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February 13, 2017

Pride of New York Shirley Chisholm Ruby Dee

Brooklyn College Former Congresswoman and Candidate for Democratic Presidential Nomination In Memoriam

Eric Adams

John Jay College of Criminal Justice Brooklyn Borough President Former NY State Senator

Helen Diane Foster

CUNY School of Law Commissioner, New York State Division of Human Rights

Hunter College Award-Winning Stage, Film Actress and Screenwriter In Memoriam

Inez Barron

Hunter College New York City Council Member; Chair, Higher Education Committee; Former NYS Assembly Member

Lowell Hawthorne

Bronx Community College President and CEO, Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill

Letitia James Bert Mitchell

Lehman College Public Advocate for the City of New York

Baruch College

Founder, Chairman Emeritus Mitchell & Titus LLP

Colin Powell Muriel A. Howard

City College of New York Former U.S. Secretary of State, Former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Walter Mosley Stanley Nelson

City College of New York Award-Winning Author Founder, City College Publishing Certificate Program

City College of New York Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

The City University of New York Celebrates Black History Month

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College of Staten Island President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities

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EDITOR’S NOTE / Contents

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

At this week’s Caucus Weekend, an annual gathering put on by state lawmakers of color, the discussion will inevitably turn to fears that progress on racial equality has stalled. President Donald Trump has tried to ban Muslim immigrants, mocked civil rights icon John Lewis and lobbed spurious election fraud claims, which could ultimately make it harder for minorities to vote. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a history of racial insensitivity. And before becoming a top White House aide, Steve Bannon catered to the alt-right, a movement considered to have a white supremacist ideology. There are concerns closer to home, too. As Nick Powell writes in this week’s cover story, the Eric Garner and Ramarley Graham cases highlight holes in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s record on police accountability. But there are hopeful signs, too. Many New Yorkers are rallying around immigrants. Lawmakers are still tackling racial barriers. And as Ashley Hupfl reports, while women of color are all too often left out of the conversation in Albany, their growing ranks have strengthened their resolve.

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PLASTIC BAG TAX

Nicole Gelinas accuses downstate Democrats of wrecking the environment

POLITICAL POWER COUPLES

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Politics brought these nine highprofile couples together

MINORITY FEMALE LAWMAKERS How female lawmakers of color are banding together to get things done

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NEW YORK NONPROFIT

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DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK

Has the mayor gotten too cozy with the NYPD?

Preventing gun violence may mean treating it like a disease

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CAUCUS WEEKEND AWARDS

The state and city caucuses pick their Lifetime Achievement and Rising Star award winners

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LAST WEEK’S HEADLINES

From the POCAST With Westchester County Executive

ROB ASTORINO

C&S: You voted for Donald Trump, but you’re a moderate Republican who hasn’t been afraid to criticize him. You also serve a majority Democratic county and are considering another run for governor in 2018. How do you walk that fine line? RA: Unlike the governor, who has no backbone and puts his wet finger into the air to see which way the wind is blowing, I will stand on principle on what I believe in, and when I think something is wrong, I’ll say it. C&S: Where would you draw the line on ethical conduct for elected officials? RA: The problem with Albany is that line, that ethical line has been passed many, many years ago – they don’t even know where it is anymore, half of them. C&S: What do you think of Trump’s choice for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary, Dr. Ben Carson? You were rumored to be on the shortlist – were you interested? RA: Does Ben Carson have the long list of housing credentials? Not necessarily. Can he learn? Yeah! A lot of it is common sense. … So for him as secretary, it’s more of (public relations), going out and about and putting forward the policy of the president and the day-to-day work is going to get done no matter who is there. … I was never technically offered it at all. … And I did my homework, honest to God, just in case. But, honestly, it was not something at this stage in my life that I really wanted to do. Listen, subscribe and review this week’s podcast by searching for “New York Slant” on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or your favorite podcast app.

WATCHING THE WATCHMEN The fight over the NYPD’s body cameras opened on new fronts this week, as the department decided to move forward with the $6.4 million contract for body cameras with Vievu, over the objections of New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and despite the fact that the city’s Department of Investigation was looking into how the contract was awarded. Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to get the body cameras on officers, and the mayor had good news to balance the internal squabbles: Detectives found and arrested the killer of Karina Vetrano after a six-month hunt, and the NYPD announced that crime rates continue to fall, with historic January lows for murders and shootings in “the safest big city in America.” BAG FEE FATE BLOWIN’ IN WIND New York City’s plastic bag bill is on thin … plastic … as the state Senate and Assembly passed a bill to block a 5-cent fee on plastic bags and halt deliberations for a year. The City Council passed the bag law after intense debate last May, but delayed implementation for months to try to cut a deal with Albany. Passage is now up to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’s been noncommittal. LET IT SNOW Snowpocalypse it was not, but New York City had enough snow Thursday to shut down public schools. Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools stayed open, a possible power move by a de Blasio foe. A reporter asked de Blasio if the response reflected a “city of wimps,” while Gov. Andrew Cuomo helped fish a sedan from a snowbank in Westchester as cameras clicked.

THE

Kicker

“I HOPE NOT.” — Rowan Wilson, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s successful nominee for the state Court of Appeals, in response to state Sen. Rubén Díaz Sr. asking if he was nominated because he was black, via the Times Union Get the kicker every morning in CITY & STATE’S FIRST READ email. Sign up at cityandstateny.com.

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DID YOU MISS IT? SAFE SPACE The Museum of Jewish Heritage was a poignant location for City & State’s On Public Safety event, held Wednesday, Feb. 1. Three times in January, Jewish community centers across the nation were evacuated after anti-Semitic bomb threats – underscoring the importance of preparedness in public safety and sharing best practices. To that effect, the forum featured some of New York’s biggest names in community policing, cybersecurity and emergency preparedness.

ALI GARBER JEFF COLTIN

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill

Allied Universal’s Charles Bohnenberger, Assemblyman Joe Lentol, New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice’s Karen Shaer and City Councilman Jumaane Williams

Timothy T. Howard, assistant U.S. Attorney and cybercrime coordinator

Prashanth Mekala, FBI supervisory special agent

Edmund Hartnett, president of Brosnan Risk Consultants

Lisa Bova-Hiatt, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery

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

UPCOMING EVENTS Upcoming events: Planning an event in the next few weeks that our readers should know about? Submit details to editor@cityandstateny.com. We’ll pick the most interesting or important ones and feature them in print each week.

MONDAY, FEB. 13 7 p.m. – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers his annual State of the City address, with sharp criticism of President Donald Trump’s policies expected, The Apollo Theater, 253 W. 125th St., Manhattan.

THURSDAY, FEB. 16 12 p.m. – New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito delivers her State of the City address. She set off fireworks last year announcing the formation of a commission to assess closing Rikers Island, Kings Theatre, 1027 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn.

FRIDAY, FEB. 17 9 p.m. – City & State hosts a Caucus Weekend kickoff cocktail reception, in partnership with the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators and the New York City Council, The State Room, 100 State St., Albany.

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DOES HARLEM <3 BILL?

BILL PERKINS

Even among a few bochincheros who have endorsed one of the other 10 lesser-known or “en sus casas los conocen” (in their homes they know them) candidates, state Sen. Bill Perkins is favored to be the victor of the Valentine’s Day special election for New York City Council District 9. However, if Perkins doesn't replace Inez Dickens (who replaced Keith Wright in the Assembly) in the City Council, then he’s likely going to get a primary next year for his seat. The reason? A top bochinchero told B&B recently, “Man, if he can’t beat all these newcomers, it’ll show he’s losing his strut in Harlem. He’ll be very vulnerable.” That same bochinchero, along with a few others, predicted that voter turnout for the special election will be about 4,000. That’s it?!?

DOES MMV HAVE A CANDIDATE FOR PERKINS’ SEAT?

Let’s stay in Harlem, mi gente. The very early buzz is that City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is pushing John Ruiz, her co-district leader, as the candidate to replace Perkins, according to a political insider bochinchero and citywide player. I ran this gossip by a few bochincheros in Harlem who, among other things, said: “Perkins ain’t won [the City Council special election] and she’s already talking about her candidate in a nonexisting vacancy.” Another told B&B: “She must’ve forgotten this is a black seat.” One bochinchero jabbed that MarkViverito has very little clout in her own district, and doubts she will be able to run a candidate outside of her base in East Harlem. “We’ll be waiting for her, boy.” These reactions have me praying for it to happen.

MELISSA MARK-VIVERITO

NO PROBLEMA WITH DE BLASIO

BILL DE BLASIO

The buzz is that neoyorquinos that call themselves Republicans are perfectly content with having Mayor Bill de Blasio running as the incumbent without a serious challenger in a primary. “If he's not challenged by Stringer or any of the others that are waiting for a de Blasio indictment, then coverage will be negative all the time,” one Republican bochinchero reasoned. A Republican primary among mayoral wannabes would probably get more coverage. The GOP candidates can make their case against an “unpopular Democratic mayor in New York City,” this hardcore Republicano argued. So, while there won't be a Republicans for Bill de Blasio group, there’s a silent chorus cheering him on, hoping that the incumbent will make it to the ballot for the Nov. 7 municipal election. They feel that he can be beaten. Sure he can. (Don’t laugh – look at who's in the White House!)

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CHARTER SCHOOLS OWE THE PUBLIC A REAL EXPLANATION By Michael Mulgrew, President, The United Federation of Teachers

If charter schools are really public schools, why is so much of the information about their operations private – even secret? New York needs to do more now -- especially with President Trump’s pick of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education -- to make sure that charters operate for the benefit of the public, not charter operators and their management organizations. Charters that are allowed to operate without strong oversight can be a disaster for children and their communities. Michigan, home to Secretary DeVos, has let unregulated charters -- many of them for-profit operations -- proliferate to the point that charters threaten the financial viability of the entire Michigan public school system. Meanwhile 80 percent of Michigan charters show lower student achievement than the state’s neighborhood public schools.

FRANK SEDDIO

REYNOSO NOT A SEDDIO FAVORITE FOR RE-ELECTION An upset bochinchero called B&B to complain about what Frank Seddio, the Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman, has in store for City Councilman Antonio Reynoso. “He’s talked to at least one union about supporting Tommy Torres against Reynoso.” The bochinchero couldn't say why Seddio was gunning for Reynoso, who, as the city councilman from District 34, represents Williamsburg, Bushwick and Ridgewood. Torres is the male district leader in Assembly District 53 and a member of Brooklyn Community Board 1. “Tommy really wants this seat and feels he has the support of Seddio,” another Brooklyn bochinchero said. Reynoso, who is the chairman the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, may have some garbage coming his way.

REMEMBER, GENTE, IT’S ALL BOCHINCHE UNTIL IT’S CONFIRMED.

The need for more oversight in New York is clear. New York parents or taxpayers who want to know where public money is going -- for instance, how much a charter school pays its top managers -- have to dig through IRS filings. Parents who want to know who is donating millions of dollars to a charter chain -- and whether those millions are being spent to help students -- have to search the internet for clues. Trying to find out how much charters are paying their management organizations -- and for what service -- is nearly impossible. As a group, New York’s charter schools are not transparent, despite receiving public dollars, despite requirements that they accept and educate all children, despite parent calls for greater information and accountability in their admissions, financial and student discipline policies. Many New York charters remain remarkably resistant to public scrutiny. Charter leader Eva Moskowitz – a dedicated opponent of charter transparency – even went to court to prevent the New York State Comptroller from auditing her chain’s books. She couldn’t stop a city audit, however, that showed sloppy financial practices in her operation. If the system had real transparency, it would give the public a better sense of how charters are doing at enrolling, educating and keeping all children, includes those with the highest needs, and let the Legislature determine real penalties for any charter’s failure to do so. In New York City, we have charter and neighborhood public schools sharing the same building, yet the public school will have three times the number of special education student and four times the number of homeless children as the charter school. Real transparency would also let the public know how much charter operators -- and their management organizations -- actually take home, including payments from board members and other contributors, along with the identities and fees of their vendors. It would help determine which charters actually need free space and which could be tapping their own bank accounts rather than relying on the taxpayers. The public can go to the city’s Department of Education website for itemized data on every single public school. Why should charters be exempt from the idea that the spending of public money should happen in public? Expanding charters while reducing oversight will be only part of the DeVos agenda, which will also include voucher schemes and other privatization efforts. If we had any doubt on their impact, just ask Michigan parents, who saw their neighborhood public schools drained of resources by an unregulated, “Wild West” charter sector, which not only failed to perform but weakened all schools. Students, whether urban, suburban or rural, lost. The only winners were those trying to make a profit off of Michigan school children. But New York has the opportunity now to lead in the opposite direction and to protect a precious resource. To do that, we need to make sure policies for all schools are transparent and public dollars are being spent fairly and for the benefit of all children.

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POLITICAL

POWER COUPLES “Politics makes strange bedfellows,” the 19th century writer Charles Dudley Warner once observed. Warner was referring to political alliances that span the partisan divide, but the phrase can be taken more literally – at least the bedfellows part. Indeed, the political world is filled with power couples, and perhaps nowhere more than in New York. On the rise are Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as well as Charles Schumer and Iris Weinshall. On the decline are Bill and Hillary Clinton. Then there are the mainstays, such as Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray. On this Valentine’s Day, we’re recognizing a few more romantic partnerships that have blossomed in Albany, New York City and elsewhere across the state. While cynics may question the motives behind some political pairings, in most cases, it’s not at all about gaining power or influence. Instead, it’s about paths that crossed – and heartstrings that fluttered – thanks to shared goals or overlapping professional backgrounds or employers. Read on to see how these power couples met – and whether politics is part of their pillow talk.

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How did you meet? AK: I was doing community work for City Councilman Larry Seabrook and he would sponsor a Kwanzaa event every year. So he put my name on a flier along with Neva Shillingford as the contact persons for the event. We were introduced days later to agree that she would take the lead on this project, only for me to take the lead on Seabrook's New Year’s Eve party. We shared our first dance to help jump-start the party. Needless to say, we have been dancing together ever since.

NEVA SHILLINGFORD-KING, executive vice president at 1199SEIU

ANDY KING,

New York City Councilman

What was your first date? AK: Our first date occurred when a friend of mine mentioned the Caucus Weekend in Albany. I asked Neva if she knew about it and she said yes, and she was going to represent her union. She asked if I had plans to go, which I

really didn't. So she invited me to join her, her co-worker and her uncle. I accepted, drove up a day later to meet her, her co-worker and uncle. I must say mister uncle was a true chaperone … LOL. That entire weekend became our first date. After that weekend I knew, yeah, I knew and she did too. God bless love. Do your professional lives ever overlap? AK: As Neva is an employee of a political union and me as elected official, our jobs always overlap. The question should be … when (don’t) our jobs overlap. LOL. Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? AK: We usually agree 90 percent of the time. The other 10 percent ... I normally concede. Happy wife, happy life.

Buffalo, I started seeing her often at events and then luckily, we started dating.

ERIN BAKER,

chief of staff for Assemblyman Ray Walter

NICK LANGWORTHY,

AUBREY REUBEN/LFI/AVALON/NEWSCOM

Erie County Republican Committee Chairman How did you meet? EB: We met in 2006 while both working for Congressman Tom Reynolds. I worked in the Washington, D.C., office and Nick worked in the congressman’s district office. We had an opportunity to work closely together on the campaign and quickly became friends. We remained friends and colleagues until I decided to move back to Buffalo in 2010. We started dating shortly thereafter. NL: I met Erin in 2006 when she arrived at the campaign office of Congressman Tom Reynolds. She was a new hire on the (Washington), D.C., staff and I was serving as the campaign manager. For years, we remained colleagues and great friends and I would visit her when I would travel to Washington. When she moved home to

What was your first date? EB: It’s hard to pinpoint a first date since we were good friends for several years, constantly going to fundraisers together and spending countless hours volunteering on various campaigns. But the first memory I have of a “date” would be when Nick asked me to have dinner at Laughlin’s restaurant in downtown Buffalo. NL: After being oblivious and finally realizing that political fundraisers and events were not a proper “date,” I asked Erin out to dinner right after Election Day in 2010. Do your professional lives ever overlap? EB: Our professional lives constantly overlap. Being the campaign manager for an assemblyman and Nick being the county Republican chairman, we are always bouncing ideas off of each other and strategizing. When I was the campaign manager for Ray Walter’s race for county executive, we worked closely together on a daily basis – usually at the dining room table after our daughter went to bed. NL: Always! My wife is my best sounding board and political sparring partner. We have worked together on a lot of campaigns and I steal her ideas all the time. Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? EB: All … the … time! NL: There are plenty of political disagreements. She’s usually right. She doesn’t say “I told you so” too often.

MICHAEL GOODWIN,

New York Post columnist & Fox News contributor

JENNIFER RAAB, Hunter College president

How did you meet? JR: We met in Room 9, the reporters’ room in (New York) City Hall. I was working in the (Ed) Koch administration, in part serving as City Planning press secretary. Michael was the New York Times City Hall bureau chief. I pitched a story. Michael didn’t buy it. What was your first date? JR: A few years later while I was at Harvard Law School and Michael was in Cambridge covering a Koch speech we met for a drink. Do your professional lives ever overlap? JR: We keep our careers separate, but obviously our work lives intersect. We’ve managed to be a dual-career household where we are each passionate about our work. Have you ever disagreed on politics? JR: When haven’t we …

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GLENNDA TESTONE,

executive director of New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

JAMA SHELTON,

assistant professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College

How did you meet? JS: We actually met through work. Glennda was working at GLAAD and hired me for a short-term research project. I thought she was very serious and drank too much coffee. She thought I was a nerd. All of those things are true. We reconnected two years later and started dating. What was your first date? GT: Jama cooked for me and we ate outside on her back patio. She also made a homemade apple pie and I was hooked. She's a great cook. Do your professional lives ever overlap? GT: Yes. Though now that Jama is a profes-

How did you meet? MA and MA: In 1996, when Moe was an intern for a lobbying firm, and Martha was a client. What was your first date? MA and MA: In 1999, seeing the movie “Life is Beautiful.” Indeed it turned out to be. Do your professional lives ever overlap? MA and MA: Yes, in fact, we started dating a

sor and not working in a nonprofit, they overlap less. We both work in the LGBTQ movement. Jama has worked on the issue of LGBTQ youth homelessness for the last 13 years, as a direct service provider, program director, community organizer and researcher. JS: As I was making a shift from direct service work to more macro- and policy-focused work, Glennda was making a shift in the opposite direction – from working on media representation to running the (community) center. We often ask each other for advice, and sometimes our work has been connected – like when I was planning the True Colors Fund's first national summit on LGBTQ youth homelessness (the 40 to None Summit), we held it at the (community) center. Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? GT and JS: Luckily, no! We disagree on TV shows and driving directions, but not political issues. We've been marching and rallying together for years, and plan to continue.

few months after we both starting working at (the Medical Society of the State of New York), violating all those axioms about “not fishing off the company pier.” Of course, once we informed our co-workers several months into the relationship they told us they knew it all along. Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? MA and MA: Thankfully, far less often than in other aspects of our life.

MORRIS AUSTER,

senior vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs at the Medical Society of the State of New York

MARTHA AUSTER,

regional director for Northeast/Mid-Atlantic government affairs at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

DAN CLARK,

reporter at PolitiFact New York and The Buffalo News

WILL BRUNELLE,

associate at SKDKnickerbocker How did you meet? WB: We were in the same journalism class our first semester at SUNY Albany in 2010. I noticed him right away, but I don’t think he knew I was alive until the end of the semester when he saw me playing at an open mic. DC: We also lived in the same dorm. I thought he was weird. But when I saw him play guitar, I knew I had to talk to him. I helped him study for our journalism final. He was an awful student. What was your first date? WB: We didn’t really have a first date. Once we met, we just didn’t stay apart. We spent all of our time together. DC: Seven years later, we’re married. Do your professional lives ever overlap? WB: Not nearly as much now that I’m not a reporter. We work on pretty different projects now, which is actually better; it gives us a break from constantly talking about the same stuff at the end of the work day. DC: Almost never, but we do talk about state politics at least once every day. Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? WB: All the time – Dan can see (and argue) both sides of almost any issue, which is probably why he’s a better reporter than I ever was. We go around and around sometimes on politics, though it’s always in good fun. DC: It’s not always fun. I’m amazed that he can put up with me sometimes, but I’m also happy to have a husband that wants to hear the other side of an issue instead of dismissing it outright. We talk about this all the time. It makes us so much stronger.

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staffed Congressman Steve Israel (as his district director) at a joint press conference at the Syosset train station about garbage pails at the LIRR stations being transparent to aid homeland security concerns. We barely spoke then although I was immediately drawn to her, the good-looking blond aide to Steve Israel. One year later, we staffed our bosses at a meeting in the H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge, which was the office of the Suffolk County executive. It was there that we began to form a relationship.

MATT COHEN,

vice president at the Long Island Association

What was your first date? MC: I think it was a couple of days later. Separately and unbeknownst to each other, we each told the same mutual friend about meeting each other and wanted to arrange a lunch or something. That friend was supposed to join us for a lunch and the friend purposely didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show. Thus, we had our first date. At lunch. At a restaurant in Melville that used to be called Four.

DAVID MALPASS, economist and Trump adviser

ADELE MALPASS,

Manhattan Republican Party Chairwoman

How did you meet? AM and DM: David remembers love at first sight at a Senate Budget Committee staff lunch (with witnesses). Adele, however, remembers first noticing David months later at (U.S.) Sen. (Pete) Domenici's Christmas party. What was your first date? AM and DM: Skating on the (National) Mall (in Washington, D.C.)

assistant county executive under Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone

Do your professional lives ever overlap? MC: All the time!

Do your professional lives ever overlap? AM and DM: Practically every day. We both think a political upheaval is vital for the nation and that one-party rule is hurting New York City.

How did you meet? MC: Tracie and I first met in 2005 when I staffed (U.S.) Sen. (Charles) Schumer (as his Long Island director) and she

Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? MC: Rarely. We are both proud Democrats and are very much simpatico.

Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? AM and DM: Not so much. We're good at persuading each other.

TRACIE HOLMBERG-COHEN,

How did you meet? JG and CJG: During the 2013 election cycle, Jason and Camille crossed paths and haven't left each other's side since then.

JASON GOLDMAN,

vice president at Kasirer

& CAMILLE JOSEPHGOLDMAN,

vice president of state government affairs and administration at Charter Communications

What was your first date? JG and CJG: After a long day of nonstop campaign events, Jason and Camille decided to take a stroll through Central Park. Nearly two years later, Jason would propose to Camille at the very same spot in Central Park. Do your professional lives ever overlap? JG and CJG: Jason and Camille can't even imagine a world where they don't overlap. Jason says he works for Camille at home and in the office. Have you ever disagreed on a political issue? JG and CJG: As newlyweds, Camille and Jason agree that it is too early in their marriage to disagree â&#x20AC;Ś at least for now ;)

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COMMENTARY

Full of How ‘environmentalists’ voted to destroy the environment By NICOLE GELINAS

HILE EVERYONE is freaking out about how President Donald Trump might wreck the environment, one group of elected officials is wrecking the environment: New York City Democrats. Early this week, the Assembly – led by a representative from the Bronx and consisting of mostly New York City members – voted by a wide margin to keep the city from reducing its plastic pollution. The Democrats were dismissive of science and contemptuous of their own voters. With “progressives” like this, who needs Trump? For nearly a decade, since the Bloomberg era, the city has been trying to cut down on plastic bag use. New Yorkers use 9 billion plastic bags a year – making up 2 percent of all waste – most only for a few minutes. Unlike paper, metal, glass and higher-quality plastic, these bags aren’t recyclable. The city spends $12.5 million a year – and requires 7,000 truck trips – to cart 91,000 tons of plastic bags to landfills. Loose bags clog up sewer drains and end up in waterways, where fish and birds eat the plastic particles. Last year, the New York City Council passed a bill, sponsored by lower Manhattan’s Margaret Chin and Park Slope’s Brad Lander, and signed into law by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The law, set to take effect Feb. 15, is straightforward: Supermarkets and most other stores – except liquor stores – must charge customers at least five cents for each carryout plastic or paper bag. The stores would keep the money, so it’s not a tax. People who use food

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stamps and WIC benefits are exempt. The goal is not for store owners to profit, but to use free market economics to get people to change their behavior. A

got the bill through the state Senate. During the debate, Democrats in the Assembly aired alternative facts to support blocking the bag fee. Several lawmakers,

THE DEMOCRATS WERE DISMISSIVE OF SCIENCE AND CONTEMPTUOUS OF THEIR OWN VOTERS. WITH “PROGRESSIVES” LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS TRUMP? nickel isn’t a lot of money. But it has been enough to get people to stop using plastic bags across the globe. In England, plastic bag use plummeted by 85 percent after the government applied a fee in 2015. When you charge people for plastic bags, they will nearly stop using them because the bags have no economic value to them. Only the New York state Legislature could take this uncontroversial idea and twist it into a radical scheme to harm New Yorkers. But that is what lawmakers have done, using their power over the city to prohibit the fee. The bill is now in the hands of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but lawmakers likely would override his veto. The obstructionists fighting for the right to mindlessly pollute aren’t upstate Republicans; they are downstate Democrats. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, of the Bronx, allowed the Assembly vote, and state Sen. Simcha Felder of Borough Park, a Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans,

including Assemblyman Charles Barron of East New York, focused on how the fee would be a burden to the poor, ignoring the food stamp exemption and widespread reusable bag giveaways. Assemblyman Dov Hikind, of Borough Park, raised the specter of New Yorkers getting sick from bacteria lurking on reusable bags. Yes, you should throw your reusable bags in the wash with your clothes once in a while, and yes, you should put chicken and other leaky meat into a free meat and produce bag at the supermarket. And you probably ought to not keep your reusable bags in the bathroom with you when you are ill with diarrhea. But studies tying reusable bags to food poisoning have been debunked. Several lawmakers, including Assem-

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blyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, proposed a ban on plastic bags rather than a fee, preferring not to give consumers a choice at all. Several members also noted that some New Yorkers reuse the plastic bags for dog poop and for gar-

bage. That’s great. It means the bags have a free market value for these individuals, who could feel free to pay their nickel for a product that is worth something to them. That is the magic of pricing something; it gives people a chance to decide how much that thing is worth. Lawmakers also brought up outlandish practical problems: People will forget their bags, or they’ll have too much to carry. Yes, you’ll forget your reusable bags once in a while. If you’re not on public assistance and thus exempt from the fee, anyway, paying an extra nickel or two is not the end of the world. As for people with large families: Toting groceries in flimsy plastic bags that don’t hold much and feature handles that cut into your hands is an inefficient way of carrying a lot of stuff. But if some parents prefer it, fine. Just as having more kids means paying more for food and clothes and housing and college, it will also mean paying a little more for bags. The worst display of cognitive dissonance was lawmakers’ assessments of

New Yorkers’ willingness and brainpower to respond to the fee. Lawmakers were breathtakingly open about judging their constituents by gender and class. Hikind repeatedly brought up “old ladies” who would balk. Why elderly women are less interested in saving a nickel and in participating in the civic cause of reducing waste was left a mystery. Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon said the seniors with whom she has spoken were “firmly in favor” of the fee. Representatives of several poorer districts, including Barron and Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, implied that their constituents weren’t smart enough or interested enough in the planet to participate. “These constituents will suddenly be forced to pay or learn a new way of grocery shopping overnight,” Davila said. Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz one-upped her, saying the teenage store clerks in his Queens district were too dumb to count plastic bags properly. Lander, the co-sponsor of the bag fee in the City Council, was less dismissive of poorer New Yorkers’ capabilities and interests. “Everyone is capable of remembering to bring reusable bags,” he said during their debate last spring. And as City Councilman Stephen Levin said during the recent Assembly debate, “It is not something that people are gonna be incapable of doing.” Seven of the Democrats who voted to keep 9 billion new bags flowing into New York’s landfills every year said they were environmentalists. The definition of being an elected environmentalist, though, is that you enact policies that require companies and people to change their behavior in some small or large way, often through an economic incentive. Democrats claim to care about global warming. But how would they ever enact a carbon tax if they can’t allow a nickel fee on one type of carbon, a plastic bag made out of petrochemicals? The sacrifice required here is far more modest than that needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A New Yorker could change their routine slightly, or pay $36.50 to buy two plastic bags every day for a year. Lawmakers who voted against the fee in the Assembly 122-15 and in the state Senate 43-16 cannot call themselves environmentalists. New York City’s Democrats just demonstrated that they don’t care.

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow her on Twitter @nicolegelinas.

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THE WOMEN IN THE ROOM The rise of female lawmakers of color in Albany By ASHLEY HUPFL

“SO MANY AT THE CENTER OF WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR HOMES, OUR FAMILIES, OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR PLACES OF WORSHIP – WOMEN ARE SO MUCH AT THE CENTER OF THOSE THINGS THAT IT’S LOGICAL THAT IF THEIR PRESENCE AND INSIGHT WERE MORE FELT IN LEGISLATIVE HOUSES, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ADVANCE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT QUICKER.” – state Senate Democratic Conference Leader ANDREA STEWART-COUSINS

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T’S LONG BEEN A STAPLE of how Albany operates: A few men gather behind closed doors to decide all the major legislative and budgetary decisions each year. Even in a reliably blue state like New York, there has never been a female governor or leader of a majority conference, leaving women out of those discussions. And for decades, the “three men in the room” were all white – although former Gov. David Paterson and current Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie did make history as the first AfricanAmericans in each role. While women of color have yet to break through, they’ve gotten closer in recent years as their ranks have grown. Many of them say they first got into politics to give a voice to the voiceless. And these lawmakers have banded together to support each other, creating the Women of Color Subcommittee of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus in 2015. “We wanted to create a group where us as women can come together collectively where we can discuss issues that impact

our districts – specifically women of color – because we represent a voice up there for them,” said Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner, who is the co-chairwoman of the subcommittee along with Assemblywoman Maritza Davila. “At times you may feel like you’re the only one advocating on one topic, but then you realize you have a group of women who feel just as passionately on those topics and so it adds another voice and credibility behind you, which I think is important in politics.” These women have started to have an impact. One health care advocate said women of color in the Assembly were instrumental in getting the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act to the floor for a vote last year for the first time. The legislation, which was passed easily in the Assembly, stalled in the state Senate. “Most women are nurses and that law impacts women. I do believe that helped moving that bill,” Joyner said. “There’s now a segment and a voice of women legislators who are more than willing and able to champion those issues and having someone able to speak from experience is

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“WOMEN ARE STEPPING OUT AND SEEING THAT GOING INTO POLITICS AND BECOMING AN ELECTED OFFICIAL BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A SEAT DIRECTLY AT THE TABLE TO IMPACT CHANGES IN THE COMMUNITY, RATHER THAN ADVOCATING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO MAKE THE CHANGE FOR YOU, YOU’RE NOW THE DRIVING FORCE, IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT, TO HELP STAND UP FOR YOUR COMMUNITY AND BE THE VOICE FOR THEM DIRECTLY, RATHER THAN INDIRECTLY.” – Assemblywoman LATOYA JOYNER them to run for office. “I do think (women of color) have the ability to change the direction that some legislation goes,” Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes said. “I think there are more women’s issues being discussed in the Legislature than ever before and not just because of women in color, but women in general.” Both Peoples-Stokes and Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte also attributed some of the gains for women of color in the Assembly to Heastie. After former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested on corruption charges and forced to step down, many Assembly members described the conference as more democratic under Heastie’s leadership, allowing younger members like Bichotte to rise more quickly. “In my first year as a freshman three months in, I was appointed as the chair(woman) of the Oversight of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises Subcommittee and that hasn’t been done ever,” Bichotte said. “When I

first started, I’ll tell you, when I wanted to reach out to speak to the speaker, his chief of staff would say, ‘You don’t need to speak to the speaker, you speak to me.’ I didn’t understand that. I was coming in as a freshman thinking, ‘Oh, we all won.’ I didn’t know there was this hierarchy in which I can’t even speak to my colleague.” State Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is proof of the changes in New York politics – as well as how far women of color still have to go. Not only is she the first female legislative leader in Albany, she’s also the first black woman in such a role as well. “I think women of color who have certainly been marginalized for so many years, so many generations, are now coming into their own and getting support in places and ways that have never been available before,” Stewart-Cousins said. But Stewart-Cousins knows all too well that the state Legislature has yet to achieve true equality. “I think studies have shown that the impact of women can really be felt when

there’s at least 30 percent in legislative houses and the reality is, say in the Senate, we’re nowhere near that,” Stewart-Cousins said. “That’s been a really, really hard thing to get to. So, the reality is our voice in terms of really impacting legislation is not where it should be.” Last June, the Assembly was debating a package of bills, including one that would’ve codified in state law the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. During the debate, Republican Assemblyman Ron Castorina described abortion as “AfricanAmerican genocide,” prompting a number of Assembly Democrats to walk out of the chamber. “We all stood up together, because they know how this had affected the chamber. They walked out with us and it was certainly a very camaraderie type of effort to see everyone standing together with us,” Bichotte said. “Because our presence is that big, the effect really touched everybody inside the room and outside the room.” Stewart-Cousins has also criticized Albany’s tradition of “three men in a room.” While she and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb have lobbied to be included in the discussions, StewartCousins said the lack of women in the room is particularly detrimental to female New Yorkers. Stewart-Cousins’ clout has been further eroded by recent defections from the mainline Democratic conference to the state Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, which is allied with the Republicans. “All the men are in the room and I think this limits the perspective in terms of the conversation that could be had with a feminine perspective,” she said. “The fact is 51 percent of New Yorkers are women and you have a lack of women in a room in which such huge decisions and huge budget policies (are made).” While there is more work to be done, these lawmakers say there’s an optimism and hope for change that wasn’t there a few short years ago. Their voice, which was all too often ignored or overlooked, is now growing louder. “Many times because of the marginalization that has gone on for so long, when we talk about really making a difference and removing barriers, it is generally on such a fundamental level that everybody’s lives are improved,” StewartCousins said. “You can’t underestimate the impact (of) what women of color know and bring to the table in terms of the level of experience, which could generate a very positive effect for society as a whole.”

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Governor Cuomo’s 2017-18 Executive Budget includes $500 million to “protect continued access to health care services,” with $50 million dedicated to the Montefiore hospital system.

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CRIME IN HIS QUEST FOR A SAFER CITY, HAS DE BLASIO GOTTEN TOO COZY WITH THE COPS? By NICK POWELL

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FAMILY MEMBERS CALL FOR JUSTICE FOR RAMARLEY GRAHAM, A BRONX TEEN SHOT KILLED IN HIS HOME BY A POLICE OFFICER IN 2012.

T WAS A SUBTLE REACTION, barely visible to most of the audience in a packed courtroom on the fourth floor of One Police Plaza where the police officer who killed Ramarley Graham was standing trial. The officer, Richard Haste, fatally shot Graham, an 18-year-old African American man, in the bathroom of his Bronx apartment five years ago. In the opening arguments last month, Haste’s attorney, Stuart London, described the 35-year-old officer as a “scapegoat.” The 10-year veteran, whose future in the New York City Police Department now hung in the balance, had reasonable suspicion that Graham was carrying a gun, so he “should not be subject to second-guessing,” the attorney argued. No gun was found on Graham, but a small bag of marijuana was recovered at the scene. Seated in the second row of the courtroom were members of Graham’s family, including his grandmother, who witnessed the death, and his mother, Constance Malcolm. At the mention of the word “scapegoat,” one of the family members reacted in disgust, smacking her thigh and shaking her head somberly. Shortly before Graham was killed, Haste observed him “walking with a purpose” out of a bodega near his home on E. 229th St., and pursued him, along with his partner, Sgt. Scott Morris, up to his third-floor apartment to make a possible gun arrest. At the sight of the officers in his apartment, Graham ran in his bathroom, alleged-

ly trying to flush a small bag of marijuana down the toilet. Haste, standing outside the bathroom in the hallway, allegedly shouted, “Show me your hands,” and believing that Graham flinched towards his waistband, shouted, “Gun! Gun!” before firing a single shot to his chest. A manslaughter charge was brought against Haste, but it was dismissed in 2013 on a technicality. A second grand jury did not indict him, and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara declined to file federal civil rights charges. The family received a $3.9 million settlement in 2015 from a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, while Haste was placed on desk duty and reportedly has been rewarded with $25,000 in raises since killing Graham. Their final battleground was this tiny, wood-paneled, windowless NYPD courtroom. “My purpose is to make sure Richard Haste is fired so that another mom or dad won’t be in this predicament,” Malcolm told reporters gathered outside after the first day of Haste’s hearing. “This man murdered my son for no reason. He broke into my home, he shot my son in front of his brother, a 6-year-old, and his grandmother. I’m not asking for anything special, I’m just asking for justice. I think I deserve this. Ramarley committed no crime, Ramarley didn’t run from anybody, he didn’t point a gun at anybody, so why is my son not here?” The case – as well as the the July 2014

chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island – serve as a reminder that despite New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s pledges to hold the NYPD accountable, the behavior of police in the city remains a liability as he seeks another four years in office. De Blasio won his first term in part owing to a message of reforming the NYPD. He had the advantage of entering City Hall at a time when there were never more levels of police oversight – a monitor instituted by a federal judge from the legal fallout over the rise in unconstitutional police stops, as well as the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD created through the City Council’s Community Safety Act. A dramatic reduction in the unconstitutional use of stop-and-frisk policing – which flourished under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration – was already underway, and the decline continued under de Blasio. Despite the fears of conservative critics, crime levels stayed at record lows. Countering the notion that liberal mayors are weak on crime, de Blasio installed Bill Bratton as his police commissioner, who had great success making the city safer under Rudy Giuliani in the ‘90s. Under de Blasio, Bratton launched a neighborhood policing program, now implemented in 35 of the city’s 77 precincts, to help improve police-community relations that had frayed under Bloomberg and former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. But critics were enraged that the police officers who killed Graham and Garner seemed to have escaped justice. Like Haste, Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who killed Garner, was also placed on desk duty and reportedly received a $20,000 raise from the NYPD. Police reform activists want to know why the mayor – whose strongest base of support is among black and Latino New Yorkers, who as public advocate once gave the NYPD an “F” grade on his “Transparency Report Card” – is allowing these officers to devalue the lives of community members while their actions go unpunished. “I think a lot of us were expecting more based on what was campaigned on,” said New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn, who endorsed de Blasio in 2013 and was a co-sponsor of the Community Safety Act. “The two areas where people are yearning to see some kind of change is in transparency and accountability, and those two things we haven’t seen much movement. In terms of transparency, we’ve probably seen backwards movement.”

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“THIS MAN MURDERED MY SON FOR NO REASON. HE BROKE INTO MY HOME,

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RAMARLEY GRAHAM’S MOTHER, CONSTANCE MALCOLM, HAS MADE IT HER MISSION TO ENSURE THE OFFICER THAT KILLED HER SON IS FIRED FROM THE NYPD.

ILLIAMS’ SENTIMENT IS felt among residents across New York City, particularly throughout the minority neighborhoods, and came to a head over the past year when the de Blasio administration and the NYPD began using a relatively obscure state law – Civil Rights Law 50-a – to justify the lack of transparency in revealing whether police officers’ disciplinary records would be made public. According to the law, “personnel records used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion” within police, fire or corrections departments “shall be considered confidential.” The problem, as police reform advocates see it, is that the city is applying the 50-a law selectively. For one year, from October 2013 – shortly before de Blasio was elected mayor – to October 2014, the Civilian Complaint Review Board would respond to Freedom of Information Law requests pertaining to the complaint histories of specific police officers. An internal audit determined that the employee responding to the FOIL requests violated the law, and the board stopped making the records available. Roughly seven months after Garner was killed, the Legal Aid Society sued the Civilian Complaint Review Board for refusing to provide a summary of Pantaleo’s disciplinary records. In July 2015, a state Supreme Court judge ordered the board to provide the summary, but both Pantaleo and the review board have appealed, a decision that drew a sharp response from Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr. “Why would we even have a hearing if they’re going to disregard her decision?” Carr said at a press conference in January. For their part, de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill have called on the state Legislature to amend the law. “Without significant changes to this statute, the city remains barred from providing the transparency we deserve,” de Blasio said in October. Critics say this statement is more a reflection of political expediency than a commitment to transparency. They point to the fact that the NYPD’s Department Advocate’s Office recently stated that they would make the outcome of Haste’s disciplinary trial public, ostensibly reversing the city’s position. “(De Blasio) rolled back some of the (transparency efforts) by shifting some of the city’s positions around making disciplinary issues for police officers public, when it was never an issue before,” said Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, a senior community organizer at the NAACP Legal

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Defense and Educational Fund. “Now all of a sudden it’s private and no longer able to be accessed by the public. He created a problem that did not exist before, and he’s in a space now where he can hide behind this.”

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FTER 12 YEARS UNDER Bloomberg and Kelly in which the unconstitutional use of stop, question and frisk skyrocketed to a peak of more than 700,000 recorded stops in 2011, the prospect of a sudden culture shift in an enormous organization of roughly 35,000 uniformed officers seemed dubious. A hallmark of de Blasio’s philosophical shift was a promise to improve police-community relations through community or neighborhood policing. The changes have been instituted on a piecemeal basis, however, with only four precincts employing the program at the outset. It has now ramped up to 35 precincts under O’Neill, which is still less than half of the precincts. “What Commissioner O’Neill has set in place with neighborhood policing is still in its infancy,” de Blasio said at a January press conference. “We expect great things and as it spreads more and more throughout the city we expect that relationship between police and the community to deepen further. We expect our officers to get more and more information. We expect crime to go down further. We have right now the gateway to an even safer New York City.” There is no direct way to measure a correlation between low crime and neighborhood policing, an approach aimed at fostering trust between police officers and residents, business owners and community organizations through personal interactions. Anecdotal evidence indicates an encouraging response to the program. “As far as I can tell it’s been positive,” Williams said. “I’m (an elected official), so I do get to see these officers more often than others. I see officers interacting with community members in a more positive way. I’m also getting less complaints than I have before, which is a positive.” But if the ultimate goal of neighborhood policing is to give communities a stake in keeping their neighborhoods safe, the conversation often shifts back to holding police accountable for their actions. By that standard, New York City has a long way to go. Even some criminologists and policing experts describe police accountability in New York City as a “struggle” more than a defined goal. “There aren’t very many places in the country that institute accountability as best practice,” said Judith Greene, executive di-

rector of Justice Strategies, a nonprofit research organization that analyzes criminal justice policy reforms. “You have to have a really unique police chief that will allow real police accountability and the right political climate to ever come close to it.” The city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, a longstanding entity with board members chosen by the mayor, police commissioner and City Council, is tasked with investigating police misconduct, but is frequently described as toothless, with the debacle over FOIL requests pertaining to officer discipline records depleting its

credibility. The inspector general’s office established by the Community Safety Act is viewed as a step in the right direction, although it is still a government agency under the purview of the city’s Department of Investigation with no civilian input. The federal monitor instituted by the Floyd v. New York case pertaining to illegal police stops, is overseeing the reform within the NYPD itself – from training to supervision to discipline – and issues periodic progress reports, but also requires no community input. There are, however, models of commu-

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nity control across the country more in line with what advocates want. Cities such as Seattle and Cleveland have established community police commissions stemming from U.S. Department of Justice consent decrees after a series of incidents in which police used excessive force. These commissions make recommendations on policies and practices related to community and problem-oriented policing, bias-free policing and transparency, and provide reports to the city to provide transparency on police department reforms. Criminal justice experts describe these commissions as the “gold standard,” but they are still relatively new. Seattle’s commission was established in 2013 and Cleveland’s was created in 2015 and it remains to be seen whether they will have a wide-reaching effect on police-community relations. But in New York City, advocates are paying attention to the fact that those kinds of reforms have yet to gain real traction at City Hall or One Police Plaza. “What we’ve always been looking for is the ability to hold all of these institutions accountable, and community policing is nothing like community control,” said Akinwole-Bandele. “The ability to have influence over the hiring and firing of personnel within local precincts – even making the commissioner position an elected posi-

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tion – all of these things would contribute to that conversation.”

ITH THE FLIP of the calendar to 2017, and a re-election campaign already kicking into gear, de Blasio has made a concerted effort to convey the message that New York City continues to be perhaps the safest big city in the United States. Beginning with the monthly crime stats press conference in January, where he touted a 4 percent drop in seven major types of crime from 2015 to 2016 and a record-low 998 total shootings for the year, de Blasio has already made five different policing-related announcements this year, most notably a new contract with the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association that provides pay raises in precincts employing neighborhood policing. Despite de Blasio’s managerial missteps and approval ratings that have been below 50 percent, the flurry of public safety announcements reflects an understanding that the road to re-election is made much smoother if crime remains low. “Aside from the usual New York political dynamics, if you were a Martian looking at (crime in New York City), you would say, what’s the problem?” said Michael Jacobson, the executive director of the CUNY

Institute for State and Local Governance. “Crime numbers keep going down, and the NYPD is now rolling out their community policing model. Look at the city now, and look at it four, six, eight years ago. Why wouldn’t you want to be in this situation? If you’re just looking at substance, it’s a very different dynamic, and the enforcement mechanisms that exist now compared to even a few years ago are much improved.” Yet warning signs have emerged recently and over the last year that could present trouble for de Blasio, particularly among blacks and Latino voters, who generally view the mayor more favorably. Black voters give de Blasio a 66 percent approval rating, with Latino voters at 52 percent, according to the most recent Quinnipiac University poll. For one thing, while the number of recorded police stops has dropped precipitously – to 10,171 recorded in the first nine months of 2016, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union – and the illegal use of stop and frisk increasingly being phased out, 53 percent of those stopped were black and 29 percent were Latino. Police reform advocates were also livid at the deal cut in the summer of 2016 between Bratton and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito to table the Right to Know Act, a package of reform measures that had broad support among City Council mem-

RAMARLEY GRAHAM’S FAMILY MEMBERS DELIVER A PETITION TO THE U.S. ATTORNEY DEMANDING ACTION AT FOLEY SQUARE IN 2014.

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a lot of people to get involved in the political process. (De Blasio) was elected the first time on the ‘Tale of Two Cities’ narrative,” Velarde said. “In this case, he’s moving to this other parallel where it’s his vision competing with the Trump vision. In order for the vision of dignity and justice and safety to work, the legwork needs to be done.”

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MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO VISITS A POP-UP PHOTO EXHIBIT CREATED BY THE NYPD AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM. THE CONTROVERSIAL EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTED WHAT THE CITY LOOKED LIKE BEFORE THE DECLINE IN CRIME BEGAN IN 1993, AND WAS REMOVED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE MAYOR VIEWED IT.

bers, but not from de Blasio or the NYPD. One of those bills would have required officers to identify themselves by name, rank and command after encounters that do not result in arrest or summons. Bratton agreed to implement these changes internally. “The frequent abuses in people’s most common everyday interactions with police that go unaccounted for are what perpetuate and lead to police brutality and killings,” said Anthonine Pierre, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform. “New York City will fail to address this by pursuing this administrative agreement instead of legislation.” But most disturbingly, the city reported a 9 percent increase in marijuana arrests by the NYPD from 2015 to 2016, despite de Blasio’s directive to discontinue arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana. This revelation, combined with the expected crackdown and mass deportations of undocumented immigrants under President Donald Trump, has put the NYPD’s “broken windows” philosophy – the theory, popularized by Bratton, that targeting low-level violations prevents more serious crimes from happening – firmly in the spotlight. “(Bratton) embraced policies like broken windows policing even at a point in time in New York City when the windows were no longer broken,” said U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn, widely considered to be a potential New York City mayoral candidate. “Bill Bratton is a reluctant reform-

er, and as a result of his selection by Bill de Blasio, some of the changes in culture and accountability have probably taken longer than might otherwise had been expected.” Immigrant reform advocates generally applaud de Blasio for his defense of New York City’s sanctuary city status against threats from Trump. But some also point to the structural issues presented by the enforcement of broken windows policing that still put the undocumented population at risk, despite the city’s sanctuary status. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement receives fingerprints and identification information for any arrest made in New York City, leaving noncitizens that get arrested particularly vulnerable. “To the extent that de Blasio is including, very explicitly in his public messaging, concerns over the safety and dignity of immigrants, I think folks think that’s a good thing,” said Michael Velarde, a spokesman for the Immigrant Defense Project, a nonprofit legal and advocacy organization. While the city’s undocumented population obviously won’t impact the number of votes for or against de Blasio’s re-election, Velarde suggested that the mobilization of the immigrant community against Trump could pay dividends for de Blasio if he puts some policy teeth behind his rhetoric, such as an amnesty program for low-level arrest warrants that are more than 10 years old, or directing the NYPD to issue more civil violations rather than criminal summonses. “One of the Trump effects is it’s activated

N SOME WAYS, the death of Ramarley Graham and the recent discipline hearing for the officer that killed him is a microcosm of the tightrope de Blasio will have to walk as he campaigns for re-election this year – teetering between his progressive reputation as a reformer, and his efforts to portray himself as a loyal ally to the NYPD. De Blasio’s response to the police killing of Eric Garner – in which he invoked his biracial son, Dante, and pointed to the “painful reality” that those tasked with protecting him could be seen as a threat – elicited a visceral backlash from rank-and-file police officers. Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, responded to the mayor’s comments by saying his fellow officers felt “thrown under the bus.” Ever since that instance, de Blasio has been overly cautious in how he discusses controversial policing incidents that impact minority communities. Graham’s mother, Constance Malcolm, and her family have sharply criticized de Blasio for refusing to meet with the family to hear their side of the story. De Blasio’s response was that, since he oversees the police department that’s bringing charges against Haste, “it’s not appropriate to meet with the family members.” Never mind that the mayor acted swiftly to sit down with tennis star James Blake in the fall of 2015 after a plainclothes police officer threw him to the ground in a case of mistaken identity. Malcolm, who supported de Blasio’s candidacy in 2013, cannot reconcile this discrepancy, and said she probably won’t support him for re-election. She thinks about her son, Chinnor, who witnessed a police officer’s bullet pierce his brother Ramarley’s heart, and worries about the effect the outcome of Haste’s disciplinary trial – which could take several months to determine – will have on his future interactions with police. “If they try to stop him, what if he has a flashback or something? If they try to rough him up, I don’t know what his response is going to be,” Malcolm said in an interview the day after Haste’s trial. “He asked me yesterday after the case, ‘Mommy that’s it? He’s not going to jail?’ And I told him, ‘Son I don’t know. I really don’t know.’”

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February 17-19, 2017 Dear Friends & Colleagues: It’s an honor for me to extend my personal greetings to the members of the New York State Association of Black & Puerto Rican Legislators, my partners in the New York City Council, and to everyone who has gathered for the 2017 Caucus Weekend! During these politically turbulent times, when so much of our future is at stake, it’s more important than ever for us to commit ourselves entirely to the fight for equality for all people. And we have some serious battles ahead: stopping draconian immigration policies; fighting for healthcare; standing up for the rights of women; championing criminal justice reform; and confronting income inequality, just to name a few. Yet, we know that when New York leads, others take notice and follow. The Empire State has long been a beacon of hope and opportunity for all, and I’m confident that we will continue to achieve great things for our city and state by holding true to our core values and ideals as New Yorkers. For this City Council – one of the largest, most diverse such bodies in the nation – our goal, as always, is to work alongside our representatives in Albany to advocate and fight for the needs of every individual who calls our city home. My colleagues and I are proud to stand with you in our continued fight for equality, social justice and a more tolerant and accepting world. Special thanks to Association Chair Michele R. Titus and the Association’s leadership, Assembly Members Rodneyse Bichotte, Kimberly Jean-Pierre, J. Gary Pretlow, Latoya Joyner, Michael Blake and Senator James Sanders. Congratulations as well to this year’s honorees, including the Council’s Lifetime Achievement and Rising Star recipients: Beryl Major and Jojo Annobil, respectively. I look forward to a very productive and engaging weekend with all of you! Sincerely,

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Every February, many of the state’s elected officials gather for a three-day weekend of policy seminars and parties hosted by the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators. The event – known as Caucus Weekend – is officially about raising funds for scholarships, but it also provides an opportunity to schmooze, share the latest political gossip and spend time with friends and colleagues. This year, the gathering will run from Friday, Feb. 17, through Sunday, Feb. 19, at the Empire State Plaza, the Hilton Hotel and other locations in Albany. On Friday night, City & State is partnering with the organizers, as well as the New York City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, to kick off Caucus Weekend with a cocktail reception. The reception, which runs from 9 p.m.-midnight at The State Room at 100 State St., will feature remarks by Assemblywoman Michele Titus, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and other elected officials. And at City & State’s event, the city and state caucuses will honor two lawmakers and two advocates that they selected as this year’s rising stars and lifetime achievement honorees. To learn more about these honorees, read on.

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CAUCUS WEEKEND AWARDS

Vivian Cook ASSEMBLYWOMAN

Selected by the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators

IVIAN COOK STARTED learning what it meant to be a leader when she was a small girl. Many family members were looked up to in her community – homeowners who were active in civil rights and other expressions of civic duty – but it was her grandmother who taught her one of the foundational principles that put her on her own path toward leadership. “You have to be able to stand up for your beliefs and you don’t have to back down,” Cook said. Outside her family, Cook had real-life lessons in courage as well. Growing up in South Carolina during the civil rights movement, she was involved in front-line activism from an early age. She even met the movement’s icon, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Those experiences taught her about civic responsibility and that asking questions is one of the most important parts of being a leader, she said. “It just made you want to be in the middle of things,” Cook said. “It made you want to keep your mouth going.” With such strong figures shaping her youth, it’s no wonder that Cook got involved in the community after coming to New York. Shortly after buying her first home in Jamaica, Queens, Cook started showing up at

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT meetings around issues related to projects at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It was at one of those meetings that, after standing up and voicing her concerns, she was told by a man that she should let others handle the discussion. That didn’t happen, as she was quick to let him know that she owned her home and would certainly be speaking for herself. “It caused me to get involved, because there were people speaking for me and I didn’t like what they were saying,” Cook said. From there Cook got involved with the local Democratic Party, becoming a district leader in Queens County, an assemblywoman and a superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention. Her work in the Assembly over the last 25 years, which has focused on education, economic development and the battle against drug addiction, has earned her dozens of awards. Moving forward, Cook sees many challenges ahead, particularly in the likely battles the state will have with the federal government. She cited President Donald Trump’s temporary ban of travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations as a good example. New York, as the home of Ellis Island, has long been a haven for the world’s immigrants and refugees, and there will be resistance from many of the state’s leaders, she said.

“We have to understand that this country was built by immigrants,” she said. “We have been a place that opened the door and welcomed people to come and live in our country, live here without being in war zones.” As Cook sees it, the country is moving away from some of its core values. “It seems like there’s something going on in this country and we’ve forgotten that people matter,” she said. “We’re going to have to be concerned about people, young people, all people.” Even if national politics look messy right now, there are opportunities in New York state to advance important initiatives. While the relationship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature is not perfect, there is an opportunity for everyone to sit down together and come to a consensus to make progress, she said. “It’s a give and take,” Cook said. “You have to learn people and you have to sit down and have dialogue with them. But I think we’re going in the right direction.” Going forward, Cook said she will faithfully return to the lessons she learned from her community as new challenges arise. “It’s a privilege for me to sit here in this office and be able to work with people, stand up and give my opinion on what I believe in,” she said.

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CAUCUS WEEKEND AWARDS RISING STAR

Michael Blake ASSEMBLYMAN

Selected by the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators

HEN Assemblyman Michael Blake was starting his career in public service, he had some pretty impressive people around him. While working for then-state Sen. Jeffrey Schoenberg of Illinois, Blake met Barack Obama as a participant in his Yes We Can initiative that trained young Americans to run political campaigns. Obama inspired everyone around him, Blake said, who took note of the way Obama

carried himself every time he got an opportunity to be around the future president. “That is something that is desperately needed right now in public service,” Blake said. “We need to be inspired by our leaders. We need to feel that there is a cause and a movement that is greater than the individual.” Blake eventually left a post as communications director with then-Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon to work on Obama’s first presidential campaign. He also worked on Obama’s inaugural committee, in the

administration and on the re-election campaign. While Blake relished his experiences in Washington, D.C., he always felt a connection with his hometown in the Bronx. While he had returned home sporadically to preach or volunteer in the years he was away, he decided it was time to come home for good in 2013. Winning his Assembly seat in 2014 and re-election last year, Blake said he has been happy to apply everything he learned to the movements going on where he grew up. “At the end of the day there are few greater feelings one can have than to come back home to serve,” he said. And now, with the borough’s profile on the rise, Blake said there is a real opportunity to show what the Bronx has to offer. “There is a change that is happening in the perception of the Bronx,” Blake said. “We don’t want people to look at the Bronx only as the home of hip-hop, salsa, doo-wop and the Yankees. We want them to see the Bronx as a place of entrepreneurs, the place of great academic success and you have many rising political stars.” He will be concentrating on is getting more women in the Bronx involved in government. While there are plenty of examples of men with high profiles – Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr., Bronx Democratic Party Chairman Marcos Crespo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie – not as many women have been getting involved. “Our responsibility as leaders is to make sure you’re cultivating the next generation of leaders and we need to be doing more to be helping more women get involved in elected office in the Bronx,” he said. Blake clearly has his eye on the national stage. At just 34 years old, he is vying to become a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a move that some see as a sign of higher ambitions. “I think the fact that a kid who grew up at Creston and Burnside (avenues) can still one day work for the president of the United States, can then move back home and has a chance to be the vice chair of the party, is an indication that something very good is happening in the Bronx and something very good is happening in our district,” he said. Blake said that he is not sure where he will be in another five or 10 years, but that he has always worked to represent the Bronx, and will continue to do so, no matter his role. “It’s my hope, if and when we win, that this will continue to change how people look at us,” Blake said. “We want people to know that when we say our phrase of ‘Building a Better Bronx,’ it is not just a phrase, it’s a mindset.”

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CAUCUS WEEKEND AWARDS AS AN IMMIGRANT from Ghana, Jojo Annobil experienced America’s immigration process firsthand. After graduating from law school, he set out to ease the pathway for others. “I have felt blessed because every day I have been able to make a difference – every day, every day. And that is what keeps me going,” said Annobil, a resident of Plainsboro, New Jersey. “I am originally from Ghana, West Africa, so I have always been interested in the immigrant experience … been interested in helping people out, knowing how complex the system is.” Annobil started out at the Legal Aid Society, helping criminal defendants file appeals. He then moved to the organization’s immigration law unit as attorney-in-charge. Annobil said there is often an overlap between criminal and immigration matters, and when he moved within Legal Aid Society divisions, he spent two years advising criminal attorneys about the potential immigration-related consequences of convictions. Last summer, Annobil became the executive director of the Immigrant Justice

Jojo Annobil EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS

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RISING STAR Corps, a fellowship program that trains recent graduates and places them with community-based legal services providers, where they work on benefits cases for clients seeking green cards and citizenship or on removal and deportation cases. Annobil said he is currently focused on the organization’s forthcoming expansion beyond the five boroughs to parts of Long Island and the Hudson Valley, and into Albany and Buffalo. He is also working

with fellows – and the communities where they’re deployed – to assist those impacted by President Donald Trump’s directive restricting immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries. When not in court or deploying fellows to court, Annobil serves as co-chairman of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Immigrant Representation and co-teaches a class on immigration defense at the New York University School of Law.

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A REVOLUTIONARY WAY TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE

By AIMÉE SIMPIERRE

YEAR OF “golden silence” is how New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently described going a record 365 days without a shooting at the New York City Housing Authority Queensbridge Houses development. The mayor attributed the success in part to 696 Build Queensbridge, a Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement initiative. It is one of 18 programs formed in the city over the past seven years based on the Cure Violence model – and the trajectory is for more growth. “We cannot go back, we have to move forward,” New York City Councilman Mark Treyger said. He worked closely with City Councilmen Jumaane Williams and Fernando Cabrera and the City Council’s Task Force to Combat Gun Violence to bring a Cure Violence-style program to his district in Coney Island last year. Treyger expressed gratitude for Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s support and concern about how the federal budget may impact the city. He said, “I can tell you that council members, including myself, will be fighting tooth and nail to preserve this very important program.” Infectious disease specialist Dr. Gary Slutkin used public health strategies to develop the Cure Violence approach, which treats gun violence like a disease and attacks outbreaks at their source. The goal is to cool conflicts before bullets fly. In last year’s New York City budget, there was enough funding to create the program’s five newest sites in Coney Island, Queensbridge, Central Harlem, East Harlem and the North Bronx. The mayor’s new Office to Prevent Gun Violence has been tasked with overseeing an “expansion of effective, innovative violence intervention strategies,” such as Cure Violence. The city said it is investing $22.5 million this fiscal year and expects to

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF THE MAYOR’S OFFICE TO COMBAT GUN VIOLENCE ALONGSIDE K. BAIN, LEFT, FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF ANTI-GUN VIOLENCE GROUP 696 BUILD QUEENSBRIDGE, AND ERIC L. CUMBERBATCH, RIGHT, THE NEW OFFICE’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ON FEB. 3 AT THE QUEENSBRIDGE HOUSES DEVELOPMENT.

“THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE FORCE … ARE DESIGNED, FOR THE MOST PART, TO BE A REACTIONARY BODY, TO MAKE ARRESTS AND DEAL WITH CRIMES WHEN THEY OCCUR. THIS APPROACH ATTACKS VIOLENCE FROM THE PREVENTATIVE SIDE.” – New York City Councilman MARK TREYGER invest $16 million annually. State support is also poised to grow, with the state Division of Criminal Justice Services’ recent request for applications to make up to $13.3 million available in contracts to expand a Gun

Involved Violence Elimination initiative, which uses Cure Violence methodology, into 17 counties outside New York City. Derick Scott, a staff trainer for the NYC Cure Violence project, helped implement

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the city’s first program modeled after Cure Violence, Save Our Streets, in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. And the program showed promise. There was a 20 percent lower shooting rate from January 2010 through May 2012 in the program’s part of Crown Heights, according to a report from the Center for Court Innovation. “Had we done ill will, or had we done wrong, or had we not had our model proven and tested, there wouldn’t be 18 sites in New York City today,” Scott said. Scott is also the program manager for Operation Helping Our Own Develop, a similar program run by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island. Most Cure Violence sites are overseen by a nonprofit but housed elsewhere. Connections to the sponsoring nonprofit or relationships with the NYPD are obscured for safety reasons and to build trust within the community. In October 2016, Operation HOOD celebrated 200 gunfire-free days in Coney Island. In all of last year, the mayor’s office said New York City had the fewest shootings in more than 30 years. The Cure Violence model relies heavily on the success of its violence interrupters – credible messengers who command respect nd can speak from personal experience to individuals entrenched in a potentially violent conflict. “The New York City Police force, which I have tremendous, tremendous amounts of respect for, they are designed, for the most part, to be a reactionary body, to make arrests and deal with crimes when they occur,” Treyger said. “This approach attacks violence from the preventative side.” Rudy Suggs, one of the city’s first violence interrupters, worked alongside Scott at the Save Our Streets project. When a conversation got heated, Scott would remove and try to calm down the one with the “biggest mouth,” Suggs said. Scott would say things like, “After you shoot this person then what? What happens to that person’s family?” Suggs said. “That person no longer has a son, a father, a husband or a brother. Guess what happens to you? You’re going to jail for 25 years. You’re holding your family hostage for the next 25 years.” Treyger is advocating for more Cure Violence funding for youth job placement, more linguistically diverse staff, and resources to address domestic violence and communication between the NYPD and community leaders. It seems the golden silence may spread further.

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CURING VIOLENCE WITH DERICK SCOTT By AIMÉE SIMPIERRE

WHEN ASKED TO sum up his high school experience during a job interview, Derick Scott didn’t offer a textbook response: “High school, wow: Sex, drugs and rock and roll.” Run-ins with gangs, fights as well as knife and gun violence rounded out Scott’s description of his younger years – along with “living through it all.” His experiences inform his current job directing a New York City Cure Violence program known as Operation Helping Our Own Develop – the nonprofit Jewish Community Center of Greater Coney Island’s newest initiative. In the 1980s, on the streets of Brownsville and West Brighton, “they called me Justice,” Scott said. “Justice is a reward or penalty for his or her ways or actions. That was my name.” But since 2010, Scott has been on the front lines of bringing the Cure Violence model, piloted in Chicago, into communities that for too long have experienced arguments and tensions becoming deadly confrontations. “He’s got a big brother vibe – he’s got a aura of compassion around him, when you see him move, when you hear him speak, you always feel like it’s like a common thread of sincerity around how he approaches you,” said K. Bain, founding program director of 696 Build Queensbridge, which is modeled after Cure Violence and recently celebrated a record 365 days without a shooting at the public housing project. Scott has seen many shooting victims. He’s been to the funerals of young people

he was counseling and lost a brother to gun violence. He says he doesn’t fear anything anymore. “I know that I’m not the perfect man, far from it,” Scott said. “I built myself to this person today but I wasn’t always this person. I was angry, I was very withdrawn. I was that person that would fight at the drop of a dime … I used to play with guns, I used to do a lot of things that these kids today seen in movies. I know these things already.” “I channel my fear into more doing what’s right.”

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212-268-0442, ext. 2039 Notice of Formation of Richmond Health Partners IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/09/17. Office location: Richmond County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 355 Bard Ave., Staten Island, NY 10310. Purpose: To arrange by contract for the delivery or provision of health services by individuals, entities and facilities licensed or certified to practice medicine and other health professions, and, as appropriate, ancillary medical services and equipment, by which arrangements such health care providers and suppliers will provide their services in accordance with and for such compensation as may be established by a contract between the Company and one or more managed care organizations which have been granted a certificate of authority pursuant to the provisions of Article 44 of the Public Health Law of the State of New York, as amended, and any lawful activities. NOTICE OF FORMATION of RCK Advisors LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/1/2016. Office Ioc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLC to: US Corp. Agents. Inc., 7014 13th Ave. Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Princi bus addr: 120 E. 87 St. NY. NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Qualification of Here Be Dragons LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/22/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 38 W. 21st St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10010. LLC formed in DE on 7/15/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc. (NRAI), 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: NRAI, 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of Wainscott Estates LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/6/16. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Reinhardt, 44 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of Aphera Properties, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/16. Office in NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Alan Mittelman, Esq., Spector Gadon & Rosen, PC, 1635 Market St., 7th Fl., Phila, PA 19103, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act/activity. DAVID P ROWE LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/6/08. Office loc: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 220 E 18th Street, Apt. 5, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. KC THIRD AVE, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/07/16. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 2 Rector Street, Suite 903, New York, NY 10006. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. BRANMACK USA LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/30/15. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Adesh Seecharan, 155-85 Bayview Avenue, Rosedale, NY 11422. Purpose: Any lawful purpose App. for Auth. (LLC) No Sleep Productions LLC d/b/a Intergalactic Productions LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/16. LLC formed in DE on 11/29/16. 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 CT Corp. System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act/activity Notice of Formation of KIG, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/29/16, effective date: 1/1/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: KIG, LLC, c/o Sopris Capital Associates, 601 Lexington Ave., 55th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities.

February 13, 2017 Notice of Qual. of Aurmedis Global Fund, LP, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/1/16. Off. loc: NY Co. LP org. in DE 5/31/16. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Anthony Chiasson, 350 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of ARTIVEST SOLUTIONS LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/06/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/16. Princ. office of LLC: 149 Fifth Ave., 16th 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 Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of 130 Northern Avenue Mezz, 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 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 fl., 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. S S N Y 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.

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 fl., 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 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.

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February 13, 2017 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 fl., 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 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 1626 SRJ LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/13/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/14/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 386 Flatbush Ave. Ext., Brooklyn, NY 11201. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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 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. 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.

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 of Formation of 12 Franklin Main LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/19/17. 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 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 1601 Dekalb Owner LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Secâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 FOUNDATION VIEW CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/17/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/09/16. 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, DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. KRAMER, DUNLEAVY, & RATCHIK PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/10/17. Office loc: NY Co. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The PLLC, 61 Broadway, Ste. 2200, NY, NY 10006, Attn: Jonathan Ratchik, reg. agent. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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 DRA FUND IX INDUSTRIAL-G COINVESTMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/13/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/16/16. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Manageco Manager LLC, 220 E. 42nd St., 27th Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of formation of The Hypnosis Clinic, LLC. Arts. of Orig. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 01/04/17. Office Loc: NY County. Princ. Office of LLC: 124 W 87th St, NY, NY 10024. SSNY designated agent of LLC against whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to US Corp Agents, inc. 7104 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of HARPIA GP I LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/18/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/28/16. Princ. office of LLC: 250 Park Ave., 7th Fl., NY, NY 10177. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of the State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. MAISON ELEVEN, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 1/5/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 211 N End Ave, Ste PHE, NY, NY 10282. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of Hybridskillz LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/6/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/27/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: POB 127, NY, NY 10028. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Brayman Management, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/13/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 28 Laight St., Unit 6D, NY, NY 10013. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, 101 Park Ave., NY, NY 10178, Attn: Merrill B. Stone, Esq. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Notice of Qual. of STARK SCALAMANDRE FABRIC LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 12/27/2016. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/16/2016. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 979 Third Ave, 11 Fl., NY, NY 10022. Address required to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of REGISTRATION of COMAR LLP, a foreign limited liability partnership. Notice of Registration filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/24/2016. Office location: NY County. Comar LLP was registered in CA on 3/22/2016. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of process against LLP to: 85 Broad Street, 17th Fl., New York, NY 10004. Principal business address: 995 Market Street, 2nd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94103. Application to register a LLP filed with the Secy. of State of CA located at: 1500 11th Street, 3rd Fl., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of MN Productions, LLC filed with SSNY on 11/1/16. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 300 E 23rd St Apt 15A, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Asia Artists Rights Management LLC Articles of Org. filed SSNY 10/27/16. Office: New York Co SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 275 Mott St, 2R, NY, NY 10012. General purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Advanced Access Technologies LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/6/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/27/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: POB 127, NY, NY 10028. 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 POSITIVE LEARNING COLLABORATIVE, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/13/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/03/16. Princ. office of LLC: 52 Broadway, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to United Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation, Inc., Attn: Accounting- 11th Fl. at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of Bay Street Capital Partners, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/18/16. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/14/16. 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 Alt-Source XI LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/30/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in TX on 12/1/14. 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., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. TX and principal business address: 100 Commercial Circle, Bldg. B, Conroe, TX 77304. Cert. of Form. filed with TX Sec. of State, 1019 Brazos, Austin, TX 78701. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Notice of Formation of GB18 Fund LLC filed with SSNY 1/3/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 34 Baxter Lane, West Orange, NJ 07052. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

February 13, 2017 Notice of Qualification of Champalimaud Sourcing LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/4/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 115 Broadway, 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10006. LLC formed in DE on 1/1/17. 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 VFA Create LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/24/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/2/14. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 40 W 29th St, Ste 301, NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd, Ste 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 714 NINTH AVE HUBB LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/17/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Douglas Gladstone, Esq., Goldfarb & Fleece LLP, 560 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities. 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. PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO LAW, THAT THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017 AT 2:00 P.M. AT 42 BROADWAY, 5TH FLOOR, ON A PETITION FOR AEMAL LLC TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE AN UNENCLOSED SIDEWALK CAFÉ AT 385 GREENWICH ST IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, ATTN: FOIL OFFICER, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004.

Notice of Formation of 192 HARRISON REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) o n 03/17/05. Office location: Richmond County. Latest Date of Dissolution: 12/31/2105. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 682 Metropolitan Ave., Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: any lawful activities Notice of Formation of 503, One Central Park South, LLC filed with SSNY on January 25, 2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1 Central Park South, #503, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of CGI HUDSON LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Steven Hafif, 1430 Broadway, 17th Fl., NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of YORK PARTNERS COMMITTED CAPITAL III, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/27/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. FGM2 LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/26/16. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 145 West 11th Street, Unit 5, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qual. of 330 GRAND LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 02/06/2017. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 02/03/2017. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 64 Delancey Street, Ste 2E , NY, NY 10002. Address required to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St. Wilmington DE 19801. 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 SKELETON PARTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/20/17. 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 60 West 23rd St.- Apt. 436, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of CITY’S 22 WEST 48TH STREET LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/23/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o City’s Property Development, 44 W. 47th St., NY, NY 10036. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 100 West 18th St. Unit 5C, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/2/16. 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 Columbia Affiliated Physicians Organization, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/23/17. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Office of the General Counsel, Columbia University, 412 Low Memorial Library, 535 W. 116th St., NY, NY 10027, principal business address. Registered agent upon whom process may be served: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: as specifically set forth in the Arts of Org. Notice of Formation of Apollo Publishers LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/25/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any lawful activity. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1299924, FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 357 BEDFORD AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11211. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. NICE BOOMBOX LLC.

Notice of Qualification of CB&I Construction Services, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/23/17. Office location: NY County. LLC organized in LA on 9/22/16. 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. LA and principal business address: 4171 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70809. Cert. of Org. filed with LA Sec. of State, 8585 Archives Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70809. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Notice of Formation of BERNSTEIN DECOR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/20/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 151 West 25th St., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activities. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1300028 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 397 GREENE AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11216. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. PILAR CUBAN RESTAURANT INC. PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for 581 HUDSON ST. to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 581 HUDSON ST in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years. REQUEST FOR A COPY OF REVOCABLE CONSENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER Notice of Formation of Jaguar Connection LLC filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 10/7/15. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Marilena Acevedo, 470 W 24th St, 6J, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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February 13, 2017 STORAGE LEIN SALE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby give that the undersigned will sell to satisfy the lien of owner at public sale by competitive bidding on Monday, February 27th, 2017 at 10AM at the Oz Moving & Storage facility located at: 498 Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, NY, the personal property stored therein including but not limited to the following: Rubin & Reva Weiss #7259Kitchen stool, chairs, china boxes, sofa, dining table. Jessica Weiss #7258- Dining chairs, night stand, stools, pictures, couch, boxes.Tora Peterson #5886- Linen box, china box, boxes, paper roll, picture, plastic bin.Robert Sher #5888boxes, china box, wardrobe box, tube, linen, picture. Mamiko Mikata #5902- boxes, plastic bins, wardrobe, furniture, racks, china box. Alexander Elias #5984- wardrobe, metal suitcase, glass desktop, small boxes. Marc Ginsberg/ Hajnalka #6050- household goods Hadassah Rahimbaksh #6054- plastic bin, boxes, furniture, vacuum. Harun Iftikhar #6056- linen box, furniture, guitar. Hot House Studios/Christopher Beane- commercial bin, file box, china box, lamp. Theodora Zarbis/Jeffrey Mishler #6240- tool box, commercial box, picture box. Rodrigo Otazu #6315- comercial bins, furniture, lamps, china boxes, file boxes. Meanu Gill #6456commercial bin, bikes, plasma tv, china boxes, pictures. Erika Rodriguez #8365- book box, china box, furniture, picture bin. Devi Kroell #8568- furniture, boxes, mirrors, plastic bins, china box, book box. Ali Cordero Casal #9763- plasma box, black curry case, lamp box, office chair. Susan Weiley #11261- boxes, furniture, chair, desk, household goods. Tatiana Asseal #14020- dresser, night stands. Karina Magruder #14127- boxes, suitcase, plasma TV, wooden table. TERMS: ALL CASH. DEPOSIT TO BID REQUIRED. PHOTO ID REQUIRED FOR ADMITTANCE. 15% BUYERS PREMIUM. INQUIRIES: (212) 876-2550 AUCTIONEER: DONALD BADER (DCA NO. 865815) AND PATRICK WILLIAMS (DCA NO. 1377072; 2) 1811, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/06/2017. Office loc: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 105 Buttonwood Road, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. THE CRIMSON PIRATES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 1/10/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Crimson Pirates, c/o US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at two locations. At the approx. vicinity of 301 West 130th Street, New York, New York County, NY 10027, antennas will be installed on the rooftop of the building, with an overall height of 94 feet. At the approx. vicinity of 1165 E 54th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11234, antennas will be installed on the roof-top of the building, with an overall height of 93 feet. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erika, e.diak@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111. Notice of Formation of Tenacious Toys, LLC filed with SSNY 1/3/17. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Ave, 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at three locations. At the approx. vicinity of 238 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11211, antennas will be installed on the roof-top of the building, with an overall height of 77-feet. At the approx. vicinity of 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10017, antennas will be installed for an inbuilding system and collocated on the roof-top of the building, with an overall height of 389feet. At the approx. vicinity of 84 Court Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11201, antennas will be installed on the roof-top of an existing building with an overall height of 73-feet. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erika, e.diak@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111. Notice of Qualification of Geronimo Solar Energy, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/27/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Minnesota (MN) on 10/01/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Address to be maintained in MN: 725 Edinborough Way., Ste. 725, Edina, MN 55435. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 60 Empire Dr., Ste. 100, St. Paul, MN 55103. Purpose: any lawful activities

FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX - AMENDED SUMMONS- Docket No. B-438/16 In the Matter of ANTHIUS TYLER VANBRAKLE, A dependent child, under the age of 14 years, to the custody of SCO Family of Services, alleged to be an abandoned child, pursuant to Section 384-b of the Social Services Law IN THE MATTER OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO: BRIA LYNN APONTE A verified Amended Petition having been filed in this Court alleging that the above-named child in the care of SCO Family of Services, the petitioner, is an abandoned child, as defined by Section 384-b of the Social Services Law, a copy of said Amended Petition being annexed hereto: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before the Family Court at 900 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx, New York, Part 18, 7th Floor, on the 16th day of March 2017 before the Hon. Kaplan at 12:30 o’clock in the afternoon of said day to show cause why the Court should not enter an order depriving you of all the rights of ANTHIUS TYLER VANBRAKLE awarding the custody of the child to the petitioning authorized agency as an abandoned child as provided by law. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that if said child is adjudged to be an abandoned child, and, if custody is awarded to said authorized agency, said child may be adopted with the consent of said authorized agency without further notice to you and without your consent. In the event of your failure to appear, said failure to appear will result in the termination of all your parental rights to the child.PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that your failure to appear shall constitute a denial of an interest in the child, which denial may result in the transfer or commitment of the child’s care, custody and guardianship or adoption of the child, all without further notice to the parents of the child. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that you are entitled to be represented by an attorney, and, if you cannot afford to retain an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you by the Court free of charge for you. Dated: Bronx, New York, Oct 14, 2016 BY ORDER OF THE COURT, Stephen G. Byrnes, Clerk, Family Court, Bronx County any lawful act or activity. PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for 321 STARR STREET to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 321 STARR STREET in the Borough of Brooklyn for a term of two years. REQUEST FOR A COPY OF REVOCABLE CONSENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER

Notice of Formation of PH1B205 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/27/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of ERP PROSPECT AVE LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/31/11. 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: 645 W End Ave, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8TH, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for THE ALCOVE RESTAURANT to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 4111 49TH STREET in the Borough of Queens for a term of two years. REQUEST FOR A COPY OF REVOCABLE CONSENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER Notice of Formation of Flagstaff4 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/14/16. 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: 1350 Broadway, FL. 11, NY, NY 10018, Attn: David J. Pfeffer, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 470 Baltic Funding LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 14 W 23rd St, Fl. 5, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity.

FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX SUMMONS Docket No. B-376/16 In the Matter of FAITH HEAVEN LEWIS, A dependent child, under the age of 14 years, to the custody of Graham Windham Services to Families and Children, alleged to be a permanently neglected and abandoned child, pursuant to Section 384-b of the Social Services Law IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - TO: ANGEL M LEWIS A/K/A ANGEL BLAKE A verified Petition having been filed in this Court alleging that the above-named child in the care of Graham Windham Services to Families and Children, the petitioner, is a permanently neglected and abandoned child, as defined by Article 6, Part 1 of the Family Court Act and Section 384-b of the Social Services Law, a copy of said Petition being annexed hereto: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before the Family Court at 900 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx, New York, Part 10, 7th Floor, on the 14th day of March 2017 before the Hon. Gilbert Taylor at 12:30 o’clock in the afternoon of said day to show cause why the Court should not enter an order depriving you of all the rights of FAITH HEAVEN LEWIS awarding the custody of the child to the petitioning authorized agency as a permanently neglected and abandoned child as provided by law. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that if said child is adjudged to be a permanently neglected and abandoned child, and, if custody is awarded to said authorized agency, said child may be adopted with the consent of said authorized agency without further notice to you and without your consent. In the event of your failure to appear, said failure to appear will result in the termination of all your parental rights to the child. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that our failure to appear will result in the termination of all your parental rights to the child. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that your failure to appear shall constitute a denial of an interest in the child, which denial may result in the transfer or commitment of the child’s care, custody and guardianship or adoption of the child, all without further notice to the parents of the child. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that you are entitled to be represented by an attorney, and, if you cannot afford to retain an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you by the Court free of charge for you. Dated: Bronx, New York, Oct 14, 2016 BY ORDER OF THE COURT Stephen G. Byrnes, Clerk, Family Court, Bronx County any lawful act or activity. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1300027, FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 1524 MYRTLE AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11237. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. LIMPRIMERIE LLC

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Patients don’t deserve to lose their rights because undisclosed negligence. Patientsofdon’t deservemedical to lose their rights Patients don’t deserve to lose their rights Doctors never told Lavern Wilkinson about her cancer until it was too late, despite an x-ray that showed because of undisclosed medical negligence. a mass. Lavern was not properly diagnosed until the disease had metastasized. Lavern passed away in because of undisclosed medical negligence. 2013, Wilkinson leaving behind a teenaged withtoo special needs. an x-ray that showed Doctors never told Lavern about her cancerdaughter until it was late, despite Lavern Wilkinson isn’t alone. Doctors told Lavern Wilkinson about her cancer until it had was too late, despite an x-ray that away showed a mass. never Lavern was not properly diagnosed until the disease metastasized. Lavern passed in a mass. Lavern was not properly until the disease had metastasized. Lavern passed away in 2013, leavingdiagnosed behind a teenaged daughter with special needs. 2013, leaving behind Wilkinson a teenaged daughter special needs. Lavern isn’t with alone. Lavern Wilkinson isn’t alone.

June Dreifuss never missed a mammogram, but her doctors missed the early signs of breast cancer. When her cancer was discovered it was too late, she passed away in 2008.

Lissy McMahon was a 41 year-old single mom. After surgery in 2012 Lissy’s doctors never told her that 10 out of 40 pathology slides showed evidence of cancer. By the time she found out about the cancer it was already at an June Dreifuss never missed a mammogram, but her doctors Lissyadvanced McMahonstage. was aShe 41 year-old singleinmom. passed away 2016. After surgery in 2012 Lissy’s doctors never told her that 10 out of missed the early signs of breast cancer. When her cancer was June Dreifuss never missed a mammogram, but her doctors Lissy McMahon was a 41 year-old single mom. After 40 pathology slides showed evidence of cancer. By the discovered it was too late, she passed away in 2008. in 2012 Lissy’s doctors neverfound told her that 10 out the of missed the early signs antiquated of breast cancer. Whenof her cancer was by thesurgery Under New York’s statute limitations, timeshe Lavern, June andtheLissy about time found out about cancer it wasout already at an 40 pathology slides showed evidence of cancer. By the discovered it was too late, she passed away in 2008. advanced stage. She passed away in 2016. mistakes that harmed them, it was too late for them to holdtime theshe negligent providers accountable. found outhealthcare about the cancer it was already at an advanced stage. She passed away in 2016.

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RIGHT THESE WRONGS - SUPPORT LAVERN’S LAW for a fair Date of Discovery rule for medical malpractice. RIGHT THESE WRONGS - SUPPORT LAVERN’S LAW RIGHT THESE WRONGS - SUPPORT LAVERN’S Under current law, the victims of a misread test—such as a mammogram, PAP smear orLAW prostate for a fair Date of Discovery rule for medical malpractice. test—or surgical often facerule fatal consequences. Uncaught or misdiagnosed, for aa botched fair Date ofprocedure Discovery for medical malpractice.

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