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REPORTER’S NOTE IT’S A VERY NEW YORK CITY type of brag. “I saw The Strokes at Mercury Lounge while Giuliani was still mayor.” Or, “I partied with A$AP Rocky at Santos before he got big.” City & State’s annual New York City 40 Under 40 has been our version of that, introducing our readers to the players before they blow up, like then-Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, or then-Manhattan Community Board 4 Chairman Corey Johnson. Of course, our Rising Stars list isn’t all about what’s next. It’s also about the younger folks who are making a difference now in politics, policy and government in the greatest city in the world. So browse the profiles, admire the photos and come to the reception. Maybe one day, you’ll be bragging about the analyst or aide you chatted with there.

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CONTENTS

PUBLIC ADVOCATE RACE … 8

Joe Borelli wants to represent a silent minority

KEITH WRIGHT … 10

How Manhattan’s Democratic boss works for a lobbyist

40 UNDER 40 … 12 New York City’s rising stars WINNERS & LOSERS … 74

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Who was up and who was down last week

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the rest of his term. Both Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have called on King to resign.

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer went one step further, saying the council should expel him.

The suspension would be an unprecedented step for the council to take, as would expulsion.

ABOUT-FACE ON PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FINANCE

ANDY KING FACES NYC COUNCIL DISCIPLINE New York City Councilman Andy King is facing some serious penalties for equally serious allegations. The City Council Standards and Ethics Committee released a scathing report following a lengthy investigation, substantiating four charges that had been made against King. They

included retaliating against a staffer who had filed a sexual harassment complaint, using taxpayer money for his wife’s daughter’s wedding and improperly allowing his wife to conduct official office business, including hiring staff. The committee recommended that King face a 30-day suspension, a $15,000 fine, removal from his committee chairmanship and the appointment of a monitor in his office for

The state commission tasked with instituting a public campaign financing system took an unusual step in its most recent meeting, voting to consider prohibiting matching funds for donations to a candidate from outside their district.

The move reverses a vote taken at the commission’s previous meeting to allow out-of-district donations to be eligible for public matching funds.

Ostensibly, the about-face came in part from the testimony of a Long Island Uber driver named Roger

BUZZKILLS New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio huddled up at Lower East Side watering hole Max Fish on Tuesday to talk with local leaders like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and city nightlife czar Ariel Palitz about an initiative to ease noise and congestion around the popular late-night neighborhood. City officials toasted to the plan over a beer.

“We both knew that this was a Don Quixote mission.”

– de Blasio supporter and donor Ravi Batra, on the mayor’s aborted presidential campaign, via The New York Times

Meadows. He suggested only matching donations from a candidate’s district and instituting higher rates for lower dollar amounts. The commission ultimately decided to look at a 20-to-1 matching system for in-district donations only, adopting part of Meadows’ suggestion. That would be much higher than the suggested 6-to-1 or 8-to-1 ratios experts have suggested, which would mirror New York City’s public campaign financing system. The Fair Elections for New York campaign denounced the vote and the apparent lack of transparency around the decision to hold it, which reportedly happened before the public hearing.

TRUMP LAWYERS CLAIM TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY

“We’ll have some tar and feathers for him, right?

That’s what you do to a fool – you tar and feather him.”

– J.P. Patafio, the Transport Workers Union Local 100 surface division chief, about MTA Chairman Patrick Foye, amid bitter contract negotiations, via the New York Post

In the latest chapter of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s ongoing attempts to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns, the president’s lawyers made a bold assertion. Remember that time during the campaign when Trump said he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose voters? Well, his lawyers now say that if he did, he couldn’t be charged while still in office.

The stance is part of their overarching argument that a sitting president cannot be charged with

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or even investigated for a crime. Both New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Police Department responded by saying that Trump would be arrested if he shot someone. The tax return case is currently being decided in a federal appeals court, and it could make it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

LANDMARK CLIMATE CHANGE COURT CASE BEGINS State Attorney General Letitia James has begun a landmark climate change court case against Exxon Mobil Corp., the first climate fraud lawsuit to make it to court. James is accusing the company of misleading investors about the financial costs of climate change and is trying to get Exxon Mobil to pay as much as $1.6 billion in restitution.

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The court case represents the culmination of years of examination that began under former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

NEW YORK CITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES GET A BOOST

Following the beating deaths of four homeless men in Manhattan, de Blasio announced a $37 million investment into expanded services for the seriously mentally ill.

It includes pairing police officers with trained mental health professionals when responding to calls of people in crisis, with the goal of reducing the number of deadly encounters between the police and the mentally ill. However, advocates for people with mental illnesses criticized the mayor’s response as too weak.

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Andy King’s checkered shirt, er, past Known for his bow ties and colorful clothes, New York City Councilman Andy King is facing some serious penalties for alleged misdeeds, including harassing employees and misusing public funds. The recent recommendation of unusually stiff penalties – no other member of the council has been suspended in recent memory – might make some wonder about King’s past. He was in the City Council for more than five years before these alleged actions occurred. So what was his career like before that?

His first major ethical controversy came from his 2013 campaign, his first run for a full four-year term after winning a special election for the seat in 2012. The city Campaign Finance Board in 2015 fined King for various violations, including using campaign funds to pay personal phone bills and paying his wife for an undisclosed reason. King sued the Campaign Finance Board in 2016, contending he did not have to pay the majority of the fines, that the payments to his wife were legitimate and that the phone bill was for a small home campaign office. The Campaign Finance Board sued King in 2018 for failing to pay the fines, even after he asked for multiple extensions. The board had previously fined King’s 2009 and 2012 campaigns for other minor offenses that one staffer attributed to “sloppy bookkeeping.”

King is currently accused of similar abuses as those the Campaign Finance Board fined him for in 2015. Among the myriad allegations he faces, one involves using taxpayer dollars to pay for a retreat to the Virgin Islands and the wedding of his wife’s daughter. Another accuses him of allowing his wife, Neva Shillingford-King, an executive vice president with 1199SEIU, to direct office business and have an improper influence in hiring decisions. A spokesperson for the union did not return a request for comment. According to the report from the City Council Standards and Ethics Committee, the investigation it conducted spanned as far back as 2015, when the first sexual harassment allegation against him came out.

A former council staffer accused King of sexual harassment, and then retaliatiation after she first made a complaint. The staffer claimed that she was not the first person to receive unwanted attention from King and said that he created a “hostile work environment.”

King came under investigation by the Standards and Ethics Committee for the first time in 2017, for a new sexual harassment accusation. That investigation concluded with the council voting for King to undergo sensitivity training in 2018.

King’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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WEEK AHEAD

WEDNESDAY 10/30

MONDAY 11/4

TUESDAY 11/5

City & State hosts the NYC 40 Under 40 Rising Stars reception from 6-9 p.m. at Houston Hall in Manhattan.

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams gives remarks.

The state Senate is hosting a hearing to investigate the potential harms of e-cigarettes and vaping, particularly on teens. It starts at noon on the 19th floor of 250 Broadway in Manhattan.

Election Day! Voters will decide on changes to the New York City Charter and elect a new Queens district attorney and a new state senator in Western New York, among other races.

INSIDE DOPE

There’s no such thing as an off year for election junkies. Beyond the races, insiders will be spotting trends for 2020 and watching to see how counties implemented early voting for the first time.

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BUSWAY BLUEPRINTS WHICH ROUTES COULD BE THE NEXT 14TH STREET?

BY MADELINE LYSKAWA

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

THE AVERAGE HUMAN walks between 3 and 4 miles per hour.

So when New York City buses are moving at a similar speed, when is it worth taking the bus?

This summer, the New York Public Interest Research Group’s Straphangers Campaign and TransitCenter named the M14A bus as the city’s slowest bus and their annual Pokey Award winner. It moseyed from the Lower East Side to Chelsea Piers at an average speed of just 4.3 mph.

But after 14th Street was converted into a dedicated busway, the M14 has been practically rocketing across town – and ridership is surging. Now that the experiment worked – and the surrounding streets didn’t become a gridlocked apocalypse like some locals predicted – which other slow routes, as listed in the Pokey Awards, could be good candidates to become busways?

BX19 – SOUTHERN BLVD. – AVERAGE SPEED 4.8 MPH

For the 26,500 riders that use this route every day, the Bx19 trudges along Southern Boulevard at a maddeningly slow pace.

It is not as notorious as the Bx12, its Fordham Road cousin, which was chosen as the city’s first Select Bus Service route in 2008. Now the Bx12 SBS barrels along at a (relatively) brisk pace.

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Q54 – METROPOLITAN AVE. – AVERAGE SPEED 6.4 MPH

Doing its best between Jamaica, Queens, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the Q54 transports more than 11,000 riders every day. Until the city does something about it, if you really want to get to Jamaica from Williamsburg, you’d be better off taking the subway into Manhattan and then back into Queens.

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With nearly 30,000 riders per day, the B35 spends most of its time trundling along Church Avenue. The New York City Department of Transportation proposed eliminating parking on both sides of the busy avenue to install dedicated bus lanes, but facing opposition from a neighborhood synagogue that feared the plan would affect Saturday worship, the DOT dropped the proposal.

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S48 – FOREST AVE. – AVERAGE SPEED 7.8 MPH

Despite serving just over 7,000 riders every day, Staten Island’s S48 is one of the borough’s most frequently used routes.

Without a subway, most Staten Islanders have to use the bus if they don’t own a car of their own, leaving them at the mercy of the transit gods.

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JOE BORELLI & THE SILENT MINORITY The Republican running for public advocate wants to be a voice for New Yorkers “who aren’t out there protesting in the streets.” Does that message resonate anywhere outside Staten Island?

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EW YORK CITY Councilman Joseph Borelli, the Republican nominee for public advocate, hails from the South Shore of Staten Island. It’s the most remote corner of what’s often called “the forgotten borough,” and he introduced himself to New York City voters at the Oct. 22 public advocate debate on NY1 as the spokesman for a forgotten New York.

Challenging the incumbent public advocate, Democrat Jumaane Williams, Borelli has little hope of winning, but he made it clear that he wasn’t planning on drifting to the left to improve his chances.

“I’m running because there are millions of New Yorkers who aren’t out there protesting in the streets,” Borelli said in his

opening statement. “They’re not demanding we hamstring our police. … These are people that don’t have a voice in ... any citywide office. I’ll be that voice.”

It’s a very different forgotten New York than the one Mayor Bill de Blasio argued was overlooked by his predecessor Michael Bloomberg. De Blasio pledged to advocate for low-income New Yorkers and communities of color, whereas Borelli said that he would “be the most effective counter-balance” to de Blasio’s liberal agenda, “and I’ll hold Mayor de Blasio accountable.”

The problem for Borelli is that the majority of New York City voters lean left. That’s why they’ve elected such liberal citywide officials in the first place. Williams himself is a progressive standard-bearer, who has enthusiastically embraced the public

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New York City Councilman Joseph Borelli, center, alongside fellow Staten Island City Councilman Steven Matteo, left, and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, announces funding for a South Shore park-and-ride lot in February. Borelli’s campaign for public advocate reflects many of his constituents’ suburban attitudes in Staten Island, but might seem out of step to most New York City voters.

advocate’s role as a spokesperson for marginalized communities, such as the homeless and mentally ill.

Throughout their hourlong jousting match, Borelli repeatedly staked out typical Republican positions that are unlikely to help him defeat Williams. Among the popular causes he opposed were bail reform, marijuana legalization, closing the jail complex on Rikers Island and divesting public pension funds from fossil fuels.

And so where Richard Nixon famously identified a “silent majority,” Borelli has only a silent minority.

Perhaps most contrarian of Borelli’s views, however, is that he thinks the city should consider eliminating the very office he is seeking. He’s not the only one to argue that the job currently lacks power and that it should either be given some or be disestablished. Borelli has a bill to move the Department of Investigation under the public advocate to enhance the department’s independence from the mayor – a measure Borelli said would “make the public advocate worth having.” But it’s unusual for someone to apply for a job by saying that the position shouldn’t exist.

“The position is reduced to protester-in-chief,” Borelli complained, referring to Williams’ well-known habit of participating in protests or acts of civil disobedi-

ence. “Jumaane, to get anything done, feels he has to get arrested and chain himself to a building or something.” The public advocate can introduce City Council legislation, though – and Williams countered by pointing out that he passes more legislation than most council members.

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While Borelli may be offering a stark ideological contrast, he and Williams seemed to get along personally; when Borelli professed that he found calls to dismantle car culture in New York City “incredibly offensive,” he hastened to add that he wasn’t pointing the finger at Williams.

In his typical conciliatory fashion, Wil-

“JUMAANE, TO GET ANYTHING DONE, FEELS HE HAS TO GET ARRESTED AND CHAIN HIMSELF TO A BUILDING OR SOMETHING.” – NEW YORK CIT Y COUNCILMAN JOSEPH BORELLI

election, didn’t let that gibe upset him.

Throughout the debate, he maintained an amiable calm, offering subtle progress reports on his efforts, such as creating borough-based satellite offices in which victims of police brutality can complain to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which he said needs more funding.

“Government tries to do things to people; the public advocate needs to try to get government to do things with people,” Williams said.

liams offered that he doesn’t want to kill car culture, but merely to “change” it.

Despite his positions that are plainly not poll-tested for the city’s left-leaning electorate, Borelli did show, with appealing truthfulness and humor, that he recognized how hard he was swimming upstream. When asked if he would run for mayor in 2021 if elected public advocate this year, he answered: “It’s a 7-to-1 Democratic city. If I win this race, I’m starting my campaign for mayor the next day.”

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Wright & Wrong

Nobody has challenged Keith Wright because “nobody else wants to be county leader,” one critic said.

In contrast to the outer boroughs, Manhattan has been a bastion of good-government politics. So how is the borough boss working for a lobbyist?

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N 2017, KEITH WRIGHT, the unpaid chairman of the Manhattan Democratic Party, needed a new job. He had given up his Assembly seat after unsuccessfully running for Congress but soon found a gig as director of strategic planning at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, one of the most influential lobbying firms in New York.

Shockingly, to good-government groups at least, Wright chose to remain party chairman, a position he has held since 2009.

Calls for him to resign were ignored. This month, he handily won reelection to another two-year term. He had no opponents.

In a statement to City & State, Wright argued there is no conflict of interest between his day job and his county party chairmanship: “I am not a registered lobbyist and do not lobby elected officials. … I provide strategic guidance and advice to some of the firm’s clients.” Wright faced a mandatory two-year ban on registering as a lobbyist after he left elected office. After January, when that expired, he registered as a lobbyist for a number of clients. According to Wright’s spokesman, Thomas Butler, that’s only because his firm automatically registered all of its government affairs staff, and he deregistered in late summer.

But it’s easy to see how conflicts can arise, even if Wright himself is merely an adviser or strategist instead of a direct lobbyist. What if he is paid to advise a client on legislation that has a direct impact on a decision he can make as a county leader, such as the nomination of a judge? What if a political decision he makes as county leader affects a business or trade association that is represented by his firm?

Historically, Manhattan has been a bastion of anti-machine, good-government politics. So how has Wright remained in charge in the borough where the reform movement in New York was born? Why, unlike other controversial political bosses elsewhere, has he not been ousted?

According to his supporters and detractors alike, Wright’s survival is actually a product of Manhattan’s brand of democracy – as well as a general indifference in the borough to the relatively weak county leader position. Elsewhere, powerful politicians vie to lead their county organizations, but no one has expressed a serious desire to take on Wright directly since he took the reins of the party a decade ago.

Some of that is a testament to Wright’s personality – he’s regarded as an easygoing, hands-off leader – and the rest has more to do with the peculiarities of Manhattan’s political structure.

Since the product of past reforms is less power concentrated in the county committee, the county chairmanship is less important to both regulars and reformers.

“Part of why he was reelected was nobody went against him,” said Paul Newell, a Manhattan Democratic district leader who abstained from the vote to reelect Wright.

“It takes some of the sting out of the folks who don’t think we should have a lobbyist as a county leader if the county leader isn’t dictating things in the same way.”

Ben Yee, a Manhattan county committee member who has also been critical of Wright’s regime, noted that to oust Wright, someone else would have to want the job.

“Nobody else wants to be county leader,” Yee said. “The county organization doesn’t

really impose itself like it does in other boroughs, so there isn’t the incentive or feudal interest to challenge the county leader.”

Wright, in his statement, referenced the county party’s lighter hand than its counterparts in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. “Most people recognize that the Manhattan Democratic Party has a decentralized structure, with members empowered within their districts, and my support comes from the bottom up,” he said. Wright added that he is a “consensus-builder.”

Manhattan hasn’t had a strong, centralized Democratic Party since the fall of Tammany Hall, the old machine, in the 1960s. A reform movement led by a young Democratic district leader named Ed Koch helped defeat Carmine De Sapio, a political boss once so powerful he was courted by presidential candidates.

Since then, the post has become progressively weaker, a function of the limited leverage a county leader in Manhattan enjoys over other elected officials. Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated him, then-Rep. Joseph Crowley was the consummate Democratic boss of Queens, whipping City Council members to vote for

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his preferred speaker candidate and successfully dissuading strong primary challenges for open seats and judicial races.

Though the Queens Democratic Party has long been in decline, there are vestiges of power that remain, like the party lawyers who get rich in Surrogate’s Court.

There is no equivalent in Manhattan.

Power is diffuse and divided among political fiefdoms. There are political clubs and elected officials who hold sway in neighborhoods like Chinatown, the Upper West Side, Greenwich Village, Harlem and Washington Heights, but all lack the ability to move votes countywide. Wright’s party can’t mobilize a significant number of voters, sway unions or even raise substantial cash to support certain candidates. No disloyal Democrat will get a Wright-backed primary. And few Manhattan Democrats running for City Council in 2021 are aggressively courting Wright.

“People make the mistake of talking about the county leader of Manhattan like it’s the Democratic chair of Kings County or Joe Crowley,” said Barry Weinberg, the secretary of the Manhattan Democratic Party and the president of the West Harlem Progressive Democratic Club. “Manhat-

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tan is divided into so many neighborhood power centers. They don’t want somebody who tries to rule with an iron fist.”

Weinberg argued Wright has “significant influence in judicial nominations and appointing poll workers, but, other than that, Manhattan is a thoroughly decentralized system.”

It’s this decentralization, a product of various reforms from decades ago – even judicial nominations in Manhattan go through an extensive screening panel, depriving Wright of picking dubious allies, unless they are in his own backyard – that has allowed most Democrats in the borough, even the progressives, to avoid seriously scrutinizing Wright’s conflicts of interest, like his firm lobbying Manhattan Democratic elected officials while he serves as their county leader.

The attitude boils down to something rather simple: Why bother with him if he leaves us alone? For progressives elsewhere, it’s an approach that raises eyebrows. In Manhattan, which holds itself in especially high regard, that’s just business as usual.

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of small ‘d’ democracy,” said Doug Forand, a Democratic consultant who has worked on campaigns in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. “No individual is able to consolidate power to wield it in the way county leaders do in other boroughs.”

Wright is not entirely disempowered, though. While Frank Seddio, the Brooklyn boss, drew the most attention for unifying his party behind Brian Kavanagh, his preferred candidate, for a 2017 state Senate special election in a district spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan, it was Wright who had the legal authority to pick a candidate unilaterally because Manhattan occupied a bigger portion of the district, according to Newell, who was Kavanagh’s opponent and won the backing of a majority of Manhattan county committee members.

“Keith could’ve decided on whoever he wanted. Seddio had zero say in the matter,” Newell said.

Kavanagh, with Wright’s backing, would secure the nomination and end up in the state Senate.

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

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VERY GENERATION gets its own cliché, with millenials often described as lazy and the up-andcoming Generation Z labeled as entitled. But teenage activists like environmentalist Greta Thunberg or the Parkland, Florida, gun control activists have been driving momentum behind some of this year’s most pressing issues – and they are just getting started.

In New York, a new crop of leftist congressional candidates in their 20s and 30s are challenging incumbents and promising reforms to address the needs of underserved communities.

This year’s class of New York City 40 Under 40 Rising Stars has its share of ambitious movers and shakers fighting to improve their communities: there’s the state senator following in the footsteps of her activist parents, the communications director working to highlight the struggles of union workers and the city staffer helping connect uninsured New Yorkers to affordable health care. We recognize lobbyists, public servants, attorneys and marketing pros – all under the age of 40 – who are reenergizing their professions and challenging the status quo.

Without further ado, we’re pleased to introduce the 2019 New York City 40 Under 40 Rising Stars.

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05/10/198 5 @JA R EDA R A DER PURCHASE COLLEGE; ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW JARED ARADER once tried making politics his career during his year and a half working for the UJA-Federation of New York. It didn’t quite work out.

“I sucked as a paid lobbyist,” Arader says. “For whatever reason, being paid to do politics didn’t work for me.”

So Arader decided to leave that world behind and keep his political engagement strictly voluntary, and it’s been going pretty well so far. After initially planning to create a new political club for gay Jews like himself in Brooklyn, he was convinced instead to join the existing Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn – of which he is now president. Arader, who had served as a vice president of the club, says it is undergoing a complete rebranding under his leadership, bringing the old model of club politics into the 21st century, when people don’t want to be closely affiliated with the Democratic Party.

“I like to describe the club not as an apparatus of the party, but a grassroots organization of Democrats who want their voices heard in the party,” Arader says. “Continuing to do that, but adapting to changing times and people’s ever-changing, ever-evolving relationship with the party.”

Those changes include highlighting the accomplishments of club members, reaching out to members of the LGBTQ community to become involved and creating a leadership team to govern more democratically – rather than having a majority of the power consolidated with him.

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ROWHAN BAPTISTE

ASSOCIATE, COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS GLOBAL STRATEGY GROUP 0 6/16/1989 BARUCH COLLEGE ROWHAN BAPTISTE had every

intention of pursuing a career in accounting. But during his freshman year at Baruch College, he applied for a White House internship on a whim.

He was accepted and assigned to the Office of Presidential Correspondence. Baptiste would read letters sent by struggling Americans across the country. This was in 2009: The economy had just crashed and President Barack Obama was in his first year in office.

Baptiste says the letters he read had a profound impact on him, and that listening to what people care about has become a “guiding principle” during his decade of public service. Since then, Baptiste campaigned and worked for then-state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, interned with U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, and spent six years in U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office.

“What I was able to learn and then develop growth from those opportunities, I wouldn’t trade for a second,” he says.

Today, Baptiste develops communications and public affairs strategies for institutions like the MTA and the New York State Health Foundation, as well as working on campaigns like the medical marijuana industry’s push to legalize recreational marijuana.

As a first-generation American and son of immigrants from Grenada, Baptiste knows it can be difficult to be assertive in groups where you don’t feel like you belong. He has joined Global Strategy Group’s diversity and inclusion working group in an effort to help others feel free to “speak out about an issue, and to bring different ideas to the table.”

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JENNIFER BLATUS

MEDIA STRATEGIST STU LOESER & CO. 08/17/1989 @J E N N I FER BL AT US COLLEGE OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT JENNIFER BLATUS was attending the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the northernmost reaches of the Bronx when she decided she wanted to be a journalist. She marched across the street to a tiny, muckraking paper (which has since shut down) called the Riverdale Review.

“I banged down the door, came in like a gust of wind, and said ‘My name is Jennifer Blatus and I want to be a journalist and you have to teach me how,’” Blatus recalls. “I like to think it was much calmer than that, but it probably wasn’t.”

Blatus started working (for free) alongside future politicos John DeSio and Candice Giove. After she graduated in 2010, she followed DeSio to the Bronx borough president’s office. She later spent three years at the Bronx Tourism Council, served as New York City Councilman Andrew Cohen’s communications director and worked at The Advance Group, where she helped run campaigns for elected officials like Jose Peralta, Mark Gjonaj, Diane Savino and Laurie Cumbo.

Then came Max Rose. The former Army captain was launching an underdog bid for the most conservative congressional seat in New York City.

Would Blatus sacrifice job stability and her health care plan to help run a race no one thought could be won?

“I knew within 15 minutes of meeting him he was winning this race,” Blatus says. “Probably one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life.”

After Rose won, Blatus was hired as a media strategist for Stu Loeser & Co.

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JORDAN CARÉLUS

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and obnoxious” kid from Rockville Centre, Jordan Carélus says he wasn’t sure what career he wanted to pursue, but he ended up at York College studying political science. That’s where one of his professors – who was a veteran of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns – recommended him to the government and community relations firm Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates.

“I said, ‘Well, all right, I need something to go on my resume,’ not knowing what Patrick did,” Carélus remembers.

Three years later, Carélus says he is Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates’ top fundraiser. Carélus says his success is a mix of workaholism and overcoming his natural brashness in order to, as he put it, “listen more than you speak.”

Today, Carélus works with clients like state Sens. Jamaal T. Bailey and Kevin Parker as well as Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman.

Much of his work in the past year has been dedicated to helping the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators get out of debt.

Despite his ambition and gift for fundraising, Carélus says he doesn’t see a future as a politician.

“Absolutely not. I will never,” he says.

“I like being in the trenches. You can’t be in the trenches if you’re out here being the face of the show,” Carélus says. “Just give me the instructions and let’s go.”

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JOHN CICCARELLI

DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM 0 3/2 5/19 9 3 PACE UNIVERSITY

BY THE TIME John Ciccarelli graduated from college, he had already helped bring about an international arms trade treaty at the United Nations. He was an intern at a nonprofit that worked to publicize the human costs of an unregulated global arms trade – and he says the experience made him realize he wanted to work in public service.

After about 100 nations signed the Arms Trade Treaty in 2013, Ciccarelli decided his efforts were best spent closer to home.

“I wanted to be involved in advocacy where the community I lived in was affected by it,” Ciccarelli says.

“Focusing on the issues here, in our city, is what’s really important to me.”

Today, Ciccarelli is in charge of external affairs for an association of 4,000 New York City landlords and property managers. Earlier this year, he traveled the country, working with other cities’ associations to develop strategies to combat rent laws like the ones passed in Albany in June. Over the next few months and years, he hopes to further educate the public on the long-term impacts of burdensome regulations.

It’s a difficult balance to achieve, Ciccarelli says, but he is up for the challenge. In fact, he wants to flip the script on at least one other industry with a rough reputation.

“Lobbying is almost like a swear word,” he says. “But every industry has one and I think you just have to try to get the public to understand where we’re coming from.”

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CHELSEA CONNOR

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR RETAIL, WHOLESALE AND DEPARTMENT STORE UNION 10/2 3/1988 @ C H ELSE AC ON NOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY; FORDHAM UNIVERSITY “WHAT MAKES me tick is telling the

stories of workers,” says Chelsea Connor, who has been communications director for the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union for about two years. “These are workers who are struggling to make ends meet.”

Connor spent part of her 20s in political journalism and communications, including working for NBC News and Cyrus Vance Jr.’s campaign for Manhattan district attorney.

“I think to really understand how to get a message across, you have to have spent some time in the trenches with reporters,” she says. “We’re all just humans trying to work together. When you see both sides as coworkers, that makes a huge amount of difference.”

But Connor’s path to success in the communications industry wasn’t without challenges. She says she grew up with a learning disability that impaired her ability to read and write.

“There were people who never thought I would graduate high school or graduate college,” she says. “Now I don’t think twice when I write a speech.

I think if I were to say something to another student that’s struggling, it’s that you really can do anything.”

After working at the MirRam Group, the Consulate General of Canada in New York and the International Labor Communications Association, Connor has been focusing on writing and strategizing for campaigns as well as reacting to the news of the day.

“I go home thinking about those workers,” she says. “I think, too often, working people’s voices aren’t heard.”

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MAIDEL DE LA CRUZ CHIEF OF STAFF, CITY LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS NEW YORK CITY MAYOR’S OFFICE

10/1 2 /19 9 2 @I A M M A I DEL THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY; SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY MAIDEL DE LA CRUZ started her career in politics on the ground. As a field organizer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in Florida, De La Cruz grew to deeply love politics and campaigns.

“Following the election, I wanted to remain in a good fight,” she says.

Fresh off the campaign, the New Jersey native looked for the right job in government – one that aligned with her values – and she found it at New York City Hall. De La Cruz put her master’s degree in health care administration from Syracuse University to work joining the team of Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services Herminia Palacio. There, she helped launch NYC Care, the city’s high-profile health care access program. While she worked through the challenges of implementing the program, De La Cruz says she never lost sight of its human impact – especially in heavily Hispanic areas of the Bronx, where NYC Care launched in August.

“I’m a Latina, I speak Spanish,” she says. “I can connect with a lot of our constituents in a much deeper way through that.” After two years in health policy, De La Cruz is moving back into a more political role as chief of staff for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office of City Legislative Affairs. She says she is glad to be staying in City Hall. “I pinch myself every day,” she says. “It’s great.”

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JENNIE FRISHTICK SENIOR ASSOCIATE KASIRER 10/18/19 9 3 SCRIPPS COLLEGE WHEN JENNIE FRISHTICK was looking for a career after college, she didn’t really have a clear idea of what a lobbyist does. She also didn’t have a background in government. But when a job opened up at Kasirer, she says it checked all the boxes as far as what she was looking to do.

As Frishtick began to get her footing in the lobbying world, she was constantly learning about New York City government and elected officials – like who goes by their first name and who goes by their last name.

“I think it was my first day – someone referenced Tish, referring to our then-Public Advocate Letitia James,” she says. “And I remember Googling ‘Tisch NYC,’ but like T-I-S-C-H NYC, to figure out who they are talking about.”

Learning about city government is one of the things Frishtick likes most about her job – that and meeting new people. “It’s a little self-serving because it means I’m having a good time, but also it really helps my work because that’s just so necessary to being able to navigate the city,” Frishtick says, comparing city government to a small town.

Frishtick’s job also allows her to constantly learn about new subjects and initiatives – she especially likes learning about public transit and relishes the opportunity to explore new areas of the city.

“I like being a generalist,” Frishtick says. “I really do enjoy getting to do a little bit of everything.”

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CHIEF OF STAFF TO ASSEMBLYMAN MICHAEL REILLY 0 4/1 5/19 9 4 @PET ER GI U N TA SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE LIKE A young basketball player

in a hurry to make it to the pros, Peter Giunta treated college as a mere formality. The aspiring Staten Island politico interned for New York City Councilman Vincent Ignizio during high school. He had already organized public forums and a community kayaking event.

When he was 18, he even got paid to work on Joseph Borelli’s Assembly campaign.

But politics, like the NBA, demands that a player spend some time in the classroom, so Giunta schlepped up to Albany to get a degree in public administration from SUNY Empire State College while continuing to work for Borelli on the side.

“For me personally, I look at it like the college years really didn’t produce anything for me because I was already doing my career,” Giunta says. At 25, he is now closing in on a decade’s worth of experience in electoral politics, including about six years working for Borelli as a special assistant and later as deputy chief of staff, as well as a stint as deputy campaign manager for Republican Marc Molinaro’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign. He is now chief of staff to Assemblyman Michael Reilly.

Whether it’s standing up for his boss, defending President Donald Trump on social media – or acknowledging that his marinades on poultry, steak and shrimp still need some work – Giunta abides by one principle that unites Democrats and Republicans alike on Staten Island. “You just call it as you see it.” he says.

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SARAH LIZA HORNUNG DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EAST MIDTOWN PARTNERSHIP

08/19/1981 @M ISSHOR N U NG GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOW DO you convince people East Midtown isn’t defined by office buildings and those dress shirts that are blue but have a white collar? That’s something Sarah Liza Hornung has been working on for nearly six years “I think the thing I’m most proud of is Trick or Treat with East Midtown,” she says. “We had about 6,000 people come over four hours. It introduces people to new businesses and offers families a really fun and authentic trick or treating experience, which is pretty neat for midtown Manhattan.”

Hornung came into her role at the East Midtown Partnership almost by accident. She has a background in the arts, and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for five years.

When she first joined the business improvement district, she didn’t have the same skills or starting point as many of her colleagues. But she has found this to be a strength.

“I have a different frame of reference from some of my peers and I have a different frame of what’s possible than people who have come out of a planning or BID background would,” she says.

What’s allowed her to find success has been her talent for building coalitions.

“I like to find how people who aren’t aligned on the surface can be aligned,” she says. “I’m a good listener. I really hear what’s working and what’s not and what’s missing. I think when you really ingest what’s coming in, you can be really successful into layering that into interesting ideas.”

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PHIL JONES SENIOR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS DIRECTOR FOR NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND THE NATIONAL CITIES INITIATIVE LIME 1 1 /27/1981 @DA R E A L PH I L JON ES AMHERST COLLEGE PHIL JONES may no longer be work-

ing for a labor union or an elected official, but he’s still doing the same community outreach work that has driven his entire career. (Technically, Lime is not Jones’ first foray into the private sector, he notes. As a teenager, he had a trash route and worked for Kentucky Fried Chicken.)

Jones joined Lime a little over a year ago to work for equity – the same mission he had while working for then-New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

“I saw transportation and the tech innovation that was happening there as a way to help push my advocacy and my commitment to community to the next level,” Jones says of his recent move to Lime. So far, it’s gone quite well for him in New York – considering the state Legislature passed a bill legalizing e-bikes and e-scooters earlier this year.

But, as anyone who works in politics or public policy knows, work follows you home all too often. For Jones, unwinding with a live show at the Knitting Factory or spending time with friends who don’t know the first thing about e-bike regulations is crucial.

“You have to take a breather and take yourself out of your work life,” he says. “Having those other perspectives on what’s happening outside of tech and what’s happening outside of micromobility is a good place to be.”

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FRANCK D. JOSEPH II DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR COMMUNITY RELATIONS NEW YORK CITY COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

0 4/16/19 9 0 @F R A NC K DJOSEPH STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY FRANCK D. JOSEPH II has been

taking care of people for most of his life. When Joseph was 10 months old, his father was killed by people attempting to rob him.

A few years later, an accident temporarily confined his mother to a wheelchair, and 5-year-old Joseph cared for her. When his mother would give him a $5 bill to buy a $1 ice cream, Joseph routinely failed to come back with change, having bought cones for kids who couldn’t afford them.

Since then, Joseph hasn’t stopped coming to the aid of people who need a hand.

“Growing up, there was always this struggle, there was always this trauma, there was always this feeling that I’m less (than),” Joseph says. “And I know that felt bad.”

Now he’s working to help others overcome that same feeling – focusing on upholding the city’s human rights laws and keeping the public informed. This can mean educating New Yorkers about their right to not be asked about their salary history or arrest record during a job interview, or working with the bias response team to help a community recover after a hate crime.

Joseph previously worked as assistant to the chief of staff for Rep. Gregory Meeks and as chief of staff for New York City Councilman Donovan Richards. He credits both elected officials with being mentors who, along with his family and friends, have helped him “play with the cards that life dealt.”

“Whatever you go through doesn’t have to define you,” Joseph says.

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MELISSA KATZ

DIRECTOR THE COLLABORATIVE FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION 05/16/1987 TRINITY COLLEGE; FORDHAM UNIVERSITY; HUNTER COLLEGE WHILE STUDYING at Trinity

College, Melissa Katz worked with a mentoring program that led her into the Hartford, Connecticut, school system. It was there that Katz was struck by the disparity between the education students received in Hartford and the one she received growing up just 30 minutes away. The experience inspired Katz to sign up with Teach For America.

Katz, who is trilingual, was assigned to teach English as a second language and French at P.S. 73, an elementary school around the corner from Yankee Stadium. That’s when she became interested in making sure students had access to curriculum regardless of language barriers.

“In my mind, this is a civil rights issue,” Katz says. “They have a right to that.”

This is the mindset Katz brought with her to the New York City Charter School Center, where she was the founding ESL specialist at its Collaborative for Inclusive Education. Katz worked to expand ESL resources and training throughout the city’s charter sector.

In 2018, Katz was named director of the collaborative, and since then has shepherded the team in its mission to create inclusive learning environments. Katz’s work often takes her outside the classroom, working with charter schools to revamp aspects of their school culture and operations, as well as creating opportunities for students who wouldn’t otherwise have them.

“I still miss working with students (every day),” Katz says. But she believes she can make a bigger impact outside the classroom.

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LINDSAY KRYZAK

DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY 0 3/0 4/1987 @L I N DSK RY Z A K UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER AFTER WORKING as a Capitol Hill staffer for U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer for nearly a decade, Dutchess County native Lindsay Kryzak was looking to work her way back to her home state. She found a new home at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she serves as the director of corporate communications, handling everything from commuter complaints to emergency alerts. She’s also in charge of public outreach concerning the authority’s five airports, rail connections and the World Trade Center campus.

“I live on the phone. I live on Twitter, and I live over email,” she says.

That is OK by her when it comes to making a living, but her heart never strays far from upstate.

The University of Rochester alumna says that her loyalty to her home state extends beyond her work to include New York-made maple syrup and a devotion to exploring the Adirondacks and Catskills.

“I like to spend a lot of time backpacking, which is hard when you’re a communications person – you’re supposed to always be watching the news,” she says. “The guilty pleasure is going off Wi-Fi and cell service.”

When Kryzak cannot make it upstate to visit family or Mother Nature, she finds that there are plenty of places to visit in her new neighborhood in Brooklyn – or discovering what New Jersey has to offer for an always-curious staffer at one of the region’s most important public authorities.

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MICHAEL KURTZ

EXECUTIVE POLITICAL PRODUCER NY1 0 3/18/1982 @M IC H A EL _ K U RT Z UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN DON’T MAKE the mistake of asking Michael Kurtz if he’s busy.

“The president is getting impeached,” he might say in response.

But any other day could have earned a similar response: “the mayor joined the presidential race,” or “the Queens DA race is too close to call” or “the mayor dropped out of the presidential race.”

As NY1’s executive political producer, Kurtz is in the center of it all – literally sitting in the middle of the beloved local network’s newsroom.

“You’re coming in every day and plugging into the world,” Kurtz says.

“I’m in the nerve center and everything’s coming in at once. You have to take it all in and decide what’s most important.”

Kurtz joined NY1 during Eliot Spitzer’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, dealing with just one story at a time as a news assistant. “Driving around the city with a camera, you’re really in the front row of history,” he says. The Queens native had always loved politics and fell hard for the news business. “They’re going to pay me to actually follow this stuff? It took off from there.”

Now, Kurtz is one of the driving forces behind “Inside City Hall,” the nightly political show that’s an essential part of the local news ecosystem.

Watching from behind the scenes, Kurtz sees himself as a surrogate for the viewers tuning in from apartments and hotel bars across the city.

“I’m a New Yorker, so I feel like I bring that sensibility,” he says.

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SHARON LEE

DEPUTY QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT 0 4/27/198 3 @SL EE _ N Y UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON SHARON LEE’S New York story starts sometime in 2003, when she was a University of Wisconsin undergrad attending the Korean American Students Conference at Cornell University. There, Lee heard from then-New York City Councilman John Liu, who had just made history as the first Asian American to be elected to the City Council.

“I was really inspired,” Lee says.

“I was like, ‘I want to work for that man one day.’”

Soon enough, she did. The California native ended up moving to Queens and began to climb the political ladder with Liu, helping him get elected as New York City comptroller in 2009.

Lee always remembered watching one of Liu’s City Council colleagues, Melinda Katz, during land use hearings. When the opportunity came to work for Katz in the Queens borough president’s office, she took it. As deputy borough president, Lee now travels across Queens for events, getting the chance to inspire young people just like she was inspired years ago. But as a deputy, she says her lack of a dedicated car and driver keeps her humble.

“Got to love that bus, right?” she says with a laugh. “The unglamorous life of the perpetual public servant.”

But change is coming quickly for the Kew Gardens Hills resident as she works on the expected transition of Katz becoming Queens district attorney.

“The clock doesn’t stop and wait for the transition to take place,” she says. “In the DA’s office, you’re talking about human lives – their families. And each day cannot be wasted.”

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SEBASTIAN LEVENSON

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CLIENT RELATIONS THE ADVANCE GROUP 0 9/27/19 9 0 UTICA COLLEGE SEBASTIAN LEVENSON has been in and around politics his whole life. When he was in elementary school, he was hanging flyers for Vincent Gentile’s state Senate campaign. Bill de Blasio attended his bar mitzvah. His father, Scott Levenson, founded The Advance Group, which is the political consulting firm where Sebastian Levenson is now senior vice president of client relations.

But before arriving at the firm, Levenson made his bones working for the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, New York Communities for Change and ACORN. “I did a 1,000 phone calls a day, I did the door knocking,” Levenson says. “A lot of the job is legwork.”

At The Advance Group, Levenson works closely with nonprofits and labor unions. In 2018, Levenson and Communications Workers of America Local 1180 helped push through a bill that requires the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics to study and report on race, gender and ethnic pay disparities within city agencies. Though helping enact policy like the pay equity bill are among Levenson’s proudest achievements, he says it’s the creative aspects of political consulting he enjoys the most.

“It’s been fun to be able to use my artistic side in my work,” Levenson says. He’s heavily involved in putting together TV ads for the firm’s clients and draws political cartoons for the CWA Local 1180 newsletters. A mailer Levenson designed for state Sen. Diane Savino last year won him a Golden Donkey Award for best state-level direct mail campaign – as part of the Goldie Awards that recognize excellence in political practice and communication.

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DAVON LOMAX

POLITICAL DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES DISTRICT COUNCIL 9 05/0 4/1987 @DAVON L OM A X DISTRICT COUNCIL 9 APPRENTICESHIP WHEN DAVON LOMAX was 18, he became an apprentice painter through a program run by the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 9. He says learning a trade gave him the opportunity to pursue a lucrative career without the college degree deemed essential for other professions. Now, as District Council 9’s political director, Lomax works to provide the same opportunities to younger union members.

“You don’t necessarily need to have a college degree to be successful in life,” Lomax says. “That’s really what I strive to do, especially as a younger person in a trade, is try to get more younger folks to understand that there’s dignity in having a construction job.”

Lomax says he caught the attention of local and national leaders, including then-District Council 9 Political Director Jack Kittle, after he appeared on NY1 following a union march across the Brooklyn Bridge.

When Kittle retired in 2014, Lomax was named as his successor.

Now Lomax spends his work day advocating for members of his union at City Hall and in Albany, demanding worker protections and higher wages. He touts District Council 9’s apprenticeships as a stable route to a middle-class life. From the start, apprentices are getting paid to learn an invaluable and lifelong trade.

“This is a career path for people of color. This is a career path for folks that are low income, folks that don’t want to go to college. Everyone is talking about all the college debt you have,” Lomax says. “Apprenticeships are free.”

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FARAH N. LOUIS NEW YORK CITY COUNCILWOMAN

0 9/2 5/1982 @ C M FA R A H L OU IS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY FARAH LOUIS grew up in a Haitian

American family in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, idolizing storytellers she saw on TV – like Oprah and Fox 5 newscaster Rosanna Scotto. She pursued that media dream with her first job out of college, working in the promotions department at the Hot 97 radio station. But when a DJ at the station slandered Haitian women on air, suggesting they all had HIV, Louis knew she had to get political. She organized a rally outside the station, and got elected officials to show up and protest. It was a bold move for a young employee, but Louis had seen political organizing firsthand from her mother, a member of 1199SEIU. “I didn’t care,” she remembers. “I wanted to stand up and speak out.”

Jumaane Williams, a then-newly elected New York City councilman, came to Louis’ rally, which eventually led to her getting a job in his office, where she worked for six years. When Williams was elected public advocate earlier this year, Louis jumped at the opportunity to fill the seat. She says winning the hard-fought special election was “the most difficult thing I went through in my life.”

Louis has found that her college minor in dance prepared her well for her current job.

“We were grooving at the West Indian Carnival Parade!” she says.

“In the City Council, there’s always a parade or an opportunity to dance with a member or the speaker.”

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EBONY MEEKSLAIDLEY

SENIOR ADVISER NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER COREY JOHNSON’S OFFICE 0 9/0 9/198 4 @EBR E N EE HOWARD UNIVERSITY EBONY MEEKS-LAIDLEY has seen it all in politics. She’s worked on presidential campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. She worked in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Department of Energy. She’s worked in Albany for the Assembly speaker. She’s worked in advocacy and in labor, and she grew up watching her father, Rep. Gregory Meeks, work in politics.

So it’s no surprise that Corey Johnson’s constant campaigning for speaker of the New York City Council caught her eye.

“He outworked everybody,” Meeks-Laidley says in admiration. “And I felt, if I could be a part of (a) team like that, then we could get a lot of work done.”

Meeks-Laidley joined Johnson’s team soon after he was elected, and now advises the speaker on issues like housing and homelessness, animal rights and – a new one for her – the budget.

“I’m a beginning wonk,” she says with a laugh. “A wonk in training.”

She is married to Jason Laidley, chief of staff to state Sen. Jamaal T. Bailey, and the political power couple is now training a wonk of their own: their 1-year-old daughter. Meeks-Laidley’s life may revolve around politics, but she doesn’t plan on running for office like her dad.

“I’m more of a behind-thescenes person,” she says. “I feel like I can make the most impact by electing and advancing the right people to be elected officials and then helping them get the work done.”

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BASSAL OMAR

DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT’S OFFICE 01 /0 3/1980 LEHMAN COLLEGE WHETHER THEY call him “the

whip” or “The Great Gazoo” (the alien friend of Fred and Barney on “The Flintstones”), staffers at the office of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. turn to Bassal Omar to get things done. The deputy chief of staff has worked for Diaz ever since the Assembly, rising through the ranks over the past 17 years after beginning as an intern. It’s no accident that the Bronx native has stuck by Diaz for so long.

“Never once has he told me to dampen my activism or to shy away from something,” Omar says. “Quite the opposite – he saw something in me as a young man and he’s allowed me to express myself without fear.”

Entering politics in the years after the 9/11 attacks was not easy for Omar, whose parents are Palestinian immigrants. Islamophobia was on the rise at the time and Omar saw that he needed help fellow Muslims assert their voices at a difficult time. This included working with Diaz on a proposal to make Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha school holidays. ”The community as a whole rallied around that cause,” Omar says. While that particular effort fell short, Muslim holidays were later incorporated into the New York City school calendar.

If Diaz succeeds in becoming the first Latino mayor of New York City, Omar plans to go along for the ride all the way down the No. 4 line to City Hall.

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COREY ORTEGA

INCOMING VICE PRESIDENT OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS DUNTON CONSULTING 1 1 /14/198 3 @M R ORT E GA N Y ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY COREY ORTEGA wears many polit-

ical hats. During the day, he will be handling data and field management for a government relations firm.

After hours, he takes on the role of Democratic district leader in West Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. This fall, he’s also taken on a new role as a 2021 candidate for the New York City Council seat currently held by Mark Levine, who has reached the term limits of the office.

The West Harlem native hadn’t planned on a career in politics.

After he graduated from St. John’s University with a bachelor’s degree in banking, corporate finance and securities law, his first job was at a day care center. When a temporary job opened up as a special assistant to then-Assemblyman Keith Wright, Ortega first dismissed the idea. But he changed his mind after his mom convinced him that the job could lead to good things – and he has stayed in the political world ever since.

In his current role as a district leader, Ortega is one of the few Dominican American leaders involved in making decisions that affect the surrounding community. Wearing so many hats can be tough to balance, but Ortega says that if you cannot keep your priorities straight, then you’re not cut out for politics.

“Sometimes I just have to check myself and ask myself again and again: ‘Why am I doing this?’” he says. “Because I actually want to do right by my community.”

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SKYE OSTREICHER

DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS NICHOLAS & LENCE COMMUNICATIONS 1 2 /18/1989 @SK Y ESTATS UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI; STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY SKYE OSTREICHER was studying chemistry at the University of Miami with the intention of enrolling in medical school when Bill Clinton walked into her classroom. Ostreicher’s professor for the class – a course on the United States health care system – was Donna Shalala, who served as Clinton’s secretary of health and human services.

Ostreicher remembers her professor talking with Clinton about the fight to broaden health care coverage across the country.

Inspired by the experience, Ostreicher decided to forgo medical school and instead pursued a career in health policy.

She later earned a master’s degree in public health and a master’s degree in public policy from Stony Brook University. But before beginning what she expected would be a long career in health care policy, Ostreicher wanted “one fun internship,” she says.

She signed up for a summer stint at News 12 Long Island, and it was through that job she met Thomas Suozzi, the now-congressman who was then trying to reclaim the Nassau County executive’s office from Ed Mangano.

Ostreicher joined Suozzi’s 2013 campaign as a press assistant. Despite Suozzi losing that year, she never looked back: politics was her life now.

“I didn’t plan on doing any of this,” Ostreicher says. “I love what I do now.”

Today, Ostreicher manages various accounts as head of government and community affairs for Nicholas & Lence Communications. Never one to stop working, she is also a Manhattan Democratic district leader in the 73rd Assembly District and runs an Instagram account called The Fashionable Democrat.

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JUSTIN PASCONE

POLICY DIRECTOR NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS 1 2 /18/1988 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN 2012, Justin Pascone had recently graduated from New York University and was living in Gowanus, Brooklyn, while working as a bartender – but his life would change on Oct. 29. That’s when Superstorm Sandy raged into New York City, inundating tunnels and low-lying neighborhoods with its storm surge and causing major electrical failures.

Pascone wanted to do something to fix the policies that led to this situation, and he started going to community meetings.

“I kind of had this moment where I thought, ‘This is what I want to do.’ I didn’t know what the profession was or that urban planning even was a profession,” he says. He went back to school to get a master’s degree in urban planning and has been working in the field ever since.

Now the director of policy at the New York Building Congress, Pascone works with the stakeholders that make up the real estate development and policy worlds. He is well-suited for the job.

“I speak a lot of languages. I can speak to an architect and talk design, I can talk to a developer and talk to lawyers and to elected officials,” he explains. “In all the different roles people play, I’m adept at speaking those languages.”

His work requires patience and perseverance.

“You’re not going to win every battle. You’re not going to change everyone’s mind on the first swing.

It’s a matter of being persistent,” he says. “You have to keep chomping at it.”

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JORGE PEREZ

SENIOR ASSOCIATE, RESEARCH THE PARKSIDE GROUP 0 3/17/1989 @JO _ PER E Z 17 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN HIS free time, Jorge Perez enjoys taking online courses at night on subjects he doesn’t know much about. When he started working in political consulting at The Parkside Group, he didn’t know how to use Microsoft Excel, he says. Now he’s an analytics whiz and is programming his own database software for campaigns.

“I think one of the reasons I’m good at what I do is that I don’t think I am (good),” he says. “That mentality of having to learn something every day and just going to do whatever it takes to solve a problem – I feel like that’s really the only thing that’s gotten me as far as I have.”

Perez’s current project is writing code in R (a programming language he learned through online videos) that tracks election night results in the state. This is no small task. Each district does things its own way, often with volunteers who’ve been running election nights for decades.

“Every county is a different universe,” he explains. “Whereas a polling presentation used to take two or three days, we can now do it in about 40 minutes.”

In an industry where decisions are often based on gut instinct, Perez is focused on bringing a data-driven approach to the forefront of campaigns. He is particularly excited about making maps.

“The level of familiarity someone can gain from just three seconds of looking at a well-made map is pretty astonishing,” he says.

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JESSICA RAMOS

CHAIRWOMAN STATE SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE 0 6/27/198 5 @J ESSICA R A MOS HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY STATE SEN. JESSICA RAMOS has

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been involved in politics and activism for so long, she can’t even remember when she started. Raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, by immigrant parents who were members of the Colombian Liberal Party, the future legislator visited prisons and attended labor marches and community meetings since she was very young. The message her parents were sending was clear: Helping the less fortunate is a family calling.

As a student at Hofstra University, Ramos got involved in labor union activism – a cause that set her on the path to becoming one of the first Colombian American legislators in New York history. By the time she launched a successful challenge to incumbent state Sen. Jose Peralta in the 2018 Democratic primary, Ramos had years of experience in the labor movement, her local community board and city government.

As chairwoman of the state Senate Labor Committee, she has passed landmark bills granting the minimum wage to car wash workers and collective bargaining rights for farmworkers.

Now she is championing a bill that would fund a citywide child care program, an effort that comes as one of her two young sons begins to get involved in activism.

“To have a mother who’s a state senator, to have a roof over his head,” she says. “The best way of repaying the universe for those blessings is to give back through public service.

That’s how I was raised (and) that’s the legacy of our family.”

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ANA RUA PUBLIC AFFAIRS MANAGER CROWN CASTLE 05/2 2 /1987 @A M R UA L L A NO SUNY GENESEO IT’S GOOD to be in the right place at

the right time. That’s how Ana Rua got started at Crown Castle.

In 2015, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $500 million initiative to bring high-speed internet to everyone in New York. The Broadband For All program meant that, all at once, there was a lot of money for telecommunications work in New York. At the time, Rua was working at Empire State Development and she walked into the offices of Crown Castle, a telecom company that was taking on a good deal of the Broadband For All work in rural parts of the state.

“They needed to build the team.

I just walked into the office and introduced myself and they must have seen something in me,” Rua recalls.

“They said, ‘We could use you’ – and that started my career in telecom.”

This kind of confidence is something that doesn’t necessarily come naturally to Rua; she’s had to work on it.

“A lot of times, earlier in my career, I felt like I didn’t belong. It’s interesting,” she says. “When you’re young, Latina, and maybe one of three women among 50 men in a boardroom, you have that imposter syndrome. But the way I overcame it is by being the most prepared person in the room.

Preparation has been my shield.”

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GABRIELA SANDOVAL REQUENA

DIRECTOR OF REGULATORY AFFAIRS AND EQUITY PROGRAMS SOMOS COMMUNITY CARE 02 /02 /1987 @ GA BBISA N R E Q BARUCH COLLEGE; BARUCH COLLEGE MARXE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS GABRIELA SANDOVAL REQUENA

was 14 years old when she arrived in the United States from her native Chile in June 2001. For the next 12 years, she would live on Long Island as an undocumented immigrant – dealing with all the difficulties and complications that entails. But she found ways to overcome the challenges.

Though she was unable to apply for federal or state financial aid to attend college, Sandoval Requena earned a full scholarship to Suffolk County Community College before transferring to Baruch College, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in public administration.

In 2013, President Barack Obama launched the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program so immigrants like Sandoval Requena would receive legal status and eventually gain permanent residency.

“If things had not been as difficult, I would probably not have to put the extra effort and try to figure things out,” she says. “I knew that I could only get merit-based scholarships. And at the same time, work three jobs so I could save for everything else.”

Today, Sandoval Requena oversees regulatory affairs and equity programs for a network of 2,500 health care providers for Medicaid recipients citywide, which works with community doctors to improve the health of the patients and reduce costs. Many of the patients do not speak English as their primary language.

“The population that we are especially concerned (with) is the immigrant population,” she says.

“It’s one of the things that attracted me to work at Somos.”

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TERRA SETZLER

DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY METROPOLITAN PUBLIC STRATEGIES 07/2 0/19 9 3 @ T ER R ASET Z L ER OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY TERRA SETZLER loves learning – and she believes that desire has pushed her career forward.

“I keep seeing new things, trying to accumulate new skills,” she says.

While studying political science as an undergraduate student, she took an online course about data science on top of her normal coursework. Later, while working at Planned Parenthood, she spent her nights learning Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Lightroom.

This year, she wrote a television script as a side project.

Her background in politics as well as the data science and design skills she picked up has prepared her to work on what she considers the biggest accomplishment of her career so far: the passage of the so-called Green Light bill. Working on behalf of the New York Immigration Coalition, Setzler drove a digital campaign to promote the bill, which allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. She pushed the hashtags #GreenLightNY and #DriversLicensesNOW on Twitter, finding great results – with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Cynthia Nixon, the New York Civil Liberties Union, state Sen. Julia Salazar, state Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson all tweeting them in support.

“It was really cool to watch, especially being a digital person with a field background. It was a nail-biter down to the last minute and it was crazy watching it pass,” she recalls. “It means a lot to me because it matters to real people.

People were risking deportation by driving their children to the hospital.”

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NICK E. SMITH

FIRST DEPUTY PUBLIC ADVOCATE, POLICY NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ADVOCATE’S OFFICE 02 /1 5/198 5 @N IC K ESM I T H N YC UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY; ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW NICK SMITH discovered his passion for politics early on. Growing up in California, he was the political nerd while his twin sister Nichole was the star athlete. He says he can trace his political awakening back to 2000, when he was 15 years old. He was angered by the disenfranchisement of people of color he witnessed in the presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

“Watching news report after news report of hanging chads and dimpled ballots, I just thought, ‘Wait, this is America,” Smith says. “We’re supposed to be a democracy.”

After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley – during which time he also worked for the city of Berkeley – Smith moved to New York City and has since worked for several lawmakers. He says he especially liked working with Jumaane Williams, starting when Williams was a city councilman.

“To be very candid, I came back, really, for him,” Smith says of his decision to join the public advocate’s office after a stint on the mayor’s team.

“We did a lot of great work together while I was in the council.”

Smith has a hand in much of the policy work in the public advocate’s office, including working on negotiations for the paid family leave bill.

The issue is particularly poignant for Smith considering his wife recently gave birth to their first children – twin girls. Coincidentally, his twin sister has twin girls herself. Talk about seeing double.

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INDIA L. SNEED

ASSOCIATE GREENBERG TRAURIG 01 /14/1987 BARUCH COLLEGE; TOURO COLLEGE INDIA SNEED and her mother were leaving the polls at August Martin High School in Jamaica, Queens, in November 2011 when they spotted then-New York City Councilman Ruben Wills. “Hey, I just voted for you,” Sneed remembers her mother saying.

“My daughter’s in law school. She needs an internship. What are you going to do about it?”

Wills gave the Touro College student an interview, which led to a job on his staff – launching a career that’s included roles in politics, policy, law and criminal justice, culminating in her new position at Greenberg Traurig.

“It definitely opened my eyes and taught me the inner workings of government,” Sneed says of that early job working as Wills’ legislative and budget director. “It piqued my interest.”

But the job would also lead to one of the most trying years of her life after she was laid off in 2013 and ended up on unemployment assistance – while also raising her 5-year-old daughter. Things started looking up in 2014 after she landed a position with the Assembly Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, followed by a job as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, chief of staff to New York City Councilwoman Alicka Ampry-Samuel, and a key position in the mayor’s office.

Sneed is grateful for her successes.

But she says the difficult times taught her a valuable lesson.

“This can be taken from me at any given moment,” she says, “but I’m going to survive.”

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TYRONE STEVENS

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER SCOTT STRINGER’S OFFICE 0 4/2 5/1988 @ T Y R ON E C ST EV E NS CORNELL UNIVERSITY EVER SINCE he was young, Tyrone

Stevens has had an interest in politics and public service. Growing up as the child of Jamaican immigrants in Poughkeepsie, he says that he has always been biased toward the underdog.

“I know this sounds very canned, but it’s actually true,” Stevens says. “I got into service to make the biggest difference to people who, like my family, I knew didn’t have it easy.”

Stevens has bounced around a lot since getting his graduate degree at Fordham University, including working on Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s first successful congressional campaign, as New York City Councilman Mark Levine’s communications director, and for Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a deputy communications director. He considers himself fortunate to have had so many opportunities.

“What I learned early on is to build relationships and keep relationships because you never know when somebody … will really come through at a later date and help you take a step up,” Stevens says. “And also in your own way, paying it forward.”

Stevens considers his yearlong stint with the governor as one of his most purposeful times in government – up there with helping get Espaillat elected. But there remains one area of his life where he yet remains unfulfilled: seeing the New York Knicks win a championship.

“I have an addiction to the New York Knicks,” Stevens says. “My biggest dream is for that team one day to be good. … That is all I want in this world.”

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ADAM TAUBMAN SPECIAL COUNSEL KRAMER LEVIN

05/07/1982 YALE UNIVERSITY; NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW LOOKING BACK on his time at

Syosset High School on Long Island, Adam Taubman describes himself as “sort of a math nerd” with an interest in design – but that changed when he took an architecture class. The class was basic, he says, but fun enough that it led to a lifelong fascination with architecture. Yet Taubman was unsure if he wanted to pursue it as a career.

After graduating from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Taubman ended up at New York University School of Law – but he didn’t know which area of law he wanted to specialize in.

“I didn’t see myself in traditional law,” he says.

While in law school, Taubman joined the Real Estate and Urban Policy Forum, a student organization whose faculty adviser at the time was Vicki Been, now New York City’s deputy mayor of housing and economic development.

Been directed Taubman to an internship at the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., where he fell in love with land use law. The following summer, he interned with Kramer Levin, and he has been there for the past 16 years.

His portfolio includes helping The Walt Disney Co. relocate its New York headquarters, advising Long Island University on the opening of its Brooklyn campus and working to restore the historic Cort Theatre.

“I have a job at a firm in an industry that interests me,” Taubman says, noting he’s fortunate to avoid the burnout other young lawyers face. “This is what I want to do.”

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ASHLEY THOMPSON

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT CAPALINO+COMPANY 01 /31 /198 6 @ T HOM PS ONASH L EY2 EMERSON COLLEGE ASHLEY THOMPSON’S career began in 2007, after hearing the words of an underdog candidate running for president of the United States. While in college, she decided to intern for the candidate – Barack Obama – and after she graduated she went to work full time as a field organizer in the Obama for America campaign.

“I assumed I’d move to the Hill, like everyone else,” Thompson says. “But I ended up meeting a friend of a friend who introduced me to Melinda Katz.”

Thompson took a job as a legislative aide to Katz, then a New York City Council member representing the 29th District in Queens. After a year, she became legislative director and then chief of staff for City Councilman Stephen Levin, and later a legislative representative for the mayor’s office.

After more than six years in city government, Thompson decided it was time for a move. But she didn’t move far – just across the street, in fact – joining Capalino+Company, where she is now a senior vice president. Among other projects, Thompson has focused on establishing the pedestrian plazas in Times Square.

“A big part of my job as an advocate is being a good listener,” she says. “A lot of what we do is translating between different stakeholders and (understanding) the priorities of the people sitting across from each other, and it’s sometimes best to not always be the one talking, but to be hearing what people are saying.”

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ANGEL I. VASQUEZ

SENIOR POLICY ADVISER UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS 10/0 4/1989 @A NGELVAS Q 10 4 CORNELL UNIVERSITY; COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANGEL VASQUEZ lives one block

away from his childhood home in Washington Heights, Manhattan, where he and his family lived in the 1990s after emigrating from the Dominican Republic. His old elementary school, P.S. 4 Duke Ellington, is across the street.

“It really feels like my life came full circle,” Vasquez says. After all, it was the contrast between P.S. 4 and the next school he attended that motivated Vasquez to work in education – eventually leading him to his current role at United Federation of Teachers.

After Vasquez and his family moved from Washington Heights to Teaneck, New Jersey, and he began to struggle in school, he started to realize there is a discrepancy in the quality of education students receive. Vasquez overcame those early challenges, eventually graduating from Cornell University and pursuing a job with Teach for America – and it was while teaching at an underserved Denver school that he began to address the problem. He redesigned the curriculum in order to give students a richer, more well-rounded education.

“If we don’t give them all those tools, how do we expect them to succeed?” he says.

After earning a master’s degree in education at Columbia University and working in policy for the state Senate Independent Democratic Conference and then as chief of staff to state Sen. Marisol Alcantara, Vasquez says he has landed in an ideal role.

Since starting at United Federation of Teachers in January, he’s been analyzing education policy, putting together strategy and leading lobbying efforts for legislation.

“This is the perfect place for me,” he says.

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MATTHEW WALSH GOVERNMENT RELATIONS SPECIALIST CMW PUBLIC AFFAIRS

0 4/2 2 /1989 UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY MATTHEW WALSH was working

for Assemblyman Dan Quart, a Democrat representing the 73rd District, which includes the Upper East Side and East Midtown, when he decided to go to law school.

He says it was one of the biggest decisions of his career.

“That kind of changed everything,” he recalls.

After a stint working in the family court division of the New York City Law Department, Walsh found himself working during the day for the city Department of Transportation under Polly Trottenberg, as chief of staff in the commissioner’s correspondence unit. When an opportunity opened up at public affairs firm Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz, he took a position there working in government relations. As a lobbyist, he’s gotten to work on some rewarding accounts, he says.

“Working on the Second Avenue subway was a huge project,” he says. “Unprecedented infrastructure. There were so many different stakeholders and there was such an impact on that community. … I have photos from down there. An early one was like complete bedrock and mud and the next year there was more infrastructure and in the last one the concrete had been placed and you were standing in basically an unopened subway station.”

Walsh attributes his success to being a people person.

“I can talk to people no matter what side of an issue they’re on, what their background is,” he says.

“That ability to just communicate with people has been extremely helpful – and not just on behalf of clients.”

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ANDREW J. WINCHELL DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS FANDUEL GROUP

0 9/3 0/198 5 @A N DR EW W I NC H EL L UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY ROCKEFELLER COLLEGE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND POLICY ANDREW WINCHELL has spent the past nine months traveling across the county lobbying on behalf of FanDuel, but he says he hasn’t come across a state capitol quite like New York’s.

“None can really rival the New York state Capitol,” says the lifelong New Yorker who spent two sessions working for Assemblyman Thomas McKevitt and nine years working for state Sen. John Bonacic. “Especially when you look at all the architecture and everything like that, the Million Dollar Staircase.”

As director of government affairs at FanDuel, Winchell is now working on sports betting and fantasy sports legislation in states across the country. While most kids who love sports might not see themselves working on the regulatory side of the industry, it’s a natural fit for Winchell, who watched the TV show “Matlock” growing up and dreamed of becoming a lawyer. It wasn’t until getting to the University at Albany that he found his real passion.

“I got just completely bit by the political science, public policy bug,” Winchell says, mentioning volunteering for President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign and getting involved with the College Republicans as highlights.

After spending so much of his time at work immersed in sports betting, Winchell takes a different approach to his free time. “(I’m) mainly spending it with my fiancé and our cat, taking care of the cat, watching Netflix,” he says of spending time at home in Brooklyn. “I honestly haven’t had a lot of free time within the last nine months to do anything else.”

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TAMAR WISE

MEMBER, BUSINESS LITIGATION PRACTICE COZEN O’CONNOR 01 /2 6/198 3 YALE UNIVERSITY; NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW TAMAR WISE grew up on the edge of New York City, where concrete meets water, in Brooklyn’s Mill Basin neighborhood. The daughter of Jewish immigrants – her mother is a music teacher and her father owns a kosher deli in Manhattan – Wise says her path from the Yeshiva of Flatbush to Yale University to New York University School of Law was one she had always expected.

“I’m willing to work really hard,” Wise says. “I invest myself completely in the work I’m doing … and I take a lot of pride in what I do.”

Wise, who has been a commercial litigator at Cozen O’Connor for 10 years, represents a wide range of clients, including in financial services, real estate, health care and technology. She says the biggest moment of her career happened just recently, on June 17. That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor in Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, a case determining the First Amendment rights and status of a public access television station in Manhattan.

Her team had won in a lower court, but then had the decision reversed on appeal. They took it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“We were trying to set a precedent by determining the result. I sat at the counsel table,” Wise recalls, and when the justices came back with a 5-4 decision in her client’s favor, she says it was “one of the best moments of my life.”

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTER 226 WEST 44TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10036 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 | 9:00AM-4:00PM Working with others brings in new ideas, drives innovation and creates space for better ways of working.

Collaboration can act as a force multiplier, where the parties are greater than the sum of their parts. It can also help organizations tackle significant challenges. The COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE will showcase how public and private sectors working closely together can innovate at speed and bring technological and business ideas that will truly help transform the government.

PANEL TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: HOW THE HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION SECTORS CAN CREATE HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS FINTECH IN NEW YORK TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY NEW YORK GOVERNMENT: CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS FOR KEEPING UP WITH EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY

FEATURED SPEAKERS JOHN PAUL FARMER, Chief Technology Officer, New York City MAHESH NATTANMAI, Chief Digital Health Strategist, New York State Department of Health MIKKO BAYLOSIS, Project Manager, Initatives NYCEDC MATTHEW HOMER, Executive Deputy Superintendent of Research and Innovation Division, New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) ASSEMBLYMAN RON KIM, Sponsor of Fintech legislation JESSICA TISCH, Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology, New York Police Department DEANNE CRISWELL, COMMISSIONER, New York City Emergency Management Department ASSEMBLYMAN CLYDE VANEL, Chairman, Internet and Technology Committee CORDELL SCHACHTER, Chief Technology Officer, New York City Department of Transportation RSVP at CityAndStateNY.com/Events For more information on programming and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Lissa Blake at lblake@cityandstateny.com

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ANGELA WU MANAGER GUIDEHOUSE

0 4/01 /198 4 HARVARD UNIVERSITY; YALE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC TRUST in government is at

an all-time low, but Angela Wu still believes in the power of government to make people’s lives better.

“I’ve always felt this deep gratitude for America as a democracy and meritocracy,” Wu says. “When government does what it is supposed to do, people get opportunities to do and achieve things that would have otherwise been infeasible.”

This sentiment has been born out in her own life. Her parents escaped Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China and didn’t speak English when they arrived in the United States. Her father took the civil service exam and scored highly, and as a result found work as a mailman – which came with a steady income and good benefits.

Wu, who also didn’t speak English when she entered kindergarten, was nurtured by caring teachers who saw something in her. She went on to Hunter College High School, then Harvard University, then Yale University for her MBA. Now at Guidehouse, a spinoff of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ public sector consulting division, Wu has been working to streamline the New York City Department of Homeless Services, among other projects.

“I feel grateful and driven every day to help continue to serve and work with governments to ensure that their services are delivered to the folks that are most in need of them,” she says. “And as a born and bred New Yorker, (I’m) particularly excited to be able to do the work that I do with the city and state of New York to help drive change.”

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ANNI ZHU

DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 0 3/2 3/1988 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY; CORNELL UNIVERSITY ANNI ZHU wouldn’t describe

herself as a transit wonk – but nearly everyone she works with is – and it’s her job to make sure that when her colleagues get into the weeds, they stay on track and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is able to communicate its big-picture messages.

“Part of the job is kind of remembering that for most of the people who are not wonky, there’s that perspective to bring forward,” Zhu says. “To take that step back and be like ‘Well, what are we trying to say, how are we saying it, and were we successful?’”

In her role, Zhu has a hand in coordinating projects throughout the agency, including the MetroCard replacement system, OMNY, which she is particularly proud to work on.

Zhu says that when she was in college, she didn’t necessarily think she would end up working at the MTA or the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she spent nearly three years prior to her current job.

“I ended up really liking the work, which, contentwise, wasn’t that related (to my degree), but a lot of the day to day ended up being very similar in terms of working with different groups,” Zhu says.

Zhu doesn’t know if she’ll stay in transit, or even in New York City, but for the time being, she wants people to know that the MTA is not a faceless bureaucracy.

“Tell me about all your transit problems,” Zhu says with a laugh.

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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com FRASHON COMMUNICATIONS LLC filed with SSNY 9/11/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Vashon Smith 523 West 143rd street Apt 5B New York, NY 10031.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

KENT TOWER REALTY LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 8/30/19. Off. Loc. : New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 242 East 74TH Street, New York, NY 10021. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Lantern Class A Member, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/12/19. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1501 Broadway, 28th Fl., NY, NY 10036. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, c/o Randi Seigel, 7 Times Square, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activity

Notice of Formation of Plastic Surgery and Skincare NY, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/16/19.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Steven Levine, 308 East 72nd St., Apt 8D, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: to practice the profession of Medicine.

Notice of Formation of Amanda Mazin Consultants LLC filed with SSNY on September 11, 2019. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: c/o Zachary Mazin, McKool Smith, One Bryant Park, 47th Fl, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of NYP YC LLC filed with SSNY on July 11, 2019.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 888 7th ave 5th FL NY NY 10106.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of COATUE CT 55 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/16/19. Princ. office of LLC: 9 W. 57th St., 25th Fl., NY, NY 10019.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Philippe Laffont at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

CLEVENGER BEACH LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/27/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Keith M. Bloomfield C/O Forbes Family Trust, 767 Fifth Ave., 6th Fl, NY, NY 10153. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of COATUE CT 56 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/16/19. Princ. office of LLC: 9 W. 57th St., 25th Fl., NY, NY 10019.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Philippe Laffont at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of 459 CENTRAL AVE LLC filed with SSNY on September 5, 2019. Office: Kings County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 446 Kent Ave Apt 3B, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of DINOCORN, LLC filed with SSNY on August 8, 2019. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 12 W 18TH ST, SUITE 4E, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of COATUE CT 54 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/16/19. Princ. office of LLC: 9 W. 57th St., 25th Fl., NY, NY 10019.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, Attn: Philippe Laffont at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of PICTURE TAKER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/13/19. 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 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Coin Group, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 12/11/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The INC, Attn: United States Corporation Agents, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Conca, LLC filed with SSNY on September 19, 2019. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 308 East 72nd Street, 4B, NY, NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Nikolas Trading Company, LLC filed with SSNY on June 17, 2019.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 47 Titus Road, Glen Cove, NY 11542. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of TCD Management, LLC filed with SSNY on August 12, 2019. Office: Kings County. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 488 Central Avenue Apt 1 Brooklyn, NY 11221. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

BEGINNER’S EAR LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/24/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, 450 North End Ave., 23A, NY, NY 10282. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of RAHF IV Harbor Hill, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/2/19.

Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 551 5th Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10176. LP formed in DE on 5/15/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc. (CGI), 10 E. 40th St., Fl. 10, NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LP: c/o CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State.

Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of RAHF IV Sunset Gardens, L.P. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 4/2/19. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 551 5th Ave., 23rd Fl., NY, NY 10176. LP formed in DE on 5/15/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc. (CGI), 10 E. 40th St., Fl. 10, NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LP: c/o CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Name/ addr. of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State.

Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Realopoly, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/16/2019.

Office located in Richmond County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: 322 New Dorp Lane #6, Staten Island, NY 10306. Purpose: any lawful activity or purpose.”

Notice of Formation of ENC Property Maintenance, LLC filed with SSNY on May 20, 2019.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 39 Tynan Street Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of Groundworks Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on September 23, 2019. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 21 Stuyvesant Oval, Apt 4H, New York, NY 10009.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of UBSL COMPLIANCE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/18/19. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 1333 Broadway, Ste. 500, NY, NY 10018. 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 Qualification of UNTITLED PARTNERS, LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/22/19. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/15/19. Princ. office of LP: 412 W. 15th St., NY, NY 10011. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Untitled Holdings LLC, Attn: Neeraj Chandra, 412 W. 15th St., NY, NY 10011. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg.Ste. 4, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Red Arrow Advisors, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/14/19. 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 Richard P. Altieri, Carnelutti & Altieri Esposito Minoli PLLC, 551 Madison Ave., Ste. 450, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of KEYFRAME FUND II, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/27/19. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/25/19. Princ. office of LP: 65 E. 55th St., 35th Fl., NY, NY 10022.

Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the Partnership at the princ. office of the LP. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is John Rapaport-c/o Rapaport Thesis Driven Capital Advisors, L.L.C., 65 E. 55th St., 35th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

PW Service LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/25/19. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 225 Broadway, 44th Floor, New York NY 10007.

Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PRK JEWELRY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/23/19. 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 Jane L. Brody, Esq., c/o Sherman Wells Sylvester & Stamelman LLP, 1185 Ave. of the Americas, Fl. 3, NY, NY 10036, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, V. ST. CLAIR JOHN; ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated July 23, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION is the Plaintiff and ST. CLAIR JOHN; ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 224, 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN NY 11201, on October 31, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 134 EAST 92ND STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11212: Block 4610, Lot 26: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 501789/2017. JAMES MARTIN CAFFREY, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Notice of Qualification of LOWER MANHATTAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/24/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/13/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 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.

Notice of Formation of The Promedex Institute, LLC filed with SSNY on June 12th, 2019. Office: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 305 Sixth Ave. Unit 3L Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF QUAL. of VC Atlantic Partners LLC. Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/12/19. Off. Loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 8/8/19. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 28 Liberty St, New York, NY 10005, the Reg. Agt upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. Addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Bourdeau Acoustic Design LLC filed with SSNY on June 20, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2 Pinehurst Avenue, C4, New York, NY 10033. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of Watkins Worldwide, LLC filed with SSNY on June 12, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 445 E 14th St, 11E, NY, NY 10009. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of MAGIC VALET LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/25/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/23/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o DHA Capital, 154 Grand St., #45-03, NY, NY 10013. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 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 Ejimoo, LLC filed with SSNY on July, 9, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 100 Park Ave, New York, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

KAMAKAMILA LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/07/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kamakamila LLC, 154 W 14th Street, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM FRASHON COMMUNICATIONS LLC filed with SSNY 9/11/2019. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Vashon Smith 523 West 143rd street Apt 5B New York, NY 10031. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of formation of CF2 GP LLC LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/27/19. N.Y. Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 155 E. 44th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017.

The principal business address of the LLC is 155 E. 44th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Carlyle Investment Management L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/19/2018.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 7/18/1996. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 520 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, principal business address.

DE address of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of CODE GREEN COMPLIANCE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/18/19. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 1333 Broadway, Ste. 500, NY, NY 10018. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Cee Lighting, LLC filed with SSNY on March 30, 2017. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 80 State Street, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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October 28, 2019

CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NEW YORK COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: The Public Administrator of New York County; Office of the State Comptroller, Division of Legal Services; Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York; Colleen Sylvia O’Driscoll a/k/a Sylvia Colleen O’Driscoll; John Ellwood a/k/a John Padreigh Ellwood a/k/a John MacKinnon; TO: The heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of ERIC N. O’DRISCOLL, 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.

A petition having been duly filed by Sean O’Driscoll, who is domiciled at 51 Palm Ave., Shorncliffe, QLD 4017, Australia.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, Room 503, New York, New York, on December 3, 2019, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why an Order should not be made in the estate of Eric O’Driscoll, lately domiciled in the County and State of New York: 1. Determining that distributees are entitled to the funds now on deposit with the Office of State Comptroller for the benefit of unknown distributees of Eric N. O’Driscoll; 2. Determining that the Office of State Comptroller be directed to withdraw the funds identified in the Certificate of Deposit and direct payment of same, pro rata, to Sean O’Driscoll, Patrick K. O’Driscoll, Colleen Sylvia O’Driscoll a/k/a Sylvia Colleen O’Driscoll and John Ellwood a/k/a John Padreigh Ellwood a/k/a John MacKinnon, as distributees of the Estate of Eric N. O’Driscoll; and 3.

Granting such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed,

HON. RITA MELLA

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Surrogate Diana Sanabria

Seal

Chief Clerk

Littman Krooks, LLP

Rachel Johnston

Firm

Attorney Name

399 Knollwood Road, Suite 115, White Plains, New York 10603

(914) 684-2100 Telephone

Address

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 that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. Proof of Service must be filed two days prior to the return date, Court Rule 207.7(c).

Notice of Formation of Drive Better Driving LLC filed with SSNY on September 23, 2019. Office: Richmond County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC:55 Cherrywood Ct Staten Island, NY 10308. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of BRASCHI REALTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/02/19. 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 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of MARE THOURAYA, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/01/19. 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. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of PurePoint Energy LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/2019.

Office location: Fairfield County, CT. LLC formed in Connecticut (CT) on 08/17/2007. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o PurePoint Energy LLC, 22 South Smith Street Norwalk, CT 06855 addr. of LLC: c/o PurePoint Energy LLC, 22 South Smith Street Norwalk, CT 06855. Cert. of Form. filed with Office of the Secretary of the State of Connecticut, 30 Trinity Street Hartford, CT. Purpose: Any lawful activity PW Service LLC. Arts. Of

Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/25/19. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 225 Broadway, 44th Floor, New York NY 10007. Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of REFTII, LLC filed with SSNY on August 1, 2019.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7 EAST LOFTWOOD CIRCLE, SPRING TX 77382 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Sylverlink LLC. Arts of Org. filed on 10/01/2019 w/ the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY). Office in NY. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process may be served and mail a copy to 40 Morningside Ave Apt 21, NY, NY 10026. For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NEILALEX LLC filed with SSNY on April 12, 2017. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC, 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, STE 1 #086, BUFFALO, NY 14221. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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 1, 2019 and end on November 15, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #1918-Robert Scott Denny; 7 boxes, suitcase, bucket and brush. #3412-Jorge F. Quintero; Clothing rack with clothing, 20 boxes/totes, large TV box, vacuum, paintings, dresser, tables, chair. Misc. items. #4319-1-Quinsessa Harrison; Bags, plastic totes and a plastic organizer with drawers.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Formation of Caroline Yi LLC filed with SSNY on 9/9/19.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 340 E 23rd St, Apt SH1-A. NY, NY 10010.

R/A: US Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., #202, BK, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Grounded PR, LLC filed with SSNY on August 1, 2019. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 31 W 69th 4B, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322214 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 50 HUDSON STREET NEW YORK, NY 10013. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. DONELLA LLC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322230 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 203 W 103RD ST NEW YORK, NY 10025.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON-PREMISE CONSUMPTION. ASTROCCO INC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL #823042519 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 67-69 St Nicholas Ave NY NY 10026. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE C O N S U M P TION. NEW LIFE JUICE BAR & LOUNGE LLC

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322388 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 253 BUSHWICK AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11206. KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. PINK METAL LLC.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, F/K/A GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST FLOZENA WEEMS AKA FLOZEMA WEEMS, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 01, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on November 21, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 757 GEORGIA AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11207. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 4321, LOT 45. Approximate amount of judgment $472,676.04 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 500829/2017.

CHARLANE ODETTA BROWN, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 65892 65892

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Notice of Qualification of BLOOM TREE SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES I (GP), LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/23/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/20/19. Princ. office of LLC: 101 Park Ave., 48th Fl., NY, NY 10178. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Attn: Nitin Wadke at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff against NASSER KHALIL A/K/A NASSER KHALIL, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP, 28 East Main Street Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered October 31, 2017, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201 on November 21, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 453 85th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Block 6026 Lot 61. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $538,550.26 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 17466/2014.

Leo Salzman, Esq., Referee VERJC280 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322261 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 1 NASSAU AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11222.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON-PREMISE CONSUMPTION. VITAL EAST LLC.

Notice of Formation of NEILALEX LLC filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on April 12, 2017.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: NEILALEX LLC, c/o LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC, 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, STE 1 #086, BUFFALO, NY 14221. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322305 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 592 MANHATTAN AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11222.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. AUTHENTIC PIEROGI INC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322385 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 9 E 17TH ST NEW YORK, NY 10003. NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. PRIGI CORP

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Notice of Qualification of BLOOM TREE SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES I, LP Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/23/19. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/20/19.

Princ. office of LP: 101 Park Ave., 48th Fl., NY, NY 10178. Duration of LP is Perpetual. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of KLDISCOVERY ONTRACK FRANCHISE, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/11/19. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/06/18. Princ. office of LLC: 46 E. 8th St., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Electronic device repair and data recovery.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322292 FOR WINE & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 658 9TH AVE NY, NY 10036.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON-PREMISE CONSUMPTION. PUHUNG CORP.

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Notice of Auction Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on November 1, 2019 and end on November 15, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain miscellaneous items:#5B12 Alfredo Villamar: clothes, 50+ boxes, books, bags, suitcases; #5T01 Alfredo Villamar:20- boxes,60bags,1- chair, books; #5R12 Kedrick Williams: 7 -boxes, folding table,1movers dolly,2- luggage bags,8- storage bins,1 rug,1- shipping container; #3L24 Andres Helm : 10+ bags, boxes, luggage, shopping cart, misc. furniture.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”.

Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Formation of LJR HOMES, LLC filed with SSNY on September 25, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1324 Forest Ave, Suite #185, Staten Isand, NY 10302. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/25/19. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 225 Broadway, 44th Floor, New York NY 10007.

Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

TO: Daryl Otis Wiley (a/k/a Daryl Wiley or Daryl Wiley Thompson) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a petition requesting an order approving and allowing the adoption of an adoptive child whose first name is Kaylee, who is alleged to be your daughter, and whose full name and date and place of birth is set forth in a Schedule annexed to the petition for adoption herein, together with an agreement to adopt and consents to the adoption pursuant to the Domestic Relations Law, has been filed with the Family Court of the State of New York, Kings County. A hearing on the petition will be held at the Court, located at 330 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11201 at 9 o’clock in the morning of December 5, 2019, at which time and place all persons having any interest therein will be heard.

Notice of Formation of MKP SUPPLY LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York(SSNY) on 10/2/2019.

Office located in Richmond County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: 354 Castleton Ave Staten Island NY 10301.

Purpose: any lawful activity or purpose.

Notice of formation of LEONN LLC SSNY on 10/9/2019. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 62 Bayard Street Brooklyn, NY, 11222. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1322499 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 41 MADISON AVE NEW YORK, NY 10010.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. MTS HOSPITALITY LLC.

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Notice of Formation of Monique Chauhan, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, PLLC filed with SSNY on September 30, 2019. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 99 Madison Ave Suite 514, New York, New York 10016. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of Darke Hospitality, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy.

Of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/12/19. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of process against LLC to 1115 West 8th St., New York, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act.

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The ex-Joe Addabbo staffer was fired from two jobs for porn on his computer and offering a co-worker sperm. Gross.

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Storming the impeachment inquiry might’ve made sense ... but he was invited!

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