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hen Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont drives down the Platinum Mile, he sees once thriving office parks that now contain mass amounts of vacancies with some buildings shuttered entirely.

As part of the town’s comprehensive master plan, Belmont is looking to change all that, while also revitalizing other parts of Harrison, including the downtown. The town last updated its comprehensive plan in 1988, though a comprehensive plan was in draft form in 2008.

A comprehensive plan is a long-range set of objectives and goals for the town, setting the stage for potential zoning changes and helping to dictate capital budgets. Towns generally update comprehensive plans about every 10 years.

The plan is being developed by Manhattanbased firm Buckhurst Fish & Jacquemart Inc. (BFJ). Belmont took office in January 2012 and made a new comprehensive plan a top priority. The town recently held a public hearing in January and the town board is working on responding to the comments. The town

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First and last man standing: SFC will build in Yonkers

By JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

Seven years, one Great recession and $30 million later, the master development team that was to rebuild and revitalize downtown Yonkers is down to its last partner.

A mayoral administration that was not in office when the city formed its public-private partnership with master developer Struever Fidelco Cappelli L.L.C. and four years ago hammered out a detailed agreement on how and when SFC’s phased projects would unfold negotiates with the developer on downtown plans while claiming time has expired on SFC’s

deal with the city to build Palisades Point, a luxury residential complex on the Hudson riverfront.

Yet the first and last man standing at SFC said all projects the partners committed to will be built, though modified in light of a postrecession economy and as requested by Mayor Mike Spano’s administration.

“I was the first person in,” said Marc E. Berson, founding chairman of the Fidelco Realty Group in Millburn, N.J., who in January filed documents in Albany for a reorganized and renamed SFC Yonkers L.L.C. “This has been a long trail.”

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Nations’ economies affected by climate changes, speaker says

By SAm BARRON sbarron@westfairinc.com

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nseasonably warm temperatures, droughts and natural disasters are becoming the new normal.

Croton-based Green Team Spirit hosted “An Evening of Climate Reality” at the Mapleton Conference and Catering Center at 52 N. Broadway in White Plains on Feb. 12. The event, attended by more than 60 people, featured a slideshow presentation by Lewis Blaustein, a certified climate leader with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps.

Blaustein was trained by Gore on how to present the impact of climate change.

In Westchester, the effects of climate change have been felt, with so-called storms of the century happening on a regular basis, and Hurricanes Irene and Sandy occurring in consecutive years.

Hurricane Sandy caused $32 billion in damage in New York state alone and $500 million in damage to Westchester.

Nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the past 10 years and drought conditions crippled the Midwest with 1,452 counties in 32 states declaring states of emergency last year. Ten percent of the world is currently experiencing drought conditions.

Blaustein, who runs Lewis Blaustein Solutions, a green marketing consulting firm, previously worked in sports marketing before having an awakening during the War on Terror, feeling that with its energy consumption, America was fueling the war that it was fighting.

Despite having 4 percent of the world’s population, America uses about 25 percent of the world’s energy. Last July was the hottest month on record in the U.S. Blaustein’s presentation used slideshows, similar to Gore’s documentary“An Inconvenient Truth,” showing the effects that climate change has had around the world from lakes and reservoirs being drained in China to extreme flooding and temperatures in Pakistan.

“Global warming is contributing to increased incidents of extreme weather,”

Luxury rentals planned for Ossining Construction is set to begin on 168 luxury rental apartments in Ossining.

The apartments, owned and operated by AvalonBay Communities Inc., a residential real estate company with a regional office in Shelton, Conn., will be built at 217 N. Highland Ave., on the site of an old office building that housed chemical company BASF. The site will also make use of the Kane House, a historic 1843 mansion on the property. AvalonBay will renovate the mansion, using it as a leasing center and community center, while also building a pool, a children’s playground and a fitness center.

AvalonBay hopes to have the first apartments completed by February 2014.

“We have a lot of experience building in Westchester,” said Todd Nicotra, a senior development manager with AvalonBay. “It’s a great market. The site itself is just terrific. It’s got great visibility with views of the Hudson River.

The village of Ossining has been very supportive throughout the application process.”

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One of Ossining’s requirements was that AvalonBay maintain the Kane House, keeping and utilizing the historic three-story building. The Old Croton Aqueduct state park runs through the site and AvalonBay will be creating eight acres of trails.

The development will be a mix of one- to three-bedroom units, and Nicotra anticipates rent starting at $1,700 a month. Ten percent of the housing will be set aside as affordable housing. There are no age restrictions on the housing. In addition, 14,000 square feet of office space will be set aside in an additional building.

Despite the economic recession, Nicotra said he thinks that there remains a strong pool of renters in the Northeast, particularly in Westchester.

“We think it’s a great market.”

AvalonBay recently completed a 440unit apartment project in Elmsford and has also done apartments in White Plains, Mamaroneck and New Rochelle.

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Blaustein said. “The environment in which all storms form has changed from human activity. The only plausible explanation for the rise in weather related catastrophes is climate change.”

In China, extreme droughts have caused food prices to skyrocket. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Food Price Index showed the average price of meat, dairy, sugar, cereal and oils and fats increased from $158.70 in 2007 to $199.80 in 2008.

Today, the food price index is at $209.80, an increase of 132 percent from 2000.

Though there are still skeptics of global warming, the believers are winning out.

Ninety-nine percent of climate researchers confirm climate change, and the latest meeting of the G8 said addressing climate change was an urgent matter.

“A lot of these myths are red herrings from carbon polluters who want to reposition global warming as a theory rather than fact,” Blaustein said. “We are fighting this with reality.”

Last summer in the U.S., 1,876 heat records were tied and 4,000 were broken.

Previously, for every record high recorded, a record low was also recorded, but now for every one record low temperature, there are two record highs.

In 2012, for every one record low temperature, 115 record high temperatures were recorded.

Despite the grim realities of climate change, progress is being made. Solar and wind power have become more popular energy alternatives, and their costs have gone down, making them more affordable. In 2010, investments in renewable energy exceeded investments in fossil fuels for the first time. Australia recently became the first

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country to put a carbon tax in place. There has also been a push to get municipalities and universities to divest from using fossil fuels, with Seattle taking that initiative in December and San Francisco considering it.

Blaustein urged attendees to consider the environmental impact of their actions and to speak up, pushing legislators for a carbon tax and not letting global warming denials to go unchecked.

“Take action,” Blaustein said. “There are so many great organizations out there.”

Green Team Spirit sent two buses to the White House on Sunday to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

In Westchester, a Global Warming Task Force was formed in 2006, and the county, in partnership with The Business Council of Westchester, launched the Westchester Green Business Challenge, with more than 225 businesses participating.

The program is designed to encourage businesses to reduce emissions, with their greenness evaluated by an Innovative Green Business Scorecard. The program is modeled after a similar initiative in Chicago.

Strategies that businesses in Westchester have adopted include installing drinking water filters and eliminating bottled water, circulating documents electronically, donating old electronics and changing settings on computers so they go to sleep rather than stay on all night.

Dani Glaser, founder and principal of Green Team Spirit, hosts GreenDrinks Westchester, a monthly event, usually attended by about 70 people, to talk about the green community in Westchester over a few drinks.

Glaser said that Westchester is progressive when it comes to climate change.

“After Hurricane Sandy, you really can no longer deny it,” Glazer said. “Westchester is so committed to this issue.”

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ITT spinoff will stay in Westchester

Xylem Inc., the spunoff water technologies business of ITT Corp., will put a physical distance this year between its former company in White Plains when it relocates its corporate headquarters to Reckson Executive Park in Rye Brook.

Since its spinoff from ITT in 2011, Xylem has occupied temporary space at 1133 Westchester Ave., the same White Plains office building in which ITT has its headquarters. Federal regulations require Xylem’s headquarters to be separate from ITT’s by Oct. 31.

The company will lease approximately 50,000 square feet of office space at 1 International Drive on the Rye Brook campus of Reckson, the suburban division of SL Green Realty Corp. The estimated $11.6 million relocation project will be aided by an estimated $562,000 in sales tax exemptions on purchases of construction materials and office furniture and equipment recently approved by the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency

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In exchange, Xylem agreed to retain 106 positions, at an average annual salary of more than $300,000, and add 15 positions at its new headquarters at an annual average salary of more than $100,000.

Xylem officials said the company also considered leaving New York for Stamford, Conn.

Xylem, which designs, manufactures and installs highly engineered technologies for the water industry, employs 12,500 workers spread among 105 countries in which it does business. The company reported revenue of about $3.8 billion in 2011.

cated the bulk of its beverages business unit to company headquarters in suburban Chicago.

Montefiore officials said its existing offices in Yonkers will be used to expand its information technology operations, leaving more space for clinical use at the hospital’s four main campuses in the Bronx.

The 90-acre Tarrytown campus overlooks the Hudson River and includes three main buildings built in the 1950s, more than 700 parking spaces, a fitness center and cafeteria.

Hospital pays $33M for Kraft office campus

A joint venture of two Westchester County real estate firms paid $25.15 million for the 489,000-square-foot Cambridge University Press Distribution Center in West Nyack.

RM MAG West Nyack L.L.C., a joint venture of principals of Elmsford-based Robert Martin Company L.L.C. and MAG Real Estate Advisors Inc., acquired the building at 100 Brook Hill Drive and 36.7acre property from Cambridge University Press.

Michael A. Grossman, principal of MAG and a former Mack Cali Realty Corp. executive, in a press release said the property was only 40 percent occupied when the purchase deal was reached, but is now 80 percent leased.

Montefiore Medical Center plans to begin moving offices and about 850 jobs to Tarrytown in the third quarter after recently closing on its $33 million purchase of the 300,000-square-foot beverages research and development center of Kraft Foods Group Inc. at 555 S. Broadway.

The hospital plans to relocate administrative and back office positions from its offices in Yonkers and the Bronx to the Tarrytown office complex. It will occupy 140,000 square feet and lease the remainder of the space back to Kraft, which employs 200 workers. Kraft in 2012 relo-

Westchester buyers venture west to Rockland

Timothy Jones, managing member of Robert Martin Co., said the 53-year-old real estate development company has “had excellent experience with industrial buildings and (we) are very bullish on Rockland County where we have owned the 1.1 million-square-foot Blue Hill Plaza for over 15 years.”

The purchase was financed by a $21.5 million mortgage from Webster Bank and

by Crexus Investment Corp. Both lenders have recently completed other Robert Martin-sponsored transactions.

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ooking to create a “24/7” downtown environment, business owners in the Peekskill Business Improvement District have asked city officials to reform residential zoning to add a mix of whitecollar professionals and other potential tenants to Peekskill’s downtown artists district.

BID officers, in a policy memorandum presented this month to Peekskill’s mayor and Common Council, said their proposal does not seek to replace the city’s Art Spaces program, which has promoted the development of artist live-work spaces and galleries, restaurants and entertainment venues in a once blighted downtown that was more avoided than visited by retail customers.

“We realize the artists live-work program has been a success,” said John Sharp, Peekskill BID president and owner of two downtown bar and restaurant businesses, Gleason’s and Birdsall House. “Our goal is to build upon its success and find ways to promote more investment and development downtown.”

BID board members in their memo wrote, “We believe that the most important step towards fostering a ‘24/7’ environment is to increase the total number and economic diversity of residents living downtown, creating a sustainable base for supporting current local businesses, attracting new businesses and continuing the revitalization of downtown.”

To achieve that, the board members recommended the city adopt a proportional housing strategy that would allow existing and new building owners to divide their residential units between live-work lofts available to artists only and units open to all residents. The new model would reduce the city’s regulatory burden in restricting downtown occupancy to certified artists, increase the possibility of new residential developments by opening the potential tenant pool and make it easier to market housing BID officers said the new zoning policy should be similar to affordable housing policies adopted by other municipalities by requiring owners of buildings with a greater number of housing units to reserve a lower proportion of units as artist live-work spaces.

“This will provide an incentive for housing expansion within existing downtown buildings and reduce a major barrier to new housing development projects on vacant downtown parcels,” city officials were told.

The BID board recommend this proportional housing allotment for downtown

Peekskill BID President John Sharp

buildings: • Up to four total units: 50 percent artist, 50 percent open.

• Five to eight units: 25 percent artist, 75 percent open.

• Nine or more units: 10 percent artist, 90 percent open.

Under the proposed zoning changes, a current building owner with four apartments occupied by artist live-work tenants, for example, would not be required to change his or her tenant mix. If two of the units became vacant, the owner then would have the right to market those units to potential tenants from all professions, including artists.

BID board members said “a tension” surfaced in their talks with downtown stakeholders about zoning reform. “While there is almost unanimous support for some type of reform, many people also worry about what change might bring.”

Those concerns “could greatly slow down the process of implementing downtown residential reform now,” the memo noted.

To ease those concerns, the BID board recommended the city set a five-year expiration date on proportional housing zoning, after which the policy would be reviewed.

The city could then consider other options, including reverting back to the existing artists-only policy or lifting all residential restrictions.

Peekskill BID Executive Director Jason Angell in a press release said, “We think if we can increase the number of people living downtown, it will benefit us all by strengthening our local buying power, making the streets active and safe and help fill up vacant storefronts.”

Stay-at-home seniors fuel Home Instead expansion

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graying population that doesn’t want to go to a nursing home is good news to Brian Trainor.

Trainor, the owner of White Plainsbased Home Instead Senior Care, has added a facility in Yorktown Heights to complement the nonmedical in-home care agency he opened in 2004. That was the year when the nation was talking about the impending shift in population.

It was on Jan. 1, 2011 that 10,000 baby boomers began turning 65 every day and would continue to do so through 2030, according to the Pew Research Center.

“I certainly saw a need for the aging of our population especially in Westchester County, a growing need for quality and affordable care,” he said.

Within Westchester, 14.8 percent of its roughly 1 million residents is age 65 or older. Within the last decade that number has risen 7.8 percent, according to the Census Bureau.

A few years ago the timing seemed perfect for Trainor to start the company that would appeal to those seniors who needed assistance to remain as independent as possible.

“I got diagnosed with cancer a few years ago and, after a year of going through that I wanted to give back.” Trainor said he wanted to do something noble with his life, but also needed to support his family.

“This industry allowed me to do that.”

The company now has 125 caregivers that assist seniors in Westchester and Putnam counties. Seniors pay around $20 an hour for a caregiver to help with meal preparation, housekeeping, driving, errands, safety awareness, medication reminders and offer companionship. They also provide Alzheimer’s care and respite care.

Trainor believes at any given time his client list fluctuates between 125 to 150 people. With the expansion into Yorktown Heights, he wants that number to increase to between 175 and 200. Trainor said over the next year he also plans to add another 50 to 60 employees to serve the expanding list.

“We’ve seen the need for expansion because it really gives us a presence in northern Westchester.” He hopes the new addition and expected increase in clientele will help Home Instead keep costs down for seniors paying for the service.

The company is a private-pay business, although some long-term care insurance is accepted. Trainor said with the Obama mandate for small businesses to provide health care for employees, the cost of in-home service could go up.

“We’re going to work real hard at trying to find balance,” Trainor said. “But with Obamacare and the mandate for health care we may not have a choice.”

Trainor said the caregivers are employees, not independent contractors, so they are insured and certified through Home Instead. They also are paid a livable wage and in order to keep competitive salaries they have to find a solution. Trainor said he hopes the expansion is it.

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board hopes to ratify the comprehensive plan in the spring.

“We have this beautiful community,” Belmont said. “I want to give it direction, a plan for the future.”

In 1984, the Platinum Mile, the corridor of office parks on Interstate 287 in Harrison and White Plains, accounted for more than 60 percent of Harrison’s tax revenue. Today it accounts for just 18 percent. Last May, BFJ estimated that 19 percent of the Platinum Mile is vacant.

“Everything has to be refurbished,” Belmont said. “We have to get new ideas going.”

The town is looking at rezoning the Platinum Mile to allow for more adaptive reuse, the buzzword for revitalizing vacant office parks.

The draft comprehensive master plan, which was published in September, calls for creating a mixed-use zone to allow for potential development of assisted-care and senior housing, as well as retail uses and improved vehicular and pedestrian connections. Currently, the area is not zoned for residential, retail or restaurant use.

According to Westchester real estate brokers, AvalonBay Communities Inc. has expressed interest in building a resi-

dential development at the site of vacant 103 Corporate Park Drive and underused 105 Corporate Park Drive. One top broker said that AvalonBay is waiting for the town to complete its comprehensive plan to see whether it puts in place senior age-restricted housing, which would block AvalonBay’s plans.

AvalonBay officials declined to comment.

Belmont said the town has had no talks with the developer.

Frank Fish, a principal at BFJ Planning, said there has been interest from developers in building residential projects on the Platinum Mile.

The town is also looking to allow commercial campuses to have accessory uses, including health clubs, day care centers and food-related uses, and reducing parking requirements. To prevent big box stores, retail development on the Platinum Mile would be capped at 15,000 square feet of space.

Some revitalization has already begun. At 1 Gannett Drive, the former newspaper plant of Gannett Co. Inc.’s The Journal News was razed to make way for a 209,000-square-foot, two-story Life Time Fitness center.

According to CBRE researchers, more than 1 million square feet of office space has been repurposed or repositioned in Westchester since 2008. Belmont said that transforming vacant office space will not happen overnight, but the process has to begin.

“It may finish long after I’m gone,” he said. “Renaissances take a long time. If we do something today, we may not feel the effect for 10 years. But we can’t stop and do nothing. There’s buildings boarded up and mothballed.”

“We can’t just continue to sit back and hope and wish for more development. No one has the magic wand. We have to go out there and get it done.”

— Mayor Ron Belmont

To help revive the Westchester Avenue corridor, Harrison has hosted several workshops and luncheons with many of Westchester’s developers and Realtors, including building owners along the Platinum Mile. White Plains has had similar initiatives, hosting bus tours of the city. White Plains is also working on its comprehensive plan.

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SFC — From page 1

Berson and his Fidelco real estate company ventured into Yonkers in 2005, and one year later were joined by Baltimorebased Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse and Valhalla-based Cappelli Enterprises Inc. in the partnership selected by the administration of then-Mayor Philip Amicone as its downtown and waterfront master developer. The Struever company, a debt-burdened victim of the recession and frozen credit markets, dropped out of the Yonkers venture in 2009 and developer Louis R. Cappelli and his Valhalla company took over Struever’s equity interest in the project.

But Cappelli too has financially struggled with heavy debt and vacant development units, numerous contractors’ liens and dueling lawsuits with former partners in projects that included The RitzCarlton Renaissance Square project and City Center in White Plains, New Roc City in New Rochelle and his halted Concord Resort redevelopment in the Catskills.

Along with his financial losses, Cappelli in 2009 suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm that, he has since said in interviews, changed his outlook on life and work.

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The planned site of Palisades Point, a luxury residential development on the Yonkers waterfront.

On Dec. 14, he and Joseph Apicella, executive vice president at Cappelli Enterprises Inc. and SFC’s executive project manager and chief spokesman in Yonkers, resigned from SFC. Cappelli did not return a call for comment.

“Louis, with all of his different issues, he stayed with us,” said Berson, “has been a tremendous partner in so many ways.

He’s one of the really interesting persons in the area. With his medical issues and the problems he’s facing in other areas,

he’s decided to refocus his attention” away from Yonkers.

Berson said SFC has invested about $30 million in its Yonkers projects, the total cost of which initially was estimated at about $1.6 billion. “It’s a huge investment – a serious investment, let’s put it that way,” he said of the costs to date.

At the mayor’s office, spokeswoman Christina Gilmartin said the city notified SFC that the land disposition agreement for Palisades Point – referred to as parcels H & I – expired Jan. 26. “That’s in particu-

suburban-style office complexes, in isolation,” Fish said. “The marketplace has clearly changed.”

Since the recession, 65 percent of Harrison’s tax revenue is from residential properties, a turnaround from pre-recession levels. Belmont believes that updating the comprehensive plan will send the message that Harrison is open for business.

“The town is moving in the right direction with the Platinum Mile,” Fish said.

“We’re pretty pleased with how it’s going.”

The town is also looking at developing property at the Harrison Metro-North Railroad station. In 2009, the town and the MTA entered into an agreement to turn commuter parking lots into a mixed-use development with residential and retail use.

The town is still in discussions with MetroNorth about the development and it is supported by the comprehensive plan.

“We can’t just continue to sit back and hope and wish for more development,” Belmont said. “No one has the magic wand.

We have to go out there and get it done.”

On the cover: Clockwise from top left, the entirely vacant 103 Corporate Park Drive, demolition at 1 Gannett Drive, the vacant 104 Corporate Park Drive and the partially vacant 105 Corporate Park Drive.

lar to H and I,” she said. “The city is continuing to meet with SFC” and receiving proposals from the developer for revised projects at downtown River Park Center, Cacace Center and Government Center.

“We’re still working very closely with them on those projects.”

Peter Klein, vice president at Fidelco Realty Group and project manager for SFC Yonkers, recently said SFC plans to begin construction this year of its 436unit Palisades Point residential development south of City Pier. Berson did not directly address the city’s recent notice of expiration for the waterfront project on land currently leased by SFC. He noted, though, that “hard word-for-word documents” in “bubbly times” and changed market conditions might not represent “the current status of what is doable and what can be done.”

Berson said SFC has “not a real good but a tremendous working relationship with this administration. We all have one common goal: how do we get to the finish line, how fast can we get to the finish line” and what modifications to the approved project are acceptable to the city.

“There is no doubt we will get the H&I project through, the River Park Center project through” and the other downtown projects in the land disposition agreement, Berson said.

Taking precautions to protect the elderly

BY CHRISTOPHER J. AVENTURO

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ere in Westchester County and throughout New York state, elder abuse is growing each year. For example, the Elder Abuse Bureau of the Westchester District Attorney’s Office reported 198 elder abuse cases and investigations in 2011, compared to just 150 cases in 2010.

But statistics alone can’t capture the heartwrenching situations that estate and guardianship litigators see every day.

While many of the cases I’ve handled over the past 19 years involve elder abuse, one case provides the most poignant example of what can go wrong when the elderly and their loved ones don’t take the right precautions as well as assistance that can be provided by legal intervention.

“Matter of Mr. M” involved an incapacitated man who tragically fell victim to a predator who tricked him into marriage.

Following this alleged marriage, Mr. M’s financial affairs fell into disarray, as his “wife” dissipated the bulk of his assets, eviction proceedings were commenced against him and Mr. M’s health declined to the point that he was near death.

We took the following steps to restore Mr. M’s safety and well-being: commenced an Article 81 Guardianship Proceeding, resulting in the appointment of a long-time family friend to serve as guardian of Mr. M’s personal and property needs; obtained injunctive relief within the eviction proceeding; commenced separate proceedings resulting in court approval of a Supplemental Needs Trust for Mr. M’s benefit, allowing for his retroactive acceptance by Medicaid; and com-

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menced a proceeding resulting in the annulment of his alleged marriage to the predator, who was ultimately incarcerated.

Fortunately, Mr. M. is presently safe and healthy. However, his case serves as an example of the vulnerability of the elderly and infirm.

Many other cases end much more tragically for the victims, far from the public spotlight. The vulnerable victims avoid coming forward, fearing retaliation or even abandonment by those abusers upon whom they depend. Unfortunately, the civil remedies available through our courts, including the discovery and turnover of assets once misappropriation is uncovered, are often a costly, time-consuming and lengthy uphill climb.

In most cases, the assets have been spent or further shifted by the transferee long before trial or commencement of a proceeding.

Litigation often reveals the steps that might have averted problems, however. Some proven, practical and preventative measures for empowering and protecting our seniors against many forms of elder abuse follow.

Guarding Against Fraud: Planning and Precautions in Three Areas 1. Monitoring Family and loved ones can be proactive and helpful through: • Regular and consistent monitoring of assets, account statements, and important documents. This process is essential to preventing the exercise of fraud and undue influence upon an elderly or infirm relative; • First-hand review of mail, recent correspondence and recently updated documents, when undertaken with the loved one’s approval;

• Enlisting the assistance of a trusted local friend or neighbor to help monitor the above information, when family members do not live close to one another; and • Monitoring asset and account activity by computer (a good idea for those living in different states).

To put these safeguards into effect, family members and friends may need to have frank conversations with the elderly. Besides your attorney, social service agencies and resources can step in and help facilitate these arrangements if needed. Many free resources are available to Westchester residents.

2. Updating Powers of Attorney Often in cases of financial abuse, the perpetrator procures the elderly person’s signature of a financial power of attorney, giving the agent apparent authority to withdraw funds from bank accounts and perform related financial transactions. Nevertheless, safeguards are available.

• Under a financial power of attorney there remains a legal duty to keep accurate financial records and the document can be tailored to limit the agent’s authority.

• One may designate two or more persons to act as co-agents.

Health care powers of attorney also represent a potential source of abuse. These are designed to ensure that one’s health care wishes are respected when one cannot make or communicate those decisions. Over time, multiple health care directives may be prepared, creating a situation where several different persons may be convinced that each has sole authority to make decisions, even though only one health care agent can act at one time in New York state. These docu-

ments should be organized and in some cases earlier directives revoked, in order to prevent future conflicts.

3. Protecting the Integrity of Will or Trust Documents The will crafted at age 65 may not be appropriate to someone 20 years later. Named beneficiaries may have died; charitable interests may have changed. Valued relationships may have waned; new ones may have formed.

Preparing a new will also affords an excellent opportunity to take a comprehensive inventory of one’s assets well in advance of any crisis or harm and to account for the changes.

The process may motivate potential heirs to take responsible steps cooperatively towards asset preservation and protection.

Believe it or not, some elderly persons with significant financial assets have not prepared a will at all. This can result in unfortunate conflicts following death. Even worse is the execution of a will when the elderly person is of questionable mental capacity. Instead, it is best to update these documents every few years to reflect changing needs and circumstances.

The adage that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is never truer than in the field of elder law because in most cases, elder financial abuse is preventable.

Christopher J. Aventuro, a partner with Keane & Beane P.C. in White Plains, concentrates his practice in complex estate and guardianship litigation. He can be reached at caventuro@kblaw.com.

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$200M in Sandy insurance not released to homeowners

A New York State Department of Financial Services investigation has uncovered that $200 million in insurance funds for Hurricane Sandy that is being held by banks has not been sent to homeowners who need the money.

The Department of Financial Services (DFS) began the investigation after receiving hundreds of complaints from New Yorkers frustrated by their banks’ failure to disburse insurance money. Homeowners say banks have either been too slow in processing paperwork or have placed too many conditions on homeowners before disbursing funds, resulting in delays to home repairs.

As of late January, 27 servicers representing 95 percent of the New York market were holding proceeds for 6,611 borrowers for a total of about $208 million. The four largest banks, Wells Fargo, Bank of America,

Citibank and JPMorgan Chase, are holding 4,159 checks worth $131 million.

For homeowners, insurance checks are issued jointly to them and their bank or mortgage provider, requiring the bank’s endorsement of the check before the homeowner can access funds.

The banks may require proof of repair work before they release the funds, which have caused the delays.

“In December, we reached an agreement with the banks that resulted in freeing up a portion of insurance funds,” DFS Superintendent Benjamin lawsky said in a statement. “We are seeing now that the money is still not moving as quickly as homeowners need. While we understand there are some limits on how banks release funds, we want to make sure that they are pushing those limits and getting insurance money out quickly.”

Medical Center in an effort to expand the hospital’s presence in the county.

The outpatient arm of the hospital will be an infusion center with a medical office at 19 Bradhurst Ave. in Hawthorne. Cancer patients of Westchester Medical Center who have been receiving outpatient intravenous medication at the medical center’s main Valhalla campus will be able to receive treatment at the new Hawthorne center.

Nine members of the Memorial SloanKettering staff will run the outpatient center, led by an oncologist on the staff of both centers.

Additionally, the Memorial SloanKettering outpatient facility at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow will continue to receive patients.

Cancer center expands to Hawthorne

IBM Corp. is now offering its Watson supercomputer for commercial use by doctors and health insurance companies.

The Armonk-based tech giant, along with health insurer WellPoint Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, recently unveiled the first commercially developed cognitive computing breakthroughs made by Watson.

The innovative technology is expected to improve the quality and speed of care for patients through individualized, evidencebased medicine.

WellPoint and MSKCC are using two of Watson’s applications – one to help analyze lung cancer treatments, and another to help manage health insurance decisions and claims.

In both applications, doctors or insurance company workers are able to access Watson through a tablet or computer. The supercomputer will then compare a patient’s medical records to information it has gathered and make recommendations in decreasing order of confidence.

The lung cancer program is already being adopted by Westmed in Westchester County and the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine.

WellPoint is using the insurance application in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin. An IBM spokesperson also reported that the health insurance company will be selling both applications, at prices to be determined, and will compensate IBM under a contract between the two companies.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City is opening a center for patients who need intravenous cancer medication in Hawthorne. The hospital recently announced the partnership with Westchester

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The Montfort Academy, a private, Roman Catholic high school in Katonah, is relocating to Mount Vernon.

School officials recently announced plans to move from the school’s home at 99 Valley Road in Katonah to Fleetwood in Mount Vernon. Montfort reached an agreement with the parish of Sts. Peter and Paul

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in Mount Vernon, and classes are scheduled to begin in the new location in September. richard Greco, chairman of Montfort, said the school’s relocation “from northern Westchester to southern Westchester will allow Montfort to reach a more numerous and diverse prospective student body.

Relocating will also allow more students to take advantage of Montfort’s affordable, classical Catholic education.”

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Regeneron partner plans big stock buy

A recent notice by Sanofi, the French drug development partner of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Greenburgh, that it plans to buy Regeneron stock at a volume that will give it more than $500 million of voting shares sparked speculation that Sanofi plans a takeover of New York’s largest biotechnology employer.

The Paris-based company, however, issued an assurance that it plans to abide by its partnership deal with Regeneron.

Regeneron officials on Feb. 11 reported that Sanofi, as required by federal antitrust law, notified Regeneron that it plans to acquire the company’s common stock through open market purchases and direct purchases from shareholders. Sanofi and Regeneron have a collaboration agreement to develop and market Regeneron’s Zaltrap, an intravenous drug given to patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug last August. Sanofi’s stockpurchase notice followed the European Commission’s approval this month of the drug’s use in metastatic colorectal cancer treatment in the European Union. Sanofi and Regeneron officials said applications to market the drug are being reviewed by other regulatory agencies worldwide.

A Sanofi spokesman reportedly said the company was “very happy” with its relationship with Regeneron and plans to acquire stock within the terms of its partnership agreement. That agreement limits Sanofi’s stock purchases to no more than 30 percent of Regeneron’s outstanding shares of common and Class A stock.

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Metro-North ridership up, Grand Central celebrated

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ust as Grand Central Terminal was about to kick off its Centennial festivities, MTA Metro-North Railroad announced that ridership, which brings so many commuters to and from the Manhattan landmark each day, was up for 2012.

The rail line announced an increase of 0.8 percent over 2011, providing 83 million rail rides despite the effects of Hurricane Sandy, which continue to have an impact.

Metro-North estimates it lost 1.8 million rides last year due to the October storm, the most severe weather impact on ridership in Metro-North history.

The railroad’s peak year came in 2008 when it marked a record-breaking 83.6 million trips.

Sales of monthly tickets in January, though, seemed back to normal, signaling a positive trend for the start of the new year.

Overall, Metro-North has doubled its ridership in the past 30 years, from when it began its commuter-rail service.

And those commuters continue to stream daily through Grand Central Terminal, which officially kicked off its Centennial Feb. 1 with a full day of festivities.

A rededication ceremony was held that morning during a program dotted with dignitaries and celebrities all paying honor to the transportation hub and its place in both daily life and preservation history.

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg kicked off the program with a tribute to the Beaux Arts landmark that opened its doors in 1913.

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But, he added, “At its heart, this is a commuter train station,” one poised to address the needs of contemporary society.

“It represents beauty and art but also commerce and industry.”

With comments following from actress Cynthia Nixon, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins, former New York Mets star Keith Hernandez, author and attorney Caroline Kennedy (who spoke about her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and her role in the preservation of the terminal) and songs from Melissa Manchester – and a birthday cake in the shape of the terminal’s famed four-sided clock – it was perhaps Howard Permut, president of the MTA Metro-North Railroad, who summed up the enduring spirit of Grand Central Terminal best.

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Build a procedure manual to get things done right We are getting ready to hire another key person to help with our growing operation. I can see that it would help to build a manual – for someone else to come on board – but how do I build one?

ThOUGhTS OF The DAY: Procedures manuals create real value for a company.

Document as you train. Store documents on a shared drive and ask everyone to contribute. Expect to go through three to four revisions to get it near perfect. Look to your industry trade groups, support vendors and peers for examples.

When someone looks to buy a company, one of the things they look for is a set of procedures that tell them how to do things. If the company’s procedures are documented, a buyer will see the company as more valuable.

You might as well create value on a day-today basis by building procedures as you go.

Writing down how to do things has a number of advantages. First, there is a document that can be referred to for training new employees. Second, as people contribute to procedures, there becomes one standard way which everyone follows. Third, as procedures get perfected they become a record of best practices.

One of the easiest ways to create procedures is to build them one step at a time.

As new employees come on board, assign a trainer. Ask the trainer to make notes on the general topics they will be covering. Then ask new employees to keep detailed records, logging all of the things they are learning, step by step.

Have the trainer and new employee review the log book each day. This is a great way to assess how the employee is doing, looking at what’s been learned, what errors need to be corrected, etcetera. Each day, have the trainer and trainee make edits in the log book, to correct any misunderstandings. As owner or supervisor, periodically ask to take a look at the training log book, to be sure it’s being used and to see how things are progressing.

Once an employee is fully trained on a

task, ask her to type up detailed notes from the log book. Review one last time, for any ad-on Erie-WBJ:Layout 1 final edits. File theDavis notes a shared drive, where others can access them. Send out a notice that a procedure has been written up, and ask others to take a look and provide feedback.

When the next employees come on board, give them the draft procedure and ask them to try to perform the task from the procedure. Ask them to make notes on where they get stuck – that’s a place in the procedure that needs clarification. Add updates to the procedure, hand it to the next person being trained and so on, until the procedure is complete. It usually is near perfect after three or four people have used the procedure to learn how to perform the task.

Practically everything in the company will benefit from someone taking the time to write up a procedure.

Many industry trade groups have examples of industry specific procedures. Human resources vendors should have valuable documents to share on employee benefits and policies. Vendors may have best practices to share, especially if they do a lot of work in your industry.

Think about building a supply chain manual, linking together best practices from one vendor to the next. Start with ordering supplies, followed by recording how orders come in the door, get turned into products or services, and flow out to customers.

Practically everything in the company will benefit from someone taking the time to write up a procedure. It saves time on interruptions and delays if people can go to look up a document rather than looking for a person to explain things. It also cuts out misunderstandings, as people look critically at how they describe the work they do.

Finally, procedures can speed up training.

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LegaL Notice

To merchants who have accepted Visa and MasterCard at any time since January 1, 2004: Notice of a 6+ billion dollar class action settlement.

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Notice of a class action settlement authorized by the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.

This notice is authorized by the Court to inform you about an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit that may affect you. The lawsuit claims that Visa and MasterCard, separately, and together with banks, violated antitrust laws and caused merchants to pay excessive fees for accepting Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards, including by: • Agreeing to set, apply, and enforce rules about merchant fees (called default interchange fees); • Limiting what merchants could do to encourage their customers to use other forms of payment through, for example, charging customers an extra fee or offering discounts; and • Continuing that conduct after Visa and MasterCard changed their corporate structures.

The defendants say they have done nothing wrong. They say that their business practices are legal and the result of competition, and have benefitted merchants and consumers. The Court has not decided who is right because the parties agreed to a settlement. On November 27, 2012, the Court gave preliminary approval to this settlement.

tHe settLement Under the settlement, Visa, MasterCard, and the bank defendants have agreed to make payments to two settlement funds: • The first is a “Cash Fund” – a $6.05 billion fund that will pay valid claims of merchants that accepted Visa or MasterCard credit or debit cards at any time between January 1, 2004 and November 28, 2012.

• The second is an “Interchange Fund” –

estimated to be approximately $1.2 billion – that will be based on a portion of the interchange fees attributable to certain merchants that accept Visa or MasterCard credit cards for an eight-month “Interchange Period.”

Additionally, the settlement changes some of the Visa and MasterCard rules applicable to merchants who accept their cards.

This settlement creates two classes: • A Cash Settlement Class (Rule 23(b) (3) Settlement Class), which includes all persons, businesses, and other entities that accepted any Visa or MasterCard cards in the U.S. at any time from January 1, 2004 to November 28, 2012, and • A Rule Changes Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(2) Settlement Class), which includes all persons, businesses, and entities that as of November 28, 2012 or in the future accept any Visa or MasterCard cards in the U.S.

wHAt mercHAnts wiLL get from tHe settLement Every merchant in the Cash Settlement Class that files a valid claim will get money from the $6.05 billion Cash Fund, subject to a deduction (not to exceed 25% of the fund) to account for merchants who exclude themselves from the Cash Settlement Class. The value of each claim, where possible, will be based on the actual or estimated interchange fees attributable to the merchant’s MasterCard and Visa payment card transactions from January 1, 2004 to November 28, 2012. Payments to merchants who file valid claims for a portion of the Cash Fund will be based on: • The money available to pay all claims, • The total dollar value of all valid claims filed, • The deduction described above not to exceed

25% of the Cash Settlement Fund, and • The cost of settlement administration and notice, money awarded to the class representatives, and attorneys’ fees and expenses all as approved by the Court.

In addition, merchants in the Cash Settlement Class that accept Visa and MasterCard during the eight-month Interchange Period and file a valid claim will get money from the separate Interchange Fund, estimated to be approximately $1.2 billion. The value of each claim, where possible, will be based on an estimate of one-tenth of 1% of the merchant’s Visa and MasterCard credit card dollar sales volume during that period. Payments to merchants who file valid claims for a portion of the Interchange Fund will be based on:

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Merchants who are included in this lawsuit have the legal rights and options explained below. You may: • File a claim to ask for payment. You will receive a claim form in the mail or email or file online at: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com.

• Exclude yourself from the Cash Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(3) Settlement Class).

If you exclude yourself, you can sue the Defendants for damages based on alleged conduct occurring on or before November 27, 2012 on your own at your own expense, if you want to. If you exclude yourself, you will not get any money from this settlement.

If you are a merchant and wish to exclude yourself, you must make a written request, place it in an envelope, and mail it with postage prepaid and postmarked no later than May 28, 2013 to Class Administrator, Payment Card Interchange Fee Settlement, P.O. Box 2530, Portland, OR 97208-2530.

The written request must be signed by a person authorized to do so and provide all of the following information: (1) the words “In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation,” (2) your full name, address, telephone number, and taxpayer identification number, (3) the merchant that wishes to be excluded from the Cash Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(3) Settlement Class), and what position or authority you have to exclude the merchant, and (4) the business names, brand names, and addresses of any stores or sales locations whose sales the merchant desires to be excluded.

Note: You cannot be excluded from the Rule Changes Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(2) Settlement Class).

• Object to the settlement.

The deadline to object is: May 28, 2013. To learn how to object, see: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com or call 1-800-625-6440. Note: If you exclude yourself from the Cash Settlement Class you cannot object to the terms of that portion of the settlement.

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Members of the Rule Changes Settlement Class are bound by the terms of this settlement.

Members of the Cash Settlement Class, who do not exclude themselves by the deadline, are bound by the terms of this settlement whether or not they file a claim for payment. Members of both classes release all claims against all released parties listed in the Settlement Agreement. The settlement will resolve and release any claims by merchants against Visa, MasterCard or other defendants that were or could have been alleged in the lawsuit, including any claims based on interchange or other fees, no-surcharge rules, no-discounting rules, honor-all-cards rules and other rules.

The settlement will also resolve any merchant claims based upon the future effect of any Visa or MasterCard rules, as of November 27, 2012 and not to be modified pursuant to the settlement, the modified rules provided for in the settlement, or any other rules substantially similar to any such rules. The releases will not bar claims involving certain specified standard commercial disputes arising in the ordinary course of business.

For more information on the release, see the settlement agreement at: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com.

tHe court HeAring ABout tHis settLement On September 12, 2013, there will be a Court hearing to decide whether to approve the proposed settlement, class counsels’ requests for attorneys’ fees and expenses, and awards for the class representatives. The hearing will take place at: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York 225 Cadman Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11201 You do not have to go to the court hearing or hire an attorney. But you can if you want to, at your own cost. The Court has appointed the law firms of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Berger & Montague, PC, and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP to represent the Class (“Class Counsel”).

Questions?

For more information about this case (In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1720), you may: Call toll-free: 1-800-625-6440 Visit: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com Write to the Class Administrator: Payment Card Interchange Fee Settlement P.O. Box 2530 Portland, OR 97208-2530 Email: info@PaymentCardSettlement.com Please check www.PaymentCardSettlement.com for any updates relating to the settlement or the settlement approval process.

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THELIST: wealth managers Listed alphabetically.

WESTCHETSER COUNTY AND REGION NEXT LIST: FEB. 12 CONSTRUCTION FIRMS

WEALTH MANAGERS

westchester county

Listed alphabetically.

Average AUM per client ($) (bold)

Total AUM ($)

Number of financial planners in county

Payment options

560 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 846-0100 • clarfeld.com

Coughlin Financial Services Inc. 178 Myrtle Blvd., Larchmont 10538 834-1234 • coughlinfinancial.com

Eastern Planning Inc. 800 Westchester Ave., Suite 641N, Rye Brook 10573 552-2718 • easternplanning.com

Emerald Retirement Planning Group 4 Timmel Lane, Stony Point 10980 (845) 942-8578 • emeraldretirement.com

Financial Services Center Asset Management Inc. 3944 Route 9G, Red Hook 12571 (845) 876-1919 • finserctr.com

Geri Pell & Associates A private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. 800 Westchester Ave., Suite S300, Rye Brook 10573 253-8800 • geripell.com

ITI Strategies Inc. 994 Main St., Peekskill 10566 734-2800 • itistrategies.com

John G. Ullman & Associates Inc. 30 E. Market St., Suite 1, Rhinebeck 12572 (845) 876-4499 • jgua.com

LEXCO Wealth Management Inc. 120 White Plains Road, Suite 112, Tarrytown 10591 468-8900 • lexcowealth.com

Life Goals Asset Management L.L.C. 500 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 101, Harrison 10583 798-4226 • lifegoalsllc.com

Northwestern Mutual The Rye Brook Financial Group 5 International Drive, Suite 100, Rye Brook 10573 275-4555 • flowersgroup.nmfn.com

The Ostrove Group Inc. 4 New King St., Suite 101, White Plains 10604 428-4095 • ostrovegroup.com

Paul M. Petrone CFP, CPA 67 Burns Place, Briarcliff Manor 10510 944-3073

Sinnott Wealth Management Inc. 555 Taxter Road, Suite 190, Elmsford 10512 909-1524 • sinnottwealthmanagement.com

Strategies for Wealth 800 Westchester Ave., Suite N409, Rye Brook 10573 288-8800 • strategiesforwealth.com

Tompkins Financial Advisors 10 Bank St., White Plains 10606 946-1277 • tompkinsfinancialadvisors.com

Werlinich Asset Management L.L.C. 14 Birch Lane, Rye Brook 10573 481-5888 • waminvest.com

Westchester Wealth Advisers L.L.C. 800 Westchester Ave., Suite 641 North, Rye Brook 11573 872-4010 • westwealthadv.com

fee and commission based

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a

a

a

a

Approx. 65 million

1

Robert A. Clarfeld Robert A. Clarfeld rob@clarfeld.com 1981

20 million 10,000

4,165,000,000

40

John M. Coughlin Jr. CFP, CLU, AIF John M. Coughlin Jr. info@coughlinfinancial.com 2000

800,000 Negotiable

42 million

1

Beth L. Blecker Beth L. Blecker bblecker@easternplanning.com 1995

600,000 5,000

150 million

2

a

a

20 million

1 (Hudson Valley)

a

a

20,300,000

6 (Hudson Valley)

a

a

a

a

WND

WND

a

philanthropy

a

WND

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

IRA distributions, cash-flow management

a

a

a

a

a

Retirement-income planning

a

a

a

a

a

Health, life and long-term care insurance

Financial strategies, retirement and planning, domestic partner planning, divorce planning, executive compensation and benefit strategies

a

400,000 1,500

150 million

3

Barbara B. Markell CFP Bruce T. Roepe markellb@jgua.com or roepeb@jgua.com 1978

450,000 2,000

770 million

2 (Hudson Valley)

Christopher P. Jordan Caroline Antonelli cantonelli@lexcowealth.com 2005

870,000 500

700 million

4 (2 Hudson Valley) (2 Fairfield County, Conn.)

Scott Greenbaum Scott Greenbaum lifegoals@aol.com 1992

1.2 million 10,000

25 million

1

Richard Flowers ChFC, CLU Steven Randall ChFC, CLU rick.flowers@nmfn.com 1857

WND

25,255,494

11 Wealth management advisors

a

Mitchell Ostrove Mitchell Ostrove mitch@ostrovegroup.com 1965

50 basis points 1,000

100 million

3

a

Paul M. Petrone Paul M. Petrone petronefinancial@yahoo.com 1991

WND 0

WND

1

a

George S. Sinnott George S. Sinnott george@sinnottwealthmanagement.com 1978

500,000 0

125 million

3

a

a

a

a

a

a

Ronald Rosbruch kbiondi@strategiesforwealth.com 1934

WND

2 billion

80 (10 Fairfield County, Conn.)

a

a

a

a

a

a

Tiffany O'Toole Managing director totoole@tompkinsfinancialadvisors.com 1891

1 million 1%

3 billion

4

a

a

a

a

a

Greg Werlinich Greg Werlinich greg@waminvest.com 1997

225 140

65 million

1

a

Robert E. Mann Robert E. Mann rem@westwealthadv.com 2007

2 million Generally 10,000

40 million

1 (1 Fairfield County, Conn.)

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

Other

a

Lawrence DeNoia CFP, CPA Lori Jones larry@itistrategies.com 1993

Questions or comments, call 694-3600, ext. 3005.

Note: This list features companies that responded to our questionnaire. To be included on future lists, email afrey@westfairinc.com.

NA Not applicable.

WND Would not disclose.

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a

Christopher W. Judge Christopher W. Judge chris@cwjudgefinancial.com 1997

Geri Pell CFP Camille De Jesus geri.e.pell@ampf.com WND

Retirement planning and divorce planning

a

WND

50,000 .65%

a

a

More than 75 million

Joseph F. Christiana Joseph F. Christiana jchristiana@finserctr.com 2003

a

a

More than 500,000 NA

350,000 0

Retirement planning

a

Michael Mazzilli Michael Mazzilli michael.x.mazzilli@ampf.com 1894

Matthew S. Clement CFP Matthew S. Clement matthew@emeraldretirement.com 2003

tax planning

Clarfeld Wealth Strategists & Financial Confidantes

risk management

1053 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley 10502 693-6789 • cwjudgefinancial.com

a

investment management

Christopher W. Judge CFP, AIF

a

estate planning

689 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 200, Mamaroneck 10543 777-7526, ext. 350 • ameripriseadvisors.com/michael.x.mazzilli

family and legal

Ameriprise Financial Services Inc.

Planning/management services offered

Minimum annual fee ($) fee based

Top local executive Contact (bold) Email address Year firm established

commission based

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

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a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

a

Tax preparation, retirement-distribution planning

a

In-house tax department, retirement planning

a

Retirement planning

a

Retirement-income planning

a

Retirement-distribution planning

a

a

Trust services, financial planning

a

a

Comprehensive wealth management services performed by a tax attorney

a

a

a

a

SPECIAL wealth REPORT management

‘Trailblazer’ Sharon Epperson talks career, life

By TARICE L.S. Gray tgray@westfairinc.com

W

hen Sharon Epperson got the news that she would be one of five African-American professionals honored with a Trailblazer Award from Westchester County, she was humbled. It also made her wonder what it meant to blaze a trail.

For Epperson, a correspondent with CNBC and a personal finance guru, the road to the award has been paved with hard work and a bit of naiveté.

The New Rochelle resident was the youngest person in the New York bureau of Time magazine when she started her career in the early 1990s. It was there that she noticed the daily ritual of some colleagues who gathered around the monitors to watch the stock ticker. She started asking about the importance of stocks and bonds and about the best mutual funds. She learned quickly and eventually Epperson became one of a few African-Americans to be hired to dispense financial advice on-air in 1996.

“When I started at CNBC a friend said, ‘Why do you have to be Jackie Robinson?’” referring to the trailblazing baseball legend. “Then five years later he said the same thing because they still hadn’t hired that many people (of color) on air.”

Part of the issue was media representation. In the last 22 years, the minority population in the U.S. has risen 10.4 percent, but in that time the minority workforce in TV news grew only 3.7 percent, according to the Radio Television Digital News Association.

Despite a lack of other minority women rising in the ranks Epperson’s career growth has been constant. She’s contributed to the “Today” show as well as “NBC Nightly News,” as well as written about commodities and personal finance for several national publications. She’s also the author of the book “The Big Payoff: 8 Steps Couples Can Take to Make the Most of Their Money and Live Richly Ever After.” But being an African-American Epperson saw a need to reach out to her own community to offer people financial knowledge.

“It’s something that the African-American community has not focused on as much as others groups.” Lack of knowledge has been blamed for the significant wealth gap that persists between black and white Americans.

According to a study by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, 42 percent of white Americans have an IRA or Keogh, compared with 7 percent of African-Americans. Only 23 percent of black women own stock and the report revealed people of color are less likely to inherit wealth. Epperson said her mission is to make people fluent in financial literacy. And she wants to start

Sharon Epperson, CNBC correspondent

with the young.

“I speak to my kids and their friends often about money. I ask them what could you get if you didn’t get this iPhone, if you bought Apple stock instead? Where would you be right now?”

It became important for Epperson to talk about the financial lessons she missed growing up in Pittsburgh. Her parents were both educators and she excelled academically throughout schools, but she didn’t realize how far behind people like her actually were in getting their financial education.

“We were doing a story on IBM and I remember a colleague said, ‘I remember when my grandfather bought me my first share and it was the first stock certificate I had,” Epperson recalled. “Well I don’t have that background. I started asking why would you buy a stock? Why would you buy a bond? I had to start at the very beginning.”

Because she started to build her financial knowledge from scratch it helped her teach others to do the same. She

tries to encourage those who aren’t as fortunate to build a foundation in finance. “We have to start with let’s talk about IBM, let’s talk about that industry.”

Epperson added, “I think we take for granted how many people care about money.”

She said with the economy still in flux, it’s important to help people build a foundation for wealth or at least start a rainy day fund. Epperson said she also would like to see more people like her do the same.

“I wish I wasn’t blazing a trail in 2013, but I have a responsibility that I take very seriously. I want to continue to talk to my people about money. And when I say my people that’s very blasé, but I think this is a time to focus on women and women of color and see how I can help encourage, inspire and help them.”

The annual Black History Month and Trailblazers Award ceremony will be held Feb. 28 at 800 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook. The event will run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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wealth management

The state of the estate tax and why planning remains critical

By Shelby L. Wilson

F

or estate planning professionals, the final quarter of 2012 brought a marked increase in client gifting to younger generation family members. This increase was due, in large part, to the threat of decreased exemptions relating to the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes, and impending increase in marginal tax rates that began Jan. 1.

The Tax Relief, Unemployment Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, passed Dec. 17 of that year, significantly extended the Bush tax cuts that had been in place since 2001. In particular, the federal estate, generation-skipping and lifetime gifting exemptions were increased to $5.12 million and the top marginal estate tax rate was reduced to 35 percent (down from a top rate of 55 percent in 2001).

In addition to the increase in exemptions and decrease of marginal tax rates included, the 2010 legislation also introduced the concept of “portability” between spouses.

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Portability allows a surviving spouse to fully utilize a predeceased spouse’s remaining unused estate tax exemption without retitling assets and creating marital trusts.

Simply put, in some instances, portability makes it relatively easy for most couples to pass up to $10.24 million to children and other family members with relatively basic planning.

The provisions enacted by the 2010 legislation were scheduled to expire on Dec. 31, 2012. If Congress failed to act prior to the end of 2012, the $5.12 million exemption was set to decrease to $1 million beginning Jan. 1, and the tax rate was scheduled to return to a top marginal rate of 55 percent.

As a result of the temporary nature of the legislation, many affluent individuals and families chose the year 2012 to make significant gifts to prevent losing these increased exemptions. In many instances, older generation family members made large gifts into long-term trusts for grandchildren and younger family members, in an attempt to stretch out family wealth over

multiple generations. In limited circumstances, families even made gifts in excess of the exemption to take advantage of the decreased top marginal rate for lifetime gifting.

In the end, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, enacted by Congress on Jan. 2, 2013, made the 2010 estate, gift, and generation-skipping legislation permanent, with a few exceptions. First, the top marginal rate was increased from 35 to 40 percent. Second, the exemption was indexed for inflation and is currently $5.25 million. In addition, the annual gift tax exclusion is $14,000.

In the short term, this new legislation has caused many individuals and couples who decided to forgo making gifts in 2012 to breathe a sigh of relief. However, while portability and an increased exemption seem to have decreased the need for sophisticated federal estate tax planning, the regime itself remains complex and its rules and provisions are highly technical. In addition, it is essential to understand that a few states, including Connecticut, have

standalone estate and gift tax regimes.

Some states have exemptions that are significantly less than the federal exemption, and may not recognize portability between spouses. And while portability may be viewed by some as a positive development in tax planning between spouses, there are many common situations that warrant the use of marital trusts and other estate planning arrangements for non-tax reasons.

While the 2012 federal estate and gift tax legislation has brought some permanency to a historically unstable regime, individuals and families still have a lot to consider, and proper tax and estate planning remains paramount in the current landscape.

Shelby L. Wilson is a partner with the law firm of Berchem, Moses & Devlin P.C. in Westport, Conn. She represents clients in the areas of estate planning, estate administration and tax law. Berchem, Moses & Devlin is a multispecialty law practice with offices in Milford and Westport. For more information, visit www.bmdlaw.com.

FACTS& FIGURES on the record WESTCHESTER Bankruptcies The following petitions were filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains. Chapter 11 indicates the filer intends to submit a plan of reorganization to the court. Chapter 7 indicates a liquidation of assets.

Hildavan Realty Corp., 3101 Eastchester Road, Bronx 10469.

Chapter 11. Voluntary. Attorney: Jonathan S. Pasternak, White Plains. Filed Feb. 7. Case no.

13-10400.

Hios Real Estate Corp., 2 W. Kingsbridge Road, Bronx 10468.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Attorney: Rachel S. Blumenfeld, Brooklyn.

Filed Feb. 7. Case no. 13-10701.

OceanConnect L.L.C., 44 S. Broadway, White Plains 10601.

Chapter 7, voluntary. Attorney: Thomas Genova, Wappinger Falls. Filed Feb. 8. Case no.

413-22201.

Flooring Technologies Inc. Filed by the New York City District Council of Carpenters. Action: claim filed under the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947. Attorney for plaintiff: Michael Alan Bauman. Filed Feb. 6.

Park Side Estates L.L.C., 202 Case no. 13-00870.

Grandview Ave., Monsey 10952.

Chapter 11, voluntary. Attorney: Francesco Inc. Filed by Lidestri Arnold Mitchell Greene, New Foods Inc. Action: trademark York City. Filed Feb. 7. Case no. infringement claim. Attorney for 13-22198. plaintiff: Darren M. Geliebter.

Filed Feb. 6. Case no. 13-00887.

Kangadis Food Inc. Filed by North American Olive Oil Assn.

Action: claim filed under the Trademark Infringement Lanham Act of 1946. Attorney for plaintiff: Timothy James Treanor.

Filed Feb. 6. Case no. 13-00868.

Neblon Inc., et al. Filed by Zelouf International Corp. Action: copyright infringement claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Michael Glenn Goldberg and Saritha Chandrupatla Reddy. Filed Feb. 7. Case no.

13-00914.

Kern Max Inc., et. al. Filed by KeyBank National Associationn.

Action: admiralty claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Gregory John Ligelis and Laura A. Torchio. Filed Feb. 7. Case no. 13-00908.

Organon USA Inc., et al. Filed

by Stephanie A. Miyares. Action: diversity-product liability claim.

Attorney for plaintiff: Kenneth Brian Fromson. Filed Feb. 6.

Case no. 13-00859.

The Gap Inc. Filed by Theresa Grant. Action: diversity-employment discrimination claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Julie Beth Ehrlich and Mariann Meier Wang. Filed Feb. 6. Case no.

13-00880.

Leawood Bancshares Inc., et al. Filed by Hexagon Securities L.L.C. Action: diversity-other contract claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Hillel Ira Parness. Filed Feb. 7. Case no. 13-00907.

Piper Jaffray & Co. Filed by The Whiterock Group L.L.C. Action: diversity-breach of contract claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Michael Evan Grenert. Filed Feb 6.

Case no. 13-00888.

MA. Vi. Do. Rest Inc., et al. Filed

by Jacinto Quiroz-Sanchez, et al.

Action: denial of overtime compensation claim. Attorney for plaintiff: William Cafaro Sr. Filed Feb 6. Case no. 13-00865.

Presgar Medical Imaging Inc., et al. Filed by AAHG L.L.C. Action: diversity-breach of contract claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Brian Richard Fitzgerald. Filed Feb. 7.

Case no. 13-00917.

Hamburg Coffee Co. Hacofco, M.B.H. Filed by WMGA Inc. Action: enforcement of convention claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Scott K. Nigro. Filed Feb. 6. Case no.

13-00875.

Marina Shipping and Trading P.T.E. Ltd. Filed by Omar Shipping Company S.A. Action: enforcement of convention claim.

Attorney for plaintiff: William Robert Bennett III. Filed Feb. 6.

Case no. 13- 00892.

Radio Shack Corp., et al. Filed

by Julieann Parris. Action: diversity-employment discrimination claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Debra Marie McGarvey. Filed Feb. 7.

Case no. 13-00909.

I.C.S. International Custody System Inc., et al. Filed by Fernando Hirsch Merhej, et al.

Action: claim filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970. Attorney for plaintiff: Troy Selvaratnam. Filed Feb. 6.

Case no. 13-00869.

Mercer Transportation Co. Inc. Filed by Underwriters at Lloyd’s Subscribing to Cover Note PC 1206519. Action: federal question: breach of contract claim.

Attorneys for plaintiff: Thomas Mark Eagan and David Thomas Maloof. Filed Feb. 6. Case no.

13-00883.

Kambia Real Estate Corp., 2647-2661 Jerome Ave., Bronx Manhattan 10468. Chapter 11, voluntary.

Court Cases Attorney: Rachel S. Blumenfeld, 107 East 60th Street Associates Brooklyn. Filed Feb. 7. Case no. The following cases appear on the L.L.C., 1706 50 St., c/o Real Prop- 13-10702. docket of the U.S. District Court erty Support Services, Brooklyn for the county of Westchester in 11204. Chapter 7, voluntary. At- Metro United Properties White Plains. torney: David A. Maho, Brooklyn. L.L.C., 33 W. Ninth St., Apt. 5, Filed Feb. 6. Case no. 13-10412.

New York City 10011. Chapter Apple Inc. Filed by Greenlight 11, voluntary. Attorney: Narissa Capital L.P., et al. Action: claim China Natural Gas Inc., 90 Park A. Joseph, New York City. Filed filed under the Securities ExAve., Suite 1625, New York City Feb. 6. Case no. 13-10382. change Act of 1934. Attorneys for 10016. Chapter 11, voluntary. Atplaintiff: Michael A. Asaro, Christorney: China Natural Gas Inc., QuickSuites L.L.C., 79 Madison topher Michael Egleson, Mitchell PRO SE. Filed Feb. 8. Case no. Ave., Seventh floor, New York City P. Hurley and Ashley F Waters.

13-10419.

10016. Chapter 11, voluntary. At- Filed Feb. 7. Case no. 13-00900. torney: Gabriel Del Virginia, New De La Fontaine L.L.C., 519 York City. Filed Feb. 8. Case no. C.H. Robinson Worldwide Columbus Ave., New York City 13-10410.

Inc., et al. Filed by Underwriters 10024. Chapter 11, voluntary. Atat Lloyd’s Subscribing to Cover torney: Randall S. D. Jacobs, New QuickSuites Two L.L.C., 79 Note PC 1105240. Action: fedYork City. Filed Feb. 8. Case no. Madison Ave., Seventh floor, New eral question: breach of contract 13-10416.

York City 10016. Chapter 11, vol- claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: untary. Attorney: Gabriel Del Vir- Thomas Mark Eagan and David ginia, New York City. Filed Feb. 8. Thomas Maloof. Filed Feb. 6.

Case no. 13-10411.

Case no. 13-00882.

Skillman Estates L.L.C., 580 Content Critical L.L.C., et al.

Fifth Ave., 34th floor, New York Filed by Patrick LoPresti. AcCity 10036. Chapter 11, volun- tion: claim filed under the Labor Items appearing in the Westchester tary. Attorney: Mark A. Fran- Management Relations Act of County Business Journal’s On The Re- kel, New York City. Filed Feb. 6. 1947. Attorney for plaintiff: Dacord section are compiled from various vid I Cann. Filed Feb. 6. Case no. sources, including public records made Case no. 13-10386.

13-00895. available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to: Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 3 Gannett Drive, Suite G7 White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3680

White Plains Mitsu Inc., c/o Joshi, 25 Campbell Ave., Airmont 10901. Chapter 11, voluntary. Attorney: Mitchell J. Canter, Nanuet. Filed Feb. 7.

Case no. 13-22199.

COSCO Container Lines Co., Ltd. Filed by Falvey Cargo Underwriting, Ltd. Action: federal question claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Thomas Mark Eagan and David Thomas Maloof. Filed Feb. 6.

Case no. 13-00881.

Gracie Muse Restaurant Corp., et al. Filed by Rodolfo Luna. Action: denial of overtime compensation claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Louis Pechman. Filed Feb. 6.

Case no. 13-00878.

Jackson Furniture Industries Inc., et. al. Filed by Swavelle/Mill Creek Fabrics Inc., et al. Action: copyright infringement claim.

Attorney for plaintiff: Richard S. Taffet. Filed Feb. 7. Case no.

13-00911.

Toyota Motor North America Inc. Filed by Leonard J. Stavish.

Action: diversity-personal injury.

Attorney for plaintiff: Hunter Jay Shkolnik. Filed Feb. 6. Case no.

13-00884.

Turnberry Capital Management L.P., et al. Filed by Suntrust Banks Inc., et al. Action: declaratory judgement claim. Attorneys Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for plaintiff: Cory Hohnbaum L.L.C., et al. Filed by Rose Cook. and Paul A. Straus. Filed Feb. 6.

Action: claim filed under the Case no. 13-00879.

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Attorneys for plaintiff: Rishi Bhandari, Benjamin Rudolph Delson, Evan Mandel and Stacey Lyn McFadin. Filed Feb. 7.

Case no. 13-00903.

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FACTS&FIGURES Deeds Above $1 million Donguri Management L.L.C., New York. Seller: Albert Attia, et al, Scarsdale. 8 Birch Lane, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Feb. 7.

MMC Corp., Bronx. Seller: Kraft Foods Group Inc., Northfield, Ill. Property: 555 Broadway, Greenburgh. Amount: $33 million.

Filed Feb. 7.

Below $1 million 1340 Main Street L.L.C., Peekskill. Seller: Denotto Realty L.L.C., Peekskill. Property: 1340 Main St., Peekskill. Amount: $178,000. Filed Feb. 7.

30 Palmer Lane L.L.C., Thornwood. Seller: Michele S. Chiltern, Mount Kisco. Property: 30 Palmer Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $500,000. Filed Feb. 8.

Anthony Bulfamante Equities L.L.C., New Rochelle. Seller: 294 Union Ave Realty L.L.C., New Rochelle. Property: 294 Union Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $505,000. Filed Feb. 8.

Hudson Valley Bank N.A., Yonkers. Seller: Ronald Giannotti, et al, Yonkers. Property: 115 Rockne Road, Yonkers. Amount: $445,000. Filed Feb. 11.

MPK Leasing Inc., Montgomery. Seller: Steel Style Development Corp., Newburgh.

Property: A-24 Half Moon Bay Marina, Cortlandt. Amount: $42,000. Filed Feb. 7.

MPK Leasing Inc., Montgomery. Seller: Steel Style Development Corp., Newburgh.

Property: D-10 Half Moon Bay Marina, Cortlandt. Amount: $37,345. Filed Feb. 7.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Matthew Coleman, et al, Pleasantville. Property: 316 Washington Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $480,000. Filed Feb. 11.

OSSB Realty L.L.C., Yonkers.

Seller: RLG Realty L.L.C., Yonkers. Property: 231 Ashburton Road, Yonkers. Amount: $545,000. Filed Feb. 11.

Park Hill Terrace L.L.C., New Rochelle. Seller: Joseph Crilly, Newton, Pa. Property: 40 Park Hill Terrace, Yonkers. Amount: $175,000. Filed Feb. 6.

Ramjit L.L.C., Mount Vernon.

Seller: 9 Fulton Estates L.L.C., B and B 68 BVA Realty Compa- Bronx. Property: 9 S. Fulton ny L.L.C., Yonkers. Seller: Ram- Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: dat Munnilal, White Plains. Prop- $570,000. Filed Feb. 6. erty: 68 Buena Vista Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $163,000. Filed Feb. 7.

Sanchez V.B.S. Corp., Yonkers.

Seller: Francisco Soto, Yonkers.

Baron Locust L.L.C., Yonkers. Property: 285-287 S. Broadway, Seller: Bruce Trent, Irvington. Yonkers. Amount: $700,000. Filed Property: 528 Locust St., Mount Feb. 12.

Vernon. Amount: $650,167. Filed Feb. 7.

TZView L.L.C., Tallman. Seller: River Hill Residential L.L.C., Cortlandt Realty Corp., Mon- Great Neck. Property: 1155 trose. Seller: Gail Banker, Mon- Warburton Ave., 5B, Yonkers. trose. Property: 2121 Albany Amount: $665,000. Filed Feb. 8.

Post Road, Cortlandt. Amount: $125,000. Filed Feb. 11.

Gusman Realty L.L.C., Scarsdale. Seller: Ronald Sannicandro, et al, Scarsdale. Property: 155 White St., Scarsdale. Amount: $582,500. Filed Feb. 11.

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Foreclosure Auctions

MOUNT VERNON, 213 S. Third Ave. Two-family dwelling; .06 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank N.A. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, (845) 8971600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Samuel Garland. Referee: John Brophy. Sale: Feb. 20, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $483,005.99.

BRONXVILLE, 1376 Midland Ave., Apt. 512. Apartment. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Plaintiff’s attorney: Peter T. Roach & Associates, (516) 938-3100; 125 Michael Drive, Suite 105, Syosset.

Defendant: Kim Parish. Referee: Lynn Janette Maier. Sale: March NEW ROCHELLE, 287 Wey11, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: man Ave. Plaintiff: Varela Realty L.L.C. Plaintiff’s attorney: Barry $244,814.55.

Nesson P.C., (914) 725-4050; 700 White Plains Road, Scarsdale. DeEASTCHESTER, 26 Huntley fendant: Lycar Advisory Services Road. Single-family residence; L.L.C. Referee: Richard Fontana. .12 acre. Plaintiff: TD Bank.

Sale: Feb. 20, 9:30 a.m. ApproxiPlaintiff’s attorney: Phillips Lytle mate lien: $2,115,479.55.

Hitchcock Blaine Haber (585) 238-2000; 1400 First Federal Plaza, Rochester. Defendant: Jude PEEKSKILL, F10 Rolling Way, Valerjoti. Referee: Kenneth Bun- Unit F10. Condominium. Plainting. Sale: Feb. 27, 9 a.m. Approxi- tiff: U.S. Bank N.A. Plaintiff’s attorney: Knuckles, Komosinmate lien: $105,531.69. ski & Elliot, (914) 345-3020; 565 Taxter Road, Suite 509, Elmsford.

HARRISON, 225 Halstead Ave. Defendant: Carol Johnson. RefSingle-family residence; 37 x 84. eree: Michelle Bermel. Sale: Feb. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National 27, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Sha$273,179.34. piro & DiCaro, (585) 247-9000; 250 Mile Crossing Blve., Suite 1, Rochester. Defendant: John Sinis. PLEASANTVILLE, 25 Wheeler Referee: Ryan Scott Karben. Sale: Ave. Downtown row type; 65 x Feb. 21, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: 99. Plaintiff: Tomas. Plaintiff’s attorney: Clair & Gjertsen, (914) $650,424.87.

472-6202; 720 White Plains Road, Scarsdale. Defendant: 25 Wheeler HAWTHORNE, 37 Saw Mill Ave. L.L.C. Referee: Michele BerRiver Road. Professional buildmel. Sale: Feb. 27, 10 a.m. Aping; .94 acre. Plaintiff: Flushing proximate lien: $2,275,913.02.

Preferred Funding Corp. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jaspan, Schlesinger & Hoffman, (516) 393- 8217; PORT CHESTER 43 Irenhyl 300 Garden City Plaza, Fifth Ave., Port Chester. Single-family floor, Garden City. Defendant: residence; .12 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. 11 Locust Avenue Associates. Alliance Federal Credit Union.

Referee: Albert Corna. Sale: Feb. Plaintiff’s attorney: Stein, Wiener 25, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: & Roth, (516) 742-1212; 1 Old Country Road, Suite 113, Carle $3,049,476.14.

Place. Defendant: Matthew Friefeld. Referee: Bruce Trent. Sale: MOUNT KISCO, 21 New Castle Feb. 27, 8:30 a.m. Approximate Drive. Two-family dwelling; 65 x lien: $207,924.19.

167. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway P.C., SOUTH SALEM, 100 Lake (914) 636-8900; 145 Huguenot Kitchawan Drive. Single-family St., Suite 401, New Rochelle. De- residence. Plaintiff: The Bank of fendant: Bonnie Caracciolo. Ref- New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s ateree: Loren Glassman. Sale: Feb. torney: Leopold & Associates 26, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: P.L.L.C., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk. Defendant: Philip Katz. $553,487.79.

Referee: Martin Hayes. Sale: Feb.19, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: MOUNT KISCO, 29 Carpenter $390,972.74.

Ave. Plaintiff: Hudson City Savings Bank. Plaintiff’s attorney: Goldberger & Staudt, 1311 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Defendant: Hilltop Associates L.L.C. Referee: John Campbell. Sale: Feb. 21, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $2,400,000.

WHITE PLAINS, 4 Longdale Ave. Single-family residence; .17 acre. Plaintiff: Hudson City Savings Bank. Plaintiff’s attorney: Cohn & Roth, (516) 747-3030; 100 E. Old Country Road, Mineola. Defendant: Julieta Garcia.

Referee: Francis Malara. Sale: Feb. 27, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $307,537.72.

WHITE PLAINS, 351 Parkway Homes Road. Single-family residence; .27 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, (845) 897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Robert Watson.

Referee: John Charles Guttridge.

Sale: Feb. 25, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $249,691.55.

416 Elm Street Corp., Port Chester. $1,370 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

6 Pleasant Street Soda Inc., New Rochelle. $4,401 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

618 Bridge L.L.C., Ardsley. $320 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany.

Filed April 23.

A Taste of East Harlem Inc., Irvington. $3,503 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

A4G Consulting Inc., Crompond. $1,385 in favor of the YONKERS, 123 Halsey Road. New York State Tax Commission, Single-family residence. 18 acre. Albany. Filed April 23.

Plaintiff: 341 East L.L.C. Plaintiff’s attorney: Sanders, Gutman Accurate Title of New York & Brodie, (718) 522-0666; 26 Agency Inc., Scarsdale. $1,362 Court St., Suite 1005, Brooklyn. in favor of the New York State Defendant: Shirley Thompson. Tax Commission, Albany. Filed Referee: Daniel Romano. Sale: April 23.

Feb. 27, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $12,236.74.

Advance Dental Arts of Fleet-

Judgments 1 Solid Wood Corp., White Plains. $1,385 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

wood P.C., Armonk. $1,370 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

Affinity Real Estate Services Inc., Mount Vernon. $1,377 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

10 Clinton Properties Corp., Eastchester. $1,370 in favor of the All About Flooring Store Inc., New York State Tax Commission, New Rochelle. $1,370 in favor of Albany. Filed April 23. the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

110 Halstead Avenue Corp., Harrison. $1,370 in favor of the All Professional Management New York State Tax Commission, Services Corp., Mount Vernon.

Albany. Filed April 23. $1,377 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany.

123 All Day Cleaners Corp., Filed April 23.

Yonkers. $1,370 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Almost Home Day Care Inc., Albany. Filed April 23.

Rye. $1,377 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Al26 Polk Place Inc., White Plains. bany. Filed April 23. $1,370 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Amelion Corp., Armonk.

Filed April 23. $6,646 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany.

3073 Corp., Pound Ridge. Filed April 23. $1,377 in favor of New York State Tax Commission, Albany. American Used Wears Corp., Filed April 23.

Bronxville. $1,385 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

CREDITS, CLIEnTS AnD AWARDS YWcA WhITe PlAInS AnD cenTrAl WeSTcheSTer recently earned accreditation for its Children’s Learning Center from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals. To earn NAEYC accreditation, YWCA Children’s Learning Center went through an extensive self-study process, measuring the program and its services against the 10 NAEYC early childhood program standards and more than 400 related accreditation criteria.

nEWSmAkERS DeBOrAh WISKInD, of Ardsley, was recently installed as the 20th president of the Westchester Region of Hadassah, a Jewish women’s organization with more than 9,000 members in many chapters throughout Westchester County. Previously, Wiskind was executive vice president of the region.

She will serve a three-year term as president.

The PUBlIc relATIOnS SOcIeTY OF AMerIcA (PRSA) WeSTcheSTer/FAIrFIelD chAPTer recently announced the election of its 2013 board of directors.

PeTer GIleS, president of Giles Communications, has been named incoming president.

The board also includes the following members: cOlleen BrAIThWAITe, vice president, president, Brathwaite Communications, Scarsdale. vIvecA WOODS, director 2011-2013, principal, VMW Public Relations, Greenwich, Conn.

SUe PAlMer, secretary, communications manager, Maryknoll Sisters, Ossining.

ShIrleY JOhnSOn, treasurer, senior manager, public affairs, Purdue Pharma, Stamford, Conn.

DOn levIn, director 2011-2013, president, Levin PR and Marketing, Larchmont.

STePhAnIe hArWOOD, director 2012-2014, principal, S.M. Harwood Consulting, New Canaan, Conn.

MArK BrUce, director 2012-2014, president, HiTech PR, Scarsdale.

DAWn DAnKner-rOSen, director 2013-2015, president, DDR Public Relations, Pleasantville.

Dr. rOBerT J. PeTrAUSch, director 2013-2015, associate professor, Iona College Department of Mass Communication, New Rochelle.

WAYne c. KreUScher recently joined Goldberg Segalla L.L.P. as a partner in the law firm’s White Plains office, specializing in product liability and transportation practice groups.

Previously, he was a partner at Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis. Before attending law school, Kreuscher began his career as a journalist and worked for the U.S. Army and daily newspapers.

JAcKSOn leWIS l.l.P., a law firm with an office in White Plains, recently announced that three White Plains attorneys have been named partners in the firm.

MIchAel A. FrAnKel represents public and private employers in all aspects of employment law and regularly practices in state and federal court and before government agencies.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Drew University and a Juris Doctorate from Pace University School of Law. SUSAnne KAnTOr engages exclusively in the practice of labor and employment law on behalf of management, representing employers in federal and state courts and before federal and state administrative agencies. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from The College of New Rochelle and a Juris Doctorate from Pace University.

MATTheW h. WOODArD represents employers in a variety of litigation matters in federal and state courts and administrative agencies, and counsels management and human resources professionals on compliance with employment laws and related issues. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and management from Siena College and a Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University School of Law.

On THE GO THURSDAY MAR. 21 Junior Achievement of the hudson valley Inc. 20th Annual Spirit of Achievement & Overachiever of the Year Awards Dinner. 5:45 to 9:30 p.m., The Westchester Marriott, 670 White Plains Road, Tarrytown. For information, email info@jahudsonvalley.org or visit hudsonvalley.ja.org.

SnAPSHOT PUrchASe cOlleGe SchOOl OF FIlM AnD MeDIA STUDIeS hosted Ellen Kuras, of Nyack, one of the top cinematographers in the country and an Academy Award nominee, Jan. 30. Kuras presented a lighting workshop for Purchase College production students, followed by a screening of her work and discussion of her career.

Cinematographer Ellen Kuras speaks to production students at Purchase College Jan. 30. Photo by Alanna morton.

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FACTS&FIGURES Amped Automotive Inc., White Plains. $1,042 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

AR Promotions, Pleasantville. $1,618 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany.

Filed April 23.

ASA Properties L.L.C., Scarsdale. $562 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

Astor Care Medical P.C., Yorktown Heights. $2,321 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

Desert Moon Cafe Inc., d.b.a.

Desert Moon Cafe, Yorktown Mechanic’s Liens Heights. $48,211 in favor of JV Mall L.L.P., New York City. Filed 234 Douglas Place Land Trust, June 5. as owner. $15,000 as claimed by Jeffrey Weiller, Danbury, Conn.

Echelon Group L.L.C., d.b.a. Filed Feb. 4.

Amlaw Discovery, White Plains. $25,499 in favor of Mack-Cali Ashman. Harvey, et al, as owner.

WP Realty Associates L.L.C., $76,614 as claimed by Town Oaks White Plains. Filed June 1.

Construction Company L.L.C., Scarsdale. Property: in Scarsdale.

Express Auto Body Inc., Yon- Filed Feb. 5. kers. $25,692 in favor of JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Filed June 4. Godsey, Alyssa M., as owner. $3,000 as claimed by Galant G and M Inc., Scarsdale. $15,336 Home Improvement and Rein favor of CG Swackhamer Inc., modeling, New Rochelle. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Feb. 8.

White Plains. Filed June 8.

Avalon Consulting Inc., New LaSorsa Inc., Scarsdale. $11,229 Rochelle. $1,377 in favor of the in favor of Burbank Motors, BedNew York State Tax Commission, ford Hills. Filed June 8.

Albany. Filed April 23.

Little Shepherds Community Balina Farms Inc., Yonkers. Services Inc., Bronx. $43,433 in $1,377 in favor of the New York favor of Merion Capital L.L.C., State Tax Commission, Albany. Rye Brook. Filed June 4.

Filed April 23.

Lyns Party Dreams Corp., Barasch Sound Studios L.L.C., Yonkers. $2,575 in favor of Cord.b.a. Sound Image New York, nell Realty L.L.C., Yonkers. Filed Pound Ridge. $1,973 in favor of June 8. the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

New Rochelle Sports Restaurant of America, d.b.a. Club Bargain$ and Dealz Inc., House Restaurant, New RoMount Vernon. $1,362 in favor of chelle. $7,103 in favor of Green the New York State Tax Commis- Tree Packing Inc., Passaic, N.J. sion, Albany. Filed April 23.

Filed June 8.

Bennie’s Towing Inc., Mount Kisco. $5,728 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Albany. Filed April 23.

Horizon at Ridge Hill L.L.C., as owner. $183,303 as claimed by Noble Elevator Company Inc., Ronkonkoma. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Feb. 5.

Northeastern Conference Corp of Sev, as owner. $20,000 as claimed by Junior Carter Mechanical Corp., Bronx. Property: in Cortlandt. Filed Feb. 6.

Tap P Realty Inc., as owner. $185,189 as claimed by Sarracco Mechanical Services Inc., Naugatuck, Conn. Property: in Peekskill. Filed Feb. 7.

Tap P Realty Inc., as owner. $20,330 as claimed by Taconic Heating and Cooling Corp., CorNJS Contracting Inc., Eastches- tlandt Manor. Property: in Peekter. $47,159 in favor of Hygrade skill. Filed Feb. 5.

Insulators Inc., Phillipsburg, N.J. Vanacoro, Kenneth, as owner.

Filed June 8. $6,779 as claimed by Mariano Sublink Ltd., Pelham. $30,900 Pansarella, New Rochelle. Propin favor of Megrant Corp., West erty: in Greenburgh. Filed Feb. 4.

Blinded By Design, Hastingson-Hudson. $1,397 in favor of the New York State Tax Commission, Babylon. Filed June 5.

Albany. Filed April 23.

The Back Office Services New Businesses Borsella Auto Body, Mount Group Inc., Hartsdale. $14,629 Vernon. $8,387 in favor of Singer in favor of the New York State This paper is not responsible for Holding Corp., Elmsford. Filed Tax Commission, Albany. Filed typographical errors contained in May 31.

April 23. the original filings.

CCNH Inc., Cortland. $14,528 in Trocon Inc., New Rochelle. favor of Dentserv Dental Services $48,067 in favor of 8712 L.L.C., P.C., Pelham Manor. Filed June 5. Yonkers. Filed June 7.

Citywide Building Maintenance Local 124, Scarsdale. $1,839 in favor of Miele Sanitation Co., Closter, N.J. Filed June 5.

Westchester Jewish Community Services, White Plains. $3,125 in favor of 6485 Apartment Associates J.V., White Plains. Filed June 6.

CRM Contracting Company L.L.C., Elmsford. $196,197 in favor of the State Insurance Fund, White Plains. Filed June 4.

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Sole Proprietorships All Things Girlie, 438 E. Fourth St., Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Erica Troupe. Filed April 19.

Arbor Internet, 40 Memorial Highway, No. 6Q, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Christopher Thompson. Filed April 19.

Big Papas Transit, 916 Lester Ave., No. 2, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Christopher DiFolco. Filed April 23.

Well Deserved Occupational Therapy Care, 100 Riverdale Ave., Apt. 11G, Yonkers 10701, c/o Antonio Askin. Filed April 20.

Blast Concrete and Site Safety, 104 Settlement Road, Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Robert Kalisch.

Filed April 20.

Patents

Resource allocation in partialfault-tolerant applications.

Patent no. 20130036424 issued to Navendu Jain, Austin, Texas; Yoonho Park, Chappaqua; Deepak S.Turaga, Nanuet; and Chitra Venkatramani, Roslyn Heights.

Assigned to International Business Corp. Armonk.

The following patents were issued Castro Flowers Distributors, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark SCSI reservation-status information on a san disk. Patent no.

104 Lefferts Road, Yonkers 10705, Office in Washington, D.C. 20130036241 issued to Kiran K. c/o Rafael Castro. Filed April 19.

Abstraction for arrays in inte- Anumalasetty, Bangalore, India; Nicholas S. Ham, Austin, Tex; Kinga Wood Works, 190 Briar- grated circuit models. Patent Purna Chandra R. Jasti, United no. to 20130036391 issued to wood Drive, Somers 10589, c/o States; Sudhir Maddali, HyderLinda Curia-Schnarwiler. Filed Steven M. German, Wayland, Md. abad, India; Yadagiri Rajaboina, Assigned to International BusiApril 20.

United States; and Sanket Rathi, ness Corp. Armonk.

Hyderabad, India. Assigned to International Business Corp.

Liberty Iron Work, 2 Carlisle Place, Yonkers 10701, c/o Ivan Identifying invariant candi- Armonk. dates based on proofs. Patent Zamata Aguilar. Filed April 20. no. 20130035908 issued to Alexander Ivrii, Haifa, Israel; and Arie Technique for compiling and Lil By Littles, 53 Stafford St., Bri- Matsliah,Haifa, Israel. Assigned running high-level programs arcliff Manor 10510, c/o Kalliope to International Business Corp. on heterogeneous computers.

Patent no. 20130036409 issued Edge. Filed April 23.

Armonk. to Joshua S. Auerbach, RidgeLori Michelle Wolk Interior Low-threshold voltage and in- field, Conn.; David F. Bacon, Design, 7 Bretton Ridge Road, version-oxide thickness scaling Sleepy Hollow; Perry S. Cheng, Bedford Corners 10549, c/o Lori for a high-k metal gate P-type Cambridge, Mass.; and Roderic Rabbah, Yonkers. Assigned to Michelle Wolk. Filed April 20. mosfet. Patent no. 20130034940 International Business Corp. issued to Takashi Ando, Tucka- Armonk.

Magoo’s Auto Detailing, 11 hoe; Changhwan Choi, EdgeBeackman Ave., Sleepy Hollow water; Martin M. Frank, Dobbs 10591, c/o Jorge M. Hidalgo. Filed Ferry; Unoh Kwon, Fishkill; and Vijay Narayanan, New York City.

April 20.

Assigned to International Business Corp. Armonk.

P.W. Pools, 437 Homestead Ave., Mount Vernon 10553, c/o KaMessage queing with flexible reema Whyte. Filed April 19. consistency options. Patent no.

20130036427 issued to Han Pug Party Designs, 5 Lawrence Chen, White Plains; Minkyong Place, Yonkers 10701, c/o KatherBuilding Loans Kim, Scarsdale; Hui Lei, Scarsine E. McLoughlin. Filed April 19. dale; and Fan Ye, Ossining. Assigned to International Business Rene Mejia Landscaping, 69 Corp. Armonk.

Below $1 million Sunset Lane, North Salem 10560, c/o Rebe Mejia. Filed April 19.

Meteorological param- Chun, Steve L., et al, Woodeter forecasting. Patent no. stock, as owner. Lender: Rondout Rhythm Acupuncture, 81 Ste- 20130035860 issued to Supratik Savings Bank, Kingston. Propphen Drive, Tarrytown 10591, c/o Guha, Chappaqua; Hendrik Ha- erty: High Rocks Road, Glenford.

Mital Khatri. Filed April 23. mann, Yorktown Heights; and Amount: $695,000. Filed Feb. 4.

Levente Klein, Tuckahoe. AsRose Painting Co., 222 Gains- signed to International Business M Homes Land Development borg Ave., West Harrison 10604, Corp. Armonk. of PA L.L.C., Chester, as owner. c/o John Guiliani. Filed April 19.

Lender: Normandy Corp., RochReal-time temperature-sensi- ester. Property: in Harriman.

Small Business Management tive machine-level code com- Amount: $155,000. Filed Feb. 11.

Group, 75 Hickory Kingdom pilation and execution. Patne Road, Bedford 10506, c/o Mer- issued to Cary L. Bates, Roches- Singh, Bhajan, Newburgh, as ter, Minn.; Nicholas P. Johnson, owner. Lender: Walden Savings edith Priestley. Filed April 23.

Rochester, Minn; and Justin K. Bank, Montgomery. Property: in King, Rochester, Minn. Assigned Take Flight Productions, 72 to International Business Corp. Montgomery. Amount: $90,000.

Filed Feb. 11.

N. State Road, No. 131, Briarcliff Armonk.

Manor 10510, c/o Michael A. DeRario. Filed April 20.

HUDSON VALLEY

The DM Equities of New York L.L.C., Harriman, as owner.

Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II L.L.C., Montgomery.

Property: 18 Howard Court, Goshen. Amount: $200,000. Filed Feb. 6.

AllSave Development L.L.C., Montebello. Seller: Juliana LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: in Montgomery. Amount: $450,000.

Filed Feb. 5.

Champion Properties Inc., Staatsburg. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 13 Bartlett St., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Amount: $34,000. Filed Feb. 6.

16 Old Stone Road L.L.C., Mystic, Conn. Seller: Paul M. Adler, et al, Ventura, Calif. Property: 16 Old Stone Road, Garrison 10524.

Amount: $730,000. Filed Jan. 28.

Christine’s on Broadway Corp., Newburgh. $320 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 4.

Daz Greenville L.L.C., Port Jervis. $207 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Michele Rametta, Goshen. PropThe DM Equities of New York erty: 257 E. Main St., Middletown L.L.C., Harriman, as owner. 10940. Amount: $155,000. Filed Lender: Libertyville Capital Feb. 7.

Group II L.L.C., Montgomery. Property: 125 Gate School Van Buren Realty NY L.L.C., House Road, Goshen. Amount: Monroe. Seller: Israel Perl, et al, $200,000. Filed Feb. 6.

Monroe. Property: 7 Van Buren Drive, Monroe. Amount: $95,000. Filed Feb. 5.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: James D. Meir, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 11 Terry Circle, Pleasant Valley. Amount: $456,500.

Filed Feb. 5.

282 Wixon Pond Estates Inc., Carmel. Seller: Margaret T. Bromet, Jefferson Valley. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $80,000.

Filed Feb. 8.

Circle Design Corp., Monroe. $72,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 2.

Deer Park Grocery Inc., Port Jervis. $205 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

Deeds

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Alan Joseph, Goshen. Property: 143 Frozen Ridge Road, NewAbove $1 million burgh 12550. Amount: $328,756.

Bank of Millbrook, Millbrook. Filed Feb. 5.

Seller: Lee David Klein, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Pine Plains. Federal National Mortgage Amount: $1.4 million. Filed Feb. 5. Association. Seller: Deodat Persaud, et al, Middletown. Property: 18 Franklin St., Middletown 10940. Amount: $135,232. Filed Below $1 million Feb. 11.

New Life Properties of the Hudson Valley L.L.C., Goshen.

Seller: Lisa J. Felicissimo, Monroe.

Property: 153 Eagleton Drive, Unit 15C, Monroe. Amount: $138,500. Filed Feb. 5.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Joseph M. Campone, Beacon. Property: 10 High St., Unionville 10988. Amount: $210,693. Filed Feb. 11.

The City of Port Jervis, Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $29,762. Filed Feb. 5.

Prince Williams Properties L.L.C., Lakewood, N.J. Seller: Jeffry Normil, Memphis, Tenn.

Property: 6-12 William St., and 192 Ann St., Newburgh. Amount: $50,000. Filed Feb. 11.

AllSave Development L.L.C., Montebello. Seller: Juliana Lobiondo, Newburgh. Property: in Blooming Grove. Amount: $60,000. Filed Feb. 5.

Globe Contracting L.L.C., Middletown. Seller: Joseph Frangione, et al, Montgomery. Property: in Middletown. Amount: $125,000.

Filed Feb. 11.

The City of Port Jervis, Port Jervis. Seller: Robin D. Waizenegger, Port Jervis. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $25,181. Filed Feb. 5.

Bank of America. Seller: Anne Julia Penachio, White Plains.

Property: 49 Hackensack Heights Road, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Amount: $316,000. Filed Feb. 8.

Brookfield Global Relocation Services L.L.C. Seller: Man Deutsche Bank National Trust Fai Ng, Poughkeepsie. PropCo. Seller: Elizabeth Colon, Fish- erty: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: kill. Property: 37 E. Main St., $190,000. Filed Feb. 8.

Washingtonville 10992. Amount: $210,500. Filed Feb. 6.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Daniel MorDeutsche Bank National Trust rison, et al, LaGrangeville. PropCo. Seller: Lisa Felicissimo, Mon- erty: in LaGrange. Amount: roe. Property: 1343 Route 211 $262,000. Filed Feb. 5.

W., Middletown 10940. Amount: $164,641. Filed Feb. 5.

Indiana L.P., Pelham. Seller: Susan M. Kinney, et al, Wappingers Falls. Property: in Amenia.

Amount: $43,500. Filed Feb. 5.

Judgments

Colonial Construction of NY Inc., Middletown. $63 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 4.

A and A Automotive Works, Saugerties. $4,538 in favor of the Devices U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Clem New York State Department of Communication Patti Jr., White Plains. Prop- Taxation and Finance, Albany. Corp., d.b.a. CDC, New Windsor. $626 in favor of the New York erty: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: Filed Feb. 11.

State Department of Labor Un$297,500. Filed Feb. 1. employment Insurance Division, A and C Carpet Care and Floor Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Sell- Specialist Corp., Port Jervis. Albany. Filed Jan. 2. er: Anne J. Penachio, White $150 in favor of the New York Plains. Property: 128 Mountain State Department of Taxation Continental Worldwide Van View Road, Pawling. Amount: and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10. lines Inc., New Paltz. $70,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compen$239,000. Filed Feb. 5. sation Board of the State of New Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp., Brandon, Fla. Seller: Kevin Abco Solutions Inc., Monroe. York, Albany. Filed Feb. 5.

F. Callahan, et al, Kingston. Prop- $480 in favor of the New York erty: 22 Melissa Road, Kingston State Department of Taxation Country Tune Saloon Inc., 12401. Amount: $87,600. Filed and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4. Kingston. $2,111 in favor of the Feb. 6.

New York State Department of All in One Trading Corp., d.b.a. Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Pals 2012 L.L.C., Kingston. Sell- Anco Plumbing, Monroe. $932 Filed Feb. 5. er: Margaret Susan Burpee, et al, in favor of the New York State DeKingston. Property: in Marble- partment of Labor Unemploy- Craigs Golf Shop Inc., Walden. town. Amount: $217,200. Filed ment Insurance Division, Albany. $147 in favor of the New York Filed Jan. 2.

Feb. 4.

State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, D and H Canal Historical Soci- Andrew and Rebecca Realty Albany. Filed Jan. 2. ety Inc., High Falls. Seller: Walter Inc., Fort Montgomery. $537 Pastusak, Orangeville, Pa. Proper- in favor of the New York State Crow Properties Inc., Bloomty: 22 and 24 Third St., High Falls. Department of Taxation and Fi- ingburg. $845 in favor of the New nance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

Amount: $175,000. Filed Feb. 1.

York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed The county of Ulster, Kings- Benvenuti Restaurant and Piz- Jan. 4. ton. Seller: Joseph Swirski, et al, zeria Inc., Newburgh. $1,909 Wawarsing. Property: in Wawars- in favor of the New York State D Williams Superior Asphalt ing. Amount: $132,000. Filed Feb. 1. Department of Taxation and Fi- Services, Montgomery. $143,000 nance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4. in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New September Properties Inc., New Paltz. Seller: Edward L. Aleo, Bloomingdeals Inc., Goshen. York, Albany. Filed Jan. 2.

Kingston. Property: in Rosendale. $930 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation Amount: $82,500. Filed Feb. 11. and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10. D.E. Consultants Inc., Sparrow Bush. $2,918 in favor of the New York State Department of TaxaPals 2012 L.L.C., Kingston. Seller: Wilfred Friedman, New York Burnett Design Inc., Goshen. tion and Finance, Albany. Filed City. Property: 365 Woodland $129 in favor of the New York Jan. 8.

Road, Marbletown. Amount: State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4. $90,000. Filed Feb. 4.

Da Vinci Merri Maids Inc., Wallkill. $22,000 in favor of the Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: BYC Racing Inc., Warwick. $103 Workers’ Compensation Board Christine Azambuja, Toms Riv- in favor of the New York State of the State of New York, Albany. er, N.J. Property: 25 Cameron Department of Taxation and Fi- Filed Feb. 5.

Road, Patterson 12563. Amount: nance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4. $305,928. Filed Jan. 31.

Disc Central Inc., Newburgh. $383 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

Dubois Street Market Corp., Newburgh. $144 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 4.

Eden Boutique, New Paltz. $34,451 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 11.

Ellenville Dodge-ChryslerJeep Corp., Warwick. $151,865 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

Experienced Office Administrators, New Hampton. $24,870 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

Famimex Corp., Middletown. $443 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

Freyer Industries Inc., Monroe. $1,182 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

G.A.A. Delivery Corp., Montgomery. $204 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

Gary’s Truck and Trailer Repair Inc., Newburgh. $980 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

Girgenti Air Conditioning Systems Inc., Highland Mills. $358 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

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FACTS&FIGURES Greenworld Landscape and Irrigation Inc., Monroe. $164 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 4.

H and W Well Drilling Inc., Middletown. $509 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 4.

Horizon Mobility Equipment Inc., Kerhonkson. $1,922 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 5.

Houston and Houston L.L.C., Middletown. $492 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 10.

Hudson Valley Pool Supply Inc., New Windsor. $1,938 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

Hurley Ridge Liquors Inc., d.b.a. Ridge Liquors, West Hurley. $35,319 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 11.

L.A. Ponessi Inc., Newburgh. $355 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

OC Tobacco Inc., d.b.a. Havana House Cigar Lounge, Middletown. $154 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Lippincott Funeral Chapel Jan. 8.

Inc., Goshen. $248 in favor of the New York State Department Phoenix Preowned Inc., Newof Taxation and Finance, Albany. burgh. $200 in favor of the New Filed Jan. 10.

York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed LJ Firewood L.L.C., Middle- Jan. 8. town. $1,624 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxa- Pine Hills Convenience Inc., tion and Finance, Albany. Filed Lake Katrine. $1,922 in favor of Jan. 8. the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Lynchs General Construction Filed Feb. 5.

L.L.C., Middletown. $998 in favor of the New York State Depart- Resa Real Estate Inc., New ment of Labor Unemployment Windsor. $730 in favor of the Insurance Division, Albany. Filed New York State Department of Jan. 8.

Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 8.

Magicannik Inc., Montgomery. $108 in favor of the New York Retrofoam of NY Inc., Monroe.

State Department of Taxation $1,521 in favor of the New York and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10. State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 10.

Marlboro Food Market Inc., Marlboro. $2,085 in favor of the Riccardis Hideaway Inc., KingsNew York State Department of ton. $6,000 in favor of the WorkTaxation and Finance, Albany. ers’ Compensation Board of the Filed Feb. 5.

State of New York, Albany. Filed Feb. 5.

MD and Daughters Auto Collectors Inc., Clintondale. $612 RKT Motors Inc., Newburgh. in favor of the New York State $461 in favor of the New York Department of Taxation and Fi- State Department of Taxation nance, Albany. Filed Feb. 11. and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

Inner City Automotive Corp., Gardiner. $216,383 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Feb. 5.

Mdaaz Realty Inc., Blooming Grove. $133 in favor of the New Janie’s Gas and Market Inc., York State Department of TaxaSlate Hill. $28,405 in favor of the tion and Finance, Albany. Filed New York State Department of Jan. 8.

Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 10.

Modern Savage Inc., Napanoch. $1,771 in favor of the New York JT Landscaping and Irrigation State Department of Taxation Corp., Monroe. $188 in favor of and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 5. the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Monroe’s What’s Hot Inc., Filed Jan. 4.

Monroe. $1,617 in favor of the New York State Department of Kerry’s Beauty Center L.L.C., Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Monroe. $1,267 in favor of the Filed Jan. 8.

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Moonshine Liquors Inc., MidFiled Jan. 10. dletown. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of TaxaKingston Albany Petroleum tion and Finance, Albany. Filed Inc., Kingston. $16,000 in favor Jan. 8. of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, New Vision Developers of New Albany. Filed Feb. 5.

York Inc., Goshen. $972 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

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Sewa Petroleum Corp., Middletown. $1,889 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

Soma Creations Inc., Middletown. $27 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

Specialized Mitigation Solutions, Warwick. $20,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 2.

Speedman Distributors Inc., Middletown. $358 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 8.

St. Andrew’s Italian Deli Inc., Walden. $1,856 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Jan. 9.

Star East NY Inc., d.b.a. Go Go Chinese and Japanese Restaurant, Middletown. $1,007 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 9.

Tantillo’s Garage Inc., New Paltz. $1,517 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Robert Albrecht Landscape Feb. 5. and Tree Service Inc., Shokan. $172 in favor of the New York Technical Support Systems State Department of Taxation Inc., Hurley. $3,857 in favor of and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 5. the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Royal Imports of NY Inc., Mon- Filed Feb. 5. roe. $195 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation The Darlene Wilson Institute and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8. of Dance L.L.C., Newburgh. $72,000 in favor of the Workers’ Salsa on 211 Inc., Middletown. Compensation Board of the State $330 in favor of the New York of New York, Albany. Filed Jan. 2.

State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8. The Show Must Go On Inc., Newburgh. $110 in favor of the Santa Lucia Foods Corp., Kings- New York State Department of ton. $1,922 in favor of the New Taxation and Finance, Albany.

York State Department of Taxa- Filed Jan. 8. tion and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 5.

Tmas, Port Jervis. $2,026 in favor of the New York State DepartSelect Kitchens Gallery Inc., ment of Taxation and Finance, Monroe. $537 in favor of the New Albany. Filed Jan. 9.

York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

Total Appliance Inc., Middletown. $1,030 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

Barstow, Karen L., et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $349,000 affecting property located at 17 Laura Lane, East Fishkill 12533.

Tsunami Group Inc., New- Filed Dec. 18. burgh. $10,802 in favor of the New York State Department of Beisswenger, Jennifer, et al.

Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Filed Jan. 8.

Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Two Brothers Hardscape $313,000 affecting property locatHome Improvement Inc., New- ed at 4 Rega Road, Fishkill 12524. burgh. $125 in favor of the New Filed Dec. 24.

York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Bhangu, Sahib S., et al. Filed by Jan. 8.

GMAC Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortWater Solutions of New Paltz gage to secure $129,000 affecting Inc., Bloomington. $13,216 in fa- property located at 10A Carnaby vor of the New York State Depart- St., Wappinger Falls 12590. Filed ment of Taxation and Finance, Dec. 20.

Albany. Filed Feb. 11.

Biscardi, Louis E. III, et al. Filed Willow Lake Real Estate Ser- by Mid-Hudson Valley Federal vice Inc., Port Jervis. $342 in fa- Credit Union. Action: seeks to vor of the New York State Depart- foreclose on a mortgage to secure ment of Taxation and Finance, $287,556 affecting property located at 6 N. Cross Road, Staatsburg.

Albany. Filed Jan. 9.

Filed Dec. 31.

Windmill Sales and Trading Inc., Middletown. $1,526 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Jan. 8.

Blue-Brown, Robin, et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 6 Mayer Drive, HighWoodstock Landscaping and land 12528. Filed Feb. 8.

Excavating L.L.C., West Hurley. $4,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State Bocchino, Marlene A., et al. of New York, Albany. Filed Feb. 5. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspeciXcel Development Corp., Corn- fied amount affecting property wall-on-Hudson. $306 in favor of located at 9 Durocher Terrace, the New York State Department Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Dec. 27.

Filed Jan. 8.

Bohlmann, John J., et al. Filed

by GMAC Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortLis Pendens gage to secure $78,256 affecting property located at 15 Styvestandt The following filings indicated a Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed legal action has been initiated, the Dec. 20. outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed.

Boland, Verona, aka Verona Alvarado, William N., et al. Filed

by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 36 Sanford Drive, New Paltz 12561. Filed Feb. 4.

West, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $196,888 affecting property located at 2 Greenhouse Lane, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Dec. 18.

Bosco, John, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $333,700 affecting property located at 203 Davis Road, Salt Point 12578.

Filed Dec. 20.

Cochrane, Brian S., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $246,500 affecting property located at 19 Callinan Lane, Saugerties 12477.

Filed Feb. 7.

Bragdon, Sara, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $590,000 affecting property located in Poughkeepsie. Filed Dec. 28.

Conahan, Donald J., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $256,000 affecting property located at 95 Forest Valley Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Dec. 28.

Brearley, Susan M., et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 73 Peach Road, Hyde Park 12601. Filed Dec. 27.

Conroy, Gina M., et al. Filed by Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $206,844 affecting property located at 3760 Route 52, Pine Bush 12566. Filed Feb. 8.

Bruno, Vincent, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $395,343 affecting property located at 324 Pine Ridge Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Filed Dec. 24.

Bundschuh, Dorothy E., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $500,000 affecting property located at 43 Old Post Road, Millerton 12546. Filed Dec. 19.

Cora, Suzanne, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $451,950 affecting property located at 114 Stonybrook Road, Unit 119, Fishkill 12524.

Filed Dec. 21.

Cubas, Carol Flood, et al. Filed

by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 10 Racetrack Road, Woodstock 12409. Filed Feb. 8.

Caliguri, Attilio, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure undisclosed amount affecting property located at 168 Route 376, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Dec. 28.

Dako, Christine O., et al. Filed

by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $315,700 affecting property located at 5 Balsam Fir Loop, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Dec. 19.

Carrasquillo, Yolanda, et al.

Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $352,000 affecting property located at 37 Green St., Poughquag 12570.

Filed Dec. 19.

Danko, Paul E., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $359,125 affecting property located at 16 Old State Route 22, Dover 12594.

Filed Dec. 27.

Cassar, Michael A., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $353,072 affecting property located at 54 Palen Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Dec. 18.

Di Lorenzo, Maria, et al. Filed

by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 26 Hoofprint Road, Millbrook 12545. Filed Dec. 17.

Clark, Richard A., as beneficiary under the last will and testament of Jane Ann Clark, et al. Filed by Champion Mortgage Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 12 Bethlehem Place, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Dec. 21.

Diaz, Nilsa Alvarez, et al. Filed

by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $310,500 affecting property located at 9 Park Road, Salisbury Mills 12577. Filed Jan. 10.

Elliott, Renne, aka Renne Elliot, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $280,000 affecting property located at 56 Riverglen Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed Feb. 7.

Fenton-Fields, Jeanne, et al.

Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $327,000 affecting property located at 37 Evergreen Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Dec. 21.

Flannigan, Nancy, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $264,000 affecting property located at 85 Forester Ave., Warwick 10990. Filed Jan. 10.

Garrison, Steve, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $196,910 affecting property located at 26 Pineview Road, Beacon 12508. Filed Dec. 28.

Hlavaty, Robert Costello, et al. Filed by Sovereign Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 12-14 Country Lane, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Dec. 21.

Hulse, Janet R., et al. Filed by Kondaur Capital Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $210,000 affecting property located at 3447 Route 208, Campbell Hall 10916. Filed Jan. 10.

Ibelli, Joseph, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $327,900 affecting property located at 13 Wendy Drive, Union Vale 12570. Filed Dec. 18.

Infante, Matthew D., et al. Filed

by BAC Home Loans Servicing L.P. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $202,500 affecting property located at 4 Lancer Drive, Newburgh 12550.

Groenewegen, Craig, et al. Filed Filed Jan. 10.

by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage Jakaj, John, et al. Filed by The to secure $250,000 affecting prop- Community Preservation Corp. erty located at 44 Riverdale Drive, Action: seeks to foreclose on a Wingdale 12594. Filed Dec. 31. mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property Hancock, Ronald Lee Sr., et al. located at 3170-3172 Route 22, Filed by Capital Communications Dover Plains. Filed Dec. 19.

Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage Jean, Sidney R., et al. Filed by to secure $175,000 affecting prop- U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to erty located at 57 Whiteford Drive, foreclose on a mortgage to secure Pleasant Valley. Filed Dec. 28. $412,448 affecting property located in Fishkill. Filed Dec. 20.

Hapke, Quinton M. Jr., et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Johnson, Zane T., et al. Filed by Trust Co. Action: seeks to fore- PennyMac Mortgage Investment close on a mortgage to secure Trust Holdings I L.L.C. Action: $131,091 affecting property lo- seeks to foreclose on a mortgage cated at 1151 Route 209, Cud- to secure an unspecified amount debackville 12729. Filed Jan. 10. affecting property located at 22 Pleasant Lane, Wappingers Falls Harris, George V., et al. Filed by 12590. Filed Dec. 26.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage Kaiser, Gustave A. II, et al. Filed to secure $217,600 affecting prop- by Flagstar Bank F.S.B. Action: erty located at 10 Camelot Road, seeks to foreclose on a mortgage Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Dec. 19. to secure $92,000 affecting property located at 2 Friendly Circle, aka 708 Granite Road, No. 2, KerHenriques, Sydney R., et al. honkson 12446. Filed Feb. 4.

Filed by MetLife Home Loans.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $164,000 af- Kelder, Bruce L., et al. Filed by fecting property located at 210 Pennymac Corp. Action: seeks South St., Poughkeepsie 12601. to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $119,700 affecting property Filed Dec. 28. located at 100 Kelder Highway, Olivebridge. Filed Feb. 5.

Lacon, Evan M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $262,500 affecting property located at 941 Elting Road, Rosendale 12472. Filed Feb. 4.

Lazarus, Ian, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $254,140 affecting property located at 16 Vail Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Dec. 31.

McGowan, Brian, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $380,000 affecting property located at 108 Deer Ridge Drive, Staatsburgh 12580.

Filed Dec. 27.

McTamaney, Thomas, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $202,991 affecting property located at 74 Thompson St., Newburgh 12550.

Filed Jan. 10.

Loehr, Gary G., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 15 Short Court, Poughquag 12570. Filed Dec. 20.

Midtown Associates L.L.C., et al. Filed by RBS Citizens N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $335,250 affecting property located at 609611 Broadway, Kingston 12401.

Lovelace, Dorene K., et al. Filed Filed Feb. 4.

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to fore- Miller, John, et al. Filed by Fedclose on a mortgage to secure eral National Mortgage Associaan unspecified amount affecting tion. Action: seeks to foreclose on property located at 160 Port Ben a mortgage to secure an unspeciRoad, Wawarsing 12489. Filed fied amount affecting property located at 217 E. Union St., KingsFeb. 6. ton 12401. Filed Feb. 6.

Maietta, Christine, et al. Filed

by Household Finance Realty Misasi, Joseph A. Jr., individuCorporation of New York. Action: ally and as administrator of the seeks to foreclose on a mortgage estate of Joseph A. Misasi, et al. to secure an unspecified amount Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. affecting property located at 37 Action: seeks to foreclose on a Maple Ave., Fishkill 12524. Filed mortgage to secure $184,500 affecting property located at 58 Dec. 28.

Stephan St., Kingston 12401.

Mann, Jacquelyn L., et al. Filed Filed Feb. 4.

by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage Mullen, Kevin P., et al. Filed by to secure an unspecified amount Loancare. Action: seeks to foreaffecting property located at 309 close on a mortgage to secure Violet Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. $286,711 affecting property located at 32 Darlene Drive, PoughFiled Dec. 18. keepsie 12601. Filed Dec. 28.

Marshall-King, Marion, et al.

Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Mulvihill, Penni A., et al. Filed Action: seeks to foreclose on a by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. mortgage to secure $524,000 af- Action: seeks to foreclose on a fecting property located at 107 mortgage to secure $45,300 afBirchwood Way, Hopewell Junc- fecting property located at 3 Hook Road, Unit 55B, Poughtion 12533. Filed Dec. 21. keepsie 12601. Filed Dec. 28.

Martin, Vincent E., et al. Filed

by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to Naula, Rosa M., et al. Filed by foreclose on a mortgage to secure Deutsche Bank National Trust $139,156 affecting property lo- Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on cated at 21 Edith Ave., Saugerties a mortgage to secure $308,000 affecting property located at 52 12477. Filed Feb. 6.

Brandy Lane, Wappingers Falls McGovern, Europa L., aka Eu- 12590. Filed Dec. 19. ropa L. McGovern-Gronenthal, et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Fed- Nelson, William G., et al. Filed eral Credit Union. Action: seeks by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to se- to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,000 affecting property cure $224,000 affecting property located at 54 Carroll St., Pough- located at 55 Mill St., Dover Plains 12522. Filed Dec. 27. keepsie 12601. Filed Dec. 20.

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FACTS&FIGURES Nicosia, William, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $176,800 affecting property located at 5 Appalachian West, Hopewell Junction 12533.

Filed Dec. 28.

Ninonuevo, Mark J., et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $174,400 affecting property located at 27 Spruce St., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Filed Dec. 31.

Nunez, Damian, aka Damien Nunez, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $322,000 affecting property located at 972 Beekman Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed Dec. 31.

Paneto, Juan D., et al. Filed

by Homeward Residential Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 384 Greeves Road, New Hampton 10958. Filed Jan. 10.

Richie, Ronald E., et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $304,000 affecting property located at 35 Orchard Place and 60 Cross St., Beacon 12508. Filed Dec. 20.

Rugar, Elizabeth A., et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $262,500 affecting property located at 49 Pine Hill Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Dec. 20.

Sackett, Robert G., et al. Filed

by LNV Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $387,000 affecting property located at 47 Pye Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Dec. 17.

Sandford, Paul T. Jr., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 6C Alpine Drive, Wappinger 12590.

Filed Dec. 18.

Sarcar L.L.C., et al. Filed by Keybank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $500,000 affecting property located at 1269 Route 9G, Hyde Park.

Filed Dec. 24.

Passley, Reginald Jr., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 11 Reed Court, Washingtonville 10992. Filed Jan. 10.

Sekul, Christopher, et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Pompilio, Anthony J., et al. Filed Action: seeks to foreclose on a

by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to mortgage to secure an unspeciforeclose on a mortgage to secure fied amount affecting property $161,250 affecting property lo- located at 30 Battenfeld, Milan cated at 7 Red Barn Road, Hyde 12571. Filed Dec. 26.

Park 12538. Filed Dec. 18.

Sellers, Paul S. Sr., et al. Filed by Reilly, Robin, et al. Filed by Pen- MidFirst Bank. Action: seeks to nyMac Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure foreclose on a mortgage to secure $126,950 affecting property locat$213,750 affecting property locat- ed at 39 Yates Blvd., Poughkeepsie ed at 15 Pine Echo Drive, Pough- 12601. Filed Dec. 18. keepsie 12601. Filed Dec. 28.

Sepulveda, David, et al. Filed by Reynolds, Carolyn G., et al. OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. to foreclose on a mortgage to seAction: seeks to foreclose on a cure $245,000 affecting property mortgage to secure $164,177 af- located at 144 Franklin St., Poughfecting property located in La- keepsie 12601. Filed Dec. 12.

Grange. Filed Dec. 18.

Skillins, Gunar, et al. Filed by Richardson, Charlie, et al. Filed HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action:

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,000 affecting propto secure $303,988 affecting prop- erty located at 164 Wall St., Kingserty located in Poughkeepsie. ton 12401. Filed Feb. 6.

Filed Dec. 18.

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Skinner, David W., et al. Filed

by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $237,500 affecting property located at 18 E. Kerley Corners, Red Hook 12571.

Filed Dec. 20.

Sobrado, Maria E., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 1027 Stoll Court, Kingston 12401.

Filed Feb. 7.

Tardio, Joan, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $239,900 affecting property located at 192 Shelly Hill Road, Stanfordville 12581. Filed Dec. 24.

Wall, John J., et al. Filed by EverBank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $135,900 affecting property located at 16 David Loop, Wappinger 12590.

Filed Dec. 21.

Yannuzzi, Carlos A., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $413,580 affecting property located at 164 N. River Drive, Unit O-70, Beacon 12508. Filed Dec. 28.

Mechanic’s Liens Campos, Maria, as owner. $19,500 as claimed by Santos Sanchez, Hopewell Junction.

Property: 96 Logan’s Way, Maybrook 12543. Filed Feb. 6.

Kramb, Josh, et al, as owner. $2,135 as claimed by Roland Green Plumbing and Heating, Kingston. Property: 10 Hunter St., Kingston 12401. Filed Feb. 4.

Northeast Business Center Associates-50, as owner. $2,700 as claimed by Cranesville Block Company Inc., Amsterdam.

Property: Corporate Blvd., Route 17K, Newburgh. Filed Feb. 5.

Welch, Shannon B., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. New Businesses Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $234,840 This paper is not responsible for affecting property located at typographical errors contained in 54 Rocky Bar Road, Westtown the original filings.

10998. Filed Jan. 10.

Winnie, Catherine R., et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 467 Mill Hook Road, Rochester 12404. Filed Feb. 5.

Wynne, James M., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 314 Starr Ridge Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 1.

Lily of the Valley Cleaning Service, 247 E. Chester St., Kingston 12401, c/o Lillian J. Tuey. Filed Simple Living Management, Feb. 6.

657 Zena Road, Woodstock 12498, c/o John B. Bream and Mulberry Vineyards, Mulberry Greta T. Nicholas. Filed Feb. 4.

Lane, Milton 12547, c/o Pierre Ferguson. Filed Feb. 5.

Sole Proprietorships

New Beginnings in Christ Ministry, 1430 Route 32, Saugerties 3 Guys Furniture and Mattress 12477, c/o Margaret G. Feeney.

Co., 614 Ulster Ave., Kingston Filed Feb. 8.

12401, c/o Robert C. Nyulassy.

Filed Feb. 8.

Reynolds Property Management, 191 Kallop Road, Kingston All Counties Property Manage- 12401, c/o Thomas J. Reynolds. ment and Repairs, 482 Vineyard Filed Feb. 6.

Ave., Highland 12528, c/o Leonard J. Maietta. Filed Feb. 4.

Roca-Floral, 596 Broadway, Kingston 12401, c/o David Sosa Beekeepers of Shawangunk, 23 Michaca. Filed Feb. 7.

Steven Court, Wallkill 12589, c/o Thomas F. Hutt. Filed Feb. 5.

Rondout Eats, Rondout Valley Resort, Mettachonants Road, Bookerworx, 25 Academy Ave., Rochester 12404, c/o Michele J. Cornwall-on-Hudson 12520, c/o Artist. Filed Feb. 6.

Danika I. Norey. Filed Jan. 23.

Rusty Wrench Plumbing, 9 Chris Gaffney Masonry, 151 Shufeldt St., Kingston 12401, Old Route 32, Saugerties 12477, c/o Stephen R. Goralewski. c/o Chris P. Gaffney. Filed Feb. 4. Filed Feb. 5.

Clearmeadow Production Sean Shultis, 1661 Route 2, Partners, 2978 Route 209, Kings- Olivebridge 12461, c/o Sean T. ton 12401, c/o Glenn M. Grubard. Shultis. Filed Feb. 7.

Filed Feb. 7.

Studio Reynard, 28 Gladys Lane, Crystal Clear Water Solutions, Saugerties 12477, c/o Helene C. 3 Dutchtown Road, Saugerties Lesterlin. Filed Feb. 6.

12477, c/o Jason A. Rogers. Filed Feb. 11.

Tabasz, 18 O’Neil St., Kingston 12401, c/o Latisha D. Belafonte.

Fair and Square Contracting, Filed Feb. 4.

1749 Route 9W, Lake Katrine 12449, c/o Kurt J. Gremer. Filed The Baldwin Sisters, 681 Route Rialto Farms Inc., d.b.a. Guari- Feb. 6.

2, Accord 12404, c/o Mary Van no Farms, 626 Lattintown Road, Garden. Filed Feb. 11.

Marlboro 12542. Filed Feb. 5.

Gemma Nine, 15 Meher Circle, Woodstock 12498, c/o Boaz The K9 Consultant, 234 Mossy Robert L. Blake Inc., d.b.a. Shoshani. Filed Feb. 5.

Brook Road, High Falls 12440, Rondout Bay Café and Marina, c/o Mary R. Cicale. Filed Feb. 6.

1000 Route 213, Kingston 12401.

Gremco Contracting, 1949 Filed Feb. 7.

Route 9W, Lake Katrine 12449, Trinity Roofing and Conc/o Kurt J. Gremer. Filed Feb. 7. struction, 15 Banks St., Accord Specifications Softserve Inc., 12404, c/o Vincent Calcagno. d.b.a. Specifications Packman, 116 School Hill Road, High Falls Kara Cat Creations, 40 Par- Filed Feb. 5. ish Lane, Lake Katrine 12449, 12440. Filed Feb. 5. c/o Stephanie L. McClure. Filed Truth Engine Books, 76 E. Feb. 7.

Bridge St., Saugerties 12477, c/o Warwick Valley Telephone Co., Richard H. Crist Jr. Filed Feb. 4. d.b.a. Alteva, 47 Main St., WarLeeAnne Remodeling, 21 wick 10990. Filed Feb. 5.

Brookside Road, Monroe, c/o Leo McKay. Filed Jan. 23.

Williams, Kevin L., et al. Filed Doing Business As

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $220,000 affecting prop- Rialto Farms Inc., d.b.a. Center erty located at 36 Westwood Ave., For Leadership Innovation, 626 Lattintown Road, Marlboro Ellensville 12428. Filed Feb. 5.

12542. Filed Feb. 5.

Wimmers, Jennifer M., et al. Filed

by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $316,000 affecting property located at 193 Davis Road, Salt Point 12578. Filed Dec. 27.

Partnerships

Notice of Formation of 175 West 88 L LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/12.

Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 50 Linden Lane, Bedford Corners, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58420 Notice of Application for Authority to do business in New York of FIREFLY ENERGY CONSULTING LLC (“LLC”). Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of the State (“SSNY”) on 9/24/2012. LLC formed in Connecticut (“CT”) on June 27, 2011. Office location is Westchester County. SSNY has been designated an agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of such process to the LLC c/o 171 Rowayton Woods Drive, Norwalk CT 06854. Office address in CT is 171 Rowayton Woods Drive, Norwalk, CT 06854. Copies of the Articles of Organization of LLC are on file and may be obtained from the Secretary of the State of CT, PO Box 150470, Hartford, CT 06115.

Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #58421 Notice of substance of the Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of Stateís Office (SSNY) on December 14, 2012 for OPTICAL FASHIONS II, LLC. Principal office: Dutchess County. Business: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

SSNY is designated as the agent of the company upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process is 200 Westgate Business Ctr Dr., Fishkill, NY 12524. #58422 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MY HEALTH AND COMFORT, LLC. Application for Authority was filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/28/12. The LLC was originally filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on 11/13/12. 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, One Bradford Road, Mt. Vernon, New York 10553.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose. #58423 Notice of Formation of Ann Marie Butler Music LLC Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State on 1/7/13.

Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1879 Crompond Road, Apt C-2, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful purpose or activity. #58424 Notice of Formation of 145-147 Main Street LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/2012. Office Location: Westchester Co. SNY designated as agent of LLC, upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o 145-147 E. Main Street, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549, also registered agent. General Purpose. #58425 Notice of Formation of 175 West 88 T LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/12.

Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 50 Linden Lane, Bedford Corners, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58426 Notice of Formation of CJC GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 1/3/13. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 9 Campus Place, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: all lawful activities. #58427

LQ Property Management LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/5/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 28 Reynolds Ln, Buchanan, NY 10511. Purpose: General. #58428 Notice of Formation of THE KITCHEN HARBOR LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 1/3/13. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 269 Kimball Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: all lawful activities. #58429 Notice of Formation of JSCTHEATRICALS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/2/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 72 Claremont Ave., Rye, NY 10508. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58430 Notice of formation of S.R. Dog Training, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/3/13. Office in Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC PO Box 176, Somers, NY 10589. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #58431 Notice of Formation of Mad Jack Jellies New York, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/12. Off. Loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 18 Rockledge Road, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #58433 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: BWELL BODY MIND, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 11, 2012. 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, 251 Benedict Avenue, Tarrytown, NY 10591, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #58435 Notice of formation of Zenon Partners LLC filed with the Secy. of State (SSNY) on 11/28/12. Office loc.: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to Andrew Z. Dowicz, P.O. Box 167, White Plains, NY 10602. Mgmt. shall be by one or more members. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #58436 Notice of formation of Zenon Capital Management LLC filed with the Secy. of State (SSNY) on 11/28/12. Office loc.: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to Andrew Z. Dowicz, P.O. Box 167, White Plains, NY 10602. Mgmt. shall be by one or more members. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #58437 Notice of formation of Zenon Capital Advisors LLC filed with the Secy. of State (SSNY) on 11/28/12. Office loc.: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address SSNY shall mail copy of process to Andrew Z. Dowicz, P.O. Box 167, White Plains, NY 10602. Mgmt. shall be by one or more members. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #58438

LEGAL NOTICES

Notice of Formation of 209 East Main Street LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/23/201. Office Location: Westchester Co. SNY designated as agent of LLC, upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o 209 E. Main Street, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549, also registered agent. General Purpose. #58439 NOTICE OF FORMATION of J&L Wall Systems LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/9/13. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Alfred E. Donnellan, One North Lexington Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful activities. #58440 KELLY & COMPANY 1ST RESPONDERS, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 11/14/2012.

Office loc: Westchester County. LLC formed in MO on 07/27/2006. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Rt 2, Box 512 , Norwood, MO 65717. Address required to be maintained in MO: 2805 S. Ingram Mill Rd. Springfield MO 65804. Cert of Formation filed with MO Sec. of State, 600 W. Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65101. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58441 DISASTER PERSONNEL SERVICES, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 11/14/2012. Office loc: Westchester County. LLC formed in MO on 10/18/2011. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 428, Ozark, MO 65721. Address required to be maintained in MO: 761 N 20th St., PO Box 428, Ozark MO 65721. Cert of Formation filed with MO Sec. of State, 600 W. Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65101. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58442 MSA VITAMIN STORE EIGHT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/02/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1955 Grand Avenue, Baldwin, NY 11510. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58443 CENTRAL PARK LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK SERVICES, PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/13/2012. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: U.S Corp. Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER. #58444 RECTANGLE WARE - EVER PAY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/03/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 115 E . Stevens Avenue, Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58445

ELEGANT HOME DECOR LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/04/2012. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 650 Lee Boulevard Space B01F, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58446 Spacesheep Enterprises LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/13. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Alexandros Halimou, 105 Munson Rd., Pleasantville, NY 10570.

Purpose: General. #58449

S2 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/4/13.

Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to LynnMark Enterprises, LLC, 14 E 38th St Rm 1402, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: General. #58450

595 ROUTE 22 LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/15/2013.

Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Sunnyridge, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58462

Jones Street Holding LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/4/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Wulf Lueckerath, 7 Taylor Rd, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: General. #58451

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC).

NAME: WHITE PLAINS PHARMACY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/13/2012.

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, C/O Pravin Patel, 27 Andrea Lane, Scarsdale, NY 10583, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #58464

81 Cannon Street, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Wulf Lueckerath, 7 Taylor Rd., Mount Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: General. #58452 Yida Capital Management LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/15/10. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Wenqing Zang, 1 Preston St, Rye, NY 10580.

Purpose: General. #58453 Harvest Street Capital LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 12/13/12. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: 30 Harvest Dr., Scarsdale, NY 10583 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #58456 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC).

NAME: THE SIMPLE BREWER, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/28/12. 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, 1 Mountain View Dr., Somers, NY 10589, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #58457 FRIEDMAN LIFE ARTS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/14/2013. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 24 Tall Pines Lane, Bedford Corners, NY 10549. Reg Agent: Laurence Friedman, 24 Tall Pines Lane, Bedford Corners, NY 10549.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58459 Notice of Formation of Studio for Good LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/12.

Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Vin Cipolla, 35 Siscowit Road, Pound Ridge, NY 10576. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58460 TALK OF THE TOWN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY, PLLC, a Prof.LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/15/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 48 Nathan Pierce Court, Pawling, NY 12564. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Speech & Language Pathology. #58461

Notice of Formation of Antoinette Siciliano Dental PLLC. Principal office Westchester County. Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 14 Bolton Gardens, Bronxville, NY 10708.

Articles of Organization of the LLC filed with the SSNY on January 10, 2013. Purpose: Dentistry. #58465 Kaplan Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 745 Kimball Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: General. #58466 Notice of Formation of SIF Advisors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/15/12. Office location: Westchester County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: c/o Lou Kerner, 42 Hawkes Close, Irvington, NY 10533. Purpose: all lawful purposes. #58467 Notice of Qualification of Kaufmann Family Holdings LLC. App. for Auth. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/3/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/19/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 763 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers, NY 10710. DE address of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Ste. C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed DE Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58468 NOTICE OF FORMATION of FIRST GENERATION HOSPITALITY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/27/12.

Office location: Westchester County.

Princ. office of LLC: 851 Central Park Avenue, Scarsdale, New York 10583. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 360 Lexington Avenue, NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #58469 Notice of Formation of ELD Property Management LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/12. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Anthony J. Hammel, 32 Burling Ln, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58470 DIRTY CANVAS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/22/2013.

Office loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 17 East Mountain Road, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58471

LEGAL NOTICE The Articles of Organization of CAPPELLI ORGANIZATION, LLC (the ìCompanyî) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 10, 2013. The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: Louis R. Cappelli, c/o Cappelli Enterprises, Inc., 7 Renaissance Square, 4th Floor, White Plains, New York 10601. The Company was formed for any lawful business purpose or purposes permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #58472

LEGAL NOTICE The Articles of Organization of WP RITZ PARKING, LLC (the ìCompanyî) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 16, 2013. The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: Louis R. Cappelli, c/o Cappelli Enterprises, Inc., 7 Renaissance Square, 4th Floor, White Plains, New York 10601. The Company was formed for any lawful business purpose or purposes permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #58473 Notice of organization of SIMON FRANCIS CO., LLC filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/3/12. Office location, County of Westchester. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Winter, PO Box 248, Waccabuc NY 10597. Purpose: any lawful act. #58475 Notice of Formation of Turkois Design LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) on 1/15/13.

Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Shelley Ave, Valhalla, NY 10595.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #58476 MoxleyADR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/31/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Charles J. Moxley, Jr., 36 Watergate Dr., Amawalk, NY 10501.

Purpose: General. #58477 Notice of Formation of Briarcliff Grocery Owners, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o AAG Management, Inc., 421 Seventh Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58478 Notice of Formation of MMR MEADOWLARK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Reznick, 69 Charles Road, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #58479

Notice of Formation of Epstein Aesthetics LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Marc L. Epstein, 600 Mamaroneck Ave., 4th Fl., Harrison, NY 10528. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58480 Notice of Formation of AMG Bartow Quickserve LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 555 South Columbus Ave., Ste. 201, Mt. Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58481 Notice of Formation of Mother Zen, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 1/15/13.

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 Falcon & Singer P.C., 14 Harwood Ct., Ste.220, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58482 ARCTIC ASSOCIATES, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/23/2012. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Allen Weintraub, 333 Mamaroneck Avenue, #239, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58483 THE O’BYRNE LAW FIRM, LLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/23/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: John O’Byrne, 23 Wilson Drive, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law. #58484 NOTICE OF FORMATION of BPC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT I, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/26/12. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 Mill River Road, South Salem, NY 10590. Purpose: any lawful activity.

The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers. #58485 INSURE WISE INSURANCE BROKERS, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 09/27/2012. Office loc: Westchester County. LLC formed in CA on 07/21/2011. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 100-7 Rancho Road, #344, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362. Address required to be maintained in CA: 100-7 Rancho Road, #344 Thousand Oaks CA 91362. Cert of Formation filed with CA Sec. of State, 1500 11th St # 3, Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58487 REING & REING PLLC, a Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/29/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1360 Sunny Ridge Road, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547.

Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Law. #58488

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LEGAL NOTICES Continued from previous page Notice of substance of the Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of Stateís Office (SSNY) on 11/20/2012 for DAVID SERT KRAKOW, M.D., PLLC. Principal office: Westchester County.

Business: Medicine. The SSNY is designated as the agent of the company upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process is: 359 East Main Street Suite 3I, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549. #58489 NOTICE OF FORMATION of DNA Smokehouse LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/30/13.

Office location: Westchester Co..

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Anthony F. Lo Cicero, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, 90 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: any lawful activities. #58490 Notice of substance of the Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of Stateís Office (SSNY) on 1/15/2013 for JOSEPH A. CANTERINO, D.D.S., PLLC. Principal office: Westchester County.

Business: Dentistry. The SSNY is designated as the agent of the company upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process is: 984 North Broadway, Suite 408, Yonkers, NY 10701. #58491 Notice of Formation of Servicebyte, LLC. Arts. of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/12.

Office location: Westchester County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 30 State Street, Ste. G-1, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58493

Notice of Formation of Sun Horizons Pharmacy LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/25/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 2 South Broadway, Yonkers, NY 10701.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #58494 Notice of Formation of AFC Partners LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/25/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 11 Parkway Circle, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58495 LEGAL NOTICE The Articles of Organization of 15 ORCHARD LANE ASSOCIATES, LLC (the ìCompanyî) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 29, 2013.

The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: Paul A. Varsames, 1 Hunter Avenue, Armonk, New York 10504. The Company was formed for any lawful business purpose or purposes permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #58496

LEGAL NOTICE The Articles of Organization of SCENIC RIDGE AT AMBERLANDS LLC (the ìCompanyî) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 29, 2013. The office of the Company is located in Westchester County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company served upon him or her is: Heino Bastys, c/o Nida Associates, Inc., 14 Dove Court, Croton on Hudson, New York 10520. The Company was formed for any lawful business purpose or purposes permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #58497 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: BIGTHINGS ENTERPRISES, LLC. Filed with NY Secretary of State on 11/23/2012 Office located in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC as agent upon which process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: PO Box 8117 White Plains NY 10602 (LLC’s primary mailing address). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #58498 Notice of Formation of PARNELL LAW, PLLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 1/31/13. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O THE PLLC, 44 Wall Street 20th Fl., New York, NY 10005. Purpose: to engage in the practice of Law. #58499

LEGAL NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Lakeside Wealth Management, LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 12/18/12. Office located in Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent upon which process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: The LLC c/o United States Corporation Agents Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #58500 Notice of Formation of 806F LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/31/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Zucker & Kwestel, LLP, 2307 Eastchester Road, Bronx, NY 10469. Purpose: any lawful activity. #58501 Pegasus Veterinary Services, P.L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/23/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 2821 Larkspur St., Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Purpose: Veterinary Medicine. #58502 Notice of formation of ATOLYA LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/04/2013.

Office in Westchester Coutny. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 68 Leroy Road, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #58503

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BRIGADEIRO BLISS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/11/2012. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Brigadeiro Bliss, 106 Robins Rd, New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #58504 ìNOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: WBC REALTY GROUP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 30, 2013.

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 c/o WCB REALTY GROUP LLC, 275 So, Ridge St., Rye Brook, NY 10573.

Purpose: For any lawful purposeî #58505 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Corinne D. Menn, D.O., PLLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/13/12. Office location: WESTCHESTER. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against PLLC to principal business address: 16 South Bedford Rd STE 3E Chappaqua, NY 10514.

Purpose: any lawful act. #58507 Notice of Formation of 3-87 NYC Greenridge LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross, LLP, 530 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10036, Attn: Jules E. Levy, Esq., the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #58508

Notice of Formation of 7-79 NYC Greenridge LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/7/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross, LLP, 530 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10036, Attn: Jules E. Levy, Esq., the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #58509 Notice of Formation of UMKA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/11/13. Off. loc.: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 550 Mamaroneck Ave., Ste. 307, Harrison, NY 10528. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #58510 D.F. Whigs LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 43 Judson Ave., Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: General. #58511 Playland Ice Casino LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/21/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Kendra Giefski, 91 Fairview Park Dr, Elmsford, NY 10523. Purpose: General. #58512

90 Wood Ave LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/18/13. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 11 Jordan Ln., Ardsley, NY 10502. Purpose: General. #58513 Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBA has been applied for by Banditos Corp. d/b/a Banditos to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 139 South Main Street Port Chester NY 10573. #58514 Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBA has been applied for by J. G. Establishment Inc. d/b/a Pete’s Pub to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 1234 Yonkers Avenue Yonkers NY 10704. #58515 Quality Appliance Repair LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/12. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Diomedes Hernandez, 5 Livingston Ave, Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: General. #58516 TRACEY PIERCE FAMILY DAYCARE, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of Sate on 11/13/12. Office located in Westchester C Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against served upon him/her to: 412 East 5th St., Mount Vernon, NY 10553.

(LLC's principal business location).

Purpose: any lawful business activity. # 58417

From player to business owner, baseball is his game

BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

Y

ou would guess there’s a Dodger in the house when you step into Dan Gray’s domain at ProSwing Baseball & Softball Training Center in Mount Kisco. High on gymnasium-like walls are outsized painted baseballs bearing the names and uniform numbers of Dodger greats. The names are from a halcyon time when the only performance-enhancing drug favored by players was a cheek-swelling plug of tobacco: Robinson, Wills, Reese, Snider, Koufax, Podres, Campanella, Roseboro.

Those last two luminaries of the Dodger organization were catchers. So too was Dan Gray, though only a fan of Dodger baseball in Class A minor league outposts like Vero Beach and Bakersfield and Great Falls might remember #41 crouched behind the plate.

The kid was a player, though, an athletic standout on the roster of physicists, Nobel Prize laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners that the Bronx High School of Science has graduated. The Bronx-bred son of a construction foreman, Gray went on to play at the State University at Binghamton with a prowess that earned him a niche in the school’s Hall of Fame.

“I was going to be a lawyer,” he says, taking a break from tutoring in the art and science of hitting in a batting cage at ProSwing.

But in his junior year Gray was the first Binghamton jock and history major ever to have his name called in the Major League Baseball draft, when Walter O’Malley’s Dodgers picked him in the seventh round.

He played 3½ years in the Dodger farm system and kicked around a few seasons more with a bad shoulder on his throwing arm in independent leagues with teams like the Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks and Southern Nomadic Miners and Albany Diamond Dogs and Clarksville Coyotes.

“My career ended over a shoulder injury,” he says. He was not the same player after rotator cuff surgery. “My arm was a very big strength of my game.” Dan Gray was no Mike Piazza with a bat in his hand at the plate.

The owner of two ProSwing centers in Westchester County – the other is a converted 25,000-square-foot wine warehouse in Port Chester managed by minority business partner Barry Perlow – Gray fared better than many players whose careers end prematurely.

There was no singing the Dodger blues for him. “I was confident that my education and my intelligence were going to allow me to be successful in something else,” he says.

He was still in the Dodger organiza-

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tion when he started his first offseason batting clinic in Binghamton. He moved on to Brewster, where he ran baseball clinics and day camps at an indoor golf range. Along the way he earned a master’s degree in sports management and athletic administration at Adelphi University, harboring an ambition to be an athletic director.

In New Jersey, he partnered with a former teammate in a baseball training center.

But the commute and long work hours sent him looking for opportunity on this side of the river, closer to his home and family in Ossining. “It’s a labor-intensive business,” he says. “It’s something you have to do six or seven days a week.”

In 2002, he found this vacant 8,100-square-foot industrial space on Radio Circle Drive in Mount Kisco. “There was nothing here,” he recalls. “It was a shell. It was all in my mind.” His late father, as good with a saw and hammer as the entrepreneur was with a bat and glove, went to work turning the old plant into synthetic fields of dreams.

It had been the home of Universal Voltronics, which manufactured “huge” generators here, says Gray. Now it’s a training ground for boys and girls of all ages that generates college scholarships for its most

advanced players. About 96 percent of the kids in ProSwing’s high school program go on to play in college.

Andres Larramendi, who has just stepped from the batting cage, is one of them. A freshman at Princeton University, he earned all-state and honorable mention All-America honors at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua. A National Hispanic Scholar, Larramendi graduated with a .480 average – batting average, that is – and Dan Gray’s after-school tutelage helped put the pop in his bat and rhythm in his swing. Baseball was this catcher’s ticket to the Ivy League, he says.

“He’s a great coach,” says Larramendi, watching Gray lob baseballs underhand from a seat on a turned-over bucket to another college player spending semester break in the ProSwing batter’s box. “He’ll give you his input but he knows that his players know themselves …He lays the foundation and lets us go to work.”

But Coach Gray is no one-trick businessman. His centers also host kids’ baseballthemed and sports-themed birthday parties. A birthday party first brought Andres Larramendi here as an impressionable 8-year-old.

“If you’re just trying to be an elite place,

you’re not going to survive,” says Gray. “You have to have different revenue streams that are using baseball for different reasons” to meet “the demands of your clients…That’s’ why we have 28 or 29 different revenue streams here.”

Gray had only one baseball training center as competition in the county when he opened 11 years ago. “Now there are probably 15 to 20 in Westchester and Putnam County, if not more.”

“He’s the greatest coach you’ll ever find,” says Dan Fraioli, who with his family operates Air Structures American Technologies Inc. in Rye Brook. He brings his sons to ProSwing to learn from Dan Gray. “He really knows his stuff. That’s why he’s so successful. A lot of these places go in and out of business.”

Running late, the ex-Dodger grabs his catcher’s mitt for an appointment with a client in Port Chester. The best splitter-throwing homeowner in Purchase and restaurateur in New Rochelle, Mariano Rivera, works out at ProSwing this winter while rehabilitating his surgically repaired knee for his return to the mound at Yankee Stadium this spring.

“It’s just a thrill to know that you’re helping him get ready for his last season,” says Gray.

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