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EDITOR’S NOTE It’s all about Donald Trump these days. Last week, Trump ordered a bombing strike on Syria in response to what appears to have been a chemical weapons attack. He rammed through a U.S. Supreme Court pick with fewer than 60 Senate votes. His top aides continued to wrangle for power, another ally was forced to step aside from the inquiries into Russian election meddling and he held a high-profile meeting with the leader of China, the United States’ most powerful global rival. Even here at City & State, where our focus is almost exclusively on New York politics, we’ve shifted our coverage, since what’s happening in the White House is so directly affecting the Empire State. We’ve reported on the president’s top appointees, analyzed the impact of his policies in his home state and launched a monthly Trump column by contributor Ross Barkan. This week, we take a closer look at the threat the administration poses to organized labor, a critical issue in union-friendly New York. And in our latest cover story, City Hall reporter Sarina Trangle explores whether local politicians are taking the anti-Trump message too far.

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

CONTENTS BOCHINCHE & BUZZ ... 6

STATE BUDGET EXTENDER ... 10

David Friedfel of the Citizens Budget Commission explains what Albany’s budget extension means for New York

Gerson Borrero has gossip on John Flanagan, Joe Crowley and Cuomo’s mole in the Assembly

NEW YORK NONPROFIT MEDIA ... 26

SLANT ... 28

Nonprofits on how to confront fear and hate-based attacks in their communities

Seymour James of The Legal Aid Society says fair fares would curb deportations

WINNERS & LOSERS ... 34 Who was up and who was down last week

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LAST WEEK’S HEADLINES

From the PODCAST A Q&A with Fair Fares leaders NANCY RANKIN of the Community Service Society of New York and REBECCA BAILIN of Riders Alliance C&S: You’re supporting governmentfunded half-price MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers aged 18-64. Why that age group? RB: Everybody in New York City pretty much gets a discount already on their MetroCard. Seniors get half-priced MetroCards, people with disabilities, students under 18 get a free limiteduse MetroCard. And even middle-class New Yorkers get a discount through pretax transit benefits now that the city has extended that program, requiring employers with 20 or more employees to provide it. So the middle class and everybody else gets a discount, except for the neediest New Yorkers, who can’t often get that unlimited pass, which is even more out of reach. They’re the only group being left out while they are the ones that actually need it the most. C&S: Is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio supporting this plan? NR: What he said publicly is that he thinks it’s a good idea, he’s concerned with coming up with the money and whether it’s the city’s role or the state’s role. The MTA is a state authority; however, the current law explicitly gives the mayor the authority to secure a discount for a class of riders as long as the city makes up the lost fare revenue. RB: We’re asking Mayor de Blasio to put up to $700 in the pockets of low-income New Yorkers. That’s huge. Page 28: Fair Fares would help halt deportations Listen, subscribe and review this week’s podcast by searching for “New York Slant” on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or your favorite podcast app.

NO BUDGING ON THE BUDGET Deal or no deal? It was the question of the week as lawmakers, staffers, the press and the rest of the Albany ecosystem waited with bated breath for pronouncements from on high (the second floor governor’s office). Lawmakers passed a budget extender last Monday, keeping government open while ensuring Cuomo’s economic development pet projects move forward. Any other contentious issues like raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18, an upstate expansion of ride-hailing apps like Uber and funding affordable housing will have to wait, as the rest of the week was a whole lot of nothing, with deals so flimsy that one was, allegedly, broken by a sassy text message. As of Friday, some legislators had left Albany with no new state budget. RIKERS SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS After more than a year of dismissing it as unrealistic, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he’s backing the idea of closing Rikers Island, saying he sees a path to closure within a decade thanks to falling crime rates. The official commission report that came out a couple days later sets up what’s sure to be a tough fight over building or renovating new jails in each borough. PENN STATION PARTICULARLY PENN STATION-Y A minor derailment outside Penn Station became a four-day story as Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit were forced to cancel numerous trains, leading to cramped cars and overcrowded buses. To mitigate further delays, the station needs a new tunnel under the Hudson – a plan that could be in jeopardy under President Donald Trump’s proposed transportation cuts.

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“I DON’T THINK HE LOST HIS TOUCH; I THINK HE LOST HIS FOCUS. THE FOCUS IS NO LONGER ON GETTING A BUDGET. THE FOCUS IS ON HIS POLITICAL FUTURE.” — state Sen. John DeFrancisco, connecting Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s late budget with his rumored presidential ambitions, via The New York Times Get the kicker every morning in CITY & STATE’S FIRST READ email. Sign up at cityandstateny.com.

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DID YOU MISS IT? THE INNER CIRCLE President Donald Trump will break with tradition by skipping the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But he showed up for the 95th annual Inner Circle show – or at least one of his many impersonators did. The April 1 parody show, titled “TRUMPED! de Blasio to the Rescue?,” featured a series of skits, including the mayor as an undercover hipster.

Mayor Bill de Blasio debating Donald Trump, as impersonated by Anthony Atamanuik

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De Blasio and “Trump” backstage

De Blasio as an undercover hipster

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 9 a.m. – For the 36th time, homeless New Yorkers and advocates rally outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office demanding he follow through on his promise to build the first 6,000 units of a 20,000-unit supportive housing commitment, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 2 p.m. – The state Department of Public Service holds a public hearing on power companies RG&E’s and NYSEG’s response to the severe windstorms on March 8 and 9, Monroe Community College, Brighton Campus, Building 3, 1000 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 1 p.m. – The New York City Council Committee on Courts and Legal Services holds an oversight hearing on the process of mayoral judicial appointments, led by City Councilman Rory Lancman, a frequent critic of the mayor, 250 Broadway, 14th floor, Manhattan.

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DOES FLANAGAN HAVE A PROBLEM? The buzz is that state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has a problem brewing within his Republican conference that could threaten his stewardship. “Just talk,” is what one Republican bochinchero told B&B. There appears to be a lot of frustration since the budget is not done. Two bochincheros opined, “Flanagan’s leadership is not threatened.” However, not everyone thinks it’s “Kumbaya” time for Senate Republicans. “Flanagan has a problem as long as restive upstate Republicans believe they have a champion in John DeFrancisco.” At least one other bochinchero thought that this “problem” with DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader from Syracuse, would grow.

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WHO’S SNITCHING TO CUOMO?

Forget about the out of control horse-trading and dealmaking in the Albany budget negotiations circo. Who the hell is Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s snitch inside the Assembly Democratic conference? That’s the bochinche that had me working overtime on this column. (We blame NY1’s Zack Fink, who first reported on Cuomo’s mole, for putting us on this trail.) There are five possible culprits: three from upstate and two from downstate. Rochester, the Bronx and Brooklyn are represented in the list we’ve compiled. We know you want their nombres, but B&B has decided not to publish the five names. As much as we trust our sources, we ran up against our deadline and don’t have the snitch pegged. Stay pendiente. ANDREW CUOMO

NOT GOING BACK TO VOTE ‘NO’ State Sen. Rubén Díaz isn’t going back to Albany to vote against whatever budget agreement is hashed out by the four hombres in the room. Díaz tore into his Senate colleagues last week in the chamber for not keeping their word to not vote for the budget unless the Raise the Age bill was included. He released a video that begins with Díaz saying that he’s from the old school and he keeps his word. According to “el bochinchero major” in the Bronx, the polemic politico is already in campaign mode. Díaz will formally announce either Monday or Tuesday – probably via press release – his candidacy for the New York City Council’s 18th District. Annabel Palma, who is term-limited, currently holds the seat.

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OY VEY … THEY’RE NOT FELIZ WITH CROWLEY The buzz is that there are some very angry Jewish politicos in Queens fed up with Joe Crowley’s leadership of the Queens County Democratic Party. The bochinche is that there haven’t been enough attorneys elected to the bench for Civil Court and Supreme Court judgeships. “We heard progressives were also not happy,” a Crowley bochinchero reminded B&B. We were also reminded of the prominence Crowley has gained in Washington, D.C., and felt that fighting President Donald Trump is bigger than a lot of these local skirmishes. Tell that to the Jewish insiders who are talking about running candidates for district leaders against Crowley’s bunch. The bochinchero said, “What can I tell you? In a democracy you can actually challenge incumbents.” He didn’t seem worried at all about creating aggravation for his amigo Crowley, and he hung up. This could get very heated pronto.

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THE REVOLVING RALLYING CRY Why “states’ rights” only seem to matter when you’re not in charge By ROSS BARKAN

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LAST YEAR, during a campaign-style address aimed at comforting a city about to encounter the discombobulating wrath of incoming President Donald Trump, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to fight the federal government. “What’s important to remember is our own power in this moment here in New York City,” the Democratic mayor said at Cooper Union in November. “There is not a national police force. You don’t go to federal schools to get your children an education. No. We in the city of New York, we protect our people with the NYPD. We provide education to our children with our New York City public schools. We provide health care with our public hospitals.” “Our Constitution says it,” de Blasio continued, “that so much of what is decided in the governance of our people is decided at the local level, according to the values of the people who are governed.” De Blasio’s rhetoric was understandable. The Trump administration wants to slash and burn the regulatory state, threatening to cut off funds to the city’s housing stock, schools, transportation and police. The only hope of resistance is strong local and state government, as threatened Democratic leaders everywhere are learning. Yet this turn toward states’ rights in the age of Trump is ironic, considering the fraught legacy of localities fighting the federal government. As local Democrats wage war against Trump, they should prepare themselves for a future when their arguments will be used against them. Southern states justified a bloody Civil War with the same logic now employed by the likes of de Blasio. A century later, racist governors and senators battled federal desegregation efforts by invoking the righteousness of local control. Republican politicians repeatedly thwarted former President Barack Obama by link-

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ing arms with the ghosts of the men who decried Earl Warren and Lyndon Johnson, celebrating the supposedly moral triumph of the states over centralized authority. As de Blasio said, there are no national beat cops or schools – and there never will be. Democrats should be cognizant, once more, of the dangers of an imperial presidency. Under Obama, Democrats were happy to empower the executive branch, ostensibly ignoring Obama’s calcifying of the George W. Bush-era surveillance state. Now that Trump has his chance to toy with the same vast infrastructure, Democrats are crying foul. Should Democratic mayors and governors not invoke states’ rights as a justification for defying Trump’s federal government? That depends. Trump is not a normal president and extraordinary times can lead to extraordinary tactics. Civil disobedience is necessary. But elected officials must take more care with how they wield their words. “You don’t go to federal schools to get your children an education” is the kind of sentence that would belong in the mouth of a congressman from Mississippi. Republicans are hypocrites too. When one of their own storms into the White House, they’re all too happy to embrace an all-powerful executive, like Trump or George W. Bush, at the expense of whatever limited government principles they purport to defend. Yet when a Democratic mayor creates a sanctuary city to shield undocumented immigrants from the feds, Republicans whine – how dare liberals defy the law of the land laid down by the federal government? If Democrats want to overlook the wretched legacy of states’ rights movements flouting racial progress, they can at least take refuge in the 18th century. When President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, repressing domestic protests and attacking immigrants, a couple of future pres-

idents in Thomas Jefferson and James Madison sought to nullify the laws in Kentucky and Virginia, setting a precedent for the actions liberal mayors and governors across America are now vowing to take. What Trump has done, once again, is expose the ideological hollowness of both parties. Given how easily Trump commandeered the GOP, there’s a good argument to be made the party was always a shell waiting for a strongman to inhabit it and make it thoroughly his own. But the core of today’s Democratic Party isn’t well defined, either. Are they the party for centralized, federal power at the expense of the states, a Hamiltonian vision that animated Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama? Are they a party that, under Obama, promoted something akin to a détente with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, only to salivate for confrontation when a vile Republican offered a similar solution to avoiding a second Cold War? De Blasio’s speech that November day demonstrated that the struggle between a strong federal government and states’ rights, endemic to our country’s founding, was always more about power than ideology, ultimately rendering it unresolvable. If Democrats, taking the long view, want to move the U.S. in a more progressive direction, they will need an affirmative argument for why federal power can be a good thing. Republicans, too, are happy to recall that there are no federal schools. States and cities are free to chart their own destinies, for good and for ill.

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SINCE GOV. ANDREW CUOMO took office in 2011, he has consistently negotiated an on-time or nearly on-time state budget agreement – until this year. After failing to reach a budget deal by the April 1 deadline, lawmakers approved the governor’s temporary legislation to keep state government running through the end of May. Yet many questions remain about how the governor, legislative leaders and rankand-file lawmakers will move forward, especially if the federal government makes devastating cuts in aid to New York. So City & State’s Ashley Hupfl reached out to David Friedfel, director of state studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, to clarify some of the details about the budget extension.

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C&S: Legislators have said there are no surprises in the budget extender bills. Is this true? Did anything unexpected stick out to you? DF: There’s a few things we weren’t expecting, per se. There was $2.5 billion in capital for the clean water infrastructure initiative, that’s not necessarily a part of a straight extender. Apparently it was agreed to by the three parties, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing it was included, but it’s not typically what you think of when you think of a straight extender. Some of the other capital appropriations, there were some things that we’re hoping would not be in there that were on the economic development capital side. There’s things that the governor proposed that are getting included: the $300 million for life sciences, $180 million for the Kingsbridge Ice Center and there were a few pieces from the economic development budget that actually were left out, like the $200 million for New York Works, another $200 million for the strategic projects fund. Both of those were left out, which we’re kind of glad to see. C&S: What repercussions could there be because the state Legislature failed to reach a budget compromise and instead passed an extender? DF: It depends on how long it drags out. If it actually goes the full two months, there could be a significant impact on schools, specifically, because they need to vote on their school budgets prior to the end of May, so they need their budgets ahead of time so they can know how much they’re getting in state aid. We understand school aid is a contentious issue. We’ve spoken extensively about reforming the Foundation Aid formula and we’re hopeful the final budget will come out

promptly and properly with changes to the Foundation Aid formula accordingly. C&S: While passing the budget extender, several state senators cited the need to continue paying state workers. Will legislators continue to receive a salary? DF: I don’t believe so. There is a statute that says legislators cannot get paid when the budget is late. No, it’s just the legislative staff (that gets paid) from what it looks like to me. C&S: So, if the state Legislature went until May 31, they would not get paid until that point? DF: Correct, though they do get paid. They would get back pay. C&S: While Cuomo has prided himself on delivering on-time budgets, this year he’s repeatedly said it’s more important to have a budget aligned with any potential federal cuts. Do you agree that is the smartest budget move at this point? DF: From a budgetary standpoint, the state knew in January there were going to be some really significant changes from the federal level when the executive budget was originally proposed. So we know as much now as we did then, if not a little more with the failure of the American Health Care Act. But, not really, is the short answer. There are things that could be put in the state bud-

DF: It would really depend on what those changes are. It’s possible they would have to come back and change some of the appropriations language because federal programs changed how they operate, not necessarily a fiscal change, but names of programs and who’s eligible and those kinds of things. It would also potentially have to cut spending if there’s a federal aid decrease, particularly in education, and a potential health plan could increase the state’s share (of health care costs). Unfortunately, there’s so many potential changes that the effects could be severe. The other change that could happen is not really on programs, but on the tax side. If the federal government were to change the deductibility of state and local taxes or (decrease) the overall deductions at a lower level than they currently are – that could have a significant impact on the taxpayers’ cost of the state personal income tax and the state’s tax on millionaires, which would then require state action to alleviate those effects. C&S: Anything else to watch? DF: One thing the budget extender did is reject the executive budget’s proposal interchange language that would have allowed (Cuomo) to increase or decrease state operations spending. There was new language that allows the governor to move money around in one department. Within the state Department of Corrections (and Community Su-

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ON SCHOOLS, SPECIFICALLY, BECAUSE THEY NEED TO VOTE ON THEIR BUDGETS.” get document that could make it so that the budget legislation could deal with certain changes and if there were really significant changes, the Legislature would have to come back and pass a new budget in May to change those things, since the federal budget isn’t enacted in May, just proposed. Generally, the changes on the federal level wouldn’t impact this year’s state budget, the (2017-18) budget, until the (2018-19) budget. C&S: If there are severe cuts in federal funding after the state reaches an agreement, what steps can the state take afterwards to fix a potential funding gap?

pervision), they could move money around a bit, which has had some serious concerns about the executive’s ability to increase appropriations, and this cuts down on that. On the education side there is basically no money for the (2017-18) school aid formula. It basically just funded the tail end of the (2016-17) payments, which they always split the school aid across the state fiscal years because the years don’t (match up). They basically included most of that money from (2016-17) and the governor’s (proposal in the extender) is actually lower in the executive budget, so they may not be including the June payment.

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centric message distracts from the fact that local budgeting practices, if improved, could provide the fiscal flexibility needed to adapt to looming federal cuts. “The city budget (and) the state budget have a lot of problems and challenges, but now they can just point to these cuts and say, ‘Well this is our big problem,’” said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute. “Proposing this level of unrealistic cuts just adds a whole new level of distraction.”

AT A MARCH PRESS CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S PROPOSED SPENDING PLAN, MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO SAID, “IT’S EXTRAORDINARY HOW MANY NEGATIVE THINGS HAVE BEEN PACKED INTO ONE BUDGET.”

AYOR BILL DE BLASIO blasted President Donald Trump’s proposed budget last month, saying it would have “a hugely negative impact on his hometown.” Even before Trump was elected, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said last year that he would “drive New York’s economy into a ditch.” Now, one City Council member is even warning that slashed federal funding over the next four years could return the city to its fiscally precarious past. In the face of such a threat, City Councilman James Vacca said his colleagues should reject funding requests and instead stockpile savings. Vacca went so far as to invoke the Daily News’ “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline from 1975 when President Gerald Ford refused to back bonds to a city on the brink of bankruptcy. “Some people are going to have to hear the word ‘no,’” said Vacca, a member of the City Council’s budget negotiating team. “We have latitude, but going down the road, it might not be an issue of latitude;

it might be an issue of resources. … I was a district manager to a community board when we laid off policemen and firemen and teachers back in the ’70s and ’80s, and those were very difficult days for our city. And it was about that time, the president, Ford, that famous headline, when he told us to drop dead.” But is New York City’s financial situation really so dire? In short, no. To begin with, New York City’s current fiscal outlook simply does not compare to the tumult it experienced in the 1970s, experts say. Even during its more recent crises, the city weathered much deeper declines in revenue. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, the local economy was hammered. “I mean you're talking about a period where the city was in a recession compounded by a terrorist attack within the city to compound the effects of the recession,” said Maria Doulis, vice president of the Citizens Budget Commission. “We're not looking at anything of that magnitude.” Some even argue that City Hall’s Trump-

YET CITY OFFICIALS have been almost singularly focused on the specter of federal cuts when discussing their own budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1. And budget experts acknowledge that pushing back against the federal cuts makes sense: If the president’s plan were enacted, the city would struggle to make up for every federal dollar they lost. New York City politicians have been especially critical of Trump targeting sanctuary cities that limit how personnel and resources are used to enforce federal immigration law. Trump issued an executive order which would ensure that sanctuary cities “do not receive Federal funds, except as mandated by law,” although it’s unclear how far that will go. New York City is expected to receive $8 billion in total federal funding, excluding money related to Hurricane Sandy recovery. That amounts to 10 percent of the city’s budget this fiscal year, according to the New York City Independent Budget Office. But losing that entire chunk of money seems unlikely, since legal experts believe Trump can only pull funds related to the specific policies his administration is trying to enforce, in this case, money tied to immigration and deportation. Much of that funding comes from the U.S. Department of Justice, and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently said sanctuary cities could be disqualified from the department’s grants. But de Blasio contends this sort of blacklisting would not be permissible, and pledged to challenge it in court. De Blasio’s office said $52.7 million in Department of Justice grant funding is included in the city’s current budget. Sanctuary city status aside, it’s no surprise the president’s proposal provoked a backlash in New York City, Gelinas said. For one thing, it targets urban areas with more public housing, child poverty and mass transit. The proposal also calls for curtailing money the city uses for counterterrorism, public health, teacher training and after-school programs.

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It would completely eliminate the Community Development Block Grant program, which is expected to fund nearly 30 percent of the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development next year and has funded everything from literacy courses to parks’ administrative offices. Trump’s plan also endangers capital funding pools the city has dipped into for transit, traffic safety and public housing projects. But at most, Trump’s current plan could cut between $535 million and $760 million of the city’s roughly $85 billion

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nowhere near as dire as what transpired in 1975. At the time, banks would not lend to the city because they did not believe there were real resources behind the obligations. Municipal unions chipped in by backing the city’s debt with their pension funds, and Ford later signed legislation making federal loans available to New York City. Meanwhile, the state placed the city’s budget under a virtual receivership while taking over city colleges and other organizations. The city laid off a significant portion of its workforce and severely cut services. “I actually was at negotiations with the

FISCAL EXPERTS AGREE THAT THE BUDGET PINCH NEW YORK CITY FACES TODAY IS NOWHERE NEAR AS DIRE AS IN 1975, WHEN PRESIDENT GERALD FORD DENIED ASSISTANCE TO THE CITY WHEN IT WAS ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY.

operating budget, according to analyses from the de Blasio administration, the city comptroller’s office and the IBO. These estimates assume only U.S. Department of Justice grants are at risk for sanctuary cities. Outside of the city’s operating budget, New Yorkers stand to lose funding for the New York City Housing Authority, capital projects and Section 8 housing vouchers.

THAT INFAMOUS DAILY NEWS headline has been revived as “Trump to City: Drop Dead,” but fiscal experts agree that the budget pinch facing the boroughs today is

Treasury Department, and they provided, in November of that year, just what was essential to avoid the bankruptcy of the city of New York,” said Richard Ravitch, who represented New York City during that crisis. “And there isn't any city, major city … that I know of, on the verge of bankruptcy. There are a lot of cities that are broke. But nobody expects the federal government to provide the kind of assistance – and nobody's asking for the kind of assistance – that New York got from the federal loan guarantees in 1975.” Similarly, the revenue hits the city endured in recent years are much more

substantial than the $535 million to $760 million sought by Trump. At most, this amounts to 1.3 percent of today’s city-funded budget, which by and large contains money the city is free to spend as it chooses. Federal and state funds, on the other hand, typically must be used for specific purposes. After the 9/11 attacks, city tax revenues declined by $1.6 billion, or about 7 percent, according to the IBO. Tax revenues dropped about 7.2 percent during the Great Recession. Currently, tax revenue is growing and the city is on track to end the fiscal year with a $3.3 billion surplus. Still, the implications of Trump’s proposal are difficult to gauge. For instance, some federal funding streams are matched by the state, which could magnify the city’s losses. Albany may pass off other federal funding cuts to local governments. At the same time, many believe the Republicanled Congress will restore funding to some of the programs on the president’s chopping block before the federal budget is passed, which could be as early as October. “Right now, we just have to be very creative in looking at the budget, and acknowledge that we have an X-factor,” said City Councilman Jumaane Williams, a member of the body’s budget negotiating team. “The people are counting on us to get through it. I think they’re counting on us to reject the knee-jerk austerity cuts, to reject cutting back on programs we believe in, and to do that, we have to plan. And we should start now.” OTHERS ARE LESS OPTIMISTIC. City Hall has wide latitude in allocating the roughly $60 billion city-funded portion of the budget, but it has its limits. City departments typically spend the bulk of their budgets on their employees, whose compensation and benefits can usually only be changed through union negotiations – or trimmed through layoffs. The city can raise fees, fines and property tax rates, but cannot modify other taxes without consent from the state. As a result, the first casualties of city budget cuts have often been library hours, arts and cultural organizations as well as after-school and summer youth programs. And some of these frequent targets are already in Trump’s crosshairs. Every year, hundreds of New York City groups receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services – all of which Trump has proposed eliminating. The money does not generally flow through the city budget,

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THE CITY LOSE? President Donald Trump has proposed steep federal budget cuts. New York City stands to lose between $535 million and $760 million. The potential hit amounts to, at most, 1.3 percent of total city revenue. That’s the portion of the budget where lawmakers will look to compensate for the loss of federal funding because the city can generally spend the revenue it raises as it pleases. By contrast, federal and state grants typically must be used for specific purposes.

THE WHITE HOUSE HAS PROPOSED ELIMINATING OR REDUCING FUNDING FOR . ..

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The Community Development Block Grant program, which in the coming year would fund nearly 30% of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development

The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which City Hall said helps some 700,000 households heat their homes during the winter

Homeland security funding, which is used for counterterrorism efforts, such as the city’s intelligence analyst program, active shooter training and bomb squad training

The Community Service Block Grant program, which has supported city social services agencies

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funding, which the mayor’s office said funds city lead poisoning and chronic disease prevention work, the public health laboratory and emergency preparedness U.S. Department of Justice grants, which City Hall said has financed equipment for the police crime lab, ballistic helmets and vests for police officers, efforts to reduce the DNA testing backlog and more

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The 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, which the New York City Schools commissioner said has been used for after-school programs City & State used federal funding loss estimates from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office and the New York City Independent Budget Office. The city has a tendency to underestimate how much federal revenue it will receive when drafting its annual budget each summer, the IBO said. As additional funds come in, the city typically adjusts the federal funding numbers midbudget. In an effort to gauge how much the proposed cuts would nip into to the city’s full, midyear budget, City & State looked at how much federal funding streams are expected to bring in during the current fiscal year or how much, on average, the targeted federal funding streams have brought in during recent years. If those estimates were not available, we included how much money the city expected to receive during the coming fiscal year.

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The HOME Investment Partnership, which helps low-income residents secure affordable housing

Title II-A funding, which the city has used to conduct training for educators

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enough finances in the state and the city to compensate – as a matter of fact, we should have been doing way better, many, many, many years ago.” Williams noted that some city services said to be threatened by Trump, such as public housing, have been plagued by disinvestment for years at the hands of politicians on both sides of the aisle. “I’m hoping that there’s a lesson here: that in the good times … if we believe in these things, then we should do them,” he said, arguing that funding for NYCHA, enforcement of building codes and heat and hot water provisions, and Section 8 vouchers – or a city alternative – must be maintained. “Our residents and our constituents are expecting us to keep these things funded and going. We have to.”

but tax revenues could drop if tourism dips as museums, art venues and cultural institutions wither, said New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer. “So cultural (organizations) and the arts – the primary driver of tourism in the city – generates the revenue that then pays for all of the programs for the most vulnerable New Yorkers,” he said. “If Donald Trump unleashes an assault on the city of New York, by devastating public housing, public health – I would add as chair of (the Committee on) Cultural Affairs and Libraries – the arts and the humanities and culture, we’re not going to be able to make all of that up in savings or efficiencies, nor should we have to.” But others argue that the city is capable of cobbling together funding for critical initiatives – and that targeting Trump is a convenient way for local politicians to deflect blame. Assemblyman Charles Barron, who served on the City Council when it drafted budgets in the wake of 9/11 and during the Great Recession, pointed out that the city’s budget is now bigger than all but three states and some countries. “We’re talking about a city budget that’s over $80 billion,” he said, suggesting that superfluous capital projects and certain tax benefits could be mined for money. “They hide behind Trump. Yes, it’s going to be devastating, but we have

“THEY HIDE BEHIND TRUMP. YES, IT’S GOING TO BE DEVASTATING, BUT WE HAVE E N O UG H FINANCES IN THE STATE AND THE CIT Y TO COMPENSATE .” – Assemblyman CHAR

LES BARRON

THE CITY’S NEXT BUDGET will be hammered out by the end of June, months before lawmakers get more clarity on what funding will flow from Washington, D.C. – and, in turn, from Albany. Lawmakers say they want to bolster rainy day funds, so they are ready for anything. City Council Finance Committee Chairwoman Julissa FerrerasCopeland said she and her colleagues would like to see the city work toward placing about 14 percent of what it spends in reserves. While testifying before the City Council, city Comptroller Scott Stringer said that under de Blasio’s preliminary budget, the city would start the next fiscal year with a cushion of 10 percent of spending, or $8.6 billion. Some budget watchdogs disagree with his calculation method because it includes money saved for retiree health benefits, and the Citizens Budget Commission puts the reserves as low as $1.25 billion. Going by either estimate, the reserves will not get close to the longer-term 14 percent target, even if de Blasio’s team achieves its goal of finding $500 million in savings across city agencies before the mayor releases his executive budget this spring. The City Council has presented some costcutting ideas as well in its annual budget response, including a potential $35 million in savings by directing all agencies to reduce their energy expenses by 5 percent and another $15 million by renegotiating and consolidating data processing equipment contracts. On the other side of the ledger, the City Council called for the state to give the city “stand-by authority” to raise $500 million in taxes. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Republican-led state Senate have shot down tax plans put forward by de Blasio in recent years. The City Council also floated a hike on the personal income tax for New Yorkers

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earning more than $500,000, a surcharge on e-cigarettes, a sales tax on tickets to theater performances and nixing an exemption on unincorporated businesses’ carried interest. Ferreras-Copeland told City & State she plans to scrutinize several business tax breaks, including the Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program. Some have questioned whether ICAP and a similar program are needed because they have gone to projects that do not seem to need the help, and they are expected to cost the city $734.3 million in foregone revenue in 2017. “I wouldn’t sound all the alarms right now, but definitely, I think it’s a time for caution,” Ferreras-Copeland said. “Some of the tax breaks that we’re giving, that’s a great opportunity to save. And some of this we can’t legislate ourselves, we’re going to use our partners in the state to give us authorization to accomplish some of these revenue savings.” Independent of the state, the city could negotiate workforce changes with unions, according to Doulis of the Citizens Budget Commission. “It is difficult, but it is the sort of change that’s necessary if you’re really going to see savings and efficiencies in government on a grander scale,” Doulis said. For instance, the IBO estimated the city could save $664 million within three years by increasing employees’ work week from between 35 and 37.5 hours to 40 hours. The contract for the largest municipal union, DC 37, is slated to expire in July, when elected officials will be gearing up for primaries. Bob Linn, the city’s labor relations commissioner, said federal funding uncertainty may hinder his ability to begin negotiating and reach agreements to quickly replace expiring ones. THE BIGGEST IMPACT on the city’s coffers will come from other factors entirely beyond its control, such as broader economic trends and federal tax policies, experts said. And in that sense, Gelinas said the president might actually turn out to be as threatening as city lawmakers are trumping him up to be. “The incompetence in not being able to get a budget done is probably good for the city,” Gelinas said, referring to the federal budget process. “The incompetence in not being able to get anything through Congress is a bigger risk on the tax side and the infrastructure side. … All of these investors have expected deep tax cuts, and tax reform and a big federal stimulus. If those things don’t seem to be coming through, we could see the investors start to adjust their expectations, the stock market go back down, and that could really hurt the city.”

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The impact of Trump’s plan could extend beyond the city’s operating budget. The president has proposed curbing funding the city directs to its capital plan, which funds physical construction projects rather than day-to-day expenses. Other targeted funding streams may impact the New York City Housing Authority and Section 8 housing vouchers given to New Yorkers. Although at the onset these particular proposals may not leave a clear footprint in the operating budget, they could compel the city to dip into its operations money.

NYCHA

The New York City Housing Authority is a separate government entity, and therefore, has its own budget. The federal budget proposal threatens to cut $150 million in operating expenses and $220 million in capital funding, according to City Hall.

Housing assistance

The New York City comptroller’s office and mayor’s office said they were concerned about potential reductions to the Section 8 housing program. The city Department of Housing Preservation and Development receives about $459 million annually in Section 8 rental housing assistance, which is directed to private landlords on behalf of nearly 40,000 low-income households, City Hall said. NYCHA receives nearly $1 billion annually in Section 8 grant funds, which provide housing vouchers for 86,000 households, City Hall said. The comptroller’s office said about 12,000 to 15,000 voucher holders may be at risk.

Housing Preservation and Development

About $38 million from the HOME Investment Partnership Program gets directed to the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s capital budget, according to the de Blasio administration.

Vision Zero

The White House has proposed eliminating the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants, which the city has used for a variety of capital projects tied to Vision Zero, an initiative aimed at ending traffic injuries and deaths. City Hall said if grants are clawed back, $25 million in Vision Zero initiatives could be at risk. The IBO said the move does not threaten any current Vision Zero projects. But the administration argued future projects it may want to pursue could be jeopardized.

Select Bus Service

The president has proposed cutting Small Starts and New Starts grants, which City Hall said could impair the second phase of its plans to implement select bus service and reduce congestion on Woodhaven Boulevard. The administration said it is working “in good faith” with the Federal Transit Administration to advance a $97 million application for the project. Several other capital projects in the metro area could be threatened, including the expansion of the Second Avenue subway and the Gateway tunnel, a trans-Hudson River project spanning New York and New Jersey. These projects are expected to be funded and overseen by non-city entities, according to the IBO.

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PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS ON A SATURDAY morning in February last year, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died. The following month, the eight remaining justices deadlocked in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a potentially precedent-setting case in which teachers had challenged the requirement that they pay dues for any union activities. The teachers argued that they had a First Amendment right to withhold payment. Unions countered that those who opt out would still enjoy the benefits won through collective bargaining – which would be unfair, since they hadn’t paid their fair share. While Scalia was still alive, some legal observers had expected him to to cast a pivotal vote overturning the requirement as unconstitutional. The stakes were high: Public sector unions feared that the ruling would dramatically reduce their revenue and erode their ability to stand up for workers. But without Scalia on the bench, the 4-4 tie essentially put the matter on hold, giving organized labor at least a temporary reprieve. Last week, following U.S. Senate Republicans’ move to obliterate the filibuster for U.S. Supreme Court nominees and install another conservative, Neil Gorsuch, expect the legal challenges to keep coming. Conservative and libertarian groups long ago adopted a strategy of battling organized labor in the courts, and Gorsuch’s confirmation will likely be seen as a green light to try Friedrichs again. It’s not the only case, either. A similar case from Illinois is making its way through the courts, and some experts say the challenge to compulsory union fees could extend to both public sector unions as well as private sector ones. Other legal challenges targeting labor are expected, as well. New York is one of the last bastions of organized labor, with around a quarter of the workforce in a union. In this special section, we take a closer look at the state of unions in the state – and how they might push back against changes coming from Washington, D.C.

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FIGHT FORTHE UNION Facing a threat from Republicans, will public and private sector unions unite?

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By BOB HENNELLY

IN RECENT MONTHS, the labor movement had been on the winning side of the news cycle. First, President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, fast food executive Andrew Puzder, was withdrawn. Then the push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act collapsed. But on closer examination, both the Puzder flameout and the health care meltdown were mostly due to self-inflicted wounds. The disclosure of Puzder’s do-

mestic violence history and upstate Reps. Chris Collins and John Faso’s attempt to shift county Medicaid costs to their home state exacted a heavy price for Republicans. In reality, these labor “wins” were rearguard actions by a union movement with fractures between its leadership and its rank and file that Trump, much like former President Ronald Reagan, has already exploited. Trump’s path to the

White House was paved when he flipped 200 counties in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania that voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Trump did that by winning hundreds of thousands of votes from union members whose leaders had bet big on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100 and who

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“(Wisconsin Gov. Scott) Walker has had meetings with Trump since the election and hopefully organized labor is not going to be deluded into thinking that can’t happen nationally the way it happened in Wisconsin.” – JOHN SAMUELSEN, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100

ELISE STEFANIK Member, House Committee on Education and the Workforce

C&S: You’re now in your second term on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. What are you hoping to do this session? ES: I will be working on solutions to improve workforce development as well as pursuing policies that will help spur job creation, including regulatory reform and health care flexibility. I also want to enhance technical skills for those in the labor force, support our entrepreneurs and make our region more competitive. C&S: President Donald Trump wants to repeal tons of regulations, getting rid of two for every new one. Are there any workforce protec-

backed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in last year’s presidential race, said he believes the Democratic Party has lost touch with its blue-collar working-class voters – and Trump has cashed in. Now, Samuelsen said, Trump is courting private sector unions while his budget would lay off thousands of unionized federal workers. “There is a playbook and it belongs to the illustrious governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker and that playbook was to go after the public sector and sort of tell the uniforms and the trades that everything would be OK and then after he got done gutting the public sector, he gutted everybody else as well,” Samuelsen said. “Walker has had meetings with Trump since the election and hopefully organized labor is not going to be deluded into thinking that can’t happen nationally the way it happened in Wisconsin.” In 2011, Walker and the Wisconsin state Legislature dismantled decades of labor protections, ending collective bargaining for public unions and requiring them to pay more for their health care and pension benefits. Walker withstood a recall election and went on to win re-election. Since 2011, union membership has dropped by 40 percent in Wisconsin with just 8 percent of the state’s workers now

tion regulations you’d like to see repealed? Is there one in particular that needs to be protected? ES: I believe that the (National Labor Relations Board’s) confusing new definition of joint employer will cause great harm to our nation’s small businesses. Franchising has helped create hundreds of thousands of businesses that support millions of jobs. We must ensure that actions taken by the federal government find the right balance of helping workers while also protecting the jobs they have. I am also a strong supporter of Davis-Bacon and Official Time rights, and I will be working to defend these protections for workers.

C&S: New York state has the highest rate of union membership in the country. What perspective do you bring as a New Yorker? ES: New York’s 21st District has a close relationship with our Canadian neighbors, and facilitating a strong trading relationship is a critical asset to our local economy is something I continue to work hard to pursue in Congress. I want to continue to grow our partnerships between local (Boards of Cooperative Educational Service) programs, community colleges and higher education institutions to ensure that we are equipping younger workers with the tools they need.

What happens when a state fails to place a priority on properly funding public services? New York State can tell you! New York state residents are being told the state doesn’t have the money to support critical services that so many people rely on every day.

eople lose jobs. Overtime skyrockets. Performance and on-the-job safety suffer under impossible workloads. Life-altering programs and services are cut. The most vulnerable populations across the state – young children, people with developmental disabilities, low-income families, people in abusive situations and those grappling with mental illness or substance dependency issues – find it harder to access the valuable services they need to remain healthy and productive members of society.

The role of government is, in essence, to care for and make decisions in the best interests of the people it governs. Sadly, New York state’s government, under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s leadership, is failing to meet its highest and most basic calling. Did you know that New York currently spends over $8.1 billion annually on a smattering of economic development programs? That’s an increase of more than $1 billion (15 percent) since the governor was elected in 2010. Hundreds of millions of dollars were dumped into the START-UP NY initiative, which has been proven to be an economic development failure. And yet, New York state residents are being told the state doesn't have the money to support critical services that so many people rely on every day. Our state will continue to suffer if the interests of a select few are placed above the needs of our communities and the middle class.

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in a union, well below the national average of 11 percent. During his own shortlived presidential bid, Walker pledged to eliminate the National Labor Relations Board and end union representation for federal workers. “If you’re a big-government union boss in Washington, this is a threat to you and to all of the politicians that you have under your control in our nation’s capital,” Walker said at a Nevada campaign rally, according to Reuters. Wisconsin passed a right-to-work law, a measure that historically had traction only in the South and West, but in 2012 a similar measure was enacted in Indiana and Michigan. As early as 1995, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing think tank supported by the Koch brothers, had been pushing state legislatures to adopt the anti-union measure. By contrast, New York has the highest percentage of unionized workers in the country, at a time when unions are in a precipitous decline nationally. Between 2000 and 2016, New York’s percentage of workers in a union only fell from 25.5 percent to 23.6 percent and New York is

now the only state in the nation where more than 20 percent of the workforce belongs to a union. Not since the 1920s has the Republican Party, traditionally anti-union, so totally dominated state capitals. As a consequence, both New York’s public and private unions are in the national labor union vanguard, to staunch the bleeding from a movement that began here. Now, activists say distinctions between private and public sector unions have to fall away as they face a battle for survival. With Congress and the White House in Republican hands, Samuelsen said unions have to anticipate that a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court could make a union comeback an even steeper climb. “Everything is an organizing challenge, whether it be a Supreme Court decision that impacts us negatively in terms of our ability to function and our ability to collect dues or national right-to-work legislation, we can’t just put our heads in the sand,” he said. “We have to get out in front of it.” A key part of TWU’s strategy is to look for organizing opportunities. “In the private sector, we organize anything that

moves, like the tour bus operations and bike share workers here in New York, Philadelphia and out in San Francisco,” he said. Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180, which represents New York City’s supervisory and administrative employees, says his union has expanded into nonprofits. It now represents workers with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Planned Parenthood and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Cheliotes said successful unions today have to not only organize in the workplace but also in the wider community. “It means a grass-roots approach to connect with their members making sure that at the front lines the members understand the value of a union and probably more importantly bring about more militancy,” he said. “Ultimately it should be organized people fighting organized money.”

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ROUND TWO

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR SALARIES IN NEW YORK

A BETTER DEAL FOR STATE WORKERS

STATE GOVERNMENT PRIVATE SECTOR

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO’S second round of collective bargaining with public sector unions is underway and has already yielded a few agreements, including with the Public Employees Federation. Budget experts applauded the governor’s performance the first time around, when he negotiated a wage freeze to help balance the budget. So far this year, the administration has been more generous, offering 2 percent annual raises for three years. To put the pay hikes in perspective, here’s how private sector salaries compared to average state government pay in Cuomo’s first five years in office.

PETER ABBATE Chairman, Assembly Committee on Governmental Employees

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SOURCES: STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, VIA THE CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION

C&S: A recent report found New York has the highest percentage of union members of any state. Would this benefit New York or what is the downside? PA: I believe that much of the work that the Assembly and myself have done makes it a good atmosphere for workers to unionize and feel protected in the state. Unions help their members earn higher wages, which can stimulate the economy and help fight against income inequality, which is an issue across the country. Additionally, unions have historically fought for improved safety rules and regulations, resulting in better work conditions and an environment that values the workers.

C&S: What is the current status of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to trim the city’s temporary workforce as required by the city’s Civil Service Law and what concerns do you have about the seeming lack of progress? PA: Last year, when Mayor de Blasio asked for an extension to reduce the levels of provisional, or temporary, employees, I was a vocal critic of their lack of transparency during the process. We passed legislation that was signed by the governor last year to give them extra time to get it done, but our issues with their transparency remain. I understand

that this is not an easy issue, and certainly one that predates his tenure, but the city needs to be more aggressive and work with the municipal unions and locals that are affected to get the system right with the law. C&S: Outside of the budget negotiations, what legislation is crucial to public unions for passage this year? PA: One of the issues I believe is most overdue and pressing is the restoration of the 3/4 Line of Duty disability benefits for our uniformed personnel in New York City. Those who are injured in the line of duty should not have to fight for their full benefits.

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C&S: What issues do you hope your committee takes up and addresses before the end of the term? DM: My committee will be looking into how we can make sure the city is in compliance with the U.S. Civil Rights Act. The long period of time it takes for residents to learn about their (civil service) test results or being notified of when a promotional exam is occurring cannot continue. We have legislation that will require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to publish a report every year that shows the race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, job category, initial salary, current salary, date of hire, start date of currently held position,

current job title, and hours worked of public employees. It will also show information about promotional exams that have been given. With the new administration in Washington and Congress threatening to sign national right to work and other anti-labor work legislation, we are seeking to protect the rights of working men and women at the municipal level. We can no longer live with handshake agreements and instead must make them become policy protected by law. We will also be examining how proposed cuts to the federal Department of Labor could affect city programs, and what we can do on the municipal level to protect these workers.

C&S: As the city starts to negotiate contracts with municipal unions this year, how would you say the larger financial environment has changed, and how might this impact negotiations? DM: The City Council has successfully negotiated budgets that have saved us a significant amount of money. This occurred in part because of the contributions from unions to the city. Also, the services the municipal unions continue to deliver in the transportation, public safety, health care, and many other sectors, greatly contribute to the overall quality of our lives. It also attracts new residents and businesses, and that certainly has value at the bargaining table.

CSA To Devos: Do What's Right for Children!

ERNEST LOGAN

President of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, Local 1: AFSA, AFL-CIO

Finally, CSA and US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos agree on something. In recent remarks to the Brookings Institution, DeVos opined that “The education debate needs to be studentcentric.” The 6,500 CSA members - active Principals, Assistant Principals, Education Administrators and Early Childhood Center Directors now serving in New York City - could not agree more. Only we say it another way: Do what’s best for the kids. It is easy to overlook the daily miracle that is the New York City public school system: 1.1 million school children and more than 135,000 full time employees work and learn in over 1,800 buildings every school day. It is by doing what is best for children that school leaders have maintained our schools as educational sanctuaries where every student can find safe, supportive environments where they can pursue the knowledge and master the skills they need to build successful lives. This is a legacy we dare not ignore, because this is what is best for our students, for our city, for our country and world. Of course, we also disagree with Secretary DeVos’s words in context. The Secretary, destroyer of the Detroit public school system, made her statement in support of this federal administration’s belief in a specific brand of school choice, one that would deliver more public money to charter, private and religious schools to the detriment of public schools. Such a funding change would penalize if not destroy already cash strapped public school systems across the country and could lead to privatization of the greatest

national free education system to ever exist, one that has produced some of the finest minds in every academic discipline. Many of these minds belonged to people from other countries who came to America seeking the education denied them in their native land. Many of these people - Albert Einstein, George Balanchine, Madeline Albright, Joseph Pulitzer, to name a very few – would go on to make groundbreaking contributions not just to their adopted country but to mankind. One can hardly imagine a world in which these immigrants had not been able to develop their intellectual gifts. This is in part why CSA applauds Gov. Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio’s efforts to make New York State and City sanctuaries for undocumented residents – it is what is best for the kids and their families. By doing what is best for children, we do what is best for us all.

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HEALTHY START

DE BLASIO’S HEALTH INSURANCE DEAL IS WORKING SAVINGS SAVINGS ACHIEVED OUT SO FAR SAVINGS PROJECTED IN 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reached a deal with public sector unions that was projected to save $3.4 billion through changes that included eliminating copays for preventive services and tripling copays for emergency room visits. Beyond helping the city’s bottom line, the deal also helped the mayor politically as he renewed a long list of expired labor contracts. The city said it has achieved its goals so far, and officials are optimistic the trend will continue as the plan is fully phased in for fiscal year 2018. But while it could help the city weather an economic downturn, some say the city still needs to save even more.

BOB LINN Commissioner, New York City Office of Labor Relations

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C&S: As the city starts to negotiate contracts with municipal unions this year, how, if at all, would you say the larger financial environment has changed, and how might this impact negotiations? BL: When the administration arrived in 2014, we had no labor agreements in place and we’ve spent the last three years wrapping up agreements with 142 bargaining units. We’ve covered 99.3 percent of the workforce with our labor agreements. It has very much been my desire that we continue the bargaining, and we bargain timely, perhaps we even bargain before contracts expire. Bargaining long, retroactive

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contracts makes for very difficult bargaining because of the issues of how to deal with pay, if a number of years of the contract have already expired; how you budget; how you do the finances. And having collective bargaining agreements in place is very important to be able to think rationally in terms of how you deal with budget issues. The DC 37 contract will expire in 2017; some of the union contracts expire in ’17; a lot expire in ’18. It would be my hope that we can bargain sooner rather than later, so that we can have contracts in place, effective for the dates they actually cover. Clearly what has happened in Washington, (D.C.), and then the impact of

the Washington decisions on the state and city budgets are important, and will have an impact on our ability to bargain timely. But we need to think about it. We need to see exactly what are the implications from what takes place, and use that effectively to figure out what’s the right time to negotiate. C&S: If the federal outlook was different, would you foresee having started those negotiations at this point? BL: If there was greater financial certainty, this would certainly be time to begin the process of talking with the leadership of the unions to figure out how to approach new labor agreements.

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NONPROFITS CONFRONT FEAR IN THEIR COMMUNITIES

A CROWD ESTIMATED AT 10,000 JOINED NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO AT THE “TODAY I AM A MUSLIM TOO” RALLY IN TIMES SQUARE. IN RECENT MONTHS, MEMBERS OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE U.S. HAVE ENCOUNTERED AN UPTICK IN HATE CRIMES.

N THE WAKE of bomb threats made to Jewish organizations across the country, undocumented immigrants fearful of deportation, Muslim-Americans feeling antagonized in the wake of two travel bans and a black man killed by a white supremacist in New York City, a panel designed to help advocates in the nonprofit community confront fear and hate-based attacks tried to stay optimistic. But a couple questions from the audience – about whether community groups should organize “multi-ethnic defense squads,” or train minority community members to use firearms for protection – signaled a level of desperation in the room. “I have always believed that the fastest way to get gun control legislation passed in this country is to mass mobilize the American Muslim community to start getting firearms,” said panelist Hussein Rashid, a lecturer on Islamic and American culture. Rashid, who said he favors gun control and would advocate for Muslims to only acquire permits, thought his nontradition-

al gun control lobbying strategy would play on some Americans’ xenophobia. “If it will freak people out enough, yeah, let’s do it, if it’s a means to an end,” he said. That comment generated laughs, but the seriousness of the debate, one of countless community conversations that have occurred since the presidential election, was clear because of a spate of hate crimes targeting minorities across the country. The March 21 panel discussion, sponsored by the New York chapter of the Jewish Community Relations Council and held at the lower Manhattan offices of Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, examined how discrimination has recently permeated the culture. “It’s always been present, but it’s just taken an uptick over the last little while, and we want to work as partners to address these issues together,” said Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of FPWA, in her opening remarks. In recent months, members of minority communities have encountered hate-based violence and other discriminatory attacks,

which many advocates say developed after a fear-laced campaign helped elect Donald Trump to the presidency. Frankie Miranda, senior vice president of the Hispanic Federation, said after his partner was deported to Brazil they were a binational same-sex couple until 2013, when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling paved the way for Miranda to sponsor his partner’s migration back to the U.S. They were married in 2014, but his temporary green card expired and with a 14-month wait for his case to be reviewed, he said, they feared that any small confusion or bureaucratic mix-up could send his husband back out of the country. “This is about everybody: about Muslims, about the Jewish community,” he said. “Fear is affecting all of us. This is not a problem just for a few,” he added. The speakers – who also included New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and New York City Commission on Human Rights Chairwoman and Commissioner Carmelyn Malalis – reiterated that New

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Yorkers’ values run counter to those held by individuals seeking to divide Americans. Christine Quinn, the president and CEO of Win, a nonprofit that supports homeless families, made the case that discrimination against the homeless – rooted in race and class divisions – was tolerated in a way that violence isn’t, citing protests and vitriol as the city sought to open shelters. She also estimated that about 4 percent of those served by Win entered the country illegally and as many as 10 percent more were families in which the parents may have entered illegally. If those parents are detained or deported, she said, those children could end up in foster care, especially if their relatives are also at risk of deportation. “We’re feverishly researching, with the help of pro bono lawyers, what do we do when (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) comes,” Quinn said. “Do we have

to let them in? It’s a tough legal question.” Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the Asian American Federation, said those concerns also echoed through the Asian-American community. She said challenges emerged following a 1996 federal law that cracked down on illegal immigration, and again after 9/11, but “this is nothing like we’ve ever dealt with before.” She said she was harassed just a few days after the November election. Evan Bernstein, the New York regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, a national nonprofit that combats anti-Semitism, said he was listed as a “threat” on a white supremacist website and has received a credible death threat. The incidents have increased to such a frequency, he said, they risked becoming normal. Previously, swastika graffiti would garner a quick response by the ADL, but now it’s become “such the norm” that the organization can’t always catch up.

But amid these fears, opportunities were cited. Yoo said the difficult climate is a chance “to hit reset in a real way” and redefine community as less about what people look like and more about gathering those who share a similar vision. Miranda said the Hispanic Federation is working to amplify the voice of its community and has created a new unit to rapidly respond to hate crimes on social media and elsewhere. Quinn said that offering personal stories and harnessing positivity and support on social media can be used to counter hate and warned that “haters and violent people” feeling empowered by rhetoric from the Trump administration want to “separate us, divide us and only make us care about our own narrow self-interest.” She added, “They have no idea how to deal with united Americans, united because of their differences, not in spite of them.”

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS NEED FINANCIAL SERVICES By JENNIFER TAN STATE SEN. KEVIN PARKER recently introduced a legislative package of four bills to address the costly damages caused by domestic abuse. I applaud Parker’s proposal as a move in the right direction, but I believe that there’s an opportunity to do more. Not included in his proposal was a bill to support survivors’ access to financial services – a simple provision that could make all the difference between an individual staying in or leaving an abusive situation. About 98 percent of domestic abuse cases involve some form of financial abuse in which the abuser may restrict, control, limit or gain access to a victim’s financial resources. Limited financial knowledge is a leading reason individuals stay in or return to abusive relationships. And financial pressures are one of the top reasons why women who leave an abusive relationship end up returning. Yet little legislative and public attention has been given to improving survivors’ access to financial services as a potential prevention strategy. This is where Parker’s proposal could do more. The proposals would give domestic violence survivors up to 20 days of unpaid

leave, increase research on the negative implications of dating violence towards women, keep guns out of the hands of known perpetrators and give survivors the ability to remove violent felony offenders from the deeds of co-owned property. Indeed, these are all critical areas to address. I, too, have known of many survivors who have lost their jobs because of repeated absences – and lost their lives, because of gun violence. But in order to sustain any positive changes brought about by the current proposal, we must ensure survivors’ continued access to quality financial guidance and services throughout the process of leaving their abusers. I call for Parker to include a bill in his proposal that would advocate for more investment in improving survivors’ access to financial services.

Domestic abuse affects all of us – our parents, siblings, friends, colleagues, neighbors and children. Let’s enhance our communities together by ensuring that every survivor has a fighting chance at leaving the abuse – for good.

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Jennifer Tan is the founder of Shine Foundation, which provides free financial education to homeless abuse survivors.

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FAIR FARES WOULD HELP HALT DEPORTATIONS By SEYMOUR JAMES

As public defenders, we see the consequences with our clients, many of whom have been arrested for fare evasion. In January alone, the NYPD arrested 2,000 New Yorkers for jumping a turnstile. We have always strongly disagreed with the NYPD’s overzealous enforcement of broken-windows, fare-evasion policing because it disproportionately impacts communities of color and the poor – and it’s not the best allocation of police resources. But now, under President Donald Trump’s administration, the stakes are

much higher and the end result for some could be detention and deportation. Despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s assertion that New York City is leading the country as a sanctuary city, what’s actually playing out in local precincts and courts with fare evasion is a much different reality. Even though the NYPD does not directly communicate these incidents to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrests and personal information still percolate to ICE via shared city, state and federal crime databases. And fare evasion – a theft of services and crime of moral turpi-

tude under New York state penal law – is a misdemeanor and, consequently, a removable offense per federal immigration statute. The MTA’s March 19 fare increase will undoubtedly lead to more arrests for turnstile jumping because, for some, the fare is unaffordable. Poor New Yorkers already have to choose between groceries, rent, prescriptions, other essentials and their next subway ride. As long as the NYPD keeps enforcing low-level offenses in poor communities, immigrant New Yorkers will be even more susceptible to

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NEW YORK CITY’S transit system is a lifeline for millions of people. It connects seniors to medical care, brings students to class and transports New Yorkers to their jobs every day. Many of us take it for granted, and recent Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare increases may not really pinch our pocketbooks. But for low-income New Yorkers, every penny counts and every fare increase makes mobility a little bit harder.

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FAIR FARES City & State’s editorial board is partnering with the Community Service Society of New York and Riders Alliance to support the Fair Fares campaign, an effort to convince the New York City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio to fund subsidized MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers. This is Part 4 of that series. To read the previous parts, visit nyslant.com.

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CITY, STATE AND FEDERAL CRIME DATABASES. AND FARE EVASION IS A REMOVABLE OFFENSE PER FEDERAL IMMIGRATION STATUTE.

deportation by ICE. Luckily, City Hall has a few options and the first and most obvious one is to finally end broken windows policing, which has plagued black and brown communities

for decades, clogged our court system and countered attempts to reduce the prison population at Rikers Island and other city correctional facilities. However, smart policymaking would

bundle broken windows policing reform with a subsidy program to offer half-price fares for low-income city residents aged 18 to 64. Even though the MTA falls under state jurisdiction, City Hall can still allocate funding in the fiscal year 2018 budget to support such an initiative. The plan would benefit 800,000 New Yorkers and save eligible riders more than $700 per year off the cost of buying monthly passes. With the threat of federal cuts looming, coupled with a contracting local economy, new initiatives might be hard to fund in next year’s budget, but we believe this twopronged solution is worthy of the city’s support. It provides the needy immediate financial relief and access to our transit system, while eliminating a practice that can have dire consequences for immigrant families. New Yorkers from neighborhoods in every borough need City Hall to prioritize this now.

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Seymour W. James Jr. is the attorney-in-chief at The Legal Aid Society.

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Notice of Qualification of West Madison Entertainment Film Fund LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/1/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/9/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1501 Broadway, Fl. 12, NY, NY 10036. 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. CERYNEIAN MGT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/27/17. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 529 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of Stansberry Asset Management Partners, LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/23/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/4/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1350 Ave of the Americas, 4th Fl, New York, 10019. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. 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 Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/21/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: One Boston Place, Boston, MA 02108. LLC formed in DE on 4/24/01. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Attn: BNY Mellon Legal Dept., 225 Liberty St., NY, NY 10286. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of EURNITED ARTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/11/2016. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process against LLC to: 120E 34th St., Ste. 15L, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of SpringHealth Behavioral Health and Integrated Care New York, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/22/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 9901 Linn Station Rd., Louisville, KY 40223. LLC formed in DE on 2/15/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Notice of Qual. of ARTEMIS PARTNERS LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 02/13/2017. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in CT on 07/03/2008. 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 LLC: 347 W. 36th St., Ste 1601 NY NY 10018. Cert of Formation filed with CT Sec. of State, 30 Trinity St., Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of Polyfon LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/23/17. 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: 60 W 23rd St, Apt 426, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of FKAL 49 Ann Street LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/23/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 105 Mulberry, Ste 202, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity Notice of Qualification of YORK LONG EQUITY FUND, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/3/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/28/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o York Long Equity Domestic Holdings, LLC, 767 5th Ave, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10153. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

April 10, 2017 Notice of Formation of PAPARONE LAW PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/21/17. 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: 22 Independence Way, Jersey City, NJ 07305. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Bespoke Capital Services LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) o n 1/26/17. 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: 750 Lexington Ave, Fl. 28, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Nexus Reinsurance Underwriting Managers, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/1/17. NYS fictitious name: Nexus Underwriting Management Services LLC. Office location: NY County. LLC organized in CT on 9/23/15. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. CT and principal business address: Two Corporate Dr., Suite 636, Shelton, CT 06484. Cert. of Org. filed with CT Sec. of State, 30 Trinity St., Hartford, CT 06115. Purpose: all lawful purposes .

Notice of Formation of COHEN FLAG CLOTHING LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/9/17. 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: 750 Lexington Ave, Fl. 28, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity.

GOLDEN ALLEN, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/07/16. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 2 Allen Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10002. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of Stansberry Asset Management Partners (GP), LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/23/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/4/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1350 Ave of the Americas, Fl. 4, NY, NY 10019. 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 Flavio Wines LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/8/17. 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: 325 Broadway, Ste 501, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of APO NYC 3 OWNER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of GRAND AVE SUITES LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/8/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/13/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: q State Street Plz, Fl. 29, NY, NY 10004. 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. MAJOR TIKI LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/03/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Richard A. Frazer, Esq. C/O Pryor Cashman LLP, 7 Times Square, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of Kacy Ellis Design LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/6/17. 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: 145 W 12th St, #2-1, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of SE DUANE MEMBERS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/3/17. 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: 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 Foot Fete, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/12/2016. Office loc: NY Co. 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. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Nonsuch, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/17. Office in NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Daniel Barbera, 32 E. 57th St., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10022, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act/activity. Notice of Formation of RIVERWARREN22E LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/9/17. 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: 212 Warren St, Apt 22E, NY, NY 10282. Purpose: any lawful activity. The Thrive Advisory LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/13/17. 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, 1705 Dean St, BK, NY 11213. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of formation of 319 WOODCLEFT FUNDING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/5/2016. Office location, County of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Due By The First LLC, 777 Third Ave., 27th Fl., NY NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of Tenacious Toys, LLC filed with SSNY 1/3/17. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Ave, 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NYCMONICA LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/14/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Monica Matos, 404 East 79th Street, NY, NY 10075. Reg Agent: Monica Matos, 404 East 79th Street, NY, NY 10075. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: Genesis ANCP LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on February 28, 2017. N.Y. office location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Genesis ANCP LLC, c/o Genesis Companies, 594 Broadway, Suite 804, New York, New York 10012. Purpose/ character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of 119 SPRING RETAIL OWNER, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/27/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/23/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o 60 Guilders LLC, 370 7th Ave., Ste. 1400, NY, NY 10001. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of FLAG CLOTHING USA LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/15/17. 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: 750 Lexington Ave, Fl. 28, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. JUDI INVESTORS LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 3/31/2017. 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, 50 W 47Th St. Suite#1611, New York, NY 10036. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of ACC Conversion, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/23/17. 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: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Estelle Kelly DMD, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/21/17. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 20 E. 68th St., #208, NY, NY 10065. Purpose: practice the profession of dentistry. Notice of formation of CITY OF SINGLES, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with SSNY 2/10/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and mailed to: US Corp. Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. LLC princ bus addr: c/o Frank Song, 251 W 19th St, #6D, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Bilingual Nest, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/18/17. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 311 W 127th St., Ste 410, NY, NY 10027. General Purposes.

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April 10, 2017 NOTICE OF SALE OF A COOPERATIVE APARTMENT PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: by Virtue of default under Loan Security Agreements., and other Security Documents, held by AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE, INC., George Nelson, DCA# 1300011, will sell at public auction, with reserve, at the Rotunda of the New York County Supreme Courthouse, at 60 Centre Street, New York, NY 10601, on April 24th, 2017 at 11:00 am, 100 shares of the capital stock of 3 Hanover Square Owners Corp. (A Cooperative Housing Corporation), issued in the name of Harriet Kleppel, and all right, title and interest in a Proprietary Lease to Apartment 4D in the building known as 3 Hanover Square, New York, NY 10004. Sale held to enforce (the) rights of AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE, INC., as Secured Creditor, who reserves the right to bid. Ten percent (10%) Bank/Certified check payable to the Escrowee, Leopold & Associates, PLLC, as attorneys for AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE, INC. Balance due at closing within thirty (30) days. The auctioneer’s fees are required at sale. The Cooperative Apartment will be sold “AS IS” and possession is to be obtained by the purchaser(s). Dated: March 3rd, 2017 Leopold & Associates, PLLC 80 Business Park Drive Suite 110 Armonk, New York 10504 (914) 219-5787 Notice of Formation of DR. DATTA MD PSYCHIATRY PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/23/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 576 5th Ave., Ste. 805, NY, NY 10036, Attn: Arnab Datta, M.D. Purpose: to practice the profession of medicine. Notice of formation of Uplifting Network, LLC, Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 3/6/17. Office loc: NY Co. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and mailed to: Bari J. Schulman, Esq., 1 S. Bway, #1i, White Plains, NY 10601. Princ. bus. addr.: 47 W. 88th St., #2A, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of Matzliach Capital LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/24/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of The Accolade JLD LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/3/17. Office loc.: Richmond County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to is Joseph D’Arco, 112 St. James Pl., Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Down The Block LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/21/17. 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: 151 W 17th St, PHE, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of DEAN & BULL LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/22/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/7/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Commerce Plz, 99 Washington Ave, #805A, Albany, NY 12210. DE address of LLC: 2140 S Dupont Hwy, Camden, DE 19934. 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 Radiodash, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/25/16. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/19/14. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 421 7th Ave, Ste 510, NY, NY 10001. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403S, 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 5 TIMES SQUARE B NOTE FUNDING LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/2/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/23/11. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 420 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10170. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of P&D Care LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/9/17. 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: 413 Grand St, F304, NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of KCP Building Holdco, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/2/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/16/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o KCP HOLDCO, Inc., 603 W 50th St, NY, NY 10019. 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 Litigation Services, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/21/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Nevada (NV) on 12/08/10. 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. #200, Sacramento, CA 95833-3509. Address of the principal office: 3770 Howard Hughes Pkwy., Ste. 300, Las Vegas, NV 89169. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 101 North Carson St., Ste. 3, Carson City, NV 89701. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of BRABS New Roch LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/28/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/24/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Kristin Eugenio, LLC Arts of Org filed with SSNY 2/13/17. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and shall mail process to: 141 2nd Ave Apt 7, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of EJS CREDIT 540 ATLANTIC, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/20/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/09/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Stansberry Asset Management, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/23/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/4/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1350 Ave of the Americas, Fl. 4, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. 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 DMS 350 39 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/22/2017. 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: 213 W 35th St, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Wadadah Management LLC, filed with SSNY 2/24/2017. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 208 E 51st St, Suite 141, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of ANNULI CAPITAL LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/20/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/17/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 230 Park Ave., Ste. 702, NY, NY 10169. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of ORCP AH LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/15/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/10/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 245 Park Ave, FL. 41, 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. SOULFIRE BAZAAR, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/22/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Steven Van Zandt, 434 6th Ave, 6th Fl, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

MISTER MELLOW MANAGEMENT, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/17/17. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30 Wall St., 8th Fl, NY, NY 10005-2205, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. DON CESAR’S RESTAURANT BAR LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/16/2017. Office loc: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Hector Bustamante, 7528 Amboy Road, Staten Island, NY 10307. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1301247 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 Poke Kitchen, Inc. d/b/a Poke Village, located at 223 Second Avenue a/k/a 250 East 14th Street, New York, New York 10003 for on premises consumption:

SPIFE LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 2/16/2017. Off. Loc: Richmond Co. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 26 Van Riper St, Staten Island, NY 10302. Purpose: Any lawful act o ‬ r activity. Notice is hereby given that a license, Serial No. 1301014, has been applied for the undersigned to sell beer, liquor and/or wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 168 East 81st Street, Borough of Manhattan, City, County and State of New York, for on-premises consumption. CASA ANTONUCCI LLC d/b/a Al Vaporetto

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Notice of Formation of 715 MADISON TIC OWNERS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/7/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of X-Impact Group, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/22/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/5/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 590 Madison Ave, Ste 2100, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Quad Principal Strategies Holdings LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/17/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/10/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 77 Water St, Fl. 16, NY, NY 10005. 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 BioInnovation Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/2/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139. LLC formed in DE on 8/11/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of WESTMINSTER MAD ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/21/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of NYC Remote Hands, LLC filed with SSNY 9/16/2016. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to LLC: 29-10 Berkshire Rd Fair Lawn NJ 07410. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of OR Lending II LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/16/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/28/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 245 Park Ave, 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.

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Notice of Qualification of GRAND SPORTS MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/27/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/24/17. Princ. office of LLC: 107 Grand St., NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of formation of Monkey Valley Enterprises LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 01/18/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC: 9 W. 10th St, #4R, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. NEW YORK LIMB LENGTHENING AND COMPLEX RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY, PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/08/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O the PLLC, 535 East 70th St., NY, NY 10021. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Medicine. \Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1300807 for an on premises liquor license has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 550 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10016 for on premises consumption. Emperor Empire LLC d/b/a Little Alley 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 26TH, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for BOWERY HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATES LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 199 BOWERY 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

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Notice of Qualification of 11 EAST 36TH STREET 1 LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/23/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/6/14. 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.

Martial Vivot Downtown New York LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/13/16. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Francois Peyrot, Esq., 62 William St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10005. General Purposes.

Notice of Qualification of MOON WRAP LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/16/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/15/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents Inc, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Atlantic Resource Partners Boston LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/17/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Massachusetts (MA) on 7/13/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 400 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02110. MA address of LLC: 400 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA 02110. Cert. of Formation filed with MA Secy of State, 1 Ashburton Pl., Fl. 17, Boston, MA 02108. Purpose: any lawful activity.

PRIMARY EYE CARE OPTOMETRY LLP. Notice of Registration filed with the SSNY on 12/16/16. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLP, c/o Franklin, Gringer & Cohen, P.C., 666 Old Country Road, Suite 202, Garden City, NY 115302013. The location of the partnership is 136 East 57th Street, Suite 1502, New York, NY 10022. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Optometry. Notice of Formation of SNS BOWERY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/06/16. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Andreas Gerde, 190 Bowery, NY, NY 10012. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of DF FUND 1, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/22/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/17/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Greystone & Co, Inc., 152 W 57th St, Fl. 11, NY, NY 10019. 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.

673 9TH AVE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/31/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Eunhee Park Cohen, 673 9th Avenue, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

PROJECT THREADS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/30/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 251 W. 19th St., #9B, NY, NY 10011. Reg Agent: Robin Domeniconi, 251 W. 19th St., #9B, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of Vinyl Crown Publishing LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/2/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 519 8th Ave, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity. HELIPORT EVENTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/20/17. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 178 Duane Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Formation of NGB Realty Management LLC, Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/24/17. Office location: Richmond County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 35 St. James Place, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Tahlis Consulting LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) o n 12/9/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 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 820 Marcy HPG Member LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/07/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 West 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010, Attn: Drew Popkin. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of how i zen, LLC filed with SSNY on January 27, 2017. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, ATTN: Natalie GreavesPeters, 333 Rector Pl, #910, NY, NY 10280. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of VIPSHOP NORTH AMERICA, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/24/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/24/17. 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 J&M FUNDING FUND 1, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/22/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/17/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Greystone & Co, Inc., 152 W 57th St, Fl. 11, NY, NY 10019. 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. Asif Syed Engineering (ASE) PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/23/17. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 127 W 26th St., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: Engineering.

Notice of Formation of AH JEWETT ACQUISITION, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/27/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Representative Office of Digital Media Republic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/17/17. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2205 3rd Ave., Apt. 12B, NY, NY 10035. General Purposes. USNYT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/26/17. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 7 World Trade Center, 46th Fl., Ste 4624, NY, NY 10010. General Purposes. Ludlow Grand Capital Management LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/16/17. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. The reg. agt. is CSC at the same address. General Purposes. Tic Tac Toe LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/03/17. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 280 Madison Ave., Rm. 1003, NY, NY 10016. General Purposes. ENVIVIA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/12/16. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Daniel Rosen, 200 E 78th St., Ste 1A, NY, NY 10075. General Purposes. Ludlow Grand Strategic Development LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/16/17. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: CSC, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. The reg. agt. is CSC at the same address. General Purposes. Notice of Formation of GOS CONVERSION, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/23/17. 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: 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.

WirelessCo, L.P. dba Sprint (SPRINT) proposes upgrade an existing telecommunications facility atop a 155â&#x20AC;&#x2122; building at 333 Glen St in Glens Falls, Warren County, NY (Project 34064). In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement, SPRINT is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. If you would like to provide specific information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located approximately 1/4 mile radius of the site, please submit the comments (with project number) to: RAMAKER, Contractor for SPRINT, 855 Community Dr, Sauk City, WI 53583 or via e-mail to history@ramaker.com within 30 days of this notice. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1301339 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 260 MESEROLE ST BROOKLYN, NY 11206. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. 260 MESEROLE REST CORP. MULBERRY PIE LLC Art. Of Org. Filed with SSNY on 1/13/2017. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o Newcastle Realty Services LLC, 270 Madison Avenue, 19th Fl., New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of DMARC 2006-CD2 Complex 411, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/10/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1601 Washington Ave., Ste. 800, Miami Beach, FL 33139. LLC formed in AZ on 6/13/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. AZ addr. of LLC: 2390 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85016. Arts. of Org. filed with Exec. Director, AZ Corp. Commission, 1300 W. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85007. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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ANDREW CUOMO There are four men in a room who have failed to reach a final agreement on the state budget, but only one of them repeatedly touts his skills as a negotiator who is able to reach deals after years of dysfunction in Albany. Ultimately, the buck stops with the governor. Now that he’ll no longer be able to tout his on-time budgets, we wonder how he’ll start nearly every speech he gives.

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The NYPD commissioner boasted of the city’s safest quarter since 1994.

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