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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

REPORTERS WHO SPEAK with undocumented immigrants know the challenges of winning their trust. These are people who are often called “invisible,” for the low profile they keep, even when they work out in the open and interact with their colleagues and neighbors.

Undocumented people are no exception when it comes to the ravages of COVID-19.

That’s why City & State approached several of these immigrants to learn how they were impacted by the pandemic in a story by Albany reporter Zach Williams featured in this week’s issue and co-published by Documented. Williams writes that the coronavirus brought undocumented immigrants “poverty, sickness or just bad luck.”

New York state’s newly agreed upon budget recognized this crisis and included $2.4 billion in rent relief and a $2.1 billion ”excluded workers” fund that will help undocumented immigrants who did not qualify for federal relief programs. While unprecedented in its scope, progressive lawmakers wanted even more money – another $1.4 billion – added to the fund. Without that additional funding, progressive policy experts, legislators and activists fear there will be holes in this newly cast expanded safety net, Williams writes.

The funding is expected to help some 300,000 New Yorkers who are eligible. Those already aware of it can apply. The rest will hopefully learn there’s help from their local lawmakers and advocates in their communities. It will require winning their trust, just in the same way Williams and the reporters who contributed to this report discovered. And it’s imperative this trust be earned soon, before the hope this relief promises is lost.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

STATE BUDGET … 8

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Did the $212B deal rise to meet this extraordinary moment?

FOR THE RECORD … 12 Kathryn Garcia is NYC’s go-to problem solver RACHEL MAY … 16

She showed the Dems how to win over upstate

UPSTATE POWER 100 … 22 Snow removal, waste control, food distribution: Kathryn Garcia has done it all.

The leaders taking the region to new heights

WINNERS & LOSERS … 62

Who was up and who was down last week

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Democratic state Sen. Robert Jackson, above, successfully got Foundation Aid school funding in the state budget.

THE STATE FINALLY HAS A BUDGET

It came seven days late, but New York approved a new state budget. The spending agreement totals $212 billion, larger than both the governor’s plan and proposals by the state Legislature. It includes $29.5 billion in school aid that for the first time fully funds Foundation Aid with a

$1.4 billion increase in funding. The bump in spending resolves the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that found some schools in the state were getting shortchanged. The budget also includes $2.4 billion for rent relief for those struggling during the pandemic and a $2.1 billion fund for undocumented workers who had been ineligible for unemployment

and federal COVID-19 relief.

The fund was one of the most contentious parts of the budget that was vehemently opposed by Republicans and was met with concern by some Democrats.

Another one of the sticking points was the legalization of mobile sports betting, which made it into the final budget. In addition to everything else, the budget included new taxes on the wealthy, including new tax rates for high-earners, that will raise $4.3 billion annually. Although it falls short of the $7 billion the Legislature had proposed, it still represented a victory for progressives and legislative Democrats.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo had long opposed tax hikes of any kind. Although the progressive left did not get everything they wanted, the budget deal was still a win

for the Legislature against a governor weakened by multiple scandals. Both chambers have Democratic supermajorities this year and they seemed willing to flex their influence in ways not seen in recent memory during the budget.

“This is going to be the first time I vote for a budget.”

– Assembly Member Charles Barron, a longtime budget dissident, via Twitter

THE ARTS ARE BAAACK New York City’s fight against COVID-19 may be stagnating, but the show must go on. Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated the reopening of theater and arts venues last week, including at an outdoor concert for health care workers. We’re not sure about the inspiration behind an art installation at Lincoln Center featuring sheep puppets, but it’s been a long year inside. We may need some practice flexing our artistic muscles.

“He decided to join the wrong party, but that’s his problem.”

– Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie joking with Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, via Twitter

NEW DETAILS ON CUOMO GROPING ALLEGATIONS

The aide who accused Cuomo of groping her provided additional details about the incident for the first time since the allegation came to light about a month ago. Although her name is still not public to protect her identity, the current Cuomo staffer detailed this and other experiences with the governor. The woman said that Cuomo had been grooming her for two years through increasingly inappropriate behavior that started with tight hugs and kisses on the cheek. In a newly detailed incident, the staffer described how the governor reached under her shirt and grabbed one of her breasts over her bra. She also described a separate incident when the governor asked to take a selfie, and then began to rub her butt when they got close for the picture. After the alleged groping took place, and after ex-staffer Lindsey Boylan first made her allegations of sexual harassment in December, the woman said Cuomo told her she can’t talk

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about anything he tells her, or “anything else.” The aide said she took this as a threat to keep quiet about the groping.

REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CHALLENGERS EMERGE

In the wake of budget negotiations that showcased a weakened governor amid multiple scandals, one Republican announced his intention to challenge him in 2022, while another suggested he might run. Rep. Lee Zeldin from Long Island, who had recently been rumored

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to seek the governor’s mansion, officially said that he would be running. The staunch Trump supporter rose to prominence for his defense of the thenpresident. Zeldin enters the race already with the support of both of the chairs of the Nassau and Suffolk County Republican parties. Meanwhile, Andrew Giuliani – son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani – said that he’s “heavily considering” running against Cuomo.

The younger Giuliani has no experience as an elected official, but did serve as an official in the Trump administration.

Rep. Lee Zeldin, a pro-Trump Republican who represents Long Island, announced he plans to run for governor.

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Robert Cornegy’s endorsements that weren’t In the crowded field to be the next Brooklyn borough president, New York City Council Member Robert Cornegy is increasingly standing out as the establishment choice. He has amassed a lengthy list of endorsements, including a number of state legislators, City Council colleagues and publicsector unions, and he enjoys the backing of many mainstays of the local machine, such as former Brooklyn Democratic Chair Frank Seddio and Assembly Member Erik Dilan.

However, Cornegy’s campaign has inflated its endorsement count: Three people who the campaign told City & State endorsed Cornegy have not done so.

City & State requested a list of endorsements recently from Cornegy’s team for a story about the borough president race. The list the campaign shared over email included former Chair of Community Board 10 Joanne Seminara, District Leader Christopher McCreight, who is also chief of staff to Council Member Justin Brannan, and District Leader Josue Pierre, who is running to replace City Council Member Mathieu Eugene.

After the story was published, City & State was contacted by sources stating that Seminara, McCreight and Pierre have not endorsed Cornegy for the race.

A staffer for Assembly Member

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A coalition of organizations supporting the aging, including LiveOn NY, host a 9:30 a.m. virtual forum for New York City mayoral candidates to discuss services for seniors.

State lawmakers reconvene for a twoday work week after getting some time off after passing the state budget.

INSIDE DOPE

State lawmakers worked around the clock in the final few days to pass the $212 billion budget deal about a week after the April 1 deadline.

Jo Anne Simon’s campaign for borough president reached out to clarify that Seminara has not endorsed Cornegy, but has endorsed Simon for the race.

City & State contacted Seminara, who confirmed that she has not endorsed Cornegy. She added, “I wholeheartedly support and endorse Jo Anne Simon.” City & State contacted McCreight, who said, “I have not endorsed Cornegy for the race.”

Pierre’s campaign contacted City & State to say that Pierre has not endorsed Cornegy or anybody else for borough president. “I mean we’ve had conversations, but there was no ‘Hey, I’m thinking of an endorsement’ or anything like that. So, I think there may have been some type of confusion, I don’t think they were trying to mislead someone,” Pierre said.

Cornegy’s team said in an emailed statement that the errors were accidental. “In identifying the long list of elected officials, issue advocates and community leaders who enthusiastically endorse Robert E. Cornegy Jr for Brooklyn Borough President, there were a few individuals inadvertently included. The Cornegy campaign is proud of its strong support across Brooklyn, and hopes to earn the endorsements of these people as well in the course of this campaign.”

– Sheneca Sharpe

FRIDAY 4/16 Rochester legislators join City & State to discuss the big issues affecting their constituents at a 10 a.m. virtual event sponsored

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STATE BUDGET

BY THE NUMBERS

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BREAKING DOWN THE $212 BILLION DEAL

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The amount of state aid to school districts, a $3 billion increase over last year

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2.1 $ BILLION The amount of money allocated to a relief fund for undocumented immigrants, who have been ineligible for other types of aid during the pandemic

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The number of new tax brackets created in the budget, for people earning over $5 million and over $25 million The size of the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, providing aid to renters

BILLION

New annual revenue from taxes on the wealthy and on businesses, but only $3.5 billion will be collected for the current fiscal year

BILLION

50,000 The number of people state Sen. Liz Krueger estimated will be affected by tax increases

$1 BILLION

Investments in small businesses, including $800 million in grants

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The best executive order I’m going to write is the one which lifts all the restrictions that remain.

A Q&A with with de Blasio counsel

KAPIL LONGANI

How did your job change after COVID-19 hit New York City last year?

Frankly, there is no law school class called “Pandemic Response 101.”

The scope of our work fundamentally shifted.

We’ve been working on COVID from March of last year until this very moment, 24/7. And the goal every single minute has been to protect the public health of all New Yorkers. It was about finding solutions to problems that nobody ever envisioned. Creativity was at a premium. How do you legally set up the largest testing and tracing operation in the entire country? How do

you legally set up checkpoints to ensure that travelers coming into New York City have filled out all the relevant forms and met quarantine restrictions?

How do you set up legal vaccine distribution hubs?

How do you govern?

One of the biggest shifts that took place (was) how, all of a sudden, government went from three branches and a system of checks and balances to really a one branch (of) government run by executive order, both at the state and the city level. My office was responsible for drafting every single executive order for the city. My

office’s job was to make sure that we did everything possible under the law to protect the public health of New Yorkers, but also respect the fact that the Constitution doesn’t die during a crisis.

Sometimes those executive orders triggered lawsuits, right?

We defended those lawsuits vigorously. Not because it gave us or the mayor any joy imposing the restrictions, but because it was about protecting the public.

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the Constitution they say doesn’t die – but the Constitution is also flexible.

It recognizes that there are times that the public good necessitates restrictions on our freedoms. But those questions are complex and necessitate a great deal of thought.

What work lies ahead for your office?

Look, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

A lot more people are taking advantage of the vaccines. I’ll just say that the best executive order I’m ever going to write and that the mayor’s going to sign is the one which lifts all the

restrictions that remain.

And no one wants to get there quicker than the mayor.

Is that going to happen before the end of the mayor’s final term later this year?

I think trying to predict this virus and trying to put down hard deadlines is really not wise. I think over and over how we’ve been shown that this virus is a tough enemy, even though the numbers are going down and our businesses are opening up. The mayor has put out a robust recovery plan and we’re not going to let our guard down.

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DOES THE STATE BUDGET RISE TO MEET THIS MOMENT?

By Zach Williams This story was co-published with Documented.

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ERTRUDES HAS NOT escaped the pain since the coronavirus pandemic began. She caught COVID-19 in mid-March of last year and endured five days hospitalized on oxygen. She threw out her mattress as soon as she returned home to the East Harlem studio apartment she shares with her three kids because she feared it might still hold the deadly virus. “I still sleep on the floor because we haven’t been able to save for a new one,” she said through an interpreter in a recent interview. And to make matters worse, the food cart vendor has to pay back nearly $10,000 in outstanding rent. It is quite a challenge for the 43-year-old single mother from Guerrero, Mexico, who asked that only her first name be used because she is undocumented.

There are many Gertrudes across a state of 19 million people, whether the coronavirus brought them poverty, sickness or just bad luck. Nearly one million New Yorkers remain out of work compared to last March.

Tens of thousands of tenants owe back rent.

Once bustling places like midtown Manhattan remain eerily empty. Nationally, more than half of small businesses have over $100,000 in debt. Multiple relief packages passed by Congress have funneled billions of dollars to struggling businesses and individuals, but not everyone has received the help they need. Those people are now depending on the state to deliver. “I still have not returned completely (to work),” Gertrudes said. “The pandemic has impacted my life. I have my children at home. My little daughter, I cannot leave her, so I cannot even go out.” She is holding out hope that the state government can help, considering how her immigration status limits her access to federal aid programs.

The $212 billion state budget agreement includes many items to advance the state’s recovery from the pandemic. There are initiatives to bridge the “digital divide,” a $2.4 billion rent relief program and a groundbreaking $2.1 billion fund for “excluded workers” to help undocumented people who did not qualify for federal COVID-19 relief programs.

Many people are nonetheless likely to fall through the holes in the expanded social safety net, according to interviews with more than two dozen progressive policy experts, legislators and activists. “To those that fought hard to set up roadblocks to eligibility, you won,” said Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes of Brooklyn on April 7, who joined a hunger strike in favor allocating an additional $1.4 billion to the excluded workers fund.

COVID-19 has lived up to its moniker

In January, protesters marched in Times Square to advocate for immigrant rights and to mourn those who died of COVID-19.

as the “Great Unequalizer.” Black families are twice as likely to be behind on rent and three times more likely to face hunger than their white counterparts, according to an April 5 report by the progressive think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. These disparities are particularly acute in New York, which has more ultrarich people than just about anywhere else on Earth, and some of the most segregated neighborhoods in the nation. The financial gains of the rich have continued through the pandemic as the stock market

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“I still sleep on the floor because we haven’t been able to save for a new one.”

– Gertrudes, an undocumented immigrant, who threw out her mattress after contracting COVID-19

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reaches record highs following a multitrillion-dollar injection of federal money into the battered economy.

These gains by the wealthy have turbocharged longtime efforts to address income inequality by raising their taxes, whether that involves personal income, inherited wealth, stock purchases, luxury yachts or Manhattan pieds-à-terre. “The state had many unmet needs prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the budget, therefore, must go further in raising revenue to maintain and expand vital services,” Jonas Shaende,

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chief economist of the liberal think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, told lawmakers at a February legislative hearing on taxes. Projected revenues in excess of $50 billion might have been overly optimistic, especially if higher taxes drive some rich New Yorkers out of the state, but higher taxes meant more money on the table.

After watching the centrist Democratic governor dominate the budget negotiation process during his first 10 years in office, liberal lawmakers seemed primed to finally get their way this year. A litany of scan-

– Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on the state’s pandemic recovery

dals have damaged Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s political standing, with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie overseeing an ongoing impeachment probe and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins having called for Cuomo’s resignation. Democrats also won a supermajority in the state Senate last year, to go along with an existing one in the Assembly, and some of the newest members of both chambers are more assertively progressive than most longtime legislators. And then there is the $12.6 billion influx in new federal aid that undermined Cuomo’s calls for fiscal restraint.

Even before the recent embarrassing headlines, Cuomo has been gradually embracing more progressive initiatives, and he adopted soaring rhetoric to describe his own agenda for the budget’s pandemic recovery measures. “We’re going to rebuild this state,” Cuomo said on April 5. “And not just rebuild it, we’re going to reimagine it. We’re going to reinvent it. We’re going to take it to a place it’s never been before.” Many proposals he outlined in January made it into the budget. Renewable energy projects like

Cuomo used pending budget negotiations as his justification for staying in office as prominent lawmakers called on him to resign.

offshore wind and new transmission lines will bring more green energy to downstate.

A new public health corps will join the ongoing fight against COVID-19. Pre-K education is getting expanded across the state.

Democratic legislators ended up prevailing over Cuomo’s reluctance to increase income taxes on people making more than $1 million per year, which is expected to raise $4.3 billion annually. Hundreds of millions of dollars in projected revenues could also come every year through the legalization of mobile sports betting. Revenues are also getting a boost from the recent legalization of recreational marijuana, though that money, like expanded gambling, will take years to materialize. Some of this money had to go toward plugging a multibillion-dollar state budget deficit inherited from the Before Times and made worse by the pandemic, but that still leaves billions to spend on expanded social programs.

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“We’re going to rebuild this state. We’re going to take it to a place it’s never been before.”

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BUDGET BREAKDOWN Cuomo’s proposal compared to the final budget

$193 billion

Cuomo’s proposed budget

$212 billion

Final budget

In other areas, however, compromises between the governor and the Legislature resulted in scaled-back ambition. Research by the Fiscal Policy Institute shows that society as a whole greatly benefits when undocumented immigrants are helped. “This new fund would provide money that allows people who can’t find a job to pay rent to landlords, electric bills to utility companies, and money at the register to grocery stores – all of which help keep the local economy afloat,” reads the report. But moderate Democrats ended up getting politically skittish about providing direct cash assistance to undocumented immigrants after Republicans began raising a fuss in the media. The fund received a little over half of the $3.5 billion that progressive lawmakers and activists wanted. “If the recovery isn’t for everyone, then no one recovers,” said Murad Awawdeh, interim co-executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, in an interview. “If we’re in it together at the worst part of our state’s history, we’ve got to be in it together as we come out of that.”

Efforts to expand broadband also fell short of what some said would be necessary to bridge the “digital divide,” especially given how COVID-19 has highlighted disparities in access to high-speed internet and technology. Affordable broadband is “essential to New York’s future – to advance education, secure the economic success of its residents and businesses, provide health care, and enable all New Yorkers to thrive,” reads a report released March 31 by the Reimagine New York Commission appointed by the governor a year ago and chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The final budget included funding for a Cuomo-backed initiative to subsidize $15 per month broadband service plans for low-income people. That low price beats the status quo, according to Brad Hansen, public policy director at the child advocacy group Families Together in New York State, but it still means that some people won’t be able to afford it. “I don’t really believe that $15 a month is what we should be going with,” he said in an interview.

“When you’re living off of $300 a week, that would be a tough call.”

Who does and does not benefit from the new social spending in the budget often comes down to issues of eligibility. The USA Today Network reported that undocumented people could receive up to $15,000 in benefits from the excluded workers fund if they have a taxpayer identification number, can prove state residency for at least 60 days and have earned less then $26,000 over the past year. It remains to be seen how low-income people will be able to access these new aid programs, especially if they work in the informal economy with little documentation of past and present earnings.

The new $2.4 billion rent relief program allows renters to receive aid as long as they

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otherwise meet eligibility requirements and their landlord agrees to accept the money, which requires landlords to agree to no rent increase for the subsequent year.

The federal government provided the vast majority of the $2.4 billion, with just $100 million coming from the state – one-quarter of the total originally sought by Democratic lawmakers.

New York has done a few novel things with rent relief, according to Cea Weaver, campaign coordinator of the tenant advocacy group Housing Justice for All. Landlords must agree to give up eviction efforts and grant tenants one-year lease renewals in order to be eligible to receive back rent from the state. Undocumented immigrants like Gertrudes will have the explicit right to apply. Yet, other rent programs unveiled over the past year have fallen short of legislators’ promises. A previous round of rent relief only allocated $7 million of the $60 million that was available. “The devil’s going to be in the details,” Weaver said in an interview. “I’m still really worried about how quick they are going to get the money out the door.”

Lawmakers appear to have beaten Cuomo in a yearslong fight over public school funding by securing a $1.4 billion boost in Foundation Aid for districts. An antiquated funding formula for public schools, which still uses 2000 census data, remains on the books.

The social safety net has caught Gertrudes and her three kids from hitting rock bottom at times. The hospital forgave her hefty medical bills. City schools provided tablets for online learning. She can buy groceries with the help of food stamps because her children are U.S. citizens.

But her 9-year-old son now fears going outside after a year spent largely inside a studio apartment in East Harlem. “I tell him ‘come with me,’ and he starts crying and says: ‘No, I’m not going out.’ I tell him: ‘We’re only going to the corner,’ and he says, “No, I’m not coming; I don’t want to die of COVID.’” While he eventually stepped outside, he still requires therapy, like many children across New York, which is one more thing for Gertrudes to manage along with her outstanding rent bill.

Her family has not survived the pandemic alone. A neighbor lent her money when she needed it most. A local community organization has helped her get diapers for her toddler. While she waits for help from the state, she sees many other people are struggling to get by. That puts things in perspective for her. “There are other neighbors who are going through the same struggle,” she added. “We meet in the same lines at the food pantries.”

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N LATE MARCH, New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang held a press conference at a salt shed in Manhattan, where road salt used by the Department of Sanitation is stored, to call for the department’s budget to be restored after cutbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While there, in an apparent faux pas, Yang took a photo standing on top of the mounds of salt, writing in a tweet, “Visiting the salt mines of New York City.” It didn’t take long for Kathryn Garcia, one of Yang’s opponents in the Democratic primary and the former sanitation commissioner, to tweet her own photo at the Spring Street salt shed, with a matter-offact reply befitting someone who has gotten her hands dirty. “Been there. Done that,” Garcia wrote. Yang was criticized online for standing on top of a mound of salt – a safety risk – while Garcia had resisted the urge to use the salt as a jungle gym in the press conference photo she tweeted.

The dueling photo ops put a fine point on the contrast between Garcia and Yang and the other primary candidates who lack her years of experience in public service. Garcia lacks the name recognition and fundraising prowess of Yang or other front-runners in the primary, but her long career in city government gives her an intimate knowledge of the nuts and bolts of how the city works. “I have been doing many of the roles that the mayor’s office is required to do,” Garcia told City & State in an interview last month.

Garcia developed a reputation as a go-to fixer, called on to tackle challenges like lead exposure in children and delivering meals during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to holding down top positions in the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Sanitation. Garcia’s tenure in those roles has been marked by some concrete achievements that both labor

and progressive activists applaud, such as spearheading sustainability initiatives and helping to reform the city’s inefficient commercial waste collection system. But some of those achievements have yet to be implemented, thanks to delays caused by the pandemic, meaning New Yorkers may not be able to see the results in time for the election.

Translating Garcia’s record to electoral momentum has proven difficult. Garcia has lagged in polls, and raised just shy of $600,000 in private funds, a sizable chunk of which came from city em-

Bloomberg, serving as chief operating officer of the Department of Environmental Protection. In that role, she oversaw the three main branches of the department: the Bureau of Water Supply, the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations, and the Bureau of Wastewater Treatment. Managing the department’s roughly 6,000 employees, Garcia displayed some of the qualities that win her admiration among rankand-file city employees. “Even back when her and I worked at DEP, her and I would be out, three o’clock in the morning, no matter what was going on,” said

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ployees, while front-runners including Yang and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams have raised millions.

Garcia served as commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department from 2014 up until last fall when she joined the Democratic primary race for mayor, marking her first foray into politics as a candidate. Sanitation is also where Garcia began her career in city government, working as an intern there in the early 1990s. Apart from a few positions in the nonprofit and private sectors, Garcia has largely worked in city government. Her first high-profile position came under then-Mayor Michael

James Roberts, the department’s former deputy commissioner for water and sewer operations, mentioning water main breaks and chlorine release incidents as just a few of the crises Garcia would regularly appear on the scene to help address.

Overseeing operations meant having a hand in both the nitty-gritty and strategic vision of the department, said Cas Holloway, a former DEP commissioner. HolloGarcia began her career in city government as an intern in 1990s.

Since then, she worked as the chief operating officer in the Department of Environmental Protection and led the Sanitation Department.

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“Even back when her and I worked at DEP, her and I would be out, three o’clock in the morning, no matter what was going on.”

– James Roberts, the former deputy commissioner for water and sewer operations at the Department of Environmental Protection, on responding to late-night water main breaks and other emergencies

way noted that he wasn’t endorsing any candidates in the race, but speaking to Garcia’s work in government. Foreshadowing an analytics-driven approach future colleagues would cite when describing her leadership, Garcia developed and managed H20Stat, a performance-metrics program like the NYPD’s CompStat, that the city credited with decreasing DEP’s response time to 311 complaints.

But the role that’s come to define Garcia’s career most is sanitation commissioner. The Department of Sanitation handles more than just trash collection, but being responsible for New York City’s garbage is a hefty duty on its own. “Sanitation is the type of job where they walk out the door every day and make a judgment about whether or not you’re doing a good job,” Garcia said.

“They see with their own eyes, did you plow the snow?

Did you pick up my garbage?

Does my street look clean?”

But for the past year, sidewalks dominated by mountains of trash bags and overflowing bins spilling out into the curb would seem to suggest that the judgment New Yorkers are making about the Department of Sanitation isn’t a positive one. Noticeable increases

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in trash piling up in the past year can likely be attributed to more than $100 million in cuts to the department’s budget over the summer, due to financial pressures caused by the pandemic. While Garcia spoke out against those cutbacks, there’s a risk to her campaign that New Yorkers will attribute a dirtier city to the candidate who recently ran the relevant department.

Colleagues, environmental advocates and labor leaders all said that Garcia was not only a competent and well-respected leader – “she gets stuff done” is an oft-repeated endorsement – but she also championed new programs at the department and helped pass major legislation.

Two of the most significant accomplishments Garcia had a hand in were the passage of the city’s waste equity law in 2018 and the commercial waste zones law in 2019, said New York City Council Member Antonio Reynoso, who chairs the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management. The first targeted the fact that the majority of the city’s trash was being dumped at waste transfer stations in low-income neighborhoods, and prohibited the creation of new waste transfer stations in neighborhoods that already handle 10% or more of the city’s trash. Reynoso said Garcia was instrumental in getting the private sanitation industry to come around to the idea of waste equity, which it had previously opposed.

“Once Kathryn and (New York City Council Speaker) Corey Johnson came out together supporting waste equity, the conversation with the private sanitation industry changed completely,” Reynoso said.

“They saw that this was going to happen.” He added they still tried to negotiate on the terms, rather than blocking it altogether. Reynoso said he is not endorsing any candidate in the Democratic primary for mayor.

The second law targeted one of the city’s long-standing inefficiencies in garbage collection: the collection of commercial

waste, a bloated and dangerous process that involves dozens of private companies carting trash on circuitous routes around the city. The 2019 City Council bill created 20 waste zones, relegating a limited number of private carters to each zone, with the aim of slashing truck traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. The implementation of commercial waste zones, however, has been delayed by the pandemic, and the procurement process to determine

“They see with their own eyes, did you plow the snow? Did you pick up my garbage? Does my street look clean?”

– New York City mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia

which private carters will participate is just now beginning.

Advocates said that Garcia’s no-nonsense leadership and good relationships with employees, advocates and the industry helped turn these ideas into actual policy. “Both of those things had been, in concept, batted around for years,” said Melissa Iachán, senior supervising counsel in the environmental justice program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, of the two laws. “But they never would have grown legs and been able to be turned from sort of lofty, ambitious progressive policy ideals into law, which is law on the books of New York City, without Kathryn’s pragmatism and leadership.”

Environmental advocates said Garcia also helped moved the needle on sustainability initiatives, overseeing the city’s curbside organic waste collection program – composting food scraps and yard

waste – though the program is still only voluntary. Garcia has pushed for mandating the program citywide, but has been met with hesitancy from the de Blasio administration, and pandemic budget cuts led to program’s suspension, with just a minimal amount of composting services restored.

Endorsements from the city’s sanitation unions also demonstrate the goodwill Garcia has won among sanitation workers. “She was the breath of fresh air that we needed,” said Ignazio Azzara, president of the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs Association. “She came in, she was innovative, she was proactive, she thought outside

the box.” Azzara credited Garcia with rewriting the department’s snow removal plan, and ensuring new equipment and trucks were purchased.

That’s not to say snow removal was flawless over Garcia’s six years of leading the department. Garcia faced criticism from the City Council for the city’s bungled response to a 2018 snowstorm, and trouble with clearing bike lanes of snow, though she said she pushed for the purchasing of smaller vehicles that plow bike lanes.

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Unlike other mayoral candidates making their first stops at New York City’s salt sheds, Garcia has been there, done that, as she put it.

mayor’s go-to person to tackle crises. She was appointed the senior adviser for citywide lead prevention in 2018, and developed a plan to screen every apartment in the city for lead exposure. De Blasio called on her again in 2019 to take over as interim chair of the New York City Housing Authority for a few months, where she was also tasked with fighting lead exposure in children.

Garcia’s campaign website said that new protocols she implemented led to a 21% reduction in childhood lead poisoning in 2019, but some advocates and lawyers in lead poisoning cases hesitated to attribute the declines entire-

ly to her work. “I think a lot of people can take credit for this, from organizers on the ground and parents who’ve spoken up,” said Matthew Chachere, staff attorney at the legal services nonprofit Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp., who helped draft the city’s 2004 lead ordinance. “I will give her credit that she listened, and I think she did go back to the agencies and the mayor and said, ‘We need to do a better job here, and here’s things we can do.’ And I give her credit for that.”

In the early days of the pandemic last spring, de Blasio called on Garcia to lead the city’s delivery of meals

to seniors and other homebound New Yorkers, and facilitate grab-and-go meals.

“Like with any new program, there were stumbling blocks, where there were food deliveries going to our seniors that were not nutritious, or were not full meals,” said Wayne Ho, president and CEO of the Chinese-American Planning Council, which worked on meal deliveries with Garcia. “(But) Kathryn responded quickly, and personally reached out to me to make sure we can find the proper vendors to do culturally appropriate meals for our seniors.”

(Ho said he wasn’t endorsing Garcia’s campaign, only

speaking to her performance as the food distribution czar.)

Garcia noted that not having a strong fundraising operation already in place was one disadvantage of being a first-time candidate. But some of her former colleagues and supporters said that while this may be Garcia’s first campaign, she’s well versed in the political skills required of a mayor.

Roberts, the former DEP deputy commissioner, mentioned Garcia’s experience working on the budget with the City Council and mayor’s office as just one example. “You can’t have any of the jobs that any of us have and not have political experience,” he said.

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TATE SEN. RACHEL MAY never planned to run for office, and when she finally did, she didn’t expect to win. The Syracuse resident spent her entire career in higher education, while dabbling in progressive political activism. But she decided to challenge seven-term incumbent state Sen. David Valesky in 2018 because he belonged to the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democrats that caucused with Republicans. Despite a deal that reunified the IDC with the mainline Democrats in April 2018, May was one of six successful challengers to the eight ex-IDC members and the only victorious one outside New York City.

Three years later, she is leading the state Legislature’s efforts to deal with the impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes. As chair of the Committee on Aging, she co-led hearings into the state’s policies that may have driven outbreaks in long-term care facilities, and she helped spearhead a major nursing home reform

package passed by the state Senate in February.

She’s also been one of the major voices responding to revelations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration obscured the extent of COVID-19-related deaths in nursing homes.

Since then, amid a bevy of other scandals, including sexual harassment allegations, May has called on Cuomo to resign.

May believes her leadership represents a shift for upstate New York. Upstate Democrats no longer need to run to the right to win elections and deliver for their districts – both the rural and urban parts.

Before her 2018 victory, there were only two other upstate Democratic state senators aside from Valesky: state Sens. Timothy Kennedy and Neil Breslin.

Last year, five upstate Democrats were newly elected to the state Senate, bringing the total of upstate Senate Democrats to eight and helping to deliver a supermajority for the party in the upper chamber.

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State Sen. Rachel May unseated an aisle-crossing moderate in 2018.

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Democrats in those areas are more likely to turn conservative,” May said. It’s the opposite, she said: Democrats get feisty.

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With a master’s degree from Oxford and a Ph.D. from Stanford, she began her career in academia, working as a professor of Russian language and literature at Stony Brook University on Long Island and Macalester College in Minnesota.

But she pivoted to learning more about ecology and sustainability after moving to Syracuse in 2001. She went on to become the director of sustainability education at Syracuse University, leading initiatives to incorporate sustainability into courses throughout the university.

Although she had never run for office before 2018, she was no stranger to politics and government. When she was growing up in Belmont, Massachusetts, her father was a historian and her mother was an aide to a state representative in Massachusetts.

She spent one summer when she was 12 or 13 helping her grandfather, a civil rights activist, prepare materials for a case about desegregating the Los Angeles city school district. “That was radicalizing for me,”

she said. “I started to understand a lot more about racial discrimination in our country but also about the legal and political and social activism dimensions of how you could make change or not make change.”

She spent years volunteering on various Democratic political campaigns, which she continued doing in Central New York, including for former Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei. May joined local progressive activist groups created in response to former President Donald Trump’s election in 2016, such as the CNY Solidarity Coalition and Uplift Syracuse.

May and other progressive activists began to direct their energy toward unseating the IDC and Valesky in 2017. She was among the constituents who gathered outside Valesky’s Syracuse office in May that year to hold a faux funeral for legislation on single-payer health care and voting reform that failed to pass that year. “We think it’s just wrong that Republicans are calling the shots in the Senate,” May said then to WRVO, a local NPR affiliate.

Maurice Brown, a founding member of Uplift Syracuse, said much of that year was spent trying to pressure Valesky into supporting the implementation of early voting in New York. After they failed to sway him into backing the legislation, they focused

on having a candidate take him on in the primary. “We spoke about it as a group,” Brown said. “And it made the most sense that Rachel should have been the candidate because she’s so qualified in so many ways.”

But May and others also looked for other possible candidates to recruit, as she dealt with some initial hesitancy running for office. She never considered herself a natural politician. “I’m really a pretty shy and introverted person, and I can’t remember people’s names to save my life,” she said.

“The prospect of actually having to go to big political events and things was terrifying to me, but I’m getting used to it.”

At the start of 2018, May decided to jump into the race. But she had no expectation initially that she would win against Valesky, running mostly to pressure him to shift leftward. “Quite frankly, the idea that anybody could actually beat David Valesky was, let’s just say it was not in the cards,” said Ken Warner, the former upstate regional political director for the Working Families Party, which endorsed May. “But part of the idea was to scare the crap out of people and to let them know that there were people out there who didn’t agree with their politics.”

Although the 53rd District is largely Democratic, conventional wisdom held

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that its voters tended to skew more moderate. Valesky’s predecessor Nancy Larraine Hoffmann, for example, was a Democrat-turned-Republican who adopted both conservative and liberal positions. Valesky pitched himself as a moderate whose membership in the IDC helped him cut bipartisan deals and ensure that upstate wasn’t forgotten by the state Senate leadership, as some upstaters feared it would be under Democratic control.

What makes the district distinct is its wide geographic and demographic diversity: It spans across most of Syracuse, the state’s fifth largest city, its suburbs and all of rural Madison County. Constituents in-

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clude farmers and liberal professors at the many colleges scattered across the district.

Syracuse alone has three state universities and two private universities, while Colgate University and SUNY Morrisville reside beyond the city limits.

It’s also an area that has historically struggled with poverty and significant population loss, though that has slowed in recent years. Syracuse ranks among the cities with highest poverty rates in the nation, with 30.5% of its population living below the poverty line, disproportionately affecting its Black and Latino residents.

“There are appealing things about the progressive agenda that May and others have

that speaks to the economic struggles of places in the city of Syracuse,” said Shana Kushner Gadarian, a political science professor at Syracuse University. “That may be less appealing to people, say in the far suburbs, north of the city.”

The Rust Belt city remains the core of the Democratic base for the district. More than 78% of the district’s active Democratic voters come from Onondaga County, where the city is located. The blue lean is out of sync with Central New York at large, in which more rural districts are represented by Republicans. Onondaga County’s legislature is Republican-led, and congressional Republicans in the area have largely survived strong Democratic challenges. Republican Rep. John Katko, who represents Syracuse, fended off Democrat Dana Balter, who has been an organizer with CNY Solidarity Coalition and taught at Syracuse University, in both of the past

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two elections. In the adjoining district, Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi lost his seat to his Republican predecessor, Rep. Claudia Tenney, this past year.

Syracuse was bound to be the key to victory for May. “I started looking at the primary voters in that district,” Warner said.

“And the more I looked at them, the more I realized that of the approximately 11,000 people who could be counted on to vote, 9,000 of them lived within three miles of Rachel’s house, because they’re all in the city of Syracuse.” Valesky, on the other hand, lived in Oneida County.

May also benefited by having access to statewide progressive groups backing the wave of anti-IDC candidates downstate.

She went down to New York City to get guidance on campaigning from No IDC NY in addition to other support from the Working Families Party. May even joined Toastmasters, a club that helps participants improve their public speaking, to prepare for the campaign trail.

Still, Valesky was a 14-year incumbent who had delivered on bringing back pork for the district. And the cash advantage he had was stark. As of August 2018, one month before the primary, he had about 10 times that amount of cash on hand that May did.

Despite Valesky’s alliance with Republicans, local Democratic officials backed him with one exception: the Oneida County Democratic Committee. Just two towns in Oneida County are located in the 53rd District. That quirk meant that about 20 Democrats in the town of Kirkland, largely frustrated by the IDC, could swing the county’s endorsement to May. But the county party faced blowback from virtually all the other local power players. “I fielded calls from the executive director of the state (Democratic) Committee, from the chair of the state committee, from my fellow county chairs and the other counties in the district, from a couple of union people,” said Bill Thickstun, a Kirkland resident and the chair of the Oneida County Democratic Committee at the time. “So a fair number of calls questioning our decisions.”

Jen DeWeerth, member of the Kirkland Democratic Committee and Indivisible Mohawk Valley, said the pressure to not endorse May felt daunting, as some callers threatened to put out negative statements about the Kirkland Democrats and said backing May would displease Cuomo.

“The punishments seemed enormous for, you know, a bunch of people in a small town in upstate New York to face.”

Ultimately, May rode into office on the progressive wave that defined 2018, with 51.8% of the vote to Valesky’s 48.2%. And she joined five other Democrats, all from downstate, in successfully toppling for-

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S A REPRESENTATIVE, May is now responsible for balancing the competing ideologies and perspectives in the district.

She made her case as a candidate to push for progressive legislation typically associated with downstate Democrats, while also representing parts of rural Central New York.

“I think there was some initial reluctance among some moderate Democrats when Sen. May took office,” said Luke Perry, a political science professor at Utica College. “Coming from the Syracuse progressive contingent was less appealing to these moderate rural Democrats, again predominantly male.”

But May has tried to strike that balance by taking on legislation focused on rural issues as chair of the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources. She led a hearing in 2019 on rural broadband access and passed a bill through the state Legislature – that was later vetoed by the governor – to direct the state to study the possibility of implementing a municipal broadband program in New York.

“Once I was elected, I spent enormous energy and whatever political capital I had on making sure that my downstate colleagues understood what were the issues up here,” May said.

For example, May invited state Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Queens resident who had also defeated an ex-IDC member, to visit farms and hold hearings in May’s district related to Ramos’ legislation that gave farmworkers collective bargaining rights and overtime pay.

May has also made an effort to bring renewed focus to the concerns of upstate cities, having suggested that the state Senate create a new committee focused on cities other than New York City. That committee, chaired by first-term Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Cooney of Rochester, was created this year. “I honestly think that Rachel May’s election opened the door to a brandnew conversation about revitalizing urban areas across New York state,” Ramos said.

“I know there’s a bit of divide, and I know people in rural areas think that cities are somehow the enemy,” May said. “But these cities are magnets for refugees, they’re magnets for young people to come and live here and if we’re going to get our population back, it’s going to start in the cities.”

May’s Republican opponent last year, Sam Rodgers, has argued that her progressive politics don’t serve the diverse ideological interests of the 53rd District. “I think the district would benefit from a moderate thinker, someone who’s willing to come to the table without their mind made up, sit and listen and communicate and ask the

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“I honestly think that Rachel May’s election opened the door to a brand-new conversation about revitalizing urban areas across New York state.”

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right questions and really represent that whole spectrum,” he told City & State. For him, that means being willing to break with party leadership to ensure downstate Democrats aren’t setting the agenda.

The greatest political challenge May has faced so far during her tenure began with the COVID-19 pandemic. As the coronavirus spread rapidly across New York last spring, it was immediately clear that older adults in long-term care facilities were at the greatest risk of hospitalization and death. By June, data showed that deaths in nursing homes accounted for one-third of all coronavirus-related deaths nationwide. The issue, naturally, became a central one for May as the chair of the Senate’s Committee on Aging.

Cuomo’s approach to stymying the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes drew scrutiny immediately. Faced with limited hospital beds, as New York became an epicenter for COVID-19, the state issued an advisory in March directing nursing homes to accept patients who had or were suspected of having COVID-19 if they were medically stable. Nursing homes were also prohibited from requiring those patients to be tested for the coronavirus before arriving. The state eventually ended the order, after criticism that the policy may have worsened the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

While experts have called the directive ill-advised, they also say that it wasn’t the most significant or sole driver of COVID19 deaths in long-term care facilities. But Cuomo hardly did himself any favors by signing off on a state budget in April 2020 that granted new immunity protections for nursing homes or by obscuring the number of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes for months, as the state excluded the deaths of nursing home residents in hospitals from the official tally.

Rodgers soon made nursing homes a major focus of his campaign against May. “I’m running against the chair of the Aging Committee,” said Rodgers, about his perspective

at the time, “and she’s not saying anything to the governor or to her party, that I can see, to make a difference in what’s going on with COVID-19 in nursing homes.”

May did sign a letter last June calling on the governor to provide more transparent data about COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes and to take on more reforms.

But more of her energy has been focused on legislative approaches to addressing the health crisis in nursing homes than Cuomo’s stonewalling. “From my perspective as a policymaker, the numbers were important for accountability,” May said. “But they weren’t that important for policy, and I was really focused on the policy.”

She introduced a bevy of bills focused on nursing homes and long-term care, including one signed into law this month to allow designated caregivers to visit their loved ones in nursing homes. In an August hearing where several legislators grilled the state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker for missing data, May asked about how the state would address low staffing levels in nursing homes and protections for

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An activist and a scholar of Russian language and literature, May primaried Valesky in the hopes of pushing him further left.

She didn’t expect to win.

workers in those facilities.

The state finally released the data earlier this year after a damning report from state Attorney General Letitia James suggesting a significant number of deaths were omitted from official tallies and a successful lawsuit from a conservative think tank mandated the release of the numbers. The state ultimately added about 3,800 deaths to its total, increasing the official number by more than 40%.

But the scandal really began to heat up after a Feb. 10, 2021 private meeting between Cuomo officials and several state lawmakers – including May – in which Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa admitted that the main reason the administration held off on giving them a full accounting was a fear that then-President Donald Trump would have used it as fuel for a federal investigation.

In the meeting, May reacted with frustration about the lack of transparency, according to a transcript later released by the governor’s office. “We were in difficult reelection campaigns and getting hammered

about this every single day,” she said. “The issue for me, the biggest issue of all, is feeling like I needed to defend, or at least not attack, an administration that was appearing to be covering something up. In a pandemic when you want the public to trust the public health officials and there is (a) clear feeling that they’re not being forthcoming with you, that is really hard.”

For her former Republican opponent, her statements on the call validated his concerns that she withheld stronger criticisms about the governor until it became more politically expedient after the release of the attorney general’s report. “In the meeting with Melissa DeRosa, it seemed pretty clear that there’s a political aspect to it,” Rodgers said.

May said her comments were more out of concern that more aggressive criticism would’ve hurt trust in the state’s health mandates during the pandemic. “I didn’t want to be using my whole campaign to tear them down,” she said. “I wanted people to continue to listen to the guidance that was coming from the state Health Department. And so it was really hard. If you’re a

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legislator, you are trying to be responsible, you are trying to stay calm and not go overboard about criticizing the people who we needed to be able to trust.”

(Although May’s reelection fight was tougher than many faced by Democrats in safe New York City seats, she won with 54.8% of the vote to Rodgers’ 44.2%.)

State Sen. James Skoufis, who co-led hearings on nursing homes with May, said her comment reflected an understandable exasperation. “She, as a very thoughtful legislator, wants to legislate and not deal with being asked about things out of her control every other day and every which way.” He added that Democrats in that meeting and elsewhere have asked tough questions about the state’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

What cemented May’s frustration was the revelation that top aides in Cuomo’s administration scrubbed the complete count of nursing home deaths from a state report released in July 2020 according to reporting from The New York Times on March 4. The day after the article’s publication, she declared that, if true, everyone involved in the cover-up, including the governor, should resign.

“That’s, for me, even more damning in a way that it shows something,” May said.

“A level of disrespect of the process and of the public and of the Legislature was even greater than we thought it was.”

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AY’S ARGUMENT THAT her victory represents a blue shift for upstate is still difficult to discern. The two election cycles that put her and several other upstate Democrats in elected office overlapped with elections that saw heightened Democratic turnout against an unpopular Republican president. Whether that leftward pivot continues afterward remains to be seen.

But there is one area that could help cement the Democratic upstate caucus: redistricting.

“I think it’s likely that the Democrats who are in charge of this process … are going to draw more districts like May’s district, and fewer districts that have big pieces of rural areas mixed in with urban areas,” said Gadarian, of Syracuse University.

Whether or not upstate moves toward the Democrats, May is determined to prove to upstate that Democrats are moving toward it, and prioritizing its needs.

For a self-described shy legislator, May feels like she has found her voice. “When you start really focusing on other people in there, the issues that they have and figuring out the solutions,” she said, “then a lot of the self-doubt kind of falls away.”

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The upstate leaders navigating the coronavirus pandemic.

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H A T E X A C T L Y I S upstate New York? Some say it’s anywhere outside of New York City, starting just north of the Bronx. Others say it’s beyond Westchester.

Still others point to Poughkeepsie, excluding much of the Hudson Valley. To further complicate matters, is Western New York part of upstate – or its own distinct region?

When City & State decided to create an Upstate Power 100 list, we had to draw the lines somewhere. We left out New York City and Long Island, of course, and ultimately omitted Westchester,

in part because we already publish a power list for that county.

We also excluded Western New York – and the cities of Buffalo and Rochester – since we’re planning our first Western New York Power 100 later this year. While you may disagree with these boundaries, it’s indisputable that upstate is the home to many influential power players in New York’s political arena.

Our inaugural Upstate Power 100 features an impressive array of elected officials, business executives, educators, advocates and many others who have upstate New York on the upswing.

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Chuck Schumer visits all 62 counties in New York every year.

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U.S. SENATE; THE OFFICE OF SENATOR GILLIBRAND

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Every year the Brooklyn-born senator visits the state’s 62 counties, a streak that didn’t change last year during the coronavirus pandemic. Even though the new majority leader is busy pushing President Joe Biden’s agenda through a 50-50 Senate, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer still visited a bistro in Camillus to hawk federal COVID-19 relief for restaurants, and secured $37 million for the state’s

regional airports. Speculation about a primary challenge from Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez continues.

2 ANDREW CUOMO & KATHY HOCHUL Governor; Lieutenant Governor For much of his decadelong reign, the downstatebred governor showered attention on upstate New York by pumping millions of state dollars into economic development efforts, bolstering its dairy farms and

Hochul navigates Cuomo’s scandals as his colleague and possible successor.

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Kirsten Gillibrand now sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

craft breweries and promoting areas like the Erie Canal as tourism destinations. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s multitude of sexual harassment allegations and handling of nursing home COVID-19 cases has prompted Congress members, state legislators and New York’s senators to demand his resignation while prompting several Republican Congress members to mull challenging him in 2022.

New Yorkers dreaming of life after a decade of Cuomonian rule may soon get their wish, but the erstwhile congresswoman from Buffalo is walking a tightrope preparing for a possible transition without angering her volatile partner in governance. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is certainly familiar with the state’s needs, having crisscrossed upstate counties promoting the governor’s agenda for years, but wrangling with the state Legislature over the budget and advancing her

own priorities would be new territory.

3 KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND U.S. Senator U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand brought national attention to the Capital Region when she opened her presidential campaign office in downtown Troy in 2019. The junior senator from New York never gained traction on the campaign trail, but she landed a position on the Senate Intelligence Committee. She’ll look to overhaul the military justice system and secure more funding for opioid addiction treatment now that she’s in the majority. She also started hunting for a new home in the Lake Placid area last summer.

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keeping his eye on ensuring businesses in his Hudson Valley district can tap into federal PPP loans to survive the pandemic while also protecting firefighters from chemicals in flame-retardant foam.

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Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, who as majority leader unofficially represents the Assembly Democrats’ upstate contingent, just secured a landmark deal to legalize recreational marijuana.

She also pushed successfully to limit Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers granted a year ago during the coronavirus pandemic’s peak. The Buffalo lawmaker won’t jettison Cuomo just yet, having drafted a letter calling for her peers to let the state attorney general’s workplace harassment investigation play out.

JIM MALATRAS CHANCELLOR The State University of New York Jim Malatras joined the governor’s COVID-19 task force last spring and was named SUNY chancellor

PRESIDENT New York State United Teachers State educators reelected Andrew Pallotta last May as schools shifted to remote learning amid pandemic closures. His first task was proposing extensive safety protocols for reopening schools in the fall – and what to do if positive coronavirus tests abound. Pallotta has since called for tax increases to fund the state’s recovery, demanded more COVID-19 testing in schools this spring and fought with the Biden administration over requiring standardized testing this year.

Crystal PeoplesStokes pushed to limit Cuomo’s powers.

in August. Applications are down 20% across the system, but the longtime Cuomo loyalist hopes to attract a diverse cohort by eliminating application fees for lowincome students, signing up eligible students for food assistance programs and expanding academic and social programs that support students of color. In late March, Malatras said SUNY campuses could fully resume

Cilento’s labor union advocacy is challenged by the rise of the gig economy.

8 in-person courses this fall if vaccination rates are high enough.

6 SEAN PATRICK MALONEY Member of Congress The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee leader is already running TV ads to preserve the Democrats’ House majority in 2022 by branding Republicans as the party of QAnon and fringe conspiracy theories. But Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney is

MARIO CILENTO PRESIDENT New York State AFL-CIO Mario Cilento’s top priorities last year of strengthening health care benefits and improving COVID-related safety protections for workers have continued through 2021. But the state AFL-CIO has existential challenges too. Union membership in New York shrank for the third year in a row in 2020 and unemployment remains high. Labor’s biggest threat comes from the rise of the gig economy, and a fight over employment benefits for gig workers looms.

SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE; LIBBY MARCH

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for vowing to remove a Christopher Columbus statue from downtown Syracuse, and his police reform plan could rile up others.

RAY HALBRITTER

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Oneida Nation Representative and Oneida Nation Enterprises CEO

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MARTHA POLLACK PRESIDENT Cornell University

Ray Halbritter convinced many sports teams to remove derogatory mascots.

state highways. Thruway Authority head Matt Driscoll led the $355 million effort to convert tollbooths to gantries, which began in 2018.

But Driscoll’s attention has recently turned to questions over the structural integrity of the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge after several bolts broke and a whistleblower complained about safety.

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COUNTY EXECUTIVES Dutchess, Albany, Onondaga, Orange, Ulster, Putnam and Rockland counties

BEN WALSH Mayor of Syracuse

See profiles on page 29.

11 MATTHEW DRISCOLL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York State Thruway Authority Drivers don’t have to stop and chuck loose change into a toll booth anymore now that the Thruway Authority is eliminating cash tolls on

workers had enough PPE and residents were fed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Now the mayor plans to break ground on the Albany Skyway this year and revitalize parks while speeding up vaccinations. A spike in gun violence during the pandemic and a new framework for police reforms also demanded her attention.

The state’s second largest private employer faced losing $210 million in the 2020-2021 school year due to pandemic-related costs.

Cornell President Martha Pollack shifted classes to remote learning last March and spent $5 million to ensure in-person classes could resume in the fall. Last month, the school’s COVID-19 alert level was low to moderate.

Pollack announced that the university balanced its budget by temporarily cutting faculty salaries.

15 PAUL TONKO Member of Congress One of Congress’ few engineers, Rep. Paul Tonko was tapped to lead a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee focused on climate change, putting the Capital district veteran in a position to pass the CLEAN Future Act and transform the manufacturing and transportation sectors to create new green jobs. Tonko also announced that the COVID-19 Relief Bill would provide $440 million for the Capital Region and $50 million for Saratoga County.

Mayor of Albany

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, who was elected as an independent, is in good shape for his reelection, having amassed 10 times as much money as his opponents. But Walsh has had to strike a balance in supporting but not committing to a wealth tax while courting the progressive Working Families Party.

He has angered activists

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s ambitious plans for the state capital were put on hold last year as the city sought to ensure frontline

Tonko is one of only a few engineers in Congress.

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Ray Halbritter has used his perch as head of an Iroquois Confederacy nation to promote positive portrayals of Native Americans in media and culture. The Oneida Nation leader convinced professional sports teams in Washington, D.C., and Cleveland to remove derogatory mascots last year. He also launched a film and TV production company to champion Native and Indigenous peoples’ stories and led efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.

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a price for it back home. A censure effort from Cayuga County Republicans failed while another Republican group purchased a billboard outside Syracuse thanking him for his vote. Katko moved on, chiding President Joe Biden for halting deportations and border-wall construction and calling for the president to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics over China’s religious oppression.

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Antonio Delgado called for a probe into Cuomo’s nursing home scandal.

ANTONIO DELGADO Member of Congress The Catskills Democrat won reelection in November by nearly 20,000 votes after flipping the Republican-held seat in 2018. Since then, Rep. Antonio Delgado has visited front-line health care workers in five counties, introduced legislation to keep rural hospitals afloat and called for a probe into the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing home COVID-19 deaths. He’ll also handle a lot of farm-related issues as chair of a House Agriculture subcommittee on commodities.

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freshmen members to the House leadership and has an open line of communication with the president’s chief of staff. So far, Mondaire Jones is working to advance policies benefiting the city’s increasingly far-flung suburbs, like removing the cap on SALT deductions and canceling tens of thousands of dollars in student debt.

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The once moderate North Country Congress member became one of President Trump’s staunchest supporters, objecting to the results of the presidential election and calling Trump’s second impeachment trial “unconstitutional.” Rep. Elise Stefanik nearly nabbed a seat in the House leadership.

Now she’s being floated as a Republican gubernatorial candidate after calling Gov. Andrew Cuomo the “worst governor in America,” and demanding he resign after his administration’s nursing home data cover-up and repeated harassment incidents.

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The Rockland County Congress member is a newly minted member of The Squad, was selected to represent

Rep. John Katko was among the moderate cluster of Republicans who impeached Trump, but he has not paid

The Business Council of New York State New York state’s preeminent business advocate, who

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SVANTE MYRICK Mayor of Ithaca Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick made history as his city’s youngest mayor and the first person of color in the office.

He’s still making headlines, including a GQ feature on his plan to replace the city’s 63-person police department with a civilian public safety agency. Last year he warned of the impact that remote learning at Cornell University and Ithaca College would have on the local economy, but both schools ultimately resumed some in-person learning.

Katko has called for Biden to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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lives on a horse farm in Rensselaer, worries that COVID-19 pandemic closures have unduly strained working mothers and small businesses.

Heather Briccetti warned about the economic dangers of prolonged shutdowns and called for more funding for childcare services to help stressed out parents. She criticized tax hikes on the rich in the new state budget.

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OUNTY EXECUTIVES in New York often bemoan the mandates imposed on them by the state, with Medicaid costs taking up a huge share of their budgets and the state’s property tax cap limiting their fiscal flexibility. But as the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, these local elected leaders play a critical role in the lives of their constituents – and their posts can also be a springboard to run for higher office.

One of the most recognizable county executives in the state is Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro (center), who fell short as the Republican standardbearer challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018. He is contemplating a rematch and called for the state Legislature to impeach the governor over the nursing home scandal.

In the meantime, Molinaro convened a reapportionment meeting, pushed his county legislature to upgrade Dutchess Stadium and promoted stabilization centers for people experiencing mental health crises. He’s urging everyone to get vaccinated amid the discovery of the U.K. COVID-19 variant in Dutchess County.

Another outspoken county executive is Albany County Executive Dan McCoy (top left), a local Democratic power broker who used to lead the New York State County Executives Association.

McCoy has been consumed by an exhausting parade of

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pandemic-related shutdowns, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, which were the subject of scores of public briefings. But sunnier times are ahead. Now McCoy’s announcements include vaccination clinic locations.

And his annual State of the County address focused on Albany’s economic recovery by studying countywide broadband service, supporting offshore wind towers and creating a pharmacy focused on mental health.

Daily briefings on COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths took a toll on Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon (top middle), who experienced double vision after shoveling snow on a Sunday in February. As McMahon got back to work, he praised the county’s declining COVID-19 positivity rate and pressed the state to loosen vaccination eligibility. McMahon, whose county includes Syracuse, now has to grapple with the $26 million tenants owe landlords in unpaid rent.

In the Hudson Valley, Orange County Executive Stephen Neuhaus (top right), Ulster County Executive Patrick Ryan (bottom left), Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell (bottom middle) and Rockland County Executive Ed Day (bottom right) have been doing all they can to help their constituents survive COVID-19, from advocating for federal aid to providing vaccinations to pursuing economic development strategies to recover from the pandemic.

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for years. As a member of the state’s Climate Action Council panel on power generation, she’s pressing for grid flexibility and demand response to help New York reach its renewable energy goals.

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in October, and it was far from the only crisis he has faced in the past year. David’s Southern Tier city, which is the urban center in a region that has long been economically depressed, also faced periodic coronavirus outbreaks, flooding on Christmas after a record-breaking snowstorm and the threat of budget cuts from the state budget. This year David is more optimistic and has set ambitious goals of fixing city roads and infrastructure.

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23 GAVIN DONOHUE PRESIDENT AND CEO Independent Power Producers of New York Gavin Donohue is one of the few energy industry leaders shaping the state’s climate policy with a seat on the state’s Climate Action Council.

Donohue supports a price on carbon to pay for the state’s carbon emissions goals but argued there’s still a place for natural gas facilities. And he welcomed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s idea for an “energy superhighway,” saying it would allow private-sector investment

in New York’s renewable resources to flourish.

24 KIT KENNEDY SENIOR DIRECTOR, CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM Natural Resources Defense Council The standout environmental advocate has been helping wean upstaters off nuclear power for so many years that when Indian Point started closing its reactors last spring, people were prepared. Kit Kennedy has led the charge for climate action in the state

Kennedy has been advocating for banning nuclear power for years.

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KEVIN CAHILL, DIDI BARRETT, PATRICIA FAHY, PAMELA CLAUDIA TENNEY HUNTER, DONNA LUPARDO, WILLIAM MAGNARELLI, JOHN Member of Congress MCDONALD III, PHIL STECK & After a laborious three-month AL STIRPE recount, Republican Rep. Assembly Members See profiles on page 47.

27 RICHARD DAVID Mayor of Binghamton Binghamton Mayor Richard David contracted COVID-19

Claudia Tenney won back her old seat by 109 votes when a judge certified the results of the last undecided congressional race on Feb. 5. The Trump acolyte previously held the seat for a single term before losing it to Democratic rival Anthony Brindisi. This time around, Brindisi ultimately conceded defeat but has already filed for a rematch in 2022. Then again, the seat may not exist after redistricting.

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Gavin Donohue leads the Independent Power Producers of New York.

Casey Seiler has led coverage of the governor’s nursing home and workplace misconduct scandals. The state capital’s hometown paper broke the story that a current Gov. Andrew Cuomo aide claimed the governor groped her at the executive mansion, and the paper wrote two editorials urging him to resign. The TU’s perspicacious editor pens a column that has been a must-read through the latest Albany saga, and if your attention span is shorter, there’s always his witty Twitter feed.

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down on drunk driving ahead of the Super Bowl and speedy snowmobilers, while preparing for more pot smoking behind the wheel if the state Legislature legalizes marijuana.

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30 NICK LANGWORTHY CHAIR State Republican Committee The state GOP leader had an auspicious November, with several Republicans holding onto House seats and another flipping a Democratic-controlled one (though he was less successful in Albany). Now Nick Langworthy is searching

William Barclay is the Assembly minority leader.

for a worthy challenger to the embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo and putting pressure on lawmakers to probe the governor’s handling of nursing home records. He’s even calling for New York to create a recall mechanism through a constitutional amendment to remove statewide officials.

RICHARD BALL State Commissioner of Agriculture Chappelle Golston have been identifying and addressing structural inequities in order to make PPGNY’s health centers more welcoming and inclusive places.

31 JOY CALLOWAY & ROBIN CHAPPELLE GOLSTON INTERIM CEO; PRESIDENT AND CEO Planned Parenthood of Greater New York; Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts Planned Parenthood has provided crucial HIV and reproductive services during the pandemic throughout New York, but the organization was rife with abusive behavior and mismanagement according to multiple complaints. The group ousted its president in June and brought in Joy Calloway in October. Calloway and top lobbyist Robin

32 KEVIN BRUEN ACTING SUPERINTENDENT New York State Police The Glen Falls resident and former prosecutor had spent most of his career in state law enforcement before he took over the State Police in November when Superintendent Keith Corlett retired. With more New Yorkers heading outside this winter, Kevin Bruen’s officers cracked

Outside of the chaos of politics, Kulleseid is revitalizing the outdoors.

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, it sent the dairy industry into a tailspin, and farmers dumped 35 million pounds of milk as prices collapsed. State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball responded by overseeing the $35 million Nourish New York program to buy up dairy and produce from farmers to feed needy families. Ball, who has led the state Department of Agriculture and Markets since 2014, supported another $4 million to help 80 farms prepare for climate changerelated extreme weather in February.

34 ERIK KULLESEID COMMISSIONER State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation With museums, theaters and amusement parks intermittently closed last year, New Yorkers took refuge in the great outdoors. Attendance at state parks and historic sites reached a new record with 78 million visits, and new trails are on the way. Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid celebrated the completion of the 750-mile Empire State Trail in December and a 10-mile Ocean Parkway greenway extension on Long Island in March.

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Albany’s top Republican is in a superminority in the state Senate, but that hasn’t stopped him from keeping the heat on the governor. State Sen. Rob Ortt called for the state health commissioner to resign and for the state attorney general to expand an investigation into the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing home deaths. He also tried to remove the governor’s COVID-19 emergency powers, an effort that came to fruition in March.

In the Assembly, Republicans haven’t had a majority since 1974. That won’t be changing anytime soon, but Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay’s caucus is making the most of the scandals facing Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Barclay wanted to impeach Cuomo over his handling of COVID-19 nursing home deaths, and the Pulaski lawmaker has found bipartisan support in introducing an impeachment resolution following sexual harassment allegations against the governor.

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care facilities roiled Finkel. She called for a repeal of immunity for nursing homes imposed during the pandemic as well as an improved vaccine distribution plan, and more state aid for in-home services for seniors.

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36 COLLEEN WEGMAN PRESIDENT AND CEO Wegmans The popular Rochester-based grocery chain, one of the top-ranked companies to work for in any industry, was deemed an essential business when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Colleen Wegman made sure her workers had enough masks, loaded up on staples and closed food bars and free sample stations to protect shoppers. Wegmans, which has 48 stores in New York, never turned off the lights and managed to keep its customers and employees safe throughout the year.

Havidán Rodríguez is working on COVID-19 equity issues.

37 WENDELL WEEKS CHAIR AND CEO Corning The ancestral home of ovensafe ceramic casserole dishes and unshatterable measuring cups has adapted to the pandemic by developing a microscopic powder containing copper that kills COVID-19. Corning Inc. CEO Wendell Weeks continues to roll out glass technology for high-tech products like mobile phones and automobiles, relying on its signature Gorilla Glass. Corning’s stock has jumped 32% since September 2019 as a result.

38 DENNIS MCKENNA PRESIDENT AND CEO Albany Medical Center The head of the Albany Medical Center kept the region’s front-line defenses

Dewan developed one of the most accurate COVID-19 tests on the market.

MIKE ELMENDORF against the spread of COVID-19 humming without having to furlough its 10,000 employees. This year he’s focused on ensuring adequate supply and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, stabilizing the medical system’s finances and raising $630,000 to fight pediatric cancer. But the coronavirus is a stubborn opponent – the hospital temporarily closed its oncology unit after repeated outbreaks.

PRESIDENT Associated General Contractors of New York State State contractors and business leaders launched their “Rebuild New York” campaign in 2019, but their message to spill $35 billion into infrastructure and creating jobs still resonates.

Mike Elmendorf celebrated the state plowing $438 million into road and bridge improvements last summer and in February created a new campaign urging the state to fund large-scale infrastructure projects. Now he’s looking for the feds to help pay for a new Wadsworth Center building.

41 39 BETH FINKEL STATE DIRECTOR AARP New York Beth Finkel’s New York branch of AARP mourned thousands of seniors who died from COVID-19 and spotlighted the virus’s disproportionate effects on older New Yorkers and people of color. But the state’s deliberate undercount of nursing home deaths while granting immunity to nursing

MANTOSH DEWAN PRESIDENT SUNY Upstate Medical University Few leaders have played as critical a role in helping the state pinpoint the spread of the coronavirus as Mantosh Dewan. The medical school president led efforts to develop one of the most accurate COVID-19 tests on the market, and the FDA called the saliva test the best of its kind. SUNY Upstate recently opened a COVID-19 testing lab at the University at Buffalo as well as its own lab to study infectious diseases.

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The pandemic significantly disrupted life last year at University at Albany, which suspended classes last March and refunded $22 million in prorated room and board fees. Then in November, the University at Albany switched to remote learning after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Havidán Rodríguez, who the governor tapped to study COVID-19’s effects on communities of color, believes the health crisis can refocus efforts to make society more equitable for everyone.

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state. David Weinraub prepared for an unpredictable legislative session due to the coronavirus pandemic, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment and nursing home COVID-19 deaths scandals have further upset the traditional political calculus in the state Capitol.

Brown & Weinraub made several new hires too, including adding former state Senate Democratic fundraiser Evan Rantzaklis in January.

departing three years ago to lead the U.S. Army Training Center in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Now the brigadier general is back home replacing Major General Brian Mennes, who left for a Washington state assignment.

Beagle will have to contend with limiting the spread of COVID-19 and vaccinating the population while cracking down on unsafe behavior among soldiers.

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42 STEPHEN ACQUARIO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL New York State Association of Counties Stephen Acquario has advocated for the state’s 62 counties at the New York State Association of Counties since 1989 (he’s led the association since 2004). That’s gone beyond advising county executives and legislators to demanding direct COVID-19 relief, organizing counties to recoup losses related to the opioid crisis and seeking to reduce Medicaid costs. He also oversees the association’s affiliated New York State County Executives

Association, a bipartisan statewide group of county leaders.

43 DAVID WEINRAUB CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER Brown & Weinraub The Albany-based Brown & Weinraub is a mainstay on Pearl Street, racking up $13.4 million in lobbying in 2019 – exceeding all but one competitor in the

45 MILFORD BEAGLE JR. COMMANDING GENERAL 10th Mountain Division, U.S. Army Fort Drum Milford Beagle served as Fort Drum’s deputy commanding general for support before

Acquario has advocated for all 62 counties since 2004.

46 DAVID O’ROURKE CEO AND PRESIDENT New York Racing Association The coronavirus pandemic upended the country’s horseracing calendar last year, keeping fans from visiting the Saratoga Race Course in person. Saratoga’s Tiz the Law won the Travers Stakes and wagering was only down 14% last year, but David O’Rourke is focused on the future. Gov. Andrew Cuomo allowed arenas to reopen with 10% capacity, and live racing will return in July, although it’s unclear whether spectators will be allowed back in the stands.

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David Weinraub leads a top lobbying firm in Albany.

Bolton-St. Johns’ upstate presence is largely thanks to Giorgio DeRosa. Raised in Rochester and now residing in the Albany area, the veteran partner set up the top lobbying firm’s Albany office a quarter century ago and spearheaded its expansion into Western New York as well.

After switching from organized labor to lobbying, DeRosa has delved into an array of issues, including the state’s medical marijuana program and the expansion of upstate casinos.

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S THE BALANCE of power tilts further to the left in Albany, Democrats have been making gains upstate – a shift that’s apparent in the state Senate. Democrats for decades have dominated downstate, but they only took control of the state Senate in 2019. The rise of state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who represents Yonkers, reflected the party’s improving fortunes in the suburbs. Last fall, when the conference secured a veto-proof supermajority, it was thanks in large part to flipping – and retaining – upstate seats.

State Sen. Michelle Hinchey (center) won the seat of retiring Republican businessman George Amedore.

The Saugerties Democrat now serves as the Agriculture Committee chair, seeking relief for Hudson Valley farms and restaurants.

In another 2020 pickup, Democrat John Mannion (top left) eked out a victory in a suburban Syracuse district that had been held by Republicans for more than half a century. The former high school teacher was given a new committee to lead that would craft laws for people with developmental disabilities.

He has already restored some prior funding cuts for service providers and called to end the governor’s emergency powers.

State Sen. James Skoufis (top right) flipped his Hudson Valley seat in 2018, moving up from the Assembly to take over the district left vacant

by Republican Bill Larkin. As the Investigations Committee chair, Skoufis has his hands full this session with spiraling crises over the state’s reporting of the deaths of nursing home residents and sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo. Skoufis pressed Health Commissioner Howard Zucker to be more transparent and threatened to subpoena records.

When state Sen. Rachel May (bottom left) won her seat in 2018, she beat a fellow Democrat – but that Democrat was David Valesky, a member of the now-defunct Independent Democratic Conference. The Syracuse senator easily won reelection last fall on the heels of advancing the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Now May is tackling another calamity by passing 10 bills to improve the oversight and quality of care at nursing homes.

State aid cuts and COVID-19 lockdowns in the Capital Region were the focus of state Sen. Neil Breslin’s (bottom right) reelection campaign. Since his victory, the chamber’s vice president pro tempore and Insurance Committee chair has walked a fine line between chiding Cuomo for not being transparent with nursing home records and praising him for rehabilitating Troy’s Collar City Bridge and opening a FEMArun vaccination site in Albany.

Breslin is also leading a national legislative group looking at racism in the insurance industry.

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the public of the industry’s dire needs, pushed the state to extend its curfew beyond 10 p.m. and expand indoor dining capacity while working with U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer to include restaurant aid in the COVID-19 relief bill.

47 GREG BIRYLA NEW YORK STATE DIRECTOR National Federation of Independent Business When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Greg Biryla set about ensuring small businesses could defer sales taxes, shaking free federal aid stalled in Congress and enabling upstate stores and restaurants to compete with chains upon reopening. Now that the state is rolling back pandemicrelated restrictions, challenges remain. Some 40% of small businesses are struggling to find workers, an NFIB report found, yet Biryla worries unemployment costs could soar.

48 MELISSA AUTILIO FLEISCHUT PRESIDENT AND CEO New York State Restaurant Association More than 8,333 New York restaurants have shuttered since the pandemic began, sales are down 44% and 27% of restaurants could close within three months without more relief. Melissa Fleischut, whose surveys have informed

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ELIZABETH DRIBUSCH CEO New York Farm Bureau New York’s dairy industry was already in crisis when the pandemic disrupted the supply chain last spring forcing farmers to spill millions of gallons of milk. Elizabeth Dribusch and the Farm Bureau sought solutions and celebrated the state’s plan to purchase excess milk and distribute it to food banks.

Now the Bureau wants to vaccinate farmworkers quickly, restore state funds to agricultural programs and reform federal guest-worker programs.

50 SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON PRESIDENT Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Widely admired as one of the nation’s top physicists and the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from MIT, Shirley Ann Jackson has calmly steered RPI through the COVID-19 crisis. One of the nation’s highest-paid college presidents, she took a 5% pay cut to address the school’s financial losses while managing periodic closings throughout the year. Last month, the school suspended in-person instruction after an outbreak of more than 30 coronavirus cases.

Frederick Kowal fought for school faculty rights during the pandemic.

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FREDERICK KOWAL PRESIDENT United University Professions When public universities closed last March at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Frederick Kowal sought to ensure professors stayed healthy. He suggested mandatory COVID-19 testing and contact-tracing guidelines for campus reopenings to protect faculty and staff.

But his union has battled with SUNY too, following a no-confidence vote in the appointment of a Cuomo insider as SUNY chancellor and a demand for a free SUNY education for public essential workers.

A Biden administration executive order to strengthen semiconductor supply chains following calls for more U.S.made wafers is good news for GlobalFoundries. CEO Thomas Caulfield announced that the California-based semiconductor manufacturer – with a plant in the upstate New York town of Malta – is investing $1.4 billion this year to boost output at its factories.

Caulfield expects revenue to jump 9% from $5.7 billion last year, and an IPO could occur later in the year.

53 PETER BAYNES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York State Conference of Mayors Peter Baynes is a warrior fighting for New York’s mayors – and their budgets. Last summer, the state temporarily withheld 20% of aid payments to cities and towns, forcing mayors to consider furloughs.

After the governor’s January budget proposal, Baynes’ message to municipalities was “prepare for pain.” Fortunately, localities received a $10.8 billion stimulus from Congress, although Baynes warned state leaders not to use the windfall to slash budgets for local communities.

Fleischut pushed the state to extend its restaurant closing time during the pandemic.

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TOM KING PRESIDENT New York State Rifle & Pistol Association New York has been the National Rifle Association’s home for 150 years and has one of its largest chapters, the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association. But state Attorney General Letitia James is seeking the NRA’s dissolution. Tom King has blamed Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and more recently the NRA declared bankruptcy and tried to relocate, but the case continues. King also sought to overturn a New York City law restricting the transport of guns, but the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case last year.

55 PAUL DEROHANNESIAN II MEMBER DerOhannesian & DerOhannesian Paul DerOhannesian II has represented many high-profile defendants, but few clients can match Keith Raniere, the leader of NXIVM who received worldwide attention and spurred two major docuseries about the Colonie-based sex cult. The Albany attorney also recently helped Rep. Claudia Tenney win back her seat with a margin of just 109 votes. DerOhannesian is a go-to expert on legal matters like enforcing

the state’s mandatory COVID-19 shutdowns and the parameters of the state’s investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alleged workplace misconduct.

56 HAMDI ULUKAYA FOUNDER AND CEO Chobani Last spring, New York’s dairy industry was in freefall, leaving farmers to dump milk because of shutdowns. But Chobani and other yogurt companies bought excess milk at the state’s request.

For its philanthropic work, Hamdi Ulukaya’s company was named Dairy Foods’ 2020 Processor of the Year. But 2021 could be Chobani’s year.

A documentary exploring its hiring of refugees came out in February and Ulukaya is considering an IPO worth $7 billion.

57 MICHAEL POWERS PRESIDENT New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association Corrections officers across the state were hit hard by COVID-19 – and their union leader was no exception.

Michael Powers’ temperature reached 105 degrees, and he spent four days in a hospital last April. By November, there were 1,737 cases among the NYSCOPBA ranks,

Ulukaya had Chobani buy excess milk to support the dairy industry.

Garry Douglas supports border reopening to help businesses.

prompting Powers to call for limited visitations and social distancing among prisoners.

Currently, he’s suing for paid quarantine leave for guards while opposing a bill passed by the state Legislature banning long-term solitary confinement.

58 GARRY DOUGLAS PRESIDENT AND CEO North Country Chamber of Commerce The North Country Chamber of Commerce head, who recently unveiled a rebrand and website, has his eye on reopening the Canadian border to help restaurants and tourism-related businesses that suffered in the pandemic.

Garry Douglas prefers a phased reopening as the Canadian vaccination effort speeds up. Douglas can at least celebrate the expansion

of HVAC, toilet paper and medical supply manufacturers in the area that have had success in the past year.

59 SCOTT WEXLER MANAGING DIRECTOR Ostroff Associates For years Ostroff Associates has been one of the top lobbying firms in the state, and Scott Wexler is one the reasons why. The Delmar resident joined the firm in 2006, and during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic he has helped professional sports teams, entertainment venues and other clients work with government to find ways to reopen. Wexler is also the longtime executive director of the Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association, a trade association representing small businesses in the industry.

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Carl Taylor is changing how energy is used to power New Yorkers’ homes.

60 TROY WAFFNER DIRECTOR New York State Fair After welcoming a record 1.33 million people through its Geddes fairgrounds in 2019, the New York State Fair expanded to 18 days – but the coronavirus pandemic forced the governor to cancel the event in July. The grounds have since hosted a COVID-19 vaccination clinic this winter, and State Fair director Troy Waffner shared his cell number with anyone having trouble with appointments.

So far the fair is planning to reopen in August.

61 DARRYL WILLIAMS SUPERINTENDENT United States Military Academy When former President Donald Trump wanted to

speak at the U.S. Military Academy’s commencement, it fell upon Superintendent Darryl Williams to bring cadets back to campus safely for the event in June. A fraction of graduates tested positive and Williams unwittingly became part of Trump’s viral struggle to descend a ramp, which overshadowed the former president’s speech. Williams has more recently taken a prominent role in examining extremism within the armed forces by pausing the West Point’s activities for a one-day stand-down.

62 CARL TAYLOR PRESIDENT AND CEO New York State Electric and Gas The upstate utility took a step toward limiting gas emissions by making buildings

63 CHRIS GIBSON PRESIDENT Siena College You don’t need a Siena College poll to know that former Rep. Chris Gibson might be the Republican Party’s best shot to win the governorship if Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s scandals force him from office. Of course, Gibson has been busy lately navigating Siena College through the coronavirus pandemic. Siena’s 12th president spent his first year getting the Loudonville campus back to normal after COVID-19 forced its temporary

Waffner gave out his cell number to help people with vaccine appointments.

closure. Returning students had to follow safety protocols or be temporarily dismissed.

64 IVETTE ALFONSO PRESIDENT Citizen Action of New York Ivette Alfonso, who has spent her career advocating for issues like a progressive tax system, single-payer health care and racial justice, has seen the coronavirus pandemic further exacerbate income inequality as billionaires saw their wealth skyrocket. The fallout from the past year led Citizen Action of New York to successfully seek rent relief and a moratorium on evictions. Now Alfonso is demanding higher inheritance taxes, bringing back the stock transfer tax and boosting capital gains taxes to make the wealthiest New Yorkers contribute proportionally more to the state’s future.

65 ROBERT SIMPSON PRESIDENT AND CEO CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity When central and northern New York businesses struggled at the start of the pandemic, Robert Simpson stepped up to help. The CenterState president reached out to his 2,000 member businesses to assess the damage, publicized concerns about reaching customers and resolving supply chain disruptions, prepared a “toolkit” to help stores reopen and secured grants for minority-owned companies.

Simpson also helped lure Amazon to Central New York, creating about 1,000 jobs.

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more efficient and utilizing alternatives to pipelines in a settlement with environmental groups. NYSEG CEO Carl Taylor acknowledged that customers are looking for alternative energy sources, though some new natural gas connections are needed as more people stay home during the pandemic. Taylor has also spurred donations to Finger Lakes food banks during the crisis.

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MARK EAGAN PRESIDENT AND CEO Capital Region Chamber of Commerce Mark Eagan hoped to expand the Capital Region Chamber’s reach last year, facilitating a merger with the Center for Economic Growth in October. But the coronavirus pandemic stressed the group’s businesses to the point that 40% said in December they needed federal assistance to survive. Eagan pushed U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and others for relief and celebrated its passage, optimistic about businesses’ ability to reopen.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo put together his advisory board for reopening the state economy last spring, adding Melanie Littlejohn was a nobrainer. The Syracuse-based energy executive, who’s a National Grid vice president and upstate point person as well as CenterState CEO board chair, has made her mark as a promoter of small businesses and a mentor for up-and-coming leaders.

National Grid launched a residential energy savings pilot program in Central New York in November under her watch.

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If you’re looking for a television journalist who encapsulates the intersection between state government and upstate goings-on, there’s no one (ar)better. “Capital Tonight” host Susan Arbetter has kept New Yorkers attuned to the state’s charitable hospitals suing patients during the coronavirus pandemic, the struggles out-of-work tenants and small landlords endured, the Cuomo administration’s underreporting of nursing home deaths and the broader implications of the governor’s burgeoning sexual harassment scandal.

Delegate General of Québec in New York The U.S.-Canada border still isn’t open for nonessential travel after closing last year to curb the spread of the coronavirus. That’s hurt commerce in Quebec and the North Country – and Catherine Loubier has tried to smooth international relations by lobbying to undo aluminum tariffs and cautioning against “Buy American” measures.

The diplomat also supports a hydroelectric pipeline in

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Susan Arbetter informs New Yorkers about upstate politics on her show.

70 JIMMY VIELKIND REPORTER The Wall Street Journal Jimmy Vielkind is one of the veterans of the Capitol press corps, with a preternatural ability to explain complicated

budgetary and legislative maneuvering while dishing out good gossip. The self-proclaimed “Upstate American” thoroughly covered the state’s coronavirus pandemic response, including the governor’s power grabs and the state’s turbulent vaccine rollout. Vielkind’s work is hitting the front page, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home debacle and sexual harassment complaints becoming national news.

Vielkind has done groundbreaking reporting on state politics for years.

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TOM NARDACCI & ANDREW MANGINI CEO AND FOUNDER; PARTNER Gramercy Communications The upstate marketing communications firm shifted into high gear to help their clients navigate a risky environment in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Andrew Mangini had to be patient while the commercial real estate market slowed last spring, while Tom Nardacci paused his coworking spaces, which could ultimately offer an attractive option to companies hesitant about returning to the office. Their firm was acquired by The Martin Group, a Buffalo-based communications firm, in February.

72 DEBORAH MILONE PRESIDENT Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce Deborah Milone has spent the past decade grappling with the prolonged closure of Indian Point and its effects on the local economy. But the Hudson Valley business leader hopes that the speedy remediation of the former nuclear plant site can lead to a future business campus

Deborah Milone is a Hudson Valley business leader.

or manufacturing hub. In the meantime, Milone is focused on helping Hudson Valley retailers and restaurants, once sustained by tourism, to survive coronavirus slowdowns.

73 CHARLES FRENI PRESIDENT AND CEO Central Hudson Gas and Electric Central Hudson didn’t have to look far to choose its leader when it elevated Charles Freni in 2018. Freni, who started at the utility as a junior engineer in 1982, provided steady leadership by maintaining gas service and suspending collection activities during the pandemic, warning customers against scams and restoring electricity quickly after tropical storms. The Rhinebeck resident proposed a slight rate hike to improve infrastructure and expand customer assistance and energy efficiency programs.

74 COLETTE MATTHEWS-CARTER PRESIDENT Syracuse/Onondaga NAACP Three months before George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis last year, Syracuse/Onondaga NAACP leaders unequivocally warned of a rising tide of hate in the United States. Since then, Colette Matthews-Carter, the chapter’s president – and a Baptist pastor – has sought to spread love as a leader in the city’s interfaith community.

This year, she’s working to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in communities of color and calling for cultural competency training for the Syracuse police force.

76 MORGAN HOOK SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT SKDKnickerbocker The communications guru and former Gov. David Paterson administration alum is one of the few progressive spokespeople who remember what it’s like to work in an executive chamber before the Cuomo era. Morgan Hook and his firm advised dozens of Democratic candidates for Congress and state Legislature in last year’s election. There will be plenty of opportunities next year, particularly in North Country and Central New York, where four Republican seats will draw contentious reelection campaigns.

Hook is a communications guru who worked in the Paterson administration.

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The Northeast’s premier stock car racing event regularly draws 100,000 fans per year, but Watkins Glen couldn’t host its annual NASCAR race last year due to pandemic-related travel restrictions, so it was moved to Daytona Beach, Florida. Though Michael Printup was disappointed in the decision, some events were able to return to the Southern Tier venue by the end of the summer, and racing driver Jimmie Johnson said he’s coming to Watkins Glen in 2021.

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SSEMBLY SPEAKER Carl Heastie is known for building up his power base in the Bronx, while Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, one of the most influential upstate legislators, hails from Buffalo – but in between those two population centers there are plenty more power players who are part of the Assembly Democrats’ supermajority.

As chair of the Transportation Committee, Assembly Member William Magnarelli (middle left) can celebrate new state infrastructure investments secured in the latest state budget. The Syracuse lawmaker has been in office since his first election in 1998.

In the Albany area, Assembly Member John McDonald III (middle right) is tapped into local politics as a former mayor of Cohoes and understands the concerns of small businesses as the owner of his own pharmacy.

An Assembly member since 2013, he currently chairs the Oversight, Analysis and Investigations Committee.

A neighboring district encompassing Albany and several nearby towns is represented by Assembly Member Patricia Fahy (top left), who also took office in 2013. Fahy was one of 21 Democratic women in the

Assembly who signed a letter in early March saying that calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation were premature – and that state Attorney General Letitia James’ independent investigation should be allowed to run its course.

Also among the Assembly Democrats to sign that letter were the upstate legislators Donna Lupardo (top right), Didi Barrett and Pamela Hunter.

Lupardo has represented her Binghamton district since her election in 2004, making her one of the more senior members of the conference.

The Southern Tier lawmaker also chairs the Agriculture Committee, giving her oversight over an important part of the upstate economy. Barrett, who chairs the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Legislative Women’s Caucus, was first elected in her Hudson Valley district in 2012. And Hunter, who has represented her Syracuse-area district since 2015, is a military veteran and chairs the Subcommittee on Women Veterans.

Three other senior Assembly Democrats assigned to lead key committees are Kevin Cahill (bottom left), who chairs the Insurance Committee; Phil Steck (bottom right), who heads the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee; and Al Stirpe, who runs the Small Business Committee.

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Lisa Marrello thought she might grow up to work for her family’s Latham-based business, Marrello Restaurants and Catering. Instead, Marrello became an attorney and eventually one of the state’s top legal experts concerning health care, education and gambling regulations. Her quarter century of experience at Wilson Elser and Jackson Lewis brought her to Park Strategies in October 2019, and she’s fully prepared to navigate yet another unpredictable legislative session.

In his nine-year stint as head of St. Peter’s Health Partners, James Reed had never faced a health crisis like the coronavirus. St. Peter’s received $36 million in federal aid last spring to withstand the onslaught of COVID-19 patients, and Reed kept pressing Sen. Chuck Schumer to unleash more relief. The hospital announced a proposed partnership with Ellis Hospital in October and finally loosened visitor restrictions as COVID-19 cases declined.

78 LESLIE PAUL LUKE PRESIDENT AND CEO St. Joseph’s Health The Syracuse hospital leader’s mantra has been to focus on improving quality first and let everything else follow. When the pandemic struck, Leslie Paul Luke took a 25% pay cut, furloughed 500 employees until surgeries resumed and closed two urgent care centers as a result of a projected $40 million in losses.

He urged U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer to secure federal aid as his health care network weathered the intensity of the virus’s wrath.

Christopher Del Vecchio leads MVP Health Care.

last year while managing sporadic closures. Pyle, who had pushed for a multibilliondollar increase in school aid, saw the governor agree to a $3 billion increase in the new state budget.

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PRESIDENT AND CEO MVP Health Care The Schenectady-based nonprofit health plan made substantial changes in how it delivered benefits during the coronavirus pandemic. MVP covered COVID-19 treatments at no cost-share to members through March 31 in New York and utilized telemedicine to check in on 70,000 members last spring. Chris Del Vecchio, who took the helm at MVP in September 2019, plans to continue utilizing innovations like telemedicine after the pandemic ends.

Vargas pressured Cuomo not to slash education funding.

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81 JENNIFER PYLE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Conference of Big 5 School Districts After last year’s coronavirus pandemic-influenced budget threatened to slash school funding by 20%, Jennifer Pyle is breathing easier this time around. The Big 5 director, who represents districts including Albany and Syracuse, saw schools cut costs through attrition

UPSTATE CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR Alliance for Quality Education The Alliance for Quality Education primarily deals with longstanding inequities in public education, but Stevie Vargas has brought the advocacy group into campaign actions surrounding systemic racism in policing and economic disparities in urban and rural areas. Vargas pressured Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state leaders not to slash education funding during the pandemic while urging U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and federal lawmakers to include a “people’s bailout” in congressional relief packages.

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83 CHRISTOPHER DURYEA MANAGING PARTNER Statewide Public Affairs With all the uncertainty in Albany, it helps to have a steady hand like Christopher Duryea of Statewide Public Affairs navigating choppy political waters. Duryea began his career as an Onondaga County Democratic Party office manager and became equally adept at managing campaigns and crafting legislative strategies for clients doing business with the state. Duryea is also an expert at telecommunications policy, having served as a vice president of the Cable Telecommunications Association of New York.

84 LIZ BENJAMIN MANAGING DIRECTOR, ALBANY Marathon Strategies The former “Capital Tonight”

Ryan Silva leads the state Economic Development Council.

host, who left her perch at Spectrum almost two years ago for the plunge into consulting, remains one of the most admired and pluggedin media figures in the state.

Liz Benjamin has offered advice for how businesses and advocacy groups can navigate the news cycle that increasingly revolves around COVID-19 and police reform, and still appears on public television to give her take on Albany in 2021.

85 MAUREEN HALAHAN PRESIDENT AND CEO Orange County Partnership The Orange County business leader is looking to claim any edge she can get to help lower Hudson Valley companies endure pandemicrelated shutdowns. Maureen Halahan pushed to widen Route 17, sought investment in freight rail, wooed warehouse developers and Amazon to the region, and held job fairs to spur a sluggish suburban labor market. She also advocated for tax breaks for Tri-State Logistics and supported the Danskammer power plant despite opposition.

Gannon led the United Way through the pandemic.

86 RYAN SILVA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR New York State Economic Development Council Last spring, Ryan Silva, executive director of the New York State Economic Development Council, was focused on striking a state measure that would require developers that receive state incentives to pay workers prevailing wages on their projects. He believed the rule would threaten downtown redevelopment projects. But Silva, who has led the NYSEDC since 2017, soon directed efforts to help industrial development partners share best practices and start making personal protective equipment, as well as connecting struggling businesses with loans and grants.

87 JOE BONILLA MANAGING PARTNER AND SENIOR MEDIA DIRECTOR Relentless Awareness The maven of Dove Street helped bring rideshare to

upstate New York, promote the craft beer industry, and bolster other brands with business before the state.

But the pandemic forced Joe Bonilla to change tack to ensure the survival of several small businesses during state-imposed shutdowns.

He sought aid for Albany’s struggling restaurants, forced to close temporarily last spring, and the region’s movie theaters, which have not welcomed patrons for months.

88 PETER GANNON PRESIDENT AND CEO United Way of the Greater Capital Region When Peter Gannon took the helm of the Albany area United Way in 2018, he didn’t realize he would later need to muster every available resource to fend off a deadly contagion. Gannon called on volunteers for assistance last March, disseminated grants to area health centers and community groups and publicly honored donors – including philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who gave a record-setting $5 million.

This year the charity has helped seniors by offering assistance with vaccination appointments.

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agencies and legislative cubbyholes. Justin Wilcox, currently a Monroe County legislator, joined the progrowth group in December with the mission of ensuring state officials expedite their regulatory work, reforming unemployment insurance, imposing a moratorium on the Scaffold Law and expanding infrastructure projects in the region.

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J. David Brown has led the Capital District YMCA through a difficult time during the pandemic.

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89 J. DAVID BROWN PRESIDENT AND CEO Capital District YMCA When the state shut down indoor gyms and restaurants at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, community centers like the Capital District YMCA were not exempted. David Brown, the organization’s president and CEO, said in June the nonprofit needed $500,000 per month in funding if it couldn’t open its 11 gyms and two camps during the Phase 4 reopening. A lifeline for the organization appeared in December in the form of a historically generous

DORCEY APPLYRS $10 million donation from MacKenzie Scott.

90 JUSTIN WILCOX EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Unshackle Upstate When the upstate business advocacy organization needed a new executive director, they turned to a longtime Albany hand with experience navigating state

Chief City Auditor of Albany Dorcey Applyrs has broken barriers since she was first elected to Albany Common Council in 2013 – an ascent that continued in January 2020, when she was tapped by Mayor Kathy Sheehan to be the city’s chief auditor. Her highest-profile audit to date, which examined racial bias in the Albany Police Department, was ordered after George Floyd’s death. Applyrs has also focused on Albany’s response to fighting COVID-19, the pandemic’s disproportionate effects on communities of color, and grossly unequal vaccination rates in different communities.

Kardos instructed Keybank to distribute $8.1 billion in PPP loans nationwide.

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92 OLIVER KARDOS REGIONAL BUSINESS BANKING EXECUTIVE, EAST REGION KeyBank Oliver Kardos and his colleagues have signed a lot of paperwork this past year. KeyBank disbursed some $8.1 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans to small businesses nationwide, including about 650 loans in Albany. The bank has given out more traditional loans too, helping refinance a 322-bed student housing property near University at Albany, and partnered with the state Department of Labor on paying out unemployment benefits.

93 DIANA SAGUILÁN & ANDREA CALLAN INTERIM CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Worker Justice Center of New York In recent years the Worker Justice Center of New York has secured several policy victories in Albany, including legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, new farmworker protections and a ban on the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos. But the organization has plenty more to do as it provides legal services, training and COVID-19 resources for immigrant workers in upstate New York. Diana Saguilán and Andrea Callan have stepped up as the center’s leaders since Lauren Deutsch departed last fall.

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New York, has spent the past year advocating for adequate protections in response to the coronavirus pandemic. One of its leaders is Luis Jiménez, a Mexican immigrant who helped found Alianza Agrícola in 2016.

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Special Olympics New York, which hosts 68,000 athletes of all ages and relies on 36,000 volunteers yearly, was forced to cancel its annual summer games in what would have been its 50th anniversary. But CEO Stacey Hengsterman turned the competition into a virtual event complete with inclusive workout sessions.

Athletes resumed phasedin training for the fall sports season, and the Special Olympics raised funds for 2021 with a new cookbook.

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95 ROGER RAMSAMMY PRESIDENT Hudson Valley Community College Besides carrying out the mission of his Troybased Hudson Valley Community College since 2018, Ramsammy also is an appointee on two influential groups set up by Gov. Andrew Cuomo – the Capital Region Regional Economic Development Council and the Reimagine Education Advisory Council, which was tasked with planning how

Stewart’s Shops The popular convenience store chain Stewart’s Shops, an embodiment of upstate life, isn’t just known for its delicious ice cream. Gary Dake instituted a “no mask, no service” policy to protect workers and customers from COVID-19 and held a fundraising drive for area children’s charities that exceeded $1.44 million last year. More Stewart’s stores are on the way after Dake invested $45 million in store expansion and bought its regional competitor Red-Kap.

97 LUIS JIMÉNEZ CO-PRESIDENT Alianza Agrícola In 2019, Alianza Agrícola’s push for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants in New York came to fruition, thanks in part to a Democratic takeover of the state Senate.

The group, made up of immigrant workers on dairy farms in Central and Western

98 TOD LAURSEN & STEVE SCHNEIDER ACTING PRESIDENT; INTERIM PROVOST SUNY Polytechnic Institute SUNY Polytechnic Institute named Tod Laursen, a State University of New York senior vice chancellor and provost who previously led Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, as the research institution’s acting president in December.

Steve Schneider, the interim provost, will also continue to help SUNY Poly find its footing nearly three years since he came on following its former leader’s bid-rigging conviction.

Schneider, who studies the political impact of the internet, supported faculty and researchers who developed a rapid COVID-19 antibody test.

99 ALICE GREEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Center for Law and Justice Longtime activist Alice Green saw the unrest that occurred in Albany last May after George Floyd’s killing as both an uprising and a call to stamp out structural

100 ZEPHYR TEACHOUT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Fordham University Imagine how different life would have been if Zephyr Teachout had beat Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014. While she lost that race as well as subsequent bids for Congress and attorney general, the Fordham Law professor hasn’t faded into obscurity. She castigated Cuomo over his response to the coronavirus pandemic and the myriad harassment allegations against him. Teachout, who has big ideas about reforming the state constitution to prevent corruption, has applauded state Attorney General Letitia James for holding the governor accountable.

Hengsterman was instrumental in adapting Special Olympics New York.

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Gary Dake is the president of Stewart’s Shops.

racism. Green, who has long been frustrated with the Albany Police Department’s reluctance to change, believes a recent audit did not examine systemic racism within the department and has been critical of the city’s move to control an arrest diversion program without informing partners.

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O f f ice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/19/15. NYS fictitious name: MSG RANGERS HOLDINGS, LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration 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 DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John D. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF The Switch Partners LLC. Articles of Organization filed on 03/10/2021. Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The principal business address of the LLC is: New York County. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 303 St. Marks, LLC Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 01/05/2021 Office location: County of Kings Purpose: Any and all lawful activities Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC 303 St. Marks Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM MADE2, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 03/10/2021. Office loc: Westchester Count y.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Andrew B. Christopherson, Esq., 111 E. Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1800, Milwaukee, WI 53202 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of LAUREN CHAN, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 377 Quincy Street, #1 Brooklyn, NY, 11216. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BAJANKAYAK 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 667 JEROME STREET BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of YM 11 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/21.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O YM 11 LLC Attention: Mark Armenante 3450 Washington S t San Francisco, CA, 94118. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of MEYWOOD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/24/21. Office location: Chenango. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 137 L'hommedieu Lane South Otselic, NY, 13155.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OSM HEALTH LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1559 Bay Ridge Parkway Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OR 274 HENRY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/10/21. 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.

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Notice of Formation of Brews of Paradise LLC filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/9/20. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom the process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of process to LLC: 94 Meserole St, apt 2B, Brooklyn, NY 11206.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 6, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 6/10/19.

Office location: New York County. The principal business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006. SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention: General Counsel. Purpose: any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of The PhysioLab NYC, LLC filed with SSNY on January 20, 2021.

O f f ic e: N Y C ount y.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 33 Carmine Street, Apartment 2, New York, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 7, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 6/10/19.

Office location: New York County. The principal business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006. SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention: General Counsel. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S & PEA, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/25/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 487 12th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 85 TENTH RESTAURANTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/2/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/16/20.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O J2K Creative Llc 70 Pine St Ste E New York, NY, 10005.

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

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 8, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 6/10/19.

Office location: New York County. The principal business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006. SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention: General Counsel. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

V E NTITR E NTA LLC .

Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/14/21. Office: Kings County. LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the agent at 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1 #086, Buffalo, NY 14221.

Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of INSTAAIDE 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 968 60th Street Unit 320 Brooklyn, NY, 11219.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MCK NIGHT R AR E S , 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 420 Kent Avenue Apt 401 Brooklyn, NY, 11249. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MCKNIGHT RE, 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 420 Kent Avenue Apt 401 Brooklyn, NY, 11249. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of COLE T TE ROSE INTERIORS, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/29/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2190 East 4th St Brooklyn, NY, 11223.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GLASS CASTLE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/17/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 133 Central Ave Amagansett, NY, 11930. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GR AND STR E E T STRATEGIES, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/18/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 351 South Third Street, Apt 2b Brooklyn, NY, 11211.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 252 SEVENTH AVENUE 7-G, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/8/21.

Office location: New York 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 Bruce S. Klein, Esq. 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ARLEN CROCKERM C C L E L L A N ACUPUNCTURE PLLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/22/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 60 Pulaski St Brooklyn, NY, 11206. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of A New Reconstruction LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/20.

O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to c/o S. Nicole Gallant, 346 W 56th St, Ste 2A, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of F R OGOU R PR OPCO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/26/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 90 State St Ste 700, Box 10 Albany, NY, 12207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of BLUEPRINT INCOME, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/8/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/15/14.

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

SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Net work Inc. 600 Mamaroneck Ave Ste 400 Harrison, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 145-36 FARMERS BLVD OZ LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/10/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 111-20 Farmers Blvd Saint Albans, NY, 11412. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 357 BLEECKER STREET, LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/13/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 121 E 22nd St Apt N204 New York, NY, 10010. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 725 3RD AVENUE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/2/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 725 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of YM 10 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/21.

Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O YM 10 LLC Attn: Mark Armenante 3450 Washington St San Francisco, CA, 94118. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JulishaKnits LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/1/2021. 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: 1 Morningside Drive, Apt. 1501, New York, NY 10025-2438, the principal business address.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of AVRH 500 GLADSTONE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10/19.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10022.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH 712 LINWOOD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10/19.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10022.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH 3035 HARRISON LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10/19.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 2044 86 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/2/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 112 Bay 13th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11214.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of AVERY LN LP. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/22/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 2/2/21.

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

SSNY mail process to: C/O Inlow Blvd Llc 983 Park Ave, 2c New York, NY, 10028. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of COLLON LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/3/19.

Office location: Putnam.

LLC formed in DE on 6/3/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 11 Timberline Ct Putnam Valley, NY, 10579. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FLINT SPARKS MEDIA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 22/12/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 541 11th St Basement Bell Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HARRIS & LONG, C R E AT I V E ARTS THERAPY, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/25/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP Attn: Eli D. Greenberg, Esq. 44 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH 3803 MAIN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/7/19.Office location: Lewis SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to ATTN: Samuel Kooris 160 Broadway, #501 New York, NY, 10038.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AV-RH KC PORTFOLIO 1 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/10//19. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of UPRIGHT HOLDINGS 547 LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/05/11. Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 860 Manhattan Ave Apt 4R Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 12W71 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/06/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt, LLP Joel S. Hirschtritt, Esq. 900 3rd Avenue Floor 13 New York, NY, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 232 N12TH RESTAURANT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/11/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 232 N12th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11211.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 743 PUTNAM LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/25/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6 Doyers Street, Apt. #130006 New York, NY, 10013.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of ME Y WOOD II LLC .

Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/25/21. Office location: CHENANGO SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 137 L'hommedieu Lane South Otselic, NY, 13155.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Awomi Naturals, LLC filed with SSNY on January 7, 2019. Office: Richmond County. Titilola Adelokiki designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: PO Box 30453 Staten Island NY 10303. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of VANESSA N FOLLANO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 239 Kingsland Ave 2l Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of YELENA LANGE DDS, PLLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 460 Neptune Avenue, No 21P Brooklyn, NY, 11224. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 19SCS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/9/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 60 E. 42nd Street, Ste 1521 New York, NY, 10165.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of BOUYE STATEN ISLAND LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/29/21. Office location: Richmond. LLC formed in GA on 9/1/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 11 Eighth Ave 13th Floor New York, NY, 10011. Arts. of Org. filed with GA SOS. 2 MLK Jr. Dr. Suite 313 Floyd West Tower, Atlanta GA 30334.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DivinePrism, LLC filed with SSNY on January 19, 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: 177-10 Linden Blvd,Jamaica NY 11434. Purpose: any lawful act or activity IBARRA LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/16/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Diana Ibarra, Managing Member, 228 West 136th Street, NY, NY 10029. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Ze Ray Proper ties, LLC filed w/ SSNY on 9/13/11. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 127 W 72nd St., NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful.

NOTICE OF DIVORCE Pinghua Zheng v. Xiuying Lian, Superior Court of Lowndes Count y, Georgia, Civil Action N umb e r 2 0 2 0 - C V D 1696. XIUYING LIAN: you are hereby notified that the above-styled action seeking a total divorce was filed against you in said Court on November 24, 2020. For good cause shown, an Order for Service of Summons by Publication was entered by the court on February 22, 2021, you are hereby commanded and required to file with the Clerk of said Court and serve upon Katherine A. Gonos, Plaintiffs’ attorney, whose address is 305 East Jane Street, Valdosta, Georgia 31601, an answer to the Complaint within fortyfive (45) days of the date of the final publication.

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Notice of Formation of LOVERDE FAMILY LLC. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/07/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 480 82nd St. Brooklyn, NY, 11209. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NOVICE WORKS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/28/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 325 Kent Ave, Unit 1454 Brooklyn, NY, 11249. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PHJ HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/21. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail proces s to 4 South William St Johnstown, NY, 12095.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of QUICK TRADE WORLD 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 1360 82ND St Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TH COLLECTIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/26/21.

Office location Queens SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 34-50 29TH ST., 6N Long Island City, NY , 11106. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE GLOBAL INTERNET R E ALT Y G R OU P & ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSN Y on 3/11/2021.

Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 90 Wyoming Ave Long Beach, NY, 11561. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 59 STUYVESANT AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/13/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1516 W. 9th Stbrooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NEW YORK RAINBOW CAPITAL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/18/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1236 Tabor Court 2fl Brooklyn, NY, 11219 Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SHUM FAMILY REALTY NY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/5/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1477 Myrtle Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11237.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of BONTA IMPORTS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 1/26/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in NV on 7/5/05. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 90 State St. Albany, NY 12207. Arts. of Org. filed with NV SOS. 2250 Las Vegas Blvd N. Ste 400 North Las Vegas, NV 89030. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OR 7 DUNHAM, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/20. 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 TANG CAPITAL 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 255 Bay 20th St Brooklyn, NY, 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KRS STUDIO, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 330 Wythe Ave, Apt 7f Brooklyn, NY, 11249.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MACAP MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/23/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 Bridge Park Drive #10e Brooklyn, NY, 11201.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HAY WAR D STUDIO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/24/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 25 Hayward Ave. Lexington, MA, 02421. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OR 196 ELIZABETH, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/24/21.

Office location: New York 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.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of OR 240 MULBERRY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/24/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 485 Lexington Ave New York, NY, 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BEAR SERVICE CENTER LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/9/21.Office location: Madison SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 108 S. Park St. Canastota, NY, 13032. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 1414 YORK AVENUE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on10/28/2020.

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

SSNY mail process to : 505 EAST 75TH STREET, New York, New York , 10021 Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Unconlove, LLC filed with SSNY on September 04, 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: 2196 Third Ave New York, NY 10035. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JAMI CAPITAL LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/21. 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 . 7014 13TH AVE, SUITE 202 BROOKLY, NY 11228.

The principal business address of the LLC is: 35 E 85th St #10A New York, NY 10028. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Aviso Financial, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/26/2021.

Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/03/2013. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 626 Jacksonville Road Suite 102 Warminster, PA 18974. NY addr. of LLC: 7 Skyline Drive Suite 350 Hawthorne, NY 10532.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of W. A .

GRIFFIN BLADEWORKS LLC filed with SSNY on February 19, 2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 35 Crown Street, Apt 4J, Brooklyn, NY 11225 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of MM Versatile Services, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/30/21.

Of fice location: New York County. UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS , INC is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

72 Wadsworth Terrace, #1D, New York, NY 10040.

Purpose: Multi-service.

Pam Hair LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 3/09/2021.

Of f. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 30 Manchester dr. Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Compliers Consulting Services LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 02/18/21 . O f fice location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/29/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 530 E 76th St., Apt. 30H, NY, NY 10021. Address to be maintained in DE: 3500 S DUPONT HWY, DOVER, DE 19901. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of THE DEDHAM GROUP LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/18/21.O f fice location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/13/10. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O UNIVERSAL REGISTERED AGENTS, INC., 26 Carville Ln., East Greenbush, NY 12061.

Address to be maintained in DE: BUSINESS FILINGS INCOR POR ATED, 107 WEST 13TH ST., WILMINGTON, DE 19801.

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.

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Notice of formation of Hanolt Studio LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY ) on March 16, 2021.Office location: Kings County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY shall mail copy of process service to 114 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

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Notice of Formation of NJCC-NYS C O M M U N I T Y RESTORATION FUND II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/26/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. office of LLC: 108 Church St., 3rd Fl., New Brunswick, NJ 08901. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Community Loan Fund of New Jersey, Inc. at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of OHBM HOUSING AND COMMUNIT Y DE VELOPMENT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/04/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, Attn: Charles E. Simpson, Esq., 156 W. 56th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of C B S L R E A LT Y HOLDINGS LLC. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/12/21. Office location: Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 110 Kramer's Pond Road Putnam Valley, NY, 10579.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of SATCAP LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 02/25/2021.

O f f ice location: N Y County. LLC formed in DE on 01/28/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 42 Lispenard, Apt 4, NY, NY 10013. Address required to be maintained in DE: 1209 Orange St. Wilmington DE 19801.

Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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LEGENDS GENASSET CO, LLC. Authority filed SSNY 1/15/21. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 12/14/20. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 61 Broadway, Ste. 2400, NY, NY 10006. Cert of Formation Filed: Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. General Purpose.

Notice of Formation o f J u s t S al a d 5 5 Broadway, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/03/21. O f fice location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Delaney Corporate Services, Ltd., 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805A, Albany, NY 12210.

Purpose: any law ful activities.

Notice of Qual. of INLOW BLVD LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/22/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/19/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: Attn: Julie Lawson 983 Park Avenue, 2c New York, NY, 10028.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ELIOT ENGEL AND ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/9/21. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Eliot Engel 3725 Henry Hudson Parkway 11d Bronx, NY, 1046. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HORN REALT Y LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/26/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to C/O Shimmie Horn Triumph Hotels 1633 Broadway, 46th Floor New York, NY, 10019. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION o f N YC C OV I D -1 9 Emergency Services, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 4/02/20.

Office location: New York County. The principal business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006. SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention General Counsel. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM LEGENDS HOSPITALITY HOLDING COMPANY, LLC. Authorit y filed SSNY 1/26/21. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 8/1/08. Exists in DE: c/o C orp oration S er vic e Company, 251 Lit tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 61 Broadway, Ste. 2400, NY, NY 10006. Cert of Formation Filed: Jeffrey W. Bullock, DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. General Purpose.

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PIQUE-NIC, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 0 3/0 9/2 0 2 1 .

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Andrew B. Christopherson, Esq., 111 E. Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1800, Milwaukee, WI 53202 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of MISHEGAS LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/18/21 . O f fice location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/10/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: BEN FRIEDMAN, 940 N. STANLEY AVE., APT. #7, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046. Address to be maintained in DE: 3500 S Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qual. of QUEST 48 WALL STREET LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 02/26/2021.

Office loc: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 02/03/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Roy Glassberg CPA, 6971 N Federal Highway #201, Boca Raton, FL 33487.

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

Performance Imaging Management LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY ) on 3/9/2021.

Office: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o The DeIorio Law Group PLLC, 800 Westchester Ave, Ste S-608, Rye Brook , NY 10573.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of TULO MARKET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/21/20. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of Formation of PRINCETON AMHERST R E L AT E D G P, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/18/21. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. 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 law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of PRINCETON AMHERST RELATED CLASS C, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/18/21.Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. 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 law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of MSG NYK HOLDINGS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on03/03/21.

O f f ice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware(DE) on 03/17/20 . S S N Y designated as agent of LLC uponwhom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mailprocess to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St.,Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 LittleFalls Dr. , Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DESecy. of State, Div. of Corps., John D. Townsend Bldg., 401Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawfulactivity.

GERARDANTHONY SALON LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/18/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Gerard Anthony Salon, 580 Amsterdam Avenue, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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SHAPIRO & LEE PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/19/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 579 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law. Notice of Formation of Jindonut LLC filed with SSNY on March 18, 2021.

O f f i c e: We s tc h e s te r County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 24203 Town Green Drive, Elmsford, NY 10523. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of OBSCURA DIGITAL, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/03/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/23/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (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 DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John D. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of CBM WILLIAMSBURG, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/09/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of MARINE PARK 2067 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/17/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2067 East 37TH Street Brooklyn, NY, 11234.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OUR WHALE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3273 Bedford Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SAM BLAKE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/16/16. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 183 Wilson Street Suite 185 Brooklyn, NY, 11211.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE KEYLIN EXPERIENCE, LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/20. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2130 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Bl Suite 120 New York, NY, 10027.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE SCOTT-EDWARDS HOUSE OF VOCAL TRAINING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/19/21. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 752 Delafirld Ave Staten Island, NY, 10310. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of W L S W V DILIGENCE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/15/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9013 5th Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11209. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 68 FOREST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/19/19. Office location Orange SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to P.O. Box 57 Monroe, NY, 10949.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BIG BLUE MUSIC GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/25/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1301 Avenue Of The Americas New York, NY, 10019. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 595 UNION AVE., LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/22/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 238 North 11th St Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CASA MIA ORANGE COUNTY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/19/21. Office location Orange SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 32 Bristol Drive Middletown, NY, 10941. Any lawful p u r p o s e .

Notice of Formation of A & B LANDSCAPING AND HARDSCAPING LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/17/21.

Office location Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 61 Elmwood Ave Gloversville, NY, 12078. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ALTITUDE HR LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/4/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 10 Park Avenue, Suite 6J New York, NY, 10016.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of DOCTORS ON CALL MEDICAL SERVICES, PLLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/2/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 272 Marion St Brooklyn, NY, 11233. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ANUM 786 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/19/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1011 E 58th ST, 1FL Brooklyn, NY, 11234. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KK TOTORO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/17/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2067 East 37th St. Brooklyn, NY, 11234. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Tingirin, LLC filed with SSNY on March 21st, 2021.

Office: Bronx County.

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

SSNY mail shall mail copy of process to LLC: 665 Allerton Avenue, APT: FE, Bronx, NY 10467. Purpose: any lawful act activity.

GROUNDED THERAPY LCSW, PLLC, a Prof.

LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 03/10/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 133 West 87th Street, NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Licensed Clinical Social Work.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN T H AT A LICENSE, SERIAL #1333256 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CON T R OL L AW AT 148 W 67 TH ST NY, NY 10023. NY COUNT Y, F O R O N PR E M I S E CONSUMPTION. 148 WEST 67 RESTAURANT LLC Notice of Formation of The Sunrise Center, LLC filed with SSNY on March 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: 235 16th Street, Brooklyn, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Rini Fonseca-Sabune Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on February 12, 2021. Of fice: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 280 Riverside Drive, 14A, NY, NY 10025. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of RE ALVITALIZE LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/22/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/19/19. 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. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice is hereby given that a license number pending for beer, liquor, & wine has been applied for by Leroy Garcia and Karma Sutra NYC to sell beer liquor, and wine at retail in a tavern under the alcoholic beverage control law at 51 1st. avenue manhattan ny 1 0 0 0 3 f o r o n premises consumption.

Leroy Garcia and Karma Sutra NYC

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Notice of Formation of PARKSIDE AMHERST RELATED GP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/18/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. 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 law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of Glitchworks LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretar y of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/27/2019.

NY Office Location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served.

The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Attilio Rigotti, 111 Malcolm X Blvd, Apt. GDN Brooklyn, NY 11221.

Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of CBM NoHo, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/05/21.

Office location: NY Count y LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/29/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number Pending for beer, cider, liquor and wine has been applied for by Argo Navis LLC to sell beer, cider, liquor and wine at retail in a vessel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 159 Bridge Park Dr, Brooklyn NY, 11201, for on premises consumption.

Argo Navis LLC, Brooklyn Sail (DBA)

Notice of Qualification of UPFRONT RENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 1/25/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 379 W. Broadway, FL 2, New York, NY 10012.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o C orp oration S er vic e Company, 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Form of notice for on-premises license.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number [PENDING] for liquor, beer, cider, and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, cider and wine at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 198 R ANDOLPH STREE T B R O O K LY N , NY 11237 for on premises c o n s u m p t i o n .

BURGIE’S ON THE BLOCK LLC

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Notice of Formation of Otto CSG 1 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/9/20. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Dimension Energy LLC, Rafael Dobrzynski, 328 0 Peachtree Rd NE, 7th Fl., Atlanta, GA 30305, principal business address.

Purpose: any law f ul ac ti v i t y

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number “Pending” for Liquor and Wine, has been applied for by The undersigned* to sell Liquor and Wine at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 3223 Quentin Rd, Kings County, Brooklyn, NY for on premises consumption. *LARRY ACKERMAN for L A STEAKS LLC DBA T STEAKHOUSE. NOTICE OF AUCTION Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by c o mp e ti ti ve b i d ding starting on April 26, 2021 and end on May 7, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #9A14 – Jose J Vazquez: 2-boxes with Toy Story toys , 1 - guitar case, 4-large plastic bags, 5boxes, several video games, 1-duf fel bag #9C21-A – John Mcquillan: unavailable to view The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any t i m e .

7 FILLMORE PLACE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 03/30/2021. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Rahul Chabria, 7 Fillmore Place, Brooklyn, N Y 11 2 11 . Purp o s e: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 4100 Lake Road LLC. filed with SSNY on March 31, 2021. Office: Wayne County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7175 Tuckahoe Rd, Williamson, NY 14589. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Sandhya Jain- Patel, LLC filed with SSNY on 31 March 2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 149 Skillman Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of DOBBS FERRY VETERINARY CENTER PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State (NYSS) on 3/26/21. Office in Westchester County.

NYSS designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail a copy of any process to: DOBBS FERRY VETERINARY CENTER PLLC, 62 Hampton House Rd, Newton, NJ 07860. Any lawful business purpose.

Notice of Formation of WAYSIDE WEST, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/31/21.Office location: New York 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 Ave #400 Harrison, NY, 10528.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BACK TO NYC 71, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/3/21.

Office location New York 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 S. Reich, Esq. 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of CBM UES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/03/21.

Office location: NY Count y LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/01/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of AMB IMPACT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 325 COLUMBIA TURNPIKE STE . 301 FLORHAM PA R K , NJ, 07932.

Any law ful purpose.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN T H AT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1334880 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 8814 3 RD AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11209. KINGS COUNTY, F O R O N PR E M I S E CONSUMPTION. 8814 RESTAURANT LLC. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number [pending] for liquor, beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, wine, and cider at retail in an OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 63 Clinton St New York, NY 10002 for on premises consumption.

GET BACK LLC

Notice of Formation of 36D PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/21.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 Formation of 248WEST22ND LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 90 State Street, Suite 700 Box 10 Albany, NY, 12207.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of EC 58TH STREET LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/2/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10//21/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: C/O United Agent Group Inc. 15 North Mill St Nyack, NY, 10960. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JX Service, LLC filed with SSNY on April 1, 2021.

Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 8622 25th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11214. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of HRA AMSTERDAM, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/1/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in FL on 3/19/21. 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, NY, 10528.

Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS. The Centre of Tallahassee, 2415 N. Monroe Sreet Suite 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303. Any lawful purpose.

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Form of notice for on-premises license.

Notice is hereby g i ve n that a license, number [pending] for liquor, beer, cider and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, cider and wine at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 595 Union Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11211 for on premises consumption.

RHYMIN & THIEVIN, LLC Notice of Qual. of HRA TIMES SQUARE, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/1/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in FL on 3/19/21. 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, NY, 10528.

Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS. The Centre of Tallahassee, 2415 N. Monroe Sreet Suite 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of OGL HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/6/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Contessa Health Management 49 Music Square West, Ste. 401 Nashville, TN, 37203.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Omniscient Demolition LLC filed with SSNY on February 22, 2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 211 Lott Ave, Apt 4A, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

T-Mobile Northeast LLC, proposes an antenna and equipment modifications atop existing buildings including one at 1230 York Ave (136.3’ tall) in Manhattan; and three in Brooklyn, Kings County at 115 Logan St (79’ tall); at 604 Clinton St (91’ tall); and at 3162 Bayview Ave (84.25’ tall). Additionally, the same is proposed atop an existing 145’ water tower at 800 Mill Creek Rd in Manahawkin, Ocean County, NJ. Cumberland County proposes an antenna tower installation atop the existing Millville City Hall at 18 S High St in Millville, Cumberland County, NJ. Starry, Inc. proposes an antenna and equipment installation atop an existing 117’ building at 3601 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC.

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 74 feet on a 74-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 601 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11203.

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, Morgan Rasmussen, m.rasmussen@trileaf.com, 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067; 678-653-8673 ext. 657.

In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for Review Under the National Preservation Act; Final Rule, CHERUNDOLO is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking.

Accordingly, if you would like to provide specific information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within ½ mile of the above address, please submit the property’s address and your comments to: CHERUNDOLO at 976 Tabor Road, Suite 1, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@cherundoloconsulting.com.

Notice of Formation of P&R WORKS, LLC filed with Secretary of State of New York on February 4, 2021. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1199 East 53rd Street, Unit 7B, Brooklyn, NY 11234 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Market Street MA Z Investor LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/22/2021. Office: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 9 Prospect Park West, #10C, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

Purpose: any lawful act.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 84.9’) on the building at 613-619 Throop Ave, Brooklyn, NY (20210416). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Aramak LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 1/13/21.

Office location: New York County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and is directed to forward service of process to 101 West End ave #7R, New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful activity,

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FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK CITY OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF BRONX ------------------------------------------------------x In the Matter of Commitment of Guardianship and Custody of

Docket No.: B-10854-55/20

LASHAUNDA ALICIA SAMUEL

SUMMONS also known as LASHAUNDA SAMUEL LENAY JAVONAH MCKNIGHT LENAY MCKNIGHT Children under the Age of Eighteen Years ----------------------------------------------------------------------------x In the Name of the People of the State of New York TO: Lenny McKnight ADDRESS: UNKNOWN A Petition having been duly filed in this Court pursuant to Article 6 of the Family Court Act of the State of New York, asking that the above-named child, who in the care of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL be committed to the guardianship and custody of THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL; a copy of said Petition being annexed hereto; You are hereby summonsed to appear VIRTUALLY in this Court, before the Hon. Fiordaliza Rodriguez, on JUNE 2, 2021 at 3:30P.M. to Show Cause why the Court should not enter an Order committing the guardianship and custody of said child to the petitioning agency as required by law.

TO APPEAR VIRTUALLY utilize the following link: TO APPEAR VIRTUALLY, PLEASE DIAL (929) 346-7209 and enter the Conference Code 391964284# or utilize the following link: https://notify.nycourts.gov/meet/ag354r on the above-scheduled date and time.

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

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

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

Form of notice for on-premises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1335009 for liquor, beer, and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, and wine at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 332 Bowery New York, NY 10012 for on premises consumption.

THE SPOT BARBERSHOP BOND & BOWERY, LLC Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1335009 for liquor, beer, and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, and wine at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 2 River Terrace New York, NY 10282 for on premises consumption.

Notice of Qual. of SURREY OPCO LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/17/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 12/8/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 733 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10017. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of SURREY PROPCO LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/17/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 11/30/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 733 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10017. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS .

Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of S3 RE 323 E 79TH FUNDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/17/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 1/19/21.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 555 Madison Ave, 19 th Fl, NY, NY 10022.

Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS . Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

BL 2 RIVER NY LLC

Dated: Bronx, New York April 7, 2021

By Order of the Court /s/ _ Clerk of the Family Court

Notice of Qualification of a Limited Liability Company (LLC): Name: ZLS Solutions, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/17/2021. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o ZLS Solutions, LLC, 3871 Sedgwick Ave Apt 5G, Bronx, NY 10463. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date.

Notice of Qual. of REALVITALIZE AFFILIATES LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/31/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 3/26/21.

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 Ave #400 Harrison, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Zainab Albedawi Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on March 1, 2021.

Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 52 Avon Place, Staten Island, NY, 10301. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE PACK FAMILY F O U N D AT I O N for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2020 is available at its principal office located at 150 East 69 th St. # 21G, New York, NY 10021 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is Loren P. B eyer.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1335005 for liquor, beer, and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, and wine at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at Pier 62 Chelsea Piers New York, NY 10011 for on premises consumption.

BL 450 LEXINGTON NY LLC

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Who was up and who was down last week

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CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton DIGITAL Digital Director Michael Filippi, Digital Marketing Strategist Caitlin Dorman, Digital Strategist Isabel Beebe

ANDREW CUOMO For the most powerful man in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in a uniquely difficult negotiating spot this budget season as he faces an impeachment probe and continued calls to resign over allegations of sexual harassment and his handling of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. It’s not all that surprising, then, that Cuomo failed to dissuade lawmakers on a number of key issues.

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As one of the original plaintiffs in the lawsuit that resulted in the creation of a new education funding formula in 2006, state Sen. Robert Jackson celebrated a major victory with a commitment to fully fund the Foundation Aid formula over the next three years. They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, but three decades is a long wait.

JESSICA RAMOS & CARMEN DE LA ROSA

State Sen. Jessica Ramos and Assembly Member Carmen De La Rosa secured $2.1 billion for undocumented workers who were ineligible for federal COVID-19 relief and unemployment benefits.

Legislators didn’t eat the rich, but they took a big bite out of their incomes in the state budget. And members of the business group Partnership for New York City probably aren’t too happy.

President and CEO Kathryn Wylde lobbied pretty hard against new taxes on the wealthy, but it seems her pleas fell on largely deaf ears.

STEPHEN ROTH

The plan to redevelop the area around Penn Station hasn’t been stopped in its tracks, but let’s say it’s experiencing some delays. That’s bad news for developer Stephen Roth, since the state won’t be able to use $1.3 billion for the skyscrapers he wants to build.

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The state is going to spend on social services like never before. Funny how a certain someone (Are you a Miranda? Take this quiz!) was pushing these ideas in 2018, and now some man is taking credit for them. But as a famous thespian once said: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” So beam us to Planet Albany to see who is really winning in the state budget.

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