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EDUCATION
FUNDING
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chaos on LI
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EDITOR’S NOTE
RALPH R. ORTEGA; DARREN MCGEE/OFFICE OF GOV. KATHY HOCHUL
FIRST READ … 4
The week that was
EDUCATION
FUNDING … 8
How “hold harmless”
upended one Long Island
school district
ABOVE & BEYOND:
WOMEN … 13
Celebrating leaders improving
New York
WINNERS &
LOSERS … 70
Who was up and who was
down last week
AMID THE NEWSLETTERS, bills and spam that land in my inbox are emails from Eric
Adams. Branded “Hear from Eric,” they typically start warmly with, “Good evening Ralph,”
before listing the administration’s recent accomplishments. Last week’s email noted
how “we proudly ushered in the first-ever LGBTQ+ friendly St. Patrick’s Day parade on
Staten Island,” mentioned the creation of a new Tenant Protection Cabinet, and touted
funding secured for a new public park in Queens, electric buses and an electric truck
depot. There was more: a settlement on the city’s right-to-shelter mandate in reference
to the migrant influx.
I honestly don’t pay much attention to these emails, preferring to get my news from
City & State and other outlets. But perceptions of life in New York post-COVID-19 have
not been positive, with stories of violence on the subways and the handling of the
migrant influx. Both have been compounded by sensational tabloid front pages and
most recently a damning report from the Citizens Budget Commission that found only
30% of New Yorkers say they are happy living in the Big Apple. Adams at his off-topic
press conference last week repeated some of the same messaging from his emails
before he was asked about the findings in the report. “I know New Yorkers are feeling
a certain way right now, but this is New York: 8.3 million people, 35 million different
opinions,” he told reporters at City Hall.
The mayor also said that the report found New Yorkers saying: “We are on the right
track. We are focused on the right issues.” Perhaps that suggests city residents aren’t
just skipping over those emails.
RALPH R. ORTEGA
Editor-in-chief
Gov. Kathy CONTENTS
Hochul
wants to cut
shrinking
districts.
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“THIS DID NOT
HAPPEN”
New York City Mayor
Eric Adams denied an
allegation that he sexually
assaulted a former colleague in the transit police
bureau in 1993, echoing
comments that he made
when the accusation first
came out last year. “This
did not happen,” Adams
said at his weekly press
conference on March 19. “I
do not recall ever meeting
this person during my time
in the Police Department.”
While a summons was
initially filed under the
Adult Survivors Act in
November, the specific
allegations against the
mayor – who was working
as a transit cop in 1993 –
weren’t detailed until a
full complaint was filed
on March 18. In it, Lorna
Beach-Mathura, a woman
who said she had worked
as an administrative aide
in the transit bureau at the
time, alleged that Adams
demanded sexual favors in
“I’m not talking about
my personal life. I
was very clear that
protocols are in place
and that’s all you need
to be comfortable
with.”
– Assembly Speaker Carl
Heastie, responding to a
report about him dating a
lobbyist, via Politico New
York’s Nick Reisman
exchange for helping her
with her career.
– Annie McDonough
HATE CRIMES
Nearly two dozen groups
and individuals have signed
a letter urging state legislative leaders to support a
bill that would expand the
list of offenses eligible to
be charged as a hate crime.
But those same leaders removed the legislation from
their one-house budget
proposals after Gov. Kathy
Hochul included the language in her executive budget. The letter, organized
by Manhattan Borough
President Mark Levine,
is signed by 21 different
groups and individuals representing a wide range of
marginalized communities.
Signatories included the
Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP
New York State Conference
President Hazel Dukes, the
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York,
the Asian Bar Association,
the Hispanic Federation,
Equality New York and the
Muslim Bar Association of
New York.
– Rebecca C. Lewis
CONTAINMENT
UNIT
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
proposed funding the purchase and distribution of
fire-resistant storage cases
for storing lithium-ion batteries, one of the leading
causes of fires in New York
City last year. “Lithium-ion
batteries are difficult to
contain and the fire can
spread very quickly putting
civilians and firefighters in
New York City Mayor Eric Adams responded to a sexual assault allegation from
1993 at a recent off-topic media briefing at City Hall. ED REED/MAYORAL PHOTOGRAPHY OFFICE; SENATE; UZENAES/WIKIPEDIA; EMIL COHEN/NYC COUNCIL MEDIA UNIT
“David Banks has been an
extraordinary schools
chancellor and though
I hope he wouldn’t
quit, I’ll remind him, as
I have others, that the
cemeteries are full of
indispensable men.”
– state Sen. John Liu, via
the Daily News
HOT AND UNBOTHERED
Mayor Eric Adams likes to say that New York City
has 8.3 million New Yorkers and 35 million different
opinions, but a new survey shows those 35 million
may have more in common than the mayor likes to
suggest. A growing chunk of New Yorkers think the
city’s quality of life is in the gutter. The mayor waved off
responsibility for New Yorkers’ dissatisfaction, saying
he’s only been in office for two years. To the New York
Post, that defense came off as a combustible denial.
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Some organizers in New York
are trying to replicate the successes of the “uncommitted”
campaigns from other early
primary states in the Empire State to protest President Joe
Biden’s support of Israel and
call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Rather than urging
Democrats to vote “uncommitted” over Biden, activists in New
York have launched the “Leave
it Blank” campaign, which asks
Democratic primary voters to
submit blank ballots instead of
voting for Biden. But according
to a spokesperson for the state
Board of Elections, the agency does not plan to include the
number of blank ballots cast
in its unofficial election night
results, which could blunt the
impact of the protest vote.
Pro-Palestinian activists in
several key swing states have
used the Democratic presidential
primary to call for an immediate
ceasefire and protest the ongoing
war in Gaza that has killed more
than 30,000 Palestinians. Although Biden is running without
major opposition, voters in states
like Michigan – where the national “uncommitted” movement
began – chose the “uncommitted” option rather than cast a
vote for the incumbent president. Already, “uncommitted”
has secured a handful of delegates who will attend the Democratic National Convention.
New York’s presidential
primary ballot will not include an “uncommitted” option,
however. That’s why organizers
like Brittany Ramos DeBarros, a democratic socialist and
former congressional candidate from Staten Island, have
launched the Leave it Blank
campaign for the state’s April 2
Democratic presidential primary. “Voting blank is actually a
pretty common political option
around the world,” DeBarros
told City & State. “So we see this
as an opportunity to highlight
the ways that … as we fight for
a ceasefire abroad, we also need
to be fighting for our democracy here in the United States.”
However, a spokesperson for
the state Board of Elections told
City & State that the agency does
not report blank ballots in the
unofficial results for presidential
primary races, only in the certified results that come out weeks
later. Although other races like
the 2020 presidential general
election and the 2022 Democratic primary for governor included blanks in the unofficial
election night results, the board
spokesperson said that reporting
for presidential primaries is different due to how delegates are
assigned. Because delegates are
won based on the percentage of
votes a candidate receives compared to other candidates, the
spokesperson said it’s important
to show that data without additional information that would not
be relevant, such as blank votes.
– Rebecca C. Lewis
Pro-Palestine activists urge
voters to cast blank ballots
to protest Biden
THE
WEEK
AHEAD
THURSDAY 3/28
The New York State
Bar Association is
holding a webinar with
its President Richard
Lewis and two former
association presidents
on its Leadership
Academy at 12:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 3/27
City & State New York
hosts its annual Above &
Beyond: Women Awards
honoring 50 remarkable
women in New York at
6:30 p.m. at Sony Hall.
THURSDAY 3/28
President Joe Biden is
holding a fundraiser
panel discussion with
former Presidents
Barack Obama and
Bill Clinton along with
moderator Stephen
Colbert at Radio City
Music Hall.
danger,” Williams said at a
City Council hearing. FDNY
Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said the department
has been testing a range of
storage products intended to
safely contain the batteries,
but none have been successful so far.
– Ashley Borja
SUOZZI SHINDIG
Rep. Tom Suozzi welcomed
hundreds of supporters to
a “thank you” party a little
over a month after he won
his special election to represent the 3rd Congressional District on Long Island
and a sliver of Queens. The
event at Leonard’s Palazzo
in Great Neck attracted a
number of other politicians
too, including Rep. Grace
Meng of the neighboring
6th Congressional District
in Queens. “I cannot tell
you, watching Tom’s victory
that night and the weeks
after, how much this victory has encouraged and
inspired my colleagues and
fellow Democrats all over
the country,” Meng said
while introducing Suozzi.
– Rebecca C. Lewis
CLASS SIZES
The New York City Council passed legislation on
March 19 requiring the
Department of Education
to be more transparent and
accurate about how many
students are in classes as it
strives to comply with a new
state law requiring smaller
class sizes. The bill’s passage
comes as the state Legislature considers extending
New York City Mayor Eric
Adams’ control over the
public school system as the
policy’s June 30 expiration
looms. Central in that ongoing debate is whether the
mayor is truly committed to
phasing in lower class sizes
at all schools by 2028.
–Sahalie Donaldson
Rita Joseph, who chairs the New York City Council
Education Committee, passed a class size reporting bill,
and the issue has been a major issue with mayoral control.
INSIDE DOPE
The keynote remarks
will be given by
Meera Joshi, New
York City deputy
mayor for operations.
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Gov. Kathy
Hochul sent these
proposals to the
graveyard with
her veto pen.
By Rebecca
C. Lewis
ZOMBIE BILLS
BACK FROM
THE
GRIEVING FAMILIES ACT
After the governor vetoed the legislation twice
last year, the state Senate included the Grieving
Families Act in its one-house budget proposal.
The bill would change the state’s wrongful death
statute to allow family members of someone who
died to seek damages for emotional harm, rather
than just lost wages. Although they included
changes last year to address some of Hochul’s
concerns from her first veto, the latest bill text is
the same as lawmakers approved last year.
NEW YORK DEFORESTATION-FREE
PROCUREMENT ACT
With the new year also comes a new bill name
for this legislation that is meant to ensure that
contractors doing business with the state aren’t
contributing to tropical rainforest deforestation.
Sponsors state Sen. Liz Krueger and Assembly
Member Kenneth Zebrowski announced that
they were reintroducing their legislation as the
Tropical Rainforest Economic & Environmental
Sustainability – or TREES – Act.
CHALLENGING WRONGFUL
CONVICTIONS ACT
The state Senate included the
Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act
in its one-house budget. The bill would
make it easier for people wrongfully
convicted of a crime to challenge that
conviction in hopes of getting it vacated. The
Senate one-house resolution refers to last
year’s bill that Hochul vetoed, indicating that
lawmakers are not keen on making tweaks.
LOBBYING TRANSPARENCY FOR
GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEES
After Hochul vetoed legislation that would
have required lobbying disclosures around
gubernatorial nominees, sponsors state Sen.
Michael Gianaris and Assembly Member John
T. McDonald III reintroduced their bill at the
start of the year. It originally came following the
contentious fight over Hochul’s original pick for
state chief judge, Hector LaSalle, and who was
funding those lobbying for his nomination.
At the end of last year, and in some cases at the beginning of this year, Gov.
Kathy Hochul vetoed a handful of bills after they passed in the Legislature. But
that doesn’t mean that lawmakers were ready to call it quits. In many cases, the
bill sponsors promised that they would come back this year with new versions
of their vetoed legislation and try again. And with the legislative session well
underway, lawmakers have begun to make good on some of those promises.
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What made you feel
like it was time to
leave the state Department of Environmental Conservation?
Well, listen, I’ve been
here a long time and
my staff reminded me
at some point in the last
few months that I hit a
record, and I don’t think
I stayed in this job to hit
a record. I stayed in as
long as I did because I
actually love this job. It
really is, in many ways,
the best job in state
government. DEC’s in
the middle of everything.
We’ve got extremely
passionate stakeholders
on the outside. We’ve
been a leading state on
the environment for many
decades, and we have
really incredible staff here
who, in some cases are
here 30, 40, 50 years –
there’s actually a person
who’s here 54 years,
she’s in a management
position – so it’s sort of
amazing to be part of this
agency and the time had
gone by very fast.
But I just felt like it was
time, time for me to take
a knee in state government for a while. I’m certainly going to stay in the
fight and dedicate myself
to continuing this kind of
work. I’ll just put a different hat on but I won’t be
a stranger to New York
state, that’s for sure.
On climate change,
what are the priorities
New York should be
focusing on?
Yeah, there’s so many
priorities this agency is
in the middle of leading.
Our work on climate
change is vital and we
have to do it for every
reason imaginable. The
crisis is real, the impacts
are already being felt
here in New York, and the
country needs some of
these big states like New
York and California to be
leaders and to show the
way to develop policies
and work through the
really challenging issues.
When those states can
find a path forward, that
gives the country some
cover as well, and it can
continuously advance
some policies that would
otherwise be very challenging at the national
level, if just on their own.
That is certainly one of
the priorities and it’ll
involve not just reducing emissions, but also
investing in our state
making it more resilient.
You said before you’ve
set a record tenure as
DEC commissioner.
What moments stand
out?
Two weeks into my job,
not even getting my feet
on the ground, and the
Hoosick Falls water crisis
happens. The village
loses its water supply,
and we have to ultimately pivot the agency
from what historically
would just be a remediation issue to what
is effectively a gigantic
plumbing operation. We
had 600 people from the
agency that served in
Hoosick Falls to install
800 treatment systems
in people’s houses and
rebuild the village’s water
supply. That’s still going
on today. But for me, that
was trial by fire and that
was just a wild start to
my job and also one that
really changed the way I
thought about government. We had so many
skills that were untapped
in this agency that we
were able to harness.
– Austin C. Jefferson
BASIL SEGGOS
A Q&A with
state Department of
Environmental Conservation
Commissioner
(Hoosick Falls was a) trial by
fire and that was just a wild
start to my job and also one
that really changed the way I
thought about government.
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Congratulations to
Natasha Caputo
Westchester County
Tourism & Film Director,
on Being Recognized as
One of 50 Remarkable
Women Improving
New York
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The harm in deleting
“hold harmless”
LIZ ROSENBERG
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s
proposed education
cuts are creating
chaos in one Long
Island school district.
By Liz
Rosenberg
A
S ASHLEY BURGESS packed up
to leave for a school board meeting in late February, her 5-year-old
asked, “Are you going to save our
school?”
Prior to Jan. 16, East Elementary
School, the school Burgess’ two children attend in Long Beach, was not on
the chopping block. Long Beach’s school
board had every reason to believe their
district’s state aid would be the same
amount, if not more than the previous
year. But Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed
fiscal year 2025 education budget – one
that both the state Senate and Assembly
formally pushed back on recently – would
cut the district’s state aid by 22%, or
$4.3 million. Each year, the governor unveils her proposed budget in January, and
the two chambers of the state Legislature
release their rebuttals in early March. The
Legislative leaders and the governor then
begin closed-door negotiations to settle on
a budget by April 1.
East Elementary is just one of hundreds of schools across New York that
was thrown into a panic after Hochul announced her proposal to cut school funding
for schools with declining enrollment. As
parents scramble to understand the state’s
arcane budget process, some school district
administrators said this proposal was the
writing on the wall, predicting future cuts
and difficult decisions even if the governor’s proposal doesn’t become law.
“I was shocked by the reduction in Foundation Aid,” said Michael DeVito, assistant
superintendent for finance and operations
of Long Beach Public Schools, at the Long
Beach school board meeting in March, referring to the proposed cuts. After Hochul’s budget release, Long Beach schools
Superintendent Jennifer Gallagher acted
quickly. “The cuts we must make this year
if this reduction in aid goes through are
painful: We would need to excess many additional staff (administrators, teachers and
non-instructional staff), and reduce many
of our valuable programs,” according to
her Jan. 24 email. She listed 17 districtwide
programs that could be cut, including second-grade swimming and middle school
electives. “The degree to which any of
them would eventually be cut depends on
the ultimate State Aid amount. The other
unfortunate alternative in bridging the
budget gap is a difficult one as well: closing
East School.” Though the email included a
Spanish translation, some of East’s English
speaking parents said they were concerned
many of their peers who primarily speak
another language might not be fully aware
of the school’s precarious position.
One of the reasons legislators on both
sides of the aisle have opposed Hochul’s
cuts is the way the budget handles districts, like Long Beach, where enrollment
has dipped. “Hold harmless,” also called
“save harmless,” a budget practice in existence for decades, ensures that districts
receive at least the same amount of money
they were allocated the prior year – regardless of enrollment declines. Overall
public school enrollment continues to decline in New York, dipping to a multidecade low last year of 2.4 million students.
Of the 673 districts in the state that
receive Foundation Aid, 50% will lose
money if Hochul’s changes to hold harmless stand, according to New York State
Council of School Superintendents Deputy Director Robert Lowry. And over half
of these districts will receive the maximum reduction of 50% of their “hold
harmless” funds.
“There is a discussion that needs to be
had about what happens with these districts that have lost large numbers of students,” Lowry said. “And as a result may
be at risk of being unable to provide an adequate education to their students, particularly at the high school level.” Increasing
taxes at the local level or dipping into reserves could help fill the gap, but some
districts will have difficulty with one or
both of these solutions.
“For some of the districts that are affected, it’s a significant sum and it’s being
done rather abruptly,” Lowry said.
PARENTS MOBILIZE
At the school board meeting in February, Burgess broke down describing how
much East, a pre-K through fifth grade
East Elementary
parents worry about
cuts that could lead
to the school closing.
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school of 312 students that is a centerpiece
of a residential area, means to her family.
A few days later, standing on East’s nearly 100-year-old steps on a cold and rainy
day, she told City & State why she’d gotten so emotional. “Even my neighbors,
whose children don’t go to East, they understand how important it is, and how
crucial it is that these kids have a sense
of stability. And pulling them from their
school … I have a hard time seeing how
that’s worth it.” Elementary school-age
students, like Burgess’ 7-year-old son,
experienced upheaval during the pandemic, and East parents said the school
was integral to helping their children
heal from the stress.
Parents have tried to fight the cuts on
two fronts, in Albany and at home. They
say they’ve sent thousands of letters to the
governor and key legislators, and they’ve
asked the district to create a committee
and to include parent input in budget decisions; they’ve also asked the district to
explain why East – a school with 42%
“economically disadvantaged” students,
nearly double the amount of other district elementaries – was chosen for possible closure. Most of all, they want to know
whether, if hold harmless is restored, East
would be, in the words of Burgess’ daughter, “saved.”
The answer to this question is unclear.
Some members of the board and district
leadership are taking Hochul’s proposed
reductions very seriously, even if they
do not go into effect this year. They say
East’s building, the oldest in the district,
is the obvious target for closure. The current plan is to keep East open for another
year by dipping into reserves and possibly raising taxes if the hold harmless cuts
are not reduced – a decision made in response to parents’ outrage at the possibility of only having a few months’ notice of
closure. But new families considering East
will be notified that it might close in 2025.
Parents fear being on the public chopping
block could lead to teacher attrition and
lower enrollment.
“You’re asking really hard questions,”
said Alexis Eichen Pace, a school board
member, at the March meeting. “What’s
changed is the landscape of what we saw
happen with the budget process in Albany and what we can expect over the next
few years.” She said the threat of a loss of
funding led them to look at East, which if
closed would save the district $4 million.
“My kids went to East. It’s in my community too. I love the school,” Eichen Pace
said.
SCHOOL A AND SCHOOL B
Last year at this time, legislators and advocates were praising Hochul for fully
funding Foundation Aid for the first time
since the formula was enacted in 2008 – a
move made as a result of a lawsuit Hochul
settled. Shelley Mayer, chair of the state
Senate Education Committee, called it a
“record year.” Hochul’s fiscal year 2025
proposal added $825 million to the overall
state education budget, but the sunsetting
of federal funds schools have been using
for COVID-19 recovery-related programs,
like summer school and tutoring, made
the governor’s plan to change hold harmless even more of a surprise.
“If enacted, this could leave hundreds
of districts without the ability to plan
for and implement appropriate transition
measures to address their declining student enrollment,” according to testimony
by state Education Commissioner Betty
Rosa for a joint legislative budget hearing on the governor’s education budget on
Feb. 2. The hearing lasted nearly 10 hours
with most speakers asking for the restoration of hold harmless cuts.
Another big request, supported by both
houses in their budget resolutions, was
$1 million to fund a state Education Department study of the Foundation Aid
formula that would make suggestions to
revise outdated metrics, including using
decades-old census data.
Bruce Baker, of the blog School Finance
101, said the original formula missed the
mark on fully funding schools. “Sound
empirical analyses will likely show that
New York state needs to drive more funding into high poverty, high need settings, both upstate and downstate,” said
Gov. Kathy Hochul
highlighted improved
reading programs at
an upstate school.
DARREN MCGEE/ OFFICE OF GOV. KATHY HOCHUL
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Baker, a University of Miami professor
who supports the idea of a study. “Failing to conduct these analyses and continuing with the current formula means
knowingly continuing to deprive children
in those communities of equal opportunity to achieve common outcome goals.”
But Baker sees what Hochul is trying to
do. “The idea is to be able to recapture
funds allocated to those who really don’t
need that funding (and can cover those
costs themselves) and shift that funding
to those who need it more,” said Baker,
adding a caveat. “But, they shouldn’t necessarily be cutting that funding just to reduce overall education funding.”
After weeks of pushback from legislators, unions, advocacy groups and parents, Hochul released a video that offers a
positive view of the cuts to hold harmless.
The video, an explainer, presents “School
District A” in a wealthy district with declining enrollment and more than enough
money in reserves to fund its hold harmless gap and “School District B in a working-class community with lower property
values, so it’s tougher to support education through taxes or fundraising. … They
have no money set aside for a rainy day,
and their student population is growing.”
Graphics give the impression that a fat cat
district will lose some funds and a needier
district will pick up those funds.
“There’s been a 20% decline in population,” said the governor, referring to the
drop in enrollment since 2008 in most
of the districts impacted by hold harmless cuts. “Now the way this formula has
been structured based on population from
2008, means that no adjustments have
been made for the high-need districts,
the districts with larger populations, and
we’re still funding everybody as if we’re
back in 2008,” Hochul said at a press briefing on Long Island on March 14. “That
does not make sense anymore.”
“Since Governor Hochul took office,
New York has invested a record amount
of funding in our schools and the FY25
Executive Budget includes $35 billion
for schools – the highest total education
funding in state history,” a spokesperson
for the governor said in an email to City
& State. “We look forward to continuing
conversations with the legislature and the
public about why the school aid formula
must be modernized, so it serves the needs
of the next generation of students.”
The depiction in Hochul’s video was an
“oversimplification,” according to Lowry.
He said many of the districts impacted
were not wealthy and did not have large
reserves to make up the difference.
Blake Washington, the state budget director Hochul appointed in July, defended
the governor’s targeting of hold harmless and said the move was the beginning
of a conversation with the public, advocates and legislators. He acknowledged
that new projections of extra state revenue
would probably impact how schools were
funded in the state budget. “Certainly,
the Legislature, leaders of both houses
have said they are looking at the overall
proposal on school aid,” Washington said
on March 5. “It’s something at the top of
their minds, so sure, modifying that is
probably fair game.”
In Long Beach, East parents’ advocacy
is paying off. On March 13, they received
notice that some of their requests will
be granted. The district will do a demographic study to see if enrollment might
rebound in the future, and they agreed
to create a budget- and enrollment-related task force that will likely include representatives from East. “The discussion
will continue about reducing the number
of elementary schools from four to three,”
according to an update shared with City
& State.
“There’s a way that the teachers and
admins here set up our classrooms to build
up and help others … like my son,” said Joanne Kapp. “He’s very behind in reading
and he’s finally catching up.” For Kapp
and other parents at East, it has been difficult to reconcile hearing school board
members say how wonderful their school
is in one breath and double down on the
need to close one in the next.
“I don’t know where I would be without
the school and the community that I’ve
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THE 2024
ABOVE &
BEYOND:
WOMEN
T
HEY’RE MANHATTAN NATIVES, Midwestern transplants, lifelong upstaters and immigrants from as close as the Dominican
Republic and as far as the Philippines. What
all of this year’s Above & Beyond: Women
honorees have in common is a passion for improving New York, the place they now call home.
They are also role models for the next generation of politicians, nonprofit leaders, attorneys and
cultural influencers. That’s because – whether they
work in fields that have been dominated by women
like nursing or less traditional sectors like trucking – this cohort is breaking old boundaries in the
C-suite and racking up myriad firsts. This year’s
featured honoree is Assembly Member Jenifer
Rajkumar, the first South Asian woman elected to
state office in New York – and the only elected official on this year’s list.
Without further ado, City & State is pleased to
present this year’s Above & Beyond: Women honorees who are transforming New York.
Profiles by Hilary Danailova
Recognizing an amazing group of leading women
taking center stage in New York.
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March 25, 2024 City & State New York 15
JENIFER RAJKUMAR’S MOTHER grew
up in a mud hut in India, and her parents
immigrated with $300 and a suitcase.
So becoming the first South Asian
woman elected to state office in New
York – she has served in the Assembly
since 2021 – was a victory not only for
Rajkumar, but for her parents and New
York’s burgeoning Asian community. “I
represent the district in south Queens
where my family started in America,” she
says, “the launching pad for so many
South Asian immigrant families like
mine.”
Mindful of her responsibility, Rajkumar
led a successful effort to make Diwali
a state school holiday and to establish
New York’s Asian American and Pacific
Islander Commission. She also sponsored a measure incorporating domestic
workers – who are overwhelmingly immigrants of color – into the state’s human
rights law.
A politician since middle school,
Rajkumar got her start leading a voting rights campaign to enfranchise
fifth graders. When she got her driver’s
license at 17, she drove straight to Hillary
Clinton’s U.S. Senate campaign office to
volunteer.
Later, as a student at the University of
Pennsylvania, Rajkumar led a campus
women’s group and tutored low-income
Philadelphia women. Believing that
“lawyers save the world,” she earned
a degree from Stanford Law School –
then won her first case as an attorney, a
workplace discrimination suit on behalf
of 5,000 women. “I realized that to really
make a difference, you need power,” Rajkumar says. “So I went into politics.”
Her first role was as a lower Manhattan district leader. After three terms,
Rajkumar expanded her sphere of
influence as then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s
state director of immigrant affairs, spearheading a first-in-the-nation, $31 million
public-private partnership to provide
immigrants with legal defense.
Now settled back into her home
borough, Rajkumar has taught political
science to the next generation at Lehman
College. She was also a senior adviser for
the transition team of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who remains an influential
ally. On weekends, she runs the length of
her district, from Glendale to Richmond
Hill, stopping only for Indian tea.
Running is a rare escape from the
political grind for Rajkumar. After all,
this is the woman who secured her first
district seat by defeating a three-decade
incumbent with 70% of the vote – and
then, in 2020, won her Assembly race
with record district turnout. “I started by
standing on my street corner, greeting
my neighbors one by one,” she says. “In
my heart, I’ll always be a scrappy, insurgent upstart.”
Rajkumar spearheaded
a successful effort to
establish Diwali as a
state school holiday.
ASSEMBLY MEMBER
JENIFER RAJKUMAR
PHOTOS BY AMY LOMBARD
16 March 25, 2024
LYMARIS ALBORS
CEO
Acacia Network
Lymaris Albors loves to surprise people.
Polite astonishment is the typical reaction when the CEO of one of New York's
preeminent Hispanic-led nonprofits,
wielding a $500 million budget, turns out
to be a young woman. “It happens every
single day,” Albors says, “and I use it to my
advantage.”
Her youthful vision informs Acacia
Network’s novel offerings, like acupuncture and community arts festivals. Since
becoming CEO in 2022, Albors has
championed a holistic approach, integrating Acacia’s services across health care,
housing, economic development and
culture.
Yes, culture: “That’s what heals the soul,”
says Albors, a salsa devotee. “Celebrating
your heritage, your accent, your movement – that’s what really makes you alive.”
Under Albors’ leadership, Acacia absorbed Loisaida, Manhattan’s grassroots
Latino cultural organization, and has incorporated art into everything from detox
treatment to shelter programming. Albors
also recently led Acacia’s expansion into
her native Puerto Rico, developing a
senior housing complex.
She grew up in a small town on the
island, one of six children from a family
of ministers. But Albors always dreamed
of coming to New York, where her aunt
pioneered substance abuse intervention
with the nonprofit Promesa. Now, that
organization is one of Acacia’s 100-plus
affiliates – and Albors’ career has come
full circle.
“I fell in love with the city right away,”
Albors says. “This is the greatest opportunity, to be a woman at the helm – and to
show every single day that I’ve got what it
takes to lead.”
GUEDY ARNIELLA
DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND
OUTREACH
The Institute for Family Health
Guedy Arniella was running the adult
psychiatric department at Mount Sinai
Medical Center when she had an epiphany: Mental illness – and health disparities – could often be traced directly to the
deleterious effects of living in poverty.
Once she realized that, Arniella shifted
her social work career to community
health, determined to address problems
at their roots. “Communities of color really
benefit from understanding, from people
who nurture without judging,” she says.
Arniella is in an ideal position to do that:
Her family emigrated from Cuba when she
was 3 and scraped by at first. “I have a
personal connection to brown communities, and the struggles that immigrants go
through,” says Arniella, who for the past 14
years has directed community health and
outreach at The Institute for Family Health
in New York City.
Previously, as outreach director at
North General Hospital in Harlem, she
engaged peer counselors in diabetes and stroke prevention campaigns.
More recently, Arniella has worked with
populations suffering the effects of prolonged health neglect, including formerly
incarcerated people and asylum-seeking
families. At the behest of the city health
department, Arniella leads outreach in
shelters, vaccinating migrant children so
they can attend school.
And she takes pride in mentoring the
next generation of grassroots health
workers. “You don’t just tell people what
you’re going to do. You wind up as equal
partners, because community members
know their own community, so they’re
invested in what works,” she says. “And
projects will be more successful.”
Arniella is
mentoring
the next
generation
of grassroots
health workers.
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BESA BAUTA
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services
As she wrangles technology for human services organizations, Besa Bauta has a secret weapon: She’s
not just an expert in data, analytics and AI – she’s
also a public health scholar with a doctorate and a
social work background.
“I’m in a unique position,” says Bauta, noting that
few people straddle analytics and human services.
“Unlike other techies, I’ve also been on the other
side.”
Bauta currently oversees the digital infrastructure for The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s
Services, a 180-year-old New York City organization
with a $236 million budget. She is a founding member of Women Leaders in Data & AI, and she also
co-founded the Social Impact AI Lab, an organization
that supports digital transformation of the human
services sector and has been lauded by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation.
Born in Yugoslavia, Bauta immigrated to New York
City with her parents, who were political refugees,
and started college as a biomedical engineering
student. But women were rare in the sciences, and
“you felt intimidated after a while,” recalls Bauta.
After college, working as a refugee interpreter in
Kosovo, she was inspired by a social worker and
switched fields.
Bauta still teaches public health and social work at
NYU, her alma mater, but her niche is in the satisfyingly concrete world of engineering. “Solving human
problems takes a long time, even when the solution
is very obvious,” she says. “I just like solving problems
immediately.” ARGENIS APOLINARIO/ACACIA NETWORK; FAMILY HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT; NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
18 March 25, 2024
JACKIE BRAY
JACKIE BRAY
COMMISSIONER
State Division of Homeland Security
and Emergency Services
What do you get when you combine
experience with weather, homelessness, mental health and pandemic
response?
In New York, you get Jackie Bray,
the first female commissioner of the
state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. While
her male predecessors were mostly
uniformed services veterans, Bray is
a public health expert with a passion
for social justice – “understanding and delivering what people
need, and making sure they’re
empowered to take action,”
she says.
Bray’s commitment
comes from her activist parents. “They
were always talking
about the need
to be part of the
solution,” she says,
recalling how they took
Bray and her twin sister
out of school to celebrate
Nelson Mandela’s release.
As a public health advocate,
Bray worked on safety communications for the National Weather
Service. She also advised City Hall
on mental health policy, and created
the New York City Mayor’s Office to
Protect Tenants.
Most definitive, however, was
her leadership around the city’s
COVID-19 response – managing
hospital capacity, the Test and Trace
Corps, the vaccination campaign
and school reopenings. “I have never
felt more useful,” Bray says. “It was
certainly the most terrifying work I’ve
ever done.”
Which brings us to her new role,
handling homeland security. Bray
points out that New York’s greatest
casualty events have not involved
war or terrorism, but they have been
epidemics – the 1918 influenza, AIDS
and now COVID-19 – while emergency management mostly involves
weather. “I’m grateful,” she says, “that
the current administration sees this
position through a really broad lens.”
Bray
managed
testing and
tracing
during the
COVID-19
pandemic.
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RUTH BROWNE
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Ronald McDonald House New York
A scholar of social determinants
of health, Ruth Browne is herself
an example of how social factors
can help powerful and influential
women.
Browne, the CEO of Ronald
McDonald House New York and a
public health researcher at SUNY
Downstate Medical Center, is heir
to a public policy matriarchy. Her
grandmother was New York’s
highest-ranking official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, pioneering anti-poverty
programs with then-New York City
Mayor John Lindsay. Her mother
directed a community development
corporation in Brooklyn, where
Browne grew up.
“I was always witness to what
could be done from a community
groundswell perspective,” Browne
says. “I also saw the potential to
excel and contribute as a female
professional interested in social
justice.”
After earning a doctorate from
Harvard and serving as founding
CEO of the Arthur Ashe Institute for
Urban Health, Browne set about reorienting Ronald McDonald House –
which supports families of children
in treatment for life-threatening
illness – from a hospitality focus to
an emphasis on equity-informed
health care.
Browne has done this by drawing
on her research on health disparities, increasing the services she
knows improve outcomes – like
family and caregiver respite rooms,
and nutrition and education programs so families have “a sense of
normalcy.” She has also broadened
eligibility and expanded programming from a 50-mile radius to all five
boroughs.
“I’ve come to understand the
importance of public policy in providing access,” Browne says. “That’s
where I’ve built my career – in how
we make institutions and communities that have staying power.”
LISETTE CAMILO
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
As she has climbed the career ladder at New
York City agencies, Lisette Camilo has steadfastly
championed education – the steppingstone that
launched her to professional success.
She’s proud of spearheading partnerships with
the City University of New York to recruit the next
generation into government career tracks – both at
the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where
she is chief administrative officer and, previously,
as commissioner at the Department of Citywide
Administrative Services.
“There’s so much opportunity to match smart
New York City students with an institution, the
MTA, that everybody sees and uses every day,”
Camilo says. “These are kids who are working their
way through college, trying to live the American
dream.”
That observation applies to herself. The Manhattan-born daughter of Dominican immigrants, Camilo discovered in a Columbia University government
class “that legislation serves a purpose, that you
can really drive change by thinking about underserved people, about service delivery,” she says.
“That (has) really appealed to me.”
Camilo was an immigration lawyer and got
firsthand policy experience as a legislative attorney
with the New York City Council. At the Mayor’s
Office of Contract Services, she eventually rose to
director and chief procurement officer.
A quarter century later, Camilo remains involved
with another Columbia institution – the Double
Discovery Center, an enrichment program for
children who, like Camilo, hail from underprivileged
New York families. “I have a very particular bent
toward educational opportunities for low-income,
first-generation, college-bound students,” says
Camilo, a former employee and now a board member. “Their story is my story.”
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NATASHA CAPUTO
DIRECTOR
Westchester County Tourism & Film
Born to promote her home county,
Natasha Caputo feels like she’s
always been a backyard tourist.
“I’m amazed by the way that New
York is constantly reinventing itself,”
she says.
Caputo has presided over a decisive post-pandemic recovery in her
corner of New York at Westchester County Tourism & Film, where
she guides the county’s $2 billion
tourism industry. As the agency’s director, she’s especially jazzed about
her role in cultivating a film sector
that generates $1.1 billion in economic activity – much of it through
so-called screen tourism, which
lures visitors to ogle, say, the houses
featured in “The Gilded Age.”
Caputo grew up in Inwood, a
northern Manhattan neighborhood
not so far from Westchester. She
headed strategic marketing and
partnerships for NYC & Company,
the city’s promotional agency, and
was a publicist for Channel 13,
working on the travel shows that
deepened her interest in cultural
tourism.
And she’s genuinely wild about
the region. “We have urban and
suburbia, and so much diversity
in the experiences you can have
here,” she says. Add that to events
like the Westchester Kennel Club’s
annual dog show and historic sites
like the Revolutionary Trail – a
cornerstone of promotions around
America’s 2026 sesquicentennial
celebration – and you can see why
Caputo’s marketing campaigns
have rebounded tourism to 99% of
pre-coronavirus levels.
“If I go somewhere and I have a
fantastic meal, I want to share it, I
want to tell everyone,” Caputo says.
“I always say that tourism is the best
form of diplomacy.”
Caputo has presided
over a post-pandemic
recovery in Westchester. STEFAN RADTKE
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ELIZABETH
CROWLEY
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Building Trades Employers’
Association
Elizabeth Crowley was the
first woman to represent her
Queens district in the New
York City Council. Now she’s
the first woman to lead the
Building Trades Employers’
Association, an industry group
representing 1,200 members of
24 contractor associations.
Crashing through glass ceilings comes naturally to Crowley,
“the 11th of 12 daughters to an
unstoppable mother,” as she
describes herself. Growing up,
Crowley fought for her fair share
of everything from TV time to
dessert. She also watched her
widowed mother raise a family,
serve on the school board and
even finish out her late father’s
term on the City Council. “She
showed me by example how
much of a difference you can
make,” Crowley says.
Over two terms in the City
Council, Crowley left her own
mark. She co-chaired the
Women’s Caucus, and she
co-founded and led a nonpartisan organization dedicated
to gender parity – and the
effort was wildly successful,
establishing the council’s first
female majority.
Crowley also secured record
funding for school construction
and supported programs championing women in the building
trades – so she was a natural
choice to lead the BTEA into
a more inclusive era. She has
worked hands-on with buildings
herself, as a decorative painter
for landmark restorations of St.
Patrick’s Cathedral and Radio
City Music Hall. (She holds
degrees in art restoration, architecture and planning.)
“I’m passionate about what
makes a place a place, and
the impact buildings have on
the people who occupy them,”
Crowley says. “I love just
watching the city move.”
Crowley led
the push
for a female
majority in
the New York
City Council.
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being recognized
by City & State for
going ‘Above &
Beyond’ to improve
and better the lives
of New Yorkers.
KATIE
DEVINE
Congratulations
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26 March 25, 2024
KATIE DEVINE
PRINCIPAL
Rockabill Consulting
Katie Devine will never forget
the day she helped change 100
lives.
As a consultant specializing
in affordable housing, Devine
was awed to watch local shelter
residents move into the 40-
unit Indiana project that she
had facilitated for people with
disabilities.
“It’s a great privilege to be in a
position to do work with impact,”
Devine says.
Her efforts have bigger
impacts now that she’s based
in New York – “the city in the
United States with both the
greatest amount of need and
the greatest amount of opportunity,” she says. A principal
with Hoboken-based Rockabill
Consulting, Devine works with
both nonprofit and for-profit
developers, shepherding stakeholders through financing and
development.
Most of Devine’s work involves supportive and transitional housing for people who are
homeless, elderly, in substance
abuse recovery or suffering from
mental illness. A recent highlight, she says, was partnering
with St. Francis Friends of the
Poor on a $22 million renovation
of three residences for homeless
adults with mental illness.
A Cornell hospitality graduate, Devine started her career
in operations management
for large cultural institutions,
working at Lincoln Center and
The Art Institute of Chicago. But
when a Midwestern affordable
housing developer reached out
for a project, Devine was ready
for a change.
Growing up in Minneapolis in
a family that struggled economically, “I had the opportunity
to see inequities,” she says. “I
wanted to do something that
had a little bit more meaning to
it. For me, it feels as though I’ve
come full circle.”
Devine's
career in
affordable
housing is
personal. KATIE DEVINE
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CEO
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At Roads to Success, the New
York City youth services provider that she leads, Sheila Duke
takes her young charges to visit
the Statue of Liberty, on tours
of out-of-state colleges and to
spend the summer in swimming
classes.
“These are things that more
privileged kids might do,” Duke
says. “I try to show them all
different types of paths, give
them something to aspire
to. And allow kids to realize
that your ZIP code doesn’t
dictate what success
looks like.”
It certainly didn’t limit
Duke, who overcame
shaky foundations – she
was adopted by an
aunt, a single parent
who died when Duke
was 20 – to become
a role model for New
York underprivileged
children of color.
Her career in
youth development
nonprofits started
when, at age 14, Duke
became a tutor at
the MLK Community
Center on her native
Long Island. After earning
degrees in psychology and
counseling, Duke ran children’s
programs at The Fresh Air
Fund and launched 110 summer
camps with New York Edge.
Now as CEO of Roads
to Success, she oversees a
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enrichment to college prep
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LAURA EVANGELISTA
SHAREHOLDER
Greenberg Traurig
In the 1990s, when Laura Evangelista was starting
out as a litigator, she was frequently the only female
attorney in the room. So she was pleased to realize,
during a recent detour into the public sector, how
much had changed in her profession.
At the state Department of Financial Services, “a
female superintendent hired me as head of insurance. And her head of banking, chief of staff and
chief compliance officer were all women,” says Evangelista, who supervised regulation for 1,700 insurers.
“Thirty years later, it’s a really different environment.”
That’s also true at Greenberg Traurig, where she
is a shareholder in the New York office and global
co-chair of the firm’s insurance regulatory and transactions practice group. Evangelista herself can take
some credit for the advancement of women in New
York state: At DFS, she worked on a historic family
leave bill that guarantees women the same paid time
off she had enjoyed when her children were born.
The Queens native was drawn to policy early, interning in the Connecticut legislature while studying
political science at Trinity College. “I joke that it took
me 25 years to get back to public service,” she says.
Her fresh government insights are invaluable to
clients seeking advice on new insurance products.
Having served as both outside and in-house counsel
as well as an insurance broker “is sort of a unique
tripod,” Evangelista says. “I’m able to bring those
three pieces together to assist clients navigating their
regulatory obligations.”
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JAIME FRANCHI
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Long Island Contractors’ Association
From her decadelong tenure at the Long Island Press to her current post as spokesperson for the Long Island Contractors’ Association, Jaime Franchi has been a consistent
voice for the concerns and interests of her
home isle.
Regardless of role, Franchi has always
identified first as a communicator. Putting
out LICA’s quarterly magazine “brings together the two loves of my life, politics and
writing,” on behalf of 170 union contractor
members, she says.
Franchi originally thought she would be
an English professor, but was drawn to the
rhetorical language of politics. Her mentor in
both was novelist and then-Rep. Steve Israel,
for whom she worked at his Long Island University institute after leaving the Press.
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Franchi further into policy. “It sounds corny, but
I wanted to make a difference,” she says.
Seeing hunger on Long Island skyrocket
along with unemployment, she felt the need
to “use what I’d learned and the relationships
I’d built and put it into advocacy.”
She started by securing a $1 million appropriation for Island Harvest food bank, where
she headed government relations. More
recently, Franchi celebrated a successful
campaign for New York’s clean water
initiative, including an $8 billion investment in Long Island’s sewers and other
infrastructure.
Amid the uncertainty of recent years,
“the only way to assuage that was to
get out and do what I could,” says Franchi of her latest chapter. “It (has) felt
great to jump in with both feet.”
RETHA FERNANDEZ
STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT
MANAGER
National Grid Ventures
Tech enthusiast Retha Fernandez
believes everyone should study
engineering. “It teaches you problem-solving and critical thinking,” she
says, “and the technical skills enable
you to put your ideas into action.”
Fernandez’s own technical studies
have led to a career actively promoting inclusive workforce development – specifically, extending promising technical jobs to underserved
communities. That’s what she does
as strategic engagement manager
for National Grid Ventures, where she
manages a 10-year, $41 million effort
to employ disadvantaged New Yorkers in offshore wind projects.
Investments in career-supportive
services like child care and transportation facilitate
“a pathway to good-paying union
jobs, so that individuals can build
financial security,” Fernandez says.
Fernandez knows what it’s like to
be underrepresented: She has often
been the only woman of color on tech
teams she has worked in. Determined
to change that, she inaugurated the
inclusion and diversity employee
research groups at the Estee Lauder
Companies, where she worked for
nearly a decade and managed global
IT services.
Fernandez also served as Suffolk
County’s chief diversity and inclusion
officer, and she has advanced DEI
initiatives at the Urban League of Long
Island. Concerned by what she views
as lingering disparities, Fernandez
chooses to volunteer her time encouraging girls to pursue STEM.
“Technology enables innovation
and creativity to help solve the
problems in the world,” she says. “I’m
showing young women that you can
look the way I look, dress fabulously –
and still work in tech.”
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ELIZABETH GARCIA
CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER, COMMUNITY-BASED
PROGRAMS
Good Shepherd Services
Elizabeth Garcia has devoted her career to helping New
York City’s vulnerable young people secure housing.
“When I think about where we were at 16, we had
family,” Garcia says. “These young people have been
left to fend for themselves, in a situation that was not
their causing.”
After two decades focusing on youth homelessness,
Garcia recently expanded her oversight to a $13 million annual portfolio of 20 community-based programs
across all five boroughs. She now coordinates Good
Shepherd Service’s anti-violence programming, community centers, family mentoring and youth justice
initiatives, which involve alternatives to incarceration.
“It’s been interesting seeing how these issues all
intersect,” Garcia says. A longtime fixture on youth
housing task forces, she continues to advocate with
the Coalition for Homeless Youth: “It’s something I’ll
always be involved with, one way or another.”
The Colombia native was 5 years old when her
mother moved the family to New Jersey. Feeling
the pressure to achieve, Garcia was pre-med at the
University of Pennsylvania before a post-college job
at Covenant House convinced her that “there’s so
many more ways of helping people,” she says. She
excelled in the organization’s leadership development
program, earned a master’s at NYU and has since
lobbied for vulnerable youth on city task forces.
“Because I was an immigrant, because English
wasn’t my first language, because I was a woman, I’ve
always felt I had to work harder,” she says. “The opportunity that I’ve gotten here means I have to give back.”
CARRIE HARRING
DIRECTOR OF
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
Statewide Public Affairs
As she lobbies through yet another Albany budget season,
Carrie Harring thinks back to
the experience that first drove
home the impact of state
funding.
She was a young drummer
in Columbia County when
budget cuts threatened to
eliminate middle school band.
The compromise – band practice during recess – proved
unpopular. So Harring and
her classmates successfully
protested, restoring both band
and recess.
“That definitely planted a
seed” for her political consciousness, Harring says. “You
see things you want changed.
You have to find people who
agree with you, and make
your case. Because nothing
happens in a vacuum.”
Harring now uses those strategies daily as director of government affairs for Statewide
Public Affairs, an Albany firm.
Her specialties include energy,
corporate and business policy
(she holds an MBA) and health
care, the field she originally
thought she would go into.
While studying physical
therapy, Harring realized her
true interest was health policy.
As a lobbyist, she is proud of
helping to secure measures
to expand insurance coverage, make co-pays fairer and
reduce barriers to access.
Harring is also a volunteer advocate, committed to
increasing opportunities for
upstate young people. She is
active with the Junior League
of Albany and with Girls Inc.,
where she currently mentors
eighth-graders.
“We expose them to different things, whether my job or
how you survive middle and
high school,” she says. “With
the challenges kids face today,
I learn just as much from those
girls as they do from me –
maybe more.”
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KATHRYN
HASLANGER
CEO
JASA
Some people who grow up
steeped in social justice,
as Kathryn Haslanger did,
become counselors or clergy
leaders. But Haslanger’s early
experiences in New York City
government convinced her
that policy was her route to
making a difference.
A post-college role with
the city’s human resources
department “gave me the opportunity to really spread my
wings, work hard, learn and
grow,” she says.
That turned out to be the
perfect launching pad for a
social impact career that propelled Haslanger to the helm
of JASA, a human services
nonprofit devoted to keeping
older New Yorkers safe and
healthy in their own homes.
Since Haslanger became
CEO in 2012, the organization
has grown to $135 million in
annual revenue, with housing,
nutrition and home care services for 40,000 clients across
the city and Long Island.
The Ohio native has long
been an effective problem-solver. When the 9/11 attacks shut down city computer
systems, Haslanger, then head
of the United Hospital Fund of
New York, rallied a public-private coalition to streamline
Medicaid signup for 340,000
residents. In response to rising
demand, she opened community primary care centers.
Haslanger brought that
effectiveness to JASA, where
she has expanded meal delivery and senior housing. “The
crisis has worsened, but we
now have the capacity to develop the response,” she says.
After 30 years solving New
Yorkers’ problems, Haslanger
remains as motivated as ever,
she says, “by my commitment
to providing choices to people
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KENDRA HEMS
PRESIDENT
Trucking Association of New
York
As America’s trucking industry
modernizes, one of its contemporary faces is Kendra
Hems, who heads the Trucking
Association of New York.
Especially for women,
trucking often isn’t often a firstchoice profession. “But once
you get into it, you love it,” Hems
says. She grew up around her
stepfather’s Oswego trucking
outfit, got to know truckers as
a young dispatcher – and, after
finding accounting too impersonal, changed her college
major to management and went
into the family business.
At the industry organization, which she joined in 1999,
Hems has partnered with
public safety advocates and
environmental groups, “showing that the trucking industry
is part of the solution,” she
says. She also co-founded
the association’s Women in
Motion Advisory Committee,
which pairs women mentors
with female recruits.
The association’s president
since 2008, Hems recently
championed the successful
effort to lower the interstate
commercial driving age to 21,
enabling her constituency to
recruit high school graduates
and ease the driver shortage.
Hems has also served as
national chair of her association’s executive council, and
on transportation advisory
committees for then-Gov.
Andrew Cuomo’s transition
team and then-New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio during the
COVID-19 emergency.
It took the pandemic, she
says, to open America’s eyes
to what she has known all
along – that her industry is vital to our supply chain. “Truckers support everything that we
need on a daily basis, and they
do it every day,” Hems says.
“They truly love this country –
and they’re underappreciated.” BRIAN JONES/BRIAN L JONES PHOTOGRAPHY
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JASMINKA HUSIC
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
New York State Technology
Enterprise Corp.
Since her youth in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Jasminka Husic
has always kept her eyes on the
proverbial prize.
She parlayed a postwar interpreter role with U.N. peacekeeping forces into a chance to study in America,
eventually earning a business and
computer science degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University.
She enjoyed software development,
but chose a master’s in accounting as a
step toward her eventual goal: to become
a chief financial officer.
Today, Husic is indeed a CFO, directing
finance and business intelligence for the
New York State Technology Enterprise
Corp. It’s her ninth year at the nonprofit
consultancy, which provides technical support for state and federal agencies and local
economies both upstate and downstate.
“I love being an expert in finance, and
also keeping current with the technological advances that are happening all
around us,” Husic says.
That approach has yielded explosive
growth for the consultancy – which has
seen its revenue quintuple to $100 million
since she joined as controller. Husic also
helps nurture the next generation of
upstate workers – mentoring female firstyear STEM students at SUNY Polytechnic
Institute, her graduate alma mater, and
advising the Utica school district’s technical education program.
As her own career illustrates, there are
few limits on what someone with determination can achieve. “Even though
it wasn’t always easy, I never gave
up,” Husic says. “And if I’m the only
voice in the room representing a
woman’s perspective, it has to be
a strong one.”
JEN HENSLEY
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CORPORATE
AFFAIRS
Con Edison
Growing up in Fresno, a city in California’s Central Valley, Jen Hensley always wanted “to be in a
place where I could do big things,” she says.
New York City has been that place. In college
at Barnard, Hensley “got to understand New
York at its most fundamental level – the neighborhood,” in a series of roles with the Alliance
for Downtown New York, lower Manhattan’s
business improvement district.
In the two decades since then, Hensley has
played a significant role in shaping neighborhoods across the city – including a lengthy
tenure at the helm of the Association for a Better
New York, and now at Con Edison, where she is
helping shape the city’s clean energy transition.
“For me, it’s been a homecoming,” Hensley says
of her current role handling corporate affairs. “Focusing on what’s going to make the city work – and
what’s going to make us sustainable in the future.”
Hensley’s dedication to grassroots change was
galvanized early on, during the urgent post-9/11
conversations about how to revitalize a wounded
city. At ABNY, where she increased membership
significantly, Hensley impressed upon the de Blasio administration the need for policies supporting
New York’s burgeoning technology ecosystem:
“Every company is a tech company nowadays,”
she says.
To that end, Hensley chairs the board of Pursuit, a nonprofit that trains low-income residents
and immigrants for technology careers. “Pursuit
emphasizes persistence, which I think is at the
very heart of New Yorkers,” she says. “Our grit is
what makes us successful in the long run.”
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LINDA JOHNSON
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Brooklyn Public Library
When Linda Johnson pivoted from a corporate career to libraries, her MBA came
in handy.
“I’m really running a business,” says
Johnson, who for the past dozen years
has managed a $170 million budget as
CEO of the Brooklyn Public Library. “We
move merchandise around 62 branches.
We have a flagship, a union staff … all the
components of a midsize business, except
sales.”
Johnson knows her mission goes far
beyond logistics. Taking a stand against
the tide of censorship sweeping American
libraries, she recently launched Books
Unbanned, a national program giving
teens digital access to materials censored
elsewhere.
As part of that effort to expand the
library’s reach, Johnson curated a 2023
exhibition honoring the 50th anniversary
of hip-hop by spotlighting the books that
inspired Brooklyn native Jay-Z. Membership skyrocketed, with special edition
library cards becoming collectors’ items.
The show “drove home that Jay-Z’s
success was grounded in the written
word,” Johnson says. As is hers: After
studying English and running an information services firm, Johnson visited a
library in her native Philadelphia “and
realized how cool it was – this institution
that was totally free and provided access
to the world’s information to anybody who
walked through the door,” she says.
She became a volunteer, then CEO of
the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation – and two decades later, she remains
awed by the power of libraries. “The way
we read has changed, but the mission
over 125 years hasn’t,” she says. “We still
make an enormous difference in people’s
lives.”
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SAKINA JORDAN
PEER SPECIALIST TEAM LEAD
MetroPlusHealth
Growing up during Harlem’s crack epidemic, Sakina Jordan got an upclose look at the ravages of substance abuse and mental illness.
“I saw individuals passed out, ambulances taking them away,” she
recalls. “I thought: How can we make this better?”
Jordan comes from a family of strong, nurturing women: Her mother
was a home health aide, and her sister is a nurse with the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. For her part, Jordan earned a social
work degree and returned to the neighborhood, helping struggling
residents turn their lives around.
After a decade working in group homes and transitional housing, Jordan in 2021 joined the new in-house behavioral health unit at
MetroPlusHealth. Since last year, she has served as a peer specialist
team lead, supervising a dozen field workers who use their lived experiences overcoming substance abuse and mental illness to help others
do the same.
“Nothing is more satisfying than seeing someone overcome obstacles, reintegrate into the community and have a new chance at life,”
Jordan says.
But new challenges confront her team’s Medicaid clients, who receive
services in a combination of inpatient, home and community settings.
There are superpotent drugs like fentanyl and a severe housing crisis,
which threatens to destabilize fragile patients in recovery.
Jordan sees more and more needy people as she commutes daily
through Penn Station from New Jersey – and she can’t resist stopping
to help if she can. “My social worker self never shuts off,” she says.
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RHODA KALEMA
UNDERWRITING MANAGER
Ponce Bank
Not everybody sees the artistry in commercial
underwriting. But Rhoda Kalema does, and that’s
why she’s so good at it.
“After a while, it might seem redundant,” she
says of the myriad real estate loans she handles. “But there is something unique about
each property. Looking at different ways
to structure a deal, from different angles –
that’s the art.”
At Ponce Bank in New York City, Kalema manages an underwriting team whose
portfolio has grown from $800 million in
2015, when she joined, to nearly $3 billion.
These include loans for purchases and refinancing as well as construction projects.
Kalema’s early example was her father, a
real estate appraiser and surveyor who got
her interested in the construction industry.
But an internship at Sterling National Bank
turned into an underwriting job – and she discovered her niche in credit.
For Kalema, success involves not only
numbers, but human instinct – “remembering
that the ‘five C’s of credit’ include character,”
she says. Once, when her supervisor was ready
to approve a loan, Kalema was unnerved by
the customer’s fidgeting. She double-checked –
and discovered that a crucial document had been
forged.
“That was a lesson: Just because you have a lot
of money or experience, that should never blind you
in the transaction that you’re working on,” Kalema
says. The individuality of each customer keeps her
job interesting: “Each deal is like a painting. You
start with their needs, see it to fruition, and something beautiful finally comes out of it.”
SAMARA KARASYK
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Hudson Square Business Improvement District
Samara Karasyk’s urbanist vision is evident in the details
of a revitalized Hudson Square: wider sidewalks, pocket
parks, pedestrian and bike lanes, shady new trees. Near
the Holland Tunnel exit, colorful public art brightens a
defunct toll structure.
“We’re incorporating our businesses, bringing their
creativity from their offices into our public spaces,” Karasyk
says. “It really does feel more welcoming in the neighborhood.”
Welcoming is at the core of Karasyk’s mission at the
Hudson Square Business Improvement District, which
she has helmed since 2021. With an annual budget
of $3.2 million, Karasyk leads the ongoing renewal of
a once-neglected corner of downtown Manhattan,
rebuilding its signature thoroughfares and planting
greenery to combat climate change.
Inspired partly by her upbringing in nearby Norwalk,
Connecticut – an economically diverse city then undergoing its own renaissance – Karasyk has devoted her career
to bolstering New York City neighborhoods. Previously, at
the New York City Small Business Resources Network, a
$2.8 million public-private partnership, she was the liaison
to the five chambers of commerce in the city.
Before that, she had boosted her home borough’s
small businesses as chief policy officer for the Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce. To all her roles, she brings a
passion for policy honed over years at city agencies,
working on everything from property taxes to public
parks.
“I’m a huge policy geek, and I just love New York
City – working with such amazing people and communities,” Karasyk says. “I feel lucky to be in a position where
we have such hyperlocal impact.”
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REBECCA KARP
FOUNDING PRINCIPAL AND
CEO
Karp Strategies
For an urban planner, New
York City is a kind of professional smorgasbord. “We
have every challenge possible
here,” says Rebecca Karp, the
founding principal and CEO of
Karp Strategies. “In New York,
we can really make an impact
at scale.”
Karp got an early education
in the power of urban ecosystems from her parents, who
were active in labor and civic
organizations, as well as the
contrasting landscapes where
she spent her formative years.
A high school stint in the
vibrant urban density of Tokyo
threw the challenges of Karp’s
native Hudson Valley – which
had been devastated by the
collapse of manufacturing –
into sharp relief.
“My whole life, I’ve been
thinking about the responsibility of an employer or government toward its community,”
Karp says.
After college, Karp landed
in New York City at a moment
when economic development
was kicking into high gear.
She learned the inner workings of government at several
city agencies before launching
her own urban planning firm
in 2015.
Now Karp oversees a staff
of 30, with a national clientele
and projects ranging from renewable energy to lower Manhattan’s flood infrastructure.
She’s still thrilled over her role
advising a former employer,
the Port Authority, on a plan
to replace the deteriorating
wharfs that receive most of
the region’s incoming goods.
“Being part of a project that
examines the infrastructure
underpinning our region’s economic success,” Karp says, “I
don’t know how it gets much
better than that.” RICARDO QUINONES
Karp now
advises
her former
employer, the
Port Authority
of New York
and New
Jersey.
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NASHANTA
LAMONT
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
OF GOVERNMENTAL AND
POLITICAL AFFAIRS
Council of School Supervisors
& Administrators
Nashanta Lamont insists she’s
really very shy. “But when it
comes to dancing, I come
alive,” she says. “I come alive
like that in my work too!”
That energy is evident when
Lamont lobbies in Albany and
Washington, D.C., on behalf of
the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, the
New York City chapter of a national educators union. It’s on
view as she rallies in support
of fair contracts and education-friendly candidates, and
when she builds coalitions to
promote school safety, reduce
teacher turnover and increase
equity through initiatives like
free school lunch.
“A big part of my job is educating school workers about
why it’s important to fight for
funding, and to build relationships with elected officials,”
Lamont says.
The daughter of union
corrections officers, Lamont grew up in Queens and
began her career at the city
Department of Education. Her
proudest achievement there
was co-launching the Affinity
Schools Student Advisory
Council on Equity, a pilot platform for student activism.
“We represent 1.1 million students, and a lot of them look
like me,” Lamont says. “Advocating on their behalf is really
powerful. It shows them that
representation is important.”
Recently, as associate director of governmental and political affairs, Lamont secured
record state funding for CSA’s
Executive Leadership Institute – enabling the union to
expand mentoring and develop
culturally responsive curricula.
“School is where I thrive the
most,” Lamont says. “There
are always opportunities
for learning, teaching and
growing all at once. That’s the CHUCK WILBANKS
beauty of it.”
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NEELA LOCKEL
PRESIDENT AND CEO
EAC Network
Working at a homeless shelter during college, Neela
Lockel had an “aha” moment: “I realized that was the
kind of work I’d always been attracted to – working
with vulnerable individuals.”
Her parents took more convincing. “I'm the daughter of Indian immigrants!” Lockel says. “So when I
went from going to law school to going to social work
school, they were like, ‘What?’”
But Lockel persisted in advocacy that was, as she
puts it, “hyperlocal and rooted in communities.” She’s
done that ever since – and now she’s CEO of the EAC
Network, a nonprofit human services organization
reaching 60,000 people across New York City, Rockland County and Long Island.
Inclusion is a priority: At EAC, Lockel has dramatically increased diversity on the organization’s board.
Previously, as head of Girls Inc. of Long Island, she
boosted outreach sevenfold by increasing the fledgling organization’s budget from $20,000 to $250,000
in five years, and spearheaded myriad school and
summer camp partnerships.
In between, Lockel counts her experiences on the
ground during major disasters as among her proudest moments as a social worker. As CEO of the American Red Cross of Greater New York’s Long Island
chapter, she assisted after devastating hurricanes
and floods in the Carolinas and wildfires in California.
“I’m in a community of people who love this work
and share a vision,” Lockel says. “I have seen and felt
the impact of what we’re able to do as part of these
systems that move people forward.”
VIVIAN LOUIE
CHIEF HOUSING OFFICER
Community Housing Innovations
While her University of Michigan
classmates were on the beach for
spring break, Vivian Louie was,
in her own words, “freezing my
butt off” in Kalamazoo, building a
house with Habitat for Humanity.
But who needs a tan when you
can come back from vacation with
a lifetime mission? Since that first
volunteer experience, Louie has
devoted her career to securing
housing for people in need – especially those suffering the trauma of
a home lost to disaster.
“I’ve been very lucky. I’ve never
felt I was at risk, and I can’t imagine
the idea of not having a place to
call home,” says the New York City
native, who grew up in the stability
of a Mitchell-Lama project.
For those less fortunate, Louie
coordinates short and long-term
lodging and services across eight
New York counties as chief housing
officer for the nonprofit Community Housing Innovations. She also
still volunteers with Habitat for
Humanity.
A social worker by training,
Louie previously served as an
assistant commissioner in New
York City’s homeless services
and housing departments. The
most meaningful aspect of both
roles, she says, involved providing
emergency housing for people displaced by hurricanes, Superstorm
Sandy, fires and construction
accidents.
“In a second, people lose it all.
You’re running out of your home in
pajamas, or you come home and
nothing’s there. You’re never prepared for that,” Louie says. “I love
being part of a team that brings
people from a place of trauma –
and finds them a home again.” AMERICAN RED CROSS; BOB GIGLIONE PHOTOGRAPHY
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NATALIE LOZADA
ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
PROGRAMS
East Side House Settlement
Why should a community center in the
South Bronx look any different than one on
East 86th Street? “It shouldn’t,” says Natalie Lozada, who oversees programs for
East Side House Settlement, a $30 million
Bronx social services nonprofit serving
10,000 families.
That the borough lags in city funding
and health metrics “doesn't mean we
can’t show up for our young people
and families – and give them what they
deserve.”
What they deserve, Lozada emphasizes, are programs catering to residents of
all ages, with a focus on education and
workforce development. At ESHS, she
spearheaded a training program featuring the kind of long-haul mentorship that
produces better outcomes.
Growing up in the South Bronx herself,
Lozada saw the poverty and lack of
resources that have long plagued her
neighbors. “I always wanted to fight for
the people who couldn’t fight for themselves,” Lozada says.
Her first job after City College
crystallized her vision. It was at one
of East Side’s partnerships, a transfer
school that supports overaged students around the same age Lozada
was when she interned at the nonprofit. “Coming back felt like the perfect
opportunity,” she says.
After all, Lozada knows she could just
as easily have ended up on the other
side of the equation. “I’m proud to sit at
this table, not only as a woman but as a
Latina,” Lozada says. “I am exactly one
of these statistics. I could have been
everything I saw growing up.”
DULANDE LOUIS
DIRECTOR, TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTER
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
When Haitian migrants or gun violence survivors show up at Brooklyn’s Trauma Recovery Center, they find an empathetic welcome from Dulande Louis.
Louis, the center’s director through the Jewish Community Council of
Greater Coney Island, champions the unseen strength of marginalized
people, especially women. She saw that strength in the mother and grandmother who raised her in Haiti.
“They were illiterate, but they had a great deal of agency, grace and wisdom,” Louis says. “My mother made it clear that the way to escape poverty
was education. Now I’m honored by the opportunity to provide services to
people who look like me.”
As a young migrant in New York, Louis was advised that nursing was
the fastest route to security for Haitian immigrants – but she was drawn to
community health. She earned social work degrees from Adelphi University,
returning to Haiti for doctoral research on the poor but resilient women she
had grown up with – and winning the 2022 Outstanding Doctoral Student
Award from the National Association of Social Workers’ New York chapter.
Louis now teaches at her alma mater and at Touro College. Her career has
spanned crisis intervention and substance abuse, serving prisoners at Rikers
Island and foster mothers. Having grown up without regular meals or decent
footwear, Louis isn’t easily fazed.
“I always wanted a better life, even when I wasn’t sure what that meant,”
she says. “The desire to go as far as I could was the underpinning of everything that I’ve done.”
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Alfadila Community Services and The Coney are
honored to congratulate Marie Mirville-Shahzada
on being named a City & State Above and Beyond
Women Honoree. Marie is a fierce advocate for
underserved individuals, equipping them with
the knowledge, support, and resources they need
to succeed. She is a tremendous asset to her
community and we are excited to celebrate this
recognition alongside her.
Congratulations Marie!
Congratulations to MTA’s
Chief Administrative Officer,
Lisette Camilo!
We’re proud to honor Lisette
as a recipient of the 2024 Above
& Beyond: Women Award.
Lisette’s work is an example of
the contributions being made by
thousands of MTA employees
helping to provide seamless
transit service throughout
the region.
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MARIA MASSEI-ROSATO
CO-FOUNDER
LiveFireAI
Maria Massei-Rosato has a lot of insights to share.
Over the past four decades, she has had a
35-year technology career at the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, authored a screenplay that
won a prize at the Milan International Filmmaker
Festival, developed writing workshops for European business schools and launched a startup,
LiveFireAI.
Fittingly, her latest project is a career guide for
new graduates. “I want to share whatever I’ve
learned with my son’s generation, as they enter
the workforce and navigate challenges,” she says.
With a provisional title incorporating the tagline
“Lost in Control” – also the title of her memoir and
her screenplay – Massei-Rosato summons up the
lessons she has learned from various projects, as
well as from the cross-country bicycle adventure
she undertook while coping with her mother's
descent into Alzheimer’s disease.
“Life requires courage in the face of adversity,”
is how Massei-Rosato sums up those lessons,
referring not only to mental illness but also to
the lightning storms, cougars and mad dogs she
encountered on the road.
Massei-Rosato fell in love with computer science precisely because it avoided those variables.
“I love the logic of being able to solve a problem
by writing commands, and the computer doing
exactly what you want,” she says.
Now she combines her literary and technological insights teaching data and storytelling at Parsons School of Design. Whether writing a book or
launching a startup, Massei-Rosato has common
advice: “You have to engage people at the level
that they care.” MANON MANAVIT
COMMUNITY ARTS MANAGER
Goddard Riverside Community
Center
Some might see Manon Manavit’s
job at a Manhattan human services
organization as a departure from her
career as a theater director. Manavit
disagrees.
“My background is interdisciplinary work,” she explains. “That identity as a director has been with me
since I was 15, but I never thought of
it as being limited to theater only. If
you’re a director, you direct energy,
attention, resources.”
The daughter of a puppeteer and
a cartoonist and clown, Manavit began her career in Montreal, staging
productions with Cirque du Soleil.
She saw a play she wrote debut in
Philadelphia. She had a French-English poetry translation shortlisted
for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize
(she is a dual citizen of France) and
the next year she founded the Deep
Water Literary Festival, which brings
the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and
Mark Ruffalo to New York City and
the Catskills each summer.
Manavit arrived at Goddard Riverside Community Center in 2022
and was immediately taken with the
Upper West Side institution’s mission. “Goddard is known for seeing
the arts as a crucial part of quality
of life that strengthens families and
communities,” says Manavit, who
has curated exhibitions featuring
neighborhood artists and this year
is spotlighting Black, Indigenous
and other people of color women’s
health through cultural events.
“We reach across the aisle, finding
ways that social justice and the arts
can exist simultaneously,” Manavit
says. As both artist and administrator, she adds, “I have both skill sets,
creativity and clarity. I make things
happen from the ground up.”
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BRONWEN SHARP; PETER SMEJKAL; MARIE MIRVILLE-SHAHZADA
MARIE MIRVILLESHAHZADA
FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
Alfadila Community Services
When her first child was
diagnosed with autism, Marie
Mirville-Shahzada discovered
the myriad disability services
offered in New York state.
Meanwhile, at her job managing food services at four
Brooklyn public schools, she
counseled her staff about their
own social service needs –
recalling that “I always ended
up filling out the forms.”
So it was only logical that,
in 2020, Mirville-Shahzada
combined all this know-how
to launch Alfadila Community
Services, the organizational
equivalent of a very helpful
neighbor. Beginning with hot
meal distribution during the
COVID-19 pandemic, Alfadila
has expanded its offerings to
include after-school activities
and, this summer, a disability-inclusive camp – as well
as referrals to various local
support services.
“So many people don’t
know about the resources
that are available,” says Mirville-Shahzada, citing examples like city and community
programs that assist with developmental disabilities, senior
transportation, job training
and small-business education.
The daughter of Haitian
immigrants, Mirville-Shahzada
grew up in Brooklyn watching her mother cook for their
church community and demonstrate on behalf of the Haitian
diaspora, adding that she was
inspired by her “always wanting
to help, always wanting to be
there for the next person.”
Now it’s her turn. She serves
on Brooklyn Community Board
10, and last year was named
one of “Brooklyn’s Heroes”
by the borough president. As
ever, Mirville-Shahzada both
buoys and is buoyed by the
community, staffing Alfadila
with neighbors “who all also
have their own day jobs,” she
says. “Everyone has their role –
and everyone’s committed.”
MirvilleShahzada
ensures her
community
is aware of
the resources
available to
them.
MADISON
MOUNTY
ASSOCIATE VICE
PRESIDENT, NONPROFITS
Kasirer
Madison Mounty knows lobbyists are not always seen as the
good guys. “You hear about the
bad conduct in D.C., whether
the gun lobby or the tobacco
lobby,” Mounty says. “But every
day, I work with nonprofits
whose sole mission is to make
the city a better place.”
At Kasirer, a woman-owned
public affairs and government relations firm, Mounty
manages efforts to support
vital New York City nonprofits
such as Symphony Space, the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden and
Big Brothers Big Sisters of
New York City.
Both Mounty and Kasirer
have a strong affinity for women-focused organizations like
Hot Bread Kitchen, a workforce development organization for whom Mounty helped
facilitate a historic partnership with the New York City
Mayor’s Office of Food Policy.
Indeed, a large part of her
work is devoted to positioning
nonprofits like Family Legal
Care for new and impactful
partnerships with the city.
“They may not have the
bandwidth to make key partners aware of the critical services they’re providing,” Mounty says. Recently, she was part
of the team that helped secure
$41 million in city funding for
The Public Theater to renovate
Central Park’s historic Delacorte Theater.
Raised in a politically active
New York family, Mounty was
an avid volunteer by middle
school. Now she enjoys her
impact as “the middleman,” as
she puts it. “I love helping to
elevate the work that nonprofits do and the people they
serve daily – and ensuring
they can continue providing
those services.”
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Mounty works to
connect nonprofits with
impactful city funding.
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KATIE WILSON; DAVE FELDEN; ROCHELLE HEINRICHS/VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
JULIA OLIVER
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Volunteers of America-Greater New York
Julia Oliver has been a person of faith
since her Catholic school days. At the
parish rectory where she worked in high
school, lunchtime conversations with the
priests “really left a mark on me,” she says.
Years later, Oliver felt grateful to God
for her decision not to go into her World
Trade Center office on Sept. 11, 2001. The
near-miss made Oliver – an investment
banking veteran and a mother of two –
“stop and reflect,” she says. “I decided I
wanted to serve people.”
That decision pivoted Oliver to a
nonprofit career and her current role with
Volunteers of America-Greater New York,
where she is chief operating officer and
executive vice president. She leads not
only finance, but also technology, real
estate and day-to-day operations for a human services organization whose revenue
has grown from $95 million to $160 million
in less than a decade.
The longtime audit and finance specialist has found new purpose in adding
housing to her portfolio, drawing on skills
honed at previous nonprofit roles with the
American Bible Society and the United
Church of Christ’s pension investing division. At VOA-GNY, Oliver has personally
overseen new residences for hundreds of
vulnerable people since 2020.
It’s an impact that, unlike an accounting ledger, she can personally see. And
it draws Oliver closer to the mission
inspired decades ago by her hometown
priests: “The need to be like God’s arms
here on Earth,” she says. “I’ve always tried
to live up to that.”
DENISE MURPHY
MCGRAW
PARTNER
Hill, Gosdeck, McGraw & Nemeth
Denise Murphy McGraw is in her element when she’s behind the scenes.
That's true of her career as a government relations specialist: On behalf of many clients, she has secured
nearly $1 billion in state and federal
funds and helped pass more than 25
pieces of legislation.
And it’s even more true of her side
gig as a background actor, appearing
in shows like “Billions” and “Succession,” where she is often cast as a
legislator – “the lady who walks and
nods,” she says – and hangs out with
the likes of Kieran Culkin.
The common thread, Murphy McGraw explains, is that she “enjoys the
sausage-making – and working with
the people who are very good at it.”
It’s the type of role she has played
since grade school on Long Island,
when Murphy McGraw ran her
friends’ student government campaigns. More recently – as a partner
at Hill, Gosdeck, McGraw & Nemeth
in Albany – she has championed
mental health, bolstering policies to
expand access and insurance coverage. She is also known for facilitating
union construction projects like hospital and school renovations, and for
securing a tax credit for the Broadway
roadshows that invigorate upstate
theaters.
Recently, Murphy McGraw dipped
a toe into the spotlight, serving three
terms as a member of her suburban
town board. “I love public service.
Advocating for my community is how
I always saw my role,” she says. But,
she adds, she left “because I have
a big day job – and it’s only gotten
bigger over the years.”
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ARIEL PALITZ
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HOSPITALITY AND
INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Oaktree Solutions
Ariel Palitz came of age in a Manhattan nightlife scene
that was glamorous yet underappreciated – viewed as “a
liability, and not an asset,” she says, a perspective formed
by her decade running New York’s most-cited bar for noise
complaints.
The pandemic prompted New Yorkers to realize how
vital entertainment and hospitality are to the city’s economy and sense of self. It’s a case Palitz had already been
making for years – most recently as the founding director
of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Nightlife, a role she
held from 2018 to 2023.
A decade fending off multiagency scrutiny at her East
Village lounge “activated and politicized me,” she says, “to
defend not only myself, but also the industry.”
After joining her community board, then the liquor
licensing committee, Palitz co-founded the New York City
Hospitality Alliance. But her crowning achievement is establishing the Office of Nightlife, “a dedicated nonenforcement liaison with the city that reframes this industry.”
Now a global ambassador for the industry, Palitz draws
on her experience to propose solutions – like the city law
that puts overdose-reversal medication behind every bar,
or the replacement of New York’s punitive approach to
nightlife complaints with mediation. She’s currently an
adviser with the International Nightlife Association and the
hospitality director at Oaktree Solutions, a growing public
affairs firm.
And she still goes out every night. “I love good food,
good music and talking to cool people,” Palitz says. “If
you’re not going out in New York, why are you here?”
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Palitz was
the founding
director of the
New York City
Mayor’s Office
of Nightlife.
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SEAN TURI; PARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE; FINALIS VALDEZ
CHARITO PATEL
SENIOR CLINICAL DIRECTOR FOR
INFECTION CONTROL
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care
and Rehabilitation
Nursing was the dream of Charito Patel’s
mother, who never finished high school
and insisted that Patel go as far as she
could – from her native Philippines to New
York, where Patel earned two master’s
degrees and became a senior-level nurse.
At one point during her studies, when
her beloved grandmother was ailing, Patel realized nursing was her own calling
too. “I was so fond of older people,” Patel
says. “If they can’t talk, I will be their
voice. I will be their eyes if they can’t
see.” She would cry when she moved to
a new job.
Graduate school tested her confidence, as Patel struggled with English.
“Being able to achieve my first master’s,
and with distinction, made me think I
could be in leadership roles,” she says.
She went on to earn a second master’s,
in gerontology nursing, by which time
her children were begging her to stop
going to school.
As director of nursing at Mount Sinai
South Nassau, Patel opened a new transitional nursing unit – creating policies,
hiring and training staff and achieving
a top rating for the facility. She is now
a senior clinical director, overseeing
infection control, at the Parker Jewish
Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation on Long Island.
What motivates her, besides her
patients, are the dreams Patel inherited from her mother. “An immigrant is
shaped by the hardship you had back
home,” she says. “You will always have
that in your mind – that you’ve got to be
something better.”
JANET PEGUERO
BRONX DEPUTY BOROUGH
PRESIDENT
As a teenage immigrant from the Dominican Republic, Janet Peguero used to walk
around the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory,
“wondering what was inside of this massive, beautiful castle,” she says.
Peguero never dreamed she would
someday try to rescue that castle. Since
being appointed the Bronx’s deputy borough president in 2022, she helped coordinate a $200 million grant from the city
and state to restore the aging landmark. It
now symbolizes what Peguero calls “the
Bronx Renaissance,” a flowering of possibility in the city’s poorest borough.
Her ambitions were shaped by a childhood translating documents and navigating social services for her Spanish-speaking parents. “I wondered why they had to
work three jobs to survive,” she says, “and
committed myself to bridging that gap –
to providing the folks in my community
with access to resources.”
After a post-college stint as a paralegal, Peguero landed at the New York City
Department of Small Business Services,
where she developed a first-of-its-kind
commercial lease assistance program.
Knocking on doors in the Bronx to promote
her initiative in Spanish, “it clicked for me
that there really is power in representation – having Latinos design, design and
deliver these programs,” Peguero says.
More recently, Peguero deployed $20
million in untapped loans to spur empowerment zones throughout the historically underfunded borough. She also helped rebuild
the Bronx Economic Development Corp.
“We are developing, but it’s not just
skyscrapers. Community has really been
at the forefront, and it will continue to be
that way,” Peguero says. “With this new
wave, we’re taking back our narrative.”
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NICOLE RICHARDS
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF SINGLE
ADULT SERVICES
HELP USA
During two decades at HELP USA, the
national homeless assistance organization, social worker Nicole Richards
has built up the confidence of countless
Americans through stable housing.
But her particular legacy also includes
fortifying the careers of colleagues –
through mentorship, thoughtful team
building and, currently, a focus on recruitment and retention.
“I started here as a case manager,
and I’ve been promoted 11 times,” says
Richards, a senior vice president for
single adult services. “So I recognize the
challenges from the ground level up. And
now I’m in a position where I can effect
change.”
The Brooklyn native discovered social
work in high school, after accompanying
a suicidal friend to a therapy session.
“That experience opened me up to the
world of helping others,” Richards says.
She followed up with that therapist – and
was inspired to pursue degrees in psychology and counseling.
Richards now supervises HELP
USA’s largest shelter portfolio, including city-regulated transitional housing
programs and 11 shelters – totaling 1,600
beds for single adults – in New York and
Las Vegas. Under her leadership, social
workers now coordinate across sites to
share insights and experiences, improving
best practices as a team.
Richards also co-leads the organization’s Women in Leadership affinity group.
“It doesn’t matter what position you’re
in, supervisor or director – we’re trying
to bring out that leadership style so that
women can continue to be promoted and
to flourish,” Richards says. “We want you
to be the best at whatever you’re doing
now.”
NICHOLE RENADETTE
SENIOR PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR
New York Psychotherapy and
Counseling Center
Nichole Renadette brings a flexible
mindset to her work at the New York
Psychotherapy and Counseling Center.
As a senior program administrator,
Renadette has prioritized diverse hiring,
understanding that different clients may
click “with different personalities and
therapists who have different things that
they feel passionate about,” she says.
She also embraces the many ways her
field has changed since the COVID-19
pandemic. Telehealth, observes the
Plattsburgh native, has facilitated
once-inaccessible mental health services for vast rural swaths of New York
state. “And with so many struggling with
anxiety and depression during COVID,”
Renadette says, “that opened up the
door for people to ask for help.”
Renadette’s openmindedness was
evident when, as a student, she realized
her vision – “saving the world” – was
better suited to social work than to becoming a defense attorney, her original
plan. “I wanted to fight for people on
death row,” she says. “Then I realized I
could make an impact on people’s lives
in a different way.”
Now based at the Bronx Child and
Family Mental Health Center, Renadette
previously oversaw NYPCC’s Brooklyn
clinics. There, in the mid-2010s, she
worked on a grant project for the federal
government’s mental health initiative,
integrating behavior and physical care.
But even this devoted counselor
recognizes the limits of psychotherapy.
At home, she turns to junk TV and her
trusty vacuum cleaner to decompress.
“Vacuuming is one of my main stress
relievers,” Renadette says. “I feel better
and organized when I vacuum.” NYPCC; NKOSI HAMILTON; FRANCELY FLORES
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JENNIFER
SALGADO
LEAD ORGANIZER, STREET
VENDOR PROJECT
Urban Justice Center
There’s one Valentine’s Day
that Jennifer Salgado will
never forget: When she was in
high school, her single mother
got arrested for illegally selling
flowers out of a van on Fordham Road in the Bronx.
“It scared the crap out of
me,” says Salgado, who had
two younger sisters, one with
disabilities and the other a baby.
“From that time, I knew that the
system was messed up. In New
York, your political consciousness forms at a young age.”
Today, Salgado is the lead
organizer for the Urban Justice
Center’s Street Vendor Project, mobilizing on behalf of
people like her mother – poor,
vulnerable immigrants in the
South Bronx. Her parents, artisans from Mexico, separated
early on, and Salgado grew up
as her mother’s advocate and
interpreter.
After earning a political
science degree from Lehman
College, Salgado started out
as an education advocate for
her largely Hispanic Bronx
neighbors, where she recalls
“elevating parent voices, and
bringing their issues to the
forefront in otherwise exclusive spaces,” such as the Department of Education. Many
of those voices, Salgado says,
belong to Indigenous people.
In her current role, Salgado
is proud of having mobilized a
City Council proposal to reform
street vending legislation. “In a
lot of spaces that I’ve been in,
I’m the youngest one, and I’m a
pretty small woman, so I have
to be more assertive,” Salgado
says. “But I come into this with
a perspective that a man does not. This job is personal to me.”
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Salgado has
elevated
immigrant
voices
throughout
her career.
HELEN SCHAUB
INTERIM POLITICAL DIRECTOR
1199SEIU
During her 20 years of advocating for the
health care workers of 1199SEIU, Helen Schaub
has achieved significant and measurable gains
for a historically marginalized workforce.
“This is one of the fastest-growing parts of
the industry, yet there’s been a lot of discrimination,” observed Schaub, who has served as
interim political director of the New York-based
union since 2021. Her constituency comprises
nearly a half million caregivers in hospitals,
nursing homes and community settings across
five states.
Under Schaub’s leadership, standards have
risen appreciably with the creation of a state
Medicaid minimum wage, which doubled pay
at its inception; it now tops $21 an hour and
is permanently tied to the inflation rate. Her
efforts also led to successful recent legislation
setting minimum staffing standards for nursing
home employees.
Schaub’s social consciousness was formed
during overseas travel as a child with her
father, an archaeology and religion professor
who conducted research in the Middle East,
and during a post-high school internship in
the Philippines. “From a very young age, I
was interested in social justice,” she says. “I
saw dramatic disparities in people’s access to
resources.”
Before joining 1199SEIU, Schaub spent a
decade as a community organizer in the Bronx.
What continues to inspire her, she says, “are
the union members and their commitment – to
their work, and to building a workers’ movement – and to speaking out, not only on their
own behalf, but on behalf of the people they’re
taking care of.”
JUANITA SCARLETT
PARTNER
Bolton-St. Johns
From politics to consulting, Juanita Scarlett has always been guided by a sense
of responsibility – to her adopted city of
New York, to the organizations she helps
to thrive and, perhaps most importantly,
to her fellow women of color striving to
make an impact.
“Having worked in government for
years, it’s a natural progression to be on
the other side, helping small nonprofits,”
says Scarlett, a partner at the government
relations and public affairs firm Bolton-St.
Johns. “There are so many organizations
that do incredible work – and it’s rewarding to get them the critical funding they
need to do that.”
One of those is the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society, a 130-year-old early
childhood organization for whom Scarlett
secured its first government funding.
Scarlett started her career as a press
officer to then-Gov. Mario Cuomo, one of
her early mentors. The Florida native has
also managed communications for former
Govs. Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo
and for numerous campaigns.
Along the way, she was mentored by
Elizabeth Moore, the first Black female
general counsel to a New York governor
(Mario Cuomo). “She helped me to understand the importance of working hard
and giving back,” says Scarlett, a mentor
to Selvena Brooks-Powers, a City Council
member from Queens whom she calls a
“rock star.”
“I truly believe and embrace the idea
of being a sounding board,” Scarlett says,
“for the incredible women who come up,
run for office and step forward.”
VERONICA SMITH
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF
HEALTH POLICY AND
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Public Health Solutions
Veronica Smith is a dyed-in-the
wool, born-and-bred, any-othercliché-you-can-think-of New
Yorker. “There is no greater city.
The culture, the people – there’s
no other place like it,” she says.
So Smith was taken aback
when she realized that before
going to work for Public
Health Solutions, she had lived
her whole New York life without knowing the city’s largest
public health nonprofit existed.
Now senior director of
health policy and community affairs at PHS, Smith has
made it her mission to see that
other New Yorkers know about
it too. “I’m proud to work in
an organization that’s been
around for 60 years, that’s a
critical piece of the city’s infrastructure,” she says.
As the person responsible
for the organization’s public
policy agenda, Smith cultivates long-term partnerships
with key stakeholders. (PHS
supports some 200 community-based organizations.) She
also generates support for the
nonprofit’s direct services,
which include sexual health,
nutrition, health insurance and
clinics serving thousands of
patients annually.
The daughter of immigrants
from Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, Smith recalls
that she grew up determined
“to be in the room where decisions are made.” She earned
political science and urban
policy degrees from NYU, then
worked at the Port Authority,
where she directed major
public outreach campaigns.
Smith feels pride every time
she visits the redeveloped
George Washington Bridge
bus station, for which she
helped facilitate a $2 million
community space.
“I fundamentally believe in
government,” Smith says. “And
I also believe in public-private
partnerships – and relying on
our nonprofits to fill the gaps.”
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MARY VACCARO
VICE PRESIDENT FOR EDUCATION
United Federation of Teachers
She hasn’t been a full-time teacher for
years, but Mary Vaccaro still regularly
conducts demonstration lessons in New
York City classrooms. “It’s important, in a
role of leadership, that we walk the walk,”
says Vaccaro, who oversees education as
a vice president of the United Federation
of Teachers. “That we support teachers
side by side. Because otherwise, there’s
no credibility there.”
Vaccaro is busier than ever as schools
adjust to a post-pandemic reality –
complete with novel technologies and
high-profile shifts in literacy methods.
She oversees the UFT Teacher Center, a
training hub that partners with the city
and state education departments and a
small army of field staff on professional
development.
Not long ago, the Queens resident
absorbed the lessons that made her an
effective elementary reading specialist.
Vaccaro was recruited into union activity at her Oceanside nail salon, where
a fellow educator had the same weekly
appointment.
That woman, who became a state and
national delegate, as well as a fixture
on UFT’s executive board, also became
Vaccaro’s mentor. “I learned a lot about
the system, but I was also partnered with
more senior teachers, doing lesson planning,” Vaccaro says.
After 16 years representing her district, Vaccaro retains her enthusiasm for
sharing authors like Eric Carle and Arnold
Lobel with the children who remain her
touchstone. “Meeting families in their
communities,” Vaccaro says, “and being
able to have a voice for teachers here in
New York City has just been great.” ROGER ARCHER; MINDY BERMAN; JOE JENKINS; JONATHAN FICKIES
March 25, 2024 57
Smith crafts public
policy at Public Health
Solutions.
EMILY WHALEN
CANNABIS PRACTICE
CHAIR
Brown & Weinraub
If you had told attorney Emily
Whalen years ago that she
would spend her work days
talking about marijuana, she
wouldn’t have believed you.
But New York’s latest legalized vice has indeed become
her calling card: Whalen built
and now chairs the cannabis
practice at the Albany firm of
Brown & Weinraub.
“I’ll have friends who read
headlines and ask me, ‘Is this
true?’” says Whalen, a lobbyist and senior adviser at the
firm. “It’s been cool to take
what I do on a daily basis and
talk about it after work. People are genuinely interested
in my field.”
Originally a matrimonial
lawyer, Whalen was approached about lobbying by
a political operative – and
found herself serving as associate counsel to the newly in
charge state Senate Democrats following the 2008 elections. Working on insurance
issues during the early days
of Obamacare was excellent
preparation for navigating the
nascent field of cannabis law
a few years later, which Whalen compares to “building the
plane as we go.”
She has worked in government relations ever since leaving the public sector – and still
considers her Senate tenure to
be a professional touchstone.
“That institutional knowledge
informs everything you do for
a client,” she says.
Along with a new practice
area, Whalen is proud of helping establish Albany’s female
lobbyist network. “Because
we’ve experienced many of
the same things, as women,
we try to support each other
and build up the community of
female lobbyists, so that it isn’t
just the old boys’ clubs anymore,” she says. “And that’s
been really empowering.”
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Whalen has
helped create
a network
of female
lobbyists in
Albany.
CREDIT
ODETTE WILKENS
FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND
GENERAL COUNSEL
Wired Broadband
You might think fighting the proliferation of 5G wireless towers is a daunting task. Attorney and public health
crusader Odette Wilkens doesn’t – and
for good reason.
With the advocacy group she founded, Wired Broadband, Wilkens has
convinced 16 New York City community boards to vote down or call for
moratoria on 5G expansion. “This is
what change looks like,” says Wilkens,
who serves as the organization’s general counsel.
The Manhattan native is hardly a
Luddite. Her front-row view of the
1980s cable and fiber optic revolution
at HBO, where she worked as a paralegal after college, drew her to technology: “I believed it was an area that
would make people’s lives better and
easier,” she says – and as the daughter
of European refugees, “I wanted to be
an agent of social change.”
As an attorney, Wilkens worked for
financial, media and technology companies, including Barclays and IBM.
Encountering people injured by wireless radiation, she gradually became
convinced of its dangers.
Wilkens co-founded and currently
chairs the National Call for Safe Technology, a 100-organization coalition
lobbying for federal mandates on
informed consent around the effects of
cell tower radiation.
Her role model is her mother, an Italian flight attendant who mobilized the
first strike in Alitalia history. Wilkens
remembers, as a teen, watching her
mother picket in front of the airline’s
Fifth Avenue office. “That’s what caring
about people looks like,” Wilkens says.
“When you have to do something in
order to effectuate social change.
DARLENE WILLIAMS
VICE PRESIDENT
New York State Public Employees
Federation
There were so many moments when
New York State Public Employees
Federation Vice President Darlene
Williams could have kept her mouth
shut, but didn’t.
There was the time when, as a
council leader at the Bronx Psychiatric Center, she spoke out against
workplace violence, getting the
hospital fined – and herself fired.
“I felt defeated,” says Williams – a
feeling that proved only temporary.
Despite telling herself to “lay low,
do your job and get out” in her next
role – at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where she is currently
on union leave – Williams couldn’t
stay quiet when private vehicles illegally occupied the Manhattan parking spot her seniority afforded her.
“My mother instilled in me the
importance of standing up for what’s
right,” says Williams, an occupational
therapist like her mother was. That
conviction led Williams to overcome
her misgivings and accept the
challenge when the union president
asked her to run for her current role.
And her voice was resolute a year
ago when she overcame the grief of
her son’s recent murder to serve as
chief negotiator for the union’s contract. Vowing to continue “the fight
that he was so proud of,” Williams,
a 43-year state employee, secured
what she calls “the best contract I’ve
ever seen,” with paid parental leave
and a higher education bonus.
“I get up every single day because, besides my family,” she says,
“it’s the members of this union
who’ve given me a reason to get up,
and to fight, and to live.”
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TIMOTHY RAAB; C. KING PHOTOGRAPHY; DARLENE WILLIAMS
CAROLYN WOLF; NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF GENERAL SERVICES DIGITAL AND MEDIA SUPPORT
KRISTEN ZEBROWSKI
STAVISKY
CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
State Board of Elections
Kristen Zebrowski Stavisky was thrilled to become
New York’s first female chief election official,
co-leading the state Board of Elections. She’s
proud of having spent a decade chairing the Democratic Committee and holding leadership roles
with the party’s state committee.
“As much as I love politics, my real passion is
ensuring that every eligible voter has access to
the polls,” says Zebrowski Stavisky, the former
longtime Democratic elections commissioner in
her native Rockland County. “Being able to help
first-time voters or people who don’t think they
have a voice – nothing compares to that.”
She recalls one first-time high school voter who
came to her in 2016, distraught over his misplaced
registration. At Zebrowski Stavisky’s urging, he
marshaled 30 classmates to go before a judge
for an Election Day court order. “Seeing those
students really fight for their voice was incredible,”
she recalls.
Zebrowski Stavisky grew up fighting for others:
As the daughter of a prominent Rockland County politician, she thought all children spent their
weekends stuffing political mailings. “The lessons
I learned are that government exists to make life
better,” she says, “and that voting is your chance
to shape your community. You don’t want other
people making your decisions.”
Having grown up around mostly male politicians – she met her husband when he worked on
her father’s campaign – Zebrowski Stavisky says
she relishes the chance to mentor other women
as “a smart, emotional female leader – one in a
long line. We’re still trying to break through that
final glass ceiling” – the presidency – “but I’ve
done my part.”
CAROLYN WOLF
EXECUTIVE PARTNER
Abrams Fensterman
When Carolyn Wolf proposed starting a female employee mentoring
group at her law firm, the managing partner was a little nervous. “I
reassured him we were not going to
be on the front steps of the building burning our bras,” says Wolf,
an executive partner at Abrams
Fensterman.
Wolf was used to broaching uncomfortable subjects. After all, she
had pioneered the field of mental
health law – long before celebrities
were opening up about bipolar
disorder on Instagram.
Drawing on her experience as a
hospital administrator – she holds
an MBA from Hofstra, as well as a
master’s from the Harvard School
of Public Health – Wolf created and
directs her firm’s mental health law
practice. “My law practice is intertwined with medicine, and clients
appreciate that,” Wolf says.
After years overseeing risk
management at Elmhurst Hospital,
Wolf fulfilled her dream of going to
law school in her 30s, parlaying her
experience working with psychiatric
units into a legal practice centered around hospital commitment
hearings. When families or hospitals
need legal help with mental health
issues, they call on Wolf, who outlines their rights and options within
the legal system, collaborating with
a team of case workers and psychiatric specialists.
And once a month, she still trades
insights with the women’s mentoring group she started. “We talk
about our cases, about work-life
balance,” Wolf says. “You know –
being a woman in a man’s world.”
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Organization filed with
the Secretary of State of
NY (SSNY) on October
09, 2023. Office location:
New York. SSNY is
designated as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to: 250 W 50th St, New
York, NY 10019. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
R E N O V A H O M E
IMPROVEMENT LLC,
Arts. of Org. filed with
the SSNY on 01/22/2024.
O f f ic e lo c: K ings
County. SSNY has been
designated as agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to:
Daniel M Tale Garcia, 1835
55th St, Apt 2R, Brooklyn,
NY 11204. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
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PETERBILT OF STATEN
ISLAND LLC, Arts.
of Org. filed with the
SSNY on 02/22/2024.
Office loc: Richmond
County. SSNY has been
designated as agent upon
whom process against
the LLC may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to: M Rosman CPA, 36
Harriet Place, Lynbrook,
NY 11563. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
G R A N D C E N T R A L
GOODS LLC, Arts. of
Org. filed with the SSNY
on 02/02/2024. Office
loc: NY County. SSNY
has been designated
as agent upon whom
process against the LLC
may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to:
Benjamin Dicker, 110
Riverside Drive, #12D,
NY, NY 10024. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
Notice of Formation of
AK NY Orion LLC filed
with SSNY on 11/07/2023.
Office: New York County.
SSNY designated agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to LLC: 1800 N
Bayshore Dr Apt 3803
Miami, FL 33132. Purpose:
any lawful act or activity.
Notice of Formation of
Many Sided Media LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with the
SSNY on 02/23/2024.
O f f ic e: N ew York
County. United States
Corporations Agents, Inc.
designated as agent of the
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to United States
Corporations Agents,
Inc. at 7014 13th Avenue,
Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY
11228, USA. Purpose:
Any lawful purpose
I S A B E L R O W E R
DESIGN LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with the SSNY
on 02/26/24. Office: Kings
County. SSNY designated
as agent of the LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
shall mail copy of process
to the LLC, c/o 451 Clinton
Avenue, 2E, Brooklyn,
NY 11238. Purpose:
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of HV
HOSPITALITY PROJECT
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with
SSNY on 02/23/2024.
Office location: New York
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to
150 MYRTLE AVE, PH
3001, BROOKLYN, NY,
11201. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
FACTORY SOLUTIONS
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with
SSNY on 02/23/2024.
Office location: New York
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to 600
MAMARONECK AVENUE
#400, HARRISON, NY,
10528. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of formation of
88 Narrow Lane, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY)
on 02/05/2024. Off. loc.:
Westchester Cnty. SSNY
designated as agent
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: 14
Thomas Street, Scarsdale,
NY 10583. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
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Notice of Formation
of G R A S S H O PPE R
FARMS LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/26/2024. Office
location: Madison SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY mail
process to 2985 EATON
RD, EATON, NY 13334.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
GREEN NY WEST 6A
LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed
with SSNY on 01/17/2024.
Office location New York
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
210 East 68th Street Apt.
5g New York, NY 10065.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of JRF
MANAGEMENT GROUP
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with SSNY on 10/05/2022.
Office location: Otsego
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process
to 10 BIRCH STREET,
ONEONTA, NY 13820.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
LASH WONDERLAND
LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed
with SSNY on 02/20/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to 292
PARK AVE, BERKELEY
HEIGHTS, NJ 07922.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
LECRUE LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/07/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to 90
STATE STREET, SUITE
700, BOX 10, ALBANY, NY
12207. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
PPM KONTAROUDIS
LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed
with SSNY on 02/01/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process
to 4 HUDSON ROAD,
FLORAL PARK, NY 11001.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of P R I M E P R O
HOLDINGS LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 12/27/2023. Office
location: HERKIMER
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
266 HACADAM RD,
SAUQUOIT, NY 13456.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
QLTV PRODUCTIONS
LLC. .Arts. of Org. filed
with SSNY on 12/14/2023.
Office location: New York
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to
120 WALL STREET, 14TH
FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY
10005. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of S U N R U N N E R
TECH LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/20/2024. Office
location: Chautauqua
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to
625 WINSOR STREET,
JAMESTOWN, NY 14701.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of THE STUDIO AT
FASTBREAK, LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/20/2024. Office
location New York SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
1621 FIRST AVENUE,
NEW YORK, NY 10028.
Notice of Formation of Any lawful purpose.
AVERLINA, LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/01/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY desg.
As agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served SSNY mail
process to 1410 AVENUE
Y, BROOKLYN, NY 11235.
Any lawful purpose.
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Notice of Formation of
PERUVIANA LLC, filed
with SSNY on FEBRUARY
29, 2024. Office: BRONX
COUNTY County. SSNY
designated agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to LLC: TAMARA
DAVILA, 325 W 100th
ST 3A, NEW YORK, N.Y..
10025. Purpose: any
lawful act or activity.
Notice of Qual. of
FASSINO NYC LLC
Auth. filed with SSNY
on 03/01/2024. Office
location: New York.
LLC formed in DE on
02/22/2024. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
mail process to: C/O
BESSLER, AMERY &
ROSS, P.C., SUITE 301,
FLORHAM PARK, NJ,
07932. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of CHERRY BAR LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/04/2024.
Office location: New York
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to
38 COMMERCE ST,
NEW YORK, NY, 10014.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of HV
RESTAURANT PROJECT
L.P. Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 02/27/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
L.P. upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
150 MYRTLE AVE, PH
3001, BROOKLYN, NY,
11201. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
IYJJ Holdings LLC. Arts of
Org filed with Sec. of State
of NY on 3/3/24. Office
Location: Richmond
County. SSNY designated
agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served and
mail process to: c/o the
LLC, 3755c Victory Blvd
SI, NY 10314. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
Full Circle Media NYC
LLC. Arts of Org filed
with Sec. of State of NY on
2/24/24. Office Location:
Richmond County. SSNY
designated agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
and mail process to: c/o
the LLC, 3755c Victory
Blvd SI, NY 10314. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
PROBATE CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT – NEW YORK COUNTY CITATION File
No 2022-4583/A THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of
God Free and Independent TO Eric Osterweil, Irene Habiague, Ann Karat, Public
Administrator of the County of New York the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees
of Victor Najda, 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.
An amended petition having been duly filed by Peter Von Bleichert, who is domiciled
at 3250 Tennyson Street, Denver, Colorado, 80212 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO
SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, NEW YORK County, at 31 Chambers
Street, New York, on April 29, 2024 at 9:30 o’clock in the FORE noon of that day, why
a decree should not be made in the estate of Victor Najda lately domiciled at 136
East 55th Street, Apt. 11K, New York, New York 10022 admitting to probate a Will
dated October 7, 2021, (Codicil(s) dated ), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of
Victor Najda deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [X]
Letters Testamentary issue to: Peter Von Bleichert Letters of Trusteeship issue to:
Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to (State any further relief requested) To persons
serving this citation: The citation is to be served in accordance with the Court’s order
directing alternative service of process *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 February 23, 2024 Dated, Attested and Sealed HON. RITA MELLA
Surrogate Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk Nicholas F. Mondello Attorney for Petitioner
(516) 858-2529 Telephone Number 1129 Northern Boulevard, Suite 402, Manhasset,
New York 11030 Address of Attorney [email protected] E-mail Address of
Attorney [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.] P-5 (10/96)
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 in 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 appearance 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 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: [email protected] 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 [email protected]. 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
Notice of Qualification of
HMC INVESTMENTS,
LLC Appl. for Auth. filed
with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 02/12/24.
Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in
Alabama (AL) on 02/01/96.
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. AL addr. of LLC:
c/o Corporation Service
Co. Inc., 641 S. Lawrence
St., Montgomery, AL
36104. Cert. of Form. filed
with Secy. of State, PO
Box 5616, Montgomery,
AL 36103. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
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Notice of Formation of
15 DOUGLAS LLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/23/2024. Office
location: Warren SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to 80
STATE ST., ALBANY, NY
12207. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of 310
WEST 80TH STREET
OWNER LLC Auth. filed
with SSNY on 01/29/2024.
Office location: New York.
LLC formed in DE on
10/25/2023. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
mail process to: ATTN:
SAMUEL KOORIS, 160
BROADWAY, SUITE 510,
NEW YORK, NY 10038.
Arts. of Org. filed with
DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
369 WILSON LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/09/2024. Office
location: Richmond
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to
38 ITHACA ST, STATEN
ISLAND, NY 10306.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
801 HOP, LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/22/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
2906 SHELL RD, 6TH FL,
BROOKLYN, NY 11224.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of 1312 125 STREET
PROPERTY LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/18/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY desg.
As agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served SSNY mail
process to 2631 202 TH
STREET, BAYSIDE, NY
11360. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
ALBECA LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/21/2024. Office
location New York SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
210 WARREN STREET,
APT 8A, NEW YORK, NY
10282. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
BETTER HOSPITALITY
PALMYRA LLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/24/2024. Office
location: Wayne. SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to
199 CAMDEN ROAD,
PARSIPPANY, NJ 07054.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
DANIELLE MASTRION
ART LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/13/2023. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
2206 BURNET T ST,
BROOKLYN, NY 11229.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
GLENWOOD AVENUE
PROPERTY LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/22/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY desg.
As agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served SSNY
mail process to 5308
13TH AVENUE SUITE
629, BROOKLYN, NY
11219. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of formation of
464 West 44, LLC, Arts.
of Org. filed w/Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on
08/28/2023. Off. loc.:
Westchester Cnty. SSNY
designated as agent
upon whom process may
be served. SSNY
shall mail process to: 14
Thomas Street, Scarsdale,
NY 10583. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
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ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO. 2022-2148/A
CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK TO: Unknown distributees Attorney General of
the State of New York Elsa Black Ilsa Glanzberg Carl
Levitt Eugene Rockower Stephen Rockower, M.D. Ann
Lee Irene Levitt, alleged sole distributee of Jay Calman
Levitt Alvita Home Care Klaus Blaschke MAG Medical
Enterprises, Inc. The Blaikie Group Bond ending #4173
Your Life & Care Ltd. Con Edison acct ending #0004-9
and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees
of Abigail Gerd, 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 Abigail Gerd, deceased, who at the time
of her death was a resident of 245 W. 104th 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 April 25th 2024, at 9:30 A.M., in room
503, 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 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 claims of Alvita Home Care in the
amount of $13,407.29, Klaus Blaschke in the amount
of $1,200.00, MAG Medical Enterprises, Inc., in the
amount of $2,551.00, The Blaikie Group Bond ending
#4173 in the amount of $7,508.00 and Your Life & Care
Ltd. In the amount of $2,100.00, be allowed and paid;
(v) that the claim of Con Edison acct ending #004-9
in the amount of $836.12 be rejected for failure to file
their claim 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. March 5th, 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.
SUMMONS CASE NO. S8015CV202301277 IN THE
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MOHAVE BYRON
CAPITAL LLC Plaintiff(s), v. MOHAVE COUNTY
TREASURER, et al. Defendant(s). To: Helen E. Boozer,
AKA Helen E. Boozer-White WARNING: THIS AN
OFFICIAL DOCUMENT FROM THE COURT THAT
AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS. READ THIS SUMMONS
CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT,
CONTACT AN ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ADVICE. 1. A
lawsuit has been filed against you. A copy of the lawsuit
and other court papers were served on you with this
Summons. 2. If you do not want a judgment taken
against you without your input, you must file an Answer
in writing with the Court, and you must pay the required
filing fee. To file your Answer, take or send the papers to
Clerk of the Superior Court, 415 E. Spring St, Kingman,
Arizona 86401 or electronically file your Answer through
one of Arizona’s approved electronic filing systems
at http://www.azcourts.gov/efilinginformation. Mail
a copy of the Answer to the other party, the Plaintiff,
at the address listed on the top of this Summons.
Note: If you do not file electronically you will not have
electronic access to the documents in this case. 3. If
this Summons and the other court papers were served
on you within the State of Arizona, your Answer must
be filed within TWENTY (20) CALENDAR DAYS from
the date of service, not counting the day of service. If
this Summons and the other court papers were served
on you outside the State of Arizona, your Answer must
be filed within THIRTY (30) CALENDAR DAYS from
the date of service, not counting the day of service.
Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons
with disabilities must be made to the court by parties
at least 3 working days in advance of a scheduled court
proceeding. GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the
Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and for the
County of MOHAVE SIGNED AND SEALED this date:
October 25, 2023 Christina Spurlock Clerk of Superior
Court By: JAMARTIN Deputy Clerk Requests for an
interpreter for persons with limited English proficiency
must be made to the division assigned to the case by the
party needing the interpreter and/or translator or his/
her counsel at least ten (10) judicial days in advance of
a scheduled court proceeding. A copy of the Summons
and Complaint may be obtained by contacting
Plaintiff’s attorney, D Alexander Baker, at Withey
Morris Baugh, PLC, 2525 E. Arizona Biltmore Circle Ste.
A-212, Phoenix, AZ 85016, (602)230-0600 3/10, 3/17,
3/24, 3/31/24 CITY AND STATE NEW YORK CNS-#
Notice of Formation of
Winthrop Consulting
LLC, filed with SSNY
on 3/6/2024. Office:
New York County. SSNY
designated agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to LLC: Kathleen
Adams 34 West 139th
St., #2P, New York, NY
10037 USA. Purpose:
any lawful act or activity.
Notice of Formation of
LMX GROUP LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/28/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY desg.
As agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served SSNY mail
process to 1714 72ND
STREET, BROOKLYN, NY
11204. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
M&H KING PARTNERS
LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed
with SSNY on 10/24/2023.
Office location Richmond
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
179 GARRETSON AVE,
STATEN ISLAND, NY
10305. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
MORRISSEY LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 10/17/2022. Office
location New York SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to 90
STATE STREET, SUITE
700 BOX 10, ALBANY, NY
12207. Any lawful purpose.
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M O R T G A G E
A S S E T - B A C K E D
P A S S - T H R O U G H
CERTIFICATES SERIES
2 0 07- A R 7, Plaintif f
A G A I N S T M A R I E
THELEMARQUE, MARIE
A. JEANFILS, ET AL.,
Defendant(s) Pursuant to
a Judgment of Foreclosure
and Sale duly entered
October 21, 2020, I, the
undersigned Referee will
sell at public auction at the
Kings County Supreme
Court, in Room 224, 360
Adams Street, Brooklyn,
New York 11201 on April 11,
2024 at 2:30PM, premises
known as 1418 EAST 88TH
STREET, BROOKLYN, NY
11236. All that certain plot
piece or parcel of land,
with the buildings and
improvements erected,
situate, lying and being in
the Borough of Brooklyn,
County of Kings, City
and State of New York,
Block 8084, Lot 14.
Approximate amount of
judgment $743,622.16
plus interest and costs.
Premises will be sold
subject to provisions of
filed Judgment Index
#511060/2015. The
aforementioned auction
will be conducted in
accordance with the
KINGS County COVID-19
mitigation protocols
and as such all persons
must comply with social
distancing, wearing masks
and screening practices
in effect at the time of
this foreclosure sale.
Bruno Frank Codispoti,
Esq., Referee Gross
Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle
Drive Williamsville, NY
14221 15-003102 79591
Notice of Formation of
South Bronx Pet and
Plant Services LLC, filed
with SSNY on 2/29/2024.
Office: Bronx County.
Alessandra Rios, SSNY
shall mail copy of process
to LLC: 871 Westchester
Ave apt 105, Bronx, NY
10459. Purpose: any
lawful act or activity.
Notice of Formation of
BUNGALOW WOODS
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed
with SSNY on 02/07/2024.
Office location: Columbia
SSNY desg. as agent
of PLLC upon whom
process against it may
be served. SSNY mail
process to 270 NORTH
AVENUE, SUITE 202,
NEW ROCHELLE, NY
10801. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of A K O T A
C O M M U N I C AT I O N S
LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with
SSNY on 02/23/2024.
Office location: Ontario
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to
6334 CANDLELIGHT
RUN, VICTOR, NY 14564.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
BLUE SHORE HUMAN
RESOURCES LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 03/06/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
418 BROADWAY, STE
N, ALBANY, NY 12207.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of CAMPBELLE AND
MICHAELS, LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 06/12/2023. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
393 CLASSON AVENUE,
BROOKLYN, NY 11238.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
o f C I W O N D E R
ENTERPRISES LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 09/23/2022.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to 620
WILSON AVENUE, NUM
415, BROOKLYN, NY
11207. Any lawful purpose.
MARCH 19TH , 2024
AUCTION Modern Moving
Inc. will sell at Public
Auction at 3735 Merritt
Avenue, Bronx, NY 10466
At 6:00 P.M. on MARCH
19TH , 2024 for due and
unpaid charges by virtue
of lien in accordance
with the provisions of the
law and with due notice
given all parties claiming
an interest therein, the
time specified In each
notice for payment of said
charges having expired
household furniture &
effects, pianos, trunks,
cases, TV’s, radios, hifi’s,
refrigerators, sewing
machines, washers,
a i r c o n d i t i o n e r s ,
household furniture
Of all descriptions and
the contents thereof,
s tore d unde r the
following names NAME
1. ALSTON BRIAN
2. JULIUS BOGAN/
LEROY BOGAN
3. JEAN SOUFFRANT
BRUNY
4. MICHAEL CLEMENT
5. GRACE DELLALIAN
6. BOODHOO
DRUPATTIE
7. FRANCINE DITA
8. NICOLE EBANKS/
JOHN & JANE DOE
9. JOHN FAMOLARI/
ARAQUE VICTORIA
10. NAOMI GASKIN
11. SHARESE GARRETT
12. AMEEN KESHAVJEE
13. RICHARD KIMCERLY
14. SAKHOBA
KHAMDAMOVA
15. GREGORY MADISON
16. ROBYN NAMM/
JOHN & JANE DOE
17. FRANK PERRY/ JOHN
DOE
18. SVETLANA
RIBINOVA/ JOHN &
JANE DOE
19. RICHARD &
ANTOINETTE
STRATTON
20. LAURENCE
STRENGER
21. ORTIZ SULEIKA/
RODRIGUEZ WALKER
RICARDO
22. LUIS TAUARES
23. JANET TAICESYAN
24. KIMANI WILLIAMS
25. WILLIAM WOLF
K A R A K A S L I O G L U
LAW FIRM PLLC, a
Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org.
filed with the SSNY
on 11/29/2023. Office
loc: NY County. SSNY
has been designated
as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: Emine Sahin
Karakaslioglu, 1140 6th
Ave, Floor 9, NY, NY 10036.
Purpose: To Practice
The Profession Of Law.
Notice of Qual. of SOLAR
ASSET MANAGEMENT
A S S O C I AT E S L L C
Auth. filed with SSNY
on 11/22/2019. Office
location: New York.
LLC formed in CT on
05/14/2019. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
mail process to: 122
EAST 42ND STREET,
SUITE 3000, NEW YORK,
NY 10168. Arts. of Org.
filed with CT SOS. 165
Capitol Ave, Ste 1000,
Hartford, CT 06106.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
OT ROCHESTER, PLLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with
SSNY on 01/03/2024.
Office location: Ontario
SSNY desg. as agent
of PLLC upon whom
process against it
may be served. SSNY
mail process to 1160A
P I T T S F O R D -V I C TO R
ROAD, PITTSFORD, NY
14534. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
REDROCK ASSET LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/01/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
1653 79TH STREET,
BROOKLYN, NY 11214.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
SADIO FIDES NEEMA
CREO LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/29/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY desg.
As agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served SSNY mail
process to 3621 AVENUE
M, BROOKLYN, NY 11234.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
SROCKUSA LLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/29/2024. Office
location: New York SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY mail
process to 845 UNITED
NATIONS PLAZA, UNIT
32D, NEW YORK, NY
10017. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
STELL AR DEFENSE
A N D C Y B E R
INTELLIGENCE LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/04/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to 1304
AVE M, BROOKLYN, NY
11230. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of SASHA
ACCESSORIES LLC
Auth. filed with SSNY
on 01/25/2024. Office
location: New York.
LLC formed in DE on
10/10/2023. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
mail process to: 90
STATE STREET, SUITE
700 BOX 10, ALVANY, NY
12207. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of MI
CASA ARGENTINA LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 02/28/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
550 COURT STREET,
BROOKLYN, NY 11231.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of
LODESTAR ENERGY
LLC Auth. filed with
SSNY on 03/07/2024.
Office location: New
York. LLC formed in CT
on 02/26/2014. SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to:
122 E 42ND ST, STE 3000,
NEW YORK, NY, 10168.
Arts. of Org. filed with CT
SOS. 165 Capitol Ave, Ste
1000, Hartford, CT 06106.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of M O N T G O M E R Y
G A T E W A Y
PRESERVATION CLASS
B, LLC Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 03/05/24.
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
12207-2543. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qualification
of WILLIAM VALE
EMPLOYEE LLC Appl.
for Auth. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY) on
03/04/24. Office location:
NY County. LLC formed
in Delaware (DE) on
02/27/24. Princ. office of
LLC: 444 Madison Ave.,
Fl. 14, NY, NY 10022. SSNY
designated as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to Corporation Service
Co., 80 State St., Albany,
NY 12207-2543. DE addr.
of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr.,
Wilmington, DE 19808.
Cert. of Form. filed with
Secy. of State, PO Box
898, Dover, DE 19903.
Purpose: Hospitality.
Notice of Formation of NY
Memory & Behavioral
Care, LLC filed with
SSNY on 3/3/2023.
Office: Richmond County.
SSNY designated agent
of LLC upon whom
process against it may
be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to
LLC: 260 CHRISTOPHER
LANE, SUITE 102-A,
STATEN ISLAND, NY,
10314, USA. Purpose:
any lawful act or activity.
Notice of Formation of
LLC. Vertus Mgt South
LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of
Org. with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 3/11/2024.
Office location: Richmond
County. SSNY designated
as agent of the LLC upon
whom process may be
served and SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC
at c/o Vertus Mgt South
LLC, 15 Foster Road,
Staten Island, NY 10309.
Purpose: any business
permitted under law.
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Notice of Formation of
SUKOON WELLNESS
LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed
with SSNY on 02/29/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
6802 RIDGE BLVD, APT
4J, BROOKLYN, NY
11220. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of 24
MASPETH AVE., LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 02/05/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process
to 9101 85TH ROAD,
WOODHAVEN, NY 11421.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of 64
BOX ST., LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY on
11/17/2023. Office location
Kings SSNY desg. As
agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served SSNY
mail process to 64 BOX
STREET, BROOKLYN,
NY, UNITED STATES,
11222. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
XING WORK LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 03/07/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to 906
59TH ST, BROOKLYN, NY
11219. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of UNION PHYSICAL
T H E R A P Y A N D
A C U P U N C T U R E
WELLNESS PLLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/26/2024. Office
location: New York SSNY
desg. as agent of PLLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to 150
BROADWAY, STE 508,
NEW YORK, NY 10038.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
735 PS REALTY LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 01/25/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
5014 16TH AVE STE 32,
BROOKLYN, NY 11204.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of 72
NORTH 15TH STREET
OWNER LLC Auth. filed
with SSNY on 02/23/2024.
Office location: Kings.
LLC formed in DE on
02/21/2024. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
mail process to: 72
NORTH 15TH STREET,
BROOKLYN, NY 11222.
Arts. of Org. filed with
DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
557 ROGERS LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/27/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to C/O
135-27 38TH AVE SUITE
338, FLUSHING, NY
11354. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
144 BAYARD ST., LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 02/05/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
147 MASPETH AVENUE,
BROOKLYN, NY 11211.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
1224 MYRTLE AVE LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 01/10/2023.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
8220 COLONIAL ROAD,
BROOKLYN, NY 11209.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
LLC. Powers Ponderosa
LLC (LLC) filed Arts.
of Org. with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY)
on 3/13/2024. Office
location: Schenectady
County. SSNY designated
as agent of the LLC upon
whom process may be
served and SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC
at c/o Gilford Powers,
4 86 4 Ridge Road,
Glenville, NY 12302.
Purpose: any business
permitted under law.
Notice of Formation
of LLC. Ponderosa
House LLC (LLC) filed
Arts. of Org. with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY)
on 3/13/2024. Office
location: Schenectady
County. SSNY designated
as agent of the LLC upon
whom process may be
served and SSNY shall
mail process to the LLC
at c/o Gilford Powers,
4 86 4 Ridge Road,
Glenville, NY 12302.
Purpose: any business
permitted under law.
Notice of formation of
43RD STREET MG LLC.
Arts of Org filed with Secy
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/15/24. Office location:
Kings County. SSNY
designated as agent upon
whom process may be
served and shall mail copy
of process against LLC
to:Francesca Gaccione,
346 Metropolitan Ave.,
Second Fl., Bklyn, NY 11211.
Purpose: any lawful act.
Notice of Formation
of Indelible Dee LLC
Indelible Dee LLC (the
“LLC”) filed Articles
of Organization with
the Secretary of State
of New York (“SSNY”)
on 02/13/2024. Office
location: Westchester
County. The SSNY is
designated as agent of the
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to 46 Gramatan Ave
Box 1067 Mount Vernon
NY 10550. Purpose:
any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of
Madame Colette Craft
& Hobby LLC, filed with
SSNY on 12/01/2023
Richmond County. SSNY
designated agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to LLC. 410 Port
Richmond ave Staten
Island NY 10302 Purpose:
any lawful act or activity.
Notice of Qual. of MBO
V E N T U R E S , L L C ,
Authority filed with the
SSNY on 03/12/2024.
Office location: NY
County. LLC formed in DE
on 01/15/2020. SSNY is
designated as agent upon
whom process against
the LLC may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to: Darren Gleeman, 300
E 77th St, 30A, NY, NY
10075. Address required
to be maintained in DE:
65 N. Broad St, Ste 201,
Middletown, DE 19709.
Cert of Formation filed
with DE Div. of Corps,
401 Federal St., Ste 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
Notice of formation
of PURI LIGHTINIG
DESIGN NYC LLC.
Articles of Organization
filed with the Secretary
of State of New York
SSNY on 03/08/2024.
Office located in NEW
YORK COUNTY. SSNY
has been designated
for service of process.
SSNY shall mail a copy
of any process served
against the LLC 224 Fifth
Avenue Suite F206 New
York NY 10001. Purpose:
any lawful purpose
Notice of Public Sale
In Accordance with
New York lien statute,
article 182, and to satisfy
an operator’s lien, the
contents of the following
units will be sold at a
public auction to the
highest bidder on: Date:
March 28th, 2024, Time:
11:00am At: https://www.
storagetreasures.com/
Unit# 41016 Elena
M Humphreys Tabb
Personal Property, Unit#
41107 Dianette Caraballo
Personal Property, Unit#
41240 Maridalia Sanchez
Personal Property, Unit#
41352 Matthew Wing
Personal Property, Unit#
42017 Antonio Mallard
Personal Property, Unit#
42265 Suzanne Saturday
Pe r s onal Prop e r t y,
Unit# 51030 Pape Diouf
Personal Property, Unit#
51174C Cassis M Hoering
Personal Property, Unit#
52103 David Taylor
Personal Property, Unit#
52132 Amelia Bruno
Personal Property, Unit#
61171 Roger Urbaez
Personal Property, Unit#
61342 Stephen Goodman
Personal Property, Unit#
61377 Stephen Goodman
Personal Property, Unit#
61410 Carol Newkirk
Personal Property, Unit#
61416 David Sirinek
Pe r s onal Prop e r t y,
Unit# 62136 Michael
Junior Personal Property
Gotham Mini Storage
reserves the right to
cancel the sale at any
time for any reason.
Notice of Auction Sale is
herein given that Access
Self Storage of Long
Island City located at 29-
00 Review Avenue, Long
Island City, N.Y. 11101 will
take place on WWW.
STORAGETREASURES.
COM Sale by competitive
bidding starting on March
29, 2024, and end on
April 09, 2024, at 10:00
a.m. to satisfy unpaid
rent and charges on
the following accounts:
Contents of rooms
generally contain misc.
#366- Giselle Rodriguez;
Pieces of wood, stroller,
headboards, bench
#380-Malcolm Boyd;
Boxes, bags, table
#1136-Joan Donovan;
M at tre s s e s , b oxe s ,
frames, suitcase, wood
# 1 6 0 9 - R a k i b u l
Islam; boxes
The contents of each unit
will be sold as a lot and all
items must be removed
from the premises within
72 hours. Owners may
redeem their goods
by paying all rent and
charges due at any time
before the sale. All sales
are held “with reserve”.
The owner reserves
the right to cancel
the sale at any time.
SNAPPING TEA LLC Art.
Of Org. Filed Sec. of State
of NY 2/15/2024. Off. Loc.:
Allegany Co. Gregory
Christobek designated
as agent upon whom
process may be served
& shall mail proc.: 45
Tudor City PL., New York,
NY 10017, USA. Purpose:
Any lawful purpose.
F r e d ’ s C r e a t i v e
Consulting LLC filed
w/ SSNY 9/17/23 Off. in
Kings Co. SSNY desig.
as agt. of LLC whom
process may be served &
shall mail process to the
LLC, 1 Blue Slip, Apt. 19E,
Brooklyn, NY 11222. The
reg. agt. is United States
Corporation Agents,
Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste.
202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
Sail Squall LLC, filed
with SSNY on Feb. 20,
2024. Office: Greene
County. SSNY designated
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may
be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to
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Notice of formation of
GSR RESEARCH LLC.
Arts of Org filed with Secy
of State of NY (SSNY) on
2/13/24. Office location:
N Y Count y. S SN Y
designated as agent
upon whom process may
be served and shall mail
copy of process against
LLC to: 130 W 67th St.,
Apt 23D, NY, NY 10023.
Purpose: any lawful act.
STRONGER TOGETHER
M A R R I A G E A N D
FA M I LY T H E R A P Y
PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts.
of Org. filed with the SSNY
on 02/12/2024. Office
loc: NY County. SSNY
has been designated
as agent upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The PLLC,
454 Manhattan Avenue,
Apt 6F, NY, NY 10026.
Purpose: To Practice The
Profession Of Marriage
and Family Therapy.
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Notice of Formation
of PHANTOM ART &
DESIGN, LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 03/14/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
44 BOX STREET, 2D,
BROOKLYN, NY, 11222.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of MG
INSURANCE AGENCY
LLC Auth. filed with
SSNY on 10/16/2023.
Office location: New
York. LLC formed in DE on
02/16/2022. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY mail
process to: 28 LIBERTY
STREET, NEW YORK, NY,
10005. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
FOR KOSH DE S IGN
GROUP, LLC. Arts. of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 03/13/2024.Office
location: New York SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to 400
BROOME STREET 11TH
FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY,
10013. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
BIOPIX-T USA, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/06/2024.
Office location: New York
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to 600
MAMARONECK AVENUE
#400, HARRISON, NY,
10528. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
MSK Illuminations, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY)
on 3/7/24. Office in NY
County. SSNY designated
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to c/o The LLC,
25 E. 69 th St., NY, NY
10021, registered agent
upon whom process
may be served. Purpose:
Any lawful act/activity.
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Notice of Formation of
LAKESIDE MEDICAL
PRACTICE PLLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY on
11/16/2023. Office location
Chautauqua SSNY desg.
As agent of PLLC upon
whom process against
it may be served SSNY
mail process to 3837
NEW CASTLE ROAD,
WEST MIDDLESEX, PA,
16159 Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of L L OY D C H E N
CHIROPRACTIC, PLLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/05/2024.
Office location: Richmond
SSNY desg. as agent of
PLLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process 65
MASON STREET, STATEN
ISLAND, NY, 10304.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of MCGW
2, LLC Auth. filed with
SSNY on 02/23/2024.
Office location: New
York. LLC formed in CT
on 09/26/2016. SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to:
2901 SOUTH BAYSHORE,
UNIT 10F, COCONUT
GROVE, FL, 33133. Arts.
of Org. filed with CT
SOS. 165 Capitol Ave, Ste
1000, Hartford, CT 06106.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of
ORTHOGON GROUP,
LLC Auth. filed with
SSNY on 11/17/2022.
Office location: New
York. LLC formed in DE
on 08/27/2015. SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to: 250
WEST 55TH ST, FLOOR
11, NEW YORK, NY, 10019
- 7639. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
STUSH NYC LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 03/08/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY desg.
As agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served SSNY mail
process to 56 2ND AVE,
STE 43, BROOKLYN, NY,
11215. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
TINY HANDS & FEET
NANNY SERVICES LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/01/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
466 MACDONOUGH
STREET, BROOKLYN, NY,
11233. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of 51
SOUTH 2ND STREET
OWNER LLC Auth. filed
with SSNY on 02/23/2024.
Office location: Kings.
LLC formed in DE on
02/21/2024. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY mail
process to: 02/21/2024.
Arts. of Org. filed with DE
SOS. C/O STEPHANIE
EISENBERG , 330 WYTHE
AVENUE, APARTMENT
2E, BROOKLYN, NY,
11249. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
3311-3333 HYLAN LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/11/2024.
Office location: Richmond
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process
826 FOREST AVENUE,
STATEN ISLAND, NY,
10310. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
3911 AMBOY RD 168 LLC.
Arts. Of Org. filed with
SSNY on 03/06/2024.
Office location: Richmond
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process 3911
AMBOY RD, STATEN
ISLAND, NY, 10308.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
A .Y. COMME RCIAL
GROUP LLC. Arts. Of
Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/07/2024.Office
location: Tioga SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
mail process to 7664 RT
434, APALACHIN, NY,
13732 Any lawful purpose.
N o t i c e o f Q u a l .
of C O N T R A C T
W H O L E S A L E
DISTRIBUTORS LLC
Auth. filed with SSNY
on 03/06/2024. Office
location: New York.
LLC formed in NJ on
06/15/2017. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY mail
process to ATTN: DAVID
MEBERG, 465 MEADOW
LANE, CARLSTADT, NJ,
07072. Arts. of Org. filed
with NJ SOS. P.O BOX
45 TRENTON, NJ 08646-
0303. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation
of A S H L E Y M .
LOFTERS, ORAL &
M A X I L L O F A C I A L
SURGEON, PLLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/01/2024. Office
location Kings SSNY
desg. As agent of PLLC
upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to 54
NOLL STREET , SUITE
644, BROOKLYN, NY,
11206 Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
ASPEN NORTH LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with
SSNY on 04/11/2023.
Office location: New York
SSNY desg. as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to 900
THIRD AVE FLOOR 12,
NEW YORK, NY, 10022.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of
COMPASS HE ALTH
A D M I N I S T R AT I O N ,
LLC Auth. filed with
SSNY on 03/06/2024.
Office location: New
York. LLC formed in DE
on 03/04/2024. SSNY
desg. as agent of LLC
upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process to:
170 EAST 87TH STREET,
#E19A, NEW YORK, NY,
10128. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
HIGH QUALITY REALTY
168 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed
with SSNY on 03/07/2024.
Office location Kings
SSNY desg. As agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served
SSNY mail process to
7218 16TH AVENUE,
BROOKLYN, NY, 11204.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
JEMS 628 LLC. Arts.
Of Org. filed with SSNY
on 02/15/2024. Office
location: Chautauqua
SSNY desg. as agent of
PLLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY mail process
2395 NORTH MAPLE
AVENUE, ASHVILLE, NY,
14710. Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qual. of THUMA
RETAIL LLC Auth. filed
with SSNY on 03/18/2024.
Office location: New York.
LLC formed in DE on
07/21/2023. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY mail
process to: 28 LIBERTY
STREET, NEW YORK, NY,
10005. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Qualification
of MLCA LLC Appl. for
Auth. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY)
on 02/13/24. Office
location: NY County.
LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 02/08/24. 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. DE addr.
of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr.,
Wilmington, DE 19808.
Cert. of Form. filed with
Secy. of State, State of DE,
401 Federal St. - Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qualification of
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
F U N D SOLU T IO N S
A S S O C I A T E S
INFRASTRUCTURE IV
L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed
with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 01/04/24.
Office location: NY
County. LP formed
in Delaware (DE) on
03/20/23. Duration of
LP is Perpetual. SSNY
designated as agent of
LP 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. Name and
addr. of each general
partner are available from
SSNY. DE addr. of LP:
CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr.,
Wilmington, DE 19808.
Cert. of LP filed with Secy.
of State, Div. of Corps.,
John G. Townsend Bldg.,
401 Federal St. - Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qualification of
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E
IV - G L.P. Appl. for
Auth. filed with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on
01/04/24. Office location:
NY County. LP formed
in Delaware (DE) on
11/09/23. Duration of
LP is Perpetual. SSNY
designated as agent of
LP 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. Name and
addr. of each general
partner are available from
SSNY. DE addr. of LP:
CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr.,
Wilmington, DE 19808.
Cert. of LP filed with Secy.
of State, Div. of Corps.,
John G. Townsend Bldg.,
401 Federal St. - Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
KHATA LLC, Arts. of Org.
filed with the SSNY on
03/15/2024. Office loc:
NY County. SSNY has
been designated as agent
upon whom process
against the LLC may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to: The LLC,
54 Allen Street, Apt 3A,
NY, NY 10002. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
TK 2024 S LLC, Arts. of
Org. filed with the SSNY
on 02/16/2024. Office
loc: NY County. SSNY
has been designated
as agent upon whom
process against the LLC
may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to:
C/O Mather Point, 590
Madison Ave., 21st Floor,
NY, NY 10022. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
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Notice of Qualification of
STRATEGIC PARTNERS
INFRASTRUCTURE IV
L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed
with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 01/04/24.
Office location: NY
County. LP formed
in Delaware (DE) on
03/20/23. Duration of
LP is Perpetual. SSNY
designated as agent of
LP 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. Name and
addr. of each general
partner are available from
SSNY. DE addr. of LP:
CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr.,
Wilmington, DE 19808.
Cert. of LP filed with Secy.
of State, Div. of Corps.,
John G. Townsend Bldg.,
401 Federal St. - Ste. 4,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qualification
of Strategic Partners
Infrastructure IV (LUX)
SCSp Appl. for Auth. filed
with Secy. of State of NY
(SSNY) on 01/16/24. Office
location: NY County. LP
formed in Luxembourg on
04/21/23. NYS fictitious
name: Strategic Partners
Infrastructure IV (LUX)
SCSp L.P. Duration of
LP is Perpetual. SSNY
designated as agent of
LP 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.
Name and addr. of each
general partner are
available from SSNY.
Luxembourg addr. of LP:
11-13 boulevard de la Foire,
L- 1528 Luxembourg,
G r a n d D u c h y o f
Luxembourg. Cert. of
LP filed with Registre
de Commerce et des
Societes, 14. Rue Erasme,
L-1468 Luxembourg,
G r a n d D u c h y o f
Luxembourg. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qual. of S3 RE
100 S9 FUNDING LLC
Auth. filed with SSNY
on 01/18/2024. Office
location: New York.
LLC formed in DE on
01/11/2024. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against
it may be served. SSNY
mail process to: 535
MADISON AVE, 19TH
FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY,
10022. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of
WELBE HEALTH NYC
PACE II, LLC Arts. of Org.
filed with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 03/15/24.
Office location: Kings
County. Princ. office of
LLC: 5521 8th Ave., 2nd Fl.,
Brooklyn, NY 11220. 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.
TK 2024 LLC, Arts. of Org.
filed with the SSNY on
02/16/2024. Office loc: NY
County. SSNY has been
designated as agent upon
whom process against
the LLC may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to: C/O Mather Point, 590
Madison Ave., 21st Floor,
NY, NY 10022. Purpose:
Any Lawful Purpose.
NOTICE OF FORMATION
of a Foreign Limited
Liability Company (LLC)
Name: Courtsage WW
LLC Appl. for Auth. filed
by the Dept. of State
of NY on 12/15/2023
Jurisdiction: NJ organized
on 12/04/2023 Office
Location: Jef ferson
County Purpose: any and
all lawful activities. SSNY
is designated as agent
of the LLC upon whom
process against it may
be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process
to: Courtsage WW LLC,
586 Newark Ave., 4 th
Fl., Jersey City, NJ 07306.
Address of principal office:
586 Newark Ave., 4 th Fl.,
Jersey City, NJ 07306.
Notice of Auction Sale is
herein given that Citiwide
Self Storage located at
45-55 Pearson Street,
Long Island City, N.Y. 11101
will take place on WWW.
STORAGETREASURES.
COM Sale by competitive
bidding starting on
March 25, 2024 and end
on April 8, 2024 at 10:00
A.M. to satisfy unpaid
rent and charges on
the following accounts:
# 3P09 – Bruton Gallery:
several picture frames,
several boxes, several
c r a t e s , s c u l p t u r e ,
several file boxes
# 5R26 – Osbert Campbell:
2-black bags, clear
plastic bag, laundry cart
# 5R36 – Christopher
Valentine: several plastic
containers , painted
canvasses, few shoe boxes
# 6P45 – Michele
Adams: several bags,
luggage, several boxes,
several plastic bins
# 8J39 – Kara O’Brien:
2-t ab l e s , s ui tc a s e ,
several boxes, large
item in shrink wrap
The contents of each unit
will be sold as a lot and all
items must be removed
from the premises within
72 hours. Owners may
redeem their goods
by paying all rent and
charges due at any time
before the sale. All sales
are held “with reserve”.
The owner reserves
the right to cancel
the sale at any time.
Cellco Partnership and
its controlled affiliates
doing business as
Verizon Wireless (Verizon
Wireless) proposes to
install Spider Cloud
Solution within the
interior of a building
with an overall height of
264 feet. The building is
located at the approx.
vicinity of 212 5th Avenue,
New York, New York
County, NY 10010. Public
comments regarding
potential effects from this
site on historic properties
may be submit ted
within 30 days from the
date of this publication
to: Trileaf Corp, Monica
Argueta, m.argueta@
trileaf.com, 8600 LaSalle
Road Suite 301, Towson,
MD 21286, 410.853.7128
Notice of Formation
of NY Commercial
D rive (Farmington
Solar 1) LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with
the New York Secretary
of State (NYSS) on March
21, 2024. Office in Nassau
County. NYSS designated
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. NYSS shall
mail a copy of any process
to: NY Commercial Drive
(Farmington Solar 1)
LLC 1129 Northern Blvd.,
Suite 404, Manhasset,
NY 11030. Any lawful
business purpose.
Notice of Formation of
NY Commercial Drive
(Farmington S o lar
2) LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with
the New York Secretary
of State (NYSS) on March
21, 2024. Office in Nassau
County. NYSS designated
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. NYSS shall
mail a copy of any process
to: NY Commercial Drive
(Farmington Solar 2)
LLC 1129 Northern Blvd.,
Suite 404, Manhasset,
NY 11030. Any lawful
business purpose.
Notice of Formation of
RIPPLE PAR TNERS
CONSULTING, LLC Arts.
of Org. filed with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on
03/08/24. Office location:
NY County. Princ. office of
LLC: 155 E. 73rd St., Apt.
8C, NY, NY 10021. SSNY
designated as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to the LLC at the addr. of
its princ. office. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of
425 FIFTH BRYANT
PARK, LLC Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on
03/14/23. Office location:
N Y Count y. S SN Y
designated as agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process
to Steven Saraisky, Esq.,
c/o Cole Schotz P.C.,
Court Plaza North, 25
Main St., Hackensack,
NJ 07601. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of
ALTNEU BUILDING
LLC Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 03/15/24.
Office location: NY
County. Princ. office of
LLC: 160 E 65th St., Apt.
22BC, NY, NY 10065.
SSNY designated as
agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail
process to c/o Alexander
Tsigutkin at the princ.
office of the LLC. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qualification
of EAG BROADWAY,
LLC Appl. for Auth. filed
with Secy. of State of
NY (SSNY) on 03/13/24.
Office location: NY
County. LLC formed
in Delaware (DE) on
11/09/23. Princ. office
of LLC: 733 Third Ave.,
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. DE
addr. of LLC: 251 Little
Falls Dr., Wilmington,
DE 19808. Cert. of Form.
filed with Secy. of State,
401 Federal St., Ste. 3,
Dover, DE 19901. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
Notice of Qualification
of MSAP, LLC Appl. for
Auth. filed with Secy.
of State of NY (SSNY)
on 03/12/24. Office
location: NY County.
LLC formed in Delaware
(DE) on 02/29/24. 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. DE addr.
of LLC: 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.
Notice of Formation of
Event On 3rd LLC , filed
with SSNY on 2/5/2024.
Office:New York County.
SSNY designated agent of
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to LLC: 64 East
111th Street Suite 907,
NY, NY 10029. Purpose:
any lawful act or activity.
Notice of Qual. of TRINITY
LOWE LLC Auth. filed
with SSNY on 03/21/2024.
Office location: New York.
LLC formed in DE on
03/20/2024. SSNY desg.
as agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served. SSNY mail
process to: 28 LIBERTY
STREET, NEW YORK, NY,
10005. Arts. of Org. filed
with DE SOS. Townsend
Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.
Any lawful purpose.
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Committee
Thomas Davis,
Director, U.S.
Department of
Housing & Urban
Development
Anna Kelles,
Member, New York
State Assembly
Member
Leila Bozorg,
Executive Director for
Housing, City of NY
RuthAnne Visnauskas,
Commissioner and CEO,
New York State Homes and
Community Renewal
Alicka Ampry-Samuel,
Regional Administrator, HUD
PANELISTS
SPONSORS
AIRBNB
MGNY CONSULTING
NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS
KPMG
COZEN O’CONNOR PUBLIC STRATEGIES
HERRICK, FEINSTEIN LLP
VHB
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Affordable
Housing
in New York
Summit
PANEL TOPICS:
• Building New York’s MWBE Programs
• How to Win Contracts in NY
• New York’s Biggest Projects
• Emerging DEI Practices in New York
For more information on
programming and sponsorship
opportunities, please contact
Lissa Blake at
Find out more &
register today!
MAY 30, 2024
9:00AM-3:30PM
BARUCH COLLEGE
55 LEXINGTON AVE., 14TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10010
City & State’s Diversity Summit will offer
industry executives, public sector leaders and
academics a full-day conference dedicated to
fostering business partnerships between the
state and local government, prime contractors
and MWBEs. Find out what it takes to thrive in
New York’s competitive procurement arena by
connecting with key government agencies, prime
contractors and state & local representatives at
the City & State Diversity Summit.
James Sanders Jr.,
Chair, State Senate
Task Force on
MWBEs
Kevin D. Kim,
Commissioner, NYC
Department of Small
Business Services
Hersh K. Parekh,
Director of
Government
& Community
Relations, The Port
Authority of New
York & New Jersey
Jason Clark,
EVP, Division
of Minority &
Women’s Business
Development
Carlos Bannister,
Chief MWBE
Officer, New York
City Department of
Transportation
Eric Alemany,
Senior Director
– Supplier
Relationship
Management,
Strategic Supply
Management,
New York Power
Authority
Sideya Sherman,
Chief Equity Officer
and Commissioner,
City of New York
Priya Nair,
Deputy Chief
Diversity Officer,
Office of Governor
Kathy Hochul
Taffi Ayodele,
Director of
Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion,
Chief Diversity
Officer, NYC
Comptroller’s
Office
Michael Garner,
Chief Business Diversity
Officer, City of New York
PANELISTS
SPONSORS
CDW
NYC SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY
BRAVO INC.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER