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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul spends hours and hours each week representing her boss.

She is a tireless champion of the governor’s budget proposals and an enthusiastic advocate of his broader policy agenda. She marches in parades, attends rallies and receptions, holds press conferences, cuts ribbons, makes keynote speeches and accepts awards. She touts the Cuomo administration’s successes to elected officials, industry associations, chambers of commerce, community groups, church groups, immigrant groups – really, just about any group that has at least some connection to state politics or government.

But there’s a lot more to Hochul than her public persona as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s No. 2.

For this week’s cover story, City & State’s Frank G. Runyeon sat down with Hochul for an hourlong interview – and got past the standard talking points to catch a glimpse of the person behind the politician. There are anecdotes that reveal her early insecurity and her unrepentant impulsiveness. There’s a lingering pain from the loss of her congressional seat to Chris Collins, whose ideology she despises. And there’s a forceful response to the political attacks lodged by her latest challenger, New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams.

CONTENTS WINNERS & LOSERS ... 42 Who was up and who was down last week

30 women doing remarkable things in New York ... 12

KATHY HOCHUL The lieutenant governor on her primary challenge, the Catholic Church and advice for young women

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HEALTH CARE

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s risky bet on health care funding ... 35

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Latest Cuomo ordered state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to review Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s handling of a 2015 sexual assault allegation against movie producer Harvey Weinstein. Vance declined to prosecute, saying his office didn’t have a strong enough case, despite a recording of Weinstein apologizing to the accuser for groping her breasts.

Cuomo’s announcement came after the #TimesUp movement published an open letter urging the governor to look into why Weinstein was never prosecuted.

NO, NOT THAT NIXON The rumors are true – the actress and activist of “Sex and the City” fame is running for governor.

Cynthia Nixon entered the Democratic primary against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who dismissed her criticisms of his administration as part of the “political silly season,” although he has since been bolstering his progressive chops.

Nixon was attacked by former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an openly gay Cuomo surrogate, who called Nixon an “unqualified lesbian.” While Quinn apologized, Nixon turned the insult into a fundraising rallying cry. Nixon touted more than 2,000 small-dollar donations, saying it’s more than Cuomo has received in seven years.

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Back & Forth

A Q&A with gubernatorial candidate

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C&S: Are you facing an uphill battle since you’re not on one of the main party lines?

JG: I’m convinced that most of New York state, like nationally, have had it with both major parties, the Democratic and Republican parties. So I think there’s a path to victory by going up the middle of both parties because that’s about where I am philosophically. Right now I’m a registered Republican, but I’m a moderate Republican.

C&S: You want to use the tax revenue from legalized marijuana to fund the MTA. JG: We have released a plan whereby we think we can sell $12 billion worth of bonds over a seven-year period, and that has a two times multiplier effect. So we would be putting $24 billion worth of infrastructure improvements into the state economy, and that generates the equivalent of 240,000-plus jobs over a seven-year period.

Kicker

CROOKED KUSHNER? The Associated Press reported that the Kushner Cos., which at the time was run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, lied about having rent-regulated tenants in its New York City buildings. The company routinely filed paperwork that said their buildings had no such tenants, when in fact they had hundreds.

The revelation prompted the City Council to launch an investigation. And soon after, the city Department of Buildings launched a series of probes as well.

No, that money would go towards fixing our roads and bridges upstate, and of course some of that would be dedicated to the MTA to try to deal with the crisis that exists there with the transit system of New York City.

C&S: What do you think of Cynthia Nixon jumping into the race?

JG: I think it’s good. I think competition is healthy, I believe in that. And I think it’s going to provide a real challenge to the governor. I don’t know what the outcome’s going to be, but I think that’s going to require the governor to have to spend a lot of his resources, and again, one of the reasons why I’m so adamant about campaign finance reform is, for the governor to have been able to raise $30 million, that doesn’t happen by accident. That takes a well-orchestrated, well-choreographed pay-to-play operation.

“This is where the SECOND AMENDMENT comes in quite frankly, because you know, what if the PRESIDENT was to IGNORE THE COURTS? What would you do?

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TALE OF THE TAPE ED MANGANO JOE PERCOCO and

COMPARING TWO DISGRACED FORMER NEW YORK PUBLIC OFFICIALS As the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, a former senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, wrapped up, the corruption trial of another high-profile New York politician – former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano – was getting underway. But apart from the fact that both men have been accused of wrongdoing (proven in one case, unproven in the other), what else do the two men have in common?

THE CHARGES He was indicted on charges that included bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services fraud, extortion and obstructing justice. The allegations involve official acts to benefit restaurateur Harendra Singh, including making government loan guarantees. In exchange, prosecutors said, Singh provided Mangano with expensive furniture, a luxury watch, home upgrades, free meals, and vacations to Florida and various tropical islands.

THE STAR WITNESS Singh, the Long Island restaurant owner at the center of the case, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with prosecutors. Like Howe, his credibility is sure to be scrutinized during the trial.

THE OUTCOME To be determined. Opening statements were made this month.

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THE SUPPORTING CAST He is being tried alongside his wife, Linda Mangano, and John Venditto, the former Oyster Bay supervisor. Linda Mangano and Venditto are charged with obstructing justice and making false statements, and Venditto is also charged with bribery and honest services fraud.

POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS Less attention has been paid to Cuomo’s long-standing alliance with Mangano, even though the two men are members of different parties. Singh has also been linked to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and pleaded guilty to trying to bribe the mayor. While de Blasio avoided charges, he may be called to testify in the Mangano case.

Separately, the legal cloud hanging over Venditto may have cost his son, Michael Venditto, who was voted out of the state Senate in 2016.

QUESTIONABLE JOBS Linda Mangano allegedly was paid more than $450,000 by Singh for a “no-show” job that purportedly involved food tasting.

THE CHARGES He was charged with soliciting and accepting more than $315,000 in bribes in exchange for official action to help two companies with business before the state: the energy company Competitive Power Ventures and the real estate firm Cor Development Co. He was also charged with extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

THE STAR WITNESS Todd Howe, who made a plea deal with prosecutors, testified in court how he conspired with Percoco in the bribery scheme. Midtrial, he was arrested and jailed after admitting he had falsely disputed a credit card charge. However, he continued to testify, and questions about Howe’s credibility didn’t save Percoco.

THE OUTCOME He was convicted on three corruption charges. He was found not guilty of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

QUESTIONABLE JOBS Lisa Percoco was paid $90,000 by Competitive Power Ventures for a “low-show” job with the company’s educational program.

THE SUPPORTING CAST Among the co-defendants, Steven Aiello, a Cor Development executive, was convicted of bribery conspiracy. Joseph Gerardi, another Cor executive, was acquitted. The jury did not reach a verdict for Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., the Competitive Power Ventures executive who found a job for Percoco’s wife.

POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS Observers said Percoco’s guilty verdict and questionable activity raised during testimony could damage Cuomo politically, both in his 2018 re-election campaign and in a potential presidential bid in 2020. The governor has sought to downplay the ties, not always with success.

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“A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEADERSHIP” Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul says there’s something women need to realize Interview by FRANK G. RUNYEON Photography by CELESTE SLOMAN

LT. GOV. KATHY HOCHUL has worked hard to earn her position, having held elected office at the local, county, state and federal levels. Now, she’s the tiebreaking vote in a closely divided state Senate and only ever a heartbeat away from the Executive Mansion. She’s always on the move, spearheading the governor’s economic development initiative and juggling a host of other duties, including chairing the Women’s Suffrage Commission.

City & State’s Frank G. Runyeon sat down with one of the state’s most powerful women for an hour – and “no one gets an hour,” Hochul said – to talk about her political rivals and the challenges facing women in politics.

C&S: How did you injure your wrists?

KH: Lifting a suitcase (on a Delta flight).

Well, first of all they were both broken when I did the Adirondack Challenge with the governor my first three months on the job. (Sighs.) I kind of shouldn’t have taken

the dare but … I had only skied a handful of times. We were up at Lake Placid, it was part of the Adirondack Challenge, and we were finishing our last run and I was very happy that I had not fallen or had anything bad happen. Then, we start leaving and there’s this jump that the Olympians practice on. You go up in the air and you land on a giant air bag. Someone with me, who will remain nameless forever so he doesn’t lose his job as one of my security detail, just said something like, “Oh, the governor’s daughters do that jump.” He said it’s really easy. I said I wonder if I should try that. I knew in my head it was a dumb idea, but he said something you should never say to me, which is, “Well, if not now, when? When else are you going to be able to do this?” That’s all you need to say to me. If someone will triple-dog-dare me, I’ll do it. (Laughs.) So I, without any knowledge or experience or understanding of what was involved, I did the jump. Went up in the air and I was supposed to hit the airbag, but I missed the airbag. So I went

down splat, rolled down the hill. I was pulled down strapped to a sled, broken ribs, broken wrists, first three months on the job.

C&S: Do you have a political nemesis?

KH: The problem with me in this business is that I don’t hold grudges. I move on and try to find common ground. … Now, philosophically? Someone like Chris Collins, I am diametrically opposed to.

That’s the seat I lost in my re-election by 1.5 percent in the most Republican district in the state. Some would call that a victory. Clearly it didn’t send me back to Congress, so it’s not really a victory, but it still stunned people after redistricting when it became more Republican. I don’t dislike people; I dislike what they stand for or their policies. I was raised in a family where you have to respect everybody and try to understand where they’re coming from. But when I see the things that he has done to hurt my old district that I loved, I’ve got a problem.

“THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO SAY TO ME. IF SOMEONE WILL TRIPLE-DOG-DARE ME, I’LL DO IT.”

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C&S: I was going to ask you who your least favorite member of Congress was … but I guess we covered that.

KH: You just answered it.

C&S: Now, looming on the horizon, there’s the lieutenant governor’s race.

KH: What race? (Smiles.)

C&S: Have you ever met New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams?

KH: Actually, our paths crossed. Yes, we say hello at events. I said hello to him just Friday night (at Somos). … I’m sure he’s a nice guy! (Laughs.) What do I say? I have nothing negative to say.

C&S: Williams has made some critiques of your office. He’s called the lieutenant governor’s position overlooked, that it can and should be used as a bully pulpit, and that he would be the “people’s lieutenant governor.” What would you

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on issues that are very important to me like women’s right to choose. My support for gay rights, even back to the time I was county clerk, ... it’s very easy to take certain positions if you live in a certain part of the state, but to have the courage to take them elsewhere, to your own detriment, is a strength that I bring to it. So, we’ll leave it at that.

pictures, the whole thing. My staff was like, “Get out of here, get out.” But I was not going to turn my back. Probably the smarter side of me would have walked out but that became the issue in my race.

Those two: the Affordable Care Act and contraception. That was what I spent my time on.

C&S: You won a remarkable congressional special election in 2011, one with a lot of national media attention. After being a congresswoman, do you find this position limiting?

KH: I’ve defined this position in the way that I can be the most effective, not just for the people of one congressional district, but the entire state of New York. That is enormously satisfying for me. When I’m in Washington or I’m in New York City meeting my former colleagues, I think there’s a certain level of respect they have

C&S: I’ve read that your Catholic faith and your Catholic upbringing continue to be important to you. Is that right?

KH: My Catholic upbringing taught me to live the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of caring about people who are poor, in prison and homeless. I live by that. I don’t follow the rest.

C&S: So, there was quite a personal impact from what happened at that town hall. Have those wounds healed for you?

KH: No. (Pause.) No.

“WHEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TURNED ON ME IN MY OWN DISTRICT ... IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST BRUTAL EXPERIENCES OF MY POLITICAL CAREER.”

say to Williams’ implicit criticisms that the position is underutilized and that the lieutenant governor should better represent the voice of the people?

KH: Take note of this big smile. With all due respect to the elected official, it reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the position and how I’ve conducted myself in that capacity for the last three years, because I’ve already done everything that he proposes to do. I’ve been out there more than any lieutenant governor in history. …

I’ve been a loud advocate, if you look at my writings, my social media, my speeches, my advocacy, my tenacity, my unwillingness to give up on issues. I’ll give him a pass and say he just doesn’t understand how I’ve used this position in the last three years and I’ll leave it at that. I have done more to promote issues, particularly for people in underserved communities. I’ve been an advocate for families, children, and I’ve never wavered

for this office, that it’s in a different place than being a member of Congress.

When I was in Congress, in the minority, we spent time, at least 35 times, maybe 40 debating whether we should repeal the Affordable Care Act. If I voted once to repeal that, I’d still be a member of Congress. Absolutely, that became a defining issue in my narrow loss, as well as my support for the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act. That is what I was – and I will use the term – crucified.

As a Catholic, I can say that. But when the Catholic Church turned on me in my own district and went on radio, did ads telling people to come to a town hall meeting and I was lambasted in my own community for standing up for keeping the contraception mandate. It was one of the most brutal experiences of my political career. …

After a half hour, it turned into a setup.

Priests were preaching to come with the

C&S: Do you feel there’s a division between you and Catholic leaders?

KH: No, I believe there are many Catholic leaders that believe in the issues I care about. Catholic Charities and many organizations are doing wonderful philanthropic work and I don’t turn my back on that. I just wrestle with the fact that the focus for many leaders has been so narrow on one aspect, and that is taking away a woman’s right to choose. I don’t subscribe to that. Or how gays are treated.

C&S: You’ve had a long career in public office, and in politics. Is there anything that you can speak to in terms of your personal experience with the #MeToo movement?

KH: I’ve endured comments. People getting far too close, inappropriately close, but nothing of the caliber that ...

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I can’t think of anything of the magnitude of the individuals who have come forward.

Never. And that’s why I admire their strength. And I feel fortunate that (there) was nothing that rises to the magnitude of what they endured.

C&S: You called the #MeToo movement a “seismic cultural shift” that’s needed to shift the balance of power to keep women from being vulnerable in the workplace. If you could change one thing to shift that balance of power in favor of women, what would that be?

KH: How could I change men’s attitude towards women? How can I get inside a man’s head and say how can you possibly treat your coworker in such a degrading way? She’s an equal to you. She does not deserve to be commented on. Physically touched. Propositioned in the workplace.

KH: Hindsight’s always 20/20. I had known him a long time and had no reason to think that there was something in his past behavior that would lead us to know what we know now. I don’t know why anyone else would have known that. I don’t know how we would have known differently as far as what just happened.

C&S: Well, should a formal reprimand or censure, like Hoyt’s in 2008 for his affair with a 23-year-old intern, disqualify someone from being placed in a position of power, as he was in 2011?

KH: That is certainly something that should be looked at.

C&S: What do you think is the most important lesson that you can pass on to women who are aspiring to political office?

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of doing everything I did. I knew that job more than anybody and I still didn’t think I was qualified enough. So what got me to run? I’m 35 with all this background. A 21-year-old young man, right out of college, decides he’s going to run for town board in my hometown. Now he doesn’t have a house.

Not paying a mortgage, not paying taxes, lives at home with his parents. Does not have any contribution to speak of. He decides he’s qualified enough to run. So I look at this and I say, you know what, I guess I can do this. I guess I can do this.

C&S: So you wouldn’t have waited so long?

KH: I’m the one who said, as a woman, “Well, I need more experience.” I don’t know if I can take it. People are so negative.

It’s hard on the family. I had all the reasons not to. And I say, I want to know where the

“I’M THE ONE WHO SAID, AS A WOMAN, ‘WELL, I NEED MORE EXPERIENCE.’ ... MEN ARE 18 YEARS OLD AND THEY HAVE A PULSE? THEY WANT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT.”

That’s not a policy, that’s a request and a hope that we can change male attitudes, and if they don’t change then there will have to be consequences.

C&S: Do you think there is a policy solution to the problem?

KH: Well, we focus on the government side. Saying there will be no more secret settlements, no more taxpayer dollars, no more nondisclosure agreements.

That’s one path to go. … I think shining the light of day on it is the best way to eradicate it. I can’t really imagine a man wants to be on the cover of The New York Times for weeks as happened to one former Buffalo native.

C&S: Given what you know now, do you think anything should have been done differently regarding the appointment of Sam Hoyt to a leadership role in the Empire State Development Corp.?

KH: Don’t hold yourself back. I tell them my personal story. What I do is use my life example as what not to do.

C&S: How so?

KH: I volunteered when I was in high school.

Took an hour bus ride down to help elect the first female lieutenant governor (Mary Anne Krupsak) and in Sen. Pat Moynihan’s first run for office. So then I go law school, I work on the Hill, I start some businesses, I work for a senator, congressmen, come back, raise my family. I’m now the most common face seen in town board meetings. I’m the one showing up with petitions. I’m opposing Thruway tolls; I’m opposing everything under the sun. So I’m an activist. I’m involved. I’ve got a family. I’m paying taxes.

I’m a homeowner. I helped start some family businesses. I had been involved in my local party helping people for years. An opening came for town board, which is really your entry-level position. I didn’t have enough confidence to run for it, despite that record

21-year‑old girl is who has enough confidence in her abilities that she runs. I said, I was not the 21-year-old, you are the 21-year-olds.

You are the ones who realize. Men are 18 years old and they have a pulse? They want to run for president. So, it’s women’s own lack of confidence. You can break that down.

That is in your own head. You can change your mindset about what you can do running for office.

C&S: Where do you see the broader narrative of female political leadership in the U.S.? What is this moment that we are in?

KH: It is finally the realization among women themselves that they have more power and they need to start using it. That people are hungry for a different kind of leadership that they offer. I will never, ever criticize male leadership. I’ve worked with wonderful men, but what’s missing is a counterbalance, a different voice. I say you have a responsibility.

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OCTOBER, THE NEW YORKER and The New York Times published multiple accounts of women who accused movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexually harassing or assaulting them.

The shocking headlines were followed by additional accusations against Weinstein and spurred a wave of claims against other powerful men in film and entertainment. The so-called #MeToo movement spread to other industries – including business, sports, media and politics – in a nationwide reckoning over the treatment of women.

The movement has also put a renewed focus on the obstacles many women face in advancing professionally, not least in elected office. Indeed, women only make up a little more than a quarter of the seats in the state Legislature and New York’s congressional delegation, while female representation in the New York City Council declined last fall. In Albany, there’s a debate about whether a female legislative leader should join the state budget talks. And the state’s most prominent elected posts – governor and mayor of New York City – have only been filled by men.

Will the #MeToo movement be a turning point?

Already, there is an influx of women seeking office, with hundreds running for Congress. In New York, actress Cynthia Nixon launched a gubernatorial campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner may run too. In New York City, first lady Chirlane McCray is eyeing elected office as well.

Of course, for decades women have made gains in both the private sector and in the public sphere, rising to the top ranks – even in traditionally male-dominated fields. In our latest Above & Beyond list, we put the spotlight on 30 of these remarkable women – in education, health, labor, law/lobbying, government and real estate.

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KATHY HOCHUL LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

VERONIQUE “RONNIE” HAKIM MANAGING DIRECTOR, METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

Kathy Hochul doesn’t tire easily.

“I tell my staff, we don’t do tired,” she says. Even though Hochul traverses the state and sometimes visits several cities in one day to promote the governor’s agenda, Hochul is energized by public service – and by the naps she has learned to take on planes and in cars.

“I know that while I’m still on this earth and have a finite number of years, it is imperative that I use every day to make a difference in people’s lives,” she says. “I will rest at the end of my life.”

Until that point, Hochul is focused on promoting policies she’s passionate about, such as the governor’s democracy agenda, which includes a provision on early voting. Hochul framed early voting as being a gender equality issue because women who are the primary caretakers and breadwinners in their families may not have time to vote on Election Day otherwise.

“It really resonates with women who have to take care of their children, their households, their jobs and many times their parents in the evenings,” she says.

“Having the opportunity to vote 12 days before the election plus five hours at a polling place on a Saturday really could be liberating for women.”

Ronnie Hakim is one of the biggest players in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the sprawling system of subways, buses, trains and bridges that helps move millions of people every day.

Hakim’s practically an MTA lifer, joining the New York City Transit’s general law department in 1987 as a young lawyer, and sticking with the agency until today, except for a five-year hiatus at the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and New Jersey Transit.

She’s seen some big changes over her three decades – like an increasing amount of women in the male-dominated transportation industry. “I never thought about being a woman in a male industry and whether that was going to hold me back,” she says. Like a Metro-North Railroad train in the snow, “I kind of just ignored it and plowed through.”

But Hakim doesn’t just have longevity; she has lived experience, commuting in just about every way possible. “Over the years, I’ve done buses, I’ve done rail, I’ve done the PATH, I drove sometimes – I’ve tried every type of (commute) there is,” she says. But now working in lower Manhattan, she has the most enviable commute of all: “I actually live in the downtown area, so many times I walk.”

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RONNIE LOWENSTEIN DIRECTOR, NEW YORK CITY INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE

BETTY ROSA CHANCELLOR, STATE BOARD OF REGENTS

GALE A. BREWER MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT

The Independent Budget Office was started thanks to New York City’s 1989 Charter Revision Commission, and a potential charter revision commission this year could, in theory, end the IBO. But Ronnie Lowenstein isn’t worried.

“I think our days of sweating out charter revision commissioners are probably behind us,” she says.

Lowenstein, who has been the IBO’s director since 2000, is largely responsible for making the office feel essential.

“When our phone rings, it could just as easily be (the right-leaning) Manhattan Institute or (left-leaning New York Public Interest Research Group),” she says. “It’s taken years to build up that credibility, and I think it’s the strongest thing we’ve got going for us.”

Lowenstein admits that even she was a skeptic once. “When I first heard about this, my first reaction was, ‘Well the last thing the city of New York needs is another fiscal monitor.’”

But Lowenstein has grown to love it, and is a fierce defender of her office’s independence.

“I love what I’m doing and I really believe in the mission of the agency,” she says.

“There are very few places where you can do your research and, regardless of where the answers come out, if the research is solid, that it goes out.”

As you might expect, the most powerful educator in New York has a resume littered with awards. But Betty Rosa says none of those were as valuable as a letter she received from a once-“challenging student” named Winnie who Rosa spent extra time with when Rosa was principal of P.S. 218.

“Realizing how I touched her life, because she shared it with me, was probably the biggest award that (anyone) in this position can receive,” she says.

Born in New York City and raised in Puerto Rico until she was 10, a young Rosa returned to the Bronx as her parents struggled with work and their marriage. It was the kindness of a teacher that led to her success.

“There was a wonderful teacher and guidance counselor,” Rosa says haltingly.

He stood up for the new girl from Puerto Rico and insisted she should take the gifted classes. “I realized the importance of people believing in you.”

After she took a teaching job on a whim and found she loved serving children in the Bronx, she says, “I found my voice, I found my space, I found myself in loving my kids and walking them from an unsafe situation to the school that we made a safe harbor for those children.”

Gale Brewer was forged in the political fire of the Upper West Side. “It’s a very active community, so if you can survive the West Side, you can survive everything,” she says. The neighborhood she represented in the New York City Council for 12 years before winning the borough presidency in 2013 has the highest voter turnout rate in the city – but political engagement goes beyond that.

“Everybody has binoculars and they go on the roof. They see the helicopters are making too much noise and they have their decibel readers with them. That’s how they are,” Brewer says.

“You’ve got to be on your game to make sure that you have a good response and that you are responsive. … It really trains you.”

Brewer has maintained her legislative presence, sponsoring progressive laws like the Fair Chance Act that blocked employers from asking about an applicant’s criminal history before making a job offer. But she’s still hyperfocused on her constituents, attending events at an incredible pace.

“That’s how you learn what is on the mind of Manhattanites,” she says of her public schedule. “I need to hear what people have to say directly.”

March 26, 2018

AUDREY BROWNE CONSULTANT, DISTRICT COUNCIL 37 BENEFITS FUND TRUST

JULIE KUSHNER DIRECTOR, UNITED AUTO WORKERS REGION 9A

Audrey Browne’s career has spanned more than three decades of legal battles focusing on issues as diverse as repetitive stress injuries, wage discrimination and pharmaceutical industry fraud.

The areas of law may have been different, but each case was ultimately about fighting for workers, Browne says.

“I don’t see the world any other way,” she says. “I certainly wouldn’t want to use my education to help rich people get richer. I don’t think they need any help in that direction. I think workers need all the help they can get, and the deck is stacked against them.”

In the office of the general counsel for District Council 37, she won cases against the NYPD, keyboard manufacturers and others. For the past 15 years, she has worked for DC 37’s health and welfare funds. Now, recently retired and transitioning into a role as a consultant, she continues to oversee more than 20 pending class-action lawsuits against the pharmaceutical industry.

“I’ve been very fortunate to be able to represent people who really deserved better and occasionally got better because we were able to prevail in some of the litigation we did,” she says. “It’s really more a calling than a career.”

When Julie Kushner began working as a secretary in the 1970s, she saw how unfairly women were being treated. Compared to their male counterparts, women were being paid 59 cents on the dollar.

Kushner began organizing secretaries, and she spent the next four decades working to right wrongs in the workplace – with a focus on those impacting women.

Just a few months away from retirement, Kushner often finds herself discussing how much has – and hasn’t – changed.

“We’ve made progress, but not enough,” Kushner says. “Would I have liked it to have been quicker or more comprehensive? Apply more broadly to women of color as well as to white women? Of course. But you can’t deny there’s been tremendous progress.”

The fervor of women’s responses to the Trump administration – and as part of the #MeToo movement – have left Kushner feeling optimistic, she says. She’s joining the wave of women running for office in 2018, campaigning for a seat in Connecticut’s state Senate, where she hopes to work for paid family leave and universal pre-K. “These are sometimes considered women’s issues, but they really are family issues – and when you improve the lives of families, you improve all of society,” she says.

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March 26, 2018

JOLENE T. DIBRANGO EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, NEW YORK STATE UNITED TEACHERS

LIZ CLARK MORAN PRESIDENT, CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION LOCAL 698

NEVA SHILLINGFORD-KING EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, 1199SEIU

Some kids find their heroes on sports teams or in the pages of biographies. Jolene T. Di‑ Brango found hers closer to home.

“My late grandfather was a staunch be‑ liever in unions and unionism,” she says.

“He believed that you should do the most good that you can for the most people that you can, and he believed that unions provid‑ ed that avenue.”

After DiBrango became a teacher in the early 1990s, her grandmother would ask her about her students. But her grandfa‑ ther always had one question: “How’s your union?”

As she made her way through her 25‑year teaching career, DiBrango found herself more and more attracted to union roles.

She became president of her local union, then a board member of the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System and now ex‑ ecutive vice president of New York State United Teachers.

DiBrango, the daughter of a barber and a teaching assistant, believes it’s a meaning‑ ful way to honor her grandfather’s passion for social justice.

“A good, high-quality public education that is free and accessible to everyone is the great equalizer,” she says. “It un‑ locked so much for me, and … I feel like I’m giving back.”

Liz Clark Moran knew little about the la‑ bor movement, and she never intended to get involved in a union. But after she be‑ gan working for the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, she became con‑ cerned that she couldn’t get information on closed‑door contract negotiations.

Moran joined with other workers to press for more transparency, and eventually she was elected president of Civil Service Em‑ ployees Association Local 698.

“I figured that an uninformed person who is willing to do everything is far better than a very informed person who’s not willing to do anything,” she says. “And I jumped into it.”

In the nearly nine years since her elec‑ tion, Moran has organized new members, negotiated contracts and helped to boost worker benefits. She was recently elected president of the New York state arm of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

Moran says her greatest accomplishment is uniting the members of a once-divided CSEA Local 698. She has worked to con‑ nect the group’s members, who are spread across industries and separated by geog‑ raphy, and educate them about their union benefits.

“I’ve always been the kind of person who has tried to do for others,” she says. “I just can’t sit by idly. I need to take action.”

Neva Shillingford-King was a teenager when she dove into the world of politics. Growing up in Dominica, she founded the youth arm of the Dominica Labor Party.

It was a natural path for a girl whose grandparents had always been passion‑ ately involved in politics. Once she moved to the U.S., she continued to advocate for candidates and causes. In 1989, she was the Bronx coordinator for David Dinkins in his narrow New York City mayoral victory over Rudy Giuliani. The next year, she became an organizer for 1199SEIU, and she has never looked back.

“When you organize workers in a work‑ place, you’re not just organizing them to stand up against injustices,” says Shilling‑ ford-King, now executive vice president of the union. “You’re organizing an extended community, because when you organize those workers, they take that empowerment and they take it back into their homes, into their churches.”

Shillingford-King now spends her days negotiating on behalf of the union’s mem‑ bers and promoting the organization’s mes‑ sage and mission.

“It goes back to what my grandparents instilled in me about helping, about … not being a part of the chaos, of the problem, but being part of the solution,” she says.

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METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK CONGRATULATES

DR. JOANNE ARDOVINI ABOVE & BEYOND AWARDS HONOREE IN EDUCATION

As a professor and program director at Metropolitan College of New York, Dr. Joanne Ardovini has helped develop and nurture students in the Human Services field. Her contributions to student growth and empowerment are greatly appreciated by those who cross her path.

On behalf of everyone at MCNY, we congratulate Dr. Joanne Ardovini on her recognition as an Above & Beyond Awards Honoree.

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March 26, 2018

PHOEBE BOYER

DONNA PROSKE

Phoebe Boyer, president and CEO of Children’s Aid, recalls collecting notebooks and pencils in grade school for other children in need. Another formative experience occurred in college when she was working with survivors of domestic violence in New Haven, Connecticut. “I was really interested in why the city that I was working in at the time didn’t have a more holistic approach, why the police and the shelters and the legal system and social workers weren’t all working together on behalf of the needs of the kids and families,” she says. “That truthfully has been a consistent theme for me in every job I’ve had, but it certainly is critical to the approach that Children’s Aid has.”

She says she is proudest of how the organization brings together educational, health care, nutritional and wellness components to tackle the impacts of poverty, such as a child missing school because of chronic asthma. “Frankly there are too many single solutions,” she says. “I have been both a direct service provider, and a funder, and worked in government. That has given me a really valuable perspective. If you’re passionate about an issue or a topic, seeing it from different sides helps you adjust and adapt in periods of uncertainty.”

As a little girl receiving religious instruction, Donna Proske was in awe of the strong presence and powerful leadership of the nuns.

She knew she wanted to become one.

That aspiration faded, but Proske has built a career as a formidable leader, working her way up through the ranks at Staten Island University Hospital to become the first female executive director.

It’s been a long and accomplished journey for Proske, who first landed at the hospital straight out of nursing school more than 45 years ago. She has participated in decisions surrounding the growth of the hospital from a small community institution to one with multiple locations, a regional burn center, a new emergency department and the capacity to provide advanced neurosurgery.

“When you’re at a place for 40-something years, you get to see it all, and to be part of that in a significant way has really given me a great sense of accomplishment,” she says.

Proske prides herself on leading with a participatory management style, and says she relishes applying her clinical knowledge to operational concerns.

“It’s a wonderful profession,” she says of nursing, which has brought her into some highly unexpected roles. “There’s a lot of movement within that career without changing careers.”

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Elected Region 9A director in June 2010, Julie Kushner has been a union activist and leader for more than 30 years.

Kushner was elected to a second term by delegates to the UAW’s 36th Constitutional Convention in June 2014.

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LAURA MCQUADE

PRESIDENT AND CEO, PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY

For many years, Laura McQuade built a career focused on making a difference in distant corners of the world by monitoring elections as well as supporting women’s empowerment and inclusion.

But when she became executive vice president and chief operating officer for the global Center for Reproductive Rights, she saw firsthand how women’s rights were under attack in the U.S. McQuade decided to turn her focus to the fight here at home. In 2014, she became CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. When she transitioned to the role of president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of New York City last year, she discovered that the divide between red states and blue states wasn’t nearly as significant as many people think.

“We’re not there yet,” she says. “We are not the city and state we think we are. There’s a lot more work to be done in health equity, gender equity, racial equity, economic equity.”

Now McQuade is at work to expand Planned Parenthood’s services to better reach New York City’s underserved communities. “(We) ensure that people not only get care, but they’re treated with the respect and dignity that they deserve,” she says.

March 26, 2018

MARIANNE DITOMMASO ANA CRISTINA GARCIA VICE PRESIDENT, RESIDENTIAL SERVICES AND OPIOID TREATMENT CENTERS, SAINT JOSEPH’S MEDICAL CENTER, ST. VINCENT’S HOSPITAL WESTCHESTER When she finished school, Marianne DiTommaso did not know what direction her life would go in. She took a job as a medical transcriber in a mental health clinic. It was there that she found her passion.

“I was inspired by the people that I was working with in the clinic setting and saw that it was really a calling and I really wanted to help individuals with mental illness,” she says.

DiTommaso went back to school for her master’s degree in social work and has been working in the field since 1982. In her current role, she manages and develops supportive housing for people with mental illness to give them more independence while still receiving essential services. But DiTommaso says that can be difficult.

“The biggest challenge is dealing with stigma and fear in the community that people with mental illness are dangerous, which is absolutely not the case,” she says.

Reflecting on her successes, DiTommaso says she will always remember when her first major housing project opened about a decade ago and the sign welcoming its new residents that read, “Welcome Home.”

“For individuals who have lost contact with their families, we become their families.

It’s a very powerful setting,” she says.

DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, NEWYORKPRESBYTERIAN

When Ana Cristina Garcia headed to the West Bank after college to work with a medical relief organization, she saw firsthand the powerful connection between health care and the well-being of civil society.

“In addressing basic human needs and developing the infrastructure for caring for people, you can also be building up the essential fabric of what a community needs,” she says.

Garcia had been interested in pursuing anthropology, but the experience prompted her to delve into a career in public health.

She took on roles with several organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Vermont Department of Health before becoming the director of health policy for the New York Academy of Medicine.

As the executive director for policy, planning and strategic data use for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Garcia acted as a liaison to the health care community. Now that she is the director of government and community affairs for NewYork-Presbyterian, she is approaching community health care from the other side.

“I’m still learning a lot about what it is to be inside a system and to … figure out the right balance of advocacy with helping the multiple interests flourish at the same time,” she says.

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HUSTLING TOWARDS EQUALITY The #Metoo and #Timesup movements, along with the unprecedented number of women running for office in 2018 got me thinking about the real world impact this visibility has had on women’s overall equality.

The answer, sadly, is little to none. Its evidence lies in hard facts.

I spoke with Nathalie Molina Nino, CEO of Brava Investments about the subject. She pointed to data from the World Economic Forum that was astounding — it will take 170 years to achieve equality if we continue at the pace we’re at now. We need to hustle. But how?

Nathalie’s take made sense. “While the topic of gender equality has gained expansive media coverage, women can’t feed or educate their children with talking points,” she said. I agree with her that the timely topic helps sell ads and increase viewership, but all that attention has yet to yield results, particularly among women of color. We need to translate all this attention into real, lasting legislative change AND real monetary impact on women. Nathalie brought up some other good points. “No one with great power, success or wealth got there without finding innovative ways to circumvent the status

quo. That’s how we leapfrog past obstacles and how we accelerate the path to gender equality.”

It’s not only more difficult for women to get funding for a start-up or political campaign, they also need to work harder than male counterparts to prove their ability to succeed and surpass the expectations placed on men.

Since we’re in NYC let’s talk about how women entrepreneurs fare in comparison to other cities and where there’s room for improvement.

According to a Dell study, we top the list of international women entrepreneurs, and we’ve much to be proud of. The City offers a number of mentoring, role model and support programs for female entrepreneurs. But even if we rank first there, there’s still an absolute need to expand access to Angel and Venture Capital. Investing is far from equal when it comes to women founded and run companies that are ready to launch or grow. In order to help increase the number of women entering the entrepreneurial world, more women (and men) Venture Capitalists and those with means need to step up to the plate.

The NYT recently came out with an article

that also helped confirm my thoughts on funding for women seeking political office.

Until 2016, women donors seriously lagged.

But when an undeniably qualified woman, that could break the ultimate glass ceiling ran, women donors spiked. That trend continues today as women vie for midterm congressional seats, but we still need more.

And last, let’s not forget the discrepancy that still exists on corporate boards and in the C-suite. Women in management positions are not being paid as much as their male counterparts and too many large corporations don’t acknowledge women for the role they play in driving the bottom line. According to Fortune Magazine, corporations with women on boards and upper management increase profitability and stock value.

We need to hustle on all these fronts, and we need to hustle up now.

New Yorkers are experiencing a transit

New York City’s public transit is in crisis.

and traffic crisis–and it’s getting worse.

The State budget must include, at minimum, funding for the cordon infrastructure necessary to implement a fair and comprehensive plan to get NYC moving again.

The time for Albany to act is now!

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AKILAH ROSADO

DEBORAH KOETZLE

Akilah Rosado is the daughter of an educator from Barbados and an political activist from Puerto Rico. She grew up in Brooklyn and lives in the same neighborhood where she grew up.

Rosado began her career at the Assembly, where she worked as a legislative analyst, director of constituent affairs and chief of staff.

Today, she is vice president for governance and community engagement at Bank Street College of Education. At Bank Street, she learned “how important issues in education, particularly public and urban education, would become both professionally and personally in examining issues of inequity.”

Throughout her career, Rosado realized she has one superpower: her voice. And at Bank Street, she works with the social justice and equity initiatives, implemented in 2015, to help young girls find that same power.

“One of the most damaging things a girl and woman can experience is not having a voice, only slightly more insidious is when women silence other women,” she says.

This “work in progress” is also what she considers to be the most challenging. “At the end of the day, we have to remember that our priorities really are children, their learning and preparing the next generation of teachers to be great instructors and teacher-leaders,” Rosado says.

Some academics spend the bulk of their careers in research labs and classrooms, but Deborah Koetzle takes her work out into the field, working around the world to help fight recidivism.

“I’m fortunate to be among that group that gets their hands dirty,” Koetzle says. “I’m hoping to make a difference … (by) helping to bridge that gap between research and practice.”

Koetzle has been brought in as a consultant to improve corrections programs in New York and beyond. She also trains staffers how to assess an individual’s likelihood of reoffending and the most significant risk factors – insight that can be used to create targeted treatment and supervision plans.

She helped to develop and secure funding for a specialized probation program for 16- to 24-year-olds in New York City, and she is currently working with El Salvador’s prison system to help improve the severe overcrowding there.

In graduate school, Koetzle did an internship at a state prison and saw firsthand how many prisoners had become trapped by bad decisions and difficult circumstances. Helping them, she knew, would help their communities as well. “There are such a number of collateral effects that extend beyond the individual,” she says.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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March 26, 2018

MAYRA LINARES-GARCIA

LINDA WERBEL DASHEFSKY

JOANNE ARDOVINI

Both of Mayra Linares-Garcia’s parents were activists who were involved in local politics, and would often enlist their daughter’s help.

So she caught the public service bug early.

“I grew up handing out flyers from a very, very young age, like 5 years old,” she says.

For her, community engagement and working on the local level is of the utmost importance, a belief she brought with her when Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed her to the CUNY board of trustees.

“Meeting with the presidents, meeting the faculty, meeting with students and becoming their advocate cheerleader on issues that they feel strongly about, and being able to engage in a direct way helps me ... to add my own knowledge and understanding from a local level,” she says.

Linares-Garcia ran an unsuccessful campaign for an Assembly seat in 2012, which she still considers one of her biggest accomplishments despite the loss.

But that hasn’t stopped her from still engaging with her community through her work in the corporate world, now working for Coca-Cola Co. “The work that needs to be done in a community, you don’t have to do it just in public office. Everyone should feel a responsibility to do it from whatever platform they are able to use,” she says.

After graduating from Brooklyn Law School and working at the Mayor’s Office of City Legislative Affairs as an associate counsel, Linda Werbel Dashefsky went to work at St. Francis College, where she has been for 16 years. She serves as vice president for government and community relations and Title IX coordinator, taking care of the “college’s relationship with the outside world.”

As vice president, she has been able to bring attention to the fact that “St. Francis College is not just our students, it really serves a whole community.”

Werbel Dashefsky is especially proud of the college’s affordability programs, with 96 percent of its students receiving financial aid. “It’s really a college for everyone – just because it’s private doesn’t mean students can’t afford it,” she says. She also mentions its “record of social economic mobility,” giving their lowest-income students a chance to be more prosperous as adults.

As the Title IX coordinator, she has also been involved with the college’s initiatives to prevent sexual misconduct and gender discrimination. “I do believe that colleges and universities play a critical role in framing the dialogue around gender equality and sexual assault,” she says. “It’s really important that individuals have a right to be heard.”

Joanne Ardovini started as an assistant professor focused on research at Sam Houston State University in Texas, not seeing herself as a teacher. She almost berated a student upset about a grade who had ignored her “Do Not Disturb” sign. “I just saw the student’s face and I thought what am I doing,” she recalls. “Is this what I want to do and lose compassion for human beings?” That incident, a desire to be closer to her family in New York, and her search for a social-justice-focused institution led her to Metropolitan College of New York, where she is a human services professor and program director of the Human Services common curriculum.

She stresses how mindfulness shows students the impact of mental well-being on academic success. One struggling student she helped into a shelter following eviction is now assistant director of that homeless shelter. She says young women shouldn’t get discouraged.

“When I left Sam Houston and came to Metropolitan, to a certain extent I saw it as a failure that I didn’t stay at research, and then I started to realize that I did more publications … when I was at Metropolitan. … I think it was because there wasn’t that pressure. I did it because I loved it.”

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VICE PRESIDENT FOR GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS, ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE

HUMAN SERVICES PROFESSOR, METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

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The Children’s Aid Board of Trustees congratulates

Phoebe Boyer for her leadership in ensuring children and youth are strong, healthy, and ready to thrive—in school and life.

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D. Hara Perkins 2018 Above & Beyond Award Winner City & State New York

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March 26, 2018

DEBORAH VANAMERONGEN

JANICE MAC AVOY

STRATEGIC POLICY ADVISER, NIXON PEABODY LLP

PARTNER AND CO-CHAIR, REAL ESTATE LITIGATION GROUP, FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON

In a career spent working at almost every level of government, Deborah VanAmerongen grappled with housing policy that impacted countless New Yorkers but there was rarely a chance to get involved in the nitty-gritty details and on-the-ground work of bringing individual projects to fruition.

Now, working with private sector clients to help them navigate key government approvals in affordable housing transactions, that has changed.

“Here I’m really involved in the transactions themselves,” she says. “It’s more direct than when I was a commissioner administering these programs.”

To VanAmerongen, the work feels like a perfect fit for her love of creative thinking and problem-solving as well as her deep governmental and policy expertise.

Working in housing, VanAmerongen says, is a way to make profound impacts on individuals’ lives. It’s something she saw as an Assembly staffer, as the director of multifamily housing for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the New York City region and as the New York state housing commissioner.

“If you’re not stably housed, that impacts every aspect of your life. It’s a fundamental that doesn’t get enough attention,” she says.

Janice Mac Avoy has built a far-reaching career in real estate law and litigation, and through it all she has worked to address inequities faced by women. “Women continue to be historically underrepresented in almost every facet of the law and in real estate in particular,” she says. “There are significantly fewer women partners.”

So Mac Avoy has worked to mentor women and promote business opportunities for women. In her pro bono work, she has worked to protect victims of domestic violence and defend reproductive rights. By her count, the Sanctuary for Families board member has helped hundreds of women escape abusive relationships.

“If a woman can’t be free from violence or can’t control her own body, she has no ability to succeed,” she says.

Mac Avoy, who launched and grew the real estate litigation practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, is now helping to launch Women in Real Estate, a new organization aimed at increasing women-to-women mentorship in the field.

She’s hoping that its programs may reduce what she describes as a confidence gap between young men and women in the profession. “The only way to achieve parity is for everyone to make an effort to bring women along,” she says.

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March 26, 2018

NEYSA ALSINA

D. HARA PERKINS

LISA M. MARRELLO

Neysa Alsina grew up in Puerto Rico, watching her father help people as a lawyer.

When her parents divorced, she was inspired by her mother’s hard work as a single mom.

“I was just driven by looking at her and seeing how much she was able to do on her own, that I could be just like my dad and go to law school and make a better life for us,” she says.

Alsina describes herself as a hustler, which is how she landed her current position as counsel to the 24,000-member New York City Bar Association.

She had long been involved with associations and jumped at the opportunity to continue following her passion.

“I thought, why not work for an association that I believe in its mission and that I can get paid for some of this stuff I do for free?” she says with a laugh.

Alsina also cares deeply about diversifying her profession, something she has dedicated time to over the course of her career.

“You want to see others in your position, or the position you aspire to be in,” she says. “I feel a responsibility to help others develop because it was done for me.”

D. Hara Perkins was in her final year of college when she got to see firsthand the impact that urban land use policies have on cultural institutions and communities.

She was working full time at the Museum of Modern Art while the museum negotiated with New York City regulators to resolve issues related to the institution’s expansion. Perkins realized the best way for her to make a difference on behalf of cultural institutions wasn’t as a museum staffer, but as a lawyer.

Since then, Perkins’ career has been built around negotiating land use that serves communities.

“The built environment shapes our experience of the world in more ways than we recognize, from inspiring us with beauty to allowing for the resources that we need in our daily life – like fresh groceries – to be available,” she says. “The built environment is fundamental to access and social equity.”

It’s a consideration that has guided Perkins’ work helping to establish Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus and negotiating the redevelopment of the Lower East Side’s Seward Park Extension Urban Renewal Area.

“It’s been an overarching theme in my life,” she says. “The way that the city is built affects our lives.”

Early in her career, Lisa M. Marrello got some valuable advice: To truly understand the public sector, work in state government. So she served as counsel to the Assembly Housing Committee, and later handled criminal justice legislation for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

So when it was time to jump to lobbying, she was ready. But not any law firm would do – she wanted to work for lobbyist Kenneth Shapiro. Two weeks after her twin sons were born, Shapiro asked her to come on part time.

“I thought it was a good opportunity to get my foot in the door, and we were together for 17 years,” she says. “It was a great experience, certainly working at the foot of the master. Ken is a legend in our world, and he provided great insight, and I had an opportunity to work with a variety of clients.”

Marrello is now the managing partner at the Albany office of Jackson Lewis, which recently was joined by Shapiro’s lobbying practice from Wilson Elser.

“Ken was certainly one who afforded everyone an opportunity to grow, was not a micromanager and really encouraged everyone,” she says. “I hope that I can carry that through.”

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MANAGING PRINCIPAL, ALBANY OFFICE, JACKSON LEWIS

March 26, 2018

ELYSA GOLDMAN DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, TRIANGLE EQUITIES

MELISSA BURCH EXECUTIVE GENERAL MANAGER, LENDLEASE DEVELOPMENT

What makes Elysa Goldman’s career in real estate unique is a focus on public-private partnerships, with many projects built on land purchased from New York City and aimed at community revitalization.

It all began in college, when she interned with the state comptroller’s real estate investment group. In graduate school at New York University, she took a land use class that got her hooked. Then she took a job with the city’s Economic Development Corp.

“It was very much a stepping stone for me because I feel very comfortable in the city environment and getting all the land use approvals and acquiring property from the city, negotiating with the city and all the politics involved in that,” she says.

Now at Triangle Equities, she does it all – acquiring properties, securing funding, getting land use approvals, working with architects and engineers on design, and leasing to tenants.

“I find the boroughs of New York intriguing, and it’s so interesting to me the personalities of the communities in every borough,” she says. “That’s why I love real estate so much and that’s why I love working with communities and bringing them amenities and things that they don’t have.”

From the time she was a college student studying political theory and the deregulation of the telecommunications industry, Melissa Burch has been fascinated by the dance between government and business.

Burch has spent much of her career facilitating that dance. In more than a decade at Forest City Ratner, she helped oversee the development of Brooklyn’s Pacific Park project. Since 2015, as executive general manager for Lendlease Development, she has helped the global firm launch its development business in New York.

“I’ve always been very civically minded, so (I) have been interested in how the private sector in particular can be deployed and utilized to bring about positive outcomes in the public realm,” says Burch, who also serves on the board of the Coro New York Leadership Center.

In real estate development, the issues are so complex, interwoven and at times jumbled that Burch compares them to a bowl of spaghetti. The fascinating work lies in finding the ways that diverse stakeholders can come together for common interests. It is a type of collaboration that particularly flourishes in New York, she says.

“Across government and business, there’s a sense of shared purpose. We’re in this together,” she says.

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LISA KIRSCH SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT, BROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEVELOPMENT CORP.

JOLIE A. MILSTEIN PRESIDENT AND CEO, NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING

JAIMEE NARDIELLO PARTNER, ZETLIN & DE CHIARA LLP

After graduating from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Lisa Kirsch dove into a career in accounting and finance. It wasn’t long before she realized it wasn’t for her.

It was “numbers on a piece of paper,” she says. “Just piles and piles of paper and computer screens.”

Instead, she turned her focus to a field that would allow her to impact the world around her in concrete ways.

“Real estate is in everything that we live, work, breathe. It’s all around us. And you can see the effects of what you’re doing,” she says.

Kirsch spent nearly eight years as a vice president at the New York City Economic Development Corp., helping to shepherd massive projects that have transformed the landscape of the city where she grew up.

Now that she is working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, she relishes interacting on a daily basis with the people impacted by the site’s transformation.

“My parents are immigrants, and those types of jobs are less and less available here in New York,” says Kirsch, the daughter of a seamstress and a cook. “The Navy Yard really provides an alternative to getting a higher (education) degree and sitting in an office.”

Working as an architect, Jolie A. Milstein kept running into a recurring problem. Most design projects seemed to encounter budgetary issues that ultimately curtailed the scope of the design.

Milstein figured she should learn something about the financial side of development, and she set off to earn a master’s degree in business administration. The decision set her on a winding path to Wall Street, working with mortgage-backed securities, then to head up economic development efforts at the Ulster County Development Corp., then to New York City, where she became president and CEO of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing.

Through all her many steps, the one constant thread has been an interest in and connection to housing.

“I was never the kind of designer who wanted to build an office, an ivory tower,” she says. “I always was very much concerned with how people live in buildings.”

Now she is working at the local, state and national level to fight the housing crisis. It’s a satisfying role for Milstein, who as a young child proclaimed she wanted to be an efficiency expert.

“I imagined a job where I could make things work better,” she recalls. And, she says, she has done just that.

Jaimee Nardiello is in the legal profession, but her work is focused on construction.

That’s no surprise. Her family had a construction business when she was growing up in New Jersey. Before law school, she worked at a large construction management firm in New York City. And her husband is in construction too.

“I am a construction lawyer, so I primarily focus on litigation,” says Nardiello, a partner at Zetlin & De Chiara LLP, which represents major construction firms. “We represent a lot of owners, developers, contractors, architects and engineers in New York City – but pretty much anywhere our clients have an issue they’ll call us up and we have to travel.”

Nardiello is also active outside her day job, including as president of Commercial Real Estate Women New York, the city’s largest organization of women in the industry. The organization, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, emphasizes mentorship and encouraging young women who are just starting out.

“I would say don’t get discouraged,” Nardiello says. “Looking at it from the outside, where it does really appear to be a male-dominated field, could be very discouraging to a young woman. But it can be done. I do it every day.”

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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO, WITH STATE HEALTH COMMISSIONER HOWARD ZUCKER AND STATE BUDGET DIRECTOR ROBERT MUJICA, DISCUSSES THE PROJECTED IMPACT OF THE FEDERAL TAX LAW IN NEW YORK.

“HALF-BAKED” Experts warn that Cuomo’s plan to tax the health care industry

is a risky bet

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By FRANK G. RUNYEON BUDGET ANALYSTS AND industry advocates are puzzled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposals to raise revenue for the state by drawing $1 billion from the corporate veins of the state’s health care industry. They call the raft of taxes and fees unreliable resources and poor policy.

Lawmakers, likewise, have scrubbed elements of those proposals from their budget plans.

Health care dollars are a significant portion of Cuomo’s proposed revenue generators to close the state’s $4.4 billion

budget gap. The executive budget contains three key initiatives that target the health care industry for just over $1 billion. A 14 percent health insurance windfall tax would garner an estimated $140 million per year, a fee for any health insurance company converting from a nonprofit to a for-profit could bring in $750 million per year and a surcharge of two cents per milligram on active opioid ingredients in prescription drugs would raise $127 million per year.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state Division of the Budget, defended

the proposals in a series of statements.

“Governor Cuomo’s budget protects health care for New Yorkers and supports everyday taxpayers over increased profits for health insurers,” he said of the windfall tax, adding that pharmaceutical companies should pay for “the opioid crisis that they created.”

But to critics, those budget items don’t add up.

“Like a lot of things that are proposed by governors, not just Cuomo, this seems a little half-baked, like it wasn’t really fully

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thought through,” said Bill Hammond, director of health policy at the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Moreover, the consensus economic and revenue forecast released earlier this month shows revenues to be between $675 million to $750 million above the executive budget’s estimate, meaning that some proposals to increase revenues may not be needed to close the gap.

In an interview with City & State several weeks ago, state Budget Director Robert Mujica said the key consideration in drafting this year’s executive budget was controlling for hostile and erratic behavior in Washington, D.C., that could upset New York’s fiscal plans.

“The federal unknowns are the things that concern me the most because I can’t control for those things,” Mujica said.

“That is probably the biggest challenge that we have.”

In terms of the ongoing negotiations, Mujica said, “The hardest part and also the biggest challenge is figuring out how to fund all the needs and still stay within both our revenue numbers and making sure our revenues actually come in.”

But in seeking out some certainty for the year’s revenue projections, budget experts said Mujica made some odd choices considering that the revenue streams the governor relies on are inherently risky bets. An examination of the two largest revenue-generating proposals, experts said, illustrates how uncertain those revenues are.

The health insurance windfall tax is designed to recapture money saved by corporations as a result of the federal tax cut. But it singles out just one class of corporations: for-profit insurers. Taxing such a relatively small group, experts said, is inherently volatile when a few corporations may take actions, such as choosing to leave the state, that would have a large impact on revenues.

The health insurance conversions revenue garnered by taxing health insurance companies when they reorganize from nonprofit to for-profit status, experts said, is likely based entirely on speculation that Centene Corp. plans to buy Fidelis Care. With that one deal, it appears the state estimates that it would bring in $3 billion in revenue over four years. If the deal falls through, that $750 million the state is counting on will vanish from this year’s balance sheet, leaving a $500 million hole in annual revenue projections and $250 million per year missing from a proposed health care shortfall fund.

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In fact, Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger, a governing member of Fidelis Care, testified this month that the deal may be scuttled. “The state’s announced action would of course make it impossible for us to move forward with this transaction,” he said. He also criticized the executive budget proposal as “the state seizing virtually all of these funds that are otherwise intended for New York’s poor,” arguing that the move is “illegal and unconstitutional” and an “unprecedented confiscation” of money from a faith-based institution.

Peters, the budget spokesman, responded to the bishop’s criticism by noting that the government would evaluate the transaction through a critical lens, noting that “just like the not-for-profit’s fiduciary responsibility is to protect the interests of insured policyholders, the state’s primary concern is ensuring access to quality health care for all New Yorkers.”

The proposals may be part of a political gambit, Hammond said, as the executive budget is essentially an opening bid in the budget negotiations with the state Legislature, with the final document often diverging from the governor’s plan. Nevertheless, the governor’s budget is also a statement of his priorities. Meanwhile, health care companies are left wondering what slice of their pie Albany lawmakers would take.

“While the horse-trading continues, we are just focused on being as present as possible with as many members as possible to make sure they understand the impact this would have on health plans’ ability to provide health care services to those constituents they care about,” said Leslie Moran, senior vice president of the New York Health Plan Association, an industry lobbying group.

While Moran races from lawmaker to lawmaker, she said she’s baffled as to why her sector was singled out. “We’ve asked for some explanation, but we haven’t got-

“LIKE A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE PROPOSED BY GOVERNORS, NOT JUST CUOMO, THIS SEEMS A LITTLE HALF-BAKED, LIKE IT WASN’T REALLY FULLY THOUGHT THROUGH.” — BILL HAMMOND, Empire Center for Public Policy director of health policy

But David Friedfel, director of state studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, said that given all the unknowns, “The state should really be doing a better job of building up its reserves and being conservative in its spending.” Taking the broad view, he noted that New York is in the midst of one of the largest economic expansions since 1850, but it won’t last forever.

Taking into consideration the more immediate political context, Mujica may be wise to be worried about how to pay for the state’s initiatives, Hammond added.

“It’s an election year,” Hammond said. “This is the year they play Santa Claus. They say yes to spending and no to taxes.”

ten any explanation. It’s somewhat puzzling, and more so frustrating, because there doesn’t seem to be a solid rationale, particularly in light of federal actions that have restored health care funds.”

In addition, she notes, the underlying reasoning for targeting the health care industry with new revenue-raising measures – that Congress would cut off health care funding to New York – has not happened.

“Now the argument is, ‘Well, they haven’t happened yet but we still have an administration that could impose them at any time. So we need to be prepared. We need a piggy bank, in the event something would ever come. And if it doesn’t, well, it’s nice to have a health care piggy bank,” Moran said.

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Call 212-268-0442, ext. 2039 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1308808 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 97 N 10TH ST BROOKLYN, NY 11249.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. NORTH 10TH RESTAURANT COMPANY LLC. Notice of formation of FUTURE: LOCAL LLC, name amended to MODERN COMMONS, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/7/18.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 610 W. 110th St., Ste. 3C, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act.

Application for Authority of KK Style & Associates, LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/20/18. Formed in NJ on 2/9/18. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to 535 W. 23rd St., SPH 1P, New York, NY 10011. The office address required to be maintained in NJ is 1255 River Rd., Edgewater, NJ 07020. Cert. of formation filed with Elizabeth Maher Muoio, Acting State Treas., 33 W. State St., Trenton, NJ 08608.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1308832 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 4716 VERNON BLVD LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101.

QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. R40 ARGENTINIAN RESTAURANT CORP. Notice of Qualification of CDIC Holdings LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/6/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/28/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 240 Riverside Blvd, 17B, NY, NY 10069. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Counter Culture Hospitality Group, LLC filed with SSNY on 9/18/17.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1710 First Ave, #121, 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Popular Brands and Company LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 12/27/17.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jameel Lancaster, 380 Saratoga Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11233.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Valibac, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 3/7/18. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Isaac Chestnut, 10 Stratford Rd, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Agorai LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/27/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 155 East 38 Holding LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/11/18. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 560 5th Ave., NY, NY 10036, principal business address.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ROSE URBAN FUTURES LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/2/18. 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: 44 W. 28th St, Fl. 8, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of CS ADJACENT INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/01/18. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/09/18.

Duration of LP is Perpetual.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o CapitalSpring, 575 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of EMERGING VARIANT PARTNERS A GP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/16/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/12/18. Princ. office of LLC: 3 Columbus Circle, 15th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Santiago Jariton 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 Qualification of STERLING TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANCY LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/6/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/8/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1831 Delaware Ave, Wilmington, DE 19806. DE address of LLC: 3 Tanglewood Ln., Newark, DE 19711. 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 Niniola LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 1/4/18. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ibrahim Bawa, 433 Marion St, 2R, Brooklyn, NY 11233. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of REEC 325 East 118th Street LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/07/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Brandon Miller, Real Estate Equities, 18 E. 48th St., Penthouse, NY, NY 10017. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with State of DE, Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 321 TACO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/28/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Hemang Champaneria, 57 Robin Hood Rd., Clifton, NJ 07013.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of 155 East 38 Owner, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/11/18. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 560 5th Ave., NY, NY 10036, principal business address.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1308009 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 103-15 QUEENS BLVD QUEENS,NEW YORK, 11375.

QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of KRP CREATIVE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/07/18.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: PO Box 20011, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Fashion industry consulting.

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Articles of Organization for Suede Collective, LLC filed with SSNY; 5/12/17. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 60 W 57th St, 2A, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Madison Two LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/26/18. 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: 392 Long Hill Dr., Short Hills, NJ 07078.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of COLOR&CO NYC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/18.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 10 Hudson Yards, NY, NY 10001.

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.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, NUMBER 1307996 FOR AN “EATING PLACE BEER LICENSE” HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SERVE BEER AT RETAIL IN THE DELI GROCERY/CAFE UNDER THE ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT LUCERO FOOD CORP. D/B/A JOE JUNIOR RESTAURANT, LOCATED AT 167 3RD AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10003.

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Notice of qualification of Scribner Management, LLC. Authority filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/16/18. Organized in Alaska on 12/30/17. NY Off. loc.: New York Cnty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1231 Nrthn.

Lights Blvd. #911, Anchorage, AK 99503, which is also the address to be maintained in Alaska. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Alaska Sec. of State, PO Box 110806, Juneau, AK 99811.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of All City ARCS LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/14/17.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 420 W. 45th St., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10036. LLC formed in DE on 12/12/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc. (CGI), 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for EAST DROGHEDA INC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an enclosed sidewalk cafe at 375 3RD AVE in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER Notice of Qualification of ELEMENT SOLUTIONS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/20/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Illinois (IL) on 10/22/03. 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. IL address of LLC: 651 W. Washington Blvd, Ste 201, Chicago, IL 60661. Cert. of Formation filed with IL Secy of State, 501 S. Second St, Rm 350, Springfield, IL 62756. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

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

Office loc: NY County.

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 Notice of Formation of TLI Bedrock, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/18. 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 the LLC, Attn: President, 708 Third Ave., Number 28, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Stuart Altman Realty LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 2/23/2018.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to LLC: Stuart Altman, 2 Allen St, Suite 3G, NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of WF Industrial I LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/20/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 80 8th Ave., Ste. 1602, NY, NY 10011.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of CZOE WASHINGTON PL, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 121 Washington Pl., NY, NY 10014. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: To own and manage real estate in New York.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF The Law Office of Stuart Altman PLLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 8/6/2002. Office loc: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to PLLC: Stuart Altman, 2 Allen St, Suite 3G, NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Tiro Digital, LLC filed with SSNY 11/21/17. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 340 E 23rd St, 9A, NY, NY . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/26/18. 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 of Qualification of Four Hudson Square LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/28/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/26/17. 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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 215 N 10 Partners LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/8/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/4/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 148 Madison Ave, Fl. 16, NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs

March 26, 2018 Notice of Formation of Stella’s Hair Salon LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/2/18.

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: 75-55 187th St, Fresh Meadows, NY 11366.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 250 Bowery, Fl. 2, NY, NY 10012.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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 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.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Jeff Ziglar 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.

CITYANDSTATENY.COM PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for ZVAH INC. to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 37 CANAL ST in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

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

Notice of Public Hearing

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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for DINOSAUR RESTAURANTS, LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 2276 12TH AVE in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing

REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO:

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for D & S DINING GROUP LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 283 AMSTERDAM AVE in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER

REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO:

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Notice of Qualification of MTG HOLDINGS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/15/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/07/18. Princ. office of LLC: 23 Ludlow St., NY, NY 10002. NYS fictitious name: MTG STRATEGIC HOLDINGS LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Alexander Olch at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 29-00 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on April 6, 2018 and end on April 19, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc.

Household goods and other effects. #428Tommy Seaton, #816Angel Crutchfield, #2114- Max Corsillo LLC, #2448- Avery Bock, #3121Benjamin Wollner, #3703- John Campbell, #4319-1- Quinsessa Harrison, #6108Jignesh Patel, #6229- George Buzhar.

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

Notice of Formation of Oscar D. Rodriguez MD, PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/27/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: Medicine.

Illumin8 Agency, LLC Arts of Org filed with SSNY 02/02/2018.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: US Corp Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202 Brooklyn NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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 .

Notice of Formation of P ONE THREE PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/09/18.

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 Paracorp Incorporated, 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr. #100, Sacramento, CA 95833-3509.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Khepri Capital, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/5/18. 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: 452 5th Ave, Fl. 23, NY, NY 10018.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

STITES LAW, LLP filed with SSNY 12/18/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLP may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Stites Law LLP, Attn: Steven L. Stites, Esq., 150 Broadway, St. 512, NY, NY 10038.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Brenda Smith + Associates, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 1/16/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Brenda Smith, 487 Amsterdam Ave, #2S, NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of XTX Services LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/6/18. 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: 10 Hudson Yards, Fl. 40, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 1407 Westside Market 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.

App. for Auth. (LP) ATL II Advisor LP. App. for Auth. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/12/18. LP formed in DE on 2/21/18. Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o The Partnership, 320 Park Ave., #1600, NY, NY 10022, registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful act/activity.

Notice of Qualification of Antin Infrastructure Partners US LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/21/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/6/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 374 rue Saint-Honore, 75001 Paris (France). 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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of CAPTAIN DONS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/23/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/21/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Attn: Marjorie J. Friday, 1285 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10019-6064. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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.

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March 26, 2018 Notice of Formation of Klug Law Firm PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/12/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 585 Stewart Ave, Ste 302, Garden City, NY 11530. Purpose: law.

Notice of Formation of Anthony Lujack MD, PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/27/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: Medicine.

Notice of Formation of Chatham Square Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/7/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2-26 50th Ave, Apt #3D/E, Long Isl. City, NY, 11101. Purpose: Dentistry.

Notice of Formation of MORITZ, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 54 Riverside Dr., NY, NY 10024.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of T. ELENTENY HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/5/10. 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: 285 W. Broadway, Rm 500, NY, NY, 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Application for Authority of Technical Adventures LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/13/18. Formed in NJ on 6/30/04. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to 210 Haven Ave., Ste. 101, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076. The office address required to be maintained in NJ is 14 Chestnut St., Stirling, NJ 07980. Cert. of formation filed with Ford M. Scudder, Acting State Treas., 33 W. State St., Trenton, NJ 08608.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

APP FOR AUTH for SEARCH22 LLC App for Auth filed with SSNY 1/22/2018 LLC. Registered in Delaware on 9/28/2017 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, 200 East 28th St., 2F, New York, NY 10016.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of TRIUMPH TUTORS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/15/18. 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: 50 E. 8th St, #2T, NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 257-263 W 34th STREET LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/23/18. 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: 7 Mercer St, Fl. 2, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of NEW POLY ENTERPRISES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/21/18.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Olivia Shao, 175 W. 12th St., Apt. 6-F, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Kimberly Chu, LCSW, PLLC filed with SSNY 12/15/17.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PLLC: 295 Central Park W., 1A, NY, NY 10024 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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.

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.

Notice of formation of IMAGE CASCADE PUBLISHING, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/26/17 Office loc: NY county. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of process against LLC to principal business addr: 420 Lexington Ave. Ste. 300 NY, NY, 10170.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of Fogo de Chao Churrascaria (Long Island) 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.

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.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Brickman Manager VII, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/31/17.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/30/17.

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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of AGR X LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/9/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/5/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 245 Park Ave, Fl. 26, NY, NY 10167. 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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of DHEHF LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/20/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1122 Franklin Ave, Ste 406, Garden City, NY 11530.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for CHICK&CO LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 26 CARMINE ST in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER Notice of Qualification of 150 Wooster PH LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/14/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/4/17.

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.

SCHOEN SURVEY RESEARCH LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/31/2018. 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, 111 Park Avenue Apt 6A, NY, NY 10128.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Domain Commodity Technologies LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/21/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/8/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 459 W. Broadway, Apt 4S, NY, NY 10012. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of KASPICK & COMPANY, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/07/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/17/97.

Princ. office of LLC: 730 Third Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10017.

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 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: 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. 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of SOLAIA, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 06/16/2017. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 08/26/2016. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Sleep Studio, LLC 295 Fifth Avenue, Ste 1112, NY, NY 10016. Address required to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St. Wilmington DE 19801. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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 Qualification of 1515 Broad Street, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/20/17. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 3/24/03. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 22 Maple Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960.

NJ address of LLC: 22 Maple Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960.

Cert. of Formation filed with NJ Secy of State, 33 W. State St, Fl. 5 Trenton, NJ 08608.

Purpose: any lawful 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.

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TCC TELEPLEX LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/16/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Dennis Novick, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, Ste 2000, New York, NY 10111.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Noga Restaurant, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/17.

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: 120 Allen St, NY, NY 10002.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Moddy Kiluvia, MD, PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/2/17. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 19 W. 34th St, Fl. PH, NY, NY, 10016. Purpose: medicine.

Notice of Formation of ACCEL DIRECT FUNDING LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/8/17. 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: 382 Greenwich Ave, Ste 2, Greenwich, CT 06830.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of KIP Partners LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/19/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/16/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 1430 Broadway, Ste 1603, NY, NY 10018. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ifund Direct Funding LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/8/17.

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: 382 Greenwich Ave, Ste 2, Greenwich, CT 06830.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Daniel J. Zimmerman, M.D. Psychiatry Services PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/22/18. Office location: New York County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 265 E. 66th St, #39G, NY, NY 10065. Purpose: psychiatry.

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Notice of Qualification of 306 EAST OWNER LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/8/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/6/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 216 E. 45th St, Ste 1200, NY, NY 10017. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of TAH 2018-1 Depositor LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/7/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/14/18. 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 of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 4555 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on April 6, 2018 and end on April 19, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc.

Household goods and other effects. #3L24 – Andres Helm, #7S02 – The Shoreham Hotel, #9P40 – Bruton Gallery, #3P09 – Bruton Gallery, #1A11 – Tyondai Braxton & #5J10 – Egidio Perea.

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

Notice of Formation of CASA ST 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: 15 Maiden Ln., Ste 2005, NY, NY 10038.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Bloomfield 2007, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/20/17. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/5/07. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 22 Maple Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of CPC V, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/9/18.

Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/22/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1001 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W., Ste 220 S., Washington, D.C. 20004. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of TL TARGETED FUND, LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/02/18. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/31/18.

Princ. office of LP: 330 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10017.

Duration of LP is Perpetual.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Jesse Ro at the princ. office of the LP. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of LP 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 Maxanak, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York 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: 589 8th Ave, Fl. 10, NY, NY 10018.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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March 26, 2018 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF RICHMOND INDEX # 135389/2017 - SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates RICHMOND County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises are situated.

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR SOUNDVIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2007-OPT4, ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-OPT4, Plaintiff(s), against Unknown heirs at law of MARK S CHAMBERS, and if they be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of who and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff, NYC DOT-SIDEWALK & INSPECTION MGMT, PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC, AD FINANCIAL TRUST, CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, DANIELLE HALPERN, KRISTEN CHAMBERS, TREVOR CHAMBERS, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOU CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage dated July 5, 2007, executed by MARK S CHAMBERS AND DAWN S CHAMBERS to UNITED NORTHERN MORTGAGE BANKERS, LTD, A NEW YORK CORPORATION to secure the sum of $357,000.00 and recorded in Document 210051, in the Office of the CLERK of the County of RICHMOND on August 2, 2007, which mortgage was thereafter modified. Said mortgage was later assigned to WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR SOUNDVIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2007-OPT4, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-OPT4, by assignment of mortgage executed on March 9, 2012, covering premises known as 115 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308 (Block 5149, Lot 47). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to a resettled order of the Hon. Deborah A. Kaplan, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed along with the supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of RICHMOND on 02/23/2018. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Staten Island and County of Richmond, City and State of New York, Block 5149, Lot 47, said premises known as 115 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. There is now due and owing from the Borrower to the Plaintiff the principal sum of $381,876.82, plus interest thereon from June 1, 2011, in addition to those accumulated late charges and those recoverable monies advanced by Plaintiff and/or Plaintiff’s predecessor-in-interest on behalf of MARK S CHAMBERS AND DAWN S CHAMBERS together with all costs, including but not limited to, attorneys’ fees, disbursements, and further allowances provided pursuant to the underlying loan documents and applicable law in bringing any action to protect the Mortgagee’s interest in the Subject Property. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/ DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home.

Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-2690990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs.ny.gov FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 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 of Qualification of Hampshire Partners Fund VI, L.P.. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/20/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/9/03. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 22 Maple Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960. DE address of LP: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Craft Bio LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/14/18. 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.

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Notice of Formation of Bloom Dermatology, PLLC. 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 PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 15 W. 53rd St, Apt 31C, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: medicine.

Notice of Formation of Ruby J LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/20/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 589 8th Ave, Fl. 10, NY, NY 10018.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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March 26, 2018 STORAGE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on APRIL 10, 2018 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: -AZZOUAY, HUSSEIN -ALLEN, SHARON -ABBOUSH, SUNNY -BEGANSKI, ALEKSANDR -BARKER, STANFORD -CLARKE, KIMBERLY -CUNDIFF ROBERT/LANE ROBIN -CARTON, TIMOTHY/ RAME JALAL -DAVID, MARKZWANG -FREEDMAN, FRANCIS -FERRERAS JESSICA/FERRERAS AUGUSTIN -GUACHON, FREDDY -GERMELUS, MIRIAM -GOMEZ HELEN/JON E. GOMEZ/ NICOLE GOMEZ; JOHN DOE -HYU CHA CHUN -JOVELL, DOMINGA JULIA -KRATZENBERG, DEBRA A -MIRENBERG, ALLEN -MARTINEZ, ARIEL -MINA, IRENE -MERRIT LUANA -MADESIR, CARMEN -MCALLISTER, TRACY -MCQUEEN, ANJETTA -NATHANIEL, ARLENE -REYES, YACQUELINE -RUSSO, LILLIAN -SHKRELI, MIRELLA -STANLEY, MAUREEN O -YOUNES, ATEF -EYADA, WALID -DELA CRUZ, LEANDRO -SWEET, JARIS -STEED, ALISON -RODRIGUEZ, LUZ -OTERO, MIGDALIA -MYERS WESLEY/ MYERS WILLIE AND RANDY -JONES, ODESSA ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2017-1145/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

TO: Unknown Distributees, Attorney General of the State of New York, Victoria Cruz, New York City Human Resources Administration.

And to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Lucille Wallach, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Lucille Wallach, deceased, who at the time of her death was a resident of 211 East 79th Street, New York, New York 10021.

A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on May 1, 2018 at 9:30 A.M. in Room 503, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of summary statement thereof attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (iii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of the distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA Section 2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iv) that the claim of the New York City Human Resources in the amount of $ 133,616.06 for public assistance rendered to the decedent in the form of Medicaid be allowed and paid; (v) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (vi) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA Section 307 where required or directed; and (vii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.

Dated, Attested and Sealed. March 20, 2018 (Seal) Hon. Rita Mella, Surrogate. Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk.

Schram Graber & Opell P.C. Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County 11 Park Place, Suite 1008 New York, New York 10007 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

Notice of Formation of CAESAR MANAGEMENT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/20/18.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Laxmipathi Garipalli, 11 Colts Gait Ln., Colts Neck, NJ 07722.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Lightflats LLC filed with SSNY 1/17/18. Office loc: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: US Corp Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

LLC princ bus add: 150 W 56th St, Apt 3609, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of SHC HERITAGE PARTNERS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/23/10. 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: 1779 2nd Ave, #6F, NY, NY 10128.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Dolan Software Company LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) 1/24/18.

Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in Minnesota 5/9/06.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LLC, Box 4924, St Paul, MN 55101. Cert. of Form. filed with MN Secy of State, Retirement Systems of MN Bldg, 60 Empire Dr, Ste 100, St. Paul, MN 55103.

Purpose: Any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of HARVEST EDGE GRPE I, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/05/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/28/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Harvest Volatility Management, LLC, The Graybar Bldg., 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 2620, NY, NY 10170.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Curtis F. Brockelman, Jr., 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 2656, NY, NY 10170. 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 84 2nd Avenue Owner LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/14/18. 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 Highpoint Property Group, 20 West 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010, Attn: Drew Popkin.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of Film Expo Group LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/28/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/1/15.

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: 3500 S. DuPont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901. 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.

Azarmsa Consulting LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 6/23/17.

Office: Westchester County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copy of process to: US Corp Agents, 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of AURA HEALTHCARE LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 02/28/2018. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CT on 03/17/2011. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 347 W. 36th St, Ste 1601, NY, NY 10018. Principal Office Address of the LLC: 347 W. 36th St, Ste 1601, NY, NY 10018. Cert of Formation filed with CT Sec. of State, 30 Trinity Street, Hartford, CT 06106.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 174-176 1st Avenue Owner LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/14/18. 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 Highpoint Property Group, 20 West 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010, Attn: Drew Popkin.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1308902 FOR A “RESTAURANT WINE LICENSE” HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SERVE BEER/WINE AT RETAIL IN THE RESTAURANT UNDER THE ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT DAO THONG CORP. D/B/A BORAN

BY DAO THONG, LOCATED AT 462 COURT STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11231.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISES CONSUMPTION. DAO THONG CORP D/B/A BORAN BY DAO THONG 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 60 feet, at the approx. vicinity of 21-70 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens County, NY 11105. 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.

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Who was up and who was down last week

LOSERS CYNTHIA NIXON People magazine, the BBC, Fox News – Terry Gipson did not get this level of coverage. It’s no surprise that the actress/activist’s run for governor scared off the former state senator, but the mighty Gov. Andrew Cuomo may be running scared too – or at least he’s appearing publicly more than usual. But it’s not just the media that excited.

Nixon touted 2,214 contributions of less than $200 in her first day – supposedly more than Cuomo’s received in seven years.

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Never underestimate the power of a reclaimed political insult. Have you seen all the proud “Deplorables” or self-proclaimed “Nasty Women” on Twitter? Cynthia Nixon’s gubernatorial campaign received a sobriquet bouquet last week, with Cuomo demeaning queries about the race as “small questions” and criticisms of his administration as part of “political silly season.” The crème de la crème was Christine Quinn’s “unqualified lesbian.”

Will we coin our own insults this week? Just think of what Trump has done for “loser”!

CHRISTINE QUINN Quinn, an openly gay Cuomo ally, caused quite a kerfuffle when she referred to Cynthia Nixon as an “unqualified lesbian.” She walked back the remarks, but Nixon turned the insult into a war cry, fundraising off of Quinn’s comment and using it in her speech to donors on Wednesday. Quinn may be the self-appointed authority on what makes a lesbian “qualified” or “unqualified,” but being a “qualified lesbian” didn’t help her in 2013 – and it certainly didn’t help her now.

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NYC & Co.’s CEO must be thrilled – there are more tourists streaming in than ever.

The wheels of Criminal Justice Services turn slowly, with this creep only fired now.

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Vol. 7 Issue 12 March 26, 2018 30 WOMEN BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

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The Capital Region is growing! News flash for downstaters: Colonie doesn’t suck.

The Fight for $15 is so 2015. 32BJ’s chief is pushing a $19 floor for airport workers.

This latter-day legend from Buffalo took the IRS to court – and won.

This Spanish translator stole 471.5 hours of city time. ¿Cómo se dice “$20,000 fine”?

You want words like “finest” associated with your police force – not “testilying.” #InvestigateVance? Cuomo sicced his AG on the DA, but at least Vance was trending.

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