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EDITOR’S NOTE

RALPH R. ORTEGA Editor-in-chief

I’M NOSTALGIC FOR the old Pennsylvania Station, which was demolished before I could ever know it. So, like many New Yorkers, I have welcomed the recent work done to make this key regional transportation hub inviting again. But more immediate is the need to address the plight of homeless people who’ve sheltered themselves both in the underground concourses of the station, as well as around its entrances.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority acknowledged an increase in homeless people at Penn Station, which became noticeable in the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic. And while the city, law enforcement and social service agencies are working on ways to help this vulnerable population, measures are also being taken to cordon off entrances to prevent people who are homeless from entering the station. Moynihan Train Hall limits access by only offering a limited amount of seating for ticketed passengers. And there are more MTA and New York City Police Department cops patrolling the entryways. The latest and probably strangest move was to install bizarrely colored wooden pyramids on metal security bollards outside the new canopy entrance on 33rd Street so that no one rests on top of them.

Some will argue these are necessary steps to protect commuters and help homeless people, but it also seems awfully unkind. A homeless man last week broke into tears after interrupting GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa during a press conference to respond to a recent rise in violence around the station. “It’s all right. We’ll take care of you,” the Guardian Angels founder told the man. Regardless of the opportunity Sliwa seized to plug his candidacy, it also was a reminder to be compassionate toward people who are homeless. Let’s hope that the statement holds true.

CONTENTS FIRST READ … 4 The week that was

COVID-19 MANDATES … 8 Schools are ramping up protections with masks and vaccines MENTAL HEALTH … 12

Will social workers will be ready to help students?

SCHOOL SAFETY … 16

NYC is midway through its plan to transition school safety agents out of the NYPD

TOP 50 STATE LOBBYISTS … 21 Students will be required to wear masks at the start of the school year.

The most sought-after firms in New York

WINNERS & LOSERS … 50

Who was up and who was down last week

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“Carl said to me, ‘Well, now I guess I’ll be the minority in the room.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul selected state Sen. Brian Benjamin to be New York’s next lieutenant governor, announcing her pick in Harlem last week.

A NEW GOVERNOR

New York officially has a new governor after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo submitted his resignation and Gov. Kathy Hochul got sworn in. Hochul is the first woman to lead the state as governor, a historic moment for both her and New York, especially

after Cuomo left amid allegations he sexually harassed female staff.

Hochul has promised to bring about a change to the culture in Albany and has pledged that her administration will be far more transparent than her predecessor’s.

Early appearances and public addresses marked an immediate shift in

- state Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins, on the fact that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie will be the only man left in the so-called “three men in a room,” via Politico New York

tone compared to Cuomo as she emphasized collaboration with the Legislature and local partners around the state. An early demonstrable change came the first time she released COVID-19 numbers when Hochul included the higher number of deaths reported to the Centers

NEW LEASH ON LIFE? Reports surfaced last week that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left behind his shepherd mix Captain while packing up the Executive Mansion and has tried to give the dog away to staff. Cuomo denied the reports, and a spokesperson said he was looking for a “temporary” caregiver. Several New York politicians volunteered to adopt Captain, and they might be able to give the dog a less politically toxic life than the disgraced former governor.

“The difference between me and Andrew Cuomo?

Neither of us is governor, but I still have my Emmy(s).”

– former gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, via Twitter

for Disease Control and Prevention in addition to the lower number that Cuomo had long reported as the state total. The difference is about 12,000 deaths.

Hochul also announced her pick for lieutenant governor: state Sen. Brian Benjamin, a Democrat from Harlem known for his staunch support of criminal justice reforms. The selection balances out her ticket with a liberal, downstate person of color to contrast her as a moderate, white upstater.

SCHOOL PLANS COMING INTO FOCUS

With the school year fast approaching, plans for returning to the classroom are finally beginning to get rolled out. Hochul, in one of her first announcements as governor, said that she is instructing the state Department of Health to issue a mask mandate for schools that applies to anyone who enters the building. It comes after Cuomo resisted issuing such an edict. Hochul said that further state guidance would come soon, but said that she wants to work with local districts to put in place vaccine and testing mandates for teachers throughout New York. The city recently imposed such a mandate, except without the weekly testing option that is in place for other public employees. The decision sparked anger and protests among some teachers in the city. New York City Mayor Bill de

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Blasio also finally laid out school safety protocols and plans for remote learning when students are forced to quarantine, questions that educators and parents alike had been seeking an answer to for weeks. The schools will randomly test 10% of unvaccinated students every two weeks, and only unvaccinated students with close contact to a positive COVID-19 case will have to quarantine for 10 days.

A CHAOTIC JCOPE MEETING

With Cuomo out, it seems that the state’s ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, is ready to get to work. In a chaotic and rebellious meeting, commissioners appointed by legislative leaders and Cuomo voted to make two referrals to the state attorney general’s office to investigate a 2019 leak. The leak revealed private information to Cuomo and the widely criticized inspector general

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probe into it. At the time, Cuomo somehow found out how the commissioners voted in a private session on an investigation into his former top aide Joe Percoco, and expressed his displeasure at the actions of some appointees to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. The decision to refer that incident to the state attorney general came after a split body couldn’t go into executive session as several commissioners bemoaned the lack of transparency that has plagued the commission for years. The meeting also happened just one day after a lengthy state Senate hearing on ethics about the dysfunction that plagues JCOPE. Commissioners eventually did go into executive session, but at least part of it was captured on a hot mic, allowing those who tuned into the public portion of the meeting to hear parts of the private conversations, including about a potential investigation into the former governor.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was really excited about his reopening concert, but the event was cut short by Tropical Storm Henri in the middle of Barry Manilow’s set.

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WEEK AHEAD

TUESDAY 8/31 The statewide moratorium on evictions officially comes to an end after nearly a year and a half.

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Hochul the gerrymanderer?

Gov. Kathy Hochul has talked a lot about how she wants to change the political tone in Albany. Partisan gerrymandering, however, appears to be fine by her.

Just look at the answer she gave to The New York Times when asked whether she planned to use her sway as governor to help Democrats gain seats in the U.S. House through the ongoing redistricting process. “Yes,” said Hochul before digressing into how loyal of a “Biden Democrat” she really is. City & State reached out to a spokesperson, who reiterated the substance of her statement and did not deny this apparent embrace of partisan gerrymandering. “One would be naive to think there isn’t politics involved in the political process of redistricting but I was encouraged by Governor Hochul saying she wanted people to believe in their government again,” political consultant L. Joy Williams said in a text. “Part of that would be ensuring a fair and transparent redistricting process.”

Hochul’s comments go against the values laid out through a yearslong redistricting reform effort that culminated in a state Constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2014. This is the first time that the state’s new Indepen-

WEDNESDAY 9/1 Members of the New York City Council discuss school reopening protocols at a 10 a.m. hearing at City Hall

dent Redistricting Commission has been tasked with the decennial process of drawing new legislative and congressional lines. “The purpose of creating the Commission is to make the process independent from the legislature in favor of an equally bipartisan body,” reads the commission website. “For the first time, both the majority and minority parties in the legislature will have an equal role in the process of drawing lines.” The details of the process are complicated, but what matters most is that any plans by the bipartisan Commission have to be approved by both chambers of the state Legislature – where Democrats hold supermajorities – and the governor, who has veto power over the process. If lawmakers reject lines proposed by the commission twice, then the Democratic supermajorities in both chambers could draw new maps as they please with a two-thirds vote in each chamber. This might not matter much when it comes to who controls the Assembly, which Democrats have dominated for decades, but partisan gerrymandering could determine whether they hold onto their supermajority in the state Senate – and even more importantly – whether they still control Congress next year.

– Zach Williams

MONDAY 9/6 Labor Day means a summer like no other in state politics is coming to an end.

INSIDE DOPE

Incoming Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin will officially take office sometime after the holiday weekend.

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BY CAITLIN DORMAN

NEW YORK IS GOING THROUGH THE PART OF THE BREAK-UP WHERE YOU BURN ALL YOUR EX’S STUFF. Death to the LaGuardia AirTrain

Vive la Port Authority révolution! The day Cuomo announced his resignation, dozens of Port Authority staffers sent a letter to Rick Cotton asking for a halt to the “controversial proposal to build an AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport.” Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry transit advocates?

No More Mario Cuomo Bridge?

Republican Assembly Member Mike Lawler introduced a bill to re-rename the Mario Cuomo Bridge to once again be the Tappan Zee, and even some Democrats are getting behind it.

Gov. Kathy Hochul welcomes you to Watkins Glen State Park

Well that was fast. State parks across New York updated the signage to reflect the change in executive leadership overnight, which is pretty nifty for a governor who was sworn in at 12:01 a.m. On the other hand, Cuomo’s two weeks’ notice of resignation did give them time to prepare.

Kathy Hochul has the audacity to report the actual number of COVID-19 deaths

It’s such a small change in the daily COVID-19 release, and yet it speaks volumes. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the governor’s office reported the total New York State tally of coronavirus deaths, AND the number from the CDC - the one that includes those who died at home, hospice, and other settings.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Science says “Thank U, Next” The hole just keeps getting deeper.

Honestly, given how long his administration has been under fire for handling nursing home deaths, we’re surprised it took this long.

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A Q&A with Surveillance Technology Oversight Project founder and executive director

ALBERT FOX CAHN

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What concerns do you have about New York state’s and New York City’s vaccine passport apps?

I think we’re wasting millions and millions of dollars on apps that at the end of the day are no better than the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) white card that we all get for free when we’re vaccinated.

I want to emphasize that I want every New Yorker who can to get vaccinated, I want to make sure that we’re encouraging vaccination.

But these apps, they’ve been a really poor way of promoting vaccinations.

So Excelsior Pass, for

example, has been riddled with errors.

There are numerous New Yorkers who want to register who have been vaccinated, but because of errors in the state database or because they’re vaccinated out of state, (they) are ineligible.

On top of that, we see that the app actually is not very secure. Under the state’s contract, we’re paying IBM up to ($27 million) for this app. And when I tested it, I was able to forge a volunteer’s Excelsior Pass in just 11 minutes.

You’ve also been able to demonstrate security flaws in New

York City’s vaccine passport app.

When I downloaded the New York City app, I was astounded, because it’s not a vaccine app. It’s just a camera app dressed up as a health tool. And so I uploaded an image of Mickey Mouse as my vaccine card, my test results and my driver’s license, and all three were accepted. And part of what’s maddening about this is that the mayor was going on national TV to talk about how important this app was, and it’s no different from the camera app that people have been using to safeguard a copy of their vaccine card. It’s just a complete PR stunt.

What do you hope governments can learn and do better in the future when it comes to releasing these tools?

I think that one thing we have to recognize is that the things that we allow for simply the duration of this emergency are likely to become a permanent feature of our lives.

That’s the lesson of 9/11 and the counterterrorism measures that we said would just be here for a short time, but 20 years later are an inescapable part of how we’ve rebuilt our society. Another part of this is just that I wish that governments would actually talk to the skeptics, and not

just the salespeople who are selling these tools. Because there are a lot of valuable technologies that can be rolled out in response to the pandemic and novel threats – things like effective vaccine websites, testing portals, and all sorts of things that we’ve seen civic technologists do to improve health equity and access. But oftentimes, they get the pitch from these vendors, write a check and cross their fingers that it will actually make things better. But all too often, it just makes things worse.

– Annie McDonough

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Readying the defenses against COVID-19

By Amanda Luz Henning Santiago and Annie McDonough

Gov. Kathy Hochul called for a statewide mask mandate in schools on her first day in office.

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S THE MORE infectious COVID-19 delta variant spreads throughout the state, questions have been raised about how it could complicate the start of the school year.

In-person classes are coming back, COVID-19 cases are up and vaccines are still not authorized for children under the age of 12. With Gov. Kathy Hochul telling the state Health Department to implement a statewide mask mandate in schools on her first day in office, she set the tone for safety being a priority in the upcoming school year. Some school district leaders had previously been upset that the state had declined to set statewide policies and left it up to local districts to set the rules for themselves. New York City was among the few districts that were willing to run with that leeway.

Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced that all teachers and staff at the city’s schools will be required to receive at least one

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Staff vaccine mandates and mask requirements are coming to schools to protect students from the delta variant.

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dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before Sept. 27. So far, at least 63% of staffers in the city have been vaccinated. The directive went further than the requirement announced in late July for teachers to either be vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing. On the same day the city’s vaccine mandate for school staff was announced, the Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer, like the other two vaccines from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, had previously only had emergency use authorization.

With only a few weeks left before the start of school, it’s unclear how the mandate will be enforced and whether a court will block its implementation now that union leaders have said they’ll file a complaint. “While the city is asserting its legal authority to establish this mandate, there are many implementation details, including provisions for medical exceptions, that by law must be negotiated with the UFT and other unions, and if necessary, re-

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solved by arbitration,” United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement. The New York Times reported that the city is negotiating with the UFT and other unions over how consequences for those who refuse to get vaccinated will work. De Blasio has emphasized, however, that the mandate will go into effect on Sept. 27, whether or not the negotiations are completed in time. The UFT had previously praised the city’s vaccine or negative test requirement, emphasizing the importance of giving staff a choice of whether or not to get vaccinated. However, the leader of a national teachers union, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, supported vaccine mandates for teachers.

Parents sending their children back to class – some of them for the first time in a year and a half – will have varying levels of assurance of their kids’ safety based on where they go to school.

While New York City’s vaccine mandate comes at the eleventh

“I do not expect a staffing shortage.

I expect our staff members to get vaccinated.”

– New York City schools Chancellor Meisha Porter

tion systems in city schools have also been upgraded.

It’s unclear how well the vaccine mandate will go down with teachers and other staff.

New York City schools Chancellor Meisha Porter addressed concerns that the requirements could lead to teacher resignations in an already short-staffed school system, saying last week, “I do not expect a staffing shortage.

I expect our staff members to get vaccinated.”

New York City appears to be going farther than most districts in the state when it comes to various mandates. The Rochester City School District will require staff to be vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID-19 tests.

Another district in Central New York will require teachers to show proof of vaccination or wear a mask.

Hochul has already moved the ball forward for those in favor of mask mandates while

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hour, some public health experts said these kinds of mandates were necessary to send kids back to school safely – especially children under 12 who can’t be vaccinated yet.

“We need to kind of surround these children who cannot yet be vaccinated with a safety net of vaccinated adults,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

De Blasio announced on May 24 that city schools will be returning to in-person classes exclusively on Sept. 13, without the option to attend class remotely.

The new vaccine mandate for city Education Department employees is one layer of the city’s measures to control the spread of COVID-19. Students and teachers will also be required to wear masks and will have to social distance from one another. Ventila-

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New York City first lady Chirlane McCray, left, and schools Chancellor Meisha Porter, right, visited P.S. 78 in June.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Education Department declined to set statewide requirements.

Still, public health experts said the only way to fully ensure the safety of children not yet eligible to be inoculated against the virus was to have all adults or eligible older children fully vaccinated.

“My big thing is that all the teachers and school personnel should all be vaccinated and that should be the policy because these children, anyone under the age of 12, is definitely vulnerable,” Donna Hallas, director of the pediatric nurse practitioner program at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing, told City & State. “If they’re not vaccinated, then they shouldn’t be in school.” De Blasio said that while the city is working to get kids 12 and older vaccinated, a mandate for students is

not on the table right now.

El-Sadr, the Columbia professor, said that mandatory vaccinations for staff was one of several important steps schools should be taking now. Others included educating students and staff about the importance of not coming in while sick, updating ventilation systems, requiring masks indoors and holding lunch – when masks come off – outside as much as possible.

At the onset of the pandemic, research indicated that children were not, for whatever reason, particularly vulnerable to contracting or transmitting the coronavirus. Now, however, more children are becoming infected with the delta variant.

In states with low adult vaccination rates, such as Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Arkansas, child COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly. “Everybody is a little bit nervous

about the possibility that the delta variant could in fact be, in some way, more dangerous in kids,” Dr. Richard Malley, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital, told The New York Times.

Children are the largest unvaccinated population, in part because there isn’t a vaccine available for children under the age of 12. The Food and Drug Administration has said it expects a vaccine to be available for children under 12 on a “fall or winter timeline.” In the absence of such a vaccine, efforts are being made across the country to encourage unvaccinated adults, particularly those with young children, to get the vaccine to prevent them from spreading the virus.

“There is, with delta, we think, a reasonably high household attack rate, meaning that one person in the household gets sick and other people are at risk of getting sick,” Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told The Atlantic.

The New York City Health Department launched a $1.3 million ad campaign to encourage families to get vaccinated and will be contacting all families within the public school system to go over their vaccination options. The city also launched a referral program in June that provided $100 to anyone in a civic, faith or tenant group who was able to convince someone to get vaccinated ahead of the school year.

“Vaccinations are our passport out of this pandemic, and we are getting the word out every way we can about the importance of getting eligible people and students vaccinated,” Nathaniel Styer, a spokesperson for the city Department of Education, told amNewYork. “We are alerting PA (and) PTA groups that they qualify under the city’s optional referral bonus program, and they can participate to receive $100 for every vaccinated person who names their PTA as the referring organization.”

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Will the kids be all right?

NYC hired an army of social workers, trained parents and prepared staff. It may not be enough.

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VER A THOUSAND New York City public school kids while learning during the pandemic received personal phone calls wishing them a happy birthday, even during the summer. It was one of the projects that Keisha White, a school counselor at P.S. 117 in Queens, also known as the J. Keld/Briarwood School, came up with to keep connecting with her students as many opted to learn from home during the worst of COVID-19.

Students also received an individual shoutout on the school news, accompanied by 240 other videos that White created daily, including fun facts of the day. But now the focus is shifting to a return to in-person learning, leaving many unknowns about how students will react when they come back to school.

“We have no idea what we’re going to see. Do you know the amount of crying that happens after just one summer of a kindergarten or pre-K student coming to school on the first day? I’m trying to imagine after a year and a half. It’s going to be extra tough. I think that the children, the parents and the staff – they need stability. They don’t need all of this, ‘OK, we’re happy one day,’ and now everybody’s asked

to stay home the next,” White said.

The New York City Department of Education, in anticipation of bringing students back to class, said it has expanded mental health resources available to them, beginning with the hiring of over 500 social workers. The department also said it expanded social-emotional screenings to all schools and offered mental health resource training to parents. Also, the Summer Rising school program this past summer combined academic support with social and emotional learning, along with enrichment programming to offer families child care services.

“We know that students cannot fully engage in learning unless their social-emotional and mental health needs are being met,” a city Education Department spokesperson told City & State.

All 1,800 public schools are set to open fully, with in-person instruction five days a week starting on Sept. 13. No remote learning option will be offered, despite the threat of the delta variant and mounting pressure from parents and teachers. Time will tell whether the expansion of mental health resources will provide enough of a safety net for the most vulnerable children upon their return.

Students in neighborhoods hit hardest by COVID-19 have already received additional support. Social workers in October were trained to become specialists in trauma-informed work to serve 350 schools identified as being in neighborhoods most affected by the pandemic. Federal funds were used to create 27 additional community schools in the impacted neighborhoods.

Mental health and social service professionals have applauded the expansion of services. Cristina Harris, director of training at Vibrant Emotional Health who has worked in education, social work and social services for children and families for 20 years, said she believes that the efforts are well-rounded by the new hires and trauma-based training. “School is the place where all kids are going,” Harris said. “So making sure that those services are being beefed up within schools is really exciting.”

However, there also are concerns over the effectiveness of the Education Department’s efforts.

Rohini Singh, a senior staff attorney with Advocates for Children of New York, was unsure whether the addition of resources would mean greater accessibility to those resources. “While you look at a list of the programs on paper, it sounds really

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“We have no idea what we’re going to see. Do you know the amount of crying that happens after just one summer of a kindergarten or pre-K student coming to school on the first day?”

– School counselor Keisha White

robust and really supports students. What we find is that there’s a disconnect between actual direct provision of services for students and access for students,” Singh said.

The additional personnel also might not be enough. City Limits reported that while the department said it maintains a ratio of one social worker and guidance counselor for every 215 students, which is lower than the recommended ratio by the American School Counselor Association’s recommendation as well as the national average, the calculation of the ratio has come into question. City Limits found the department calculated the ratio by combining the total number of social workers and guidance counselors to the total school population, even though the two positions have differing roles.

Separating the two, City Limits found that there were 323 students for every guidance counselor, and 632 students for every social worker. Add the 150 social workers who were recently hired and 290 included in the executive budget on education and the ratio is 489 students for every social worker, according to City Limits.

The news outlet did point out that the data doesn’t include other supports offered to students through community-based orga-

nizations and mental health clinics.

The Education Department did not respond to an email requesting clarification on the numbers.

Before the department announced the additional hires, the United Federation of Teachers released a five-point plan with suggestions on how to support students after the pandemic. Their initial point recommended creating teams of academic intervention specialists and social workers for each of the 1,800 public schools. The plan suggests that the average school would need about six to eight professionals, with numbers fluctuating based on school size.

This would require the hiring of 10,000 new professionals and would cost approximately $1 billion.

Though the department’s numbers fell quite short of the UFT’s, the union was pleased with how the city has responded to the needs of students.

“The UFT and parents lobbied on the city, state and federal level, and the result was increased funding on all levels. As a result, (New York City) for the first time provided 100% fair student funding for every school. This increase gives principals the ability to hire additional counselors, mental health professionals and academic

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support specialists for their school communities – a big win for students. In addition, the City Council allocated additional funds for counselors at schools that previously lacked them,” a UFT spokesperson told City & State.

Funding also may prove to be a roadblock to cementing the longevity of the additional staffers who were already hired. As of now, federal pandemic relief money made several of these efforts possible, including the hiring of new social workers and the creation of new community schools. That funding will have to be used by 2024. Advocates said they were already prepared to fight for the continued funding of these programs – but that it will require evidence that the programs are working. Currently, data for some of these programs can be found using the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health’s data dashboard.

“The way forward is to make sure that everyone who works with children, or has a family of their own, or cares about children and families, understands what this looks like,” Harris said. “It is great that this money has been infused. But we’re going to really have to fight and advocate for the continued funding of mental health in schools.

“This is necessary foundationally to children and youth actually thriving in the world in educational outcomes and being able to then enter the workforce,” Harris added.

While funding will continue to be a fight for child welfare advocates, the Education Department’s efforts will help make a difference for schools like the Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School, which will be receiving the help of one of the 500 new hires. Principal Dawn Brooks DeCosta believes that having a social worker for the first time will help the staff and students continue to prioritize social-emotional learning.

“So this will be the first time that we’ve had someone – our own social worker – and someone that can be very laser-focused and dedicated to making sure that kids are making this adjustment with a lot of support, any kind of trauma that students have experienced over the pandemic,” Brooks DeCosta said. “We’re just really happy to have someone that is going to be very focused on that, although we’ll all be involved. We want to make sure that that person is really available to all of our students and families. It’s a great benefit that we would otherwise not be able to afford on our own because of our small size.”

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ECENTLY, GCOM CEO Kamal Bherwani sat down with City and State NY’s publisher Tom Allon to discuss his start in New York City government and how it led him to running one of the most innovative government modernization companies in the industry.

Tom Allon: Tell us how you got involved in technology in the first place.

Kamal Bherwani: It actually started way back in elementary school, when a friend of mine convinced me to loan him some money. A few months later, he told me he couldn’t pay me back, but he offered to give me a computer that his did had given him. I didn’t have much of a choice, but it kicked off my passion for technology. I taught myself everything I could. I started learning programming in the sixth grade, and by high school I was working in the evening as a programmer. I loved it from day one. I would have done it for free.

My first real job was as a programmer in New York City government. At the time, the agency was called the Department of General Services. From there I went to HPD, Housing Preservation Development, and left in 1994 to work for a private equity investment banking organization. I came back as the first CIO for DDC, Department of Design and Construction, then from there returned to HPD as CIO. I left government for a while and did some tech investing, but then came back as the CIO for Health and Human Services. About half of my career has been in city government.

Tom Allon: Why did you decide to become the CEO of GCOM? Kamal Bherwani: GCOM is all about delivering outcomes for state and local government. And I have a passion for that because I saw what you could do when

you were in city government. The kind of projects you could take on and the ways you can change people’s lives were pretty powerful.

State and local governments are better positioned to create lasting change because improving wellbeing for residents is a longitudinal problem. It’s about diverting and shaping on a person-byperson basis to drive large-scale-change.

Small deviations that occur when someone is young can have huge impacts later.

Consider me being given that computer instead of being repaid that loan – that was a meaningless event for me at the time, but it shaped my entire life.

The work done at GCOM focuses on using technology to improve outcomes.

Each city has their own view of what they want those outcomes to be, because service delivery happens at a local level.

You don’t call the federal government to pick up your garbage or when there’s a

problem with your child. You deal with the issue locally. I joined GCOM because I wanted to be involved in that type of change.

Tom Allon: In which areas of government is technology-enabled change more ripe to occur?

Kamal Bherwani: I think everyone can agree economic prosperity is directly tied to improving outcomes through technology, because incomes lead to outcomes. Then outcomes lead to incomes.

It goes both ways. We can leverage technology to define outcomes and then agree on how to fund the outcomes that are the most important.

Regardless of the area, whether it’s public safety or education or healthcare, we have to begin by using technology to measure the outcomes that are most important. That means going beyond

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inequity and injustice in a number of ways. On the other hand, it’s accelerated the adoption of digital technology – technologies that allow working from home and hybrid work environments, something governments have never really allowed.

It’s also accelerated the adoption of data analytics to enable better policies. The more data you have, the more transparency you can offer. Transparency leads to accountability, and accountability leads to change.

There’s no doubt we’re seeing the acceleration of technology in the health and human services space. Take telehealth, for example. Telehealth did not really exist on a pervasive until the pandemic happened. Necessity became the mother of invention. Telehealth is one of the ways that government is making life for residents easier, more frictionless.

transactional metrics. This is a long-time challenge within government. You have lots of people trying to do their best, focusing on a specific transaction, like getting residents enrolled in a program, but those transactions can’t be connected to the ultimate outcomes. Instead of tracking, if and when, a resident was approved for a certain benefit or qualifies for a specific program, we must be measuring the impact of those programs.

Tom Allon: Obviously, the pandemic has changed how government delivers services. Can you talk a little bit about that? How do you think this is going to impact what you do and what government does?

Kamal Bherwani: I think when we look back on it, we’ll see that the pandemic has been an accelerator of both good things and bad things. For example, it exposed

Tom Allon: If you could look into your crystal ball, what can we expect over the next five years in terms of technology improving government?

Kamal Bherwani: I think there will be a competition for taxpayers, and tech will play a big part in that. Its already started and it has accelerated as a result of the pandemic. People realize they can work from home, and that’s given them options about where they want to live. How can state and local governments now market to taxpayers and bring people in? The mayor of Miami is actively marketing residents in California. That’s never really happened before.

We’ll also see governments trying to digitize and modernize as much as possible. New York City has done this in very strong ways. For example, we partnered with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to create a digital birth and death certificate system. All birth and death certificates are electronically certified by a doctor on a mobile phone, in a hospital, a private hospital, in a private setting, 15,000 doctors. Conversely, when someone passes away, the permission to bury or cremate is issued electronically.

Overall, I think we’ll see more of an investment in creating a frictionless experience for residents when they interact with government. More cities and states will focus on creating one-stopshops for residents to conduct all of their business with government, which is going to drive down operational costs.

Tom Allon: Do you see anything happening on the federal level that gives you optimism that the federal government is starting to use digital technology to drive outcomes?

Kamal Bherwani: There’s been fits and starts. There’s been a lot of great work done in the Office of the Health IT Coordinator to reward people who are in federal programs, medical programs, for the right outcomes. And that’s been very powerful.

Another initiative that’s outcomes-based is the Women, Infant, Children (WIC) Program.

Tom Allon: What are your goals over the next five to 10 years for GCOM? Kamal Bherwani: I want GCOM to be known as the company that helps government create healthier and more prosperous communities. And for me, it’s all about delivering outcomes. A lot of technology providers will say “We completed a project on time on budget.”

And they view that as a success. But my view of success is whether or not the government got the outcome it wanted for their residents when they created the program. And can we help them get there? That’s what we challenge all GCOMers to do. We’ve created a strategy called NextGen Government because we know that the pandemic and the investments coming in from the American Rescue Plan will be used to deliver better outcomes. And we want to be a partner with government in making sure those outcomes happen.

Tom Allon:If you could wave your magic wand, what would be the best thing to happen over the next year, both in New York and for yourself personally?

Kamal Bherwani: For New York, the best thing to happen would be people coming back. The people who left during the height of the pandemic coming back because they have faith in the city’s recovery. I’ve been in New York, pretty much my whole life with a few jaunts outside for work-related reasons, but New York’s been my home. So, if I could wave a magic wand, bringing those people back would be number one.

Second would be the allocation of the stimulus dollars in a way that would maximize a return on investment and drive the outcomes we most need in the city. My view is that we should treat the stimulus as an investment, not as a subsidy. If we treat it as an investment, it will become part of that income-outcome cycle and we’ll see real change.

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Defining ‘safety’ in schools

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T WAS A CLOUDY morning in mid-August, as New York City student activists gathered in Carl Schurz Park near Gracie Mansion to call for something that has been hotly debated for years: police-free schools. They said they want an education system that prioritizes mental health care and restorative justice over punitive practices.

Around 25 students, many of whom are organizers with the New York Civil Liber-

New York City is moving “school safety agents” out of the NYPD by 2022. Will that satisfy students who say the agents’ presence doesn’t make them feel safe?

ties Union’s Teen Activist Project, shared experiences they’ve had with the school safety agents in their schools. Jonathan Rampagoa, a student at Bard High School Early College Queens, said he was questioned by school police a few years ago when he was in middle school. He had a pair of scissors in his bag he’d intended to use for an art project. After the scissors triggered the metal detector at the entrance of his middle school, Rampagoa said “a couple police officers put me in the corner and started questioning me with

the intention I was up to no good.” He said only after he was asked to call his art teacher to confirm the intended use of the scissors and answer the principal’s questions was he allowed to go to class – 30 minutes after first period started.

Others talked about the role police have played in breaking up fights between students.

“When fights break out in schools, police are the first called, but what about guidance counselors and social workers? What about

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By Sahalie Donaldson restorative services instead?” said Benjamin Boateng, a student at Humanities Preparatory Academy, explaining that he was lucky enough to have access to restorative justice programming at his school when he was having issues with a fellow student. Restorative justice is an approach that focuses on reconciliation between the offender and the victim, rather than just punishment for the offender. “I am lucky enough to have the situation where I was not suspended, and there is no record of me that would impact how the world looks at me. While I am fortunate that I did not get suspended, however, my peers in other New York City schools are not given the same satisfaction.”

The Department of Education and city officials have announced a number of measures in the past few years to expand restorative justice programs and other mental health services in New York City schools. This includes hiring an additional 500 social workers this fall, but some activists feel the measures don’t go far enough.

School safety agents, while

Student activists gathered near Gracie Mansion to demand an end to policing in schools.

they don’t carry guns, are currently part of the New York City Police Department. Every public school has at least one agent, and some schools have more than one. Their duties in schools include monitoring metal detectors at building entrances, responding to fights, checking in visitors as they enter schools, responding to student mental health crises and sometimes making arrests. There are currently 4,400 school safety agents – around 650 less than previous years, according to Phyllis Shafran, director of communica-

tions for Teamsters Local 237, which is the union currently representing the school safety agents. The starting salary for the job is $32,834, according to the NYPD. Approximately 70% of the school safety agents are women and 90% are people of color, Shafran said. Nathaniel Styer, deputy press secretary for the city Department of Education, said 250 new school safety agents will begin training immediately to address the current shortage which, according to him, was caused by attrition and retirements.

While the number of arrests and summonses has declined over the years, racial disparities persist, and Black and Latino students disproportionately face higher rates of suspension, use of force and arrests. According to the New York Civil Liberties Union’s analysis of Student Safety Act data, Black and Latino students, while making up 66% of the student body, were the subject of 88.9% of police interventions during the 2018-2019 school year. The vast majority (80%) of arrests in schools are carried out by armed police officers, not school safety agents, as of 2019 data.

Last summer, facing pressure during citywide and national protests against racism in policing, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed to transition control of the then approximately 5,000 school safety agents – which would rank as one of the largest police forces in the U.S. – from the NYPD back to the Department of Education by June 2022.

This date will roll around six months after de Blasio leaves office. By then, Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president and a former police captain, will almost certainly have taken his place as mayor.

De Blasio had opposed such a transfer for a long time, citing a “huge safety challenge in our schools” and saying that school safety agents have done a lot to reduce crime and violence. After the policy change last summer, de Blasio said the Education Department should step in to train school safety agents on how to use less punitive discipline practices against students.

“I think school safety will be more effective if it gets more deeply trained in those approaches and deepening the dialogue with young people and their families,” de Blasio said, according to Chalkbeat.

Adams’ spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment about his thoughts on the transition, but while campaigning,

Adams said he wanted school safety agents to remain in schools with some changes to how they operate. He has emphasized that there should not be a “police culture” within schools, and in March he said he supports moving unnecessary funding from school safety agents into support services like counseling, though he didn’t specify what qualified as unnecessary funding.

“Public safety is a prerequisite. I don’t want our young people to ever be in an environment that is unsafe not only from students in the school, but people who lurk around schools and attempt to harm students. … We need to make sure that the school buildings are safe but at the same time our focus should not be on heavy-handedness, it should be on making sure (students) have access to self care,” Adams said in response to a student question about policing in schools during a BRIC TV broadcast.

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TYER OF THE Department of Education said the city is on track for transitioning the school safety agents to the Department of Education by June 2022. Doing so, he said, is “part of ensuring all of our students have a caring adult to go to when in crisis.” School safety agents began training with the Department of Education this spring in conflict resolution, mediation, restorative justice and implicit bias – something they will all go through to ensure they are aligned with their school’s social-emotional work and are integrated into the school community, Styer said. Additionally, four transition committees, co-led by the Department of Education and NYPD, met throughout the past school year to create policy recommendations for the transition.

“Schools must be safe havens for learning, and school safety agents play a critical role in ensuring that every student feels both safe and welcomed in their building. As we transition (school safety agents) back to the Department of Education over the next year, we will work to deeply integrate them into our schools as partners in creating healing-centered schools,” Styer said in an email.

Jake Martinez, the New York Civil Liberties Union’s director of youth programs, said he believes transitioning oversight of school safety agents to the Department of Education will further entrench policing in schools.

“The students have made it very clear, and

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Safety agents are assigned to all city public schools, but armed NYPD officers make most student arrests.

advocates have as well what they need to feel safer in schools,” Martinez said, noting that there are currently more school safety agents in schools than there are guidance counselors and social workers. According to the Education Department, there are 4,332 full-time social workers and guidance counselors and 4,480 part-time social workers and counselors. When the 500 additional social workers begin work this fall, the full-time count will be about 4,832. “That is restorative justice practices, counseling, other services investing in training for our teachers, implementing more mental health professionals in our schools – after-school programs.”

its restorative justice pilot program to 500 middle and high schools across the city this coming year.

Michael Simmon, a social studies teacher at IN-Tech Academy in the Bronx, attested to the power of positive reinforcement, such as students participating in sports teams and extracurriculars as opposed to harsh punishments and police involvement that leaves students with records. “There’s a gray area where having that safety in the school is good, but at the same time it could hurt the student that misbehaves in schools, so it doesn’t become a school problem, now it becomes a police problem,” Simmon told City & State. “Giving these students something to do and making them feel like they are part of the school starts to take away that negative behavior while now you have better classroom management, grades get better, there’s more spirit in the school so now you don’t need so much of a law enforcement presence to actually keep everything in line.” He said that at his school, the school safety agents are a positive presence where they

attend student sports games and dance with kids during back to school block parties, but he knows this isn’t reflective of the police’s presence in all schools.

Diverging opinions on school safety agents aside, teachers, educators, activists, students and city officials all largely circle back to the same thing – the necessity of social-emotional support and robust mental health care for students.

During the rally in August, Tania Hernandez, a student at University Heights High School in the South Bronx, recalled transitioning from a middle school where she saw students get knocked down to the ground by police to a school where she was pulled out of class by a guidance counselor after a teacher noted she was having a difficult time.

“In middle school, the only time I would be pulled out of class would be if I had been in a fight or if I had witnessed a fight.

Being pulled out of class by my guidance counselor just to chat helped me build an amazing relationship with her. Now I’m able to go to her whenever something is bothering me,” Hernandez said.

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URVEYS OF ATTITUDES toward school safety agents show mixed feelings. According to a Chalkbeat analysis of Education Department survey data from 2019, at schools where less than 20% of students are Black, about 83% felt school safety agents “promote a safe and respectful environment.”

That number was 76% at schools where more than 80% of students are Black. Another survey of 1,330 New York City youth ages 14-24 conducted by nonprofit Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York found that less than half agreed with the statement: “Having police officers in schools makes me feel safer.”

Johanna Miller, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Education Policy Center, said she’s deliberate in referring to the force as officers rather than school safety agents as many young people don’t realize that an agent in their school actually has the power to arrest them and use force. She said the NYPD has never disclosed how many school safety agents are assigned to each school or the way they are deployed, and that this is information the New York Civil Liberties Union has been trying to get for a long time.

“The loose rule is that they have to have one officer for every entrance to the school, but we know that while that is the minimum, many high schools and middle schools have a dozen or more officers, and schools with metal detectors have the most officers,” Miller said.

Styer said investments the city has made toward integrating school safety agents into the community appear to be working. Comparing the first three quarters of 2016-2017 with 2019-2020, arrests declined 60% and suspensions decreased 40%. The city intends to expand

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The government relations firms that earned the most lobbying in the state in 2020.

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ried out by government affairs professionals, who advocate for the interests of companies, trade associations, nonprofit organizations or grassroots coalitions. These lobbying outfits rely on policy chops, political savvy and relationships to ensure their clients’ needs are considered as laws and regulations are crafted.

City & State’s Top 50 State Lobbyists list highlights the most sought-after firms in the business. Based on the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics’ lobbying compensation data for 2020, the list excludes income for other services,

such as communications and campaign consulting. We excluded entities – such as the Greater New York Hospital Association – that lobby solely on their own behalf. Also, we combined lobbying entities that are part of the same corporate family.

We then asked each firm to review our calculations and provide information, including identifying up to five notable clients and five key industries. We also asked each firm to share their biggest accomplishment on the state level in the past year. All answers that were submitted are in quotes. We filled in any gaps with details from JCOPE filings in the background information sections.

We’re pleased to present New York’s Top 50 Lobbyists.

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KASIRER

SURI KASIRER President

JULIE GREENBERG

Executive Vice President

JOVIA RADIX

Vice President, Legislation

JENNIFER RIVERA

Vice President, Corporate and Legislation Mike Cassidy left, and and Patrick Lespinasse, right, of Brown & Weinraub

1 BROWN & WEINRAUB MIKE CASSIDY

Senior Adviser

PATRICK LESPINASSE Senior Adviser

Compensation: $14,352,176 Key industries: Health care, alternative energy, finance, real estate and insurance, cannabis and hemp, advanced technology Notable clients: Google, IBM, Plug Power, Crown Castle, Healthcare Association of New York State Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Our firm maintained full employment throughout 2020 and added staff in 2021.

We relocated to a renovated historic building in downtown Albany and grew in terms of revenue and clients. During the height of the pandemic, we linked clients with key players in government to address challenges, including Google and Tableau, whose experts developed a case tracking system and dashboard, and

IBM, which developed the Excelsior Pass tool enabling New Yorkers to share their vaccine status. We also assisted with private sector efforts to supply (personal protective equipment) and other equipment and to ensure care providers had reliable language translation services.

We looked inward to identify additional ways to promote social justice and support opportunities for traditionally underrepresented groups and will continue to be proactive in this space.”

What would you like to see change in New York state politics and government?

“Our hope for the remainder of 2021 is that events in Albany will lead to workplaces in which employees, particularly women, feel safe and have a reliable, responsive process to follow if they do not.”

Big prediction for the rest of 2021?

“For the rest of 2021, our prediction is that government will get back to work, an executive budget will be crafted and good work will be done for the people of New York.”

Compensation: $14,142,309 Key industries: Hospitality, technology, health care, nonprofit, real estate Notable clients: Restaurants Organizing Advocating Rebuilding, Hotel Association of New York City, New York Building Congress, Motion Picture Association, Target Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Kasirer’s team galvanized restaurant workers reeling from impending closures under a new group, Restaurants Organizing Advocating Rebuilding, or ROAR. We connected ROAR with state regulators to develop innovative methods for safe dining and cultivated the political support for new – now permanent – standards to allow restaurants to survive and emerge safer and stronger. We brought ROAR and agencies together to launch the city’s first mobile COVID-19 vaccination bus, visiting the neighborhoods where many restaurant staff live, thus breaking down barriers between restaurant work schedules and vaccination sites.”

What would you like to see change in New York state politics and government?

“One dynamic that we’re already seeing change is representation of women at the highest ranks, with Kathy Hochul assuming the role of governor. Not only is she the

Big prediction for the rest of 2021?

“There’s no doubt that New Yorkers are facing public health and economic uncertainty. Our big prediction is that New York will continue to wow the world with our remarkable resilience: We’ll harness creativity to build back businesses, our work ethic to create jobs through infrastructure projects and our compassion for one another by complying with evolving safety standards as we all envision a healthier 2022.”

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EMILY GISKE Partner

Compensation: $12,773,187 Key industries: Health care, education, technology, energy, telecommunication and nonprofits Notable clients: Personal Care Products Council, Broadway League, Tech:NYC, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, New York Immigration Coalition, Google Biggest achievement in the past year?

“2021 continued to be a year filled with challenges as New

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first female governor, but she is also coming into office at a time of enormous opportunity to exhibit her strengths in solving urgent problems through hard work, listening to constituents and coalition building.”

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York continues on the postCOVID recovery journey. We are especially proud of the work that our clients and team have been able to achieve despite the limitations of the pandemic. For example, we were able to assist numerous nonprofit organizations to access crucial funding so that they could provide essential services to New Yorkers.

We had the privilege of representing clients working on major legislation, including recreational marijuana, the Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, the Gender Recognition Act, repealing Walking While Trans and criminal justice reform.”

Big prediction for the rest of 2021?

“New York will continue to make its comeback.”

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Chair, New York State Government Law and Policy Practice Compensation: $11,300,036 Key industries: Health care, real estate, gaming, environment and energy, insurance and financial services Notable clients: Real Estate Board of New York, Health Plan Association, Life Insurance Council of New York, EDF Renewables, New York Medical Cannabis Industry Association

What would you like to see change in New York state politics and government?

“The government add staff to the agencies to assist them in carrying out their mission.”

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President and CEO

SCOTT WEXLER

Managing Director

DIANA OSTROFF

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Samir NeJame is on the leadership team at Greenberg Traurig.

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“GT has had many achievements, from being an invaluable resource to clients during the emergency period to working towards (the) successful passage of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA).

On behalf of our clients, GT supported the MRTA’s robust social equity goals, overdue expansion of the state’s Medical Marijuana Program and thoughtful transition to adult-use. GT also served as Entergy’s counsel in the PSC (state Public Service Commission) proceeding to sell its retired nuclear generating facilities at the Indian Point site in Westchester County to a specialty decommissioning company. GT was a core part of a multiagency effort and was able to achieve a settlement agreement unanimously supported by all parties to the proceeding,

leading to the first-of-itskind in New York, prompt decommissioning plan for the site by the mid-2030s.

The PSC chair lauded the settlement reached, stating he had never seen a better performance of a group of people in support of the public interest in his four decades of public service. We also are particularly proud of the depth of services we provided our education clients, which were uniquely impacted by the pandemic, offering guidance on legislative and executive responses, including legislation governing vaccination “time off,” unemployment benefits, development of reopening plans, vaccination mandates and educational programming.

During an unprecedented time in Albany, being a substantive, well-balanced law firm has allowed us to serve our clients well. We have cultivated long-standing relationships and continue to foster new

Compensation: $7,407,983 Key industries: Economic development, energy and environment, health care, hospitality and gaming, and transportation Notable clients: AnheuserBusch, Everytown for Gun Safety/Moms Demand Action, IAC, Regeneron, Tesla Biggest achievement in the past year?

“As a firm, our biggest accomplishment in the past year has been the work we did to help industries reopen, keep essential businesses operating and maintain continuity for ongoing client issues in the midst of the pandemic. We worked to develop and implement safe operating guidelines to facilitate the successful reopening of numerous industries that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

We collaborated with state officials to assist restaurants, fitness centers, salons and spas, entertainment venues, retailers, P-12 schools, institutions of higher education and other businesses reopen under COVID-19 protocols.

Additionally, we worked hard to make sure that clients deemed essential could remain open, (we) were

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What would you like to see change in New York state politics and government?

“The past few years we have seen a significant growth in the number of women in government, especially of color, both in elected office and at the staff level. While this is a huge milestone, there is still work to be done to elect more in all levels of state government, from the county level to statewide.”

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following the changing state requirements and had the necessary tools needed to remain open safely.

Furthermore, we ensured continuity among our client’s various projects, legislative issues and initiatives throughout the pandemic so critical projects and public policy proposals moved forward in spite of the difficult circumstances.”

What would you like to see change in New York state politics and government?

“We’re looking forward to the return of the New York state Legislature to in-person session in January 2022. After nearly two years of virtual legislative sessions, meetings and interactions, we’re excited to see legislators and their constituents back together in the Capitol again next year.

We’re anxious to get back to working side by side with legislators and their staffs to advance important initiatives for the people of New York.

We’re also looking forward to continuing to develop our relationships with legislators, including the many new members in the Legislature, so we can further meaningful engagement on important policy issues in New York state on behalf of our clients.”

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Compensation: $7,162,416 Key industries: Cannabis, real estate, climate and energy, infrastructure, fintech, health care Notable clients: Charter Communications, Manhattan Beer Distributors, PharmaCann, UJA-Federation of New York Biggest achievement in the past year?

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“As we entered the second year of the pandemic, 2021 saw Mercury stepping in to assist businesses as they navigated the everchanging landscape due to COVID-19 restrictions.

We also worked to improve access to coronavirus vaccines for New Yorkers across the state. One notable accomplishment this legislative session was the legalization of recreational cannabis, a system of licensing and the many social justice initiatives included in the legislation.

Many people, companies and organizations have been fighting for legalized recreational cannabis in the state of New York and now that is a reality – Mercury is proud of that. From working to ensure the voices of marginalized communities were heard to supporting a strong but effective regulatory structure, Mercury assisted in crafting the future of the burgeoning industry.

For the future, we hope to turn the corner on COVID-19 and focus on recovery.”

7 PARK STRATEGIES LISA MARRELLO

Partner and Managing Director Compensation: $7,096,611 Key industries: Energy, health care, construction, transportation, government Notable clients: Verizon, Rite Aid, ExxonMobil, Greyhound Lines, New York State Psychological Association Background information Park Strategies was founded over two decades ago by former U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato, and in the private sector, the Long Island Republican’s consulting company has catered to clients on both sides of the aisle. In Albany, a key staffer is government relations veteran Lisa Marrello, who previously worked at Jackson

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HINMAN STRAUB SEAN DOOLAN Principal

Compensation: $6,543,902 Key industries: Health care, education, labor, human services Notable clients: Con Edison, New York State Professional Firefighters Association, Association of Proprietary Colleges, Estée Lauder Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Far and away, our greatest achievement over the past year has been the ongoing partnership with all of our clients in assisting them in meeting the challenges associated with the global pandemic. Whether it be advocating on their behalf in developing state policy, implementation of everevolving state or federal requirements, securing additional funding or compliance and enforcement, the resources of the entire

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acknowledgement of home health care providers as front-line workers in our state.”

and state funding for services to help children aging out of foster care.”

Big prediction for the rest of 2021?

“Making predictions in a year like this is a fool’s errand. The only thing one can expect in 2021 is to expect the unexpected.”

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JAMES CAPALINO CEO

TRAVIS TERRY education and nonprofits, telecommunications, housing and construction, transportation Notable clients: Waste Management, T-Mobile, TD Bank, Walgreens, Hanwha Energy, YAI Background information Constantinople & Vallone Consulting is a Manhattanbased government relations firm. One of its founders, Peter Vallone Sr., served for years as the speaker of the New York City Council and mounted bids for mayor and governor.

The younger generation – Perry Vallone and Anthony Constantinople – now hold leadership roles at the familyrun company.

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Chair, New York State Government Relations Group

ESTEBAN MACCERA

Associate Director, New York State Government Relations Group Compensation: $5,502,251 Key industries: Alcohol beverages, internet and communications, construction,

nonprofits and automobiles Notable clients: Facebook, AT&T, Metropolitan Package Store Association, Helen Keller Services, International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades Biggest achievement in the past year?

“This past year has been like no other, with the coronavirus pandemic causing unprecedented disruptions and pivots in every facet of life. Our clients had to navigate an ever-changing list of government regulations, while working to access much-needed relief funds from all levels of government – all while the work of government itself was forced to recalibrate from in person to virtual.

Despite all of that, DHC was able to successfully maintain our ability to get great results for our clients, and that is something of which we are immensely proud.”

What would you like to see change in New York state politics and government?

“Perhaps the one positive impact of COVID-19 is that it has opened New Yorkers’ eyes to who are the most essential workers among us – those who kept us safe and healthy and facilitated the ability for most of us to shelter in place.

Building on that recognition, we would love to see a greater

President

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ROBERT BISHOP

Founding Member

JEANNE MULLGRAV

CARLOS BEATO

TUNISHA W. WALKER-MILLER

Compensation: $4,982,803 Key industries: Civil service and trade unions, nonprofit community-based organizations, criminal justice, health care, construction and development Notable clients: Transport Workers Union Local 100, Public Health Solutions, Simon Wiesenthal Center, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades DC 9, Consortium for Worker Education

Group Leader Principal

KEITH TUBBS Principal

Compensation: $5,171,684 Key industries: Transportation, health care, real estate, nonprofits and technology Notable clients: Macy’s, Times Square Alliance, New York University, New York Academy of Medicine, Two Trees Management Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Capalino had many achievements last year that involved the state and state officials. A few to highlight include: (1) Working with FWD.us to secure passage of the NY HERO Act to preserve the livelihood and safety of immigrants and all New Yorkers; (2) Helping clients, including Somos Community Care and the Javits Center, on efforts to protect, test and vaccinate New Yorkers against COVID-19; (3) On behalf of LimeBike, successfully passed the e-scooter pilot program, bringing opportunities to urban transit deserts; and (4) Advocating for Fair Futures to secure over $20 million in city

Member

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“We helped the Community Health Center of Richmond procure state and city funding for the construction of a state-of-art health center in Port Richmond, Staten Island.

Passage of aggregate supply (S255/A1106) legislation, which requires payment of prevailing wage on traditional public works projects involving the hauling and delivery of aggregate supply construction materials. And, (we) worked with our clients to establish additional safety protocols from toxic elements in major industrial painting/coatings projects with the passage of A743/S5517, which allows the Office of General Services to establish state agency

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EDUARDO CASTELL

Managing Partner

CATHERINE TORRES Partner

JOHN A. EMRICK Partner

Compensation: $4,535,412 Key industries: Health care, tech, nonprofit, labor and housing Notable clients: Transport Workers Union Local 100, Greater New York Hospital Association, Montefiore Health System, Hispanic Federation, Pharmacists Society of the State of New York Biggest achievement in the past year?

“As New York continues to battle the health and economic crisis resulting from the pandemic, MirRam was proud to achieve numerous victories in the budget and legislative session for our clients, many of whom

are front-line workers.

Protections for subway and bus operators, support for our state’s hospitals, pharmacy reimbursement equity and vaccination ability are among our many achievements.”

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Managing Director, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies

STUART SHORENSTEIN

Managing Director, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, and Member, Cozen O’Connor Compensation: $4,377,773 Key industries: Banking and financial services, cannabis, arts and culture, sports betting and education Notable clients: Apollo Theater, Canopy Growth, Pratt Institute, Chubb Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Our clients have remained at the forefront of addressing the COVID-19 crisis this year, providing essential services

Executive Vice President

PAUL ZUBER

Senior Vice President

DAN CAIN

Senior Vice President

JUSTIN BIRZON

Vice President for Policy and Regulation

JILL SCALZO

Vice President of Legislative Affairs Compensation: $4,224,288 Key industries: Telecommunications, technology, travel and entertainment, banking, finance and insurance, criminal and social justice Notable clients: ArchCare, The Bronx Defenders, Curaleaf Biggest achievement in the past year?

“This past year, as our firm navigated the ever-shifting intricacies of state-level politics and the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, our biggest overarching achievement was equipping clients with specifics in real time and providing insight so they were best prepared to navigate business as usual. ASA strives to support its clients in dynamic times with thoughtful, seasoned strategies to achieve outcomes

on multiple platforms at any given time. We are proud to represent a broad array of client interests that span a large swath of public policy priorities.”

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Vice President

DAN KATZ

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

BENJAMIN KERN

Vice President and Assistant General Counsel Compensation: $3,956,125 Key industries: Technology, sports and gaming, energy and telecommunications, nonprofit and labor Notable clients: AT&T, Brooklyn Nets, CAMBA Inc., Microsoft, 32BJ SEIU Biggest achievement in the past year?

“We are obviously proud of so many incredible victories that we helped achieve for our clients, whether it is helping industries navigate the COVID-19 reopening process, securing government assistance for essential workers or passing critical alternative energy legislation. But our biggest achievement in the past year has to have been the passage of mobile sports betting. On behalf of a variety of industry stakeholders, we directed a complex public affairs campaign that culminated in the 2021-22 state budget authorizing mobile sports betting in New York.”

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and creatively developing solutions to ensure New York’s social, economic and cultural well-being. We are especially proud that our team worked effectively with New York state leaders to shape the legal framework of two entirely new industries – sports betting and recreational marijuana – that will not only provide muchneeded tax revenue, but also address long-standing social inequities.”

Tress Capitol Advisors extends our sincerest appreciation to our clients, who have inspired us during this exceptional year.

Congratulations to all the honorees of the New York State Top 50 Lobbyists list from Nick Spano and everyone at Empire Strategic Planning

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transportation, health care, financial services and education Notable clients: Amtrak, American Airlines, Greater New York Hospital Association, AECOM, energyRe

DICKINSON & AVELLA PLLC CHRISTINA DICKINSON Partner

MICHAEL AVELLA

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“TBA is proud of the work we’ve done helping clients navigate the unprecedented realities created by the COVID-19 pandemic across the state. From supporting innovation in the education and health care industries and ensuring private sector participation in the reopening process to advocating for transportation solutions and setting the stage for the new green economy, TBA has been at the forefront of these issues.

We look forward to continuing these efforts on behalf of our clients and all New Yorkers.”

Partner

Compensation: $3,877,469 Key industries: Technology, criminal justice, voting and elections, sports and entertainment, finance Notable clients: New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, Verizon, New Yorkers United for Justice, StudentsFirstNY, Orthodox Union

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ADAM RICHARDSON

Executive Vice President

NORA BOYLE

Vice President Compensation: $3,772,802 Key industries: Sports, education, labor, health care and insurance Notable clients: 1199SEIU, Genting New York, New York State Beer Wholesalers

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Association, Somos Community Care Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Cordo & Co. assisted our clients responsibly and safely (in) navigating the challenges presented by COVID-19.

We are especially proud to have assisted our clients in collaborating with New York to test and vaccinate hundreds of thousands of vulnerable and immigrant New Yorkers. In 2021, we helped in crafting safe staffing laws, strengthening wage theft laws and enacting mobile sports wagering. We look forward to continuing that work in 2022, helping our clients build back a better and healthier New York.”

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KRISTEN WALSH

President, New York

MATTHEW POWERS

Senior Director, Albany Compensation: $3,206,779 Key industries: Energy,

ANDREW ROFFE Founder

Compensation: $3,156,431 Key industries: Health care, government, finance and energy Notable clients: White Plains, Starbucks, Apple, Xerox, Exelon Background information The Roffe Group P.C., which is based in Albany and also has an office in New York City, is led by Andrew Roffe, who previously held high-ranking governmental roles in the Assembly, in Westchester County and in Congress. A key colleague in the bipartisan office is Managing Director Christine C. Rutigliano, who previously was deputy comptroller in the office of the state comptroller and worked in the state Senate and Assembly.

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Biggest achievement in the past year?

“In the past year we’ve helped clients navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping them up to date with evolving policies and advocating for their needs.

We helped both New York baseball teams reopen and advocated for and defended significant victories like parole reforms and voting rights restoration in addition to securing funding for clients.

We’ve done significant work in the cannabis space and anticipate much more work as adult-use is implemented and medical expands. We also successfully advocated for mobile sports wagering and stabilization of New York’s land-based casinos.”

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We are proud to be one of the largest and most established practices in New York State and complemented by a robust team in New York City. We thank our clients for their continued trust in our team.

We congratulate City & State for its service and all honorees for their achievements.

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Congratulations to City & State’s NYS Top 50 Lobbyists. ASA is proud to be recognized as a leading lobbying and consulting firm in New York State.

ASA Government Affairs provides government relations strategy and political counsel to Fortune 500 companies, real estate developers, not-for-profit organizations, health care providers, and the telecommunications industry among others.

Our team has the experience and relationships to effectively engage policy makers and advocate for the enhancement and continued resiliency of our clients’ specific interests.

During a time when State government is particularly dynamic, ASA brings a nimble and entrepreneurial approach to an ever-changing political and policy landscape.

111 Washington Ave 2nd Fl Albany, NY 12210 www.albanystrategicadvisors.com/government-affairs (518) 813-4832

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CMW STRATEGIES MICHAEL WOLOZ

President and CEO Compensation: $3,119,098 Key industries: Transportation, real estate, construction, cultural attractions and tourism, and energy Notable clients: Verizon, Instacart, Hotel Association of New York City, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, National Supermarket Association Background information Manhattan-based CMW Strategies is led by Michael Woloz, who has been with the firm for two decades. Woloz, a former New York City Council staffer and journalist, has been expanding the firm’s presence in Albany in recent years, an effort spearheaded by government veteran Skip Piscitelli.

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JIM WALSH Partner

MEGHAN MCNAMARA Partner

JULIA DONNARUMA Senior Advisor

Compensation: $3,105,094 Key industries: Health care, higher education, procurement, energy and the environment Notable clients: Molina Healthcare Inc., New York University, Oracle America, Coalition of New York State Public Health Plans, NRG Energy Biggest achievement in the past year?

“We are very proud of the work we did to support our clients as providers of essential services throughout

the pandemic and to secure benefits so many could weather this unprecedented event. Our expanding team of experienced professionals is now focused on helping our clients navigate the opportunities and challenges associated with New York’s recovery through a commitment to providing expert government affairs, regulatory and legal services to address all of our clients’ needs.”

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PATRICK B. JENKINS & ASSOCIATES

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Senior Vice President

GETO & DE MILLY

CORY LOOMIS

Principal

JENNIFER RICHARDSON Legislative Director

Compensation: $3,088,979 Key industries: Gaming, education, telecommunications and technology, real estate and development, and health care Notable clients: New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Genting New York LLC, Charter Communications, Bank Street College of Education Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to adjust our advocacy strategies to continue to serve our clients during the past year. While we are proud of all that we have achieved on behalf of our clients, it was particularly rewarding to be part of a group of lobbyists and gaming interests to bring mobile sports betting to the state.”

ETHAN GETO

MICHELE DE MILLY Principal

Compensation: $2,943,500 Key industries: Real estate and land use, professional sports, education, hotels, nonprofits, social services, LGBTQ+ advocacy, criminal justice reform, culture and the arts Notable clients: The Howard Hughes Corp., PepsiCo, New Alternatives for Children Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Geto & de Milly has been highly successful in maintaining strong momentum on development projects key to New York’s post-pandemic economic recovery – including the Gowanus, Brooklyn, rezoning and a transformative proposal in the historic South Street Seaport, as well as Grand Street Guild’s addition of hundreds of affordable

apartments on the Lower East Side. Initiatives like these will spur economic growth, create jobs, increase affordable housing and add public open space. We’re also quite proud of the funding support we have been able to secure for our nonprofit and advocacy clients, particularly criminal justice reform and educational efforts.”

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Government Relations Specialist

KRISTIN RUGGLES

Government Relations Specialist Compensation: $2,896,050 Key industries: Nonprofit and human services sector, affordable housing, arts and culture, legal services, immigration rights and juvenile justice Notable clients: BioBus, New York Legal Services Coalition, Kings Against Violence Initiative, Safe Passage

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Constantinople & Vallone Consulting LLC is a results-oriented government relations, public affairs and business development firm with a strong record of success. C&V provides customized, hands on consulting services to a select group of clientele. We work to understand a client’s needs and develop a detailed strategy and budget while defining short and long term tactical goals.

C&V's team brings a unique combination of experience and expertise in the sectors of government, finance, and public affairs.

This year we are proud to welcome three additional innovative and experienced professionals to the C&V team: Janet Mejia-Peguero, Isabel Lane, and Joe Newman.

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Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem

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ZACHARY BERNSTEIN

Real Estate Partner

TAL J. GOLOMB

Real Estate Partner

DAVID KARNOVSKY

Real Estate Partner

MELANIE MEYERS

Real Estate Partner

CAROL E. ROSENTHAL Real Estate Partner

WESLEY O’BRIEN

Real Estate Special Counsel Compensation: $2,654,131 Key industry: Real estate Notable clients: Vornado Realty Trust, Two Trees Management, The Related Companies, Rudin Management, Macy’s Retail Holdings Inc. Background information Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP – branded as Fried Frank – is a New York City-based law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., London and Frankfurt.

In New York, one of its many specialties is real estate.

Among its real estate clients

Christopher Duryea is managing partner at Statewide Public Affairs.

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are some of the biggest developers in New York City.

the restaurant capital of the world.”

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STATEWIDE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

SHENKER RUSSO & CLARK LLP

CHRISTOPHER DURYEA Managing Partner

Compensation: $2,443,016 Key industries: Telecommunications, cannabis, technology, health care, energy and the environment Notable clients: Comcast, Cresco Labs, New York State Dental Association Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Statewide has worked tirelessly to ensure the continued success of all our clients throughout these challenging times, yet the pandemic has impacted restaurants and hospitality to a degree thought unimaginable less than two years ago. We are proud to be part of the team working every day to restore this critical New York industry and bring back

THERESA RUSSO

Co-Managing Partner and CEO

DOUGLAS CLARK

Co-Managing Partner Compensation: $2,359,845 Key industries: Automobile dealers, banking and financial services, higher education, health care, energy and biodiesel industry Notable clients: Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, New York Bankers Association, National Biodiesel Board, BlackRock, Center for Disability Services Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Shenker Russo & Clark’s biggest achievement over the past year has been to assist our myriad clients in navigating the many

MALKIN & ROSS

JESSICA SCHAFROTH

Vice President of Government Affairs

CHRISTINE TRAMONTANO Vice President of Government Affairs

Compensation: $2,318,835 Key industries: Addressing sexual and gender-based violence and harassment, expanding access to highquality mental and physical health care, criminal justice reform, environmental justice and enhancing protections for our most vulnerable populations Notable clients: Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Coalition for the Homeless Inc., Drug Policy Alliance, Make the Road New York, New York State Nurses Association, Safe Horizon Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Legalizing adult-use cannabis, securing the legislative passage of Less Is More as well as a package of bills to address the opioid overdose crisis, creating a first-in-the-nation Excluded

LUCY SCHULTZ; JESSICA SCHAFROTH; CHRISTINE TRAMONTANO

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“TWG always takes great pride in the accomplishments that our clients are able to achieve when they work together through coalition, and this was a banner year in that regard. Building off of success we saw with the passage of Raise the Age (RTA), this year included the passage of JD-12, which lowered the age of juvenile delinquency from seven to 12, and Retro YO, which grants retroactive youthful offender status to those previously excluded under the original RTA law.”

guidelines, executive orders, directives and rules put into place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were able to assist statewide industries to remain open, retain their workforce and provide essential services.

During these difficult times, our assistance helped clients retain jobs and maintain their businesses or organizations and at the same time kept everyone safe.”

CONGRATULATES ALL OF THE HONOREES NAMED TO

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needed. From securing smallbusiness assistance funding and helping the restaurant industry reopen to supporting public school students and essential health care facilities, we were honored to help New York get through 2020 and move forward on a safe, fair and equitable recovery in 2021.”

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“McBride Consulting and Business Development Group was fortunate to experience steady growth throughout 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, in part because it was more important than ever for government to work with private industry to deliver goods and services despite globally stressed conditions.

The quality and continuity of services to our clients is a testament to the integrity of our team and the breadth of our network and an overall great achievement. We deliver value to our clients by helping them navigate and communicate with government officials and industry leaders, growing their company while protecting their brand!”

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YOSWEIN NEW YORK

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, WILEY & CLYNE LLP

Founder and CEO

Managing Partner

JONI A. YOSWEIN

ELIZABETH K. CLYNE

JEFFREY DENMAN

JONATHAN S. MCCARDLE

Compensation: $2,262,600 Key industries: Technology, educational and cultural nonprofits, transportation, health care, racing and wagering Notable clients: New York City Hospitality Alliance, JetBlue, Brooklyn Public Library, New York Building Congress, Brooklyn Defender Services

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Compensation: $1,896,000 Key industries: Construction and engineering, finance, health care, gaming, racing and wagering, and technology Notable clients: General Contractors Association of New York, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., New York State Association of Cemeteries, Robin Hood Foundation, United Healthcare Services

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“In a year that saw government become more important than ever, YNY was proud to ensure that our clients – and the New Yorkers they serve – had access to the governmental services and resources they so desperately

Senior Vice President and Partner

Vice President

Partner

MCBRIDE CONSULTING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP ROBERT MCBRIDE

President and CEO

LUIS E. MONTES

Compensation: $1,967,330 Key industries: Energy and renewables, transportation, affordable housing, construction and health care Notable clients: Eversource Energy Service Company,

Background information Featherstonhaugh, Wiley & Clyne LLP is an Albanybased law firm with a portfolio that includes significant government matters.

Managing Partner Elizabeth Clyne has led the firm since 1995, while Partner Jonathan McCardle came on board

a decade ago. Another key leader of the firm is Partner James Featherstonhaugh, a veteran political player in Albany.

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TONY MASIELLO President

Compensation: $1,887,217 Key industries: Government, health care, transportation, education, culture and the arts Notable clients: Buffalo, Erie County Medical Center, The Buffalo Zoo, Seneca Nation of Indians, Kaleida Health Background information Victor Martucci is the managing partner of Masiello, Martucci and Associates, a Buffalo-based firm with a major presence in Western New York.

Another key employee at the firm is President Tony Masiello, who previously served as a state senator and the mayor of Buffalo.

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Founder and Principal

KRISTEN MURPHY Senior Lobbyist

DAN LEINUNG Counsel

MICHELLE WALSH

Associate Lobbyist Compensation: $1,545,999 Key industries: Health care, biotech, law and sports Notable clients: Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, New York State Camp

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Directors Association, Legal Action Center Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Our biggest achievement, by far, has been effectively guiding our clients through this extraordinary year.”

EMPIRE STRATEGIC PLANNING NICK SPANO

Founder and Owner

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MAUREEN KRONAU

PATRICIA LYNCH ASSOCIATES

Compensation: $1,419,150 Key industries: Health care, real estate, labor and accounting Notable clients: Greater New York Hospital Association, Montefiore Hospital, iPark East, PKF O’Connor Davies, Westchester County Police Benevolent Association

Senior Lobbyist

JOHN SPANO

Senior Lobbyist

PATRICIA LYNCH Principal

Compensation: $1,521,496 Key industries: Renewable energy, entertainment, real estate, cryptocurrency and transportation Notable clients: The Walt Disney Co., Avis Budget Car Rental LLC, Diamond Generating Corp.

Background information Patricia Lynch Associates is headed up by Albany veteran Patricia Lynch, who previously served as a top aide to thenAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Lynch retains a portfolio of top-tier corporate clients with business before the state.

36 WHITEMAN OSTERMAN & HANNA LLP RICHARD LECKERLING

Coordinating Partner, Governmental Relations Practice Group Compensation: $1,485,878 Key industries: Health care, education, insurance and finance Notable clients: Columbia University Teachers College, Quest Diagnostics, Johnson & Johnson Services, CarMax Background information The Albany-based law firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP specializes in a number of industries and sectors with business before

Nick Spano is the founder and owner of Empire Strategic Planning.

the government in New York.

Partner Richard Leckerling, who once served as counsel to then-Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink, oversees the firm’s government relations practice.

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SHAUNEEN MCNALLY Partner

MARCY SAVAGE Partner

Compensation: $1,424,917 Key industries: Health care providers, public health, public transit, financial sector and human services Notable clients: Community Pharmacy Association of

New York State, New York State Association of Health Care Providers, New York State Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, New York Public Transit Association Biggest achievement in the past year?

“We are proud to have assisted our clients across sectors in successfully navigating state and local government policies, guidance, executive orders and regulations during an ongoing public health emergency so they could continue to provide essential services, keep their businesses operating and serve their communities.

Further, despite the many new challenges and obstacles, we were able to help our clients succeed in a number of legislative and budget campaigns during this period.”

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“We were able to immediately adapt to the changing ways of communicating with the Legislature and the executive branch during this last year and successfully help clients like (the Greater New York Hospital Association) to help continue the critical care to patients during the COVID-19 crisis.”

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Managing Partner

CAMILLE BRANDON

Community Outreach Director Compensation: $1,393,422 Key industries: Health care, organized labor, cybersecurity, fintech and economic

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development Notable clients: New York State Building & Construction Trades Council, Delaware North, Motorola Solutions, University at Buffalo

41 GOTHAM GOVERNMENT RELATIONS & COMMUNICATION BRAD GERSTMAN Partner

DAVID SCHWARTZ Partner

NICOLE EPSTEIN

Senior Associate

Jacqueline S.L. Lawrence Williams Scherer

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STATE & BROADWAY

JACQUELINE S.L. WILLIAMS Partner and Owner

LAWRENCE E. SCHERER Partner and Owner

RICHARD WINSTEN

Counsel and Senior Lobbyist Compensation: $1,375,130 Key industries: Finance, film and television, labor, cannabis and private industry Notable clients: Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, 1199SEIU, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Broadway Stages, New York Chiropractic Council Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Establishing a ‘right to publicity’ for deceased individuals to protect against the commercial exploitation of their name or likeness; television diversity tax credit bill signed into law.”

Compensation: $1,365,000 Key industries: Smallbusiness advocacy, education and disability Notable clients: Red Apple Group, New York School Bus Contractors Association, Flair Beverages Corp., Tiegerman Schools, Empire Commercial Services LP Background information Gotham Government Relations & Communication has a major presence in New York City and on Long Island as well as in Washington, D.C. Led by two founding partners, Brad Gerstman and David Schwartz, the firm also counts former Rep. Gary Ackerman among its key staff members.

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ROSS F. MOSKOWITZ Partner

Compensation: $1,289,159 Key industry: Real estate Notable clients: A&E Real Estate Management, Verizon, FWRA LLC, Yorkville Towers Associates LLC Background information The law firm Stroock, which

Ross F. Moskowitz is a partner at Stroock.

also has offices in Washington, D.C., Miami and Los Angeles, has a thriving real estate practice in New York that is led by Partner Ross Moskowitz, a former New York City official who’s known for his expertise in zoning and land use matters. Among the key players on the firm’s New York real estate team are John Egnatios-Beene and Ashley Doukas.

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Head of New York Practice

YVETTE BUCKNER

Managing Director

ERIC SOUFER

Managing Director Compensation: $1,232,500 Key industries: Crypto, gaming, education, gig economy and tech Notable clients: Pace-OMatic, Education Equity Campaign, Latch Background information Tusk Strategies was founded

by Bradley Tusk, who managed then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s successful 2009 reelection campaign. The firm, which helped manage early frontrunner Andrew Yang’s mayoral

bid this year, is known for its work with Uber and other tech startups. The New York office is led by Chris Coffey, an experienced campaign expert.

44 RG GROUP

ALAN ROSENBERG Partner

CATHERINE GIULIANI Partner

GREGORY MITCHELL Associate

Compensation: $1,231,500 Key industries: Technology, consulting, energy, real estate and construction Notable clients: KPMG, Oracle America, Red Hat, Transit Wireless, Armis Biggest achievement in the past year?

“RG Group prides itself on being the ‘go-to firm’ for technology companies doing business in New York. Despite the impacts of COVID-19, that mission hasn’t changed. In the past year, RG Group has successfully guided its clients through the COVID-19 crisis, identified shifting needs, navigated through uncertainty and budget challenges and helped position them as partners to government.”

STATE & BROADWAY; ROBERT MARTIN/HEADSHOTS LONG ISLAND; STROOCK & STROOCK & LAVAN LLP; SUPER SOURCE MEDIA LLC; WALTER COLLEY IMAGES INC.

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“We are proud to have supported our clients by keeping construction projects going safely, supporting our clients who support New York’s most vulnerable and ultimately being a resource our clients can count on in 2020 and beyond.”

August 30, 2021

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DENISE MURPHY MCGRAW Principal

JEFFREY HILL Principal

FRANK NEMETH Principal

Compensation: $1,183,371 Key industries: Health, technology, construction, financial services and the arts Notable clients: Construction Industry Association of Rochester, Bayer Corporation, Getty Images, IBM, Facebook, Monsanto Company Biggest achievement in the past year?

“In 2021 we successfully advocated for passage of significant behavioral health legislation and secured more than $475 million for modernization of the Rochester City Schools and numerous defensive victories.”

City & State New York

telecommunications and business associations Notable clients: Amalgamated Transit Union Legislative Conference Board, American Nurses Association – New York, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, NewYorkBIO, New York State Telecommunications Association Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Our biggest achievement in the past year has been helping clients achieve their legislative priorities in an unprecedented environment.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything, including lobbying, which is based on relationships and communication. The 2021 legislative session was conducted remotely, so all meetings were virtual, and the opportunity to see individuals more informally did not exist.

Communications had to be intentional, which created unique challenges especially at the end of session when things moved quickly and constantly evolved. We figured out how to be successful in the new normal and as a result, our clients saw great successes.”

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THOMAS MCMAHON

President and Founder

JAMES MCMAHON Partner

Partner

Compensation: $1,166,721 Key industries: Affordable housing, financial services and solid waste Notable clients: Action Carting Environmental Services, Bank of America, Community Preservation Corporation, Enterprise Community Partners

Compensation: $1,174,270 Key industries: Biotechnology, transportation, health care,

Biggest achievement in the past year?

“Working closely with clients and government partners

HARTER SECREST & EMERY AMY J. KELLOGG

Government Affairs Practice Group Leader and Partnerin-Charge of the Albany Office

JOHN M. JENNINGS

to manage and navigate through the challenges and chaos caused by (the) global pandemic. With much of our work focused on affordable housing, we worked closely with state and city government partners and the advocacy community to adopt legislation and programs that protect tenants and allow development to move forward in 2021.”

48 PLUMMER & WIGGER DAN PLUMMER Partner

SCOTT WIGGER Partner

Compensation: $1,152,000 Key industries: Manufacturing, media, transportation, energy and finance Notable clients: General Electric Company, NBCUniversal, Railroads of New York, Millennium Pipeline, New York State Funeral Directors Association, New York Transco What’s on the horizon for your firm in 2022?

“Looking forward into 2022, our main focus will be on getting through the current COVID-19 pandemic by continuing to assist our clients in working with the new Hochul administration and state Legislature to help New York state create jobs and promote initiatives that will create a robust post-COVID economy.”

49 ENVISION STRATEGY DAVID S. CARROLL

Co-Founder and Managing Director Compensation: $1,055,500 Key industries: Financial

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services, procurement and business development, health care, renewable energy and transportation Notable clients: Cigna, NFL, Merscorp Holdings Inc., United Breast Cancer Foundation, National Employment Lawyers Association/New York Biggest achievement in the past year?

“One was successfully advocating for mobile sports gaming statewide.

The second one was the state’s pass-through entity tax, a workaround of the impact of the federal (state and local tax) deduction for passthrough businesses, such as partnerships and S corporations, on behalf of a client that was interested in making New York more hospitable for businesses on tax fronts without costing New York a penny.”

50 BARRETT ASSOCIATES PETER CARR JR.

Managing Partner Compensation: $1,032,002 Key industries: Technology, financial services, manufacturing, health, education and nonprofits Notable clients: Procter & Gamble, eBay, PayPal, Pitney Bowes, America’s Health Insurance Plans, StubHub Background information Barrett Associates has expanded over the years from a small firm focused on insurance clients to one specializing in an array of industries. The Albany-based firm has been led since 2017

by Peter Carr Jr. Another key leader at the firm is Jill Muratori.

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Notice of Formation of 172 NOSTRAND AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/14/21.

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Notice of Formation of ROUND BARN MANOR IL CL AS S B , LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/15/21.

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

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

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

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

Notice of Formation of TurnUp LLC filed with SSNY on July 7th, 2021.

Office: Richmond County.

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

Office: KINGS County.

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

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

Office: Kings County.

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

Notice of Formation of Benedict Law Group PLLC. Ar ticles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 1, 2021. Location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on PLLC. SSNY shall mail process to 42 W. 38th Street, Suite 1002, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: Law. Notice of Formation of JFP TRANSIT, LLC filed with SSNY on 5/14/21.

Office: BRONX County.

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 3226 OXFORD AVE, BRONX, NY 10463. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of SUN NINJA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/13/21. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/26/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

NeueHouse New York HQ LLC. Authority filed SSNY 6/29/21. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 6/8/15. Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: c/o N ati onal R e gis te re d Agents, Inc., 28 Liberty St., NY, NY 10005, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901.

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

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

Notice of Formation of 7514 15 AVE LLC. Arts.

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

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Notice of Registration of KLEIN HORNIG LLP. Ctf. of Reg. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/1/21. Office location: NY County. Principal location: 170 West End Ave., Apt. 23S, NY, NY 10023. LLP formed in Massachusetts (MA) on 6/28/02. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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

Purpose: to practice the profession of Law. Notice of Formation of EUREK A3 HOMES BUYERS LLC filed with SSNY on 02/06/2018.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notice of Formation of WC Value Managment, LLC filed with SSNY on August 9, 2021. Office: Westchester Count y.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 6 Kingswood Way, South Salem, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Amherst, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Notice of Formation of BLOOMLEE LLC. Arts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Mask 21, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/12/21.Office location: New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 940 Park Ave New York, New York, 10028.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NAC STRATEGIC CONSULTING LLC. Arts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

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Notice of Formation of Pharos AA LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/22/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 24 Remsen St Brooklyn, NY 11201.

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

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

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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

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

Purpose: any law ful purpose.

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

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

Notice of Formation of Reflect to Grow C o u n s e l i n g L C S W, PLLC filed with SSNY on May 4th, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: The LLC 11 BROADWAY SUITE 615 NEW YORK, N Y 10 0 0 4 Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

RHCP LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/17/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 121 West 20th St., 4G, NY, NY 10011.

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

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

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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

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

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

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

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

Purpose: any lawful.

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Notice of Formation of Fruitstand LLC. Articles of Organization f i l l e d with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/14/21.

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

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

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

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

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

Jurisdiction: Delaware.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

Office location: Wayne.

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

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

Office: Kings County.

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

Notice of Formation of 50W 27ST LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/02/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 672 Westminster Road, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11230 Any law ful purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

Purpose: any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Elite Endomorphs, LLC filed with Richmond County, NY on May 21st, 2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 100 Wadsworth Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10305. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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

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

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

Purpose: Any law ful purpose or activit y.

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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

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

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of TRIPLE Y PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/5/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 257 West 93rd Street, Apt. 5c, New York, NY 10025. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of BROADSTREAM VENTURES, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/21/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 257 West 93rd Street, Apt. 5c, New York, NY 10025c. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of BROADSTREAM PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 4/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 4/5/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 257 West 93rd Street, Apt. 5c, New York, NY 10025. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 45-47 YALE AVENUE LLC filed with SSNY on 08/07/2020. Office: Westchester Count y.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 45-47 YALE AVENUE LLC 599 W HARTSDALE AVE SUITE 204 WHITE PL AINS, NY 10607. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation - Heart of Chelsea Veterinary PLLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/26/21. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 80 State St, Albany, N Y 12 207. Purpose: ve te r inar y m e di c in e

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AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE At an IAS Part 35 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York held in and for the County of Kings at the Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on the 26th day of July 2021. PRESENT: HON. Karen Rothenberg J.S.C. KENT HANDBERRY, SR. Plaintiff, -against- SHAMEL S. DANIELS and “JOHN DOE” being a fictitious name for the operator of the subject vehicle currently unknown to Plaintiff; Defendants. Upon the reading and filing of the annexed Affirmation of STEVEN H. COHEN, dated the 22nd day of July, 2021, and upon all the exhibits annexed hereto and the pleadings and proceedings heretofore had herein; LET Plaintiff KENT HANDBERRY, SR,, appear and show cause before this Court, Park 35 in room 574 on the 9th day of September 2021 at 10:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard: * WHY an Order should not be entered as follows: 1. Pursuant to CPLR 321(b)(2), permitting the Law Offices of Michael E. Pressman to withdraw as attorneys of record for the Plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, Sr.; 2. Pursuant to CPLR 308(5) permitting service in lieu of personal service, upon plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, SR., by publication in a newspaper.

3. Granting a stay of all proceedings for sixty (60) days to permit Plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, SR., to retain new counsel; and 4. Together with such other, further and different relief as the Court deems just and proper. ORDERED that this matter is hereby stayed pending a hearing and determination of the within Order to Show Cause; and it is further LET service of a copy of this Order together with the papers upon which is is granted be deemed timely served upon Plaintiff, KENT HANDBERRY, Sr., if made by publication in a newspaper and by regular mail to last known address and entered certified and regular mail upon MARTYN, MARTYN, SMITH, MURRAY and YONG, attorneys for defendant SHAMEL S. DANIELS, be deemed timely if served on or before the 25th day of August, 2021 be deemed good and sufficient service. ENTERED Karen Rothenberg, J.S.C. * Order to Show cause will be submitted on return date and court will contact parties top set date for argument if required by court.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Depew, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Brighton, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of THE LATE NIGHT CLOSET LLC filed with SSNY on 07/15/2020.

Office: Bronx County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: The Late Night Closet LLC 472F East 139th Street, Bronx, New York, 10454, USA. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW East Amherst, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Batavia, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Galleria, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Buffalo, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Greece, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Henrietta, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Hamburg, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Lakewood, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Lockport, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

August 30, 2021

Notice of Formation of Gomez Engineering, PLLC filed with SSNY on 07/15/2021. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: The PLLC 6 Fonda Place Staten Island, NY 10309 Purpose: Professional Engineering Form of notice for on-premises license.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number “Pending” for liquor, beer, and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, and wine at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 922 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238 for on premises consumption.

BKLYN BURRO LLC Notice of Formation of 360 Clove Road LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/3/21.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 360 Clove Rd, Staten Island, NY 10310. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of H. A .L . Industries, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/28/2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 415 East 52nd. Street, Office #2 New York, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Stacey Simon Nutrition LLC filed with SSNY on 05/10/2021. Office: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1675 York Ave. #17E New York, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Niagara Falls, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY o n 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Victor, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY CONNECTONE BANK The following persons appear from our records to be entitled to unclaimed property consisting of cash amounts of fif ty dollars or more: New York County Hara Weatherston 130 E 65 th St Apt 15E New York NY 10065 Joan Fiumfreddo 104-31 207 Street Queens Village NY 11429 John Catsimatidis 800 3 rd Ave Fl 5 New York NY 10022 Paul S Stevens INC/Stephen Slater 19 W 44 th St Fl 12 New York NY 10036 Orange County Bernice Fox 985 Route 17M Trlr 14 Middletown NY 10940 Jeffrey F Schlott 7 William Close Warwick NY 10990

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW Webster, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Ulster County

Notice of Qual. of FGNYW, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/21.

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

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave #400, Harrison, NY 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

A report of Unclaimed Property will be made to the Comptroller of the State of New York, pursuant to Article 3 of the Abandoned Property Law. A list of the names contained in such notice is on file and open to public inspection at the principal office of the bank, located at 301 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 PH# 844-266-2548, where such abandoned property is payable. Such abandoned property will be paid on or before October 31, 2021 next to persons establishing to its satisfaction their right to receive the same. In the succeeding November, and on or before the tenth day thereof, such unclaimed property will be paid to the Comptroller of the State of New York, and shall thereupon cease to be liable therefore.

Herbert S or Susan B Rosenberg 354 W Saugerties Rd Saugerties NY 12477 Westchester County Heather M Turnbull 31 Stone Ave White Plains NY 10603 Michelle or Salvatore Cantatore 13 Dekalb Ave White Plains NY 10605

CONNECTONE BANK BA X TE R ADV ISOR S LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the S SN Y on 08/05/2021. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Caryn Paer, 429 East 52nd St. Apt 31G, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of FLOURISH TECHNOLOGIES LLC. Auth. filed with S S N Y o n 8/ 1 8/2 1 .

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/11/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave, #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of FLOUR ISH DIGITAL ASSETS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/18/21.

Of fice location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 5/11/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave, #4 0 0, Harrison, N Y 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg.

D o v e r, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Divorce NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION Jose Lucas Beltran Suarez v. Elizabeth Villanueva 21-CVD-1978 Attention “ELIZABETH VILLANUEVA” Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Divorce. You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than October 2nd , 2021 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This the 23rd day of August 2021.

L. Maria Ximena Sussman Sussman Law Firm, PLLC 9916 Monroe Road Charlotte, NC 28270 Ph# (980) 598-8180

Notice of Qual. of Dewey Square Group, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/18/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/3/06.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom p ro c e s s a g ain s t i t may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Ave, #400, Harrison, NY 10528 .

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

Any law ful purpose.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 104 GREENE STREET NEW YORK, NY 10012 for on premises consumption.

FELIX GREENE STREET SOHO LLC. Notice of Qual. of N E W TO N S T L L C .

Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 6/8/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 1202 Lexington Ave, #292, New York, NY 10028. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of DIXIE DOG LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/9/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on10/02/18.

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

SSNY mail process to: 1202 Lexington Ave, #292, New York, NY 10028. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HTH DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/21/2019.

Office location New York SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 165 W 66TH STREET, APT 10J, NEW YORK, NY, 10023.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 443 GREENWICH 4B LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 7/13/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: PO Box 641, Rutherford, CA 94573. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any law ful purpose.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, cider and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 928 CRAIG ROAD S, NEW YORK, NY 10004 for on premises consumption.

MISIPASTA LLC. Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, cider and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 210 W 10TH STREET UNIT 2 NEW YORK, NY 10016 for on premises consumption.

SUSHI ON WEST 10TH STREET LLC. Notice of Qual. of AGUA DEL MAR, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 2/11/2021. Office location: Kings. LLC formed in FL on 11/15/2013. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1835 E AS T H AL L ANDAL E BEACH, BLVD., #709, HALLENDALE BEACH, FL, 33009. Arts. of Org. filed with FL SOS. 2415 North Monroe St. STE 810 Tallahassee, FL 32303.

Any law ful purpose.

Angelina Franchising LLC filed w/ SSNY on 3/5/21. Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 41 W 35th St., Fl Ground, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful.

NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD

BY PCSB BANK, BREWSTER, NY. The following persons appear, from our records, to be entitled to unclaimed proper t y consisting of cash amounts of fifty dollars or more: PASTORE, RALPH 104 WETHERILL RD GARDEN CITY, NY 11530 A report of unclaimed property will be made to the Comptroller of the State of New York, pursuant to Article III of the Abandoned Property Law. A list of names contained in such notice is on file and open to the public inspection at our Corporate Headquarters at 2651 Strang Blvd., Suite 100, York town Heights, NY where such abandoned property is payable. Such abandoned property will be paid on or before October 31 to persons establishing to its satisfaction their right to receive the same. In the succeeding November, and on or before the tenth day thereof, such unclaimed property will be paid to the Comptroller of the State of New York and it shall thereupon cease to be liable therefore.

Customer should contact the bank at (914) 248-7272 or write to PCSB Bank – PO Box 712 – 2651 Strang Blvd., Suite 100, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598 .

PCSB BANK, BREWSTER, NY.

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Notice of Form. of 6815 4TH AVE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/13/21. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 6815 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ARIA PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/28/21 Office location: Oswego SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 7356 STATE ROUTE 3, PULASKI, NY, United States, 13142.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DTCM HOLDINGS LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/28/20.

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

SSNY mail process to 55 East 86th Street, Units 1a, 1a-1, 1c and 1d, New York, Ny, United States, 10028.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of James Huang Photo LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/10/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 63 Decatur St, Apt 3, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MARIANNE DITOMMASO LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/16/21. Office location Richmond SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 72 Princewood Ave, Staten Island, NY, United States, 10309.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NIE S FAMILY LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/13/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1610 Ave R, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11229.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PDZ OZ HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/19/21.

Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of RPH SUT TON PROPERTIES, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/14/2021. Office location Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 231 KENT STREE T, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11222.

Any law ful purpose.

NOTICE: Be advised that: Pursuant to the Limited Liability Law of the State of New York on August 19, 2021 Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State thereof forming “Momand Properties LLC” with principle offices located within the County of Schenectady at: 2008 Southgate Drive, Schenectady, NY 12303.

The LLC has been formed to carry on and engage in any lawful act or activity and the Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the said company upon whom process may be served and thereupon mailed to: 1412 NY Rte 9P, Saratoga Springs , N Y 12 8 6 6 .

NOTICE: Be advised that: Pursuant to the Limited Liability Law of the State of New York on March 22, 2021 Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State thereof forming “Five Star Closing and Settlements LLC” with principle offices l o c a te d wi thin th e County of Schenectady at: 1528 Union Street, Schenectady, NY 12309.

The LLC has been formed to carry on and engage in any lawful act or activity and the Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the said company upon whom process may be served and thereupon mailed to: 44 Horseshoe Drive, Saratoga Springs , N Y 12 8 6 6 .

Transfinite LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/01/20. Office: Buffalo County. Registered Agent Inc. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Registered Agents Inc. at 1967 Wehrle Drive Suite 1 Office #086, Buffalo, N Y 142 2 1 . Purpose: Any law ful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of TE LLE R HOLD IN G S LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/22/21.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 670 Myrtle Ave Ste #388, Brooklyn, NY 11205 .

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 239 8TH STREET LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/23/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WASAF 164 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/12/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 670 Myrtle Ave Ste 166, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 303W113 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/29/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 13 Greene Ave, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11238.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WISPACES, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/9/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 271 Sullivan Place, Apt. 3E, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11225.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1012 E84 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/10/21.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 5912 Flatlands Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11234.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Y&G 18 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/2021. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 4615 SURF AVE, BROOKLYN, NY, United States, 11224.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1191 BROADWAY REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/19/2021. Office location Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 199 Lee Avenue, Suite 492, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11211.

Any law ful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Your NY Limo LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/10/2021.O f fice location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 675 Stewart Ave, Staten Island, NY, United States, 10314. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 19 SAINT FRANCIS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/11/21. Office location Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 689 Saint Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11216.

Any law ful purpose.

Badinage Vintage LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 07/26/2021.

Of f. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 89 Scribner Avenue Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity

New York Manhattan, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/14/2021. Off. loc.: New York Cnty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 16 Pine Needle Rd., Douglas, GA 31535 . Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

August 30, 2021

Public Notice

Public Notice

Cellco Par tnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at the following locations in Westchester County, NY: at a top height of 67 feet on an 87-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 100 North Broadway, Irvington, NY 10533; at a top height of 78 feet on a 64-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 43 Calton Road, New Rochelle, NY 10804; at a top height of 84 feet on an 85-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 143 Garth Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583; at a top height of 181 feet on a 189 -foot building at the approx . vicinit y of 271 North Avenue, N ew R o c h e l l e , N Y 10801; at a top height of 74 feet on a 77-foot building roof top at the approx . vicinit y of 2 19 Westchester Avenue, Port Chester, NY 10573; at a top height of 116 feet on a 116-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 50 Saint Andrews Place, Yonkers , N Y 10 5 07.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Hannah Dell, h.dell@ trileaf.com, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 4 0 0, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067, 678-653-8673.

Cellco Partnership a n d its controlled affiliates d o in g b u s in e s s a s Verizon Wireless ( Ve r i z o n W i r e l e s s) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at multiple locations in New Yo r k , New Yo r k Count y, NY. Verizon Wireless proposes to collocate antennas at a top height of 79 feet on an 73 -foot building roof top at the approx. vicinity of 250 West 63rd Street, Building 13 , 1 0 0 2 3; at a top height of 57 feet on an 64-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 286 8th Avenue, 10001; at a top height of 219 feet on an 237-foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 352 7th Avenue, 10001; at a top height of 75 feet on an 80foot building rooftop at the approx. vicinity of 229 9th Avenue, 10001. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic p ro p e r ti e s m ay b e submit ted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Benjamin Allen, b.allen@trileaf. com, phone: 678653-8673, 1395 South Marietta Park way, Building 400, Suite 209, Mariet ta, GA 30067.

Notice of Formation of Forefront Studios LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/03/2021. Of fice location: Richmond C ount y.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 108 Milton Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10306. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of BEAUMONT NATHAN ADVISORY LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 03/04/2020.

Office loc: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 03/02/2020. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Spielman Koenigsberg & Parker, LLP 1675 Broadway, FL 20 th, NY, NY 10019. Address required to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

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

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Notice of Formation of Abell Communications LLC, LLC filed with SSNY on 05/26/2021. Office: RICHMOND County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 115 Stuyvesant Place # 2H Staten Island, NY 10301. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qual. of FOOD JUSTICE INITIATIVE PUBLIC BENEFIT LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/23/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 6/22/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #4 0 0, Harrison, NY, United States, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Industrial Innovations and Solutions, LLC filed with SSNY on August 18, 2021. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 232 South 9th Avenue, Mt Vernon, New York 10550. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of RAT BASTAD RECORDS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/05/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 311 West 43rd St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMA TION of Sharibah LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/ 11/21. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom proc ess may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 267 W 90th St, Apt 1F, NY, NY 10024. R A: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, # 202, BK, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of P&B Electric Vehicles, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/17/21. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Messner Reeves LLP, Attn: Maclain Joyce, 1430 Wynkoop, Ste. 300, D e n v e r, CO 80202. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of TORCHGARDEN US LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 07/30/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 2000 Island Blvd., Unit 2 0 0 7, Aventura, FL 33160.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d .

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543.

Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, cider, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider, and liquor at retail in a OP 252 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 252 BROOME STREET NEW YORK, NY 10002. for on premises consumption.

SALLY CAN WAIT LLC.

Notice of Qual. of MAHZEDAHR 601 LEXINGTON LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 08/25/2021.

Office loc: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 07/29/2021. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Umber Ahmad, 56 West 11th St., #7RW, NY, NY 10011. Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Alder Rd, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of UNITRANCHE LOAN TRANSACTION II, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/0 6/21. O f fice location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/30/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o C orp oration Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice is hereby given that a license number 1336809 for a beer and wine license has been applied for by Sullivan Taqueria LLC. , to sell beer and wine at retail in a Tavern under the Alcoholic Beverage Control law at 71 SULLIVAN STREET, SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10012 for on premises consumption.

Sullivan Taqueria LLC. 37 Union LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 07/29/2021. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 230 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale NY 10583, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: any law ful ac tivit y.

Notice of Formation of STUYVIEWII PROPERTIES LLC filed with SSNY on 06/10/2021.

Office: Kings County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 535 DEAN STREET, APT. 913 C/O NOAM J. RUBINSTEIN B R O O K LY N , NY 112 17. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Form of notice for onpremises license. Notice is hereby given that a license, number (pending) for beer, wine, cider, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, cider, and liquor at retail in a RW 341 under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 235 EAST 53RD STREET NEW YORK, NY 10022 for on premises consumption.

CAFE LUCE LLC.

Notice of Formation of SMCSI LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/6/21.

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

SSNY mail process to 1500 Broadway, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10036.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of KRE Bklyner 1134 Fulton LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/24/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/16/21.

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

SSNY mail process to: 30 Hudson Yards, 75th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of KRE Bklyner 1056 Manhattan LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/24/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/16/21.

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

SSNY mail process to: 30 Hudson Yards, 75th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of KRE Bklyner 93 Linden LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/24/21. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 8/16/21. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 30 Hudson Yards, 75th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY LANDMARK CREDIT UNION. The following persons appear from our records to be entitled to unclaimed property consisting of cash amounts of fif ty dollars or more : Aguilu Lavalett, Dalila E. 1 Van Der Donck St. Apt 423, Yonkers, NY 10701 Marshall, Peter 325 E 57 th St., New York, NY 10022 A report of Unclaimed Property will be made to the Comptroller of the State of New York, pursuant to Article III of the Abandoned Property Law. A list of the names contained in such notice is on file and open to public inspection at the principal office of the credit union, located at 555 S. Executive Dr., Brookfield, WI 53005, where such abandoned property is payable. Such abandoned property will be paid on or before October 31 next to persons establishing to its satisfaction their right to receive the same. In the succeeding November, and on or before the tenth day thereof, such unclaimed property will be paid to the Comptroller of the State of New York, and shall thereupon cease to be liable therefore LANDMARK CREDIT UNION. Notice of Formation of SERENDIB VOYAGER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/27/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. office of LLC: 252 Seventh Ave., Ste. #110, NY, NY 10011.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: To purchase, own and sell real estate in New York.

Notice of Formation of TIPPING POINT WEALTH, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/26/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 10 Grand Central, 155 E. 44th St., 12 Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Notice of Formation of JB DTC MAR K E TING ENTERPRISE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY ) on 06/15/21.

O f f ice location: N Y County. Princ. of fice of LLC: 320 Fifth Ave., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10001.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may b e ser ve d .

SSNY shall mail process to PPI Apparel Group, At tn: Abe Hanan at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any law ful ac tivit y.

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Who was up and who was down last week

CREATIVE Art Director Andrew Horton, Senior Graphic Designer Alex Law, Graphic Designer Aaron Aniton, Photo Researcher Michelle Steinhauser

LOSERS THE BEST OF THE REST BRIAN BENJAMIN

He may have started off the summer on a rough note, finishing fourth in the New York City comptroller Democratic primary, but things are looking up for the Upper Manhattan lawmaker.

Although the LG isn’t always thought of as a seat of power, recent history tells us the role can offer pretty significant opportunities for advancement.

SHINNECOCK NATION

The Southampton tribe got $18 million for a medical marijuana facility through a partnership with TILT Holdings. The business will bring much-needed jobs and revenue to the tribe that has been at odds with the state Department of Transportation over its billboards.

DIGITAL Digital Director Michael Filippi, Digital Marketing Manager Caitlin Dorman, Digital Strategist Isabel Beebe

ANDREW CUOMO In the immortal words of Harvey Dent, “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Truer words could not have been said of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. A hero to many during the pandemic, his decadelong reign over the state came to an unceremonious end when he resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal. And what’s more, he even lost his Emmy. Tragic.

THE REST OF THE WORST TINA TCHEN

Add the now-former president and CEO of Time’s Up to the list of people who probably wish they never had anything to do with Cuomo.

Times Up leadership had some back and forth with Cuomo’s people over their response to sexual harassment allegations. Not a good look for an advocacy group dedicated to fighting wrongdoing by powerful men.

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SCOTT MCINTYRE

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This should have been Bill de Blasio’s week – the apex of the Summer of Bill – as his nemesis ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially fell from power, and the city completed its homecoming week with a Central Park bash. But in a way it’s not surprising that the universe rained on Bill’s parade, literally drenching the “We Love NYC” homecoming concert and sending attendees and performers home disappointed. The real loser here may have been Barry Manilow, whose set was interrupted by the abrupt cancellation.

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