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EDITOR’S NOTE / Contents

Michael Gareth Johnson Editorial director

The goal of our publication is to inform and entertain people who either work in and around politics and government in New York or just love it. It is a goal we take seriously. So the results of this year’s election were a shock, because we felt we had accurately portrayed the mood of the electorate in our reporting. Heading into Election Day, Democrats were optimistic and most Republicans were pessimistic.

A week out, one high-level Republican told me the party was hopeful Donald Trump would have little to no negative impact on down-ballot state Senate races. Party leaders didn’t expect Trump to actually help these candidates.

What is clear from this election is that there is a divide in thinking between the core audience of our magazine and the electorate as a whole. Going forward, we are going to try our best to bridge that divide.

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THE STATE OF NEW YORK HEALTH Experts from around the state name New York’s biggest health risk

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ELECTION FALLOUT Trump won. What that means for Charles Schumer, Western New York, immigrants, the state Senate and the Democratic Party

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BROOKLYN BOROUGH 50 The 50 most influential leaders in the borough

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SLANT Christine Quinn on moving forward after the election

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LAST WEEK’S ROUNDUP TRUMP TRUMPS CLINTON Donald Trump, the New York businessman and television personality, upset Hillary Clinton in one of the most momentous presidential contests in U.S. history.

Trump, who shattered norms and surprised pundits at every stage of the race, capitalized on widespread voter anger aimed at the political establishment. After attacking minorities and insulting women during the campaign, Trump declared victory with a call for unity.

BACK& FORTH A Q&A with New York state Comptroller

TOM DINAPOLI

C&S: WHAT MESSAGE DO YOU HAVE TO REASSURE NEW YORK VOTERS WHO MAY BE FEARFUL OF A TRUMP PRESIDENCY? TD: The peaceful transition of power is what the United States is all about. You win some, you lose some, and it’s very important we unite behind whoever is the victor. … Democrats will be the loyal opposition in the House and (the Senate). In New York, obviously, there was a strong vote for Mrs. Clinton and pretty good results I think in the congressional races, and life will go on.

One thing about politics, there’s always another battle, there’s always another election. We’ll stay true to our principles and we continue to have a great deal of pride in Hillary Clinton as a candidate, what she stood for and what she’s meant to all of us.

C&S: IT SEEMS THE REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE AN OUTRIGHT MAJORITY IN THE STATE SENATE. WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING FOR THERE? TD: We’ll see if the current arrangement continues. I certainly would like to see more significant breakthroughs on campaign finance reform, on ethics – where too often the Senate has been a major roadblock – so hopefully there will be more willingness to consider those initiatives. I do think it’s going to be a tougher budget year. Putting aside the economic impact of this election, we already saw state revenues being below projection, a lot of commitments out there for spending. So next year’s going to be a tough year. One would hope Washington will be supportive of us, the states, on infrastructure, other kinds of spending. Perhaps with this administration, we won’t see that.

SCHUMER’S MISSED SHOT U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer throttled GOP challenger Wendy Long, but his party failed to win enough seats to make him Senate majority leader. Democrats had hoped to take the upper house, but fell short in a night dominated by Republicans. Schumer will still replace Harry Reid as minority leader, making him the country’s top Democrat – and the leader of the resistance against Trump.

FULL HOUSE The Democrats’ effort to take the House fizzled, putting the GOP in control of Congress, plus the White House. Republicans prevailed in key congressional races in New York, including the re-election of Reps.

Lee Zeldin and John Katko, John Faso’s win over Zephyr Teachout, and Claudia Tenney’s three-way victory.

One bright spot for Democrats was Tom Suozzi’s win over state Sen. Jack Martins.

THIS WEEK’S EVENTS

MONDAY, NOV. 14 6 p.m. – Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie speaks at the New York League of Conservation Voters’ annual cocktail party. The environmental group also honors state Energy and Finance Chairman Richard Kauffman, Invenergy LLC, and Solar One, the New York City-based green energy education nonprofit. New York Yacht Club, 37 W. 44th St., Manhattan.

THURSDAY, NOV. 17 9 a.m. – City & State hosts a Borough 50 event to honor Brooklyn’s top business and community leaders.

The highlight of the breakfast gathering is a panel discussion with Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Carlo Scissura, Industry City CEO Andrew Kimball, ABNY Executive Director Angela Sung Pinsky, and others. The Hall at MP, 470 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn.

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

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DID YOU MISS IT?

ELECTION NIGHT

EXUBERANCE

In one of the most remarkable elections in generations, Donald Trump won the presidency in a stunning upset of Hillary Clinton. The Republicans performed strongly up and down the ballot, including in the presidential contenders’ home state. The New York GOP won a number of key congressional and state Senate races, while Democrats enjoyed a few victories as well.

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FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BASIL SMIKLE

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JESSICA PROUD

Chris Jacobs picked up the 60th state Senate District for Republicans, putting the party in position to maintain control of the upper house.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky was joined by Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and state Sen. Michael Gianaris as he celebrated his victory.

Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was one of the biggest upsets in political history. We sat down with Basil Smikle and Jessica Proud to dig through the results, figure out what went wrong with the polls, and discuss what it all means for New York politics.

State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, the first Dominican American elected to Congress, was joined by state Sen.-elect Marisol Alcantara, New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, and Assemblywoman-elect Carmen De La Rosa.

ALISON GARBER

GOP state Sen. Bill Larkin was reelected despite being targeted by the Democratic Party.

State Sen. George Amedore won re-election comfortably in what had been a swing seat.

Democrat Tom Suozzi and his family celebrate his congressional victory.

Assemblyman James Tedisco (left) was elected to the state Senate and will replace outgoing Sen. Hugh Farley (right).

Rep. John Katko was easily elected to a second term.

Have photos from an event you’d like to see here? Send them to features@cityandstateny.com.

Proud: “It was a stunning repudiation of the political ruling class, of the lobbyists, of the special interests, of President Obama’s policies over the last eight years. Donald Trump came on the national political stage with zero experience as a candidate and completely shattered the entire establishment. … For anyone who was questioning how angry and frustrated people really were, I think we have that answer this morning.”

Smikle: “We should have had a better policy conversation this year. We spent a lot of time talking about tweets and emails and I don’t think the voters really got a sense of where each candidate was coming from … and I think the voter said, enough of this – to the detriment, I think, of some of the party leadership and for perhaps how our parties move forward after this.”

Listen, subscribe and review this week’s podcast by searching for “New York Slant” on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or your favorite podcast app.

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JOB TROMPITO BUZZ IS THAT Rep. Dan Donovan could be asking the Trump transition team for the post of U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District. Yup, that’s the same guy who was Staten Island district attorney. The same hombre who jumped at the misfortunes of convicted tax cheat and hotheaded Rep. Michael Grimm to win the seat in a special election in 2015.

If Trump does in fact give the congressman the job, the bochinche would be who runs to replace him. That move would in turn create a congressional vacancy that could be of interest to many young GOP pols. Among those mentioned are Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and City Councilman Joe Borelli, who may himself be a candidate for a spot in the Trump administration.

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FOR MAYOR? GRANDE INSIDER BOCHINCHERO tells B&B that there are a few Hillary amigos that want the biggest 2016 loser to run against … hold on now ... Bill de Blasio.

Never mind that HRC needs time to recover and get over her shocking defeat. The feeling is that Hilaria needs to teach the troubled alcalde a lesson. What better way than to make him a one-term mayor?

It maybe a smaller vidrio ceiling, but if anyone can shatter it, it’s Hillary. Stay pendientes.

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HOSPITALES FOR SHORRIS

A BOCHINCHERO IS almost certain that Anthony ‘Tony’ Shorris will wind up as president and CEO of New York City Health + Hospitals, replacing Dr. Ramanathan Raju, who recently resigned.

The buzz is that First Deputy Mayor Shorris – who wants out of City Hall as reported here in B&B – would be a perfect fit for the gig, and he wants it.

Mayor de Blasio has asked Stanley Brezenoff, who served under Mayor Koch in the HHC post, to take over until the search for a new person is conducted.

The post pays over half a million dólares and with Shorris’ background – he served as served as the vice dean, senior vice president and chief of staff of the NYU Langone Medical Center – he should be able to get the gig.

ANOTHER RODRÍGUEZ IN THE HEIGHTS...

THERE WAS SERIOUS buzz at Somos about Carlos Rodríguez – younger hermano of Ydanis – running for City Council. Most view this Rodríguez as different in every aspect from his older sibling.

Carlos has put in a lot of years as an activist in both city and state government and knows how the mangú is made.

One bochinchero told B&B that his problem was going to be all the negatives his brother has. Another said “son diferentes” and “la gente know it.”

TRUMP AT SOMOS ...

WELL, THE TROMPITO wasn’t physically present at the fall conference. Pero, there wasn’t a lengua wagging that didn’t mention the now-infamous and most despised persona in this New York state Democratic gathering.

There were only two insider bochincheros who were celebrating Trompito’s shocking victoria. “I’m going to see what the Clinton blind loyalists do now,” the cheerful dissident said. “Look at them. They look like chickens whose heads have been chopped off.”

Damn!

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

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RESISTANCE Will Charles Schumer be Trump’s legislative wall?

By MICHAEL GARETH JOHNSON

WHEN PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA hands over power to Donald Trump on Jan. 19, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer will become the most powerful Democrat in the country. As the Senate minority leader he will lead a conference of 48 members who could serve as potentially the only legislative check on the power of Trump and the Republican majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives.

In short, Schumer may have to become the obstructor-in-chief, blocking legislation or appointments that Democrats cannot stomach. Current rules in the chamber allow any 40 senators to block bills or appointments from being passed through filibuster – though Schumer would be wise to use discretion in exercising this power.

Early indications are that Schumer may not be a legislative wall so much as a drawbridge coming out of the wall, opening to work on some deals like reforming Obamacare or even crafting immigration reform, but closing tightly when it comes to things like building an actual wall on the Mexican border or trying to push through ultraconservative judges to the courts.

“The reason Chuck has been so successful in the Senate is his ability to sit down, chat with people and compromise when necessary,” said Mike Morey, who served as communications director for Schumer before joining public affairs firm SKDKnicker-

bocker. “I think from the Democratic side he will bring something that has been missing in the Senate for a very long time. Hopefully he will have the same willingness from the other side of the aisle in the Senate.”

David Catalfamo, a Republican strategist who worked for former Gov. George Pataki, said he sees both Trump and Schumer fundamentally as “dealmakers.” “Say what you want about Donald Trump, but he is not an ideologue,” Catalfamo said. “And I have never really counted Sen. Schumer as an ideologue.”

Trump’s campaign was in many ways predicated on the idea that things don’t work in Washington, D.C., and that he would, for lack of a better term, blow things up. If he follows through on that campaign promise, the dynamic that will take shape in the chamber may not be a conventional one based on ideological lines, but rather one pitting anti-establishment lawmakers against the traditionalists. It’s entirely possible that Schumer and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell could be partners in standing up against Trump on certain issues. Or Trump and Schumer could form alliances to try and move legislation that some of the more conservative members of the Senate oppose.

As state Democratic Executive Director Basil Smikle pointed out, “Donald Trump is not a true Republican. I think both Democrats and Republicans are nervous about their future.”

What the relationship between Trump and Senate Republicans will look like is a mystery at this point. “Is he going to work with the Republican Senate?” asked Iona College political science professor Jeanne Zaino. “He has made some real enemies there.”

Zaino even suggests that something similar to the Independent Democratic Conference in New York’s state Senate could emerge in the U.S. Senate, at least on some issues like Trump’s opposition to free trade.

“If there was enough tension between Trump and the Senate Republicans, you could find some kind of independent Democratic movement to work with Republicans and shore up that larger majority,” she said.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence may end up playing a major role as well.

“I think Chuck Schumer could be Mike Pence’s new and good friend, because he is going to have to be the one who helps manage the Senate,” Smikle said. “I don’t think (Mitch) McConnell will have the credibility among Trump supporters to actually deliver anything, so I do see a stronger role for Mike Pence in moderating Donald Trump.”

Likely the first test of this new dynamic will be the Affordable Care Act, known by many as “Obamacare.” Republicans have been calling for the demise of the landmark health care reform legislation for years, and Trump ran on a repeal-and-replace platform. But despite having a Republican in

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the White House and the party controlling both houses of Congress, it won’t necessarily be so simple.

“The reality is that (Trump) won’t have the votes to repeal (Obamacare) because of Schumer,” Catalfamo said. “And from that point of view there clearly are things that can be done to make it better and I think it is in everybody’s interest to lift the burden off small businesses, but also maintain many of the positives of Obamacare.”

If Trump is true to his deal-maker background, then we can expect some kind of compromise to be reached where Schumer and Senate Democrats have a say in how the legislation is crafted to either replace or amend Obamacare.

“Schumer can work across the aisle with some of his more moderate colleagues and figure out how to actually fix it,” Smikle said. “And actually take some examples from Republican governors like John Kasich who actually expanded medicaid in Ohio, even though he didn’t like the Affordable Care Act, but he realized the benefit it would have. And certainly the benefits have gone to Republican voters in red states.”

If Trump and Republicans insist on repealing the ACA and replacing it with something Senate Democrats couldn’t stomach, then Schumer may indeed be forced to become a wall.

“Chuck is tenacious,” Morey said. “And Chuck is willing to stand up and put up a fight when one is necessary to protect core values that Americans hold.”

Catalfamo, for one, hopes it doesn’t come to that. “The election shows we are a 50/50 nation,” he said. “I don’t think there is a clear ideological mandate here. There is a mandate to get things done.”

There is no real indication yet of the track that Schumer plans to take. He spoke with president-elect Trump on Wednesday and issued a statement congratulating Trump, as well as McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

He went on to suggest the Senate Democratic conference is still determining its approach. “Senate Democrats will spend the coming days and weeks reflecting on these results, hearing from the American people, and charting a path forward to achieve our shared goals and to defend our values,” he said.

But the best path forward for Democrats may still end up being obstruction, Zaino suggests, considering it worked well for Republicans for the past two election cycles.

“Pundits kept saying that (Republicans) are going to get killed at the ballot boxes, and the exact opposite happened.”

But Smikle doesn’t expect Schumer or

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Senate Democrats to take an obstructionist path, arguing that it is not in the nature of the party. “Obstruction turns people off,” he said. “And then you can’t manage that after the fact. You can’t control it after the fact.”

One area where Democrats may be able to advance their agenda is immigration reform.

Republicans may be willing to work with them on the issue in an attempt to reflect the changing demographics of the nation. And Trump and Schumer may also be able to find common ground on other issues like tax reform and infrastructure investment.

“Where the rubber will meet the road is on the Supreme Court nominees,” Catalfamo said. “That is where we can see the most dissonance, mostly because of the senator’s responsibility to his party and to Democrats across the nation.”

Of course, the most obvious place where Schumer could serve as a wall to Trump’s agenda is “the wall” itself.

“The wall clearly is something that has metaphorical meaning beyond securing the border,” Catalfamo said. “Every politician of every stripe will agree with securing the border, but building a wall and having that stand as a testament to that rhetoric will be a hard place for Democrats to go.”

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DONALD TRUMP WITH NICK LANGWORTHY, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ERIE COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.

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Western New York Republicans got behind Trump early. Will they be rewarded?

By JUSTIN SONDEL WHILE PROMINENT WESTERN New York Republicans were celebrating key victories in local races last week, perhaps even more important to the GOP was its role in helping Donald Trump on his path to the White House.

Rep. Chris Collins was the first member of Congress to throw his support behind the once-unlikely candidate and was one of his most visible surrogates throughout the campaign. Nick Langworthy, the chairman of the Erie County Republican Committee, was an early backer and helped push Trump to a landslide victory in New York’s primary. Carl Paladino, the Trump campaign’s co-chairman in New York, has long voiced his support for the Manhattan real estate mogul, telling people at the state Republican convention they needed to “get on the bus” or get out of the way.

Now, with Trump’s seat in the Oval Office secured, those who were by his side from the beginning stand to benefit from the relationships they have built in the process.

Tom Reynolds, a former Republican congressman from the area who now works as a consultant for Nixon Peabody, said that Collins in particular could capitalize on his decision to be the first out of the gate in endorsing Trump.

“I think that certainly bodes well for him and our region,” Reynolds said.

And that is already becoming evident. Rumors had swirled that Collins is up for a Cabinet position, although the congressman told a Buffalo radio station late last week that he would not leave the House of Representatives.

Michael Caputo, a Republican consultant who briefly worked for the Trump campaign, said that in the early summer, while the talks

about Cabinet appointments were in the early stages, Collins came up repeatedly.

“His leadership was being recognized,” Caputo said. “What he did took guts and Donald Trump doesn’t forget that kind of stuff.”

Langworthy, who also had some local successes on election night with Chris Jacobs’ win in the 60th state Senate District and Angelo Morinello’s victory in the Assembly’s 143rd, may be moving on to bigger things.

Rumors have been circulating as early as this summer that he is next in line to head the state GOP, though he remains conciliatory when talking about current state GOP Chairman Ed Cox. Langworthy credited Cox as instrumental to Trump’s success in the New York primary, but said it’s unclear at this point what Cox plans to do next.

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“I respect Ed, and we’ve worked well together,” Langworthy said. “We’ve had a good partnership, but he’s got to decide what his future entails and if there’s any way that I can serve at a higher level, I’d take a strong look at that.”

Paladino was more blunt about what he believes will be next for Langworthy.

“Nick will be the next state chair,” he said.

Paladino, who like Trump is a real estate developer, said he has no plans to pursue any kind of position with the new administration and that he was simply elated to have helped him make history.

“I don’t need a job,” he said. “I’ve got a job.

I’m a happy guy.”

Still, while a Trump victory is something Western New York Republicans can hang their hats on, it’s unlikely to do much to alter Democratic advantages in Buffalo or at the state level. Trump got about 45 percent of the vote in Erie County, a place where Langworthy and others thought they might be able to win the popular vote. Democrats continue to hold a 2-to-1 lead in enrollment in the county. The governor’s office has been blue for a decade. And the state Assembly, with many members from New York City, is dominated

by Democrats.

“New York is cooked, man,” Paladino said. “Forget about it. You’re going to live with Andrew Cuomo the rest of your life, or somebody like him.”

Caputo agreed that the Trump victory will have little effect on statewide politics generally, but said it will change the way things work within the state GOP. Dozens of people new to politics took trips to other states on grassroots campaigns, and many more got involved locally. Now that they have the political bug they may be more likely to participate in local and statewide party efforts, which could factor into the primary for governor next election.

“What Carl Paladino started, Donald Trump formalized,” Caputo said. “And the next governor’s race is going to be deeply affected by the Trump supporters in the Republican Party in New York.”

And while the influence Western New York has earned may not gain them much at the polls in overwhelmingly Democratic New York, the assistance Trump received from GOP members across the state, coupled with the fact that it is his home, should bode well in terms of federal funding and attention.

“President Trump is going to know Western New York and know Buffalo, and I think he’s going to have that relationship with most of New York state,” Langworthy said.

“Trump is the kind of guy who remembers who was with him when it mattered.”

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Filling the Trump Cabinet

Donald Trump ran for president as the ultimate outsider, making enemies among Republicans as well as Democrats. But he picked up key establishment allies, some of them in his home state.

While Trump developed a strong base in Western New York, other supporters are based in and around downstate New York.

RUDY GIULIANI – The former mayor of New York City got on the Trump bandwagon at an opportune time, landing a plum spot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where he delivered a speech that electrified the audience. The alliance has revived the career of Giuliani, a former presidential candidate himself. Some reports peg Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, as a favorite to be the next attorney general, while others suggest he could be homeland security secretary or secretary of state.

CHRIS CHRISTIE – The New Jersey governor hit a new low during the Bridgegate trial, in which two former staffers were found guilty for conspiring to shut down traffic on the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retribution. Things could be looking up, however, now that Trump is heading to the White House. Christie failed to get the vice presidential nod, but could recommend himself for a role as head of Trump’s transition team. He is also a former federal prosecutor and could be considered for attorney general as well.

JARED KUSHNER – The publisher of the New York Observer married into the family in 2009 when he wed Ivanka Trump. He played an influential behind-the-scenes role during the campaign, joining Trump’s children in ousting Corey Lewandowski, helping develop policy and serving as an intermediary with certain groups. Whether or not Kushner officially joins the administration, the president is likely to continue to rely on his son-in-law for advice.

DONALD TRUMP JR. – Some reports have suggested that Trump’s son could join his father in Washington, perhaps as secretary of the interior. He has expressed an interest in politics already, saying earlier this year that he might run for mayor of New York City – although the elder Trump shot down the idea. Trump Jr. may instead be tasked with helping his siblings run the family company while his father is in office.

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NIGHTMARE

NICK POWELL

As the evening drew on, immigrants in Queens saw their hopes shattered and worst fears confirmed

A GROUP OF MOSTLY LATINNO IMMIGRANTS GATHERED IN THE QUEENS HEADQUARTERS OF MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK TO WATCH THE RESULTS COME IN ON ELECTION NIGHT. THEY BEGAN THE NIGHT IN HIGH SPIRITS, WHICH SUNK AS THE NIGHT WORE ON.

THE FEVER DREAM that was the 2016 presidential campaign transitioned into a nightmare at the Queens headquarters for Make the Road New York on election night.

Nestled on a busy corridor in Jackson Heights with the elevated 7 train rattling above, the nonprofit low-income and immigrant advocacy organization hosted a group of mostly Latino immigrants to watch the results of the presidential election.

When I arrived around 8:30 p.m., the nervous excitement in the room was palpable, a taut string of hope binding this diverse group of men and women from the Latino diaspora – with roots as far flung as Ecuador and as close as Puerto Rico. As they sat in plastic chairs in a front room with a big storefront window watching Univision’s election night coverage, Make the Road employees colored in a homemade electoral map while refreshing the New York Times’ webpage for updated results. Every so often, chants of “Si, se puede!” erupted. A woman named Leticia

Pazmino gripped and waved two miniature American flags tightly the entire evening, as if merely setting them down would somehow swing the election.

As the night unfolded, I spoke with a number of party attendees, listening to their personal stories, their hopes, and mostly their anxieties as, state-by-state, the electoral map turned an increasingly crimson hue.

For many United States citizens, Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday was not a life-changing event, but for those in attendance, the Republican nominee’s rhetoric throughout the campaign cut deeper. It would be reductive to say that every citizen or non-citizen in the room was a one-issue voter, but when nearly every facet of their lives on American soil is defined by immigration status, Trump’s campaign talking points (“Build the wall”) and quotes (“They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists.”) portend an uncertain future in this country.

These are the stories and concerns of some of those men and women, chronicled alongside the election night results

8:45 p.m.

Trump 96 electoral votes, Clinton 42 It’s early enough in the ballot tallying that Luz Campoverde isn’t worried yet. A 45-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant who only recently became a United States citizen, Campoverde cast her first-ever ballot on Tuesday for Hillary Clinton. Standing in the privacy booth at her polling site was the culmination of a grueling path to citizenship, which included leaving Ecuador at 19 for New York City and working 10 years in various factory jobs earning a paltry $3.25 per hour before finally landing a more economically stable job as a housekeeper.

“I felt really excited and really emotional because I felt like I mattered,” Campoverde tells me through an interpreter.

As a member of her union, LIUNA Lo-

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cal 78, Campoverde made several long trips to Pennsylvania as part of a door-knocking campaign to register voters, where some residents slammed doors in her face and hurled racial slurs. When she was able to make a genuine face-to-face connection, Campoverde made a personal appeal for why voters should be engaged on immigration reform – she left behind her mother and several aunts and uncles in Ecuador when she immigrated to the U.S. “The (pitch) that I’ve been focusing on is tearing apart families and the impact of immigration policies and tearing children away from their parents,” she says.

Yet with so many red states on the map, Campoverde realizes that her dream of comprehensive immigration reform may be put on hold.

“The truth is, yes, I’m very nervous.”

9:30 p.m.

Trump 168, Clinton 98 Natalia Aristizabal is stressed. A Make the Road organizer and native of Colombia who immigrated to the U.S. when she was 12, she’s seen enough elections to know that the Electoral College is a fickle mistress for both candidates, but her anguish is visible as she colors in the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas and Texas with a red Magic Marker, with Florida votes still being counted but leaning Trump.

Perhaps owing to her involvement in organizing efforts or overall engagement in the political process, Aristizabal sees a Trump victory from the broader perspective than its effect on her fellow immigrants – it would be a validation of hateful, divisive behavior and language.

“Regardless of the result, whoever wins, this country is in a really bad place,” she says. “Whether Trump wins or not, I think that a lot of the damage has been done already because people think it’s OK to be sexist, racist, xenophobic – all of the things he promotes.”

In a separate room, removed from Make the Road members and colleagues, Aristizabal lets her guard down a bit, genuinely conflicted between her unease with the election results so far, but needing to stay positive for those in attendance still clinging to hope that Clinton pulls it off.

“It doesn’t feel like what I thought the night would look like. They’re giving us hope, they were chanting ‘Yes we can.’ The resiliency of these community members who have to overcome many obstacles to see this, they’re like, ‘We died over worse.’ I’m trying to feed off of that positivity.”

EXCITEMENT TURNED TO FEAR AS THE ELECTORAL MAP GREW MORE AND MORE RED.

“I THINK THAT A LOT OF THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE ALREADY BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK IT’S OK TO BE SEXIST, RACIST, XENOPHOBIC – ALL OF THE THINGS HE PROMOTES.” – NATALIA ARISTIZABAL, Make the Road organizer

11:35 p.m.

Trump 247, Clinton 203 The main room at Make the Roadheadquarters has largely dissipated as major news outlets have now officially put two of the biggest swing states in the country – Ohio and Florida – in Trump’s column. The news about Florida, in particular, reminds Antonio Alarcon, a 21-year-old undocumented Mexican organizer for Make the Road, of a previous race in American political lore.

“I feel like I’m going to have a heart attack,” Alarcon says. “I heard about the (Bush vs. Gore) election in 2000 but now living in 2016 I’m guessing this is the same tension. I don’t know what to think.”

Alarcon has spent the last 12 years in the U.S., leaving his mother and father behind in Mexico to pursue a better life. An aspiring documentary filmmaker and student at Queens College, Alarcon cannot help but feel helpless as the results tilt in Trump’s favor. Not only does a Trump administration put his future in this country in jeopardy, but without citizenship Alarcon cannot even make his voice heard in this race.

“My professor asked, ‘Who in the class is it their first election voting?’ I was the only one that didn’t raise my hand because I was the only one undocumented in that room.

Small things like this make you feel inferior to other peers or Latinos in this country.”

As the clock approaches midnight, Natalia Aristizabal announces to the few remaining people in the room that even though neither candidate has crossed the 270 electoral vote threshold, they will have to close up the office soon. She makes a final plea to those in the room to continue their mission regardless of who is in the White House.

Sitting in the front row, Leticia Pazmino, the flag-waving, impossibly upbeat cheerleader can no longer hide her fear. She wonders aloud in Spanish if Trump will get the United States involved in another war and her voice cracks when she mentions that he will now have his finger over the “botón” – the button codes for nuclear warheads.

After everyone in the room helps clean up and stack chairs, Pazmino walks toward the door, still gripping the American flags in her hand, only now with the glint of tears in her eyes.

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BREATHIN The chaos of Trump’s election gives Cuomo and de Blasio a chance to reset what they stand for

By DAVID FREEDLANDER

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EFORE THE POLLS closed, one of the most remarkable things about this election was how, though the race had begun and ended in New York City, the state came up so little in the conversation. There was the time Donald Trump said Bill de Blasio was the single worst mayor in the history of New York City and an incompetent maniac, but if the hometown came up at all the debate centered around issues from an earlier era: stop-and-frisk, terrorism, Muslim surveillance. Both de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo did their duty at the Democratic convention, but Michael Bloomberg was the scene-stealer, and on the other side Rudy Giuliani re-emerged as Donald Trump’s Donald Trump.

As the Democratic Party picks up the pieces, it is hard not to imagine it playing out something along the lines of what we have seen here in New York: Is the Democratic Party a party of sensible centrism, pro-business and socially liberal along the

lines of what Andrew Cuomo has pushed for in Albany? Or is it like de Blasio: anti-establishment, angry, and hungry for a radical redistribution of economic power?

The rest of the nation is going to watch this play out over the coming months and years in much the same way we have in New York, and Cuomo and de Blasio are likely to be the very ones shaping the contour of the argument. It is nearly impossible to remember now, but back in the days when Cuomo was seen as the champion of marriage equality and someone willing to risk his political capital to bring unruly liberals to heel, he was on the short-short list of 2016 presidential contenders, a dream that fell into the abyss once Hillary Clinton signaled that she was reversing her previous inclination to not seek the presidency again.

Back then, Cuomo was so hesitant about being seen as having any ambitions outside of Albany that he wouldn’t even step foot outside the state, as if New York was the cornfield in “Field of Dreams” and the

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NG ROOM governor’s political ambitions would age decades the minute he crossed into Connecticut.

Expect that to change. As much as Cuomo has fashioned himself as the anti-de Blasio, it is easy to see him taking a page from the mayor’s playbook and start travelling farther afield in the guise of “telling the New York story” or some other avowedly non-politically ambitious frame.

As for de Blasio, for the moment at least he seems to have a temporary reprieve on receiving a serious challenge in 2017. When the party is in disarray, the appetite to start eating one’s own begins to dissipate. The window for someone to start laying the groundwork for a mayoral challenge is swiftly closing, and it will close further as the city takes time to recover from the shock of a President Trump.

Once de Blasio gets some breathing room, expect him to continue to try and play the role that he did in the early days of this campaign, when he tried to position himself as the leader of Left America, at the moment when Bernie Sanders still seemed like the second coming of Dennis Kucinich and Elizabeth Warren was set on staying out of it.

That effort of course was a disaster for de Blasio. His progressive contract with America landed with a thud. Clinton aides newly moved to Brooklyn couldn’t understand who this guy nipping at her heels was.

When the person who got his start in New York politics pointedly refused to endorse Clinton, one of the only home state holdouts, it looked petty and hypocritical.

And it got worse from there, as the 6-foot-5 mayor showed an astonishing capacity to shrink on the national stage.

His much-hyped Presidential Forum was a disaster when it was revealed that no one much cared about it. His eventual backing of his former boss was ignored by the campaign, and his forays into battleground states were met with shrugs by heartland voters who had no idea who this guy who had come to buck up their spirits was.

When the WikiLeaks emails came out, it was revealed that not only was the mayor emailing top campaign brass at all hours of the night, but that they didn’t much care for his opinion. Worse, it looked as if the whole non-endorsement thing was a piece of cynical political gamesmanship, since he had let the Clintonites know that he was pretty much with her all along.

Height notwithstanding, de Blasio doesn’t yet have the oversized stature of some of his predecessors, who either by the size of their bank account or sheer force of personality were able to command media attention and bend the political class to their will.

That stature is even more diminished in November 2016 than it was in November 2015, but the resulting chaos of Trump’s ascension brings de Blasio another chance. There was an outsider charm to Bernie Sanders’ primary rise, but the real fuel behind it was the message: that the game is rigged by powerful insiders who are enriching themselves on the backs of the working class. That is de Blasio’s message, too. Whether that brand of progressive populism resonates just with liberal Democrats, antsy after eight years in power and looking for a vessel – or resonates among the wider public, for that matter – is something that isn’t quite known yet.

Pretty soon though, we are going to find out.

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CHARGE C&S: It looks likely that Republicans will control the state Senate next year.

What priorities do the state Senate Republicans plan to advance during the 2017 legislative session?

JF: Our priorities are the people’s priorities, and that’s where our focus has been and will continue to be. We need to make it more affordable to live here, and that starts with reducing taxes. We need to make sure people have jobs so they can provide for their families. And we’re going to continue to provide record support for schools and make progress on quality-of-life issues like heroin addiction, Lyme disease and more. We can make a real difference in the lives of so many people if we are focused on these things.

C&S: The presidential election result was a shock to many Republicans and Democrats. Why do you think state Senate Republicans related to voters that came out and did so well in the districts they won?

JF: It’s about having the right candidates, the right message and the right agenda.

We were fortunate to go into battle this year with incumbents who had really strong records and we had first-class candidates. If you look at Chris Jacobs, Elaine Phillips, Pam Helming and Jim Tedisco, who are part of our incoming freshman class, they had already accomplished great

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things in their own communities and in their own right before deciding to run for the state Senate.

C&S: Do you anticipate partnering with the IDC this year and continuing your partnership with state Sen. Simcha Felder?

JF: I do, because the people of this state want Democrats and Republicans to work together to get results. The relationship with Sen. Klein and members of the IDC is a long-term relationship that has existed for six years now. And we have really accomplished a lot together, including enactment of the property tax cap, elimination of the GEA and a responsible and compassionate paid family leave law. As for Sen. Felder, he has had a positive impact on our conference and we have embraced him. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him as a person and as

a public servant, and I look forward to working with him next session.

C&S: What results do you take away from Tuesday night’s election – particularly, in your opinion, why did people support a Republican state Senate over a Democratic state Senate in New York?

JF: In my opinion, the Senate Democratic Conference has moved too far to the left and their views no longer are shared by the vast majority of New Yorkers. We are focused on taxes, jobs and giving people the opportunities they need to succeed and get ahead. The Senate Democrats want to make taxpayer-funded political campaigns a reality here in New York state, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that could be better used to rebuild roads and bridges, cut taxes or fully fund our schools. That’s just one example.

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C&S: What is your takeaway from New Yorkers voting for a Republican state Senate? Why did they support it and how do you think you can increase that support in a liberal state?

JF: I think people know who we are and what we do. I can go on and on about the positive accomplishments we have had, but even more than that is the accountability we bring to Albany. We bring checks and balances to state government, and we serve as the stopper on policies that would move this state too far to the left. One-party control in New York state wouldn’t be good for anyone. In that respect, we play a very important role.

C&S: Many observers in New York did not expect a Donald Trump victory. Do you believe Trump drove voter turnout and helped candidates in any specific districts?

JF: There’s no question that the Trump voter was motivated to come out and vote on Tuesday, and to try and effect change on the national level. There were pockets where we may have been helped by having him at the top of the ticket but I will tell you that the most important takeaway here is that if the top of the ticket is competitive, Senate Republicans can do very very well in New York. And that definitely happened on Tuesday.

C&S: What does having a Republican president mean for your conference?

JF: It will be a little bit of a unique and different dynamic, but I do believe that the president-elect will take a genuine interest in his home state. If the Republican Party is strong in New York, it will be good for the president and if the president is doing well it will be great for New York. I’m excited about what’s ahead, but I am going to remain hyper-focused on what it means for the people I represent and am advocating for here in New York.

C&S: New York is a very diverse state and many minority voters are worried what a Trump administration could mean for them. What would you say to them to reassure them that they have a vote and a voice here in New York?

JF: Like all presidents, Donald Trump has a responsibility to be the president of all Americans, not just the ones who voted for him. I think he takes this responsibility seriously. Everyone must feel like they have a stake in his presidency. But whether you voted for him or did not, he deserves an opportunity to lead and he deserves an open mind.

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By Michael Mulgrew, President, The United Federation Of Teachers A 95% graduation rate. College acceptance letters from Columbia University, Swarthmore, Spelman, SUNY Binghamton and Temple. A junior class where 96% of the teens have already taken and passed the state English Regents exam.

These are not statistics from one of New York City’s selective, test-based high schools, or from a school in a wealthy suburb.

These are the hard-won numbers from Harvest Collegiate, a New York City public high school wedged next to a mattress store on West 14th Street in Manhattan.

Harvest had its first graduating class this past June, and its seniors reflected the city’s diversity: 58% Hispanic, 22% African-American, 11% white, 7% Asians. Their families came from every borough, and from every corner of the globe, from Albania to Brazil, India to Ireland, Mali to Vanuatu.

And 64% were poor enough for the students to qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Since Harvest does not screen students by academic abilities – it takes all comers - its first class arrived with a range of academic skills, from a few who walked in ready for college-level work to others who arrived reading and writing on a 6th grade level. Yet Harvest’s classroom are heterogeneous, a mix of all abilities sitting next to – and learning from -- each other.

Four years later, not only did 95% of that first class graduate, visiting alumni were quick to say their demanding colleges were not a chore because “critical thinking” was now second-nature to them, thanks to their education at Harvest.

Neighborhoods gentrify. So do public schools, and success like this gets noticed by middle school students and families looking for the next “hot” New York City public high school, especially one in Manhattan. Clearly the 1,300 parents and students who came to Harvest’s recent open house recognized something special.

But rather than let the school’s growing reputation tip the student population toward wealthier families, Harvest’s faculty and leadership applied for and won a PROSE grant to explore ways to preserve the school’s diversity. PROSE is a joint-venture between the Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers that allows collaborative schools to adapt some of DOE regulations or union contract provisions.

In this case, Harvest tapped into a PROSE grant through the UFT, which will help broaden student recruitment by expanding the middle schools and communities from which it draws its students; and help the school as it preserves seats for students who qualify for free lunch so the school continues to reflects the economic diversity of the city.

Harvest sees diversity as the engine that drives its academic success, and takes great pride in the rigor- and creativity - of its course offerings. Harvest is one of the city’s more than 40 high schools that have won state approval to set some of their own criteria for graduation. Its staff creates courses outside the box, such as “Artist as Chemist,” as a way to engage a range of student interests and skills.

Students must present original work in English, history, math and science at the end of 10th grade and again to graduate. Their theses have to be presented and defended in a public forum, and could range from a historical research paper or a scientific investigation, to a dissection of the math in a musical score. Seniors must complete four of these performance-based assessment tasks, in addition to passing the state English regents exam.

Part of the story of Harvest’s success is its commitment to provide support that is tailored to each student – from sustained additional help for struggling students to an Open Honors program that allows students to gain additional credits in subjects in which they are strong. Here, special education students do honors and college credit work in heterogeneous classes, giving real meaning to the word integration. All students get the benefit of learning from and with students who are different from themselves.

Harvest is not a “beat the odds school,” a misleading description that often implies a combination of equity and excellence is somehow a fluke that can’t be replicated. Harvest is proof that diversity is a strength and an asset that can be nurtured.

Given the raw divisions of the recent presidential election, Harvest is a model for bringing different people together with the result that all thrive.

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New York is the gateway to the United States for countless immigrants and tourists, but for all the benefits that brings the city, it also means the five boroughs have to be on high alert for disease outbreaks. That was just one of the topics discussed at City & State’s State of New York Health forum last month at the New York Academy of Medicine. There, state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker and other experts tackled health issues both local, like hospital closures, and national, like improving the Affordable Care Act.

NEW YORK’S BIGGEST HEALTH RISK? It’s not the disease or natural disaster you think it is ANDREW KIST

By JEFF COLTIN

Jay Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; recently resigned New York City Health + Hospitals President Dr. Ram Raju; and Assembly Health Committee chairman Richard Gottfried on a panel at City & State’s State of New York Health forum.

NOT ZIKA, not Ebola, not flooding. The biggest health risk facing New York City, a panel of health experts agreed, would be a lack of funding.

No need to don a facemask and write a check just yet, though – the New York health system is still in good shape.

“Think about Ebola,” said Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, the chairman of the Assembly Health Committee. “When things are handled well and don’t become a nightmare, very quickly we forget about them. That’s how people are. But I think we need to remember a lot of horrendous things do not happen in New York, and that’s not an accident.”

The discussion took place during City & State’s State of New York Health conference Oct. 27 at Manhattan’s New York Academy of Medicine. Gottfried was joined by Dr. Ram Raju, the New York City Health + Hospitals president (who resigned last week, days after the event), and Jay Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control in the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Both Raju and Varma shared Gottfried’s praise for the health system while echoing concerns about funding.

“The reason we’re able to do all of this in New York state and city is because we have governments that realize that the public health of a community is purchasable,” Varma said.

But Varma said that keeping health budgets well-funded can be a challenge. “It’s incredibly hard for people to recognize and empirically value prevention,” he said.

“Treatment is easier to observe. You know, ‘They were sick, now they’re healthy.’ But what we really focus on is them not getting sick in the first place.”

When people inevitably do get sick, though, New York is prepared. “There’s a lot of effort figuring out what the next epidemic is, but inevitably we have to admit that we just don’t always know,” Varma said. But whether the next epidemic is meningitis, measles or Legionnaires’, the city has a strategy to combat it, “based on practice and experience.”

Even well-established strategies for deal-

ing with outbreaks can run into problems, though. Raju expressed concern over a future where more undocumented immigrants are afraid to use the public health system. “If the immigration debate drives (immigrants) underground and they don’t seek care,” he said, “we will have a huge public health issue as a part of it.”

Like the other panelists, though, Raju suggested that biggest health risk is indeed financial. “The public health system is in a kind of schizophrenic state of mind because we don’t know whether we are a public good organization like police, fire, sanitation, or if we are a business model where you’re supposed to make money,” he said. “We’re basically a business model in which the market is one which nobody wants to serve.”

Gottfried closed the panel with a reminder that one major health threat has seen a great decline. “In the Assembly chamber a few decades ago … it was like a foggy day,” he said. “I’d come home from meetings and my wife would insist I change my clothes because I stank of cigarette smoke!”

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EXPERT EXCERPTS HOWARD ZUCKER,

COMMISSIONER, STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

“I remember when I was in Washington and I worked for a Cabinet official who had a cold. So he wanted me to write a prescription for an antibiotic. And I said, ‘No, no, it’s just a cold. Go home.’ He said, ‘I’m like your boss and the top person here in the Health Department and so you’re telling me that you won’t give me a prescription?’

I said, ‘No, it’s a cold! Just take some rest, some juice, and get out of here and take a day off and relax.’ He says, ‘You know, I could fire you.’ I said, ‘You’re right.’ And so I sat there and thought: ‘Hippocratic oath, job in Washington? Hippocratic oath, job in Washington?’ Hippocratic oath. And so I said, ‘Go home, you don’t need a prescription for something you don’t need.’ And a couple days later, he was better.”

LIZ KRUEGER,

MEMBER, STATE SENATE COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES “I still believe New York could lead the way by taking its own steps towards a Medicare for all system and we would watch much of the rest of the country follow us happily. And I’ll just throw in the critical importance of more investment in preventive health care and community-based health care services. And finally, a sugar tax on soda and other sugary drinks because we are creating generations of children who are growing up with serious medical illnesses because we don’t understand or refuse to understand that it’s the tobacco of our children.”

LETITIA JAMES,

NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ADVOCATE

“I have had conversations with both the governor and the mayor, and I do know that they are in conversation and there are deliberations and collaboration. So I’m happy to report that in fact there are ongoing discussions with regard to the delivery of health care in the city of New York. We look forward to the report (on managing Brooklyn’s struggling hospitals) by Northwell, and we will continue to have those ongoing discussions. But … with respect to affordable housing and supportive housing, nothing is happening on the ground, which is why tonight 60,000 New Yorkers are going to sleep in homeless shelters in the City of New York – and that is unconscionable.”

KEMP HANNON,

CHAIRMAN, STATE SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE “Not all (Accountable Care Organizations) have stayed in the game. Not all ACOs can get over the ‘Lake Wobegon effect,’ where everybody is above average. …

I’m not sure if getting these designs handed down by the government is going to work.

I’m a doubting Thomas.”

JACKIE CORNELL,

REGION II DIRECTOR, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES “What started as a late-night TV punchline on a ban on sugary drinks has morphed into transformative policies – policies that we’re seeing move across the country when it comes to calorie counts, when it comes to sodium warnings, when it comes to sugar in your beverages.”

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When we set out to compile this Brooklyn Borough 50 list, we knew it would be hard, since the borough is home to such a huge number of top city officials and commissioners. In the end, we included the ones we felt had the most influence over the borough itself in politics or policy.

We left many off, not because they are not influential, but because we felt their power resided in impacting citywide policies and didn’t focus specifically on Brooklyn. In doing so, it allowed us to highlight many other community leaders, activists and heads of institutions that really make Brooklyn a special place to live and work.

As usual, a quick reminder of our rules: No elected officials are included on the list.

And everyone we picked must live in the borough.

Now, without further ado, our Brooklyn Borough 50 list.

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CARMEN FARIÑA

CARLO SCISSURA

FRANK SEDDIO

Chancellor, New York City Schools

President and CEO, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

Chairman, Brooklyn Democratic Party

Roughly 1.1 million students attend New York City’s public school system, and more than 300,000 of them live in Brooklyn, which means Carmen Fariña has a lot of influence over the future of the borough’s most precious resource: its youth. With business booming and a lot of political power centered in the borough, there was a case to put others at the top of this list, but our editorial board felt that the education system has the most impact on the lives of Brooklynites.

While Fariña’s current scope is improving all city schools, the Brooklyn native clearly has a special place in her heart for the borough. Fariña has wide discretion in how the $27 billion school system should be run, and she has used that influence to implement some controversial reforms that have made her a polarizing figure. While it is still too soon to see if her vision will yield better results, her influence will have a lasting impact on the city.

Carlo Scissura has presided over the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce – one of the largest business advocacy and economic development organizations in the state – at a time when business in the borough has never been better. The chamber’s membership has grown by more than 200 percent under Scissura’s leadership.

Scissura has emphasized growing Brooklyn’s manufacturing sector and making sure its mom-and-pop businesses aren’t drowned out by bigger companies hoping to leverage the borough’s global brand.

Scissura also enjoys productive working relationships with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, taking a stand against controversial policies like commercial rent control.

Scissura is also frequently mentioned as someone who could take a larger role in politics, and has flirted with running for Brooklyn borough president in the past.

There’s a notion in political circles that the Brooklyn Democratic Party ain’t what it used to be, but that analysis sells short the progress the party has made under Frank Seddio’s watch.

A longtime Vito Lopez adviser, Seddio wisely recognized that his former boss’ divide-and-conquer approach was unsustainable. Since becoming chairman in 2012, Seddio has brought some much-needed sunlight to the backroom of Brooklyn politics – eliminating at-large district leader positions filled with party loyalists, revising the county’s rules committee and seeking to unify the borough’s disparate political factions.

Seddio’s strongest gambit was the deal he cut with Mayor Bill de Blasio to elect Melissa Mark-Viverito as City Council speaker. With Brooklyn holding the largest council delegation, Seddio’s agreement gave the city its first Latina council speaker and the mayor a coveted ally in advancing his agenda.

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STEVEN BANKS

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Commissioner, New York City Department of Social Services

Senior Pastor, Christian Cultural Center

Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of the Mayor of New York City

Few religious leaders in the United States are as influential as the Rev. A.R. Bernard. He has over 37,000 congregants of varying backgrounds and ethnicities at his megachurch in Starrett City, the largest in the state. He is also president of the Council of Churches of the City of New York, representing roughly 1.5 million people. That type of influence makes you a sought-after political ally, and many politicians have come seeking his advice and support, leading some to call him a kingmaker in city politics and a recent New York Times feature to dub him “the power pastor.” Bernard has close relationships with many top pols, including the Clintons. He also served on the transition teams of both Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2001 and Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014, and holds several other positions on advisory boards to city affairs.

Emma Wolfe might be Mayor Bill de Blasio’s most indispensable aide. She is the mayor’s point person for advancing his policy agenda in the City Council and state Legislature, and a dogged de Blasio loyalist.

A Prospect Heights resident, Wolfe helped de Blasio score some major victories early on, most notably the city’s universal pre-K program, which required extensive lobbying and negotiation with the Legislature and governor’s office. And despite the mayor’s differences with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Wolfe played a key role in whipping support for the governor during his 2014 re-election campaign, eventually leading to the Working Families Party giving Cuomo its ballot line.

While de Blasio and Cuomo’s relationship has soured, Wolfe still maintains a line of dialogue with the governor’s office, recognizing the need for the city and state to work together on a number of policy issues.

It’s a perfect example of being the “right man for the moment.” The Legal Aid Society lawyer who helped force the city to acknowledge a right to shelter for homeless families was summoned to help it house the now-record-breaking number of individuals seeking to exercise that right. Banks, who in 2014 was appointed commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, was this April tasked to lead the Department of Homeless Services as well. Since then, he’s taken lots of NIMBY-fired heat as the city tries to create housing units anywhere it can. Being responsible for tackling what is arguably the city’s biggest problem makes Banks powerful regardless of where he lives. But if you didn’t know he was a Brooklynite before protesters angry about a proposed shelter in Maspeth rallying just outside his Windsor Terrace home – you know now.

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STEVE HINDY

NICHOLAS DIMARZIO

President, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

Co-Founder, Brooklyn Brewery

Bishop, Roman Catholic Church

For nearly a decade Regina Myer was involved in building Brooklyn Bridge Park into one of the most trendy and popular urban parks in the city. The park is a model of how to transform waterfront real estate into sustainable green space that all New Yorkers can enjoy. In just the past month, she has left the BBP to take on a new role as head of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. No doubt her skill for city planning, extensive connections in government and the community and tireless drive will make her a success in her new endeavor, as she continues DBP’s tradition of making downtown Brooklyn one of the world’s greatest examples of urban mixed use, where you can live, work, shop and enjoy cultural experiences all within walking distance.

The term “craft beer” was barely a part of our cultural lexicon when Steve Hindy, a former war correspondent, and his downstairs neighbor, Tom Potter, founded the Brooklyn Brewery in the late 1980s. The brewery opened in Williamsburg in 1996, well before the neighborhood became the gentrified hotspot that it is today, and Hindy has played a huge part in advancing Brooklyn as a global brand.

In addition to his role as chairman of the board of Brooklyn Brewery, Hindy is a highly visible participant in the borough’s various activist endeavors. He is a member of the New York Regional Economic Development Council, is a founding member of the Open Space Alliance and has served on the board of the Prospect Park Alliance for over 15 years. Hindy is also the vice chairman of Transportation Alternatives, a nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of walking, biking and public transit.

For more than a decade, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has served as the spiritual leader of roughly 1.5 million Catholics in Kings and Queens counties. But his life’s work has been dedicated to helping immigrants and refugees, making him a perfect fit to represent one of the most diverse urban areas in the world.

Currently he is a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People and chairman of the board of the Center for Migration Studies, but even before that he held many other positions on the issue, including representing the United States on the Global Commission on International Migration. More locally, DiMarzio is in charge of one of the nation’s largest Catholic school networks serving more than 25,000 students. He also organizes mass in 210 churches in 24 different languages through the boroughs.

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DAVID EHRENBERG President and CEO, Brooklyn Navy Yard

If you said four years ago that the Brooklyn Navy Yard would host arguably the most important Democratic primary debate in 2016, most people would have thought it was a joke. But when the party needed to put together a debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders before New York Democrats went to the polls, they went with the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That decision is just one testament to the phenomenal growth of the industrial park since David Ehrenberg took over as president and CEO in 2013. The development organization is dedicated to creating a sustainable economic engine for the borough with quality jobs, and under Ehrenberg’s leadership it has taken great strides toward that goal. Currently more than 330 businesses are on the 300-acre site, employing more than 7,000 people – and the goal is to more than double that number.

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#11 ANDREW KIMBALL

#12 RAMON MARTINEZ

#13 MARTIN DUNN

#14 PHIL WALZAK

Industry City is one of the new economic gems in Brooklyn, and Andrew Kimball is the driving force behind the success of the massive campus, which merges trendy retail stores with large workspaces for everything from manufacturing to tech startups. From marketing and community engagement to development and construction, Kimball oversees all aspects of the facility, and since joining Industry City from the Brooklyn Navy Yard a little over three years ago, he has seen the urban icon grow like wildfire.

There are only 50 members of the New York City Council, but Ramon Martinez may be as powerful as all of them.

He is an enforcer in the chamber who makes sure things get done. He’s also an institutional encyclopedia who can answer pretty much any question for members. Arguably most of his power comes from his understanding of zoning and land-use deals, helping to make sure members’ interests are represented.

While he is a product of the Queens Democratic machine, he’s now a Brooklyn guy.

There are plenty of successful developers in New York City, but few like Martin Dunn. He has dedicated his career to building affordable, mixed-income and supportive housing, much of it in Brooklyn. He works closely with the mayor’s office on how to build sustainable neighborhoods where residents have easy access to things they need, like health care and shopping centers.

For instance, his work on redeveloping the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville led to the creation of 188 new affordable apartments as well as a new family health center.

Walzak has had an ever-changing role at City Hall since serving as one of Bill de Blasio’s top press aides during his 2013 campaign. Walzak was named de Blasio’s first press secretary in 2014, only to transition to a senior adviser role roughly a year later. Walzak is one of a handful of aides de Blasio truly trusts, and one of the few staffers generally accessible to the media.

With the mayor’s re-election campaign starting to kick into high gear, Walzak recently took a leave of absence from City Hall to oversee communications and overall campaign strategy for de Blasio.

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#17 MARYANNE GILMARTIN

#18 CECILIA CLARKE

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering is at the center of Brooklyn’s tech boom. Under the leadership of Katepalli Sreenivasan, it educates some of the best and brightest across the globe and works to improve STEM education for students of all ages. Tandon also serves as an incubator for some of the world’s most promising startups, many of which focus on improving urban living. It’s very possible that in coming years we will see world-changing developments come out of Tandon, and Sreenivasan deserves much of the credit.

These Brooklynites are two of the most influential consultants in the city because of their close ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the City Council. When it comes to sweeping policies that impact the lives of millions, like universal pre-K or changes to zoning laws, Jonathan Rosen and Valerie Berlin’s advice is frequently sought. The two can often impact outcomes when it comes to borough-specific issues because of their ties, and as long as de Blasio is mayor, they will have a say in the future of the city and the borough.

MaryAnne Gilmartin has been at the center of the Brooklyn development boom over the past decade. In her role as president and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies, she manages the commercial portfolio for the MetroTech Center and leads efforts to build some of the borough’s most high-profile buildings, such as the Pacific Park development. But Gilmartin is much more than a developer – she is also a trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and co-chairwoman of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.

Cecilia Clarke became the seond president and CEO of the Brooklyn Community Foundation in 2013, created a donor-advised fund program shortly thereafter and by 2014 saw a tenfold increase in grant money. She implemented an institution-wide “racial justice lens” which informed her recent decision to remove private prisons, gun manufacturers and predatory lenders from its $60 million investment portfolio. Since its founding in 2009, the foundation has given $25 million in grants to many of Brooklyn’s 3,000 nonprofits.

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#20 MARIA TORRESSPRINGER

#21 MICHELLE ANDERSON

#22 ANGELA SUNG PINSKY

New York City is home to nearly 1 million Muslims, and many of them have to deal with racial and ethnic tensions in their daily lives. Fortnately they have a tough and effective advocate in Linda Sarsour.

The Brooklyn native has stood up to the NYPD on its surveillance of the Muslim community and has been quick to form alliances with other civil rights advocates to rally against racial injustice. She has also worked with government to better integrate the Muslim faith into the city, including the recognition of Islamic holidays in city schools.

One reason Brooklyn has been able to grow so rapidly in recent years has been the cooperation it receives from city officials like Maria TorresSpringer. Most recently, she has been championing tech and manufacturing hubs in Sunset Park, but this is just the latest in a series of efforts by the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Torres-Springer has spent years working with city planners and businesses to drive entrepreneurship, both at NYCEDC and in her previous role as Small Business Services commissioner.

The CUNY campus located in Midwood is one of the most beautiful places in the borough. It’s also a vital institution for the education of more than 16,000 students, many of whom grew up in the borough and commute to class.

Michelle Anderson took over as president this past August, bringing years of academic leadership from her time running the CUNY School of Law, where she promoted diversity and excellence.

Angela Sung Pinsky has been working to shape the city of New York for decades, first as a staffer for the deputy mayors of economic development under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and then in her high-level roles at REBNY and now ABNY. The Park Slope resident is an expert on city planning who has advocated for legislative reforms to make the city more sustainable and modern, including the PlaNYC report put forth by Bloomberg.

#15 KATEPALLI SREENIVASAN President and Dean, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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#23 MARTY MARKOWITZ

#24 JED WALENTAS

#25 JONI YOSWEIN

#26 JOE LHOTA

The former borough president is still one of Brooklyn’s biggest cheerleaders. In his new role, Marty Markowitz is actively promoting economic development in all the outer boroughs, but his heart is still in Brooklyn, where the longtime Democrat is well connected and works tirelessly to help business boom. Most recently, Markowitz was singled out by Mayor Bill de Blasio for his efforts to get the Ford Amphitheater built at Coney Island Boardwalk, a project he has been working on for years.

The Walentas family will be forever known for their decades-long investment in DUMBO, slowly building the dying waterfront into one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the world.

Currently, the family-owned real estate firm owns and manages more than 2,000 apartments in Brooklyn and also runs commercial and industrial properties throughout the borough. In recent years, Jed Walentas took over daily operations for his father, David, and has continued the family tradition of building vibrant cityscapes.

For the past two decades Joni Yoswein has represented some of Brooklyn’s biggest institutions, from developers to cultural and educational institutions to hospitals and nonprofits. Her public affairs and consulting firm has had a hand in shaping the borough through its boom years, often helping clients navigate the halls of government or market themselves better to the borough’s residents. The former assemblywoman also remains an active player in Democratic politics in the borough.

For most people, Joe Lhota is known for his 2013 New York City mayoral campaign, when he ran up against the tide of support for Bill de Blasio. But the Republican has compiled a great CV, working as deputy mayor of operations and as chair of the MTA. He now serves as a top executive for NYU Langone, one of the city’s premier medical facilities.

The Brooklyn Heights native is still well connected and often sought for his opinions on how government could work better or how to navigate city politics.

Vice president of borough promotion and engagement, NYC & Company

Founder, Two Trees Management

Founder, Yoswein New York

Senior Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Staff, NYU Langone Medical Center

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#27 KATY CLARK

#28 RUDOLPH F. CREW

#29 KYLE KIMBALL

#30 LUIS GARDEN ACOSTA

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is truly one of the gems of the borough. It’s a worldclass facility for music, theater and dance, but it also serves as a community center where all residents can enjoy the arts. Katy Clark took over as president of BAM in 2015 after a career as an orchestra director and violinist. Her unique skills have helped advance the institution’s commitment to excellence in live programming and independent cinema.

Dr. Rudolph Crew has spent his career trying to better the lives of poor and minority students, first as chancellor of the New York City Board of Education in the ’90s and now as president of Medgar Evers College. After taking over as head of the CUNY institution in Crown Heights almost three years ago, one of his first steps was turning his attention to making sure high schoolers in Brooklyn were prepared for college, launching the Pipeline program in partnership with dozens of borough schools – and early results show it has been a success.

Kyle Kimball joined the Con Edison team in 2015 after spending years at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he played a key role in several large development projects, including the development of Roosevelt Island. Now he works with government in a different capacity, navigating the halls of power to help Con Edison upgrade the city’s energy system so businesses and residents are protected against everything from natural disasters to capacity problems as the city grows.

El Puente means “the bridge” in Spanish – and since founding the community organization in 1982, Luis Garden Acosta has been building bridges in his native Brooklyn.

He has been a pioneer in fighting pollution and advocating for human rights. His holistic approach to improving urban problems is highlighted by his Green Light District initiative to transform the south side of Williamsburg into a model for community health and environmental wellness. And his work making sure the voices of Latinos are heard in policy has made him an influencer in Brooklyn for decades.

President, The Brooklyn Academy of Music

President, Medgar Evers College (CUNY)

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Oh Yes, Right in Your Backyard For the first time, there are more than 100,000 homeless students in New York City’s public and charter schools. Last year the homeless student population rose 22% from the prior school year. Whether you notice them or not, homeless children attend almost every school in every district and in all our backyards. Almost one out of ten school children is homeless and one out of eight has been homeless at some point in the past five years. Some school districts have up to 18% homeless students.

We have a city full of blameless children in unstable — often unsafe — living conditions. Two-thirds of homeless children will stay that way for longer than one school year. The trauma and stress of homelessness negatively impacts children long after they re-gain a permanent address.

They need support services to keep up in school, and for special educational needs to be identified and addressed as early as possible. They need health care, social work interventions and other long-term investments to insure a better future as productive tax-paying New Yorkers.

Homeless children are an indicator of the explosion in family homelessness. In recognition of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week, the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness is reissuing its community snapshots of family homelessness to embolden New Yorkers to take a look at their backyards.You can view them at www.ICPHusa.org. Even a quick look will demonstrate that homelessness is a local issue that affects every neighborhood in New York City.

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the problem, as had Mayor Bloomberg before him. And yet the number of families entering shelter climbs every day and the homeless student population rose by 22% amid news that the Great Recession is finally in the rear view mirror.

How can we stem the growth of family homelessness? We must re-frame the solution away from housing and toward education and employment.

A typical homeless parent is a young, single mother with two children, most of whom are under the age of five. Only about half the parents have a high school diploma, and fewer than half work during the time they are in shelter. At some point they receive a rental subsidy voucher and leave with few skills for success. Is it any wonder that roughly half return to shelter?

Many publicly-funded programs are focused on getting homeless families into some sort of housing as quickly as possible. It’s a good start, but for many it is akin to giving them a fish but not teaching them to fish.

Good intentions, while important, will not cure the problem.

Compassionate New Yorkers who hate to see taxpayer money wasted can understand that the children from their communities who are homeless, while invisible to most, are expensive and a loss of human and community potential. We hope ICPH’s community snapshots will be a starting point for conversation, common sense solutions, and a call for clear leadership on this issue that is, yes, right in your backyard.

Ralph da Costa Nunez, PhD President, Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness

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#31 GREGG BISHOP

Commissioner, New York City Department of Small Business Services In a city of immigrants from more than 200 countries, small businesses are the engines for many neighborhoods. Gregg Bishop understands this. An immigrant from Grenada who grew up in East Flatbush, he has spent nearly a decade at the Department of Small Business Services working to help immigrant entrepreneurs. He took over as commissioner in November 2015, and since then has made it a priority to help MWBEs get pre-certified so they can better secure government contracts.

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#33 LESLIE SCHULTZ

#34 DAVID NIEDERMAN

Health care has been one of the most contentious issues in the borough in recent years, with hospitals closing and many facilities rethinking how they provide care. This has only made Brookdale University Hospital more important. The private teaching hospital provides care to a large population of residents in eastern Brooklyn. As president and CEO, Mark Toney has moved to form partnerships with other health care facilities, restructuring the hospital and putting a focus on preventative medicine, positioning Brookdale as a leader in the industry.

For more than a decade Leslie Schultz has been the head of BRIC – even before it was named BRIC. In that time, she has overseen the opening of its state-of-theart facility on Fulton Street and helped Brooklyn’s active arts scene to thrive. At BRIC, Schultz has made it a priority to highlight the creativity of local artists and provide educational programs to promote the artistic talents of young people. This year, in yet another sign of its significance, the nonprofit arts and media organization received 13 Emmys for its work in local programming.

For decades, Rabbi David Niederman has been one of the most influential leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn. The executive director and president of the UJO has a close relationship with the mayor, who has respected the community’s wishes on several policy issues former mayor Michael Bloomberg had opposed, like security guards for religious schools. Politics aside, UJO provides a host of services to residents including job training, housing, health care and legal assistance.

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Executive Director and President, United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg

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#36 RISA HELLER

#37 SUE DONOGHUE

#38 JILL EISENHARD

Gentrification is one of the biggest issues in Brooklyn.

The cost of living is rising quickly, leaving many people displaced – which makes the work of Michelle de la Uz and the Fifth Avenue Committee even more important. The nonprofit is committed to building sustainable housing for low- and moderate-income people, and in the more than a decade that de la Uz has been in control they have doubled their impact with thoughtful projects that help build communities, not just places for people to live.

It seems like you often hear about Risa Heller when someone else has a problem. That’s because there are few people in the state as trusted as her to deal with a public relations headache. The well-connected former spokeswoman for many top Democrats is often called on to help when the media is descending on a high-profile figure. When she is not representing panicking pols, she is chiming in on the salient issues of the day as a thoughtful consultant.

Prospect Park is the biggest and most-visited park in Brooklyn – more than 10 million people spend time in the nearly 600-acre park each year. It’s nice to know that something this important is managed by someone who lives just a few blocks away.

Sue Donoghue has dedicated her career to making sure the city’s parks thrive, both at the Parks Department and through her work on Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC. In 2014 she took over as head of the Alliance and has been laser-focused on its maintenance, making sure it remains a gem.

This small nonprofit was really thrust into the spotlight in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, when it provided emergency medical care to hundreds of people. But even before then the Red Hook Initiative had been steadily on the rise since it was founded

by Jill Eisenhard in 2002. The nonprofit’s core goal is to empower youth to become agents of change. The model created and sustained by Eisenhard’s hard work, which focuses on hiring locally and creating a pipeline to longterm success, has received many awards and been copied by other nonprofits.

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President, Prospect Park Alliance

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#40 LINDA JOHNSON

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#41 BILL HYERS

#42 RASHID DAVIS

With Brooklyn booming, land-use issues are popping up all over the borough – and most developers’ first choice to help navigate this process is Ken Fisher.

The former Brooklyn city councilman knows New York City government as well as anyone, serving as a lobbyist for clients looking to get things done. Be he is also a great resource for informing the public, by hosting CUNYTV’s “CityWide” program, and through his writing on public policy. In addition to his work, he has been a passionate advocate for redeveloping Governors Island.

Since Linda Johnson took over as head of the Brooklyn Public Library in 2010, she has driven the system forward using technology and community networks to make sure more people have access to its resources. Among her chief goals is engaging diverse constituencies, something she advocates for on the local, state and federal levels. One example of this commitment has been the library’s partnership with the White House and the city Department of Education to set up mobile hotspots in many of their facilities, a vital service for many low-income families.

This top campaign operative and political consultant is one of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s closest advisors outside of his administration. While his body of work includes helping political candidates all over the state and region, Bill Hyers is now a Brooklyn guy. He has helped de Blasio with some of his signature achievements, leading the nonprofit Campaign for One New York that was was created to promote the mayor’s agenda. As long as de Blasio is in City Hall, Hyers will remain an influential figure.

Almost six years ago, Rashid Davis embarked on a journey with the launch of the Pathways in Technology High School in Crown Heights. The idea of providing a six-year pathway from middle school to a career for low-income students was revolutionary.

The city Department of Education and corporate partner IBM have touted this model as the future of education.

Like any bold idea, there have been some setbacks in its implementation, but not in Davis’ commitment to providing life-changing opportunities to disadvantaged students.

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#44 JACK CALARESO

#45 BARBARA VOGELSTEIN

#46 ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE

As Capalino + Company has risen to prominence as the top lobbying firm in the city, so has the influence of George Fontas. A Brooklyn native with close ties to the de Blasio administration, Fontas has been an active member of Democratic politics in the borough for more than a decade. He’s also been a highly successful lobbyist on everything from land-use issues like the rezoning of Coney Island to public policy initiatives. When he’s not working, he dedicates his time to youth and seniors through his work at NIA Community Services Network.

St. Joseph’s, a small, private Catholic-affiliated liberal arts college in downtown Brooklyn that is dedicated to providing a low-cost quality education, is celebrating its 100th year in operation. Since 2014, Jack Calareso has been in charge of the school, which also has a campus in Suffolk County.

A distinguished educator, he has worked hard to improve the school’s financial situation to make sure it can continue to keep tuition relatively low.

That hard work paid off this year when its Brooklyn campus came in seventh on the list of Best Bang for your Buck colleges in the Northeast.

When the Brooklyn Museum needed a new director, Barbara Vogelstein helped lead the search that landed Anne Pasternak. Shortly afterward, the board of trustees made Vogelstein its chairwoman.

The iconic institution has a world-class collection of pieces from all over the globe. It is also a community center where people of all ages are welcome to participate in a host of programs.

After a successful career as a private-equity investor, Vogelstein has dedicated her time to several nonprofits in the community.

This lifelong Brooklynite has brought a new level of attention and respect to UPROSE, the borough’s oldest Latino community-based organization. A civil rights lawyer by trade, Elizabeth Yeampierre fights fiercely against anyone who would do harm to her community. She has a specific talent for implementing environmental reform – she fought to get the state’s first brownfield legislation passed, advocated for urban forestry and doubled open space in Sunset Park.

Yeampierre talks the talk and walks the walk on behalf of her community.

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#47 JEFF RODUS

#48 LINDA GIBBS

#49 NANCY SUNSHINE

#50 INGRID LEWIS-MARTIN

Jeff Rodus spent more than 20 years in City Hall working on a host of issues, from budgets to economic development. The former deputy chief of staff was even speculated as a possible chief of staff to the council before he left for the private sector. Now, his institutional knowledge of how city government works is an asset to clients with business before the city. A veteran of Brooklyn Democratic politics, Rodus has received many awards, including being named the Man of the Year by the borough’s powerful Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club.

This Brooklyn Heights power broker served for almost a decade as one of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s deputy mayors, tackling a host of issues related to children, as well as homelessness and aging. Now, Linda Gibbs continues her work as part of Bloomberg Associates, running the social services division for the highpowered philanthropic consulting firm. Gibbs and her husband, political consultant Tom McMahon, are an influential pair who have dedicated the past decade to making the borough, and the city, better.

The sheer volume of cases that flow through Brooklyn courts would make anyone’s eyes gloss over. Each year, the court system deals with more than a million pages of records and more than 100,000 jurors. For the past decade, the person responsible for making sure the whole system operates efficiently has been Nancy Sunshine. She was recognized for her good work by her fellow county clerks in 2015 when she was named clerk of the year.

If you ask any consultant, lobbyist or community activist who gets things done at the borough president’s office, the likely answer you’ll get is Ingrid Lewis-Martin. Brooklyn born and raised, Lewis-Martin has been an active member of the Democratic party for years, working for Barack Obama, Eric Schneiderman, Letitia James and others. She served as chief of staff to Eric Adams when he was a state senator before following him to the borough president’s office, where she serves as a jack-of-all-trades, tackling problems and providing strategic advice that gets results.

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By CHRISTINE QUINN

his is not the piece I thought I’d be writing. I was prepared to write a celebratory piece about what a Hillary Clinton victory meant to our country and, in particular, to women and girls. I was going to say that her election struck a resounding defeat to the intolerance that permeated the Trump campaign’s rhetoric. And I was going to say that her election would inspire women and girls nationwide, finally and forever shattering the highest glass ceiling.

But, as we all know, that is not what happened. Much to the shock and heartbreak of many of us, Hillary Clinton suffered an upset defeat that has exposed divisions in this nation that go wider and deeper than we imagined.

I cannot imagine how Hillary Clinton feels right now. But I do know a thing or two about what it feels like to lose an election that you – and everyone else – thought you had in the bag.

In 2013, when I ran for mayor, the election had the weight of history wrapped up in it. In my mind, if I won as a woman – as a lesbian, with my wife standing next to me – I would have won for everybody who had never been there.

You want to talk about an election with the weight of history on it? It was this one.

Not only did we have the opportunity to elect the country’s first female president – which would have been historic in and of itself – we were poised to vote for her against a man who ran on a racist, anti-immigrant and misogynistic platform.

But we didn’t. And that is a lost opportunity like no other, with potential conse-

quences for millions of us.

We did not, however, come away empty-handed from this election.

This election enraged – and engaged – a community of women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community who raised their voices and spoke out boldly and loudly against racism, misogyny and homophobia. We created coalitions, stood up for each other and had each other’s

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backs in a way that this nation has not previously seen. We called out sexual assault and sexual harassment and body shaming and bullying; I am confident that we will not stand by silently if and when those with power abuse those without it.

So where do we go from here? We keep fighting for what is right. We keep strengthening communities that share our beliefs and engaging and building bridges with those who don’t. We don’t turn our backs on progressive values, on women, on LGBT communities, on black lives – on the groups that brought us close to victory and were let down with this loss. And, critically, we invest in and support the next generation of emerging leaders.

I can’t pretend this isn’t sad and that this isn’t a loss.

The day of the mayoral election three years ago, I received a call from Hillary Clinton’s office. It was a very emotional call.

She told me how hard it had been for her to watch what was happening. This time it was hard for me to watch what happened.

But she said something during her speech that struck a chord with me: “I’ve had successes and I’ve had setbacks. Sometimes, really painful ones. Many of you are at the beginning of your professional public and political careers. You will have successes and setbacks, too. This loss hurts, but please never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it.”

These words alone were powerful, but also echoed the sentiment of a homeless woman who, constantly fighting and overcoming tremendous odds, told me, “Every step forward is a victory. Every step matters.”

The truth is that, as long as we are moving forward and fighting, we are succeeding. We may not get to the finish line as quickly as we thought or hoped, but the act of taking a step, of being in motion, is a victory in and of itself – that’s what got us to the first female candidate for president and will get us through what could be a challenging time to come.

I’ve learned that lesson from the former secretary of state and a homeless woman living in New York. We’ve overcome challenges, built bridges and torn down walls before. Together, we can do it again.

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Christine C. Quinn is president and CEO of Win, the vice chair of the state Democratic Party and the former speaker of the New York City Council.

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State (SSNY) 10/12/16.

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LLC upon whom process County. LLC formed in as agent of the LLC upon (SSNY) on 10/26/16. Office SSNY designated agent against it may be served IL on 11/17/1994. SSNY whom process against it location: NY County. LLC upon whom process and shall mail process to: designated agent upon may be served. SSNY shall formed in Pennsylvania may be served against Belnord Holdings LLC, c/o whom process may be mail copy of process to (PA) on 09/27/16. SSNY LLC to principal business Talbert & Talbert LLC, 80 served and shall mail copy the LLC, 1930 Broadway, designated as agent of address: 308 W. 103rd Maiden Lane, Ste. 1506, of process against LLC to Apartment 22F, New York, LLC upon whom process St., #10E, NY, NY, 10025.

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State of NY (SSNY) on 7/19/16. Office location: Pittsburgh, PA 15211. act.

Of State of NY (SSNY) 7/7/2016. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus.

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NY County, LLC formed addr.: 209 W. 87th St., Pedro A. Cortes, Secy.

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it may be served. SSNY against the LLC may of State: 5/1/15. Office 10011, regd. agent upon shall mail copy of process be served. SSNY shall Notice of Formation of loc.: NY Co. Sec. of State whom process may to the LLC, 82 Irving Place, mail process to: C/O the Aten Lighting Design, designated agent of LLC be served. DE addr. of 1B, New York, NY 10003.

LLC, 185 Plains RoadLLC. Articles of Org. filed upon whom process LLC: 1209 Orange St., Purpose: any lawful act or 100E, Milford, CT 06461. with Secy. of State of against it may be served Wilmington, DE 19801. activity.

Principal Address of the NY (SSNY) on July 18, and shall mail process Cert. of Form. filed with LLC: 185 Plains Road2016. Office location: NY to: James P. Healy, Jr., 100E Milford CT 06461.

DE Sec. of State, 401 County. SSNY has been 200 E. 10th St., Ste 719, Federal St., Dover, DE Cert of Formation filed Notice of Qualification designated as agent upon NY, NY 10003, regd. agt.

19901. Purpose: all lawful with CT Sec. of State, of A&E QUEENS whom process may be upon whom process may purposes.

Commercial Recording PORTFOLIO III MGMT, served and shall mail copy be served. Purpose: any LLC Appl. for Auth. filed Div., P.O. Box 150470, of process against LLC to lawful act.

Hartford, CT 06115. with Secy. of State of principal business address: Notice of Qualification Purpose: Any Lawful NY (SSNY) on 10/31/16.

350 Cabrini Blvd., Apt 3H of GTW Partners L.L.C. Purpose.

Office location: NY County.

315 Rose Hill Holdings NY, NY 10040. Purpose: Authority filed with NY LLC formed in Delaware LLC – Arts of Org. filed any lawful purpose.

Dept. of State on 7/5/07.

(DE) on 09/13/16. SSNY with Secy. Of State of Office location: NY designated as agent of NY (SSNY) on 7/18/2016.

County. LLC formed in DE Notice of formation of LLC upon whom process Office location: New York on 5/31/07. NY Sec. of SempreLei LLC. Art. Of against it may be served.

Co. LLC address c/o State designated agent of Org. filed with SSNY SSNY shall mail process Ganfer & Shore LLP, 360 LLC upon whom process 6/8/2016.

Office: NY to the LLC, Attn: Maggie Lexington Avenue 13th against it may be served County. SSNY designated McCormick, 1065 Ave. Flr., New York, NY 10017. and shall mail process to: agent upon whom process of the Americas, NY, NY SSNY designated as c/o National Registered may be served and shall 10018. DE addr. of LLC: agent of LLC upon whom Agents, Inc. (NRAI), 875 mail copy of process to Corporation Service Co., process against it may Ave. of the Americas, Ste. business address: 246 2711 Centerville Rd., be served. SSNY shall 501, NY, NY 10001. DE Mott Street, NY, NY 10012.

Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE mail process to: Ganfer & address of LLC: NRAI, Purpose: any lawful act.

19808. Cert. of Form. filed Shore LLP, 360 Lexington 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. Ave., 13th Flr, New York, with State of DE, Secy. of 101, Dover, DE 19904.

State, Div. of Corps., 401 NY 10017. Purpose: any Cert. of Form. filed with Notice of Formation of Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, lawful activities.

DE Sec. of State, 401 Belnord Holdings LLC. DE 19901. Purpose: Any Federal St., Dover, DE Arts. of Org. filed with lawful activity.

19901.

Purpose: all lawful NY Dept. of State on NOTICE OF purposes.

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