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NEW YORK CITY Mayor Bill de Blasio has emerged victorious over Gov. Andrew Cuomo in their long-standing feud to outdo each other.

Cuomo, for all his efforts to outshine the mayor, fell hard last week with the revelations made by state Attorney General Letitia James’ 168-page report on the governor’s alleged sexual harassment of employees. Recovery seems unlikely for him.

Pundits and politicians are calling for his resignation. And when President Joe Biden ultimately called on Cuomo to stand down, the response came after Biden encouraged states to give $100 incentives to anyone who gets the COVID-19 vaccine.

De Blasio had already announced a day earlier that the city was pushing a similar financial incentive for anyone receiving a vaccine. For the mayor, in this case, timing is everything.

Whether it was official or not, the president and mayor were on the same page on how to add another incentive for such an important public health vaccination program.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who gave the president all the credit, tweeted “Good idea, @POTUS.” when announcing that his state also would hand out cold hard cash to all who vaccinate.

It may be a case of Democrats standing together on a well-received plan. But it was also an idea that was embraced by de Blasio early on. Don’t expect Cuomo to outdo the mayor on this one, and most likely anything else going forward. He’s got much worse problems than his downstate rival.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

CUOMO’S FUTURE … 8

He doesn’t have any plans to resign.

KEY FINDINGS … 11

What the AG’s office concluded about the 11 accusations against Cuomo

THE BOROUGH SUPREME … 14

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Brooklyn is now the seat of power in city politics.

ANTONIO REYNOSO … 18 How the likely future BP will govern BROOKLYN POWER 100 … 25 Antonio Reynoso plans to advocate for more bike lanes as Brooklyn borough president

The leaders taking the borough to the top

WINNERS & LOSERS … 66 Who was up and who was down last week

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“I believe women, and I believe these 11 women.”

– state Attorney General Letitia James, announcing the findings of an independent investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, via The New York Times

The other shoe finally dropped this week, as an official state investigation found that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harrassed 11 women.

AG REPORT FINDS CUOMO SEXUALLY HARASSED WOMEN

After a long five month wait, state Attorney General Letitia James released the independent investigators’ report on allegations of sexual Tuesday, August 3,

harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, concluding that he had harassed multiple women and more broadly created a toxic, hostile work environment. The report corroborated the accounts of 11 women, including several whose stories

had not previously been reported. Perhaps most notable was a state trooper who Cuomo requested be transferred to his personal security unit before beginning an alleged pattern of harassing behavior that included inappropriate and unwanted touching.

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YOU CAN MASK IF YOU WANT TO New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio began last week by asking New Yorkers very nicely to please shoulder the heavy burden of wearing face coverings indoors, even those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Some Democrats decried the recommendation as being too weak, calling for a mandate, and de Blasio said a mask mandate wasn’t off the table. Essentially, de Blasio was saying if your friends don’t mask, then they’re no friends of mine.

Cuomo released a pre-recorded video in response to the report, denying having touched anyone inappropriately and once again stating that it was never his intention to make anyone uncomfortable. His attorney also wrote a rebuttal to the report and many of the women’s allegations which included photographs of Cuomo and others kissing people as supposed evidence that what the governor did was not wrong. Calls for Cuomo’s resignation came swiftly and in large numbers, including from longtime allies and unions that have supported him. As Cuomo has indicated that he has no intention to resign, calls for impeachment have also grown, and the Assembly Judiciary Committee is moving quickly ahead with its investigation.

Articles of impeachment could be acted on in a matter of weeks.

“I’ll say directly to the governor, you were never New York strong, you were always New York wrong, and now you’ve got to be New York gone.”

– state Sen. James Tedisco, via WTEN-TV

As the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to spread in New York and across the country, New York City is taking a new course of action to encourage vaccine holdouts to get the jab and to stymie the spread of the virus. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that people soon have to show proof of vaccination to enter many private businesses, including restaurants, bars and gyms. This makes

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New York the first city in the country to impose such a requirement, which is already in place overseas in countries like France and Italy. The move comes just one day after de Blasio declined to impose a new indoor mask mandate despite new CDC guidance on masking, instead just strongly encouraging New Yorkers to continue masking even if vaccinated.

It also comes after Cuomo announced that Port Authority and Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers will need to get vaccinated by Labor Day, or else submit to weekly COVID-19 tests.

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The Nassau County Legislature approved a controversial bill that would make police officers and other first responders a protected class under the county’s human rights

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law and would also permit them to sue protesters for discrimination for sums of $25,000 or more. The legislation was vehemently opposed by police reform groups, civil rights activists, progressives and many people of color. Before lawmakers voted, they heard hours of testimony from those opposed to the bill.

However, the Republicancontrolled body approved the legislation with the support of one Democrat and the bill sponsor, an independent who caucuses with Democrats. It now goes to Democratic County Executive Laura Curran.

She has not said where she stands on the bill and has asked Attorney General Letitia James to review the proposal and offer her opinion on it before taking action. Civil rights groups are expected to sue over the law if it gets signed, with many saying it is unconstitutional and would not hold up in court.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran has asked that the state attorney general’s office review a controversial law that would make police officers a protected class.

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MONDAY 8/9 The Assembly Judiciary Committee meets to discuss next steps on its impeachment inquiry into Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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Nonprofit contractors contemplate vaccine mandate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced beginning Sept. 13, all city and contracted workers will be required to be vaccinated against COVID19, or provide proof of weekly negative COVID-19 tests. About 45,000 workers in residential and congregate settings will be required to comply by Aug. 16.

Michelle Jackson, executive director of the Human Services Council, estimated that the rule would affect about 125,000 city contracted nonprofit workers.

Jackson said her organization supports the policy and has appreciated the city’s efforts to create a plan that affects all contracted workers. “Overall, we’re happy to see that the city has created a blanket policy, and human services nonprofits are happy to comply, especially because it’s a mandate across city workforces, so they’re not putting something on us that they’re not doing themselves,” she said. “It has to be something that government implements because individual organizations trying to assess this themselves, both legally and like the repercussions of it, it’s just too hard. And so the uncertainty of it means that we definitely look for the city to lead.”

Frederick Shack, CEO of Urban Pathways and vice chair of the Human Services Council’s board of directors,

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Cuomo has until Friday, Aug. 13, to provide evidence to the committee before it begins drafting articles of impeachment.

said encouraging employees to get vaccinated has been critical for their work. However, he believes that the city’s mandate comes with a large administrative burden, as employers must keep records on employee statuses. “We have to figure out a way to capture information on who is vaccinated,” he said. He added that the government could have eased this workload by creating a system that sent vaccination or testing information to employers instead of having employers create and implement their own systems.

Some organizations with city contracts mandated vaccination before the city’s announcement.

For example, VOCAL-NY implemented a requirement for all staff to be vaccinated with exemptions for health or religious reasons in early July. Jeremy Saunders, co-executive director of VOCAL-NY, expressed that while vaccinations are important, he understands the hesitancy of some regarding the intentions of pharmaceutical companies and the government, as well as systemic racism in medicine. “We’re proud of making this decision. We implement this in a judgment-free way and still serve and provide care to unvaccinated people, and we’ll continue to do that,” he said. – Maryam Rahaman

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A virtual hearing is focusing on legislative and congressional redistricting in the Finger Lakes and Western New York.

New York City indoor restaurants, bars and gyms will start requiring patrons to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 – a first-inthe-nation policy.

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THE TIPPING POINT FOR CUOMO’S ALLIES

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WHEN ALL HELL initially broke loose for Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the spring of 2021, his shelter from the storm were the allies awaiting the results of the state attorney

JOE BIDEN

Everyone in the executive mansion must have sighed in relief when Biden told ABC News that Cuomo should resign only if “the investigation confirmed allegations of sexual harassment.” Much like the rest of Cuomo’s strategy for staying in office, that dam broke when the AG’s investigation did confirm all those allegations, and a few hours later Biden was standing at the White House telling reporters Cuomo should resign.

general’s investigation. Now that the findings have arrived – and they are damning – there is a mass exodus from Camp Cuomo. Here’s a look at the politicians who just jumped ship.

CRYSTAL PEOPLESSTOKES

The majority leader was one of the 20 women in the Assembly who called for patience and due process instead of resignation in March. If Cuomo was hoping that giving her everything she wanted with legalizing weed would win him some pot brownie points, he was sorely mistaken.

In her recent interview with WGRZ Buffalo, the gloves were off and she called for his resignation.

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What is a damning report from the state attorney general between long-standing family friends?

Apparently a lot, because even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi felt the need to publish a statement calling on Cuomo to resign – a departure from her remarks in March that “the governor should look inside his heart – he loves New York – to see if he can govern effectively.”

FOR A NUMBER OF NEW YORK’S MOST PROMINENT POLITICOS, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S LATEST REPORT IS THE LAST STRAW. JAY JACOBS

The state Democratic Party chair was one of Cuomo’s staunchest allies, and although he couldn’t help but fangirl about Cuomo’s “legacy of progressive change” in his statement calling for the man’s resignation, it is a statement calling for resignation nonetheless.

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This one’s gotta hurt. The Assembly member and Brooklyn political boss was one of Cuomo’s most vocal defenders while he weathered the initial allegations, so her call for his resignation the day the report came out is a huge blow to his political standing.

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A Q&A with New York City Council Democratic nominee

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We’ve seen Cuomo come to predominantly Black communities in Central Brooklyn multiple times in the midst of scandals, because he sees it to be a community that sticks by him as governor.

With the AG’s report coming out, do you think that’s changed?

I believe he’s lost our support here. We were expecting better. Maya Angelou always said that.

“You know better, so you do better.” So I’m sure the leadership now is rethinking their support for the governor. As an educator, what I do is “glows and grows.” So I think now, our leadership

needs to (say), “Yeah, he did well. He got us through the pandemic, but this behavior is unacceptable.”

So we can’t tolerate that behavior at that level. And what kind of message does it send to others? This was a big #MeToo moment too. We’ve been saying for years these things have been happening in offices, and no one took us seriously. So I’m happy with the report that came out.

I’m ready to see what the next steps are. I called out for his resignation, and let’s see where that goes.

You’re a teacher. What grade level or subjects have you taught?

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21 years. I love history because I get to put my flavor in it. We get to do science. I taught fourth grade for a long time, then I went to fifth grade, and for a couple of years now, I’ve been the ENL coordinator, which is English as a new language, which they’re about to change to multilanguage learners, and I’m also a tech coordinator for the building. I campaigned while I was still teaching because to learn a new language, you must have conversation, interaction and socialization. My students were like, Ms. Joseph, we’ve been away from each other. So their

language acquisition was very little, so I told them I would stay on until June.

So I was teaching, and after school, I would go campaign.

You have that on-theground experience, now you’re going to have a say in passing laws. What’s one change that you’d like to see regarding education?

When I got into the field, I had 32 students sitting in front of me. No matter how great and amazing I was, someone will get lost in the cracks.

So I’m looking forward to supporting a bill for smaller classes.

Are you a UFT member?

Did the union support you?

Not at all. I’m a UFT member, and they decided to go with a noneducator (Josué Pierre). I’m sure they’re biting their nails right now. I’m sure quite a few people are biting their nails like, “How did we miss her? 21-year member of the UFT.” And 1199(SEIU) endorsed me, and they fell in love.

They were like, “What did UFT miss?” Yeah, 1199 endorsed me. I had all the folks like Zephyr Teachout.

My very, very first endorsement was 21 in ’21, they set the tone. From then on it was great.

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EARLY EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL, from state legislators to President Joe Biden, has said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign. Yet, the three-term governor has said he is not going anywhere.

The forces against him might have convinced a less stubborn politician to step down months ago. Probes are examining an alleged cover-up of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes and a controversial $5.1 million book deal inked by the governor last year during the height of his pandemic fame.

A bombshell report by state Attorney General Letitia James released last week detailed an array of sexual harassment allegations against the governor. Local prosecutors are examining possible criminal charges.

But if history tells us anything, Cuomo will stay in office through the end of his term next year unless state lawmakers impeach and remove him. Democrats in the Assembly held an emergency meeting last week to discuss what to do next. In the event of impeachment, which seems likely, the governor probably has a few weeks to strategize his political survival.

Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee are holding an already scheduled meeting this week to get updates from the private law firms tasked with conducting their sprawling investigation of the governor.

The 150-member Assembly could impeach the governor by a majority vote based on any formal charges approved by the committee. This would make Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul acting governor while Cuomo faces an impeachment trial. After an affirmative Assembly vote, everything would ultimately depend on the High Court of Impeachment, which would include seven members of the state Court of Appeals along with almost all state senators. Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Westchester County (who has reiterated calls for his resignation following James’ report) would not participate because she would be acting lieutenant governor. The trial itself could be similar to the impeachment trials of former President Donald Trump.

Witnesses might be heard. The governor could have lawyers argue on his behalf. A two-thirds majority of that body would decide his fate. If the High Court of Impeachment voted to convict Cuomo, then he would be the first sitting governor removed from office since William Sulzer more than a century ago.

Cuomo has survived political scandals before with the help of labor leaders and Black leaders. As allegations initially surfaced, Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn of Brooklyn defended him, saying he deserved “due process.” Christian pastors argued that calling for Cuomo to resign undermined James’ position as the first Black woman to serve as a statewide elected official. Elected officials, labor leaders, civil rights activists and others appeared at the governor’s public events as he continued his efforts to project normalcy while the various investigations continued. “I love listening to Inez Dickens,” Cuomo said after the Manhattan member of the Assembly called for due process at an April event nominally focused on vaccinations.

Erstwhile allies have since turned on the governor.

Powerful unions like 32BJ SEIU and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union have called for his resignation, as have Dickens and around a dozen others who penned a March letter pushing back at Cuomo’s immediate ouster. “He is unfit for office and should

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step down and resign,” Bichotte Hermelyn said in a statement following the release of James’ report. It now appears that a majority of the Assembly supports impeaching Cuomo. Speaker Carl Heastie of the Bronx is vowing to pick up the pace with impeachment after facing accusations for months that he was slow-walking the process, saying in his recent statement that Cuomo “has lost the confidence of the Assembly Democratic majority and that he can no longer remain in office.” Even longtime loyalists like state Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs say Cuomo should resign. Making the governor leave, however, is another matter entirely.

Politically, there is a substantial difference between calling for the governor to leave office and casting the deciding impeachment vote, and Cuomo will likely force the Assembly members to take decisive action. Despite the momentum of recent days, it’s still not certain a majority of Democrats will actually vote to impeach the governor if push comes to shove. Legislative leaders could be reluctant to hold a vote that significantly divides their own party. Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes of Buffalo, an influential force in the chamber, has said the governor should resign without explicitly saying whether she would vote to impeach him. “There is a process,” Assembly Member Patricia Fahy of Albany said in an interview while stressing that it would be inappropriate to decide before a formal vote.

Of course, the governor could always resign to spare himself the embarrassment of getting impeached and removed from office. Yet, he has some pretty good reasons to hold on for as long as possible. Fifty-nine percent of respondents to a new Marist College poll said Cuomo should resign, but less than half of nonwhite respondents said so. His poll numbers could improve with time as they did in the months following media reports of sexual misconduct earlier in the year.

The governor still retains the ability to sway lawmakers. He can veto their legislation, withhold funding for their districts and attack them in public. That could make some legislators think twice before joining efforts for his ouster. Longtime political observers note that unless he gets convicted of something, Cuomo is going to stay right where he is as legislators continue talking about what they might do about it. “I’ve known him for 40 years,” Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf said in an interview. “They’re going to have to pull him out.”

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WHY CUOMO WILL RESIGN … AND WHY HE WON’T HE COULD GET IMPEACHED AND REMOVED. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie intends to move forward with impeachment, and with nearly 90% of state senators calling for his resignation, it isn’t much of a stretch to say that a vote to remove the governor would be likely to pass.

THERE ARE MORE INVESTIGATIONS TO COME. Beyond impeachment, Cuomo is facing a federal investigation into COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, James’ investigation regarding his book deal and at least four harassment-related investigations by local district attorneys.

Things could get much worse for him.

HE’S LOST HIS PARTY. The vast majority of state legislators, the state’s entire Democratic congressional delegation and even President Joe Biden have called on Cuomo to resign. He could hurt the party and become even more of a pariah than he already is.

HE’S LOSING HIS MOST LOYAL SUPPORTERS. NAACP New York State Conference President Hazel Dukes and other Black leaders who had previously urged patience and stood by Cuomo have turned on him. As have the labor unions like 1199SEIU, 32BJ SEIU and New York State United Teachers that traditionally depend on mutually beneficial relationships with the governor.

REELECTION SEEMS UNLIKELY. Money isn’t everything, and the Marist College poll found that just 18% of Democrats think he deserves to be reelected – while 73% say it’s time for someone else.

IT COULD KEEP ALLIES IN POWER, AND OPPONENTS OUT OF POWER. Resigning would mean his lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul (right) would lead the state. She, or other businessfriendly moderates, could run in 2022. If Cuomo runs again, the chance a leftist like Jumaane Williams wins would increase.

HE’S DONE IT BEFORE. As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recalled, Cuomo dropped out of the 2002 race for governor rather than face certain defeat. The question now is: How much has Cuomo changed in 20 years?

CUOMO IS NOTORIOUSLY STUBBORN. He continues to say that he meant no harm and that his accusers were just misinterpreting his actions. Resignation would look like he’s admitting he’s wrong.

THE OFFICE PROVIDES LEVERAGE. It gives Cuomo something to give up if civil or criminal cases move forward.

It also gives him a physical office and a huge staff as he deals with ongoing investigations, potential lawsuits and a possible impeachment trial.

THE OFFICE IS POWERFUL. No matter the scandals swirling around him, Cuomo is still signing bills into law, executing contracts and negotiating deals to build new airport terminals.

TIME IS ON HIS SIDE. Scandals fade from the headlines, and calls for resignation lose their immediacy.

Just last month, politicians who had called for Cuomo’s resignation were still meeting with him.

POLLING COULD BE WORSE. A Marist College poll conducted after the report was released found 52% of Democrats said he should resign, versus 41% who said he should serve out his term, and 8% who were unsure. That’s a majority, but barely.

HE HAS A PATH TO REELECTION. It’s narrowing, but Cuomo still has more than $18 million in his campaign account, and if many challengers run in a primary, he could win with a relatively small percentage of loyalists.

He’d have a shot in a general, too, given downstate’s anti-Trump sentiments.

HE HAS NOWHERE TO GO. LITERALLY. Since Cuomo and his former partner Sandra Lee sold the residence they shared in Westchester County, he has reportedly lived full time at the governor’s mansion in Albany.

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HERE’S WHAT THEY FOUND Attorney General Letitia James presents the report from investigators Anne Clark, left, and Joon Kim, right.

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N INVESTIGATION INTO accusations of sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo released last week found that he kissed, engaged in unwelcome and nonconsenual touching, or made suggestive comments to 11 different women. Cuomo denied any wrongdoing in a recorded statement and rebuttal released later in the day.

The attorney general’s five-month independent inquiry into the accusations culminated in a 168-page report that’s been met with a storm of national and local attention.

Investigators found each of the 11 women to be credible.

“We have reached the conclusion that the Governor sexually harassed a number of State employees through unwelcome and unwanted touching, as well as by making numerous offensive and sexually suggestive comments,” investigators wrote. “We find that such conduct was part of a pattern of behavior that extended to his interactions with others outside of state government.”

While preparing the report, investigators interviewed 179 people, taking testimony under oath from 41 of them. Interviewees included Cuomo, the women who made allegations against the governor, current and former members of the Executive Chamber, current and former members of the New York State Police, as well as other individuals believed to have relevant information. The information provided on each of the 11 women is based on the findings outlined in the report.

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT NO. 1 Executive Assistant No. 1 works in the Executive Chamber and has provided administrative assistance to various people including the governor. Investigators found that the governor behaved in a way that demonstrated “increasing familiarity and intimacy,” ranging from banter about her romantic relationships to looking through her social media and inquiring about her personal life. Investigators found the governor’s comments became increasingly suggestive over time, and in 2019 or early 2020, he told Executive Assistant No. 1: “If you were single, the things I would do to you.” Physical contact too, such as kissing, requesting hugs and running his hands up and down her back during embraces happened regularly. In November 2020, the woman told investigators that she was asked to assist Cuomo at the Executive Mansion where she said the governor slid his hand up her blouse and grabbed her breast over her bra.

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STATE TROOPER NO. 1 Investigators found that Cuomo harassed a state trooper assigned to his protective detail multiple times, including running his finger down her back and his hand across her stomach, kissing her on the cheek in front of another trooper, and making sexually suggestive and gender-based comments.

Investigators also found that the governor spoke to a member of his protective detail about having the state trooper join the Protective Services Unit assigned to the governor after meeting her at an event on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. Despite not meeting the requirement of having at least three years of State Police experience, the trooper was hired. The member of the protective detail who Cuomo spoke to sent her an email saying “ha ha they changed the minimum from 3 years to 2. Just for you.” According to the report, the trooper joined the Protective Services Unit in January 2018.

CHARLOTTE BENNETT Former Cuomo aide Charlotte Bennett began working for the governor’s office in New York City in January 2019 as a briefer. She was later promoted to executive assistant and senior briefer, working in Albany between March and July of 2020.

She had been the subject of several inappropriate inquiries from the governor, investigators found, which were corroborated by contemporaneous text messages Bennett sent.

One of Bennett’s texts said “Something just happened and I can’t even type it out … GOING TO BURST INTO TEARS.” Bennett told investigators she initially believed she had a positive relationship with Cuomo, confiding in him that she wanted to work public service after experiencing sexual assault previously and having difficulty reporting it. Cuomo used much of his official recorded response to the attorney general’s report to address his conversations with Bennett, insisting that he was trying to help her process her trauma of being sexually assaulted.

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Lindsey Boylan was the first person to accuse the governor of sexual harassment in December 2020.

LINDSEY BOYLAN Lindsey Boylan worked for Empire State Development starting in 2015. She transitioned into the governor’s office and became deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser to the governor in 2018. She was the first to accuse the governor of sexual harassment, and she has remained one of his most outspoken critics. Investigators found that some of her recollections of Cuomo’s comments on her appearance could be corroborated by Howard Zemsky, her former boss at Empire State Development. Investigators also concluded that the response to Boylan’s accusations constituted unlawful retaliation. They detailed a “flurry” of activity after Boylan went public, during which Executive Chamber staffers pulled her personnel file and looked for Wite-Out to redact every name but Boylan’s to leak the file to the press.

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ALYSSA MCGRATH Alyssa McGrath, an executive assistant in the Executive Chamber since May 2018, accused Cuomo of sexually harassing her at work and in the Executive Mansion. Investigators corroborated these claims, saying the governor made inappropriate comments and engaged in harassing conduct during their interactions in 2019. According to the report, Cuomo regularly asked McGrath about her personal life including her marital status and divorce, stared down her blouse and commented on her necklace which was tucked inside of her shirt and asked whether she planned to “mingle” with men on an upcoming trip to Florida with Executive Assistant No. 1.

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STATE ENTITY EMPLOYEE NO. 2 A doctor and former director at the state Department of Health, referred to as State Entity Employee No. 2 in the report, performed a COVID-19 nasal swab on the governor during a televised press conference on March 17, 2020. Investigators say that during a run-through before the press conference began, the governor requested she not “go so deep that (she) hit (his) brain” to which she promised she’d be “gentle but accurate.” According to the report, the governor responded with “(G)entle but accurate, (I’ve) heard that before” – a comment the doctor took to have an inappropriate sexual undertone.

The doctor also testified that the governor behaved in a flirtatious manner throughout their encounter. During the live televised press conference, the governor said she made the full personal protective equipment “look good.”

VIRGINIA LIMMIATIS On May 24, 2017, Virginia Limmiatis attended a conservation event in upstate New York where Cuomo gave a brief speech.

When she went to shake hands with the governor after the event, he pressed two fingers on each letter of the company name that was printed on the chest area of her shirt, Limmiatis told investigators. Then, “The Governor leaned in so his cheek was touching Ms. Limmiatis’ cheek, and said something along the lines of, ‘I’m going to say I see a spider on your shoulder.’” He then “brushed his hand in the area between her shoulder and breast below her collarbone.” She told investigators she thought he knew he had done something wrong and needed “to create a cover story.”

ANA LISS Ana Liss worked in the governor’s office as an Empire State fellow from 2013 to 2015. She was relocated to work closer to the governor’s office, and she eventually concluded that she was moved there because of her appearance, to be “eye candy.”

Another staffer said he had the same impression of Liss’ relocation. She recalled a pattern of inappropriate comments about her appearance and unwanted touching from the governor. The governor testified that he does not remember Liss.

KAITLIN Kaitlin, whose last name is not public, was a lobbyist toward the end of 2016 when she met the governor at a fundraiser. While introducing herself, investigators said the governor “pulled her by her hand and held her in a dance pose that was captured in photographs.” Nine days later, she received a voicemail inviting her to interview with the Executive Chamber. Kaitlin felt at the time that the offer was made “because of what (she) looked like.” After she accepted the position, Kaitlin said Cuomo made numerous comments about her appearance and that she was in several uncomfortable situations alone with him at the office.

She was transferred to another state agency after about a year of working in the Executive Chamber because she felt “(the Governor’s) inner circle did not like her,” according to the report.

STATE ENTITY EMPLOYEE NO. 1 State Entity Employee No. 1 is an employee of a state-affiliated agency who made allegations of Cuomo’s inappropriate conduct. According to investigators, the governor touched her butt in an unwelcome manner during a work event in 2019 while the two were taking a photograph together. When she attempted to immediately tell her supervisor, who was also present in the photo, about the touching, the report says her supervisor did not respond. Investigators said the state entity employee has not interacted with Cuomo since.

ANNA RUCH On Sept. 14, 2019, Anna Ruch attended the wedding of Cuomo’s then-senior aide Gareth Rhodes, as she was a close friend of the bride. She met the governor for the first time that day, and after quickly shaking hands, he touched her back where there was a cutout in her dress. She forcibly removed his hand from her back and then he grabbed her face, saying, “Can I kiss you?” A photo of the incident, which appeared on the cover of the New York Post in March, was one of the more shocking examples of the governor’s behavior when these allegations first started becoming public.

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as James, Adams and Williams – thanks in part to Black voters, many of them in Brooklyn, who are considered to be the most loyal cohort in the Democratic Party.

However sheer numbers alone don’t explain Brooklyn politicians’ power. “Brooklyn, it is diverse in the way the Democratic Party is diverse,” Lander told City & State.

“It has a broad set of communities that are genuinely different from each other.”

Brooklyn is racially diverse, with significant white, Black, Hispanic and Asian populations and religiously diverse with major Jewish, Muslim and Christian populaitions.

There’s also a variety of housing, from glass towers to brownstones to single-family homes with yards. Of the other boroughs, only Queens could make a claim to that level of diversity, but the way Brooklynites see it, if you can make it in Brooklyn politics, you might know how to appeal to a citywide, or even nationwide audience. “(Brooklyn) is genuinely reflective both of New York City as a whole and also, in some interesting ways, the Democratic Party, nationally,” Lander said.

But Brooklyn has always been big. It surpassed Manhattan sometime in the 1920s to become the biggest borough, and has never relinquished that title. And it has been diverse for a very long time. One thing that has changed more recently is the rise of progressive politics. Brooklynites like Lander, Williams and de Blasio ran to the left in their respective races and won.

“People have recently viewed Queens as the hotbed for progressive politics in New York City, but Brooklyn progressives have been leading the way across the world,” said Rep. Nydia Velázquez, who lives in Brooklyn, and represents a district including parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may not live in Brooklyn, but Velázquez has a point. Both of New York’s democratic socialist state senators represent Brooklyn, as do three of the four socialists in the Assembly. The borough is the home of the Working Families Party, which championed James, Williams, Lander and de Blasio, among others. In Congress, Velázquez and Rep. Yvette Clarke are among the most left-leaning members, and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has established himself in the national wave of “progressive prosecutors.” This shift to the left has happened citywide and statewide, where New Yorkers have demanded progressive policies like marijuana legalization and rent reforms to benefit tenants. New Yorkers, more than ever, are looking to elect progressive candidates – and these progressive candidates are often from Brooklyn.

That factor in Brooklyn’s rise wouldn’t seem to apply to Adams. He ran on a more moderate platform than more progressive mayoral candidates like Maya Wiley or

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Both Bill de Blasio, top right, and his likely successor, Eric Adams, above, are from Brooklyn. So are likely city Comptroller Brad Lander, left, state Attorney General Letitia James, right, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, below.

Dianne Morales (both Brooklynites). But even if he was on the wrong side of the culture war, Velázquez gave him credit for some of his campaign rhetoric. “I just want to point out that Eric Adams, in so many ways, talked about uplifting communities who didn’t have a voice and tackling inequality in the city,” she said.

In fact, Adams’ cultural distance from the presumed moneyed elite of Manhattan was part of his pitch to voters. “I have said I was the outer borough candidate,” Adams said to a virtual gathering of Queens Democratic district leaders in July. “I had an outer borough message and we won all of the outer boroughs.” Sure enough, Adams won every other borough in the primary, except Manhattan – which was won by lifelong Brooklynite Kathryn Garcia. Adams’ blue-collar theme was right for this moment, when populist, anti-elite sentiment is popular in politics. It may not be a coincidence that Shaun Donovan, who was raised in Manhattan, and Ray McGuire, who lives in Manhattan,

finished last among the leading candidates in the mayoral primary – they were likely the wealthiest in the bunch, and presented as elite insiders. The way Adams frames it, “Manhattan” is shorthand for the whims of its whitest and wealthiest residents. While “Brooklyn” still holds on to its chip-on-theshoulder, outsider, diverse identity.

Adams was born in Brooklyn and raised primarily in Queens, but when the ambitious young police officer with political aspirations wanted to settle down and buy a home in the early 1990s, he chose Brooklyn.

Lander is from Missouri, and came to New York when his wife started at NYU Law in Manhattan. But he got a community development job in Park Slope, fell in love with the neighborhood and has stayed for three decades. De Blasio is from Massachusetts, and attended both undergrad and graduate school in Manhattan. But he also chose Park Slope to settle down in the 1990s. It isn’t hard to imagine an alternate history where these three chose condos in Manhattan instead. Or where Brooklyn natives Williams, James and Schumer moved away once they had the means. But they all picked Brooklyn, and its affordability – relative to Manhattan, at least – made it more likely they’d stay in one place and grow the kind

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of roots necessary for a run for office. Manhattan is still a landing spot for wide-eyed transplants with a bright political future – think City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who grew up in Massachusetts. But for decades, Brooklyn has been the strongest magnet. Northern Brooklyn’s development boom and the accompanying economic and cultural renaissance hasn’t just been a good thing for landlords and coffee snobs – Velázquez argues it’s been good for the borough’s political culture.

“It’s a big chunk of young people that have brought in energy – they support minority candidates. They work hard,” she said.

“They have a diploma in one hand, they have student debt in the other hand. And they too see that they have to be more active and more engaged.” Velázquez said she isn’t just talking about gentrifiers, or people living in wealthier communities, but that people of all income and class levels have been demanding more accountability from elected officials, and keeping a higher standard. “I see how public housing residents have been organizing. And you never saw this type of or-

ganizing before in public housing,” she said.

“They know this is their chance to get the attention they deserve and to use their political muscle to put pressure on elected officials to bring the resources that are needed.”

Brooklynites’ hold on power will be a good thing for all the borough residents that Adams is likely to bring into his expected administration. And it could be a real financial windfall for folks like Adams’ lawyer, Frank Carone, who, as Politico New York reported, has built a “Manhattan-style law firm in Brooklyn.” But this power hoarding could have its drawbacks for other ambitious politicians. One of the biggest knocks against Jeffries’ potential House speaker candidacy is that he lives less than a mile away from Schumer, the Senate majority leader. And if Manhattanites are feeling a little salty about Brooklynites getting all the top jobs, imagine how Democrats in Illinois feel. It could also be an issue for Brannan, a Bay Ridge Democrat gunning for the pseudo-citywide position of City Council speaker. “Don’t be surprised if the council speaker comes out from Brooklyn,” Bichotte Hermelyn, a Brannan ally,

told City & State. “I’m just saying. Nothing is impossible.” But it would be surprising. The last four City Council speakers have represented Manhattan, the result of a sort of de facto detente among the outer borough Democratic parties. Brannan is leaning into his outer borough boosterism, telling City & State that “a win for Brooklyn is a win for everyone who has been left behind or feels invisible in the halls of power,” and that “we’re all done fighting over crumbs just because we may live far from City Hall.” But not even all the Brooklyites are on board. Velázquez, for example, is more interested in gender equity than home borough dominance, and said a woman needs to be speaker – likely Manhattanite Council Member Carlina Rivera. “I am leaning that way,” Velázquez said.

The speaker race and its borough-based considerations is a bit of a relic of an earlier political age, when county party organizations had more of a say over who was running for office, and who was winning, explained Louis Cholden-Brown, an amateur historian of New York politics and an aide to the City Council speaker. The reason why a “trifecta” of citywide positions has never happened before is “because they would intentionally not do it,” instead creating geographically diverse slates. Cholden-Brown doesn’t just think this is the first time that Brooklynites will hold all three citywide elected positions at once – he thinks it may be the first time since the modern city formed in 1898 that residents of the same borough have ever held all three jobs, Manhattan included.

Now, county Democratic parties have been weakened, and noted Manhattan boosters like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer have to begrudgingly accept the coming influx of Brooklynites crossing the bridge and entering the government buildings in lower Manhattan. “I guess I’m open to doing something about getting downtown office workers back,” she said, “even if it means welcoming people from Brooklyn.”

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HEN THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE officially opened on May 24, 1883, Brooklyn Mayor Seth Low was there for the ceremony. And when the Williamsburg Bridge officially opened on Dec. 19, 1903, Low, now mayor of New York City, led the parade. Who better to christen a bridge connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn? Just four years after the modern city consolidated in 1898, Manhattan and the boroughs around it had elected Low, a mayor from Brooklyn. But opening the Williamsburg Bridge was just about the last thing Low did as mayor. He had lost in his 1903 reelection bid to George McClellan, a Manhattanite.

Brooklyn would again be governed by somebody from across the East River – an indignity that would be repeated again and again for the next 12 decades.

So Giando on the Water, a Williamsburg space with sweeping views of both bridges, was a fitting venue for state Attorney General Letitia James as she spoke at a Brooklyn Democratic Party victory event last month on the waterfront. The recent wins in the citywide Democratic primaries weren’t “just a blue victory, but a Brooklyn victory. Every citywide office in this city is led by somebody from?”

The crowd of politicos, who’d come from around the city, shouted back: “Brooklyn!”

Indeed, if Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams, comptroller nominee Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams win their elections in November, as they are all heavily favored to in this Democratic city, then all three citywide elected positions will be held by Brooklynites for the first time in history. But it’s more than a Brooklyn trifecta – it’s a Brooklyn bonanza. James, a statewide elected official, is from Brooklyn. So is U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the current New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio. And the power may only grow. City Council Member Justin Brannan is a serious contender to be the next City Council speaker.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a lifelong Brooklynite, is widely considered to be a leading candidate to be the next speaker of the House, and both Williams and James are known to be at least considering a run for governor.

In a city long dominated by Manhattanites, Brooklynites’ political power has grown – and it’s more than just coincidence. Brooklyn is the largest borough, the center of progressive politics, and diverse in race, culture and even housing. It’s the borough with the most Black people and – for decades now – has seemed to usurp Manhattan as the somewhat affordable home for ambitious young people moving from other countries, other states and even other boroughs.

And while the Notorious B.I.G. claimed that spreading love is the Brooklyn way, lately its leaders are throwing a lot of shade. “This is not going to be my hangout spot,” Adams said at his Aug. 2 general election kickoff rally in Manhattan, outside of City Hall. “We have centralized our power to one location. This is not a Manhattan-only city. This is an outer-borough city.”

But to Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who leads the Brooklyn Democratic Party, the change has already been made. “Brooklyn is not seen as the outer borough,” she said. “New York City is more the outer borough now.”

In some ways, that’s been true for a while. Brooklyn is the borough with the most people, 2.6 million, by 2019 census estimates. It also has more active, registered Democrats than any county in the state, with 1.1 million. Queens is second, with 807,000. Brooklyn’s Democrats make up 32% of the party rolls in the city, and even then, the borough punches slightly above its weight in city elections – in the 2017 Democratic primary, 35% of the total votes came from Brooklyn. With Democrats’ overwhelming enrollment advantage over Republicans, the primaries have been the only races that mattered in electing citywide and statewide candidates, so candidates from Brooklyn have an undeniable home borough boost.

Brooklyn also has the largest Black population in the city. So Black candidates are more likely to come from Brooklyn, and Black candidates are now getting elected more than ever in New York – such

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as James, Adams and Williams – thanks in part to Black voters, many of them in Brooklyn, who are considered to be the most loyal cohort in the Democratic Party.

However sheer numbers alone don’t explain Brooklyn politicians’ power. “Brooklyn, it is diverse in the way the Democratic Party is diverse,” Lander told City & State.

“It has a broad set of communities that are genuinely different from each other.”

Brooklyn is racially diverse, with significant white, Black, Hispanic and Asian populations and religiously diverse with major Jewish, Muslim and Christian populaitions.

There’s also a variety of housing, from glass towers to brownstones to single-family homes with yards. Of the other boroughs, only Queens could make a claim to that level of diversity, but the way Brooklynites see it, if you can make it in Brooklyn politics, you might know how to appeal to a citywide, or even nationwide audience. “(Brooklyn) is genuinely reflective both of New York City as a whole and also, in some interesting ways, the Democratic Party, nationally,” Lander said.

But Brooklyn has always been big. It surpassed Manhattan sometime in the 1920s to become the biggest borough, and has never relinquished that title. And it has been diverse for a very long time. One thing that has changed more recently is the rise of progressive politics. Brooklynites like Lander, Williams and de Blasio ran to the left in their respective races and won.

“People have recently viewed Queens as the hotbed for progressive politics in New York City, but Brooklyn progressives have been leading the way across the world,” said Rep. Nydia Velázquez, who lives in Brooklyn, and represents a district including parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may not live in Brooklyn, but Velázquez has a point. Both of New York’s democratic socialist state senators represent Brooklyn, as do three of the four socialists in the Assembly. The borough is the home of the Working Families Party, which championed James, Williams, Lander and de Blasio, among others. In Congress, Velázquez and Rep. Yvette Clarke are among the most left-leaning members, and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has established himself in the national wave of “progressive prosecutors.” This shift to the left has happened citywide and statewide, where New Yorkers have demanded progressive policies like marijuana legalization and rent reforms to benefit tenants. New Yorkers, more than ever, are looking to elect progressive candidates – and these progressive candidates are often from Brooklyn.

That factor in Brooklyn’s rise wouldn’t seem to apply to Adams. He ran on a more moderate platform than more progressive mayoral candidates like Maya Wiley or

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Both Bill de Blasio, top right, and his likely successor, Eric Adams, above, are from Brooklyn. So are likely city Comptroller Brad Lander, left, state Attorney General Letitia James, right, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, below.

Dianne Morales (both Brooklynites). But even if he was on the wrong side of the culture war, Velázquez gave him credit for some of his campaign rhetoric. “I just want to point out that Eric Adams, in so many ways, talked about uplifting communities who didn’t have a voice and tackling inequality in the city,” she said.

In fact, Adams’ cultural distance from the presumed moneyed elite of Manhattan was part of his pitch to voters. “I have said I was the outer borough candidate,” Adams said to a virtual gathering of Queens Democratic district leaders in July. “I had an outer borough message and we won all of the outer boroughs.” Sure enough, Adams won every other borough in the primary, except Manhattan – which was won by lifelong Brooklynite Kathryn Garcia. Adams’ blue-collar theme was right for this moment, when populist, anti-elite sentiment is popular in politics. It may not be a coincidence that Shaun Donovan, who was raised in Manhattan, and Ray McGuire, who lives in Manhattan,

finished last among the leading candidates in the mayoral primary – they were likely the wealthiest in the bunch, and presented as elite insiders. The way Adams frames it, “Manhattan” is shorthand for the whims of its whitest and wealthiest residents. While “Brooklyn” still holds on to its chip-on-theshoulder, outsider, diverse identity.

Adams was born in Brooklyn and raised primarily in Queens, but when the ambitious young police officer with political aspirations wanted to settle down and buy a home in the early 1990s, he chose Brooklyn.

Lander is from Missouri, and came to New York when his wife started at NYU Law in Manhattan. But he got a community development job in Park Slope, fell in love with the neighborhood and has stayed for three decades. De Blasio is from Massachusetts, and attended both undergrad and graduate school in Manhattan. But he also chose Park Slope to settle down in the 1990s. It isn’t hard to imagine an alternate history where these three chose condos in Manhattan instead. Or where Brooklyn natives Williams, James and Schumer moved away once they had the means. But they all picked Brooklyn, and its affordability – relative to Manhattan, at least – made it more likely they’d stay in one place and grow the kind

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of roots necessary for a run for office. Manhattan is still a landing spot for wide-eyed transplants with a bright political future – think City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who grew up in Massachusetts. But for decades, Brooklyn has been the strongest magnet. Northern Brooklyn’s development boom and the accompanying economic and cultural renaissance hasn’t just been a good thing for landlords and coffee snobs – Velázquez argues it’s been good for the borough’s political culture.

“It’s a big chunk of young people that have brought in energy – they support minority candidates. They work hard,” she said.

“They have a diploma in one hand, they have student debt in the other hand. And they too see that they have to be more active and more engaged.” Velázquez said she isn’t just talking about gentrifiers, or people living in wealthier communities, but that people of all income and class levels have been demanding more accountability from elected officials, and keeping a higher standard. “I see how public housing residents have been organizing. And you never saw this type of or-

ganizing before in public housing,” she said.

“They know this is their chance to get the attention they deserve and to use their political muscle to put pressure on elected officials to bring the resources that are needed.”

Brooklynites’ hold on power will be a good thing for all the borough residents that Adams is likely to bring into his expected administration. And it could be a real financial windfall for folks like Adams’ lawyer, Frank Carone, who, as Politico New York reported, has built a “Manhattan-style law firm in Brooklyn.” But this power hoarding could have its drawbacks for other ambitious politicians. One of the biggest knocks against Jeffries’ potential House speaker candidacy is that he lives less than a mile away from Schumer, the Senate majority leader. And if Manhattanites are feeling a little salty about Brooklynites getting all the top jobs, imagine how Democrats in Illinois feel. It could also be an issue for Brannan, a Bay Ridge Democrat gunning for the pseudo-citywide position of City Council speaker. “Don’t be surprised if the council speaker comes out from Brooklyn,” Bichotte Hermelyn, a Brannan ally,

told City & State. “I’m just saying. Nothing is impossible.” But it would be surprising. The last four City Council speakers have represented Manhattan, the result of a sort of de facto detente among the outer borough Democratic parties. Brannan is leaning into his outer borough boosterism, telling City & State that “a win for Brooklyn is a win for everyone who has been left behind or feels invisible in the halls of power,” and that “we’re all done fighting over crumbs just because we may live far from City Hall.” But not even all the Brooklyites are on board. Velázquez, for example, is more interested in gender equity than home borough dominance, and said a woman needs to be speaker – likely Manhattanite Council Member Carlina Rivera. “I am leaning that way,” Velázquez said.

The speaker race and its borough-based considerations is a bit of a relic of an earlier political age, when county party organizations had more of a say over who was running for office, and who was winning, explained Louis Cholden-Brown, an amateur historian of New York politics and an aide to the City Council speaker. The reason why a “trifecta” of citywide positions has never happened before is “because they would intentionally not do it,” instead creating geographically diverse slates. Cholden-Brown doesn’t just think this is the first time that Brooklynites will hold all three citywide elected positions at once – he thinks it may be the first time since the modern city formed in 1898 that residents of the same borough have ever held all three jobs, Manhattan included.

Now, county Democratic parties have been weakened, and noted Manhattan boosters like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer have to begrudgingly accept the coming influx of Brooklynites crossing the bridge and entering the government buildings in lower Manhattan. “I guess I’m open to doing something about getting downtown office workers back,” she said, “even if it means welcoming people from Brooklyn.”

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A progressive, Afro-Latino borough president is coming to Brooklyn.

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T’S EARLY IN the afternoon. Too early to catch the group of mostly retired older men begin their dominoes tournament in the back of a Williamsburg bodega, according to Democratic Brooklyn borough president nominee Antonio Reynoso, who is translating for the Spanish-speaking owners.

Before coming to the convenience store, Reynoso told me that these private and illegal games – even though players are typically only betting for bottles of beer – are among his favorite things about the neighborhood where he grew up.

Why? Because they’re a part of the rich tapestry of the south side of Williamsburg that few people get to see, other than those enmeshed in the community. “We have things in this community that people would see as a negative thing, but I don’t see it that way,” Reynoso said, adding that these games have an important cultural significance for the people who play them, many of whom come from the Dominican Republic.

However, you don’t need Reynoso to show you an underground dominoes game to understand how connected he is to his neighborhood. Walking down just one block, Reynoso is recognized several times by his constituents who stop him to say, “Hi,” and touch base with the man they call “Anthony.” Many of the people in Reynoso’s neighborhood feel like family to him, in part because they’ve known him since he was a kid.

Reynoso still lives in the south side of Williamsburg, not to be confused with south Williamsburg (a hyperspecific distinction often made by “south side” locals, such as Reynoso), which he has been representing for the past eight years, along with Bushwick and Ridgewood, as a council member from District 34. Come November, when it’s presumed he’ll be elected as the next Brooklyn borough president, he’ll be responsible for the

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“He’s got serious policy chops a la Scott Stringer, Gale Brewer and Eric (Adams).”

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they do not technically have the final say in these decisions, Reynoso introduced a bill in 2014 to reconfigure the selection process for the boards. The legislation was aimed at eradicating nepotistic appointments, which Reynoso’s team felt was causing dysfunction within these boards. “What happens here is that bike lanes literally get delayed for years over community board opposition, and the (Department of Transportation) puts aside safety for anecdotes and personal experiences that people have on community boards. So that’s my concern,” Reynoso told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 2019.

As borough president, Reynoso will have some control over the community board selection process and can appoint up to half of the members in the borough, which may allow him to enable the changes he has been hoping to see in the boards.

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EYNOSO DEFEATED HIS two main competitors in the Democratic primary race for Brooklyn borough president: Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. and Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon.

In the final round of ranked-choice voting, Reynoso won with 55.3% to Simon’s 44.7%, securing the neighborhoods of Sunset Park, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, according to Data Mapper.

Reynoso, who said he wanted to be a “boombox for progressive values” upon announcing his candidacy for borough president in 2019, was unsurprisingly the favorite to win among progressives. He ran on a campaign aimed at creating more community-based health care, tenant protections and affordable housing, expanding transportation alternatives, as well as police reform and decarceration, which mirrored the work he had already done on the City Council. However, what really helped push him across the finish line, according to Camille Rivera, a partner at the political consulting firm New Deal Strategies, was the progressive coalition he built. “He was out there very early (in his campaign), meeting with his community, endorsing candidates that met the needs of the community,” Rivera told City & State.

“And I think that was something that many folks weren’t able to do, the way he did.”

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Reynoso received an overwhelming amount of support from fellow progressives, such as U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, state Sens.

Jessica Ramos and Julia Salazar, and Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes. Reynoso also had 2,118 individual donors, more than any other candidate.

“He is respected by the progressive movement but he’s also respected by his colleagues across the spectrum,” Rep. Ritchie Torres, a friend and former council member, told City & State. “As a serious legislator with both personal and professional integrity, he committed himself to a cause for the long haul, from the moment he entered office, he spent years doggedly fighting for a fundamental restructuring of the commercial hauling industry, which has long been a leading source of environmental racism. And I saw firsthand, we never gave up or gave in.”

Reynoso was also backed and endorsed by groups such as Make the Road (who worked with him on the Bushwick Community Plan), New York Communities for Change, VOCAL- NY, the New York State Working Families Party and New Kings Democrats.

Tony Melone, communications director for New Kings Democrats, told City & State: “We’ve endorsed him for practically every election he’s run here in Brooklyn because he’s always been a supporter of our goals for reforming the (Democratic) Party here in Brooklyn, in getting out of machine politics and putting power back in the hands of the people of Brooklyn.”

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EYNOSO IS SET to make history, should he win in November as expected and become Brooklyn’s first Latino borough president.

“This is a Latino elected as the borough president of Brooklyn.

That’s huge – and an Afro-Latino,” Rivera said.

“Antonio has emerged as a central Latino leader in the city of New York,” Torres said.

“He is set to represent more people than any other Latino elected in the city, he’s about to be the chief executive of Brooklyn.”

It’s Reynoso’s hope that he’ll be able to embody the cheerleader energy of former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, while still making impactful changes on the borough. “He’s got serious policy chops a la Scott Stringer, Gale Brewer and Eric (Adams). So I feel like he has the potential to be a really strong borough presi-

dent that combines the best of the borough advocate role with figuring out ways to be impactful on a policy level,” Lapidus said.

Reynoso said he wants the borough residents to tell him what they want, once he steps into his new role. “I don’t want to go in there with all the ideas and execute them and have them not necessarily be what the people need or want,” he said.

However, Reynoso said he does have one big goal going into the office and that’s to lower the Black maternal mortality rate in Brooklyn, which was the highest in the city according to a study published by the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in 2016. “I want Brooklyn to be the safest place in the city to have a baby. Period,” Reynoso said.

He plans to use all of the funding accessible to him within his first year in office (5% of the city’s “annual discretionary capital budget each year”) to provide each of the borough’s public hospitals with “stateof-the-art” birthing centers for delivery and postpartum care. This is all a part of Reynoso’s goal of tackling the biggest inequities in the borough. “I’m going to address one topic, address one issue at a time. I’m not spreading the love and spending money on a bunch of different things.”

Despite his progressive goals, Reynoso has concerns that some people will be dubious of his willingness to work with the presumed next mayor of New York City, current Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, whose views tend to be much more moderate. After winning the primary, Reynoso accepted Adams’ invitation to celebrate all of the Democratic winners in the city, where Adams urged unity moving forward.

“I’m a coalition builder, by nature,” Reynoso said. “I just want to do right by the community and I want to help them.

And my nervousness (about becoming borough president) comes from me wanting to do that and wanting to be a partner in this work and it not working out and then being held accountable for even trying to build that (coalition with other Democrats).”

Reynoso is excited for what the future holds. As is his mentor, Carl Thomas, who has no doubt Reynoso will continue making strides. He said, “I think he’ll go as high as he can go. I think he’s got the determination, he’s certainly got the personality to appeal to people. And I’m very, very proud of Antonio.”

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A committed young progressive, Reynoso was able to build a coalition among multiple Brooklyn neighborhoods, with more individual donors than any other candidate.

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The biggest political players in the borough brimming with the most political power.

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R O O K L Y N I S B U R S T I N G at the seams with political power. The current mayor – and all but certainly the next mayor – hail from the borough. So too does the majority leader of the U.S. Senate and, perhaps, the next speaker of the House of Representatives. Brooklyn is also home to the state attorney general, a couple more influential members of Congress, the city’s public advocate, its next comptroller and

several significant City Council members. Add it all up, and the borough has a strong claim as the political epicenter of New York, if not the nation.

City & State’s latest Brooklyn Power 100 list recognizes not only the borough’s leading politicians, but also the business and nonprofit executives, real estate developers, labor leaders, advocates, activists, academics and others who live and work in the borough.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio is originally from Massachusetts, but he’s lived in Brooklyn for decades.

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2 ERIC ADAMS BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams waited nearly 30 years to become mayor, so he didn’t sweat another two weeks after the primary for the Board of Elections to tabulate ballots through its rankedchoice system (after an initial error). He eked out a 50.5% to 49.5% victory over mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia, setting up a showdown with Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa. Adams has already met with President Joe Biden on combating gun violence and is all but guaranteed to eventually

leave his Borough Hall home office.

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major infrastructure bill followed by a multitrillion-dollar spending bill. He’s also still pushing President Joe Biden to cancel $50,000 per borrower in student loan debt.

CHUCK SCHUMER U.S. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER After passing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill with $15 billion for New York’s venues and restarting the $11 billion Gateway Tunnel project, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer took a day to unwind. On Memorial Day, he was found crashing a Brooklyn barbecue on his signature Bianchi bike. It was a short-lived reprieve. Schumer told lawmakers that they would work through August to pass a

Jeffries’ ascent to the House leadership has made him a national figure.

4 LETITIA JAMES STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL The most anticipated read of the summer was state Attorney General Letitia James’ independent report on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s workplace sexual harassment.

The report corroborated

allegations from 11 women using thousands of pieces of evidence. James had already bruised Cuomo’s COVID-19 management legacy with her nursing home review that found that his administration undercounted virus deaths.

She didn’t hold back this time when she struck again with a groundbreaking sexual harassment report that could result in Cuomo’s impeachment.

5 HAKEEM JEFFRIES MEMBER OF CONGRESS A little while back, there was talk in Brooklyn’s clubhouse catering halls that Rep. Hakeem Jeffries could be New York City’s next mayor. His ascension into the House leadership made him a national figure, mostly leaving political machinations in his home borough to others. Jeffries helped to

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With only six months left before leaving Gracie Mansion, Mayor Bill de Blasio is living his best life. He devoured a Shake Shack burger and fries to encourage unvaccinated New Yorkers to get their doses, wore a Brooklyn Nets jersey to promote the Barclays Center pop-up vaccination site and donned a pink Hawaiian shirt to celebrate the opening of city pools.

His lighthearted demeanor steering the city’s reopening had some advocates pining for a third term, although it was the backlash to his policies that helped Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ candidacy in the Democratic mayoral primary race.

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the center of attention this fall when he appears in all three plays of Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy which will be produced

by Theater of War Productions.

8 NYDIA VELÁZQUEZ MEMBER OF CONGRESS

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has built a reputation as a progressive prosecutor.

craft Congress’ $1.9 trillion stimulus package benefitting Brooklyn businesses, but his endorsement of mayoral candidate Maya Wiley could open a rift with his alleged rival, Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams.

6 ERIC GONZALEZ BROOKLYN DISTRICT ATTORNEY Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s former general counsel, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, came up short in her bid for Manhattan DA, but Alvin Bragg’s primary win bolsters the ranks of progressive prosecutors seeking to rectify decades of systemic racism. Gonzalez backed discovery reform and ceased trying low-level pot offenses in 2019. He also dismissed 90 drug convictions

tainted by a police detective.

In addition, he demanded changes to state bail reform laws, and a rise in crime amid calls to “defund the police” has been tricky to navigate.

7 JUMAANE WILLIAMS NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ADVOCATE New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams didn’t have to contend with 16 opponents this time around, easily dispatching his primary rivals in June.

He’ll likely provide a check on Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams’ centrist agenda if he sticks around. Williams could be eyeing another statewide run after visiting Syracuse to talk about gun violence and inviting many of the political establishment to his July 15 wedding. He’ll be

Being in the majority has been good for Rep. Nydia Velázquez, who steered $28.6 billion in grants to restaurants struggling through the pandemic and helped pass the $300-per-month child tax credit. She has also been an elder statesperson for outer-borough progressives as mayoral candidates Maya Wiley and Antonio Reynoso sought her endorsement.

Velázquez has also led efforts in Congress to allow Puerto Rico to determine its future territorial standing, which could eventually lead to a statehood vote.

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RODNEYSE BICHOTTE HERMELYN ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND BROOKLYN DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR Reports of the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s demise were greatly exaggerated, as a machine favorite has won the mayoral primary. Party boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn will face significant headwinds after progressives claimed dozens of New York City Council seats. She couldn’t get Council Member Robert Cornegy into Borough Hall or Civil Court Judge Dweynie Paul into Surrogate Court. In addition, an ugly tiff with the Brooklyn Young Democrats spilled into the public in March. Bichotte Hermelyn is currently helping to smooth ties with Haiti after the assassination of the island nation’s president.

10 YVETTE CLARKE MEMBER OF CONGRESS Rep. Yvette Clarke has become an expert in the darkest corners of the internet, having helmed a congressional subcommittee on cybersecurity. She recently reintroduced legislation to ban facial recognition technology in federally funded public housing buildings. In addition, she pushed for more funding to build resilience into the software supply chain and urged the Federal Communications Commission to audit media companies over diversity. Clarke also demanded the Federal Emergency Management Agency reimburse city hospitals $864 million in emergency spending during the coronavirus pandemic after more than a year of delays.

11 BRAD LANDER NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER Progressives tallied their biggest victory of the night when New York City Council Member Brad Lander edged out several veteran Democratic lawmakers including Council Speaker Corey Johnson in the primary for city comptroller. Lander lacked support from major labor unions that chose Johnson, but got a boost with

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endorsements from U.S. Sens.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He’s already backing Scott Stringer’s lawsuit to restore contract oversight on city spending.

back his expansive plans to rezone the former Domino Sugar Refinery and build an adjacent park with astroturf.

Two Trees currently aims to erect two residential high rises with 1,250 apartments, a YMCA, offices and stores in Williamsburg called River Ring. The real estate company, led by Jed Walentas, opened a climate change-themed minigolf course on the site in July.

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ABRAMS FENSTERMAN Frank Carone is a trusted adviser to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio – and his clout at City Hall won’t be curtailed by term limits, as another ally Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is set to be the next mayor. The Brooklyn Democratic Party’s counsel, who often represents incumbents challenging rivals’ petitions in court, served as Adams’ lawyer. He reportedly bundled $28,930 to Adams’ campaign and set up several virtual events to support the effort from his law office.

Carone will likely have a key role setting up the next mayoral administration in the coming months.

13 RANDY PEERS PRESIDENT AND CEO BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Surveys conducted by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce crystallized the

Attorney Frank Carone is an ally of Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams.

pandemic’s crippling effect on the borough’s small businesses: According to chamber head Randy Peers, half of them reported revenue losses of 50% last summer; by November, half couldn’t pay their rent in full; and 64% of them had trouble hiring workers this past spring. Peers, who has no shortage of advice for city policymakers on how to rebuild the local economy, moved the chamber’s offices from Downtown Brooklyn to Industry City in July.

has teamed with other organizations to combat hunger and hate and created a hotline for those who lost work due to COVID-19, reaching over 18,000 people.

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MET COUNCIL When the coronavirus pandemic struck, David Greenfield never closed the doors of the Met Council and led a $100 million campaign providing emergency funding for New York’s food pantries.

Since then, the Met Council has aided hundreds of food pantries and has also given out more than 19 million pounds of food to 305,000 New Yorkers. The nonprofit

TWO TREES The Walentas family’s yearslong support of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams could soon pay off.

Jed Walentas counted on the borough president to

ANTONIO REYNOSO NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER New York City Council Member Antonio Reynoso won the Democratic primary in one of Brooklyn’s most competitive races. He took a lead over Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon and Council Member Robert Cornegy in the borough president’s race and kept it once ballots were tallied. Now the 38-year-old lawmaker will look to carry out ambitious plans to reform the land use review and community board appointment process while also tackling police reform.

He also aims to make Atlantic Avenue safer for pedestrians and cyclists and expand bus service across the borough.

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Walentas’ Two Trees has plans for two more residential high rises in Williamsburg.

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and West than in New York City, politicos overlook the Rev. A. R. Bernard at their own peril. Bernard, the senior pastor at Christian Cultural Center megachurch, has backed Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ call to allow guns in houses of worship (carried by cops of course). He also led the late rapper DMX’s funeral and nearly got then-President Bill Clinton to apologize for slavery. In addition to wielding his political clout, he has sought to help men reconnect with their faith and argued for preserving the role of Black fellowship in the evangelical tradition.

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19 SIMCHA FELDER, ANDREW GOUNARDES, BRIAN KAVANAGH, ZELLNOR MYRIE, KEVIN PARKER & ROXANNE PERSAUD STATE SENATORS See story on page 33.

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OFFICE OF THE BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT ERIC ADAMS

18 REGINA MYER PRESIDENT DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PARTNERSHIP Brooklyn’s businesses were devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with 80% reporting revenue loss and 85% forced to lay off workers. That pain was especially strong in Downtown Brooklyn, where courts and offices closed for months. Now, Regina Myer is cheering Brooklyn’s “turbo-recovery mode,” exemplified by the opening of the borough’s tallest office tower and the extension of outdoor dining for another year. Myer also played a role in supporting Fulton Street’s newest crown jewel, the Gage & Tollner restaurant which reopened in April.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin is poised to possibly become the most influential political adviser in City Hall next year. The longtime aide to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has known him for decades.

Her husband served as Adams’ partner in the New York City Police Department, and she has served as his chief of staff since Adams’ days in the state Senate.

Lewis-Martin refers to herself as his “sister ordained by God,” so it’s no surprise that she accompanied Adams in his recent White House visit to meet President Joe Biden.

21 LAURIE CUMBO NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER New York City Council Member Laurie Cumbo backed Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams well before he officially launched his mayoral campaign.

New York City Council Member Laurie Cumbo could get a job in Adams’ administration.

During his campaign, she was deployed as a surrogate criticizing mayoral candidates Maya Wiley’s and Andrew Yang’s credentials. Now the term-limited Fort Greene lawmaker is likely to be rewarded with a City Hall job. In the meantime, she helped steer grants to BRIC Arts Media, the Campaign Against Hunger and City Harvest. Cumbo also backed Community Board 8’s opposition to an 18-story tower on the site of an Atlantic Avenue McDonald’s.

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representing a swing district.

The race Brannan is really gearing up for is council speaker. The Bay Ridge Democrat is one of few prospective candidates, and he’ll need the backing of 26 of his colleagues. Brannan endorsed 20 winners and six losers in the primary, and now that the City Council is meeting in person again, he’ll have an opportunity to reconnect with members on the fence.

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New York City Council Member Justin Brannan had no primary challenger and faces only token opposition in November despite

Considering his deep ties to Borough Hall and the Brooklyn Democratic Party, Carlo Scissura no doubt celebrated Eric Adams’

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Democratic mayoral primary victory. Yet, with months to go before Adams likely becomes mayor, Scissura is warily eyeing the continued slow growth of construction jobs, which could hamper the city’s recovery. He lobbied the feds and Amtrak for the Gateway Tunnel project’s restart and, as head of a Brooklyn-Queens Expressway panel, recommended several changes for the interstate highway whose triple cantilever is continuing to rapidly deteriorate.

David Ehrenberg is president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

24 PRESIDENT AND CEO BROOKLYN NAVY YARD The COVID-19 pandemic battered many commercial districts, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard withstood the assault by retaining most of its tenants and even adding new ones. That’s because of David Ehrenberg’s initiatives which include offering tenants job training in computerized manufacturing and holding a virtual holiday market.

Ehrenberg hasn’t delayed the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s expansion plans either, which could add 10,000 jobs. The latest project was the June opening of Building 303, which offers nine floors of parking as well as spaces for manufacturing and events.

25 LINDA JOHNSON PRESIDENT AND CEO BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY The temporary closure of the Brooklyn Public Library due to COVID-19 was wrenching for the borough, but Linda

Johnson began reimagining how the system could serve its community with graband-go service last summer.

So it was with much fanfare that the institution reopened its Central Library in May, featuring a new business center and welcome center honoring former librarian Rep. Major Owens who passed away in 2013. The last crop of branches welcomed back the public by early July, including East Flatbush’s Rugby branch which had been closed for four years.

26 DOUG STEINER CHAIR STEINER STUDIOS New Yorkers may be watching more movies from home, but you can’t shoot “SpiderMan: No Way Home” in your apartment. That’s why Doug Steiner’s eponymous company

is building a 500,000-squarefoot film production hub with eight soundstages in Sunset Park by 2024 and is expanding his 30-stage footprint in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Producers on Steiner’s lot adopted rigorous COVID-19 testing before it became de rigueur, helping the private sector rapidly test its workers.

Steiner has also been marketing 80,000 square feet of commercial space around Wegmans supermarket in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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28 PETER ABBATE JR., ROBERT CARROLL, WILLIAM COLTON, MARITZA DAVILA, SIMCHA EICHENSTEIN, DIANA RICHARDSON, JO ANNE SIMON, LATRICE WALKER & HELENE WEINSTEIN ASSEMBLY MEMBERS See story on page 37.

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JABARI BRISPORT, CHARLES & INEZ BARRON JULIA SALAZAR, PHARA SOUFFRANT FORREST, ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL EMILY GALLAGHER & MEMBER MARCELA MITAYNES MEMBERS SOCIALISTS IN OFFICE In 2018, the Democratic Socialists of America-backed Julia Salazar came out of

The majority of the socialists in the state Legislature represent Brooklyn.

Every so often, thanks to New York City election laws regarding term limits, Charles and Inez Barron swap jobs.

Charles became a New York City Council member in 2001, then Inez ran and won his seat in 2013 while Charles headed to the Assembly.

Now it’s Charles’ turn in the City Council again after he defeated primary rival Nikki Lucas. He’ll find an emboldened City Council that’s nearly as leftist as he is

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nowhere to oust the machinebacked Martin Dilan and take his seat in the state Senate.

Last year, another crop of DSA-backed candidates won, with Jabari Brisport winning another state Senate seat and fellow Brooklynites Phara Souffrant Forrest and Marcela Mitaynes knocking out incumbents in the Assembly.

Along with first-term Assembly Members Emily Gallagher, who joined the Socialists in Office caucus in January, and Zohran Mamdani of Queens, the contingent has helped pull Democratic lawmakers to the left on issues such as housing and taxes on the wealthy.

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SOME OF BROOKLYN’S MOST POWERFUL STATE SENATORS

Unseating incumbents, chairing committees, taking on major state issues.

Clockwise from top left: state Sens. Zellnor Myrie, Andrew Gounardes, Brian Kavanagh, Simcha Felder, Kevin Parker and Roxanne Persaud.

in Albany. Kavanagh was hand-picked by the party machine to replace Daniel Squadron in 2017 after serving in the Assembly since his first election in 2006.

He now chairs the state Senate Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development, a post in which he helped pass the 2019 legislation strengthening tenant protections.

State Sen. Roxanne Persaud won her Southeast Brooklyn seat with the backing of the Brooklyn Democratic Party as well, moving up from the Assembly in 2015. As chair of the Committee on Social Services, Persaud oversees legislation dealing with nonprofit organizations.

State Sen. Kevin Parker, who has been representing his Brooklyn constituents for nearly two decades, was initially considered

to be among the front-runners in this year’s Democratic primary for New York City comptroller, but ended up finishing fourth. Parker has chaired the Energy and Telecommunications Committee since Democrats took control of the state Senate in 2019 and has pushed for protections for utility customers and investment in solar power.

A few years ago, state Sen. Simcha Felder was a pivotal player, wooed by both Republicans and Democrats when the chamber was narrowly divided.

When Democrats seized a majority, he was initially sidelined – but he has since focused on other issues, such as bike and scooter safety and coronavirus restrictions in the Orthodox Jewish communities he represents. – Jon Lentz

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YOUNGER GENERATION of state senators is ascending in Brooklyn, but the borough has a few savvy veterans in the state Legislature.

Among the most proactive and highprofile members in the younger crowd is state Sen. Zellnor Myrie. He was one of a number of 2018 challengers to knock out former members of the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group that had disbanded after coming under attack for partnering with and propping up Republicans in the state Senate. Myrie, who represents parts of Brownsville and Crown Heights, also came into office as part of the class of lawmakers who secured a long-sought Democratic majority in the state Senate. Now, as chair of the Elections Committee, he has pushed for voting reforms and has scrutinized the New York City Board of Elections, including its egregious error of initially miscalculating ranked-choice voting results in New York City this year. He also played an important role in the passage of new tenant protections and criminal justice reforms since taking office in 2019.

State Sen. Andrew Gounardes was first elected in 2018 as well, defeating Marty Golden, then the borough’s last remaining Republican in the legislative body. Gounardes went on to replace Golden as chair of the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions, offering a chance to cultivate ties with influential public sector unions. He has recently taken up the fight against Big Tech, teaming up with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to draft legislation on protecting user data.

Among the longer-serving state senators, state Sen. Brian Kavanagh stands out as one of a growing number of progressives

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30 FARAH LOUIS NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER New York City Council Member Farah Louis coasted to victory in her primary against a U.S. Marine Corps veteran after winning a special election for her seat two years ago. Just days before Louis’ victory was certified, a motorcyclist collided with her vehicle while she was driving on Kings Highway and Avenue J, sending her to the hospital.

Louis has been recovering slowly but was well enough to speak out about the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and

KALMAN YEGER NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER New York City Council Member Kalman Yeger ran unopposed in the primary and will appear on all three party lines in November, but that hasn’t stopped him from hauling in $195,035 from 378 contributors. The Borough Park politician is less popular inside the Council, where his remarks that “Palestine does not exist” cost him his seat on the immigration committee.

Perhaps that will change with a new mayor who understands Yeger’s Orthodox Jewish constituency and a new speaker who could use his support in January.

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See story on page 41.

The perspicacious political consultant and Parkside alumnus became a key member of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ inner circle long before advising his successful mayoral campaign.

Tiffany Raspberry has been a family friend of the borough president’s for more than 25 years and lobbied his office on behalf of shelter providers and other clients. She has also cultivated her own network of women of color in politics, hosting influential strategists at her home and supporting their professional pursuits..

celebrate the opening of East Flatbush’s Rugby Library.

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Kalman Yeger represents Borough Park in the New York City Council.

which is already alarming the city’s tabloids. Charles, whose reparations bill passed the Assembly last month, should fit in fine.

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33 EVAN THIES CO-FOUNDER PYTHIA PUBLIC AFFAIRS Political operative Evan Thies, who founded Pythia Public Affairs with Alexis Grenell five years ago, has become an indispensable part of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ team after handling press duties for his mayoral campaign. Thies patiently explained to reporters Adams’ living situation in a Bed-Stuy brownstone that the borough president owns (but may not actually reside in), among his many other duties. Now, Thies will steer Adams through a less turbulent general election and stay on to assemble the next administration.

35 MIKE KEOGH & JUANITA SCARLETT PARTNERS BOLTON-ST. JOHNS Juanita Scarlett has provided behind-the-scenes advice for candidates of color for years, so it’s no surprise that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams relied on her expertise to help him capture the Democratic primary.

Scarlett assisted with Adams’ “100+ Steps Forward” plan and has commended his openness to consult with a broad array of city stakeholders. Her colleague Mike Keogh, a former finance

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director for the New York City Council, remains an invaluable resource for clients looking to make sense of the city’s opaque budgeting and spending processes. This will be invaluable as the legislative body welcomes an influx of new members next year.

Editor’s note: Juanita Scarlett is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

JACQUELYN KASULIS ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK The Eastern District of New York, which covers Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island, has cycled through three U.S. attorneys in the last six months, so there’s hope that Jacquelyn Kasulis sticks around for a while. She joined the federal prosecutor’s office in 2008 and has served as chief of the criminal division since 2019. Kasulis, who was sworn in on June 21, is best known for prosecuting “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli..

37 JOSEPH TSAI & CLARA WU TSAI CO-OWNERS BROOKLYN NETS The Barclays Center was rocking this spring when Joseph Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai’s Brooklyn Nets were favored to win the team’s first NBA title since moving from the other side of the Hudson River.

PRESIDENT AND CEO MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER Joseph Tsai coowns the Brooklyn Nets with his wife Clara Wu Tsai.

Unfortunately, the basketball gods smote the franchise with badly timed injuries during the playoffs. The power couple has focused on the big picture, investing $220 million in healing and athletic training innovation.

They also decry anti-Asian hate crimes and support Black Brooklyn leaders through the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s social justice fund.

38 NICHOLAS DIMARZIO BISHOP ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN Taking communion and confession over Zoom doesn’t pack the same punch as doing them in person, so Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio fought Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plans to limit church capacity last fall. In November, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Cuomo from restricting attendance, allowing more parishioners to attend Christmas Mass. The bishop has since participated in a whirlwind of rituals, including a ceremony for Carlo Acutis who

Louis’ TV studio remains a must-stop destination for candidates.

is nicknamed the “Patron Saint of the Internet,” the dedication of a new church in Williamsburg and the neighborhood’s Giglio feast.

39 ERROL LOUIS HOST, “INSIDE CITY HALL” SPECTRUM NEWS NY1 Indefatigable cable news anchor Errol Louis kept New Yorkers informed about the mayor’s race and its aftermath during one of the most wideopen election cycles in city history. His Chelsea television studio remains a must-stop destination for candidates, media figures, advocates and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has kept up his weekly “Mondays with the Mayor” segment. Louis has also kept publishing insightful Daily News columns about the inner workings of power in New York, including an analysis of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ recent rise.

Southern Brooklynites worried about their medical facilities have no doubt been breathing easier since Maimonides Medical Center broke ground on a new emergency department at the former Victory Memorial Hospital site in Bay Ridge. Additionally, Maimonides President and CEO Kenneth Gibbs made several personnel changes to improve the quality of health care in the borough. He added Dr. Scott Chudnoff to its famed obstetrics and gynecology department and Dr. Anthony Kalloo to lead its department of medicine. Gibbs also secured naming rights for the Brooklyn Cyclones’ ballpark to boost Maimonides’ reputation.

41 LARAY BROWN CEO ONE BROOKLYN HEALTH SYSTEM LaRay Brown is used to making tough decisions. As the head of three hospitals and 12 ambulatory care centers in Central Brooklyn, she is responsible for integrating disparate health systems and managing a $664 million capital program. That includes the elimination of 200 beds at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Activists have demonstrated against the partial closure of the East Flatbush hospital, but Brown has countered that much of that care is delivered on an outpatient basis these days.

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BROOKLYN’S TOP ASSEMBLY MEMBERS

High-flying lawmakers in the state Legislature’s lower house.

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Clockwise from top left: Assembly Members Helene Weinstein, Diana Richardson, Latrice Walker, Maritza Davila, Peter Abbate Jr., and Simcha Eichenstein.

the Assembly Committee on Ethics and Guidance.

Assembly Member Peter Abbate Jr. is among the lawmakers in Albany with decades of experience, having taken office in 1987. The Bensonhurst politician chairs the Assembly Committee on Governmental Employees, which handles legislation dealing with public sector employees.

Assembly Member Maritza Davila, who was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Brooklyn, chairs the Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Task Force. Davila, who took office after winning a 2013 special election, also organizes Somos and its popular gatherings in Puerto Rico and Albany.

Assembly Member Robert Carroll of Windsor Terrace and Kensington, who has been in office since 2017, has pushed for screening all New York City public school students for dyslexia. He has also weighed in on the city’s plans for the BrooklynQueens Expressway, the New York City Board of Elections’ poor track record and subway accessibility.

Assembly Member William Colton, who was first elected in 1996, represents parts of Bath Beach, Bensonhurst and Gravesend.

He has been an outspoken critic of the city Department of Education’s policies under the de Blasio administration.

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SSEMBLY MEMBER Helene Weinstein chairs the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, which plays a key role in the state budget process, holding hearings each year on the major spending areas.

Weinstein has been in office since 1980, making her the longest-serving woman ever in the Assembly. She also used to chair the Judiciary Committee, giving her deep insights into the committee that’s handling the looming impeachment proceedings against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Assembly Member Diana Richardson, who has been in office since 2015, has become a force in Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens and beyond. In a lawsuit against the NYPD, state Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Richardson alleged they were beaten and pepper-sprayed during a Black Lives Matter protest last summer. She also met recently with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams – likely the city’s next mayor – about efforts to curtail gun violence.

Assembly Member Latrice Walker won her seat in 2014, capitalizing on her experience as an aide to Rep. Yvette Clarke and connections to then-Public Advocate Letitia James to take the seat of the disgraced lawmaker William Boyland Jr. The Brownsville politician chairs the Committee on Election Law, recently passing legislation requiring special elections for open legislative seats within 40 to 50 days of a vacancy. Assembly Member Simcha Eichenstein, who first took office in 2019, joined other lawmakers in pushing backing against the state’s COVID-19 shutdowns in Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jewish community last year. Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon was one of several state lawmakers who campaigned for another office in New York City. Yet while she finished a strong second in her bid to be the next Brooklyn borough president, the Boerum Hill lawmaker ultimately fell short. Simon, who succeeded Joan Millman in the 2014 election, chairs

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GREGORY CALLISTE, SVETLANA LIPYANSKAYA & SHELDON MCLEOD CEOS NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/ WOODHULL; NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/CONEY ISLAND; NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/KINGS COUNTY Brooklyn’s public hospitals have been the lifeline for thousands of the borough’s most vulnerable residents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Its leaders – Gregory Calliste at the 320bed NYC Health + Hospitals/ Woodhull, Sheldon McLeod at the 627-bed NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County and Svetlana Lipyanskaya, the first female CEO, at the 371-bed NYC Health + Hospitals/ Coney Island – played essential roles in helping to keep their ICUs and outpatient centers up and running during the worst public health crisis in generations. Now they want their money back: NYC Health + Hospitals submitted an $864 million reimbursement request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency last fall to cover COVID-19 costs.

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after a fifth of the hospital’s staff, including President Dr. Scott Lorin, contracted coronavirus last year. Once the crisis stabilized, Lorin helped Mount Sinai add a prenatal clinic to its Brooklyn Heights location in March and a new cardiology center on Flatbush Avenue a month later. Meanwhile, Mount Sinai continues to treat COVID-19 long-haulers at its wellregarded Center for PostCOVID Care.

44 ROBERT GUIMENTO PRESIDENT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN BROOKLYN METHODIST HOSPITAL It’s hard to believe the borough hadn’t had a major new outpatient center in 40 years when NewYorkPresbyterian opened Brooklyn’s largest new ambulatory care facility in March. For the past three years, Robert Guimento has shepherded the 400,000-square-foot facility – which includes 12 operating rooms and six procedure rooms – toward the finish line despite community opposition to the expansion. Guimento also added key personnel, welcoming Dr. Manish Parikh as its cardiology chief and Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna as chief of neurological surgery.

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SCOTT LORIN

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PRESIDENT

BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER

MOUNT SINAI BROOKLYN Mount Sinai Brooklyn became an epicenter of the pandemic

Brooklyn Hospital Center was 90% full with COVID-19 patients at one point last

Gary Terrinoni leads the Brooklyn Hospital Center.

year – and lost money on most of them. President and CEO Gary Terrinoni’s long-term vision to keep the safety net facility in business in the face of such crises included selling the Maynard Building for $95 million to finance a $1 billion revitalization of its campus.

This past spring, Terrinoni was interviewing developers to build new cancer, outpatient and ambulatory surgery centers for the complex, as well as housing and retail.

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City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s racial justice commission to stamp out systemic racism in the City.

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YOSWEIN NEW YORK

While virtually everyone proved vulnerable to COVID-19, the effects of the pandemic have not been experienced equally. FPWA’s Jennifer Jones Austin brought much-needed attention to the disproportionate suffering experienced by New York’s poorest residents since the first wave hit. Their hardships were exacerbated by wage stagnation, poor access to health care and violent treatment from police. The anti-poverty advocate has advocated for the child tax credit and is leading New York

The government relations maven and former Assembly Member Joni Yoswein is poised to have a big year now that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will be running City Hall. Yoswein and her firm, a longtime Brooklyn Democratic Party backer, have repped the likes of Industry City, AT&T, Amazon and other large corporate players aiming to reshape the city’s landscape. Yoswein’s advice to her fellow lobbyists has been to embrace remote work and engage with lawmakers and policy leaders in deeper ways.

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beginning in 2021 – smashing its goal of 21. Adams is also the president of Adams Advisors LLC, while Buckner is a managing director at Tusk Strategies.

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easier for undocumented immigrants to apply for aid from the state’s excluded workers fund.

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Low-income New Yorkers struggling with housing scarcity and drug use are used to being overlooked, but this grassroots advocacy duo made sure this year’s crop of mayoral hopefuls didn’t neglect them. Alyssa Aguilera challenged mayoral candidates on the criminalization of drug use at a VOCAL-NY forum in March. Jeremy Saunders argues that progressives have shifted moderates like Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on police reform.

More recently, they’ve focused on tenant rights as eviction moratoriums are lifted and cheered a new StreetEasy tool that guards against income discrimination.

MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK Make the Road New York, now led by the triumvirate of Jose Lopez, Arlenis Morel and Theo Oshiro, has won significant protections for immigrants, including $2.1 billion of COVID-19 relief from the state in unemployment benefits. However, the fight for immigration rights remains ongoing. The advocacy group castigated a federal ruling that blocks new DACA applications and led a rally in July with immigrant essential workers demanding a pathway for citizenship. The group also called on the Cuomo administration to make it

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Murad Awawdeh is encouraged that the next New York City Council class is full of immigrants and first-time candidates as a result of the city’s campaign finance system. Awawdeh, who succeeded NYIC’s longtime head Steve Choi in April, could use more advocates in government.

He recently rallied with immigrant essential workers in Manhattan demanding a pathway to citizenship and called on President Joe Biden to take action on DACA after a federal judge declared the program illegal.

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CEO

21 IN ’21

INDUSTRY CITY

In recent years, the number of women serving in the New York City Council has actually declined. Thanks to an ambitious and energetic “21 in ‘21” coalition led by Amelia Adams and Yvette Buckner, that trend was reversed this cycle. As many as 30 women are on track to serve in the 51-member legislative body

Coronavirus kept many tenants out of Industry City last year, and the collapse of a proposal to rezone the Sunset Park complex in the face of local opposition has muddled its future. However, Andrew Kimball has soldiered on, and the political winds may be changing. Half of Industry City’s tenants returned to the

As many as 30 women are likely to serve in the 51-member City Council.

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The crown jewel of the borough’s park system has proven to be invaluable to residents who have found refuge among its grounds throughout the coronavirus pandemic. That led Prospect Park Alliance President Susan Donoghue to launch a new initiative in May to manage the park’s upkeep and trash collection after last summer’s wear and tear. There’s been no shortage of volunteers to help weed and plant bulbs after budget cuts reduced the city’s workforce. Fortunately, Donoghue’s plans to spruce up the Concert Grove Pavilion and Lefferts Historic House have remained on track.

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CITY COUNCIL PRIMARY WINNERS

Many female candidates succeeded in this year’s Democratic primary elections.

Clockwise, from top left: Alexa Avilés, Shahana Hanif, Crystal Hudson, Sandy Nurse, Darlene Mealy and Rita Joseph

A public school teacher from Flatbush, Rita Joseph defeated 10 other candidates vying to represent District 40 encompassing much of Central Brooklyn.

The Haitian American candidate has contrasted herself with term-limited Council Member Mathieu Eugene, and has pledged to provide better constituent services and more progressive priorities.

After two previous unsuccessful campaigns, Ari Kagan finally emerged victorious in this year’s Democratic primary for District 47, which includes Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Gravesend and Sea Gate. The aide to City Council Member Mark Treyger now faces a Republican opponent who has espoused QAnon conspiracy theories.

Darlene Mealy represented the Council District 41 between 2006 and 2017 – and is now returning to her old seat. She won a surprising upset over City Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel, despite Mealy’s reputation as an absent and ineffective lawmaker when she was in office and Ampry-Samuel’s reelection support from powerful elected officials.

Carpenter and organizer Sandy Nurse managed to defeat recently elected City Council Member Darma Diaz, running to her left with support from Rep. Nydia Velazquez, state Sen. Julia Salazar, the state Working Families Party and other notable progressive groups and legislators.

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EW YORK CITY candidates and former elected officials made a major push to elect more women to the City Council. And that effort found success in Brooklyn.

Alexa Avilés was one of two candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America to emerge victorious in the Democratic primaries. The community organizer is set to represent the neighborhoods of Red Hook, Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights.

After serving as City Council Member Antonio Reynoso’s chief of staff, Jennifer Gutiérrez is ready to take over his seat.

Backed by several unions such as the United Federation of Teachers and several local AFL-CIO and SEIU chapters, the candidate touted her governmental experience on the campaign trail.

And she’s not the only City Council staffer taking over their boss’s seat.

Shahana Hanif is expected to replace City Council Member Brad Lander, who won the Democratic primary for city comptroller.

She will likely be the first Muslim woman elected to the City Council and is one of several Democratic candidates expanding South Asian representation in the body.

Crystal Hudson will likely also make history as the first openly LGBTQ Black woman entering the CIty Council, along with candidate Kristin Richardson Jordan.

Having worked for the incumbent she’s replacing, City Council Member Laurie Cumbo, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, she emphasized the importance of affordable housing, education and criminal justice reform in her campaign.

Another history-making candidate, Mercedes Narcisse, will be the first person of color to represent District 46, covering southeastern Brooklyn neighborhoods. And at 23 years old, activist Chi Ossé is the youngest person to ever have run in Council District 36 and will likely be the youngest person in the next council next year.

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members’ questions about COVID-19 vaccines, knowing that many are hesitant to get them.

became available to medical professionals.

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Jahmila Edwards is associate director of District Council 37.

site as vaccination rates rose.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a rezoning supporter, is likely heading to City Hall. Also, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce relocated in July to be closer to Kimball’s Innovation Lab.

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Jahmila Edwards is on the front lines of a fight over vaccination and testing requirements for city workers in the coming months. Her union, District Council 37, which represents 150,000 workers including some EMS workers, argued that the mayor can’t impose mandates without negotiations. Edwards previously worked in the New York City Department of Education and for thenPublic Advocate Bill de Blasio.

However, the labor leader isn’t moving into Borough Hall after her husband, Khari Edwards, lost the Brooklyn borough president primary.

1199SEIU New York City’s health care workers union has a reputation for pulling progressive candidates across the finish line, including bolstering then-Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in 2013 for mayor. That wasn’t the case when Gabby Seay’s union backed mayoral candidates Maya Wiley and Corey Johnson in their races.

However, 1199SEIU did help the Bronx’s Vanessa Gibson and Staten Island’s Mark Murphy win Democratic borough president primaries.

Now that primary season is over, Seay is helping to answer

Michelle Crentsil joined the New York State Nurses Association days before the coronavirus pandemic upended the state’s economy and flooded hospitals with patients. New York’s health care workers performed heroically while Crentsil’s union finally got safe staffing law passed, mandating staffing committees for hospitals and nursing homes.

Now the nursing union, which recently elected Maimonides nurse Nancy Hagans as its president, is opposing vaccine mandates and testing requirements, expressing concern that the efforts could backfire.

57 SANDRA SCOTT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ONE BROOKLYN HEALTH BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER Dr. Sandra Scott took over the top job at Brookdale in June in a leadership shakeup during one of the worst public health crises the city has ever experienced. The former emergency medicine chair at One Brooklyn Health brings a wealth of experience to her new role: She oversaw the care of critically ill COVID-19 patients last year at great risk to her health and spearheaded the effort to vaccinate doctors and staff when coronavirus vaccines first

58 RISA HELLER CEO RISA HELLER COMMUNICATIONS The preeminent crisis communicator Risa Heller, who regularly offers her acidtinged insights, is now helping her city bounce back from its worst crisis in decades.

In January, she co-founded the “NY Forever” initiative, backed by real estate boosters and celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, to spur civic engagement.

She has also expanded her staff, adding former White House press aide TJ Ducklo and former New York Post correspondent Ebony Bowden.

59 L. JOY WILLIAMS PRESIDENT BROOKLYN NAACP The civil rights leader, political strategist and podcast host L. Joy Williams always has irons in the fire. She didn’t burn any Democratic bridges while advising gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, thanks to her relationships with the “Olori Sisterhood.” Williams helped Rep. Yvette Clarke fend off primary rivals, but there’s only so much she could do for

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Ken Fisher is an attorney at Cozen O’Connor.

Ray McGuire’s mayoral bid.

Most recently, Williams joined Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to hang an Ida B. Wells portrait at Borough Hall.

She also has been pressing the state to end qualified immunity for law enforcement officers.

60 KIRSTEN JOHN FOY FOUNDER ARC OF JUSTICE Kirsten John Foy, the founder of Arc of Justice, played an outsized role in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary.

He moderated a marathon eight-hour “Justice Clapback” forum on racial and social inequities and hosted visits with mayoral candidates. He ultimately endorsed candidate Maya Wiley for mayor, even though his mentor, the Rev. Al Sharpton, favored an Eric

Adams mayoralty. Foy is already challenging Adams on police reform issues like stop and frisk. He also demonstrated across from Gracie Mansion for more accountability for police officers, including a registry of those who committed serious misconduct.

61 KEN FISHER ATTORNEY COZEN O’CONNOR Land use attorney and eminently quotable political analyst Ken Fisher has tracked the New York City mayoral

62 JOVIA RADIX VICE PRESIDENT, LEGISLATION KASIRER Attorney and Cuomo administration alumnus Jovia Radix hit the campaign trail two years ago to seek Jumaane Williams’ old New York City Council seat in East Flatbush, but has been back in action since then with Kasirer, the city’s top lobbying firm.

Now, Jovia Radix is working on monitoring City Council legislation and initiatives.

She also served as treasurer of the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association and sits on the board of the Caribbean American Lawyers Association, which formed last July.

Yeampierre wants the next mayor to approach climate change with humility.

63 ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UPROSE UPROSE Executive Director Elizabeth Yeampierre met with U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in June to discuss how federal agencies could encourage local renewable energy efforts like wind power and other green energy businesses in Sunset Park. For now, she’s more concerned with the city’s leadership and hopes the next administration approaches climate change with “humility.” Yeampierre has already gotten the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and a private energy manufacturer to upgrade the Brooklyn Army Terminal into a wind turbine manufacturing hub by 2025, adding 1,200 jobs to the borough’s economy.

64 DAVID NIEDERMAN PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNITED JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF WILLIAMSBURG AND NORTH BROOKLYN Rabbi David Niederman is one of the few political leaders in Brooklyn who can reliably deliver thousands of votes and often backs establishment candidates. So it was surprising to see him endorse candidates Andrew Yang first and Eric Adams second in the Democratic mayoral primary (perhaps Adams’ opposition to the Broadway Triangle project had something to do with it).

However, if Niederman’s Satmar bloc indeed marked Adams second in ranked-choice voting, they likely helped the

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The former New York City Council Member is certainly comfortable with an Eric Adams administration, having lobbied the Brooklyn borough president’s office on behalf of Two Trees and other developer clients. However, in a city where the office vacancy rate has soared past 16% (it’s a bit lower in Brooklyn), Fisher remains concerned about the future of commercial real estate values.

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Democratic nominee fend off mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia in the final tally.

rocky mayoral campaign until May of this year.

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Last year, HITN leader Mike Nieves supplemented his network’s 2020 election coverage with a new podcast hosted by Gerson Borrero about issues facing Latino voters and launched a multilingual campaign to encourage the Latino community to register and vote. In addition, Nieves, who serves as the Somos secretary, has helped keep the nonprofit running virtually since after the coronavirus pandemic forced the postponement of its popular in-person conference in Puerto Rico.

Editor’s note: Michael Nieves is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

66 ROSEMARIE MONTALBANO KINGS COUNTY SURROGATE COURT JUDGE NOMINEE Surrogate Court judgeships don’t open up very often – and when they do, the party machine usually anoints the winner. However, when Kings County Surrogate Court Judge Margarita López Torres announced plans to retire, Supreme Court Justice Rosemarie Montalbano jumped at the chance. With the help of the Democratic Party’s reform wing, she trounced Civil Court Judge Dweynie Paul, whom county leaders favored.

Montalbano, who will handle wills, estates and guardianship

Michael Nieves is the president and CEO of HITN.

matters, supports reforming the Public Administrator’s Office by transferring control of its staff to the mayor.

67 TARA L. MARTIN HEAD OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, U.S. NORTHEASTERN REGION REEF This summer, Tara Martin took on her latest new challenge – heading up public affairs in the Northeast for REEF. Martin will focus on New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and northern New Jersey for the urban-focused tech company. REEF describes itself as the “largest operator of mobility, logistics hubs, and neighborhood kitchens in the United States.” The veteran labor and political strategist

previously worked with the Westchester County Board of Legislators, the New York State Nurses Association, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union and Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Editor’s note: Tara L. Martin is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

68 WHITNEY HU FOUNDER SOUTH BROOKLYN MUTUAL AID The coronavirus pandemic ravaged Sunset Park last year, forcing small businesses to close, putting residents out of work and sickening many others. As soon as the city shut down, Whitney Hu organized her neighbors to purchase and distribute emergency food items, household supplies and items not covered by food stamps for families in need. Hu briefly launched a campaign for New York City Council in 2020, but scrapped it to focus on her mutual aid organization. She also managed Dianne Morales’

The budgeting whiz knows the ins and outs of the city’s fiscal health after serving for two decades as the New York City Council’s lead budget negotiator, top aide in the council’s finance division and deputy chief of staff to then-Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. These days Jeff Rodus advises the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Brooklyn Museum on their intergovernmental and financial matters. He’s also quite the theater aficionado and a supporter of the Brooklyn arts scene.

70 JONATHAN WESTIN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEW YORK COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE The New York City mayor’s race didn’t unfold the way Jonathan Westin wanted. The progressive stalwart endorsed New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer as a candidate in the Democratic mayoral primary. He persuaded the Working Families Party to back the comptroller and stick with him even as others rescinded their endorsements following abuse allegations against the candidate. Yet, Westin found more success backing New York City Council Member Brad Lander early in the city comptroller race.

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71 COLVIN GRANNUM PRESIDENT BEDFORD STUYVESANT RESTORATION CORP. Colvin Grannum took over the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. a few months before 9/11 and has since transformed Fulton Street into a thriving business district with new banks, supermarkets and restaurants. The BedfordStuyvesant native is particularly proud of helping to revitalize Restoration Plaza, which the neighborhood nonprofit organization owns and manages, with plans to add 400,000 square feet of office space. He has also encouraged more housing development in the area, including a 17-story mixed-use building on Atlantic Avenue that Community Board 3 approved in July.

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win his district attorney race.

In addition, he guided Letitia James in her statewide bid to become state attorney general and helped Jumaane Williams keep his public advocate job.

Alas, Yang could not help his namesake Andrew Yang in the 2021 mayoral race, despite running an energetic field operation in the middle of a pandemic.

Editor’s note: Trip Yang is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

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Jelena Kovačević is dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

LEE SILBERSTEIN PARTNER MARINO Marino has become the go-to PR firm for Brooklyn developers who need to navigate the city’s byzantine land use review process. Lee Silberstein drove communications strategy for projects such as the Rabsky Group’s affordable housing development at the Pfizer complex and a $550 million mixed-use development project

by Rubenstein Partners in Greenpoint. The expert on the ULURP process has also helped to transform Industry City into an innovation hub on the Brooklyn waterfront that has diversified the city’s economy, while also leading a multi-year effort to rezone the area.

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ecosystems. One reason for their success is that Kovačević’s departments have been integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into their curricula to keep budding entrepreneurs up to speed.

She’s also sought to add more women to the faculty and to mentor engineers looking to succeed in traditionally maledominated fields.

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became the first Black board chair of the New York Academy of Medicine last October, and thanks to his guidance, SUNY Downstate gave out 100% of its initial vaccine allotment by early January. The medical campus has also become a hub for mental health services for SUNY college students. Also, at the request of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the school is also offering courses on the medical benefits of plant-based nutrition.

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NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Dr. Wayne Riley keeps good company, including receiving a National Humanism in Medicine Medal from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for his leadership alongside Dr. Anthony Fauci and cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol in June. He

Hiring Trip Yang for a campaign often leads to an election night victory. The political strategist who has worked on former President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign also helped Eric Gonzalez

Thanks to Dean Jelena Kovačević and her accomplished faculty, NYU Tandon alumni are spreading throughout the city’s growing fintech, proptech and environmental tech

Riley received the National Humanism in Medicine Medal for his leadership.

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ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE Miguel Martinez-Saenz is getting ready to oversee one of the most transformational changes in the Downtown Brooklyn college’s 162-year

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history. St. Francis College is moving to a brand new campus in The Wheeler Building on Livingston Street, which includes a 6,600-square-foot library, a 300-seat auditorium and 2,600 square feet of outdoor space. In addition, the school is revamping its academic programs, adding four masters of science degrees, and hired its first chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer who is starting July 1.

TORIAN EASTERLING FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AND CHIEF EQUITY OFFICER NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE Dr. Torian Easterling, one of the city’s top health officials, got vaccinated in February to encourage communities of color to protect themselves despite some skepticism.

His efforts to inoculate the public, including a $9 million engagement campaign, helped the state hit its 70% benchmark in June and pave the way for the city’s ticker tape parade for essential workers. Unfortunately, COVID-19’s delta variant is reaching unvaccinated New Yorkers, presenting another challenge for City Hall.

78 BRYAN GRIMALDI VICE PRESIDENT CORPORATE AFFAIRS NEW YORK NATIONAL GRID Bryan Grimaldi joined National Grid in April after developing his legal and policy chops at Greenberg Traurig and NYC

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& Company, where he spent nearly 15 years serving as chief operating officer and general counsel. He’ll need to lean on his experiences as he deals with complex legal matters and contends with activists opposed to natural gas facilities and pipelines.

The Brooklyn resident also spent five years as general counsel in the New York City Mayor’s Office of International Affairs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

79 LUPÉ TODD-MEDINA PRESIDENT EFFECTIVE MEDIA STRATEGIES When Wall Street titan Ray McGuire needed a savvy campaign strategist to help him with his long shot bid for New York City mayor, he turned to Lupé Todd-Medina.

The longtime adviser to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries who also helped Gov. Andrew Cuomo get reelected in 2018 helped McGuire generate positive press and raise enormous sums, but voters ultimately favored mayoral candidate Eric Adams. In the meantime she has advocated for pay parity among consultants of color and

is expecting big things from state Attorney General Letitia James this year.

Editor’s note: Lupé Todd-Medina is a member of City & State’s advisory board.

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The social impact entrepreneur Ifeoma Ike joined Dianne Morales’ mayoral campaign to tackle systemic racial and gender inequities.

When that campaign imploded, Ike helped mayoral candidate Maya Wiley consolidate progressive support and finish in strong third place. The attorney, exgovernment staffer and selfdescribed “equity and impact strategist” is a veteran political adviser. She helped launch JustLeadershipUSA, Mass Bailout and the New York City Black Women’s Political Club.

Ike also chaired New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams’ transition committee after she lost to him in a special election.

CO-FOUNDERS HIGHER HEIGHTS FOR AMERICA PAC Kimberly Peeler-Allen and Glynda Carr have a strategic mission of elevating more Black women into elected office through the 2030 cycle, which includes training candidates for Senate, governor and president. That doesn’t preclude supporting other political hopefuls or causes. Peeler-Allen, a visiting practitioner at Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics, helped run a super PAC for Ray McGuire’s unsuccessful mayoral campaign. She also helped former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg with his presidential bid. Carr, who’s the president and CEO of Higher Heights, visited the White House in July for a meeting about protecting voting rights, which are under attack in multiple states.

82 GABRIEL GALLUCCI NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENTAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS AFSA In the past year, it hasn’t been easy to be a school principal balancing parents’ demands to keep schools open and teachers’ preferences and stresses during hybrid learning while monitoring COVID-19 dashboards and

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85 BERTHA LEWIS FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT THE BLACK INSTITUTE Janelle Farris leads Brooklyn Community Services.

governmental guidelines.

Gabriel Gallucci has advised school administrators navigating multiple reopenings and Zoom meetings. Prior to taking his new role at the American Federation of School Administrators in February, the Brooklynite spent nearly six years at the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators.

83 JANELLE FARRIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES Brooklyn Community Services faced steep budget cuts last year when parents of children with developmental disabilities needed their services the most. However, Janelle Farris converted most of its programs to virtual, provided laptops to teens aiming to start college and unveiled a shower bus for Brooklyn’s unhoused

residents. The nonprofit veteran rallied with other human services providers for the city to reverse budget cuts and has made more with less to help the borough’s neediest residents during a period of crisis.

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Bertha Lewis doesn’t suffer fools gladly. The former ACORN head soured on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just two years into his term for not giving more city contracts to minority- and women-owned firms. Lewis backed candidate Eric Adams in the Democratic mayoral primary race this time around due to his leadership and pledge to reform the New York City Police Department without defunding it. The City Council is also looking out for her interests, as The Black Institute collected $50,000 in discretionary funds from the legislative body just this year.

CLINTON MILLER PASTOR BROWN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Clinton Miller, the politicallyminded pastor of Brown Memorial Baptist Church, won’t back a Democratic incumbent just because they’re running. The Rev. Miller wants to make sure candidates have strong social justice records and help minority- and womenowned businesses in the neighborhood thrive.

COVID-19 kept parishioners away from his church for months, leading Miller to lobby the city and state for relief

The Rev. Clinton Miller won’t back candidates that lack strong social justice records.

86 DONALD BOOMGAARDEN PRESIDENT ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE Donald Boomgaarden guided his Clinton Hill college through an unusual year of remote and hybrid classes, temperature checks and millions of dollars spent on additional equipment and training. By the time the academic year was over, students were

able to celebrate with a $17 million student center and an in-person, socially distant graduation ceremony.

Boomgaarden, whose contract was renewed for another five years, was also appointed to a three-year term as a board trustee on the statewide Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.

87 SOMIA EL-ROWMEIM FOUNDER WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT COALITION OF NYC Yemeni American activist Somia El-Rowmeim has contended with her Bay Ridge neighborhood’s conservative politics as well as her community’s gender norms with equal verve and resoluteness.

Her successful efforts to organize Arab American voters and unseat Republican state Sen. Marty Golden was the subject of a WNYC spot and a documentary by Columbia Graduate School of Journalism reporting fellows. More recently, she has questioned the need for Muslim community patrols and was a finalist for the David Prize which is granted to New Yorkers who are progressive visionaries.

88 JACQUI WILLIAMS PRINCIPAL 99 SOLUTIONS The path-breaking real estate lobbyist Jacqui Williams has developed a knack for guiding property owners through the city’s complex land use review process. Williams brought IKEA to Red Hook, which opened the door for big-box

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retailers to enter the borough, and helped Wegmans get settled in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In addition to working with Tishman Speyer, Acreage Holdings and Crown Castle, Williams started a block association in her Dumbo neighborhood.

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Patricia Ramsey became the first woman to lead Medgar Evers College when the CUNY Board of Trustees named her the Crown Heights institution’s sixth president in March. A botanist and biologist by training, Ramsey has been navigating a school in turmoil after Rudy Crew abruptly left during the winter following calls from students and faculty to resign. So far she has sought to improve the school’s graduation rate and expand its health equity and environmental justice disciplines.

Democratic district leaders are the unpaid ward bosses of New York City politics, a position that sometimes leads to greater visibility and higher office. LGBTQ district leaders Jesse Pierce, Julio Peña III and Samy Nemir-Olivares are making history now that the Brooklyn Democratic Party changed a rule in December allowing nonbinary and transgender candidates to run for county committee seats.

The trio unseated incumbents by healthy margins, and Nemir-Olivares even won a Williamsburg office once occupied by the late Assembly Member Vito Lopez.

90 PAUL MAK PRESIDENT AND CEO BROOKLYN CHINESEAMERICAN ASSOCIATION As leader of the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association, Paul Mak has been supporting borough businesses dealing with the simultaneous double whammy of pandemicinduced shutdowns that kept customers away for months and an uptick in hate crimes against Asian Americans.

Mak helped restaurants and other businesses get access to federal and state aid and the BCA participated in

Patricia Ramsey is president of Medgar Evers College.

several rallies against antiAsian violence. More recently, Mak and other neighborhood leaders have been critical of a proposed city redesign of Seventh and Eighth avenues from two-way to one-way corridors.

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executive leadership as treasurer, first vice president and president-elect. She’s the association’s 10th female president.

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Dr. Rob Gore isn’t just a stellar emergency medicine physician at Kings County Hospital Center. He’s also the founder of the Kings Against Violence Initiative which aims to prevent youth violence.

Launching the initiative earned him a TED Residency and recognition as a CNN hero. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gore leaned on his disaster zone training in Haiti and East Africa to help his Central Brooklyn patients.

As coronavirus cases fell and shootings soared, Gore pushed the state to curb gun violence.

Armena Gayle’s path to leading the Brooklyn Bar Association started with the Volunteer Lawyers Project, where she handled divorces and family law cases. She then nailed a position at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office and was forced to take a career detour to care for her ailing father. Gayle returned to private practice and stayed active in the field as an attorney for Housing Works while rising through the Brooklyn Bar Association’s

94 EDU HERMELYN DISTRICT LEADER A new power couple was formed early this year when Brooklyn District Leader Edu Hermelyn married Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte, the chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.

Emphasizing their shared heritage, they were married in January on Haitian Independence Day in a ceremony in Downtown Brooklyn. Hermelyn, who represents parts of Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, also consulted on

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The Schneps Media property has been the voice of the borough’s multifaceted Caribbean community for two decades. Editor Michael Kevin Williams has ensured the paper covers international affairs and the activities of Brooklyn officials with Caribbean roots in equal measure. They often overlap, for example, when a Guyanese mayor held bilateral talks with state Sen. Roxanne Persaud and when a Bushwick family visited the White House for President Joe Biden’s child tax credit announcement. Another example was when Brooklyn’s Haitian community reacted to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

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The community activist and son of former Assembly Member Annette Robinson has embarked on a tireless campaign supporting victims of gun violence and rooting out systemic racism.

Those efforts intensified last summer when the Rev. Taharka Robinson held a vigil for a 1-year-old boy killed in Bedford-Stuyvesant and called for a state court officer to be fired after posting racist imagery on Facebook.

Robinson has also helped more than a dozen Black and Latino judges get elected into civil and state Supreme Court.

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The Brooklyn Bank may not be an actual financial institution, but it does teach financial literacy to a community searching for answers. Jude Bernard founded the BedfordStuyvesant event space in a landmarked former bank in 2018. He has since hosted financial planning workshops, meetups for Black running groups, toy drives, weddings and neighborhood college graduates looking to celebrate their accomplishments.

Bernard, who owns several brownstones in the area, also holds an annual “Wealth Forum” every Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The Jamaican-born journalists have been informing New Yorkers of news relevant to the Afro Caribbean community since 1981. Karl and Faye Rodney have supplemented their strong international coverage on migration patterns, geopolitical developments and human rights with the latest reggae gossip, travel trends and New York political news. The Rodneys have held an annual conference for Afro Caribbean political leaders and corporate executives in multiple

Taharka Robinson is founder of the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition.

program (although his favored candidate, Ray McGuire, didn’t win the Democratic mayoral primary race in June).

100 99 JEFF LINDOR FOUNDER AND CEO THE GENTLEMEN’S FACTORY Social clubs have always proliferated throughout Brooklyn, but The Gentlemen’s Factory’s Jeff Lindor found that there were few spaces for men of color to network and enjoy a sense of camaraderie outside of bars and barbershops. So the Haitian-born entrepreneur and former Department of Correction adviser started his own members-only club in Prospect Lefferts Gardens with $100,000 in seed money from his friends. Now the Flatbush Avenue social club is thriving, and Lindor is an adviser to the city’s Black entrepreneurship

CHRISTOPHER TORRES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FRIENDS OF THE BQX Christopher Torres took the helm of the streetcar booster group two months before Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered nonessential businesses in the state to close and transit use plummeted. The city’s pandemic-fueled budget crisis threatened to derail the $2.7 billion Brooklyn-Queens Connector project, with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warning that it could be put on hold. Torres has argued that the 11-mile transit service would generate $30 billion in economic value and create tens of thousands of jobs, but it’s an open question whether the project will advance. Torres served as a deputy campaign manager for Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams, who has said that he would “consider” the project.

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As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 544 Mcdonald Ave Brooklyn, NY 11218.

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Notice of formation of 68-70 SPRING STREET HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/21. Office location: N Y C o u n t y. S S N Y designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 218 Lafayette S t . , N Y, N Y 10 012 .

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of LIMESTONE STAFFING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/2/21.

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

SSNY mail process to C/O Crowe LLP 485 Lexington ave New York, NY 10036.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of X YZ Records LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/27/19. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 33 Crosby St #4F NY, NY 10013. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of The Terrence Mcnally Memorial Fund, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/17/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 29 East 9th Street, Suite 2, New York, NY 10023.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SPM Event LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/28/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8709 25 th Ave Fl2 Brooklyn, NY 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Prominent Technologies, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/1/2020. Office location New York SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 145 West 28 th Street 8 th Fl NY, NY 10001. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Matthew Lejune Studio LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/1/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 249 Melrose St Ste 2L Brooklyn, NY, 11206.

Any law ful purpose.

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CRYSTALSRX LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/12/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Joanne Bar ton, 4 02 East 74th Street, Apt 3E, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qual. Of JL WEBSTER 1313, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/7/15. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: C/O Corporate Creations Network Inc 600 Mamaroneck Ave ste 400, Harrison NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PERCEVAL LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/02/21. 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 Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Qualification of PHPF Sub-REIT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/02/21.

O f f ice location: N Y Count y. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/30/21. Princ. office of LLC: 75 Broadway, Ste. 230, San Francisco, CA 94111. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19 9 01 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Public Notice State of South Carolina COUNTY OF: CHARLESTON IN THE MATTER OF:CYNTHIA MAXINE BOYD GARLINGTON IN THE PROBATE COURTCASE NUMBER 2021-ES-10-00309 SALLY ANN BOYD, Petitioner, vs. DONALD GARLINGTON, Respondent.

SUMMONS TO THE RESPONDENT(S) LISTED ABOVE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Petition in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the Petitioner(s) listed above at the following address{es):Seth A. Levy (Name of Petitioner/Attorney for Petitioner) 21 Gamecock Avenue, Suite A {Street Address or Mailing Address) Charleston, South Carolina 29407 {City, State, and Zip Code)Your Answer must be served on the Petitioner at the above address within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Petition upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Petition within that time, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS PETITIONER: SALLY ANN BOYD; DECEDENT: CYNTHIA MAXINE BOYD GARLINGTON; DATE OF BIRTH: April 22, 1950; DATE OF DEATH: July 23, 2010; NAMES OF POSSBILE KNOWN HEIRS: DONALD GARLINGTON, ALBERAT STROBLE, and JULIUS FIELDS. REASON FOR PETITION: To determine the heirs of Cynthia Maxine Boyd Garlington. Notification of invitation for virtual attendance of the hearing shall be provided

by Charleston County Probate Court to Petitioner’s counsel one week prior to commencement of the scheduled hearing. Any and all parties may request attendance of the hearing by phone or email communication to Alison Atwood, Clerk of Probate Court, 843-958-4099, or aatwood@charlestoncounty. org. The Law Office of Seth A. Levy, 21 Gamecock Avenue, Suite A, Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 4004510 ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER. Notice of Formation of Puff N Paint, LLC filed with SSNY on April 27th 2021. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1707 topping av #6A Bronx NY 10457. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of H & T Electrical Contractors, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/6/21. Office location Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 163 CO Hwy 101 Gloversville, NY, 12078.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Eight Madison Group LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/6/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 369 Madison Street Brooklyn, NY 11221. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GMSW LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/8/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8413-13 th Ave Lower Lvl, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Compton Durham, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/7/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 50 Plaza St E. #4C Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Artem Elmo Transportation LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1501 Avenue U 2 nd Fl Brooklyn, NY 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of NPL MORTAR LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/4/19.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 243 W. 30th St., NY, NY 10001. Address to be maintained in DE: Bus. Filings Inc.,108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of the Commonwealth of DE, Secretary of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of NPL MANAGEMENT LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/12/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/14/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 243 W. 30th St., NY, NY 10001.

Address to be maintained in DE: Bus. Filings Inc.,108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of the Commonwealth of DE, Secretary of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of PE R E Z NE L SON ADVISORS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/21. 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 Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of FORLENZA CONSULTING LLC filed with SSNY on June 23, 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: 55 COLLFIELD AVE, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10302, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

August 9, 2021

Section 106 Public Notice T-Mobile Northeast, LLC proposes to collocate antennas on a 146 foot tall Rooftop located at 545 West 114th Street, New York, New York County, NY 10027. Interested parties with comments regarding potential e f fe c t s on His toric Properties may contact T-Mobile c/o Julia Klima at Dynamic Environmental Associates, Inc., 3850 Lake Street, Suite C, Macon, GA 31204, 8779 6 8 - 4 7 8 7, S e c1 0 6 @ DynamicEnvironmental. com within 30 days from the date of this publication. Re: 22105031 Notice of Formation of ROUND BARN MANOR IL CL AS S B , LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/15/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C orp oration S er vic e Co., 80 State St., Albany, N Y 12 207. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation o f Z E E B OAT, L L C Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/15/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 120 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of Drive To The End Express, LLC filed with S SN Y on 5/3/202 1 .

Office: Richmond County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1465 Castleton Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10302. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Public Notice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF RICHMOND Index No. 85093/2021 In the Matter of the Petition of THE RECTOR, CHUR CH WAR DENS AND VESTRYMEN OF ST. SIMON’S CHURCH STATEN ISLAND (A/K/A ST. SIMON’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH), a NEW YORK S T AT E N O T- F O R PR O F I T R E L I G I O U S C O R P O R AT I O N CONGR EG AT ION , to dissolve as per Religious Corporations Law §18 and Not-for-Profit Corporation Law § 1003.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the undersigned, on the 1 day of June, 2021, applied to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, IAS Part, thereof, held in and for the County of Richmond, at the Courthouse at 26 Central Ave, Staten Island, NY, at 9:30 am, for an order decreeing the dissolution of THE RECTOR , CHUR CH WAR DENS AND VESTRYMEN OF ST. SIMON’S CHURCH STATEN ISLAND (A/K/A ST. SIMON’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH) and for that purpose ordering and directing the transfer of any remaining assets of the St. Simon’s Church Staten Island, to The Board of Managers of the Diocesan Missionary and Church Extension Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York, in accordance with NY Religious Corporation L aw § 18 , located at 10 47 Amsterdam Avenue, New York NY, Goldstein Hall, PLLC Attorneys for Petitioner, 80 Broad Street, Suite 303, New York NY 10004

Notice of Formation of ACDMP, LLC filed with SSNY on July 10, 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: 44 Pemberton Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

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Notice of Formation of PL A Z A VEHICLES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2740 Nostrand Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PLAZA MOTORS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 274 0 Nostrand Ave. Brooklyn, N Y 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PLAZA AUTOS, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/25/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 274 0 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, N Y 11210.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S orr yland Hobbies , LLC filed with SSNY on may 15, 2021. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 155 chestnut st, brooklyn ny 11208

Notice of Formation of MONGER MARKETING LLC filed with SSNY on May 20, 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: 33 Troy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 2108 Estate LLC, filed with SSNY on 7/20/2021.

Office: KINGS County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2108 Bath Avenue Brooklyn NY 11214. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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August 9, 2021

Public Notice T- M o b i l e N o r t h e a s t LLC, a Delaware limited liability company proposes an antenna and equipment relocation atop an existing 40.4-foot building at 425 Madison Ave in Manhattan, NY. In accordance with the National Historic Preser vation Act of 1966, as amended and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for Review Under the National Preservation Act; Final Rule, T-MOBILE is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. Accordingly, if you would like to provide sp e ci f ic informati on regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within ½ mile of the above address, please submit the property’s address and your comments to: C harl e s C h e run d o l o Consulting, Inc. at 976 Tabor Road, Suite 1, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 or via email at tcns@ cherundoloconsulting. c o m .

Notice of Qualification of SUN NINJA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/13/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/26/19. 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: c/o Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 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 TurnUp LLC filed with SSNY on July 7th, 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: 64 Laconia Ave., Staten Island, NY,10305.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas and install associated equipment at a top height of 78 feet on the rooftop of a 79foot building with a top height of 85 feet Notice of Formation of at the approx. vicinity 172 NOSTRAND AVE of 20 01 Avenue P, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed Brooklyn, Kings County, with SSNY on 7/14/21.

NY 11229.

P u b l i c Office location: Kings comments regarding SSNY desg. As agent of potential effects from LLC upon whom process this site on historic against it may be served p ro p e r ti e s m ay b e SSNY mail process to 172 submit ted within 30 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, days from the date NY, United States, 11205. of this publication to: Any law ful purpose.

Trileaf Corp, Lyndsey Miller, l.miller@trileaf. com, 1051 Winderley Notice of Formation Place, Suite 201, of SnkrSaviorLLC , Maitland, FL 32751, LLC filed with SSNY 4 0 7- 6 6 0 -7 8 4 0 . on May,12,2021. Office: We s t c h e s t e r. S S N Y NeueHouse New York designated agent of LLC HQ LLC. Authority filed upon whom process SSNY 6/29/21. Office: against it may be served.

NY Co. LLC formed DE SSNY shall mail copy 6/8/15. Exists in DE: of process to LLC: 263 c/o National Registered palisade ave, 1B, Yonkers, Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange NY 10703. Purpose: any St., Wilmington, DE 19801. lawful act or activity.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be Notice of Registration of served & mail to: c/o KLEIN HORNIG LLP. Ctf. N ati onal R e gis te re d of Reg. filed with Secy. of Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty State of NY (SSNY) on St., NY, NY 10005, also 7/1/21. Office location: NY the registered agent County. Principal location: upon whom process 170 West End Ave., Apt. may be served. Cert of 23S, NY, NY 10023. LLP Formation Filed: Secy. formed in Massachusetts of State, Corporation (MA) on 6/28/02. SSNY Dept., 401 Federal St., designated as agent of Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. LLC upon whom process General P u r p o s e . against it may be served.

Notice of Formation of 60 Romer Road LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/2 1 . O f f ice location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, 11 Chetwynd Te r r . , Livingston, NJ 07039. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of 249 AMM ACQUISITIONS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/2/21.

Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1325 Hudson Rd Teaneck, NJ 07666.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 970 EASTERN PARK WAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 970 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11213.

Any law ful purpose

Notice of Formation of 1551 BROADWAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1551 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11221.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 346 MONTGOMERY ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 346 Montgomery St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 985 NOSTRAND AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 985 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 7304 Property LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 135 32 nd St Brooklyn, NY 11232. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 352 MARCUS GARVEY BLVD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 352 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11221.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 987 NOSTRAND AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 987 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 483 WAVERLY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 483 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1482 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1482 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216.

Any law ful purpose.

SSNY shall mail process to: 101 Arch St., Ste. 1101, Boston, MA 02110, also the address to be maintained in MA. Ctf. Of Formation filed with the Secy. of the Commonwealth, State House, Boston, MA 02133.

Purpose: to practice the profession of Law.

Notice of Formation of 957 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 957 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1495 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1495 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 247 WAVERLY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/15/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 247 Waverly Pl NY, NY 10014.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 963 FULTON ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 963 FULTON ST, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1549 BROADWAY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1549 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11221.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation o f A b i n g t o n L a ke Frederick LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 950 Third Ave 27 th Ave NY, NY 10022.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of DIGITAL THEATRE (US) LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/21/21. Office location: Rensselaer. LLC formed in DE on 9/20/19.

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

SSNY mail process to: 70 West Madison st., ste 5750, Chicago, IL, United States, 60602. Arts. of Org. filed with IL SOS. 501 S. Second St., Rm. 350 Springfield, IL 62756.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TRIPLE STAR 1707 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/3/16.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1707 W13th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of.

Brooklyn Castle, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/7/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 101 Lafayette Avenue, Apt #10a, Brooklyn, NY. Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Electric Skyship LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 90 State St Ste 700 Office 40 Albany, NY 12207.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 23 INGRAHAM ST. LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/15/2004.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4010 14 th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of H PRINCETON ASSOCIATE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/14/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 34 Puritan Ct Princeton, NJ 08540.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 23 VERONA PL LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1314 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 69 K INGSTON AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 69 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11213.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 146 HERKIMER ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 146 Herkimer St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BLOOMLEE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/1/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 80 STATE ST., ALBANY, NY, United States, 12207.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of J & A SI GROUP LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/19/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5206 8 th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11220.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JEFFERSON 437 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 495A Henry St Ste 223 Brooklyn, NY 11231. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Lipnitsk y Holdings LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/12/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 44 Barlow Dr North Brooklyn, NY 11234. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NG & CHAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/19/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 657 57 th St 1PL Brooklyn, NY 11220. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Martin Yoshiko LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/21/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 483 Washington Ave #5 B , B rook lyn , N Y, United States, 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Mask 21, 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 940 Park Ave New York, New York, 10028.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NAC STRATEGIC CONSULTING LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/16/21. Office location New York SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to attn: mindy h. stern, esq., 444 madison avenue, 6th floor, New York, NY, United States, 10022. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NI RE ALT Y GROUP LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8317 12 th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NORTHERN SEVEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/16/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 17 State St., 34th Fl, New York, NY 10004.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NOSTRAND AND E MPIR E HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1314 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Pharos AA LLC. Arts.

O f O r g . f i l e dw i t h SSNY on 7/22/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 24 Remsen St Brooklyn, NY 11201. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PILHOF LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/25/93. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3858 Nostrand Ave #202 Brooklyn NY 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Roundview Talent LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/25/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 405 E. 72 nd St, New York, New York, 10021. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of 518 REAL ESTATE ADVISORS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/30/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 325 Columbia Tpke, Ste 301, Florham Park, NJ 07932.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Choconini Confections LLC filed with SSNY on June 30, 2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7 E.14th St., Suite 20B, New York, NY, 10003 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 316 GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/13/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Public Notice 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 star ting on August 23, 2021 and end on September 3, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: #3P01-Michael Cagle: several boxes, 1-small barbeque grill, 3-light fixtures, several luggage, several plastic bags.

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 NYCNCC SUB-CDE 14, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 07/16/2021.

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

Purpose: any law ful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of B uilding Future Legacies for Young Scholars, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/23/2021. Of fice Location: Bronx County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Dr. Christine A Pinnock, 1502 E. 222 nd St., Bronx, New York 10469. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 13, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 07/16/2021.

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

Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Reflect to Grow C o u n s e l i n g L C S W, PLLC filed with SSNY on May 4th, 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: The LLC 11 BROADWAY SUITE 615 NEW YORK, N Y 10 0 0 4 Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Elite Endomorphs, LLC filed with Richmond County, NY on May 21st, 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: 100 Wadsworth Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

RHCP LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/17/2021. 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, 121 West 20th St., 4G, NY, NY 10011.

Reg Agent: Ron Chau, 121 West 20th St., 4G, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 302 GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/13/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 155 -157 GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/13/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 319 OM GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/14/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated a s a g e n t o f L LC upon whom process agains t it may b e served. SSNY shall mail process to Mario Osso, 155 W. 85th St., NY, NY 10024.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of KPP MM III, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 07/27/2021. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/03/2014. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 369 West 126th Street, Mgmt Suite, NY, NY 10027. Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Alder Rd, PO Box 841, Dover, DE 19904.

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

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 4663 METROPOLITAN AVE, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 for on premises consumption. Mansions Worldwide 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 300 MALCOLM X BLVD BROOKLYN, NY 11233 for on premises consumption.

Malcolm X Brothers Inc..

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (1337066) 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 38- 40 29TH STREET LONG ISLAND CIT Y, NY 11101for on premises consumption.

Original Beebeave 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 36 E 61ST STREET NEW YORK, NY 10065 for on premises consumption.

Casa Cruz 61 LLC.

Le Rouge Graine LLC filed w/ SSNY on 7/13/21.

Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o So Young Shin, 795 Columbus Ave., #15B, NY, NY 10025.

Purpose: any lawful.

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a CR 256 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 154 Scott Avenue Brooklyn NY 11237 for on premises consumption.

H154 LLC. Notice of Auction Modern Moving Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 3735 Merritt Avenue, Bronx, NY 10466 At 6:00 P.M. on September 14 th , 2021 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified In each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing m a c h i n e s , wa s h e r s , air conditioners, h o u s e h o l d f ur ni t ure O f all de s crip tions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: KENNER, SHLOMO DRUMMOND, GREGORY ORR, JIMMIE. C Notice of Formation of EUREK A3 HOMES BUYERS LLC filed with SSNY on 02/06/2018.

Office: PUTMAN C O U N T Y. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: USA CORP INC 325 DIVISION AVE .

SUITE 201, BROOKLYN, NY 11211 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of So Help Us, LLC filed with SSNY on 04/23/2021.

Office: Kings County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 751 troy ave apt 1P Brooklyn NY 11203. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Fruitstand LLC. Articles of Organization filled with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/14/21.

Office Location: New York City. SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY should mail process to; 45 W 60th St, #11A New York NY 10023. Purpose: Any lawful purpose or activity.

Notice of Qualification of 60 Beverly, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/15/21. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in FL on 7/31/20.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 5575 Las Brisas Dr., Vero Beach, FL 32967.

Principal office addr. of LLC: 5575 Las Brisas Dr., Vero Beach, FL 32967. Art. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of the State of FL, Div. of Corps., 2415 N. Monroe Street, Suite 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FILING OF A P P L I C AT I O N FOR AUTHORIT Y OF EMPOWER BROOKLYN LLC UNDER FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILIT Y CO MPA N Y L AW SECTION 802 Name: EmPower Brooklyn LLC. Date of filing of Application for Authority with Dept of State: July 13, 2021.

Jurisdiction: Delaware.

Date of Organization: July 13, 2017. Office Location: N ew Yo r k C o u n t y.

Principal Business Location: 322 West 57th Street, #46U, New York, NY 10019. Service of Process Address: 322 West 57th Street, #46U, New York, NY 10019.

Office in Jurisdiction of its Organization: Business Filings Incorporated, 108 West 13th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Authorized Officer: State of Delaware, Secretary of State, Division of Corporations, 401 Federal Street, Suite 4 , Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: any lawful business activity.

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NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY Colorado Federal Savings Bank The following persons appear from our records to be entitled to unclaimed property consisting of cash amounts of fifty dollars or more: Albert Cohen and Sara Cohen 1964 E 14TH ST BROOKLYN NY 11229-3312 A report of unclaimed amounts of money or other property has been made to the State Comptroller and that a listing of names of persons appearing to be entitled is on file and open to public inspection at Colorado Federal Savings Bank. Such held amounts of money or other property will be paid or delivered to proven entitled parties by Colorado Federal Savings Bank through October 31. On or before November 10, any remaining unclaimed monies or other properties will be paid or delivered to the State Comptroller.

Colorado Federal Savings Bank Notice of Formation of CLW ENTERPRISES LLC Articles of Organization filled with Secretar y of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/08/2021. Office Location: Kings SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY should mail process to; CHARLENE WILSON 1261 E 80TH STREET #48 BROOKLYN, NY 11236.

Purpose: Any law ful purpose or activit y.

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Notice of Formation of 7514 15 AVE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/9/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7514 15TH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11228.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BAY 31ST STREET 2A LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served S SN Y mail proces s to 56 Wilson Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10304.

Any law ful purpose.

Public Notice Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at multiple locations in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate antennas at a top height of 60 feet on a 61-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 5815 Snyder Avenue, 11203; at a top height of 66 feet on a 231-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 2727 Surf Avenue, 11224; at a top height of 57 feet on a 61-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 1620 Bay Ridge Avenue, 11204; at a top height of 77 feet on an 85-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 6701 Colonial Road, 11220; at a top height of 160 feet on a 186-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 2828 West 28th Street, 11224. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Hannah Dell, h.dell@trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Parkway, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067, 678- 653-8673

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Notice of Formation of FNM 38TH AVENUE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FNM 46 CORTLANDT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/18/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FNM 500 DEKALB LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FNM 635 4th Avenue LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FNM West 72nd Street LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 76 North 4th St, Space F, Brooklyn, NY 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of J & M MAPLE PROPERTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/4/21.

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

S SN Y mail proces s to 43 Maple Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10306.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Glowbar NY W Y THE AVE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 157 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MAX88 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/5/21. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 511 Falcon Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GOLDEN 872 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 966 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NEW YORK FINTECH CLUB LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1501 Avenue U, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GOLDEN SI3 REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be s e r ve d S S N Y m a i l process to 966 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SR Fitness & Nutrition LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

Office location: Wayne.

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

SSNY mail process to 139 Grace Ave, Newark, NY 14513. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of S TA R R I D E R EQUESTRIAN LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/27/21. Office location Orange SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to P.O. Box 457, Westtown, NY, United States, 10998.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of KENSO LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/26/21. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 15 E 13th St, New York, NY, United States, 10003.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 1245 EAST 100 STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/5/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2124 Rockaway Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11236 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1549 DEAN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/29/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1408 47th Street Apt 1R, Brooklyn, NY 11219.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1945 BAY RIDGE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/04/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 133-48 Avery Ave 2nd Fl, Flushing, NY 11355.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 462 Property LLC filed with SSNY on 07/02/2021.

Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Jin Ru Chen 832 50 Street Brooklyn, NY 112 20. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of 50W 27ST LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/02/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 672 Westminster Road, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11230 Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 201 WEST 17TH LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/30/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 201 West 17th St, Unit PHH, New York , NY 10011.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 360 Clove Road LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 68/3/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 360 Clove Rd, Staten Island, NY 10310. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of JDS DE VELOPMENT FL LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/4/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in FL on 6/10/21.

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

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528.

Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS. Clifton Bldg, 2661 Executive Center Circle, Tallahassee FL 32301.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BAY 31ST STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/20/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 25 Marlboro RD, Westbury, NY 11590.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Birthdae Studio, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 141 Engert Ave, Apt 3R, Brooklyn, NY 11222 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Dan Roth Studio LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/5/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 175 Kent Ave Apt 707, Brooklyn, NY 11249.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GABELLINI SHEPPARD PRODUCT DESIGN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/27/21. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: Attn: K imb e r l y S h e p p ard , 665 Broadway, Rm. 706, NY, NY 10012. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Form. of HOST INTE R NATIONAL LOGISTICS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/5/16. Office location: Chemung. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 124 Wygant Rd, Horseheads, NY 14845.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ONLY AN OCTAVE APART LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/01/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 200 Park Ave. South, 8th Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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 3290 MA-23 HILLSDALE, NY 12529 for on premises consumption.

19 Nicholson Operator LLC.

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Who was up and who was down last week

LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST GUSTAVO RIVERA & JEFFRION AUBRY

State Sen. Gustavo Rivera and Assembly Member Jeffrion Aubry may be the last lawmakers to ever get legislation signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The measure, which was approved by the governor on Monday, will replace the word “inmate” with “incarcerated individual” or “incarcerated individuals” in state law.

CHARLOTTE ST. MARTIN

Musical theater lovers should be singing the praises of The Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin.

After nearly a year and a half, Broadway returned on Wednesday with the new play “Pass Over.”

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ANDREW CUOMO Last week, Albany finally admitted things were not working out with the three-term governor. His sexual harassment and mind games have made divorce inevitable, especially when he keeps talking like we just have to things his way. While Cuomo is refusing to move out, he may have to get a place of his own soon the way impeachment looks like to be proceeding. He can take the dog, but he better leave the antiques.

THE REST OF THE WORST MELISSA DEROSA

The secretary to the governor might make it into reporting textbooks after her exchange with Times Union journalists. The only problem is that the conversation details her efforts to share confidential personnel files to retaliate against sexual harassment accuser Lindsey Boylan, apparently against her own counsel’s advice.

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LAURA CURRAN

The Nassau County exec has found herself between a rock and a hard place on a bill that would make police officers a protected class. Vetoing it could cost her an election in the fall, but signing it could doom her political future in the Democratic Party.

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LETITIA JAMES The state attorney general, along with investigators Anne Clark and Joon Kim, unveiled the damning investigation into claims of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. They concluded that he had harassed 11 women, throwing the state’s political sphere into chaos. She helped lead the charge on an investigation that may have serious legal and political ramifications for Cuomo.

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New Yorkers will remember Aug. 3 for years to come, but it won’t be because of Tony Bennett. Hours before state Attorney General Letitia James released a report into allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his office issued a proclamation declaring it to be “Tony Bennett Day” in New York. To say that Tony Bennett Day was overshadowed by the bombshell report would be an understatement.

Maybe a future Gov. Kathy Hochul can give him another day of his own.

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