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EDITOR’S NOTE / Contents I first became aware of Michael Johnson through his byline at State of Politics, the must-read blog for Albany insiders. Though the primary contributors were Liz Benjamin and Nick Reisman, MJ would pitch in occasionally with short posts that told you just what you needed to know.

Of course, his primary role was as the executive producer of “Capital Tonight,” Benjamin’s political show, which is equally indispensable for Albany’s political players and observers. So when MJ moved down to New York City and came on as City & State’s first multimedia director in 2013, I was thrilled that we had such a seasoned journalist joining the team.

He didn’t disappoint. He launched an online video series, helped expand our events business and created a popular podcast. He took on new responsibilities, eventually rising to the position of editorial director, and implemented a muchneeded structure for our growing business. Like his blog posts, he was always organized, well sourced and straightforward.

As 2016 came to a close, MJ decided it was time to move on. We’ll miss him, but we know he’s going out on top.

JON LENTZ Senior editor

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The ultimate account of Cuomo and de Blasio’s falling out, as told by NY1’s Zack Fink.

The latest gossip from Gerson Borrero.

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Meet all the new Senate and Assembly members in Albany.

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A new regular section in City & State! In this issue: eliminating the achievement gap for young men of color.

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LAST WEEK’S HEADLINES THE SECOND AVENUE SAGA BEGINS The first phase of the Second Avenue Subway opened on New Year’s Day to great fanfare from Upper East Siders, transit enthusiasts and public art connoisseurs, but nobody was happier than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who got to celebrate the MTA meeting a deadline that was set back in 2009. At $4.5 billion, it cost less than what we can expect for condos now on Second Avenue.

BACK&FORTH A Q&A with New York City Democratic mayoral candidate

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C&S: YOU’VE BEEN A VERY FREQUENT CRITIC OF MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO – EARLIER THAN A LOT OF PEOPLE TUNED INTO SOME OF THE INCONSISTENCIES AND PROBLEMS WITH HIS ADMINISTRATION. SA: I refused to endorse him in the general election (in 2013) because I thought that he would be a bad mayor, and I think I’ve been proven right. I think his background is part of the reason why. I don’t think that he’s ever managed anything. I think that he’s a political machinator. When I talk about populist, I think of Elizabeth Warren. I think of Bernie Sanders. I don’t think of Bill de Blasio, who was basically a campaign manager, a consultant …

I don’t think he focuses on the job. I think he’s distracted. And he treats the process with disdain for regular people and he’s more interested in talking to consultants – that’s his shadow cabinet, as we’ve seen. He’s out of touch with neighborhoods. He’s owned by big real estate and he’s not a reformer. He’s not leading the charge.

C&S: YOU RAN IN 1997, YOU RAN IN 2013. WHAT MAKES YOU, AT THIS POINT IN YOUR LIFE, SAY I WANT TO RUN FOR MAYOR AGAIN? SA: I am totally unimpressed with the way de Blasio is governing the city of New York and I always thought I could be, really, a good mayor. I was a councilman for 15 years. The city’s been great to me. I came here as an immigrant and I just think that this is the right time for political reform. I’m not just about bashing de Blasio. I think we need a whole reform movement of the body politic in New York City.

GOP MAINTAINS MAJORITY There are 32 Democrats in the state Senate and 31 Republicans as the new session opens. But thanks to Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder again caucusing with the GOP and last week’s announcement that the Independent Democratic Conference would join the Republicans, Majority Leader John Flanagan will again lead the upper house, bringing a conservative voice to the secretive, closed-door deal-making sessions.

CUOMO FLOATS PROPOSALS Cuomo’s unprecedented State of the State regional tour kicks off this week, but he’s letting some of his big ideas slip out early – if you can call bringing heroof-the-youth Bernie Sanders to a college campus a “slip.” Free in-state college for families making less than $125K, a massive revamp of JFK airport and a boost of the middle-class child care tax credit are now on the table for 2017.

THIS WEEK’S EVENTS MON., JAN. 9 — WED., JAN. 11 Bucking tradition of having one speech in Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is giving six “regional State of the State addresses,” much to the chagrin of legislators who feel disrespected. He’ll be in New York City and Buffalo on Monday, Westchester County and Long Island on Tuesday and Albany and Syracuse on Wednesday.

TUESDAY, JAN. 10 6 p.m. - City & State hosts a State of Our State cocktail reception with a keynote by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and a panel featuring state Sens. Diane Savino and Cathy Young and Assembly members Richard Gottfried and Crystal Peoples-Stokes with their predictions for this session, The State Room, 100 State St., Albany.

Upcoming events: Planning an event in the next few weeks that our readers should know about? Submit details to editor@cityandstateny.com. We’ll pick the most interesting or important ones and feature them in print each week.

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DID YOU MISS IT?

Amid all the dabbing and secretive Senate-floor texting, tons of lawmakers both new and old took their oaths last week, promising to serve their constituents. Here are some of the swearings-in, from both Albany and Washington. Turn to page 23 to meet all of Albany’s new lawmakers.

WEEKLY PODCAST WITH DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL WRITER

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Rep. Adriano Espaillat became the first Dominican-American and first formerly undocumented member of Congress.

Former Rep. Steve Israel, right, with Rep. Tom Suozzi at a local event in Glen Cove.

In the spirit of the holiday season, Robert George of the Daily News joined Slant Editor Nick Powell, City & State Editor-at-Large Gerson Borrero and City & State Editorial Director Michael Johnson to discuss what presents they would get for New York’s political leaders … and which of them just deserve a lump of coal.

State Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore swears in state Sen. Jim Tedisco.

Assemblyman and former City Court judge Angelo Morinello is sworn in.

George: For Andrew Cuomo … I purchased a restored version of Walt Disney’s “Bambi” in honor of what we could call the end of the deer controversy. I think it’s a perfect allegory of what happens to people that end up getting caught between the governor and the mayor. … Anyone that happens to be homeless right now, beware if the mayor and governor say, “I’m here to help you.”

Johnson: I was going to give (de Blasio) an “I love the NYPD” T-shirt because the only thing he has going for him in his re-election campaign is that crime numbers are low. … He does need to do some damage control with the “blue line” and the PBA, but … as long as crime numbers stay low, he’s in pretty good shape assuming he doesn’t get indicted.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb looks on as Assemblywoman Missy Miller is sworn in.

Assemblyman Joe Errigo, who served from 2001-2010, is back in the Assembly.

Have photos from an event you’d like to see here? Send them to features@cityandstateny.com.

Listen, subscribe and review this week’s podcast by searching for “New York Slant” on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or your favorite podcast app.

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MORE ON A MENCHACA PRIMARY

CARLOS MENCHACA

As B&B lectores already know, City Councilman Carlos Menchaca could face a Democratic primary challenge. The latest buzz is that at least two known activists in his district might run and that may turn out to be bueno for the incumbent.

While it’s known that Javier Nieves – who served in the Assembly for one term – is gearing up to challenge Menchaca, we’ve been told that Dennis Flores, who’s never run for office, will also be throwing his hat in the ring.

Both challengers feel that the seat should be held by a Puertorriqueño. Menchaca, who chairs the City Council’s Committee on Immigration, is Mejicano.

Flores, whose Twitter handle bio describes him as “a Nuyorican community-based human rights filmmaker, activist and educator,” was at one point an ally of Nieves and supported his challenge of Menchaca.

A veteran political operative also tells B&B that “a woman can win in that district.” When asked if it had to be a Latina, the response was, “That could help, but it wouldn't be the main factor.”

Given the district’s composition and ethnic demographics, this is likely to be a slam-dunk primary win for Menchaca.

CUOMO CAN RUN, BUT HE CAN'T HIDE We hear that Assemblyman Charles Barron is feeling really good with the way 2017 has started.

"I was so bad last year that I chased the governor out of town. He's doing six separate State of the State events because he heard I was calling for a boycott," Barron told one bochinchero who called us recently.

You may recall that in our Dec. 5 column we wrote that Barron was putting together a group of displeased legislators who discussed disrupting the governor’s speech, much like the Brooklyn pol/activist had done solo in last year’s State of the State. Barron is now taking credit for having the governor going on the road with his message.

We hear that Barron's reaction to Cuomo’s road show is, "Governor, you can run but you can't hide."

Others told B&B that there would be folks showing up at some of the locations and expressing their displeasure at some of the things the guv is doing in the budget that they feel hurt their comunidades.

"The masses are going to hunt you down and confront you at each of your events," Barron has told some, indicating that he's not letting Cuomo off the hook.

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PALMA SWITCHING CHAIRS WITH SEN. DIAZ An insider bochinchero tells B&B that term-limited New York City Councilwoman Annabel Palma will be the favorite to replace current state Sen. Rubén Díaz “once” (we say “if”) the polemic reverend político wins Palma’s council seat in the Bronx’s 18th District.

Sen. Díaz, who currently represents the 32nd Senate District, has grown tired of the drive to Albany at age 73. But he doesn't yet want to retire and says he feels strong enough to stay in the game.

Another bochinchero tells B&B that Díaz’s hijo, Bronx Borough President Rubencito, wants his padre to retire. “It would make Rubencito’s political life easier if his father hangs it up.” Knowing how much Reverend Rubén enjoys politics and being part of the bochinche, my bet is he's in it for at least another four years.

Too bad City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is term-limited. Those two in the same chamber would be quite a show.

NOT SO RÁPIDO ASTORINO...

HARRY WILSON El Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino and his supporters may feel a sense of entitlement in the 2018 gubernatorial race, pero a well-informed GOP bochinchero tells us that Astorino will face a primary.

I reminded the Republicano source that Astorino garnered just over 40 percent of the vote against the incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 54 percent in the 2014 general election. But it seems that Empire State Republicans feel that with the election of Donald Trump as president, the time is right to have a successful businessman and a proven vote-getter as their nominee.

ROB ASTORINO

“Harry Wilson is the one a lot of us are looking at and talking about to take on Cuomo,” the enthusiastic Republicano shared as he heaped praise on the 2010 candidate for state comptroller. In that race, Wilson got more than 46 percent of the vote against the incumbent Thomas DiNapoli – who got nearly 51 percent of the vote.

When I argued that I didn't see it happening, the Republicano responded, "In 2013 Rob wouldn't get out of Donald's way for the nomination and as you know the president-elect has a vindictive side to him."

While running for governor in 2014 may have been the best decision that Trump never made, as POTUS he could be a huge problem for Astorino. The bochinchero told B&B that the soon-to-be top Republicano “won’t support Astorino,” openly or behind the scenes.

Note of caution to Gov. Cuomo: You may have a problema on the road to Casa Blanca 2020 … a tough road in 2018 could be in the cards, and it may not be Rob Astorino you’ll face.

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N THE NIGHT of July 2, 2015, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it clear to several fellow Democrats that he was about to get even.

Two days earlier, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had delivered a broadside against the governor. In an exclusive interview with NY1, de Blasio accused Cuomo of failing to support the city’s agenda. The 2015 state legislative session had just come to an end, and the mayor had received a humiliating one-year extension of mayoral control of city schools. His predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, had most recently received a seven-year extension in 2009. Additionally, de Blasio’s negotiated plan with the real estate industry to renew a critical tax break for developers known as 421-a had been shot down just weeks earlier by Cuomo, who claimed the mayor’s proposal had “generated problems.”

De Blasio was fed up with his setbacks in Albany, and he blamed them squarely on the governor. “What I found was, he engaged in his own sense of strategies, his own political machinations, and what we’ve often seen is, if someone disagrees with him openly, some kind of revenge or vendetta follows,” de Blasio said of Cuomo. “In my many efforts to find some common ground, suspiciously, it seemed that every good idea got rejected or manipulated. I think he believes deeply in the transactional model, and I think he needs to transcend that model if he wants to be a more effective leader.”

At first, Cuomo had offered very little reaction, issuing a brief statement through his communications director wishing the mayor well on his upcoming vacation. It was a reaction described by people close to the governor as basically “a shrug.” Cuomo also downplayed de Blasio’s remarks at his first public event that week, a book party for Daily News Editor-in-Chief Arthur Browne. The star-studded event drew not

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only Cuomo, but also New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, Public Advocate Letitia James and Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

Cuomo initially avoided the media, entering through a side door at the Schomburg Center near 135th Street in Harlem.

But once inside, all eyes were on Cuomo for a reaction to the mayor’s attack. The governor worked the room, greeting friends and colleagues, shaking hands and making small talk. But according to those who were there, something else also happened, which was unusual and rather candid for Cuomo.

Sources say as the governor leaned into some carefully selected attendees he quietly whispered the words, “Revenge is coming.”

A spokesperson for the governor denies this was ever actually said. But those who know Cuomo understand exactly what it meant.

And anyone who has watched the governor

to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise. I choose to seek coalitions. It has worked in New York.”

The love-hate relationship between the governor and the mayor has been a source of political intrigue for years. Although the two men started out claiming what good friends they are, when the mayor publicly attacked the governor, things became toxic to the point of no return. And while it was unusual for the mayor to be so candid in his complaints about the governor, a member of his own party, he did not do so unprovoked.

This article traces the origins of this hostility and highlights the key clashes, snubs and perceived personal slights that got the two leaders to this point. The narrative has been culled together from numerous conversations with individuals close to both men, casual observers and other sources with

Sources say as

the governor leaned into some carefully selected attendees he quietly whispered the words,

“Revenge is coming.” over the last year and a half can attest to the fact that he has fulfilled that very promise.

When Cuomo finally emerged on the street outside that evening, he was low-key, even muted. “Everybody’s entitled to their own comments and their own feelings, and I’ll leave him to speak to his,” Cuomo told a few reporters. “You know what, I’ve known Bill, the mayor, a long time. I consider him a friend. He says what he says, I say what I say, and I’ll let him speak for himself. Look, everyone makes a determination about how they govern and how they choose to govern.

He’ll make his and I’ll make mine. I choose

firsthand knowledge of what has come to be known in New York simply as “The Feud.”

Many of these events I covered as the statehouse reporter for Spectrum News NY1.

While others have written about the feud, few have laid it all out in a chronological timeline quite like this. This story spans late 2013 through June 2015, when the wheels came off once and for all with the mayor’s public tongue lashing.

Today, there is no getting around that de Blasio and Cuomo will rarely pass up an opportunity to take a shot at one another.

Whether it’s as serious as the city’s ongoing

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homeless crisis, or as picayune as the fate of a one-antlered deer, there is no limit to the lengths these two will go to outdo one another. In some cases, programs or policies simply got blocked because of the two officials’ one-upmanship. While there is certainly comedy and entertainment value in some of the petty squabbles, there have also been moments when it has potentially deprived the residents of New York City and New York state needed resources.

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HE ROOTS OF the feud go back to before Bill de Blasio was elected mayor in 2013. Things got off on the wrong foot when de Blasio kept insisting on taxing the wealthy to pay for universal pre-kindergarten, his signature campaign promise. Cuomo called the mayor before the election and assured him that he would deliver the money through the state budget or some other funding mechanism.

Whatever the mayor needed from the state, Cuomo said he would secure it to help de Blasio fulfill his commitment to his supporters. The catch? De Blasio merely had to stop saying the word “tax.”

Cuomo was headed into re-election mode and he didn’t need a liberal New York City mayor – already unpopular in the coveted suburbs – blowing up his spot. Cuomo was hoping to win over not just progressives from the five boroughs, but moderates who make up the city’s suburbs. In fact, Cuomo was eager to reel in Republicans and portions of the upstate electorate where Democrats usually fall short. The last thing Cuomo needed the conversation to be in 2014, when the gubernatorial election would be held, was anything resembling a new tax – particularly if there was a perception that it would be imposed on everyone in the state to pay for yet another benefit for the people of New York City. Cuomo could not allow that. He wanted the conversation to be about cutting taxes. The fact that the mayor didn’t seem to understand that made Andrew Cuomo seethe.

A little more than a week after de Blasio was sworn in, he made his first official trip to Albany as mayor to hear the governor deliver his 2014 State of the State address.

Cuomo surprised the audience by announcing that he would initiate a program of universal pre-kindergarten, or UPK, only it would not be limited to the city. Instead, state funds would be made available to municipalities throughout the state to set up individual programs. The governor was short on specifics, but two weeks later in his budget address Cuomo detailed his funding plan for universal pre-K: $1.5 billion over

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A 95% graduation rate. College acceptance letters from Columbia University, Swarthmore, Spelman, SUNY Binghamton and letters from Co Students ingraduation more than 1,200 New York City schools would face A 95% rate.

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Harvest’s classroom are heterogeneous, a mix allthis sitting Neighborhoods gentrify.

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Harvest’s recent open house recognized something special.

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Buttorather the school’s growing reputation tip the population toward say than theirletby demanding colleges were not a student chore because “critical thinking” was already embraced high-levelfaculty members the new administration. wealthier families, Harvest’s andofleadership applied for and won a PROSE grant to second-nature to them, thanks to their education at Harvest. explore ways to preserve the school’s diversity. PROSE is a joint-venture between the Vice-President-elect Mike Pence strongly backed a voucherofprogram as governor of Indiana.

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five years. The mayor would get his money.

Only that wasn’t quite good enough for de Blasio, who continued to bang the drum for a tax. Speaking to reporters from City Hall that same day, de Blasio explained why he disagreed with Cuomo’s plan. “The people in the city have given me a mission,” the mayor said, according to The New York Times. The governor’s plan was “encouraging,” he continued, but it was still “different than what we intend to do.”

Establishing universal pre-K, the mayor said, was the “No. 1 proposal I put forward in an election that I won with 73 percent of the vote. I think the jury is in.” The mayor strongly believed that the only way to make sure the funding was permanent was through a dedicated tax on those earning more than $500,000 per year to fully fund pre-K for roughly 50,000 New York City children.

In Albany, the mayor might have had two Democratic allies for advancing his agenda: Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. In December 2013, de Blasio had tapped Dean Fuleihan to head the city’s Office of Management and Budget.

Fuleihan had previously worked at the state Capitol for 33 years, 16 of those for Silver as the secretary of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Not only did Fuleihan possess the kind of progressive credentials the mayor had been seeking in a candidate to fill the position, but Fuleihan also knew his way around Albany, which, by design, needs to sign off on some of the city’s biggest initiatives.

In the UPK standoff between Cuomo and de Blasio, Silver played his cards close to the vest throughout the early part of 2014.

Silver was known for his distinct ability to say very little about what his intentions were or where a final deal would end up. In this case, he was walking a fine line between what the mayor wanted and what the governor had proposed.

De Blasio was newly elected and popular with the Democratic base, which Silver understood. On the flip side, Silver also needed to work much more closely with Cuomo over time to accomplish the goals of his Democratic conference.

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NEW YORK STATE AND VERIZON’S FUTURES:

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More Connected in More Ways and Places than Ever Before

By LEECIA EVE Verizon Vice President, State Government Affairs, New York, New Jersey & Connecticut It’s easy to forget that smartphones and other connected devices have been a part of our lives for only about ten years. But over those years, they have helped drive tremendous changes in how we communicate, and even in how we live.

Verizon has played an important role in bringing these changes to Americans of all walks of life. That role will grow for years to come as the number of devices needing mobile connections grows through technology and innovation.

That rapid growth in communications technology and innovation in telecommunications poses significant policy challenges for state lawmakers. In 2017, New York lawmakers will have opportunities to address some of these challenges to encourage wireless broadband deployment and bring the full benefits of that deployment to New Yorkers through smart communities services and other modern solutions.

Enabling Robust Digital Wireless Networks Provides a Foundation Simply put, more Americans are using more mobile phones and connected devices than ever before. And we’re using them to do more things in even more places.

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In 2016 alone, we invested billions to meet the surging demand for mobile data and video connections because when it comes to communications networks, being better truly does matter.

Our extraordinary commitment to network excellence has kept us at the top of the class. For the sixth consecutive testing period, Verizon’s network was rated No. 1 in overall network performance of the four national wireless providers in the United States by RootMetrics in its National Rootscore® Report.

At Verizon, we are always looking ahead, preparing to meet customers’ changing needs of tomorrow. That means providing more services and more capacity in more places. To do just that, we’re adding small, low-powered cell antennas where the greatest numbers of customers need to stay connected.

Here in New York State, Corning Community College was the nations’ first college campus to deploy Verizon’s outdoor small cell technology. That gave students and faculty in the college’s most highly-trafficked areas much better coverage and ability to connect to the internet at high speed.

That’s just one example of how Verizon is using small cells to improve coverage and add capacity in heavily-trafficked areas where people need or want to stay connected.

And it’s one reason we support legislation for a uniform local process for upgrading and maintaining wireless network equipment in keeping with recent federal requirements. This will promote investment in and facilitate deployment of digital wireless broadband communications networks to keep New York consumers, businesses and government agencies connected.

A Solid Wireless Network Foundation Offers “Smart” Solutions Our communities face new challenges in maintaining livability, resiliency and sustainability. Population growth, housing shortages, changes in workforce requirements and rapid urbanization are straining resources and stretching budgets. City planners are searching for solutions and many are turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve their local quality of life.

The Internet of Things or IoT is starting to help communities both large and small solve today’s biggest challenges – challenges like speeding up emergency response, easing peak vehicle traffic flow, boosting energy and water efficiency, and more. IoT services are helping communities save time, resources, power and fuel and even manage waste removal. In short, they’re helping communities manage today’s challenges, all while boosting citizen engagement.

This spring, Verizon will test a new program in New Rochelle to add kiosks to let citizens and visitors charge devices, connect via Wi-Fi, or use an interactive touch screen to find services, navigate or check the latest weather forecast. From there, it’s not a leap to add things like intelligent parking to help you find a space or enable more efficient control of lighting and security.

We’ve already started working with forward-thinking local governments to find technologies to help them harness the power of data to make decisions that improve the lives of their residents. We look forward to working with state lawmakers to find new ways to encourage the availability and adoption of smart communities services.

These are just some of the innovations needed to keep New York competitive to attract new investment and businesses.

As one of New York’s largest private-sector employers and one of its largest property owners and taxpayers, we at Verizon are integral to the state’s economic growth.

We thank New York’s lawmakers and community leaders who understand the opportunities for Verizon’s robust and innovative networks to bring New Yorkers the promise of the digital world in 2017 and beyond.

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AS DE BLASIO HELD A RALLY FOR PRE-K NEARBY, CUOMO WAS THE SURPRISE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT A COMPETING CHARTER SCHOOLS RALLY ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL IN MARCH 2014.

Given the increasingly thorny landscape between the mayor and the governor, Silver was uniquely positioned to broker a truce.

Silver picked up the phone and called his old hand Fuleihan with a message which basically boiled down to, “Tell your friend the mayor to learn how to declare victory and call it a day. We are going to give him the money.” But the mayor remained undeterred. He continued pressing for a tax even though the message from the Assembly speaker was unmistakable: It wasn’t going to happen.

At the time, Cuomo was quite fond of telling reporters what close friends he and de Blasio were. When President Bill Clinton tapped Cuomo as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Cuomo appointed de Blasio as his HUD representative for New York and New Jersey. De Blasio had previously been in charge of the Clinton-Gore New York political operation. The new position meant he worked for Cuomo, and that dynamic never seemed to change, at least as far as Cuomo was concerned.

In several instances during late 2013 and early 2014, Cuomo would describe not only how far back the two men went – more than 20 years – but also what a strong personal relationship they’d had over that period. It’s tough to verify whether this is true. The two men certainly knew each other, worked together in numerous situations, and clearly traveled in the same New York/Democratic/ Clinton circles, but it does not appear they spent much time together on a personal level.

They were both busy during that two-decade period starting families and worrying about their paths to winning elected office.

Still, as late as January 2014 when the mayor traveled again to Albany, this time to testify before the legislative state budget hearings, he and Cuomo were still talking about one another as old buddies who might have played lacrosse together at some posh Connecticut boarding school. At a joint press conference in the Red Room on the second floor of the state Capitol that day, the two sat side by side.

De Blasio told the room that only sometimes he and the governor disagree – the subtext being that the press is making far too much of the simmering tensions between the two men.

Cuomo agreed. “We use the word ‘friend’ in politics often and sometimes casually,” he said, “but the new mayor of New York truly is a friend in the deepest sense of the word.”

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T THE STATE CAPITOL, sometimes legislation can take the most circuitous route to passage.

Or a bill simply dies because of some backroom deal. Policies that get approved often come equipped with a “sunset provision,” which gives Albany politicians the power to keep it alive or kill it every few years. In short, Albany is a strange, strange place that many politicians, including prestigious New York City mayors, have had difficulty navigating. There are a lot of moving parts, and not everyone can easily understand its quirks and rhythms. Albany can be very frustrating.

That’s particularly true if you want something, because with the transactional nature of Albany, inevitably someone is going to want something from you in return.

De Blasio came charging into office with a firm set of principles and ideals about doing all he could to fight income inequality.

That began with early childhood education for all, a laudable goal. But assuming it would get done his way and on his terms set him up for disappointment. Albany rarely delivers a final product that resembles the original proposal, especially if the person making the proposal doesn’t have a vote and cannot sign the bill himself.

It was in February 2014 when it became clear, once and for all, that a tax for universal pre-K was dead and buried. Senate Republican Conference Leader Dean Skelos was asked whether he would allow such a bill to come to the Senate floor, and he simply said, “no.” Asked to explain, Skelos went a step further saying, “I think the governor has clearly indicated that you don’t have to raise taxes in New York City, this isn’t just a home rule issue.”

What made the blow that much more devastating was that Skelos’ comments came on Feb. 10, the same day de Blasio was delivering his State of the City address.

In that speech, the first of his tenure, de Blasio also called for a higher minimum wage, arguing that New York City should be able to set its own wage. Such a proposal would need approval from Albany, but a day later Cuomo shot down the idea in a radio interview, saying it could set up a “chaotic situation.”

De Blasio remained committed to not only securing universal pre-K money, but the methodology he supported to achieve it. Later that week he said his supporters “can’t accept the notion that New York City will be treated like a colony that doesn’t even get to decide its own future.”

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S THE BUDGET PROCESS progressed through early 2014, yet another rift was opening up between Cuomo and de Blasio.

The mayor was highly critical of charter schools, aligning him with other Democrats who take buckets of money from teachers unions. Cuomo is the exception in this case. He is aligned with Republicans when it comes to charter schools in New York City, who favor expanding them.

On a freezing cold Tuesday in March, this divide opened up into public view. Still clinging to the idea of a dedicated tax to fund pre-K, de Blasio planned a rally in Albany to show support for his plan. That rally was set for March 4, but for some reason, it was relegated to the dank Washington Avenue Armory, several blocks west of the state Capitol. Meanwhile, Success Acade-

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my Charter Schools decided to hold its own rally the same day, only they got the prime spot – Albany’s gilded outdoor steps in the front of the state Capitol.

In the morning, students and parents arrived by the busload for the midday charter school rally in numbers that dwarfed the mayor’s event. And in a surprise move, Cuomo was the charter school rally’s keynote speaker. “Education is not about the districts and not about the pensions and not about the unions and not about the lobbyists and not about the PR firms,” the governor told the boisterous crowd. “Education is about the students, and the students come first.”

The mayor had been outplayed. Just days earlier he had halted the approval of three charter schools to co-locate in public school facilities. Those co-locations had already been greenlighted by the Bloomberg administration. Cuomo’s support for charters had not been widely known when he showed up at the Capitol steps rally. The optics were unmistakable: Albany was Cuomo’s city, not de Blasio’s. And it would be Cuomo who called the tune at the state Capitol when it came to legislation.

A week later, both the Senate and the Assembly were preparing their one-house budget resolutions, which lay out their respective budget priorities. Rarely if ever do those priorities match up perfectly, and this particular year the two houses were far apart. The Senate resolution was supposed to be voted on early in the week, but Cuomo got deeply involved in crafting it and the result was a delay of several days. The coalition governing the Senate, led by Skelos and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, was already tenuous. Add Cuomo to the mix and things got markedly more complicated. Cuomo wanted the onehouse resolution to include protections for charter schools. That week, he identified charter schools during a radio interview on “The Capitol Pressroom” as the most contentious issue in the budget, as opposed to universal pre-K. The Senate one-house budget resolution wasn’t voted on until Friday, a full day after lawmakers were supposed to have headed home to their districts. It wound up including, at the governor’s behest, guarantees of co-locations for charter schools that had been approved before de Blasio took office. That included the three approved by Bloomberg that de Blasio had rejected earlier that month. It was a direct smack at the mayor, and yet another reminder who had the power in Albany. Even Silver, not usually one to openly criticize the governor, said

of the Senate one-house resolution, “It’s shocking to me that they would get into that level of detail.”

Negotiations in Albany were tense in the final days before a state budget agreement was reached. Behind the scenes there was a real push and pull between Cuomo and City Hall, which had Silver and Klein fighting for their interests in closed-door negotiations. The final $138 billion budget took shape late on Friday night, March 28, clearing the way for a vote the following week just before the April 1 deadline.

The budget contained $300 million to establish universal pre-K in New York City, plus another $40 million for programs elsewhere in the state. De Blasio had gotten much of what he wanted, even if it didn’t look exactly how he had envisioned it. But the budget also included new protections for charter schools. Specifically, it took away the mayor’s ability to charge rent to charters that co-locate in public school facilities, an idea the mayor had championed. The transactional nature of Albany was on full display. Cuomo was able to force Silver to accept his changes on charters in exchange for the pre-K money. Klein also strongly advocated for the pre-K funding, but Klein aligned himself with Cuomo on the charter issue. The final product looked a lot like just about everything that gets final approval in Albany after a long, contentious negotiation with divided government: a document that kind of makes everyone a little angry.

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Hotel in Albany. On the night of Saturday, May 31, members of the WFP were expected to endorse a candidate for governor. All afternoon, aides to de Blasio were behind closed doors counting votes for the governor. But the party faithful wanted to nominate Fordham Law School Associate Professor Zephyr Teachout, a political newcomer, to challenge Cuomo from the left.

Cuomo was considered by some of the left wing of the Democratic Party, and particularly members of the WFP, to be too conservative. It wasn’t just his cozy relationship with state Senate Republicans but also his failure to adopt progressive priorities, like a significant increase in the minimum wage and tax increases for wealthy individuals.

Cuomo reached out to de Blasio to help secure the WFP nomination over Teachout.

The effort to assist Cuomo did not go smoothly. De Blasio and his aides twisted arms behind closed doors. Only the mayor had the credibility of a true progressive among the WFP faithful. Cuomo did not.

De Blasio worked into the night, finally telling the governor that he needed to make an impassioned plea to the crowd for why he deserved their support.

The governor addressed the crowd via video message, which many described as a “hostage video.” Cuomo looked unnerved as he made pledges some already knew he had no intention of delivering. But they needed to be said if party leaders were going to cut a backroom deal and throw their support to Cuomo, which is precisely what happened. The governor promised to help deliver a higher minimum wage, support campaign finance reform and a handful of other progressive wish list items. He also promised, for the first time, to actively cam-

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What happens when a state fails to place a priority on properly funding public services?

New York State can tell you!

New York state residents are being told the state doesn’t have the money to support critical services that so many people rely on every day.

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eople lose jobs. Overtime skyrockets. Performance and on-the-job safety suffer under impossible workloads. Life-altering programs and services are cut. The most vulnerable populations across the state – young children, people with developmental disabilities, low-income families, people in abusive situations and those grappling with mental illness or substance dependency issues – find it harder to access the valuable services they need to remain healthy and productive members of society.

The role of government is, in essence, to care for and make decisions in the best interests of the people it governs. Sadly, New York state’s government, under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s leadership, is failing to meet its highest and most basic calling.

Did you know that New York currently spends over $8.1 billion annually on a smattering of economic development programs? That’s an increase of more than $1 billion (15 percent) since the governor was elected in 2010. Hundreds of millions of dollars were dumped into the START-UP NY initiative, which has been proven to be an economic development failure. And yet, New York state residents are being told the state doesn't have the money to support critical services that so many people rely on every day.

Our state will continue to suffer if the interests of a select few are placed above the needs of our communities and the middle class.

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paign for a Democratic state Senate. After the hostage video, Cuomo addressed the crowd again, this time by telephone. People watching this unfold calculated that he couldn’t bear to make an appearance in person, so he kept his promises at arm’s length through video message and over the phone.

As the night grew louder and more heated, Cuomo and de Blasio managed to convince the key union leaders who backed the party financially to grant Cuomo the WFP endorsement. Enough votes were secured and Cuomo prevailed over Teachout. But things were far from settled on the left, as Cuomo would learn in a just a few short days.

Two weeks later on June 13, Teachout announced that she would run against Cuomo in the Democratic primary. She cited the warm reception she received at the WFP convention, and positioned her candidacy as one that could tap into the disenchant-

help elect a Democratic state Senate. He felt betrayed. Facing the same candidate whom he had been assured would not get support on the left only made it worse. As one Cuomo insider said regarding Teachout, “They created a monster they could not control.”

The same insider also downplayed de Blasio throwing Cuomo a lifeline at the convention, arguing that it was just as important to the mayor to make sure the WFP lived on as a party. As Cuomo fought his battles on the campaign trail, left-leaning groups including the WFP were gearing up to help deliver a Democratic-controlled state Senate. Aides to de Blasio were active in raising money and providing support to Democrats in key races in the Hudson Valley and on Long Island.

One Hudson Valley race, pitting Democrat Justin Wagner against Terrence Murphy, became a headache for de Blasio two years later. A criminal probe was opened over

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of the state’s Democratic Party, Basil Smikle, told The New York Times in May 2016 that the “coordinated effort became divided” after “internal strategic and operational disagreements.” In other words, the mayor’s team didn’t get much help from Cuomo, even though they participated or were at least copied on some early planning memos.

Simultaneously, the mayor was working hard to bring the breakaway IDC into the fold to pave the way for a reconciled Democratic majority in the state Senate. In late June 2014, Klein announced that he was effectively ending the IDC’s power sharing arrangement with state Senate Republicans. This drew praise from both the mayor and the governor. The move was not official, however, since the next session did not begin until January 2015, which would have been the earliest new rules governing the Senate could’ve be adopted. But the mes-

As one Cuomo insider said regarding Teachout,

“They created a monster they could not control.” ment with Cuomo. Officially, the WFP supported Cuomo, issuing a terse statement instructing New Yorkers to vote for the governor on the WFP line. But there were signs that Teachout was receiving unofficial support from the WFP party faithful.

From Cuomo’s perspective, while he had gotten the WFP line he sought, he did not get a clear field. He had a costly primary despite his promises to work with the WFP to

money the mayor helped deliver to Wagner and other candidates through donations to the Putnam County Democratic Committee, a possible violation of election law.

Emails at the time showed that de Blasio’s team was very involved in trying to help Democratic candidates but didn’t always get much response from Joe Percoco, a longtime Cuomo associate who was running his 2014 campaign operation. The executive director

sage to the public was one of reconciliation.

The labor unions were happy, and the mayor and the governor appeared to be working together on this front. About a week later, de Blasio announced that he would be supporting both Klein and state Sen. Tony Avella, the two IDC members who had significant primary challenges. Klein was facing former New York Attorney General Oliver Koppell, and Avella had a challenge

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from former New York City Comptroller John Liu. In the end, none of it mattered. Cuomo safely won re-election and so did all members of the IDC. De Blasio had even endorsed Cuomo’s new running mate, Kathy Hochul, in early September after accusations were made that she was “anti-immigrant” for not supporting driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants. But the mayor’s favor to the governor appears never to have been repaid.

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S THE 2015 legislative budget hearings got underway, the mayor made his annual trip to Albany to testify in late February. Perhaps the biggest takeaway from de Blasio’s testimony was his call for a permanent extension of mayoral control over city schools.

Mayoral control was up for renewal in June 2015, and de Blasio asked the unthinkable of Albany lawmakers: take out the “sunset provision” and just make it permanent once and for all.

It wasn’t quite met with laughter, but it might as well have been. Cuomo and the state Senate Republicans had other plans.

As de Blasio was making his case to the Legislature, Cuomo held a public cabinet meeting in Albany where he threw cold water on the mayor’s idea, arguing that mayoral control is still an experiment and should be extended but not granted permanent status. “I think it’s doing well enough to extend it for three years,” Cuomo said. Asked about the timing of his meeting and whether or not it was intentionally held to steal the spotlight away from the mayor, Cuomo said, “Only a really twisted mind would come up with that one.”

The two men later met privately, but when de Blasio was asked about his relationship with the governor, de Blasio was a little prickly. “I’m not interested in a discussion about personalities,” he told reporters firmly. “I respect the governor. I have known him for 20 years. We have gotten a lot done together. We don’t agree on everything. I think that has been pretty well established.”

As the budget process moved into crunch time, the focus was less on mayoral control and more on education reforms the governor was seeking. New Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie made it clear in March that Assembly Democrats wanted to see a mayoral control extension that mirrored the seven years Bloomberg was granted.

Mayoral control was not settled in the budget. Instead, it would be taken up a few weeks later at the end of session along with

the rent stabilization laws and 421-a, both of which were also set to expire. However, yet another rift had opened up between the mayor and the governor. At issue were funds in the state budget earmarked for repairs at New York City Housing Authority public housing. The state was prepared to allocate $100 million, but Cuomo insisted that the state have oversight over how it gets spent, rather than a direct infusion of money into the city-run agency. Behind the scenes, the battle between the mayor and the governor was fierce and made whatever bad blood that existed between the two men markedly worse. Both leaders initially kept the battle out of public view. The chairman of the Assembly Housing Committee, Keith Wright, would only say at the time, “I think there was some back and forth between the mayor and the governor as to how the money should be injected into New York City.”

The money that was ultimately allocated in the state budget included state oversight the governor had wanted.

De Blasio was gracious about it publicly, even though the money had strings attached, and promised to match it with another $100 million in city funds. “We had asked the state for $300 million, which is a small amount considering the massive needs of NYCHA,” he said. “We ended up with $100 million. $100 million is certainly better than nothing. We appreciate it.”

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FTER MEETING THE April 1 budget deadline, the state Legislature started to move again in May. Negotiations over a lengthy extension of mayoral control of schools had gone nowhere, with state Senate Republicans refusing to show their hand. Assembly Democrats decided to move ahead on the measure, a top priority for de Blasio. On May 18, they passed a three-year extension, which is what the governor had suggested earlier that year.

Asked why de Blasio had not received the same seven-year renewal his predecessor had, Heastie said, “Well, that’s a good question. We’re trying to negotiate this among other things. And he seems to be OK, so we are OK.” Sensing he wasn’t going to get much better than three years, the mayor had privately acquiesced, telling the speaker to just pass it and move on. The assumption was that the state Senate would eventually just come on board since they had no alternative to mayoral control and most of the Senate Republicans do not hail from New York City anyway. But Republicans were still furious over de Blasio campaigning against their

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members during the 2014 election and had other plans. They told reporters on the day the Assembly voted for a three-year extension that they had not yet discussed the issue in a closed-door, members-only conference.

A little over a week later, it became clear that things were unraveling for the mayor’s Albany agenda. Not only was mayoral control hanging in the balance, but rent stabilization laws affecting more than a million apartments in the city were set to expire in June, and no deal had yet been struck to extend them. Finally, the controversial tax abatement for developers known as 421-a was also set to expire. The latter wound up being one of the most contentious issues of all between the mayor and the governor.

In addition to universal pre-K, de Blasio had promised during the mayoral campaign to build more affordable housing. Private developers were only willing to do this with a tax incentive like 421-a on the books. Under the plan negotiated between the mayor and the Real Estate Board of New York, or REBNY, buildings with profitable luxury units would have a smaller share of affordable housing. Housing advocates and others criticized the deal as a giveaway to wealthy real estate developers, but others conceded that the deal, or something close to it, was the best the mayor would get. At this time, federal corruption cases against Silver and Skelos were beginning to take shape. Silver had been arrested earlier that year, and Skelos had just been put in handcuffs a few weeks earlier. Real estate interests were at the center of both cases, making Albany lawmakers reluctant to wheel and deal on much of anything, let alone something like 421-a, which would directly benefit the developers referenced in the two criminal complaints. That meant any deal to move the ball forward was quickly embraced by REBNY. And the mayor at least was willing to present a plan.

But the mayor’s plan also included a new mansion tax, which Cuomo and the state Senate Republicans again considered a non-starter. Cuomo had also quietly done something else. He got together with the construction trades union and established that 421-a should include a prevailing wage provision for workers. This not only undercut the mayor’s plan but created a whole new issue that would have to be negotiated: what that wage would be and where it would be applied.

Sensing his Albany agenda was in peril, de Blasio took a trip up to Albany on May 27, just in time for a scheduled 11 a.m. meeting with Cuomo. The meeting was private, and when the mayor emerged roughly an hour

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later he seemed frustrated and annoyed. Albany lacked real leadership, de Blasio said.

Asked specifically if he was referring to Cuomo, the mayor said, “I think we need his leadership. But I’m saying it to both him and to the Senate. We need action.”

In response, a Cuomo administration official shot back, telling me, “Don’t get me wrong, it was nice he showed up. But to appear in the Capitol a few days before the end of session with controversial and untested ideas that are opposed by significant groups such as the AFL-CIO is not how leaders get things done.”

After several other meetings, the mayor told reporters as his day in Albany came to a close: “No commitments. I’m quite frustrated that issues of such great importance to millions of New Yorkers still have not been addressed.”

The next day Cuomo visited a prison in Coxsackie, New York. When asked about the mayor’s trip to Albany and the palpable frustration the mayor seemed to exhibit, Cuomo choked back laughter. “The mayor of the city of New York frustrated with Albany? Now there’s a shocker,” the governor said. “The Senate fundamentally disagrees with the mayor on a number of issues. And it’s also a little late in the day to be starting a theoretical debate because there’s only like, nine days left.”

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, “If 421-a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need. That’s an indefensible outcome.”

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ITH JUST A week to go before the end of the 2015 legislative session in Albany, Cuomo attended a press conference on the steps of the state Capitol with the uniformed police officer and firefighters unions that believed the mayor’s plan to reform pension disability payments didn’t go far enough. The City Council had already passed a bill consistent with what the mayor wanted, but gave some city workers benefits that were less than their counterparts in neighboring suburban departments.

“There is no justification to you being relegated to a second tier of benefits,” Cuomo said at the rally. Shortly afterward, he did something he hadn’t done in months – he took questions from the Albany press corps.

There the governor reopened the rift with de Blasio over the mayor’s plan to amend

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421-a. “Nobody knew that the mayor was going to reach an agreement and propose it a couple of weeks ago,” the governor said.

“If you knew that, you knew that. I didn’t know that. And then it became a reaction to the mayor’s plan and the mayor’s plan generated problems.”

The legislative session was due to end the following week, but state leaders failed to reach agreements on any of the big-ticket items: extending rent protections to 2.5 million tenants, extending mayoral control of city schools and renewing 421-a. In fact, both 421-a and rent regulations had expired on June 15, the latter leaving all those rent regulated apartment dwellers unprotected.

To call that “dereliction of duty” is probably being too kind to the democratically elected leadership of New York state.

The logjam was so intense that the governor and state Legislature extended the session another week in hopes of finding those elusive deals. On Tuesday, June 23, Cuomo and legislative leaders, looking absolutely exhausted, called an evening news conference to say that a framework deal on all the big issues had been reached. Rent regulations would be extended for four years. The 421-a exemption would be renewed, only if the construction trades and REBNY could agree on a prevailing wage requirement within six months. And mayoral control of city schools would be renewed, but only for one year – a slap in the face to de Blasio. The mayor would be forced to travel up to Albany the following year and make his case for another extension to state Senate Republicans. Not only would he have a short leash, he’d have to dance for his food. Perhaps the most candid comments of the night came from state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who had only been on the job about a month. “At the end of the day, we all have an obligation to work together, seek negotiations and ultimately compromise,” Flanagan said. “Because last time I checked, nobody ever gets everything they want, especially in government.” It was the understatement of the 2015 session, and yet it pretty much said it all.

The next few days were unusually strange, even by Albany standards. Things got very quiet as staff from all levels of government worked behind the scenes to hammer out bill language that would eventually get printed then voted on by both houses.

This was always the point at which deals agreed to at the highest levels could start to unravel once the details needed to be ironed out. Many who already felt trapped at the Capitol started to feel helpless that nothing would ever come to a final resolution.

The day after the framework deal was announced a handful of reporters were called down to the governor’s office for an off-therecord briefing on the session’s conclusion.

Later that afternoon, a story popped up from Ken Lovett, the New York Daily News’ Albany bureau chief. “After 18 months in office, Mayor de Blasio still is clueless in his dealings with Albany, a top Cuomo administration official said Wednesday,” Lovett wrote. The article went on to quote the same “official” as saying, “You sit down there as mayor and you believe you’re the captain of the ship, but really everything is subject to state law. You want to change the speed limit? You want to put in red light cameras? You need to flush a toilet? You need state law. And that’s jarring.”

The piece had numerous other quotes, including one that claimed what many were thinking but had not said aloud: that a oneyear extension of mayoral control of schools will be seen as a “loss,” and that the Assembly Democrats failed to support the mayor on this.

De Blasio’s spokeswoman Karen Hinton told Lovett, “No comment because this doesn’t merit one. And that’s on the record.”

What’s unique about Albany is that when time bends at the Capitol and we all feel like we are in a suspended state, a camaraderie develops among those who feel imprisoned together, regardless of what side they might be on. That includes those from opposing political parties, and the so-called “flacks and hacks” – the politicians and staff members, and journalists who cover them.

That evening, a bunch of us had retired to City Beer Hall on Howard Street in Albany, which has a large outdoor space in the back. That’s when a second story was about to go up on the web, this time in The Wall Street Journal. The story would quote a “senior City Hall official” who said legislators in Albany “have no agenda or no vision because the whole place is broken.” The senior official went on to tell say, “You have two indicted former leaders and a Governor who is not very effective right now. They can’t get anything done.”

As soon as Cuomo’s aides heard about this story, both Communications Director Melissa DeRosa and press aide Dani Lever huddled together in the backyard to craft a response. There were frantic phone calls back and forth. Cuomo’s entire mantra since taking office was built around “restoring functionality to Albany.” Budgets would be negotiated fiercely, but they would be passed before the midnight deadline of April 1. Calling Albany “dysfunctional” was not some-

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istration official,” and it was included when the story posted: “What we’re dealing with is a mayor who is universally acknowledged to be bumbling and incompetent.”

The die had been cast. The mayor had come up virtually empty in the legislative

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DeRosa and Lever sent along a quote from their own unnamed “Cuomo admin-

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session and he blamed the governor for his woes. Within days, he decided to go on NY1 and speak his mind. He gave Room 9 reporters at City Hall their own press conference on the same subject. The battle left the realm of anonymous quotes and landed with a thud out in the open. It was a strange place for the two men to be. As an aide to Cuomo put it, “the gloves came off” after the NY1 interview. “We thought it was crazy.”

A day after the interview, City Hall reporters asked de Blasio administration officials what their plan was now that they had poked the bear. Their answer was that they were planning on enlisting natural allies such as City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who had had their own differences with Cuomo. But aides to both the speaker and the attorney general made it very clear to the press that their leaders wanted nothing to do with this feud. One aide said, “I don’t even want to be quoted on the record saying no comment when it comes to this.”

That summer and beyond, the governor and mayor continued to fight on a number of issues. First, a breakout of Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx turned into a turf war between the two leaders over a response.

They clashed repeatedly on homeless policy, an issue that continues to dog the mayor. As one veteran City Hall reporter put it, “Every time there was a New York political story, it automatically became a feud story.”

Things reached new heights of absurdity in December 2016 with a shoving match over the fate of a wayward male deer who showed up in Harlem. The beast died in captivity, and both the Cuomo and de Blasio teams blamed each other. The governor pointed out that the deer had died “while in City possession,” while the de Blasio administration, which wanted to “humanely” euthanize the animal, claimed the death occurred from stress “while waiting” for the state to come and transport the animal to an upstate forest. Ay yai yai.

“What we’re dealing with is a mayor who is universally acknowledged to T be bumbling and incompetent.”

HE GOVERNOR’S DEFENDERS point to a few key moments that illustrate Cuomo’s initial approach to de Blasio during the mayor’s 2013 campaign. They argue that the governor reached out in friendship. For example, about a week before the Democratic primary, Bloomberg gave what amounted to an exit interview with New York magazine and called de Blasio’s campaign “racist” – a reference to de Blasio using his multiracial son Dante in a campaign ad. Cuomo was asked about Bloomberg’s remarks on

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BECAUSE HE WAS ONLY GIVEN A ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF MAYORAL CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS, DE BLASIO WAS FORCED TO RETURN TO ALBANY IN 2016 TO AGAIN BEG FOR AN EXTENSION OF MAYORAL CONTROL.

Sept. 8 in Buffalo, and the governor defended de Blasio and the ad.

“I don’t know what was actually said or what the context was, but the comments that were reported clearly are out of line and have no place in our political discourse,” Cuomo said, according to the State of Politics blog. “There are a lot of important issues that we should be talking about and addressing, especially in the City of New York. We have education issues, we have the stop-and-frisk issue, so there are plenty of substantive issues to be discussing without raising unnecessary and inflammatory topics.”

Cuomo also praised the de Blasio family, reminding reporters that the future mayor used to work for him at HUD in Washington, D.C. “They are a beautiful family,” he said. “... I think he should be very proud of his family, and if I were Bill, I would be campaigning with my family the way that I campaign with my family. So that’s the way I feel about the de Blasios.”

Insiders say Cuomo’s friendship went even further. On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the day after the 2013 Democratic primary, unofficial results showed de Blasio with 40.2 percent of the vote in a crowded Democratic field. Former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson had the second highest percentage, with 26 percent. Thompson convened a meeting of top supporters including U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, head of the United Federation of Teachers Michael Mulgrew, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Hazel Dukes of the NAACP. Thompson wanted to know if he had their support to challenge the results, since 40 percent of

the vote is needed in order to avoid a runoff.

If they went to court they might be able to get the de Blasio’s vote total slightly below that 40 percent threshold. Overwhelmingly, the sentiment at that meeting was to go forward with a challenge.

Enter Cuomo, who reached out to Thompson personally and advised him against moving forward with a challenge.

Thompson adhered to Cuomo’s wishes, and Democrats joined together in a unity press conference on the steps of City Hall a few days later. Cuomo and Thompson continue to have a strong working relationship, with Cuomo having recently appointed Thompson as the head of the City University of New York board of trustees.

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HE FEUD BETWEEN these two top Democrats is unique in its level of vitriol. De Blasio and Cuomo simply seem incapable of understanding one another’s objectives. While the governor is determined to embrace pragmatism and realpolitik, the mayor considers his office a perch upon which he can fight for what he believes in. The results have sometimes had a detrimental effect on the city. The homelessness crisis appears to have worsened under de Blasio, for example. And while Cuomo has been very vocal in pointing that out, he hasn’t done much to help release $2 billion in state funds for supportive housing and other homeless services that are available. While the money wouldn’t solve the problem overnight, it would be hard to argue it won’t help.

There are sometimes questions about who is in charge, and that is a quality of life issue.

For those who were in New York City for the 9/11 attacks or Superstorm Sandy, it’s comforting to see leadership come together in a time of crisis. Yet the Chelsea bombing in September, which prompted separate and somewhat competing responses – Cuomo suggested it was terrorism, while de Blasio initially claimed it was some kind of accident – didn’t exactly put people’s fears at ease.

Attempts have been made to bring the two men together, sometimes through intermediaries, other times through direct talks, with all those efforts falling flat.

To understand their seemingly unbridgeable differences, one need look only at how they govern. Cuomo is a pragmatist, a dealmaker, a man who favors functionality over just about everything else, including, in many cases, a strict ideology. De Blasio is in many ways the exact opposite. He’d rather go down in flames than alter his beliefs.

Sometimes even running the day to day of the city seems less important to the mayor than getting his message on inequality and justice across to the public.

These two very distinct styles contrast in obvious ways, leaving little room for common ground or compromise. New Yorkers may be the ones who get shortchanged in this ongoing feud, but it’s the main event in New York these days. What makes it interesting is that as de Blasio heads into his re-election bid this year and Cuomo follows suit a year later, no one knows where it will end up.

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The balance of power in Albany is unchanged going into the 2017 state legislation session, with Democrats controlling the Assembly and Republicans running the Senate.

But the dynamic is different. Senate Republicans are striking a more aggressive stance after Gov. Andrew Cuomo backed their Democratic rivals in the fall elections. Legislators from both parties are unhappy they didn’t get a pay raise. Perhaps fearing

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a boycott, the governor this week is taking his State of the State on the road, breaking with a decades-long tradition by delivering speeches directly to the people instead of the Legislature.

Of course, Cuomo still must send his priorities to both houses, if only in writing, and he’ll have to negotiate with them directly in the coming weeks and months.

For many Albany veterans, it’s a

disorienting way to start the year. But for two dozen men and women who just took office as state lawmakers for the first time this month, this may be just the new normal.

In the following pages, we highlight the top priorities of these new faces in the state Capitol, including six new state senators (excluding state Sen. James Tedisco, who moved up from the Assembly) and 18 new members of the Assembly.

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WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? As the first Dominican woman elected to the Senate and the only Latina in the chamber, I hope to show our state that Latinas are powerful and can get things done for their community. I plan to help preserve the affordable housing stock in the district, protect our large immigrant population and increase aid for our students in overpopulated schools.

WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? I hope to bring a new energy to the 36th Senate District with a combination of sound legislative policy and community engagement. I want to ensure that I am able to assist the next generation in revitalizing our education system, with an emphasis on the whole child, including arts, sports and music, creating a well-rounded individual.

WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? Seemingly today in politics, the middle class, those trying to get into the middle class, seniors and veterans have no voice. It seems that government is run by the special interest groups. My policies will focus on the people, not the special interest groups. What I hope to accomplish is to give the people back their government.

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Our jobs are uniquely dangerous and stressful.

We are physically assaulted hundreds of times each year. Spitting incidents are at all-time highs.

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WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? My top priority will be to help reduce the crushing tax burden that has forced too many hardworking Long Islanders from their homes. We need fair state funding for Long Island schools, and this will help ensure a higher quality of public education without increasing taxes.

WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? One thing that people talk about every year that we’d love to see is term limits. I’d love to see tax reform too, but if we were able to get term limits passed that would be huge.

A real ethics reform package that included term limits, that would be great.

WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? I hope that we can pass substantive voting and campaign finance reforms and fully fund our state’s aging infrastructure and public schools.

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WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? One of my top priorities is to continue bringing much-needed resources to my constituency, especially in the areas of housing, education, and mental health.

I will be working to ensure the laws that protect tenants are strengthened and that we provide access to early childhood education starting in infancy for families in our community.

WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? I want to thank my community for their strong and continued support. I fought hard, but never alone, for affordable housing, quality education, pay/gender equity, LGBT rights, a woman’s right to choose, small business, immigrant rights and justice reform. The fight continues as we march to Albany.

ON ALBANY CORRUPTION: In recent years, self-interests and corruption have become the norm in Albany. To end the corruption in Albany, we must remove money from politics. That’s why I support a ban on outside income for legislators and support public campaign financing and strong penalties for legislators that forfeit the public trust.

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ON IMPORTANCE OF ELECTION It is an honor and privilege to be sworn in as a New York state legislator. I take this responsibility very seriously because many upstate families are in dire straits. The time has come for state legislators to focus their energy on the task at hand – getting New Yorkers back to work and getting our economy headed in the right direction.

WHAT’S YOUR TOP PRIORITY? Protection of our valuable freshwater lakes that provide drinking water for millions of people; preservation of our prime agricultural lands for future generations; minimize the burden on small businesses; support local efforts to improve main streets and maintain safe roads and bridges.

ON ETHICS REFORM The “three men in a room” culture in Albany has to come to an end. If you are a legislator that is not in leadership you have very little ability to get anything done or have your voice heard, and as a result the citizens you represent are essentially disenfranchised. Through my reform agenda, power will be placed back in the hands of all legislators.

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But, Wallace never even mentions it during the conversation. After leaving, he says he has never heard of anything worse than a drunken disturbance happening there. He doesn’t hassle them, and when he rides by on his bike, they wave.

“I treat everyone out here the way I’d want to be treated on my own block,” Wallace said. “And if I’m coming to arrest you – I’m coming to arrest you. They know they’ve done something so bad that they know I’m coming to punish them.”

But the question remains: will the major shift in philosophy that has been seen in Albany be replicated around the state?

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AIMÉE SIMPIERRE Welcome to City & State’s new section featuring exclusive content from New York Nonprofit Media. As nonprofits are effectively the primary social services arm of city and state government – and the vehicle through which many government policies reach people – you will find lots within our pages that will flesh out and give context to everything else you read in City & State.

In a state with 1.3 million nonprofit workers, more than any other in the country, whatever the sector does changes New York. So NYN Media uses its extensive connections to cover the leaders, funders, programs and organizations that affect everything from making sure our elders are fed to counseling our children.

Stay tuned for our coverage of the minimum wage hike, which poses a particular challenge to nonprofits that want fair wages but are hamstrung by government contracts that often can’t support increased payroll costs. This month, we will also focus on criminal justice issues and the nonprofits that advocate for at-risk youth and help formerly incarcerated individuals successfully re-enter society.

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ESEARCHERS, policymakers and practitioners have worked to reduce the achievement gap for young men of color for decades – but according to the latest research, the gap in graduation rates continues to widen. The Partnership for After School Education thinks it may have a solution: help those disparate groups work together.

“Have you looked at the population you’re serving, have you looked at how successful you’ve been?” said Alison Overseth, PASE’s executive director. “We’ve been doing a whole lot of things that haven’t been working, and if we’re not looking for alternate

ways of addressing serious issues, then we’re just kind of idiots.”

PASE, a nonprofit which promotes and supports high-quality afterschool programs, hosted a sold-out conference on Dec. 12 titled “Pockets of Hope: A Summit on Protective Practices for Boys of Color in Afterschool.” The panelists were academics, elected officials and program leaders from various nonprofits who modeled the kind of collaborative team PASE thinks will finally advance efforts to support the potential of young men of color. They included Assemblyman Michael Blake; Edward Fergus-Arcia, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy with New York University’s Steinhardt School; and W. Cyrus

PASE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALISON OVERSETH, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY STEINHARDT SCHOOL’S ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP EDWARD FERGUS-ARCIA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NEW YORK CITY’S YOUNG MEN’S INITIATIVE W. CYRUS GARRETT, AND BRONX ASSEMBLYMAN MICHAEL BLAKE.

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Overseth told attendees her relationship with Fergus-Arcia was cemented when the researcher said he was applying for grants and asked her what she wanted to know.

“Actually saying – what are some of the questions we actually need answers to, so that we can do what we do better – is really powerful,” Overseth said.

Research may not be accessible to practitioners, Overseth said. Hence the need to democratize research by better sharing cutting-edge findings directly with practitioners. It’s also about researchers becoming partners who develop research ideas with on-the-ground practitioners – rather than just fellow academics. Policymakers must be made aware of the strategies that are working so that they can apply resources to help maximize impact.

PASE is applying this idea to one of the most intractable challenges in youth development: helping young men of color achieve life goals at levels that are on par with other youth.

President Barack Obama trained his attention on this issue when he created the My Brother’s Keeper initiative targeting achievement gaps among young men of color in health, academics and employment. The White House modeled its effort, in part, on New York City’s Young Men’s Initiative, created in 2011. YMI is a public-private partnership begun under Mayor Michael Bloomberg that works to remove policy barriers to the developmental success of young men of color by finding and supporting successful pilot programs,

“WE’VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TURN MOVING INTO A MOVEMENT, AND WITH RESEARCH AND PRACTITIONERS AND NEW PARTNERSHIPS … YOU CANNOT SOLVE NEW PROBLEMS WITH OLD SOLUTIONS.” — THE REV. ALFONSO W YATT

making an investment for up to four years, and referring the most effective programs to city agencies for scaling up, Garrett said.

During the summit, Blake pointed out that New York was the first state in the nation to financially support a My Brother’s Keeper-aligned initiative. Carl Heastie, the state’s first African-American Assembly speaker, allocated $20 million in the current fiscal year to create a state version of the program.

But barriers to success remain.

Economic hardship can prompt students to undo their own hard-earned successes.

Children may intentionally fail so they can enjoy the safety and security of being in summer school as opposed to being on the streets, Blake said. They may even intentionally misbehave during the day just to secure an additional meal provided by the school during disciplinary hours.

PASE, with funding from the Robert Bowne Foundation and in partnership with NYU’s Steinhardt School, is addressing some of these challenges with the Boys of Color in Afterschool: Protective Practices Institute. It works to democratize the research by thoroughly embedding effective practices into afterschool programs.

The protective practices are based on the research of Fergus-Arcia, who conducted a three-year study of black and Latino boys attending seven all-male schools across the country. It highlights the importance of properly conceptualizing the questions that inform the research, and of creating a hospitable school climate.

Rev. Alfonso Wyatt, a consultant to nonprofits on techniques for working with hard-to-reach youth, encouraged all stakeholders to become “merchants of hope,” focused on putting out fires, instead of chasing smoke. He recounted attending a picnic where some disapproving older women chastised a young man wearing his pants below his underwear.

“I told my sisters, ‘His pants are not his primary problem, that was merely smoke,’” Wyatt said. “But if we could ever figure out how to get him to pull up his mind – his pants will follow. Fire!”

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Notice of Qualification of SREF PIV IV, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/16.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/26/16. Princ. office of LLC: Savanna Asset Management, LLC, 430 Park Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Moke America, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/7/16. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 209 East 62nd Street, NY, NY 10065. Puprose: Any lawful act.

Notice of Qual. of 548W22 Mezz Funding LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/9/16. Off. loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 8/26/16.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Wainscott Estates LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/6/16. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Reinhardt, 44 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Aphera Properties, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/16. Office in NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Alan Mittelman, Esq., Spector Gadon & Rosen, PC, 1635 Market St., 7th Fl., Phila, PA 19103, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act/activity.

Notice of Qualification of OMNICHANNEL SOLUTIONS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/06/16.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Moses & Singer, Attn: David Lee Kovacs, 405 Lexington Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10174. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of SPT Ivey 61 Emerald MOB LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/14/16.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 591 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830. LLC formed in DE on 10/24/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of Lerin Consulting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/22/16. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of SREF IV REIT, L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/16.

Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/26/16. Princ. office of LP: Savanna Asset Management, LLC, 430 Park Ave., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of LUCKY US PROPERTY PARTNERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 250 West St., Unit #10J, NY, NY 10013. SSNY designated as agent of llc upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Eric J. Kramer at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Alan H Goldberg, CPA, PLLC filed with the NY Secretary of State of New York on June 28, 2016.

Office Location: New York County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against PLLC to principal business address: 14 Penn Plaza, Ste. 1315, New York, NY 10122. Purpose: To practice accounting or any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 515 Wilson Avenue LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 10/11/16.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

KC THIRD AVE, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/07/16. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 2 Rector Street, Suite 903, New York, NY 10006.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 548W22 Funding LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/9/16. Off. loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 8/26/16.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. DE off. addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities.

223A MALCOM X BLVD LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/15.

Office: New York County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Alon Karasenty, 312 East 30th Street, PH2, New York, NY 10016.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Fish in the Hand Productions, LLC filed with SSNY 9/13/16. Office loc: NY Co. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: US Corp Agents, 7014 13th Ave #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of SPT Ivey 95 Crystal Run MOB LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/15/16. Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 591 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830. LLC formed in DE on 10/24/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

PAYSAGE HOLDINGS LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 12/02/2016.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 12/10/2015. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Raich Ende Malter & Co. LLP, 1375 Broadway, 6th Fl, NY, NY 10018. 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.

Notice of Formation of Kiki Industries LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State 10/31/16. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 64 E 11th St, 1204, NY, NY 10029. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of BROOKFIELD PREMIER REAL ESTATE PARTNERS L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/16. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/05/16. Princ. office of LP: Brookfield Pl., 250 Vesey St., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10281-1023. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of LONGSIGHT STRATEGIC ADVISORS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/15/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/25/16.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Just A Kiss Pictures, LLC filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) 9/15/16.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent for process service.

SSNY shall mail process to US Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave. Ste. 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

BRANMACK USA LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/30/15. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Adesh Seecharan, 155-85 Bayview Avenue, Rosedale, NY 11422.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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ALSI PROPERTIES LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/06/14. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Shimon Itah, 184 5th Ave, Fl 3, New York, NY 10010.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 2900 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on December 26, 2016 and end on January 19, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc. Household goods and other effects. #139 - Jamaal Parham, #232 - Shakia Burke, #518Fayza Hassanien, #1509Kerriann Reynoso, #2433 - Lisa “Leola” Durant, #2463Robert Hoyte, #3708-5 - Timothy Cusick, #43191- Quinsessa Harriso n, #4437-4 & 4400 - Michio Ryan, #4438-2 - Daniel Photos.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours.

Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale.

SALUSBURY AND CO., LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 11/23/2016.

Off. Loc.:New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC., 215 West 88th St., #11E,New York, NY 10024.

Purpose:Any lawful act or activity.

App. for Auth. (LLC) No Sleep Productions LLC d/b/a Intergalactic Productions LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/16. LLC formed in DE on 11/29/16. Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corp.

System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful act/activity Notice of Formation of 1601 Dekalb Owner LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/1/16. Off. loc.: NY Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 28 E. 28th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10016.

Purp.: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Qual. of Aurmedis Global Fund, LP, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/1/16.

Off. loc: NY Co. LP org. in DE 5/31/16. SSNY desig. as agent of LP upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to Att: Anthony Chiasson, 350 Park Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE off. addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of LP on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purp: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of ARTIVEST SOLUTIONS LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/06/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/08/16.

Princ. office of LLC: 149 Fifth Ave., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10010.

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: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Notice of Qualification of 130 Northern Avenue Mezz, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy of State of NY on 11/29/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware on 11/18/16. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., 13th fl., NY, NY 10011.

NRAI is registered agent as well. Address required to be maintained in home jurisdiction: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the authorized officer in the jurisdiction where a copy of its arts. of organ. are filed is: DE Secy of State, Div. of Corps., John G.Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of 6th Avenue MCA Fund I L.P. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/16. Office location: NY County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/07/16. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Graybar Building, 420 Lexington Ave., Ste. 925, NY, NY 10170. Address to be maintained in DE: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Name/ address of genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with DE Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. – Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

RIVERSIDE BLVD. LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 12/22/2016. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o SMRC, 80 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of HighVista Strategies LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/23/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 200 Clarendon St., 50th Fl., Boston, MA 02116.

LLC formed in DE on 1/26/05.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

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

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of QJ ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/02/16.

Princ. office of LLC: 205 E. 68th St. TPHB, NY, NY 10065.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Business Filings Inc., 108 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State - Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

App. for Auth. (LLC) GLEA OCS 148 Duane LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/20/16.

LLC formed in DE on 10/14/16.

Office Location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Maples Fiduciary Services (DE) Inc., 4001 Kennett Pike, #302, Wilmington, DE 19807, registered agent upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful act/activity.

Notice of Authority of ColeFrieman & Mallon LLP. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/9/16.

Office location: New York County. LLP formed in California (CA) on 1/14/09.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLP upon which process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Sansome St, Ste 1895, San Francisco, CA 94104.

CA address of the LLP: 1 Sansome St, Ste 1895, San Francisco, CA 94104. Cert. of Registration filed with CA Secy of State, 1500 11th St, Sarcamento, CA 95814.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

January 9, 2017 Notice of Qualification of BHV Entrepreneurship Fund IA, GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/22/16. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/20/16.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 47 Murray St, Lower Level, NY, NY 10007. DE address of LLC: 1013 Centre Rd, Ste 403-B, Wilmington, DE 19805.

Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 140 Northern Avenue, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy of State of NY on11/29/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware on 08/28/14. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., 13th fl., New York, NY 10011.

NRAI is registered agent as well. Address required to be maintained in home jurisdiction: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the authorized officer in the jurisdiction where a copy of its arts. of organ. are filed is: DE Secy of State, Div. of Corps., John G.Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

METROJJBWEST53 LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/19/2016.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jay Czyzyk, 165 West End Ave., Apt 15N, NY, NY 10023. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 64th and Lex LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/14/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 159 E. 64th St., NY, NY 10065. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of FIFTH AVENUE ENDOCRINOLOGY OFFICES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/14/16.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 1080 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1A, NY, NY 10128. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

STORAGE Midtown Moving & Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 810 East 170 Street, Bronx NY 10459 at 6:00 P.M. on Jan. 10, 2016 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, household furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof, stored under the following names: -POLIC GLENN/HOLLEY STEVEN -YUREK MUSTAFA -MANNING JOHN -KEITH MONIQUE -ENGLAND DAVID -CORDERO JOSE/CORDERO DONNA -VALENTIN BROMBERG -BARBEE MALCOLM -BROWN JOSEPH -BAZILLE FRITZ -CAMILLES RICOT -DAVIDSON LINDSEY -DALEY DAMION -DJMARE AWA -FIGUEROA JACKELINE -GUZMAN CLAUDIO -GOODING HAROLD -JAMES JASON/GREEN ANDRE/BECKLES SHAUN/HOLMES BARRON -KOMLAN ANATO -MONTANEZ NILDA -MIZHQUIRI CLAUDIO -MAINA FELIX -REDA MICHAEL -NORWOOD ALBERT -PERRY, JR. MELVIN -LIPNICK GERARD -ROSELLO ELENORA -SHEPPARD KEVIN -SICARDO RICHARD -THOMAS SIMONETTI -VEGA NILSA -WATSON KAREN -LOPEZ FREDDIE -CRENSHAWN SHIYION -DOE JOHN/DOE JANE -HARRAWAY RODNEY -PORTLETTE NORMADINE -ROUNDTREE EVELYN -SMITH MICHELLE/THOMP -WEST KWAME -BERMUDEZ RAY C. /FERNANDEZ ARIANNY -BIBERGAL JENNIFER -DONOVAN KEVIN -DUMONT IVETTE -GUITY MARLENE -JOSE MONISOLA -JOSIAH SHANARA -LUCAN ESMOND -NUNEZ PATRICIA -PIETER ANTHONY -SMARGUNOR GRIGORIY -STONE MICHAEL/ DOE JOHN/JANE -SOPHINDO DELBERT -STUKES, JR., SURVIVING SPOSE OFALFREDIABRINSON, DECEASED TENANT OF RECORD WILLIAM/ BRINSON ALIZE -TAMEN KATHLYN -WARD SHARON/LYONS LATEEFAH -ADAMS SHAREESE -ADAMS JESSICA -LISA BEAL -BOWMAN DASHEENE/JOHN DOE/JANE -CRIANZA ANACELI -CABAN JASMIN -EXUM BRANDEN -KNIGHT BRUCE -NUNEZ JANIRYS/MAY JISELLE -DAVID STATEN Notice of formation of Global Internet Marketing LLC. Arts of Org filed w Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/2016.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 25 W 81st St., #3A, NY NY 10024.

Notice of Formation of Topflight Technologies, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/22/2016.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC: 225 Broadway, Ste 2700, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose.

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 4555 Pearson Street, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW. STORAGETREASURES. COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on January 9, 2017 and end on January 19, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts: Contents of rooms generally contain misc.

Household goods and other effects. #2B06Samuel Eskenazi, #4J45Donna LaBassiere, #4R35Marion Miller, #4Y23-Peter Choimanenophan, #6P12AJohanna Peterson, #7R54Juan Davila, #8R33Bernard Bastin.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours.

Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale.

Notice of Qualification of CBI Services, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/9/16.

Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 2103 Research Forest Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380. LLC formed in DE on 12/7/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011.

DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Ambros LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State NY (SSNY) 08/26/16.

Office loc: NY County.

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

The PO address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against LLC is: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Principal bus addr of LLC: 167 E 90th St, 5c, NY, NY 10128. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Mizuho America Leasing LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/1/16. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: MHCB America Holdings, Inc., 1251 Ave. of the Americas, NY, NY 10020, Attn: Toshiaki Yasunaga. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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January 9, 2017 Notice of Formation of SCHUMANN BURGHART LLP. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/18/2016.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLP to principal business address: 143 Duane Street, #3, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act.

BRIGHTLANE LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 8/22/2016. Off. Loc.: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o PC Sekar, 555 Doughty Blvd., Inwood, NY 11096. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of Parlor Game Productions, LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/22/16. Office location: New York County. NY Sec. of State designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and shall mail process to the LLC, c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011. DE addr. of LLC c/o Corporation Trust, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901 on 9/8/15.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Constantia Capital LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 11/28/16. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Roy Ferguson, 40 Harrison St, Apt 23E, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of CLTC Designs LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/09/16. Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 475 Park Avenue South, Ste. 920, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Chelsea Leasehold Owner LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/28/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 360 Lexington Ave, Ste 1200, NY, NY 10017. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is David Kriss Esq, C/O Kriss & Feurstein LLP, 360 Lexington Ave, Ste 1200, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of PROFESSIONAL FITNESS MANAGEMENT, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 12/08/2016. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in MD on 08/01/2001. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 370, Galena, MD 21635.

Address required to be maintained in MD: 13860 Mill Creek Ln, Galena MD 21635.

Cert of Formation filed with MD Dept. of Assessments & Tax, 301 W. Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

AMANDA DOYLE MD, PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/21/2016. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O the PLLC, 63 Wall Street, Apt 812, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Medicine.

Latest date upon which PLLC is to dissolve: 01/01/2090.

Notice of Qualification of 312 Atlantic Owner LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/6/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/5/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of SJC 33 DLPE 2016, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/23/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

DAVID P ROWE LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/6/08. Office loc: New York County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 220 E 18th Street, Apt. 5, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DIGITAL RARITY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 120 Wall St., NY, NY 10005. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Martin H. Kaplan, Esq. at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

JTRE 1177 NOMAD LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/27/2016.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Morris Terzi C/O JTRE, PO Box 1705, NY, NY 10150. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of JR Harvest, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) 11/30/16.

Office loc: NY County.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 350 W 42nd St, #44A, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of BLA Partners, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/5/16.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 199 Main St., Ste. 226, Burlington, VT 05401. LLC formed in DE on 11/22/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of Qualification of Here Be Dragons LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 12/22/16. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 38 W. 21st St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10010.

LLC formed in DE on 7/15/14.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc. (NRAI), 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served.

DE addr. of LLC: NRAI, 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

Notice of formation of OPTIMAL LABORATORIES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/2/2016.

Office located in NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1299 First Ave., NY NY 10021. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of DILMUN PROPERTIES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/09/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/17/16. Princ. office of LLC: 767 Fifth Ave., 8th Fl., NY, NY 10153. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of the State of DE, Corp. Dept., Loockerman & Federal Sts., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

WirelessCo, L.P. dba Sprint (SPRINT) proposes to complete facility upgrades atop buildings in NY. Sites include a 71.10’ building/rooftop (71.10’ overall) at 110 York St in Brooklyn (Job # 33937) and a 55.4’ building/rooftop (61.4’ overall) at 319 W 77th St in the Borough of Manhattan (Job # 34166).

In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement, SPRINT is hereby notifying the public of the proposed undertaking and soliciting comments on Historic Properties which may be affected by the proposed undertaking. If you would like to provide specific information regarding potential effects that the proposed undertaking might have to properties that are listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and located within 3 block radius mile of the site, please submit the comments (with project number) to: RAMAKER, Contractor for SPRINT, 855 Community Dr, Sauk City, WI 53583 or via e-mail to history@ramaker.com within 30 days of this notice.

Notice is hereby given a license, number 1299296 for on-premises Liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 27 Grand St., aka 15 Thompson Street, Roof, New York, NY 10013 for on premises consumption.

Jensen 27 Grand LLC

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1299258, FOR WINE & BEE R HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL WINE & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 1223 BEDFORD AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11216.

KINGS COUNTY, FOR ONPREMISE CONSUMPTION. LAM TILLY LLC. Notice of Formation of Irving Capital LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/29/16. Office location: New York County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Ouza LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 11/23/16. Office location: Albany County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205.

The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Business Filings Incorporated, 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 130 Northern Avenue, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy of State of NY on 11/29/16. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Delaware on 08/28/14. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 Eighth Ave., 13th fl., New York, NY 10011.

NRAI is registered agent as well. Address required to be maintained in home jurisdiction: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Drive, Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904.

The name and address of the authorized officer in the jurisdiction where a copy of its arts. of organ. are filed is: DE Secy of State, Div. of Corps., John G.Townsend Bldg., Federal & Duke of York Sts., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose Notice of Formation of Anson Calder LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/20/2016. Office loc: NY County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal bus. address: 385 South End Ave, #7K, NY, NY 10280. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Qualification of BROOKFIELD PREMIER REAL ESTATE PARTNERS POOLING LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/16. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/30/16. Princ. office of LLC: Brookfield Pl., 250 Vesey St., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10281-1023. 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: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 234 East 23rd Street Duplex, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/27/16. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The Company, 270 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10010. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of NYCL Acquisition LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/08/16. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/02/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O New York Cruise Lines, Inc., Pier 81West 41st St., NY, NY 10036, Attn: Chief Executive Officer.

Address to be maintained in DE: The Corporate Trust Company, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801, New Castle County. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of XHANA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/16. Office location: RICHMOND County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 1967 WEHRLE DR., STE. 1-086, BUFFALO, NY 14221, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Donald Trump is flip-flopping on Goldman Sachs. Congressional Republicans are dropping a plan to shut down the Office of Congressional Ethics. Will the state Senate GOP be more resolute when it comes to a plan to bar members from taking cell phone videos and photos in the chamber? Only time will tell. In the meantime, we won’t be backing away from our nominations for this week’s Winners & Losers.

CLIFFORD CROUCH There may be legitimate reasons to push back against the governor’s task force to investigate cases of wage theft as the state’s minimum wage hike is implemented. But to compare the state workers to the enforcement arm of the Nazi Party, as Assemblyman Crouch did in a written statement, is ludicrous and insulting to the memory of the millions of people who suffered and died at the hands of the Third Reich. For shame.

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Support Support Support Student Aid! Student Aid! Student Aid!

Each year, more than 370,000 students depend on New York’s student aid programs to pursue Each year, aspirations. more than 370,000 students depend on state student aid programs to pursue their their college college aspirations.

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For thethe fiscal year 2017-18 Budget, we urge Governor Cuomo and thethe State Legislature to Entry Program (TAP), Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), Liberty Partnership, Science and Technology (TAP), the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), Liberty Partnership, the Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP), and itsmake collegiate the Collegiate Science andand Technology Entry Program has not kept pace ■ItRaise the maximum TAPcounterpart, award to $6,500 isFor time to our students and their futures budget priorities. the fiscal 2016-17 Budget, we Governor Cuomo the State Legislature to: (CSTEP), (STEP) and itsyear collegiate counterpart, the urge Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP), has not kept pace with with need—leaving the futures of many of our most talented students in doubt.

It is time to make our students and their futures budget priorities.

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Patients don’t deserve to lose their rights because of undisclosed medical negligence.

Patients don’t deserve to lose their rights Doctors never told Lavern Wilkinson about her cancer until it was too late, despite an x-ray that showed abecause mass. Lavern was not diagnosed until the disease had metastasized.

Lavern passed away in ofproperly undisclosed medical negligence.

2013, leaving behind a teenaged daughter with special needs.

Doctors never told Lavern Wilkinson about her cancer until it was too late, despite an x-ray that showed Lavern Wilkinson isn’t alone. a mass. Lavern was not properly diagnosed until the disease had metastasized. Lavern passed away in 2013, leaving behind a teenaged daughter with special needs.

Lavern Wilkinson isn’t alone.

June Dreifuss never missed a mammogram, but her doctors missed the early signs of breast cancer. When her cancer was discovered it was too late, she passed away in 2008.

Lissy McMahon was a 41 year-old single mom. After surgery in 2012 Lissy’s doctors never told her that 10 out of 40 pathology slides showed evidence of cancer. By the time she found out about the cancer it was already at an June Dreifuss never missed a mammogram, but her doctors Lissyadvanced McMahonstage. was aShe 41 year-old passedsingle away mom. in 2016.After surgery in 2012 Lissy’s doctors never told her that 10 out of missed the early signs of breast cancer. When her cancer was 40 pathology slides showed evidence of cancer. By the discovered it was too late, she passed away in 2008.

Under New York’s antiquated statute of limitations, by the time timeshe Lavern, June and out about found out about theLissy cancerfound it was already at an the advanced stage.

She passed away in 2016. mistakes that harmed them, it was too late for them to hold the negligent healthcare providers accountable.

Under New York’s antiquated statute of limitations, by the time Lavern, June and Lissy found out about the mistakes that harmed them, it was too late for them to hold the negligent healthcare providers accountable.

RIGHT THESE WRONGS - SUPPORT LAVERN’S LAW for a fair Date of Discovery rule for medical malpractice.

RIGHT THESE WRONGS - SUPPORT LAVERN’S LAW Under the victims of a misread test—such PAP smear or prostate forcurrent a fairlaw,Date of Discovery rule as fora mammogram, medical malpractice.

test—or a botched surgical procedure often face fatal consequences. Uncaught or misdiagnosed, a curable disease can become killer. Treatment is foregone.

When theorsymptoms Under current law, the victimsaofsymptom-free a misread test—such as a mammogram, PAP smear prostate dotest—or appear,a the disease may be so advanced is futile. New York isorone of only a few botched surgical procedure often that face treatment fatal consequences.

Uncaught misdiagnosed, (AR, ID, ME, SD) that shields negligent whose mistakes are undisclosed. astates curable disease canMN, become a symptom-free killer. doctors Treatment is foregone.

When the symptoms do appear, the disease may be so advanced that treatment is futile. New York is one of only a few states (AR, ID, ME, MN, SD) that shields negligent doctors whose mistakes are undisclosed.

Pass Lavern’s Law Pass Lavern’s Law

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