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TikTok And She Don't Stop How Dianne Morales went from unknown to NYC's coolest progressive candidate

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DIANNE MORALES BACK in February spoke with the FAQ NYC podcast, predicting that her campaign would pick up steam once she received matching funds from the city and the weather was warm enough to connect with New Yorkers personally.

It turns out that she wasn’t all that far off. Once a relatively unknown entry in the race for mayor, Morales, a 53-year-old single mom and nonprofit executive, is now getting some significant support for her campaign. She snagged a co-endorsement from the Working Families Party alongside Maya Wiley after the group rescinded its endorsement of Scott Stringer.

Morales accomplished this on her strong, progressive platform, which also has won approval among Democratic Socialists of America members. And after raking in $2 million in matching funds from the city, she now has the funds to gain even more exposure in a town that has increasingly moved to the left, while enduring the devastating economic, social and health impacts of COVID-19.

“I feel like she’s the candidate that meets the moment,” Jabari Brisport, a Brooklyn state senator and DSA member backing Morales told The Nation.

Morales is still a long shot, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing her growing momentum in the lead-up to the June 22 Democratic primary. She’s connecting with young people by posting videos on TikTok. And she is going into communities to connect with voters, rather than relying so much on digital forums. She even was planning a block party in Sunset Park this past weekend.

If it sounds like early celebrating, it may just be. Who wouldn’t while having their moment?

If elected, Dianne Morales would be the city’s first Afro-Latina mayor.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

UNION ENDORSEMENTS … 8 Do they still matter in the race for mayor?

LEFTEST LEFTIST … 10 This is Dianne Morales’ moment to win over the city’s progressives STATE LABOR 100 … 17

The leaders fighting for workers’ rights

WINNERS & LOSERS … 58

Who was up and who was down last week

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Elise Stefanik has come a long way since becoming the youngest woman elected to Congress in 2015.

NEW YORK INCHES CLOSER TO REOPENING Not long after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he hoped to have the city reopened fully

by July 1, Gov. Andrew Cuomo decided to up the ante. He announced that, in conjunction with New Jersey and Connecticut,

most COVID-19 capacity restrictions in the state would be lifted in the state

by May 19. That applies to things like indoor dining and museums, as well as large gatherings. The only restriction to remain is the six-foot distancing requirement, which could still limit capacity for some activities. Cuomo also

announced the return of overnight subway service for the first time in months.

A few days later, Cuomo announced even more reopening plans pegged to May 19, saying that large outdoor venues – notably baseball stadiums in New York City – would have their capacity limits lifted.

At Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, sections will be set aside for fully vaccinated fans who will still need to wear masks, but won’t have to adhere to the six-foot social distancing guidelines. That will be the case for other outdoor venues as well. Cuomo also said that Broadway tickets will go on sale at 100% capacity, with the first shows starting in September.

“Have you been on the subway?

Because I have, and I was scared.”

– Gov. Andrew Cuomo, via the New York Post

STEFANIK ON THE RISE

New York may soon have top-ranking congressional members in both parties as Rep. Elise Stefanik works to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as conference leader, the No. 3 GOP position in the House.

After Cheney vocally denounced former president Donald Trump’s

IN AND OUT AND IN AGAIN It was roughly five years after Sheldon Silver’s first corruption conviction that the exAssembly speaker landed in federal prison to serve a six-and-a-half year sentence. But after less than a year at the Otisville prison, Silver, 77, was briefly released on furlough last week. Silver was promptly returned to prison, but the New York Post minced no words in greeting the disgraced lawmaker.

lies about election fraud and claims of a stolen election, House members began calling for her ouster. Now, Stefanik, long considered a rising star in the Republican Party who has raised money to help get more members of the GOP elected, is looking to capitalize. She has effectively been anointed as Cheney’s replacement even before the vote

by Republican leaders, including Trump himself.

But Stefanik’s apparent ascension and Cheney’s ouster is causing turmoil within the party and concern over the GOP’s future. For Stefanik, who had largely avoided close association with Trump until his first impeachment trial, her conservative bona fides and commitment to the president have been called into question by members of the GOP base.

ANOTHER RENT FREEZE ON THE HORIZON

“We’re setting up a system where it will be a level playing field. This definitely is a racial justice issue.”

– Assembly Labor Committee Chair Latoya Joyner on her wage theft bill

The board that sets rents for some two million rent-stabilized tenants in New York City signaled that they may freeze rents for some for a second year in a row. The Rent Guidelines Board took a preliminary vote indicating a 0%-2% rent increase for one-year leases and a range of 1%3% increase for two-year leases. So keeping rents flat for tenants renewing one-year leases, as the board did last year due to the pandemic, seems a likely possibility. The preliminary vote was not well received by landlord

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groups, who pushed for larger increases on both types of leases. A final vote is expected late next month

NEW POLL INDICATES SOME MAYORAL SHAKEUPS

For the first time in a public poll of the upcoming New York City mayoral election, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams edged out Andrew Yang for the top spot. Yang has consistently ranked at the top of polls

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so far during the race, with Adams trailing behind him in second. Although it’s just one poll, it may be an early indicator that attitudes around the candidates are changing and that Yang’s star power and name recognition that propelled him to the front of the pack early on may be wearing off as election day draws nearer. Soon after, however, the Yang campaign released an internal poll that placed Adams in third, so it’s hard to give too much weight to any one poll.

Renae Reynolds wants you on to stay on the subway The transportation advocacy group Tri-State Transportation Campaign, is calling for just and equitable transportation access as New Yorkers return to busses and subways. Renae Reynolds is the new executive director, beginning her job last month. City & State spoke with Reynolds about the most pressing transportation equity issues she sees today. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.

What are the concerns and advantages around reopening 24-hour subway service?

I think it’s pretty clear that the reduction in service has impacted a particular group of people, and those are the essential workers, primarily people of color, most particularly women of color who work in vital roles across our city and who have had to deal with the effects of reduced service. So I think that it is primarily beneficial for those folks, and it is also beneficial to our economy, to get 24-hour service back on track.

Mayoral candidate and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams edged out Andrew Yang in one recent poll.

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MONDAY 5/10 Party with your 499 best friends now that the state is easing restrictions on public gatherings.

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How do you think MTA and advocacy groups will move forward despite the agency’s financial strain?

Once service returns to its full capacity, I think more folks are going to be interested in taking the subway again. No one

INSIDE DOPE

Lifting public health restrictions has helped Gov. Andrew Cuomo flood the zone with good news as he battles for his political survival.

wants to go out there and not know what to expect, how long they’re going to wait for a train.

I think that is the decision that folks have been facing, and once 24-hour service is back then … the confidence folks had in their system before will also increase. If we know that when we get to the subway platform we’re not going to wait an hour for a train to show up, we’re more likely to return to that platform tomorrow as opposed to deciding “I’m going to take a Lyft today” or if they have a car, “I’m going to drive today,” or some other mode.

There’s been some discussion in recent days about New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang wanting to have city control of the subway system. How does your group feel about that?

It’s sort of a dangerous position that Andrew Yang is proposing.

I think that the MTA has done a ton of work before the pandemic to improve service. If you look back to 2017 and the Summer of Hell experience, we are a far cry from that version of subway and bus service right up until before the pandemic. It probably sounds nice, it’s a great sound bite for some, but I don’t think it’s well thought through about what that would mean and how that might impact service.

– Jasmine Sheena

THURSDAY 5/13

FRIDAY 5/14

Leading Democratic candidates for New York City mayor duke it out in the first official debate of the contest at 7 p.m. on NY1 and WNYC.

Queens legislators are talking senior issues at a virtual event hosted by City & State that begins at 5:30 p.m.

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KATHRYN GARCIA has a competency problem. She’s so competent, a couple of her male mayoral rivals keep insisting that they’d hire her to run New York City after they’ve won the election, much to her chagrin. “I’m not running for No. 2,” she told The New Yorker. She added: “It’s totally sexist. Totally sexist. … Are you not strong enough to actually do this job without me helping you? You should be strong enough. You shouldn’t need me.

Oh it’s just you?

Thank God, I thought it was someone else rescinding an endorsement.

- Scott Stringer

To be quite clear: I don’t need you guys to run this government.”

She also hit back on Twitter when the New York Post ran a headline on frontrunner Andew Yang’s interest in hiring her: “I drive the Multihogs in this town.

But don't worry @AndrewYang, you can still call me when I’m the mayor.”

The response got us thinking, how might other mayoral candidates react if Yang offered to hire them?

You know I was thinking of reaching out to you, because I’m going to need a cat sitter once I’m elected mayor.

- Maya Wiley

Look I know your TikTok desperately needs my help, but I’m in it to win it.

- Dianne Morales

KATHRYN GARCIA ISN’T INTERESTED IN WORKING FOR ANDREW YANG. HERE’S HOW OTHER MAYORAL CANDIDATES MIGHT REJECT HIS OVERTURES.

BY CAITLIN DORMAN

Thanks, but no.

I learned my lesson working for Bloomberg.

- Shaun Donovan Please, you can’t afford me.

- Ray McGuire

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Neither is our fight.

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WHEN UNIONS AREN’T UNITED

Sure, labor can still swing City Council races. But mayor?

Those days could be history.

By Ross Barkan

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VERY EIGHT YEARS, New York City has its own version of a political Olympics. Many municipal elected officials face term limits, forcing them from posts they’d rather cling to forever. The mayor, the city comptroller, the public advocate, the borough presidents and a majority of the City Council are usually ejected from their offices, and a huge crop of newcomers runs to replace them.

This year, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Comptroller Scott Stringer are term-limited, as are the presidents of every borough other than Queens and a large majority of the City Council.

Into this fray come the endorsers – the activist groups, political action committees, nonprofit organizations, county machines and the politicians themselves. Although every candidate would love the backing of a celebrity like Jay-Z, the endorsements that pack the biggest punch are not always the most glamorous. New York is still a labor town where a few major union endorsements can mean thousands of dollars, thousands of votes and a long-awaited victory.

But the outsized attention on the mayoral race – and a lack of media focus elsewhere – has meant that most members of the public and various political insiders are scrutinizing the endorsements that matter least. Scott Stringer winning the backing

of the United Federation of Teachers, Maya Wiley scoring the support of 1199SEIU or Eric Adams seizing both the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council and service workers union 32BJ SEIU won plenty of coverage in prestigious outlets like Politico and The New York Times. The reason is understandable: These unions are all very big and could, in theory, tip the outcome of the race at the top of the ticket.

No candidate, however, has united the support of labor, potentially making this primary a repeat of what happened in 2013 when the major labor unions divided their support among four Democrats. Then-Public Advocate Bill de Blasio ended up winning comfortably, despite having fewer endorsements than Christine Quinn, who was City Council speaker at the time, and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson.

In general, organized labor’s backing matters less in high-profile races. Voters learn more about the candidates and support who they want based on shared values or a gut feeling, rather than what the teachers union or health care workers union tells them to do.

“I think labor, when united, can still have an impact citywide,” said Neal Kwatra, a veteran Democratic operative who has worked closely with labor unions. “However, they are definitely most impactful these days in the down-ballot council and legislative district races where manageable electorates make organizing on scale more viable, and voter contact strategies are cheaper and more efficient.”

In other words, the smaller the race, the lower the turnout and the less the candidates are known – the more likely labor union endorsements will move the needle.

These days, with diminished local press coverage and the Times editorial board’s decision to not endorse in down-ballot contests, union and advocacy organization endorsements are one of the few ways, besides interacting with a candidate or campaign directly, that voters can get a sense of who their City Council candidates are and where they stand ideologically.

Labor unions play that role for candidates through two crucial functions: pumping money into campaign coffers and contacting

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The United Federation of Teachers endorsed Scott Stringer, right, for mayor in April. The union has stuck with the city comptroller despite a high-profile sexual assault allegation.

their own members who live in the district.

Member-to-member contact is the most effective mechanism a union has. I learned this firsthand when I ran for the Democratic nomination for my local state Senate seat and found myself up against an opponent who had won the backing of several labor unions, including New York State United Teachers, the state teachers union.

My Brooklyn district was filled with many public school teachers, both active and retired. About a month before the primary, I learned from a teacher friend that NYSUT had already sent campaign mail for my opponent to his household. The union sent several mailers to every teacher in the district and made phone calls to them. My opponent was effectively benefiting from a free, parallel campaign being run on his behalf.

At that point, I had a sinking feeling that I wasn’t going to win, and I turned out to be right. While I can’t entirely attribute my defeat to labor unions not endorsing me – tactical errors and the relative strength of my opponent mattered too – I understood

intimately that having these large organizations oppose me was going to be a major disadvantage. In total, a little more than 15,000 people voted in that Democratic primary. On a scale that small, I don’t doubt that these endorsements mattered.

To figure out who’s going to win the Democratic nomination – which is tantamount to the election in many districts – for City Council or the state Legislature, you can usually just look for who has the most labor endorsements. Some of this might be that the most organized campaign attracts union backing, or that unions choose candidates with deep political connections who appear to be front-runners. But it’s also that amassing these endorsements means a lot of different unions will be contacting members, sending mail and kicking in campaign cash from their political action committees.

A look back at labor endorsements from 2013, the last time most of the City Council seats were open, shows that a vast majority of their chosen candidates triumphed. The same will likely be true in 2021.

Within New York City, labor unions are one of the only organizations with the capacity to regularly dispatch volunteers on campaigns when they choose. Their only rival, on a much smaller scale, is the Democratic Socialists of America, which can deploy hundreds of volunteers for select campaigns.

Truly special local campaigns can overwhelm the might of organized labor. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat then-Rep. Joseph Crowley, even though the fourth-ranking House Democrat and Queens party boss had every labor union in town stumping on his behalf. In gentrifying areas such as northwestern Brooklyn and Queens, labor’s power appears to be diminished. DSA upstarts such as state Sen. Julia Salazar and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, my old campaign manager, have dispatched labor-backed incumbents.

While organized labor as a whole is much more moderate than the DSA, the two forces aren’t always at odds. In eastern Queens, Jaslin Kaur, a DSA candidate, is running with the support of 1199SEIU. In Brooklyn,

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Alexa Avilés, another DSA-approved contender, has consolidated labor support.

Unions are not as powerful as they were a half-century ago, when incredibly charismatic and well-known leaders like UFT’s Albert Shanker, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, Central Labor Council leader Harry Van Arsdale and public sector boss Victor Gotbaum were on the front pages of newspapers, commanding great loyalty from rank-and-file members.

“They were household names. Everyone knew who they were,” said Joshua Freeman, a professor of labor history at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Today’s labor leaders, Freeman said, are removed from that radical political worldview, in which labor was at war with capital – Shanker and Gotbaum had been young socialists, while Quill, a firebreather in his own right, had fought with the Irish Republican Army. If labor leaders of the 21st century no longer dominate the popular imagination, they still command highly sophisticated political operations. The best political operatives in the state can often spend time working for a union. Statewide, with campaigns costing tens of millions of dollars, their war chests become even more crucial. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is not doomed yet if organized labor stays in his corner.

In this June’s mayoral primary, it’s far less clear what labor’s impact will be because the unions did not consolidate behind any candidates, and most voters heading to the polls will have some familiarity with the top-tier candidates. By June, heavy spenders like front-runner Andrew Yang and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will have unloaded their war chests on advertising. A single endorser, in such a sea of information, may not have such a tremendous impact.

A mayoral race, as every cycle shows us, can be a visceral experience for a voter. In 2001, a majority of New York City voters decided a centrist business executive should lead the city’s recovery from 9/11.

In 2013, the city’s liberal-leaning electorate was fed up with Bloomberg, choosing an antithesis candidate in de Blasio, a lifelong progressive politico.

In 2021, one candidate will capture the zeitgeist and win the election. So far, Yang, despite a near-total lack of organized labor backing, seems to be doing the best job of appealing to voters eager for a more energetic answer to the outgoing mayor. If Yang wins, it will show that endorsers can’t determine a mayoral race that’s inevitably headed in a different direction. But if Adams pulls off the upset, it could demonstrate that unions still have a lot of electoral muscle.

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Ross Barkan is a writer, journalist and former state Senate candidate.

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By Annie McDonough

Once a little-known nonprofit executive, Morales is underestimated no more.

Photographs by Winnie Au

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With her devoted crew of zoomers, can this leftist political outsider find a path to becoming mayor?

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ANDIDATES FOR MAYOR of New York City have made their cases this year in Zoom forums and delivered impassioned stump speeches, but there may be no pitch as effortlessly engaging as a candidate joyfully dancing toward a camera, telling New Yorkers she’s “on her way to replace Bill de Blasio as NYC’s first afro latina mayor.” That’s what former nonprofit leader Dianne Morales did in one of her TikTok videos last fall, amassing over half a million views.

Morales has combined effective online communication and organizing with the farthest-left platform in the race to amass a progressive, young fan base that has propelled her from a relatively unknown nonprofit leader to a champion of the left.

Morales supporters congregate on online platforms such as TikTok, Twitter and even the audio chatroom Clubhouse. On Twitter especially, fans of the candidate can be spotted easily by their profile photos set against purple, pink and orange gradient backgrounds. This sunset-colored corner of the internet is known among supporters as the “Dianneverse.” Some of her young supporters started out volunteering for the campaign and are now staffers on it, a fact they say demonstrates Morales’ reliance on young people not just for their boundless energy to knock on doors, but for their insights on policy too.

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ed off volunteering for Morales in January.

She’s now a staffer on the campaign’s field team. Like other Morales supporters, she said she first discovered the candidate on TikTok. “I remember being so shocked that she was on trend, like the music choice, the way that the video itself was so accessible,” Volfson said. Early videos she remembers watching laid out the headlines of Morales’ policies or mentioned the fact that she’s a single mother – while the candidate danced along to Lizzo’s “Exactly How I Feel” or NIKI’s “Indigo.” “TikTok, in the last political cycle, has definitely been used by a lot of politicians, which I appreciate,” Volfson added. “But a lot of the time, I see TikToks that very clearly look like they’re not made by the youth.”

Morales, 53, doesn’t have that problem because her 20-year-old daughter is at the helm of her TikTok page, directing the first video in April 2020, in which the two are dancing in unison and plain text announces that Morales is running for mayor. That video also also garnered over half a million views. “It was just she and I kind of messing around in the house, you know, pandemic madness. And she was trying to teach me this dance,” Morales recalled to City & State recently. “And it just sort of took off. And then all of the sudden, we had people reaching out wanting to volunteer for the campaign. It was really just organic.”

While Morales is undoubtedly the candidate of cool, young progressives, a citywide campaign can’t be won on that kind of cachet alone. However, she has also won the backing of progressive kingmakers such as the Working Families Party, thanks to policies that surpass even staunchly progressive rivals such as New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Maya Wiley, the former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, in their ambition.

(WFP ranked Morales second in their endorsement, below Stringer, but the organization has since pulled its endorsement of Stringer following an allegation of sexual assault against him, which he denies.) Her platform includes $3 billion in annual cuts to the New York City Police Department, a pledge to rebuild the city’s public housing complexes and move toward a model of European-style social housing, plus free tuition at the City University of New York system.

The excitement building around Morales is visible not just online, but on the ground. On a recent morning at Herbert Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Morales’ own neighborhood, the parents of a young family with kids stopped to call out and promise her their vote – an occurrence the first-time political candidate is still getting used to. Later that day, supporters biked from Bed-Stuy to City Hall in a fundraiser-rally to support

Morales’ transportation policies, including a publicly funded Citi Bike and expanded busways in low-income neighborhoods and transit deserts. “She has the energy that other people don’t,” said Nicole Murray, a 35-year-old project manager who participated in the event. “There are other candidates that I’m OK on, because I think they have OK ideas to run a city well, but it’s not that same energy to really inspire people and to challenge the way things are.”

Morales, who is currently polling around sixth place in the Democratic primary, doesn’t have the name recognition or high-powered consultants of Andrew Yang, the institutional support of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, or even the years of government experience that Wiley, Stringer, or former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia and former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan can cite. But the Bed-Stuy native argues that her lack of establishment ties and entrenchment in government make her more likely to deliver bold change. “The folks that have those connections and the folks that have that history have been complicit in the creation of, kind of, the dysfunction that we’re in today,” Morales said.

Morales’ early career was spent in education. She helped launch the Department of Education’s Office of Youth Development and School Community Services under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, serving as its chief of operations from 2002 to 2004. She later served as executive director of The Door, a youth development organization that offers services including college advisement, nutrition education and outreach for homeless LGBTQ youth. In her latest role, she served as executive director and CEO of Phipps Neighborhoods, a South Bronx-based social services nonprofit for low-income families – an arm of the affordable housing developer Phipps Houses. “There’s some value to not just having somebody from the outside, but having someone who has firsthand experience, both personally and professionally, in terms of taking on some of our greatest challenges in the city,” Morales said. Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas said she endorsed Morales in part because Morales’ nonprofit experience is directly applicable to the job. “While a nonprofit is not a government entity as big as New York City … she’s really touched on the kind of the biggest issues that we face in New York City,” González-Rojas said.

While Morales might not have a long record in government to be picked apart, her association with Phipps Houses has been scrutinized. The developer has appeared on an annual list of “worst evictors” in the city and has been criticized for poor conditions in its developments. Her campaign

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I think there’s a recognition among young people about the collective good, and prioritizing the collective good over individual benefit.

previously told Politico New York that Morales had no involvement in the housing development side of Phipps.

Still, the fact that Morales’ career has been focused largely outside of politics means that she doesn’t have to answer to the political establishment, she said. “I think that gives me the freedom to be sort of unapologetic and unabashed about the positions that I think are most beneficial to the community, because that’s who I feel accountable to,” Morales said.

High on the list of communities Morales said she feels accountable to is, “Working-class folks, low-income Black and brown folks, immigrants and women (who) have not been historically welcomed into the political space,” Morales said. If elected, Morales would be the city’s first female mayor, the first Latina mayor, and the second Black mayor. But, as was the case for other farleft candidates in New York City, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a large chunk of Morales’ support seems to come from gentrifiers and already politically engaged vot-

ers: In a Data for Progress poll of 1,007 likely Democratic primary voters conducted from March 21 to April 5 in which Morales polled at just 3%, she performed slightly better among white and college-educated voters.

One smaller recent poll showed her doing better among Hispanics than whites, however. In a poll of 500 likely primary voters conducted by the Washington D.C.-based firm GQR in late April, Morales landed in seventh place, with 14% of Hispanic respondents, 6% of white respondents and 2% of Black respondents saying she’d be their first choice.

Her recent bike ride fundraiser drew a racially diverse crowd, though several of the supporters City & State spoke to worked in fields such as government and public policy.

Earlier that day, the young family who stopped Morales in Herbert Von King Park to share their support looked like a typical example of the white yuppies who have recently arrived in neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy, pushing up housing prices and making it increasingly unaffordable for working-class people of color.

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F COURSE, a candidate’s base doesn’t need to be made up of only low-income people and immigrants for the candidate to be deeply concerned with their priorities.

Those are also some of the populations on whom the COVID-19 pandemic has taken an outsized toll. As New York City enters a new phase of the pandemic, with vaccinations climbing but a true end still out of reach, Morales has promised to use this time as a turning point for radical change – a term those in the mainstream tend to shy away from. “Given the multiple crises and pandemics at this period in time, who do we want to be in history?” Morales asked.

“Do we want to be known as the people who let people die of hunger, or be homeless, or lack health care? Or do we want to sort of be the society that looked out for each other?”

For her supporters, several platform issues in particular have been galvanizing, and are easily summed up in rallying cries like “Defund the police!” and “Free CUNY!” that may have a particular appeal to younger people. “I think there’s a recognition among young people about sort of the collective good and prioritizing the collective good over individual benefit,” Morales said.

Gabriel Hawkins, a 15-year-old volunteer for Morales’ campaign, put it more simply. “I think young people on average are more progressive than their older counterparts,” said Hawkins, who did not learn about Morales on TikTok or Twitter, but from a friend in real life. Hawkins’ hunch is supported by research showing that Generation Z largely aligns with millennials in having more liberal views than older generations.

While Hawkins himself can’t vote, he’s among Morales’ supporters who was particularly attracted to her promise to defund the NYPD by $3 billion. While other progressives in the race, including Stringer and Wiley, have proposed police budget cuts, they’ve shied away from using the “defund” language.

That’s not to say that other Democratic primary candidates don’t have their own plans for police reform, protecting tenants and investing in transit and bike infrastructure. And while practically the whole field also uses the rhetoric of protecting those

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MAYORAL METRICS TWITTER FOLLOWERS

6,498

% OF FAKE TWITTER FOLLOWERS

5%

FACEBOOK FOLLOWERS

1,371

TIKTOK FOLLOWERS

18

MOST VIEWED TIKTOK:

709

ERIC ADAMS

6,490

5%

406

n/a

7,595

5%

1,063

n/a

7,578

6%

1,999

n/a

39.7K

3%

3,010

SHAUN DONOVAN

KATHRYN GARCIA

RAY McGUIRE

25.5K

MOST VIEWED TIKTOK:

536.9K

DIANNE MORALES

17.4K

5%

2,468

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MOST VIEWED TIKTOK:

781

SCOTT STRINGER

425.9K

9%

1,719

1.9M

5%

308,696

n/a

MAYA WILEY

ANDREW YANG

332.2K

MOST VIEWED TIKTOK:

4.5M

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most impacted by the pandemic, a number of progressive lawmakers and political organizations believe that Morales is the candidate who will actually follow through on the change she promises. Her endorsements include González-Rojas, Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes and state Sen. Jabari Brisport.

Samelys López, a housing activist who ran for Congress in the Bronx last year, cited Morales’ social housing plan as another reason she stands out. As part of her plan, Morales would rebuild New York City Housing Authority buildings and move toward resident-managed public housing, as well as commit all city-owned land to building affordable housing. “I lived in the shelter system for a while, so housing is always something that’s been very, very important.

And she’s talking about social housing, investing in NYCHA, food justice,” López said. “Coming from the Bronx, you see a lot of bread lines in the community. And people are hungry, people are starving.

If elected, Morales would still face an uphill battle in pushing through her progressive policies – some of which, as outlets like Gotham Gazette have reported, remain short on details, especially when it comes to how she would balance the budget while increasing spending. Her affordable housing reforms and plans to move toward social housing would rely in part on state funding, and her call for rent cancellation during the pandemic requires state action. And while her proposed $3 billion cut to the NYPD has pleased police reform advocates, getting the City Council to pass it is a different story. Last year, the de Blasio administration and City Council approved less than $1 billion in nominal budget cuts to the NYPD, which critics complained were largely illusory, and even that – at the height of the grassroots “defund the police” activist movement – required a contentious fight. “A lot of people, including in communities impacted by policing, bristle at the term,” Barry Friedman, a professor and director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law, told The New York Times, of the “defund” language.

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HE EXCITEMENT AROUND Morales is not unlike the energy that New York saw build around other left-of-left insurgent candidates, including Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman. Each of those first-time candidates represented a break from the (largely white and male) political establishment and pushed the boundaries of what defines a progressive.

But the challenge facing Morales is more complicated than knocking off a single entrenched establishment lawmaker. In addition to the fact that polls show the primary’s current front-runners are Yang and Adams, two of the more moderate candi-

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dates in the race, Morales does not have sole ownership of the progressive lane in the Democratic primary, which is also occupied by Stringer and Wiley.

Morales argues that she is meaningfully to their left. “There’s a lot of daylight between me and them,” Morales said.

“There’s a lot of differences in our policies, despite folks’ inclination to sort of lump us all together.”

Still, liberal lawmakers and organized labor have chosen Stringer and Wiley over Morales in many cases. Stringer still holds support from the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and United Federation of Teachers, while Wiley has been endorsed by 1199SEIU and Reps. Yvette Clarke and Nydia Velázquez, along with progressive local lawmakers, including state Sen. Michael Gianaris. Stringer has far outraised Morales, having amassed almost $3.5 million in private contributions,

“I’d like to see Dianne build coalitions with other groups. You don’t need to prove yourself to the left.

We know.”

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according to the latest campaign finance filings. With matching funds, he has roughly $7.4 million left in the coffers. Morales, by comparison, has raised slightly over half a million dollars in private contributions, but has qualified for $2.2 million in public funds.

But Morales says that her campaign stands out from the others for being one truly driven by grassroots support – or, as some like to chant at her rallies, “people power.” The campaign says it has the lowest average contribution of the top-performing candidates at $47, and that roughly 30% of contributors have described themselves as unemployed.

Although Stringer has consistently polled above Morales and Wiley, the allegation of sexual harassment made recently by a former volunteer for Stringer’s 2001 public advocate campaign has rocked the

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city comptroller’s mayoral bid, potentially creating an opportunity for Morales to break through. Although he denies the claims and no supporting evidence to corroborate them has yet emerged, Stringer lost endorsements from many of his key supporters, including the Working Families Party, which had initially ranked Stringer first, Morales second and Wiley third in their endorsement.

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HOUGH THE ENERGY around an anti-establishment candidate promising to upend the status quo is palpable on both social media and at in-person rallies, that’s no guarantee that the rest of the city is ready for such a candidate.

While she has cemented her position as the candidate of the city’s most left-wing young voters, Morales will have to appeal to a much broader swath of the city to win, including older and more mainstream liberals and rank-and-file union members.

Assembly Member Khaleel Anderson, who hails from Southeast Queens and is 24, endorsed Wiley and has yet to choose who he will rank second. Though Anderson said he is aligned with Morales ideologically, he said Wiley has demonstrated an ability to build a diverse coalition of support, including from labor, middle-class and working-class people. “I’d like to see Dianne build coalitions with other groups,” Anderson said. “You don’t need to prove yourself to the left. We know.”

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is one of the groups that hasn’t rescinded its endorsement of Stringer, and its president, Stuart Appelbaum, said last week that their support of the embattled candidate still stands. “What Scott brings to the table is a comprehensive knowledge of the way city and state government work, and experience in dealing with government at every level,” Appelbaum said. “I think we need that experience at this moment in New York City’s history.”

The Freelancers Union, an organization representing independent workers, co-endorsed Wiley and Yang. Former New York City Council Member Rafael Espinal, who now serves as the organization’s executive director, said that Morales was viewed very positively in the endorsement process, but that there was a concern about her viability. “For our membership, Maya seemed like a more viable candidate, in both experience and her ability to manage and work within the systems of government, but also on the campaign trail,” Espinal said.

Morales and her supporters are used to the campaign’s viability being questioned.

“The rhetoric of viability would have had me not be in this race, because I didn’t fit,” said Morales. “I didn’t check any of those boxes – and yet, here I am.”

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O R G E N E R A T I O N S , New York has been at the forefront of the fight for worker rights. In 1909, Clara Lemlich rallied her fellow textile workers in the Uprising of the 20,000. Two years later in 1911, outrage over the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to concrete legislative changes to better protect workers.

That deadly disaster also spurred Frances Perkins to spearhead groundbreaking labor

reforms both in New York and then nationally as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s labor secretary. In the decades since, New York labor leaders have been influential players in the state’s political arena – including in present-day fights with corporate behemoths like Amazon and Uber.

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today’s battles. For the first time, we’re dividing the Labor Power 100 into two. Later this year, the New York City Labor Power 100 will highlight those who work within the five boroughs. The New York State Labor Power 100 – written and reported in partnership with journalist Trevor Boyer – features individuals in national, statewide, regional or local roles with a significant footprint outside of the five boroughs.

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George Gresham, left, is president of 1199SEIU. Gary LaBarbera, right, is president of Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York.

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three-year contract with wage increases following a threeday strike in September.

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George Gresham was the only labor leader named to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 25-member vaccine rollout team in September. Since 2007, he has been president of the highly influential 1199SEIU union, which represents over 450,000 caregivers in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and more on the East Coast. In February, 1199SEIU nursing home workers at Highland Park in Wellsville won a new

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NEW YORK STATE UNITED TEACHERS Representing over 600,000 faculty and staff at New York’s K-12 schools and universities as president of NYSUT, Andrew Pallotta and his union became key players in one of the great pandemicera political battles. As local school districts endeavored

Cilento was unanimously reelected as leader of a 3,000-union federation.

to resume in-person teaching, NYSUT urged caution at every turn, defending its members while earning the ire of many weary parents. In January, Pallotta continued to insist that districts stop in-person instruction if the locale has 9% or higher COVID-19 positivity for a seven-day period.

3 GARY LABARBERA PRESIDENT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW YORK Representing 200,000 workers in various constructionrelated jobs, the Building and Construction Trades Council advocates for unionized blue-collar workers across the state. This past legislative season, President

Gary LaBarbera pushed for a wage theft law that would hold the general contractor or construction manager liable for any money owed, and lobbied for prevailing wage standards and the codification of labor standards in green energy jobs – both for related construction and for permanent energy sector jobs.

4 MARIO CILENTO PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO New York’s workers have struggled throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but Mario Cilento and the state AFL-CIO have been delivering for their members. Since Cilento was unanimously reelected as leader of the 3,000-union federation last summer, he has gone

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caused by the pandemic’s obliteration of transit revenue.

RANDI WEINGARTEN PRESIDENT AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS

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Reopening schools has been one of the most contested issues of the COVID-19 era, and few have been happy with the pace – parent, teacher or student. One person who thought New York City has tackled it correctly is Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Unlike some national labor figures, Weingarten remains influential among local education unions in New York, where she headed the United Federation of Teachers from 1998 to 2009.

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Jessica Ramos is chair of the state Senate Committee on Labor.

on to successfully lobby the Legislature to pass the NY Hero Act, which sets standards for workplace safety as the pandemic stretches into its second year. He also lobbied to legalize recreational marijuana and to fund health care and education through higher taxes on the wealthy.

5 JESSICA RAMOS CHAIR STATE SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR This is what a supermajority looks like. Labor-related legislation in New York passes through the state

JOHN SAMUELSEN INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT Senate committee chaired

by Jessica Ramos, and this year the second-term lawmaker from Queens introduced yet another headline-grabbing bill. The legislation ultimately passed in the annual budget as a $2.1 billion unemployment fund for so-called excluded workers, typically undocumented workers in front-line positions who have been hard-hit by the pandemic. Also, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill in February that Ramos sponsored that created a statewide registry of construction-related deaths.

TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION As international president of the Transport Workers Union, John Samuelsen represents 150,000 transit workers, including 41,000 at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, his former employer whose tracks stretch from New York City to Poughkeepsie and Montauk.

After a $3.9 billion bailout in March 2020, the MTA is receiving another $6 billion in aid via the American Rescue Plan, sidestepping once again the looming jobs catastrophe

Appelbaum blamed intimidation for Amazon workers’ failure to unionize.

8 MARK CANNIZZARO PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE FEDERATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS Mark Cannizzaro has played a highly visible role in the debate over how public schools have responded to the coronavirus pandemic, joining other labor leaders in questioning the safety of reopening plans. A Staten Island native and educator, Cannizzaro is best known as the leader of the New York City-based Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, but he also has broader roles as the president of the New York State Federation of School Administrators and a vice president of the American Federation of School Administrators.

9 STUART APPELBAUM PRESIDENT RETAIL, WHOLESALE AND DEPARTMENT STORE UNION All eyes were on the RWDSU’s campaign at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, and

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the workers’ clear rejection of the union will have untold consequences for the labor movement around the U.S. Stuart Appelbaum, the union’s president and one of the most prominent labor leaders both statewide and nationally, was defiant after the defeat, describing Amazon’s “outrageous” moves to intimidate workers.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Appelbaum has been a voice for retail workers, who are sometimes drawn into violent confrontations over mask-wearing in their stores.

of New Yorkers during the coronavirus pandemic as they navigated an outdated and overwhelmed system to secure unemployment benefits. The former labor leader caught flak in February after accepting the recommendation of the state Farm Laborers Wage Board that farmworkers should continue to receive overtime pay only after working 60 hours in a week.

10 MAJORITY LEADER U.S. SENATE With no margin for error, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s caucus of 50 Democratic senators was able to pass the American Rescue Plan Act, which will pump $1.9 trillion into the COVID19-ravaged U.S. economy.

Through payouts to state and local governments, the bill will keep an untold number of New York employees on public payrolls. The ARP also includes $86 billion to bail out about 185 troubled “multiemployer” union pension plans that cover about 625,000 New Yorkers, the second-most of any state.

11 LETITIA JAMES STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL Under the leadership of Letitia James, the state attorney general’s office has undertaken ambitious investigations and lawsuits against heavy hitters – often on behalf of labor.

Letitia James has fought the Trump administration and Amazon as New York’s attorney general.

In September, James beat Trump’s labor department in federal court over a proposed rule that would have made it harder to hold multiple employers jointly liable for wage theft. James, until last year a lecturer at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies, also sued Amazon in February, claiming the retail behemoth unlawfully fired and disciplined workers who complained about unsafe coronavirus-related working conditions in Queens and Staten Island centers.

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as telecommunications, newspaper printing and manufacturing – and in January over 200 Google workers joined the union.

Vice President Dennis Trainor began his career as a splicer’s helper for the New York Telephone Company in 1969, and today pushes progressive legislation in Albany. This year, he celebrated state budget wins such as higher taxes on the wealthy and a program to map residents’ access to broadband.

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Communications Workers of America District 1 represents about 145,000 members in the Northeast in such industries

Roberta Reardon’s state labor department unfortunately became an intimately familiar agency for a record number

14 THOMAS DINAPOLI STATE COMPTROLLER In March, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli cautioned local governments not to be fiscally short-sighted following an infusion of federal aid and better-than-expected tax receipts.

Comptroller since 2007, DiNapoli announced in December that the state’s $226 billion retirement fund would divest from fossil fuel companies over the next decade. “New York state’s pension fund is at the leading edge of investors addressing climate risk, because investing for the low-carbon future is essential to protect the fund’s long-term value,” he stated at the time.

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After taking over Golden’s Committee on Civil Service and Pensions, Gounardes oversaw legislation dealing with public sector workers and retirees during his first term – and went on to win reelection last year with significant support from organized labor. This year he has backed legislation to improve workplace safety and passed a measure creating a COVID-19 death benefit for public employees.

WAYNE SPENCE PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FEDERATION

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Wayne Spence is the president of New York State Public Employees Federation.

In November, SUNY agreed with CSEA to extend into June its program of mandatory regular tests. “We appreciate collaborating with SUNY administration to protect our campus communities,” Sullivan said at the time.

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PETER ABBATE JR.

CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION

CHAIR

February’s $1.9 trillion federal relief bill pumped over $23 billion into New York and its local governments, which undoubtedly protected an untold number of jobs of Civil Service Employees Association members.

Meanwhile, as the union’s president since 2019, Mary Sullivan has fought to keep her members who work for SUNY safe from COVID-19.

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ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES Assembly Member Peter Abbate Jr. chairs the lower body’s Committee on Governmental Employees, which oversees legislation that touches public pensions and civil service. The 18-term lawmaker from South Brooklyn co-sponsored legislation in November aimed at

preventing the state and local governments from punishing workers for coronavirusrelated absences. “You’re sick with COVID and you’re ‘chronically absent’? It makes no sense to me,” Abbate told the Daily News after almost 900 COVID-19-positive New York City correction officers had to appeal the adverse designation in their attendance records.

18 ANDREW GOUNARDES CHAIR STATE SENATE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS In 2018, Andrew Gounardes narrowly defeated then-state Sen. Marty Golden, one of the few remaining Republican lawmakers in New York City.

When the up-and-coming power broker Marcos Crespo left the Assembly, he handed the reins of the Assembly Labor Committee to a fellow Bronxite, Assembly Member Latoya Joyner. Since she assumed the coveted role early this year, Joyner has sought to eliminate repayments for families who received unemployment or coronavirus relief payments they weren’t eligible for absent any fraud. She also helped pass the NY HERO Act, a COVID-19 worker protection measure.

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As president of the Public Employees Federation, one of the state’s largest public employee unions with almost 52,000 members Wayne Spence in November objected to some of his members being brought back into government offices due to the risk of COVID-19 infection. According to Spence, nonessential workers who were called back to their offices at the state Department of Labor and other agencies weren’t tasked with anything they couldn’t have done at home.

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would have the Department of Labor set health and safety standards intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus – with enforcement mechanisms. Backed by a number of unions, the socalled NY HERO Act passed both houses, and was signed by the governor. While Gianaris is a veteran lawmaker and one of the most influential politicians in Albany, Karines Reyes won her Assembly seat in 2018, after serving as a nurse at the Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care. She was an advocate for working New Yorkers as a member of the politically active New York State Nurses Association.

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Rich Maroko is president of the Hotel Trades Council.

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Connecticut, New Jersey and Westchester and Putnam counties, recently went to bat for the Empire City Casino in Yonkers to adopt table gaming and sports betting as a means of creating union jobs.

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CHRISTOPHER ERIKSON

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BUSINESS MANAGER

Serving travelers during a pandemic has been hazardous for the hotel workers who avoided the coronavirusrelated layoffs that decimated the sector: About 400 Hotel Trades Council members died of the virus as thousands more got sick. Representing about 40,000 hotel and gaming workers in New York and New Jersey, HTC President Rich Maroko fought to get his members near the front of the line for the COVID-19 vaccine.

LOCAL UNION 3 IBEW An outspoken leader who issues full-throated defenses of progressive priorities such as green energy, Christopher Erikson has been paying union dues since he was an apprentice electrician in 1975. His local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which covers New York City, parts of

SENIOR COUNSELOR TO THE SECRETARY OF LABOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

23 MICHAEL GIANARIS & KARINES REYES STATE SENATE DEPUTY MAJORITY LEADER; ASSEMBLY MEMBER As the coronavirus pandemic raged and workplaces opened back up across New York, state Sen. Michael Gianaris of Queens and Assembly Member Karines Reyes of the Bronx introduced a bill that

It’s hard to find a labor law resume as deep as M. Patricia Smith’s. A former commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor, Smith also spent eight years as the labor bureau chief for the state attorney general’s office, worked as solicitor for the Obama-era labor department, and was senior counsel for the National Employment Law Project.

More recently, she advised President Joe Biden during his transition and has since worked as senior counselor to new Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.

It’s hard to find a labor law resume as deep as M. Patricia Smith’s.

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a regional manager of LIUNA, Sabitoni represents 60,000 laborers across New England and most of New York state.

Last year, Sabitoni touted as a jobs creator the controversial Champlain-Hudson Power Express line, which is planned to deliver up to 1,250 megawatts of hydroelectric power from Canada via the Hudson River.

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secured a tax hike on the wealthy – Gov. Andrew Cuomo had put forth a 5% state aid cut to the SUNY system, even as United University Professions members battled deadly COVID-19 cases at its teaching hospitals.

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Teamsters body for downstate New York. Gesualdi spent over a decade as president of Teamsters Local 282 in Lake Success before becoming the chief of Joint Council 16, which represents about 120,000 members in 27 locals. Other influential labor leaders on the council include the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association’s Harry Nespoli and Local 237’s Gregory Floyd.

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FRED KOWAL

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As the head of the 250,000-member Long Island Federation of Labor, John Durso made the case for recreational marijuana legalization as a labor priority. “A legal cannabis industry would create tens of thousands of jobs across the state, yielding billions of dollars in income for its workforce,” he told Spectrum News before the legislation finally crossed the finish line. Durso also heads Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW, which represents grocery, pharmacy, health care and other workers.

Representing 42,000 members working at State University of New York institutions, Fred Kowal has been advocating for full funding for SUNY during what was expected to be a punishing budget crunch. In his proposed budget – released before the federal government filled shortfalls and lawmakers

28 THOMAS GESUALDI PRESIDENT TEAMSTERS JOINT COUNCIL 16 Thomas Gesualdi steps into big shoes as he replaces George Miranda, the longtime president of the coordinating

Durso fought for recreational marijuana legalization as a labor issue.

29 THOMAS CAREY PRESIDENT WESTCHESTER-PUTNAM CENTRAL LABOR BODY Thomas Carey helps to shape public policy to serve the interests of 150,000 members in his role as president of the Westchester-Putnam Central Labor Body. Earlier this year, he advocated for workforce protections for those affected by the closing of the Indian Point Energy Center nuclear plant. During last summer’s Democratic National Convention, Carey pushed for Congress to create a $4 trillion national infrastructure bank, calling it “the biggest job creator we have seen in a long, long time.”

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Fred Kowal is the president of United University Professions.

COVID-19 claimed the lives of at least 38 of the 40,000-plus members of the state’s largest nurses’ union, helmed by Pat Kane and Judy SheridanGonzalez, both veteran nurses.

NYSNA, which held a strike in December at Montefiore New Rochelle over staffing levels, has for years been pushing a safe staffing bill. If passed, the bill is expected to cost hospitals billions in new hires – a move that Kane argued would have saved lives in hospitals and nursing homes during the pandemic.

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30 SPARROW TOBIN PRESIDENT HUDSON VALLEY AREA LABOR FEDERATION, AFLCIO A social studies teacher and an alderman of Middletown, Sparrow Tobin also heads the Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, a body that represents 113,000 workers in seven counties, from Rockland County up to Columbia and Greene counties. Tobin told the Mid Hudson News in 2019 that in leading the federation, his goal is “attracting good union jobs to the Hudson Valley that have benefits and that people can make careers out of.”

31 ANN MARIE TALIERCIO PRESIDENT CENTRAL NEW YORK AREA LABOR FEDERATION, AFLCIO Leading an area federation that represents over 100,000

members of 200 AFL-CIO locals, Ann Marie Taliercio is also president of Unite Here Local 150 in Syracuse. Taliercio has said the Central New York Area Labor Federation that she heads is looking to represent workers who build and who staff what’s expected to become Amazon’s biggest fulfillment center, a nearly 4 million-square-foot facility planned for the Syracuse suburb of Clay.

32 MIKE BLUE PRESIDENT CAPITAL DISTRICT AREA LABOR FEDERATION, AFLCIO Last May, Gov. Andrew Cuomo named Mike Blue to a group spearheading the Capital Region’s pandemic reopening, the only labor leader among the 12 members. He heads the Capital District Area Labor Federation, which combines 40 local unions and about 100,000 members. In addition to his role as president of the regional AFL-CIO federation, Blue is also the coordinator for the Public Employees Federation’s Region 8, which includes Albany.

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BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION

Peter DeJesus, political action coordinator for 1199SEIU, was elected in March to a three-year term as president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation. The first Hispanic leader of the consortium, DeJesus succeeds the retiring Richard Lipsitz, a vocal longtime labor leader in Western New York who served for 10 years as the federation’s president. The regional federation brings together five local AFL-CIO councils and over 100,000 rank-and-file members.

Known as a hard-nosed negotiator and dogged advocate for his union’s teachers, Philip Rumore has headed the Buffalo Teachers Federation for 40 years. One of his most recent advocacy efforts was a lawsuit that would have blocked students’ physical return to Buffalo classrooms.

Though unsuccessful on that front, Rumore has also spoken out against the federal government’s standardized testing requirement for grades 3-8 during the coronavirus pandemic.

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NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF PBAS With police departments under heightened scrutiny, the New York State Association of PBAs is defending the police officers it represents while working on their behalf with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Michael O’Meara, who leads the umbrella labor group, recently applauded the state Senate Democratic conference for passing bills protecting its members from COVID-19. The association represents 45,000 law enforcement officers across the state, including those with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

UNITE HERE Few unions have suffered as much during the COVID-19 pandemic as the 300,000-member Unite Here, which represents hotel, airport, food service and casino workers. President of the union since 2012, D. Taylor in February pushed for heavy COBRA subsidies to be included in the American Rescue Plan Act, which delivered for workers who had recently lost their health insurance along with their jobs. While Taylor resides in Seattle, the union has its headquarters in New York.

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37 AI-JEN POO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE Well known in New York for her work to extend labor protections to vulnerable domestic workers, Ai-jen Poo was involved in the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote push and behind-the-scenes voter protection efforts around the 2020 election – campaigns that were essential to President Joe Biden’s eventual victory. In her attempts to secure federal dollars for cleaners, nannies and home care attendants in an upcoming infrastructure bill, Poo told Mother Jones that the nation’s caregiving industry is “as essential as roads, bridges, and broadband.”

38 RICHARD WELLS PRESIDENT POLICE CONFERENCE OF NEW YORK Richard Wells spent over 34 years with the Hempstead Police and, since retiring in 2007, has served as president of the 25,000-member Police Conference of New York, which comprises 229 benevolent associations and eight regional conferences.

Wells railed last summer against the repeal of the state’s 50-a law that had kept secret the disciplinary records of first responders. In March, he opposed Ithaca’s proposal to dissolve its police force and rehire armed and unarmed officers.

39 SAM FRESINA PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION The head of a union that represents 18,000 firefighters across the state, Sam Fresina made a case this year for why firefighters and EMTs should get top vaccine priority alongside front-line health

care workers. Patients are “in our care from the call to when we hand them off to ER doctors,” he told WICZ-TV. A former Albany firefighter, Fresina also serves on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s advisory council for the New York’s Common Retirement Fund, the country’s third largest public pension plan.

40 MICHAEL POWERS PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS & POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION As head of the union that represents the state’s corrections officers, Michael

Powers has advocated for a workforce that threatens to dwindle as the state’s incarcerated population shrinks and prisons are shuttered. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced late last year that he was closing three prisons, which would displace several hundred NYSCOPBA members and their families.

Powers argued that the move is misguided due to the impact on local communities and given high prison violence.

41 RAFAEL ESPINAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FREELANCERS UNION In the first round of federal stimulus following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic

OTHELLO BANACI; NEW YORK STATE PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION

Ai-Jen Poo leads the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA, DISTRICT 1 Salutes our own

Chris Shelton National President Comunications Workers of America

on decades of strong leadership, courage, and fighting for working families!

The New York State AFL-CIO Proudly Keeping New York State Union Strong

DENNIS G. TRAINOR Vice President, CWA District 1 GLADYS FINNIGAN Assistant to the VP

BOB MASTER Assistant to the VP

NYSFSA Salutes CITY&STATE and 100 of New York State’s Labor Power Leaders Including CSA President Mark Cannizzaro

New York State Federation of School Administrators ]President Mark Cannizzaro, CSA | Vice President Crystal Boling Barton, BCSA | Treasurer Jane Wermuth, YCA | execuTive DirecTor Peter McNally

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in March 2020, Rafael Espinal and the 500,000-member Freelancers Union helped secure $600-a-week unemployment payments for freelancers who were out of work. After the March 2021 stimulus bill exempted up to $10,200 in those unemployment benefits from federal taxation, the former New York City Council member argued, alongside state Sen. Jessica Ramos, that New York should follow suit.

prevailing wage requirements for certain renewable energy construction projects.

45 LOUIS PICANI PRESIDENT TEAMSTERS LOCAL 456 Louis Picani, who was a Yonkers sanitation worker for almost 20 years, has since 2016 overseen over 6,500 workers as president of Teamsters Local 456. The local includes many public sector employees and some building trades workers in Westchester and Putnam counties. In March, Mount Vernon municipal workers with Local 456 sued the city to get the overtime pay they said had been denied them since December.

Patrick Purcell is the executive director of Greater New York LECET.

full-timers with benefits as it upgraded the plant last year.

REGIONAL DIRECTOR

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UAW REGION 9

BEVERLEY BRAKEMAN

After serving in various United Auto Workers leadership roles for over 20 years, Jeff Binz in 2018 was elected director of Region 9, which covers Western and Central New York, New Jersey and most of Pennsylvania. His New York membership includes over 1,000 maintenance and service workers at Cornell University as well as autoworkers at General Motors’ Tonawanda plant. Acceding to UAW demands that accompanied a 40-day strike in fall 2019, GM converted 31 temp workers to

REGIONAL DIRECTOR

JEFF BINZ

UAW REGION 9A As allegations of sexual harassment proliferated against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Beverley Brakeman went further than many labor leaders in the state by calling on the governor to step aside while state Attorney General Letitia James investigates the claims. “Should the allegations be proven true, he should step down – no questions asked,” stated Brakeman, whose

As leader of his union, Picani was key in suing Mount Vernon for overtime pay.

United Auto Workers region covers the Hudson Valley and the Capital Region, as well the New York City metro area and New England.

44 PATRICK PURCELL JR. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GREATER NEW YORK LECET Patrick Purcell Jr. is the head of a partnership between Laborers’ locals statewide and their contracted employers, an organization founded under the theory that if the union construction sector thrives, management wins too. This year the Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust celebrated in April as some big priorities made it into the annual state budget. Key among them were increased funding for infrastructure projects throughout the state and the expansion of

46 DANIEL LEVLER PRESIDENT SUFFOLK AME In March, Daniel Levler won a third term as president of the Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees, the union that represents 6,000 county government workers, after a tough three-person race, touting the long-term contract with raises that the county signed in 2019. He also showcased the fact that

UNITED AUTO WORKERS; PATRICK PURCELL; SUFFOLK AME

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THE NEW YORK STATE PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION CONGRATULATES CITY & STATE NYS LABOR POWER 100 HONOREES AND OUR VERY OWN PRESIDENT

SAM FRESINA Proudly representing 18,000 Professional Fire Fighters across New York State

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47 JAMES MAHONEY PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE DISTRICT COUNCIL OF IRON WORKERS James Mahoney is the president of the New York State District Council of Iron Workers, the general vice president of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, and a member of the state AFL-CIO’s executive council.

Mahoney has been a vocal supporter of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Buy American” push, saying in 2019 that the state legislation “has helped create and preserve union jobs across the state and the nation.”

48 TERRENCE MELVIN SECRETARY-TREASURER NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO As the secretary-treasurer of the New York State AFL-CIO, Terrence Melvin is the righthand man to Mario Cilento, the president of the influential statewide labor union coalition. Melvin, who rose through the ranks of the public sector Civil Service Employees Association in western New York, has held his current post since 2007. Melvin is also an ordained Baptist minister and a civil rights leader, speaking out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

49 JOHN WIRENIUS CHAIR NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD For the past five years, John Wirenius has chaired the Public Employment Relations Board, the state government body that applies and enforces the Taylor Law, which ensures public sector workers in New York have a right to union representation and collective bargaining. The board resolves disputes for government employees, who are allowed to collectively bargain but who are forbidden to strike.

Wirenius is not just a labor law expert but a deacon, a fencer and a novelist.

50 KAREN CACACE LABOR BUREAU CHIEF NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE Testifying in a state legislative hearing last August, Karen Cacace excoriated the Trumpera Occupational Safety and Health Administration for what she described as a lack of safety guidelines for workplaces as they reopened during the pandemic. She encouraged state lawmakers to “fill the void that the federal government has left” and vowed her office would enforce coronavirus-related workplace-safety laws. On that note she is also supervising

Maritza Silva-Farrell advocated for the New York HERO Act.

state Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit over Amazon’s working conditions during the pandemic.

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and community organizations, since 2016.

52 CHARLENE OBERNAUER

MARITZA SILVA-FARRELL

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NEW YORK COMMITTEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

ALIGN As it became clear that many workplaces – essential and less so – would remain open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ALIGN became a key player in a coalition of 70 unions, workers’ centers and nonprofits that have pushed the NY HERO Act. The bill sets enforceable workplace standards for testing, PPE, social distancing, hygiene and more. Maritza Silva-Farrell has led ALIGN, an alliance of labor

Cacace criticized Trump-era workplace safety guidelines.

NYCOSH, the watchdog nonprofit that Charlene Obernauer leads, is well known for its annual report on construction deaths in New York state. The latest report on calendar year 2019 found that while construction-related deaths dipped slightly across the state, they rose 10% over the previous year within the five boroughs. In her role, Obernauer has advocated for better COVID-19 protection at New York work sites and also conducts training on a 2019 workplace harassment prevention state law.

JUAN SILVA

members kept their jobs throughout the coronavirus pandemic, though Suffolk was expected to make $75 million in cuts before federal stimulus dollars filled the gap.

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We are proud to congratulate our President

Michelle Zettergren for being honored in the State Labor Power 100.

Thank you for your fearless leadership and commitment to ensuring the region's workers have access to quality health care.

Established to meet the health care needs of the Labor community, MagnaCare continues to adhere to its founding principles of flexibility, customization, and putting the customer first.

CSEA is one of New York’s largest and most influential labor unions, proudly representing so many of the essential workers that have gotten our state through these challenging times. They bravely stepped up, showed up, served, and sacrificed to keep our communities supported, providing needed public services.

We congratulate CSEA President Mary E. Sullivan and her colleagues in New York’s Labor community for their recognition.

Mary E. Sullivan, President cseany.org

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Utility Workers Union of America, Local 1-2

is proud to join City & State New York in honoring our President, James Shillitto whose leadership is a positive influence in so many lives.

From the Officers, Executive Board and the Membership of Local 1-2

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57 RICHARD LANIGAN PRESIDENT OFFICE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION

53 REBECCA DIXON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Samantha RosadoCiriello leads the Yonkers teachers union.

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT

54 SAMANTHA ROSADOCIRIELLO PRESIDENT YONKERS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS In December, the union for 3,600 teachers and staff at schools in Yonkers, the state’s fourth-largest school district, pushed back unsuccessfully against a district plan that would have teachers return to classrooms after only a week’s “pause” following the holidays. Leading the Yonkers

Federation of Teachers is Samantha Rosado-Ciriello, who in March also advocated for a full-scale casino license for MGM Resorts’ Empire City Casino in Yonkers, a move that could mean millions in additional funding for the city’s schools.

55 ADAM URBANSKI PRESIDENT ROCHESTER TEACHERS ASSOCIATION As enrollment shrinks at Rochester’s schools, the district has allowed its staffing levels to stay the same – for now. Adam Urbanski, the president of the Rochester Teachers Association, spins that as a positive. “The fact that we have smaller class sizes, it is not a bad thing. It’s a good thing,” he told WHEC News 10. This year, Urbanski

pushed for 6-foot distancing between students as schools returned to in-person instruction in the state’s third largest city.

56 MATTHEW ARACICH PRESIDENT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL OF NASSAU & SUFFOLK COUNTIES At a public hearing in November, Matthew Aracich said that the developer of a planned Amazon warehouse in Westhampton Beach was planning to use union labor in its construction, calling it a “welcome respite” from similar projects that get tax breaks through the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency. As president of the trades council, Aracich leads an umbrella group of 37 union locals with 60,000 members.

58 JAMES SHILLITTO PRESIDENT UTILITY WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA LOCAL 1-2 Water workers with Utility Workers Union of America Local 1-2 in New Rochelle threatened a strike against utility company Suez, but in March made a contract deal “thanks to the intervention of the federal mediator,” according to its president, James Shillitto. In 2020 the union, which represents electric, water and tree

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT; THOMAS CIRIELLO; JOHN CAPRA

As head of the National Employment Law Project, Rebecca Dixon has tackled COVID-19-related labor challenges ranging from workplace safety to the shoddiness of state unemployment systems. Since 2020, she has pushed a federal meatpacking reform bill that would slow line speeds and allow workers to spread out.

Beyond the pandemic, Dixon told The Washington Post that the U.S. labor market remains “intensely segregated,” reflecting the racial justice emphasis that animated much of NELP’s recent restructuring.

As the U.S. industrial sector continues to shrink, labor has looked to the tech sector as a new organizing frontier. In 2020, Kickstarter employees voted to unionize with the OPEIU, and as of November the longstanding white-collar union was negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with the crowdfunding platform.

The national union, which has a local on Long Island, is headed by Richard Lanigan, who got his start in 1980 as an organizer with Local 153 in New York.

Teamsters Local 456 congratulates its’ very own Louis A. Picani on his outstanding achievement Louis A. Picani, President

Joseph Sansone, Secretary Treasurer

Dominick Cassanelli Jr, Vice President Roger Taranto, Recording Secretary James McGrath, Trustee

eomas Medeiros, Trustee

Robert Robe Richardson, Trustee

Al Liberatore, Business Agent

Anthony Tortora, Organizer/Business Agent 160 South Central Avenue, Elmsford, New York 10523 (914) 592-9500

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and other law enforcement agencies from making civil arrests near or inside state courthouses, unless a judge has signed off. Make the Road continues to fight its clients’ ICE detentions as control of federal law enforcement has passed to the Biden Administration.

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covers the Northeast, Del Vitale has recently advocated for producers of offshore windmills to use an allAmerican supply chain – including, of course, steel from union manufacturers. Since he started out as a slitter operator as a teenager in New Jersey, Vitale has risen to become the assistant to the director of District 4 starting in 2015, and moved up to director in July 2019.

AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION

JOSE LOPEZ, ARLENIS MOREL & THEO OSHIRO

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CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

DIRECTOR

MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK

UNITED STEELWORKERS DISTRICT 4

With the nation under new management, Jose Lopez, Arlenis Morel and Theo Oshiro also represent new leadership at their immigrantrights organization. In 2020, the group, which has close ties to large labor unions, led a successful push for a state law that bars U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

As the director of the United Steelworkers district that

JOE PECORA JR. HOME HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF AMERICA

NATIONAL BUSINESS AGENT

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PETER CORADI

For 25 years, Peter Coradi has been a national business agent for the American Postal Workers Union, representing postal workers statewide.

Last year was especially challenging – 35 postal workers in New York died of COVID-19, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy instituted a series of policies that resulted in slower mail delivery. Coradi helped provide statements to the state attorney general’s office as it led a successful multistate lawsuit against DeJoy after he ordered the removal of 671 sorting machines nationwide.

Union of North America.

As Holtec decommissions Entergy’s Indian Point Energy Center, the company has committed to using union labor throughout the 12-15 year process.

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DIRECTOR NEW YORK STATE LABORERS’ ORGANIZING FUND, LIUNA As director of the New York State Laborers’ Organizing Fund, John Hutchings represents over 40,000 members in 24 local unions and five district councils.

In September, Hutchings celebrated the national labor agreement Holtec International signed with the Laborers’ International

It was a hard year for postal workers: 35 died of COVID-19 in New York.

As vice president of the Home Healthcare Workers of America, Joe Pecora Jr. successfully lobbied the Cuomo administration last year to make the 26,000 New York aides he represents part of the first group eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Home health aides, who typically make near minimum wage, have been essential workers throughout the pandemic, regularly making close contact with infirm and elderly patients. “They’re on the front lines,” Pecora told MarketWatch late last year.

64 THOMAS MUNGEER PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE TROOPERS POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION As the state was gearing up to legalize recreational marijuana, New York State Troopers PBA President Thomas Mungeer said his rank and file were training on roadside tests to identify weed-influenced drivers – though there’s currently no Breathalyzer equivalent for cannabis. In April, Mungeer, who represents over 5,000 current and retired troopers, welcomed the new requirement for state troopers

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company workers, signed a contract for 8,000 members at Con Edison that includes raises. Shillitto opposed the closure of Indian Point Energy Center, a former nuclear plant which employed Local 1-2 members, but conceded that he couldn’t prevent it.

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Benevolent Association of New York State: the State University of New York Police, the Forest Rangers, the Park Police and the Environmental Conservation Police. This year, Law has been fighting for retroactive raises for his 1,200 members, who have been working without a contract since 2015. The state Legislature has allocated back pay in recent years, but Law is still calling on state lawmakers to make his members’ salaries more competitive with municipal police officers’ pay.

65 MURAD AWAWDEH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Soon after COVID-19 struck, the New York Immigration Coalition teamed up with 57 other groups advocating for relief for undocumented immigrants, who are excluded from federal stimulus payments and state unemployment insurance. A year later, the state budget included a $2.1 billion fund for so-called excluded workers – a huge victory for the organization, now headed

by Murad Awawdeh. At the federal level, with President Joe Biden inheriting the immigrant detention machine, the coalition began seeking legislative immigration reform.

Murad Awawdeh took over at the New York Immigration Coalition this year.

the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last year. Sherry Leiwant and Dina Bakst, the co-founders of the legal advocacy organization, have also pushed for nationwide paid sick leave, accommodations for pregnant and breastfeeding workers and better access to child care for workers.

69 is David Gonzalez. Gonzalez, a Navy veteran and longtime labor leader who was elected national vice president last fall, also represents federal workers in a number of nearby northeast states, including New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

67 DAVID GONZALEZ DISTRICT 2 NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

66 SHERRY LEIWANT & DINA BAKST CO-PRESIDENTS A BETTER BALANCE Backing national and statewide efforts to expand workers’ rights to paid leave, A Better Balance was instrumental in the passage of the state Legislature’s emergency paid leave act near

While many federal workers live and work in Washington, D.C., plenty of federal employees work elsewhere – including in New York, where tens of thousands of them reside. The American Federation of Government Employees represents unionized federal workers, and in New York the local leader

68 RYAN LAW PRESIDENT PBA OF NEW YORK STATE Ryan Law represents four state police forces as president of the Police

Marin-Molina’s organization held a hunger strike for “excluded workers.”

NADIA MARIN-MOLINA CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK In the past year, Nadia Marin-Molina has wielded her influence both federally – as a member of President Joe Biden’s Department of Labor transition team – and in Albany, where she advocated for unemployment insurance to be extended to undocumented workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

In March, her National Day Laborer Organizing Network held a hunger strike in White Plains in an ultimately successful push for the state to create a COVID-19 aid fund for “excluded workers” who don’t get stimulus or unemployment checks.

70 ALAN KLINGER CO-MANAGING PARTNER STROOCK As co-managing partner of Stroock, Alan Klinger plies his legal services for the United Federation of Teachers and the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s

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thousands of employees who are classified as management or confidential within every New York state department and agency.

The body, affiliated with the Office and Professional Employees International Union but prohibited by law from collective bargaining, organizes its members to advocate for themselves.

In March, for instance, they called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislators to grant them previously promised 2% raises.

ALEXANDER COLVIN DEAN

Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, when then-first lady Hillary Clinton hired him to run the upstate operation of her campaign for U.S. Senate. Fresh off that victory, Draves joined the leading lobbying firm Bolton-St. Johns, where he continues to work on labor matters, while also specializing in health care, energy and casinos.

72 ROBERT BISHOP FOUNDING MEMBER

71 ED DRAVES PARTNER BOLTON-ST. JOHNS In 2000, Ed Draves was the political and legislative director of the American

PITTA BISHOP & DEL GIORNO Robert Bishop manages the Albany office of Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno, perennially one of the state’s biggest lobbying firms in terms of income. As a leader of a firm run by members from both parties, Bishop and his team represent many labor unions and trade groups – 36 are listed on the firm’s website – before governmental bodies throughout the state capital and in New York City.

While only 10.8% of wage and salary workers were unionized last year, several hundred Google employees recently joined the Alphabet Workers Union – which could mark a turning point.

Alexander Colvin argued in March that labor relations at big tech companies are crucial. “How are we going to shape labor relations in these key industries going forward? It’s a big question for our society,” he said during an online lecture hosted by Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, which he leads.

74 BARBARA ZARON PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE ORGANIZATION OF MANAGEMENT/ CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES Barbara Zaron serves as president of the Organization of Management/Confidential Employees, which represents

75 JOMO AKONO COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE CARPENTERS LOCAL 276 Appointed to the executive board of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters in November, Jomo Akono is known for his outreach work for Local 276 in Western New York. He has led efforts to diversify his Buffalo-based union via programs such as the Sisters in the Brotherhood preapprenticeship, intended to bring more women into the carpentry trade. Akono also hosts a weekly radio show on Buffalo radio called “ProJect Access to A-Free-Ka.”

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Association and also chairs the law firm’s government affairs and regulatory practice.

In November, he represented two judicial associations in a suit against the Unified Court System after 46 older judges were denied recertification in an unusual move as the judiciary faced $300 million in budget cuts.

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with rural, religious and labor leaders throughout New York to advance cooperative labor and equality-related causes within the farm industry of the Empire State. As the lameduck Trump administration in December issued rules allowing farmers to spray pesticide at shorter distances to workers, Witt spoke alongside the farmworkers in his organization, which joined a lawsuit against the federal government.

Ron Gurrieri leads CSEA Local 830.

76 RON GURRIERI PRESIDENT CSEA LOCAL 830 As a contract deal was pending with Nassau County, Ron Gurrieri last year replaced longtime Civil Service Employees Association Local 830 President Jerry Laricchiuta, who held the position for 15 years. Leading the second-biggest CSEA local in the state, Gurrieri fought to keep Nassau University Medical Center open with 3,000 members working there. A former police medic, Gurrieri faces an election for a full term in June.

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At a time of restaurant restrictions and contactless delivery, there are 32,000 grocery workers on Long Island, more than at any time since at least 1990. Thousands of them – at chains such as Stop & Shop and ShopRite – are members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500. According to its president, Robert Newell, these unionized workers are paid about $3 over the local minimum wage, more than what nonunion grocers pay.

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RICHARD WITT

LYNNE FOX

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BOARD CHAIR AND INTERIM CEO

RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY

AMALGAMATED BANK

A religious man on a moral campaign, Richard Witt is an Episcopal priest who leads a migrant ministry, allying

Founded in 1923 as a financial institution that would be

CARPENTERS LOCAL 277 An experienced construction worker, James Mason leads the Carpenters local that represents more than 3,000 members in a 21-county area spanning northern and central New York and the Southern Tier. He has spoken in favor of the city of Fulton’s new rules intended to prevent wage theft on construction projects. This past fall, Mason was named to the executive board of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters.

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PRESIDENT accessible to working families, Amalgamated Bank is a union-owned bank with $6 billion in assets. That makes it the largest bank in the U.S. that has been designated as a “force for good” by the nonprofit B Lab. After Keith Mestrich stepped down as president and CEO in January, board chair Lynne Fox stepped in as interim chief and is leading the search for his successor.

minimum wage legislation.

The alliance also supports the Good Food Purchasing Program, under which large institutions (including New York City’s public schools) source food based on healthfulness, sustainability and fair labor practices.

SUZANNE ADELY & SONIA SINGH CO-DIRECTORS FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE As co-directors of a nonprofit that organizes front-line food workers from farm to restaurant table, Suzanne Adely and Sonia Singh advocate for 375,000 North American food workers via 31 member organizations. In New York state, the alliance is helping restaurant workers push to be included in

PRESIDENT UFCW LOCAL 1500

82 FRANK DERISO PRESIDENT UFCW LOCAL ONE A looming merger between two New York supermarket chains poses a challenge and an opportunity for United Food and Commercial Workers District Union Local One President Frank DeRiso. Tops supermarket, which employs about 10,000 UFCW members in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and northern New York, is set to merge with Schenectadybased Price Chopper/Market 32, which is nonunion, to comprise 32,000 total workers across the Northeast. “We’ve got to wait and see what

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happens,” DeRiso told the Times Union.

83 WILLIAM LYNN BUSINESS MANAGER AND FINANCIAL SECRETARY INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 30 Art handlers and building staff at Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum voted in 2019 to join IUOE Local 30, which after long negotiations scored a big win in February for these new members: wage increases averaging 10%, bonuses and premium-free health insurance for their families. Since 2014, William Lynn has led the local, which comprises engineering room staff at many highprofile buildings in New York and Connecticut, and he also serves as vice president of the international union.

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85 KERIANN SHALVOY PRESIDENT COMMITTEE OF INTERNS AND RESIDENTS, SEIU HEALTHCARE A fourth-year resident in the psychiatry department at NYU Langone Health, Keriann Shalvoy this fall was elected president of the Committee of Interns and Residents, the labor organization that represents 17,000 intern and resident doctors in hospitals – including 7,000 in New York.

Since then, she has focused on protecting her members at the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic and has launched several organizing campaigns, including one to advocate for universal forgiveness of student debt.

GENERAL MANAGER AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR LABOR, GOVERNMENT AND SPECIAL ACCOUNTS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BRUCE RADEN; DANA ULLMAN; PRABHU SIGAMANI; PETER VIDOR

raised $300,000 for suffering restaurant workers nationwide.

All this serves the broader cause of organizing. “We have to meet the immediate needs of people on the ground,” Sigamani told CWENET.

THOMAS CANTY

JEFF VOCKRODT

As head of the labor coalition Climate Jobs NY, Jeff Vockrodt has been pushing the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to finalize sites for large-scale wind energy projects off the coast of Long Island. Victory came in March when the federal agency announced it was designating as a Wind Energy Area the New York Bight, the triangle of shallow water defined on two sides by the Long Island’s South Shore and the Jersey Shore.

In addition to advancing the adoption of green energy, the project is expected to create tens of thousands of good jobs in the area.

Thomas Canty works with unions at Empire BlueCross BlueShield.

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86 PRABHU SIGAMANI DIRECTOR ROC-NEW YORK As the restaurant industry across the state reeled from the coronavirus, the New York chapter of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers set to work training restaurant workers (online, of course) in proper pandemic-era practices for front and back of house. The local branch, which Prabhu Sigamani leads, also

EMPIRE BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD Thomas Canty has worked as a union lawyer and as a researcher for the state AFLCIO, so it’s no surprise that at Empire BlueCross BlueShield he administers health insurance plans for a long list of labor unions. This year, the insurer brought on the New York State Nurses Association.

“Personally, it is a true honor to have the privilege to serve nurses – the heroes who took care of New Yorkers during the

ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,” said Canty.

88 KAREN IGNAGNI PRESIDENT AND CEO EMBLEMHEALTH Since 2015, Karen Ignagni has headed EmblemHealth, the insurer for New York City’s public sector unions, the Teamsters, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and many other big unions. EmblemHealth waived co-pays for coronavirusrelated care and established COVID-19 testing sites in underserved communities through AdvantageCare Physicians, its medical group practice. A proponent of “value-based insurance design,” Ignagni worked with New York City and its unions to set up a program with preventative services and coaching to help with chronic illnesses.

Vockrodt advocates for jobs through renewable projects.

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Customs Enforcement facility in Batavia used implicit threats to pressure detainees to work for $1 a day.

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MAGNACARE

RONALD J. WALSH JR.

MagnaCare is a New Yorkbased third-party health insurance administrator that serves nationwide labor and public sector clients that are self-insured. Michelle Zettergren started in 2017 with the company, a division of Brighton Health Plan Solutions. When COVID-19 struck New York hard last year, Zettergren mobilized her MagnaCare team and partners to source personal protective equipment for essential workers and arrange COVID-19 antibody testing clinics for labor clients.

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MICHELLE ZETTERGREN

COUNCIL 82 / NEW YORK STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS UNION

Michelle Zettergren’s Magnacare serves labor clients.

office. He specializes in wage litigation, class action lawsuits and corporate law while representing a range of clients in such areas as higher education, health care, cannabis and manufacturing.

secured 3% annual raises for over 1,100 members. Business Manager Patrick Guidice told Newsday his rank and file’s 69% turnout for the National Grid ballot was its largest ever for a contract vote.

92 DIANA SAGUILÁN & ANDREA CALLAN INTERIM CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WORKER JUSTICE CENTER OF NEW YORK

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PATRICK GUIDICE

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PHILLIPS LYTLE

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Kevin Mulvehill heads up the labor and employment practice at Phillips Lytle, a law firm with multiple offices across New York as well as in Canada and Washington, D.C. Mulvehill, who has been with the firm for nearly 15 years, is also the leader of the Rochester

Long Island energy workers with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1049 authorized a strike against National Grid, in February, after an expired contract gave way to an extension.

Ultimately the local approved a four-year contract that

As longtime employees of the Worker Justice Center of New York, Diana Saguilán and Andrea Callan in October became the co-leaders of the nonprofit. WJCNY provides legal assistance and other support to farmworkers and other low-wage workers. In September, the advocacy organization filed suit against Akima Global Services, alleging that the contractor for a U.S. Immigration and

Ronald J. Walsh Jr. got his start in law enforcement in 1998 as a correction officer for the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office and in 2005 was elected president of his New York State Law Enforcement Officers Union local. As president of Council 82 since 2012, he has represented over 3,500 police officers, sheriffs’ deputies, county correction officers, dispatchers and other public safety workers across New York state. In 2020, the Albany-based union endorsed then-President Donald Trump for reelection.

94 JIM CONIGLIARO JR. FOUNDER INDEPENDENT DRIVERS GUILD Founded by Jim Conigliaro Jr., the Independent Drivers Guild formed with funds from Uber and help from the International Association of Machinists to allow gigeconomy drivers to advocate for themselves – without pushing for classification as employees or the power to

Saguilán and Callan took on ICE, alleging the agency exploited detainee workers.

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bargain collectively with the tech platforms. During the coronavirus pandemic, the guild got word out to its tens of thousands of New York members that as independent contractors, the drivers were eligible for Economic Injury Disaster Loans designed for business owners.

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KC KRATT PHOTOGRAPHY; KATHLEEN DURKO; JACK MILLER/MILLER PHOTOGRAPHY; CORNELL UNIVERSITY

ALIANZA AGRICOLA Since the coronavirus pandemic struck, Luis Jiménez has advocated for farmworkers as vulnerable front-line workers who are often forgotten. “Without the helping hand of many undocumented workers, the majority of this country wouldn’t have food on their tables,” said Jiménez, a dairy worker. He leads Alianza Agricola, a group of undocumented New York farmworkers mostly from Southern Mexico. Now the group is pushing against a federal bill that would grant legal residency for farmworkers only after eight years in the physically taxing agricultural industry.

96 DAN MALDONADO PRESIDENT TEAMSTERS LOCAL 445 Before agreeing to a contract in November, Hudson Valleybased drivers for United Natural Foods Inc., which delivers to Whole Foods in New York City, agreed to strike over claimed violations of federal labor law, including an alleged failure to supply personal protective equipment. “Our

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members stood together in solidarity and were able to win substantial pay increases over the life of the contract and a quicker rise to top pay.

But you cannot put a price on health and safety,” stated Dan Maldonado, who represents the approximately 120 drivers as president of Teamsters Local 445.

97 JESSICA MAXWELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WORKERS’ CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK In May 2020, Jessica Maxwell came on as the first executive director of the Workers’ Center of Central New York. The Syracuse-based nonprofit organizes around workplace safety issues, such as the COVID-19 outbreaks that hit seasonal farm workers living in close quarters in the region last year. The longtime community organizer has also advocated for the state’s economic safety net to be extended to undocumented immigrants.

98 LARA SKINNER DIRECTOR LABOR LEADING ON CLIMATE INITIATIVE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY As director of Cornell’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative, Lara Skinner has been at the forefront of advocating for all facets of wind turbine adoption – installation, assembly and manufacturing – to be based in the United States. In September, Skinner was named to the state’s Just Transition Working Group, which advises on the state’s transition to renewable energy,

Lara Skinner heads the Worker Institute at Cornell University.

and said she plans to ensure that the switchover to a zero-emissions electrical grid protects workers and creates good jobs.

99 PETE MEYERS COORDINATOR TOMPKINS COUNTY WORKERS’ CENTER Pete Meyers, through the Tompkins County Workers’ Center that he co-founded, advocates for workers’ rights and racial and economic justice. The workers’ center certifies local workplaces as “living wage employers” and supports a group of retail and service sector workers who organize in the county, which is home to Ithaca. In March, the group came out in support of the state bailout fund for so-called excluded workers,

including undocumented immigrants.

100 ILANA BERGER NEW YORK DIRECTOR AND STRATEGIC ADVISER HAND IN HAND: THE DOMESTIC EMPLOYERS NETWORK Hand in Hand is a network of those who employ nannies, cleaners and other domestic workers and seek to maintain ethical standards. To that point, the COVID-19 pandemic has raised a host of new, tough questions, so the nonprofit has created a series of resources for both workers and employers. As New York leader of the network, Ilana Berger brings the perspective of a longtime advocate and community organizer who has employed childcare providers.

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Notice of Formation of THE PONY COOKIE CO., LLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/26/21.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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SSNY mail process to: C/O Julie Lawson 983 Park Ave, 2c New York, NY, 10028. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS .

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Notice of Formation of CN VENTURES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/21.

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SSNY shall mail process to c/o K&L Gates LLP, Attn: Robert Salame, 599 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 1270 3RD RESTAURANT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/16/21.

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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.

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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.

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Notice of Qual. of AGAPE CROCHET LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/2/21. Office location: KINGS. LLC formed in DE on 2/4/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 1178 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY, 112344112. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AND SONS NYC BUTTERY, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/21 Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 193 Midwood St Brooklyn, NY, 11225.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ANDREW PAUL REALTY LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/29/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in MA on /18/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail proces s to: PO Box 1872 New York, NY, 10101. Arts. of Org. filed with MA SOC McCormack Bldg O ne A shbur ton Pl , 17th Fl Boston, MA 02108.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BINDLESTICK MEDIA, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/10/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1591 Saint Marks Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11233.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 31 LANCASTER LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to P O Box 230323 Brooklyn, NY, 11223.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of BIRD POND HAUS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/21. Office location: Warren SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2 Galasso Place Maspeth, NY, 11378.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CHI ZONG LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7004 Fort Hamilton Pk w y Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Any lawful purpose

Notice of Formation of DANIELLE ROSS NP IN PSYCHIATRY, PLLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/29/21.Office location: Chautauqua SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 567 Fairmount Avenue Warwick Plaza Rear Door Jamestown, NY, 14701.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DESIGNED AS RARE APPAREL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/21. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 41 Washington St Middletown, NY, 10940.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EAT CHIQUE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/04/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1347 East 7th St Brooklyn, NY, 11230. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GRCANALY TIC LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/26/2021.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 60 South 8th St #D717 Brooklyn, NY, 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Index No.

65087/2020 Date Summons Filed: 23rd day of November, 2020 Date Supplemental Summons Filed: 3rd day of March, 2021

JUDITH MILOWE

Plaintiff, - against-

JOHN JOSEPH WIEMERS

Defendant.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE

This action is brought in the County of Westchester because said County is the County where the Plaintiff resides. ______________________________________ ACTION FOR A DIVORCE To the Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED TO RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS and to the requests for relief made by the Plaintiff by serving a written Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney, at the address stated below.

If this Summons with Notice was served upon you within the State of New York by personal delivery, you must respond WITHIN 20 DAYS after service, exclusive of the day of service. If this Summons with Notice was not personally delivered to you within the State of New York you must respond WITHIN 30 DAYS after service is complete in accordance with the requirements of the Civil Practice Law and Rules.

THE NATURE OF THIS ACTION IS TO OBTAIN A JUDGMENT OF DIVORCE, DISSOLVING THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT. THIS ACTION FOR DIVORCE IS BASED UPON THE FOLLOWING GROUND OR GROUNDS: The relationship between Plaintiff and Defendant has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months, pursuant to Domestic Relations Law Section 170(7).

THE RELIEF SOUGHT BY THE PLAINTIFF IN THIS ACTION IS A JUDGMENT DIVORCING THE PARTIES AND DISSOLVING THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP WHICH HAS HERETOFORE EXISTED. PLAINTIFF ALSO REQUESTS THAT SUCH JUDGMENT GRANT THE FOLLOWING ITEMS OF ADDITIONAL AND ANCILLARY RELIEF: (A) Awarding Plaintiff equitable distribution of marital property, including a distributive award to Plaintiff if required or appropriate to effect such equitable distribution; (b) Declaring Plaintiff’s separate property; (c) Granting such party the right to resume the use of any maiden name or other pre-marriage surname; and (d) Awarding Plaintiff such other and further relief as to the court may seem just and proper, together with the costs and disbursements of this action.

Pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 255, effective October 9, 2009, notice is hereby given that once the judgment of divorce is signed, a party hereto may or may not be eligible to be covered under the other party’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan.

IN THE EVENT THAT YOU FAIL TO APPEAR OR ANSWER, JUDGMENT WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU, by default, for the relief demanded in this Summons with Notice.

The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action AND any other relief the court deems fit and proper.

Dated: March 2, 2021

Yours, etc., /s/_______________ _______________ NICHOLAS P. BARONE, ESQ. LAW OFFICES OF NICHOLAS BARONE Attorney for Plaintiff 44 Church Street, White Plains, NY 10601 (914)683-8200

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May 10, 2021

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.

Notice of Formation of 361 MARION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/21. Office location: New York SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to C/O Next Brooklyn Management LLC 6 Doyer St., #130006 New York, NY, 10013.

Any law ful purpose.

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.

Notice of Formation of MARION & CRESTON A PA R T M E N T S L LC .

Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/21. Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 370 Annandale Drive, Oyster Bay Cove, NY, 11791. Any lawful purpose.

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.

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, Notice of Formation of Suds And Sweeps, LLC filed with SSNY on December 23,2020. Office: NY Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 82 Irving Place, 1B, NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of JOLLY CORNER GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/5/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 400 3rd Ave Ste 1 Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TWINS JS PROPERTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1545 W 11th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

THE PRODUCTIVIT Y SHOP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/19/21. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 70 Wyckoff Av e n u e , Apar tment 1G, Brooklyn, NY 11237.

Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DEVOCION DUMBO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/15/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400 Harrison, NY,10528.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of MACK REAL ESTATE GROUP, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/25/21.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/21/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 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 Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State - State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4,Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Form of notice for onpremises 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 36 E 61st Street New York, NY 10065 for on premises consumption.

CASE CRUZ 61 LLC Form of notice for onpremises 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 253 West 28th Street, 7th Floor & Rooftop, New York, NY 10001 for on premises consumption.

FLORA VENTURES LLC Form of notice for onpremises 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 195 Morgan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237 for on premises consumption.

Brooklyn Greens Golf LLC

STATE OF WISCONSIN

CIRCUIT COURT

BRUCE W. CARDONE, et al, Plaintiffs,

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WAUKESHA COUNTY Case No. 2020CV000700

-vBRIAN J. CARDONE, SR., et al, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, -vDORRIS BALSAM, 25 Central Park West New York, NY 10023 Third-Party Defendant.

THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, to each person named above as a Third-Party Defendant: You are hereby notified that the Third-Party Plaintiffs named above have filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

Within forty (40) days after April 26, 2021 you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is: Clerk of Court WAUKESHA COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT 515 W. Moreland Blvd.

Waukesha, WI 53188 and to the Plaintiffs’ attorney, The Law Office of Marcus B. Hirsch LLC, 141 N. Jackson St., Ste 119, Milwaukee, WI 53202. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy within 40 days, the court may grant judgment against you for an award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

Dated this 21st day of April, 2021 Marcus B. Hirsch Attorney for Plaintiffs The Law Office of Marcus B Hirsch LLC 141 N Jackson St Ste 119 Milwaukee WI 53202 SBN: 1100901 (414) 810-3985 marcus@lawmbh.com

Notice of Formation of PME 26 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/8/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 239 West 26th Street New York, NY, 10001.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JW ZHANG LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/2/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 50 Bayard Street, Apt 6f New York, NY, 10013.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Mercury Movement LLC Arts,of Org. Filed with SSNY on 03/18/21. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LL upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail copy of process to Alisa David, 1125 Blake Ave, Brooklyn NY 11208. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TILLIA TIME LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/7/20.Office location: Wyoming SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 38 Lake St Hamburg, NY, 14075. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele NYC LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/26/21 . O f fice location: NY Count y LLC formed in Delaware (DE on 02/23/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Chet H. Olsen, 9696 Culver Blvd., Ste. 301, Culver City, CA 90232.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any law ful activity

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Notice of Qualification of CBM NoMad, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 0 4/13/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY Count y LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/30/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c /o C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207-25 4 3 . 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 WF Industrial XIII LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/6/21.

Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 80 8th Ave., Ste. 1602, NY, NY 10011. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of M i n d f u l N E S T, L L C .

Arts of Org filed with Sec. of State of NY on 4/19/21. Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and mail process to: c/o the LLC, 4218 Amboy Rd. SI, NY 10308. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NYCHA PACT LLC. Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) on 3/25/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o NY City Housing Authority, Gen. Counsel, Law Dept., 90 Church St. Fl 11 NY, NY 10007.

Purpose: All lawful purposes.

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Form of notice for on-premises license.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number [pending] for beer, cider and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, cider and wine at retail in a TW 344 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 175 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002 for on premises consumption.

Pizzaiolo Napoletano LLC Notice of Formation of YANG GROUP ESTATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/23/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 22 Ocean Ave Staten Island, NY, 10305.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 79 N HENRY STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 79 N. Henry St Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 257 LORETTO STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/14/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 7266 Hylan Boulevard Staten Island, NY, 10307.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NE IGHBORHOOD BROTHERS LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/13/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 51 Ramapo Ave Staten Island, NY, 10309.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ONEFORTYEIGHT JAVA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 148 Java Street Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1752 PROPE R T Y LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/15/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7003 13th Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11228.

Any lawful purpose..

Notice of Formation of 2546 VALGAR REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/13/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2257 Mill Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11234. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ADIRONDACK JULES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/13/21.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O The Lyda Law Firm, PLLC 9 Executive Park Clifton Park, NY, 12065.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CHINGCHEN REALT Y LLC. Ar ts . O f Org. filed with SSNY on 4/16/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 189 Keating Place Staten Island, NY, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CLAIRE ROSE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/1/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 230 Park Ave, Ste 1130 New York, NY, 10169.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MAH FERR A Z LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 192 Clermont Ave Apt 2 Brooklyn, NY, 11205.

Any law ful purpose.

May 10, 2021

Notice of Qual. of GEREL RE ALT Y LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY o n 2/23/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 2/10/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP Attn: Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Esq 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HAPPY HULET TS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 9 Darlene Dr Goshen, NY, 10924. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HEALING MANHATTAN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/2/21.

Of fice location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 747 10th Ave Apt 12l New York, NY, 10019.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of J. A . MCNULT Y MANAGEMENT, 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 596 Union Ave Apt 3L Brooklyn, N Y, 11211 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of K I N G L E T R D L LC .

Auth. filed with SSNY on 3/30/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 2/18/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

S SN Y mail proces s to:1202 Lexington Ave #292 New York, NY, 10028. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of RAINBOW 227 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/20/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 976 Rutland Rd Apt 3 Brooklyn, NY, 11212 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RHYMIN & THIEVIN, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/11/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 595 Union Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SHANICOLE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/21. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 198 W Parmenter St Newburgh, NY, 12550.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ST. MARKS GROUP RE AL ESTATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/14/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 120 12th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BCTO MOHAWK MERGER SUB, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/15/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 15 North Mill St Nyack, NY, 10960.Any lawful purpose.

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 competitive bidding starting on May 24, 2021 and end on June 4, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #3P33 – Lesley L Brunelle: several duffel bags, 1-VCR, several DVD’s, several wooden chairs, wooden stool, several luggage, 1- guitar, 1-keyboard #4J32 – Lesley L Brunelle: 1 – leather couch, 2nightstands, 1 – coffee table #8P63 – Yiqian Zheng: 1 – mattress, 13- boxes, 1-canvas, cleaning supplies, 1- metal frame The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of formation of The Gillery Group,LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/20/2020.

Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail process LegalInc. Corp.

Services, Inc. 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1# 086, Buffalo, NY 14221. Any lawful purpose.

Form of notice for onpremises 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 430 Troutman Street Brooklyn, NY 11237 for on premises consumption.

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 428 Troutman St Brooklyn, NY 11237 for on premises consumption.

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Notice of formation of T.D.R. ALIVE, LLC. filed with SSNY on March 26,2021. Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Tykisha Johnson, 959 E89th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11236. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 3175 EMMONS CONDOMINIUM, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/29/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 3175 Emmons Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11235.

Any law ful purpose.

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 103 West 14 th Street, New York, NY 10011 for on premises consumption.

Notice of Formation of B.C.M. REALTY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/3/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1708 46th St Brooklyn, NY, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

GV WINGS LLC Notice of Formation of 5MEQUITIES 888 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/4/21.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 law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Clay’s Ark, LLC filed with SSNY on March 3, 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: 231 East 95th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Creme de la Creme Frenchies LLC filed with SSNY on February 1 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: 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr # 100 Sacramento, CA 95833. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of CL ASSON HOLDING COMPANY, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/26/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 3/18/21 SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Quinlan Development Group, LLC Attn: Timothy Quinlan 157 Columbus Ave New York, NY, 10023. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of K AS SIM PROPE R T Y LLC. Arts.Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/9/19.

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

SSNY mail process to 423 Howe Ave Bronx, NY, 10473. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KGL BROOKLYN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 33 Sherman Rd Woodstock, NY, 12498.Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of NOBULLX, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/28/21. Office location: ONONDAGA SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 4631 Verplank Rd Clay, NY, 13041. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RICH NING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/30/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1501 Broadway Ste 2600 New York, NY, 10036.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SGJA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/29/21.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: Steven D. Sladkus, Esq. 444 Madison Ave, 6th Fl New York, NY, 10002.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WOODPOINT VANTAGE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/26/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6 Lookout Ave New Paltz, NY, 12561.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 73RD FM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/8/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 605 Third Ave New York, NY, 10158.

Any law ful 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 4/30/21.

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

S SN Y mail proces s to: C/O J2K Creative LLC 70 Pine St Ste E New York, NY, 10005.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of FAR PEAK M A N A G E M E N T COMPANY LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/27/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/17/20. Princ. office of LLC: 363 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10012. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207- 2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Consulting.

Notice of Formation of FERGUS NELSON, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/23/21.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kalnick, Klee & Green, LLP, 800 Third Ave., Ste. 2800, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of FIVE POINT RE SERVICES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/07/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o K&L Gates LLP, Attn: Robert Salame, 599 Lexington Ave. , NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

O’LEWIS VENTURES LLC, Arts. of Org filed with the S SN Y on 01/22/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2 Gold St, Apt 5G, NY, NY 10038.

Reg Agent: U.S. Corp.

Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, N Y 112 28 . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 226 WITHERS STREET, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/13/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 433 Graham Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11211. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Maximilian Capital Partners, LLC filed with SSNY on March 24, 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: Avelino Law, LLP 1411 Broadway, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of MLC ASSET MANAGEMENT US LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 3/30/21.

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 DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of KIJUNG KIM, DDS, PLLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 04/14/2021.

New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to KIJUNG KIM, DDS, PLLC, 215 East 96th Street, Suite 18J, New York, NY 10128.

P u r p o s e : D e n t i s t r y.

Notice of Formation of Odehyee, LLC filed with NYS Dept. Of State on March 30, 2021. Office: NY County. NYS Dept. Of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

NYS Dept. Of State shall mail copy of process to LLC: 99 Wall Street, #2273 NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of Virginia Bou Interiors, LLC filed with SSNY on February 3, 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: 434 Hudson St., Apt. 2, New York, NY 10014. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1335523) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 17 Prince St, New York, NY 10012 for on premises consumption.

Cafe Habana NYC LLC

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1335521) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 231 Kent Ave, Brooklyn NY 11249 for on premises c o n s u m p t i o n .

The Cactus Shop NYS LLC Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, cider and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 708 THIRD AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10017 for on premises consumption.

Little Collins Third Ave LLC

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SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK 31 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 (646) 386-5800 NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks’ Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; in-person appearances are limited at this time.

The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else.

- If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3. You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel.

Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours.

Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Probate_General@ nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication.

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

PROBATE CITATION SURROGATE'S COURT, NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent

TO: JOHN DOE, actual name unknown, being the father of the decedent, whose whereabouts are unknown if living and if dead, to his heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if he died, subsequent to the decedent herein, to his executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Valerie Groves, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained.

Robert Folk.

A petition having been duly filed by ROBERT E. GROVES, who is domiciled at 1175 Findlay Avenue, Apt. 13D, Bronx, New York 10456 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, NEW YORK County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, on June 21, 2021, at o'clock in the FORE noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Valerie Groves a/k/a Valerie Folk Groves a/k/a Valerie Folk lately domiciled at 132 East 43 rd Street, Apt. 101, New York, NY 10017 admitting to probate a Will dated November 28, 2018 a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Valerie Groves a/k/a Valerie Folk Groves a/k/a Valerie Folk, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to ROBERT E. GROVES. *To persons serving this citation: The citation is to be served in accordance with the Court’s Order directing alternative service of process. *To all Parties: No in person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court Notice to Cited Parties.

If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Probate Department at Probate_General@nycourts.gov. /S Nora S. Anderson ________________________ HON Surrogate

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

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

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

The Probate Department of the New York County Surrogate’s Court

File No. 2020-791

May 3, 2021 Dated, Attested and Sealed

S/Diana Sanabria _________________________ Chief Clerk

Jennifer Jimenez, Esq. of Barasch McGarry Salzman & Penson Name of Attorney for Petitioner Tel. No. 212-385-8000 11 Park Place, 18 th Floor, New York, NY 10007 Address of Attorney [NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested.

You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.]

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PROBATE CITATION

File No. 2019-2069,

SURROGATE'S COURT, NEW YORK COUNTY, CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: The heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Silvia Mena, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence., Public Administrator of the County of New York, Attorney General of the State of New York.

Notice of Formation of M Y T H I CA L D E A L S , LLC filed with N.Y.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE on APRIL 30 2021. Office: R I C HM O ND C ount y.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 26 Albert Court, Staten Island, NY 10303. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

A petition having been duly filed by Mildred Benson, who is domiciled at 417 Beach 35th Street, Far Rockaway, New York 11961 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, NEW YORK County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, on June 21, 2021, at 9:30 o'clock in the FORE noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Silvia Mena, lately domiciled at 350 West 30th Street, #5E, New York, NY 10001 admitting to probate a Will dated December 11, 2017, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Silvia Mena, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Mildred Benson.

NO IN-PERSON APPEARANCES SHALL BE MADE ON THE RETURN DATE. IF YOU DO NOT OBJECT TO THE RELIEF REQUESTED, YOU DO NOT NEED TO CONTACT THE COURT OR DO ANYTHING ELSE. IF YOU WISH TO OBJECT TO THE RELIEF SOUGHT IN THIS PROCEEDING, YOU MUST SEND A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY YOU OR YOUR LAWYER INDICATING THAT: YOU OBJECT TO THE RELIEF OR YOU ARE REQUESTING DISCOVERY; OR YOU ARE REQUESTING THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAR IN PERSON OR BY USING SKYPE FOR BUSINESS OR BY TELEPHONE CONFERENCE; OR YOU ARE REQUESTING AN ADJOURNMENT TO CONSULT WITH OR RETAIN COUNSEL. If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Probate Department at Probate_General@nycourts.gov. /S Nora S. Anderson ________________________ HON Surrogate

April 12, 2021 Dated, Attested and Sealed

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S/Diana Sanabria _________________________ Chief Clerk

BLODNICK, FAZIO & CLARK Name of Attorney for Petitioner Tel. No. 631-525-3520 57 W. Main Street, Babylon, NY 11702 Address of Attorney E-Mail Address: acrowley@bfclaws.com.

(NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested.

You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.)

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