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EDITOR’S NOTE DEAR CITY & STATE READERS, My name is Ralph Ortega, and I am City & State’s interim editor-in-chief.

I’m excited to join this publication during a time of change as it commits to providing more inclusive coverage of New York local and state politics. This also means being attuned to the feedback City & State has received in recent weeks and taking action so that our reporting reflects greater diversity and understanding of the people we write about and serve.

I’ve admired City & State for its reporting, analysis, research and lists of the most influential and powerful people in New York politics. I’ve been a journalist for almost 30 years, speak fluent Spanish and have written about diverse communities in New York, New Jersey and Florida.

I was born and raised in New York and am the proud son of immigrants from Cuba and Chile. I attended NYU and did reporting stints in Florida and New Jersey before I landed at the Daily News for almost eight years. I left the News for the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, where I got to cover City Hall and then-Mayor Cory Booker. I most recently have worked as an adjunct at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism and for DocumentedNY, an immigration news site.

This week’s magazine features Zach Williams’ cover story about the state Senate races that could result in legislative supermajorities that would be able to override Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s veto power. Those supermajorities also would push New York even further to the left than it has been since Democrats flipped the state senate in the 2018 election.

I look forward to working with the team at City & State and continuing to deliver the best political news coverage in New York. Please feel free to write to me at rortega@cityandstateny.com.

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The Community Service Society of New York’s David R. Jones is one of the most powerful people in Manhattan.

CONTENTS SUPERMAJORITY … 8

How Albany could shift left … again

TOP 10 MANHATTAN ELECTEDS … 14

The politicians doing the most for New York, NY

CORONAVIRUS HEROES … 18

These Manhattanites stepped up when their neighbors needed them most

MANHATTAN POWER 50 … 25 The civic leaders who could bring the borough back WINNERS & LOSERS … 50 GUERIN BLASK

Who was up and who was down last week

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“We don’t want to show up and testify, we want to be part of the decision-making body.”

COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS BEGIN TO EASE

About two weeks after announcing new lockdowns in parts of New York City experiencing spikes in coronavirus cases, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that some of the restrictions would be relaxed. However, the neighborhoods at the heart of the outbreaks would continue to

be subject to the strictest public health requirements. Cuomo unveiled a new fourtiered system, each with its own benchmarks for infection rates, that would determine the levels for a lockdown.

The changes allowed thousands of students to head back to school in areas where classrooms had been temporarily shuttered, including all previously closed schools in Queens and many in

Brooklyn. Meanwhile, Cuomo also announced that he would not add New York’s neighbors – New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania – to the travel quarantine list, even though each state had hit an infection rate that should trigger such restrictions. The governor said that the amount of interstate travel, especially with Connecticut and New Jersey, would make the quarantine requirement too hard to enforce.

– Hawk Newsome, cofounder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, criticizing the exclusion of Black Lives Matter leaders from New York City’s new police reform commission, via the Daily News

BIKE BOOM New York City’s cycling enthusiasts have long been a vocal contingent, but now The New Yorker is getting in on the push too. Last week’s cover shows masked New Yorkers biking over the Williamsburg Bridge. But some groups, like the Regional Plan Association, took issue with the empty subway car below the cyclists, and went as far as to produce their own version of the cover, complete with masked straphangers.

“I want to make very clear, Halloween is happening in New York City. … It can go on and it can be fun.”

– New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, via NBC New York

Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio sparred over coronavirus responses again, this time relating to a vaccine distribution plan. Cuomo unveiled his five-phase plan that prioritizes frontline health care workers, along with those in nursing homes, while de Blasio announced a two-phase plan that prioritizes frontline and essential workers, and people in vulnerable groups. The governor indirectly chastised the mayor, saying that the city doesn’t have the authority to make COVID-19 policy or implement its own vaccine strategies.

WFP ENTERS HIGH GEAR

The Working Families Party has revved up its campaign to get New York voters to cast their ballots for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the WFP line. The party faces new, tougher requirements to keep its ballot line this year – the party must receive either 130,000 votes or 2% of the vote for president, whichever is higher.

They’ll have to meet that requirement every two years in each presidential and gubernatorial race.

Previously, third parties needed only 50,000 votes every four years. The WFP recently launched an $800,000 ad buy in order to encourage people to vote WFP, including mailers featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Lawmakers and candidates from across the state have also been encouraging

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their constituents to vote for president on the WFP line.

21 IN ’21 ENDORSEMENTS ANNOUNCED

Nearly four years after it was first founded, the 21 in ’21 initiative has rolled out its endorsements for the 2021 New York City Council races as it seeks to get 21 women elected to the council. Right now, there are only 12 women in the 51-seat legislative body, a decrease from the 18 that were serving in 2011.

Six of those women currently in the council are leaving next year due to term limits.

With 35 open council races, the group endorsed 33 women as their first-choice candidates as well as many others as second and third choices, a nod to the ranked-

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The crowded field of New York City mayoral hopefuls has gotten even bigger. New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn confirmed his intent to run as a progressive. Military veteran Zach Iscol, who helped lead the coronavirus response efforts at the Javits Center temporary hospital, also announced his candidacy. And earlier, investment banker, Wall Street giant and Democratic donor Ray McGuire made his run official as well.

Wall Street mainstay Ray McGuire stepped down from Citigroup to run for mayor.

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What not to wear while voting

choice voting system soon to be implemented in New York City. It will allow voters to rank up to five candidates in municipal races.

NYC MAYORAL RACE GROWS LARGER

SAT. 10/24 – SUN. 11/1 New Yorkers can skip the expected Election Day crush and vote in person at designated early polling places leading up to the general election.

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Voters are generally asked to leave political attire at home before they vote – wearing a Joe Biden shirt or a MAGA hat could cause minor issues at polling places. But poll workers cannot turn voters away for any other political messaging, from Black Lives Matter banners to Second Amendment pins. If it’s not on the ballot, you’re free to wear what you want.

State election law states that electioneering is not allowed inside polling places, or within a 100-foot radius. That means that “no political banner, button, poster or placard shall be allowed.” While the law is really meant to prevent campaigns from harassing voters trying to cast their ballots, it also applies to individual voters. The BOE did not return a request for comment about this story.

The law seems overly broad as to what counts as a “political banner, button, poster or placard.” Does this apply to pro-choice pins, or a shirt with Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on it?

In reality, any political message is not considered electioneering, and so poll workers cannot ask anyone to change or remove something like a Black Lives Matter shirt before being allowed to vote. In fact, the 2018 Supreme Court case Minnesota Voters Alliance v.

Mansky found that a law preventing “political apparel” of any kind at or around polling places violated voters’ First

TUES. 10/27 The New York City Council Committee on Resiliency and Waterfronts hosts an 11 a.m. virtual oversight hearing on the eighth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and the 2020 hurricane season.

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Amendment rights.

In response to the ruling, the state Board of Elections issued bipartisan guidance obtained by City & State. The board said the ruling did not impact the state law on electioneering at polling places. The guidance narrowly defined electioneering as “statements for, or against, a candidate or referendum on the ballot,” and applied that narrow interpretation to acceptable apparel as well.

“Persons wearing clothing or donning buttons that include political viewpoints – i.e. support of the Second Amendment, Marriage Equality, Environmental Sustainability, Immigration Reform, Support for Voter ID Laws – do not violate New York’s electioneering prohibition unless the issue itself is unambiguously on the ballot in the form of a ballot proposal,” the guidance reads.

Since Black Lives Matter protests and gun rights, among other subjects, are not being voted on directly on the ballot as referendums in New York, wearing political apparel related to these issues is a constitutionally protected right. And a poll worker who asks anyone to remove such attire before voting is violating both state law.

With all that being said, however, voting rights advocates still recommend leaving any political messaging at home, regardless of its legality, to avoid any potential disruptions at the polls.

– Rebecca C. Lewis

Nearly a decade after the devastating storm hit New York, the city is still planning for the next one – most recently introducing a Coastal Flood Resiliency plan.

SAT. OCT. 31 Cuomo insisted he wouldn’t ban trick-ortreating, but Halloween is going to look different this year. Greenwich Village Halloween Parade?

Canceled. Masks? Double up. Candy? Let the kids grab it themselves.

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THE QUEST TO CLOSE ABYTIMELINE OF THE LONG, SLOW PROCESS TO SHUT DOWN THE JAIL COMPLEX KIMBERLY GONZALEZ FOLLOWING longtime calls for its closure, Rikers Island was set to be shut down by 2026. Now, New York City has delayed its death sentence to 2027.

The infamous jail complex, which opened in 1932, has a history of abuse and negligence toward its inmates, which has left adolescent boys physically and mentally harmed.

Eventually, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio came around to support the closure of the island. The process to get there, however, has not been without its share of complications.

Here is a brief timeline of the recent calls to close the jail complex and the steps taken so far.

The U.S. Justice Department released a report after an investigation of Rikers Island found “a pattern and practice of conduct at Rikers that violates the constitutional rights of adolescent inmates.â€? The department learned there was a “deep-seated culture of violenceâ€? that was pervasive among adolescent youth and that staffers frequently used force “not as a last resort, but ‌ as a means to control.â€?

Following increased calls for action, Mayor Bill de Blasio and thencity Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte announced a 14-point plan to create a safe environment for inmates on Rikers Island.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced his support to close Rikers Island.

De Blasio pledged to shut down Rikers Island alongside Mark-Viverito in an announcement at City Hall.

In her State of the City address, then-New York City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito called for reforms to reduce the inmate population at Rikers Island and, ultimately, to shut down the island.

Mark-Viverito’s call for the island’s closure gained support from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while de Blasio shot down the proposal.

De Blasio released a roadmap for the jail complex’s closure, including safety protocols, reduced capacity and reduced isolation for inmates.

Alongside New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, de Blasio announced four boroughbased jails in every borough except Staten Island to replace Rikers Island and introduce fairer and smaller criminal justice system.

De Blasio and Johnson agreed to close the jail complex by 2026 and open four new jails at a total cost of $8.7 billion. A week later, the City Council approved the deal.

Gothamist acquired planning documents that showed delays would stretch the closing of Rikers Island well into 2027.

The city officially delayed the plan to close Rikers Island and build new jails until 2027.

New York City is expected to shut down the Manhattan Detention Complex, commonly known as “The Tombs,� in Lower Manhattan and the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island.

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A Q&A with Arc of Justice founder

No one is expecting that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to go as far as many of us believe is necessary.

But what they will do is open the conversation.

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What’s next for the Black Lives Matter movement?

We’ve got to focus on federal, state and local legislation to really address what is a national problem of lack of accountability, lack of transparency with respect to policing and criminal justice writ large. What we saw in Kentucky was an egregious abortion of justice, with the attorney general misleading and misguiding a jury, and then the jury themselves wanting to bring to light the grand jury proceeding, and then having the attorney general fight that. It shows that

there are deep-rooted, systemic obstructions to transparency.

So we’ve got to have a holistic approach, and a fully integrated strategy for accountability. We need police departments around the country to institute systems of accountability and transparency. We need to have sunshine laws put in place that will both protect the integrity of a grand jury but also assert the right of the public to be able to hold attorneys general accountable, to hold prosecutors accountable for how they execute and manage the grand jury process. We need to see a return to

the Obama-era policies of the dismantling of private prisons. We need to see a ban on the use of certain tactics by police to subdue and take individuals into custody.

We need to see national standards for training for use of force. We need to see national standards for accountability for police off icers. We need to prevent what we have been seeing across the country, which is bad cops hopping from department to department. Police department hopping by bad cops has got to be one of the issues that is dealt with on the national level.

There’s an election in several weeks, and the implication of having a president who on the one hand espouses that rhetoric of the ultraright, which reflects disdain for constitutional protections, and on the other hand a candidate who has put forth a plan to address many – not all – but many of the institutional policies and practices.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been criticized by some reformers for their records.

If elected, would they go as far as you want them to?

Will they be a panacea?

Absolutely not. Will it be

a required and necessary step to change the trajectory of the nation, especially with regards to criminal justice reform and policing? Absolutely.

No one is expecting that Joe Biden, who wrote the crime bill, and Kamala Harris, who was a district attorney and then an attorney general, are going to go as far as many of us believe is necessary to restructure policing in America. But what they will do is open the conversation, change the rhetoric, and provide leadership that says the Constitution is supreme and everyone needs and is entitled to equal protection under law.

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CUOMO? T The state Senate is on the cusp of being able to override the governor’s veto – and force New York leftward next year.

HE EMPIRE STATE is on course to move even more to the political left just two years after Democrats won control of both houses of the state Legislature for the first time in a decade. The 40-member Democratic conference only needs to flip two Republican-held seats in the 63-member state Senate to achieve a two-thirds supermajority to accompany their existing one in the Assembly. No party has done that for at least a

century. If it happens in 2020,

New York could join California, Rhode Island and Hawaii as one of the states where Democrats have a governor in office and two-thirds of the seats in both houses of the state Legislature.

A state Senate supermajority for Democrats would certainly change the political landscape of Albany. Republicans would be more irrelevant in state politics than ever if they lose key races this year in Western New York, Long Island and the Hudson Valley. There would also be implications for the balance of power between the state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, since a supermajority can override a governor’s veto. Democrats would also control legislative redistricting because the current system allows a two-thirds majority of the state Legislature to have final approval of any redistricting plans created by a 10-person bipartisan commission. “I think it will make a huge difference,� said Democratic state Senate nominee Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from Brooklyn. “Then we don’t need to worry about

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“WE HAVE AN ABSOLUTE OPPORTUNITY TO CO NEW YORK A PROGRESSIVE BEACON ACROS the governor vetoing higher taxes on the wealthy. We have an absolute opportunity to completely change New York and make New York a progressive beacon across the entire country.”

Yet Democratic lawmakers are roughly divided into two factions that will limit how state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie can directly challenge the governor, according to Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University. “Can they now run roughshod over the governor?” he said of Democratic supermajorities. “The answer is probably not – in part because of Cuomo‘s political skills and in part because a lot of the more moderate suburban or upstate senators are just not going to go along with as progressive an agenda as some of the (New York City) senators might like.”

The effects of a supermajority may turn out to be more limited for other reasons as well. In the past two years, Cuomo has vetoed plenty of bills that passed the state Legislature by margins larger than the twothirds needed to override a veto, but neither Stewart-Cousins nor Heastie ever rallied their chambers to deploy that power.

And Democratic state lawmakers might not need supermajorities to control redistricting. Democrats have already passed a constitutional amendment this year that would lower the legislative threshold to 60% votes of the state Legislature – margins they already have in both chambers – for approving redistricting plans. If simple majorities pass it again next year, and voters approve it in November, it could take effect before the redistricting process begins in 2022.

Nonetheless, a few extra votes for the political left in the state Senate could break longtime legislative logjams on high-profile issues like increasing taxes on the wealthy, single-payer health care and the legalization of recreational marijuana.

Swing-district lawmakers could vote no on controversial proposals to avoid angering their colleagues or constituents, while Democrats still find the simple majority needed to pass the bill. There will also be issues where the political left and right could unite against the governor. Progressives and moderates appear to be forming a united front to raise some taxes in order to avoid deep cuts in state support to public schools and local governments as the state grapples with a $14 billion deficit caused by the pandemic.

While the governor has been generally opposed to tax increases, he has shown a willingness in the past two years to go along with Democratic lawmakers on hot-button legislative proposals such as driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants and tenant-friendly changes to state rent laws when the political left has had the votes to pass them. The biggest decisions in state government are typically made by the “three people in a room”

bly Member Linda Rosenthal, a staunch liberal from Manhattan. “A lot of the decision-making power is lopsided right now.”

With just over a week to go until Election Day on Nov. 3, Democratic state legislators appear well-positioned to pick up seats.

There are 10 seats in which Republican incumbents are not running for reelection, and Democratic candidates appear competitive in most of them. Democrats have

After years leading the state Senate minority, now-Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is poised to lead two-thirds of the chamber next year, with the power to override the governor’s veto.

– the legislative leaders and the governor – behind closed doors.

Cuomo has been an especially powerful governor, but larger legislative majorities behind Heastie and Stewart-Cousins could grant them more leverage. “Having the ability to override a veto in both houses is something that is always useful to have in your back pocket,” said seven-term Assem-

advantages with fundraising and party registration in districts in the Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse areas, according to recent financial disclosures with the state Board of Elections. There are also potential pickups on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley, areas that once elected mostly GOP state Senate delegations but trended blue in 2018.

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for example, has nearly twice as much money to spend in the final month compared to GOP candidate Richard Amedure in her race to replace retiring GOP state Sen. George Amedore in a district representing part of the Catskills and the Hudson Valley. She is one of four Democrats running for open seats who have at least twice as much money as the Republican candidate, according to financial disclosures filed with the state Board of Elections. Former Peace Corps volunteer Samra Brouk has also raised more than $150,000 for her race in the Rochester area against winemaker Chris Missick, who is self-funding his campaign.

Public polling is nonexistent for state legislative races, but Republican congressional candidates are struggling even in some areas of the state that President Donald Trump won in 2016. National polling suggests Trump’s poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic is also weighing much more on the minds of swing voters than the “law and order” message that Republicans are emphasizing.

When several Long Island GOP candidates tried to obtain an additional ballot line under the banner of “Secure Our Communities,” they could not even garner the 2,100 signatures required to get it done. One vulnerable Democratic incumbent, state Sen. John Brooks, is a lock for reelection after the Republican candidate got kicked off the ballot for refusing to resign as a county elections commissioner, an obvious conflict of interest.

GOP legislative candidates are not raising money or getting endorsements like they used to from longtime political allies like the real estate industry, who are either keeping a low profile in legislative races or trying to ingratiate themselves with the party in power. “The Long Island Six have made sure that our views are heard,” Mitchell Pally, CEO of the trade group Long Island Builders Institute, told City & State of Democratic suburban senators from the area. “That’s really what we asked for.”

Despite the lack of Republican sway in

the Legislature, some supporters are sticking with them in hopes that things will somehow turn around in November. Police unions have been a big source of support for GOP candidates across the state this year. A conservative super PAC is spending millions to turn things around by targeting Democratic incumbents in swing districts that the party flipped two years ago. “We’re confident that we will not only hold our seats, but grow our conference,” said Candice Giove, a spokesperson for the 20-member Republican minority. There are currently three vacant seats representing districts won by the GOP in 2018.

With just a few weeks to go before Election Day, an outcome with few Republican pickups isn’t utterly impossible, but Democratic supermajorities appear much more likely. And while there are plenty of signs that the governor will still have the upper hand against legislators, that does not mean it is just going to be business as usual in Albany once the new year begins.

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WO GROUPS OF Democratic lawmakers are likely to expand their influence within the state Legislature next year. The first is an upstate Democratic state Senate contingent that could add as many as five new members from the Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo areas to the current two Democratic senators from west of the Capital Region.

Representing more upstate urban areas could demonstrate growing strength outside of New York City for the political left on issues like health care, housing and funding for education. “People have often said that what’s been missing is that strong progressive delegation from upstate to kind of balance things out,” said Ravi Mangla, a progressive activist in the Rochester area who is supporting the Democratic candidates in Western New York. Past election results like the 2016 presidential race suggest that urban turnout will be key for Democrats to win in competitive districts representing parts of Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo that also include significant rural and suburban areas.

At least three prospective Democratic senators running in such districts appear to be to the left of downstate suburban moderates on a few key issues. Brouk and Jeremy Cooney, a former chief of staff for Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, are running in districts that include parts of the city on

platforms that embrace single-payer health care. John Mannion of the Syracuse area, who lost a 2018 race for the seat by a few thousand votes, has also expressed support for the idea. Brouk has attended Black Lives Matter protests, and Cooney has said he supports the bail reforms Democrats made in 2019. Brouk (whose father is originally from Ethiopia) and the Indian-born Cooney (who was adopted by an American family when he was young) would also be the only state senators of color representing any district north of New York City.

Other Democratic candidates for Western New York seats like Sean Ryan (an Assembly member running to replace Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Jacobs in a Buffalo area state Senate seat) and Amherst Town Board Member Jacqualine Berger (who is running to replace the retiring Michael Ranzenhofer in a sprawling Senate district between Buffalo and Rochester) seem to be more aligned with the centrist wing of the Democratic Party. Ryan has a campaign website touting his bipartisan bonafides and has not joined dozens of his more liberal colleagues in signing on to bills to legalize recreational marijuana or establish a state level single-payer health care system. Such positions dovetail nicely with moderate voters and labor groups like New York State United Teachers that have opposed such ideas in the past. Like Ryan, Berger is emphasizing longtime liberal priorities like increasing state funding for schools and public colleges. Neither candidate responded to a request for comment.

While Brouk, Cooney and Mannion lean left, they too put a local spin on issues such as mitigating climate change, by emphasizing local impacts. Cooney lost a 2018 race against retiring GOP state Sen. Joseph Robach by 11 points. With a week to go before Election Day this year, he has twice as much money to spend to convince voters that he is no left-wing radical. “I’m not looking to go to Albany and burn everything down,” said Cooney. “That’s not my attitude. My attitude is, I’m looking to pull a seat up to the table for Rochester.” That appears to be fine with organized labor and the progressive Working Families Party, which have both lined up behind all five of the Democratic candidates in Western New York.

“The key question is how these new senators vote,” said Levy of the National Center for Suburban Studies. “There will be regional differences. There will be ideolog-

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ical and there will be shifting alliances that you don’t normally see around a specific piece of legislation.”

Any progressive efforts in the state Senate will certainly have some support in the Assembly, considering the new wave of insurgent candidates who look likely to win election this November. Housing activists Phara Souffrant Forrest and Marcela Mitaynes, who were both backed by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated incumbent Assembly Member Walter Mosley and Assistant Speaker Félix Ortiz, respectively, in the June 23 primary. Other progressive insurgents including local community board member Emily Gallagher, activist Jessica González-Rojas, activist Zohran Mamdani and attorney Jenifer Rajkumar are expected to win in their historically Democratic Assembly districts in New York City.

This influx of left-wing women and people of color could shake up the center-left status quo in the state Legislature, according to observers. “We’ve seen that in the most recent class of newly elected women,” said Democratic consultant Alexis Grenell, referring to state Senate Labor Committee Chair Jessica Ramos, Ethics Committee Chair Alessandra Biaggi and state Sen. Julia Salazar, all of whom were elected in 2018. The three lawmakers were only part of a larger Democratic effort to pass a litany of high-profile legislation in the past two years that reformed voting, policing and other policy areas. But the newcomers had an outsized effect on extending collective bargaining rights to farmworkers, reforming state laws on sexual harassment and pushing the chamber in a more progressive direction on expanding rent protections.

for tax increases to help plug the $14 billion budget hole caused by the pandemic, which Cuomo has resisted. Even if there were enough votes to pass proposals that increase taxes on millionaires, stock transfers and part-time residences this year, Cuomo could still veto them and then demand political concessions in order to strike a new deal with lawmakers, similar to what he has done over the past year on contentious issues like increasing worker pay protections, legalizing e-bikes and collecting more specific demographic information about Asian Americans to address disparities. A potential veto kept new limits on solitary confinement from even coming up for a vote.

The only way to even out the balance of power is through the state constitutional amendment process, which requires two successive legislatures to pass a bill by a simple majority before it goes before voters as a ballot initiative. Such a proposal could have

HE POWER OF the governor has grown enormously in the past 20 years, which means legislative supermajorities can only do so much – no matter how many votes Heastie and Stewart-Cousins can muster on one issue or another. The 2004 state Court of Appeals decision in Silver v. Pataki gives the governor much more influence over the state budget than most of his counterparts in other states. The details of the court decision are complicated. They effectively mean that lawmakers can haggle over funding levels but otherwise have to vote up or down on a governor’s proposed budget. If they fail to do that before the state budget deadline, then the governor could resort to keeping the government open through temporary budget extenders until lawmakers grant concessions.

More progressives in the Assembly, and more Democratic senators in general, mean Heastie and Stewart-Cousins could face more pressure to force the governor leftward. Both legislative leaders are pushing

Speaker Carl Heastie already leads a supermajority in the Assembly.

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taken effect by 2022 if Heastie and Stewart-Cousins had brought it up for a vote this year. Spokespeople for the legislative leaders did not respond to a request for comment, though some political insiders privately suspect they refrained from moving a proposed amendment with budget reforms forward this year to placate the governor. “I haven’t seen any real signs that the speaker and the leader are seriously interested in crossing the governor,” said one activist involved in state politics who wished to remain anonymous to speak frankly about the situation.

Democrats did not vote to override vetoes issued by Cuomo over the past year, even though many of the bills passed the state Legislature nearly unanimously. There is more than simple math that legislative leaders have to factor into the political equation.

Representatives of the legislative leaders did not respond to a request for comment, but the Cuomo administration is downplaying the

potential for conflict next year. “I can’t think of anything the Legislature would pass that we wouldn’t sign,” Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa tweeted on Sept. 22. “Gov. Cuomo fought hard to elect a Democratic majority and looks forward to growing the conference.” A veto-proof majority would still leave the governor with his formidable powers over the budget, but cooperation rather than confrontation is the goal, according to Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi.

“As history has demonstrated, we work with any legislature the voters give us,” he said in a statement. “We will continue to do so.”

The governor has some informal ways to keep the Legislature in line. For starters, the regional and ideological divisions among Democrats make it hard for the legislative leaders to mobilize supermajorities on controversial issues like raising taxes on millionaires, single-payer health care and the legalization of recreational marijuana. This will allow the governor to continue benefiting from the political divisions among state lawmakers moving forward as he has done in the past with suburban Democrats and his reported efforts in his first years in office to help the GOP keep control of the state Senate as a counterbalance to the New York City liberals who dominate the Assembly. The governor can also reward or punish legislators through appointments to public authorities like the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York Power Authority. Decisions made by those agencies have real effects on any lawmakers’ constituents.

Heastie and Stewart-Cousins scored their biggest legislative wins of the past two years with simple majorities that passed strengthened rent regulations and legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses. While that suggested that state lawmakers were breaking new ground in 2019 in evening the balance of power with the governor, divisions between moderates and progressives have demonstrated the limits of lawmakers’ abilities to take the lead on other controversial issues. “You know they don’t have the votes because they did not pass a bill,” Cuomo said in 2019 of the failure to legalize recreational marijuana.

With Democrats poised to win more seats in November, it could become increasingly difficult to say whether the governor is leading the state Legislature or the other way around, according to Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University. Either way, things are going to only get more blue in Albany in 2021 no matter what happens with the presidential election and U.S. Supreme Court in the coming weeks.

“I would see the governor more likely siding with the supermajority, so it looks like he’s the one who’s helping this Democratic initiative get passed,” she said. “He likes to win.”

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A leftwards turn in the state Senate could also mean movement on outstanding proposals like raising the minimum wage for inmates or allowing more criminal defendants to get more lenient treatment as youthful offenders. If Republicans somehow win big upstate and in the downstate suburbs, then reform efforts might be stymied as Democrats look to shore up their chances in 2022.

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HANGING IN THE BALANCE A supermajority could jumpstart these 5 issues

IF DEMOCRATS WIN a supermajority in the state Senate this November, it could upend the current balance between suburban moderates and left-leaning lawmakers from New York City, which suggests some action is coming on a few top issues. And if Democrats don’t make big gains in November, these are a few major legislative debates to expect in 2021.

SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE Neither the state Senate or the Assembly passed the New York Health Act this past year, which would set up a state single-pay-

er health care system. That could change if President Donald Trump wins reelection and continues to try to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. If former Vice President Joe Biden wins and is able to work a Democratic controlled U.S. Senate to expand access to health care, on the other hand, there may be less of an impetus for further action at the state level. Biden has said he opposes single payer at the national level, but it’s inconceivable that he would try to stop New York from enacting its own system. If Trump wins though, he could withhold billions in federal subsidies for any states that try to set up their own single-payer systems.

RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA Democrats got really close to legalizing recreational marijuana last year. Gov. Andrew Cuomo was even going to tour cannabis-friendly states before the pandemic began. It all came down to some bad timing and a few uncertain votes in the state Senate. Some of the outstanding issues include how future tax revenues would be used, how legalization would compensate communities or

individuals harmed by the war on drugs and whether enterprising New Yorkers would be able to grow their own green at home. With the state desperate for money, it only seems natural that the governor and state lawmakers would like to try this out again in the upcoming year.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS No issue has demonstrated the political leverage of suburban moderates more than eliminating cash bail. The 40-seat Democratic majority in the state Senate hinges on controlling six swing districts on Long Island and a few more in the Hudson Valley. Any Republican victories in recapturing suburban seats they lost in 2018 would decrease the number of moderates in the Democratic conference, whereas new upstate Democrats might add numbers to either the progressive or moderate factions, depending on who gets elected in the Buffalo and Rochester areas.

New limits on cash bail remain controversial, but they could be strengthened once more if the left does well enough in the November elections.

The pandemic has ripped a $14 billion hole in the state budget approved in April. Cuomo and other Democrats are keeping their fingers crossed that Biden wins and billions in new federal funding will begin coming down the federal pipeline in early 2021. But even that will likely not solve all the state’s fiscal problems. Both Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins have said that they are OK with raising taxes on the wealthy to close the budget gap, but the governor is still holding out.

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Activists were hopeful at the beginning of 2020 that state lawmakers would finally pass a bill that would place new limits on the number of days that incarcerated people can be held in isolation. There appeared to be plenty of support for the effort in both the state Senate and Assembly. Yet, legislative leaders have not moved the bill at all since they reportedly struck a deal with the governor to make administrative changes instead. One year later, nothing really has changed in terms of solitary confinement in correctional facilities across the state. A new wave of incoming progressive lawmakers are likely to make some noise again.

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New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera is expected to be a top contender for speaker.

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SCOTT STRINGER

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer launched his mayoral campaign in September by promising to “bring leadership back to City Hall.” Two weeks later, top rival Corey Johnson dropped out of the race, giving Stringer a clear lane to Manhattan’s progressive voters and donors. He’s already snagged endorsements from a diverse coalition of elected officials, including Jessica Ramos, Yuh-Line Niou and Jamaal Bowman, and he remains the only candidate who has already won a citywide office.

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State Senator The midtown Manhattan state senator isn’t afraid to jump

into the crowded Manhattan borough president field that includes two City Council members. State Sen. Brad Hoylman distinguished himself in Albany with legislation that protects tenants facing hardship from eviction, a piedà-terre tax proposal on pricey second homes, and his idea for the city to collect taxes on vacant storefront properties.

He recently chided the NYPD commissioner for officers not wearing face masks.

3 CARLINA RIVERA

Chair New York City Council Committee on Hospitals New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera oversees the legislative body’s Committee on Hospitals at a crucial time, with the coronavirus pandemic exposing inadequate capacity

in the city’s siloed medical facilities. The Lower East Side lawmaker has also pressed for more community outreach in coronavirus testing. The champion of small businesses and voting rights defender is well positioned to be a top council speaker contender following the 2021 elections.

4 LIZ KRUEGER

Chair State Senate Finance Committee The state Senate Finance Committee chair had the

Donovan Richards will almost certainly be Queens borough president.

unenviable task of helping put together the state’s $177 billion budget as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged revenues and piled on new expenses.

Liz Krueger is pushing to raise the millionaires tax with no sign of state aid from Congress, end fossil fuelrelated tax breaks and legalize recreational marijuana. Other measures to tax vacant second homes and storefronts could pass through Krueger’s committee.

5 BRIAN BENJAMIN

Chair State Senate Committee on Revenue and Budget The Upper Manhattan state senator has announced his bid for city comptroller, pitting him in a battle against New York City Council Member Brad Lander and Assembly Member David Weprin. A criminal justice

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State Sen. Brian Benjamin helped lead the effort to reform criminal justice laws in Albany.

reform advocate in Albany, Benjamin also wants to allow outdoor dining indefinitely, keep homeless men at an Upper West Side hotel despite local opposition and fine workplaces that violate safety standards during the pandemic.

6 GALE BREWER

Manhattan Borough President The most beloved politician in Manhattan has the energy of a 20-something, simultaneously advocating for the subways to run earlier on Election Day, mediating Lenox Hill Hospital’s contentious expansion plan and demanding that immigration agents halt their deceptive tactics. Gale Brewer will have a planned SoHo/ NoHo rezoning on her plate plus the challenge of keeping Manhattan’s restaurants and stores from closing permanently.

While she was eventually term-limited out of the council, she won election to the state Assembly in 2016, where she continues to promote causes like increasing the share of government business for minority- and women-owned business enterprises.

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7 JERRY NADLER

Chair House Committee on the Judiciary Rep. Jerry Nadler played a key role in the impeachment of President Donald Trump, serving as an impeachment manager in the U.S. Senate, but he failed to oust his old rival from the White House.

Now, he’s warning that Democrats may add seats to the U.S. Supreme Court if Republicans fill a vacancy this month. He easily fended of a spirited primary challenger earlier this year.

8 ADRIANO ESPAILLAT

Member of Congress In his four years in Congress, Rep. Adriano Espaillat has been a forceful advocate on

immigration issues, demanding that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Georgia be shut down and investigated for giving women unwanted hysterectomies. Espaillat has also waded into local politics by endorsing New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer for mayor and calling for city public schools to delay inperson learning until January.

9 INEZ DICKENS

Chair Assembly Subcommittee on Micro Business The lifelong Upper Manhattanite made a name for herself as a member of the New York City Council, where she was the first Black woman to ascend to the position of deputy majority leader and also served as vice chair of the state Democratic Committee.

Though Margaret Chin will be term-limited out of her downtown Manhattan seat in 2022, she hopes the city moves ahead with a SoHo/ NoHo rezoning plan, wants the power to review a megatower development in Two Bridges, and voted for a boroughbased jail in her district to help replace Rikers Island.

Her district has been deeply impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, and Chin doesn’t want the city to forget its elderly.

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KELLY CLARKE

KELLY CLARKE HOPES that the focus on physical health throughout the coronavirus pandemic is accompanied by a greater attention to mental health, especially when the pandemic fades. As director of New York City’s mental health help line, she understands the mental toll of isolation, economic insecurity, uncertainty and grief in New York City.

During the pandemic, NYC Well, the city’s 24-hour resource for mental and behavioral health, has seen a spike in contacts – and many people are choosing to text rather than call. Clarke says that’s probably because people are under more stress while also having less privacy than usual, with entire families stuck inside all day. “It really has been quite diverse in terms of who has been reaching out, including front-line providers,� she says. The program was well positioned for a city shutdown because it was already a telehealth service, but it had to be retooled so that the program’s 230 staff members could also work remotely. With a huge effort and collaboration, they were able to complete the transition in about a week without service disruptions. Clarke says one of the biggest difficulties has been supporting staffers who are experiencing the hardships of the coronavirus while trying to help others. The service reaches between 1,000 and 1,200 people on a standard day, but on many days of the pandemic, the volume was much higher, with many people

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seeking services for the first time. “This was one of those circumstances where the cause of (the clients’) distress was also one that was impacting our staff,� Clarke says. “So they’re trying to do this while they’re also worried about their family members and loved ones.�

Clarke is Australian and previously worked in the United Kingdom. Having been around the world, she says New York City is unique. “It comes with such diversity, and you really have some of the highest highs but also some of the lowest lows,� she says. “It’s a city of such a striking contrast, at times, and that’s really interesting to explore all the different ends of that and the gray in between as well.�

VIJAY DANDAPANI

WHEN NEW YORK City shut

down, Vijay Dandapani says the consequences for hotels

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From left, Kelly Clarke runs NYC Well; Vijay Dandapani runs the Hotel Association of New York City; and Ines De La Nuez provides meals to seniors at the Grand St. Settlement.

were felt immediately. “We knew the next day. Hotels are not like office buildings,� he says. “The order was coming in. The next day we knew that there was no business.�

The Hotel Association of New York City lobbied aggressively for the state to allow hotels to remain open throughout the crisis, and it collaborated with the city to provide desperately needed housing.

Hotels are essential infrastructure, according to Dandapani, who leads the association representing nearly 300 hotels. They provide crucial tax revenue to New York City and tens of thousands of jobs to its residents. During the pandemic, hotels faced an existential threat as the tourism industry sunk, international travel all but halted and corporate conferences were canceled. The 14day quarantine requirement for visitors from most other states further discouraged visitors. “It really is completely almost life-altering for anyone associated with the hotel industry,� he says, “because jobs have

gone, incomes gone and many hotels are in danger of just closing down permanently.�

But as hotels continue to face a crisis that Dandapani says has no clear end, they have also had the opportunity to help give safe shelter to homeless residents in the city. For the hotels Dandapani represents, accepting that challenge was a no-brainer. “Hotels have been providing space, more or less at cost,� Dandapani says. “Obviously hotels were very keen on doing so because there was no business.� His organization was tasked with quickly facilitating agreements and processing payments from the city to 64 participating hotel association businesses. Working from the organization’s deserted offices in an empty Midtown, he also helped respond when residents of an Upper West Side neighborhood demanded that the homeless men staying at the Lucerne Hotel be moved.

Dandapani’s organization is now preparing to collaborate with the city to house medical workers in the event of a second wave of the coronavirus. Dandapani has lived

in Manhattan for 30 years, raising his two children in the borough – and he sees his work as integral to its future.

INES DE LA NUEZ

INES DE LA NUEZ knows that

older adults in New York City experience food insecurity in normal times. But during the coronavirus pandemic, demand for services from her organization, which usually provides meals and activities to seniors at its community center on the Lower East Side, skyrocketed. The organization typically serves 150 to 200 seniors per day and operates a food pantry that was previously open once per month. When the pandemic intensified in April, De La Nuez worked with partners at City Harvest to open the food pantry once or twice per week.

Working extremely long days, De La Nuez also arranged and coordinated home food deliveries for older adults who were unable to leave their apartments, collaborating with the New York City Housing Au-

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thority and other city departments. Face masks and hand sanitizer were also included in the care packages, and De La Nuez says they tried to educate isolated seniors about the dangers of COVID-19 and how to keep themselves safe. From the outset, De La Nuez leveraged existing relationships with seniors formed over 15 years with Grand St. Settlement. “Community organizations are extremely important to these emergencies because they know the communities,� she says. “They’re putting a familiar face to those services. ... (Seniors are) more likely to open those doors, to pick up the phone and reach out.�

De La Nuez says many seniors, including her own parents living in Washington Heights, continue to experience anxiety about how to stay safe when they leave their homes. Many struggled to stay connected using new technology. “For them, trying to do everything virtually is hard,� she says. For those who lost loved ones, not being able to participate in traditional grieving rituals also took a toll. But she also saw outpourings of support. The organization received thank-you cards from strangers and encouraging notes to pass on to seniors.

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did something to help. “I think in difficult times,� she says, “the best of people come out.�

FRANK DEPAOLO

FRANK DEPAOLO BEGAN his career with the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner in the shadow of one of the city’s biggest disasters, as an investigator assigned to recovery efforts at Ground Zero immediately after the 9/11 attacks – “to help identify people,� he says. Earlier this year, as the death toll from COVID19 began to mount in the city, he led the chief medical examiner’s forensic operations team through another catastrophe. “We serve as the city’s mortuary,� DePaolo explains. “What that means is that if the hospitals were to see a surge in deaths, it would be our office’s responsibility to assist them with the storage of those decedents.�

In April, the city’s health department set the official death toll from COVID-19 at over 10,000. To meet the needs of the city’s hospitals, the chief medical examiner’s office rapidly implemented its disaster response plan – requesting a team of mortuary affairs personnel from the

Department of Health and Human Services and several hundred National Guard troops, as well as coordinating with other city agencies to request additional vehicles and support personnel. The office established four portable morgues throughout the city, beginning with a first location on 30th Street in Manhattan. “We saw a 100-fold increase in the number of calls coming into our office that we had to figure out how to manage,� DePaolo says. “We had a lot of people dying at home.

We just just had an overwhelming number of deaths that we had to deal with.�

DePaolo, who oversees a team of nearly 300, says many people misunderstand what his office does on a day-to-day basis. When people think of the medical examiner’s office, they mostly picture the type of work they’ve seen on television shows like “CSI� or “Law & Order.� But the work is much more nuanced, ranging from forensic work to counseling

families about genetic conditions to planning for funerals. “We are meeting with families at the worst time of their lives, helping them understand what happened to their loved ones,� he says. “Our role is for the families, for the living.�

YAN LEYFMAN

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YAN LEYFMAN’S DEDICATION to medicine comes from

personal experience with a life-threatening illness. He was born in Belarus in 1989, near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. His early childhood was marked by serious, debilitating medical issues presumably caused by radiation exposure. He received life-saving treatment in Israel before immigrating to New York City when he was 5 years old. As he began college, Leyfman’s mother was di-

From left, Frank DePaolo leadsCity the &chief Statemedical New York examiner’s forensic operations team; Yan Leyfman created a model of the coronavirus; and Jessina Carroll Wachtelhausen tested neighbors for COVID-19.

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agnosed with cancer, spurring him to dedicate himself to oncology, gaining recognition for using gene editing to help create viable alternatives to chemotherapy in research at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

For someone undaunted by the prospect of curing cancer, COVID-19 was an appropriate next target for the Penn State medical student. Many of his friends and colleagues in the medical field were infected, and he was mindful that everyone close to him was at risk. “Recalling the fact that I was born in a pandemic, lived about the first five years of my life with Chernobyl, I promised myself that I would not let another pandemic occur under my watch without contributing in some way, shape or form,� he says.

As a medical student, he was unable to care for COVID-19 patients directly, so he threw himself into researching the disease. He meets weekly with an international group of researchers, all part of the joint task force between the American

College of Academic International Academic Medicine and the World Academic Council of Emergency Medicine, to exchange ideas and updates about how the virus is being treated and spreading around the world. With that group, Leyfman created a cohesive model of the virus that demonstrated how it interacts with other cells.

Leyfman has advocated for stem cell therapy to treat COVID-19 and warned of the dual threat posed by the coronavirus and the flu, always with the goal of being proactive about the disease. “If there’s anything that Chernobyl has taught me, it is pandemics are opportunities for hope,� he says. “They’re opportunities for innovation and opportunities to make a positive difference in the world.�

JESSINA CARROLL WACHTELHAUSEN

IN THE SPRING and summer,

when most New Yorkers were isolating in their homes, Jessi-

na Carroll Wachtelhausen and three medical workers on her team were working in Harlem testing neighbors for COVID19. A resident of Upper Manhattan for more than 15 years, Carroll Wachtelhausen responded enthusiastically when Gov. Andrew Cuomo put out a call for organizations to launch and run testing sites in March. She didn’t want to compel any of her staff to put themselves at risk to work at the site, so she called for volunteers, and three staff members quickly responded. “At the core of nursing is that we will go to the front lines when we’re needed,�

Carroll Wachtelhausen says.

While Carroll Wachtelhausen was still supervising the community health care provider’s multiple other sites in Manhattan, she oversaw the setup of the testing site in just three weeks. With help from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, they trained staff about using personal protective equipment correctly and retrofitted the offices at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 127th Street to mini-

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mize risk. Wachtelhausen says over 3,000 tests were administered at the Harlem site. While traveling around the borough to check in on Ryan Health’s sites, she also spent much of her time scouring the internet for personal protective equipment for her staff, realizing early on that she could stock up on full-body hazmat suits on Amazon when isolation gowns became scarce. Now, she continues to strategically stockpile equipment to prepare for a looming second wave.

When it came time to close the temporary testing site in August to allow the organization to expand and reopen its primary care offices, she says the nursing staff were sad to leave the work behind.

They had gotten to know the working people who came in for regular coronavirus testing, from hairdressers to home health workers. “We developed great relationships, so they were sad, and we were sad, but ultimately, we needed to get back to primary care,� Carroll Wachtelhausen says. “We got to know really everyone on the block.�

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JONATHAN SANTOS RAMOS

JONATHAN SANTOS RAMOS

usually takes the long view when it comes to LGBTQ health care provider Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. The organization was founded more than 50 years ago as a volunteer group of medical workers who recognized that LGBTQ patients weren’t receiving adequate care due to stigma. Now, Callen-Lorde operates a network of clinics across three boroughs, serving anyone who is seeking trauma-informed health care, and Santos Ramos focuses on building strategic partnerships and on initiatives that span across the organization’s sites.

But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, he switched gears, focusing on the immediate. “Everything for the last six months or so has been what feels like minute by minute,� he says. He focused on Callen-Lorde’s finances, figuring out how to stave off disaster for the health centers that provide important care to thousands of LGBTQ New Yorkers in the middle of a crisis. First on

the list of priorities was rapidly cutting costs wherever possible, and Santos Ramos completed an exhaustive analysis of the organization’s vendor list to find areas to save money and as many jobs as possible. He also helped manage Callen-Lorde’s transition as it concentrated all sites to a main location on West 18th Street, redistributing supplies and staff accordingly and pivoting some services to telehealth. For the first time, Callen-Lorde partnered with the city Department of Homeless Services to run two isolation hotel shelters in Manhattan and Long Island City, Queens – one for youth and one for adults. Santos Ramos, who also serves on the board of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, provided administrative support for the partnership with the city, finding funding and supplies, and fielding donations. He made supply runs in his car and picked up shifts at the hotels. “It was really this amazing sort of jelling of the team,� he says, “with the sole mission of making sure that the folks who were being transferred to our hotel base were getting the best care that we were able to provide.�

JAMES SOLIS

TECHNOLOGY AND THE in-

ternet have become even more important as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to work from home, attend classes online and stay connected to loved ones from afar. And James Solis has dedicated his time to making sure that access to highspeed internet stays strong throughout lower Manhattan.

His work hasn’t just landed him at residential buildings or businesses. Solis oversaw a team that played a critical role preparing for the arrival of the Navy ship the USNS Comfort, which came to New York City in late March to offer more hospital beds to COVID-19 patients and others in need of medical help.

A team has access to Spectrum’s network in most neighborhoods when it’s connecting a building to service. But the USNS Comfort was docked at Pier 90 on the west side of Manhattan, where that access was nonexistent. Solis

and his workers had to survey the area and build their own infrastructure in advance of the ship’s arrival in order to provide internet connection across 12th Avenue and the West Side Highway. “A project like that would take at least a week,� he says. “We did that project in two and a half days.� The company also brought in more than 250 televisions to the 500-bed hospital ship to help patients and crew.

Solis oversaw efforts to bolster the city’s critical pandemic emergency response beyond the USNS Comfort.

After the ship left Manhattan at the end of April, he and his team continued to provide support to other entities located in the area including the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He managed similar initiatives to provide service at other emergency hospital sites such as the one at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. “It was a great feeling because every time we rolled out the truck, we were out in the field, people would come out and thank us,� he says. “It was great to see the appreciation from people that you don’t see

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every day, especially when there’s a ghost town out in New York City.�

JOCELYNNE RAINEY

WHEN JOCELYNNE RAINEY

accepted her dream job leading the nonprofit Getting Out and Staying Out – which helps formerly incarcerated men find jobs – she never anticipated that her first year would be spent combating unemployment in the middle of a global pandemic.

GOSO quickly focused its attention on providing resources to participants despite closed offices and limited in-person interaction as the city completely shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “What I’m most proud of is that throughout the pandemic we never stopped serving our participants,� Rainey says. “Making sure that they could get their paychecks because we actually pay them for their internship program and just making sure that we were continuously having programming.�

The nonprofit opened its doors back up the day New York City transitioned into

phase 2 with hybrid work days for the majority of staff. GOSO provides job readiness training, educational resources and emotional support for men around New York who have been through the criminal justice system. When COVID-19 hit, the organization secured grants to make its services accessible remotely. It provided laptops and cell phones to participants searching for work and access to GOSO’s therapists and social workers. With these resources and the continued dedication of the staff working remotely, the organization was able to find work positions for 44 participants and distribute PPE and food to communities hammered by the pandemic.

Rainey first began her career in workforce development during her nine-year tenure working with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.

While she was in her position, the Navy Yard went from placing about 100 people in jobs a year to close to a 1,000 placements annually. Rainey says the experience deepened her passion for giving a chance to those who are often overlooked in the job market. “I want to believe that if we are able to work with people and help them to be connected to the labor market and education, that we’ll change

lives,� she says. “We’ll change the lives of their families and we’ll change the lives of the people in the communities where they live.�

MICHAEL PHILLIPS

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

has brought on a unique set of challenges for Michael Phillips, who serves as the chief epidemiologist at NYU Langone Health. Phillips is no stranger to responding to health crises. During his second year working in the New York City health department, he monitored injuries and illnesses reported by first responders and others in the aftermath of 9/11. He’s even worked on the city’s response to anthrax attacks.

He and others at the health network began discussing the coronavirus in January, when the outbreak first devastated Wuhan, China. “Very early on, we knew we had to think very differently,� he said. The outbreak in Wuhan, which has a modern health care system, indicated that such a disaster could very well repeat itself in New York City. Reports of the virus’s high transmission rate and severe symptoms com-

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pared with the flu also worried Phillips and his colleagues.

Even before the coronavirus was confirmed in the United States, they were working to acquire personal protective equipment and figuring out how to extend the use of a limited supply of N95 masks.

When facing a threat with so many unknowns, “we can’t wait for the science, we can’t wait for the papers,� he said. “We had to gather what data we could and enact our measures based on it.� Then, for much of the worst of the outbreak in New York, Phillips ended up providing hands-on support at one of NYU Langone’s hospitals in Brooklyn, which was short on infectious disease specialists.

Now that cases have decreased, he and his colleagues have returned to planning for a second wave. They have been monitoring data on the recent hot spots that have popped up in New York City in order to predict where people are most likely to be getting sick and organize interventions based on that information. “You constantly need to be humble and realize that the things that you’re thinking right now might not necessarily be true,� he said. “You have to constantly be willing to reassess your assumptions, and I think we got better at that.�

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50 Usually the humming epicenter of New York City, Manhattan looks and feels very different this year.

The pandemic has emptied out midtown’s office buildings and thrown its housing market into chaos. But hope is not lost.

From the heads of financial firms to health care centers, from the directors of nonprofits to business improvement districts, from educators to activists, here are the private-sector leaders who are already planning how to bring Manhattan back – and better than ever.

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bumped from the ballot in the primary. Next year will bring scores of candidates for City Council and wide-open races for borough president and mayor, giving Wright the chance to play kingmaker.

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1 KATHRYN WYLDE

President and CEO Partnership for New York City Kathryn Wylde, the voice of the city’s business community, has no shortage of ideas for luring New Yorkers back to work and helping companies survive the pandemic recession.

She helped develop a plan to spark the city’s recovery and corralled 163 business leaders to write a letter calling on the city to improve public safety and cleanliness. She’s also cautioned against mass closures if COVID-19 cases tick upward this fall.

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Former New York City Mayor It feels far longer than 11 months ago that Michael Bloomberg announced he would jump into the crowded Democratic presidential primary race. The media mogul spent more than

$1 billion on a four-month campaign effort that netted 55 delegates before he endorsed Vice President Joe Biden in March. Now, the Bloomberg LP founder has promised to spend $100 million to help Biden win Florida, including an effort to enfranchise people who were formerly incarcerated.

Manhattan’s businesses were struggling before the pandemic thanks to burdensome regulations and high commercial rents. But the city’s closure orders amid the spread of coronavirus could amount to an extinction-level event for fully one-third of restaurants and retail stores.

Jessica Walker is charting Manhattan’s comeback by launching a resource network for affected small businesses and getting borough president candidates to vocalize their plans to reboot the economy and save beloved stores.

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Founder and President National Ac tion Network The founder of the Manhattanbased National Action Network has been a force to be reckoned with for decades.

Presidential candidates pay homage by eating soul food with him at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo made sure to have the Baptist minister by his side when he signed new police reforms this summer. While a younger generation of activists is now emerging, Sharpton continues to be one of the most influential civil rights leaders and elder statesmen around.

Director of Strategic Planning Davidoff Hu tc her & Citron Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright only has one race to worry about this fall: whether Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright can keep her seat after getting

6 MICHAEL DOWLING

President and CEO Northwell Health Northwell Health’s 23 medical facilities have had the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the country, but Michael Dowling and his staff have stayed calm on the front lines. Gov. Andrew Cuomo tapped him in March to lead a council on expanding hospital capacity. By July, his hospitals had treated 50,000 patients.

Dowling wrote a book about leading during the pandemic and has since drawn attention by declaring racism a public health crisis.

7 STEVEN ROTH

Chair and CEO Vornado Realty Tru st The Vornado chair and close ally of President Donald Trump joined the president’s economic recovery advisory group earlier this year. Roth took a 50% pay cut in April and signed on to a letter urging the city to improve safety and security. But his own business hasn’t exactly struggled, with condos at 220 Central Park South selling

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With a world-famou s son, Miranda now has a movie of his own: “Siempre, Lu is.”

STEPHEN ROSS

Chair and Founder Related Companies

Luis Miranda founded the MirRam Group with Roberto Ramirez, and it is one of the city’s most influential consulting firms.

Billionaire tycoon Stephen Ross’ vision gave Manhattan its largest development project in a decade, yet the pandemic has emptied Hudson Yards’ million-squarefoot mall of its customers and some tenants. Ross believes New York will bounce back; to that end, he’s floated spending $100 million to support a business-friendly mayor. But Ross’s lavish Hamptons soiree for President Donald Trump last summer led New Yorkers to cancel memberships to fitness companies he owns.

Luis,” a documentary exploring Miranda’s rise as a political player since he moved to New York in 1971, which screened at Sundance and was acquired

by HBO.

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Director, President Real Estate Board of New York The pandemic has been tough on a real estate industry already battered from last year’s rent laws, and James Whelan has been working more as a crisis manager.

Douglas Durst, chair of the Durst Organization and newly selected to be REBNY’s next chair, has meanwhile been urging Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration to bring city workers back to their offices.

The pair have their work cut out for them, but these men still know how to pull the levers of power.

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Co-Founder Warriors in the Garden The millennial Black Lives Matter activist received an outpouring of support from the city’s progressive power players

after the NYPD laid siege to his Hell’s Kitchen apartment this summer. The charge? Allegedly yelling in a cop’s ear with a megaphone. Ingram, a founder of protest group Warriors in the Garden, is just one activist in the movement against racism that resulted in an occupation of City Hall, reforms aimed at stopping police brutality and NYPD budget changes. But as the police retreated after several hours, Ingram was an avatar for young people of color across the city – and evidence of the extraordinary power of the movement.

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Luis Miranda is perfectly comfortable ceding the stage to his world-famous son Lin-Manuel, whose groundbreaking Broadway musical “Hamilton” premiered on the Disney+ streaming service in July. The political consultant has a movie of his own to crow about: “Siempre,

When business leaders were deliberating how long to let workers stay home during the pandemic, Google helped set the standard by allowing remote work until next summer. Today, about

Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Google

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Mayoral Candidate He’s a Wall Street lifer, a major Democratic political donor, and sits on practically every nonprofit board in the city, from NewYork-Presbyterian to Lincoln Center. Now the Upper West Sider is trying to take the Bloomberg path to City Hall, stepping down from Citigroup to fundraise and get ready for a mayoral run. And as one of the country’s top Black bankers, he’s getting a lot of buzz, especially from Manhattan moneymakers.

If you listen closely, you can hear 100,000 of your co-workers clapping for you.

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before the pandemic swept across the region, effectively shutting down canvassing efforts and causing Wright to rethink her strategy. The United Way launched a COVID-19 community fund for its network of communitybased organizations and recently resumed hosting “Get Out the Count� events.

SHEENA WRIGHT

SURI KASIRER

Sheena Wright made it her mission to lead a coalition of groups organizing New Yorkers to fill out the 2020 Census. That campaign launched in March, just days

Suri Kasirer leads New York City’s top lobbying firm and has cultivated relationships with leading politicians, including New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. Last year, her firm

Sheena Wright made it her mission to get New Yorkers to fill out the 2020 Census.

took in $14.3 million with a stable of clients including PETA, NY1, Tobacco Free Kids and Uber. That’s more than any other lobbyist in the city or state – a record she’s held for several years.

moms send their kids back to school, removing cops from shelters and extending the evictions moratorium to help impoverished families.

JAMES CAPALINO

Veteran lobbyist James Capalino is the first call for real estate titans, university presidents and shopping mall execs enmeshed in complicated zoning and regulatory matters. As the city’s second-highest compensated lobbying firm, Capalino pulled in $11.2 million last year with clients including New York University, UPS and Macy’s. A City Hall veteran himself, Capalino has also cultivated a longstanding alliance with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

CHRISTINE QUINN

The onetime (and future?) mayoral candidate has embarked on a second career as a top advocate for the city’s most vulnerable.

Former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has kept the public’s attention on homelessness during the pandemic when those in shelters faced a higher mortality rate. That includes helping working

STEVEN RUBENSTEIN

Communications guru and Association for Better New York chair Steven Rubenstein was in the middle of the city’s pandemic recovery and 2020 Census participation initiatives. He and other business leaders signed letters urging the mayor and governor to map out a course of recovery for the region. He’s also leading a public relations effort to encourage New Yorkers to fill out their census forms and welcomed a new CEO at ABNY in August.

DARREN WALKER

Darren Walker has the stature to call out corporate America for failing Black Americans after the death of George

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2,000 workers are returning to Google’s Manhattan offices, and Google could be pioneering a hybrid workfrom-home model. Google, which has had political veteran William Floyd on board since 2012, worked to launch COVID-19 contact tracing technology used in a New York state app.

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Floyd and social justice demonstrations. He also has the checkbook to make a difference. Walker announced in June that the Ford Foundation would borrow $1 billion to increase the amount of money it distributed to beneficiaries. That includes $150 million Ford committed to minority arts groups and $10 million to Puerto Rico’s storm rebuilding efforts.

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allowing health care workers exposed to the coronavirus to designate standby guardians for their children and have led webinars about how COVID-19 affects New York companies and nonprofits.

The firm also moved to One Vanderbilt, which opened in September, signing a 15-year lease.

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BRADLEY TUSK

Founder and CEO Tu sk Strategies Reprising his role in thenMayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2009 mayoral campaign, Bradley Tusk joined the team helping Bloomberg launch his presidential campaign last fall. Once Bloomberg’s bid fizzled, Tusk focused his energy into his venture capital investments, including a promising mobile voting initiative that allows military and disabled voters to fill out absentee ballots on their smartphones.

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Co-Chair, New York City Greenberg Trau rig The leader of Greenberg Traurig’s New York office has helped the powerhouse law firm pivot to navigate the coronavirus crisis. Ed Wallace and his attorneys assisted the governor’s office in drafting an executive order

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Jennifer Raab has led Hunter College through a number of crises.

began while defending Dreamers before the Supreme Court upheld DACA. She has dealt with the challenges of reopening the college and K-12 campus, maintaining a diverse student body and avoiding a strike over holding in-person classes by granting a safety investigation of the school buildings.

in January, some businesses canceled Chinese New Year celebrations, and restaurant revenue dropped 70% in February. Countless shops and restaurants worried they wouldn’t survive the economic fallout. To help them, Wellington Chen has marshaled resources for minority-owned businesses and provided tents, umbrellas, sandbags and chairs free of charge for restaurants operating outdoor dining.

JENNIFER RAAB

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As president of Hunter College, Jennifer Raab has adeptly handled enormous crises this year. Raab oversaw the school’s shift to remote learning when the pandemic

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LEECIA EVE

President Hu nter College

Executive Director Chinatown Partnership

Gaspard has spent his philanthropic c areer working to dismantle au thoritarian regimes.

Vice President of Public Policy Veriz on Leecia Eve, a former aide to Hillary Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former attorney general candidate, has been helping Verizon navigate through the coronavirus pandemic as its tri-state government affairs director. The company has

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Former diplomat Patrick Gaspard has spent his philanthropic career working to dismantle authoritarian regimes and strongman tactics abroad. Open Society Foundations invested $200 million to curb COVID-19 in developing countries.

But Gaspard has paid close attention to affairs at home too, criticizing the NYPD for giving 81% of social distancing summonses to Blacks and Latinos and assisting old friend Maya Wiley with her nascent mayoral run.

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Northwell Health applauds our own

Michael J. Dowling Named to the City & State “Manhattan Power� list As president and CEO, he has expertly navigated Northwell through the complex, ever-changing health care industry and has positioned our network for long-term success.

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added 59,000 broadband connections. Eve is also a steward of the city’s fiscal health, serving as a Port Authority commissioner and Citizens Budget Commission trustee.

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President and CEO Commu nity Servic e Soc iety of New York As an advocate for lowincome New Yorkers for a quarter-century, it was no surprise that David Jones used his New York Amsterdam News column to criticize the city’s cuts to summer youth employment, lack of health care options in communities of color and urgent need for rent relief to prevent homelessness. Jones, who serves on the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has also sought to protect low-wage workers from police harassment while riding the subway.

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Bec au se the library c ou ldn’t serve as pu blic respite, Marx bolstered its virtu al offerings.

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ROBERT GROSSMAN

President, Chair and CEO, Red Apple Group Chair, Manhattan Repu blic an Party

The grocery magnate John Catsimatidis reassured the city at the beginning of the pandemic that his supermarket supply chain was in good shape despite a run on toilet paper and canned goods.

Disgusted with the city’s rising crime rate, John Catsimatidis is now mulling another mayoral run and could spend $100 million to make it happen. His daughter Andrea Catsimatidis’ role as Manhattan’s Republican leader could help pave the way.

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Community Service Society of New York chief David R. Jones is an advocate for low-income New Yorkers.

Dean and CEO NYU Langone Health When Dr. Robert Grossman became dean of NYU Langone Health in 2007, he spearheaded a massive expansion of NYU’s medical school and offered free tuition to medical students. Last November, NYU renamed its medical school in Grossman’s honor. Thanks to his efforts, NYU Langone fared better than most medical centers handling the onslaught of patients during the peak of the pandemic, although there’s been pushback from residents demanding COVID-19 hazard pay.

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President and CEO NewYork-Presbyterian NewYork-Presbyterian was in a better position to handle a pandemic than most, but few could have predicted the all-consuming stress the hospital’s staffers would endure throughout the spring.

Steve Corwin believes the worst is over but remains concerned about the mental health of his staff after an emergency department doctor died by suicide in April, whether there will be enough protective equipment through the winter and whether young people are taking social distancing measures seriously.

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President Allianc e for Downtown New York In 2018, private sector employment topped a quarter of a million jobs downtown for the first time since 2001.

Now the area is struggling as the city reached 16.3% unemployment in September.

But Jessica Lappin has worked to make lower Manhattan more livable by helping City Hall expand outdoor dining, lobbying to extend tax subsidies, distributing face masks to neighborhood schools and studying how to redesign local streets to be more bicycle friendly.

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President and CEO New York Pu blic Library Anthony Marx decided in midMarch to temporarily shutter the library’s 92 branches, acknowledging the need to protect staff and its patrons, many of whom include seniors and high-risk individuals.

Because branches couldn’t serve as a public respite – some did begin offering limited service in July – Marx argued the system needed to bolster its virtual offerings.

Its ability to provide remote resources to the public is among the most successful of any institution in the country.

The Board and Staff of The New York Landmarks Conservancy congratulate our President, Peg Breen, for working to preserve the City we love.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR PRESIDENT & CEO

BETSY SMITH Your leadership has made Central Park an essential respite for all New Yorkers during these challenging times.

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Biederman went into overdrive to make Midtown inviting for those who strolled through.

A heart was mowed into the lawn at Bryant Park to honor essential workers, and the park’s piano program returned in July. Biederman worries that converting hotels for the homeless is having a deleterious effect on public safety.

ALFRED C. CERULLO III President and CEO Grand Central Partnership

The pandemic turned Grand Central Station and its surrounding neighborhood into a ghost town after more than 90% of commuters stayed out of the city. It stayed that way for months, forcing Midtown retail chains and restaurants to close up shop. Alfred Cerullo’s task is daunting, but his past work rezoning East Midtown, turning Pershing Square into a pedestrian plaza and shepherding One Vanderbilt through its May opening should pay dividends.

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NYSE; JAMES SALZANO

The stock market’s decadelong bull market ended in February when the coronavirus spread across a cruise ship and plunged through April into the worst crash since 1929.

Cunningham’s role in this year of extreme volatility has been to guide a number of private companies through IPOs this fall, thanks to months of pent-up demand. That includes new innovations such as direct listings for Palantir and Asana, which each spiked on their first day of trading.

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Stacey Cunningham led the New York Stock Exchange through a trying year.

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FRED WILSON

KENNETH DAVIS

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson tends to get ahead of a trend, whether it’s social media or e-commerce. Wilson poured $5 million into a mobile video media company and strongly advocated for a high carbon tax to curb climate change. But even though New York City is in a recession, Wilson says he is not pessimistic about a postCOVID turnaround because the pandemic will make housing more affordable as people who fear change leave.

Kenneth Davis and his fellow Mount Sinai executives received positive pandemic press when they agreed to a 50% pay cut in April even as some nurses wore trash bags because of a PPE shortage. Mount Sinai has since launched a post-COVID care center for ongoing study and treatment of the disease while placing among the top hospitals in the country in US News & World Report’s rankings.

Peg Breen is a landmark superhero, sprinting across the city to convince policymakers to preserve underappreciated structures of historic significance and disburse grants to neglected buildings. This past year, Breen sought to keep Harlem’s Lenox Terrace from a rezoning that would alter the site, paid $60,000 for renovations at the Weeksville Heritage Center, gave a $10,000 grant to the oldest surviving synagogue in Queens and presided over a contest to redesign the paths on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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DAN BIEDERMAN

ROBERT ABRAMS

When the coronavirus ravaged New York City, forcing offices, libraries, and beloved civic institutions to close, Dan

Robert Abrams has led a powerhouse legal team at Stroock, including the addition of an internal unit to ferret out workplace misconduct, the

Partner Union Squ are Ventu res

Fred Wilson says he isn’t pessimistic bec au se CO VID-19 will make hou sing more affordable.

President and CEO Mou nt Sinai Health System

President Bryant Park Corp. and 34 th Street Partnership

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President East Midtown Partnership Rob Byrnes played a crucial role ensuring that the city’s rezoning

Bellevu e’s experienc e with pandemic s helped ensu re staff were as prepared as possible. plan for East Midtown included plenty of subway investments and street-level improvements.

But new construction could take longer than anticipated after the pandemic forced midtown businesses to close office towers to employees, decimated area hotels, and shuttered chain stores and restaurants. The partnership has other concerns, including struggling street vendors and vandalized stores from recent protests.

Rob Byrnes leads East Midtown’s business improvement district.

check on the safety of those discharged from the hospital, moved surgeons to treat ICU patients and had social workers run video communication for isolated COVID-19 patients to speak with their families.

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President The Roc kefeller Fou ndation The physician and former USAID administrator Rajiv Shah is one of the few civic leaders with the stature to tell people to ignore the CDC for politicizing public health with misleading guidelines on testing and the spread of COVID-19. But Shah isn’t just advocating for good health habits. The Rockefeller Foundation is also focused on increasing electricity access so everyone can connect to the internet, not to mention relying less on fossil fuels.

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CEO Bellevu e Hospital The pandemic sorely tested Bellevue, but the hospital’s prior experience with pandemics and the efforts of William Hicks helped ensure staff were as prepared as possible for COVID-19. Hicks made emergency medicine staff

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President Velez O rganiz ation As a member of the mayor’s Office of Minority and WomenOwned Business Enterprises advisory board and the National Hispanic Group, and as the head of a family-owned construction management firm, Elizabeth Velez helps ensure MWBEs get a fair share of government construction contracts. So it was no surprise the New York Building Congress named her its chair in January, which allows her to advise the governor on New York’s pandemic reopening plan.

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President and CEO 12 5th Street BID Barbara Askins has done remarkable work making one of the busiest corridors in the city a bustling, charming place to walk around and shop. The spread of COVID-19 temporarily closed stores on 125th Street, but Askins helped businesses reopen in the summer and organized an event for Harlemites to paint messages on plywood in solidarity with civil rights protesters.

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expansion of its national real estate practice and a new task force to help journalists and local pols sort through legal questions during a chaotic election period. Abrams has a reputation for probing government corruption (for example, serving on the Moreland Commission), so his services seem to be in demand for the foreseeable future.

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ELIZABETH SMITH

Elizabeth Smith and her husband, Port Authority director Rick Cotton, were among the first public figures to be afflicted with coronavirus in early March, jolting New Yorkers into taking the disease seriously. Central Park soon hosted a field hospital for treating COVID-19 patients for a month. The park has since sprung back to life, although SummerStage went virtual this year and the park’s boathouse restaurant temporarily closed.

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Last year, Eva Moskowitz fought with City Hall for additional teaching space for her charter schools. But the pandemic forced Moskowitz to close all Success Academy schools and pivot to fully remote learning without abandoning its educational standards. This could be her most challenging year yet: Moskowitz is still clashing with the city over school buildings that weren’t ready to reopen in August, and some parents are concerned about the strict demands in its remote learning program.

At a time when local newspapers have been hemorrhaging advertising revenue, laying off reporters and closing offices to save money, Elinor Tatum and the New York Amsterdam News have continued to publish through the pandemic. The paper’s insightful columns have amplified underserved voices while advancing narratives not taken by mainstream publications.

VIOLET MOSS

The impressive University at

Albany alumna sharpened her expertise in health policy as a legislative analyst for the Assembly Health Committee before stops as a lobbyist and public affairs specialist at Children’s Health Fund, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Mercury Public Affairs and The Parkside Group. Violet Moss has been at Bolton-St. Johns for almost five years and just completed a master’s degree at Hunter College’s Department of Urban Policy and Planning.

DEBRALEE SANTOS

 Debralee Santos has her finger on the pulse of Upper Manhattan’s diverse communities. Throughout the pandemic, she catalogued stories of incalculable grief for the Manhattan Times, including the heart-wrenching death of a 43-year-old MTA cleaner and mom, and the people who made Coogan’s the most beloved pub in Manhattan. Santos is also a welcome presence on public radio, where she shares her opinions and knowledge about the city’s leaders.

Since the coronavirus pandemic began decimating hotel occupancy rates, public relations pro Lisa Linden has done some heavy lifting to help the Hotel Association of New York City survive the devastating downturn while accommodating overflow COVID-19 patients from public hospitals. She’s also co-vice chair of the New York League of Conservation Voters, which has been pushing the state to reach ambitious climate goals and for New York City to make its school buses electric.

GEORGE FONTAS

 Former Capalino+Company executive George Fontas struck out on his own three years ago to advise corporate, real estate and nonprofit clients as well as a handful of political campaigns. He should have an exceptionally busy year in 2021, with hundreds of New York City Council candidates running for office.

Recently, he has been helping moderate Democrats run in state legislative elections and Boerum Hill condo residents oppose the expansion of a nearby jail.

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GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT C O N F E R E N C E The COVID-19 pandemic created a free for all for medical equipment across the city and the state.Gov. Cuomo worked with neighboring states to create a purchasing consortium while Mayor DeBlasio suspended laws relating to procurement to allow the city to quickly purchase what it needed.As things start to move through phases how does purchasing and procurement return to normal? The Government Procurement Conference will foster business partnerships between the city and state level government, prime contractors, and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, and women-owned businesses.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

DAN SYMON Chief Procurement Officer, NYC Mayor’s Office of Contract Services

JAMES SANDERS JR. Senator, Chair, Task Force on MWBEs

RODNEYSE BICHOTTE Assemblymember, Chair, Oversight of MWBE Subcommittee

JONNEL DORIS Commissioner, NYC Small Business Services

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Notice of Formation of JSB FILMS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/16/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 921 Washington Avenue, Apt. 4m, Brooklyn, New York, 11225. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LAKESIDE HK ADVISORS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/15/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9 East 38th Street 6th Fl. New York, New York, 10016. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of M & S COIN, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/10/20. Office location: Saratoga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 608 Grooms Roadq, Clifton Park, New York, 12065. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NYCHA PACT MEMBER LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/26/20.

Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 90 Church Street 5th Floor, New York, New York, 10007 Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of TD 168 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/8/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1668 Bay Ridge Ave, Brooklyn, New York, 11204.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of R, D, D, & Z LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/31/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 372 East 32nd Street, Apt 1, Brooklyn, New York, 11226. Any lawful purpose..

Notice of Formation of 100 UNION AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/9/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 450 Albourne Avenue, Staten Island, New York, 10309. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RAISAT ISHAYAT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/15/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 555 Euclid Ave., Brooklyn, New York, 11208. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 149 12TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/20/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 149 12th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11215. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of STATION SIDE PROPERTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/17/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7012 15th Avenue, 1st Floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11228. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SUNRISE SD PARTNERS II LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/08/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2036 East 27th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11229. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 2277 VICTORY BLVD LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/9/20. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 450 Albourne Avenue, Staten Island, New York, 10309. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of A&W SUPPLIERS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/2/20. Office location Niagara SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2823 Avenue Z, Brooklyn, New York, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of ALPHA PLACE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/24/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 469 63 Street Fl1, Brooklyn, New York, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

D’OX AIR THEORY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/31/20.

Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, ATTN: Joel S. Charleston, Esq., 11 Pearl Street, Valley Stream, NY 11581. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Winsmith Tax LLC filed with SSNY on June 29, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 425 W 23rd St. Apt. 8A New York, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of GPG4, LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/15/20.Office location:Erie SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY mail process to 30 Brawnview, Orchard Park, NY 14127.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Ume Blossom, LLC filed with SSNY on July 30, 2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 278 Bedford Park Blvd, 3C, Bronx, NY 10458. Purpose: any lawful act or activity

Notice of Qualification of GAH Corp LLC, fictitious name: Golden Age Hospitality LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/27/20.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/10/20.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 304 East 65th St., NY, NY 10065. Address to be maintained in DE: 838 Walker Rd., Ste 21-2, Dover, DE 19904.

Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of GAH Management LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/27/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/10/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 304 East 65th St., NY, NY 10065. Address to be maintained in DE: 838 Walker Rd., Ste 21-2, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of OR 257 FLATBUSH, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/04/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 485 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10017. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DELSEA DRIVE SQFT, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/15/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 506 5th Ave, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11209. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of NAKASH HOLDING LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/10/03. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of CHUN AND HONG LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/16/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 7005 18th Ave, Brooklyn, New York, 11204. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of CONSIDER THIS FURNITURE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/17/20. Office location: Schnectady SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 63 FRANKLIN STREET, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, 12866. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Jess & Rose, LLC filed with SSNY on June 26, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 20 Confucius Plaza Apt 25B NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Form. of SEQUENCE VENTURES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/19/20.

Office location: New York. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 90 State Street, Ste 700 Office 40, Albany, New York,, 12207. Any lawful purpose.

October 26, 2020

Notice of Formation of EDID TRUCKING AND INSTALLATION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2162 Strauss Street Suite 2r, Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 185 VAN SICLEN AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/18/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 509 Liberty Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 509 LIBERTY AVENUE REALTY GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/18/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 509 Liberty Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FRVRHM LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 09/01/20.

Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 08/10/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1925 Century Park East Ste 400, Los Angeles, California, 90027. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of FREEDOM POINT VENTURES L.L.C.. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/16/20. Office location:Essex. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 78 Holmes Rd, Newburgh, New York, 12550. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of J&J ENTERPRISES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/24/20.

Office location: Otsego County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/25/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Lemery Greisler LLC, 60 Railroad Place, Suite 502, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. DE addr. of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Suite C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

ASSUMED NAME Notice is hereby given that an order enters by the Supreme Court Westchester county on the days of June 2020 ,Grants me the right to assume the name of Joshua Navarro Juarez the city and state of my present address are croton on Hudson New York the month and year of my birth are January 2019.

The place of my birth is village of sleepy hollow New York my present name is adrien Carlos Juarez Manjarrez Notice of Formation of Ace Premier, LLC filed with SSNY on September 8, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 450 Lexington Avenue #2695 New York, NY 10163. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of REALTECH TITLE, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 09/25/20. Office location:Ulster. LLC formed in DE on 10/24/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 88 9TH ST BROOKLYN LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 09/23/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 05/21/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400 Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of OUR CREEK SIDE LODGE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/11/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 1534 County Rd 14, Mt Vision, New York, 13810.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 175 CONSELYEA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/22/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 247 SEELY STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11218.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1869 VICTORY REAL ESTATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/22/20. Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 28 Lundi Ct. Staten Island, New York, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

6 Archer Lane LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 9-9-20. Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC for service of process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to c/o Dentons US LLP, 1221 6th Ave., NY, NY 10020, Attn: Benjamin Friedman, Esq. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of ACRE Advisors, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/11/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 401 W. 14th St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10014. Address to be maintained in DE: The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formation of Young Urban Moms Media LLC, a domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 14, 2020 filed with N.Y.S. Office location: Richmond County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 323 Getz Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of The Hive Mind LLC filed with SSNY on June 21, 2018. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 66 Main Street, Apt 1021, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of VV GLOBAL PARTNERS, LLC filed with SSNY on July 17, 2020.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 38 E 81st St. #4A, New York, NY 10028. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Aeon Global Asset Management, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/7/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to Corporate Services Co, 80 State St, Albany, NY 12207. Principle business address: 144 E. 44th Str, Gound Fl,NY, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: EVIDENCE OF THINGS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/6/2020. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Danielle Connelly, 175 Putnam Ave. Apt. 1 Brooklyn, NY, 11216. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

Pyron LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/2020. Office: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 225 Bennett Ave, #6J, NY, NY 10040. Purpose: any lawful act.

Sisko Law PLLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/25/20.

Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: 350 7th St, Apt A3, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: any lawful.

Notice of Formation of 2525 MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2525 E 14th St Brooklyn, NY, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HC HOLDCO II LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/30/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Timothy P. Terry, 667 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10065.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Envirogy LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of the process against LLC to Jaros Baum & Bolles, 80 Pine Street, 12th Fl, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act.

INSIDE MASSAGE THERAPY PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/21/2020. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 200 East End Avenue #1B, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Massage Therapy.

NOTICE OF FORMATION, Direct Approach LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/06/2020.

Office location: Bronx County.SSNY designated for service of process.

SSNY shall mail copies of any process served against the LLC to c/o: Oscar Montalvo, 2410 Barker Avenue, Apt. 9J, Bronx, NY, 10467. Purpose: any lawful purpose or activity.

Notice of Formation of Deco Tot, LLC filed with SSNY on February 12, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2585 Broadway, Box 107, New York, NY, 10025.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Extended Brick Properties, LLC filed with SSNY on October 7, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 203 Hart street, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of J Neidich Holdings, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/24/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 121 West 10th St., NY, NY 10011. Address to be maintained in DE: 838 Walker Rd., Ste 21-2, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of RESONANCE STORES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/03/20. Princ. office of LLC: Pier 59, Chelsea Piers, NY, NY 10011. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Resonance Companies, Inc. at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of HC HOLDCO I LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/30/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Timothy P. Terry, 667 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., NY, NY 10065.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Envirogy LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of the process against LLC to Jaros Baum & Bolles, 80 Pine Street, 12th Fl, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of ARTIVORE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/20/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2373 BROADWAY APT. 635, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10024. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 688 6TH AVE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/21/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 128 44th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11232. Any lawful purpose

Notice of Formation of ELECTRICIAN NYC LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1644 East 14th Street Suite 2 Brooklyn, NY, 11229. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 49 BOGART STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/1999 .Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2182 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11210. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PARK PLACE SENIOR HOUSING, L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/20. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LP: 60 Columbus Circle, 19th Fl., NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which the LP may dissolve is 12/31/2119. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of EDID TRUCKING AND INSTALLATION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2162 Strauss Street Suite 2r, Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Speridian Global Holdings LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/05/2020. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 12/31/2007. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Speridian Global Holdings LLC 2355 Main Street Suite 240 Irvine, CA 92614. CA addr. of LLC: Speridian Global Holdings LLC 2355 Main Street Suite 240 Irvine, CA 92614. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of CA, Div. of Corps., 1500 11th Street Sacramento, CA 95814.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 50 PORT WATSON LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/6/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 36 Monroe St. Apt E3 New York, NY, 10002. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of EDID TRUCKING AND INSTALLATION LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2162 Strauss Street Suite 2r, Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WAXING & WANING CANDLE CO., LLC filed with SSNY on July 16, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 82 Irving Place, 1B, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of EMES EQUITIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/16/17. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 14921 Hook Creek Blvd LLC 944 44th St Brooklyn, New York, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TOP-YARD LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/15/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 626 1st Avenue ,Apt W20, New York, NY 10016.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE TEST BREWERY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/24/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 62 N 7th St., 1l, Brooklyn, New York, 11249. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DAOTONG LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/11/18.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 201 46TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11220. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of DURSO PROPERTIES IV, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/20.Office location: Dutchess SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 445 Rt 304, Bardonia, New York, 10954.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PRIMERCUBEUSA, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/5/20.

Office location: Sullivan.

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

SSNY mail process to 506 Yankee Lake Rd. Wurtsboro, New York, 12790. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of CK SUNNYSIDE LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 39 Division St., NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Temur Hamilton LLC filed with SSNY on July 27, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 19 E 71st Street, 3C, New York, NY 10021.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of HAUS LENDING LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 09/22/20.

Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 09/18/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 99 Washington Avenue Ste 805a, Albany, New York, 12210. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of HENRY THAYER COMPANY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/15/20. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 10 Hudson Yards, NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Form. of CLIENTPAY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/11/20. Office location: New York. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1979 Marcus Avenue, Suite 210e, Lake Success, New York, 11042. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CREEKSIDE 55, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/21/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 900 3rd Avenue, Floor 13, New York, New York, 10022.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ABREMAR MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/22/20.

Office location: Montgomery.

LLC formed in DE on 06/26/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 8750 Nw 36th St Suite 425, Doral, Florida, 33178. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of LAURO CABRERA CONSTRUCTION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/30/20. Office location: Putnam SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 10 AVON ROAD, LAKE PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK, 10537. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GLENNJEFFREY QOF LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/22/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1185 Park Ave., 12d New York, NY, 10128.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LSR PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/16.Office location: Cayuga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6 Hummingbird Way Port Byron, NY, 13140. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PRECIOUS LITTLE HANDS CHILDCARE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/2/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 21 Petersen Ct., Middletown, NY, 10941. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TAYLOR TIMBER CO II, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/25/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 6455 Stokes-Westernville Rd., Lee Center, New York, 13363. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Sisko Law PLLC filed with SSNY on 9/25/20.

Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: 350 7th St, Apt A3, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: practice of law.

Notice of Formation of ANNAPOLIS VENTURES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/16/20.Office location: Erie SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 6385 Boston State Road, Lot 11, Hamburg, NY, 14075Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PEGASO NY REAL ESTATE PROPERTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/20. Office location: NY County. 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, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

615 East 104 Holdings LLC. Authority filed SSNY 09/01/20. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 9/1/20.

Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 1 State St., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10004. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of PARK WEST ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/21/05. Princ. office of LLC: 900 Larkspur Landing Circle, Ste. 165, Larkspur, CA 94939. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

64 Kinston Holdings LLC, name amended to: 64 Kingston Holdings LLC. Authority filed SSNY 09/01/20. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 9/1/20.

Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 1 State St., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10004. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number “Pending “ for beer, cider, and wine, has been applied for by the undersigned*to sell Beer Cider, and Wine, at retail in a restaurant , under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at the location of: 3217-19 Quentin Road, Brooklyn, Marine-Park, Kings county for On Premises Consumption.

MARK LOVY for ALLISONS DAUGHTERS RESTAURANT dba ISABELLA Notice of Formation of 2246 LEE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/30/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2246 86TH Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11214. Any lawful purpose.

2514 Albermarle Holdings LLC, name amended to: 2514 Albemarle Holdings LLC. Authority filed SSNY 09/01/20. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 9/1/20. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 1 State St., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10004. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose.

Dylan Armstrong Marketing LLC Filed 8/20/20 Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 122 East 42nd Street, Suite #1507, New York, NY 10168-1599 Purpose: all lawful

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Peppercat Provisions LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/12/2020. Office location: NEW YORK County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 570 W 204 St, Unit 2E, New York, NY 10034.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Gustave Piche, LLC filed with SSNY on August 3, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 115 E 9th St. New York, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Wynn Smiley, LLC filed with SSNY on August 6, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 67 W 73rd St Apt 3A, New York, NY 10023.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of Tailor-Made Trivia, LLC filed with SSNY on October, 14, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 477 Midwood St., Apt. 1, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of NIKOLOZ MAKHATADZE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/3/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Avenue # Harrison, New York, 10528.Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1331801, FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 525 NOSTRAND AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11216.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON-PREMISE CONSUMPTION. WELLNESS TEA THERAPY LLC Notice of Formation of BUILD A DOOR LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/31/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 829 Willoughby Ave Apt 4f, Brooklyn, New York, 11206. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of CPG VINTAGE ACCESS FUND IV, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/13/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10/9/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 805 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10022.

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

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NIKOLOZ MAKHATADZE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/3/20.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 600 Mamaroneck Avenue # Harrison, New York, 10528.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GOOD SOLES IMPORTER INC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/25/2020.

Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of CORP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 350 3RD AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11232.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GOOD SOLES IMPORTER INC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/25/2020.

Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of CORP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 350 3RD AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11232.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of DECISIVE POINT GROUP, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/24/20. Office location: Putnam. LLC formed in DE on 8/28/20.

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

SSNY mail process to: 25 Chestnut Street, Cold Spring, NY, 10516. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of Breadcrumb Labs, LLC filed with SSNY on September 28, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 90 State Street Suite 700 Office 40, Albany NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MRHR Consulting, LLC filed with SSNY on September 21, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 601 West 41 Street Suite 8E New York, NY 10036 . Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Elle Jones Casting Company, LLC filed with SSNY on August 3, 2020.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 27 W 60th St #20503, New York, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qual. of CPG VINTAGE ACCESS FUND IV, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/13/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10/9/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 805 Third Avenue, New York, New York, 10022.

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

Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of: Start 2 Finish Trucking LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/15/19.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 100 Dehaven Drive., Yonkers, NY 10703. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

WILDFLOW3R, LLC filed with SSNY on September 9, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 82 Irving Place, 1B, NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Wesley Keith Mullings and Laura Mae Thorpe announce the birth of their son Emmanuel James Thorpe at 12:04pm on Friday, the 7th day of March, 2008. Emmanuel James was born at Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester (Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital) in New Rochelle, New York. Emmanuel James joins his brother, Isaiah Keishon Mullings at three years old. Emmanuel James was inches 17.5 inches long and 6 pounds, 3 ounces. Emmanuel James’s maternal grandparents are Laura Mae Thorpe and James Thorpe of Mount Vernon, New York. Emmanuel James’s paternal grandparents are Diana Ligon (Dixon) Christmas and Richard Frederick Christmas of Roselle, New Jersey, and Wesley James Mullings of Orange, New Jersey.

Notice of Formation of Aker Management, LLC filed with SSNY on September 29th, 2020.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 354 East 91st Street, Suite 1802 New York NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Muna Creative Collective, LLC filed with SSNY on September, 28 2020.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1240 Lexington Ave apt 51, NY NY 10028. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Redmond & Finn, LLC filed with SSNY on September 2, 2020. 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 Cambridge Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of CORCORAN BK LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/7/20. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in DE on 9/25/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400., Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DLawson and Company LLC filed with SSNY on October 8, 2020.

Office: Bronx County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 150 East 151st Street, Apt # 2L, Bronx, NY 10451.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 150.8’) on the building at 20 W 20th Street, New York, NY (20201922). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties Notice of Qual. of TANDEM CLINICAL RESEARCH GI LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/15/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in LA on 5/21/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 3535 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119. Arts. of Org. filed with LA SOS. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of CALIBRANT HARRISBURG III, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/13/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/24/20. Princ. office of LLC: 125 W. 55th St., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of JASF HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/27/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9 Prospect Park West, Unit #11c, Brooklyn, NY, 11215.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 4216 8th AVE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/17/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4216 8th Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 8501 21 AVE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/15/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4216 8TH Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of Calmo LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 9/24/20. Office location: Putnam.

LLC formed in DE on 9/24/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 25 Chestnut Street, Cold Spring, Ny, 10516. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ARJAY PROPERTIES, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/8/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 26 Court Street Suite 1200, Brooklyn, NY, 11242. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of FLIGHT OF FANCY REALTY GROUP LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/8/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 12 Park St Brooklyn, Ny, 11206. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BE AS WATER, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/13/20. Office location: Ulster SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 51 Grey Mouse Rd. Saugerties, NY, 12477. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ZABU ENTERTAINMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/27/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8752 19TH ST., Brooklyn, NY, 11214.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CHERA HARLEM MEMBER, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/8/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 26 Court St. Ste 1200, Brooklyn, NY, 11242. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE PINK TABLE NYC LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/14/20.

Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to PO BOX 140496 Staten Island, NY, 10314.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MTH BAKERY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/5/20. Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to Attention: C/O H&H Bagels Group, Inc. 1551 2nd Avenue New York, NY, 10028. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EPW SPORTS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/17/20. Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 210 East 68th Street Apt. 5g New York, NY 10065. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RTF PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/1/20. Office location Fulton SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1205 Soda Canyon Road Napa, CA, 94558. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LIQUID BASS PRODUCTIONS LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/20/19. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 88-15 70TH Drive Floor 1 Forest Hills, New York, 11375. Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of MIGLIONICO HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/9/20. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 78 Holmes Road Newburgh, NY, 12550.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SPREADS BAKERY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/5/20.

Office location: Westchester SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to Attention: C/O H&H Bagels Group, Inc, 1551 2nd Avenue New York, Ny, 10028.Any lawful purpose.

October 26, 2020

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

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

If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your attorney must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1.

You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2.

You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3.

You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Probate Citation

File No. 2020-176 SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent

TO THE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN AND DISTRIBUTEES OF Laurence J. Icaueo a/k/a Laurence Iacueo, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors , administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence.

Priscillia Weick, Leonard H. Jordan, Raymond J. Pardon, Anthony D. Nicastri, Francesca Denman, Thomas Giallorenzi, Albert R. Giallorenzi, Clarice Curry, Andrea Spica, Catherine Spica, John B. Marino III, Karen I. DiJulio, Public Administrator of New York County.

A petition having been filed by Raffaele F. Maietta, who is domiciled at 65 Glenwood Drive, Hauppauge, New York 11788 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, NEW YORK County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, on November 24th, 2020, at 9:30 o’clock in the FORE NOON OF THAT DAY, WHY A DECREE SHOULD NOT BE MADE IN THE ESTGATE OF Laurence J. Iacueo a/k/a Laurence Iacueo lately domiciled at 372 Central Park West, Apt. 17J, New York, New York 10025 admitting to probate a Will dated January 30, 2018, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Laurence J. Iacueo a/k/a Laurence Iacueo deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that (X) Letters Testamentary issue to: Raffaele F. Maietta ( ) Letters of Trusteeship issue to:________________________ ( ) Letters of Administration c.t.a issue to: ___________________ (State any further relief requested) *To persons serving this citation: The citation is to be served in accordance with the Court’s order directing alternative service of process. *To all Parties: No in person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court Notice to Cited Parties. /S Rita Mella ________________________ HON Surrogate S/Diana Sanabria _________________________ October 19th, 2020 Dated, Attested and Sealed Gina Raio Bitsimis of Davidow, Davidow, Siegel & Stern Attorney for Petitioner

Chief Clerk

631-234-3030 Telephone Number

1050Old Nichols Road, Suite 100, Islandia, NY 11749 grbitsimis@davidowlaw.com Address of Attorney E-mail (NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested, You have a right to have any attorney appear for you.)

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Notice of Formation Monitor 332 Realty LLC filed with SSNY on 8/6/20. Office: King’s County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: J. James Carriero, Esq., 108-54 Ditmars Blvd., N. Beach, NY 11369. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MTG Creative Group LLC filed with SSNY on October 19,2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 113 E Centre St, Unit 4001 Nutley, NJ 07110. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MTG Creative Group LLC filed with SSNY on October 19,2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 113 E Centre St, Unit 4001 Nutley, NJ 07110. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of CALIBRANT MAKO, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/13/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/24/20. Princ. office of LLC: 125 W. 55th St., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on November 6, 2020 and end on November 17, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #216-Henry Jackson; 2 ladders, 1 hand truck, 13 plastic containers, 1 toolbox, 5 boxes, 1 black bag, 1 luggage, pack of water and 2 milk crates #3900-John McFaddin; 7 toolboxes, microwave, bike, speaker, air conditioner, amps, bags, 5 + boxes, metal locker #3904-Jorge Hernandez; 2 rugs, folding chair, soccer ball, gulf clubs, 1-instrument case, 2-small speakers, 1 duster, 7+ bags, 1-floating pool toy, 3 boxes, 1 leather bag. #4604-1-Borjou Gudarzi; 1- file cabinet, 30 boxes, 1 round bucket, small tv #6120-Daddo Bogich; 1 box filled with wheels, 1 ladder, 2x4 metal uprights, 4x8 wood boards 4ft. assorted wood boards 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.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Tailor-Made Trivia, LLC filed with SSNY on October, 14, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 477 Midwood St., Apt. 1, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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CITY & STATE NEW YORK MANAGEMENT & PUBLISHING CEO Steve Farbman, President & Publisher Tom Allon tallon@cityandstateny.com, Comptroller David Pirozzi, Business & Operations Manager Patrea Patterson, Administrative Assistant Lauren Mauro

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CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton

LOSERS ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ Long gone are the days when politicians bad-mouthed the influence of video games on America’s youth.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently hopped on to the streaming platform Twitch and broadcast herself playing the viral video game “Among Us” while encouraging viewers to get out the vote. Around 435,000 viewers watched the livestream at its peak, making it one of Twitch’s most-watched events ever.

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The neighborhood of Greenpoint may be closing its waterfront border, but the state of New York is still wide open to our neighbors from New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania – despite those states’ rising COVID-19 numbers. New York Times best-selling author Andrew Cuomo – also a governor, apparently – said it wouldn’t be practical. Also still wide open? City & State’s weekly Winners & Losers poll.

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JAMES PATCHETT

DaBaron has become a leader in the fight of some 240 homeless men trying to stay at the Lucerne hotel on the Upper West Side. One of the residents, DaBaron sued on behalf of the men trying to stay put, and a judge ruled the residents don’t need to move for now.

JULIE MENIN

Thanks to the city census director’s outreach, nearly 62% of New Yorkers filled out their forms, beating the bureau’s pre-pandemic projections. The city even managed to outpace other major metropolises like Los Angeles and Chicago.

The NYC Ferry service, managed by the city’s Economic Development Corporation under James Patchett, has long been plagued with controversy. But last week, the owner of the private pier serving the ferry in Greenpoint barred the city from using it – to the surprise of Brooklynites already waiting on the pier.

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WHO'S AFRAID OF THE SUPER MAJORITY? Andrea Stewart-Cousins and the Democrats might not even need Cuomo in 2021

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The Florida man is reportedly the one and only person to be busted for violating New York’s mandatory 14-day quarantine.

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