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Gov. Andrew Cuomo won re-election comfortably in 2014, dispatching then-Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino by more than double digits. But he didn’t coast to victory.

In the Democratic primary in September that year, a little-known law professor named Zephyr Teachout turned heads by winning about a third of the vote, despite the governor’s advantages as an incumbent with millions of dollars in campaign cash.

One contentious issue that resonated with voters was the state’s controversial Common Core educational standards, which Cuomo had championed. Education experts extolled the standards as a way to raise the bar for students across the state, but parents complained about the high-stakes tests while teachers – and their unions – resisted having the test scores factor into their own evaluations.

Cuomo eventually backed away from Common Core, putting himself in a stronger position this election cycle. But earlier this year, a legislative effort to delink student test scores from teacher evaluations fell short – and at least one powerful teachers union is aiming to punish those it deems responsible for the failure.

This week, we take a closer look at that effort and several other education policy fights, discovering what the political lessons are to be learned.

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TEACHER EVALUATIONS … 6 A teachers union is targeting lawmakers who failed them in Albany

SIMCHA FELDER … 14

The controversial state senator’s outsized role in New York education

GRAD SCHOOL SUPPLEMENT … 18

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A special section from our publisher on higher education

GUNS IN SCHOOLS … 24

Experts weigh in on whether teachers should be armed

WINNERS & LOSERS … 30 Who was up and who was down last week

SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOLS … 10 Will de Blasio’s plan make education fairer for minorities?

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Latest MORE LEGAL PROBLEMS FOR COHEN Michael Cohen’s plea deal with federal prosecutors isn’t the end of his story.

He may yet cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller, which could reduce his sentence. And in New York, the state Department of Taxation and Finance is looking into potential state tax law violations as well as his role with The Donald J. Trump Foundation, and the Manhattan district attorney may bring charges as well. And since he is now a felon, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission ordered Cohen to divest from the 10 taxi medallions he owns.

GUILTY AND GUILTIER In a blockbuster Tuesday, two former aides to President Donald Trump had their contentious legal battles resolved within minutes of each other. Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen cut a deal and pleaded guilty to multiple charges – including tax evasion and bank fraud – and confessed that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal at the behest of Trump to keep both women quiet about alleged affairs with the then-candidate for president. Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman, was found guilty on eight counts of fraud. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that if Trump pardons Cohen, it should be grounds for impeachment.

In what is likely to be a significant boost in a close race, The New York Times endorsed Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout in the Democratic primary for state attorney general. The newspaper’s editorial board pointed to her background in combating corruption and her ability to be independent from Cuomo, which it considers to be of the utmost importance in this race. A Quinnipiac University poll in July had Teachout in third behind New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, but also said 42 percent of voters were still undecided.

Back & Forth Do you think that the kind of progressive grass-roots energy that helped propel Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to victory will help you in your race against Catalina Cruz?

I am what you call the grass-roots candidate. I am from here. I’ve not only worked here, but I am still in the same home that I was born and raised in.

I’ve been involved since I was 13 and I’ve been doing this for the past 17 years, being a community activist. People are tired of the old rhetoric of politics and saying you know who do we vote for? Do we vote for somebody that’s looking for the headlines or do we vote for somebody that actually is going to work hard for us every day?

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Your race against Cruz has been characterized by some as another test of the Queens machine, with Cruz as the insurgent. How do you feel about that characterization?

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I was elected in April, that’s this year. I’m still a new candidate. So I see myself as this young woman, and being the first woman to represent District 39. I consider myself that I am from that new young wave that’s coming in. I’m from here, and I didn’t move in just to say, I’m running for that seat. The difference is, I’m very loyal to this community.

I think I saw on Twitter that you canvass in roller skates?

Yeah. I’m a very active young lady. I love rollerblading and I love biking and I love dancing. But rollerblading, you get places faster and I love it. I go to parades in Rollerblades. Parades are fun in Rollerblades. I feel like no one has done that before, but to me is nothing different and so I just put on my skates and go where I’m supposed to go.

“If (former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara) had Joe Percoco and every file from Joe Percoco and he can’t find a whisper on me, that is a hell of a thing.”

—GOV. ANDREW CUOMO, on his innocence, despite high-profile corruption cases involving people close to him, via New York magazine

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has become the face of Trump’s legal team thanks to his reality-bending appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows. In one of his latest acts, Giuliani claimed on NBC that “truth isn’t truth” when arguing that the president should not testify for special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Every day, it seems, another one of President Donald Trump’s hometown cronies appears on TV, each brasher and more foolish than the next. But the New Yorkers who have been brought (or brought back) to the spotlight are making news for all the wrong reasons.

National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow lambasted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “stabbing us in the back” at the G-7 summit. Some wondered whether he was drunk or high.

Michael Cohen has been

at the center of innumerable controversies thanks to his career as Trump’s fixer. He most recently made a plea deal with federal investigators after they dug into illegal loans taken out by his taxi company and payments he made to women on behalf of the president.

Socialite Louise Linton published an Instagram photo of her and her husband, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, taking a military jet on a day trip to Kentucky last year and then chastised a snarky commenter by saying she pays a lot in taxes and sacrifices for her country.

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First son Donald Trump Jr. has compared Democrats’ policies to Nazis, retweeted white supremacist memes during the campaign, and recently posted an Instagram photo with an alt-right symbol.

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom White House staff referred to as a shadow secretary of state, was temporarily demoted by chief of staff John Kelly as the CIA examines his family’s company’s entanglements with foreign businesses.

There’s barely any room left for hedge funder Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted a mere 10 days as White House communications director after vowing to fire staff who leaked to the press and then subsequently leaked his plans to The New Yorker.

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THE STATE TEACHERS UNION IS TARGETING LAWMAKERS WHO FAILED THEM IN THE FIGHT OVER EVALUATIONS.

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N EFFORT TO CHANGE how student test scores factor into performance evaluations for public school teachers seemed to be a done deal just two months ago, but the failure of the state Senate to pass a bill in the waning days of the legislative session is coming back to haunt incumbents in both parties.

New York State United Teachers has promised a “tremendous show of force” against the five Democrats who voted for a Republican bill that tied the proposed changes to evaluations to more funding for charter schools. The union did not endorse any Democrat who voted for the bill, and has also poured money into the campaign of Jim Gaughran, a Democrat who is challenging Republican state Sen. Carl Marcellino of Long Island in the upcoming election.

NYSUT’s $11,000 contribution to Gaughran through its political action committee is the largest contribution he’s received and came just a few weeks after Marcellino voted for a bill proposed by state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in lieu of Marcellino’s own bill, which focused on delinking test scores from teacher evaluations and had appeared to be on a path to passing the state Legislature just weeks before. The Assembly passed a similar bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared ready to sign the changes into law.

“The fact that this bill was not even brought up for a vote by the Senate Republican majority is ridiculous,” state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the Senate Democratic leader, said in an email.

“Clearly the only way this legislation will be passed into law is by having new leadership in the State Senate, and a functional Democratic majority.”

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deal-breaker between the union and former state Senate Independent Democratic Conference members Jeff Klein, Diane Savino and David Valesky, as well as state Sen. Kevin Parker, a mainline Democrat, according to union leader Andrew Pallotta. Pallotta said in a telephone interview that there are plans to deploy union members to make phone calls and knock on doors to battle against their re-elections – a notable setback for the four state senators who received the union’s backing two years ago.

“It just stands out as something that will weigh heavily on them,” Pallotta said. “When the union gets motivated, look out.”

State Sen. Simcha Felder, who also voted for Flanagan’s bill, was not endorsed by the union in 2016 nor this year. Felder is nominally a Democrat, but has caucused

would then be determined by local school districts. Though it eventually received widespread support in both houses of the state Legislature, it may fall by the wayside in the early months of the upcoming state legislative session. School funding will take precedence at that time, according to Pallotta, who declined in the interview with City & State to say whether the union would back the bill again in the same form.

Flanagan’s bill included much of the same language as Marcellino’s, including a repeal of annual professional performance reviews, but included controversial provisions that would have expanded the regional charter school cap by 100 schools, diminished oversight of private yeshivas and increased funding for charter schools. It passed the state Senate 35-25 on June 20 as the session wrapped up.

“The fact that this bill was not even brought up for a vote by the Senate Republican majority is ridiculous.”

– STATE SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER ANDREA STEWART-COUSINS

with the Republicans since he took office.

NYSUT, which represents K-12 teachers as well as SUNY and CUNY faculty, has pushed for years to create an evaluation system for teachers that would not rely on tests. Student performance on standardized tests was incorporated into the teacher assessment system in 2010.

Their importance increased five years later per new legislation, but a backlash led by NYSUT resulted in a five-year moratorium on using student test performance in evaluations. Opposition to standardized tests more generally had also catalyzed opposition among parents across the country. Hundreds of thousands of students eventually opted out of taking tests based on the controversial Common Core educational standards in protest.

The bill proposed by Marcellino would have eliminated the role of state tests in teacher evaluations, which in turn

“This bill is the best way forward,” Flanagan said in a statement that day.

But Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie declared Flanagan’s bill dead on arrival, likening the charter school provisions to legislative “cyanide.” And in the case of state Sen. Jeff Klein, the controversial vote means he will not receive money from a union whose political action committee, Voice of Teachers for Education, was among his biggest contributors just a few years ago.

As he fights off a tough primary challenge from Alessandra Biaggi, Klein has faced some notable fundraising setbacks in recent weeks. Now he also has to deal with 600,000 state teachers and university faculty who are looking to do what they can to keep candidates they once endorsed, plus Felder, from winning re-election.

“This,” Pallotta said, “is personal.”

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Opposing bills Two bills that did not pass the state Legislature last session would have decoupled student test scores from teacher evaluations. Here’s how they compare.

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State Sen. Carl Marcellino

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Passed state Senate Education Committee 17-0 on May 31

Why it failed: It had the votes, but it was never brought to the Senate floor.

Included provision to expand regional charter school cap from 460 to 560 when the cap of 460 is reached

Passed state Senate 35-25 on June 20

Why it failed: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the charter school provision made the bill DOA in the Assembly.

Remember To Thank School Leaders As our nation goes back to school, please remember to thank your school leaders for the work they do every single day on behalf of our children.

Thank them for showing up first in the morning to make sure the building has been cleaned properly, the crossing guards are in place, and there is appropriate coverage for absent staff. For standing outside no matter the weather to engage parents, assuage concerns, and most importantly to make sure every student arrives safe and sound.

Thank them for protecting our children and keeping them out of harm’s way. For making sure they have backpacks and supplies, clothing for the winter and food for the holidays.

Thank them for maintaining their focus on the school’s vision and goals, for effectively programming students and staff, for refining curriculum,

tasks that someone for providing feedinsists require imback to improve mediate attention. instruction, for Thank them for planning professional development, fostering relationships within the for cultivating leadneighborhood ership among their staff, for holding and creating partnerships with weekly cabinet and local businesses. For staff meetings, for planning assembringing in valuable blies and special resources, fighting school activities, for Mark Cannizzaro for more funding, and planning events collaborating with President, Council stakeholders, and and programs that of School Supervisors benefit the entire for communicating and Administrators, policies, procedures Local 1: AFSA, AFL-CIO community. and current events Thank them for through a variety of mediums. taking on challenging schools and pushing past the resistance Thank them for contending that often comes from those with unnecessary roadblocks that yield little while distractaverse to change. Thank them for empathizing with families ing them from the kind of in distress and leading with work that really matters. For dealing with outdated computpoise and grace when tragedy er systems, and for completing strikes. Thank them for menduplicative, unnecessary papertoring and coaching students, for never giving up on them work and excessive compliance

and convincing them to never give up on themselves. And most importantly, thank them for loving their jobs and the students they serve.

School leaders do all this and more even though their expertise, successes, and good deeds often go unnoticed.

They do all this while pretending to be immune from fatigue, motivating others by their example, and giving all the credit to their team. So thank school leaders every time you see them; they are heroes and their service to the children of this city & state should be applauded each and every day.

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TOTHETOP WILL DE BLASIO’S PLAN TO ELIMINATE THE SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAM MAKE EDUCATION FAIRER FOR MINORITIES?

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR Bill de Blasio made waves in June when he called on state lawmakers to eliminate the city’s Specialized High School Admissions Test, or SHSAT, in order to increase diversity in those top schools. The proposal prompted immediate backlash from alumni, who defended the test, and from Asian‑American groups, who called the proposal discriminatory against them.

The debate has been raging ever since – and it can’t be resolved until next year.

In order to eliminate the test, de Blasio would need legislative approval in Albany, and he worked with Assemblyman Charles Barron to introduce a bill. Although versions of the bill had been introduced in previous sessions, this is the first time it would

scrap the test altogether. In previous years, legislative proposals would have added more criteria to be considered for admission to those schools, in addition to the test. Those bills never made it out of the education committees in the state Senate and Assembly, thanks in part to the very same groups protesting the current proposal.

This year’s bill did manage to make it out of the Assembly Education Committee, although Speaker Carl Heastie said in early June that it would not be taken up by the full chamber until 2019, allowing time to study the proposal and get input from “all of the stakeholders.”

Barron said the support to make changes to the specialized high school admission process has been growing, including from alumni, which

allowed his legislation to go further than it ever has this year, even with more radical proposed changes.

In place of the test, the top 7 percent of students at every middle school in the city would be admitted to the eight elite city high schools. This excludes Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, which accepts students based on auditions. This way, all schools become so-called feeder schools, rather than the majority of students coming from a small percentage of middle schools. “I think this is the right way to go,” Barron said. “It’s equal access. No one has an advantage.”

According to New York City Department of Education spokesman Will Mantell, the citywide average GPA of students in the top 7 percent of

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces his proposal to discard the Specialized High School Admissions Test.

their classes is 94 out of 100, the same average GPA of students offered a spot at the elite high schools. Additionally, he said their state test scores are comparable, an average of 3.9 out of 4.5 for the top 7 percent versus 4.1 for those admitted to the specialized high schools.

Proponents of keeping the test have said it is the most objective way to

measure performance and including other criteria could weaken the schools.

“That is just a racist notion that because of the school not being a top performing school as some of the other schools, that the individual students in those schools cannot be top performing students,” Barron said.

However, Assemblyman Ron Kim,

one of only two Asian-American members of the Assembly and one of the dissenting votes in the Education Committee vote, said de Blasio’s announcement was made far too abruptly and failed to incorporate input from the Asian-American community in a plan the mayor claims will increase diversity. Currently,

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BEYOND ELIMINATING THE TEST RICHARD CARRANZA

Chancellor, New York City Department of Education What are the other tools or policy changes you’re considering besides eliminating the Specialized High School Admissions Test that would make a bigger dent in ending school segregation?

I think it’s very much a bottom-up and a top-down approach. And by that I mean this: There’s been a lot of work that started before I ever got to New York City. So the work that was happening in (Manhattan School) District 3 around inclusivity, the conversations that happened. And I’m all about having those tough conversations.

The principals in District 3 own that process. They feel a kinship, they feel a sense of urgency, they feel that they want their schools to be more diversified. So when that plan came across my desk, I approved it immediately. Top down. I’m going to approve what comes and makes sense, and I’m thrilled that there is a lot of that approach where it’s generated in the community.

Any specific ideas to make a dent in segregation?

I would tell you that I think it’s important to look at one of the obstacles or the barriers, screens that put (on schools.) The very notion that you would have a family in a neighborhood that cannot go to their neighborhood school because they haven’t interviewed or had the criteria to go to a public school.

Do you have a stance on raising the cap on charter schools?

Why are we talking about sympathetic to charter or not sympathetic to charter?

Listen, I’m sympathetic to kids. And the fact is, a student that is in a charter school one week may end up being a student in a New York City Department of Education traditional public school the next week. There are some charter school organizations that are working collaboratively with district schools. I think that’s something that’s good. I have no opinion on that cap issue.

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Specialized high schools New York City’s specialized high schools are nine elite public high schools for academically advanced students. They include: • • • • • • • • •

Bronx High School of Science Brooklyn Latin School Brooklyn Technical High School Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College High School of American Studies at Lehman College Queens High School for the Sciences at York College Staten Island Technical High School Stuyvesant High School

All but Fiorello LaGuardia High School require its applicants to take the Specialized High School Admissions Test in order to attend.

Currently, the racial breakdown of students at the high schools doesn’t reflect the rest of the city.

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% of students offered a spot in specialized high schools, 2018*

Estimated % of total New York City population, 2016**

51.7% 14% 4.1 % 22% 6.3 % 29.2% 0.6 % 0.2 % 26.5 % 31.8 % 2.5 % 2%

* Race was unknown in 8.3 percent of offers ** With the remainder identifying as “some other race” Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Chalkbeat New York, New York City Department of Education

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Asian‑American students make up about 62 percent of the elite schools, even though they make up just 16 percent of the city’s public school population.

“I think racially balancing a few schools doesn’t translate to racial equality,” Kim said. “When you really want to fight for racial equality in the public schools, you try to expand the pie for all minorities and don’t just pit one group against another in hopes to get some headlines in the paper.”

Kim said he supports finding ways to improve the testing and ensuring that admitted students measure up to the best standards, but that was not what de Blasio had in mind.

“This had nothing to do with improving the test. This was about race and racial integration and about racial equality,” Kim said. “You can’t have it both. … Those are two entirely different paradigms of conversation.”

The other part of the mayor’s plan to diversify the elite high schools has stirred up far less controversy and does not require state approval. De Blasio plans to expand the Discovery program, which offers seats to underprivileged students who just missed the cutoff score on the admission test, provided they

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take a three-week course. Currently, about 5 percent of seats are filled this way. The expansion would increase the number to 20 percent by 2020.

De Blasio’s plan is not the only proposal aimed at expanding opportunity. Another bill has been sitting in the state Legislature for years to create a pre-SHSAT exam, much like a pre-SAT, to help prepare students for the test. More recently, state Sen. Tony Avella, a supporter of the SHSAT, introduced legislation in July to expand gifted and talented programs from elementary schools into middle schools in each school district.

His logic is that by adding resources in middle schools, more students would have the tools to pass the test.

“First of all, I know students who come from a gifted and talented school called Philippa Schuyler. Many of them are brilliant students who didn’t pass the test, even though they had a gifted and talented school in itself,” Barron said. “Tony Avella isn’t coming up with anything new. Those things already exist. And even if you expanded on them, the results will be the same.”

However, there is some evidence to support Avella’s approach. According

to a report in The Atlantic, the percentage of black and Latino students at specialized high schools was much higher when honors programs were more commonplace across the city. The city largely eliminated these so‑called tracking programs in the 1990s, and the number of black and Latino kids at the schools dramatically fell.

Taking the place of intraschool tracking, which puts high-achieving students on a more academically challenging path within the school, are competitively screened schools.

Tracking still occurs, only it happens between schools. So high-achieving students gravitate to a small number of schools, increasing segregation as local schools fail to attract talent and resources. There is some debate whether gifted and talented programs are part of the problem – since a single test also determines whether a student qualifies – or the solution to the city’s school segregation problem, and whether or not they are fair.

“I don’t believe in this specialized, elitist strata in the first place. I’m trying to make the best of a bad situation,” Barron said. “I think all students are special, all schools should be special.”

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“Shame on you, Simcha SPEAKER Felder.” – NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL COREY JOHNSON

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FROM YESHIVA OVERSIGHT TO SPEED CAMERAS OUTSIDE SCHOOLS, BROOKLYN STATE SEN. SIMCHA FELDER IS DRIVING THE EDUCATION DEBATE.

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NCE AGAIN, state Sen. Simcha Felder is the target of New York City Democrats’ ire. Their latest complaint about the “heretic” Democrat who caucuses with the Republic majority is that Felder allowed the speed cameras outside city schools to be turned off, thus letting more than 100,000 cars speed by, through mid-August, without being ticketed.

It can be hard to pin down blame in the state Senate, a body full of shifting allegiances and suspect motives, but some facts are clear: Felder was able to tie passage of the (uncontroversial) speed camera reauthorization bill to a (controversial) bill that would station an armed guard at the entrance of every city school. Felder and the two New York City Republicans in the state Senate, Martin Golden and Andrew

Lanza, introduced a weak speed camera reauthorization bill in the final days of the session, but a deal couldn’t be made. The speed cameras were turned off on July 25.

Many were quick to blame Felder.

“Thank Simcha Felder and Senate Republicans for Obstructing Life-Saving Speed Cameras,” read a headline on Streetsblog, a website advocating for safe transportation. The website later reported that a hit-and-run driver killed a woman in Felder’s district two days after the city was forced to shut off the cameras. New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who favors speed cameras, also called out Felder – as well as Golden, Lanza and state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan – for not renewing the speed camera program.

“I want these senators to look into the eyes of the family members who are here who have to live with the loss, every single day, of losing a loved one, and explain why the inaction must continue,” Johnson

said. “Shame on you Simcha Felder.”

Felder has been silent on the issue. He declined multiple requests to comment for this story, and apparently hasn’t been quoted in the press on the issue since the session ended. WNYC sent a reporter to his office in Midwood, Brooklyn, to get comment in July, but he refused to answer questions.

It isn’t the first time Felder used his unique position as the Senate lynchpin to influence issues affecting New York schools. Education has been a favorite topic of Felder’s, and he has pushed for school safety measures, an education tax credit that would benefit private school parents and less oversight of Jewish religious schools, known as yeshivas. Despite not sitting on the state Senate Education Committee, he’s become one of the most consequential players in education.

In the thick of budget negotiations this past session, Felder used his influence

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as the essential swing vote in the state Legislature to block the passage of the state budget unless it included language to give yeshivas more leeway in meeting state educational standards. With the April 1 budget deadline quickly approaching – not to mention Felder’s own deadline of having to get back home in time for the start of Passover – the yeshiva carve-out got included, and the budget passed.

Felder represents a heavily Jewish district in southern Brooklyn. Experts estimate the population to be anywhere

from 43 percent to 66 percent Jewish, many of them Orthodox or ultraOrthodox. Thanks in part to the large family size in those communities, Felder’s district has the most school-age children of any district in the state.

It’s only natural that Felder would be focused on schools, said Ezra Friedlander, CEO of government relations firm The Friedlander Group and a resident of Felder’s district.

“There are that many children, and education is regulated by the state, so combine those two factors, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to find out why he’s so involved in those issues,” he said.

With all the parents, schools are a hot topic in the district, and Friedlander said the residents appreciate Felder’s involvement in education. “Any elected official worth their salt should play a role in any legislative process that impacts their constituents,” he said. “I would give him an A – pun intended – for that.”

But Felder cuts an atypical path.

Though he once chaired the state Senate Subcommittee on New York

“We’re fighting over a finite pot of money.

And within that pot of education money, he’s constantly trying to take a chunk of it for his specific community.”

–JASMINE GRIPPER, ALLIANCE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR

City Education, multiple sources confirmed that committee is now defunct, and hasn’t met since 2015.

Yet even a cursory look through a list of his sponsored bills shows that many of them concern education policy.

HIS FOCUS HAS MADE him a target for some education activists who resent his power.

“He has outsized influence over policy and decision-making across the city and the state, and he tends to wield that influence in the realm of education more so than other issue areas,” said Jasmine Gripper, legislative director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a group backing more funding for public schools.

Though her organization hasn’t fought with Felder directly, the group doesn’t appreciate Felder’s parochial focus.

“We’re fighting over a finite pot of money,” Gripper said. “And within that pot of education money, he’s constantly trying to take a chunk of it for his specific community.”

One major example was Felder’s advocacy for an education investment tax credit, which would essentially allow New Yorkers to direct their taxes to help pay for tuition at private schools. Felder pushed hard for the legislation in his first years in the Senate, but essentially gave up in late 2016, after losing support from Cuomo.

The tax credit is a reminder that Felder’s influence, though significant, is not unlimited. New York City’s speed cameras weren’t reauthorized – at least in part – because Felder hoped to use the program as a bargaining chip for his bill that would station an armed guard outside of every city school, public or private.

Felder advocated for the bill throughout the session, even suggesting he would caucus with whichever party helped him pass it. The bill faced heavy opposition and it never made it to the floor for a vote.

With the legislative session over, Felder is dealing with a new set of issues. The educational standards of yeshivas are under more scrutiny after reports that half the schools under investigation in New York City wouldn’t even allow inspectors to visit. He’s facing attacks for his role in shutting off the speed cameras, including from the candidate challenging him in the September Democratic primary, Blake Morris. Even if Felder wins the primary, as he’s expected to, his influence could be diminished if the party balance of the Senate changes and he’s no longer the swing vote.

But this likely wouldn’t hurt his standing in the district. As Friedlander explained, “The senator is a very popular guy.”

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WHAT TO DO ABOUT YESHIVAS MARYELLEN ELIA

Commissioner, New York state Education Department What are the state’s next steps regarding educational standards at ultra‑Orthodox yeshivas?

I think as you’re all aware, New York state has laws about the requirements for an education in New York. One of the things you have to know is the New York state Education Department had guidance on the website. We have over 1,800 nonpublic schools, and it’s important for us to know in fact there is a review of those schools.

We started working, after realizing that this was not necessarily being done,

THE PROBLEMS WITH “FREE TUITION” DEBORAH GLICK Chairwoman, Assembly Higher Education Committee

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When the Excelsior Scholarship was announced, a lot of the headlines indicated that college would be free, but there’s more to it.

First of all, New York state has, and has had for a long time, a very generous Tuition Assistance Program, on a sliding scale of income up to $80,000. Had I my druthers, I would have taken the money for Excelsior and made some corrections

(and) called for the school districts themselves to have a responsibility to review their nonpublic schools.

We are in the process now of updating the guidance. There have been some changes in the law. We have been reviewing those changes, making sure that is reflective of the work that we would expect will (be) done across the state. We will be doing trainings across the state for both our public schools as well as the nonpublic schools.

How do you feel about the possibility of using federal money to arm teachers with guns in schools, as the U.S. Department of Education is reportedly considering?

We want teachers to be working and thinking about their classrooms. Where their gun is, to make sure that that’s locked away, if a crisis occurs, will they get to it fast enough? Is that where we want the minds of our teachers to be thinking?

Resources are key. We’re going to use resources we received from the federal government and we’re going to put it into

to TAP. One of the issues is that it’s a last‑dollar program, so students who are at the poorest end, who are already receiving TAP and Pell (Grants), are required to use all of their TAP and Pell – TAP has to go to tuition, but Pell does not. They’re required to use all of their additional Pell before they’re eligible for Excelsior. So for the poorer students, we tried in the Assembly to get a carve-out of at least 25 percent of a student’s Pell Grant so they would have additional resources for books or transportation, the kinds of things that stop students from being able to attend.

We were not successful.

What the state Senate and Assembly did do? The original construct was 15 credits per session, hard and fast. And we said, well that’s crazy. Students are full time if they’re getting TAP, they’re full time at 12 credits. Schools see them as full time at 12 credits, and for an awful lot of students, certainly at CUNY at least half the students are working full time, 12 credits is (as) far as they could possibly go, and for (those) entering who are adjusting to college life. It got changed

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guns? The level of insanity there really goes beyond what we’re talking about in a conversation about how to improve education.

What would you say to teachers anxious about evaluations?

The (Annual Professional Performance Review) system is way out of whack.

It has taken teachers to a place where teachers aren’t always necessarily concentrating on the things that need to be done for every kid in their classroom.

It’s got to be fixed, but I would suggest that teachers are the ones that need to be part of making that work, and they need to tell us what is the best way that they should be evaluated for a productive outcome. I don’t know what it’s going to look like in the end, but I know that teachers and professionals across the state should be the drivers.

Politics and children don’t go together.

And when decisions are made that relate to what’s happening in every classroom across New York state and it’s not made by the teachers and the educators, I think that creates a problem.

to 30 credits for the year, however, those credits that are not taken during the two semesters are kind of out (of ) pocket for students. So they won’t lose their eligibility if they take six credits over the summer, but they’re going to have to pay for those. … It was an announcement, and then let’s hurry up and figure out how to get it done, and it was an inartful implementation.

Was creating Excelsior a cynical move?

TAP is first of all income-based, and it is a choice of the student where they go.

So the money follows the student. The student chooses the college. If they get in, they’re eligible for TAP, they get the money, whether it’s private or public. So if you’re going to raise the income, from the top TAP income is $80,000, if you’re going to raise it to $125,000, and you’re going to make students eligible for that on the basis that they are eligible for TAP, it’s a very big number. So it was a cynical decision. And it was, in my humble opinion, intended to reach middle- and upper-middle-income people.

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How industry and policy are shaping five emerging fields

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fter the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, enrollment doubled in the Emergency and Disaster Management Master of Public Administration program at Metropolitan College of New York. Class size has now returned to about 15-20 students, but school officials said the field will continue to grow.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

The field has “caught the imagination of the world,” said Chuck Frank, director of MCNY’s undergraduate program in emergency management and business continuity. Frank, who works closely with graduate program staff – and developed a new online MPA program – said the growth in emergency management jobs has been driven to some extent by social media, where people see global disasters unfold in real time. They are motivated to help.

“They not only see the spectacle of it, but they see the suffering,” Frank said. MCNY has offered the on-campus master’s program since 2005, but this year the school is launching an online-only master’s program aimed at students outside the New York City area.

Based on industry trends he has noticed, Frank anticipates the fastest-growing

emergency management positions will be in the areas of disaster planning, analysis and response. For instance, he has heard that more and more insurance companies are asking other businesses – as a condition of providing insurance – to prepare business continuity plans for resuming operations after an emergency. The fact that much of the United States’ aging infrastructure is in disrepair also points to a growing need for professionals trained not only in disaster response, but in planning and prevention as well.

“How do you plan to be in better shape if we have another Hurricane Sandy?” Frank asked.

MCNY’s program prepares students in four main areas of study: planning, response, recovery and mitigation. Frank said the field offers opportunities for graduates from a wide range of professional backgrounds, including military veterans, culinary school graduates and photographers.

ELDER LAW

Despite what the name suggests, this area of practice does not deal exclusively with the legal needs of older adults, experts said.

Attorneys working in elder law handle a range of issues, including disability, housing and immigration-related matters.

For example, the recent Planning with

Parents Project at the CUNY School of Law’s Elder Law Clinic provides legal advice for parents who fear deportation due to their immigration status, said Joe Rosenberg, a CUNY School of Law professor who leads the clinic. A law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June now enables parents to name a “standby guardian” for their minor children.

Although immigration-related guardianship is a recent area of practice, elder law has “always been a cluster of issues,” Rosenberg said. “There are many, many areas within it that you can focus on.”

CUNY School of Law graduates who take the Elder Law Clinic – which trains students in adult guardianship and estate planning practice, among other areas – have gone on to a variety of jobs, including doing legal work around housing and disabilities, working for nonprofits and working at law firms that specialize in elder law. In some cases, attorneys specializing in elder law are hired by the families of seniors suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, but they may also work with younger clients suffering from debilitating diseases that impair their independence.

“People get older, and they do get some unique needs,” Rosenberg said, but elder law looks at issues of guardianship more holistically. “It’s hard to fit people into those categories.”

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TENTS SET UP BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WORKERS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI.

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“How do you plan to be in better shape if we have another Hurricane Sandy?”

– Chuck Frank, MCNY Emergency Management and Business Continuity Program Director

In 1971, when the field of genetic testing was in its infancy, the first eight students to obtain a master’s degree in genetic counseling graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, which was the only institution offering the degree at the time. Since then, genetic counseling has become one of the fastest-growing professions in the nation.

About 40 U.S. colleges and universities now offer master’s degrees in the field and six more schools are actively developing programs, according to the Accreditation Council for Genetic Counseling. And the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that genetic counseling jobs will grow by 29 percent through 2026.

As genetic testing – especially prenatal screening for Down syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities – becomes more complicated and more widespread, demand continues to grow for professionals who can not only interpret test results, but communicate the information to patients.

“You definitely want to make sure that you’re seeing someone who is qualified to do what they’re doing,” said Janelle Villiers, assistant program director at Sarah Lawrence College.

“Somebody who doesn’t know may order thousands of dollars of unnecessary tests.”

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PUBLISHER'S SECTION That’s one of the arguments in favor of obtaining statewide licensure for the profession, Villiers said, who earned a master’s degree in human genetics from Sarah Lawrence. But repeated efforts to license genetic counselors in New York (a state Senate bill was introduced last year by Sen. Kenneth LaValle and referred to the Committee on Higher Education) have been unsuccessful.

NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE

Another profession seeking licensure in New York (in a bill also sponsored by LaValle) is naturopathy, a health care profession that focuses on self-healing and natural therapy.

Rather than prescribing medication to treat the symptoms of an illness, a naturopathic doctor would focus on prevention and treatment of its underlying cause, according to the New York Association of Naturopathic Physicians. They would opt for treatment methods that have the fewest side effects.

More than 20 states currently license naturopathic doctors, according to the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges. In order to obtain a license, candidates must pass the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examinations, which cover science, diagnostic and clinical practices, and graduate from a four-year program at an

accredited naturopathic medical school.

In the New York City metropolitan area, degrees in naturopathy are currently offered by three institutions: New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and New York College of Health Professions, both on Long Island, as well as the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.

“In New York, however, there is no licensure bill regulating naturopathic medicine and, therefore, naturopathic doctors are unable to practice medicine in New York,” Amy Cole, a naturopathic doctor and founder of Elevate Albany Wellness in Loudonville, New York, wrote in the Times-Union in March 2017. “You will find NDs, such as myself, working in New York, but we function as consultants.”

ATHLETIC TRAINING

Kevin Duffy, program director for the athletic training program at Long Island University Brooklyn, said the rapid growth of the program in recent years reflects the growing demand for health care-related professions in general. In the past five years, the school’s dual bachelor’s and master’s program in athletic training grew from an average of five to eight students per class to an average of 20-28 students per class.

“The field is definitely continuing to grow,” Duffy said. “All health professions

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are growing exponentially, and it’s because people get hurt, people get sick.”

Athletic trainers, which are not to be confused with physical therapists, assess an athlete’s injuries immediately after they are hurt in the field, determine if the athlete can continue playing, and deal with day-to-day treatment, Duffy said. Physical therapists assist with rehabilitation.

Athletic training as a profession is expected to grow by 23 percent through 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The expansion of youth sports – including the growing popularity of lacrosse, ice hockey and field hockey – offers more employment opportunities for athletic trainers, Duffy said. More high schools are now hiring athletic trainers and requiring them to be present at sporting events in order to prevent catastrophic injuries.

Though most students in LIU Brooklyn’s program are from the New York City area, Duffy said the school’s central location in Downtown Brooklyn and its connections with local teams like the New York Mets and New York Knicks have attracted students from as far away as California and Jamaica. “They’ll work with specific teams at different levels,” Duffy said. “You’ll see injuries in football that you’ll never see in track or tennis.”

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From the living room to the workplace

The growing appeal of online graduate degrees

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he flexibility and convenience of distance learning are attracting a growing number of students to online master’s degree programs, including in business, social work and cybersecurity. Colleges and universities see the postgraduate degrees as one way to close the gap between higher education and the demands of the marketplace.

In the field of cybersecurity, for instance, the nationwide shortage of trained experts is expected to reach 1.8 million workers by 2022, according to a Center for Cyber Safety and Education study conducted by market research firm Frost & Sullivan. There just aren’t enough skilled workers to address the current cybersecurity threats.

“The majority of our (U.S.) students don’t have the preparation. … We graduate twice the number of psychology majors as opposed to engineers,” said Nasir Memon, associate dean for online learning at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. “The number of STEM graduates that are coming out of the undergraduate pipeline is very small.”

To address the shortage of cybersecurity experts, Tandon launched The Bridge a couple of years ago, an online program

designed to prepare students who do not have a computer science background to enroll in NYU’s master’s program in computer science.

And this year, the school is launching a new cybersecurity master’s program designed to bring students’ skills closer to the needs of the marketplace.

Offered in partnership with the city of New York, the fully online New York Cyber Fellowship program will offer hands-on training in conjunction with industry employers like Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Students will be able to work directly with the New York City Cyber Command Cyber Range, the city’s virtual laboratory for simulating and assessing security threats.

Deidre Diamond, founder and CEO of recruitment and staffing company CyberSN, said partnerships between educational institutions and employers are crucial to addressing the shortage in cybersecurity experts. Part of the challenge is that cybersecurity deals with threats to a specific company, and experts need hands-on experience in a particular environment rather than general training as a security analyst.

“Cyber is so new that its roles and

responsibilities haven’t been clearly defined,” Diamond said. “This is where the schools are not bridging the gap.”

She added, “What lacks is the real, hands‑on experience (and) using it in a high‑velocity environment.”

TEACHING “TRANSFERABLE SKILLS”

The disconnect between higher education and the marketplace is not limited to computer science.

“How do we meet the needs of today?” asked Debra McPhee, dean of the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University. “The real issue is ensuring that they have transferable skills.”

The key challenge, whether online or on campus, is designing a curriculum that addresses the shifting needs of both students and employers, McPhee said.

Whereas in K-12 education, the model of teaching has shifted to focus more on thinking critically, higher education has been slow to adapt. Meanwhile, employers are starting to look for candidates trained to adapt to different situations.

“Digital platforms are one way to help students,” McPhee said, adding that

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PUBLISHER'S SECTION Senior Director of Graduate Admissions Michael Zarrilli said the school’s online curriculum is particularly attractive to adult learners who are looking to transfer their existing skills to a new field.

“You can sit at home at 4 in the morning and complete a paper or a test,” Zarrilli said.

While the online curriculum’s accessibility has attracted out-of-state and international students, Zarrilli said the fact that the school removed some of the obstacles that prevent adult learners from returning to school has also made the program popular with local students, some of whom prefer a mix of – Nasir Memon, NYU Tandon School of Engineering on‑campus courses and online courses.

Associate Dean for Online Learning For example, the school changed its Graduate Management Admissions Test requirement to make the exam optional and online education has offered flexibility have been gathering input from a number significantly lowered the price for online and affordability for students whose of sources, including nonprofits, health courses. (An online nursing class now costs circumstances make it difficult to earn a care organizations and child welfare $425 per credit compared to the same class traditional on-campus degree. To address organizations, to design a curriculum that on campus, which starts at $814 per credit.) the needs of the marketplace, the Graduate focuses less on a specific subject area and Whether they are studying online or School of Social Service is rolling out a more on “competency pathways,” McPhee on campus, Zarrilli said he’s found that new curriculum designed to bring students’ said. Social work students will still be able adult learners are drawn more and more skills – whether they’re studying on campus to take specialized courses, but above all she to master’s degrees in business-related or online – closer to what employers are said, “We need them to take initiative and majors like organizational management looking for. (The Graduate School of Social critically think.” and human resources.

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August 27, 2018

WOULD NEW YORK ARM TEACHERS

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Education leaders weigh in on guns in schools

BY PRACHI BHARDWAJ

WITH THE NEW SCHOOL year approaching, hundreds of public officials, industry experts and educators gathered at City & State’s Education in New York Summit to discuss the issues that plague New York’s education systems.

In the first of five panels, three major players – state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, New York City Council Education Committee Chairman Mark Treyger and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew – took the stage to field questions about New York’s education agenda.

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, City Councilman Mark Treyger and UFT’s Michael Mulgrew at City & State’s summit.

The panelists weighed in on a number of local issues, most notably teacher evaluations and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to scrap the admission test for the city’s specialized schools. But first, the officials touched on a national issue that could affect every classroom in the state. A day before the panel, it was reported that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was considering allowing states to use federal funds to arm teachers with guns.

“Stupidity knows no bounds,” Mulgrew responded, when moderator Alex Zimmerman, a reporter at Chalkbeat New York, asked the panelists about the issue. Elia and Treyger shared similar sentiments. Treyger, a former teacher, simplified the proposal as an “out of touch” idea from someone who has never taught in a classroom. Elia unequivocally denounced the idea, saying the funds could be

put to better use in a way that wouldn’t be potentially harmful to students and teachers. “No matter how careful our educators are, accidents happen,” she said.

The topic that dominated the hourlong panel, however, was teacher evaluations: a topic Mulgrew called “the greatest challenge we face as a state.”

Legislation was introduced in the state Senate last session to delink students’ performance on standardized tests from teacher evaluations. Teachers argue that test results aren’t a meaningful measurement of students’ progress. “How do you provide support to people when the rules of the game keep changing?”

Treyger asked.

The challenge, Mulgrew said, is balancing the need for consistent standards across schools with giving educators the flexibility they need to do their jobs well. Elia said the best way to find a solution is to turn to the people most affected. “Teachers and educators across the state should be the drivers on that decision,” she said, adding that a survey about what to do with the Annual Professional Performance Review received 21,000 responses from educators.

When the conversation shifted to the city’s elite high school admission test, all three panelists agreed that a student’s assessment should be based on multiple factors, as opposed to a single test. Both Mulgrew and Elia confirmed they would support de Blasio’s plan to do away with the current test and instead take the top performing students from schools around the city. “It’s a position the UFT has held for years,” said Mulgrew, although he lamented what he said was the haphazard way the plan was pulled together.

Treyger was similarly unhappy with the way the plan came together. “I’m the chairman of the Committee on Education and I was not consulted,” he said, calling it “the 1.5 percent plan” – a nod to the small fraction of New York students de Blasio’s plan would actually help. He said he wouldn’t help lobby for the plan as it is.

“I’m waiting for a bigger plan,” he said. “A bigger vision.”

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Notice of formation of 7 GRAMS CAFFE - 76 MADISON LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/23/18.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 385 1st Ave., #7H, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Metro Look, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/4/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is: Registered Agents Inc. 90 State St. Ste. 700 Office 40 Albany, NY 12207.

The principal business address of the LLC is: 251 W. 74th St. Apt. 7b New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of I Am My Sister (Women helping Women) LLC, filed with SSNY on June 29, 2018.

Office: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process against the LLC: I Am My Sister (Women helping Women) POB 2593, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Valibac LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 3/7/18. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Isaac Chestnut, 10 Stratford Rd, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Chava Feigen, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/29/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/23/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

RH 537 LLC. Authority filed SSNY 4/20/18. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 4/17/18. Exists. c/o NRAI, 160 Greentree Dr #101 Dover, DE 19904. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to c/o DH Property Holdings LLC, 2 Park Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10016. Cert of Registration Filed SOS, Corp Dept., 401 Federal St #4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of RowCon, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/16/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/17/17.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Wade S. Ninemire, 5265 Parkway Plaza Blvd., Ste. 130, Charlotte, NC 28217.

Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, Divisions of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Beyond the Pink Ribbon, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on June 14, 2018.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Emily Garnett, 19 Parkview Place, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

M&M BROWS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with NYS Department of State on 5/24/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County. The New York Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

New York Secretary of State shall mail process to: M&M BROWS, LLC, Attn: Michelle Matos, 44 North Broadway Apt# 5FN, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Singer 158 Lafayette LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/27/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 95 Delancey St, Fl. 2, NY, NY 10002.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Qualification of VIPVR, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/03/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/03/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Attn: Prajit Gopal, 2373 Broadway, Apt. #1723, NY, NY 10024.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

HOZHO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/08/18. 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, 244 Madison Avenue, Suite 1590, New York, NY 10016.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of GAIA MONTROSE INVESTORS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/28/17. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/23/14. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 152 W. 57 St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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August 27, 2018 Sada by Sarah, LLC filed with SSNY on March 28, 2018.

Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Sarah Dawson, 350 E 19th Street, Ste. 5J , Brooklyn, NY 11226. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of TACONIC ESSEX MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/11/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Taconic Investment Partners LLC, 111 Eighth Ave., Ste. 1500, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Zenith Venture Capital LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/5/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Battery Park Plz., Ste 310, NY, NY 10004.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM HEIDY E FITNESS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/08/2018.

Office loc: WESTCHESTER County.

SSNY shall mail process to: HEIDY E FITNESS, LLC, Attn: Heidy Espaillat, P.O Box 118, New Rochelle, NY 10802.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Jackson PHB Holdings LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/10/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 27 W. 24th St, 702, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Beachhead Advisory Group LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/20/2018.

Office: Westchester 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, 230 Treetop Crescent, Rye Brook, New York, 10573.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: Deatomic, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/26/2018.

Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the Deatomic, LLC, P.O. Box 90533, Staten Island, New York 10309. Purpose: For any lawful purpose

OSRICH REALTY LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 7/03/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Jian Le Wu, 3153 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11208. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 200 East 62nd Street, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/30/18.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 200 E. 62nd St., NY, NY. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of HIGHLINE 22 LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/11/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 407 Park Ave S., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Qualification of Gaia Montrose Apartments, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/25/17. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/7/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 152 W. 57 St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 49 Owner Realty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 530 E. 76th St, Unit 20G, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of ALPHA AESTHETICS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 60 E. 56th St, Ste 302, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Rabinian LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/20/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 530 E. 76th St, Unit 20G, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Eversept Partners, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/29/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/15/15.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 22, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of 711 BBA LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/18. Off. Loc.: King County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: The LLC, 16 West 36th Street, 11th Flr., New York, New York.

Purpose: Any lawful act.

NOTICE OF QUAL. of EAST HARLEM SCHOLARS HS LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/20/18. Off. Loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 6/19/18. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave, NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. Addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CANNA LLP Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLP to 10 East 40th St., 21st Floor, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006OA14, MORTGAGE P A S S - T H R O U G H CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OA14, Plaintiff against MIRIAM RIVERA A/K/A MIRIAM R. RIVERA; JOE R. RIVERA A/K/A JOE RIVERA; ANA RIVERA; JOE RIVERA, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on October 25, 2017.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 20th day of September, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York.

Said premises known as 12 Nichols Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11208.

(Block: 4109, Lot: 112).

Approximate amount of lien $ 628,907.05 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 511600-15. Doron A. Leiby, Esq., Referee.

Stern & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ 08830 (732) 582-6344

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312762 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 216 SMITH ST BROOKLYN, NY 11201.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. MIMOSA CAFÉ & LOUNGE INC.

Notice of Qualification of SNOWCAT GP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/25/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/20/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 810 Seventh Ave., 33rd Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Green Ox Capital, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY 7/05/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Green Ox Capital LLC, Attn: Antonia Martinez, 9 Nursery Lane, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NGW LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/24/2018.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 40 W 86t st APT 6C New York, NY 10024.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

CESURG, LLC, art of org. filed with SSNY on 4/19/18.

Office location: Westchester County, SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Legalinc Corporate Services Inc. , 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1#086, Buffalo, NY 14221. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Woolley & Co., LLC filed with SSNY on July 11, 2018. 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 LLC: 124 West 79th Street, Apt#6B, New York, NY 10024.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312754 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 48-06 SKILLMAN AVE SUNNYSIDE, NY 11104.

QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. BELO GRILL INC.

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Notice of Formation of JRD GRP LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/18. Office location: New York County.

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

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Matter Moda LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 07/10/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Joaquin Gregorio 95 East 7th St, #4, New York, NY 10009. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

IGLOO GERTIE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/25/18. Office: Kings 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, 184 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of FULLSTEAM OPERATIONS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/19/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 535 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Aquiline Capital Partners LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Formation of AVSB Realty LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/30/18. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The address SSNY shall mail process to 130 W. 3rd St., #4N, New York, NY 10012.

Purpose: Any lawful activity

Notice of formation of Vineyard 718, LLC filed with SSNY on May 05, 2018.

Office: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 92 Tier St., Bx, NY 10464. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION Uniti Dark Fiber LLC Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/07/2018.

Office location: NEW YORK County.

LLC formed in Delaware on 12/02/2015. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him is: 10802 Executive Center Drive, Benton Building, Suite 300, Attn: Keith Harvey, VP, Deputy General Counsel, Little Rock, AR 72211 The principal business address of the LLC is: 10802 Executive Center Drive, Benton Building, Suite 300, Little Rock, AR 72211 Delaware address of LLC is: 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of Delaware located at: Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. ¬Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901 Purpose: Provide wireless infrastructure services and products and all other business permitted under New York law

Notice of Qualification of WISE Ventures Investments, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/31/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/7/17. 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: 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 NOVALAND LLC filed with SSNY on 7/19/2018.

Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1901 E 29th St Brooklyn, NY, 11229. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

CALLAST NY INC.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of DJS 85th LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/10/18.

Off. Loc.: New York County.

SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: David Katzenberg, 429 East 52nd Street, Apt. 7B, New York, NY 10022.

Purpose: Any lawful act .

Notice of Qualification of Ginkgo Tree Managing Member, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/14/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 300 Park Ave., 21st Fl., NY, NY 10022. LLC formed in DE on 5/8/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc. (CGI), 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312748 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 15 SHAPHAM PLACE WHITE PLAINS, NY 10605.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of Milo Plastering, LLC filed with SSNY on June 22, 2018. Office: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13TH Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, New York, 11228 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs

August 27, 2018 NOTICE OF FORMATION of JDR INNOVATIONS, LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 2/8/2018. Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 405 North Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10801.

Purpose: Any lawful act.

STRIVEIV MEDICINE, PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/27/2018. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 East 40th Street, 10th Fl, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Medicine.

Notice of Auction 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 September 7, 2018 and end on September 20, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. Household goods and other effects. #237-John G. Pinel #527-Robert Jeffrey Susman #532- Daphne Cheng #809- Michael Farsetta #3314- Arnando Peralta #2112- Peter Hargrove #6108-Jignesh Patel 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 Public Hearing

Public Notice

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for THIRD AVE FOOD CORP to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 283 THIRD AVENUE IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN for a term of two years.

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at two locations. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 61 feet at the approx. vicinity of 270-272 Division Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11211. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 63 feet at the approx. vicinity of 1188 Lincoln Pl, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11213.

Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erin, e.alsop@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

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

Notice of Formation of Masci Family Property Management, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with N e w York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/15/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 22 Watts St, Apt 7, NY, NY 10013. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Colomba Masci, 22 Watts St Apt 7, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on September 7, 2018 and end on September 20, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents generally

of contain

rooms misc.

#9S01-Raquel Sanchez; contains 40 plus boxes, 2 office chairs, 2 bins, 15 plus bags, 7 crates and miscellaneous items; #4Y22-Ying Ho- contains 5 pieces of luggage and a few bags of clothing; #5K07 – Janet Victors – contains 6 jackets, 40 plus boxes, 40 plus bags and miscellaneous items; #1A82A – Corina Flushing/ Artesan Teas - 5 pallets of products, 1 cooler, 25 boxes, 1 shelving unit with miscellaneous items.

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 Eldon Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/02/18.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICE INC.1967 Wehrle Drive Suite 1 #086 Buffalo.

NY 14221 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at four locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 56 feet on a building with an overall top height of 64 feet at the approx. vicinity of 669 East 5th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11218. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 46 feet on a building with an overall top height of 49 feet at the approx. vicinity of 930 Winthrop Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11203.

Antennas will be installed at a top height of 74 feet on a building with an overall top height of 81 feet at the approx. vicinity of 1293 East 5th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11230. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 75 feet on a building with an overall top height of 79 feet at the approx. vicinity of 30-15 33rd Street, Astoria, Queens County, NY 11102.

Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC). The name of the LLC is: Midnight Shooters Lacrosse, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) office on: 07/20/2018. The County in which the Office is to be located: Westchester.

The SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: Jason M. Roberts, 440 Pelham Manor Road, Pelham Manor, NY 10803.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TACERA TRENDS LLC Arts of Org filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/16/2018. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 1385 BROADWAY SUITE 1003, NEW YORK, NY 10018.

Purpose: any lawful act.

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SME Business Solutions, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 08/17/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Michelle Emokpae, 15 Bailey Place, Staten Island, NY 10303. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at five locations. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 88 feet at the approx. vicinity of 3602 Avenue J, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11210.

Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 62 feet at the approx. vicinity of 348 Maple St, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11225. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 46 feet at the approx. vicinity of 913 Belmont Ave, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11208. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 77 feet at the approx. vicinity of 74 Gatling Place, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11229.

Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erin, e.alsop@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1311215 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 441 METROPOLITAN AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11211.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. TEAM CAMEO LLC.

Notice of Qualification of 520 WEST 43RD STREET REIT, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/25/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/2/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 729 7th Ave, Fl. 15, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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August 27, 2018 FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK CITY OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF BRONX SUMMONS - Docket No.: B-33931/17 ------------------------------------------------X In the Matter of Commitment of Guardianship and Custody of

VALENTINA CONCETTA MOLINARO SUMMONS also known as VALENTINA CONCETTA PRINCIPE also known as VALENTINA PRINCIPE

A Child under the Age of Eighteen Years -------------------------------------------------X In the Name of the People of the State of New York TO: ANGELA PRINCIPE ADDRESS: UNKNOWN

A Petition having been duly filed in this Court, alleging that the above-named child in the care of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, should be committed to the guardianship and custody of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL; a copy of said Petition being annexed hereto; 900 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx, New York, Part 2, in front of the Hon. Gomez on September 21, 2018 at 11:30AM to Show Cause why the Court should not enter an Order committing the guardianship and custody of said child to the petitioning agency as required by law.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that if the guardianship and custody of said child are committed to the petitioning agency, THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, said child may be adopted with consent of the petitioning agency without your consent or further notice to you.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that you have the right to be represented by a lawyer, and, if the Court finds that you are unable to pay for a lawyer, you have the right to have a lawyer assigned by the Court.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that upon failure of the person summoned to appear, all of his or her parental rights to the child may be terminated, and PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that his or her failure to appear shall constitute a denial of his or her interest in the child which denial may result, without further notice, in the transfer or commitment of the child’s care, custody or guardianship or in the child’s adoption in this or any subsequent proceeding in which such care, custody or guardianship or adoption be at issue.

Dated: Bronx, New York August 22, 2018

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1312957 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 522 HUDSON ST NY, NY 10014.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. HUDSON & CHARLES DINETTE INC.

By Order of the Court /S/ Clerk of the Family Court

M.ECHEVARRIA, ADR LLC, a foreign LLC filed with SSNY 07/20/18. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Margarita Echevarria, 2 Constitution Ct, Hoboken, NJ 07030.

Purpose: Solo Practice.

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LOSERS BILLY & WILLY These baaaaad boys didn’t get such a bad deal. This pair of goats somehow found their way onto subway tracks in Brooklyn and became the hottest topic in New York for a day. Where did they come from? Who knows.

But where did they go? Well, these couple of lucky kids got rescued by none other than Jon Stewart, of “The Daily Show” fame. After wrangling in these wayward wethers, he whisked away Billy and Willy to a wonderful happily ever after at his Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen.

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Just when you were getting tired of the “concrete jungle,” U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah comes up with a new epithet for New York City: the “slam-bang, difficult world” that gave us President Donald Trump. If you’re confused by what he meant, look no further than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was slammin’ bangers at the New York State Fair. Cuomo may not have made our list this week, but the self-proclaimed “sausage aficionado” sure looked like a culinary winner.

MICHAEL COHEN This is not what you’d call taking a bullet for the president. The former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump finally spilled the beans on his old boss, testifying under oath that he paid off two women to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Trump.

In the long run, it might end up being even worse for the president himself – who, according to Cohen, directed him to make the payments.

But for now, Cohen’s in a lot of legal trouble – and it doesn’t look like he’ll get a pardon from the president.

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JOHN DEFRANCISCO & NICK PERRY

TEDRA COBB

Their prosecutor panel bill made the cut.

The House hopeful won’t get to create her own ballot line. She’ll just have to run Dem.

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DAVID HANSELL

JOE PALAZZOLO & MICHAEL ROTHFELD

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How do you get Trump to bond with a Democrat? Deport a Nazi.

These Journal reporters’ story on Trump’s Playmate payments was finally validated.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT

A Times endorsement might not win you an election ... but it certainly helps.

When you hired a murderer as a juvenile counselor, what did you think would happen?

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If there’s one thing that (should) be able to unite this divided country, it’s giving Nazis the good ol’ American boot.

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