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THE GOP'S BLUE WAVE BLUES

Will Republicans lose New York forever?

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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

IT’S A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE in New York. Major powers are vying for control, mobilizing forces at strategic points all across the region. Alliances have been formed, and old feuds revived. Locals are caught up in skirmishes, taking sides or seeking to avoid the fray altogether.

No, it’s not “The Last of the Mohicans.” This tale is “The Last of the State Senate Republicans.”

Like the Native American tribe in James Fenimore Cooper’s famous story, the state Senate Republican majority may well be on the verge of extinction. State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan’s conference has long been a dominant force in Albany, but its influence has been waning. With Democrats on the offensive, this year could mark a dramatic turning point in the statewide balance of power. Such an outcome would render Flanagan, the protagonist in this narrative, as a particularly tragic figure in New York’s political history: the last Republican leader of the state Legislature.

This week, we take a closer look at where the lines have been drawn in the fight for control of the state Senate – the key battle in the broader war as Democrats advance toward unified control of New York.

CONTENTS

STATE SENATE …6

A guide to the most competitive races SENATE DISTRICT 50 … 12

Could John DeFrancisco’s seat flip blue?

CELESTE SLOMAN; JAMIKORN SOOKTARAMORN/SHUTTERSTOCK

SENATE DISTRICT 7 … 16

Can Long Island trust a Democrat?

IMMIGRATION … 21 A special report

DIVERSITY … 37

Are the city and state meeting their MWBE goals?

WINNERS & LOSERS … 54 Who was up and who was down last week

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Latest FALSE SCARE FOR CUOMO According to some early reports, the New York City office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo received a suspicious package on the day that multiple explosive devices were sent to other prominent Democrats. A spokesman for Cuomo denied the reports. But soon after, while giving an update on the bomb situation at a press conference, Cuomo said that his office had indeed received a “device.” However, the device turned out to be a flash drive with information on right-wing group the Proud Boys and was unrelated to the other packages.

BOMBS IN NEW YORK Pipe bombs were sent to a number of prominent Democrats and progressives across the country, including several in New York, and to CNN’s Columbus Circle headquarters. Last week, a suspicious package was found at the Westchester County home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros. On Wednesday, similar packages were found at the Westchester home of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and at CNN in Manhattan. A day later, another explosive device was sent to actor Robert De Niro, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump. In all, at least a dozen devices were found, including those sent to former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden.

Authorities have arrested one suspect so far.

Cuomo and his Republican gubernatorial opponent Marc Molinaro squared off in their first and likely only debate two weeks before the election. The pair officially agreed to the get-together only a day before. The back-and-forth quickly turned into a shouting match with little focus on policy and even less discussion of upstate New York. Cuomo continued to tie Molinaro to Trump, a key argument for the governor’s campaign so far. Molinaro got the debate he wanted, but in the end, little else.

Back & Forth Why are you planning to run for New York City public advocate?

The city is a place where people can’t afford to live, except for the ultrawealthy. The office of the public advocate, I think, is tailor-made for someone that has experienced being an activist and an elected official without compromising either one of those, and has shown to be effective on those types of issues. I’ve been a housing advocate long before I was a council member.

A Q&A with New York City Councilman

Jumaane Williams The

On what issues is the public really in need of an advocate?

This city is not doing enough to make it affordable to live in New York City. There are very specific ways in which we can do that. The public advocate’s office has to be front and center in holding the city and the state, in particular, accountable, especially in issues around housing.

Kicker

“I don’t mind someone having a snack. A fullon subway meal or a roast chicken, leaving the bones all over the place, isn’t acceptable.”

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How would you tackle housing issues?

The rent laws are going to be up next year. You have to have someone who is not worried about the politics of it, but is going to drive home the message and hold people accountable. It’s clear this administration has an issue with giving accurate information, particularly to the City Council.

How much will the visibility and recognition you attained while running for lieutenant governor assist you if you run for public advocate?

I am running as if I have no advantages in this race.

I’m starting from scratch. That’s how I look at every race I’ve ever been in, and that’s how I’m going to look at this race. The one thing I know is that the message that we have, the message that many thought wouldn’t work, we know that people are receptive to it and people want it.

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TOP DOG VS. UNDERDOG

NEW YORK FIRSTS October 29, 2018

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BY JORDAN LAIRD

THESE STATE CANDIDATES WILL MAKE HISTORY IF THEY WIN. New York voters have the opportunity to elect a number of candidates to the state Legislature who would mark historic firsts.

FIRST ASIAN-AMERICAN STATE LAWMAKERS

JOHN LIU, the former New York City comptroller, could become the first Asian-American to serve in the state Senate. But the Taiwanese-born politician, who was the first Asian-American elected to the New York City Council, must beat Queens state Sen. Tony Avella, who lost to Liu in the Democratic primary but is continuing to run on third-party lines. Liu also could share the feat with Jeremy Cooney and Kevin Thomas, who would be the first Indian-Americans elected to the state Legislature.

FIRST HASIDIC JEW IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE

FIRST MUSLIMS IN THE

SIMCHA EICHENSTEIN is running unopposed in Assembly District 48, and when he wins he will be the first Hasidic Jew elected to the state Legislature. Of course, he wouldn’t be the first Orthodox Jew ever elected – Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who is vacating the seat, is Orthodox.

Eichenstein grew up in Borough Park in the Bobov community, a Hasidic sect within Haredi Judaism.

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ROBERT JACKSON and Charles Fall are poised to become the first Muslims in the state Legislature.

Jackson beat state Sen. Marisol Alcantara, a former member of the Independent Democratic Conference, in a closely watched Democratic primary and is expected to easily win in November. Fall, who won his Democratic primary in Staten Island, is also expected to win against two third-party opponents. He previously served as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s citywide Islamic liaison.

FIRST DOCTOR LEGISLATOR IN MODERN TIMES

DR. JEFFREY ASCHERMAN, a Republican, claims that if he wins his bid to unseat Democratic incumbent Assemblyman Dan Quart in District 73, he will be the first doctor in the state Legislature in over 50 years. City & State could not find any information that refutes that claim. However, there have been other state legislators in the health profession, including former Assemblyman Steve Katz, who is a veterinarian, and current state Sen. Terrence Murphy, who is a chiropractor.

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FIRST “DREAMER”

CATALINA CRUZ, the Democratic nominee in the 39th Assembly District has been heavily campaigning on her identity as “Dreamer” – a cohort that immigrated here illegally as children – and how she would be the first one to hold office in New York.

Holy November elections! Cayuga County Legislator KEITH BATMAN is running for the 126th Assembly District! “I don’t have a cave lair or rocket propelled batmobile,” he admits on his campaign website. “I’m not that kind of Batman. Fortunately, I do have the dedication and work ethic our district fosters and understands.”

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THE RACES THAT COULD CHANGE NEW YORK 2018 STATE SENATE ELECTIONS

WILL A BLUE WAVE WIPE OUT THE GOP?

BY R E BEC C A C . L E W IS

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ROGRESSIVES RACKED UP a number of major wins in September’s Democratic primaries, unseating six former Independent Democratic Conference members while democratic socialist Julia Salazar defeated longtime state Sen. Martin MalavÊ Dilan. But none of those races had any impact on the overall makeup of the state Senate.

Despite a numerical majority for the Democrats, state Sen. Simcha Felder, a nominal Democrat, still gives the Republicans a one-seat majority in the 63-seat chamber by caucusing with the GOP. He has given no indication that he plans to rejoin the Democrats, though depending on the results in November, Democrats may no longer need him.

Now, both the Democratic establishment and the

progressive movement are focused on winning the state Senate. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has flexed his muscles so far this election, more so than in past cycles, recruiting strong candidates and pledging to provide aid. He kicked off a $2 million ad buy in support of various state Senate candidates. The progressive activist groups that propelled IDC challengers like Alessandra Biaggi and Jessica Ramos to primary victories are shifting their attention to the general election, and one of those groups, No IDC NY, announced its endorsements for a slate of candidates challenging Republican incumbents.

Flipping a single net seat from red to blue in November would put Democrats in control of the entire state government for the first time since 2010. Meanwhile, fending

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SAFE DEMOCRAT (29) Joseph Addabbo Jr., Robert Jackson*, John Liu*, Jamaal Bailey, Brian Benjamin, Neil Breslin, David Carlucci, Leroy Comrie, Julia Salazar*, Michael Gianaris, Zellnor Myrie*, Brad Hoylman, Brian Kavanagh, Timothy Kennedy, Alessandra Biaggi*, Liz Krueger, Shelley Mayer, Velmanette Montgomery, Kevin Parker, Jessica Ramos*, Roxanne Persaud, Gustavo Rivera, James Sanders Jr., Diane Savino, Luis Sepulveda, Jose M. Serrano, Toby Ann Stavisky, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Rachel May*

LIKELY DEMOCRAT (1) DISTRICT 9

TODD KAMINSKY VS. FRANCIS BECKER JR. C O UN T Y: Nassau L A ST ELE C TION : Kaminsky 51.69 percent, Christopher McGrath 47.24 percent, Laurence Hirsh 1 percent 2 0 1 6 PRE SIDEN TI AL ELE C TI O N :

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Clinton +8.3 percentage points VOTER RE GISTR ATION : 94,403 active Democrats, 73,197 active Republicans, 50,253 active unaffiliated

off election threats in what is shaping up to be a difficult year is critical to state Senate Republicans maintaining the party’s only hold on state power, especially considering that five seats that had been considered safe are now open thanks to a slew of retirements.

In the latest City & State Political Report, our analysis finds that 14 seats are currently in play. Of the seats up for grabs at the polls, only two are held by Democrats. This could spell trouble for the Republican-controlled state Senate if New York rides what some are calling a national “blue wave.” The record turnout in the September primaries also gives credence to the belief that Democrats, who generally struggle in midterm elections, will head to the polls in force come November.

Here is our rundown of the state Senate races to watch.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky entered office in a 2016 special election to replace former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who left amid corruption charges.

Kaminsky won a competitive race in April 2016 against Christopher McGrath, a Republican, and increased his margin of victory slightly in November when he faced off against McGrath in the general election. This time around, Republicans have put up former Nassau County Legislator Francis Becker Jr., who belongs to a well-known political family in the town of Lynbrook – his father, Francis Becker Sr., had been mayor of Lynbrook and his grandfather, Francis J. Becker, was a congressman. However, Becker has only about $24,000 in his campaign account as of the most recent financial disclosure. Kaminsky, on the other hand, has over $730,000 in his coffers. Additionally, Becker’s presence online is minimal. Interestingly, his campaign website does not have an “About Me” section, or a page for his agenda, but does include a meatball recipe.

TOSS-UP (4) DISTRICT 5

CARL MARCELLINO VS. JAMES GAUGHRAN

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C O U N T IE S : Nassau and Suffolk L A ST E LE C T IO N : Marcellino 50.6

percent, Gaughran 49.4 percent

2 0 1 6 PR E SIDE N T I AL ELE C T I O N :

Clinton +3 percentage points VOT E R R E G IST R AT IO N : 77,226 active Democrats, 72,256 active Republicans, 58,196 active unaffiliated State Sen. Carl Marcellino has held his seat for 23 years.

However, he had a narrow 1.2 percentage point margin of victory in 2016.

Gaughran, the Suffolk County Water Authority chairman who nearly beat Marcellino two years ago, is running again. In what could possibly be a boon for Gaughran is the fact that the district pivoted in the 2016 presidential election. It was carried by Mitt Romney in 2012, but won by Hillary Clinton in 2016. Additionally, Steve Stern managed to flip the 10th Assembly District blue for the first time in 40 years in his April special election.

That district heavily overlaps with Marcellino’s.

Both parties view this as one of the key battlegrounds for control of the state Senate, at least based on the money being spent on the race. The state Senate Republican Campaign Committee has so far spent over $435,000 on Marcellino while the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has spent over $348,000 on Gaughran. Marcellino has over $163,000 on hand, compared to Gaughran’s $76,000, according to their most recent filings.

DISTRICT 7

ELAINE PHILLIPS VS. ANNA KAPLAN C O U N T Y: Nassau L A ST E LE C T IO N : Phillips 51.2 percent, Adam Haber 48.8 percent 2 0 1 6 PR E SIDE N T I AL ELE C T I O N :

Clinton +12.8 percentage points VOT E R R E G IST R AT IO N : 87,591 active Democrats, 63,296 active Republicans, 56,434 active unaffiliated Elaine Phillips is a freshman state senator who succeeded former Republican state Sen. Jack Martins when he chose not to seek re-election in 2016. That open race between Phillips and Adam Haber was hard fought and very expensive – outside groups spent over $3 million in support of Phillips. Democrats considered Phillips’ spending, which was

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over double what was spent by Haber’s campaign, as the key to her victory. However, Haber had name recognition, having run for the seat two years before and Nassau County executive before that. Phillips, previously the mayor of the village of Flower Hill, was far less known, but emerged victorious. This year, she is facing Anna Kaplan, a North Hempstead councilwoman, who has the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is one of the first two New York candidates to be endorsed by former President Barack Obama and has been backed by No IDC NY. This time, Phillips has the advantages of incumbency bolstering her odds, but the enthusiasm of Democrats may threaten her seat in a district where Democrats far outnumber Republicans. Additionally, this race appears to be viewed by both parties as one of the most competitive in the state. The SRCC has spent over $461,000 on the race. Although the DSCC has not yet spent any money the race, Cuomo has given Kaplan’s campaign $4,000 with the promise of more to come from himself and the party. Phillips has over $477,000 in her war chest, while Kaplan trails with about $166,000.

DISTRICT 8

JOHN BROOKS VS. JEFF PRAVATO C O UN T IE S: Nassau and Suffolk L A ST ELE C TION : Brooks 50.11 percent, Michael Venditto 49.89 percent 20 16 PRE SIDEN TI AL ELE C TION :

Clinton +2.8 percentage points VOT ER RE G ISTR ATION : 84,845 active Democrats, 74,172 active Republicans, 51,366 active unaffiliated The district has elected a new senator in each the past two elections since Republican Charles Fuschillo chose not to seek re-election in 2014. In that year, Republican Michael Venditto picked up the seat, which he then barely lost in 2016 to Democrat John Brooks. In the last race, Venditto’s campaign was rocked by the corruption charges leveled against his father, then-Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, shortly before the election. That scandal helped Brooks squeeze out a victory. Without a corruption scandal to boost him, Brooks may be in a vulnerable position this year, something county Democratic leaders acknowledge. Republicans have tapped Jeff Pravato, the mayor of Massapequa Park, to take on Brooks in one of their key targeted races. They are spending heavily on Pravato, who offers one of their few opportunities to pick up a seat. The SRCC has spent over $396,000 on his campaign so far.

Democrats are fighting even harder hold on to

the seat, having spent over $536,000 on Brooks’ re-election. Pravato has about $73,000 cash on hand, while Brooks has more than $95,000 in his account, according to their most recent filings.

DISTRICT 39

TOM BASILE VS. JAMES SKOUFIS C O UN TIE S: Rockland, Orange and Ulster L A ST ELE C TION : William Larkin 57.7 percent, Christopher Eachus 42.3 percent 2 0 1 6 PRE SIDEN TI AL ELE C TI O N :

Trump +3.5 percentage points VOTER RE GISTR ATION : 65,669 active Democrats, 51,595 active Republicans, 38,262 active unaffiliated Despite initially insisting that he would not retire, state Sen. William Larkin did just that.

Unlike in every other vacated Republican state Senate seat, the GOP already had a candidate ready to go. Tom Basile, a Stony Point councilman, had already been campaigning and fundraising in anticipation of Larkin’s retirement, giving him a leg up over Democratic Assemblyman James Skoufis. Without Larkin, this race could turn out to be especially competitive. Skoufis is a strong candidate with a degree of name recognition and a shot at flipping the long-held Republican seat, and he enjoys Cuomo’s support. This is another race that has so far attracted a lot of outside spending by both parties. The SRCC has spent nearly $394,000 on behalf of Basile, while the DSCC has spent almost $358,000 for Skoufis. Basile has about $33,000 cash on hand as of his most recent filing, though Skoufis leads him with nearly $310,000.

LEAN REPUBLICAN (3) DISTRICT 22

MARTIN GOLDEN VS. ANDREW GOUNARDES C O UN T Y: Kings L A ST ELE C TION : Golden ran unopposed 2 0 1 6 PRE SIDEN TI AL ELE C TI O N :

Trump +0.7 percentage points

VOTER R E GISTR AT I O N :

76,015 active

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Democrats, 32,853 active Republicans, 37,736 active unaffiliated State Sen. Martin Golden was first elected in 2002, flipping a long-held Democratic seat to the Republicans and becoming one of New York City’s few Republican lawmakers. Despite a history of controversial behavior, Golden has easily won re-election year after year, including his last race without any challengers. He also is well-known across the district, and has a reputation of delivering for his constituents. But he is still a Republican in a majority Democratic district in a largely left-leaning city. Andrew Gounardes previously ran against Golden in 2012, losing by a significant margin.

But he said this year is different because there is more progressive energy to help spur him to victory. Democrats are also targeting the seat more strongly than in the past, with the DSCC having already spent nearly $44,000 on the race, while the SRCC has so far spent nothing to protect it. Golden comfortably leads the fundraising game with nearly $392,000 in his campaign war chest, while Gounardes has about $100,000 on hand.

DISTRICT 42

ANN RABBITT VS. JEN METZGER C O U N T IE S : Delaware, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster L A ST E LE C T IO N : John Bonacic 61.1 percent, Pramilla Malick 38.9 percent 2 0 1 6 PR E SIDE N T I AL E LE C T I O N : Trump +5.2 percentage points VOTE R R E G IST R AT IO N : 64,410 active Democrats, 53,441 active Republicans, 42,785 active unaffiliated

State Sen. John Bonacic’s retirement added his seat to the list of competitive races. Prior to that, the seat appeared unlikely to flip, given Bonacic’s long tenure in the state Senate and his decisive victories in past elections, including running unopposed more than once. But now that he is out of the running, Democrats will try to flip the seat. Democrat Jen Metzger is a Rosendale councilwoman and former Rosendale deputy mayor. Republican Ann Rabbitt currently serves as Orange County clerk and is a former assemblywoman. A point of note in this race is that the district overlaps with the 19th Congressional District, considered by experts to be a toss-up, where Democrat Antonio Delgado is trying to unseat Republican Rep. John Faso.

That dynamic may affect this down-ballot race far more now that the seat is open, and neither candidate has the benefit of incumbency. As of their most recent filings, Metzger has about $222,000 in her coffers, while Rabbitt has about $125,000.

DISTRICT 50

ROBERT ANTONACCI VS. JOHN MANNION C O UN T IE S: Cayuga and Onondaga

John DeFrancisco ran

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Clinton

VOTER RE GISTR ATION : 61,498 active Democrats, 62,316 active Republicans, 48,740 active unaffiliated

Democrat John Mannion, a high school biology teacher, announced his candidacy before state Sen. John DeFrancisco announced his intention to retire following the lawmaker’s unsuccessful gubernatorial bid. Republicans put up Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci when the seat became open. Although Hillary Clinton carried the district in 2016, the district is one of the few in the state with a Republican voter enrollment advantage, even if it is a slight one. Initially, the race did not appear to be one of the main battlegrounds, despite the seat being open. However, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has spent heavily in the race – nearly $417,000. The Senate Republican Campaign Committee, by comparison, has given Antonacci nearly $108,000, among its lowest spending on candidates. Democrats are clearly targeting the district, but based on spending, Republicans may view it as safer than some of the other key races throughout the state.

Mannion has $44,000 on hand, according to his most recent filing, while Antonacci has about $258,000.

LIKELY REPUBLICAN (6)

WHAT THE STATE SENATE LOOKS LIKE NOW The Democrats have a slim numerical majority in the state Senate, but state Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat, gives the Republicans a one-seat majority in the 63-seat chamber by caucusing with the GOP.

DEMOCRATS: 31

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REPUBLICANS: 31

DEMOCRAT CAUCUSING WITH REPUBLICANS: 1

DISTRICT 3

DEAN MURRAY VS. MONICA MARTINEZ C O UN T Y: Suffolk L A ST ELE C TION : Tom Croci 58.06 percent, John DeVito Jr. 40.74 percent 2 0 1 6 PRE SIDEN TI AL ELE C TION : Trump +6 percentage points VOTER RE GISTR ATION : 64,337 active Democrats, 56,376 active Republicans, 48,127 active unaffiliated State Sen. Tom Croci announced in May that he would not seek re-election, instead returning to the Navy and leaving his seat open in November. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is looking to flip the seat and personally lobbied Suffolk County Legislator Monica Martinez to enter the race. She announced her candidacy flanked by the governor, Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone and Suffolk County Democratic Committee Chairman Rich Schaffer. She is facing Republican Assemblyman Dean Murray. Although there is no public polling in the race, the Martinez campaign released a poll in September funded by Eleanor’s List that showed she had a slim

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lead over Murray. She has just over $36,000 on hand, while Murray has a little under about $53,000.

according to his most recent filing.

DISTRICT 4

TERRENCE MURPHY VS. PETER HARCKHAM C O UN TIE S: Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester L A ST ELE C TION : Murphy 57.76 percent, Alison Boak 42.24 percent

PHIL BOYLE VS. LOUIS D’AMARO C O U N T Y: Suffolk L A ST E LE C T IO N : Boyle 62.82 percent, John Alberts 37.18 percent 2 0 1 6 PR E SIDE N T I AL E LE C T I O N : Trump +8.1 percentage points VOTE R R E G IST R AT IO N : 69,632 active Democrats, 63,133 active Republicans, 51,368 active unaffiliated Republican state Sen. Phil Boyle took the place of the late state Sen. Owen Johnson in 2012, apparently continuing a controversial agreement Johnson had with Suffolk County Democratic Committee Chairman Rich Schaffer to keep the seat red. However, this year may be different. While Schaffer in the past has failed to recruit strong candidates and offered lukewarm support to the little-known challengers, as he had originally done this race, Cuomo’s involvement changed the dynamic. The governor personally recruited former Suffolk County Legislator Louis D’Amaro to challenge Boyle, and Schaffer got on board.

Involvement from Cuomo could undercut the status quo that kept Boyle’s seat out of Democratic hands.

But the race will still be a tough one, with Schaffer telling City & State earlier this year that to beat Boyle, a challenger would need “spend over $1 million.”

Boyle has a little under $181,000 as of his most recent filing, and D’Amaro has about $28,000.

DISTRICT 6

KEMP HANNON VS. KEVIN THOMAS C O U N T Y: Nassau L A ST E LE C T IO N : Hannon 53.8 percent, Ryan Cronin 46.2 percent 2 0 1 6 PR E SIDE N T I AL E LE C T I O N : Clinton +2.7 percentage points VOTE R R E G IST R AT IO N : 81,229 active Democrats, 73,578 active Republicans, 47,995 active unaffiliated Based purely on numbers, state Sen. Kemp Hannon may have some vulnerability come November. He did not win a landslide victory in 2016 and his district was carried by Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

However, Hannon has held his seat for decades, having first been elected in 1989. Attorney Kevin Thomas has the support of No IDC NY and about $41,000 cash on hand, while Hannon has an impressive $458,000,

DISTRICT 40

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Clinton +6.9 percentage points Voter registration: 70,498 active Democrats, 59,222 active Republicans, 49,686 active unaffiliated

State Sen. Terrence Murphy’s seat has long been held by a Republican despite a large Democratic voter enrollment advantage. Democrats are looking to capitalize on that this year in a district that voted for Obama in 2012 and Clinton in 2016. Democrat Peter Harckham won the September primary in order to take on Murphy. Harckham has the support of Cuomo, his former boss, who has said he will host a fundraiser for Harckham. He also has the Working Families Party line. Harckham still faces an uphill battle as the election nears, though.

Murphy has about $383,000, as of his most recent filing, while Harckham has about $30,000.

DISTRICT 41

SUE SERINO VS. KAREN SMYTHE C O UN TIE S: Dutchess and Putnam L A ST ELE C TION : Serino 55.44 percent, Terry Gipson 44.56 percent 20 16 PRE SIDEN TI AL ELE C TION :

Clinton +1.3 percentage points VOT ER RE G ISTR ATION : 66,832 active Democrats, 54,262 active Republicans, 49,853 active unaffiliated State Sen. Sue Serino’s district has been targeted by Democrats in the past, and the party succeeded in 2012 when Terry Gipson defeated then-incumbent Stephen Saland. Gipson was then knocked out by Serino in 2014 in a closely watched and competitive race. He ran again in 2016, and Serino won more decisively, but by no means in a landslide.

The incumbent now faces Democrat Karen Smythe this year. Smythe has the support of the Working Families Party as well as the progressive group No IDC NY. Cuomo has said he plans

schedule a fundraiser on her behalf. Serino had $211,000 in her campaign coffers according to her most recent financial disclosure, while Smythe has just under $144,000 on hand after significant spending.

DISTRICT 43

DAPHNE JORDAN VS. AARON GLADD C O UN TIE S: Columbia, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Washington L A ST ELE C TION : Kathleen Marchione 61.17 percent, Shaun Francis 36.43 percent 2 0 1 6 PRE SIDEN TI AL ELE C TION : Trump +2.9 percentage points VOTER RE GISTR ATION : 57,955 active Democrats, 63,958 active Republicans, 53,234 active unaffiliated By all rights, the seat being vacated by state Sen. Kathleen Marchione should be fairly safely Republican.

It has been in Republican hands for decades, has a Republican voter enrollment advantage and voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. However, the race has taken a few surprising turns. Perhaps most notably, former state Sen. Roy McDonald, the Republican who represented the district before Marchione, endorsed Gladd over Jordan, crossing party lines to offer his support. Marchione endorsed Jordan to succeed her. Marchione defeated McDonald in a 2012 primary and knocked him out of office, so his endorsement may represent some lingering animosity toward the woman who unseated him. Additionally, Cuomo endorsed Gladd, who is a former staffer, fairly early in the race. Republicans are still investing in the race, having spent about $102,000 so far. While they have spent more heavily in other parts of the state, the sum is evidence that the SRCC is actively trying to defend the seat. The DSCC, on the other hand, has not invested in the race yet. However, Gladd still holds a significant fundraising advantage over Jordan, with nearly $261,000 on hand going into November, compared to her nearly $55,000.

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IS DEFRANCISCO’S SEAT SAFE FOR THE GOP?

HE WANTED TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR. NOW DEMOCRATS WANT HIS DISTRICT.

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HILE MANY OF THE most competitive state Senate races are playing out on Long Island, where Democrats have large voter enrollment advantages, one race in a historically Republican Central New York district has emerged as a key battleground. State Senate District 50, where enrolled voters are split almost evenly among Democrats, Republicans and independents, could prove to be a case study in the strength of Democratic populism and an indication of how President Donald Trump has reshaped the political map – sometimes to his own party’s disadvantage.

The area, in the suburbs of Syracuse, has been represented for 25 years by state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco. With DeFrancisco’s retirement this year, the race to replace him pits Democrat John Mannion against Republican Robert Antonacci. Mannion, a high school science teacher who has been the president of his local teachers union, entered the race before DeFrancisco officially announced his retirement. Antonacci, the Onondaga County comptroller, ran unopposed in the Republican primary and has DeFrancisco’s endorsement.

The even split between the parties in this district is in stark contrast with most downstate battleground districts, where Democrats outnumber Republicans, often significantly, despite many of those suburban areas historically voting mostly for Republicans – especially in the state Senate.

While the 50th District has had a Republican in the state Senate well over half a century, it voted for Democrats in each of the past three presidential elections. It’s also part of the 24th

Congressional District, which has flipped back and forth between the two parties. Now held by Republican Rep. John Katko, the seat is considered competitive once again this year.

Although state records on voter registration by district do not go back to when DeFrancisco was first elected, following a redistricting in 2002 the 50th District was significantly Republican, with nearly 20,000 more active registered Republicans than Democrats. However, over the years, the number of registered Democrats slowly increased, leveling the playing field between the two parties.

When the next round of redistricting occurred in 2012, the majority of the city of Syracuse was removed from the district, and with it a chunk of Democratic voters. Republicans regained an advantage of more than 6,000 registered voters – not nearly the edge from a decade ago, but still far more than before redistricting.

However, the number of Democrats in the district once again began to increase to the point that the slight Republican advantage now is almost negligible. This election represents the first time since the beginning of available state records that the seat has been open when the gap in registered voters has been this tight.

DeFrancisco’s retirement seems to be what made Democrats think they have a shot at winning his seat. Initially, the state’s leading Democrats did not target the district. While Gov.

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Robert Antonacci, left, and John Mannion, right, are vying for the seat soon to be vacated by John DeFrancisco.

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Andrew Cuomo personally recruited state Senate candidates Monica Martinez, Anna Kaplan and Louis D’Amaro on Long Island, Mannion was not recruited to run, nor did the party have a preferred alternative candidate in the primary.

But other Democrats have pitched in with significant contributions, suggesting that some in the party believe, surprisingly perhaps, that one of the few districts in the state with a Republican registration advantage is actually one of their better pickup opportunities. The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee took an early interest in both the race and Mannion. It has already given Mannion $147,000 and spent $270,000 on his behalf, the second-highest sum so far this cycle.

The Senate Republican Campaign Committee has so far transferred $76,000 to Antonacci and spent only $32,000 on his behalf, which is on the low end of their allocations. Additionally, outside spending has largely benefited Mannion. New York State United Teachers, the state teachers union, has spent nearly $500,000 on the race, either in support of Mannion or in opposition to Antonacci.

The extent to which outside groups are spending on Mannion is more than just an indicator of interest in the race. Significant outside spending has historically given the receiving candidates a leg up in tight races. In the 2016 state Senate race between Elaine Phillips and Adam Haber for the open District 7 seat, Phillips received the lion’s share of outside spending in a very closely watched race, which some observers believe spurred her narrow victory. Mannion now finds himself in a similar position to benefit from outside spending.

Scott Reif, a spokesman for the SRCC, said the committee has been active in the race on behalf of Antonacci, and that it has put more money into the race since the last filing period. He added that Antonacci has stronger overall fundraising compared to Mannion. A large chunk of Mannion’s money has come from the DSCC. However, Antonacci also transferred over $100,000 from his county comptroller campaign account into his state Senate account. Going into November, Antonacci has more than $250,000 to spend, while Mannion has only $44,000.

Syracuse University political science professor Grant Reeher suggested that the disparity in partisan spending in the race may be due in part to a belief by Republicans that the seat is slightly safer compared

fore when he was lobbying on behalf of the interests of NYSUT, a politically powerful union whose political action committee spends heavily in elections every year. “I understand that concept, but the insider/ outsider is one factor, and I would hope Bob would mention the fact that it’s a little misleading to claim you’re an outsider when you’ve been advocating for a specific point of view your entire life,” DeFrancisco said.

DeFrancisco also believes that he can influence the outcome. He has known Antonacci for most of his life, and has enthusiastically endorsed the candidate, appearing in an ad on his behalf and going out on the campaign trail. DeFrancisco said that as a popular, longtime legislator in the district, his word carries a lot of weight with his constituents, adding that people have come up to him to ask for his opinion on the race.

“They wouldn’t ask me what’s gonna happen, or what my opinion is if they weren’t going to at least somewhat rely on it,” DeFrancisco said. “But I think it’s been positive.”

According Reeher, in a candidate john mannion more typical election cycle without national politics playing as large a role, DeFrancisco’s input would likely have a entist Luke Perry, Mannion is a prime ex- significant amount of weight and his heir ample of the trend in this cycle of Democrats apparent would likely pick up the seat. Inicampaigning against career politicians, the tially, Reeher said the feeling around the kind of strategy that has traditionally been district was that Antonacci would win – he has significant name recognition, the suppart of the Republican playbook.

Mannion told City & State that he be- port of DeFrancisco and shares a rhetorical lieves the members of his district are looking style with the retiring senator that constitufor exactly that, a political outsider who can ents have become accustomed to. Additionbring a fresh perspective to Albany. “I think ally, Antonacci has had some conflicts with we’re at a crossroads when it comes to our local Republicans in his role as Onondaga governing and people absolutely are ready for County comptroller, perhaps exemplifying someone who has not been corrupted by the an independent spirit that would resonate political process,” Mannion said. “We have a with voters in the largely moderate district.

But Reeher thinks this year, with the lot of problems, but some of those problems have to do with political incumbency or po- amount of progressive energy throughout the state that was sparked by Trump’s eleclitical ascendancy to a higher position.”

Perry thinks Mannion has correctly tion, the election of DeFrancisco’s chosen read the mood of the electorate. “I think successor is not a given. He pointed to a the fundamental question is, secondary to wave of progressives who won races during who people like from a partisan perspec- the Democratic state Senate primaries in tive, do you want someone with governing September. Reeher said it was by followexperience and do you think that speaks to ing those elections that political observers competency?” Perry said. “Or do you want in the area began to recognize the strength an outsider, somebody to come in and do of the progressive movement and how it could impact Central New York. “If there things differently?”

Antonacci did not provide a comment to was any election year in which people are going to kind of wipe the slate clean in that City & State for this story.

DeFrancisco, the retiring incumbent, regard, as long as it’s not DeFrancisco rundisagreed with the idea that Mannion is a ning himself, it would be this one because political outsider, telling City & State that of everything that happened in the last two he has met with Mannion many times be- years,” Reeher said. to other seats they are defending. But he said it’s probably mostly that Republican resources are spread thin protecting a large number of vacant and vulnerable seats, and the party may not be able to spend as much as they may want in a given race.

On the campaign trail, Mannion and Antonacci, who know each other quite well and have children in the same high school, represent opposites in more than just policy. Mannion is a soft-spoken, first-time candidate running as an outsider, while Antonacci is outspoken and more combative, in the mold of DeFrancisco, with years of government experience.

According to Utica College political sci-

“We’re at a crossroads.

People absolutely are ready for someone who has not been corrupted by the political process.”

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CAN LONG ISLANDERS TRUST A DEMOCRAT? ANNA KAPLAN IS CHALLENGING STATE SEN. ELAINE PHILLIPS IN A DISTRICT WARY OF TAXES, NEW YORK CITY AND DEMOCRATS.

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ONG ISLAND’S 7TH DISTRICT in the state Senate has all the markings of a likely Democratic pickup: It was represented by a Democrat for four years around the time when the party last controlled the state Senate, has a huge Democratic registra-

tion advantage and went for Hillary Clinton by double digits in 2016.

The district is on Nassau County’s western front, stretching to the border with Queens.

It’s shaped like an unusually tall Panama hat, with a wide crescent encompassing affluent North Shore towns, including Manhasset, Great Neck and Roslyn, and prongs on the southeastern and southwestern extremities of the district taking in more racially and economically diverse areas like Elmont, Westbury and Hicksville.

The seat is currently held by rookie Republican state Sen. Elaine Phillips, which means her incumbency advantage is smaller relative to state senators who have been entrenched for a generation, like nearby state Sen. Kemp Hannon in state Senate District 6.

The Democratic nominee is North Hemp-

stead Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, who netted an early endorsement from former President Barack Obama. But in a region wary of taxes, New York City and Democrats, can Kaplan get over the hump in a way the party’s previous candidates haven’t?

Canvassing on a recent weekend in Roslyn Heights, the kind of wealthy enclave that might not take as kindly to the left-wing wave that just swept through New York City in the primaries, Kaplan’s strategy was to both embrace her party identification while conveying that she will remain an independent voice for the district. That’s an outgrowth of the district’s politics, which are predominantly typical of upscale Northeastern suburbs: Democratic-leaning, but more liberal on social issues than on economic ones. The neighborhood Kaplan walked that day was full of multistory single-family homes with manicured lawns often running all the way to sidewalk-free streets, although Kaplan warned against stereotyping a district that she admitted has “a lot of one-percenters” but also has “a lot of people who are really suffering and hurting.”

Speaking to voters on their doorsteps along with Adam Haber, the 2016 Democratic nominee in the district, the 52-year-old Kaplan stressed the need to pass Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed “red flag” law that would allow teachers and school officials to ask a judge to prohibit certain students from purchasing or possessing a gun,

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while also informing Democratic voters that she was honored to get an Obama endorsement. “I think we have a lot of momentum,” Kaplan said after meeting with a voter who said he and his family would all vote for her.

“Being a councilwoman serving my seventh year, there are a lot of people in this district that know me. And I think I have the right message: better gun legislation and passing the Reproductive Health Act, neither of which my opponent voted for. And I want to strengthen our public schools, make sure we level the playing field for everybody.”

Where Haber provided a high-energy jocularity that was especially helpful to connect Kaplan with people in the neighborhood who knew him, Kaplan was more earnest and low-key while speaking to voters. Kaplan is a somewhat cautious candidate, not moving too far beyond those big three items while talking to journalists or potential voters. She previously has hedged on what she thinks about legal marijuana, and didn’t take a specific position on congestion pricing when asked about it. “I really need to know how it would be implemented and where the funding from that will go,” she said.

Kaplan also told voters about her atypical patriotic personal story as an Iranian Jew who immigrated alone as a teenager after the Iranian Revolution. “I came to this country at 13. I’m a Jewish political refugee and now I represent 39,000 people, and that’s frickin’ amazing,” Kaplan told City & State. “I think it’s a testament to this country we call home.” While she said she never envisioned a life in politics, Kaplan clearly took to it, as before her successful run for North Hempstead Council, she was a trustee of the Great Neck Library District and a board member of the North Hempstead Board of Zoning and Appeals.

Kaplan also made a run to replace Rep. Steve Israel when he announced he wouldn’t seek re-election to Congress in 2016, though she lost the Democratic primary to the district’s current officeholder, Rep. Tom Suozzi.

Kaplan’s moderation and restraint helps in the 7th District, according to Craig Burnett, an assistant professor of political science at Hofstra University, who noted worries about the area’s high property taxes and “at least some undercurrent of fear if Democrats hold all of the branches in Albany,” he told City & State. The state Senate Democratic conference is routinely dominated by New York City-based senators who, as one would expect, look out for the city’s interests when it comes to issues like school aid and reflect a more left-leaning population on spending and the size of government.

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got involved, including charter school proponents who sponsored ads gravely intoning that a Democratic state Senate would be a tool of New York City Democrats and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

But this year, the potentially impending “blue wave” of Democratic wins powered by opposition to President Donald Trump could flip the district, but only if Kaplan builds name recognition and excitement about her candidacy, according to experts.

“She has got to get a ground game; she needs to hit the pavement and talk to people,” Burnett told City & State. “She has to capture the excitement we’ve seen in other contests, and make the case that she’s going to go to Albany to protect voters from what’s happening in Washington.”

Federal issues on which 7th District voters mostly agree with Democrats, such as inaction on guns and possible restrictions on legal abortion, give Kaplan an opportunity to connect her campaign to standing against Trump. Another example is the new federal tax law, which capped state and local tax deductions, much to the disadvantage of high-income, high-tax areas like Long Island. could drive angry voters to th state senate That the polls in November. “Come district constituent April, people are going to realize how much they’re getting lost cause for Kaplan, her campaign’s cen- screwed, and it’ll be bloody murder,” Haber trism seems suited to convincing people like predicted.

The Nassau County Republican Party Dave Seidler, a self-described “pragmatist” who leans right, who said he voted for Haber praised the tax law as helpful to most local but no longer considers himself a Democrat families because of the overall rate cuts. despite being registered as one. Asked by But independent experts said that, whatevCity & State for his view of the party cur- er the specifics of that one law, the influence rently, Seidler said, “The socialist ideology of Trump will hurt Phillips overall. Even the Democratic Party has taken on is a little though Phillips criticized national Repubmuch. It doesn’t work in a capitalist society as licans for the changes to the tax code and well as they think it should.” He panned the praised the state budget that decoupled the ideas of “the young lady that’s a socialist that state and federal tax codes, the “R” next to won,” presumably referring to Alexandria Phillips’ name could prove to be a liability.

Ocasio-Cortez, as “just not realistic.” Seidler “There’s been no real major shift in policywasn’t a completely lost cause for a candidate making in Albany in the last two years, so it’s like Kaplan though, as he praised Cuomo as not really a state or local force that’s going to “tough” and said he mostly agreed with the be driving much of voters’ decisions,” Burway the governor has run the state, as well nett said. Instead, he predicted, most voters as demonstrating why Haber’s involvement may use local votes to comment on national in the campaign might be as important as political news, which could spell trouble for Cuomo’s. “I don’t know (Kaplan’s) ideas and Phillips, since even without local polling figthings she wants to do, but if Adam is sup- ures, Trump’s election has woken up activporting her, I know what he represents, so ists in New York’s suburbs who reflect views that led to the president’s 12-point loss in the that’s good enough for me,” he said.

Haber, who jokingly referred to himself state Senate district in 2016.

A former financial analyst at Goldman as “a D-minus celebrity” in parts of the 7th District, barely lost his 2016 race against Sachs and former mayor in the North Shore Phillips. That election, like this one, was town of Flower Hill, Phillips beat Haber by seen as competitive enough that big money just over 4,000 votes in 2016 to succeed the and Haber encountered a hostile Trump voter. When she told the man at his door that she is a Democrat, he said, “I’m sorry to hear that, because the Democrats are full of crap.” Kaplan still tried to convince him that the state needed tougher gun control laws, which only earned the response: “You have a Constitution, I suggest you read it.”

But the relatively informed voter showed a familiarity with party dynamics in Albany that suggested he wouldn’t vote for any Democrat, no matter her specific policy proposals: “Mario will tie a rope on your hand and he’ll go like this,” the man said, making a puppeteering gesture. “Who’s Mario?” a bewildered Kaplan asked. “I mean Andrew, same crap,” the man replied.

While Republican partisans are likely a

“Mario will tie a rope on your hand and he’ll (make you a puppet).

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In her race against state Sen. Elaine Phillips, left, Anna Kaplan has encountered many voters skeptical of Democrats.

retiring Republican state Sen. Jack Martins. The affable incumbent didn’t hesitate to interrupt her phone interview with City & State to chat with a couple of constituents who approached her, demonstrating her commitment to what she said was “always working hard and for the people of the 7th Senate District.”

Phillips has cross-party appeal, demonstrated by her 2016 endorsement by the liberal-leaning New York Times editorial board and from the New York League of Conservation Voters, based on her environmental record. (Neither the newspaper nor the environmental group has endorsed in this race so far this year.)

Phillips thinks that enough anti-Trump voters in her district will still pull the lever for a Republican in a state legislative race.

“People have to understand that this race, this Senate race, will impact their way of

life for at least the next two years,” Phillips told City & State. “It will impact whether it’s affordable to live in New York state, how much public schools are funded and where the money goes. My job is to protect the citizens of this district, Nassau County and New York state,” sounding themes of fiscal responsibility that state Senate Republicans are run-

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ning on in the suburbs.

Reflecting a district with more Democrats, and therefore more likely to move on social issues, Phillips doesn’t shy away from her support for abortion rights. In addition to her work on the tax code and sexual harassment legislation that prohibited secret settlements and mandatory arbitration for harassment complaints, Phillips also defended herself as

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staunchly in favor of abortion rights, telling City & State: “I have always supported a woman’s right to choose, hands down.”

However, she opposes the Reproductive Health Act, the top current priority of abortion rights advocates in New York state, which would decriminalize abortions in the state after 24 weeks and expand the types of medical professionals who could perform the services. She said that’s because she believes it legalizes abortions beyond the second trimester. The bill’s proponents dispute that, arguing it’s too broad of a reading of the language that would allow abortion in New York state beyond 24 weeks should a fetus not be viable, or a woman’s health or life is at risk.

Phillips’ position has been enough to get herself an endorsement from the strictly abortion-rights group National Women’s Political Caucus, while Kaplan has found support from the National Organization for Women.

And instead of looking to Washington when they vote, Phillips suggested voters in the 7th District look a little closer to home, though still outside the district when considering what their vote will mean.

“If you look at the makeup of the Senate Democratic conference, anyone can clearly

see who is going to be in charge,” Phillips said. “Who is the leadership of the Senate Democratic conference? New York City.

And on top of that my opponent is on social media asking New York City Democrats to come to the 7th Senate District and help knock on doors, and help take back the New York state Senate. That is all New York City she is asking for help from and she is going to be indebted to New York City.” She’s raising the specter of the 2009-10 Democratic state Senate majority that instituted the MTA payroll tax, which taxes businesses in the city and the surrounding MTA-served counties of Rockland, Nassau, Suffolk, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester based on their total payrolls. That measure, unpopular in the suburbs, helped roll back previous Democratic gains on Long Island.

Kaplan, though, is predicting more Democratic state senators from Long Island; currently only two of the nine from the region are Democrats but analysts think up to two or three more could win this fall. In 2009-10, Democrats had only two seats on Long Island and Kaplan said that a larger Democratic bloc would have more power to prevent measures that would conflict with

the area’s interests.

“I look forward to winning this seat and working with Sen. Todd Kaminsky and Sen. John Brooks,” she said, referencing the two Long Island Democrats currently in office, “and hopefully with candidate Jim Gaughran, to be a force for Long Island.”

The Democratic Party in Albany is also no longer rife with internecine squabbles and its corrupt leadership has been replaced with a respected potential majority leader in Andrea Stewart-Cousins waiting in the wings. Cuomo, meanwhile, is no left-wing firebrand and no great benefactor for New York City. He has focused much of his career on winning the hearts and minds of suburbanites and upstaters, and an ad he just funded for Kaplan and Gaughran is focused on the themes of legal abortion, gun control and the SALT deduction cap while arguing: “For Long Islanders, it’s not red or blue, it’s right or wrong.”

And so that relentless focus on Washington by the governor might be enough to get Kaplan over the top this year, if a blue wave does crescendo. “It looks like, in a place like New York, it’s better to be a Democrat than a Republican this year,” Burnett said.

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WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? LET’S WELCOME OUR LOCAL DIVERSITY As a child growing up in New York City I took diversity for granted. My neighborhood was filled with people from different countries, ethnicities, classes and sexual orientations, so I assumed every place and child’s life was as rich as mine.

As an adult, I understand how lucky I was to live in such an openminded and integrated community. New York is a place where difference isn’t a threat. It defines and improves us. Perhaps that’s why we’re called unique. We’re the largest city and the economic capital of the nation (and world), because nearly half our population wasn’t born here.

Now, as I reflect on my life, I realize my upbringing was so rich, because I actually experienced how the poverty, health crises, and homelessness that plagued us made us stronger.

The generations. of Irish, Jewish, Asian, Hispanic, Italian, Polish, African American (and African African) immigrants that brought their differences here have made us stronger, and indeed richer, as a communal melting pot.

But just because we’ve melted together, doesn’t mean we’ve melted equally. In fact, the racial pay gap hasn’t improved in over 35 years. “Black men

earned 73 percent of white men’s hourly earnings in 2015 — the exact as in 1980. Pay disparity for Hispanic men has gotten worse: they earned 69 percent of white men’s hourly earnings in 2015, down from 71 percent in 1980,” writes Kirsten Salyer for TIME Magazine.

Why should this matter? Because diversity makes ideas, government and our economy stronger.

I sat down with, Steven Choi, the Executive Director at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC.org), the oldest and largest organization of its kind to explore the topic. “Diversity is important,” explained Choi. “Because you have a stronger pool of job applicants, contractors and experiences coming to the table.”

In short, when different peoples have a voice, they add value we wouldn’t have otherwise. Gino Perrotte, a lecturer and educator on diversity at Baruch College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Columbia University (http://rightbrainjourneys.com) put it this way: “Diversity is a great teacher. We all share some common experiences that define what it is to be human. And yet because of the intersectionality

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of our identities, we experience life differently from others. So, understanding, recognizing, and embracing our diversity allows us to bond and grow stronger through our similarities, “The collective wisdom shared by a diverse group creates synergy,” he surmised. “Together we are more than we could ever be on our own.”

So, what can we do to embrace our diverse neighbors, narrow this pay gap and grow the communal economic pie? Give our new neighbors an economic and political voice. Let’s tell our representatives we want everyone in the conversation. Let’s literally talk to our neighbors— greet them in their native tongue, or help them learn ours... And most important: Let’s spread the wealth, by prioritizing our neighbors’ businesses and literally spending our values where they make us all richer.

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HOUGH NEW YORK CITY faces the threat of losing millions in federal funding over its status as a “sanctuary city,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is “resolute” about shielding its immigrant population from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But, as was proved by the case of Pablo Villavicencio Calderon – the pizza deliveryman detained by ICE after delivering to a Brooklyn Army base – living and working in the city doesn’t shield residents from the fear of deportation.

The term sanctuary city is something of a misnomer; the federal government retains the authority to carry out immigration enforcement in any jurisdiction. But New York City has a long track record as a pioneer in erecting barriers between its undocumented immigrants and federal authorities, dating back to 1989 when Mayor Ed Koch signed Executive Order 124, which imposed restrictions on city agencies from turning over information regarding undocumented immigrants. In 1996, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani unsuccessfully sued the federal government to uphold that provision.

“Many of us at that time actually thought Giuliani was being overly aggressive, but he felt so strongly about it – that the 10th Amendment concerns here were strong, and the federal government was walking into the

BY G A BE P O NCE DE L EÓ N state and city territories in a way that was forbidden under the 10th Amendment,” said Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute at the New York University School of Law. Giuliani, of course, would later serve as a key campaign surrogate for Donald Trump in 2016.

Though ICE enforcement has increased under the Trump presidency – in New York City, arrests rose 65 percent during his first eight months in office – it still falls well short of peak levels during the first term of Barack Obama’s administration, when the White House was trying to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive deal on immigration. During his second term, Obama changed course, prioritizing enforcement against criminals, people who recently crossed the border and new removal orders.

At that time, many sanctuary cities – including New York City – began legislating stiffer restrictions on cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

In his first week in office, Trump issued an executive order rescinding the Obama-era priorities, which had shielded the vast majority of undocumented immigrants. In response, New York City ramped up its efforts to hinder ICE in the city. In October 2017, the City Council passed a bill prohibiting the use of city resources for fed-

eral immigration enforcement purposes.

Since enforcement operations are complicated to undertake, the criminal justice system serves as an important funnel for ICE, but the NYPD has refused to honor most of ICE’s detainer requests. De Blasio further antagonized the federal agency by evicting its trailer from Rikers Island.

According to a study released in May by the Migration Policy Institute, ICE responded to the renewed resolve of sanctuary cities to disrupt its deportation pipeline by increasing enforcement actions in intransigent jurisdictions. In September 2017, it launched Operation Safe City, which resulted in nearly 500 arrests in several cities, including New York City. The unpredictability surrounding raids conducted in the community – as well as collateral arrests of immigrants who were not the target of the operations – have contributed to a pervading sense of fear among immigrants.

During his presidential campaign, Trump displayed a knack for rattling his rivals, often belittling them with derisive nicknames. As one of his frequent targets, immigrants were not immune – from Trump referring to Mexican immigrants as “rapists” to referring to African nations as “shithole countries.” In the wake of the 2016 election, rumors and misinformation as well as fears of mass deportation swirled around immigrant communities.

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It didn’t help when, six months into the new administration, ICE’s acting Director Thomas Homan fired a warning shot their way: “If you’re in this country illegally and you committed a crime by entering this country, you should be uncomfortable,” he said. “You should look over your shoulder, and you need to be worried.”

There is some evidence that anti-immigrant rhetoric may be contributing to bias crimes in New York City. In the six months following Trump’s January 2017 travel ban announcement, the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force identified 215 incidents – an increase of 31 percent over the same time frame in the previous year.

“There is a growing culture of hate,” said Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition. “This administration has given a signal to anti-immigrant, xenophobic, white supremacist haters.”

Since taking office, Trump has rescinded the temporary protected status of immigrants from several countries, including Haiti, El Salvador and Honduras. According to the Center for American Progress, there are 26,000 TPS recipients in New York (who are parents to 21,800 U.S.-born children).

Many have been living in the country for decades. Their fate now lies in the courts.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients have also been living in limbo since Trump rescinded the Obama-era program. As of last year, 42,000 of these immigrants who arrived in the country as children reside in New York state.

“In the time I’ve been doing this work, I’ve never seen this much upheaval,” said Terry Lawson, director of the Family and Immigration Unit at Bronx Legal Services.

“I’ve never seen this much confusion and rapid change in immigration policy, and the impact that it’s having on our communities is one of intense fear and people going into the shadows, even if they don’t have to.”

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the health of their children and their prospects of remaining in the country.

“It really only applies to a small subset of people, but the message that it gets across is you can’t be on public benefits and be an immigrant,” Lawson said. “It has just created this climate of fear and confusion.”

New York City Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks characterized the rule change to the Daily News as “a purposeful attempt to create confusion with the notion that people who don’t have legal status here are receiving benefits – that’s not the case.”

Even before the public charge proposal was unveiled, there were reports of declines in the use of health services and public benefits by immigrant families.

The regulation could also impede a much larger segment of the immigrant population from being eligible for permanent legal status based on their age or pre-existing health conditions.

“After the RAISE Act in Congress failed, this administration has focused on every single way – both radical and really small stuff – to shrink the immigrant population,

both legal and undocumented, through administrative and executive orders,” said Suzette Brooks Masters, a senior strategist at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees.

Another development that has alarmed immigration attorneys is the surge in ICE arrests conducted in state courthouses. Last year, there were 144 arrests or attempted arrests in New York courthouses, according to the Immigrant Defense Project. Fear of federal authorities, immigration attorneys say, is now deterring their clients from seeking due process, even in commonplace matters like child custody or visitation rights, not to mention more serious offenses, such as domestic violence.

Police chiefs in a number of major cities have voiced concerns that ICE arrests are causing immigrants to be fearful of all law enforcement and thus less likely to report crimes. Moreover, people living in fear are more vulnerable to exploitation, whether in the workplace or at home.

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SINCE 2016, President Donald Trump’s immigration policies – the so-called Muslim ban that barred nationals of several countries from entering the U.S., ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provided work authorization to immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children, and the family separation crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border – have energized nonprofits to mobilize their resources and help communities in need.

SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT Founded in 2006 as a New York Law School pro bono project providing legal representation to immigrant youth facing deportation, the Safe Passage Project quickly grew into a formal nonprofit organization. Currently representing children in more than 800 cases – including those who fled gang violence, forced labor and abuse – the group’s attorneys provide a lifeline of support amid the chaos of the immigration system.

sell it, even though the tenants should have been protected by rent stabilization and entitled to stay in their apartments through a sale,” said Arthur Burkle, a housing attorney at Bronx Legal Services. “The tenants were terrified – and this is not the only instance.”

A climate of heightened enforcement and divisive rhetoric drives people into the shadows. For skilled workers, that can result in underemployment. “Brain waste” is a lost opportunity not only for the individual, but also for the economy (which can also be affected by declines in consumer spending).

New York is home to 4.5 million immigrants, who make up 23 percent of the population. The only state with a higher share of immigrants is California. When immigrants go into the shadows, they avoid interactions with government entities. If the Trump administration succeeds in including a controversial citizenship question in the upcoming 2020 census, New York would most likely receive less than its due in resources and representation as the result of undercounting the immigrant population.

“This administration changes day by day,” said Melina Gonzalez, an immigration

NEW SANCTUARY COALITION The New Sanctuary Coalition was founded in 2007 as a network of interfaith congregations and individuals standing in solidarity with people facing deportation. In 2017, the organization created the Living in Faith Everyday Bond Fund, in which money donated is used to post bail for immigrants in detention. In response to the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation measures, the coalition created “Sanctuary in the Hood” spaces, a network of more than 100 faith communities willing to provide shelter to individuals facing immediate deportation.

ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Founded after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks following an increase in acts of discrimination toward the city’s Arab community, the Arab American Association of New York provides test preparation for the naturalization exams, youth development and mental health services, among other programs.

RIF ASYLUM SUPPORT Since 2006, attorneys at the Refugee and Immigrant Fund have been helping asylum-seekers navigate

the complex legal system though free personal consultations and community meetings that provide updates on the latest changes to immigration law.

CUNY CLEAR A collaboration between several legal clinics at City University of New York School of Law, the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility project aims to address the legal needs of Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities, as well as others affected by the U.S. government’s national security and counterterrorism policies. In a complaint filed by three Muslim immigrants against federal law enforcement, attorneys for the organization said their clients suffered “emotional distress, reputational harm, and economic loss” after they were asked to serve as informants within their communities. When they refused, they were placed on a “no-fly list.”

IMMIGRANT DEFENSE PROJECT Since 1996, the Immigrant Defense Project has fought for the rights of immigrants, challenging legislation and contributing legal expertise to grassroots campaigns. In collaboration with Newsweek, it created a series of short videos designed as a guide for people at risk of being deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

IMMIGRATION EQUALITY The nation’s leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization, Immigration Equality represents people fleeing persecution in more than 80 countries and has won asylum for more than 1,000 people to date.

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outreach organizer at LSA Family Health Service. “If it’s not one thing, then it’s another thing.”

Advocates maintain that the harm resulting from the current policy barrage is not limited to the estimated half a million undocumented immigrants living in New York City – it weighs on a much broader swath of the population.

“It’s a much bigger problem than I think a lot of people realize,” said Joe Luft, the executive director of Internationals Network, a nonprofit that supports public high schools catering to recent immigrants. “What we’re seeing in our schools is some drops in the attendance of students who are really discouraged – and in some cases depressed – because they are carrying this around every day.”

According to Luft, some students in his network have dropped out of school.

turned to their country, and what’s going to happen to them if they return, and knowing that their options are so fewer these days than they used to be, and I may not be able to stop their deportation,” Lawson said.

“It’s a winnowing down of options that we have never seen before.”

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VER THE PAST few years, legal services providers have focused increasingly on deportation defense, and have had success in keeping removal orders down. The de Blasio administration boosted funding for its free immigrant legal services substantially since Trump took office, raising its commitment to $30 million in the current fiscal year. Through its Liberty Defense Project, meanwhile, the governor’s office has chipped in $11.4 million toward legal services for immigrants.

Nonetheless, providers are feeling the squeeze. “I can’t find enough lawyers to take all the cases that we’re seeing, and they’re incredibly compelling, heartbreaking cases, and I have a number of cases that are sitting in my inbox that I cannot place,” Lawson said.

So what more could New York’s elected leaders do to aid a community under siege?

“If you want to pass one law, or create one policy that is going to provide a sense of security for immigrants, and protect them from deportation … you would expand access to driver’s licenses in New York state,” Choi said. “There are countless examples of people who have been deported because they are driving upstate, because their employer asked them to or they have to take their kids to the doctor or to school or to church and they are pulled over, and because they don’t have a driver’s license, they’re put into detention and then ICE comes and picks them up and they are deported.”

“New York state is not doing anything close to what California does.”

“We have students who say they are going to go to work because they might have to leave at some point soon, so it makes more sense for them to work as long as they can before they get sent back,” he said. “There are also students who let people know that they are leaving because they are worried that they’ll be separated from their families if they don’t leave together.”

While ICE arrested nearly four times as many people in 2010 as it did last year in New York, new guidelines for ICE attorneys and immigration judges have resulted in less prosecutorial discretion and changes to the way cases are adjudicated, all of which makes individuals seeking relief from deportation less likely to succeed than under the previous administration.

“It’s just heartbreaking to have people in my office crying about their fear of being re-

Although it ignores the vast majority of ICE detainer requests, New York City continues to honor requests related to people who have committed 170 categories of crimes, which some advocates argue is too many.

Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy, says New York City should expand its definition of a sanctuary city beyond limiting cooperation with ICE. “One of the things New York can lead on is changing the ways in which communities interact with law enforcement and decriminalizing efforts so that people don’t end up in the pipeline of deportation to begin with,” she said. “One of the new frontiers of protecting immigrants is very much changing a system that criminalizes communities, whether by lowering penalties for minor offenses and getting people quickly out of local correctional facilities.”

(Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez recently rolled out a new set of policies that his office will follow when prosecuting immigrants in order to avoid the possibility of deportation on account of minor offenses, such as marijuana possession.)

Though New York was a trailblazer in defining what the contours of a city limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities could look like, California has surpassed it with the passage of a string of bills – the Trust Act, Truth Act and Values Act – imposing more stringent restrictions on the number and categories of crimes for which state police can hand over inmates, as well as the ability of ICE officers to question inmates in jail and enter homes and factories without a warrant.

“New York state is not doing anything close to what California does,” Chishti said.

The New York DREAM Act, which would provide college-bound undocumented immigrants with access the same scholarships and financial aid available to citizens, was first introduced in the state Legislature five years ago, but has been consistently opposed by the Republican-controlled state Senate.

“The governor and the Legislature have shared responsibility here,” Archila said.

“Obviously, Gov. Cuomo, when he wants to get something done, he gets it done.”

With so much focus on issues surrounding the legal status of immigrants, some advocates believe more attention should be directed toward the problem of integration, which would require substantial investments in programs like English language classes and workforce training.

“For immigrant New Yorkers, we can’t think of them getting status as the end of the journey,” Choi said. “It’s just the beginning of the journey.”

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“I have heard complaints just in the last couple weeks about employers trying to recruit people and their spouses being refused admission,” Wylde said.

Alongside fears that the U.S. is becoming a less welcoming destination for immigrants, there are fears that unpopular policies like family separation will make it a less alluring destination as well.

“There’s a high level of concern because (immigration policy has) become more and more of an issue on both the practical side of having a flow of talent and from the standpoint of the image and attractiveness of the country,” she said.

According to a July study conducted by the National Foundation for American Policy, H-1B visa denials rose 41 percent between the third and fourth quarters of fiscal year 2017.

HILE PRESIDENT DONALD O F N YC ’ S “The most dramatic change is the uncertainty of Trump’s war on illegal immibeing able to live and work in the United States in a gration garners headlines, in WO R K F O R C E I S legal status because all of a sudden the administrareality his policies have been FOREIGN-BORN tion has started looking at applications, especially more effective at stemming the renewals … with a different perspective – a comflow of high-skilled workers into major hubs like pletely strict, narrow perspective. And it results in New York City than they have been at stopping objections and then denials,” said Cyrus Mehta, an illegal border crossings into places like Texas.

“For the most part, the New York business community feels we are attorney whose firm represents corporate and individual clients in headed in the wrong direction when we are sending signals around immigration law matters.

“That’s been one of the most radical shifts: All of a sudden, applithe world that we are trying to cut off talent and the energy of immigrants by discouraging them from coming here,” said Kathryn cations that were routinely approvable, we now prepare with trepidation as to whether they will get approved.”

Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

In addition to the increase in denials, the application process has Regardless of their skill level, legal status or length of stay, immigrant workers are critical to New York City’s economy. Between slowed considerably, including the suspension of premium process1980 and 2011, New York City’s foreign-born population grew by ing, where a fee can be paid to have a case expedited. According to 1.4 million, while its native-born population declined by 223,000. Mehta, the experience has even become “frightening” for some of And while 37 percent of New Yorkers are foreign-born, nearly his clients. In the past, when a visa was denied, the applicant would half the workforce comes from overseas, and there are 83,000 for- contest it and then leave the country.

“Now the administration is saying that when we deny your apeign-born business owners in the city, compared to 81,000 native-born ones, according to the New York City comptroller’s office. plication, we will put you in deportation proceedings,” Mehta said.

In 2011, immigrants were responsible for $210 billion in econom- “Even though deportation is not a criminal proceeding, it’s a great ic activity in New York – approximately 31 percent of the gross city stigma for someone who has come here as a student, and wants to be product – according to a 2013 report by the state comptroller’s of- here legally … people are just freaking out.”

Though the administration has delayed the removal policy for fice. An analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that undocumented workers pay an estimated $11.64 billion employment-based applicants, “It’s not going to be delayed for too long,” Mehta said. in state and local taxes a year.

“It’s not out of kindness,” he added, “but just to get their act in Immigrant workers are overrepresented in a wide spectrum of sectors, including food service, construction, health care, manu- order and train more officers to issue the notices to appear, which facturing, retail and the STEM fields. High-end industries like fi- starts the removal proceeding.”

In another change of policy, applicants for green cards through nance, tech, fashion and the arts depend on the flow of global talent.

In August, the Business Roundtable released a letter critical of the the employment-based system are now routinely interviewed, Trump administration for increasing denials and delays in the H-1B which diverts resources from other applications, contributing to a slowdown across the board. (Pending naturalization applications visa process for college-educated workers.

According to Wylde, New York has a deficit of “a couple hundred have spiked 88 percent since the end of 2015, according to a July rethousand tech workers,” in part because of increasingly restrictive port by the Partnership for New Americans.)

“Things have slowed down a lot, and this may be part of the stratimmigration policies; and for a city that is home to so many global egy,” Mehta said. headquarters, mobility is a critical issue.

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Thu Pham completed a culinary course for refugees at the Carroll Gardens restaurant Emma’s Torch.

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N HER COOKING BLOG, Thu Pham reminisces about the mustard greens her mother pickled with salt and brown sugar in her hometown of Lang Son in northern Vietnam. She remembers walking down to her family’s vegetable garden, her dog by her side, to harvest vegetables for stir-fry dishes prepared with garlic and lime juice.

For Pham, who immigrated to the United States in 2016, every dish brings back memories of meals shared with family and evenings spent watching her mother in the kitchen. But the 38-year-old Brooklyn resident didn’t consider pursuing a culinary career until recently, after she cooked for friends and they encouraged her to take her passion to the next level.

Pham says the culinary course she completed at Emma’s Torch – a Carroll Gardens restaurant and social enterprise that trains refugees for careers in the food industry – gave her the confidence to move forward with business plans of her own. She is currently preparing to launch a pop-up restaurant serving authentic Vietnamese food, and a series of cooking classes.

“Emma’s Torch opened doors for me,” Pham said. She hopes that her pop-up event and cooking classes will provide a taste of the “authentic culture of Vietnam and the story related to that food.”

A CITY FOR NEWCOMERS AND ENTREPRENEURS In New York City, which is home to an estimated 3.3 million foreign-born immigrants, nearly 70 percent of cooks and food preparation workers are foreign-born, according to a report published last year by the New York City comptroller’s office. The research and advocacy organization New American

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Economy estimates that one-third of entrepreneurs across New York state are immigrants, employing nearly 500,000 people and generating nearly $7 billion in business income.

And city officials want to help. The New York City Department of Small Business Services recently published a guide for immigrant entrepreneurs on how to start a business, market themselves and sort out financial issues.

“From a young age, I saw firsthand how business ownership can empower a family for generations,” Gregg Bishop, the department’s commissioner, wrote in the guide’s introduction. “As an immigrant and a resident of a growing city where half of the small businesses are owned by immigrant entrepreneurs, I know that it is critical to help all of our entrepreneurs.”

Emma’s Torch, which opened earlier this year, offers eight-week courses designed to help refugees and asylum-seekers develop new skills and find work in New York City’s food industry. The course includes instruction on how to prepare meals and handle kitchen equipment, as well as English as a second language classes and advice on how to prepare for a job interview. It also provides students with a network of contacts they can use to jump-start their careers.

“We focus on creating a sense of independence for our students,” said Kerry Brodie, the nonprofit’s founder and executive director.

“We’re really looking for people who are passionate about the culinary industry.”

Brodie, who was one of City & State’s 2018 New York City 40 Under 40 Rising Stars, previously worked as a press secretary for Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C., but she decided to open Emma’s Torch in New York City because of the city’s long history of welcoming immigrants. The name of the restaurant is a

reference to Emma Lazarus, a 19th century poet and advocate who penned the famous lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

MAKING THE TRANSITION Pham, who had worked for a children’s charity in Vietnam, initially tried applying for administrative positions and jobs with nonprofits when she arrived in New York – but none of them worked out. She learned about Emma’s Torch at a job fair organized by a refugee organization.

Since finishing the course, she briefly worked at Bricolage, a Vietnamese restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn, before moving on to her current job at Lot 2, an American restaurant in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood. She is now drafting a business plan for the pop-up restaurant she hopes to launch in November, where the five-course menu will include steamed rice, fish with turmeric and dill, and lotus salad.

Her cooking classes, which are expected to launch in December, will offer tips on easy-to-prepare staples like tofu, pho and different types of pickles. Pham says the secret to flavorful cooking lies in the freshness of the ingredients and the right combination of spices.

“Cooking is my meditation,“ she says. “When you put the love in your work … people can feel it.”

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RWANDAN WOMAN WHO witnessed the murder of her family during the genocide against the country’s Tutsi minority in the 1990s. A Tibetan man imprisoned and tortured for his religious and political beliefs. A woman from Central America separated from her 8-year-old son at the U.S.-Mexico border.

These are several of approximately 150 asylum cases that New York City-based psychologist Barbara Eisold has documented since 2002 as a volunteer with the international nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights. During the evaluations, Eisold asks asylum-seekers about trauma they experienced and uses the information to draft affidavits in support of their applications for political asylum in the United States.

“Attorneys use us because emotional responses to torture are considered, in the courts of the U.S., to be evidence,” Eisold said. She is one of about 1,000 licensed medical professionals nationwide who do pro bono evaluations as part of the organization’s Asylum Network.

In June, when the Trump administration announced its zero tolerance policy toward immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and began separating children from their families, Physicians for Human Rights was among the hundreds of organizations

that called on authorities to immediately end the policy, warning that separation can cause “profound psychological harm.” Of the thousands of families separated under the order, a few hundred have yet to be reunited.

“The family separation crisis really galvanized our network,” said Kathryn Hampton, network program officer with Physicians for Human Rights. Whereas in the past, the organization’s Asylum Network received about 50 applications per year, the number has recently increased to about 50 applications per month.

In asylum cases, the purpose of the affidavit is to provide an objective account of the trauma experienced by the asylum-seeker and to educate the adjudicator deciding the case, Hampton said. In cases involving sexual violence, or other cases where the asylum-seeker may not have visible physical scars, an affidavit prepared by a licensed medical professional can document psychological trauma that explains why this person may not remember something, or breaks down in tears.

“The affidavits that I’ve read are very powerful,” Hampton said.

For asylum-seekers – many of whom have been pushed out of their countries of origin by war or persecution – traveling to a host country is a traumatic experience in

and of itself, said Spyros Orfanos, clinical director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Unfortunately, they often end up experiencing additional trauma as a result of harsh immigration policies they encounter as refugees.

To meet the growing demand for clinicians trained to help refugees complete their asylum applications, last year Orfanos started the Immigration and Human Rights Work Group at NYU. The program quickly grew from three volunteers to about 25 – and Orfanos hopes to expand it in the near future.

“We’re filling a gap,” he said. “A lot of immigrants and asylum-seekers don’t even want to go near a government agency because they’re afraid of being deported by (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement).”

In October, Orfanos partnered with Physicians for Human Rights to lead a one-day introductory training event for more than 100 health care professionals who are considering joining the Asylum Network.

During the training, attendees learned best practices for writing effective affidavits and working with attorneys, as well as tips for dealing with various asylum cases.

“We’ve been doing very good work and the city needs a lot of these kinds of services,” Orfanos said. “We’re providing what

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Carol Wachs, a New York City-based psychologist who came to the training session on Oct. 6, said she is interested in joining Physicians for Human Rights’ Asylum Network because she feels compelled to help after learning of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“It’s been devastating seeing what’s going on in our country. … Everyone in our field is absolutely devastated,” Wachs said of watching children being torn from their

parents by immigration officials. “The general acceptance and embracing of cruelty.”

Eisold, who recently conducted an evaluation at a detention center in Texas, said she decided to do the pro bono work because some of her childhood experiences made her feel connected to people who have been imprisoned. Growing up in New York City after World War II, Eisold said she remembers an elementary school teacher who had been in Auschwitz, a fact all students knew but did not talk about.

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Instead, Eisold and her classmates played a make-believe game of “prison” in which a student designated as the “general” administered punishments to the rest of the students, who were “prisoners.”

Eisold’s work with asylum-seekers culminated in a book, “Psychodynamic Perspectives on Asylum Seekers and the Asylum Seeking Process; Encountering Well-Founded Fear,” which is due out early next year.

“I’ve learned a tremendous amount about courage,” she said.

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HE CONSTRUCTION of the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825, established Buffalo as a vital trade route during the Industrial Revolution. Thanks to its proximity to the Niagara River, Buffalo later became a major producer of hydroelectric power, earning the nickname “City of Light.” Heavy industry and manufacturing jobs followed. But like other industrial hubs that once flourished across upstate New York and the Rust Belt, the post-World War II-era hit Buffalo hard.

Between 1969 and 2003, the city lost more than half of its 180,000 manufacturing jobs, according to a 2005 Cornell University study. Likewise, since a peak of 580,000 inhabitants in 1950, the city has lost more than half its population.

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dent Donald Trump his victory, following a campaign marked by anti-immigration rhetoric. A closer look at demographic and economic data, however, suggests that immigrants have helped spur revitalization in metro areas across the Rust Belt, which stand to lose from the White House’s anti-immigration agenda.

“We have worked with a lot of communities, particularly in the Great Lakes region, so places like Buffalo and Syracuse, but also cities in Ohio and Missouri that are actually, despite what you might hear out of Washington, trying very hard to attract and retain immigrant talent to their city,” said Rich Andre, associate director of state and local initiatives at the New American Economy, a bipartisan coalition of business leaders and mayors seeking comprehensive immigration reform.

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tion has helped stem population decline and firm up tax bases. Influxes of forBUFFALO’S eign-born workers have NATIVE-BORN injected youth into aging POPUL ATION workforces and new life into manufacturing and STEM PLUMMETED FROM industries, including the re1,123,891 TO 1,068,336 gion’s fast-growing health care sector.

Immigrants make up a disproportionately large share of small-business owners and, on average, have higher levels of education than the native-born residents of Buffalo, a city whose economic revitalization Gov. Andrew Cuomo prioritized with a pledge of $1 billion in state aid, known as the Buffalo Billion.

Between 2000 and 2014, Buffalo’s foreign-born population grew 32.3 percent, while the overall number of inhabitants fell A client of the 3.3 percent. Since 2010, the Buffalo metro International region has lost 2,813 people despite an inInstitute of Buffalo, flux of 21,291 international immigrants, which provides but Erie County’s overall population grew employment programs to refugees, for the first time in decades. (Another upat work at Litelab. state city that has struggled with depopulation, Syracuse, reversed that decadeslong trend between 2000 and 2014, thanks to a 42.5 percent increase in its foreign-born figure in the 40-year history of the resettle- ployees, but we don’t always have enough clients,” said Eva Hassett, executive direcment program. population.)

Rep. Chris Collins, who is running for tor of the International Institute of Buffalo, “We have a declining population in a city that was built for double the amount of peo- re-election in a congressional district that a nonprofit that provides refugee resettleple … so we definitely could use additional includes Buffalo’s suburbs, has spoken out ment and employment programs.

According to Hassett, she sees indicapeople, just to increase efficiency of the way against refugee resettlement on national sewe operate,” said Benjamin Bissell, the exec- curity grounds, following the 2015 terrorist tors all around that there is a squeeze on utive director of the Westminster Economic attack in Paris, and then again, in January the labor supply in Buffalo, with employers Development Initiative, a nonprofit econom- 2017, in support of an executive order that struggling to find new workers.

“The next piece of that is the employtemporarily suspended refugee admissions ic development organization in Buffalo.

According to Aaron Renn, a senior fellow from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, er says, ‘Well, now I can’t expand because I can’t find any people. Well, now I can’t at the conservative-leaning Manhattan In- Syria and Yemen.

A spokesperson for Collins, who was make a profit because I can’t find any workstitute, it’s possible for a city to experience ers,’” she said. “And so all some population decline and economic revi- the first member of of that in the end is not talization at the same time. Even so, reduced the House to endorse good for an economy, beinflows of immigrants and refugees to a city Trump’s 2016 presidencause those companies that like Buffalo should be viewed with concern, tial candidacy, did not can’t find good workers ulrespond to a request for if not alarm. timately aren’t successful.

“If you’re the mayor of a city like Buffalo, comment on the ecoAnd so I think that labor it’s very obvious that you would want high nomic implications for THE FOREIGN-BORN supply is a louder and loudimmigration to hopefully get more people, the Buffalo region of the P O P U L AT I O N S U R G E D er issue around here.” because that’s been one of the few growth administration’s immiBuffalo’s affordability gration agenda. areas that you’ve had,” he said.

F R O M 5 1 ,19 8 T O 6 7, 74 2 relative to traditional gateLike other immiOver the past decade, Buffalo ranks 13th way cities for immigrants in the country in the total number of refu- grants, research has gees received. Between 2007 and 2016, the shown that refugees are disproportionate- has been a draw for secondary migrants federal government resettled around 12,000 ly entrepreneurial. According to a May re- and, with the prospect of low unemployrefugees in the city. Since taking office, port released by the Fiscal Policy Institute, ment and a prolonged stoppage of the refuhowever, Trump has slashed the number of the turnover rate of refugees as employees is gee pipeline – coupled with anti-immigrant refugees admitted into the U.S. from 96,874 relatively low, and they can be an asset in re- sentiment gripping other parts of the country – Hassett hopes that New York will take in 2016 to 33,368 last year. That number is cruitment.

“What we’ve noticed in our employment proactive measures to lure immigrants alexpected to dwindle further this year, and the administration recently placed a cap of program is that there are now more and ready in the U.S. “This sets up an opportu30,000 on refugee admissions, the lowest more employers who are looking for em- nity,” she said.

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ROM BLACK LIVES MATTER to the #MeToo movement, diversity has been dominating the national political discourse.

Here in New York, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have participated in the Women’s March on New York City the past two years, a pro-women’s rights protest organized in part by New York City residents. Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is under investigation

by the Manhattan district attorney over allegations that he sexually assaulted multiple women. And the case of Eric Garner, a black Staten Islander who died in a police stranglehold in 2014, continues to be a rallying cry for advocates of criminal justice reform.

Diversity is a critical policy issue in the halls of the state Capitol and City Hall.

The state program to support businesses owned by women and minorities has drawn

scrutiny over the past year, and a key law underpinning the program was renewed only for a single year – and will be up for debate once again in 2019.

State legislators are also drafting legislation to build on efforts to increase the representation of women on corporate boards.

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BREAKING INTO THE BOARDROOM

WOMEN ARE UNDERREPRESENTED ON CORPORATE BOARDS. A NEW CALIFORNIA LAW AIMED AT INCREASING DIVERSITY COULD BE A MODEL FOR NEW YORK. mum number of female board members.

Now, despite fears that the California law may not survive if it is challenged in court, New York may pursue a similar path. At least two Assembly members are looking to propose bills that would emulate the California law, which requires those public companies to have at least one female board member by the end of 2019, and two or three by the end of 2021, depending on the size of the board. Fines will be imposed on companies that fail to comply.

Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright,

a Manhattan Democrat, is drafting legislation that she said would mirror the California law as much as possible.

Seawright provided few specifics on how similar her legislation, which is still in the research stage, would be to California’s. Instead, she said her bill would first commission a study on the number of women currently appointed to the boards of directors of publicly traded corporations headquartered in the state.

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In response to such dismal statistics – and motivated by research that shows the benefits of more diverse boards – California last month became the only state to require publicly held corporations headquartered in the state to meet a mini-

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equal playing field.”

Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte, a Brooklyn Democrat, plans to draft a different bill that would require corporations that contract with New York City or New York state to meet a certain threshold of diversity on their boards or in their management structure.

“We are actually allocating tax dollars in the form of government contracts to these companies and their boards should be a reflection of New York state and New York City,” Bichotte said. “California is different from us. I don’t know if that extreme bill would get anywhere. I think that at least we should do it in tiers. Certainly, I would love to take it to that extreme – and that’s a conversation that we’re going to continue having.”

Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, wrote in an op-ed for NBC that the California law poses a number of legal issues.

“For instance, the bill specifically creates a classification based on gender, and therefore it raises questions of equal protection under both the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution,” she wrote. “When the government legislates on the basis of gender, courts typically subject that legislation to a heightened scrutiny. This basically means the government has to prove it has a really good reason for doing what it is doing, and that there isn’t a better way of accomplishing that goal.”

New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, a proponent of increased corporate board diversity but an opponent of the California legislation, wrote that “while California’s impulse is clearly on the right side of history, the way the rule was enacted is so misguided that it might do more harm than good.” Sorkin warned that “an onslaught of lawsuits” from opponents of the rule could set back women’s advocates’ progress by calling into question the validity of studies claiming companies with more diverse boards perform better.

When asked about the constitutionality of the California law and her bill, Seawright said her team consulted with a legal firm that said the bill complies with the state constitution and U.S. Consti-

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tution. Seawright said she would call on the state attorney general to review her proposal and issue an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of her bill.

“It’s not a mandate, it’s not a quota,” Seawright argued. “I think it will stand up to the strict scrutiny protection clause.”

Since Bichotte’s proposal only would apply to companies that receive state contracts, it may stand a better chance of passing constitutional scrutiny. Richard Briffault, a professor of legislation at Columbia Law School, said that the government has a freer hand when it comes to imposing requirements on companies in contracts.

“The courts have generally indicated that when governments are acting on what’s sometimes called their proprietary capacity, that is by contract, as opposed to as regulators, they can do more,” Briffault said. “Obviously, even then there are limits on what governments can do, but there is more leeway for governments when they’re acting by contract.

Contracts are arguably voluntary on the

New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office wouldn’t commit to supporting Bichotte’s legislative proposal. “Governor Cuomo has a long record of increasing protections and ensuring equal opportunity in the workplace,” a Cuomo spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. “We are continuing to explore additional legislative and regulatory options for encouraging and enforcing greater representation of women in all sectors.”

Seawright said she was hopeful that she can pass her proposal – as she did with other significant diversity legislation – but short of that, she said she “absolutely” supports Bichotte’s legislation.

“New York is a leader – Assemblywoman RODNEYSE BICHOTTE and has been a leader on so many issues – passing marriage equality and one of the first to pass choice before Roe v. Wade – have been numerous objections to this and I think the time has come that New bill and serious legal concerns have York needs to step up and take a serious been raised. I don’t minimize the polook at this,” Seawright said. “Women tential flaws that indeed may prove comprise over half of New York’s popufatal to its ultimate implementation.” lation, yet we’re so underrepresented on Bichotte said she doesn’t know if Calcorporate boards and commissions.” ifornia’s law would pass legal scrutiny in part of the contracting party so these are part of the conditions that get put in. There are also constitutional limits on what can go into a contract but it does give more space (for) the government to advance certain policies.”

In his signing message, California Gov. Jerry Brown wrote: “There

“California is different from us.

I don’t know if that extreme bill would get anywhere. I would love to take it to that extreme.”

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RODNEYSE BICHOTTE CHAIRWOMAN, ASSEMBLY OVERSIGHT OF MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES SUBCOMMITTEE

INCREASING CAPACITY FOR MWBEs ARE YOU LOOKING TO PASS ANOTHER BILL THAT ELIMINATES THE PERSON-

AL NET WORTH CAP ON MINORITY- AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES? OR HAS GOV. ANDREW CUOMO EFFECTIVELY ENDED THAT VENTURE? We’re trying to look at different ways that we can eliminate the personal net worth (cap) and substitute it with some other limitation, because that’s what their concern was. I have a bill that does that where we actually model what New York City is doing. They eliminated the personal net worth. They put a cap on the spending of the government contracts in a certain amount of years. If a company is getting contracts for let’s say $50 million over the course of two years, then they’ve reached their capacity.

So yes, will be looking to reintroduce the bill – maybe in some different form but yes.

IF YOU DO MANAGE TO ELIMINATE THE PERSONAL NET WORTH CAP, DO

YOU THINK THAT WILL TAKE CARE OF A LOT OF THE CAPACITY ISSUES? OR IS THERE STILL MORE TO BE DONE? I think it will help because you have a number of MWBEs that may have a higher personal net worth who run companies with high capacity who could participate. And I think there are a number of MWBEs that are not even participating because they are restricted with the personal net worth. I do think that it could certainly put a dent in the number of people who said, “Oh we don’t have any capacity.”

We’ll have a larger pool, a larger number of people in that pool. I still think that there are other aspects other than personal net worth that still need to help with the capacity issue. And it’s more like knowing how to do business with the government, knowing how to get funding, knowing how

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to (get) unionized … these are the bigger projects.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER MAJOR DIVERSITY INITIATIVES THAT YOU’RE WORKING ON? So on the health care side, we’re looking to address the black women mortality rate, the black infant mortality rate. There has been a disparity in terms of the way black mothers or women of color have been treated and as a result have died or their infants have died. I’m a victim of that; my baby died two years ago. Columbia hospital sent me home while I was having my baby; they didn’t want to take me in.

So we have those disparity issues that deal with black mothers in particular. And those are big initiatives that we’re going to launch. I’m working with the city and the state to create a task force.

There are a lot of disparities within the health system.

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MOMENTUM BUILDS BEHIND MWBEs AFTER A LACKLUSTER YEAR, THE RATE OF CONTRACTING FOR MINORITY- AND WOMEN-OWNED FIRMS IS RISING IN NEW YORK.

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FFORTS TO PROVIDE a boost to companies owned by minorities or women are paying off in New York, as both the state and New York City increased the share of contracts awarded to such firms in the past year.

At the state level, Gov. Andrew Cuomo inched closer to his goal of

awarding 30 percent of state government contracts to minority- and women-owned business enterprises, or MWBEs, hitting 28.62 percent in the 2017-18 fiscal year.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s

administration – which also has a 30 percent target – touted an increase to 19 percent in its own MWBE contracting rate.

Since de Blasio’s office launched an official advisory council on minority- and women-owned businesses, the share of New York City contracts going to MWBEs has increased by 11 percentage points, up from 8 per-

“There’s good news and bad news.”

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The increase in MWBE contracts comes just a year after city MWBE contracts dropped from 14.3 percent to 11.4 percent.

That decrease was due to an atypical contract involving the Department of Sanita-

tion, Senior Advisor and Director of the Mayor’s Office of MWBEs Jonnel Doris told City & State last year.

This year, Doris says the city is “doing very well” when it comes to MWBEs. “We just recently hit our $10 billion OneNYC

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Announced in 2015, OneNYC is the city’s strategy to address population growth, aging infrastructure, increasing inequality and climate change. Under the OneNYC strategy, de Blasio originally set out to award $16 billion to MWBEs by 2025. After the 2017-18 fiscal year, he raised that number to $20 billion.

But according to New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office, the city could be doing a better job. Last year, the comptroller’s office gave the city a D+ on MWBEs, finding that only 4.9 percent of the $21 billion procurement budget went to MWBEs in the 2016-17 fiscal year.

The de Blasio administration uses a different measure based on contracts in industries explicitly covered by a law governing the MWBE program.

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30% The good news is that if you look at the numbers from when (the MWBE program) originally started to now, we are seeing an increase in spending.”

The comptroller’s office has not yet released an annual report on MWBEs for the 2017-18 fiscal year, but its 2018 progress report showed that as of March, city agencies were not meeting local spending goals when it comes to minority groups.

Cuomo has made MWBEs a priority since early in his first term, and the state has seen a fairly steady upward climb over the years. State MWBE contracts rose from 27.20 percent in the 2016-17 fiscal year to 28.62 percent in the 201718 fiscal year. “Our nation-leading utilization rate is a testament to our unparalleled network of MWBEs that continues to grow in size and scope, reflecting the state’s rich diversity,” Cuomo announced earlier this month.

Despite the percentage change, some state officials recognize there’s more to be done. “We still have a long way to go,” said Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte, the chairwoman of the Assembly Oversight of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises Subcommittee.

“We’re still battling the personal net

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worth (cap) that has been stifling, in particular, MWBEs in the construction field – to grow, expand, and actually even be in the program. We’re still battling the license certification that’s taking, in some

cases, two years – or even the appellate portion of it, where some people may want to appeal a decision that Empire State Development made on why they’re not eligible to be part of the program.”

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TRACTS TO MWBEs BY FISCAL YEAR 2021?

Absolutely. We started out in 2015 with an 8 percent utilization rate. We’re at about 19 percent. We doubled – more than doubled – that number and are right within our projections of where we should be on the second year of that 30 percent announcement. We’ve got three years to get to 30 percent, and we are right on track.

WHAT MORE CAN BE DONE AT THE STATE AND CITY LEVELS TO KEEP THE PROGRESS UP? Specifically on the state level, we do need some additional tools. We went to (the) state last year for an increase in our discretionary funding.

We’re going back for a higher discretionary threshold. We know when we have more discretion, we are able to have more MWBEs participate.

The second thing we are going after them for is mentorship programs. We need state

authorization for specific types of mentorship programs we would like to do. And one last thing is a prequalified list, meaning that we can have lists of MWBEs that we prequalify and attach specific projects and/or requirements to them.

YOU’VE RECEIVED ADDITIONAL FUNDING RECENTLY. HOW HAS THAT AFFECTED THE PROGRAM? There are some market, systemic and strategic barriers that MWBEs face and one of those is access to capital.

What we have done is try to alleviate some of the market issues that MWBEs and small businesses face by providing them resources to help build a capacity in those particular areas. One of the things we’ve done is create a contract finance fund. If you have a contract with us, you can get a series of loans totaling up to a million dollars at 3 percent, which is the lowest in the market. We also went out to our depository banks and

told them, “Hey, can you join us in our effort?” The banks came and put up $41 million. So we have a total of $71 million in three funds that we’re making available to MWBEs. WHAT ARE THOSE FUNDS BEING USED FOR? So they’re all loans to some degree. There’s a bond collateral assistance program, which helps MWBEs on contracts that require bonding. They can get up to a half a million dollars in collateral assistance. We were finding that MWBEs were putting up their houses, cars and retirement accounts as collateral just to get bonding. The market treats these businesses differently and they tend to pay more for the same products that others get for less – just from inherent discrimination in the marketplace. The last fund is for developers. We found that MWBE developers have the projects, expertise, skills and resources – but there’s a gap in funding that is needed.

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We have seen that out of the city’s $21 billion spent on goods and services, a small percentage is going to womenand minority-owned business.

If you look at last year’s numbers, it was 4.9 percent.

That’s out of total contracts.

HOW DOES THAT PERCENTAGE COMPARE TO WHAT THE MAYOR’S OFFICE HAS REPORTED? There are two very distinct philosophies that we have around tracking. The mayor’s office tracks the dollar amount of contracts they’ve agreed upon on any given project. What we then do on an annual basis is track how much money was actually spent on that contract. Part of the work of a chief diversity officer is really just to have our office track the spending that is going on with women and minorities. We take the overall budget, which was $21 billion last year, and then we look at how that

budget does up against the utilization of MWBEs. That’s how we get the 4.9 percent.

WHY DO YOU TRACK SPENDING SPECIFICALLY? We believe that tracking spending is important and critical because that is sort of the bottom line as to whether you bought a pillow or not.

A good example of that is if you look at construction, for example. If you go in with a $20 million contract, that construction could go on over time and it could be that the $20 million turns into $15 million. So while you agreed on a certain contract amount, you’ve actually spent less. So we believe that spending is the best way to track the growth of the city and to see where it goes.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE CAN BE DONE AT BOTH THE CITY AND STATE LEVEL TO HELP INCREASE THE SPENDING ON MWBEs?

We believe that the city of New York should have a chief diversity officer – not just in City Hall but at every single agency. We have seen in our office that having a chief diversity officer is helping ask all the right questions.

We’ve spoken to MWBEs across New York City and everyone is pretty clear that having a CDO creates a sustainable structure that allows for equity and inclusion in the long term.

We’ve also recommended streamlining certification between the city and the state and creating a front-facing portal that allows for the city and MWBEs to access both city and state certification.

We’ve also said that it’s time to debundle contracts. Right now, the city has a host of contracts that are long term that have to come up for renewals and we know that the way MWBEs will be able to compete is if we open up those opportunities.

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Notice of Formation of 7208 Management LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 8/16/2018. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 8016 Narrows Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Bloomfield Capital Holdings, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/17/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Michigan (MI) on 11/16/11. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. address of LLC: 280 N. Old Woodward, Ste 104, Birmingham, MI 48009.

Cert. of Formation filed with MI Secy of State, Ottowa Bldg, 611 W. Ottowa, POB 30004, Lansing, MI 48909.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of WF Industrial II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/13/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 80 8th Ave., Ste. 1602, NY, NY 10011. 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.

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Notice of formation of 82 DARTMOUTH LOOP LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 9/13/2018.

Office location: Richmond.

SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 82 DARTMOUTH LOOP, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 101 WEST END REIT, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/14/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/22/18.

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: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Partnership (“L.P”).

Name: BG Betances L.P. Certificate of Limited Partnership filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 13, 2018. N.Y. office location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the L.P. upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to BG Betances L.P., c/o Breaking Ground II Housing Development Fund Corporation, 505 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10018.

The latest date upon which the L.P. shall dissolve is December 31, 2128 unless sooner dissolved by mutual consent of the partners or by operation of the law. Name/ address of each general partner available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

Name: BG Betances Housing LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 12, 2018. N.Y. office location: New York County.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to BG Betances Housing LLC, c/o Breaking Ground II Housing Development Fund Corporation, 505 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10018.

Notice of Formation of MELCAP ADVISORS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/24/18. 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: 11 Riverside Dr., Apt 16JE, NY, NY 10023.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of The TWA Hotel Collection LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/13/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 9/7/18.

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.

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LAWRENCE LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 02/15/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 435 East 118th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10035.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose M31 ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 1/05/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: US Corp Agents, INC. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE is hereby given that Soleil Consults (US) LLC’s Articles of Organization were filed with the NYS Dept. of State on 09/06/18 to provide Business Support Services. The business is located in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, NY. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

Notice of Formation of L & Co Acquisitions LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/10/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 105 Mulberry St, Ste 202, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Ocal Services, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 5/30/18. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. Legal Zoom designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 145 Laredo Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of WAYPOINT PARTNERS LLC FICT NAME: WAYPOINT PARTNERS (US) LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 09/17/2018. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 09/06/2018. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, C/O Raich Ende Malter & Co., LLP, 1375 Broadway, 6th FL, NY, NY 10018.

Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Alder Rd, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of SEABRING HOTEL INVESTORS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kit A. McQuiston, PO Box 20366, Greeley Sq. Station, 4 E. 27th St., NY, NY 10001, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Brafin Technical Consulting LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/3/18. 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: 7 Times Sq., Ste 2900, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

The American Gold Cup, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 09/24/2018. 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: Adam Brodsky, 3 W 57th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Telem Consulting Concepts LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/3/18. 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: 7 Times Sq., Ste 2900, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

TT 4U 52, LLC, filed with SSNY 06/27/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corp Agents 7014 13th Ave suite 202 Brookyn, NY 11228 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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JENNINGS CONSULTING, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/02/2018. Office loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: T Jennings, 225 N Broadway #1S, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of STAGE 3 NYC 335 E 27TH LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/14/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/30/15.

Princ. office of LLC: 450 Park Ave. South, 5th Fl., NY, NY 10016. 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, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate management.

WESTCHESTER MAID SERVICES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 07/25/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 20 Water Grant St, 204, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of BoldStart Ventures Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/19/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: BoldStart Ventures, 1250 Broadway, 34th Fl., NY, NY 10001, principal business address. DE address of LLC: c/o Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Ellen Broen Coaching, LLC filed with SSNY on June 20, 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: Ellen Broen, 75 McKinley Ave, B2-8, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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183-185 SCHAEFER STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/25/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 777 Third Ave, 27th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of PAR West LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/12/04.

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: 96 Greenwich St, Fl. 5, NY, NY 10006.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of KE Villa Trace Owner, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/11/18. 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: 1270 Broadway, Ste 709, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of AdvantageCare Physicians IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/14/18.

Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 55 Water St., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10041, principal business address.

Purpose: as specifically set forth in the Arts. of Org.

Notice of Qualification of KMA Gems LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/20/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 31 W. 27th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10001. LLC formed in DE on 5/3/18. 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 addr. 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: any lawful activity.

RollingTides LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/01/18. 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, 400 East 67th Street, Unit 8A & 8B, New York, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MASS18 Pty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/26/18. 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: 377 5th Ave, Fl. 6, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of KE VILLA TRACE MEMBER LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/12/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1270 Broadway, Ste 709, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM NOTICE OF FORMATION of 249 Times Square LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/12/18. 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: Kriss & Feuerstein, 360 Lexington Ave., Ste. 1200, New York, NY 10017.

Purpose: Any lawful act .

Notice of Formation of INSURI.COM LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/17/18.

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: 45 Great Jones St, NY, NY 10012. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Formation of ER 237 West 4th LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/18. 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 Essex Equity – General Counsel, 7 Columbia Tpk., #201, Florham Park, NJ 07932.

The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of KIP101 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/18.

Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/7/17.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St, Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Fuku Hudson Yards, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the SSNY on 8/9/18. Office: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Celia Zhang, 60 E. 11th St., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Howtal Axe LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State (SSNY) on August 8, 2018. Office location: - Kings County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of any process to: c/o US Corp Agents INC., 7014 13th Ave Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act of activities.

Notice of Formation of Victory One Preservation NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/27/18. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc., 256 W. 153rd St., NY, NY 10039, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of UWS GI LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/12/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: Mount Sinai, c/o Bruce E. Sands, MD, MS, 1468 Madison Ave., Box 1069, NY, NY 10029-6574. 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., NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

E M P O W E R M E N T ADVISORY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/27/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1325 Avenue of the Americas Floor 28, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Lofton LLC filed with SSNY on August 2 3 , 2018.

Office: Richmond County designated agent of LLC upon whom process it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th ave Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228: Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of XHAKLI FAMILY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/04/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Philip J. Michaels, c/o Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, 1301 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

TAYLOR BALLANTYNE LLC filed with SSNY 05/24/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Taylor Ballantyne LLC, 232 East 26th Street #6, New York, NY 10010. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Hastings Sewing Studio LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 09/28/2018. 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, United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th avenue, suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 195197 FRANKLIN STREET LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/22/18. 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: 135 E. 57TH ST, Fl. 14, New York, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of BlockTower Capital Advisors LP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/1/18. Office location: New York County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/18/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 65 High Ridge Rd, Ste 318, Stamford, CT 09605. DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of CONTROLOGY, PLEASE !

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

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 103 W. 105th St, Apt 3B, NY, NY 10025.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Nuage Productions LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/5/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/27/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 20 W. 86th St, NY, NY 10024. 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 LG CHELSEA LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/16/17.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 202 Centre St, Fl. 6, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Herban Cura, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/27/18.

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: 124 Washington Pl., NY, NY 10014. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Ana Ratner, 124 Washington Pl., NY, NY 10014.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of RELATED ROCKAWAY SOUTH, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of ROCKAWAY SOUTH, L.P. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which the LLC may dissolve is 12/31/2117. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of THIRD AVENUE 162, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/31/18. 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: 225 W. 35th St, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 958 MADISON LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/13/18.

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: 1015 Madison Ave, Ste 501, NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 4211 REALTY LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/6/18.

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: 1353 Bay Ridge Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LION LUXURY BUILDERS LLC, filed with SSNY on 09/05/2018.

Office Loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as the agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Astrit Hasanaj, 20 Annadale Street, Armonk, NY 10504.

Purpose: Any lawful act RIVER TOWNS MEDIA LLC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: RIVER TOWNS MEDIA LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with SSNY ON 10/01/2018. The LLC Office is located in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: RIVER TOWNS MEDIA LLC, 15 Deertree Lane, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, Attn: Alain Begun. Purpose: any lawful business activity.

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October 29, 2018 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of G. Miller Law, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/7/2017. Office Location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 3/21/2017. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: C/O CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Principal business address: C/O Andrew Finkelstein, 39 Broadway, Suite 1910, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10006. DE address of LLC: C/O The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Certificate of Formation filed with Secy. of State of DE located at: Townsend Building, 401 Federal Street, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Law practice.

Notice of Qualification of 52 WEST 75 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/10/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/13/18.

Princ. office of LLC: Attn: Mr. Jon Birge, 305 W. 71st St., NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 510 EAST 6TH STREET LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/09/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Blue Star Properties Inc., 31 E. 32nd St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation Champion Gaming, LLC filed with SSNY on October 15, 2018. Office: New York County.

SSNYdesignated agentof LLC Upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Ken Hershman 261 West 25th Street, APT 9C, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Who’s Brewing Company, LLC filed with SSNY on September 21, 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: Attn: Dexter Jules, 14 Overhill Road, Elmsford NY 10523. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Patient Advocates of NY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 10/5/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: 1925 7th Ave Apt 1B, NYC, NY 10026. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Pablo Numbela, LLC,Arts. of Org. Filed with SSNY 7/3/2018.

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: Pablo Numbela, 561 Ridgeway, White Plains NY, 10605 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313937 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 1342 ST NICHOLAS AVE NEW YORK, NY 10033.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. EMS GOURMET CORP. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313987 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 171 SULLIVAN ST NY, NY 10012.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. JEMIKOS GFF INC. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1312389 for a “Restaurant Wine License” has been applied for by the undersigned to serve Beer / Wine at retail in the restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at Purple Sushi Inc d/b/a Matsu Sushi., located at 483 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10024 for on premises consumption: Notice of Formation of TG Real Estate New York, LLC filed with SSNY on August 24, 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: 368 Eastern Pky, 2C, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on November 2, 2018 and end on November 16, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts:

AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 230’) on the building at 80 Lafayette St, New York, NY (20181856). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 72’, 74’ & 80’) on the building at 346 E. 20th St, New York, NY (20181868). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs

Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #10R03Stephen Javaras; contains bins with items and few pieces of Art work; #3P15 - Audrey Lumer - 40 large boxes, 1 tv, 4 office chairs, 1 small round table, 1 wooden dresser, 1 wooden shelving unit; #4L05 – Paul Galando –miscellaneous items; #5B02 – Minoru Takeuti - 25 small to large boxes, 1 small leather chair, 2 mattresses , plastic bags of clothing, 4 chairs, 1 standing mirror, other miscellaneous items; #5J09 – Jeff Perrington - 1 large suitcase, 2 large back pack, 2 large plastic bags The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

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Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on November 02, 2018 and end on November 16, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc.

Household goods and other effects. #221-Armando Rodriguez, #224-Marilyn Andino Montalvo, #2114MAX CORSILLO, LLC, #3715Jamaal Parham #532Daphne Cheng.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 71.5’ & 79.3’) on the building at 131 Avenue A, New York, NY (20181764).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 158’) on the building at 111 3rd Ave, New York, NY (20181861). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 171’ & 205’) on the building at 61 Jane St, New York, NY (20181867). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

3405 FARRAGUT RESIDENCE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 7/19/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1274 49th St. Ste 96 Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 70 feet on a 85-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 14407 Sanford Ave, Flushing, Queens County, NY 11355.

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

Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at one location. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 46 feet on a building with an overall height of 50 feet at the approx. vicinity of 37 Mansion Ave, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York 10308. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1314086 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 2020 BROADWAY NEW YORK, NY 10023.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. ESPRESSO BOOKSTORE & CAFÉ BROADWAY LLC. Notice of Formation of HGC REALTY SERVICES (NY), LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o HGC Real Estate Advisory Group Inc., 101 Seaport Blvd., Ste. 602, Boston, MA 02210. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 AT 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for BURGOS RESTAURANT CORP to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 206 DYCKMAN ST IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER

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PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 74’) on the building at 191 Grand St, New York, NY (20181896). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

LION LUXURY BUILDERS LLC, filed with SSNY on 09/05/2018.

Office Loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as the agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Astrit Hasanaj, 20 Annadale Street, Armonk, NY 10504.

Purpose: Any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of JANA 2, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Davidson, Dawson & Clark LLP, 60 E. 42nd St., 38th Fl., NY, NY 10165.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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CityAndStateNY.com / PUBLIC and LEGAL NOTICES FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK CITY OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF KINGS SUMMONS - Docket No.: B-15816/18

---------------------------------X In the Matter of Commitment of Guardianship and Custody of NO NAME GIVEN GARCIA also known as GABRIEL GARCIA A Child under the Age of Eighteen Years ---------------------------------X In the Name of the People of the State of New York TO: ANA GARCIA ADDRESS: UNKNOWN A Petition having been duly filed in this Court, alleging that the above-named child in the care of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL should be committed to the guardianship and custody of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL; a copy of said Petition being annexed hereto; 330 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York, in front of Referee Ed Yuskevich, Part. 40, on December 6, 2018, at 12:00PM to Show Cause why the Court should not enter an Order committing the guardianship and custody of said child to the petitioning agency as required by law.

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

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

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

Dated: Brooklyn, New York October 18, 2018

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

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 AT 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for COLIEMORE, INC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 1640 2ND AVE IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO: DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1314148 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 63-53 108TH ST FOREST HILLS, NY 11375.

QUEENS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION.

October 29, 2018 PUBLIC NOTICE SprintCom, Inc. (SPRINT) proposes to install/upgrade equipment and antennas at the following structures in New York: Monroe County – 65 W Broad St in Rochester (Job #41711); New York County – 393 Canal St in New York (Job #40641); 899 10th Ave in Manhattan (Job #41172); Kings County – 957 Greene Ave in Brooklyn (Job #41180); 390 Vernon Ave in Brooklyn Center (Job #41629); 206 Scholes St in Brooklyn Center (Job #41648); Queens County – 71-13 60th Ln in Ridgewood (Job #41808); 59-19 55th Dr in Maspeth (Job #41345); Manhattan – 100 Old Slip in New York (Job #41460); 333 7th Ave in New York (Job #41813); Erie County – 1502 Niagara St in Buffalo (Job #41875); Albany – 1499 New Scotland Rd in Albany (Job #41647).

In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement, SPRINT is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. If you would like to provide specific information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within 1/2 mile of the site, please submit the comments (with project number) to: RAMAKER, Contractor for SPRINT, 855 Community Dr, Sauk City, WI 53583 or via e-mail to history@ramaker.com within 30 days of this notice.

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MDNNT CORP.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1314067 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 211 First Avenue, New York, NY 10003 for on premises consumption.

First E.V. Pizza Inc. d/b/a Luzzo’s

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1314073 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 18 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018 for on premises consumption.

PTH 40 Associates LLC d/b/a Park Terrace Hotel

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880 FIFTH PARKING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/18. 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, c/o Daniels Norelli Cecere & Tavel, P.C., 272 Duffy Avenue, Hicksville, NY 11801.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

609 W 232 LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 10/23/2018. Off Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o Ultimate Tax Preparers Inc., 162 West 56th St., Ste. 507, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of GLOBAL TAXES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/05/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: GLOBAL TAXES LLC, 375 PARK AVE., STE. 2607, NY, NY 10152, U.S.A. Purpose: any lawful activities.

THE ANNUAL RETURN of The Theodore Barth Foundation Inc. for the calendar year ended December 31, 2017 is available at its principal office located at 45 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 2006, New York, NY 10111 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof.

Principal Manager of the Foundation is Ellen Berelson.

Notice of Formation of Ardent NG, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

STORAGE NOTICE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on November 13, 2018 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: -BLMT ANDREW/NEVILLE -CORBBLAH, JEREMY/ YEEYICK, DONNA -CAMPISI, DANIELLE -COLLINS, SHARON -CHAMPOUX, CECILE -JOHNSON, ROBERT -JOHNSON,CODY/OK, TANNER/BARNES AKA BARNES JR -JEAN-MARIE VIVLDI -JOHSON , ADRIENNE -KANTORVICH, VLAD -KIM KI HONG -LUCKIE, MILDRED -LUGO, BETZAID -NOEL KEISHA/ELMES JEVAUGHN

-REGAN, DEMETRIA -LEWIS, RODRIGO -SULYHA, KATHERYNA -SHARROCK, LEON -SHIWBARATH , RAQUEL -SALIFU, SAUDATU -WARDLEY, JANENE -YOUNG, SANDRA -BEARD, ASHER -BEY, SHAMOSI -HEYWARD, DERRICK -MENDOZA, PATRICK -VALENTINE, MICHELLE -VAN ALLEN NATASHA WASHINGTON, LEROY -LYNN, ASHLEY -MONZANO AMERICA

Notice of Formation of NextGen Realty Holdings, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18. Office location: New York County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE FARBMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION for the year ended December 31, 2017 is available at its principal office located at 27 WEST 72ND STREET APT. NO. 1102, NEW YORK, NY 10023 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is EILEEN & STEVEN FARBMAN.

Notice of Formation of Trinity Tanks Systems, LLC filed with SSNY on August 30, 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: 84 Business Park Drive, Suite 302, Armonk, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of East 60th Bridge Tower L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/3/18. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/24/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 152 W. 57th St, Fl. 17, NY, NY 10019 DE address of LP: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Hub6 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/6/18.

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: 3 Times Sq., Fl. 14, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of The Petite Pear Project LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/11/18. 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: 238 E. 77th St, Apt 3B, NY, NY 10075.

Purpose: any lawful activity. .

Notice of Formation of NextGen Investors, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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October 29, 2018 Notice of Qualification of Third Seven Advisors LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/21/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/16/16.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 444 Madison Ave, Ste 8500, NY, NY 10022. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

1803 East 16 St, LLC. Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC).

Name: 1803 East 16 ST, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/11/2018. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address agaist the LLC served upon him/ her is Roman Bronnberg, 284 Avenue X, Unit 2F, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NextGen Investors Holdings, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/19/18.

Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Vatine LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/15/18.

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: 750 Park Ave, Apt 9B, NY, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of OSB Contracting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/30/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mikhail Gordon 531 East Lincoln Avenue Ste. 2F, Mount Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of NextGen RE, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/23/18. 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: 551 5th Ave, Ste 2500, NY, NY 10176.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of LMI GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC., SPV NUMBER 1018 LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 10/11/2018.

Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 10/08/2018.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O LMI Group International, Inc. 228 Park Avenue South, #18311, NY, NY 10003, Attn: Lawrence M. Shindell. Address required to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Drive, Ste 101 Dover DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Serenity by Mina LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on October 4th, 2018. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 11 Oakbrook Road, Ossining, NY 10562, Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1314174 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 310 W 53RD ST NEW YORK, NY 10019.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. HUNTER 53 INC. ACQUORS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/18. 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, c/o Holm & O’Hara LLP, 3 West 35th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10001-2204.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of EJS Future LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the SSNY on September 25, 2018. Office located in New York County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 2925 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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ANDY BYFORD New York City’s subways are still badly in need of improvements, but there was a glimmer of hope with the news that September marked the best monthly performance for the system in years. Andy Byford, who runs the subways, cautioned that it could be just a blip, and it’s clear the MTA still needs billions of dollars to fix things up. But with the governor doubling down on congestion pricing, there’s a chance that his tenure could ultimately mark a pivot point.

DEAN SKELOS One convenient way for Republicans to tar certain Democratic lawmakers this election cycle is to link them to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was found guilty of corruption for a second time earlier this year. But self-dealing is a bipartisan pursuit in Albany. Indeed, last week former Republican state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos reminded everyone of that fact when he was sentenced to a little over four years in prison.

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The average member of his firefighters union takes home a smokin’ $155K.

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NYCHA’s head of heating has been leaving residents awfully cold.

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All things considered, six months in prison ain’t bad for using taxpayer money on lingerie and a cruise ship getaway.

His DC 37 members finally got the same benefits for 9/11-related illnesses as first responders. Only took 17 years.

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He may not win, but at least he got his chance to go mano a mano with Cuomo.

With the Staten Island plan dead, his world’s tallest Ferris wheel is six feet under.

Cops like finding smoking guns, not his company’s smoking body cameras.

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Who was up and who was down last week The pipe bombs delivered to at least a dozen people last week had a few things in common. All of those targeted were Democrats and progressives. All of the intended recipients were also high-profile critics of President Donald Trump. And, as of Friday, it was looking likely that the same person was behind the delivery of all of them. But what also unified them is this: There are no winners when it comes to terrorism, only losers.

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