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EDITOR’S NOTE / Contents In Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” a surgeon named Lemuel Gulliver survives a shipwreck and washes ashore on a remote island, where he collapses in exhaustion. Hours later, he wakes to find himself strapped down and unable to move. Even more astonishingly, he discovers that he is surrounded by a crowd of tiny Lilliputians, who subdue him with a barrage of arrows when he tries to break free.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may not be in such dire straits, but he too is beset by a host of adversaries, some of them from his own party – all of them smaller, at least in stature, although none of the 6-inch-tall variety.

Despite a string of policy achievements and solid political support among key constituencies, the mayor may find himself constrained by corruption charges, depending on how several investigations into him and his associates play out.

For Gulliver, it all ended well enough. His captors gave him food and drink, set him free and even relied on him as an ally. Will de Blasio’s Democratic rivals tie him down – or rally around him?

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

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WAYNE BARRETT, 1945-2017 Reflecting on the life and work of the legendary investigative reporter.

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INDIAN POINT Richard Brodsky looks back at his long battle against the nuclear power plant.

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DE BLASIO’S CHALLENGERS We profile the people who could potentially primary the mayor.

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SPOTLIGHT ON PUBLIC SAFETY From community policing to cybersecurity, a look at how the government keeps New Yorkers safe.

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NEW YORK NONPROFIT How trained officers can prevent tragedy when police respond to people in emotional crisis.

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LAST WEEK’S HEADLINES POOR, POOR MILLIONAIRES Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal is out and the battle lines are being drawn by the Legislature.

One front: a so-called “millionaires tax” that places a higher state tax rate on individuals making more than $1 million. Cuomo wants to renew it, making up for a scheduled middle-class tax cut. Predictably, state Senate Republicans hope to repeal it while Assembly Democrats hope to raise it.

BACK&FORTH A Q&A with New York City Republican mayoral candidate

PAUL MASSEY JR.

C&S: What’s one major problem you could fix?

PM: Homelessness is a big one for a lot of people we’re talking to. But it goes to leadership. With the homeless shelters being mismanaged, it’s a hallmark of the current administration. We need leadership that is management-focused, independent-minded and not beholden to special interest groups. I’m a political outsider.

C&S: Like Donald Trump, you’re a real estate developer who’s independently wealthy and new to politics.

PM: We’re different people. I came to New York City with $150 in my pocket, and I scrapped my way to starting a small business. My business was a service business, so I had to lead and inspire hundreds of people. I’m a servant-leader. I’m very disciplined and looking forward to running each of the city departments and having people be proud to be part of helping run the city – bringing in great managers to run each of the departments and high-level deputy mayors, that’s a pattern that’s followed us around for long time.

C&S: Are you more in the mold of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg?

PM: Michael Bloomberg was a great guy because when he didn’t need to, he dedicated his life to public service. It’ll be realized by a lot of people, but I’d be the third consecutive mayor who was from Boston, so we share similar roots.

I’m sure we’re of a similar mindset. I’m a great admirer of his. One of the things that might be a contrast is my business was in every part of New York City and more than half of our revenue came from outside of Manhattan.

CITY FOR SALE Running for New York City mayor is expensive – just ask Michael Bloomberg – so take note when somebody raises more money than the incumbent. GOP real estate executive Paul Massey Jr. (see our interview on this page) raised $1.6 million in six months to Bill de Blasio’s $1 million, but the mayor is riding high on a Q poll showing him easily beating his potential primary challengers – except longshot dark horse Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP TAKES OVER Son of Queens Donald Trump has moved out of New York for the first time since college to take on his latest development: the United States of America. Many U.S. House members from New York skipped the inauguration in protest, such as U.S. Reps. Nydia Velazquez, Yvette Clarke and Adriano Espaillat. There were protests in Manhattan too, including a star-studded rally with de Blasio and Robert De Niro.

THIS WEEK’S EVENTS THURSDAY, JAN. 26 8 a.m. – The Association for a Better New York hosts an Applied Sciences and Higher Education Breakfast Panel with Columbia President Lee Bollinger, NYU President Andrew Hamilton, CUNY Chancellor James Milliken and others on how the city’s institutions of higher learning are preparing the workforce of the future, Marriott Marquis, Astor Ballroom, 1535 Broadway, Manhattan.

MONDAY, JAN. 30 6:30 p.m. – City & State hosts the second annual 50 Over 50 event, honoring some of the most distinguished public servants in New York City including Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and consultant and former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr., The Ainsworth Midtown, 45 E. 33rd St., Manhattan.

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DID YOU MISS IT? STATE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo toured the state, City & State gave the spotlight to some other Capitol players at our annual State of Our State reception Jan. 10 at The State Room in Albany. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s easy wit made the state’s financial situation accessible, and our panel of legislators – representing both houses and all three conferences – talked frankly about what they were hearing in the governor’s proposals, before the real talk began over drinks.

WEEKLY PODCAST WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST

ANTHONY PAPA

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli

Susan Zimet of Hunger Action Network of New York State with Barbara Bartoletti of the New York State League of Women Voters

Tom Kaczmarek of the state Department of Public Service; Saitavius Fox, Tyleigh Versocki and Joe Bonilla of Relentless Awareness; and Alejandra Diaz of the state Department of Health

SHANNON DECELLE

Corey Ellis of NYSNA

An expert panel featured State Sens. Cathy Young and Diane Savino and Assembly members Richard Gottfried and Crystal Peoples-Stokes

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried

Blair Horner of NYPIRG with Tom Stebbins of LRANY

Have photos from an event you’d like to see here? Send them to features@cityandstateny.com.

Does 15 years to life for one drug deal sound excessive? Anthony Papa is a living example of the ramifications of the Rockefeller drug laws, having served 12 years at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for a nonviolent drug crime before Gov. George Pataki commuted his sentence in 1996. Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pardoned Papa, clearing his record after 20 years fighting for criminal justice reform and against the excesses of the United States’ war on drugs.

“At Sing Sing prison, where I was, it was a tough place. It was a living nightmare. The same people that were stabbing each other in the blocks, after a couple weeks in my art class, they were painting each other’s portraits.”

“The politicians that are speaking out against Judy Clark – I’ve seen this before, using a crime for their political platform to look tough on crime. It doesn’t work all the time. Look at my case. … I’m out 20 years, a law-abiding citizen, taxpayer, helping my community. Judy Clark would do the same thing. She changed her life.

People can change if you give them a second chance.”

Listen, subscribe and review this week’s podcast by searching for “New York Slant” on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or your favorite podcast app.

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WAYNE BARRETT, 1945-2017

END of an ERA

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AST THURSDAY, Wayne Barrett died at the age of 71. The following day, Donald Trump, a target of Barrett’s fearless reporting over the decades, ascended to the presidency. It’s the kind of uncanny connection that Barrett himself would have made – and one that punctuates the end of an era.

Starting at The Village Voice in the early 1970s, Barrett established himself as one of New York’s leading muckrakers. He amassed an encyclopedic knowledge of the characters that populated his beat and shed light on the transgressions and shadowy ties of politicians like Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Al D’Amato. His exposés were delivered with withering quips and a moral

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Looking back at the life of the legendary investigative reporter – and dogged Trump foe

outrage that rarely gave way to cynicism.

Barrett, who followed his instincts instead of the pack, was decades ahead of the rest of the media in his scrutiny of Trump. In 1991, he published a hardhitting biography titled “Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.” It wasn’t a financial success. But as the real estate developer rose on his unlikely path to the White House, the book was republished and Barrett became an indispensable resource for other reporters seeking to understand the unorthodox candidate.

The contrast between the writer and the subject could not have been more stark.

Barrett would spend weeks or months searching for answers and fact-checking his work, while Trump can contradict

himself several times in just a few minutes.

While Trump revels in his wealth, Barrett had to be reminded to submit invoices to be paid for his freelance work. Most importantly, Barrett was a thorn in the side of the rich and powerful, digging up the unsavory details that held them to account.

With a new president in office who belittles reporters and bars them from events, Barrett will be sorely missed. He had the privilege of coming up alongside greats like Jack Newfield and Jimmy Breslin, and reporters of my generation had Barrett to look up to. Now that he’s gone, there’s no one left quite like him.

– JON LENTZ, editor-in-chief

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HIS OWN WORDS

Wayne Barrett wrote several investigative stories for City & State in recent years and was an occasional guest on video and podcast interviews.

In honor of Barrett, we invite you to remember the legendary journalist through his own words.

On DONALD TRUMP In a City & State podcast taped last spring, Barrett weighed in on Trump, the subject of a recently reissued 1991 biography by Barrett. “No one ever said the obvious, but the obvious is that this is a race button that Donald has pushed," Barrett said. “He thought he was gonna run in 2012 and what button did he push? The birther button.

He’s understood this for a long time. He thought he might run for mayor in ‘89, when he did the ads about the death penalty in the jogger case in Central Park. He’s had one move to the basket and it’s race, and he understood that this was supposed to be a subliminal message. Not too subliminal, but a subliminal message of the Republican Party, the ‘Southern strategy’ nationwide.

But he’s made it extremely explicit.”

On ANDREW CUOMO In the spring of 2014, Barrett gave a wide-ranging video interview about the governor with City & State’s Gerson Borrero. “He has a tremendous mechanical mind, he can fix anything,” Barrett said of the governor. “I have met a lot of politicians in my life. Politicians are a lot like me – they can't fix anything.

Andrew can fix, and make anything work.”

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“It was courage alone that made him governor,” Barrett wrote in early 2015 after the death of former Gov. Mario Cuomo. “He was lieutenant governor as 1982 approached and Gov. Hugh Carey’s expected departure opened the door for him. But Rupert Murdoch used the New York Post to literally draft (Ed) Koch for governor, just a few months after he’d been re-elected mayor. Koch was 50 points ahead in early polls. The bonanza of real estate and Wall Street money was tumbling into Koch coffers.

David Garth, the campaign guru who’d promised to manage Mario’s media, switched camps, casting Cuomo as such a loser he might not even get the votes at the state convention necessary to put him on the ballot. Twenty-four-year-old Andrew managed a delegate triumph and months later Mario rode the minority vote to a stunning win.”

After Silver’s conviction, Barrett drew attention to the former Assembly speaker’s longtime ties to Lippman, the state’s former chief judge. “Lippman and Silver have known each other since they were 6, growing up together on the Lower East Side, and Silver made no secret of his use of power on Lippman’s behalf, so much so that Lippman referred to him as ‘family’ at one swearingin,” he wrote. “The first chief judge since the 19th century to have never served on the Court of Appeals, Lippman catapulted to the top despite a career that was almost entirely administrative rather than judicial, thanks in large part to the speaker. Neither Silver nor Lippman, however, was satisfied with this unlikely triumph. Though Silver had never supported a referendum to change the age limits for judges until Lippman neared the retirement age of 70, he pushed it onto the ballot in 2013 despite the opposition of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the black and Latino caucus of his own members, both of which wanted to replace an overwhelmingly white, and disproportionately Republican, cadre of older judges.”

On SHELDON SILVER In the wake of the scandal that brought down Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Barrett chronicled the Manhattan politician’s checkered past and questionable ties. “The sphinxlike former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who presented no defense at trial just as he answered no questions for decades, was convicted this week a few feet from where his public career started 45 years ago,” Barrett wrote. “He is now gone from our lives, his Assembly seat as vacant as his eyes, completing his shuffle from Manhattan State Supreme Court, where he began as a law secretary in 1971, to the federal courthouse on Foley Square, where 12 of his peers finally got a chance to judge seven of his felonies.”

On HIMSELF In a 2007 Q&A with City Hall, City & State’s predecessor publication, Barrett answered questions about himself, including his zeal for reporting: “First of all, my father was a nuclear physicist, and he certainly worked all the time,” he said. “I guess it’s probably a little bit learned. But I also like to think it’s because I love the beat so much. It’s just endlessly fascinating, and some of the local characters on my state or local beat are becoming national players. Rudy (Giuliani) is endlessly fascinating. I certainly don’t have to force myself to do any of this work. It comes as easily as watching a Red Sox game, which is my other passion.”

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COMMENTARY

POWERING DOWN A long battle against Indian Point

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By RICHARD BRODSKY

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO HAS ANNOUNCED AN AGREEMENT WITH INDIAN POINT'S OPERATOR, ENTERGY, TO SHUT DOWN THE POWER PLANT BY 2021.

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NDIAN POINT nuclear plant is closing. It's an ancient, decrepit, dangerous, uneconomical white elephant 35 miles from Manhattan on the banks of the Hudson River. It is too dangerous and too close to New York City to continue operation. But for 55 years, the plant defied common sense and survived as the poster child for the political power of the nuclear industry.

The story of Indian Point Energy Center is a testament to persistence and politics. The deal to close the plant was driven by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Good for him, a promise kept. He's also the architect of public subsidies for failing upstate nuke plants, but never mind. He's done well, and truly.

There's a wonderful cautionary tale in the decades of work that culminated in Cuomo's closure announcement: Don't let the bastards get you down. And there's recognition to be offered to a lot of folks.

It began when the environmental movement was born on the Hudson River, when Pete Seeger and his Hudson River Sloop Clearwater organization campaigned against a different power plant proposed for the banks of the river. But folks soon turned to opposing Indian Point.

The reasons were obvious: No nuclear plant should be sited so close to a major city.

Indian Point had the worst safety record in the nation, it's situated on an earthquake fault and, over time, it aged and began

to fall apart. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was a bad regulator, and it wasn't even a cheaper source of energy, once you calculated all the taxpayer subsidies: fuel costs, disposition of waste, insurance limits, free public water, etc.

But the struggle to bring these dangers to the fore was not easy. Forty years ago, people began to take a hard look at Indian Point, and I began serving in Westchester County and then in the state Legislature, representing communities within 10 miles of Indian Point. The power of public office enabled me to do a bunch of investigations into what was really going on at the plant, and to bring lawsuits to try to stop bad and dangerous stuff.

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We started in 1978 with a look at the transport of low-level radioactive waste (not spent uranium fuel) through the streets of Westchester to a government facility in South Carolina. A little dangerous, but unnecessarily so. It was an insight into how government and some corporations were in cahoots to protect private interests, and it piqued my interest into examining things like the safety of the casks and storage pools for toxic spent fuel.

In 2000, there was a major explosion and radioactive leak at Indian Point, which at that time was owned by New York's beloved electric utility, Con Edison.

The utility, it turns out, had failed to repair or maintain parts of the reactor generator that it knew were rusting away. Eventually the pipes burst and lots of radioactive steam escaped into the air. To make matters worse, Con Ed decided to charge the public for the costs of its own negligence.

The Legislature and Gov. George Pataki agreed on a law that forced Con Ed, not ratepayers, to pony up for the repairs.

Con Ed sued in response, and I began my history of courtroom appearances litigating Indian Point issues in federal and state court. This one eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where we lost, in a truly awful decision.

In 2001, a 9/11 terrorist plane flew over Indian Point on the way to the World Trade Center. That focused attention on what was called the “evacuation plan,” and we began the first investigation into what was actually in it. The plan was a real phony – unworkable and buried by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It was as dishonest a public document as any I've seen. The plan only applied to folks within 10 miles of the plant. The roads simply couldn't take the planned congestion.

People in New York City were told to stay home and close the windows. We fought with then-FEMA Administrator Michael Brown (Remember Hurricane Katrina? “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” That guy.) and local officials who developed the plan. That led to the first official state investigation of Indian Point when Pataki commissioned former FEMA head James Lee Witt to look at the evacuation plan. Witt confirmed what we had known about the plan, but it never got any better.

By early 2002, we were amazed to learn that Indian Point was taking about 2.7 billion gallons of Hudson River water every day, using it to cool down the reactors and dumping back into the river

untreated. The plant didn’t pay a cent for the industrial use of a public asset, and it did not have the required Clean Water Act permit to allow it to suck up all that water.

The owner of the plant, Entergy, had finagled with the Pataki administration to avoid the law, pointing to an application it filed for a water permit with the state Department of Environmental Conservation years ago. Rather than ruling on the application, the agency sat on the application and refused to rule, instead granting decades worth of temporary permits. We talked to the

THERE'S A WONDERFUL CAUTIONARY TALE IN THE DECADES OF WORK THAT CULMINATED IN CUOMO'S CLOSURE ANNOUNCEMENT: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN. Hudson River enviros, especially Pete Seeger, and decided to sue DEC. Our theory was that the department had a legal obligation to rule on the permit application, approve or disapprove, and that sitting on it indefinitely and issuing interim permits was illegal. Seeger and I, and other local activists, served as the plaintiffs (I was also their lawyer), DEC as the defendant, and off we went.

And we won. The result was that DEC began legal consideration of the application and a gigantic set of hearings began, and continue to this day. DEC finally agreed that what Entergy was doing was illegal and recommended the requirement of a

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$1 billion cooling system to be paid for on Entergy’s dime. This would have longterm and powerful consequences.

But in 2007, we discovered that Indian Point was still not meeting fire safety requirements, and had defective fire insulation on the important electric cables that could shut down the reactor. Worse, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission knew about it and had given Indian Point a secret exemption from the fire safety requirements. Again, working with local folks, we sued. I was the plaintiff and lawyer, and the NRC was the defendant.

That was the beginning of a nine-year odyssey in the federal court system that included the help of lawyer Dan Kramer and his crack pro bono team at Paul Weiss, a brush with then-U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, and five separate rulings by federal judges. Ultimately, we lost that fight.

Indian Point’s NRC operating license expired in 2013, after which the commission started relicensing hearings – and distorted the legal requirements for relicensing in the process. For example, the NRC disallowed any evidence that the plant violated its own safety requirements and focused only on whether certain plant valves were unacceptably old. But the environmental community rallied and fought the relicensing, tooth and nail.

New York started a second permit process under its Coastal Zone Management Act powers that doubled down on the ongoing Clean Water Act process. All three are ongoing, and present a real problem for Entergy.

Lest all this activity appear to be the only work being done on Indian Point, or even the most important, we need to recognize the continuing and effective efforts of individuals and organizations like Riverkeeper, the National Resources Defense Council, and the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, among many others. These groups were on the front lines of grinding legal battles – keeping the political leadership on its toes, shaping public opinion, and watching the plant and its regulators like a hawk.

Riverkeeper, especially, made Indian Point a signature issue, led by John Cronin, Alex Matthiessen, Paul Gallay and the ubiquitous Hamilton Fish, whose shrewd and consistent leadership was crucial. But the plant and the nuclear industry had strong protectors in politics and in government. As persistent as we were, and as right as we were on the legal issues, closing the plant seemed remote.

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THE LATE FOLK SINGER PETE SEEGER AND HIS ORGANIZATION, HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER, HELPED LEAD THE CHARGE AGAINST INDIAN POINT.

THE FINAL DEAL IS NOT PERFECT. THE NON-PUBLIC DETAILS ARE CRUCIAL: WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SPENT FUEL? WHO CAN ENFORCE THE DEAL IF ENTERGY GETS FRISKY?

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Thankfully, new forces emerged. As time passed, economic realities began to have a cumulative impact on Indian Point. The reactor grew old and began to fall apart, and the costs of repair and maintenance went through the roof. The looming additional costs of the cooling system that the DEC permit required added to the plant’s economic woes.

The plunge in energy prices – largely a function of the proliferation of fracking – added revenue shortfalls to the increased costs. Meanwhile, Cuomo persisted in his promise to close the plant and Entergy made a decision to sell off its nuclear portfolio.

All of a sudden the handwriting was on the wall. Even with the government subsidies, Entergy was about to lose money on Indian Point, exacerbated by the uncertainty surrounding the various licensing and permit processes. The state was also awash in replacement electricity, and the phony assertions that New Yorkers would see major increases in their electric bills as a result of the plant’s closure was obviously untrue.

The tide had turned, and Cuomo pounced.

His team, led by the departing Director of State Operations Jim Malatras, started highly secret and difficult negotiations with Entergy and the enviros. Entergy was tired of the fight, afraid of the economics and wanted to sell the plant to someone who would run it for its remaining few years. The enviros were facing a Trump Nuclear Regulatory Commission that was likely to relicense the reactors; they had insufficient resources to wage every legal battle, while having considerable leverage over the outcomes of the various permit fights.

The final deal is not perfect. The non-public details are crucial: Will taxpayers now have to pick up the costs of decommissioning? How soon will the plants actually close? What about new safety concerns like deteriorating bolts holding the reactor together? What happens to the spent fuel? Who can enforce the deal if Entergy gets frisky?

Who will buy and operate the plant?

None of this is chopped liver. But the plant is finally closing, and that's a very good thing.

The details of the knock-down-dragout negotiations will eventually emerge.

They're interesting, but the important lesson is less about the last battle and more about decades of persistent, principled work by lots of people.

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all, how dangerous it is, would reach the same conclusion: close it.

Alas, evidence and argument are too often insufficient. Indian Point was the battlefield over which bigger issues loomed. After catastrophes at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, who

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It was never difficult to marshal evidence and argument about the health, safety and economic truths about Indian Point. Any fair-minded examination of how the plant was constructed and operated, how it was regulated, how it got subsidies and taxpayer benefits, and above

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would control nuclear facilities? Could a state overpower the NRC? Can citizens force bureaucracies to reform? What will happen to folks whose jobs are attached to Indian Point? Is nuclear power inherently too dangerous, or is it possible to build newer and safe plants? What is the role for nuclear power in a non-carbon world?

None of those questions have been answered by the closing of Indian Point, nor have these larger battles been won.

As often happens, the politics and the winning or losing of a particular fistfight becomes more important than the issues it raises. But lessons can be learned. For a generation of citizen activists, it's a good day, a rare victory. For cynics, it's a reminder that politicians can persist, force compromise and keep promises. For the public, things will be safer, and sooner than we had feared.

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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO INSPECTED INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR FACILITY BY BOAT IN OCTOBER.

Our Perspective A Pro-Worker Legislative Agenda for 2017

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

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n New York, working people continue to struggle against economic inequality. That’s why the RWDSU endorses a legislative agenda throughout New York that can help promote fairness and security for working men and women. With the Trump Administration raising all sorts of concerns about how its policies will affect working people, what we do on a state level is going to be more important than ever.

New York’s car wash industry has traditionally been beset by worker exploitation and wage theft. To help battle wage theft, the RWDSU advocates for an elimination of the statewide car wash workers tip credit.

Currently, it is legal to pay car wash workers below state minimum wage on the presumption that they receive tips that will make up the difference. However, this exception is often used as a vehicle for wage theft. Bosses often keep tips for themselves, and workers have been coerced into signing papers saying that have received these tips when they haven’t – resulting in actual take home pay for workers

that is illegally low. Car wash workers throughout New York deserve to be paid at least the state minimum wage and protection from wage theft.

Families throughout New York spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on childcare – a huge burden for working families. To help, the RWDSU is working with the NY Union Childcare Coalition to expand the NYS Childcare Facilitated Enrollment Project, a state pilot program that provides childcare subsidies to moderate-income working families. The RWDSU has worked with state legislative leaders to ensure that workers in the retail industry – many of whom already live paycheck to paycheck – have access to childcare subsidies. This year, we will join with our coalition partners in asking the state to renew its commitment to the program. We support the IDC’s $25 million proposal for Facilitated Enrollment and we will work to expand the program to our members in new and unserved areas of Long Island and Western New York.

Richard Brodsky is a lawyer and a senior fellow at both Demos and NYU's Wagner School. He is also a former 14-term assemblyman from Westchester County.

Retail workers continue to face the burden of on-call scheduling, where they must make themselves available without pay and often don’t find out until the last minute if they’ll actually be working that day. On call scheduling makes it impossible for workers to take a needed second job or plan for the basic necessities of their lives, including child care, education, or medical care. New York State reporting pay law currently ensures that workers who are sent home early receive up to four hours of pay in compensation. We need to expand reporting pay protection to on-call scheduling. There really isn’t much difference between being sent home early and being subjected to on-call scheduling. In both cases, workers put their lives on hold whether or not they are actually needed for work. We need to protect workers, and at the same time provide an incentive for employers to stop on-call scheduling.

Expanding reporting pay protection does both.

And, we support efforts in New York City to ban the abusive practice altogether.

A pro-worker legislative agenda can help workers throughout New York share in the prosperity that is currently being enjoyed by far too few.

Empowering and protecting workers will strengthen our state and communities.

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CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR Bill de Blasio’s rivals weigh in on his record – and how to improve New York City

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EW YORK CITY MAYOR Bill de Blasio has dramatically expanded prekindergarten, created or preserved thousands of affordable housing units and largely kept the city safe. Most Democrats in the city approve of the job he’s doing and have a favorable opinion of him. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president and a Republican sweep in Congress, shellshocked Democrats are closing ranks around their incumbents across the country.

But de Blasio, up for re-election this year, is not guaranteed an easy path to another four years. A number of Democrats are waiting to see whether any criminal charges are handed down after reports that de Blasio allies allegedly intentionally circumvented campaign finance laws or gave donors preferable treatment at City Hall. Some primary challengers have already jumped in. For other potential Democratic rivals, the decision to run will hinge on whether charges are brought, and if so, their severity. De Blasio has insisted that he and his team broke no laws.

With so many unknowns, City & State sidestepped the early speculation about who’s in and who’s out. Instead, we reached out to the handful of Democrats widely seen to be considering a bid – as well as those who have already announced – to ask how the city is faring and what strategies they might employ to better serve the five boroughs.

Nearly every potential challenger criticized the mayor for not doing enough to help the homeless. The mayor has called homelessness his No. 1 frustration, but argued that his administration has made progress. Another complaint is that de Blasio’s feud with Gov. Andrew Cuomo has cost the city in school and transit resources, to which City Hall has said it is necessary to challenge the governor. And although de Blasio says crime has reached historic lows as officers curtail their use of stop-and-frisk and take a more collaborative approach, his reform efforts may be picked apart by critics on the right and the left.

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okes about New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s political aspirations bookended a Jewish heritage celebration Stringer hosted last month.

“It gives me personal great pleasure to introduce an individual who I look forward to see continue growing in this position, and eventually, step up to maybe, one day, serving as our mayor of New York City,” Moshe Zakheim, president of the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, told the more than 100 people gathered in the New York State Supreme Court Building lobby.

Stringer laughed off the remark, saying, “Moshe, Moshe, you’re in trouble now.” But he did not bother responding when the final honoree of the evening, former Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, hinted that Stringer’s current post may be up for grabs. “Mr. Comptroller, I don’t know what your future holds for you,” Goldfeder said. “But I would say I look pretty good behind this podium.”

For months, Stringer has reportedly been privately conferring with supporters and consultants about a potential mayoral run, but once leaked to reporters, he declined to discuss such ruminations in detail. He has, however, been vocal about where he thinks de Blasio is falling short, issuing audits and reports faulting the administration on everything from not doing enough business

with minority- and women-owned firms to conditions in the Rikers Island jails.

Asked at the courthouse event how the city is faring, Stringer said, “We have some real challenges.” He ticked through federal funding issues that could arise under President Donald Trump and concerns with the city’s handling of child welfare and homelessness, two issues on which he has released scathing audits.

What is going well? Crime remains low and the economy is strong, Stringer said, while noting that concerns about the market beginning to sag worry him every day.

Given their mandate to audit city agencies, comptrollers have long clashed with mayors.

They also frequently mount mayoral campaigns. In the past six decades, all but one city comptroller ran for mayor, according to The New York Times. And Stringer has already pursued the post, albeit only briefly.

He dropped out of the last mayoral primary when he failed to gain traction in the polls, and decided to run for comptroller instead.

As comptroller, Stringer has moved the city’s various pension forms toward consolidation by holding a common investment meeting. He has encouraged corporate shareholders to seek access to proxy ballots for nominating board directors, which Stringer has framed as a way to compel corporations to diversify their

boards, rethink their approach to climate change and rein in executive compensation.

The city pension funds themselves, however, have been falling short of revenue targets, forcing the city to pay more into them than anticipated. The comptroller’s office has said the pension funds performed better in a tough market than many of their counterparts across the country.

Before being elected comptroller, Stringer developed a reputation as a prolific fundraiser and a policy wonk. As the son of a former city councilwoman and a staffer of former Mayor Abraham Beame, Stringer embraced politics at a young age. Former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger recalled at the Jewish heritage event how a young Stringer handed out leaflets during her campaigns. He went on to win an Upper West Side Assembly seat and the Manhattan borough presidency.

Asked about mounting another mayoral campaign, Stringer said he was focused on improving the city, without mentioning in what specific elected capacity.

“Obviously, it’s not about what office or the politics of the moment,” he said, while taking a break from shaking hands and posing for photos under the mosaics covering the court lobby’s domed roof. “We’re doing the strong work of the city, and I just want to focus on that for as long as I can.”

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ronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. spent a significant part of a Friday evening last month calling for “a strong round of applause” – for a police official, a state senator and constituents who caught the holiday spirit.

Outside of the 47th Police Precinct in the Bronx, Díaz praised Inspector Ruel Stephenson and his officers for gathering some 5,000 items for a holiday toy giveaway, and encouraged the children and mothers lining up to receive them to clap. Later, at the Morris Park Community Association’s party, Díaz mentioned that he recently accepted an invitation to discuss the borough’s progress in Beacon, in the Hudson Valley, and cajoled the few dozen attendees there into applauding the Bronx’s ascension. He credited group after group: leaders in the state capital, the Bronx’s City Council delegation, the borough’s congressional representatives – and pretty much anyone else living in the borough.

“We have individuals like each and every single one of you, who are from the Bronx, who love your community, who understand that yes, you want to make your household and your blocks better and Morris Park better, but you know that doing so makes the entire Bronx better – and that makes me look good,” he said.

Notably, Mayor Bill de Blasio did not make the list of people commended by Díaz, who is considering heeding those who have

encouraged him to challenge the mayor.

The borough president focused solely on drawbacks when asked during an interview with City & State how the city was faring.

Díaz said he believed some of New York City’s greatest struggles – including homelessness, transportation and education – would be dramatically different if City Hall had a better relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s staff. “It’s a shame,” said Díaz, who has a close relationship with Cuomo and served as co-chairman of the governor’s re-election campaign. “We have to work for the people of the city of New York and the state of New York. And at times, it means getting through personalities.

At times, it means understanding that you can’t do it by yourself.”

Díaz views the mayor’s record in the Bronx as mixed. The borough president said he has worked well with city housing and park officials, but he criticized the administration for not putting any money toward the restoration of the Orchard Beach Pavilion, which is a historic site that Díaz wants to refurbish and turn into a year-round tourist attraction. And he went so far as to describe de Blasio’s approach to the Kingsbridge Armory as “destructive” to economic development.

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legal challenge to the administration’s policy of withholding access to the site until all preliminary funding was raised, according to the Daily News.

Díaz hitched his reputation to the armory in 2009, when he opposed efforts to turn it into a mall because developers refused to pay workers an elevated minimum wage.

At the time, Díaz had recently won a special election for the borough presidency.

Before that, he represented the Soundview neighborhood in the Assembly and collaborated with others in the so-called Rainbow Rebellion to seize control of the Bronx Democratic County Committee.

Díaz grew up helping his father, an evangelical preacher from Puerto Rico, mount unsuccessful campaigns in the Bronx, according to the Observer. (The elder Díaz won City Council and state Senate seats years after his son became an elected official.)

Since leaving the Assembly for Borough Hall, Díaz has cultivated a reputation for working with real estate developers, pushing for more gifted and talented classes, backing charter schools and partnering with the governor on economic development initiatives.

Will City Hall be his next destination? Díaz said he remains unsure. “If you asked me to make a decision today, I would say that I am running for re-election,” he said. “But in one way, shape or form, in this coming year, I intend to be a strong voice for the vision of the future of the Bronx and the city.”

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Quinn, president and CEO of Win – a shelter and advocacy group previously called Women In Need – told City & State that many people wound up in the East Harlem complex after being let down by various people and institutions.

Shelter residents need to see that people are there for them and believe in them, Quinn said, gesturing toward the volunteers dishing up food and urging children to pose for a photo on Santa’s lap.

As she described her goal of inspiring fellow New Yorkers to help break the cycle of homelessness, Quinn paused to encourage mothers to take second helpings back to their units and to chat with children about Saint Nick’s “real name.”

“How can you know they (families with children) are 70 percent of who is in shelter, and look the other way? If you know the facts, you can’t,” Quinn said.

“We’ve come to believe that shelters are the problem and that homeless people are the problem. That’s not true. The societal conditions that lead people to homelessness – those are the problems.”

Quinn, the former New York City Council speaker and the early frontrunner in the 2013 mayoral race before losing to Bill de Blasio, has used her position as a nonprofit

leader to take on her old rival – possibly paving the way for another run at City Hall.

At an Association for a Better New York breakfast in October, she argued that the de Blasio administration was failing to counteract stereotypes about who is homeless and the causes behind homelessness. False narratives have contributed to City Hall’s inability to counteract a not-in-my-backyard mentality and build the shelters families need, Quinn said. Instead, the city has relied on hotels and apartment units that Quinn described as ill-suited for transitioning families to self-sufficiency. She also called on the city to invest more in counseling and other services needed by the many victims of domestic violence in the shelter system and to expand income-building programs.

Additionally, Quinn has penned opeds on where city homelessness policy errs and worked with Win to launch an ad campaign highlighting how homeless mothers are similar to other New Yorkers.

If Quinn does challenge de Blasio, it won’t be the first – or the second – time they’ve bumped heads. The two clashed during a competition for the City Council speakership that Quinn ultimately won, making her the first female and openly gay lawmaker to hold the position, according to the Daily News. During her losing 2013 mayoral primary run, Quinn struggled to beat back the perception – encouraged by de Blasio – that she worked closely

with former Mayor Michael Bloomberg to prioritize wealthy New Yorkers’ interests.

Her vote allowing Bloomberg to seek a third term proved particularly controversial.

Since the last election cycle, Quinn has emerged as a prominent voice promoting female leadership. She appeared on national television as a surrogate for the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.

And while serving a special adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she worked with the Women’s Equality Party he launched, though critics viewed the endeavor as mostly aimed at buttressing the governor’s image. Quinn continues to serve as vice chairwoman of the state Democratic Committee, a body Cuomo holds significant sway over.

And recently, Quinn caught the attention of former Bloomberg aide, Bradley Tusk, who is leading a campaign to draft a viable de Blasio challenger, according to The New York Times. Back in 2015, Quinn dismissed the idea of running against de Blasio in 2017, telling The Wall Street Journal it would be “disingenuous” for her to do so. Now she seems to have changed her tune, but she declined to elaborate on her future prospects beyond saying she was focused on her current job.

“I feel a huge sense of responsibility … to make sure that I lead Win in a way that all of us together can help each one of these people break the cycle of homelessness,” Quinn told City & State, “and that’s not a small order.”

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hroughout Mayor Bill De Blasio’s tenure, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has frequented the steps of City Hall, the stomping grounds of press-hungry advocacy groups, City Council members and unions. Standing on the gray stone steps, the Brooklyn congressman has joined advocates who are upset that the de Blasio administration has not done more business with minority- and womenowned firms or failed to direct more funding to the Summer Youth Employment Program.

On everything from Uber to affordable housing, Jeffries has been critical of the mayor’s approach. His contention that de Blasio failed to deliver on several aspects of the criminal justice reform platform that the mayor campaigned on has landed Jeffries in the papers. And at one point, black church leaders tried to convince the congressman to challenge de Blasio, according to the Post.

“The disenchantment relates to policing issues, the mayor’s support of broken windows, his lack of support for banning chokeholds and his willingness to support making resisting arrest a felony,” Jeffries told The New York Times in 2015, detailing shifting dynamics in the black constituency that overwhelmingly supported de Blasio

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in the last primary. “We’re very early in the mayor’s first term, and there’s a lot of room for progress.”

Since then, Jeffries has continued to fuel speculation about having designs on de Blasio’s job by being one of the mayor’s most vocal, high-profile critics. Jeffries has repeatedly framed the conversation as one he has engaged in solely because supporters are urging him to challenge the mayor. Sometimes he says he has not ruled it out. On other occasions, he suggests that he envisions a future in Washington, D.C., where he represents a district running from Fort Greene through central and southern Brooklyn to a small portion of southwest Queens.

“I’ve always said that my presumption is I want a progressive Democratic mayor in the city of New York to be successful,” Jeffries said on City & State’s podcast.

“Now that’s not to say I’m going to refrain from publicly criticizing him (de Blasio), as I’ve explained to his administration.

Sometimes you have private conversations, and hopefully they go well on behalf of the issues that you’re trying to push forward. But sometimes, in dealing with administrations – whether that’s the city, the state or even the White House – you have got to have a public conversation.”

The Brooklyn native has been engaged in

this sort of conversation about police reform since his days in the Assembly, where he sponsored legislation that outlawed a database of New Yorkers who had been stopped-and-frisked but were found to have done nothing wrong. Jeffries has also long been supportive of charter schools.

The former white shoe lawyer ingratiated himself to progressives when he appeared in a 2010 documentary and discussed how he was drawn out of his Assembly district after unsuccessfully challenging the incumbent, according to the Observer.

When Jeffries first ran for Congress, Jewish elected officials threw their weight behind him. At the time, Jeffries was facing then-New York City Councilman Charles Barron, a former member of the Black Panther Party, whose stances on Israel were less palatable in Jewish communities, according to The Brooklyn Ink. Jeffries, whose staff would not arrange an interview for this feature, told City & State in October that he was unlikely to pursue de Blasio’s position. The congressman said he viewed the U.S. House of Representatives as a “special place.” And his ties to the chamber are only likely to grow now that he has been elected co-chairman of the Democratic delegation’s Policy and Communications Committee, which steers the party’s platform.

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hile making his way around a holiday party at a senior center in College Point, Queens, state Sen. Tony Avella – who prides himself on being a hands-on official – placed his cell phone in the hands of one elderly attendee who was complaining about parking problems and urged her to provide details to a staff member back in his office.

Avella told the nearly 100 revelers that he had heard a nonprofit leader complain about insufficient funding for senior centers and wanted to help the community – and other communities across the city – as the next mayor. Some attendees cheered on his candidacy, many took selfies with him, and one woman even vowed to send lots of campaign cash his way through her more than 40 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The state senator offered a similar but slightly more formal message in Flushing at The Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York’s senior center later that day. “I’m very happy to give you a $25,000 grant to help run the programs for this organization,” said Avella, who also represents several suburban communities in northwest Queens. “But I want to be able to do more for you because this week I announced I am running for mayor of the city of New York.”

Asked why he was running, Avella

described a near complete breakdown of city services under de Blasio. “It’s worse than ever,” he said. “There’s no communication, there’s no delivery, there’s no community involvement. … The damage to the city of New York in another four years under his administration, I think, will be catastrophic.”

By contrast, Avella said he would give New Yorkers a greater say in city planning by empowering community boards. He also vowed to send out a checklist of common problems to every registered voter and task agencies with addressing the issues listed on each returned form. Avella said he began mailing out a similar form letter as a “civic activist” in Whitestone and continued doing so in elected office.

“It would be a monumental undertaking in terms of all the responses we would get, but not only would it help identify systemic problems across agencies – and maybe across neighborhoods and boroughs – but it would get a lot of things done locally,” he said.

This attitude has fueled Avella’s reputation for enabling a “not in my backyard” response to city projects.

He announced his candidacy outside the Holiday Inn Express in Maspeth, where Avella sided with the mostly white protesters who vehemently opposed plans to book rooms for the homeless there in what City Hall depicted as a racially

fraught battle. Avella also spoke against the administration’s plans to shelter homeless people in two hotels near the Nassau County border, saying they were too far from public transportation. When asked how he would ensure the homeless have a roof over their heads, Avella said he was confident that if residents were involved in the process, “They’ll want to do the right thing.”

The senator also hit de Blasio for the overcrowded mass transit system and the infrastructure needs at schools.

Avella contended that he could improve on de Blasio’s record on transportation and education because he enjoys a better relationship with the governor.

Avella has run for mayor before, winning 21 percent of the vote in the 2009 Democratic primary. At the time, he was a city councilman known for his animal rights and environmental legislation, as well as his ethical stands, including ripping up his government parking placard because it could be a corrupting influence.

But that reputation took a hit in 2015, when the state Senate Ethics Committee he chaired did not hold a hearing even as two state legislative leaders were indicted on corruption charges.

Looking forward, Avella said his state role has given him greater exposure avnd improved his odds of making it to City Hall.

“This is a winnable race,” he said.

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nside the bustling Jing Fong Restaurant dining hall in Chinatown, Sal Albanese introduced himself to business leaders snapping photos and exchanging business cards – or their digital equivalent.

He was markedly more reserved than other politicians at the inaugural gathering of an international Cantonese business networking alliance last month. Only when an aide to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams beckoned did Albanese leave his seat and join a throng of elected officials and other attendees posing for photos.

Later, a handful of politicians finished addressing the crowd, and handed off the microphone one by one. It appeared that Albanese had to privately clarify why he was there before organizers gave him the microphone. He then neglected to mention he was running for mayor.

“I came here as an immigrant, like most of you, and I know the importance of living in New York City,” said Albanese, who moved from Italy to Brooklyn as a child. “You’ve got over 1,000 people here. That is impressive and points to the tremendous influence of the ChineseAmerican community in New York City.”

Bashfulness aside, Albanese is familiar with the mayoral campaign circuit. After serving as the city councilman of Bay Ridge

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and Bensonhurst, Albanese ran in the 1997 Democratic mayoral primary, securing 21 percent of the vote. He tried again in 2013, but failed to garner even 1 percent.

Albanese blamed his 2013 loss on a late entry to the race and his dislike for fundraising. He did not qualify for the city’s public financing program. And without the funding most of his opponents received, he said he struggled to broadcast his message, attract the media’s attention or get invited to debates. This time, Albanese aims to raise $1 million – including anticipated matching fund payments from the public financing program – by May. Albanese said he will drop out if he falls short.

However, there is a benefit to his aversion to asking for money, Albanese said. He has long shunned contributions from lobbyists and “political fixers,” an approach he contends holds broad appeal in an era when many believe the political system is rigged. As a city councilman, Albanese said he never chaired a committee because he was too independent for the speaker’s liking.

If elected, Albanese said he would institute reforms to ensure others can more readily adopt his approach to fundraising – even if it requires convening a Charter Revision Commission and putting the matter before voters in a

referendum. Albanese said he would push for nonpartisan elections. He envisions a campaign finance system that adds spending by independent groups to the expenditure limit of whichever candidate benefits from that spending. And he wants the city to provide registered voters with contribution vouchers they can put toward their preferred candidate’s war chest.

Albanese, who has worked as a teacher, a lawyer and in the pension fund industry, also aims to remove the city’s pension funds from the comptroller’s purview and create an independent agency to oversee them. The agency, according to Albanese, would then hire “topflight” financial experts, rather than paying outside firms to invest money.

“Bill de Blasio is pay-to-play on steroids,” Albanese said, referring to multiple reported investigations into the mayor and his allies. “It has a real impact because you only have a certain amount of energy on that job. You’ve got congestion problems; you’ve got the demoralization of the police department; you’ve got homelessness, which is really badly mismanaged. All of that stuff is the result of diversion and distraction, where the priority of the government is based on what the big money donors want, rather than what’s good for the city.” ¥

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ew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a self-professed progressive, is pitching himself as leader of the opposition against President Donald Trump – but New York City Councilman Daniel Garodnick does not seem to see it that way.

The city coffers may not be substantial enough to withstand a slew of unexpected or damaging policies enacted in Washington, D.C., Garodnick said recently. In the past, Garodnick has made a point of drawing attention to what he considers a lack of savings by the city and urged the de Blasio administration to increase reserves.

“We’re not well enough prepared today,” Garodnick told City & State.

“We’re not sufficiently planning for a downturn here, and that worries me, especially in light of an uncertain relationship with the federal government. … That is core to the city’s health, its ability to provide basic services, and its ability to take care of vulnerable people.”

Despite saying about a year ago that he was not going to run for mayor, there are rumors that Garodnick is being urged to do so. When asked to describe his thinking on challenging de Blasio in 2017, Garodnick did not rule out making a move for the other side of City Hall. “I am termlimited and considering my options at this

point,” said Garodnick, who represents part of Midtown and the Upper East Side.

If he decides to run, Garodnick does not risk losing a close ally in de Blasio.

In the mayor’s first days, Garodnick waged a bid for City Council speaker against de Blasio’s preferred, and ultimately successful, candidate, Melissa Mark-Viverito. In the throes of what became a two-way contest, Garodnick contended de Blasio was infringing on the City Council’s ability to function as a counterweight to his administration.

“Holding hearings, questioning the way things are done, pushing commissioners to do better – that is the central role of the City Council,” Garodnick told The New York Times. “Where the mayor is involved in determining leadership that becomes more difficult.”

Since then, Garodnick has not been wary of disagreeing with the administration.

He opposed the city’s decision to provide financing so unionized school bus workers could recoup certain benefits, and cast one of six votes against the spending when it came before the City Council. He got nearly half of his colleagues to sign a letter urging de Blasio to reinstitute a “peg,” the once-standard practice of asking city agencies to identify potential ways to cut their budgets by 5 percent.

(The administration opted to pursue other saving strategies.) And he has joined a cadre of council members pushing de Blasio to adopt various criminal justice reforms.

Garodnick has a reputation for amassing formidable fundraising hauls and enjoying more support from the real estate industry than some colleagues.

He is also pressing for curbing – or even eliminating – the city’s commercial rent tax, framing the levy as a mechanism that forces out mom-and-pop shops.

But back in 2006, he worked with tenants in Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village – where he grew up and still lives – to organize an unsuccessful bid to buy real estate long seen as an oasis for the middle class. Last year, he worked with City Hall to engineer a sale of the site that limited how much rent could be raised in some 5,000 below market-rate apartments.

Garodnick previously worked in securities litigation, and represented the Partnership for New York City, a group of civic-minded business leaders, in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that successfully challenged the state’s education funding formulas. In 2005, he won his City Council seat. Near the end of his second term, he announced he would run for city comptroller, but wound up dropping the bid when Scott Stringer entered the race. §

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THE SECOND TIER A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE LESSER-KNOWN CANDIDATES

Eric Armstead Eric Armstead says Mayor Bill de Blasio is doing “pretty good,” but, as an East New York native, Armstead could do better because he knows firsthand what New Yorkers need.

“I was born and raised in New York City – I was a ’70s baby,” said Armstead, who has never run for public office before.

“So I know how to handle this city, the Big Apple. I know what people want.”

Armstead, 45, who has experience doing criminal security work, said he would better equip the police force and seek to add tolls to bridges that lack them because he believes that would help deter people from smuggling in drugs and guns.

Additionally, Armstead said he would work to institute a tax credit for renters. “(Landlords are) killing people’s pockets,” he said. “I’m fighting for our people to see a better life and better living. If we only see a little bit of it – as long as our children do – that’s the most important thing to me.”

He credited de Blasio for repairing bricks and removing asbestos in public housing, but said more should be done.

Armstead, who lives in public housing, said he would collaborate with New York City public housing residents to come up with ways to improve their communities.

Josh Thompson Josh Thompson, a 31-year-old protégé of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, boasts about standing up to his own party.

He told Politico New York that he was proud of backing charter schools against fellow Democrats, and has been public about his support for school vouchers and merit pay for educators.

Thompson, whose campaign did not respond to an interview request, credited a private school in Newark, New Jersey, with changing his life while growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet. That gave him the goal of ensuring all children have access to such quality education, according to Chalkbeat.

While in school, Thompson met Booker and volunteered on his Newark mayoral campaign. Thompson went on to work in

education roles for pro-charter, Democratic mayors in Washington, D.C., and Bridgeport, Connecticut, before becoming executive director of New Leaders New York, a nonprofit teacher development group, according to his campaign website.

“While the mayor is raising money to get his own job back I’ve raised over $9 million for children (at New Leaders),” Thompson told Town & Village. “If you go to Bridgeport, you’ll see a balanced budget and every student has a tablet in their hand.”

Beyond concerns with education, Thompson has said Mayor Bill de Blasio has not done enough to help the homeless.

Thompson also questioned de Blasio’s affordable housing agenda, noting in Town & Village that the administration’s preservation deal for Stuyvesant Town, where he resides, is far from affordable.

After moving to the city in 2014, Thompson planned to run for outgoing City Councilman Daniel Garodnick’s Upper East Side seat. But he decided he wanted to work with more under-served communities, and opted to oppose de Blasio instead, according to Town & Village.

Michael Basch Michael Basch, who worked on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Madison, Wisconsin, is back in the boroughs and bent on

upending the status quo at City Hall.

“I am running for mayor because I believe that politics as usual needs to change and that we have both the ability and responsibility to stand up and make the change we want to see in this city,” Basch wrote in an email. “I see problems in the city that should have been addressed by now, and I know I can make a difference in people’s lives.”

Basch, who declined to speak with City & State, wrote back identifying several topics, but with few specifics, when asked about his priorities. He wrote that he wanted to make the city a hub of technological innovation, sustainability and inclusion; address racial inequality across the criminal justice and education systems; and ensure children get sufficient nutrition.

The 32-year-old lives in the Financial District and describes himself as a successful entrepreneur who is a volunteer and is active in the Jewish community.

After earning an MBA, he joined Bamko, a global promotional goods company, and then worked as president of Spotad, a global, mobile advertising company.

He claims to be one of the first volunteers to show up at Clinton’s headquarters after she announced her candidacy. He helped craft Clinton’s policy positions as part of her technology and innovation team and oversaw community organizing for her in Madison. Clinton won Dane County, where Madison is located, by 47 percentage points.

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PUBLIC SAFETY

On the left and the right, there’s no debate that a critical role of government is protecting its citizens.

Get much beyond that point, and it gets a lot more heated.

On the national stage, the two leading presidential candidates last year represented opposite ends of the political spectrum when it comes to dealing with crime and criminal justice. Donald Trump, the law and order candidate, claimed crime is skyrocketing and called for more aggressive policing tactics, such as stop and frisk.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, noted that crime was in fact at historic lows and instead emphasized the role of race, the importance of rehabilitation and the rights of ex-felons.

While Trump won, similar battles are playing out in New York.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing a “New York Promise” agenda that would raise the age of criminal responsibility, ensure a speedy trial and overhaul an oft-criticized bail system – although it’s unclear how much of it will pass in the Republican-controlled state Senate.

And in New York City, although Mayor Bill de Blasio has rolled out one announcement after another touting low crime numbers, his record on criminal justice is still a target for progressives and conservatives alike.

In this special section, City & State delves into some of the most pressing public safety issues facing New York, from new approaches like community policing to the rising threat of cybercrime and terrorism.

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As relations between communities and cops reach a boiling point, Buffalo residents urge Mayor Byron Brown to reform the police department

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AROL KELLEY KNEW the police officers in her neighborhood off of East Ferry Street when she was a kid. When children in her Buffalo neighborhood got in trouble, police wouldn’t take them downtown to be booked and held in a juvenile center, she recalled. They would instead be taken back to a family member’s home.

“We had cops that cared about us in our neighborhood,” Kelley said. “Cops walked the beat. They knew the kids in the neighborhood. We knew them.”

Over the years, a rift opened between the police and the people – especially young people – in her neighborhood, said Kelley, the founder of Positive Youth of

BUFFALO POLICE COMMISSIONER DANIEL DERENDA AND MAYOR BYRON BROWN HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER THE SHOOTING OF AN 8-YEAR-OLD IN AUGUST.

Tomorrow, a nonprofit that helps children with nowhere to go and offers them activities and support.

The community police officers who patrol the area try to engage with kids and are doing a good job, she said. But for the most part, patrol officers, who are the police that they most often interact with, rarely talk to kids unless they are treating them as suspects – and their attitudes towards police have become increasingly negative over that time.

“One of the things that is not

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“IF YOU HAVEN’T BUILT CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT INTO THE PROCESS IN A REAL WAY, THAT’S NOT COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING. COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING IS NOT JUST DIVERSITY TRAINING.” – FRANCHELLE HART, executive director for Open Buffalo

communicated between youth and police is one understanding and respect for both groups,” said Kelley, who runs her nonprofit out of her apartment in Buffalo’s KenfieldLangfield public housing complex.

Kelley is part of a growing chorus of voices questioning the Buffalo Police Department’s practices, with some going even further by calling on Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda to review their training methods and philosophy to see what they can do to address such tensions.

Civil rights lawyers, advocacy groups and residents have raised concerns over a lack of training on de-escalation and other techniques, limited transparency with little public information available on the department’s website, disproportionate traffic checkpoints and pedestrian stops in black neighborhoods, and the department’s failure to get accredited by the state.

The Brown administration and the city’s police department have offered little to reporters on what, if any, changes in policy or training they plan to bring forth in light of those concerns. Brown spokesman Mike DeGeorge, who is also the spokesman for the police department, did not return calls seeking an interview with the mayor or police officials in recent months and has declined to comment on other stories about similar issues for City & State and other publications.

DeGeorge told a City & State reporter that the mayor would be available after an unrelated press conference earlier this month, but then said that Brown would not have time after the event and would be available by phone to answer questions.

A text message seeking to schedule that interview went unreturned.

Buffalo residents have mixed views on the police. Open Buffalo, along with the Partnership for the Public Good and other

advocacy groups, surveyed over 2,000 people as part of a report released last fall and found that many people think the police department is doing a better job than departments in some other big cities where violent incidents between police and civilians have drawn headlines. Yet distrust remains an issue in the Queen City. While 74 percent of respondents said they respect the police, 57 percent of people polled feel that police do not respect people of color and half of respondents said they feel police do not respect young people.

In a November interview, Franchelle Hart, executive director for Open Buffalo, said that the administration has been cooperative in some ways, but that major reforms are necessary to get a handle on the tensions, particularly in the neighborhoods where people of color live.

The department does have community policing values, and many officers work well with the community, but there is not enough being done to make a real impact, she said. “If you haven’t built citizen engagement into the process in a real way, that’s not community-oriented policing,” Hart said. “Community-oriented policing is not just diversity training.”

Hart did credit Brown, the city’s first African American mayor, with taking some steps in the right direction, pointing to the city’s 21st century scholarship program, which pays for academy training for minority officer candidates in an effort to increase diversity on the force.

“When you talk about the culture shift, we know that it’s not going to be an overnight policy win that fixes all of the problems,” Hart said. “We believe in working on the systems level to get to the change we want to see.”

Other advocates argue that the administration and police leadership

are trying to address those tensions, but that they have to also make sure they are keeping their officers safe.

Dwayne Ferguson, the president of a mentorship program called Dads Anointing and Delivering Sons, has been working with the police department as a community liaison for years, trying to help defuse potentially explosive situations in some of the city’s most violent neighborhoods.

He said that police often end up walking into situations where they could be in trouble in a split second, a dynamic that needs to be kept in mind during discussions around departmental reforms.

“We do our work and we have to let the police do their work in the community,” Ferguson said.

The responsibility also lies with citizens, who need to realize that police enforcement is sometimes disproportionately applied in different neighborhoods across the city, in part, because the police have limited resources and need to concentrate them where the most violent crime occurs, Ferguson said.

While it may not be fair that African Americans are pulled over and confronted by police at disproportionate rates, the most important thing is that citizens remain calm to avoid escalating the situation, said Ferguson, who is African American.

“We shouldn’t have to (deal with being stopped and confronted by police at a disproportionate rate),” he said. “We shouldn’t. But now, with the way things are, it’s almost at that level where you have to say I want to go home like the police officer wants to go home. But, right now anything can blow up and blow over where I might not make it back home.”

And while Ferguson, who has worked in the past with organizations allied with the mayor, said he has great respect for

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2009 the Buffalo Police Department, he also recalled a time when it seemed as though police had a more intimate relationship with the people in the neighborhoods where they work.

In praising the department’s community police officers, he said an expansion of that program – there are currently 11 dedicated community police officers on a force of more than 750 – could help cultivate the kind of relationships that he recalls people in his East Side neighborhood having with police when he was a boy.

“It’s not enough,” he said of the department’s community policing team.

This month, as part of its 2017 community agenda, the Partnership for the Public Good will focus on reforming

2016 the city’s Commission on Citizens’ Rights and Community Relations – the oversight committee charged with reviewing police conduct – to make it a more active and accountable tool for the community. Advocates in Albany are pushing to establish a resource center for best practices and support for community policing initiatives across the state.

Whether the Brown administration plans to work with any of these groups remains to be seen.

At her home in Kenfield-Langfield, Carol Kelley reminisced about some of the kids she helped get off the street.

All but a few, she said, went on to live happy lives, even if things weren’t always easy for them.

As far as improving the relationship between people in her neighborhood and the police goes, she holds little hope.

While the few community police officers that patrol her neighborhood do great work, the positive interactions are far outnumbered by tense stops and arrests for minor crimes, she said.

From what she’s seen over the years, the Buffalo Police Department has not fully committed to addressing the strain between law enforcement and the community.

“I’m shot in my hand. I’ve got a hole this big,” she said, the palms of her hands facing one another, about six inches apart.

“All you’re doing is putting a Band-Aid on it.”

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JAMES O’NEILL Commissioner, New York City Police Department

C&S: While New York City is enjoying historic low crime levels, there are still certain areas, such as parts of the South Bronx, where crime rates remain high. How do you tamp down violence in these hotspots and ensure that all areas of the city are receiving fair and equal resources?

JO: As we’ve expanded our neighborhood policing program across the city these past couple of years, we’ve asked all New Yorkers to help us identify issues in their communities, and to help us prevent and solve crimes through information sharing.

And that goes for quality-oflife conditions, to drug-dealing on street corners, to the most serious crimes the NYPD

investigates. The men and women of the NYPD do a great job identifying hot spots and patterns. But, honestly, no one knows better what’s happening on a block, and who’s part of the local criminal element, than those who live and work there every day.

C&S: You have been a big advocate for community policing. What new strategies can we expect on that front in 2017?

JO: Neighborhood policing is a crime-fighting model at its core.

It’s already up and running in more than half of the NYPD’s precincts citywide, and in all of our commands that cover public housing developments.

And we’re going to continue

expanding the reach of this highly effective patrol plan as we move further into 2017.

What we’ve done here is the first overhaul in a generation of the way New York City is protected. We went to great lengths to redraw the areas in which cops work, so that sector boundaries now conform to natural neighborhoods. And we’ve assigned the same officers to the same areas, on the same shifts, every day. That way, the police and those who live and work there can really get to know each other.

We knew we had to make a major change if we were to bridge the gap that sometimes exists between cops and community, while continuing to drive down crime.

New Yorkers CONTINUE TO GET SICK from bacteria in their water.

REGULATIONS MUST ADDRESS WATERBORNE PATHOGENS IN OUR PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY. Here are the facts: n New York State has more cases of Legionnaires’ disease than any other

state in the country (14% of countrywide cases).

n Despite emergency regulations imposed by the state health department

in 2015 to supposedly prevent future incidences of Legionnaires’ disease, the average rate of cases across the state is on the rise.

n Since the state imposed the emergency regulations, there have been

over 1,000 cases reported to the CDC in New York.

Current regulations are clearly not working. Leading health experts agree that effective solutions have to target water quality. Investing in water system infrastructure improvement—as the Governor and the state legislature have recently called for—is a positive first step. More needs to be done. Tell our elected officials to make the right choice: Protect the health of all New Yorkers so that no one gets sick again, or even dies, from waterborne pathogens in our public water supply.

Find the petition at preventlegionnaires.org, or on Twitter, @preventLD. Keep yourself and your fellow New Yorkers safe.

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A GOOD VAULT ISN’T ENOUGH New York jumps into regulating cybersecurity Amid a nationwide discussion of the role hacking played in the presidential election, New York is implementing the country’s first state-level cybersecurity standards for banks and other financial institutions.

Starting March 1, the state Department of Financial Services is requiring institutions to adopt a cybersecurity policy, designate a chief information security adviser and conduct regular testing. The policy also gives firms 72 hours to notify the government of a cyberattack or even an attempt. Some firms have been reluctant to do so, fearing it could damage their reputation.

The rules, which apply to everything from international firms like Citibank to an insurance provider in Utica, have been criticized for a one-size-fits-all approach.

In response, DFS put out a new draft and extended the comment period another month to the end of January. To help form the regulations, DFS surveyed almost 200 banks and insurance companies on cybersecurity. Here are some of their findings.

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95%

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SUPER TROOPERS

100 years of the New York State Police They may not make it on TV as much as the NYPD, but state troopers have been more prominent in New York City lately: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has assigned some 50 officers to transit hubs in response to terrorism threats, much to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s chagrin. The increase – while unrelated – is welltimed to the troopers’ centennial. The New York State Police was created by the state Legislature on April 11, 1917, after local police failed to apprehend suspects after a murder in rural Westchester County.

Some stats on the state police force:

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total NYSP budget in 2016

C&S: Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised new anti-terrorism prevention measures in his State of the State addresses, including increased police presence at bridges, tunnels and airports, new electronic security and tolling equipment that will read license plates. What do you think of his proposals and is there anything else you would like to see included this session?

TC: I have tried to partner with the governor and push for measures that could prevent another terrorist attack before it is in its operational phase. I am pleased the governor is finally going to focus on counterterrorism as, unfortunately, the measures proposed thus far have done little to actually thwart and interrupt

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base pay upon graduating from the academy, among the highest in the nation for state troopers

1,103

firearms destroyed by the

NYSP in 2011 after being seized as evidence

the planning or logistics of a potential terror cell who might be operating in New York. To the extent that he follows through on these announcements during the budget process, I will be supportive.

I have continually called for the re-establishment of the NYPD Demographics Unit and that the governor create a similar statewide capability within our state police. To date, neither Mayor (Bill) de Blasio nor Gov. Cuomo have heeded these calls. I have also proposed legislation to establish a firstin-the-nation terrorist registry, strengthen cybersecurity, and improve disaster preparedness and responsiveness. I hope the governor will move forward on these more fundamental priorities.

hoist rescues by the state police aviation unit during Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011

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victims recovered

in the water by state trooper scuba teams in 2011

129

state troopers killed in the line of

duty over 100 years, including three from 9/11related illnesses

C&S: Combating terrorism is both a state and federal responsibility. What more would you like to see the federal government do to help the state prevent terrorism?

TC: I’d like to see the governor and Mayor de Blasio pledge their full cooperation with all federal law enforcement agencies. As it stands now, their reluctance to allow federal law enforcement to do their jobs and detain individuals that federal authorities seek to have detained for further federal action will place our state and local law enforcement and New Yorkers at further risk. New York is the No. 1 terrorist target in the world. We have an obligation to do everything in our powers to protect our citizens from another terrorist attack.

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AVOIDING TRAGEDY WHEN POLICE RESPOND TO PEOPLE IN CRISIS

By STEVE COE

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N OCTOBER 1984, New York City police officers were sent to the apartment of Eleanor Bumpurs, a 66-year-old African-American woman who had lived in a Bronx New York City Housing Authority unit for over 40 years. She was four months behind in her $98-per-month rent and was facing eviction. After a brief confrontation,

Bumpers was shot twice with a shotgun and killed.

On Oct. 18, 2016, New York City police officers responded to a 911 call concerning Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old African-American woman in the Bronx, who neighbors reported was acting erratically.

Within minutes of arriving at her apartment, an NYPD sergeant shot Danner

twice after she swung at him with a baseball bat. Danner died.

Despite repeated calls for reform, New York City remains behind other communities in implementing a proven and effective model – Crisis Intervention Teams – that reduce the odds of a violent encounter with the police and can direct people in crisis to appropriate supports and services. For this reason, Communities for Crisis Intervention Teams was formed in 2012 to focus our advocacy during the run-up to the next mayoral election.

Our advocacy efforts, combined with several violent encounters between people in crisis and the police, led the de Blasio administration to form the Mayor’s Task Force on Behavioral Health and the Criminal Justice System, which was charged with developing a plan to incorporate best practices for CIT programming throughout the U.S. The plan was released in September 2014 and includes over 20 initiatives designed to improve outcomes for people with a mental health diagnosis who encounter law enforcement.

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STEVE COE, CEO OF COMMUNITY ACCESS, SPEAKS ABOUT THE CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM MODEL AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON NOV. 14.

PERSPECTIVES

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Key among the plan’s many elements is specialized training for the police and the opening of community drop-off centers where police officers can quickly transfer custody of a person who might have otherwise spent hours in a hospital with his or her NYPD escort. This approach is similar to a model developed in Memphis, which has been adopted by 3,000 law enforcement jurisdictions nationally.

Unfortunately, as witnessed by the recent fatal incidents – Deborah Danner in

ABOUT 5,000 OF A TARGETED 5,500 OFFICERS HAVE BEEN TRAINED. BUT WITH AN ACTIVE POLICE FORCE OF 35,000 IN A CITY OF OVER 8 MILLION PEOPLE, THAT IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH. October and also James Owens, a 63-yearold with behavioral health issues who was shot to death in his Brooklyn apartment this month – trained officers are often not on the scene when needed. The officer training program was launched in June 2015 and about 5,000 of a targeted 5,500 officers have been trained. But with an active police force of 35,000 in a city of over 8 million people, that is simply not enough. We are advocating for the training of 10,000 additional officers.

Also, the promised crisis diversion

centers are not in place. These centers are not considered an optional add-on in a well-functioning CIT model, but an integral element that supports CIT-trained officers. Unlike a hospital emergency room, which exists solely to manage cases within a medical environment, a diversion center taps into long-term treatment as well as social and clinical support options. For police officers interacting with a person in crisis, they also provide a venue for quick transfers of custody. For the person in crisis, they offer a critical point of contact and engagement.

Finally, improved data collection, metrics to measure success, and quarterly updates have not been delivered. And regularly scheduled planning meetings have not taken place.

We think it’s imperative for the de Blasio administration to produce an objective progress report that clearly identifies challenges and proposes solutions for achieving full implementation of the task force’s plan. In addition, all relevant stakeholders who helped design the plan should be involved in monitoring its progress.

The New York City Department of Investigation released a report on Jan. 19 critiquing the NYPD’s CIT program. It recommended improving the NYPD’s dispatch procedures for officers with CIT training and better reporting on incidents involving people in crisis. Unfortunately, the DOI report did not reference the task force’s plan, which quite correctly integrates CIT into a comprehensive system that requires coordination among multiple agencies. The NYPD is a valuable partner, but CIT and its many related initiatives need to be accountable to a deputy mayor.

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Steve Coe works to advance housing, health care and human rights for people with mental health concerns. As CEO of Community Access, Inc., he has developed mental health models that are being replicated nationally and internationally.

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A Q&A with JustLeadershipUSA’s

GLENN MARTIN Glenn Martin is the president and founder of JustLeadershipUSA, an organization dedicated to cutting the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030. He is also a founder of the #CloseRikers campaign.

NYN: We have no definitive plan for closing Rikers Island – why?

GM: Mayor (Bill) de Blasio, who has invested hundreds of millions to the tune of almost half a billion over the last few years trying to continue to reform Rikers, has to come to the conclusion, eventually, that all of that, with the best of intentions, amounts to lipstick on a pig.

NYN: Should we even have jails?

GM: I have met people who are a danger to themselves and to others. Do I believe they belong in the type of facilities that we now define as correctional institutions? Absolutely not. … If you look at places like Norway, the fact of the matter is that they’ve figured out how to do it right. For them, the deprivation of liberty is the punishment. ... Whereas in America, the deprivation of liberty is just the beginning of punishment.

NYN: What do you think are the factors unique to New York that have helped lead to mass incarceration?

GM: For us, it was beginning with Nelson Rockefeller – with the Rockefeller drug laws – and then ultimately Cuomo senior, who promised these rural communities that they shouldn’t worry about the loss of industry, and that they would get prisons as a way to fuel those economies and serve as economic engines. … If you just have a conversation about criminal justice reform and all you’re talking about is who deserves to do time and who doesn’t, then you’re really missing the mark. You really have to follow the money.

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LLC formed in Delaware on 11/18/16. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., 13th ., NY, NY 10011.

NRAI is registered agent as well. Address required to be maintained in home jurisdiction: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the authorized officer in the jurisdiction where a copy of its arts. of organ. are filed is: DE Secy of State, Div. of Corps., John G.Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of 6th Avenue MCA Fund I L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/16. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/07/16. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Graybar Building, 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 925, NY, NY 10170. Address to be maintained in DE: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Name/ address of genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. – Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

RIVERSIDE BLVD. LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 12/22/2016. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o SMRC, 80 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of HighVista Strategies LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/23/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 200 Clarendon St., 50th Fl., Boston, MA 02116.

LLC formed in DE on 1/26/05.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of QJ ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/02/16.

Princ. office of LLC: 205 E. 68th St. TPHB, NY, NY 10065.

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: Business Filings Inc., 108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State - Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

App. for Auth. (LLC) GLEA OCS 148 Duane LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/20/16.

LLC formed in DE on 10/14/16.

Office Location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Maples Fiduciary Services (DE) Inc., 4001 Kennett Pike, #302, Wilmington, DE 19807, registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful act/activity.

Notice of Authority of ColeFrieman & Mallon LLP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/9/16.

Office location: New York County. LLP formed in California (CA) on 1/14/09.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLP upon which process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Sansome St, Ste 1895, San Francisco, CA 94104.

CA address of the LLP: 1 Sansome St, Ste 1895, San Francisco, CA 94104. Cert. of Registration filed with CA Secy of State, 1500 11th St, Sarcamento, CA 95814.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of BHV Entrepreneurship Fund IA, GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/22/16. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/20/16.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 47 Murray St, Lower Level, 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 140 Northern Avenue, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy of State of NY on11/29/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware on 08/28/14. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., 13th ., New York, NY 10011.

NRAI is registered agent as well. Address required to be maintained in home jurisdiction: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the authorized officer in the jurisdiction where a copy of its arts. of organ. are filed is: DE Secy of State, Div. of Corps., John G.Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

METROJJBWEST53 LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/19/2016.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jay Czyzyk, 165 West End Ave., Apt 15N, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 64th and Lex LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/14/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 159 E. 64th St., NY, NY 10065. 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 IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL# 1299516 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 1047 BEDFORD AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11216. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. HOME FRITE LLC.

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Notice of Formation of SCHUMANN BURGHART LLP. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/2016.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLP to principal business address: 143 Duane Street, #3, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act.

BRIGHTLANE LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 8/22/2016. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o PC Sekar, 555 Doughty Blvd., Inwood, NY 11096. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Parlor Game Productions, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/22/16. Office location: New York County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and shall mail process to the LLC, c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC c/o Corporation Trust, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901 on 9/8/15.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Constantia Capital LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/28/16. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Roy Ferguson, 40 Harrison St, Apt 23E, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of CLTC Designs LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/09/16. Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 475 Park Avenue South, Ste. 920, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Chelsea Leasehold Owner LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/28/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 360 Lexington Ave, Ste 1200, NY, NY 10017. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is David Kriss Esq, C/O Kriss & Feurstein LLP, 360 Lexington Ave, Ste 1200, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of PROFESSIONAL FITNESS MANAGEMENT, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 12/08/2016. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MD on 08/01/2001. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 370, Galena, MD 21635.

Address required to be maintained in MD: 13860 Mill Creek Ln, Galena MD 21635.

Cert of Formation filed with MD Dept. of Assessments & Tax, 301 W. Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

AMANDA DOYLE MD, PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/21/2016. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O the PLLC, 63 Wall Street, Apt 812, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Medicine.

Latest date upon which PLLC is to dissolve: 01/01/2090.

Notice of Qualification of 312 Atlantic Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/6/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/5/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. 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 SJC 33 DLPE 2016, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/23/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

SYNC PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 12/15/2016. Office loc: NY county. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against PLLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: SYNC PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, PLLC, Attn: Dr. Silvia Birklein, 928 Broadway, Suite 803, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

January 23, 2017 Notice of Formation of DIGITAL RARITY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 120 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Martin H. Kaplan, Esq. at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

JTRE 1177 NOMAD LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/27/2016.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Morris Terzi C/O JTRE, PO Box 1705, NY, NY 10150. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 12 Franklin 230 Owner LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/16.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The Company, c/o Simon Baron Development LLC, 757 Third Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: any lawful activities Notice of Qualification of BLA Partners, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/5/16.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 199 Main St., Ste. 226, Burlington, VT 05401. LLC formed in DE on 11/22/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of IMG WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/09/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/27/04. Princ. office of LLC: 11 Madison Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10010. 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: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of OPTIMAL LABORATORIES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State o f NY (SSNY) on 11/2/2016.

Office located in NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1299 First Ave., NY NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of DILMUN PROPERTIES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/09/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/17/16. Princ. office of LLC: 767 Fifth Ave., 8th Fl., NY, NY 10153. 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: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Loockerman & Federal Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Topflight Technologies, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/22/2016.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC: 225 Broadway, Ste 2700, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose.

Notice of formation of Global Internet Marketing LLC. Arts of Org filed w Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/2016.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 25 W 81st St., #3A, NY NY 10024.

Notice of formation of Caudalie Washington Street LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/4/17. Office loc.: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to is 70 W. 36th St., 13th Fl., New York, NY 10018.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Anson Calder LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/20/2016. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal bus. address: 385 South End Ave, #7K, NY, NY 10280. Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1299502 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 313 CHURCH ST NEW YORK, NY 10013.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. A G TRIBECA INC. Notice of Formation of Irving Capital LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/29/16. 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 of Formation of Ouza LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/23/16. Office location: Albany County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Business Filings Incorporated, 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 130 Northern Avenue, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy of State of NY on 11/29/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware on 08/28/14. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., 13th ., New York, NY 10011.

NRAI is registered agent as well. Address required to be maintained in home jurisdiction: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the authorized officer in the jurisdiction where a copy of its arts. of organ. are filed is: DE Secy of State, Div. of Corps., John G.Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of 12 Franklin 197 Owner LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/16.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, c/o Simon Baron Development LLC, 757 Third Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of BROOKFIELD PREMIER REAL ESTATE PARTNERS POOLING LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/30/16. Princ. office of LLC: Brookfield Pl., 250 Vesey St., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10281-1023. 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: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 234 East 23rd Street Duplex, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/27/16. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The Company, 270 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of NYCL Acquisition LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/08/16. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/02/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O New York Cruise Lines, Inc., Pier 81West 41st St., NY, NY 10036, Attn: Chief Executive Officer.

Address to be maintained in DE: The Corporate Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801, New Castle County. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of HANA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/16. Office location: RICHMOND County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 1967 WEHRLE DR., STE. 1-086, BUFFALO, NY 14221, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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January 23, 2017 Notice of Qualification of 1150 Broadway Holdings LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/19/16.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 777 Lake Zurich Rd., #200, Barrington, IL 60010. LLC formed in DE on 9/16/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served.

DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Federal & Duke of York St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of INTERNATIONAL INSPIRATIONS, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/09/17.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/14/16. Princ. office of LLC: 358 Fifth Ave., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10001. 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: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Jewelry & fashion accessories, retail.

Notice of Qual. of RJF MANAGEMENT LLC, FICT NAME OF RJF MANAGEMENT FFO, Authority filed with the SSNY on 01/04/2017. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 05/28/2014. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O the LLC, Richard Flynn, 435 East 79th St., 4P, NY, NY 10075. Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Alder Rd, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qual. of CJA NYC ELEMENT LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 12/08/2016.

Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/06/2016.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Attn: Vladimir Torgovnik, 5 Castle Court, Far Hills, NJ 07931.

Address required to be maintained in DE: 2711 Centerville Rd #400, Wilmington DE 19808. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Election Effect LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/20/16. Office Loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 545 W 45th St., 9th FL, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF SALE OF COLLATERAL RE: 610 West End Ave Unit 1D, New York, NY 10024 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that, pursuant to the New York Uniform Commercial Code, Capital One, N.A. (“Seller”), as secured creditor of ALAN, KATZ AND KATZ, CHERYL M., (“Debtors”), will sell all of the right, title and interest of the Debtors in the collateral described below at public sale. The collateral to be sold is described as follows: 1. UCC Financing Statement recorded on April 26, 2004 covering the Stock Certificate representing 460 shares of stock and Proprietary Lease for Unit No. 1D at 610 West End Ave, New York, NY 10024.

2. 460 shares of stock per the Stock Certificate and Power issued by 610 West End Corp. (“Corporation”) represented by Certificate number 205 including all personal property of the Debtors, affixed to or used in connection with Unit No. 1D, located at 610 West End Ave, New York, NY 10024, that are subject to the securing interest of the undersigned.

3. The estimated value is $3,995,000.00.

4. The unpaid principal balance is $1,182,429.87 (not including fees, costs, other recoverable amounts).

The sale shall be conducted pursuant to all terms and conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale, specifically including but not limited to: Buyer responsibility for obtaining possession of the collateral, payment of any sums due the Corporation, obtaining any necessary approvals from the Corporation, any existing tenancy and prompt payment of the purchase price according to the Terms of Sale issued by Seller. The sale shall be “as is, where is and with all faults” and subject to any prior liens. No bid shall be accepted with any contingency of any nature. A deposit of ten percent (10%) of the bid amount must be paid at sale, in the form of a certified check payable to “Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP.” Seller makes no warranty or representation in connection with the sale, except that it has a security interest in the collateral and that the transfer is made free and clear of its security interest.

The warranties of merchantability and fitness are expressly disclaimed. The sale shall be conducted without recourse to Seller, except for breach of an express warranty contained in this Notice of Sale. The Debtor is entitled to an accounting of the unpaid indebtedness. Transfer shall occur by secured creditor bill of sale made without representation or warranty, except as set forth above.

The public sale shall take place on February 15, 2017 at 10:15 a.m. in the rotunda of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, located at 60 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007-1474. Such sale shall be conducted by Victor Rawner, Auctioneer as Agent. Lender hereby reserves the right to bid. Interested parties may contact the undersigned prior to the sale to obtain a copy of the Terms of Sale.

January 17, 2017

Capital One, N.A. By: Stephen J. Lapp, Esq Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Attorney for Seller 700 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State Street Rochester, New York 14614 585.987.2814

Notice of Formation of Impak Advisors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/08/16. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 1967 WEHRLE DR., STE. 1-086, BUFFALO, NY 14221, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice is hereby given a license, number (PENDING) for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 20 West 23rd St., New York, NY 10010 for on premises consumption.

Chanson 23rd Street LLC d/b/a Patisserie Chanson

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Ambros LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State NY (SSNY) 08/26/16.

Office loc: NY County.

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

The PO address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against LLC is: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Principal bus addr of LLC: 167 E 90th St, 5c, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 1601 Dekalb Owner LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/1/16. Off. loc.: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016.

Purp.: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of 305 First Avenue (NY) Owner, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/06/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/19/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Paracorp Incorporated, 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr. #200, Sacramento, CA 95833. Address to be maintained in DE: 2140 S. DuPont Hwy., Camden, DE 19934. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St #3, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of Tymbarra USA, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/15/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/9/16. 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. 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 74 Kent Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/30/16.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 3750 Garden Ave., Greenwood Village, CO 80121. LLC formed in DE on 5/12/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of DT VENTURE II LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/10/17. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/04/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o 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.

Notice of Qualification of 301 First Avenue (NY) Owner, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/06/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/19/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Paracorp Incorporated, 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr. #200, Sacramento, CA 95833. Address to be maintained in DE: 2140 S. DuPont Hwy., Camden, DE 19934. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St #3, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of 74 Kent Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/30/16.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 3750 Garden Ave., Greenwood Village, CO 80121. LLC formed in DE on 5/12/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

530 PARK AVENUE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/5/2016. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o WeiserMazars LLP, 60 Crossways Park Drive West, Woodbury, NY 11797, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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T & M SECURITY SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/23/2016. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 230 Park Ave., Ste. 440, NY, NY 10169, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of CADRE ADVANCE LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/12/16.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/9/16.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 295 Lafayette St, Ste 500, NY, NY 10012. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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