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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

As election season heats up, it’s worth remembering former Gov. Mario Cuomo’s dictum: “You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.” For all the uplifting words from candidates on the campaign trail, it’s important to consider what they will do as elected leaders.

Take homelessness, which is at record levels in New York City. At first, Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted it was not getting worse. His administration eventually ramped up efforts to house the homeless, but without much assistance from Albany, they have been inadequate.

Among the other prosaic concerns the de Blasio administration has contended with are the crumbling conditions of the city’s public housing. Another is the need for reforms in the commercial waste industry. Yet with such pressing problems at home, the mayor is shifting his attention to the midterm elections and seeking a place for himself on the national stage, where he can speak on loftier issues – and perhaps position himself for higher office.

In this week’s magazine, we dig deeper into these local issues – the homelessness crisis, the negligence at NYCHA and the tarnished commercial waste industry – and explore whether city and state officials are falling short.

CONTENTS

NYCHA’S WATER CRISIS ... 6 Inspectors reported contamination.

NYCHA erased it.

SANITATION ... 18

The looming fight over waste pickup zones is about to get nasty.

PROTECTING NEW YORK ... 24 The feud between the NYPD and the DA continues.

WINNERS & LOSERS ... 30

JASONPARIS; CELESTE SLOMAN

Who was up and who was down last week

HOMELESSNESS … 12 Don’t fool yourself. It’s a housing problem.

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Latest STILL IN THE LEAD Gov. Andrew Cuomo has consistently led challenger Cynthia Nixon in the polls, but with the caveat: none of those polls looked at likely primary voters. The latest Siena College poll was the first to survey that demographic, and the results remained largely the same, giving Cuomo a 2-to-1 lead. The results were less clear in the races for lieutenant governor and state attorney general, showing many voters remain undecided in those contests.

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Back & Forth

A Q&A with Rep.

Sean Patrick Maloney The

The New York City Council has moved even closer to imposing new regulations and caps on for-hire apps like Lyft and Uber. The two companies, along with Via, tried offering a deal to Council Speaker Corey Johnson, promising to underwrite a $100 million “hardship fund” for yellow cab drivers if the council paused its plan to restrict the companies’ growth for a year.

Johnson declined the deal and the council is set to vote on the now formally introduced package of legislation.

Do you consider yourself more of the moderate choice for attorney general?

I wouldn’t put it that way. I think what people are looking for is something different, and somebody who can get this job done at a critical time when you need somebody with public and private sector experience, particularly the experience of standing up to Donald Trump in Washington who understands the federal issues.

stuff, like the Muslim ban, or Trumpcare, or this terrible tax cut, or what he wants to do to the LGBT community, I have been in the fight, hammer and tongs, and winning against this administration.

But I also take seriously my responsibility to make trains safer. To get farmers better crop insurance.

To fight Lyme disease and the opioid epidemic, and to help our veterans. And that’s why you see that bipartisanship rating.

You voted in line with Trump 35 percent of the time according to FiveThirtyEight, more than any other congressional Democrat in New York – What a bullshit metric that is. I take seriously my obligation to get things done. And when you pass 30 bills into law in a Republican-controlled Congress, you’re going to have a bipartisanship rating that’s a little higher. The point is, that on the bad

Letitia James announced a number of endorsements from officials in Westchester, an area that part of your district overlaps – I hope she does more of that. Democratic Party voters I talk to want the Democratic Party blown up and rebuilt. Every time I watch Tish James get some political endorsement from the insiders, I secretly rejoice. That’s like every time you hear a bell ring, an angel gets its wings.

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The state Public Service Commission made the “pretty dramatic” decision to effectively kick Charter Spectrum out of the state by rescinding its approval for Charter Communications’ 2016 merger with Time Warner Cable. As part of the deal, Charter Spectrum was supposed to expand broadband service to more of the state, something the commission said the company has not done. The state gave Charter six months to end its cable operations in the state, but the company is not planning to leave without a fight, asserting they are in compliance with the agreement.

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In a recent profile with The New York Times, actress‑turned-candidate Cynthia Nixon said that if former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were governor instead of Andrew Cuomo, she would not be running. Her praise of the former Republican and independent politician seemed like an odd statement from a self-described democratic socialist.

While this may not quite rise to the level of Cuomo’s “I am the government,” it’s a reminder that even the Broadway and television star has demonstrated her inexperience a few times in the campaign.

“I’m not running for governor.”

Only a week into her cam paign, Nixon made he r first, and perhaps her biggest, ga ffe. to forget what office she For a moment, she seemed was running for. Durin g trip to Albany, a report er asked about corrupti her first on in New York Cit y under Mayor Bill responded by saying “I’m de Blasio, an ally of hers. Nixon not running for governo running for mayor.” Sh r. I’m e quickly realized her mistake and corrected herself with a laugh. “Scratch that.

Flip it.”

“No stranger to upstate”

The New York Post rep orted that voters outside of New York Cit y were skeptical of the candidate – if they eve n knew who she was at all. Nix on herself didn’t respond directly, but a campaign strate gist replied that “C ynthia is no stranger to upstate.” As evidence, the strategis t said that Nixon had rec ently stayed at a Skaneateles bed and break fast.

“Everybody’s got to make sacrifices”

Upstate at Ithacastarts When asked by The New York Times Magazine where she thinks upstate starts, Nixon answered, “Once you get to Ithaca, by around there, you’re starting to get upstate.” Polls show that New Yorkers generally believe upstate starts in Westchester, just north of it or somewhere around where the commuter rail line ends in Poughkeepsie.

Even though it is the city where Nixon (jokingly?) said upstate begins, her campaign evidently still couldn’t spell its name correctly.

“Cynthia is coming to Ithica!,” an email subject line read inviting supporters to an “Ithica Round-Table.”

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“A form of reparations.”

In an interview with Forbes, Nixon said the marijuana industry could be “a form of reparations” for minority communities, which have seen disproportionate numbers of arrests for marijuana offenses. The comment was met poorly by some black activists – for whom the word reparations invokes long-overdue compensation for slavery.

Nixon also opened herself up to attack from a powerful constituency when she questioned the labor costs involved in fixing New York City’s subways. “With the deals that they (unions) have now, you can’t hope to make improvements to the trains in a fiscally responsible way,” she said. “Everybody’s got to pull together, and everybody’s got to make sacrifices.”

The state AFL-CIO said Nixon’s remarks amounted to “alarming disregard for working men and women.”

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NYCHA’S SECRET WATER CRISIS

Inspectors reported contamination in water tanks.

NYCHA had it erased.

BY FRANK G. RUNYEON

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HE EVIDENCE OF contamination was there in black and white – until it disappeared.

The New York City Housing Authority’s handwritten Annual Roof Tank Inspection Reports chronicle a history of tainted drinking water tanks that the housing agency failed to report to city health officials, according to an examination of hundreds of internal NYCHA documents and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene records.

The details are there in the field reports, but they’re gone in the health reports.

Inside a stack of hundreds of internal NYCHA documents, vivid details of contamination leap off dozens of pages – dead birds and squirrels, flying insects, and things floating and growing inside NYCHA’s many damaged wooden drinking water tanks. But the documents also show that evidence of potentially hazard-

ous conditions in its water tanks was blotted out using white-out under a recent policy change that appears to have had a chilling effect. Some tank inspectors said they don’t even write down the dirty details anymore.

Even the unsanitary conditions that remain unambiguously documented on the internal reports are nowhere to be found on NYCHA’s water tank inspection filings with the city health department. This pattern repeats itself in tank after tank, atop building after building in the vast forest of low-income apartment towers maintained by the agency.

“Some of the worst tanks in the city are in the housing projects,” said David Hochhauser, who runs Isseks Brothers Inc., one of three companies that specialize in building and cleaning wooden drinking water tanks. Hochhauser said he stopped working with the agency because of the red tape, a sense that it wasn’t worth the time,

and the unpleasantness of the job. Indeed, tank cleaners that currently clean and inspect the tanks have complained about NYCHA’s tanks to this reporter for years.

Still, the NYCHA water tank contracts are among the most valuable in the city, worth millions of dollars a year – a search of city records showed several such contracts have been awarded for a total of $63 million since 2016 alone.

In an industry dominated by just three companies who know how to build the barrel-like tank structures, there is a strong disincentive to say anything that might imperil a contract renewal. City & State spoke with a half dozen tank company employees for this story, many of whom agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity.

“Whenever we find a bird in the tank, nine times out of 10, it’s NYCHA,” said a tank company employee in 2014, who requested anonymity to speak without au-

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What looks like a mug of coffee is actually water from the kitchen faucet of Maria Santos, left, a NYCHA tenant.

said, “We are working to address our repair process to ensure expediency.”

In a later statement, a NYCHA spokeswoman added, “While our water tank cleaning and inspections are reliable, we will review the filing of our inspection forms to ensure they reflect this effort accurately.”

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Earlier this year, another tank cleaner said little had changed. “New York City Housing tanks are the worst,” he said.

In fact, many of the bleakest stories recounted by the tank company employees stem from their experiences on the rooftops there. In 2012, a man living inside a NYCHA water tank with a sleeping bag used a neighboring water tank as his personal toilet, tank company employees said.

Just in July, immediately before a pipe burst and left nearly 900 apartments without water, another homeless man was found inside the drinking water tank at Brevoort Houses in Brooklyn during an annual roof tank inspection and cleaning, according to Pansy Nettles, Brevoort’s resident association president. It’s unclear whether either of these incidents were recorded by tank cleaners in their reports as they fell outside the scope of City & State’s records request.

NYCHA has acknowledged a history of mismanagement and neglect of its deteri-

orating housing developments, including allowing mold to fester and paint to peel in tenants’ apartments. But even as federal prosecutors investigated the agency for falsifying lead paint certifications, it appears NYCHA has also been hiding deteriorating conditions in its drinking water tanks.

When asked about the discrepancies between the field reports and the health department filings, a NYCHA spokesman said, “NYCHA will update its current Annual Roof Tank Inspection Report to reflect the current condition of the tank at the time of the inspection and any corrective action taken will be noted in the report.” Responding to the deteriorating conditions in the tanks, the spokesman

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ARK WATER, the color of coffee, spurted out of Maria Santos’ kitchen faucet.

Santos, 67, filled up a cup with the liquid. She took a picture of it and marked the time: 10:54 a.m. She wanted the evidence. She says this happens two or three times a month in her third floor apartment at the Chelsea Houses Addition, a NYCHA building for elderly tenants.

The water has been so silty that maintenance workers have had to unclog her faucet. Santos said she’s afraid to drink her building’s water and often feels nauseous when she does. She saves up to buy bottled water, but she can’t always afford it.

Several other tenants in the building said they had similar experiences with brown water. Door after door opened and elderly tenants shook their heads when asked about their water. “It’s no good,” a woman using a wheelchair on the 14th floor said.

“Oh my god, the water,” said Jose Perez on the 12th floor. Then, with a stern, knowing stare, he said, “You open the water.

And brown.” Rusty pipes are most often the cause of brown water, but it seems Santos is on to something else too.

“They always claim to be cleaning the water in that tower,” Santos said of the rooftop drinking water tank on her building. “But they don’t seem to do a very good job.”

The dirty water in their building is symptomatic of a drinking water system plagued with problems. High above the tenants’ heads, rooftop tank cleaners have repeatedly found serious sanitary problems inside the wooden water tank that supplies drinking water to their apartments on West 27th Drive in Manhattan, according to the records obtained by City & State.

For two consecutive years, in 2016 and 2017, the men who climbed inside to clean the barrel-like tank found “sediment,” “biological growth,” “floatable debris,” “insects,” and “birds or rodents” in the unfiltered water reservoir elderly residents use for drinking and washing. A handwritten note on an internal NYCHA inspection report from 2017 reads: “Birds inside the tank, flat door need to be replaced.”

“WHENEVER WE FIND A BIRD IN THE TANK, NINE TIMES OUT OF 10, IT’S NYCHA.” – TANK COMPANY EMPLOYEE

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ITY & STATE obtained hundreds of internal NYCHA water tank inspection forms through a records request with the agency. Those handwritten papers, filled out by water tank cleaners during their physical examination of the tanks, were then compared to the electronic inspection filings NYCHA submitted to the city health department.

City & State’s analysis discovered dramatic differences between what the tank men saw and what the health department was told.

In the more than 600 NYCHA inspection forms dated from 2015 through 2017, 47 reports describe a parade of pollutants cataloged by the water tank cleaners, in-

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Birds were found inside a pair of water tanks atop NYCHA’s ChelseaElliott housing development in 2017.

cluding “flying insects,” “plastic bag,” “deceased squarel” and “dead birds.”

The Elliott development’s graffiti-tagged water tank at 426 W. 27th Drive, next door to Santos’ apartment building, also had serious problems: “Birds & Insects inside Need new cover.” The tank cleaner then marked “Poor” beside a line item documenting the condition of the metal strainer covering the domestic downfeed pipe, which sucks water down into apartments. In barely legible writing, it notes the strainer was missing, and appears to say that there were “Birds in drain.”

Yet, none of these worrisome details made it into the reports NYCHA filed with the health department. While the health

“OH MY GOD, THE WATER. YOU OPEN THE WATER. AND BROWN.” – NYCHA RESIDENT JOSE PEREZ

department’s form does not allow for descriptive text, it does specifically ask if birds, rodents, or insects were found, but NYCHA did not once indicate their presence. These discrepancies provide important context for an internal policy change, acknowledged by NYCHA, within the last year, that has had the effect of limiting what details are recorded.

Two water tank company employees described a meeting they attended with NYCHA’s environmental and fire safety units in which a compliance official instructed the tank companies to stop recording unsanitary conditions found in the wooden water tanks in the “Sanitary Conditions” section of the form. The employees said they now use white-out to redact field observations testifying to the presence of birds, rodents, insects, mucky sediment and biological growth inside the rooftop drinking water reservoirs if those things are noted in the “Sanitary Conditions” section. But, one said, they preserve those details by rewriting them higher up on the form.

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Nevertheless, a different tank cleaner said correct,” an emailed statement read. the contamination that tank cleaners saw the impact of the policy change was broader.

NYCHA’s policy evolved over the past in the tanks and the spotless inspection “We don’t write anything down,” said several years, moving steadily away from reports NYCHA filed with the health dea water tank cleaner, who requested ano- encouraging cleaners to document sanitary partment were a concern or a violation of nymity so he wouldn’t jeopardize his job. problems. While many 2014 water tank in- any laws or regulations.

He said NYCHA officials have made it spection forms printed in bold across the In an emailed statement, a health declear to him that he should not record the top, “NOTE: Provide comments for all de- partment spokesman wrote, “The Health worrisome problems he finds. ficiencies,” that language disappeared the Department takes mandated inspection re“We don’t specify what we find in next year. Newer forms feature “AFTER quirements very seriously. We are reviewing there,” he said. “We don’t write it, because CLEANING” typed in all caps above the records, discussing with NYCHA and will nobody likes that.”

“Sanitary Conditions” section. According provide guidance about water tank inspecNYCHA confirmed the policy meeting to the water tank company employees in the tion requirements. Our main concern is that occurred and the general roles of those in- policy meeting, NYCHA officials told them landlords are complying with water tank involved. When asked for more information that this section should not have any an- spections and cleaning requirements – we about what happened at this meeting, in- swers marked “yes,” indicating the presence can work with them on improving papercluding whether the health department of a sanitary defect, and should instead be work. There is no evidence that the water was consulted on the policy change, a marked “no,” because a tank should be free from water tanks raises any public health NYCHA spokesman responded via email of any dead birds or muck “after cleaning.” concern, and there has never been a sickin all caps, “WE ARE NOT ness or outbreak traced back to a GOING TO PROVIDE THESE water tank.”

DETAILS TO THE DELIBERATIVE PROCESS OF POLICY YCHA IS New York MAKING.” City’s largest residenNYCHA said the decision to tial landlord, providing Inside NYCHA’s water tanks from 2015-2017, instruct tank cleaners to dehousing for 1 in 14 New inspectors found: scribe what was in the tank Yorkers. As such, it is only after it was cleaned was TIMES TIMES also the city’s largest supplier of to “assure that the mechanFOUND REPORTED domestic drinking water to modics follow the cleaning proceerate- and low-income tenants. dure.” When asked to explain The housing authority is responSediment how that would help them sible for maintaining 224 rooffollow procedure, a NYCHA top drinking water tanks at 150 Floatable spokesman explained that if developments across the city. A tank companies noted an uncommon NYCHA water system debris sanitary condition on the includes a 20-foot-tall wooden form, “NYCHA staff reviewwater tank mounted to highest Insects ing paperwork did not have point of the tallest building among any confirmation that the a complex of brick apartment Biological condition cited was corrected. towers. Drinking water drains That is why it was asked of the out of that one 30,000-gallon growth vendor to tell us on the form tank and flows through pipes to the condition after cleaning.” residents in all of those buildings.

Birds or After receiving questions And so, the wooden water tanks rodents from City & State, however, are the last place drinking water NYCHA appeared to revise its is held before it flows into tenants’ policy position. sinks and showers, unfiltered.

“NYCHA will update its current AnnuReviewing NYCHA’s records, it appears The rooftop wooden water tanks are inal Roof Tank Inspection Report to reflect at least 71 reports were clearly altered after herently vulnerable to contamination, U.S. the current condition of the tank at the the physical tank inspection, with evidence Environmental Protection Agency experts time of the inspection and any corrective of white-out smeared over the form’s lines previously told City & State in a earlier invesaction taken will be noted in the report,” and check boxes. In those altered reports and tigation of the city’s drinking water tanks. the spokesman said. others that were left unredacted, the follow- EPA scientists feared that the neglected tanks When asked how it addresses the ap- ing conditions were found inside NYCHA’s may be the source of disease outbreaks and pearance that its policy seeks to cover up drinking water tanks: “floatable debris,” 30 criticized current tank inspections and water recurring sanitation issues, the NYCHA times; insects, 17 times; “biological growth,” testing as inadequate. The EPA requested its spokesman did not answer the question. In- 18 times; and birds or rodents, 24 times. individual scientists not be named. stead, he reiterated that NYCHA requires Some of the altered reports may be hon“When you look at waterborne disease tank cleaners to clean and maintain the est corrections, tank cleaners note, but outbreaks in Gideon, Missouri, and Alamtanks, as city law has mandated for years. they also say that there have been forms osa, (Colorado), there are three things that “Our policy requires any unsanitary issue filed to NYCHA that fail to mention the happened,” an EPA water tank expert previfound to be corrected by the vendor during contamination they saw inside the tank. ously told City & State, describing the deadly the cleaning process. Those that cannot be The city health department did not di- episodes in those places. “If you have sedicorrected immediately due to repairs being rectly answer questions from City & State ment buildup, if you have a way that pathoneeded are forwarded to the Development to about whether the discrepancies between gens on animals and insects can get in, and if

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this sediment is stirred up some‑ charged with safeguarding the how and is allowed to be used, quality of drinking water in‑ then you have a real potential for side buildings can be among an increase in endemic disease.” the least likely to report poten‑ That story revealed that as tial health hazards or deterio‑ many as two‑thirds of build‑ rating conditions inside a tank. ings with water tanks were not complying with city laws that ANK CLEANERS mandate an annual inspection, said that the underly‑ cleanings and filing a form with ing reason NYCHA’s the city Department of Health Internal tanks suffer chronic and Mental Hygiene that docu‑ reports that contamination is that ments what the inspectors found structural damage – like a gap‑ were clearly in the tank. ing hole in the roof of a water In response, New York City altered (with tank – often goes unrepaired Councilman Ritchie Torres for years.

Wite-Out). triggered an inquiry by the city “In the projects, you know Department of Investigation to what it is?” said a tank cleaner, examine what Torres deemed referring to the NYCHA de‑ “the city’s failure both as a reg‑ velopments. “They don’t take ulator and an owner.” City & care of their tanks.”

State previously found that one Many of NYCHA’s giant city agency in charge of caring for 55 mu‑ wooden tanks are visible from a mile away nicipal buildings, like courthouses, reported and others are thinly veiled behind lattice clean bills of health that appeared to contra‑ masonry. But as conspicuous as they can be, dict plainly visible problems, with one tank the tanks have long been neglected and have that has been slowly rotting away for years. fallen into disrepair, allowing animals to When it comes to water tanks, it appears crawl inside and imperil the tenants’ water government agencies in New York City quality, according to tank cleaners and in‑

spection reports.

Many of the tanks are around 30 years old and should be replaced immediately, employ‑ ees at two different tank companies said. In fact, tank cleaners said the root of the prob‑ lems with water tanks at NYCHA boil down to delayed repairs and replacements.

Nearly every time cleaners find birds floating dead in the drinking water, they say it’s because the roof has collapsed or the wooden access hatch has blown away. They can scoop out the animals and rinse down the tank, but if the roof isn’t repaired, the birds will just fly right back inside the newly cleaned tank.

NYCHA’s internal reports showed clean‑ ers repeatedly warning NYCHA about the deteriorating conditions in the tanks: “Must be replace(d).” “New Hatch Door needed.” “Missing metal and peeling rotted hatch/supports.” “Lumber is spongy.” But because repairs were not included in the an‑ nual inspection and cleaning contract, tank cleaners say, superintendents and managers at each development have to approve repairs separately, often leading to a bureaucratic game of hot potato – the request bouncing from office to office, no one wanting to ap‑ prove the additional expense.

RATS: THE DIRTY TAIL OF NYC’S WASTE Templeton, the rat from Charlotte’s Web, always made me smile with his sly quips. Until he and his extended relations moved into my backyard this summer. Then his comment: “I am on my way to your trough to eat your breakfast, since you haven’t got sense enough to eat it yourself.” literally hit home. It’s a perfect metaphor for NYC’s current sanitation crisis.

In the 80s NYC was overrun with rats. Parks, trashcans, and subways seethed with them.

Elizabeth Acevedo writes in A Rat Ode how rats are amongst the most admirable survivors because they scare us into realizing how much we waste. But this year it’s different. Despite endless exterminator visits, they just kept coming. WHY??!! I have nothing to eat, I’m a compulsive neat-freak recycler and composter.

I even fought the city for 3 months to get my building’s rat-proof brown bins.

So, here’s what I learned. Americans waste 87 million pounds of food a year. NYC alone produces more than 24,000 tons of waste a day. DSNY is only responsible for collecting 11,500 tons of that-- less than half. So, no matter how much I do, there’s always waste around to

make my backyard the perfect rat-staurant!

NYC exterminator, Phillip Mann, of C4 Pest Control says the rat issue is the worst he’s ever seen. “[Too many] people don’t know or care where their trash goes,” he says. So, what can we do?

Unfortunately, solving NYC’s sanitation problem isn’t as simple as recycling more and wasting less. It needs a holistic solution.

Education is the 1st step: Like more obvious recycling and composting instructions. Sean Khorsandi, Executive Director of Landmark West!, points out that while local businesses and residences offer separate receptacles for compost, recycling, and trash, people still throw waste in the wrong place. We need to clarify how recycling works and why it’s so important—for kids AND their adults.

Incentives are an option too. Like taxes.

Mr. Mann’s long experience has taught him, though, that prevention of waste buildup is the best medicine.

He insists that, despite popular belief, sanitation is not expensive or difficult. “It becomes expensive “when you wait to

address it.” Anyone who’s ever had rats or roaches knows that. The onus is partially upon building managers to place trash on the curb much closer to pick up time. Bags sitting out overnight invite sleepovers. But we can pitch in, too, by ordering fewer food and Amazon deliveries and fighting the increasing number of supertalls that vomit their foundations on top of existing trash.

Finally, we need to invest in better receptacles. Rats are more talented than we think; they can traverse any medium and eat through any material, be it wood, sheetrock, or even cement. So, wire trashcans become their corner food-trucks. Mann and Khorsandi agree that we need more Big Bellies, and a lot of them.

It’s a rat’s paradise that is about to come crashing down…on us, not the rats.

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Tank companies say that more often than not, over the years, they seldom hear back about their request to repair a tank.

Even though it seems to them that NYCHA has been increasing the number of repairs it approves, many times, the next time they see the tank is a year later and it still has the same problems.

The Chelsea Houses Addition is a prime example. After birds were found in the drinking water tank in 2016, tank cleaners warned, “TANK NEEDS TO BE REPLACED,” noting the condition of the roof, access hatches and flat decking as “poor.”

NYCHA officially slated it for replacement but nothing was done that year. In 2017, birds were again found in the water supply tank, according to an inspection report. To date, the drinking water tank has not been repaired or replaced.

Beatrice Sanderson, 80, who lives on the 13th floor of the building, said she is coping the best way she knows how. She uses a water filter and lets the water run in the morning for a while before she uses it.

She wasn’t too surprised about the birds in the water tank. “I see them flying up there,” past her window, she said.

Her landlord has left a number of prob-

“WE DON’T SPECIFY WHAT WE FIND IN THERE. WE DON’T WRITE IT, BECAUSE NOBODY LIKES THAT.” – NYCHA WATER TANK CLEANER lems unfixed, she noted. “Lead paint, among other things,” she said pointing through her open front door toward a large patch of peeling paint. “They’re on the hot seat for a lot of things.” Among them, a backlog of tenant repair requests and falsification of records, as reported by the Daily News.

But beyond what the documents say about the condition of the tanks, there remains a question about how much has been left out of the record.

In 2014, this reporter observed a water tank atop an East Harlem NYCHA building at 165 E. 112th St. with a gaping hole in the conical cover where the access hatch had once been. The weather stripping was long gone and metal sheets were rusting and peeling off the roof. These problems had been noted in a 2013 inspection report, but feathers and droppings littered the inside of the tank’s plywood decking just above the drinking water supply.

Our Perspective H&M Workers Demand a Fair Contract!

By Stuart Appelbaum, President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, RWDSU, UFCW

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etail workers are facing some of the most abusive scheduling practices of our lifetime.

From insecure hours, to on-call scheduling practices that leave workers scrambling to find lastminute childcare and eldercare and canceling classes, to “clopenings” the practice of having to close a store only to open it again in a few hours later; what were once good jobs in our communities are now leaving workers with paralyzed when it comes to earning a living for their families.

Workers at H&M close their stores at 2am. They spend hours off-loading trucks with new inventory after a long day on the sales floor with customers.

They’re then required to return to the store at 6am to restock and tidy the clothes before the store opens to the public. Many of these part-time workers also don’t get the hours they were once guaranteed and depend on. What was once a high-road employer has now become a low-road employer.

Khadejiah Legrier a sales associate at H&M recounts what life has become for workers at H&M in

recent years as the U.S. management of the Swedish company has allowed the employer to become among the worst in the city. “I travel over an hour to get to work every day. When I heard that H&M wanted to reinstate a banned practice of ‘clopenings’, which would require that I get less than 5 hours of sleep a night I was outraged. Working at H&M has been a good job over the past 12 years, but if they instate these horrendous scheduling practices I won’t be able to provide for my family and I will need to seek other employment,” said Khadejiah.

Khadejiah speaks to the extreme sleep deprivation so many workers face and will continue to face as H&M continues down its current path. If workers continue to be forced to keep these hours it will impact their safety traveling to and from work, their ability to go to school, and provide childcare and eldercare just to name a few.

For part-time workers like Khadejiah who cannot get enough hours to even pay for their Metrocard to get to and from work it’s only the

From the available records, it appears two more years went by before NYCHA inspected that tank and the 2016 and 2017 reports showed no structural or sanitary problems whatsoever. “AFTER CLEANING” is typed on the 2017 report. Looking only at the paper trail, it is as if those sanitary problems never existed.

Some of the cleaners who climb inside the tanks have carefully documented the unsavory details of what’s in New Yorkers’ drinking water tanks, while others appear to have fallen into a culture of quietly sweeping away health hazards hidden inside the water tanks.

One veteran water tank cleaner said that no one will tell you 100 percent of what they find in the tanks anymore.

“Yeah,” he said with a sigh. “Tricks of the trade.”

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beginning of a spiraling set of problems workers face including food insecurity, homelessness and lack of opportunity retail jobs once provided.

Khadejiah is not alone, she is among over 1,500 H&M workers who are in the fight for their lives to secure a contract that ensures that their jobs are stable, good jobs in our city. H&M cannot afford to continue refusing to negotiate in good faith.

These workers suffer the effects of sleep deprivation, insufficient hours and wages to make ends meet in a city where the cost of living is rapidly increasing. Meanwhile, several other union employers in the city ZARA, Modell’s, and Macy’s to name a few have enforced higher part-time hour minimums and banned “clopenings”. As a result, workers are able to plan their schedules and their lives; and that security has bolstered sales at these union retailers. H&M has lost its way.

H&M workers deserve a fair contract for helping the company succeed and expand in New York City, and all retail workers have a stake as these union members take a stand against the outrageous policy of forcing workers to accept “clopenings.” Help by signing our petition at www.local1102.org/h_m and using social media to share your support with #HMWorkers.

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Rising rents are driving New York City’s latest homelessness crisis. Here’s how to fix it. BY BEN ADLER

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N A RAINY MORNING in May, around 30 homeless people and a handful of activists gathered on the steps of New York City Hall to call on local government to protect homeless New Yorkers trying to find permanent housing. Specifically, they opposed a proposed cut to the city Commission on Human Rights’ budget, fearing it would hamstring the already weak enforcement of laws to prevent landlords from discriminating against New Yorkers who use city vouchers to pay their rent.

What the group lacked in numbers they made up for in energy, loudly cheering each speaker and chanting with gusto. They held a banner that read, “End income discrimination now,” and waved signs that declared, “We can pay rent but landlords are keeping us homeless.” One handwritten sign demanded, “DeBlasio what about the other city?”

“Sixty-three thousand people are living in homeless shelters. Is that because they want to?” asked Joshua Goldfein, a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society, through a megaphone. “No!” The crowd cried in unison. And yet many of them said they have been in shelters for a year or more.

There are currently about 59,000 New Yorkers staying in homeless shelters and several thousand more sleeping on the streets, figures that fluctuate seasonally. This year’s street homeless winter population count was 3,675 people. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which uses a different methodology, pegged the total (street and shelter) homeless population at more than 75,000 in a report released in December.

Then there are the New Yorkers who lack a home of their own but are crashing on a friend or family member’s couch. “There’s people who aren’t even counted because they’re doubled or tripled up (in a bedroom), or they’re three-quarter housed – that’s extremely low-income adults who are paying the shelter allowance to rent

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a bunk bed in private housing,” said Paulette Soltani, housing campaign coordinator with VOCAL-NY, a statewide grass-roots advocacy organization for low-income New Yorkers.

Add it all up, and New York City’s homeless rate is the highest it has been since the Great Depression, even as the national economy verges on full employment. Housing is so expensive and inequality so severe that many working families cannot afford a place to live.

Homelessness is mainly a housing problem, and it can only be reduced through comprehensive housing policy solutions.

BILL DE BLASIO campaigned in 2013 on a platform of mitigating inequality and addressing the high cost of living. As mayor, de Blasio launched a plan to create or preserve 200,000 rent-regulated units by 2024. The target has since been raised to 300,000 by 2026, and the plan is well underway – the tally is at 109,767 so far, according to the city.

The mayor’s problem isn’t lack of interest in affordable housing but lack of power to control the housing market: loophole-ridden regulations controlled by the state Legislature cause the supply of rent-stabilized apartments to decrease each year, and rents have climbed in the market-rate units where some 246,000 households making less than twice the poverty rate live.

(That estimate comes from the 2014 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey since full 2017 data are not yet available.) The city’s efforts are like pouring water into a leaky bucket, and the overall draining away of affordable apartments inevitably has led to the homelessness epidemic.

Homelessness was already rising precipitously during former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s final term, but it hardly came up during the 2013 mayoral campaign. Its subsequent crescendo has put it on the media and general public’s radar, but too often the conversation ignores the problem’s roots in the housing market. While de Blasio has been intense-

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ly scrutinized over homelessness, the dearth of press covering the May 16 City Hall rally demonstrates how little attention the most relevant policies receive.

Instead, most New Yorkers seem only aware of the highly visible, but statistically atypical, street homeless. Conservative commentators on Fox News, who seem mostly concerned with the homeless being unpleasing to look at, blame de Blasio for failing to roust them from the floor of Penn Station. Average New Yorkers wonder why there are so many people living on the streets, while middle-class and rich NIMBYs from the middle of Queens to midtown Manhattan furiously combat planned shelters in their neighborhoods – a blowback so intense it helped defeat New York City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley. The newspapers and other elected officials hit de Blasio from all of these angles.

Once the homeless are indoors and safely out of any rich person’s sight, public interest in what becomes of them evaporates. But most homeless New Yorkers are not subway panhandlers or other avatars of the stereotypical mentally ill or drug-addicted beggars and bag ladies.

The major increase in homelessness is among people who simply lack a place to live and wind up in a homeless shelter.

In May, there were 15,023 families, with 22,538 children, sleeping each night in New York City’s municipal shelters, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.

Over the course of fiscal year 2017, about 130,000 people spent at least one night in shelters, including more than 45,000 children. According to The Wall Street Journal, about one-third of families in the shelter system have earned income.

“Everybody has a misconception,” said Rhonda Jackson, a 57-year-old Queens native who lived in shelters for a year.

Jackson used to work for the MTA in a token booth at Manhattan’s Fulton Street station. Traumatized by the nearby attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, she quit her job and left the city. When she returned to New York last year to be near her family, she could not afford a market-rate apartment. “I am the new homeless,” said Jackson, who now lives in an affordable unit in a new building in Williamsburg but has been able to find only sporadic retail employment. “I am not that person on the subway who doesn’t want to go in shelter. I’m not that person sleeping on the bench. I’m a working person who had some mishaps and just doesn’t have a place to live.”

Unlike some other spikes in homelessness, this is primarily an economic, rather than social, predicament. “The driver of homelessness in New York City today – as

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Jeff, a resident of Coalition Houses, permanent housing provided by the Coalition for the Homeless.

opposed to earlier times … when deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill was happening – is (a) lack of affordable housing and rising housing costs,” said Oksana Mironova, housing policy analyst for the Community Service Society of New York.

Even for people with other risk factors, homelessness often could be averted if they had affordable housing. “It’s not a homeless crisis; it’s a housing crisis,” said Sam J. Miller, a spokesman for Picture the Homeless. “There are plenty of mentally ill people who have housing; there are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who have substance abuse problems. It’s still about whether you can afford housing.”

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN rising rents and homelessness is amply documented. In March, The DataFace, a San Francisco-based data agency, analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report and found that eight of the 10 states with the highest homelessness rates have the nation’s highest median home prices, including New York. A 2017 study by the real estate website Zillow found a strong relationship between rents and homelessness in New York. It estimated that “nearly 3,000 more people would fall into homelessness with a 5 percent average rent increase.”

New York City has long been expensive, but the problem has grown dramatically since the last recession. “From 2010 to 2017, New York City rents rose twice as fast as wages,” a data analysis by StreetEasy, the real estate website, found. While asking rents increased by 3.9 percent annually, median wages rose just 1.8 percent per year. This imbalance is most acute for low-income households: “The city’s lowest earners saw the least amount of wage growth, while the lowest bracket of rents increased the most (4.9 percent annually) since 2010,” StreetEasy reported.

This problem is entirely specific to housing. According to StreetEasy, the cost of other goods in New York City went up an average of 1.2 percent during the same period. CSSNY found asking rents increased from $1,443 in 2014 to $1,875 in 2017 – or a 30 percent increase.

What’s amazing is not how many homeless New Yorkers there are, but how few.

The city’s residents are adept at finding ways to keep a roof over their heads, often under circumstances the average suburbanite would find unacceptable: immigrant laborers sleeping four to a room, college students subletting from the elderly, and families spending half or more of

their income on rent. That latter group is what social scientists refer to as “severely rent-burdened,” and it is growing – from 23.7 percent of New York City households in 2000, to 29.3 percent in 2016, according to the Furman Center report.

This can mean forgoing basic necessities and limited social mobility. “When people are rent-burdened, they’re not buying food or medicine. They’re not paying for college,” said Vicki Been, a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and current faculty director of the Furman Center.

GIVEN THE HIGH COSTS of land and labor in New York City, the market mostly produces luxury housing. The real estate industry also claims that costs are so prohibitive that the income bands for affordable housing have to include large allotments for middle- and upper-middle-class families – those making, in some cases, as much as 165 percent of the area median income, or AMI – because they can pay higher rents. This AMI – cur-

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rently $104,300 for a family of four – is for the whole New York City region, which is far richer than the five boroughs because it includes the wealthier suburbs.

As a result, the overwhelming majority of typical families in a poor, recently rezoned neighborhood like East New York in Brooklyn do not make enough to qualify for much of the “affordable” housing in the area’s new developments.

The real estate industry and City Hall point out that there is also a shortage of middle-class housing. “The market hasn’t been producing for moderate and middle-income households,” said Molly Park, a deputy commissioner at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The 421-a tax abatement program – renamed Affordable New York when it was last renewed – requires affordable housing in new apartment buildings, but allows much of it to be in these middle-income bands. Park argued that this “leverages the power of the market to serve that population, and lets us focus our dollars on the segment of the market for which there will never

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in greatest need,” Nortz added, referring to the large number of affordable units for households with six-figure incomes.

“There’s a distribution of housing resources in the mayor’s housing plan that is skewed away from those most in need.”

Nonetheless, de Blasio has actually created tens of thousands of affordable units, both through directly financing them and through the mandatory inclusionary housing amendment to the zoning resolution, which requires that new developments include some affordable housing. But the city is simultaneously losing rent-regulated apartments, thanks to a web of policies enacted in recent decades at the behest of the real estate lobby. “Vacancy decontrol” allows landlords who perform expensive renovations to increase the rent after a tenant leaves and get their apartments over the rent threshold – currently $2,733.75 – at which point a unit becomes deregulated.

“Since city and state lawmakers started gutting the rent laws in 1993, the city has lost over 152,000 regulated apartments because landlords have pushed the rent too high,” The New York Times reported in May. “At least 130,000 more have disappeared because of co-op and condo conversions, expiring tax breaks and other factors.”

Thanks to de Blasio’s policies and reforms to the 421-a tax abatement program, last year marked the first time that the city enjoyed a net increase of rent-regulated apartments. It would take many more years like that to make up for the rent-stabilized units that have been lost. (The Real Estate Board of New York argues that vacancy decontrol is needed so that landlords will invest in improving the quality of the housing stock.)

The conundrum of the de Blasio administration is that neither the mayor nor his appointees are unaware of the housing crisis or indifferent to it.

They simply are badly constrained in their ability to address it. De Blasio was elected on a pledge to combat inequality and unaffordability. Last year, HPD financed the creation of 24,536 affordable homes, breaking the record previously set by Koch in 1989. Forty-eight percent of those homes are for people making less than $33,400

AVERAGE NEW YORKERS WONDER WHY THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREETS, WHILE MIDDLE-CLASS AND RICH NIMBYS FURIOUSLY COMBAT PLANNED SHELTERS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. be enough market-rate affordable housing because the incomes are too low.”

Advocates remain unconvinced. “The fundamental reason for homelessness is a lack of affordable housing. The mayor’s housing plan doesn’t match the scale of the homelessness problem,” said Shelly Nortz, deputy executive director for policy at Coalition for the Homeless. “It doesn’t target the resources to the people

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per year or $43,000 for a family of three.

During de Blasio’s first term, HPD financed 87,557 affordable apartments.

But this is a drop in the bucket when the city is rapidly losing affordable units for reasons that are beyond the mayor’s control, such as growing economic inequality and policies that emanate from Washington, D.C., and Albany. The mayor repeatedly has proposed raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers, but the state must approve any tax hike and neither Gov. Andrew Cuomo nor the Republican-controlled state Senate is inclined to do so.

GOP state senators, who overwhelmingly hail from outside the city, have clung to their razor-thin majority in part by collecting generous donations from New York real estate developers and protecting their donors’ interests through a landlord-friendly approach to rent regulation. The office of state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article.

The city has reacted to the homelessness crisis with homelessness policy, over which it has more control than housing. De Blasio has embarked on a shelter-building spree, which is often impeded by political and legal challenges from the neighborhoods where the buildings would be located.

But building shelters is like putting a Band-Aid on gaping wound: It’s necessary in an emergency, but it will not cure the underlying ailment. To do that, the city needs more than shelters. And here is where homelessness collides with the city’s housing crisis: How can the homeless be moved to housing if they have very low incomes and there is a small and dwindling supply of low-income housing?

Hence the rally at City Hall: de Blasio has created new housing vouchers for homeless people, but they can search for months or even years for an apartment that will take the vouchers. Rejecting vouchers, which is known as “source of income discrimination,” is illegal, but homeless people still encounter it constantly and they say the law is inadequately enforced.

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for months and being stymied by source of income discrimination. “I call and say, do you take the voucher? And all of a sudden the story changes, ‘We don’t have anything right now,’ or, ‘We don’t take the voucher,’” Kemba Brown, a 43-year-old who grew up on Staten Island, said in an interview this spring.

“I’ve seen ads on Craigslist that say ‘no voucher, no government.’” Brown, like Jackson, spent about a year in shelters before finding an affordable unit.

The city Commission on Human Rights is charged with regulating source of income discrimination, but its resources are inadequate to track down every instance of discrimination across the city.

“I talk to people every day who tell me they can’t use their voucher because no landlord will take it, but no one has ever said to me New York City CHR got that landlord to take it,” Goldfein said. So the city spends more money on keeping someone in a shelter – an average of approximately $4,500 a month – than it would cost to put them in an apartment.

When people don’t move out of shelters, and more keep coming in, the numbers inevitably rise and the need grows.

That landlords for even the city’s cheapest apartments can afford to discriminate against voucher users reflects the enormous

surplus of low-income families competing for the small supply of affordable homes. If landlords did take the vouchers, that would move people out of shelters and reduce the homeless population, so it’s hard to argue with the advocates’ contention that the law should be more vigorously enforced. In the grand scheme of things, it might help homelessness, but it wouldn’t do much to address the pressure of housing costs on low-income families.

AN AGENDA TO mitigate the housing and homelessness crisis requires compromise from all sides, allowing the market to increase supply but also requiring the rich to chip in and help the poor make ends meet. First, the following policies would make the housing market function more efficiently:

Coalition for the Homeless staff and advocates protest landlords rejecting housing vouchers outside a real estate office in 2016.

UPZONING. Contrary to the claims of many neighborhood activists, upzoning and allowing tall new apartment buildings does not worsen high housing costs. In centrally located neighborhoods where development is heavily restricted, such as the Upper West Side, Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights, prices have skyrocketed since the onset of gentrification. In the affluent Upper East Side, however, upzoning and large-scale development in the neighborhood’s eastern half has helped supply keep pace with demand. The Upper East Side east of Lexington Avenue has thus seen much lower price increases and has become one of the most affordable neighborhoods in Manhattan south of Harlem.

PROPERTY TAX REFORM. The city currently disincentivizes dense development by taxing rental buildings more than co-ops, condos and private houses. The much-maligned 421-a program is a kludge intended to offset that. Instead, taxes should be distributed more equally on all units, regardless of building type. Then 421-a could be repealed and the increased property tax revenue could be used to fund affordable housing development through HPD. The mayor’s property tax reform commission is currently mulling just that.

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LAND VALUE TAXATION. Economic policy wonks have long bemoaned the bizarre norm of taxing the value of buildings rather than the land they sit on. Development is in effect discouraged, as the property taxes rise with the building’s height.

Taxing land value would do the reverse.

LEGALIZING BASEMENT APARTMENTS. There are an estimated 5,000 potential apartments – some being rented out already – that could be legal housing units. The city has embarked on a pilot program to help landlords bring them up to code.

But even John Banks, the president of REBNY, which advocates for these four policies, admits that the one-fifth of New Yorkers who are in poverty “would always need support” from the government to obtain housing. And so the following government interventions are also needed:

which 71 percent of rent-regulated apartments that become deregulated are lost.

ness because of housing problems and so they should be discussed in one plan.”

ENFORCE THE LAWS MEANT TO PROTECT TENANTS. The city should combat tenant harassment and other illegal efforts by landlords to push out rent-regulated tenants and strengthen the penalties for those offenses. Landlords who are caught breaking these laws face fines worth only a fraction of the enhanced profit from getting apartments deregulated.

PUT HOMELESS FAMILIES FIRST IN LINE FOR NYCHA APARTMENTS. This is one example of how an integrated housing and homelessness effort might do things differently. “Less than half of the apartments NYCHA turns over go to homeless families,” Goldfein said. “They’re giving out over half the apartments without any assessment of housing need. That seems like a bad use of (a) scarce resource.”

REFORM MANDATORY INCLUSIONARY HOUSING. The city should make the area median income bands reflect the incomes of the neighborhood rather than the whole tristate area.

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FORCE THE SUBURBS TO STEP UP. New York City has more than 27,000 residents per square mile, while the New York metropolitan region has only 2,800 people per square mile. The city is not the only expensive part of the region – especially when factoring in property taxes and transportation costs. REBNY is notably silent on the low-density development restrictions in the suburbs – such as Banks’ own Westchester County town of Pelham Manor. The state should enhance affordability and create policies to fill in the suburbs with more affordable rental housing. In a 2017 report, the Regional Plan Association noted, “Over 60 percent of municipalities close to regional rail stations have zoning codes which greatly limit as-of-right multi-family housing, and over one-quarter only allow for low-density, single-family development that keeps communities exclusively wealthy and white.” The RPA recommended that “(suburbs) allow for and encourage multifamily and mixed-use development in proximity to all train stations, to create walkable, transit-oriented communities.”

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“I AM NOT THAT PERSON ON THE SUBWAY WHO DOESN’T WANT TO GO IN SHELTER. I’M A WORKING PERSON WHO HAD SOME MISHAPS AND JUST DOESN’T HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE.”

TAX THE RICH TO SUPPORT THE POOR. The era of significant federal and state support for low-income housing is over. The city must therefore compensate. This requires approval from the state government, which means getting past the state Senate and Cuomo. But if Democrats retake the state Senate and Cuomo fears revolt on his left flank, getting some of the following ideas through is conceivable: de Blasio’s millionaires tax proposal, instead of funding the MTA, could fund affordable housing. A pied-a-terre tax would incentivize absentee owners to rent out their apartments, or at least get some money in exchange for the privilege of investing in the world’s strongest real estate market. The funds accrued from these taxes could be used for constructing new publicly subsidized housing and increasing the value of LINC vouchers.

REPEAL VACANCY DECONTROL. Members of the Assembly like Linda Rosenthal from Manhattan have proposed getting rid of the mechanism by

– RHONDA JACKSON, FORMERLY HOMELESS PERSON WHO LIVES IN BROOKLYN

INTEGRATE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS POLICY. New York City government treats homelessness and housing as largely separate issues. Elected officials like New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer have criticized the de Blasio administration for increasing funding for homeless services without managing to bring down the homeless population.

But no amount of spending on homelessness can put people into affordable apartments that do not exist. “I’ve been, for many years, screaming as loud as I can that we keep having these conversations separately,” said New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams. “We have two different commissioners and two different deputy mayors. We have a housing plan and a homelessness plan, and it’s infuriating because we have spikes in homeless-

Since 2010, New York City has added 447,565 residents – about as many people who live in Miami. Hundreds of thousands more are expected to come by mid-century. The city, indeed the whole region, cannot accommodate so many newcomers without people being forced onto the street unless it builds housing for all of them – rich and poor alike.

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HE TEAMSTERS HAD a lot to celebrate on July 18. The New York City Council was finally passing the Waste Equity bill, 12 years after it was introduced. Members of Teamsters Joint Council 16, a downstate branch of the international labor union, filled City Hall steps for the customary victory rally to celebrate the bill that’s meant to lower the cap on trash trucked in and out of certain overburdened neighborhoods. The workers were joined by activists from the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. City Councilmen Carlos Menchaca, Donovan Richards and Keith Powers spoke. Their colleague, City Council Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Committee Chairman Antonio Reynoso,

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played master of ceremonies as the lead sponsor of the bill.

The opposition was nowhere to be seen.

This particular fight was over for the private carting industry, which is made up of companies that haul and process the waste created by businesses in the city. But a battle was still being waged on another front, one that will make the decadelong fight over waste equity look insignificant.

This larger battle is over a zoned franchising system for trash haulers, which could impose stricter regulations on an industry that’s enjoyed lax oversight for years. The players on both sides of that fight, supporters and opposition, are largely the same as the players in the waste equity fight, and the bill’s passage may belie the outcome of the debate over zones.

“Passing the Waste Equity bill was the introduction to the waste commercial franchising,” Reynoso told City & State. “If we couldn’t get waste equity done, there was no way we were going to get waste franchising done.”

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ESPITE WHAT PEOPLE SAY about Staten Island, it’s no longer a trash dump. That means all the trash in New York City has to leave the five boroughs. But it all makes a stop before it’s packed and shipped out at one of the city’s many waste transfer stations: the airport terminals of trash’s flight out of town. These transfer stations are smelly and dirty and endure a continuous stream of heavy trucks in and out.

The majority of these bad neighbors are located in just three areas of the city, North Brooklyn, the South Bronx and Southeast Queens. The Waste Equity bill was a small step to rectify this, lowering the cap on trash allowed at existing transfer stations in those three low-income, majority-minority neighborhoods. It’s meant to encourage the spread of transfer stations to other neighborhoods, but with moderate limits and generous exceptions for recycled waste, even the bill’s sponsor admitted it won’t have that much of an effect.

“The Waste Equity bill is low-hanging fruit, small potatoes reform,” Reynoso said. “It isn’t going to revolutionize the way we handle trash in the city of New York. … There’s so little that I believe is actually happening with this bill. What it’s doing is incentivizing good players.”

That doesn’t mean it passed easily.

The same bill was killed at the end of the 2017 session, just as it had been four years earlier. Operators of waste transfer stations in the targeted areas opposed the bill, fearing the loss of business. One such company, Sanitation Salvage Corp., paid the prominent consulting firm MirRam Group $120,000 over the past two years to lobby against the bill, according to reports

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filed with the City Clerk’s office. When the bill finally passed in July, it earned 13 “no” votes – a rarity in a body that usually passes bills by wide margins.

“Quite honestly, I’m glad the bill got passed – I think it should have gone a little further. But it’s all about compromise,” Teamsters Local 813 President Sean Campbell said.

In an interview with City & State, Campbell talked about wanting to support union members who lived in the overburdened districts, but his attacks on the transfer stations’ management suggested the Teamsters’ support may have been

“shameful and deplorable,” and compared the union to anti-union consultants. “(The Teamsters) are an embarrassment to the labor movement and remind us all that the labor movement faces threats not only from the outside world but from within its own house,” Purcell said in a statement.

But Campbell, who is black, said he was focused on putting stronger safety regulations on the companies that employ his members in the sanitation industry, who are largely people of color.

“These owners don’t give a damn about minority employees. They exploit them to

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Purpose: Expand and clarify the city Business Integrity Commission’s oversight and regulation of the private waste carting industry Major Supporters: New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management; Laborers Local Union 108; Real Estate Board of New York; NAACP Major Opposition: Teamsters Joint Council 16; ALIGN; New York City Environmental Justice Alliance; New York City Business Integrity Commission; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

Here are the big bills regarding waste pickup proposed and passed in New York City.

Waste Equity bill Intro. 157-2018 (Previously, Intro. 4952014; Intro. 1170-2013; Intro. 103-2006) Status: Awaiting the mayor’s signature Sponsor: Antonio Reynoso Major co-sponsors: Stephen Levin, Rafael Salamanca Jr., Diana Ayala Purpose: Reduce permitted capacity at solid waste transfer stations in certain overburdened community districts in the South Bronx, North Brooklyn and Southeast Queens Major Supporters: Teamsters Joint Council 16; New York City Environmental Justice Alliance; New York Lawyers for the Public Interest; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Major Opposition: New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management; Laborers Local Union 108 BIC oversight and regulation bill Intro. 996-2018 Status: In committee Sponsor: Robert Cornegy Jr. Major co-sponsors: Mark Gjonaj, Barry Grodenchik more driven by their antipathy toward the waste companies. The Waste Equity bill isn’t expected to create any jobs, and may actually cost some commercial waste workers in the Teamsters union their jobs.

Because of this, Campbell and the Teamsters were attacked for their support of the Waste Equity bill, most notably from Pat Purcell, executive director of the Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, a union-management coalition in the construction industry, who called the Teamsters’ support

Commercial Waste Zone bill Status: Not yet introduced Sponsor: Antonio Reynoso Major co-sponsors: None Purpose: Institute a zoned commercial waste franchise system in New York City to reduce the number of vehicle miles traveled by private waste trucks and increase oversight of the private carting industry Major Supporters: Teamsters Joint Council 16; ALIGN; New York City Environmental Justice Alliance; New York City Business Integrity Commission; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Major Opposition: New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management; Laborers Local Union 108; Real Estate Board of New York; NAACP no end, especially people who may have had a (criminal) record or something like that,” he said. “The bottom line is their bottom line. That’s it. Nothing more.”

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HIS ALLEGED WORKER EXPLOITATION has been well-documented, most recently in a series of bombshell articles by investigative reporter Kiera Feldman. Workers put in over 14-hour days, six days a week, hustling to finish twisting and

THE CITY’S TAKE KATHRYN GARCIA

Commissioner, New York City Department of Sanitation When do you expect the city’s report on waste zones to be released publicly?

We are aiming to have it completed in the next month to month and a half (as of July 30).

I really want this out before the end of the summer, which is what we committed to.

But I know we haven’t gotten a tremendous amount of feedback yet from the advisory committee. I’m hoping they don’t hand it to me at the last minute. (Laughs.)

Was the passage of the Waste Equity bill a good sign for the passage of a waste zoning system?

Yes and no. I don’t think they’re going to be exactly the same stakeholders in those particular debates. So I would say I would be cautiously optimistic that we have a little bit of a better sense of the landscape, but I think many things could change between now and when any legislation is before the council.

Did Kiera Feldman’s articles help the conversation around waste zones?

I think the articles that have come out kept the pressure on in terms of, you need to have a sense of urgency about making changes. So that’s balanced around (how) we don’t want to do something that makes it so waste doesn’t get collected in the city of New York. But we need to make sure we’re continuing to move expeditiously to get the change that I think we all think we need.

Reynoso has been pretty critical of the Business Integrity Commission. Does the BIC do enough?

Considering what they are legally allowed to do from an enforcement standpoint, yes. They are very aggressive. But there are lots of things in which they are constrained, in terms of they’re pre-empted by federal law, they’re pre-empted by state law. They can’t just go out without legislation that gives them the authority and do what Reynoso would have liked to see them do.

If you talk to a private carter, they live in fear of the Business Integrity Commission.

I think that they are quite effective where they have the legislative authority to be effective.

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environmental concerns,” BIC Chairman Dan Brownell said in a statement.

New York City Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia told City & State she expects the plan to be released publicly before mid-September, but the general outline is already known. The current permitting system, which limits the amount of oversight the city has over private waste carters, would be replaced with a franchising system. The city would be split up into a yetto-be-determined number of geographic zones where a limited number of carters would be able to pick up businesses’ trash.

So instead of every waste hauler competing for the trash of every company in the whole city, the haulers would be competing, primarily, for city franchise agreements.

These agreements would also allow the city to incentivize preferred behavior among the carters – companies with poor track records on worker safety or companies that drive old trucks with high emissions would have a hard time getting contracts.

With the imminent release of the waste zone plan, the long-simmering debate is boiling over. Soon after the Sanitation Department publishes the plan, Reynoso intends to introduce a bill in the City Council to enact it into law.

keeps businesses happy with low prices, but it also leads to companies cutting corners on safety. The agency directed with regulating the industry, the New York City Business Integrity Commission, has done little to rein it in – though there’s disagreement over whether that’s the result of weak leadership or weak laws.

For more than two years, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Sanitation Department has been holding discussions while developing a plan to institute commercial waste zones. All sides are involved in the discussions, including commercial trade groups, the private carters themselves and the BIC, which would be strengthened under the plan.

“The city needs to radically restructure this industry. For efficiency, safety and

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turning routes as long as 85 miles. Three workers lost fingers from a piece of faulty equipment on a truck. Such injuries are common: Commercial waste is one of the most dangerous industries in the country and sanitation trucks killed seven people in New York City last year, according city figures cited by Streetsblog.

But advocates think that a waste zone plan could address those long hours and unsafe conditions.

While the New York City Department of Sanitation picks up all the residential waste in the city, all commercial businesses, from massive office buildings to the corner bodega, are on their own. To get their trash picked up, they contract with one of several hundred private carting companies. Competition is fierce, which

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UT A COUNTERBILL HAS already been introduced by New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. that would impose safety and environmental reforms on the carters while blocking the implementation of a zoned system, which many opponents say would result in businesses paying more for trash pickup.

“We realize that creating zones is not going to solve the problems that are pervasive in the industry. But it will undermine small businesses’ ability to operate and cost jobs,” Cornegy told City & State. The bill was written in consultation with many of the commercial interests that would be affected by any changes to the system, and they’ve already expressed support, writing a July letter urging the de Blasio administration to drop the zoned plan and support Cornegy’s bill.

Cornegy was open about his distaste for zones. “We’re pretty passionate about stopping any disproportionate effects that a zoned plan would have,” he said.

But he also argued that his bill would be a faster way to regulate the industry, instead of jumping into a protracted fight over Reynoso’s bill, which has yet to be written.

“It’s not pre-empting (Reynoso’s bill), it’s actually doing what we as a government should do, which is act with some sense of urgency and expediency around the issues that we know are disproportionately affecting particular segments of our society – and sanitation is one of them,” he said.

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But Cornegy’s bill has been beset by criticism since he introduced it in June, much of it aimed at City Councilman Mark Gjonaj’s financial ties to the private sanitation industry. Gjonaj, the bill’s co-sponsor, has received more than $16,000 in campaign contributions from industry players since 2012.

In a July interview with Crain’s New York Business, Gjonaj said he backed the bill on its merits. “I am not swayed by relationships, or by people that I know,” Gjonaj said.

Still, Reynoso accused Gjonaj and Cornegy of being bought and sold by the industry, and called the bill weak.

“I wasn’t surprised that a bill like this was on its way. I knew that the industry was going to figure out a way to try to push what I consider a half-ass legislation,” he said. “Mark Gjonaj is Mark Gjonaj. I don’t want to say much about a colleague, but the ProPublica article speaks of who he is to the industry. And then Robert Cornegy in the past has been a council member that has looked out for the interests of business and industry over workers.”

Campbell had similar criticism. “To me, Cornegy’s bill is putting a Band-Aid – not even a Band-Aid. It’s an attempt again to do the employer’s job. To me, that’s what he’s doing. He’s working for the employer,” Campbell said.

The de Blasio administration has firmly taken Reynoso’s side in the dispute, committing to working with the sanitation committee chairman once a bill is introduced. Garcia said Cornegy’s bill would change very little about the industry, and she isn’t supportive.

“It is not something that I can see being useful in any particular way,” she said of Intro. 996. “I don’t think it’s helpful at all in making this industry more efficient or safer or improving labor standards.”

Still, Cornegy was confident his bill would gain traction, citing the number of outside supporters that back his bill because they fear a zoned system, including the Real Estate Board of New York, waste workers union Laborers Local Union 108 and New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management, a coalition of private sanitation companies. The bill only has three sponsors – Cornegy, Gjonaj and Queens City Councilman Barry Grodenchik – but Cornegy thinks he’ll gain more when members hear from small businesses in their districts.

Reynoso was successful in winning votes for his controversial Waste Equity bill.

Now he’ll have to convince them to trust him once again and back his waste reform bill over Cornegy’s – even if it hasn’t been introduced yet.

“So it’s a fight,” Reynoso said. “And I’m ready for it. I’m excited about it.”

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PROTECTING DEFENDING SMALL SANITATION BUSINESSES WORKERS ROBERT CORNEGY Chairman, New York City Council Housing and Buildings Committee

Would a zoned system just affect the smaller private waste carters?

Or do you think this would affect other small businesses?

It’s going to disproportionately affect all small businesses. Because the inability for small businesses to negotiate contracts on their own behalf is a (benefit) to the (carting) industry. We’ve seen literally, in LA for example, how the cost of pickup was doubled and tripled in a zoned system where the industry shrunk. And we don’t want to see that happening in New York City. Small businesses are in so much of a crunch as it stands, to add that to it, I don’t think that any of my colleagues would agree that’s a great idea.

Los Angeles recently instituted a waste franchise system. Have you met with leaders from LA, or talked to people there?

We’ve watched and have studied the impact, and have heard from some of the – for example the City Council (president) for LA admitted that instituting the zone system was a mistake! It was already too expensive for small businesses owners to operate, in their city and in this city. And there were then thousands in additional costs as a result of the zone-based system.

They tell me insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. That sounds like the epitome of insanity to see a comparable city implement this program and then admit publicly that this was a mistake because of the unintended consequences that ultimately befell some of the small businesses, and then reimplement it?

That would be insanity.

Your bill has been attacked as the waste industry’s bill. Was this written in concert with the carters?

We did this with all people in mind. One of the big complaints about City Hall is that we create bills without taking into account or inviting the people who will be most impacted by the bill at the table. We attempted not to do that. So we didn’t just invite waste haulers to this conversation. We invited small businesses, small business associations, so that we could get the best product.

ANTONIO REYNOSO Chairman, New York City Council Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management

You’ve made enemies among the commercial waste haulers with your Waste Equity bill. Will this affect your future work as the Sanitation Committee chairman, as you try to implement commercial waste zones?

I don’t think so. I’ve been working on this for over eight years. … And the industry has been completely incapable of being supportive of any type of reform. If the threat of legislation can’t get them to get their act right, then actually passing it is what we’re going to have to do. But I’m not concerned about the industry. My goal is to make it better. I hope they believe that I’m actually looking out for the best interests of (my) constituents and the industry alike. But for those folks that want to just be obstructionists, then I have no problem doing my job and forcing them to change for the better.

I’m the chair of sanitation for the next three and a half years, the foreseeable future, so everything has to go through me.

So I suggest they pick up the phone, sit with me, and work towards building the best franchise system instead of trying to stop it.

Do you think instituting waste zones would be able to fix all of the environmental and worker safety issues associated with the sanitation industry?

Through (the current) permitting process we’re very limited as to what we can ask of the waste transfer stations and the carters.

But through a (request for proposals), we can ask for a lot. You get extra points if your business has a negligible amount of lawsuits related to worker safety. If your trucks haven’t killed anyone recently, if your trucks are from the 1970s, that’s not going to work well for you in an RFP system. So what ends up happening is the organizations that end up getting these RFPs are going to be folks that are doing the right thing. A lot of the workers are really excited about it. The Teamsters are excited because the people they have union contracts with are the people they believe are good players.

And they believe a franchising system is going to give them the opportunity to do more work in this city.

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THE STANDOFF CONTINUES But Commissioner James O’Neill expects a compromise with the DA’s office over police disciplinary records.

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WE HURT OURSELVES IN NOT BEING TRANSPARENT. ” NYPD hoping to limit it.

On July 17, O’Neill suggested there’s room for negotiation.

“I’m not sure if (Vance) needs total access to our disciplinary records. It’s important in some cases,” he said.

The dispute is one facet of the larger issue of shielding police disciplinary records under the state Civil Rights Law 50-a.

During a later discussion at the City & State event, city and state officials on a panel about police‑community relations and trust in law enforcement discussed the issue at length.

New York City Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Public Safety Committee, has been critical of the NYPD’s interpretation of the law that shields records from the public, calling it a way to skirt the responsibility of transparency and accountability. He pointed to the April death of Saheed Vassell, an unarmed black man shot and

killed by police in Brooklyn.

“The community still doesn’t know which officers were involved in that particular incident,” Richards said. “We hurt ourselves in not being transparent.” The names of the four officers involved were subsequently leaked to the Daily News.

Margaret Garnett, executive deputy attorney general for criminal justice in the state Attorney General’s Office, said that 50-a hasn’t impeded any criminal investigations.

“It’s not a shield for exposure to prosecutors,” she said.

Garnett noted that the law is meant to protect officers from retaliation while they are under investigation, saying that some officers have required around‑the-clock protection at their homes after

being accused of misconduct.

Advocates for transparency say 50-a is abused by the NYPD and inconsistently applied, although the department has made some small concessions. O’Neill has publicly supported changes to 50‑a, saying it is “causing problems for the NYPD” and that it’s “not helping us move forward in certain areas.” His boss, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, has also expressed concerns, and had his team in Albany lobby for it to be overturned. But such efforts face opposition from police unions and the state Senate’s Republican majority. Richards said he’ll be pushing to change the law in Albany.

“We’ll be really ramping up advocacy around ensuring that this bill moves,” he said. “We need a repeal. We shouldn’t shield those who are bad actors.”

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THE NEW YORK CITY Police Department hasn’t met Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s demands for access to internal police disciplinary records and investigative reports, but NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill is confident the two sides will reach an agreement.

“We’re working with Cy. We’ve been working to resolve this for a while. We have a very good working relationship with the district attorney,” O’Neill said at City & State’s Protecting New York Summit on July 17.

“After a while, we’ll figure out what’s the right way to go and what’s the right thing to do.

And we usually get there.”

The Manhattan DA’s office and the NYPD have been arguing for weeks over how and when the police department must hand over records to prosecutors, with prosecutors pushing for more access and the

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Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of TACONIC ESSEX MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/11/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Taconic Investment Partners LLC, 111 Eighth Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312169 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 290 MESEROLE ST BROOKLYN, NY 11206.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. NOW AND THEN NYC INC.

HEIDY E FITNESS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/08/2018.

Office loc: WESTCHESTER County.

SSNY shall mail process to: HEIDY E FITNESS, LLC, Attn: Heidy Espaillat, P.O Box 118, New Rochelle, NY 10802.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Jackson PHB Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/10/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 27 W. 24th St, 702, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Beachhead Advisory Group LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/20/2018.

Office: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 230 Treetop Crescent, Rye Brook, New York, 10573.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: Deatomic, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/26/2018.

Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the Deatomic, LLC, P.O. Box 90533, Staten Island, New York 10309. Purpose: For any lawful purpose

OSRICH REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 7/03/2018.

Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Jian Le Wu, 3153 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11208. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of China-U.S. SkyClub LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/26/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/4/17.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 7 World Trade Ctr, 250 Greenwich St, Ste 3304, NY, NY 10007. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity

Notice of Qualification of HIGHLINE 22 LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/11/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 407 Park Ave S., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Gaia Montrose Apartments, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/25/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/7/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 152 W. 57 St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 49 Owner Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 530 E. 76th St, Unit 20G, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ALPHA AESTHETICS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 60 E. 56th St, Ste 302, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Rabinian LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 530 E. 76th St, Unit 20G, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Eversept Partners, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/29/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/15/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 22, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GARY JOE LLC Arts of Org filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/05/2018.

Office location: RICHMOND County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 274 RHINE AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10304.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF QUAL. of EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS HS LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/20/18. Off. Loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 6/19/18. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave, NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. Addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 13257 SANFORD AVENUE, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/02/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/26/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Formation of JJM CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC filed with SSNY on March 1st 2018.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 138 Woodland ave New Rochelle NY 10805. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of CHURTON PROPERTIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of RGN-Brooklyn IV, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/27/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 15305 Dallas Pkwy., Ste. 400, Addison, TX 75001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of S3 CAPITAL FUND III REIT LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE 6/11/18. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Spruce Capital Partners, 444 Madison Avenue, Ste 41, New York, NY 10022.

DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. filed with DE SOS, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of SNOWCAT GP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/25/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/20/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 810 Seventh Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Green Ox Capital, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 7/05/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Green Ox Capital LLC, Attn: Antonia Martinez, 9 Nursery Lane, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NGW LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/24/2018.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 40 W 86t st APT 6C New York, NY 10024.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of Mindful Eating LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on June 28th 2018.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLC to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Business address: 530 Monterey Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803.

Purpose: any lawful act.

SDKA North America, LLC, Arts of Org. with SSNY on 11/26/14. Office: Westchester.

SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to Law office of Jessica M. Jimenez, P.C., 5 McKinley Place, Suite 200, Ardsley, New York, 10502.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF HOOK & REEL FRANCHISE LLC Arts of Org filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/26/2018.

Office location: RICHMOND County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 2590 HYLAN BLVD STE 3 AND 4, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306.

Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of JRD GRP LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/18. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312212 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 624 VANDERBILT AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11238.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. ZEN PIZZA INC. Matter Moda LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 07/10/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Joaquin Gregorio 95 East 7th St, #4, New York, NY 10009. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on August 10, 2018 and end on August 23, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. Household goods and other effects. #468-Marceau Kollie, #816-Angel Crutchfield, #2448- Avery Bock, #43191Quinsessa Harrison, #4429- Mathias Martinez, #6218- Rachel Rendeiro.

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

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STORAGE NOTICE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on August 14, 2018 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: - CHAVARRIA, ROGER/ CARLOS CHAVARRIA - DE LA MORA RAFAEL - ELGEDAWE MAHAMA - GITTENS, NAFEESA - HAMPTON BENJAMIN ANTOINE/MORRISEY KELLEY - HUN XIN YUAN MARQUES/ PATRICK - JOHN DOE & JANE DOE - ISMAEL REDA - JOSHUA TARA - LUGE LINDA I - MONTAZ GALDYS - MALMBERG VAUDREY - MCCOOBERY DENNIS - ODOZI AUSTIN - OTERO ALBIN MILLET

- PERSAUD CAMANEY - PDANSKY JEROME/ CHANCAY FLOR - PEREZ ALEXIE - RESTREPO JEFFREY - SINGLENTON RUSSELL - SILVESTER THOMAS - SHMAYEVICH YAKOV - THEN CRISTINA - ADAMS JESSICA - HOWELL FELIPE/ DOE JOHN/JANE - JEAN PIERRE MARJORIE - LUGO MARIA - LUGO ANGEL - SANTIAGO EVANGELINA - WALKER TENIA ROSS - WILLIAMS SHAMECKA

Notice of Formation of Tacodumbo 114W47 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/11/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 399 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Rarebird Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on 07/10/2018.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 519 W 48th Street #19, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312249 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 120 GRAND ST CROTON ON HUDSON, NY 10520. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312295 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 371 BROOME ST NEW YORK, NY 10013. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

105TWENTY BAR & GRILL INC. Notice of Formation of I Am My Sister (Women helping Women) LLC, filed with SSNY on June 29, 2018.

Office: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process against the LLC: I Am My Sister (Women helping Women) POB 2593, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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ROOT NOLITA LLC.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 36’) on the building at 227-10 Merrick Boulevard, Queens, NY (20181280). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 50.5’) on the building at 945-947 94th St, Brooklyn, NY (20181260). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

August 6, 2018 FRESHRENO NEW YORK LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/11/18. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1967 Wehrle Drive Suite 1 #086 Buffalo, NY 14221.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Fora Financial Business Loans LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/17/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/15/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 519 8th Ave., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10018. DE addr. of LLC: c/o US Corp. Agents, Inc., 300 Delaware Ave., Ste. 210-A, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

IGLOO GERTIE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/25/18. Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 184 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of FULLSTEAM OPERATIONS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/19/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 535 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Aquiline Capital Partners LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

M&M BROWS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with NYS Department of State on 5/24/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County. The New York Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

New York Secretary of State shall mail process to: M&M BROWS, LLC, Attn: Michelle Matos, 44 North Broadway Apt# 5FN, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of FULLSTEAM HOLDINGS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed w i t h Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/26/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 535 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Aquiline Capital Partners LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at three locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 62 feet on a 62foot building at the approx. vicinity of 2887 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11207. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 75 feet on an 80-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 1570 E 14th St, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11230.

Antennas will be installed at a top height of 59 feet on a 61-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 208 & 2108 Union Ave, New Rochelle, Westchester County, NY 10801. Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of Formation of Zenith Venture Capital LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/5/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Battery Park Plz., Ste 310, NY, NY 10004.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of HIC Group GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/20/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/30/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 22, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Zenith Venture Capital LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/5/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Battery Park Plz., Ste 310, NY, NY 10004.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 98’) on the building at 1001 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY (20181294).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice of Formation of Singer 158 Lafayette LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/27/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 95 Delancey St, Fl. 2, NY, NY 10002.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 73’) on the building at 831 Gerard Ave, Bronx, NY (20181277). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 56’) on the building at 169 Lewis Ave, Brooklyn, NY (20181266). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Formation of AVSB Realty LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/30/18. 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 130 W. 3rd St., #4N, New York, NY 10012.

Purpose: Any lawful activity

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at five locations. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 35 feet at the approx. vicinity of 1146 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, Richmond County, NY 10310. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 63 feet at the approx. vicinity of 1539 Park Pl., Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11213. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 82 feet at the approx. vicinity of 45-50 48th Street, Woodside, Queens County, NY 11377. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 59 feet at the approx. vicinity of 534 63rd Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11220. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 135 feet at the approx. vicinity of 106-20 Shore Front Parkway, Rockaway Park, Queens County, NY 11694.

Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erin, e.alsop@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of formation of 7 GRAMS CAFFE - 76 MADISON LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/23/18.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 385 1st Ave., #7H, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Metro Look, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is: Registered Agents Inc. 90 State St. Ste. 700 Office 40 Albany, NY 12207.

The principal business address of the LLC is: 251 W. 74th St. Apt. 7b New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

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August 6, 2018 PUBLIC NOTICE FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF QUEENS SUMMONS - Docket Nos.: B-4409/18x ------------------------------------------------X In the Matters of RICHARD LEE PATTERSON Dependant child, under the age of 14 years, to the custody of SCO Family of Services, alleged to be permanently negelected and abandoned child, pursuant to Section 384-b of the Social Services Law. -------------------------------------------------X IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: TO: MARTIN ST. CLAIR FRASER COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Verified Petitions having been filed in this Court alleging that the above-named child in the care of SCO Family of Services, the petitioner, are permanently neglected and abandoned child as defined by Article 6, Part 1 of the Family Court Act and Section 384-b of the Social Services Law. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before the Family Court at 151-20 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, New York, Part 10, 2nd floor on the 5th day of September, 2018 before the Hon. Judge Diane Costanzo at 11:00 o’clock in the forenoon of said day to show cause why the Court should not enter an Order depriving you of all the rights of custody of RICHARD LEE PATTERSON, awarding the custody of said child to the petitioning authorized agency as permanently neglected and abandoned child as provided by law.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that if said child are adjudged to be permanently neglected and abandoned child, and, if custody is awarded to said authorized agency, said child may be adopted with the consent of said agency and without further notice to you and without your consent.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that your failure to appear will result in the termination of all your parental rights to the child.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that your failure to appear shall constitute a denial of an interest in the child, which denial may result in the transfer or commitment of the child’s care, custody, guardianship or adoption of the child, all without further notice to the parents of the child.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that you are entitled to be represented by an attorney, and, if you cannot afford to retain an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you by the court free of charge to you.

Dated: February 27, 2018

By Order of the Court Robert Ratanski Clerk, Family Court, Queens Co.

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Notice of Qualification of Chava Feigen, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/29/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/23/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

HOZHO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/08/18. 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, 244 Madison Avenue, Suite 1590, New York, NY 10016.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Vineyard 718, LLC filed with SSNY on May 05, 2018.

Office: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 92 Tier St., Bx, NY 10464. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 32’) on the building at 45 Twombly Ave, Staten Island, NY (20181189).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice of Formation of Valibac LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 3/7/18. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Isaac Chestnut, 10 Stratford Rd, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for SOUTH 4TH RESTAURANT COMPANY LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 321 Starr Street in the Borough of Brooklyn for a term of two years.

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

Notice of Qualification of RowCon, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/16/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/17/17.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Wade S. Ninemire, 5265 Parkway Plaza Blvd., Ste. 130, Charlotte, NC 28217.

Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, Divisions of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number (PENDING) for (BEER, CIDER LIQUOR AND/OR WINE)has been applied for by the undersigned* (JANIO REYNOSO, EL AGAVE BAR LOUNGE) to sell (BEER, CIDER LIQUOR AND/OR WINE) at retail in a (TAVERN BAR WITH MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF FOOD) under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at (12a GUION STREET, YONKERS, NY 10701 WESTCHESTER COUNTY) for on premises consumption.

JANIO REYNOSO, EL AGAVE BAR LOUNGE

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Who was up and who was down last week

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Obama dropped 81 endorsements, and these were New York’s lucky winners.

This outspoken PSC member happened to be out of town when it banished Charter Spectrum. Coincidence? Nah.

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Sometimes the MTA is late. Other times it puts a big blue wall in front of your N train.

Giving the Conservative nod to someone who pays you 20K? Yeah, not shady at all.

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You’re a village trustee, not Vito Corleone.

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ANDREW CUOMO The tabloids are mad the governor deflected a reporter’s questions by trashing NY1’s corporate owner, but nothing seems to slow Cuomo these days. He’s beating Cynthia Nixon by 31 percentage points in a recent poll. Perhaps his popularity stems from some heroic gestures last week.

He offered to pay for a $30 permit for the 7-year-old whose lemonade stand was shut down by the Health Department and even offered to officiate a wedding for a gay couple denied a marriage license in New York.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may be above the law when it comes to running red lights or doing donors political favors – but not when it comes to jury duty! Hizzonor spent some time in court on Wednesday, but ultimately wasn’t picked to serve. De Blasio may be less familiar with the courtroom than, say, President Donald Trump’s lead lawyer, but he could’ve made a good juror. He practices every week reviewing this list, considering the facts and ruling on the Winners & Losers.

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