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Martin Ginsburg is reinventing the Westchester Financial Center as City Square. Photos by Peter Katz.

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FOOD FIGHT

Ginsburg’s 2020 vision for White Plains

MEDICAL EXPERTS: NO REASON TO PANIC REGARDING CORONAVIRUS

DEVELOPER PUSHING FOR A MORE WALKABLE CITY

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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eveloper Martin Ginsburg on Jan. 28 hosted the grand opening of the newly renovated amenity mezzanine in the office building at 50 Main St. in White Plains and provided a preview of some other efforts he’s making to transform the Westchester Financial Center into the rebranded City Square.

There are three buildings on the 3.9-acre site. Office buildings are at 50 Main St. and 1-11 Martine Ave. and an apartment building is at 34 S. Lexington Ave. There is a 1,033-space parking garage beneath the buildings. There are a few stores slightly above street level at the corner of Main Street and South Lexington Avenue.

The refurbished mezzanine features a cafeteria, fitness center, lounge with billiards, private dining

and meeting rooms and a collection of art by about a dozen local and regional artists. The art collection is curated by ArtsWestchester, which also is working with Ginsburg to select a new sculpture to be placed at the building’s main entrance. An international competition coordinated

by Ginsburg Development Cos. and ArtsWestchester sought proposals from a host of artists and narrowed down the possibilities to three finalists.

Last July, the White Plains Common Council approved Ginsburg’s plans for City Square. The building at 34 S. Lexington Ave. already has 124 residential units and 2,102 square feet of retail space. A new » WHITE PLAINS

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“THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS THAT WE DON’T KNOW and so

that makes it a little bit more difficult, having those uncertainties,” Westchester County Commissioner of Health Sherlita Amler told the Business Journal after her appearance at a forum on the 2019 novel coronavirus.

The forum was held Jan. 31, the day after the United Nations’ World Health Organization declared that a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” exists because of the outbreak. The Valhalla-based Center for Disaster Medicine at New York Medical College (NYMC) brought together medical experts, elected

officials and staff from city and state health departments for the event at the Touro College Manhattan Campus. NYMC is a member of the Touro College and University System.

“We’ve been through a lot of infectious issues: Zika; SARS; MERS; Ebola,” Amler said. “We’ve done a lot of infectious disease-related activities with our medical community, so I think we are very well prepared.”

In addition to Amler, who also is an associate professor at NYMC, the featured speakers included: Alan Kadish, president of the Touro College and University System; Marisa A. Montecalvo, a professor of medicine at NYMC and an infectious disease specialist; Edward C. Halperin, » CORONAVIRUS

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Border battle LATIMER: CONNECTICUT’S I-684 TOLL ‘WOULD BE LARGELY ON THE BACKS OF NEW YORK STATE TRUCK DRIVERS’

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alling the plan for Connecticut to put a toll on the approximately one-mile stretch of I-684 that runs through Greenwich, Connecticut, “an unfair taxation of those who do not have a voice,” Westchester County Executive George Latimer added to the discussion regarding the issue.

A plan for creating new highway tolls for trucks is supported by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont. It includes building a toll gantry at a spot along the section of I-684 that runs through Greenwich. There are no off- or on-ramps in that section of the highway. The plan originally included cars and trucks, but was scaled back to exclude cars after fierce opposition emerged. There would be tolls established in at least 12 locations throughout Connecticut with no prohibition in the proposed legislation against expanding the toll network. Trucks would be required to pay immediately and critics say there is nothing to stop the tolls from

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We don’t believe in retaliatory border tolls. We are all neighbors and this will create an unhealthy relationship between the two states. The fear is that even with a toll on trucks only, avoidance traffic would follow on New York’s local roads, primarily Route 120 and Route 22.

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being expanded to include cars.

Latimer submitted written testimony to Connecticut legislators and Carolyn Fortino of his communications staff delivered his comments into the record during a Jan. 31 hearing in Hartford.

Latimer could not travel to Hartford because he had been scheduled to testify at a state budget forum in Greenburgh held by the Westchester delegation to the New York state Assembly.

“It would be the same as if we placed a toll on the Port Chester side of the Interstate 95 bridge that crosses over the Byram River,” Latimer said in his testimony.

“Connecticut stands to gain an estimated $13 million to rehabilitate that causeway and an additional $5 million a year in revenue for the Greenwich toll. But the tax would be largely on the backs of New York state truck drivers.”

Opponents point out that the toll legislation leaves the ability to raise toll prices in the hands of a new state transportation council that the state Legislature would not control.

“We don’t believe in retaliatory

border tolls. We are all neighbors and this will create an unhealthy relationship between the two states,” Latimer’s testimony said.

“The fear is that even with a toll on trucks only, avoidance traffic would follow on New York’s local roads, primarily Route 120 and Route 22. Drivers could exit the Interstate at Westchester County Airport and drive up Route 120 to Route 22, to continue on their journey north. The congestion would clog one lane in each direction for those seeking to skip the toll, and some impact would result on Connecticut sideroads as well. This will ultimately become a real quality-of-life issue for all those who live and work close by.”

Latimer’s testimony continued: “This toll enables the enhancement of Connecticut’s infrastructure by imposing a toll on New York’s commuters without justification. As Westchester officials, we are tasked to protect Westchester’s residents and will continue to do so in the future as this proposal moves forward. We urge you to reconsider the proposal for a toll on Interstate 684 and forego that toll option.”

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White Plains moves ahead with solar at eight city-owned properties

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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he White Plains Common Council on Feb. 3 approved moving ahead with a plan for the installation of solar-generating facilities at eight city properties that could create up to six megawatts of power each year along with an estimated $960,000 in cash.

Mayor Tom Roach introduced the plan during a Jan. 27 special meeting of the Common Council.

It’s estimated that the electricity to be generated would be enough to power 4,800 homes per year. The city equates the environmental benefits of the solar installation with removing 46,400 tons of carbon dioxide from the air or taking 8,900 passenger cars off the road.

After sending out a request for proposals to more than 100 qualified solar-site developers, the city selected Distributed Solar Projects LLC to establish the solar program in conjunction with Con Edison. The Common Council needs to authorize the plan. The city also had been working with the New York Power Authority on the plan.

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A solar array similar to what is proposed for the Gedney Way Recycling Center.

The city plans a 25-year agreement with Distributed Solar Projects, which will install the solar systems. The developer owns and maintains the systems and shares with the city the revenue from selling electricity to the grid. The revenue to be generated over the lifetime of the agreement for the city is estimated at $25 million.

The city’s Commissioner of Public Works, Rick Hope, told the Common Council that when the system is fully operational residents who sign up could see a reduction of 10% in the bills for the electricity they use.

Hope described Distributed Solar Projects as being a “spin-off” of GE Solar.

Solar panels are to be installed at the city’s Lon�view, Lyon Place, Chester-Maple and Shapham Place garages. In addition, they would be put on the roof of the Ebersole Ice Rink, the city’s sanitation building and a rooftop canopy at the Gillie Park lot. A ground array would be set up at the Gedney Way Recycling Center. It’s estimated that all systems would be installed and operational

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chancellor and CEO at NYMC; Chandra Shekhar Bakshi, associate professor of microbiolo�y and immunolo�y at NYMC; and Robert W. Amler, dean of NYMC’s School of Health and Sciences and Practice.

Sherlita Amler told the Business Journal that the county’s health department is fully aware of the role air travel can play in the spread of the coronavirus and other diseases and the potential risks should infected people be on airliners and private aircraft using the Westchester County Airport.

Although there are no international commercial flights directly to Westchester, private aircraft on international flights do occasionally use the airport.

“We have worked with the airport in the past around infectious disease issues,” Amler said. “We did that when we were prepared for Ebola, so they know what to do and, certainly, if there are any concerns they know how to reach us. I think just having them know us, and us know them, gives us a heads-up for any potential problems.”

As of the forum, cases were reported in 26 countries. It first appeared in mid-December in China’s city of Wuhan, where as of early February more than 24,000 confirmed cases had resulted in more than 500 deaths.

The disease had spread to 27 other countries including the U.S. Initial symptoms are similar to influenza and it can quickly develop into serious viral pneumonia.

Amler pointed out that the first symptoms are very similar to flu with cough and respiratory problems. She said people who have not had a flu shot this season should get one because not being so vulnerable to the flu makes it more likely that, should symp-

NYMC’s event was held at the Touro campus in Manhattan.

toms appear, they would not be dismissed as being the flu.

“If you think you might have been exposed to someone from the area of concern in China in the last 14 days (the apparent incubation period) and you become symptomatic, you want to call your provider and tell them you’re coming in,” Amler said. She said that it would be appropriate to give health care pro-

The World Health Organization has declared the current coronavirus outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern.

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viders ample notice so they can either put on protective gear or direct a patient to a facility where a risk of contaminating others could be mitigated.

Researchers have found that the genetic makeup of the coronavirus is about 80% similar to the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus that caused an outbreak in Asia beginning in 2002.

Less clear are similarities to the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus that appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and was spread to humans from camels.

A study in Germany raised suspicions that the coronavirus can be spread from person to person before the carrier exhibits any symptoms of being infected.

“It is not clear where this virus originated but when the genome sequence is compared with the coronaviruses from bats it appears that it may have originated from bats. What happens is that bats harbor this virus and the virus replicates in bats but they themselves do not get sick,” Bakshi told the Business Journal.

There is a theory that bats may have transmitted the disease to a wild animal called the civet cat. The civet cat is considered a delicacy in China. Another theory is that it was transmitted from bats to snakes and then to humans.

Bakshi explained that the coronavirus has a type of protein spike that enables it to bind with receptors found on the cells of humans, cats, pigs, monkeys and some other animals.

“We do not have a vaccine nor do we have a very good treatment, therapy, for these coronavirus infections,” Bakshi said.

“I cannot predict how long it is going to take to have an effective vaccine or any effective therapies.”

Kadish told the Business Journal, “We feel

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we have an obligation to use the resources of the Center for Disaster Medicine to try to educate people. We do train hospitals. We train health care professionals. We prepare protocols.”

“It appears that the fatality rate is much lower than with some other recent outbreaks,” Kadish said. “It seems like ... 2% to 3% of people are dying.”

He said the college likely will use the handling of the coronavirus outbreak as a teaching element.

“When it dies down … we’ll try to look and see if we can figure out which of the measures that were undertaken were responsible and, therefore, what we can teach our students about how to deal with the next episode,” Kadish said.

Kadish said people have no reason to panic.

“They should do things they should be doing anyway like frequent hand washing, making sure they get the available vaccines and hold off doing things that can damage their lungs.”

China’s coronavirus catastrophe

BY GLENN J. KALINOSKI gkalinoski@westfairinc.com

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he crisis unfolding in China with the coronavirus killing hundreds and infecting thousands may become an economic catastrophe crippling the world’s second-largest economy.

Zhang Ming forecasts economic growth will fall by 1 percentage point to 5% during the first quarter if the epidemic lasts until the end of March. The Chinese economist described that as his most optimistic scenario and didn't provide a prediction in the event the outbreak that originated in the city of Wuhan lasts longer.

Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, is in lockdown, along with more than a dozen other Chinese cities impacting tens of millions of people. Wuhan’s $214 billion economy accounts for just under 2% of the nation’s GDP. It has been described as a steel manufacturing, auto and logistics center.

“The wild card is not the fatality rate, but how infectious the Wuhan virus is,” according to Citigroup. “The economic impact will depend on how successfully this outbreak is contained.”

The jobs outlook is certain to worsen with the unemployment rate likely to rise beyond 5.3%.

A more negative outlook was provided by Nomura analysts who think growth could plummet 2 percentage points or more during the first quarter. The state-run publication Global Times wrote the crisis may cut 2 percentage points from GDP growth in the quarter.

The crisis comes after the country’s growth slowed to a near 30-year-low of 6% during the fourth quarter.

Cities and communities of all sizes closing themselves off to the outside world as they now resemble large ghost towns has crushed the tourism sector that normally would have generated billions during the Lunar New Year holiday. Airlines have suspended service to and from China as hotels have offered refunds.

Travel from China to the U.S. has dropped 20% and it is down by more than 50% from the U.S. to China. Flights between the nations are being limited to a few U.S. airports. Those returning from China are subject to the possibility of a 14-day quarantine.

The country’s consumers spent more than $145 billion last year on holiday travel, entertainment, dining and shopping.

Consumer spending has been decimated as Starbucks and McDonald’s have closed hundreds of locations in China. Ikea has announced that it is closing all 30 of its stores in the country “until further notice.” Toyota has stopped production in China.

The epidemic has generated comparisons with the SARS outbreak that killed about 800 people from 2002 to 2003. Reports have estimated its worldwide cost at $33 billion, representing 0.1% of international GDP in 2003. The difference between SARS and the

coronavirus: China now accounts for a much larger share of global economic output.

“Even if the coronavirus outbreak is brought under control quicker than SARS was in 2003, the economic impact now looks likely to be of at least a similar scale,” wrote Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics.

The event spread to the equities markets as China’s stocks plummeted on Feb. 3.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the outbreak will slash U.S. economic growth by 0.4 percentage point in the first quarter with the

number of tourists from China plunging and exports to the Asian nation slowing.

China may find it challenging to live up to its commitment to purchase $200 billion worth of U.S. exports over the next two years following its trade deal with the world’s largest economy.

David Lafferty, chief market strategist at Natixis Investment Managers in Boston, said, “The virus outbreak represents this unknown that, frankly, markets aren’t very good at handicapping. It’s almost like an open-ended risk.”

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The mezzanine at 50 Main St. features a renovated cafe.

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The modern fitness center at 50 Main St. has opened.

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4,471-square-foot retail/restaurant building would be constructed at South Lexington and Martine avenues.

The plans called for 203,438 square feet of the building at 1-11 Martine Ave. to be converted into 188 luxury rental apartments on floors 2 through 11. Approximately 60,000 square feet would remain as office space on floors 12 through 15 with a separate office lobby and elevators to be provided.

Guests at the preview were shown renderings of what the 50 Main St. lobby would look like after it has been refurbished.

“When people walk into 50 Main Street, we want them to feel the ener�y and vibe of a boutique hotel where the lobby will be activated as yet another common gathering space within the building,” Ginsburg said.

White Plains Mayor Tom Roach told the gathering that what Ginsburg plans to create with City Square will contribute to solving the problem of pedestrian unfriendliness regarding the downtown’s physical characteristics, which Roach traced back to the city’s urban renewal in the 1970s and ’80s.

“The walk that you have from the train station to Mamaroneck Avenue … it’s boring and sterile,” Roach said.

“They leveled everything in the city from Court Street, which is up by Macy’s, all the way to the train station basically other

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A small portion of the courtyard that is being reinvented.

than Mount Carmel Church,” he continued.

“The church has stayed, but it’s amazing to see what happened. They replaced what was there with glass and steel buildings that had no connectivity to the street. At the time the thinking was people don’t want to get out of their cars. They’re going to drive into their garage, work, eat lunch in the cafeteria, get into their cars and drive 40 minutes back to wherever they live. But, of course, the world has shifted. People do want to walk.”

Marsha Gordon, president and CEO of The Business Council of Westchester, praised Ginsburg’s plans by pointing out, “One of the top priorities and one of the top challenges to business today is to recruit top talent, and part of recruiting top talent is to have a great place to work with all the amenities, everything there, that is sustainable, that is beautiful, and that is close to transportation and close to other amenities.”

Janet Langsam, CEO of ArtsWestchester,

noted that art will be on display at the MetroNorth Railroad station when its renovation project is completed.

“The vision I think with Mayor Roach and Martin Ginsburg and others down the line (is) working their way up toward ArtsWestchester (located on Mamaroneck Avenue) is for an art walk, a path, a way to enjoy coming to White Plains starting with the train station,” she said.

“We recognize this is a gateway to White Plains,” Ginsburg said. “The concept of making White Plains pedestrian-friendly starts right here. And one of the first things I said we’re going to do is we’re going to close the garage entrance on Main Street and make Main Street pedestrian-friendly. And then we’re talking about adding restaurants, so they have outdoor dining on Main Street from Bank Street and then going all the way up to Lexington. That’s all going to be accessible retail, restaurants, outdoor dining.”

Ginsburg pointed out that the property that covers an entire city block includes a 1-acre central courtyard which, he said, has been underutilized.

“It’s still not quite finished, but when it’s finished it’s going to be a major attraction for all the offices and residents that are going to be living here and we’re also going to work with the city and have a couple of events,” he said.

Westmed Medical Group forms WW partnership for Fairfield, Westchester and Putnam counties

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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estmed Medical Group has long been involved in not only the business of making people well, but also interacting with the communities it serves.

But the company — headquartered in Purchase, with 12 other locations throughout Westchester and Fairfield counties — has taken the latter a step further with the publication of its first Social Impact Report, designed to not only highlight its activities in that area in 2019 but also to outline what it hopes to achieve moving forward.

The report is focused on four key areas: community, people, environment and innovation.

“The industry has gotten so much more complex that it’s no longer enough to focus solely on your delivery of care,” explained Westmed CEO Anthony Viceroy. “There was so much going on last year. We felt it was the right time to put all that information together — to talk about all of our business decisions.”

The most recent of those decisions, announced Jan. 28, is the formation of a strategic partnership with WW, formerly Weight Watchers. Westmed will be the exclusive medical group partner of the WW program in Fairfield, Westchester and Putnam counties for six months, with Westmed patients aged 18 and older offered the WW Digital Program at a discounted rate.

Westmed patients will have digital access to what WW is touting as its “most customized weight-loss plan ever,” myWW. Members take an evidence-based personal assessment that leverages details about food preferences and lifestyle and matches them to one of three comprehensive ways to follow the program.

Viceroy noted that almost 21% of the Westchester County population is at risk for or diagnosed with obesity, while one in three people in the U.S. struggles with maintaining a healthy blood pressure.

“The partnership is part of the robust strate�y we are in the process of developing,” he continued. “We want to educate everyone about adopting healthy habits, and there are so many health problems that obesity can create. Oftentimes losing just 5% of your weight can make a big difference.”

Also falling under the “education” banner is Westmed MEDTalks, a series of free monthly community presentations featuring Westmed doctors at various Westmed offices and public facilities. Viceroy said similar presentations have been made in the past, but added, “This is connecting the dots, putting more thought into it and organizing it better.”

Topics can range from explaining Medicare and various diets to torn-from-theheadlines subjects like the coronavirus.

“So many patients already get newsletters

that they’re on overload,” Viceroy said. “This is a way of focusing in on and explaining a topic that people care about.”

The group — which consists of more than 500 physicians and advanced practice providers and more than 1,500 employees, caring for over 350,000 patients in Westchester and Fairfield counties — has also launched the Westmed Foundation, a nonprofit that has applied for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. The Foundation’s remit, Viceroy said, is to benefit charitable organizations that support wellness initiatives for children andFlooks youngFuneral adults inHome the commuBeecher nities it serves, particularly in the mental WCBJ wellness and healthy eating categories, via 7.375” w x 7.125” h annual donations.

11-26-19, 3pm Input on how the Foundation should operate came from staff and patients alike, Viceroy said, “and several of our big vendors have expressed tremendous interest.”

Westmed’s location at 3030 Westchester Ave. in Purchase.

Monies will be received through individual donations and some in-house events, he said, adding that such an approach — rather than holding a big money-raising gala — will better assure that “every dollar raised goes directly to the children.”

Viceroy said Westmed is also looking at enhancing its office specs to create better

access, “so that patients can get in and see their physician in as timely a manner as they need.”

The group also initiated an “innovation task force” focused on the research and development of emerging technologies. Last year the team began focusing on Amazon Alexa Skill-Building, a tech platform that will use voice assistant skills to help patients use the My Westmed portal to complete tasks like checking wait times, booking an appointment or getting daily health tips. The portal itself, along with its mobile app, underwent significant upgrades last year, Viceroy said.

More than 175,000 patients are listed as active users.

The group also relies on its Westmed Patient Advisory Panel, composed of past and present patients along with staff and executives, to discuss various challenges and concerns.

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IN COURT | Bill Heltzel Jägermeister tells clothing company not cool to trademark ‘kühl’

The Jägermeister liqueur company is asking a court to stop a clothing company from messing with its cool, or more precisely, its “kühl.”

Mast-Jägermeister US Inc., based in White Plains, sued Alfwear Inc. of West Murray, Utah, on Jan. 22 in federal court to declare the clothing company’s KÜHL trademark invalid.

A trademark should not be used, Jägermeister argues, to prevent a subsidiary of a German company from selling a product with a German name that uses a common German word to describe and advertise itself.

Alfwear, founded in 1986, is known for rugged outdoor clothing and accessories. It owns 10 “KÜHL” trademarks for clothing, bags, breath mints, coffee, fabrics and water bottles.

Alfwear conducts business as KÜHL Clothing and it has vigorously protected its trademarks, filing 11 infringement cases since 2012, according to the complaint, including a $400 million claim in 2017 against Jägermeister. The trial is set for September in Salt Lake City federal court.

The liqueur company wants the federal court in White Plains to stop Alfwear’s “baseless litigation war.”

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tect the public interest, Jägermeister asserts, “because an injunction will prevent further harm to other market participants who attempt to use a merely descriptive word to conduct and advertise their businesses.”

The German “kühl” means cool, as in temperature, the complaint states. It is not slang for hip or popular.

Jägermeister says it does not use “kühl” in the way of a trademark. Rather, it uses it as a description in advertising, as in “kühl as ice” or “drink it ice kühl.”

Alfwear’s website defines “kühl” as “cool” in English, and “fun” in Scandinavian slang.

But Alfwear’s “kühl,” Jägermeister argues, has little or nothing to do with temperature or with the German language.

Nor is there potential for confusing consumers, Jägermeister states, or for diluting or tarnishing Alfwear’s trademarks.

Their products are “entirely distinct” in appearance, use, price and market availability, the complaint states.

Jägermeister says its use of “kühl” qualifies as “descriptive fair use” under trademark law.

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the court to declare that it has not infringed on a valid trademark and to permanently bar Alfwear from taking any legal action against the liqueur company for use of “kühl.”

Alfwear did not respond to email messages asking for its side of the story, and a customer service representative charged with handling urgent matters declined to transfer a phone call to anyone in the company.

Jägermeister is represented by Manhattan attorneys Craig J. Mariam and Ronald Giller.

Jägermeister — “Master Hunter” — is a herbal liqueur based on a secret recipe of 56 ingredients, plus water, alcohol and sugar, concocted in Germany in 1934.

The liqueur was brought to the U.S. in 1975

by New Rochelle importer Sidney Frank. In 2015, MastJägermeister bought out Sidney Frank Importing Co. and established its U.S. subsidiary.

NEIGHBORS SUE YORKTOWN OVER GARDEN CENTER’S ‘SECRET’ SITE PLAN

Several Yorktown residents have sued the town for approving an allegedly secret site plan for a garden center they have been fight-

ing for years.

The 13 neighbors also named Yorktown Garden Supply and owners George and Francine Hirsch in the Jan. 20 complaint filed in Westchester Supreme Court.

“This is a case about the town board catering to special interests,” the complaint states, “by illegally granting site-plan approval to Garden Supply in a clandestine manner.”

Town Attorney Adam Rodriguez responded in a brief telephone interview that the site plan was part of a legal settlement “approved by the previous administration and presented and reviewed and so ordered by Judge George Fifidio. Now there’s a binding court order governing resolution of the matter.”

Yorktown Garden Supply and its neighbors have been at odds for years.

The Gomer Street business sells bulk landscape supplies such as mulch and gravel. It is surrounded by houses in a residential zone that does not allow commercial operations.

The business is classified as a nonconforming use, or as the Hirsches say in a related court filing, “a legal” nonconforming use.

The neighbors’ complaint cites zoning violations from 2016 to 2018 for excessive noise, failure to get a building permit for renovations and “illegal expansion

of nonconforming uses without site-plan approval.”

The Hirsches had sued Yorktown last year to stop the town from prosecuting the alleged illegal expansion of the business. It has been operating since the 1940s, their complaint states, and the Hirsches have been doing business there since 1986.

For years, they claim, Yorktown has failed to explain how the business has expanded illegally.

The real issue, according to the Hirsches’ lawsuit, is that Yorktown abused its discretion by accusing the business of code violations based on false claims lodged by neighbors.

The town board determined that it was in its “best interest … to settle this matter and avoid prolonged costly litigation,” according to a resolution enacted on Sept. 24.

Yorktown and the Hirsches had negotiated a settlement.

The Hirsches would install fencing, adhere to parking restrictions and drop its lawsuit. The town would drop its code violation case and the proceeding would be “sealed.”

The Hirsches also agreed to complete a site plan by Jan. 30.

The plan, according to the town board resolution, would become “the agreed upon site plan for the premises” and all parties would be

bound by it.

The site plan, the neighbors claim, is illegal.

A state-mandated environmental review was not done. The planning board has not reviewed the plan.

No public hearing was held.

The town board’s resolution was not listed on the Sept. 24 agenda. The board’s determination was not publicly disclosed until the meeting minutes were published. The neighbors were unable to get a copy of the board’s determination, despite “numerous written requests,” for months.

The neighbors are demanding that the court annul the board’s determination and declare it as “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion lacking substantial evidence.”

Rodriguez said the court-ordered settlement is not discretionary and the dispute is “really a closed matter.”

The site plan, he said, would essentially memorialize the existing layout of the property. The fencing would be a new feature, but fencing is exempt from the environmental review process.

The neighbors include Beth-Ann and Jason Permuy, Mary and James Murphy, Negjip and Fatlume Bakraq, Ruby Schuberg, Mary and David Craig, Stephanie and Patrick Smith, and John and Roopal Carbo.

They are represented by attorney Michael V. Caruso of Brewster.

WHITE PLAINS BUSINESSWOMAN ACCUSED OF $891,000 IN KICKBACKS FOR $8.4M CONTRACT

A White Plains businesswoman has been charged in an alleged bribery scheme that netted her company an $8.4 million contract for $891,000 in kickbacks.

Gabriela Bratkovics was arrested last month and charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiracy, honest services fraud, bank fraud and bribery.

Federal court documents do not disclose her hometown but she signed

IN COURT | Bill Heltzel a confession of judgment that was filed in Westchester Supreme Court, pledging her White Plains house as security for a $1 million personal recognizance bond that enabled her release from custody.

Evan Brown and Richard Wong, whose hometowns were not disclosed, also were arrested and accused of the same crimes. They posted $500,000 bonds.

Bratkovics and Brown are co-founders of an unspecified temporary staffing company, where she was the chief executive officer, according to the criminal complaint, and he was the chief financial officer.

She also controlled another temporary staffing company allegedly used in the scheme.

ENG InfoTech Corp., a staffing company in Fairfield, New Jersey, has shown Bratkovics as its CFO and Brown as the CEO. Wong worked for a large bank in Manhattan, accord-

ing to the criminal complaint, where he was responsible for negotiating contracts and managing vendors.

In June 2013, the bank agreed to a master service agreement with a temporary staffing company. The deal was signed by Bratkovics.

After the services began, Wong allegedly began discussing kickbacks, and in December 2013 the payments allegedly began.

In 2015, he proposed a $250 per week per employee flat rate, according to the complaint.

“I think this is fair,” an email from Wong to Bratkovics states, “and we don’t need to haggle among friends … especially when you have more opportunities in the pipeline.”

Over five years, beginning in January 2014, Bratkovics and Brown allegedly paid Wong $891,000 in cash, checks and wire transfers. The staffing business received more than

$8.4 million for its services.

Forty wire transfers were sent in Bratkovics’ name from her two companies, the government claims, to Wong’s personal bank accounts.

Bratkovics wanted Wong to set up a corporation for receiving the payments, according to the complaint.

“It takes five minutes,” she stated in a July 2018 email. “You told me last time it would be the last time. This is putting me in a really bad position, I think we are playing with fire. I would really appreciate it if this (is) truly the last time we are doing it this way.”

By then, the bank had notified Wong that he was being fired. But the bank continued to use the staffing company to December 2018 and Wong allegedly continued to receive kickbacks.

Katherine Reilly and Dina McLeod, assistant U.S. attorneys, are in charge of the prosecution.

Bratkovics is represented

by Manhattan attorney Daniel J. Horwitz. He did not respond to an email asking for his client’s side of the story.

PARTNER SUES PARTNER IN NEW ROCHELLE CANNOLI VS. PIZZA FOOD FIGHT

Dishes, equipment and supplies from Joey’s Cannoli bistro, co-owner Maria Leone claims, have been taken by a partner and are being used at a competing establishment two blocks away in New Rochelle.

Leone, of Eastchester, sued her own company, partner Franca Capuano Rossignuolo and New Roc Pizza on Jan. 22 in Westchester Supreme Court.

“Rossignuolo is running New Roc Pizza,” the complaint states, “funded in large part by the misappropriation of plaintiff ’s financial and commercial interest invested in Joey’s Cannoli Inc.” Rossignuolo said she is an employee, not the owner,

of New Roc Pizza, and she would ask her attorney to respond to the allegations.

Joey’s Cannoli was founded in 2017. The espresso bar and café at 18 Division St. specialized, as its name suggests, in several varieties of the tube-shaped, fried dough, ricotta-filled Sicilian pastry, as well as biscotti, sfogliatelle and other sweet Italian delights.

The telephone was out of service on Jan.27 and the café is apparently closed.

New Roc Pizza operates at 23 S. Division St., and Rossignuolo either owns it, the complaint states, or maintains an interest in it through her husband, Joseph, who is not named as a defendant.

A pizzeria with the same name once operated on North Avenue but went out of business in 2017, according to a New York corporation record.

The new New Roc Pizza, according to the com-

plaint, is not incorporated.

In 2017, Leone bought a 50% interest in Joey’s Cannoli from Joseph Bonanno, according to the complaint, for $20,000.

Franca Rossignuolo allegedly ran the bistro.

Around August 2019, the complaint states, Rossignuolo began “taking supplies, fixtures, equipment and inventory from …

Joey’s Cannoli Inc. to use and sell at New Roc Pizza,” without Leone’s knowledge.

By September, plates, glasses, flatware and equipment stored in the basement were gone. Customers began asking if the business was moving down the street, Leone claims, because they had noticed its fixtures and equipment at New Roc Pizza.

She claims she overheard Franca and Joseph Rossignuolo bragging that they were opening a pizzeria and moving Joey’s Cannoli’s business down the street. » IN COURT

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HUDSON VALLEY ESTATE TAX CASE SURVIVES LEGAL CHALLENGE

A federal judge has rejected a motion by Carmel lawyer Carla L. Marin to dismiss a $2.9 million estate tax lawsuit against her mother’s estate.

For 11 years the IRS has been trying to collect the tax on the $7.4 million estate of Ana Beatriz Marin, who died in 2007. In 2018, the government sued to liquidate the estate to pay off the debt and to hold Carla, Philip and Carl Marin personally responsible.

U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti

The complaint also states that catering payments were diverted and that customers were told to pick up their orders at New Roc Pizza.

Leone accuses her former partner of breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of proceeds and unjust enrichment. She is demanding at least $50,000 and a declaration that New Roc Pizza is a successor-in-interest to Joey’s Cannoli.

Leone is represented by New Rochelle attorney Joseph Cinquemani.

ruled Jan. 22 that Carla Marin, the executor, had failed to establish reasons to dismiss the government’s allegations.

Ana Beatriz Marin was 77 when she died in an auto accident. She left a two-page, handwritten will that bequeathed property to her daughters, Debra and Andrea, and the remainder of her assets to her daughter Carla and sons Philip and Carl.

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The IRS calculated a $2.1 million estate tax.

The estate elected to pay interest only for five years and then 10 annual installments. The deal required the estate to either post a bond as collateral or consent to a special lien.

Interest-only payments were made from 2008 to 2012 and then stopped. The estate was in default, the government contended, for failure to make the annual payments or to secure the debt with a bond or lien.

The IRS demanded immediate payment of the full amount in 2013. Carla Marin became sole executor in 2014 and the IRS canceled the payment plan and filed tax liens.

By 2015, $2.5 million was owed. Carla Marin allegedly told the IRS that the estate’s financial condition was “very poor,” Briccetti noted in his opinion, and there were not enough assets to fully pay the tax.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman filed a foreclosure complaint in 2018. The estate had earned more than $2 million in rental and other income, according to the complaint, yet the estate had not filed an income tax return since 2010.

Carla Marin had allegedly received more than $642,000 in cash from the estate and her brothers had received more than $28,000.

The estate also had paid more than $2.2 million in administrative expenses from 2010 to 2016 for advertising, bank fees, property maintenance, taxes and insurance.

Carla Marin lives in one of the estate properties in Carmel and her law office is in another.

The government argues that U.S. tax liabilities take priority over other estate debts.

Carla Marin contends that the government failed to adequately establish its claims.

She argues that the government cannot hold her personally liable for estate taxes because the estate is not insolvent.

“The government has failed to make any objective factual allegations concerning the solvency of the estate,” she states in her motion to dismiss, “because the estate is, and always has been, solvent.”

Briccetti cited Marin’s statements to the IRS that the financial condition was poor and there were not enough assets.

An executor may be liable for the tax when the estate pays other debts, Briccetti said, and the government has a priority claim.

As executor, he noted, she owed a fiduciary duty of undivided loyalty and impartiality to the estate and its creditors.

The government sufficiently alleged that Carla Marin “engaged in self-dealing of estate assets for her own personal benefit,” Briccetti found, “thereby depriving the estate of significant rental income.”

The tax liability now totals $2.9 million.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel Dolinger is handling the government’s case. Marin was represented by Manhattan attorneys Megan L. Brackney and Stephen A. Josey.

Peekskill receives funding to include pier reconstruction also include a kayak dock, gan�ways, benches, new lighting and places to view the river and wildlife. Peekskill has established a Waterfront Revitalization Program designed to improve facilities and generate tourism by adding the capability to handle larger boats. The city has committed $665,000 as its match for the state money.

The sum of $85,000 has been designated for the shoreline stabilization effort. The idea is to formulate steps to reduce erosion and deal with the risks to the shoreline posed by climate change.

The state’s Environmental Facilities Corporation is providing a separate grant of $750,000 to be used to help pay for the reconstruction of a $3 million sewer line on Lower South Street. The idea is to make the line capable of handling the effluent from future development in the area.

A view of the pier. Photo by Lauren Lembo.

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he city of Peekskill has announced that it will be receiving more than $3 million in grants from New York state for projects that include the reconstruction of Fleischmann Pier, creating designs for a waterfront trail, work to stabilize the shorefront along the Hudson River and McGregory Brook and supporting the city’s microenterprise program.

The program allows the city to offer competitive grants in the range of $5,000 to $35,000 to businesses that locate or expand in Peekskill and are owned by or hire at least one low- to moderate-income employee.

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he Siena College Research Institute provided the Business Journal with the results of its 2019 Upstate New York Business Leaders Survey, which for the first time contained results for Westchester and the Mid-Hudson region.

The Albany-based Business Council of New York State was the partner/sponsor for the survey. It counts approximately 2,400 companies, local chambers of commerce and professional and trade associations as members.

Heather Briccetti, president and CEO of the council, said the top issues that concerned CEOs who participated in the survey included the cost of health care, regulations and tax levels. She said there also was concern about mandated increases in the minimum wage, requirements for paid family leave and aggressive carbon reduction mandates.

“Two-thirds say New York is doing a poor job of managing the state’s business climate, and while business leaders are expressing a far higher level of confidence in Washington’s impact on business, that confidence has fallen somewhat as well,” Briccetti said.

A total of 667 CEOs took part in the survey, 92 of them from Westchester-based companies. When asked which industry sectors will have a positive impact on their economic vitality in their geographic area over the next 3 to 5 years, the medical sector came out as the top sector in Westchester and the MidHudson. Technolo�y was first in the upstate Capital Region and Mohawk Valley while education was No. 1 in the Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Central and Western New York, and tourism was on top in the state’s northernmost section.

When asked whether they expect their revenues to grow or decrease, 63% of the Westchester CEOs said they anticipated increases while 18% expected declining revenues. In the Mid-Hudson, the respective numbers were 51% and 23%. Overall in the

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state, 41% expected revenues to grow while 25% expected decreasing revenues.

When it comes to profitability, 34% of the CEOs responded that they expected it to increase while 32% said they expected it to decrease. Westchester CEOs were more optimistic than CEOs were statewide, with 52% expecting increased profits and 22% expecting declines.

Westchester was the lowest in the state when it comes to expecting to invest in fixed assets during 2020. Only 39% of the Westchester CEOs said they had such plans compared with 64% in the Capital Region.

In Westchester, 44% of the CEOs said they plan to increase the size of their workforce.

For the Mid-Hudson area it was 34%.

The CEOs were asked about the challenges their businesses face that most concern them. In Westchester, the results were: 26%, U.S. competition; 53%, government regulation; 40%, taxation; 1%, foreign competition; 23%, ener�y costs; 16%, risk management; 43%, adverse economic conditions; 43%, health care costs; 9%, global political instability; 28%, rising supplier costs; 34%, human resources; 36%, cash flow; 11%, ability to obtain suitable financing; 8%, U.S. trade agreements: and 5%, none of the above.

When asked what they would like to see the governor and state Legislature focus on, the Westchester CEOs answered in about the way CEOs did from around the state. Personal income tax reform resonated with 53% of them and business tax reform was picked by 46%. Other selections were: estate tax reform, 16%; sales tax reform, 23%; infrastructure development, including roads, bridges and sewers, 52%; ener�y infrastructure, 38%; business development incentives, 52%; ethics reform, 23%; spending cuts, 37%; other, 18%; don’t know, 3%.

In Westchester, 39% of the CEOs said they supported legalizing the recreational use of marijuana while 46% were opposed and 15% said they didn’t know. Statewide, the numbers were 33% in favor, 55% against and 12% with no opinion.

IN BRIEF Michael Romita named WCA president/CEO development and manufacturing organization, and earlier in his career he built and led several of IBM’s data-related businesses.

Whitehurst is an IBM senior vice president and CEO of Red Hat, which was acquired by IBM in 2019 for $34 billion. He joined Red Hat after serving as chief operating officer at Delta Airlines. Earlier in

his career, he was a partner at The Boston Consulting Group.

Rometty joined IBM in 1991 and became chairman, president and CEO in 2012, making her one of the highest-ranking female executives in the U.S. private sector. Her appointment gained her a position in Time Magazine’s 2012 edition of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World.” During her leadership years, IBM acquired 65 companies and expanded its key capabilities in the hybrid cloud, security, quantum computing, blockchain and artificial intelligence fields.

Coldwell Banker creates Lower Hudson Valley Regional Office Select Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage real estate offices serving Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange and Dutchess counties will be merged into the Lower Hudson Valley Regional Office.

Signs and marketing items will bear the new name. The office and approximately 90 affiliated agents will be based at 366 Underhill Ave. in Yorktown Heights.

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Michael N. Romita

A partner in a Washington, D.C.-based federal government affairs and public policy consulting firm has been selected to become the next president and CEO of the Westchester County Association (WCA), taking the position formerly occupied by William P. Mooney Jr. who retired after 15 years on the job.

Michael N. Romita, who is a resident of Harrison, will assume the position effective March 1. Romita, a partner at Mercury Strategies LLC, is a former executive vice president of the Castle Oil Corp. and was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mercury’s clients include AT&T, T-Mobile, the National Association of Theater Owners and Verizon Communications.

A committee chaired by Burke Rehabilitation Hospital President and CEO Jeff Menkes, who is on the WCA’s executive committee and board of directors, conducted the search for Mooney’s successor.

Romita received a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University, a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a Master of Laws degree from The London School of Economics. Romita has been active with local charitable and civic organizations, including the Westchester County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Board and MINT, a mental health foundation. He recently co-chaired the County Executive’s Transition Committee on Economic Development.

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Brokerage in Connecticut and Westchester County announced the continuation of a 2019 initiative to open satellite and coworking spaces for teams and agents throughout the company, including a new Tarrytown location.

The spaces will be mobile-friendly and provide secure work areas exclusively for Coldwell Banker agents and their clients.

Remote access will also be available for all Coldwell Banker agents, regardless of regional affiliation.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has implemented regional name changes in lower Westchester County and Connecticut, including the newly rechristened Sound Shore Regional Office, White Plains Regional Sales Center, Katonah-Bedford Regional Office, and the Somers,

North Salem, Putnam Regional Office. Agents affiliated with the Yorktown Heights and Croton-onHudson offices will be licensed with the Lower Hudson Valley Regional Office.

nation in 2001 failed to take root. The survey found 41% of respondents believing the second edition will be successful, with 27% believing it will be another failure and 32% being unsure what the future will hold.

POLL: 41% OF FOOTBALL FANS THINK XFL WILL SUCCEED

PIER 1 IMPORTS CLOSING SEVEN REGIONAL STORES

Football fans have plenty to say about Vince McMahon’s rebooted XFL, according to a survey conducted by the market research firm Piplsay.

In a nationwide poll of 32,677 conducted last month, 60% of respondents said they were aware of the XFL and 45% said they were excited about the league’s arrival, with 34% expressing no enthusiasm and 21% stating they were not sure.

Millennials were the most excited to see the XFL games (60%), followed by Generation Z (55%).

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ness of the new XFL teams, 40% of respondents said they were “somewhat aware” and 18% said they were “quite aware,” but 42% said they were unaware of the XFL’s teams.

The league, owned

by McMahon’s Stamfordbased Alpha Entertainment, launched on Feb. 8, nearly a week after the NFL’s Super Bowl LIV. Half of the poll’s respondents did not believe the XFL would pose a chal-

lenge to the NFL, citing the dominant league’s size and presence, although 20% of respondents said it could pose a challenge “to some extent” and 18% said the challenge would be “to a big extent.” More than 40% of Generation Z and millennial respondents believed the XFL would pose a threat to the NFL, compared with 29% of Generation X respondents.

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Pier 1 Imports is closing two of its Fairfield County stores and five of its Westchester-Hudson Valley locations.

The financially troubled home furnishings retailer announced plans to close up to 450 of its 942 stores nationwide. The Fort Worth company recorded sales declines across the last nine fiscal quarters, with CEO Robert Riesbeck stating, “Fiscal third-quarter sales and margins remained under pressure.”

In Fairfield County, the Pier 1 locations at 1 Sugar Hollow Road in Danbury and 777 Connecticut Ave.

in Norwalk will be shut. A third store, in Fairfield, will remain open. A total of six Connecticut-based stores are closing.

In New York, Pier 1 is closing its stores at 792 Bedford Road in Bedford Hills, 3125 E. Main St. in Mohegan Lake, 1329 W. Boston Post Road in Larchmont, 499 Tarrytown Road in White Plains and 427 Boston Post Road in Port Chester. Stores in Middletown, Newburgh, Spring Valley and Yonkers will remain open. Pier 1 is closing 21 stores in New York state.

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he developer of a project to replace the White Plains Mall with Hamilton Green, also known as the HG Development, which would include four buildings containing apartments, retail, restaurants and offices, says it is committed to going ahead with the proposal and has resubmitted its application to the city of White Plains.

The White Plains Common Council voted on Feb. 3 to refer the matter

to the city’s law department, building department, planning department and other departments, boards and commissions for their input.

The original application, approved by the Common Council in September 2018, “expired by limitation” in September 2019 as explained by the city’s commissioner of building. Section 7.6 of the city’s zoning ordinance says, in part, that unless the approving agency specifically says something else, approvals shall expire if substantial construction is not completed within one year of approval.

The developer did not

request an extension of the approval before the one-year term expired in September 2019. In documents submitted on Jan. 28, 2020, attorney William Null of the White Plains-based law firm Cuddy & Feder LLP asked that the council verify the validity of the previous site-plan approval or, in the alternative, renew, reinstate and approve the same Site Plan Approval Resolution without any changes or modifications.

The developer is W.P. Mall Realty LLC and SWD 3 LLC (d/b/a Street-Works Development).

Rendering of Hamilton Green. Courtesy Street-Works Development.

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Null wrote that when it approved the original plan on Sept. 4, 2018, the Common Council “did not intend to require substantial construction of the HG Development within 1-year or to have Site Plan Approval expire pursuant to Section 7.6 of the Zoning Ordinance only 1-year from issuance of approval.”

He pointed to the Environmental Findings statement adopted by the council as acknowledging that it would be more than five years before any revenue would be forthcoming from the development.

Null submitted a new application for the project along with asking that the previous approval be confirmed as valid and unexpired. Also submitted was

a new check for an $82,530 application fee.

Null asked that the application fee be waived or reduced.

“Because this application is not new, and presents nothing different than previously submitted, it is not a new Application for Site Plan Approval,” Null wrote. “The Common Council should recognize that the previously enclosed plans were previously reviewed, commented upon and are no different today than in September 2018 when approved by the Common Council.”

Null said the new fee payment of $82,530 constitutes an overcharge “as it is not reasonably related to the cost of the City of White Plains reviewing and processing this Application.”

The project would include 860 dwelling units in the four buildings, a

multilevel garage with 956 parking spaces, approximately 85,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, approximately 27,000 square feet of flexible office space and approximately 29,000 square feet of publicly accessible elevated plaza space.

While many of the businesses that had been operating at the White Plains Mall have left, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles was still operating its office there as of early February. Null pointed out that it is widely known that before the HG Development can begin, the DMV must be relocated and then the existing mall demolished. A previous plan for the DMV to move to nearby Barker Avenue did not work out. As of Null’s submission, no new location for the DMV had been announced.

FOCUS ON REAL ESTATE

CBRE reports strong finish to 2019 for office leasing in Westchester

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or the first time since 2015, office leasing in Westchester County recorded an increase on a year-over-year basis, according to the fourth-quarter office leasing report from real estate services and investment firm CBRE. Total leasing activity for 2019 came in at 912,000 square feet, an increase of 3% from 2018. In the fourth quarter of the year, leasing activity totaled 311,730 square feet.

The year-over-year asking rent fell 4.2% to $28.33 per square foot. CBRE said the decline was because of expensive space being

removed from the market through a combination of leasing and adaptive repurposing.

Average asking rents in the White Plains Central Business District (CBD) saw a 2% drop year over year, ending at $34.73 per square foot.

In the eastern area of the county, rents fell 3% year over year and ended 2019 at $27.70 per square foot.

The western submarket was essentially flat, ending 2019 at $26.22 per square foot.

There was a 4% drop in average asking rents in the county’s northern submarket to $26.59 per square foot.

The southern submarket remained essentially flat compared with 2018, coming in at $27.01 per

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square foot for the 2019 average asking rent.

CBRE said the top renewal lease transactions for the fourth quarter in Westchester included Verizon’s 58,579 square feet at 500 Summit Lake Drive in Valhalla.

Top new leases in the fourth quarter included: 26,326 square feet at 445 Hamilton Ave. in White Plains by Assured Inc.; 26,139 square feet at 500 Summit Lake Drive in Valhalla by WSP USA; and 25,198 square feet at 1133

Westchester Ave. in White Plains by Ameripath Inc. The report said 70% of the leasing in the fourth quarter was for space in Class A buildings, the highest figure in the past 10 quarters.

CBRE described activity in the White Plains CBD as the lowest performance since 2012 with 89,000 square feet leased during the fourth quarter and 213,000 square feet leased during the entire year. It attributed this to a shortage of large spaces.

CBRE found a net positive in terms of absorption, the net change in the supply of space over a specific time.

The total positive absorption of 1.9 million square feet of space in 2017, 2018 and 2019 managed to offset

the 1.9-million-square-foot negative absorption that was recorded from 2011 to 2016.

The report said the Westchester market had 26,433,457 rentable square feet with 4,360,416 square feet available in the fourth quarter for an availability rate of 16.5% and a vacancy rate of 15.5%.

William V. Cuddy Jr., executive vice president at CBRE, said tenants have been seeking high-end space in the I-287 corridor.

“Health care occupiers had the largest share of leasing activity for the fourth quarter as well as for the past two years,” Cuddy said.

Health care companies were on 20% of the leases in both 2018 and 2019.

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GOOD THINGS ARC WESTCHESTER’S NEW MEDICAL DIRECTOR

DEBUT EXHIBITION

Dr. Rodrigo Erlich

DYSON CENTER FOR CANCER CARE NAMES DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY Dr. Rodrigo Erlich has joined Nuvance Health as the medical director of medical oncology at the Dyson Center for Cancer Care on the campus of Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie.

Most recently, Erlich worked as a gastrointestinal oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Previously, he has served as chief of medical oncology and founder of the geriatric oncology fellowship program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; chief of medical oncology at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore; and director of the Geisinger Henry Cancer Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

“Bisa Butler: Portraits” will be the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work and will feature approximately 25 of her vivid and larger-than-life quilts that capture African-American identity and culture. The show will be on view at the Katonah Museum of Art (KMA) from March 15 to June 14.

Butler, a formally trained African-American artist of Ghanaian heritage, broaches the dividing line between creating with paints on canvas and creating with fiber by fashioning magnificent quilts and elevating a medium hitherto designated as craft into one that is clearly high art.

While quilts have historically been isolated in the history of art as the products of working women, Butler’s work not only acknowledges this tradition, but also reinvents it.

Her emergence as a quilt artist began humbly when, as a result of a fiber arts class taken at Howard University, she constructed a quilt for her dying grandmother mainly as a means of comfort.

Alla Nirenberg, M.D., a board-certified psychiatrist, has been named medical director of The Arc Westchester Wellness Center.

In addition to overseeing the clinic, Nirenberg is responsible for all psychiatric evaluations and medication management for individuals with developmental disabilities supported by the organization.

Nirenberg has worked with individuals with developmental disabilities throughout her career serving as a medical director at Putnam ARC for more than 20 years; a staff member of the Westchester Institute of Human Development; and has been affiliated with Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College since her residency in 1992.

She also has a private practice in the White Plains area.

MOUNT NAMES INAUGURAL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DEAN

The Princess, 2018, cotton, chiffon, lace and satin, 70 x 46 in. (177.8 x 116.8 cm), Collection of Bob and Jane Clark.

Photo courtesy Alex Barber.

BLYTHEDALE AND NY LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP PARTNER

DIRECTOR OF MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE AT WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL Dr. Caroline Stella has been welcomed by White Plains Hospital as director of maternal fetal medicine.

In addition to her administrative leadership, Stella will provide specialty care for women with high-risk pregnancies.

Prior to joining White Plains Hospital, Stella served as the director of maternal fetal medicine and held other leadership positions at Greenwich Hospital-Yale New Haven Health/Yale Medicine. She is double board-certified in general obstetrics/gynecology and the subspecialty of maternal fetal medicine by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Stella will see patients at 41 E. Post Road in White Plains.

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Tiffany N. Gagliano has been named inaugural dean of the school of business by Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh.

Gagliano is expected to help expand the Mount’s external relations and partnerships, support recruitment and work with campus stakeholders to develop a strategic plan for the school.

Gagliano has served in numerous roles within the city of Newburgh and Orange County, including assistant corporation counsel for Newburgh.

COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES RECEIVES GRANT

From left: Ruth Stein, senior staff attorney, LegalHealth, New York Legal Assistance Group; Julie Brandfield, associate director, LegalHealth, New York Legal Assistance Group; Larry Levine, president and CEO, Blythedale Children’s Hospital; Randye Retkin, founder and director, LegalHealth, New York Legal Assistance Group; and Susan Murray, vice president, patient/family experience, clinical outreach and care coordination, Blythedale Children’s Hospital.

Blythedale in Valhalla is partnering with LegalHealth, a division of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), to provide

an on-site legal clinic for the benefit of the hospital’s most vulnerable patient families.

LegalHealth has 18 years of experi-

ence advocating on behalf of and providing high-quality free legal services to low-income patients and families.

The New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services issued a $2.61 million grant to Westchester County for its three-year project comprised of its Department of Social Services (DSS), which will partner with Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (LSHV) to create the Family Defense Unit (FDU).

This model unit, to be based in LSHV’s White Plains office, will also serve families in Yonkers and other communities as needed and will be staffed with attorneys, social workers and parent advocates who will provide assistance to families with child protective and family court matters.

Families will also have access to a range of other LSHV legal support to address the loss of health insurance and other benefits, eviction, homelessness, consumer debt and domestic violence.

IONA OPENS ITS LAPENTA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

BEACON TACKLES PARKING, TRAFFIC Beacon Mayor Lee Kyriacou announced a Main Street Access Initiative to improve and plan for parking, traffic, transit and pedestrian issues – beginning with the formation of a special committee of Beacon residents and Main Street businesses.

STAFF PROMOTION AT ENGINEERING FIRM

Mary Baglivo

Barton & Loguidice (B&L), a Northeast regional engineering, planning, environmental and landscape architecture firm with 300 employees working from offices in Syracuse, Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, New Paltz, Rochester, Somers and Watertown, as well as Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, promoted Ryan P. Cornelison of the firm’s New Paltz office to engineer ll.

MARKETING OFFICER AND VP NAMED AT PACE UNIVERSITY Mary Baglivo has been appointed chief marketing officer and vice president for university relations at Pace University. Baglivo will oversee marketing, communications, special events and government affairs and community relations for all three Pace campuses.

Previously, Baglivo served as vice chancellor for communications and marketing at Rutgers University and chief marketing officer and vice president of global marketing at Northwestern University.

Before her move to higher education, Baglivo was CEO Americas at Saatchi & Saatchi.

Iona College in New Rochelle has cut the ribbon on its new $38 million LaPenta School of Business.

Robert V. LaPenta, an Iona alumnus and board of trustees member, laid the foundation for the new building with a gift of

$17.5 million, the largest in Iona’s history.

The new LaPenta School of Business doubles the building’s academic space to more than 68,000 square feet, including an expanded LaPenta-Lynch trading floor.

Seamus Carey, left, and Robert V. LaPenta.

2020 HGAR PRESIDENT INSTALLED

STATEWIDE ABSTRACT OFFERS FREE CONTINUING EDUCATION SEMINAR ON MARCH 12 FOR ATTORNEYS AND REALTORS On Thursday, March 12, Statewide Abstract will host a continuing education seminar for Realtors and attorneys at Westchester Hills Golf Club in White Plains.

The Realtor seminar will cover all aspects of the 1031 Exchange while the attorney seminar topic will be “Solving Title Issues.” The Realtor session will run from 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. and the attorney session will run from 3 p.m. through 5 p.m. They will be followed by a happy hour networking event for both groups from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Realtors will receive 3.75 CE credits and attorneys will receive 2 CLE credits.

The session is free, but seating is limited. Registration must be done in advance by sending an email to Mari Anastos at MAnastos@StatewideA.com or by calling 914-683-5900.

Jericho Brown

PURCHASE COLLEGE HOSTS ACCLAIMED POET

Gail Fattizzi, left, and Marcene Hedayati.

The Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) welcomed Gail Fattizzi, executive director of Westchester Real Estate Inc. in Somers, as its 2020 president.

Fattizzi, along with the HGAR executive officers and director, were officially in-

stalled in their new positions at Le Chateau in South Salem on Jan. 16.

Fattizzi initially entered the real estate industry by chance, taking a position as an office manager at a local Bedford brokerage in 1987. Later she became director for the Westchester

Affiliates, and then executive director for Westchester Real Estate Inc., a consortium of independently owned brokerages in the Hudson Gateway market. In addition, she serves as regional manager for ERA Insite Realty Services, helping to manage the firm’s five offices.

Purchase College-SUNY will present the award-winning poet Jericho Brown on Monday, Feb. 17, in a program which is free and open to the public and will take place at Purchase College in the Humanities Theatre in the Humanities Building at 735 Anderson Hill Road in Purchase.

The event is part of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series, a cultural offering that brings leading literary figures to the Westchester community.

Brown is the author of three poetry collections, one of which, “The New Testament,” was named one of the best books of the year by the Academy of American Poets.

For more: visit https://www.purchase.edu/academics/school-of-humanities/lectures/durst-distinguished-lectures/ or call 914-251-6550.

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Good Things WESTCHESTER LIBRARY SYSTEM RECEIVES GRANT

GO SIGN FOR MANHATTANVILLE SCHOOL OF NURSING Manhattanville College in Purchase has received approval to launch degree programs through its new School of Nursing and Health Sciences from the New York State Department of Education.

It now offers two degrees in nursing: a Bachelor of Science in nursing for traditional four-year and transfer students as well as a Bachelor of Science in nursing for second-degree students who already hold a bachelor’s degree.

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, nursing school enrollment is not growing fast enough to meet the projected demand for nurses.

Tony Piombino

DURANTE RENTALS APPOINTS CFO Tony Piombino has joined Durante Rentals, a leader in the construction equipment rental industry, as its chief financial officer.

He will replace Chris Jones, one of the original founders and Durante’s CFO since its inception in 2009. Jones will remain on the company’s board of directors.

Piombino comes to Durante Rentals with 15 years of CFO experience and 25 years of financial management experience in the manufacturing, service and medical device sectors. Most recently, he was the CFO of a medical products and services company.

The Westchester Library System (WLS) received a $15,000 mini-grant from the Field Hall Foundation to support “Vision Labs: Reading for a Lifetime,” a pilot program aimed at addressing the needs of low-vision and visually impaired adults.

Starting in the summer of 2020, Vision Labs will be hosted in two locations.

Services will be available at the Westchester Library System headquarters in Elmsford and at the Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library. Access to resources and individualized training will be available by appointment at each location and Yonkers will also provide walk-in hours.

For more or to set an appointment, email VisionLabs@wlsmail.org.

From left: Alan Houston, Yonkers Public Library; Donna Haskel, Field Hall Foundation; Elena Falcone, Westchester Library System; Pat Brigham, Westchester Library System; Patti Lavan Horvath, Field Hall Foundation; Terry Kirchner and Krishna Horrigan, Westchester Library System.

MORGAN STANLEY SUPPORTS NONPROFIT MEMBER ORGANIZATION Morgan Stanley Wealth Management will become a silver sponsor joining a growing group of area companies that have committed to supporting Nonprofit Westchester, a membership organization dedicated to advancing the interests of the nonprofit sector.

IONA IN TOP 6% FOR RETURN ON INVESTMENT

LEGOLAND NEW YORK RESORT APPOINTS DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR A marketing professional with more than 15 years of experience, Stephanie Johnson, has been named divisional director for Legoland New York Resort by its parent company Merlin Entertainments.

Johnson will direct, manage and create strategy for Legoland to meet and exceed attendance, revenue and profitability goals for the 150-acre theme park in Goshen.

Johnson previously held the role of regional vice president of marketing for Simon Property Group’s Premium Outlets division.

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POUGHKEEPSIE ATTORNEY JOINS FIRM

Is college worth it?

A new report, “A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges,” recently released by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), not only confirms the value of higher education,

but also goes one step further — it provides solid data to compare institutions based on their return on investment (ROI).

In the report, Iona College in New Rochelle ranks in the top 6% among all 4,500 institutions based on its long-term ROI. In addi-

tion, Iona ranks No. 1 among colleges with main campuses based in Westchester for delivering the highest ROI both 40 and 30 years after graduation, the time frames that best reflect a college’s value, according to the report.

Feldman, Kleidman, Coffey & Sappe LLP (FKC&S), a Fishkill-based law firm specializing in personal injury law and professional liability defense, recently announced that Terry D. Horner of Poughkeepsie has joined its legal team.

Prior to joining the FKC&S team, Horner owned and operated his own law practice. Previously he was a partner at Finkelstein and Partners LLP in Newburgh.

PACE PROFESSOR GRANTED TENURE

Touro Dental Health, the 109-chair dental teaching practice of Touro College of Dental Medicine (TCDM), will host its annual “give kids a smile!” event on Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Hawthorne-located facility at 19 Skyline Drive on the third floor.

The program will provide a day of free dental care, orthodontic consultations and oral health education for children ages 14 and under after the 9 a.m. kickoff for TCDM’s new pediatric practice within the clinical training facility. The state-of-theart clinic is expected to be complete in late spring 2020.

“Give kids a smile!” is open to the public, but registration is required by Feb.14. Call 914-594-2700.

Leonard Stekol

COLLEGE RECOGNIZES RIDGEWOOD SAVINGS BANK Leonard Stekol, chairman, president and CEO of Ridgewood Savings Bank, accepted the Spartan Award on behalf of the bank at the 2020 St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) annual Alumni Hall of Fame and Reunion Celebration.

STAC’s Spartan Award acknowledges individuals and/or businesses that have made a significant difference in the community.

HGAR FOUNDATION’S GIFTS The Hudson Gateway Realtor Foundation, the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors, presented a check for $10,000 to Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley in Tarrytown, which creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, and $2,000 to Hearts to Homes in Yonkers to help newly independent young adults who have just aged out of foster care.

TOURO DENTAL HEALTH PEDIATRIC PRACTICE GROUNDBREAKING

The Pace University Board of Trustees approved tenure for Professor Margot J. Pollans last December and promoted her from associate to full professor of law.

Pollans joined Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law faculty in 2015.

She teaches environmental, food, administrative and property law, and

is also the faculty director of the PaceNRDC Food Law Initiative, a collaborative venture between Haub Law and the Natural Resources Defense Council that seeks to promote transitions to a just and sustainable food system by improving access to legal services for farmers and food businesses.

Margot J. Pollans

NY METS ANNOUNCER SPEAKS AT WESTCHESTER GUYS’ NIGHT OUT

NEW NONPROFIT WESTCHESTER BOARD MEMBERS Nonprofit Westchester (NPW) in White Plains has elected six area leaders to serve on its board of directors.

The members are: Allison Lake, executive director, Westchester Children’s Association; Marjorie Madfis, founder and president, Yes She Can Inc.; Michelle A. Nicholas, executive director, Girls Inc. Westchester; Maurice K. Segall, director, Pro Bono Partnership of New York and Fairfield County, Connecticut; Samuel Wallis, executive director, Yonkers Partners in Education; and Jane Veron, CEO, The Acceleration Project.

NYMC CENTER FOR DISASTER MEDICINE PROVIDES TRAINING FOR WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL Emergency department clinicians and other physicians at White Plains Hospital participated in an eight-hour training course taught by the New York Medical College (NYMC) Center for Disaster Medicine to build upon their already growing commitment to disaster preparedness.

The course was created to refresh the knowledge of medical professionals within the hospital who are responsible for the initial triage of victims of a disaster.

The course focuses on prioritizing patient care based on the hospital’s capacity for surgical intervention, critical care admission or stabilization in the emergency department.

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New York Mets announcer Steve Gelbs served as guest speaker at UJA-Federation of New York’s second annual Guys’ Night Out on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville.

Nearly 100 Westchester men came out and the event raised funds for UJA, which supports a network of hundreds of nonprofit organizations that help vulnerable

populations and works to keep Jewish New Yorkers and institutions strong, vibrant, safe and secure.

Event chairs were Ashley Bendell of Ardsley, Ben Blumberg of Larchmont, Ken Fuirst of Chappaqua, Ben Joelson of Scarsdale, Richard Leroy of Chappaqua, David Perlmutter of Chappaqua and Brian Rosenblatt of Chappaqua.

From left: Brian Rosenblatt, Ben Joelson, Steve Gelbs, Ashley Bendell, Richard Leroy, Steve Kaufman, Ken Fuirst and David Perlmutter.

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Facts & Figures BANKRUPTCIES Manhattan Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. New York. Chapter 7, Voluntary. Attorney: Frank A. Oswald. Filed Jan. 28. Case no. 2010242-smb.

Tribeca Hospitality Corp.

New York. Chapter 11, Voluntary.

Attorney: James Mermigis. Filed Jan. 28. Case no. 20-10239-shl.

Zone Technologies Inc. New York. Chapter 7, Voluntary. Attorney: Frank A. Oswald. Filed Jan. 28. Case no. 20-10243-smb.

White Plains Progress Advocates LLC Hawthorne. Chapter 11, Voluntary.

Attorney: Anne J. Penachio. Filed Feb. 3. Case no. 20-22187-rdd.

Student Loan Care LLC Hawthorne. Chapter 11, Voluntary.

Attorney: Anne J. Penachio. Filed Feb. 3. Case no. 20-22186-rdd.

COURT CASES Ahern Rentals Inc. filed by Lilian Baez. Action: Seeking $2 million for diversity - notice of removal. Attorney: Matthew George Miller. Filed Jan. 28. Case no.

1:20-cv-00764-LTS. Alexander Wang Inc. filed by Felipe Ramales. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Feb. 3. Case no.

1:20-cv-00926.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. filed by Andreas Von Der Au. Action: Copyright infringement.

Attorney: Richard Liebowitz.

Filed Jan. 30. Case no. 1:20-cv00805-DLC.

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Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to:

Berdar Equities LLC filed by Christopher O’Rourke. Action: Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Attorney: Hector V. Ramirez.

Filed Jan. 31. Case no. 1:20-cv00849-AJN.

Mora Management Corp. filed

by J. Scott Bebry. Action: Americans With Disabilities Act - Civil Enforcement Actions. Attorney: Robert Patrick O’Brien. Filed Jan. 28. Case no. 1:20-cv-00750-JGK.

CH Realty VIII/R Scarsdale Popham Road LLC, Dallas, Texas. Seller: Popham Road Retail Inc., Tallahassee, Florida. Property: 7 Popham Road, Scarsdale.

Amount: $26 million. Filed Jan. 30.

Buona Notte Inc. filed by Jose Hernandez. Action: Americans With Disabilities Act - Civil Enforcement Actions. Attorney: Donald Jeffrey Weiss. Filed Jan. 29.

Case no. 1:20-cv-00787-VSB.

Radisson Hotels International Inc. filed by Andreas Von Der Au. Action: Copyright infringement.

Attorney: Richard Liebowitz.

Filed Jan. 31. Case no. 1:20-cv00838-AJN.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc., Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Seller: Kyu Hwang, et al, Armonk. Property: 12 Upland Lane, North Castle. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed Jan. 31.

CitiGroup Inc. filed by Bari’s Ozkaptan. Action: Motion to confirm arbitration award. Attorney: Blaine Howell Bortnick. Filed Jan. 28. Case no. 1:20-cv-00747-JMF.

Tango Publishing Corp. filed

by Julie Dermansky. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Feb. 2.

Case no. 1:20-cv-00893-VEC.

Noah Apartments LLC, White Plains. Seller: Maplewood Gardens New York LLC, et al, Larchmont. Property: 77 N. Kensico Ave., White Plains. Amount: $9.2 million. Filed Jan. 27.

Connexity Inc. filed by Joseph Guglielmo. Action: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Attorney: David Paul Force. Filed Jan. 30. Case no. 1:20-cv-00826AJN.

Target Corp. filed by Francisca Santana. Action: Notice of removal. Attorney: Allison Cory Leibowitz. Filed Jan. 29. Case no. 1:20-cv00770-NRB.

Dairyland USA Corp. filed by Royce Bevel. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Abdul Karim Hassan. Filed Jan. 30. Case no. 1:20-cv-00803-AJN. Dermira Inc. filed by Changxia Yuan. Action: Adam M. Apton.

Attorney: Securities Exchange Act. Filed Jan. 31. Case no. 1:20-cv00848-LAP. ESPN Inc. filed by KC Alfred. Action: Copyright infringement. Attorney: Richard Liebowitz. Filed Jan. 28. Case no. 1:20-cv-00738LAP. Gojo Industries Inc. filed by Magdiela Gonzalez. Action: Seeking $5 million for diversity - fraud.

Attorney: Spencer Sheehan. Filed Feb. 1. Case no. 1:20-cv-00888-JMF. Gramercy Global Media LLC filed by Melissa Thompson. Action: Seeking $1 million for diversity - breach of contract.

Attorney: Jonathan David Lindenfeld. Filed Jan. 31. Case no. 1:20-cv00841-VEC. Hospitality Investors Trust Inc. filed by Stuart Wollman. Action: Diversity - Stockholders Suit.

Attorney: Michael Jason Klein.

Filed Jan. 29. Case no. 1:20-cv00798-UA. Hudson Hall LLC filed by Derrick Stewart. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: C.K. Lee. Filed Jan. 31. Case no. 1:20-cv00885-PGG. Monarch Recovery Management Inc. filed by Tobi Brown.

Action: Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: Raphael Deutsch. Filed Jan. 30. Case no. 7:20-cv-00827NSR.

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US Foods Inc. filed by Opal Gordon. Action: Diversity - personal injury. Attorney: John P. Kelly.

Filed Jan. 30. Case no. 1:20-cv00813-PGG-DCF.

DEEDS Above $1 million 1 Bedford Center Road LLC, New York City. Seller: Steven M. Cohen, et al, Bedford Hills. Property: 1 Bedford Center Road, Bedford. Amount: $3 million. Filed Jan. 29.

131 Pearl Street Owner LLC, New York City. Seller: Heiser Holdings LLC, Port Chester. Property: 131 Pearl St., Rye. Amount: $1 million. Filed Jan. 30.

19 Babcock Place Realty Corp., Dobbs Ferry. Seller: ESM Properties Corp., New Rochelle. Property: 19 Babcock Lane, Yonkers.

Amount: $2 million. Filed Jan. 30.

2267 Crompond Realty LLC, et al, Briarcliff Manor. Seller: Dominick Dinardo, et al, Cortlandt Manor. Property: 2267 Crompond Road, Cortlandt. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Jan. 27.

3200 Mohegan Lake LLC, Cedar Grove, New Jersey. Seller: East Main 16 LLC, Brooklyn. Property: 3200 E. Main St., Cortlandt.

Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Jan. 31.

96 Rye Road LLC, Rye. Seller: Jonathan Plutzik, et al, Rye. Property: 96 Rye Road, Rye. Amount: $5.9 million. Filed Jan. 30.

American International Relocation Solutions LLC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Seller: Craig Goodson, et al, White Plains.

Property: 14 Scott Circle, White Plains. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Jan. 29.

SHDG Mount Pleasant LLC, Wayne, Pennsylvania. Seller: Carl Zeiss Inc., Thornwood. Property: 1 Zeiss Drive, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $3.5 million. Filed Jan. 31.

Below $1 million

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Michael P. Amodio, White Plains. Property: 39 Edison Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $312,902. Filed Jan. 30.

Galvanize Residential Group LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Craig Dunlap, Mount Vernon. Property: 228 Union Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $127,500. Filed Jan. 28.

GTCo LLC, New York City. Seller: Stephen K. Rowley, et al, Bedford.

Property: Lot 1 Pound Ridge Road, Bedford. Amount: $251,000. Filed Jan. 30.

J and D 172 Marble LLC, Tarrytown. Seller: Frances Costanzo, Armonk. Property: 172 Marble Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $435,000. Filed Jan. 31.

JN Contracting Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut. Seller: Theresa Rolinson, et al, Harrison. Property: 1 King St., Harrison. Amount: $999,000. Filed Jan. 31.

105 Monroe Apts LLC, Lakewood, New Jersey. Seller: 105 Monroe Street LLC, Mount Vernon.

Property: 105 Monroe St., Mount Vernon. Amount: $925,000. Filed Jan. 31.

MJD Contracting Corp., Mahopac. Seller: Francis Malara, White Plains. Property: 4 Kathwood Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $400,500. Filed Jan. 27.

32 Orchard LLC, East Islip.

Seller: Hansel M. Baez, Yonkers.

Property: 32 Orchard St., Yonkers.

Amount: $575,000. Filed Jan. 27.

Parkview on Columbus LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Susan M. Keller, Bronxville. Property: 356 Columbus Ave., Eastchester. Amount: $675,000. Filed Jan. 29.

40 Claire LLC, Bronx. Seller: Michael F. Sirignano, Cross River.

Property: 40 Claire Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $439,000. Filed Jan. 27.

Pie Hole Group LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: MTGLQ Investors LP, Irvine, California. Property: 37 Linden Ave., Ossining. Amount: $242,500. Filed Jan. 30.

433 Commerce Street LLC, Yorktown. Seller: KSBK Inc., Hawthorne. Property: 433 Commerce St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $475,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Point 62 LLC, White Plains. Seller: Richard A. Glickel, West Nyack.

Property: 1 Charles Place, Eastchester. Amount: $487,501. Filed Jan. 28.

60 N 8 Ave LLC, Williston Park.

Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 60 N. Eighth Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $422,100. Filed Jan. 27.

Steve Giordano Builders Inc., Yorktown Heights. Seller: Edward L. Shaw, et al, Peekskill. Property: 1 Flanders Lane, Cortlandt.

Amount: $65,000. Filed Jan. 28.

80 Taylor Place LLC, Hawthorne. Seller: Judith A. Jaeger, et al, Lake Peekskill. Property: 80 Taylor Place, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Tarrytown Road Enterprises Corp., New York City. Seller: Town of Greenburgh. Property: Tarrytown Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $77,810. Filed Jan. 31.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Connecticut. Seller: Jeffrey E. Rivers, et al, Bedford. Property: 88 Brundage Ridge Road, Bedford.

Amount: $745,000. Filed Jan. 28.

Vanderbilt Monroe LLC, New York City. Seller: David J. Mandelbaum, et al, Pelham. Property: 55 First St., 401, Pelham. Amount: $825,000. Filed Jan. 27.

Chacon Stone LLC, Irvington.

Seller: Sheila Schlesinger, New York City. Property: 30 Main St., Greenburgh. Amount: $491,000.

Filed Jan. 28.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Joseph Galluccio, et al, Cortlandt Manor. Property: 91 Wharton, Cortlandt. Amount: $335,000.

Filed Jan. 31.

Debco Land Inc., Mount Vernon. Seller: DB Realty Group LLC, Mount Vernon. Property: 134 Terrace Avenue South Mount Vernon. Amount: $700,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Yellowstone Development LLC, Great Neck Plaza. Seller: Javed Butt, Mount Vernon. Property: 203 E. Prospect Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $185,000. Filed Jan. 30.

YY Properties USA LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: 349 Walnut Realty LLC, Yonkers. Property: 349 Walnut St., Yonkers. Amount: $650,000.

Filed Jan. 31.

FORECLOSURES HAWTHORNE, 204 Sherman Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .22 acres. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin LLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury.

Defendant: Robert Angiello. Referee: Gary Rikoon. Sale: Feb.19, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. MOHEGAN LAKE, 42 Lakeland Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Blaise Blay Mockey. Referee: David Peck. Sale: Feb. 20, 9 a.m.

Approximate lien: $63,867.

MOUNT VERNON, 35 California Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .29 acres. Plaintiff: Loandepot.com LLC, Plaintiff’s attorney: Roach & Lin PC, 6901 Jericho Turnpike, Syosset. Defendant: Gregory Estephane. Referee: Barbara Lerman. Sale: Feb. 19, 9 a.m.

Approximate lien: $448,836.

MOUNT VERNON, 290 Summit Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .12. Plaintiff: One West Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Neville McLaren. Referee: Helene Greenberg. Sale: Feb. 18, 9:30 a.m.

Approximate lien: $706,278.

NEW ROCHELLE, 80 Brookdale Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .5 acres. Plaintiff: Ditech Financial LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 500 Bausch & Lomb Place, Rochester.

Defendant: Derek Hubbard. Referee: Joan Iacono. Sale: Feb. 10, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $532,131.

NORTH SALEM, 406 Hawley Road. Single-family residence; lot size: 1.0 acres. Plaintiff: MTGLQ Investors LP. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Jeanne Weiser. Referee: Matt Spencer. Sale: Feb. 13, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $381,209.

PLEASANTVILLE, 451 Bear Ridge Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .75 acres. Plaintiff: US Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro DiCaro & Barak, 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester. Defendant: Douglas Lehman. Referee: Steven Paul Kmetz. Sale: Feb. 13, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $487,853.

Facts & Figures PORT CHESTER, 34 Garibaldi Place. Single-family residence; lot size: .17 acres. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: RAS Boriskin LLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury. Defendant: Ogretta Logan. Referee: Danile Pagano.

Sale: Feb.11, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A.

JUDGMENTS N Cancro Inc., New Rochelle. $263,622 in favor of the trustees of Local 1304 Pension, Long Island City. Filed Jan. 30.

Raymond Opticians Inc., Mount Kisco. $54,966 in favor of Ros-Kisco Associates LLC, New York City. Filed Jan. 28.

Yeats Contracting Inc., White Plains. $65,463 in favor of Marble and Granite Interiors Inc., Rye. Filed Jan. 28.

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

Banwareesingh, Lomas, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $369,680 affecting property located at 64 Yale Ave., Ossining 10562. Filed May 21.

Biederman, Lynn S., as co-administratrix of the estate of Mario Conte, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $880,000 affecting property located at 45 Croton Dam Road, Ossining 10562. Filed May 29.

Brown, Andrea M., et al. Filed

by TIAA FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $162,000 affecting property located at 621 Fairlawn Ave., Peekskill 10566. Filed May 28.

Del Monte, Frances S., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 108 Adams Ave., Port Chester 10573.

Filed May 23.

Douglas, Tamika, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $535,200 affecting property located at 49 Vernon Ave., Mount Vernon 10553.

Filed May 29.

Foley, Teresa T., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $570,000 affecting property located at 2 Beechdale Road, Dobbs Ferry 10522. Filed May 22.

Vargas, Frank, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $353,000 affecting property located at 25 Summerfield St., Yonkers 10701. Filed May 28.

Forde, James L., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $360,000 affecting property located at 53 Highland Ave., Eastchester 10709. Filed May 21.

Mechanic’s Liens

Foster, Sandra, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $215,000 affecting property located at 443 First Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed May 24.

Burkewood Realty NY LLC, as owner. $4,790 as claimed by Skaggs-Walsh. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Jan. 30.

Garcia, Glenys R., et al. Filed

by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $304,000 affecting property located at 609 Woodland Hills Road, White Plains 10603. Filed May 28.

Heirs and distributees of the estate of Wesley Woods, et al.

Filed by Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $412,500 affecting property located at 527 S. Third Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed May 24.

Mahabir, Winston, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $590,750 affecting property located at 232 Jessamine Ave., Yonkers 10701.

Filed May 28.

Mejalli, Manal, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $305,000 affecting property located at 151 and 153 Morningside Place, Yonkers 10703. Filed May 29.

Blagman, Alan, as owner. $12,174 as claimed by Angelo Deraffele, Harrison. Property: in Yonkers.

Filed Jan. 29.

Hudson Blue Yonkers LLC, as owner. $67,606 as claimed by With Pride Air Conditioning and Heating, Farmingdale Property in Yonkers. Filed Jan. 28.

Lighthouse Landing Communities LLC, as owner $15,892 as claimed by AJR Site Development LLC. Property: in Mount Pleasant.

Filed Jan. 30.

DG Brown and Beauty Bar, 901 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Martha A. Samano.

Filed Oct. 11.

Empire City Tires and Service, 87 Putnam St., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Audai A. Hassan. Filed Oct. 10.

Empire Wok of Yonkers, 839 B McLean Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Guangrong Li. Filed Oct. 8.

Highfield Consulting, 4 Highfield Road, Harrison 10528, c/o Christine Zambrana. Filed Oct. 10.

Karen Rosen, LCSW, 547 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley 10502, c/o Karen Rosen. Filed Oct. 10.

Luz M. Brito, 50 N. Terrace Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Luz Magnolia Brito Liriano. Filed Oct. 10.

NEW BUSINESSES

M and A House Cleaning, 14 Maple Place, Ossining 10562, c/o Maria Delcid. Filed Oct. 11.

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

Partnerships Star Billing and Coding, 60 Main St., Ivrvington10533, c/o Barbara Sandifer and Joseph D. Crucitti. Filed Oct. 8.

Sole Proprietorships

Orlando, Anthony, et al. Filed

by Citizens Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $500,000 affecting property located at 4 Circle Road, Pelham Manor. Filed May 24.

Ana’s House Cleaning, 96 Milton Road, Rye 10580, c/o Ana Cubas. Filed Oct. 9.

Servello, Frank N., et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $69,300 affecting property located at 19 Ridgeway, White Plains 10605. Filed May 28.

Ciro Welding, 189 Drake Ave. 1E, New Rochelle 10805, c/o James Ciro Molloy. Filed Oct. 8.

MTC Capital Holding LLC, as owner. $8,720 as claimed by A and J Cianciulli Corp., Yonkers. Property: in White Plains. Filed Jan. 31.

Navbharath Real Estate Development Corp., et al. Filed by Revolving Mortgage Investment Trust 2017-BRQ1. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 42 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed May 22.

Rossini, Joseph, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $360,000 affecting property located at 1265 Manor Circle, Pelham 10803. Filed May 24.

Camacho Medical Billing Consultant, 138 Chauncey Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Michel A Camacho. Filed Oct. 9.

A.L. Co., 29 Odell Ave., Apt. 4D, White Plains 10606, c/o Avilio B. Lopez Navarro. Filed Oct. 10.

BenTech Solutions, P.O. Box 256, White Plains 10603, c/o Benjamin Vele. Filed Oct. 8.

Bold Basics NY, 20 Water Grant St., Apt. 351, Yonkers 10701, c/o Patricia Molina. Filed Oct. 9.

Brooks Custom Carpentry and Finishing, 21 Sherwood Road, Cortlandt Manor 10567, c/o Steven C. Brooks. Filed Oct. 8.

Maria Art and Home Materials, 22 Elm Place, Fourth floor, Rye 10580, c/o Maria V. Arguelles.

Filed Oct. 9.

Pell House Publishing, 654 Timpson St., Pelham Manor 10803, c/o Ann Searle Horowitz.

Filed Oct. 8.

Pinatas R Us, 101 Columbus Ave., Port Chester 10573, c/o Jesus L. Balingit. Filed Oct. 9.

Rx Wealth Planning, 91 Woodruff Ave., Scarsdale 10583, c/o Norman Mok. Filed Oct. 8.

Ustyleclothing.com, 356 Riverdale Ave., Yonkers 10705, c/o Sindy Rojas Castelan. Filed Oct. 8.

Vincent Kerr Mechanical, 1767 Central Park Ave., Apt. 187, Yonkers 10710, c/o Vincent Kerr. Filed Oct. 10.

PATENTS Adaptive multitenant monitoring in resource constrained environments. Patent no.

10,555,142 issued to Samir Tata, Cupertino, California; Mohamed Mohamed, San Jose, California; Aly Megahed, San Jose, California.

Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Automatic transfer of audio-related task to a smart speaker. Patent no. 10,555,118 issued to James E. Bostick, Cedar Park, Texas; John M. Ganci Jr., Cary, North Carolina; Martin G. Keen, Cary, North Carolina; Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata, India. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Content filtering based on nightmare pattern. Patent no.

10,555,039 issued to Eric V. Kline, Rochester, Minnesota; Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata, India. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Determining a location of a mobile device. Patent no.

10,555,226 issued to Heng Cao, Beijing, China; Wei Shan Dong, Beijing, China; Chun Yang Ma, Beijing, China; Ju Wei She, Beijing, China; Chunhua Tian, Beijing, China; Yu Wang, Beijing, China; Chao Zhang, Beijing, China. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Displaying a scanned image of a physical note. Patent no.

10,554,827 issued to Matthew J. Kempa, Congleton, England; Syed Akhass Adnan Wasti, Cambridge, England; Hisham Jafar Ali, Nottingham, England; Giacomo G. Chiarella, Winchester, England.

Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Filtering of authenticated synthetic transactions. Patent no. 10,554,626 issued to Mark N. Weatherill, Victoria Park, Australia; Andre J. Bailey, Leederville, Australia; Randy George, Austin, Texas. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Generating a recommendation as to who is able to provide information pertaining to an electronic communication based on activity information related to the electronic communication. Patent no.

10,554,603 issued to Ali Chakra, Apex, North Carolina; Liam Harpur, Dublin, Ireland; Michelle M. Purcell, Tullamore, Ireland; John Rice, Tramore, Ireland. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Identifying and controlling unwanted calls. Patent no.

10,554,812 issued to Geetha Adinarayan, Bangalore, India; Dinesh Radhakrishnan, Bangalore, India; Akshat Dixit, Bangalore, India; Gandhi Sivakumar, Bentleigh, Australia. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Method and a system for email address validation. Patent no.

10,554,610 issued to Ben Z. Akselrod, Givat Shmuel, Israel; Anthony Di Loreto, Markham, Canada; Kyle D. Robeson, North York, Canada.

Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Predicting `usefullness` of a call by analysing digital footprint of a person. Patent no.

10,554,811 issued to Yuk L. Chan, Rochester; Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania; Deepti M. Naphade, Cupertino, California. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

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Presenting context and relevance of incoming calls. Patent no. 10,554,814 issued to Anurag Srivastava, Pune, India; Manoj Goyal, Bangalore, India; Abhijit Singh, Bangalore, India. Assigned to IBM, Armonk. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Presenting notifications to a user of a computing device. Patent no. 10,554,775 issued to Nicola Milanese, Rome, Italy; Stefano Sidoti, Rome, Italy; Andrea Tortosa, Rome, Italy. Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

Wireless communication network-based detection of GPS spoofing. Patent no. 10,555,178 issued to Dave Bach, Phoenix, Arizona; Nicholas Fragiskoatos, Tucson, Arizona; John A. Rohe, Tucson, Arizona.

Assigned to IBM, Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million HBR Homes LLC, Elmwood Park, New Jersey, as owner.

Lender: Valley National Bank, Wayne, New Jersey. Property: 1-47 Woodrose Court, Middletown.

Amount: $2.5 million. Filed Jan. 30.

Hudson Valley Kingston Development LLC, New York City, as owner. Lender: Deutsche Bank AG, New York City. Property: 301 Wall, 270 Fair, 41 Pearl and 24 John streets, Kingston. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Jan. 30.

Matrix Newburgh I LLC, New York City, as owner. Lender: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 108 Route 17K, Newburgh. Amount: $30.9 million. Filed Feb. 3.

Below $1 million 123-127 South William Street LLC, Brooklyn, as owner. Lender: SBH Programs LLC, Lakewood, New Jersey. 123, 125, and 127 S. William St., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $657,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Cullen, William P., Highland Mills, as owner. Lender: Prime Lending. Property: 3403 Route 208, Campbell Hall. Amount: $321,564. Filed Jan. 31.

Dowd, Paula, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $350,000.

Filed Jan. 29.

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Facts & Figures Fine, Anna, et al, New Paltz, as owner. Lender: Rondout Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 80 Jones Quarry Road, Woodstock.

Amount: $617,232. Filed Jan. 28.

144 Franklin LLC, Irvington.

Seller: U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Property: 144 Franklin St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $125,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Catskill Farms Inc., Eldred. Seller: Glenn Dymond, Kerhonkson.

Property: 273 Ridgeview Road, Kerhonkson. Amount: $202,500.

Filed Jan. 31.

Flower Holdings and Properties LLC, Monroe. Seller: Evan Zucker, Chester. Property: 17 Amy Todt Drive, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $343,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Newburgh SHG 17 LLC, Neck. Seller: Lewis Leoce, Newburgh. Property: in burgh. Amount: $85,000.

Feb. 3.

Holman, Peter R., et al, as owner. Lender: TEG Federal Credit Union. Property: in Beekman.

Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 24.

31 Irish Gate LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Roberta O’Connor, et al, Holts Summit, Missouri. Property: 31 Irish Cape Road, Napanoch 12458.

Amount: $45,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Cavan LLC, Pearl River. Seller: Fred Shakeridge, Spring Valley. Property: in Highland Falls.

Amount: $90,000. Filed Feb. 3.

Garfield Manor LLC, Phoenicia. Seller: John W. Bowers, New York City. Property: in Shandaken.

Amount: $90,000. Filed Jan. 31.

O and W Station LLC, Kingston.

Seller: Hurley Avenue Associates, Kingston. Property: in Kingston.

Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Corner 209 LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Napnac Holdings LLC, Ellenville. Property: 7462 and 7466 Route 209, Wawarsing. Amount: $20,000. Filed Jan. 31.

I.C. Quality LLC, New York City.

Seller: Brougham REO Owner LP, Odessa, Florida. Property: 17 Freeman Avery Road, Olivebridge 12461. Amount: $37,500. Filed Jan. 27.

Old Sycamore Realty III LLC, Goshen. Seller: 4 Strack Road Realty LLC, Goshen. Property: in Goshen. Amount: $125,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Knief, Kritina Lee, Putnam Valley, as owner. Lender: Ice Lender Holdings LLC, New York City.

Property: 18 Cedar Drive, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $88,300.

Filed Jan. 28.

Reinoso, Jose, et al, as owner.

Lender: Primelending. Property: in Pleasant Valley. Amount: $181,649. Filed Jan. 28.

Rose, David B., et al, as owner.

Lender: Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Property: in Pleasant Valley. Amount: $205,000.

Filed Jan 31.

DEEDS Above $1 million 773 Stanford LLC, New York City. Seller: Patricia Karetzky, New York City. Property: 773 Stanford Road, Millbrook. Amount: $1 million. Filed Jan. 24.

ASB Cera Realty LLC, Middletown. Seller: 53 Smith Road LLC, Middletown. Property: in Wallkill.

Amount: $5.5 million. Filed Feb. 3.

Grapnel LLC, Watchung, New Jersey. Seller: Goodwill Properties LLC, Montgomery. Property: 2105 Route 208, Montgomery 12549.

Amount: $7.3 million. Filed Jan. 31.

Jackson Lane LLC, Woodstock.

Seller: Ching Ya Wu, Bearsville.

Property: 50-52 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. Amount: $1.2 million.

Filed Jan. 30.

SB Dolson Realty LLC, Laconia, New Hampshire. Seller: Sjar Realty LLC, Montgomery. Property: in Wawayanda. Amount: $3.5 million. Filed Jan. 31.

Below $1 million 10 Lincoln Terrace LLC, Monroe. Seller: Olimpia Rossi, Newburgh. Property: 10 Lincoln Terrace, Newburgh. Amount: $360,000. Filed Jan. 31.

100 Courtney Avenue LLC, Shrub Oak. Seller: Aamir Mumtaz, Pleasantville. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $372,000. Filed Jan. 30.

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41 Livingston LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Timothy J. Charest, et al, West Hurley. Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $450,888. Filed Jan. 28.

48 West Market Street LLC, New York City. Seller: Bonter Consulting Services Inc., Milan.

Property: in Rhinebeck. Amount: $655,000. Filed Jan. 27.

71Goathill3 LLC, Kingston. Seller: Ian Brody, et al, Woodstock.

Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $440,250. Filed Jan. 31.

Austin Black LLC, Monsey. Seller: Staci E. Bolger, Walden. Property: 38 Madison St., Montgomery.

Amount: $133,000. Filed Jan. 28.

AZ Saugerties LLC, Warwick.

Seller: Joanne Ostrander, Shokan.

Property: 47 Southern Lane, Warwick 10990. Amount: $282,700.

Filed Feb. 3.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Nancy J. Schneider, Washingtonville. Property: 21 Lenape Road, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $205,127. Filed Jan. 29.

Beautiful Huguenot Street LLC, New Paltz. Seller: Robert Cartagena, Delmar. Property: in New Paltz. Amount: $185,000.

Filed Feb. 3.

Blue Ocean Mars M1 LLC, Saugerties. Seller: Michel J. Nash, Pleasant Valley. Property: in Esopus. Amount: $425,000. Filed Jan. 27.

Botrac Properties LLC, Montgomery. Seller: Bank of America N.A. Property: 50 Prospect Hill Road, Newburgh 12589. Amount: $44,900. Filed Jan. 29.

Brochetti Catering Inc., Red Hook. Seller: K.D.K. Realty Corp., Rhinebeck. Property: in Red Hook. Amount: $235,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Byrd and Gines Homes LLC, Highland. Seller: John S. Dunlop, Newburgh. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $157,500. Filed Jan. 28.

Castaldo Brothers Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Levett LLC, Wappingers Falls. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $170,000. Filed Jan. 29.

WCBJ

County Rockland Rentals LLC, Pearl River. Seller: Frank D. Lombardi, Elmsford. Property: 802 Mountainside Drive, Southfields 10975. Amount: $74,000.

Filed Jan. 30.

Demco Properties NY LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Lacrosse Properties LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 531 Haight Ave., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $250,000. Filed Jan. 27.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Maura A. Barrett, Poughkeepsie. Property: 7 Lake View Drive, Pawling 12564.

Amount: $251,500. Filed Jan. 28.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Philip Cataldo, et al, Kingston, Pennsylvania. Property: 32 Keats Drive, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $210,267. Filed Feb. 3.

Drewcora First LLC, Beacon.

Seller: Ryan Ro, Tivoli. Property: 32 Chambers St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $210,000. Filed Jan. 28.

Eglise James LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Roman Catholic Church of Saint Mary and Saint James, Marlboro. Property: 10, 12-14 Main St., South Road and Route 9W, Marlborough. Amount: $295,000.

Filed Jan. 24.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., McLean, Virginia. Seller: Tyrone Brown, Yonkers. Property: 42 Highway 48, Crawford 12566.

Amount: $352,848. Filed Feb. 3.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Anthony S. Fusco, et al, White Plains. Property: 9 Paul Drive, Mahopac 10541.

Amount: $675,237. Filed Jan. 31.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Paul L. Marks, Newburgh. Property: 9 Coleman St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $120,331. Filed Feb. 3.

Federal National Mortgage Corp. Seller: Richard Schisano, Newburgh. Property: 11 Hillcrest Place, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $272,161. Filed Feb. 3.

JND Property Management LLC, Mahopac. Seller: Paul Richardson, White Plains. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $310,000.

Filed Jan. 24.

Kafou Real Estate Ventures LLC, Alpharetta, Georgia. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 874 Route 211 West, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $105,000. Filed Jan. 28.

Kellever LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Margarita O. Lincoln, Middle Island. Property: in Putnam Valley.

Amount: $83,500. Filed Jan. 27.

Kiel Contracting LLC, Middletown. Seller: Michael C. Kozykowski, Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $52,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Lexelle Properties LLC, Wappingers Falls. Seller: Tamela Muller, et al, Wappingers Falls.

Property: in Fishkill. Amount: $150,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Lot 2C Victory LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Industrial Retro LLC, Pleasant Valley. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $236,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Makk Property Investors LLC, New Windsor. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 106 Adams Drive, Maybrook 12543. Amount: $160,000. Filed Jan. 29.

MTGLQ Investors LP, Greenville, South Carolina. Seller: Jack Schachner, Pleasant Valley.

Property: 30 Pembrooke Court, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $325,500. Filed Jan. 31.

MTGLQ Investors LP, Greenville, South Carolina. Seller: Lee David Klein, Poughkeepsie. Property: 26 Hickman Drive, Hopewell Junction. Amount: $527,500. Filed Jan. 27.

MTGLQ Investors LP, Irvine, California. Seller: Joseph Tock, Mahopac. Property: 16 Preston Place, Patterson 12563. Amount: $621,371. Filed Jan. 27.

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Park Avenue Holding LLC, New Milford, Connecticut. Seller: Dennis Palmer, et al, Wingdale.

Property: in Amenia. Amount: $100,000. Filed Jan. 29.

PD Summit LLC, Kew Gardens.

Seller: Summit Avenue Property I LLC, Goshen. Property: 110 and 120 Summit Ave., Woodbury 10917. Amount: $380,000. Filed Feb. 3.

PD Summit LLC, Kew Gardens.

Seller: Summit Avenue Property II LLC, Goshen. Property: 115 and 145 Summit Ave. and 21 Oak Concourse, Woodbury 10917. Amount: $570,000. Filed Feb. 3.

Stone Hill Station LLC, Millbrook. Seller: Brandon C. Schreiber, et al, Millbrook. Property: 132 Killearn Road, Millbrook 12545. Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 29.

T and M Real Estate Services LLC, Goshen. Seller: Mary Alice Cahill, Sugar Loaf. Property: 20 High St., Goshen 10924. Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 31.

The Putnam County National Bank of Carmel, Carmel. Seller: Patrick Gartland, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Dover. Amount: $108,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Tomak 27 Lex LLC, Astoria. Seller: Omar T. Alrihani, Wappingers Falls. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $190,000. Filed Jan. 28.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Michael McCann, Goshen. Property: 19 Fairlawn Ave., Middletown 10940. Amount: $205,975. Filed Feb. 3.

Var Properties NY LLC, Brewster. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 656 Sprout Brook Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $179,900.

Filed Jan. 28.

PGMW LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Seller: David Augello, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $973,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Velocity House Buyers LLC, Monroe. Seller: Miguel Lopez, Middletown. Property: 12 Birchwood Lane, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $135,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Pride on Properties Orange LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Velocity House Buyers LLC, New Windsor.

Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $166,000. Filed Jan. 28.

Vineyard 12528 LLC, Monroe.

Seller: Elmi Berisha, Wappingers Falls. Property: 108 Vineyard Ave., Highland 12528. Amount: $530,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Rahil Arora Inc., Hicksville. Seller: Amanda Cannizzaro, Monroe.

Property: 100 Hillside Drive, Middletown 10941. Amount: $165,000.

Filed Feb. 3.

Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., Morris Plains, New Jersey.

Seller: Oral Ingram, et al, Carmel. Property: in Kent. Amount: $404,950. Filed Jan. 29.

Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC, Lansing, Michigan. Seller: Gordon B. Fine, Yorktown Heights. Property: 112 Route 301, Cold Spring 10516. Amount: $357,424. Filed Jan. 28.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Christina L. Harrison, et al, Florida. Property: 34 Teplitz Court, Montgomery 12549. Amount: $320,530. Filed Jan. 28.

Rondout Holdings LLC, Hurley. Seller: Broadway Premium Properties Two LLC, Spring Valley. Property: 22-24 Maiden Lane, Kingston 12401. Amount: $490,000. Filed Jan. 24.

SDF Capital Fund I LLC, Mamaroneck. Seller: David J. Wasserman, Newburgh. Property: 222 and 224 Robinson Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $90,000.

Filed Jan. 28.

SDF Capital LLC, Mamaroneck.

Seller: Michael L. Fiorillo, Poughkeepsie. Property: 28 Glenwood Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $80,000. Filed Jan. 28.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: J. Henry Neale Jr., White Plains. Property: 101 Apple Tree Lane, Unit 8-101B, Brewster 10509. Amount: $289,000.

Filed Jan. 27.

Wilmington Trust N.A. Seller: Anthony M. Abraham, Carmel.

Property: 103 Old Highland Turnpike, Garrison 10524. Amount: $600,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Wyldwyck LLC, Dix Hills. Seller: Northeast Solite Corp., Richmond, Virginia. Property: in Saugerties.

Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Facts & Figures YF Estates LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: 27 Marc Terrace, Monroe 10950. Amount: $180,000. Filed Jan. 30.

ZJSB LLC, Spring Valley. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 17 Lakeland Ave., Greenwood Lake 10925. Amount: $122,850. Filed Jan. 30.

JUDGMENTS

Blumaar LLC, Harriman. $510 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Joe’s Cold Etc LLC, Saugerties. $4,542 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Oak Development Inc., Warwick. $2,062 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Sub Enterprises Inc., Chester. $329 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

CL Dreamland Inc., Port Jervis. $3,061 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

John Gustafson Contracting Inc., Montgomery. $8,152 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

SWJC Inc., Cuddebackville. $1,060 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

Creekside Pub LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. $3,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

JVS, New Windsor. $976 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 27.

Oasis Entertainment LLC, Newburgh. $814 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

DHD Renovation and Landscape, Newburgh. $1,969 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Kaltec Food Packaging Inc., Port Jervis. $932 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 14.

Ely Enterprises Inc., Port Jervis. $741 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany.

Filed Jan. 17.

KC Werks Ltd., Walden. $5,381 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Advanced Recovery Inc., Port Jervis. $1,073 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Flying Fish Enterprises LLC, Newburgh. $1,794 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Kingston Call A Cab Inc., Kingston. $2,619 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan 27.

Advanced Reglazing Corp., Monroe. $9,837 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

Fude Globe Inc., Middletown. $1,211 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

AJM Trucking Company Inc., Monroe. $731 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

Greenwood Lake Cabs Inc., Monroe. $983 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

Ackerman Home LLC, Warwick. $1,084 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

ADF Designs Inc., Middletown. $1,169 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

All American Realty Management Ltd., Middletown. $3,325 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 14.

AM Billing and Management Corp., Middletown. $2,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 23.

Anais Deli Grocery Store Inc., Newburgh. $647 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 14.

Bajwa Trading Inc., Middletown. $40,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany.

Filed Jan. 23.

Behavioral Solutions New York Inc., Highland Mills. $78,408 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Billy Grzybek Plumbing and Heating Inc., Bloomingburg. $1,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

Haverstraw Subway Inc., Chester. $722 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

HBR Homes LLC, Middletown. $6,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

HD Stoneworks, Stone Ridge. $989 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Heart and Soul Caring Angels Staffing Inc., Middletown. $18,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 23.

Houston Eco Cleaning Services Inc., Montgomery. $2,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 23.

ID and ATA LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. $36,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 23.

J and T Ventures Holding Inc., Middletown. $2,963 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

Lekker 209 LLC, Kingston. $1,099 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Liberty Environmental Management LLC, Middletown. $1,045 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Lou G Siegel Inc., Monroe. $78,353 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

MJL Family Pizza Inc., Highland. $381 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan 27.

MK Recording Studios Inc., Highland Mills. $529 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

Nail and Spa, Middletown. $5,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

Noazark Consulting Inc., Woodstock. $1,003 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan 27.

Noble Pies LLC, Warwick. $3,766 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

O’Brien’s of New York LLC, Goshen. $37,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany.

Filed Jan. 10.

Ole Thyme Market Inc., Slate Hill. $6,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 23.

Orange County Builders LLC, Middletown. $629 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 15.

Over the Moon Enrichment Center LLC, Pine bush. $318 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

Pine Bush Dental Group PLLC, Pine Bush. $18,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany.

Filed Jan. 23.

Premier Wireless of Middletown LLC, Middletown. $1,968 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 15.

PRG Enterprises Inc., Port Jervis. $1,408 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 15.

Proguard Protection Inc., Newburgh. $14,914 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 15.

Qcstelecom Inc., Monroe. $1,903 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 15.

Quickway Taxi Service Inc., Montgomery. $1,518 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 17.

Royal Estates, Monroe. $12,281 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Sabatino’s Pizzeria and Ristorante Inc., Gardiner. $51,000 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Sight and Sound Communications Corp., New Hampton. $1,178 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

The Beer Store 111 Corp., Ellenville. $1,260 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

The NY Nick, Kingston $936 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

The Trestle, Cornwall on Hudson. $6,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

Top Choice Lingerie Inc., Monroe. $2,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 16.

TTC Network Services Inc., Pine Island. $397 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

TWS Wings Inc., Middletown. $12,120 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Vidina Ltd., Middletown. $389 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

YF Builders Corp., Monroe. $4,947 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Jan. 27.

Yoelys Cooling of NY Inc., Monroe. $1,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

Your Hometown Pediatrician PLLC, Warwick. $5,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

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

Ali, Isaac D., et al. Filed by Navy Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 379 Goshen Turnpike, Middletown 10941.

Filed Dec. 2.

WCBJ

Arreglado, Maria, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $272,300 affecting property located at 41 Scott Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Jan. 28.

Bailey, Kenneth A. Jr., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $261,816 affecting property located at 2849 Route 44/55, Gardiner 12525. Filed Jan. 28.

Borgos, Hector, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $243,800 affecting property located at 123 Center St., Highland Falls 10928. Filed Nov. 29.

Boro, John, individually and as surviving joint tenant with rights of survivorship of Leif Boro, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 4 Talmadge Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Jan. 31.

Brodie, Michael, as heir and distributee of the estate of William Wallace Brodie, et al.

Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $80,000 affecting property located at 39 Grand St., Marlboro 12542. Filed Jan. 29.

Colon, Irma, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $82,264 affecting property located at 14 Smith St., Middletown 10940.

Filed Nov. 26.

Gabriello, Kim M., et al. Filed by Pennymac Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $172,812 affecting property located at 3 Hilltop Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed Nov. 27.

Garrison, Joanne T., et al. Filed

by Specialized Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $191,250 affecting property located at 500 Lattintown Road, Milton 12542.

Filed Jan. 29.

Gulnick, Burton Jr., as appointed limited public administrator of the estate of John C. Casciaro, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $361,500 affecting property located at 146 New Paltz Road, Highland 12528. Filed Jan. 28.

Gulnick, Burton Jr., Ulster County commissioner of finance as administrator of the estate of Philip G. Kight, et al. Filed by Freedom Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $130,018 affecting property located at 639 Spillway Road, West Hurley 12491.

Filed Jan. 27.

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Facts & Figures Haffner, Daniel, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $317,466 affecting property located at 26 Luigi Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Jan. 29.

Moloney, Jeffrey, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $237,814 affecting property located at 8 Rockcrest Place, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Jan. 28.

Hagen, David, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $192,500 affecting property located at 85 Western Ave., Marlboro 12542. Filed Jan. 28.

Mukherjee, Kushal, et al. Filed

by Wilmington Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $192,000 affecting property located at 3 Becks Lane, Newburgh 12550. Filed Dec. 2.

Hector, Irene E., et al. Filed by NewRez LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,500 affecting property located at 115 Main St., Kingston 12401.

Filed Jan. 31.

Ozanne, Robert K., et al. Filed

by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $291,600 affecting property located at 14 Penny Place Fishkill 12524. Filed Jan. 28.

Howard, Maria D., et al. Filed

by Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $223,300 affecting property located at 20 Darlene Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Jan. 27.

Pilkington, Theresa G., et al.

Filed by Selene Finance LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $287,952 affecting property located at 130 Carboy Road, Middletown 10940. Filed Dec. 2.

Hudler, Stephen, et al. Filed by Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $88,000 affecting property located at 185 Green St., Port Ewen. Filed Jan. 29.

Ramgahan, Danesh, et al. Filed

by TD Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $74,300 affecting property located at 355 Masten Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Jan. 28.

Jacaruso, Marjorie C., et al.

Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $142,000 affecting property located at 180 Union Ave., New Windsor 12553.

Filed Nov. 26.

Ramos, Ariel, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $206,250 affecting property located at 29 Sycamore Court, Highland Mills 10930. Filed Dec. 2.

Jones, Izora L., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,824 affecting property located at 47-49 Gardner Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 26.

Ramos, Erick S., 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 1047 Rolling Ridge, New Windsor 12553. Filed Nov. 26.

Lorenzo, Danny, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $219,362 affecting property located at 25 Columbus St., New Windsor 12553.

Filed Nov. 27.

Santiago, Edgar, et al. Filed

by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $276,800 affecting property located at 9 Pleasant Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Filed Jan. 28.

Lucchese, Eugene F., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,500 affecting property located at 20 Lafayette Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 27.

McClintock, Paige, as administratrix and possible distributee of the estate of the late Robert McClintock, et al. Filed

by CSMC 2018-SP2 Trust. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 19 Sages Loop, Kerhonkson 12446.

Filed Jan. 28.

Seelbach, Heidi, as administrator of the estate of Roman A. Bobak, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $257,500 affecting property located at 72 Barkit Kennel Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Jan. 27.

Sewell, George, et al. Filed by Homebridge Financial Services Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $289,656 affecting property located at 30 Indian Ave., Mahopac 10541. Filed Jan. 29.

McKay, Michael S., et al. Filed

by Quicken Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $199,302 affecting property located at 5 Cipriano Road, Clintondale 12515. Filed Jan. 28.

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Simmons, Arthur J., as heir to the estate of Arthur R. Simmons, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $214,817 affecting property located at 29 Hilltop Court, Kent 10512.

Filed Jan. 30.

Simone, Eric, et al. Filed by Specialized Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $174,988 affecting property located at 39 Honey Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Jan. 23.

Tamburro, Maria N., et al. Filed

by Freedom Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $147,200 affecting property located at 172 Old State Road, Highland Falls 10928. Filed Nov. 26.

Thomas, John, et al. Filed by Hometown Bank of Hudson Valley. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $145,257 affecting property located at 210 Hillside Lane, Ellenville 12428.

Filed Jan. 27.

Townsend, Heather, et al. Filed

by JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $378,000 affecting property located at 422 Old Forge Hill Road, New Windsor 12553. Filed Dec. 2.

Tweedy, Larissa A., et al. Filed

by Quicken Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $229,705 affecting property located at 143 Hurley Road, Salt Point 12578. Filed Jan. 28.

Tyler, Rhett, as heir to the estate of Francine M. Defere Tyler, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $384,750 affecting property located at 28 Village Cove, Warwick 10990. Filed Nov. 27.

Tyra, Kimberly A., et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $251,000 affecting property located at 49 Becker St., Lake Peekskill 10537. Filed Jan. 30.

Ulster County commissioner of finance as administrator of the estate of Robert D. Campbell Jr., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,125 affecting property located at 39 Glenview Drive, Glenford 12433. Filed Jan. 28.

Ward Jr., Charles E., et al. Filed

by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $332,239 affecting property located at 2 Lori St., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Jan. 24.

Welch, Linda, et al. Filed by Pennymac Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $178,383 affecting property located at 7 Watkins Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 26.

Wierzbicki, Tracey, et al. Filed

by Sterling National Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 2 Holly Ave., Florida 10921. Filed Nov. 26.

CS Group, 143 Main St., Kingston 12401, c/o Coby E. Schloemer.

Filed Jan. 29.

Cuts by Kim, 7 Kalina Drive, Saugerties 12477, c/o Kimberly A. Mahoney. Filed Jan. 31.

Deep Holistic Skincare and Therapeutic Massage, 99 Clinton Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o Michele A. Muller. Filed Jan. 28.

Mechanic’s Liens

Eben-ezer Barber Shop, 44 James St., Middletown, c/o Raymond Nunez. Filed Jan. 23.

Jedlicka, Christopher, as owner. $7,666 as claimed by Columbia Cabinets LLC, Armonk. Property: 403 Kingsway, Carmel. Filed Jan. 27.

Folk Fab, 2296 Route 32 South, New Paltz 12561, c/o Mark J. Christiana. Filed Jan. 31.

Leimzider, Solomon, Monroe, as owner. $27,352 as claimed by Casa Builders Inc., New Paltz.

Property: 166 First St., Kingston 12401. Filed Jan. 30.

Major, Peter, et al, as owner. $72,380 as claimed by Belfor USA Group Inc., North White Plains.

Property: 16 Westleigh Court, Kent. Filed Jan. 27.

The Lindley LLC, Wallkill, as owner. $10,000 as claimed by Jay Elsoffer Inc., Wappingers Falls.

Property: 889 Hoagerburgh Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed Jan. 28.

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

Partnerships All Seasons A.M. Construction, 175 Renwick St., No. 3, Newburgh 12550, c/o Ana J. Moronta and Hector Xavier Colon Cotto.

Filed Jan. 24.

Sole Proprietorships Angie Beauty Store, 156 Dolson Ave., Middletown, c/o Alejandra Garcia Alonso. Filed Jan. 22.

Away Team Music, 157 Barnes Road, Washingtonville, c/o David Aboagye Dankwah. Filed Jan. 22.

Campbell Galli Photo Video, 2796 Route 94, Washingtonville 10992, c/o Jean Campbell Galli.

Filed Jan. 27.

Colon Three Studio, 71 Larter Ave., Newburgh 12550, c/o Mong Ngoc T. Vu. Filed Jan. 21.

Freer Public Adjusting, 128 Rayna St., Hurley 12443, c/o Brian R. Freer. Filed Jan. 29.

Gajova Beauty, 41 Orion Ave., Monroe 10950, c/o Joblany Casado. Filed Jan. 22.

Glow by Yessy, 191 S. Plank Road, Newburgh, c/o Yesenia Mendoza.

Filed Jan. 24.

Helping Hands, 22 Woodycrest Trail, Monroe, c/o James Taylor.

Filed Jan. 27.

Salazar General Construction, 23 Teneyck Ave., Greenwood Lake, c/o Jose C. Salazar Flores.

Filed Jan. 22.

Samson Construction, 3 Coronation Path, Newburgh 12550, c/o Samuel Sanchez. Filed Jan. 23.

Simply at the Cabinet Barn, 2358 Route 207, Campbell Hall 10916, c/o Dean Thomas Van Zandt. Filed Jan. 23.

Skipping Stone Somatics, P.O. Box 1022, Kingston 12402, c/o Dirk Henry Trachy. Filed Jan. 31.

Smart Source Electric, 450 Band Camp Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Daniel T. Chahanovich.

Filed Jan. 30.

Steven’s Maintenance and Repair, 43 Store Road, Accord 12404, c/o Steven B. Podejko. Filed Jan. 27.

Studio 504, 34 North St., Middletown 10940, c/o Maria Nnenna Ike. Filed Jan. 21.

Superior Restoration and Cleaning, P.O. Box 133, Modena 12548, c/o Kristy L. Morgan. Filed Jan. 29.

Ideas to Life, 200 S. Main St., Apt. A8, Ellenville 12428, c/o Cristal V. Negron. Filed Jan. 31.

Supreme Trinity Medical Transportation, 1805 Baldwin Lane, Newburgh, c/o Amoy Cecilia Hines. Filed Jan. 23.

Jokar Collectibles, 18 Warren St., Marlboro 12542, c/o Joseph P. Scilla Jr. Filed Jan. 30.

The Helpful Handyman, 330 Route 55, Napanoch, c/o Gregg A. Worden. Filed Jan. 28.

Let’s Talk Counseling Services, 721 Broadway, Suite U 60, Kingston 12401 c/o Evdocia M. Closi. Filed Jan. 30.

The Hurley Handyman, P.O. Box 95, Hurley 12443, c/o Patrick Sean McGuire. Filed Jan. 31.

Majestically Unique, 12 Sidden Lane, Apt. 2, Lake Katrine 12449, c/o Crystal A. Junta. Filed Jan. 31.

Tri-State Pool and Patio, P.O. Box 449, Marlboro 12542, c/o Vincent Scaturro. Filed Jan. 27.

Maritza’s Cart, 84 Highland Ave., Middletown 10940, c/o Maritza Donadelle. Filed Jan. 23.

Uma and Luna’s Sweet Dreams Café, 36 Noel Drive, Newburgh 12550, c/o Leah Jools Jimenez.

Filed Jan. 22.

Master Marketing, 304 Concord Lane, Middletown, c/o Philip Rivera. Filed Jan. 24.

Vajra, 40 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock 12498, c/o Kalsang W. Lama.

Filed Jan. 28.

Norzom, 40 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock 12498, c/o Kalsang W. Lama. Filed Jan. 29.

Yama and Yarrow, 11 Van Buren St., Kingston 12401, c/o Jacqueline Marie Stocker. Filed Jan. 27.

NY Fab Shop, 916 Zena Road, Woodstock 12498, c/o Steven B. Liebowitz. Filed Jan. 28.

Pups-N-Purrs Petsitting, 7 Pine Grove Ave., Rosendale 12472, c/o Kathleen Wade. Filed Jan. 31.

LEGAL NOTICES Mount Kisco Physical Therapy & Chiropractic, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/15/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 103 S. Bedford Rd. Ste. 109, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: Chiropractic and Physical Therapy. # 62474

Notice of Formation of OnPoint Valuation, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/16/20. 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, 3486 Strang Blvd., Yorktown Hts., NY 10598.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62495

LISTRES 30 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/3/2020.

Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and shall mail copy of any process to LLC, 5 Everts Ave White Plains, NY 10607.

Purpose: any lawful #62489

Riverside Sleep Medicine, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/20/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Rajendra M. Rampersaud, 78 Vermont Terrace, Tuckahoe, NY 10707.

Purpose: Medicine. #62437

NYCKelly Travel, LLC: Art of Org. filed with SSNY 10/16/2019. LLC located in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC c/o MSJ Financial Services 1 Prospect Ave., Suite 1, White Plains, NY 10607 Purpose: Any lawful activity. #62490 Notice of Formation of Assicurazione, LLC. Address of LLC: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, New York 10803. County of business: Westchester County, Article of Organization originally filed with SSNY on 01/16/2020. Agent for Service: Secretary of State.

Mail Process to: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. #62491 Notice of Formation of Panorama Scena, LLC. Address of LLC: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, New York 10803. County of business: Westchester County, Article of Organization originally filed with SSNY on 01/16/2020. Agent for Service: Secretary of State.

Mail Process to: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. #62492 Notice of Formation of DeCicco & Sons Foundation, LLC. Address of LLC: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, New York 10803. County of business: Westchester County, Article of Organization originally filed with SSNY on 01/16/2020. Agent for Service: Secretary of State.

Mail Process to: 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. #62493 Notice of Formation of LGT Logistics LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/4/20.

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, 3611 Gomer St. Yorktown Hgts., NY 10598.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62494

Notice of Formation (LLC). Name: 94 SKOOL STREET LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/20/2019. Office location: Westchester COUNTY. NY DOS shall mail copy of process to: THE LLC, 94 SCHOOL STREET, YONKERS, NY 10701 .

Purpose: Any lawful activity #62439 Sorriso Holdings LLC (the LLC) filed Articles of Organization with N.Y. Sec. of State on 12/11/19. Office is in Westchester Co.; Sec. of State designated as agent for service of process, a copy of which it shall mail to the LLC at 66 W. Lincoln Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York 10550. The purpose of the LLC is any legal purpose. #62440 Brett Harvey Real Estate Ventures LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/16/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Brett Harvey, 10 Old Jackson Ave., Hastings On Hudson, NY 10706. General Purpose. #62441 Mindful Being, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/19/19. 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, 12 Shelley Ave, Valhalla NY 10595. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62442 Notice of formation of HATED ROYALTY LLC filed with SSNY on 1/3/2020.

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 358 Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62443 J2I Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/2/2019.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2 Hickory Dr., Rye, NY 10580. General Purpose. #62444

Notice of Formation of BWIZP Consultancy, LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on November 7, 2019. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. Address to which the SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC: BWIZP Consultancy, LLC, 88 Wendover Road, Yonkers, NY 10705. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62445 NubianBiz, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 12/26/19. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copy of process to LLC at 161 Pearsall Drive, Mt. Vernon, NY 10552. Purpose: all lawful. #62446 Notice of Formation of Dunamis Transaction Advisors LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/20/19.

Ofc. Loc: Westchester Cty. United States Corporation Agents designated as agent upon whom process may be served. USCA shall mail process to the LLC, 5 Cerf Ln, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62447 Nicole Bugnacki LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/15/2019.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 60 Inningwood Rd., Ossining, NY 10562. General Purpose. #62448 Himmat & Daya Holdings, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/8/2020. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 51 Penn Blvd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

General Purpose. #62449 SUNSUP PROPERTY SOLUTIONS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 11/25/2019. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to LLC c/o 7 Granada Crescent #22 White Plains NY 10603.

Purpose: all lawful. #62450 Notice of Formation of Winter Orchid, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on November 18, 2019. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 3147 E. Main Street #396, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62453 GAK Capital LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 06/22/2018. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to LLC c/o 26 Howe Place Bronxville, NY 10708.

Purpose: all lawful. #62454

GAK Advisors LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 12/02/2019.Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to LLC c/o 26 Howe Place Bronxville, NY 10708.

Purpose: all lawful. #62455 Notice of Formation of GALLO PAINTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 222 Purchase Street, Suite 235, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62456 Notice of Formation of WESTCHESTER DEMOLITION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 333 Mamaroneck Avenue, Ste 396, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62457 Notice of Formation of WESTCHESTER BATHROOM REMODELING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o James Henson, 487 East Main St., Suite, 155, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62458 Notice of Formation of WESTCHESTER KITCHEN REMODELING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/7/19. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o James Henson, 487 East Main St., Suite, 155, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62459 Aerial Uprising LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/14/2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 161 Orchard Road 1s Briarcliff Manor NY 10510-1030 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62460 Notice of LLC formation: Lebron Contractors LLC. filed with SSNY on 09/27/2019. Off. Loc. Westchester County US Corp. Agents designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copies c/o 7014 13th Ave Ste. 202 Brooklyn, NY 10598. Purpose: all lawful. #62462

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME CLICK IT TECHNOLOGY, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/03/2019.

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: The LLC, 35 Sterling Ave., Floor 2, Yonkers, New York 10704, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #62463 YELLOW LADDER CONTRACTING LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/2019.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served. Address to which the SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC: Yellow Ladder Contracting LLC, 81 Pondfield Road, #296 Ste. D, Bronxville, NY 10708.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #62464 LL Piping LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/15/2019. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 385 Mclean Ave., Apt. 10B, Yonkers, NY 10705. General Purpose. #62465 Notice of Formation of Manny’s Painting, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/14/20. 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, 5 Elm St, Apt 1, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62466 51-52 65 Place, LLC. Filed 12/17/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 66 Oregon Rd Pob 330, Mount Kisco, NY 10549-4710 Purpose: all lawful #62467 407 3rd Street Associates LLC. Filed 12/16/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 399 Knollwood Road, Suite 318, White Plains, NY 10603 Purpose: all lawful #62468 Cramm LLC. Filed 12/18/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 49 Lakeshore Dr, Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #62469 Jestam 2 LLC. Filed 12/2/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 344 White Plains Rd, Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #62470 274 Woodworth Realty LLC. Filed 11/22/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 51 Central Ave, Ossining, NY 10562 Purpose: all lawful #62471

3200 East Main Street LLC. Filed 11/4/19 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 654 N Division St, Peekskill, NY 10566 Purpose: all lawful #62472 The Cuisinest LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/6/2019.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 740 Commerce St., Apt. 2B, Thornwood, NY 10594.

General Purpose. #62473 AFA Advisors LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/13/2019.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2005 Palmer Ave, #172, Larchmont, NY 10538.

General Purpose. #62475 Beloved Surrender LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/21/19. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 24 Jackson Street 1st Floor, New Rochelle, NY 10801.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62476 Panchee Advisory LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/8/20. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 200 Business Park Drive, Suite 201, Armonk, NY 10504.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62477 The Annual Return of the Mucci Family Foundation for the year ended December 31, 2019 is available at its principal office located at c/o Shulman Jones & Company, 287 Bowman Avenue, Purchase, New York 10577 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal manager of the Foundation is: Robert Mucci Dated: February 2020 #62478 Retired Regulators, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/27/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Frederick J. Morrissey, 3 Morgan Dr., #11, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. General Purpose. #62479 Zeppieri’s Pizza On The Run, LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/06/2020.

Office: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 86 Windom Street, White PLains, NY 10607-2615.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62480

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22 Francis Place LLC Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 12/24/19. Office located in Westchester County. 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 11 Aspen Way, Thornwood, NY 10594. LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #62481 Notice of Formation of Archon Advisors LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on April 10, 2019. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6 Cedar Lane, Purchase, NY 10577.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #62482 Notice of formation of 1811 Housing LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/31/2020.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to: 1811 Housing LLC, 8 Elmwood Ave., Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: any lawful activity. #62483 Notice of Formation of Glass&Fork, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/27/20. 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 8054 White Plains NY, 10602. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #62484 Longtail Holdings LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/29/2020. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1455 Baptist Church Rd., Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. General Purpose. #62485 LISTRES 20 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/3/2020.

Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and shall mail copy of any process to LLC, 5 Everts Ave White Plains, NY 10607.

Purpose: any lawful #62487 LISTRES 24 LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/3/2020.

Office loc. Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served and shall mail copy of any process to LLC, 5 Everts Ave White Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: any lawful #62488

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