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t is clear that climate change is the greatest existential threat that we face, and it requires bold action to transform every sector of our economy,” said Congresswoman Yvette Clarke at her panel on technology, climate change and New York. How technology is used to make New York more resilient and able to adapt to climate change was the subject of the panelists who work for the city at the interface between the digital world of analysis and the activity at a bus stop in Queens with the burning of fossil fuels. Panelists Ke Wei, Mayor’s Office of Resiliency and Sustainability; David Armour, Siemens Corporation; Natalia Quintero, Transit Tech Lab; Thaddeus Pawlowski,

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is of particular concern to scientists because it contains enough ice to raise global sea level by up to 16 feet, and its physical confi guration makes it susceptible to melting by warm ocean water. Recent studies have suggested that the collapse of certain parts of the ice sheet is inevitable. But will that process take several decades or centuries? Ker Than,Caltech Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes at Columbia University; and William Solecki, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities spoke

about what the city was doing and what has to be done to protect itself from what is inevitable, a new climate world.

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A Monthly Series on Climate Change Comes to BPL Climate Wednesdays Offers Accessible Solutions to Our Crisis

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eginning on September 18th, Brooklyn residents can avail themselves of constructive tools to help battle climate change by deepening their knowledge of the critical and complex issues. Climate Wednesdays: Solutions for a Cooler Brooklyn will gather community members at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library monthly to explore and discuss the challenges of our global climate crisis and some local solutions. Among the features of the series will be discussions with experts on the energy, economic, policy, agricultural, social and psychological dimensions of this crisis, which threatens the future of our planet and our progeny. The series is organized by 350Brooklyn, a local affiliate of 350.org, an international climate change organization working to end the use of fossil fuels and support a just transition to a sustainable world. Partnering with the Brooklyn Public Library for this series, 350Brooklyn aims to engage more citizens in a head-on effort to confront the worldwide climate crisis. Nine sessions from 7-8:30pm will comprise the in-depth series — with a one-month break in January 2020 — and all will take place in the library’s Info Commons Lab at the Central Branch at 10 Grand Army Plaza.

The panel discussion launching the series on 9/18 is “The Big Green Picture: Local Strategies for A Livable Planet.” It posits the climate crisis as one of the most serious challenges we’ve faced as New Yorkers. And panelists will point out that although the city and state are setting a national example

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with new laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industry, cars and even buildings, the fossil fuel industry is steadily rolling out new pipelines. Also, as we know, some communities bear a much heavier pollution burden than others. Those gathered will discuss the way forward with the launch

and city policies can accelerate this switch on a large scale, and what benefits could we see?” The topic on November 20th is “Parenting in the Age of Climate Change:” “How do we talk to our children about climate change? How do we incorporate climate activism into the busy routine of parenting? How can we process our emotions in order to effectively respond to this threat? This discussion will bring together leaders in the climate movement who are tackling these sorts of questions for an important and engaging discussion. The evening will also provide concrete ideas and resources that parents can use immediately to help build a greener future.” The year’s panels end on December 11th with “Green New Meal: The Food-Climate Connection.” “How does our current food system affect the climate and how does climate change affect the quality and availability of food? What methods and policies can protect both the climate and the food supply? And who’s farming in Brooklyn?” Information on the panelists who will present from October through December is on the organization’s website at 350brooklyn. org.

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month’s panelists: Yessenia Funes is an environmental journalist who focuses on issues surrounding race and justice; Dr. Lisa DiCaprio, a professor of Social Sciences at NYU, teaches courses on sustainability; Kim Fraczek is the director of the Sane Energy Project and works with grassroots organizations statewide using art, music, film and food to organize people around the issues. The panel will be moderated by Sara Stidstone Gronim, one of 350Brooklyn’s co-leaders who recently retired from her work as an historian of people’s relationships with the natural world. 350Brooklyn announces the themes for sessions through the end of the year. On October 16th, the topic of discussion will be “Climate Smart Energy: Heating, Cooling and Turning the Lights On.” The description: “Whether for heating, cooking or generating electricity, the socalled ‘natural gas’ New Yorkers use is essentially methane, a fossil fuel and an extremely potent greenhouse gas. On top of that, it’s produced by fracking—a process banned in our own state for health reasons. It’s time for a transition to renewable electricity sources and the adoption of heat pumps and other modern, clean and efficient technologies for heating and cooling. What state

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hillip Goldman, a native of Brooklyn, had a distinguished background in both business and public service. A graduate of New York University, he earned a degree in electrical engineering as a member of the Class of ’56. After an international tour of duty in the U.S. Army, he returned home to excel in business, bolstering the success of several firms. He rose from a consultant at Keystone Business Control to become a full vice president. Later, as a marketing and licensing executive for Viacom Enterprises, he secured the first syndication rights for The Cosby Show in a $22-million-dollar deal. Mr. Goldman also started his own insurance agency, which still flourishes today, and he was a consultant for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is best known to many, however, for his years of service to Brooklyn, as County Committeeman for the 43rd Assembly District, and as president of that district’s New Frontier Democratic Club. Phil and his sister Marcia were longtime supporters of the Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant and Phil was the only private funder of MTEC’s Project Green in 2018. Funeral arrangements have not been finalized. Call 718-599-6828 for info on the services, and a tribute to the Goldman family will be in next week’s Our Time Press.

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o begin to learn what has to be done to “decarbonize” the city, that is to remove fossil fuels from the energy stream requires a deeper way of thinking about problems in the age of “big data” numbers-crunching by computing systems such as IBM’s much-advertised Watson or RPI’s Advanced Multiprocessing Optimized System (AMOS), providing the tools to analyze patterns and relationships of energy used in the city. Ke Wei of the Mayor’s Office made the point that “we need to ensure that our critical infrastructure and vulnerable populations are resilient to the impact of climate change.” Making the city resilient is about not only the brick-and-mortar infrastructure, but the energy infrastructure as well. She says we have to embark on a trajectory of “deep decarbonization” because this crisis is one that requires an “all-hands-ondeck approach and all strategies on the table.” She goes on to say that from an energy perspective, “that means everything from maximizing solar, distributing energy, increasing transmission, accessing renewables and exploring opportunities around low-carbon fuels.” Wei says that in order to protect the city from an outage on the major electrical grid, diversifying with

to respond to hundreds of thousands of air conditioners suddenly turned on in the summer or thermostats moved up in the winter. To make renewable energy dispatchable, it has to be stored in some way in amounts capable of powering a city. Wei says in addition to maximizing solar power, she is excited about the state’s offshore wind initiative and is very interested in the use of low-cost renewable energy to create synthetic gas which can then be stored and used on demand, equaling

Ke Wei, Mayor’s Office of Resiliency and Sustainability the best part of the non-renewals. The only problem is where to find excess renewable energy, when there isn’t enough now. Wei said that, “When Indian Point shuts down in 2021, New York will be entirely dependent on fossil

Natalia Quintero, Transit Tech Lab microgrids and regional systems can help relieve the load, “increase capacity and provide backup services in the event of a major grid outage.” She notes that 70% of the city’s carbon emissions, measured at the points of generation, come from heating buildings and that has to be “decarbonized,” and for this we need “a systemic transformation of our energy system” which is the “fundamental underpinning of our society.” To have an understanding of what needs to be done means analyzing how the movements and behaviors of the city that never sleeps affects fossil fuel use and when and how renewable energy can be harnessed as a replacement. The big advantage of fossil fuel is that it is “dispatchable” --meaning that it can be turned off and on when needed. Renewable energy relies on sun and wind and cannot immediately increase power

fuel,” and that is a future that has to be addressed now. “Technology is an enabler,” said David Armour, representing the private sector from Siemens, “and the very first thing you need to do is plan, measure and then implement.” In a tale of two cities, Armour gave an example of how what might at first seem like a good idea can have unintended consequences. Siemens analyzed the effect of electrifying all the cars in both Munich and Vienna. Munich has many more cars than Vienna and the first thought would be electrifying all Munich’s cars would have greater carbon savings than do all of Vienna’s. However, analysis revealed the opposite to be true. This was because Munich got the majority of its energy from fossil fuels and Vienna used mostly renewables. Understanding where electric vehicles get their power is an

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, 2nd from right, with panelists Thaddeus Pawlowski, Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes at Columbia University; Ke Wei, Mayor’s Office of Resiliency and Sustainability; David Armour, Siemens Corporation; Natalia Quintero, Transit Tech Lab; and William Solecki, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities. important part of understanding decarbonization. Armour notes that there are some electric buses now in operation in New York, from when the city had started down the path of having full- electric-buses operating throughout. It is now seen that “in order to charge just the MTA’s 5,700 buses, we’re going to need two Indian Points of power. That’s not an exaggeration, those are real numbers,” and they highlight how much work has to be done to generate all the renewable energy needed, because to use fossil fuels to generate the electricity defeats the purpose of going all electric, “and makes things worse, not better.” Natalia Quintero said at the Transit Lab they act in an advisory way to help New York City find the best technologies from around the world by looking at cities that have already found solutions to common urban problems. For example, they had a bus route design company look at the city starting from scratch, redesign the bus routes and take into account the changing demographics and the socioeconomic impacts of the changes. And for the subways, they brought to the MTA a Danish company that “deploys sensors across subway platforms and stations to determine how many people are on a platform in real time, and how many are on trains in real time.” Their main quest is to understand, “How do we work with best-in-class technology that’s emerging around the world and bring it to New York City? Technologists at Siemens help us think about, ‘How do we leverage machine-learning, and process video-feed information, so we can automatically analyze behaviors and make the transit system more efficient?’” Armour feels that resilience is not really a technology issue, he says it’s a matter of planning. “If you don’t have an energy masterplan that considers all of the elements involved, then what you implement will not work. This means that all stakeholders have to be at the table, from generators to users.” William Solecki said there is a lot

of technology available, but the biggest barriers are social and institutional. Planning is a part of that, but there is also a larger question of equity, lack of trust and lack of engagement, not only local, but global. A member of the audience spoke as an environmentalist saying that a solar panel on every roof is not the answer because while you’re saving energy today, in 40 years, where will all those panels be? She noted that the panel had not addressed geothermal energy sources, food waste energy and she agreed with Armour that there really was no plan, and what was needed was a more holistic approach to energy-production. We asked about the tradeoffs involved between green roofs to reduce

the “heat island effect” and mitigate water, and solar panels to collect solar. Solecki responded that there has to be monitoring and indicators developed “to really understand how these technologies play out, particularly on the neighborhood scale.” Armour’s response was, “We have to put solar on as many roofs as we can” and the message has to go out that “everyone, in the political forum, private sector and individuals, has to expect to make a contribution, it’s not going to be free. We have to stop thinking 2050, we have to start doing it now. If we’re not doing it now, we won’t get to the target we need. The biggest challenge we face is not technology, it’s ignorance. People don’t really understand what’s coming down.”

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WEEK IN REVIEW The G7 Summit in Biarritz, France progressed swimmingly until President Trump arrived. Media coverage of the sessions were followed worldwide. Watching the leader of the free world hold forth was disorienting. Not as hostile as he was last year in Canada, his contrarian positions germane to world trade, climate change, Russia as friend, not menace, were embarrassing. He advocated for Russia’s return to the G7, forgetting why the group expelled it. Remember the annexation of Crimea from the sovereign state of Ukraine, Mr. President? He distorted history, blaming the hostile Russian action to then-President Obama. Does anyone brief him on world matters? Comprehend world history? Why is President Barack Obama President Trump’s obsession? Is it because Obama is a superior statesman, a scholar, a true world citizen? Last week ended on a

American inner cities where hopelessness, poverty and gang life coexist. Essay is a compelling argument for a national gun registry, which was outlawed by President Reagan, or to revisit national gun law reform. Scotland’s Glasgow University commits $34.5 million in “Reparative Justice” for its slavery ties to the University of the West Indies. Agreement is for a joint venture for research spanning 20 years. The Glasgow pledge is a big deal. Read about it next week for analysis and suggestions.

happier note for America 2020! At least three Republicans plan to primary POTUS 45 for his job next year. Looking for insights on how the United States impacts its neighbors? Read the New York Times sobering story, “One Handgun, 9 Murders: How American Firearms Cause Carnage Abroad.” Hundreds of thousands of guns sold in the United States vanish because of loose American guns laws. Many reappear in Jamaica (in the Caribbean), turning its streets into battlefields. Lax American gun laws help create the killing fields for our neighbors south of the border. Many of the Jamaican narratives resemble stories about

music of Sonny Rollins at the 75 Club, located at 75 Murray Street, Manhattan, on September 6-7. Musicians George Coleman, Clifton Anderson, Eric Wyatt, Edsel Gomez, Ronnie Burrage and Victor See Yuen will perform. [Visit the75clubnyc.com or call 212.406.7575] The Africa-America Institute (AAI) hosts its 35th Annual Awards Gala on Tuesday, September 24 at the Museum of Natural History, located at Central Park West at

NEWSMAKERS The US Marine Corps promoted Colonel Lorna M. Mahlock to the rank of Brigadier General, a first for a woman. General Mahlock has served overseas in Germany and Japan. She earned master’s degrees at the University of Oklahoma, the Naval War College and the US Army War College. VIRGOS: Kojo Ade; Geoffrey Atkins;

TALK OF THE TOWN According to the political circle rumor mills, indefatigable NYS Senator Brian Benjamin, who represents Harlem and the Upper West Side, has his sights set on the NYC Comptroller’s Office, as does NYS

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Senator Kevin Parker from Brooklyn. Incumbent Scott Stringer is term-limited, and it is no secret that he’d like to succeed Hizzoner in 2021.

POLITICS AND STUFF Kudos again for the NY TIMES and its “THE 1619 PROJECT,” published on August 18. Initial press run was 800,000-plus and requests for the issue requires a second and third printing. The single-issue NYT magazine about “Slavery as American History” may be published as a book. A teacher’s guide was created to coincide with the original publication.

ARTS/EDUCATION The Wilbur Ware Institute salutes the

79th Street, Manhattan. The AAI National Achievement Award will be presented to the people of the Republic of Angola and will be accepted by President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco. The Leadership in Arts and Culture Award will be presented to William Kamkwamba, author of the book, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.” Bozoma Saint-John will be the mistress of ceremony. [Visit aainy@aaionline.org] The Nigerian Higher Education Foundation hosts a forum on the role of African Academics in Strengthening and Sustaining African Economies on September 25, 8:30 to 11 am at the Harvard Club NYC, 35 West 44th Street. [RSVP by Monday, September 9]

Dr. Janet Dewart Bell; BEYONCE; Saniyyah Brannan; Carlton Brown, Brooklyn-based entrepreneur; Kobe Bryant; Geoffrey Eaton, NAACP/Touro College; Moikgantsi Kgama, IMAGENATION Festival; caterer Shawnee Braggs-Knight; Ruth Hunt; Debi Jackson, radio host; Justin

SPORTS NOTES NYC is mesmerized during the annual US Tennis Open, which runs from August 26-September 8, which is a welcome revenues generator. Two generations of Black girls like Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff will rock at the Arthur Ashe Stadium, all destined to set records…. The NBA (National Basketball Association) will launch a new league, THE AFRICA LEAGUE. It has already set up youth training facilities, both permanent facilities and temporary camps to identify new players across the continent. It is better late than never. Item was published in the New York Times’ “Of Interest” section. The NFL’s (National Football League) season soon begins on September 5. When will the NFL culture change? White franchise

Keke Palmer Khan; Fern Khan, Dean Emerita, Bank Street; actress Jill Marie Lawrence; Errol Louis, NY1; Keke Palmer, Strahan, Sara and Keke, GMA Show; Tyler Perry; Aden Seraile, Edward Sisters Realty; and 3-yearold twins David and Skyler Torruella.

BROOKLYN/ PRE-CARNIVAL The Weeksville Legacy Society honors its Royal Legacy on the occasion of the 90th Birthday Anniversary of the late Dr. Joan B. Maynard, its founding executive director, on Thursday, August 29 from 5-8 pm at the

Colin Kaepernick owners, 70% African American players who are subject to owners’ whims and dictates. Want to hear that Jay-Z and some of his Black millionaire and billionaire buddies will soon be NFL franchise shareholders? When does former 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick return to the game? A July 2019 study by Science Advances reveals the toll on the human brain that attends protracted football playing.

Weeksville Heritage Center, located at 150 Buffalo Avenue, between Bergen and Dean, Brooklyn. Weeksville is named after James Weeks, a free man who purchased land which would become one of the nation’s premier independent Black communities in 1838. For reservations, visit Legacyweeksville. org or call 800.727.8103. Celebration is one of Brooklyn’s hottest tickets on this carnival weekend.

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f you were able to somehow live through the past seven days without hearing about the new Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich, please forward the address of the fallout shelter that you live in, and in the event of a nuclear holocaust, we can convene in your shelter and discuss every other pop culture wave you missed. Because the only way that you haven’t yet heard of this chicken sandwich is if you don’t have a smartphone, or the Internet, or a teenage nephew or niece, or a Facebook account, or cable, or electricity. I heard about the sandwich from social media. I just woke up one morning, checked my newsfeed and people were talking about the new Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich. I don’t remember who the first person was that posted something about it. It was just there, in my Facebook feed, and in my Instagram feed, and in my Twitter feed, too. People talking about this sandwich, saying how great it was, or how it was better than Chic Fil-A, or how there were lines around the block to get one. Lines around the block? For a chicken sandwich? By the end of last weekend, this sandwich was the most trending news item in social media. There were posts about it everywhere. There were pictures of Popeye’s

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locations that had run out of sandwiches. There were dozens of memes dedicated to the cultural phenomenon that this sandwich had become. And there were reviews, dozens upon dozens of reviews about the sandwich. Some said that it was the best chicken sandwich they had ever had. The chicken tasted like utopia. The pickles tasted like chicken. The bun was so soft and buttery that it melted in your mouth the moment you bit into it. Others said that it was good, a quality chicken sandwich that could stand against them all - Wendy’s, Chic Fil-A, McDonald’s. Hundreds of reviews about a sandwich, and not one of them negative? Either this chicken sandwich is the Holy Grail or groupthink delivered in the form of social media posts--likes and shares had corrupted the idea of this sandwich. Back in December of 2018, Netflix released a movie titled “Bird Box.” I heard of “Bird Box” pretty much the same way I heard of this chicken sandwich, through my social media newsfeed. I just woke up one morning, checked my feed and there were people talking about this movie. One person checked in, saying they were watching the movie; the next person said that they just watched the movie, and then there was yet another person saying how great the movie

was. In no time at all, “Bird Box” had become the most trending term in social media for that weekend. Literally, everyone was talking about it. After hearing about it all weekend, I watched “Bird Box.” It was easily the worst movie I watched in 2018. It was horrible, not even close to being a good movie. And yet, it did so well that Netflix actually made a statement about its record-setting viewership - in spite of the company being well-known for always keeping notoriously silent about streaming numbers. Social Media Marketing has grown and developed over the years into a very nuanced industry. The growth has been so sudden and expansive that if you read an article from 2018 about the industry, you can be assured that what you’re reading is all but obsolete. The more that corporations study and understand the interconnectedness that exists in the matrix of social media, the more these companies are beginning to realize the influence of a more intimate form of customer relations management. Ads popping up on banners and along the side of Facebook used to be revolutionary. Now it’s an archaic form. What works now is to reach your customer base where they spend the most time - on their newsfeeds, in statuses, in IG pictures, coming from the

posts of their Facebook friends and Twitter followers. If Popeye’s would’ve purchased a banner to promote this new sandwich, I’d be writing about a totally different subject this week. Because no one would have cared. But if you use the right set of social media influencers to send the word out about the new chicken sandwich, in 24 hours, you can have 90,000 people posting about it, and in 48 hours, it could become an entire movement. People buy products. But people follow movements. I tried the new Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich. At best, it’s mediocre. You can’t even order the thing with cheese, lettuce or tomatoes. It’s a plain old, sodium-laced, processed chicken sandwich with a pickle and some mayo. However, if you haven’t tasted it yet and wish to try it, you’re going to have to wait a while. On Tuesday, Popeye’s announced that it was temporarily pulling the chicken sandwich from its menu. Why? Well, when they released it on August 12th, they assumed that they had enough inventory of sandwiches to cover all of their locations through the end of September. They’ve already run through that inventory as of August 27th. They sold two months’ worth of inventory in 15 days, and the memes keep coming.

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EW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today joined a coalition of 19 Attorneys General in filing a comment letter opposing the Council of Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) draft guidance on consideration of greenhouse gas emissions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA serves as the cornerstone of America’s environmental regulatory framework and requires agencies to consider environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of climate change, as part of their decision-making process. The requirement to consider greenhouse gas emissions and climate change that the Trump Administration is now attempting to revoke was the result of guidance issued by the Obama Administration in 2016. In the comment letter, the coalition asserts that the Trump Administration’s draft guidance encourages agencies to violate NEPA and is arbitrary and capricious. “Despite insurmountable evidence on the contrary, the Trump Administration continues to deny existence of climate change, and in the process, continues to put the health and safety of Americans at risk,” said Attorney General Letitia James. “The proposal to subvert one of our nation’s core environmental protection laws – the National Environmental Policy Act – by gutting environmental review of the harms of climate change would severely harm both the public and the environment in our country. My office is committed to fighting back against this and other efforts by the Trump Administration

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to deny climate change and its increasing toll on our families and our communities.” Enacted in 1969, NEPA is one of the nation’s foremost environmental statutes. NEPA requires that before any federal agency undertakes a “major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment,” it must consider

climate change, and the contribution of greenhouse gas emissions to this threat; • Subverts the purpose and requirement of NEPA to promote informed decision-making, by disregarding climate change, the most pressing environmental issue of our time; • Fails to clarify how agencies

alternatives to reduce climate change; and • Fails to consider coordination and consistency between NEPA and state environmental analysis. Attorney General James joins the coalition led by California Attorney General Xavier, which includes

the attorneys general of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

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the environmental impacts of the proposed action, alternatives to the action, and any available mitigation measures. Nearly every federal action, from the approval of significant energy and infrastructure projects to key decisions concerning the management of federal public lands, requires compliance with NEPA. In the comment letter, the coalition asserts that the guidance encourages agencies to violate NEPA, is arbitrary and capricious, and should be withdrawn. The draft guidance moves in the wrong direction, muddying the waters on the analysis of climate change impacts under NEPA and creating new legal risks for projects subject to NEPA. The letter outlines a number of concerns, including that the draft guidance: • Unlawfully and arbitrarily ignores the growing body of scientific evidence pointing to the threats of

should consider indirect greenhouse gas emissions, including upstream or downstream emissions caused by projects such as pipelines and mining; • Includes vague and undefined terms that would allow agencies to unlawfully cast aside their obligations under NEPA and that conflict with the straightforward language of the previous 2016 guidance; • Unlawfully suggests that agencies may meet NEPA requirements by comparing projects’ greenhouse gas emissions to other estimates and providing a qualitative summary discussion, which is insufficient; • Supports an unbalanced approach to cost-benefit analysis by allowing agencies to exclude the costs or quantities of climate impacts; • Discourages a consideration of required mitigation methods as well as the exploration of reasonable

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The Amazon rainforest’s worst-case scenario is uncomfortably near Wildfires and deforestation are pushing the Amazon rainforest toward a dieback scenario: an irreversible cycle of collapse.

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he Amazon rainforest is still burning. Blazes have been torching the world’s largest tropical forest for three weeks now. French President Emmanuel Macron called it an “international crisis” and put the fires on the agenda of the G7 meeting over the weekend, triggering a diplomatic spat with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. G7 countries promised €20 million in aid for the rainforest, which Bolsonaro said Tuesday he would reject. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has reported at least 74,000 fires in the Amazon this year so far, an increase of 84 percent compared to the same time last year. The smoke from the fires has cast a pall stretching across the country and reaching coastal metropolises like São Paulo. It’s an alarming increase because the Amazon almost never burns on its own and the increase in fires this year has been so dramatic. The region is usually too wet to ignite, so the vast majority of fires are caused by humans. Some of the blazes are started by farmers aiming to clear land, some by illegal loggers trying to cover their tracks, and some by negligence. Fires and logging had been on the decline for years in the Amazon until Bolsonaro, who made his intentions to exploit the Amazon perfectly clear, took office last year. Bowing to domestic protests and international pressure, Bolsonaro deployed the military over the weekend to fight the fires now burning across six Brazilian states. But when the smoke dissipates and the flames die down to embers, another perilous threat is looming for the Amazon rainforest. Scientists warn that if enough of the forest is lost, it could enter a spiral of collapse. This is an outcome with global consequences, and if we cross this threshold of deforestation, it could be a point of no return. The Amazon rainforest plays an important, complicated role in the regional and global climate The rain in the rainforest is not an accident of geography or meteorology. The towering mahogany, kapok, and Brazil nut trees of the Amazon play important parts in the orchestra of the region’s water system. The trees take in rainwater through their roots, move it up into the canopy, and release it into the air, a process called evapotranspiration. The trees also release volatile organic compounds that react to form tiny particles. These particles serve as nucleation points to form clouds and eventually lead to more rainfall. Multiply this pattern by the hundreds of billions of trees in the rainforest and you get a powerful mechanism for recycling water and generating rainfall that keeps even the thirstiest of trees quaffed in hot tropical weather. This rainfall pattern helps sustain agriculture throughout Brazil and top up reservoirs that hydrate major cities, feeding and quenching the thirst of millions. But these trees are rapidly disappearing, along with the shrubs, grasses, fungi, and soil bacteria that work alongside them to circulate moisture. The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has picked up again after years of decline, with roughly a soccer field-size arealost every minute. Once the rainforest loses a certain amount of area, this orchestra will fall out of tune. There will not be enough remaining tropical woodlands to continually evaporate and condense moisture through the forest. Without this cycling of rainfall, downwind vegetation will not get enough water. That flora in turn will weaken and move less moisture through the air, resulting in less rainfall for the forested areas even further downwind. These parched

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Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil: A snake flees from the fire, in the Amazon of Rondonia. Brazil began this Saturday to deploy the 44,000 soldiers it has in the vast Amazon region to fight forest fires in this area that have put the government of Jair Bolsonaro in check, internationally criticized for not having reacted in time. trees will become more vulnerable to pests and fire. The mighty stalwarts of the Amazon will shrivel up, and a wave of death will start at the periphery and propagate throughout as much of it degrades from a dense tropical forest into a sparse savanna. The cycle will continue without our input. And there will be little we can do to stop it. This is a scenario known as a forest dieback. Scientists now think that all the stresses humanity is placing on the Amazon rainforest — agriculture, logging, global warming — mean that we’re closer to such an event than we realized before. “We believe that negative synergies between deforestation, climate change, and widespread use of fire indicate a tipping point for the Amazon system to flip to non-forest ecosystems in eastern, southern and central Amazonia at 20-25% deforestation,” wrote researchers Carlos Nobre and Thomas Lovejoy in an editorial in the journal Science Advances. (Then-New York Times reporter Justin Gillis wrote about the history of research on the dieback scenario in the Amazon in 2011.) The World Wildlife Fund estimates that 17 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been lost in the past 50 years. Brazil’s INPE reported that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged 88.4 percent in June compared to June 2018. The recently burned forest area will add to that growing cumulative total of deforestation. Which means the Amazon is creeping closer to the threshold. Now, not every bit of research points to such a scenario. Some scientists anticipate the rainforest will change into a seasonal forest rather than a savanna. Other findings show that the rainforest won’t collapse but will degrade differently in different regions of the jungle. However, diebacks have happened before. The United Kingdom experienced a dieback of ash trees due to a fungal infection that started in the 1990s and continues to ravage the species today. Huge climatic variations led to a dieback in Hawaii in the 1980s. Droughts, beetles, and storms in recent years are pushing forests

in Germany toward collapse. On a larger scale, the Carboniferous rainforest collapse 300 million years ago led to a global extinction event and left a permanent mark on the evolution of life. And if one happens in the Amazon, it could ripple throughout the planet, so it’s a risk worth taking seriously. Losing the Amazon rainforest has global consequences and could be irreversible In addition to deforestation from industry, the Amazon rainforest is under pressure from rising average temperatures. Researchers project the water stresses in the region from climate change will increase in the coming decades as the dry season gets drier. That loss of forest can in turn exacerbate changes in the climate, a pattern that scientists have been warning about for decades. Craig Allen, a research ecologist at the US Geological Survey, explained it thusly in a 2009 report for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: One consequence of substantial forest dieback is redistribution of within-ecosystem carbon pools and rapid losses of carbon back to the atmosphere. For instance, climate-driven effects of forest dieback, insect and disease mortality and fire impacts have recently turned Canada’s temperate and boreal forests from a net carbon sink into a net carbon source (Kurz et al., 2008). Similarly, it is possible that “widespread forest collapse via drought” could transform the world’s tropical moist forests from a net carbon sink into a large net source during this century (Lewis, 2005). The Amazon, with all its plants, animals, and soils, is an enormous reservoir of carbon. So as it degrades due to deforestation and climate change, it will go from soaking up carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to becoming a net emitter of heat-trapping gases. We’re already seeing a long-term decline in the amount of carbon the Amazon can absorb, with capacity shrinking by one-third in the 2010s compared to the 1990s. If we keep burning down forests and spewing greenhouse gases, the switch could flip in the other direction.

There are about 90 billion metric tons of carbon embedded in the Amazon, equal to about a decade’s worth of greenhouse gas emissions. So losing the rainforest has a huge potential to warm the planet. Can we do anything to stop it? Yes, but there are no easy fixes. There is immense economic and social pressure to cut down the rainforest and develop it for farming, pasture, and mineral extraction. For example, Brazil is the largest exporter of beef in the world, which drives a huge chunk of demand for clearing the rainforest. In a 2018 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers tabulated the costs of tactics needed to avert a dieback scenario in the Amazon. They concluded that 20 adaptation measures — better water management, decentralized renewable energy, no-fire agriculture techniques — would cost $120 billion, while mitigation measures like reducing reforestation would cost $64 billion. It’s expensive, but the authors say it’s a bargain compared to the social and economic damages from a dieback. The low-end estimate for the cost of a dieback in the Amazon was $957 billion over 30 years. The high-end estimate was $3.5 trillion. Restoring the rainforest is no easy task either. It requires not just planting trees but bringing back an ecosystem, including the wildlife, waterways, and other plants, each acting in balance with one another. It’s a process that could take decades. Some regions, such as those deforested for mining and oil drilling, may have severe contamination of the water and soil, which would require extensive remediation before a forest could return. The most critical task at hand is to retain what’s left. That means stopping the ongoing fires and deforestation as quickly as possible. From there, Brazil’s government and the world as a whole will have to pick up the thorny task of developing a mechanism to protect and restore the Amazon rainforest in face of rising demand for food, fuel, and land for a growing population

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cientists say they are bidding farewell to Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, in a funeral of sorts. Researchers will gather Sunday in Borgarfjörður, Iceland, to memorialize Okjökull, known as Ok for short, after it lost its status as a glacier in 2014. The inscription, titled “A letter to the future,” on the monument paints a bleak picture. “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and know what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it,” the plaque reads in English and Icelandic. The memorial plaque for Iceland’s Okjökull glacier contains a dire warning. From the ice sheet in Greenland to the towering glaciers in West Antarctica, Earth’s enormous masses of ice are melting fast. And though sea levels have risen and fallen throughout history, scientists say it’s never happened at a rate this fast. If glaciers continue to melt at the current rapid rate, it will pose a number of hazards for the planet, geologists say. Here are some of the potential hazards:

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A single hot day won’t make a glacier melt. That’s just the weather. Long-term climate changes that warm the area over years, though, can make glaciers melt more quickly.

at the University of Florida, told CNN. “They think that ‘If my house isn’t in the area that’s flooded, I don’t need to worry about it,’ which is a complete misconception.”

It can displace people By 2100, up to 2 billion people -- or about a fifth of the world’s population -- could be displaced from their homes and forced to move inland because of rising ocean levels, according to a 2017 study. Bangladesh is particularly at risk. About 15 million people in the country could become climate refugees if sea levels rise 1 meter, or about 3 feet. And more than 10% of the country would be underwater. Some of the people who are displaced might not have anywhere to go. They’re not protected by international laws, so industrialized countries aren’t legally obligated to grant them asylum. It can put some islands underwater If sea levels continue to rise at a rapid rate, some remote island nations would be at risk of disappearing, including Tuvalu, the Maldives and the Marshall Islands. It can diminish drinking water Millions of people depend on glaciers for drinking water, particularly in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region and the Andes Mountains. In dry climates near mountains, glaciers collect precipitation and freshwater and store it as ice during colder months. When summer comes along, the ice melts and runs off into rivers and streams, providing drinking water. A world without glaciers would

It can disrupt the global economy More than 90 percent of the world’s trade is carried by sea, according to the United Nations. So, there’s a good chance that most of the things you buy have passed through at least two ports: one during export and one during import. Ports are critical to the global economy, providing jobs in industries like shipbuilding, fishing, seafood processing and marine transportation. Rising sea levels could damage the infrastructure of many ports and disrupt all kinds of processes, creating a ripple effect throughout the economy. “[Melting glaciers] will affect people’s access to food, water and energy, which are fundamental, critical things that we need to survive,” Dutton said.

The Marshall Island nation is a grouping of 1,200 islands scattered across 750,000 square miles of ocean. Sea level rise will make them uninhabitable in the coming decades. threaten that water supply and potentially have devastating effects, Jason Briner, a geologist at the University of Buffalo, told CNN. It can threaten our food supply Rising sea levels contribute to warmer global temperatures, changing what kinds of crops farmers can grow. Some climates will become too hot for what farmers are growing now. Other climates will see more flooding, more snow or more moisture in

the air, also limiting what can be grown. As a result, food will become scarcer, grocery prices will spike and crops will lose their nutritional value, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted in a report earlier this year. It can cause a health crisis As sea levels rise, coastal communities are more susceptible to flooding. One particularly gross

consequence of that flooding is the impact on sewage treatment plants, which are often built at low elevations close to the oceans. Floods can cause massive amounts of untreated sewage to flow into rivers, streams, streets and even homes. That pollutes sources of water, harms wildlife and helps spread diseases. “A lot of times when people think about sea level rise, they think about inundation of land,” Andrea Dutton, geology professor

It can change life as we know it The large ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic are part of Earth’s energy balance, Briner said. Those massive white surfaces work to reflect rays from the sun back into the environment, keeping temperatures mild. As more and more glaciers melt, energy from the sun will instead be absorbed into the ocean. As the oceans get warmer, global temperatures become hotter and cause even more glaciers to melt. That creates a cycle that amplifies the climate crisis, Briner said.

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISITING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. SHERIF ANN FRASER, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE

IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated October 30, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISITING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is the Plaintiff and

SHERIF ANN FRASER, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on October 3, 2019 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 243 E 55TH ST, BROOKLYN,

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 8 NY 11203: Block 4703, Lot 66: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, CITY OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF KINGS, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 24822/2010 & 516102/2016. NANCY M. SCHACHER, ESQ. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS CIT BANK N.A., F/K/A ONEWEST BANK N.A., F/K/A ONEWEST BANK, FSB, V. CHARMAINE MOSES AS EXECUTRIX, HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIS MOSES A/K/A REVEREND WILLIS MOSES, DECEASED, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 13, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein CIT BANK N.A., F/K/A ONEWEST BANK N.A., F/K/A ONEWEST BANK, FSB is the Plaintiff and CHARMAINE MOSES AS EXECUTRIX, HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIS MOSES A/K/A REVEREND WILLIS MOSES, DECEASED, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on October 3, 2019 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 1301 E. 55TH ST., BROOKLYN, NY 11234: Block 7835, Lot 26: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 507785/2013. Bruno Codispoti, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-MX1, Plaintiff -against- EDWIN SANTIAGO, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated April 19, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on October 3, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and

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described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the southerly side of Halsey Street, distant 40.00 feet easterly from the southeasterly corner of Halsey Street and Lewis Avenue, being a plot 60.00 feet by 20.00 feet by 60.00 feet by 20.00 feet. Section: 6 Block: 1665 Lot: 12 Said premises known as 482 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $562,628.19 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 515574/2015. GREGORY T. CERCHIONE, ESQ., Referee Dorf & Nelson LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 555 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, NY 10580 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS, AJ PARTNERS, LLC, PLAINTIFF, against, SUZIE BLACKSTOCK, et al., DEFENDANTS. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 11, 2017 and entered December 29, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on the 19th day of September, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. those certain premises being in the County of Kings and State of New York known as 1246 New York Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11203 and more particularly described as follows: Block 4949, Lot 23. Amount of judgment $196,071.63, plus interest, costs and attorneys fees. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of judgment, terms of sale and prior first mortgage. Index No. 602349/2016. Joel Elliot Abramson, Esq., Referee. Lawrence & Walsh, P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 215 Hilton Avenue, Post Office Box 1200, Hempstead, New York 11551. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT- COUNTY OF KINGS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST A, Plaintiff, AGAINST MABLE ANDERSON and AKENDA HOWZE, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on June 24, 2019. I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201on September 19, 2019 at 2:30 PM premises known as 419 MILFORD STREET, Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York. Block 4457, and Lots 67 and 68. Approximate amount of judgment $636,218.49 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #7406/11. Dominick James Mingione, Esq. Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for Plaintiff 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS FEDERAL NAT I O NA L MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff AGAINST Anasha

Howard and Samuel Howard, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 30, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on September 19, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 432 EAST 48TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11203. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 4695, LOT 13. Approximate amount of judgment $322,559.41 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 2600/2010. Mark A. Longo, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 65127

thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Said premises known as 150 South 8th Street a/k/a 150 S. 8th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211. (Block: 2138, Lot: 16). Approximate amount of lien $ 804,897.64 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 501441-13. Honorable M. Randolph Jackson, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, FSB, FORMALLY KNOWN AS WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Plaintiff, vs. MARIE ARMOUR A/K/A MARIE E. ARMOUR, LENNOX C. QUILDON, et al., Defendants N O T I C E OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Kings County on March 29, 2019, I, Dominic Famulari, Esq., the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on September 19, 2019 at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York, at 2:30 P.M., the premises described as follows: 575 Crescent St Brooklyn, NY 11208 SBL No.: 4252-10 ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 20928/2013 in the amount of $675,661.30 plus interest and costs. Brittany J. Maxon, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St. Rochester, New York 14614 Tel.: 855-227-5072

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-GEL2, V. STACEY ANN JEFFERSON, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated November 02, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007GEL2 is the Plaintiff and STACEY ANN JEFFERSON, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on September 19, 2019 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 1559 EAST 54TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11234: Block 7879, Lot 12: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 931/2008. Dominic J. Famulari, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO NATIONAL CITY REAL ESTATE SERVICES, LLC, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE CO. DOING BUSINESS AS COMMONWEALTH UNITED MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff against MALKY KATZ, KATZ RAIZY KATZ, YOSEF KATZ, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 23, 2018. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 19th day of September, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements

SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS STATE OF NEW YORK MORTGAGE AGENCY, Plaintiff -against- DENISE DRAXDORF AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT DRAXDORF A/K/A ROBERT JOHN DRAXDORF A/K/A ROBERT J. DRAXDORF, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein on February 13, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on September 19, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, known and designated as Block 6912 and Lot 70. Said premises known as 2656 MILL ROAD, BROOKLYN, NY Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale.

We are a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Index Number 524570/2017. PHILIP KAMARAS, ESQ., Referee STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300, Garden City, NY 11530 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT, COUNTY OF KINGS, PENNYMAC CORP., PLAINTIFF against PATRICIA CAMPBELL, CHASE MANHATTAN BANK USA, N.A. ET AL., DEFENDANTS. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated November 5, 2018 and duly entered thereafter, Steven B. Shapiro, Esq., the court appointed Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., the premises known as 1301 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY 11213; all that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City of New York, and State of New York Block 1377, Lot 149. Approximate amount of judgment is $1,037,948.72 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of said Judgment. Index No. 27873/2009. Steven B. Shapiro, Esq., Referee Lawrence & Walsh, P.C., 215 Hilton Avenue, Hempstead, NY 11550, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Josep Molyaev, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 13, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on September 12, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 291 MARTENSE STREET, UNIT 4J, AKA 281/291 MARTENSE STREET UNIT 4J AKA 1391/1421 NOSTRAND AVENUE UNIT 4J AKA 250/260 LINDEN BOULEVARD UNIT 4J, BROOKLYN, NY 11226. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 4868, LOT 1053. Approximate amount of judgment $321,019.94 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 506081/2017. Gregory M. Laspina Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 64412 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS US BANK, N.A., V. SYED AHMED A/K/A A. SYED A/K/A AHMED SYED, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated September 29, 2015, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein US BANK, N.A. is the Plaintiff and SYED AHMED A/K/A A. SYED

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 9 A/K/A AHMED SYED, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on September 19, 2019 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 2298 ATLANTIC AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11233: Block 1435, Lot 29: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 21876/2012. Lee M. Huttner, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., V. PRISCILLA CYRUS, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 14, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. is the Plaintiff and PRISCILLA CYRUS, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 224, 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN NY 11201, on September 12, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 5811 SNYDER AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11203: Block 4706, Lot 6: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE, OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN

IN THE COUNTY OF KINGS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 505277/2016. Angelicque Moreno, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-AR21, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-AR21, V. LORIAN KING-NURSE A/K/A LORIAN KING A/K/A LORIAN NURSE, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 14, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-AR21, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006AR21 is the Plaintiff and LORIAN KING-NURSE A/K/A LORIAN KING A/K/A LORIAN NURSE, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on September 12, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 561 CHAUNCEY ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11233: Block 1511, Lot 45: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 512387/2017.

Helene Blank, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY. SK INDUSTRIES, LLC, Pltf. vs. MELVIN JACKSON, et al, Defts. Index #16925/2013. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered Jan. 14, 2019, I will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on September 12, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a 1150 East 93 Street, Brooklyn, NY. Said property beginning at a point on the Southwesterly side of East 93rd St. distance 72 ft. southeasterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Southeasterly side of Conklin Avenue, with the Southwesterly side of East 93rd St., being a plot 78 ft. x 30 ft. 6 1/4 inches. Approx. amt. of judgment is $908,384.57 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. JAGESHWAR SHARMA, Referee. LAW OFFICE OF SAMUEL KATZ, PLLC, Attys. for Pltf., 4533 16th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY #97432

that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of East 7th Street distant 467 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly side of Avenue Z with the westerly side of East 7th Street; THENCE westerly parallel with Avenue Z and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet; THENCE southerly parallel with East 7th Street, 22 feet; THENCE easterly parallel with Avenue Z and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet to the westerly side of East 78th Street; THENCE northerly along the westerly side of East 7th Street, 22 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Said premises known as 2658 East 7th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11235. (Block: 7243, Lot: 30). Approximate amount of lien $ 630,308.72 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 22483-13. Steven Z. Naiman, Esq., Referee. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff, 10 Bank Street - Suite 700, White Plains, New York 10606 (914) 949-2574

VOL. 23 NO. 35 certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Kings County Treasurer as Block 3,992, and Lot 5. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $966,297.14 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 45556/2007. Nancy Schacher, Esq., Referee. SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Dated: 7/18/2019 File Number: 25672 MNB

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS GOSHEN MORTGAGE LLC, AS SEPARATE TRUSTEE FOR GDBT I TRUST 2011-1, Plaintiff, Against CARLTON EXILE A/K/A C. EXILE, ET AL, Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 5/9/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on 9/5/2019 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 123 Montauk Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11208, and described as follows: ALL that

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Kings, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as Trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust, Plaintiff, vs. Dorothy Alexander, Nichole Alexander, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on May 24, 2018 and an Order Pursuant to CPLR 2004 Extending the Time to Set Sale and to Ratify Sale Nunc Pro Tunc filed on June 21, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 5, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 420 Autumn Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 04170 and Lot 00025. Approximate amount of judgment is $465,190.34 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 512372/2015. Helene Blank, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted.

KIM PELZER 718 CHURCH AV BROOKLYN, NY 11218

MARTIN HEAD 470 CARLTON AVE APT #2 BROOKLYN, NY 1238-2104

GLADYS CADET 85 LUDLAM AV ELMONT, NY 11003-2108

OTIS HAMPTON 728 HINSDALE ST BROOKLYN, NY 11207-6606

CYNTHIA A. MORGAN 230 JAY STREET APT #16C BROOKLYN, NY 11201

MELVIN C. DARRELL 374 PUTNAM AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11216

STEVEN D. CLUNIS 1363 DEAN ST APT 2F BROOKLYN, NY 11216

THUMBERLINA VAUGHAN 186 VERNON AVE APT #2 BROOKLYN, NY 11206

BEATRICE REID 853 MARCY AV BROOKLYN, NY 11206

LAURENE. BOONE 1780 VAN DYKE ST APT #206 DETROIT, Ml 48214

ERICA M. BURROUGHS 11929 237H STREET CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411-2329

SARAH B. FORD 67 MANHATTAN AVE APT #6k BROOKLYN, NY 11206

RASHID WALKER 60 EAST 17TH ST APT 5F BROOKLYN, NY 1226-2624

WILHELMENA BROWN 1230A PRESIDENT ST BROOKLYN, NY 11225

MARY BROWN 815 MARCY AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11216

MARGARET J. GRANTHAM 1230A PRESIDENT ST. BROOKLYN, NY 11225

PORCEHA MULLINS 239A SUMPTER ST BROOKLYN, NY 11233

GARRY JOHNSON 98-40 57TH ST APT #3A FLUSHING, NY 11368

MONICA MCKINNON 266 E. 45TH ST APT #2R BROOKLYN. NY 11203-2214

RUBY C. EVERETT 494 QUINCY ST BROOKLYN, NY 11221

DONOVAN G. DONOVAN 217 EASTERN PKWY BROOKLYN, NY 11233

SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE F/B/O HOLDERS OF STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II, INC., STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II TRUST 2007-AR4, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007AR4, Plaintiff against ADRIAN JOI BROWN, et al., Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on October 3, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 12th day of September, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All

2019 DORMANT ACCOUNTS NOTICES OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY THE CONCORD FEDERAL CREDIT UNION. The following persons

appear from our records to be Entitled to unclaimed property consisting of cash amounts of fifty dollars or more. MICHAEL E. JONES 764 GREENE AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11221-1903 HELEN HAWES 972 EAST 105TH STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11236 MICHELLE Y. ARRINGTON 1100 ALBEMARLE ROAD BROOKLYN, NY 11218-2806 EVA M. WATKIS 829 Park Pl Brooklyn, NY 11216-4004 AUDREY M. BAKER 300 CLERMONT AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11205-4606 LAURIE A MOON 101 DAVIS AVE APT #2 STATEN ISLAND, NY 10310 SCHEREDA L. EBANKS-GOBOURN 96 CARLTON CT AYLETT, VA 23009-4147

PHILIP M. BINGHAM 8 WILFRED STREET MONTCLAIR, NJ 07042-1644 DORIS SLEDGE 895 WILLOUGHBY AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11221-2511 MARLYN L. NICHOLS 4909 WHEATSTON DR FAIRFAX, VA 22032 BERNELL A. LINDSAY 358 MIWOOD ST APT# 1R BROOKLYN, NY 11225 SHARON L. IRBY 31 LEONARD ST APT 19Q BROOKLYN, NY 11206 KAREEM BROME 230 E. 93RD ST BROOKLYN, NY 11212 ARCHIE BROADY 2 DEPOT SQUARE APT D COLD SPRING, NY 10516

JEAN Y. OWENSBY 9084 IDLEWILD DR TOBYHANNA, PA 8466-3805 ERIC WHITE 675 LINCOLN AVE APT #4K BROOKLYN, NY 11208-4031 NILE BROADY 537 W. 162ND ST APT#2 NEW YORK, NY 10032 KELLEE M. RICE 3059 ZACHARYS KEEP CT WINSTON-SALEM, NC 27103 SEMAJ VANZANT 158 FISHER AVE NEPTUNE, NJ 07753-4718

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Thursday, September 5th

The Wiz MoCADA’s Kid Flix Film Fest Von King Park 670 Lafayette Ave., 6-10pm (film at 7:30) FREE. Join us

Park House 7A Governor’s Island 12-6pm FREE. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, emerging Rwandan artists set to change the narrative of their country through their own creative

CBFS: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration and The Liberal Establishment Schomburg Center for Research in Black

Rwanda Retold 1:30pm FREE. Department of Labor staff will work with job seekers to connect them to resources. Get help with your job search, resume review, interviewing and networking skills. Understand how to apply for unemployment insurance (no information given on individual cases). Take advantage of DOL’s online job search tools if you have an email address and an electronic resume. Seniors, veterans and those with disabilities can learn about DOL resources available to them.

The Wiz at 6pm for the festival’s closing party, which always includes a Sing & DanceAlong presentation of The Wiz, a costume contest, free popcorn and live performances. There will be face painting by Naomi Martinez-Lampkin and ice cream from Creme & Cocoa will be on offer. About the film: When Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy tries to save her dog from a storm, she’s miraculously whisked away to an urban fantasy land called Oz. Featuring Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross. Directed by Sidney Lumet.

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Wednesday, September 11th Maynard: The Man. The Politician. The Game Changer. The City College of New York 160 Convent Ave. 6:3— 9:30pm FREE. Maynard Jackson Jr. was the first Black Mayor of a major southern city, Atlanta. The Obama before Obama. In 1968 after the assassinations of MLK Jr. and Robert Kennedy, he announced

Saturday, August 31st Empire, Militarization, and Popular Revolt in Africa The People’s Forum 320 W. 37th St., Manhattan, 2-5:15pm, FREE. This conversation with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement explores the themes of imperialism, militarization, police/carceral state, and resistance across the African continent. The aim is to make broader regional and transnational connections with struggles elsewhere in order to build cross-regional solidarity. Each panel will consist of short presentations to ensure time for meaningful discussion and the opportunity to share/ learn from our diverse experiences working on these themes in different contexts. MC poet Waseem is the featured guest for the open mic.

➔➔ Continued from page 10 TRACY L. DURRAH 708 GREENE AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11221 SABRINA MORRISON 16 HARTE PLACE PISCATAWAY, NJ 08854 SONIA M. ALLEN 102-27 186TH ST HOLLIS, NY 11423 TRACY M. DUNHAM 438 CHAUNCY ST BROOKLYN, NY11233 CAROL A. PEDLER 115 SHAWNEE VALLEY DR EAST STROUDSBURG, PA 18302

expression. Themes of pain, healing, and hope are exemplified through a diverse range of artistic mediums. Through the artists’ eyes, we see present-day Rwanda, a modern nation looking toward a bright future. Featured artists are Idi Basengo, Seleman, Fabrice Girihirwe, Bruno Iradukunda, Paul Mugisha, Franck Mabano, Angelo Kwizera, Karan Wiseman, Celine Uwineza, Remy Iradukunda

CBFS Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan 6:30-8:30pm FREE. Killer cops, police brutality and mass incarceration are burning issues in Black America. But how did those problems develop, when did they begin, and who designed them? This roundtable discussion, including Max Felker Kantor, LaShawn Harris, and Naomi Murakawawill look at both liberal as well as conservative support for expanding criminalization and punishment during and since the civil rights movement – and the long struggle to challenge police brutality alongside it. Requests for American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation can be made by calling 212-340-0951 or 212-340-0909, or e-mail accessibility@nypl.org.

Saturday, September 7th Healthy NYC Expo Brooklyn Sports Club 1540 Van Siclen Ave. 10am-3pm FREE. Join special guest host Nikki Lucas former ENY District Leader at this event where the program includes: Exercise activities, nutrition information, a healthcare workshop, health screenings, live jazz, refreshments, giveaways and more. Sign up by calling 718-285-9351. Sponsored by Healer Within Foundation, NY Connects, New York for Seniors and others.

Sunday, September 8th Rwanda Retold: A Multimedia Art Exhibition MoCADA House Nolan

his candidacy for the Georgia U.S. Senate against known segregationist, Herman Talmadge. His loss ultimately ignited a movement in the south that was started by Dr. King then picked up by Maynard. The “enforcer” of affirmative action and voter turnout, Maynard crafted successful diversity, inclusion & engagement templates still practiced today, and transformed the reputation of Atlanta from the “heart of the confederate south” to a cosmopolitan world-class city. Join members of the production team. For this free screening.

ROBERTA J. ROSS 547 MADISON ST BROOKLYN, NY 11221

ROBERT GRIFFIN 100-18 199TH ST HOLLIS, NY 11423

JUSTIN EPPS 449 W HURON ST APT 1701 CHICAGO, IL 60654-1466

QUINTON WHEELER 254 W. TRENTON AVE APT B201 MORRISVILLE, PA 19067

RUTH SMITH 81 EAST 55TH ST BROOKLYN, 11203-2605

ALONZO R. HINES 325 CLINTON AVE APT 15A BROOKLYN, NY 11205

WADE BOWMAN 1324 CARROLL STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11213

ELIZABETH ROGERS 213 HOPKINSON AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11233

RUTH JACKSON 1200 EAST 53 STREET #6E BROOKLYN, NY 11234

GENEVA STOVALL 1468 BEACH CHANNEL DR APT 48 FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11631

ELIZABETH J. WALKER 276 SULLIVAN PL BROOKLYN, NY 11225-2905

A REPORT OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY WILL BE MADE TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO SECTION 301 OF THE ABANDONED PROPERTY LAW. A LIST OF THE NAMES

DEBORAH C. MCDONALD­ -MCCLAIN 107 MACON STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11216-2106 EVELYNA COPELAND P.O. BOX 3225 NEW YORK, NY 10008-3225 CARRIE THOMAS 550 GREENE AVE APT 6A BROOKLYN, NY 11216

MARBEREINE JOHNSON 336 STEGMAN PKWY 2ND FL JERSEY CITY, NJ 07305-1409

CONTAINED IN SUCH NOTICE IS ON FILE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF THE CREDIT UNION, LOCATED AT 833 GARDNER C. TAYLOR BOULEVARD, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11216, WHERE SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY. SUCH ABANDONED PROPERTY WILL BE PAID ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 31, 2019 TO PERSONS ESTABLISHING TO ITS SATISFACTION THEIR RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE SAME. IN THE SUCCEEDING MAY, AND ON OR BEFORE THE TENTH DAY THEREOF, SUCH UNCLAIMED PROPERTY WILL BE PAID TO THE COMPTROLLER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND SHALL THEREUPON CEASE TO BE LIABLE THEREFORE

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