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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, some environmentalists downplayed the president’s move. The long-term reason the move might not be as bad as feared, they argued, is that big businesses have embraced efforts to cut greenhouse gases and slow climate change.

A case in point: Rex Tillerson, the former head of Exxon Mobil Corp., argued in favor of the international climate accord while he served as Trump’s secretary of state.

But the shifting stances of industry leaders like Tillerson doesn’t mean that Exxon or other big oil companies will necessarily get a free pass for their own behavior.

In this week’s cover story, John Light, an editor for the political news site Talking Points Memo, reports on an ambitious lawsuit filed by New York City against Exxon and four other oil companies. The lawsuit would force the companies to help cover the city’s multibillion-dollar recovery and resiliency costs as punishment for their role in contributing to climate change. The case, which has drawn scoffs from the industry, has a key hearing scheduled for this month, when the courts will begin to decide whether the potentially game-changing legal argument has merit.

CONTENTS LOBBYING WARS ... 6 Uber and Airbnb ignite New York’s hottest political fights

SESSION COUNTDOWN PART 2 ... 16

Albany’s last-minute labor, health care and infrastructure bills

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ENVIRONMENTAL LAWSUITS … 10 Can NYC make oil companies pay for damage caused by climate change?

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Latest TRUMP-APPROVED President Donald Trump weighed in on the Republican congressional primary battle playing out on Staten Island, endorsing Rep. Dan Donovan over his challenger, convicted felon and former Rep. Michael Grimm. The primary fight has revolved around who best represents Trump and his goals, with both candidates eagerly embracing the president. However, Trump erroneously said in his endorsement that Donovan voted for tax cuts, when in reality the congressman voted against the final version of last year’s sweeping tax bill.

STATE SENATE STALEMATE Activity in New York’s upper chamber came to a halt when state Sen. Thomas Croci’s return to the Navy left the two parties with 31 members apiece in the 63-seat legislative body. Democrats tried to force a vote on women’s reproductive rights on Wednesday as a hostile amendment, with Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul poised to cast a tiebreaking vote. But Republicans laid aside the entire agenda and ended the session early.

Thursday’s session ended abruptly again after an uncontroversial bill regarding student concussions failed on the floor when no Democrats crossed the aisle to vote for it. Both parties flung accusations of politicking and partisanship.

In the course of a week, ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was arrested and indicted on rape and criminal sexual act charges. He turned himself in to the NYPD and within days a grand jury indicted him. The arrest, indictment and upcoming trial may represent a career-defining case for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who faced scrutiny and outrage for deciding not to prosecute Weinstein years ago after investigating a similar allegation.

Back & Forth C&S: Republican gubernatorial nominee Marcus Molinaro didn’t vote for Trump and avoids mentioning the president. Is that the right way to win in New York in 2018?

CP: I think the right way to win in 2018 is to accept Donald Trump. Molinaro, despite the fact that he has said a number of times that he didn’t vote for Trump, has told me is a Trump supporter and he supports Trump.

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C&S: Is the party avoiding talking about Trump because it’s potentially toxic?

CP: The Republican Party in the state of New York, most of them, were strong with us in the primary campaign. We had good support from all around upstate and from the boroughs in New York (City). Yes, he lost (New York in the general election). Because we didn’t advertise. They made a decision to forget about New York in that sense and not spend heavy

“He’s doing all this work, he works all And I feel for him.”

the time.

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here. They thought their chances of winning Pennsylvania were better, and they were right. Good call.

C&S: Is there a rift in the state Republican Party among people like Molinaro who didn’t vote for Trump and those that did?

CP: It doesn’t have anything to do with Molinaro.

There’s a lot of people in upstate New York that feel that (state GOP Chairman) Ed Cox has done his thing, and that maybe after this election this year we get some change and we get a leader of the party from upstate, where a great majority of the Republican, conservative voters are.

C&S: Who would that be, you? Erie County Republican Committee Chairman Nick Langworthy?

CP: Oh, it’ll be Langworthy. It won’t be me.

(Laughs.) I’ve got other fish to fry.

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New York has its street ball legends – think “Dr. J.,” Earl “The Goat” Manigault or Nate “Tiny” Archibald – but have you heard the stories about some of its political ballers?

With the NBA Finals getting underway, City & State tracked down the best basketball players among the elected officials in New York City and Albany, considering historical stats as well as current ability at the weekly games that state legislators play at the New York State Police barracks gym in Albany. Here are your starting lineups.

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Robert Cornegy Jr.

Andy King

A 6’11” center from Andrew Jackson High School in Queens, Cornegy rode the bench for the 1984-85 St. John’s University Final Four team.

He then played professionally in Turkey and France.

An all-city guard at Evander Childs High School in the North Bronx, King took his “pretty good jump shot” to William Paterson University, where he made the Division III tournament twice.

Antonio Reynoso

Donovan Richards

Carlina Rivera

Reynoso loves the game and once told City & State his favorite place in the city in Rodney Park in Williamsburg, where he played basketball growing up. “It always felt like my home court.”

Richards played at basketball powerhouse Redemption Christian Academy in Troy, where he could “out-jump a 6’7” guy” with his “keen jumping ability.” He still plays pickup games in Queens.

Rivera grew up playing at “The Cage” in Greenwich Village and captained her team at Notre Dame School of Manhattan.

Known for her jump shot and defense, the power forward idolized Patrick Ewing.

TEAM ALBANY Jamaal Bailey

John Flanagan

Patrick Gallivan

The youngest state senator played ball at Bronx High School of Science and led his team to the city quarterfinals.

A versatile wing defender in a 6-foot frame, Bailey is a regular at the state lawmaker games.

Flanagan played basketball at Harborfields High School on Long Island’s North Shore, but he admits lacking a key skill: “Quick up and down the court. Great at passing. Horrible at shooting.”

A well-rounded player with a good perimeter game and impressive rebounding, Gallivan nailed his fundamentals at Byron-Bergen High School in Genesee County and later coached.

Ron Kim

Jim Tedisco

A “really strong, tenacious player,” Kim honed his skills as captain of the basketball team at Riverdale Country Day School in the Bronx. An early leader, he also captained the football team.

Despite being 5’8”, Tedisco was Schenectady’s Bishop Gibbons High School’s best player ever. He landed in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section, and notched a 49-point game during a recordsetting career at Union College.

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APPS LIKE UBER AND AIRBNB HAVE IGNITED A FURIOUS POLITICAL WAR IN NEW YORK

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EW Y LER ORK CITY COMPTROLScott S tringer expected to receive pushback for reporting his finding in May that Airbnb was a major driver of housing costs last year, but the intensity of the vacation rental website’s seven-figure campaign startled him. Airbnb cut a television ad accusing Stringer of putting out “a false report misleading New Yorkers” in a menacing message that would not be out of place in a competitive election year.

“It’s really not OK for a huge company with a humongous budget to be coming after an elected official with an independent analysis,” said Stringer spokeswoman Lena Bell, who added that his office stood by the study that linked rental increases in city neighborhoods to Airbnb’s popularity.

Don’t feel too bad for Stringer. His friends at the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which represents the city’s hotel workers, and ShareBetter, the coalition group it funds, spent six fig-

ures on commercials and mailers to defend the report. “Think the rent is too damn high? Don’t look now, but it’s getting even higher – thanks to Airbnb,” begins the commercial that will air on two dozen networks and on social media.

This is just the latest skirmish in the rapidly expanding political and legal war over the technology-based sharing economy in New York, especially New York City. To the traditional clashes between interest groups in the state Capitol and City Hall – renters versus landlords, teachers unions versus charter schools – one can now add the tech companies and their customers against the existing industries they are ravaging. New York City subway riders have grown accustomed to the suddenly widespread advertisements defending Airbnb, showing a diverse group of happy hosts. In response, ShareBetter blasts out press releases weekly cataloging the ways in which Airbnb may be harming the city – especially lower-income residents

atexacerb f color – by o s e i t i n u m m d o i c d an rap gen urring more ing housing costs, sp trification and putting a disproportionate share of income in the hands of new white residents in changing neighborhoods.

The stakes are high, the spending even higher and some of New York’s most prominent lobbying and public relations firms are getting in on the action.

New York’s economy, like much of the rest of the country’s, is increasingly shifting away from owning resources to sharing services, upending long-standing economic arrangements in housing, travel, transportation and recreation.

Digital companies that connect customers to these services are taking business away from politically entrenched interests that enjoyed near-monopolies on the market for hotel rooms and taxis. The political reaction from those lobbies – unions, industry groups and professional organizations – has been fierce. And while the tech companies have tried to portray themselves as the friends of average New York-

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rely on their serv ices to get by and get around in an expensive city with transit woes, they also have triggered backlash.

Every disruption has its winners and losers. The only alternative a decade ago to hailing a cab was calling a livery car from a nearby base. And the only affordable way to stay in another city or foreign country without using a hotel was to book a dormitory-style hostel or a bed-and-breakfast that may not have been cheaper than a hotel room.

The website couchsurfing.com first opened up the possibility of staying in a stranger’s home. Now, Airbnb has made it an affordable, easy and widespread alternative. As landlords, especially in centrally located Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods, see an opportunity to make more cash renting a room or apartment on Airbnb than to a year-round renter, it reduces the housing stock of available units. Last

year, more than 53,000 New York residents listed their homes on Airbnb’s website, hosting 2.6 million visitors to the city.

Uber’s fleet of 60,000 vehicles has become similarly prevalent on city streets.

On an average day in July last year, Uber recorded 289,000 rides compared with 277,000 taxi trips, surpassing yellow cabs for the first time. By February, Uber eclipsed 410,000 trips per day while Lyft accepted another 112,000 rides per day and Via made about 33,000, the city’s taxi commission said.

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that brings changes besides trafBut ng to a crawl: The rise of Uber i slow fic and Lyft has led to a decrease in demand for taxis and, with the yellow cab industry losing its dominant market share, the value of taxicab medallions has plummeted from a peak of $1.05 million in June 2013 to slightly less than $200,000 in January.

While many medallion owners are rich businessmen like Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, the cab drivers who own their own medallions have seen their retirement nest eggs evaporate. Five drivers have committed suicide since December, including one man who shot himself in

While many medallion owners are rich businessmen like Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, cab drivers who own their own medallions have seen their retirement nest eggs evaporate.

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front of City Hall in February and whose suicide note blamed the mayor and governor for allowing thousands of additional liveries and black cars onto city streets.

Taxi drivers laid several caskets, representing the recent suicides, at a March demonstration outside City Hall to pressure Mayor Bill de Blasio to curb the growth of ride-hailing services.

Uber representatives point out that their expansion occurred largely in outer boroughs where taxis don’t pick up as many riders and mass transit options are more limited.

The hotel industry hasn’t suffered a similar decline. The number of rooms is up 50 percent, from 76,400 rooms in 2008 to 115,000 last year. New York City is expected to add another 18,960 rooms in the next three years.

But you wouldn’t know that from the panicked, outraged reaction of the hotel industry to short-term listings, which has been better organized than the cab industry.

Stringer’s May 3 report charged that Airbnb contributed to 9.2 percent of the citywide increase in rental prices from 2009 to 2016, using records scraped from unaffiliated data provider AirDNA. In some neighborhoods where residents use the service heavily, the site was responsible for 20 percent of the increase.

With the aggression typical of the tech industry’s response to criticism from elected officials, Airbnb Head of Global Policy Chris Lehane blasted Stringer’s report as “wrong on the facts, it’s wrong on the analysis, it’s wrong on the methodology,” and compared the comptroller’s findings to rapper Kanye West’s controversial tweets. The company pointed to other studies showing that Airbnb had an infinitesimal effect on New York rents. Then AirDNA chided the comptroller’s office for drawing “flawed conclusions” and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Stringer’s office for using their data without permission.

Members of the New York City Council are writing a bill that would require Airbnb to provide the names and addresses of hosts and other information to the mayor’s office, with penalties for listings that do not comply. State legislators are mulling two competing proposals that would further corral Airbnb’s operation in the state two years after imposing heavy fines on hosts who list illegal short-term rentals.

One bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and state Sen. Andrew Lanza, backed by the Hotel Trades Council, would require the short-term rental company’s hosts to disclose location details to the New York City Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement, which

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cracks down on illegal listings. City Council members are also crafting a measure that mirrors the Rosenthal-Lanza bill.

The other bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Joseph Lentol and state Sen. John Bonacic, would allow apartment tenants to rent their units for less than 30 days and require them to register as users, while barring short-term hosts from having more than one listing or those with repeated violations.

Airbnb said it has removed 5,000 “bad actors” since late 2016 and banned users from posting more than one listing in the city. “We recognize we have bad actors who would not be allowed to be on our platform,” said company spokeswoman Liz DeBold Fusco. “There are people who want to take advantage of our system, but the vast majority of our hosts are responsible hosts who want to make ends meet.”

Lobbying for the bills has pitted entrenched heavyweights against each other.

Airbnb has launched a seven-figure ad campaign in New York City and The Capitol Region to promote the brand, a spokeswoman said. The company has retained a murderers’ row of lobbying firms including Capalino+Company, Bolton‑St. Johns, Brown & Weinraub, Patricia Lynch Associates, Dentons and LaVera Strategies, and paid them $710,625 last year, according to state ethics filings.

The hotel industry hasn’t suffered a decline – but you wouldn’t know that from the panicked, outraged reaction to short-term listings.

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That’s in addition to dumping $11 million into super PAC Stronger Neighborhoods for the 2016 state elections.

On the other side, the Hotel Trades Council funded its own campaign, ShareBetter, to combat Airbnb while also lobbying state and local lawmakers with help from one of the state’s top political minds, Metropolitan Public Strategies founder Neal Kwatra.

Uber has also paid handsomely on lobbying and advertising expenses across the state to the point where it was the second-largest spender in the state at $2.2 million last year and the fourth largest in 2016 at $2.3 million, state ethics filings show. The company boasts the talents of Suri Kasirer, Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates, Dentons and Cordo & Company as well as handling much of the communications strategy in house after hiring former Cuomo staffer Matt Wing and former de Blasio campaign consultant Josh Gold.

Whether any of this spending will result in new laws before the end of the summer is unclear.

The shocking resignation of the state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the state Legislature’s politically fraught responsibility to pick his successor was one distraction that could force the state Legislature to postpone discussions on

short‑term vacation rental regulation to next year’s budget, Albany sources said.

Elected officials have struggled to limit the growth of apps in the past. In 2015, there was a dramatic battle that foreshadowed the current fracas: de Blasio tried to pass a temporary cap on new ride-hailing vehicles so the city could study their effect on traffic congestion. But his efforts hit a roadblock when Uber launched a TV campaign to thwart the mayor while its lobbyists flooded City Hall to flip council members against the bill.

The battle that followed set the template New York’s sharing economy wars have followed since, in which a threatened tech giant brings overwhelming force down on its opponent. These companies employ the hard-nosed approach typical of New York politics – funneling tens of thousands of dollars into influential politicians’ campaign accounts while organizing rallies, placing editorials and meeting with government regulators – on steroids.

Also typical of New York politics is the way that elected officials line up for stakeholders based on political alliances and rivalries rather than ideology. De Blasio went to bat for the taxi lobby, which dumped $550,000 into his first mayoral campaign. His enemies and potential mayoral aspirants, also liberals, sought

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to distinguish themselves from de Blasio by appealing to riders – who far outnumber cab drivers or medallion owners.

Uber even installed a “fake de Blasio feature” on its app to show millions of customers who rely on the service how long they would have to wait for a car if the mayor got his way.

Then-City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito rejected the mayor’s idea while other pols – including de Blasio’s past, current and potential future competitors Stringer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. and Gov. Andrew Cuomo – praised Uber as an innovative company.

This spring, New York City Council members are also considering a package of bills requiring a new license category for ride-hailing vehicles, which the Taxi and Limousine Commission would regulate, with a cap of 1,000 licensed for-hire vehicles for each base, while also forcing drivers to choose one ride-hailing company instead of toggling among multiple competitors and ensuring for-hire drivers make at least minimum wage.

Taxi advocates are confident the council will take additional action to regulate the companies.“These are measures designed to protect the workforce, protect drivers, who are cobbling together a living,” said Michael Woloz, a de Blasio bundler and spokesman for the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, a yellow taxicab advocacy organization. “They really needed to get passed yesterday.”

Bronx City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr., who chairs the For-Hire Vehicles Committee, promised in late April to remove a provision requiring drivers to pay a $2,000 annual fee. “The City Council should ensure that any bill does not harm the millions of New Yorkers outside of Manhattan who have grown to rely on apps like Uber because they have been ignored by yellow taxi and underserved by mass transit,” said Uber spokeswoman Alix Anfang.

The council may not tackle ride-hailing bills until the city budget passes and an agreement with the mayor’s office can be reached.

But the door to regulation has been opened: State lawmakers passed legislation in April 2017 allowing ride-hailing companies to operate upstate and they slipped a $2.75 surcharge on trips using Uber and Lyft into this year’s budget.

Lawmakers will undoubtedly wrestle more with the policy issues raised by the sharing economy in the future.

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XXON MOBIL THENEXT PHILIP MORRIS? New York City is suing oil companies for the damage caused by climate change. Will it work?

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EW YORK CITY had never seen a storm like Superstorm Sandy. In addition to the 44 lives it claimed in New York, the storm caused $19 billion in damage to the five boroughs.

That was only the beginning.

A series of subsequent reports put together by the New York City Panel on Climate Change added numbers to what the mayor’s office already knew: As climate change progresses, storms with the intensity of Sandy will batter New York with increasing frequency. Picking up the pieces in their wake will cost untold billions more than what has already been spent.

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Preparing for these storms comes with its own enormous costs. The city has set aside $20 billion to prepare for higher seas, stronger storms and more intense heat.

If climate change continues unchecked, the costs New Yorkers face today could seem like pocket change one day.

So far, taxpayers are footing the bill without any help from corporations that have grown rich off of the fossil fuels that cause climate change.

Naturally, a progressive mayor with a commitment to economic equity would look at that situation and wonder how it can be changed. In January, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration took a stab at answering that question by filing a lawsuit in the U.S. Southern District of New York against five oil companies: BP, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips and Chevron Corp. “We’re taking this fight straight to the fossil fuel companies that caused this mess, and, with the lawsuit in particular, we need to recoup against the damages that have been caused,” Daniel Zarrilli, who leads the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, told City & State.

The legal theory undergirding the suit – a concept known as climate liability – is largely untested but not totally original.

New York is not the first city to sue fossil fuel companies for damages related to the cost of climate change. Over the past year, five cities and three coun-

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ties in California have filed their own suits, including the cities of San Francisco and Oakland.

In April, the city of Boulder and two Colorado counties also sued, citing expected adaptation costs of $100 million. Many of the same lawyers who are working with or advising New York City’s top lawyer, Zachary Carter, are working on the California and Colorado cases.

These cases are all part of a growing, international climate litigation movement that hopes to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change caused by the greenhouse gases emitted when fossil fuels are burned.

All of them owe a debt to groundbreaking research by Richard Heede, director of the Climate Accountability

no one is responsible,” Carroll Muffett, president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, said.

Researchers such as Heede, he said, are “getting far more precise at identifying plaintiffs with quantifiable harms and defendants who contributed to those harms who had the opportunity to act differently and failed to take that opportunity.”

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FIGHT STRAIGHT TO THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES THAT CAUSED THIS MESS.” — DANIEL ZARRILLI, New York City chief resilience officer

Institute, that showed nearly two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions stemmed from just 90 companies. Published in 2013, Heede’s work was able to trace specific emissions to specific companies. “(For) a long time, producers of fossil fuels have benefited from this pervasive myth that everyone is responsible for climate change.

When everyone is responsible,

(Climate liability cases are separate from the fraud investigations for climate science denial launched in 2016 by then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, which are examining whether Exxon Mobil misled investors about the risks that climate change posed to its business model.)

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In the U.S., the climate liability movement took on a particular urgency in November 2016, when Donald Trump, who has said climate change is a “hoax,” was elected president.

With Republicans – many of whom deny or downplay climate science – also in charge of Congress, environmental activists and affected state and local governments are increasingly turning to the courts. Winning New York City’s participation was a major milestone for the movement.

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EW YORK CITY’S CASE stands apart in a few important ways.

One is the precise tally of climate-related costs that New York compiled.

“The amount of analysis that has been done on New York climate impacts and the cost of the impacts puts New York City on strong footing in the claim,” Kathy Mulvey, the accountability campaign manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said.

That tally is Zarrilli’s responsibility. An amiable Staten Islander with a long career in government and a background in engineering, Zarrilli has been the man in charge of figuring out what the city will have to do to recover from Superstorm Sandy and adapt to climate change. In the wake of Sandy, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Zarrilli to be the city’s director of recovery and resiliency. When de Blasio took over at City Hall following a race in which the Sandy recovery effort featured prominently, he appointed Zarrilli to be the city’s chief resilience officer.

“This is almost a decade of work by the city in understanding our risks of climate change, which Sandy shone a bright light on and allowed us to take some major steps to actually implement,” Zarrilli said, emphasizing that the numbers were firmly grounded in climate science. “Understanding the

projections first and foremost helps us understand, well, ‘This is why we are investing in coastal defenses, this is why we are investing in heat mitigation, this is why we are working on our drainage system’ – all the things that deal with the very specific risks that have been identified.”

Both the New York and California lawsuits were filed as complaints under public nuisance law – an old legal concept commonly used against threats to a community’s well-being. If a coal-fired power plant dumps toxic waste in a river, polluting a town’s drinking water, for example, the town can sue to make the plant stop and to pay for damages it already has caused. “This lawsuit is based upon the fundamental principle that a corporation that makes a product causing severe harm when used exactly as intended should shoulder the costs of abating that harm,” New York’s lawsuit stated. Whether or not public nuisance law can be applied to the effects of climate change, including rising seas and stronger storms, is relatively untested in court.

One prior case involving public nuisance law and climate change looms large over the recent spate of climate suits from cities and counties. American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, initiated in 2004, pitted eight states, including New York, and New York City against utility companies that emitted greenhouse gases from fossil fuels. In 2011, the case wound up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 8-0 that this sort of lawsuit under common law was not viable. Under the Clean Air Act, Congress had already given the authority to limit carbon dioxide emissions to the EPA, the court ruled. That meant enforcement actions were in that federal agency’s hands, and not for courts to decide.

There are two ways that New York and California seek to avoid running afoul of that 2011 ruling.

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IF CLIMATE CHANGE CONTINUES UNCHECKED, THE COSTS NEW YORKERS FACE TODAY COULD SEEM LIKE POCKET CHANGE. First, the California municipalities and New York City filed their suits under state public nuisance law, not federal law that the Supreme Court ruled was displaced by the Clean Air Act. Second, unlike AEP v.

Connecticut, the California and New York suits target the companies that produced fossil fuels, not the utilities that ultimately emitted the greenhouse gases.

In the AEP case, “the Supreme Court’s decision was based on the fact that the Clean Air Act deals with emissions, and therefore Congress had decided to displace federal common law in favor of a regulatory scheme under the Clean Air Act of dealing with emitters,” David Bookbinder, chief counsel for the Niskanen Center and an adviser to the plaintiffs, said.

“That is not the case for producers, whether it’s coal or oil or natural gas. So there’s no federal law that displaces liability based on the fact that you’ve been producing something.”

Lawyers aligned with the fossil fuel industry reply that neither gambit – suing under state law and suing producers instead of emitters – will hold up in court. The Supreme Court’s ruling in the AEP case “would more likely than not pre-empt this action at the state level even though that was left open,” Richard Epstein, a law professor

at NYU and adviser to a trade group fighting the lawsuits, said. Industry-aligned lawyers have also long argued that the real culprits for emissions from oil are the untold millions of consumers who actually burn it in their cars and homes.

In February, the three oil companies involved in the suit that are based in the U.S. – Chevron, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips – filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the Clean Air Act had displaced common law as a means of dealing with climate pollution.

They also argued that the city was defining liability in a way that was overly “expansive.”

On June 13, Judge John F. Keenan, a Reagan nominee, is scheduled to hold a hearing on that motion to dismiss. That will be the city lawsuit’s first true test in court.

Appeals from the Southern District of New York are heard by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of allowing a suit under common law in AEP v. Connecticut – an opinion the Supreme Court ultimately overruled.

That legal history may in fact be why the city choose to file in a federal court where the case could be appealed to the 2nd Circuit, though city officials and the lawyers advising them would not comment on their legal tactics.

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HE MAJOR OIL COMPANIES named in these suits, predictably, are not taking the wave of climate litigation lying down. Publicly, the companies have denounced the lawsuits as a sideshow. “The climate change litigation trend against a select group of energy companies is misguided and will not resolve larger questions related to climate change, which is a global issue that requires global policies and solutions,” Daren Beaudo, the director of media relations and crisis communications for ConocoPhillips, told City & State. The lawsuits, he said, were “factually and legally incorrect and are an inappropriate vehicle to address the serious issue of climate change, which should be addressed through sound government policy.” Representatives of the other companies being sued have made similar statements to the press.

These arguments would make a lot more sense to the average New Yorker, though, if fossil fuel companies’ campaign contributions, lobbying and public relations’ campaigns had not, for decades, been one of the main impediments when policymakers sought to adopt “sound government policy” to address climate change. And whether something “should be addressed” by politicians is not necessarily relevant to the legal question of whether climate pollution is a tort under public nuisance law at the state level.

Exxon Mobil has – in keeping with its history of strident opposition to environmental activism – been perhaps the

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House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, have aided the industry in these efforts.

In April, two industry-aligned think tanks asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate bonds issued by some of the California municipalities that, these think tanks and Exxon

Supporters of the suits hope that, with the beginning of the discovery process, information will come to light that will further support their claims – and provide fodder for future climate lawsuits. The evidence unearthed might not relate just to the amount of fossil fuels produced, supporters of the suits said, but also to the effort to

Mobil allege, also did not take the effects of sea level rise into account, potentially defrauding bond buyers. The move seeks to turn the tables on the municipalities, alleging that they engaged in the same behavior – obscuring climate risks – that the fossil fuel companies did.

Representatives for the municipalities said they took the steps necessary to disclose the risks.

mislead the public on the effects those fuels would have on the climate. In 2015, reporting by InsideClimate News and The Los Angeles Times revealed that Exxon Mobil knew that burning its products could harm the climate decades before the issue became a hot-button political topic. “You’ve got clear evidence that companies were aware of the risk of their products, and

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company acting most aggressively against climate change litigation, seeking through legal filings to depose the attorneys general of Massachusetts and New York. An effort by Exxon Mobil to depose California officials behind the climate suits in that state is moving forward in Texas. Think tanks allied with the oil industry and fossil-fuel-friendly politicians, such as

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of a responsibility to warn the public, but in fact took action to do exactly the opposite,” Muffett said.

“We don’t know what’s in the files, but given what we’ve seen, and given the public statements of the defendants and their agents over the years – their trade groups, et cetera, that they funded – I imagine

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in 1998 that a major storm would rip through the East Coast in 2010, after which, the researchers wrote, “a coalition of environmental NGOs brings a class-action suit against the U.S. government and fossil fuel companies on the grounds of neglecting what scientists (including their own) have been saying for years: that something must be done.” The researchers were attempting to predict scenarios that could be detrimental to Shell’s business, and their prescience is startling. The actual suits are from affected cities as well as NGOs – but the timing was only two years off, as Superstorm Sandy struck in 2012.

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there are far more documents,” Bookbinder said. “Unless they’ve been destroyed.”

Already, as the climate litigation works its way through the courts, more information is coming to light. Documents unearthed in April by the Dutch news website De Correspondent and shared with U.S. publications and nonprofits found that researchers at Shell predicted

ARRILLI, FOR HIS PART, stresses that New York City’s suit against the five fossil fuel companies is part of a bigger picture for the city. Simultaneously with the announcement of its lawsuit, the city promised to divest the $5 billion of the city’s $189 billion pension fund that was invested fossil fuels. The city is also pushing to cut its carbon footprint – Zarrilli touted a 15 percent drop in citywide greenhouse gas emissions since 2005 and a quintupling of the city’s solar capacity since the beginning of the de Blasio administration. “All of these things together fit our climate agenda,” he said. “No one thing is ever going to solve all of our problems – but we’ve got to pursue this in as broad a way as we can to protect New Yorkers.”

It’s similar to a product that was once nearly as omnipresent as fossil fuels are today: tobacco. Just as states and cities ramped up cigarette taxes, public anti-smoking campaigns and liability lawsuits simultaneously, a precipitous drop in smoking rates followed. Climate litigation is one just one piece of the broader climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy in progressive cities and states.

It’s an analogy favored by de Blasio, who told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer in January, “We’re going

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to sue them using the same theory as the tobacco lawsuits from years ago that were successful.”

Lawyers on both sides of the tobacco battle – many of whom are now involved in the climate litigation battles – agree that the specific legal issues at play are different, but the narrative, in broad strokes, fits. “The local government agencies are suing an entire industry for injuries caused by that industry’s products,” Bookbinder said.

In the 1998 tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, state attorneys general agreed to settle their suits against the tobacco companies. In return, the companies would make annual payments to the states to compensate them for health costs.

The 46 states were ultimately paid a $365.5 billion settlement.

Such a deal would represent one potential positive outcome for New York City, but not the only one. For fossil fuel companies to come to the negotiating table, they first will have to credibly fear bigger losses in court. Even then, they could instead throw their weight behind a political compromise, such as Congress passing a carbon tax as part of a package of federal legislation that also eliminates climate liability. And if cities

and states don’t notch victories in court, then fossil fuel companies will have little reason to give anyone anything.

Other cities, including Los Angeles, are weighing their own climate suits, and a candidate to become Florida’s next governor, former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, said his state should file such a suit.

Individuals have brought suits as well. One such case, Juliana vs. U.S., brought against the Obama administration by 21 young Americans, has been inherited by the Trump administration and continues to advance, despite the administration’s best efforts to have it thrown out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said he is planning to sue oil companies for “first-degree murder.”

“The key lesson to take away from the tobacco experience here is that once tobacco litigation began, it continued incessantly for decades,” Muffett said. “We’re at the dawn of this age of litigation that will be facing the oil companies. …

This is not a fleeting phenomenon. It is likely to define the future.”

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LECTION SEASON IS heating up across the state. The parties have held their conventions, where incumbents like Gov. Andrew Cuomo and party favorites like Dutchess County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Marcus Molinaro have picked up their nominations. Outsiders and upstarts like Cynthia Nixon and Zephyr Teachout are hitting the pavement to petition their way onto the ballot. And state lawmakers ultimately kept Barbara Underwood in the state attorney general’s office following the unexpected exit of Eric Schneiderman, while the broader Democratic establishment is rallying around New York City Public Advocate Letitia James to win the post for a full term this fall.

But before everyone hits the campaign trail, there are several weeks before the end of the state legislative session in Albany, with a long list of priorities from both houses and on both sides of the aisle. Cuomo has suggested that little of consequence will get done, and his open attacks on the state Senate Republicans could hinder any big compromises.

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In this year’s two-part session countdown, we identify and summarize the biggest bills being debated in Albany. Last week, we looked at teacher evaluations, offshore drilling and more. This week, we explore the push to legalize recreational marijuana, the cost of infrastructure projects in the state as well as efforts to close the gender pay gap and eliminate tips.

Will it be a quiet end of session, or will there be some last-minute deal-making? Here’s what you need to know as it all unfolds.

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HE PUSH TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA for recreational use is gaining momentum in New York. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is pushing for it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signaled that he is open to it and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has concluded that it is inevitable.

Much of this drive appears to come from a social justice campaign to end racial disparities in arrests for marijuana offenses. Nixon made that clear in her campaign video. De Blasio’s new position, which included a demand that the NYPD stop making arrests for smoking marijuana in public, came after reports of enforcement disproportionately affecting black and Latino residents.

But changes could remove or ease restrictions on medical marijuana in New York and might even help to curb the state’s opioid epidemic.

New York has a medical marijuana program, but it is more restrictive than in other states. For instance, a person must be diagnosed with a qualifying condition.

While that list was recently expanded to include posttraumatic stress disorder, a patient must still have a “severe, debilitating or life-threatening” condition, which leaves out many others who may benefit from medical marijuana.

However, legalizing recreational marijuana would not automatically mean major changes to medical marijuana. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who chairs the Health Committee, has been pushing to expand the program for the past two years, including legislation that would broaden the list of qualifying conditions. He said that the full legalization of recreational marijuana would not necessarily change the medical marijuana program, and wants to make sure that everyone understands the difference between cannabis for recreational purposes and cannabis for medical purposes.

Though the details of full legalization are still unclear, one thing is certain: It would come with new regulations. The state would likely set quality standards and issue new guidelines for how it could be used in the medical community, according to state Sen. Liz Krueger, who is sponsoring legislation to legalize recreational marijuana.

“I like that if you go to buy something, you will know what it is you’re buying, and somebody won’t be stuffing some stuff in the bag that you really shouldn’t be using,” Krueger said.

Proponents also argue that marijuana would help combat the opioid epidemic. Although federal law still restricts most marijuana research, multiple studies have found that areas with legal marijuana had fewer opioid‑related deaths than in areas without it.

Like Nixon and de Blasio, Krueger was inspired to introduce the bill to end a law enforcement policy that she saw as unfairly affecting minorities. But she also recognized

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BILLS OF HEALTH SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE Passing single-payer health care has long been a priority for Democrats and progressives in the state. The New York Health Act has passed in the Assembly the past three years.

This year, it is on the floor calendar for a vote and is poised to pass again before the end of the session. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has also signaled that he would be open to establishing a single-payer system on the state level. However, the bill has never been brought to a vote in the state Senate, something that is unlikely to change this year.

NURSE STAFFING RATIOS The issue of nurse staffing ratios has long been a key issue of the New York State Nurses Association, which has pushed for the passage of the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act. The legislation is meant to ensure that hospitals maintain a ratio of nurses to patients that does not overwork the nurses and hurt their ability to care for patients. It passed in the Assembly in 2016, but has never made it to a vote in the state Senate, though nurses are still urging the state Legislature to take action. Plus, the bill has faced strong opposition from hospitals and business groups.

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OPIOID EPIDEMIC New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced a plan to introduce supervised injection sites for illegal drug users. The sites are meant to decrease overdose deaths by giving drug users a safer place to get high. However, the plan would require approval from the state Health Department, which ultimately answers to Cuomo. The state Senate also continues to hold public forums and hearings of the Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction. The state Legislature also enacted several pieces of legislation addressing the opioid crisis as part of the state budget, including putting a limit on how long a prescription is valid.

HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY FUND One of the most contentious health measures in the state budget was a health care shortfall fund to brace the state for the potential loss of federal funds, which had been a top priority of the Greater New York Hospital Association. In the second half of the session, GNYHA is now pushing for a health insurance guaranty fund. This would cushion the blow for consumers and health care providers should a health plan shut down, like when Health Republic did in 2015. Legislation to create such a fund is sponsored

by Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and state Sen. David Valesky, although it has drawn opposition in the state Senate and remains in committee in both houses.

the potential to curb opioid addiction if patients don’t have to rely on highly addictive drugs for pain relief.

Krueger said she has followed overseas studies about new and different ways that cannabis can used by the medical community.

“I’m not saying I’m going around saying it’s the miracle cure for everything, but it seems to be treating the symptoms incredibly effectively without putting these patients into physical risk and danger and almost guaranteed addiction,” Krueger said.

She added that even if someone does not receive a prescription for cannabis, it offers a far safer option than other illicit drugs, alcohol or cigarettes for anyone choosing to self-medicate, as it is poses far fewer risks, cannot lead to overdose and is largely not addictive, with the possible exception of those

predisposed to addictive behavior.

Of course, Krueger’s legislation has never made it very far in the Republican-controlled state Senate, and neither did the Assembly version of the bill sponsored

by Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes. In both chambers, the bill never made it out of committee. But Krueger sees that changing. She does not think that the bill will pass this session, but sees it going further than it has before and said that Peoples-Stokes thinks the Assembly version may pass for the first time.

Krueger added that she thinks it could pass in the full legislature next year, saying that several upstate Republicans have told her their constituents want them to vote for it.

“Four months ago, I never would have told you that I thought it could pass next year,” Krueger said.

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HE STATE LEGISLATURE IS considering several pieces of legislation to improve labor conditions, but many of them have a small chance of success. Meanwhile, the state also pre-emptively reacted to an impending U.S. Supreme Court decision that could affect the ability of unions to collect fees. Here is a rundown of the legislation being considered on labor issues in the state Legislature.

CLOSING THE GENDER PAY GAP In 2015, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Women’s Equality Act, a package of

bills that included pay equity legislation. This year, Cuomo has again made reducing the wage gap a priority, promoting legislation to prevent employers from asking about salary history. This bill is still in a state Senate committee.

Meanwhile, the Assembly passed bills aimed at further closing the gender pay gap.

The primary bill is the Fair Pay Act, which would prohibit employers from paying employees with the same job different wages based on gender, race or national origin. However, none of these bills are co-sponsored

by Republicans in the state Senate, and they are still in Senate committees.

Labor legislation faces long odds in the GOP-controlled state Senate

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FARMWORKER RIGHTS The Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, which would give farmworkers collective bargaining rights and improve their wages, has been introduced in the state Legislature several times over the past few years. While it generally succeeds in the Assembly, it has failed to pass in the state Senate.

This year, the bill remains stuck in committee in both chambers and editorialists are already predicting doom. The Daily News argued that the bill will likely fail again, unless Cuomo puts pressure on Senate Republican leadership.

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ENDING THE MINIMUM WAGE TIP CREDIT The state Labor Department is holding hearings through June across the state to review eliminating the tip credit. Legislative action is not necessarily needed, as the department can raise the minimum wage for tipped workers on its own. However, the idea of raising the minimum wage and possibly eliminating tips faces serious opposition from some in the service industry, and from some Republican lawmakers. Critics argue that servers will ultimately make less money without tips. If the Labor Department raises the minimum wage, the state Legislature could, in theory, reverse that decision. A bill to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers is currently in committee in both the Assembly and the Senate.

THE SCAFFOLD LAW Efforts to repeal the Scaffold Law reappear every legislative session, but never seem to move forward.

Passed in the late 19th century, the Scaffold Law holds contractors and property owners completely liable for any gravity-related injury that a construction worker sustains on-site. Critics argue that the law is damaging and expensive for property owners, but labor groups are hesitant to repeal it, saying it’s essential for worker safety. A bill to repeal the Scaffold Law has some bipartisan support, but is in committee in both the Assembly and the Senate.

RESPONDING TO SUPREME COURT RULINGS In April, Cuomo signed legislation in anticipation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 case that could forbid unions from charging “agency fees” to workers who are not union members.

The new law allows unions to limit benefits for workers who do not choose to pay the fees in New York. However, the state’s ability to react to Supreme Court decisions are limited. Last month, the nation’s highest court ruled that workers have to resolve labor disputes individually, rather than banding together for class‑action lawsuits. Cuomo released a statement criticizing the ruling and calling on Congress to act, which is the extent of what he can do.

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T’S BEEN ANOTHER banner year in political corruption. Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was convicted of bribery and fraud. Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was also convicted of corruption – for a second time, after his first conviction was thrown out. The case of Ed Mangano, the former Nassau County executive, ended in a mistrial, while other ousted public officials on the docket include former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, former Assemblywoman Pamela Harris and Alain Kaloyeros, who spearheaded major upstate economic development initiatives.

There are a number of bills and initiatives put forward by reformers and lawmakers each year to try to clean up Albany, including closing the so-called LLC loophole, creating a public database of state economic development benefits and reforming the campaign finance system. Yet as the legislative session winds down, none of them appear to have any momentum. Here’s a rundown of several proposals.

government. While the governor called for closing the loophole, he has continued to take campaign money from LLCs and has not been able to persuade state lawmakers to get on board. The Assembly voted this year to close the loophole, but state Senate Republicans have criticized the measure and have not advanced it out of committee.

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CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM Cuomo also continued to call for a public financing system of elections in New York.

His proposal, which also fell out of the state budget due to opposition from lawmakers, would have set up a fund to match small campaign contributions in order to give everyday New Yorkers a more equal voice relative to big donors. The governor’s proposal, which is all but sure to be on hold until next year, also would have put limits on contributions to housekeeping accounts and required more disclosure for anyone who bundles contributions.

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CLOSING THE LLC LOOPHOLE In his State of the State address, Cuomo briefly mentioned closing the LLC loophole. In New York, those who register as a limited liability company, or LLC, can skirt contribution limits and mask their donations, arguably giving companies and the wealthy more influence over state

DATABASE OF DEALS One notable proposal that did not come from Cuomo – and has also stalled in Albany – is a database of deals. The bipartisan measure, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Robin Schimminger and Republican state Sen. Thomas Croci, would result in a system to track state economic development spending and programs. Momentum behind the bill picked up following questionable spending tied to Percoco and other state officials. Despite a push to include the measure in the state budget this year – and passage in the state Senate – the bill ran into opposition from the Cuomo administration and has not advanced. Another measure to give the state comptroller oversight of economic development contracts also stalled.

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By JEFF COLTIN

Determining a fair wage in the thriving construction industry

THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION

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NYBODY WHO HAS SEEN Gov. Andrew Cuomo give a speech in the past few years knows that New York is in the midst of a building boom.

There are marquee projects like the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge over the Hudson River or the renovation of LaGuardia Airport in Queens, and there are smaller projects like street enhancements in downtown Watkins Glen or a proposed Metro-North station at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets.

These projects are mostly publicly financed and built by private contractors – and in the midst of this building boom, some state legislators are hoping to clarify what those contractors should be paid.

The state constitution says that construction workers on state-financed projects should be paid the prevailing wage – a set rate of pay and benefits. Prevailing wage

CONGESTION PRICING The ambitious congestion pricing plan for New York City, known as the Move New York Fair Plan, didn’t get the necessary support in the state budget. Opponents to the plan argued against charging outer borough motorists to drive into Manhattan, which would push more commuters onto the increasingly unreliable and overcrowded subways. The state budget included more than $800 million for a short-term Subway Action Plan, and added a surcharge to cab and ride-hailing trips in the Manhattan core to help pay for public transit improvements. With those moves, congestion pricing won’t be on the table again until at least next year.

DESIGN-BUILD For years, some state lawmakers and New York City officials have wanted to expand the state’s design-build law, which only allows the project delivery method at a limited number of state agencies and authorities. Cuomo has touted its use on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, arguing that it has expedited the project to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge and kept costs in check. This year, the state budget expanded design-build authority to the construction of new jails to replace Rikers Island, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and New York City Housing Authority projects.

VERRAZANO-NARROWS NAMING One infrastructure bill that’s actually likely to pass? Correcting a decades-old spelling error on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge – named in honor of Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (with two Z’s). The senators on both sides of the bridge, Brooklyn’s Martin Golden and Staten Island’s Andrew Lanza, have co-sponsored a bill to fix the bridge’s official spelling. It's on the state Senate calendar for a floor vote.

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rates are maintained by the state Labor Department and vary by location and job. For example, a structural ironworker in Albany County would make $30.50 an hour plus some $27 and hour in supplemental benefits on a public project, while one in New York City would make nearly $52 an hour, plus more than $70 an hour in supplemental benefits. It’s meant to prevent contractors from undercutting wages, and to ensure workers on public projects are getting paid fairly.

A bill is being considered that would expand the number of construction projects subject to the state’s prevailing wage rates. In practice, the bill is meant to clarify the definition of “public work,” legislating that even largely private projects that receive tax breaks or other government subsidies are still required to pay a prevailing wage to workers. The bill’s sponsors say that judicial rulings have caused loopholes that allow contractors to not pay full wages.

Advocates for workers say the state is paying for poor working conditions. “Too often in construc-

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tion, we see a race to the bottom where unscrupulous contractors are receiving taxpayer dollars to subsidize development with little to no standards in place for the workers on these projects,” said Patrick Purcell, executive director of the Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, in a press release supporting the legislation.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Harry Bronson, passed the Assembly in May. A companion bill in the state Senate, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Terrence Murphy, is now in the Finance Committee.

Despite the bill’s bipartisan support, it faces serious opposition from upstate business groups. More than a dozen groups, including Unshackle Upstate and The Business Council of New York State Inc., sent a letter to Cuomo in March opposing the bill, saying that the prevailing wage law is flawed and miscalculated. The groups cited a report from the right-leaning Empire Center for Public Policy that said prevailing wage rates increase the cost of construction projects by as much as 25 percent, hurting taxpayers and doing no favors for the lagging upstate economy.

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“In light of the state’s budget multibillion-dollar deficit, extending this wildly expensive mandate to private sector economic development projects will further strain state finances, result in less economic development across New York state and needlessly waste taxpayer dollars,” the groups wrote.

When similar legislation was considered last year, the Empire Center railed against it as a handout to labor unions, which have a lot of power in setting prevailing wages and the accompanying benefits.

The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, an umbrella group for construction unions, rallied at the state Capitol in February to support the bill.

Cuomo has strengthened his ties to labor unions in recent years and has touted good wages for construction workers in the past, but he has not apparently made any comments on the specifics of this bill. With bipartisan support, the bill may actually have a chance of passing, even as Capitol watchers are predicting a quiet June.

“TOO OFTEN IN CONSTRUCTION, WE SEE A RACE TO THE BOTTOM WHERE UNSCRUPULOUS CONTRACTORS ARE RECEIVING TAXPAYER DOLLARS WITH LITTLE TO NO STANDARDS IN PLACE FOR THE WORKERS.” — Patrick Purcell, executive director of the Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust

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Notice of formation of SQUARE 99 NY LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/18/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 295 Greenwich St., #2C, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful act.

WELL DONE DELIVERY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 02/27/18. Office Loc: NY county. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Elango Medical PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/28/17.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 983 Park Ave, NY, NY 10028. Purpose: Medicine.

Notice of Formation of CJC DUFFIELD STREET HOLDINGS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/16/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 254 Canal St, #2001, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of SMC18, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) MAY 04, 2018. Office loc.: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. agent upon whom proc. may be served and shall mail copy of proc. against LLC to: SMC18, LLC, 2 MILL POND LN, NEW ROCHELLE, NY 10805.

Purp.: any lawful act.

June 4, 2018 Notice of Qualification of Expansion VC Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/1/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/26/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 250 W. 57th St, Rm 1301, NY, NY 10107. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity .

Notice of Formation of 301 E HOUSTON LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/20/18. O f f i c e location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 301 E HOUSTON LLC, 893 Rte. 9W, Nyack, NY 10960.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of CVMNYRE, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/10/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 37 Palmer Terr., Sag Hbr, NY 11963.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 54 feet on a 34-foot rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 59-24 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Queens County, NY 11355. 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, Erin, e.alsop@trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of Formation of Javed and Kumar Law, PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/18/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 30 Broad St, Fl. 9, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: law..

Notice of Formation of HYPER FOCUS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/23/18. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 73 Worth St, 5D, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Harbor Innovations LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/26/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 15 E. 32nd St, Fl. 4, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of SADA 39 Pod, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/09/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/07/18.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o David Rodolitz, 135 East 57th St., 16th Fl., NY, NY 100222050.

Address to be maintained in DE: eResidentAgent, Inc., 1013 Centre Rd., Ste. 403-S, Wilmington, DE 19805. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of TMV 1, LLC. Arts of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY 4/27/2018.

Ofc Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 80 Canal St, Staten Island, NY 10314.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of SBPFTF LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/22/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 45 Broadway, Ste 3010, NY, NY 10006.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

OTAN RE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/31/2018.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Emilio Mora, 14 East 80th St., 3A, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

CORPORATE SUITES 6, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 10/10/2002. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 744 Park Place Sponsor LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/25/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Highpoint Property Group, 20 West 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010, Attn: Drew Popkin.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of Reelziliant Productions LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/12/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 1/11/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc. (CGI), 10 E. 40th St., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: c/o CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of West Village Hudson Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/20/18. Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: West Village Hudson Street LLC, 118 East 28th St., #301, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of formation of PALISENO CONSULTING, LLC. Articles of Org filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/08/2018. Office located in Richmond County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: Paliseno Consulting, LLC, 74 Whitewood Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Katy Pfaffl Studio LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 2/26/18. Office: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o United States Corporation, 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn NY 11228.

The principal business address of LLC is 1841 Broadway Suite 812, NY NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of JAK Manhattan LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/24/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 16 W. 16th St, Apt 9KN, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of qualification of Scribner Management, LLC. Authority filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/16/18. Organized in Alaska on 12/30/17. NY Off. loc.: New York Cnty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1231 Nrthn.

Lights Blvd. #911, Anchorage, AK 99503, which is also the address to be maintained in Alaska. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Alaska Sec. of State, PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of ECONOMIC SERVICE EXPERTS, LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 1/22/2018. NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 125 Allen St. NY, NY 10002.

Purpose: Any lawful act.

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Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

Name: Edwin’s Place Developer LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on April 27, 2018. N.Y. office location: New York 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 Edwin’s Place Developer LLC, c/o Breaking Ground II Housing Development Fund Corporation, 505 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10018.

LITTLE LION’S DEN CHILD CARE, LLC. FILED WITH SSNY 03/06/2018. OFFICE LOC: NY COUNTY. SSNY HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS AGENT UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST LLC MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: THE LLC, ATTN: PAMELA DELEON, 521 WEST 162ND STREET #GARDEN, NEW YORK, NY, 10032.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE. Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 128 feet on a 145-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 447-455 East 14th Street, New York, New York County, NY 10009.

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, Sharetta, s.williams@trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of Qualification of WORLDQUANT PREDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/26/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/16/18.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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June 4, 2018 Notice of Qualification of Noah Gopher Capital Advisors, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/4/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/13/17.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 75 Rockefeller Plz., Ste 18B, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 4218 FORT HAMILTON PARKWAY HOLDER LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/24/2018.

Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o The LLC, 256 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10026.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 207 Silver Lane LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/10/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 223 W. 138 St, Fl. Grd, NY, NY 10030.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

CORE TONICS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 04/23/2018.

Office loc: WESTCHESTER County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Mark Emmerich, 118 Lee Ave, Yonkers, NY 10705.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of MIRAMAR ALTERNATIVES, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/09/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 09/29/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 11620 Wilshire Blvd Ste. 460, Los Angeles, CA 90025.

Principal office address: 530 West 30th St, Unit 027F, NY, NY 10001. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of the State of CA, Business Entities Filings, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Bespoke Psychology, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 2/21/18. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 906 Amsterddam Ave., Apt 4C, NY, NY 10025.

Purpose: Any lawful act.

95 MADISON REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/23/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 95 Madison Street Apt 2B, NY, NY 10002.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Overhill CAT, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/26/17. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 815 King St, Port Chester, NY 10573.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of M.H. Davidson & Co. 520 GP LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/25/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/17/17.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, 520 Madison Ave., 30th Fl., NY, NY 10022, principal business address. DE address of LLC: Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Herzberg PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/8/17. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 123 W. 93rd St, Ste 1G, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: Law. Notice of Qualification of M.H. Davidson & Co. 520 LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/25/18. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 11/20/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, 520 Madison Ave., 30th Fl., NY, NY 10022, principal business address.

DE address of LP: Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Name/address of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of New York CRRC Sifang-Kawasaki Rail Car LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/19/18.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to New York CRRC Sifang-Kawasaki Rail Car LLC, 29 Wells Avenue, Building 4, Yonkers, New York 10701. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. .

Notice of Formation of Transitional Care Medical Services PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/28/16.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: POB 286500, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: Medicine.

Notice of Qualification of HMHB LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/30/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/24/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 745 5th Ave, Fl. 5, NY, NY 10151. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of TitoCity285 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/10/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of BeaconLight Balanced Fund, LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/25/18. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/24/18.

Princ. office of LP: 350 Madison Ave., 22nd Fl., NY, NY 10017.

Duration of LP is Perpetual.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Beaconlight GP LLC, Attn: Ed Bosek at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of PARALLAXES CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND I G.P., L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/5/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/20/17.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity .

Notice of Qualification of CASA PARTNERS VIII INVESTORS, LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/25/18. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/03/18.

Duration of LP is Perpetual.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership, 730 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 1301 438 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 1264 14th St. Station, NY, NY 10009.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of GatewayUSA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/19/18. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc., 570 Lexington Ave., 20th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of PARALLAXES CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND I, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/5/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/20/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of U.S. BANCORP FUND SERVICES, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/20/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Wisconsin (WI) on 9/30/98.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. WI address of LLC: 615 E. Michigan St, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Cert. of Formation filed with WI Secy of State, 201 W. Washington Ave, Madison, WI 53703. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of AM PM Medical Urgent Care Services PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/28/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: POB 286500, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: Medicine .

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of 536 W 22ND STREET, LLC. Appl for Auth filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/27/18.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) 03/22/18. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, Attn: Rachel Lehmann, 536 W. 22nd St., NY, NY 10011.

DE address of LLC is c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Certificate of LLC filed with Secy of State of DE, 401 Federal Street, Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 257-263 W 34TH MEZZ LLC. ARTS OF ORG. FILED WITH NY SECY OF STATE (SSNY) ON 5/15/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NEW YORK COUNTY. SSNY IS DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: 7 MERCER ST, FL. 2, NY, NY 10013. PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY.

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Notice of Formation of EMEA GROUP LLC filed with SSNY on 4/23/2016. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 58 FOREST AVE, NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, 10804.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Taurus Top Liquidity Fund LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/20/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/9/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 140 Broadway, Ste 4665, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of PWP DYNAMIC MULTIASSET FUND GP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/07/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/02/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 767 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10153. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of ONE BROADWAY OWNER, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/24/18.

Princ. office of LLC: c/o Midtown Equities LLC, 141 5th Ave., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10010. 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: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Yanni’s Coffee Company, LLC. Arts of Org filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) 2/6/18.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Yanni’s Coffee Company, LLC, 201 E. 21st St, Apt. 6B, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Cabin 4 Productions LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/26/17. Office Loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and shall mail process to LLC: 155 W 68th St, #617, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Artish NY Art and Culture Tours LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/6/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 200 W. 67th St, Apt 30B, NY, NY 10023.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

JEFFRIES MARKETING, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 04/09/18. Office loc: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Dorothy Jeffries, 10 River Rd, Ste 11D, NY, NY 10044.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of PARALLAXES CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND I G.P. HOLDINGS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/5/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/20/17.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of PARALLAXES CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/5/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/16/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity .

NOTICE OF Qualification of Katrina McGhee Enterprises LLC filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/29/2018.

Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in TX on 3/27/12.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 435 W 23rd St, Ste 1BB, NY, NY 10011.

Principal business address: 400 Chambers St, PHF, NY, NY 10282. Cert of LLC filed with Secy of State of TX loc: 1019 Brazos St., Austin, TX 78701.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Davidson Kempner Long/ Short Equity U.S. Fund LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/11/18. Name subsequently amended to Davidson Kempner U.S. Long/Short Equity Fund LP. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in DE on 4/9/18.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, 520 Madison Ave., 30th Fl., NY, NY 10022, principal business address. DE address of LP: Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

Name/address of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of Sunset Cove Solutions, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/23/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/8/18.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 425 Madison Ave, Fl. 19, NY, NY 10017.

DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of DSC MERIDIAN CAPITAL LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/29/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/5/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 888 7th Ave, Fl. 27, NY, NY 10106. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity .

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF QUALITY BRANDS MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC APPL. FOR AUTH. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE OF NY (SSNY) ON 05/08/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NY COUNTY. LLC FORMED IN DELAWARE (DE) ON 03/28/18. PRINC. OFFICE OF LLC: 134 SPRING ST., STE. 703, NY, NY 10012. SSNY DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO THE LLC AT THE PRINC. OFFICE OF THE LLC. DE ADDR. OF LLC: C/O CORPORATION SERVICE CO., 251 LITTLE FALLS DR., WILMINGTON, DE 19808.

CERT. OF FORM. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE, 401 FEDERAL ST., STE. 4, DOVER, DE 19901.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VACCARO PRODUCTIONS, LLC FILED WITH SSNY ON DECEMBER 11, 2007.

OFFICE: WESTCHESTER COUNTY. SSNY DESIGNATED AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL COPY OF PROCESS TO LLC: 29 PLYMOUTH AVENUE YONKERS, NY. PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACT OR ACTIVITY.

Notice of Qualification of Taurus Crypto Asset Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/18/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/9/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 140 Broadway, Ste 4665, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of YBL LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/7/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 895 Park Ave, Apt 5C, NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of AHSAT HOLDINGS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/16/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 254 Canal St, #2001, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ANTARA CAPITAL LP APPL. FOR AUTH. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE OF NY (SSNY) ON 05/08/18. OFFICE LOCATION: NY COUNTY. LP FORMED IN DELAWARE (DE) ON 03/07/18. DURATION OF LP IS PERPETUAL. SSNY DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LP UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO THE PARTNERSHIP, 500 FIFTH AVE., STE. 2320, NY, NY 10110. NAME AND ADDR. OF EACH GENERAL PARTNER ARE AVAILABLE FROM SSNY. DE ADDR. OF LP: C/O CORPORATION SERVICE CO., 251 LITTLE FALLS DR., WILMINGTON, DE 19808. CERT. OF LP FILED WITH THE SECY. OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DE, DEPT. OF STATE, DIV. OF CORPS., JOHN TOWNSEND BLDG., DOVER, DE 19901.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY.

Notice of Qualification of DSC MERIDIAN GP LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/29/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/19/18. SSNY shall mail process to: 888 7th Ave, Fl. 27, NY, NY 10106. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ACLARA SMART GRID SOLUTIONS, LLC APPL. FOR AUTH. FILED W I T H SECY. OF STATE OF NY (SSNY) ON 05/09/18. OFFICE LOCATION: NY COUNTY. LLC FORMED IN DELAWARE (DE) ON 11/30/15. SSNY DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO C/O CORPORATION SERVICE CO. (CSC), 80 STATE ST., ALBANY, NY 12207-2543.

DE ADDR. OF LLC: CSC, 251 LITTLE FALLS DR., WILMINGTON, DE 19808.

CERT. OF FORM. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE, 401 FEDERAL ST., #4, DOVER, DE 19901.

PURPOSE: PERFORM INSTALLATION SERVICES INVOLVING SMART INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS & UTILITIES.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Qualification of DSC MERIDIAN CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES ONSHORE FUND LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/29/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/19/18.

SSNY shall mail process to: 888 7th Ave, Fl. 27, NY, NY 10106.

DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Qu Core, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/14/18. Office location: New York County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and shall mail process to Vanguard Corporate Services Ltd, 307 Hamilton St, Albany, NY 12210. DE addr. of LLC Corporate Creations Network Inc, 3411 Silverside Rd, Ste 104, Tatnall Bldg, Wilmington, DE 19810. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901 on 8/22/17.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of YM5 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/11/18.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Mark Armenante, 3450 Washington St., San Francisco, CA 94118.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 257263 W 34th Mezz LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/15/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7 Mercer St, Fl. 2, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 4555 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on June 8, 2018 and end on June 21, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. Household goods and other effects. #9P01A – Nicklaus Jones (items: boxes, clothing, furniture, appliances and misc items) & #7S02 – The Shoreham Hotel (items: file boxes and shelves).

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1310073 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 87-10 ROCKAWAY BEACH BLVD. FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11693.

QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. ROCKAWAY BEACH BAKERY LLC

Public Notice Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018 AT 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for 1016 AMSTERDAM AVE LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 1012 AMSTERDAM AVE in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 257-263 W 34TH STREET JV LLC. ARTS OF ORG. FILED WITH NY SECY OF STATE (SSNY) ON 5/15/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NEW YORK COUNTY. SSNY IS DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: 7 MERCER ST, FL. 2, NY, NY 10013. PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHURCHILL W 34TH PREF LLC. ARTS OF ORG. FILED WITH NY SECY OF STATE (SSNY) ON 5/15/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NEW YORK COUNTY. SSNY IS DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: 7 MERCER ST, FL. 2, NY, NY 10013. PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY. NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF COATUE PE ASIA XX LLC APPL. FOR AUTH. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE OF NY (SSNY) ON 04/26/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NY COUNTY. LLC FORMED IN DELAWARE (DE) ON 04/24/18. PRINC. OFFICE OF LLC: ONE BATTERY PARK PLAZA, NY, NY 10004. SSNY DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO THE LLC, ATTN: PHILIPPE LAFFONT, 9 W. 57TH ST., 25TH FL., NY, NY 10019. DE ADDR. OF LLC: C/O CORPORATION SERVICE CO., 251 LITTLE FALLS DR., WILMINGTON, DE 19808.

CERT. OF FORM. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DE, DIV. OF CORPS., JOHN G. TOWNSEND BLDG., FEDERAL & DUKE OF YORK STS., DOVER, DE 19901.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY. NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF COATUE PE ASIA XIX LLC APPL. FOR AUTH. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE OF NY (SSNY) ON 04/26/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NY COUNTY. LLC FORMED IN DELAWARE (DE) ON 04/24/18. PRINC. OFFICE OF LLC: ONE BATTERY PARK PLAZA, NY, NY 10004. SSNY DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO THE LLC, ATTN: PHILIPPE LAFFONT, 9 W. 57TH ST., 25TH FL., NY, NY 10019. DE ADDR. OF LLC: C/O CORPORATION SERVICE CO., 251 LITTLE FALLS DR., WILMINGTON, DE 19808.

CERT. OF FORM. FILED WITH SECY. OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DE, DIV. OF CORPS., JOHN G. TOWNSEND BLDG., FEDERAL & DUKE OF YORK STS., DOVER, DE 19901.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY.

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STORAGE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on June 12, 2018 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: -AYALA ERIKA -ANIA JR JOSEPH PLATON/ ELVINIA PLATON -CAJIGAS RONALD -FERNANDEZ MAEBELL (ERNEST + HUSBAND) DOE JOHN &JANE -GUILLAUME MARC/ ST. PREUX JEAN -HYBERGER TATYANA -JIMENEZ ANGEL -KABA ALASSANE -MORALES JONATHAN -MARC OPHARROW; ELLENI OPHARROW

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF THE SALES & MARKETING THINK TANK LLC. AUTHORITY FILED WITH NY SECY OF STATE (SSNY) ON 3/29/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NEW YORK COUNTY. LLC FORMED IN DELAWARE (DE) ON 10/27/17. SSNY IS DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: 708 3RD AVE, FL. 6, NY, NY 10017. DE ADDRESS OF LLC: 1201 ORANGE ST, STE 600, 1 COMMERCE CTR, WILMINGTON, DE 19801.

CERT. OF FORMATION FILED WITH DE SECY OF STATE, 401 FEDERAL ST, STE 4, DOVER, DE 19901.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1310591 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 195 CLAREMONT AVE NEW YORK, NY 10027.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. STRING & BRASS LLC.

-PARKER ESTHER/ PARKER ANITA -POLLINS KEVIN/POLLINS BRIHANNA -CARRO RAUL -RODRIGUEZ CECILIA -RODRIGUEZ ZABIEL -SAM GIND -TAYACK FERAUL -SIMMONS NELLIE -CUFFIE SISLINE -STANLEY MAUREEN O -RIVERA STEPHANIE -HUDSON JASON

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NEXT12 INVESTORS HOLDINGS, LLC. ARTS OF ORG. FILED WITH NEW YORK SECY OF STATE (SSNY) ON 5/15/18.

OFFICE LOCATION: NEW YORK COUNTY. SSNY IS DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: 551 5TH AVE, STE 2500, NY, NY 10176. PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL ACTIVITY.

Notice of Qualification of MW Loan 1, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/30/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 17 State St., NY, NY 10004. LLC formed in DE on 8/2/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corp1, Inc., 28 Old Rudnick Ln., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

1994 KFC, LLC is seeking benefits for the properties located at, 1992 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Block 1339 Lots 49,52,54,55 under the (ICIP) Industrial and Commercial Incentive Program administered by the New York City Department of Finance. Any persons having information concerning the eligibility of this applicant to participate in the program, or any act of arson or harassment committed by the applicant, may submit such information to ICIP 59 Maiden Lane. 22nd Fl. New York, NY 10038 or Exemptionspolicy@ f i n a n c e . n y c . g o

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 29-00 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on June 8, 2018 and end on June 21, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. Household goods and other effects. #1702-Quinsessa Harrison, #2703-Mary Meeley Terry, #3418Jane Stubbs, #3710-Lashawn Davis, #4315-Anna Schneider.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale.

CANVAS, INK LLC. ART. OF ORG. FILED WITH THE SSNY ON 05/04/18. OFFICE: WESTCHESTER 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, QIN RUAN, 353 BOULEVARD, SCARSDALE, NY 10583.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE. FASTTWITCH GROUP LLC, ARTS. OF ORG. FILED WITH THE SSNY ON 02/28/2018. OFFICE LOC: NY COUNTY. SSNY HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS AGENT UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST THE LLC MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: THE LLC, 244 FIFTH AVE., STE A273, NY, NY 10001. REG AGENT: JOSE A. CHAVEZ, 244 FIFTH AVE., STE A273, NY, NY 10001. PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE. KEY MARKETING STRATEGIES LLC ARTS. OF ORG. FILED WITH SSNY ON 2/20/18. OFFICE: NY COUNTY. SSNY DESIGNATED AS THE AGENT OF THE LLC UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST IT MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO LLC: 1 GRACIE TERRACE, 14B, NEW YORK, NY, 10028.

PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE. RIGHTHAND OF THE CITADEL, LLC. FILED WITH SSNY 05/11/2018. OFFICE LOC: NY COUNTY. SSNY HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS AGENT UPON WHOM PROCESS AGAINST LLC MAY BE SERVED. SSNY SHALL MAIL PROCESS TO: THE LLC, ATTN: DENNIS ASKINS III, 1900 LEXINGTON AVENUE 14B, NY N.Y 10035. PURPOSE: ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE.

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LOSERS DAN DONOVAN Rep. Dan Donovan called the GOP tax bill passed last year a “tax hike on the people I represent.” That didn’t matter to President Donald Trump, who endorsed Donovan over his primary opponent, the Trump-loving felon and former Rep. Michael Grimm. Trump backed Donovan in a tweet, saying he “voted for Tax Cuts.” Like many Trump statements, this was not true. Donovan got a nice boost from the president, who said “his opponent will not” win the seat in November.

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The state Senate is the Republican Party’s last bastion of statewide power, but it hinges on a single lawmaker. Often, that’s state Sen. Simcha Felder, the Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the GOP. But last week, it was all about state Sen. Thomas Croci, an actual Republican who was called back to the Navy. Democrats tried to capitalize on Croci’s absence, and Republicans fought back – and neither party looked good. But did any of them make the latest Winners & Losers list?

RUDY GIULIANI Take him out of the ball game!

Take him out of the crowd! The former New York City mayor turned President Donald Trump attorney/ talking head and conspiracy theorist was not met with any love when he spent his birthday at a Yankees game, where he got booed by other fans. The hostile welcome must have stung for a loud and proud Yankees fan like himself. He tried to brush off the incident by explaining they “boo when they love you.”

Sure, Rudy.

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The Rooneys are selling Empire City Casino to MGM for $605 million. Jackpot!

Gets $3M in tax breaks, just by putting vending machines in a residential building.

The Long Island state senator finally gets a real election challenge.

State official accused of sexual harassment is finally fired.

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