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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

After Gov. Andrew Cuomo finalized his policy-laden state budget in April, he suggested there was little left to accomplish. “If we didn’t get it done in the budget, it means you don’t have the political will to get it done,” the governor said, adding, “Frankly, everything big we wanted to get done we got done in the budget.” Of course, Cuomo’s assessment reflects his own political will as much as anyone’s. As Albany observers know, the governor’s structural power and political skill usually are enough to persuade state lawmakers to pass what he wants. If ethics reforms and tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants were top priorities for him, he likely could get them done. Indeed, while tying policy legislation to the budget increases the odds of success, two of the governor’s landmark legislative victories – the legalization of same-sex marriage and passage of the SAFE Act gun control law – were passed on their own. In this edition, we highlight issues that are still being debated in Albany – even if they aren’t “big” enough for Cuomo.

CONTENTS BOCHINCHE & BUZZ ... 6

Gossip on Eric Schneiderman, John Liu, Nicole Malliotakis and more

SLANT ... 28

New York City Councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Stephen Levin say Fair Fares would offer an escape from poverty

NEW YORK NONPROFIT MEDIA ... 26

Nonprofits are feeling scared but empowered after the first few months of the Trump presidency

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

COMMENTARY

Eddie Borges says a federal lulu probe could be disastrous for everyone in Albany ... 8

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Ross Barkan on whether impeachment would really be good for Democrats

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SESSION COUNTDOWN, PART 1

As the session winds down, a look at how state lawmakers will tackle education, infrastructure, housing, and ethics reforms ... 14

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LAST WEEK’S HEADLINES

From the PODCAST A Q&A with U.S. Rep.

NYDIA VELÁZQUEZ

C&S: The Puerto Rican Day Parade is June 11, and there’s controversy about honoring Oscar López Rivera. How do you feel about him be celebrated as a National Freedom Hero? NV: For many of us, Oscar López Rivera is our Nelson Mandela. We cannot overlook the abuse of power from the federal government, the FBI, and the (U.S. Department of Justice) by imposing such a severe sentence of 70 years for a seditious crime. Not even presenting evidence that Oscar López Rivera was even involved or a co-conspirator to (the Fraunces Tavern bombing) that was committed here in New York. So there was no evidence at all. He was in Puerto Rico. He wasn’t here at the time. So 70 years for a seditious crime is an abuse of power. No matter how you look at it. The only crime that he committed in my view was to love Puerto Rico and to pursue the freedom of Puerto Rico. C&S: Some accused the New York City mayor’s office of inappropriately stoking fears around federal immigration officials visiting a public school and asking for a student. Did you think that was the case? Are you concerned about unprecedented steps from immigration agents? NV: Whether or not the mayor’s reaction was without checking first or trying to get to the bottom of the facts, it shows how much fear exists in the immigrant community. And I think that the mayor did the right thing because people need to know. And especially our children and the parents of our children, that they have in the mayor someone who will be standing up to the ill, mean-spirited policies coming out of the White House. Listen, subscribe and review this week’s podcast by searching for “New York Slant” on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or your favorite podcast app.

DE-KLEIN-ING FORTUNES Already dogged by a stipend scandal that has caught the attention of prosecutors, state Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein is facing calls to break off his relationship with state Senate Republicans. The push also comes as Democrats regained a numerical majority in the state Senate with Brian Benjamin winning an open Harlem seat. Smelling blood, the Working Families Party criticized Klein for empowering “Trump” Republicans. Minnesota U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democratic National Committee leader, said he would try to “bring together a Democratic majority in the New York state Senate.” Even state Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the GOP, called on Klein to “unconditionally and publicly rejoin the Democrats.” TRUMP UP THE VOLUME Facing an onslaught of negative headlines about ties with Russia, President Donald Trump’s administration changed the subject by introducing a budget proposal that would reduce spending by a whopping $4.5 trillion. It was widely criticized in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the social safety net cuts would be “devastating” and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said “children will die” if the plan goes through. DE BLASIO IN DA BRONX De Blasio held his latest City Hall in Your Borough, relocating to the Bronx for the week to take questions and roll out a few announcements. The diehard Red Sox fan displayed his aversion to the local New York Yankees, but perhaps the biggest development was an announcement that he now supports a long-delayed plan to convert the Kingsbridge Armory into an ice rink complex.

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DID YOU MISS IT? SEEN IN QUEENS Queens was the place to be seen on the evening of May 18, as City & State launched a special issue of our magazine focused on the borough. Held at Central Lounge in Astoria, the event featured Borough President Melinda Katz, state Senate Deputy Minority Leader Michael Gianaris and many of the borough’s most influential figures in business, organized labor and nonprofits.

State Sen. Michael Gianaris

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The Queens Influentials

Queens College President Félix Matos Rodríguez, Borough President Melinda Katz and Communications Workers of America Local 1180 President Arthur Cheliotes

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056 President Mark Henry

Former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate and Angel Audiffred

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

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 7 p.m. – The New York state Department of Public Service holds the first meeting of the Indian Point Closure Task Force, including state Sen. Terrence Murphy and Assemblywoman Sandy Galef, Cortlandt Town Hall, 1 Heady St., Cortlandt.

THURSDAY, JUNE 1 8:30 a.m. – New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito joins City Councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Carlos Menchaca and others in hosting a Summit on Latinos in NYC, Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work, 2180 Third Ave., Manhattan.

SATURDAY, JUNE 3 12 p.m. – Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins keynotes and former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer attend the New York Society for Ethical Culture’s Public Service Luncheon, 2 W. 64th St., Manhattan.

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Exclusive scoops and insider gossip from

GERSON BORRERO

SE JODIO THE PR PARADE IF THE “BLUE FLU” HITS TOWN There’s a buzz in municipal labor circles that as June 11 gets closer there’s going to be an outbreak of “blue flu” that will spread among the NYPD rank-and-file. The mass “sick day” among police officers would be a means of protesting the presence and designation of Oscar López Rivera as a National Freedom Hero by the National Puerto Rican Day Parade’s board of directors. Bochincheros tell us that New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch – who’s very creative in finding ways to deal with people that the PBA opposes (just ask Mayor Bill de Blasio) – already has this in mind. “If the blue flu hits the rank-and-file, it could put the parade at risk of taking place,” said a bochinchero who is familiar with the operations of these big events. “The permit to march on Fifth Avenue could be revoked if security can’t be guaranteed.” I bet the board didn’t see this one coming. PATRICK LYNCH

SCHNEIDERMAN BEING SERVED AN ARROZ CON CU ... Fed up with the mess that the National Puerto Rican Day Parade board of directors has created, there’s bochinche among well-known puertorriqueños that they want a meeting with state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. “He (Eric) handpicked the leadership and let Melissa (Mark-Viverito) politicize the process. It’s time for him to step in,” said one of the bochincheros who’s not happy with the attorney general. B&B was told that Schneiderman “won’t get involved unless there’s some misappropriation of funds or some other administrative matter that affects the organization.” We hear that’s not going to sit well with folks that have lost faith in the current board leadership. Stay tuned.

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NICOLE GAINING TRACTION The late entrant into the 2017 New York City mayoral race, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, is being viewed favorably among Republicans. One bochinchero said, “She’s energetic and engaging.” There are others who feel that Malliotakis “beats Massey in the primary but loses in the November general.” There is consensus that the debates between Malliotakis and Massey will be fun to watch. What’s telling among Republicans that we’ve spoken to is that “Paul Massey is his own worst enemy.” Two bochincheros agreed, with one saying, “He’s a nice enough guy, probably makes a good neighbor, but he’s low energy. The 2017 version of Jeb Bush.” One knowledgeable GOP bochinchero emphasized that Massey is “probably a good neighbor, but would make a shitty mayor.” I’m sure some of you are thinking, “We already have that at City Hall.”

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LIU VS. AVELLA REMATCH One Queens bochinchero – a lifelong Democrat and county insider – told B&B that there’s a groundswell of support among the regulars to convince former New York City Comptroller John Liu to primary state Sen. Tony Avella, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference. “He (Liu) was a little radioactive then (in 2014), but he’s going to have solid support now. Tony has very few friends in government.” That support from the county organization and “a good look at the numbers in their first race” should be enough to get Liu a victory in a primary, according to the bochinchero. Democrats in Queens are already buzzing about Assemblyman Francisco Moya taking on state Sen. José Peralta, another IDC member. However, if professor Liu decides that academia isn’t cutting it for him this could be a pelea to look forward to. Let us pray! JOHN LIU

TONY AVELLA

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

Our Perspective NYC Sends a Message by Banning On-Call Scheduling By Stuart Appelbaum, President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, RWDSU, UFCW

orking in retail in New York City can be a tough way to make a living. Low wages and insufficient hours can make it a struggle just to get by. And, until now, retail workers have faced the brutal practice known as on-call scheduling. But finally, thanks to a new law passed by the New York City Council, with Mayor de Blasio set to sign it soon, on-call scheduling will be a thing of the past. The RWDSU is proud to have led the fight against on-call scheduling, which disrupts workers’ lives and their families’ lives by requiring them to keep themselves available when they are not scheduled to work with no guarantee of an actual work shift. We work with retail workers, both unionized and nonunionized, every day. And we know how on-call scheduling has made it impossible for workers to take a needed

second job or plan for the basic necessities of their lives, including child care, education, or medical care. That’s why the passage of Intro. 1387 is so important. The new law will restore control and balance to the lives of working people in New York City. The law bans New York City employers from scheduling workers to be on call. Employers will not be able to cancel a shift within 72 hours of the start of the shift except under extreme conditions like a natural disaster. Employers can only add shifts within 72 hours with workers’ consent. The new law takes away from employers a cruel, exploitative computer-driven system designed to optimize employer profits while sacrificing any considerations for working

men and women. It will restore control and balance to the lives of working people in New York City. Retail workers deserve to thrive, not just survive. We applaud the city council’s action, and look forward to the mayor signing this bill into law. The de Blasio Administration’s partnership with the RWDSU to support workers sets a national precedent that will be felt across the country. It’s important that more cities recognize the destructive effect of on-call scheduling and ban the practice. Retail workers deserve to thrive, not just survive. And banning on-call scheduling is an important part of setting an environment where retail workers can move forward and build better lives.

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COMMENTARY

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MEN BLACK EVERYBODY IN ALBANY SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THE FEDS’ LULU PROBE By EDDIE BORGES DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS in both the state Senate and Assembly must be getting hot under the collar since learning that the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York is sending federal investigators to Albany to look into a legislative slush fund unknown to most voters. Of course, for this latest investigation of public corruption in the state Capitol, legislators can thank the cannibals among the state Senate Democrats who have been trying to make a meal of their colleagues who formed the Independent Democratic Conference. Once the feds arrive in Albany, they are unlikely to limit their investigation to the IDC members that the Democrats were targeting. Investigators will be legally obliged to follow any leads they find, in whatever direction that takes them.

But it’s not only state legislators who should be worried. The majority parties in county legislatures across the state also may get some unwanted attention as media outlets work to localize the story. The legislative stipends, or “lulus,” are payments to members of the state Legislature for chairing committees and task forces, or for holding leadership positions. Until this week, most New Yorkers had no idea that on top of the $79,500 annual salary legislators collect, almost all of them have been nickel-and-diming taxpayers with extra fees for work presumably covered under the job description for “state legislator.” The minority party conferences, the Democrats in the state Senate and the Republicans in the Assembly, get some leadership lulus, but are locked out of the more

lucrative lulus for committee chairs. This includes the legislator who is leading the charge for a criminal investigation. State Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins gets the third-largest payment of any member of the state Senate from this legislative slush fund. Last week, Stewart-Cousins announced she was shocked – shocked! – that there was gambling in the casino and demanded a probe into the payments that some IDC members were getting even though they were not committee chairs. That’s pretty daring for several reasons: • Stewart-Cousins takes home an annual $34,500 lulu for serving as minority leader. • Democrats and Republicans, just two months ago, breathed a huge sigh of relief when President Donald Trump fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. He was investigat-

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ing leads developed by the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which state legislators had pressed Gov. Andrew Cuomo to shut down before it finished its work. • And, finally, there is the abuse of the system that the lulu represents, which editorial boards around the state have been writing about for decades. And now, reporters and editorial writers are back on the lulu beat. Lulu is short for “payment in lieu of expenses.” Yet, a review of the Legislature’s budget will show that legislators who collect lulus are also still putting in for expenses. In the state Legislature, they refer to their expenses as per diems. For each day spent in Albany, New York legislators each collect $172, even if they live within walking distance of the state Capitol. But even that is not enough for some legislators, and every couple of years some of them go to jail for falsifying expenses. Maybe instead of “per diem,” the more honest name would be the “double-dip.” Legislators have been whining for years that they are underpaid; yet they have not had the courage to vote for a raise for themselves, as the law allows. Instead, they’ve

been dipping into the state treasury for extra fees. And now the feds have accepted Stewart-Cousins’ invitation to swarm Albany and review legislators’ financial records – the ultimate nuclear option in the bloodletting between mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference.

of trying to harness voters’ discontent with the national election by reinvigorating the state party to elect more Democrats, the leader of the state Senate mainline Democrats is plotting to run candidates against fellow Democrats. And now she’s compounding her failures by encouraging the feds to sift through the muck.

MAYBE INSTEAD OF “PER DIEM,” THE MORE HONEST NAME WOULD BE THE “DOUBLE-DIP.” Now any chance of Stewart-Cousins ever reuniting Democrats in the state Senate is likely over. That’s probably why she’s exploring running for county executive in Westchester. Why endure another legislative session with the “three men in the room” hammering out important decisions while she peers through the keyhole? It didn’t have to be this way. Stewart-Cousins’ decision not to reach out to IDC Leader Jeffrey Klein following the 2016 election was a failure of leadership. Instead

Millions of New Yorkers have been marching in streets across the state since Trump was elected president. Many thought that New York would be a sanctuary for progressive politics during this era. But for progressive politics to flourish, we actually need smart, united progressive leaders, and an end to petty infighting.

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WHY DO YOU HATE TRUMP SO MUCH?

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New York Democrats want him gone. But their problem is with his style more than his substance. By ROSS BARKAN

EMOCRATS EVERYWHERE ARE dreaming of President Donald Trump’s impeachment. It’s only a matter of time, they say, until the corruption catches up to him and the House and Senate stand together to terminate this national nightmare. For most of them, it’s merely a question of when, not if. A recent piece in The New Yorker, a publication as fervently anti-Trump as any mainstream news outlet, is dedicated to this possibility, exploring the myriad ways Trump’s first term could be cut short. “Trump’s critics are actively exploring the path to impeachment or the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which allows for the replacement of a president who is judged to be mentally unfit,” Evan Osnos writes. Undoubtedly, Trump’s failure to divest from his business ventures, his possible violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause – a ban on presidents accepting gifts from foreign states – and his sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey all demonstrate he has a gross disregard for ethics. An independent investigation – whether helmed by newly named Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller or an independent commission – must air all the facts about his contact with the Russian government. Whether Trump survives four years will ultimately come down to the composition of the House and Senate. If Democrats can defy long odds and retake the House in 2018, they can begin impeachment proceedings and, armed with subpoena power, can make Trump’s life very difficult. Republicans know next year’s midterm elections could be particularly disastrous. Yet the Democratic obsession with deposing Trump obscures several uncomfortable truths. For one, Trump’s vice president is Mike Pence, who, if Trump were successfully impeached and forced out of office, would be the most unabashedly right-wing president of the last half-century, if not longer. He’s a man far more committed to realizing the Koch brothers’ Hobbesian, ultra-capitalist dystopia than Trump, who is a leader without a fixed ideology beyond allegiance to his own ego. As much as the left decries Trump’s attempts to end democracy as we know it, a Pence presidency represents something far more dangerous. This isn’t immediately obvious because Trump is, for a large swath of America, a terrifying president and a mercurial bully with the Twitter feed fit for the WWE personality he once was. He is a rash and extremely erratic man now blessed with

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vast and dizzying powers. He does not read; he does not learn. Other than shedding the veneer of liberalism he adopted for his days as a New York socialite, very little about his personality has changed in the past 40 years. Many media talking heads and Democrats, however, appear to be more concerned with Trump’s style than his substance. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said last month that she “never thought (she’d) pray for the day” George W. Bush was president again. CBS News’ “Face the Nation” moderator John Dickerson recently lament-

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ed the “coarseness” coming from the White House, and the ways Tom Perez, a Democratic National Committee chairman unafraid of foul language, is encouraging a race to the bottom. Bemoaning how Trump is not presidential has become something of a cottage industry. The subtext here is that the establishment left and mainstream media, each cloistered in their affluent urban enclaves, would tolerate Trump a lot more if he just started acting like the president from “The West Wing.” If only he had the sophistication of Barack

Obama, the grandfatherly mien of Ronald Reagan, or the down-home sunniness of Jimmy Carter. If only he showed up at the White House Correspondents’ dinner and stopped saying mean things about the media on Twitter. If only he was cool, calm and collected, projecting the image of a leader that an educated American, prancing through Europe on holiday, could be proud of. Pence, the potential 46th president, would punish progressives with more competence and gravitas. A former congressman and governor with a lifetime’s worth of rela-

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tionships on Capitol Hill wouldn’t struggle so mightily to rewrite the tax code and eviscerate Obamacare. He wouldn’t let a budget go by without slashing and burning Planned Parenthood because he’s a man of God who knows how to work the levers of government to screw over women. He wouldn’t hesitate to launch a war in Syria because he’s not an isolationist paleocon – he’s the good Republican foot soldier who proudly cheered on Bush’s Iraq War. Speaking of Bush, it’s amusing that Pelosi is suddenly nostalgic for those eight years that inflicted far more damage on the country and world than Trump could hope to match, barring a nuclear showdown with North Korea. As of today, there is more blood on the hands of Bush and every politician who voted for the Iraq War than Trump’s – and that includes his vanquished opponent and hero of the so-called resistance, Hillary Clinton. The toll is still staggering to comprehend: hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and more than 4,000 U.S. troops dead, the entire Middle East in flames, with ISIS as Bush’s sinister parting gift to the world, and the ensuing global chaos that will likely characterize much of the 21st century. The fundamental weakness of the establishment left – the Democratic Party and its many pundits and operatives scattered across the media and in various consulting and lobbying shops – is laid bare with every lamentation of Trump’s uncouthness. Bush built a surveillance state and a military machine designed to ensure the U.S. remains permanently at war. Democrats enabled and encouraged this state of affairs under Obama because he was their executive. As long as he was launching drone strikes with a smile, all was good in Washington. Would it be better for Democrats if a seemingly sober, clean-cut Republican blocked Muslims from entering this country or did his best to destroy the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? Would they sleep better at night if President Ted Cruz or President Marco Rubio fought hard to privatize Medicaid and Social Security, obliterating whatever is left of the New Deal consensus? Eventually, Trump will no longer be president and American democracy, despite all the wailing to the contrary, will have persisted. What form it takes under the next Democratic president will tell us whether the Trump years taught us anything.

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Ross Barkan’s work has appeared in the New York Observer, Village Voice, The Daily Beast, Salon and Harvard Review.

GATEWAY PROJECT OFFERS TIME FOR A NEW APPROACH TRUMP DEFINING OPPORTUNITY TO PENNASTATION By DeniseRichardson, Richardson, Executive Director of the By Denise Executive Director of the GCA NYGCA NY

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These short-term disruptions New York with the Gateway Program – a plan to, among other things, createwill pale in comparison to the very real prospect of further cancellations if either the East a desperately needed new commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson between River or Hudson RiverJersey. tunnelsThis fail. project State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli hasnortheast calculated New York and New would strengthen a fragile the of productivity from repeated Penn Station shutdowns at $60-million rail loss system that powers a multi-trillion dollar northeast economy and would annually, and that number is just the economic impact on the east side of the immediately set the tone for Trump’s next four years. Hudson River. The real question now is how do we work together to solve a problem While critics will point to the challenge of paying for its $24 billion price tag, that has the very real potential to literally derail the entire region’s economy? the groundwork has already been prepared for funding Gateway. The Obama Administration has agreed to have Washington pay for half the The GCA has previously advocated for a public private partnership (“P3”) to operate project, and New York and New Jersey would cover the other half. Sources of Penn Station. The P3’s revenue would be derived from payments made by Amtrak, funding continue to be identified, with a positive step occurring recently when NJ Transit and the MTA for using Penn Station and its tracks, as well as rents paid thethe Port Authority New York and to New Jersey committed more $300 and by station’s retailoftenants. 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HEN A BELATED STATE budget agreement was announced in April, officials gave themselves a pat on the back. Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted an increase in education aid, a free tuition program for some public university students and more than a dozen other measures – while keeping overall spending in check. Democrats joined the governor in applauding a law raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18. Republicans praised the new workers’ compensation reforms. And members of both parties welcomed the expansion of ride-hailing services in upstate New York and the allocation of $2.5 billion for clean water infrastructure. “With this budget, New York is once again leading the nation and showing what responsible government can achieve,” Cuomo boasted. But while the state budget was jampacked with new spending commitments and policy changes, there’s plenty that didn’t get done. To cite a few examples, lawmakers are challenging Cuomo’s oversight of state economic development programs, state Senate Republicans are holding up mayoral control of New York City schools and a battle over vacation rental websites like Airbnb has reignited. In this two-part feature, City & State reviews the key policy debates, the post-budget funding fights and the political battles behind some of the legislative standoffs. This print edition provides updates on education, infrastructure, housing and ethics. Next week, we delve into health care, labor, energy and more.

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CONTENTS

EDUCATION

THE DEBATE OVER CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS HEATS UP – AGAIN.

INFRASTRUCTURE GRIDLOCK ON TRAINS AND SUBWAYS IS GETTING WORSE. CAN THE STATE FIX IT?

HOUSING

A BILL TO BOLSTER SHORTTERM RENTALS – LIKE AIRBNB – IS UP IN THE AIR.

GOOD GOVERNMENT LAWMAKERS PUSH FOR RENEWED OVERSIGHT OF STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.

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EDUCATION Extra credit State Senate Republicans are delaying the renewal of mayoral control over New York City schools while GOP state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan bargains for a higher cap on charter schools in the five boroughs. Tensions between Flanagan’s conference and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were heightened after a failed effort by the mayor to oust state Senate Republicans from power in 2014, and since then mayoral control has been extended only for one year at a time. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a de Blasio ally, rejected the linking of charter schools and mayoral control, which expires in June.

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NEW YORK CITY’S now-annual fight over who should control the nation’s largest school system is officially underway. On the same day the Assembly passed a two-year extension of mayoral control, the state Senate majority leader threw down the gauntlet. In a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio last week, John Flanagan wrote that the way New York City released its school budget information “does not satisfy the law” and does not allow for a “meaningful analysis” of an extension of mayoral control. “A fundamental shortcoming of this administration has been a lack of transparency and response to requests for information,” the letter reads. “The lack of detail on how New York City spends the almost $9 billion provided to it by the state has been one of the key determining factors in a short-term extension of mayoral control.” City officials said the information Flanagan requested would be available online by the end of the week. Freddi Goldstein, a spokeswoman for the mayor’s office, addressed Flanagan’s letter directly. “Senator Flanagan received the information required by law and more,” she wrote in

a statement. “It’s time for the Senate Republicans to stop playing games and let the city get on with the work of educating our 1.1 million kids.” For the past two years, de Blasio has been granted only one-year extensions of mayoral control, even though he asked in 2015 for mayoral control to be made permanent, and in 2017 for a “multi-year” renewal. This year, it briefly appeared that a oneyear extension might be slipped quietly into the budget deal, but that did not come to pass. Now, the issue will likely be resolved this summer, leaving plenty of time for another back-and-forth between state Senate Republicans and de Blasio. State lawmakers have capitalized on that opportunity in the past. After de Blasio’s hearing last year, Flanagan said de Blasio displayed a “disturbing lack of personal knowledge about city schools.” De Blasio then skipped the next hearing, which allowed lawmakers to make another round of critiques.

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This year’s state budget included Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s marquee free tuition program, although it is somewhat limited in that it only covers last-dollar costs for certain in-state residents at SUNY and CUNY schools. In a last-minute change, state Senate Republicans inserted a controversial mandate that scholarship recipients would have to work in-state for four years after graduation or have the funds converted to a loan. Some Assembly members have proposed to loosen the requirements, including on taking a full credit load or the fouryear graduation timeline, and the education committee chairs in both houses have raised issues about insufficient state funding.

FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS

Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration rolled out its 2018 budget proposal, which the state Education Department said would reduce education aid to New York by $433.5 million. While many observers expect Congress to ultimately pass a budget with less draconian cuts, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa warned that the proposed cuts “will have far-reaching impacts across the nation, with life-shattering consequences for New York’s children.”

NO MORE COMMON CORE

Following widespread outcry among teachers, parents and elected officials, the state Department of Education announced that it would revise and rebrand the controversial Common Core standards. This month, the new education standards – dubbed the Next Generation English Language Arts and Mathematics Learning Standards – were officially rolled out following an extensive review, and the Board of Regents are expected to vote on the changes in June. If the changes jeopardize federal funding or fail to ease tensions in local school districts, state lawmakers could be taking another look at the matter. -Ashley Hupfl and Jon Lentz

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HOUSING

LAWMAKERS HOME IN ON AIRBNB AND PROPERTY TAXES By ASHLEY HUPFL

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have tried to stem the rising tide of homelessness, but housing continues to be a major issue across the state. Here is a rundown of some of the measures on the table in the final weeks of the state legislative session. VACATION RENTAL WEBSITES Last October, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that targeted websites like Airbnb by penalizing residents who rent out their apartments on a short-term basis. Airbnb challenged the law in court, and in Albany this session the company is pushing for legislation sponsored by Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol that would create exceptions to allow for more vacation rentals. The Hotel and Motel Trades Council, a union opposed to Airbnb, and its allies launched a counteroffensive against the measure. PROPERTY TAX REFORM New York City’s property tax system has long been criticized as unfair, with lower rates in wealthier areas and higher rates in poorer areas. City officials have pledged

to address the matter, but due to the complexity of the tax code and the political risks of changing the status quo, not much has been done. State Sen. Betty Little, the Republican chairwoman of the state Senate housing committee, has called for a commission to review and recommend changes to the city’s property tax system. Separately, in response to concerns about high property taxes outside of New York City, state Senate Republicans passed legislation that would make the governor’s property tax cap permanent. FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for 2018, which he rolled out last week, would slash funding for a number of programs, among them public housing. While Congress is expected to ultimately pass a budget with less drastic reductions, New York officials have assailed the cuts, including to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program. “This plan would also hollow out the Community Development Block Grant initiative, which funds

Meals on Wheels and is critical to many of our communities,” warned U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez. If the cuts go through, city and state lawmakers will have to explore ways to cover the shortfall. WHAT GOT DONE The 421-a tax abatement program was renewed in the state budget as the Affordable New York housing program. Under it, developers of new residential projects with at least 300 units of affordable housing in certain areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens that meet construction wage requirements and maintain a set number of affordable rental units for 40 years will qualify for a full property tax abatement for 35 years. For all other affordable developments, eligibility will be tied to the number of affordable units. The Cuomo administration estimates this will create 2,500 affordable units each year. The state budget also allocated $2.5 billion for affordable housing projects, as part of a $20 billion five-year plan. The funding aims to create or preserve 100,000 affordable housing units and 6,000 supportive housing units.

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AS TRAINS BREAK DOWN, LAWMAKERS HAVE YET TO ARRIVE AT FIXES By JON LENTZ NEW YORK CITY’S subways are bursting at the seams, with commuters cramming into increasingly overcrowded cars and signal malfunctions contributing to a steady uptick in delays. Derailments on the downstate commuter rail network have reverberated across the system. And while elected officials emphasize highprofile expansion projects, such as the Second Avenue Subway, maintenance and upgrades have languished. It’s hit a boiling point in recent days, with elected officials trying to deflect blame. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo clashed over who controls the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which manages much of the region’s mass transit system. The governor then shifted attention to the White House, calling on President Donald Trump to help deal with New York Penn Station’s

track closings this summer. Cuomo also appealed to the public for “groundbreaking and innovative solutions” to the problems. But lawmakers already have ideas about how to improve the system, starting with ensuring that the more than $30 billion in capital funding for the MTA is actually spent. “A few years ago, the five-year capital plan allocated an enormous amount of money, probably not enough, and that money needs to be spent appropriately and in a very timely fashion, and that doesn’t always happen,” said Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which has some oversight over the MTA. The Bronx lawmaker said that securing more money is also part of the solution, and echoed a concern raised during this year’s

budget process: Cuomo cut the MTA’s funds by $65 million. The administration argued that the loss was more than made up elsewhere, but lawmakers and transit advocates have continued to hammer away at the issue. “We fought, and we ultimately were not successful, but he cut the MTA budget by $65 million,” Dinowitz said. “Now, they could say that’s not a lot of money compared to the overall budget, but $65 million is still $65 million. That money should not have been cut from the operating expenses at the MTA.” Dinowitz also joined dozens of city lawmakers who called on Cuomo to make changes to speed up bus service: allowing passengers to board through every door and allowing bus drivers to trigger a green light while approaching an intersection. “Those two relatively simple

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and inexpensive changes, I believe, would help a lot,” he said. Other lawmakers are championing legislation authorizing the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to halt payments to Amtrak, which runs Penn Station, to compensate commuters for unscheduled delays. Amtrak has been under fire since a minor derailment set off cascading delays in early April, with the governor suggesting that operation should be transferred to a private entity. The MTA, LIRR and New Jersey Transit rent space in Penn Station. “What I believe here is that this gives the backing to the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to stop payments, and as I’ve been reading in the news and hearing on the news is Amtrak, after the governor and our national representatives … have gotten together calling on Trump for federal funding, which I fully support, Amtrak came out and said that they have the money to do this fix,” said state Sen. Elaine Phillips, the bill’s sponsor who also chairs the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee. “So that’s even more reason why the MTA/Long Island Rail Road should be withholding our lease payments.”

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Delays ahead WATER QUALITY

After facing sharp criticism over the state’s response to water contamination in the village of Hoosick Falls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year signed the $2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which is aimed at upgrading drinking and clean water infrastructure across the state and instituting new quality control measures. But despite the latest efforts, Hoosick Falls residents have continued to call on the state to provide an alternative water supply, while the state Senate recently advanced a measure that would let the village issue $1.5 million in bonds to help cover cleanup costs.

DESIGN-BUILD

The recent opening of the first span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge was widely praised, but while the construction project benefited from an innovative design-build project delivery method, many other projects in the city and the state do not have the authorization to do so. In particular, New York City officials have

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repeatedly called on Albany to allow it to use design-build, which proponents tout as a way to control costs and meet deadlines. Around half a dozen state agencies and authorities currently can use the method, which combines the design and building phases into a single contract. The state Thruway Authority is using design-build on the bridge that will replace the Tappan Zee Bridge. Cuomo this year tried but failed to allow design-build at other state agencies.

WHAT GOT DONE

Despite the corruption allegations linked to the original Buffalo Billion program, the latest state budget agreement included $500 million for a Buffalo Billion phase II. The intent is to continue the revitalization of the city, which has been cited by the governor as a success story. Another $120 million was included to upgrade 16 Long Island Rail Road stations, along with an additional $20 million to develop a direct LIRR connection to MacArthur Airport.

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AFTER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had developed a reputation as the “Sheriff of Albany,” state lawmakers must have breathed a sigh of relief – and seemingly stopped pretending to care about ethics reform. Discussions around reforms became more prominent after Bharara’s office arrested both legislative leaders – Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos – within weeks of each other on corruption charges in 2015. Each year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposes ethics reforms as part of his agenda, with some success and failures. This year, the governor proposed the usual ethics reforms he has included for the past few years, but little was done to include them in the state budget. He has blamed the state Legislature for the lack

and they’re not the ones interested in changing it,” Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger said. “I have had more than a few elected officials say to me, ‘Public opinions polls show that no one really cares very much about this. Yippie! We don’t have to do anything.’” Among the good government proposals that have failed to pass in recent years are limits on outside income earned by lawmakers and closing the so-called “LLC loophole” to rein in virtually unlimited campaign contributions. Some have also called for changes to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which has drawn criticism for a lack of independence and transparency. Following the indictments of some of Cuomo’s closest confidants for alleged bribery and pay-to-play schemes involving state economic development

“If there was something specific that the governor wanted to accomplish or at least put out there, he should have done it through the budget process because he put everything but the kitchen sink in the budget anyways,” Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb said. “So, I think it rings hollow when he says the Legislature doesn’t have the appetite for it.” During this year’s legislative session, allegations of corruption have continued to dog lawmakers. Recently, it was reported that stipends that are supposed to go to committee chairs in the state Senate went to several GOP and Independent Democratic Conference members who do not actually chair those committees. Krueger said she stands with her conference leader, state Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who has demanded that the practice be

“IF THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIFIC THAT THE GOVERNOR WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH OR AT LEAST PUT OUT THERE, HE SHOULD HAVE DONE IT THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS BECAUSE HE PUT

EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK IN THE BUDGET ANYWAYS.” of progress, arguing that lawmakers have already agreed to some reforms and have no appetite for more. However, some legislators disagree. This year, the state Senate passed term limits for legislative leaders and committee chairs. Lawmakers also approved a measure that would strip government pensions from lawmakers who are convicted of corruption – a seemingly commonsense reform. “I sometimes think that people don’t understand that – particularly when it comes to ethics and campaign finance – that the people who are in office have found advantages to the existing system

— Assembly Minority Leader BRIAN KOLB

funds, there has also been heightened attention paid to the oversight of the programs in questions. This year, Cuomo proposed a rebranding of the controversial Start-Up New York program, which offers tax breaks for businesses that partner with a college or university. The program has been criticized for creating relatively few jobs, but little was done to provide more oversight. For a governor who repeatedly prides himself on being able to make deals and get things done, some lawmakers believe if Cuomo really wanted to pass ethics reforms, he would have already.

investigated. State and federal prosecutors are reportedly doing so. With Cuomo’s public schedule frequently showing him outside of Albany and his stance that virtually everything got done in the budget, it appears unlikely there will be any ethics reforms toward the end of the session. “Everyone’s always declaring, ‘We’ve done it already,’ which I always find amusing,” Krueger said. “I think on some degree, leadership is saying there’s no problem to be taken care of anymore. Of course, I think 19.5 million New Yorkers know that’s not true. (Cuomo) said there’s nothing left to do in Albany.”

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SCARED, BUT EMPOWERED

OW ARE New York nonprofits and progressives feeling after the first few months of President Donald Trump’s tenure? Scared, but empowered, according to a May 11 panel hosted by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies. The tension between both emotions was central to the conversation, which

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examined the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Not surprisingly, the panelists expressed concerns about steps taken to repeal the Affordable Care Act, proposed budget cuts that could trim programs for the poor and efforts to stiffen sentencing guidelines for nonviolent drug offenders. Maya Wiley, who chairs the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board and is senior vice president for social justice at The

New School, referred to the administration’s intentions as “intentional ignorance in service of the elite.” Other members of the panel – Zerlina Maxwell, the director of progressive programming for Sirius XM, and Shirley Leyro, a criminal justice professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College – were united in branding the administration as a danger to progressive goals. The discussion was also about the future

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of the Democratic Party, the role citizens play holding government accountable and the targeting of immigrants. The conversation praised the work of activists who stood up to the administration. Here are three of the top takeaways: POLITICIANS AREN’T ROCK STARS L. Joy Williams, a national political strategist, said it was important to reverse the relationship between officials and engaged citizens, and said people must be proactive in holding legislators at all levels accountable for establishing better funding structures and policies. “The elected official doesn’t have to be the rock star,” she said. More specifically, she said, it isn’t just about exercising the right to vote, but how that right can affect people’s lives. For example, those who marched and died to agitate for the Voting Rights Act during the civil rights movement did so under threat from the Ku Klux Klan and often local law enforcement. “They had no elected power, they had no power to protect themselves, their property, their communities and their children,” Williams said. “What they saw in the right to vote was the ability to elect themselves and protect themselves and assert their citizenship in the country.” That connection between involvement and voting, Williams said, has a direct effect on the ability of people to succeed and leads to a more informed electorate. THE CENSUS COUNTS Wiley said one issue that hasn’t garnered as much attention as it should is ensuring an accurate census count. The U.S. Census Bureau is gearing up for its decennial count in 2020. Proposed funding for the bureau under Trump’s proposed “skinny budget” is far less than the agency requested, and the department’s director, John Thompson, recently announced his plans to resign in June. The census helps determine how much funding flows to communities, as well as how to apportion U.S. House and state

legislative districts. “It is the dollars, but it is also representational power,” Wiley said. The tally will be conducted online for the first time, but low-income people are less likely to have access to the internet, according to the Pew Research Center. Community centers with internet access and traditional collection methods such as paper forms will still be used. “We have a system that is rigged for an undercount,” Wiley said. TURNING DESPAIR INTO HOPE Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, re-

he said. Thousands attended a rally in Battery Park the following day. “There are so many people who have come out of the woodwork and we’ve started to win,” he said, citing the court rulings that suspended the administration’s bans. “And now, I think that it’s by a mixture of sheer incompetence and just simply malignance, we’ve started to actually show just how destructive this agenda is.” He cited Trump’s proposed border wall expansion, the reduction of refugees allowed to come to the United States, and plans to expand the number of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforce-

“BY A MIXTURE OF SHEER INCOMPETENCE AND JUST SIMPLY MALIGNANCE, WE’VE STARTED TO ACTUALLY SHOW JUST HOW DESTRUCTIVE THIS AGENDA IS.” — STEVEN CHOI, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition

called the January weekend after Trump signed the travel ban executive order that left many travelers detained at airports, including John F. Kennedy International Airport. Representatives of NYIC, along with other groups and unaffiliated lawyers and protesters, descended on Kennedy Airport. “By the time I made my way to JFK, it was a sight I’d never seen in my life,” Choi said. “Thousands of people, the energy in the air, people chanting, I mean it was an incredible, incredible moment,”

ment officers as steps against a humane immigration policy. Choi said the environment reminded him of 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected president, followed by a year in which the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would have criminalized helping undocumented immigrants. But that darkness led to major pro-immigration protests in spring 2006. “In the midst of the doom and the gloom,” Choi said, “there is an opportunity.”

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THE HIGH COST OF ESCAPING POVERTY By YDANIS RODRIGUEZ and STEPHEN LEVIN

LIKE MANY NEW YORKERS, Yomaira simply wants to provide for her family. She works as a home health aide, often seven days a week, to make ends meet and never takes a vacation. It’s a challenge for her to support her brilliant daughter, a student at Brown University on a full scholarship, while at the same time caring for her own mother. As rents rise uptown, the seemingly small cost of a MetroCard has become a huge burden for Yomaira. She would rather purchase the more cost-effective unlimited MetroCard, but she rarely has enough for the upfront costs. Yomaira must make tough choices to get her mother to frequent doctor appointments. She prides herself on being responsible, carefully setting aside money for different expenses. Yet far too often, she has to take money intended to pay rent in order to purchase a MetroCard. This means she pays her rent late, or worse, her mother misses appointments because they can’t afford to get to the doctor. Yomaira’s struggle is a common one; nearly 20 percent of all New Yorkers live in poverty. For those struggling financially, this phrase could not be truer: “It’s expensive to be poor.” By virtue of not having the money to purchase unlimited MetroCards, our most vulnerable neighbors actually end up paying more for their transportation. One in four lower-income New Yorkers – including many of our constituents – re-

ported that they were often unable to afford fares in the last year, according to the social services organization Community Service Society of New York. For them, a fare is a means to receive medical care, advance in their educational attainment and pursue employment opportunities. In response, the transit advocacy group Riders Alliance and Community Service Society of New York have pro-

posed implementing Fair Fares, a proposal to cut fares in half for people below the poverty line. This plan is modeled after similar programs other cities designed to help alleviate poverty. If eligibility for such a program were placed at the poverty line, as many as 800,000 New Yorkers would be eligible. To protect the vulnerable, we must reduce barriers to opportunity. New York City boasts one of the most extensive

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

transportation networks in the world. However, too many New Yorkers are prevented from utilizing this vast network to escape poverty. Instead of being free to pursue educational and economic opportunities, many of our neighbors are forced to make do with less. As a result, the rationing of MetroCards is common. The simple act of moving around the city is weighted against the

chairmen of the City Council Transportation and General Welfare committees, we understand that this is an investment in the promise of hard-working New Yorkers. It is a step toward transit equity and combating poverty that perpetuates the tale of two cities our mayor has worked so hard to address. The notion that the state will take up this cause, while an attractive idea, is

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BE POOR” COULD NOT BE TRUER. ability to pay rent, bills or putting food on the table. This exercise often forces individuals to decide between seeking medical care and pursuing a job. These are not the types of decisions New Yorkers should be making. This reality is not one we are powerless to change. A majority of our colleagues on the New York City Council support the Fair Fares campaign, as do a growing number of New Yorkers. As

sadly a fantasy. State Senate Republicans are loath to support lower-income city residents and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority already faces significant budget challenges. Let us not look to Albany, but instead look into the eyes of our fellow needy New Yorkers. As we have done in the past, let us commit to upholding our ideals of fairness and opportunity for all. New York City currently helps subsidize fares for seniors, peo-

ple with disabilities and students. The city Human Resources Administration already spends tens of millions providing low-income residents with free MetroCards, but they are only available when recipients attend services and workshops, forcing many to hoard their MetroCards or haggle for more cards. We propose a formal, unified program so New Yorkers can get to work, college classes or take their kids to child care. Now is the time. We need our mayor to continue to deliver results to hard-working families. Like Yomaira, there are many more New Yorkers whose lives would be transformed with a lifeline to public transit. The mayor has called Fair Fares a “noble idea” that he is open to considering. We, and a majority of our colleagues in the City Council, stand ready to partner with him to make this noble idea into reality.

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Ydanis Rodriguez is the chairman of the New York City Council Transportation Committee and represents the 10th Council District in Manhattan. Stephen Levin is the chairman of the City Council’s General Welfare Committee represents the 33rd Council District in Brooklyn.

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Notice of Formation of VideoJam Technologies LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/8/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of CHESTNUT PARK PRESERVATION GP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/03/17. 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 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.

May 29, 2017 Notice of Qualification of AION Construction Services LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/18/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/19/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 11 East 44th St., Ste. 1000, NY, NY 10017. Address to be maintained in DE: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of 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. 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 Formation of CSC HARRYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OF LONDON LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/22/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 750 Lexington Ave, Fl. 28, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. 303 GREENWICH DONUTS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/02/2017. 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, 303 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10013. Reg Agent: Suhail Sitaf, 111 Fulton St., Unit 608, NY, NY 10038. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 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.

Notice of Qualification of AION Management LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/18/17. O f f i c e location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/10/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 11 East 44th St., Ste. 1000, NY, NY 10017. Address to be maintained in DE: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Qualification of 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. Apply EBP, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 5/4/17. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 234 E 35th St. 8F, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 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 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. 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 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. Notice of Qualification of MIRROR WORLDS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 05/14/13. Princ. office of LLC: Attn: Corey M. Horowitz, Mngr., 445 Park Ave., Ste. 912, NY, NY 10022. 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. TX addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., d/b/a CSC - Lawyers Incorporating Service, 211 E. 7th St., Ste. 620, Austin, TX 78701-3218. Cert. of Form. filed with TX Secy. of State, P.O. Box 12887, Austin, TX 78711. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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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 Eagan Insurance Agency, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/26/2017. Office location: NY County. LLC organized in LA on 6/9/1954. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. LA and principal business address: 2629 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, LA 70002. Arts. of Org. filed with LA Sec. of State, 8585 Archives Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70809. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of GASTONIA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/04/17. 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, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. 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. 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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May 29, 2017 ASTOR75NYC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/17/17. 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, 377 Broadway, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 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 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. 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 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 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 SADDLE RIVER FUNDING, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/28/17. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/31/17. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of NYC STORAGE (353 CHESTER) SPE LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/20/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/9/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 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 RAISED PROJECT LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/10/17. Office location: New York Co. 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 TLM EQUITIES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/08/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 205 E. 85th St., Apt. 14H, NY, NY 10028. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Fernandez de Cordova Family Office, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. 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: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any lawful activity. . Notice of 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. 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 Sero Management, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/20/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLC to. SSNY shall mail process to: US Corp. Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of 7 OCEAN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/12/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: One Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Fl., NY, NY 10020. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Paul D. Barnett at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1302432 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 106 E 60TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10022. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. JRG PARK AVENUE LLC.

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 OT Real Estate Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/26/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/3/17. 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 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 of Qual. of DYNAMIC & JOULE CONSTRUCTION GROUP, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 04/11/2017. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in LA on 04/07/2017. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Joshua McCoy 9800 Airline Hwy Ste 420, Baton Rouge, LA 70816. Address required to be maintained in LA: 9800 Airline Hwy Ste 420 Baton Rouge LA 70816. Cert of Formation filed with LA Sec. of State, Comm. Div., P.O. Box 94125, Baton Rouge, LA 70804. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Notice of Formation of STUDIOS BELOW CANAL LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/01/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Neil Hamamoto, 16 Desbrosses St., Unit #2N, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Reg. of CANAM NEW YORK REGIONAL CENTER, L.P. XI. Cert of LP filed with the SSNY on 04/10/2017. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LP, 88 Pine St., Ste 2010, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Latest date upon which LP is to dissolve: 01/01/2027. Notice of Formation of Cohen Inventor And Tycoon Productions, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/28/17. 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: 750 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity

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 Formation of SWORD CAPITAL LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/4/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Business Filings Incorporated, 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 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.

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Notice of Formation of The Spaceshipp, LLC filed with SSNY Feb 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: 1864 7th Ave, #31, NY, NY 10026. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of 268 Henry Residences, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/21/17. Office location: New York Co. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of REBEL MOTION, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/6/2017. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 108 Fifth Avenue, #10C, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Formation of Get Things Done LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/28/17. 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: 405 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10174. Purpose: any lawful activity. Pirs Capital, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/29/2013. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Alexander Parsol, 40 Exchange Pl., Ste. 1606, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any lawful purpose Notice of Qualification of Sigfox NIP LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/24/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/17/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C T Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Address to be maintained in DE: 1209 N. Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of DE, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of Hughes Ave Lender LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/12/17. Office location: New York Co. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 225 Broadway, Fl. 32, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby give that the undersigned will sell to satisfy the lien of owner at public sale by competitive bidding on Thursday, June 8th, 2017 at 10AM at the Oz Moving & Storage facility located at: 498 Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, NY, the personal property stored therein including but not limited to the following: Luke Rosen #5910- Boxes + some furniture; Earl G. Graves #5916Office furniture, boxes, file cabinets; Coleman Hughes #5921boxes, furniture; Dr. Shirley/Michael Kappeyne #6005- boxes, tv; Brian Schaffler #6069- desk, bookcase, cabinet, sofa, rug, boxes, bed, tables; Harry Hives/Max Quinn #6212- cabinet, sofa, tables, boxes other furniture; Jason Goodman/Ilona Price #6288- boxes + bins; Laura Huron & Marimekko #7938- boxes, lamps, stools, other furniture; Dina Bloch #16718- household goods; Alfred Silverstein #16554 – boxes, household goods; Courtney Robinson #13630 – boxes, household goods; Simon Clarke #15729 – chairs, tv, boxes, household goods; Joe McNulty #10335- cabinet, tables, boxes; The Andalex Group #11364- office furniture, boxes, file cabinets, office items; Marisa & Erik Pica #12342 - furniture, boxes, chairs, sofa; Ali Cordero Casal #9763- plasma box, black carry case, lamp box, office chair; Robin Craig #15112- boxes, bins; John Cassels #15481boxes, tables, pictures; Tony Lecour #15482- boxes, furniture TERMS: ALL CASH. DEPOSIT TO BID REQUIRED. PHOTO ID REQUIRED FOR ADMITTANCE. 15% BUYERS PREMIUM. INQUIRIES: (212) 876-2550 AUCTIONEER: DONALD BADER (DCA NO. 865815) AND PATRICK WILLIAMS (DCA NO. 1377072; 2)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1301129, FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 709 KNICKERBOCKER AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11221. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION.

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.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1303469 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 1006 FLUSHING AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11237. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of 16 Monroe Residences, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/21/17. Office location: New York Co. 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.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 2207870, FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 94 LAKE RD CONGERS, NY 10920. ROCKLAND COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1302481, FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 158 BEDFORD AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11249. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION.

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ALEYIN LLC.

Notice of Formation of Global Bonsai LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/10/17. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Attn: Marcel Naime, 588 West End Ave., 14A, NY, NY 10024, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1302552 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 186 9TH AVE NEW YORK, NY 10011. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. PASTAIAT INC.

Notice of Qualification of CLINTON AFFORDABLE LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/10/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/08/17. Princ. office of LLC: c/o The Hudson Companies Inc., 826 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10003. 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 DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of The Inventor And The Tycoon Film Project, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/28/17. 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: 750 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Little Man Tate, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/3/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 5 9th Ave, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 190 Maple Parkway, LLC filed with SSNY May 3, 2017. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to LLC: PO Box 518 New Providence, NJ 07974. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of T5 Soho LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/17/17. 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: 589 8th Ave, Fl. 10, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Ellipsis Art, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/28/17. 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: 333 E 53rd St, PHE, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. 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.

STORAGE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on JUNE 13, 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: -ARMIJO JOSE -ATIEMO, DANIEL/CAGUA, VINCENT -ABDURAHMONOV BAHTIYOR -BRYANT, RACQUEL -FALKOWSKI JAMES D -DEBBIE E. DUNSTON; HUDSON AKA TERRY; TERRANCE HUDSON/JOHN DOE; JANE DOE -JUSTIN WAYNE WALTERS -LAFONTANT MARIE C -STEPNEY, MALCOLM -MIRSKAYO, KRISTINA -OWENS, MARLON -PEREZ, NANCY -PARKER, ERICK/MASHON BAINES -NELLY QUIZHPI/MONICA CORDOVA -RATLIFF ASJA -ROLLE KEVIN/ZATRAVKIN DMITRY -SIMONE SACKEY/ JOHN DOE; JANE DOE -THIERRY F. DONGALA/NSAYI MAKOUDOU -VARVAROUSIS PETER -DERRICK, WILSON -ADAMS, DON -PAULBANKS, KATIERA -CHAPMAN, COURTNEY -FOURNIER, GERINELDA -FRALEY, CALVIN -FORDHAM, HATTIE -JORDAN, BRIAN -JAVIS GERARD -ODLUM KIEL -TOMMY, ADAMS -FERNANDEZ, CLODOVEO G. -MORALES JR. JUAN -POLICK GLENN/HOLLEY STEVEN -RUTH BURKO

Notice of Qualification of Akin’s Army LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 4/12/17. Office location: NY Co. LLC formed in DE: 4/7/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o National Corporate Research, Ltd. (NCR), 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: NCR, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. Notice of Qualification of Intrepid Pursuits LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/10/17. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/08/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 222 3rd St., Ste. 4000, Cambridge, MA 02142. Address to be maintained in DE: One Commerce Center, 1201 Orange St., Ste. 600, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of 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

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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 June 12, 2017 and end on June 21, 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. #1937- Bobby Hardy, #3501-4- Thomas Curry, #4304- Shawn Wooden-Bey, #6002- Jeffrey Arkenberg. The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. Notice of Formation of Erwin Films, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/09/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Erwin Films, LLC, 26 Broadway, Ste. 1301, NY, NY 10004. Purpose: any lawful activities. Notice of Formation of Entertainment Studios P&A LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/05/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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May 29, 2017 Notice of Formation of 50 WEST APARTMENT 57B LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/19/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 55 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10003-4398. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Robert Kantor at the princ. office of the LLC, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of 557561 EAST NEW YORK AVE LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/14/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 225 Broadway, Fl. 39, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Qualification of STARR STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/6/16. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/26/16. 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.

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 June 12, 2017 and end on June 21, 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. #3P44 – Howard Blumberg, #5C06 – Juan Rosa, #5K10 – Michael Naimark. 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 GCF Network Accelerator, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/17/17. Office location: New York Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/11/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 4934 SUNRISE ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 7 Penn Plaza, Ste. 1100, NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 7 Penn Plaza, Ste. 618, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Cohen Girl At Sea Productions, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/6/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 750 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of ELLIPSIS SOCIAL VENTURES, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/2/15. Office location: New York Co. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 209 W 21st St, Apt 2D, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. APP FOR AUTH for PONTIAC INTELLIGENCE LLC App for Auth filed with SSNY 5/5/2017. LLC Registered in Delaware on 4/12/2017 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, 135 W. 20th Street, New York, New York, 10011. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Annie Weir & Co LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/21/17. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of Backupapp LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/28/17. 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: 30 Wall St, Fl. 8, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of MARCUS AURELUS, LLC filed with SSNY May 24, 2017. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to LLC: Marc Aurelus 167 Brighton Ave 1st Fl, Staten Island, N.Y 10301. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Notice of Formation of MHD Heights, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/24/17. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 511 Canal St, Ste 600, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Qualification of Concentus Partners GP Cayman LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/11/17. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 712 5th Ave., 34th Fl., NY, NY 10019. LP formed in Cayman Islands (CI) on 2/27/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. CI addr. of LP: c/o CO Services Cayman Ltd., PO Box 10008, Willow House, Cricket Square, Grand Cayman KY1-1001, CI. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with An Authorized Officer, Registrar of Partnerships, CI, 133 Elgin Ave., George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9000. Purpose: all lawful purposes. Notice of Qualification of KNOBBE, MARTENS, OLSON & BEAR, LLP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 04/26/17. Office loc: NY County. LLP formed in California (CA) 12/28/95. SSNY designated as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLP, 1133 Av of the Americas Ste. 362130, NY, NY. CA addr. of LLP: 2040 Main St FL.14, Irvine, CA 92614. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy of State of CA, 1500 11th St, Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Girl At Sea Film Project, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/6/2017. 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: 750 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of GREAT EMPIRE 7508 REALTY LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/28/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 139 Centre St, #310, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful activity. Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at two locations. At the approx. vicinity of 816 Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11208, antennas will be collocated on the roof-top with an overall height of 47’-2”. At the approx. vicinity of 2009 60th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11204, antennas will be collocated on the rooftop with an overall height of 48 feet. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erika, e.diak@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

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De Blasio finally followed the councilman’s advice and filled vacant judicial posts.

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This Suffolk County DA candidate got a formidable endorsement: Preet Bharara.

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