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The pastor who’s answering East Brooklyn’s prayers

THE LITIGATOR

How LETITIA JAMES gave the public advocate’s office some teeth

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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

This week, for the first time since he took office, President Donald Trump will return to his hometown. Joining Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull aboard the USS Intrepid, the American commander in chief will mark the anniversary of a World War II battle in which the two countries joined forces to repel a Japanese advance. Trump likely will overlook the infamous episode earlier this year in which he berated Turnbull during a phone call and abruptly cut the conversation short – despite Australia being a staunch ally. He’s unlikely to note that he avoided military service himself – for reasons some find dubious. And he’s almost certain not to remind anyone that the last time his administration made news about a naval matter, it was a fleet of warships sent as a warning to North Korea – which were actually sailing in another direction. Still, the Intrepid will make a nice backdrop for a presidential photo op. Because as is often the case with Trump, what really matters is the optics.

CONTENTS BOCHINCHE & BUZZ ... 6

Gossip on Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Richard Buery and more

POLICY PUZZLES ... 10

Local leaders on the 5 fixes that could make Brooklyn better

ERIC ADAMS ... 8

A Q&A with the Brooklyn borough president

NEW YORK NONPROFIT MEDIA ... 40 How can the human services sector solve its fiscal crisis?

WINNERS & LOSERS ... 50 Who was up and who was down last week

A NEW NEHEMIAH

The pastor who’s been answering East Brooklyn’s housing prayers ... 20

LETITIA JAMES

The public advocate has transformed the way her office fights for New Yorkers ... 14

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BROOKLYN INFLUENTIALS The 25 behind-the-scenes movers and shakers you need to know ... 25

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LAST WEEK’S HEADLINES

From the PODCAST A Q&A with former New York NY1 statehouse reporter

ZACK FINK

C&S: You questioned Gov. Andrew Cuomo about his newly appointed secretary, Melissa DeRosa, whose father is a powerful Albany lobbyist. What did you make of his answer, suggesting the premise was sexist? ZF: The original question that I wanted to get to the governor in that exchange was, what are you doing to assure the 19 million people in this state who already believe that there’s a bit of a revolving door between people who have money and who have access to government, and those who work in government, they’re not getting an unfair advantage in getting their issues heard as opposed to people who don’t have that kind of money? DeRosa is a real streetfighter. She’s about as good as it gets in terms of an operative. That being said, there are some potential appearances of conflicts. C&S: The Excelsior Scholarship program, Cuomo’s “free college plan,” is now getting some negative press. Why is that? ZF: Free tuition is not all it’s cracked up to be. For example, most students are part-time. A lot of them work. Room and board, meals, textbooks – these things all cost money. So it’s not always the tuition that’s the biggest nut to crack when you’re preparing to go to school. What was curious to me about all of this also was how willing the Republicans were to go along with it. It really hit their voters – I mean people whose households are making up to $125,000 a year, that’s the suburban voter. That’s the moderate Republican voter that everybody is fighting over in terms of these individual Senate races. Listen, subscribe and review this week’s podcast by searching for “New York Slant” on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or your favorite podcast app.

NOT BUDGETING FOR TRUMP New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released his executive budget on Wednesday, and it looked remarkably similar to last year’s despite the new administration in Washington and fear of major federal funding cuts. The $84.86 billion operating budget was up nearly $3 billion from last year’s plan, with new items including funding to start a pilot program for 3-year-old preschoolers, plus more money for affordable housing and homeless shelters. The plan to shut down Rikers Island made it in too, with $1 billion set aside for planning new jails off-island. De Blasio’s budget showed some restraint and he planned to add to reserves – but the mayor largely avoided specifics, saying the “batting average” of President Donald Trump’s plans has been pretty low. MOVING ON UP It was a big week for new hires. Kristina Johnson (pictured), an engineer and former federal energy official, takes the helm as SUNY chancellor in September. Gov. Andrew Cuomo hired a new chief of staff, Maria Comella, who’s worked for prominent Republicans and has experience with presidential campaigns. And de Blasio followed the party line, appointing former Hillary Clinton staffer Rick Fromberg as campaign manager. ON TIME, ON BUDGET, IN FASHION The first major bridge built in New York City in 53 years opened on Thursday with dual celebrations of the Kosciuszko Bridge. Cuomo celebrated in the daytime, driving from Queens to Brooklyn in FDR’s Packard, then the bridge lit up in colors synchronized to Sinatra music after nightfall. Traffic, though, is expected to remain stagnant till the second span is finished in 2020.

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“THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T REALIZE, OR ISN’T FOCUSED ON, HOW EVERY TIME THEY HIT NEW YORK OR HIT HIM, THEY’RE ACTUALLY DOING HIM A FAVOR POLITICALLY.” — political consultant Suri Kasirer on Bill de Blasio’s campaign strategy of serving as a foil to President Donald Trump, 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? BUILDING DIVERSITY The fate of 421-a hasn’t been the only policy issue on the radar of New York’s building trades recently. While a new version of that real estate tax abatement was included in the latest state budget, the Building and Construction Trades Council has also been focusing on workforce diversity. At the New School on April 19, the group presented a new report that documents more blacks and Hispanics in union construction jobs and apprenticeships.

BRYAN TERRY

City & State Editor-in-Chief Jon Lentz moderated a panel of the Building Trades Employers’ Association’s Louis Coletti, New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres, Edward J. Malloy Initiative for Construction Skill Program Executive Vice President Nicole Bertrán, and Nontraditional Employment for Women’s Kathleen Culhane.

Economic Policy Institute President Lawrence Mishel, author of the study “Diversity in the New York City union and nonunion construction sectors”

Audience members ask questions

BCTC president Gary LaBarbera gave introductory remarks

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THURSDAY, MAY 4 6:30 p.m. – City & State hosts the Brooklyn Borough Series reception recognizing 25 Influentials in the borough, with a keynote from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn.

FRIDAY, MAY 5 8:15 a.m. – The Center for New York City Law hosts its annual Civic Fame Awards, recognizing former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and others, hosted by NY1’s Errol Louis, New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

TUESDAY, MAY 9 8:30 a.m. – Crain’s New York Business holds a health care summit on The Future of Behavioral Health in New York State featuring Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon and other experts and practitioners, New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, Manhattan.

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JULISSA’S GETTING CLOSER …

JULISSA FERRERAS-COPELAND

Meeting with Joe Crowley is among the many acts that New York City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland has to undertake before gaining the trust of the Queens County Democrats. “She’s on her way, but she’s being watched closely,” a Queens bochinchera told me recently. There’s also the fact that Assemblyman Francisco Moya’s rumored primary challenge against her “ain’t happening,” a bochinchero told B&B. It was never a sure thing. That leaves Hiram Monserrate the only challenger with name recognition she has to worry about. “He lost a district leader race,” said another Queens bochinchero who doesn’t see the disgraced político as a threat. To be clear, the meeting with Boss Crowley doesn’t guarantee anything. Not even the support for City Council speaker? “It’s only April. A lot is happening in the council right now,” opined an astute City Hall bochinchero. “These days nothing can be counted on or guaranteed. Ask Hillary about that.” Damn, and that coming from a longtime HRC supporter.

“HE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT SIMCHA FELDER”

DAVID GREENFIELD SIMCHA FELDER

That’s what one bochinchero and ally of the Manhattan Democratic Party said about the recent demand made by Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield that the party oust anti-Semitic City Council candidate Thomas Lopez-Pierre. According to the upset bochinchero, “Keith (Wright) has been looking at ways to legally boot (Lopez-Pierre).” Part of Lopez-Pierre’s vile campaign and antiSemitic rhetoric is based on attacking “greedy Jewish landlords.” That has not played well with Manhattan Dems who will for certain support City Councilman Mark Levine, whom Lopez-Pierre is challenging in a primary. According to the Manhattan insider, Greenfield should be more concerned about “Simcha’s disloyalty to the party and his allegiance to the IDC. Greenfield should be asking that (Felder’s) ass be thrown out of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.” Oy vey!

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WHO’S TRYING TO BURY BUERY? CUNY SET TO ANNOUNCE SLEW OF BIG HIRES A couple of well-connected bochincheros believe that Richard Buery, the New York City deputy mayor for strategic policy initiatives, is the target of at least one envious colega at City Hall. “The leaks are coming from inside,” one of them said. “And they’re meant to make the mayor have second thoughts about him as the DM to take over Tony’s (First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris’) duties when he leaves.” Among the leaks referenced is the story first reported by the New York Post on April 3 about Education Department officials pulling strings to get Buery’s hijo into top-ranked MS 51. One Republican bochinchero assured B&B the following about the charter school advocate: “He’s been very valuable to the mayor. He’s been thrown into difficult situations and has taken care of business for his boss.” If the bochincheros are correct, there should be a few more damaging leaks before this is over, and that’s not good for Bill de Blasio’s re-election bid. Veremos.

RICHARD BUERY

There’s a lot going on these days at the central office of the City University of New York. In addition to the bochinche about Chancellor James Milliken being shown la puerta (which we’ll soon be updating you about), a new vice chancellor and general counsel has been chosen for the largest urban university system in the United States. According to a deep garganta bochinchero, the search and selection for presidentes of John Jay College and scandalridden City College are officially over. The announcements of the two new college heads should be made public by June.

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Borough President Eric Adams discusses his vision for Brooklyn – and how he plans to protect his beloved borough

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ERIC ADAMS SPENT years patrolling the streets as an NYPD captain. These days he helps his fellow New Yorkers by promoting cycling to work and demonstrating the importance of a balanced lifestyle by pounding fruits and veggies. As an advocate for 2.6 million Brooklynites, Adams says he is working to resolve entrenched issues like poor health that hold his constituents back. He spoke with City & State reporter Sarina Trangle about the governor’s plan to improve long-suffering areas in central Brooklyn, the homelessness crisis and the need for lactation rooms. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

A KATZ/SHUTTERSTOCK

C&S: What do you think of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to spend $1.4 billion to improve health care and several aspects of life in central Brooklyn? What should be prioritized first? EA: Seven hundred million dollars of that is already allocated to (plans to merge several hospitals in the area), so there’s another $700-plus million. Money for the anti-violence initiative is important, since earlier in this administration they cut a very successful program, Operation SNUG. It’s good to see that we’re going to put some money back into those initiatives. Putting money into open space, parks, healthy eating habits – this is something that we’ve talked about. Far too often, by the time (money) travels down Interstate 95 or 80, that money somehow doesn’t make it down to the homeowners, the residents, the students in

Brownsville. Lets hope it doesn’t happen this time. C&S: What do you think of the mayor’s plan to close hotels and apartments used to house the homeless and build more traditional shelters near where people are becoming homeless? EA: The rollout was terrible. You don’t say we’re going to make sure that everyone has their fair share of homeless shelters, and then the first one you open is in the most saturated area. The plan was wrong to say they are going to localize at the community boards only. They changed that conversation, now they’re looking at boroughs, which is good. If I became homeless when I was living in Prospect Heights, but you placed me in Park Slope, you’re not displacing me, I still have access within the borough in the intercommunication, transportation system to get to where I have to go. And there’s enough locales in the borough where you can make sure that there is a diversity in communities where a shelter is located. Every community should have a shelter. We’re going to have a concept of adopt-ashelter. We’re going to look at where shelters are located, reach out to all the faith-based locations and have them give people spiritual assistance. We’re going to reach out to our local colleges. If you’re an accounting major, help people with financial literacy; if you’re a (Master of Social Work) major, help people with some of their social issues. Block associations – we’re asking them to adopt a shelter. Stop looking down on people, and find ways to raise them up. Crown Heights, Brooklyn, has 81 square miles, and homeless shelters take up, what, .0000001 of those square miles? And we have too many? That’s not acceptable. And what’s really ironic here is some of the louder voices are the reason that many people are homeless. They moved into the city, gentrified neighborhoods ... elders who have been here for 30, 40 years during the difficult times got displaced, and now they live in shelters. Now we’re saying, so what, you did a great job in building up Brooklyn, now we want to get rid of you? We’re embarrassed to have you here? Hell no! C&S: You and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. have launched a task force on gifted and talented education and entrance to the specialized high schools. What feedback have you heard, and what improvements can be made? EA: The system is broken, and it would be a miscommunication to give an indication that we can tweak around the edges. Parents are

showing up to school, saying there’s a gifted and talented program there, just to find out there’s not. Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant and some of the other schools used to have 30 percent black and Hispanics in the school, and now they’re down to just a residue of black and Hispanic students. There needs to be an infrastructure. You go to certain parts of this city, and the entire system is built around how do you nurture that gifted and talented child to take him through that process from beginning to end. By the time the child leaves the mother’s womb, he’s already on a track to going to a gifted and talented program. It is totally different in parts of the city. And this is probably the most shameful act of the Department of Education – that they are doing nothing to change that. C&S: Should they expand admissions criteria so it is no longer based solely on a test score? EA: That’s what our report is looking at. What were we doing back then that permitted 30 to 40 percent (black and Latino students) in (specialized) schools? What we’re learning is that there were entire infrastructures that were built to allow identifying that child early. It’s not only an examination that would show the gifts and talents that a child would possess, and nurturing that to make sure that he can move forward, and giving parents basic information. So all of those things build into it. The studies are astonishing that show that if the educator expects less from the child, the child is going to produce less. And in certain parts of the city, there’s a low expectation of the children. It is that, “You know what, we’re just happy that they showed up, and if they get a GED, fine.” And that is the problem that we’re seeing in the Department of Education. C&S: You seem to have helped start a conversation on the need for lactation rooms. How have you seen that idea spread? EA: When I used to garden with my dad, and I wanted to see the plants, the lettuce, the tomatoes and everything come right away, he said, “Son, listen, look at the little flower that grew. That’s an indicator that we’re moving in the right direction.” This lactation room is going to go in. Robert Cornegy opened up lactation rooms, others. We want all city agencies to have lactation rooms. That’s the flower. Breastfeeding builds a child’s immune system; it feeds into all that we’re doing around health; it feeds into what we’re doing around financial literacy to bringing down our consumer debt.

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Utica Ave. subway extension study The Utica Avenue subway extension study is experiencing signal problems. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he wanted to study the possibility of extending the No. 3 and 4 trains south along Utica Avenue in his 2015 OneNYC sustainability blueprint. The MTA allocated $5 million for the analysis after the city contributed $2.5 billion toward the MTA capital plan. A year later, in its 2016 OneNYC update, City Hall noted it intended to examine only the extension of the No. 4 train. And last month, a city Department of Transportation spokeswoman said the agency is still working with the MTA to develop “a scope for a $5 million study of improvement alternatives for the Utica Avenue corridor, which will evaluate subway extensions as well as other possible options.” An MTA spokesman said the authority is working with the city to refine the scope of its examination, and envisions hiring a consultant to conduct the study later this year. Yet the 2017 OneNYC progress report released last month claims the city and MTA have “commenced work on the Utica Avenue subway extension study” and the local councilman, Jumaane Williams, said he also believed the study had begun. “I’m hoping the communication gets better because we’re finding out a lot of things about studies after the fact,” Williams said. Williams said he thinks the community would appreciate subway service. But he said an expansion would likely attract more people to East Flatbush and Flatlands, so it would be wise to start discussing infrastructure needs and gentrification concerns – and how best to address them.

J’Ouvert Every Labor Day, hundreds of thousands gather in Brooklyn at 4 a.m. to kick off Caribbean Carnival with J’Ouvert, a celebration in which partiers wear masks and body paint and dance in the streets. But revelers have been fatally shot in recent years. Elected officials who represent Crown Heights and parts of Brooklyn where residents don’t attend the parade but still gather to celebrate in parks, backyards and lounges described the deaths as emblematic of the violence plaguing communities year-round. Several said the city should redouble its efforts to deter young adults from violence through employment and the “cure violence” model, which relies on former gang members and others to pacify disputes and direct those involved to case management services. City Councilman Jumaane Williams said the city should work with the so-called violence interrupters trained to stop shootings ahead of J’Ouvert, rather than just calling them in on the day of the festival, as it did last year. City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo said she views plans to bring a recreation center to the Bedford-Union Armory as a violence deterrent. She said there are about 30 identified cliques – local, gang-like groups of young adults – within a 10-block radius of the armory, which was on the parade route last year, and despite several public housing units nearby, there is no NYCHA community center or recreational facility. “We tell our young people to say no to everything: Say no to gangs, say no to teenage sex,” Cumbo said. “But we have not told them what to say yes to, and this recreational facility gives us the opportunity.” Cumbo said elected officials have been looking at how Trinidad restructured its J’Ouvert festival, and were discussing possibly moving the time or location in Brooklyn. She said they were also working with the NYPD, anti-violence program leaders, clergy members and community groups to increase safety on J’Ouvert – and every other day.

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Bedford-Union Armory There’s a war brewing over plans to redevelop the 115-year-old Bedford-Union Armory military facility. The city’s Economic Development Corporation has selected BFC Partners to purchase a portion of the Crown Heights property and build condominiums on it, and to sign a long-term lease to construct an affordable apartment complex with a recreation center and community office space. The redevelopment plan would designate up to 12 of 60 condos as “affordable” and reserve half of the 330 apartments for lower- and middle-income residents. However, the city determines affordability levels by the median income of the metro area. And nearby Crown Heights’ median income is far lower. Activists and residents worry the project will spur gentrification and displacement. Their rallies and protests have drawn out construction unions, which are seeking a role in the project. Amid the furor, a number of elected officials have called for the redevelopment to contain only affordable housing, since it will be built on city-owned land. The project is currently undergoing an environmental review, and when that ends, it is expected to begin the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure this spring. That process will include a recommendation from Borough President Eric Adams and culminate in a vote by the City Council. Both Adams and City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo said there are several competing visions for the armory: transforming it into one giant recreation center, building only affordable residences, housing students from Medgar Evers College, developing a Steiner Studios-style film production hub, or leaving it untouched. Adams said he believed the highest need in the area was low- and middle-income housing, and that should be complemented with a recreational center. Cumbo said she has a number of concerns with current proposal. Chief among them is the inclusion of “luxury” condos, and the sale of public land, rather than the execution of a long-term lease. She also raised concerns about the rental units not being affordable for many in the community. But Cumbo said she is pushing the administration to offer up more housing subsidies, and she was negotiating with the developer. She says the prospect of revitalizing the armory with affordable housing, space for nonprofits and a rec center as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Legalizing basement apartments The future of affordable housing may be beneath Brooklyn’s front doors, at least if City Councilman Rafael Espinal has anything to do with it. As part of negotiations over a 2016 rezoning in Espinal’s district, the lawmaker got Mayor Bill de Blasio’s team to agree to study legalizing basement apartments. City Hall set aside $12 million, which could be used for fixing up basement apartments, or funding other small home repairs. Beginning summer 2016, representatives from Espinal’s office and community groups began meeting with the FDNY and the departments of Buildings, Housing Preservation and Development and City Planning to explore whether the pilot program is feasible. Espinal said the group has been studying ways to ensure the air quality of basements is safe and that there are sufficient protection from boilers, electrical hardware and other hazardous equipment kept in basements. But the councilman said many basements are already occupied in East New York, so making them safe is paramount. He also wants to use part of the $12 million to provide evaporating loans, which borrowers do not have to repay if certain conditions are met. “This is a way to also help subsidize the homeowners’ mortgages and keep them in their homes,” Espinal said. “I hope by June we have some sort of a plan put together to be able to push a pilot.”

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Waste equity bill Two city councilmen are trying to dethrone North Brooklyn as the king of trash. After the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island reached capacity over a decade ago, Brooklyn’s Community District 1 has handled the largest share – 34 percent – of the solid waste delivered to waste transfer stations, where trucks then haul the garbage off to landfills outside the city. City Council Sanitation Committee Chairman Antonio Reynoso and Councilman Stephen Levin, who represent North Brooklyn, are pushing legislation to ensure Brooklyn Community District 1 and three other districts with a large share of waste transfer stations do not see increased truck traffic and pollution in the event of a major trash industry upset. “We have 40,000 tons of capacity in the City of New York, of which no more than 20,000 ever gets used,” Reynoso said. “Why don’t we just cut all this unused capacity? So, should another Fresh Kills situation happen, we’re going to have to look for alternative means to handle that trash that is outside of these three already overburdened districts.” Initially, Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia opposed the legislation, saying the proposal could “potentially cripple the city’s ability to manage its waste safely and expediently.” Since then, the councilmen have revamped their bill. It now aims to halve the amount of permitted trash handled in Brooklyn Community District 1, Queens Community District 12 in Jamaica and Community Districts 1 and 2 in the South Bronx. But when calculating stations’ new permitted capacity, the city would not count all of a station’s recyclable material, trash taken out by rail and construction and demolition debris in an effort to encourage more sustainable practices and affordable housing construction. Reynoso has been promoting the legislation to hesitant colleagues, such as the Bronx council delegation, which withdrew its support for the bill due to concerns about job losses. But the delegation is likely to sign on to the bill again, according to Reynoso. “The effect on jobs is almost none,” Reynoso said. “But even if there was (more of a consequence), we’re talking about environmental justice. We’re talking about giving people’s health back.”

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S FAR BACK as she can remember, Public Advocate Letitia “Tish” James was a negotiator. Growing up in Brooklyn as one of eight children, she negotiated on behalf of her sisters and on behalf of her brothers. Eventually, she says, she started negotiating on behalf of her neighbors and others who found themselves in trouble – always pushing, insisting and hammering her point until eventually the person on the other side would just give in. To James, it was obvious: She was destined to become a lawyer. In one instance, her younger sister – who is now an NYPD detective – and an even younger niece were locked in a teary battle over a doll. The solution? Go into her sister’s bedroom to get another doll, so each girl could have one. Of course, in the real world resources aren’t always so plentiful. And one of the many lessons James learned in the more than 10 years she’s spent working her way up through Central Brooklyn politics under the guidance of then-state Assemblyman Albert Vann is that the fight for equity and fairness is always about resources. “That was the focus,” she says now, sitting in a coffee shop a few blocks from the Clinton Hill brownstone she has owned since 2001. “It was expanding the pot of resources, and the only way to do that is through the political framework … by electing more and more individuals of color to fight for a larger share of the pot.” The nature of the public advocate’s job – with its broad definition in the city charter – is that each person who steps into the office must define it for themselves. By and large, observers remark that James has shaped the role as a lawyer – with a litigator’s eye and an attorney’s toolkit. She has filed more lawsuits than her recent predecessors and authored more legislation than all the previous public advocates combined. But listen to James talk about her approach, and she focuses less on legal action and more on pragmatism: Get the results, whatever works. “It’s really all about the outcome,” says James, the first African-American woman elected to citywide office. “If you can achieve ... an open meetings law through litigation, congratulations. If you can do it through legislation, congratulations. If you can do it through negotiations, congratulations. But the bottom line is, you achieved it.”

In her view, expanding the public advocate’s stable of lawyers and recruiting volunteers from firms around the city – a strategy she adopted to make up for the office’s comparatively small operating budget and which has gained notice from legal scholars and political analysts alike – has been a way of broadening her impact and upping her negotiating power. By filing lawsuits and getting the media attention that goes with pushing the judicial envelope, she has increased her clout at the negotiating table, she says. The threat of legal action has prompted some city players to quietly resolve issues in cases where she would otherwise have met resistance, according to James. “A lot of people do not like ... the publicity,” she says. “It’s not just saber rattling. … I wanted to put some teeth behind it, and now we’ve put some teeth behind it.” Legally, the 11 lawsuits filed by her office have met with mixed results, and in some instances James’ office has been removed from cases when judges found that she lacked the legal standing to sue. The city charter does not explicitly give the public advocate the power to bring lawsuits on behalf of citizens, and Eric Lane, a Hofstra Law School professor who headed the 1980s commission that revised the city’s charter and defined the public advocate’s role, says that the office was never intended to be a source of legal action against the city. James herself points to a series of settlements won by her office as a result of lawsuits, as well as an August state Supreme Court ruling that she believes affirms her capacity to sue when the city isn’t meeting its obligations to the public. Her office has won, among other victories, public access to certain school administrator meetings and more heating for tenants in freezing NYCHA apartments. It’s still fighting for air conditioning on school buses used to transport children with disabilities and for Department of Education accountability for what James says has been a failure to track the needs of students with disabilities. Beyond that, the majority of issues her office brings to the attention of city agencies are resolved outside of the public eye, she says. “She has a vision for the office that is definitely informed through the lens of her role as a lawyer,” says Anthony Crowell, who worked with James when she was a city councilwoman and he was counselor to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and who has since hosted James as a speaker at New

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York Law School, where he is now dean. “There’s a public interest lawyer that lives inside her, and I think that she has seen how to be a public interest lawyer through the office of the public advocate.” It’s a description that James enthusiastically endorses. “We use the law as a means to get past all the bureaucracy of government ... to get past all of the naysayers and all of the people who put up countless excuses,” she says. It was stories of public interest law victories during the civil rights movement that inspired James to go to the Howard University School of Law, she says. After being passed up for a job as a New York City prosecutor, she became a public defender, eventually winning a string of cases defending abused women who had taken matters into their own hands. Suffering from burnout, as she describes it, she jumped at the chance to join Vann’s office as his counsel. The state assemblyman’s message of community empowerment and his determination to win better services for less fortunate city communities resonated deeply with James, who had grown up in a predominantly Italian and Irish section of Park Slope, and who had long been troubled by the segregation and inequities she saw in the areas around her, she says. With Vann, James ascended through the ranks of Central Brooklyn politics – an institution on the outside of, and often at odds with, the Brooklyn Democratic establishment, she’s quick to note. Working

with the assemblyman, she spent years taking trips up I-87 to Albany, working on causes and campaigns all over Brooklyn. When the borough’s Democrats helped elect Eliot Spitzer, the Brooklyn delegation suggested that James would be a good pick to head a new borough office for the attorney general, she says. There, she helped target housing and hiring discrimination as well as consumer fraud. “I got into politics the old-fashioned way,” James says now. “I earned it.” After James made a failed run for City Council in 2001, the winner of the race, City Councilman James E. Davis, was killed by a political rival at City Hall as he was gearing up for re-election in 2003. When the Democratic Party threw its support behind Davis’ brother, James ran against him on the Working Families Party line, and won. In her decade on the council, and in her time as public advocate, James says she has focused most of all on affordable housing, homelessness, and other issues affecting women and girls. Throughout it all, even now as public advocate, James has continued to take on pro bono law cases on the side – her way of giving back to the community and honing new skills, she says. Interestingly, the purpose of the public advocate’s office – which has existed in its current form only since 1994 – goes beyond the desire to provide an institutional check on the city’s massive bureaucracy. According to Lane, the charter commission executive director, the position was originally intended to provide local elect-

ed officials with a path upward into higher citywide office, including to the mayoralty. So is James laying the groundwork for an eventual mayoral run? Observers note she is out on the streets in every corner of the city for in-person events more than many elected officials. This, of course, has the political advantage of making her a familiar face to an ever-growing portion of the city’s voters. James says that it’s just her way. “I don’t like offices. I don’t like being in ivory towers. That’s just not who I am,” she says. “I prefer to be in a playground or a park. Or walking the street. You’ll find me, on days when I’m off, just literally walking these streets up and down by myself. In my sneakers, a ponytail, and just talking to people. And just getting a sense of the needs of New Yorkers.” Frank Seddio, the chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, describes James as a consummate politician who’s well positioned for a future run – although he stops short of saying for what. “She really, really has made this business a vocation. It’s not just a job. She likes politics. She lives, eats and breathes it,” he says. “Her training here will make her well equipped to hold other positions. … I suspect she has a bright future. She’s smart. She listens. She takes advice. And she implements things with thoughtfulness and consideration.” Seddio said he was particularly impressed by James’ sense of purpose and apparent lack of ego when she spoke with him about – and decided against – a pos-

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TISH James is born in Brooklyn, one of eight children to her maintenance worker parents.

James runs for a Brooklyn City Council seat on the Working Families Party line but loses to Democrat James Davis.

Oct. 18, 1958

Nov. 6, 2001

Forest City Ratner announces plans for the Atlantic Yards development anchored by the Nets basketball arena in James’ district. James would emerge as one of the multi-use development’s most vocal opponents.

Months after Davis is murdered, James defeats the Democratic candidate, Davis’ brother Geoffrey, for the City Council seat and becomes the first candidate to win office running only on the WFP line.

Nov. 5, 2003 Dec. 11, 2003

In her heavily Democratic district, James wins re-election in a landslide, with 88 percent of the vote.

Nov. 10, 2005

James and then-City Councilman Bill de Blasio introduce legislation countering Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to extend term limits, leaving the issue to the voters rather than the City Council.

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“IT’S NOT JUST

SABER RATTLING.

I WANTED TO PUT SOME BEHIND (THE PUBLIC

TEETH

ADVOCATE’S OFFICE), AND NOW WE’VE PUT SOME IT.”

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James wins re-election in City Council District 35, winning both the primary and general election with more than 80 percent of the vote.

Oct. 4, 2008

Nov. 3, 2009 Dec. 17, 2009

James, as chairwoman of the City Council Contracts Committee, opens an investigation into CityTime, the expensive and failed city payroll system.

With three other City Council members, James sues the city of New York and the NYPD for its handling of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

April 30, 2012

James is elected New York City public advocate, becoming the first black woman elected to citywide office after beating state Sen. Daniel Squadron in an Oct. 1 runoff for the Democratic nomination.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson dies, with James’ name being floated by many as a worthy successor.

Nov. 5, 2013

Oct. 9, 2016 Dec. 30, 2016

Nearly a year out from the primary, James declines to endorse de Blasio for re-election, feeding rumors she would consider a run for mayor.

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Letitia James is a lawyer by trade, and has a record of taking legal action as public advocate. She’s filed nearly a dozen lawsuits since taking office. Here are the details on a handful of her biggest cases. ERIC GARNER DISCLOSURE With the NYCLU, the NAACP and others, James sued over the Staten Island district attorney’s refusal to release testimony presented to the grand jury that declined to charge NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the June 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner. The files were never made public. RENT FREEZE PROGRAM In June 2015, James sued the New York City Department of Finance, alleging seniors and disabled New Yorkers eligible for the city’s rent freeze program were purged from the rolls after family members died. The city settled for $130,000 in March 2016.

“I DON’T LIKE OFFICES,” JAMES SAYS. “YOU’LL FIND ME, ON DAYS WHEN I’M OFF, JUST LITERALLY WALKING THESE STREETS … IN MY SNEAKERS, A PONYTAIL, AND JUST TALKING TO PEOPLE.”

sible run for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office after the death of Kenneth Thompson. Seddio says he thought James would have won. Of that, James says that she didn’t consider a run. “That was considered by others,” she says. “But what’s so wonderful is that so many people are talking about me. So many people other than me. Which is good.” This cycle, at least, James is running for reelection, but she acknowledges there are other possibilities on the horizon. “I think the office of public advocate offers you a wide range of opportunities, and that you should decide which avenue, which route, you want to pursue,” she says. “I’m not there yet. Right now I’m just enjoying the office of public advocate, expanding its role, stretching the envelope, and serving the interests of New Yorkers who oftentimes are unheard.”

Betsy Gotbaum, who served as public advocate under Bloomberg, warns that it’s problematic to treat the public advocate’s office as a launchpad for the mayoralty. ”The problem with it being the training ground is the mayor needs to be a manager – at least know how to manage. There’s not a lot of opportunity to manage stuff in the public advocate’s office,” she says. Asked about Gotbaum’s words, James bristles. “Maybe the comments refer to our current mayor and not Letitia James?” she says. “Because I think there’s a lot of opportunities available after the office of public advocate. After my term ends, I don’t know which route I’m going to take, but the opportunities exist and that there’s no limiting me or anyone who serves in the office. I’m a fearless girl, and I believe that in my heart.”

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FOSTER CARE In July 2015, James sued the city and state offices managing the city’s foster care system, accusing the agencies of keeping kids in foster care for months or years longer than necessary due to poor management. In August 2016 a federal judge rejected a settlement that would have given the state more oversight over the process. HOT SCHOOL BUSES In August 2015, James sued the city Department of Education, alleging that students with disabilities are often driven in buses without air conditioning. Last July, a judge ordered changes on two of the routes, but the case is ongoing. STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES In February 2016, James sued the city’s Department of Education again, claiming a computer system used to track services provided to disabled students was a failure that cheated students and taxpayers. The case has yet to be resolved.

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COULD ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF

EAST NEW YORK AND BROWNSVILLE?

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The Rev. David Brawley was answering that question long before the Brooklyn neighborhoods drew the attention of the de Blasio administration By NICK POWELL THE REV. DAVID BRAWLEY is sweltering at the pulpit. Beads of sweat sheen on his bald dome under the lights of St. Paul’s Community Baptist Church on a beautiful Sunday in April. The knot of his purple, floral-patterned tie begins to loosen around his neck, as if to liberate his vocal chords. What began as a measured sermon from Brawley – an acknowledgement of a recent door-knocking effort in the adjacent Linden Houses, a Cedric the Entertainer namedrop, a gentle imploring of more audible participation from his congregation (“Y’all just added three minutes to the service, I’m not hearing enough ‘amens!’”) – has now unfolded into a sprawling soliloquy on the dichotomy be-

tween the concept of “fear” and “hoping while coping,” crescendoing with gravelly vocal gyrations that would have made James Brown applaud. Brawley, sweat now streaming freely down his head, punctuates this theme of overcoming fear with a phrase that could just as easily double as a metaphor for the congregation’s organizing power in the oft-neglected Brooklyn neighborhoods of East New York and Brownsville. “We gon’ turn a CAAAAVE into a CHURCH!” St. Paul’s faithful erupted in affirmation. MINUTES AFTER THE conclusion of his sermon, Brawley sits at a table in his office at St. Paul’s. There is hardly any

trace of leftover emotion from his powerful sermon – sweat toweled off, tie neatly re-knotted, and the booming voice that soared through the rafters of his sanctuary now registering softly and methodically. Brawley, 49, grew up in Deer Park, Long Island, the son of a former New York City police officer, but his roots are firmly entrenched in East Brooklyn. Brawley’s father, a Vietnam War veteran, worked in the 75th Precinct, which serves Brownsville and East New York. Brawley says he found Jesus Christ at age 14 and became a youth minister shortly after. A gentle suggestion from a friend who heard Brawley preach in his early years led him back to his father’s old neighborhood. “A good friend said to me, I’m listening

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to you preach and your trajectory … you sound like somebody,” Brawley recalled. “I said, who is that? He said, Dr. Youngblood. I said, who is he?” Brawley needed only to hear the Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, then the pastor at St. Paul’s, preach one time to know that he belonged with the congregation, even if the graduation rate for assistant pastors was, at the time, fairly low. “I served under him for 15 years as his main assistant, which is almost unheard of,” Brawley said. “Usually if you’re the assistant pastor, you’re probably not that good. To be a primary pastor, you’ve been overlooked more than once. It was my belief that this vineyard was large enough to have multiple pastors under the leadership of one, and a guiding vision for the church.” Since Youngblood stepped down as lead pastor in 2009, there is scant evidence that the church and East Brooklyn Congregations (the larger umbrella organization, which includes more than two dozen member groups across the borough – an offshoot of the national multi-faith community organizing powerhouse Metro Industrial Areas Foundation) is any less of

an organizing force than it had been while Brawley toiled as Youngblood’s assistant for 12 years. Brawley, and Youngblood before him, abide by the philosophy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beloved Community” – forming strength and political power through a rational, common interest in bettering their community – from housing to public safety to education. The results they have delivered for East Brooklyn are undeniable: construction of 3,187 ultra-affordable “Nehemiah homes” and over 1,500 apartments, including an 80-unit senior living facility; the establishment of several quality charter schools; a national campaign to persuade gun manufacturers to responsibly distribute guns; a massive push for the city to repair thousands of public housing units; and dozens of other quality-of-life accomplishments, including street repairs and clean grocery stores. In many ways, Brawley and East Brooklyn Congregations have filled a leadership vacuum in the community that would normally fall to local elected leaders. “(Local elected officials) don’t do anything,” said Grant Lindsay, an organizer

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for EBC. “Less than zero – that goes for almost the entire City Council, most every community board, Community Education Councils, all these fluff, no-power agency positions. (Brawley) is the only one, with the other clergy out here, not on a big team, that’s fighting to produce real affordable housing here in East New York. Not 20 percent of the building – 100 percent of what is built out here is ultra-affordable.” THE DEVELOPMENT OF the Nehemiah homes is a particularly notable success story for EBC, a decades-old effort to transform a 45-acre site in East New York. Dubbed “Nehemiah” by Youngblood, after the biblical prophet sent to rebuild Jerusalem, the project is a testament to tireless grass-roots organizing and collaboration. The push for this housing development began in the early 1980s, when EBC held over 100 meetings involving as many as 2,000 East Brooklyn residents. Out of those meetings came the idea to demolish 300 derelict buildings in the area – opening up swaths of vacant city land. A series of subsequent actions and assemblies involving thousands of neighborhood residents and faith organizations across the

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“BRAWLEY IS THE ONLY ONE, WITH THE OTHER CLERGY OUT HERE, THAT IS

FIGHTING TO PRODUCE

REAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING HERE IN EAST NEW YORK.” – GRANT LINDSAY, organizer for East Brooklyn Congregations

city led to a massive influx of donations and the creation of an $8 million revolving fund that makes no-interest loans to finance construction of the houses. To keep construction costs low, EBC partnered with developer I.D. Robbins – renowned for efficient residential development as an early innovator of the modular-style apartments that have become increasingly en vogue in major cities. With that capital in hand, EBC had the leverage to convince the Koch administration to provide the free land, infrastructure and subsidies to target the homes to the neighborhood’s low-income tenants, with the city providing below-market second mortgages to keep the homes affordable. Three rounds of the Nehemiah developments have already been built and the work continues to this day, with a fourth phase underway that will result in an additional 225 homes and 1,295 apartments. “The Nehemiah housing model is a unique model, predominantly a homeownership model, that’s putting low- and moderate-income families into homeownership,” said Rafael Cestero, a former city housing commissioner and the president and CEO of the Community Preservation Corporation, one of the city’s leading nonprofit developers. “If you look at their track record of selling homes and keeping homeowners in their homes, it’s really unparalleled.”

EBC’s organizing principles are simple and consistent. It doesn’t matter if it’s a conversation with the mayor, a city commissioner or a local police precinct commander – there is a basic expectation of respect and reciprocity. You won’t find Brawley grandstanding on the steps of City Hall or taking gratuitous shots at the mayor in a show of political strength. Brawley’s philosophy is to carefully research the issues at hand, come up with pragmatic solutions and, in kind, he expects a genuine dialogue and commitment for tangible improvements from his counterparts. But Brawley was not entirely sold on this method until he first saw it in action. In the mid-’90s, EBC helped organize a group of high school students who wanted a face-to-face meeting with Rudy Crew, the chancellor of the city’s (now defunct) Board of Education. The roughly 100 teens were pushing the city to allow their charter school to have space in a building in Bushwick, but the city was dragging its feet. Eventually, Crew agreed to meet with EBC at the building, but was reluctant to face the students waiting for him in the auditorium, for fear of walking into a hailstorm. He even accused Brawley of “setting him up.” “(Crew) came downstairs, he heard them out, spoke to them and said, you’re

gonna get your building. And they did,” Brawley said. “On the way back up, he said to me, man, I apologize. People set me up in the past. I said, I understand. But that was the moment that set a fire in my heart around community organizing.” That fire has continued to blaze, even through the inevitable turnover of city government. Brawley mentions with pride his community’s ability to have a constructive dialogue with any administration and hold it accountable, regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is mayor. “Relational organizing,” he calls it – straight from the people, with no filter. It’s an approach that, so far, has not engendered solid relationships with the current administration, with Mayor Bill de Blasio apparently reluctant to engage with EBC, despite a clear common interest in affordable housing investments. The fissures between EBC and City Hall were exposed in an April Daily News op-ed that Brawley co-authored with the Revs. Shaun Lee and Robert Gahagen, fellow Metro Industrial Areas Foundation leaders, blasting de Blasio’s “Input Zero” mayoralty. The op-ed provides behind-thescenes details on the conversations Brawley and Metro IAF leaders had with de Blasio’s team leading up to a major assembly at the Brooklyn Marriott, two months

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eleventh hour, apparently uninterested in answering questions prepared by the congregation. Brawley told the mayor’s aides that he would pointedly tell the entire assembly – 2,200 tickets were sold – that the mayor refused to attend because he didn’t want to answer their questions. De Blasio eventually relented, reluctantly answered questions at the assembly, but has refused to meet or engage with EBC or Metro IAF ever since. “Sometimes the people you think are your friends, you never really know,” said Dexter Henderson, a minister and church elder at St. Paul’s. “When Rudy Giuliani was (mayor), we got stuff done with him. (The city) knows if we just stay focused on strategy, we can make anybody bend.”

after the mayor was inaugurated in 2014. Despite previously committing to attending the assembly, de Blasio balked at the

BRAWLEY BELIEVES THERE IS a “stark contrast in culture” between EBC’s philosophy of constructive dialogue and the de Blasio administration’s tendency to formulate a plan without community input and worry about getting buy-in later. As it pertains to affordable housing development, Brawley was immediately suspicious of de Blasio when he noticed that the 116page document the mayor released in 2014

detailing his housing plan included EBC’s planned Gateway Elton Street development, despite City Hall having never consulted with the organization or Metro IAF. (Ironically, the city later dragged its feet on installing necessary infrastructure for that exact development.) “If our organization has built one-third of the housing in East New York, you would think that you would reach out to us and have a conversation,” Brawley said. Brawley is similarly leery of the administration’s NextGen plan for the New York City Housing Authority, which, among other initiatives, calls for leasing “underutilized” land to developers to build a mix of affordable and market-rate housing. NYCHA developments account for 18 percent of all the housing units in East New York – roughly 16,560 units total – and Brawley believes that the vacant lots the authority controls could be remade into truly affordable senior housing, rather than mixed-income developments that don’t serve the longtime residents. He cited the recently completed 80-unit Redwood Senior Living apartments, developed by EBC, the Community Preserva-

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tion Corporation and Common Ground on a former NYCHA parking lot, as a prime example of what the city could accomplish with vacant housing authority land, particularly with a clear need for affordable senior housing in the city. “We have looked around and we’ve noted that there’s an opportunity to build 10,000 units of Redwood Senior Living all over the city,” Brawley said. “Baby boomers are aging out of the system and retiring. Where are they going to live that’s affordable? If we don’t do something about it now it’s going to be at a crisis proportion later.” The city, however, has pushed back at the notion that it allowed vacant lots to languish in the face of a housing crisis. And at least one of Brawley’s nonprofit housing partners disagrees with his assessment of vacant NYCHA lots, noting that the federal government technically controls the land. “I don’t agree that there are opportunities that are not being taken advantage of,” Cestero said. “The question is one of timing and process and what’s in the queue. To rezone a property, to try to figure out or orchestrate an acquisition of a property that’s not city-owned, these

things take time. It’s a process that has to be undertaken.” Reflective of the general wariness of the city’s sudden interest in a long under-resourced community, many of Brawley’s congregants see the NextGen NYCHA plan, as well as the city’s planned rezoning of East New York, as the city creating an artificial real estate market that will expedite gentrification. “I know what it’s all about,” said Maxine Roberson, a longtime St. Paul’s congregant. “When I see (real estate speculators) in the neighborhood walking back and forth, they want to offer you money right on the spot, it’s really not building up the community for us; we were there. I see it as just, you have a lot of money, I’m going to grab your property, build it up and run you out.” BRAWLEY IS QUICK to point out the irony that the “regeneration” of East New York and Brownsville that make them palatable neighborhoods for public and private sector investment is partly a result of the on-the-ground work EBC and St. Paul’s has done in fighting for improvements for those communities.

“There’s a biblical passage where it speaks about Jesus, with the phrase, ‘Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?’ And we used to use that – ‘Could anything good come out of East New York and Brownsville?’ Now to think that the city and the mayor have highlighted this area as one of his core focuses for affordable housing. It’s like, wow! East New York, huh?” Brawley lets the sarcasm hang in the air and slowly reveals a wry grin. The loaded words of his morning sermon linger – yes, he’s helped turn East Brooklyn from a cave into a church but he will no longer be solely fighting for further community investment but also against potential waves of displacement and gentrification. “One of the things that I did when I took over the church, I said, listen, I’m coming up behind an iconic pastor, he was here for 35 years, what do you do?” Brawley said. “I think the first thing any leader needs to do is understand the DNA of their church or institution. I looked at the DNA as being a community-based church, and we’re going to continue to develop in that area and those values.”

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When politicians cut the ribbon on a major housing or infrastructure project, there’s a team of developers who made sure it got built. When elected officials tout the thriving local economy, there’s a diverse workforce getting the job done – and an array of educators preparing

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workers for cutting-edge occupations. And when policymakers take a stand on issues like immigrant rights or defending the most vulnerable among us, there’s often a group of unsung advocates and activists leading the charge. These individuals are not elected, but often they are just as powerful as the officials that voters put into office. In this issue, we put the spotlight on these behind-the-scenes players – “The Influentials.” The second installment of this year’s Influentials list focuses on Brooklyn, where you’ll meet some of the borough’s most politically connected lawyers and consultants, chiefs of the cultural institutions driving the borough’s international brand, local officials from influential labor unions, and more. In the following pages, we recognize their dedication, their drive and their accomplishments.

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ARTS & NONPROFITS

ANNE PASTERNAK Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum

When Anne Pasternak took over as director of the Brooklyn Museum in 2015, she broke ground as the first woman named to the post. It was groundbreaking on a personal level for Pasternak, who had never run a large museum before and was now heading the city’s second-largest encyclopedic art museum behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the move paired a visionary and an institution that are both known for presenting provocative and thought-provoking works – and already she has shaken things up by giving a platform to protesters and publicly calling for more funding. Previously she led Creative Time, a nonprofit that produces public art projects including the “Tribute in Light” 9/11 memorial.

ANA MARIA ARCHILA

DEBORAH SCHWARTZ

Co-Executive Director, The Center for Popular Democracy

President, Brooklyn Historical Society

As a founder of Make The Road New York, Ana Maria Archila has long played a role in advocating for policies that benefit New York City’s immigrant community. Archila, who immigrated from Colombia at age 17, helped turn Make The Road New York into one of the most well-regarded immigrants’ rights organizations in the city through its community organizing and voter mobilization efforts. And she has frequently stood alongside Mayor Bill de Blasio, an ally on several initiatives. Archila now has national reach in her role at the Center for Popular Democracy. With the federal government threatening to withhold funding from sanctuary cities, Archila worked with New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and officials across the country to push back.

The Brooklyn Historical Society shares the borough’s centuries of history with contemporary audiences, a worthy mission in a place where change is constant. Deborah Schwartz has evolved alongside the borough. She moved to New York City from the Chicago area in 1978, settled in Brooklyn in 1989, and now considers herself a Brooklynite. When she was named president of the historical society in 2006, she had over three decades of experience at other institutions, including 27 years at the Brooklyn Museum and a brief stint at the Museum of Modern Art. The Brooklyn institution has collections dating back to the 19th century, but Schwartz is committed to holding panels with local historians, artists and authors to continue the conversation with the borough’s vibrant cultural life.

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JOANNE OPLUSTIL President and CEO, CAMBA

CAMBA is on the forefront of the push to create more affordable housing, one of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s top priorities. So it’s no surprise that CAMBA President and CEO Joanne Oplustil was appointed to the mayor’s Supportive Housing Task Force last year, along with other housing leaders. The task force will provide input as de Blasio proceeds with a planned 15,000 new units of supportive housing, which is permanent affordable housing with additional supportive care, including independent living skills training and counseling. CAMBA has a combined 160 programs that engage 45,000 New Yorkers a year, providing housing, health and legal services. Oplustil has said that she wants to destigmatize affordable housing, an idea that is woven into the design of CAMBA’s housing.

JENNIFER JONES AUSTIN CEO, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies

As the head of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Jennifer Jones Austin has joined forces at times with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on issues like universal prekindergarten, paid family leave and raising the age of criminal responsibility. But when she believes that government policies are hindering the nearly 200 human services nonprofits she represents, she is not afraid to speak out. Earlier this year she issued a report accusing New York state of shortchanging funding for human services nonprofits by $1 billion. A lawyer by trade, Jones Austin worked for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, served as family services administrator in the Bloomberg administration and was on de Blasio’s transition team as he entered office.

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EDUCATION

MICHAEL NIEVES President and CEO, HITN

Michael Nieves runs the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, a Spanish-language educational and cultural programming network that reaches 44 million homes across the United States and Puerto Rico. But Nieves doesn’t have a typical TV background: He first had a long career in city politics, including as deputy chief of staff to three City Council speakers. After a stint as a top aide to the Bronx Democratic Party boss, Nieves ran unsuccessfully for City Council in 2013 before joining HITN. Last fall the network announced a partnership turning its 20,000-square-foot Brooklyn Navy Yard studio into a onestop post-production facility, and it has hosted a youth video production boot camp. As politically savvy as ever, Nieves touted the benefits for the local economy and community.

RUSSELL HOTZLER

WAYNE RILEY

President, New York City College of Technology

President, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

As Mayor Bill de Blasio emphasizes the cultivation of a thriving tech sector, Russell Hotzler is building a foundation for that growing segment of the city’s economy. Hotzler has positioned New York City College of Technology – also known as City Tech – as a popular destination for a quality education in science, technology, engineering and math. Enrollment at the CUNY institution has increased 48 percent on his watch, reaching over 17,000 students a year. A former NASA research fellow and educator who taught metallurgical engineering, Hotzler also has partnered with the Brooklyn Tech Triangle Internship Program to connect students with local tech companies. Hotzler’s institution is growing, too, with a $400 million complex in Downtown Brooklyn expected to open this fall.

Wayne Riley was appointed head of SUNY Downstate Medical Center in January after the departure of John Williams, who oversaw the controversial effort to sell off the Long Island College Hospital facility. Riley, a former professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, inherits other challenges. The university has been criticized, as administrative salaries rose above $200,000 as staff was cut back. But Riley was chosen in part because of his background in health care management, which includes a stint as president and CEO of Meharry Medical College. He also served as president of the American College of Physicians and chairman of the Administration of Health Services, Education and Research Section of the National Academy of Medicine.

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ZAKIYAH ANSARI

NICHOLAS ALLARD

Advocacy Director, Alliance for Quality Education

Dean, Brooklyn Law School

As advocacy director for the Alliance for Quality Education, Zakiyah Ansari is a prominent proponent for New York City’s public school students. She has plenty of experience advocating for public education: She has eight children who have attended New York City public schools and was an active PTA volunteer. She also was an organizer for the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools coalition, which sought to shape the debate in the 2013 mayoral election. When Bill de Blasio was elected, Ansari was named to his transition team. And in recent months, she has taken her charter school critique national, working with the Journey for Justice Alliance to shift the focus of the debate to the closure of public schools in black and Latino neighborhoods.

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At a time when law schools have been criticized for being prohibitively expensive amid a tough job market for graduates, Nicholas Allard has implemented reforms that aim to make Brooklyn Law School more affordable. He decreased tuition by 15 percent and launched “Bridge to Success,” a program that offers to pay back 15 percent of tuition costs for students who have not found a full-time job within nine months of graduating. He also restructured the school’s traditional three-year program into a two-year program available to select students. Allard also has private sector experience: As senior counsel at the global law firm Dentons, he focuses on public policy related to telecommunications, information technology and environmental law.

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LAW& CONSULTING

SANFORD RUBENSTEIN Attorney, Rubenstein & Rynecki

Sanford Rubenstein, senior partner at Rubenstein & Rynecki, is a prominent personal injury and civil rights lawyer who is no stranger to the city’s tabloids. He has made headlines while representing clients in high-profile police misconduct cases, including the $7 million settlement he secured following the 2006 killing of Sean Bell, as well as the Abner Louima case and, briefly, the Eric Garner case. The former Rockland County legislator’s ties to Rev. Al Sharpton were tested when Rubenstein faced sexual misconduct allegations in 2014, although they did not lead to any charges. He remains active, currently representing the family of Ariel Galarza, who was Tasered to death in the Bronx in April.

MARTIN CONNOR

FRANK CARONE

Election Attorney

Executive Partner, Abrams Fensterman

Former state Sen. Martin Connor has carved out a reputation as a go-to election lawyer in New York, no doubt aided by three decades of experience as a legislator, including a stint as the chamber’s Democratic minority leader. Connor, who once was the Senate’s longest-serving Democrat, lost a primary challenge to Dan Squadron in 2008. Since then, he’s represented some of the city’s most prominent politicians, from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Sen. Jeff Klein to then-congressional hopeful Adriano Espaillat and former mayoral candidate John Liu. As the 2017 election season gets underway in New York City, there’s no doubt that Connor, who serves as chairman of the New York City Bar Association’s election law committee, will continue to be in high demand.

Frank Carone is a founding partner of Abrams Fensterman’s Brooklyn office. But in political circles he’s known as the law partner of Frank Seddio, the Kings County Democratic Party leader. Carone also serves as counsel to Seddio, and has represented a number of Brooklyn Democrats over the years and dined with such political celebrities as Mayor Bill de Blasio. On the policy side, the Brooklyn native served on the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission as an appointee of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and was a strong advocate for wheelchair accessibility reforms. Since leaving the TLC, he has continued to push for 100 percent wheelchair accessibility in city taxis and put pressure on Uber and Lyft to improve as well.

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DOUG FORAND

BILL HYERS

Founding Partner, Red Horse Strategies

Partner, Hilltop Public Solutions

Doug Forand is a founder of Red Horse Strategies, one of the most lucrative political consulting firms in New York. Since Forand opened the firm with fellow state Senate Democratic campaign staffers Marc Lapidus and Nathan Smith in 2008, it has worked with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, Letitia James, the Working Families Party and a long list of congressional and state legislative candidates and elected officials. This year Forand’s team has been taking progressive City Council members as clients, including Ritchie Torres, Helen Rosenthal, Carlos Menchaca and a dozen others. Forand’s extensive political experience includes running Alan Hevesi’s successful campaign for state comptroller in 2002 and serving as deputy chief of staff and director of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.

Bill Hyers served as campaign manager for Bill de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral bid and is credited with boosting de Blasio’s then-underdog candidacy – he was fourth in the polls just weeks before the primary. Before that, Hyers worked as state director for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in Pennsylvania and Midwest director for Obama’s 2008 campaign. He also worked on Kirsten Gillibrand’s 2006 congressional campaign and helped secure an upset for the Democrat in a traditionally Republican district. Hyers was linked to criticism of de Blasio last year thanks to his dubious designation, along with other outside consultants, as an “agent of the city.” It remains to be seen if Hyers will be brought back for the mayor’s re-election campaign.

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REAL ESTATE

ASHER ABEHSERA CEO, LIVWRK

Many of New York City’s top real estate companies have been around for decades. LIVWRK got its start only a few years ago in 2013, but Asher Abehsera’s firm is already gaining ground on industry heavyweights. Several of the company’s deals were in partnership with Jared Kushner, the increasingly influential son-in-law of President Donald Trump. At age 30, Abehsera navigated the $375 million acquisition of a cluster of buildings owned by WatchTower Bible and Tract Society to Kushner Companies, RFR Realty and Invesco Real Estate. Abehsera’s first New York job was at Two Trees, where he helped secure large deals like the purchase of the Domino Sugar Factory for $185 million. After eight years at Two Trees, he left to form his own firm, LIVWRK.

JONATHAN LANDAU

ANTHONY LOLLI

CEO, Fortis Property Group

Founder and CEO, Rapid Realty

Fortis Property Group develops residential housing across Brooklyn and Manhattan, and has built offices in New York, Boston and even Texas. But what Jonathan Landau’s company is best known for is redeveloping Cobble Hill’s Long Island College Hospital, a source of political turmoil since SUNY voted in 2013 to close the facility. When Fortis purchased the property for $240 million, Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed for the site to include 225,000 square feet of affordable housing. It would have required a higher-density rezoning, which left community members, aggrieved over the lack of health services, mixed on the idea. Now Landau and Fortis are moving forward with a luxury development and will rebrand the site as “River Park,” with apartments reportedly costing up to $6 million.

Few real estate firms have grown as quickly as Rapid Realty, and few in New York’s real estate world are as shrewd at garnering press as Rapid CEO Anthony Lolli. Lolli’s Brooklyn-based real estate rental franchise, which started in 2009, is one of the largest apartment rental brokerages in the borough. The firm garnered attention when Lolli convinced over 40 employees to get the company’s name tattooed on their body in exchange for a higher commission. (The number of tattooed employees is now over a hundred.) Lolli has appeared on Fox Business, CNN and the “Today” show. He also runs a real estate school in Brooklyn, Express Real Estate School, that has worked with over 40,000 students.

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DONALD CAPOCCIA

HENRY GUTMAN

Managing Principal, BFC Partners

Chairman, Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation

Donald Capoccia specializes in developing affordable housing, a challenging goal as arguments over what constitutes affordability embroil the de Blasio administration. Capoccia’s firm, which focuses on what it calls “emerging neighborhoods,” bills itself as the city’s first developer to “mix low- and middle-income restricted apartments with market-rate rentals.” Capoccia is developing the Bedford-Union Armory. The 330-unit redevelopment, which would include 177 lowand middle-income apartments, has drawn scrutiny over its pricing. To sell the deal, Capoccia’s firm has announced a deal with a union on staffing the facility and pledged to divert profits to affordable housing, and plans to rent out office space to nonprofits and community groups.

Henry Gutman may have retired as a partner at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, but he certainly isn’t slowing down. In 2014, the major de Blasio campaign donor was appointed by the new mayor as chairman of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, which manages the city-owned industrial park that is home to 300 businesses which together employ over 7,000 New Yorkers. A former intellectual property lawyer and Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation board member, Gutman has used the appointment to develop the site into a tech hub. The Navy Yard is also set to benefit from the new ferry route: Some start-ups in the Navy Yard have begun partnering with Hornblower Cruises, which runs the ferry.

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ORGANIZED LABOR

JANELLA HINDS Secretary-Treasurer, New York City Central Labor Council

Janella Hinds was already on the front lines of hot-button policy fights facing teachers unions, from schools closings to teacher evaluations and the opt-out movement against standardized tests. Now, she is facing a potentially even more serious threat from Washington, D.C. Hinds is a vice president for the influential United Federation of Teachers, which has pledged to actively resist the policies of President Donald Trump and his education secretary, Betsy DeVos. Hinds, a veteran social studies teacher who has worked as public policy director for the state AFL-CIO, is also in her second term as the secretarytreasurer of the New York City Central Labor Council, an umbrella labor organization that links together over 300 public and private sector unions.

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CAMILLE RIVERA

Regional Director, CSEA/AFSCME Local 1000, Region 11

Political and Legislative Director, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union

The Civil Service Employees Association is one of the state’s largest public sector unions. And while it’s known as a big player in Albany, it has a major presence in the downstate metropolitan region – where it’s led by Lester Crockett. The Brooklyn native was raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant and got into politics years ago as a volunteer for Al Vann, a legendary elected official in the borough. Crockett went on to spend more than three decades working for the State Insurance Fund but never lost his love of campaigns. He ran for his current union post a handful of times before getting elected. And his union work has kept him involved in city politics, including an endorsement of Bill de Blasio for mayor in 2013.

Earlier this spring, Camille Rivera joined the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union as its new political and legislative director. The addition of the labor operative bolsters the firepower of a union that has been gaining more prominence, including on the national level. Rivera brings plenty of experience in both government and politics. Before coming on at RWDSU, Rivera spent the 2016 presidential campaign as national deputy political director for the Service Employees International Union, which had her working to get out the vote in swing states like Colorado and Florida. She also dealt directly with one of the most pressing policy issues in the city while serving was a top staffer in the New York City Department of Homeless Services.

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EARL PHILLIPS

ERNEST LOGAN

Secretary, TWU Local 100

President, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators

A tentative labor agreement in January between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transport Workers Union Local 100 was good news for subway and bus riders, who would have been inconvenienced by a threatened strike. But the deal, which the union’s rank and file ratified in February, was also a victory for Earl Phillips and other top TWU labor leaders, who won some concessions for the 38,000 workers they represent, including a 2.5 percent wage hike and other perks. A native of Barbados, Phillips joined a union there while employed as a mechanic at a tractor and equipment company. He moved to the U.S. in 1987 and began working at the MTA as a bus mechanic in 1990s, eventually joining and running for leadership in the TWU.

As president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, Ernest Logan has overseen contract negotiations for salary increases. He pushes for reforms while not hesitating to speak his mind. He criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Renewal school program when it was not producing results, and recently questioned new policies on student suspensions that he argued were counterproductive. Logan worked in New York City’s public schools for nearly 25 years before joining the CSA in 1997. He started out teaching English at P.S. 224 and later became a curriculum developer at the Office of Curriculum and Development and eventually a principal. He also serves as treasurer of the American Federation of School Administrators and is chairman of its executive board.

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JENNIFER JONES AUSTIN, CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERATION OF PROTESTANT WELFARE AGENCIES; NEW YORK CITY COUNCILWOMAN JULISSA FERRERAS-COPELAND; ALLISON SESSO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL; FREDERICK SHACK, CEO, URBAN PATHWAYS; AND LARRY LEE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WOMANKIND SPEAK WITH MODERATOR JONATHAN BOWLES AT CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE'S SYMPOSIUM.

SCRAMBLING TO SOLVE THE HUMAN SERVICES SECTOR’S FISCAL CRISIS

GAINST THE backdrop of looming federal cuts and tightening budgets at the city and state levels, human services providers are scrambling to find ways to respond to the worsening fiscal crisis. But the situation isn’t entirely hopeless, experts say. Among the potential solutions for these nonprofits are applying pressure on the city and state to fully fund government contracts while speaking with one voice and presenting strong data to help draw attention to the seriousness of their plight. “Right now it’s about immigrants and protecting and sanctuary cities, because that is our number one. But how can we be a sanctuary city without you?” New York City Council Finance Committee Chairwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland said at an April 17 forum hosted by The Center for an Urban Future. “There is no way that our city can

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sustain the protections and sustain the partnerships that we have with our constituents without the nonprofits in our area.” Ferreras-Copeland, whose committee oversees New York City’s $85 billion budget process, put the current challenges in a historical context by reminding the audience that when she was first elected to the council in 2009, the city was in “crisis mode” as a result of the Great Recession, and priority was given to funding direct services like the programs nonprofits offered to those in need, as opposed to funding indirect administrative costs, often labeled overhead. “So if your rent goes up – not a direct service. If you need to hire more people, wasn’t considered a direct service,” she said. “So I think that’s what we need to undo, is all of those years of only funding direct services, of not funding the support.” Nonprofit providers on the panel cited escalating rent, health care and technology

costs, coupled with new overtime regulations and the need to cover minimum wage increases as just some of the factors weighing on their budgets as they work to deliver the services that government contracts often pay just 80 cents on the dollar to provide. To help address this, the Human Services Council of New York, an umbrella group that represents about 170 social services organizations, has argued for including cost escalation clauses in contracts to guarantee that funders would adjust payments to reflect cost increases – usually related to inflation – that are out of either party’s control. Another proposed solution would be the full and consistent implementation of the federal Office of Management and Budget’s uniform guidance. That would allow nonprofits to spend a previously negotiated percentage of a grant’s funds on overhead expenses. Typically such an indirect or overhead rate is around 10 percent of the full

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grant amount and applies to any grant that contains federal dollars. Instilling a comparable standard overhead rate across all contracts would also provide significant relief – but require difficult trade-offs, said Allison Sesso, executive director of the Human Services Council. “Either the city has got to come up with more money to pay for that, or they’ve got to actually buy less services,” Sesso said. “The current dollars have got to serve less people, because they’re going to take some of those dollars and apply it to the indirect rates that aren’t currently being funded – which will make the solvency rate of the nonprofits better, but in the short term, it’s problematic.” However, nonprofits also have to provide

the City Council with more clarity regarding what the base cost is for various services, Ferreras-Copeland said. What qualifies as a direct or indirect cost can vary from service provider to service provider and even from contract to contract. But working to gradually define parameters and set cost standards as contracts come up for renewal is one thing City Council members could work with nonprofits to do to help solve the challenge of accurately assessing how much contracts should actually pay. “As elected officials, we don’t know what your costs are essentially for the day-to-day, what we know is what you are asking for for funding,” Ferreras-Copeland said. “You need to empower us with the information and the

data so that we can make an effective plan.” Key to implementing any of these improvements will be harnessing the strength of the sector by encouraging nonprofits to present a united front. Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and executive director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, cited the recent wage increases that direct care services professionals worked together to win at the state level, and recalled how difficult it was to encourage New York City nonprofits to join a similar advocacy effort in Albany. “We may not be a union, we may not be organized in that respect – but we have to stand together like we are, and not be picked off,” Jones Austin said. “And then they’re going to respond.”

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DID YOU MISS IT? FRONT-LINE HEROES

This year’s Front-Line Heroes awards breakfast, honoring 30 direct services professionals in the human services sector, took place on April 18 in downtown Manhattan. Donna Pearce of SCAN New York received our first Fred Scaglione Award honoring a front-line hero whose career demonstrates commitment to their field. Fred Scaglione was the founder and editor of New York Nonprofit Press, which is now New York Nonprofit Media.

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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 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. 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 Formation of Jamaica 80 Associates LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/28/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 W 47th St, Ste 205, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of Willow Tree Credit Partners GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/15/17. 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: 100 Morton St, Apt 11DE, NY, NY 10014. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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.

May 1, 2017 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 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.

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 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. 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 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.

Notice of Formation of ACC Conversion, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/23/17. O f f i c e 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. 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 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.

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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 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. 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. Notice of Qualification of JCF IV COINVEST CANADA L.P.. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/28/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in the Province of Alberta, Canada (AB) on 11/10/2016. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 767 5th Ave, FL. 23, NY, NY 10153. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with Ministry of Service Alberta, Corporate Registry, Service Alberta, Box 1007 Station Main, Edmonton AB TBJ 4W6. Purpose: any lawful 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. Notice of Qualification of S-RM INTELLIGENCE AND RISK CONSULTING, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/11/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/26/16. Princ. office of LLC: 200 Liberty St., NY, NY 10281. 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. DE addr. of LLC: Harvard Business Services, Inc., 16192 Coastal Hwy., Lewes, DE 19958. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of SHEA ACQUISITION LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/28/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 280 Park Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice 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 NAPIER PARK AIRCRAFT LEASING ROLLOVER FUND I LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/29/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 280 Park Ave, Fl. 3, NY, NY 10017. 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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May 1, 2017 Notice of Qualification of MAIN GATE PRODUCTIONS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/20/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/8/17. 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 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 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 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.

Notice of Qualification of Strike & Cuff, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/4/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 9/15/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 60 E 42nd St, Ste 4530, NY, NY 10165. FL address of LLC: 108 Talavera Pl., Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418. Cert. of Formation filed with FL Secy of State, 2661 Executive Center Circle, Tallahassee, FL 32301. 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 Qualification of YNFS PRODUCTIONS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/20/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/8/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of formation of TJON AKON LAW, PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 2/16/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to PLLC: attn: Melvin Tjon Akon, 511 Ave of the Americas, #710, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Practice of law.

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 Flexthetic, 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: 105 E 34th St, Ste #250, NY, NY 10016. 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) on 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 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.

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.

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.

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. Terrebonne Productions, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 02/22/17. Office loc: NY Co. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served to: US Corps. Agents Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste. 202, Brooklyn NY 11228. Princ Bus Addr: 37 W 72nd St, Ste 6E, NY NY 10023. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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. Notice of Formation of SNS Bar LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/30/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Lawrence B. Simon, Esq., c/o Morrison Cohen LLP, 909 Third Ave., 26th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities. B & A LITTLE ROCK, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/03/17. 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, c/o Beverly Johnson, Member, Manager, Tax Matters Partner, 257 West 97th Street, New York, NY 10025. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 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. 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 VizuVizu IP LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/27/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 71 W 23rd St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of JAY SQUARED PRODUCTIONS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/20/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/8/17. 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 GREYSTONE BRIDGE FUNDING IX LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/10/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/27/15. Princ. office of LLC: 152 W. 57th St., 60th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 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. Notice of Formation of MITA BUSINESS TOURS LLC filed with SSNY 3/27/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Hyun Jeong, 303 5th Ave, Ste 712, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of Pager 905 WEA LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/14/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 21 Quaker Ln., W Harrison, NY 10604. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Application for Authority of Creative Premier Agency LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Formed in PA 8/25/16. Office loc.: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to and the office address required to be maintained in PA is 16 Campus Blvd., Newtown Square, PA 19073. Cert. of organization filed with Pedro A. Cortes, Secy. of the Commonwealth, 401 North St., Room 206, Harrisburg, PA 17105. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of Willow Tree Credit Partners LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/15/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/10/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 100 Morton St, Apt 11DE, NY, NY 10014. DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. 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. 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 Qualification of PALLADIN PRODUCTIONS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/20/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/8/17. 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. MB SOURCING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/04/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Morris Beyda, 65 W. 36th St., 11th Fl, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of FUNDRX CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/10/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/07/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the DE addr. of LLC: c/o Incorporating Services, Ltd., 3500 S. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Reach Contact LLC. A   ppl for Auth filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 03/15/17. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE 10/20/2015. SSNY designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process against the LLC to: 8   88 7th Ave, NY, NY 10019. Princ bus addr of LLC: 5   51 Fifth Ave, 21st FL, NY, NY 10176 C   ert of LLC filed with Secy of State of DE, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste 400 Wilmington DE 19808 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Qualification of CLEAN ENERGY EXPERTS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/4/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 3/24/15. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. CA address of LLC: 595 Market St, Fl. 29, San Francisco, CA 94105. Cert. of Formation filed with CA Secy of State, 1500 11th St, Sacramento, CA 95814. 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 West Fourth Sartoria, LLC filed with SSNY 03/23/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: US Corp, 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice is hereby given a license, number (PENDING) for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 826 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10019 for on premises consumption. Catered by Pergola LLC d/b/a Gardenia Terrace 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.

May 1, 2017 Notice of Qualification of RFR 77 Sands Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/7/17. 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 FACP GP-GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/3/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/23/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of FACP General Partner, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/3/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/23/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. HAMDAN REALTY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/19/2017. Office loc: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2202 Clove Road, Staten Island, NY 10304. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of formation of SAS ADVISORS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/28/2017. Office located in NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 535 W. 110th St., Apt 5D, NY NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act.

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ASTOR75NYC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/17/17. Office: New York County. S S N Y designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 377 Broadway, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of FIVE ARROWS MANAGERS (USA) LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/3/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/26/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 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. 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, MAY 17TH, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for OMNITY ONE LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 2162 2ND AVE in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER Notice of Formation of Bentley Records, LLC filed with SSNY 2/28/17. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to LLC: US Corp Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of KC 81 Prospect Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/9/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/7/17. 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.

STORAGE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on MAY 9th, 2016 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: BONCOURT CARIDAD CHENG DIANE KENCHEN JASMINE MORTIMER SENGA MENDOZA LUZ MILES VALERIE/CAPOLONGO PHILIP SHUBRICK MARK TOMASULO THOMAS DOE JOHN/DOE JANE PEREZ WILFREDO BRATHUAY BARBARA ALLEN AYANA TOMMY ADAMS LAURENT MARIE MANNING JOHN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1301723 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 483 COLUMBUS AVE NEW YORK, NY 10024. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. MICHEL GE INC. Notice of Qualification of RFR 55 Prospect Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/7/17. 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 RFR 117 Adams Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/7/17. 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 is hereby given that a License, Serial #1299602 for Liquor, Wine, and/or Beer, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor, Wine, & Beer at retail under the ABC Law at 2254 Fifth Ave. N.Y., N.Y. 10037 for on premise consumption. 2254 On 5th. Ave Corp.

Notice of Formation of FASHIONABLY LAIGHT STREET, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/7/17. 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: Worldwide Plz, 825 8th Ave, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of JCF IV COINVEST CANADA GP LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/22/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/10/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. 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 William Lovey Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: William Lovey Holdings LLC, C/O Amanda Jakubik, 10 Bethune St., Apt. 1A, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful activities. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of Five Arrows Capital Partners, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/3/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/23/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY COLUMBIAN MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902 THE PERSONS WHOSE NAMES AND LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES ARE SET FORTH BELOW APPEAR FROM THE RECORDS OF THE ABOVE-NAMED COMPANY TO BE ENTITLED TO ABANDONED PROPERTY IN AMOUNTS OF FIFTY DOLLARS OR MORE. ADAMS, CARRIE 419 WEST 129TH ST APT 71, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 ALEXANDER, ELIZABETH 37 WOODBINE ST BSMT, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 ALEXANDER, GRACE 996 HOME ST APT. 16, BRONX, NY, 10459 ALFORD, EST OF BERNICE 443 JEFFERSON AVE APT. 21, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 ALLMAN, LAMONT 450 FRANKLIN AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 ALLSOP, WARRINGTON 90 DOWNING ST APT. 32, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 ALSTON, CHARLOTTE 45 W 137 ST APT. 17, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 ANDERSON, EDWARD 914 HOE AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10459 ANDERSON, HAROLD 232 W 149TH ST APT 23, NEW YORK, NY, 10039 ANDERSON, OLIVER 230 OCEAN PKWY APT. FA, BROOKLYN, NY, 11218 ANDREWS, CARRIE 215 WEST 134TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 ANTAR, MARY 1579 EAST 2ND STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11230 ANTHONY, EUALIE 621 LEFFERTS AVE APT. D11, BROOKLYN, NY, 11203 ARCHIE, AARON 103 VERNON AVENUE APT. 1, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206 ARCHIE, BERTHA 34 PLAZA STREET APT. 705, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 ARIAS, DEMETRIO 569 W 171ST STREET APT. 4, NEW YORK, NY, 10032 ARMSTRONG, EUGENIA 252 W 148 APT. C3, NEW YORK, NY, 10039 ATKINSON, HANNAH 461 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 BABB, LORZVINE 467 PUTNAM AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 BACON, ANNIE 110 E 129TH ST APT. 2M, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 BACON, ANNIE 110 E 129TH ST APT. 2M, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 BAKER, LOIS 426 ST NICHOLAS AVE APT. 3C, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 BANTUM, LUCILLE, 237 W 142ND ST APT. 3, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 BARFIELD, WILLIE 419 UNION AVE, MOUNT VERNON, NY, 10550 BARNES, ALONZO 552 W 141ST ST APT. 6C, NEW YORK, NY, 10031 BARNES, BENJAMIN 227 WEST 121 ST APT. 3E, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 BARNES, ELESTER 921A LAFAYETTE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 BARNES, JENNIE 225 W 134TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 BARNEY, EST OF OLIVI 161 05 130TH AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY, 11434

BAXTON, JAMES 40 W 115TH STREET APT. 14E, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 BEATTY, KENNETH 2261 OCEAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11229 BELL, ALTON 450 MANHATTAN AVE APT. 2A, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 BERGER, JACK 1180 E 27TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11229 BERRY, ETHEL 32 MCDONOUGH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 BERRY, WILLIE 390 MANHATTAN AVE APT. 3N, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 BEST, CHARLIE 460 RALPH AVENYE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 BIGGS, NORA 1630 PARK PL7, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 BISHOP, FITZROY, 105 WINTHROP ST APT. 4K, BROOKLYN, NY, 11225 BLACK, CATHERINE 164 07 107 AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY, 11433 BLACKWELL, ISAAC 125 E FULTON AVENUE, ROOSEVELT, NY, 11575 BLUE, CLYDE 121 WILSON STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11211 BOBO, ANNIE, DO NOT MAIL, BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902 BOLTON, CLAUDE 90 MONROE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 BOONE, WILLIAM, 270 W 141ST APT 1, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 BOTT, MARY, 445 ARCHER STREET, FREEPORT, NY, 11520 BOYD, JOHN, 515 WEST 152 STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10031 BOYD, NEALIA, 360 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 BRINSON, ANNIE, 552 KOSCUISKO STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 BRITT, ELLA, 450 WEST 131 ST APT. 5MJ, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 BROWN, ANDREW, 1381 LINDEN BLVD, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 BROWN, CALVIN, 30 W 141 ST APT. 4, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 BROWN, DORETHA, 590 DEKALB AVE APT. 6C, BROOKLYN, NY, 11205 BROWN, DOROTHY, 432 E 148TH APT 2C, BRONX, NY, 10455 BROWN, GARNELL, 103 WEST 131ST STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 BROWN, IZENE, 333 EAST 92ND ST APT. 2H, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 BROWN JR, CLYDE, 39 KINGSTON AVE APT 2B, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 BROWNE, DOROTHY, 607 EASTERN PARKWAY, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216

BRYANT, MAGGIE 1137 VYSE AVE APT. 1, BRONX, NY, 10459 BRYANT, SADIE 51 FRENCH RIDGE ROAD, NEW ROCHELLE, NY, 10801 BURKS, ERNEST 2190 MADISON AVE APT. 1A, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 BURNS, THELMA 503 W 133RD STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 BUTCHER, LILLIAN 230 KINSTON AVENUE APT 3H, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 BYER, JAMES 41 WEST 112 ST APT 1J, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 CABBELL, MICHELE 122 19 LUCAS STREET, SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY, 11413 CAESAR, INGE PO BOX 440, NEW YORK, NY, 10108 CALDWELL, ALEATHER 380 LEXINGTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 CAMPBELL, EST OF ANNIE M 2034 7TH AVENUE APT 3B, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 CARPENTER, GENNIE 245 KING STREET, PORTCHESTER, NY, 10453 CHASE, EDITH 2192 MORRIS AVE APT. 4E, BRONX, NY, 10453 CHEESEBORO, JOHN 1305 LORING AVE APT. 6F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11208 CHINA, EST OF MARY 89 09 162 STREET APT. 8K, JAMAICA, NY, 11432 CHIUSANO, ANGELO 99 AMHERST ROAD, VALLEY STREAM, NY, 11581 CHRISTENSEN, JEAN 240 SHORE ROAD, LONG BEACH, NY, 11561 COHEN, CHRISTINA 417 WEST 43RD ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10020 COLEMAN, OSCAR 64 WET 128 STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10007 COLES, ELLA 119 KINGSTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 COLLINS, RUBY 170 40 130TH AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY, 11434 COMMODORE, RACHELLE 90 CONVENT AVE APT. 54, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 CONWAY, CLARENCE 9062 BEACH ROAD, BREWERTON, NY, 13029 COOK, ANNIE 540 44 W 145TH ST 3G, NEW YORK, NY, 10032 COOK, CATHERINE 158 03 132 AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY, 11434 COOPER, LOUISE 534 GREEN AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 COPING, TYRONE 633 LENOX AVE APT. 16, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 CORDELL, WILLIE 373 CHAUNCE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 COSTELLO BREWSTER, LORAINE 118 W 114 ST APT 3W, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 CRAIG, MARJORIE 116 60 144TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY, 11436 CRAWFORD, JAMES, 172 WEST 133RD STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 CROSBY, OSSIE 30 HAMILTON PLACE ROOM 211, NEW YORK, NY, 10031

CROSLAND, THOMAS 922 GATES AVE APT. 1, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 CUBBAGE, PHILLIP 1434 MORRIS AVENUE APT. B, BRONX, NY, 10456 CURD, ISABEL 1 E 128 ST 8 BELLS, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 DAIS, JOHNNIE 201 W 120TH STREET APT. 2B, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 DANCE, WILLIAM 411 A HANCOCK ST GR, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 DANIEL, ARRICA 419 MONROE ST APT. 2, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 DANIEL, JANIE 419 MONROE ST APT. 2, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 DAVID, TOMMY 202 WEST 133RD ST APT. 1A, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 DAVIDSON, ROSE 456 MARION STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 DAVIS, FRANK 283 SUMPTER STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 DAVIS, JESSE 66 HALSEY STREET, BRONX, NY, 10461 DAVIS, JOHN 406 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 DAVIS, MITTIE 739 ESSEX STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11208 DAVIS, RICHARD 40 20 BEACH CHANNEL DR APT. 2D, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY, 11691 DAWSON, EUNICE 342 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 DAWSON JR, AHMAD 193 ALBANY AVE APT. 6F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 DAY, SAM 128 STEBBINS AVE APT 15, BRONX, NY, 10459 DELANCY, EDNA 334 ST. NICHOLAS AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 DEVEROW, MARY 344 MACON STREET APT. 3, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 DEVOE, LILLIAN 270 BAINBRIDGE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 DIXON, CHARISSE 1496 EAST 172ND ST APT. 2, BRONX, NY, 10472 DIXON, GUS 121 E 100 STREET 10, NEW YORK, NY, 10029 DIXON, LEROY 563 WEST 161ST STREET ROOM 9, NEW YORK, NY, 10032 DIZA, JENNIFER 801 WEST 190TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10040 DONALDSON, JAMES 1430 AMSTERDAM AVE APT. 2H NEW YORK, NY, 10027 DORSEY, GLADYS 730 A QUINCY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 DOUGHTRY, GERALDINE 44 MCDONOUGH ST APT. 9, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 DOW, ANTHONY 286 WALLABOUT STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11210 DUNNING, CATHERENE 440 A HANCOCK STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 DUROSEAU, WILSON 94 E 96 STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11236 ECHEVARRIA, LUZ 1930 GRAND CONCOURSE AVE APT. E GROUND FLOOR BRONX, NY, 10457

EDINGTON, RENA 2326 GRAND AVE 6F, NEW YORK, NY, 10468 EDWARDS, MINNIE 107 W 132 ST APT 1, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 EDWARDS, RONALD 681 COURTLANDT AVE APT. 10F BRONX, NY, 10451 ELDRIDGE, ELIZABETH 730 E 165TH ST APT. 2D, BRONX, NY, 10456 ENGLISH, JOSEPHINE 153 EDGECOMBE AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 ESTATE OF ELLA HICKMAN 10 A ARLINGTON PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 â&#x20AC;© FAISON, CAROLYN 2070 SEWARD AVE APT. 101, BRONX, NY, 10473 FELLS, ERNEST 260 CLINTON STREET APT. 206, HEMPSTEAD, NY, 11550 FISHER, REBECCA 57 JEFFERSON ST, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, 12601 FLEMING, FRANCES 159 BRUCKNER BLVD 2, BRONX, NY, 10454 FLEMING, JAMES 963 CAULDWELL AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10456 FLEMING, RHONDA 963 CAULDWELL AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10456 FRANKLIN, HELEN 215 W 140TH NEW YORK, NY, 10030 FREEMAN, JAMES 661 ROCKAWAY AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 FREEMAN, MAYME 3133 WEST 124ST 3H, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 FUSSELL, OZELL 1555 FULTON ST 3RD FLOOR, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 GAMBLE, ELIZABETH 169 WARWICK STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11207 GAVIN, JERRY 742 WYONA STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11207 GEORGES, CURTNEY 175 E 52ND ST APT.D10, BROOKLYN, NY, 11203 GIBSON, MARGARET 255 W 108TH ST APT. 11E, NEW YORK, NY, 10025 GIBSON, WALLACE 128 W 138TH STREET APT. 6H, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 GLENN, NAPOLEON 2427 7TH AVE APT. 16, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 GLOVER, WALTER 1209 LORING AVE APT. 6J, BROOKLYN, NY, 11208 GOLDBERG, NINA 113 BROADWAY, LONG BEACH, NY, 11561 GONDER, LATONIA 730 EAST 165 STREET APT. 3F, BRONX, NY, 10456 GOODMAN, DELORES 67 MARCUS GARVEY BLVD APT. 1A, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206 GREEN, DAVID 587 EAST 139TH ST APT 5E, BRONX, NY, 10454 GREEN, EDITH 61 EAST 122 ST APT. 1, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 GREEN, LYDIA 851 GRAND CONCOURSE APT. 336, BRONX, NY, 10451 GREENE, CLAYTON 23 HAUSCH BLVD, ROOSEVELT, NY, 11575 GREENE, LENORA 820 COLGATE AVE 2K, BRONX, NY, 10473

GRIFFIN, EDWARD 40 20 BEACH CHANNEL DR APT. 2D, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY, 11691 GRIGG, STANLEY 204 ASTORIA BLVD, ASTORIA, NY, 11103 GRIMES, JANNETT 412 HOPINSON AVE 1 UP, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 GRIMES, SYBIL 952 MARCY AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 GUESS, LEON 1413 AMSTERDAM AVE APT. 5, NEW YORK CITY, NY, 10027 GUNTER, ANNIE 359 LEWIS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 HAGAN, SARAH 805 ST MARKS AVE APT. 5A, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 HALL, ALEXANDER 141 WEST 67 STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10023 HALL, EST OF ALMON 90-10 34 AVENUE, JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY, 11372 HAMILTON, EVA 224 W 16 STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10011 HAMILTON, JOHN 158 E 122ND ST APT. 11, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 HAMMOND, ARLENE 2361 BRONXWOOD AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10469 HANKERSON, JAMES 1366 LYMAN AVENUE APT. 1F, BRONX, NY, 10459 HARDIN, LOUISE 1905 STRAUSS STREET 26, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 HARDIN, LOUISE 1073 ROGERS AVE APT. 2, BROOKLYN, NY, 11226 HARRELL, ESSIE 706 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 HARRIS, CLARENCE 2070 7TH AVE APT 3H, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 HARRIS, ELIZABETH 51 FRENCH RIDGE ROAD, NEW ROCHELLE, NY, 10801 HARRIS, ESTEE 152 W 143 ST APT. 24, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 HARRIS, JOSEPH PO BOX 1088, BRONX, NY, 10452 HART, MARY 811 FLUSHING AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206 HAWKINS, MARGUERITE 171 WEST 133 APT.1A, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 HAY, NELLIE 2391 E LAKE ROAD, SKANEATELES, NY, 13152 HAYNES, ANTHONY 32 W 131ST STREET APT. 1W, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 HENDERSON, HELEN 1945 AMSTERDAM AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10032 HENDERSON, ODESSA 285 BAINBRIDGE ST APT. 3L, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 HENDERSON, T R 201 CLINTON AVENUE APT. 2F BROOKLYN, NY, 11205 HERIMAN, HALLIE HELEN 237 WEST 111 ST APT. 5A, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 HIGHTOWER, CEASER RIVERSIDE AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10001 HILL, EUGENE 64 LASALLE TOP FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 HILL, FRANK 111 E 127TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 HILL, LILLIE, PO BOX 1381, BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902

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HILL, VALERIE 1235 MANOR AVENUE 2, BRONX, NY, 10472 HILLIARD, JEAN 465 WEST 164 STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10032 HILTON, FOZIA 1155 DEAN ST APT. 1B, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 HOCKADAY, LESLIE 204 6 WEST 143 STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 HOLNESS, FRANK 659 PROSPECT PLACE 2ND FL BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 HOPSON, BERYL 1164 PACIFIC ST BASE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 HOUSE, FRANCES 22 CURTIS AVENUE, BALDWINSVILLE, NY, 13027 HOWZE, JETSON 126 11 147TH STREET, S OZONE PARK, NY, 11436 HULL, KENNETH 24 ERICSON STREET, EAST ELMHURST, NY, 11369 INGE, EST OF MARGARET 200 NEW YORK AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 INGRAM, ISAAC 25 ST NICHOLAS TERRACE, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 JACKSON, ALPHONSO 1091 LONGFELLOW AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10459 JACKSON, ANDREW 116 28 148TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY, 11436 JACOB, ERSLENA 1371 N STREET, ELMONT, NY, 11003 JAMES, EARTHA 31 80 51ST STREET, WOODSIDE, NY, 11377 JENKINS, PATIENCE 393 OSBURN STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 JENKS, BERNADETTE 215 CARLLS PATH J 6, DEER PARK, NY, 11729 JERRY, ANNA 108 54 159TH STREET APT. 1C JAMAICA, NY, 11433 JOHNSON, EST OF BERNICE 219 25 143RD ROAD, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY, 11413 JOHNSON, ESTHER 33 SARATOGA AVE APT. 11H, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 JOHNSON, GERTRUDE 10 W 135 ST APT. 10 U, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 JOHNSON, JAMES 48 MACOMBS PLACE 4D, NEW YORK, NY, 10039 JOHNSON, JOHN 3736 10TH AVENUE APT. 10H, NEW YORK, NY, 10034 JOHNSON, JOHN 515 AUDUBON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10040 JOHNSON, LEATHA 432 LOGAN ST APT. 1F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11208 JOHNSON, MARIE 459 LEXINGTON AVE GR, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 JOHNSON, THELMA 504 W 147 ST 1, NEW YORK, NY, 10031 JONES, EST OF NAOMI PO BOX 1518, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 JONES, FLETCHER 852 PROVOST AVE, BELLPORT, NY, 11713 JONES, JOHN 282 W 118TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 JONES, JOSEPH 452 KOSCIUSKO STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 JONES, LILLIAN 31 LEONARD ST APT. 81, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206 JONES, OSCAR 22 E 129TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10035

JONES, ROBERTA 1879 AMSTERDAM AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10031 JONES, VALERIE 1295 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10059 JONES, WILL 261 REID AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 JOSEPH, LOIS 4732 BRONX BLVD, BRONX, NY, 10470 JOYCE, GLORIA 1334 COLLEGE AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10456 KAPLAN, ROSEMARY 1925 UNIVERSITY AVE APT. 5J, BRONX, NY, 10453 KATES, GLORIA 1704 ST JOHNS PLACE APT. 2B BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 KEITH, CLARENCE 1 W 126 ST APT 3C, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 KELLY, EDITH 27 WEST 181ST STREET, BRONX, NY, 10453 KELSEY, JOHN 358 LEWIS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 KENNON, JOHN 95 BARUCH DRIVE, NEW YORK, NY, 10002 KITCHEN, JESSE 50 E 119TH ST APT. 3A, NEW YORK, NY, 10019 KNIGHT, RUTH 206 JEFFERSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 LAGUNA, RUBY MAE 54 WEST 175TH ST APT. 2D BRONX, NY, 10453 LAWRENCE, EST OF PRESTON 715 NOBLE AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10473 LEACH, RUBY 522 VAN SICLEAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11207 LEE, ARTHUR 321 EAST 153 ST APT. 14G, BRONX, NY, 10451 LEE, LUVENIA 789 HERKIMER STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 LENIS, RUTH 775 CONCOURSE VILLAGE E 13C, BRONX, NY, 10456 LEWIS, PERCY 17 VANDALIA AVE APT. 6F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11236 LEWIS, VERA 119 60 178 STREET, ST ALBANS, NY, 11412 LEWIS, ZEBEDEE 134 EDGECOMB AVE APT. 5, BRONX, NY, 10430 LIPSCOMB, AURELLIA 685 NOSTRAND AVE APT. 5D, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 LITTLE, ELIZABETH 1980 7TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 LOCKARD, JANE 206 WEST 95TH STREET APT. 6A5 NEW YORK, NY, 10025 LOSEY, EST OF DAVID 423 BALTIC STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11217 LOSEY, EST OF DAVID 423 BALTIC STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11217 LOVE, JEWEL L M 4010 BRONX BLVD, BRONX, NY, 10466 MACK, ANTHONY 825 BOYTON AVE APT. 10D, BRONX, NY, 10473 MACK, CHRISTIAN 825 BOYTON AVE APT. 10D, BRONX, NY, 10473 MACK, CRAWFORD 107 EAST 126TH ST APT. 7N, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 MACK, DOROTHY 86 W 119TH ST 8A, NEW YORK, NY, 10026

May 1, 2017 MACKEY, MATTIE 106 35 159TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY, 11433 MAHON, GARFIELD 676 QUINCY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 MANGRAY, LACHMIDAI 113 03 101ST AVE 2ND FLOOR, RICHMOND HILL, NY, 11419 MANLEY, CHARITY 1960 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 MANTEL, JOSHUA 2329 E 2ND STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11223 MANTEL, MATTHEW 2329 E 2ND STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11223 MARAN, MARY DO NOT MAIL, BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902 MARKLAND, YVETTE 681 COURTLANDT AVE APT. 10F BRONX, NY, 10451 MARQUEZ JR, ANTONIO 390 SCHENCK AVE APT. 10, BROOKLYN, NY, 11207 MARSHALL, SARAH 2628 LINDEN BLVD APT. 1A, BROOKLYN, NY, 11208 MASON, BARRY 451 KINGSTON AVE APT. E20, BROOKLYN, NY, 11225 MASON, LONA 1418 PROSPECT AVE 2A, BRONX, NY, 10459 MASON, MAXINE 137 11 232 STREET, LAURELTON, NY, 11431 MATTHIE, SHARON 3901 SECOR AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10466 MAXWELL, WILLIE 206 W 112 ST 1, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 MCCARTNEY, MABEL 1322 STATFORD ROAD, BRONX, NY, 10472 MCDUFFY, DOROTHY 177 STYVESANT AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 MCEACHIN, LAIN 263 EASTERN PARKWAY, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 MCFIELD, JAVEN 14725 NORTH BLVD APT. 1C, FLUSHING, NY, 11354 MCKINLEY, ISABELLA 166 W 129 ST 2B, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 MCKINSTRY, MARY 107 19 PRINCETON STREET, JAMAICA, NY, 11435 MCLEAN, EST OF ROSCOE 103 48 102 STREET APT. 1, JAMAICA, NY, 11417 MCLEOD, BERNICE 467 HANCOCK STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 MCNAIR, ANTOINETTE 904 B UNION AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10459 MCNEIL, URNA 2041 5TH AVE APT. 1D, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 MEGGETT, ALONZO 40 W 127TH ST APT. 8, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 MELVIN, BERLEE 107 WEST ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 MILLER, BEATRICE 2492 7 AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 MILLER, JESSIE 2558 98TH STREET, E ELMHURST, NY, 11369 MILLER, ROSE 258 SIMMER AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 MILLS, GRACE 333 THOMAS S BOYLAND ST 3U, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 MITCHELL, EDITH 102 W 118 STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10026

MIXON, WILLET 1507 DEAN STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 MONROIG, ANGELINA 640 EAST 137TH STREET APT 16E, BRONX, NY, 10454 MONTGOMERY, ALMETIA 292 RALPH AVENUE APT 4A, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 MONTGOMERY, HENRY 292 RALPH AVE APT. 4A, NEW YORK, NY, 11233 MONTLE, MAULMON 107 43 134TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY, 11419 MORANT JR, PHILIP 427 BALTIC STREET APT. 1D, BROOKLYN, NY, 11217 MORENAY, ROGER 728 E NEW YORK AVE APT. 2F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11203 MORRISON, BERNARD 79 SUNNY SIDE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11207 MORRISON, VENEITA 101 LAFAYETTE AVE APT. 11K, BROOKLYN, NY, 11217 MOSELEY, IDA 159 20 HARLEM RIVER DR, NEW YORK, NY, 10039 MOSS, SHERYL 446 KINGSTON AVENUE APT. C22, BROOKLYN, NY, 11225 MULL, WILLIAM 160 W 116TH ST APT. 7K, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 MURDAUGH, LILLIAN 214 W 116TH STREET 3D, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 MURPHY, LONNIE 144 DECATUR ST APT. F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 MUSE, GEORGE 347 MARION ST APT. 3, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 MYERS, EST ELIZABETH 1440 E NEW YORK AVE 3B O BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 NEWTON, KENNETH 1695 MADISON AVE APT. 3G, NEW YORK, NY, 10029 NICHOLSON, IDA 115 B WEST 168TH ST 2G, BRONX, NY, 10452 NICKS, BELINDA 11 CLIFTON PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 NOBLE, EVELYN 40 MONROE ST FG 3, NEW YORK, NY, 10002 NOBLES, EARLINE 2070 CLINTON AVE APT. 4L, BRONX, NY, 10457 NOLLEY, HARRIETT 1661 LINCOLN PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 NORRIS, LEWIS 540 44 W 145TH ST 3G, NEW YORK, NY, 10032 OLIVER, BARBARA 185 RIVERDALE AVE APT 3G, YONKERS, NY, 10705 OLIVER, MARY 660 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 ONUOHA, CHUKUNYERE 1264 METCALF AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10472 PANKEY, EDNA 637 MACON ST BSMT, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 PARKER, SHIRLEY 106 45 UNION HALL STREET, JAMAICA, NY, 11433 PATTERSON, LILLIAN 69 WEST 99TH ST APT 3E, NEW YORK, NY, 10025 PATTERSON, PHYLLIS 1209 LORING AVE 6G, BROOKLYN, NY, 11208 PATTERSON, VIOLA 270 ALEXANDER AVE APT. 2A, BRONX, NY, 10451 PAULSON, FRANCES 30 CHESTNUT AVENUE`, LARCHMONT, NY, 10538

PAULSON, FRANCES 30 CHESTNUT AVENUE, LARCHMONT, NY, 10538 PEARSON, ANITA 89 CHRISTOPHER AVE 12F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 PETERKIN, ERROL 712 SAINT OUEN STREET, BRONX, NY, 10470 PETERSON, JOHN 466 NOSTRAND AVE APT 1R, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 PICKERING, MAMIE 1073 BEDFORD AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10014 PINES, REV EARL 207 A HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 PITT, ALICE 24 CLAVER PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 PITTMAN, ANNIE 255 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 PIZARRO, MARIA 1410 PARK AVE, NEW YORK, NY, 10029 POINTDEXTER, ALICE 211 ACCABONIC ROAD, EAST HAMPTON, NY, 11937 POPE, ERMA 2430 7TH AVE APT. 17L, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 POWELL, JOSEPHINE 69 W 115TH ST APT. 2E, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 PRINCE, OLIVE 987 UNION AVE APT. 17, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 PUNNETT, ALFRED 9 W 116 ST APT 2, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 QUATTLEBAUM, PEARLINE 133 10 LINDEN BLVD, QUEENS, NY, 11420 RAMIREZ, AUGUSTINE 2047 HAVILAND AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10472 RAMOS, EUGENIA 45 RUTGER ST APT. 3H, NEW YORK, NY, 10002 RANDOLPH, ESTHER 20 MORNINGSIDE AVE APT 4, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 RANDOLPH, MARY 2615 3RD AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10454 RATTERAY, VIVIAN 1332 HERKIMER STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 REYNOLDS, L B 2034 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 REYNOLDS, MARION 43 E MERRICK ROAD, FREEPORT, NY, 11520 RHODES, EUGENE PO BOX 1381, BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902 RHODES, ROSA MAE 614 CEDAR STREET, NAMARONECK, NY, 10543 RICHARDSON, ELIZA 2225 LACOMBE AVE APT. 8G, BRONX, NY, 10473 RICHARDSON, ROBERT 62 E 129TH ST APT. 2E, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 RICKS, NAZARETH 274 W 140TH ST APT A23, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 RIVERA, EVARISTO 1061 MYRTLE AVE APT. 4D, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206 ROBINSON, EMILY 2194 8TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 ROBINSON, FRANK 521 W 151ST STREET APT. 2 NEW YORK, NY, 10031 ROBINSON, MINNIE 116 48 SUTPHIN BOULEVARD, JAMAICA, NY, 11420 RODRIGUEZ, EARTHA 1082 MYRTLE AVE APT. 2RT, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206 RODRIGUEZ, LORENZO 1901 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10035

ROSS, ALFRED 180 EAST SEVENTH ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10003 RUGGIERO, JOSEPH 278 W LIDO PROMENADE, LINDENHURST, NY, 11757 SANDERS, JAMES DO NOT MAIL, BROOKLYN, NY, 11205 SAVAGE, JESSIE 303 WEST 113 ST APT 2A, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 SCATES, LILLIAN 307 W 143 ST APT. 2, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 SCHOREA, CHRISTOPHER 2047 HAVILAND AVE APT. 1B, BRONX, NY, 10472 SCOTT, LAZARUS 201 GATES AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 SCOTT, LOTTIE 1305 AMSTERDAM AVE APT. 13C, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 SEABROOKE, FRANCIS 23 VAN BUREN STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 SHAW, FRED 368 LENOX AVE APT. 2N, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 SHAW, HASKER PO BOX 1381, BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902 SHEPARD, EVERETT 260 AUDUBON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10033 SHEPPARD, NINA 889 HUNTS POINT AVE APT. 54, BRONX, NY, 10474 SILVA, GLADYS 33 CONVENT AVE APT. 6, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 SIMMONS, FLORENCE 108 03 UNION HALL, JAMAICA, NY, 11433 SIMON, MAVIS 409 PARK PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 SINCLAIR, ALBERT 400 W 150TH ST APT 1, NEW YORK, NY, 10031 SINGLETON, MARGARET 550 A LEXINGTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 SLEDGE, JANNIE 60 W 129TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 SMALLS, EDWARD 10803 FERM PLACE, JAMAICA, NY, 11433 SMALLS, ERIC 945 LAUREL PLACE, VALLEY STREAM, NY, 11580 SMALLWOOD, WALTER 398 MANSION ST APT B, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, 12601 SMART, PANSY 825 BOYTON AVE APT. 10D, BRONX, NY, 10473 SMITH, ANNA 17 WESRT 114TH ST APT. 3W, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 SMITH, CARRIE 20 W 115TH STREET APT. 3B, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 SMITH, DAVID 2 W 120TH ST APT. 4F, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 SMITH, EST OF DENNIS 420 BAINBRIDGE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 SMITH, IRIS 600 PARK PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 SMITH, JOHN 217 CORNELIA STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 SMITH, OTHA 125 W 130TH STREET APT. 12, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 SMITH, VIRGINIA 119 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 SMITH, WALTER 255 WEST 134TH ST APT. 1, NEW YORK, NY, 10030

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May 1, 2017 SORANNO, MICHAEL PO BOX 1381, BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902 SPELLMAN, MARY PO BOX 297225, BROOKLYN, NY, 11229 SPIGNER, ANNIE MAE 2615 3 AVENUE APT. 5B, BRONX, NY, 10451 STEARNS, EMMA 485 ST MARKS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 STEWART, IRENE 385 BAYVIEW AVENUE, INWOOD, NY, 11696 STEWART, NAOMI 1350 UNION STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 STOLLENWECK, RODERICK 1060 AMSTERDAM AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10025 STORMS, KENNETH 262 MONROE STREET, BROOKLY, NY, 11216 STRAYHORN, ALBERT 55 WEST 132ND STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 STRONG, LELA, 1414 BERGEN TREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 SUAREZ, ROSA 2714 UNIVERSITY AVE APT. 3E BRONX, NY, 10468 SUGGS, MARY 365 E 184TH STREET APT. 315, BRONX, NY, 10458 SYKES, WILLIAM 125 60 SUTPHIN BLVD, JAMAICA, NY, 11434 SYLVAIN, MARLENE 105 TOWER STREET, HUNTINGTON STATION, NY, 11746 TALFOR, ADRIAN 139 FREDRICKS AVENUE, FREEPORT, NY, 11520 TAYLOR, BELINDA 1670 METROPOLITAN AVE APT 1H BRONX, NY, 10462 TAYLOR, ESTHER 18 E 127TH ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 TAYLOR, FRANK 2407 DEAN STREET 2ND FLOOR, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 TAYLOR, JULIA 1800 DEAN STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11233 TAYLOR, RUBY 20 HUDSON VIEW TERRACE, NEWBURGH, NY, 12550 TEMPLE, LINZY 316 WEST 120TH ST APT. 4, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 THOMAS, PEARL 152 WEST 141 ST APT A, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 THOMAS, RICHARD 660 NICHOLAS AVE APT. 2, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 TINSLEY, LILLIAN 230 WEST 130TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY, 10031 TORRES, ANTONIA 390 E 159 ST APT. 5W, BRONX, NY, 10451 TOWNES, GLADYS 31 NOSTRAND AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206

TUCKER, EST OF JUNIOR 2405 1ST AVE APT. 2G, NEW YORK, NY, 10035 TURNER, KATTIE 760 MARCY AVE APT 6, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 TYCE, NAPOLEON 413 GREENE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 TYNER, GREGORY 105, FLATLANDS 1ST ST, BROOKLYN, NY, 11236 WADDELL, SADIE 211 EDGECOMB AVE APT. 3B, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 WALKER, EMILY 1715 AVENUE H APT. 1F, BROOKLYN, NY, 11230 WALLS, ANNIE MAE 310 WEST 143 ST, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 WALTERS, ROSA 4 E 107TH ST APT. 12B, NEW YORK, NY, 10029 WASHINGTON, CLEO 153 SUMNER AVE APT. 11H, BROOKLYN, NY, 11206 WASHINGTON, EST OF MABEL 119 15 27TH AVENUE, FLUSHING, NY, 11354 WATKINS, JAMES 9 IRVING PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 WELCH, MATTIE MAE 2070 CLINTON AVE APT. 3N, NEW YORK, NY, 10457 WHITE, MARY 146 11 226TH STREET, ROSEDALE, NY, 11413 WHITE, ROBERT 10 WEST 138TH ST APT 5K, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 WHITE, WILLIE 460 W 155 155 ST APT. 2D, NEW YORK, NY, 10033 WHITLOW, WILLIAM 2070 7TH AVENUE APT. 3E, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 WILLIAMS, ALICE 156 SOUTH FIRST AVE APT. 8N MOUNT VERNON, NY, 10550 WILLIAMS, ANNIE RFD 1 BOX 490, NORTH FLEET LANE, MIDDLE ISLAND, NY, 11953 WILLIAMS, DOROTHY 117 W 141ST ST APT. 35, NEW YORK, NY, 10030 WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH 925 GATES AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 WILLIAMS, ERIC 945 LAUREL PLACE, VALLEY STREAM, NY, 11580 WILLIAMS, JOHN 405 MANHATTAN AVE APT. 4, NEW YORK, NY, 10026 WILLIAMS, JOSEPHINE 460 THROOP AVE APT. 14, BROOKLYN, NY, 11221 WILLIAMS, LINDA 37 KINGSTON AVE APT. 2B, BROOKLYN, NY, 11213 WILSON, HELEN 217 RIVERDALE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11212 WILSON, MATTIE 45 ALLEN ST APT. 10A, NEW YORK, NY, 10002

WINGATE, BERTHA 110 LENOX AVE APT. 5C, NEW YORK, NY, 10039 WISE, WARREN 1091 PROSPECT AVENUE, BRONX, NY, 10459 WITHERSPOON, MARTIN 22 EAST 129 ST BSMT, NEW YORK, NY, 10027 WOODS, RHODA 3020 YATES AVE APT. 6F, BRONX, NY, 10468 WRAY, MARY 2877 W 25 ST BASE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11224 WRIGHT, ISABELLE 459 LENOX AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10037 WRIGHT, LUCILLE 1014 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11238 WYNN, OSCAR 3 SPENCER PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY, 11216 YOUNG, BESIE 15 PILLING STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11207 YOUNG, MAMIE 557 WEST 149TH ST APT. 15, NEW YORK, NY, 10031 ZUMMO, FRANK 1867 HART STREET, BROOKLYN, NY, 11237

Notice of Formation of HFF Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/24/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: PO Box 1402, Greenville, SC 29602. 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. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1301923 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 181 SMITH ST BROOKLYN, NY 11201. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE BAUDOIN FAMILY FOUNDATION, INC for the year ended December 31, 2016 is available at its principal office located at 460 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is PATRICIA BAUDOIN.

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A REPORT OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS HAS BEEN MADE TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK PURSUANT TO SECTION 702 OF THE ABANDONED PROPERTY LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. A LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS APPEARING FROM THE RECORDS OF THE SAID COMPANY TO BE ENTITLED THERETO IS IN ON FILE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE CORPORATION LOCATED AT VESTAL PARKWAY EAST, BINGHAMTON, NY, 13902 WHERE SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY IS PAYABLE. SUCH UNCLAIMED FUNDS WILL BE PAID BY US ON OR BEFORE 08/31/2017 TO PERSONS ESTABLISHING TO OUR SATISFACTION THEIR RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAME. ON OR BEFORE 09/10/2015, SUCH FUNDS STILL REMAINING UNCLAIMED WILL BE PAID TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. UPON SUCH PAYMENT, THIS COMPANY SHALL NO LONGER BE LIABLE FOR THE PROPERTY. COLUMBIAN MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO.

Notice of Formation of FORDRE LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/29/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 230 Park Ave, Ste 1130, NY, NY 10169. Purpose: any lawful activity. EXTENDED MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/20/2017. 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, 360 W. 31st St., Ste 304, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of HERRICKS ROAD HOLDINGS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/13/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/10/17. 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 Broadhaven Capital Partners, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/31/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/24/09. 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 EFFICIO LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/20/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/07/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Alex Klein, 747 Third Ave., 1st and 2nd Fls., NY, NY 10017. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of MASCreative New LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/20/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of YORK MILLENNIAL OPPORTUNITY HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/14/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 767 5th Ave, FL. 17, NY, NY 10153. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of SAGE Crotona, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: SAGE Crotona, LLC, c/o SAGE, 305 Seventh Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of PlayMada LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/18/17. 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: 71 W 23rd St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of SIRIUS INSURANCE AGENCY, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/21/17. 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: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of JAI H. SHIN, DDS, PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/12/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7 Gramercy W, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of LTN Associates LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/31/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Michelle Goldstein, LTN Capial Group Inc., 430 W 14th St., Ste. 205, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of REGINA PACIS OWNER, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/29/17. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/20/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LP: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of SEABURY & SMITH LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/6/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/31/82. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 29-00 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on May 15, 2017 and end on May 24, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc.Household goods and other effects. #530- David Patashnik, #3311 - Lucy Montana, #3708-5 - Timothy Cusick, #4300-Shawn WoodenBey, #4319-1 - Quinsessa Harrison, #6228 - Mario Elias. The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. Notice of Qualification of Dynamic & Joule Construction Group, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/11/17. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in LA 4/07/17. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Dynamic & Joule Construction (DJC), 333 Broadway B8B, NY, NY 10031. LA addr. of LLC: c/o DJC, 9800 Airline Hwy., Ste. 420, Baton Rouge, LA 70816. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of LA, Div. of Corps., 8585 Archives Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70809. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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CZAJKA, MARIAN 41 NOTTINGHAM RD NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040 DARRIGAN, JOSE G. DBA JDG REMODELING 35-63 83RD STREET, APT 1B JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372 DEAN, BRIAN J & LAURIE 52 WOODLAKE DR CROTON ON HUDSON, NY 10520 ETLINE, JENNIFER & SCOTT 5 BLUE SPRUCE LANE COMMACK, NY 11725 GARCIA, MISAEL 169 WINDSOR PKWY HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550 GOLDEN FIRST MORTGAGE CORP 3 GRACE AVE GREAT NECK, NY 11021 GOMEZ, ANIELKA 2970 MILTON PLACE BRONX, NY 10465 INTERCONTINENTAL CAPITAL GROUP 55 EAST 59TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10022 IPFS CORPORATION PO BOX 700 AMHERST, NY 14226 ISRAEL ISRAEL AND PURDY LLP PO BOX 220413 GREAT NECK, NY 11022 JOSE G. DARRIGAN DBA JGD REMODELING 35-63 83RD STREET APT 1B JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY 11372 KINGS COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE 360 ADAMS ST #189 BROOKLYN, NY 11201 LANTER, ROBERT 94 ARNOLD CT EAST ROCKAWAY, NY 11518 LEE, HYUN DBA LEE THE TAILOR 32 GLEN ST GLEN COVER, NY 11542 LKRN ENTERPRISES INC 1973 65TH STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11204 LONG ISLAND SPORTS AND REHABILITATION CENTER 4800 VETERANS HIGHWAY HOLBROOK, NY 11741 MARTINEZ, ERNESTO 848 BAYVIEW AVE BELLPORT, NY 11713

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MEDINA, FERNANDO 1078 DEKALB AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11221 NASSAU EDUCATORS FCU 1000 CORPORATE DRIVE WESTBURY, NY 11590 NEIMAN, SAIE AND MILDRED 5510 16TH AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11204 NEW SMILE DELI CORP DBA KG DELI 1288 MIDLAND AVE YONKERS, NY 10704 NEW YORK ADJUSTMENT BUREAU 66-19 WOODHAVEN BLVD REGO PARK, NY 11374 NY STATE DEPARTMENT OF STATE DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS 99 WASHINGTON AVE. ALBANY, NY 12231 OSULLIVAN, CARLOS & ALTHEA 118-32 192ND ST ST ALBANS, NY 11412 PERFECT DISH LLC 367 AVENUE X BROOKLYN, NY 11223 PITTAM, KULWANTY 1703 ROSEWOOD CT HIGHLAND MILLS, NY 10930 PIZZA BARN INC 70 MCLEAN AVENUE YONKERS, NY 10705 PRESS TEA INC 6384 SAUNDERS ST. APT. 6D REGO PARK, NY 11374 R A ELECTRONICS INC 681 EAST 187TH ST BRONX, NY 10458 RAHMAN, MIZANUR & AINUL HUDA 576 MARLBOROUGH ROAD BROOKLYN, NY 11226 RAMPHAL, DULARIE AND FRIEDMAN & LEVINE INC. 122-05 LINDEN BLVD SOUTH OZONE PARK, NY 11420 RAPID RESPONSE RESTORATION LLC 42-06A BELL BLVD. #430 BAYSIDE, NY 11361 RELIANT CONDITIONING CORP 83 DEWEY AVENUE BRONXVILLE, NY 10708 ROBINSON, JEANNELL & DARYL 6 PARK LANE MIDDLE ISLAND, NY 11953 SCHIECK, WILLIAM & KERIN 92 WILLOW STREET GARDEN CITY, NY 11530 SHAMAS CONTRACTING COMPANY INC 4509 PARK AVENUE BRONX, NY 10457 SIMMONS, SHIRLEY 105-50 132ND STREET RICHMOND HILL, NY 11419

SMITH, RASHONDA D 8 THOMAS DRIVE N BABYLON, NY 11703 SONDEJ, JOZEF 7103 FRESH POND RD APT 3C RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 SOOKRA, VYJAYANTI 117 ASHFORD ST. BROOKLYN, NY 11207 UMEK CONSTRUCTION INC 22 KNAPPS LANE PINE ISLAND, NY 10969 UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTION INC 5224 3RD AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11220 VAN ARSDALE, ALANSON & BARBARA 254 WICKSHIRE DR E MEADOW, NY 11554 WHITE, MAUVALYN & MICHAEL 65 ROCKLAND AVE W BABYLON, NY 11704 A REPORT OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HAS BEEN MADE TO THOMAS P. DINAPOLI, THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO SECTION 701 AND/OR SECTION 1316 OF THE ABANDONED PROPERTY LAW. A LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS APPEARING FROM THE RECORDS OF THE SAID INSURANCE COMPANY TO BE ENTITLED THERETO IS ON FILE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE CORPORATION LOCATED AT 2250 CHAPEL AVENUE WEST, SUITE 200, CHERRY HILL, NJ 08002 WHERE SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY IS PAYABLE. SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY WILL BE PAID ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 31ST 2017 NEXT TO PERSONS ESTABLISHING TO OUR SATISFACTION THEIR RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAME. ON OR BEFORE THE SUCCEEDING SEPTEMBER 10TH, SUCH UNCLAIMED FUNDS STILL REMAINING UNCLAIMED WILL BE PAID TO THOMAS P. DINAPOLI, THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. UPON SUCH PAYMENT THIS COMPANY SHALL NO LONGER BE LIABLE FOR THE PROPERTY. American European Insurance Company American European Insurance Company formerly known as Merchants Insurance of New Hampshire

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1301945 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 695 KNICKERBOCKER AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11221. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1301866 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 3 RICHARDSON ST BROOKLYN, NY 11211. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1301892 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 1460A FLATBUSH AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11210. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

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3 RICHARDSON MEXICO LLC.

BASHI LLC.

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, MAY 24TH, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for BE BAMBA GROUP LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 265 W 20TH ST in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, MAY 24TH, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for WFRB, INC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 141 NAGLE AVE in the Borough of Manhattan for a term of two years.

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

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

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, MAY 24TH, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for NIGHTS & WEEKENDS BK CORP to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 627 MANHATTAN AVE in the Borough of Brooklyn for a term of two years.

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, MAY 24TH, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for NEXT ACT, LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 590 FULTON ST in the Borough of Brooklyn 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

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, MAY 31ST, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for AURORA FB, INC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 211 DEKALB AVE in the Borough of Brooklyn for a term of two years. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 4555 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on May 15, 2017 and end on May 24, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. Household goods and other effects. #9P01A - Nicklaus Jones. The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale

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May 1, 2017 Notice of Formation of TJS Solutions, LLC. Articles of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/6/2015. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to LLC: 633 3rd Ave., 17th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any Lawful Business Purpose .

Notice of Formation of PITCH MUSIC, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 2/27/17. Offic loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLC and sent to: 7014 13th Ave, Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Princ bus addr: 140 Columbia St. #12C, NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act.

DYNAMIC SUPPLIERS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/26/2017. 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, 118 Falmouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose .

Notice of Formation of B&H Restaurant LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York 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: 1077 River Rd, Edgewater, NJ 07020. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 660 12TH AVENUE SUBSIDIARY, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/7/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/31/17. 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 102 GREENE MEZZ LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/19/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/13/17. 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.

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PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 87’ & 92’) on the building at 606 120th Street, New York, NY (20170373). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1301895 for summer on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 19 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038 for on-premises consumption. TB FULTON 2 LLC

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LOSERS KRISTINA JOHNSON A hastily approved “free tuition” plan could hurt SUNY students as much as it helps. A bipartisan bill would bring back more oversight over SUNY contracts. Other challenges include struggling institutions like SUNY Downstate and a governor who likes to meddle. But Johnson’s appointment as SUNY chancellor was widely praised, and if nothing else her new $560,000 salary will make it easier to handle the stress. THE BEST OF THE REST

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New York pols have been stuck in the past. Gov. Andrew Cuomo hopped behind the wheel of FDR’s 1932 Packard for the opening of the new Kosciuszko Bridge. And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is inviting the 1986 Mets back for a celebration on City Hall steps – making us wonder if the diehard Sox fan will shed a tear. Relive the recent past, and see who was a Ray Knight and who was a Bill Buckner last week.

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BO DIETL After starting off the week strong with an endorsement from New York City Councilman Eric Ulrich, political party-less mayoral candidate Dietl shot himself in the foot, making a questionable remark comparing a black judge to first lady Chirlane. While Politico reminded readers of Dietl’s history of inflammatory comments, Dietl sent out an email with a headline that’s best avoided: “BO DIETL: I AM NOT A RACIST!!” THE REST OF THE WORST

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Solving the borough’s

biggest policy puzzles

behind-the-scenes players you need

ALBERTO AMORE

De Blasio’s stylist got some press amid questions about hizzoner’s salt-n-pepa.

MARY BASSETT

NYC is apparently better at finding homes for pets than people.

MARIA COMELLA

The former Christie aide crosses the river as Cuomo’s new chief of staff.

BRIAN KAVANAGH, DAN GARODNICK, LIZ KRUEGER & CAROLYN MALONEY The Waterfront Greenway is whole!

JUDITH CLARK

The Brinks robbery driver won’t be getting away any time soon.

PAUL DEAN, ROBERT ESPINEL & GAETANO VALASTRO

These retired NYPD cops are under fire for a gun permit bribery scheme.

THOMAS LOPEZ-PIERRE

The anti-Semitic candidate violated a protection order issued by his ex-wife.

PETER WARD

The union boss wants to aid Dems across the U.S., but helped the GOP in New York

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The pastor who’s answering East Brooklyn’s prayers

THE LITIGATOR

How LETITIA JAMES gave the public advocate’s office some teeth

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