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BLACK CANDIDATES WIN BIG IN THE ’BURBS

FORTY UNDER FORTY ALBANY The WFP’s Sochie Nnaemeka and the rising stars of state politics

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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

Mondaire Jones is one of a group of Black candidates poised to rep the suburbs in Congress.

FORTY YEARS AGO, the singer and songwriter Raffi released “Baby Beluga,” a children’s song about a little white whale who splashes and plays in the sea before snuggling into bed to sleep. In elementary school, my classmates and I clamored to sing it in music class. Now as a father of two young children, I’ve become reacquainted with the tune.

To mark the anniversary, Raffi recently recorded a new rendition – with a new verse for the many “beluga grads” who grew up with the beloved song. “Now you’ve grown, and you’re on your way, makin’ waves in the boundless bay,” Raffi sang. “With your shining light and your dreams alive, for the ones you’ve brought this way.”

So what does a kids’ song have to do with City & State? As we selected this year’s Albany rising stars, it struck me how so many past 40 Under 40 honorees have advanced in their careers while still chasing their dreams. Our inaugural Albany list recognized a pair of Assembly members – Hakeem Jeffries and Grace Meng – who are now in Congress. Also featured were then-Assembly Member Marc Molinaro, now a county executive and the last Republican nominee for governor, and a state Senate aide, Rich Azzopardi, who’s now a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

But this week, of course, it’s about all the little white whales on the go.

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PRIMARY RESULTS … 8 Black candidates take the suburbs 40 UNDER 40 … 10 The rising stars of state politics

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POLICE TENSIONS MOUNT AMID SPIKE IN SHOOTINGS Over the past few weeks, New York City has seen a troubling spike in shootings, with more than 630 shootings so far in 2020, compared with roughly 400 in the same period last year.

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the rise in gun violence are unclear, that hasn’t stopped interested parties from raising their own theories. New York City Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea, for one, attributed the increase in shootings to recent police reforms like the criminalization of police chokeholds that Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law last week, bail

reforms that went into effect earlier this year as well as moves to release inmates from city jails in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

De Blasio pushed back on the idea that the current spike in shootings can be attributed to recent law enforcement reforms, instead pointing to high unemployment from the pandemic as one possible cause.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to curb gun violence, de Blasio unveiled a plan last week to deploy more police in Brooklyn – where there has been a spike in shootings – as well as local anti-violence groups, clergy and mobile mental health units.

But Shea and the NYPD aren’t the only ones who continue to raise alarms about recent police reforms. New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association

PROTESTS AGAINST THE PROTESTS AGAINST THE PROTESTS Early June saw a wave of monumental protests against police brutality and calls to defund the police, but in New York, Blue Lives Matter protesters have started taking to the streets too. With Black Lives Matter demonstrations continuing, that has meant protests facing off against each other – as seen in this amNewYork cover.

President Thomas Mungeer has called for state troopers to be pulled from New York City, saying recent reforms in the city places “an undue burden upon our troopers.”

“ I think New York will be fully reopened before I get out of phase zero on dating.”

– Gov. Andrew Cuomo, telling Jimmy Fallon about his dim prospects of finding love in the time of the coronavirus

“Kevin McCarthy and Elise Stefanik were lobbying the president against any act of clemency. They, I guess, wanted me to die in a fetid, squalid hellhole in Georgia of coronavirus. ” – Trump ally Roger Stone, alleging that Rep. Elise Stefanik attempted to persuade the president not to pardon Stone, via the Times Union

SCHOOL REOPENING GUIDANCE RELEASED

The state Education Department released its long-awaited guidance on how schools should plan to reopen in the fall, as New York confronts the possibility that another wave of the coronavirus pandemic is not far off.

Both those guidelines, and separate ones released by the state Health Department, call for face masks for students and teachers, and social distancing, among other measures.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also detailed a formula for reopening, with schools allowed to reopen if they are in regions that have reached the fourth phase of reopening and have a daily infection rate below 5% over a 14-day average.

Individual school districts have until the end of July to submit plans for reopening to the state, and Cuomo will announce decisions on where the regions stand in early August.

But even with these details shedding a little more light on what school will look like in September, many students, families and teachers are still concerned. Michael

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Mulgrew, head of the United Federation of Teachers, said that the teachers union will do everything in its power to make sure schools don’t reopen if they think it’s unsafe.

YOUNG PEOPLE THREATEN COVID-19 CURVE

A surge in cases of the coronavirus among 20-to29-year-olds in New York City is prompting concerns – and reminders from leaders like Cuomo and de Blasio for young people to take necessary precautions like wearing masks and socially distancing. “Let’s face it, it’s harder in many ways on younger people,” de Blasio said at a press conference last week.

But notably, it’s not just younger people who are making up a greater share of new coronavirus cases.

As The Wall Street Journal

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reported, cases of the coronavirus among young people are showing up in parts of Manhattan like the Financial District and Greenwich Village – striking a contrast with the early days of the pandemic, when minority and low-income New Yorkers made up the largest share of coronavirus infections.

Meanwhile, Cuomo moved to curb the kinds of in-person socializing that officials fear may be contributing to a rise in cases among young people. New rules from the state will prevent bars and restaurants from serving alcohol on premises unless they’re serving it with food – a move aimed at reducing crowds outside bars. The new restrictions provoked criticism from groups like the New York City Hospitality Alliance, which said constant policy changes burden already struggling establishments.

WEDNESDAY 7/22 After two straight weeks of counting absentee ballots, the New York City Board of Elections is expected to finish tallying all the mail-ins – confirming winners from the primary elections one month before.

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Shaun Donovan outraises rest of NYC mayoral field combined Fundraising for the New York City mayoral race fell sharply in the past six months as candidates dealt with the coronavirus pandemic – but it didn’t seem to slow down former federal Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan, who managed to outraise the rest of the field combined.

In the latest six-month campaign finance filing period, from Jan. 12 through July 11, Donovan – who, under President Barack Obama, also served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development and previously was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development – raised $662,000. All together, the other 11 candidates currently running raised about $594,000. Donovan announced his campaign in February, so this was his first fundraising filing, when candidates typically put up some of their strongest numbers. Donovan brought in donations from national political figures, including former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

While some mayoral candidates like New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and former nonprofit executive Dianne Morales have been focusing on small-dollar donations, Donovan is relying on wealthy, large donors. Donovan’s average donation is $1,171, compared to Johnson’s average of $159 and Morales’ $83.

Even Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who by most measures is leading the field in cumulative fundraising, has an average donation of $423. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, another top contender, has an average donation of $367.

Other than Donovan, Adams brought in the most money among mayoral

THURSDAY 7/23 City & State hosts its Virtual Digital New York webinar starting at 12:55 p.m. with a keynote from New York City Information Technology and Telecommunications Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

candidates in the past six months, reporting $261,000 in donations. With 11 months to go before the expected June 2021 Democratic primary, Adams has more than $2.1 million on hand.

His current fundraising should also qualify him for an additional $5.1 million in public matching funds.

Stringer raised just $120,000 in the prior period. Like Adams, it was his lowest six-month period since fundraising for this cycle began in January 2018. Stringer has $2.3 million in his campaign account, and expects at this point to qualify for an additional $3.8 million in matching funds.

Johnson raised about $70,000, his weakest report since announcing his campaign. He has $635,000 on hand and he could qualify for an additional $4.9 million in matching funds.

With Stringer term-limited out of his current office and planning to run for mayor, some political players also have their eye on the comptroller post.

State Sen. Brian Benjamin leads the field there, with $386,000 on hand.

The Manhattan Democrat outraised many mayoral candidates in the past six months, bringing in $197,000 – even as he runs for reelection to the state Legislature at the same time.

New York City Council Member Brad Lander isn’t far behind. He brought in $181,000 during this period and has $357,000 on hand. But Lander expects to bring in some $2.7 million in matching funds, compared to Benjamin’s $1.2 million. Queens Assembly Member David Weprin raised $65,000 in the past six months and has $144,000 on hand, with an expected $532,000 in matching funds.

Politicians will be hoping that relaxed health regulations will allow them to bring in big money at in-person fundraisers once again.

-Jeff Coltin

TUESDAY 7/28 The state Senate Committee on Higher Education holds a virtual public hearing at 10 a.m. on how the coronavirus has impacted colleges and universities, and what the fall semester will look like.

INSIDE DOPE

Legislative leaders stood behind the governor during the first months of the pandemic, but upcoming virtual hearings will give them a chance to highlight their own approaches.

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COVID MOUNTAIN

LAST WEEK, Gov. Andrew Cuomo celebrated New York’s declining coronavirus numbers by releasing an adorable poster commemorating the greatest disaster New York has ever seen.

It’s a psychedelic trip down the governor’s personal coronavirus journey, packed with

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references that everyone who religiously watched his daily press briefings can laugh along about.

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The governor held press conferences for 111 consecutive days during the pandemic.

It was hell for him.

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See, the country is divided, which is why Cuomo is sticking it to Texas, Florida and Arizona, where people are dying right now. You tell ’em, Guv!

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Packaged at a prison near you.

A jab at President Donald Trump, tastefully placed under a quote commanding us to forget politics.

Cuomo’s daughters and his dog were surely as crucial to the effort as health care workers.

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”Economy Falls like Niagara Falls but then the economy drops, the Economy Falls,” Cuomo explained at a press conference. Ah, now we get it.

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As a wise philosopher once said, if you’re looking for a good quote, make up a fake person and say it yourself.

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Get Smart? After all the criticism over this poster, Cuomo should have invested in a Cone of Silence.

The octopus is an homage to William Jennings Bryan, a threetime presidential candidate whose tentacled poster inspired this and other hideous Cuomo art.

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The only person portrayed as being in danger in this whole phantasmagoria is Cuomo’s daughter’s boyfriend. Hang in there, fella.

Remember when our elected leaders followed up 9/11 with cute cartoons and inside jokes? No?

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Cuomo revs up his 1975 Corvette on Coronavirus Mountain. Gnarly.

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Just remember, this idyllic spackled watercolor mountain represents tens of thousands of dead New Yorkers.

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The poster is mysteriously missing Nursing Home Gorge.

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New York City just saw its very first day without coronavirus deaths, the perfect time to declare this mission accomplished.

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A Q&A with Democratic congressional nominee

We don’t need a Congress full of scientists, but right now, there’s only one Ph.D. scientist in Congress.

NANCY GOROFF

After a pretty close race, you managed to defeat three opponents and win the Democratic nomination in New York’s 1st Congressional District.

How are you feeling about that win?

We are excited. We’ve been working hard and are really thrilled at the response from the voters and are raring to go.

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If elected, you would be the first woman in Congress with a Ph.D. in science. To what extent is your background driving you to run?

My research is primarily on developing new materials for solar energy and other applications like that,

but (climate change) is a major focus for me. I’ve been a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists for many, many years.

Climate change is a huge threat to our way of life because of sea level rise, coastal erosion and extreme weather events like (Hurricanes) Sandy and Irene. That’s certainly something where I want to be a leader in Congress and serve as a resource for other members of Congress.

Vice President (Joe) Biden yesterday unveiled a new infrastructure plan with a focus around clean energy.

from Illinois. He’s a physicist, and he has been a strong supporter of my campaign.

I think it’s important we have people in Congress who can partner with him to make sure that plans like that get put in place. Having people who are knowledgeable and understand the science and technology behind all of that, I think is going to be really important. We don’t need a Congress full of scientists, but right now, there’s only one Ph.D. scientist in Congress.

And who is the one Ph.D. scientist in Congress now?

That’s Rep. Bill Foster

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You mentioned concerns like rising sea levels and coastal erosion. Are there other reasons why it’s important that Long Island in particular be represented in Congress by a scientist?

We have a number of different environmental concerns here, in addition to the climate change issues that I mentioned earlier. There’s also issues with clean water, both in our bays and in our taps. Contamination from things like perfluoroalkyl compounds that have

recently been found to be dangerous in even very, very small concentrations, as well as nitrogen pollution in our bays and on our coastlines.

What do you think about both climate change and the coronavirus pandemic being very political issues – and science in general being politicized?

I think it’s foolish in the short term and the long term, the way that the president and his allies – like (my opponent, Rep.) Lee Zeldin – have chosen to politicize things like wearing masks, instead of focusing on what will actually keep people safe.

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BREAKTHROUGH IN THE ‘BURBS Black congressional candidates saw a new wave of support in largely white suburban districts.

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N JULY 14, Mondaire Jones was certified as the winner of the Democratic primary in New York’s 17th Congressional District, taking him one step closer to being among the first Black and openly gay members in Congress – a widely noted marker of social progress. But if Jones wins in November, replacing retiring Rep. Nita Lowey in her Westchester County district, he will also be among a small number of lawmakers steadily breaking down yet another barrier: that of electing Black candidates in suburban, and largely white, districts.

In three New York congressional primary races this year, Black candidates have won the Democratic nominations in heavily suburban districts. There’s Jones, who beat a crowded field of contenders in the 17th Congressional District, which is 70% white and covers much of Westchester and Rockland counties. There’s Jackie Gordon, a Democrat on Long Island who this fall will

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attempt to flip retiring Rep. Pete King’s seat. That Nassau County district is 78% white.

And then there’s Jamaal Bowman, a progressive challenger in New York’s 16th Congressional District in the North Bronx and southern Westchester, who defeated 16-term incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel.

The 16th District is 34% Black, 24% Latino and 32% white.

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Bowman and Jones are likely to wind up in Congress, as both of those districts are heavily Democratic. And while Gordon seeks to replace a Republican, she is running in a swing district that could go blue in what may be a Democratic wave election this November. If those three candidates join Rep. Antonio Delgado, who is also Black and was elected to a Hudson Valley Jamaal Bowman, left, Jackie Gordon, top right, and Mondaire Jones, bottom right, are on track to represent New York suburbs in Congress.

and Catskills district in 2018, it would represent a dramatic shift in support for Black candidates among suburban and rural white voters.

Research conducted by David Lublin, a professor of government at American University, and others showed that as of 2015, 88% of African Americans in the House of Representatives were elected majority-minority districts – a pattern that held steady in state legislatures too.

But that has recently

shifted a bit, including in 2018, when Congress gained eight new African American members who represented majority non-Hispanic white districts.

One of those candidates was Delgado, a Democrat whose district is over 80% white.

While Lublin said Bowman’s success in the primary is less surprising than Jones’ or Gordon’s – because Bowman’s district, which straddles the urban-suburban boundary, is heavily Black and Latino – it’s still indicative that Black candidates can succeed in more than one kind of district.

Jones, too, noted the significance of possibly being elected to represent a majority-white, suburban district. “I think generally what we’re seeing is that candidates of color, when able to raise the financial resources required to get their message out to the electorate, are thriving,” Jones told City & State. “What The New York Times described as ‘the institutional left’ is taking a more vigorous interest in supporting candidates of color who the left recognizes have historically had difficulty winning elections because of their challenges in fundraising,” he said, mentioning support for his candidacy from progressives like U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Gordon, who handily won the Democratic primary on Long Island, faces a steeper challenge than Jones or Bowman in November, as she aims to flip the 2nd Congressional District seat held by King. “This won’t be the first time I’m the first; I was the first Black woman to serve on the (Babylon) Town Board, and many young people have told me they’re inspired by that and interested in going into government,” Gordon said in an email statement.

Traditionally, Black candidates who have had to rely on the support of white voters to win an election have tended to run “deracialized” campaigns, said Ernest McGowen, a professor of political science at the University of Richmond, and author of “African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks & Political Behavior.” “There’s this idea that for an African American to be palatable to a white au-

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dience, they need to run on racial reconciliation, run on an idea that we are post-racial,” McGowen said. “So therefore, they cannot come out and express views that may be superpalatable to a Black audience or an audience of color, but are not palatable to a white party. Barack Obama is just the clearest example.”

But today, that may be changing. While Bowman, Gordon and Jones were all mounting strong campaigns before the coronavirus pandemic, the combination of flawed government responses to that, the virus’ disproportionate impact on communities of color, and the recent weeks of protest against racism following the death of George Floyd, may have helped put some of them over the top. Lessie Branch, an associate professor in the School for Business at Metropolitan College of New York and a senior research fellow at the DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy at Medgar Evers College, said the “perfect storm” of recent events is showing voters that the establishment isn’t working. “Jamaal (Bowman) isn’t seen as establishment, and establishment is equated with untrustworthy and broken,” Branch told City & State.

While Jones said the success of Black candidates running for Congress in suburban and white districts is promising, he noted that their success comes with double the effort. “People like myself and Antonio Delgado grew up being told that we had to work twice as hard to be to be taken as seriously as white people,” Jones said, mentioning that both he and Delgado are graduates of Harvard Law School; Delgado is a Rhodes scholar and Jones worked in the Obama administration. “It is still the case that Black candidates in our society are held to a higher standard.”

Still, that doesn’t mean Jones won’t have a great deal to celebrate if elected in November.

“I am really encouraged by the progress that we’re seeing,” he said. Referring to himself, Bowman and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, Jones added, “of the three representatives from Westchester County, two will be Black and two will be gay.”

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Someone once said that youth is wasted on the young – but one needs to look no further than New York’s next generation of political players to know that the tired old saying simply isn’t true.

This year’s rising stars in New York state politics are brimming with optimism and taking the initiative, whether it’s confronting the coronavirus crisis head on, championing policy changes demanded by the Black Lives Matter movement or grappling with deepening income inequality.

City & State’s latest Albany 40 Under 40 features a state

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lawmaker, top advisers to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state Attorney General Letitia James and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, trusted staffers in the state Legislature and at state agencies, and influential political operatives, union officials, advocates, attorneys, activists and executives – not to mention a couple of journalists who are holding the most powerful politicians in the state to account.

There’s no time to waste! Read on to meet the 2020 Albany 40 Under 40 Rising Stars.

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Associate Attorney Barc lay Damon Growing up in Miami as the granddaughter of Cuban refugees who opened a restaurant and worked 14-hour days to build their American dream, Brenda Baddam knew early on that she wanted to pursue law.

“I knew I wanted to somehow give back to the country that has given my family so many opportunities,” she says. “And my way to do so was to go into the legal field.”

Since joining Barclay Damon last year, Baddam has focused on the health care industry and health care-related litigation – but she still dabbles in other areas. “As a first-year associate, you’re literally trying to get as much experience as you can in every aspect of every field of law,” she says.

Asked about her proudest accomplishment, Baddam described her work leading to the passage of an ordinance requiring the Albany Police Department to perform field sobriety tests in Spanish – which was enacted by the City of Albany Common Council in July. Baddam, who previously served as an assistant district attorney with the Albany County District Attorney’s Office, says she knew that non-English speakers were at a disadvantage during field sobriety tests. After proposing the idea as part of her fellowship with the organization New Leaders Council, she expanded it into a resolution with the help of one of her mentors at Barclay Damon.

“If you can’t understand what an officer is saying,” Baddam explains, “you probably won’t understand those instructions, you probably won’t do the test to the best of your ability.”

Julie Bashant oversees almost 200 people at the national government technology company GCOM, but she started her career nine years ago at the front desk as a receptionist. A recent college graduate, she was determined to move up. “At the time, we were a significantly smaller company but right on the brink of taking off,” she says. “I wanted to be out of that desk as soon as possible.” In just two months, she got her first promotion. She has continued to take initiative as the company has transformed into an industry powerhouse in government technology. As a staffing services practice lead, she matches tech talent with government clients to work

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on agency projects. One goal, she says, is to deliver the level of convenience for government websites that people find on private sector sites. “We’re helping to work toward the expectation being that, just like on a commercial website, you can grab something that you want, you can put it in your cart and you can check out,” she says.

At 31, she’s often the youngest executive in the room, and in the information technology field, she’s often one of the only women. She looks up to other female leaders such as GCOM Chief Operating Officer Heidi Green and her mother, who is a CEO. She plans to pass that passion along to the next generation, saying, “My biggest focus right now is on raising my 2-yearold daughter, and I think that also contributes to my career drive.”

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BRENDAN BOYLE

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Associate Lobbyist Bolton-St. Johns Philip Bolen loves airports. His parents were divorced when he was growing up, and as a kid, during his unaccompanied trips between them, he loved spending time in those transitional spaces, talking to people he had never met before. Lobbying gives him a similar satisfaction.

“There’s a bunch of different narratives, and you work with people who have things that are completely unrelated, but they’re all trying to make someone’s life better in the process,” he says.

As an associate lobbyist at BoltonSt. Johns, he worked on the passage of the Compassionate Care Act, which legalized medical marijuana in 2014.

More recently, he has worked on increasing pay for direct care workers who care for the elderly and people with disabilities. Bolen’s mother is a home health aide. “Being able to go around the last few years to really talk about the conditions that those workers are in and how they serve more for the work that they do – that’s exciting,” he says.

Securing personal protective equipment for essential workers, making sure clients’ businesses were deemed essential, and working to limit unnecessary out-of-home labor were among the tasks Bolen did for his clients as the coronavirus crisis swept through New York.

“Going from constantly texting and emailing in the Capitol to COVID posturing was, oh, now I am sending emails at 2 in the morning, getting up for calls starting at 6 in the morning and then just fielding calls all day,” he says.

Brendan Boyle has always gravitated toward public service and philanthropic work. In 2018, the government relations professional decided to broaden his experience outside of work and joined his local fire department as a volunteer firefighter.

“It puts a lot into perspective,” says Boyle of his work with the Elsmere Fire Company in Bethlehem, New York. “In the fire service, you see people having the worst day of their life.”

The past few months have also been challenging for one of Boyle’s biggest clients at the law firm Featherstonhaugh, Wiley, Clyne – the New York State Association of Cemeteries. The association’s more than 500 members employ field landscapers, crematorium operators and other cemetery

employees. “COVID hit the industry particularly hard on these front-line workers,” says Boyle, who is also the association’s executive director. “Their workflow increased so significantly.”

Boyle, who also works with clients in the banking, web services and telecommunications industries, says he learned many of the skills he uses in his current job – legislative analysis and teamwork – during the nearly nine years he spent in the state Senate Finance Committee. When it came time to negotiate the budget – one of the most challenging aspects of that job – the dynamic of the team made all the difference.

“You’re up for hours on end with your co-workers and you’re negotiating with the Executive Chamber and the Assembly,” he says. “If you’re working on a team with positive-minded individuals who have a great team mentality, you can certainly get anything done.”

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Spectrum is proud to support City & State’s Albany 40 under 40.

Congratulations to our colleague, Jill Luther and all the honorees for their achievements.

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Bolton-St. Johns (BSJ) joins our partner Ed Draves, leader of workforce advocacy on behalf of our clients, in congratulating our friend and colleague Phil Bolen for being honored on City & State’s Albany 40 Under 40.

Phil has also become a trusted member in Ed’s labor representation of clients such as the New York State Pipe Trades Association, SEIU Local 200 United, and RWDSU Local 338. Phil has successfully advanced a wide variety of issue-areas including energy infrastructure, medical marijuana policy, casino gaming, funding for legal services, insurance and cost of living adjustments for direct care workers.

We are very proud of Phil’s growth and achievements and look forward to working with him to continue to serve our clients across New York State.

From the proud partners, and everyone at Bolton-St. Johns: Giorgio DeRosa, Bill McCarthy, Emily Giske, Tom Connolly, Mike Keogh, Juanita Scarlett, Patrick J. McHugh, Teresa Gonzalez, Samara Daly, Anne Marie Anzalone, Justin Berhaupt, John D. McCarthy, Patricia Reilly, Bill McCarthy, Jr., John Albert, Violet Moss, Julian Kline, Sara Anne Ritz, Joseph DeRosa, Robin Brown, Keyla Antigua, Sarah Bangs, Julie Jursik, Dave Siracuse, Iris White, Jessica Davos, Paul Santos, Jacob Policano, Ben Garrett, Paul Hypolite, Daniel Muñoz, Tori Newman-Campbell, Jessica Nieves Keogh and Edward Amador.

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Congratulations to our own Julie Bashant for being named to the Albany 40 Under 40 list! and THANK YOU to all the talented GCOMers in the Albany area who are at the top of our list everyday.

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Political Director SEIU Loc al 2 00United Jessica Dowsett remembers the difficulties she faced growing up in rural Pennsylvania – the eldest of four children raised by a single mother who struggled to make ends meet. The family visited food pantries, and at one point, participated in the Section 8 housing program.

Dowsett says her experiences with food insecurity and housing insecurity taught her the value of strong labor unions. In her current role at SEIU Local 200United, she supports workers in a variety of fields, including teachers and home health workers – a job her mother once held, though she was not part of a union.

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“I think it really is evident that this narrative we have in the United States that you could pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you work hard enough, it’s just not true,” she says. “Labor unions are one of the few things that can help really level that playing field and equalize opportunities for folks.”

Dowsett says what she loves most about her job is having the opportunity to teach others about government and train them to advocate for themselves. She enjoys taking a complicated process that is not very transparent – the state budget, for instance – and making it accessible to the average person.

“I don’t think, in the United States, we do a really good job of giving the average person a lot of ways to engage in decisionmaking,” she says. “The first step, I think, is just being able to train folks to be self-advocates.”

CAITLIN FERRANTE

Conservation Program Manager Sierra Clu b Atlantic Chapter Bainbridge is one of those small towns in the Southern Tier with a town gazebo, a single stoplight and plenty of ponds, creeks and open spaces to keep a nature-loving kid busy. That has had big implications for state environmental policy, though it was hardly obvious 10 years ago when one daughter of Bainbridge decided to leave. “When I wanted to go to college, I wanted to go to the big city,” Caitlin Ferrante says. “And for me, that was Albany.”

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her to the world of lobbying on behalf of Mother Earth. By the end of the year, she landed at the Sierra Club and has stayed ever since. “We’re really trying to better people’s lives and better the environment,” she says. “That’s what really keeps me going.”

The subsequent years have been spent organizing volunteers, writing policy memos, and getting efforts like a fracking ban and limits on toxic chemicals in consumer products across the regulatory finish line. It all gets back to protecting the environmental beauty that she learned to love as a kid. Though she has lived in the “big city” for the past decade, Ferrante has no problem admitting that her heart has never left the countryside. That means she is still holding out hope for a pet goat or pig in the future. For now, she still has a nice townhouse to share with a Bainbridge boy she married.

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STANLEY FRITZ

Political Director Citiz en Ac tion of New York For Stanley Fritz, one of the key strategies for effective organizing can be summed up simply: “Organizing is not about being at the front,” he says. “An organizer’s core job is organizing yourself out of a job.”

But with the number of issue campaigns and electoral initiatives on Fritz’s plate at Citizen Action of New York, he won’t be organizing himself out of his job anytime soon. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he’s been prioritizing advocacy efforts on everything from housing to education funding to policing, partly spurring the repeal of 50-a, which allowed law enforcement agencies to shield police misconduct records. And in the midst of election season, he is also overseeing part of the organization’s endorsement process and other electoral work.

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Fritz, who has been with Citizen Action for four years, was inspired to join the organization after attending one of its conferences. “I had never seen a grassroots political organization with power, with Black and brown peoplecentered and leading,” he says.

His role at the organization positioned him to advocate for the state’s bail reform law passed last year – a victory now bittersweet for him after elected officials passed changes to the law that Citizen Action and other criminal justice groups opposed.

“We lost public support,” Fritz says.

“And that means we need to work harder to help change people’s ideas about what safety means.”

When not advocating for policy change through his job, Fritz discusses race, social justice and politics in a weekly podcast called “Be Heard Talk.”

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Secretary to the Speaker for Intergovernmental Affairs New York State Assembly While some stumble into public service by accident, for Joseph Garba, nothing could be a more natural fit.

Garba’s father, Joseph Nanven Garba, was a Nigerian diplomat who served as president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1989 to 1990. Growing up shuttling between Westchester County and Nigeria, inspired by the work his parents did, sealed his fate. “Everything they did was something that was beneficial to our community in Nigeria when we were there, and the international community in my father’s case, with his work with the United Nations, and then his work in the Nigerian government,” Garba says of his parents. “I grew up with that sort of mindset that service to others and public service was just kind of natural and was always part of me.”

While the younger Garba may not be traveling the globe in his public service work, his career has taken him on an extensive tour through New York government, with highlevel roles under Govs. Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer – and a stint on Bloomberg’s presidential campaign.

With almost two decades of experience working at virtually every level of government, Garba is the ideal liaison for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, helping elected officials, advocates and local leaders stay connected through one of the most challenging and history-making sessions in recent memory. “I like to think I’m a problem solver – able to help people navigate the issues they’re having,” Garba says.

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Chief of Staff SUNY Empire State College Aaron Gladd knows that for most people, a college education is not something to take for granted. “I’m the first person in my family to graduate high school, let alone go to college,” the Saranac Lake native says. After running an unsuccessful campaign for state Senate in 2018, Gladd, an Army veteran and former deputy director of policy for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, joined the staff of SUNY Empire State College President Jim Malatras. Most of the 18,000 students taking classes at the college are older than 25 and pursuing higher education while also raising children or working.

Forty percent are first-generation college students. Recognizing that many of these students have already gained expertise in their fields, the college offers credit for work and life experience.

Gladd says he and Malatras have adopted an attitude of “bias for action.” The college recently launched a Women’s Corporate Leadership Academy to prepare women for executive leadership roles, a project Gladd is passionate about.

“My daughter’s growing up in a world where the chances of her becoming a board member on a corporation are much, much smaller than my son’s, by no fault of her own,” he says. “How do you fix that from a public policy perspective?”

Other recent initiatives have included support programs for students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds, partnerships with community colleges, and a center dedicated to serving students with autism.

“We’ve delivered for a different kind of student,” he says. “Which is what really kind of drew me here.”

FATIN HADDAD

Corporate Associate Greenberg Trau rig Working from home during the COVID-19 crisis didn’t stop attorney Fatin Haddad from arranging a complicated purchase agreement with parties that didn’t see eye to eye while speedily obtaining required regulatory approvals from the state. She approached the challenge with curiosity about how working remotely would change things. “It was really interesting.

There were so many different dynamics above and beyond the normal deal,” she says. “It was a cool transaction.”

Haddad always knew she wanted to be an attorney, but in college, she realized she also had a passion for business, and she switched her major from political science to business, which she found challenging and thrilling. “I like to be really strategic,” she says. “I like to do

some creative problem-solving.” Now an attorney with Greenberg Traurig managing mergers and acquisitions, she says she likes being able to zoom out to get the big picture. There’s a satisfaction in asking corporate clients what their general goals are – and then figuring out innovative ways to get there. “I always want to feel like I’m doing valuable work,” she says.

Haddad grew up in Albany and stayed in the Capital Region for college and law school. A committed member of her church, she devotes her spare time to community work like collection drives for school supplies and supporting women professionals. As someone who embraces risk, she sees many different paths forward for herself. “Tomorrow is unknown,” she says. “I’m really optimistic about what the future holds.”

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Corporate Communications Manager Eastern New York Avangrid Ridge Harris joined the energy company Avangrid in April as the corporate communications manager for Eastern New York. Working for the parent company of New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas & Electric, Harris is responsible for the internal and external communications for nine different divisions, ranging from Plattsburgh to Westchester County and Elmira. “We’re innovators and we’re also committed to providing our customers with safe and reliable service,” says Harris.

Prior to working with Avangrid, Harris was a senior public affairs manager at Gramercy Communications, where one of his main clients was The American Legion Department of New York.

Although the bulk of his experience has been within the private sector, Harris began his career interning with U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson while completing his undergraduate degree at Siena College – he was offered a full-time position by Gibson’s team when he graduated.

Outside of his role at Avangrid, Harris finds value in giving back to the communities that supported him while he was growing up in Troy. Today, he serves as chair of the board of trustees of Catholic Central High School, which he attended, in addition to serving as president of the board for the Pyramid Life Center.

“For people that are in a position to lend their professional talents to a community organization they care about, they should take every opportunity to do that,” Harris says.

While she was a student at Fordham University School of Law, Kate Herlihy spent one summer working at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP – and she says that’s when her career goals really clicked into place.

“I realized that I could have the ability to practice law and work in the public policy field,” she says. “I think it’s the opportunity to be substantive, to be strategic and to have that ever-changing environment that keeps things interesting.”

Herlihy worked at the law firm for eight years after law school, left for three years, and then returned in 2019. She says her job involves managing factors that are beyond her control, and that has been especially true this year as the coronavirus has upended life and work for everyone. During the spring, Herlihy

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was managing the transition to online learning for her children while working on legislation related to the quarantine and providing clients with the support they needed to make their own business decisions during the crisis.

“The role of government relations was really important during this time,” says Herlihy, who represents clients in health care, including a major national laboratory, respiratory therapists and a national medical technology association.

“The landscape was changing for all of us overnight.”

Previously, Herlihy worked at the Life Insurance Council of New York, representing disability insurance carriers during the implementation of New York’s paid family leave program. Part of this work involved raising awareness about the program.

“A lot of people aren’t aware that it is actually an insurance product,” she says.

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Senior Associate, New York Criminal Justice Reform FWD.u s While attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania, Rodney Holcombe interned with the Southern Center for Human Rights. During his time at the organization, Holcombe says that being able to go to prisons – where he was able to see, smell and feel what they were like – was an illuminating experience.

“I was all on board for decarceration prior to that, but I think that really just kind of lit a fire under me,” he says.

After graduating from law school, Holcombe moved to California to work for the Drug Policy Alliance, working to introduce and pass state legislation that would automatically

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clear the records of everyone with prior marijuana convictions.

Holcombe moved to New York last year to work with FWD.us as a senior associate focusing on criminal justice reform in the midst of the passage of New York’s bail reform package, which he regrets seeing subsequently rolled back.

At the moment, Holcombe has shifted his focus to parole reform to get people out of prison who have been serving long sentences.

“Our reliance on a carceral system is a very scary thing. I think there are alternatives and ways in which we should be addressing root causes,” says Holcombe, who advocates for restorative justice and greater access to mental health care.

Outside of his job, Holcombe is a 2020 New Leaders Council fellow and a member of the Minority Cannabis Business Association.

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Organizing Director Strong Ec onomy For All Coalition Charles Khan was among the many organizers who rallied protesters to occupy New York City Hall in late June, pressuring lawmakers to cut the New York City Police Department’s budget by at least $1 billion.

“It was kind of the beautiful trouble that I love to be a part of and help co-create,” he said.

Much of his advocacy since George Floyd’s death has been shaped by his years of organizing. His first steps toward mobilizing against police brutality and systemic racism started when he attended protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after police fatally shot Michael Brown. After he returned to New York, he said, “I started

to work more deliberately with other Black organizers across the city on racial justice and also through other parts of my work.”

But the core of Khan’s focus is economic justice. He has advocated for state-level policy changes – such as successfully pushing New York to increase the state minimum wage to $15 – and rallied alongside workers. Among his proudest achievements is working with Toys “R” Us workers to get severance in the wake of the store’s bankruptcy, made all the more meaningful given that his own first summer job was at the toy store. In addition to his work with the Strong Economy For All Coalition, Khan also brings his advocacy chops to the Center for Popular Democracy, where he has focused on federal stimulus efforts.

“I think a lot of what brings joy to me is being able to build community,” he said.

Once a musical theater major at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Samantha Levy attributes the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy as the impetus for her transition into politics. “I really saw the intense disruption to daily life and how vulnerable our systems are,” says Levy.

Striving to do something with her career that she felt would be more impactful, Levy returned to NYU to complete her master’s degree in food systems, during which she interned for US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as for Slow Food USA. After graduating, Levy began working with American Farmland Trust, where she continues to work as a policy manager. During her time at the organization, Levy has led the New York Grown Food for New York Kids coalition, and in doing so, successfully aided in passing an incentive to help K-12 schools buy more food from local farmers. Levy has also focused on tackling the challenges posed by climate change by working to incorporate farmers and farmland into the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Although in the long term, Levy says that she hopes to branch out from New York state politics and advocate for federal policy changes relating to agriculture as well, in the meantime, she has come to acknowledge the power of state and local legislation in promoting change.

“At the state level there’s opportunity for policy innovation that might not always exist at the federal level,” says Levy.

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Chief of Staff State Sen. Todd Kaminsky There are many moments Halie Meyers can point to that have reinforced her conviction she’s doing what she was meant to do – including the day she began working in state politics. She was 17, taking night classes and working at a Long Island clothing store. She won an essay contest to shadow thenAssembly Member Harvey Weisenberg at the Capitol.

Impressed by her drive, he offered her a job on the spot.

Then there’s Hurricane Sandy, which, about a decade later, tore through her Long Beach neighborhood, destroying her family’s firstfloor apartment. That left her dedicated to fighting climate change. “When you’re taking everything you’ve ever owned and dumping it into a pile in the middle of the street, it’s like, how can we fix this?

What can we do?” she recalls thinking. She later worked with state Sen. Todd Kaminsky on the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a landmark 2019 climate action bill he sponsored.

And then there’s the 2012 Kenny Chesney concert, where she met a police officer who responded on 9/11 and was later diagnosed with cancer. For years after that first encounter, she shared his story with lawmakers.

Ultimately, Kaminsky helped her to act on it, mobilizing to pass bipartisan sick leave legislation for 9/11 first responders in 2017.

Looking forward, Meyers is optimistic about what’s next.

“I’m just hopeful. I’m excited,” she says. “I see energy toward good government, toward helping the environment, toward changing the world.”

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JONAS NERI

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Legislative Director Brown & Weinrau b Jonas Neri says he draws motivation from his superiors at Brown & Weinraub.

“There are some serious people at my firm who have done some serious things in their career, and I think just watching them and where they are now, I want to get to that point in my life,” he says.

After entering the political world as a student courier at another firm, the young legislative director has already begun that climb at the government strategies and strategic consulting firm. He completed an internship at Brown & Weinraub after graduating with a political science degree from the University at Albany in 2018. He then helped to delineate a new full-time position for himself after carefully observing what work was needed. “I took it upon myself to give myself my own opportunity,” he says. He’s had to learn rapidly along the way, absorbing all the regulatory processes and procedural information he can while closely watching his colleagues at the top-ranked company. “There’s so many people that have senior government expertise,” he says. “I just try to be around them as much as I can.”

Neri grew up outside Albany and was a defensive back on his high school football team. Today, he sees parallels between the sport and his budding career, including that they are both deeply collaborative. “In football, if one guy isn’t doing their job, then the whole team sucks,” he says. “And it’s pretty competitive, the lobbying industry.”

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SOCHIE NNAEMEKA

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State Director Working Families Party When asked her age, Working Families Party State Director Sochie Nnaemeka says 32 1/2. It’s a habit she picked up from her 3-year-old son, but you can’t blame her for making sure to count the past six months. Nnaemeka only started leading the WFP in New York in December, and the months since have been jam-packed. She has lobbied for higher taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers during an unprecedented state legislative session, supported progressive candidates in the June primaries and made plans to try to maintain the party’s ballot access, which has been put in jeopardy by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

It’s a lot for somebody who is new to Albany politics.

Nnaemeka was raised in Westchester County, but her previous work in politics at the national labor union Unite Here and the Center for Popular Democracy didn’t focus on her home state.

Now, she’s looking to the future, pushing lawmakers to keep building on the progressive laws passed under the Democraticcontrolled state government in 2019. “We cannot be sliding back towards the status quo or towards small reformist tweaks,” she says.

“We can’t slow down in New York, especially when need is getting more severe and deeper.”

Nnaemeka is also looking beyond the borders of where progressive, WFP-backed candidates typically do well, working to flip even more state Senate seats from red to blue. “The suburbs are getting poorer,” she says. “We’re seeing the need for structural change up and down the state.”

MATT O’CONNOR

Government Analyst Hinman Strau b When he was in the second grade, Matt O’Connor wrote a letter to then-Gov. Mario Cuomo asking what it was like to lead the state. The governor’s official response, written on letterhead and sent with a signed photograph, became a prized possession. “(It) was a neat, maybe kind of dorky thing for a kid that age to have, but it was a letter that I still have,” he says. He grew up in the Capital Region with multiple relatives working in government and government relations. In other words, he was raised on state politics.

As a government analyst for Hinman Straub, a law firm established in the 1930s in Albany with a government relations practice, O’Connor now has an insider’s view of New York government.

He began his career in the state Legislature, working for the Assembly minority leader and the Senate majority leader. More than a decade ago, he was approached in the Senate lobby with an opportunity at Hinman Straub, and he’s since grown into his role as a lobbyist, enjoying the challenges and the variety. “You may be working on one issue at a given moment and something completely different with a different legislator an hour later,” he says, adding that diligence and thoughtfulness go a long way in the business.

O’Connor counts among his accomplishments his work on behalf of the New York State Firefighters Association to extend the eligibility window for firefighters to apply for cancerrelated disability benefits.

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Executive Vice President and Director of Government Relations Retail Cou nc il of New York State Born and raised in the Albany area, Melissa O’Connor developed an interest in politics, in no small part because of her father’s position as chief of staff of the New York state Senate, a role he held for more than three decades. “I grew up running through the halls of the state Capitol,” recalls O’Connor.

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and then her master’s degree in business administration at the College of St. Rose, which she completed in just three semesters, O’Connor joined the Retail Council of New York State in 2005 as a government relations associate. It was by “learning through osmosis” that O’Connor says she was able to build her career at the council, which represents approximately 5,000 retailers across the state, over the past 15 years.

In her current role as senior vice president and director of government relations, O’Connor acts as a voice for the state’s retail industry through managing the retail council’s government relations program.

Although the current pandemic has created an additional strain for the industry that she represents, O’Connor says that she “thrives on adrenaline,” and that through constant contact with retailers across the state, she and her team are helping guide the council’s members through the pandemic by providing them with information and making sure they continue to adhere to all directives from the executive chamber.

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BEN PARSONS

Legislative Representative CSEA Loc al 1000 Ben Parsons majored in history and minored in political science at the University at Albany – he knew he wanted a solid background in writing and research – but he hadn’t considered a career in politics until his senior year, when he met a Civil Service Employees Association representative at a job fair.

“I literally went up to him, and I said, ‘What is CSEA?’ And the rest is kind of history,” Parsons says.

His career at CSEA – a labor union that represents employees in state and local government, school districts and the private sector – began with an internship in 2011. In recent years, he has mostly focused on health and safety issues.

“We were able to make sure that school bus drivers and other school transportation personnel have a voice on their school safety teams,” he says. “What we’re currently working on is trying to do something to improve the safety in the state’s highway work zones.”

While Parsons has been telecommuting for the past few months, many of the union members he represents – people who work in health care, first responders and sanitation workers, among others – have continued going to work throughout the coronavirus pandemic. He’s been working to ensure union members have sufficient personal protective equipment and the necessary support during this stressful time.

“What we’re looking at right now is the potential for huge losses (in) state funding to a lot of local government services and state services,” Parsons says. “There’s a lot of uncertainty.”

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“All this time studying Russian grammar is paying off here!” he remembers thinking. “That was really my first job in politics.” Not long after, O’Regan found himself working on Eric Schneiderman’s ultimately successful 2010 campaign for state attorney general, and joining the office of the state’s top litigator after Schneiderman was elected.

O’Regan has been there ever since, for nearly a decade, as one of the few top staffers to stay on when state Attorney General Letitia James took office following Schneiderman’s abrupt resignation. So O’Regan has ended up playing a sort of diplomatic role, helping to acclimate James’ new team to the office. Now it’s his job to understand the attorney general’s priorities and to implement them, meaning he has to coordinate with the different departments that want her attention – the press team, intergovernmental affairs, litigation and all the regional offices. It’s diplomacy on the scale of the Empire State. “I keep a map with colored pins in my office of where she’s been in the state and when,” O’Regan says.

“I’ve gotten to know, really, most of the state.”

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Vice President, Corporate and Legislation Kasirer For Jennifer Rivera, the most meaningful aspect of her career has been her ability to positively impact the Bronx, the borough where she was born and raised. After graduating from Quinnipiac University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Rivera returned to the Bronx and began her career in politics working for James Vacca’s New York City Council campaign as a volunteer coordinator, which later turned into a permanent position overseeing constituent services at his district office. Five and a half years later, Rivera joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s first gubernatorial administration as its Bronx Representative in 2011. Although it was the first of many positions she held within the administration, Rivera says her position as Bronx Representative was the role she was most proud of. “Any way that I could impact my community was really meaningful,” she says.

After working in the Cuomo Administration for six-plus years, Rivera decided to make the switch from the public to the private sector.

Since joining Kasirer in early 2019, Rivera has used her government experience to help her succeed as the company’s vice president of corporate and legislation. “It really gives me the opportunity to stay in the world of politics and government, but just in a different capacity than what I’ve done in the previous 11 years,” says Rivera.

In her role at Kasirer, Rivera leads the strategic planning and consultation on many of Kasirer’s corporate clients, including MGM and Empire State Casinos, in addition to managing legislative affairs across the company.

CAROLINA RODRIGUEZ

Press Secretary State Senate Majority Some people bring instincts to their jobs. Others have real-world experience. Carolina Rodriguez brought both to the state Senate Democratic conference when she was hired in 2019. The Dominican-born press secretary spent five years learning the ins and outs of public relations as the go-to liaison between the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Spanish-language media for nearly five years.

Time spent as a New York City teaching fellow and, later, as a spokeswoman for then-state Sen. Adriano Espaillat has also added to her understanding of the intersections between issues like public health and institutional racism. That has come

in handy in the corridors of power, she says, where people of color have historically been left out of important policy discussions. “There’s a lack of institutional knowledge,” she says.

“Having somebody there who knows how to communicate is important.”

Legislative work appears to suit Rodriguez, who says she is looking forward to staying put in her current role helping the Senate Democrats pass a litany of progressive policy reforms as they eye as supermajority after 2020.

“I’ve been having a lot of fun,” she says.

“There’s the adrenaline rush; (it) is a very dynamic environment.” The same might be said about her latest effort to expand her personal horizons. Riding a bike around New York City might be new for the cat-loving Upper Manhattan resident, but you never know where it might take her.

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Assembly Member As an Assembly member, Daniel Rosenthal’s main concern throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been the well-being of his Queens constituents. “People are really hurting,” Rosenthal says. “We’re just fighting for everyone.”

Prior to the implementation of New York state’s PAUSE order, Rosenthal says that his district office averaged 50 walk-ins a week – interactions through which constituents were able to voice their concerns and seek assistance. Additionally, Rosenthal says, he was working on two separate bills that would have required greater regulation and transparency reporting for pharmaceutical companies, legislation he thought was making progress. Now, Rosenthal says that his day-to-day responsibilities have changed drastically. Although he hopes and prays that New York City won’t

encounter a second wave, Rosenthal acknowledges that hospitals in the community need to be ready and prepared for that possibility.

Despite the difficulties he has faced over the past couple of months, the state’s youngest sitting representative says that he still loves his job, helping his constituents, and navigating New York government and politics.

Throughout his career, which began with a job as an aide for City Councilman Rory Lancman in 2011, Rosenthal has positioned himself as a proponent for keeping Queens affordable and ensuring that his constituents have access to essential services. Looking back on the achievements he’s made thus far, Rosenthal highlights his role in successfully advocating for the preservation of the neighborhood landmark Lefferts Boulevard Bridge in 2018.

“If our constituents are happy and well taken care of, then we’re doing our job,” says Amber Ryan Rexford, an assistant director for the retirement system’s advisory council affairs bureau, which is part of the Office of the State Comptroller.

Having worked with the New York state agency since 2004, Ryan Rexford has held numerous positions over the last 15 years, including working as Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s special assistant, as well as in government relations.

In her current role, Ryan Rexford works closely with constituents and union leaders to resolve issues related to retirement and death benefits, in addition to coordinating the comptroller’s advisory council, which is made up of elected officials, union leaders, industry experts and some staff members. “For me, I just want to keep learning and observing and seeing where eventually that will take me,” she says, in regard to her future with the office.

Highlighting the skills of the agency’s leadership, Ryan Rexford credits DiNapoli and chief of staff Shawn Johnson, along with her immediate boss, Jason Cooper, for guiding the agency through the challenges that have arisen during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Even when a situation that comes up is difficult or is unexpected, you still find a way to make it work and to get your work done efficiently,” Ryan Rexford says.

“We still have work to do, and we’re still getting it done because the bottom line is, our constituents depend on us.”

BENJAMIN KANTER; ANDREW HILL

Assistant Director, Advisory Council Affairs O ffic e of the State Comptroller

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Director of State Legislative Affairs Metropolitan Transportation Au thority William Schwartz went on paternity leave in early March as he and his wife, Amy, prepared to welcome their first child. Around the same time, the coronavirus hammered New York City, pushing the MTA into a financial crisis.

Since then, he’s been telecommuting – in addition to studying online for a master’s degree in public administration from Marist College – and is busier than ever.

“We’ve been slowly trying to figure out how to adjust the system. For the first time in 115 years, we closed the subways overnight to do deep cleaning and disinfecting,” Schwartz says. “The No. 1 thing that we have to do as the system reopens is get people back, and in a way that they feel comfortable doing it.”

In addition to launching advertising campaigns encouraging subway and bus riders to wear masks and wash their hands, the transit system is making masks available at station booths and looking at ways to make hand sanitizer available in the system.

But managing rush hour in the age of the coronavirus remains the biggest challenge.

“We all know that the bread and butter of beating COVID is social distancing. Have you ever been on a No. 2 train at 8:30 in the morning heading downtown? I think the analogy is sardines,” Schwartz says.

“We’re working with the cards that we have to play, and at this point, we need the federal government’s help to keep the lights on and keep things moving.”

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JOSEFA VELÁSQUEZ Senior Reporter The City

You could say that rock and roll is what brought Josefa Velásquez to state politics.

Her journey from Long Island to Albany began when she watched the movie “Almost Famous,” which chronicles one teen’s pursuit of journalistic stardom while following his favorite bands on tour. “I was just like, ‘This is what I want my life to be like,’” Velásquez says. While that did not pan out for her, she is quick to throw in a musical reference to how a stint as a student reporter would change her life.

“The State Capitol is ‘Hotel California,’” she says. “As much as I tried to leave, it always pulled me back in.”

Velásquez started covering state politics at a tumultuous time after graduating from the University at Albany in 2013. Sexual harassment scandals

and federal investigators were taking down one corrupt legislator after another.

Following a six-month stint with The Associated Press, she spent several years working for Politico, New York Law Journal and Sludge.

In her current role at The City, Velásquez reports on how decisions by state leaders affect some of the most powerless people in the state: undocumented immigrants, low-wage workers and tenants. “In the last few years, I’ve started to embrace where I come from and realize that because I am one of the few Hispanic people as a reporter in New York politics, there is a tremendous amount of weight on my shoulders,” says Velásquez, who immigrated to the U.S. from Chile as a young child.

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Evan Sullivan was 11 years old when he started mowing his neighbors’ lawns in West Sand Lake outside of Albany – he needed money to buy a Game Boy. But the side gig took off, and by the time he was around 16, he had started his own landscaping company.

“I was really growing the business, and then the economic collapse happened in 2008,” Sullivan says.

“I had my first dose of reality at like 18 years old: ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’”

Sullivan, who was then in college, took a volunteer position canvassing for then-Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand and began pursuing a career in politics. He knew that the hardest part of finding a job in the state Senate, the Assembly or any of the state agencies was a lack of experience.

“I walked around the Capitol with a resume – was dropping that off everywhere – trying to get anything,” he says. “I was going door to door.”

Eventually, Sullivan found a job in the office of state Sen. David Carlucci, where he served as deputy chief of staff and legislative director. When a position opened up, he became committee director of the Senate’s Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee. At Ostroff Associates since 2017, Sullivan works with clients in health care, mental health providers and school districts, among other industries – trying to communicate information about coronavirus-related changes in real time.

“Just trying to juggle a lot of balls and make sure that things aren’t slipping through the cracks,” he says.

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Director of Scheduling O ffic e of Gov. Andrew Cu omo Reading can go a long way toward understanding how the governor’s office works. Just ask the English literature major overseeing the governor’s schedule. “It’s problemsolving and sifting through a bunch of bullshit and figuring out what’s real,” she says of her own crash course in politics when she joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration seven years ago. “I obviously read like ‘The Prince.’” A full education in the School of Hard Knocks followed on the second floor of the state Capitol.

Managing the governor’s schedule means lots of phone calls and texts.

Staff have to get on the same page before they brief the governor.

Agency heads need press releases approved. Someone has to go

through all those event invitations to determine what is – and is not – on message for a three-term governor with limited time. Becoming that person for Cuomo, however, was hardly an ambition for the Bostonborn Walsh when she first arrived at New York University with plans to become a college professor.

Blame President Barack Obama for showing Walsh a new career path as she juggled a paid role on his 2012 reelection campaign with her classwork. One month after graduating, she was bringing those multitasking skills to Albany.

She has been able to keep up with a grueling schedule of morning meetings and late nights ever since – but every now and then she escapes to a hiding spot in the state Capitol. That is where she can continue her political studies by reading a few pages of her favorite books like “Dune.”

ALEXANDER WANG

Executive Director New York State Democ ratic Committee As a growing group of progressive candidates succeed in New York, unseating some longtime Democratic incumbents, state Democratic Committee executive director Alex Wang says he feels somewhat torn.

“As someone who didn’t come from the institution, I think the Democratic Party needs new blood in the organization,” he says. “But in the same token, the Democratic Party’s apparatus, part of it is supporting incumbents.”

In the state party organization that is nearly two centuries old, he represents that new, younger energy himself. The 25-year-old leader stepped into the role in March 2019 after working on a coordinated campaign to reelect Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and to elect state Attorney General Letitia James.

“We elected the first Black woman attorney general, which was one of the proudest moments of my life,” Wang says. As a Chinese American, a child of immigrants and a New Yorker, Wang says President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis has illustrated why he should not be reelected in November. “He also invigorates a lot of that racism, calling it the China virus,” Wang says. “It’s hurtful to me as an individual and also hurtful to this nation.”

With November fast approaching, Wang is focused on aiding Democrats everywhere on the ballot. “I think, more so than ever now, our focus is on supporting our county parties, supporting our local electeds, and from the ground up, trying to support our community members,” he says.

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Notice of Formation of AR Practice Management Firm, LLC filed with SSNY on March 5, 2020. Office: NY Dutchess County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of formation of MikeGeez Fitness Boutique, LLC. Filed with SSNY Richmond County on 1/20/2020. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it ay be served.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: MO WELLNESS FOUNDATION, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/01/2020. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: MAURICE HURD 3410 DE REIMER AVE APT 7J BRONX, NY 10475. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 37 Saw Mill LLC . Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/8/2020. Office Location 205 S. Riverside Ave, Croton on Hudson NY 10520 (Westchester County). SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 205 S. Riverside Ave, Croton on Hudson NY 10520. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Bridge Rockaway L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/20. Duration: 04/24/2180. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Bridge Rockaway, L.P. c/o The Bridge, Inc., 290 Lenox Ave., 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10027. Name/ address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1329262 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 18 GREENWICH AVE NEW YORK, NY 10011. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. 18 GREENWICH AVENUE LLC. Notice of Formation of D & D Jones Enterprises LLC filed with NYSDOS on February, 4, 2020 Office: Westchester County. D & D Jones Enterprises LLC designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. D & D Jones Enterprises LLC shall mail copy of process to LLC: 140 Bellamy Loop, 11D, Bronx, NY 10475. Purpose: Same name usage.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Chu, Lund & Peng LLP. Filed with SSNY: 6/8/20. Office: NY Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: 333 E 49th St, No 1L, New York, NY 10017. Principal place of business: same as process mail-to.

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Notice of Form. of OTTER CREEK SOLAR, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/09/20.

Office location: Lewis.

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SSNY mail process to 5 Spruce Circle, Westfield, Massachusetts, 01085.

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Notice of Formation of Malone Services, LLC dba Purely Clean S e r vices filed with SSNY on May 15, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 31 Parcot Ave. New Rochelle, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of Gabby Produce LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on February 12, 2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 4316 Boyd Avenue, Bronx, NY 10466. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

ZNK, LLC Art. of Org filed with the SSNY on 4/17/20.

Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 47 E 30th St., Apt. 5, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/14/2020. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Chase Ave White Plains NY 10606.

Notice of Formation of J.S.Cambareri, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of UPLIFT DENTAL, PLLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/30/20. Office location: NY County.

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Notice of Formation 98th Ave Realty LLC Arts of Org filed by the Department of State of New York on: 03/04/2020 Office loc: Kings County Purpose: Any and all lawful activities SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: c/o Chaim Schweid 1440 55th Street Brooklyn, NY 11219 BRINDICATE CAPITAL, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/09/2010. 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, P.O. Box 131, Bronx, NY 10453-0131.

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Notice of Formation of JOB Special, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 163 W. 74th St., NY, NY 10023.

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Notice of Formation of BENLAB Realty, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 163 W. 74th St., NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1324118 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 83-38 WOODHAVEN BLVD. GLENDALE, NY 11385 QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. 8338 WOODHAVEN REST INC

Notice of Formation of Appassionata, LLC filed with SSNY on April 15, 2020. Office: NY County.

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Notice of Qualification of VARICK STREET REALTY, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/23/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/20/20. Princ. office of LLC: 180 Varick St., #816, NY, NY 10014.

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 Jeffrey W. Bullock, 820 N. French St., 4th Fl., Wilmington, DE 19801. Purpose: Real estate broker.

Notice of formation of A n n e s e P T. S e r v i c e s , LLC, a domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 29, 2020. Office location: Richmond County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 27 Portage Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Castlemore Holdings MIMA, LLC. Filed with SSNY: 4/21/20. Office: NY Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: Juntao Yan, 450 W 42nd Street #45Q, New York, NY 10036.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY CASE NUMBER: 2:19-CV-8550 NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS (PUBLICATION) TO: 7 MONKEYS LLC.; KYO CHEOL HWANG; A HYON YEOM You are hereby summoned and required to served upon Martone & Uhlmann, A Professional Corporation, attorneys for Plaintiff, whose address is 777 Passaic Ave, Ste 535, Clifton, NJ 07012, an answer to the Complaint in a civil action in which UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is Plaintiff and 7 MONKEYS LLC.; KYO CHEOL HWANG; A HYON YEOM are Defendants, pending in the United States District Court within twenty-one (21) days after June 22, 2020 not counting the date of publication or if published after June 22, 2020, twenty-one (21) days from the date of such publication. You shall file your answer and proof of service in duplicate with the Clerk of the United States District Court, Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse, 50 Walnut Street, Newark, NJ 07102, in accordance with the rules governing the courts. You must also send a copy of your answer to plaintiff’s attorney whose name and address appears above, or to plaintiff, if no attorney is named above. A telephone call will not protect your rights; you must file and serve a written answer if you want the court to hear your defense.

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The action has been instituted by the USA for the purpose of collecting the amount due under a promissory note dated January 21, 2011 executed by Defendant KYO CHEOL HWANG as Managing member of 7 Monkeys LLC, in the sum of $100,000.00.

Defendant, 7 Monkeys LLC is joined as a party defendant to this action because this company borrowed under the Note.

Defendant, KYO CHEOL HWANG and A HYON YEOM are joined as party defendants to this action because they signed a personal guarantee.

Since the current whereabouts of 7 MONKEYS LLC.; KYO CHEOL HWANG; AND A HYON YEOM ARE UNKNOWN, The Court by order dated June 22, 2020 Ordered Notice should be served upon you via publication Dated: June 22, 2020 /s/ Clerk of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey

134 Reade St. LLC filed w/ SSNY on 2/3/06. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 34 W 32nd St., #1610, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful.

Notice of Formation of Nisbett and Sons LLC filed with SSNY on March 09, 2020. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC:933 LINCOLN PLACE BROOKLYN, NY 11213. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Beloved Creations, LLC., Articles of Organization were filed with the SSNY on June 25, 2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 941 Hoe Avenue, Ste. 3, Bronx, New York 10459.

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Notice of Qualification of TRAVEL LEADERS GROUP HOLDINGS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/18/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/20/16.

Princ. office of LLC: 1633 Broadway, NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Travel agency related services.

Notice of Qualification of SLB CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/17/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/28/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 634 Park Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08108.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Enchantress Beauty LLC filed with SSNY on June 17, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY Yokayra Rojas agent of Enchantress Beauty LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Enchantress Beauty LLC: 451w 166th street apt 4B, New York, NY 10032. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 491 QUINCY STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/26/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 489 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11221-1505. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of COLONIAL VILLAGE PRESERVATION, L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LP: 60 Columbus Circle, 19th Fl., NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which the LP may dissolve is 12/31/2119. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice is hereby given that a license, serial number 1328765 for On-Premises Liquor License has been applied for by OMAKASE LLC (DBA: IKEBANAZEN) to sell beer, liquor and/or wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 401 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, New York County for on premises consumption.

OMAKASE LLC Notice of Formation of 493 QUINCY STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/26/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 489 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11221-1505. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE REV OPS SHOP, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/1/2020.

Office location: RICHMOND County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at: Mikhail Grinberg, 226 Slater Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10305.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose or activity.

Notice of Qualification of DV7 US ACADEMY HOLDINGS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/24/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/17/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 489 QUINCY STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/26/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 489 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11221-1505. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DAJL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/26/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 247 Seeley St, Brooklyn, New York, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DREAM MEDICAL, PLLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/01/20.

Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY mail process to 201 E 65th St, New York, New York, 10065.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GANG GRAFFITI LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/15/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 365 Sackman Street, Apt. 10d, Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of LAKE RECOVERY SERVICES LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/18/20.Office location:Fulton SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY mail process to Po Box 270, Northville, New York, 12134. Any lawful purpose.

Highlands Investments LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State (“SSNY”) on 4/8/20. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon it is: 385 1st ave, Apt 3B, New York, NY, 10010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of KRE BKLYNER 23 MENAHAN LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/02/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 06/25/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4001 Kennett Pike, Suite 302 Wilmignton, Delaware, 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

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Notice of Formation of NY Avenue 724 LLC filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on February 4, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1430 Pitkin Ave, Brooklyn NY 11233.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of SKW - B 33 WEST 9TH STREET PORTFOLIO, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/03/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 05/28/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400, Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

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Notice of Formation of MR. MOOSKI LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/11/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 605 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, New York, 10158.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PREMIER ELECTRICAL SERVICES, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/25/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 882 3rd Ave, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11232. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 366 Manhattan Avenue, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 15/11/20. Office location: Kings.

LLC formed in VA on 06/26/2014. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 7288 Hanover Green Drive Mechanicsville, Virginia, 23111. Arts. of Org. filed with VA SOS. 1111 East Broad Street, 4th Floor, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 125 HANCOCK STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/26/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 489 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11221-1505. Any lawful purpose.

Formation of Marine Capital Management LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/16/2020.

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

The address SSNY shall mail process to Thomas G. Shugrue, 353 W. 56th St., #3M, New York, NY 10019. The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 423 HEBERTON AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/26/20.

Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 429 Clove Road, Staten Island, New York, 10310. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 429 CLOVE ROAD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/26/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 429 Clove Road, Staten Island, New York, 10310.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 1375 BROADWAY PROPERTY INVESTORS V, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/02/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 01/15/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 15 North Mill Street Nyack, New York, 10960.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 1375 BROADWAY HOLDINGS V, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/02/20.

Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 01/15/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 15 North Mill Street Nyack, New York, 10960.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RITA’S ROYAL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/22/20. Office location: Clinton SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 23 Cedarwood Ln, Plattsburgh, New York, 12901.

Any lawful purpose.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice Of Formation of AMH Asset Management LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/30/20.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 10 East 39th St, 12th Fl, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Qual. of 111 WALL FEE HOLDINGS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/06/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 07/01/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 733 Third Avenue, 12th Floor New York, New York, 10017. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of UPLIFT DENTAL, PLLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/30/20. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against PLLC to 77 W. 24th St., Apt 22B, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of formation of UPLIFT DENTAL, PLLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/30/20. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against PLLC to 77 W. 24th St., Apt 22B, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act.

INTEGRATIVE WELLNESS NURSE PRACTITIONER IN PSYCHIATRY PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/13/20. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 509 East 78th Street, Apartment 5G, New York, NY 10075. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Nurse Practitioner In Psychiatry.

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Notice of Formation of My Interview Advisor, LLC filed with SSNY on 06/30/2020. Office: Westchester County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 9 Little John Place, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of SILVERSTEIN MANAGER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/06/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/02/20. Princ. office of LLC: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10007.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of KRE BKLYNER 10 LEXINGTON LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/08/20.

Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/25/20.

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

SSNY mail process to: 4001 Kennett Pike, Suite 302 Wilmington, Delaware, 19807. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

GD OFFICES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/16/2020.

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, 300 Fort Washington Avenue, NY, NY 10032. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of New Brooks Media, LLC filed with SSNY on July 1, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 387 Park Ave South, 5th floor, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of SHINE CAPITAL, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/06/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/07/19. NYS fictitious name: SHINE PARTNERS LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 200 Hicks St., Apt. 6S, Brooklyn, NY 11201. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of LEARNING SPECIALIST BULLETIN, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/20. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Massachusetts (MA) on 07/16/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

MA addr. of LLC: 333 Lexington St., Auburndale, MA 02466. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of the Commonwealth of MA, Corporations Div., 1 Ashburton Pl., 17th fl., Boston, MA 02108-1512.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Gemstone Consulting Services, LLC filed with SSNY on June 18, 2020.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: P.O. Box 141048, Staten Island, NY 10314. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of KRE BKLYNER 75 RALPH LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/08/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 06/25/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4001 Kennett Pike, Suite 302 Wilmington, Delaware, 19807. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 270-feet on a 300-foot rooftop at the vicinity of 55 5th Avenue, New York, New York County, NY, 10003. 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, [Abigail MooreLee, a.moorelee@trileaf. com], [1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678-6538673].

Notice of Qual. of KRE BKLYNER 412 EVERGREEN LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/08/20.

Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/25/20.

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

SSNY mail process to: 4001 Kennett Pike, Suite 302, Wilmington, Delaware, 19807. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of KRE BKLYNER 1875 ATLANTIC LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/08/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 06/25/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 4001 Kennett Pike, Suite 302, Wilmington, Delaware, 19807. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

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Declaration of Nationality Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: sierra, wielmer oswald©, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: SIERRA, WIELMER OSWALD©, Dba.: WIELMER OSWALD SIERRA©. Notice of Special Appearance : I am that I am: valoy , tatiana©, in full life, in propria persona, sui juris, in solo proprio, by natural issue, the beneficiary and heir of: VALOY, TATIANA©, Dba.: TATIANA VALOY©. Collectively having reached the age of majority, being aboriginal to the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, the continental Americas, being duly sworn, hereby affirms to declare our intention to be as our pedigree subscribes, as : moorish american moslem nationals , but not citizen’s of the United States.

We declare permanent, and unalienable, allegiance to the Moorish Empire, Societas Republicae Ea Al Maurikanuus Estados / United States Republic, The Constitution for the united States of America, Article III Section 2, The Barbary Treaties, International Law, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and all Natural laws governing moors and hereby Declare and Proclaim our nationality as: moorish american moslem nationals. Any and all facts contained in this publication, are fully applicable to any and all private tribal issue offspring of: sierra, wielmer oswald©, & valoy, tatiana©, Nunc pro tunc, not limited to but including : 1. sierra, angelo miguel©, the beneficiary and heir of: SIERRA, ANGELO MIGUEL©, Dba: ANGELO MIGUEL SIERRA©. I am that I am: sierra, wielmer oswald© from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: ‘’ wiel harlem bey©”. I am that I am: valoy, tatiana©, from this day forward, in harmony with my Nationality / Status / Jurisdiction, shall be known as: ‘’ tatiana harlem bey©”.Notice of Merging of Legal Title with Equitable Title : This order is to preserve legal and equitable title , and to reserve all rights, title, and interest, in the property, Re: SIERRA, WIELMER OSWALD©, Dba.: WIELMER OSWALD SIERRA©, as well as: VALOY, TATIANA©, Dba.: TATIANA VALOY©, & all aforementioned properties 1-3 etc., to the depositor, and or the capacity as Guardian/Chairman/ Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees: ”wiel harlem bey©”, nom deguerre: sierra, wielmer oswald©, and or, ‘’ tatiana harlem bey©”, nom deguerre: valoy tatiana©. All property , of the same issue and amount, in like kind and specie, is to be returned fully intact , as a Special Deposit order of the Depositor / Beneficiary / Bailor / Donor / Principal / Creditor: ‘’ wiel harlem bey©”, nom deguerre: sierra, wielmer oswald©, and or, ‘’ tatiana harlem bey©”, nom deguerre: valoy, tatiana©, as a special deposit order in lawful money. This special deposit is to be used exclusively for the benefit of : WIEL HARLEM BEY TRUST, and or, TATIANA HARLEM BEY TRUST, both respective trust being a private foreign islamism ecclesiastical trust. All aforementioned properties 1-3 etc. are hereby conveyed to each respective beneficiaries trust when the beneficiary reaches the age of majority. This deposit is not to be commingled with general assets of any bank , nor depositary / trustee / agent / bailee / donee / debtor.

This deposit is not limited to, but including: discharge and set off, of any and all outstanding liabilities as accord and satisfaction. All Rights Reserved.

Notice of Formation of The Law Firm of Rasica Selvarajah, PLLC filed with SSNY on 5/15/2020.

Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PLLC: 397 Gower St., Staten Island, NY 10314. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

BFS NA LLC filed w/ SSNY 6/15/20. Off. in NY Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served & shall mail process to the LLC, 50 Broad St, Ste. 1904, NY, NY 10004. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of KRE BKLYNER 1-11 LEXINGTON LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/08/20.

Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 06/25/20.

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

SSNY mail process to: 4001 Kennett Pike Suite 302 Wilmington, Delaware, 19807. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GKED Holding Company, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/21/20.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10110. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Dawood Rouben Architecture, PLLC filed Art. of Org. with the NY Dept. of State on July 10, 2020. Location: New York County. Sec’y of State is agent for service of process. Copy of any process shall be mailed to Delaney Corporate Services, Ltd. 99 Washington Ave., Suite 805A, Albany, NY 12210. The profession to be practiced is architecture.

Notice of Formation of JKLM Advisors, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Marc Schneider, 215 West 88th St., Unit 2D, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Crown Castle is proposing to install one small cell antenna on a new public lighting structure with an overall height of 32 feet at the following site: West Drive, New York, NY 10024 (40.783258N, -73.968607W).

Crown Castle invites comments from any interested party on the impact of the proposed action on any districts, sites, buildings, structures or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and/or specific reason the proposed action may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.

Specific information regarding the project is available by calling Monica Gambino, 2000 Corporate Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317, Monica.Gambino@ CrownCastle.com, 724416-2516 within 30 days of the date of this publication.”

Notice of formation of Viking Vex LLC Arts of Org filled with SSNY on 05/29/2020. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY desg as agent of LLC upon process against it may be served SSNY shall mail process to: Viking Vex LLC 45 S broadway Apt 3G Yonkers, NY 10701

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CITY & STATE NEW YORK MANAGEMENT & PUBLISHING CEO Steve Farbman, President & Publisher Tom Allon tallon@cityandstateny.com, Comptroller David Pirozzi, Business & Operations Manager Patrea Patterson, Administrative Assistant Lauren Mauro

Who was up and who was down last week

CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton

LOSERS

DIGITAL Project Manager Michael Filippi, Digital Content Manager Amanda Luz Henning Santiago, Digital Marketing Strategist Caitlin Dorman, Web/Email Strategist Isabel Beebe

RUBÉN DÍAZ SR. It could be his age (77). It could be that his son (Ruben Diaz Jr.) and political protégé (Marcos Crespo) are saying sayonara. Or the New York City Council member could be leaving politics because of his humiliating defeat in a congressional primary that many observers truly expected him to win. But the cowboy-hatted preacher plans to serve out the remainder of his term on the council, so expect more offensive comments in the next 17 months.

And that’s What You Should Know.

THE BEST OF THE REST

THE REST OF THE WORST

MARCELA MITAYNES

BILL DE BLASIO

After primary night, Mitaynes was down more than 7 percentage points on longtime Assembly Member Félix Ortiz, and most counted her out. But the DSAbacked Mitaynes dominated the mail-in vote, and Ortiz conceded.

NANCY GOROFF

Rep. Max Rose has his tie-less suits, AOC her jaunty designer blazers, but now, New York’s congressional delegation could get its first lab coat. Nancy Goroff was declared the Democratic nominee in the 1st District, and if elected, she’ll be the first woman in Congress with a science Ph.D.

Four of Hizzoner’s top communications staffers have left or said they’d leave City Hall this week. With just 17 months left in office and a reputation in the gutter, it’s hard to imagine the mayor will have much luck replacing his former flunkies.

ADVERTISING Vice President of Advertising Jim Katocin jkatocin@ cityandstateny.com, Account/Business Development Executive Scott Augustine saugustine@cityandstateny.com, Vice President, Advertising and Client Relations Danielle Koza dkoza@cityandstateny.com, Sales Associate Cydney McQuillan-Grace cydney@cityandstateny.com, Legal Advertising Executive Shakirah Gittens legalnotices@ cityandstateny.com, Sales Assistant Zimam Alemenew EVENTS events@cityandstateny.com Sales Director Lissa Blake, Events Manager Alexis Arsenault, Event Coordinator Amanda Cortez

Vol. 9 Issue 27 July 20, 2020 BLACK CANDIDATES WIN BIG IN THE ’BURBS

FORTY UNDER FORTY ALBANY The WFP’s Sochie Nnaemeka and the rising stars of state politics

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Cover photography Celeste Sloman

RON LATTANZIO

The head of the construction labor company Trade Off was slammed by AG Tish James with a $1.5 million settlement on behalf of 18 former employees – mostly women of color – who faced sexual assault, harassment and workplace retaliation there.

WINNERS & LOSERS is published every Friday morning in City & State’s First Read email.

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MONDAIRE JONES It looks like the Westchester attorney has earned the distinction of being the first gay Black man to win election to the House of Representatives.

Victory in his quest to transform the northern New York City ’burbs into bastions of progressive politics isn’t going to come easily in his freshman term – assuming a Republican doesn’t win the solid-blue district in November – but at least Jones can bask in this victory ... as another gay Black man gets ready to join him in the winners circle.

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WINNERS

If there’s one thing the Green Party’s presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins, understands, it’s losing. The Syracuse resident has run and lost 24 elections in New York. Now Hawkins is taking his chance on a long-shot presidential run, so let’s see if he can change his luck on the national stage. This week’s Winners & Losers features a couple electeds who are no strangers to losing time and again – even if they win every once in a while.

EDITORIAL editor@cityandstateny.com Editor-in-Chief Jon Lentz jlentz@cityandstateny.com, Managing Editor Ryan Somers, Senior Editor Ben Adler badler@cityandstateny.com, Special Projects Editor Alice Popovici, Deputy Editor Eric Holmberg, Senior Reporter Jeff Coltin jcoltin@cityandstateny.com, Staff Reporter Zach Williams zwilliams@cityandstateny.com, Staff Reporter Rebecca C. Lewis rlewis@cityandstateny.com, Tech & Policy Reporter Annie McDonough amcdonough@ cityandstateny.com, Staff Reporter Kay Dervishi, Associate Copy Editor Holly Pretsky

AUGUST 4, 2020 1:00PM-4:00PM

For many years New York has been one of most diverse and progressive cities in the world.

Yet beneath those labels we see a city that has grown more and more unequal. The Covid-19 crisis and the murder of George Floyd have exposed a truth that many in power have been unwilling to confront; that years and years of systemic, racially insensitive policies have unduly harmed our communities of color. City & State is proud to present a virtual event called “Economic & Social Equity in New York”. Panelists and presenters will examine how New York can create a better culture for diversity in terms of hiring as well as procurement.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

NUPOL KIAZOLU President, Black Lives Matter Greater New York

RODNEYSE BICHOTTE Assembly Member, Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight of Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

JONNEL DORIS Director, NYC Mayor’s Office for the MWBE

MICHAEL J. GARNER VP & Chief Diversity Officer, MTA

RSVP at CityAndStateNY.com/Events For more information on programming and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Lissa Blake at lblake@cityandstateny.com THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

LAWANNA KIMBRO Chief Diversity and Equity Officer, NYC Dept. of Social Services

The New York State Trial Lawyers Association

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