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peaking at the Westchester County Association’s annual breakfast in Tarrytown on Jan. 8, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino announced five initiatives the county will launch this year as part of a long-term effort to spur economic growth.

The new initiatives are included in “Westchester Smart,” a report on ideas and initiatives to shape the county’s economic development agenda that was released by Astorino’s office on the day of the breakfast. The report was drawn from a series of roundtable talks the county

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A Tesla Model S. Photo by Bob Rozycki

LOOKING TO KEEP THE HUDSON VALLEY’S largest economic engine running smoothly, Westchester County Association officials this winter are launching an off-campus workforce training initiative with academic and health care partners and bidding to manage a nearly $10 million federal grant to train the region’s workers for jobs in the fast-changing health care sector.

WCA officials at a press conference on Jan. 13 announced the start of the Hudson Valley Workforce Academy, a program of short-term certificate courses designed, with input from employers, to teach skills needed in the region’s health care, technology and business sectors. The training will focus on developing specific skills needed by employers and will also address broader workplace skills in management, critical thinking, empathy training, organization and communi» WCA, page 6

Ground broken for hotel in Yonkers

BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

A RYE-BASED DEVELOPER WAS JOINED by Yonkers city officials at a Jan. 13 groundbreaking ceremony for a $15 million, 150-room hotel expected to open in late summer on Tuckahoe Road.

Alfred Weissman Real Estate LLC is building a five-story, 180,000-square-foot Hilton Hampton Inn on a vacant parcel at 555 Tuckahoe Road that adjoins the POP Displays

USA plant. The industrial property also is owned by the Weissman family’s real estate investment and development company in Rye. The developer has estimated the hotel project will create 50 permanent jobs ranging in pay from $22,000 to $100,000 annually and nearly 200 construction jobs. The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency last year approved approximately $923,000 in mortgage and sales tax exemptions and a property tax abatement for the development.

“The hotel business in Yonkers is growing rapidly, a strong indication that the city is establishing itself as a leading destination for business and travel,” Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano said in a statement prepared for the groundbreaking ceremony. “Business developers are confident in the future of Yonkers and they’re saying so by investing in us.”

John Larkin, Republican majority leader of the Yonkers City Council, at the groundbreak» YONKERS, page 6

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Will Nicholas, northeast regional sales manager for Tesla Motors, shows off the electronic features within the Tesla Model S. Photos by Bob Rozycki

BY LEIF SKODNICK lskodnick@westfairinc.com

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everal so-called “cars of the future” — the Tucker 48, the DeLorean DMC-12, the Edsel — haunt the memory of the American automotive industry.

Each, in some way, had advancements in technology ahead of its time, from the Tucker 48’s steering headlights to the Edsel’s push-button automatic transmission, to the gull-wing doors on the DeLorean. Each was, to put it mildly, a bust to some degree.

But the electric Tesla Model S, produced

by Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla Motors, is no Edsel. It may not have gull-wing doors, but to get in a Tesla’s driver’s seat is to go back to the future of driving, in a car that marries technology in ways that Henry Ford and Nicola Tesla, for whom the company is named, couldn’t have imagined.

We met up with Will Nicholas, the northeast regional sales manager for Tesla Motors, at the Tesla Motors store at The Westchester in White Plains, which was Tesla’s first store on the East Coast, having opened in 2012.

“Here in the tristate area, we already have over 1,000 owners,” Nicholas said. The company markets the Model S sedan, with the Model X coming out in 2015. “We’re looking at expanding our model selection. We’re hoping to put out a Model 3 in 2017.”

Each Model S, which is custom-built after a customer orders a car from a Tesla storefront, can get between 250 and 400 miles per charge, depending on conditions, highway or city traffic, and whether certain features are used.

“We want to compare ourselves to the leaders in the market, and I think in the luxury performance space you have BMW, Audi, Mercedes,” Nicholas said. “I think this

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car is very comparable in all categories — performance, appointments, and from a safety perspective.”

Striking in external appearance with the smooth, rounded lines of comparable modern luxury sedans, the first secret of the Tesla Model S is not the battery capacity, the range or how much it will save you in the gas you don’t have to buy, but the door handles.

When you approach the vehicle with the car-shaped key fob in your pocket, the sleek stainless-steel handles extend from inside the door.

The car has ample trunk space, with nearly 60 cubic feet in the back, and when you open the hood expecting to see an engine, you find more storage space — which actually is an added safety feature.

“It provides the most amount of crash structure of any sedan,” Nicholas said. “If you were to get into a front-end collision, this car is the safest because the aluminum crash structure will crumple like an accordion.”

To refer to the car as merely being safe would be an understatement, considering in 2013 the Model S received the highest safety rating ever awarded based on independent testing from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, earning five stars in every subcategory.

There’s a stigma about performance tied to both safe cars and electric cars, and the Model S destroys that stigma as soon as you take the wheel. When Nicholas pulled out onto the highway, the Model S smoothly — and powerfully — accelerated with 416 horsepower to highway speed when he put his foot on the gas.

Because there is no engine or transmission, there is no vibration when the car is turned on, or hesitation while the car shifts through gears — it just goes.

“When I take my foot off the accelerator, we’re going to slow down quite a bit, and I’m not putting my foot on the brake at all,” Nicholas said. On the instrument panel, the car showed energy being returned to the battery through what is called “regenerative braking.”

“An electric motor can push or receive energy almost instantly,” Nicholas said.

Regenerative braking turns the motor into a generator that charges the battery, and since the driver can use regenerative braking to slow the car, it also saves wear and tear on the car’s brakes.

Inside the cabin, a large touch screen controls everything — from the driving features to the seat warmers to the stereo — and the car can update through a 3G connection, so unlike other cars, where new features mean buying a new car, with a Tesla, new features mean downloading and installing an update.

There are no oil changes, just a oncea-year safety checkup at a Tesla service center. Nor will you ever have to go to a gas station again. A Tesla owner can plug the car in to charge at home, most often through a 220 volt outlet of the kind used to power an electric dryer. And Tesla’s network of superchargers, which can recharge a Model S battery in as little as 20 minutes, is free.

Led by PayPal founder Elon Musk, Tesla Motors’ simple focus starts at the top, Nicholas said.

“Elon didn’t just want Tesla to make the best electric car,” Nicholas said. “He wanted to make the best car. Period.”

This article was first published in WAG magazine, the Business Journal’s sister publication.

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Purchase residents will decide fate of library

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO

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esidents will decide at a court-ordered meeting whether Purchase’s small library stays as a tenant of the community house on Purchase Street or if safety concerns warrant an eviction.

The Purchase Free Library is the smallest library in Westchester County, employing one person full time and occupying an estimated 700 square feet at the Purchase Community House, which also hosts preschool and after-school programs as well as a day camp.

Purchase Community Inc., the nonprofit that operates the community house, decided not to renew the library’s lease due to what it called safety concerns and issued an eviction notice in September. Library officials refused to leave, sued the nonprofit and had the backing of the state Supreme Court, which ordered the nonprofit to hold a vote of its full membership on the matter.

Rosanna Spadini, a resident and member of the library board of trustees, said the safety concerns were exaggerated after three incidents in 2013 in which police were called due to suspicious visitors. The nonprofit said they couldn’t forcibly remove people due to

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“I haven’t heard anyone say, ‘I’m so happy the library is closing; it’s not safe,’” Spadini said. In each of the incidents, she said, the visitors turned out to have benign intentions — a bicyclist waiting for a riding companion to catch up, a man in a truck looking for Old Oaks Country Club where he had a job interview and a Greenwich woman who was waiting for the library to open.

Spadini said it was a mischaracterization to say that a person posing a safety threat couldn’t be removed from the premises. She noted that the Purchase library’s own policies state patrons could be asked to leave for a multitude of reasons, including body odor.

After safety became a focus for the nonprofit’s board of directors, the community house hired Strategic Concepts Inc. as a security adviser. The library hired its own consultant, Comprehensive Solutions LLC. Larry Eidelman, a Yorktown police officer with experience working with children and schools, was quoted in court documents filed by the library’s attorney as saying the library “presents no significant safety of security risk to patrons, staff or the surrounding community.”

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The entrance to the Purchase Free Library at the Purchase Community House.

The location referred to by the nonprofit is the Quaker Friends House. Spadini said the space there would be 40 percent smaller than the current Purchase library. “It’s just not possible, unfortunately,” she said.

The parties are due in court next month and it is likely a date for the meeting and vote will be scheduled then. It is expected the vote will be set for March.

The Purchase library operates independently from the Harrison Library, which has branches in downtown Harrison and West Harrison.

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the library shouldn’t be treated differently than a tenant in a privately owned building.

The library has signed one-year leases since the 1920s shortly after the property was donated by the family of William A. Read, which said the property must always be used as a community house. Although the library isn’t mentioned by name in the agreement, the Read family was involved in its operation and the library was operated by a subcommittee of the community house until the 1960s.

Justine Gaeta, president of the nonprofit’s board of directors, sent a letter to members saying that the community house was “under attack from a small group of supporters of the Purchase Free Library.” She said the decision not to renew the lease did not mean the nonprofit was putting the library out of business.

“We don’t have that authority,” she said.

“It is a fact that there is a beautiful location 1.7 miles down Purchase Street that would welcome the library with open arms.”

There are scant options in the Purchase area of the town of Harrison, which is mostly residential with large homes, country clubs and little commercial space of the size that would accommodate the library.

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executive held over seven months last year with leaders from municipal government, business, nonprofits, health care, higher education and young professionals in Westchester.

Astorino said Westchester will lead a seven-county training program for the midHudson region to prepare individuals for high-demand jobs in the health care field.

Funded by a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, the “A Job’s Waiting for You” program aims to train and place 500 people in jobs in four years, matching training with actual jobs for which companies are hiring in the region.

The program, which includes Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster and Sullivan counties, is scheduled to roll out in the first quarter.

“I think we can do better than 500 jobs” in Westchester, Astorino told his WCA audience. He suggested the county set a goal to train and place workers in 1,000 jobs.

Partnering with Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, the county this quarter will kick off the Mobile App Development Bowl, an app design competition for students in area colleges and high schools. County officials said prizes will include cash awards and paid internships with the county.

The county also plans a first-quarter rollout of its redesigned, mobile-friendly website at westchestergov.com. Astorino said the county site gets 1.4 million views per month, but only 10 percent of those are from mobile devices.

Astorino’s administration also plans a “navigating Westchester” initiative this year to streamline and speed the municipal review and application process that has long been an obstacle to real estate development in the county. Astorino said the initiative will bring together real estate developers, municipal officials, planning experts and neighborhood association leaders to discuss strategies to improve the development process.

Finally, the county this year will host a summit for leaders of for-profit businesses and nonprofits to discuss their respective roles in the community, opportunities for more collaboration, funding and shared concerns such as housing, transportation and day care.

The defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate extended a backhanded compliment to the current occupant of City Hall in Manhattan for his contributions to Westchester’s “open-for-business” efforts.

“We are fortunate,” Astorino told his audience at the Westchester Marriott, “to have a not-so-secret weapon in economic development: Bill de Blasio.”

cation, WCA officials said.

Amy Allen, WCA vice president, will serve as the academy’s executive director.

The courses, to be held at WCA headquarters in White Plains, typically will last six weeks. They will be designed to upgrade the skills of companies’ current employees and will also be offered to unemployed and underemployed residents. Courses will be taught by experts in industry and academia, WCA officials said.

The business advocacy organization will open its academy with a five-week, $595 course in health care analytics that starts Feb. 24. It is designed for health care managers with little or no experience in data analytics.

WCA officials said they are working with Mercy College’s Strategic Consulting Institute to interview WCA’s member employers to identify additional needs in health care and other fields.

WCA Chairman William P. Harrington at the press conference said some 2,000 to 2,500 jobs need to be filled in health care and technology in the Hudson Valley, but the region lacks enough qualified candidates to fill them. “The health care sector is the Hudson Valley’s largest economic engine, contributing more than $15 billion to the regional economy,” he said. “It is critical to develop a qualified health care workforce to keep that engine from stalling.”

The academy “will help better position workers to fill the vacant positions, create jobs, and help our regional economy grow,” said Harrington, a partner and trial attorney at Bleakley Platt & Schmidt LLP in White Plains.

The WCA has enlisted members of its 2-year-old Hudson Valley Healthcare Consortium to work together and with corporations, and 16 participating colleges and universities to address the demand for skilled health care workers and help spur job growth in the region. A total of 15

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ing said the 555 Tuckahoe Road property “has had a long history of development proposals that could never garner the necessary support of the surrounding community. As a former community person and now as the councilman for the 6th district, I placed the emphasis on trying to achieve that balance between development and community concerns. I believe this proposal of a Hampton Inn has achieved both these goals.”

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health care providers in a five-county region and the Suburban Hospital Alliance, which includes 50 hospitals in the Hudson Valley and Long Island, have signed a memorandum of understanding at the launch of the workforce initiative.

At the 30,000-employee Montefiore Medical Center, employees will need to be

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retrained as the institution converts in-hospital resources to ambulatory care, the new national model for delivering high-quality, cost-efficient care to residents in their communities, said Jeffrey Menkes, senior vice president for system network development at Montefiore. He said a new generation of workers will need to be trained in big data analytics, a driving force behind new health care payment models and innovations in health care and biotechnology.

Menkes said Montefiore has 1,500 employees in Yonkers engaged in big data mining. He said Montefiore also will need workers at its newly opened customer call center in Tarrytown, which will be “a huge area” for employment openings.

Robert Glazer, CEO of ENT & Allergy Associates in Tarrytown, in a statement at the Hudson Valley Workforce Academy launch said health care providers “have needed something like the academy to help

could not be reached for comment.

Developer Alfred Weissman in a statement at the ceremony said the company is “excited to be part of the economic renaissance” in Yonkers led by Spano.

City officials noted the Weissman company’s decades of experience in developing commercial properties in the city. The company’s previous redevelopment and renovation projects and formerly owned properties include the Herald Statesman building at 1 Larkin Plaza, now part of the iPark Hudson commercial complex, and 20-26 S. Broadway, a 12-story bank building at downtown Getty Square.

employers update their employees’ knowledge and skills in a field that’s rapidly changing. We don’t have enough expertise to train them ourselves, but we want to have input on what type of training they need. The WCA has created a unique opportunity for us to do that.”

“The Westchester County Association’s role is a facilitator in this,” Harrington said.

The WCA hopes to strengthen that role with its appointment as manager of Hudson Valley Healthcare Connection, a job training initiative the Westchester-Putnam Workforce Investment Board will launch in the first quarter of 2015. The four-year workforce training program will be funded by a federal Ready to Work Partnership grant of $9.8 million awarded to the seven-county Hudson Valley region. Its goal is to intensively train and place 425 long-term unemployed residents of the region in health care jobs and additionally train 75 current health care workers to improve their skills.

Harrington said the WCA will bid for the job of project manager when the Workforce Investment Board shortly issues a request for proposals “Our scope is not Westchester-centric,” Harrington said of the WCA’s workforce initiative. “We view this as a regional solution and a regional opportunity.”

The WCA’s academy launch followed an announcement in late December of another new initiative in 2015 to more closely align the region’s educational institutions with the workforce needs of the health care sector.

Based in Orange County, the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. will launch HV Eds & Meds, a marketing effort to make the Hudson Valley what HVEDC President and CEO Laurence P. Gottlieb called “a major epicenter for higher education and health care institutions” and forge stronger strategic alliances between health care organizations and public and private colleges and universities in the seven-county region.

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Keep candidates engaged in the hiring process We’re looking to add to our staff, and we want to make sure we have the right person for the job.

We’ve had a couple people who we liked, and when we got back to them they had already taken other offers. Any suggestions on how to best manage the hiring process?

THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Hire candidates to meet short- and long-term needs. Know that the job market is tightening and people have more options. The best candidates know they want to work for your company. Building a list of future candidates to keep track of and a way to keep in touch with them will help in the future.

Hire the right candidate by understanding the job you’re filling. Model job descriptions around people who have been successful in the past. Be ready to jump on candidates who demonstrate ambition, drive and commitment to grow skills your company will need in the future.

As unemployment drops it does get tougher to identify and hang onto good can-

didates. Companies compete to offer opportunity for growth, income and benefits.

Positioning your company as a good employer with a bright future becomes a competitive leverage in the candidate search.

Find hidden gems by looking for people who are already employed, doing similar work. Use networking conversations to find people who are ready for a change of scenery. Continuously ask for referrals to people who are good at what they do and looking for a chance to grow.

Know that candidates are likely to get more offers, faster. Shorten your time between interactions. Candidates make assumptions. If too much time goes by, they assume the company isn’t interested and move on to pursue other leads.

Send out an immediate response when a resume comes in. Invite the person to share more information about themselves and what they’re looking for. Be friendly and look for candidates who are interested enough to communicate.

Tell candidates what steps to expect in the interview process. Provide regular updates on what comes next. Let candidates know where they stand and when they

should hear back. Be predictable in order to build trust.

In the first interview, give out details about the job. Include not just the tasks but also the hours, the pay and the opportunity for growth. Remind candidates that it’s a process to get through interviews and that you would only continue talking with them if you were serious about them.

If candidates look good, tell them that.

Reassure top candidates that the job could be theirs. You may even tell really strong candidates to get back to you before seriously looking at other offers.

Stay in touch by providing informational updates on the company. Introduce strong candidates to people they could be working with. Encourage questions. Watch what candidates do with the openings you provide.

See who goes above and beyond at showing interest in your company.

Plan out who your company will need to hire in the future. Will you grow people from the bottom up? That’s often the easiest and most affordable way to grow talent. If so, you’re going to need a steady stream of people coming in at the entry level.

Figure out where the next class of

employees could come from and build connections to those resources. Often that’s recent graduates who are looking to get started. Target a list of schools teaching the skills your company needs.

Know you’re going to need a particular piece of expertise that doesn’t exist in the company today? Many employers will start with an independent contractor or consulting company to learn more without paying for someone to be on board full time. It’s often the fastest was to get started. And some of those suppliers may be interested in full-time employment down the road, while others may know where to find full-time candidates when you’re ready.

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WVOX chairman: ‘Glorious hodgepodge’ feeds news appetite

BY MARK LUNGARIELLO

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illiam “Bill” O’Shaughnessy, the white-maned, perpetually sockless head honcho at Whitney Media, has been a fixture in Westchester County media for more than 50 years.

The company’s flagship station, WVOX 1460AM, was originally launched to “prop

up” the now-defunct city daily newspaper The New York Herald-Tribune but remains the only locally owned independent radio station in the area (Whitney Media got its name from the family of the HeraldTribune’s last owner, John Hay Whitney).

“I’ve always said radio, local radio, is like Lazarus,” he said. “Television didn’t kill it and the Internet didn’t kill it yet — yet.” He pronounces the dash for emphasis.

I host a weekly show on the station and recently visited O’Shaughnessy in his New Rochelle office, decorated with photos of the chairman mugging with New York politicians like his hero, Mario Cuomo, and Nelson Rockefeller. We discussed the state of the media and if there is a future for news as companies struggle to keep their heads above water.

Are we doomed in Westchester in terms of getting our news?

“The public will always have an insatiable appetite for the great issues of the day and for what’s going on in our home heath. Or, I should say, those with roots in the community will want information. I am less than sure about the yuppies who are abroad in the land these days and have never learned an instinct for community.”

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“I think you have only to walk down the main street in Rye or Larchmont or Bronxville to answer that question.”

of great respect, it’s not a pejorative term, people with roots in the community. WVIP gives voice to the emerging, new Americans.

Caribbean, West Indian.”

On if an independent radio station can survive today:

On the difficulties in covering news in Westchester:

If a radio station aspires to be more than a jukebox, it’s got a shot even in this high-tech, speeded-up day and age. We endorse candidates, we have a plethora of open-line programs. As David Hinckley, the critic-at-large, said (of WVOX), “it’s a glorious hodgepodge … much of which even O’Shaughnessy can’t get excited about.”

The companies and the entities that have roots in the community that go beyond the ROI (return on investment) will always support local media if it’s local. Most radio stations have fallen to absentee owners and speculators and they today resemble jukeboxes but I’ve always believed a radio station cannot just be the modern day equivalent of a smoke signal sending information or a teletype machine.

The cookie-cutter thing doesn’t work. … The glorious hodgepodge has my son’s heavy metal show (Matt O’Shaughnessy hosts ‘Metal Mayhem’), the most God-awful music, but I’m very proud he’s kept it going for 30 years thanks to your help and other crazy people. We have three Muslim programs. The Mount Vernon gangs — the Mount Vernon youth gangs — have a program.”

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You also have (Caribbean FM station) WVIP. Do you think WVOX would be sustainable as a news or community outlet without that other side of the business?

“I think they work together, they complement each other. WVOX’s stock and trade are the townies — and for me, that’s a term

“Think about how different Waccabuc is from Mount Vernon, think of how different Bronxville is from Yonkers where true love conquers. … So how do you offer a product … cover such a disparate area? You have in Westchester the homeless of the night. And then you have vast wealth in Bedford and Pound Ridge and Waccabuc. How do you produce a journalism that does justice to all those disparate neighborhoods? That’s the real test, how do you do that? We try to do it with the glorious hodgepodge.”

On the last day of the Herald-Tribune in 1966:

“I was there at the death of a newspaper.

I was there when John Hay Whitney’s big, old green Cadillac — they called it the Green Hornet — came down, I think it was 44th Street. And earlier that day a fax had come up from the Washington Bureau … (that) said “death be not proud.”

And I happened to be there with my former father-in-law, the late Walter Nelson Thayer, who was president of the HeraldTribune. But I was there and I remember Jimmy Breslin screaming at the cleaning ladies. And I remember Walter “Red” Smith trying to light a cigarette with trembling hands as they sounded the death knell for a newspaper.

And then we went downstairs … to Bleeck’s and some of the old writers and rewrite men they were settling up their bar bill. The death of a newspaper is a bad story.

I don’t want to ever cover that again.”

INBRIEF THORNWOOD AGENCY JOINS ERA INSITE REALTY Newbauer Realty, a second-generation family-owned residential real estate brokerage in Thornwood, has merged with ERA Insite Realty Services, based in White Plains.

The deal was announced by Louis Budetti, principal broker of ERA Insite Realty. Budetti’s family-owned firm in November completed a merger with Team IV Homes in Dutchess County, which was consolidated into ERA’s headquarters operations in White Plains.

In the latest merger, Betty Newbauer, founding broker and principal at Newbauer Realty, will stay on as an associate broker and the Newbauer office at 635 Commerce St. in Thornwood will operate as ERA Insite Realty Services, Newbauer Realty Division.

Founded in the Bronx, the independent Newbauer agency has operated for 35 years in Thornwood.

Also joining ERA Insite in the merger are Betty Ann Newbauer, Debra McCormick, Donna Wartham Petretti, Eileen Motko, Jane Ciociola, Joanne Spinelli, Lilibeth Panizales, Maria Galli, Patricia Ricciuti and Theresa Alvarez.

“This is a great opportunity for us to strengthen our footprint in the Mount Pleasant market where we are already serving clients, and to add some key talent to our agent team,” Budetti said in a press release.

WPH, MONTEFIORE AGREEMENT APPROVED New York state’s acting health commissioner has given final approval to an agreement that makes White Plains Hospital a member of Montefiore Health System Inc. The agreement, first announced last February, makes Bronx-based Montefiore the “active parent” and co-operator of the 292-bed community hospital in White Plains. Montefiore officials have said the White Plains hospital will be the hub for Montefiore’s tertiary level of hospital services in its growing Westchester network.

Montefiore last year acquired and took over operations of two bankrupt community hospitals in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon and is said to be in talks over a potential partnership with St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers.

Dr. Steven M. Safyer, president and CEO of Montefiore Health System, and Jon B. Schandler, CEO of White Plains Hospital, on Jan. 12 issued this joint statement: “Our institutions are partnering to bridge the divide between academic medi-

cal centers and community hospitals — giving Westchester the best of both worlds.

White Plains Hospital will continue to expand its level of highly specialized treatment, with all the resources and advantages of Montefiore’s innovative care delivery system and academic partnership with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

“Montefiore and White Plains Hospital will work together to manage care by delivering high-quality, efficient tertiary services locally, in a familiar setting, close to our patients’ homes and cared for by physicians in the community.

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Spokespersons for the partnering institutions said White Plains Hospital’s board

of directors will remain intact with the addition of three members-at-large from the Montefiore Health System board. Three members of the White Plains Hospital board also will serve on the Montefiore board.

“If you’re new to the area, it’s a great opportunity to experience the variety of cuisine that’s available,” Janet Crawshaw, the publisher of The Valley Table magazine and founder of Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, told the Business Journal in advance of Fall Restaurant Week in 2014.

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ov. Andrew Cuomo has replaced top aide Larry Schwartz with Bronxville resident William Mulrow, who in 1990 served as senior adviser to Gov. Mario Cuomo’s re-election campaign.

Schwartz was the Westchester County deputy executive under Andy Spano before being asked to join then-Gov. David Paterson’s team as secretary in February 2009. He was the first secretary in recent history to transition in that post from one governor to the next. He is leaving to join the

private sector.

Cuomo made the announcement Jan. 11 along with a number of other changes in top administrative posts.

Mulrow, 57, has worked for a long time in the financial and political sectors. After graduating from Yale University in 1978, he was appointed a New York City Urban Fellow. What followed was a number of positions with financial companies augmented by positions in government. Most recently Mulrow was a senior managing director at

Blackstone Group, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, based in New York City.

Previously, Mulrow held positions at Citigroup Global Capital Markets Inc., Paladin Capital Group and Gabelli Asset Management, now GAMCO Investors in Rye. He was chairman of the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency from 19992001. Mulrow lost the 2002 Democratic primary for state comptroller against Alan Hevesi.

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Announcing the launch of Sterling Women, a community of women in business.

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Cuomo’s appointee as the chairman of the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the State of New York Mortgage Agency.

At the Thruway Authority, Robert Megna has been appointed acting executive director replacing Thomas Madison, who resigned last month. Megna has served as budget director for the state Division of the Budget since 2009.

Madison along with Thruway Authority CFO John Bryan resigned at the end of December amid controversy and an investigation by the state Inspector General’s Office.

Authority Chairman Howard Millstein also resigned in December. The authority is in the hot seat for, among other things, how the new Tappan Zee Bridge will be financed.

The $4 billion cost for the bridge places it as the largest infrastructure project in the state.

Megna will be replaced as budget director by Mary Beth Labate, who served as first deputy budget director since 2012.

— Bob Rozycki

INBRIEF HOCHENBERG HEADS MIDHUDSON HOSPITAL Paul Hochenberg, a longtime hospital administrator in the Hudson Valley, has been named executive director of MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center in Poughkeepsie.

His appointment was announced by officials at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, which last year acquired and renamed the former St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie.

Hochenberg replaces Arthur A. Nizza, who joined the Poughkeepsie hospital as president and CEO in August 2013 after serving in the same top post at the now-disbanded Stellaris Health Network in Westchester County. Nizza in December was named president and CEO of Meriter-Unity Point Health in Madison, Wisc.

In a 42-year career in health care, Hochenberg has led St. Luke’s Hospital in Newburgh, Craig House Hospital in Beacon and Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, according to Westchester Medical Center officials. He most recently was senior vice president for human resources and chief learning officer for Westchester Medical Center.

Michael D. Israel, president and CEO of Westchester Medical Center, in the announcement called Hochenberg “a seasoned hospital administrator” and “a trusted member of our senior team” at Westchester Medical Center, where he has worked for nearly nine years. “He has the perfect combination of experience, skills, personality and local knowledge to lead the organization as we grow and expand to better serve the adults and children of the area,” Israel said.

HUB NORTHEAST ACQUIRES MMZ Hub International Northeast Ltd., a subsidiary of international insurance brokerage Hub International Ltd., has purchased White Plains-based insurance brokerage MMZ Associates Inc. MMZ’s president, Mark Zettl, will join Hub Northeast as a vice president, and MMZ’s operation will relocate to Hub Northeast’s Harrison office. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Mark and his team are an energized group of top brokers who we are excited to have join our team,” said Jeff Rubin, senior vice president of Hub Northeast, in a press release announcing the acquisition. “Their expansive book of property and casualty business has national reach and needs that will greatly benefit from Hub’s 200-plus offic-

es throughout the U.S.” Founded in 1985, MMZ provides insurance products, claims services and risk management programs for clients seeking auto liability and physical damage coverage, as well as workers’ compensation, property, general liability, umbrella and other coverages.

Headquartered in Chicago, Hub International sells property and casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services through offices in North America.

Hub Northeast has 15 locations and more

than 650 employees in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

an IBM team of analysts that monitors more than 20 billion security incidents a day.

The retail and wholesale industries were the top targets for hackers in 2014, ousting manufacturing, which was for two years the most hacked industry.

Daily cyberattacks were down from 2013, from 4,200 to 3,043 per day, according to IBM. Black Friday and Cyber Monday breaches dropped by 50 percent, the studies said, and hackers were able to secure 61 million records in 2014, compared with 73 million in 2013.

— John Golden, Leif Skodnick and Mark Lungariello

IBM: CYBERATTACKS DOWN IN 2014 Cyberattacks against U.S. retailers declined 50 percent despite several high-profile incidents in 2014, according to studies released

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25 Scarborough Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510 923-4050 • theclubbcm.com

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537 Riverdale Ave., Yonkers 10705 709-1234 •fivestarpremier-yonkers.com

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1010 Kendal Way, Sleepy Hollow 10591 922-1000 • kohud.kendal.org

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1017 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley 10502 356-8428 • atriawoodlands.com

101 Theall Road, Rye 10580 925-8000 • theosborn.org

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Atria Rye Brook

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1200 King St., Rye Brook 10573 356-8633 • atriaryebrook.com

The Esplanade Senior Residence*

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90 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504 219-5875 • thebristal.com/armonk

The Bristal Assisted Living at Armonk

The Bristal Assisted Living at White Plains

305 North St., White Plains 10605 681-1800 • thebristal.com/white-plains/

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Bring the Best Care Home Atria on the Hudson

321 N. Highland Ave., Ossining 10562 762-1980 • atriaonthehudson.com

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100 Maple Ave., White Plains 10601 390-0080 • thekensingtonal.com

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BY CATHERINE PORTMAN-LAUX

A commute between Kenya and the Hudson Valley

H

ighland Falls neighbors see Joshua M. Mugodo for a while, and then his captivating smile disappears from the neighborhood when he returns to his primary home in Kenya.

It’s a long commute for the director of economic affairs for the Republic of Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, who also served as minister counselor for the Kenya Mission to the United Nations until November 2013. He made a recent trip to New York to attend the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly, returning to Kenya to pursue his assignment there.

Highland Falls neighbors will continue to see him when he returns to make his reports to the U.N. and visit his three children, all college students in the U.S. His wife, Dolorence, remains in the area, doing volunteer work in the health sector.

The economic affairs director is serving his country as Kenya begins its second half-century of independence from Great Britain. The nation has come a long distance since he was a boy, he says, adding that it has a long way to go. He says Kenya is making social, economic and political progress with a view to improving the living standards of all. The new constitution emphasizes the need for sustainable development and the introduction of county government, and is immensely contributing to socio-economic gains in all corners of the country, he says.

Raised as a middle child in a family of 11, Mugodo recalls trips to fetch water from the river and to search for fire wood. Although his native tongue is Luhya, “We started learning English from the first day in school,” he says. “School consisted of seven years of elementary school and seven years of high school. Examinations were in English.”

Mugodo earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Nairobi and a master’s degree in economic integration and development from the Free University of Brussels. Then it was into government service, starting with the Ministry of Roads and later serving in other areas that broadened his knowledge of issues facing the country. He says the country is 90 percent Christian, 6 percent Muslim, and the remainder of the population is committed to other religions, including Buddhism.

In the U.N. he has pleaded for sustainable development and global partnership to address economic, environmental and social concerns.

Kenya is one of the few nations that can trace continuous life back to the Stone Age, he says. This is done by examining the evolution of tools discovered in its rich earth.

“We have recently discovered oil and

coal, but we do not know yet how much,” the economic affairs director says.

“Landlocked neighbors depend on us for use of our port on the Indian Ocean,” he says. Fishing is an important part of the economy, he adds, pointing to the massive Lake Victoria. “Tilapia is a fish indigenous to the area and important to our economy,” he says.

Exports include coffee, tea, cloth and horticultural products, including exotic flowers, he says.

“Tourism is a major part of our economy,” Mugodo says. “We have land preserves for particular exotic animals, where they can be viewed and filmed in their natural habitat.”

“Why don’t you come and see for yourself?” he says, impulsively inviting a new American friend.

The Kenyan delegation, from left, Evans Maturu, Carolyn Musyimi, Joshua Mugodo and Harriet Nduma, at a session of the U.N. General Assembly’s Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals in New York City in July. Photo courtesy International Institute for Sustainable Development

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The Esplanade Senior Residence*

95 S. Broadway, White Plains 10601 761-8100 • esplanadesenior.com

The Bristal Assisted Living at Armonk

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90 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504 219-5875 • thebristal.com/armonk

The Bristal Assisted Living at White Plains

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321 N. Highland Ave., Ossining 10562 762-1980 • atriaonthehudson.com

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1025 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510 401-4310 • atriabriarcliffmanor.com

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2000 Baldwin Road, Yorktown Heights 10598 962-3625 • countryhouseretirement.com

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100 Maple Ave., White Plains 10601 390-0080 • thekensingtonal.com

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2276 Catherine St., Cortlandt Manor 10567 737-2255 • fieldhome.com

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The Fieldstone at Westchester Meadows*

55 Grasslands Road, Valhalla 10595 989-7800 • westchestermeadows.org

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espite a spike in property sales that included a $56.6 million purchase of two Platinum Mile office buildings in the fourth quarter, 2014 was another slow year in the Westchester County office market, marked by leasing activity that one brokerage called “anemic.”

Both CBRE Group Inc. and Newmark Grubb Knight Frank reported a 27 percent drop last year in countywide leasing activity from 2013. CBRE researchers said lease deals totaled nearly 1.3 million square feet of space, while Newmark reported nearly 1.5 million square feet of space leased for the year.

Comparing leasing volume in 2014 with the county market’s historical performance, Glenn Walsh, executive managing director at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, recently said new leases and renewals in a typical year total 2.5 million square feet in Westchester.

Both CBRE and Newmark said the county office market for the fourth consecutive year ended with negative net absorption – that is, more space was added to the market than what was newly occupied by tenants.

CBRE reported nearly 74,000 square feet of negative net absorption for the year. On the positive side, CBRE researchers noted that was an improvement from the approximately 365,000 square feet of office space added to the market in 2013.

CBRE said the county’s west submarket, which includes the Route 119 office corridor in Greenburgh and Tarrytown, saw its office availability rate – a measure of both vacant and occupied space marketed for leasing – drop to 16.6 percent in 2014, a 2 percent change from 2013. Leasing activity there was up 157 percent from the previous year, and the submarket ended 2014 with 45,200 square feet of positive net absorption, according to CBRE. Newmark noted the west submarket racked up one of the largest deals in the county when Prestige Brands renewed its lease at 660 White Plains Road in Tarrytown and expanded to approximately 42,600 square feet of space.

Newmark reported a significantly higher total of 126,352 square feet of negative net

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absorption in the county in 2014. Leasing volume in the fourth quarter, though, outpaced the amount of space added to the market during the same period, leaving the county with 101,507 square feet of positive net absorption over the final three months of 2014, the brokerage reported.

Newmark researchers said the 27 percent decline in leasing activity for the year was largely due to a 70 percent decline from 2013 in deals for office space of 25,001 square feet to 100,000 square feet. Small deals for less than 5,000 square feet of space dropped 8 percent from 2013.

Brokers and landlords saw deals for offices ranging from 10,001 square feet to 25,000 square feet increase nearly 27 percent in 2014 from the previous year, according to Newmark.

In a sluggish market dominated in recent years by lease renewals, new lease deals with incoming tenants dropped 32

percent in 2014, Newmark reported.

The county’s finance and insurance sector accounted for nearly 40 percent of total leasing last year, compared with 17 percent in 2013, according to Newmark.

MasterCard Inc. completed the largest deal of the year when it renewed its lease at 100 Manhattanville Road in Purchase and expanded to 121,000 square feet of space there. In another top deal in 2014, MBIA Inc. vacated its Armonk headquarters to lease 85,000 square feet of space at 1 and 2 Manhattanville Road in The Centre at Purchase office park.

Newmark researchers said leasing in the technology, health care and manufacturing sectors in 2014 fell significantly from the previous year’s activity. Medical leasing decreased from about 300,00o square feet of office space in 2013 to roughly 140,000 square feet last year, according to Newmark.

Newmark said capital markets activity

was “strong” in Westchester in 2014, with 2.1 million square feet of property sold for more than $250 million. “These figures far exceeded total sales volume in the six years before the start of the recession, indicating that favorable investment conditions still persist in fourth-quarter 2014.”

In one of the year’s largest capital markets deals, Onyx Equities LLC, a New Jerseybased company, in December paid $56.6 million for 1111 and 1129 Westchester Ave., a 335,000-square-foot, two-building office complex on the Platinum Mile in White Plains.

PepsiCo Inc. has its temporary headquarters at 1111 Westchester while a major renovations project continues at its Anderson Hill Road headquarters in Purchase. The building was vacated about three years ago when Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. relocated its headquarters and about 800 employees to Harbor Point in Stamford.

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BY BRIAN CARCATERRA

Broker predicts bounce-back year in office market

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here are many factors that will affect the Westchester County office market in 2015 — factors like the continued development and expansion of the biotech/health care sector, the adaptive repurpose measures taking place throughout the county that are re-categorizing the market’s “balance sheet,” and special interest groups aligning, as in the Westchester County Association’s Blueprint initiative for economic development, to create paths of least resistance for local and new businesses.

However, I believe that there are three little-discussed factors that will have the most pronounced effect during the course of 2015.

They are the Rivertowns’ continued evolution and enhanced live/work/play profile, linchpin transactions applying historic pressure to the White Plains Central Business District inventory and exiting owners making way for new ownership.

Rivertowns

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Potential of approximately 20,000 SF of available space for redevelopment for medical use. $25/SF

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Minutes to Taconic Parkway. 7,937 SF......$1,600,000 GETTY SQUARE - 28 North Broadway, Yonkers, NY. 2,200 square foot, fully-renovated building with rental income and newly-built deli. ............$749,000

EXCEPTIONAL INDUSTRIAL/OFFICE CONDOS FOR LEASE 72 Airport Drive, Wappingers, NY Flexible uses and possible split into two units. New in 2005 and updated with natural gas lines. Centrally located in Dutchess County. ......................$495,000.

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COLONIAL VILLAGE SCARSDALE

1483 Weaver Street, Scarsdale, NY 2nd floor above busy shops with great visibility, signage and ample parking. Great for medical, retail, restaurant and not-for-profits. 7,000 SF for lease starting at $2,500/month.

11 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY Class A office building with 30,000 square feet.

Anchored by Bank of America. 1,000 to 5,000 square feet available. Rents starting at $19/square foot.

FLEX SPACE

5 North Greenwich Road, Armonk, NY Zoned professional business office. In a prime location.

Available to lease with option to purchase. ..$1,325,000

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Long thought of as a declining segment of the residential, retail and commercial sectors of Westchester County, the area that I describe as the Rivertowns, extending from the Yonkers waterfront north on Route 9 to Peekskill, will continue to experience a boom in all asset categories. The visionary towns that are ahead of the curve like Tarrytown, Irvington, Dobbs Ferry and Hastings-onHudson, will lead the push in becoming the most sought-after residential destinations in the county for people being priced out of Manhattan and Brooklyn inventory.

Why? Because the upper demographic subset of the county is split between two segments: those in asset management — Wall Street, real estate and the service providers that support the business of overseeing assets — and those in science, arts and technology. The central and eastern side of the county has long been the home to those that represent what I call the “asset management team.” The western side historically has been favored by the science, arts and technology folks — those who generally seek culture, diversity and access above property values, country clubs and athletic programs.

The west side has been hampered by a lack of quality inventory, insufficient infrastructure and an aging population. The inventory and infrastructure issues are changing at a historic rate — the General Motors redevelopment in Sleepy Hollow is just one example of the many waterfront projects scheduled to be completed in the near term — and those developments will provide many acceptable destinations to

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people relocating from Manhattan and the outer boroughs.

But why are those folks going to gravitate toward the west side versus the east and central sections of Westchester? Because at this point in history, those that will be leaving are the same folks that were priced out of midtown and upper Manhattan 25 years ago and sought locations in areas like lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. They were priced out due to the run-up in values caused by the exponential growth on Wall Street and in real estate. They converted areas like the Lower East Side and Williamsburg and now find themselves “priced out” and “cultured out” again. These are the same people who design code for companies like Google or work in laboratories uncovering the next big pharmaceutical drug. They are architects, authors and designers of the next applications for our handhelds. They don’t trade fixed-income bonds or charge $800 an hour at a white-shoe law firm. They care more about the weekend farmers market than the weekend high school football game.

With what will be year-over-year population growth, requirements will need to be filled from a retail, hospitality, office and infrastructure perspective. Demand will peak, supply is already limited and deal velocity will gain tremendous momentum.

The new members of these communities will need additional places to eat, work, be entertained, shop, bank and drink coffee. With high barriers to entry in this market, values will increase across the asset spectrum.

White Plains CBD tipping point

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INBRIEF C&W ACQUIRES MASSEY KNAKAL Cushman & Wakefield Inc. closed recently on its acquisition of Massey Knakal Realty Services, a leading firm in sales of commercial investment properties in New York City and the metro region.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Today marks an important milestone for both of our firms,” said Ed Forst, president and CEO of Cushman & Wakefield, in the Jan. 8 announcement. “We are combining two exceptional organizations to provide our clients with the most innovative and creative solutions to drive meaningful results.”

Founded in 1988 by Paul J. Massey Jr. and Robert A. Knakal, Massey Knakal has more than 200 employees serving more than 200,000 property owners in New York City, Westchester County, Long Island and New Jersey, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

Known for its dominance of the area market for midsize office, retail and multifamily building sales, Massey Knakal has closed more than 6,000 deals with a market value in excess of $23 billion in its 26-year history.

Massey, who will serve as president of New York investment sales for Cushman & Wakefield, in the announcement said his company is “thrilled to be bringing our superior local expertise and market knowledge to one of the most respected global commercial real estate service brands.”

Cushman & Wakefield was advised in the acquisition deal by Goldman, Sachs & Co. Massey Knakal was advised by Perella Weinberg Partners LP.

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Thriving on challenge Local 825 members thrive on challenging work and employment stability that allows them to provide for their families. Contractors take pride in challenging projects, knowing they can deliver on time, on budget and above expectations.

Investing in success Local 825’s state-of-the-art training centers are open to members and contractors in two states. They help keep our members highly skilled, fully licensed, credentialed and ready to work when you are.

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Sherwin-Williams Inc., the 149-year-old paint and coatings company, has leased approximately 3,800 square feet of space for a new retail store at 1900 Central Ave. in Yonkers.

The December deal was announced by building owner Curco Properties of New Canaan, Conn. The landlord said the building will undergo a complete renovation as a home improvement center.

“This is an excellent opportunity for us to add a powerhouse leader in home improvement such as Sherwin- Williams’’ said Gary J. Curto, president of Curco Properties. He said the deal helps his company continue to develop its design district along Central Avenue, which includes other design retailers such as Curto’s Appliances, Allen Carpet Tile and Stone and Saw Mill Kitchens.

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back to the lender/receiver/servicer. It usually takes 12 months for these assets to cycle through the proper channels and sell to a new buyer.

The transition of ownership will be paramount and opportunities will be created in the market for new players to enter and prove themselves. It’s a healthy cycle of “out with the old and in with the new,” particularly for assets that are sold by sellers in the second and third categories above. Westchester’s aging office product stock needs revitalization in capital expenditures. With the lack of new construction, our product pales in comparison to other markets nationally and while rents do not justify new construction, an attractive purchase basis can allow for significant overhauls to the physical aesthetic.

Conclusion

Westchester will have a bounce-back year.

Leasing velocity will increase with several key transactions with high-profile groups starting the first half of the year on a good note. Steady and consistent investment in properties and infrastructure will continue to take place and while the year won’t be record-breaking, it will be foundation-building.

As an investor, we are looking at longterm projects that could have generational value. As a broker, we are looking to secure quality blocks of space that will be short-list contenders for credit requirements.

Overall, we are optimistic and excited for a very productive 2015.

Brian Carcaterra is senior vice president at the Westchester/Fairfield CBRE Inc. office in Stamford, Conn. He can be reached at 203-3528903 or by email at brian.carcaterra@cbre.com.

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in the Class A market. That leasing activity represents about 3.5 percent of the CBD’s approximately 4 million square feet of Class A space. The national average for a healthy market is about 12 percent. So why in the world do I think White Plains will be relevant for 2015? Here’s why: There are only four buildings in the CBD that can accommodate a 100,000-sqaurefoot tenant.

There are only an additional three buildings that can accommodate a 50,000-squarefoot tenant.

That sounds like a lot of space, but when you drill down, two of the four buildings that can accommodate 100,000 square feet are directly adjacent to the train station.

The other two are 15-minute walks or longer to the train station. So if you are looking to secure approximately 100,000 square feet within short walking distance to the train, you only have two options.

That space scarcity doesn’t really matter if there is no demand. But there are three bona fide tenants in the market in search of more than 80,000 square feet. Once the first deal falls, there will be an immediate chain reaction that will reverberate through the market and through all pending interest in the CBD. If the second deal falls, there will be a seismic shift in supply and absorption, as all three tenants do not currently lease space in the CBD. Seemingly overnight there could be a potential “space grab” for quality space in a quality building in a quality location.

If I were advising any of the three companies currently searching, I would advise them to step up and make their deal before they are the ones standing with nowhere to sit when the music stops. I am forecasting that by no later than midyear, the CBD will lease twice as much space as it did for all of 2014.

Additionally, there are several marquee health care systems searching in this market for office space of less than 50,000 square feet. Institutions like Columbia and the Hospital for Special Surgery will likely be announcing large transactions in and around the CBD. Finally, rumors abound that a certain potential presidential candidate residing in Westchester County is seeking short-term space to ramp up a campaign headquarters in White Plains. If this rumor becomes a reality, it will put the CBD at ground zero for a very high-profile presidential run.

Why is this ownership turnover happening? There are several reasons.

1. The good: Owners who have realized their value and desire an exit with substantial returns. The investment market is strong and owners who selected opportunities during the downturn at a distressed or discounted basis experienced a competitive leasing advantage over those owners who were burdened by high basis and constrained capital.

2. The bad: Sellers in the market that have hung on through the downturn and either recapitalized or restructured their loan. They can take advantage of the hot sales market and get out with their equity (and in some cases, their integrity) intact.

3. The ugly: The “Murphy’s Law” players. Bought at the wrong time, executed an improper strategy, spent money incorrectly and just flat out failed and gave the keys

Westchester’s Premier Medical Address The Purchase Professional Park (formerly Harrison Executive Medical Park) is Westchester’s preeminent medical office park offering state-of-the-art medical suites, unrivaled amenities and a convenient location in the heart of Westchester’s Medical Mile. The newest addition to the professional park, 3030 Westchester Avenue, will be the future home of WESTMED Medical Group and will be open for business in the first quarter of 2015.

For leasing information contact Glenn Walsh, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (914) 881-1096

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New ownership

My team and I compiled a “likely” list of office properties that could sell in 2015. We came to 25. There are only 195 Class A and Class B properties in the county that are not owned by their users.

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PRESENTED BY:

PLANNING AHEAD YOUR SOURCE FOR UPCOMING WESTCHESTER NOT-FOR-PROFIT EVENTS JAN. 28

FEB. 6

SPEED NETWORKING Benefiting: The Business Council of Westchester With Speed Networking, making connections is a snap!

Enjoy an energizing, fun and fast-paced take on meeting new contacts, clients and referrals. Expect to speed network with 10 or more individual connections. You will have an opportunity to meet additional attendees during lunch for open networking.

TIME: Noon to 1:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Crowne Plaza, White Plains TICKET PRICE: $35 members, $45 future members, sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Call 948-2110 or visit www.westchesterny.org

“TAKE HEART AGAINST HUNGER” VALENTINE’S DAY WINE-TASTING DINNER Benefiting: The Food Bank for Westchester Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a special evening of delectable food paired with fine wines. This elegant evening features the culinary talents of Abigail Kirsch Catering Relationships’ Master Chef John D’Arcangelo and his staff combined with fine wines and spirits donated by Pernod Ricard USA. Raffle and live auction.

TIME: 6 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Abigail Kirsch Tappan Hill Mansion, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $300 per person; journal and sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: Pat Reino at 923-1100 or patricia.reino@foodbankforwestchester.org

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“GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT” Benefiting: Westchester Heart & Vascular at Westchester Medical Center Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet few women know they’re at greater risk for this serious disease. Join hundreds of women for an evening of fun and education. This special event includes cocktails, dinner, shopping for a cause, a fashion show and a fabulous silent auction.

TIME: 6 to 10 p.m.

LOCATION: 699 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook TICKET PRICE: $125 per person, sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: Westchester Medical Center Foundation at 493-2575 or visit www.westchestermedicalcenter.com/GNO

KAITLYN’S WISH “MAKING WISHES COME TRUE” FUNDRAISER Benefiting: Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley A benefit in memory of Kaitlyn, who received a wish from Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley, shortly before she passed away. Join for an evening of fun, food, auction, dancing and friends to raise money for Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley.

EVENT CHAIRPERSONS: Jessica Anthony and Jason Anthony TIME: 7:30 to 11:30 p.m.

LOCATION: The Coliseum, White Plains TICKET PRICE: $125 per person; journal opportunities available CONTACT: Jessica Anthony at 952-7784 or email jessica@kaitlynswish.com or visit www.kaitlynswish.com

NATIONAL WEAR RED DAY Benefiting: The American Heart Association It’s time to shout louder, stand stronger and Go Red For Women. One day a year, what you wear is a matter of life and death! Whether it’s your home, your local landmark or with your coworkers or book club, show your support for women fighting heart disease by painting your town red.

It’s a simple, powerful way to raise awareness and help the American Heart Association support ongoing research and education about women and heart disease.

CONTACT: Call 640-3262 or visit www.goredforwomen.org

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20TH ANNUAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS DINNER Benefiting: Pace Law School Proceeds to benefit the many student and faculty programs at Pace Law School.

HONORING: Hon. Jonathan Lippman and Andrew V. Tung, Esq. ‘95 TIME: 6 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Westchester Country Club, Rye TICKET PRICE: $275 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Call 422-4072 or visit www.law.pace.edu/LeadershipDinner

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DANCE TO THE ‘50S AND ‘60S Benefiting: Gift of Life Inc, Rotary 7230 Revival of favorite musical era; special stations for Grey Goose and other favorites drinks, buffet stations and a great auction. The Gift of Life is a worldwide Rotary International Service program with the primary purpose of helping children in need secure another lease on life through the miracle of open-heart surgery at a Gift of Life participating hospital.

HONORING: Georgene Mongarella and Bea Castiglia Catullo EVENT CHAIRPERSONS: Bill Currie and The Board of Gift of Life TIME: 4 to 8 p.m.

LOCATION: Doubletree Hotel, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $125 per person before Feb. 14; $150 per person after Feb. 14; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Harriet K. Lerner at 682-7336 or email harrietlerner@govisiblepr.com

SEVENTH ANNUAL REELABILITIES NEW YORK DISABILITIES FILM FESTIVAL Benefiting: The Westchester Institute for Human Development (WIHD) WIHD will screen the documentary “Autistic Like Me: A Father’s Perspective,” which examines the lives of fathers and male caregivers raising and caring for children with an autism spectrum disorder.

EVENT CHAIRPERSON: Michaeline Curtis TIME: 2 to 4:30 p.m.

LOCATION: WIHD, Cedarwood Hall Auditorium, Valhalla TICKET PRICE: Free, with limited seating CONTACT: Call 493-8993

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EXHIBIT AT THE WESTCHESTER BUSINESS EXPO Benefiting: The Business Council of Westchester The Westchester Business Expo, the largest and most anticipated trade show in Hudson Valley, has been expanded to include a host of new activities designed to create an exciting interactive business experience. Don’t miss this unparalleled opportunity to exhibit alongside more than 180 vendors and showcase your business in front of 2,000 business professionals and decision makers. Plan to be seen by more than 1,800 business professionals.

TIME: 1 to 5 p.m.

LOCATION: Hilton Westchester, Rye Brook TICKET PRICE: $550 members; $395 NFP members; $600 green aisle; journal opportunities available CONTACT: Call 948-2110 or visit www.westchesterny.org

NINTH ANNUAL EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE DINNER Benefiting: Legal Services of the Hudson Valley This event is a unique opportunity for Legal Services of the Hudson Valley to further fund their efforts to save children from neglect, protect women from domestic violence, defend seniors against abuse, serve veterans on the homefront and keep families in their homes. It also focuses our attention on the essential need for equal access to justice in our community and our society. Since 1967, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley has advanced the cause of equal access to justice in our region.

HONORING: Catherine Marsh, The Westchester Community Foundation; Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP EVENT CHAIRPERSONS: Courtney Rocket, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; Fran Pantaleo, Bleakley Platt & Schmidt LLP TIME: 6 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Ritz-Carlton, Westchester, White Plains TICKET PRICE: $275 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111 or Jenna@hrginc.net

SUBMIT YOUR EVENT Westchester not-for-profit organizations are invited to promote their special events in “Planning Ahead.” To submit an event, visit www.HRGinc.net and click on “Planning Ahead” or for more information, please call 761-7111.

Events are compiled in cooperation with Association for Development Officers Inc. www.adoonline.org

JANUARY SPOTLIGHT

AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION

Diabetes has become one of the leading causes of concern for families, as every day it claims the life of one American citizen every three minutes. Today, this disease has become an epidemic, as more than 29 million people were diagnosed with diabetes in 2014. Here in Westchester County, the numbers are even more alarming, as more than 100,000 of our residents have been afflicted, with more than twice that number diagnosed with pre-diabetes. As the disease has tripled over the past 10 years in the U.S., it accounts for more than $245 billion in annual medical costs.

The number of people living with diabetes in the U.S. has jumped almost 50 percent since 2004.

Worldwide, diabetes afflicts more than 380 million people.

Diabetes takes more lives than AIDS and breast cancer combined — claiming the life of one American every three minutes.

Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart failure and stroke.

Approximately 79 million Americans aged 20 or older have prediabetes.

Living with diabetes places an enormous emotional, physical and financial burden on the entire family and on our communities. And considering the World Health Organization estimates that by 2030 the number of people living with diabetes will more than double, it is time we do something about it!

That’s why the American Diabetes Association (ADA) was formed.

Our Mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. The ADA is the nation’s leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy for all types of diabetes. Founded in 1940, the association serves the community through the funding of publishing scientific findings, providing vital information, advocacy, summer camp and many other services for people with diabetes, their families and health care professionals. The ADA leads the fight against the deadly

consequences of diabetes and fights for those affected by diabetes.

Our organization works to: Fund research to prevent, cure and manage diabetes; Deliver services to hundreds of communities; Provide objective and credible information about this deadly disease; and Give voice to those denied their rights because of diabetes.

The American Diabetes Association Westchester Chapter works closely with the National ADA to lead the fight to stop diabetes and its deadly consequences and fight for those affected by diabetes. For more information, please call us at 631-348-0422 or visit www.diabetes.org.

On June 11th the Westchester Father’s Day Council in conjunction with the American Diabetes Association will host the 10th Annual Father of the Year Awards at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor. Council chairman and past honoree Al Donnellan stated, “We are thrilled to continue our involvement with this great event and look forward to a great 10th anniversary celebration at Trump National.” For information on tribute ads or sponsorship, please contact Walter Recher at Walter@hrginc.net or 761-7111 or visit www.diabetes.org/foty.

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“Each year the Father’s Day Council honors fathers from across the nation for the outstanding strength, commitment and love they exhibit as fathers. These men have not only attained success in their chosen field, but carved out time to teach and mature their children while also becoming good citizens and proud members of the community. All proceeds from the event benefit the American Diabetes Association to fund advocacy and education and research. As a father and someone whose family and friends have been affected by diabetes, I am proud to support the ADA and serve as chairman of the Westchester Father’s Day Council.”

- Alfred E. Donnellan DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP Council Chairman and Past Honoree Westchester Father of the Year

The 2014 Westchester Father of the Year dinner at Trump National Golf Club honored four distinguished business leaders and raised a record level of funding in support of the American Diabetes Association.

Pictured here are, celebrity chef Peter X. Kelly of Xaviar’s Restaurant Group with his family; Father of the Year Council member Ken Theobalds, Entergy Vice President of Government Affairs; Event Master of Ceremonies Tony Aiello, reporter, CBS TV News; 2014 honorees Steven Bledsoe, Tandem Diabetes; David Ourlicht, GAMCO Securities; Bruce Peckman, Westchester Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing; and Peter X. Kelly, Xaviar’s Restaurant Group.

NONPROFIT WESTCHESTER How Will You Serve the Community in 2015?

With the New Year here, many Westchester County residents are likely to make New Year’s resolutions. Whether it’s making healthier decisions, advancing one’s career, or giving back to the community, they aim to reap positive effects.

We at Nonprofit Westchester encourage you to make your list of goals for 2015 and keep in mind that the county’s nonprofits – the largest economic force in Westchester – could always use your help. Volunteer your time to help those less fortunate, donate money to your favorite charity or simply “like” their page on Facebook and “follow” their tweets to find other ways you can be of service.

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Culinary Institute of America to add brewery

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onstruction is brewing at the Culinary Institute of America’s student recreation center in Hyde Park.

Built by Kirchhoff-Consigli Construction Management, the $25 million addition to the student recreation center will almost double its size, from 55,000 square feet to 100,000 square feet, and will include a microbrewery. The seven-barrel microbrewery will be run by Brooklyn Brewery.

It will be viewable through a glass-walled exterior and serve as a classroom for the CIA’s advanced wine, beverage and hospitality curriculum.

In addition to its role as a classroom, the brewery will sponsor continuing education programs and produce four signature beers for the institute. Designed to evoke an old warehouse, the teaching brewery is the most recent result of the CIA’s 25-year partnership with the Brooklyn-based brewery.

The school received legislative approval to manufacture and sell alcoholic beverages in August.

Waldy Malouf, senior director of food and beverage operations at the institute, said at the time of the legislation’s approval

by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that the jointly operated campus microbrewery “will teach

A rendering of the Culinary Institute of America’s student recreation center.

students about fermentation, using grains in brewing, food pairings, as well as the management of a ‘brewpub’ hospitality operation. As a bonus, Hudson Valley residents and visitors will be able to sample the work of the students in all of our restaurants on campus.”

The centerpiece of the student recreation center expansion, called “The Egg,” is an oval area that will host a range of dining

options, including a café, pastry shop, popup restaurant space and a marketplace for fresh provisions.

Architectural firm Noelker and Hull, in collaboration with interior architect Adam D. Tihany, famous for his design of luxury hotels and restaurants, designed the new student commons, which will include recreation facilities and a new dean’s wing.

— Leif Skodnick

Construction underway on the student recreation center, which will house a microbrewery run by Brooklyn Brewery. Images courtesy Culinary Institute of America

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INBRIEF ARIZONA REIT BUYS ANOTHER MEDICAL BUILDING

ing on the MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center campus in Poughkeepsie and the 90,000-square-foot Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel.

STILLMAN MOVES HQ TO HARRISON Stillman Property Management Inc., a thirdgeneration business in metropolitan real estate, will relocate its headquarters this spring from Mamaroneck to a Harrison office building.

The real estate property services company has leased approximately 8,000 square feet of space at 440 Mamaroneck Ave. as its expanded corporate headquarters, CBRE Group Inc. announced on Jan. 12. Budd Wiesenberg, vice president in CBRE’s Stamford office, represented the

tenant in the deal.

Led by brothers and principals Roy, Andrew and Jeffrey Stillman, the property management company will relocate from 141 Halstead Ave. in Mamaroneck.

Wiesenberg said the firm remained as a tenant in the building after selling it in 2012 in a sale-leaseback transaction.

The company’s new landlord at 440 Mamaroneck is RPW Group Inc., headed by developer Robert P. Weisz. Weisz in 2006 paid $33.25 million for the 223,000-squarefoot building on 20 acres that was vacated

by The Bank of New York and renovated it for multitenant use.

Glenn Walsh, executive managing director at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, represented the landlord in the Stillman deal.

Wiesenberg said the Harrison office

will accommodate the Stillman company’s current growth across its property services, co-op building management and condominium property management businesses.

“We’re excited about this move, which will allow our different operating groups to work together on a single floor,” said company President Roy Stillman in the announcement. “This new space will also allow for future growth.”

Stillman Vice President Jeffrey Stillman said the new headquarters “will incorporate new technology while enhancing our clients’ experiences as well” with multiple conference rooms and on-site parking.

— Leif Skodnick and John Golden

210 Westchester Ave. in West Harrison.

An Arizona-based real estate company has followed its $64 million entry into Westchester’s medical office market last summer with the $28.8 million purchase of another West Harrison property at the close of the year.

Healthcare Trust of America Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust in Scottsdale, Ariz., in December closed on its purchase of 210 Westchester Ave., a medical office building leased by Westmed Medical Group PC. A spokeswoman for Westmed said the multispecialty group practice will remain a tenant there. Westmed this winter will open another medical office in the town of Harrison as sole occupant at 3030 Westchester Ave., a newly built 85,000-square-foot building in the recently renamed Purchase Professional Park (See story, page 26).

The medical office building at 210 Westchester adjoins the Westchester Medical Campus, a five-building, 189,000-square-foot complex on 14 acres at 220-244 Westchester Ave. for which Healthcare Trust of America paid $64 million in the third quarter last year.

Mounting an aggressive East Coast acquisition campaign in 2014, the Arizona REIT last year acquired $440 million in medical office properties in eight states, including 21 medical office buildings and 1.2 million square feet of leasable space, according to the company.

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COHNREZNICK TO ACQUIRE NOI STRATEGIES An accounting and tax advisory firm with offices in Stamford and White Plains announced it intends to acquire a boutique real estate consultancy.

CohnReznick LLP announced it signed a letter of intent to acquire NOI Strategies LLC. The deal is expected to close Feb. 1.

The NOI team will join the advisory services arm of CohnReznick and will operate as NOI Strategies, a division of the firm.

Founded in 2003, NOI is a global services company that provides strategy, operations, technology and outsourcing services to commercial real estate owners, operators and investors. Tama Huang, NOI’s CEO, will become a principal with CohnReznick and continue to lead the NOI division.

“CohnReznick’s robust advisory services as well as its traditional accounting and tax services are an exciting complement to the platform for NOI,” Huang said in the press release. “As we continue to design customized solutions from both inside and outside the commercial real estate industry, we sought a partner that would help us expand our platform, augment our resources and contribute new ideas and best practices from their broad industry experience.”

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A TGI Fridays restaurant opened in downtown White Plains on Jan. 8. The restaurant, a franchise of the TGI Fridays chain that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is on the east side of City Center at 250 Main St. “White Plains is the perfect community for our newest location,” said Kris Swenson, the bar manager for TGI Fridays in White Plains, in a press release announcing the restaurant’s opening. “It’s a young, social and growing area, and Fridays’ energetic vibe, fun team members, great food and handcrafted cocktails are the perfect fit for our new Westchester County neighborhood.”

The new restaurant hired 150 people from the White Plains area, according to the press release. TGI Fridays officials said the restaurant reflects the chain’s new design concept, which aims to create a lively atmosphere with the bar as the focal point of the restaurant.

— Leif Skodnick

Green business program gets $540K state grant

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green initiative of the Westchester County government and the local business community is looking to expand based on a half-million dollar grant from New York state announced last month.

The Westchester Green Business Challenge will get $540,000 as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council initiative, it was announced in December. As part of round four of the initiative, $709.2 million in grants and tax credit incentives were awarded.

The Westchester Green Business Challenge includes 275 businesses, according to organizers. Officials said the grant will be used to expand the program over three years to include 125 more companies and certify 140 more members.

Marsha Gordon, president and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester, called the program “incredibly effective and forward-looking.” “The Westchester Green Business Challenge started out as a worthwhile concept a few years ago and has proven to be beneficial for local businesses and our environment,” she said. “We’re so pleased with its success.”

Westchester, under former County Executive Andy Spano, released in 2008 a Westchester Action Plan for Climate Change and Global Warming with the stated goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by this year and 80 percent by 2050. The county’s baseline for measuring reductions is 2005, when total emissions for Westchester amounted to nearly 13 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.

The Green Business Challenge program was created by Dani Glaser of Green Team Spirit, Scott Fernqvist of the county government and Neil Cutler of Synergis - Zero Waste Group. It launched in 2009 and asked businesses to voluntarily do what New York City commercial businesses of more than 50,000 square feet were being required to do in terms of energy efficiency upgrades and audits.

Early last year, a Westchester Green Business certification program was unveiled.

Through it companies can be certified as green businesses for three years. Certified businesses receive access to programs and networking events as well as access to an emissions inventory tool and assistance with green programs.

Organizers said the grant will be used to encourage businesses to reduce emissions, energy consumption, waste production, water use, transportation and land use. The funds will be put toward an interactive website, live educational and networking events,

live training webinars and direct personal assistance from staff, according to the state’s grants announcement.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino said the funds would help the program moving forward. “By engaging businesses directly and providing the training and expertise necessary to run an efficient and sustainable organization, the WGBC is generating transformational benefits to the region’s economic and environmental health,” he said in a statement.

The grants were administered through the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council, which also tagged $250,000 for a planning study into the development of a Sing Sing Historic Prison Museum and $500,000 for the restoration of 1.5 acres of the gardens at the Jay Heritage

Center in Rye. Ten regional councils were established in 2011 under Cuomo, to jumpstart the economy and create jobs. He said it changed the approach of how the state can assist municipalities in boosting the economy.

“Four years ago we decided to take a different approach on economic development — emphasizing cooperation and investing in local assets instead of continuing the state’s old and ineffective top-down mentality,” Cuomo said when announcing the grants Dec. 11. “That’s what the regional councils are all about, and today is proof that they are continuing to drive an economic renaissance in every region of the state. Each council presented bold ideas for how to create jobs and new opportunities in their communities, and I am proud to

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Bronx-based Simone Development Cos. and its development partner, Fareri Associates of Greenwich, Conn., are renovating the complex formerly known as the Harrison Executive Park. It will be rebranded as the Purchase Professional Park. The work includes refurbishing the exterior facades, renovating all of the lobbies as well as all common area hallways and restrooms, and landscaping improvements.

“The renovations and modernizations that we are making at the Purchase Professional Park are a significant investment by our company that will clearly position this complex as the choice location for medical practices and business professionals in Westchester County,” said Joseph Simone, president of Simone Development, in a statement.

The park has three buildings at 3000, 3010 and 3020 Westchester Ave. and a total of 135,000 square feet of Class A office and medical space. A fourth building, 3030 Westchester Ave., with 85,000 square feet of medical space, is scheduled to be com-

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pleted and occupied in the first quarter, bringing the total square footage of the park to 220,000 square feet. The new building has been fully leased to Westmed Medical Group, a multispecialty group practice.

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UBS, Alpine Woods Capital Investors, AXA Equitable Life Insurance, Travelers, Fidelity Title, Robert Half and Others Take Space in 1.6 Million-Square-Foot Property White Plains, NY – January xx, 2015 – Normandy Real Estate Partners, a leading real estate operator and fund manager, today announced 36 completed leasing deals for 2014 at The Exchange—a 1.6 million-square-foot, 14-building campus— located along I-287 East. Total volume leased during 2014 and beginning of 2015 was 200,281 square feet.

Additionally, The Exchange has started 2015 off strong, with year-to-date leasing velocity at six deals closed and 62,702 square feet. Deals closed thus far in 2015 include space for Alpine Woods Capital Investors, which signed a long term extension for 21,174 square feet at 2500 Westchester Avenue; and UBS’s private client group, which signed an early long term extension for 29,028 square feet at 709 Westchester Avenue.

CBRE Senior Vice President Brian Carcaterra, Vice President Michael McCall and Associate Morgan Collins represented Normandy in the leases.

“The Exchange has continued to attract interest among an impressive roster of tenants, due in large part to Normandy’s commitment to providing them with a best-in-class experience,” said Mr. Carcaterra. “With 14 buildings featuring high-end finishes and an impressive list of amenities, some recent improvements, and its proximity to I-287, I-684 and The Hutchinson River/Merritt Parkways, we expect leasing velocity to continue to be brisk there.”

Improvements at 711 Westchester Avenue have included upgrades to the fitness center and lobby, and Normandy plans to build a new fitness center and conference facility at 925 Westchester Avenue.

“These improvements are reflective of our desire to make working at The Exchange the best experience possible for our tenants,” said Matthew Lavell, Vice President of Normandy Real Estate Partners. “We expect The Exchange to remain a draw for tenants throughout the region.”

Normandy has invested over $30 million in the ongoing redevelopment of The Exchange, which has included exterior building refurbishments, improved parking

lots, security and concierge services as well as a new generator at 2500 Westchester Avenue. The capital improvements also include a new bistro and lobby improvements at 701 Westchester Avenue, in addition to fresh signage, café enhancements and newly renovated bathrooms and corridors throughout the buildings.

The Exchange encompasses 701777 Westchester Avenue, 925 and 1025 Westchester Avenue, 2500 and 2700 Westchester Avenue and 103, 105, 106, 108 and 110 Corporate Park Drive, all of which offer immediate access to I-287, I-684 and The Hutchinson River/Merritt Parkways.

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FACTS& FIGURES BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN Birch Books Inc. 328 W. 77 St., Apt. 5, New York 10024. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Gabriel Katzner. Filed: Jan. 12.

Case no. 15-10044-scc.

POUGHKEEPSIE Watson Services Inc. 47 Grand St., Newburgh 125510.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Mike Pinsky. Filed: Jan. 13.

Case no. 15-35048-cgm.

COURT CASES Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by LaTanya Barron. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorney: Mark P. Chalos. Filed: Jan. 8. Case no.

7:15-cv-00121-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Anita Eleby. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: Edward Frances Blizzard. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00091-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Ashleigh French. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael J. Johnson. Filed: Jan. 8.

Case no. 7:15-cv-00129-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Ruchell Fucile. Action: federal question: personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Jan. 8. Case no. 7:15-cv-00127-CS.

Items appearing in the Westchester County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to:

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Lashanda Henry. Action: diversityproduct liability. Attorney: John Farrest Taylor. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00082-CS.

ON THE RECORD

Glass Factor Inc. Filed by the trustees of the District Council 9 Painting Industry Insurance and Annuity Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A. Attorney: Dana Lynne Henke. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no.

7:15-cv-00069-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Breeya McArter. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Jan. 13. Case no. 7:15-cv-00043-CS.

National Railroad Passenger Corp. Filed by Adelyn M. Janulis. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorney: Ira Mark Maurer. Filed: Jan. 12. Case no.

7:15-cv-00197-KMK.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Curtiss Melder and Jennifer Melder.

Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorney: Corrie Johnson Yackulic. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no.

7:15-cv-00072-CS.

New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO. Filed by Main Street White Plains Hotel Association LLC. Action: federal question. Attorney: Paul Rosenburg. Filed: Jan. 13. Case no. 7:15-cv-00198-KMK.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Mandy Robinson. Action: petition for removal-product liability. Attorney: Payton Dwight Hoover.

Filed: Jan. 8. Case no. 7:15-cv00134-CS.

Paul J. Scariano Inc. Filed by the Annuity, Welfare and Apprenticeship Skill Improvement & Safety Funds of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15, 15A, 15C and 15D, AFL-CIO. Action: E.R.I.S.A. employee retirement. Attorney: James Michael Steinberg. Filed: Jan. 8. Case no. 7:15-cv-00119-VB.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Brandi Smith and Vincent Smith. Action: diversity-personal injury.

Attorneys: Randall S. Crompton and Eric D. Holland. Filed: Jan. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-00083.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Gloria A. Stroud. Action: diversityproduct liability. Attorney: James Douglas Barger. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00068-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Belinda Sunny and Brian Sunny. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorneys: Karen L. Karavatos, Shannon Lukei, Daniel S. Robinson and Mark P. Robinson. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00073-CS.

DEEDS Above $1 million 609 MK Realty Group LLC, East Meadow. Seller: 609 Gem Corp., Yonkers. Property: 609 Van Cortlandt Park Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 13.

Braceface Realty 2 LLC, Astoria. Seller: Post 180 LLC, White Plains. Property: 180 E. Post Road, White Plains. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 13.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Vincent Smith. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Randall S. Crompton and Eric D. Holland.

Filed: Jan. 14. Case no. 7:15-cv00083-CS.

HTA-Westmed LLC, Scottsdale, Ariz. Seller: Von Ford Associates, White Plains. Property: 210 Westchester Ave., Harrison.

Amount: $28.8 million. Filed Jan. 6.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jamie Leigh Waddell. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: James Douglas Barger. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00067-CS.

Hudson River Healthcare Local Development Corp., Peekskill. Seller: Hudson River Heathcare Inc., Peekskill.

Property: 55 Bank St., Peekskill.

Amount: $2.4 million. Filed Jan. 13.

Jack-Saw LLC, Scarsdale.

Seller: 499 Yonkers Realty LLC, Yonkers. Property: 499 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed Jan. 6.

197 Broadway LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Wilhelm L. Runge II, Yonkers. Property: 195 S. Broadway, Yonkers. Amount: $425,000.

Filed Jan. 12.

Mamaroneck Towers LP, Elmsford. Seller: Mamaroneck Senior Citizens’ Apartment Housing Development Fund Corp., Yonkers. Property: 233 Halstead Ave., Mamaroneck.

Amount: $8.2 million. Filed Jan. 8.

757B Heritage Hills, Somers.

Seller: Joann Rooney, New Rochelle. Property: 757B Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $575, 000. Filed Jan. 8.

Philips Harbor Development LLC, Harrison. Seller: Builders New York Holdings I LLC, Chicago, Ill. Property: 540 W. Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck.

Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 6.

Rising Development – 45 Main LLC, Bronx. Seller: Julio Soto, Yonkers. Property: 45 Main St., Yonkers. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 8.

Washington House LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Washington House Housing Development Fund Corp., Elmsford. Property: 60 Union Ave., New Rochelle.

Amount: $22.5 million. Filed Jan. 8.

92 Ash St LLC, Great Neck.

Seller: Ness Realty Inc., Yonkers.

Property: 94 Ash St., Yonkers.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 12.

Acqua Capital LLC, White Plains. Seller: City of Yonkers.

Property: 150 School Street Rear, Yonkers. Amount: $64,000.

Filed Jan. 12.

Acqua Capital LLC, White Plains. Seller: City of Yonkers.

Property: 150 School St., Yonkers. Amount: $309,500. Filed Jan. 13.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Robert H. Seeger, et al, Mohegan Lake.

Property: 39 Brandeis Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $282,500.

Filed Jan. 13.

Westpark Associates NY LLC, Woodbridge, N.J. Seller: Westpark LLC, Melville. Property: 111-1113 Westchester Ave., White Plains. Amount: $56.6 million.

Filed Jan. 13.

Central Mortgage Co. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: 236 Second Street West, Mount Vernon.

Amount: $580,133. Filed Jan. 12.

Below $1 million

Christiana Trust, West Palm Beach, Fla. Seller: Guy T. Parisi, Rye. Property: 283 Croton Dam Road, New Castle. Amount: $663,312. Filed Jan. 12.

138 Orchard Street LLC, Great Neck. Seller: Ness Realty Inc., Yonkers. Property: 138 Orchard St., Yonkers. Amount: $800,000.

Filed Jan. 9.

150 Lake Owners LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: HP 150 Lake LLC, White Plains. Property: 150 Lake Ave., Eastchester.

Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 9.

174 Oak Realty Partners LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: 174 Oak St., Yonkers. Amount: $235,000. Filed Jan. 9.

182 Post Road LLC, White Plains. Seller: 4 Lions Inc., New York City. Property: 182 E. Post Road, White Plains. Amount: $760,000. Filed Jan. 6.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Joseph A. Marra, Yonkers. Property: 118 Bruce Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $385,000. Filed Jan. 6.

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Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Michele Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 19 F Hillside Terrace, 115, White Plains. Amount: $483,904. Filed Jan. 12.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Jacksonville, Fla. Seller: Albert Cornachio, Rye Brook. Property: 1727 Maple Ave., Peekskill. Amount: $198,062. Filed Jan. 13.

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NEWSMAKERS [PLUS AWARDS AND EVENTS] ORMC HONORS PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL STUDENTS

MITCHELL RECEIVES NEW DESIGNATION Barry P. Mitchell Jr., senior vice president of investments at UBS Financial Services Inc. in New York City, has achieved the designation of senior portfolio manager.

Mitchell is a longtime Rye resident who attended Iona Prep before graduating from Boston College in 1985. He currently holds designations as a chartered retirement planning counselor as well as a chartered retirement plans specialist. With more than 25 years in this industry Mitchell is a “financial advocate for his clients providing the confidence to navigate any type of environment in order to

From left, Medical center COO Jonathan Schiller, John Dermigny, Christianna Anderson, Administrative Director of Medical Education Jenny Vosganian-Clancy and Ronald H. Israelski.

Middletown-based Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC) recently celebrated its first Ronald H. Israelski, MD Excellence in Education Awards Ceremony. The award recognizes a distinguished group of physicians, resident physicians and medical students who have demonstrated educational innovation and excellence. Director of Medical Education John Dermigny

and medical student Christianna Anderson were this year’s honorees.

As director of academic affairs, Israelski has been invaluable in the creation of excellence in medical education for the Hudson Valley. He was instrumental in developing a partnership with Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, leading to the purchase of the former Horton Hospi-

ARC OF ROCKLAND RECEIVES ACCREDITATION FOR EXCELLENCE ARC of Rockland recently received accreditation from the Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL).

“CQL is the gold standard in the field,” said ARC Executive Director Carmine Marchionda. “The process of attaining certification began nearly two years ago and entailed a rigorous examination of each of the supports and services we provide.

With person-centered planning at the heart of our efforts, we have redesigned some of our offerings to stress the greatest possible emphasis on the individual. The focus on community inclusion and enhanced communication among and between

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staffers, families and the people we support are essential to the success of this organization.”

A CQL three-person evaluation team spent five working days reviewing documents prepared by ARC of Rockland and meeting with people involved in every facet of the agency.

Jane Zemon, ARC associate executive director for quality assurance, led the CQL process.

The Council on Quality and Leadership was founded in 1969. In addition to the United States, CQL accredits or provides training at agencies and organizations in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia.

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tal, which was refurbished to create the Middletown campus. Touro College opened the new medical college in July. With medical students now learning at Orange Regional, it was a natural progression to create residency programs. In July of 2014, Orange Regional began its first residency program in family medicine led by Dermigny.

help better achieve their overall life goals,” according to a statement by the company.

CNR NAMED TO HONOR ROLL The College of New Rochelle (CNR) has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. More than 3,300 CNR students completed 171,760 hours of service in the 2012-13 academic year, for which the recognition is received. The achievement is the highest federal recognition a college can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service learning and civic engagement.

Launched in 2006, the Honor Roll annually highlights the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and placing more students on a lifelong path of civic engagement by recognizing institutions of higher education that support exemplary community service programs and raise the visibility of effective practices in campus community partnerships.

TWO BROKERS JOIN SOTHEBY’S Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty has appointed two brokers to its Scarsdale brokerage.

Jennifer Baldinger, a topproducing Westchester County real estate agent for more than 10 years and Tracy Isaacs, a licensed associate real estate broker with more than 12 years experience Baldinger specializes in selling residential homes in Scarsdale and its surrounding Westchester communities. She has consistently been a top-producing agent, with more than $150 million in home sales to date. She is especially knowledgeable in

Jennifer Baldinger

Tracy Isaacs

representing first-time homebuyers, new constructions and specialized luxury homes.

With a specialization in the sale of high-end properties, Isaacs has represented buyers and sellers for some of Westchester’s fi nest single-

family homes and condominiums.

According to Isaacs, one of her proudest accomplishments was in 2011, when she represented the buyer of American philanthropist and writer Brooke Astor’s country estate known as “Holly Hill.”

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Attorney Helise Harrington, a Westchester resident, has become the newest attorney mediator at Divorce Mediation Professionals, in charge of the firm’s New York City office. Divorce Mediation Professionals is one of the oldest firms in the metropolitan New York area devoted solely to helping

couples end their marriage cooperatively and in a nonadversarial fashion.

She has spent more than 20 years mediating business agreements for companies ranging in size from multinational corporations to family businesses. For six years, she was a diversity partner for an Am-

Law 100 law firm, where she mediated conflicts in the workplace and coached attorneys and staff.

Harrington is also a conflict resolution coach. She received a JD from the New York University of Law, and a MA in African History from Columbia University.

COHEN TO LEAD RETIREE ASSOCIATION One of the nation’s largest nonprofit retiree advocacy groups, the Association of BellTel Retirees has elected Jack Cohen of Yorktown Heights president and chairman of its board, following the retirement of C. William Jones, the past president and founder.

Founded in 1996, the Association of BellTel Retirees is a 130,000-member nonprofit advocacy group working for the protection of Verizon retirees’ pensions and benefits. Based in Cold Spring Harbor, the organization has members in all 50 states.

“Many people are surprised by the accomplishments of our group of retirees. Our focus for the future is to continue on the success that the group has already achieved and enact more changes for the betterment of Verizon retirees for decades to come,” Cohen said. “If we do not protect our economic interests and those of our fellow retirees, we have no one to blame but ourselves. I am honored to be selected to serve as chairman of this very impactful retiree organization.”

Cohen has been a part of the as-

sociation since 2002 and on its board since 2008. He began his career at New York Telephone and retired from NYNEX.

PENTEGRA NAMES REGIONAL DIRECTOR Pentegra Retirement Services in White Plains has promoted Jake Linney to regional director, qualified plan sales. Reporting to Pete Swisher, Pentegra senior vice president of national sales, Linney will lead the company’s business development efforts in Pennsylvania.

According to Swisher, “Jake is a tal-

ented and accomplished professional.

He will be an exceptional resource for the organization in expanding Pentegra’s regional footprint and in working with our advisors/partners to market Pentegra’s unique fiduciary services platform and retirement-plan solutions.”

Linney brings technical expertise to Pentegra’s efforts. Previously,

he was part of the Pentegra Solutions Center where he designed more than 100 cash balance programs. He also spent time leading the compliance department at Pentegra’s Charlotte, N.C., office where he oversaw the compliance of more than 1,000 defined contribution plans and performed more than 650 technical reviews per year.

THE MANHATTANVILLE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS will celebrate the launch of its Women’s Leadership Institute from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in Reid Castle, 2900 Purchase St., Purchase. The launch will feature guest speakers, networking opportunities, and miniroundtable discussions led by female business leaders. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public with advance registration. For more information, contact 914-323-5150 or email business@mville.edu.

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HARRINGTON JOINS DIVORCE MEDIATION FIRM

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CENTRAL WESTCHESTER invites women living or working in Eastchester, Greenburgh, Scarsdale and White Plains to its semiannual “Recruiting Coffees” at Wayside Cottage, 1039 Post Road, Scarsdale, at 8 p.m. and Jan. 23 at 9:30 a.m. Women interested in learning more about the JLCW should email joinjlcw@gmail.com or call 914-723-6130. For more information, visit jlcentralwestchester.org.

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properties, including residential, retail, office, medical and warehouse and industrial spaces. He has raised equity and debt financing up to $75 million.

Westhab President and CEO Richard Nightingale said, “Jesse has been a tremendous leader for Westhab in his role as vice chair and we are delighted that he is deepening his investment in the organization.

He is perfectly suited to lead us into our next chapter.”

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Armonk resident Jesse Krasnow has been appointed to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Westhab Inc., a not-for-profit provider of affordable housing and social services for homeless and low-income families in metropolitan New York. Krasnow had previously served as the organization’s vice chairman. He is currently president of Sirius LLC. In that role, he oversees the acquisition and management of various types of

ARTS MID-HUDSON TO EXHIBIT THE PAINTINGS OF SUMIE ARTIST CHIKAKO MORI IN “MIN-WA / JAPANESE FOLK TALE.” The exhibit is on display at Arts Mid-Hudson’s gallery 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, through Jan. 30. Visiting hours are Mondays through Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information, visit artsmidhudson.org or call 845-454-3222.

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FACTS & FIGURES Green Innovation Homes LLC, Englewood, N.J. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 70 Chelsea Place, Yonkers. Amount: $224,180. Filed Jan. 12.

Hudson Greenwich LLC, New York City. Seller: Rase Realty LLC, Eastchester. Property: 545 S. Fulton Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 8.

MOUNT VERNON, 411 S. Fifth Ave. Single-family residence; .06 acre. Plaintiff: Hudson City Savings Bank. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Kozeny McCubbin & Katz, 516-227-2552; 40 Marcus Drive, Melville. Defendant: Dyanan Jaikaran. Referee: Joseph Marra.

Sale: Jan. 26, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $345,862.46.

MacQuesten Corp., Mount Vernon. Seller: Dolores R. DiRienzo, Tuckahoe. Property: 48 Circuit Ave., Eastchester.

Amount: $700,000. Filed Jan. 7.

Pleasant Properties LLC, Bronx. Seller: Sidney Polivnick, et al, Briarcliff. Property: 8 Matthes Road, Ossining. Amount: $320,000. Filed Jan. 8.

RCV1 Holdings LLC, Bedford Corners. Seller: Phyllis L. Schloendorn, White Plains.

Property: 1 Renaissance Square, 27F, White Plains. Amount: $820,000. Filed Jan. 8.

Ryabb Properties LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 120 Jennifer Court, Yorktown. Amount: $231,500. Filed Jan. 12.

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Seller: John A. Sarcone III, White Plains. Property: 6 West St., Rye. Amount: $226,012. Filed Jan. 6.

Third Union LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Gustavo Hermoza, Bronxville. Property: 245 Union Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 13.

FORECLOSURES ARMONK, 5 Spruce Hill Road. Single-family residence; 1.68 acre. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Vicki Schott.

Referee: Stephanie Whidden.

Sale: Jan. 29, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,573,423.82.

HARTSDALE, 201 Poe St. Single-family residence; .18 acre.

Plaintiff: Prospect Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-8971600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Marisa Donato. Referee: Robert Ryan. Sale: Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $457,670.32.

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MOUNT VERNON, 142 Overlook St. Two-family; .11 acre.

Plaintiff: Greentree Servicing LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-8971600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Carmela Cianciulli. Referee: Francis Malara. Sale: Jan. 21, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $202,930.84.

NEW ROCHELLE, 146 Storer Ave. Single-family residence; .1 acre. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Timothy Prinz. Referee: Timothy Kebbe. Sale: Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $398,654.30.

SCARSDALE, 411 Vivian Drive. Description: N/A; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: M&T Bank.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Schiller & Knapp, 516-786-9069; 950 New Loudon Road, Suite 310, Latham.

Defendant: Arthur Weinreb.

Referee: Michele Bermel. Sale: Jan. 22, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $351,582.27.

SCARSDALE, 1205 Post Road. Single-family residence; .38 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore. Defendant: Wai Choi Law. Referee: Carl Finger.

Sale: Jan. 28, 1 p.m. Approximate lien: $918,734.20.

JUDGMENTS Brauer Properties Inc., Thornwood. $87,284 in favor of Tivoli Enterprises Inc., Katonah.

Filed Jan. 9.

Designer Symphony LLC, Chappaqua. $11,414 in favor of ITMAS Inc., Staten Island. Filed Jan. 8.

J and J 159 Bronx River Road Realty Inc., Yonkers. $97,920 in favor of Pamela Management Corp., Eastchester. Filed Jan. 8.

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Oxygen Electronics LLC, White Plains. $28,895 in favor of Barco N.V., Duluth, Ga. Filed Jan. 5.

RD Flooring Inc., Croton-onHudson. $11,186 in favor of Croton Enterprises LLC, Tarrytown.

Filed Jan. 6.

LIS PENDENS The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed.

34 Morningside Avenue Realty Corp., et al. Filed by BNB Hana Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $630,000 affecting property located at 34 Morningside Ave., Yonkers 10703. Filed April 23.

Banje, Milenka, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 215 Harriman Road, Irvington 10533. Filed April 24.

Bellom, Laurence, et al.

Filed by Wilmington Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,000 affecting property located at 85 Eastview Drive, Valhalla 10595.

Filed April 23.

Berger, Lauren, et al. Filed

by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $525,000 affecting property located at 97 Waterside Close, Eastchester. Filed April 24.

Brown, Robert, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $342,000 affecting property located at 517 Harrison Ave., Peekskill 10566. Filed April 23.

Carnevalla, Thomas H., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $187,860 affecting property located at 14 Saxon Woods Park Drive, White Plains 10605. Filed April 25.

Crevey, Patricia J., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $51,160 affecting property located at 93 Washington Ave., Hastings-onHudson 10706. Filed April 25.

Decesare, Angela T., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $510,541 affecting property located at 1 Stony Gate Oval, New Rochelle 10804. Filed April 23.

Perez, Troy, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $413,000 affecting property located at 3415 Lorelei Drive, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed April 23.

Dillon, Joseph L., et al.

Filed by Congressional FCU. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $900,000 affecting property located at 921 Palmer Road, Bronxville 10708.

Filed April 25.

Robinson, Maggie, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $308,000 affecting property located at 160 Gibson Ave., White Plains 10607.

Filed April 24.

Dunbar, Leera, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $378,800 affecting property located at 209 W. Third St., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed April 23.

Sinatra, Michael, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $251,000 affecting property located at 12 Nottingham Circle, Peekskill 10566. Filed April 25.

Fisher, Frank, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,000 affecting property located at 629 South St., Peekskill 10566. Filed April 23.

Singh, Bhagat, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $166,500 affecting property located at 408 S. Sixth Ave., Mount Vernon.

Filed April 25.

Fontalvo, Ruben A., et al.

Filed by Flagstar Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 777 N. MacQuesten Parkway, Apt. 105, Mount Vernon 10552. Filed April 23.

Garcia, America, et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 29 Clark Place, Port Chester 10573.

Filed April 25.

Gonsalves, Mark A., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $118,800 affecting property located at 3311 Villa at the Woods, No. C211, Peekskill 10566. Filed April 25.

Ledgister, Susan, et al. Filed

by BLB Trading LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 4 Consulate Drive, Unit 4-3M, Eastchester 10707.

Filed April 23.

Morales, Maria E., et al. Filed

by Argent Mortgage Company LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $643,550 affecting property located at 149 E. Lakeview Ave., Harrison 10604. Filed April 23.

Tarricone, Anthony, et al.

Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $423,500 affecting property located at 9 Holly Place, Hastingson-Hudson 10706. Filed April 23.

Taylor, Wilson, as co-executor and Hal B. Greenwald of the estate of Earley R. Hairston, et al.

Filed by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 66 Prospect Ave., White Plains 10607. Filed April 23.

Tirado, Aida, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $648,000 affecting property located at 33 Union Lane, Mount Vernon 10553. Filed April 24.

Vaccaro, Anthony F., et al.

Filed by Carter Ledyard and Milburn LLP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 29 Marbourne Drive, Mamaroneck 10543. Filed April 23.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Generation Building Corporation III LLC, as owner. $18,716 as claimed by NY Stone and Landscape Supply LLC, Mount Kisco. Property: in Yorktown. Filed Jan. 5.

Hartsdale Development LLC, as owner. $24,000 as claimed by Rapid Tied Rebar LLC. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Jan. 8.

Hijazin, Lorels, et al, as owner. $5,485 as claimed by HJ Installations LLC, Monroe. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Jan. 7.

White Plains Plaza Realty LLC, as owner. $66,526 as claimed by Costa Electrical Contractors Corp., Ossining.

Property: in White Plains. Filed Jan. 8.

NEW BUSINESSES This paper is not responsible for typographical errors contained in the original filings.

Partnerships MC Creations, 118 Hillside Ave., Yonkers 10703, c/o Michele Fernandez and Christine Fernandez. Filed Aug. 2.

Sole Proprietorships Brennan Social Innovations, 5 Francis St., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Terry Brennan. Filed Aug. 2.

C.C. Wood and Craftwork, 153 A Webber Ave., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Carlos Chimborazo. Filed Aug. 2.

Cassandra Choice, 215 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers 10701, c/o Cassandra Simpson. Filed Aug. 2.

Croton Indoor Comfort, P.O. Box 282, Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Michael A. Vara. Filed Aug. 1.

Docket Mania, 505 Franklin St., Rye Brook 10573, c/o Robert Vilato. Filed Aug. 2.

FACTS & FIGURES Envy U Shop, 636 S. Sixth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Carine Meagan Harley. Filed Aug. 2.

Fitzy’s Famous Franks, 198 Tate Ave., Buchanan 10511, c/o Thomas D. Fitzgerald Jr. Filed Aug. 1.

Francesco Cilento Landscaping and Irrigation, 933 Lester Ave., Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Francesco Cilento. Filed Aug. 1.

Home Logix, P.O. Box 292, Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Michael A. Vara. Filed Aug. 1.

J.A. Naranjo Landscaping, Snowplowing, and Masonry, P.O. Box 35, Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Manuel I. Naranjo Sarmiento. Filed Aug. 1.

Leroy Edmund Carpentry and Repair, 453 S. Eighth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Leroy Edmund. Filed Aug. 1.

TKNY Transportation, 451 Old Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers 10703, c/o Christine Eileen Keppel. Filed Aug. 1.

Michael A. Ward Private Investigator Services, 212 Washington St., Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Michael A. Ward.

Filed Aug. 2.

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Orchid Café, 570 Fifth Ave., Apt. 1, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Joanni Hernandez. Filed Aug. 2.

Ripped Laces, 235 Roundhill Drive, Yonkers 10710, c/o Jeremy Andrew Lugo. Filed Aug. 2.

Sayegh Family Chiropractic, 970 N. Broadway, Suite 309, Yonkers 10701, c/o Or Peter Sayegh.

Filed Aug. 1.

BANKRUPTICES MANHATTAN Birch Books Inc. 328 W. 77 St., Apt. 5, New York 10024. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Gabriel Katzner. Filed: Jan. 12.

Case no. 15-10044-scc.

POUGHKEEPSIE

K. Lavernes Jewels and Accessories, 558 C. Kimball Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Karen Harris.

Filed Aug. 2.

Watson Services Inc. 47 Grand St., Newburgh 125510.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Mike Pinsky. Filed: Jan. 13.

Case no. 15-35048-cgm.

COURT CASES Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by LaTanya Barron. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorney: Mark P. Chalos. Filed: Jan. 8. Case no.

7:15-cv-00121-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Anita Eleby. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: Edward Frances Blizzard. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00091-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Ashleigh French. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael J. Johnson. Filed: Jan. 8.

Case no. 7:15-cv-00129-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Ruchell Fucile. Action: federal question: personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Jan. 8. Case no. 7:15-cv-00127-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Mandy Robinson. Action: petition for removal-product liability. Attorney: Payton Dwight Hoover.

Filed: Jan. 8. Case no. 7:15-cv00134-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Lashanda Henry. Action: diversityproduct liability. Attorney: John Farrest Taylor. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00082-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Brandi Smith and Vincent Smith. Action: diversity-personal injury.

Attorneys: Randall S. Crompton and Eric D. Holland. Filed: Jan. 7.

Case no. 7:14-cv-00083.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Breeya McArter. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: Jan. 13. Case no. 7:15-cv-00043-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Curtiss Melder and Jennifer Melder.

Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorney: Corrie Johnson Yackulic. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no.

7:15-cv-00072-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Gloria A. Stroud. Action: diversityproduct liability. Attorney: James Douglas Barger. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00068-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Belinda Sunny and Brian Sunny. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorneys: Karen L. Karavatos, Shannon Lukei, Daniel S. Robinson and Mark P. Robinson. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00073-CS.

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FACTS & FIGURES HTA-Westmed LLC, Scottsdale, Ariz. Seller: Von Ford Associates, White Plains. Property: 210 Westchester Ave., Harrison.

Amount: $28.8 million. Filed Jan. 6.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Vincent Smith. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Randall S. Crompton and Eric D. Holland.

Filed: Jan. 14. Case no. 7:15-cv00083-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jamie Leigh Waddell. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: James Douglas Barger. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no. 7:15-cv-00067-CS. Glass Factor Inc. Filed by the trustees of the District Council 9 Painting Industry Insurance and Annuity Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A. Attorney: Dana Lynne Henke. Filed: Jan. 7. Case no.

7:15-cv-00069-CS.

Hudson River Healthcare Local Development Corp., Peekskill. Seller: Hudson River Heathcare Inc., Peekskill.

Property: 55 Bank St., Peekskill.

Amount: $2.4 million. Filed Jan. 13.

Jack-Saw LLC, Scarsdale.

Seller: 499 Yonkers Realty LLC, Yonkers. Property: 499 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed Jan. 6.

National Railroad Passenger Corp. Filed by Adelyn M. Janulis. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorney: Ira Mark Maurer. Filed: Jan. 12. Case no.

7:15-cv-00197-KMK.

Mamaroneck Towers LP, Elmsford. Seller: Mamaroneck Senior Citizens’ Apartment Housing Development Fund Corp., Yonkers. Property: 233 Halstead Ave., Mamaroneck.

Amount: $8.2 million. Filed Jan. 8.

New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO. Filed by Main Street White Plains Hotel Association LLC. Action: federal question. Attorney: Paul Rosenburg. Filed: Jan. 13. Case no. 7:15-cv-00198-KMK.

Philips Harbor Development LLC, Harrison. Seller: Builders New York Holdings I LLC, Chicago, Ill. Property: 540 W. Boston Post Road, Mamaroneck.

Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 6.

Paul J. Scariano Inc. Filed by the Annuity, Welfare and Apprenticeship Skill Improvement & Safety Funds of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15, 15A, 15C and 15D, AFL-CIO. Action: E.R.I.S.A. employee retirement. Attorney: James Michael Steinberg. Filed: Jan. 8. Case no. 7:15-cv-00119-VB.

Rising Development – 45 Main LLC, Bronx. Seller: Julio Soto, Yonkers. Property: 45 Main St., Yonkers. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 8.

DEEDS Above $1 million 609 MK Realty Group LLC, East Meadow. Seller: 609 Gem Corp., Yonkers. Property: 609 Van Cortlandt Park Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 13.

Braceface Realty 2 LLC, Astoria. Seller: Post 180 LLC, White Plains. Property: 180 E. Post Road, White Plains. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 13.

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Washington House LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Washington House Housing Development Fund Corp., Elmsford. Property: 60 Union Ave., New Rochelle.

Amount: $22.5 million. Filed Jan. 8.

Westpark Associates NY LLC, Woodbridge, N.J. Seller: Westpark LLC, Melville. Property: 111-1113 Westchester Ave., White Plains. Amount: $56.6 million.

Filed Jan. 13.

Below $1 million 138 Orchard Street LLC, Great Neck. Seller: Ness Realty Inc., Yonkers. Property: 138 Orchard St., Yonkers. Amount: $800,000.

Filed Jan. 9.

150 Lake Owners LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: HP 150 Lake LLC, White Plains. Property: 150 Lake Ave., Eastchester.

Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 9.

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174 Oak Realty Partners LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: 174 Oak St., Yonkers. Amount: $235,000. Filed Jan. 9.

182 Post Road LLC, White Plains. Seller: 4 Lions Inc., New York City. Property: 182 E. Post Road, White Plains. Amount: $760,000. Filed Jan. 6.

197 Broadway LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Wilhelm L. Runge II, Yonkers. Property: 195 S. Broadway, Yonkers. Amount: $425,000.

Filed Jan. 12.

757B Heritage Hills, Somers.

Seller: Joann Rooney, New Rochelle. Property: 757B Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $575, 000. Filed Jan. 8.

92 Ash St LLC, Great Neck.

Seller: Ness Realty Inc., Yonkers.

Property: 94 Ash St., Yonkers.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 12.

Acqua Capital LLC, White Plains. Seller: City of Yonkers.

Property: 150 School Street Rear, Yonkers. Amount: $64,000.

Filed Jan. 12.

Acqua Capital LLC, White Plains. Seller: City of Yonkers.

Property: 150 School St., Yonkers. Amount: $309,500. Filed Jan. 13.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Robert H. Seeger, et al, Mohegan Lake.

Property: 39 Brandeis Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $282,500.

Filed Jan. 13.

Central Mortgage Co. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: 236 Second Street West, Mount Vernon.

Amount: $580,133. Filed Jan. 12.

Christiana Trust, West Palm Beach, Fla. Seller: Guy T. Parisi, Rye. Property: 283 Croton Dam Road, New Castle. Amount: $663,312. Filed Jan. 12.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Joseph A. Marra, Yonkers. Property: 118 Bruce Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $385,000. Filed Jan. 6.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Michele Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 19 F Hillside Terrace, 115, White Plains. Amount: $483,904. Filed Jan. 12.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Jacksonville, Fla. Seller: Albert Cornachio, Rye Brook. Property: 1727 Maple Ave., Peekskill. Amount: $198,062. Filed Jan. 13.

Green Innovation Homes LLC, Englewood, N.J. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 70 Chelsea Place, Yonkers. Amount: $224,180. Filed Jan. 12.

Hudson Greenwich LLC, New York City. Seller: Rase Realty LLC, Eastchester. Property: 545 S. Fulton Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 8.

MacQuesten Corp., Mount Vernon. Seller: Dolores R. DiRienzo, Tuckahoe. Property: 48 Circuit Ave., Eastchester.

Amount: $700,000. Filed Jan. 7.

Pleasant Properties LLC, Bronx. Seller: Sidney Polivnick, et al, Briarcliff. Property: 8 Matthes Road, Ossining. Amount: $320,000. Filed Jan. 8.

RCV1 Holdings LLC, Bedford Corners. Seller: Phyllis L. Schloendorn, White Plains.

Property: 1 Renaissance Square, 27F, White Plains. Amount: $820,000. Filed Jan. 8.

Ryabb Properties LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 120 Jennifer Court, Yorktown. Amount: $231,500. Filed Jan. 12.

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Seller: John A. Sarcone III, White Plains. Property: 6 West St., Rye. Amount: $226,012. Filed Jan. 6.

Third Union LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Gustavo Hermoza, Bronxville. Property: 245 Union Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 13.

FORECLOSURES ARMONK, 5 Spruce Hill Road. Single-family residence; 1.68 acre. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Vicki Schott.

Referee: Stephanie Whidden.

Sale: Jan. 29, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,573,423.82.

HARTSDALE, 201 Poe St. Single-family residence; .18 acre.

Plaintiff: Prospect Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-8971600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Marisa Donato. Referee: Robert Ryan. Sale: Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $457,670.32.

MOUNT VERNON, 142 Overlook St. Two-family; .11 acre.

Plaintiff: Greentree Servicing LLC. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-8971600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Carmela Cianciulli. Referee: Francis Malara. Sale: Jan. 21, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $202,930.84.

MOUNT VERNON, 411 S. Fifth Ave. Single-family residence; .06 acre. Plaintiff: Hudson City Savings Bank. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Kozeny McCubbin & Katz, 516-227-2552; 40 Marcus Drive, Melville. Defendant: Dyanan Jaikaran. Referee: Joseph Marra.

Sale: Jan. 26, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $345,862.46.

NEW ROCHELLE, 146 Storer Ave. Single-family residence; .1 acre. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Timothy Prinz. Referee: Timothy Kebbe. Sale: Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $398,654.30.

SCARSDALE, 411 Vivian Drive. Description: N/A; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: M&T Bank.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Schiller & Knapp, 516-786-9069; 950 New Loudon Road, Suite 310, Latham.

Defendant: Arthur Weinreb.

Referee: Michele Bermel. Sale: Jan. 22, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $351,582.27.

SCARSDALE, 1205 Post Road. Single-family residence; .38 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore. Defendant: Wai Choi Law. Referee: Carl Finger.

Sale: Jan. 28, 1 p.m. Approximate lien: $918,734.20.

Judgments Brauer Properties Inc., Thornwood. $87,284 in favor of Tivoli Enterprises Inc., Katonah.

Filed Jan. 9.

Designer Symphony LLC, Chappaqua. $11,414 in favor of ITMAS Inc., Staten Island. Filed Jan. 8.

J and J 159 Bronx River Road Realty Inc., Yonkers. $97,920 in favor of Pamela Management Corp., Eastchester. Filed Jan. 8.

Oxygen Electronics LLC, White Plains. $28,895 in favor of Barco N.V., Duluth, Ga. Filed Jan. 5.

RD Flooring Inc., Croton-onHudson. $11,186 in favor of Croton Enterprises LLC, Tarrytown.

Filed Jan. 6.

LIS PENDENS

The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed.

34 Morningside Avenue Realty Corp., et al. Filed by BNB Hana Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $630,000 affecting property located at 34 Morningside Ave., Yonkers 10703. Filed April 23.

Banje, Milenka, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 215 Harriman Road, Irvington 10533. Filed April 24.

Bellom, Laurence, et al.

Filed by Wilmington Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,000 affecting property located at 85 Eastview Drive, Valhalla 10595.

Filed April 23.

Berger, Lauren, et al. Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $525,000 affecting property located at 97 Waterside Close, Eastchester. Filed April 24.

Brown, Robert, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $342,000 affecting property located at 517 Harrison Ave., Peekskill 10566. Filed April 23.

FACTS & FIGURES Carnevalla, Thomas H., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $187,860 affecting property located at 14 Saxon Woods Park Drive, White Plains 10605. Filed April 25.

Crevey, Patricia J., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $51,160 affecting property located at 93 Washington Ave., Hastings-onHudson 10706. Filed April 25.

Decesare, Angela T., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $510,541 affecting property located at 1 Stony Gate Oval, New Rochelle 10804. Filed April 23.

Dillon, Joseph L., et al.

Filed by Congressional FCU. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $900,000 affecting property located at 921 Palmer Road, Bronxville 10708.

Filed April 25.

Dunbar, Leera, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $378,800 affecting property located at 209 W. Third St., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed April 23.

Fisher, Frank, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,000 affecting property located at 629 South St., Peekskill 10566. Filed April 23.

Fontalvo, Ruben A., et al.

Filed by Flagstar Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 777 N. MacQuesten Parkway, Apt. 105, Mount Vernon 10552. Filed April 23.

Garcia, America, et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 29 Clark Place, Port Chester 10573.

Filed April 25.

Gonsalves, Mark A., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $118,800 affecting property located at 3311 Villa at the Woods, No. C211, Peekskill 10566. Filed April 25.

Ledgister, Susan, et al. Filed

by BLB Trading LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 4 Consulate Drive, Unit 4-3M, Eastchester 10707.

Filed April 23.

Morales, Maria E., et al. Filed

by Argent Mortgage Company LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $643,550 affecting property located at 149 E. Lakeview Ave., Harrison 10604. Filed April 23.

Perez, Troy, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $413,000 affecting property located at 3415 Lorelei Drive, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed April 23.

Robinson, Maggie, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $308,000 affecting property located at 160 Gibson Ave., White Plains 10607.

Filed April 24.

Sinatra, Michael, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $251,000 affecting property located at 12 Nottingham Circle, Peekskill 10566. Filed April 25.

Singh, Bhagat, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $166,500 affecting property located at 408 S. Sixth Ave., Mount Vernon.

Filed April 25.

Tarricone, Anthony, et al.

Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $423,500 affecting property located at 9 Holly Place, Hastingson-Hudson 10706. Filed April 23.

Taylor, Wilson, as co-executor and Hal B. Greenwald of the estate of Earley R. Hairston, et al.

Filed by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 66 Prospect Ave., White Plains 10607. Filed April 23.

Tirado, Aida, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $648,000 affecting property located at 33 Union Lane, Mount Vernon 10553. Filed April 24.

Sole Proprietorships

Vaccaro, Anthony F., et al.

Filed by Carter Ledyard and Milburn LLP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 29 Marbourne Drive, Mamaroneck 10543. Filed April 23.

C.C. Wood and Craftwork, 153 A Webber Ave., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Carlos Chimborazo. Filed Aug. 2.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Generation Building Corporation III LLC, as owner. $18,716 as claimed by NY Stone and Landscape Supply LLC, Mount Kisco. Property: in Yorktown. Filed Jan. 5.

Hartsdale Development LLC, as owner. $24,000 as claimed by Rapid Tied Rebar LLC. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Jan. 8.

Brennan Social Innovations, 5 Francis St., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Terry Brennan. Filed Aug. 2.

Cassandra Choice, 215 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers 10701, c/o Cassandra Simpson. Filed Aug. 2.

Croton Indoor Comfort, P.O. Box 282, Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Michael A. Vara. Filed Aug. 1.

Docket Mania, 505 Franklin St., Rye Brook 10573, c/o Robert Vilato. Filed Aug. 2.

Envy U Shop, 636 S. Sixth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Carine Meagan Harley. Filed Aug. 2.

Fitzy’s Famous Franks, 198 Tate Ave., Buchanan 10511, c/o Thomas D. Fitzgerald Jr. Filed Aug. 1.

Michael A. Ward Private Investigator Services, 212 Washington St., Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Michael A. Ward.

Filed Aug. 2.

Francesco Cilento Landscaping and Irrigation, 933 Lester Ave., Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Francesco Cilento. Filed Aug. 1.

Orchid Café, 570 Fifth Ave., Apt. 1, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Joanni Hernandez. Filed Aug. 2.

Home Logix, P.O. Box 292, Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Michael A. Vara. Filed Aug. 1.

Ripped Laces, 235 Roundhill Drive, Yonkers 10710, c/o Jeremy Andrew Lugo. Filed Aug. 2.

J.A. Naranjo Landscaping, Snowplowing, and Masonry, P.O. Box 35, Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Manuel I. Naranjo Sarmiento. Filed Aug. 1.

Sayegh Family Chiropractic, 970 N. Broadway, Suite 309, Yonkers 10701, c/o Or Peter Sayegh.

Filed Aug. 1.

K. Lavernes Jewels and Accessories, 558 C. Kimball Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Karen Harris.

Filed Aug. 2.

TKNY Transportation, 451 Old Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers 10703, c/o Christine Eileen Keppel. Filed Aug. 1.

Leroy Edmund Carpentry and Repair, 453 S. Eighth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Leroy Edmund. Filed Aug. 1.

Hijazin, Lorels, et al, as owner. $5,485 as claimed by HJ Installations LLC, Monroe. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Jan. 7.

White Plains Plaza Realty LLC, as owner. $66,526 as claimed by Costa Electrical Contractors Corp., Ossining.

Property: in White Plains. Filed Jan. 8.

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Partnerships MC Creations, 118 Hillside Ave., Yonkers 10703, c/o Michele Fernandez and Christine Fernandez. Filed Aug. 2.

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LEGAL NOTICES DESIGN & REMODELING SPECIALISTS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/23/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Odilardo Jose Faria Junior, 557 North Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10801.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59732 DIAS TRANSIT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/26/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mary Kaloedas, 4 Shipman Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose #59733 Notice of Formation of Marcelino Consulting LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/10/2014. Office Location: 666 N.Terrace Ave Mount Vernon, New York 10552.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Christian Rodriguez 666 N. Terrace Ave, Mount Vernon, New York 10552.Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59735 Notice of Formation of Halcyon Jewelry, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/2014. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Halcyon Jewelry, LLC 18 Park Trail, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59736 Name of LLC: Movement Tapestries, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Sec. of State 10/28/14. Office location: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Douglas Burack, Lutz & Carr, 300 E. 42nd St., 8th Floor, NY, NY 10017.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #59737 Notice of Formation of East Rocks Technology LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/23/2014. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy to 243 Knollwood Ave., Mamaroneck, NY, 10543 Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59740 Notice of formation of IMFORMATIO, LLC. Art. of org. filed with SSNY?on 11/24/14.

Off. location: Westchester County. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 2828 Broadway 9E, New York, NY 11024. Purpose: Any lawful activity. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. #59741

Notice of Formation of Suflay, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNYon 9/10/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agentof LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Suflay, 1002 Main St, Peekskill, NY 10566.Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59742 THERAPYCARE PT SERVICES PLLC, a Prof, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/05/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 129 Main St., Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Physical Therapy. #59743 Notice of Formation of IYOBOSA STUDIOS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/13/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 316 N. Broadway, Yonkers, NY 10701.

Purpose: all lawful activities. #59744 Notice of Formation of MITCHELL WILK DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/21/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 31 Purchase St., Rye, NY 10580.

Purpose: all lawful activities. #59745 Notice of Formation of HARRISON CAPITAL GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/17/14. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Charles E. McBain, 111 Calvert St., Harrison, NY 10528.

Purpose. Any lawful act or activity. #59746 Notice of formation of LEVITT-FUIRST & JDM, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/05/14. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 Executive Blvd Ste 370 Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any lawful purpose #59747 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Wilkening Real Estate LLC, Art. of Org. filed 10/21/14 with Secretary of State (SSNY).

Office located in Westchester County. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 127 S. Highland Ave Apt. A6, Ossining NY 10562. Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #59749

Notice of Formation of 193 Wilson Park Drive LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 12/3/14.

Office Location: Westchester County. SSNYdesignated as agent for process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: c/o Jonathan S. Berman, Esq., 4 Hudson Rd. East,Irvington, NY 10533.Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. #59750 Pharaohs Construction LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 10/17/14. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated Magdy Ghaly as agent upon which process may be served.

Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 498 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue # 6A, Yonkers, NY 10705 Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59751 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: RamSpear, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on November 20, 2014. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process (SOP) to the LLC ,c/o Richard Sherwin 29 Tudor Lane, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose is any lawful purpose. #59752 ATTACCA QUARTET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/11/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Keiko Tokunaga, 400 Columbus Ave., East Lobby 2nd Fl., Suite 200E, Valhalla, NY 10595.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose #59753 Notice of formation of Longdale Associates LLC. A Domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 12/24/13. Office Location Westchester County. SSNY is designated as Agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 405 Tarrytown Rd Suite 1504 White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful Activity #59754 Notice of formation of 85 Avenue Associates LLC. A Domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 12/26/13. Office Location Westchester County. SSNY is designated as Agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 405 Tarrytown Rd Suite 1504 White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful Activity #59755 Notice of formation of Associates of 87 Avenue LLC. A Domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 12/26/13. Office Location Westchester County. SSNY is designated as Agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 405 Tarrytown Rd Suite 1504 White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful Activity. #59756

Notice of formation of Manhattan Group Associates LLC. A Domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 12/30/13. Office Location Westchester County. SSNY is designated as Agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 405 Tarrytown Rd Suite 1504 White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful Activity. #59757 Notice of formation of North Washington Associates LLC. A Domestic LLC. Articles of Oragnization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 12/26/13. Office Location Westchester County. SSNY is designated as Agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 405 Tarrytown Rd Suite 1504 White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful Activity. #59758 Notice of formation of South Terrace Associates LLC. A Domestic LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on 12/27/13. Office Location Westchester County. SSNY is designated as Agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 405 Tarrytown Rd Suite 1504 White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful Activity. #59759 THE SPARROWS LULLABY BAND, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/25/2014.

Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Rebecca Blumhagen, 23 Bedford St., Apt. 2, NY, NY 10014. Reg Agent: Rebecca Blumhagen, 23 Bedford St., Apt. 2, NY, NY 10014. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59760 GRANNUS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 05/08/2014. Office location: Westchester County. LLC formed in DE on 02/20/2014.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 2711 Centerville Rd Ste 400, Wilmington, DE 19808.

Principal office of the LLC: 300 Mamaroneck Ave Unit 433 White Plains NY 10605.

Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59761 Notice of Formation of Tavolacci Consulting, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/7/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. John Tavolacci desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. John Tavolacci shall mail process to the LLC, 42 Howard St #2W Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59762

GLOBAL CITIZENS HOME CARE SERVICES LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/12/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Samuel Gonzalez Jr, 60 Morrow Ave Apt 2TN, Scarsdale, NY 10583.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59766 THREE S. PROPERTIES LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/09/2014. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 149 Washington St., Mount Vernon, NY 10550.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59767 147 WASHINGTON STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/09/2014.

Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 149 Washington St., Mount Vernon, NY 10550.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59768 Notice of Formation of Tennis Connection, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/19/2014.

Offc. Loc.: Westchester Cty. SSNY design. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o US Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #59769 Notice of Formation of UR Event by Shaune, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/27/2014. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Shaune Wallace-Bostic, 1333A North Avenue, Suite 294, New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59770 FLOORS BEAUTIFUL USA LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/12/2014. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 26 Brookside Lane, Harrison, NY 10528. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59771 Notice is hereby given that a restaurant wine license, #1281621 has been applied for by Chef Werks, Inc. d/b/a Modern Slice to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 57 Kensico Road Thornwood, NY 10594 #59772

NDEX NO.: 54375/2014 File Date: 12/23/14 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE MORTGAGED PREMISES: 25 WOODROW AVE., YONKERS, NY 10710 SBL #: 3 ñ 3134 ñ 13 ADDLOT 14-15 Plaintiff designates Westchester County as the place of trial; venue is based upon the county in which the mortgaged premises is situate.

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER APPLE BANK FOR SAVINGS, Plaintiff, -againstUNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF GLADYS JOHNS, if living, and if dead, the respective heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignors, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title, or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and each and every person not specifically named who may be entitled to or claim to have any right, title or interest in the property described in the Complaint, all of whom and whose names and places of residence unknown, and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by the Plaintiff, ET AL., Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $60,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Westchester on February 24, 1989, at LIBER 12972; PG. 177, covering premises known as 25 WOODROW AVE., YONKERS, NY 10710 ñ SEC. 3; BLOCK 3134; LOT 13 ADDLOT 14-15.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendant and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises.

TO the Defendant(s) UNKNOWN HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF GLADYS JOHNS, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Joan B. Lefkowitz of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated December 8, 2014 Dated: New Rochelle, NY December 18, 2014 MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY P.C. /s/_________________ Leroy J. Pelicci, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot St., Ste. 210 New Rochelle, NY 10801 p. 914-636-8900 f. 914-636-8901 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure.

In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department of Financial Services at 1-800-342-3736 or visit the Department’s website at www. dfs.ny.gov.

FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. #59765

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of S and S Getaways, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 11, 2014. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process for the LLC, 10 Scenic Circle, Croton on Hudson, New York 10520, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #59773 CANNABIS OF AMERICA LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/06/2015. Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 427 Manville Rd., Pleasantville, NY 10570.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59774

Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Three Guys Hospitality LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 665 Commerce Street Thornwood, NY 10594 #59776

Notice is hereby given that a cabaret liquor license, #TBA has been applied for by Homestyle at Westchester County Center Inc. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 198 Central Avenue White Plains, NY 10606. #59778

Notice of Formation of Woodcroft Advisors, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activity. #59777

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 7 North Dearman LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 09/19/14, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Lyons McGovern LLP, 399 Knollwood Rd, Ste 216, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any lawful activity #59779

Notice of Formation of RayLey B. Worldwide, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/29/14.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 93 Maple St. # 2R Yonkers., NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59775

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 9 North Dearman LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 09/19/14, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Lyons McGovern LLP, 399 Knollwood Rd, Ste 216, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any lawful activity #59780

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 60 East Sunnyside LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy of State of NY on 09/19/14, Office loc: Westchester Cty, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Lyons McGovern LLP, 399 Knollwood Rd, Ste 216, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any lawful activity #59781 The EHS Group, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/2014. Ofc loc Westchester Cty. SSNY desig.

Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Steven J Kennedy, 69-71 Townsend St Port Chester, NY 10573.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. #59782 Notice of Formation of SERENAMALIA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 46 Westchester Avenue, Pound Ridge, NY 10576. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #59783

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38 HUNTER STREET LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/08/2015. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Steinvurzel and Levy Law Group C/O Ronald Steinvurzel, Esq., 34 S. Broadway - Ste 210, White Plains, NY 10601.

Reg Agent: Steinvurzel and Levy Law Group C/O Ronald Steinvurzel, Esq., 34 S. Broadway - Ste 210, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59784 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), Climb Leadership Consulting, LLC., filed with the New York Secretary of State on December 19, 2014. Office located in Westchester County, New York, designated as agent upon which process may be served to: 10 Habitat Lane, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567, principal businss location of the LLC whose purpose is any lawful activity. #59785

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PREMIUM QUALITY HOMES, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/12/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 624 White Plains Rd #123, Tarrytown, NY 10591, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #59786 Notice of Formation of Compass Coaching LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/5/15. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 791 Swed Circle, Yorktown Hts., NY 10598.

Purpose: any lawful purpose including professional and personal coaching and organization leadership and development. #59787

Notice of Formation of Business Transformation Consulting LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/15/14.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 793 Center St. Suite 165 Lewiston, NY 14092. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59788 TWO WYATT’S LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/13/2015. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 75 North Central Ave., Elmsford, NY 10523. Reg. Agent: Mark Wissner, 844 Nepperhan Ave., Ste. A, Yonkers, NY 10703.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59789

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FACES& PLACES ECONOMIC OUTLOOK ON THE MENU Experts on real estate and the economy offered a positive economic picture for Westchester County at the Westchester County Association’s “2015 Forecast: State of the Westchester Market” business breakfast on Jan. 8. Some 300 were on hand at the Westchester Marriott to hear County Executive Rob Astorino offer his agenda for the coming year.

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1. Mary Beth Del Balzo, president and CEO of The College of Westchester.

2. Kevin Plunkett, deputy county executive; Robert Amler, dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice, New York Medical College; and William Mooney III, director of Westchester County Office of Economic Development.

3. Vanessa Flynn, Jennifer Zando, Don Napier, Ellen DiFrancisco, Bob Pomfrey, all of POMCO. 4. Christopher Carthy of Pools of Perfection and Camille Cannistraci, a sustainability and marketing professional.

5. Alan Kassay, Scott Oling and Stuart Stengel, all of O’Connor Davies.

6. Glenn Walsh, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank; and Ayall Schanzer, Friedland Realty Advisors.

7. Joanne Deyo, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals; Hilarie Siles, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank; Patricia Ardigo, CBRE. 8. Lawrence Otis Graham of Cuddy Feder; John Barnes of Reckson, division of SL Green; and Anthony Gioffre III of Cuddy Feder.

9. Tony Maddalena of Morgan Stanley; Marissa Brett, WCA president; and Lisa Shalett of Morgan Stanley.

10. William Mooney Jr. and Marissa Brett of the WCA; County Executive Rob Astorino and William Harrington of Bleakley Platt & Schmidt LLP.

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