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    • What are the top NYC properties not paying property taxes?
    • Why does New York City allow such poor reporting and lack of transparency?
    • What will be my NYC property tax if they change the law?
    • How does the NYC budget work?
    • How does the NYC budget really work?
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    • What is the best local running events in Brooklyn and the metro NYC area?
    • How much are government workers paid?
    • Is Capitalism controlled by Computer Developers?
    • Candidates needed for Bed Stuy election
    • We need protected bike lanes in New York City (2014)
    • We need New York City Budgets to be Transparent
    • Where are the New York City Property Tax Advisory Commission Examples?
    • What will New York City property tax be in 2021 ask the commission
    • What is the spending on the NYC 2021 Election?
    • Bill De Blasio's private political emails
    • Why is Von King still under construction in 2021?
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    • What is New York School Spending per Child?
    • How much is property tax in NYC?
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      • 2018 Property Tax Commission Proposal
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        • Property Tax Protest
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Bill De Blasio's private political emails

2018.05.24_BerlinRosen_Responsive_Records.txt

THE CITY OF NEW YORK

                                          OFFICE OF THE MAYOR


                                           NEW YORK, NY 10007


May 24, 2018


Dear Requester,


This letter is in response to previous requests pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law

received by this Office, seeking generally


         Correspondence between the Office of the Mayor and Jonathan Rosen or BerlinRosen.


Due to the number of FOIL requests the Mayor's Office has received for similar

communications, as a courtesy the documents being disclosed to you today include materials that

are outside the scope of your requests.


The responsive records comprise four volumes of material:

    A. Pages 3-729: Material previously withheld in full or in part pursuant to the inter-agency

         exemption §87(2)(g) within the time range. This volume also includes 73 pages of

         material previously withheld in full pursuant to §87(2)(b).

             · Range: January 1, 2014 to April 3, 2015.


    B. Pages 730-2844: Material previously produced in full or in part, or withheld in full.

             · Range: April 4, 2015 to Dec 31, 2016.


    C. Pages 2845-4016: Material responsive to requests not yet fulfilled, and thus not produced

         previously.

             · Range: January 1, 2017 to Dec 31, 2017.


    D. Pages 4017-4247: Material sent to a large number of recipients.

             · Range: April 4, 2015 to Dec 31, 2016


Please note that some responsive material is redacted in part pursuant to Public Officers Law

§87(2)(b). Some schedules have been redacted pursuant to Public Officers Law §87(2)(b); these

redactions consist of personal appointments or private information. Please also note that some

responsive material has been redacted in part pursuant to §87(2)(f).

Additionally, attached at the end of the materials provided, you will find a table containing the

identities of those whose personal email addresses were redacted pursuant to Public Officers

Law §87(2)(b), effectively concealing the identities of the senders and/or recipients. Please note

that the Mayor's Office is not aware of all identities of email recipients and senders. Those email

senders and recipients who could not be identified are marked as "Unknown" on the attached

table.

You may appeal the determination with regard to this production in writing within thirty days by

addressing such an appeal to foilappeal@cityhall.nyc.gov.

Sincerely,


Jimmy Pan

Associate Counsel

From:     Walzak, Phil                          "dan@berlinrosen.com"; "emma@berlinrosen.com";

To:       "Jonathan@berlinrosen.com"; "

          "Rabinowitz@berlinrosen.com"

Subject:  FW: Re:Hi

Date:     Tuesday, January 07, 2014 6:43:07 PM


Anything we can do here / want to do?


-----Original Message-----

From: Henry Goldman (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:) [mailto:hgoldman@bloomberg.net]

Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 5:47 PM

To: Walzak, Phil

Subject: Re:Hi


I've got my first request: Can you help me talk to Harvey Weinstein and/or Gwyneth Paltrow about their

support for UPKNYC? Thanks, H


----- Original Message -----

From: PWalzak@cityhall.nyc.gov

To: Henry Goldman (BLOOMBERG/ NEWSROOM:)

At: Jan  7 2014 15:55:30

From:     Jonathan Rosen

To:

          · · · · · · · Ragone. Peter

Subject:

          RE: BLOOMBERG - Kanas Says De Blasia's Higher Taxes Won't Damage NYC

Date:     Friday, January 10, 2014 12:43:07 PM


Former head of Northfork Bank, now head of BankUnit ed. Ross has him on your list for next week.


From: Bill de Blasio [

Sent: Friday, January 10,

To: Peter Ragone


Cc: Jonathan Rosen

Subject: Re: BLOOMBERG - Kanas Says De Blasio's Higher Taxes Won't Damage NYC


Who is this guy??? I like him! Should I call to thank and to involve him???


Sent via BlackBeny by AT&T


From: "Ragone, Peter" <pragone@cityhaJJ nyc goy>

Date: · 10 Jan 2014 16:13:06 +0000

To:


                                                  Taxes Won 't Damage NYC


From: DeBlasio Clips [mailto:clips@transition2013.com]

Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:08 AM

Subject: BLOOMBERG- Kanas Says DeBlasio's Higher Taxes Won't Damage NYC


Kanas Says DeBlasio's Higher Taxes Won' t Damage NYC

BLOOMBERG - Elizabeth Dexheimer

http'ilwww bloomberg com/news/201 4-01 -09/kanas-says-de-blasjo-s-hi gher-taxes-won-t-

damage-nyc btml


New York City's richest residents may have to meet Mayor Bill De Blasia's demand for

higher taxes to fund early-childhood education programs, said BankUnited (BKU) Inc. Chief

Executive Officer John Kanas.


"If wealthy New Yorkers have to kick in a little bit of money so that young people can go to

school early, so that their parents can go to work-- not so bad, right? " Kanas said today in

an interview with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television.


The new mayor has vowed to raise taxes on the wealthy to finance pre-kindergmi en care, and

Kanas said De Blasia, 52, will reach his goal in ways that don't "kill the golden goose" of the

city's business commlmity. "He will fmd his way to satisfy both sides," Kanas said.


De Blasia 's five-year plan would generate $530 lnillion aimually by raising taxes on income

above $500,000 a yem· to 4.4 percent from almost 3.9 percent. For the 27,300 city taxpayers

eaming $500,000 to $1 million, the average increase would be $973 a year, according to the

Independent Budget Office, a municipal agency.

Kanas, 67, has run lenders in the New York region before including North Fork Bancorp and

has opened branches of Florida-based BankUnited in Manhattan. Kanas, who received $3

million in salary and bonus for 2012, said his primary home is on Long Island. Residents of

the suburban community aren't subject to the city's income tax.


Billionaire Backers


BankUnited is backed by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross and private-equity firm Blackstone

Group LP, whose chairman, Steve Schwarzman, is also a billionaire.


The bank was among U.S. lenders that failed under previous managers during the housing-

market collapse, prompting regulators to seize its operations and sell most of them in 2009 to

a group of private-equity investors.


Kanas has been expanding Miami Lakes-based BankUnited after attempts to sell the firm

failed to draw any bids that met the board's expectations. While the company is looking at

takeovers of other firms, Kanas said he hasn't done any deals because of "lofty" valuations.


"We are interviewing and discussing with people every week, every day, any acquisition

opportunity that might make sense for us," he said. "But so far our own performance

outstrips anything that we could see."

Fro m:    Klein, Monica

To :

          · · · · · · · Emma Wolfe ; jonathan@bertinrosen.com

Subject:  request from bdb re: Jeff Klein & UPK

          Monday, January 13, 2014 9 :45:43 AM

Dat e :

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