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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Interim editor-in-chief

AT CITY & STATE, we are committed to reflecting all of New York’s diverse communities in our coverage of New York state politics and government. That commitment extends to how we put together our power lists. These lists are meant to reflect who is powerful, influential or noteworthy within various industries, but inclusion on a list does not equal an endorsement or moral judgment on a person’s record in their industry.

Because we believe that transparency is important, City & State would like to share our criteria for inclusion and ranking on power lists: • Track record: What policies has the person shaped? What programs has the person run, and how effectively?

• Diversity: Do the people on the list reflect New York’s diverse communities, and does this list as a whole reflect those who exercise power and influence the industry or shape the conversation around policy within it, including (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, immigrant communities, socioeconomic status and geography?

• Importance and size of the group or constituency that someone serves: Business executives, lobbyists, labor leaders and journalists all represent industries, clients, employees or customers – and with that responsibility comes some degree of power.

• Proximity to power: Is the person in the inner circle of informal advisers and backers to top and influential elected officials?

• Thought leadership: Do the people on the list shape the conversation around policy within the

industry, whether through media, advocacy, lobbying or activism?

• Economic power: Does the person on the list have economic power, and does it translate into policy changes or influence?

• Insiders vs. outsiders: Does the list include grassroots activists who are having an impact in addition to establishment figures in traditional power roles?

We invite your feedback on these criteria and how they can be improved. In the days ahead, you’ll learn about City & State’s first advisory board, to be headed by Chair Sheryl Huggins Salomon. She is currently the chief communications officer for the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research.

Sheryl’s previous posts include serving in editorial leadership positions at news outlets focused on the interests and achievements of Black people, as managing editor of The Root and AOL Black Voices, as well as editorial director of NewsOne.com.

Together with her journalistic experience at mainstream news outlets such as Dow Jones Newswires, Fortune’s erstwhile FSB.com digital outlet, and the Asbury Park Press, these experiences shaped her understanding of truly inclusive coverage. She has worked for Gizmodo Media Group, The Washington Post Company, AOL, Time Inc., Dow Jones and Urban One, and she has taught journalism at CUNY York College.

We’re excited to welcome Sheryl and will soon announce the names of our other board members, who will provide valuable insights that will help maintain and improve our focus on diversity and inclusion within our power lists and rankings.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

AMAZON … 8

RALPH R. ORTEGA; JOHN MCCARTEN/NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL

New York’s latest labor fight

REDISTRICTING … 12

Do Democrats dare gerrymander?

CARLINA RIVERA … 18 One of the leading speaker candidates endorses COVID-19 STRAIN … 20

Hospitals barely weathered the pandemic Carlina Rivera has her eyes on the New York City Council speakership.

MEDICAID SPENDING … 24

The data behind where costs are rising

WINNERS & LOSERS … 34

Who was up and who was down last week

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“I am the Queens candidate.”

– Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who grew up in Queens, at a virtual mayoral candidate forum Manhattan borough president candidate Lindsey Boylan detailed her unsettling experiences with the governor in a Medium post.

CUOMO ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT Lindsey Boylan, a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has accused the governor of sexual harassment during her time in his office.

In an essay posted to Medium, Boylan detailed inappropriate behavior by Cuomo and

several uncomfortable situations, including an unwanted kiss. Boylan first went public with more general sexual harassment accusations against Cuomo in December. The Cuomo administration denied Boylan’s allegations, though Cuomo did not immediately offer public comment on Boylan’s essay – skipping the press

briefing that he said would be scheduled for the day Boylan went public with her accusations.

The essay comes as the latest in what can only be described as a reckoning about Cuomo’s alleged abusive behavior toward lawmakers, staffers and journalists. His domineering personality and penchant for allegedly threatening critics has

NOT OVER YET Vaccinations and gradual reopenings may be giving off the impression that we’re finally putting the coronavirus pandemic behind us, but as the Feb. 21 cover of The New York Times makes clear, we are still in the thick of it. With dots representing deaths on a timeline growing more and more opaque, the paper illustrated that the country has now surpassed 500,000 deaths. New York state is still logging more than 6,000 new cases per day.

long been an open secret in Albany, coming more into the public eye after Assembly Member Ron Kim said he was the recipient of one such call. Kim – a frequent critic of the governor’s handling of nursing home deaths during the pandemic – said that Cuomo threatened to “destroy” him. Since then, more stories of this kind of behavior by Cuomo – old and new – have come up.

Although many people have accused Cuomo and his administration of being generally abusive, Boylan is the first to make specific sexual harassment claims.

Former Cuomo aide Karen Hinton also published an op-ed that, while not explicitly saying that the governor harassed her, said he practiced “penis politics” and likened working for him to a 1950s marriage. In the wake of Boylan’s accusations, several lawmakers have called for an investigation into Cuomo, or expressed belief in Boylan’s claims.

NO CHARGES FOR OFFICERS IN THE DEATH OF DANIEL PRUDE

“Before I ever knew there was a chance that I would be a senator … I saw you.”

– state Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins, giving a Legislative Legacy Award to former state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery

Months after disturbing body camera footage showed the death of Daniel Prude at the hands of police, a Monroe County grand jury decided that none of the Rochester police officers involved in his death would face criminal charges. Prude’s death sparked national outrage after the footage showed

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police pinning a naked, hooded and handcuffed Prude into the pavement until he lost consciousness.

He never regained consciousness and later died from complications of asphyxiation related to the arrest. Although Prude died in March 2020, the circumstances surrounding his death did not emerge until September. Some accused the city and police department of covering up Prude’s death, and documents made public as part of an investigation into the matter seemed to indicate officials suppressed widespread distribution of videos of the incident for months. State Attorney General Letitia James convened the grand jury to investigate Prude’s death, and expressed disappointment that it did not result in charges.

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CARRANZA STEPS DOWN

With just under a year left in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s tenure, schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced that he’s stepping down. He oversaw an incredibly turbulent time for schools during the pandemic when schools initially went remote, and more recently began the process of reopening for in-person learning. Carranza did not offer a specific reason about why he decided to take his leave now, but said that the pandemic has been personally difficult for him as well – 11 of his family members and close friends have died of COVID-19 in the past year. Replacing him is Meisha Porter, a veteran Bronx educator who was previously the executive superintendent for the borough.

Richard Carranza didn’t say why he was leaving his post, just that the pandemic had been difficult for him personally.

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WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY 3/1 The first anniversary of the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in New York state.

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NYC launches website to highlight social equity outcomes It’s no secret that in New York City, like much of the country, Black and Latino people suffer from worse health outcomes than white people, or that women are less likely to participate in the labor force than men.

These kinds of gaps in equitable access to health care, education, employment and more have only become more apparent and pronounced during the coronavirus pandemic.

Now, a new city resource promises to make it easier than ever to observe just how pervasive some of those gaps are, with the eventual goal of eradicating those disparities. On Feb. 23, the city launched EquityNYC, a website that pulls together data on social equity outcomes – in areas including health, education and economic security – with the data broken down by factors such as race, gender and income.

This year, for the first time, that data is accessible not just in a written report, but in easy-toread charts online. “Obviously, as we’re working on equity, we also need to be thinking about accessibility,” said Sara Shoener, special policy adviser in the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity.

The range of data available varies. Only two years of data for broadband internet access are available: 2017 and 2018. But the areas that do include new data

INSIDE DOPE

Expect state lawmakers to begin making moves to repeal the sweeping emergency powers they granted Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the onset of the pandemic.

from 2019 offer some interesting insights.

One metric measures diversity within city agencies themselves – broken down by race, ethnicity and gender, as of fiscal year 2019. While racial diversity within the city government’s workforce appears relatively strong, breakdowns by agency show variance. The Fire Department, for example, had the highest share of white members and among the lowest share of women. The share of Black employees was the highest in the city Department of Probation, where over 58% of employees identified as Black, African American or African.

EquityNYC is a product of Executive Order 45, an order Mayor Bill de Blasio signed in 2019 that mandated the continuation and expansion of the Social Indicators and Equity Report, requiring the Office for Economic Opportunity to identify new metrics and data sources that could be incorporated into the report, disaggregated by race, gender, income and more. In addition to showcasing this data, the website links to city policies and programs relevant to each of the eight policy domains – which include core infrastructure and environment, economic security and mobility, and housing.

– Annie McDonough

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State officials are allowing New York City movie theaters to reopen at 25% capacity as COVID-19 cases continue to decline.

City & State and AARP New York host an online State Legislative Forum on supportive services for older people at 10 a.m., featuring state Sens.

Samra Brouk, Rachel May and others.

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FROM THE

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ANDREW YANG WANTS ELON TO SAVE NYC. HERE’S HOW THE TESLA BILLIONAIRE COULD TAKE US INTO THE 31ST CENTURY.

MIND OF MUSK

BY CAITLIN DORMAN

inadvertently offered billionaire Elon Musk a no-bid contract? Musk already made a dubious promise to produce ventilators, and there was the subsidy fiasco with his Buffalo

Replace all of the subway trains with underground cars, 5-person occupancy each, but actually they can only take you between Times Square and Grand Central.

factory. We’ve drawn up some ideas on how the Tesla CEO could solve New York City’s greatest problems – if he comes through this time.

Get rid of all the existing electric buses and replace them with ~cooler~ electric buses that occasionally self-combust.

It will add some much needed excitement to New Yorkers’ routines.

Obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies, create a factory in one of the five boroughs, and then forget it exists and that you were supposed to hire people to work there.

Build affordable housing … on Mars.

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ANOTHER WEEK, another controversial Andrew Yang tweet. The mayoral candidate recently shared his enthusiasm for New York City testing electric garbage trucks, and then

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Should you have any problem with insomnia, I have a 14-page, singlespaced compilation noting my accomplishments.

A Q&A with New York City Council Member

JAMES GENNARO You won the special election for Council District 24 in Queens to replace Rory Lancman on Feb. 2 and were sworn in Feb. 18 – I couldn’t do anything like hire staff or anything until you’re actually a council member. Of course, after Feb. 2, I started getting constituent requests and all sorts of things. People think I’m in office the morning of Feb. 3. That’s not the way it works.

Now that the race is over – did you rank on your ballot? Who else did you include?

I will say what I said publicly during a debate. I ranked second Neeta Jain.

But I’m not going to go beyond that. But I’ve got a very good relationship with Deepti Sharma. One of these campaign funny things, Deepti’s mother and my wife became real friends from campaigning.

Like, ‘OK, we’re going for coffee, want some?’ But I can’t say enough about how much I think Deepti is really smart, really capable.

With so many young candidates running now, you may end up having more years of experience working in the council than some of your future colleagues have been alive.

I focused on this in my

campaign a little bit. I talked about experience, I talked about moderation. I think I embody both those things. But it’s more simple than that. I think I’m just a good fit for the district in terms of where I am on the ideological spectrum.

And I had the benefit of having worked with every demographic group in the district and try to make things fair for people. It’s just a moderate district (that) elected a moderate guy.

It’s been seven years since you’ve been in the council. Do you have any bills you want to introduce?

My core mission is

environmental stuff, and should you have any problem with insomnia, I have a 14page, single-spaced compilation noting my accomplishments and awards. So one of my big things is following up on all the climate stuff that I got the ball rolling on.

And something I tried to push at the (state level), and it wasn’t able to get done, is storm surge barriers. There’s going to be a lot of yelling and screaming about trying to put up storm surge barriers, but this is not a brand-new technology.

The council passed a bill last year capping

Our Perspective Amazon Workers Demand Historic Change

By Stuart Appelbaum, President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, RWDSU, UFCW Twitter: @sappelbaum

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n Bessemer, Alabama, a historic, worker-driven grassroots union organizing campaign is underway at the Amazon warehouse there. The votes are being cast and will be counted, and the campaign could drastically change the lives of over 5,800 workers at the facility, who are demanding better treatment and a voice on the job.

The Amazon campaign is so important because it represents the story of working men and women in the pandemic era. Americans depend now more than ever on working people: workers at supermarkets, pharmacies, food processing and health care facilities – many of them RWDSU members – and of course, at Amazon. From daily necessities to luxury items, Americans depend every day on the work done by these Amazon employees.

This sprawling facility opened in March of last year, just as the world was coming to grips with COVID-19. And workers there had the same health and safety concerns of all frontline workers, which were exacerbated by Amazon’s workplace conditions and grueling productivity quotas. Workers perform their jobs close together, and short and infrequent breaks

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often don’t allow for adequate handwashing and sanitizing. Workers say Amazon monitors their productivity so closely that they are afraid to take bathroom breaks.

The concerns of workers in Bessemer reflect those of Amazon workers across the world. Thousands of Amazon workers have signed a petition calling for better health and safety policies. Amazon workers at facilities in Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom have held strikes or other worker actions to demand safer workplaces. Here in New York, the Attorney General’s office has filed a lawsuit against Amazon for failing to provide adequate health and safety measures and for firing and disciplining employees that objected to Amazon’s unsafe work conditions. Even amidst the Alabama workers’ organizing drive, Amazon continues to disregard safety, having insisted upon an in-person union election despite the COVID-19 pandemic. That move was shot down by the NLRB, which instead called for a mail-in vote. With at least 13 deaths at Amazon facilities – even before the pandemic – Amazon made the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health’s “Dirty

building emissions, and now Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal has – as some people might say – created a loophole for building owners.

Are you OK with the addition in the budget?

There’s a lot of moving parts with that. I am a proponent of Local Law 97 and that is a local government thing. I can stand on the City Council floor and thump my chest and say it’s Local Law 97 or nothing, but now we’re dealing with state government, so now we have to see how to make the best of the situation.

– Jeff Coltin

Dozen” list of dangerous employers two years running.

The Alabama Amazon workers approached the RWDSU because they saw the difference the union was making in Alabama. The RWDSU was at the forefront fighting for frontline workers in the early days of the pandemic, bringing swift attention to the unsafe working conditions at poultry plants. In the wake of the RWDSU’s efforts, poultry plants improved their social distancing policies, erected barriers between workers, provided PPE and sanitizer for workers, implemented COVID testing, and increased pay for workers who were risking their lives to feed America while also providing pay for workers who were under quarantine. Bessemer Amazon workers took notice, and by December of last year, thousands of them had signed union cards.

The Amazon organizing drive is more than just about one campaign; it’s a moment working people are seizing to demand change, and to be treated as human beings. Regardless of the outcome of their campaign, the Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have already made history. They’ve brought renewed attention to the labor practices of the world’s largest retailer, and shown that when workers stand together, they can stand up against any employer in the world.

Their inspiring campaign has already changed the landscape, and is resonating with working people everywhere who now know they can demand safer workplaces and the dignity and respect of union membership.

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WAREHOUSE

New York goes to war with Amazon again – this time over COVID-19 worker protections.

By Annie McDonough

I Activists protest at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island in May 2020 after the firing of employee Christian Smalls.

N EARLY MARCH 2020, when little was known about the coronavirus, state and federal health authorities issued some broad guidance. Wash your hands frequently, avoid touching your face, keep a few feet of distance between yourself and others.

But at Amazon’s fulfillment center on Staten Island – an 855,000-squarefoot warehouse site that employs more than 5,000 people – some workers allege that it was difficult or impossible to take those health precautions without fearing consequences.

Derrick Palmer, a warehouse associate at the Staten Island facility – which is also known as JFK8 – told City & State last month that employees are afraid to take time away from scanning, picking and packing goods to wash their hands or clean their workstations. “I don’t want to lose my job for what they claim is ‘time off task,’” Palmer said, referring to the company’s policy that tracks the time workers spend not actively scanning or packing items, for example, and can lead to discipline and even termination for workers who spend too much time off task. Thirty minutes of time off task accrued throughout a single shift can result in a warning, and further infractions can eventually lead to termination, Palmer said.

Amazon’s health and safety protocols have come under close scrutiny during the pandemic, including from state Attorney General Letitia James. Almost a year after opening an investigation into Amazon’s labor conditions – a probe prompted by the firing of a Staten Island warehouse worker who staged a walkout over those conditions – James sued Amazon in state Supreme Court last month. James’ suit claimed that Amazon has failed to protect warehouse workers at facilities in Queens and Staten Island during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing inadequate health and safety protections in those facilities. “While Amazon and its CEO made billions during this crisis, hardworking employees were forced to endure unsafe conditions and were retaliated against for rightfully voicing these concerns,” James said in a statement. “Since the pandemic began, it is clear that Amazon has valued profit over people and has failed to ensure the health and safety of its workers.”

That lawsuit came as no surprise to Amazon, which filed its own suit against James a week prior, in an apparent attempt to preempt James’ effort to demand changes to the company’s warehouse practices.

In the suit, Amazon says that James had threatened to sue the company if it didn’t agree to implement a series of changes at its facilities, including reducing productivity requirements for workers. But Amazon argues that James’ office doesn’t have the legal authority to regulate workplace safety issues, saying oversight for that rests under federal law. After James’ office filed its suit against Amazon, representatives for the company said the claims in James’ lawsuit didn’t represent an accurate picture of the company’s pandemic response.

Though it’s still unclear whether it will succeed, James’ lawsuit dealt a blow to a company that has gone to great lengths to defend itself against allegations of harsh

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and unsafe labor practices. Amazon has denied allegations that its productivity metrics make for an unsafe work environment. Amazon declined to elaborate on how its time off task policy works or how workers are disciplined under it, but said that employees at its fulfillment centers work 10-hour shifts four days per week, with two scheduled 30-minute breaks per shift, and are free to take short breaks to do things like use the bathroom or speak to their managers. In an emailed comment, spokesperson Jenna Hilzenrath said that at the onset of the pandemic, the company introduced changes to build in time for safety precautions.

Amazon has said in previous court filings – specifically in a lawsuit Palmer and other Staten Island workers filed in June over the issue – that it stopped imposing discipline for low productivity rates in March.

But the employees suing Amazon claimed in court that this change wasn’t effectively communicated to them until months later.

In the sprawling warehouse, two trips to the bathroom can easily require 30 minutes, said Frank Kearl, an attorney with the progressive activism group Make the Road New York – one of the groups representing the employees in the suit.

The lawsuit filed by the Staten Island workers argued that Amazon’s policies amounted to a “public nuisance” – essentially claiming that a lack of proper health and safety protocols put Amazon workers at risk of contracting COVID-19, and because those workers could then take the virus home or out into the community with them, those policies then put the larger public at a heightened risk of contracting it. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in November, finding that the matter should be decided by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration – the federal workplace safety agency – and that the workers failed to demonstrate that Amazon’s policies created a “public nuisance.” But the plaintiffs have appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

In a court filing last month, Amazon argued that the claim that its productivity metrics make for an unsafe work environment are moot, in part because time spent on tasks including washing hands, social distancing and using the bathroom are no longer counted in the feedback employees receive on their time off task.

Hilzenrath said that low productivity rates are met with extra training. “Associate performance expectations are measured and evaluated over a long period of time as we know that a variety of things could impact the ability to meet expectations in any given day or hour,” Hilzenrath wrote over email. “We support people who are not performing to the levels expected with dedicated coaching to help them improve.”

Since the onset of the pandemic, complaints about the treatment of warehouse

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“I used to tell every new hire, ‘If you have a gym membership, you might want to cancel it. You’re going to be on your feet for 10-hour days.”

– Christian Smalls, a former assistant manager at Amazon’s fulfillment center on Staten Island

workers have been raised by Amazon employees on Staten Island, and across the country. A March 30 protest in front of the warehouse in Bloomfield on Staten Island’s West Shore organized by Palmer and Christian Smalls, a former assistant manager at the facility, led to Smalls’ firing. Amazon said that Smalls had violated quarantine instructions by showing up at the facility to stage a walkout on March 30 after he had been told

to stay home from work – with pay – because he came into close contact with another employee who tested positive with COVID-19.

Amazon said it had given Smalls multiple warnings for previously violating social distancing guidelines, but in his own lawsuit against the company, Smalls said it never did.

In addition to the investigation James opened last spring into Smalls’ firing, New York City’s Commission on Human Rights also opened an investigation. A spokesperson for the commission declined to comment, saying the matter was still open.

In the lawsuit Amazon filed against James last month, the company said that James had threatened to sue the company if it did not agree to reinstate Smalls, as well as reduce productivity metrics for its warehouse employees. James did in fact call for Amazon to offer Smalls his job back and pay him lost wages in the state’s suit against the company.

In its lawsuit, Amazon pointed to an unannounced inspection for COVID-19 safety at the Staten Island facility by the New

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A March 2020 protest at a Staten Island warehouse led by Christian Smalls, left, led to his firing.

York City Sheriff’s Office on March 30, in which the Sheriff’s Office said the facility “appeared to go above and beyond the current compliance requirements.” “Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our employees, and we’re doing everything we can to support them through the pandemic,” Hilzenrath said in an emailed statement, adding that the company had spent billions on COVID-19 precautions.

While the pandemic has meant disaster for many small businesses, Amazon is one of the giants whose business has boomed amid stay-at-home orders, with its shares up more than 60% over the past year and its net sales increasing 38% in 2020. To serve that growing demand, Amazon has gone on a global hiring spree, adding nearly half a million employees between January and October 2020, The New York Times reports. In New York, the company continues to grow its physical footprint too. A spokesperson for the company said that the state is currently home to two fulfillment centers, two “sortation centers” and 15 delivery sta-

tions, employing more than 44,000 people in New York. Those jobs pay a minimum of $15 per hour statewide, and come with health and retirement benefits.

Just over two years ago, Amazon pulled out of plans to build a second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens – a project the company said would bring at least 25,000 jobs to the city, many of them well-paying jobs. The demise of HQ2, as the project was nicknamed, was brought on by a groundswell of pushback from progressive politicians and labor leaders, although some unions welcomed the company. Amazon was offered roughly $3 billion in tax breaks to locate in Queens, which spurred the backlash, as did the harsh conditions for warehouse workers and the company’s anti-union stance.

Good-government organization Good Jobs First, which tracks the state and local subsidies that Amazon receives across the country, reported that the company received at least $3.7 billion in various public incentives over the years, with data going back to 2000.

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Some public officials argue that tax breaks are a small price to pay for a company like Amazon to bring jobs and economic activity to towns and small cities across New York.

Critics argue that in order to fulfill Amazon’s promises of one- and two-day delivery windows, they need to build new warehouses anyway and shouldn’t receive tax breaks to do so. And labor advocates and progressive lawmakers said that employees who support unionizing should be able to do so without aggressive anti-union pressure from the company. “We need to do a lot of things to get this under control, and helping workers organize is one of them, (and) keeping from giving them public dollars to do what they’re going to do anyway is another,” said Queens state Sen. Michael Gianaris – one of the most outspoken opponents of HQ2.

Smalls and Palmer, who both registered complaints about the conditions in the Staten Island facility during the pandemic, say they want Amazon to do more to protect its workers. Smalls, the Staten Island warehouse employee who was fired, and who now runs an advocacy group called The Congress of Essential Workers, said he used to take pride in his work as a supervisor, bringing his five years of experience with the company to the floor every day – though Smalls acknowledged the work has always been tough, even before the pandemic. “I (used to) tell every new hire, ‘If you have a gym membership, you might want to cancel it,’” Smalls recalled. “You’re going to be on your feet for 10-hour days.”

Palmer, who still works at the Staten Island facility, said that he received a “final write-up” for violating social distancing policy while participating in the March 30 protest with Smalls – a warning that Kearl, the Make the Road New York attorney, said serves as a kind of last warning before being fired. Amazon said that Palmer was provided with feedback about violating social distancing on three other occasions, though Palmer said he didn’t get any other warnings, despite the final write-up typically following a first, second and third warning. He said he wasn’t told about a social distancing policy, though the company said that guidelines were implemented in early March 2020. Amazon did not confirm whether a final write-up is associated with impending termination, but said that the process varies depending on the situation.

Despite receiving that final write-up, Palmer said he hasn’t felt under as much threat of retaliation since hooking up with Kearl and filing the lawsuit. While their appeal in that case continues – and the attorney general apparently continues to scrutinize the company – Palmer is in no rush to stop calling for change at Amazon.

“Amazon needs to do better,” Palmer said.

“All we wanted to do was just get the building safe and get all the associates safe.”

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Democrats now have the power to draw gerrymandered districts. Do they dare?

WALKING THE

By Zach Williams

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ONGRESSIONAL AND legislative district boundaries in New York have been contorted into many silly shapes over the years. One state Senate district once embodied “Abe Lincoln riding a vacuum” from the Capital Region towards Syracuse, with a stovepipe hat jutting into the Adirondacks. The “earmuff” atop Western New York was represented by longtime Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, while a slender slice of southern Brooklyn waterfront has long helped Republicans compete in New York by packaging the borough’s most conserative quarters with Staten Island.

In 2022, districts could become more physically cohesive, if the Independent Redistricting Commission draws ostensibly

nonpartisan boundaries, or even more gerrymandered, if Democrats take advantage of their new legislative supermajorities to press their growing political advantage.

New York state lawmakers will determine the new district lines for the 150-seat Assembly, 63-seat state Senate and the asyet undetermined number of seats in New York’s congressional delegation. (There are currently 27 members of the House of Representatives from New York, but the state is expected to lose either one or two seats, due to population shifts measured in the 2020 census.) Historically, this has been done mostly behind closed doors, with Democrats calling the shots in Assembly and Republicans in the state Senate. Courts have sometimes stepped in to resolve disputes over the congressional map.

This year, that process was expected to change. A state constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2014 mandates that a new 10-member Independent Redistricting Commission oversee the process this time around. The majority and minority leaders in

both chambers of the state Legislature have already appointed two people each to the panel, totaling eight members. Those eight then chose the commission’s two remaining members. The commission’s task is to develop maps this spring, hold public hearings in the summer and then submit a final proposal to the state Legislature by a Jan. 15 deadline.

The voting rules for the commission allow seven members to submit a plan to the state Legislature as long as it has the backing of at least one member appointed by each legislative leader. If that many members cannot agree, then the proposal with the most votes moves forward, or two of them if there is a tie. In any case, a two-thirds majority vote in both houses to pass any redistricting plan, which the governor could still veto. If either legislative chamber rejects the commission’s proposals twice or the governor does so with a veto, legislators can amend the maps by a two-thirds vote in each chamber. That means if the Democrats can hold their entire caucus together in both chambers, they can overrule the commission and draw the lines

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If Democrats choose to take gerrymandering revenge, they could split up urban centers like Rochester to disadvantage Republicans.

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LINE the old-fashioned way.

The stakes are high beyond New York.

Congressional redistricting in the state could determine whether Democrats’ slim majority in the U.S House of Representatives survives the 2022 midterms, especially with Republicans controlling more state governments than Democrats. Just how many of the eight GOP seats in the state delegation Democrats might flip next year hinges on how politically bold the Democrats are willing to be.

New census data expected in March will determine how many seats in Congress the state will lose, but the block-level data needed to determine districts themselves will not be available until September. That leaves little time for the commission to submit new maps by mid-January so that state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo can approve them in time for the June primaries next year.

That timeline will accelerate by two weeks under a proposed state constitutional amendment passed by both chambers of the Legislature earlier this year. It also lowers the threshold for passing a redistricting plan to

60%, which will allow Democrats to more easily pass a plan that does not have universal support among their ranks. Opponents of the proposed amendment say that it undermines the greater goal of the commission.

“The majority has injected partisan politics back into the process (by) rushing through a self-serving constitutional amendment in the middle of a pandemic,” state Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, a Republican from Western New York, said in a statement to City & State.

However, the voters will have a chance to make their will known: The amendment has to be ratified in elections this November.

Democrats, who now control two-thirds of the seats in both legislative chambers, have little sympathy for Republican claims of victimhood, 10 years after the GOP used their state Senate majority to gerrymander the chamber to their advantage. They argue that the amendment is necessary to get new maps ready in time for the June primaries. Whether it passes or not, Democratic partisans say tough electoral times are ahead for Republi-

cans. “They’re setting it up as much as they can to make a significant effort to screw (the Republicans),” one Democratic insider said.

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ESPITE DEMOCRATS’ MORE than 2-to-1 registration advantage, Republicans clung to control of the state Senate for most of the past half-century by engineering districts with zigzagging lines that protected their electoral chances in places like New York City, Rochester and Syracuse. “They pulled out every trick in the toolbox,” state Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, a Democrat from Queens, said in an interview. Eventually, the state’s leftward shift overpowered even the GOP’s extreme gerrymander in the upper chamber. Democrats now control two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly and the state Senate. Under the current system, Republicans do not have absolute veto power over the plans developed by the Independent Redistricting Commission, but they named four of its members.

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Experts say the commission needs approximately $3 million in funding to do their work over the coming year, but commissioners have yet to even get their hands on the $1 million already allocated in the budget.

The Cuomo administration said fiscal rules mean the money can only reach the commission through a registered nonprofit. Commissioners say that approach undermines their independence and results in excessive administrative costs. It could be weeks if not months before the impasse gets resolved. “We are stymied by our own elected officials, our own state officials, in trying to do our job,” commissioner and former state Sen. Jack Martins said at a February meeting. “It’s a disgrace; it’s an embarrassment.”

They want state lawmakers and the governor to instead approve direct funding to the commission. Representatives for both Stewart-Cousins and Heastie did not respond to requests for comment by publication time about whether additional funding will be included in their chambers’ respective budget proposals expected later in the month. “We would be happy to go along with whatever solution the Legislature can work out,” a spokesperson for the Department of Budget recently told the Times Union. While neither of the legislative leaders have publicly ruled out allocating additional funding in the state budget due April 1, that still leaves the com mission little time to develop new

maps. A spokesperson for the governor did not respond to a request for

comment about his openness to get

ting more funding approved, though

there appears to be significant support among lawmakers. “I can’t

speak for the whole body, but I would

advocate for it,” said Gianaris, who serves as the No. 2 Democrat in the

state Senate.

With Democratic control of both chambers of the Legislature assured simply by virtue of the state electorate’s preferences, the biggest question on political observers’ minds is how congressional boundaries will be drawn. If and when the issue of funding gets resolved, the commissioners have to figure out how to draw new congressional districts that follow seven guidelines under the constitutional amendment approved in 2014. “It’s definitely complicated,” said Steven Romalewski of the CUNY Graduate Center, who heads the CUNY Mapping Service that researches political redistricting. “It’s not just one district; it’s a jigsaw puzzle that involves all the districts.” Commissioners have to try to keep villages, towns, counties and cities within the same districts wherever possible while also making sure that they are not diminishing the electoral power of racial and linguistic minorities protected under federal law. And they have to do all of that without favoring one party over the other.

Other states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Virginia have adopted nominally less partisan ways to redraw their lines, to much praise by good-government advocates, who say New York’s commission deserves a chance to do the same. “The members of the commission appear to be absolutely determined to draw the lines in as objective and fair a process as possible,” election attorney Jerry Goldfeder, who has represented Democrats like former

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This is an extreme example of how Democrats could meet the requirement that all districts be contiguous and have equal populations. The district would run from the Buffalo suburbs through Democratic areas of Monroe County, which surrounds Rochester, and terminate in the blue areas of the North Country.

Splitting Fort Drum off from the Adirondacks could also deprive incumbent Rep. Elise Stefanik of one of her favorite places to visit.

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Democrats can use redistricting to unseat some of the eight current Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation, but they likely cannot eliminate all of them. A GOP superdistrict stretching across suburban and rural areas of Western New York would be solid red for the next 10 years, but for every reliable Republican, there is one less vote that Democrats have to worry about in more competitive districts.

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Splitting major urban centers allows Democrats to use their party base to outnumber voters in more competitive suburban and rural areas. While that could pass muster in the courts, effective gerrymandering risks backlash from voters and incumbents who like their districts as they already are.

ITHACA

Many liberal strongholds are stuck inside solid red districts. Detaching Ithaca from a district representing the Southern Tier and placing it with areas to the east, would allow Democrats to make more use of voters who would otherwise be wasted in a red district.

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NEW YORK DEMOCRATS have the power to draw a congressional map of their choosing in the upcoming round of redistricting. While the latest census data isn’t available yet, City & State used an open-source mapping tool called DistrictBuilder to draw our own hypothetical map based on the 2020 presidential election and the 2010 census to explore ways the boundaries might change. The colored areas highlight just how promising the future political landscape might be for the Democrats compared to the current lines drawn in black.

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Cracking Republican dominance of the North Country comes down to breaking up the current district into pieces.

Voters in left-leaning urban areas like Saratoga Springs and Albany, for example, mean the GOP would have to win big margins in rural areas in order to compete.

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Central New York is one of the most important swing areas in the state.

Democrats could split the area into different districts by using block-level data that maximizes partisan advantage. The hypothetical map here uses 2010 census data and the 2020 presidential election results to predict how this area of the state could become solid blue moving forward.

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One of the oldest redistricting tricks in the books is using long and skinny strips. A little bit of the western bank of the Hudson River could help defend Democratic turf upstate. The eastern side – and maybe a little bit of the Bronx – could even have a role to play in making sure Republicans get no chance of ever winning the North Country again. The only problem might be explaining to voters how moves like that benefit the public interest.

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President Barack Obama and then-state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, said in an interview.

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EPUBLICANS ARE EXPECTED to do some aggressive gerrymandering in states they control as part of their efforts to flip control of the House of Representatives.

The New York Times recently reported that Republicans are making moves to cut Democrats out of districts they currently control in places like Atlanta, Houston and northeastern Ohio. In that context, one might expect New York Democrats to bolster their party’s national prospects rather than possibly giving away seats to the opposition party through an independent redistricting process.

Democratic lawmakers have the final say on the legislative maps proposed by the commission, and their ability to pass plans of their own making will only increase if voters ratify the constitutional amendment in November. The 2014 amendment passed by a comfortable margin, and the latest proposal could benefit this year from being placed alongside popular proposals like the “right to clean air and water” and no-excuse absentee voting. Democratic turnout will also likely be high because of the New York City mayor’s race. But even if the amendment does

not pass, Democrats will have the votes they need in the Legislature to effectively do what they want in the end.

So does that mean Democrats will then use that power to reject nonpartisan maps and draw their own? Party insiders say the outcome may fall somewhere between the GOP’s notoriously partisan gerrymanders in states such as North Carolina, and a map that takes no advantage of their legislative majorities at all. “We’re certainly not looking to help (Republicans),” state Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs said in an interview.

“It certainly would be my expectation that we would’t look to mirror them in taking extreme advantage of the situation.” But some Democrats are urging just that behind closed doors. “I think the Democrats should screw over the Republicans,” one Democratic operative told City & State.

Such a scenario could turn out to be a nightmare for incumbent Republicans. For example, rather than arranging Long Island’s congressional districts from east to west, with the electorate leaning further rightward as one gets farther from New York City, districts could be drawn horizontally, with Reps. Lee Zeldin and Andrew Garbarino duking it out in a single district that could hypothetically stretch from Queens to Suffolk County. The reelection of freshman Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of Stat-

en Island could hinge on her ability to sell MAGA politics on the streets of Manhattan, if the city’s most Republican borough is paired with its most Democratic.

Five of the state’s eight Republicans are upstate, but upstate’s relative population loss means there’s going to be fewer seats for them. Any number of changes could doom Reps. John Katko and Claudia Tenney of Central New York as well as Chris Jacobs and Tom Reed to the west. Democratic areas of Buffalo, Rochester or Syracuse could get added to their districts, or some of them could end up having to run against each other in a future district where Democrats would pack as many GOP voters as possible. Rep. Elise Stefanik might have to start stumping for votes in blue areas of the Capitol Region that are currently outside the boundaries of her North Country district.

Democrats say they would not even have to necessarily use a heavy hand over redistricting to make the GOP suffer electorally, given the changing demographics of the state. That could mean restoring a past congressional arrangement that joined Staten Island with lower Manhattan rather than southern Brooklyn. Or it could mean the end of a little protrusion in the district lines upstate that places Democratic-leaning Saratoga Springs in the Capital Region district of Paul Tonko rather than

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Two Republicans, Reps.

Lee Zeldin and Andrew Garbarino, currently represent districts on Long Island. Democrats could potentially pit them against each other by drawing a winding district that includes Trump-friendly areas of Nassau County and Suffolk County. That would switch the island’s delegation from an even partisan divide to being three Democrats and one Republican.

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STATEN ISLAND

A few relatively conservative enclaves in southern Brooklyn have helped make the 11th Congressional District one of the most competitive districts in the state. Freshman Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, however, might not make it to her sophomore term if Democrats end up linking Staten Island with liberal Manhattan. New York City would again be without any Republican representatives in Congress.

the North Country district represented will inevitably mean creating more seats

by Stefanik. Democrats have dreamed of that aren’t quite as safely Democratic.

And then there are more individual conturning that district blue in recent election cycles, especially since Stefanik became cerns. One member of Congress years ago one of former President Donald Trump’s demanded that his district boundary move leading defenders. Upstate population loss one block north to include the site of a future federal facility, acand Democrats’ growcording to Jeff Wice, an ing registration advanadjunct professor at New tage are other factors

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idences districts. While that is not down to Democrats an eligibility problem for themselves.

Incummembers of Congress, who bents have priorities only need to be state resibesides helping their dents, getting drawn out of party gain seats. At its – Independent Redistricting one’s district can leave one most basic, the tension Commission member and open to a primary chalis between maximizing former GOP state Sen. Jack lenge from someone who seats and protecting inMartins claims to better represent cumbents. The way to the community by virtue of get the most Democratic living in it. seats is to lump RepubliFederal law requires that redistrictcan voters into as few districts as possible, while spreading Democrats into districts ing not undermine the ability of racial that lean Democratic by smaller margins. and linguistic minorities to elect some of But to increase the number of those seats their own representatives. The theoretical

way to craft an all-Democratic state congressional delegation, which would be to draw districts that each replicate in miniature the state’s overall demographics, could therefore violate the Voting Rights Act by creating all majority-white districts. “Black, Latino and Asian groups come together and draw maps to make sure that our communities aren’t cut up,” said L. Joy Williams, president of the Brooklyn NAACP. Such considerations could limit Democrats’ ability to leverage urban areas across the state to their fullest electoral advantage, though a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has made political gerrymandering otherwise OK under federal law.

Republicans could still pursue legal actions against any maps approved by New York Democrats, which adds to the list of unknowns. Voters could defy expectations by rejecting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot – and Democratic lawmakers will have to consider how hard to lean on their powerful supermajorities to get what they want early next year. “These decisions are not going to be made until the very end,” Wice said. “Those who think they know what’s going to happen are usually the farthest removed and least knowledgeable about redistricting decisions.”

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Potential speaker candidates are maneuvering to build support, and Carlina Rivera is the first to endorse a slate.

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EW YORK CITY Council Member Carlina Rivera, a leading contender to be the next council speaker, is endorsing a slate of 13 women running for City Council this year. It’s the latest sign that Rivera is working to win support from colleagues to succeed current City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who is term-limited out at the end of 2021.

Most of the endorsed candidates are women of color, and Rivera, who is Latina and from Manhattan, said the list “represents the diversity of representation we need in the Council – especially with the diminishing number of women over the last few terms, which is alarming.”

There are 13 women on the 51-seat Council right now, down from a high of 18 in 2009.

Rivera’s slate, shared exclusively with City & State, includes Jenny Low in District 1, Julie Menin in District 5 and Carmen De La Rosa in District 10, all in Manhattan.

In the Bronx, Rivera is backing Marjorie Velázquez in District 13, Pierina Sanchez in District 14, Althea Stevens in District 16 and Amanda Farías in District 18. In Queens, Rivera is endorsing Sandra Ung in District 20, Lynn Schulman in District 29 and Jennifer Gutiérrez in District 34, which covers parts of both Queens and Brooklyn. Elsewhere in Brooklyn, Rivera is supporting Crystal Hudson in District 35, Sandy Nurse in District 37 and Alexa Avilés in District 38.

None of Rivera’s endorsed candidates are incumbents, and in one race, Rivera is actually supporting a candidate who is challenging an incumbent. Nurse is running

against Council Member Darma Diaz, who has served alongside Rivera in the council since winning a November 2020 special election. Velázquez was expected to challenge Council Member Mark Gjonaj, but City & State reported last month that the one-term lawmaker will not be seeking reelection after all.

Nurse is challenging Diaz from the left, as an anti-establishment candidate running against the incumbent who is backed by the county Democratic Party. Many of Rivera’s endorsed candidates are the consensus progressive choices in their districts, which reflects Rivera’s own possible path to the speakership. She voted against the city budget in 2020, in large part because the cuts to the New York City Police Department were not deep enough. She was the only likely speaker candidate to do so.

But Rivera didn’t always back the furthest left candidates. Rivera is endorsing two candidates, Sanchez and Hudson, who are running against candidates backed by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. And other candidates Rivera is endorsing, like Low and Menin, face opponents to their left.

Many sitting council members endorse candidates across the city, but announcing them all at once is rare. Rivera appears to be the first potential speaker candidate to do so. But it reflects a strategy that many recent speaker contenders have adopted: help other candidates get elected, and hope that they’ll remember your support once the speaker race really picks up in the last few months of the year. Nobody embodied that more in 2017 than Johnson, who was

seen in every corner of the city, and whose name could be found in the donor rolls of more than 20 candidates.

Speaker candidates this year are making the same moves. “Who’s on the ground helping candidates right now is the best indication of who’s building support from the bottom on up,” said one council member, who asked for anonymity to discuss a race that is rarely discussed publicly.

And a number of current members have been helping candidates, most recently lining up behind Selvena Brooks-Powers, who is expected to win the District 31 special election that recently finished. A source close to Brooks-Powers’ campaign said that Rivera came to Southeast Queens and brought her own volunteers to help. Council Member Keith Powers also campaigned for “the other Powers,” and Council Member Adrienne Adams, who represents a neighboring district, went all out, endorsing Brooks-Powers, recording a robocall and bringing out volunteers. Council Member Justin Brannan, who has been sick with COVID-19, couldn’t come in person but sent his own supporters to help Brooks-Powers in his stead, and

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Rivera is backing 13 women for the City Council, and most of them are women of color.

Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel has also been publicly supporting Brooks-Powers for months.

Those five Democrats – Rivera, Powers, Adams, Brannan and Ampry-Samuel – are considered by most to be the serious contenders to be the next speaker, who would take on the role in January 2022. Other current members who may throw their hats in the ring include Rafael Salamanca, who recently decided to run for reelection, rather than Bronx borough president, and Francisco Moya, who may himself have an easier path to reelection now that his potential primary opponent, Hiram Monserrate, is barred from running for office because he pled guilty in 2012 to felony charges involving public corruption. Brannan was the lead sponsor of the bill that blocked Monserrate, which some political observers saw as yet another way to win over potential supporters for his speaker candidacy.

When looking at Rivera’s council endorsements through the lens of the speaker’s race, it’s also notable who she didn’t endorse. Rivera declined to back Gale Brewer, the current Manhattan borough

president who’s running in District 6, and Tiffany Cabán, the former candidate for Queens district attorney, who is now running for City Council in District 22.

Both Brewer’s and Cabán’s names have been raised in political circles as potential speaker candidates. Brewer already served 12 years in the City Council, from 2002 to 2013, and is seen as an honest broker who really understands government. And Cabán is a democratic socialist who almost upset then-Borough President Melinda Katz in the 2019 Queens district attorney race. While Cabán may draw support from the council’s left wing, her being chosen as speaker seems highly unlikely, since many of her political views, such as defunding the police, are not likely to be aligned with the majority of the council. Brewer too would face an uphill battle convincing colleagues who don’t like the idea of an eightyear speaker. If elected, Brewer would be eligible to serve through the end of 2029, while the current members who are interested in running for speaker could only serve through the end of 2025.

“I’m open to anyone’s pitch and ideas for

leading,” Rivera said, but added that “the council is an incredibly nuanced body and experience is going to be key,” when looking for the next speaker. Rivera also noted that this is just her first round of endorsements, and that more may be coming. For example Rivera – and four other likely speaker candidates – all helped elect Council Member Kevin Riley in his December special election to replace Andy King in District 12 in the Bronx, and Riley is up for election again this year.

That just shows the complexities of the speaker’s race. An endorsement cannot guarantee an eventual vote for speaker if all the speaker candidates are endorsing the same people. But Rivera said she welcomed any of her colleagues to publicize their support of other candidates.

“I think it’s incredibly important that potential second-term council members are using their position and experience to make endorsements in races that matter,” she said. “I hope my colleagues running for reelection follow my lead in making this kind of step and being very public about who we think can and should win.”

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STRESS TEST OR REALITY CHECK While New York’s hospital system proved its resilience, the pandemic also laid bare disparities in health care.

By Gabe Ponce de León

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New York confirmed its first case, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 38,000 people in the state, a once-in-a-century crisis that will shape policy and public debate for years to come. In the eyes of many, the pandemic has served as a reality check, exposing deep-rooted inequities in care. But a health emergency of this magnitude has also functioned as a stress test, one that New York’s hospital system did well to withstand.

The state confirmed its first COVID-19 case – a Manhattan woman who had recently returned from Iran – on March 1, 2020. By March 24, New York City was registering more daily per capita cases than Italy, where reports of hospitals buckling amid a surge in critically ill patients rattled policymakers around the world.

Under an emergency order from the governor, hospitals across the state were already scaling up capacity. The Javits Center in midtown Manhattan was converted into a field hospital, and the federal government dispatched a Navy hospital ship. But initial fears that the hospital infrastructure – and even its financing – might collapse under the crush of a patient influx were never borne out. At the peak of the first wave, 799 New Yorkers died on April 8, but most of the newly assembled surge capacity went unused.

The system, to be sure, came under considerable strain. At the end of March, it was reported that Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens was operating at 125% of its capacity. But while that facility was struggling to deal with the surge in patients, not far away others had vacant beds. One of the first things that the pandemic exposed, in fact, was the atomization of the state’s health system. A more coordinated system, one operating under central management, like the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, could have served the city better at the peak of the crisis.

“You could have told people who work in upstate hospitals, ‘Please report to duty in Queens,’” said Bill Hammond, a senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center for Public Policy.

“You could have told people in Manhattan, ‘Please report to duty in Queens.’

You could have told ambulances to stop going to Queens, go to Manhattan.”

But what the system lacked in coordination it made up for in spare capacity.

Before the pandemic, New York City had around 30 intensive care unit beds per 100,000 inhabitants – below the national average of 36, but much higher than peer countries like the United Kingdom (8) and France (11). Over the past

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year, European governments have cited overburdened ICUs as a factor in imposing lockdowns, which in many cases have lasted longer and been more stringent than those in the United States.

“If you look at England, if you look at Italy – even France, in some cases – the hospitals have just run up against capacity, and that hasn’t really been such a huge crisis here,” said Chris Pope, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. “In a sense, this is the flipside of our usually very high hospital costs.”

The United States spends much more on health care than any other country: $7,164 per capita, compared with $3,867 in Canada and $3,222 in the United Kingdom. While many would argue that health care in the United States is too expensive – and hospital costs inflated – that slack in the system proved to be a silver lining during the pandemic.

“It is known that single-payer systems tend to lean out the health care system to its bare minimum and there is not enough economic elasticity to deal with emergencies,” said Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association.

According to Raske, the major hospital networks in the New York metropolitan area, which are often maligned by critics of the privatized system, handled 80% of COVID-19 patients during the peak of the pandemic. They were able to do so, he said, by drawing on their financial cushion to cover additional personnel and equipment expenses.

But if the private model contributed to the ability of hospitals to flex their capacity during the pandemic, it also bears some blame for the inequitable distribution of that capability.

Over the past 20 years, more than 40 community hospitals have closed across New York state, the majority in low-income neighborhoods. Reimbursements to providers are lower for Medicaid and uninsured patients, and advocates for equity in health care blame the uneven allocation of resources – and the long-term trends toward downsizing and consolidation – on market forces taking precedence over government planning.

“If you are a hospital executive trying to make sure that your system doesn’t lose money – in fact, maybe even makes some money – your incentive is to locate the beds in the places where revenues will be higher,” said Lois Uttley, the women’s health program director at Community Catalyst, a national advocacy organization.

Disparities in health care, moreover, are not limited to the distribution of ICU beds, and the ability of hospitals to

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Despite long lines for COVID-19 tests, New York’s hospitals are rising to meet the challenge.

ease, such as obesity, hypertension and diabetes, have likely contributed to the greater toll that the pandemic has exacted on those communities.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between March 1, 2020, and Jan. 23, 2021, the rate of hospitalization per 100,000 people for COVID-19 in the United States was 775.2 for Hispanics, 689.1 for non-Hispanic Blacks, and 239 for non-Hispanic whites.

“Let’s follow the data and put resources into these areas to make care more accessible,” said C. Virginia Fields, the founder and CEO of the Nation-

al Black Leadership Commission on Health. “If, for example, you have a large number of people in a given ZIP code known to have preexisting conditions, such as diabetes, are there specialists there or do they have to go so far out of their community to see doctors?”

Fields, who served as Manhattan borough president from 1998 to 2005, said that medical facilities could be lured to underserved areas through incentives, similar to the way empowerment zones attract businesses to communities suffering from disinvestment.

Some advocates argue that the government should be more forceful in compelling networks to expand their footprint into underserved areas. “The private health systems in New York provide a lot of really excellent care, and in some cases have been among the leaders in providing care to COVID-19 patients, but we need better regulation and oversight of those systems to help encour-

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WHAT THE HEALTH SYSTEM LACKED IN COORDINATION, IT MADE UP FOR IN SPARE CAPACITY.

rise to the challenge of a rare mass casualty event is only one measure of a system’s overall strength.

Because the coronavirus poses a graver threat to those with preexisting conditions, population health is a critical factor in assessing how well a system has acquitted itself during a pandemic.

The relative dearth of investment in primary and preventative care in poor neighborhoods raises questions about the way New York’s health care system is organized, irrespective of the payment model under which it functions. “I think the pandemic proved that New York needs community doctors who know the patients, are from their neighborhoods and speak their language,” said Dr. Ramon Tallaj, chair of the board of Somos Community Care, a network of health clinics.

Barriers to primary care, which disproportionately impact communities of color, can lead to disparate health outcomes. Higher rates of chronic dis-

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age their investment in communities that are underserved,” Uttley said.

But large networks have been reluctant to take on the financial risk of extending into areas where the payer mix includes fewer people with commercial insurance, and consolidation in recent years has increased their leverage.

Richard Gottfried, chair of the Assembly Health Committee, told City & State it was a “constant uphill fight” getting the major hospital systems to take on more low-income patients. “We would not have to fight that fight – or certainly nowhere near as much – if the poor person’s gallbladder was worth as much as the rich person’s gallbladder,” Gottfried said. “If the plan that covers rich people also covered low-income people, then the doctors and hospitals that take care of low-income people would not need special funding.”

Gottfried is known for being the Legislature’s leading proponent of the New York Health Act, which would

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establish a single-payer system in the state. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has opposed the bill, but Gottfried expressed optimism that a new class of progressive legislators in Albany was “going to be an enormous boost” for his cause.

New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera, who chairs the Committee on Hospitals and supports the bill, told City & State that “systemic racism and injustice” have “been allowed to fester in our state’s health care system.”

“I do think it’s New York’s responsibility to lead the way on this,” she said.

“I think there are big systemic problems that will take a lot of time to fix.”

Raske, for his part, acknowledged the need to invest more resources in underserved areas, but cautioned that it would be a mistake to “throw out the good aspects of our health care system.”

“Federal and state policy must provide adequate reimbursement for innercity hospitals, as well as hospitals that are in challenged communities, and it

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is because of the lack of adequate reimbursement that we have the problems with those institutions,” he said.

Since U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders built a progressive grassroots movement during the 2016 presidential campaign, support for a single-payer health system has grown on the left. Racial inequities laid bare by the pandemic, moreover, have galvanized social justice activists in New York and across the country. At the same time, appreciation for health care workers – and hospitals in general – has also risen in the country.

“Sometimes in the past, hospitals were not necessarily viewed as well as they are now – as not only a community resource, but the baseline defense for public health,” Raske said. “So our political stock has been raised enormously, and I think all elected officials across the United States are recognizing that.”

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MURKY BUSINESS A lack of transparency surrounds rising Medicaid costs in New York.

By Gabe Ponce de León

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YPICALLY, around a third of New

Yorkers rely on Medicaid for health coverage, which is one of the highest levels of enrollment in the country. Over the past year, however, the economic downturn has caused enrollment to swell by about 10%, which has raised the cost of the program at a time when the state finds itself under fiscal pressure, with a projected deficit of $60 billion over the next four years.

At the onset of the pandemic, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act established a 6.2% increase in the federal Medicaid matching rate that helps fund the program, which has provided the state with a temporary lifeline. Concerns about the program’s fiscal sustainability, however, predate the coronavirus pandemic.

In recent years, program costs had

“THE STATE ALLOWED COSTS TO SPIRAL BEYOND WHAT THE BUDGET SAID THEY SHOULD BE AND, IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY HADN’T BEEN TRANSPARENT ABOUT IT.”

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– Bill Hammond, senior fellow for health policy at Empire Center for Public Policy been rising more than the state publicly acknowledged, but it wasn’t until the summer of 2019 that the discrepancy came to light: Actual costs had increased 12% rather than the 4% that the state had budgeted. Earlier in the year, the state had postponed a $1.7 billion payment from March to April in order to maintain the appearance that the program had stayed on budget during the previous fiscal year.

“The state had allowed costs to spiral beyond what the budget said they should be and, in addition to that, they hadn’t been transparent about it,” said Bill Hammond, a senior fellow for health policy at Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank. “They just let that problem fester and disguised what was going on.”

After the budgetary imbalance was revealed, the governor reconvened the Medicaid Redesign Team, which during his

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ADJUSTED MEDICAID SPENDING IN NEW YORK STATE

* in millions Source: Citizens Budget Commission analysis of state Division of Budget data and the state's financial plans

$100,000

$80,000 GROSS TOTAL

PROJECTED

$60,000

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$20,000 STATE SHARE

LOCAL SHARE

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GROSS* FEDERAL STATE LOCAL

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2017

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2019

2020

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$49,769 $23,694 $17,713 $8,362

$57,155 $26,939 $21,595 $8,621

$52,856 $23,939 $20,764 $8,153

$54,784 $24,637 $21,368 $8,779

$60,572 $29,845 $22,001 $8,726

$61,540 $30,159 $22,622 $8,759

$65,794 $34,462 $22,989 $8,343

$69,446 $37,559 $23,938 $7,949

$74,215 $40,183 $25,516 $8,516

$76,258 $41,984 $25,921 $8,353

$80,679 $46,431 $26,917 $7,331

$82,979 $47,091 $28,681 $7,207

$83,916 $46,799 $29,739 $7,378

$86,280 $47,700 $31,288 $7,292

$87,225 $47,860 $32,331 $7,034

first term had recommended a global cap on outlays to limit the state-funded portion of the program’s costs. To realign true costs with the budgeted amount, the second MRT would need to identify savings of around $2.5 billion per year, but at the time the pandemic struck the state was still falling short of that target by about $1 billion.

In addition to precipitating a jump in Medicaid enrollment, the pandemic also caused shifts in care. In the executive budget released in January, the state noted that it had gained savings from lower utilization, yet total Medicaid spending is still projected to grow 8.4% this fiscal year – with New York on the hook for 3.6% of that increase – which raises concerns about how the state will fund the program once the enhanced federal matching comes to an end.

“That is obviously fiscally unsustainable – our revenues don’t grow like that – but what is the cause?” said Andrew

Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan fiscal monitor.

“Because the information is not being provided in detail, we can’t separate it into its components to see what has to do with care cost increasing, and what has to do with the number of people we’re serving.”

Rein said that in areas such as longterm care and personal care services, New York bore unusually high costs when compared with other states, but a lack of transparency around the program prevented outside observers from being able to make any assessments.

As budget watchdogs sound the alarm over rising costs, progressives claim that the real problem with Medicaid is that the state is spending too little on the program. Richard Gottfried, chair of the Assembly Health Committee, argues that the program has “suffered for years from underfunding.”

“In New York, Gov. Cuomo got us to enact a cap on Medicaid spending which has no relation to the true costs of health care,” he said.

Lara Kassel, the coordinator of Medicaid Matters, a statewide coalition that advocates for Medicaid recipients, told City & State that the program should have the flexibility to grow in order to “accommodate the needs of New Yorkers” and ensure that safety net hospitals are adequately funded. Kassel, who served on the first Medicaid Redesign Team, dismissed the global cap as “arbitrary.”

“Health care costs have been rising for a whole host of reasons, but Medicaid should not be a target for keeping costs at bay,” Kassel said. “Medicaid is not the reason health care costs are high.”

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Gabe Ponce de León is a journalist covering politics and policy in New York.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of Brooklynite AFC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/5/2021.

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LLC formed in California (CA) on 07/29/02. NYS fictitious name: LIME STUDIOS LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of Formation of SAFAA DAM LLC. Arts.

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Notice of Formation of SY HOME CARE CONSULTANTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/15/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6224 24th Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HCM Consultants, LLC filed with SSNY on February 15, 2021 . Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 20 Water Grant St, Apt 643 Yonkers NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of LVS III SPE XXXVII LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/08/21. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/13/19. Duration of LP is Perpetual.

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Notice of Formation of God In Gotham, LLC filed with SSNY on September 18, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2266 5TH AVE, #1249, NY, NY, 10037.

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Notice of Qualification of GIG US STORAGE HOLDINGS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/11/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/08/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of TRADITION BY BWB, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/21.

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SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207-2543. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BLOOM MEDIA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 1 Irving Pl., Apt. V27B, NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of Qualification of Transon Media LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/07/21. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in District of Columbia (DC) on 01/27/14.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Brothers Smith LLP, c/o David Pearson, 2033 N. Main St., Ste. 720, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Principal Office: 550 15th St., Ste. 31, San Francisco, CA 94103. Arts of Org. filed with the Superintendent of Corporations, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Ste. 419, Washington, DC 20004. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Keep It Tight, LLC filed with SSNY on October, 28 2020 Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 79 e 94th st, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Solutions By Sam, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/16/2020.

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SSNY mail process to Attention: Eric And Emmie Lee 245 East 87th St Apt 15a New York, NY, 10128.

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Notice of Formation of ALOHA KRAB OF SYRACUSE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/26/20.Office location: CAYUGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1 Destiny USA Dr Ste B110 Syracuse, NY, 13024. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 331 S. 4TH STREET LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/29/20.

Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process To C/O Blank Property Group Attn: Paul Caine 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400 New York, NY, 10001. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH MIDTOWN COLLECTION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas Llp Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 350 E 32 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O: Phillips Nizer Llp 485 Lexington Ave New York, NY, 10017. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BWB HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207- 2543.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 392 LEFFERTS AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/20/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1314 Fulton St Brooklyn, NY, 11216. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CMCC HOLDINGS LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/7/21. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 212 W 4th Ave Johnstown, NY, 12095. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1331 FINDLAY REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/5/18.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 127 Fores Rd Monroe, NY, 10950. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of D&S ON THE BAY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3099 Emmons Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1864 HARRISON AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/23/19.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 670 Myrtle Ave Ste 388 Brooklyn, NY, 11205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DISTILLATION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207-2543. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of DMC RENTALS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/13/21. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 7990 River Rd Baldwinsville, NY, 13027. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 193 MIDWOOD ST BROOKLYN, NY, 11225. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FERMENTATION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 80 State St Albany, NY, 12207-2543. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HONG LE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 941 55th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of JEFFREYOPS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/21. Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 23 Horizon Dr Saratoga Spring, NY, 12866-8777.

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Notice of Formation of LOEFFLER 10 PRINCE LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/30/19.

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SSNY mail process to 588 Broadway, Ste 1203 New York, NY, 10012. Any lawful purpose.

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Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 28 Liberty St New York, NY, 10005. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 31 ORIENT AVENUE LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/20.

Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Blank Property Group Attn: Paul Caine 7 Penn Plaza Ste 1400 New York, NY, 10001. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 47 ANJALI LOOP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/13/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 38 E. Broadway Apt 9 New York, NY, 10002. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 145 WELLS STREET LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/8/21.

Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 447 N Perry St Johnstown, NY, 12095. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of CS BLACKBIRD LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/25/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/14/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: C/O Spruce Capital Partners Llc 535 Madison Ave, 19th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 2632 EAST 22 STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/19/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2632 East 22 St Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S. ELITE CONSTRUCTION, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/17/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 239 South 1st.

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Notice of Formation of SMILING HEART CARE LLC. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/3/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 102 Skillman St Apt 3 Brooklyn, Ny, 11205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WAVE LIMIT LAB LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/26/21. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 3285B Richmond Ave Suite #352 Staten Island, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WAVELINE LAB LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/26/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 3285B Richmond Ave Suite #316 Staten Island, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of STMNTshop, LLC filed with SSNY on February 10, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to LLC: 243 Slater Blvd Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Broadway, Ste. 1703, NY, NY 10006. Address to be maintained in DE: Corporation Service Company, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities Notice of Formation of 2641 EAST 21 STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/12/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2641 East 21 St Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ALOHA KRAB OF HILLEL PL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/15/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 354 Myrtle Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CALL ME CORDOBA PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 220 Berkeley Place 4a Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Any lawful purpose.

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SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Broadway, Ste. 1703, NY, NY 10006. Address to be maintained in DE: Corporation Service Company, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of Landed Educators II, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/06/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/18/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Address to be maintained in DE: National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of WATSON DESIGN ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/11/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 105 West 72nd Street 9B New York, NY, 10023.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BROOKLYN BLON XLVI LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/14/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 365 Clinton Ave Apt. 4E Brooklyn, NY, 11238. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DARK KNIGHT EQUITIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/25/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1838 E 3rd St Brooklyn, NY, 11223. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KAIA INDUSTRIES LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/21/21.

Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 40 East 20th St 4th Floor New York, NY, 10003.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KAINZ PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/06/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 138A Classon Ave. #3 Brooklyn, NY, 11205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KEATSBRIDGE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/22/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 70 Vestry Street Apt 3E New York, NY, 10013. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SKW 6 E 74TH STREET LENDER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/7/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 134 West 25th St 5th Floor New York, NY, 10001.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Sara Levine Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on October 9, 2020. Office: Westchester County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 21 Half Moon Lane, Tarrytown, NY 10591. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of CMAP Industries LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 13, 2020. Location: New York. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC. 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, SUITE 1-086 BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 14221. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Katherine Nicole, LLC filed with SSNY on October 16,2020 Office: NY County. United States Corporation Agents Inc., designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

United States Corporation Agents shall mail copy of process to LLC: 3609 Broadway, Apt. 4J, New York, NY 10031. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of Del Ave 95 LLC, a limited liability company (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/30/20.

Office location is Richmond County and the SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process served to: the LLC, 61 Shotwell Ave, Staten Island, NY 10312. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 212 CITY SERVICES LLC. Arts. Of Org. f i l e d with SSNY on 1/26/21.

Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3285B Richmond Ave Suite #320 Staten Island, NY, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1334 58TH 1 STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1334 58th Street Unit 1 Brooklyn, NY, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1435 FULTON STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/03/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3522 15th Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of M & S REAL PROPERTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/6/20.

Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 608 Grooms Rd Clifton Park, NY, 12065. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 22 SARATOGA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/18/20. Office location: Warren SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 13 Fort Amherst Rd Glens Falls, NY, 12801.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SWASNAN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/5/20. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 90 State St Ste 700, Office 40, Albany, NY, 12207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ADNUNCIO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/22/21. Office location: ONONDAGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 4933 S Salina St Syracuse, NY, 13205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ALEX CARRER LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/20/21. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in NJ on 9/2/16. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 91 Ocean Parkway, 2A Brooklyn, NY, 11218. Arts. of Org. filed with NJ SOS. 33 West State Street Trenton, NJ 08608. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ATLANTIC RENTAL GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2140 West 5th St. Brooklyn, NY, 11223. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH CHADWICK LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/21/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH ORLEANS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on12/21/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP ATTN: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of AV-RH WARWICK ARMS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/21/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10022.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CENTURY TWENTY TWO NY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1583 Bay Ridge Parkway Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CJK HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/26/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O The Pace Companies 41 Box St Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DML US LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 140 58th Street Building B Unit 4E Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EMJ & H LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/2/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 68 Ocean Court Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MORITZ CAPITAL LLC . Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/1/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2315 Quentin Rd Brooklyn, NY, 11229.

Any lawful purpose.

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244 HALL ST, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 244 HALL ST, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/20/2015.

NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228.

Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of formation: 126 West 121st Street, LLC Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/05/2020 NY Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon to C/O the LLC: 2186 5th Avenue #11P, NY, NY 10037. Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Formation of REST INN, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/28/21. Office location: Oneida SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1216 Rahway Ave Avenel, NJ, 07001. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TL&WX GP LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 140 58th Street Building B Unit 4E Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of UMC PRED LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/22/20.

Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/17/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 150 East 52nd Street 25th Floor New York, NY, 10022.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WATERS VACATION RENTAL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/31/20. Office location: Orleans SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 10481 Mill Rd Medina, NY, 14103. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 7376 NY-28, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Tuttle Yick LLP 220 East 42nd St 29th Fl New York, NY, 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 12112 NY-23, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/30/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Tuttle Yick Llp 220 East 42nd St 29th Fl New York, NY, 10017.

Any lawful purpose.

Application for Authority of ABL Four, LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/26/2021. Formed in DE on 1/7/2021. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30 Montgomery St., Ste. 215, Jersey City, NJ 07302. The office address required to be maintained in DE is 614 N. DuPont Hwy., Ste. 210, Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of formation filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of AC NORTHTOWNE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/11/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 42 Box St #200 Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: ENDURANCE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 01/07/2021.

Office location: 427 BEDFORD ROAD, SUITE 110 PLEASANTVILLE, NEW YORK, 10570. Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 427 BEDFORD ROAD, SUITE 110 PLEASANTVILLE, NEW YORK, 10570. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

Notice of Formation of 17 STATE STREET PROPCO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/30/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Tuttle Yick LLP 220 East 42nd St 29th Fl New York, NY, 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MAXESS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/01/21. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Esther S. Weingarten, 799 Park Ave., 19C, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Rock Ridge Asset Management LLC filed with SSNY on January 29, 2021. Office:NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 55 West 14th Street #15G New York, NY 10011. Purpose:any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 31 MANOR DRIVE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Tuttle Yick LLP 220 East 42nd St 29th Fl New York, NY, 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SECOND VERNON MEMBER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/5/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to One Bryant Park, 49th Fl New York, NY, 10036.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PSC FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/2/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Reshma Shah 1540 Broadway New York, NY, 10036.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WX US LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 140 58th Street Building B Unit 4E Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of R&D VACATIONS RENTAL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/15. Office location: Orleans SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 10481 Mill Rd Medina, NY, 14103. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of A PLUS T LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/26/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 3285B Richmond Ave Ste #324 Staten Island, NY, 10312.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of CATALYST INVESTORS PARTNERS V, L.L.C. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/22/18. NYS fictitious name: CATALYST INVESTORS PARTNERS V (NY), L.L.C. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Catalyst Investors, 711 Fifth Ave., Ste. 600, NY, NY 10022.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19001.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Formation of Fidelis Enterprises, LLC filed with SSNY on March 19th, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 365 W 125th Street, Suite 2A, New York, NY 100279998. Purpose: Fidelis Enterprise partners with companies pursuing state & federal contracts earmarked for minority and/or veterans/disabled veterans Notice of Qualification of BUBBLE BUD INVESTOR GROUP 2 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/08/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/15/21. Princ. office of LLC: 28 W. 76th St., NY, NY 10023. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qual. of DESIRON HOLDINGS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/5/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in CO on 5/21/20.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with CO SOS.1700 Broadway, Ste 550 Denver CO 80290. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of JFI Law, PLLC, Articles of organization filed with the secretary of state on 02/10/2021.

Location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on PLLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Josephine, Franz, 411 Lafayette St, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1333605 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 905 Lorimer St, Suite 1, Brooklyn, NY 11222 for on premises consumption.

Xilonen 1 LLC Notice of Formation of HENRI MORTON LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/23/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to Attenton: Euan Menzies 60 Jane St New York, NY, 10014.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH SOHO APARTMENTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/5/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

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SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT – ROOM 507 31 CHAMBERS STREET NEW YORK, NY 10007 (646)386-5100 NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks’ Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; in-person appearances are limited at this time.

The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: − If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else. − If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear remotely (by using Microsoft Teams) or by telephone conference, or in person; OR 3. You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel.

March 1, 2021

SURROGATE’S COURT : NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK THE COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK CAROLYN ANGEL HANS RICHARD HANSEN A petition having been filed by STEVEN D. PRAGER, ESQ., as attorney-in-fact for JANICE LEE FEASTER, MARTIN B. HANSEN, MARY LYNN HAZEL, ROBERT W. HANSEN, KAREN D. MAHAN, MARILYN E. MACKAY, and ROSALYN A. MCELROY who is domiciled or in the case of a corporation, its principal office, at KRIEGER & PRAGER LLP. 39 BROADWAY - SUITE 920, NEW YORK, NY 10006 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County at 31 Chambers Street, Room 503, New York, New York, on April 2, 2021 at ten (10) o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of DEANNA SORENSON, lately domiciled in the County of New York, State of New York.

Directing the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York to release the sum of $233,921.21, plus interest as follows:

If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3).

To: Steven D. Prager, Esq., as attorney-in-fact for JANICE LEE FEASTER, 8.333(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: Steven D. Prager, Esq., as attorney-in-fact for MARTIN B. HANSEN, 8.333(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: Steven D. Prager, Esq., as attorney-in-fact for MARY LYNN HAZEL, 8.333(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: Steven D. Prager, Esq., as attorney-in-fact for ROBERT W. HANSEN, 8.333(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: Steven D. Prager, Esq., as attorney-in-fact for KAREN D. MAHAN, 8.333(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: HANS RICHARD HANSEN, 8.333(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: Steven D. Prager, Esq., as attorney-in-fact for MARILYN E. MACKAY, 16.666(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: Steven D. Prager, Esq., as attorney-in-fact for ROSALYN A. MCELROY, 16.666(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

To: CAROLYN ANGEL, 16.666(%) Percent of the funds on deposit.

If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested.

after deducting his lawful charges and commissions with interest from the last day credited, if any.

Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours. Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Misc_General@nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Miscellaneous Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication.

If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance. This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Miscellaneous Department of this court at the address listed above or through the efiling system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts.gov/efile.

If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Miscellaneous Department at Misc_General@nycourts.gov. Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice, but they are available to answer any question about procedure.

Dated, Attested and Sealed, HON. RITA MELLA, Surrogate February 11, 2021 _____________________________, (Seal) DIANA SANABRIA, Chief Clerk Name of Attorney: STEVEN D. PRAGER Telephone No.: (212) 363 2900

The Miscellaneous Department of the New York County Surrogate’s Address of Attorney: 39 BROADWAY SUITE 920 NEW YORK, NY 10006 Court NOTICE OF FORMATION [Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required OF Manzari Arts LLC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVto appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief Articles of Organization EN THAT A LICENSE, requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.] filed with the Secretary SERIAL # 1334032 FOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVof State of NY (SSNY) on LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER EN THAT A LICENSE, NOTICE OF FORMATION Notice of Formation of 12/17/2020. Office loca- HAS BEEN APPLIED SERIAL # 1333947 FOR OF Alex Prima, LLC. Ar- OR 107 EAST SECOND, Notice of Formation of tion: NEW YORK County. FOR BY THE UNDER- LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER ticles of Organization LLC. Arts. of Org. filed PRAKMATYA CAPITAL SSNY has been designat- SIGNED TO SELL LI- HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR filed with the Secretary with SSNY on 1/26/21. LLCArts. Of Org. filed ed as agent upon whom QUOR, WINE, & BEER BY THE UNDERSIGNED of State of NY (SSNY) on Office location: New York with SSNY on 2/4/21. process against it may AT RETAIL UNDER THE TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, 12/22/2020. Office Loca- SSNY desg. as agent of Office location: Kings BEVER- & BEER AT RETAIL UN- tion: NEW YORK County. LLC upon whom process SSNY desg. As agent of be served. The Post Of- ALCOHOLIC fice address to which the AGE CONTROL LAW AT DER THE ALCOHOLIC SSNY has been des- against it may be served. LLC upon whom process SSNY shall mail a copy of 105 MULBERRY ST NEW BEVERAGE CONTROL ignated as agent upon SSNY mail process to against it may be served any process against the YORK, NY 10013. NEW LAW AT 47 WITHERS ST whom process against it C/O: Phillips Nizer Llp SSNY mail process to LLC served upon him/ YORK COUNTY, FOR ON BROOKLYN, NY 11211. may be served. The prin- 485 Lexington Ave New 3109 Avenue K Brooklyn, CONSUMP- KINGS COUNTY, FOR cipal business address of York, NY, 10017.Any law- NY, 11210. Any lawful purher is: 7014 13th Avenue, PREMISE ON PREMISE CON- the LLC is: 146 East 35th ful purpose. pose.

Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY TION. SUMPTION. Street, 4C, New York NY 11228. The principal busi10016. Purpose: any lawCAFFE DE LA ness address of the LLC BABA COOL LLC. ful act or activity.

VENEZIA CORP. is: 511 W 169th Street #63 New York, NY 10032.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 75 feet on a 79-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 275277 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11212, collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 81 feet on a 84-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 250 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11223, and collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 59 feet on a 62-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 97 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11237. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Abigail MooreLee, a.moorelee@trileaf. com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, Georgia 30067, 678-6538673.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1331880 for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer wine, and cider at retail in a OP 252 the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 131 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 for on premises consumption.

Good Thanks Cafe LLC Notice of Formation of CLARENDON ONE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/23/21.

Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400 Harrison, NY, 10528.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of AVEC CAPITAL, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/09/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/11/08. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Noy Consulting LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/1/20.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 310 Riverside Dr. Ste 1106, NY, NY 10025.

R/A: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave,#202, BK, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MAINTENANCE TASK FORCE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/2020. Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC., 7015 13TH Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 The principal business address of the LLC is: 535 W. 150TH STREET, Apt. 24, New York, NY 10031. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of Valhalla Garden & Design, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Sec. of State of NY on 2/12/21. Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: c/o the LLC, 4218 Amboy Rd. SI, NY 10308. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ADVANCED INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/6/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2718 Ocean Ave Ste E1 Brooklyn, NY, 11229. Any lawful purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 110.3’, 117.3’ & 134.3’) on the building at 47 3rd Ave, New York, NY (20210071). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Notice of Qualification of LS ADMINISTRATION, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/21/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/11/21. Princ. office of LLC: 201 E. 86th St., #26A, NY, NY 10028.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of PAAMON W 53 NYC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/03/21.

Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: Museum Tower, 15 W. 53rd St., Unit 15H, NY, NY 10019.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of EIGHT60 LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 12/9/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/4/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: C/O ROMANOFF EQUITIES INC. 833 Washington Street 2nd Floor New York, NY, 10014. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Chrisman Imports LLC filed with SSNY on January 1, 2021. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 620 W42nd Street S20D NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Chrisman Research LLC filed with SSNY on January 1, 2021. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 620 W42nd Street S20D NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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ANDREW CUOMO Lindsey Boylan, a former aide to the governor and current Manhattan borough president candidate, accused Cuomo of sexual harassment in a damning essay that detailed a forced kiss and an invitation to play strip poker. The nursing home scandal is ongoing. And the heat on JCOPE has turned up. It takes a lot to end up a loser several weeks in a row – but adding Cuomo back on this list was a no-brainer.

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CY VANCE

PHILIP GRILLO

In a surprise to probably nobody but himself, Donald Trump lost yet again in court, and has to fork over his financial records and years of tax returns. There’s probably few happier than Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, who tweeted an ominous “the work continues.”

DAWNE MITCHELL

Some teens in homeless shelters, foster care facilities and juvenile detention centers are now officially able to get immunized against COVID-19. Mitchell, who heads The Legal Aid Society’s juvenile rights practice, had pressed for clarity on the matter to protect some of New York’s most vulnerable teenagers.

Nothing spells loser quite like getting arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol.

This Republican district leader from Queens was apprehended last week, shocking some of his colleagues who didn’t think he was that kind of Republican. Grillo calls himself “The Republican Messiah” on Facebook, so color us a little less surprised.

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DWEYNIE PAUL

Civil Court Judge Dweynie Paul stands accused of paying a home health care worker watching her mother as little as $2.29 an hour, sometimes for 24 hours a day. All told, Paul is accused of cheating the worker out of $264,000 in a lawsuit.

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MAYA WILEY The New York City mayoral hopeful and MSNBC star landed a major endorsement to bolster her campaign – and no, we’re not talking about Nicole Kidman. The city’s largest union, 1199SEIU, is backing Wiley’s run, delivering a much-needed boost for her campaign after falling short of a fundraising threshold to qualify for public matching funds.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s grand gesture of canceling the city’s contract with the Trump Organization to run the skating rinks wasn’t all it was cracked up to be – the contract was going to expire in April anyway, and his move to close the rinks would deprive New Yorkers of a rare outdoor activity in winter. Cooler heads prevailed, and the deal was smoothed over Zamboni style – the rinks will stay open.

Somehow, even on ice, de Blasio got burned.

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