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John, kept their store open. Like many business owners, the Johnstons say it’s important to stay open. It’s a commitment to their customers. While it normally snows less than 30 inches a year, it’s already snowed nearly 60 inches. And for each day schools closed and workers stayed home, businesses lost out. For many, sales are down and workers have fallen behind on their work. Before any snowstorm, customers at Crisfield’s stock up on pot roasts and ground

ackhoes stripped the surface of a fenced-off parking area in the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers as city officials joined mall owners and private partners at a groundbreaking ceremony last week for Hyatt Place Yonkers, a 155-room hotel expected to open in 2015 in an eight-story tower formerly used as a hospital and office building. Construction on the approximately $25 million, 75,000-square-foot project has begun as Cross County’s owner, Brooks Shopping Centers L.L.C., prepares to celebrate this year the 60th anniversary of the fully renovated Yonkers landmark, one of the first outdoor shopping centers to open in the U.S. “This has been a long time coming,” said James Stifel, executive vice president of Brooks Shopping Centers, owner of the Cross County property since 1977. The hotel’s co-developers called the project “complicated,” as workers will retrofit the existing tower – the former Cross County Hospital – while ground-floor retail tenants stay open for business during the 18-month construction period. An approximately 11,000-square-foot gatehouse will be built at the front of the tower to accommodate the hotel’s public spaces and ground-floor shops. And that work will go on “in the middle of a 1 million square-foot shopping center,” said James Friend, president and CEO of Friend Development Group L.L.C. in Manhattan. The hotel’s original developer, Friend has been joined in the development by Yonkers

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Dan Johnston of Cristfield’s Prime Meat in Rye.

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Storms slowed sales, productivity BY JENNiFER BiSSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

SnoW or no SnoW, Crisfield’s Prime Meat in Rye will be open. “Bad weather is never good for business,” said Dan Johnston, a Crisfield’s manager. “But we have to stay open. We sell perishables; we don’t have a choice.” An unusually high number of snowstorms blanketed Westchester and Fairfield counties this winter. Yet for each storm, Dan and his father,

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Training for an obscure job that’s in high demand BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

t 28, Leslie Smith juggles three parttime jobs – waitress, food store clerk, ophthalmologist’s Saturday assistant – while preparing for a new career. Her ambition brings her across the Tappan Zee Bridge from New Jersey’s Bergen County into downtown White Plains five mornings each week to learn what she calls “a totally new language” at the New York School of Court Reporting and Career Institute. “It’s a challenge,” Smith said after four hours of classes one recent morning in the school’s fifth-floor office at 34 S. Broadway. “It’s like they’re teaching you a new language.” Stuart M. Auslander, the White Plains school’s founding director, said in teaching he stresses “the three Ps: practice, patience and perseverance.” Students who follow those succeed and go on to land jobs as court or freelance reporters, often with the help of the school, which has a 100 percent placement record for graduates entering the job market, he said. “It’s kind of a combination of learning a musical instrument and learning a foreign language,” he said. It’s a phonetic language learned on the 22 keys of a stenographer’s shorthand machine to the accompaniment of a teacher’s dictation. At first glance, the oddly spaced and combined letters resemble tiny chicken tracks on the machine’s paper scroll. “What I tell my students,” said retired court reporter Herb Fabel, “is when you finish writing, your paper should like someone sneezed on alphabet soup and it landed there.” To qualify for the state’s Civil Service eligibility list for court reporters, candidates must apply that phonetic method to accurately record English speech at the rate of 225 words a minute. To graduate from the New York School of Court Reporting, Smith and her fellow students must achieve 95 percent accuracy on dictation tests. Smith previously studied to be a medical assistant and worked at a full-time job in an ophthalmology practice, but reached a dead end in that career. “I didn’t have anywhere up

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Herb Fabel, instructor at the New York School of Court Reporting and Career Institute in White Plains.

to go,” she said. “You hit the top and you’re, ‘OK, this is not’...” She considered nursing studies, but a friend of her parents, a court reporter for 20 years, insisted she would excel in that occupation. Last year, Smith attended an open house at the school in White Plains and began taking courses in April. She hopes to graduate – the school produces about 10 graduates each year – in two years, the typical length of studies at a school in which day and night students can set their own pace. Paying $580 a month in tuition, Smith expects her schooling will cost about $13,000. (The school calculates average tuition for full-time day students at $13,920 and at $13,680 for part-time night students, said instructor Christine Soldan.) She expects to start out as a freelance reporter, recording depositions for lawyers. “I don’t mind working in a court at all either,” she said. “That sounds good to me.” In the state of New York, the average salary for a court reporter or a closed captioner – the computer software-supported addition to the traditional stenographer’s work – is $87,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. In state Supreme Court, salaries start in the $80,000 range and rise to six figures for court reporters. Jobs in the field are expected

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to grow 25 percent by 2016, “mainly because of closed captioning,” Auslander said. “It’s blossoming.” Court reporters supplement their base salaries with sales of case transcripts, which they own as independent contractors. Those earnings amount to a minimum of $20,000 to $30,000 a year, he said. Auslander spoke by phone from his home in Florida, where he retired after a 35-year career that included 28 years as senior court reporter in state Supreme Court in Westchester. His magnum opus: the transcript of the second trial in 1992 of Scarsdale teacher Carolyn Warmus for the murder in Greenburgh of her lover’s wife. The document ran to more than 18,000 pages, the longest on record in Westchester. It ended with a guilty verdict. Auslander the previous year had opened his court reporting school in a North Broadway office in North White Plains. “I never had aspirations to do that,” he said. “I was a busy court reporter. I did it to fill a void” when a vocational school in White Plains where he and other court reporters taught was cited by the state for illegally disbursing federal student loans in its court reporting program. “Someone had to do it,” he said. “This field is a well-kept secret. People don’t know about it,” Auslander said. Like Smith, most students hear of it through family connections. Fabel, whom Auslander wooed out of retirement after a 40-year career in state and Army courts, followed his older brother into the field after graduating from Port Chester High School in 1958. A few blocks from the school’s downtown office, Fabel’s septuagenarian brother, Bernard, runs Judicial Reporting Service Inc, a court reporting agency, at 120 Bloomingdale Road. His business partner is Linda Fabel, Herb’s former wife. They met in court reporting school in New York City. Auslander’s daughter Kim was a journalism major in college. She too gravitated to a career in court reporting, first in New York and now in Tampa, Fla. “You see it in the movies – every court scene has a court reporter,” Fabel said. “But

no one growing up says, ‘I want to be a court reporter.’” “The best part about this profession is you can take this anywhere in the country and you can do it at any age,” he said. “The field – every day is different. When you think you’ve heard it all, you hear something else. …The education – intellectually, you grow,” Fabel said. In medical malpractice cases, for example, “You really learn about the medical field. I find medical the most interesting” of court cases. Court reporting is also recognized as one of the nation’s recession-proof jobs, Auslander said. While the school has seen declining enrollment in recent years, “Ironically, in a bad economy, many times this field prospers” as the demand for court reporting services rises with the higher volume of lawsuits. “In times like this,” said Fabel, “when money is tight, people are looking for money. You’re in a litigious society. The worse the economy is, the better we are.” Though digital technology has enhanced the court reporter’s services with closed captioning and rapid translations on monitors of the reporter’s shorthand, instructors at the school in White Plains do not fear that their human kind will ever disappear from the judicial system. “Nobody wants the court reporters replaced – lawyers, judges – because actually we help them a lot,” Soldan said. “Forty years ago when I started, they said, ‘You’re going to be replaced by machines,’” Fabel said. But in a courtroom, “There are so many distractions” to disrupt clearly audible testimony and statements by lawyers and judges, he said. Coughing, doors slamming, papers rustling, secretaries whispering to judges, and witnesses speaking in faulty or unintelligible English can impede the spoken case record. “Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever,” he said. “There’s no electronic machine that can say, ‘I didn’t get that,’ whereas you have a human who can say, ‘Can you repeat that?’” The New York School of Court Reporting will hold its spring open house on March 8, starting with an informational session at 10 a.m.

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argeting the northern Westchester housing market, AvalonBay Communities Inc., the Virginiabased luxury residential developer, plans to build 152 townhouse-style apartments in Baldwin Place, a residential section in the town of Somers. The estimated $38 million to $40 million project would include 17 two- and three-story apartment buildings, each with eight to 10 units, that would take up 17 acres in an 80-acre planned hamlet. At a recent Somers Town Board meeting, representatives of AvalonBay Communities Inc. discussed their concept plan, which they said aligns with the town’s master plan guidelines for the hamlet. The master plan calls for development of up to 80,000 square feet of assisted living space, 40,000 square feet of professional and commercial office space and 30,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. “When AvalonBay drew up a conceptual plan late last year, we tried to stay within the framework of the approved master plan for the planned hamlet,” said

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Grant Jaber, senior development director at AvalonBay’s Fairfield, Conn. office. The town adopted the master plan in 2009. The 183,700-square-foot complex would include a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments with about 23 affordable housing units. A 72-unit affordable housing complex for seniors, The Mews, already exists in the hamlet. AvalonBay plans to develop only the 152-unit residential complex and

renovate an existing 4,000-square-foot building as a clubhouse for tenants. With more than 1 million square feet of office space and Pepsi Beverages Co., the bottling division of PepsiCo Inc., headquartered there, Somers is “a tenantgenerating community,” Jaber said. “The empty nesters are going to be living here,” he said. “There will also be a big transitional market of people who just got a job in Somers and want to buy

a house, but they need a temporary place to stay while they look. Then there’s the young professionals who are a growing demographic in our nation and attracted to rental housing.” Monthly rents would be about $1,800 for one-bedroom apartments, from $2,400 to $2,600 for two-bedroom apartments and from about $2,600 to $3,000 for three-bedroom apartments, Jaber said. AvalonBay, which owns 273 luxury apartment complexes nationally, has developed residences in White Plains, Bronxville, Greenburgh, Mamaroneck and New Rochelle. Avalon at Ossining, a 168unit apartment complex, recently opened on North Highland Avenue in that village. At a Feb. 6 town board meeting, Somers Supervisor Rick Morrissey said AvalonBay’s conceptual plan provides plenty of open space, which would reduce the environmental impact as the project takes shape. “We still have more work to do, but we’re working towards a formal submission of a site plan application to the planning board by mid-May to June this year,” said Jaber. The Somers planning board is lead agency for the town on the AvalonBay development.

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Seaside Johnnie’s tax appeal has broad ramifications BY mARK LuNGARiELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

easide Johnnie’s is a seasonal restaurant that sits on a perch in Rye Town Park overlooking Oakland Beach. On Wednesdays and Fridays during the summer, under the soft, stuttering light of tiki torches, diners sit outdoors and look up the coastline and over the unlit Long Island Sound to watch the fireworks shot off at Rye Playland. When the sun is out and the weather warm, the restaurant is a popular destination site but residents near the park, in an affluent coastal section of the city of Rye, have not always welcomed the restaurant and its patrons to the area. That clash has manifested itself in a debate over whether or not to tax the property, which is privately owned, but on public land. The debate has pitted Rye vs. Rye, a city and a town with the same name sharing oversight of the park, but not seeing eye to eye

when it comes to the property’s taxable status. The city of Rye is in the process of appealing a ruling that gave tax-exempt status to Seaside Johnnie’s and the results of that appeal could have far-reaching implications not only for the taxable status of privately owned properties on public land but also on the future of county-owned Playland and city and town-owned Rye Town Park, as both those properties move toward private management arrangements that could see more restaurants or other private companies setting up shop on municipally-owned parcels. The city is heading to the state Supreme Court’s appellate division looking to overturn a lower court June 2013 ruling that said Seaside Johnnie’s should be taken back off Rye’s tax rolls since it is on parkland and offers a public use. Seaside Johnnie’s lease states that the owners of the property, not the lessee, are responsible for any taxes levied on the property, which like the remainder of the park is

jointly owned by the town and the city. William Villanova, the deputy supervisor of the town, called the argument bizarre at the Feb. 18 meeting of the town board. “Anything that comes of the lawsuit, the city of Rye has to pay their portion anyway, so that’s how silly it is,” Villanova said. The commission that runs the park includes elected officials from the town and city, as well as leaders from the villages of Port Chester and Rye Brook, which are part of the larger Rye Town. The Rye Neck section of the village of Mamaroneck, which is only partially within Rye Town, is also represented on the commission. The park runs in the red annually and the commission is set to formally request proposals for a private company to manage the park as a method to spark investment in the historical but deteriorating infrastructure, some of which was built when the park opened in 1907. The commission had antici-

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pated the cost of infrastructure repairs in the park to cost around $14 million, but a reluctance by the city to take on debt for capital work led to discussion of seeking proposals. Villanova said he was concerned that if the appeal were successful, it could scare off potential proposals. “Who in the public would want to come in and bring money into Rye Town Park and then have to pay additional taxes on it? It would ultimately defeat the purpose of doing all this hard work.” Seaside’s current lease runs through 2016 and sees the owners paying just under $100,000 a year for the restaurant and to operate two park concession stands. It has also been offering catering services, a fact that the city believes strengthens the argument that the restaurant does not offer a public benefit. The restaurant does not need to share earnings reports, but the commission is involved in menu pricing and even uniform approval as part of the agreement. Snack bars and concession stands had previously operated on the Seaside site and the parcel was tax exempt until 2011, when City Assessor Noreen Witty cited the for-profit goals of three locations and revoked the taxexempt statuses of Seaside, the Wainwright House and The Pier Restaurant and Tiki Bar in Playland, which although county owned is within the borders of the city. The Pier Restaurant and Tiki Bar is owned and operated by the same company as Seaside. The three properties contested those decisions at a special meeting of the city’s Board of Assessment Review. The board said the restaurants should be taxed but reinstated the exemption for the Wainwright House, a holistic healing center which drew scrutiny for hosting weddings and other events. After that, in two separate actions, the town and the restaurant owners went to court to get the tax exemptions reinstated. After the 25-page decision by Supreme Court Judge Bruce Tolbert last June ordered the city to refund $25,000 in taxes plus interest, the city filed a notice of appeal and had six months to file the appeal, which it did on Jan. 23. The town filed a response brief and the city will also file a reply before the court schedules oral arguments for spring or early summer. Town Attorney Paul Noto was authorized by the park commission to defend the tax exemption in court. “This has really been harmful to the relationship between the city of Rye and the town of Rye,” Noto said. “And we thought their conduct was inappropriate.” Noto said he was doing the work at a rate discounted from $400 an hour to $250 an hour and for a total amount not to exceed $10,000. He said the city has continued to send tax bills, a matter within their legal right since the case is on appeal. Seaside, page 11

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New player to buy into Westchester office market BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

Founded in 1991 as a real estate brokerage, Keystone Property Group owns commercial properties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Florida and Illinois. The transaction represents the fifth deal since 2012 between Keystone and Mack-Cali as part of Keystone’s strategy to expand its regional footprint by investing in high-quality commercial assets and repositioning them to create what the company called “dynamic, lifestyle-oriented business environments.”

Pennsylvania-based commercial real estate development and investment company will enter the Westchester and Fairfield County markets with a nearly $231 million deal to purchase a dozen office properties from Mack-Cali Realty Corp. in the tristate region. In its first venture into New York, Keystone Property Group will buy five class A office buildings in Elmsford and Tarrytown from Mack-Cali’s Westchester portfolio. The properties total nearly 600,000 square feet of space. Keystone, headquartered in the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd, also will acquire Soundview Plaza, a seven-story, 179,610-square-foot office building at 1266 E. Main St. in Stamford, A new owner is expected for Talleyrand Office Park in Tarrytown. Conn. The purchase agreements, announced Bill Glazer, founder and president of jointly by Keystone and Mack-Cali, the Keystone Property Group, in the announcereal estate investment trust and longtime ment said his company’s latest deal with Westchester office and flex building landlord Mack-Cali “reflects our aggressive strategy based in Edison N.J., involve various joint to establish a strong, regional presence by ventures between the two companies. The expanding our focus on the creation of dif12-property portfolio, which totals approxi- ferentiated, urban-inspired live-work-play mately 2.3 million square feet of office space, destinations in the context of well-located will be bought for approximately $207.1 mil- suburban parks.” lion in cash and the balance in the form of “The profound impact that technolsenior and subordinated equity. ogy is having on how today’s professionals The pending deal also includes Keystone’s work is drastically changing the commercial acquisitions of four northern New Jersey real estate requirements of modern compaoffice buildings in Fairlawn, Piscataway, nies,” Glazer said. “Today’s workplaces need Morris Township and Montvale. to foster these new and different ways of Westchester office properties included in working in order for companies to remain the deal are: competitive, which means transforming • 555 and 565 Taxter Road in Taxter the business environment to put greater Corporate Park in Elmsford, totaling 344,563 emphasis on lifestyle and shared, collaborasquare feet. tive spaces that appeal to a wide variety of • 570 Taxter Road in Elmsford, totaling professionals.” 77,859 square feet. Mitchell E. Hersh, president and CEO of • 200 and 220 White Plains Road in Mack-Cali, said the Keystone deal “is another Talleyrand Office Park in Tarrytown, totaling step forward in our strategy to redeploy capi175,749 square feet. tal into our multifamily platform, while parThrough its joint venture partnership, ticipating in the upside that will be created by Mack-Cali will share in management fees the repositioning of this portfolio.” for the portfolio and a percentage of value The deal is subject to due diligence by the creation above certain rates of return. Mack- companies and the waiver or non-exercise of Cali will also retain a senior equity position at certain rights of first offer by third parties for the three Taxter Road properties. most properties in the portfolio. Mack-Cali Mack-Cali and Keystone will jointly pro- expects that most, if not all, of those rights vide leasing representation for the portfolio. will be waived or not exercised.

Citrin Cooperman Corner Get in Touch with Your Bottom Line By Mark L. Fagan, CPa Citrin CooPerMan Maximizing profitability requires patience, structure, and attention to detail. Cultivating this type of success over decades takes creativity, foresight, and the ability to adapt to an environment that is perpetually changing. When it comes to your profit, many factors can impact your success. Here are a few less obvious to note: • Keep what’s most important close at hand. “We make our money on the buy,” said both Peter and Robin Schaffer, CEO and President, respectively, of Case Paper, one of the largest paper merchants and converters in the United States. “The price at which we buy our product is the most critical component of our success, so Robin and I do most of the purchasing ourselves,” Peter said. Stay on top of the most important aspects of your business. You’ll thank yourself at year-end. • See beyond technology. Using dashboards and other financial reporting tools is a great way to monitor your business, especially when you have multiple geographic locations. Don’t, however, expect these devices to give you all the information you need. “Reports can only go so far,” Robin said. “Visiting our locations regularly gives us a much better understanding of what is going on, as well as the ability to solve problems as they emerge and jump on opportunities quicker.” • Pay attention to culture. At Case Paper’s recent 70th Anniversary Celebration, it was evident that the corporate culture was that of a close, family business, despite having more than 350 employees. “We create an atmosphere where people are appreciated,” Robin said. “We don’t embarrass or dress them down in front of others.” Peter agreed. “We keep ourselves accessible to all employees, and if we need to give bad news, we do it face-to-face.” • Introduce price increases sooner. Get your customers used to small, periodic increases rather than larger increments. It’s also important to relay the cost increases that are out of your control. “Freight is a big cost for us,” Peter said. “When gas prices spiked, we added a fuel surcharge and our customers understood.” • Create incentives and penalties. Employee accountability is an important part of a healthy corporate culture. Rewarding employees for generating revenues and exceeding profitability targets is critical. Consider other

ways to enforce accountability, including incentives for improving inventory turnover or penalties for carrying excessive or old inventory. • Review each job description. Do you know what all your employees do every day? A productive and efficient workforce goes a long way to creating profit. Knowing each employee’s duties and how long those duties should take is critical to understanding your payroll requirements. Human nature dictates that people tend to take as long as time allows to complete a task. Once you’ve identified employees who can take on more duties, create a plan to assign meaningful projects, eliminate open position searches, or consider trimming your workforce. • Visit your customers. Understanding your customers’ businesses is a way to increase revenues and enhance the relationship. Communicating with customers in person, especially when not for a specific business purpose, can be invaluable. “Visiting allows us a chance to identify other ways we can help fulfill their needs,” Robin said. • Maintain your discipline. What is the No.1 biggest failure companies face? Management. Enforce day-to-day execution of strategy and processes from management down. Expect yourself and your employees to complete tasks in superior fashion. I recently moderated the “CEO Evolution Roundtable,” which featured Linda McMahon, former WWE CEO, as a panelist. Linda asks her employees to “treat every day like it’s their first day at work.” • Look to the future. A deep understanding of your business, market, and customers will help predict changes. Over the next five years, both Robin and Peter expect Case Paper to develop its resources into other ancillary businesses. “There is a lot of consolidation in the distribution industry, and more talent is becoming available. That gives us opportunities.” About the Author: Mark L. Fagan is the Managing Partner of Citrin Cooperman’s Connecticut office. With more than two decades of audit, tax, and business advisory experience, Mark is a renowned expert in business formation, profitability enhancement, and mergers and acquisitions. He can be contacted at: 203.847.4068 or mfagan@citrincooperman.com. Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and businessconsulting firm with offices in White Plains, NY; Norwalk, CT; New York City; Livingston, NJ; and Philadelphia, PA.

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beef. But the spike in foot traffic still isn’t enough to make up for the loss of sales during each storm, John Johnston said. He estimates the store’s revenue is down 15 percent this winter. “For a mom and pop store like us, that’s a lot,” he said. “But what are we going to do?” he added with a smirk. “Go home and cry. There’s nothing we can really do.”

To close or not to close Nearly all of Crisfield’s workers live nearby and don’t mind coming in to work during inclement weather, the Johnstons said. During large storms, usually only those in management positions will come in, and it’s not a hard decision to tell workers to stay home, they said. The store only staffs a handful of workers at a time. But for larger companies, where dozens of employees commute several miles to work, the decision can be more complicated, said Mitch Tublin, an independent business consultant in Stamford, Conn. Several liability and safety issues are at play when it starts to snow. Many parents can’t leave their children at home, and if employees do go to work, there’s the chance they’ll be snowed in when they leave. “Instead of monitoring The Weather Channel and thinking about how you’re going to call it,” Tublin said, “tell employees, in advance that you’re going to close and start thinking about how to help people be productive at home.” A national speaker on productivity, Tublin said managers’ time is better spent thinking of ways employees can work from home rather than on how bad the weather will be. “At work there’s constantly meetings and phone calls, and you can’t ever just sit down and focus,” Tublin said. “It’s almost a blessing if you’re able to be at home and you don’t have to do those other things. You can just focus on a project and knock it out in one day.” Not every position lends to working from home, but there are creative ways to use workers’ days out of the office, he said. Extra training and educational materials can be assigned as homework. Annual human resource paperwork can be done from home. If in a sales position, workers can “go the extra mile” during a storm and call clients to offer help, Tublin said. Whether it’s a last-minute delivery or an extra hand for shoveling, clients will look at sales reps differently after the storm, he said.

Staying productive at home In a Business Journal survey of more

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than 50 workers in Fairfield and Westchester counties, nearly all respondents agreed they spent more days at home this winter than last. Where they differed, however, was by how many days and how productive they were while at home. Nearly an even spread, about 23 percent of respondents said they stayed home one to two days; 35 percent stayed home three to four days; and 25 percent stayed home five to six days. Johannes Banck, who owns his own IT support company in Westport, usually works from home, but said he spends a key portion of his time visiting clients and running errands. This winter he canceled plans to traveling on business for four days as clients took off work due to the weather. Banck said he encourages his customers to take advantage of new technology to work from home. But most don’t jump at the chance to use services like video chatting on Skype. “The main reason is that smaller businesses haven’t seen the monetary benefit that could be derived from those kinds of communication,” he said. “The status quo is always more comfortable. You need to find the reason for stepping out of the comfort zone.” If more employers did take a proactive approach, however, perhaps more survey respondents would have reported higher productivity levels. On a productivity scale from zero to five – with zero equating to no work accomplished and five equating to more than normal accomplished – survey responses from those working from home were again spread across the board. About 51 percent of respondents rated their productivity between three and five, while 49 percent rated their productivity between zero and two. At best this means the latter group thinks it accomplished 40 percent of what it normally would. Regardless of productivity, most agreed they should have stayed home those days. About two thirds said they should have stayed home at least one more day. On the days respondents said they should have stayed home, several reported car accidents, long commutes, stress and additional headaches shoveling snow. One Fairfield County resident who works in Westchester County said it took four hours to commute home when it normally takes 35 minutes. The type of worker who can accomplish more work at home, the respondent said those four hours at home would have likely produced two days worth of work. Eugenia M. Vecchio, who owns her own law firm in Harrison, said she can’t properly manage her staff from home but feels safety is important. “My attorneys and paralegals are online for the office, but the productivity has

fallen,” she said. She has personally worked from home about four and a half days and for good reason, she said. Earlier this winter she was in a car accident.

“On our way home, we hit a three-point buck deer on Route 35 going east,” Vecchio said. “Got bumped around and bruised but no broken bones, thank God.”

Co-developer James Friend outside the Cross County Shopping Center tower being retrofitted as a 155-room hotel.

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LW Hotel Associates L.P., an affiliate of LodgeWorks Partners L.P., a hotel development and management company headquartered in Wichita, Kan. LodgeWorks Partners also will manage the hotel for Hyatt Hotels Corp. Launched in 2006, the Hyatt Place brand now includes 195 hotels worldwide. “LodgeWorks has been a partner of mine and close business associate for almost 20 years,” Friend said. Friend’s company and LodgeWorks also are co-developing a new Hampton Inn hotel in Brooklyn this year. “They were sort of a perfect complement for what I needed to make this project a reality,” Friend said. “I bought the vision and I had to sell them on the vision. They bought into it.” “This is really a labor of love,” Friend said. “Everyone who looked at this project before me walked away. They said it couldn’t be done.”

Mike Daood, president of LodgeWorks Partners, said his email exchanges with Friend about the Yonkers development began in 2008. The challenge for the developers and Cross County’s owner and management company, Macerich, was “how to make an old building a brand new hotel,” he said. “It’s really tough to do this stuff,” Daood said. “We’re excited. We’re happy to see backhoes working in the background” at the ceremony. The hotel was designed by Stonehill & Taylor Architects P.C. in Manhattan. The project’s general contractor is GTL Construction L.L.C in White Plains. Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano noted that businesses do very well along the Interstate 87 corridor in Yonkers, where Cross County Shopping center is located, and cited Westchester’s Ridge Hill shopping center and the high numbers of visitors to Yonkers Raceway. “We know that having a hotel here is going to help in the larger scheme as well,” he said. “Obviously this hotel is essential to keeping up the momentum” of the city’s ongoing revitalization, Spano said.

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imply put, businesses aren’t hiring for the jobs they post online, experts say. They’re looking for just the right person with just the right skills. There’s a risk associated with hiring an employee without the proper training. But when thousands of Westchester County residents are unemployed, a solution must be found. Ahead of a potential bid for governor, County Executive Rob Astorino said he’s taken the first steps to help unemployed workers get back to work. Launched Feb. 24, Hire Westchester is a new program that will reimburse employers up to half of their training costs when they hire unemployed workers. The fund will be available for employers through the Westchester Putnam OneStop Employment Center. But only a limited amount of money is available – just $100,000, which officials hope to stretch out over 75 hires. “I think the upside for this is tremendous, or could be,” Astorino said at a press conference announcing the launch. “This is an opportunity to put a whole lot of people back to work.”

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No government funding will be used to pay for the program. Instead, the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) will pay for it through fees it collects from businesses applying for tax credits and other assistance. A Republican, Astorino said Hire Westchester is a prime example of how government can help set the stage for economic development while protecting taxpayers’ money. Similar training subsidies have existed at the state level for businesses; however, none are currently available. Astorino denied Connecticut’s STEP UP

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Echo Bay developer withdraws reimbursement demand BY mARK LuNGARiELLO mlungariello@westfairinc.com

he would-be developer of an aborted project on New Rochelle’s Echo Bay says it’s withdrawing its demand that the city reimburse the company $2 million in out-of-pocket expenses. Forest City Residential Group Inc. announced Feb. 25 that it was moving forward only three weeks after the company’s attorney, Mark P. Weingarten, sent the city a letter saying Forest City was entitled to payment of up to $2 million out of a total $3.1 million it had spent during the planning stages. Jonathan Gertman, a spokesman for Forest City, said in a press release that the company wished New Rochelle success “as the community continues to pursue its goals at the waterfront.” “While the city of New Rochelle and Forest City Residential have different perspectives about the manner in which the Echo Bay waterfront redevelopment concluded, we have agreed together that the interests of both parties are best served by moving forward,” Gertman said. In the Feb. 5 letter from Weingarten, of the White Plains firm DelBello Donnellan

Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr L.L.P., the attorney said Forest City was entitled to reimbursement due to the provisions of a memorandum of understanding signed by the developer and the city April 2012. City officials responded by saying New Rochelle wouldn’t pay and was ready to “take all necessary actions to defend itself.” On Feb. 25, after Forest City announced it wouldn’t be pursuing collection, the city released a written statement saying that during their relationship New Rochelle developed “great regard” for the company’s plans and team. “New Rochelle recognizes Forest City’s significant investment in the Echo Bay site and is, therefore, grateful for Forest City’s decision to set aside its claim for expenses,” the statement said. “New Rochelle and Forest City’s partnership at Echo Bay began in the spirit of mutual respect, and now it concludes in that same spirit.” The developer, an affiliate of Clevelandbased Forest City Enterprises, was looking to build 285 luxury apartments, 25,000 square feet of retail space and a waterfront park on an area that includes an unused armory building and a city public works yard. A City Council vote in November 2013 effectively scrapped the project and severed ties with

the developer after increasing community resistance that reached confrontational levels at several council meetings last year. New Rochelle first sought to develop on Echo Bay a decade ago, with Forest City chosen as the developer in 2006 with what was initially a much grander-scale undertaking that would have cost an estimated $450 million. That initial, pre-recession plan proposed 425 more residential units and 125,000 more square feet of retail space than the final plan. It also included two 150-room hotels and would have encompassed 26 acres as opposed to the roughly 12 acres that were included in the final plan. The original proposal would have razed the armory building and both plans would have relocated a city maintenance yard, which officials said needed to be entirely rebuilt or moved despite whether or not the area was redeveloped. New Rochelle and the city signed a memorandum of understanding in May 2008, then signed a “re-stated” memo in April 2012 after the project had been significantly downsized. It was the provisions of that re-stated memo that led the company to contending it was entitled to reimbursement. Many opposition group members said they took issue with the reduction of retail

space, saying the project wouldn’t have a great enough return in exchange for city land and expected tax breaks. The City Council also voted May 2012 to accept a scoping document for the project and accepted a final environmental impact statement July 2013. The council was set to vote last fall on several items related to the project, the centerpiece of which was a land disposition agreement. The agreement was a necessary first step that would have transferred the city-owned land to the developer. But the council changed course and voted against the agreement by a vote of 6-1, after several months of council debates and fierce community opposition, which included a civic group formed with the singular focus of stopping the development. Even with Forest City’s recent announcement, several issues remain unresolved after coming to the surface during debates about the project. The fate of the armory building remains unclear and the City Council has yet to decide whether or not to proceed with relocating the city yard now that the Echo Bay project has been scrapped. Mayor Noam Bramson, a Democrat, has said the city is still committed to redevelopment efforts on the city’s waterfront.

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EEOC lawsuit against CVS demands attention BY mARC SHERiDAN

he U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the agency responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace. The EEOC has authority to investigate claims of discrimination and if necessary file lawsuits on behalf of individuals. The EEOC generally has jurisdiction over employers with at least 15 employees. Last year, the EEOC filed 131 lawsuits alleging discrimination. One of those recently filed is a lawsuit against CVS in the U.S. District Court in Chicago over a severance agreement. So why does this one case matter? This lawsuit shakes the foundation of severance agreements. It challenges the garden-variety severance terms that virtually every employer and their employment lawyer include in such agreements. An EEOC win could be monumental. The EEOC alleges that the severance agreements CVS provided to three of its former employees unlawfully restricted their ability to file discrimination charges, cooperate and/or communicate with the EEOC, and hence constituted illegal retaliation. In a Feb. 7 press release, the EEOC claims that “…CVS conditioned the receipt of severance benefits for certain employees on an overly broad severance agreement set forth in five pages of small print.” So what “fine print” did the EEOC take issue with in deciding to sue CVS? According to the complaint: • A cooperation clause that required employees to promptly notify CVS’ general counsel by telephone and in writing when they received any inquiry regarding an administrative investigation (for example, an EEOC investigation); • A nondisparagement clause that prohibited the employee from making any statements that disparaged the business or reputation of CVS or its officers, among others; • A confidentiality clause that prohibited disclosure of personal information unless they received written authorization from CVS’ chief human resources officer; • A general release of all claims of discrimination; • A covenant not-to-sue CVS, but includ-

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What happens on appeal can set a precedent to be followed on the Pier Restaurant taxable status and may have broader implications for future restaurants proposed to be built under a tentative agreement with Playland management group Sustainable

ed a carve-out of the employee’s right to participate in or cooperate with any state or federal agency discrimination investigation or proceeding; and • An attorney’s fee provision requiring the employee to reimburse CVS should the employee breach the agreement. The complaint further alleges that the use of this separation agreement as drafted interferes with an employee’s right to file a complaint with the EEOC or fair employment agencies (FEPAs) and to participate and cooperate with an investigation conducted by the EEOC or FEPAs. As explained by the EEOC’s regional attorney John Hendrickson, the lead litigation counsel, charges and communication with employees play a critical role in the EEOC’s enforcement process because they inform the agency of employer practices that might violate the law. For this reason, the right to communicate with the EEOC is a right that is protected by federal law. When an employer attempts to limit that communication, the employer effectively is attempting to buy employee silence about potential violations of the law. Put simply, that is a deal that employers cannot lawfully make. Most if not all severance agreements contain the language similar to the six provisions challenged by the EEOC in this lawsuit. If the EEOC is successful, employers subject to the EEOC’s jurisdiction will have to revamp these provisions in both their severance and settlement agreements. As employers are paying their ex-employees for certainty when an employee signs the general release, this case has the potential to not only turn these agreements on their heads, but the manner in which employers and employees approach the resolution of employment disputes. New York business owners with fewer than 15 employees should also take notice of this case. New York state has its own human rights law that applies to even more employers (those with four or more employees). The New York Human Rights Law is distinguishable as to the potential recovery of certain damages and more expansive as to protected categories (for example, sexual orientation). In many instances, however, the New York State Human Rights Law follows the federal statutory framework regarding the burdens

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of proving discrimination, particularly with regard to retaliation claims like those in the CVS case. Thus, a decision favorable to the EEOC could have a direct and similar impact on many New York employers, too. So what can employers do? It appears that the EEOC’s concern is that the carve-out (the covenant not-to-sue) does not address all the challenged provisions in the agreement. For now, one option employers may consider is to modify their agreements to clarify that the protected-activity, i.e. cooperating or filing with the EEOC, does not

breach the non-disparagement, confidentiality, and cooperation clauses of the agreement. Whether this modification will be acceptable to the EEOC and how this case plays out in federal court, bears monitoring. Stay tuned. Marc Sheridan is an employment lawyer and mediator with Markus & Sheridan L.L.P. With offices in Mount Kisco and New York City, the firm focuses on employment, divorce, estate planning and collaborative law. The firm can be reached at (914) 2416300 or via email at mslawny.com.

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Revocable living trusts: The facts and fiction By Anthony J. Enea

ver the last 10 to 15 years much has been written about the revocable living trust (RLT) by estate and financial planners, some of which has been factually accurate and some of which has been purely fictional. In truth, there are a number of benefits as well as some drawbacks to an RLT. While many default to a last will and testament when planning the future of their estate, I urge seniors to consider the RLT as a potentially preferable option. The RLT has been gaining in popularity over the past decade, particularly among the baby boomer generation. Created during an individual’s lifetime, an RLT determines how property which is titled in the name of the trust is to be managed and distributed while he or she is alive and upon death. The RLT’s grantor, or creator, retains the power to freely amend and revoke the trust as well as to reacquire its assets. In New York, the same person can be both the grantor and sole trustee so long as one or more other person holds a beneficial interest (can be vested or contingent – for the present or future). A lifetime trust will be deemed to be irrevocable, which generally means it cannot be amended or revoked by the grantor, unless it expressly provides that is revocable.

Advantages The use of an RLT as an estate planning tool provides the following benefits over a last will and testament: • It avoids the cost and time of probate and its attending expenses and requirements; • It is more difficult to challenge than a last will and testament; • It protects a grantor’s privacy (unlike a will, its provisions are not accessible for public review); • Its assets will be available for immediate distribution after the death of the grantor, subject to ensuring sufficient assets are available to pay estate taxes and debts; • No gift tax consequences of making transfer of assets to the trust; and • Continuation of management of the trust assets in the event the grantor becomes disabled or incapacitated. The disadvantages are: • You must transfer (re-title) all of your

assets, including the titles to any real property, to the RLT during your lifetime. Additionally, any assets acquired during the trust’s existence must be transferred to the trust. • The cost of having an attorney prepare an RLT can be a little more than the cost of preparing a last will and testament.

The fiction While an RLT offers many benefits, it does not have any distinct estate tax planning advantages over a last will and does not necessarily eliminate the need for a last will in its entirety. It is entirely possible that you may not have transferred all of your assets into an

While an RLT offers many benefits, it does not have any distinct estate tax planning advantages over a last will and does not necessarily eliminate the need for a last will in its entirety.

RLT during your lifetime. This creates a need for the existence of a will – to transfer the assets that are in your name alone at the time of your death. Furthermore, assets transferred to an RLT are not protected for purposes of Medicaid eligibility or long-term care planning. Since the trust is revocable, it is considered an available resource for Medicaid and would be subject to a spend down to meet eligibility levels. It is important to fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of all available options when planning the future of an estate. I would advise anyone considering a revocable living trust or last will to consult with an experienced attorney to determine the best course of action for their circumstances. Anthony J. Enea is a managing member of Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano L.L.P. with offices in White Plains and Somers. He is the immediate past chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Elder Law Section and was named Westchester County’s Leading Elder Care Attorney at the 2013 Above the Bar Awards. He can be reached at (914) 948-1500 or A.Enea@esslawfirm.com.

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COURT OKS HOSPITAL BANKRUPTCY SALE

CEOs at Westchester Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers said they are committed to keeping St. Francis open as a full-service community hospital after a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the Valhalla medical center’s purchase of the bankrupt 100-year-old hospital in Poughkeepsie. Westchester County Health Care Corp., the public-benefit corporation that operates Westchester Medical Center, agreed in an asset purchase deal filed in court last month to assume an unstated amount of St. Francis’ liabilities and make a $3.5 million cash payment when the purchase closes on or about May 9. A bankruptcy attorney for St. Francis reportedly said the Westchester purchase offer was $18 million to $19 million better than the $24.5 million stalking horse bid submitted by Health Quest Systems Inc. last December when St. Francis sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors. Health Quest, which operates Vassar

Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, withdrew from bidding this month after state and federal regulators raised antitrust concerns and threatened to hold up and legally contest a sale of St. Francis to Health Quest, which also operates two other hospitals in Dutchess and Putnam counties. Hospital officials in Valhalla and Poughkeepsie in their announcement of the court-approved purchase said the sale ushers in “an era of unique cooperation, collaboration and momentum for the Poughkeepsie hospital and its programs.” “Saint Francis has been a critical link to quality care for those living and working in the community,” said Westchester Medical Center President and CEO michael D. israel, “and we believe that the organization’s future as a full-service community hospital is very bright indeed.” Samuel Simon, board chairman of Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers, in the joint statement said, “The only real way to save locally provided services and the core mission of Saint Francis Hospital is to keep them managed in the community on the existing campus.” Physicians at St. Francis critical of a Health Quest takeover in court documents claimed more than 1,000 jobs would be lost and emergency services would be hampered and overcrowded in consolidated facilities at Vassar Brothers.

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National Science Foundation has recognized Purchase College in graduating students who attain doctoral degrees in the sciences. Our faculty are active researchers who provide scientific training that contributes to Westchester businesses.

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Robert Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts and Janet Langsam, CEO of ArtsWestchester.

ARTSWESTCHESTER TO PARTNER 50 BUSINESSES WITH ARTISTS To mark its 50th anniversary in 2015, ArtsWestchester plans to inspire 50 new partnerships between businesses and artists. Whether it’s redecorating the workplace or hosting a concert for employees, officials at the arts council say the partnership between the arts and business community is a win-win scenario. “These partnerships not only support the arts, but they have been shown to be good for business,” said Janet Langsam, ArtsWestchester CEO, in a press release. “They promote innovative thinking and creativity in the workplace, strengthen community engagement and increase the vibrancy of places to live and work.” Citing the economic benefits, the arts council and County Executive robert astorino announced the initiative to 50 business leaders Feb. 18 in White Plains. The initiative follows national trends hoping to capitalize on ways to bolster towns and businesses through art. ArtsWestchester, the state’s largest nonprofit service organization, has a long history of corporate partnerships with companies as diverse as IBM, PepsiCo, First Niagara and J.P. Morgan. Businesses interested in contributing to the effort can contact Debbie Scates at dscates@artswestchester.org

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First Niagara Bank N.A. announced it is reestablishing its YouFirst Neighbor Loans program to aid homeowners in four Northeast states affected by recent winter storms. First Niagara’s unsecured loan program offers eligible consumers fixed-rate loans between $1,000 and $10,000 over terms of one to five years. The annual percentage rate on the emergency loans is 4.99 percent. No application, closing costs or prepayment fees are necessary, but certain conditions and restrictions may apply, bank officials said. Applications may be submitted through March 31. Loans can be approved in 15 to 30 minutes. The special loan program is available to residents in eastern New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and eastern Pennsylvania who have been affected by the unusually severe winter storm season. “Homeowners need quick access to funds to address emergency repairs and costs caused by this winter’s severe weather,” cathie Schaffer, regional president at First Niagara’s Nyack office, said in the announcement. The Buffalo-based bank first launched the loan program in 2012 to provide support to customers affected by Hurricane Sandy. For more information on the program, call (800) 421-0004 or visit www.firstniagara.com. – Jennifer Bissell and John Golden

Sponsors, chefs prepare for Restaurant Week BY CRYSTAL KANG ckang@westfairinc.com

estchester County restaurants are hoping an uptick in sales is on the menu when Hudson Valley Restaurant Week kicks off March 10. Thirty sponsors and hundreds of chefs are preparing for the 10th annual event. Each year, Restaurant Week sees a 30 percent sales growth for local eateries, according to Janet Crawshaw, the founder of The Valley Table magazine who first cooked up the Hudson Valley’s Restaurant Week. The dining industry has been a key contributor to increasing tourism in Westchester as last year the region’s restaurants grossed over $791 million in sales, Crawshaw said. At the Hudson Valley Restaurant Week kickoff event, a local restaurateur, Peter X. Kelley, was recognized as one of the region’s leaders in the farm-to-table movement, which encourages restaurants to use locally sourced ingredients. “With the region’s rich agricultural heritage, the Hudson Valley has become an epicenter of the farm-to-table concept,” Crawshaw said. Kelly, owner of X20 Xaviers on the

Valley Table founder Jerry Novesky, X20 Xaviars on Hudson owner Peter Kelly, Valley Table founder Janet Crawshaw and County Executive Rob Astorino kick off Restaurant Week

Hudson in Yonkers and four other restaurants outside of the area, said local dining options have expanded in recent years. Thirty years ago, Kelly said, he ate at a restaurant he said was then considered one of the top in the valley. “I ordered my dinner, and the waitress came up and said, ‘Would you like to have a glass of wine with your meal?’” Kelly said. “I said, ‘Sure, what are the options?’ She said, ‘Yes or no.’” With about 200 restaurants participating in Restaurant Week this year, a lack of variety is the least likely problem diners will encounter this year, Kelly said. Participating restaurants include RiverMarket Bar and Kitchen in Tarrytown;

Crabtree’s Kittle House in Chappaqua; X20 Xaviars on the Hudson; Bocuse Restaurant in Hyde Park; La Crémaillère in Bedford; and Valley Restaurant at the Garrison. Many restaurants will feature locally sourced ingredients from places such as Millbrook Vineyards, Sprout Creek Farm, Irving Farm Coffee Roasters, Hemlock Hill Farm and Continental Organics. Several sponsors and chefs showcased their creations at a food tasting following the kickoff ceremony. RiverMarket Bar & Kitchen served ricotta gnudi with porcini ragu and arugula topped with cheese and bread crumbs. The restaurant sources its products from Continental Organics, a veteran-owned sustainable farm in New Windsor,

said Nicole Green, a server at RiverMarket Bar & Kitchen. “We also have a panna cotta, which includes local milk with honey gelee from local beekeepers served with amaranth crumble and bee-pollen brittle,” Green said. At the next table, Crabtree’s Kittle House served baby kale salads with crown maple syrup, ewe’s blue cheese, sliced pecans and house smoked salmon. A few tables down, Tuthilltown Spirits owner Gable Erenzo was slicing apples picked from a local orchard and mixing botanical variants and fruit juices with base spirits in tiny mason jars to create various gins, including a half moon orchard gin. Hudson Valley Restaurant Week features prix fixe, three-course dinners for $29.95 and lunches for $20.95 including beverage, tax and tip. The reduced prix fixe pricing structure allows diners to experience fine dining at affordable prices. Restaurant cuisines include Argentinean, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latino, Mediterranean, Mexican, Moroccan and Swiss. For a complete list of participating restaurants visit www. HudsonValleyRestaurantWeek.com. To make reservations, call the restaurant directly or visit www.OpenTable.com.

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t the Food Bank for Westchester’s recent gala, Erica Santiago shared a story about a child faced with a choice: An apple or a lollipop. While it might be surprising to learn

that the child chose the apple, it’s this sort of firsthand experience shared by our agency relations manager that shows when dealing with hunger, even the youngest among us knows the importance of a healthy choice over a frivolous one. At Food Bank, we aspire to make these healthy choices a little easier. There were many real-life stories and heartwarming examples highlighted at The Food Bank of Westchester’s annual “Take Heart Against Hunger” Valentine’s

Day Dinner and Wine Tasting at Abigail Kirsch in Tarrytown. In its 18th year, roughly 340 people attended this year’s and we raised nearly $300,000. The evening was special thanks to people like Santiago, our staff, our volunteer committee, supporters, corporate sponsors and our auctioneer, actor Bruce Sabath. It was a great success for the Food Bank and, most importantly, for the people we serve. While we celebrated in style, it was

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WCC extension embraces arts Peekskill is home to digital center

BY CRYSTAL KANG ckang@westfairinc.com

eekskill Center for the Digital Arts, once an abandoned retail store transformed into a digital arts center, recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with an art show opening, food and refreshments and a disc jockey. The ceremony at 27 N. Division St. in Peekskill invited founding members and the community to recognize its humble beginnings. The 20,000-square-foot building, owned and operated by Westchester Community College (WCC), serves as the first extension center of the college and an art hub for residents. Students and working professionals interested in building their portfolios and staying current with the latest art and design technology can enroll in threecredit courses in digital imaging, graphic layout design, web design, 2D and 3D animation, digital filmmaking and motion graphics. The center also offers noncredit adult courses in software training and pre-college programs in the digital arts for students ages 7 to 17. Cortlandt Manor resident and mother

Kathleen Corgan is pursuing a digital arts certificate at Peekskill Center for the Digital Arts.

Kathleen Corgan used to live and work in Manhattan as a cameraperson in the film industry before moving to Westchester two years ago. When she found out WCC offered arts courses in Peekskill, she immediately enrolled for the digital arts certificate program. “I decided to go back to school and do something I love,” Corgan said. “In my program, my instructors helped me put together a curriculum tailored to what I’m interested in pursuing. My hope is to work in graphic design in the digital format by learning about print, 2-D and 3-D anima-

tion, digital design and typography.” About 60 percent of the digital arts center’s students are high school graduates, while the rest are professionals who have college degrees but want to hone their skills before reentering the job market, said Sherry Mayo, director of the Center for the Digital Arts. The center attracts designers, filmmakers, artists and other professionals by offering a digital arts certificate. High school students can choose from 65 general education courses and receive an associate’s degree. The center also offers English as a second language instruction, academic support and advisement and other student services. With 13 classrooms, five digital art labs, two multimedia halls and a fine arts studio, the center enrolls about 3,000 students each year, including 200 pre-college students. The school’s main streams of revenue include state aid, county contributions and tuition. The Center for Digital Arts was founded through a partnership between WCC and the city of Peekskill. In the early 1990s, city officials asked Tom Halsall, the head of WCC’s arts department at the time, if the commu-

nity college was interested in opening a program in Peekskill’s downtown that was focused on artists, said Marjorie Glusker, vice president and dean of continuing education at WCC. During this time, Mercy College offered its program space in the Peekskill Library to Joseph Hankin, former WCC president. “In a true Dr. Hankin fashion, there was nothing more than a handshake to the agreement between the two (college) presidents and it was done,” Glusker said. While the digital arts center was being built, WCC ran its first digital arts program out of the Peekskill Library. The Digital Arts Center opened its doors in 1994 and in 2003, the digital arts center doubled in size, expanding to the second floor and offering more general education courses. Now WCC has five extension centers throughout the county. “The idea of an affordable and accessible education for working folks sometimes seems under attack these days given the current emphasis on a narrow definition of both success and of how public money should be spent, but WCC will always stand for these two values as part of its community college mission,” Glusker said.

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THELIST: technology Firms Listed alphabetically

Listed alphabetically.

Name Address Telephone (914) unless otherwise noted Website

Westchester County Next list: MARCH 10 FOOD BEVERAGE COMPANIES

TECHNOLOGY FIRMS

President/top local executive Year founded

westchester county

Description/services

Momentive Performance Materials 769 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown 10591 784-4803 • momentive.com

Craig O. Morrison CEO 2010

Manufacturer of specialty chemicals and materials for various industries

Brian Fitzpatrick NA

Manufacturer of electronic components, including semiconductors and crystal assemblies

BASF Corp. 500 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 785-2000 • basf.com

Kurt Bock CEO 1865

Developer and manufacturer of stabilization technologies, including work in thermal and light stabilizers

Optical Semiconductors Inc. 5 John Walsh Bloulevard, Peekskill 10566 739-0048

Curtis Instruments Inc. 200 Kisco Ave., Mount Kisco 10549 666-2971 • curtisinstruments.com

Stuart Marwell President and CEO 1960

Manufacturer of instruments and motor-speed controllers for battery-powered and electric vehicles and equipment

Philips Research North America Henk van Houten 345 Scarborough Road, Briarcliff Senior Vice President Manor 10510 1891 945-6000 • research.philips.com

The laboratory contributes to the global research programs in the fields of health care and lighting

FujiFilm North America Corp. 200 Summit Lake Drive, Valhalla 10595 789-8100 • fujifilmusa.com

Shigetaka Komori CEO 1934

Developer and manufacturer of products for digital imaging, optics, digital printing, medical systems, graphic arts, semiconductors, & data tape

Pico Electronics Inc. 143 Sparks Ave., Pelham 10803 738-1400 • picoelectronics.com

Manufacturer of power converters, transformers and inductors

Gradipore Inc. 4 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne 10532 592-1060 • gradipore.com

Hari Nair CEO 2007

Developer and manufacturer of separation technologies for the life sciences market, and blood clotting tests for genetic disorders for the health industry

Ruhle Companies Inc. (Division of Fairland Controls) 99 Wall St., Valhalla 10595 761-2600 • ruhle.com

Frank Ruhle President 1940s

Tomoyuki Hatano Chairman and CEO 1981

Manufacturer of high-grade metal products for the computer, automotive and aerospace industries

Semicon Tools Inc. (Division of ECS Manufacturing Inc.) 554 N. State Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510 923-5000 • stidiamond.com

Craig Pian Executive vice president NA

Manufacturer and supplier of diamond blades and accessories for automatic dicing machines and resin bonded and nickel plated blades for cutting silicon, alumina, gas and quartz

Neil S. O'Connor CEO 1980

Providers of custom scenic fabrication, automation, lighting equipment and painted drops for the live entertainment industry

Swissbit NA Inc. 18 Willett Ave., Suite 202, Port Chester 10573 935-1400 • swissbitna.com

Vincenzo Esposito President 2001

Manufacturer of industrial DRAM module and flash storage products

Developer and manufacturer of superconducting microelectronics

Varta Microbattery Inc. 555 Theodore Fremd Ave., Rye 10580 (800) 468-2782 • varta-microbattery.us

Herbert Schein Chairman and CEO 1887

Manufacturer and supplier of retail and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) batteries for electronics companies worldwide

Multinational technology and consulting corporation

WidgetWorks Unlimited L.L.C. 395 Millwood Road, Chappaqua 10514 602-9999 • widgetworksunlimited.com

Russell Todd Owner NA

Manufacturer of CNC machine bits, tools, and accessories for cutting sign vinyl, diamond drag engraving, drawing and vacuum clamping

Hitachi Cable America Inc. 2 Manhattanville Road, Purchase 10577 694-9200 • hca.hitachi-cable.com Hudson Scenic Studio 130 Fernbrook St., Yonkers 10705 375-0900 • hudsonscenic.com HYPRES Inc. 175 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford 10523 592-1190 • hypres.com IBM 1 New Orchard Road, Armonk 10504 765-1900 • ibm.com

Richard E. Hitt CEO and president 1983 Virginia M. Rometty Chairman, president and CEO 1911

Terry Sweeney President NA

Manufacturer of Inductosyn transducers used for accurate measurement of angular or linear position displacements for military, space, and industrial environments

MELA Sciences Inc. 50 S. Buckhout St., Suite 1, Irvington 10533 591-3783 • melasciences.com

Rose Crane President and CEO 1989

Developer and manufacturer of noninvasive tools to provide additional information to dermatologists during melanoma skin examinations

Zierick Manufacturing Corp. Gretchen Zierick 131 Radio Circle, President Mount Kisco 10549 1919 (800) 882-8020 • zierick.com

Microtronic Inc. 171 Brady Ave., Hawthorne 10532 747-1275 • microtronic.com

Reiner Fenske President 1994

Manufacturer of automated macro defect semiconductor wafer inspection, sorting and metrology equipment

Questions or comments call 694-3600, ext. 3005. Note: This list is a sampling of technology firms. To be included on future lists email jhottenroth@westfairinc.com. NA Not available.

Manufacturer of SMT and through-hole connectors and equipment, assembly equipment, interconnection hardware and taped terminals

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SPECIAL recruitment REPORT & HR

Businesses support vets beyond rallies BY JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@westfairinc.com

s U.S. military forces draw down in Afghanistan, hundreds of soldiers will return to Westchester County. When they arrive, small business owners hope to provide meaningful support beyond a welcome-back rally. They’d like to provide mentorship opportunities to help veterans start successful careers. In an event sponsored by The Westchester Bank, representatives from nearly 40 small businesses gathered at the Hilton Westchester Feb. 25 to kick off an effort to mentor returning veterans. Whether it’s providing employment opportunities or general career advice, attendees agreed to do what they could to “give back.” “They served us, it’s time we served them,” said John Tolomer, CEO of The Westchester Bank, at the event. “A small bank like The Westchester Bank can’t go out and hire a bunch of veterans. But businesses all together, by hiring veterans, can make a difference.” Hiring managers report several barriers to hiring veterans, such as unconventional backgrounds and “poor” interviewing skills. But keynote speaker Duncan Niederauer, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, said it’s important for managers to appreciate the differences and meet applicants “half way.” After reading about the high unemployment rate for veterans, Niederauer spearheaded a 10-week training program at the NYSE in 2012 to help veterans launch careers in the financial sector. About 40 veterans have enrolled in the program and many have been hired for permanent positions. Listing personal quality traits like leadership, high integrity, ability to improvise and a high tolerance to stress, Niederauer said veterans already posses many of the traits managers look for in job applicants. “You can’t teach those traits,” he said, calling knowledge of financial markets “the easy stuff.”

Businesses gathered at the Hilton Westchester Feb. 25 to kick off a veteran mentorship program.

“I’m hard pressed to find a twenty-something that has all the traits a veteran has,” he said. When Matt Pizzo transitioned out of the Air Force in 2005, he said he struggled to impart his experience in the military to others. During his job search he met with many companies that had good intentions about helping veterans find employment, but found little follow through. In one of Pizzo’s first job interviews out of law school, a recruiter’s first question asked for the scariest thing he had ever seen in Iraq was. “I wasn’t even prepared,” Pizzo told event attendees. Then he met with a NYSE representative, who introduced the company’s training program to him. Recruits can choose a department to work in for 10 weeks and simultane-

ously learn about the company and finance in general. Six weeks into the program, he was hired for a permanent position in the compliance department. He’s now a senior compliance associate there. “It was the first time I met successful professionals willing to share their knowledge and teach about the financial industry,” Pizzo said. Business representatives in attendance aren’t required to create an extensive training program like the NYSE. However speakers stressed the importance of being proactive when managers offer mentorship opportunities to veterans. The more senior a potential mentor’s title is, the less likely a veteran will respond to the opportunity, Niederauer said. They’ve been trained to think in hierarchical terms and don’t see themselves on equal footing.

Often CEOs will offer to start a mentorship, but find veterans don’t respond to scheduling times to meet, he said. “It’s like an out-of-body experience for them,” Niederauer said. “The times a superior officer has offered to go out for coffee to a subordinate is exactly zero.” When considering job applicants for an open position, Niederauer said managers can expect veterans to stand out from the others. “Expect them to be different,” he said. “They’ve done different things, seen different things and experienced different things. They are different. “It’s your job to appreciate the way they’re different,” he added. Following keynote speeches, business attendees met with more than 60 veterans for a networking event. Event organizers hope the introductions will inspire future jobs.

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recruitment & HR

New marketing chief at Heineken USA

eineken USA Inc. announced that Nuno Teles will join the company this month as its new chief marketing officer. He will report to Heineken USA CEO Dolf van den Brink at the company’s White Plains headquarters. Teles previously served as chief marketing officer at Heineken Brazil, growing the Heineken brand by 500 percent over his four-

year tenure and helping it claim top market share among all premium imported brands in Brazil, according to the company. He was recently named the 2012 “Best Marketing Professional” by LIDE, a group of the top 100 companies in Brazil, a Heineken spokesperson said. Before moving to Sao Paulo in his last post, Teles held various marketing roles at Heineken

in Lisbon, Portugal and Amsterdam. He began his career at Unilever, spending eight years in a variety of marketing and innovation roles across Europe. He later led marketing for a mobile phone startup and ran his own successful fashion retail and wholesale business. Teles said that to win consumers in the competitive U.S. beer market, “We need to challenge the status quo and aim to change

things with bold moves.” Teles is relocating here with his wife and four daughters. He will be based in Heineken USA’s New York City office with its marketing team Heineken USA Inc. is a subsidiary of Heineken International BV, headquartered in Amsterdam. – John Golden

Montefiore honored for older-worker practices Montefiore Medical Center recently was honored as one of four winners of The New York Academy of Medicine’s inaugural Age Smart Employer Award. The organization launched the awards program to recognize New York City employers who value workers of all ages and serve as leaders in leveraging the talents of older workers for enhanced business success. Montefiore, the only health care system among the honorees, last year acquired the former community hospitals and nursing home of Sound Shore Health System Inc. in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon and is expected to close this year on a sponsorship agreement with White Plains Hospital. A

major employer in Westchester, the Bronxbased academic medical center also operates administrative offices, a care management subsidiary and medical offices in the county. Alfredo Cabrera, senior vice president and chief human resources officer at Montefiore, in its award announcement said the honor “recognizes a fundamental part of our culture – that each employee, young or old, new or experienced, can make a meaningful contribution to Montefiore and provide the best care to our patients and their communities.” Montefiore employs workers whose ages range from 19 to 87. New York Academy of Medicine officials

noted that adults 55 and older are the fastest growing segment of the workforce in the U.S. and working well past the typical retirement age. That aging workforce presents unique opportunities for employers who can benefit from the expertise and experience of older workers, they said, citing research that shows that investing in employees results in an engaged workforce, improved teamwork, better retention and employees that are in full support of an organization’s mission. Winners of the Age Smart Employer Award were selected by a panel of business and civic leaders representing key industries in the city. Montefiore was cited for its recruitment,

retention and development practices that have built a high-performance workforce of eight generations of employees working side by side. Montefiore also was recognized for its investment in late career employees through programs including a Leadership Development Academy, formalized mentoring and coaching partnerships and career counseling workshops. “For the first time in history, the number of older workers is growing faster than the number of younger people in the workforce,” said Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the New York Academy of Medicine. – John Golden

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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.

NEW YORK CITY Ollie Allen Holding Company L.L.C., c/o David Goldwasser, 600 Third Ave., Second floor, PMB No. 322 New York City 10016. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: Arnold Mitchell Greene, New York City. Filed: Feb. 18. Case no. 14-22204 Rivington Street Realty L.L.C., c/o Berotti Robins & Guskin L.L.P., 85 W. Hawthorne Ave., Valley Stream 11580. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: Kevin J. Nash, New York City. Filed: Feb. 18. Case no. 14-10339 World Cable, Inc., 33 Whitehall St., 30th floor, New York City 10004. Chapter 11, Voluntary. Attorney: Schuyler G. Carroll, New York City. Filed: Feb. 21. Case no. 14-10379

OUTSIDE U. S. Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd., c/o David Walker and Ian Stoke PwC Corporate Finance & Recovery Ltd., P.O. Box 258, Strathvale House, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Chapter 15, Voluntary. Attorney: Diana Perez, New York City. Filed: Feb. 21. Case no. 14-10383

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Euromarket Designs Inc. Filed by Two’s Company Inc. Action: Copyright infringement claim. Attorneys Rocco Panetta, 1094 Albany Post for plaintiff: Peter L. Berger and TuRoad, Gardiner 12525. Chapter 7, via Rotberg. Filed Feb. 21. Case no. Voluntary. Attorney: Thomas J. Mi- 14-01104. notti, LaGrangeville. Filed: Feb. 19. Case no. 14-35295 Fairway Group Holdings Corp. Filed by Bruce H. Paul. Action: Claim falls under Securities ExWESTCHESTER change Act. Attorneys for plaintiff: Robert P. Frutkin, Deborah R Gross LynShan Liao Butler, P.O. Box and David Avi Rosenfeld. Filed 277, Lincolndale 10540. Chap- Feb. 18. Case no. 14-01015. ter 7, Voluntary. Attorney: William F. Macreery, Granite Springs. FC USA Inc. Filed by John G. Filed: Feb. 21. Case no. 14-22214 Martin. Action: Claim falls under Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Attorney for plaintiff: Harold Ralph Burke. Filed Feb. 18. Case no. Court Cases 14-00964. The following cases appear on the GFI Brokers L.L.C. Filed by Wildocket of the U.S. District Court for liam Thompson. Action: Contract the county of Westchester in White dispute claim. Attorney for plainPlains. tiff: Alisa Lynn Fermaglich. Filed Feb. 20. Case no. 14-01043. Autopart International Inc. Filed by Angela Patruno. Action: Claims Hilton Worldwide Inc. Filed by employment discrimination. AtEhsan Khan. Action: Claim filed torney for plaintiff: Michael David as employment-related discrimiDiederich Jr. Filed Feb. 21. Case no. nation. Attorney for plaintiff: Alex 14-01090. Umansky. Filed Feb. 18. Case no. 14-01011. Biotab Nutraceuticals Inc. Filed by Capsugel US L.L.C. Action: Hudson Valley Federal Credit Breach of contract claim. Attorney Union. Filed by Frank Diaz. Acfor plaintiff: Charles Stoia. Filed tion: Employment discriminaFeb. 18. Case no. 14-00995. tion Claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Paul N. Cisternino. Filed Feb. 19. Chrysler Group L.L.C. Filed by Case no. 14-01017. Rachel Ritter. Action: Breach of contract claim. Attorney for plainJDC Cover Coat Corp. Filed by tiff: Douglas N. Engelman. Filed Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01010. Masons’ International Association Local 262. Action: Contracts Collecto Inc. Filed by Samuel dispute claim. Attorney for plainO’Neill. Action: Claim falls under tiff: Zachary Eagle. Filed Feb. 19. Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney Case no. 14-01027. for plaintiff: Allison Diana Polesk. Filed Feb. 18. Case no. 14-00959. The Jones Group Inc. Filed by The Singer Group Inc. Action: Breach Cross Match Holdings Inc. Filed of contract claim. Attorney for by Donald E. Nickelson. Action: plaintiff: Jay Shapiro. Filed Feb. 18. Contract dispute claim. Attor- Case no. 14-00990. neys for plaintiff: Patrick Joseph Dempsey and Michelle Anne KislJudith L. Hopkinson. Filed by off. Filed Feb. 18. Case no. 14-01007. TTO Drilling Co. Inc. Action: Contract discrepancy claim. Attorney Cullen & Troia P.C. Filed by Mar- for plaintiff: Steven Michael Kaplan. lene Melton. Action: Claim falls un- Filed Feb. 18. Case no. 14-00996. der Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorneys for plaintiff: Susan Karolena Leigh Max Fashion Inc. Filed Crumiller and James B. Fishman. by the trustees of the AmalgamFiled Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01021. ated National Health Fund. Action: Claim falls under Employee RetireDaniellos Pizzeria Inc. Filed by ment Income Security Act. AttorEulogio Xalteno. Action: Claim falls ney for plaintiff: David C. Sapp Jr. under Fair Labor Standards Act. At- Filed Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01030. torney for plaintiff: Giustino Cilenti. Filed Feb. 18. Case no. 14-00965.

LVI Demolition Services Inc. Filed by Shaun Tutt. Action: Claim filed as employment-related discrimination. Attorney for plaintiff: Christine Ann Palmieri. Filed Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01016.

Zen Bakeries L.L.C. Filled by Below $1 million Jack Q Drake. Action: Trademark infringement claim. Attorney for plaintiff: J. Joseph Bainton. Filed 11 Hughes Parcel B L.L.C., Rye. Seller: Joan Z. Cohen, Rye. ProperFeb. 18. Case no. 14-00999. ty: Glen Oaks Drive, Rye. Amount: $950,000. Filed Feb. 24.

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Merck & Co., Inc. Filed by Judith Stuppiello and Joseph Stuppiello. Action: Personal injury claim. Attorney for plaintiffs: Maria D. Tejedor. Filed: Feb. 19. Case no. 14-cv-01009

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Montage Technology Group Limited. Filed by Maria Cecilia Ghilardotti. Action: Claim falls under Securities Exchange Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Curtis Victor Trinko. Filed Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01036.

11 Hughes Parcel A L.L.C., Rye. Seller: Joan Z. Cohen, Rye. Prop- 35E Realty L.L.C., Rye Brook. erty: 11 Hughes, Rye. Amount: $1.3 Seller: 342 Westchester Ave L.L.C., White Plains. Property: 342 Westmillion. Filed Feb. 21. chester Ave., 35E, Rye. Amount: 7 Evergreen Lane L.L.C., New $207,828. Filed Feb. 25.

Morgan Contracting Corp. Filed by Surety Company of America. Action: Breach of contract claim. Attorney for plaintiff: David Craig Dreifuss. Filed Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01037.

York City. Seller: Ira B. Silver, et al, Larchmont. Property: 7 Evergreen 63 2nd Street Holding L.L.C., New Lane, Mamaroneck. Amount: $6.8 Rochelle. Seller: Marianna L Kalb, et al, Stamford, Conn. Property: 63 million. Filed Feb. 24. Second St., New Rochelle. Amount: A Cubed L.L.C., Rye. Seller: John $650,000. Filed Feb. 21.

1906-08 Amethyst Construction Corp., Bronx. Seller: Jalo Realty L.L.C., Elmsford. Property: 83 Maple St., Eastchester. Amount: $950,476. Filed Feb. 21.

G. Poole, Port Chester. Property: 1 Rye Road, Rye. Amount: $5.4 million. Filed Feb. 21.

925 West Street L.L.C., Pelham Manor. Seller: Good West Realty Corp., Pelham Manor. Property: AV Development Group L.L.C., 925 West St., Pelham. Amount: Rye. Seller: Natalie Panero, et al, $400,000. Filed Feb. 21. Rye. Property: 35 Lindbergh Ave., Rye. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed American International Relocation Solutions L.L.C., Danbury, Feb. 20. Conn. Seller: Frank P. Drago, et al, New York City Health And Hospitals Corp. Filed by Douglas M. Depack Properties L.L.C., Har- Pleasantville. Property: 17 CounSternberg. Action: Employment rison. SelleR: Calvert Street Associ- try Club Lane, Mount Pleasant. discrimination claim. Attorney for ates, Harrison. Property: 84 Calvert Amount: $725,000. Filed Feb.19. plaintiff: Christine Clarke. Filed St., Harrison. Amount: $1.2 milFeb. 18. Case no. 14-01003. Deutsche Bank National Trust lion. Filed Feb. 19. Co. Seller: David Lyn, Yonkers. Northeast Mechanical Services Grotto Holding Corp., Yonkers. Property: 76 Saw Mill River Road, Inc. Filed by the trustees of the Seller: Joyce Piscopo, Mamaroneck. Greenburgh. Amount: $580,000. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local Property: 3655 Crompond Road, Filed Feb. 21. 21 Benefit Funds. Action: Claim Yorktown. Amount: $1 million. falls under Employee Retirement Filed Feb. 19. DJB 21 L.L.C., Mount Vernon. Income Security Act. Attorney Seller: PZA L.L.C., New York City. for plaintiff: Zachary Eagle. Filed Holy Shirts and Pants L.L.C., Ma- Property: 21 E. Fourth St., Mount Feb. 18. Case no. 14-00958. maroneck. Seller: Gordon D. Hen- Vernon. Amount: $167,110. Filed derson, Rye. Property: 16 Sunset Feb. 25. St. Mark Plumbing & Heating Lane, Rye. Amount: $3.2 million. Co. Inc. Filed by Hubert Brooks. Filed Feb. 25. Edson Avenue Development Action: Claim falls under Fair LaL.L.C., Mount Vernon. Seller: Lubor Standards Act. Attorney for N.C. IRS Realty L.L.C., Pelham. Seller: trell Basnight, et al, Plymouth, th plaintiff: Penn Ueoka Dodson. Ave., Mount Property: 144 S. 13 M-Central L.L.C., Hartsdale. PropFiled Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01028. erty: 220 N. Central Ave., Green- Vernon. Amount: $100,000. Filed burgh. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Feb. 25. Vision Financial Corp. Filed by Feb. 25. Andrew Jackson. Action: Claim Federal National Mortgage Assofalls under Fair Debt Collection ciation. Seller: Anthony K. Keogh, QR Griffen Holdings L.L.C., Act. Attorney for plaintiff: FredWhite Plains. Property: 6 McGeory Scarsdale. Seller: Adam Walinsky, et erick Schulman. Filed Feb. 20. al, Scarsdale. Property: 186 Griffen Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $284,691. Case no. 14-01073. Ave., Scarsdale. Amount: $1.8 mil- Filed Feb. 19. Nessen Lighting Inc. Filed by Local 1430 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Action: Claim falls under Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Bryan C. McCarthy. Filed Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01026.

Webster Ave Petroleum Corp. Filed by Edwin A. Thevenin. Action: Claim falls under Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney for plaintiff: Peter Hans Cooper. Filed Feb. 19. Case no. 14-01035.

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Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Dennis Krolian, Seymour Carlin L.L.C., Scarsdale. Seller: Alex II West L.L.C., Yonkers. White Plains. Property: 10 City Property: 35 Water Grant St., Yonkers. Place, 20, White Plains. Amount: $515,956. Filed Feb. 25. Amount: $3 million. Filed Feb. 21.

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NEWSMAKERS plus awards and events

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Trustco adds another branch TRUSTCO BANK has opened a branch at 18 Woods Ridge Road in Katonah. The opening was marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon Friday, Feb. 21. Trustco Bank is a 5-Star Bauer bank, which was founded in 1902. It has 139 branches in New York, Flori-

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WESTMED adds to its roster WESTMED Medical Group, based in Purchase, has added five providers to its staff: • Kalpana Konda, M.D., is a boardcertified dermatologist. • Susan A. Kaminski, M.D., is a board-certified ophthalmologist. • Harry Zemon, M.D., is a board-

certified general surgeon with expertise in minimally invasive surgery and all types of hernia repairs. • Claudia Quinonez, M.D., is a new hospitalist at White Plains Hospital. • Joan Harris, LCSW-R, is a clinical social worker.

Time for financial awareness WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FINANCIAL EDUCATION DAY will be held March 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Gateway Center on the college’s main campus. The fourth annual conference features keynote speaker Sharon Epperson, CNBC senior commodities and personal finance correspondent. Hosted by the college’s Center for Financial and Economic Education and the WCC Alumni Association, the event offers workshops by some of the Hudson Valley’s leading financial experts. Partnering with the college to organize this event is the Westchester Financial Education Alliance and the Public Private Partnership for Aging Services of Westchester.

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MKMG adds three doctors MOUNT KISCO MEDICAL GROUP in Mount Kisco has added the following physicians to its group: • VIVIAN M. SONE, received her M.D. from New York Medical College. She will be practicing at the Fishkill and Cortlandt Manor locations. • DANIELLE MCNEIL, received her D.P.M. from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. She will be practicing in the Mount Kisco Podiatry Department. • BENJAMIN A. SPENCER, received his M.D. from the College of Physicians and

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Driving school opens FRESH GREEN LIGHT, a driving school for new teen drivers, opened March 1 at GRAND PRIX NEW YORK in Mount Kisco. Laura Shuler and co-founder and husband Steve Mochel launched their company

in 2009, with the opening of their first Driver Training Center in Rye. They have since opened centers in Greenwich and Darien, Conn. For more information, visit freshgreenlight.com or call (914) 921-8888.

Call for Hunger Heroes THE FOOD BANK FOR WESTCHESTER is seeking nominations for the Hunger Heroes Awards Breakfast, which will be held June 5 at the Abigail Kirsch Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown. Nomination applications and guidelines can be downloaded at foodbankforwestchester.org and are due April 1. They are accepted in the following categories: • The Volunteer Award: A volunteer or group of volunteers who have provided outstanding service in helping to alleviate hunger in the community. • The Service Provider Award: An agency or program that has provided outstanding hunger relief service to its community. • The Donor Award: An individual or corporation who has been generous in the fight against hunger in Westchester County.

White Plains Hospital adds staff White Plains Hospital has added four physicians to its staff. • DANILA DELIANA, M.D., is a specialist in internal medicine. • AGASTIN MICHAEL, M.D., is board certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty in nephrology. • JOSEPH ROGERS, M.D., is a specialist in radiology. • TARA VANDERBURG is a physician assistant specializing in orthopedic surgery.

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Juna Bobby, M.D., founder of MindBodySpace, a results-oriented approach to improving emotional and mental health through stress management, will present a series of workshops for high school and middle school students at the JCC of Mid-Westchester, 999 Wilmot Road, in Scarsdale. Workshops for middle school students (grades 6-8) are offered eight Wednesdays: March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9, 23 and 30 from 6 to 6:45 p.m. Fee for course and materials is $425. There will be two workshops for high school students, (grades 9-12): Section A will meet on three Wednesdays: March 12, 19 and 26, from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., and Section B will meet on three Wednesdays, April 9, 23 & 30 from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. Fee for either course A or B, and all materials, is $215. For more information, visit jccmw.org. (Additional dates: March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9, 23 and 30)

ALS Support Group meets at The Burke Rehabilitation Center, 785 Mamaroneck Ave., Wood Pavilion, Patient Dining Room, White Plains, 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, contact Helen Mayer at (845) 520-0952 or hmayer@als-ny.org.

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A performance of music by a violin duo from Sarah Lawrence College at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site, 897 S. Columbus Ave., Mount Vernon, Wednesday March 12, 1 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information, call (914) 667-4116 or visit nps.gov/sapa.

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Professional Women of Putnam County fourth year anniversary celebration, Tuesday March 18, from 6 to 8 p.m., with guest speaker Meghan Taylor, president of the Putnam Economic Development Corp., at The Terrace Club, 825 S. Lake Blvd., Mahopac. She will give an overview of Putnam County, opportunities for business owners and the recent developments taking place within the county. Admission of $35 includes buffet dinner; cash bar. To attend, register online professionalwomenofputnam.com.

New nursing dean at CNR DR. H. MICHAEL DREHER has been appointed the new dean for THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF NURSING. Dreher, who has worked in the field of nursing for 30 years and at Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions in Philadelphia for the past 17 years, is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in nursing science from Widener University. Dreher continued as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. At Drexel, he served as associate director of BSN programs and director of MSN programs. As the founding chair of the Doctoral Nursing Department, Dreher developed one of the first Doctor of Nursing Practice programs in the country in 2005. In 2012, he was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and for outstanding achievements in the discipline.

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Learn about Mary Gedney, prominent late 19th century businesswoman, president of a national organization and a woman of distinction, buried at St. Paul, at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site, 897 S. Columbus Ave., Mount Vernon, Wednesday March 19, 1 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information, call (914) 667-4116 or visit nps.gov/sapa.

Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group for Survivors and Caregivers meets at The Burke Rehabilitation Center, 785 Mamaroneck Ave., Wood Pavilion, Harris Parlor, White Plains, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, contact Janet Goodman at (914) 597-2237 or jgoodman@burke.org. Young Onset Parkinson’s Group meets at The Burke Rehabilitation Center, 785 Mamaroneck Ave., Billings Building, Rosedale Room, White Plains 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, contact George and Norma Jensen at (914) 667-3952 or YOPDWestchester@aol.com.

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FACTS&FIGURES Flads Realty L.L.C., New Rochelle. FORECLOSURES Seller: Gail Deraffele Cerreta, New Rochelle. Property: 166 Lispenard Ave., New Rochellle. Amount: ARMONK, 49 Whippoorwill Road Single-family residence; .79 $340,000. Filed Feb. 25. acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s Generation Mortgage Co., Atlanta, attorney: Druckman & Sinel, Ga. Seller: Jo-Ann Cambareri, Tarry- (516) 876-0800; 242 Drexel Ave., town. Property: 142 Maple Ave., Rye. Westbury. Defendant: Jill Coronel. Amount: $240,000. Filed Feb. 21. Referee: Richard Grayson. Sale: March 18, 10:30 a.m. Approximate Housing Opportunity Partners lien: $570,435.88. REO L.L.C., Eureka, Calif. Seller: Michele L. Bermel, Chappaqua. BRIARCLIFF MANOR, 23 Property: 20 Wyman St., Rye. Rosemont Lane. Single-family Amount: $271,905. Filed Feb. 21. residence; .7 acre. Plaintiff: Everhome Mortgage Corp. Plaintiff’s Hudson City Savings Bank, Para- attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Asmus, N.J. Seller: Daniel L. Pagano, sociates, (845) 897-1600; 2 Summit Yorktown Heights. Property: 634 Court, No. 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Belden St., Peekskill. Amount: Lenny Davidson. Referee: Richard Glickel. Sale: March 13, 10:15 a.m. $320,000. Filed Feb. 19. Approximate lien: $327,120.15. J and S Property Development Inc., Ossining. Seller: Lawrence MOHEGAN LAKE, 79 Lake Alson, et al, Arlington, Mass. Prop- Ridge Lane, Apt. 79. Apartment; erty: 101 Spring Valley Road, New lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: PHH MortCastle. Amount: $195,000. Filed gage Corp. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, (585) Feb. 21. 247-9000; 250 Mile Crossing Blvd., Mustato Road Associates L.L.C., Suite 1, Rochester. Defendant: SteChappaqua. Seller: Anthony P. ven Fried. Referee: Arlene Gold Rhodes, Katonah. Property: 69 Wexler. Sale: March 13, 9:30 a.m. Mustato Road, Bedford. Amount: Approximate lien: $188,526.21. $380,000. Filed Feb. 21. MOUNT VERNON, 35 CaliforNationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Sell- nia Road Single-family residence; er: Guy T. Parisi, Rye. Property: 118 .29 acre. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Old Mill River Road, Pound Ridge. Bank NA. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, (585) Amount: $600,000. Filed Feb. 25. 247-9000; 250 Mile Crossing Blvd., Suite 1, Rochester. Defendant: North Astor 7 L.L.C., White Random Things L.L.C. Referee: Plains. Seller: 7 North Astor Inc., David James Peck. Sale: March Irvington. Property: 7 N. Astor St., 12, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: Greenburgh. Amount: $475,000. $581,994.99. Filed Feb. 24. NORTH CASTLE, 22 Pheasant Drive. Single-family residence; 1.0 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway P.C. , (914) 636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New South 10 and 11 L.L.C., New Ro- Rochelle. Defendant: Sali Nezaj. chelle. Seller: Tyesha Jones, Wheatly Referee: Michele Bermel. Sale: Heights. Property: 513 S. 11th Ave., March 10, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: Mount Vernon. Amount: $293,250. $657,610.92. Filed Feb. 24. YONKERS, 13-15 Carlisle Place. U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Royden A. Three-family; lot size: 36 x 31. Letsen, Tarrytown. Property: 1 Ster- Plaintiff: CitiGroup Global Marling Ave., White Plains. Amount: kets Realty Corp. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy & Orlans, $490,500. Filed Feb. 24. (716) 204-1700; P.O. Box 540, Getzville. Defendant: 13-15 Carlisle Place Holding Corp. Referee: Stephanie Whidden. Sale: March 13, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $180,197.22.

R.R. and C.C. Realty Corp., White Plains. Seller: Rita S. Marshall, White Plains. Property: 2123 S. Kensico Ave., White Plains. Amount: $550,000. Filed Feb.18.

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YONKERS, 40 Crotty Ave. Twofamily; lot size: 52 x 95. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, (585) 247-9000; 250 Mile Crossing Blvd., Suite 1, Rochester. Defendant: Nial Farrell. Referee: David Gallo. Sale: March 13, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $623,487.83.

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Jonas, Gena, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure The following filings indicated a legal $452,943 affecting property located action has been initiated, the out- at 115 Washington St., Mount Vercome of which may affect the title to non. Filed Sept. 30. the property listed.

Palmasano, Kenneth, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $520,800 affecting property located at 669 Viewland Drive, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed Sept. 30.

Jones, Leona, et al. Filed by Wall Street Mortgage Bankers Ltd. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 39 S. Bleeker St., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Oct. 1.

Paracchini, Henry A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $526,500 affecting property located at 645 Shore Acres Drive, Mamaroneck 10543. Filed Oct. 1.

Kim, Yu Hien, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $532,077 affecting property located at 96 Boxwood Road, Yonkers 10710. Filed Sept. 30.

Peddie, Winston, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $283,500 affecting property located at 51 Jackson St., Yonkers 10701. Filed Oct. 2.

Leak, Kevin A., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to Davis, Alexander Jr., et al. Filed foreclose on a mortgage to secure by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Ac- $237,600 affecting property located tion: seeks to foreclose on a mort- at 681 Panorama Drive, Unit 68.1, gage to secure $81,500 affecting Mohegan Lake 10657. Filed Oct. 1. property located at 1620 Park St., Peekskill 10566. Filed Oct. 2. Lewis, Claude N., et al. Filed by CitiMortggae Inc. Action: seeks to Devine, Leo M., as executor to the foreclose on a mortgage to secure estate of Carol Devine-Molin, et al. $116,100 affecting property located Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: at 111 DeHaven Drive, Unit 217, seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Yonkers 10703. Filed Oct. 2. secure $242,000 affecting property located at 500 High Point Drive, Unit 608, Hartsdale 10530. Filed Mendicino, Denise M., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks Sept. 30. to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting DiBiasia, Guido, et al. Filed by property located at 11 Lost Nations Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Road, Pound Ridge 10576. Filed Action: seeks to foreclose on a mort- Oct. 1. gage to secure $738,750 affecting property located at 227 Duxbury Road, Purchase 10577. Filed Oct. 2. Neamtu, Florin D., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortGentles, Cary, et al. Filed by One- gage to secure $173,250 affecting West Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to property located at 215 Moore St., foreclose on a mortgage to secure Hartsdale 10530. Filed Oct. 2. $432,480 affecting property located at 130 Vista Place, Mount Vernon Neeves, Thomas, et al. Filed by 10550. Filed Sept. 30. U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Guzman, Efron, et al. Filed by an unspecified amount affecting Deutsche Bank National Trust property located at 67 Island Drive, Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a Rye 10580. Filed Sept. 30. mortgage to secure $600,000 affecting property located at 60 Lincoln Place, White Plains 10603. Filed Nieves, Julian R., et al. Filed by New York Community Bank. AcSept. 30. tion: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $500,000 affecting Horsburgh, Iain L., et al. Filed property located at 51 Cox Ave., by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to Armonk 10504. Filed Oct. 2. foreclose on a mortgage to secure $534,000 affecting property located at 14 Wellyn Road, Bronxville Nolan, Brian, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to 10708. Filed Oct. 1. foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting Hubbard, Derek, et al. Filed by property located at 500 Pondside GMA Mortgage L.L.C. Action: Drive, Unit 4K, White Plains 10607. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Filed Oct. 1. secure $320,000 affecting property located at 80 Brookdale Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Sept. 30.

Richardson, Michael, et al. Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $137,129 affecting property located at 160 Hyatt Ave., Yonkers 10704. Filed Oct. 2.

Chavez, Peter, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure YONKERS, 80 Farquhar Ave. $210,000 affecting property located Two-family; .05 acre. Plaintiff: at 460 Furnace Dock Road, CortWells Fargo Bank National Asso- landt Manor 10567. Filed Oct. 1. ciation. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, (845) Correale, Jennifer, as co-admin897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. istratrix of the estate of Constance 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Pauline T. L’Hommedieu, et al. Filed by Brown Ranglin. Referee: Richard OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks Fontana. Sale: March 13, 9:15 a.m. to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Approximate lien: $467,008.21. $522,624 affecting property located at 936 Esplanade, Pelham 10803. Filed Sept. 30.

Judgments Antonio Velardo Inc., Ossining. $6,535 as claimed by Fairview Hearthside Distributors L.L.C., Poughkeepsie. Filed Feb. 24. Balloon World Home of the Photo Balloon, Mamaroneck. $6,565 in favor of RB International Finance L.L.C., New York City. Filed Feb. 21. Lamore Supermarket, Yonkers. $14,680 in favor of Manhattan Beer Distributors L.L.C., Bronx. Filed Feb. 24. Lexington Center For Recovery Inc., White Plains. $5,521 in favor of Royal Life Management L.L.C., White Plains. Filed Feb. 18. N and J Brands Inc., Yonkers. $9,833 in favor of Yoki Shoes, New York City. Filed Feb.19. New Advanced Sales Group Inc., Ardsley. $8,754 in favor of Majestic Sales Inc., Spring Valley. Filed Feb. 21. New York-Connecticut Development Corp., Goldens Bridge. $11,825 in favor of Delta Building Services Corp., Rutherford, N.J. Filed Feb. 19. Ten Hoeve Enterprises L.L.C., Meriden, Conn. Seller: Fleet Pump and Service Group Inc., Harrison. Filed Feb. 19. Westchester Sports Inc., Buchanan. $3,699 in favor of Kinseys Archery Products Inc. Mount Joy, Pa. Filed Feb. 19.

Sangiuolo, Bart A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $285,000 affecting property located at 706 Mallard Way, Unit G-6, Peekskill 10566. Filed Sept. 30. Satino, Piero, et al. Filed by Hudson City Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $371,000 affecting property located at 222 Glen Ave., Port Chester. Filed Sept. 30. Schettini, Frank L., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $289,677 affecting property located at 32 Bogstown Road, North Salem 10560. Filed Oct. 2. Schoeman, Pauline T., 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 567 Milton Road, Rye 10580. Filed Oct. 2. Soto, Luis, 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 424 Park Hill Ave., Yonkers 10705. Filed Sept. 30. Tarasz, Istvan J., et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,800 affecting property located at 135 Willis Ave. Hawthorne 10532. Filed Sept. 30. Tomlinson, Stainton, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $472,584 affecting property located at 19 Beekman Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed Oct. 1.

Vargas, Olga, et al. Filed by Ci- Sole Proprietorships timortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $270,000 affecting property located 8dayz a Week, 3 Sadore Lane, No. at 525 Roosevelt Ave., Peekskill 2T, Yonkers 10710, c/o Zachary Thompson Jr. Filed Jan. 22. 10566. Filed Oct. 2. Villani, Fiorenzo, et al. Filed by E*Trade Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $149,900 affecting property located at 11 Travis Lane, Montrose 10548. Filed Oct. 1. Wallos, Robert D., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $532,000 affecting property located at 3 Manor Lane, Katonah 10536. Filed Oct. 1.

Mechanic’s Liens 150 OH L.L.C., as owner. $7,160 as claimed by L and D Builders Corp. Property: in Rye. Filed Feb. 14. Dellorusso, Jack, et al, as owner. $20,348 as claimed by Rings End Inc., Darien, Conn. Property: in Somers. Filed Feb. 14. Mastercard International Inc., as owner. $11,047 as claimed by Layout Inc., Newfoundland. Property: in Harrison. Filed Feb. 14. Metropolitan Plaza WP L.L.C., as owner. $45,800 as claimed by KMS Contracting Inc., Brooklyn. Property: in White Plains. Filed Feb. 14. MT V L.L.C., as owner. $24,310 as claimed by Maxwell Plumb Mechanical Corp., Bayside. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Feb. 19. Spruce Spires Associates, as owner. $14,973 as claimed by Cummings Signs, Nashville, Tenn. Property: in Yonkers. Filed Feb.18.

Valerio Landscaping Co., 3 Church St., Suite 682, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Valero Romualdo. Filed Jan. 22.

PATENTS

Pipeline across isolated computing environments. Patent no. 8,661,457 issued to Vivek Kashyap, Beaverton, Ore. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Age Carpentry, 2 Waverly Place, Spare cell insertion based on Apt. 3L, Yonkers 10701, c/o Albino The following patents were issued reachable state analysis. Patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Garcia. Filed Jan. 23. no. 8,661,391 issued to ManikanOffice in Washington, D.C. dan Viswanath, South Burlington, Vt.; and Samuel I. Ward, Austin, Alkhatib Construction Co., 2 Woodycrest Ave., Yonkers 10701, c/o Accurately estimating install Texas. Assigned to International time. Patent no. 8,661,431 issued Business Machines Corp., ArMahmoud Alkhatib. Filed Jan. 22. to Rand K. Barthel, Mendon, Mass.; monk. Yong Li, Newton, Mass.; and EduAna Castro-Chica, 47 State St., ardo N. Spring, Round Rock, Texas. Ossining 10562, c/o Ana Castro- Assigned to International Busi- Systems and methods for processing compound requests Chica. Filed Jan. 23. ness Machines Corp., Armonk. by computing nodes in distributed and parallel environBlatant Appeal Productions, 20 Built-in-self-test (BIST) orgaments by assigning commonly Laurel Place, Eastchester 10709, c/o nizational file generation. Patoccurring pairs of individual Peter John Lott. Filed Jan. 23. ent no. 8,661,399 issued to Craig requests in compound requests M. Monroe, South Burlington, Vt.; to a same computing node. PatChamps Best, 6 Denim Place, Michael R. Ouellette, Westford, Vt.; ent no. 8,661,442 issued to Paul North White Plains 10603, c/o Peter and Douglas E. Sprague, Jericho, Vt. M. Dantzig, Scarsdale; Arun Assigned to International Busi- Kwangil Iyengar, Yorktown Heights; J. Carissimi. Filed Jan. 22. ness Machines Corp., Armonk. Francis Nicholas Parr, New York; and Gong Su, New York. Assigned Darlene’s Defensive Driving, P.O. Box 2183, Mount Vernon 10551, Creation of flexible work- to International Business Mac/o Darlene M. Jones. Filed Jan. 23. flows using artifacts. Patent no. chines Corp., Armonk. 8,661,444 issued to Fenno F. Heath, Drill Point Construction, 3088 III, Woodbridge, Conn.; Richard Magua Place, Mohegan Lake 10547, B. Hull, Chatham, N.J.; Rong Liu, Sterling, Va.; Anil Nigam, Stamford, c/o Juan Galaviz. Filed Jan. 22. Conn.; Florian Pinel, New York; and Frederick Y. Wu, Greenwich, Conn. DRiVE Consulting, 60 Amherst Assigned to International Business Drive, New Rochelle 10804, c/o Machines Corp., Armonk. Adam J. Krim. Filed Jan. 22.

Hudson Valley

Impact indication of threadE.Q. Landscaping, 20 Liden Ave., specific events in a nonstop deOssining 10562, c/o Miguel Efrain bugging environment. Patent no. Quitoisaca Sanchez. Filed Jan. 23. 8,661,413 issued to Cary L. Bates, Rochester, Minn. Assigned to InGabino Helper, 62 Chestnut St., ternational Business Machines Yonkers 10701, c/o Gabino Ceron. Corporation, Armonk. Filed Jan. 22. Integrated guidance and validaJ.P. Discount, 3 S. Fourth Ave., tion policy based zoning mechaMount Vernon 10550, c/o Jai nism. Patent no. 8,661,501 issued to Eric Kevin Butler, San Jose, CaPrakash Kawal. Filed Jan. 22. lif.; Pi-Wei Chin, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Scott Joseph Colbeck, San Jose, M. Raza Panjwani Attorney-at- Calif.; and Kaladhar Voruganti, San Law, 500 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite Jose, Calif. Assigned to Interna320, Harrison 10528, c/o Moham- tional Business Machines Corp., med Raza Panjwani. Filed Jan. 23. Armonk.

Webb Development Services Corp., as owner. $3,268 as claimed by Rocco and Son Ironwork Inc., Bronx. Property: in Mount Vernon. Music Road, 1 Pier Pointe St., Apt. Modeling for soft error specificaFiled Feb. 14. 709, Yonkers 10701, c/o Kara Jeni tion. Patent no. 8,661,382 issued Dago-Clark. Filed Jan. 22. Kirk David Lamb, Kingston. Assigned to International Business New Businesses Nana Bee, P.O. Box 1919, White Machines Corp., Armonk. Plains 10606, c/o Elizabeth Schell. This paper is not responsible for ty- Filed Jan. 23. Performance event triggering pographical errors contained in the through direct interthread comoriginal filings. Politically Correct People, 329 munication on a network on Simpson Place, Peekskill 10566, c/o chip. Patent no. 8,661,455 issued Alexis Nicole Venzen. Filed Jan. 23. to Eric O. Mejdrich, Rochester, Minn.; Paul E. Schardt, Rochester, Partnerships Seba’s Food Distribution, 115 Minn.; Robert A. Shearer, Rochester, Minn.; and Matthew R. Tubbs, P and K Electrical Contractors, Harburton Ave., Apt. 8M, Yonkers Rochester, Minn. Assigned to In10701, c/o Sebastian Gryka. Filed 175 Front St., Yorktown 10598, c/o ternational Business Machines Kenneth Simone and Peter Simone Jan. 23. Corp., Armonk. Sr. Filed Jan. 23.

Building Loans

The DM Equities of New York L.L.C., Harriman, as owner. Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II L.L.C., Montgomery. Property: 3 Howard Court, Goshen. Amount: $200,000. Filed Feb. 19.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Scott A. Geisel, et al, Carmel. Property: in Kent. Amount: $264,500. Filed Feb. 11.

Contrail L.L.C., Hopewell Junction. Seller: Beverly Hills DevelopWehmann, Robert H. Jr., as ment Inc., Fishkill. Property: in owner. Lender: Wallkill Valley Fed- Wappinger. Amount: $100,000. eral Savings and Loan Association. Filed Feb. 21. Property: in Fishkill. Amount: $225,000. Filed Feb. 22. Contrail L.L.C., Hopewell Junction. Seller: Giuseppe A. Bueti, Hawthorne. Property: 3 Stage Door Road, Wappinger Falls 12590. Deeds Amount: $160,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Above $1 million

Debra Lee L.L.C., Wallkill. Seller: James E. Terry Jr., et al, Newburgh. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $500,000. Filed Feb. 18.

Contrail L.L.C., Hopewell Junction. Seller: East Fishkill Developers Inc., Wappingers Falls. Property: in DPHamling Holdings L.L.C., East Fishkill. Amount: $1.1 million. Florida. Seller: John Szefc, et al, Filed Feb. 21. Goshen. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $150,000. Filed Feb. 24. Ebert Road Realty Two L.L.C., Middletown. Seller: Ebert Road Re- E*Trade Bank, Arlington, Va. Seller: alty L.L.C., Middletown. Property: Ottaviano Bevilacqua, et al, Wapin Wallkill. Amount: $1.5 million. pingers Falls. Property: in East FishFiled Feb. 20. kill. Amount: $691,500. Filed Feb. 20. Middlebranch Realty L.L.C., Bronx. Seller: Loibl Contracting Inc., Carmel. Property: in Southeast. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Feb. 11.

Equity Homes of New York Inc., Port Jervis. Seller: Robert Jeffrey Young, et al, Malden, Mass. Property: in Greenville. Amount: $75,000. Filed Feb. 21.

EverBank, Jacksonville, Fla. Seller: John J. Fallon, Walden. Property: 250 Corbett Road, Montgomery 12549. Amount: $840,292. Filed Feb. 18. 1051 Ulster Avenue L.L.C., Troy. Below $1 million Seller: DHR Properties L.L.C., Kingston. Property: in Ulster. Fannie Mae. Seller: Andrea DuBirch Grove Holdings of NY Amount: $800,000. Filed Feb. 20. mais, Orange. Property: 326 Lake L.L.C., Tabernacle, N.J., as owner. Vue Drive, Montgomery 12549. Lender: Fulton Bank of New JerAmount: $302,477. Filed Feb. 20. sey, Mount Laurel, N.J. Property: in Amenia Free Library Association, Amenia. Seller: First PresbySoutheast. Amount: $864,000. Filed terian Church of Amenia, Amenia. Fannie Mae. Seller: James B. BiFeb. 12. Property: in Amenia. Amount: agi, Goshen. Property: 19 Shawnee Trail, Warwick 10921. Amount: $50,000. Filed Feb. 18. Coddington, Susan L., Stone $147,255. Filed Feb. 24. Ridge, as owner. Lender: Rondout Savings Bank, Kingston. Prop- Bayview Loan Servicing L.L.C., erty: 182 White Lands Road, Stone Coral Gables, Fla. Seller: George Federal National Mortgage AsRidge. Amount: $150,000. Filed Lithco, Westtown. Property: 795 sociation. Seller: Robert B. Hunter, Route 284, Westtown 10998. Monticello. Property: 301 Balmville Feb. 24. Lane, Newburgh 12550. Amount: Amount: $107,764. Filed Feb. 18. $235,167. Filed Feb. 18. East Arm Rowing Club Inc., Bayview Loan Servicing L.L.C., Greenwood Lake, as owner. Lender: Stephen K. Hoverman, Warwick. Coral Gables, Fla. Seller: John J. Fal- FSB Properties Inc., Lake SucProperty: 69 Sterling Road, Green- lon, Newburgh. Property: 64 and cess. Seller: Cirino M. Bruno, wood Lake. Amount: $100,000. 66 William St., Newburgh 12550. Bronx. Property: in Putnam Valley. Amount: $119,690. Filed Feb. 19. Amount: $216,566. Filed Feb. 20. Filed Feb. 24. Rizzuto, Michael J., et al, Tuxedo Park, as owner. Lender: Hometown Bank of the Hudson Valley, Walden. Property: East Mombasha Road, Monroe 10950. Amount: $322,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Below $1 million

Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp. Seller: Bruce S. Lappin, et al, Goshen. Property: 94 Richard Ave., Islip Terrace 11752. Amount: $299,284. Filed Feb. 19.

Black Dirt Builders L.L.C., WarSanborn, James, et al, as owner. wick. Seller: Doreen Whitbeck, Lender: Putnam County Savings Westtown. Property: in Warwick. Bank. Property: in Wappinger. Amount: $99,000. Filed Feb. 21. Amount: $300,000. Filed Feb. 14.

Golden Realty Inc., Kingston. Seller: North Broadway Commons Corp., Kingston. Property: in Kingston. Amount: $85,000. Filed Feb. 18. Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York, Elmhurst, Ill. Seller: Michele Bermel, Chappaqua. Property: 60 Morrissey Drive, Lake Peekskill 10537. Amount: $348,977. Filed Feb. 11. WCBJ • March 3, 2014

FACTS&FIGURES HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Ellen T. Juracek, Poughkeepsie. Property: 2710 South Road, Unit G6, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $79,500. Filed Feb. 22. HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Heidi A, Seelbach-Budd, et al, Poughkeepsie. Property: 9W Meadowbrook Lane, Staatsburg 12580. Amount: $590,000. Filed Feb. 22. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Peter G. Botti, Goshen. Property: 19 Coleman St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $190,540. Filed Feb. 18. Julians Car Sales Inc., Newburgh. Seller: DA Realty L.L.C., Newburgh. Property: 108 Angola Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Amount: $96,000. Filed Feb. 18. Keli House Community Services Inc., Fishkill. Seller: Eric Goldfine Self Employed Retirement Plan Trust, Mahopac. Property: 184 Route 216, East Fishkill 12524. Amount: $330,000. Filed Feb. 22. Kotor Financial Corp., Rhinebeck. Seller: Renate Frank, Rhinebeck. Property: in Rhinebeck. Amount: $129,500. Filed Feb. 18. M&T Bank, Getzville. Seller: Carmen Corrado Jr., Newburgh. Property: 21 Mockingbird Lane, Poughkeepsie. Amount: $228,000. Filed Feb. 18.

Sheppard Estates Inc., Mahopac. Seller: Maryann Nelson Ateniese, et al, Brooklyn. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $46,000. Filed Feb. 18. Six Karlin Unit 303 Realty Inc., Monroe. Seller: Two Leipnik Way, Unit 302 L.L.C., Monroe. Property: 3 Tzfas Road, Unit 302, Monroe 10950. Amount: $240,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Antonio’s Restaurant and Bar Inc., New Windsor. $966 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 6. Ardonia Development Corp., Newburgh. $464 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3.

E and A Contracting of Orange County Inc., Montgomery. $2,179 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

Eastern Health Care DistribuStrategic Management Consul- ATMs of the Hudson Valley Inc., tors Inc., Monroe. $1,097 in favor tancy L.L.C., Monroe. Seller: Devo- Newburgh. $257 in favor of the of the New York State Department rah Perlman, Monroe. Property: 8 New York State Department of of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Prag Blvd., No. 203, Monroe 10950. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Filed Feb. 7. Amount: $75,000. Filed Feb. 21. Feb. 3. Fiesta New Mexico Restaurant SUMA Yonkers Federal Credit Bagels and Bites, Highland. Inc., Monroe. $143 in favor of the Union, Yonkers. Seller: Miku- $85,500 in favor of the Workers’ New York State Department of las Beno, Patterson. Property: 33 Compensation Board of the State Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Manor Road, Carmel. Amount: of New York, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. Feb. 7. $747,000. Filed Feb. 18. Bargain Beverage Inc., Chester. Gary Boyea Home ImproveU.S. Bank N.A. Seller: John B. Swift $11,130 in favor of the New York ments Inc., Newburgh. $311 in III, Goshen. Property: 44 Syca- State Department of Taxation and favor of the New York State Departmore Drive, Montgomery 12549. Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. ment of Taxation and Finance, AlAmount: $314,293. Filed Feb. 21. bany. Filed Feb. 3. Baseball Diamond Card and U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Nancy Hobbies, Saugerties. $1,321 in fa- GCIA Inc., Highland. $3,113 in Love, et al, Newburgh. Property: vor of the New York State Depart- favor of the New York State Depart231 Route 1A, Warwick 10990. ment of Taxation and Finance, Al- ment of Taxation and Finance, AlAmount: $375,000. Filed Feb. 20. bany. Filed Feb. 24. bany. Filed Feb. 24. U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Susan A. Schlenger, Mount Kisco. Property: 15 Coachman Way, Pleasant Valley 12569. Amount: $400,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Bella Vista Ventures Inc., Bellvale. $170 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3.

Blair Construction Corp., Ulster RK JV L.L.C., Monsey. Wallkill. $1,213 in favor of the New Northern Enterprise NY L.L.C., Seller: Dennis Chaissan, Highland. York State Department of Taxation Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: N. Property: in Plattekill. Amount: and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. Aaron Troodler, Spring Valley. $225,000. Filed Feb. 20. Property: 112 Patio Road, MiddleBSD Health Inc., Monroe. $1,765 town 10941. Amount: $63,751. WKM Holdings L.L.C., Monroe. in favor of the New York State DeFiled Feb. 19. Seller: Erica Broussard, Monroe. partment of Taxation and Finance, Property: in Monroe. Amount: Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Premier Contracting Inc., High- $210,000. Filed Feb. 20. land. Seller: Patrick Vernon Lilly, CCS Auto Body Inc., Walden. Kingston. Property: in Rochester. $3,424 in favor of the New York Amount: $25,000. Filed Feb. 20. State Department of Taxation and Judgments Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Professional Square L.L.C., Monroe. Seller: R.W. Holdings L.L.C., 5L Enterprises Inc., Middletown. Centurion Security Inc., New York City. Property: Route $23,524 in favor of the New York 208, Monroe. Amount: $927,500. State Department of Labor Un- Cornwall-on-Hudson. $10,589 in employment Insurance Division, favor of the New York State DepartFiled Feb. 24. ment of Taxation and Finance, AlAlbany. Filed Feb. 6. bany. Filed Feb. 7. Ranne L.L.C., Newburgh. Seller: Anthony C. Moriello, et al, New- A and F Lawn Services, Marlboro. burgh. Property: in Newburgh. $312 in favor of the New York State Community Plumbing Inc., Department of Taxation and Fi- Highland. $288 in favor of the New Amount: $75,000. Filed Feb. 19. York State Department of Taxation nance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. Realty 188 L.L.C., Flushing. Seller: Roy Bailey, Walden. Property: 230 A and T Landscaping Inc., Broadway, Newburgh. Amount: Walden. $919 in favor of the New Crystal Clean, Milton. $100 in faYork State Department of Taxation vor of the New York State Depart$105,000. Filed Feb. 24. ment of Taxation and Finance, Aland Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. bany. Filed Feb. 24. Riverside Bank, Poughkeepsie. Amica Corp., Newburgh. $8,243 Seller: S and L Property Management L.L.C., Cortlandt Manor. in favor of the New York State De- D. Katina Associates Inc., MonProperty: in Putnam Valley. partment of Labor Unemployment roe. $1,768 in favor of thr New York Insurance Division, Albany. Filed State Department of Taxation and Amount: $141,423. Filed Feb. 18. Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Feb. 6.

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Di Giugno’s Erectors Inc., Goshen. $1,533 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

Jalaram Corp., d.b.a. 44-55 Mobile, Highland. $1,277 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. Jamaica Choice Caribbean Cuisine Inc., New Paltz. $4,661 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. JGs Highland Corp., Highland Falls. $699 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3. Lois Elise Designs Inc., New Windsor. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3. M and G Paper Pushers Inc., Newburgh. $264 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3. Miele Excavating Inc., Southfields. $1,766 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

PLG Realty Corp., Westtown. $546 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Ranita Productions L.L.C., Monroe. $8,076 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3. Ring Homestead Camp Inc., Middletown. $1,651 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Rockland HVAC Inc., Chester. $12,740 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 6. S and L Transport L.L.C., Pine Bush. $25,450 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Shades By Holli, Saugerties. $1,249 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24.

Sheldrake Organization Inc., Naturez Wraps, Woodstock. Walden. $1,658 in favor of the New Glensan Excavating Inc., War- $4,783 in favor of the New York York State Department of Taxation wick. $1,112 in favor of the New State Department of Taxation and and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. York State Department of Taxation Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Smith Supply Company Inc., Newburgh Supreme Clientele Newburgh. $1,748 in favor of the Golf Ridge Estate Inc., Middle- Inc., Plattekill. $255,000 in favor of New York State Department of town. $284 in favor of the New York the Workers’ Compensation Board Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed State Department of Taxation and of the State of New York, Albany. Feb. 7. Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3. Filed Feb. 24. SNR Europa Corp., Monroe. $147 Hockenberry’s Garage, Sparrow- OEM Run Inc., Monroe. $749 in in favor of the New York State Debush. $28,184 in favor of the New favor of the New York State Depart- partment of Taxation and Finance, York State Department of Taxation ment of Taxation and Finance, Al- Albany. Filed Feb. 7. and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. bany. Filed Feb. 7. Stan Decker Excavating and PavHorvath Consulting Inc., Sau- On Sight Trucking Inc., Marlboro. ing, Kerhonkson. $204 in favor of gerties. $949 in favor of the New $160,500 in favor of the Workers’ the New York State Department of York State Department of Taxation Compensation Board of the State Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. of New York, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. Feb. 24.

Hurley Ridge Liquors Inc., Stone Ridge. $88,923 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24.

Orange Salon Corp., Monroe. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

T and S Crossroads Deli Inc., Cottekill. $956 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24.

Inn at Stony Creek, Warwick. $8,028 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

Pencak and Company Inc., Port Jervis. $1,651 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

T. William Anderson Associates Inc., New Windsor. $1,658 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

Intelli-Check Investigative Services, Accord. $1,367 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24.

Pitt Industries Inc., Middletown. $1,627 in favor of the New York Tallmadge L.L.C., Lake Katrine. State Department of Taxation and $991 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and FiFinance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. nance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24.

Playtogs Plaza Nail Inc., MiddleIntercept Advisors Firm Ltd., town. $1,086 in favor of the New Middletown. $215 in favor of the York State Department of Taxation New York State Department of La- and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7. bor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed Feb. 6.

THM Properties Inc., Middletown. $700 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 7.

TJ Landscaping and Irrigation Corp., Monroe. $1,719 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 3.

Alongi, Cindy A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $244,000 affecting property located at 37 Youngblood Road, Montgomery 12549. Filed TJ’s Old Curiosity Shop Inc., Oct. 7. Newburgh. $369 in favor of the New York State Department of Arenas, Jose B., et al. Filed by NaTaxation and Finance, Albany. Filed tionstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: Feb. 3. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $299,250 affecting propTotal Championship Wrestling erty located at 1 Crown Blvd., NewL.L.C., Port Ewen. $100 in favor of burgh 12550. Filed Oct. 7. the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Arias, Felix E., et al. Filed by Wells Feb. 24. Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Troy’s Deli and Pizzeria Inc., Ker- $136,041 affecting property located honkson. $128 in favor of the New at 63 Hunt Road, Wallkill 12589. York State Department of Taxation Filed Feb. 20. and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 24. Babcock, Claudia, et al. Filed by Universal Medical Distribution U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to Inc., Cornwall-on-Hudson. $947 foreclose on a mortgage to secure in favor of the New York State De- $260,000 affecting property located partment of Taxation and Finance, at 206 Colden Hill Road, Montgomery 12550. Filed Oct. 7. Albany. Filed Feb. 7. Vails Gate Vision Center Inc., Bedell, Denise L., et al. Filed by New Windsor. $285 in favor of the JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. AcNew York State Department of tion: seeks to foreclose on a mortTaxation and Finance, Albany. Filed gage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located Feb. 3. at 21 Marshall Drive West, New Windsor 12553. Filed Oct. 7. Westtown Video, Westtown. $833 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Bernardi, Maria, et al. Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to Albany. Filed Feb. 7. foreclose on a mortgage to secure $313,200 affecting property located Wildfire Grill, Montgomery. at 2 Bridge Lane, Brewster 10509. $6,186 in favor of the New York Filed Feb. 18. State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Berryann, James, et al. Filed by Albany. Filed Feb. 6. Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $40,000 affecting property located at 171 Shady Lis Pendens Lane, Marbletown. Filed Feb. 20. The following filings indicated a legal action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to the property listed. Acevedo, Eliseo, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $332,500 affecting property located at 286 Route 52, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 10. Agar, Thomas W. Sr., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $215,000 affecting property located at 107 Park Place, Saugerties. Filed Feb. 21.

Brown, Marc A., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $294,000 affecting property located at 12 Euclid Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 7. Carrasquillo, Freddy E., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $208,000 affecting property located at 322 Boice Mill Road, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Feb. 19.

Clark, Esther, et al. Filed by Golden First Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,705 affecting property located at 10 Wickham Ave., Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 7.

Empire Industries Holding Group L.L.C., et al. Filed by Philip DiLeonardo, et al. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $350,000 affecting property located at 1609-1611 Route 9W, Marlborough. Filed Feb. 24.

James, Jess, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $90,100 affecting property located at 4 Ferrara Drive, Middletown 10941. Filed Oct. 7.

Lawless, Heidi M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $328,023 affecting property located at 55 Andrews Ridge Road, Saugerties 12477. Filed Feb. 24.

Connolly, Michael J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $288,360 affecting property located at 8 Avoncroft Lane, No. 4503, Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 7.

Estate of Maryellen C. Muller, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $135,000 affecting property located at 4 Lugo Lane, Plattekill 12568. Filed Feb. 21.

Jones, John P., et al. Filed by Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $168,000 affecting property located at 19 Ulster Place, Port Jervis 12771. Filed Oct. 8.

Lester, Chrystyna, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $412,500 affecting property located at 9 Paul St., Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Feb. 18.

Corgier, Tyrone, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $181,776 affecting property located at 306 Broadway, Maybrook 12543. Filed Oct. 7.

Felice, Alaina, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $298,600 affecting property located at 72 Mountain Brook Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 20.

Kennedy, William E., et al. Filed by Chase Home Finance L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 53 Birch Creek Road, Shandaken 12465. Filed Feb. 21.

Lewis, Janis, et al. Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $185,000 affecting property located at 51 Liberty St., Newburgh 12550. Filed Oct. 7.

Cuascut, Wilfredo, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $457,500 affecting property located at 175 Starr Ridge Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 7.

Fernandez, Neury R., et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $268,389 affecting property located at 78 Tanglewylde Road, Lake Peekskill 10537. Filed Feb. 11.

D’Imperio, Joseph Jr., et al. Filed by Quicken Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,100 affecting property located at 132 Brimstone Road, Patterson 12563. Filed Feb. 12.

Firpi, Quironestor, et al. Filed by Fifth Third Mortgage Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $151,210 affecting property located at 72 Lavoletta St., Wallkill 12589. Filed Feb. 20.

Davis, Jarrod C., et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 263 Old Route 209, Hurley 12443. Filed Feb. 19. De Libero, Grace A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $371,250 affecting property located at Sprout Brook Road 83-1-1, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Feb. 18. Dennis, David P., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $396,000 affecting property located at 248 Potter Hill Road, Saugerties 12477. Filed Feb. 20. Downie, Christopher R., et al. Filed by Frederic M. Waring. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $76,500 affecting property located in Olive. Filed Feb. 21.

Kitz, Brian J., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $199,820 affecting property located at 11 Panther Lane, Wallkill 12589. Filed Feb. 24.

Kopczuk, Alexander M., et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $80,750 affecting property located at 120 Mountain View Ave., Wallkill Florenzino, Franco C., et al. Filed 12589. Filed Oct. 8. by Freedom Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mort- Krawiec, Lauralee, as appointed gage to secure $208,160 affecting executrix to the estate of Raymond property located at 705 Autumn F. Krawiec, et al. Filed by Wells Lane, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 20. Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Frankel, Yitzchok, et al. Filed by $289,275 affecting property located JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: at 14 Sunset Place, Mahopac 10541. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Filed Feb. 12. secure $166,400 affecting property located at 1 Karlin Blvd., Unit 304, Kurachek, John, et al. Filed by Monroe 10950. Filed Oct. 4. Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Graceway Realty Corp., et al. Filed by secure $223,185 affecting property PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to fore- located at 17 Keats Road, Middleclose on a mortgage to secure $926,000 town 10941. Filed Oct. 7. affecting property located at 303 Broadway, Newburgh 12550. Filed Oct. 4. Lapadula, Lisa A., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to Graham, Susan L. as co-executor foreclose on a mortgage to secure of the estate of Peter Donald Haney, $400,000 affecting property located et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: at 63 Chestnut Ridge Road, Maseeks to foreclose on a mortgage to hopac. Filed Feb. 18. secure $78,400 affecting property located at 38 Barrett Hill Road, Car- Larose, Margaret M., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: mel 10512. Filed Feb. 18. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Hajkowski, Edward, et al. Filed secure $229,865 affecting property by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: located at 88 Quaker Ave., Cornwall seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to 12518. Filed Oct. 7.

Duclos, Yvonne, as executrix of the estate of Philomena Duclos, et al. Filed by Reverse Mortgage Solutions Catania, David, et al. Filed by Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a secure $250,000 affecting property Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: mortgage to secure $405,000 affect- located at 16 Preston Place, Patterseeks to foreclose on a mortgage to ing property located at 70 Putnam son 12563. Filed Feb. 18. secure $382,400 affecting property Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 10. Aho, Maria F., et al. Filed by Green located at 104 Geymer Drive, MaHawes, Andrew W.P., et al. Filed Tree Servicing L.L.C. Action: seeks hopac 10541. Filed Feb. 20. Dyle, Darrin S., et al. Filed by M&T by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to $195,000 affecting property located mortgage to secure $222,400 affect- secure an unspecified amount afat 63 Mahoney Road, Milton 12547. ing property located at 43 Argent fecting property located at 17 Terry Filed Feb. 20. Drive, Highland 12528. Filed Feb. 20. Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed Oct. 7.

Lobdell, Jennifer, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 61 Victors Lane, Saugerties 12477. Filed Feb. 24. Looram, Christopher, et al. Filed by Edward Clifford and Jean R. Clifford. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $245,000 affecting property located at 287 Old Mountain Road, Otisville. Filed Oct. 7. Lucente, Gary, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $218,405 affecting property located at 33 Dixon Lake Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed Feb. 18. Madden, Joseph T., et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 17 Rockwood Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb 19. Maguire, Stephen J., et al. Filed by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,000 affecting property located at 1024 Route 213, Eddyville 12401. Filed Feb. 24. Mann, Carolyn, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $277,500 affecting property located at 2 Harvard Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 18.

Marinelli, Debra L., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Lasso, Lenin R., et al. Filed by secure $112,500 affecting property Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: located at 50 Hidden Acres Road, seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Marlboro 12542. Filed Feb. 20. secure $299,250 affecting property located at 352 Sugarloaf Mountain Road, Chester 10918. Filed Oct. 4.

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FACTS&FIGURES Martinez-Salazar, Eunice, et al. Filed by LPP Mortgage Ltd. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $229,000 affecting property located at 114 W. Main St., Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 7. Marzigliano, Jessica, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $229,600 affecting property located at 66 S. Chestnut St., New Paltz 12561. Filed Feb. 24. Maxim, Merri, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $66,836 affecting property located at 65 Broadstreet Hollow Road, Shandaken 12480. Filed Feb. 24. Mortimer, Martin P., et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $367,057 affecting property located at 211 Rockledge Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Feb. 20. Murtha, Beth R., 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 7 Phillips Lane, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 11. Myers, Darlene, et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $132,050 affecting property located at 197 Clay Road, Esopus 12487. Filed Feb. 24. Nash, Donald M., et al. Filed by LaSalle Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $209,880 affecting property located at 278 South St., Highland 12528. Filed Feb. 20. NBA Development L.L.C., et al. Filed by United Real Estate L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $55,000 affecting property located at 30 Oslo Path, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 18. O’Reilly, Francis J., et al. Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $147,200 affecting property located at 45 Arbutus Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Feb. 7. Ostoyic, Robert S., 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 35 Blue Mountain Manor, Saugerties 12477. Filed Feb. 18.

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Piacentino, Robert, 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 14 Sheffield Drive, Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 4.

Sophia, Johanna, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $204,000 affecting property located at 9 David St., Ellenville 12428. Filed Feb. 21.

Zasso, Patricia J., et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $397,500 affecting property located at 35 Larchmont Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 7.

Staib, Thomas, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Mechanic’s Liens Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $215,000 affecting property located at 4 Big Elm Hughes, Scott, as owner. $358 as Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 7. claimed by Cranesville Block Company Inc., Amsterdam. Property: Stephen, Pradeep E., et al. Filed 16 Goldrick Landing Road, Ulster. by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: Filed Feb. 20. Pugliese, Kyle D., et al. Filed by seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Deutsche Bank National Trust secure $436,939 affecting property Industrial Development Agency, Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a located at 22 Arbor Way, Middle- as owner. $10,034 as claimed by mortgage to secure $225,000 affect- town 10940. Filed Oct. 8. United Rentals North America Inc., ing property located at 225 Queens Charlotte, N.C. Property: 33 Ralph Highway, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Subocz-Uszynski, Arletta, et St., Port Jervis. Filed Feb. 20. Feb. 24. al. Filed by Aurora Loan Services L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on Post, Heather, et al, as owner. Quarshie, John A., et al. Filed by a mortgage to secure $972,320 af- $1,865 as claimed by JW Landscape Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks fecting property located at 38 Pine Management, Montgomery. Propto foreclose on a mortgage to secure Road, Tuxedo Park 10987. Filed erty: in Shawangunk. Filed Feb. 24. $131,140 affecting property lo- Oct. 4. cated at 417 Watts Lane, Maybrook Ronga, Robert, et al, as owner. 12543. Filed Oct. 7. Teifer, Joseph R., et al. Filed by $358 as claimed by Cranesville RBS Citizens N.A. Action: seeks to Block Company Inc., Amsterdam. Russomanno, Lawrence, et al. foreclose on a mortgage to secure Property: 1631 Broadway,Route Filed by Federal National Mort- $210,000 affecting property located 9W, Esopus. Filed Feb. 20. gage Association. Action: seeks to at 2 N. Young Ave., Marlborough. foreclose on a mortgage to secure Filed Feb. 20. Thomas J. Pendleton, et al, as $162,381 affecting property located at 98 Florence St., Kingston 12401. Tompkins, Robert W., et al. Filed owner. $16,998 as claimed by Alfred A. Cappelli Jr., Wappingers Falls. Filed Feb. 18. by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Ac- Property: 546 Peekskill Hollow tion: seeks to foreclose on a mort- Road, Putnam Valley. Filed Feb. 19. Scherb, Anthony P., et al. Filed by gage to secure $108,000 affecting Green Tree Servicing L.L.C. Action: property located at 238 Tuckers seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Corners Road, Highland 12528. Town of Wallkill, as owner. $24,090 as claimed by C.V. Associsecure $180,000 affecting property Filed Feb. 19. ates NY, Harriman. Property: 860 located at 238 Maple Road, MaRoute 17M, Middletown 10940. hopac 10541. Filed Feb. 10. Viglucci, John S., et al. Filed by Filed Feb. 19. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. AcSebastian, Julieta, et al. Filed by tion: seeks to foreclose on a mortBank of America N.A. Action: seeks gage to secure $315,000 affecting New Businesses to foreclose on a mortgage to secure property located at 216 Washington $272,000 affecting property lo- Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 7. This paper is not responsible for tycated at 21 Beekman Drive, Carmel pographical errors contained in the 10512. Filed Feb. 18. Vivar, Luis, et al. Filed by Nation- original filings. star Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks Smith Deseatria, et al. Filed by to foreclose on a mortgage to secure JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: $252,000 affecting property located seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to at 91 Mathes St., Lake Peekskill Doing Business As secure $165,851 affecting property 10537. Filed Feb. 10. located at 114 Deer Court Drive, Inquiring Minds Bookstore Inc., Middletown 10940. Filed Oct. 8. Wilson, Michael, et al. Filed by d.b.a. Mental Health Resources, The Bank of New York Mellon. Ac- 200 Main St., Saugerties 12477. Smith, Ingrid P., et al. Filed by tion: seeks to foreclose on a mort- Filed Feb. 24. Hudson Valley Federal Credit gage to secure $504,000 affecting Union. Action: seeks to foreclose property located at 15 W. Searsville Maple Leaves Kitchen and Bath on a mortgage to secure $288,000 Road, Montgomery 12549. Filed Inc., d.b.a. Maple Leaves Kitchen affecting property located at 73-75 Oct. 8. and Bath, 1108 Route 9W, MarlRiver Road, Saugerties 12477. Filed boro 12542. Filed Feb. 24. Feb. 21. Wutch, Laura, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to Sobocinski, Deborah L., et al. foreclose on a mortgage to secure Partnerships Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: $217,950 affecting property located seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to at 3 Fedorko Lane, Montgomery Chichester Farm, 545 Route 214, secure $342,900 affecting property 12549. Filed Oct. 8. Chichester 12416, c/o Arthur E. located at 10 Broadway, Christie and Jennifer J. Christie. Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518. Filed Filed Feb. 18. Oct. 8. Pinkerous, Christopher H., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $133,500 affecting property located at 485 Jenny Brook Road, Napanoch 12458. Filed Feb. 21.

D and J Cleaning Services, 132 G and R Fleet Service, 100 BrookO’Neil St., Kingston 12401, c/o Di- side Road, New Paltz 12561, c/o ane M. Howell and Jerri Elizabeth Ralph R. Ronk. Filed Feb. 20. Brooks. Filed Feb. 20. Go Solar Now, 31 Elm St., Tillson New 4 Less, 63 Pike St., Port Jervis 12486, c/o Daniel E. Scherrer. Filed 12771, c/o Amanda Miedema and Feb. 21. Anibal Feliciano. Filed Sept. 25. Hair by True Colors, 7183 Route Wags N’ Gift Tags, 1298 Route 209, Wawarsing 12489, c/o Eliza9W, Marlboro 12542, c/o Emily M. beth M. Hornbeck. Filed Feb. 19. Amoia and Stephan A. Amoia. Filed Feb. 21. Horizon on Wheels, 37 Wisner Ave., Middletown 10940, c/o Daysi Wildlife Programs, P.O. Box 706, Ana Gonzalez. Filed Sept. 25. Saugerties 12477, c/o Andrew B. Simmons and Nicole R. Guyette. Huguenot Realty Co., 29 S. ChestFiled Feb. 21. nut St., New Paltz 12561, c/o Floyd Kniffen. Filed Feb. 19.

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J and B Apts, 19 and 21 Route 42, Shandaken 12480, c/o Robert L. Jones Sr. Filed Feb. 21.

207(c), 35 Dug Road, New Paltz 12561, c/o Robert M. Gabrielli. Filed Feb. 18. Jump Start Espanol, 36 Country Lane, Lake Katrine 12449, c/o Julie 300 Nails and Spa, 417 Windsor E. Jones. Filed Feb. 24. Highway, Route 32, Vails Gate 12584, c/o Pich Thach. Filed Now Free Solar, 31 Elm St., Tillson Sept. 24. 12486, c/o Daniel E. Scherrer. Filed Feb. 21. Act Alliance Cleaning Service, 56 New Paltz Road, Suite T, Highland On the Go Auto, 58 Ulster St., 12528, c/o Corey D.T. Shores. Filed Kingston 12401, c/o Xavier James Feb. 18. McCasland. Filed Feb. 18. Anchors Away Rubbish Removal Co., 22 Partition St., Saugerties 12477, c/o Richard H. Fitzgerald Jr. Filed Feb. 20.

Orange County I Q, 25 Split Rock Drive, Chester 10918, c/o Robert Leonard Polhamus III. Filed Sept. 25.

ASF and Associates, 14 Berkeley Court, Highland Mills 10930, c/o Agar Santana. Filed Sept. 23.

Pristine Waters Trading Co., P.O. Box 65, Bloomingburg 12721, c/o Brian William Raymond. Filed Sept. 25.

Bellwood, 107 Augustine Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Christine A. Public Service Disability ConMiller. Filed Feb. 24. sultants, 35 Dug Road, New Paltz 12561, c/o Robert M. Gabrielli. Beyond Clean, 51 Colonial Drive, Filed Feb. 18. Kingston 12401, c/o Gwendolyn E. Matos. Filed Feb. 20. Scotty’s Barber Shop, 181 Wickham Ave., Middletown 10940, c/o Bridge Shell, 5001 Route 9W, Scott Michael Perry. Filed Sept. 23. Newburgh 12550, c/o James J. Perrotta. Filed Sept. 25. Solar Buying Club, 31 Elm St., Tillson 12486, c/o Daniel E. ScherClutch Travel Co., 63 Picnic rer. Filed Feb. 21. Woods Road, Lloyd 12515, c/o Terri J. O’Dea. Filed Feb. 20. Starr Tanning, 599 Greenville Turnpike, Middletown 10940, c/o D G Property Maintenance, 18 Bernice Ennist. Filed Sept. 23. Bonnie Brae Lane, Shokan 12481, c/o Darrin S. Grecky. Filed Feb. 19. Steven Wilson, 90 Allhusen Road, New Paltz 12561. c/o Steven WilExpress Pool Builders, 12 Vine- son. Filed Feb. 18. yard Lane, Marlboro 12542, c/o Vance Biengardo. Filed Feb. 21. Tot’s in Toyland, 4 Kayleigh Drive, New Paltz 12561, c/o Jennifer J. Pottinger. Filed Feb. 20.

LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Formation of SERMALEX, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/3/13. 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 Selznick & Company LLP, 145 Bedford Rd., Suite 201, Armonk, NY 10504. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #59208 MKDZ, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on /16/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Danielle Zackman & Murray Krasnoff, 114 Stonewall Cir., West Harrison, NY 10604. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59209 WESTCHESTER EXPORT CAPITAL, LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 09/26/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. LLC formed in DE on 08/23/2013. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 65 Court Street, Ste 4, White Plains, NY 10601. Address required to be maintained in DE: 16192 Coastal Highway Lewes DE 19958. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59210 ECAP FOOD COMPANY LLC, Authority filed with the SSNY on 09/17/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. LLC formed in DE on 03/05/2013. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 65 Court Street, Ste 4, White Plains, NY 10601. Address required to be maintained in DE: 16192 Coastal Highway Lewes DE 19958. Cert of Formation filed with DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St., Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59211 Notice of Formation of KOUTROS PROPERTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/13. 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, 720 North Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful activity. #59212 Notice of Formation of JSC Enterprises, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/9/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 424 Garden Ave, Mount Vernon, NY 10553. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59216 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Lion Heart Residences LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on January 17, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Lion Heart Residences LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59219 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Lion Heart Residences Manager LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on January 17, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Lion Heart Residences Manager LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59220

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: Lion Heart Residences Associates LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on January 17, 2014. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Lion Heart Residences Associates LLC, 1055 Saw Mill River Road, Suite 204, Ardsley, New York 10502. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59221 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: 130 Modern, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on July 11, 2013. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 130 Modern, LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59222 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company(ìLLCî). Name: 130 Modern Managers, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on July 11, 2013. NY office location:Westchester County.The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 130 Modern Managers, LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #59223 Notice of Formation of ITE PARTNERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Robert S. Ocko, 6 Fawn Brook Court, Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59225 Notice of formation of ANT & WILLOW LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/28/2012. 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, 110 East 25th St, 3rd Fl New York, NY 10010. Purpose: Any lawful purpose #59226 Notice of formation of Brozman Arts Enterprises LLC. Articles of origin filed with SSNY on 3/28/13. Office location, Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 85 McKinley Avenue, #A3-1, White Plains NY, 10606. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #59227 Notice of Formation of CRFD Associates LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/2/13.Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY design. As agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 234 Juniper Drive, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59228 Notice of Formation of Marc Nahas Design, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/2/13. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 152 Mill River Rd Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59229 130 WESTCHESTER AVENUE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/09/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 130 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59230

Notice of formation of POSH POTTY, LLC. The Application for Authority was filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on NOVEMBER 4, 2013. Arts. Of Org. originally filed with the Sectíy of State of DE (SSDE) on SEPTEMBER 27, 2013. County designation forbusiness: WESTCHESTER COUNTY. The current street address of Principle Place of Business: 857 Post Road, Suite 399, Fairfield, Connecticut, 06824. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process served to: USA CORPORATE SERVICES, INC. 3500 SOUTH DUPONT HIGHWAY, DOVER, DE, 19901. Office in jurisdiction of formation: USA CORPORATE SERVICES, INC. 3500 SOUTH DUPONT HIGHWAY, DOVER, DE, 19901.Posh Potty LLC. is currently in existence in DE Authorized Officer in jurisdiction of formation: JEFFREY W. BULLOCK, SECRETARY OF STATE, DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS, JOHN G. TOWNSEND BLDG., 402 FEDERAL STREET, SUITE 4, DOVER, DE, 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. #59233 SOHO EDITIONS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/21/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2641 Deer St., Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59234 COSMOTRONICS LLC. Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) on 1/28/14. Office location: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to Cosmotronics LLC, 145 Palisade St, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #59235 NOTICE OF FORMATION of SEVIN STAFFORD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/22/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 50 Columbus Avenue #1101, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Purpose: any lawful activity. The LLC is to be managed by one or more managers. #59236 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel A, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59238 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel B, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59239 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel C, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59240 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel E, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59241 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel F, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59242

NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel G, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59243 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel H, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59244 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel I, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59245 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel K, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59246 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel L LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59247 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel M, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59248 NOTICE OF FORMATION of LL Parcel R, LLC Art. of Org filed Secíy of State (SSNY) 1/27/14. 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 c/o DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, One N. Lexington Ave, White Plains, New York 10601, Attn: Peter J. Wise, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities. #59249 Notice of formation of Alan Offenberg & Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on1/22/14. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 29 Bayberry Rd, Armonk, NY 10504. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59251 Notice of formation of Battle Hill Towing & Recovery L.L.C articles origin file with SSNY 12/4/13 office location in Westchester County SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process to; 219 Fisher Ave, White Plains NY 10606. Purpose : any lawful activity #59252

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ñ COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER INDEX# 54064/2013 FILED: 12/24/2013 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates WESTCHESTER County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, DEIVI CURZ, if he be living and if he be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint, and JOHN DOE and “JANE DOE”, the last two names being fictitious and said parties intended being tenants, or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant(s) TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOU CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not serviced with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage that was dated April 26, 2012 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester on May 2, 2012 in Control No. 51213048. Plaintiff is the holder and the owner of the aforesaid NOTE and MORTGAGE, covering premises known as 25 Waterside Close, Eastchester, NY 10709. (Block 1 Lot 20). The relief sought within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Joan B. Lefkowitz, J.S.C. , a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, filed along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk of the County of WESTCHESTER on 12/3/2013. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Eastchester County of Westchester and State of New York (Block 1 Lot 20). Said premises known as 25 Waterside Close, Eastchester, NY 10709. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly demanded: By virtue thereof, plaintiff has heretofore elected and by these presents hereby elects to accelerate the entire unpaid principal balance of $562,125.45 to be immediately due and payable under the mortgage herein foreclosed, with accrued interest at 6.25% per annum from February 1, 2012. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York state Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Departmentís website at www.banking.state.ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to ìsaveî your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeownerís distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Kozeny, McCubbin & Katz, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 395 N. Service Road, Suite 401, Melville, NY 11747 Our File 19436 #59253

FMFS OF GWB, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/22/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7 Renaissance Sq. 5th Fl., White Plains, NY 10601. Reg Agent: James Bitzonis, 7 Renaissance Sq. 5th Fl., White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59254

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LEGAL NOTICES Continued from previous page LARSTASIO LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/15/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1360 Sunny Ridge Road, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Reg Agent: Anastasios Nougos, 345 W. 55th St., NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59255

Notice of Formation of 100 MAIN STREET ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 2/11/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 12 Water St., #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59260

Notice of formation of Professional Service Limited Liability Corporation Name: Leonard Leven M.D. PLLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/18/2013.Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC, 503 Grasslands Road, Suite 107, Valhalla, NY 10595. Purpose: for the practice of the profession of Medicine. #59256

Notice of Formation of HIPCHIK HOME, LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 1/24/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 2 Kavey Place, Armonk, NY 10504. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59261

MCJ BUSINESS ADVISORS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/28/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 840 Sherman Avenue, Thornwood, NY 10594. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59257 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Halstead’s Bar and Grill, Inc. d/b/a Halstead’s Bar and Grill to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 7-9 Purdy Street Harrison NY 10528. #59258 Notice of Formation of DAVID B. LEVER & ASSOCIATES, PLLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 2/10/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 19 W. 34th St., #1018, New York, NY 10001. The registered agent is: USA Corporate Services Inc. at the same address. Purpose: to engage in the practice of Law. #59259

Notice of Formation of 336 EAST 54 STREET ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 1/24/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 12 Water St., #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59262 Notice is hereby given that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by Domarc Corp d/b/a Gerardo’s to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 454 East Main Street Mt. Kisco NY 10549. #59263 Notice of Formation of 5 Driftwood Properties, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/15/2010. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 51, Goldens Bridge NY 10526. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59265

Notice of Formation of Butterfly Birthdays LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/17/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1 Wardman Street, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59266 PATH COFFEE ROASTERS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/20/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Robert Richter, 106 Purdy Ave., Port Chester, NY 10573. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59267 FOUR M BAKERY OF WESTBURY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/17/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 7 Renaissance Square, 5th Fl., White Plains, NY 10601. Reg. Agent: James Bitzonis, 7 Renaissance Square, 5th Fl., White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59268 CASA NOFO, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/07/2014. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1360 Sunny Ridge Rd., Mohegan Lake, NY 10547. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59269 205 S Riverside Ave LLC Legal Notice 205 S Riverside Ave LLC Notice of Formation of 205 S Riverside Ave LLC. Articles of Organization file with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/28/14.Office Location 205 S Riverside Ave Croton on Hudson, NY 10520 (Westchester). SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 205 S Riverside Ave Croton on Hudson, NY 10520. Purpose: any lawful activity #59270

VILLAGE OF SCARSDALE WESTCHESTER COUNTY NEW YORK SOLICITATION FOR SEALED BIDS 3 EDGEWOOD ROAD SCARSDALE, NEW YORK 10583 The Village of Scarsdale invites interested parties to submit sealed bids for the purchase of Village-owned property located at 3 Edgewood Road in Scarsdale, N.Y. Copies of the Bid Solicitation, which include the bid submission form, requirements and relevant information are available at Scarsdale Village Hall, 1001 Post Road, Scarsdale, N.Y. at the Village Clerkís Office. Copies of the Bid Solicitation are also available on the Villageís website, www. scarsdale.com. A pre-bid conference will be held on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Scarsdale Village Hall, 3rd Floor Meeting Room followed by a walkthrough of the property. Final bids must be submitted by Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by 2:00 PM at the Village Treasurerís Office, 1st Floor, Village Hall, 1001 Post Road, Scarsdale, N.Y. in a sealed envelope addressed to Mary Louise McClure, Village Treasurer and clearly marked Bid Submission, Village Owned Property, 3 Edgewood Road. Bids will be publicly opened and read at 2:00 PM in the Trusteesí Room, 2nd Floor, Village Hall on March 18, 2014. For additional information please call Rita Azrelyant, Assistant to the Village Manager, at (914) 722-1109. Alfred A. Gatta Village Manager #59271

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Notice of Application to do business in NY of Clearer Horizons LLC (ìLLCî) under the fictitious name of Cheah & Lew LLC. Application filed with SSNY on 11/21/13. LLC formed in Delaware on 9/16/13. Office loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to:35 Mark Mead Rd, Cross River, NY 10518. Office address in DE: c/o Harvard Business Services Inc., 16192 Coastal Hwy, Lewes, DE 19958. Copies of Cert.of Org. of LLC on file &may be obtained from the DE Secretary of State, DE Div. of Corps, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose :any lawful act or activity. #59272 Notice of Formation of Stewart Staffing Solutions of Springfield, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/09/13. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. As agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC 10 Columbus Blvd, Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59273 Notice of Formation of Murkhart, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/18/2014. Office location: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 77 Orchard Ridge Road, Chappaqua, NY 10514, Purpose: any lawful act or activity #59274 Notice is hereby given that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by AOC Wine Bar LLC to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 282 Huguenot Street, Suite B New Rochelle NY 10801. #59275

SING SING KILL BREWERY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/11/2013. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 80 Stone Ave., Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #59276 NOTICE of FORMATION of a DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name of LLC: R44 VENTURES, LLC Date of filing of Articles of Organization with the NY Dept of State: November 25, 2013 The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 18 Hangar Road, Suite 200, White Plains NY 10604.Purpose of LLC: Helicopter services #59277 RCTOBINLAW, PLLC, Law offices of Rita C. Tobin, a domestic PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/21/14. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The PLLC, 123 Main Street Street,White Plains NY 10601. No dissolution date. Purpose: Law. #59278

The Articles of Organization of GOLDEN GOOSE ESTATE SALES COMPANY, LLC (the ìCompanyî) were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on November 21, 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 is: The LLC, C/O Steven Macca, 13 Alden Place, Hartsdale, New York 10530. The company was formed for any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Act. #59279 THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE CHARLPEG FOUNDATION for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2013 is available at its principal office located at 800 Westchester Avenue, Suite S-618, Rye Brook NY 10573, for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof. Principal Manager of the Foundation is DONALD E. HANDELMAN. #59280 Route 17K Facilities, LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 11/15/13. Office: Westchester Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to c/o Stuart Berg, Esq. 1 North Broadway, 10th Flr. White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful activity Ad # 59217

FACES& PLACES Warm reception More than 150 Westchester County Association members and friends braved the cold and turned out for its “Snow Meltin’” quarterly networking reception and party recently at Cooper’s Mill Restaurant in Tarrytown. Photographs by Ed Cody 1. Carmen Perrone and Joe Leake of databean L.L.C.; Michael Wieser of MJ Wieser Law. 2. Robert Liguori of AFLAC and Jennifer Flowers of Accreditation Guru Inc. 3. Tracey Di Brino of Stark Office Suites and Carolyn Sierra of McGladrey L.L.P. 4. Sean Brady, Nisha Singh and Rialda Kuc, all of Clarfeld Wealth L.L.C. 5. Susan Lampert of TitleVest; Peter Marengo of Altium Wealth Management; Leo Wiegman of Croton Energy Group Inc.; and John Attanasio of Webster Bank. 6. Jennifer Lofaro, Vincent Crowe and Justin Gardner, all of Bleakley Platt & Schmidt L.L.P.; and Christine Gagliardi of TitleVest. 7. Kevin McCarthy of CBRE; Paul Stanton of Five Gentlemen L.L.C.; and Brittany Zachos of Zachos Design Group. 8. Kyle Langworthy of The Premier Group; and Richard Reiter of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman and Dicker L.L.P.

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LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY

DO YOU KNOW AN OUTSTANDING WOMAN WHO MADE AN IMPACT IN BUSINESS OR HER COMMUNITY IN 2013? The Fairfield and Westchester County Business Journals have selected several women who made an impact locally and globally and will feature them at a special event April 3, 5:30 P.M. at the Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave., Rye. But we know there are hundreds of other women who contributed significantly in 2013 and we wish to recognize them too at our event.

So join us by nominating your choice of a woman of accomplishment in business or nonprofit organization. NOMINATIONS CLOSE MARCH 10. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WESTFAIRONLINE.COM OR CONTACT HOLLY DEBARTOLO AT (914) 358-0743

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