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Cab drivers demand city’s support to meet wheelchair mandate

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE

richardk@thechiefleader.com

City cab drivers and their union say that proposed Taxi and Limousine Commission rules mandating that all new cabs need to be wheelchair accessible will bankrupt cabbies already burdened by plummeting income.

The TLC rules are designed to comply with a federal judge’s recent order that half of the city’s active taxi fleet be composed of wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs)

by March 31 of next year. The city agency must also ensure that 50 percent of all cabs, including those not in operation, are WAVs by the end of 2028, according to U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels, who has presided over the case since its inception.

The judge’s stipulations follow from the 2014 settlement of a class-action suit charging that the TLC was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, though, says the timeline is impractical and, for some drivers, even onerous. “We need a timeline that is sustainable, that is not going to crush our members,” the president of the Taxi Workers Alliance, Bhairavi Desai, told the TLC Oct. 10. “We believe in the accessibility mandate, but it cannot come at the expense of the drivers.”

Desai and a dozen or so yellow cab drivers had gathered outside the City Hall gates to address the TLC commissioners remotely during the

Courtesy of Vernon Geberth

Vernon Geberth as an NYPD tactical patrol officer. He later became an authority on homicide investigations.

He wrote the book on murder

BY ROBERT MLADINICH

Richard Khavkine/The Chief

Members of the Taxi Workers Alliance outside the City Hall gates on Broadway, from where they addressed the Oct. 10 meeting of the Taxi and Limousine Commission remotely. They were asking the commission to provide drivers increased support if they are to purchase wheelchair accessible vehicles, as mandated by a court order. Above, Richard Chow, an owner-operator of a yellow cab, and to his right, the union’s president, Bhairavi Desai. commission’s meeting since, Desai said, the TLC declined to allow in-person comments at its monthly meeting.

She and the drivers urged the TLC

to not eliminate a provision that al- ers will have to spend upward of lows older cabs to stay on the road $80,000 on an accessible vehicle, in beyond their mandatory retirement age as long as they pass inspection.

Without those exemptions, the drivSee TAXIS, page 2

Clerical local to hold election following administratorship are taking place. “They were upset at the time that the local was placed under administratorship,” she said For the first time since it was during a phone interview. placed under administratorship Lackhan said that, if elected, one over two years ago, District Council of his first goals is to focus on train37’s Local 1549 will hold elections ing shop stewards once they are for officer positions. elected. “Without shop stewards, Nominations took place Oct. 1 at the administration fails because a general membership meeting. Lo- that’s the first person the members cal 1549 represents more than 10,000 look to see,” he explained. clerical workers across the city, inEarlier this year, the union held cluding secretaries, clerical aides elections for chapter chairs and six and police communication techni- delegate positions, the latter won cians. by, among others, Lackhan, Carter, The local was placed under ad- Gates and Wang. ministratorship by the American Federation of State, County and Back to members Municipal Employees in September 2022 after a draft audit found Gutierrez noted that she wants to “serious” financial deficiencies and “bring back integrity and trust in “numerous violations of AFSCME’s the union” by advocating full transFinancial Standards code.” The parency. “I also want to establish local’s longtime president, Eddie a mentoring program — we need Rodriguez, and the union’s other to start bridging the gap between officers, were immediately removed the new generation and the senior from their positions, and Rodriguez members,” she said. was expelled months after the adLackhan said that he wants to ministratorship was imposed. increase member engagement and Two slates are running in the No- focus on training members on what vember election: the Members In to expect as a member and all of Charge slate, headed by Anthony the advantages that the union can Lackhan, and the Team Forward provide. “It makes you a stronger slate, which is headed by Deb- member, and it also helps to retain bie-Ann Gutierrez. Two other Local workers in the city,” he said.

1549 members, Alvin Carter and He noted that his parents were Nicole Gates, are running for presi- government workers in Trinidad, dent as independent candidates. and that other members of his famMembers In Charge’s William ily also work for the city. Lackhan Banfield is running for executive explained that he decided to run in price president against Vanessa this year’s election because “I want Reed of Team Forward, while MIC’s to make sure their healthcare and Honda Wang is challenging Team pension is taken care of.”

Forward’s Yolanda Holliday for the Gutierrez, who first became aclocal’s secretary-treasurer position. tive in the union when she ran to Lackhan and Wang brought the become a shop steward in 1996, charges against Local 1549’s officers said that one of the biggest issues that initially prompted AFSCME’s Local 1549 members are facing is draft audit of the local’s finances. short-staffing in nearly every city “I’m grateful to AFSCME for what agency. During her years on the they have done. But [what the elec- job, she said she’s witnessed many tion means] is that members will breaches of labor law, including actually have a choice,” Lackhan, contract violations. “It’s been chala longtime shop steward who has lenging. The union and managebeen a member of Local 1549 since ment need to have a partnership 2010, said during a phone interview. to find the best resolution for our Gutierrez, a grievance representa- members,” she said. tive who has been a member of the Wang, an analyst at the city’s local for 33 years, said that the members were “happy” that the elections See LOCAL 1549, page 3

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS

clewis@thechiefleader.com

Rebecca White/The Chief

Members of District Council 37’s Local 1549 will vote in the local’s first officer election since the union was placed under administratorship by its parent union AFSCME in 2022. Anthony Lackhan, who is running for president with the Members in Charge slate, will face off against Debbie-Ann Gutierrez of the Team Forward slate and independent candidates Alvin Carter and Nicole Gates.

INSIDE Teamsters locals are first unions to endorse for mayor

‘804’ and ‘808’ back Ramos for ‘loyalty to working class,’ p. 2

Council legislation looks to reform city bidding process

Unions say bills will bring overdue accountability to procurement, p. 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, p. 4 EXAMS FOR JOBS, p. 11 LABOR AROUND THE WORLD, p. 12

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Throughout the international law enforcement community, retired NYPD Lieutenant Commander Vernon Geberth is known as the “Godfather of Homicide” and “the cop who wrote the book on murder.”

Over the course of his stellar career, which began with his appointment to the NYPD in 1965, he personally investigated, supervised, assessed or consulted on over 8,000 death cases nationwide. As the commander of the Bronx Homicide Task Force, his unit averaged 400 murder investigations a year.

Geberth was the longtime primary instructor at the NYPD’s fabled homicide training course and in fact had written not one but several books on all aspects of murder investigations. Among the titles of his 10 textbooks are “Practical Homicide Investigation Checklist and Field Guide,” “Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques” and “Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigations and Autoerotic Deaths: Practical Forensic and Investigative Perspectives” with co-author forensic pathologist Amy Sauvageau.

Geberth spent his childhood in Mt. Vernon, where he developed his fierce work ethic. He served as an altar boy who once traipsed through a blizzard on foot to get to church on time, and worked as a newspaper delivery boy and lifeguard. He was also a Boy Scout and a bugle player for the VFW. For as long as he can remember, Geberth’s primary goal was to join the NYPD. To that end, he got himself appointed to the New York World’s Fair Police Department as a wide-eyed 21-year-old in 1964. The provisional department was composed of retired NYPD superior officers who told the young, ambitious Geberth “not to screw up” because he might get on the real job when his name came up.

Geberth was sworn into the NYPD in April 1965. Before he established himself as one of the nation’s leading authorities on homicide, he was a street cop, compiling a dizzying array of experiences. These included his tenure as a young officer in the NYPD’s legendary Tactical Patrol Force (TPF), an elite and incorruptible unit specifically created in 1959 to augment precinct personnel in crime-ridden communities and maintain crowd control during the violent protests of the late 1960s.

“I absolutely loved the spit and polish of the TPF,” said the now 81-year-old Geberth. “It was one of the only units you didn’t need a hook to get into. It was filled with gung-ho cops dedicated to doing good police work. It was like being in the Green Berets as opposed to the regular Army. In my opinion, it was the best unit the NYPD ever put together.”

In April 1971, Geberth was in his personal car returning from See GODFATHER, page 6

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Teamsters locals first to endorse for mayor Say Senator Ramos is ‘loyal to the working class’

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN

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Eight months before what is shaping up to be a consequential primary, two Teamsters locals have already made their choice for mayor clear.

Representatives from International Brotherhood of the Teamsters locals 804 and 808 last week gathered at 808’s Long Island City union hall to endorse State Senator Jessica Ramos, the chair of that’s chamber’s Labor Committee. In doing so, they became the first labor unions representing workers in New York City to endorse a candidate.

Among the bills and initiatives Ramos has shepherded that received the support of the Teamsters locals are last year’s legislation increasing the minimum wage and the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which directly benefited the United Parcel Service warehouse workers in Local 804. She’s also pushed Teamster-supported legislation to protect workers from extreme temperatures and another bill aimed at preventing warehouse workers from sustaining injuries on the job.

But Chris Silvera, the secretary treasurer of Local 808, said that while Ramos’ “meaningful” actions in Albany were a major factor in the local’s backing of the Queens lawmaker, her labor background and the relationship she’s built with the Teamsters in the last two decades were just as important. Ramos’ commitment to unions and the working class, he said, sets her apart from the many “political hacks and political players” he’s met in 34 years as Local 808’s secretary-treasurer.

“I met her when she was a con-

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State Senator Jessica Ramos with leadership of Teamster locals 804 and 808, who endorsed her last week. The two unions are the first to endorse a candidate for the Democratic Party primary for mayor scheduled for next June. tributor in a meaningful way on the grassroots level,” Silvera said at the union hall. “She’s always remaining loyal to the working class.”

Among other pro-worker and pro-labor bills Ramos has pushed for are safety protections for construction, retail and warehouse workers, improved unemployment benefits for immigrant workers and harsher penalties for wage theft.

Ramos also has a background working for prominent unions in the city; spending three years as a communications staffer for Local 371 of District Council 37, the Social Service Employees Union, and four with Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ. Silvera represents around 1,500

members, half of whom, like the longtime union leader, work as track maintainers for Metro-North Railroad. The other half of the membership are building service workers at Peter Cooper Village and several other communities.

Local 804, a much larger local, represents more than 8,000 drivers, warehouse workers and other UPS employees across the five boroughs and Long Island.

working people.”

“There is no question that she will be a good mayor for working New Yorkers.”

Tony Rosario, a former UPS driver who is now an organizer in Local 804, said that Ramos has advocated for fired Local 804 members and attended rallies during the union’s contract campaign last summer.

“She shows up every time we need her,” he told the union officials and members Oct. 8. “I am definitely in favor of [Ramos] and all she’s ‘She shows up’ done for us, and I know the rest of Josh Pomeranz, Local 804’s di- 804 is too.” rector of operations, said after anRamos said that the two early lanouncing the endorsement that bor endorsements “show New YorkRamos “has been so consistent ers who I am, that I have the best and unwavering in her support for intentions for working families and

that I’m going to work as hard every day as they do.”

“I’m the real labor candidate in this race,” she said.

In another sign of her focus on the labor vote, Ramos has hired Charlene Obernauer, the former executive director of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, as her campaign manager.

The contest to be the Democratic Party’s standard bearer — and, as seems increasingly probable, the city’s next mayor — is still some distance away, and the race’s dynamics are sure to shift.

Much, of course, will depend on whether Mayor Eric Adams is among those vying for the nomination. Should he resign in the wake of his federal corruption indictment or be forced out of office, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams would take his place and quickly schedule a nonpartisan special election to be held within 80 days. If Adams leaves office after March 25, Williams would serve out the rest of his term and the June primary and November general election would go ahead as scheduled.

Another potential scrambler to the race would be the entry of former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is said to be plotting a comeback from his 2021 resignation.

Silvera, the Local 808 leader, said that he would never support Cuomo because of the former governor’s difficult relationship with the Working Families Party and his periodic “threats” to certain unions.

He doesn’t think the city has gotten better under Adams either, but believes that Ramos could make a difference.

“She has never wavered,” Silvera said. “It’s time for New York not to elect a billionaire, not to elect a popular politician, but to elect someone who came up through a union.”

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Measure calls on hospitals, others to contract with industrial launderers that follow labor law

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS

clewis@thechiefleader.com

Amid concerns that a laundry cleaning company that is contracted with several health care facilities across the city has endangered workers, a City Council resolution introduced last week would call on hospitals to contract with industrial laundry companies that uphold labor, safety and wage laws.

Laundry workers at FDR Services Corp. have alleged for years that they have been forced to work in sweatshop-like conditions at the company’s factory on Long Island.

The company, which cleans and delivers linens for several hospitals and nursing homes in the city, including Richmond University Medical Center and, until last January, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, has also failed to settle a contract on behalf of the 175 employees, whose previous pact expired in 2017.

The resolution, introduced by Council Member Carmen De La Rosa Oct. 10, targets the Hempstead-based laundry provider, noting that while “most” industrial laundry operators serving hospitals in the city adhere to area standards, some have “repeatedly violated state and federal health, safety and labor laws.”

In 2019, FDR Services Corp. was fined $17,390 by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for five serious violations,

including failing to keep the floors in a clean and safe condition. And in 2021, State Attorney General Letitia James found that FDR had unlawfully fired seven employees who took off of work after they contracted Covid a year earlier. The AG’s office ordered the workers reinstated and recovered $400,000 from the laundry services provider.

The National Labor Relations Board has also investigated more than a dozen federal labor law violations at the company since 2018.

The Council’s resolution calls on health care facilities to “contract with industrial laundry companies that respect workers’ legal rights and adhere to area standards for wages and benefits.”

“FDR Services workers have blown the whistle on the horrific, abusive conditions they have faced.

These low-wage, Latina immigrants regularly handle contaminated hospital and nursing home linens far dirtier than household laundry,” De La Rosa said in a statement accompanying the resolution. “They have endured extreme heat, harsh chemicals, dangerous machines, rats, roaches, and lack of hot water.

Enough is enough. These workers deserve better. And so do all the patients, staff, and visitors at New York City hospitals and nursing homes who rely on the laundry and linen services provided by FDR Services.”

FDR Services Corp. did not return a request for comment.

The workers, who are represented by the Laundry, Distribution, and Food Service Joint Board, Workers United/SEIU, continue to call on FDR to settle a contract that restores the workers’ health care

benefits and improves safety and working conditions.

“We applaud New York City Member Carmen De La Rosa for introducing this bold resolution that supports worker justice and public health. FDR Services Corp. must stop endangering its employees and sign a new union contract immediately,” Megan Chambers and Alberto Arroyo, co-managers of the Laundry, Distribution and Food Service Joint Board, Workers United/SEIU, said in a joint statement.

“Our members worked through the worst of the pandemic, under horrific conditions, and they did so without a contract. These essential workers deserve to be treated fairly and with respect.”

They continued, “We urge all hospital and nursing home customers of FDR Services Corp. to support this campaign for worker justice and a fair new union contract. Better working conditions, including good healthcare, and improved job quality at FDR Services Corp. will also benefit the hospitals and nursing homes who rely on the services our members provide.”

Several elected officials, including State Senator Andrew Gounardes and City Council Member Alexa Avilés, also sent a letter to NYU-Langone last fall calling on the hospital to cut its financial ties with FDR. “I urge FDR Services Corp to negotiate a fair new union contract immediately with their workers. If FDR Services Corp fails to clean up its act, city hospitals and nursing homes should stop giving valuable healthcare dollars to this lawbreaking company,” De La Rosa said.

A City Council resolution introduced last week calls on health care facilities across the city to contract with laundry service providers that follow labor and safety laws. Members of the Laundry, Distribution, and Food Service Joint Board, Workers United/ SEIU rallied against alleged mistreatment of laundry workers employed by FDR Service Corp. at a press conference outside of NYU Langone HospitalBrooklyn in October 2023.

Council Member Alexa Avilés

some cases driving them further into debt, Desai said. The extensions also allow drivers to save money they can apply toward the purchase of new, accessible vehicles, she said.

The union leader said obliging drivers to buy new, accessible cabs disregards what has befallen the taxi industry in the last decade.

She noted that at the time the settlement was announced a decade ago, yellow cab drivers made nearly 500,000 daily trips.

That number was cut in more than half by the explosion of appbased ride services Uber and Lyft in the mid-2010s. The pandemic cut further into daily trips, such that yellow cabs now make fewer than 100,000 daily trips, Desai said.

Consequently, medallion owners, many of them operating their own cabs, have seen the average value of their medallions plunge from a high of over $1 million in 2013 to a low of under $80,000 in 2021, bankrupting some drivers or putting them severely in debt.

“We need you to understand that there’s hundreds of owner drivers who have yet to see their debt forgiven,” Desai said.

A debt-relief agreement secured by the Taxi Workers Alliance in 2021 and backstopped by a city guarantee covered nearly 6,000 drivers. Since then, the city has expanded the amount of debt relief available to drivers and medallion owners. The expansion of the Medallion Relief Program has brought $470 million in debt relief for over 2,050 medallions, according to the TLC. Desai, though, noting that the TLC’s Taxi Improvement Fund grant program has never been adjusted for inflation since its inception in 2016, urged the TLC to work to secure funding from the city, the state or even the federal government to help subsidize drivers’ transitions to WAVs. The fund provides medallion owners of grants of up to $14,000 to “hack-up” cars into taxis with the installation of roof lights, meters, partitions and other accessories, “They’re simply not enough,” Desai said of the grants. “We need more support.”

‘Impossible to survive’ Lansana Keita, who has been driving cab for nearly 24 years, recalled that nine drivers took their lives during a brief period before the pandemic when faced with crushing debt. He urged the TLC and the city to reform the grant model.

“These drivers, they are struggling. It’s not like the drivers are making money. They are struggling. The business is down 80 percent since 2014,” he said on the Broadway sidewalk before the TLC meeting got underway.

“No businessman will stay in

Richard Khavkine/The Chief

A member of the Taxi Workers Alliance outside the City Hall gates Oct. 10. business when your business is down 80 percent. It’s impossible to survive,” he said. Keita, who drives an accessible cab, said he works seven days a week and upward of 12 hours a day to make ends meet.

“They don’t want to end up being dependent,” he said of his fellow drivers. “They want to work and feed their families.”

Just 2 percent of cabs were wheelchair accessible about the time the suit was filed in 2011.

Nearly 4,000 yellow cabs, or 43 percent of the fleet’s 9,309 active cabs, are now accessible, according to the TLC. The TLC’s chair, David Do, noted that accessibility “is a core part” of the commission’s mission and that it has made “significant progress in building up an accessible fleet” in recent years, such that the fleet is the nation’s most accessible. He said that 90 percent of the time the average wait time for a WAV is at most 10 minutes.

But, noting the “fragile recovery” of the industry, he also acknowledged the challenge the court order poses for drivers, adding that TLC representatives had made that point in court.

“We told your stories, we told them that this would disproportionately impact drivers and that we just needed a little bit more time to meet this mandate,” Do said. He said the commission would consider upping the grants available to the Taxi Improvement Fund. But, he said, the TLC had no choice but to comply with Daniels’ order.

TLC Commissioner Paul Bader, noting the complexity of the matter, said it was clear that drivers need more support.

“The concerns that we’ve heard are legitimate concerns and I think it’s incumbent upon us to see as many options as we can come up with to alleviate some of these economic hardships that so many of these drivers are under and will continue to be under,” Bader said.

“I think we have responsibilities to both the disability community as well as to our drivers to try to find some solutions that will alleviate these hardships in as many ways as we can.”

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Construction unions hail legislation creating accountability within the city’s procurement process

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE

richardk@thechiefleader.com

Unions are cheering the passage of City Council legislation designed to create greater accountability within the construction bidding process.

The local law, which passed unanimously last Thursday, requires the city’s five-member Procurement Policy Board to establish procedures that will enable vendors or their reps to challenge procurement determinations.

Council Member Julie Won, the bill’s prime sponsor, said the legislation, formally known as Intro 803, would reform the city’s bidding process, which she suggested was open to manipulation.

“The current Adams administration has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in questionable contracts,” she said at Thursday’s press event preceding the Council’s meeting.

Won, the chair of the Council’s Committee on Contracts, cited a $150 million no-bid contract awarded to a company once owned by the former deputy mayor for public safety, Phil Banks III, to provide security at a migrant shelter, as well as a pay-to-play bribery scandal at NYCHA that implicated dozens of employees at the public housing corporation.

The Local 1010 Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, a labor-management partnership that advocated for the bill, lauded the legislation’s passage, saying it would open up the sometimes opaque procurement process to more eyes and put a halt to lowball bidders who undercut principled contractors. Unscrupulous bidders, unions say, win contracts only to shortchange workers eventually hired to do the work.

“Intro 803 is much-needed legislation that will combat the rampant instances of fraud and labor violations perpetrated by unscrupulous contractors who are awarded city contracts, and it will uplift workers —just what is needed to remedy this untenable situation. We look forward to its implementation,” Victor Rizzo, the director of Laborers Local 1010 LECET, said in a statement.

Noting that the legislation will

Department of Buildings

The City Council last week passed legislation its union backers said increases accountability and transparency within the construction bidding process. One of the bills requires the city’s five-member Procurement Policy Board to establish procedures that will enable vendors or their reps to challenge procurement determinations. give parties other than winning bidders the ability to review bid awards, LECET, in a release following the Council’s vote, said that labor organizations often have “a more complete picture or history” of how developers and contractors go about the procurement process.

“Bringing union know-how and knowledge to the table will help stop unscrupulous actors who take advantage of the bidding process and hard-working New Yorkers by holding them accountable for their past actions,” Gary LaBarbera, the president of the Building & Construction Trades of Greater New York, said, also in a statement.

who request it a written explanation when the city denies approval of a subcontractor.

The impetus for the bills, whose provisions go into effect in four months, came from the vendors themselves, Won said. She said Council members had heard complaints from contractors with a history of securing city contracts but who were denied renewals when they refused to drop a subcontractor at the request of a city agency “because of a variety of reasons.”

“Currently, the city is able to deny any subcontracts that they want with zero explanation,” she said.

Won said that a minimum of 20 percent of the municipal budget goes to outside contractors through 20% of budget the procurement process. “That That legislation is coupled to means that that’s at minimum $20 another Council bill, also passed billion going out on these city bids. unanimously Thursday, requiring We want to ensure legislatively that city agencies to provide contractors

FDNY

FDNY, city honor Bravest lost in the last year Family, friends, city officials and thousands of FDNY members gathered at the Firemen’s Memorial on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive Oct. 9 to commemorate and honor the 14 members of the department lost in the last year, among them two who died in the line of duty.

Among those honored were EMT Frederick D. Whiteside and Supervising Fire Marshal George E. Snyder Jr., both of whom died on duty.

Whiteside and Snyder had joined the department within days of each other in 2002, Whiteside in April of that year and Snyder in May. Snyder, 53, of Yonkers, suffered a cardiac episode Aug. 9 and died the next day. He began his career assigned to Engine 36 in Harlem.

He was assigned to the BFI Special Operations Command, where he led the Lithium-Ion Battery Task Force.

He was cited five times for meritorious acts throughout his 22-year career.

Whiteside, 43 and of Brooklyn, died Nov. 17 following cardiac arrest while working at a 911 Dispatch Center in the Bronx. He spent his career in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, working in EMS Division 2 and EMS Division 3. He had been working in EMS Dispatch since 2019.

During his commemorative address, FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker noted that the department

FDNY

continues to lose colleagues to the aftereffects of the September 11 terror attacks. More than 370 have died from WTC-related illnesses in the 23 years since then.

“The members we honor today were all selfless, amazing people who gave their lives in dedication to service of our city. Their sworn oath to serve and protect guided their every day, and we know they lived as they worked with honor and dignity. Let us pay tribute to them,” Tucker said. “Let us honor them.

We do that by honoring our traditions, by lining the streets in salute, by donning your uniforms and standing silently in respect for the families of the deceased. Be comforted in knowing that we do this every year in the same way with the same reverence.”

they are done fairly,” she said.

“These two bills will now provide an avenue where [scrupulous bidders] will have the time and the voice to be able to protest a denial, as well as every single agency will have a city contracting officer who will have to answer the questions, as well as protections for labor unions and others like nonprofits who are fearful of speaking up when they feel they were wrongfully taken away or denied a contract that they have long been awarded,” she said.

Together, the two bills bring “much needed transparency and accountability by protecting whistleblowers and allowing people to have a voice,” she said at Thursday’s Council meeting.

Won said the bills were “just the beginning” of the Council’s effort to reform the city’s contracting process.

LOCAL 1549: Election set Continued from Page 1 Campaign Finance Board, said he decided to run for secretary-treasurer for the Members In Charge slate because his job revolves around financial compliance and “what it means to have a fiduciary responsibility.”

He praised Lackhan for his activism in the union, including rallying members to vote against a dues increase that was proposed by the local in 2014, and noted that Gutierrez had ties to the previous administration because she was previously a sergeant-at-arms.

“The members have a choice to make. They have a choice between sticking with people affiliated with the old guard. Or they have the opportunity for a new slate that will empower the rankand-file members,” Wang said during a phone interview.

But Gutierrez clarified that she had no control over the union’s financial responsibilities in her position as sergeant-at-arms. “I was not a top officer; I was not part of those financial discussions,” she said. “The sergeant-at-arms keeps order during the meetings — that was my duty.”

She added that she was extremely proud of the diverse slate she had assembled, which includes members from a range of agencies, including the Human Resources Administration, the NYPD, 311, Health + Hospitals and the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings.

“I love my team — I’m humbled by and grateful for them. I’m just hitting the ground running and I’m looking forward to bringing the local back,” she said.

“When I win, I want my opposition team to join forces with me to bring back the local,” she added.

“And if I don’t win, I would want the opposition team to extend the same.”

Wang stated that his MIC slate is seeking to have a rank-and-file that is “organized enough to bargain for better raises and compressed work schedules and can leverage enough power to demand Tier 6 reforms.” Gutierrez noted that her Team Forward slate “was looking to move forward and expand the local’s membership.”

According to the local’s website, the voting period for the mail ballot election will run from Nov. 1 until Nov. 22, with the ballots expected to be counted that day.

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COMMENTARY REPORTS FROM THE FIELD by Denberg BEN AUGUST Publisher

RICHARD KHAVKINE Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ramos on the right side

Money makes money

To the editor: State Senator Jessica Ramos appears to be a very promising candidate for labor (The Chief, “State Senate labor chair applies for mayor’s job,” Sept. 27). Union leaders don’t always support the candidate who’s best for their workers’ interests. See the support many had for Mayor Adams’ push to privatize Medicare for city employees and his predecessor’s contracts that gave those workers real-money pay cuts.

But Ramos is on the right side on issues for working people. Supporting increases in the minimum wage, safety protections for construction and warehouse workers, improved unemployment benefits and harsher penalties for wage theft should be no-brainers for a political party that claims to be pro-worker.

The only advice I would give her is not to repeat the anti-police rhetoric of some so-called progressives.

But don’t advocate the continuation of Adams’ blind support for cops guilty of wrongdoing either. The police force should be increased and good cops should be supported while bad ones are fired.

As for “The benefits of a four-day work week,” (The Chief, same issue), besides burnout, people need more time to enjoy the life they actually work for.

Another no-brainer should be passing legislation that makes treating workers right mandated by law. The owners of 529 Fifth Ave. (“Cleaners at lux 5th Ave. digs rail against pay and benefit cuts,” same issue) would not be able to slash their employees’ salaries from $29 an hour to $16 if the minimum wage was $30 an hour.

If all citizens had the same complete government provided health coverage that other developed nations have, employers would not be able to take away workers’ health insurance. Also, a minimum amount of sick days for all workers should also be mandated by law.

To the editor: Bill Clinton’s mantra during his initial White House run was “it’s the economy stupid.” The nation was mired in a five-year long recession that began Oct. 19, 1987, “Black Monday.” On that day, the stock market dropped over 22 percent, the largest one-day loss in history.

Two decades later, on Sept. 15, 2008, history was repeating. The market fall was spread over a longer period of time, but the nadir was deeper. By March 2009, the stock market was down half from a year earlier. Both times millions of jobs, homes and life savings were lost; nearly nine million jobless and four million homes under foreclosure by the end of the Great Recession.

Why two-thirds of Americans classify today’s economy as bad is beyond me. Higher prices are painful, but low prices are little comfort when you’re out of work and your nest egg is gone.

What I hear from some is that working folks are facing real-world struggles. Really? My working-class parents faced real-world struggles every day of their lives.

That wasn’t a lifelong bad economy, it was the result of an unfair economic system.

As Ben Franklin noted “Money makes money. And the money that makes money, makes money.”

Nothing’s changed; corporate and investment earnings are setting records. Yet, workers still struggle waiting for the riches to “trickle down.”

The economy is great. U.S. GDP is $29 trillion and growing at a healthy 3 percent. Employment is at an all-time high and unemployment hovers around a 50-year low. What is, and has always been missing is a fair share of the pie for those who bake it. Maybe today’s mantra should be “it’s how the economy works stupid.” .

Richard Warren

Deluge of disinformation

To the editor: How stupid does one have to be to believe Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s statement, “Yes, they (the Democrats) can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” “Stupid” is what President Joe Biden called Greene’s ludicrous lies that go beyond Chicken Little’s warning that “The sky is falling.”

If anyone believes Greene, they are loyal members of the Trump cult who believe anything Trump or his acolytes tell them, no matter how crazy it is.

Donald Trump is using the last few weeks before the election to promote lies and disinformation relating to the huge hurricane relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Trump’s lies are dangerous and cruel, and graphically display his hypocritical use of projection. For instance, in 2019, Trump moved $150 million targeted for FEMA to support his horrific immigration enforcement.

Among Trump’s lies are that flood victims’ property has been Joseph Cannisi confiscated, that victims of the hurricanes will only receive $750,

that there is anti-Republican bias in the response to North Carolina, and that Kamala Harris has spent all of her FEMA money on illegal immigrants she expects will vote for her.

Biden has called Trump’s lies bizarre and un-American, and in response to a reporter’s question whether he has asked Trump to stop the lies, he said, “Are you serious?”

Trump’s mental and verbal gaffes have increased in pace with his lies. He is unfit for the presidency. The legitimate media should stop treating Donald Trump as if he were a respectable candidate for public office.

Michael J. Gorman

The defense rests To the editor: This will be my last letter on January 6 but there is a reply to “Capitol Offense” (The Chief, letter, Oct. 10) I cannot ignore.

The commenter suggests “like most Republicans,” I “tuned out or dismissed the January 6 hearings as partisan.” This is simply untrue.

While I could keep this private

if I chose, I am not a registered Republican. I do not vote the party. I vote the candidate. I’ve voted for Democrats, Republicans and Independents.

Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the darkest moments in our history. It is indefensible to attempt to use mob rule to overturn the decisions of our courts or encourage others to do so. There is nothing partisan about investigating domestic terrorists. None of my letters defend Donald Trump.

All I am saying is no matter how much Trump incited the mob to riot, the blame is not solely his. His followers could have ignored him.

They could have engaged in peaceful protest outside the Capitol.

Even their forming a miles-long caravan on the Van Wyck Expressway, while inconveniencing those traveling north, was legal. The decision to illegally storm the Capitol was solely their decision.

It’s fine to disagree with me. But it isn’t OK to use snippets from my letters out of context, infer things about me that aren’t true, and accuse me of defending what I unequivocally do not.

Nat Weiner

Where is Harris’ support for organized labor?

BY CARTER MYERS-BROWN While the National Labor Relations Board gained strength under President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris’ election would not guarantee its continued support for organized labor.

Upon taking office, Biden swiftly removed Trump-appointed Peter Robb as NLRB general counsel and replaced him with Jennifer Abruzzo. Abruzzo revitalized the board, aggressively targeting anti-union practices, particularly at companies like Starbucks, earning her the reputation of leading the most zealous board since its creation under FDR. Yet, throughout her campaign, Harris has not consistently signaled strong backing for organized labor. Her economic platform, geared more toward centrists and corporate donors, largely sidesteps labor issues. With the nomination of Tim Walz as her running mate, Harris appears to be banking on “Union Joe’s” legacy without fully embracing labor solidarity herself.

This strategy risks alienating key voter demographics, particularly in states where workers feel abandoned by the Democratic Party.

Under the Biden administration, the NLRB aggressively countered union-busting efforts. Abruzzo worked to reverse the pro-management stance of her predecessor, bolstering the enforcement of labor laws and expanding protections for workers. She interpreted the Wagner Act broadly, advocating for college athletes to be recognized as employees and that immigrant workers have the right to organize, regardless of immigration status.

Abruzzo also pushed for harsher penalties for employers who violate labor laws. In one landmark case, the board in 2021 also ruled

that Starbucks must reopen several stores in Buffalo after the company closed them in response to unionization efforts at the locations and refusing to negotiate with the union representing the workers. The case led to national unionization efforts for Starbucks employees.

Abruzzo’s work signaled a broader shift toward pro-labor policies under the Biden administration, marking a departure from the Trump administration’s focus on management interests.

But Harris’ election provides no assurance of continued pro-labor trends. Her “Opportunity Economy” plan emphasizes support for small business owners, middle-class tax cuts and affordable housing but largely omits discussion of unions and the PRO Act. The New York Times reported that Harris, at a rally last month in Pittsburgh, “paraphrased Warren Buffett, cited a survey of top economists and praised entrepreneurs in language that echoed Republican Senator Mitt Romney’s presidential run a dozen years earlier.”

Her language, emphasizing competition and individual success, is aimed at moderates, corporate donors and business interests rather than working-class voters. Notably, she did not mention unions once in her convention speech, raising concerns that under her administration, the NLRB could return to the toothless agency it often was in the past. If Harris continues her corporate-friendly agenda once elected, she would exacerbate the board’s biggest flaw: the inability to prohibit large corporations from violating labor law.

Harris’ hesitance to adopt a strong pro-labor stance may be influenced by her donor base. As a former California senator, she has a

Her language, emphasizing competition and individual success, is aimed at moderates, corporate donors and business interests rather than working-class voters.

Daniel DeSlover/Sipa USA via AP Images

Vice President Kamala Harris during a Democratic campaign rally on Sept. 20, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin. relationship to Silicon Valley. Politico reported that about $12 million of the $59 million she raised in the first 10 days after Biden dropped out of the race July 21 was from California donors, with $242,000 coming from Google employees, $170,000 from Apple employees, and $81,000 from Meta employees.

The influence of wealthy donors on Harris’ campaign is increasingly evident. Prominent supporters such as Reid Hoffman and Barry Diller have reportedly suggested they would pressure Harris to remove Lina Khan, the progressive chair of the FTC. Similarly, Mark Cuban has tried to influence her by pushing for the removal of SEC Chair Gary Gensler, even nominating himself as Gensler’s replacement.

These moves reflect the fear among some donors that Harris’s campaign may be vulnerable and present an opportunity to shift her away from Biden’s labor-friendly policies toward a more corporate-friendly stance. Cuban reinforced this perception during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”

program, he said, “she is pro-business, going center 100 percent.”

With limited time to raise funds and mobilize support, Harris may find it difficult to resist the influence of big capital. However, this strategy assumes she can inherit Biden’s labor-friendly image without fully embracing it.

Harris seems to hope that her selection of Tim Walz as vice president will assuage concerns about her labor stance. As governor of Minnesota, Walz built a strong pro-labor record, expanding paid family and medical leave, strengthening collective bargaining rights, appointing a labor lawyer to lead the state Department of Labor and Industry, and prohibiting employers from mandating anti-union meetings.

The highlight of his tenure was the passage of S.F 3035, which The New Republic’s Timothy Noah described as a “mini-PRO Act.” It outlawed captive audience meetings during union drives and banned non-compete clauses in employment contracts.

This record led to public declarations of support from labor leaders: The president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Kenneth Cooper, declared, “By choosing [Walz] as her running mate, Kamala Harris proves she is committed to continuing President Biden’s pro-union legacy.” Yet, like Harris, Walz avoided mentioning unions in his convention speech, seeding doubt into his willingness to champion organized labor on the national level.

Meanwhile, Harris is struggling to garner the same level of working-class support that Biden achieved in 2020. Recent polls show that 49 percent of households earning under $50,000 back Harris, compared to Biden’s 55 percent in 2020.

Likewise, Harris has 42-percent support among voters without a college degree, while Biden secured 48 percent from this group in the previous election.

While Harris certainly needs working-class support to become president, the NLRB goes beyond the election. The board already suffers from a lack of funding, and if the Democrats lose control of the Senate, Abruzzo could be replaced in 2025, weakening the board’s power.

The NLRB has been battling the conservative-majority Supreme Court for authority, which historically has been as important in regulating labor rights as the executive branch. Especially with Elon Musk and others litigating the constitutionality of the board, organized labor, of course, must strengthen coalitions, but perhaps more importantly, pressure Harris to ensure an aggressive NLRB General Counsel like Abruzzo.

If Harris is to win in November, she needs to not only build her own agenda and relationship to organized labor, but speak it to the public.

Carter Myers-Brown is a New Yorkbased essayist who writes about labor policy, the environment and social movements.

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COMMENTARY WAKE-UP CALL

Can the system breathe?

not as much by Neely himself as by human indifference masquerading as sound public policy, which ​The trial of Daniel Penny begins zealously protects the right of soon. Two years have passed since judgment-compromised people to the Marine Corps veteran choked destroy themselves.

Jordan Neely to death on a subway In recent decades, there has been train. Motive of action and degree a precipitous drop in the number of intention are yet to be deterof hospital beds for psychiatric mined. patients. Thousands of beds have The victim had reportedly acted been decertified, especially in New “hostile and erratic” and threw York City, where the number is lutrash and threatened passengers, dicrously inadequate. Politicians some of whom perceived they were have scored brownie points with in danger. Judging from their narcivil libertarians who tout “comratives, that would be natural. munity-based services” over hosNeely was not in possession of pital settings, which they equate a weapon and at no time did he or with imprisonment when it is inanybody else claim that he was, but voluntary. he clearly expressed readiness to Manhattan District Attorney commit grievous bodily self-harm.

Alvin Bragg and Daniel Penny’s He was unmistakably at a breaking defense attorney have clashed over point. whether Neely’s psychiatric histoDaniel Penny sized up Neely to ry and use of powerful synthetic be more than an anti-social nuicannabinoids should be raised at sance. He succumbed to the drama trial. They have both calculated of the moment, and Neely suctheir positions based on the odds cumbed to Penny’s neutralization of getting an acquittal or convicof what may or may not have been tion, rather than weighing whether an imminent menace to other passuch clarifying information might sengers. advance understanding.

Witnesses were traumatized yet Both have priorities that superrelieved. sede the interests of pure justice.

Penny insists that his intervenMichael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Images A judge ruled that Penny’s statetion was solely to keep the peace ments to police could be heard and avert injury and spiraling Daniel Penny, 24, being escorted by the NYPD after turning himself into the 5th Precinct in Lower Manhattan in May 2023 by the jury. Bragg seeks to block mayhem. Passengers overwhelm- after being charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely. witnesses from testifying about ingly, if not unanimously, viewed as taught in the military, to law was Black, and the perpetrator was Neely’s mental and drug abuse hisPenny’s initiative as civic-minded avenging vigilante?

I’m not schooled in the fine enforcement and in children’s jiu- white, that the tragedy was fueled tory and his dozens of prior arrests and rational.

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Sinai graduate workers form union

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS

clewis@thechiefleader.com

Graduate workers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have voted in favor of unionizing.

About 90 percent of the grad workers who participated in the vote supported unionizing, with 218 voting yes and 24 voting no, according to the Oct. 9 tally conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.

The vote concluded late last month.

Their union, the Sinai Student Workers-UAW, represents approximately 300 researchers in the biomedical sciences and neuroscience programs at Sinai. A majority of the student workers signed union authorization cards during the spring of 2023, and filed for a union with the NLRB that summer. The workers are seeking better pay, health care benefits and job protections.

“After many months of organizing, countless conversations with our colleagues, and more than a year of delays by Sinai, we are excited to announce that we have won

our union,” Sanutha Shetty, a grad student in the neuroscience program, said in a statement. “With a clear majority of eligible student workers voting yes, we have sent an unambiguous message to Sinai that they should respect our vote and start bargaining with us.”

In recent years, the unionization rate among graduate workers has grown dramatically across the country. By January of this year, about 38 percent of graduate student workers belonged to a union, according to data from the National Education Association, the largest union representing educators. The number of grad students represented by a union grew 133 percent between 2012 and this year.

“We have already seen the power of organized researchers at major research institutions to dramatically improve their working conditions, including right here in NYC with our postdoc colleagues at Mount Sinai, and student workers at Columbia University, NYU, and more,” Shetty said. “We’re proud

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• Local travel. Rental landlords are entitled to a tax deduction whenever they drive anywhere for their rental property. For example, when you drive to your rental building to deal with a tenant complaint or go to the hardware store to purchase a part for a repair, you can deduct your travel expenses.

• Long distance travel. If you travel overnight for your rental activity, you can deduct your airfare, hotel bills, meals, and other expenses.

• Casualty and theft losses. If your rental property is damaged or destroyed from a sudden event like a fire or flood, you may be able to obtain a tax deduction for all or part of your loss. These types of losses are called casualty losses. How much you may deduct depends on

how much of your property was destroyed and whether the loss was covered by insurance.

• Insurance. You can deduct the premiums for insurance for your rental activity. This includes fire, theft and flood insurance, as well as landlord’s liability insurance.

• Legal and professional fees. You can deduct fees you pay for attorneys, accountants and property management companies.

You can deduct these fees as operating expenses as long as the fees are paid for work related to your rental activity.

Rental income and expenses are generally reported on Form 1040, Schedule E, Supplemental Income and Losses. You can write off a loss on a rental property as long as you meet income requirements and actively participate in rental activities. Active participation in a rental is as simple as placing ads, setting rents, or screening prospective tenants. If you are married filing jointly and your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) is $100,000 or less, you can deduct up to $25,000 rental losses. For example: Let’s say that for the year rental receipts are $12,000 and expenses total $15,000, resulting in a $3,000 loss. If your MAGI is below $100,000, you can deduct the full $3,000 loss. If you’re in the 25-percent bracket, a $3,000 loss reduces your tax bill by $750, plus any applicable state income taxes.

There are a lot of good reasons to own rental property. Many people invest so that their money will grow, so it will provide income, or to take advantage of the tax-break opportunities.

For more information on rental income and expenses, see IRS Publication 527, “Residential Rental Property.”

Barry Lisak is an IRS enrolled agent specializing in personal and small business taxes for 30 years. Any questions can be directed to him at 516-829-7283, or mrbarrytax@aol.com.

to be part of the movement to raise standards across the sector, and we are looking forward to negotiating a strong first contract.”

The union noted that the grad students had to overcome several roadblocks to vote, including that management at Sinai challenged the eligibility of “every single student worker on the voter list,” SSUUAW wrote on social media. Sinai officials also filed a legal appeal a day before voting started opposing an NLRB ruling that determined that the student workers are, in fact, employees, according to the union.

Mount Sinai did not immediately return a request for comment.

“This victory was worker-led and hard fought,” said Brandon Mancilla, director of UAW Region 9a. “We welcome these workers into the growing UAW family. And we look forward to standing with them as we fight together for a strong first contract that achieves what they deserve and continues to raise standards for academic workers across the U.S.”

Courtesy Sinai Student Workers-UAW

Graduate student workers who pushed for more than a year to unionize won a vote to form the Sinai Student Workers-UAW last week, according to the union.

About 90 percent of those who participated in the vote voted in favor of joining the union. The student workers hope to bargain with Mount Sinai management to improve their salaries and healthcare.

GODFATHER: He wrote the book on murder “I was like a kid in a candy shop,” said Geberth. “I was fascinated court on his day off when he wit- with the work. I learned from the nessed three mobsters abduct a di- A team of investigators and began amond merchant on a Little Italy going to the library on my days off street corner. He engaged the kid- to learn all I could about gathering nappers in a high-speed car chase forensic evidence and investigating that ended with a shootout and the all aspects of homicides. I created merchant’s rescue. One suspect was checklists, which would later be the arrested at the scene. The other two, nucleus of my first book. There was one of whom was wounded by Geb- no Google then and everything was erth, managed to escape, and were on index catalog cards.” never apprehended.

About six years later, Geberth ‘Working for God’ was contacted by a friend in the InAfter being assigned to two Bronx telligence Division who was monitoring an organized crime wiretap. detective squads, Geberth was evenAccording to written accounts, the tually promoted to lieutenant comsubject of the wire, a still relative- mander of Bronx Homicide, which ly unknown up and coming mob- he describes as the “epitome of my ster named John Gotti, “alluded career.”

“I got better and better at underto his near capture by some crazy cop with a siren in his personal car standing the psychology associated that chased him and his partners with murder and the follow-up inthrough Little Italy after a jewelry vestigation,” said Geberth. “It was heist. He couldn’t believe the balls my passion.”

Geberth headed up the investigaof this maniac.”

Geberth was promoted in 1971 tion involving Larry Davis, a susand returned to TPF as a squad pect in multiple homicides who shot sergeant, before moving into the and wounded six police officers who Organized Crime Control Bureau’s came to question him in November Special Investigations Unit and onto 1986. Davis managed to escape from the scene of the shooting but was Manhattan North Narcotics.

He was ultimately assigned to the captured after a 17-day manhunt.

7th Homicide Division in the South The politically charged case caused Bronx. Comprising six square miles an abundance of internecine squabcovering just four precincts, the bles so Geberth chose to retire on unit handled up to 225 homicides a a high note after Davis’s apprehension. year.

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Courtesy of Vernon Geberth

The Geberth Blue Bloods: Ret. Lt. Commander Vernon Geberth with, from left, grandson Thomas, an NYPD detective; son Vernon, a retired NYPD detective; and grandson James, an NYPD officer. Thomas is wearing the same detective shield as his father and grandfather.

Since then, Geberth has conducted worldwide seminars, consulted with police agencies around the globe, and is a charter member of many associations and commissions, including the International Homicide Investigators Association, the United States Association of Professional Investigators and the New York State Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence Fatalities.

He has served on the faculties of Mercy College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the University of Delaware and Northwestern University. In addition, Geberth has consulted with state and federal agencies and major media outlets on many serial killers, including Dennis Rader, who was known as the BTK Killer for Bind, Torture and Kill. Rader, a dogcatcher and compliance officer in Park City, Kansas, murdered at least 10 people between 1974 and 1991.

Among the many other subjects assessed by Geberth was John Robinson, a prolific con man and first known serial killer to use the Internet to lure a minimum of seven lonely women into his web of deceit in the Midwest, and the cannibalistic Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed at least 17 men in Milwaukee between 1978 and 1991.

Geberth insists he is not responsible for the moniker “Godfather of Homicide,” saying he was christened with it while discussing a serial killer case on Fox News.

Geberth has been married to his wife Laura for 60 years, and they are the parents of four children and grandparents to 14. One son, Vernon, retired from the NYPD as a detective assigned to the Joint Terrorist Task Force. Another son, Robert, retired as an Investigator with the New York State Police.

One of Geberth’s favorite mantras is that homicide investigators are the “good guys” and “we work for God,” which he maintains to this day.

“Law enforcement is an honorable and noble profession,” said Geberth. “Police officers, like military officers, priests and ministers have a calling. A calling or vocation that often transcends their own careers and personal life. We, in homicide, have a mission. Our mission is to bring justice to the deceased and their surviving family. If that’s not God’s work, I don’t know what is.”

REAL ESTATE

Are you eligible for STAR credit?

BY MATHEW JOSEPH IF YOU OWN a home that is your primary residence and your income is $500,000 or less, you’re eligible for the Basic STAR credit. In addition, if you’re 65 or older with an income of $98,700 or less, you may be eligible for the Enhanced STAR credit. Eligible new homeowners will receive their STAR savings in the form of a check or direct deposit directly from New York State.

But you must register with the New York State Tax Department to receive the credit. You can register 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at www.tax.ny.gov/star.www.tax. ny.gov/starwww.tax.ny.gov/star.

Property owners without access to the internet can register by phone at 518-457-2036 weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

In the first year of your new home, you may receive the prior owner’s STAR exemption. In future years, as long as you’re eligible, you’ll receive a STAR credit

payment. You don’t need to register again. Before you register, have this information available: • Names and Social Security numbers for all owners of the property and their spouses • The name of the school district where your primary residence is located • The approximate date you purchased the property, and the name of the sellers • The most recent school tax bill, if you received one • The address of any residential property owned in another state • If the property is owned in trust, the legal name of the trust • Federal or state income tax returns for all owners (if you didn’t file a tax return, you’ll be asked to provide financial information for all property owners.

Mathew Joseph is a real estate tax consultant. He can be reached at 929-393-5773 or realtorplus1@ yahoo.com.

42 names added to NYPD memorial wall In a brief, solemn ceremony in Battery Park City Tuesday morning, NYPD officers and officials paid tribute to the 42 police officers who died in recent years, many of 9/11-related illnesses.

Among those whose names have been etched into the NYC Police Memorial’s green granite wall at Liberty Street and South End Avenue were those of Officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed on March 25 in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Diller, 31, a member of the 105th Precinct’s Community Response Team, was shot and killed after he and other officers approached an illegally parked car in Far Rockaway, Queens. The officer was shot once in the stomach by a man with 21 prior arrests. Despite being mortally wounded, Diller was able to wrestle the gun away from the shooter before the man was shot by police.

Detective Troy Patterson was similarly honored. Patterson, 27, was shot Jan. 16, 1990 and died of his injuries April 29, 2023. The officer was killed while off-duty by one of a group of teenagers as he washed his car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

“We as a city, we sit under the tree of freedom because the 42 men and women watered that tree with their blood,” Mayor Eric Adams said during the ceremony, hosted annually by the Battery Park City Authority.

The memorial, dedicated in October 1997, commemorates the members of the NYPD who lost their lives while in the line of duty. More than 1,000 names, reordered chronologically back to 1849, are etched on the wall.

Photos by Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

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Ms. James won herstate first he come from Brooklyn, and trict includes part of Queens she sa Adding intrigue is the posly in key Long Island races. since she became Governor narrowly gained re-election might need just 25 permembers.” it comes to bathroom breaks — a hint that ‘Failed Against COVID’ whose strong advocacy for try to be Republican Lite, and under pressure. who in addition to his she said, “If he runs again, movement for what would become the LedAt the Forbes Women’s Summit in 2021, my lifetime.” union “has failed us after Mr. Cuomo’s resignation last ut Con- sibility case, she noted, he ran for that that Mr.ifWilliams, “Thethe Democrats very often year, and Mr. Jacobs, of voters the vote to prevail, City Council race in 2003 cent black from thedoes, borpart of Nassau for D sibility that Families Mr. Williams, “The very often after Cuomo’s resignation last year, and Jacobs, cent ofshe the vote to prevail, lawmakers mightand need to intervene toCounty. fill it. the Working Party Iinreally thinkagainst that was part Mr.Mr. Williams’s entry, she Ledbetter party position is his Nassau he could win, but if he better Act. said oneMr. of the achievements The sense urgency among advocates the fight COVID, hances whose State Attorney General and try strong advocacy for to beDemocrats Republican Lite, andof under pressure. who in addition to state she said, “Ifbeen he runs again, ‘Failed Against interest COVID’ running solely on the WFP ough have key parts of the He has expressed in ton—I whose strong advocacy for try to be Republican Lite, and under pressure. who in addition to his state she said, “If he runs again, ‘Failed Against COVID’ In its ruling, court wrote that “Swiss Michael Shulman of the last year helped keep its and the problem,” the Public said during a Nov.entry, 17 phone Democratic Chairman, has he faces impeachment.”

“She sparked aitmovement changed failed to reduce class size, atorial the won, although the continumost proud of was that the Ledbetter act deepened after an annual report from the Working Families Party Iof really think that was part Mr. Williams’s she was party position is Nassau he could win, but if he does, line, but Mr. Williams is con- he their bases. running, although he figures to lean the Working Families Party IAdvocate really was part Mr.during Williams’s she party position is Nassau could win, but ifdoes he law not the right of employees failed tothink fight to improve our said ingface legal trouble him New slate believed ballot line despite akeep change toldthat WPIX morninterview, “changes things for passed endorsed Hochul, raising That would not bedoes, themention the ofhelped pay equity forever,” said. last year itfacing its she of the problem,” the Public a Nov.entry, 17 phone Democratic Chairman, has faces impeachment.”

Shulman of the rather with Ms. bipartisan support.

Census Bureau last month found that the sidered clearly to her left po- he toMichael beAction competing for many last year helped it keep its of the problem,” the Public said during a Nov. 17 phone Democratic Chairman, has he faces impeachment.”

Michael Shulman the to go to the toilet, even though this is aofbasic unequal pensions, failedgapinterview, o other ballot from his handling of nursthat the union “has failed us bent i in theJanuary, threshold for aminor po- Biden ing co-anchor Danand Mannathe Governor.

She can focus further questions about Concase, she noted, if he ran for line despite change Advocate told gender WPIX morn“changes things for The endorsed Ms. Hochul, raising That would not be the New Action slate believed In President Joe marked law set an important precedent “for wage between men and women litically.Ms. He Hochul, made that clear Lets Hochul ‘Moderate’ of theAction same more-moderate ballot line despite a change Advocate told WPIX morninterview, “changes things for endorsed raising That would not be the New slate believed against abusive adminismake in ing-home residents during physiological need.” the threshold for minor po-lawing co-anchor Dan Mannathe Governor.

She can focus further questions about Concase, she noted, if he ran for that the union “has failed us can w in the fight against COVID, litical parties to clear—from rino.

“Bail reforms are not more on moderate voters upgressman Suozzi’s chances State Attorney General and the 15th anniversary of the named after ensuring that don’t just have the promwidened for the first time in 20 years.

In 2023, during anweappearance on case, Democratic voters who will in the threshold for minor poing co-anchor Dan Mannathe Governor.

She can focus further questions about Conshe noted, if he ran for that the union “has failed us trators.

Wereforms need proactive ocrats’ litical the early days ofvotes—apthe pan- to Singer isthe not in alone, though not clear parties tonew clear—from rino.

“Bail are not full more on moderate voters up- isegressman Suozzi’s Attorney General fight against COVID, failed to part reduce class size, during 50,000 to 130,000 connected to thea increase state and on Long and inofWPIX-11 aequal crowded gubernatorial won, although the continuLedbetter with measures help close pay thechances books but State we “His have a women working time 83Island cents on theon morning after voters are many ofand bethe a key ofit’s Ms. Hochul’s litical parties to clear—from rino.

“Bail reforms are not state more on earned moderate voters up- in gressman Suozzi’s chances State Attorney General and failed in the fight against COVID, union that fights toincrease improve in the 50,000 demic could turn toxic for his connected to 130,000 votes—apto thearound and onpeople Long Island and a crowded gubernatorial won, although the continuto reduce class size, how widespread such policies are.

Two subfailed to fight to improve our Count proved in 2019 by a special in crime here or the the kind of I represent” primary. ing legal trouble facing him the gender wage gap, including a new rule announcing his candidacy, same people Tish James is base. way to enforce the law,” said Emily Martin, the dollar compared with men, down from 84 50,000 to 130,000 votes—apconnected to the increase state and on Long Island and in a crowded gubernatorial won, although the continufailed to reduce class size, our working conditions and ves. hopes of winning any office. proved 2019 by a government special in crimeconhere numbers or around the the of people I represent” primary. ing legal facing him failed to2006 fight to improve our Attorn sidiaries of the world-renowned Swatch unequal pensions, and failed electionin commission chaired country.

The show in akind district covering Staten chief Ms. Savino officer pointed tothe other from his trouble handling of nursshrugging off a question shooting for,” said State Sen. In a run for Goverbarring the federal from program at National Womcents in 2022. proved in 2019 by a special in crime here or around the the kind of people I represent” primary. ing legal trouble facing him failed to fight to improve our end ourThe segregated ing it,” election commission chaired country. numbers show in a district Staten Ms. pointed toworked other closely from hisSavino, handling nursunequal pensions, and failed Group also required to clock out for GOP about themight role Democrats Diane whoof has not nor, staffers the then-Nassau County against abusive adminisby a close Cuomo ally, State the recidivism rate [in school many Island and a covering piecehad of western reasons he not make ing-home residents during sidering a person’s current or past pay when LawSavino Center, which with Even before advocates been en’s election commission chaired country.

The numbers show then, in a district covering Staten Ms. Savino pointed tomake other ing-home from his handling ofduring nursunequal pensions, and failed system.” roblem by Won’t Leave Money Unspent? a close Cuomo ally, State the recidivism rate [in many Island and a piece of western reasons he might not residents against abusive adminisbathroom breaks, but the parent said it had trators.

We need a proactive Democratic Chairman Jay areas] has been lower than Brooklyn. the run related to Democrats’ the early days of the pandetermining their salary. by a close Cuomo ally, State the recidivism rate [in many Island and a piece of western reasons he might not make ing-home residents during against abusive adminisLedbetter. frustrated that wage gap improvement had Eric Severson added that shing- Democratic Jay areas] has been lower than Brooklyn. run related to Democrats’ early days oftoxic the panWe fights need of atoproactive been unaware such athat violation company union improve Jacobs, mightChairman be Ms. on that parbefore” those changes were Competition for those vo- the precarious majority in the the demic could turn for his of trators.

Democratic Chairman Jay advocates areas] has been lower than Brooklyn. the run to Democrats’ the early days of the trators.

Wefights need ato proactive But Ledbetter and other have is related really an inspiration showing mostly the last 20 years despite “UFT Solidarity’s logostalled is ‘we for going Jacobs, Regardless, Savino might be on that parbefore” those changes were Competition for from those vo- “She precarious majority in the indemic could turn toxic forpanhisimmediately union that policy — and stopped it. improve our working conditions and ty’s line for next November’s made. ters could come U.S. House of Representatives. hopes of winning any office.

Jacobs, might be on that parbefore” those changes were Competition for those voprecarious majority in the demic could turn toxic for his union that fights to improve long campaigned for the more comprehenhave your back.’

We believe there” ty’s said, she Mr. Cuo- made. how aof loss does not mean you can’t women making ters gainscould in the C-suite line forexpected next November’s come from and U.S. usHouse Representatives. hopeswin,” of winning any office. our working conditions and “We do not require our employees to clock end our segregated school general election.

Both he and Ms. James Rep. Tom Suozzi, whose dis“I can’t see Suozzi doing it,” ty’s for next November’s made. ters could come from U.S. House of Representatives. hopes of winning any office. our working conditions and this new coalition does just incum- general mo line would use all the money sive Paycheck Fairness Act, which would Martin said.

“We know her name because earning college degrees at a faster rate than election.

Both he and Ms. James Rep. Tom Suozzi, whose dis“I can’t see Suozzi doing it,” end our segregated school election.

Both he and Ms.Experts James Rep. Tom Suozzi, dis- she “I said. can’t see Suozzi doing it,”she Won’t end segregated school out when they use theour bathroom,” the Swatch system.”

Ms. James James won her first come from Brooklyn, and say trict includes part ofthe Queens she said.

“There’s problem Won’t Leave Money Money Unspent? this.” epubli- general available to and based strengthen thehim, Equal Pay Act of come 1963, includlost, and“There’s she lostaabig, and kept commen. the reasons forwhose enLeave Unspent?

Ms. won her first from Brooklyn, and trict includes part of Queens she problem system.”

Won’t Leave Money Unspent?

Ms. James won her first come from Brooklyn, and trict includes part of Queens she said.

“There’s a problem system.”

In response to the formaCounty City on his continued bitterness Eric Severson added that City Council race in 2003 black voters from the borand part of Nassau County. for Democrats in Washingpress office said in an email to Theadded Associated ing by protecting retaliation back from it and kept working until the during are multifaceted, including the ing Council raceworkers in 2003from black voters from thegap borand part of Nassau County. for Democrats in WashingEric Severson that City Council race in WFP 2003 black voters from the borand part of Nassau County. for Democrats in WashingEricSolidarity’s Severson added tion of thebeen new caucus, UFT ons for running towards Ms. James—who he ough “UFT Solidarity’s logo is isthat ‘we running solely on the the WFP ough have been key parts of He He of has expressed interest in day ton—I’m sure they’re goingloss into Regardless, Ms. Savino Savino “UFT Press. for discussing their pay.

Regardless, Ms. solely on have key parts of has expressed interest in ton—I’m sure they’re going logo ‘we she died to change that real overrepresentation women in lower-payRegardless, Ms. Savino running solely on ough have been key partssaid of running, He has expressed interest in to ton—I’m they’re going said, “UFT Solidarity’s logo ‘we spokesman Dick Riley District line, seems to believe betrayed have your back.’

We believe line, but Mr. Williams isWFP con- Vice their bases. running, although he figures figures to lean lean onsure himacross to stay staythe there” said, she expected expected Mr. Cuo- we “Last week, were made aware ofistwo she Mr. CuoMr. Williams is contheir bases. although he on him to there” have your back.’

We believe In but a statement onthe Monday, President gains for women country.” ing industries and the weak child care syssaid, she expected Mr. Cuo- inthis line, Mr. his Williams is running, although for he to leanthan on him stay there” mo have your back.’

We believe that bases. “the UFT is proud to be to nted to sidered him but after help inconher their this new coalition does just sidered clearly to her left left poto be competing competing for figures many rather rather than runto non-incummo would would use all all the money isolated cases ournew group where this had use the money clearly to her be many run aa non-incumcoalition does just Kamala Harris pledged topo“continue to fightdemocracy.” tem that pushes to many women to step mo would to use all the money sidered to her left pobe same competing for back many bent rather than run a of non-incumthis newitcoalition doessoon just aLets vigorous ouncil litically. winningclearly election three years this.” litically.

He made that clear Lets Hochulfrom ‘Moderate’ of the same more-moderate bent in the wake of Republiavailable to him, and based nevertheless occurred,” added.

“As available him, and based He made that clear Hochul ‘Moderate’ of the more-moderate in the wake Republithis.” for the Paycheck Fairness Act — to honor AP’s Huamani contributed to to him, and based this.” their careers in their earnings The available litically.

He appearance made that clear Lets Hochul ‘Moderate’ of the same peak more-moderate bent in Kaitlyn the of RepubliIn response response to the the we formaduringlegacy, an appearance onbuilding Democratic voters who will will this can wins inwake Nassau County on on his his continued continued bitterness bitterness during an on Democratic voters who can wins in Nassau County In to formaas we were informed of this practice, imLilly’s and continue a more years. story. on his continued bitterness during an appearance on Democratic voters who will can wins in Nassau County Inof response to the formatowards Ms. James—who he WPIX-11 the after “His voters are many of the be a key part of Ms. Hochul’s during this year’s elections for tion the new caucus, UFT tion of the new caucus, UFT WPIX-11 the morning morning after “Hisand voters are In many of the be a key part of Ms. Hochul’s during this year’s elections for towards Ms. James—who he mediately brought the situation in the two fair and equitable future for women, all 2018,ofat the height of the movetowardstoMs. James—who he spokesman WPIX-11 thehis morning after same “Hispeople voters are many the be a key part#MeToo of Ms. Hochul’s during this year’s and elections for seems tion of the new caucus, UFT betrayed announcing candidacy, Tish James is County Riley said spokesman Dick Riley said announcing Republican his candidacy, same people Tish James is base. base.

CountyExecutive Executive andDistrict District seems to to believe believe betrayed companies in question into Dick line with group Americans.” lawmakers largely ment, Ledbetter wrote an opinion piece in seems believe betrayed announcing his same people Tish James is base.

County Executive and District spokesman Dick Riley said him after his help in her shrugging off aacandidacy, question shooting for,” said State Sen. In aa 2006 run for GoverAttorney.

She also pointed to that “the UFT is proud to be that “the UFT is proud to be shrugging off question shooting for,” said State Sen. In 2006 run for GoverAttorney.

She also pointed to him after his help in her standards.” him after his help in her shrugging off a question shooting for,” said State Sen. In a 2006 run for GoverAttorney.

She also pointed to that “the UFT is proud to be winning election three years about the role Democrats Diane Savino, who has not nor, the then-Nassau County GOP gains in City Council aa vigorous democracy.” vigorous democracy.” about the role Democrats Diane Savino, who has not nor, the then-Nassau County GOP gains in City Council winning election three years about the role Democrats Diane Savino, who has not nor, the then-Nassau County GOP gains in City Council winning election three years a vigorous democracy.”

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A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Buffalo, New York, has been convicted of corruption following a second trial on charges he used his position to protect drug traffickers he believed were associated with organized crime.

Jurors last Thursday found Joseph Bongiovanni, 60, guilty on seven of the 11 counts he faced. He faces 20 years in prison when he is sentenced June 9.

Prosecutors said Bongiovanni, for at least a decade, shielded childhood friends who became drug dealers and other suspects with ties to organized crime, tipping them off to investigations and falsifying DEA

reports. He was accused of taking at least $250,000 in bribes that prosecutors said he used for necessities, as well as trips and other luxuries.

“This jury determined he was a corrupt federal agent,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi said at a news conference after the verdict, “and he violated his oath and duties to protect those that he should have been investigating and arresting.”

The case cast a harsh light on the DEA’s supervision of agents amid a string of corruption scandals at the agency. Bongiovanni is among at least 16 DEA agents brought up on federal charges since 2015. Many of the cases resulted in prison terms, including two former DEA supervisors sentenced in a Miami bribery scandal involving intelligence leaks to defense attorneys.

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Notice of Qualification of Valley Cottage Owner, L.P. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/12/24. Office location: New York County. LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/10/24. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LP: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(3); and why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship, Dated, Attested and Sealed 12th day of September, 2024 HON. PETER J. KELLY Janet Edwards Tucker Chief Clerk Acting Surrogate, Queens County GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) 459-9000 1981 Marcus Avenue, Suite 200 Lake Success, New York 11042 NOTICE: THIS CITATION IS SERVED UPON YOU AS REQUIRED BY LAW. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO APPEAR; HOWEVER, IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR IT WILL BE ASSUMED YOU DO NOT OBJECT TO THE RELIEF REQUESTED. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY APPEAR FOR YOU, AND YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MAY REQUEST A COPY OF THE FULL ACCOUNT FROM THE PETITIONER OR PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY Accounting Citation.

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Notice of Qualification of Valley Cottage GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/12/24. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/10/24. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. 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. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

091724-4 9/27/24-11/1/24 File No.: 2023-1888/B CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: Margaret Ann Braswell Johnson, William Paul Miller, Patricia Anne Miller Ricks, Marlene Clifton Rowe, James Lee Clifton, Emma Jean Swoboda Tillet, Attorney General of the State of New York The unknown distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of Marilyn A. Rey, deceased, or their estates, if any there be, whose names, places of residence and post office addresses are unknown to the petitioner and cannot with due diligence be ascertained A copy of this citation and the accounting, as well as all amendments to it, if any, shall be served on the Guardian Ad Litem, Kathleen Gallo Esq. Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of Marilyn A. Rey, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 120-32 217th Street, Cambria Heights, NY 11414, in the County of Queens, State of New York.

SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of Marilyn A. Rey, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 31st day of October, 2024 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $43,964.83 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said

Notice of Qualification of Eastborough Partners Co-Invest I-A LP. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 9/13/24. NYS fict. name: Eastborough Partners CoInvest I-A L.P. Office location: NY County. LP formed in DE: 8/19/24.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 757 3rd Ave., Ste. 24B, NY, NY 10017, principal business address.

DE address of LP: c/o SPI Agent Solutions, Inc., 300 Creek View Rd., Ste. 209, Newark, DE 19711. Name/ address of genl. ptr. available from NY Sec. of State. Cert. of LP filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

092024-1 9/27/24-11/1/24 ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING. FILE NO. 2022-2500/A. CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO: Unknown distributees; Attorney General of the State of New York; Rene E. Vinces a/k/a Edison R. Vinces; William Russell Sellers; Mary Katherine Sellers a/k/a Katie Sue Holmes; Marquis Apartments; Charter Communications; Life Alert; Meaningful Beauty; QVC, Inc.; United Healthcare; and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Martine McCarthy, a/k/a Martine S. McCarthy, a/k/a Martine Sellers, the decedent herein, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Martine McCarthy, a/k/a Martine S. McCarthy, a/k/a Martine Sellers, deceased, who at the time of her death was a resident of 70 W. 95th Street, New York, New York 10025; A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on November 7th 2024, at 9:30 A.M., in room 509, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of the distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA § 2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of

justice,” U.S. Attorney Trini Ross said. “But in the end we got there.”

The case is part of a sex-trafficking prosecution involving the Bongiovanni is among at least 16 DEA agents Pharoah’s Gentlemen’s Club outside Buffalo. Bongiovanni was brought up on federal charges since 2015. childhood friends with the strip club’s owner, Peter Gerace Jr., who authorities say has close ties to both the Buffalo Mafia and the violent The verdict comes after a jury in Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Gerace is Bongiovanni was convicted of four counts of obstruction of jus- April convicted the former Buffalo awaiting trial on numerous charges, tice, as well as single counts of agent of lying to federal authorities including that he bribed Bongiovanconspiracy to defraud the United about a DEA file he kept at home, ni. He has pleaded not guilty.

States, conspiracy to distribute con- but could not not reach agreement Judge Lawrence Vilardo allowed trolled substances and making false on most other charges.

Bongiovanni to remain out of cusDuring a retrial on the unresolved tody but required him to wear an statements to law enforcement.

Jurors acquitted him of a bribery counts that began Aug. 5, jurors ankle monitor pending sentencing charge, and additional fraud, con- heard from more than 60 witnesses. June 9.

Bongiovanni did not testify at eispiracy and obstruction charges.

Bongiovanni’s attorney, Robert ther trial.

The AP’s Jim Mustian contributed “This was a hard fought road to to this story.

Singer, said he would appeal.

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the City of New York for the benefit of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal expenses rendered to the petitioner herein; (iv) that the claim of Marquis Apartments Building: West Side Marquis account ending #6001 for the balance of unpaid apartment rental expenses ($8,979.23 less security deposit $932.10) for period covering July 2021 through April 2022, and apartment cleaning ($960.00), in the total amount of $9,007.13, be rejected for failure to file a claim in accordance with the provisions of SCPA 1803(1); (v) that the claims of Charter Communications c/o The CBE Group account ending #6884 in the amount of $361.77, Life Alert account ending #8960-0 in the amount of $539.55, Meaningful Beauty account ending #2173 in the amount of $117.38, QVC, Inc. c/o GC Services Limited Partnership GC ending #0450 in the amount of $252.43 and United Healthcare Member ID ending #5071, be rejected for failure to file their claims in accordance with the provisions of SCPA 1803(1); (vi) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (vii) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA §307 where required or directed; and (viii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.

Hon. RITA MELLA Surrogate Dated, Attested and Sealed. September 18th, 2024 (Seal) Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk Schram Graber & Opell P.C. Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County 11 Park Place, Suite 1008 New York, New York 10007 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law.

You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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should not be granted; (vii) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA §307 as required or directed; and (viii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper. HON. HILARY GINGOLD, SURROGATE Dated, Attested and Sealed, September 23, 2024 (Seal) Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk Steven R. Finkelstein, Esq. Counsel to Public Administrator of the County of New York 90 Broad Street, Suite 1700 New York, New York 10004 (212) 363-2500 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney-atlaw appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Hrbek Law LLC, 295 Madison Ave., 22ND Fl., NY, NY, 10017. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Notice is hereby given that an OnPremise Winter Restaurant Full Liquor License, Application ID NA0342-24-137759 has been applied for

by Legends Hospitality LLC serving beer, wine, cider and liquor to be sold at retail for on premises consumption in a restaurant for the premises located at 155 W 62nd St New York NY 10023.

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Notice of Qualification of TREO Vitus GP, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 10/4/24. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 675 3rd Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10017. LLC formed in DE: 9/14/23.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. 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: all lawful purposes.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SUN LAW FIRM PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/23/2024.

Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him/her is 1441 Broadway, Suite 5006, New York, NY 10018.

The principal business address of the PLLC is 1441 Broadway, Suite 5006, New York, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

092624-1 10/4/24-11/8/24 ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2019-187/A CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; AILEEN POWERS; ROSAMOND MARTIN; DONNA MARIE DESANTIS; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; And to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of DAVID McDONOUGH, deceased, if living; and, if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest, whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of David McDonough, deceased, who at the time of his death was a resident of 107 Sullivan Street, Apt. 18, New York, New York 10012. A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on November 7th, 2024, at 9:30 a.m., in Room 509, why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as Administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that the above named persons be cited to show cause why such settlement should not be granted; (iii) that a hearing be held to identify the distributees, at which time proof pursuant to SCPA 2225 may be presented; or that the balance of the funds, less a reasonable reserve for preparing fiduciary income tax returns and paying taxes shown thereon to be due be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of Decedent’s unknown distributees, or any distributee under a disability for whom no fiduciary has been appointed, or who has post-deceased Decedent and for whose estate no fiduciary has been appointed, or whose whereabouts are unknown; (iv) that, if the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance asserts a claim for estate, individual income or fiduciary income taxes, the same be fixed and determined, or deemed rejected; (v) that the Surrogate approve statutory commissions, Petitioner’s administration expenses pursuant to SCPA 1106(3) and the reasonable compensation of Petitioner’s attorney for legal services rendered to Petitioner herein, as shown in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings; (vi) that all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF SOMSCL LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/5/2024.

Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 126 West 87 Street, New York, New York 10024. The principal business address of the LLC is 126 West 87 Street, New York, New York 10024. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

092624-4 10/4/24-11/8/24 DRAGUT POINT LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 9/23/24.

Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: c/o The LLC, 10 Madison Square West, Unit #20A, NY, NY, 10010.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

092624-5 10/4/24-11/8/24 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF SERAN BIOSCIENCE, LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/4/2024. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in OR on 3/3/2016. SSNY has been designated as agent 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 c/o Heather Hansen at 63047 NE Layton Ave., Bend, OR 97701. The principal business address of the LLC is 63047 NE Layton Ave, Bend, OR 97701.

Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of OR located at 255 Capital St. NE, Suite 151, Salem, OR 97310.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

092724-3 10/4/24-11/8/24 214W11, LLC, Appl for Auth filed with SSNY 9/18/24. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in DE 9/13/24. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 214 W. 11th St., NY, NY 10014. DE address of LLC is c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. A copy of the Cert. of Form. on file with State of DE, Div. of Corp., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

092624-6 10/4/24-11/8/24 Notice of Qualification of POLYNOMIAL PARTNERS LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/16/24. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/3/24.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

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. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

092524-2 10/4/24-11/8/24 Notice of Qualification of NAVIGATE AI, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/7/24. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/15/24.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

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. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

092524-1 10/4/24-11/8/24 Formation of CARDITO PROPERTIES, LLC filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/2024. Office loc.: Richmond County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail process to Zaccary Cardito, 864 Ionia Ave., Staten Island, NY 10309. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

092724-6 10/4/24-11/8/24 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Sheba’s Way, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/21/2024.

Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 228 Park Avenue S, #501069, NY, NY 10003. R/A: US

Notice is hereby given that a Restaurant Wine License, NYS Application ID NA-0240-24-136354 has been applied for by Meesh Too LLC d/b/a Chele’s to sell beer, wine and cider at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law located at 2280 Frederick Douglas Boulevard New York NY 10027.

100224-2 10/11/24-10/18/24 Notice is hereby given that an OnPremise Restaurant Full Liquor License, Application ID NA-034024-137383 has been applied for by Compass Group USA, Inc. d/b/a Fauchon serving beer, wine, cider and liquor to be sold at retail for on premises consumption in a restaurant for the premises located at 1100 Avenue of the Americas A/K/A 1100 Sixth Avenue, 1st FL New York NY 10036.

100224-3 10/11/24-10/18/24 Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, has been applied for

by New RCI holdings Inc, to sell beer and wine at retail in a tavern (“movie theatre”) under the alcoholic beverage control law at 3300 Chambers Rd, Horseheads, NY 14845 for onpremises consumption.

100224-5 10/11/24-10/18/24 Notice is hereby given that a License, number NA-0240-24-105967 for wine, beer and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell wine, beer and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage control Law at 411 B Amsterdam Ave, New York, New York 10024-6209, for on premises consumption. NARU EXPRESS INC. DBA - ONE BITE OMAKASE. 100324-2 10/11/24-10/18/24 Notice of Formation of PIERRE AUGUSTIN ROSE NEW YORK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/10/24.

Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Orbiss Inc., 1411 Broadway, Fl. 16, NY, NY 10018.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

100424-2 10/11/24-11/15/24 Notice of Qualification of TASH BLAKE LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/18/24. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/17/24. 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 Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

100424-3 10/11/24-11/15/24 Notice of Formation of ZAHA 33, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/20/24.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Cohen & Cohen, LLP, 122 E. 42nd St., 4th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

100424-4 10/11/24-11/15/24 NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF RJT Energy Consultants LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/30/2024. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in State of Origin CT on 9/22/2009. SSNY has been designated as agent 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 CT Corporation System, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005.

The principal business address of the LLC is 110 Washington Avenue, North Haven, CT 06473. Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of CT located at 165 Capital Avenue, Hartford, CT 06115. Purpose: Energy Consultant.

100424-5 10/11/24-11/15/24 Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, has been applied for by New RCI Holdings Inc, to sell beer and wine at retail in a tavern (“movie theatre”) under the alcoholic beverage control law at 900 Front Street, Binghamton, NY 13905 for onpremises consumption.

100324-6 10/11/24-10/18/24 MH2101 LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 6/13/24. Certificate of Amendment changing name to MHFANDA LLC filed 9/16/2024.

Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent for process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: c/o

Notice of Formation of GL Midtown NYC Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 9/27/24.

Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 38 Eastern Dr., Ardsley NY 10502, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

101024-2 10/18/24-11/22/24 Notice of Formation of NEXT GENERATION 13TH STREET ASSOCIATES, L.L.C. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 1/18/96. 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: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

100924-2 10/18/24-11/22/24 Notice of Qualification of Multiply Capital Management LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/27/24. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/21/23. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 1900 9th St, Ste 310, Boulder, CO 80302. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity.

100924-1 10/18/24-11/22/24 Notice is hereby given that an On Premise Restaurant Wine License NYS Application ID: NA-0240-23151142 has been applied for by E3 Hospitality LLC to sell beer, wine and cider at retail in a restaurant. For on premises consumption under the ABC law located at 40 Clinton St New York NY 10002.

101024-6 10/18/24-10/25/24 Notice of Formation of RIP VAN WINKLE PRESERVATION, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/08/24. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 30 Hudson Yards, 72nd Fl., NY, NY 10001. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

101124-3 10/18/24-11/22/24 Notice of Qualification of ABGSI LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/01/24. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/30/19. Princ. office of LLC: 1411 Broadway, 21st Fl., NY, NY 10018.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Authentic Brands Group, LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

101124-2 10/18/24-11/22/24 Notice of Qualification of 400 EAST 84TH STREET DEVELOPER LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/04/24.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/19/24.

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 Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., Federal and Duke of York St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

101124-1 10/18/24-11/22/24 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Lovely Little Rentals L.L.C. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/24/2024/ Office location: Chemung County. SSNY has been designated as agent 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 222 Park Station Road, Erin, NY 14838. The principal business address of the LLC is 222 Park Station Road, Erin, NY 14838.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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DCAS HIRING LIST Bus Operator The Department of Citywide Administrative Services established a 393-name list for Bus Operator on August 14, 2024. The list is based on Exam 4607, which was recently held. Readers should note that eligible lists change over their four-year life as candidates are added, removed, reinstated, or rescored. The list shown below is accurate as of the date of establishment but list standings can change as a result of appeals.

Some scores are prefixed by the letters v, d, p, s and r. The letter “v” designates a credit given to an honorably discharged veteran who has served during time of war. The letter “d” designates a credit given to an honorably discharged veteran who was disabled in combat. The letter “p” designates a “legacy credit” for a candidate whose parent died while engaged in the discharge of duties as a NYC Police Officer or Firefighter. The letter “s” designates a “legacy credit” for being the sibling of a Police Officer or Firefighter who was killed in the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Finally, the letter “r” designates a resident of New York City.

1 Ruddy J Perez ..................... 100.00 2 Dylan T Farley .....................98.33 3 Chad A Davis ........................98.33 4 Dane Greene .........................96.66 5 Kenny Saint Jean ...............v96.66 6 Stephen Lundy .....................96.66 7 Cora Fred ..............................95.00 8 John Valcourt .......................95.00 9 Hasan Nixon .........................95.00 10 Ismael Claudio Jr ...............95.00 11 Paul Nigro ...........................95.00 12 Jerry Yeung ........................95.00 13 Sean M Paul ......................v95.00 14 Joshua Smith ......................95.00 15 Fareez S Bahadur ...............95.00 16 Nelson Acevedo ..................95.00 17 Abanoub Daif .....................95.00 18 Roubens Sineus ................v95.00 19 Francois Chery ...................93.33 20 Frank V Pisano ..................93.33 21 Mordecai A Santiago .........93.33 22 Vincent A Persaud .............93.33 23 Brian K Kelly ......................93.33 24 Daria Wianecki ...................93.33 25 Shaheed M Farrell .............93.33 26 Christopher Rodriguez ......93.33 27 Daniel Singh .......................93.33 28 Chirrad H Williams ..........v93.33 29 Anthony W O’Brien ...........93.33 30 Dalvir Singh .......................93.33 31 Anthony F Nimmons .........93.33 32 Peter L Franqui ................v93.33 33 Eric K Clay ..........................93.33 34 Giulio Accardo ...................93.33 35 Shane Drucker ...................93.33 36 Shanequa L Butler .............93.33 37 Jessica B Moran Sandoval .91.66 38 Devante D Graham .............91.66 39 Artiba Fortune ...................91.66 40 Brandon N Canals ..............91.66 41 Damani Luces .....................91.66 42 James G Lake .....................91.66 43 Kevin M Deane-Best ...........91.66 44 Ivan Lee ...............................91.66 45 David A Hernandez ............91.66 46 Devon Douglas ....................91.66 47 Qiaolin Ye ............................91.66 48 Michael Goodman ..............91.66 49 Tsion Thomas .....................91.66 50 Adrian J D’souza ................91.66 51 Bjorn Rose ...........................90.00 52 Ryan F Simermeyer ...........90.00 53 Faisal Mahamud ................90.00 54 Elijah I Simmons ................90.00 55 Omar D Brown ...................90.00 56 Belgica O Watson ...............90.00 57 Joel Candelario ..................90.00 58 Sabrina Padovano ..............90.00 59 Sefonia A Cardwell Wiley .. 90.00 60 Spyros Gkazikas .................90.00 61 Bryant J Brown ..................90.00 62 Paola Perez Brea ................90.00 63 Brando Pena .......................90.00 64 Calvin Chen ........................90.00 65 Kenya C McWhorter ..........90.00 66 Nunzio Spinelli ...................90.00 67 Lionel A Russell .................90.00 68 Henry Lee ...........................90.00 69 Mariana Lona .....................90.00 70 Massiel A Rodriguez ..........90.00 71 Robert Green ......................88.33 72 Matthew T Nadel ................88.33 73 Mohamed Kante .................88.33 74 Gabriel Cortes ....................88.33 75 Paul Fernandez ..................88.33 76 Marlon J Ulloa Alvarez .....88.33 77 Patrick A Sloven .................88.33 78 John Adamo .......................88.33 79 Jariel A Ortega Frederic ...88.33 80 Musa Saho ..........................88.33 81 Ming J Lu ............................88.33 82 Andrew Puente ...................88.33 83 Jason Chan .........................88.33 84 Demitri McKay ...................88.33 85 Leon Giterman ...................88.33 86 Darren Webster ..................88.33 87 Shannon Carter ..................88.33 88 Zong Qiang Chen ..............v88.33 89 Latanya Ageday ..................88.33 90 Tricia Powell .......................88.33 91 Antwan G Kyser .................88.33 92 David Harrison ...................88.33 93 Dale A Cook ........................88.33 94 Angelo D Alessandro .........88.33 95 Toneve O Smithen ..............88.33 96 Liza M Aponte ....................88.33 97 Christopher M Bossert ......88.33 98 Sean M Hoppin ...................86.66 99 Alcides D Hernandez .........86.66 100 Derek K Li .........................86.66 101 Alex Yiu Chung Cheng .....86.66 102 Michael X Prestovino .......86.66 103 Keenan Jones ....................86.66 104 Ian Belfon ..........................86.66 105 Nirosh Ranasinghe ...........86.66 106 Anthony Cruz ...................86.66

107 Reena Seeraj .....................86.66 108 Leonardo Hernandez .......86.66 109 Carline Bradshaw .............86.66 110 Christian Rodney .............86.66 111 Rocker Lin .........................86.66 112 Rochelle Nelson ................86.66 113 Danna M Murdaugh .........86.66 114 Annette B Cummins .........86.66 115 Mingrong Wang ................86.66 116 Meghan Frammosa ..........86.66 117 Brandyn Young .................86.66 118 Jaylan A Hall ....................86.66 119 Nicholas Morales ..............86.66 120 Arbab Sharif .....................86.66 121 Nichai Haynes ..................85.00 122 Mohamed Benghaffor ......85.00 123 Kent L Lambert ................85.00 124 Ezra A Lewis .....................85.00 125 Andrea Nichols .................85.00 126 Brandon Alvarez ..............85.00 127 Schnyder Louis .................85.00 128 Denise C Garzon Blanco ..85.00 129 Amaury A Espinal ...........85.00 130 Jayson D Henry ................85.00 131 Nicolas Castillo .................85.00 132 Jamal M Vail .....................85.00 133 Troy Berentsen .................85.00 134 Ismet Gjikolli ....................85.00 135 Donovan Nesbeth ...........v85.00 136 Amith N Jayakodi Arachi ..85.00 137 Sheldon Freeman .............85.00 138 Hector Reyes .....................85.00 139 Myra Howard ....................85.00 140 Raishawn J Davis .............85.00 141 Chaimildred Perez ............85.00 142 Harsh Kapoor ...................85.00 143 Alejandrino J Sotelo ........85.00 144 Ricardo Ellington .............85.00 145 Jennifer A Solorzano .......85.00 146 Kathelina A Ramirez .......85.00 147 David Little .......................85.00 148 Jason O Gaynor ................85.00 149 Louis Rogers .....................85.00 150 Kato J Coleman ................83.33 151 Dwight St.Louis ................83.33 152 Satnarine Totaram ...........83.33 153 Jonathan Morisset ...........83.33 154 Channel E Isidore .............83.33 155 Junior A LaBossiere ........83.33 156 Elton C Alfred ...................83.33 157 Rafael C Cruz ....................83.33 158 Justice Garrison ...............83.33 159 Gino Demosthenes ...........83.33 160 Victor Sosa ........................83.33 161 Richard A Puntillo ...........83.33 162 Md A Rashed .....................83.33 163 Cheng Peng .......................83.33 164 Robert V DiStefano ..........83.33 165 Christopher H. Gruber ....83.33 166 Devin I Edwards ...............83.33 167 Mohammed Monjur .........83.33 168 Jenny Ng ...........................83.33 169 Nelson Frias ......................83.33 170 Justina A Davis .................83.33 171 Joseph Greene ..................83.33 172 Mordecai Omatiga ............83.33 173 Peter Yassa ........................83.33 174 Aliya Hartey .....................83.33 175 Ife Cumberbatch ...............83.33 176 Priscilla Rosado ................83.33 177 Luis J Cedeno Hernande .83.33 178 Lisa Fulmore .....................83.33 179 Terry Marion ....................83.33 180 Jaha Alexander ................83.33 181 Brandon Bowen ................83.33 182 Darvin J Hood ...................83.33 183 David Lee ...........................83.33 184 Christian R Patterson ......83.33 185 Trevon Spencer ................83.33 186 George Hyacinthe .............83.33 187 Tristan Parris ...................83.33 188 Melonie Edwards ..............83.33 189 Mohammad F Mahamud .83.33 190 Maria Medina ...................83.33 191 Melody Abbott ..................81.66 192 Ahijah Stewart .................81.66 193 Barry Foster .....................81.66 194 Aisha K Garrett-Jones .....81.66 195 Latoya C Lowe ..................81.66 196 Axel Rodriguez .................81.66 197 Roger Persaud ..................81.66 198 Andy Ramroop ..................81.66 199 Ryan Velez .........................81.66 200 Christian J Santa ..............81.66 201 Diana Zaro Aquino ...........81.66 202 Joshua Shiwraj .................81.66 203 Daniel C Atherley .............81.66 204 Christon Taitt ...................81.66 205 Dianne Motisi ...................81.66 206 Oscar Davis .......................81.66 207 Carl B Saint Jean ..............81.66 208 Elizabeth A Seijo ..............81.66 209 Kashem Ahmed ................81.66 210 Jalisa S Sanders ................81.66 211 Stephanie O Jackson ........81.66 212 Amina S Howard ..............81.66

213 Shania K Ramroop ...........81.66 214 Federico A Perez Espinal .81.66 215 Luis A Murillo ..................81.66 216 Christopher Chirco ..........81.66 217 Musarrat Amin .................81.66 218 Pedro Laford .....................81.66 219 Elias Rouyi ........................81.66 220 Aleksi Bogdanov ...............81.66 221 Jason D Cooper .................81.66 222 Mohamed A Othman ........81.66 223 Travis L Butler .................80.00 224 Amani Davis .....................80.00 225 Brandon M Ortiz ..............80.00 226 Yao Chen .........................v80.00 227 Robinson Fortunat ...........80.00 228 Michael Stallone ...............80.00 229 Nadine Byers ....................80.00 230 Suzette De Souza ..............80.00 231 Leonid Kitover ..................80.00 232 Luc-Ernst Gaudin .............80.00 233 Jeffrey Jackson .................80.00 234 Bernice White ...................80.00 235 Patrick G Dorsainvil ........80.00 236 Malachi Clarke .................80.00 237 Mathew Sokoloff ..............80.00 238 Kevor C Dale .....................80.00 239 Kamel Brisco ....................80.00 240 Aseef Ashraf ....................80.00 241 Kamruzzaman Shamim ...80.00 242 Adebowale J Adelekan ....80.00 243 Donald K Royal .................80.00 244 Brendan Graves ................80.00 245 Muben Khan .....................80.00 246 Candida Lowe ...................80.00 247 Deslen Peters ....................80.00 248 Matthew W Canady ..........80.00 249 Jon Bertinelli ....................80.00 250 Dexter A London ..............80.00 251 Kancha B Gurung ............80.00 252 Diego Perechu Tambriz ...80.00 253 Nikhil Swar .......................80.00 254 Olumide W Gadpaille .......80.00 255 Muzahedul Islam ..............80.00 256 Ravil Biktyakov ................80.00 257 Natalie Bordone ................80.00 258 David A Reid .....................80.00 259 Andrew Samuel ................80.00 260 Adelle Thomas ..................80.00 261 Iesha S Lopez ....................80.00 262 Martinson Afari-Yeboah .v80.00 263 Keith Oquendo ..................78.33 264 Kedes Green ......................78.33 265 Francesco Caruso .............78.33 266 Muhammad S Irshad .......78.33 267 Brianna K Morrise ...........78.33 268 Cristal Chase ....................78.33 269 Yasir Khan ........................78.33 270 Norvelle Thomas ..............78.33 271 Darius Davis .....................78.33 272 Gregory A Dickerson .......78.33 273 Kevin Welsh ......................78.33

274 Edward Evangelista .........78.33 275 Surid Puloak .....................78.33 276 Kye C Vincent ...................78.33 277 Ruddy J Ceballo .................78.33 278 Nargiz Safarova .................78.33 279 Abubar Kromah ................78.33 280 Andre Adelson ...................78.33 281 Chad D Robinson ...............78.33 282 Joseph A Pena ...................78.33 283 Dave A Tomlinson .............78.33 284 Salamot Alawode ...............78.33 285 Alamir Badawi ..................78.33 286 Ikbal Hossain .....................78.33 287 Marthis Guerrier ..............78.33 288 Iraida Perez ........................78.33 289 Reazul Khalil .....................78.33 290 Gilberto Maldonado ..........78.33 291 Rhodesha Gorham ............76.66 292 Anthony Hitadin ...............76.66 293 Frantz Louhis ....................76.66 294 Shaquan T Gordon ............76.66 295 Nasir Mahmoud ................76.66 296 Luisa E Waterman ............76.66 297 Juan C Caba .......................76.66 298 Corey Russell .....................76.66 299 Suad Marinovic .................76.66 300 Miriam Sanvicente Gali ....76.66 301 Nathaniel J Sanders ..........76.66 302 Erika Fiol ...........................76.66 303 Anthea Long ......................76.66 304 Adriana M Catus ...............76.66 305 Min Sun Kim ......................76.66 306 Angel L Cordova ................76.66 307 Jean Berlin Bernard .........76.66 308 Quanasia Thomas .............76.66 309 Pierre A Normil ................76.66 310 Ryan Fraser .......................76.66 311 Jonathan Shields ...............76.66 312 Jihad Abdul-Aziz ...............76.66 313 Jeffrey J Andrews .............76.66 314 Nathaniel J McMillon .......75.00 315 Mamdouh Abdelhady .......75.00 316 Henry Garcia .....................75.00 317 Sabriya N Sabriya .............75.00 318 Ali Dublin ..........................75.00 319 Alex A Brown ....................75.00 320 Leonardino Rodriguez ......75.00 321 Jeremiah D Harjo ..............75.00 322 Zeniada M Salvador ..........75.00 323 Michael J Dominguez .......75.00 324 Koatnis H Lowe .................75.00 325 Peter Pinto .........................75.00 326 Rojae Williams ...................75.00 327 Maxim Kislov .....................75.00 328 Ernest Gonzalez ................75.00 329 Garretson Sherman ..........75.00 330 Judith Stone .......................75.00 331 Tyler John ..........................75.00 332 Wendy Lewis ......................75.00 333 Rizwan Khalid ...................75.00 334 Kevin J Balzano .................75.00

335 Shemiah A Shepherd ........75.00 336 Sonia N Rankine ................75.00 337 Akil Douglas ......................73.33 338 Junior Clarke .....................73.33 339 Joseph Frederique ............73.33 340 Ahmed Z Zaraei .................73.33 341 Sanctus Colin .....................73.33 342 Russell E Ross ....................73.33 343 Xiaowei Na .........................73.33 344 Onel F Fuentes ..................73.33 345 Alex Javier .........................73.33 346 Sheldon E Rogers ..............73.33 347 Labon S Golphin ................73.33 348 Thaddeus T Slade ..............73.33 349 Hamid Ahmed ...................73.33 350 Stephen K Martin ..............73.33 351 Jean S Belizaire .................73.33 352 Yany K Smith .....................73.33 353 Yaseen Cekic ......................73.33 354 Tanika Orellanes ...............73.33 355 Chauinelle Spears .............73.33 356 Syeda S Shah .....................73.33 357 Hao Shao ............................71.66 358 Joseph Murphy .................71.66 359 Dias O Wint ........................71.66 360 Kylah Windley ...................71.66 361 Walid Hayek .......................71.66 362 Erwin Bernardin ...............71.66 363 Felipa J Rojas .....................71.66 364 Amiri K Luces ...................71.66 365 Royan Whyte ......................71.66 366 Andrew Morrison .............71.66 367 Kamalpreet Singh .............71.66 368 Taj Miah .............................71.66 369 Keith F Giordano ...............71.66 370 Eliezer A Rodriguez ..........71.66 371 Vielkys Torres ...................71.66 372 Shek S Rahman .................71.66 373 Mukesh Kumar ..................71.66 374 Tyler Mangiameli ..............71.66 375 Timothy K Lane .................71.66 376 Jessica A Calano ...............71.66 377 Arun Benny Kodiantha ....71.66 378 Anselm C Udechuck ..........70.00 379 Rodney J Colliard ..............70.00 380 Xavier Troyer ....................70.00 381 Jeffrard Sosa Caba ............70.00 382 Paula H Rivera ...................70.00 383 Tahira Toval ......................70.00 384 Samuel M Christian ..........70.00 385 Jose C Salas .......................70.00 386 Jayden A Harewood ..........70.00 387 William Mora .....................70.00 388 Jorge A Celemin ................70.00 389 Brian S Loaiza ...................70.00 390 Xin Quan Wu .....................70.00 391 Larry Bacchus ...................70.00 392 Outram Karamchand ........70.00 393 Junior D Antoine ...............70.00

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LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE OF FORMATION of CP RADS LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. of the LLC were filed with the Secy. of St. of NY (SSNY) on 5/18/23. NY OL: NY Co. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process c/o the LLC, 155 Canal St., NY, NY 10013.

The LLC does not have a specific date of dissolution. PUR: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. OH and principal business address: 1001 DDC Way, Fairfield, OH 45014. Cert. of Org. filed with OH Sec. of State, 180 S. Civic Center Dr., Columbus, OH 43215. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/16/2024.

Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 450 North End Ave., 12L, New York, NY 10282.

The principal business address of the LLC is 450 North End Ave., 12L, New York, NY 10282. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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process against it may be served.

The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him/ her is 220 5th Avenue, 11th Fl., New York, NY 10001. The principal business address of the PLLC is 220 5th Avenue, 11th Fl., New York, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AUTOBAHN COLLISION AND REPAIRS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/25/2024.

Office location: Richmond County.

SSNY has been designated as agent 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 1388 Richmond Rd., Staten Island, NY 10310. The principal business address of the LLC is 1388 Richmond Rd., Staten Island, NY 10310. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

090924-2 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Qualification of Clinical Enterprise, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 7/10/24.

Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr.: 343 W. Main St., Leola, PA 17540. LLC formed in DE: 3/23/20.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. 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 purpose.

090624-1 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Formation of 610 Maple Ave LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 1/17/23. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Alfio Bonacio, 18 Division St., Ste. 401, Saratoga, NY 12866. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of Formation of Afton CSG 2 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 7/30/24. Office location: NY County. Princ. bus. addr: 825 3rd Ave., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10022. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E. 42nd St., 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity.

090524-9 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Qualification of SR P11C II, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/29/24. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/16/23.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 3, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity.

090524-4 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Formation of Tanssi LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 8/28/24. Office location: NY County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Stefani Phipps, 33 W. 67th St., #7RW, NY, NY 10023, principal business address. Purpose: any lawful activity.

090524-10 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Qualification of Stephens Group New York, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/26/24. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/16/24. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. 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,

Notice of Qualification of Waterton Residential, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/14/24. Office location: New York County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 7/28/97. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is C T Corporation System, 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

090524-6 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Formation of TST NEW YORK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/24. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 335 Madison Ave., 14th Fl., NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

090524-2 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Formation of AGAPE SOLUTIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/24. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 5 Penn Plaza, NY, NY 10001. 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.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of 168 INDIA STREET OWNER LLC. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/28/24. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/23/24. 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, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

090924-4 9/13/24-10/18/24 Notice of Formation of BALDOR TECHNOLOGY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/29/24. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

090924-3 9/13/24-10/18/24 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Check In Counseling LCSW PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/13/2024. Office location: New York County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom

PROBATE CITATION. File No. 2024-658. SURROGATE’S COURT - QUEENS COUNTY. CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Queens County Public Administrator, Rachel Sincoff, Shara Sincoff, Jacob Wright, Scott Sincoff, Robert Papp, and Jay Sincoff and David Wexler, whose whereabouts are unknown, if living, or if dead then to his heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Stanley D Leavitt, deceased, if living and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown. A petition having been duly filed by Steven J. Rubin, who is domiciled at 3090 Timothy Road, Bellmore, NY 11710. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd, Jamaica, New York 11435, on November, 7, 2024, at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Stanley D. Leavitt lately domiciled at 60-24 Little Neck Parkway, Little Neck, New York 11362, United States, admitting to probate a Will dated October 27, 2000 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated August 5, 2013), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Stanley D. Leavitt deceased, relating to real and personal property; and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to Steven J. Rubin. NOTICE: THIS CITATION IS SERVED UPON YOU AS REQUIRED BY LAW. IF YOU WISH TO CONTEST THE RELIEF REQUESTED, YOU, OR AN ATTORNEY ON YOUR BEHALF, MUST CONTACT THE COURT PRIOR TO THIS DATE IN THE MANNER SET FORTH IN THE ATTACHED NOTICE. IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT AS SET FORTH IN THE NOTICE IT WILL BE FOUND YOU CONSENT TO THE RELIEF REQUESTED. Dated, Attested and Sealed AUG 27 2024.

HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate. Chief Clerk Janet Tucker. Print Name of Attorney: Randy M. Stein. Firm Name: Randy M. Stein. Telephone: (516) 248-8899. Address: 170 old Country Road, Mineola New York 11501. Email (optional: rtfirefly4@aol.com.

CITATION. NOTICE. QUEENS COUNTY SURROGATE’S COURT, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 qnssurr-info@nyccourts.gov To Whom it May Concern: You have been served with a citation as required by law to give you notice about a matter that has been commenced in the Queens County Surrogate’s Court. IF YOU DO NOT OPPOSE any of the relief requested, you do NOT need to contact the Court. No further action is required. IF YOU OPPOSE any of the relief requested, you or an attorney on your behalf, MUST complete a Citation Response Form. This form must be received by the Court prior to the date listed on the Citation. The Citation Response Form should be completed on-line at the following website: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/ courts/11jd/surrogates/CITATIONRESPONSE.shtml Attorneys must also file a Notice of Appearance with the Court using the Court’s e-filing system (NYSCEF). If a Citation Response Form is timely received, you will be notified by the Court of a date and time to participate in a conference utilizing “Microsoft Teams” teleconferencing software. ATTORNEYS AND SELF-REPRESENTED PARTIES MUST DOWNLOAD MICROSOFT TEAMS SOFTWARE AND BE PROFICIENT IN ITS USE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN VIRTUAL CONFERENCING. Complete information and instructlons about how to obtain and utilize “Microsoft Teams” is found at this website; https://portal. nycourts.gov/ NOTE: A COMPLETED CITATION RESPONSE FORM MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE DATE LISTED ON THE CITATION FOR A CONFERENCE TO BE SCHEDULED. 082824-1 9/27/24-10/18/24

PROBATE CITATION. File No. 2021-577. SURROGATE’S COURT - NEW YORK COUNTY. CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, TO: The heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of John Chappell, a/k/a John Martin Chappell, a/k/a John N. Chappell, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence; and to Public Administrator of the County of New York, Attorney General of the State of New York. A petition having been duly filed by EILEEN DOLAN, who is domiciled at 3310 Kuhn Street, Port Townsend, Washington 98368. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, NEW YORK County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, on October 28, 2024, at 9:30 o’clock in the FORE noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of JOHN CHAPPELL, a/k/a JOHN MARTIN CHAPPELL a/k/a JOHN M. CHAPPELL, deceased lately domiciled at 331 Thompson Street, Apt. 6A., New York, New York 10012, admitting to probate a Will dated April 2, 2009, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of JOHN CHAPPELL, a/k/a JOHN MARTIN CHAPPELL a/k/a JOHN M. CHAPPELL, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to: EILEEN DOLAN. *To all Parties: No in person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court Notice to the Cited Parties. Dated, Attested and Sealed, This 5th day of September 2024.

Seal. HON. /S/ Rita Mella, Surrogate. /S/ Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk. Print Name of Attorney: David Schachter, Esq. Firm Name: Law Office Schachter, P.C. Telephone: (718) 505-4556. Address: 37-06 77th Street, Jackson Heights, New York 11372. Email (optional): schachterlawpc.com NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, 31 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10007, (646) 386-5800. NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES. You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks’ Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; in person appearances are limited at this time. The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else. - If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3.

You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel. Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours.

Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Probate_General@ nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication. If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3).

If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested. If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance. This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above or through the e-filing system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts.gov/ efile. If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Probate Department at Probate_General@nycourts.gov. Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice but they are available to answer any question about procedure. The Probate Department of the New York County Surrogate’s Court.

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PROBATE CITATION. File No.: 2021-3830. SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY. 2nd Supplemental CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK To: Cody Gaston (Minor), if living and if dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if he died subsequent to the decedent herein, to his executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Judith B. Smith, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained. Tamia Murray, Christopher Gaston, Daryl Gaston, and Carol Gaston. An Amended Petition having been duly filed by Michael Lee, Executor, who is domiciled at 1304 Jacob Drive, Yardley, PA. 19067. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York on December 9, 2024 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Judith B. Smith, lately domiciled at 382 Central Park West, Apt. 5P, New York, New York 10025, United States admitting into Probate a Last Will & Testament dated March 6, 2020 (and Codicil(s)), if any, dated N/A, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Judith B. smith, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to Michael Lee, Executor. *To all Parties: No personal appearances shall be made on the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York Surrogate’s Court Notice to Cited Parties. Dated, Attested and Sealed, this 3rd day of October, 2024. Hon. RITA MELLA, Surrogate. DIANA SANABRIA, Chief Clerk. Print Name of Attorney: Bruce A. Hubbard, Esq. Firm Name: Bruce A. Hubbard, P.C. Telephone Numbers: 212-223-9700 or 917-969-9686.

Address: 260 Madison Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10016. Email: bruceahubbardpc@msn.com NOTE: This Citation is served upon you as required by Law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be Assumed that you do not object to the relief being requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, 31 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10007, (646) 386-5800. NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES. You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks’ Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; inperson appearances are limited at this time. The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you; - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else. - If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3.

You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel. Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours.

Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Probate_General@ nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication. If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3).

If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested. If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance. This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above or through the e-filing system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts.gov/ efile. If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Probate Department at Probate_General@nycourts.gov. Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice but they are available to answer any question about procedure. The Probate Department of the New York County Surrogate’s Court.

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PROBATE CITATION. File No. 2023-3334. SURROGATE’S COURT - NEW YORK COUNTY. CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, TO: Adrian Achinelly, Raquel Achinelly, NYS Department of Taxation and Finance; Monica Achinelly and Nair Achinelly, if living and if dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose name and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Olga Achinelly, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained. A petition having been duly filed by William P. Holm, who is domiciled at 311 East 72nd Street, Apt 15G, New York, New York 10021. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York New York, on October 28th, 2024, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Olga Achinelly, aka Olga Esther Achinelly Soares lately domiciled at Vieytes 4120, Bahia Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina admitting to probate a Will dated September 14, 2006, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Olga Achinelly deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to William P. Holm. *To all Parties: No in person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court Notice to Cited Parties. Dated, Attested and Sealed, September 13th, 2024 Seal. HON. Hilary Gingold, Surrogate. Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk. Print Name of Attorney: Melissa K. Lee. Firm Name: Holm & O’Hara LLP. Telephone: (212) 292-2847. Address: 3 West 35th Street, 9th Floor, New York, New York 10001.

Email (optional): m.lee@hohlaw.com NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK. 31 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10007, (646) 386-5800. NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES. You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks’ Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; inperson appearances are limited at this time. The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else. - If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3.

You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel. Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours.

Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Probate_General@ nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication. If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3).

If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested. If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance. This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above or through the e-filing system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts.gov/ efile. If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Probate Department at Probate_General@nycourts.gov. Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice but they are available to answer any question about procedure. The Probate Department of the New York County Surrogate’s Court.

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Notice of Qualification of DNA Diagnostics Center, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 7/17/2024. Office location: NY County.

LLC organized in OH: 6/17/1994.

NY Sec. of State designated agent of

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF JusticeDirect Law Firm DC LLP. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on date 8/21/2024. Office location: New York County. LLP formed in DC on 5/20/2024. SSNY has been designated as agent 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 LLP served upon him/her is 228 Park Ave. S, PMB 62898, New York, NY 10003-1502. The principal business address of the LLP is 1035 19th Street South, Arlington, VA 22202. Certificate of LLP filed with Secretary of State of D.C. located at: Dept of Licensing & Consumer Protection Corporations Division, PO Box 712300, Philadelphia, PA 19171.

Purpose: Law Firm.

091224-2 9/20/24-10/25/24 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Stephanie Peralta Coaching & Consulting LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/2023.

Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The principal business address of the LLC is 1755 Broadway, FRNT 3, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: any lawful

LEGAL NOTICES act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of APERTURE HOLDINGS INVESTORS 58 KENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/06/24. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 600 Third Ave., 42nd Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

091724-1 9/27/24-11/1/24 Notice of Formation of APERTURE HOLDINGS PROMOTE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/06/24. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 600 Third Ave., 42nd Fl., NY, NY 10016.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

091724-3 9/27/24-11/1/24 Notice of Formation of APERTURE HOLDINGS MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/06/24.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 600 Third Ave., 42nd Fl., NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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PROBATE CITATION. File No. 2023-5091. SURROGATE’S COURT QUEENS COUNTY. CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Louisa Calio-Fray, Gustave Frank Plath Jr., Bruce Frederick Plath, Heike Budzyn, Jennifer F. Hillman, G.A.L., Queens County Public Administrator & To the heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of JUNE BERNARDI, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, A petition having been duly filed by Roseann Senatore who is domiciled at 142-29 Horace Harding Expy, Flushing, New York 11367. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on 19th day of December, 2024, at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of June Bernardi aka June Louise Zanetti June Louis Westholm lately domiciled at 87-50 Kingston Pl, Apt. 2A, Jamaica, New York 11432 admitting to probate a Will dated September 11, 2013 a copy of which is attached, as the Will of June Bernardi relating to real personal property, and directing that Letters of Administration C.T.A. issue to: Roseann Senatore. NOTICE: THIS CITATION IS SERVED UPON YOU AS REQUIRED BY LAW. IF YOU WISH TO CONTEST THE RELIEF REQUESTED, YOU, OR AN ATTORNEY ON YOUR BEHALF, MUST CONTACT THE COURT PRIOR TO THIS DATE IN THE MANNER SET FORTH IN THE ATTACHED NOTICE. IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT AS SET FORTH IN THE NOTICE IT WILL BE FOUND YOU CONSENT TO THE RELIEF REQUESTED. Date: 10/4/24. HON. PETER J. KELLY, Acting Surrogate. JANET EDWARDS TUCKER, Chief Clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Joseph A. Ledwidge, Esq. Telephone No.: 718 276 6656. Email Address: joseph@ledwidge1.com Address of Attorney: 170-26 Cedarcroft Road, Jamaica Estates, New York 11432. THE CITATION MUST BE SERVED WITH A NOTICE AND A CITATION/ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RESPONSE FORM. AFFIDAVITS OF SERVICE MUST REFLECT SERVICE OF THE CITATION, NOTICE, AND A CITATION/ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RESPONSE FORM. Affidavit of service must also indicate service of a copy of the Last Will and Testament and Notice of Commencement of Proceeding Subject to Mandatory Electronic Filing. A copy of the Will shall be attached to all citations served and the affidavits of service of citation shall recite the service of a copy of the Will (22 NYCRR 207.19(b)). Service shall be accompanied by a notice (Notice of Commencement of Proceeding Subject to Mandatory Electronic Filing) advising the recipient that the proceeding is subject to electronic filing (22 NYCRR 207.4-aa(b)(3)). CITATION NOTICE QUEENS COUNTY SURROGATE’S COURT 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard Jamaica, NY 11435 qnssurr-info@ nycourts.gov To Whom it May Concern: You have been served with a citation as required by law to give you notice about a matter that has been commenced in the Queens County Surrogate’s Court. IF YOU DO NOT OPPOSE any of the relief requested, you do NOT need to contact the Court. No further action is required. IF YOU OPPOSE any of the relief requested, you or an attorney on your behalf, MUST complete a Citation Response Form. This form must be received by the Court prior to the date listed on the Citation. The Citation Response Form should be completed on-line at the following website: http:// ww2.nycourts.gov/courts/11 jct/surrogates/CITATION RESPONSE.shtml Attorneys must also file a Notice of Appearance with the Court using the Court’s e-filing system (NYSCEF). If a Citation Response Form is timely received, you will be notified by the Court of a date and time to participate in a conference utilizing “Microsoft Teams” teleconferencing software. ATTORNEYS AND SELF-REPRESENTED PARTIES MUST DOWNLOAD MICROSOFT TEAMS SOFTWARE AND BE PROFICIENT IN ITS USE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN VIRTUAL CONFERENCING. Complete information and instructions about how to obtain and utilize “Microsoft Teams” is found at this website: https://portal.nycourts.gov/ NOTE: A COMPLETED CITATION RESPONSE FORM MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE DATE LISTED ON THE CITATION FOR A CONFERENCE TO BE SCHEDULED. 100424-5 10/18/24-11/8/24 PROBATE CITATION. File No. 2024-297. SURROGATE’S COURT - NEW YORK COUNTY. CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: APOSTOLOS HATZIOANNOU; MARIA KARNOUPAKI; MARIA KOUMELA; LOUKIA SYRAKI; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK; The following: CHRISTOFORO KROUSOULOUDIS, NIKI KROUSOULOUDIS, PANOS LAMBROVON, JOHN DOE and/or JANE DOE, actual name(s) unknown, being a child of ALEKO RODOPOULOU, predeceased maternal first cousin, and JOHN DOE and/or JANE DOE, actual names unknown, being the possible issue of SOPHIA RADOPOULOU, predeceased maternal aunt, if living and if dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of ARGYRO PANTAZOPOULOS, aka ARGYRO PANTAZOPOULOU, ARGYRO SYRAKI, ARGYRO SYRAKE, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained.

A petition having been duly filed by PETER POULOS, who is domiciled at 35 Prospect Park W., Apt. 11 E, Brooklyn, New York 11215 and NIKIE CALLES, who is domiciled at 31-85 Crescent Street, Apt. 304, Astoria, New York 11106.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, New York County, at 31 Chambers Street, New York New York, on November 18, 2024, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of ARGYRO PANTAZOPOULOS, aka ARGYRO PANTAZOPOULOU, ARGYRO SYRAKI, ARGYRO SYRAKE lately domiciled at 460 East 79th Street, Apt. 9F, New York, New York 10075, United States admitting to probate a Will dated July 25, 2019 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated ______ ), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of ARGYRO PANTAZOPOULOS deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to PETER POULOS and NIKIE CALLES. * To all Parties: No in person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court Notice to Cited Parties. Dated, Attested and Sealed, September 9, 2024. Seal. HON. HILARY GINGOLD, Surrogate. Chief Clerk Diana Sanabria. Print Name of Attorney: Sophia M. Tsantes, Esq. Firm Name: Bouklas & Associates PLLC. Telephone: (212) 9799300. Address: 39 Broadway, Suite 2420, New York, New York 10006. Email (optional): stsantes@bouklaslaw.com NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, 31 CHAMBERS STREET. NEW YORK, NY 10007, (646) 386-5800. NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES. You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks’ Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; inperson appearances are limited at this time. The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else. - If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3.

You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel. Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours.

Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Probate_General@ nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication. If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3).

If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested. If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance. This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Probate Department of this court at the address listed above or through the e-filing system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts.gov/ efile. If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Probate Department at Probate_General@nycourts.gov Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice but they are available to answer any question about procedure. The Probate Department of the New York County Surrogate’s Court.

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JOB HIGHLIGHT The city is hiring customer information representatives, with applications accepted through Oct. 29 for multiplechoice tests scheduled to begin Jan. 6.

The current minimum salary is $42,108 per year. There are three assignment levels within this class of positions. Appointments will generally be made to assignment level I. After appointment, employees may be assigned to the higher assignment levels at the discretion of the agency.

THE POSITION Customer information representatives provide customer service using computer databases and information technology to access information required for responses, and oversee customer service work.

They record, track, respond to and resolve telephone, email and/ or walk-in inquiries in an agency customer service center, agency help desk or other agency customer service unit; provide information, record complaints and requests, and conduct research to resolve problems; forward unre-

City hiring customer information representatives at $42,000 a year solved matters to appropriate staff and offices for further action; enter customer information and inquiries into a computer tracking system; perform related clerical administrative tasks and computer support work.

All customer information representatives perform related work.

They may be required to work various shifts including nights, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

Some of the physical activities performed by Customer Information Representatives and environmental conditions experienced are: standing for extended periods at an information desk; sitting for extended periods of time with a headset on while monitoring one or two computer screens; typing information into the computer using a computer keyboard; coordinating eye/ hand movements while handling calls and operating a console and computer; speaking calmly and clearly in order to elicit information, listening carefully to clearly understand information and give instructions to a continuous flow of callers under stress; making responsible decisions where timing is critical and sitting within hearing distance of other call takers working under similar conditions.

REQUIREMENTS To qualify for the position, applicants should have either 1) a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university; or 2) An associate degree or 60 semester credits from an accredited college or university and one year of satisfactory, full-time experience responding to inquiries using computers, databases and information technology systems for researching the answers to questions in a customer service, help desk or public information capacity; or 3) A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and two years of satisfactory, full-time experience as described in “2” above; or 4) A satisfactory combination of education and experience.

Satisfactory, full-time experience working for a New York City government agency responding to inquiries using computers, databases and information technology systems for researching the answers to questions in a customer service, help desk or public information capacity may be substituted on the basis of one year of NYC government work experience for two years of the experience described in “2” above. College credit may be substituted for the experience in a

customer service, help desk or public information capacity on the basis of 60 semester credits for each year of the experience described in “2” above. However, all candidates must possess a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent.

THE TESTS Candidates will be given a multiple-choice test at a computer terminal, with scores on the test determining places on an eligible list. A passing score is 70 percent.

The multiple-choice test may include questions requiring the use of any of the following abilities: Inductive reasoning and written comprehension and expression.

In addition to the multiple-choice test, a computerized qualifying practical test is required to meet the skill requirement. This test will assess proficiency in navigating a computer system using a computer keyboard and mouse. Test-takers will be given a call taking scenario and required to navigate a webbased computer application. In order to pass the practical test, candidates may be required to do the following within a specified period of time, to be announced on the day of the test: identify the nature

of the inquiry from the simulated caller, navigate to the correct web page, access the requested information from the web page, and obtain and enter the correct information from the simulated caller into the web page.

Only passing candidates and those who submitted a timely appeal will be invited to take the computerized qualifying practical test; candidates will be notified by email three weeks before the first date on which testing is expected to begin.

Candidates may be given the test before their qualifications are verified. Candidates are responsible for determining whether or not they meet the education and experience requirements for this examination prior to submitting their applications. If found “Not Qualified,” applicants’ fees will not be refunded and they will not receive an admission notice or score.

For complete information on the position, including on how to apply, go to www.nyc.gov/site/ dcas/employment/exam-schedules-open-competitive-exams.page

UPCOMING EXAMS LEADING TO JOBS Below is a roundup of New York City and State exams leading to public-service positions. Most of the jobs listed are located in the New York Metropolitan area and upstate.

There are residency requirements for many New York City jobs and for state law-enforcement positions.

Prospective applicants are advised to write or call the appropriate office to make sure they meet the qualifications needed to apply for an exam. For jobs for which no written tests are given, candidates will be rated on education and experience, or by oral tests or performance exams.

DCAS Computer-based Testing and Application Centers (CTACs) have re-opened to the public. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, walk-ins are no longer accepted and appointments must be scheduled online through OASys for eligible list or examination related inquiries.

All examination and eligible list related notifications will be sent by email only, you will no longer receive notifications via the US mail.

All new hires must be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, unless they have been granted a reasonable accommodation for religion or disability. If you are offered city employment, this requirement must be met by your date of hire, unless a reasonable accommodation for exemption is received and approved by the hiring agency.

For further information about where to apply to civil service exams and jobs, visit the thechief.org/exams.

The Federal Government has decentralized its personnel operations and holds few exams on a national or regional basis.

Most Federal vacancies are filled by individual agencies based on education-and-experience evaluations. For information, contact the U.S. Office of Personnel Management or individual agencies, or see www.usajobs.gov.

CITY EXAMS ➤ CLOSE OCTOBER 29

5051 Computer Associate (Software) (NYC H+H) $86,201 5052 Computer Associate (Technical Support) $56,106 5053 Computer Associate (Technical Support) (NYC H+H) $56,106 5074 Customer Information Representative $42,108 5094 Occupational Therapist (DOE) $77,864 5103 Physical Therapist (DOE) $77,864 5116 Public Health Adviser $42,721 5117 Public Health Adviser (School Health) $23.39 per hour 5118 Public Health Assistant (School Health) $19.20 per hour 5119 Public Health Educator $56,869

5143 Public Health Nurse (School Health) $47.29 per hour 5148 Recreation Supervisor $58,006 CLOSE NOVEMBER 26 5028 Call Center Representative $39,486 5066 Emergency Medical Specialist Trainee $36,330 5067 Emergency Medical Specialist EMT (Fire) $48,355

➤ CLOSES NOVEMBER 29

5144 Public Safety Exam Level I

CUNY EXAMS ➤ OPEN CONTINUOUSLY

2059 Campus Security Assistant $31,320 2060 Campus Peace Officer $33,825

MTA EXAMS ➤ CLOSES OCTOBER 21

5608 Track Worker $27.00 per hour

➤ CLOSE OCTOBER 31

5103/5303 Bus Operator (MaBSTOA and MTA Bus) $26.98 per hour 5124/5324 Bus Mechanic’s Helper (C/ Maintainer’s Helper) (MaBSTOA and MTA Bus $19.03 per hour 5603 Bus Operator (New York City Transit) $27.79 per hour

➤ CLOSE NOVEMBER 15

5606 Transit Electrical Helper $25.58 per hour 5607 Collecting Agent $26.43 per hour

NASSAU COUNTY EXAMS ➤ CLOSE OCTOBER 23

WILL FILL JOBS: CITY CERTIFICATIONS The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has certified sections of the eligible lists below for appointments and promotions in city agencies, subject to the 1-in-3 rule. Some of the appointments and promotions may already have been made.

OPEN COMPETITION

ACCOUNTANT–6 eligibles between Nos. 197 and 655 on List 8050 to replace 1 provisional in Department for the Aging.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNTANT–325 eligibles between Nos. 11 and 521 on List 162 to replace 2 provisionals in Department of Finance.

ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS PROMOTION COORDINATOR–121 eligibles between Nos. 2 and 148 on List 128 to replace 2 provisionals at Administration for Children’s Services.

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTRACT SPECIALIST–51 eligibles between Nos. 72.5 and 205 on List 8041 to replace 1 provisional in Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT AUDITOR–56 eligibles between Nos. 12 and 133 on List 9044 to replace 1 provisional at ACS. ADMINISTRATIVE PROJECT MANAGER –94 eligibles between Nos. 123 and 483 on List 8042 to replace 1 provisional in Comptroller’s Office.

CARPENTER–62 eligibles between Nos. 66 and 417 on List 2078 to replace 1 provisional in Department of Correction.

CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIST–165 eligibles between Nos. 33 and 432 on List 151 to replace 12 provisionals at ACS. COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) –27 eligibles between Nos. 27 and 1327 on List 1139 for 1 job in Department of Environmental Protection.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INTERN–4 eligibles (Nos. 26, 34, 54 and 67) on List 9037 for 4 jobs at Comptroller’s Office.

ELECTRICIAN’S HELPER–114 eligibles between Nos. 28 and 362 on List 2011 for 2 jobs in Department of Environmental Protection.

MANAGEMENT AUDITOR–54 eligibles between Nos. 108 and 382 on List 1022 for 1 job in Department of Education.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING INTERN –8 eligibles between Nos. 48 and 91 on List 3005 for 10 jobs at Comptroller’s Office.

MEDIA SERVICES TECHNICIAN–32 eligibles between Nos. 22 and 104 on List 3088 for 2 jobs at Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

TRAFFIC CONTROL INSPECTOR–161 eligibles between Nos. 1 and 157 on List 3062 for 2 jobs in DOT.

PROMOTION

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER–273 eligibles between Nos. 3 and 341 on List 1552 for 1 job in Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services.

ASSOCIATE FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTOR–3 eligibles (Nos. 37, 83 and 97) on List 2549 for 1 job in Fire Department.

ASSOCIATE PARK SERVICE WORKER– 3 eligibles (Nos. 21, 121 and 151) on List 1517 for any 5 jobs in Department of Parks and Recreation.

CAPTAIN (POLICE)–329 eligibles between Nos. 48 and 496.5 on List 2558 for 15 jobs in Police Department.

HIGHWAY REPAIRER–1 eligible (No. 472) on List 3512 to replace any of 3 provisionals in Department of Transportation.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGER –3 eligibles (Nos. 1-3) on List 3535 to replace 3 provisionals in DOT.

60001110 Director of Nursing (Emergency Room) $110,000$250,000 60001490 Assistant Nursing Home Administrator I $62,525-$161,896 60002180 Chemist III $63,873-$132,688 60004720 Financial Systems Administrator $82,397-$169,224 60005150 Athletic Trainer $75,000$85,000 60005890 Database Specialist II $88,978$176,077 60007820 Director of Nursing (Maternal & Child Health) $125,00$243,43160008320 Chemist II $49,306-$102,986 60009780 Director of Nursing (Intermediate Care) $55,647$243,431 87457010 Information Technology Security Specialist I $75,803$156,583 87458010 Information Technology Security Specialist II $88,978$176,077 87461010 Assistant Hospital Administrator $83,672-$216,653

88874010 Recreation Specialist (Dance) $24,960-$72,800 89065010 Recreation Specialist (Physical Fitness) $39,439-$81,164 89486010 Information Technology Security Specialist Trainee $42,351-$87,853 89492010 Director of Nursing (Extended Care Facility) $100,000-$220,000

➤ OPEN CONTINUOUSLY

7078 CR(D) Cytotechnologist I $43,863$91,243 7094 CR(D) Cytotechnologist II $52,099$108,383 7095 CR(D) Cytotechnologist III $66,357$132,168 61-639 CR Librarian I $43,000-$61,333 60-180 CR Librarian I, Bilingual (Spanish Speaking) 5263 CR(D) Medical Technologist I $31,963-$74,978 5002 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Acute Care) $59,507-$108,383 5003 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Adult Health) $59,507-$108,383 5004 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Community Health) $59,507$108,383 5005 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Family Health) $59,507-$108,383 5006 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Gerontology) $59,507-$108,383 5007 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Neonatology) $59,507-$108,383 5008 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Obstetrics/Gynecology) $59,507$108,383 5009 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Oncology) $59,507-$108,383 5010 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Palliative Care) $59,507-$108,383 5011 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Pediatrics) $59,507-$108,383 5012 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Perinatology) $59,507-$108,383 5013 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Psychiatry) $59,507-$108,383 5014 CR Nurse Practitioner I (Women’s Health) $59,507-$108,383 3138 CR(D) Occupational Therapist Assistant $31,963-$74,207 7288 CR(D) Occupational Therapist/ Occupational Therapist I $37,093$128,172 3139 CR(D) Pharmacist I $56,636$117,533 3140 CR(D) Physical Therapist Assistant $31,963-$74,207 9030 CR(D) Physical Therapist/Physical Therapist I $37,463-$140,162 9029 CR(D) Physician Assistant I $57,200-$118,707 8049 CR(D) Radiologic Technologist (General) $34,720-$72,111

SUFFOLK COUNTY EXAMS ➤ CLOSE OCTOBER 23

0759 Network and Systems Specialist I $50,000-$71,683 2305 Occupational Therapist $71,063$76,363 2321 Physical Therapist $71,063-$76,363

➤ CLOSE OCTOBER 30

0059 Traffic Court Administrator $84,616 0515 Systems and Data Base Coordinator $111,574 0518 Data Base Manager $74,124 1280 Soil District Technician $47,450 1815 Cyber Security Analyst I $61,309 1816 Cyber Security Analyst II $99,000 2251 Chemist II (Environmental Control) $61,309 2252 Chemist I (Public Health) $54,392 2253 Chemist II (Public Health) $61,309 2256 Environmental Radiochemist $71,018 2267 Forensic Scientist II (Firearms) $88,192 3680 Executive Director for Multicultural Affairs And Community Engagement $80,936 3760 Assistant Town Management Services Administrator $100,000 9297 Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Police (Intergovernmental Relations) $153,747 9557 Deputy Director of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services $84,616

➤ CLOSE NOVEMBER 6

0025 Office Assistant $39,216-$63,000 0029 Office Assistant (Spanish Speaking) $39,216-$63,000

➤ CLOSE NOVEMBER 27

3720 Labor Specialist Trainee $45,362 3740 Labor Specialist Trainee (Spanish Speaking) $45,362

➤ OPEN CONTINUOUSLY

0221 Accountant 0220 Accountant Trainee $47,450 0231 Auditor $54,392 0230 Auditor Trainee $47,450 2020 Public Health Nurse I $59,404 2511 Psychiatric Social Worker $52,017 2641 Medical Services Specialist $76,708 2670 Emergency Medical Technician (Basic) $37,000-$60,000 2673 Emergency Medical Technician (Critical Care) $37,000-$60,000 2674 Emergency Medical Technician (Paramedic) $37,000-$60,000 2700 Drug Counselor (Spanish Speaking) $47,502 2701 Drug Counselor $47,502

WESTCHESTER EXAMS ➤ CLOSES OCTOBER 31

60-002110 Assistant Library Director III

➤ OPEN CONTINUOUSLY

06-100 Emergency Medical Technician (Basic) 02-108 Sanitarian Trainee $53,760$67,010 02-600 Water/Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator/Trainee $45,46055,390 02-601 Water/Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator/Trainee 91-136 Paramedic (Local) 01-155 Cardiothoracic Surgical Physician Assistant 02-032 Clinical Pharmacy Specialist 02-900 Health Services Coordinator $75,406-$125,410 86-102 Hospital Pharmacist 95-145 Senior Medical Technologist (Chemistry)

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LABOR AROUND THE WORLD UK’s new Labour government unveils overhaul of workers’ rights

BY PAN PYLAS

Associated Press

Britain’s new Labour government has unveiled a slew of new rights for millions of workers, including more generous rules for sick pay and parental leave and major restrictions on certain employment practices such as fire and rehire — a package of measures described by ministers as the biggest overhaul of workers’ rights in a generation.

The Employment Rights Bill published last week, around 100 days after Labour took power for the first time in 14 years, followed its crushing victory over the Conservative Party in the general election.

The 28 measures have been broadly welcomed by unions and lobby groups representing businesses, though one described it as “clumsy, chaotic and poorly planned.”

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the measures, which will come into effect in 2026 after more consultations with businesses and unions, will raise the minimum floor of employment rights and provide better support for those businesses that are engaged in good practices.

Unions have welcomed the measure as a ‘seismic shift.’

Among the measures announced, workers will be able to claim sick pay from the first day of absence rather than the fourth, be entitled to paternity leave and unpaid parental leave from day one of employment, and be entitled to bereavement leave. Workers will also have day-one protection against unfair dismissal.

The bill will also increase the likelihood of requests for flexible working arrangements to be granted, and require large employers to produce action plans on how to address gender pay gaps and support employees through menopause, as well as strengthening rights for pregnant workers and new mothers.

Unions have welcomed the measure as a “seismic shift” from the low-pay, low-productivity economy they accused the previous Conservative government of presiding over.

“Whether it’s tackling the scourge of zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire, improving access to sick pay and parental leave, or clamping down on exploitation, this bill highlights Labour’s commitment to upgrade rights and protections for millions,” said Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.

The Confederation of British Industry, the U.K.’s biggest business lobby group, also praised the government for engaging with businesses in addition to unions and expressed its desire that the cooperation can continue before the measures come into effect in two years.

“With a number of critical details still subject to consultation, it’s important the government builds on the good engagement to date to ensure we get the details right on this decisive piece of legislation,” CBI CEO Rain Newton-Smith said.

The Federation of Small Businesses was less positive, arguing that the legislation is a “rushed job, clumsy, chaotic and poorly planned” and that dropping 28 new measures onto small business employers all at once leaves them “scrambling to make sense of it all.”

Data shows migrants aren’t taking jobs from Black or Hispanic people Contradicts Trump’s assertions

BY FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected — a promise he has predicated, in part, on the notion that immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally are stealing what he calls “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs.”

But government data show immigrant labor contributes to economic growth and provides promotional opportunities for native-born workers. And a mass deportation event would cost U.S. taxpayers up to a trillion dollars and could cause the cost of living, including food and housing, to skyrocket, economists say.

Trump, who often uses anti-immigrant rhetoric, has referred during his campaign to immigrants he says are taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs.”

At a recent rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, Trump said, “You have an invasion of people into our country.”

“They’re going to be attacking — and they already are — Black population jobs, the Hispanic population jobs, and they’re attacking union jobs too,” Trump said. “So when you see the border, it’s not just the crime. Your jobs are being taken away too.”

Trump’s rhetoric about jobs has been widely condemned by Democrats and Black leaders who have called it a racist and insulting way of implying that Black and Hispanic Americans take menial jobs.

The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey data shows that as of 2023, native-born Black workers are most predominantly employed in management and financial operations, sales and office support roles, while native-born Latino workers are most often employed in management, office support, sales and service occupations.

Foreign-born, noncitizen Black workers are most often represented in transportation and health care support roles, and foreign-born, noncitizen Hispanic workers are

Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP

A crew of both local employees and migrant workers from the island nation of Jamaica pick kale at Harlow Farm in Westminster, Vt., in June 2023. Migrants, while a primary driver of population growth in the U.S., are not taking native citizens’ jobs, according to government data, since they most often fill roles native workers are unwilling to fill. most often represented in construc- these immigrant workers take on tion, building and grounds cleaning. are most often positions that native workers are unwilling to fill, such as agriculture and food processing ‘We need many more’ jobs.

Giovanni Peri, a labor economist In 2023, international migrants — primarily from Latin America — ac- at the University of California, Dacounted for more than two-thirds of vis, conducted research that exthe population growth in the United plores the impact of the 1980 influx States, and so far this decade they of Cuban immigrants in Miami (the have made up almost three-quar- so-called Mariel Boatlift) on Black workers’ employment. The study ters of U.S. growth.

After hitting a record high in determined that the wages of MiDecember 2023, the number of ami’s Black and Hispanic workers migrants crossing the border has moved above those in other cities that did not have a surge of immiplummeted.

It is true that international mi- grant workers.

Peri told the AP that the presgrants have become a primary driver of population growth this decade, ence of new immigrant labor often increasing their share of the overall improves employment outcomes population as fewer children are be- for native-born workers, who often ing born in the U.S. compared with have different language and skill years past. That’s according to the sets compared to new immigrants.

In addition, there are not a fixed U.S. Census Bureau’s annual Amernumber of jobs in the U.S., immiican Community Survey.

Economists who study immi- grants tend to contribute to the grant labor’s impact on the econo- survival of existing firms (opening my say that people who are in the up new opportunities for native U.S. illegally are not taking native workers) and there are currently citizens’ jobs, because the roles that more jobs available than there are

workers available to take them. U.S. natives have low interest in working in labor-intensive agriculture and food production roles.

“We have many more vacancies than workers in this type of manual labor, in fact we need many more of them to fill these roles,” Peri said.

Data also shows when there are not enough workers to fill these roles, firms will automate their jobs with machines and technology investments, rather than turn to native workers.

Trump has said he would focus on rounding up migrants by deploying the National Guard, whose troops can be activated on orders of a governor.

Peri says a deportation program would cost the U.S. up to a trillion dollars and would result in massive losses to the U.S. economy. The cost of food and other basic items would soar.

“They are massive contributors to our economy and we wouldn’t have fruits and vegetables, we wouldn’t have our gardens,” he said, if the deportation effort comes to fruition.

In swing states that once went for Trump, unions organize to prevent a repeat ‘Kamala has a plan; Trump has a slogan’

BY ERIK GUNN stateline.org

As the Nov. 5 presidential election nears, Democrats are counting on union workers to deliver voters, particularly in the swing states of Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where unions have remained an influential bloc, even as their strength has declined over the decades.

Many labor union leaders say they’re working as hard as they ever have to oppose Trump and elect Vice President Kamala Harris. The AFL-CIO, a federation of 60 unions that range from Major League Baseball players to firefighters to workers in the food industry, has endorsed Harris.

A growing share of rank-andfile union members, however, have been less likely to follow their leadership — some of them among Trump’s base.

“It has to be recognized that union members are not monolithic in terms of the party they support,” said Paul Clark, a professor of labor and employment relations at Penn State University. “Many unions have 30, 40, maybe 50 percent or more of their members who either are registered Republicans or are going to support Donald Trump in this election.”

Last month, the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Sean O’Brien, announced the union’s executive council would not endorse either ticket and cited the support of a majority of his members for Trump.

Other union leaders say their membership is behind Harris.

Nick Webber, a political organizer for the North American Building Trades Unions, said, “It’s unprecedented, the amount of interest in people in getting involved,” as he marshals union canvassers this fall

for the Democratic national ticket.

He said in his conversations he’s hearing union members say, “Not only, ‘am I going to be voting,’ and [that they’re] tuned in, but ‘how can I get involved’ and ‘doing my part.’”

Appeals to culinary workers When Biden dropped out July 21, the national executive council of the 12.5 million-member AFL-CIO endorsed Harris the next day “because we knew that the administration that has been fighting for working people for the last three and a half years, we know what they’ve delivered, and we knew that her record spoke for itself,” said Liz Shuler, national AFL-CIO president, in an interview with NC Newsline.

But the Trump campaign is continuing to try to reach union voters, even as union leaders argue his record as president and his rhetoric — such as suggesting in a conversation with Elon Musk that employers should fire strikers — should make him unacceptable.

In an appeal to United Steelworkers, the most powerful union in western Pennsylvania, Trump said in January he would block a potential acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan-based Nippon Steel.

Nevertheless the union endorsed Biden, who said in a visit in April he also opposed the sale. Both he and Harris reiterated that stance during a Labor Day visit to Pittsburgh. “I couldn’t agree more with President Biden: U.S. Steel should remain in American hands,” Harris said.

In Nevada, Trump held a rally in June where he proposed ending federal taxes on tipped income — an appeal aimed at the workers in the state’s largest industry, hotel-casinos.

Harris adopted the no-tax-on-tips position as well in a visit in August, a day after the powerful Culinary Workers Local Union 226, endorsed her. The union reports that its 60,000 members are 55 percent women and 60 percent immigrants.

In a return visit in August,

Trump suggested his “no tax on tips” position would draw Culinary members’ support — “A lot of them are voting for us, I can tell you that,” he said.

But the union responded by doubling down on its support for Harris, who on a visit months before had celebrated the union’s successful contract negotiations with the Las Vegas Strip’s largest gambling-resort corporations.

“Kamala Harris has promised to raise the minimum wage for all workers — including tipped workers — and eliminate tax on tips,” said Culinary Vice President Leain Vashon. Vashon said Trump didn’t help tipped workers while he was president, so “Why would we trust him? Kamala has a plan; Trump has a slogan.”

Making the case

Davis said.

But the messages unions have been pushing about manufacturing growth, the infrastructure advances and jobs — even unemployment rates that have fallen to just over 4 percent nationally and 3 percent or lower in states such as Wisconsin — have been slow to resonate with voters who are focused on higher prices resulting from supply chain shortages.

“Part of that is the investment is still in the works,” said William Jones, a labor historian at the University of Minnesota. “It was slow to be distributed, and it depended largely on state and local government taking it up and creating jobs.

It’s possible some people haven’t felt the full impact.”

Jones also suggests there may have been inadequate messaging from the administration — something that unions are trying to make up for in their member outreach.

Beyond what Miller and other union leaders see as those breadand-butter accomplishments are other policy stakes in who holds the White House, such as the makeup of the National Labor Relations Board and who holds the post of general counsel, the principal architect of the agency’s legal perspective.

Under the Trump administration, the NLRB veered to positions less favorable to unions, Miller observed. Under Biden, it has issued more decisions that have supported union positions.

Those differences further underscore what most union leaders see as a sharp distinction between the two tickets. “We’ve seen both these movies before,” said Webber, of the electrical workers union.

Kim Lyons, Pennsylvania Capital-Star; Hugh Jackson, Nevada Current; Rob Schofield, NC Newsline; and Andrew Roth, for Michigan Advance, contributed reporting for this story.

For most union leaders, the case for Harris is the stark contrast they see between Trump’s record in the White House from 2016 to 2020 and that of his successor.

“When you talk about the politics of what’s at stake in this election, it’s very clear,” said Kent Miller, president and business manager for the Laborers Union Wisconsin District Council.

The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, the 2022 bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which passed with only Democratic votes, opened the sluices to fund a range of investments in roads and bridges, clean energy and electric vehicle infrastructure.

The programs include strong incentives for union labor and for the enrollment of new apprentices in training programs operated by unions and their employers.

Larry Davis, a Michigan United Auto Workers local president, said Biden-Harris administration policies helped boost the auto industry.

“I can just go from Detroit-Hamtramck, [which was] on the brink of Stateline, founded in 1998, provides closing, and now you have over 3,000 daily reporting and analysis on almost 4,000 workers in there now,” trends in state policy.