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EDITOR’S NOTE

JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

IT WASN’T SO LONG AGO that Republicans dominated New York politics. In the late 1990s, Gov. George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani enjoyed strong support, and U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato was a power broker in the party.

Today, the voter base that bolstered these heavyweights has shrunk and the party infrastructure has shriveled. A New York businessman named Donald Trump did win the presidency, but he did so by capitalizing on his own celebrity – and a vast personal wealth that he largely inherited from his father, as last week’s New York Times investigation makes clear.

But everywhere else on the ballot, New York Republicans are under threat.

Democrats hope to flip key congressional seats in the state and seize control of the House. The Republicans’ tenuous grip on the state Senate may be slipping away. Even Michael Bloomberg, the Republican successor to Giuliani, is looking to mount a bid against Trump – as a Democrat.

It’s in this adverse environment that Marc Molinaro, a Republican fashioned in the mold of Pataki, is trying to turn back the clocks with his upstart bid against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In this week’s cover story, City & State contributor Justin Sondel assesses Molinaro’s chances.

CONTENTS CHUCK SCHUMER … 6

Is he the leader progressives need?

MARC MOLINARO … 8

He’s a lot like Pataki. But it’s not 1994.

NONPROFIT POWER 50 … 14 The leaders who are delivering in New York

CELESTE SLOMAN; JUSTIN SONDEL

WINNERS & LOSERS … 38 Who was up and who was down last week

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Latest BITING THE BULLET FOR CUOMO The Working Families Party has decided to offer its ballot line to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November’s election.

Party committee members decided that was the best course of action following Cynthia Nixon’s loss in the Democratic primary. She will now appear on the WFP line in the 66th Assembly District, a seat held by Democratic Assemblywoman Deborah Glick. Nixon has said she won’t actively run. The WFP gave Cuomo a deadline of Friday at 5 p.m. to accept the ballot line, but he initially gave no indication what course he would take.

NOT SO SELF-MADE A bombshell investigation from The New York Times revealed that President Donald Trump received hundreds of millions of dollars from his father through a series of possibly illegal tax dodges. Although Trump and the White House dismissed the story, the state Department of Taxation and Finance has said it will review the allegations and probe for possible fraud, with New York City officials following suit. Trump and his siblings could owe the state more than $400 million in unpaid taxes, according to one estimate.

And the tax department could levy steep fines against the president. The state’s housing regulator will also investigate Trump’s father’s real estate empire.

Back & Forth

A Q&A with Democratic state Senate candidate

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Former President Barack Obama came out with a new round of endorsements, including some in New York. During his previous round, he only endorsed congressional candidate Antonio Delgado and state Senate candidate Anna Kaplan.

This time, he backed 11 additional Democrats, including congressional candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Max Rose and Dana Balter. Rose and Balter are both in battleground districts challenging Republican incumbents. The other eight are state Senate candidates, many in districts key to flipping the chamber.

Why did you wait so long to declare victory against state Sen. Dave Valesky in the primary, when with outstanding absentee ballots you were considered the victor?

I had talked to so many voters about how important it was for their votes to count. And I even had people say, “Oh, I won’t be there on Election Day, so there’s no point in voting.” And I say, “No, no, you need to vote absentee.” And they would say, “Well, but I hear those votes don’t count anyway.” So I felt like, given that the result was close enough, that it really made sense with our whole campaign message that we want people to have a choice and a voice.

Do you think that your background in education will influence you?

I think people respect educators as people who spend our lives trying to spread knowledge. Ed-

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ucators don’t typically go into it for the money, for example. This is a group of people who are really dedicated to public service. And so I think having more educators is a great thing. My background is pretty varied, too. And I think that’s really useful in government, because the work I do in sustainability at Syracuse University is about looking at whole systems and how they work. So looking at the big picture, I think you need people who aren’t just lawyers or people who just come up through the political sphere.

What is the most common misconception about central and upstate New York?

I think downstate, a lot of times, especially in New York City, people assume that the primary is the election. And in our case, there aren’t any safe Democratic seats. We have to work for it. So we’re still running a real campaign.

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LESSONS FROM LAST CENTURY October 8, 2018

New Yorkers faced some familiar questions when they voted for governor 100 years ago. The race between twoterm incumbent Republican Gov. Charles Whitman and Democratic challenger Al Smith would go down to the wire. Smith only won two upstate counties, but he would eke out a 15,000-vote margin of victory out of the 2 million ballots cast. Whitman – who had entertained presidential ambitions – would fade into the margins of history while Smith would rise to become the first Roman Catholic presidential nominee a decade later. While much has changed in politics since then, four themes from the 1918 race highlight how running for governor in 2018 remains fundamentally the same.

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PROGRESSIVES COULD WIN IT OR LOSE IT FOR DEMOCRATS

The 1918 election featured a suspension in hostilities between the progressive and establishment wings of the Democratic Party. This was not a given, considering the gaps between the two sides. The progressives of that time came from the upper echelons of society and urged reforms through top-down moralistic approaches like prohibition and civil service tests. By contrast, Tammany Hall was the quintessential party machine that thrived on patronage and catering to the immigrant communities of New York City.

But Democrats wanted to win, and a recognized leader of the progressive faction – then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt – offered to campaign on Smith’s behalf.

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WHAT WILL FEMALE VOTERS DO?

The 1918 election was the first New York state election in which women could vote, and both Whitman and Smith were eager to win their support. “Women can elect Smith or Whitman as they see fit,” The New York Times proclaimed a few days before the election. The Republicans were banking that female voters would reward Whitman for his support of suffrage and the prohibition of alcohol – a top priority of female voters back then. The wartime economy, however, provided a political opportunity to Smith. Women had to replace men in many factory jobs, and Smith as vice chairman of the state Factory Commission had supported new protections for them in the workplace, the Times reported at the time.

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The 1918 election was held just six days before the Nov. 11 armistice ending World War I, and both parties were determined to leverage the popularity of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, who had pitched American intervention as an effort to make the world “safe for democracy.” Despite Whitman’s effort to portray his party as the stronger supporters of the president, “Republican leaders ... are fearful of the effect of President Wilson’s manifesto on the enfranchised women and on the independent voters generally,” the Times wrote.

VOTERS CAN TOLERATE ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION

Like Marc Molinaro today, Whitman attempted to label Smith as the embodiment of a corrupt Democratic Party establishment. When announcing his re-election bid, Whitman took a swipe at the Tammany Hall party machine that dominated New York City politics from a building near Union Square. “Shall Albany be run from 14th Street?” Whitman asked. But these efforts to caricaturize Smith as the puppet of Tammany leader Charles Francis Murphy would ultimately fall short. Brushing aside the allegations, Smith turned the tables on Whitman by deploying the folksy charm that would later earn him the moniker “happy warrior.”

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Democrats need a more aggressive leader

EW YORK’S POLITICAL petri dish has spawned and released Donald Trump and his Archie Bunker-style politics on the rest of the country. It’s also grown the perfect meal to fuel his rise: feckless U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer.

It’s a point of pride for many New Yorkers that the most powerful Democrat in the federal government is one of their own. But if resisting and removing Trump from power is progressive New Yorkers’ top priority, they’re going to have to set that aside and support a very different kind of leader.

A leader, perhaps, who isn’t sticking to a political playbook from 1998, always trying to please an imaginary upper-middle-class family in Long Island. A leader who doesn’t help Trump score a bipartisan win by weakening regulation on banks and further endangering the economy.

Quick to cave and reluctant to enforce party discipline, Schumer is particularly ill-suited to fight back against the GOP’s plutocratic economic agenda. Schumer has raised more than $1 million from banks, according to data from the Center for Responsive Pol-

itics, and has often represented the industry’s interests on Capitol Hill.

Schumer’s first instinct in the early days of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S.

Democrats are Democrats.

This is not a long-term strategy for growing the party. It’s not even a short-term strategy for winning the midterm elections.

Democrats need a leader who plants a flag in rural America and says, “This is what we stand for,” because Democrats actually stand for the things rural Americans care about.

A new survey from Rural Organizing, a progressive grassroots group that aims to rebuild rural America (disclosure: I sit on the board), finds that while more than 52 percent of rural

WE NEED TO Supreme Court was to give free rein to red state Democrats like Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota who might be tempted to vote for the nominee.

Here’s how our current master of the Senate resignedly describes his methods for whipping red state Democratic senators: “I can’t get them to do anything.” And, “I am not in charge of them.”

Schumer appears to operate on the assumption that Trump is popular among rural voters, and Democrats are unpopular among rural voters – and, therefore, Schumer cannot enforce party discipline for fear that red state voters might find out that red state

majority (77 percent) of rural residents think Congress is giving tax breaks to the wealthy instead of investing in rural areas.

So how did it play in rural America in 2015 when the favorite senator of K Street and Wall Street reached out to Republicans to get lower taxes for multinational corporations?

He reinforced the belief of a majority of rural Americans who don’t think Democrats are fighting for their community.

Schumer is a poster child for what Thomas Piketty, author of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” calls the multipleelite party system, which explains “rising inequality and the lack of democratic response to it, as well as the rise of ‘populism.’” It’s a model in which the parties are separated on issues like abortion rights, LGBTQ rights and gun control, on which Schumer is reliably liberal and outspoken, but are closer together on taxes, spending and the regulation of industries that are powerful in Democratic states, like finance.

Democrats can decide to tap into rising anti-Wall Street populism in the red states and channel it toward progressive policy solutions. Or they can lose, Schumer-style, by throwing up their hands and assuming rural Americans will never back a truly progressive agenda.

So who would be a good replacement for Schumer, some-

SACRIFICE voters approve of Trump’s job performance, and two-thirds of rural residents consider themselves to be conservative or moderate, they strongly lean to the left on economic policies championed by progressives.

Two-thirds of rural voters want Medicare to cover all Americans. Over half back increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Over 90 percent of rural Americans think we should invest in small, local businesses and protect rural schools from closing. And a clear

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one who would take a strong stand against Trump and his congressional allies while bringing a populist progressive economic message to rural areas?

One Senate Democrat who spends a lot of time talking to rural voters is Jeff Merkley from Oregon. Merkley has noted that “most of my colleagues, they come from elite backgrounds.

They’re surrounded by the powerful and are heavily influenced by them. But I come from a background of knowing what we’re not doing well as a nation.

The successful don’t need me to help make them more successful. That’s not going to make the world a better place.”

Unlike Schumer’s famous eagerness to get on camera, Merkley describes himself as an introvert who quietly builds institutions and gets the fundamentals right. As the Democratic leader in the Oregon House of Representatives, he oversaw the party winning the majority in 2006 and was subsequently elevated to speaker.

Merkley is an old-fashioned “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”-type who fixes his own lawn mower. And he has been front and center in leading the resistance against Trump – whether by being one of the first Democratic lawmakers to call for Kavanaugh to withdraw his nomination, exposing that the Trump administration diverted money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention program, or bringing attention to the secretive child detention centers in the first place.

No doubt it would hurt the Empire State to give up its position in the Democratic leadership. But stopping Trump’s agenda will benefit New York, one of the states most harmed by it, even more than having one of its own as Senate minority leader.

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THE APPEALING GOP CANDIDATE IS STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO NEW YORK’S LAST REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR. BUT PATAKI NEVER HAD TO CONTEND WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

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HE LAST TIME a Republican beat an incumbent Democratic New York governor, Nelson Mandela was the newly elected president of South Africa, “Pulp Fiction” was quickly becoming a cult classic and Nirvana had just released its soon-to-be legendary “Unplugged” album.

In that flannel-clad year, a largely unknown state senator from Peekskill named George Pataki shocked political observers nationwide by defeating Gov. Mario Cuomo, the Queens-bred three-term incumbent who was considered a top-tier presidential prospect just two years earlier. Pataki, an affable, fresh-faced moderate from New York City’s crucial northern suburbs, was handpicked by the GOP establishment as their strongest candidate. Although he was hardly a dazzling stump speaker, Pataki proved that an inoffensive Republican could defeat a Cuomo who had worn out his welcome.

Now, with 1990s nostalgia all the rage everywhere from music and fashion to TV sitcoms, another young, sharp, largely unknown Republican from the Hudson Valley is seeking to knock off Mario’s son, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Like his father, Andrew Cuomo faces the challenge of overcoming the voter fatigue that sometimes dogs longtime incumbents, a weakness that his Republican opponent, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, hopes to pounce on. While Cuomo holds a significant lead in polling – a late September Siena College poll showed Cuomo ahead by more than 20 points – his unfavorability rating is at an all-time high, the same poll clocking that number at 46 percent.

That’s why Molinaro believes he has a path to victory, despite a litany of obstacles to becoming the first Republican to win the governor’s office since 2002, when Pataki won his third and final

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term. During a recent campaign stop in Buffalo, he told City & State that he believes New Yorkers are sick of corruption and high taxes, scourges he attributes to Cuomo. “We’re going to win because New Yorkers have had enough,” Molinaro said sitting at a large, oak table in the Erie County GOP’s downtown headquarters.

He spoke with confidence, attacking Cuomo on myriad fronts, while selling himself as a compassionate public servant, bringing up his family’s reliance on public assistance when he was a child.

Again and again he has worked to juxtapose his own humble upbringing with that of Cuomo, whom he paints as a son of privilege.

“This is a real life,” Molinaro said, speaking of his upbringing. “A real, ordinary New York life.”

Molinaro’s biographical boasts may not make much sense: One wonders if Molinaro, being a Republican, shares his party’s enthusiasm for cutting the public assistance his family relied on.

And it’s worth noting that Andrew Cuomo was an adult before his father ever won elected office and his family was neither rich nor famous when he grew up.

But Molinaro’s point is that he’s a regular guy, unlike the imperious scion of a political dynasty he’s running against, and unlike a certain other Republican from New York who grew up wealthy – whom Molinaro is trying to distance himself from.

And that is the crucial difference between 1994 and 2018. The White House isn’t occupied by a Democrat, and this year’s midterms aren’t expected to be a Republican wave. With politics more polarized, the GOP has moved further right, making the label more toxic in the Empire State. New York Democrats are enraged and engaged. Can Molinaro win under these circumstances?

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T 43, MOLINARO has spent his whole adult life in politics. Perhaps that’s why he is such a polished candidate, able to move from talking point to talking point without missing a beat. Molinaro was elected mayor of the small town of Tivoli (population 1,100), where he still lives, at the age of 19 after serving a year on the town’s board of trustees. He went on to serve in the county Legislature and for a three-term stint in the state Assembly before being elected county executive.

His political path has benefited from the very purple constituency of his hometown and its surroundings. Dutchess County enrollment numbers show a slight advantage for Democrats, but it is a prime example of the type of battleground full of moderates in both parties that he will need to do well in to win. Now, he is trying to win over a very different electorate. New York’s registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 2 to 1. The gulf between registered voters in the two parties has grown by more than 1.5 million people in the years since Pataki’s surprise victory.

To have any real chance, Molinaro will have to woo moderate voters from both parties, particularly those in the New York City suburbs and Long Island. Winning New York moderates is harder, however, when an unpopular, far-right president from your party dominates every news cycle.

Cuomo – who continues to be considered a potential presidential contender in 2020 despite vowing earlier this year that he would not run if re-elected as governor – has seized on that liability. He and his surrogates have been calling Molinaro a “Trump Mini-Me” at every opportunity and tying him to his party’s socially conservative positions that play poorly in New York. Attack ads against Molinaro deploy the phrase, a reference to the diminutive clone of the villain in the “Austin Powers” film series. “Trump mini-me Marc Molinaro – who has an ‘A’ rating from the NRA and is the N.Y. GOP’s handpicked anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ candidate – is desperately trying to deflect from the sad state of his campaign,” a Cuomo spokeswoman wrote to The Buffalo News in May.

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This is arguably an extension of the strategy Cuomo has pursued all year: attacking Trump’s policies and doing what little he can to combat them. Amid the maelstrom following the implementation of Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, Cuomo sued the Trump administration over the separation of families at the border, sent out a flurry of highly critical press releases, appeared on television to attack the policy and visited detention centers in New York where minors who had crossed the border illegally were being held. “Andrew Cuomo can base his entire campaign as an antagonist to the president,” said Doug Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College in Manhattan.

But portraying Molinaro as a Trumplike hardliner conflicts with how Molinaro presents himself and how he is perceived by many political observers.

Muzzio said it’s clear that Molinaro is a “right-of-center Republican.” But, just as vulnerable congressional RepubliCuomo’s camp has portrayed cans claim their challengers are clones Marc Molinaro as of House Minority Leader Nancy Peloa “Trump Minisi, Cuomo’s strategy of tying MolinaMe,” but he has ro to Trump could be the surest path to been campaignvictory in a blue state. ing as a centrist.

Molinaro has consistently worked to bolster his image as a centrist. He has said that same-sex marriage and protections for members of the LGBTQ community are basic civil rights. He voted against allowing hydraulic fracturing as a member of the Assembly, though he now supports a pilot program to allow the controversial practice in the Southern Tier. On the other hand, he supports Trump’s recently passed tax bill, which gave large tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations but will raise taxes on many middle-class New Yorkers due to its provision limiting the state and local tax deduction. He is campaigning for governor on a plan that would cut taxes on New York’s richest residents and also attempt to reduce local property taxes.

While Cuomo has continued to attack Molinaro as a social conservative who is out of step with the New York electorate, the Republican has taken nuanced positions on hot-button issues. Molinaro said he would protect existing abortion rights but he would not support the expansion of access to late-term abortions. While he has said that the National Rifle Association deserves a seat at the table in coming up with solutions to gun violence problems, he has refused to take donations from the organization. He voted against the bill that legalized same-sex marriage in New York while a member of the Assembly, but says that his position on the matter has evolved.

Despite his standard Republican economic policies, Molinaro often talks about breaking down the barriers between regular people and the wealthy elite, a category in which he puts Cuomo.

“The important distinction is I don’t talk about breaking down the gates and empowering people and taking power away from the powerful because I think it’s a good campaign slogan,” Molinaro said. “I say it because I believe it and I’ve lived it.”

Some of Molinaro’s proposals would have benefits for some middle-class and working-class families. But his fellow Republicans on the national stage keep making it harder and harder for him to play a populist. This year, the Trump administration issued an executive

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MOLINARO’S VOTING RECORD REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEE Marc Molinaro has an uphill battle to fight. The last time a Republican won a statewide office in New York was 2002, and a recent Siena College poll showed him trailing by 22 points.

Molinaro has sought to distance himself from President Donald Trump, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign routinely calls Molinaro a “Trump Mini-Me.” Molinaro says Cuomo’s team is trying to falsely label him as an ultra-conservative who’s incompatible with New York state’s views. Instead, Molinaro claims, he is a moderate more open to differing opinions than his opponent. But what does Molinaro’s voting record in the Assembly, where he served from 2007 to 2011, actually show?

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Molinaro voted against the Marriage Equality Bill in 2011, and he also voted against similar same-sex marriage bills that failed in 2007 and 2009. He also voted against a 2010 law that allowed unmarried partners to adopt a child and bills in 2010 and 2011 that sought to prohibit gender identity discrimination.

Molinaro says his position has “evolved” on same-sex marriage. Now, he says, “of course it is” a civil right. order for agencies to propose new requirements on recipients of anti-poverty programs such as food stamps and Medicaid, proposed rolling back an Obama-era rule requiring large companies to submit detailed information on workplace injuries to the Department of Labor, and weakened rules on the storage of coal ash, which environmentalists say risks increasing water pollution.

In addition to Cuomo’s partisan advantage, he has the usual benefits of incumbency, such as greater name recognition and stronger fundraising. The most recent filings show that Cuomo, despite spending heavily in the lead-up to his primary victory over challenger Cynthia Nixon, still has more than 11 times the money that Molinaro has on hand. The most recent Siena College poll showed that 56 percent of New Yorkers either did not know Molinaro or have not formed an opinion of him. Cuomo intends to put that money to work defining Molinaro for the voters who have yet to form an impression of him.

To overcome those disadvantages, Molinaro said he is reaching out to voters directly via social media and on the campaign trail. “I’m doing this the old-fashioned way,” Molinaro said.

“We’re actually getting out to meet voters.”

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EPUBLICAN DELEGATES TO the state convention in May selected Molinaro, in the hopes that he would stand a better chance than more conservative, controversial candidates like 2010 Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino or a long-serving legislator such as state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco. Molinaro’s almost uncanny similarities to Pataki, who was 49 when first elected governor, were surely on the minds of some.

Tivoli, where Molinaro has lived since he was 14, after living

GUN CONTROL In 2008 and 2010, Molinaro received an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund, which come out every election year.

In 2009, he voted against state legislation that would require microstamping identification on semi-automatic pistols to track bullets. Also in 2009, he voted against legislation requiring renewals for pistol permits.

TAXES Molinaro did vote for Cuomo’s tax deal that extended the ‘millionaires’ tax’ in 2011. While only one section of the bill, the legislation created a higher tax bracket for the highest-income residents in New York and reduced the rates for millions of middle-class residents.

Described by some as a cut and others as an increase, it lowered the rate for high-income earners, but set it higher than it would have been had the previous rate simply expired.

Molinaro also voted in 2011 for Cuomo’s 2 percent limit on property tax increases. The measure, popular with fiscal conservatives, was aimed at curbing soaring property taxes.

ENVIRONMENT Molinaro consistently received scores from the EPL/Environmental Advocates, a New York environmental organization, that rated him as better than the average Assembly Republican.

In 2010, he went against most other Assembly Republicans and voted for a bill that temporarily suspended the issuance of new permits for drilling natural gas or oil wells that utilized hydraulic fracturing. Cuomo, under intense pressure from environmentalists, went on to ban hydrofracking in New York.

LABOR In 2009, Molinaro voted with the party line against a bill that would amend labor laws for farm workers. The bill would have given farmworkers more rights, including 24 hours of rest per week, overtime pay and workers’ compensation benefits. In 2010, he voted against the Wage Theft Prevention Act, which sought to expand employees’ rights to seek civil and criminal avenues of remedy for their employers failing to follow labor law. And in 2011, Molinaro voted against legislation that would establish wage protection for independent contractors who do not receive agreedupon payments from clients.

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Unlike Molinaro, George Pataki, pictured, had an influential Republican ally in then-U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato.

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EPUBLICANS SEEKING STATEWIDE office in New York are now in an almost impossible bind: They must appeal to downstate moderates while also motivating, and not alienating, the Republican base, which includes large numbers of staunch conservatives and Trump loyalists.

“It doesn’t seem that the base wants any moderation at all, so you’re talking about 35 to 40 percent of the Republican voters who don’t want a moderate,” Muzzio said.

So Molinaro is walking a tightrope on many issues. He has built his platform around addressing middle-class concerns without making the wealthy pay for it. To offset lost revenue in his tax cut plan, he suggests cutting spending on economic development projects, which he argues have produced little in the way of jobs or economic benefit under Cuomo. For the New York City subways, plagued with service interruptions and cost overruns, Molinaro suggests that by shying away from grandiose station renovations and making the procurement and oversight processes more efficient, he will be able to make the trains run on time. “I think carving out a very pragmatic approach to problem solving is very powerful and makes a difference to voters,” he said.

“I think he’s projected a more measured, calmer, thoughtful policy-oriented campaign than Cuomo,” Muzzio said. “Cuomo is focusing on Republican, Trump, Molinaro.”

In the past, the model for both parties was to pivot away from the base and toward the center in the general election. Even if partisans didn’t agree with everything a candidate did in reaching out to swing voters, they would overwhelmingly stick with their party’s

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in Yonkers and Beacon, is about 60 miles up the Hudson River from Pataki’s native Peekskill, where the former governor, like Molinaro, was once a young mayor. They both spent time in the state Legislature. Both were relatively anonymous at the beginning of their campaigns. The main difference between them is one of degree: Molinaro is more handsome and charming. And, whereas Pataki went to college at Yale and to law school at Columbia, Molinaro – a Dutchess Community College alumnus – is more representative of the working-class white voters who have become the bedrock of the GOP. John Sweeney helped lay the groundwork for Pataki’s successful run while working on campaigns for the state Republican committee before going on to become a high-ranking political operative in Washington, D.C., and eventually a congressman from the Capital Region. He said that in terms of the candidates themselves, the similarities between Pataki and Molinaro are striking. Unfortunately for Molinaro, the circumstances of the election don’t hold the same uncanny parallels.

One element Molinaro lacks that was key to Pataki’s victory is a robust Republican network of local politicians and operatives, with an army of engaged and enthusiastic volunteers throughout the state, something he and others in the state Republican Party were able to build in the run-up to the 1994 election, Sweeney said. In the years since Pataki’s final victory in 2002, no Republican statewide or presidential candidate has come close to winning New York. That lack of success and the continually growing gap between registered Republicans and Democrats in New York have made it difficult for Republican leadership across the state to keep the base engaged.

“The difference between then and now is that I don’t think the state party has done any of that,” Sweeney said. “I don’t think they have the infrastructure.” Having such a local infrastructure would help Molinaro get his message out. “Pataki had quietly built up a formidable organization,” Muzzio agreed.

And while rural New York remains clearly conservative, its population has been slowly eroding. “While the climate might be conducive, I’m not so sure the environment is,” Sweeney said.

In addition, Pataki had a powerful ally in Republican U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato, who helped to raise funds and stumped for him. Sweeney

said D’Amato’s role in Pataki’s victory is sometimes overstated. But he still believes that the 1994 win would not have been possible without the senator.

As Sweeney tells it, D’Amato was jokingly dismissive when Pataki’s name was first presented to him, quipping “What the fuck’s a Pataki?” upon hearing the suggestion that he was the best nominee.

But D’Amato lent his support at the state convention. With four candidates vying for the nomination, Pataki’s low profile would have killed his chances without D’Amato’s push.

Molinaro has virtually unanimous support from Republican elected officials and party influencers, but no ally with D’Amato’s clout and fundraising connections – there simply are no such Republicans left in New York.

And Republican lawmakers in general may soon become an endangered species in New York, as the backlash from Trump’s election is expected to bring a reckoning for the GOP this November. Democratic voters are likely to turn out in large numbers, as they did – by New York’s low standards – in the September primary. And in many suburban and upstate areas, Democrats will be especially enthusiastic to vote against vulnerable Republican state Senate and congressional incumbents.

That’s a very different story than in 1994, during President Bill Clinton’s first term, when there was a 54-seat swing from Democrats to Republicans in the House of Representatives. “Pataki had an easier time because you didn’t have the blowback against the national Republican Party,” Muzzio said.

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ads that state, “You can’t clean up Albany with dirty hands.”

The two candidates have each tried to have attack ads addressing corruption pulled from the airwaves, and the accusations that Molinaro’s wife got the job as a favor to the county executive from donors with business before the county drew a fiery response from the normally even-tempered Molinaro. In a video uploaded to his campaign’s Twitter account, Molinaro spoke directly to Cuomo, saying that his wife is “out of your league.”

“You want to pick a fight, stick with me,” he said. “She’s a class act. You’re not.”

Molinaro has labeled the claims a distraction, noting that the interactions between the county and the firm that hired his wife were completed before he was married. But Cuomo may have effectively neutralized the ethics issues that Molinaro expected to be an advantage.

And despite Percoco and the other state officials and Cuomo donors convicted as a result of the Buffalo Billion investigation, New Yorkers haven’t always voted for the cleaner candidate. Whether it’s due to decades of scandals or just the distance from what affects their pocketbooks and personal lives, cleaning up corruption at the state Capitol tends to rank low among most voters’ priorities.

“New Yorkers have not shown a predisposition to vote on the basis to the reaction to corruption,” doug muzzio baruch college Benjamin said. “One of the reasons we haven’t changed our campolitical science professor paign finance laws or institutional arrangements with that corrupmer moderate Republican New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, are tion is because people in power understand that those issues are secan endangered species who find their habitat shrinking. “They’re ondary to New York voters.”

When Pataki won, the main issue he ran on was taxes, pullbecoming extinct both from the right and from the left,” Muzzio said. “From the right in terms of primaries and from the left in gen- ing from the New York Republican playbook and painting Mario Cuomo as a high-tax, anti-business liberal. As state Republicans eral elections.” were laying the groundwork for Pataki in the years leading up to NDREW CUOMO INSPIRES passionate, and some- his election, they were also beating that drum, continually attacktimes conflicting, responses across the state. But everyone ing the governor, even in small local elections. “You could be runknows who he is. Outside of political circles and his home ning for dogcatcher and, if you were a Democrat, we were tying turf, Molinaro elicits a similar response to that of D’Amato you to Mario Cuomo,” Sweeney said.

If there is one thing Andrew Cuomo clearly learned from his being asked about Pataki in 1994: What’s a Molinaro?

In recent weeks, Molinaro has begun to define himself by in- father’s defeat, it’s the political benefits of plotting a moderate troducing some significant proposals – Cuomo’s camp has labeled course on taxes and spending. Cuomo can point to his 2 percent them gimmicks – suggesting that he would cut income taxes by 30 property tax cap, pushed through with the help of Republicans, percent and that he can pay for fixing the New York City subway and he has generally been considered a pro-business, fiscally conservative governor, resistant to calls from downstate Democrats system solely through cost savings.

“It’s offensive that after backing Trump’s disastrous tax plan, which like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise taxes, or even to raised taxes up to 30 percent on New York’s middle class, Trump allow New York City to do so. While the state has trailed the namini-me Marc Molinaro is trying to pull a fast one on New Yorkers,” tional economy, and some regions of the state have continued to Abbey Collins, a Cuomo campaign spokeswoman, said in an emailed struggle, there has been job growth and declining unemployment statement. “His so-called ‘plan’ to cut taxes is heavy on rhetoric and during Cuomo’s tenure. Many local Republican business elites light on details. Maybe he doesn’t want to admit that instead of provid- have backed Cuomo’s bid for re-election.

Recent polling does not show Molinaro making significant ining relief to hardworking New Yorkers his ‘plan’ would slash spending roads, but the presidential election in 2016 showed that more suron vital services like education, health care, and public safety.”

He has also beat the drum on corruption, highlighting the con- prising things than a mild-mannered Hudson Valley Republican victions of Cuomo officials and donors, including Joe Percoco, for- beating a Cuomo have happened. “Politics is a strange game, and this environment is strange again,” Muzzio said. “The rules of pomerly a top aide and close friend to the governor.

But that may prove a difficult strategy to capitalize on, experts say. litical physics don’t seem to hold.”

Sweeney, too, pointed to Trump’s victory as proof positive that Cuomo has been hitting back, highlighting a job that Molinaro’s wife held at an architecture firm that received tax breaks and a govern- Molinaro can’t be counted out. “It’s politics,” he said. “There’s alment contract from Dutchess County, blasting Molinaro in television ways a chance.” nominee. That’s increasingly difficult, especially for Republicans, in an age when parties have become more ideologically cohesive and extreme. As the tea party movement demonstrated, Republicans who deviate from party orthodoxy face a constant threat of defection or primary challenges from their base. “Right now, building out to the center is more and more problematic because that constituency won’t tolerate it,” said Gerald Benjamin, director of the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives at SUNY New Paltz. “It’s an extraordinarily difficult dilemma.”

Molinaro has publicly said that he did not vote for Trump, instead writing in former Rep. Chris Gibson, a relative moderate whose district included much of Dutchess County. But Molinaro has also been reluctant to publicly attack Trump. He came out against the Trump administration’s family separation policy, but has largely avoided discussing the president at all.

In the Northeast, “Rockefeller Republicans,” named for the for-

“It doesn’t seem that the base wants any moderation at all, so you’re talking about 35 to 40 percent of the Republican voters who don’t want a moderate.”

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ORE THAN IN many places across the country, New York makes it a top priority to provide an array of social services for its residents. But city and state government aren’t going it alone, especially in serving low-income and high-needs New Yorkers. In many cases, nonprofit organizations are critical to carrying out that

mission of service. And where government can’t – or won’t – allocate the funding needed for key programs, philanthropies often jump in to fill in the gaps.

Despite the importance of these efforts, the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors tend to go unnoticed and are all too often unheralded. But behind them is a roster of figures who are ensuring the delivery of services, explor-

ing innovative solutions and influencing public policy.

In this special issue of City & State, in partnership with our sister publication New York Nonprofit Media, we recognize 50 top nonprofit leaders who are key players in the world of New York politics and government.

Since we cover politicians on a day-to-day basis, we limited this list to those who are not

strictly in government but instead work on the outside as collaborators – or critics.

We reached out to insiders and experts to compile this list of nonprofit leaders, ranking each individual based on their accomplishments, their sway in political and policy matters, their ties to powerful politicians, and their ability to deliver for the diverse populations they serve.

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Wes Moore CEO Robin Hood

fail? The foundation’s “smart philanthropy” approach puts that sort of query into action. It all involves metrics, benefit-cost ratios and counterfactuals from a granter’s point of view. In plain English, it means that about 200 nonprofits rely on the foundation for the funding it generates at events like its annual gala, which brings together the likes of Oprah, Bill Gates and Jennifer Lopez. At the center of the $185 million in annual revenues is Wes Moore, a 39-year-old who’s already had his first presidential run rumor come and go.

Lorie Slutsky President New York Community Trust For nearly a century, the New York Community Trust has been one of the central institutions in the nonprofit sector, with the power to affect how New York City approaches issues such as homelessness, the arts and the environment though its numerous grants. At the helm is Lorie Slutsky, who has been president of the trust since 1990. “When you’re embedded in a community, you know who does what,” she told Inside Philanthropy earlier this year. When a national issue impacts local communities, she knows

who to fund at the local level. The hard-line immigration policies of the Trump administration have inspired a response from the trust, including six-figure allocations to fund legal assistance for immigrants in deportation proceedings and other related issues. “At the trust, we focus on improving the quality of life for everyone who lives, works and studies here.

We’re resolved to make sure our city remains a beacon for all who believe in equity and respect,” Slutsky said in an interview last year with the New York Post.

NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST; SAFE & SOUND

Rhodes Scholar. Best-selling author. War veteran. White House Fellow and CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation.

Wes Moore has a backstory to match the prominence that accompanies running the largest poverty-fighting organization in New York.

The author of “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” could have easily made a career in the top levels of business or government, but instead he’s working toward answering the same question that his book poses: What leads some people to succeed and others

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Donna Lieberman Executive Director NYCLU

Harvard education and law degree from Rutgers have also been put to good use in her current role, where she’s battled the school-to-prison pipeline, fought for the rights of immigrants to attend public schools and engaged in other issues, including the rights of farmworkers to organize and reproductive health. Her inclusion on City & State’s Pride Power 50 underscores how she can be a power player on a variety of issues. Just last month, the NYCLU opened a pop-up exhibit on broken windows policing.

Christine Quinn President and CEO Win

No one bridges the public and private sectors as dramatically as Christine Quinn, president and CEO of Win. She went from New York City Council speaker to a leading mayoral candidate to the head of one of the largest providers of housing and supportive services to homeless women and children. She was the executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project before she was elected to the council. After her time there, her influence expanded to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to whom she served as an advisor.

There was a stint at Harvard, but Quinn never seems to venture too far from the public policy realms of New York City. Whatever her future, her current role ensures that she remains influential in one of the most vexing issues affecting the city: family homelessness. With Public Advocate Letitia James on track to move to Albany as the new state attorney general, whispers have grown that Quinn may once again return to public service. Whichever way Quinn goes, she always finds herself in a position of influence.

NYCLU; SKDKNICKERBOCKER

“Inside a Soccer Mom, a 60s agitator roars,” is how The New York Times once described Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Perhaps it all came pretty naturally to Lieberman, whose career in civil rights advocacy began in high school. Her 17-year tenure has shown the fruits of linking civil rights issues to how they affect everyday people and families. There was the case that ended stopand-frisk in New York City, and the one that redefined what marriage meant. Her

37 years of visionary leadership Ranked among the top 50 greatest nonprofit influencers

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Darren Walker President Ford Foundation

Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments and Markers, and a member of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He’s also no stranger to lists, with spots on City & State’s Pride Power 50, Time’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Rolling Stone’s 25 People Shaping the Future, Fast Company’s 50 Most Creative People in Business, and OUT Magazine’s Power 50.

Patricia Harris CEO Bloomberg Philanthropies Bloomberg Philanthropies CEO Patricia Harris may be best known for her ties to a certain former city mayor, but her ties to city politicos extend back to when Ed Koch was a congressman. She would eventually rise to be the first woman appointed as a first deputy mayor before returning to the private sector after Michael Bloomberg’s third term as mayor. The billionaire’s eponymous foundation is understandably well-capitalized, but it comes down to Harris to figure out how to put promises into data-informed action.

Last year, the philanthropy’s

activities reached 92 cities in 52 countries through 2,300 nonprofit partners. Despite her association with powerful men, Harris has forged an identity of her own that includes “a velvet fist” that defined her sway during the Bloomberg administration. Inside Philanthropy has credited her for expanding the work of the foundation beyond Bloomberg’s initial focus on public health and climate change. There are a lot more sectors in the running for approximately a half-billion dollars in support each year, including the arts, education and government innovation.

FORD FOUNDATION; BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES

Ford Foundation President Darren Walker has known the value of philanthropy ever since he was born in a charity hospital to a single mother in Louisiana. Now, as head of a $13 billion foundation that awards $600 million annually, he seeks to put into practice the lessons he’s learned about the struggles that poor people across the country face. But the foundation is just one part of his ubiquitous presence across the nonprofit sector. He’s a board member at Carnegie Hall and Friends of the High Line, co-chairman of the Mayoral

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Rajiv Shah

President The Rockefeller Foundation the world’s most vexing problems. Though the foundation is known for its global work, Shah says there is a growing need for programming in the U.S. “This last election laid bare that so many people, from inner-city New Orleans to rural Ohio, didn’t feel like they had access to the American dream,” he said in a May interview with Crain’s New York. Many people know the foundation for its work to make a better world, but a lot of its latest work is happening right here in New York City.

Allison Sesso

Executive Director Human Services Council of New York Nonprofits that contract with New York City have no greater champion than Allison Sesso, executive director of the Human Services Council. In that role she leads a coalition of 170 organizations that deliver about 90 percent of human services in the city. That means holding the city accountable for its treatment of its nonprofit vendors, many of whom wait months or even years to be reimbursed for services, and fighting to make the city assume the full costs of the services it wants delivered.

In recent years, this effort has appeared to be paying off, with the city committing to modernizing the contracts process. But until that effort comes to fruition, the council’s initiatives like rating the performance of city agencies will continue to highlight the disparity between city leaders’ rhetorical commitment to social services and their actions. “Until we feel like we are funding a robust system of human service nonprofits to carry out this work, we are going to be relentless in our advocacy,” she told NYN Media earlier this year.

HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL OF NEW YORK; USAID

The Rockefeller Foundation may battle global hunger, but that doesn’t mean the $4 billion philanthropic organization has no time to pursue unexpected initiatives in New York City. It was behind a program that helped tens of thousands of public school students see the musical “Hamilton” and has taken an active role in efforts to make the city more resilient after Superstorm Sandy. At the center of it all is Rajiv Shah.

The former head of USAID has put data analytics to work confronting some of

George & Harriet McDonald and all of the Nonprofit Power 50

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Brenda Rosen President and CEO Breaking Ground

Breaking Ground President and CEO Brenda Rosen did not invent the idea of “housing first,” but she has been responsible for putting it into action. It’s an approach that seeks to bring homeless New Yorkers in from the cold before requiring that they accept services such as addiction treatment and mental health services. As the largest supportive housing nonprofit in New York City, Rosen has taken housing first to a whole new level by helping the city blunt the most visible part of the homelessness crisis: the thousands of people who

sleep on city streets each night. Since her tenure began in 2011, the nonprofit – then known as Common Ground – has also grown from a relatively small organization to one that operates throughout the city, with city contracts for homeless outreach, 311 and supportive housing. Breaking Ground now has nearly two dozen permanent and transitional housing residences in the city, upstate New York and Connecticut with more in development. It looks like the organization’s size and clout will continue to grow under Rosen’s leadership.

The Officers and Directors of the Board of Rising Ground congratulate our CEO,

Alan Mucatel and each of the other honorees for being recognized on the City & State Nonprofit Power 50 List.

helping New York City children, adults, and families overcome adversity

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Jeffrey Schoenfeld BREAKING GROUND; UJA-FEDERATION

President UJA Federation of New York Since taking over as president of UJA Federation in 2016, Jeffrey Schoenfeld has been making big things happen. The organization reported a record-breaking $249.3 million in fundraising last year, launched the biggest anti-poverty initiative in its history, and has continued to expand its reach, not only globally but also where it all began. It is, after all, called “the largest local philanthropy in the world.” While its name comes from the 1986 merger of the United Jewish Appeal and the Federation

of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, it serves more than just the 1.1 million Jewish people who call New York City home. The elderly, the impoverished and the mentally ill all have a place among the 75 partners that UJA supports with the full force of its $1 billion in assets. If that doesn’t persuade you that Schoenfeld has some resources at hand, keep in mind that he is also a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the oldest and one of the largest private banks in the U.S.

The Board of Directors and Staff of Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York CONGRATULATE Jennifer March, Executive Director

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Ana Oliveira

Steve Coe

Javier Valdés and Deborah Axt

Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition

President and CEO, New York Women’s Foundation

CEO, Community Access

Co-Executive Directors, Make the Road New York

As head of the largest state immigrant rights coalition in the United States, Steve Choi is a key advocate for issues such as education, health care and civic participation. Since 2016, he and his staff at the New York Immigration Coalition have been vocal opponents of several anti-immigration initiatives led by the Trump administration.

Choi is a recipient of the New York Law Journal’s 2013 “Rising Stars” Award and the Korean American Association “Man of the Year” Award.

This year, the New York Women’s Foundation launched a $1 million fund – in collaboration with the #MeToo movement – to support organizations working to end sexual violence. And last year, its president, Ana Oliveira, announced efforts to fight for the rights of all marginalized groups, including women, immigrants, communities of color and LGBTQ people. In 2016, the organization distributed $7.6 million in funding to organizations that support women’s leadership and gender equality, making it the largest U.S.-based funder of its kind.

As CEO of Community Access, Steve Coe oversees the delivery of housing, advocacy and crisis support services to New Yorkers with mental health challenges.

Coe has helped build Community Access since 1979, when he was hired as its second full-time employee. Since then, it has developed more than 20 supportive housing projects. Earlier this year, Coe was named to the NYC Crisis Prevention and Response Task Force launched by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray.

Make the Road New York is at the forefront of community organizing in support of New York City’s vulnerable communities. As the organization’s co-executive director, Javier Valdés has spearheaded policies to limit federal immigration enforcement, reduce biased policing and expand translation services at government offices.

Co-executive director Deborah Axt, one of the nation’s leading experts on community-based worker organizing, leads policy work as well as the education and financial departments.

CAMBA, Inc. congratulates its President & Chief Executive Officer Joanne M. Oplustil for her stellar leadership and for being selected one of the 50 Most Powerful People in New York Nonprofits.

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15 16 17 18 Beth Finkel

Jeremy Kohomban

Muzzy Rosenblatt

State Director, AARP NY

President and CEO, The Children’s Village

President and CEO, Bowery Residents’ Committee

In her 22 years as state director of AARP New York, Beth Finkel has overseen a wide range of lobbying efforts on behalf of the organization’s 2.6 million members – advocating for assisted living, family leave and financial reforms. Earlier this year, her efforts led to the passage of New York’s Paid Family Leave Program, which covers not only new parents but also caregivers who need to care for a family member, such as a grandparent recovering from an illness.

A recognized leader in child welfare reform, The Children’s Village President Jeremy Kohomban played a key role in the passage of the federal Family First Prevention Services Act, which is expected to overhaul the nation’s foster care system by preventing the breakup of biological families. Kohomban, an advocate praised for his expertise in human services as well as his pragmatism and business sense, has been honored by the Child Welfare League of America and the Alliance for Children and Families.

Bowery Residents’ Committee President Muzzy Rosenblatt was recently named one of the 50 most influential nonprofit leaders in America by The NonProfit Times. For nearly two decades, the former first deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Homeless Services has expanded the organization’s services, which now reach more than 10,000 New Yorkers annually. It recently opened the HomeStretch project, a combined homeless shelter and low-income housing facility for individuals leaving the shelter system.

Jeremy Saunders and Alyssa Aguilera

Co-Executive Directors, VOCAL-NY VOCAL-NY provides overdose prevention training and distributes more than 50,000 clean syringes to New Yorkers each year. Its co-executive director, Jeremy Saunders, brings his community organizing expertise to campaigns on issues such as drug policy, housing and economic justice.

Co-executive director Alyssa Aguilera draws from her advocacy work for organizations such as New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Boston Workers’ Alliance and SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign in Texas.

NONPROFIT LEADERS WILL CHANGE NEW YORK, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Marvin Krislov is the President of Pace University, which provides its students with a powerful combination of knowledge in the professions, real-world experience, and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum. In 2017, the Equality of Opportunity Project ranked Pace the nation’s top fouryear, private college for driving economic mobility.

Nonprofit leaders are the people who will change New York. They’re the people with the drive and the great ideas that improve the lives of New Yorkers across the state.

And the honorees on this Nonprofit Power 50 list are some of the most inspiring.

At Pace University, we believe not only in the power of individuals to change the world, we prepare them to have real impact. We are dedicated to the transformative power of higher education for all ambitious students, regardless of their economic background. We educate the kinds of doers and strivers

who will be honored on future lists.

Pace’s unique educational model teaches students how to make a difference as soon as they start their careers. We call it the Pace Path. We provide world-class academic instruction, and we combine it with invaluable real-world experiences. Pace students study in classrooms and labs, and they also learn through internships, research, and community efforts.

Students in our Environmental Policy Clinic drafted a law banning the use of circus elephants—and then lobbied in Albany and got

it signed into law. Students on our Model UN teams won multiple awards at competitions in New York, DC, and Geneva.

Pace students hit the ground running when they graduate. They’re prepared to become the leaders and innovators who will keep New York prosperous.

Congratulations to those on the Nonprofit Power 50 list—and to all the leaders who will come after them.

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President and CEO, YMCA of Greater New York When YMCA of Greater New York broke ground in August on a facility in the Bronx’s Edenwald neighborhood, it was the culmination of nearly 30 years of effort by activists to locate a facility in the area – and part of a strategic plan recently launched

by Sharon Greenberger, its president and CEO. Greenberger, who joined the organization in 2015, previously spent 20 years in leadership roles in health care, education and economic development, including New York City’s School Construction Authority.

George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald

Co-Founders, The Doe Fund In 1985, the death of a homeless woman on a frigid night inspired George McDonald to establish an organization to help people overcome homelessness. Through another tragedy – the suicide of a homeless woman who struggled with drug addiction – McDonald met his future wife, then Harriet Karr, who had shadowed the woman for a screenplay. The couple developed The Doe Fund into a $61 million nonprofit that reaches thousands every day.

Congratulations

Ronald E. Richter City & State Power 50 Honoree

Thank you for your vision, commitment, and leadership on behalf of the young people of New York City, their families, and all people dedicated to repairing the world, child by child.

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Kevin Sullivan

Nicholas Turner

Executive Director, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York

President and Director, Vera Institute of Justice

When Monsignor Kevin Sullivan took the helm of Catholic Charities of New York in 2001, his first major responsibility was to coordinate the organization’s response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He drew from his decades of human services experience and training, including as founder of two neighborhood development organizations and board member of several health care organizations. Sullivan, also an alum of St. Joseph’s Seminary, hosts a weekly radio show on satellite radio – it’s called “JustLove.”

Nicholas Turner’s op-eds on criminal justice reform build on the work he oversees as president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice – reports that track jail populations, monitor policing practices and shape public debate. In 2013, the former Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison litigator and managing director at The Rockefeller Foundation joined Vera for a second time. During his first tenure, from 1998 to 2007, Turner shaped much of Vera’s work on juvenile justice, re-entry and substance abuse.

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Ariel Zwang

Jennifer Jones-Austin

Sharon Stapel

Executive Director, Good Shepherd Services

CEO, Safe Horizon

CEO and Executive Director, FPWA

President and Executive Director, NPCC

If the name Sister Paulette LoMonaco sounds familiar, it’s probably because the executive director of Good Shepherd Services has recently been featured in The New York Times, New York magazine’s The Cut and Brooklyn Daily, among other publications. In these stories, the Columbia University graduate weighs in on her work leading an organization that runs more than 80 programs assisting New York City’s most vulnerable populations. And no, LoMonaco tells reporters, she hasn’t worn a religious habit in 40 years.

The daughter of a school principal and a social worker, Ariel Zwang realized in her late 20s that she wanted to leave her finance career to work in social justice. This career shift led to her current role as CEO of Safe Horizon, the nation’s largest nonprofit serving victims of abuse, where she oversees a $78 million operating budget that supports more than 250,000 New Yorkers every year.

She is a former White House Fellow appointed by President Bill Clinton.

In her role as CEO and executive director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Jennifer Jones-Austin is following in the footsteps of her father, a civil rights leader and pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn. The organization reaches more than 1.5 million New Yorkers each year with its anti-poverty policy programs and faith-based initiatives. In her time away from FPWA, Jones Austin guest hosts the nationally syndicated radio program “Keepin’ It Real with Rev. Al Sharpton.”

Before stepping into the role of executive director of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York – where she supports training and capacity-building efforts that help nonprofits achieve their goals – Sharon Stapel worked on local and national LGBTQ issues as executive director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Previously she worked with South Brooklyn Legal Services and the Legal Aid Society. For her advocacy work, she was recognized by President Obama and named a White House Champion of Change.

We congratulate our president

JEFFREY A. SCHOENFELD on being recognized among City & State’s Nonprofit Power 50.

Jeff, your commitment to caring for the people of New York and the broader Jewish community inspires us all.

We’re so grateful for your extraordinary leadership.

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Sheena Wright

Ronald Richter

Geoffrey Canada

President and CEO, Community Service Society

President and CEO, United Way of NYC

CEO, JCCA

President, Harlem Children’s Zone

An op-ed columnist who pens the bi-weekly “Urban Agenda” for New York Amsterdam News and El Diario/ La Prensa newspapers, David Jones uses his platform as president and CEO of Community Service Society of New York to advocate for low-income New Yorkers – as he has done throughout his career. Prior to joining the nonprofit in 1986, Jones served as executive director of the New York City Youth Bureau and as special adviser to Mayor Ed Koch.

Sheena Wright started work at United Way of New York City on the same day Superstorm Sandy hit the city. Not only did she raise $11 million in disaster relief, but in the last several years Wright has led an initiative to help low-income New Yorkers achieve self-sufficiency by identifying challenges, creating solutions and pushing for change. A native of the South Bronx who lives in Harlem with her four children, Wright is the first woman to lead United Way of New York City.

Ronald Richter’s work has touched the lives of vulnerable children and their families for much of his career. Before he was CEO of the Jewish Child Care Association, overseeing foster care and family support programs that reach more than 16,000 children and families every year, Richter was a family court judge and a deputy commissioner of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services. He began his career as an attorney with the Legal Aid Society.

Poet. Educator. Author. President of Harlem Children’s Zone, a nonprofit that has inspired nationwide anti-poverty initiatives with its model of communitybased programs for children and their families. Recognized for being an education reform advocate, Geoffrey Canada was named one of Fortune’s 50 greatest leaders in the world and one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world. Canada was born in the South Bronx and earned degrees from Bowdoin College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Ronald Deutsch

Phoebe Boyer

JoAnne Page

Executive Director, Coalition for the Homeless

Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute

President and CEO, Children’s Aid

President and CEO, The Fortune Society

As head of Coalition for the Homeless, Dave Giffen continues to push New York City officials to make more housing resources available to low-income New Yorkers. Giffen, who started volunteering in 1988 for the organization that helps homeless individuals and families navigate the shelter system – through crisis services, job training and housing assistance – became its executive director in 2012. He was previously vice president of Mercator Corp., an agricultural technology supplier.

An expert on tax policy and an advocate for income equality, Ronald Deutsch took the helm at the Fiscal Policy Institute in 2014 after spending more than two decades working on fiscal policy in Albany. Among his goals: to reinvest in schools, improve wages for working families and reform New York’s tax structure. Previously Deutsch led the New York Statewide Emergency Network for Social and Economic Security, an anti-poverty advocacy organization, and New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness.

When Phoebe Boyer was named president of Children’s Aid in 2014, she knew she had to overcome several challenges – like managing the organization’s funding sources and reaching more donors. Boyer’s work paid off last year, when Children’s Aid received an award for overall excellence from the New York Community Trust. Previously Boyer oversaw grantmaking for the Robertson Foundation, which supports issues including education reform, and was executive director of the Tiger Foundation, an anti-poverty organization.

A criminal justice advocate with more than 40 years of experience, JoAnne Page is a go-to expert for journalists writing about re-entry, the traumatic effects of prison, and housing for formerly incarcerated individuals. The Fortune Society president and CEO has developed the organization’s innovative transitional housing programs alongside its mental health and substance abuse treatment, counseling and employment services. Page is a graduate of Yale Law School and a frequent guest on CNN, Court TV and NBC News.

Nonprofit Power 50

Congratulations to the YMCA of Greater New York’s

SHARON GREENBERGER and all of City & State’s 2018 Nonprofit Power 50 Honorees

The Children’s Aid Board of Trustees and staff congratulate

Phoebe C. Boyer President and CEO

for her leadership and commitment to ensuring that all kids have every opportunity to learn, grow, and become leaders of their own lives.

www.ChildrensAidNYC.org

The YMCA is here for all New Yorkers, to empower youth, improve health, and strengthen community.

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35 36 37 38 Sean Delany

Alan Mucatel

Catherine Trapani

Laurie Tisch

Executive Director, Lawyers Alliance for New York

Executive Director, Rising Ground

Executive Director, Homeless Services United

Founder and President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Sean Delany works at the intersection of law, community-based organizations and the public. As executive director of Lawyers Alliance for New York, every year he oversees more than 1,800 volunteer attorneys doing pro-bono work for nonprofit clients throughout the five boroughs – providing legal advice on issues including corporate structure and governance, tax and intellectual property. Before Lawyers Alliance, Delany worked at the Charities Bureau of the state attorney general’s office and at Bronx Legal Services.

Known as Leake and Watts since it was founded as an orphanage in 1831, the Yonkers-based human services organization underwent a major rebranding and re-emerged earlier this year as Rising Ground. It was a lengthy process shepherded by Executive Director Alan Mucatel, who oversaw the rebranding work that started in 2012. Mucatel has led Rising Ground since 2009, and in that time its budget has grown from $56 million to more than $130 million.

In more than 15 years of working at nonprofits, Catherine Trapani’s advocacy efforts on behalf of homeless New Yorkers have been built on skills gained by working with the city’s most vulnerable populations. The executive director of Homeless Services United, which advocates for solutions to homelessness, previously assisted domestic violence survivors and led training workshops on housing resources at New Destiny Housing. She was also a crisis intervention advocate at one of Safe Horizon’s emergency shelters.

The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund this year launched a $10 million initiative to fund New York City arts programs that focus on mental health – seeking to de-stigmatize the issue through public art, dance programs and experiences that stimulate an emotional connection. The initiative and the organization are led by Laurie Tisch – daughter of investor Preston Robert Tisch and philanthropist Joan Tisch – who founded the Illumination Fund in 2007 to improve the well-being of all New Yorkers.

Congratulations to our President and Executive Director Sharon Stapel and NPCC-Member Honorees: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York Community Access Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) Good Shepherd Services Henry Street Settlement Homeless Services United Human Services Council of New York Lawyers Alliance for New York New York Immigration Coalition New York Women’s Foundation The New York Community Trust Safe Horizon UJA-Federation of New York Vera Institute of Justice

We’re thrilled to be in the company of all the Honorees recognized as City & State NY’s 50 Most Powerful People in the Nonprofit Community!

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39 40 41 42 Tony Hannigan

Jennifer March

José Calderón

Joanne Oplustil

President and CEO, CUCS

Executive Director, Citizens’ Committee for Children

President, Hispanic Federation

President and CEO, CAMBA

Tony Hannigan, CEO of Center for Urban Community Services, has worked for the organization since 1983, when it was known as Columbia University Community Services. He oversaw the transformation of the neighborhood-based program for homeless individuals into a $70 million organization that reaches 56,000 people with various needs. The licensed social worker also served as the city’s regional coordinator of community support programs at the New York State Office of Mental Health, among other positions.

As executive director of Citizens’ Committee for Children, Jennifer March has led advocacy efforts that helped establish New York City’s earned income tax credit, the first local child care tax credit and the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, and was instrumental in shaping juvenile justice and family services. March continues to advocate for child welfare funding in the 2018-19 budget, urging lawmakers to restore funding for juvenile placement, behavioral health and foster youth education.

With a network of nearly 100 Latino grass-roots organizations, the Hispanic Federation manages a wide range of initiatives to support its members. As the organization’s president and spokesman, José Calderón divides his time between strategic planning and advocacy and communicating the Hispanic Federation’s message not only to the media but to community members who can benefit from critical services. He is also co-chairman of the Immigration Committee of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda.

In the 1970s, Joanne Oplustil was working on a refugee resettlement program in Tanzania when she learned that to be a leader, she must lead by example – wisdom that she applies to her work at CAMBA. The organization recently completed CAMBA Gardens, an affordable housing project in Wingate, Brooklyn, that includes 502 units for low-income or formerly homeless occupants. The project recently won the Excellence in Affordable Housing Award from the Urban Land Institute.

The Human Services Council and our Board congratulates ALLISON SESSO Executive Director on being honored as a City & State Nonprofit Power 50

Congratulations to honoree

Donna Lieberman

Your friends at Congratulations, Allison!

Thank you for your dedication and fierce leadership.

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43 44 45 46 David Garza

David Rivel

Cecilia Clarke

Doug Sauer

Executive Director, Henry Street Settlement

CEO, The Jewish Board

President and CEO, Brooklyn Community Foundation

CEO, NYCON

David Garza calls Henry Street Settlement – the 125-year-old Lower East Side social services organization – his “professional destiny.” After joining in 2001 as a job developer helping people build work skills, he took on additional responsibilities in strategic planning, and within a few years was managing fiscal and employment programs across the agency. Under his leadership, Henry Street Settlement’s Workforce Development Center drew local, national and international recognition as one of the city’s best employment programs.

As head of one of the nation’s largest human services providers, Jewish Board CEO David Rivel oversees a budget of $250 million serving more than 45,000 New Yorkers annually.

The former executive director of the City Parks Foundation and former president of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is leading the Jewish Board through a transition as it embraces data-driven and outcomefocused models of care and brings mental health and foster care services to underserved communities.

Cecilia Clarke’s signature projects since joining the Brooklyn Community Foundation follow a similar model: allowing community members to play a key role in shaping the grants that come into their neighborhoods. Since joining the nonprofit in 2013, Clarke applied this grantmaking model in a couple of education and justice-based initiatives – and funders took notice. In recognition of its novel approach, the foundation received the 2015 Impact Award from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

A supporter of state-level legislation mirroring the Johnson Amendment – which prohibits nonprofit organizations from supporting political candidates – Doug Sauer is CEO of the 3,400-member New York Council of Nonprofits, the nation’s largest association of its kind. Sauer, a recognized expert in board governance, mergers and restructuring, and nonprofit capacity assessment, is a frequent public speaker and serves on numerous community boards. He also served four years in Southeast Asia as a U.S. Air Force medic.

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47 48 49 50 Susan Stamler

Wayne Ho

Donna Colonna

Kerry Kennedy

Executive Director, United Neighborhood Houses

President and CEO, Chinese-American Planning Council

CEO, Services for the UnderServed

President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

Susan Stamler, executive director of United Neighborhood Houses of New York, which commands a budget of more than $700 million and serves more than 750,000 New Yorkers every year, uses her political influence to advocate for funding for issues such as early voting, homelessness services and youth summer camps. Stamler, who came to UNH in 2015 with more than 35 years of experience in advocacy, has made juvenile justice reform one of her priorities.

As president of the ChineseAmerican Planning Council, the largest Asian American social services agency in the nation, Wayne Ho has worked to promote economic stability among low-income, immigrant communities. The organization’s programs throughout New York City include early childhood services, senior services and workforce development. In addition to his extensive experience in advocacy, Ho has taught leadership and management courses at New York University and the University of California, Berkeley.

When Services for the UnderServed organized a reading of the Greek tragedy “Philoctetes” last year, CEO Donna Colonna described the event as an effort to draw a parallel between the ancient drama and the experiences of homeless individuals in New York City today. Last year, Colonna received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Autism Spectrum News and Behavioral Health News for her advocacy work on behalf of people with disabilities and people living in poverty.

The president of a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit would seem an outlier on this list, but Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has made a big splash in New York City. The organization has taken action on bail reform by vowing to post bail for 500 women and teenagers at Rikers Island. The move was controversial, but for Kerry Kennedy the cause reflects the purpose of the organization founded by her famous father: social and economic equity.

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October 8, 2018 Notice of Formation of Seiva, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mr. Michael Sloan, WG&S, LLP, 10990 Wilshire Blvd., 8th Fl., Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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legalnotices@cityandstateny.com Notice of Qualification of LINCOLN AVENUE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/14/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/10/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 595 Madison Ave., 16th Fl., NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Llama San LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 6/20/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 359 6th Ave., NY, NY 10014. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 50 Withers St., Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

BENNY PLASTERING, PAINTING & REMODELING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 05/18/2018.

Office: Richmond County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 141 Jackson Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of CONSULATE HOTEL ASSOCIATES, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/10/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE 7/3/18.

SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Dahan & Nowick LLP. Attn: M. Marc Dahan, Esq., 123 Main St., 9th FL, White Plains, NY 10601.

DE address of LLC: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Form. filed with DE SOS, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Flower Oil LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/10/18.

Office location: NY County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 399 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10003. Purpose: any lawful activities.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Qualification of IRON MOUNTAIN DATA CENTERS SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/22/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/19/17.

Princ. office of LLC: One Federal St., Boston, MA 02110. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of TWA Hotel Documentary LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/22/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 8/20/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, 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 Film Transaction LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 8/16/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: One World Trade Center, 44th Fl, NY NY 10007. Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of formation of Evolution Locksmith, LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY on August 08, 2018. The Office of this LLC is located in Westchester County. Secretary of state is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 90 Stratford Ave., White Plains, NY 10605. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of JMNY Consulting LLC filed with SSNY on July 17, 2018.

Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 774 55th Street, Suite S1, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

My tinker app, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 9/5/2018.

Office

loc:

Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Alvaro Rodriguez, 100 Livingston ave. Apt#2C, Yonkers, NY 10705. Purpose: Any

Lawful

Purpose.

Notice of Formation of 88-92 Atlantic Avenue Investors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N Y (SSNY) on 08/22/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 West 22nd St., Ste. 1601, NY, NY 10010.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of BLOCK72 US LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/28/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/14/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Chef Abyssinia LLC, Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY 07/25/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Abyssinia Campbell, 441 locust st, mount Vernon, NY 10552.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Agus 3629 Holdings LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/8/18. Off. Loc.: New York County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 111 8TH AVENUE NY, NY 10011. Reg. Agent: National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011..

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of SITA International USA LLC. Art of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/20/2018.

Office loc.: County of NY. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents Inc., 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful act.

HEY MAMA KITCHEN, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 6/11/2018. Office location: WESTCHESTER County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 7 Columbus Ave#450, Tuckahoe NY 10707.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: MARCATO SOLUTIONS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/1/2018. NY office location: Kings County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Marcato Solutions LLC, 204 West 140th St Apt 3D, New York City, NY, 10030.

Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

EVERYDAY AI, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 6/29/2018. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 257 Gold St, 7C, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of MAIN STREET FILMS 2 LLC, name amended to: TV Nation LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/22/17. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1700 Broadway, 17th Fl., NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of DPM NYC LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/14/18. 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: 223 W. 138th St, Ground Fl., NY, NY 10030.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of BROADWAY THE GOLDEN AGE AND BEYOND LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/25/18. 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, c/o Jamie deRoy, 180 West 58 St., Ste. 10D, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF QUAL. of Meushar 34th Street Developer LLC Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/6/18.

Off. Loc: NY Co. LLC org. in DE 6/5/18. 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.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of GG TWA, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/02/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: GG TWA, LLC, c/o After Midnight Company, LLC, 145 East 57th St., 12th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Address to be maintained in DE: National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

HUMBLE HOUSING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/25/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Paulson Eliancy, 65 Seminole Street, Selden, NY 11784. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qual. of ASSETS CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 09/11/2018. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 06/29/2018. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Patrick De Lisi 1460 Broadway - Office 16-045, NY, NY 10036. Address required to be maintained in DE: Registered Agents Inc., 8 the Green, Ste. R, Dover, DE 19901. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Qualification of 192 Lexington Avenue LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/6/18. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/1/18.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 8 W. 40th St, Fl. 3, NY, NY 10018. 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.

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October 8, 2018 Notice of Qualification of Bloomfield Capital Holdings, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/17/18. Office location: New York County.

LLC formed in Michigan (MI) on 11/16/11. 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. address of LLC: 280 N. Old Woodward, Ste 104, Birmingham, MI 48009.

Cert. of Formation filed with MI Secy of State, Ottowa Bldg, 611 W. Ottowa, POB 30004, Lansing, MI 48909.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of WF Industrial II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/13/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 80 8th Ave., Ste. 1602, NY, NY 10011. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 7208 Management LLC. Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 8/16/2018. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 8016 Narrows Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Partnership (“L.P”).

Name: BG Betances L.P. Certificate of Limited Partnership filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 13, 2018. N.Y. office location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the L.P. upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to BG Betances L.P., c/o Breaking Ground II Housing Development Fund Corporation, 505 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10018.

The latest date upon which the L.P. shall dissolve is December 31, 2128 unless sooner dissolved by mutual consent of the partners or by operation of the law. Name/ address of each general partner available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of 141 DARTMOUTH LOOP LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 9/14/2018.

Office location: Richmond.

SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 141 DARTMOUTH LOOP, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of 82 DARTMOUTH LOOP LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 9/13/2018.

Office location: Richmond.

SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 82 DARTMOUTH LOOP, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 101 WEST END REIT, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/14/18.

Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/22/18.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 729 7th Ave, Fl. 15, NY, NY 10019. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

Name: BG Betances Housing LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 12, 2018. N.Y. office location: New York County.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to BG Betances Housing LLC, c/o Breaking Ground II Housing Development Fund Corporation, 505 Eighth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10018.

Notice of Formation of MELCAP ADVISORS LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/24/18. 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: 11 Riverside Dr., Apt 16JE, NY, NY 10023.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of The TWA Hotel Collection LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/13/18.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in DE on 9/7/18.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF RICHMOND INDEX # 135896/2016 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates Richmond County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated.

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR SECURITIZED ASSET BACKED RECEIVABLES LLC TRUST 2007-NC1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-NC1, Plaintiff, against VICTORY ADONIYA LEDGERWOOD A/K/A GAIL LEDGERWOOD, any possible unknown heirs at law of VICOTRY ADONIYA LEDERWOOD F/K/A GAIL LEDGERWOOD, if living, and if any be dead, their respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributes, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein; JIM L WILLIAMS III, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOU CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage dated September 14, 2006, executed by VICTORY ADONIYA LEDGERWOOD F/K/A GAIL LEDGERWOOD AND JIM L WILLIAMS III to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND/OR ASSIGNS to secure the sum of $293,600.00 and recorded in Official Records Document 155779, in the Office of the CLERK of the County of RICHMOND on October 11, 2006, which mortgage was thereafter modified. Said mortgage was assigned to DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR SECURITIZED ASSET BACKED RECEIVABLES LLC TRUST 2007-NC1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-NC1, by an assignment of mortgage executed on July 25, 2014, covering premises known as 39 Osgood Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10304 (Block 564, Lot 10).

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk of the County of Richmond. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Richmond, Borough of Staten Island, City and State of New York, Block 564, Lot 10, said premises known as 39 Osgood Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10304. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. There is now due and owing from the Borrower to the Plaintiff, the principal sum of $293,241.41 plus interest thereon from March 1, 2013, in addition to those accumulated late charges and those recoverable monies advanced by the Plaintiff and/ or Plaintiff’s predecessor-in-interest on behalf of VICTORY ADONIYA LEDGERWOOD F/K/A GAIL LEDGERWOOD AND JIM L WILLIAMS III together with all costs, including but not limited to, attorneys’ fees, disbursements, and further allowances provided pursuant to the underlying loan documents and applicable law in bringing any action to protect the Mortgagee’s interest in the Subject Property. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs.ny.gov FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 301, Armonk, NY 10504.

LAWRENCE LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 02/15/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 435 East 118th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10035.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose

M31 ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 1/05/2018.

Office loc: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: US Corp Agents, INC. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE is hereby given that Soleil Consults (US) LLC’s Articles of Organization were filed with the NYS Dept. of State on 09/06/18 to provide Business Support Services. The business is located in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, NY. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

Notice of Formation of L & Co Acquisitions LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/10/18. 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: 105 Mulberry St, Ste 202, NY, NY 10013.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qual. of WAYPOINT PARTNERS LLC FICT NAME: WAYPOINT PARTNERS (US) LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 09/17/2018. Office loc: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 09/06/2018. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, C/O Raich Ende Malter & Co., LLP, 1375 Broadway, 6th FL, NY, NY 10018.

Address required to be maintained in DE: 310 Alder Rd, Dover, DE 19904. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of SEABRING HOTEL INVESTORS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/17/18. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kit A. McQuiston, PO Box 20366, Greeley Sq. Station, 4 E. 27th St., NY, NY 10001, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Ocal Services, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 5/30/18. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. Legal Zoom designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 145 Laredo Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Brafin Technical Consulting LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/3/18. 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: 7 Times Sq., Ste 2900, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of STAGE 3 NYC 335 E 27TH LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/14/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/30/15.

Princ. office of LLC: 450 Park Ave. South, 5th Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate management.

The American Gold Cup, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 09/24/2018. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, Attn: Adam Brodsky, 3 W 57th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Telem Consulting Concepts LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/3/18. 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: 7 Times Sq., Ste 2900, NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

TT 4U 52, LLC, filed with SSNY 06/27/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corp Agents 7014 13th Ave suite 202 Brookyn, NY 11228 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

JENNINGS CONSULTING, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 05/02/2018. Office loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: T Jennings, 225 N Broadway #1S, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

THE ANNUAL RETURN of Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2017 is available at its principal office located at 260 Madison Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10016 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is Janet C. Neschis.

October 8, 2018 Notice of Qualification of BoldStart Ventures Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/19/18. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE on 11/19/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: BoldStart Ventures, 1250 Broadway, 34th Fl., NY, NY 10001, principal business address. DE address of LLC: c/o Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Ellen Broen Coaching, LLC filed with SSNY on June 20, 2018.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Ellen Broen, 75 McKinley Ave, B2-8, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 2214275 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 942 RTE 376 WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY 12590.

DUTCHESS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes t o collocate remote radio heads (at heights of approximately 285’) on the roof of the building at 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY (20181737).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE New York City Dept. of Consumer Affairs Notice of Public Hearing Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2018 AT 2:00 P.M. at 42 Broadway, 5th floor, on a petition for CAFÉ TALLULAH, LLC to ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE an unenclosed sidewalk cafe at 240 COLUMBUS AVE IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS. REQUEST FOR COPIES OF THE REVOCABLE CONSENT AGREEMENT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO:

COR PRI INC.

DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10004 ATTN: FOIL OFFICER

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 2213204 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER IN A CATERING HALL AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT THE NARROWSBURG UNION LLC. 7 ERIE AVE NARROWSBURG, NY 12764 SULLIVAN COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of KE Villa Trace Owner, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/11/18. 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: 1270 Broadway, Ste 709, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

THE NARROWSBURG UNION LLC

Notice of Formation of OSB Contracting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/30/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mikhail Gordon 531 East Lincoln Avenue Ste. 2F, Mount Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

183-185 SCHAEFER STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/25/2018. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 777 Third Ave, 27th Fl, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

WESTCHESTER MAID SERVICES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 07/25/2018.

Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to LLC: 20 Water Grant St, 204, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of KMA Gems LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/20/18. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 31 W. 27th St., 11th Fl., NY, NY 10001. LLC formed in DE on 5/3/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1313656 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 715 SAW MILL RIVER RD YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY 10598. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of AdvantageCare Physicians IPA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/14/18.

Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 55 Water St., 13th Fl., NY, NY 10041, principal business address.

Purpose: as specifically set forth in the Arts. of Org.

WIEN 2017 INC. RollingTides LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/01/18. 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, 400 East 67th Street, Unit 8A & 8B, New York, NY 10065. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MASS18 Pty LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/26/18. 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: 377 5th Ave, Fl. 6, NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at two locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 55 feet on a 52-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 164 Dikeman Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11231. Antennas will be installed on a rooftop with an overall height of 43 feet at the approx. vicinity of 46-02 31St Avenue, Astoria, Queens County, NY 11103.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erin, e.alsop@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

Notice of Formation of PAR West LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/12/04.

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: 96 Greenwich St, Fl. 5, NY, NY 10006.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICE SprintCom, Inc. (SPRINT) proposes to install/upgrade equipment and antennas at the following structures in New York: Monroe County – 1400 S Plymouth Ave in Rochester (Job #35930); 1999 Mt Read Blvd in Rochester (Job #37571); Livingston County – 1 College Circle in Geneseo (Job #37570); New York County – 200 E 60th St in New York (Job #41352); 508 W 26th St in New York (Job #41353); 311 North St in White Plains (Job #41348); Kings County – 182 Ralph Ave in Brooklyn (Job #41297); 5905 Shore Pkwy in Brooklyn (Job #41358); 611 Pennsylvania Ave in Brooklyn (Job #41457); Queens County – 101-33 108th St in Woodhaven (Job #41319); 85-32 143rd St in Jamaica (Job #41325); Manhattan – 506 Fort Washington Ave in New York (Job #41338); Bronx – 91 E 208th St in The Bronx (Job #41326).

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 1/2 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.

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October 8, 2018 Notice of Formation of KE VILLA TRACE MEMBER LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/12/18. 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: 1270 Broadway, Ste 709, NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 92 feet on a 109-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 45 South Broadway, Yonkers, Westchester County, NY 10701.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Erin, e.alsop@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of 249 Times Square LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/12/18. Off. Loc.: New York County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: Kriss & Feuerstein, 360 Lexington Ave., Ste. 1200, New York, NY 10017.

Purpose: Any lawful act .

Notice of Formation of INSURI.COM LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/17/18.

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: 45 Great Jones St, NY, NY 10012. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Formation of ER 237 West 4th LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/14/18. Office loc.: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail process to Essex Equity – General Counsel, 7 Columbia Tpk., #201, Florham Park, NJ 07932.

The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of KIP101 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/18/18.

Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/7/17.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St, Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Fuku Hudson Yards, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the SSNY on 8/9/18. Office: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Celia Zhang, 60 E. 11th St., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful act.

PUBLIC NOTICE Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at two locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 76 feet on an 81-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 2728 Kings Hwy, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11229. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 65 feet on a 55foot building at the approx. vicinity of 779 40th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11232. Public comments regarding potential effects from these sites on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@ trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-997-6111.

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The Bronx rapper Cardi B landed in legal trouble, while another rapper, Common, made a statement by bailing someone out in Brooklyn. And in the Hudson Valley, congressional candidate Antonio Delgado, formerly the artist known as A.D. the Voice, is taking a hit – fairly or not – for his hip hop past.

So this week, here’s who’s got 99 problems – and who’s making it in the Empire State.

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Congratulations to all the honorees at this year’s City and State Nonprofit Power 50, and CV’s Dr. Jeremy Kohomban!

Thank you for your inspiring leadership, dedication, and advocacy on behalf of child welfare, juvenile justice, and immigration in New York.

Dedicated

An Open Letter to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo Governor of New York State New York State Capitol Building Executive Chamber Albany, New York 12224

34,818 have signed. Let’s get to 35,000!

The Honorable Bill de Blasio Mayor of New York City City Hall New York, New York 10007

RE: Why Politics Don’t Belong in New York’s Public Pensions Dear Governor Cuomo & Mayor de Blasio: I am writing to you on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of public sector union members who are very concerned by your recent calls to divest the state and city’s pension funds from fossil fuels, as well as on behalf of the 35,000 people who have signed the online petition on change.org and protectpublicpensions.com opposing your divestment proposals. As you know, 1.2 million state workers and 730,000 active and retired city workers rely on modest, yet steady pension returns to support themselves and their families following a long career of public service.

Your fossil fuel divestment proposals would cause a great deal of harm to working families, while achieving very little in the fight to combat climate change.

Your proposals also place a priority on politics over performance and they actually contradict the progressive values you both hold dear.

Our members and their families care deeply about the health of the environment and the future of our planet. No reasonable person can argue that man-made climate change is not real. However, we must find productive ways to deal with it to ensure a healthy planet for our children and grandchildren, while not punishing working families at the same time.

Public pensions are a right earned by state and municipal workers and retirees who have devoted much of their lives to protecting and serving the public.

They are protected under the New York State constitution and should not be used as political statements.

Unfortunately, that’s precisely what your proposals would do. The Common Retirement Fund of the New York State and Local Retirement System holds $192.4 billion in assets. It represents about 650,000 active state and local employees and 452,000 retirees.

A recent report commissioned by the Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees found that the fund would lose $188 million to $302 million over five years if forced to divest from fossil fuels — which earn at or above the mandated 8% annual return — and replace them with “green” investments that return 3 percent to 5 percent on average. These loses could force state and local governments to raise taxes or cut vital services to cover these costs.

This should sound the alarm for working families all across New York.

In New York City, taxpayers’ contributions to the pension funds have climbed steeply from $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2002 to $9.3 billion in fiscal year 2017 as politically motivated investment decisions and poor management have required more taxpayer funding to cover shortfalls. In fact, the city will soon be spending more on pension costs than social services with the exception of education. Divesting $5 billion in fossil fuel investments in the city’s pension fund over the next five years will only leave New York’s taxpayers with a greater financial burden and less social services that New Yorkers rely upon.

New York State Comptroller Tom Di Napoli has wisely resisted politically motivated investment decisions over the years, which is why the Common Retirement Fund has yielded a 10.17% average five-year return and a 7.12% average 10-year return. He has argued that shareholder engagement, rather than divestment is a much more effective way to influence the behavior of fossil fuel corporations. We agree. And we applaud him for focusing on his fiduciary responsibilities which is to maximize the highest possible returns for the fund’s pensioners and our retirees.

Labor always has — and always will — fight for progressive change in this country, even when that means bucking the political tailwinds of the day. Just as public-sector unions launched an aggressive year-long campaign to defeat the proposed Constitutional Convention last year, we will marshal our collective resources to educate our members about your risky divestment proposals and the economic threats they pose to all working families and taxpayers in New York.

Sincerely,

Daniel C. Levler President Suffolk AME