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WHO’S NEXT? A way-too-early guide

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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

Earlier this month, the Philadelphia Eagles edged the New England Patriots in a highscoring Super Bowl shootout. That night, ESPN predicted in its “Way-too-early 2018 NFL Power Rankings” that the Patriots would come back and win it all next year.

Similar features were published in the summer of 2017 shortly after the Golden State Warriors were crowned NBA champions – many expect a repeat – and after the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup. When the Houston Astros won the World Series last fall, Sports Illustrated could boast that it had seen it coming since 2014.

In that spirit, we decided to post a couple way-too-early lists of our own. In this week’s cover story, City & State’s Jeff Coltin assesses the leading candidates to be elected the next mayor of New York City – in an election that’s more than three years away.

Too early to think about 2021? The contenders don’t think so. In a related feature, Coltin also identifies the New York City Council members already positioning themselves to succeed Speaker Corey Johnson, who set a precedent by prevailing after being the first candidate out of the gate.

CONTENTS GRAD SCHOOL SUPPLEMENT ... 24 What the new political and tech landscapes mean for higher education

THE WAYTOO-EARLY PREVIEW Who’s got the best chance to be mayor and speaker in 2021

WINNERS & LOSERS ... 34

Who was up and who was down last week

COMMENTARY

Edward Stringham on the real reason crime keeps dropping ... 6

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HEALTH CARE

New York City’s new health care model? San Francisco. ... 15

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Latest MY FAIR CITY During his State of the City address, de Blasio said he wants to make New York City “the fairest big city in America.”

Among his goals? Improving democracy, fixing campaign finance and protecting elections from hackers. But the mayor was lacking in details and new ideas and barely mentioned the subway or homelessness crises. And prior to his speech, de Blasio was greeted by demonstrators protesting the many failures of the New York City Housing Authority.

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A SCHOOL SHOOTING IN FLORIDA A gunman opened fired at a Florida high school last week, killing at least 17 people. President Donald Trump didn’t mention gun laws, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted New York’s SAFE Act as a model for the nation. The gun control law passed in 2013 broadened the definition of “assault weapon,” banning more types of guns, including the kind the Florida shooter allegedly used. Rep. Chris Collins, who is trying to pass federal legislation to repeal the SAFE Act, said gun control is not the issue in regard to the shooting.

C&S: What’s your take on congestion pricing, which would impose a fee to drive into Manhattan south of 60th Street?

PT: I think the mayor has started to show more openness to the idea. It’s not a secret that he was a skeptic about it, and particularly asked questions about fairness and equity, but as the governor has put the preliminary details of his plan out, the mayor has signaled some openness. And when he was just up in Albany testifying on the budget, he made a point of saying that to the extent that we might be looking at congestion pricing, we want to make sure those revenues collected in the city stay in the city to improve our subway and bus system, which I certainly would agree with as DOT commissioner. And he talked about the lockbox concept, meaning to the extent that we’re raising new revenues to give to the MTA, we don’t want the state – or the city, for that

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matter – to pull back on the revenues it’s getting now. That would sort of defeat the purpose of coming up with this new revenue stream.

C&S: This poses logistical challenges.

PT: It will depend a lot on exactly what they propose, but luckily we do have some examples from other cities, particularly London and Stockholm, and I’ve been to both those cities and talked to some of the experts there that were involved in implementing their congestion pricing. There are different ways you can do it now. Luckily with modern technologies out there, you can have plate readers and gantries so there is certainly work to figure out how we might install that infrastructure, but a lot of cities have shown that you can do it much more easily than in the past. I don’t think we’re quite there yet. I want to see first what comes out of all the debate up in Albany.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the location of the four facilities to replace the Rikers Island jail complex, one for each borough except Staten Island. De Blasio and the City Council announced the agreement amid pressure from the state to speed up a 10-year plan for closing problem-plagued Rikers. Just hours before de Blasio’s official announcement, a state commission released a report saying the situation is so bad that the state may shutter the jail sooner. But moving quicker may be difficult if the new facilities aren’t able to house all the inmates. The four prisons can only accommodate 5,000 inmates, while the Rikers population stands at 9,000.

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The state government holds enormous power over New York City, and de Blasio vowed to take a number of fights to Albany this year, including asking for greater funding of city schools under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity ruling.

De Blasio said he’ll redouble his efforts to get the state Legislature to pass a millionaires tax, with the new revenue going to fund the MTA. He pointed to Albany to help close Rikers Island by passing bail reform and speedy trial legislation, and demanded action on election reforms to improve voter access. “Enough is enough,” de Blasio said. “Let’s make this a place where we can vote again.”

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STORIESTO TELL Like in past years, de Blasio’s State of the City address started with a slickly produced video featuring profiles of New Yorkers who represent various de Blasio administration initiatives – the preschool teacher in a class with 3-year-olds, the NYPD officer who does neighborhood policing in Bedford-Stuyvesant where she grew up. De Blasio also singled out Jean Souffrant, a city correction officer who is recovering after recently being assaulted in a Rikers Island jail. As de Blasio vowed to hold the attackers fully accountable, the mayor received the only disruption of the night: A protestor shouted, while being escorted out of the theater, “You’ve got to do more!

You’re not doing enough!”

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to get more people voting, more people running for office and more people knowing and caring about politics in the city. He introduced a 10-point plan, simply titled Democracy NYC, to do it.

Part of the plan was marked by uncontroversial initiatives like increasing civics education in city high schools and registering 1.5 million more New Yorkers to vote.

But the most remarkable parts of the plan seemed like efforts by the mayor to distance himself from allegations of money buying influence in City Hall – launching a lobbying disclosure website and listing all of the meetings his commissioners and other administration officials have with registered lobbyists.

“Nothing restores the faith of the people more than by getting big money out of politics,” he said.

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De Blasio wants to be the fairest of them all, centering his speech on a catchphrase that seems to be the guiding light of his second term: making New York “the fairest big city in America.” Most of the speech was taken up by a litany of ways his administration has improved equity in the city, including expanding early childhood education as well as building and maintaining affordable housing.

“This is one of the clearest examples of how we and other cities and states need to be the antidote to broken policies in Washington,” he said, reiterating the city’s plan to divest its pension fund from fossil fuel companies and his lawsuit against petroleum companies.

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THE CRIME WAVE THAT WASN’T Stop and frisk ended, but New York City’s safer than ever. Thank the strong economy.

By EDWARD STRINGHAM

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NEW YORK CITY’S warrantless stopand-frisk program has been dying a slow but welcome death since a federal court in 2013 ruled the practice unconstitutional amid strong political opposition. Although there is evidence and concern that the police are not reporting all stops, the numbers are moving in what I consider a positive direction: NYPD stop and frisks have gone from 685,000 in 2011 to 12,000 just five years later.

If you listened to many political commentators during the heated debate among police advocates, or to some of the rhetoric during last year’s presidential campaign, you would expect that this decline in police activity would usher in an era of lawlessness.

In a 2016 debate, President Donald Trump cited stop and frisk as a virtual panacea for urban crime, saying, “We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive.” In his 2015 memoir, former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said new procedures dictated by the court mean moving “away from a routine and useful policing tool” and warning that “people will lose their lives as a result.” A year ago at New York University, I had a debate with Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute,

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in which she made the drastic claim that when cops back off aggressive policing “lawlessness shoots through the roof.”

But the roof is still intact. At year’s end, a report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University showed that in 2017 crime of all types plummeted 2.7 percent in the 30 largest U.S. cities.

Murders have dropped 5.6 percent. Even in Chicago and Detroit, often depicted in the national media as dystopian war zones, murders were down by 11.9 percent and 9.8 percent, respectively.

In New York City – despite population surges and many purported problems – crime has continued a long decline that has persisted under several mayors. Last year, the total number of crimes reported dropped by 5.4 percent. The murder tally was 290, down 13 percent from 2016 and is the lowest number on record since the NYPD started counting. That’s a staggering 87 percent drop from the 2,245 homicides in 1990. Shootings in the five boroughs also declined last year by 21 percent, robberies by 10 percent and assaults by 4 percent.

How can crime go down with less aggressive policing? Much of the answer is likely economic and has nothing to do with

police. New York City’s jobless rate has fallen to a 42-year low, 4.4 percent. At the same time, median household income grew from $51,116 in 2008 to $55,752 in 2015, according to data analyzed by Crain’s New York Business.

A 2015 study by Georgia Tech on the effects of unemployment on crime rates in the U.S. found a positive correlation between economic factors, such as rates of unemployment, GDP per capita and high school graduation rates. Using 2013 FBI statistics, the researchers found a 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate will increase the violent crime rate by 14.3 incidents per 100,000 residents. They also found that a unit increase in the number of police officers per 100,000 inhabitants will increase violent crime by .063 per 100,000 inhabitants, contrary to belief that a heavy police presence is a deterrent.

Studies outside the U.S. have reached similar conclusions: A Stockholm University study in 2011 found “statistically significant effects” of unemployment on several types of crimes, and by separating crimes committed on weekdays versus weekends, the researchers found evidence that income level was a less significant factor than the cost of being idle: unemployment

increases the time that individuals have to engage in crime.

And it’s not just property crime, as one might expect, but the murder rate as well that responds to economic conditions. In a 2010 study, my co-author John Levendis and I also looked at international data and found that countries with more economic freedom, more markets and more market opportunities have lower rates of homicide.

People who are gainfully employed and working to benefit themselves and others will have a lower chance of being frustrated at the world and feeling pent up anger.

The unemployment rate in the U.S. is now down to 4.1 percent, with hourly earnings at $26.54, up from $22.77 at the end of 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

To the aggressive policing advocates, the main determinant of crime is police activity and tough-on-crime policies. It turns out their predictions were not close to correct.

We need to recognize that many factors that have nothing to do with police influence crime. The evidence is now in: We can have radical decreases in intrusive policing practices and still see a safer society.

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Edward Stringham is the president of the American Institute for Economic Research.

Let’s Make Every New Yorker’s Commute Equal What should have been a 15-minute trip on the A from Downtown Brooklyn to Manhattan became a complete unknown.

After standing on the platform with a colleague for what seemed an eternity, the supposed 10-minute train arrival shown on the screen suddenly disappeared. Soon after, the C disappeared too. Both were MIA. As a native of the city, my hackles rose as I uttered an expletive at the inconvenience because we’d be late to an apartment showing.

Days later, when I reflected on that moment, I realized my colleague and I (both Manhattandwellers) were the only people surprised, let alone irritated, by that transportation failure.

And we weren’t even trying to get to work.

With all the recent reporting on New York’s failing subway system, the bigger picture often gets lost in the exasperation of having to wait extra time to get to Wall Street or Times Square or a doctor’s appointment in a different neighborhood. What happens to those struggling to get to work or school seven days a week from the other boroughs, because they can’t afford to live closer?

A recent study from Harvard found that geographic mobility was indeed linked to economic mobility, and a 2014 study from NYU found a link between poor public-transit access and higher rates of unemployment and decreased income in New York City.

Poor proximity to transportation makes jobs more difficult to attain or maintain. Along with access to needed goods and services.

Too many New Yorkers have few transit options to get to work. Some neighborhoods don’t have subway lines within walking distance, and what buses reach them have intermittent service or require numerous transfers. More often than not, people are forced to take lowerpaying jobs within their strapped communities in order to pay the rent.

Reports also point to inaccessibility of healthcare options. Many of our most vulnerable citizens can’t access decent hospitals or medical centers, so preventable conditions become chronic and life-threatening instead.

Our youth also struggles with upward mobility. Living in areas that lack adequate transportation limits education options.

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Students need efficient and affordable transportation in order to work towards breaking the poverty cycle.

This inequality has wide economic repercussions that trickle down to those most in need.

Numerous international cities, like Hong Kong, have found creative solutions to improving and expanding service. We can too.

Like many New Yorkers and tourists, I’m happy to hop on the MTA to see a performance at BAM, picnic in historic Fort Tryon Park, visit the Bronx Zoo, grab a bite in Queens, or visit Staten Island’s lesser-known 9/11 memorial.

So why not invest in a “Five-Borough” Metro Card that contributes to developing those local economies? I’d gladly pay $20 for a card that offers incentives while contributing to the improvement of public transportation.

Connecting our boroughs for entertainment can entice and encourage a broader view of ALL of New York City and provide desperately-needed revenue to repair and build transportation to those in need and meet Lady Liberty’s promised opportunities.

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A way-too-early preview of the 2021 New York City mayoral race

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AVID DINKINS SAT at a table, his hands resting on his cane. The party, a recent awards gala in lower Manhattan, bustled around him, but he was still. He didn’t need to move. A steady stream of well-wishers approached, coddled and thanked the 90-year-old former mayor of New York City.

“Hi Mayor, how are you?”

“Mr. Mayor, how are you doing?”

Does he ever get tired of it?

“If you like people, and you like public service,” he said, “there’s no job better than being mayor of New York.”

It’s a belief that many people-loving public servants share, and with the 2021 New York City mayoral race just three and a half

years away, a few of them have set their sights on City Hall and are already prepping for mayoral bids.

“If you’re a public official and haven’t already started organizing and fundraising toward 2021, you’re not serious,” said Mark Green, the 2001 Democratic nominee for mayor.

“It really takes at least four years. It takes someone either who had thought of running four years before – or ideally, in utero – to put everything in place to have a record, resources, recognition to be treated seriously,” Green said.

In interviews with more than a dozen political insiders, including representatives for all the rumored candidates, four

Democrats came up as the main contenders: New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.

In different ways, the four have made clear their interest in the position. Adams was the most explicit, sharing a statement with City & State about his love for serving the city. “Throughout the years I have continuously stated that I’d be privileged to bring that service to City Hall as mayor,” he said. “While some may have played coy about their ambitions, I’ve been upfront for a long time. I believe that’s what New Yorkers respect and deserve.”

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Similarly, Díaz told NY1 Noticias in January that he’s interested in running for mayor in 2021, when he’s term-limited out of his position. He opened a campaign account, and the Bronx booster has been traveling far afield of his home borough in recent months, building relationships in midtown Manhattan, Midwood and Bushwick in Brooklyn as well as Ridgewood and Far Rockaway in Queens.

Neither James nor Stringer would openly admit to their interest in running for mayor, but their dueling 2018 inauguration speeches did not go unnoticed. Both have already opened 2021 campaign accounts, and Stringer has transferred in $1.3 million from his 2017 account as a show of force – far outpacing Diaz’s $436,000, Adams’ $309,000 and especially James’ $31,000.

Those bottom lines will be the numbers to watch over the next three and a half years.

All four of the major names are term-limited at the end of 2021, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will have to leave office as well.

That will likely set up another race like 2013, when a handful of prominent candidates battled for the open seat.

“I think if candidates are smart, all they’re trying to do is raise money,” said Keith Wright, the chairman of the Manhattan Democratic Party and a former assemblyman. “It’s going to cost a lot of money. Whatever the mayor’s race cost five years ago, it’s going to cost a lot more this time around.”

Stringer, James, Díaz and Adams already have a leg up, with the chance to soak up “the vast majority of the money,” said Doug Muzzio, professor at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

“If the big four raise enough money and they suck the energy out of the news coverage, it’s going to be tough for a noncitywide or boroughwide candidate to run.”

But that isn’t stopping others from trying. Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has opened a 2021 campaign committee, and she held her first fundraiser in Manhattan on Feb. 12.

Katz ran for city comptroller in 2009, losing in the Democratic primary to John Liu, but she told City & State she may aim higher this time. “I think clearly you look at mayor first,” she said. “So we are gauging interest out there. … Four years is a long time, but it’s really tomorrow.”

Other prominent politicians may be eyeing bids as well. Like Adams, Díaz, James and Stringer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries considered challenging de Blasio last year. But after federal and state prosecutors declined to charge de Blasio in a probe over his campaign fundraising, the mayor’s re-election seemed inevitable, and Jeffries declined to run.

THE CONTENDERS ERIC ADAMS

HAKEEM JEFFRIES

BORN: 1960 HOME: BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN CURRENT: BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT PREVIOUS: STATE SENATOR; NYPD OFFICER FUNDRAISING: $309,000 LEFT IN 2017 ACCOUNT

BORN: 1970 HOME: PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN CURRENT: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PREVIOUS: ASSEMBLYMAN; ATTORNEY FUNDRAISING: $1.17 MILLION IN FEDERAL ACCOUNT; NO CITY ACCOUNT

LETITIA JAMES BORN: 1958 HOME: CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN CURRENT: NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ADVOCATE PREVIOUS: NEW YORK CITY COUNCILWOMAN; ATTORNEY FUNDRAISING: $0 IN 2021 ACCOUNT; $31,000 LEFT IN 2017 ACCOUNT

COREY JOHNSON

SCOTT STRINGER BORN: 1960 HOME: FINANCIAL DISTRICT, MANHATTAN CURRENT: NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER PREVIOUS: MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT; ASSEMBLYMAN FUNDRAISING: $1.3 MILLION IN 2021 ACCOUNT; $131,000 LEFT IN 2017 ACCOUNT

MELINDA KATZ

BORN: 1982 HOME: CHELSEA, MANHATTAN CURRENT: NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER PREVIOUS: NEW YORK CITY COUNCILMAN; MANHATTAN COMMUNITY BOARD 4 CHAIRMAN FUNDRAISING: $91,000 LEFT IN 2017 ACCOUNT

RUBÉN DÍAZ JR. BORN: 1973 HOME: SOUNDVIEW, BRONX CURRENT: BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT PREVIOUS: ASSEMBLYMAN FUNDRAISING: $0 IN 2021 ACCOUNT; $436,000 LEFT IN 2017 ACCOUNT

BORN: 1965 HOME: FOREST HILLS, QUEENS CURRENT: QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT PREVIOUS: ATTORNEY; NEW YORK CITY COUNCILWOMAN FUNDRAISING: $5 IN 2021 ACCOUNT; $145,000 LEFT IN 2017 ACCOUNT

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Though Jeffries worked behind the scenes to influence the 2017 New York City Council speaker’s race, a number of political observers think that Jeffries’ future is in Washington, where he serves on the House Democratic leadership team.

Jeffries said he’s focused now on winning a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress in November. “After that, we can take a closer look at where the opportunities to serve our country may be moving forward.

But there will be enough time for that to happen prior to 2021,” he said. “With respect to the mayor’s race, nothing has been ruled in, nothing has been ruled out.”

Corey Johnson’s recent election as New York City Council speaker has inevitably added his name to the 2021 conversation.

Johnson will be term-limited in 2021, and three of the four previous speakers – Peter Vallone Sr., Gifford Miller and Christine Quinn – launched mayoral bids after leaving the council. Johnson could not be reached for comment, but his answer on whether he would run for mayor seemed to evolve after just three weeks on the job. On Jan. 2, he was a hard “no.” On Jan. 22, he said, “You can never say never.”

Still other names have been thrown in

the mix. Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva Moskowitz has long been considered a possible contender. The Wall Street Journal reported in November that New York City Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen may be considering a run as well as Shaun Donovan, a former budget director under President Barack Obama. None of them could be reached for comment.

Former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Dan Doctoroff also came up repeatedly as a possible candidate. Doctoroff is currently chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of tech giant Alphabet.

Sidewalk Labs spokesman Dan Levitan directed City & State to an October interview in which Doctoroff said he doesn’t think running for office is in his future.

The ghost of Bloomberg looms over every election now, since there is always a chance that a candidate with money could mount an outsider run. Real estate executive Paul Massey Jr. tried last year, but ended his campaign well before the Republican primary.

Billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis put millions of dollars into his 2013 campaign, but lost in the Republican primary to Joe Lhota, a former deputy mayor in Rudy Giuliani’s

administration. Both Massey and Catsimatidis are considered possible challengers for the Republican line in 2021, as is New York City Councilman Eric Ulrich, who considered a run last year and will be term-limited out of office in 2021. Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the 2017 Republican nominee for mayor, is also considering another run.

But the Republican primary is seen as an afterthought in a city with a more than 6-to-1 Democratic voter registration advantage.

“It doesn’t matter,” said Muzzio of the potential Republican contenders. “They’re going to lose. You can forget it.”

One issue nobody will be forgetting is the race and gender politics at play. James and Katz could compete to become the city’s first female mayor. Díaz, whose father grew up in Puerto Rico, could be the first Latino mayor.

Adams, James and Jeffries all hail from Central Brooklyn and each could be the city’s second black mayor after Dinkins.

But don’t expect to hear much of this for the next couple years, unless you’re a political power player or a big-time donor.

“This is the courting and sparking stage, if you will,” Wright said. “This is now 2018 and anybody that’s running for citywide office, this is the planting of the seed time.”

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EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CYBER DEFENDERS BY: NASIR MEMON A report from Frost & Sullivan predicts a global shortfall of almost two million cybersecurity experts by 2022, with the majority of respondents asserting that their organizations have too few information security professionals and many struggling to hire qualified candidates – despite rising salaries and high levels of reported job satisfaction. It’s a crisis with potentially devastating consequences.

Many have had personal experience with some of those consequences. With online systems now involved in almost every facet of our lives, our sensitive personal data is increasingly available to hackers. (One investigation revealed medical records were selling on the black market for $5 apiece.) And with vital infrastructure like power grids reliant on online systems, the potential for malefactors to do even more serious harm is enormous.

It is critical to close the cybersecurity hiring gap, and universities have a major role to play.

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering – one of the first institutions in the country to establish a master’s degree program in cybersecurity – was designated by the National Security Agency as a Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, Research, and Cyber Operations, and is featured regularly on U.S. News & World Report lists of best technical programs. While those laurels are impressive, Tandon recognizes that more is needed. To provide the best hands-on learning environment, it has partnered with corporations across sectors and is working in tandem with government to train responders to the potential threats that face our municipalities. At the same time, Tandon is expanding the pool

of future cybersecurity experts by making this specialized degree less expensive without reducing excellence.

To those ends, Tandon launched its Cyber Fellows Program, which allows students to study online and part-time, for an M.S. in Cybersecurity, using a curriculum designed by industry leaders from companies like Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Bloomberg and IBM. Developed in partnership with the New York City Cyber Command, the program provides participants with a realistic virtual environment for hands-on practice and access to continually updated course materials, even after graduating—a must in a world where increasingly sophisticated threats emerge every day. Because the school is committed to opening the program to as many students as possible, up to 75% scholarship and other financial support is available, making tuition just $15,000.

Tandon also has a solution for those who’d like to earn a master’s degree in cybersecurity but who have never taken the courses needed as a foundation. A Bridge to NYU Tandon, offered as a 26-week part-time or 17-week full-time program, supplies that background. Those who’ve successfully completed the coursework qualify for admission to a Tandon master’s program, including the Cyber Fellows Program.

With the average cost of a single data breach expected to exceed $150 million by 2020, it’s clear why businesses are eager to hire qualified security experts, and with more intrusive privacy breaches being reported all the time, the human cost is incalculable. Increasing the number of well-trained security experts able to defend our online systems is the best solution.

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The 5 New York City Council members already eyeing the 2021 speakership

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T WAS A BIG SPEECH for New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson – his first to the city’s business leaders assembled at the Association for a Better New York breakfast on Jan. 30. He spoke carefully, centering himself for the emotional crescendo.

“Four years ago, I took office with one simple goal: to be the next City Council speaker,” he said. “I’m just kidding. Kind of. No, I really am kidding. It was about two years ago. Two and a half.”

Johnson was poking fun at himself for his own ambition, but when you’re talking about politicians, ambition is always taken seriously. Over the course of more than a dozen interviews and conversations with City Council insiders, it became clear that some members are already thinking about running to be the next council speaker in 2021.

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“It’s never too early to start to organize, to start to develop your relationships and to start planning for the future. Corey Johnson taught us all that,” said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, who ran for speaker against Johnson last year. “And I think the very initial jockeying is already underway, pretty clearly.”

Because of term limits, only 15 members of the 51-member City Council will be eligible to run again in 2021. And among them, five names came up repeatedly as candidates to watch: Alicka Ampry-Samuel, Adrienne Adams, Francisco Moya, Rafael Salamanca Jr. and Carlina Rivera.

Additionally, Diana Ayala and Keith Powers may be in strong positions to run, come November 2021.

Ampry-Samuel was elected in November to represent Brownsville and East Flatbush and was picked to chair the Public Housing Committee, giving her a prominent position to oversee the underfunded and scandal-plagued New York City Housing Authority.

Ampry-Samuel is already being eyed as a “talented, smart, hardworking elected official,” said a Brooklyn political source who asked to speak on background in order to be candid. If she lives up to expectations over the next few years, the source said, “she’s in a strong position to be a speaker candidate.”

From Queens, both Adrienne Adams and Francisco Moya are seen as contenders – but especially Moya, who served in the Assembly for seven years before being elected to the City Council in November to represent northern Queens. Both members are aligned with the Queens Democratic Party and its leader Rep. Joe Crowley, who held immense sway in choosing Johnson as speaker last year.

“Francisco has a lot of buzz behind him,” said one City Council source who asked to remain anonymous. “He’s wellliked, he’s from Queens, he’s Latino, the unions like him.”

And Moya may have another advantage – he’s good friends with his former Assembly colleague Marcos Crespo, who also has power in the speaker’s race in his role as Bronx Democratic Party chairman.

But the Bronx may have its own candidate in Rafael Salamanca Jr. Elected in a 2016 special election, the South Bronx councilman has two years of extra experience on his colleagues. He’s also close with the Bronx Democrats and currently holds one of the council’s most powerful positions as chairman of the Land Use Committee.

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cil speakers have hailed from Manhattan, thanks to a sort of power-sharing détente among the Queens and Bronx political bosses. Rivera was elected in November to represent the East Village, and she was named chairwoman of the Hospitals Committee, a position that, like Ampry-Samuels’, gives her a soapbox to talk about pressing issues like the fiscal challenges at the public hospital network New York City Health + Hospitals.

Though fewer sources mentioned them as likely contenders, Diana Ayala and Keith Powers also both have the Manhattan advantage. Ayala was elected in November to represent former Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s district, and has earned a leadership position as co-chair of the council’s Progressive Caucus. Powers, who represents Manhattan’s East Side, was named a vice chair of the Progressive Caucus and

outcome: who becomes mayor in 2021.

Though council members technically elect the speaker, outside players have a lot of influence, and a newly elected mayor could try to replicate Bill de Blasio’s feat in 2013, when he lobbied council members to elect Mark-Viverito, a close ally.

Of course, this assumes that all the City Council members will run for re-election and win. Re-election is all but assured in the council, with only one incumbent losing in each of the last two election cycles.

This analysis also assumes the council will maintain its current two-term limit.

With a number of council members backing the idea of a term limit extension last year, there’s no telling what kind of support the contentious issue would garner if the council brought it up this session.

Unlike the mayoral race, which lasts for months, the speaker’s race is generally fast

“FOUR YEARS AGO, I took office with ONE SIMPLE GOAL: to be the next CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER. I’m just kidding.

Kind of.”

— New York City Council Speaker COREY JOHNSON

will be able to grab headlines as chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee, which oversees the city Department of Correction.

But Powers’ identity as a straight, white male may work against him in a council that has been criticized for its lack of diversity. All the other contenders named are people of color, and Adams and Ampry-Samuel could compete to be the body’s first black speaker.

Beyond race, committees and relationships, the biggest factor in the speakership race may hinge on another electoral

and furious, with members announcing their candidacy and a winner being chosen in less than two months. But that doesn’t mean council members are waiting.

“I’m sure they’re thinking about it. And probably acting calmly about it,” said Doug Muzzio, a professor at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. “It’s amazing how long they prepare and plot and connive and fundraise.

It’s all subterranean for the most part. It’s not that it’s devious; it’s just that it’s really under the radar and under the ground.”

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TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT

How long can each New York City Council member serve?

Mathieu Eugene

February 2007 – Dec. 31, 2021 February 2009 – Dec. 31, 2021 Eric Ulrich

Karen Koslowitz

Fernando Cabrera

Stephen Levin

Margaret Chin

Daniel Dromm

Ydanis Rodriguez

Debi Rose

Brad Lander

Peter Koo

Williams

Andy King

February 2013 – Dec. 31, 2021 I. Daneek Miller Paul Costa Vallone Constantinides

Carlos Menchaca Antonio Reynoso

Corey Johnson

Mark Treyger Inez Barron

Andrew Cohen

Steven Matteo Vanessa Gibson Ben Kallos Mark Rory Lancman Levine Alan Maisel Helen Rosenthal

Robert Cornegy Jr.

Ritchie Torres

special election in February 2016, can serve through 2025.

Finally, a council member can also hit the maximum number of consecutive terms, take a break, and return to office.

That’s what City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz did, returning to the body in 2010 after serving for much of the 1990s. Here’s a rundown of how long each current member has served – and when they’ll have to move on.

Jan. 1, 2014 – Dec. 31, 2021

Chaim Deutsch

Laurie Cumbo

In the New York City Council, the rules say that members can only serve two consecutive four-year terms. In practice, it’s not so simple.

For example, council members elected to office on or before Nov. 2, 2010 – when term limits changed – could complete their current term and go on to serve up to two more full four-year terms.

In other cases, a candidate that wins a special election in the middle of a term can also serve an additional two full terms. For example, this is why New York City Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr., who won a

Jan. 1, 2010 Jumaane – Dec. 31, 2021

Jimmy Van Bramer

November 2012 – Dec. 31, 2021 Donovan Richards

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Rafael Espinal Jr.

Barry Grodenchik Eligible

November 2015 – Dec. 31, 2021

Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2025

Joseph Borelli

February 2016 – Dec. 31, 2021

Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2025

Rafael Salamanca Jr.

February 2017 – Dec. 31, 2021

Bill Perkins

Eligible

Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2025 Eligible

Jan. 1, 2018 – Dec. 31, 2021 Carlina Rivera Francisco Moya Mark Treyger Ruben Diaz Sr. Mark Gjonaj Justin Kalman Yeger Keith Powers Brannan Robert Holden 2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Adrienne Adams

Diana Ayala Eligible

Alicka AmprySamuel 2019

2020

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Single Payer Health Care Will Be a DISASTER for New York’s Businesses Health care costs are a top concern for business owners across New York.

Now, a push for a single payer health care system is threatening to wreak even more havoc on the state’s small businesses, many of which are struggling to survive in the second highest taxed state in the nation.*

What’s at Stake?

$225 Billion TAX INCREASE

175,000+ LOST JOBS

CONSUMERS LOSE CHOICE

A single payer plan relies on a hefty new payroll tax, estimated to be 10% on employers and employees – or even more. This tax alone would be $57 Billion more than the total state budget and more than 2½ times the NYC budget.

Single payer would eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. In addition to the health care industry, supporting businesses would see job losses, which will hurt communities across NYS. There are many reasons employers offer health care benefits. Single payer would take away consumers’ right to choose their health care and replace it with a government-run, one-size-fits-all approach.

New Yorkers deserve access to high-quality, affordable health care.

A single payer system is not the answer. * The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index ranks New York 49th - second worst state in which to do business.

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HEALTH CARE February 19, 2018

THANKS TO A FLU SEASON that’s one of the worst in recent memory, it has been a tough winter to stay healthy. Influenza hospitalizations are up and thousands have died. The flu vaccine has proven to be less effective than in years past, and public health experts say the disease may have yet to reach its peak. The spread of the virus is likely to continue for weeks.

It has also been a tough winter for New York policymakers and government officials who rely on Washington for funding. While congressional Republicans failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they’ve taken incremental steps to undermine the law, such as eliminating the individual mandate.

The federal government has also reduced funding for safety net hospitals and for the ACA’s Basic Health Program, both of which play a major role in New York. Some Republicans in Washington still hope to scale back Medicaid and Medicare as well.

In this special section, City & State’s Grace Segers takes a closer look at the various health care programs that have been on the chopping block since President Donald Trump took office. In another piece, City & State’s Rebecca C. Lewis analyzes what a single-payer health care system might look like in New York City – and the realistic alternatives that officials could consider to cover the uninsured. And we check in with a couple of New York’s top health care officials to hear their diagnoses of the situation – and how to remedy it.

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IF YOU’RE GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO ...

New York City looks to California for a model of universal health care.

But it’s not single-payer.

SHORTLY BEFORE HIS ELECTION to New York City Council speaker, Corey Johnson floated the idea of municipal single-payer health care in multiple interviews, including with The New York Times and the Village Voice. Implementing that system would pose a hefty task for Johnson and for the city as a whole, as well as a fundamental question: Could it work?

The answer depends in part on whether the city plans to pursue a full-fledged single-payer model, which experts say is all but impossible, or some kind of scaled back version to expand health care coverage. As of now, city officials are looking to pursue the latter option.

A true single-payer system means that a single entity covers the cost of all health care. Everyone pays into a single plan run by the government, which in turn is the only provider of coverage paying claims.

In New York City, as in any other municipality or state, this would entail the elimination of all other private or public health plans. Anyone currently buying insurance or getting it through their job

would need to give it up and go on the publicly run plan.

To achieve this, the city would need Albany to ban private insurance providers from doing business within its borders. A slew of federal regulations also prevent the city from making changes to Medicaid and Medicare, leaving other payers in the system as well. Neither of these address the total cost of implementing the system either.

For these and other reasons, New York City will likely not go in that direction.

Johnson has begun early talks with key players in this process, including Mark Levine, chairman of the City Council’s Health Committee. Levine told City & State that while nothing is off the table, officials have looked to San Francisco as a model, which enacted a program that is actually neither a single-payer system nor health insurance.

“I think it would be more accurately described as universal access to health care,” Levine said. “We sure can do a lot more to ensure that every New York City resident has access to health care.”

In 2007, San Francisco began a program called Healthy San Francisco, which could be described as a universal health care program. The program, which is available to uninsured city residents, offers affordable access to care at many health clinics and hospitals across the city. Since it only applies in San Francisco and only within a limited network, enrolling in the plan is not the same as having health insurance. In short, going to any hospital outside the city limits would mean that person would have to pay completely out of pocket. Instead, the program provides universal access to health care within the city’s borders.

Healthy San Francisco is funded through the city’s general fund, co-payments from participants that vary based on income and a tax on employers who don’t offer health insurance to their workers. And it is open to undocumented immigrants who are unable to get Medicare, Medicaid or any federally subsidized insurance from the Affordable Care Act. The program was spearheaded by Dr. Mitchell Katz, who re-

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Happy for $300M, new hospital, but not the location!

Utica is beautiful and unique. It has been overlooked for so long as another small rust belt city that has been all but abandoned. Now, times have changed as America enters a phase when urban cores are recognized as unique and special places. These downtowns have been shaped by generations, back when the main sources of transportation were by foot or by horse. They have been designed piece by piece to attract foot traffic, to withstand time and to be repurposed with each new owner that comes along with a creative vision. These strong people breathe new life into a previously unused space.

America has realized that these downtowns have purpose, and people are eager to be a part of this American renaissance. Much of our infrastructure from the day of the canal still exists and is ripe for repurposing. Once they are dozed, they cannot be replaced. So many opportunities for local entrepreneurs could be lost.

The two main areas of activity in Utica, Genesee St. and Varick St., can help guide the restoration of existing storefronts and yield small-scale mixed use development in the near future. The streets that connect these two busy centers are set up perfectly for a connective corridor of vibrancy and development that can strengthen Utica’s core downtown. These streets are threatened by plans to put a mega-hospital in the area, which would be a true disaster for Utica’s comeback, when the project could be built so effortlessly on the property already owned by MVHS, where St. Luke’s is located. A mega-hospital on the Columbia-Lafayette blocks would create a large roadblock for pedestrians and motorists from accessing the city. Instead of a grand box of a hospital, imagine what can be done with the existing infrastructure already in the area.

If Utica needs any new development, it doesn’t need large scale state funded projects. Look out for phrases like “opportunity of a lifetime” and “must move forward.” You will hear these words from investors, trying to convince the public that these projects cannot fail. In reality, many of these projects are over bloated, unstable and serve private interests far more than the interests of the community.

Moving forward, Utica can capitalize on its resources by taking any efforts to preserve its unique and profitable infrastructure. Regulations need to be dropped and zoning needs to be relaxed to make it easier for local investors can come in and repurpose existing buildings. The public should be allowed to explore creative, temporary ways to give purpose to unused space, encouraging greenery, art and traffic-calming techniques.

City lots for sale should be smaller and sold individually so small mixed-use can be developed over time, building up instead of out. Parking minimums should be eliminated for efficient use of land resources because empty parking lots do not generate revenue. This goes for all city centers in CNY, not just Utica. They say Rome wasn’t built in a day. So true. Neither was OUR Rome or our Utica. Putting all our trust in civic leaders with their shiny, grand projects will only leave us more in debt with all our problems still intact. The only way to restore Utica is to enable the citizens who care enough to put in the effort to make it more resilient. Have you been downtown lately? It’s already happening. By Daniel Parsnow 3,000+ Members!

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cently took over as the head of New York City Health + Hospitals.

Katz told City & State the Healthy San Francisco model could work in New York City, but will face political challenges, such as where to get the required funding.

He said the program would have been far harder to implement if San Francisco had not imposed a tax on employers who did not offer insurance. Such a tax in New York would require approval from Albany, where the Republican-controlled state Senate generally opposes tax increases.

Practical and logistical obstacles would have to be overcome as well. First, New York City has nearly 10 times the population of San Francisco. In fact, New York City has as many uninsured people as San Francisco has total residents. At its peak, the program only covered 60,000 people, a far cry from the needs of New York City.

According to 2016 census data, the vast majority of New York City residents already have health insurance, with about 43 percent of New Yorkers covered by public health insurance like Medicaid or Medicare. But roughly 664,000 people in New York City lack insurance, or 7.8 percent of the population. Immi-

WHAT EXACTLY IS SINGLEPAYER HEALTH CARE? The term is thrown around a lot, but single-payer health care has a specific meaning.

purchase private insurance. The Affordable Care Act is an American attempt at universal health care through private insurers and government subsidies.

In a single-payer system, there is only one insurer. That insurer is run by the government and funded through taxes, which covers every resident. Private health coverage may exist, but only to supplement the public insurance.

“Single payer” does not refer to who provides the care. In countries like Canada, which has a single-payer system, the government still relies on private care providers, whom they pay.

Countries like England, which also has singlepayer, the government owns and operates the places care is provided.

Universal health care means every resident is covered. Single-payer is a type of universal health care, but not all universal health care is single-payer. This could be done through a single, public health system. It could also be done through an individual mandate to

Some countries have a hybrid system. The United States is one of those countries, thanks to the introduction of Medicare in the 1960s.

The program, which is funded through taxes, is a single-payer system, although only applies to residents 65 and older.

grants make up two-thirds of the uninsured population and 25 percent of noncitizens lack coverage.

Johnson, the council speaker, isn’t the first person to call for single-payer health care – or something like it – in New York City. Anthony Weiner made it a key part of his campaign for mayor in 2013, a race he ultimately lost to Bill de Blasio.

Weiner’s plan didn’t actually constitute a true single-payer system either, but more closely resembles a public option – an insurance plan that is publicly run and funded. With a public option, the government could theoretically use its bargaining power, as the federal government does with Medicare, to negotiate lower health care costs. And unlike a single-payer system, use of that plan is not compulsory.

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It instead competes against other insurers in the marketplace.

Weiner’s particular proposal laid out the framework for a publicly run health insurance plan funded by the city that would cover city workers and retirees as well as undocumented immigrants, with the potential of eventually opening up to everyone.

Bill Hammond, the health policy director at the Empire Center for Public Policy, said New York City could create a public option safety net to cover those who don’t have insurance, including undocumented immigrants, which would address the city’s needs without taking on the costs of insuring the entire city. The city could pay for this through a combination of premiums, taxes and the reallocation of money in its budget.

But Hammond said a public option isn’t necessarily the best route for the city to go, and it could wind up costing both the city and taxpayers a lot of money. “None of this would be easy, politically or otherwise, and inevitably there would be winners and losers,” he said.

Katz added that he would support efforts, including a public option, that get

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more New Yorkers on insurance. He said that it would also help the city’s struggling system of public hospitals that he oversees, which has a deficit that is approaching $2 billion.

The public hospitals Katz oversees don’t turn anyone away regardless of insurance or immigration status, so they act as something of a safety net for those who need it.

But often, health care costs come straight out of the pocket of the hospital, since they get little to no insurance reimbursement and many of their patients can’t afford to pay. Katz said more patients with insurance would be a boon for his hospitals.

He would even support money in the city budget being shifted away from New York City Health + Hospitals in order to fund a public insurance option.

“I always believe that you should give the person the right to choose,” Katz said. “So I think that it is much better to give people insurance and let them choose and let the dollar follow the person than to require that people seek care as indigent people.”

Any action the city takes could be moot if single-payer health care passed at the state or federal level. In Albany, Assem-

expertise, we recognize the magnitude of the opioid epidemic, and we stand along all that are making efforts at the city, state, and federal levels to combat this crisis,” stated CEO Raul Russi.

The opioid epidemic has gained crisis proportions as a result of societal resistance to recognizing addiction as a medical condition and public health issue. The downplaying of discrimination and stigma, social determinants of health, cultural and insurance barriers to care, preference towards criminal justice interventions, and a medical system that overuses prescription drugs has contributed to the current serious and complex problem.

Acacia Network’s call to action is to address the complexity head on through active engagement of all sectors prioritizing the community voice, experience, and activation. Council Member Rafael Salamanca; Michael Brady, Executive Director, Third Avenue Business Improvement District and Pamela Mattel, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Acacia Network are co-leading the Bronx Collective Impact to reduce overdose deaths and increase recovery options. The Collective, in its forming stages, has engaged over 12 sectors, community members, and people in recovery. The group is collectively defining the problem, prioritizing direction, and building awareness and sustainable solutions. The Collective is also planning a broad based community summit later this Spring.

In the past year, Acacia Network has opened access for opioid addiction treatment for an additional 2,000 people within our primary care and substance abuse services, trained all health

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blyman Richard Gottfried introduced single-payer legislation that would create one public option and ban the sale of private insurance unless it offers additional coverage not included in the state plan. He has been trying to get that through the state Legislature since the early 1990s.

Gottfried declined to comment for this story, but told City & State previously that “no New Yorker should go without health care or have to suffer financially to get it” and that single-payer health care is the best way to achieve that goal.

Back in the five boroughs, Levine said the City Council is still looking at its options and trying to figure out the best way forward. In addition to Healthy San Francisco, he also mentioned building on the Action Health NYC program, a one-year pilot to connect undocumented immigrants to health services. The pilot ended in June 2017 with no additional funds to continue it. Levine said the goal ultimately is to provide universal access to health care like preventive and primary care, not just emergency care. In the long run, Levine said, this would save the city money.

“It feels like the building blocks are there,” he said.

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ATTRACTING INSURED PATIENTS

MITCHELL KATZ President and CEO, New York City Health + Hospitals

C&S: What are the problems you’re facing at Health + Hospitals and what are your plans to address them?

MK: I believe, like the nuns, that there’s no mission without a margin. And so while my career has been dedicated to taking care of people who don’t have insurance, I’ve always done that by billing insurance for people who do have insurance, and attracting insured patients to my systems. Currently in Health + Hospitals, in most of our centers, we are still sending away insured patients, not providing the services that are better remunerated.

This doesn’t come from a bad place, it’s sort of the history of public hospitals, that public

hospitals like ours generally started before Lyndon Johnson’s Medicaid and Medicare in the ’60s when nobody had insurance. And so nobody billed and that was fine. But gradually, public hospital systems have learned how to bill and how to attract and keep paying patients, so there’s a margin to provide the care to the people who don’t have insurance. Health + Hospitals has a long way to go in that area, but this is work I’ve done in two other municipalities, and it’s well-known how to do it. And it’s a lot easier than saving people’s lives in trauma, which I’m proud my system does every day. So if we can revive a pulseless person who’s lost most of the blood

volume in their body, surely we can learn how to bill insurance the way other systems do, and we are.

C&S: Could the affordable health care program that you spearheaded in California, Healthy San Francisco, work in New York City?

MK: I think that the model could work. Like a lot of other questions, it comes to participatory democracy. One of the features of Healthy San Francisco was that employers who did not provide insurance for their workers were required to pay into a fund or provide benefits or pay insurance bills. So that’s a political question as to whether or not the city would want to do that.

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RICHARD GOTTFRIED Chairman, Assembly Health Committee

C&S: What are your health legislative priorities this year?

RG: Our first order of business is, of course, dealing with health care cuts in the budget. This is not the worst year, not the worst budget we’ve seen, nor the best. But there are still serious cuts in health programs and restrictions in Medicaid that I and the Assembly will be trying to reverse. Beyond that, not necessarily in any particular order, passing the Reproductive Health Act in the Assembly again, and hopefully helping to advance it in the state Senate.

A particular budget agenda item which we hope to deal with in the budget, and if not we will continue to try to deal with after the budget, is protecting safety net hospitals. Next, again in no particular order, is strengthening the medical marijuana program. One is to repeal the list of specific conditions for which medical marijuana can be used. Secondly, today, only physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can certify a patient for medical marijuana use. I think it makes sense that any practitioner who, under law today, can pre-

scribe controlled substances ought to be able to certify a patient for medical use of marijuana as long as the treatment for the condition is within that practitioners scope of practice. The next item is the New York Health Act, my single-payer bill. We will, I hope, pass that again in the Assembly as we have in the three years before.

The last item is the Medical Aid in Dying bill that would allow an adult patient with decision-making capacity who is dying from a terminal illness to get a prescription for medication that would end their life.

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The health care programs in New York targeted by the federal government THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT shut down briefly on Feb. 9, although both houses of Congress voted on a two-year budget deal in the early morning, and President Donald Trump signed the legislation before most people got to work.

The spending agreement included a provision that directly affected health care in New York: funding for community health centers, which provide medical services for primarily low-income people. These health centers aren’t the only programs affected by actions – or lack thereof – taken in Wash-

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By GRACE SEGERS

ington since Trump became president. Here is a rundown of health programs in New York that have been on the chopping block.

New York State of Health Despite the actions taken by congressional Republicans and the president to strip many of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, enrollment in New York State of Health, the state’s health insurance exchange, increased this year. The Trump administration slashed Obamacare advertising funding by 90 percent, cut the en-

rollment period in half – although New York extended its enrollment deadline to the end of January – and decreased funding to groups that helped people enroll.

The Republican-controlled Congress tried and failed to fully repeal Obamacare last year. The Republican tax plan did remove the individual mandate, which fined people who were uninsured. Despite these actions, New York State of Health reported this month that 4.3 million New Yorkers have received insurance coverage through the marketplace.

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Basic Health Program New York and Minnesota were the only two states to utilize the Basic Health Program under the Affordable Care Act, which provides an alternative coverage option for people with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. In New York, this program, known as the Essential Plan, covers more than 700,000 people. In December, the Trump administration announced that it was cutting the cost-sharing reduction payments to states, which helps fund the Essential Plan.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the Minnesota attorney general are suing the federal government to restore the funding, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo provided for enough funding for the program in his budget proposal this year.

Medicaid In August, Cuomo decried a rule that shifted federal money from states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare to states that did not. The threat to Medicaid funding is still looming, despite failed efforts to repeal the

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health care law. In January, the Trump administration announced that it would allow states to require able-bodied adults to work or participate in community activities in order to receive Medicaid.

Disproportionate share hospital payments Cuts to disproportionate share hospital payments – federal funding that allows hospitals to treat low-income and uninsured patients – led to a possible loss of about $1 billion to hospitals around New York. It also spurred a spat last fall between the state and New York City governments. NYC Health + Hospitals, the city’s network of hospitals, said the state owed $380 million in funding for the hospital payments, which the state initially refused to pay due to the federal cuts. After escalating threats of a lawsuit, the state released around $360 million to NYC Health + Hospitals. The cuts remain in place without congressional action.

Community health centers Funding for community health centers expired on Sept. 30, but it was then extended until March 31 by the government’s short-

term spending bill in December. These centers treated around 2 million New Yorkers in 2016, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Federal funding accounted for around 20 percent of the centers’ budgets, and they provide services not covered by insurance. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer visited a Syracuse center last month to highlight the dilemma faced by centers that have turned to the state for loans, especially since demand for health services have increased along with the intensifying opioid crisis. The budget deal, which was negotiated in part by Schumer, includes $7 billion in funding for centers across the country over the next two years.

Children’s Health Insurance Program The short-term bill that ended the government shutdown on Jan. 22 funded the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years, which provides health care for 350,000 children in New York. The program was allotted another four years of funding under the latest budget deal that was passed on Feb. 9, extending the program for a total of 10 years.

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“I think a lot of my students today really want to learn how to look at evidence, data and trends in order to figure out: how do we transform that into the civil society that we hope to build?” said Hillary Knepper, chairwoman of Pace University’s public administration department.

In response to the 2016 presidential election, the New School for Social Research began running public lecture

classes, such as Post-Election America and Race in the USA, to compliment academic programs on subjects like migration, trade and globalization, and global nationalist and populist movements. “There is enormous interest in these topics here, and there are new seminars going on all the time on these questions,” said William Milberg, dean and professor of economics at the New School for Social Research. “Students are starting to write their dissertations and master’s theses about why these trends are happening.”

The impact of the 2016 election, Milberg said, has been far broader than a single course. “It’s kind of cut across the curriculum and across the research agendas of the students,” he said.

Regardless of how the political pendulum swings, the business of delivering government services and educating the next generation of public servants has no choice but to adapt.

“Politics is cyclical in nature, but the needs are there and they don’t fundamentally change,” Knepper said.

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Since any new White House will enact its own set of priorities whose reverberations are felt beyond Washington, the provision of public services and the administration of regulatory authority may migrate to other levels of government, and even other sectors.

“State and local government and nonprofits are going to step up,” Knepper said, “so you might have fewer opportunities at one level, but you’re going to have more opportunities at other levels.”

Changing political landscapes also mobilize new sectors of the population, which can boost demand for degrees seen as pertinent to the touchstone issues of the day.

The health advocacy master’s program at Sarah Lawrence College, for instance, has seen an uptick in interest following recent attempts to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act, according to Judith Babbitts, its dean of graduate and professional studies. And that’s not the only program that has seen renewed interest of late.

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“Students coming into women’s history now want to deal with current policy issues in which they can change politically what is happening by using history to inform what strategy they might use,” Babbitts said.

While any public affairs program will strive to provide students with an interdisciplinary toolkit for analyzing changes in the political environment, Knepper said that “politics can in some ways be informative but it can also be a distraction because our public services have to move forward no matter who is in office.”

Regardless of which political party holds power, resource limitations will invariably impose budgetary constraints on public managers, and governments unable to keep up with changing times risk losing the confidence of their constituents. As such, public affairs programs play a vital role in preparing policymakers to bring innovative solutions to government.

“The reason for getting that graduate education is really to open up new ideas, new pathways in your thinking,” Knepper said, adding that master’s in public administration students are

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trained to “turn a critical eye towards how we get the business of government done.”

Knepper added, “We may all have very different opinions, but we all agree – fundamentally, I think, across the political spectrum – that we need to be asking: How do we use data, how do we use information to really try to make the best decision possible?”

One of the principle challenges facing public managers – and practitioners in just about any field – is how to harness new technologies.

For many government professionals, the permeation of new technology throughout public institutions is an impetus to upgrade their skills in advanced degree programs.

As technology transforms the fabric of American society, law schools are offering new avenues of study around emerging issues like the protection of intellectual property and privacy rights.

New York Law School President Anthony W. Crowell said, “Law schools have a very important role in not only recognizing those issues but in helping to create the right

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Just as technology has transformed the way government services are delivered, it has also changed the way education is delivered. In the 19th century, improved printing and postal services gave rise to correspondence schools; the advent of digital technology has facilitated a similar trend in the 21st century.

For 35 years, Sarah Lawrence’s health advocacy degree was a twoyear on-campus program, but last month its format changed to an accelerated 18-month program comprised of two weeks of on-campus sessions and the remainder of the curriculum conducted online. Beyond expanding its geographical reach, the new format renders the program viable for nontraditional students, such as midcareer professionals or individuals unable to quit their jobs due to familial obligations.

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Technological advances also enable programs to better serve students with learning disabilities or other special needs. “I think that is really important as we talk about the various ways we want to provide access to legal education,” Crowell said.

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“Education has gotten a lot more accessible and I think it’s critical that we take advantage of that as citizens interested in public service ... because that accessibility is what’s going to change society,” Knepper said. “Education changes the world.”

And while technological progress has enabled academic programs to expand their geographical reach, studying on a New York campus offers compelling advantages as well.

For instance, graduate programs are increasingly emphasizing experiential learning, in which students can apply theoretical knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom in practical training settings, such as a government agency, nonprofit organization or private firm.

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February 19, 2018 Notice of Qualification of 532 Neptune Commercial LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/12/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/2/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 45 Broadway, Fl. 25, NY, NY 10006. 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.

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NOTICE OF Formation of BAYMAY LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 1/31/2018.

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SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 435 W 23rd St, Ste 1BB, NY, NY 10011. Principal business address: 207 E 37th St, Apt 2D, NY, NY 10016.Purpose: any lawful act or activity Common Energy LLC. Articles of Org. filed Sec. of State (SSNY) on 1/9/18. Office: NY County. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the company c/o 527 Hudson Street, Ste. 20-170, NY, NY 10014.

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Notice of Formation of Logical Chaos Productions LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/1/18. Office location: New York County.

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MOTT STREET 199 LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/29/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O FFO, 135 West 50th St., Ste 19B, NY, NY 10020.

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Notice of Formation of SQUARE-CHURCHILL MERCER LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of S t a t e (SSNY) on 12/28/17. Office location: New York County.

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Notice of Qualification of DUALITY HOLDINGS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/05/17.

Princ. office of LLC: 401 W. 14th St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10014.

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Notice of Formation of THE STRONG FAMILY HOME LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/01/18.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 27 E. 79th St., Unit #PH11, NY, NY 10075.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Friedberg Pinkas PLLC, 767 Third Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10017.

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Notice of Formation of Bonsai Kakigori, LLC filed with SSNY on January 23, 2016. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 26 W 20th St Apt 4 NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of TALL PINES MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/01/18.

Office location: NY County.

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SSNY shall mail process to Emanuel T. Stern, c/o Tall Pines Capital LLC, 654 Madison Ave., Ste. 801, NY, NY 10065.

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Notice of Formation of SUNNYSIDE PRESERVATION GP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/12/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: The Related Companies, L.P., Time Warner Center, 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. 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.

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Notice of Qualification of MVB MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/25/18.

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LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/21/17. Princ. office of LLC: 555 Madison Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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Notice of Formation of 30AW, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/05/18.

Office location: NY County.

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PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 75’ & 83’) on the building at 1576 Ocean Ave, Brooklyn, NY (20180076). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

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February 19, 2018 Notice of Qualification of North Shore Poke Co. Store 9, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/17/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 122 E. 42nd St, Ste 119, NY, NY 10168. 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.

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Notice of Formation of Masons NY Associates LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/25/18. Office location: New York County.

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DL Tax, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/01/2017.

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Notice of Qualification of KINDRED HOLDINGS INSURANCE AGENCY, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/12/17.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/8/17.

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Notice of Qualification of 532 Neptune Residential LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/12/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/2/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 45 Broadway, Fl. 25, NY, NY 10006. 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.

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Notice of Formation of Secret Arts LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/29/17.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Steve Cuiffo, 264 East Broadway #C1301, NY, NY 10002, principal business address.

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Notice of Qualification of RDZ FAMILY HOLDINGS, L.L.C. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/12/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/09/97.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

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Notice of Qualification of CR ADVANTAGE II, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/22/18. Princ. office of LLC: 119 Fifth Ave., 8th Fl, NY, NY 10003. 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: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MBDL LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 10/25/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail any process against LLC to: 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Princ bus addr of LLC: 96 5th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

CARNEGIE HILL PSYCHOANALYSIS PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/02/2018.

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SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

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Notice of Qualification of ElliptiCurve Capital Management GP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/09/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/04/18. Princ. office of LLC: 135 E. 57th St., 8th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Stephen L. Moskowitz, 225 E. 63rd St., Apt. 7C, NY, NY 10065. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

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Notice of Formation of Ainahs Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/16/17. 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: 254 Canal St, Ste 2001, NY, NY 10013.

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CINDY D NESS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/26/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 333 Pearl Street, 17C, NY, NY 10038.

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Notice of Formation of CAKE 150, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207.

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Notice of Formation of 1407 Westside Enterprises, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/23/17. 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: 148 W. 24th St, Fl. 3, Apt 3A, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of LG 161 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/2/17. 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: 161 Chrystie St, Fl. 2, NY, NY 10002.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of RIDGE BREEAAD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/05/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 358 5th Ave., Ste. 902, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Avery & Chao, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/15/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 204 W 92nd St, Apt 3R, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: Any lawful purpose, general and investment advisory services.

Notice of Qualification of TAO LICENSING LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/05/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/08/08. Princ. office of LLC: 1350 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., 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.

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to install wireless communications antennas on a building rooftop, with an overall height of 73 feet, at the approx. vicinity of 26 Ebbits Street, Staten Island, Richmond County, NY 10306. 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, Natalie, n.kleikamp@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of Qualification of Fogo de Chao Churrascaria (White Plains) LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/29/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/23/17.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity .

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF ANNA & DAVID ZIMMERMAN FOUNDATION, INC. for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2017 is available at its principal office located at 320 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is ROBERT ZIMMERMAN. Notice of Formation of 216 Boerum Venture LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/02/15. 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 Slate Property Group LLC, 850 Third Ave., Ste. 16-B, NY, NY 10022, Attn: Martin Nussbaum.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of MANUS SWEENEY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 146 EAST 65, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/7/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ES RECEIVABLE HOLDINGS ONE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/02/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mark Devitre, CF Entertainment, Inc., 1925 Century Park East, 10th Fl., Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of BRP AT Developer LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/2/18. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Retention Program LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/26/17.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/24/15.

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.

DE address of LLC: 108 W. 13th St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation HK5327 LLC Arts of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY 11/2/2017.

Ofc Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 7 Navy Pier Ct #5086, Staten Island, NY 10304.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 921 Washington Avenue LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/12/17. 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: 125 Park Ave, Fl. 7, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: any lawful activity .

Notice of Qualification of S3 RE 159 Broadway LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/29/17. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/9/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 41, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Spruce Capital Partners LLC, 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 41, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Kwue Molly, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 12/19/17. Office loc: Richmond County. SSNY designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: Ainissa Espada-Caruso, 71 Harbor View Place, Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: any lawful activity or purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Assisted Alternative Merchant Strategies LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/11/17.

Office location: NY County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Anthony Anastasio, 75 Wall St., Apt 24P, NY, NY 10005, principal business address.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 1STC, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/27/17.

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: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of SPG Tremont LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/17. 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 Slate Property Group LLC, 38 East 29th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016, Attn: Martin Nussbaum.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of HYDRANGEA ESTATES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/09/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/16/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Ada Clapp, Gen. Counsel, Elysium Management LLC, 445 Park Ave., Ste. 1401, NY, NY 10022.

DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Ste. 4, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of FIFTH AVENUE CAPITAL II LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/14/17. 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: 521 5th Ave, Ste 1804, NY, NY 10175.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation WWR5349 LLC Arts of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY 11/2/2017.

Ofc Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 7 Navy Pier Ct #5086, Staten Island, NY 10304.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of EMILY PRENTISS TRAVEL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/28/17.

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 Linda Prentiss, Esq., Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP, One Speedwell Ave., Morristown, NJ 07962.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 87’) on the building at 120 E Broadway, New York, NY (20180122). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice of Formation of Caisson Box LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/8/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LCC to: Balsam Law Firm PLLC, 315 Madison Ave, Ste 1306, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of 460W34 Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/3/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/11/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity Notice of Formation of Wingspan Consulting LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/3/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 440 W. End Ave, Apt 8-D, NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Qualification of Family Matters In-Home Care, LLC. Auth filed with Secy of State of NY 11/15/17. Office loc: NY Co. LLC formed in CA 1/29/13.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail ´copy of process against LLC to: 2155 S Bascom Ave Ste 116, Campbell CA 95008. Cert of LLC filed with Secy of State of CA, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

February 19, 2018 DNA STRATEGIC CONSULTING LLC Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 10/13/2017. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 35 Great Jones, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

JD MEDIA CONSULTING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/12/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3 Peter Cooper Road, Apt 2F, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of NICE BLET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/09/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to M. Nader Ahari, 524 Broadway, Ste. 405, NY, NY 10012. As amended

by Cert. of Amendment filed with SSNY on 01/02/18, name changed to NICE BELT, LLC and process addr. is M. Nader Ahari, 200 Park Ave. South, Ste. 1608, NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LQ Collective LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) ) 01/12/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to princ bus addr: 235 E 95th St, Apt 24L, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of formation of TIN ROOF OWNERS, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/4/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 320 West 19th Street, 5E, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of The Assemblage NoMad LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/26/17. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/23/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 40 Wall St, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. 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 941 Washington Avenue LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) o n 10/12/17.

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: 125 Park Ave, Fl. 7, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of InStone Productions LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/8/18. Office location: New York County.

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

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Loud Tree Media LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/5/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1501 Broadway, Ste 1616, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Quai Nystrom LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/20/17.

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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of KIFU PARIS LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/7/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 244 Fifth Avenue, Suite E35, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of CUPCAKE DELIGHT LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 1/16/18. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LCC to: 222 Crystal St, Apt 2R, Brooklyn, NY 11208. Purpose: any lawful act.

GET COVERED LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 11/15/2017. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to c/o Northwest Registered Agent LLC, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

CKK Realty LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 109/18/17.

Off. Loc.: New York County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 21 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of BONNAIG & ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/21/17.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to princ bus addr: 25 Murray St, 6D, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LABORIELJAX LLC . Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 1/12/18. Office loc: BRONX County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to princ bus add: 340 Beekman Ave Apt 4a, Bronx, NY 10454. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Qualification of NW 1180 AOA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/31/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of ASML US, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/9/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/28/00.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1308193 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 225 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK, NY 10281.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. FUKU BATTERY PARK LLC.

Notice of Qualification of HYDRANGEA ESTATES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/09/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/16/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Ada Clapp, Gen. Counsel, Elysium Management LLC, 445 Park Ave., Ste. 1401, NY, NY 10022.

DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Ste. 4, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of GAMBILL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/29/17.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/26/17. Princ. office of LLC: 101 Park Ave., 48th Fl., NY, NY 10178. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Benjamin S. Gambill III at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Archer Towers Development LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. 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: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 186188 FIRST AVE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/17.

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.

Notice of Qualification of RevolverCap Management, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/22/17. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE on 9/28/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o RevolverCap Partners LLC, 1120 Ave. of the Americas, 4th Fl., Ste. 4150, NY, NY 10036, principal business address. DE address of LP: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Name/address of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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LOSERS CAPTAIN This is not a ship captain or an army officer. No, Captain is the new addition to the Cuomo family, an adorable Northern Inuit puppy.

And at only 14 weeks old, this dog has already gotten more press coverage than the average person gets in an entire lifetime. The pooch will live in the lap of luxury at the governor’s Albany mansion, where Cuomo said he’s “mansion training” the pup. Not many dogs can say a mansion is their own personal bathroom.

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In his State of the City address last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wants to make New York City “the fairest big city in America.” But he avoided hot-button issues like subway delays and growing homelessness and provided little in the way of new ideas or concrete details. In this Winners & Losers, we offer the opposite: lots of details about the newest political developments and the biggest controversies.

ANDREW CUOMO Not even a cute puppy could help him. A Siena College poll showed his job approval and favorability ratings down. A Quinnipiac University poll found most New Yorkers don’t want him to run for president. Quinnipiac twisted the knife with a poll showing most voters disapprove of his handling of the MTA and are against his payroll tax. And perhaps due to the Percoco trial, New Yorkers think Cuomo is part of the ethics reform problem. It’s a good thing Cuomo has an adorable furball to snuggle.

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ROBERT CARROLL & SIMCHA FELDER

RUBÉN DÍAZ JR.

Their bill keeps primary day away from Rosh Hashana and 9/11 on the calendar.

ED HARRISON

Like LaGuardia and JFK, his little Stewart Airport is in for some upgrades of its own.

JIMMY ODDO

New jails? Not in my borough, the Staten Island beep said. And de Blasio listened.

CYRUS VANCE JR.

He raked in $734M in asset forfeitures – so why does he still accept shady gifts?

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Vol. 7 Issue 7 February 19, 2018 WHO’S NEXT? A way-too-early guide

New jails? Check with me first, the Bronx beep said. Tough luck, de Blasio replied.

TODD HOWE

Star witness one day, handcuffed the next.

Call it karma for mocking the disabled.

KATHY SHEEHAN

The Albany mayor hosts lawmakers half the year. You’d think she’d get more love.

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