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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

Last week, an anonymous op-ed by a senior Trump administration official shook up Washington. In the essay, posted by The New York Times, the president is called “amoral,” “erratic” and driven by “anti-democratic” impulses. The writer describes a valiant effort by White House officials to protect the country from President Donald Trump.

“This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state,” the official argues. “It’s the work of the steady state.”

But Trump and his defenders seized on the essay as evidence of exactly that – a “deep state” of entrenched bureaucrats seeking to undermine the president at every turn. It’s an argument long embraced by die-hard Trump supporters, but dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory.

Such accusations of a deep state also call to mind Richard Hofstadter’s 1964 essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which tracked the nation’s long history of outlandish claims targeting certain groups – Masons, Catholics, international bankers, munitions makers, Communists. What also distinguished the phenomenon, Hofstadter wrote, is that it is not a set of beliefs, but a way of believing.

In this week’s cover story, City & State’s Ben Adler arrives at an updated theory for our current political era – in which Trump is the prime example.

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Trumpism is New York conservatism gone national

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Can New York’s freight hauling ever return to the water?

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The biggest infrastructure projects underway in the state

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

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Latest BIG SPENDERS During the month before the primary, several candidates continued to spend big in their races. Cuomo spent a whopping $8.5 million in the course of about three weeks, which is more money than his opponent Cynthia Nixon has even raised since she launched her bid.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney transferred $1.4 million from his congressional campaign account into his attorney general account and has spent a total of $1.9 million. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul also spared no expense, doling out over $1.5 million. In each instance, the candidates far outspent their opponents.

RACKING UP ENDORSEMENTS With primary day coming up, a slew of endorsements rolled in for statewide offices.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo received many of them, starting with the backing of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, who pointed to Cuomo’s track record of progressive legislation. Additionally, The New York Times, The Buffalo News and the Times Union all published editorials offering their support of the incumbent. State attorney general candidate Zephyr Teachout also received more endorsements. Teachout also got the support of New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, who rescinded his previous endorsement of Letitia James. And Teachout also got a favorable editorial in The Buffalo News.

Back & Forth

A Q&A with Democratic state attorney general candidate

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The more than 1 million public school students across New York City headed back to class after summer vacation. This school year marks the first for new schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who has already pledged to take on systematic inequality and segregation at schools across the city. However, he said that he is opposed to busing students to other districts in order to diversify. De Blasio also said he remains confident his plan to integrate the city’s elite public high schools by eliminating the entrance exam will pass in the state Legislature.

You were once a post-conviction relief attorney working on death penalty cases.

Have you been a lead attorney in a trial?

Post-conviction is after a trial and it’s after the first appeal. It’s relooking at the whole case. In many cases, it’s highlighting new facts. But many cases are about the failure to provide adequate representation at the first level. You’re both highlighting what wasn’t done and then redoing the kinds of investigations that should have been done: talking extensively to family members, to people who are around your clients while he or she was growing up – all the things that might make a difference both in sentencing and in the fact determination.

It’s basically presenting in front of a judge what a full investigation would look like.

Your opponents have argued you don’t have the right experience for the job –

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“Una Clarke, God rest her soul.”

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Actually the overwhelming bulk of support I’ve gotten has been very much about my unique qualifications for the job! It’s the precise legal background, the depth of legal knowledge, the being engaged in cutting-edge legal cases, whether it’s in criminal defense, antitrust or money in politics world, that is exactly why we have gotten the support that I have across the board.

The Nation and the Daily News are saying the same thing.

You’re seven months pregnant. If elected, would you take office on Jan. 1, or would you take maternity leave?

I am fully ready to start on Jan. 1. There are a lot of incredible lawyers in the office right now, many of whom have very young children. And making sure that all the lawyers in the office have the support system they need is really important.

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A father naming his son after himself suggests tradition, pride, a desire for immortality – and it doesn’t hurt at the ballot box. Just ask the Peter Vallones, the José Serranos, the Rubén Díazes or all three Robert F. Wagners. But having someone else in the political arena, unrelated to you, share your name? That’s just annoying. Here’s a handy guide of who’s who and which is which.

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Albany lobbyist who profited off ties to Sheldon Silver

NYPD union boss who profits off antagonism to de Blasio

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Bronx city councilman, who represented District 15 from 2001 through 2013

Bronx City Council candidate, who ran for District 15 in 2013

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THE BELLIGERENT STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS How New Yorkers hijacked the Republican Party

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HE SITCOM “All in the Family,” the top-rated show on television for five years in the 1970s, was created by Norman Lear, a committed liberal who would go on to found People for the American Way. But Archie Bunker, the show’s lead character, was a blustering bigot whose rants about the growing ranks of minorities, immigrants and anti-war longhairs were supposed to be obviously stupid and outdated. The audience, Lear hoped, would see Bunker as a small-minded fool and come to regard Bunker’s views as discreditable.

For liberal viewers, the concept worked as planned.

Schoolteachers used the show to teach students about prejudice. But conservatives interpreted Bunker’s sentiments differently. They laughed with him, rather than at him, nodding along to his commentary and thinking that it vindicated their own opinions. A 1974 study in the Journal of Communication found “most bigoted viewers didn’t perceive the program as satirical,” The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum wrote in 2014. “They identified with Archie’s perspective, saw him as winning arguments. … Lear’s series seemed to be even more appealing to those who shared Archie’s frustrations with the culture around him, a ‘silent majority’ who got off on hearing taboo thoughts said aloud.”

Besides demonstrating the limits of converting conservatives through mockery, “All in the Family” proved that a portly, angry old white man from Queens could effectively articulate the anxiety about a changing society among social conservatives across the country, winning their affection in the process.

Yet no one thought to ask what would happen if a real-life Archie Bunker were rich and famous and went into politics. Now we know: He would be elected president. Just as New York liberals thought Bunker’s diatribes would be self-defeating and were proven wrong, so has the heartland appeal of President Donald Trump’s abrasive and chauvinistic fulminations taken them by surprise.

But Trump’s distinctly New York brand of right-wing politics not only attracted Republican voters: It has become the dominant paradigm of the contemporary Republican Party. Call it the Belligerent Style in American Politics.

The Belligerent Style is the nonideological but viscerally reactionary and perpetually enraged attitude of outer-borough and suburban white New Yorkers: tribal, hostile to new immigrants of color, longing for a bygone era and attracted to a strongman who promises to restore it. It’s the spirit of a man who bought newspaper ads to call for the death penalty for the Central Park Five and insisted for years that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This is the

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politics that elected Rudy Giuliani as New York City mayor and nominated Carl Paladino for governor, the conservatism of Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Grimm and Archie Bunker.

Just as Richard Hofstadter famously described the early 1960s far-right with his landmark essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” today’s right-wing ethos is a more of a style than a philosophy. Its two primary strands are authoritarianism – in particular, an eagerness to loudly embrace whatever the Dear Leader says, no matter how contradictory to his prior statements, or one’s own – and crude white chauvinism. Many political observers have been bewildered

by Trump’s intellectually disjointed approach to governance – a mishmash of autocracy, kleptocracy, transactionalism, nativism, racism and populist bombast.

The key to understanding Trumpism is to view it ethnographically rather than philosophically: It’s what New Yorkers happens when New York conand vocal Trump servatism goes national. supporters like Bunker and Trump grew up in Jeanine Pirro and their shared borough before its Sean Hannity have white majority dissipated. Forty come to dominate Fox News. years after “All in the Family” stopped taping, Trump’s outlook is seemingly frozen in that time and place: In his mind, it’s still the 1970s and the country, especially aged liberals, especially Obama (“We’re its cities, are beset by rising crime and the tired of being pushed around, kicked incipient onslaught of diversity. The best around ... and being led by stupid people”), way to guess as to how Trump – and by and threatened, even assaulted, protestextension the whole Republican Party and ers at Trump’s urging (“I’d like to punch its propaganda apparatus in outlets such as him in the face, I’ll tell you”). In a line that Fox News, The Daily Caller and Breitba- could’ve been ripped from Bunker himrt News – will react to any development is self, Trump waxed nostalgic onstage about probably to ask WWAD: What Would Ar- a protester, saying, “In the good old days, chie Do? they’d rip him out of that seat so fast. But today, everyone is so politically correct.”

Trump’s campaign rallies – along with URING THE 2016 presidential campaign, political reporters dis- his Twitter feed, through which he’s incovered a strange new phenome- sulted at least 487 people, places and non: the Trump rally. Audiences, things – are where the Belligerent Style virtually all white and skewing first found its national niche. Whereas Tea older, lined up for hours and packed are- Party politicians like Ted Cruz, and before nas to the rafters to hear a political novice them social conservatives like Rick Sanramble incoherently. Trump was no great torum, emphasized fealty to conservative orator or visionary: His speeches were light principles, the Belligerent Style substitutes on concrete policy proposals and did not pugnaciousness for ideology. You could articulate a vision of liberty akin to Barry have been a Democrat or a moderate ReGoldwater’s or Ronald Reagan’s. And he publican until very recently and be a hero completely lacked the uplifting eloquence to the right-wing now, so long as you are unwavering in your loyalty to Trump and of then-President Barack Obama.

But conservatives were drawn to the relentlessly nasty in your denunciations of orange star like moths to a flame. They his opponents and his targets, such as imcheered Trump’s haughty boasts (“I could migrants who entered the country illegally stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and and the mainstream media. It’s an opporshoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose vot- tunity perfectly suited to the charlatans ers”), laughed uproariously as he dispar- often found in New York’s highest-pay-

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ing industries like finance, real estate and television – and many of them eagerly have taken advantage of it.

In fact, the Belligerent Style is largely an outgrowth of New York itself. The most high-profile champions of this now-dominant strand of Republicanism are disproportionately from New York and its environs.

If you turn on cable news at almost any time of any day, you’re likely to see a discussion of the latest outburst from a New Yorker – be it Trump, one of his official mouthpieces like Giuliani, or an unofficial one like Hannity. Fox News, which Trump regularly watches as it churns out propaganda on his behalf, is based in New York City, so its on-air personalities and executives mostly live in the city or its suburbs. But the New York City-area roots of Trump’s most enthusiastic surrogates run deeper: Hannity and O’Reilly both grew up on Long Island. (Since being fired from Fox News last year for alleged sexual harassment, O’Reilly now hosts a podcast and a show on the conservative cable news channel Newsmax TV. His current fixations include defending Trump from what he calls “the dark left” and dismissing the notion of “white privilege.”)

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but added, “I have broad blue stripes when it comes to social issues. ... I am a woman who is a moderate in New York.”

After her political career fizzled, thanks in part to her then-husband’s conviction for tax evasion, she went into television, first as a judge who condescended her guests in the no-nonsense manner of Judge Judy, then as a conservative pundit.

In the past few years, she’s soared to national political prominence as a Trump attack dog. As the Times reported in December, “Ms. Pirro has lately emerged as a force in a right-wing media effort to undermine the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is leading the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election … saying on the air that ‘individ-

executive Bill Shine grew up and started his career in local television on Long Island. Shine was forced out of Fox last year for allegedly facilitating sexual harassment by several prominent men there. As The New York Times noted at the time of his departure, “Mr. Shine was a Long Island commuter who prided himself on his working-class roots, and friends considered him the newsroom’s closest embodiment of the average Fox News viewer.”

Giuliani was raised in Brooklyn and on Long Island, has lived in Manhattan his whole adult life, and served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and as mayor of New York City. Donald Trump Jr. is a rising star in Republican politics, and is in demand as a campaign trail surrogate because of his Belligerent Style comments and tweets, such as comparing Democratic policies to Nazis. (Cliff Sims, a former White House and Trump campaign staffer, recently told The Washington Post: “Don is a chip off the old block. He’s a savage on Twitter and a force of nature on the stump.”) Anthony Scaramucci, who has ping-ponged between defending Trump on cable news and briefly serving as Trump’s White House spokesman, is also from Long Island.

Some of Trump’s most aggressive de-

While talk radio blowhards have long appealed to conservatives, the current pre-eminence of libertine loudmouths from Queens and Long Island seems like a weird reversal for the GOP. fenders grew up next door in New Jersey, including counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who first became a right-wing hero for his habit of bellowing rebukes at schoolteachers who asked him questions during town halls.

Many of these Trump associates adopt Trump’s Belligerent Style in their public appearances, including Kudlow’s assertion that mild-mannered Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “stabbed us in the back” and Scaramucci’s profane tirade to The New Yorker about White House leakers.

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HE BELLIGERENT STYLE is embodied in its purest form by its talking heads, such as Hannity and Jeanine Pirro.

Pirro once was considered a promising New York Republican politician. The Elmira native was the first female elected judge and district attorney in Westchester County. In 2005, seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, she declared herself a fiscal conservative

uals’ in the F.B.I. and the Justice Department ‘need to be taken out in cuffs.’ … Her increasingly severe denunciations of Mr. Mueller have translated into big ratings.”

Even as evidence of the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russia has mounted, Pirro has continued with her impassioned defense of the president. In late August, for example, she wondered about Mueller, “Bob, are you stupid?”

Trump has returned the favor. The president “rarely misses an episode and … has urged his Twitter followers to tune into her show along with him,” the Times reported.

“By the virtue of the fact that Trump is a New Yorker, he’s been able to operate in the same circles as (some conservative media figures) for a long time,” said Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters for America, a liberal organization that monitors conservative media. “Pirro has been a friend of Trump’s for decades. Their social relationship has allowed her to rise with him.”

Hannity, whose on-air presence is reminiscent of an irate driver honking his horn on the Long Island Expressway, has become the president’s most notable media acolyte.

As the Times observed in November, “The

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quintessential Hannity program, wheth‑ er on radio or television, tends to hinge on one or more of the host’s abiding preoccu‑ pations: reverence for the military and law enforcement; nostalgia for an America that Hannity feels is slipping away; disdain for the mainstream media; and since the last presidential election, unyielding support for the agenda of Donald Trump.”

Like all belligerents, Hannity needs something to be against, despite his close ally being in the White House. And so his show, like Pirro’s, has shifted even further away from policy reporting and analysis, to focus on the president’s antagonists and their perfidy.

As with Pirro, whose audience has grown 25 percent since Trump took office, Han‑ nity’s approach has fed a hunger among conservatives for combative pro‑Trump propaganda. His show is now the most popular news program on cable TV and, this year, he passed Rush Limbaugh on one list of the country’s most important radio talk show hosts. Trump speaks regularly with Hannity, reportedly hiring Shine on the host’s recommendation.

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HE NEW YORK CITY-AREA provenance of Trump and his Praetorian Guard is not a mean‑ ingless biographical detail, like the fact that Limbaugh grew up in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. New York is central to Trump’s public persona and his political appeal. Trump’s accent betrays his outer‑borough upbringing. His career was made in New York real estate and his fame in New York’s tabloids. The accom‑ plishments he and his boosters cite as qual‑ ifications, such as building Trump Tower and renovating Wollman Rink in Central Park, all took place in Manhattan. Even Trump’s disregard for the truth and habit of making promises he has no intention of keeping are partly the product of a career in the unscrupulous New York real estate industry.

While Fox News and talk radio blow‑ hards have long appealed to older white conservatives across the country, the cur‑ rent pre‑eminence of libertine loudmouths from Queens and Long Island seems like a weird reversal for the GOP. Until 2016, religiosity was the nominal basis for social conservatism. Evangeli‑ cal southern governors such as George W. Bush and Mike Huckabee appealed more to Republican presidential primary voters with starkly moralistic messages.

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suspected – that the talk about traditional values was just a euphemism for discom‑ fort with social change and a desire to see a leader who would stand athwart it yell‑ ing “stop!”

In that environment, New York vulgari‑ ans like Trump and his minions are no lon‑ ger harmed by their personal peccadillos or ideological apostasies, and they possess an asset in great demand among today’s Re‑ publicans: a bluntness and gruffness of rhet‑ oric and tone that may make the culturally insecure feel safe. Interviews with Trump supporters across the country – including, for example, devout rural Southerners – routinely come back to the idea that he’s a jerk, but a jerk may be the only one tough enough to keep out undesirables and slay political correctness. As one Southern Bap‑ tist church parishioner told The Washing‑ ton Post, “We need abrasive right now.”

So it is fitting that many of the conser‑ vative pundits who have ridden the Trump wave to greater fame and fortune are not avuncular evangelicals but surly, secular Northeasterners. Even those not original‑ ly from New York mostly grew up within a two‑hour drive of Trump Tower. In 2017, Fox News added shows by hosts Mark Levin

York as well.

Consider Suffolk County on Long Island.

It supported Obama twice, then went for Trump by 8 percentage points. (Adjacent Nassau County was carried by Clinton, al‑ though, as in the state as a whole, the Dem‑

Interviews with Trump supporters routinely come back to the idea that he’s a jerk, but a jerk may be the only one tough enough to slay political correctness. and Jesse Waters, both of whom grew up in Philadelphia – and in Waters’ case, partially on Long Island – and Laura Ingraham, who is from Connecticut. All have a snarky atti‑ tude and focus heavily on attacking liberals.

In August, Ingraham made headlines with this riff on her Fox show: “In some parts of the country, it does seem like the America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people.

They’re changes none of us ever voted for, and most of us don’t like.”

Ingraham wasn’t just pandering to an au‑ dience in rural America. Hostility to immi‑ gration is a powerful force in parts of New

ocrat’s margin of victory was smaller than Obama’s in 2012.) As Scaramucci put it in the first press conference of his brief White House tenure, “The people I grew up with, they so identify with the president and they love him.” Opposition to immigration is the subject Trump most frequently raises when campaigning on Long Island. When the president visited in May to complain about Salvadoran‑American gang members, whom he refers to as “animals,” he said, “I essentially grew up on Long Island. … This used to be the place that you would leave your doors unlocked, you would leave your windows open always.”

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where Trump grew up is indeed closer, and far more similar, to Long Island than it is to Manhattan. Long Island today, inhabited by the whites who left Queens and Brooklyn, is what Archie Bunker’s Astoria was in the 1970s. And Trump personifies the most

negative stereotypes of New Yorkers in general and Long Islanders in particular: garish, irate and profane.

Why is this personality so appealing to conservatives and a certain breed of white swing voter? Perhaps because it conveys authenticity and sincerity. It also makes coddled celebrities seem more like the average Americans they claim to represent. Trump, Hannity and O’Reilly live in luxury, but their undignified shouting shows they are just regular guys at heart. (Voters never saw upper-crust stiffs like John Kerry and Mitt Romney lose their temper or berate an adversary.)

Many Trump supporters have said his penchant for slandering Latino immigrants endears him to them not because they agree with his specific statements but because they admire his willingness to say it. Suffolk

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County Republican Party Chairman John Jay LaValle expressed precisely this sentiment when he told Politico, “Trump speaks our language. He thinks the way we think.

He talks the way we talk. He is breaking the political correctness of America.”

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1980. And so Suffolk County and places like it across the country found comfort in a candidate who isn’t afraid to give voice to their inner Archie. Areas that had been overwhelmingly white but now have growing nonwhite populations, such as Rust Belt suburbs, were among those that swung hardest toward the GOP from 2012 to 2016.

This shift toward Belligerent Style revanchist politics is reflected in not just the White House and on Fox but in New York’s Republican members of Congress.

Rep. Lee Zeldin from Suffolk County “has emerged as a vocal defender of the president and many of his policies,” according to Newsday. Zeldin has backed up Trump on such hot-button Donald Trump issues as the president’s controversial personifies the comments about the white supremamost negative cist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. stereotypes of Zeldin’s district has swung between Long Islanders: the parties, but went for Trump by garish, irate and profane.

12 percentage points. Zeldin’s election to Congress in 2014 showed the changing terrain in diversifying suburbs that would boost Trump two years later. In the summer of 2014, Politico reported, “Polls showed support for immigrants plummet in Suffolk, and Zeldin grabbed onto the issue, accusing (his Democratic opponent) of supporting ‘amnesty’ and proclaiming that the border had become vulnerable because agents were forced to ‘babysit the surge of children coming across the border.’ Zeldin’s campaign caught Trump’s eye. The future president robo-called on behalf of Zeldin during his 2014 race, and he called Zeldin after both his primary and general election victories.”

Rep. Claudia Tenney, who represents Central New York, has fully adopted the Belligerent Style, throwing out inflammatory accusations about political opponents.

As Politico wrote in April, “Tenney has T MAY SEEM counterintuitive that a developed a bombastic reputation on Capnativist uprising would be led by a den- itol Hill, adopting Trump-like rhetoric to izen of the country’s most diverse city defend scandal-plagued administration ofand egged on by other New Yorkers. But ficials or blast the media for ‘fake news.’” it actually makes sense that the leaders Tenney has echoed Trump’s call to lock up of a response to demographic shifts are peo- Hillary Clinton, and she threw in James ple who grew up in suburban New York, in Comey for good measure. After the school places like Levittown and Jamaica Estates shooting in Parkland, Florida, Tenney sugwhere whites barricaded themselves to hold gested, without evidence, that mass shootthe rising tide of minorities at bay. New ers tend to be Democrats.

The first member of Congress to enYork experienced the influx of non-European immigrants first, and so the angry white dorse Trump was Rep. Chris Collins, from the Buffalo suburbs. “He became one reaction started here too.

Today’s Archie Bunker, the white man of Trump’s top defenders,” according to venting about nonwhite newcomers to his USA Today, with more than 200 nationneighborhood, is now found in the suburbs al television appearances in Trump’s first undergoing changes that already have oc- 13 months in office. After being indicted curred in New York City. The Latino pop- for insider trading, he has suspended his ulation on Long Island has tripled since re-election campaign. One potential re-

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placement for Collins who local GOP leaders considered was Carl Paladino, whose 2010 campaign for governor was a forerunner to Trump’s presidential bid. CBS News described Paladino that year as, “A millionaire developer who is fond of channeling disturbed newsman Howard Beale’s “mad as hell” speech from the movie ‘Network.’” Paladino admitted forwarding racist and sexist emails, proposed housing welfare recipients in prison and defended a friend who called then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver “an Antichrist or a Hitler.”

Rep. Pete King helped organize Trump’s MS-13 event. Shortly thereafter, King took

The Trumpification of New York Republicans is also apparent on Staten Island, the most Long Island of New York’s boroughs.

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who represents part of the borough, previously told City & State, “Trump is really revered and loved by Staten Islanders.” Former Rep. Vito Fossella Jr. – who left Congress after the 2008 election after being arrested for drunken driving and exposed for carrying on a yearslong affair that produced a child – made his comeback as the co-host of a short-lived show on right-wing network Newsmax TV. In news accounts, the show wasn’t described as conservative, but

Rep. Dan Donovan had to talk up his relationship with Trump to fend off his Trump-like challenger, above, Michael Grimm.

a page from Trump’s playbook by tweeting hysterical invective toward African-American NFL players who kneel during the national anthem – one of Trump’s favorite subjects – to protest police brutality. “Disgraceful that @nyjets owner will pay fines for players who kneel for the National Anthem,” King wrote.

“Encouraging a movement premised on lies vs. police. Would he support all player protests? Would he pay fines of players giving Nazi salutes or spew racism? It’s time to say goodbye to Jets!” King’s tweet encapsulates the Belligerent Style in every particular: disproportionate anger, ungrammatical writing, insensitivity toward racial and religious minorities, performative patriotism and a distracting obsession with culture war minutiae.

merely “pro-Trump.” The segments viewable online inveigh against the “dishonest” and “unpatriotic” news media, while the promos leaned heavily on Fossella’s outer-borough New York identity, featuring shots of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

Perhaps Fossella should have run for office again as a Trump Republican. That was the strategy of former Rep. Michael Grimm, who held the same seat until he resigned in 2015 after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion. This year, Grimm challenged current Rep. Dan Donovan for his old seat. He attacked Donovan with mean-spirited jabs, like calling the congressman “desperate” and saying “he’s embarrassing himself,” and accused Donovan of being insufficiently pro-Trump.

Donovan fended Grimm off by out-Trumping him. Donovan intensified his opposition to illegal immigration by proposing a bill to require a portrait of Trump in U.S. post offices and talking up his closeness to the president, who endorsed him.

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ESPITE THE CLOSE association with New York, the Belligerent Style is a liability for the GOP in parts of the state. Belligerence is an approach designed to amp up one’s supporters, not reach out to moderates. The Belligerent Style’s ascendance has made politics more polarized and kept Trump’s approval rating underwater. Paladino lost resoundingly to Cuomo in 2010 and Tenney’s extremism has Beltway Republicans worrying that it could put her seat in play.

It is especially dangerous for Republicans in cities and surrounding suburbs, which did not favor Trump, while exurban areas like Suffolk County did.

Perhaps that’s why, when asked for an interview for this story, Nassau County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Cairo emailed a statement via his spokesman that brought up Trump’s demeanor, unprompted, only to pivot away from it. (He was sure, however, to mention MS-13.) “I have always put more stock in substance than in style,” read the statement, in part. “President Donald Trump has brought an agenda of substance to his job as the leader of our nation, producing meaningful results that have benefitted New Yorkers and people across the nation. As the engineer of a historic tax cut he is helping taxpayers keep more of what they earn. Donald Trump has presided over an economic and stock market rebound, brought manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. and delivered historically low unemployment rates. Here on Long Island, neighbors are breathing a collective sigh of relief that he has cracked down on violent gangs like MS-13.”

The Belligerent Style is especially out of step with the city that raised its most notorious exponent. Racial minorities have increased from 47 percent of the New York City’s residents in 1980 to roughly 68 percent today. If Giuliani and David Dinkins faced off in the New York City mayoral election again and each got the same share of each racial group’s vote as they did in 1993, Dinkins would now win. Trump and Giuliani are relics of the New York conservatism that has conquered the country only after it has been vanquished from its place of origin. But being an angry white guy with a bridge-and-tunnel attitude, Archie Bunker in a suit is now the surest path to success as a conservative TV pundit and, apparently, to the White House.

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HEN DONALD TRUMP was running for president, he made an ambitious pledge to invest $1 trillion in rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure. Since taking office, he has fallen short. Earlier this year, his admin-

istration quietly described a much smaller $200 billion plan – which would come from unspecified cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Even worse, he has impeded progress on specific projects, most notably the Gateway rail tunnel that would add much-needed capacity under the Hudson River. But that

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doesn’t mean that New York officials are sitting and waiting for the federal government to act. In this special section, we check in on key infrastructure projects, get the latest from top government officials and take a closer look at New York City’s effort to revitalize its ports and waterways.

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NEW YORK CITY ISN’T ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT PORTS ANYMORE – AND TRYING TO TURN BACK THE CLOCK WON’T WORK.

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HIS SUMMER, the New York City government initiated a $100 million plan – outlined in a report by the city’s Economic Development Corp. titled, “Freight NYC: Goods for the Good of the City,” that, with federal and state support, will try to solve the city’s age-old problems with freight transportation.

Nearly 200 million tons of freight moved through the city in 2016 – over 90 percent of it by truck. That causes major headaches for the city and its residents: One study estimates that exhaust from trucks (and buses) is responsible for particulate matter emissions that are asso-

ciated with 170 deaths in New York City each year, concentrated in high-poverty communities. These limitations reduce the city’s competitiveness and increase the cost of goods.

According to the EDC’s report, truck congestion and delays cost the city $862 million in lost economic activity last year.

Total freight being moved through New York City is expected to grow to 312 million tons by 2045. The city’s transportation infrastructure, largely unchanged for half a century, simply can’t cope with that type of growth.

The Cross Bronx Expressway is already a truck parking lot for much of the day. The key chokepoints are the Hudson River crossings, which connect New York City and Long Is-

land to the rest of the U.S. Nearly all freight in the city passes over and through the handful of bridges and tunnels, while most rail freight takes an often-circuitous route crossing near Albany, running down the Hudson and entering Queens on the Hell’s Gate Bridge. The EDC’s plan would seek to relieve these crossings by resuming significant barge operations to bring freight both onto the city’s rail network and directly to waterfront industrial areas, such as Hunts Point in the Bronx and Sunset Park in Brooklyn.

The EDC wants to go back to the future by returning shipping to the waterways. But that won’t solve many of New York’s worst freight traffic problems. And the city can’t

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address this alone: The state government must cooperate with the city on facilitating freight traffic on the Port Authority’s crossings, and it must build infrastructure to shift Long Island-bound truck traffic onto rail.

The EDC’s plan is imbued with nostalgia for the days when New York was one of the world’s great ports and industrial centers, and it seeks to bring back the days when freight flowed leisurely on barges around the harbor to waterfront industrial districts.

Those days are gone. Modern commerce requires enormous single-level distribution centers, which are mostly impossible to build in New York City, where vast acreage simply isn’t available. Waterfront land in particular is prized for commercial and residential development, which is far more lucrative than warehouses.

The city needs to recognize that it is part of an integrated region, and northern New Jersey is its main logistics area. Expanded barge and rail transloading facilities will help, but they won’t make a difference for most trips.

Instead, the city needs to look at improving the Hudson River crossings by shifting car trips to mass transit in order to free up space for freight traffic that has fewer alternatives, and it needs to find places for viable rail-accessible distribution centers east of the Hudson River, such as in Long Island and Westchester County.

Long term, the best solution would be a freight rail tunnel across the harbor. For a century, there have been proposals to build a direct link between northern New Jersey and Brooklyn. The Port Authority’s Cross Harbor Freight Program has been studying the possibility of such a tunnel for years, and it has long been a pet project of Rep. Jerrold Nadler. Rail currently handles only about 2 percent of the city’s freight, so it would take many years for the local distribution and demand to grow to the point that it would justify the massive cost of the tunnel’s construction.

This is likely why it was only briefly mentioned in the EDC report, but combining it with a transit route between Staten Island and Brooklyn would make a tunnel much more viable in the short term as demand for freight rail builds over time.

New York became a commercial hub in large part because its geography is unusually well-suited for maritime trade. The miles of waterfront along the Hudson and East rivers were an incomparable asset when most freight was moved to and from the city by ship and barge. With the advent of rail and later road transportation, the necklace of rivers became more of an obstacle than an asset. Train cars had to be floated across the Hudson on a barge from various New Jersey terminals to the city’s waterfront industrial areas. It was only through federal regulation

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that New York’s port remained competitive: Railroads were required to charge the same rate to ship to New York City as to northern New Jersey. Effectively, shippers across the country paid to subsidize the Port of New York. With the advent of trucking, containerization, and eventually deregulation in the 1970s, the whole system collapsed. The fleets of barges shuttling freight around the harbor disappeared. Nearly all of the port operations shifted to New Jersey, where abundant land and direct access to the country’s rail and road infrastructure were available.

New York has long recognized these limitations and has had ambitious plans to resolve freight transportation for over a century. The Port Authority was established in 1921 to create an elaborate network of railways to distribute freight around the region that never came to fruition, a plan described in Jameson Doig’s history of the Port Authority, “Empire on the Hudson.” Today, freight transportation relies almost entirely

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to the national rail and highway network, and where land is relatively cheap. Aside from Hunts Point, which serves the specialized role of food distribution, the five boroughs are not major players in the distribution sector. The EDC said that there are 2.2 million square feet of distribution space for e-commerce in the city, with 3.8 million square feet planned or under construction. For a city the size of New York, this is quite meager. Amazon’s new distribution center in Carteret, New Jersey, (across the Arthur Kill from Staten Island) is 1 million square feet, and it is one of seven the company has in that state.

It’s OK for New York to lag in distribution center space, as it’s not the city’s comparative advantage. A warehouse that spans 1 million square feet takes up the land area required for thousands of apartments in a dense city neighborhood, or the land area of the entire World Trade Center complex. It is not likely that this, in most cases, is the highest and best use of New York City land.

The EDC’s plan is imbued with nostalgia for the days when freight flowed leisurely on barges around the harbor to waterfront industrial districts. on a small and extremely congested network of expressways.

The EDC’s plan proposes developing “multimodal freight hubs” in the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Queens; Hunts Point, Bronx; and at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. They would be accessed by enhanced rail infrastructure and a renewed network of cross-harbor barges. The waterfront sites would be connected to New Jersey by barge, while Maspeth would be a rail hub linked to the mainland with an expanded Brooklyn-Jersey City rail car barge operation. The report said the plan will reduce annual truck miles by 70 million, limiting growth between now and 2045 to about 30 million, but was vague on how this would be achieved.

The key problem is that a vast majority of goods do not simply come off the boat or out of the factory and head straight to the retail store or the consumer’s home. Instead, they are stored and sorted in large distribution centers.

In the New York City area, these are overwhelmingly located in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, where they have direct access

Likewise, the expanded use of barges will require the use of scarce waterfront land. In certain places, like Hunts Point, where there is a high concentration of industrial uses, it should work. It certainly would make sense to shift as much traffic in the food market onto the water as possible, especially in a neighborhood that shoulders a disproportionate share of environmental burdens like truck traffic. Waste is already increasingly shipped by barge, and it may be possible to shift more fuel and construction materials to the water as well – the three combined for 42 percent of total freight tonnage shipped in the city.

More broadly, however, it will become increasingly difficult to shift freight to barges as waterfront industrial land is transformed into residential and commercial development – for example, in Sunset Park, which the EDC proposes as an important freight hub. It would be essential to preserve some waterfront industrial land for these purposes – if the FreightNYC vision is to be achieved – and that land is disappearing fast.

The plan calls for additional transload-

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REVIVING NYC’S MARITIME SHIPPING LEGACY JAMES PATCHETT PRESIDENT AND CEO, NEW YORK CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP. What do you say to those who argue that there’s no room for waterfront warehouse distribution facilities in New York City, where residential and commercial developments are now prioritized?

New York City is far larger than our core business districts. From Hunts Point to Sunset Park, there are plenty of areas that both have the space capacity and the need for distribution facilities to keep their competitive advantage. We are also exploring creating multistory or vertical distribution centers, for which there is growing demand regionally.

How will you ensure Freight NYC will work?

Freight NYC has four key components: increasing maritime capacity, expanding rail freight, developing freight hubs and utilizing clean trucks that will help reduce pollution – all while creating nearly 5,000 jobs in the process. We are well on our way to accomplishing all four of these objectives. At a time when our antiquated highways are increasingly congested with truck traffic, now is the time to return to our roots as a port city and take advantage of our “marine highways.” The immediate and targeted investments outlined in Freight NYC will make a difference in relieving congestion and optimizing efficiency in the short term. And we are standing at the ready to work with our partners at the local, state, and federal levels to bring our freight distribution system into the 21st century.

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ing facilities in Brooklyn and Queens to facilitate the unloading of goods to then be loaded onto trucks and taken to their destinations in the city. The problem, again, is that this only works for goods that do not need to be sorted and stored in a large warehouse before going to their final destination. Furthermore, shifting traffic onto rail may exacerbate the environmental burden in certain neighborhoods that already shoulder more than their fair share.

Solving the city’s freight transportation problems will require a regional vision and state government action because much of the freight traffic clogging the city’s expressways is just passing through on its way to Long Island. With nearly 3 million peo-

the rails and the water. It is simply not possible to cram another 100 million tons onto a few road bridges and tunnels.

The white whale of New York City freight transportation projects is the cross-harbor rail tunnel. One option would be to combine a freight tunnel with a passenger rail project connecting Brooklyn with Staten Island.

Perhaps built as part of a network like Alon Levy’s proposed regional rail plan or the Regional Plan Association’s Trans-Regional Express report, such a tunnel could dramatically improve transit access. Direct freight access across the harbor could piggyback on such a project by having the tunnel built to freight standards and permitting freight traffic off-peak or overnight. The combined

The city needs to recognize that it is part of an integrated region, and northern New Jersey is its main logistics area. ple, Long Island is an important market in its own right, and this pass-through traffic is expected to grow 85 percent by 2045.

Right now, nearly all of it is on trucks, even though it is possible to get freight there by rail. It can travel either on car float barges into Brooklyn, or down from Albany and across the Hell’s Gate Bridge. From there, it can use the New York & Atlantic Railway on the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road to reach points all around Long Island. The problem is that, like the city, Nassau and Suffolk counties have very little infrastructure to receive rail freight, so that route has only a minuscule market share today. Fortunately, Long Island has much more land area available for large warehouses, distribution centers and rail yards, making a shift to rail of Long Island-bound traffic much easier than for city traffic. A state policy to encourage the development of rail freight infrastructure on Long Island, starting with the construction of a facility for the loading and unloading of container trains, could divert a lot of traffic off the city’s roads. Long Island could even become a distribution center for Brooklyn and Queens, eliminating the need for local trips to use congested river crossings.

Regardless of the obstacles, a plan is clearly necessary to shift freight transport onto

benefits to freight transportation and transit might make a very expensive project viable.

The federal money needed is unlikely to come, possibly until the Democrats retake Congress and/or the White House. The rail tunnel also does not solve the distribution center issue.

In the nearer term, the best approach may be to shift as many cars off the city’s highways as possible to make room for trucks, which have fewer alternatives. This could be accomplished by disincentivizing passenger cars and encouraging commuters to take mass transit. Policies to that end could include dedicated truck lanes on key routes and crossings, tolling the East River crossings and increasing total average costs of driving, such as through the Move New York plan or other forms of congestion pricing.

New York City’s freight transportation has been a quandary for a century. Getting goods to the millions of people east of the Hudson River will require a combination of new infrastructure and better use of existing infrastructure. A return to the old days of shipping on barges around the harbor has a role to play, but a return to the past won’t be the silver bullet.

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A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE FREIGHT TUNNEL? JERROLD NADLER CONGRESSMAN For more than three decades, you’ve championed creating a freight rail line to connect New Jersey and Brooklyn. Where are we in the centurylong effort to make a cross-harbor freight line happen?

The second tier of the environmental impact statement is designed to do the engineering and work out the costs and work out the finances. Those are the three essentials and that should be done in 24 or 30 months or so – about 2021 to 2022 is when the EIS will be completed. You then have to have an approval process, which will take a year or two.

Who are all the different players involved in getting this done?

The players would be the two governors, obviously, and the heads of the Port Authority who are appointed essentially by the two governors, the board of directors of the Port Authority, probably the mayor. I don’t know if he has a official role but he would certainly be involved in various ways, possibly various officials in New Jersey. Depending on the financing, maybe the state Legislature, maybe Congress.

What concerns do you see at the local level that could become fodder for the opposition?

First of all, you are going to have to have freight terminals, and one of the things that the EIS will recommend is the location and size of those terminals. One of the major ideas of the tunnel is to cut out truck freight, to greatly reduce the number of 18-wheelers going into New York City highways and highways near New York and New Jersey, and while it will do that, it can’t eliminate the last mile.

There could be concerns about increasing trucks at the locations of certain terminals.

We’re going to have to deal with that and take remedial action to make sure you’re not overwhelming any community even though the truck numbers will be reduced generally. We’ll have to make sure that is part of the EIS.

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Why does it have to be rail, not some other technology?

You can move goods into the city and Long Island in one of three ways: by truck, by rail or by boat. In the United States, 43 percent of intercity freight goes by rail. East of the Hudson, it’s less than 1 percent. Rail is three times as energy efficient as truck freight. It’s much less polluting. We have the highest rates of asthma in the world in the South Bronx, mostly because of the trucks. And one rail car can take the load of three and a half tractor trailers.

There’s also a security argument, which nobody mentions.

Because of various access points that don’t allow 14-foot vehicles past them, 93 percent of everything that comes into New York City, Long Island, Westchester, comes over the George Washington Bridge – 93 percent. We have a three-day food supply.

If anything happens to that bridge, we’ll starve, literally.

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SEVEN MAJOR NEW YORK CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT.

S THE Democratic gubernatorial primary approaches, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been leaning on his track record of completing big public projects.

In its recent endorsement of Cuomo, The New York Times cited a list of major infrastructure achievements as a reason to vote for the incumbent.

Here’s a look at some of the biggest construction projects underway in the state – and Cuomo has his fingerprints over almost all of them.

LAGUARDIA AIRPORT

In June 2016, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was joined by then-Vice President Joe Biden – who had famously compared the facility to one out of a “Third World country” – to announce that renovations had begun on LaGuardia Airport to help it tend to its decades-old terminals. An estimated $8 billion is being spent on a two-part project that Cuomo’s office described as “the first complete rebuild of an airport in the United States in more than 20 years.” The first part of the project is to redesign Terminal B, also known

as the Central Terminal Building, into a 1.3 million-square-foot terminal with 37 gates and a grander main entrance. The second part, which began last year, is set to connect the Delta-operated C and D terminals to this new facility – an undertaking that will move the airport closer to the highway and expand aircraft taxiways to reduce delays. A new roadway network, the now-open West Parking Garage and an AirTrain between the airport and the Mets-Willets Point No. 7 subway station are intended to improve transportation connections to the airport. In

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A rendering of the LaGuardia Airport renovations. The project will bring the airport closer to the highway.

its entirety, the renovation is expected to be done by 2026, although the governor’s office said Terminal B would be open to the public in 2019 and be fully completed in 2021.

Work on Concourse A is set to be completed by 2022. Magic Johnson Enterprises and Loop Capital invested $10 million in the project and the work to the C and D terminals will be financed mostly by Delta with up to $600 million from the Port Authority. At the end of July, a highway overpass was completed that should improve traffic around the airport.

GATEWAY RAIL TUNNEL

The Gateway Program, a set of projects to upgrade and expand passenger rail service on both sides of the Hudson River, has been recognized as one of the country’s most urgent infrastructure needs. The backbone of the project would be a new rail tunnel and the rehabilitation of the existing century-old rail tunnel from New Jersey to Manhattan. The existing tunnel carries more than 200,000 passengers daily and a potential shutdown could threaten 10 percent of the nation’s GDP. The Obama

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A rendering of the renovated Penn Station, which will add a number of new entrances and let in more natural sunlight.

administration had agreed to pay for half of the program’s costs, now projected to exceed $30 billion, but the Trump administration has expressed its opposition to providing federal funding. Congress has set aside funding that can be used for Gateway anyway, and local officials have reworked the funding plan to make up for the lack of federal support. Expected to be completed by 2030, aspects of the project have started moving forward incrementally, with two of the three casings being placed that will be used to connect the tunnel to Penn Station.

The deadline to place the third is looming over developers as construction on the Hudson Yards megaproject on the ground above where it needs to be placed nears completion. Early construction began last fall on replacing the equally debilitated Portal North Bridge in New Jersey, which is a critical piece of the Gateway Program.

PENN STATION COMPLEX

The $3 billion project to transform Penn Station and the adjacent James A. Farley Post Office into a world-class transportation hub would address the overcrowding and limit-

IT’S TIME TO REBUILD THE AMERICAN DREAM WITH A GREEN WPA As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria stormed our coasts last year, memories of Superstorm Sandy flooded back. Even today, in 2018, our infrastructure can’t handle Sandy 1.0, let alone 6.0.

When Joni Mitchell sang: “they paved paradise to put up a parking lot,” she basically predicted the Sandy-Effect caused by people like Robert Moses who, starting in the 1920s, paved over trolley-tracks, farmland, and much of Long Island to accommodate the highways and car lobby, making us vulnerable to unfathomable storm surges. All I can say is thank God they didn’t pave over Central Park!

But our history isn’t just of building a city, it’s of a relentless commitment to the American Dream and its economic, cultural, and technological future.

We’ve never stood still, not even after 9/11 or Sandy.

So, we can’t idle now, when we’re 6 years OVERDUE for another disaster.

Even as I write, Congress hasn’t passed an infrastructure budget. And NYC doesn’t have functioning subways, roads, tunnels, sea walls, or an emergency disaster team.

In 2015, the American Society for Civil Engineers Infrastructure Report Card gave us a C-. That was 3 years ago. Today, the Center for an Urban Future

estimates it’ll cost NYC $47.3+ billion JUST to repair current infrastructure -- not expand needed sewers or transit-lines.

So, what can we do?

If Trump won’t help, let’s build a Green WPAlike public/private partnership. This first-ever disaster-preparedness and relief initiative would get our infrastructure back on track while setting a nationwide standard for what can be done to rebuild the country and its dream of working-class job-security.

Here’s how it could work: The estimated $50 billion needed, is available.

Accenture has estimated that Baby-Boomers will pass $30 trillion to their children– 45% of whom, plus GenX, are already investing in key sustainability efforts, not charities. Additionally, corporations like Citibank are investing profits and guiding employee monies into steady-growth Social-Impact Bonds.

There are better, affordable ways to rebuild sustainably. The Natural Resources Conservancy’s NatureVest provides municipalities with funds for Green Infrastructure -- a cost-effective way to manage contamination caused by flood-water runoff. Doing that benefits communities and their wallets

by harvesting clean water while lowering developer costs.

It’ll create jobs. The March 2017 Report: Exploring the Green Infrastructure Workforce and video, predicts that Green Infrastructure will create an estimated 239,000 entry level jobs nationwide, enabling long-term careers that put people to work, building a sustainable storm-resistant infrastructure.

NYC needs its coastlines and green spaces fortified.

What a great opportunity for the nearly 172,000 NYC youths that Jobs First NYC estimates are out of school and out of work.

We also need highways, and the electrical grid rebuilt. Who better to re-employ than the, engineers and energy-workers who built the city and country?

But this time they’ll build sustainably. Our job is clear.

Here’s how to support NYC’s efforts, the dreams of a future workforce, and a new U.S. infrastructure: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/stormwater/ nyc_green_infrastructure_outreach.shtml.

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ed capacity at the train complex. From the being converted into the Moynihan Train inside, Penn Station would be altered to in- Hall – roughly 255,000 square feet (about clude expanded corridors, natural sunlight, the size of the main room at Grand Central reconfigured connectivity between the Terminal) – that would provide services for street and lower level, and upgrades to sig- Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road passennage and wayfinding facilities. Pedestrians gers. Construction on Moynihan Train Hall on the street would see retail and commer- began in August 2017, and the entire project cial space and a number of new entrances, is expected to be completed by 2020. including one to a new concourse that would take the place of the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. An underground pedestrian pathway is in the works to connect Construction on the Gov. Mario M. CuoPenn Station to the old post office, which is mo – named for Gov. LICA_CitynState_SeptBrkfst_halfpgad.qxp_Layout 1 Bridge 9/6/18 4:43 PM Page 1 Andrew Cuo-

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mo’s father – began in 2013. It replaced the Tappan Zee Bridge that connected Rockland and Westchester counties, with the first span opening in August 2017. The construction of the new bridge and the demolition of the old one were expected to be done by April, according to the contract between the state Thruway Authority and Tappan Zee Constructors, meaning the project missed its deadline. The second span was completed and opened for traffic on Sept. 7, with four lanes going in each direction. There’s no word on when the demolition of the old Tappan Zee Bridge will be completed, but so far the project has managed to stay under the initial $3.98 billion budget – although it reportedly may end up costing more than $4 billion.

HUDSON YARDS

Located on top of old rail yards, the Hudson Yards development has gradually towered over the far west side of Manhattan since its groundbreaking in late 2012. The project sits on 28 acres of land and is expected to be completed in 2024. The resulting neighborhood will include 18 million square feet of com-

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Projects along Buffalo’s waterfront aim to boost tourism. Below: A rendering of the Kennedy International Airport renovation.

KENNEDY AIRPORT

John F. Kennedy International Airport, the 16th busiest in the world in 2016, is expected to reach capacity by the mid-2020s, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.

In response, the Port Authority of New

York and New Jersey selected a team in September 2017 to do the initial engineering and design of the airport’s $10 billion redevelopment. In executing the transformation, the Mott MacDonald and Grimshaw Architects team will prioritize six goals: interconnecting terminals, redesigning roadways into a circular configuration, centralizing and expanding parking lots within that ring road configuration, building retail and conference facilities, expanding airplane taxiways and adding flight slots, and adding security technology. There are also plans to expand new terminals and redevelop old ones and improve both road and mass transit access to the airport. While construction hasn’t started, a Port Authority spokesperson told City &

State that the project is “moving forward” and that “extensive discussions continue with all terminal operators” in order to coordinate the planning process. “We continue to gain momentum and will be making an announcement about the first phase of redevelopment in the near future.”

BUFFALO WATERFRONT TRANSFORMATION

A series of three projects along Buffalo’s waterfront is intended to highlight the city’s history and improve access to the water. In August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced a $24 million plan to improve recreation opportunities for local residents and enhance Buffalo’s tourism sector, which it said generated $3 billion in direct visitor spending last year. The first project is the $10 million transformation of a two-acre area near the water where the old Memorial Auditorium used to be located. The state plans to build walkable streets with “elements of the historic street pattern” and an underground area for parking to set the stage for future development. A request for proposals is supposed to go out in the fall. The second project will be a $4 million replica of a vessel – Gov. DeWitt Clinton’s 1825 Erie Canal packet boat – that will be housed in a 4,000-squarefoot facility. Finally, the state plans to build a $10 million Buffalo Blueway – a network of waterway public access points.

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SPEED CAMERAS, THE BQX AND WHO OWNS THE SUBWAY POLLY TROTTENBERG COMMISSIONER, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION New York City just turned its speed cameras back on,

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bypassing authorization from the state Legislature.

Are you expecting a lawsuit or will it go unchallenged?

I can’t predict – I don’t want to predict that. It’s New York, and people sue about things, but we’ll see. I think we have really tried to – and I’m proud of this – to run the proof that it’s data-driven and fair. We’ve tried to avoid any “gotcha.”

We’ve tried to put cameras in places where the crash data tells us it makes sense to put them. And I’m hoping the people will view the continuation of the program as what we believe it is – something that’s really been helping to save lives on the streets of New York, and not just a revenue raiser for the city.

Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar. Couldn’t buses do the same route for a lot cheaper?

I think we’ve taken a long, hard look at it. Buses and streetcars bring very different capacities and strengths to the table. We have seen tremendous economic and population growth along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. We haven’t made major new transportation investments, particularly in that north-south spine. A streetcar has higher carrying capacity, and I think more ability to bring more development and economic transformation along the route. I’m really hoping that people will see this is going to be a wise investment.

The city just announced an updated route and expected cost for the

Gov. Andrew Cuomo often makes the point that New York City owns the sub-

way and is therefore responsible for it. You’re the person best equipped to fact check the governor.

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I may not be your best person!

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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com NOTICE OF FORMATION Uniti Fiber LLC Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/25/2018. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware on 02/04/2010.

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: Daniel L. Heard, EVP, General Counsel & Secretary, 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 Fora Financial Business Loans LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/17/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/15/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 519 8th Ave., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10018. DE addr. of LLC: c/o US Corp. Agents, Inc., 300 Delaware Ave., Ste. 210-A, Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Masci Family Property Management, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New 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 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.

Notice of Formation M4352R, LLC. Arts of Org Filed with Secy. of State of NY 6/25/2018. Ofc Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 7 Navy Pier Ct, Staten Island, NY 10304.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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.

September 10, 2018 Notice of Qualification of HIC Group GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/20/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/30/18. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Fl. 22, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Tree Force, LLC filed with SSNY on June, 25 2018. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 259 Clayton Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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.

FRESHRENO NEW YORK LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/11/18. 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, 1967 Wehrle Drive Suite 1 #086 Buffalo, NY 14221.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of FULLSTEAM HOLDINGS 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 02/26/18.

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 the LLC, 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.

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Notice of formation of 7 GRAMS CAFFE - 76 MADISON LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of S t a t e 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 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.

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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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

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September 10, 2018 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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 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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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.

BENNY PLASTERING, PAINTING & REMODELING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 05/18/2018.

Office: Richmond County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 141 Jackson Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of CONSULATE HOTEL ASSOCIATES, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/10/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE 7/3/18.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Dahan & Nowick LLP. Attn: M. Marc Dahan, Esq., 123 Main St., 9th FL, White Plains, NY 10601.

DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. filed with DE SOS, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Flower Oil LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/10/18.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 399 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313037 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 809 9TH AVE NEW YORK, NY 10019.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. WESTVILLE HK LLC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313058 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 404 NORTH COUNTRY ROAD ST JAMES, NY 11780.

SUFFOLK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. DRA CORP. Notice of Qualification of LINCOLN AVENUE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/14/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/10/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 595 Madison Ave., 16th 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 Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Llama San LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/20/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 359 6th Ave., NY, NY 10014. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 50 Withers St., Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of IRON MOUNTAIN DATA CENTERS SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/22/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/19/17.

Princ. office of LLC: One Federal St., Boston, MA 02110. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Seiva, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mr. Michael Sloan, WG&S, LLP, 10990 Wilshire Blvd., 8th Fl., Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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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 TWA Hotel Documentary LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/22/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 8/20/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of Film Transaction LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 8/16/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: One World Trade Center, 44th Fl, NY NY 10007. Any Lawful Purpose.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313064 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 131 AVE A NEW YORK, NY 10009. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. AYS NOODLE COMPANY LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313070 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 75 UTICA AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11233.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. SAVANNAH CAFÉ LLC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313104 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 886 AMSTERDAM AVE NEW YORK, NY 10025. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. NUORO LLC.

Notice of formation of Evolution Locksmith, LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY on August 08, 2018. The Office of this LLC is located in Westchester County. Secretary of state is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 90 Stratford Ave., White Plains, NY 10605. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of JMNY Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on July 17, 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: 774 55th Street, Suite S1, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

My tinker app, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 9/5/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Alvaro Rodriguez, 100 Livingston ave. Apt#2C, Yonkers, NY 10705. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

September 10, 2018 Notice of Formation of 88-92 Atlantic Avenue Investors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/22/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 West 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of BLOCK72 US LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/28/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/14/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Chef Abyssinia LLC, Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY 07/25/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Abyssinia Campbell, 441 locust st, mount Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Agus 3629 Holdings LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of N Y (SSNY) on 8/8/18. Off. Loc.: New York County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 111 8TH AVENUE NY, NY 10011. Reg. Agent: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011..

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of SITA International USA LLC. Art of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/20/2018.

Office loc.: County of NY. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents Inc., 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful act.

HEY MAMA KITCHEN, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 6/11/2018. Office location: WESTCHESTER County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 7 Columbus Ave#450, Tuckahoe NY 10707.

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 two locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 58 feet on a building with an overall top height of 58 feet at the approx. vicinity of 92-06 196th Street, Hollis, Queens County, NY 11423. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 71 feet on a building with an overall top height of 88 feet at the approx. vicinity of 54-30 Myrtle Avenue, Queens, Queens County, NY 11385. 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.

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LOSERS ANDREW CUOMO Must be nice to take a bevy of political reporters on a taxpay‑ er‑funded boat ride to gawk at the new bridge, bearing your last name, opening the weekend before the Democratic primary.

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