FOIL Request Details

Created: 2023-07-07 21:05:39
Department: Mayor's Office
Requester: Mark Parolisi

Correspondence with Crain's NY

I am requesting all correspondence between the City of Yonkers (COY) and the following entities:

Crain's New York https://www.crainsnewyork.com/ also operating under Crain Communications https://www.crain.com/

e.g.
sophia.juarez@crainsnewyork.com
laura.lubrano@crainsnewyork.com
DL-NB-Edit@crain.com
customerservice@crainsnewyork.com
or any other email addresses under the crain.com or crainsnewyork.com domains

This includes, but is not limited to:
-Emails between COY employees and Crain
-Invoices
-Purchase Orders
-Receipts

This request spans the dates inclusive of 1 January 2023 through present (30 May 2023)

This is in regard to a sponsored article published on May 29, 2023
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/sponsored-spotlight-westchester-2023/yonkers-renaissance

This content is a paid for advertisement per the Federal Trade Commission's guidelines summarized here: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-101-social-media-influencers

As such, we are requesting to know if any tax payer money was used in the commission of this advertisement.

This request has been duplicated across multiple departments in COY as the sum of these materials may be spread throughout them.

Note that we are also in communication with the sales team at Crain's to obtain their records as well.

Status Updates

This is to inform you that your FOIL requesting the following has been received:



· Seeking all correspondence between the City of Yonkers (COY) and the following entities:

Crain's New York https://www.crainsnewyork.com/ also operating under Crain Communications https://www.crain.com/


Please be advised that due to the number of FOIL requests received by the department, your request should be complete on or before twenty business days.



Thank you,

Christina Gilmartin

Office of the Mayor, FOIL Officer

This is to inform you that your FOIL requesting the following cannot be fulfilled:



· Seeking all correspondence between the City of Yonkers (COY) and the following entities -

Crain's New York https://www.crainsnewyork.com/ also operating under Crain Communications https://www.crain.com/; spanning the dates inclusive of 1 January 2023 through present (30 May 2023):



Please be advised this department does not hold such records. Should you want to appeal this FOIL, please contact Yonkers Corporation Counsel, Matthew Gallagher at matt.gallagher@yonkersny.gov.



Thank you,

Christina Gilmartin

Office of the Mayor, FOIL Officer