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The latest edition of Crain’s ranking spotlights women who run the show in entertainment, finance, politics, tech and health care PAGE 17 CLOCKWISE FROM CENTER: Pat Wang, Kathy Hochul, Ellen West, Wendy Williams and Letitia James
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Hochul uses purse strings to woo Big Apple voters Facing downstate rivals in the 2022 election, governor maintains a rapid-fire event schedule in the five boroughs BY BRIAN PASCUS
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ov. Kathy Hochul seems to have found a second home in the City that Never Sleeps. New York’s first upstate governor since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has spent the better part of late October and early November putting her fingerprints upon the five boroughs. If she’s in Brooklyn one day, shooting
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hoops with the Nets, then she’s following it the next by standing beside city bigwigs in TOURISM RELIEF Manhattan and declar- Includes 1-time, ing the time has come $2,750 payments for a new Penn Station. to individual workers “She’s been all over,” said Bruce Gyory, a Democratic political consultant in Albany. “She’s using a very aggres-
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sive schedule to get known and has done it, so far, without slipping on the ice, so to speak.” CHINATOWN Since Oct. 29, Hochul Winner of a New visited Bensonhurst to York State economic development grant sign the Sleep Act, a law designed to regulate illegal car mufflers; held a news conference at the Barclays Center to partner with the
Brooklyn Nets on a Covid-19 vaccination campaign; announced Chinatown as the winner of $20 million in regional economic development funding; and unveiled a $450 million tourism recovery package at the Museum of Natural History, which includes onetime payments of $2,750 to New Yorkers who work in tourism such as hotel workers, See VOTERS on page 34
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