Foundation in November on a mission to boost its engagement with donors of color while continuing to address systemic racism. Rainey has since welcomed new members to BCF’s board of directors and awarded $100,000 each to five Brooklyn nonprofits for their social justice work. In June, she joined the board of a new charity that Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is launching to promote

41 GARY TERRINONI PRESIDENT AND CEO The Brooklyn Hospital Center Running one of the state’s only independent hospitals is a difficult task, but thanks to Gary Terrinoni’s lobbying efforts, The Brooklyn Hospital Center is raking in the dough. The Fort Greene medical center received a $9.2 million infusion from Congress in March toward the expansion

Guimento has welcomed an influx of medical talent over the past year to Park Slope.

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fresh-faced contingent of the New York City Council isn’t sticking to that norm. Apart from New York City Council Member Justin Brannan, who was first elected in 2017 and secured an influential role as the council Finance Committee chair this term, the few Brooklyn members with previous experience in the legislative body have not been fully rewarded for it. City Council Member Kalman Yeger, a second-term incumbent who’s to the right of most of his fellow Democrats, did get assigned to chair the Standards and Ethics Committee, a potentially pivotal role as the committee can recommend whether members should be punished or expelled. But City Council Member Farah Louis, who has been in office since she won a special election in 2019, and City Council Member Darlene Mealy, who previously served in the council from 2006 to 2017, were only given subcommittees to lead. Another legislator who, like Mealy, is returning after a previous tenure in the council is the radical leftist City Council Member Charles Barron, who was not named chair of any committee at all.

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of its emergency department. Its sold-out Founders Ball returned to the Brooklyn Museum for the first time since 2019 and raised $1.45 million, which will go toward doubling the size of the hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab.

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Yoswein New York Founder and CEO Joni Yoswein

YVETTE BUCKNER

Yoswein New York The former Brooklyn Assembly member was once best known for providing crucial guidance on behalf of borough-defining projects like Red Hook’s Ikea, Industry City, the Navy Yard’s Wegmans and the Domino Sugar development in Williamsburg. These days, Joni Yoswein continues to work with the borough’s leading real estate developers, including Two Trees, Related and Glenwood Management, as well as other borough powerhouses including the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and Brooklyn Defender Services.

43 BILL DE BLASIO FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR New York City’s 109th mayor didn’t have a job lined up after he left office. In January, Bill de Blasio nixed a long shot challenge against Gov. Kathy Hochul after raising money and seeking endorsements for weeks. In February, he considered a bid for the congressional seat that Rep. Nicole Malliotakis occupies – only to rule that out as well. But when the court-ordered redesign of congressional lines suddenly created a new district encompassing Park

Slope and parts of Manhattan, de Blasio went all-in.

Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights supporters show up in August, that might be enough to win.

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44 JO ANNE SIMON ASSEMBLY MEMBER Last summer, Jo Anne Simon was aiming to become Brooklyn’s first female borough president, but she didn’t fare as well as she had hoped, losing to Antonio Reynoso in the Democratic primary’s final round of ranked choice voting. Now, she’s launched a bid for Congress in a newly drawn district that stretches from Park Slope to lower Manhattan and has 14 other candidates. With 77% of voters undecided, if Simon’s

Adams Advisors Amelia Adams’ experience as one of then-New York City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito’s most trusted insiders landed her the role of political director on Bill de Blasio’s 2017 reelection campaign. The following year, Adams founded her own political consulting firm, eventually assisting former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan with his mayoral bid. She won’t be able to help her old boss win a congressional seat in Brooklyn this year: Adams has already joined Rep. Mondaire Jones’ team, alongside several other de Blasio campaign alums, and helped Gov. Kathy Hochul win a commanding primary victory in June.

De Blasio is back in the spotlight for his run in the 10th Congressional District.

MANAGING DIRECTOR Tusk Strategies Veteran political consultant Yvette Buckner has played a crucial role in building Tusk Strategies into a powerhouse campaign strategy firm that helped Andrew Yang compete in a crowded Democratic mayoral primary in 2021. But it was Buckner’s work helping women candidates gain a historic number of seats in the New York City Council last year as chair of 21 in ‘21 that garnered her citywide accolades. Buckner also serves as vice chair of the Brooklyn YWCA and was an organizer of a June fundraiser for the nonprofit group.

47 SANDRA SCOTT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR One Brooklyn Health Brookdale Hospital Medical Center The physician and emergency department leader became the first woman and first person of color to lead Brookdale in its 100-year history when she was appointed executive director in June 2021. But Dr. Sandra Scott has long been familiar with the borough’s safety net hospitals, which have

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LGBTQ sports leagues, classes and wellness activities. Rumohr also served on Antonio Reynoso’s Brooklyn borough president transition committee.

Asian American Federation Executive Director Jo‑Ann Yoo

51 RISA HELLER American Pacific Islander museum on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall, says her community is still anxious about riding the subway.

48 JO-ANN YOO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Asian American Federation When a man pushed an Asian American woman in front of an oncoming train in the Times Square station in January, Jo-Ann Yoo was enraged by the lack of response from city leaders over spiking anti-Asian violence. Yoo, who has called for more mental health resources for hate crime victims, opened a satellite office in Flushing and celebrated passage of legislation to create an Asian

49 L. JOY WILLIAMS PRESIDENT Brooklyn NAACP The Brooklyn civil rights leader and host of the SiriusXM show “Sunday Civics” was

Rumohr has facilitated spaces to provide homeless and immigration services.

a much-deserved finalist for Outstanding News and Information Podcast at the NAACP Image Awards this year. But L. Joy Williams has also built up her NAACP chapter’s membership with the next generation of Black leaders and promoted Black women political candidates. She has also worked behind the scenes to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in the state Legislature.

50 FLOYD RUMOHR CEO Brooklyn Community Pride Center Floyd Rumohr had waited a decade for the Brooklyn Community Pride Center to move into its new headquarters at the Bedford Union Armory. Rumohr kept Brooklyn Pride’s Fulton Street office with a goal of creating satellite spaces for homelessness and immigration services. By the time the Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community Center opened, Brooklyn Pride launched

CEO Risa Heller Communications The formidable crisis communications guru represents a murderers’ row of influential stakeholders while maintaining one of the funniest social media accounts in the city. Risa Heller has cemented her reputation for providing career-saving advice to politicians like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who needed guidance following a backlash to his prosecutorial policies, and Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder, who needed help navigating a House probe. She also added two veteran Democratic communicators to her staff in recent months.

52 KEN FISHER MEMBER Cozen O’Connor Ken Fisher might be the only former Brooklyn politician not running for Congress in the new 10th District – because

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been grappling with waves of coronavirus infections and increasing gun violence. Scott has also led the medical center’s charity efforts, including a Martin Luther King Day food drive in Brownsville.

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he’s been too busy assisting his firm’s political action committee and advising real estate clients about what to do after the 421-a tax abatement lapses in June. Fisher also wants the state and city to work together to prioritize replacing the dilapidated stretch of the BrooklynQueens Expressway running through Brooklyn Heights – but the Adams administration has postponed funding repairs for the highway.

pandemic – after organizing airport workers at Newark and LaGuardia airports at Local 32BJ. She quickly got up to speed and contributed to a successful legislative effort to pass a safe staffing law for nursing homes and hospitals in 2021. Crentsil served on New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ health transition committee and continues to work on ending mandatory overtime in the wake of the omicron surge.

ROBERT BRENNAN BISHOP Diocese of Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan finally came home to New York City when Pope Francis installed the Bronx-born prelate as Brooklyn’s eighth bishop in November 2021, replacing Nicholas DiMarzio. The Vatican hopes Brennan won’t have as much baggage as his predecessor, whose 18year tenure ended in turmoil following decades-old child abuse allegations, although a Vatican investigation cleared DiMarzio of any misconduct. Brennan promised not to shake things up and got to know his parishioners. In June, he rededicated St. Augustine Church after someone stole its gold tabernacle.

54 JAHMILA EDWARDS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR District Council 37 A fight over the city’s telework policy became one of the last unresolved conflicts between DC37 and the de Blasio administration, which wanted city workers back in their office despite the continuing

District Council 37 Associate Director Jahmila Edwards

pandemic. Now, hybrid work could be a sticking point in future DC37 bargaining negotiations as workers appear to have more leverage. Jahmila Edwards has also been in the middle of a busy campaign season as her union endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul, Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Brooklyn Assembly candidates Olanike Alabi and Hercules Reid.

55 MICHAEL NIEVES PRESIDENT AND CEO Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network Michael Nieves was not happy that the state Democratic Party excluded Hispanic leaders like Reps. Nydia Velázquez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Adriano Espaillat from its initial lineup of speakers at its nominating convention in February. Those omissions were eventually corrected after Nieves and

others spoke out. Nieves has helped the party expand its reach in Spanish-speaking communities for decades, with HITN adding over 10 million households to its audience and collecting three Emmy nominations since he joined the network in 2015. Editor’s note: Michael Nieves is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

56 MICHELLE CRENTSIL POLITICAL DIRECTOR New York State Nurses Association Michelle Crentsil joined the New York State Nurses Association in March 2020 – right at the onset of the

57 JOSE LOPEZ, ARLENIS MOREL & THEO OSHIRO CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Make the Road New York Make the Road New York’s next generation of leaders secured key significant legislative victories for undocumented immigrants. Jose Lopez, Arlenis Morel, and Theo Oshiro convinced the state to allocate $2.1 billion in unemployment aid for immigrant workers last fall and pushed lawmakers to expand health insurance coverage for undocumented individuals above the age of 65 in the state budget. Recently, Ana María Archila, who is Make the Road New York’s co-executive director, fell short

Nieves has spoken out about the lack of Latino inclusion within the Democratic Party.

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in her campaign for lieutenant governor and a state judge blocked a bill the organization supported that would have allowed noncitizen immigrants to vote in New York City municipal elections.

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Kasirer Jovia Radix’s firm has been an outlier during the coronavirus pandemic, hauling in a hefty $15.5 million in 2021. Radix earned a well-deserved promotion to senior vice president in March and has been one of Kasirer’s go-to reps on New York City Council initiatives and telecommunications matters. She remains extremely active in Brooklyn politics as vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club’s Young Democrats arm and vice president of the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association.

prevention center in Brooklyn, Aguilera and Saunders are looking to access millions of dollars of opioid settlement funds the state attorney general secured from pharmaceutical companies.

ALYSSA AGUILERA & JEREMY SAUNDERS CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS VOCAL-NY A silent epidemic of drug overdoses and deaths that coincided with the coronavirus pandemic prompted Alyssa Aguilera and Jeremy Saunders of the progressive advocacy group VOCAL-NY to grill the city’s mayoral candidates for their approach to drug treatment and decriminalization. They worked with the de Blasio administration to set up supervised injection sites and, with a long-term plan of opening an overdose

City mayoral bid attracted attention from several corners, including that of state Attorney General Letitia James, who hired Seay to manage her gubernatorial campaign. James’ campaign didn’t take off the way she expected and, after a month on the trail, James opted to run for reelection instead. Seay, who previously served as political director at the influential labor union 1199SEIU, was involved with campaigns to reduce nurse staffing shortages and overtime burdens, and to organize Planned Parenthood workers.

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be draining even for the staunchest advocates, but Elizabeth Yeampierre has stayed energized by organizing communityfocused meals and learning groups in Sunset Park, as well as delivering testimony at hearings and leading direct actions. The result: State officials have cut carbon emissions and redefined how to identify disadvantaged communities affected by pollution. Yeampierre has also prioritized green reindustrialization, clean energy investment and shutting down fossil fuelpowered peaker plants.

62 KIRSTEN JOHN FOY PRESIDENT AND CEO The Arc of Justice The former New York City Council candidate and National Action Network alum has been a nationally sought-after voice advocating for investigations of police shootings and the release of police body camera footage. Kirsten John Foy has also advocated for changes to lawsuit lending practices after having firsthand experience needing a loan to pay for medical bills from injuries suffered during an arrest after the 2011 West Indian Day Parade. Foy has also noted the challenges Gov. Kathy Hochul faces among Black voters this year.

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63 ALANE BERKOWITZ & JIM SOMOZA SENIOR ASSET MANAGER; MANAGING DIRECTOR AND PARTNER Industry City In February, New York City Mayor Eric Adams named Andrew Kimball, then-CEO of Industry City, to serve as president and chief executive officer of the New York City Economic Development Corp. With the departure of Kimball, who had led Industry City since 2013, the Brooklyn waterfront complex is now being run by Alane Berkowitz, a senior asset manager for Industry City’s owner, the real estate management company Jamestown, and Jim Somoza, the managing director and partner at the 35-acre former industrial space.

64 DAVID NIEDERMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR United Jewish Organizations When the New York City mayoral race was tightening last year, David Niederman smartly asked his Satmar followers to rank Eric Adams second in the primary after Andrew Yang. That maneuver likely enabled Adams to fend off his rivals and preserved a long-standing relationship once Adams won. Niederman has since been granted an audience on issues like rising antisemitism and funding for emergency food programs. Despite some

criticism from a handful of rabbis, Niederman has touted his ties with the Met Council, which has fed thousands of people in his community.

65 JELENA KOVAČEVIĆ DEAN New York University Tandon School of Engineering Four years after becoming the first woman to lead the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in its 164-year existence, Jelena Kovačević continues to work on diversifying the school’s student body and faculty while making its Downtown Brooklyn campus welcoming and accepting of everyone. That includes maintaining a healthy skepticism of letting algorithms Jelena Kovačević is the dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

and artificial intelligence hiring tools do the work of recruiters and administrators. Kovačević’s savvy leadership has helped NYU Tandon School of Engineering continue to jump in graduate school rankings.

generosity in providing financial aid.

66 MICHELLE ANDERSON PRESIDENT Brooklyn College Two years ago, students protested Brooklyn College’s adjunct faculty layoffs and a heightened police presence on campus. College President Michelle Anderson has sought to be responsive to their concerns, unveiling the institution’s anti-racist agenda and planning a mix of in-person and hybrid courses while requiring all students to be vaccinated. Under Anderson’s leadership, Brooklyn College has continued to rank high in social mobility ratings, value for tuition costs and

67 MIGUEL MARTINEZ-SAENZ PRESIDENT St. Francis College Miguel Martinez-Saenz has led Brooklyn Heights-based St. Francis College into a new partnership this year with Bay Ridge Catholic Academy that will give college students experience as student teachers while providing primary school kids access to science and engineering labs. MartinezSaenz also worked out an arrangement with St. George University’s School of Medicine and School of Veterinary Medicine in Grenada for St. Francis’ pre-med and prevet students to gain direct admission to the Caribbean school and be eligible for a $10,000 scholarship.

68 BRYAN GRIMALDI VICE PRESIDENT OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS National Grid When National Grid announced in January it would hike electric and gas rates three times in the next 29 months, Bryan Grimaldi said the price increase would help the utility strengthen its infrastructure in the face

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Her allies have argued that the judicial selection process should be significantly reformed although that likely won’t occur without support from the state Legislature.

Riley had to deal with staff shortages and vaccine holdouts in the pandemic. Editor’s note: Lupe Todd-Medina is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

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Longtime Rep. Hakeem Jeffries ally Lupe Todd-Medina lent her communications expertise to help former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire run for New York City mayor last year. McGuire didn’t make it, but Todd-Medina quickly pivoted to join Gov. Kathy Hochul’s gubernatorial campaign as a senior adviser, where she helped the governor dominate the competition in the June Democratic primary. ToddMedina has also worked with clients like the New York County Defender Services and has argued for the decarceration of low-level offenders.

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Trip Yang Strategies U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and former President Barack Obama alum Trip Yang planted his flag in the city by helping Letitia James become state attorney general and Jumaane Williams become New York City’s public advocate. Yang launched his political consulting firm in September 2020 and advised on former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan’s Manhattan borough president bid and Gale Brewer’s New York City Council run. He also offered keen analysis of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s political legacy and how Democratic state Senate candidates should strategize over where to run in the new legislative maps. Editor’s note: Trip Yang is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

72 TARA L. MARTIN FOUNDER AND CEO TLM Strategic Advisors Veteran New York public affairs and political professional Tara L. Martin charted her political path through Rep. Yvette Clarke’s office and two of the state’s preeminent labor organizations via stints at the Retail, Wholesale and

Department Store Union and with the New York State Nurses Association. Martin now runs her own firm, TLM Strategic Advisors, providing media training and brand advice for an array of government agencies, startups, labor groups and nonprofits. She recently served as head of public affairs in the Northeast U.S. for REEF Technology. Editor’s note: Tara L. Martin is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

73 WAYNE RILEY PRESIDENT SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University was designated a coronavirusonly hospital at the height of the pandemic, which led to personal protective equipment shortages and the need for a $159 million infusion. Even after the peak passed, Dr. Wayne Riley had to navigate staffing shortages due to vaccine holdouts and a flood of patients into the university’s emergency room during a recent surge. Riley recently secured $2 million from Congress

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of more powerful storms. Grimaldi also argued against a state bill banning gas hookups in new buildings and against moving away from gas in homes by 2024. That bill was stalled even as Brooklyn climate activists rallied for National Grid to change its position.

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74 LEE SILBERSTEIN PARTNER Marino The billion-dollar Industry City rezoning effort didn’t get off the ground two years ago despite Lee Silberstein’s best efforts – but the facility could be in for another revival now that former Industry City CEO Andrew Kimball is running the New York City Economic Development Corp. In the meantime, Silberstein has represented a number of heavy-hitting developers, medical facilities and colleges including Fortis Property Group, Touro University, Brooklyn Tech Triangle and New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

to the Black community as gentrification swept through North and Central Brooklyn. That’s why he worked with city government to build projects like The Norma, a 44-unit mixed-use development on Fulton and Howard, and helped secure $434 million to renovate nine public housing projects populated by 6,300 residents. Grannum is now passing the torch to Blondel Pinnock, the former chief operations officer at the Greater Jamaica Development Corp. who succeeded the longtime leader as of July 1. Pinnock, the first woman to lead the organization, will be able to rely on Grannum’s expertise for some time, as he’ll continue to assist on such projects as the Restoration Innovation Campus and the Restoration Breakthrough Technology Fellowship. for public universities. Both houses got some of what they wanted from the governor, though the agreement came nine days late.

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Linda Sarsour has gone national, but she hasn’t forgotten her roots as a Brooklyn activist who stood up from Muslim New Yorkers following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Sarsour, who led the Arab American Association of New York for a time, went on to organize the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. The Palestinian American activist, who has drawn condemnation in some quarters for her criticism of Israel, remains involved with the Muslim Democratic Club of New York that she co-founded, backing Shahana Hanif’s successful New York City Council bid last year.

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Kimberly Peeler-Allen and Glynda Carr couldn’t have picked a better candidate to further their goal of advancing Black women in politics than state Attorney General Letitia James, who made a short-lived gubernatorial run last October. James chose to run for reelection instead, allowing Peeler-Allen, who served as campaign senior

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with the Innocence Project and executive with the de Blasio administration’s New York City Young Men’s Initiative. She was briefly a candidate in the 2019 special election for New York City public advocate, and last year, she served as a senior adviser for Dianne Morales’ New York City mayoral campaign before jumping ship to join Maya Wiley’s bid. New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams nominated her to the New York City Conflict of Interest Board, and she was confirmed in March.

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81 adviser, to focus on gender equality and abortion rights as the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade. PAC co-founder Glynda Carr denounced the decision, calling it “catastrophic” for Black women.

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Change and jumped to the city’s school administrators’ union before joining the national school administrators’ union as its political director. Now, Gallucci gets tapped for significant roles like serving on Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso’s transition team last fall.

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BERTHA LEWIS FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT The Black Institute Civil rights leader Bertha Lewis, who had a public split with then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio after helping him win his first mayoral primary, backed Eric Adams to be his successor last year, reasoning that he had the experience to lead the city in a difficult time. When one of her allies said there would be riots when Adams brought back the New York City Police Department’s controversial plainclothes anticrime unit, Lewis said activists should give Adams a chance before passing judgment.

Ike was confirmed in March to the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board.

When the pandemic struck, Brooklyn Community Services leapt into action to help thousands of at-risk children and families. Janelle Farris’ nonprofit donated laptops and software to high school students in need and dispatched a shower bus for homeless individuals to use in East New York, Coney Island and Park Slope. Her group continued programs for adults with developmental disabilities with help from the Neediest Cases Fund, offering hot meals, clothing, COVID-19 tests and even vaccinations to their Brooklyn clients as they became widely available.

83 DONALD R. BOOMGAARDEN PRESIDENT St. Joseph’s University, New York The Clinton Hill Catholic college is now known as St. Joseph’s University, New York after the state Board of Regents approved Donald R. Boomgaarden’s request for a name change in April. Boomgaarden said the new designation was necessary because the school already

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provides a range of graduate courses as well as online instruction across two campuses, although the new moniker won’t have an effect on its annual tuition. The institution has continued making upgrades to its campuses, including a $17 million student center at its Patchogue branch.

graduation and retention rates remained the highest in the CUNY system. When Schrader couldn’t meet incoming students on campus during the pandemic, she visited some of them at their homes across the city. This past school year, Schrader was one of 25 academic leaders chosen for the Aspen Institute’s New Presidents Fellowship.

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84 CLAUDIA V. SCHRADER PRESIDENT Kingsborough Community College After taking over CUNY’s “Harvard by the Bay” in 2018, Claudia V. Schrader pledged to be responsive to Kingsborough Community College’s undergraduate students and ensure the Manhattan Beach school’s

99 Solutions Real estate and telecommunications lobbyist Jacqui Williams founded 99 Solutions 13 years ago after her experience grappling with homelessness and assault. Williams has since worked with Tishman Speyer and the Real Estate Board of New York and helped bring Wegmans to the Navy Yard. She’s also made her interests known at mayoral forums last year and has expanded her practice to include cannabis since the state legalized the sale and distribution of recreational marijuana.

87 GREGG BISHOP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation Social Justice Fund Gregg Bishop had a fulfilling role providing financial and legal resources to small businesses to help them recover from the devastating effects of the pandemic. But when Joe and Clara Tsai approached the Flatbush leader last year about tackling systemic disparities in the workforce and entrepreneurship through their foundation, Bishop leapt at the opportunity. So far, their Brooklyn EXCELerate Loan Fund has provided $1.6 million to businesses – three-quarters of which are owned by Black women. Editor’s note: Gregg Bishop is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

88 PAUL MAK PRESIDENT AND CEO Brooklyn Chinese-American Association The coronavirus pandemic rocked New York City’s Chinatowns – including Sunset Park, where some businesses laid off workers or were forced to close, and residents had one of the highest COVID-19 rates in the city. Paul Mak, who has led the response to a spike in hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans, also successfully pressured the city to drop its plan to remove a lane of traffic to build protected bike lanes on Seventh and Eighth Avenues, arguing it would cause more congestion.

89 KITAW DEMISSIE DEAN SUNY Downstate School of Public Health Dr. Kitaw Demissie has been studying the impact of racial inequities in public health throughout his career – so it didn’t surprise him that COVID-19 antibody rates among Black and Latino New Yorkers were double those of other residents. The SUNY

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Following a career in state government that included holding key posts in the state Senate and in the state attorney general’s office, as well as political work on behalf of the Assembly speaker and Andrew Yang’s 2021 New York City mayoral bid, Eric Soufer has worked in the private sector at Tusk Strategies since 2018. Since earlier this year, the Brooklyn resident has been leading the newly launched Crypto + FinTech Practice at Tusk Strategies, building on his previous work in the financial services and technology spheres.

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Vernikov has served as a point person for Ukrainian immigrants during the war.

90 INNA VERNIKOV NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER The area around Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach has long sent Democrats to City Hall, but Inna Vernikov broke the blue ceiling thanks to endorsements from former boss Dov Hikind and New York City Council Member Chaim Deutsch, and her staunch support of Israel and former President Donald Trump. The Ukrainianborn Republican, who stomped Democrat Steve Saperstein by 30 points, is now exercising her power by scoring discretionary funds for her district while revoking funds from CUNY School of Law for its support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

by the state Senate for her work leading voter registration drives and town hall meetings in Bay Ridge as well as organizing volunteers to demonstrate against former President Trump’s Muslim ban and participate in the Women’s March on Washington. This year, El-Rowmeim has been busy organizing grocery giveaways for her Southern Brooklyn community and celebrating International Women’s Day in March.

92 CLINTON MILLER PASTOR Brown Memorial Baptist Church The Rev. Clinton Miller has led his flock through the

93 RUSSELL HOTZLER PRESIDENT New York City College of Technology Russell Hotzler praised City Tech’s $410 million academic complex for helping inspire its students and professors to change the world when the building opened in Downtown Brooklyn three years ago. Last fall, Hotzler

94 FRANCES BRONET PRESIDENT Pratt Institute In her State of the Institute address last spring, Frances Bronet explained she had to reconsider Pratt Institute’s strategic plan to incorporate lessons learned from the coronavirus outbreak. This year, enrollment remained steady, and Bronet secured a $3.5 million donation for a fashion design professorship and $1.9 million in federal funds for the Pratt Center for Community Development’s small homes initiative. She made other changes as well, naming interim provost Donna Heiland as the school’s permanent chief academic officer in April.

91 SOMIA EL-ROWMEIM FOUNDER Women’s Empowerment Coalition of NYC Last year, the Yemeni American activist Somia El-Rowmeim was named a “Woman of Distinction”

celebrated both the launch of an 18,000-square-foot DNA Learning Center expanding the school’s STEM facilities and a new patent that could revolutionize the field of quantum computing.

Women's Empowerment Coalition of NYC Founder Somia El-Rowmeim

KALID EL-ROWMEIM; LYNDON FRENCH; BRIAN ZIEGLER; JAY HOLLYWOOD

epidemiologist suggested requiring negative COVID-19 tests from municipal workers to spur vaccinations and called for health care workers to boost nursing home residents to prevent hospitals from being overrun with seriously ill patients.

pandemic with rousing sermons that equally ignited the spirits of both those praying in their Washington Avenue pews and livestreaming at home (one sermon from February: “I’m shook but I’m still saved”). Miller, who served on the New York City Charter Revision Commission, is a co-founder of The 400 Foundation, which advances economic equality in the construction industry, and served as chaplain of the WNBA’s New York Liberty.

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ANDRE T. MITCHELL

WHITNEY HU

FOUNDER AND CEO

FOUNDER

Man Up!

South Brooklyn Mutual Aid

MARCIA MAXWELL

As City Hall grapples with gun violence across the five boroughs, the mayor has recruited Andre T. Mitchell to assist. Mitchell, the founder of the nonprofit Man Up!, was announced in June as a co-chair, along with Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Sheena Wright, of a new Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. Man Up! has a history of working with the city, having been awarded millions of dollars by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice for “anti-gun violence” work, but the organization has also been flagged for financial irregularities.

The former New York City Council candidate has continued her work providing groceries, diapers and baby formula for Sunset Park’s undocumented residents in the pandemic’s third year. Whitney Hu has since subleased a space in the Brooklyn Army Terminal for wholesale grocery donations and borrowed a cargo truck, even making some deliveries herself. Hu’s group has raised over $400,000 since the pandemic began, and she has taken on a greater role in the community, including demanding more communityfocused public safety after the Sunset Park subway shooting.

EASTERN REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

JUDE BERNARD

Marcia Maxwell brought her experience as a state director for New York University and a public affairs specialist at Global Strategy Group to help the Chicago-based cannabis company become one of the fastest-growing marijuana brands in the Midwest. Now, Cresco Labs is expanding to “fancier sites” and raising prices as it has keyed in on the New York market by acquiring rival Columbia Care for $2 billion. Her experience in Albany should give Cresco a leg up as the state begins proposing cannabis regulations on packaging and distribution.

vaccinations during a standoff with New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

South Brooklyn Mutual Aid Founder Whitney Hu

FOUNDER AND CEO The Brooklyn Bank Four years ago, Jude Bernard founded The Brooklyn Bank with a mission of providing financial literacy and wealth-building knowledge to communities of color in Central Brooklyn. Bernard, who was once overleveraged himself, now dispenses advice such as urging homeowners to get accurate, up-to-date appraisals before selling. This month, his Bedford-Stuyvesant nonprofit hosted the “Black Money Forum,” a free personal finance workshop, as part of the Juneteenth celebrations in the borough.

98 CARA NOEL SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Actum Cara Noel traded New Jersey pork roll sandwiches for Brooklyn egg creams and Grandma pizza slices when she joined Actum as one of three new hires in March. A former communications director for the New Jersey state Senate Democrats, the New York City Central Labor Council and 1199SEIU, Noel helped promote health care workers’ ability to make their own decisions over

Cresco Labs

100 WES JACKSON INCOMING PRESIDENT BRIC Wes Jackson once produced concerts for Nas, Dave Matthews Band, The Roots and A Tribe Called Quest, and founded the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival in 2005 – so he should have no trouble advancing the multidisciplinary mission of BRIC. The Downtown Brooklyn nonprofit arts organization, known for its Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival summer concert series, brought Jackson home in June after a stint at Emerson College running a business development program for undergrads interested in careers in the arts.

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Notice of formation of limited liability company (L LC) . Name: Qi Habitats LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/25/22. NY office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 530 Manhattan Avenue #61, New York, NY 10027. Purpose/character of LLC: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1522 BERKELE Y, LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 4 / 2 9/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Chemung SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to ONE COMMERCE PLAZA, 99 WA S H I N G TO N AV E , SUITE 805-A ALBANY, NY 12210. Any lawful purpose. Notice of SHAMOSH 1 REALTY LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/18/22. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 8/31/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1527 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 12230. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of DRIP CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 0 5/2 0/2 0 2 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 5500 MAIN S T R E E T, S T E 3 4 5 , BUFFALO, NY 14221. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SM CATS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/12/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2662 EAST 26 STREET, APT 2 B, BROOKLYN, NY 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of TAHA3628 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/16/2022. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 357 BRIGHTON ST, STATEN ISL AND, NY, 10309. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of W YONA RESIDENCE LLC Ar ts . O f Org . filed with SSNY on 5/13/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 183 WILSON STREET STE 185, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 642 E AST 88TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/14/2022.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 115 HAROLD ROAD, WOODMERE, NY, 11598. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LUCY MCKEON LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/3/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 831 Saint Johns Pl Apt 12, Brooklyn, NY 11216. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BUNNAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/2021. Of fice location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1396 FL ATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11210. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 28 Lyman Place LLC, filed with SSNY on 1/20/22. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 28 Lyman Place, Staten Island NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of NITE SWIM LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/12/2021. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 302 CLINTON STREET, APT 1, BROOKLYN, NY, 11201. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of J & M BROAD PROPERTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2015.Of fice location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 85 OCEANIC AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NONNO POP’S GOURMET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 5/2 0 2 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 2253 EAST 64TH STREE T, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11234. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of SHOPCOVERSNLOVERS, LLC . A r t s . of O rg . filed with S SN Y on 05/31/2022.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. S S N Y m ail p ro c e s s to 1 IRVING PL APT P10G, NEW YORK, NY, 1 0 0 0 3 - 97 3 6 . A ny lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 65 BAKERTOWN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/12/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 67 Bakertown Rd Monroe, NY 10950. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of K AM & HOLLY LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/11/22.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 7109 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of LUCA LAW, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/22/2022.Office loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of ATELIER DENAVAUT LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 873 BROADWAY, STE 305, NEW YORK, NY, 10003.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of M AG A Z I N E S H O M E LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/26/2022. Office location Allegany SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 1470 WHITE PLAINS RD - 2R, BRONX, NY, 10462. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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LDH DISTRIBUTION LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 04/22/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Leila D’Heurle Matoshi, 50 W 106th Street, NY, NY 10 025 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L MANAGEMENT LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 7/ 1 7/2 0 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL M A N A G E M E N T L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of CPI TEMP PL ACEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/19/2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 5/ 1 1/2 2 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 10 E. 40th St., 40th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with J e f f rey W. B ullo ck , State of DE, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., J o hn G . Tow n s e n d Bldg., 401 Federal St., S te . 4 , D over, D E 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of CAZENOVIA RENTALS, LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 2 /2 0 2 2 . Office location Madison SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7 RIPPLETON R OA D, CA ZENOV IA , N Y, 13035. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ADELPHI 23 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/18/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 61 GREENPOINT AVE, STE 601, BROOKLYN, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MANDE L LITE R ARY LLC filed with SSNY on 05/09/2022. Office: KINGS County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 200 CONGRESS STREE T, APT 3A . BROOKLYN, NY, 11201 US Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of CIL42 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 5/18/22. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Rita Kalimian Sakhaie, 150 Charles St., Apt. M6, NY, NY 10014, principal business address. Purpose: all law ful purposes .

Notice of Formation of KAHNSTRUCT TRIBECA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 05/17/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Moses &amp; Singer LLP, Attn: Irving Sitnick, Esq., 405 Lexington Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10174. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of Third Star Property Group, LLC filed with SSNY on April 4/22/22. 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: 332 W. 101st St. Apt. 3F New York, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. McAdoo Estate Planning, LLC filed Arts of Org with the SSNY on 4/27/2022 Office:NEW YORK Count y SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 99 Wall Street, #2139, New York, NY 10005 The principal business address of the PLLC 99 Wall Street,New York,NY 10005 Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of CITYWIDE B U I L D I N G SYS T E M CONSULTANTS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretar y of State of New York on 05/20/2022. Office located in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to CITYWIDE BUILDING SYSTEM CONSULTANTS LLC: 923 SAW MILL RIVER ROAD, #283, ARDSLEY, NY, 10502, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L DOMESTIC FUND LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 9/0 8/2 0 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL DOMESTIC FUND L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qualification of J AT C A P I TA L TACTICAL FUND LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/18/22. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 1/0 6/2 1 . Princ. of fice of LP: One Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830. NYS fictitious name: JAT CAPITAL TA C T I C A L FUND L .P. Duration of LP is Perpetual . S SN Y designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LP at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: The Corporation Trust Co., Corporation Tr u s t Center, 1209 Orange St. , Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, Dept. of State, John G . Townsend Bldg. , P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19 9 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of 67 BAK ER TOWN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/13/22. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 67 Bakertown Rd Monroe, NY 10950. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of 147 JAFFRAY STREET LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 12/14/2021.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 147 JAFFRAY STREE T, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MY FOREVER HOME LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process 24 ST AUSTINS PLACE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10310. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of NORTH CAMPUS DEVELOPER LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 336 HUMBOLDT STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 9/2 0 2 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 19 KENNINGTON S T R E E T, S TAT E N I S L A N D, N Y, 1 0 3 0 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NORTH CAMPUS EQUITIES LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 2004 GLENWOOD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/21/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 61 GREENPOINT AVENUE SUITE 601, BROOKLYN, NY, 1222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NORTH CAMPUS SPONSOR LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/06/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose.

MOZITO MOE ENTERPRISE LLC. Art. Of Org. Filed with SSNY on 6/23/2022. Office/ New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it mate be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 55 La Salle St 13F New York, NY 10027. Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MILESTONE S T R AT E G I E S , L L C . Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/2022. Office location: BRONX County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is: 1551 Unionport Rd., 9B, Bronx, NY 10462. The principal business address of the LLC is: 1551 Unionport Rd., 9B, Bronx, NY 10462. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

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Notice of Formation of 2277 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/25/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 54 CENTER MARKET STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11236. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 2413 POPLAR LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/10/2022. Office location Allegany SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2413 POPLAR ST., BRONX, NY, 10462. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of BUILT DIFFERENT BK, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/0 6/2 0 2 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1008 M A N H AT TA N AVENUE, #4B, BROOKLYN, NY, 11222. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of E98 ART STUDIO & GALLERY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 3/ 2 4 / 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Oneida SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5819 ROME-TABERG ROAD #6, ROME, NY, 13440. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of FORTUNE ASSETS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/28/2022. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 108 FORSY TH ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10002. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of G POWER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/23/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 240 OCEAN PARKWAY, APT 6F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CASEMENT WINDOWS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 4/21/202 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 102-10 66TH ROAD, 3C, FOREST HILLS, NY, 11375. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GOG NY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/26/2022. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 497 RIDGEWOOD AV E N U E , S TAT E N ISLAND, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CLEMATIS 400 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/04/2022.Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 450 SEVENTH AVENUE, 45TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10123. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC A M S T E R DA M , L LC . Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: MONTGOMERY. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PINE B USH IR I S FARM LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/ 2 5/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 248 BRIMSTONE HILL ROAD, PINE BUSH , N Y, 12566. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SWITCHUP US LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/25/2022.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to JARED E. PAIOFF, ESQ., 444 MADISON AVENUE, 6TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10022. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation o f R AC H E L & C PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5 / 1 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 953 68TH STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11219. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of WILLIAM SUK ARCHITECTURE PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/03/2022.Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 232 MADISON AVENUE, SUITE 500, NEW YO R K , N Y, 10016. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S B L T E C H N O L O GY SOLUTIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/27/2021. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 626 1ST AVENUE, APT E10A , NEW YORK, NY, 10016 3914. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WOODRIDGE SUSHI SPOT LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/24/2022.Office location: Sullivan. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 1627 E AST 27 TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SHERWOOD FAMILY LLC. Ar ts .O f Org. filed with SSNY on 06/02/2022.Of fice location: Sullivan. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 262 POTTER AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 59-24 57TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process 59 -24 57 TH STREET, MASPETH, NY, 11378. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SJC RIA LLC. .Arts. of O rg . f ile d with SSNY on 05/25/2022. Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 535 5TH AVENUE, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10017. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 451 KINGS HIGHWAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/25/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 32 VILLANOVA DRIVE, FREEHOLD,, FREEHOLD, NJ, 07728. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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Notice of Qual. of FGNYC O N E O N TA , LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: OTSEGO. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC CENTRAL, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 0 6/0 3/2 0 2 2 . Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC PLATTSBURGH, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office l o c a t i o n : C L I N TO N . LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC NORTH GREENBUSH, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: RENSSEL AER. LLC f o r m e d in D E o n 05/25/202 2 . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYC QUEENSBURY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: WA R R E N . LLC formed in DE on 05/25/202 2 . SSNY de sg . as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. The name of the limited liabilit y company is Parkwood Blvd LLC. The date of the filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State was 05/03/2022. The County in which the office of the LLC is located is Bronx. The agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served is the Secretary of State and such shall mail a copy of any process to 2323 Haviland Ave, Bronx, NY, 10462. The business purpose of the LLC is any lawful business purpose or purposes. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346966 for wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine at retail in a TW 344 Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 124 E 14TH New York , New York 10003 for on premises consumption. Kid Brother LLC Notice of Formation of JILLIAN GROVER PODCAST SOLUTIONS LLC filed with SSNY on June 9, 2022. Office: Chemung County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Jillian Grover, 258 East 14th Street, Elmira Heights, NY 14903. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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SHERIFF’S SALE BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT, COUNT Y OF NEW YORK , in favor of BARCLAYS BANK PLC, and against BAVAGUTHU RAGHURAM SHETTY, to me directed and delivered, I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION, by Dennis Alestra D CA # 0 8 4 0 2 17. , auc tioneer, as the law directs, FOR CASH ONLY, on the 10TH day of AUGUST, 2022, at 12 O’ CLOCK NOON, at: 66 JOHN STREET 13TH FLOOR in the county of NEW YORK all the right, title and interest which B AVAG U T H U R AG H U R A M S H E T T Y, t h e judgment debtors, had on the 15TH day of April, 2022, or at any time thereafter, of, in and to the following properties: DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: 210 LAFAYETTE STREET UNIT #2C MANHATTAN, NEW YORK 10012 TAX LOT# 1105 BLOCK# 482 OF SECTION 2 The Condominium Unit (the “Unit”) known as Unit No. 2C in the building (the “Building”) known as the 210 Lafayette Street, Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, said Unit being designated and described by the above Unit No. C in a certain declaration dated August 2, 2005 made by Grantor pursuant to Article 9-B of the Real Property Law of the State of New York (the “Condominium Act”) (establishing a plan for condominium) which declaration was recorded in the New York County Office of the Register of the City of New York (“the Register’s Office”) on October 27, 2005 under CRFN 2005000602621 (the “Declaration”). The Unit is also designated as Tax Lot 1105 in Block 482 of Section 2 of the Borough of Manhattan on the Tax Map of the Real Property Assessment Department of the City of New York on September 13, 2005 as Condominium Plan No. 1484 and also filed in the Register’s Office on October 27, 2005 as Condominium Map No. 12-C under CRFN 2005000602622. TOGETHER with an undivided 1.3353% interest in the Residential Common Elements and undivided 1.1564% interest in the General Common Elements (as such terms are defined in the Declaration). ANTHONY MIRANDA Sheriff of the City of New York DEPUTY SHERIFF WEIDEMEYER CASE# 22012981 (212) 291-2544 (212) 487-9734 Notice of Formation of AC CUSTOMS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/09/2022. Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 128 FAWN HILL ROAD, TUXEDO PARK, NY, 10987. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CARGO HOME DESIGN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5/ 2 5/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 GREENE AV E , B R O O K LY N , NY, 11238. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of ARK COMMERCE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/09/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 90 STATE STREET , SUITE 700, BOX 10, ALBANY, NY, 12207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CPEC ADVERTISING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/31/2022. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 360 E 89TH ST APT 16B, NEW YORK, NY, 10128. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Public Notice of Registered Assumed Name New York, New York County Please be advised that Quinones, Melvin Jr, Domiciled on the land of turtle Island, is the Executor/ Beneficiary/Name holder of the business now being carried on at 1305 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York 10027, in the following Assumed name to wit; MELVIN QUINONES JR; and the Nature of the said business is commerce. This statement is to be filed with the clerk of Superior Court of this county, this 1 Day of June, 2022, New York, New York County, Minnesota Original File Number 1098489500023 Filed June 1, 2022: Status: Active/Good Standing Notice of Formation of The Dubin Initiative, LLC filed with SSNY on May 23, 2022. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 725 Hardscrabble Rd. Chappaqua, N Y 10514 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Form. of YO U N G & SONS SERVICES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/0 3/2 0 2 2 . Office location: Livingston . SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6425 SONYEA ROAD, MOUNT MORRIS, NY, 14510. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 32 JANIE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022.Of fice loc ation: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 13 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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Notice of Formation of 709 LORIMER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/15/2022.Of fice location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 709 LORIMER ST, B R O O K LY N , N Y, 11211Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1078 EAST 24TH STREET REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/20/2014. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1078 EAST 24TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11210. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 1922 VP MT MORRIS LLC. Ar ts . of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 5 / 2 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Ontario SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 7 7 70 PINE TREE DRIVE, VICTOR , NY, 14564. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of FGNYC ELMIRA, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: CHEMUNG. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , H A R R I S O N , NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of 423 FOREST AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 4/14/202 2 . Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. S SN Y mail proces s to 10 WESTBURY AV E N U E , S TAT E N ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of GUO J&K RE AL ESTATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/24/202 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1253 70TH STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11228. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of LEOD, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/06/2022. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 31 ROMER RD, STATEN ISL AND, NY, 10304 . Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of YSABEL YATES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/24/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 CROOKE AVENUE, APT 2H, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11226. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of CENTENNIAL PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/08/2022. Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 04/27/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10525. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. MBBEAUTYSTUDIO & AESTHETICS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on _01_/_ 20_/_ 2022_. O f f ic e: NE W YO R K County. United States CORPORATION AGENTS, INC designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States CORPORATION AGENTS, INC at 7014 13TH AVENUE SUITE 202, B R O O K LY N N Y 112 28 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose

Articles of Organization of IRL Digital, LLC (“LLC”) filed with the Secretary of S tate of New York (“SSNY”) on May 31, 2022, effective on the date of filing. Office Location: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 6040 JFK Blvd. East, Apt. 17C, West New York, NJ 07093, which shall be the principal business location. The purpose for which the LLC is formed is to engage in any lawful ac t or ac tivit y for which limited liability c ompanie s may b e organized under the NYS Limited Liability Company Law. Notice of Formation of EL PRIMO RED TACOS NYC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 7/0 1 / 2 0 2 1 . O f f i c e location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 150 SE 2ND AVE #1003, MIAMI, FL, 33131.Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of TACOS EL PORK Y II, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/09/2022 .Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Any law ful purpose. Sarah Groark Psychologist PhD, PLLC filed Ar ts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/13/2022. 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: The LLC, 31 Ocean Pkwy, #5J, Brooklyn, NY, 11218. Purpose: Psychology.

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Notice of Formation o f 4 0 B R OA DWAY R E NS SE L AE R , LLC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/06/2022. Office location Rensselaer SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 628 HAVERSTRAW ROAD, SUFFERN, NY, 10901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 140 PROSPECT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/10/2022. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 1448 71ST STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11228. Any lawful p u r p o s e . . EZ BUTLER GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/02/22. 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, 181 Broadway, Room 6R, New York, NY 10007. Purpose: Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347151 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 905 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 for on premises consumption. 905 Lorimer F&B LLC Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347265 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 9 Jones Street, New York, NY 10014for on premises c o n s u m p t i o n . NO-THING GROUP LLC LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Notice of Formation of APRIL APRIL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/28/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 329 QUINCY STREET, #2, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216. Any law ful p u r p o s e . Notice of Qual. of CLEMENTINE CLEAN ENERGY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/28/15. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 06/06/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: URBAN FUTURE LAB, 370 JAY S T R E E T, 7TH FL, ALBANY, NY, 12201. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of H A R T B E AT, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 0 6 /0 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/09/2021. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . S SN Y mail proces s to: 15910 VENTUR A BOULEVARD, SUITE 150, ENCINO, CA 91436. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347180 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 15 Watts S t r e e t , N e w Yo r k , NY 10013 for on premises consumption. Maison Close NYC LLC

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Notice of Qual. of FIVE POINTS 262 PROJECT LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 05/16/2022. Office location: NEW YORK. LLC formed in DE on 11/16/2020. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 444 MADISON AVENUE, 6TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. WHC, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/07/2022. Office location: Madison. LLC formed in DE on 05/27/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of TR OMPE TA PROPERTIES I LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/14/202 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 ONEIDA AV E N U E , S TAT E N ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347139 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1 S. Edgemere, St Montauk, N Y, 11 9 5 4 f o r o n premises consumption.

Notice of Qual. of JL DEPEW 1 2 9 7, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/13/2022. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/02/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of TNNY FB, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/13/2022. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/15/2021. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 200 18TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/08/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 444 MADISON AVENUE, 6TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10022. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of CJE 8811, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/24/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1524 SHEEPSHE AD BAY R D. , PH 28B , BROOKLYN, NY, UNITED STATES, 11235 - 3890. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of VISIONARY I N S U R A N C E CONSULTANTS LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 06/10/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 21 E 10TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TOUCHPOINT MULTI SERVICE LLC. Ar ts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/13/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 323 E 4TH STREET - 1R, BROOKLYN, NY, 11218. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NECKDAYS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/14/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1630 E 4TH STREET, FLOOR 2 , B R O O K LY N , N Y, 11230. Any law ful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of HALLELOO PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6 / 1 0/ 2 0 1 5 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 456 JOHNSON AVENUE SUITE 323, B R O O K LY N , N Y, 11237. Any lawful purpose.

SA 1424 FRONT ST, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/08/2022. 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, 42 West 39th Street, Floor 6, NY, NY 10018. Reg Agent: John Behette, 42 West 39th Street, Floor 6, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of RIVERVIEW TEI XI LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/10/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. of fice. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of MPQ 1400 Broadway, LLC. Arts of Org filed w/ Sec’y of State 10/29/20. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and mailed to against LLC: 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Principal place of business address: 149 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor, NY NY 10010. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1346984 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 24 4 FL AT B US H AV ENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11217 for on premises consumption. COOP ONE LLC

Notice of Qualification of RailWorks Track Services LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 03/22/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Indiana (IN) on 05/28/62. Princ. office of LLC: Hilltop & Midland Terrace, Bldg. D, Sewell, NJ 08080. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 302 W. Washington St., Rm. E 018 , Indianapolis , IN 4 620 4 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Formation of TROMPE TA PROPERTIES II LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/15/2022. Office location Kings: SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 ONEIDA AVE, STATEN ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of L XMI COPPER COVE PROPERT Y OWNER, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 05/12/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 3/24/2 2 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207-25 4 3 . DE addr. of LLC: c/o GKL Registered Agents of DE, Inc., 3500 S. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. To w n s e n d B l d g . 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of ENDEAVOR DENTISTRY LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 6/01/2 2 . Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 05/23/22. Princ. office of LLC: 2 3 3 L a f aye t t e S t . , N ewark , N J 0 7 1 0 5 . SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d . SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 15 Oliver St., Apt. 2H, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Cer t. of Form. filed with Acting State Treasurer, 33 W. State St., F i f t h F l . , Tr e n t o n , NJ 086 4 6 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of formation of MPQ 400 Fifth Avenue, LLC Arts of Org filed w/Secy of State of NY (SSNY ) on 11/23/20. O f f ice location: N Y Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and mailed to against LLC: 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207. Principal place of business: 149 Fifth Ave, NY NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347597 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 322 E 86th Street, New York, NY 10028 for on premises consumption. Sandrony, Inc. Notice of Qualification of BUSBAR FINANCIAL MEDIA, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 6/0 9/2 2 . Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in D e l awa r e (D E ) o n 04/13/22. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co. (CSC), 80 State St., A lb any, N Y 1 2 2 0 72543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal S t . , #4 , Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of INTERCER NORTH AMERICA, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/13/2022. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 244 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1203,NEW YORK , NY, 10001, USA . Purpose: any lawful act or activity Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347612 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage C ontrol L aw at 15 DEL ANCE Y STREE T, NEW YORK, NY 10002 for on premises consumption. MLWINGS LLC

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Notice of Formation of LLC. The limited liability company name is OLD MACDONALD DE VELOPMENT GROUP LLC; articles of organization were filed with the secretary of state June 14, 2022; LLC’s office to be located in Greene County; the secretary of s tate has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served; the post office to which the secretary of state shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon it is c/o ANDREW A. MACDONALD, 9621 ST RT 32, FREEHOLD, NY 12431; Purpose: for any law ful purpose. Notice of Qual. of FGNYC ELMIRA, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/03/2022. Office location: CHEMUNG. LLC formed in DE on 05/25/2022. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK A V E N U E # 4 0 0 , H A R R I S O N , NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1297181 for liquor, beer, wine, & cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, & cider at retail in a OP252 Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control L aw at 511 E 12th Street, New York, NY 10009 for on premises consumption. LE VRAIE RACLETTE LLC Notice of Formation of DK YL LLC. Arts. O f Org . f ile d with SSNY on 05/26/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 710B 59TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY, 11220. Any law ful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE PROBATE COURT COUNTY OF LAURENS MARY BOYD DENDY Petitioner, SUMMONS Vs. WILLIE EARL BOYD, MATTHEW BOYD, WILLIAM BOYD and DONNELL GRIFFITH, Respondents, In the interests of: WILLIE EARL BOYD, Docket Numbers: Alleged Incapacitated Individual 2021-GC-30-018 and 2021-GC-30-19 TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Petitions in the above-referenced cases filed with the Probate Court of Laurens County and to serve a copy of your Answer to this Petition upon the petitioner, at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Petition, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. Dated: 6/21/2022 /s/Kenneth P. Shabel Kenneth P. Shabel SC Bar #16136 KENNEDYIBRANNON, LLC Post Office Box 3254 Spartanburg, South Carolina 29304 864.707.2020 864.707.2030 (Fax) ken@kennedybrannon.com Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Kingsbrook Estates BCHS GP LLC (“ LLC ” ). Ar ticles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on June 9, 2022. NY office location: Kings County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Kingsbrook Estates BCHS GP LLC, 25 Chapel Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of 2288 ROUTE 9 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/06/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 100 BOGART STREET 317, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 2734 BRIGHTON 7 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3133 CONEY ISLAND AVE 2 FL, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of ORANGEBURG PARTNERS VV LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/21/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2571 E 17 TH STREE T, FL 3 , B R O OK LY N , N Y, 11235. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of 255 NEWMAN STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/21/202 2 . Office location Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 34B CARROLL S T R E E T, BRONX, NY, 10464. Any lawful purpose. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

Public Notice APPOINTMENT Massealah Marine International Limited (In Voluntary Liquidation) Company Number: 1841898 Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 204(1)(b) of the BVI Business Companies Act, 20 04 that the Company is in voluntary liquidation. The voluntary liquidation commenced on 10 December 2021. The Liquidator is Kerry Graziola of Craigmuir Chambers, P.O. Box 71, Road Town, Tor tola, British Virgin Islands 10 December 2021 Sgd. Kerry Graziola Liquidator Notice of Qual. of VERTICURL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/16/2022. Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 04/24/2009. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347528 for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a Cafe under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1129 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216for on premises consumption. ARTSHACK BROOKLYN INC. Notice of Formation of COREN OPPORTUNITY FUND II LLC. Ar ts. O f Org . f ile d with SSNY on 06/15/2022. Office location Kings: SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 41 BOX STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11222. Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of TR OMPE TA PROPERTIES III LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/15/202 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 ONEIDA AVE, STATEN ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JOMION & THE UKLOS BAND LLC, filed with SSNY on 08/31/2022. Office: KINGS. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 92 HULL STREET APT 2F BROOKLYN NY 11233 USA . Purp ose: any lawful act or activity.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347714 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 235 W 12th St New York, NY 1001436 for on premises consumption.

Notice of Formation of K NORTH, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/16/2022. Office location: Wayne. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d . S S N Y mail process to 7392 DUTCH S T R EE T, WO LC OT T, NY, 14590. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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Public Notice AT &T p r o p o s e s t o mo di f y an ex is ting facility (tip heights 118’ & 134.3’) on the building at 47 3 rd Ave, New York, NY (20220700). Interested parties may c o nt ac t S c o t t Horn (856 - 809 -1202) (1012 Industrial Dr. , West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential ef fects on historic proper ties.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1347634 for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a TW344 Ta v e r n under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 211 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 for on premises consumption. 211 Reserve LLC Notice of Qual. of BDS CONNECTED SOLUTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 0 6 / 1 0/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location: New York . LLC formed in DE on 03/31/2016. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528 . Ar ts . of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. D o v e r, DE 19901. Any law ful purpose.

SB H O S P I TA L I T Y GROUP LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/28/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Larry Aaronson CPA , 350 Motor Park way, Suite 303, Hauppauge, N Y 1178 8 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. S&T WINDOWS, LLC. Filed June 6, 2022. Office: NY Co. Org. in PA: 03/17/2005. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to its foreign add: 116 Meadow Lane, Swiftwater, PA 18370. Arts. of Org filed with SSPA, 302 N. Ofc Bldg, Harrisburg, PA 17120. Purpose: General.

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July 11, 2022

Notice of Formation of JE N SCHE NK E L COACHING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6 / 2 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 560 6TH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11215. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of BRIGHT REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/24/2022. Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 MAMARONECK AVENUE #400, HARRISON, NY, 10528. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of RED WHITE HORSE, LLC. Ar ts .O f Org. filed with SSNY on 06/23/2022.Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 100 CROSBY STREET, NEW YORK , N Y, 10012. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE ONE GOLDEN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/23/2022.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6019 4 AVE, BROOK LY N , NY, 11220. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of YANG LIN 714 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/09/2022 .Of fice location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5113 8TH AVENUE 3, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of LMCV QOZ FUND I LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/14/202 2 . Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 535 5TH AVENUE, 12T H FLOOR , NE W YO R K , N Y, 1 0 0 1 7. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of ALIANA GEORGEVICTOR LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/28/202 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 275 MONTGOMERY STREET, 1ST FL, BROOKLYN, N Y, 11225. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of L STOCKNOFF LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/22/2022. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 35 EAST 75TH STREET, APT. 14E, NEW YORK, NY, 10021. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of JLV Works, LLC filed with SSNY on 6/08/2022. 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: 433 East 115th St. Apt. 6A, New York, NY 10029. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. SR & V CONSTRUCTION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/03/22. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1745 Caton Avenue, Apartment B5, Brooklyn, N Y 112 26 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ShadawnNicole Enterprises, L.L.C. filed with SSNY on 06/17/22. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of WG TS HOTEL LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 06/23/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 6/0 1/2 2 . Princ. office of LLC: 23 3 Broadway, Rm . 2305, NY, NY 102792503. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co. (CSC), 80 State St., A lb any, N Y 1 2 2 0 72543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. To w n s e n d Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 2231752 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant with a grocery store under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 17-19-21 Main Street, Chatham, N Y 1 2 0 3 7 f or on premises consumption. Chatham Cheese Inc d/b/a Bimi’s Cheese Shop/Bimi’s Canteen/ Jax Gelato

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Notice of Formation of PAINTED PANGOLIN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/23/22. O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to M. Nader Ahari, 200 Park Ave. South, Ste. 1608, NY, NY 10 0 03 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1345309) for (Liquor License) has been applied by AMBOY SUSHI CORP. DBA: Yosuki Sushi to sell ( Beer Wine Cider & Liquor) at retail in a (Restaurant) under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at (6410 Amboy Rd, #130, Staten Island, NY 10309) and County of Richmond) for onpremises consumption. Notice of Formation of 1214 13TH STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/ 2 4 / 2 0 2 2 . Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 392 MANHATTAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11211. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of T R O M PE TA WONG INVESTING P R O P E R T I E S LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/2 8 /2 0 2 2 . Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 ONEIDA AV E N U E , S TAT E N ISL AND, N Y, 10301 . Any law ful purpose. HT STRATEGY LLC. Filed: 5/11/22 . Office: NY Co. Org. in NEW JERSE Y: 08/28/2020. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to its foreign add: 136 Oakland Ave, 6a, Jersey City, NJ 07306. Arts. of Org. filed with Nj Department Of The Treasury, Division Of Revenue And Enterprise Services, Po Box 002, Trenton, NJ 0 8 625 0002. Purpose: General.

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July 11, 2022

Notice of Qualification of 68 RICHARDSON OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 0 6 / 1 7/ 2 2 . Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/11/22. Princ. office of LLC: c/o FREO U.S. Management, LLC, 117 E. 29th St., #5C, NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y. Notice of Qualification of 100 CHURCH RETAIL II LESSEE LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State o f N Y (S S N Y ) o n 06/23/22. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (D E ) o n 0 5/2 6/2 2 . Princ. office of LLC: c/o SL Green Realty Corp., One Vanderbilt Ave. , 28th Fl. , N Y, NY 1 0 0 1 7. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration S er vic e Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 1220725 4 3 . DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808 . Cer t. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, PO Box 898, D o v e r, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of MEINERGY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/14/2022. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 5 W 37 STREET, STE 800, NEW YORK, NY, 10018. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by c o mp e ti ti ve b i d ding starting on July 25, 2022 and end on August 5, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #8J30 – Ronald Liebman: several plastic bags with miscellaneous items #8P01 – Ronald Liebman: 1-wooden chair, several plastic bags with miscellaneous items #8P46 – Ronald Liebman: several plastic bags with miscellaneous items The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed f ro m th e p re mi s e s within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time. Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on the following existing buildings in New York, NY: 380-ft tall bldg at 200 Madison Avenue (40° 44’ 55.47” N, 73° 58’ 56.61” W), 80-ft tall bldg at 304-310 W 14th Street (40° 44’ 23.33” N. 74° 0’ 11.62” W), 140.66-ft tall bldg at 110 Lafayette Street (40° 42’ 9.3” N. 73° 54’ 46.3” W), 73.66-ft tall bldg at 27th & West Side Highway (40° 44’ 49.99” N, 74° 0’ 30.99” W). Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: M. Gordon, Terracon, 2105 Newpoint Pl, Ste 600 Lawrenceville, GA 30043, 770-623-0755 or marnie. gordon@terracon.com.

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Notice of Registration of THE MADISON PHYSICIANS, LLP, a domestic LLP. Notice of Reg. filed with the SSNY on 03/22/2022. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLP may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLP, 1860 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, NY 11747. Principal Loc: 635 Madison Ave., 7th FL, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Purpose: To practice the profession of medicine. Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its Controlled Affiliates D oing B usine s s as Verizon Wireless (Verizon W i r e l e s s) p r o p o s e s to collocate wireless communications antennas at the following locations in Kings County, NY: at a top height of 82 feet on a 79-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 3100 Brighton 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11235; at a top height of 61 feet on a 59-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 534 63rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220; at a top height of 46 feet on a 42-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 816 Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206; at a top height of 56 feet on a 52-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 164 Dikeman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231; at a top height of 30 feet on a 24-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 2269 East 69th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234; and at a top height of 74 feet on a 77-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 364 93rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp., Stephen Mitchell s.mitchell@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678- 653-8673

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Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates d o in g b u s in e s s a s Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) is proposing telecommunications installations at various locations in Manhattan, N ew Yo r k C o u n t y, N ew Yo rk . Ve rizo n Wireless proposes to replace existing public lighting/traffic control structures and install telecommunications antennas and associated equipment at a top height of 32 feet at the following locations: at the approx. vicinity of 2 Avenue ES 1N of East 11 Street, 10003; and at the approx. vicinity of Isham Street @ SEC of Park Terrace West, 10034. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submit ted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Stephen Mitchell, s .mitchell@ trileaf.com, phone: 678653-8673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) propose to collocate wireless communications antennas at several locations in New Yo r k , New Yo r k Count y, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 94 feet on a 108 foot building at the approx. vicinity of 203 Rivington Street, 10013; and at a top height of 54 on a 54-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 132 9th Avenue, 10011. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Benjamin Allen, b.allen@trileaf. com, phone: 678653-8673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067.

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Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates d o in g b u s in e s s a s Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) is proposing telecommunications installations at various locations in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Verizon Wireless proposes to replace existing public lighting/traffic control structures and install telecommunications antennas and associated equipment at a top height of 32 feet at the following locations: at the approx. vicinity of Fulton Street @ NWC of Cambridge Place, 11238; at the approx. vicinity of Water Street NS 2E of Old Fulton Street, 11201; at the approx. vicinity of Main Street WS 1N of Front Street, 11201; at the approx. vicinity of Water Street @ SEC of Washington Street, 11201; at the approx. vicinity of Livingston Street @ NEC of Hoyt Street, 11201; and at the approx. vicinity of York Street ES 4N of Washington Street, 11201. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submit ted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Benjamin Allen, b.allen@trileaf. com, phone: 678653-8673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067. Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at 105 feet on a 132-foot rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 715 Nor th Avenue, New Rochelle, Westchester C o unt y, N Y 1 0 8 0 1 . Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Laura Elston, l.elston@ trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 4 0 0, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673. LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM

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 several locations in Richmond County, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 40 feet on a 41 -f o ot buil ding at the approx . vicinit y o f 2 6 9 9 R i c hm o n d Terrace, Staten Island, 10303; at a top height of 42 feet on a 40foot building at the approx. vicinity of 201 Arlington Avenue, Staten Island, 10303; and at a top height of 44 feet on a 40-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 998 Bay Street, Staten Island, 10305. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic p ro p e r ti e s m ay b e submit ted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Benjamin Allen, b.allen@trileaf.com, phone: 678-6538673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067. Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on the following existing buildings in Brooklyn, NY: 61.4-ft tall bldg at 259 St. Nicholas Avenue (40° 43’ 5.41” N, 74° 0’ 3.68” W), 61.42-ft tall bldg at 718 Washington Avenue (40° 40’ 35.2” N. 73° 57’ 49.51” W), 53.33ft tall bldg at 3802 Poplar Avenue (40° 34’ 47.39” N. 74° 0’ 24.69” W). Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: M. Gordon, Terracon, 2105 Newpoint Pl, Ste 600 Lawrenceville, GA 30043, 770-623-0755 or marnie. gordon@terracon.com.

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Public Notice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF BRONX – Index No. 800351/2022E – Date Purchased: 1/7/2022 – SUMMONS WITH NOTICE – Plaintiff designates Bronx County as the place of trial – Basis of venue: Plaintiff’s residence, Plaintiff resides at: 225 E. 149 th Street, Apt. 23E, Bronx, NY 10458 – RUTH A. LUGO A/K/A RUTH A. MARTINEZ, Plaintiff, -against- MARIO TONY LUGO, Defendant. – ACTION FOR A DIVORCE – To the above-named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is 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 notice set forth below. By: NERMINA Z. ARNAUD, of Counsel to WILLIAM WHALEN, Plaintiff’s Attorney, DC37 MELS, 55 Water Street, 23 rd Fl., New York, NY 10041, Tel. (212) 815-1140. NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties on the grounds: DRL §170(7) Irretrievable Breakdown in Relationship for at Least Six Months. That the relationship between Plaintiff and Defendant has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action and granting plaintiff such other and further relief as the Court may deem fit and proper. NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS: Pursuant to domestic relations law section 236 part b, sec. 2, the parties are bound by certain automatic orders which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action. For further details you should contact the clerk of the matrimonial part, Supreme Court, 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY Tel. (718) 6181340. DRL 255 NOTICE: Please be advised that once the judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both parties must be aware that he or she will no longer be covered by the other party’s health insurance plan and that each party shall be responsible for his or her own health insurance coverage, and may be entitled to purchase health insurance on his or her own through a COBRA option, if available. If your divorce was commenced on or after January 25, 2016, this Notice is required to be given to you by the Supreme Court of the county where your divorce was filed to comply with the Maintenance Guidelines Law ([S. 5678/A. 7645], Chapter 269, Laws of 2015) because you may not have counsel in this action to advise you. You are hereby given notice that under the Maintenance Guidelines Law (Chapter 269, Laws of 2015), 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. Notice of Formation of MARINELLO’S DELI, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/30/22. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 116 Wyckof f Ave . , B ro ok lyn , N Y 1 1 2 3 7. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Section 106 Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast, LLC proposes to collocate and/or replace existing antennas at the following locations: a 76.3 foot tall building located at 77 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014 (DEA # 22206044), a 53.7 foot tall building located at 101-60 92nd Street, Ozone Park, Queens NY 11416 (DEA # 22206045), and a 94.6 foot tall building located at 795 Saint Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan, New York County, NY 10031 (DEA #22206047). Interested parties with comments regarding potential e f fe c t s on His toric Properties may contact T-Mobile c/o Julia Klima at Dynamic Environmental Associates, Inc., 3850 Lake Street, Suite C, Macon, GA 31204, 8779 6 8 - 4 7 8 7, S e c1 0 6 @ DynamicEnvironmental. com within 30 days from the date of this publication. Re: DEA #22206044, and/or DEA#22206045, and/or DEA#22206047. Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its Controlled Affiliates D oing B usine s s as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to modif y telecommunication antennas and associated equipment at a top height of 92 feet on a 101-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 621 Water Street, New Yo r k C o u n t y, N Y 1 0 0 0 2 Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties m ay b e s u b m i t t e d within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Tr i l e a f Corp., Stephen Mitchell, s.mitchell@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta GA 30067, 678-653-8673. 108 McEwen Street, LLC filed with the SSNY on 7/6/22. Office: NY 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, 108 McEwen Street, Warwick NY 1099 0. Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

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Public Notice Crown Castle is proposing to replace three (3) existing light poles with three (3) new light poles and a s s o c i a te d w ire l e s s communications antennas with overall heights of 32 feet at the following sites: Riverside Dr WS 1N of W 75 th St. Manhattan, N ew Yo r k C o u n t y, NY 10023 (Lat: 40° 46’ 58.61”, Long: -73° 59’ 4.869”), W Moshulu Parkway N at Section of W Gun Hill Rd. Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10467 (Lat: 40° 53’ 0.586”, Long: -73° 53’ 6.435”), and E 148 th Street SS 1E of Morris Ave. Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10451 (L at: 4 0 ° 4 8 ’ 59.1”, Long: -73° 55’ 19.9”). Crown Castle invites comments from any interested par t y on the impact of the proposed action on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American his tor y, archaeology, engineering or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places a n d/o r specific reason the proposed action may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment . Sp ecif ic information regarding the project is available by calling Monica Gambino, 2000 Corporate Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317, Monica.Gambino@ CrownCastle.com, 724416-2516 within 30 days of the date of this publication. Notice of Formation of M O R G A N PA R K COMPANY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 0 7/0 1 / 2 0 2 2 . Office location ONONDAGA SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 7519 MORGAN RD, LIVERPOOL, NY, 13090. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of R ECTOR PL ACE P R O P E R T Y M A N A G E M E N T LLC . Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6/3 0/2 0 2 2 . Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 380 RECTOR PLACE, APT 19A, NEW YORK, NY, 10280. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of THE 441 GROUP, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/21/2022. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 51 WEST 76 STREET, NEW YORK , NY, 10023. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of 78-29 AUSTIN STREET HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/02/2021. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 227 SEA BREEZE AVENUE , SUITE C-403, 4TH FLOOR , BROOKLYN, NY, 11224. Any law ful purpose. Notice of Formation of CR E ATE NSIT Y LLC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/10/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 13 5 1 H A N C O C K STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11237. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of PS BROKERS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/29/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 13 5 PA R K V I L L E AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11230. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

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Notice of Formation of PA L M JEWELLERY LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 0 6 /0 7/ 2 0 2 2 . Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 17 EAST 48TH ST., ROOM 901, NEW YORK, NY, 10017. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of KUAN’S CLOSET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/21/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 2602 AVENUE U, #1031, B R O O K LY N , NY, 11229. Any lawful p u r p o s e . Notice of Formation of M 1711 AVENUE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/23/2022. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 41 55 TH STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, 11219. Any law ful purpose. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1348005 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 47 S ELMWOOD AV ENUE MONTAUK NY 11954 for on premises consumption. 47 S ELMWOOD MGMT INC

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Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its Controlled Affiliates D oing B usine s s as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at the following locations in Bronx County, NY: at a top height of 66 feet on a 70-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 415 East 151 st Street, Bronx, NY 10455; and at a top height of 128 feet on a 166-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 340 Bruckner Boulevard, Bronx , NY 10454. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submit ted within 30 days from the date o f thi s p ub li c ati o n to: Tr i l e a f Corp., Stephen Mitchell, s.mitchell@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta GA 30 0 67, 6 7 8 - 6 5 3 - 8 6 7 3 .

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THE BEST OF THE REST HENRY GARRIDO

With New York City pools and beaches looking more and more appealing every hot summer day, the lifeguards watching over these precious city oases aren’t the only ones doing the saving. Henry Garrido just struck a deal with the city to bump lifeguards’ starting pay to over $19 an hour.

JESSICA TISCH

While drivers may lament moving their cars twice a week because of alternateside parking, Jessica Tisch will not only oversee nicer streets due to more frequent cleanings, she also starred in a TikTok from the sanitation department’s account where she said the streets were “crying out to be cleaned up.”

BILL DE BLASIO Former New York City mayor, current congressional candidate and infamous glutton for punishment Bill de Blasio is back in watchdogs’ crosshairs. He reportedly ignored a warning from the Conflicts of Interest Board to pay taxpayers back for using his NYPD detail during his ill-fated presidential bid. And the city comptroller released an audit finding $224 million in undisclosed expenditures for the NYC Ferry. THE REST OF THE WORST KEECHANT SEWELL

Not only was the NYPD outed for blocking off parts of the waterfront for cop families to watch the Fourth of July fireworks, but the department’s troubled Special Victims Division also came under fire in a new probe.

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ASHWIN VASAN

Mayor Eric Adams wants New York City to be a “city of yes” but New Yorkers eligible for a monkeypox vaccine got a big fat “no” when trying to schedule appointments online. The city received 6,000 doses from the federal government, but the city’s malfunctioning website prevented residents from getting them.

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LOSERS KATHY HOCHUL & PHIL MURPHY Who cares that Hochul’s taking her Garden State counterpart to the Supreme Court over Murphy defunding the Waterfront Commission? It’s all peace and love when it comes to the Gateway rail tunnel. The two govs shook hands to go 50-50 on funding. Getting deja vu? This already happened with Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie in 2015. Maybe this time it’ll stick.

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It’s hard to say whether he’s a winner or a loser, but he’s certainly something. Joel Giambra decided not only to drop out of his Western New York state Senate race, but dropped his affiliation with the Republican Party altogether. He was just too darn disgusted with the direction of his party. It might be too soon to make incumbent Ed Rath a winner though, considering his looming general election battle, but last week still had plenty of Winners & Losers to choose from.

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