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Mary Chiappa was desperate.

It had been only days since her nanny of two years told her she would no longer be able to care for Chiappa’s two children in Katonah. “She ended up getting a job offer outside of the child care industry that she really couldn’t refuse,” Chiappa recalled.

While the family was pleased for the former nanny’s success, they were also frantic to find a new nanny. In hopes of easing the worries of her former employers, the nanny put Chiappa in touch with the Westchester referral service A Smart Nanny and the company’s owner, Lisa DeRienzo.

“She didn’t want to leave us in a lurch,” Chiappa said.

Chiappa reached out to DeRienzo on Nov. 19, saying she’d like to move forward with using her services. She also let DeRienzo know that they were working on a short time frame and had only a few weeks until her nanny would need to leave her position.

DeRienzo responded by email, telling Chiappa she would provide her with a local, college-educated nanny. She added that there was a $250 retainer fee that, once received, would TWB Loan Decision Top 5 launch the search process for a Banner Ad nanny.

6” w x 1.5” h “The referral fee is usual7-31-17, 11am ly $1,250 after the $250 retainer is deducted, but I would only charge you $750, since you are a friend” of the former nanny, DeRienzo said in an email.

“I, unthinkingly, went with it, because this was a friend of our nanny and she was ready to do this, and I needed to get the position filled,” Chiappa said. She paid the $250 deposit to DeRienzo through the digital payment app Venmo on Nov. 20.

Where’s the nanny?

MOTHERS SMARTING OVER REFERRAL SERVICE OWNER

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Lise DeRienzo, owner of A Smart Nanny, displays her referral business’ website in a 2016 Business Journal interview.

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A week passed and Chiappa had yet to hear from DeRienzo.

When she sent an email asking for updates or wondering if nanny prospects were having issues with any aspects of their job requirements, DeRienzo replied that the family’s desired start time was posing a problem.

“We work in construction, so we have to leave our house by 5:30 to get to the city by 7,” Chiappa said. “We knew our needs weren’t typical, but having had our previous nanny already describe the requirements of the job with Lisa and then me reinforcing them, I was confident she knew what she was getting into.”

She and her husband decided that he could leave the house a bit later each morning, allowing a new nanny to start instead at 6:30 a.m.

Again, days passed with no update from DeRienzo. With their nanny’s end date approaching, emails went unanswered.

“I’m getting frantic now,” Chiappa recalled. “She had referred no one to us. Not a single person.”

Chiappa also messaged DeRienzo through Facebook, but those communications too received no response. “I would just Facebook message her, because on Facebook messenger, you can see when someone reads it. I could tell that she was at least seeing what I was saying and ignoring me.”

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7, saying that finding a nanny for a family, especially one with an “excessive amount of hours,” is not easy. She also reminded Chiappa that she had offered her a “gracious discount” off her standard fee.

Chiappa responded, “Your discount is useless to me unless you give me someone that I can hire.” She never heard from DeRienzo again.

With time running out and no response, Chiappa was forced to look for child care elsewhere, hiring another nanny service “who fulfilled my request for the same hours, the same days and responsibilities within three hours,” she said.

Furious, Chiappa requested a refund for $250 through Venmo, a request that DeRienzo denied before blocking Chiappa on the payment app.

Chiappa said she had hoped to post warnings to other mothers on social media, but her husband dissuaded her, saying that $250 was not a significant enough sum to “make waves” about.

“I said to my husband, ‘Maybe that’s what she does. Maybe she takes $250 from every person, because every person thinks it’s not a big deal,’” Chiappa recalled, her voice rising. “But if there’s 60 people, and you do some math, it’s a big deal.”

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Chiappa is one of 16 mothers who spoke to the Business Journal about their troubles with A Smart Nanny, troubles that range from a lack of response to accusations of fraud and date from 2014 to this January.

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fter two years of construction, the third and final phase of the Ashford Avenue Bridge project that connects the villages of Ardsley and Dobbs Ferry began in January.

“It seems like they’re so close this time you can almost touch it,” said Jimmy Dixon, manager of Modern Paint and Hardware, which sits just off the Ardsley end of the bridge at 686 Saw Mill River Road.

During the final phase of the nearly $18 million project, the bridge will be restored to two lanes in each direction during peak periods. The road’s final paving and sidewalk work will occur during midday periods, while the restoration of the exit and entrance ramps of the northbound Saw Mill River Parkway will occur during peak periods.

The entire project is now scheduled for completion later this summer.

“We’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel,” said Robert Conway, a bartender at PourHouse Bar & Grill at 468 Ashford Ave. in Ardsley.

Though the bridge project is ahead of schedule — the third phase was originally expected to commence this spring — its completion can’t come soon enough for many who live and work near Ashford Avenue.

“I definitely noticed in the village that it had an effect on businesses,” Dixon said of the project.

“During peak hours, the line (of traffic) goes all the way back to the middle of Dobbs Ferry.”

During the years-long construction, Dixon said the project seemed to cause a divide between the hardware store’s two customer bases.

“It’s definitely been frustrating for the customers that we’ve had for a million years that were on the other side of the bridge. They didn’t want to come here anymore.

It kind of left them stranded,” he said. “I think with the bridge being open, we’re going to get a lot of our customers back from Dobbs Ferry and we’re going see a lot more of an upward turn in business.”

The construction also caused a dip in business at PourHouse, where owner Alex Valdez said he estimates his restaurant trade “could have seen a 10 to 20 percent

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increase if all the bridge construction was not going on.”

“A lot of people would talk about it when they came in, how there’s so much traffic,” said Valdez. “People would come in and be in kind of a pissy mood, but we always try to be as accommodating as possible.”

Gerardo Ponce, owner of the restaurant Fiesta Mexico at 468 Ashford Ave., agreed. “Happy customers are better for business,” he said.

Ponce added that the congestion surrounding the bridge only added to problems his customers had when visiting his restaurant.

“Parking is a big problem here,” he said, gesturing to the metered spaces in front of his building, on a commercial cul-de- sac below the bridge. “The space for parking is terrible.”

Many regular customers would choose to dine elsewhere rather than deal with the traffic headache of the bridge, Valdez said. “People knew about the construction, so they avoided the area altogether,” he said.

The construction and congestion caused problems not just for customers, Valdez said, but also for the deliveries his business relies on. “It took a long time to for them to get here.”

Those problems were compounded further by what Dixon said has been a rise in traffic congestion along state Route 9A that passes through Ardsley.

“It kind of felt like it never was going to end at points,” he said. “It definitely has been frustrating, but the nice thing is we’re going to have a bridge that they’re not going to have to touch for a while, hopefully, and we’ll have a good way back and forth to Dobbs Ferry and we’ll connect the Rivertowns again.”

Constructed in 1950, the county bridge, which traverses the Saw Mill River, Saw Mill River Parkway, South County Trailway and the state Thruway, was estimated to carry roughly 20,170 vehicles per day prior to its rehabilitation. The renovation of the more than half-century-old structure stemmed from an incident in 2012 when concrete from the bridge fell onto the Thruway below.

Inspections were ordered and plans to rehabilitate the crumbling structure were set in motion.

The project was awarded in late 2015 to EE Cruz & Co. Inc., a heavy civil construction contractor headquartered in Manhattan, and preliminary work began soon after in January 2016.

The first phase of construction began in June 2016, when the southern half of the bridge was demolished and replaced. Stage two, which began last May, saw the

replacement of the northern half of the bridge.

During both stages, one lane of traffic was open in each direction on Ashford Avenue.

“We’re a business that’s open 7 to 5 every day, so if you have a block for rush hour in the morning and then again in the afternoon where it’s really inaccessible to get here, it’s really frustrating for the customers, businesses, for everybody,” said the hardware store manager.

Additionally, the entrance and exit ramps to the northbound Saw Mill River Parkway were closed during construction. Valdez said this caused an issue for many of his customers who relied on their GPS to visit his restaurant.

“Sometimes GPS would say it was open, but it was really closed,” he said. “If you miss that exit, it’s a big pain to get here.”

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New York City real estate firm now owns two Yonkers commercial properties on the city’s downtown waterfront.

AMS Acquisitions LLC, a 6-year-old real estate investment firm that develops retail, residential and office properties in the metropolitan area, recently announced its $9.5 million purchase of 86 Main St., a six-story, 70,000-square-foot Class A office building that, like a ship’s bow pointed at the Hudson River, straddles the southeast corner of Main Street and Buena Vista Avenue across from the Yonkers Metro-North train station.

The office building features retail space on its ground floor and is anchored by Citibank.

“The beautifully constructed brick building offers unique high ceilings with the ability to cater to the popular trend of open loft-type space that tenants crave,” said Avi Abadie, principal at AMS Acquisitions. “Given its superior location and extremely unique qualities, 86 Main St. will benefit greatly from the growth and resurgence we are currently seeing in downtown Yonkers.”

Abadie said the firm plans to maintain the building as office space and will make a capital investment that will include adding floor-to-ceiling windows on the top three floors and a facade renovation.

Formerly known as Station Plaza, the property was built in 2005 by Homes for America Holdings Inc., then a leading developer on the Yonkers waterfront. However, in the economic downturn and credit market freeze that began in 2008, most of the building was never occupied. Homes for America vacated its headquarters there in 2009 and the company’s mortgage lender, Amalgamated Bank, assumed ownership.

The top three floors are 12,000 square feet each and have not been built out, according to AMS. The 11,000-square-foot second floor, Homes for America’s former headquarters space, is move-in ready, the new owner said.

AMS has retained the Cushman & Wakefield team of Matthew Lisk and Kevin McCarthy to assist with leasing.

The property sits opposite 92 Main St., a 78,000-square-foot mixed-use building that AMS purchased for $17.5 million a year ago.

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The historic brick building, formerly a city trolley barn, includes 40 live-work lofts and is home to Chase Bank and Yonkers Brewery.

ASMS is renovating apartments at 92 Main and upgrading common areas like the lobby, hallways and gym.

“We believe very much in downtown Yonkers and both 92 and 86 Main are great assets in the heart of the downtown,” Abadie said. “We are actively and aggressively looking for more opportunities in Yonkers and Westchester.”

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group of Latina workers have sued their former employer, Ideal Snacks Corp., claiming incessant sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation by supervisors.

The harassment allegedly occurred before July 2015, when BFY Brands bought the company. Investigators for the new owners, BFY Holdings President and CEO Paul Nardone said, have been unable to verify the complaints.

The dispute has been further complicated by the firing of more than 200 employees, including the women and the accused supervisors, as the result of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement audit a few weeks before the company changed hands.

Ideal manufactures snacks for food companies such as Kellogg’s and PepsiCo at a plant in the Catskills town of Liberty in Sullivan County. It produces more than a dozen lines of “popped snacks” that include PopCorners, Bean Crisps and Crinkles.

Seven women claim they were subjected to repeated harassment and discrimination from 2007 to May 2015. They are represented

by LatinoJustice, a New York City civil rights organization.

The lawsuit, filed on Jan. 10 in federal court in White Plains, names only the company as a defendant, but the complaint identifies eight supervisors and a plant manager who allegedly carried out the offensive conduct.

Initially, the women filed the case anonymously, arguing that they would suffer severe embarrassment and emotional harm in Liberty, a small town of roughly 10,000 residents, where many former co-workers and supervisors live, if their names were disclosed.

U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels in Manhattan

Latina workers accuse former Catskills employer of harassment denied their request, ruling that the right to know who is using the courts outweighs their interest in anonymity.

The women claim that they were subjected to lewd, graphic and degrading sexual comments day after day.

They say they were publicly questioned about intimate subjects. They were often touched or grabbed against their will.

When they resisted, they were assigned to the most difficult and dangerous jobs, stopped from taking bathroom breaks, denied requests for shift changes to accommodate family crises, subjected to sexual comments about their anatomy, called prostitutes and ugly old bitches, demeaned as worthless, warned that immigration authorities would be notified, told they would get bad job reports and threatened with job termination, they claim.

They allege that the misconduct happened in different departments, on different shifts and by several supervisors. Men who worked in the same places on the same shifts and for the same supervisors were not subjected to the abuses.

Monica, who worked in the packaging unit, for instance, claims that a supervisor named Santiago promised to get her higher wages and a better position if she submitted to him. One time, she stated in the lawsuit, he grabbed her buttocks when she was bending over to clean a machine. When she objected, he allegedly warned her not to report the incident.

She stated she told Santiago that she would tell management about his inappropriate behavior. He allegedly replied that management would take his side and that he was like a son to Marvin, a manager.

“Women have complained about me,” Santiago allegedly told Monica, “and they were fired but I am still here.”

She complained anyway, and the manager allegedly threatened to fire her or report her to immigration officials if she continued to complain about Santiago.

In 2015, Immigration and Customs Enforcement audited Ideal’s employee files and determined that more than 200 workers did not have proper documentation. “The company was forced to terminate all of the undocumented workers,” Nardone said, “or be faced with enforcement action and fines.”

All seven women and the eight supervisors were among the fired employees. The manager was fired about a year-and-a-half later.

Nardone said he became aware of the allegations in April 2016, when the women filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ideal hired the Goodwin Procter labor law firm in New York City to investigate.

All of the accused supervisors and many current employees who had worked during the period of the alleged harassment were interviewed. Goodwin Procter was unable to verify any of the allegations, Nardone said, and the company reported its findings to the EEOC. The EEOC tries to mediate discrimination disputes.

Typically, it either issues a dismissal, indicating that investigators did not find unlawful discrimination, or a letter of determination that indicates that discrimination may have occurred.

If the parties don’t settle after a letter of determination, the EEOC can give the employee a right-to-sue notice that allows the worker to file a federal lawsuit.

In October, the EEOC gave the women right-to-sue notices.

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NJ owner plans townhouses at former country club BUT PROPOSED CHANGE TO GREENBURGH PROPERTY TAX ‘CONCERNING’

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he new owner of the former Elmwood Country Club in Greenburgh plans to convert the property to a townhouse community for people 55 and older. But the developer may have to do so under a new structure that could mean higher taxes, as the company was warned in a recent meeting with the town board.

The proposal, from Ridgewood Real Estate Partners, would add 175 two-story townhomes to parts of the 106-acre club property, off Dobbs Ferry Road between the Saw Mill River and Sprain Brook parkways. The club and golf course closed last summer.

Ridgewood presented plans for the redevelopment of the property to the Greenburgh Town Board on Jan. 23. The townhomes would be restricted to people age 55 and older and the company would transfer 14 acres of land to the town to expand its Rumbrook Park.

Ridgewood purchased the country club for $13 million last summer. The deal closed two months after the golf course filed a notice with the state Department of Labor that it would be closing down and laying off 76 employees.

Jonathan S. Grebow, president and CEO of Ridgewood, said in a phone interview that the golf course represented “a great location in the heart of southern Westchester. The property already has residential zoning, so we saw the opportunity to be able to do something innovative on this site to meet a need for the active adult townhouses not currently available in the market.”

Based in Florham Park, New Jersey, Ridgewood was founded in 2008 and specializes in purchasing and repurposing large chunks of land, such as golf courses.

The company has pursued or completed real estate development projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Arizona, Texas, Florida and Nevada.

The type of age-restricted “active adult” community Ridgewood plans in Greenburgh is still relatively rare in Westchester.

Grebow said it’s more commonly found in other parts of the country where Ridgewood operates, such as New Jersey, Philadelphia’s suburbs, Orlando and Las Vegas.

The homes can be used either as a primary or parttime residence, Grebow said. “They may want to be in Westchester and want to be in Florida, or that type of situation. And people have more and more been seeking these types of communities.”

The community would include amenities such as a new clubhouse, swimming pool and tennis courts for residents. The developer would also add a pedestrian trail open to the public that would connect with the potential extension of Rumbrook Park.

The townhomes would have a style of ownership similar to that of condominium developments, Grebow said.

The site is currently zoned for up to 119 single-family homes, but would require a zoning amendment to allow for the denser townhome development.

Ridegwood has not yet filed plans, and is expected to meet again with the town board in the next few weeks for a work session.

Grebow said in an email that the active adult community would “preserve substantial areas of open space, create buffers, walking trails and recreational opportunities,” while also creating less traffic than a single-family development option.

Before the development team could present its preliminary plans last month,

the Greenburgh town board warned that it will pursue legislation that would tax new condo and townhouse developments at the higher rate applied to single-family homes.

Town Supervisor Paul Feiner told the Business Journal in a phone interview after the meeting that the town will soon ask state lawmakers for legislation to create an additional tax class for new townhomes and condominium developments.

Feiner said taxes on condominium properties already built in the town would not change. “We’re not going to pursue the Homestead,” he said, referring to the state law that allows for a reevaluation of properties to equalize those of single-family homes and condominium properties.

“But we are going to ask for all new development to be taxed at the same rate as residential.”

Feiner told Ridgewood representatives that the town wants to make sure it gets “maximum revenue from all developments.”

Grebow said the meeting was the first time he had heard of the potential tax changes. “It’s definitely concerning; we need to learn more about what their thinking is and how it would affect our property,” he said.

Ridgewood also last year purchased the former Philips research campus in Briarcliff Manor. The company is planning to pursue a residential conversion there as well, but has not yet filed official plans.

The Elmwood Golf Club property is across Dobbs Ferry Road from the 7-acre site that was the former home of Frank’s Nursery & Craft’s. The property was sold by the town in December to Capitol Seniors Housing, which plans to build a 101-unit assisted living and memory care facility there after completing an environmental cleanup.

Citrin Cooperman Corner Creating value through better business processes

Part 2: Prioritizing Improvements

BY STEVE RONAN In Part 1 of this editorial, we looked at how to set goals for your process improvement initiatives. This month, we will take a look at a framework for prioritizing these initiatives and how to make them successful.

There are many valid approaches for prioritizing STEVE RONAN process improvement initiatives, but there are two rules that are true for most companies: 1) you will be more successful if the entire leadership team helps set the priorities, and 2) you can only focus on a small number of improvements at once.

How should you get your leadership team to align on a common set of priorities? Here are three simple questions to ask yourselves for each initiative you are considering:

When in doubt, focus on processes that touch the customer.

1. WILL THIS PROJECT RESULT IN A MATERIAL IMPROVEMENT? Most processes can be improved in some way but only some of those improvements will have a meaningful impact on the business. Short of building a full business case (which is often a good idea), there are a few ways to try and figure out which ones will be more meaningful.

First, processes that operate at a larger scale will generate larger benefits. If many employees are executing the same process, if a process is executed frequently or takes a lot of time, or if the process deals with expensive parts or personnel, then improving it is likely to result in material value. For lower-scale processes, where you can save fractions of effort, it is often difficult to take the action that will create savings like reducing total process time, reducing staff, reducing inventory levels, etc.

Second, improving processes that don’t currently scale well will create substantial benefits as the business grows. If the cost or effort of a process increases at the same rate as revenue – for example, if a process currently costs $20 and if you add one more sale it will cost another $20 – then you can build a lot of additional margin by decreasing the cost of executing it more often. If the company is growing quickly, this will yield some benefit now and continue creating more and more value as you grow. You should figure out what the benefit will be not just if the project is successfully implemented, but if it is successfully implemented AND you grow as much as you expect.

Third, basic improvements to immature revenue processes can provide big benefits, quickly. It is common in the middle-market for the processes that initially built the business – e.g., product development, door-to-door sales, retail – to still be relied upon as the main driver of revenue. However, the nature of revenue generation has changed since these businesses were founded. Modernizing these processes makes them more scalable, more consistently effective, and more measurable.

This helps capture more customers, develop better products faster, and price them more effectively. You will often see benefits very quickly by going from an antiquated process to even a reasonably modern process.

SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION The value that can be derived from improving processes is directly correlated to the company’s ability to execute the project that will improve it. Be realistic about the nature of the change and the company’s ability to follow through on the project. There are a few ways to think about this:

2. WILL THE CUSTOMER BE ABLE TO TELL THAT I IMPROVED THIS PROCESS? Every process in your company will not be perfect, and they don’t all need to be for your company to be great. The processes that need to be great – or at least look great – are those that impact profitability or the customer experience. If you’re improving a process and the customer will not be able to tell that it is better, then it should have an out-sized impact on either revenue or cost to justify investment or attention.

3. CAN WE ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THIS RESULT? Remember that savings need to be achievable in real life, not just on paper. For example: if you want to save cost by improving a back-office process, scrutinize the mechanism you will use to achieve those savings. If you can improve a cash reconciliation process, are you saving a staff position or will you truly be able to re-assign a percentage of that person’s time to something else? If you can, great – that means you can achieve savings from the efficiency. If the same person will do the same work, there will just be less of it, then it isn’t the cost savings that will justify that change – it will need to be something else like consistency, effectiveness, or customer experience.

1. Is this process complicated to change and to understand? The single biggest reason process improvement initiatives fail is because of poor user adoption. The more complex the process you are changing, the more difficult it is to get users to adopt it. Choose processes that most of your staff can understand very well by the time they are improved.

2. Do you have managers who can manage a project through roadblocks, over a long period of time? Very small projects may be quick, easy, and stick; others may be challenging and require regular management over an extended period of time. Make sure you have the people who can sustain it over that period of time.

3. Can this process be reasonably systemized?

Complicated, variable processes are difficult to put into systems; simple processes are easier.

Systems will make long-term sustainment much more reliable and, importantly, make it so you can measure the process. It is easier to make process changes stick when there is a technology initiative to drive them.

4. Do you have people who deeply understand the process’ relationship to the business? Which other functions does the process touch? How do improvements, or a lack of them, impact those areas? Will your managers understand this and be able to anticipate second-order impact?

In summary, process improvement is a great way to create significant new value in your business. Its benefits can often be realized quickly and sustained well into the future if your management team can align on the goals, clearly define priorities that the staff can easily understand, and if you have the ability to execute.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Steve Ronan is a principal and the leader of Citrin Cooperman’s Strategy & Business Transformation Practice. He is an experienced professional in the theory and execution of improving business value. Steve brings a practical, holistic perspective to the topic of business improvement. His experience includes strategic planning, process improvement, and organizational transformation. He can be reached at 203.847.4068 or at sronan@ citrincooperman.com. Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and consulting firm with 10 locations on the East Coast. Visit us at citrincooperman.com.

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Business Journal, DeRienzo said her business’ launch stemmed from her inability to find a full-time teaching job in Westchester. At the time, DeRienzo said she had placed her 175th nanny.

Her company operates on a referral basis, rather than as a nanny agency. DeRienzo told the Business Journal at that time that nanny-seeking families pay a one-time referral fee — $1,800 for a full-time worker and $1,000 for a part-time nanny working 34 hours or less. She, in turn, provides them with potential candidates that she has vetted, including running background checks and checking references.

Today, there are no prices listed on the company’s website.

DeRienzo said she guaranteed two nanny prospects for each family. She also told the Business Journal that if neither seemed a good match to the clients, she would refund their deposit.

That wasn’t the case for one Larchmont mother, who works for a Westchester college and asked not to be named in an effort to keep her personal life from affecting her professional life.

When her former nanny decided to take a new job, the mother reached out to DeRienzo in October after reading various articles and profile stories featuring the nanny referral business.

“I was desperate. I don’t have time to look for a nanny. I have a busy full-time job and I don’t have time to do a lot of that legwork,” she said. “I was willing to pay for the service if it got us what was promised: a great, college-educated babysitter.”

In an email exchange, DeRienzo offered the mother a special discount she gave to new families.

The referral fee is usually $750 after the $250 deposit, DeRienzo said in an email. However, the company was offering all new families 25 percent off, so it would be $750 total if the mother hired someone.

The standard referral fee she cited was $500 less than the one she quoted Chiappa when offering her a discount, though the two mothers were requesting services within one month of each other.

The Larchmont mother paid the $250 deposit and within a week, DeRienzo sent along the name and information on a possible candidate. “(The nanny) came to my house and we met with her,” the mother recalled. “She seemed great.”

According to email exchanges, the Larchmont client asked to move forward with the process of hiring the nanny, who was scheduled to begin working for the family the following month. Invoices show

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that the mother paid the remaining $500 fee to DeRienzo the same day.

Then, nothing happened.

Two weeks before the nanny was scheduled to begin, the mother reached out to finalize details, but the nanny never responded. Text messages also went unanswered.

Frantic, the mother sent an email to DeRienzo.

“I understand that people get busy, but it concerns me,” an Oct. 31 email reads. “As a working mom, I can’t spend a lot of time chasing down a babysitter. I need someone to be responsive. At this point, I’m worried that a) she doesn’t want to work for us or b) even if she did, she may not be the right person as I find the lack of response unprofessional.”

DeRienzo responded that A Smart Nanny was closed for Halloween, but she would look into the matter the next day. That was the last time the mother heard from A Smart Nanny’s owner.

“That’s when I started to find the really negative comments online and I said, ‘I think I’ve been scammed,’” she recalled. “I consider myself a pretty savvy person, but I started getting very nervous, because that’s a lot of money.”

In multiple follow-up emails, the client continued to ask for updates before requesting a refund of her $750. “Lisa never got me another person to interview or responded to me after I asked her for a partial, and then full, refund,” she said.

She has since reported the company to both the Better Business Bureau and the state attorney general’s office. She ended up hiring a “really wonderful” sitter through another service, she said.

“I feel really awful that I didn’t do more of my homework. I trusted the positive press.”

A PATTERN OF SILENCE

“The first red flag was that she never gave me her phone number,” said one White Plains mother, who last March paid DeRienzo a $250 deposit to find a temporary nanny. Email exchanges show that DeRienzo told the mother that deposit would be refunded if no “appropriate candidates” were found.

DeRienzo did refer one nanny to the mother, but soon after their initial interview, both the prospect and DeRienzo stopped responding to the mother’s messages. “I had no way to contact her other than email,” the mother said.

Chiappa said she repeatedly asked DeRienzo to speak on the phone so they could discuss her family’s needs, and “so I could understand what she was struggling with,” but DeRienzo never gave Chiappa her phone number.

No phone numbers are listed on A Smart Nanny website.

Other mothers had similar issues when they tried to contact DeRienzo. “She never gave me her number and she wouldn’t respond to my emails,” one mother said.

Many of the mothers who spoke with the Business Journal said that at various points in the nanny hiring process, DeRienzo would seemingly disappear. Many would be told by DeRienzo that she had either not received emails they had sent or that she had sent follow-up emails they had never received.

“My story is that I paid her $250 and she stopped responding to my emails, changed her email address, and I can’t get my money back from Venmo,” said one Bedford mother.

In an initial email, DeRienzo told the mother than the company’s referral fee is usually $750 after the $250 deposit is deducted, but there was a special discount of 30 percent during the month of December.

After paying the deposit, the mother said DeRienzo did not refer a single nanny to her and emails to the business owner would even bounce back to her account. “I tried to reach out to her for a week and immediately realized it was a scam because she had blocked me on Venmo.”

A GIFT CERTIFICATE UNFULFILLED

One Chappaqua mother reached out to A Smart Nanny after winning a gift certificate for five hours of babysitting in a raffle in 2014. With a dinner party coming up, the mother thought it would be the perfect time to try out the service for her 3-year-old daughter.

According to emails obtained by the Business Journal, the mother reached out to A Smart Nanny more than a month prior to the dinner party. DeRienzo responded just a few minutes later, asking for additional details about the child.

The mother responded the same morning, describing her daughter’s interests and what she was hoping to find in a babysitter. The following week, DeRienzo responded that she would keep the mother posted with updates in the coming weeks. That was, she said, the last time she ever heard from DeRienzo.

The mother sent a string of emails in the days prior to the dinner party, one asking if a sitter was confirmed and a second asking for any response at all, so she would know whether she needed to make alternative arrangements.

A third email sent two days prior to the party reads, “Am I correct to assume that nobody’s coming on Saturday?”

“I sort of assumed that if she couldn’t find someone, she would have just written me back and said,

“I’m so sorry, I can’t find a sitter.

Please, hold that gift certificate and use it another time.’ But it was just radio silence.”

The Chappaqua mom said she and her husband attempted to reach out to A Smart Nanny via Facebook, but were blocked by DeRienzo on the social media site.

Other mothers said they were similarly blocked by DeRienzo on the social media platform after they attempted to reach out to her there.

NO RESPONSE TO REPORTER’S REQUEST FOR CLIENT REFERRALS

Despite what DeRienzo told the Business Journal in 2016 and other clients previously, she told this reporter in email messages in December and January that the $250 deposit is nonrefundable for a reason, pointing to the terms of service that are posted as a link on the bottom of her company’s website. Those terms state that the client agrees to pay “a non-refundable $250 retainer.”

“If I spend weeks trying to find a family child care and then they hire an au pair or decide to put their children in day care, then it would only be reasonable that I am paid $250 for my business,” she said.

Still, DeRienzo noted, she had given “many families” their deposit back. And she had serviced “hundreds of wonderful families over the past 5 years,” she added.

Multiple requests by the Business Journal to DeRienzo to provide contact information for any of those satisfied families were not returned.

TERMS OF SERVICE: AN OWNER’S DEFENSE

For one newcomer to Armonk, 2017 was a stressful year. An attorney, mother of a 2-year-old, and eight months pregnant, she and her family were moving to suburban Westchester from New York City.

She was left with little time available to search for a caregiver in their new community.

“It was a very stressful time,” she recalled. “I had my hands full.” After seeing a suggestion on a mom-focused Facebook group, she decided to reach out to DeRienzo to find a nanny for both their new baby and 2-year-old.

DeRienzo told her that the company’s referral fee was usually $1,550 — a higher fee than other mothers said they were quoted by DeRienzo — after the $250 deposit was deducted. However, the company was offering a special sale of 25 percent off, DeRienzo said.

The mother thanked DeRienzo for the discount and paid the deposit that same week.

After more than a month went by with no referrals from A Smart

Nanny and just weeks away from her due date, the expectant mother was fed up. “She provided me absolutely nothing. I was having this baby in a matter of weeks and I was losing valuable time.”

When she asked for a refund, DeRienzo sent a link to her company’s terms of service, stating that the $250 deposit is nonrefundable, which she had neglected to tell the Armonk mother earlier.

Those terms of service also state that the company “is not required to select more than two nannies” for their client.

“If I would have known she was only going to select two nannies total, I never would have moved forward with her,” one White Plains mother said.

One Chappaqua mother reached out to A Smart Nanny shortly after having her first child. “She specifically said in an email that if it didn’t work out, she would refund my $250 deposit,” she recalled.

DeRienzo connected the mother with a nanny who “would have been fine,” the mother recalled. After an initial interview in Chappaqua, however, that nanny prospect took a different job.

“I started to get scared,” said the Chappaqua mom. “I was going to be going back to work soon.”

By that time, weeks had passed since she had reached out to A Smart Nanny, so she posted on a Facebook forum, asking whether anyone had other recommendations for finding a nanny. That led to her finding a new caregiver independent of A Smart Nanny.

“I reached back to Lisa and I said, ‘Thanks for your help, but this didn’t work out for us. Let me know what I can do to get my $250 deposit returned.’ But she said she wouldn’t return it because I had started looking for a nanny myself.”

A section of the terms of service states that the “client acknowledges that the company is the sole provider of nannies.”

“She said she did her job by providing me someone to look at,” the mother said.

She did not pursue the matter further.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to continue a fight with her on it. I was going back to work, I had a baby,” she said. “The best I could do was, anytime people mentioned her on Facebook groups, I would pm (private message) them” about her experience with DeRienzo, she said.

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The impact of recent tax reform on investment real estate

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he recently passed tax reform package represents the most sweeping tax reform the country has seen since the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and will shift the dynamics of the real estate market in 2018 and beyond. While changes to mortgage interest and local and state deductions may adversely impact many homeowners, the new provisions are generally seen as positives for real estate investors and developers. In fact, many of the provisions passed will help investors by putting more money back into their pockets

TAXATION AND DEPRECIATION

Perhaps most importantly, under the new plan, the tax bill preserves the 1031 tax-deferred exchange rules that allow investors to defer capital gains on the sale of a property by reinvesting proceeds into another qualifying “likekind” property. However, deferring gains on personal property has been repealed starting in 2018.

Another big win for real estate investors will be the treatment of income to LLCs and other passthrough entities common

Edward Jordan

to real estate ownership.

Owners of pass-through entities will benefit from a new 20 percent deduction of business-related income.

While some taxpayers in higher income brackets will face thresholds, this is a favorable improvement compared to being taxed at the business owner’s individual tax rate. That said, with the corporate tax rate cut from 35 percent to 21

percent, it remains to be seen whether changes to tax treatment could influence how real estate ownership entities are structured going forward.

When it comes to cost recovery, businesses will be able to immediately expense the purchase of an asset. Further, the depreciation timeline stays “as is” for investors who do not elect to take the mortgage interest deduction.

For those taxpayers who do, the time that property owners can depreciate a residential property has been increased from 27.5 years to 30 years, and for commercial properties increased from 39 years to 40 years.

MORTGAGE INTEREST DEDUCTIONS

While current and aspiring homeowners may be disappointed by the mortgage interest deduction cap dropping to $750,000 from $1 million, and the elimination of deductions for interest paid on home equity loans beginning in 2018, these changes may be good news for real estate

investors.

In pricey urban markets such as Boston and Manhattan, as well as states with notably high property taxes such as New York and Connecticut, the new laws surrounding deductions stand to impact the number of residential properties purchased each year.

If buyers shy away from homeownership, demand for multifamily rental units stands to increase, allowing investors to not only maintain high occupancy rates but ultimately raise asking rents. In these high-tax markets, the market for value-add multifamily assets will remain strong, particularly for properties in close proximity to mass transit and offering easy access to major highway and interstate systems.

PROPOSALS THAT DID NOT MATERIALIZE

While changes were initially proposed to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit, the new tax plan actually preserves the 20 percent tax credit for those looking to rehab certified

historic structures. Of note, however, the credit must be claimed within five years.

Related, the 10 percent credit for rehabilitation of structures built prior to 1936 has been repealed.

Similarly, proposed changes to the low-income housing tax credit, which stood to reduce the number of affordable apartment units produced each year, ultimately leading to demand outpacing supply, were not passed. Thus, the low-income housing tax credit remains unchanged, which is good news for developers.

These new tax laws, coupled with a potential increase to interest rates on the horizon, mean multifamily and commercial real estate investors will benefit from keeping a close eye on market dynamics moving forward.

Edward Jordan is the founder and managing director of Northeast Private Client Group, an investment real estate firm with offices in White Plains and Shelton.

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diately available from the office of Westchester County Executive George Latimer.

WestCOP also announced that Vernex S. Harding would become its early childhood director, overseeing the agency’s Head Start program that serves more than 1,500 children across Westchester and Putnam counties. She formerly was executive director of early childhood education programs at Family Services of Westchester in White Plains.

— John Golden

Donnovan P. Beckford

Donnovan P. Beckford, the longtime executive director of the Westchester-Putnam Workforce Development Board and its onestop employment centers, has been named CEO and executive director of Westchester Community Opportunity Program Inc., the nonprofit social services agency in Elmsford known as WestCOP. His appointment was effective Feb. 1.

Beckford since 1999 led the two-county Workforce Development Board, which links employers and job seekers at its One-Stop Career Centers. The agency under his direction has cultivated regional partnerships between businesses, service providers and the public education system.

Beckford received his MBA from Zicklin School of Business at City University of New York’s Baruch College and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from CUNY-Lehman College.

In 2016, he was awarded The Harold Fitzpatrick Community Leadership Award

by African American Men of Westchester and The Business Council of Westchester for his innovative and visionary approach to improving the job environment for employers and employees.

No information on Beckford’s successor at the Workforce Development Board was imme-

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tion audit and terminations “caused a lot of hard feelings in the community,” Nardone said, “understandably so.” But under the new ownership, he said, the alleged harassment represents the opposite of the values and practices for which the company strives.

Ideal has a zero-tolerance policy on workplace harassment and discrimination, said Nardone. Managers and supervisors are trained to recognize problems and they frequently walk the plant floor, unannounced and on all shifts, on the lookout for such behavior.

Employees are encouraged to report unwelcomed behavior. Town hall-style meet-

ings are held throughout the year to update employees on workplace values.

In a year and a half under new management, Nardone said, there has been one reported case of sexual harassment. The situation was confirmed and an employee was fired.

Ideal’s customers also review company practices. Last year, for example, PepsiCo auditors spent two days in the plant and randomly selected 50 workers for interviews on workplace conditions.

“There was no sign of any form of harassment,” Nardone said, “and the company passed the overall audit with favorable scores.”

“We are doing everything we can,” he said, “to build a company we’re proud of.”

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THE LIST: Colleges and Universities

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND REGION

westchester county

Ranked by number of full-time undergraduate students.

Name, address, phone number Area code: 914, unless otherwise noted Website

1 2 3 4 5

Westchester Community College

75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla 10595 606-6600 • sunywcc.edu

Fordham University *

400 Westchester Ave., West Harrison 10604 367-3426 • fordham.edu/westchester

Monroe College

434 Main St., New Rochelle 10801 800-55-MONROE • monroecollege.edu

Mercy College

555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry 10522 788-MERCY-GO • mercy.edu

SUNY Purchase College

735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase 10577 251-6300 • purchase.edu

6

Manhattan College

7

Iona College

8 9 10 11

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13 14 15

Not ranked

16

4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale 10471 718-862-7200 • manhattan.edu

715 North Ave., New Rochelle 10801 800-231-4662 • iona.edu

The College of New Rochelle

29 Castle Place, New Rochelle 10805 654-5452 • cnr.edu

Pace University

861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville 10570 773-3200 • pace.edu

Manhattanville College

2900 Purchase St., Purchase 10577 694-2200 • mville.edu

Sarah Lawrence College

1 Mead Way, Bronxville 10708 337-0700 • sarahlawrence.edu

New York Medical College

40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla 10595 594-4000 • nymc.edu

Concordia College

171 White Plains Road, Bronxville 10708 337-9300 • concordia-ny.edu

The College of Westchester

325 Central Ave., White Plains 10606 831-0200 • cw.edu

LIU Hudson at Westchester ^

735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase 10577 831-2700 • liu.edu/hudson

Berkeley College **

99 Church St., White Plains 10601 694-1122 • berkeleycollege.edu

SUNY Empire State College ✚

210 N. Central Ave., Suite 150, Hartsdale 10530 800-847-3000 • esc.edu

President Admissions director(s) Email address Year college established

Number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in 2017-2018

Number of Full-time/ campuses part-time faculty in the county

Full-time tuition/ nonboarding semester

School's operating budget

Belinda S. Miles Gloria Leon admissions@sunywcc.edu 1946

12,842

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$2,140 per semester

$166 million

Community college offering more than 60 associate degrees and certificates

Joseph M. McShane 1841 (2008, Fordham Westchester)

9,258 (800 on the Westchester campus)

2 (2 NA additional in NYC)

Tuition varies by program ranging from $800 to $1,665 per credit hour

NA

Private, Jesuit university

Marc M. Jerome Emerson Phillips ephillips@monroecollege.edu 1933

7,002

1

298 136

$6,780 per semester; $565 per credit

NA

Private college

Timothy L. Hall admissions@mercy.edu 1950

5,078

2

207 NA

$9,042 per semester; $761 per credit

NA

Accredited, private, nonsectarian, coeducational college

Thomas J. Schwarz Stephanie J. McCaine admissions@purchase.edu 1967

4,102

1

167 294

$21,832, annually, undergraduate, in-state, boarding; $31,482, undergraduate, out of state, boarding

NA

Public liberal arts and sciences college

Brennan O'Donnell Benjamin Boivin benjamin.boivin@manhattan.edu Troy Cogburn troy.cogburn@manhattan.edu 1853

3,970

1

240 202

$38,200, full-time tuition; $980, undergraduate tuition per credit hour; $19,100, nonboarding semester

$133.7 million

Lasallian, independent, coeducational university

Joseph E. Nyre Alick Letang admissions@iona.edu 1940

2,949

1

171 159

$52,514, annually, boarding; NA $37,682, annually, nonboarding; $1,176 per credit

Private, Catholic, liberal arts college offering 97 degree programs

Dorothy Escribano, interim president Michael DiPiazza 2,550 admissions@cnr.edu 1904

1

92 446

$35,098 annually; $49,234, including room and board

NA

Private, Catholic liberal arts college

Marvin Krislov Nicole Salimbene 2,340 ugplv@pace.edu 1906 (Westchester campus est. 1963)

2

194 403

$42,354, annually; $60,136, with boarding fees; $1,215 per credit; $22,193, cost of nonboarding semester

NA

Private institution offering bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs

Michael Geisler Nikhil Kumar admissions@mville.edu 1841

1,800

1

109 208

$43,800, annually, nonboarding; $52,600, boarding

NA

Private, coeducational, liberal arts college

Cristle Collins Judd Kevin McKenna kmckenna@sarahlawrence.edu 1928

1,377

1

107 197

$57,384, annually; $67,214, including room and board

NA

Private, coeducational, liberal arts college

173 NA

Alan Kadish Robin Camhi Baum, School of Medicine, mdadmit@nymc.edu; Veronica Jarek-Prin, School of Health Sciences and Practice, 1,233 shsp_admissions@nymc.edu; Valerie Romeo-Messana, Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences: gsbms_apply@nymc.edu 1860

1

Rev. John Arthur Nunes John McLoughlin john.mcloughlin@concordia-ny.edu 1881

1,022

1

54 150

$30,250 annually; $16,121 per semester; $875 per credit

NA

Private, four-year, coeducational college offering undergraduate and graduate programs

Mary Beth Del Balzo Matt Curtis admissions@cw.edu 1915

729

1

30 35

$20,115 per year based on 27 credits

NA

Four-year private college

Kimberly R. Cline Jeffrey McDowell jeffrey.mcdowell@liu.edu 1926

400 (Hudson campus)

1

20 100

Call for information

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Nonprofit, private, graduate university

Michael Smith Robert Miller, campus operating officer; Daniel Lapan, director of admissions, info@berkeleycollege.edu 1931

343 (Westchester 1 campus)

11 25

$25,900, annual tuition; nonboarding; $35,300 annually, boarding

NA

Four-year private college offering more than 20 career fields

Merodie A. Hancock hudson.valley@esc.edu 1971

19,500

250 1,150

$278 per credit for New York state residents; $333 per credit NA for out-of-state residents

1

1,056 165

$52,720 annually, School of Medicine; $36,120 annually, physical therapy program; $38,525 annually, speechMedicine and health language pathology program; $130 million sciences university $40,860 annually, Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences' accelerated master's program

This list is a sampling of colleges and universities that are located in the region or serve students from the local region.

If you would like to include your school in our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com.

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Institutions listed as "not ranked" do not have campuses in Westchester County, but are within close proximity to the region.

University has nine additional locations outside of Westchester County totaling more than 7,100 students.

University has eight additional locations outside of Westchester County totaling approximately 20,000 students.

College has 35 locations across New York state; statistics reflect overall data.

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BY SARMAD KHOJASTEH

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oday, the skyrocketing cost of living and the home affordability crisis are leaving too many New Yorkers shut out of the American Dream; they are working harder than ever before, but have less and less to show for it.

The federal government’s cuts to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction will only exacerbate the financial hardship facing these New Yorkers, and likely drive families to relocate elsewhere. Even worse, in view of New York state’s more than $4 billion budget shortfall in 2017 and expected $8 billion budget shortfall in 2018, the likelihood of a decrease in state and local taxes is next to nil.

We must find ways to help hardworking New Yorkers get ahead and create a financial foundation on which they can build a better life for themselves and their children.

Not only should we do everything we can to lower the tax burden, but, more importantly, we must find innovative and pioneering solutions to incentivize New Yorkers to plan for a home purchase from an early age with accounts that allow for growth in the market over time.

The good news is that such solutions are within reach if, and only if, our elected officials set aside partisan gamesmanship and focus on promoting policies that will make New York a great place to live, work, raise a family and ultimately retire for all New Yorkers.

One way to address this issue is to create tax-advantaged growth investment accounts for first-home purchases.

Such accounts would operate no differently than 529 college savings accounts, and would permit New Yorkers to make tax-deductible contributions to an investment account that would grow in value over time.

By providing favorable tax treatment to such contributions, New York would incentivize its citizens to plan for their first home purchase and position our young families to be able to purchase a home by their mid-thirties.

In contrast to the home savings plan currently being considered by the State Legislature, which allows tax-free contributions to be made into a savings account on which interest would accrue, such a proposal would allow prospective homeowners to make contributions into an investment account that would grow at a much higher rate of return than a basic savings account.

Even without federal support, such a proposal would allow lower-income prospective homeowners to use all of their investment earnings toward a first-home purchase, and allow other higher-income prospective homeowners to use anywhere from 80 percent to 85 percent of their investment earnings toward a firsthome purchase.

A solution to help New Yorkers save for their first home By way of example, a lower-income couple, each of whom has contributed $75 per month from the age of 22 to 35, would have nearly $45,000 saved toward a down payment on their first home, even assuming a conservative rate of return.

Why doesn’t such a common-sense, low-cost option already exist? You need look no further than Wall Street, which has influence-peddled and lobbied its way to achieving a bipartisan consensus around the notion that somehow borrowing a huge sum of money from a bank is part and parcel of the American Dream. As a result, the mortgage interest deduction — which allows homeowners to deduct from their taxable income payments made to big banks — is the only assistance provided to

homeowners by either the federal or state government.

Tellingly, the only program currently provided by the federal or state government to assist first-time homeowners comes in the form of mortgage options that allow a first-time homeowner to obtain a mortgage without satisfying the 20 percent down payment requirement, which, of course, results in more and more mortgage interest payments being paid to large Wall Street banks. Such programs also require homeowners to pay private mortgage insurance, driving up monthly carrying costs and increasing the occurrence of foreclosures as homeowners buckle under the weight of loans that they cannot afford.

This is a simple, low-cost solution that should enjoy bipartisan support. It potentially would decrease the state tax burden faced by New York’s working families at a time they need it most as they lose at least a portion of the SALT deduction. And, even more critically, it would create a ladder to financial security and a real chance at upward mobility for the next generation of New Yorkers.

Bedford resident Sarmad Khojasteh is a partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP and a candidate for the 37th State Senate District seat vacated by George Latimer following his election as Westchester County Executive. He can be reached at skhojasteh@kasowitz.com.

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he next deadline associated with New York’s first-inthe-nation set of cybersecurity compliance regulations that went into effect last March and impacts any business or organization that reports to the Department of Financial Services is quickly approaching. Many checkpoints have already been passed since the regulations took effect, requiring businesses to implement varying levels of cybersecurity initiatives and protocols. By Feb. 15, these organizations will need to verify their efforts by submitting their first annual certification of compliance.

The swath of organizations that is affected is wide.

The DFS oversees banks and trust companies; budget planners; charitable foundations; check cashers; credit unions; domestic representative offices; foreign agencies; foreign bank branches; foreign representative offices; health insurers, accident and related entities; holding companies; investment companies; licensed lenders; life insurance companies; money transmitters; mortgage bankers; mortgage brokers; mortgage loan originators; mortgage loan servicers; New York state regulated corporations; premium finance agencies; private bankers; property and casualty insurance companies; safe deposit companies; sales finance companies; savings banks and savings and loans associations; and service contract providers.

It’s worth noting that organizations not located in New York state but which still do business in the state do fall under New York’s DFS oversight,.

Already these organizations should have established and be maintaining a cybersecurity program and cybersecurity policy; have designated a qualified individual, internal or outsourced, to serve as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO); be limiting user-ac-

Ides of February: NYS cybersecurity deadline looms cess privileges as part of the cybersecurity program; be utilizing qualified cybersecurity personnel; have established a written incident-response plan; have notified the DFS of cybersecurity events as required, and have filed a notice of exemption, if applicable.

As Feb. 15 approaches, affected businesses need to act quickly to ensure that they are in compliance with these requirements. Fines will be fast and heavy for organizations that are found to be noncompliant.

Immediately following that deadline, CISOs are required to deliver an annual report to the board or governing body of the company

by March 1. Companies subject to the full regulations must also begin conducting annual penetration testing, biannual vulnerability assessments and periodic risk assessments, as well as establish multifactor authentication, if needed, and provide regular cybersecurity awareness training for all personnel. Additional transitional time periods will end on Sept. 3 and March 1, 2019.

While New York state businesses and organizations that fall under the jurisdiction of the DFS must fulfill these requirements in a time-sensitive fashion, other organizations, regardless of their state of operation or Department of Financial Services, would do well to review their own cybersecurity situation and augment that as needed and suggested. In fact, most of the cybersecurity requirements set forth in the new regulations, 23 NYCRR 500, are really just best practices for any organization and aren’t that terribly expensive or difficult to employ. And while New York is the first state to require such cybersecurity regulations be met, it’s only a matter of time before other states and other industries follow suit. Examining your cybersecurity position now can help you stay ahead of the competition, as well as

offer your clients additional protection. And it can safeguard your business against the short-term and longterm financial implications that result from a cybersecurity breach.

A qualified IT or technology security company can help organizations put these strategies in place quickly and easily.

Developing a work environment focused on cybersecurity, combined with the appropriate ongoing training, will potentially save a firm money and time associated with recovering from a data hack. Even simple steps like requiring longer, more complex and frequently changed passwords, setting up 10-minute screen savers, establishing individual logins, devising backup and disaster recovery plans, and facilitating ongoing training all add up to create a foundation for a much more secure operating environment.

As cybercriminals continue to become more sophisticated every day, the concerns that inspired the new New York state regulations are real and other states are considering similar measures. No doubt many businesses are already doing the right thing in terms of protecting their clients’ and their own critical information. The new regulation is meant to ensure that nothing is overlooked in terms of cybersecurity and to ensure that systems are in place to continually assess and improve an organization’s cybersecurity protection.

Al Alper is CEO and founder of Absolute Logic and CyberGuard360 in Wilton, providing technical support, security services and technology consulting to businesses of up to 250 employees in New York and Connecticut, and an author and national speaker on IT and security issues. He can be reached at al.alper@absolutelogic. com or 855-255-1550.

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interests, “I belong to all the moms’ Facebook groups.”

DeRienzo also paid to advertise her business on Facebook.

“Facebook really has been a tool,” she said.

Many of the mothers who spoke with the Business Journal said they had seen DeRienzo post on various Facebook groups about A Smart Nanny when other mothers had asked for caregiver suggestions.

“She’s marketing like crazy,” said one mother and Facebook user.

“She has people defending her on these forums that have no personal experience with her services, and I think you have to be careful with what you read.”

One of the larger Facebook groups in which DeRienzo was a member is Chappaqua Moms, a group with more than 9,200 members.

“I really rely on Chappaqua Moms,” the Armonk attorney said.

“I go on there for everything. It’s such a good resource,” said another mother of two. “We live in a really great community where people are generally trying to help one another, and they’re just there for each other. You can just go into it and ask, ‘What’s a great service for this or that,’ and people give you their

personal recommendations.”

According to screenshots of the Facebook group and mothers interviewed, various posts over the years raised issues that families had encountered with A Smart Nanny.

Those posts, however, often were deleted by the group’s moderators.

“It’s also become a culture in these mommy groups,’ said one Chappaqua mother, “they say, ‘Don’t bash people, don’t bash businesses,’ which I understand, but at the same time, people are recommending things they haven’t personally used, and then people can’t chime in and say, ‘I had a really bad experience.’”

Responding to the critical comments on various Facebook groups and on articles written about A Smart Nanny, DeRienzo said that negative reviews are a part of doing business in today’s world.

“Every business, whether it’s an online business or a restaurant, is going to face their fair share of dissatisfied customers, especially when you have very wealthy clients,” DeRienzo said in an email to the Business Journal.

LEGAL RECOURSE

Many mothers in interviews questioned how their common complaints about A Smart Nanny had gone without recourse, at times

for years. The Armonk attorney offered one answer.

“She preys on this population of people who can survive to lose $250,” she said. “It’s not insignificant, but I moved on.”

Others did as well, including the attorney’s own best friend, another mom living in Armonk who had tried unsuccessfully to collect a refund of her $250 deposit to A Smart Nanny. Neither realized they had both been dissatisfied with DeRienzo’s services until months after the fact.

“I tell her everything,” the attorney said of her friend. “Obviously, I didn’t tell her about this.”

A number of mothers, including those from Bedford and Armonk, have attempted to initiate legal action against DeRienzo by contacting the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.

“Now, that’s the part that I’m truly praying moves forward,” the second Armonk mother said.

In an email to the Business Journal, Deidra Thomas, a spokesperson in the district attorney’s office, said she was aware of the matter but had no comment.

“I feel like there’s enough anger and collective disappointment,” Chiappa said, “that people won’t let this die.”

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sures during off-peak hours are possible until the completion of the project by summer.

Despite the negative effect of the construction, business owners are pleased they will finally have a new, much safer bridge.

“Thank God they fixed it,” said Leon Nokaj, owner of Bella’s Trattoria at 473 Ashford Ave. “I don’t mind us losing a little bit of business.

It’s better than losing people.”

Nokaj added that in recent weeks, his delivery drivers and employees who transport food to nearby homes have noticed better traffic conditions and are “getting there a little faster.”

“There’s a little bit of an improvement,” he said. “The last year and a half, two years were very hard, but it’s getting better.”

While businesses like Nokaj’s were able to weather the difficult circumstances, other were not so fortunate.

The previous two-year period saw the closing of businesses that included Cedar Street Grill at 23 Cedar St, in Dobbs Ferry and Russo’s Delicatessen at 472 Ashford Ave., which sat two shops down from PourHouse.

“It really hit them hard,” Valdez

said of Russo’s.

For other businesses in the area, though, the effect of the construction was not as noticeable.

“We’re just a different kind of business,” said Doreen Bartolini, owner of Ardsley Salon at 487 Ashford Ave. With the bridge delays, “We just have clients who are late, or who huff and puff, but we’re accommodating.”

“By the time they get a head massage, they forget about it.”

A recent move for the salon is a testament to how little the construction affected its business. When her lease at 466 Ashford Ave. was up this winter, Bartolini decided it was time for a change of scenery. But instead of a move to another town or even another part of Ardsley, she chose to move directly across the street to 475 Ashford Ave. “We just like the area,” she said.

Many hope the completion of the construction project will signal a revival of the village.

“I think just having the bridge done and sort of relieving some of that traffic stress will have a big impact on bringing some customers back here,” Dixon said.

“Hopefully, they couple that with a townwide effort to sort of support some of these businesses better in the town.”

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Special Report

New owners sell a lifestyle when seeking tenants at former PepsiCo campus in Somers

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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itting in the recently renovated lobby of One Pepsi Way, the vacant 540,000-square-foot office building in Somers, Roxana Q. Girand said the goal for leasing up the property is selling tenants on a lifestyle.

The 200-acre property in northern Westchester, once home to about 1,200 employees as the corporate headquarters of PepsiCo’s bottling division, will be marketed to tenants as “not only a corporate solution, but a lifestyle solution,” Girand said. “We have tennis courts, we have basketball courts, softball fields, running trails, bicycle trails, hiking trails.”

In a recent interview with the Business, Girand described the plans of the building’s new ownership and management to restore life and tenants to the building, which PepsiCo vacated in 2016.

Girand is president and CEO of Sebastian Capital Inc., a Manhattan real estate firm that specializes in representing wealthy families in Latin America with real estate assets in the U.S. market. Girand represents what she described as a group of Mexican investors that purchased the PepsiCo building for $87 million in 2015.

Her company also represents the same ownership at the 1.2 million-squarefoot former IBM campus in Somers, which IBM sold

in 2016 after the company announced it would relocate its employees there to other offices.

Girand’s job puts her in charge of finding new businesses to occupy the large footprint left behind by the two Fortune 500 companies. The two properties together total about 1.6 million square feet of office space.

While Girand said plans are still being finalized for the IBM campus, the company is moving forward with a multi-tenant leasing strategy at the former PepsiCo campus, which it re-branded as the Urban Campus.

And while the nine-story building is in a submarket with already high vacancy rates, Girand was confident in describing the building’s attraction to businesses.

She pointed to the new security desk as an example. In renovating the lobby, the desk was moved to the side of the main entrance to allow employees and visitors a clear view of the Muscoot Reservoir as they walk in.

“Your focus is now completely directed to the reservoir, toward seeing what we are, which is an amazing building that is never going to be built again, in an area that is unique,” she said.

“Give me three buildings in Westchester where you have water views, open skies and a Class A building. There are not too many.”

She said that repositioning such a large asset “takes time and takes work to make sure that everybody is comfortable. You only real-

The rear of the Urban Campus building with a view of the Muscoot Reservoir. Photo by Bob Rozycki

ly need one or two tenants and it’s a domino effect, and we’re seeing that right now.”

The building served for more than 30 years as headquarters for the Pepsi Bottling Co., a spinoff of PepsiCo. PepsiCo reacquired the company in 2010 and renewed its lease at the Somers facility one year later. In 2015, the company announced it would consolidate its operations and relocate employees to its offices in White Plains and headquarters in Purchase. The last employees in Somers left in 2016.

The group of investors that Girand represents purchased the building under the company name 1 P Way LLC. While Girand declined to characterize the ownership group, the Business Journal reported following the sale that the purchaser was an affiliate company in Mexico City of Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu. A Slim spokesperson later confirmed to Forbes magazine that a real estate company affiliated with the billionaire was behind the deal.

Girand declined to disclose how much the new owners have invested in the property, but detailed a number of recent facility updates.

Part of the focus, she said, was shifting the building’s interior from some-

thing that was designed “by Pepsi, for Pepsi” to a more community-oriented and collaborative environment.

“Right now the model of having this enormous space for large companies isn’t totally there,” Girand said.

“People want more space efficiency and more of that urban feeling in a serene environment.”

To attract a range of tenants, Girand said she needed a design that was “nice and modern, nothing too big or over the top.”

That included removing the Pepsi memorabilia that once greeted visitors. The lobby has been renovated with new furniture and a coat of paint and offers free Wi-Fi access. It features a 24-hour grab-and-go station for employees working odd hours to grab a sandwich or coffee.

A health club run by a third party is on the way and will be open to both office tenants and the community.

A renovated restaurant and cafeteria will open this summer on the fifth floor, which also offers conference and meeting space for tenants.

In about a month, Girand said, a pinball machine, arcade games and a pool table will be added to the main lobby, where a ping pong table is already in place.

“What I want people

to see is that yes, you are working in a corporate environment... but you want to give employees a way of life,” Girand said. “That lifestyle component is something that was missing back in the ‘80s, ‘90s, where everything was so compact. Now people want interaction.”

Toward that end, the company converted part of the sixth floor of the building into a co-working space of about 10,000 square feet for smaller companies.

The space has proved popular, Girand said, and is already near capacity. Those co-working tenants, she said, could eventually lease full office spaces.

“So that’s what we are looking to create,” she said, “that hybrid model with a co-working area that enables that company to expand into a larger space into the building.”

Girand aims to have the building fully stabilized within five years. It is being marketed to everything “from small businesses to Fortune 500s” at a wide range of square footage options. She said she’s heard from architects, engineers, consultants, law firms, web designers and biotech companies interested in space.

Girand expects about 70,000 square feet will be leased by the end of spring.

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in Somers could be a tough sell in today’s office market, where companies have sought downtown spaces in White Plains and southern Westchester said to appeal more to millennial workers.

But Girand countered that that the Somers property is not “in the wilderness.”

Recognizing the importance of connecting commuting tenants to mass transit, she has tried and recorded the travel time for every form of transportation between the Urban Campus and Katonah’s Metro-North train station.

“Three minutes by car, seven minutes by bicycle and 20 minutes walking,” she said.

The company is also exploring adding a shuttle service from the Katonah or Goldens Bridge Metro-North stops once it attracts a larger volume of tenants with workers who commute by train.

“I’m not trying to compete with Manhattan, I’m not trying to compete with White Plains,” Girand said.

Instead she’s offering an alternative for companies that want both a downtown office environment and open space in the northern part of the county.

“I can give you a Class A space, a Class A-run building, at a third of the price of Manhattan and with all the amenities,” she said.

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The two houses that would be torn down for the building. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh

Medical office building proposed in downtown White Plains

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s development in the city has skewed almost solely toward new mixed-use apartment buildings, the White Plains Common Council heard plans on Jan. 29 from a developer bucking the trend.

At a special meeting in the mayor’s conference room, a team from the White Plains firm Keeler Markwood Group walked the council through a plan for constructing a 10,000-square-foot office building targeting medical tenants.

The plans target two lots at 6-8 Chester Ave. in the city. The developer would replace two homes on the lots formerly used as

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law offices with a modern office building.

The building would feature on-grade parking below two levels of office space. Conceptual renderings showed the building with a glass curtain wall.

Keeler Markwood Principal Sam Dickinson said while the building could be adjusted based on tenant interest, the proximity to White Plains Hospital makes health care the likely best use for the property.

The property is toward the middle of Chester Avenue, which runs between East Post Road and Maple Avenue at the southeast end of the city’s downtown. White Plains Hospital is about a half-mile away.

The hospital is growing quickly, Dickinson told the Business Journal following the meeting, “so the opportunity to build something that is brand new and allows people to be close to the hospital if they want to be, we found that to be an attraction.”

Dickinson also cited reports of a strengthening office market as a driving factor behind the concept.

While a number of obsolete office buildings have been torn down for residential and other new uses, market analysts were generally positive about the strength of county leasing in 2017, particularly in White Plains.

A Cushman & Wakefield analysis said last year may have been the strongest for office leasing in the White Plains downtown in the last decade. Meanwhile, medical tenants last year drove an increasing portion of the county’s office demand, up to about 24 percent of all leasing in 2017 compared with about 12 percent the year before, according to numbers from Newmark Knight Frank.

The 6-8 Chester Ave. property is already zoned for office use and the developers would require no variances. The city council would need to approve site plan approval for the development to move forward. The project is designed by Brooklyn architect Pablo De Miguel.

Keeler Markwood is a partnership between Dickinson and Matthew Tritt. Dickinson has a background in finance, while Tritt works in construction and development focused in New York City. The partners, both Westchester residents, launched the firm last year with the goal of “doing something more in our backyard,” Dickinson said.

The 6-8 Chester Ave. project would be the company’s first. Dickinson said Keeler Markwood will focus largely on opportunities for ground-up and repositioning real estate projects in Westchester and Fairfield counties.

While that could mean a range of property types, Dickinson said the company sees the medical office market as a particularly attractive opportunity.

As for the 6-8 Chester Ave. project, Dickinson said, “We’re local guys and we want to do something that is tasteful and something that will add to the character and be useful for the neighborhood.”

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Action: Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: Ryan Leyland Gentile. Filed: Jan. 26. Case no. 7:18-cv-00698-VB. Simunyola Tennis LLC. Filed

by Jean-Benoit Belin. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Jordan Alexander El-Hag. Filed: Jan. 25.

Case no. 7:18-cv-00610-KMK. U.S. Xpress Leasing Inc. Filed by Timothy Courtney. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorney: Jeffrey Adam Segal. Filed: Jan. 29. Case no. 7:18-cv-00708-CS.

ON THE RECORD

Orange World LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Antoinette Galante, Tuckahoe.

Property: 82 Wallace St., Eastchester. Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 24.

Acqua Capital LLC, White Plains.

Seller: Aldo V. Vitagliano, Rye. Property: 119 Dehaven Drive, 341, Yonkers. Amount: $202,000. Filed Jan. 26.

Palis 1031 LLC, et al, Yonkers.

Seller: 500 Mamaroneck Owners LLC, New York City. Property: 500 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains.

Amount: $5.1 million. Filed Jan. 23.

Agia Marina 124 Locust Hill Corp., Spring Valley. Seller: 55 Wade LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 124 Locust Hill Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $330,000. Filed Jan. 22.

Suma Yonkers Federal Credit Union, Yonkers. Seller: Lonya Gilbert, Larchmont. Property: 86 Palmer Ave., Scarsdale. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Jan. 25.

Alba Developers Inc., Bronx.

Seller: City of Yonkers. Property: 16 Monroe St., Yonkers. Amount: $148,500. Filed Jan. 25.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Joseph Maria, White Plains. Property: 335 Eighth Ave., Peham. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan. 25.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Eric M. Fayer, White Plains. Property: 8 Lewis Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed Jan. 25.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Jerrice Epps, White Plains. Property: 400 Polly Park Road, Harrison. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Jan. 25.

Below $1 million DEEDS Above $1 million 75 Mamaroneck LLC, Hartsdale.

Seller: 75 Mamaroneck Avenue LLC, Bronx. Property: 75 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Jan. 22.

Avalon Yonkers Sun Sites LLC, Fairfield, Connecticut. Seller: Alex I East LLC, et al, Yonkers. Property: 80-86 Alexander St., Yonkers.

Amount: $11.6 million. Filed Jan. 22.

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Seller: Anthony M. Abraham, Carmel. Property: 71 Tuttle Road, Ossining. Amount: $1 million. Filed Jan. 25.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Jesue LLC, et al, Boca Raton, Florida. Property: 242 Mamaroneck Ave, Mamaroneck. Amount: $5.3 million. Filed Jan. 26.

MCP II 3 Westchester LLC, Boston, Massachusetts. Seller: GCCFC 2006-GG7 Gannett Office LLC, Miami Beach, Florida. Property: 3 Westchester Park Drive, Harrison.

Amount: $10.9 million. Filed Jan. 23.

34 Anderson Road LLC, Katonah.

Seller: Howard Russell Connors, et al, Onancock, Virginia. Property: 34 Anderson Road, Bedford. Amount: $590,000. Filed Jan. 25.

46 Red Oak LLC, Mamaroneck.

Seller: Harold E Simon, et al, Dix Hills. Property: 46 Red Oak Lane, New Castle. Amount: $460,000.

Filed Jan. 24.

55 Enterprises Corp., Tarrytown.

Seller: Town of Greenburgh. Property: 52 W. Main St., Greenburgh.

Amount: $525,320. Filed Jan. 24.

56 Anderson Development Corp., Yonkers. Seller: Angela Romano, Scarsdale. Property: 56 Anderson Ave., Eastchester. Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 24.

806 Hudson LLC, Spring Valley.

Seller: Immobiliare Assets LLC, South Salem. Property: 806 Hudson Ave., Peekskill. Amount: $110,000.

Filed Jan. 26.

86 East Main Owners Inc., Elmsford. Seller: M. Montenegro Enterprises Inc., Elmsford. Property: 86 E. Main St., Greenburgh. Amount: $880,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Alba Developers Inc., Bronx. Seller: City of Yonkers. Property: 173 Linden St., Yonkers. Amount: $165,000.

Filed Jan. 25.

Alba Developers Inc., Bronx.

Seller: City of Yonkers. Property: 46 Vineyard Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $101,750. Filed Jan. 25.

Albert Properties IV LLC, Irvington. Seller: Frank Naccari, Elmsford. Property: 52 Nepperhan Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $430,000.

Filed Jan. 23.

Awan Properties Inc., Mount Vernon. Seller: Aurelio C. Villagomez, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Property: 169 Irving Bush Ave., Rye. Amount: $425,000. Filed Jan. 26.

BMSWestchester Realty LLC, McLean, Virginia. Seller: Phyllis Hutter, Hartsdale. Property: 428 Pine Grove Lane, 78, Greenburgh.

Amount: $831,200. Filed Jan. 26.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Albert Cornachio, Rye Brook. Property: 128 Kingsbridge Road West, Mount Vernon. Amount: $350,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Linda S. Rose-Savarese, et al, Scarsdale. Property: 233 Underhill St., Yonkers. Amount: $694,165.

Filed Jan. 23.

Farco Realty LLC, Purchase. Seller: Pyotr B. Tsipenyuk, Pleasantville.

Property: 24 Waters Edge, New Castle. Amount: $518,000. Filed Jan. 22.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: P. Daniel Hollis, Mount Kisco. Property: 319 Egmont Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $467,418. Filed Jan. 25.

GGZ Ventures LLC, New York City.

Seller: John Sarcone, White Plains.

Property: 13 Fisher Lane, Bedford.

Amount: $160,000. Filed Jan. 22.

Global Real Estate USA Inc., New York City. Seller: T.V. Rajeevakumar, Scarsdale. Property: 107 Lakeview Ave., Eastchester. Amount: $675,000. Filed Jan. 23.

GM Management of NY Inc., Putnam Valley. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 1716 E. Main St., Yorktown.

Amount: $140,000. Filed Jan. 22.

Heritage 119A Corp., Baldwin Place. Seller: William J. Nolan, et al, Pound Ridge. Property: 177B Heritage Hills, Somers. Amount: $225,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Kyr Developers LLC, Williston Park. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 173 Washington St., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $185,000. Filed Jan. 24.

MJD Contracting Corp., Mahopac. Seller: John M. Perone, Larchmont. Property: 100 Sunfish Landing, Yorktown. Amount: $190,000.

Filed Jan. 22.

MMBA LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Robert G. Tritsch, New Rochelle.

Property: 31 Winchester Oval, New Rochelle. Amount: $750,000. Filed Jan. 23.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Joseph Maria, White Plains. Property: 2715 Quaker Church Road, Yorktown. Amount: $444,218. Filed Jan. 26.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Peter P. Rosato, Yonkers. Property: 18 Arden Place, Yonkers. Amount: $469,953. Filed Jan. 24.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Seller: Guy T, Parisi, Rye. Property 814 Old Country Road, Greenburgh.

Amount: $256,847. Filed Jan. 22.

Palmer Consultants LLC, Armonk. Seller: Cindy N. Brown, White Plains. Property: 8 Sterling Road North, North Castle. Amount: $995,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Pensco Trust Company FBO Michael V. Mingione IRA, Denver, Colorado. Seller: Richard Donsavage, Thornwood. Property: 11 Meadow Hill Court, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 26.

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Reed Family Properties LLC, Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Anthony A. Milazzo, Croton-on-Hudson, Property: 171 N. Riverside Ave., Cortlandt.

Amount: $475,900. Filed Jan. 23.

Sha Realty Group LLC, White Plains. Seller: Roem LLC, Mamaroneck. Property: 219 Beech Road, Yorktown. Amount: $250,054. Filed Jan. 23.

Supreme Homes LLC, Ossining. Seller: Andrew Jacobson, et al, Tarrytown. Property: 150 Riverview Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $410,500. Filed Jan. 24.

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GOOD THINGS

CROSS NAMED PARTNER AT ZARIN & STEINMETZ White Plains law firm Zarin & Steinmetz has announced that Jody T. Cross has been promoted to partner. She joined the firm as an associate in 2003. In 2014, she became senior counsel.

Cross is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut, and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Zarin & Steinmetz represents private, institutional and municipal clients in zoning and land use, environmental law, solid and hazardous waste, real estate and business transactions, eminent domain and related litigation.

From left: Yonathan Whitehouse, Jean Julien, John Mulvey, Peg Nolan, Annette Herber, Leslie Gordon, Catherine Strother, Charlene Carlino, Deborah Smith and Melinda White.

WELLS FARGO DONATES $10K TO FOOD BANK Food Bank for Westchester has received a $10,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation.

This marks the first time the foundation has donated to the organization. The funds will help provide more than 23,800 meals to Westchester children and families in need. Additionally, Wells Fargo recently donated 1,296 pounds of food collected through a nationwide drive.

Leslie Gordon, president and CEO of Food Bank for Westchester, said, “We are so thankful to the Wells Fargo Foundation for this first-time grant and we look forward to continuing a great partnership with them in the future.”

“The reality is that there are many hungry residents who depend on meal programs and food pantries,” said Deborah Smith, head of the Wells Fargo Foundation for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

From left: the Rev. Nicholas Anctil, George Williams, Helen Morik and Dino Yotides.

WILLIAMS HONORED BY CHURCH

George P. Williams, president and CEO of A.G. Williams Painting Co., was honored with the 2017 Trinity Award by the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of New Rochelle.

The award was presented at the church’s 89th annual Anniversary Gala, attended by more than 300. Williams, who served as president, vice president and trustee on the church’s board of directors, was recognized both for his personal and his company’s dedication to the church.

“This has been a lifetime journey and I am proud to a part of the strong and dedicated community that is Holy Trinity,” said Williams.

The Rev. Nicholas Anctil, presiding priest at Holy Trinity, said, “George and the A.G. Williams family have offered over four generations of outstanding service to the church and have handled any task with exceptional diligence and detail.”

“My father, who was a hard worker throughout his entire life, taught me a strong work ethic, while my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong,” said Williams.

“These values are what we try to instill in our A.G. Williams employees today.”

Williams credited his brother and co-president, Arthur Williams as being the anchor of the company that helps keep him grounded and focused

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From left: Pound Ridge Police Chief David Ryan; Cindy Kanusher, executive director of the Pace Women’s Justice Center; Alison Boak; J.S.; Mimi Rocah and Carol Barry, executive director of the Pace Criminal Justice Institute.

PACE LAW HOLDS CONFERENCE ON CHILD SEX-TRAFFICKING The underlying subject is by no means a good thing, but the fact that it’s receiving law enforcement attention is. About 100 state and federal law enforcement officials, social services providers, parents and educators gathered at Pace’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law for a conference on child sex-trafficking. Members of the Westchester County Anti-Trafficking Task Force said that they have handled more than 300 cases since the task force began in 2011.

Mimi Rocah, distinguished criminal justice fellow at the law school told the conference, “We are not helpless in the face of these horrible acts. …We need to get the facts, raise awareness and arm ourselves with tools for prevention.”

The conference was produced in collaboration with the Pace Women’s Justice Center, International Organization for Adolescents, My Sisters’ Place, the Junior League of Northern Westchester and the Westchester County Anti-Trafficking Task Force.

A survivor of child sex-trafficking, identified only as J.S., was interviewed by panel moderator Alison Boak, executive director of the International Organization for Adolescents. J.S. spoke about being preyed upon as a teenager by a 34-year-old pimp who profited from forcing her to perform sex acts. J.S. said that her sheltered life in the suburbs of Seattle had not prepared her for the real world.

“Trafficking prevention starts and ends with our community being educated and proactive in our response,” Boak said.

FSW’S JUNIOR BOARD COUNCIL ADDS MEMBERS Port Chester-based Family Services of Westchester (FSW) has a Junior Board Council that is composed of volunteers who support the board of directors and promote the mission of FSW through educational, fundraising and service initiatives. The appointment of six new council members was announced Jan. 29.

One new member is Liesa Alvarez of West Harrison, director of human resources at a Manhattan real estate investment and development company.

Also joining is Chiann Roveto of Rye. She is active in several community organizations.

Nilshika K. Weerasinghe is a native of Colombo, Sri Lanka, who became a U.S. citizen in 2017, and is with Tompkins Financial Advisors in White Plains. She received a Millie Award from Westchester CBJ in 2016.

Regina Bagdasarova, who lives in New Rochelle, has been with TD Bank for more than 10 years. She is a commercial credit analyst.

Jennifer Schwartz-Crawford of Yonkers is a program specialist at the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services.

The sixth new member is Lisa Pavlovsky, who recently relocated from Seattle to Rye. Susan B. Wayne, president and CEO of FSW, said, “Each (new member) brings valuable experience to our organization as well as a sincere commitment to helping the clients of FSW.”

SURGEON USES COMBINED TECHNOLOGIES AT PHELPS

Northwell Health has announced that surgeon Alice M. Police is director of breast surgery for its Westchester region, seeing patients at its Phelps and Northern Westchester hospitals.

Police uses a combination of three surgical technologies designed to produce a higher likelihood of not leaving behind cancer cells at the outer edge or margin, of tissue that is removed during surgery.

A surgical guidance system called SAVI Scout is the first-ever application of radar technology in the human body to make the surgery more precise so that less healthy tissue is removed.

Also used is a probe that allows the surgeon to assess immediately whether the margins are clear while the patient is still in the operating room.

Lastly, intraoperative radiation therapy is used when appropriate. With IORT, patients may receive one radiation treatment during the surgery that can potentially prevent the need for six weeks of follow-up radiation therapy.

“A patient can literally have breast cancer one week and not (have it) by the following week,” said Police.

HAPPENING

ON THE SILVER SCREEN

A film about spiritual leader Ram Dass opens the Meditative Life Series at the Burns Center.

There are good things happening in Westchester for fans of documentaries. The annual Meditative Life Series opens on Feb. 7 at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville.

Opening night features the film “Ram Dass: Going Home,” in which the spiritual leader shares his personal practice and philosophy. In addition to the film, there will be a conversation with Krishna Das, a student of Ram Dass, moderated by the Garrison Institute’s Jane Kolleeny.

On Feb. 8, the film “The Last Dalai Lama?” will be shown, followed on Feb. 12 by “One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage.” Additional documentaries are scheduled for screening through Feb. 27. Details at burnsfilmcenter.org.

In Ossining on Thursday, Feb. 15, there will be a free screening of the film “Soundtrack for a Revolution,” a documentary about the music of the civil rights movement. A panel discussion will follow. The event is presented by The Ossining Documentary and Discussion Series and takes place at the Ossining Public Library. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.

Ossining Mayor Victoria Gearity is a co-founder of the series and will be emcee for the evening. “I look forward to learning from our panelists, who are all inspiring women of color. Each woman offers a unique perspective on justice and the power of music,” Gearity said.

NEW OFFICERS FOR SUPPORT CONNECTION

TROPEANO FREGIEN JOINS MOVES TO COVECARE BOARD THOMPSON & BENDER

Gary Wawrzycki has been elected board president for Support Connection Inc., a Yorktown-based nonprofit that provides free support services to people affected by breast and ovarian cancer.

Wawrzycki is the regional banking branch manager for the Shrub Oak branch of Wells Fargo Bank, and has been involved in Support Connection since 2013.

Wawrzycki said, “I believe in the work that Support Connection does. I’ve seen the direct and positive impact they have on a daily basis on the lives of women and families affected by breast and ovarian cancer.”

Other board officers elected were Denise D’Amico of Shrub Oak as vice president, Dave Sacarny of Armonk as treasurer and Janet DeVito of Danbury as secretary.

Advertising and public relations agency Thompson & Bender has announced that Ossining resident Kerry Tropeano has joined the firm as marketing and communications director. She had been with Saks Fifth Avenue, where she oversaw the development, planning and execution of public relations and image-building strategies.

Before joining Saks, Tropeano was director of North American public relations at Tiffany & Co., managed business public relations at Major League Baseball and was director of marketing communications for Nielsen Media Research.

Elizabeth Bracken-Thompson, a partner at Thompson & Bender, said, “Her extensive knowledge will directly benefit our clients, elevating their visibility and exposure in our communities and connecting them with their target audiences.”

Heart recipient Taylor Clarke, right, walks down the runway with her health care champion at last year’s Girls Night Out.

A NIGHT OUT FOR WOMEN’S HEART HEALTH A lot of attention is focused on women’s heart health in February, and a Feb. 9 event at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown is being billed as providing a fun-filled evening that will warm your heart while benefiting the Heart and Vascular Institute at Westchester Medical Center.

The event is called Girls Night Out and its organizers say it’s “one of the best kept secrets in Westchester.” WMC Health Network’s Girls Night Out invites guests to eat, drink, shop and laugh with friends and then settle back for a program emceed by WCBS-TV news anchor Mary Calvi.

Girls Night Out features the stories of women who overcame the odds in their battle against heart disease. During the event, they’re reunited with the health care champions who made their recoveries possible. Specialty boutiques are set up at the Marriott for shopping and there’s a raffle and silent auction. Tickets are available through foundation.westchestermedicalcenter.com/girls-night-out.

WESTMED HONORS MARTIMUCCI, RECEIVES ACCREDITATION Each year, one doctor at Purchase-based Westmed Medical Group receives the Dr. Leonard Finkelstein Excellence Award, named after a founding member of Westmed.

This year, William Martimucci of Armonk was honored by his colleagues with the award.

In her award presentation, Jenifer Johnson, chair of the nominating committee, said his colleagues described Martimucci as “dedicated, persistent, hardworking, conscientious, approachable and genuine.”

Martimucci had served for 25 years as medical director of the Osborn retirement community in Rye. Currently, he provides primary and geriatric care at Westmed.

Westmed itself recently received an award: the Accredited Urgent Care designation, the highest level of distinction for urgent care centers. The designation means that it has met all of the Urgent Care Association of America’s established standards and criteria for quality of patient care, safety, and scope of services.

Westmed currently has urgent care centers in White Plains, Rye, New Rochelle, Ridge Hill and the Boyce Thompson Center in Yonkers and in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Suzanne Fregien has joined the board of directors of Carmel-based CoveCare Center, formerly known as Putnam Family & Community Services. The nonprofit addresses mental health needs, substance use and social and emotional issues.

The organization’s CEO Diane E. Russo, said, “Her enthusiastic support of our mission and her strong connections to the business community will be invaluable as we continue to provide quality services to those in need.”

Fregien was born and raised in Mahopac. She has been an employee of PCSB Bank since 1995, and serves as an assistant vice president and branch manager of the Brewster office.

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Facts & Figures The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Barry R. Fertel, New Rochelle. Property: 10 Cliff St., Yonkers.

Amount: $801,439. Filed Jan. 24.

Westchester Land Trust Inc., Bedford Hills. Seller: E. J. Sullivan Contracting Inc., Pleasant Valley.

Property: 1 Saw Mill River Road, Yorktown. Amount: $200,000.

Filed Jan. 23.

FORECLOSURES BRIARCLIFF MANOR, 94 Meadow Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .47 acre. Plaintiff: Philip Kellman. Plaintiff’s attorney: Einig & Bush, 212-983-8866; 420 Lexington Ave., Suite 2020, New York 10170.

Defendant: J. Philip Faranda. Referee: Ronald Zezima. Sale: Feb. 3, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $82,590.00.

CORTLANDT, 209 Grand St. Two-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: MTGLQ Investors. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Gloria Parra.

Referee: Charles D’Agostino. Sale: Feb. 21, 10:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $696,196.13.

HARRISON, 8 Canterbury Road South. Single-family residence; lot size: .44 acre. Plaintiff: Manufactures & Traders Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Deborah Feldman. Referee: Lonya Gilbert Sale: Feb. 6, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $783,660.06.

MAMARONECK, 127 Highview St. Single-family residence; lot size: .54 acre. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Vincenzo Gabriele. Referee: Lawrence Thomas Schiro. Sale: Feb. 6, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $611,142.84.

MOUNT VERNON, 173 Crary Ave. Apartment; lot size: 16 acre.

Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit, Court No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Sheriece McKenzie. Referee: Lonya Ann Gilbert.

Sale: Feb. 6, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $840,393.36.

MOUNT VERNON, 710 S. Sixth Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .12 acre. Plaintiff: HRB Mortgage Holding LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-7591835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Gilardo Arrendondo. Referee: Joan Salwen.

Sale: Feb. 6, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $712,122.19.

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NEW ROCHELLE, 27 Plain Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .13 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Francisco Gonzalez. Referee: John Perone. Sale: Feb. 21, 8:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $506,870.09.

YONKERS, 31 Saint Joseph Ave. Apartment; lot size: .55 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Stein, Wiener & Roth, 516-742-1212; 1 Old Country Road, Suite 113, Carle Place 11514. Defendant: Devon Snaith.

Referee: Michael Amodio. Sale: Feb. 13, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $420,458.75.

PEEKSKILL, 3 Spring Meadow Lane, Unit 3. Apartment; lot size: .15 acre. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221.

Defendant: Kathleen Brennan. Referee: John Perone. Sale: Feb. 13, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $418,482.84.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, 93 Woodlands Drive. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Joseph Goubeaud. Referee: Michael Sirignano. Sale: Feb. 13, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $526,739.52.

PORT CHESTER, 62 Leicester St. Single-family residence; lot size: .46 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Anthony Casterella. Referee: Naomi Duker. Sale: Feb. 21, 9:15 a.m.

Approximate lien: $1,122,451.61.

RYE, 3 Chester Drive. Single-family residence; lot size: .94 acre.

Plaintiff: Capital One National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 585-987-2800; 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester 14614. Defendant: Lina Yazigi. Referee: Julia Henrichs. Sale: Feb. 6, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $2,085,288.02.

RYE, 549 Purchase St. Single-family residence; lot size: .34 acre. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624.

Defendant: Christine Principato.

Referee: Ariene Gold Wexler. Sale: Feb. 20, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $823,147.48.

JUDGMENTS Cornerstone Restoration Corp., Yonkers. $17,657 in favor of LH Gault and Son Inc., Yonkers. Filed Jan. 24.

Excelso Coffee LLC, Johns Creek, Georgia. $60,066 in favor of Paragon Coffee Trading Company LP, White Plains. Filed Jan. 26.

Franchise Contractors LLC, Elmsford. $22,135 in favor of Construction Force Services IOnc., Flushing. Filed Jan. 24.

Franchise Contractors LLC, Pelham Manor. $14,965 in favor of J-Con Inc., Beacon Fals, Connecticut. Filed Jan. 22.

Homeland Security Strategies GB Ltd., White Plains. $348,610 in favor of Sky-Track Technology Co., Wuse Abuja, Nigeria. Filed Jan. 22.

SOUTH SALEM, 72 East St. Single-family residence; lot size: 2.89 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank Trust National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Rebecca Wells Fischer. Referee: Ryan Karben. Sale: Feb. 8, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,135,667.19.

Natural Health Shoppe LLC, Howell, New Jersey. $107,819 in favor of IBM Credit LLC, Armonk. Filed Jan. 24.

WHITE PLAINS, 23 Wyoming Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff’s attorney: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 585-987-2800; 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Briarcliff 14614. Defendant: Teodore Orzuna. Referee: Julia Henrichs.

Sale: Jan. 20, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $483,440.01

USA Recycling Inc., Yonkers. $4,782 in favor of USF Industries, Mount Vernon. Filed Jan. 22.

Ritter Antik Inc., Long Island City. $239,548 in favor of East 10th St Associates LLC, White Plains. Filed Jan. 24.

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

Baidoo, Emmanuel, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $480,000 affecting property located at 31 Rogers St., Tuckahoe 10707.

Filed Nov. 22.

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Cipriano, Thomas, et al. Filed by Pennymac Holdings LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $193,500 affecting property located at 137 Stone Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Nov. 27.

Novellino, Gina, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $342,000 affecting property located at 32 Tibbets Road, Yonkers 10705. Filed Nov. 28.

Dicola, Tracey J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $95,000 affecting property located at 225 Broadway, Verplanck 10596.

Filed Nov. 27.

Rooney, Roseanne, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 261 Old Farm Lane, Mohegan Lake 10547.

Filed Nov. 28.

Godfrey, Derrick, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1 million affecting property located at 126 Lord Kitchener Road, New Rochelle 10804. Filed Nov. 22.

Johnson, Edna M., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $248,897 affecting property located at 614 The Colony, Unit 614, Hartsdale 10530.

Filed Nov. 27.

Jonah Holdings LLC, et al. Filed

by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $394,500 affecting property located at 122 Babbit Road, Bedford Hills 10507. Filed Nov. 28.

Leach, Etta Mae, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $392,000 affecting property located at 338 S. Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Nov. 27.

Mcalister-Pinkard, Princella, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $327,000 affecting property located at 27 Knoll View, Ossining 10562. Filed Nov. 27.

Mcneil, Joanith Edwards, et al.

Filed by Trinity Financial Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $55,000 affecting property located at 250 Lorraine Ave., Mount Vernon 10550.

Filed Nov. 22.

Moore, Aidan, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 9 Hillside Close, White Plains 10603. Filed Nov. 22.

Nair, Sinu, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $497,250 affecting property located at 183 Croton Ave., Ossining 10562. Filed Nov. 28.

Spagnoli, Emma, as successor trustee of the Antonio Spagnoli Trust, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $637,500 affecting property located at 17 Ridgeview Drive, Ossining 10562. Filed Nov. 22.

Unknown heirs at law of Robert E. Burke Jr., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $331,200 affecting property located at 481 A Heritage Hills, Somers 10589. Filed Nov. 27.

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

Partnerships Juguitos, 331 Fifth Ave., Pelham 10803, c/o Francisco Villacorta and Pablo J. Guere. Filed Oct. 13.

Sole Proprietorships A-1 Distributor, 22 Horton Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Yousef Bashjawish. Filed Oct. 13.

ABC Academy, 1624 Park St., Peekskill 10566, c/o Nychelle J. Jackson-Walcott. Filed Oct. 16.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

AwesomepixsbyGio, 539 N. Wagner Ave., No. 2, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Giovanni Gonzalez. Filed Oct. 13.

Elmsford 1706 LLC, as owner. $6,385 as claimed by Blakley Equipment, Mount Vernon. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Jan. 26.

Beauty Labs Lovin My Skin Organic Skincare, 64 Elliott Ave., Yonkers 10705, c/o Lianna Brathwaite. Filed Oct. 16.

Grant, Christopher, et al, as owner. $8,704 as claimed by Builders Firstsource Inc., Middletown. Property: in Cortlandt. Filed Jan. 24.

Cut and Color, 319 N. Seventh Ave., First floor, Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Raquel Costa Papi. Filed Oct. 12.

Hy2 Taxter LLC, as owner. $101,760 as claimed by Durkin Company LLC, Stamford, Connecticut.

Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Jan. 23.

Mamaroneck Gardens Inc., as owner. $2,240 as claimed by Top Drawer Custom Cabinetry Corp., New Rochelle. Property: in Mamaroneck. Filed Jan. 26.

PPF SS 615 Fifth Ave LLC, as owner. $1,694 as claimed by Lumiram Development Corp., Larchmont.

Property: in Mamaroneck. Filed Jan. 25.

Scarsdale Shopping Center Associates LLC, as owner. $149,171 as claimed by BAC Electrical Construction Company, Thornwood.

Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Jan. 26.

D and S Construction, 2501 Field St., Cortlandt Manor 10567, c/o Doug Gardineer. Filed Oct. 12.

Garden on Wheels of Westchester Co., 7 Oakwood Drive, Apt. 81, Peekskill 10566, c/o Joseph E. Schaefer. Filed Oct. 13.

Gemmola and Associates, 317 Elwood Ave., Suite A, Hawthorne 10532, c/o Edmond A. Gemmola.

Filed Oct. 16.

Gentlemens Preservation, 237 Ringold St., Peekskill 10566, c/o Jevon Lorenzo Ofield. Filed Oct. 16.

Inurgy, 42 Washington Blvd., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Jheaneel Bailey. Filed Oct. 13.

Izan Delicias, 68 Haseco Ave., First floor, Port Chester 10573, c/o Sarah Mojica. Filed Oct. 13.

Joy Certified Organics, 110 Fisher Ave., No. 2B, Eastchester 10709, c/o Roseanne McCullough. Filed Oct. 16.

Facts & Figures Lemon and Lavender, 241 Bedford Road, Apt. A, Bedford Hills 10507, c/o Brianna Espinoza. Filed Oct. 16.

Lukas Italian Cuisine, 130 W. Post Road, White Plains 10606, c/o Uka Brucaj. Filed Oct. 12.

M.C.B. House Cleaning, 4 Water St., Ossining, Maria C. Barbecho Chillogalli. Filed Oct. 16.

Mark Plasters Painting and Cleaning, 5 Renaissance Square, Unit 21-A, White Plains 10601, c/o Mark C. Plasters. Filed Oct. 16.

Rebeca Beauty Salon, 95 Fourth St., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Edith R. Gonzalez. Filed Oct. 13.

RS Tennis Unlimited, 36 Walnut St., Dobbs Ferry 10522, c/o Richard Sanchez. Filed Oct. 16.

Skyz The Limit General Contracting, 631 N. Terrace Ave., Suite 3G, Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Philip Moore. Filed Oct. 16.

Tikal Construction, 12 Grove St., First floor, Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Edwin A. Ruiz Lazaro. Filed Oct. 16.

PATENTS Cache migration management in a virtualized distributed computing system. Patent no.

9,882,984 issued to Lawrence Y. Chiu, San Jose, California; Hyojun Kim, San Jose, California; Paul H. Muench, San Jose, California; and Sageetha Seshadri, San Jose, California Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Cloud-based emergency wireless link. Patent no. 9,883,325 issued to Casimer M. DeCusatis, Poughkeepsie; and Anuradha Rao, Hopewell Junction. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Coding scheme for identifying spatial locations of events within video image data. Patent no.

9,883,193 issued to Michael J. Desimone, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, Connecticut; Zuoxuan Lu, Yorktown Heights; Carl P. Mercier, New Milford, Connecticut; Christopher S. Milite, Oxford, Connecticut; Stephen R. Russo, Southbury, Connecticut; Chiao-Fe Shu, Scarsdale; and Chek K. Tan, Danbury, Connecticut. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Image file transmission. Patent no. 9,882,979 issued to Shadi E. Albouyeh, Raleigh, North Carolina; Jeffrey R. Hoy, Southern Pines, North Carolina; and Stephanie L. Trunzo, Wake Forest, North Carolina. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Managing continuous priority workload availability and general workload availability between sites at unlimited distances for products and services. Patent no. 9,882,980 issued to Serge Bourbonnais, Palo Alto, California; Paul M. Cadarette, Hemet, California; Michael G. Fitzpatrick, Raleigh, California; David B. Peterson, Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Gregory W. Vance, Morgan Hill, California. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Managing requests to a high-utilization website. Patent no.

9,882,959 issued to Stephen Chow, Plano, Texas; Grant D. Miller, Arvado, Colorado.; Nader M. Nassar, Yorktown Heights; Richard J. Newhook, West Chester, Pennsylvania.; and Erich Walls, Valparaiso, Indiana. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Maniford heat exchanger. Patent no. 9,883,616 to Timothy J. Chainer, Putnam Valley; and Pritish R. Parida, Fishkill. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Network authentication of geo-fenced volume. Patent no.

9,882,898 issued to Franck Barillaud, Austin, Texas; Insoo Cho, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.; Daniel M. Christiani, East Falmouth, Massachusetts; Mark R. Thill, Seattle, Washington; and David S. Zhang, Norcross, Georgia. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Packet forward optimization without an intervening load balancing node. Patent no.

9,882,972 issued to David A. Herr, Cary, North Carolina; Grant S. Mericle, Durham, North Carolina; Bruce H. Ratcliff, Red Hook; and Benjamin T. Rau, Raleigh, North Carolina Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Regional firewall clustering in a networked computing environment. Patent no. 9,882,875 issued to Robert K. Floyd III, Richmond, Vermont.; Baiju D. Mandalia, Boca Raton, Florida.; Robert P. Monaco, Croton; and Mahesh Viswanathan, Yorktown Heights. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million 4 Hardscrabble Heights LLC, Brewster, as owner. Lender: Mahopac Bank, Brewster. Property: 4 Hardscrabble Heights, Southeast.

Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Jan. 24.

DEEDS Above $1 million 20 Windy Ridge LLC, Nelsonville.

Seller: Rosie LLC, New York City.

Property: 20 Windy Ridge, Philipstown. Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 19.

4 Hardscrabble Heights LLC, Brewster. Seller: 26 Palmer LLC, et al, White Plains. Property: 4 Hardscrabble Heights, Southeast.

Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Jan. 24.

Butterfield Realty LLC, Cold Spring, as owner. Lender: Mahopac Bank, Brewster. Property: 1756 Route 9D and 51-64 Paulding Ave., Cold Spring. Amount: $4.8 million.

Filed Jan. 9.

Arlington Professional Suites LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Gale Marie Patrick, et al, Arlington, Texas.

Property: 510 and 514 Haight Ave. and 19 Fowler Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 23.

Vidal, Richard M., et al, as owner. Lender: Rondout Savings Bank.

Property: in Clinton. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 26.

Capital One N.A. Seller: John Scialdone, et al, Putnam Valley. Property: in Putnam Valley. Amount: $1 million. Filed Dec. 21.

Below $1 million Joyner, David L., Brooklyn, as owner. Lender: NBT Bank N.A., Norwich. Property: 7403 Millbrook Road, Arkville 12406. Amount: $250,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Nidorf, David, New Paltz, as owner. Lender: Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association, Walden. Property: 1 Enclave Manor Drive, New Paltz 12561. Amount: $223,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Total Tennis Saugerties New York LLC, Saugerties, as owner.

Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Fishkill. Property: 1811 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties. Amount: $732,885. Filed Jan. 18.

Total Tennis Saugerties New York LLC, Saugerties, as owner.

Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., Fishkill. Property: 1811 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties. Amount: $92,015. Filed Jan. 18.

Watt, Neil J., et al, Gardiner, as owner. Lender: Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association, Walden. Property: 1748 Albany Post Road, Wallkill 12589. Amount: $200,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Putnam Business Park LLC, Brewster. Seller: Putnam Business Park, Brewster. Property: 1689 Route 22, Brewster. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 5.

Saugerties Realty Holdings LP, Brooklyn. Seller: Williams Venture Four LLC, New Paltz. Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $1.3 million.

Filed Jan. 25.

WGC Holdings LLC, Kingston.

Seller: Wiltwyck Golf Club Inc., Kingston. Property: in Ulster.

Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 16.

Below $1 million 10th Street Enterprises LLC, et al, High Falls. Seller: Michael F. Fernandez, River Edge, New Jersey.

Property: in Rosendale. Amount: $362,500. Filed Jan. 24.

1166 Route 208 LLC, New Paltz.

Seller: Judy E. Dolan, Wallkill. Property: in Shawangunk. Amount: $600,000. Filed Jan. 25.

1422 Rt 28 LLC, New Paltz. Seller: Walking Rock Enterprises Inc., New York City. Property: 1442-1446 West Hurley, Hurley. Amount: $160,000.

Filed Jan. 26.

180 Developers/Management LLC, South Fallsburg. Seller: Jeter Realty Corp., Ellenville. Property: in Ellenville. Amount: $25,000. Filed Jan. 18.

601 Route 28 Realty LLC, Staten Island. Seller: Rompella Enterprises LLC, Saugerties. Property: in Ulster.

Amount: $850,000. Filed Jan. 22.

A and A Kingston Management LLC, Kingston. Seller: Ralph G. Palen, et al, Kingston. Property: in Kingston. Amount: $119,000. Filed Jan. 19.

A-Class Management Inc., Carmel. Seller: Marianne S. Vitelli, Katonah. Property: in Kent. Amount: $125,000. Filed Jan. 5.

Ankushbajajrealty LLC, White Plains. Seller: Louis Miller Jr., Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $93,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Aspen Tree LLC, Fishkill. Seller: Irma T. Lada, Mahopac. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $85,000. Filed Dec. 27.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Robert C. Bickford, Cold Spring. Property: 35 Lake Trail, Carmel 10512.

Amount: $227,793. Filed Jan. 5.

Bayview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Florida. Seller: Russell W. Katz, New Paltz. Property: 9 Holland Lane, New Paltz 12561.

Amount: $267,336. Filed Jan. 17.

BSM Properties LLC, Wappingers Falls. Seller: Shingara Singh, et al, Wappingers Falls. Property: 191 Robinson Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $275,000. Filed Jan. 22.

Bullshead LLC, Stanfordville. Seller: Timothy P. Knickerbocker, Clinton Corners. Property: in Stanford.

Amount: $90,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Cascada Commons LLC, Saugerties. Seller: Marylyn Donahue, New York City. Property: in Saugerties.

Amount: $147,000. Filed Jan. 18.

CCKC Realty LLC, Brewster. Seller: Delores R. Ceasrine, Brewster. Property: 63 Cooledge Drive, Southeast.

Amount: $170,000. Filed Jan. 9.

Che Syrah LLC, Cold Spring. Seller: 3102 Route 9 LLC, Cold Spring.

Property: 3102 Route 9, Cold Spring.

Amount: $465,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Cornwall Land Holdings LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Prospect Ridge LLC, Wallkill. Property: in Marlboro.

Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 16.

D and B Z Ventures Inc. Seller: Douglas Polk, et al, Carmel. Property: 24-26 Horton Road, Carmel.

Amount: $150,000. Filed Jan. 12.

WCBJ

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Joseph Arthur Charbonneau, Brewster. Property: 747 Horsepound Road, Carmel 10512.

Amount: $970,257. Filed Jan. 3.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Michael D. Kranis, Poughkeepsie. Property: 21 Dennis Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $423,500. Filed Jan. 24.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Raphael John Basso, Poughkeepsie. Property: 406 Baker St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $231,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Sean F. Boschulte, Fishkill. Property: 16 Bell Air Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $491,500. Filed Jan. 24.

Dover Livestock LLC, Amenia.

Seller: Meadow Brook Properties LLC, Wingdale. Property: Route 22, Dover Plains 12522. Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Dutchess Builders LLC, LaGrangeville. Seller: M and C of Dutchess Inc., Miami, Florida. Property: in Beekman. Amount: $75,000. Filed Jan. 25.

E and L 332 Main Street LLC, Beacon. Seller: DDR Beacon Associates, Pleasant Valley. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $430,000. Filed Jan. 22.

Fannie Mae. Seller: Michael J. Khader, Yonkers. Property: 386 Route 52, Carmel 10512. Amount: $246,366. Filed Dec. 21 Feta Vacations Corp., Bellmore.

Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 54 Church Road, Saugerties 12477. Amount: $65,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Good Space LLC, Kingston. Seller: Success Homes NY LLC, Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 871 Nicholas Ave., Kingston 12401. Amount: $185,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Helmut Enterprises LLC, Kingston. Seller: B and G Green LLC, Hurley. Property: 35-37 Green St., Kingston 12401. Amount: $190,000.

Filed Jan. 23.

High Garden Holdings LLC, White Plains. Seller: Michael Lamagna, White Plains. Property: 36 Birch Trail, Carmel. Amount: $105,300.

Filed Jan. 3.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Todd Fishlin, Mount Kisco. Property: 60 Warren Drive, Patterson 12563.

Amount: $306,254. Filed Jan. 3.

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Facts & Figures Hudson Delia LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Seller: Karen E. Hagstrom, Poughkeepsie. Property: 9 Elizabeth St., Red Hook 12571. Amount: $182,000.

Filed Jan. 23.

Hudson Valley Luxury Homes Inc., Mahopac. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 670 Route 6N, Mahopac 10541.

Amount: $303,500. Filed Jan. 12.

Hudson Valley Real Estate Group LLC, Tivoli. Seller: Julia C. Crowley, Tivoli. Property: in Red Hook. Amount: $225,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Nee Ree Ti LLC, New Paltz. Seller: Louis A. Benson, et al, Gardiner.

Property: in Gardiner. Amount: $380,000. Filed Jan. 16.

New Hamburg Development Group LLC, Millbrook. Seller: Jean M. Hess, New Hamburg. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $190,000.

Filed Jan. 25.

Niche 12 LLC, Beacon. Seller: Metal Concepts LLC, Beacon. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $785,000. Filed Jan. 24.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Luis Daniel Torres, et al, Beacon. Property: 40 W. Center St., Beacon 12508. Amount: $356,000.

Filed Jan. 26.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Jerry Kebrdle II, White Plains. Property: 32 Glenna Drive, Carmel 10512. Amount: $701,551. Filed Jan. 19.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Patricia L. Campanaro, Hopewell Junction.

Property: 275 Church St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $251,000.

Filed Jan. 25.

Iron Grip Inc., Saugerties. Seller: Arthur G. Sperl Jr., Saugerties.

Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $250,000. Filed Jan. 26.

NY Orange County Property LLC, Fishkill. Seller: Al Twal LLC, Poughkeepsie. Property: 110 New Hackensack Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $95,000. Filed Jan. 23.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A., as trustee of OWS Remic Trust 2015-1. Property: 32 Buckshollow Road, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $196,200. Filed Jan. 12.

J. Adams Holding LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Maura A. Barrett, Poughkeepsie. Property: 26 Davies Court, Poughkeepsie. Amount: $91,500. Filed Jan. 23.

Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc., New York City. Seller: Richard Vandemark, et al, Pine Bush. Property: in Shawangunk.

Amount: $26,000. Filed Jan. 25.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Charles E. Stewart III, Pawling.

Property: 12 Rock Cut Lane, Pleasant Valley 12569. Amount: $122,000.

Filed Jan. 26.

Jonsts Properties LLC, Yorktown.

Seller: Christopher Arrigo, et al, Carmel. Property: 76 Bryant Trail, Carmel 10512. Amount: $150,000.

Filed Jan. 19.

Our Side of the Mountain LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Ulster County Habitat For Humanity Inc., Kingston. Property: in Olive. Amount: $45,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Anna Hatjopoulou, et al, Carmel. Property: 18 Pleasant Road, Lake Peekskill 10537. Amount: $220,127. Filed Jan. 2.

JRKB Properties LLC, Pine Bush.

Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 3 Quannacut Road, Pine Bush 12566.

Amount: $149,040. Filed Jan. 24.

Panthoula LLC, Mahopac. Seller: Rina Orlinsky, New York City. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $172,500.

Filed Jan. 3.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Anthony Zerbo, Patterson. Property: in Patterson.

Amount: $335,000. Filed Jan. 9.

Landmark Elite Holdings LLC, Wilmington, Delaware. Seller: Johann Safer, Kingston. Property: in Kingston. Amount: $144,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Larmel Investors LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: James E. Kurkela, et al, Poughquag. Property: 1806 Cherry Hill Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $105,000. Filed Jan. 26.

Ledson Properties LLC, White Plains. Seller: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Florida.

Property: 189-191 North Road, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $225,000.

Filed Jan. 11.

M&T Bank, Buffalo. Seller: Patrick T. Gartland, Poughkeepsie. Property: 110 N. White Rock Road, Holmes 12531. Amount: $285,000. Filed Jan. 22.

MCL Partners LLC, Valatie. Seller: Diane P. Foley, Wappingers Falls. Property: 21 Underhill Road North, Poughquag 12570. Amount: $192,000. Filed Jan. 24.

MGJG Ltd., Piermont. Seller: TLTK Lakeshore Management Pension Corp., Mahopac. Property: in Kent.

Amount: $100,000. Filed Dec. 21.

MJD Contracting Corp., et al, Mahopac. Seller: Maria J. Frank, Yorktown. Property: 17 Sterling Road, Carmel 10512. Amount: $212,000.

Filed Jan. 3.

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PIC Property Holdings LLC, Ulster Park. Seller: Paul Curtis Huth, et al, Esopus. Property: in Esopus.

Amount: $250,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Larry J. Sherman, Poughkeepsie. Property: 11 Ohare Drive, LaGrange 12540. Amount: $661,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Real Equity 6140 LLC, Rhinebeck. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 6140 Route 9, Rhinebeck 12572. Amount: $152,000. Filed Jan. 26.

World Olivet Assembly Inc., Dover Plains. Seller: JPJR Holdings LLC, LaGrange. Property: in Dover.

Amount: $520,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Rodriguez Homes LLC, Saugerties. Seller: Julian Argueta, et al, Catskill. Property: in Saugerties.

Amount: $171,000. Filed Jan. 19.

YMB Holdings LLC, Suffern.

Seller: Roberto Bonheur, et al, Hyde Park. Property: in Hyde Park.

Amount: $130,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Roundtable 1 Inc., Montgomery.

Seller: City of Beacon. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $135,000. Filed Jan. 26.

JUDGMENTS

Rymph Road Properties Ltd., Staatsburg. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 16 Morgan Circle, Hyde Park 12538. Amount: $125,000. Filed Jan. 23.

SH Estates LLC, et al, Mahopac.

Seller: Arlene Gold Wexler, Mamaroneck. Property: 15 Nicholas Way, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $400,500.

Filed Jan. 3.

Stella Home Buyers LLC, Astoria.

Seller: Fred Weinkauff, Troy. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $80,000. Filed Jan. 22.

WCBJ

A and M Services Inc., Wallkill. $538 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 19.

Avanti Events NY, Saugerties. $21,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 9.

Berzal Enterprises Inc., Saugerties. $208 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 24.

Cibo Inc., Milton. $28,078 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 22.

D and K Rock Services Inc., Kingston. $1,102 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

New York Vape Club Inc., New Paltz. $5,690 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

Dawson’s Cleaning Service, Kingston. $1,251 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

North Atlantic Building Services Inc., Highland. $1,035 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 16.

East West Marketing Services Inc., New Paltz. $169 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Empty Press Inc., Kingston. $165 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

Fallsy Inc., Gardiner. $6,070 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

GPC Inc., Kingston. $5,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 9.

Green Palette Corp., Kingston. $10,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 9.

Heather Martin Realty Associates Inc., Boiceville. $151 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Iannelli Photography LLC, Saugerties. $3,480 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

J.D. Breitmaier Inc., Highland. $337 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

K and J Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning, Kingston. $22,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany.

Filed Jan. 25.

Kissho Inc., New Paltz. $362 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Lazreb Inc., Saugerties. $1,392 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 19.

LBD Motors LLC, Ellenville. $74,863 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Liberty Security Services LLC, Kingston. $4,013 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Schenker Design and Construction Inc., New Paltz. $1,037 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 22.

Shamrock Shows and Amusements Inc., Milton. $1,061 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 24.

TJM Construction Services Inc., Kingston. $289 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Ulster Auto, Kingston. $14,472 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

United Pacific Realty Ltd., Plattekill. $126 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Woodstock Market Manager Corp., Woodstock. $4,402 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 16.

Woodstock Outdoor Company Inc., Woodstock. $8,490 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 22.

Yummies Mini Golf and Ice Cream Café Inc., Highland. $402 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

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

Banney, Jeannine, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $178,750 affecting property located at 266 Noxon Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Jan. 22.

Blair, Julie P., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $110,000 affecting property located at 37 Robin Road, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Jan. 24.

Bramson, Howell, as guardian ad litem on behalf of Ross W. Parrish, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $216,000 affecting property located at 26 Kent Acres Court, Carmel 10512.

Filed Jan. 22.

Brogan, Laureen, as heir and distributee of the estate of Sonja Brogan, et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 301 Drew Lane, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 26.

Brown, Cleopatra, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $529,600 affecting property located at 10 Bridey Lane, Brewster 10509. Filed Jan. 8.

Calogero, Shirley, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 6 Oak Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Dec. 29.

Cannon, William J., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,000 affecting property located at 8 Sunset Ridge, Carmel 10512.

Filed Jan. 23.

Caralyus, Christopher M., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 204 Great Lawn Court, Brewster 10509.

Filed Jan. 5.

Carlin, William J. Jr., Putnam County commissioner of finance as administrator for the estate of John Joseph Begansky, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $249,023 affecting property located at 14 Sylvan Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed Dec. 26.

Carlin, William Jr., commissioner of finance of Putnam County as administrator of the estate of William L. Woods, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $498,000 affecting property located at 25 Old Long Pond Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Jan. 11.

Carrow, James Edward, et al.

Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $219,301 affecting property located at 8 Spruce St., Putnam Valley 10537. Filed Jan. 24.

Facts & Figures Christie, Walter C. Jr., individually and as administrator of the estate of Walter C. Christie, et al.

Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $125,460 affecting property located at 44 Ticonderoga Road, Kent. Filed Jan. 12.

Coakley, Jeremiah, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,000 affecting property located at 89 Wood St., Mahopac 10541.

Filed Dec. 22.

Cobb, Catherine, et al. Filed

by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $25,000 affecting property located at 186 Tanglewylde Road, Lake Peekskill 10537. Filed Jan. 12.

Colangelo, Arlene, et al. Filed by Chase Home Finance LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $378,000 affecting property located at 723 Route 311, Patterson 12563. Filed Jan. 19.

Cunningham, Brian T., et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $120,000 affecting property located at 705 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Dec. 22.

Dexter, Kerri, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $208,000 affecting property located at 33 Broadway, Amenia 12501. Filed Jan. 19.

Dooley, Thomas J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $351,000 affecting property located at 521 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Jan. 9.

Duffy, Donald, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $268,000 affecting property located at 42 Trenton Road, Fishkill 12524. Filed Jan. 24.

Faria, Joaquin, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $40,756 affecting property located at 36 Salem Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 11.

Felch, Richard W. Jr., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $107,843 affecting property located at 71 Coxing Road, Cottekill 12419. Filed Jan. 19.

Figueroa, Candice, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $156,750 affecting property located at 92 Upper Cherrytown Road, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Jan. 26.

Flocco, Maryanne, et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $320,000 affecting property located at 21 Jill Court, Patterson.

Filed Jan. 18.

Hicks, Thomas H., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $176,600 affecting property located at 363 Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Jan. 23.

Mahoney, John W., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $348,750 affecting property located at 4 Fair Meadow Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed Dec. 28.

Powell, Sheila A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 14 W. Center St., Beacon 12508.

Filed Jan. 19.

Frank, Richard, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $459,000 affecting property located at 31 Camp Ridge Road, Wallkill 12589.

Filed Jan. 19.

Hosmer, Gary, as heir at law and next of kin of Helen C. Hosmer, et al. Filed by Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 112 Route 301, Cold Spring 10516. Filed Jan. 2.

Marcus, Kathryn, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,125 affecting property located at 28 Tano Drive, Highland 12528.

Filed Jan. 19.

Proctor, John W., et al. Filed by Iberiabank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 12 Robin Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Jan. 18.

Martinez, Pedro, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $351,000 affecting property located at 34 Oak St., Brewster 10509. Filed Jan. 10.

Rembe, Stephen C., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 401 Cornwall Meadows Lane, Patterson 12563. Filed Dec. 28.

May, Johanna L., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $215,000 affecting property located at 82 Sherwood Hill Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Jan. 26.

Rodriguez, Carlos R., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $50,000 affecting property located at 6 Maiden Lane, Ellenville 12428. Filed Jan. 24.

Mcloughlin, Margaret, et al.

Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 601 Driftway Lane, Brewster 10509. Filed Jan. 17.

Rossy, Nelson E., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $172,000 affecting property located at 1404 Brentwood Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed Jan. 26.

Fusco, Anthony S., et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 9 Paul Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed Dec. 26.

Garcia, Christopher, et al. Filed

by New Penn Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 46 Osceola Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 5.

Gay, Thomas I., as co-executor of the estate of Thomas W. Gay Jr., et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,125 affecting property located at 11 Cedar Ridge Road, New Paltz 12561. Filed Jan. 18.

Giordano, Ramona, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $399,500 affecting property located at 130 Dykeman Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Dec. 29.

Gouveia, Robert P., et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 23 Fassit Drive, Mahopac 10541.

Filed Jan. 17.

Gramatikos, John, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $337,500 affecting property located at 1731 Route 32 South, Saugerties 12477. Filed Jan. 18.

Guinn, James L. Jr., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $235,900 affecting property located at 269 Route 32 South, New Paltz 12561. Filed Jan. 18.

Harp, Philip, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $142,704 affecting property located at 25 Edgewood Drive, Saugerties 12477. Filed Jan. 23.

Heirs and distributees of the estate of Octavia Nicolucci, et al. Filed by James B. Nutter and Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $348,750 affecting property located at 7 Xenia Road, Patterson 12563. Filed Jan. 25.

Iannolo, Francesco, et al. Filed

by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $595,200 affecting property located at 30 Blossom Lane, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 3.

Kanthak, Thomas, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $136,800 affecting property located at 7A Alpine Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Jan. 18.

King, Kenneth, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $154,345 affecting property located at 55 Ox Bow Road, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Jan. 24.

Koehler, Steven C., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $322,500 affecting property located at 25 Hamilton Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Jan. 24.

Kreiman, Michael, et al. Filed by Selene Finance LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $351,645 affecting property located at 52 Hillside Drive, Mahopac 10541.

Filed Jan. 19.

Lantigua, Xiomara, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $90,000 affecting property located at 7 Amazon Road, Carmel 10512.

Filed Dec. 21.

Lepino, John J., et al. Filed by Keybank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 15 N. Hollow Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Jan. 25.

Lugo, John A., et al. Filed by Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,000 affecting property located at 39 Dunderberg Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Dec. 28.

Maccarone, Richard, et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $339,287 affecting property located at 64 Stocum Ave., Mahopac 10541. Filed Jan. 18.

Miller, Donald A., et al. Filed by Partners For Payment Relief De II LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 6 Putnam Drive, Carmel 10512.

Filed Jan. 25.

Miller, Gregory P., et al. Filed by Caliber Home Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $292,000 affecting property located at 30 Bank St., Cold Spring 10516. Filed Jan. 11.

Murphy, Sean, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $202,500 affecting property located at 85 Old Post Road, Esopus 12429. Filed Jan. 18.

Ruhmshottel, Richard, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $170,105 affecting property located at 17 Pilgrim Terrace, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Jan. 19.

Sarich, Debra A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 35 Pembrooke Court, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Jan. 2.

Scauzillo, Michael Peter, et al.

Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,000 affecting property located at 19 Cole Drive, Carmel 10541. Filed Dec. 27.

Myer, Darren L., et al. Filed by Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $75,000 affecting property located at 49 Charles Hommel Road, Saugerties.

Filed Jan. 24.

Scott, Keith, et al. Filed by Stephen L. Pirog and Eugene W. Pirog.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $305,000 affecting property located at 160 Pirog Road, Shawangunk. Filed Jan. 23.

O’Clair, Dennis, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $254,043 affecting property located at 276 Spillway Road, West Hurley 12491. Filed Jan. 23.

Sejdi, Vlora, et al. Filed by Roundpoint Mortgage Servicing Corp.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $299,475 affecting property located at 11 Brookdale Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Dec. 28.

Olszewski, Kimberly A., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,817 affecting property located at 254 Hasbrouck Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed Jan. 19.

Shepherd, Arlene P., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 38 Ponderosa Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 23.

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Sherratt, Josephine J., et al.

Filed by Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $49,000 affecting property located at 1152 Arson Road, Stanford. Filed Jan. 22.

Sillery, Jennifer, et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $320,000 affecting property located at 32 Meadow Court, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 19.

Simone, Eric, et al. Filed by Specialized Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $161,444 affecting property located at 39 Honey Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Jan. 24.

Smith, Jillian, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 571 Route 376, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Jan. 18.

Sonko, James, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $257,575 affecting property located at 11 Felicello Drive, Marlboro 12542.

Filed Jan. 16.

Stoy, Edwin, et al. Filed by Irma Clemente, trustee of The Joseph F. Clemente Trust, et al. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $285,000 affecting property located at 250 Cooper Lake Road, Bearsville. Filed Jan. 17.

Tarantola, Lillian J., et al. Filed

by OneWest Bank FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $185,000 affecting property located at 225 Logan Lane, Mahopac 10541.

Filed Dec. 29.

The estate of Whitney Blythe Evans, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $156,800 affecting property located at 136 Brigham Lane, Lake Katrine 12449. Filed Jan. 16.

Torillo, Frederick C., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $318,240 affecting property located at 91 Velie Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Filed Jan. 18.

Tranberg, Deric A., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 85 Lincoln Ave., Beacon 12508.

Filed Jan. 22.

Zimmerman, Ira, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $650,000 affecting property located at 83 Germond Road, Clinton Corners 12514. Filed Jan. 18.

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Facts & Figures MECHANIC’S LIENS Bally, Stephen, et al, as owner. $10,385 as claimed by Builders Firstsource Inc., Middletown. Property: 21 Carolyn Road West, Carmel.

Filed Jan. 19.

Dawkins, Michael, as owner. $48,580 as claimed by W. Martini Construction Corp., Stanfordville.

Property: 134-157 Bretti Lane, Washington. Filed Jan. 24.

Kanouse, Evan D., Patterson, as owner. $67,720 as claimed by Pavel Mihok DVM, Newtown, Ct. Property: 2371 Route 22, Patterson 12563.

Filed Jan. 24.

Madden, Daniel, et al, Carmel, as owner. $429 as claimed by The Turf Barbers LLC, Yorktown Heights.

Property: 32 Joseph Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 12.

Mirabile, Joseph, as owner. $1,750 as claimed by Long Pond Association Inc., Mahopac Falls. Property: 363 Wixon Pond Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Jan. 25.

Quezada, Daniel, as owner. $76,545 as claimed by Hudson Valley Mitigation and Restoration LLC, New Hampton. Property: 2651 E. Main St., Wappinger. Filed Jan. 24.

Van Kleeck, Adam, as owner. $16,050 as claimed by Coleman Concrete, West Coxsackie. Property: 743 Old Post Road, Esopus. Filed Jan. 16.

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

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Bella Casa Renovations and Remodeling, 4019 Whispering Hills Drive, Chester 10918, c/o Marc Tanz.

Filed June 9.

Bishop Honor, P.O. Box 4232, Kingston 12401, c/o Keith W. Holloway. Filed Jan. 12.

MJ House, 151 High Barney Road, Middletown 10940, c/o Max Jorzik.

Filed June 9.

Black Market Crafts, 111 Ryan St., Apt. 5, Port Jervis 12771, c/o Cheyenne Nadyne Gregory. Filed June 9.

Moo Do Self Defense, 35 Highland Road, Ulster Park 12487, c/o Jonathan P. Rafter. Filed Jan. 16.

Brian Hodge Videography, 85 Toleman Road, Washingtonville 10992, c/o Brian G. Hodge. Filed June 9.

Mylaso, 78 Academy Ave., Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518, c/o Mario E. Espinoza. Filed June 5.

Bunz on the Run, 122 State School Road, Warwick 10990, c/o Vanessa Vazquez-Valdez. Filed June 5.

Computer Joe Services, 17 Mercer St., Middletown, c/o Joseph A. Kowalczyk. Filed June 8.

David F. Conklin Quality Home Improvements, 273 Greeves Road, New Hampton 10958, c/o David F. Conklin. Filed June 9.

Diaz and Son Photography, P.O. Box 21, Spring Glen 12483, c/o Kennie Diaz Sr. Filed Jan. 16.

Nail Bangers, 60 Carson Ave., Newburgh 12550, c/o Ivan Romero.

Filed June 9.

New Paltz Carpet Cleaning, 17 Howard St., New Paltz 12561, c/o Richard A. Fall. Filed Jan. 11.

OC Imports Foreign and Domestic Parts Distributor, 2 Mazies Lane, New Windsor 12553, c/o Jason W. Nicoli. Filed June 6.

OCD Designs, 106 Christian Lane, Maybrook 12543, c/o Marybeth Rivera. Filed June 9.

DLR Realty, 444 Nelson Road, Monroe, c/o Alexandro DeLarosa.

Filed June 5.

Reliable Resource Technician, 4 Skyline Drive, Apt. 22, Saugerties 12477, c/o Louis J. Castillo. Filed Jan. 16.

Doula Renee, 8 Summer Set Drive, Montgomery 12549, c/o Renee A. DeZemo. Filed June 6.

Simply Bee Soaps, 710 Albany Post Road, New Paltz 12561, c/o Sharon A. DeMatteo. Filed Jan. 12.

Empire Design Investments, 145 Elmendorf St., Kingston12401, c/o Lizette R. Alvarez. Filed Jan. 11.

Soul Entertainment Group, 6 Willow Place, Middletown 10940, c/o Mohammad A. Naveed. Filed June 8.

Healthy Choices, 23 D.A.Wieder Blvd., No. 102, Monroe, c/o Chaya Jeremias. Filed June 9.

The Hamlett Media Agency, 84 Ridge Road, Westtown 10998, c/o Sandra G. Hamlett. Filed June 7.

Hiraeth Custom Creations, 1136 Greenville Turnpike, Middletown, c/o Lauren Elizabeth Toman. Filed June 5.

Townsfolk Marketing, 16 Black Stallion Court, Middletown 10940, c/o Justus A Koen. Filed June 5.

Jessie’s Angels Childcare, 629 Route 49, Middletown, c/o Jessie Greco. Filed June 5.

Troy Auto Sales, 11 Bruce St., Newburgh 12550, c/o James Leo Troy III. Filed June 8.

Middletown Cabaret, 42 Ingrassia Road, Middletown 10940, c/o John E. Smith. Filed June 5.

WHY Mobile Solutions, 232 Route 32 South, No. 1, New Paltz 12561, c/o Roy T. Revill Jr. Filed Jan. 12.

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A ‘buzz’ of excitement over its future as White Plains Hospital turns 125

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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ust a few feet outside the first-floor office of White Plains Hospital CEO and President Susan Fox, there’s an opening ripped in the wall. But there’s no need for repairs just yet.

The opening is part of the hospital’s celebration of 125 years in business.

Staff recently took down a section of the finished wall to reveal a concrete cornerstone built into part of the former hospital building, marked 1939. It was dedicated as part of a hospital expansion at the time that was later built over for even newer hospital space.

There’s believed to be a time capsule hidden behind that cornerstone. If it is indeed still there — there’s a plan to search for it with x-rays — Fox said the hospital will dig it out and open it in a ceremony this spring.

It’s a chance for some unique anniversary publicity, no doubt, but also a physical reminder of the way the hospital has constantly expanded its blueprint over more than a century while maintaining its downtown location on East Post Road.

“We’ve been through everything from a four-room hospital to start to where we sit today,” Fox said. “As we renovate the hospital and as we expand, we see pieces of history.”

That four-room hospital opened on Chatterton Hill in 1893, from which it served 31 patients in its first year. The hospital moved to a slightly larger building on Lexington Avenue four years later before landing at East Post Road in 1907, the address it has called home since.

In that time, the city has grown around its down-

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town hospital. White Plains exploded from a rural village of fewer than 8,000 residents into the high-rise city of 58,000 that functions as the governing and business hub for a county of nearly 1 million people. Just under 200,000 patients are treated yearly by White Plains Hospital across a range of specialties and services, and those patients come from throughout the county and even outside of it.

Today’s hospital is surely unrecognizable from the original 50-bed, red-brick hospital on East Post Road where patients once were dropped off by horse and buggy.

The last century brought a series of ribbon cuttings and groundbreakings. Those stretch from the construction of a new wing in 1924 that expanded the hospital from 50 beds to 100 to the opening of the Dickstein Cancer Center in 1991, the first freestanding cancer center between New York City and New Haven. They include the recent $100 million in upgrades to modernize the hospital’s lobby and add private patient rooms and surgical suites.

In that time, the hospital opened the county’s first cardiac center, first self-contained ambulatory center and first fully automated chemistry center.

Leigh Anne McMahon, senior vice president of patient care services, started as a nurse with White Plains Hospital 34 years ago. She was impressed then with the hospital’s focus on small details in patient experience — even changing the art on the walls of patients who spend more than a couple days in a single room to keep things fresh.

She estimates there were about 150 nurses when she

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first started there. Now she oversees a staff of 800 nurses, covering a range of specialties.

The hospital has grown steadily in her time, but McMahon said it’s accelerated in recent years. “Five years ago, if you asked me where we’d be today, I don’t think I could even imagine,” she said.

Much of that growth has been driven by the community, Fox said, including the fundraising efforts of the Friends of White Plains Hospital and other foundations.

Recent growth has also followed the hospital’s partnership with Montefiore Health System, which was finalized in 2015. The affiliation has provided the hospital with additional funds and larger institutional backing at a time that Fox described as especially crucial to the hospital’s future.

“Over the years there’s been times of ‘we’re fine,’ and then times where we need to accelerate in some ways,” she said. “And I think in the last 10 years we’ve really needed to have a very focused plan to be successful in the future.”

That strategic planning has been driven in part by the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The health care overhaul changed the ways hospitals are compensated, focusing on measuring quality of care rather than volume of services provided. Health care institutions throughout the county and country have been forced to adjust.

The first White Plains Hospital opened with four beds in this house on Chatterton Hill in 1893. Photo courtesy of White Plains Hospital.

White Plains Hospital President and CEO Susan Fox

Montefiore’s focus on population health, White Plains Hospital board chairman Laurence Smith said, made it an ideal partner for this era of medicine.

Population health is another term for health care focused on patient outcomes and coordination of care. Smith described Montefiore as a leader in developing that type of care system.

“The one thing we know with certainty is that health care expenses are too high in this country and outcomes are too low,” Smith said. “So when you think about how to fix that, we don’t have all the answers, but certainly population management is a part of that.”

For White Plains Hospital, that means an increased presence throughout the county in ambulatory care facilities and a growing base of doctors that allows the hospital to serve as a regional hub for Montefiore.

The hospital has grown to include 292 beds, but that’s no longer the only measure of its footprint.

“A lot of what we do now is in many ways make sure people don’t get sick, and don’t have to come into the hospital,” Fox said.

The hospital celebrated a $60 million expansion of its cancer care center in 2016 and last fall cut the ribbon on a $17.5 million renovation of its clinical space, among other projects. More expansion is on the way, as Fox said the hospital expects to make a major facilities announcement later this year.

“We have been very proactive about what our future is and our future is to continue to build, just as in our past,” said Fox, who succeeded longtime White Plains Hospital CEO Jon. B. Schandler in the top executive post in 2015.

That continued growth comes as a number of major regional health care providers in addition to Montefiore have entered the Westchester County market through hospital partnerships and acquisitions. The NewYorkPresbyterian and Northwell Health systems have partnered with and invested substantially in several county hospitals, while two New York City specialty hospitals, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Hospital for Special Surgery, have built

outpatient centers in White Plains Hospital’s backyard.

Smith said that’s no reason for worry. He cited the example of a gas station owner who has a competitor open a new station across the street. That has to be bad for business, right?

“In fact, it turns out to be good, because now everyone comes to that intersection for their gas,” Smith said.

“One of the issues that has existed for a long time in Westchester County is that people in southern and central Westchester, if they have a knee replacement, they automatically go into the city.

They have something serious on the cardiac front, they go into the city. The future of health care for Westchester patients lies in Westchester.”

Fox said she reminds staff to “keep our eyes” on White Plains Hospital’s own operations rather than competitors’. “We know what to do. We’ve been here for 125 years doing it right,” she said.

That’s part of what make the hospital’s leadership positive for the future. There’s a “buzz,” they say, over what lies ahead at the 125-year-old community hospital.

“The last five years, it’s been just mind-boggling to see where this hospital has grown to,” McMahon said.

“The services, the growth of facilities. I sit in this seat now and think, oh my gosh, where are we going to be in five years? It’s exciting to know it’s going to be even more mind-boggling.”

LEGAL NOTICES 95 Palisade Avenue LLC. Filed 12/13/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 65-22 79th Place, Middle Village, NY 11379 Purpose: all lawful #61516 Dalemen Associates, LLC. Filed 12/20/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 54 Morris Lane, Scarsdale, NY 10583 Purpose: all lawful #61517 DVG Family LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/18/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 33 Windermere Dr., Yonkers, NY 10710.

General Purpose #61518 Notice of Formation of HORIZON CLEAN ENERGY LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/5/17. 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, 2005 Palmer Ave #1048. Larchmont, NY 10538. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61520 The Styled Set LLC. Articles filed w/ SSNY 12/27/17. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to Reg. Agent: Legalinc Corp Services Inc, 1967 Weherle Dr Ste 1 #086, Buffalo, NY 14221. Purpose: Any lawful activity #61522 APB Auto Detailing and Hauling LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/30/2017. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 40A Locus Hill Ave., #5J, Yonkers, NY 10701. General Purpose. #61523 Josephine Valerie, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Department of State of New York (DSNY) on 12/20/17. Office location: WestchesterCounty. DSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. DSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 148 Vineyard Ave., Yonkers, New York10703, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61524 Notice of Formation of Evolytix, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/15/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. Scott Binger as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Mail process to the LLC, 49 Smith Ave, 3rd Floor, Mount Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61525 Notice of Formation of BCREW Solutions LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/09/2017. 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, 49 Reyburn Road, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61526

JP Communication Access Services, LLC. filed with SSNY on 12/18/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Jody Prysock, 5 Bryant Crescent #2N, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful act or activity #61528 Halyard Realty LLC. Filed 12/21/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 445 Hamilton Avenue Ste 1102, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61529 Notice of Formation of HIGHLAND VIEW REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/26/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 10 Foxwood Circle, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61530

Notice of Formation of BADALY ENGINEERING PLLC. Principal office Westchester County.

Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 2 Wilson PLace, Mt Vernon, NY 10550. Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on January 2, 2018. Purpose: Any lawful act(s). #61537 Notice of formation of Petrovani Family Medicine, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/ Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Nov 09, 2017.

Off. loc.: Westchester Cnty.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: ? Mark Petrovani, M.D., 51 Carver Terr. Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #61540

Rosieís LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/26/2017. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1 New King St., Ste. 202, West Harrison, NY 10604. General Purpose. #61531

JULIEARTS, LLC Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 12/12/2017. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated 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: 157 Beaver Dam Road, Katonah, New York 10536 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61541

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EQUITIS TECHNOLOGY, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/03/2018. 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: 455 Tarrytown Rd, #1012, White Plains, NY 10607, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61532

HIGH PEAKS ADVISORS, LLC Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 12/12/2017. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated 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: 157 Beaver Dam Road, Katonah, New York 10536 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61542

Traceyís Treasure Chest LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 1/5/18. Office in Rockland Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: 17 Greenridge Way, New Hempstead, NY 10977.

Purpose: Any lawful activity #61533

Notice of Formation of Crocco & Crocco Designers & Builders LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/8/18. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 4 MacDonald Ave. Suite 5 Armonk, NY 10504. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61543

Notice of formation of JCL Staging & Design, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/17. 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: 12 Taft Avenue, 2nd Floor, Yonkers, NY 10704.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61534 Notice of Formation of D WALLACE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/8/18. Office location: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 800 Westchester Ave., #602, Rye Brook, NY 10573.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61536

Notice of Formation of 3 Willow Circle LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/17/18. 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, P.O. Box 14854, Chicago, IL 60614.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61544 Notice of Formation of Fishspear Consulting LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/11/18. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Robert Fischer, 88 Lake Avenue #2B, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61545

Moonstone Commercial Group LLC. Filed 1/10/18 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 8 Amy Place, White Plains, NY 10605 Purpose: all lawful #61546 SHZ Advisors LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/10/2018. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 41 Cohawney, Scarsdale, NY 10583. General Purpose. #61547 Roosa Lane LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/12/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 645 N. Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603. General Purpose. #61548 THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE ROTH FUND for the year ended December 31, 2017 is available at its principal office located at Peretz, Resnick, Mitgang & Marcus, LLP, 303 South Broadway, Suite 105, Tarrytown, NY 10591 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal of the Fund is Jeanny Roth. #61549 Vintage and Mod LLC has filed articles of organization with the Secretary of State of NYS on 01/22/2018. The offices of this company are located in Westchester County, NY. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is 12 Drake Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. The company is organized to conduct any lawful business for which limited liability companies may be organized. #61550 HAPPYTECHNY LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Sec.of State (NYSS) on 01/11/2018, Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to 31 Westview Ave, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: all lawful #61551 RE SERVICES OF NY, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/24/18, Offc. Loc. Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent upon which process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to LLC at P. O. Box 8342, White Plains, NY 10601. LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which an LLC may be formed. #61553 Dog Doters, LLC; Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 01/24/18. Office located in Westchester Co. SSNY desig 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: 33 Lafayette Dr. Port Chester, NY 10573 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC Purpose: any legal purpose #61554

BLACKWATTLE BAY, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 01/16/2018 .

Office in Westchester County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2 Peck Ave, Apt 222A, Rye, 10580.

Purpose: Any lawful acts. #61555 Notice of Formation of TCL Services, LLC. Arts. of Org filed with SSNY on 12/19/17.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Thomas Longman, 8 Varian Lane, Scarsdale, NY 10583.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61556 Notice is hereby given that a Hotel Liquor license, #TBA has been applied for by Bedford Post LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a Hotel.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 954 Old Post Road Bedford NY 10506. #61557 Notice of Formation of Greenlight Health, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/11/17. 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, 11 W. Prospect Ave #35, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61558 Notice of Formation of Danny’s Distribution LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/3/2018.

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, 101 Secor Lane, Pelham Manor, NY 10803 . Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61559 Hoff Realty, LLC filed 1/22/2018 office; Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 61 Betsy Brown Cir, Port Chester, NY 10573. Purpose: all lawful. #61560 Notice of Formation of: GOLDEN BELL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State in Westchester Cty: on 1/16/18. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC: 2 William Street, Suite 304, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61561 CGDG REALTY LLC. Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 09/08/2017. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated 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: 465 Long Ridge Road, Bedford, New York 10506 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61562

NOTICE Zenzora, LLC has filed articles of organization with the Secretary of State of NYS on 01/30/2018. The offices of this company are located in Westchester County, NY. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is 26 Garey Drive, Chappaqua, NY 10514. The company is organized to conduct any lawful business for which limited liability companies may be organized. #61563 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Hubbardís Cupboard LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 6 N Pearl Street Port Chester NY 10573. #61564 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Southern Table Inc. d/b/a Southern Table Kitchen & Bar to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 39 Marble Avenue Pleasantville NY 10570. #61565 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Ralphís Kitchen Inc. d/b/a Tauk Kitchen to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 402 Main Street, Suite 5 Armonk NY 10504 #61566 ITSAGREATDAY LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/03/2018. 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 ITSAGREATDAY LLC, 45 Payne Street, Elmsford NY 10523. Purpose: any lawful purpose #61567 Name of Limited Liability Company (LLC):ORIDRONAL STUDIOS LLC. Date of filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 9/21/17. The LLC is located in Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served is to the principal business location at 61 Linwood Rd, New Rochelle NY, 10804. Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. # 61519

Notice of Formation of TIA Properties LLC. Org. filed with SSNY on 01/03/18. 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, 161 7th Street Verplanck, NY 10596.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. # 61527 OmegAlpha Quamputing, LLC. LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/16/2018. Office located in Westchester County.

Secretary of State designated as agent upon which process against it may be served.

Secretary Of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: OmegAlpha Quamputing, LLC, 62 Livingston Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10705 (the LLC’s primary business location). Purpose of business of LLC is Computer Programming and any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. # 61538 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Fine Girl Luxury Brand Building & Communications, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on March 15, 2017. Office location: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: United States Corporate Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The principal business address of the LLC is: 181 Plymouth Drive, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: brand building & marketing consultancy. # 61529 Dalemen Associates 2, LLC. Filed 1/24/18 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Dale Investment Group, LLC, 185 Heathcote Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 Purpose: all lawful #61568 Notice of Formation of Sound Shore Media, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/10/18. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Co. SSNY design. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC: P.O. Box 147 Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: Any lawful business activity. #61569

Giulietta Stiller LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/19/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 148 Daisy Farms Rd., New Rochelle, NY 10804. General Purpose. # 61521

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