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White Plains bids again in Albany for its own IDA

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

T Lights, action, art Natalie Sena, founder of Sena Studios in Dobbs Ferry, left a job in higher education to pursue an artistic career. For story, see page 2. Photo by Aleesia Forni.

he city of White Plains might be hoping that persistence pays off.

The city’s Common Council passed a resolution in February asking the state Legislature to allow the city to establish its own industrial development agency, the latest move in an effort that stretches back more than a decade.

The council has passed similar legislation, called a home rule request, to start up a White Plains Industrial Development Agency in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Establishing an IDA has been a goal of Mayor Thomas Roach

since he took office in 2011, but he is not the first mayor to pursue it.

Roach said he took up the effort from Joseph Delfino, a Republican who served as the city’s mayor for 12 years before choosing not to seek re-election in 2009. Throughout his time as mayor, Delfino also pursued a city IDA, which can offer tax breaks to businesses to help drive job growth.

But the bid for a White Plains IDA has repeatedly faltered in Albany. Bills in the state Assembly and Senate have continually failed to gain traction.

“The Legislature has been reticent to create any new IDAs,” said » IDA, page 6

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which are new to New York but expected to grow quickly.

The PowerMarket, which launched in February, essentially creates a marketplace for people interested in buying the solar power produced by community solar arrays.

The arrays are not hooked directly to any end user, such as a home or commercial office.

Instead, the power produced by the array is pumped into the grid and the contributions it makes are counted as net-metering credits. Those credits then can be used to offset the bills of members of the community solar project who pay to receive a share of the power credits. Every kilowatt that their share of the community solar array produces

means a kilowatt off their electricity bill.

The PowerMarket’s platform wants to help connect people to those community solar arrays.

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Film studio founder switches careers to pursue her art

BY ALEESIA FORNI

ment management e-communications at Siena College in suburban Albany — “was aforni@westfairinc.com doing content creation for social media and a lot of that was videos for Facebook and desire to find a creative outTwitter,” she said. “So I always made videos, let has led one Dobbs Ferry I always edited them, but I didn’t think woman to embark on a new much of it until I had this story I couldn’t tell career path, one that involved any other way.” starting her own film producThat story drew on Sena’s own experition studio. ences working as a personal assistant.

“I was always a visual artist,” said Natalie “Sometimes, being an assistant can be Sena, founder of Sena Studios LLC. “I was very stressful and you just want to get the always creative my whole life, but I always job done. I wrote this crazy fantastical story thought that my professional life and my about an assistant who just wants to do a creative life kind of had to be separated.” really good job for her boss and is willing Sena, whose professional background to do anything, and one of the things she’s is in higher education and administration, willing to do is dispose of a body, no quesrelocated to Dobbs Ferry in 2013 after securtions asked.” ing a job as an assistant to the chief of staff Her short film, “A Good Assistant,” folat Mercy College. Though she enjoyed her lows the main character as she goes through time at Mercy, Sena soon began to feel as the gruesome task of removing a body from though something in her life was missing. her boss’s office. The film was an official “I was having that idea of, I have this selection at several film festivals, including really secure job. I have a pension. I have the Yonkers Film Festival and the Sick Chick Flicks Festival in North Carolina in 2016.

“Some people watch (my film) and they’re like, ‘What is going on in your head, because you’re so nice and look pretty normal and yet you make this dark stuff,’” Sena said.

The experience of creating her own film was both cathartic and life-changing.

“I was able to blend my creative vision with my organizational and logistical skills,” she said of the film’s production. “Being almost 30, Natalie Sena edits a web series she produced, directed and filmed in her Dobbs I was like, wow, I wish I Ferry apartment. Photo by Aleesia Forni had learned this about myself earlier in life, but now that I know I’ve found the thing that benefits. All of that is awesome,” she could fulfill me most, I’ve just got to run recalled. “But I had this feeling like, maybe with this.’” this isn’t the thing that fulfills me. There Sena formed her production company, really shouldn’t be a divide, like I can’t be an Sena Studios, in 2016. The company proartist until I come home at 5.” duced a second short film last year and is That feeling prompted Sena to sign up raising money to develop its first feature for a 16-week boot camp in filmmaking at film, a fictional story that follows a presthe School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. tigious reporter as she travels back to her Participants went through each step of native South Africa to cover the brutal rape creating their own film, from writing and of an 8-year-old girl. production to ultimately screening their The short films’ budgets range from finished work for an audience. $1,500 to $3,500, while the budget for the “One of my early jobs out of graduate upcoming feature film, which will be the school” — as assistant director of enroll-

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studio’s first movie Sena herself has not written or directed, is around $200,000.

Much of Sena Studios’ filming happens either in the one-bedroom apartment she shares with her husband or on location.

Sena hopes to one day to have a studio of her own.

“I have dreams, I just don’t have cash right now,” she quipped.

Having left her job at Mercy College last fall, Sena now works as an executive assistant with Reconsider, a Dobbs Ferry company that produces documentary films.

Though Sena hopes in the future to work for her own production company full-time, for now she’s content with splitting her time between the studio and what she calls her “supporting career.”

“I’m still figuring it out, but I found the thing that makes me excited to get up in the morning,” she said.

Sena is also inspired by the burgeoning film scene in Westchester, citing the recently released “The Girl on the Train” that was partly filmed in Dobbs Ferry.

“I see filmmaking going on all the time.

I feel like I’m in Little Hollywood,” she said.

“I think Westchester’s (film scene) is just going to continue to grow, because it has the great benefit of being within 25 miles of New York City.”

Sena Studios held its first film festival, movies4movies, at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library in February. The festival screened more than a dozen movies created by both local and global filmmakers and was attended by more than 180 people.

“When I make films, yes I’d love to make money at it, but that’s not my goal,” Sena said.

“My goal is for it to be seen, and I wanted to create opportunities for people to fulfill that goal of just having their films seen.”

The quarterly film festival “is something I feel I can offer Dobbs Ferry with my skills and talents and background,” she said. “The outpouring of support from the community has been amazing. It makes me feel like a little celebrity. People see me, and they’re like, ‘You’re the film festival girl.’”

The recent changes in her life — which included dyeing her naturally dark hair a shade of green — have inspired her husband, Corey Murray, to undertake a similar soul-searching journey of his own.

Murray, a librarian at Dobbs Ferry Public Library and Mercy College and executive producer on Sena’s projects, recently started classes to pursue a long-held dream of his own: becoming a puppeteer.

“It’s nonstop with the puppets now,” Sena said with a laugh.

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Report: boost efficiency and renewable energy to offset Indian Point closing

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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he power needed after Indian Point Energy Center shuts down can be replaced, but it will require the state to ramp up its energy efficiency initiatives.

That’s according to the findings of a new report commissioned by Ossining-based Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The two environmental nonprofits commissioned the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Synapse Energy Economics Inc. to study replacement options for the Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan.

The plant will shut down by 2021 under the terms of a deal reached between Indian Point’s operator, Entergy Corp., and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a legal agreement that included Riverkeeper. Cuomo and environmental groups such as Riverkeeper and the NRDC have long opposed the plant for its potentially dangerous proximity to New York City and the Hudson River. But the 2000-megawatt plant produces low-cost, carbon-free power that makes up about 25 percent of Westchester and New York City’s

supply, leaving a big gap to fill.

That gap can be filled, according to the report, by both scaling up renewable energy sources and increased incentives for energy efficiency. Both of these measures are also central to the state’s Clean Energy Standard, a Cuomo-backed initiative approved last summer that requires half the state’s energy come through renewable sources by 2030 and provides subsidies to help build up renewable production.

“Under aggressive but cost-effective and potentially attainable increases in energy efficiency beyond the levels assumed in the Clean Energy Standard, all of the consumption otherwise met with (Indian Point) output could be met by more efficient energy use alone by 2023,” according to the report.

The report adds that, under more aggressive energy-efficiency measures, energy savings could reach an amount that’s twice Indian Point’s current output.

The report also positions the Champlain Hudson Power Express as a measure for meeting the power demand now filled by Indian Point. The proposed 333-mile transmission line would bring about 1,100 megawatts to the region from hydropower in Quebec. The $2.2 billion line, proposed by

Transmission Developers Inc., an affiliate of Blackstone Group LP, would run underground from the Canadian border, through the Hudson River and into converter stations in Astoria, Queens.

A combination of the Champlain line, increases in renewable energy production mandated by the Clean Energy Standard and an aggressive push on energy-efficiency measures could well exceed Indian Point’s production levels, according to the report.

“Recent transmission improvements — coupled with energy-efficiency gains, cheaper renewables and lower demand estimates — show that New York is already on its way to a reliable, affordable, clean energy future,” said Paul Gallay, Riverkeeper’s president.

The report said state policies such as a higher efficiency savings target and increased incentives could help boost the state’s overall energy efficiency.

Nuclear power plants, unlike coal and gas-fired plants, do not generate carbon emissions. It’s part of the reason why Cuomo, despite his fight against Indian Point, added a ratepayer subsidy into the Clean Energy Standard to help keep three upstate nuclear plants open. Part of the concern was that any loss in nuclear production would be met

with a boost in natural gas energy production, instead of renewable energy. The same concerns have been expressed for Indian Point’s future shutdown. The report rebuts that thinking. The state’s Clean Energy Standard-backed renewable production and an increase in energy efficiency would eliminate the need to use fossil fuels or imported fossil fuel energy, it says.

“We have shown that New York can easily exceed its electric sector greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by 2030 by deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy in place of (Indian Point),” the report concluded.

Still, not all are believers in the vision laid out by the report. Jerry Kremer of the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance business group, said replacing Indian Point’s production will be a “formidable task.” The state, he said, should release a plan of its own for replacing the power.

“For years, opponents of Indian Point have minimized the cost and environmental disruptions that will occur if the plant closes,” Kremer said. “Yet, in places where nuclear plants have closed, carbon emissions have skyrocketed and numerous economic disruptions occurred.”

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TASK FORCE TO ADDRESS LOCAL IMPACT OF INDIAN POINT CLOSING A task force of state and local officials will try to help the village of Buchanan and town of Cortlandt prepare for the shutdown of Indian Point Energy Center, which employs 1,050 people among its two nuclear reactors.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the task force on Feb. 21, shortly before the state Legislature held a hearing questioning the plan to close the nuclear plant.

Entergy Corp., the plant’s operator, will shut down both reactors by 2021 as part of a deal to settle litigation with the state and the Ossining-based environmental group Riverkeeper.

While Entergy says the plant no longer made financial sense for the company, legislators in Albany questioned state and Entergy officials on the economic impact of losing hundreds of jobs at the plant and the energy it provides. The two reactors generate 2,000 megawatts of power, enough for about a quarter of the demand

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in Westchester and New York City.

The task force will address employment and property tax impacts of the closing. The Hendrick Hudson School District, for example, estimates that it stands to lose more than $23 million, which amounts to 30 percent of its operating budget, without tax dollars from Entergy.

The task force will also monitor compliance with the closure agreement. The state has authority, along with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to inspect the plant during its final years of operation.

Entergy also agreed to move a set number of spent fuel rods yearly from storage pools to dry cask storage on site.

Tax payments from Entergy will remain in place through 2021 and ramp down gradually following the plant’s closing, according to Cuomo’s office. In addition, Entergy will also offer employees jobs at other facilities, while the state has pledged to provide training and additional jobs to laid-off workers.

The task force will be led by the state Department of Public Service. Its members will include: • state Sen. Terrence Murphy; • Assemblywoman Sandy Galef; • Catherine Borgia, majority leader of the Westchester County Board of Legislators; • John G. Testa, minority leader of

the Westchester County Board of Legislators; • Cortlandt Town Supervisor Linda D. Puglisi; • Joseph Hochreiter, Hendrick Hudson School District superintendent; • Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker.

NRG ENERGY TO CUT 50 ROCKLAND JOBS NRG Energy, the Texas and New Jerseybased power company, is shutting down its offices in Valley Cottage and laying off 50 workers. The news follows reports that the company plans to downsize its residential solar operation.

The company filed a WARN notice with the state Department of Labor on Feb. 20, notifying the government that it would shut down its offices at 614 Corporate Way. That’s the address listed as one of three New York offices for NRG Home Solar, the company’s residential solar operation.

The move follows recent news reports that NRG was moving out of the residential solar market. According to a report in GreenTechMedia citing anonymous sources, NRG plans to exit the home solar market and lay off employees from its

operations. The report notes that NRG Home Solar expanded aggressively in the market since 2014, at one point growing to the fourth largest residential solar installer in the country. But it also was losing money. The company announced 500 layoffs in May 2016 and said it would focus its business in the Northeast.

NRG, according to the GreenTechMedia report, will now only generate leads through its retail business and pass them on to third parties.

A company spokesperson declined to specify whether all layoffs at the Rockland office were tied to NRG Home Solar.

“We made some changes to our Home Solar business model to become an Energy Integrator of solar services, leveraging partners, rather than a vertically integrated solar provider,” the NRG spokesperson said in an email statement.

“These notices are a part of our pivot from selling and installing rooftop solar in the area. This does not affect service to existing customers nor does it affect other businesses NRG has in the area.”

NRG also operates larger-scale solar operations, such as community solar projects and utility-scale projects, outside of the NRG Home Solar brand.

The office will close in June, according to the WARN notice.

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White Plains firm sues ex-client in Syms estate feud

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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y the time Sy Syms died in 2009, the estate trust he set up had been amended several times and ultimately made no provision for his son, Richard.

Richard Syms, a real estate broker and Waccabuc resident, hired Bashian & Farber LLP, a White Plains law firm, to challenge his father’s will in 2010. Four years later, the firm dropped the case and sued Syms over unpaid legal fees.

On Feb. 1, four state Supreme Court appellate justices ruled that Richard Syms is liable for the legal fees, but Bashian & Farber was not entitled to summary judgment for damages.

Sy Syms, founder of Syms Corp., a discount clothing chain that had its headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey, died after a long period of cognitive decline, according to Bashian & Farber’s lawsuit against his son. Richard believed that his sister, Marcy, executrix of the estate, had exerted undue influence over their father. He wanted his lawyers to contest the will and force his sister to return assets she had transferred to herself while their father was still alive.

Marcy Syms, the oldest child, headed Syms Corp. for 15 years until the company, which had acquired the bankrupt Filene’s Basement department store chain in 2009, itself declared bankruptcy two years later and went out of business in 2012.

She is president of TPD Group LLC, a succession planning company. Her 2002 book, “Mind Your Own Business: And Keep it in the Family,” discusses ways to cope with sibling rivalries and help smooth the transition of family-owned businesses from one generation to another.

The founder’s daughter also is president of the Sy Syms Foundation in Fort Lee, New Jersey, a supporter of medical, educational and cultural causes, including public television, public radio and the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University in Manhattan.

She did not respond to a request for comment.

In 2014, Bashian & Farber sued Richard Syms and his wife, Ineva, in state Supreme Court in White Plains for breach of contract and fraud over $329,069 in unpaid fees.

Syms had confirmed numerous times that billing statements were accurate, according to the lawsuit, and had said he would pay the fees with the proceeds from a real estate deal. Instead, the lawsuit says,

the couple sold a property for $1.2 million and transferred six more to one another but did not pay the legal bill.

Syms responded that he transferred properties for estate planning purposes after suffering a heart attack. He paid about $150,000 in fees, his attorney said, but Syms believed the law firm had inflated its fees by $120,000 and had accomplished very little. Much of the work was done by a novice lawyer, for instance, whose services were initially billed at $175 an hour and then, without explanation or notification, $300 an hour.

Syms’ new attorney, Michael S. Haber, describes Bashian & Farber’s tactics as extremely aggressive. The law firm “routinely sought extraordinary remedies,” he says in a court document, including six unsuccessful requests for sanctions against Syms and himself.

For example, Bashian & Farber accused Syms and Haber of misrepresenting Syms’ health to bolster their position that the real estate transactions were motivated only by estate planning. Syms was actually diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, the law firm discovered, and not a heart attack.

Regardless of the precise diagnosis, Haber said, Syms underwent open heart surgery and he had lost a brother at age 45 and a sister at 37 to heart attacks. “Any emergency cardiac surgery,” Haber said in a memorandum opposing Bashian & Farber’s request for sanctions, “could well cause a person to visit the issue of his own mortality” and would explain why he focused on estate planning.

Supreme Court Justice Charles D. Wood denied the law firm’s request for sanctions.

In ruling on other issues last month, the appellate court said Wood should have granted Bashian & Farber summary judgement on the issue of liability for the legal fees.

Syms received invoices and agreed to pay them, the appellate court said. The law firm does not have to “show the reasonableness of the retainer agreement or its legal services.”

But Bashian & Farber had conceded errors in their calculations, the court said, so it was not entitled to summary judgement for damages. The case was sent back to the trial court to determine damages.

The appellate court essentially split the issue down the middle, Haber said in a telephone interview. Syms has to pay legal fees but there is still a triable issue as to how much he should pay.

Meanwhile, the underlying dispute over the Sy Syms estate continues in New York City surrogate court.

Citrin Cooperman Corner

Focusing on What Counts: The Ultimate Measurement of Business Success

BY GARY M. KARLITZ, CPA, ABV, CBA, ASA CITRIN COOPERMAN Many business owners like to brag. It’s a “soft reward” for their toil and worries, so why not? Professional service firms are eager to point out their revenue per consultant, and other productivity measures, while restaurateurs are GARY M. KARLITZ fond of citing favorable food costs, labor costs, table turns, etc. Retailers rave about things like, their vast customer base, returning customers, and sales growth. On the other hand, wholesalers like to highlight their inventory turns, gross margins, and lack of vendor or customer concentration.

But, is reliance on these industry-specific quotients really enough?

Are these assessments truly the ultimate measure of business success, or are these numbers, although valuable, merely a smoke screen enabling business owners to avoid focusing on what really counts? And, at the end of the day, how does one measure what really counts?

Watching one’s net worth grow is a fair, and reliable, measure of success. But, what is most often the largest component of someone’s net worth? You guessed it, the value of their business.

The ratios discussed above are an important part of evaluating a business, and hats off to those entrepreneurs who monitor those statistics, but they are not stand-alone proxies for what really counts - business value!

There are many moving parts in valuing a business. Generally, business valuation results are influenced by the following three factors: (1) cash flows; (2) the growth of those cash flows; and, (3) the risks associated with those cash flows including its growth. The aforementioned ratios, and industry quotients, are a part of this three-pronged measurement, but do not comprise valuation on their own.

So, how do industry metrics fold into the valuation?

• CASH FLOWS – When valuing a restaurant, for example, lower food costs, as a percentage of sales, result in higher gross margins, and thus larger cash flows. With all else being equal, larger cash flows equate to a higher value.

• GROWTH – When valuing a retailer with a fastgrowing customer base, all else being equal, a growing company translates to a higher value when compared to a company with a shrinking customer base.

• LOWER RISK – Extreme customer concentration presents a significant increase in risk.

When valuing a wholesaler, for example, if concentration is so extreme that one customer accounts for 90% of the revenues, there is a clear risk. Again, all else being equal, the greater the risk, the lower the business value.

Notice how I isolated the impact of each determinant in my examples by holding “all else being equal.” The trouble with this myopic view is that all else is not typically

equal. And, herein lies the problem with measuring success by reference to standalone industry metrics.

It is common to have contra-indications when viewing various ratios. It has been well established that dropping one’s per-unit price increases its demand, and ultimately should lead to increased sales. But, if everything was simple, why wouldn’t everyone do that?

Here’s why. Imagine a fast-growing company with deteriorating margins. Those increased revenues might compensate for the increased cost, but they also might not. Without specific strategies in mind, mere revenue growth is virtually never as important as the growth of net cash flow. Which ratio, or attribute, controls or trumps the other? There is no easy answer when valuing a company – it depends.

Revenue Ruling 59-60 was published by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) 58 years ago, and incredibly it is, to this day, widely accepted as the seminal treatise in valuing a closely-held business. Here is what Revenue Ruling 59-60 tells us about valuing a business: A. Valuation of a closely-held business is not an exact science; and B. Because valuations cannot be made on the basis of a prescribed formula, there is no means whereby the various applicable factors in a particular case can be assigned mathematical weights in deriving the fair market value. For this reason, no useful purpose is served by taking an average of several factors (for example, book value, capitalized earnings, and capitalized dividends), and basing the valuation on the result. Such a process excludes active consideration of other pertinent factors, and the end result cannot be supported by a realistic application of the significant facts in the case, except by mere chance.

I would submit that the ultimate measure of success is tracking the value of your business on an annual, or bi-annual basis, by either obtaining a true valuation opinion or a Calculation of Value. Either way, the most valuable businesses are those that are ready to be sold at any moment. Tracking the value of your largest holding is focusing on what really counts!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gary M. Karlitz, CPA, ABV, CBA, ASA, brings more than 40 years of experience to his role as the practice leader of the firm’s Valuation and Forensic Services Group. He provides a wide range of forensic and valuation services in the areas of shareholder disputes, mergers and acquisitions, matrimonial disputes, economic damage analysis, corporate recoveries, and intellectual property disputes. He can be reached at 212.697.1000 or at gkarlitz@ citrincooperman.com.

Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and consulting firm with 10 locations throughout the Northeast United States. Visit us at www.citrincooperman.com.

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Senator George Latimer, a Democrat representing the 37th Senate district and sponsor of the legislation in the state Senate to establish the city IDA. “There is a general discussion that there needs to be some broadbased reform of IDAs before we expand them. But there hasn’t been an agreement on what that reform would look like.”

Brian T. McMahon, executive director of the New York State Economic Development Council, a 900-member advocacy and educational organization representing the state’s economic development professionals, said the Legislature hasn’t approved a new IDA in decades.

“Every county in the state has an IDA, and I think the feeling of the Legislature has been that that is adequate for local economic development purposes,” McMahon said. “That enters into their thinking on why not only in White Plains but for other cities and towns in the state that have similar legislation.”

But, he added, there are perfectly legitimate reasons for municipalities to want local control of an IDA. “We feel very strongly that economic development in White Plains, I’m sure, is very different from economic development in other areas of the county,” McMahon

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at the Urban Future Lab at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn. The group also provides the platform that operates the Sustainable Westchester Inc. community choice aggregation program, which provides power to 20 Westchester municipalities.

For both residential and commercial clients, The PowerMarket matches expected energy use with net-metering credits to try to offset a person’s entire bill.

“We let Con Ed know how many credits to allocate on each household’s bill,” Baudouin said. “And that’s based on the household’s consumption. So if you’ve got a pool and you’re bad with efficiency and your bill is pretty significant, you will get a larger percentage of the project so the credits from that larger percentage will offset your bill.”

In an example posted on its site, a user with an average Con Edison bill of $282 could instead shift to a system where

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said. “The people closest to the community are in a better position of being able to make decisions about their economic development futures.”

White Plains is the only one of the county’s four largest cities — which also includes Yonkers, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon — to not have its own industrial development board. Peekskill also has its own IDA. Municipalities such as the town of Mount Pleasant and the village of Port Chester also have their own IDA boards. In 2014, there were 109 active IDAs in the state, according to the most recent IDA report from state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

DiNapoli has been a critic of some IDA operations. The state in 2015 passed IDA reforms that created a uniform application process for projects seeking IDA support, a bill developed with DiNapoli. In recent years, several audits from the comptroller’s office found IDAs that were not transparent in how projects were selected for benefits or did not adjust or “claw back” benefits granted companies when job creation or job retention goals were not met.

“The end result is that projects may be granted benefits without sufficient review, or they may continue to receive benefits even when they do not meet required performance targets,” DiNapoli wrote in his annual report on IDA performance for 2014, which was released last year.

Bills in the Assembly and Senate to estab-

lish the White Plains IDA never made it to a vote in 2016. Latimer and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Democrat representing the 88th Assembly district and sponsor of the White Plains IDA bill in the Assembly, both refiled the legislation this year.

Paulin said that, in the middle of the budget process, it’s hard to say whether this year’s bill has any more of a chance to be considered. “Every year is a new year and every year I urge and push, but it’s very difficult to say,” she said.

Capitalizing in part on its quick train ride into Manhattan for commuters, White Plains is attracting significant commercial and residential development. Among those projects, the city last year approved a $275 million mixed-use redevelopment of the Westchester Pavilion downtown. A $250 million luxury apartment development is under construction at 55 Bank St. and another project under review would create a mixed-use makeover of the deteriorated White Plains Mall.

Development may be flocking to the city, but Roach said without an IDA the city has “one hand tied behind our back.”

Developers looking for tax breaks on projects in White Plains — financial incentives in the form of mortgage recording and sales tax exemptions and property tax abatement agreements — now go to the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency. The city has had no problems working with the county IDA,

Roach emphasized, but he believes White Plains can be more responsive to its needs through a local agency.

“We can be much more agile in dealing with projects with our own IDA,” he said.

Recent projects the county IDA reviewed in White Plains include the Westchester Pavilion redevelopment. The Westchester IDA awarded its developer, Lennar Multifamily Communities LLC, $14 million in sales and mortgage recording tax exemptions. The county IDA also supported Danone North America’s move to downtown White Plains. The company received $1.273 million in sales tax exemptions for its move from Greenburgh to The Source at White Plains building at 100 Bloomingdale Road.

Both bills to establish the IDA are awaiting review in Senate and Assembly committees. Roach said he hopes the city’s recent record is considered in approving the city for an IDA. “I believe a case can be made for it,” he said. “If you look at the way we are handling things in White Plains, we have shown we can handle things competently.”

Latimer, who picked up sponsorship of the bill from former long-time state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer when he took office in 2013, added that he views a local IDA as a matter of fairness for the city.

“White Plains should be able to govern its own development future,” Latimer said.

“And to do that it should have its own IDA.”

they receive two bills: a $46 monthly bill from Con Edison and a $212 bill from The PowerMarket for their share of the community solar project.

Baudouin explained that in the example given, the customer’s share of the community solar project generated a $236 netmetering credit toward their $282 bill. That means their original Con Edison bill drops to $46. PowerMarket then charges the customer for 90 percent of the benefits from the net-metering credits, so $212. This is to support the solar project, Baudouin said. In this scenario, the customer saves $24 for the billing cycle.

The company expects users to save from 8 to 9 percent yearly on energy costs, but that’s not the whole pitch. The PowerMarket advertises the chance to shop for “clean, locally produced” power. One description pledges “farm-to-table energy, at a discount.”

Through buying the credits, customers can feel they are supporting a local clean energy project, even if they’re not directly running a line from their home to the system.

“The nature of community solar is quite convoluted and our job is really to try to smooth those complexities,” Baudouin said.

The concept for community solar is still new, especially in New York. The state’s first project, in Tompkins County, wasn’t launched until last year. But community solar could likely play a major part in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s major energy initiative, the Reforming the Energy Vision, a multipronged process led by the state’s Public Service Commission. That plan includes the Clean Energy Standard, which requires half the state’s energy come through renewable sources by 2030, as well as goals to rely more on local energy generation and microgrids.

Installations for community solar nationwide are expected to grow to more than 400 megawatts in 2017, up from an estimated 200 megawatts in 2016, according to research by Greentech Media.

The PowerMarket launched with three projects for customers to choose from.

That includes a 220-kilowatt project in Hawthorne, developed by White Plainsbased Green Hybrid Energy Solutions,

which is the first community solar project to go live in Westchester. Another 120-kilowatt project in Mount Vernon is expected to power up in a couple months. The third project is in Brooklyn. More than 30 households in Westchester have signed up so far, according to company numbers.

The PowerMarket’s goal is to have 1,500 to 2,000 people buying power through the platform by the end of the year. The company for its part collects a fee for each project it manages.

Through community projects, the base of customers for solar could in theory be greatly expanded. Baudouin cited himself, living in an apartment in New York City, as someone who wouldn’t be able to have a residential panel setup but could become a solar customer through a community project.

“The essence of community solar is that anyone can participate,” Baudouin said.

“With traditional rooftop solar you only have 50 percent, or less even, of the country that can go solar. They may have a big oak tree in their yard or they are a renter. We want to bring solar to everyone.”

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WALSH TO RETIRE AS BURKE CEO Dr. Mary Beth Walsh will step down on April 1 as CEO and executive medical director of Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, the hospital’s board of trustees in White Plains has announced. A rheumatologist by training, she led Burke in the dual executive posts for 22 years of her 37-year tenure there.

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development, will succeed Walsh, serving as president and CEO of the adult rehabilitative care center. Burke officials said Menkes,

a former president and CEO of New York Downtown Hospital in lower Manhattan, has worked closely with Walsh since Burke joined the Bronx-based Montefiore Health System 13 months ago.

In the announcement, Burke’s trustees said Walsh “put Burke on the map as one of the premier rehabilitation hospitals in the region and set the pace for all others in the field with her visionary planning and advances in clinical care.…Her dedication to patient-centered, integrated care has been the bedrock of the hospital’s stellar reputation and is her lasting legacy.”

Officials said Walsh was the driving force behind the 102-year-old Westchester hospital’s partnership with Montefiore and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, which allowed Burke to create a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program. She was also instrumental in creating a neurorehabilitation fellowship to educate the next generation of rehab physicians.

A member of the American Hospital Association board of trustees and of its postacute care steering committee, Walsh also serves as a director of the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association. She has advocated in Washington, D.C. for improved health care regulations and quality in post-acute care.

Her work has brought her honors that include the Women’s Healthcare Network Founder’s Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 from the New York Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.

“The board of Burke Rehabilitation Hospital would like to express its deep gratitude to Dr. Walsh for her tremendous contributions in setting the highest standards of care for the full spectrum of patients requiring intensive physical rehabilitation,” the announcement stated. “Her accomplishments will continue through the patient-focused best practices she helped create.”

Regarding Walsh’s future plans, “The incoming CEO and board would like her to stay on in some capacity but she hasn’t confirmed that she will,” said Burke spokesman Richard Sgaglio. “Perhaps after a long overdue vacation.”

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Surgical Specialty Center of Westchester, a multispecialty outpatient surgical practice in Harrison, will partner with Northwell Health, the metropolitan health care system based on Long Island, in a joint venture that could give Northwell a majority stake in the practice within five years.

Northwell announced it will initially acquire a 20 percent position in the 34-surgeon practice at 440 Mamaroneck Ave. The ownership agreement, which still requires state regulatory approval, grants Northwell rights to acquire up to 51 percent of the center within five years.

Owned by eight physicians, Surgical Specialty Center of Westchester specializes in cosmetic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, ophthalmologic and oculoplastic surgery, hand surgery, gynecology, ear nose and throat surgery and oral surgery. The center treats nearly 3,500 patients annually, according to Northwell, in an approximately 11,000-square-foot facility with four operating rooms, five preoperative stations and a six-bed post-anesthesia care unit.

Dr. Samuel J. Beran, medical director of Surgical Specialty Center of Westchester, in the announcement said the practice’s affiliation with Northwell “will allow us access to the strengths of one of the leading health care systems in the nation. He noted that “…both SSCW and Northwell are committed to maintaining and strengthening our patient-centered culture.”

Amid a competitive surge of hospital consolidations that followed the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, Northwell Health, formerly the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, entered the Westchester health care market in 2014 with its acquisition of two community hospitals, Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow and Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco. In 2016, it teamed with GoHealth Urgent Care to open three urgent care centers in New Rochelle, Tarrytown and Yorktown Heights.

Westchester Health Associates, a 130-provider medical group with 39 locations in Westchester and Putnam counties and Stamford, has joined Northwell Health Physician Partners. And Northwell is awaiting state approval of its acquisition of Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley, a nonprofit home health care agency based in Tarrytown.

Northwell officials in Great Neck said the latest agreement with Surgical Specialty Center marks the ninth joint venture that Northwell Health has formed with operators of ambulatory surgery centers, with plans to build out a network totaling more than 20 centers in the metropolitan area in the coming years.

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A Bronx real estate investment and management company has acquired another well-maintained mixed-use property in Westchester County with roots in the county’s industrial past on the Hudson River.

An affiliate of Bajraktari Management Corp., 530 West 136th Realty Associates LLC in early February closed on its $15 million purchase of The Atrium at Rae Park at 8 John Walsh Blvd. in Peekskill.

The 121,000-square-foot complex includes professional office, retail, warehouse and light industrial space in the converted Fleishmann Co. distillery.

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by Prohibition and resumed in 1933 at the red-brick plant on the city’s Charles Point.

The seller in the recent deal, RAE Park Associates Inc., is an affiliate of Esposito Builders Inc., a commercial and residential development and management company in the Lower Hudson Valley headquartered at 8 John Walsh Blvd. Richard A. Esposito, president of RAE Park Associates and CEO of Esposito Builders, in 1988 paid $225,000 to acquire the historic industrial property from the Peekskill Industrial Development Agency, according to Westchester County land records.

A leading apartment building owner and manager in the Bronx — where the company was launched in 1978 by two Albanian immigrants — Bajraktari Realty also owns and operates multifamily properties in Manhattan and Yonkers and has developed subdivision homes in Somers.

A Bajraktari affiliate in 2014 paid $18.1 million for a mixed-use commercial building in Dobbs Ferry that opened in 1927 as a Methodist Church publishing center, according to village historians, on the site footprint of a brewery that operated there under a succession of owners from 1853 to 1917. The approximately 160,000-squarefoot building at 145 Palisade St. later operated as Columbia University’s Hudson Laboratories, a naval research center that closed in 1969.

Another Bajraktari realty company affiliate last July closed on its $9.25 mil-

lion purchase of 10 County Center Road, a 208,000-square-foot building next to the Westchester County Center in White Plains.

The building, which straddles the border of the town of Greenburgh and city of White Plains, had a 55 percent occupancy rate at the time of the sale.

Harry Bajraktari, co-founder and president of the Bronx realty company, could not be reached for comment on the Peekskill property deal.

SIX LEASES WORTH $4.1M AT 399 KNOLLWOOD ROAD Five law practices and an accounting firm have signed new or renewed leases totaling more than 22,000 square feet of office space at 399 Knollwood Road, a 152,000-squarefoot building off Interstate 287 Exit 4 in the town of Greenburgh.

The lease deals are worth $4.1 million, said Jamie Schwartz, executive vice president of GHP Office Realty LLC, the Class A office building’s exclusive leasing agent.

Littman Krooks LLP, a law firm specializing in corporate and securities law, elder law, estate planning, special needs planning and special education advocacy, signed a seven-year lease renewal for 7,375 square feet of first-floor space. Craig Ruoff, senior director at Cushman & Wakefield, represented the tenant.

Quinn Law PC signed a new seven-year lease for 6,420 square feet of second-floor space. Rick Rakow, president and CEO of

Rakow Commercial Realty Group, brokered the deal for the law firm, which represents individuals, businesses and labor unions in criminal defense, labor disputes, disciplinary matters, civil litigation and personal injury cases.

Lyons McGovern LLP, a law firm specializing in the hedge fund and securities industries, and Colasanti & Iurato LLP, an accounting firm, expanded into 3,809 square feet of second-floor office space and renewed their lease for seven years. The two firms, which work cooperatively and share offices, were represented by Rakow.

Beck, Liebman & Petrone PC, a general law practice, renewed its 3,305-squarefoot office lease on the second floor of the building for seven years. Rakow represented the tenant.

Horne & Childs, a law firm specializing in estate planning and family law, signed a five-year lease renewal for 1,539 square feet of second-floor space. Rakow also represented the tenant in that transaction.

Schwartz represented the owner of 399 Knollwood Road, SKA Equities LLC, in all of the lease signings. SKA Equities acquired the property from RPW Group Inc. in mid2015 for $24.5 million.

Schwartz said 399 Knollwood Road is 97 percent occupied. He said the owner “plans on updating the common areas, bathrooms, building signage and the building’s façade beginning in the spring.”

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apidly evolving medical technology is changing the health care industry, and the business opportunities associated with it, at a rapid pace. This technology is moving seamlessly from the classroom to the examining room to the bedroom, with many experts foreseeing numerous opportunities for patients to receive enhanced care without leaving their homes, reducing their need to return to the hospital.

The Hudson Valley has a growing number of these business success stories. For example, Middletown-based Nexus Health Resources (NHR) ensures coordinated, quality health care for patients during the all-important transition period from hospital to home in order to decrease avoidable and costly readmissions. Co-founded by Dr. Virginia Feldman, her firm is deploying proprietary care transition software as it works closely with a wide variety of health care providers to ensure their clients have access to the local services they require.

Dr. Feldman’s work serves as a great example of the wave of entrepreneurism arising out of a changing health care landscape right here in the Hudson Valley.

While industry experts do not always agree on what the delivery of health care will

look like in the future, many are predicting a world in which more physicians are also entrepreneurs, developing products and services that improve care delivery worldwide. In addition, there may be even more growth in the home health care sector than we are already experiencing, given the advances in technology.

With changes occurring so quickly, it will be critically important for public and private high schools, community colleges and universities to invest in programs, instructors, advanced technology and new teaching methodologies that will shape the next generation of health care professionals.

This will be the focus of the upcoming second annual Hudson Valley EDs & MEDs Summit: Room to Grow, part of Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp.’s Thought Leaders Master Series. The March 14 event at Marist College in Poughkeepsie will examine the idea that the future of health care is wide open and the entrepreneurs and business owners who are innovating now will likely change the industry for the long term.

At HVEDC, we’ve recognized an opportunity to approach these important issues from a business perspective. After all, the Hudson Valley is home to many innovative

health care organizations at all levels of the spectrum — from smaller home health care agencies to massive regional campuses — and their collective, positive impact on the area economy will be felt for years to come.

That’s why the Room to Grow panel discussion will include Dr. Feldman and 10 other industry leaders from the regional health care community, colleges and universities, home health care providers and other key partners, so attendees can gain insights from many different facets.

Several academic professionals from postsecondary institutions will share their insights on how regional community colleges and major four-year institutions will continue to serve as the backbone of the health care industry, despite the challenges posed by changes in technology and the profession overall. Representatives from several health care providers will focus on making for a more seamless transition for patients between the hospital room to the home, ensuring that both the initial handoff and short- and long-term care is as efficient and effective as possible.

Health care providers are incorporating more technology and emerging best practices to improve the level and efficiency of care they deliver to their patients.

These changes are impacting organizations

from the bottom up, influencing their hiring processes, employee training and the background and training they look for in new hires. This all amounts to significant investments that go beyond technology and affect nearly every aspect of a hospital’s or clinic’s operations.

The summit also will feature keynote speaker Michael Dunn, senior vice president for innovation development at Georgia Pacific, a company that’s developing devices to monitor hygienic practices at hospitals and clinics. Dunn will share his thoughts on how predictive analysis will impact the future of the industry, with companies like GP combining and examining data to predict consumer needs and provide more effective alerts to the public when a health outbreak is imminent.

The bottom line is that health care is changing. There are business opportunities, and the Hudson Valley is ripe to take advantage of them.

Laurence P. Gottlieb is president and CEO of the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. in New Windsor. He can be reached at lgottlieb@hvedc.com.

To register for Room to Grow, visit https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-hudsonvalley-eds-meds-summit-room-to-grow-tickets-30538387138.

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GiGi’s Playhouse Westchester’s third annual gala will feature keynote speaker Paul Daugherty, a sit-down dinner, entertainment, silent auction and most importantly, an opportunity to celebrate achievements and continue to change the way people view Down syndrome.

HONORING: Dr. Ruth Dieleman-Levine, Dr. Elizabeth Ommen and Tracy Smith CO-CHAIRS: Jennifer Cook and Irene Tsetsekos TIME: 6 to 11 p.m.

LOCATION: Abigail Kirsch Tappan Hill Mansion, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $200 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities CONTACT: Irene Tsetsekos at 845-588-5108 or visit www.gigisplayhouse.org/westchester/gala

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BENEFITING: Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson The Annual Leadership Luncheon is the primary fundraising event for Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson (GSHH). The luncheon is an opportunity to honor individuals, companies or organizations who help move the mission of the Girl Scouts forward.

HONORING: Key Bank, BASF Corp., Diane and Steve Anderson TIME: 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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BENEFITING: UJA-Federation of New York Celebrate UJA’s 100 years of achievement with Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning artist Harry Connick Jr. at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester.

HONORING: Cindy and Ben Golub and Lois KohnClaar and Gary Claar TIME: 6:30 p.m.

LOCATION: The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester TICKET PRICE: $250 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Deborah Lane at laned@ujafedny.org or visit www.ujafedny.org/westchester-celebration

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BENEFITING: Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon The Club’s largest fundraiser of the year benefits the necessary funding to offer life-altering programs and continue its tradition of “Great Futures Start Here.”

HONORING: Phil Jackson, Hon. Anthony Scarpino, Patrice Wallace Moore, Rodney McCray and The Greater Hudson Valley Links TIME: 6 to 10 p.m.

LOCATION: The Surf Club, New Rochelle TICKET PRICE: $500 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111 or Tricia@HRGinc.net

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The Child Care Council of Westchester cordially invites you to a fun night of wine, food and friends.

Funds in part will support the Council’s childcare scholarship program.

TIME: 6 to 8 p.m.

LOCATION: Vino 100, White Plains TICKET PRICE: $25 per person CONTACT: Dana Lawless at 761-3456 or danal@ cccwny.org or visit www.childcarewestchester.org/ events/item/111-raise-a-glass-for-kids

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HONORING: George Troyano; Tracy McVey; Destination: College; Henry King, Rye Nature Center; Sharon Douglas, Impact100 Westchester; Larry Krantz, American Red Cross; Timothy Clark, Isaiah’s Room; Fred’s Pantry Teen Volunteers, CHOP Inc.; and Devin Juros, Pleasantville Community Garden EVENT CHAIRS: Joanne Kirkpatrick, Olivia Ecker, Ally Gallin, Jean Glassman and Abbe P. Stein TIME: 8 to 10 a.m.

LOCATION: Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $100 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Allison Chader at 227-9307 or visit www.volunteernewyork.org/awards

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BENEFITING: Foundation for Empowering Citizens with Autism (FECA) Dinner by the bite, open bar and silent auction with all proceeds to benefit citizens with autism.

The Foundation for Empowering Citizens with Autism enriches the lives of those with autism, helping them achieve their greatest potential.

HONORING: Strategas EVENT CHAIRS: Elise and Phil Orlando and Melanie and Drew Schaffran TIME: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

LOCATION: The Yale Club of New York City, New York City TICKET PRICE: $325 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111 or Michael@hrginc.net or visit www.FECAinc.org

BENEFITING: Legal Services of the Hudson Valley This event is a unique opportunity for Legal Services of the Hudson Valley to further fund our efforts to save children from neglect, protect women from domestic violence, defend seniors against abuse, serve veterans on the home front and keep families in their homes. It also focuses our attention on the essential need for equal access to justice in our community and our society.

Since 1967, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley has advanced the cause of equal access to justice in our region.

HONORING: Philip M. Halpern, Collier Halpern Newberg & Noletti; Morrison Foerster; and Lucille Oppenheim EVENT CHAIRS: David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; and Alfred E. Donnellan, DelBello, Donnellan, Weingarten, Wise & Wiederkehr LLP TIME: 6 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Ritz-Carlton, Westchester, White Plains TICKET PRICE: $325 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Avery Zuvic at azuvic@lshv.org or call 949-1305

GALA APR. STAR BENEFITING: Family Services of Westchester

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BENEFITING: St. Christopher’s Inc. Invest in the future of our children and support St. Christopher’s Got Talent! Join us for an evening of entertainment as the best in theater, magic and music take the stage for a good cause!

HONORING: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge TIME: 6 to 9:30 p.m.

LOCATION: The Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase TICKET PRICE: $300 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Eric Lebenson at 693-3030 or visit www.stchristophersinc.org

Westchester County The gala honors notable women in business, philanthropy, entertainment, science, politics and the arts. Honorees exemplify our mission by being strong, smart and bold. Cocktails, dinner and silent and live auctions.

HONORING: Andrea Gilman, MasterCard Worldwide; Erica Hill, CNN and HSN; and Sandra L. Richards, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management EVENT CHAIRS: Jennifer Altman TIME: 6 to 9:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $250 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Heather Apollonio at 419-0764 or visit www.StrongSmartBoldGala.org

This event is an important opportunity for Family Services of Westchester to raise funds for its mission, to strengthen and support families, children and individuals at all stages of the life cycle. Featuring cocktails, live and silent auction and dinner reception.

HONORING: William M. Mooney Jr. and Helen Williams CO-CHAIRS: Jody and Markham Rollins, William M. Mooney III and Thomas Mooney TIME: 6 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Glen Island Harbour Club, New Rochelle TICKET PRICE: $350 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111 or Jenna@hrginc.net

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BENEFITING: Westchester Children’s Association How Does Implicit Bias Affect Our Children?

Keynote address by Dr. Walter Gilliam, author of the 2016 research study Implicit Bias in Preschool.

TIME: 6 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: Doral Arrowwood, Rye Brook TICKET PRICE: Adults $45 per person; Students $25 per students CONTACT: Call 946-7676 or visit www.wca4kids.org

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GIGI’S PLAYHOUSE WESTCHESTER

Based in Ardsley, GiGi’s Playhouse Westchester is a one-of-a-kind achievement center for individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community. Our commitment is to offer support from diagnosis to adulthood, build confidence and to send a global message of acceptance for all. GiGi’s Playhouse strives to change the way the world sees Down syndrome. Since opening our doors Aug. 1, 2015, we have served more than 100 families and continue to grow every day.

GiGi’s Playhouse offers more than 30 therapeutic and educational programs that advance literacy, math skills, motor skills and more — all of which are free of charge. The programs are created by professional therapists and teachers who generously donate their time and expertise. All programs are based on best practices for Down syndrome learning styles and customized to ensure individual success. Whether it’s physical and occupational therapy through play at “Leaps and Bounds” with ages 3-6 or movie night with our “Fantastic Friends” adult group, participants gain skills and self-confidence. Our programs allow us to build our community and give individuals with Down syndrome power to be personal advocates. To continue changing outdated perceptions and enrich the quality of many more lives, we hold a variety of fundraisers throughout the year. The proceeds from these events, such as our “i have a Voice” gala, Dance-a-Thon and bi-monthly dine-outs, go to funding all of these programs and ensure that our doors remain open.

Our unique points of difference empower individuals and their parents to achieve their greatest potential with confidence, independence and joy. We have a place: We will never let location be a barrier to success. We have programs: We will never let curriculum be a boundary to achievement. Most importantly, programs are free. We will never let cost deter our families from participation or impede the achievement of our children and adults. Every day, GiGi’s Playhouse Westchester ‘educates, inspires, believes and achieves.’

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Playing with the parachute at “Leaps and Bounds,” a program for kids ages 3-6yrs old.

Catherine Graybosch, Board President

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Westchester not-for-profit organizations are invited to promote their special events in “Planning Ahead.”

To submit an event, visit www.HRGinc.net and click on “Planning Ahead” or for more information, please call 761-7111.

A group shot of a “Fantastic Friends” group that gets together one Friday a month. (age ranges from 18-50yrs)

NONPROFIT WESTCHESTER: YOUR EMPLOYEES NEED A PLACE TO LIVE

WHY GIVE? “GiGi’s Playhouse has created a community for my family and my son. It has allowed us to connect with other families, attend programs and share our experiences. GiGi’s Playhouse plays an important role in advocacy for people with Down syndrome by proving to the world that we are ‘more alike than different’.”

Celebrating our first birthday!

Joanna Straub Executive Director, Nonprofit Westchester

Westchester County is known for its proximity to New York City, stellar schools, and overall quality of life. But can the employees, whom your business depends on, afford to live here? Or do they have a lengthy commute that leaves them worn down and less productive?

We all know Westchester is expensive. To cover the basics (food, child care, health care and housing) requires an annual income of at least $78,720, according to a recent report released by United Way. The report identifies 244,000 ALICE (asset limited, income constrained, employed) employees who are working in the Westchester, Putnam, Rockland region, but can’t afford to live here.

Westchester Smart: Ideas and Initiatives for a Stronger Economy, a report, which emerged from community and business leaders participating in a series of roundta-

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bles hosted by the County Executive in 2014, placed affordability as one of the top-three challenges.

We have a long way to go; studies have shown Westchester needs 10,000 more moderately priced places for our workforce to live. While government and for-profit business have an important part to play, nonprofits like Housing Action Council, Westhab and Community Housing Innovations play a unique role in developing and maintaining new housing to meet the needs of these hard-working individuals.

Affordable housing. Workforce housing.

Whatever you call it, it’s just another way nonprofits help keep Westchester thriving.

For more information about Nonprofit Westchester, visit www.npwestchester.org, and follow us on Facebook.com/npwestchester and Twitter @NPWestchester.

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BY ANDI GRAY

Why it’s important for you to stay on plan Sometimes it’s hard to completely trust the numbers and use them in calculations going forward. Things seem to change dramatically from when we lay out a plan to the end of the year. We line up for good things to happen, then things dip as the year unfolds.

THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Working backwards from a plan is one way to get where you want to go. Make sure your plan makes sense. Have a variety of solutions to implement in order to get things back on track.

Monitor progress in small increments.

MAPPING OUT THE FUTURE IS SMART. Draw a picture of what you want your business to look like. What about customers, employees, work environment? How about margins, volume, numbers and types of suppliers. Factor in new product launches, impact of declining products or services, amount of inventory required. Think about how education plays into staying ahead of the curve.

CONVERT YOUR NOTES INTO FINANCIAL INDICATORS. Think about year-over-year growth rate. Stay away from big leaps; stick with slow and steady progress. Decide on how

much profit you want the company to make in order to make all of your hard work worthwhile. Fill in the middle — overhead costs, cost of goods sold, gross profit.

TAKE A HARD LOOK AT HISTORY. What parts of your plan have been consistently easy to bring in as you intended? What parts of the plan do you typically struggle with? And why?

How many people don’t understand the plan or aren’t prepared to handle the load with which they’re tasked? In retrospect, how much of the plan has been tied to unrealistic expectations, or black swans — things that popped up that you couldn’t anticipate? When did you get caught short on resources to throw at solving a problem?

What about having enough alternative solutions as options?

Any plan should include year-over-year growth, which means handling more next year than last. Who struggled with meeting goals last year? What do they need to learn and practice doing, in order to get over the last hump and the next one?

WHAT RESOURCES WERE OR ARE MISSING? Make a list of things to fix, assign tasks and allocate funds. How much in reserve funds will be needed to close any gaps? Look at cash on hand and define how much more you need. Money doesn’t solve all problems, but it makes it easier to accelerate solutions.

WHAT ABOUT REPORTING STRUCTURE? Who has reported accurately on what was going on? Who had difficulty recognizing or reporting on the facts as compared with the plan, and what training, oversight or support do they need?

Make sure you can identify and head off problems before they get big. Lots of frequent minireports are usually useful.

Plan out how to roll those reports up into that one big overview you’ll need to know if everything is on track.

CHECK ON THE TONE COMING FROM THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION. Are they on

board and enthusiastic; have they bought in to what you’re trying to do? Does everyone understand what they are accountable for?

A culture of commitment is essential.

Make sure that people are allowed to state their concerns and limitations openly, so that they can be addressed. Draw a line when people go overboard and turn concerns into obstruction. Make sure that everyone is in the right job and willing to get behind the plan. Allow time to vent, but then expect everyone to move forward with commitment.

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American Christmas goes Austrian

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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n Austrian festive lighting company is buying American Christmas Inc., a holiday decorations company based in Mount Vernon.

MK Illumination USA Inc. is buying the American Christmas property at 30 Warren Place for $11.85 million and the company itself for an undisclosed price.

Klaus Mark, MK’s CEO, announced the pending acquisition to the Mount Vernon

Industrial Development Agency on Feb. 28.

To describe their creations as holiday decorations or festive lighting is to give short shrift to what they do at American Christmas and MK Illumination.

The motto of American Christmas is, “We make the magic.” If you have been to Bloomingdale’s, Cartier, Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center or Saks Fifth Avenue during the Christmas season, you’ve probably seen its elaborate exterior lighting and figurative displays of trumpeting angels, reindeer and the yuletide like.

American Christmas CEO Fred Schwam checks lighting for a holiday display at the company’s Mount Vernon plant in this 2010 file photo.

MK creates light sculptures that range from nostalgic holiday themes to abstract or avant-garde displays, small scale to large scale, static to animated. “We create experiences that connect with people’s emotions,” Mark said.

Lighting can make people happy or sad. It can create an atmosphere and shape how people experience a place. It can stimulate sales.

The Salerno, Italy “Festival Del Arte” attributes its success in attracting 4 million visitors a year to MK’s extravagant light installations.

American Christmas describes itself as the premier holiday decoration company in the U.S. Marvin Schwam started the business in 1968 and his son, Frederic, took control in 1988. As business boomed, operations were moved in 2010 from the Bronx to a 2.25-acre site and 110,000-square-foot warehouse and offices in Mount Vernon.

MK started in a garage in Innsbruck, Austria in 1996 and has grown into the largest festive lighting company in Europe.

It employs 350 people, operates 36 subsidiaries in 100 countries and manufactures lighting displays in Slovakia, Mexico, Romania, Turkey, China and Conover, North Carolina. Klaus Mark owns the company with his wife, Marie, and twin brother Thomas.

MK will close its North Carolina facility and make Mount Vernon the U.S. headquarters. American Christmas will renovate the property before MK moves in.

Those property renovations will create four construction jobs. The buyer has agreed to hire four employees as a condition of the acquisition. MK also pledged to

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keep all 52 current employees and create 16 to 18 new jobs within two years.

Mark said the plan is to expand business in North America. “If all goes well,” he said, the company could double the jobs to more than 100 by 2021.

Displays will be manufactured elsewhere and assembled in Mount Vernon, where light sets will be stored and then shipped to North American customers when they need them.

Fred Schwam will stay on for three years, first as the CEO and then as head of development.

The deals for the property and company are expected to finalize in a week or two, according to Eon S. Nichols, an attorney with Cuddy & Feder in White Plains, and close by early April.

The property transaction is contingent on MK getting a payment in lieu of taxes agreement, or PILOT, from the Mount Vernon Industrial Development Agency.

The IDA at its Feb. 28 meeting approved a preliminary inducement resolution for financial assistance.

MK would get a mortgage tax exemption of $154,050. Under a 12-year PILOT agreement in 2010, American Christmas is paying $143,123 in real estate taxes. That deal will be terminated and a new 15-year agreement will start at $50,000 a year, increase to $75,000 in the fifth year and $145,000 in year eleven.

Mayor Richard Thomas, chairman of the IDA, said the streets and parking lots of Mount Vernon have lighting challenges.

“I’d love to see you bring festive lights to the city,” he said. “Hopefully, the city becomes one of your playgrounds.”

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THE LIST: Yatch Clubs & Marinas

YACHT CLUBS AND MARINAS

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Listed alphabetically.

Company name Address Area code 914, unless otherwise noted Website

American Yacht Club

499 Stuyvesant, Milton Point, Rye 10580 967-4800 • americanyc.org

Castaways Yacht Club

425 Davenport Ave., New Rochelle 10805 636-8444 • castawaysyachtclub.com

Charles Point Marina

5 John Walsh Blvd., Peekskill 10566 736-6942 • NA

Cortlandt Yacht Club

238 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose 10548 739-3011 • cortlandtyachtclub.com

Echo Bay Yacht Club

202 Lincoln Place, Eastchester 10709 337-3395 • ebyc.net

Half Moon Bay Marina

80 Half Moon Bay Drive, Croton-on-Hudson 10520 271-5400 • halfmoonbaymarina.com

Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club

65 Park Ave., Larchmont 10538 834-9418 • horseshoeharboryachtclub.org

Huguenot Yacht Club

Harbor Lane West, New Rochelle 10805 636-6300 • huguenotyc.com

Irvington Boat & Beach Club Bridge Street, Irvington 10533 591-6801 • irvingtonboatclub.com

Larchmont Yacht Club

1 Woodbine Ave., Larchmont 10538 834-2440 • larchmontyc.org

Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club 555 S. Barry Ave., Mamaroneck 10543 698-1130 • mamaroneckbeachandyacht.com

Manursing Island Club

1 S. Manursing Island, Rye 10580 967-6400 • manursing.com

New Rochelle Municipal Marina

22 Pelham Road, New Rochelle 10801 235-6930 • newrochelleny.com

Nichols Yacht Yard

500 Rushmore Ave., Mamaroneck 10543 698-6065 • nicholsyacht.com

Prestige Yacht Charters

28 Sulgrave Road, Scarsdale 10583 212-717-0300 • prestigeyachtcharters.com

Tarrytown Boat and Yacht Club 236 W. Main St., Tarrytown 10591 631-1300 • tarrytownboatclub.com

Washington Irving Boat Club

238 Green St., Tarrytown 10591 332-0517 • wiboatclub.com

Yonkers Yacht Club

1203 Warburton Ave., Yonkers 10701 969-9325 • yonkersyachtclub.com

Type

Description

Private

Emphasizes sailing, seamanship and family competition

Public

Full-service marina includes clubhouse, bar and restaurant with indoor and outdoor waterfront dining, entertainment for children, swimming pool and patio lounge area

Public

Approximately 100 slips, a gas dock, dry-dock storage in the winter and entertainment amenities

Public

Club house, boat docks and pump-out facility

Private

Located on two islands; services include a main pavilion, back island and a variety of entertainment throughout the season

Public

Unparalleled view, deep water and a safe, secure environment

Private

A small member-run club promoting sailing, casual racing, seamanship, kayaking and camaraderie

Public

Water, electricity, cable-ready marina docks and wifi throughout the club

Public

Club for motorboats, sailboats and kayaks, including storage, river access and a clubhouse with kitchen

Private

Founded in 1880 to encourage an interest in yachting and the spirit of sportsmanship in members and their families

Private

Individual floating slips, moorings and full club amenities, including clubhouse, pool, beach, tennis and grounds

Private

Encourages outdoor and indoor sports, games and pastimes, including tennis, paddle and swimming programs, sand beach, year-round dining experience and summer camp program

Public

Clean green and ADA-accessible facility with launching, hauling, storage and pump-out services

Public

Stores and services in excess of 450 boats annually, with water and electricity at all slips

Public

Luxury charter yacht brokerage accommodating parties from two to 1,200 guests

Private

A comfortable marina next to rail and highway transportation, with shopping and recreation within walking distance

Private

Professional marina environment with all the amenities, limited membership

Private

Great member area, secure docks and special events

This list is a sampling of yachts and marinas serving the region. If you would like to include your facility in our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com.

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SPECIAL REPORT

Accounting

HIDDEN FIGURES WOMEN CPAs STILL FIND IT HARD TO CRACK INTO C-SUITES

ner.” As a result, she said, “There were very few role models there for me. It was a very male-dominated business and it was tough to see the road to a partnership.”

Van Bergen eventually left Andersen to

BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN work in the private sector within the bankkzimmerman@westfairinc.com ing industry. “In those days, and still today, that’s also predominantly male-dominated,” hen it comes to parshe said. “There were not very many oppority in accounting firms, a tunities for women leaders that I could see.” glass ceiling still remains About 14 years ago Van Bergen returned for women. But in both to the CPA world by joining O’Connor, Fairfield and Westchester whose locations also include Stamford. counties, it appears the situation is improving.

“I was a senior manager, and after about “I’ve been a CPA for over 35 years,” said two years I felt that I’d Luise Mann Burger, a partmade the right choice,” ner at Beers, Hamerman, she said.

Cohen & Burger in That feeling was conFairfield. “My graduating firmed when she asked a class was about 50 percent managing partner what women, but when I started she had to do to become my career at what’s now a partner herself. “He Deloitte there were only helped me set out goals three women — and even that I then attained, and that wasn’t typical.”

I was made partner a BHCB recently named year later.” three women — Jessica “The situation is slowMcCauley, Shari Elias and Luise Mann Burger ly starting to change,” Sharon Brune — as its newsaid Renata Howard, a est partners, bringing its partner at Citrin Cooperman, which has total to 18, four of whom are women. It offices in Norwalk and White Plains, among is still such an unusual occurrence that others. “It’s better than it was 30 or 40 years the firm included “glass ceiling” in its ago, but it’s still a challenge even today. announcement.

“Accounting can be The promotions were, such a hard profession,” however, “totally based on she said. “There are long merit,” Burger was quick hours, time pressures, to point out. “They earned and for many women it. That’s how we’ve always there’s the situation of operated — that people being a primary care should be promoted and giver, either for their own rewarded based on their children or for an aging accomplishments, not on or ill relative and that their gender.” doesn’t help their cause.”

She added, “I don’t Heather Ziegler, know that that happens all Shari Elias a longtime Deloitte the time at other places.” employee who was “You still don’t see named Stamford managmany women at the upper ing partner in 2015, said that while the 24/7 levels of accounting firms,” said Elias, who availability demanded by today’s digital lives in Trumbull. “There are plenty of world and the “career vs. family” debate women graduating from college and joining make accounting an increasingly diffithe accounting field and they’re increasingcult field, the disparity between male and ly well-represented at the lower and middle female leaders is not necessarily endemic and higher-management levels — but not so to the field. According to Deloitte research, much at the partnership level.” about 12 percent of Fortune 500 companies Barbara Van Bergen, a partner at PKF in the U.S. have female representation in O’Connor Davies in Harrison, said her expetheir boardrooms, while just 3.5 percent of rience was similar to Burger’s. “I started in those companies’ chairs are women. public accounting at Arthur Andersen,” she Meanwhile, according to the American said. “Their New York City office was very Institute of CPAs’ “2015 Trends in the large and there was only one woman part-

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“dial down” plan, with which employees Supply of Accounting Graduates and the seeking time off to get married, have a child, Demand for Public Accounting Recruits” or even train for marathons (“We have a lot report, female CPAs have made the greatof marathon runners,” she said) can do so est progress in attaining partnerships at while being kept in the loop on projects, firms with 20 accounting professionals or and then dial their company activity back less. The highest ratio of female partners, up once their goal has been realized.

43 percent falls within the firm category of Flextime options are also available at two to 10 CPAs, while the lowest, 20 percent O’Connor, said Van Bergen, as they are at is associated with the largest firms of 100Citrin Cooperman. “A lot of firms do that plus CPAs. now,” said Howard. “We also have a backup While women comprise nearly half of child care program and ‘Mentoring Moms,’ all accounting graduates entering the prowhich is a group of moms that haven’t fession, partnership and other leadership moved to a higher level yet. There’s plenty levels remain difficult to attain. Still, the of guidance and advice group said that some progavailable.” ress has been made, with Elias said she was 2012’s figure of women able to take advantage who had achieved partnerof flextime while raising ship rising from 19 percent her now-adult three chilto 24 percent in 2015. dren. “Particularly in the The relative lack of accounting field you see women in senior positions more firms working with can be attributed to longmale and female employstanding societal mores, ees to help them spend Ziegler said. “If you go back more time with their 20 or 30 years, nearly all families where possible,” of the individuals in boardHeather Ziegler she said. rooms were men,” she said, For all the progress “while women, if they were being made, there is clearly still plenty of working at all, tended to be found in secrework to be done — and much of the respontarial or teaching positions. sibility for effecting such changes lies with “It’s human nature to be more comfortwomen employees themselves. able with individuals who are similar to you,” “You need to figure she continued, “who have a out what you want in similar drive and personalterms of work-family bality, and that helped solidify ance,” said Burger, “and it being so male-dominated then find a firm that that’s at the top.” important to. You have to Those interviewed stay true to yourself and said their firms are all your goals, always put actively trying to give your best foot forward, women a hand up the and keep the dialogue corporate ladder. Ziegler going. All of our partners’ said Deloitte was one of doors are open.” the first accounting comRenata Howard “Don’t be afraid to panies to do so, creating a be your own advocate,” women’s initiative in 1993 advised Howard. “And figat the direction of thenure out what’s the right firm for you. There CEO Mike Cook. “He was looking at trends are a lot of firms out there — some may not and turnover rates,” Ziegler said. “Public go along with flextime or mentoring proaccounting has a high turnover rate anygrams, but there are plenty that will fit with how, but he noticed that there was a vast what you’re looking for.” difference between men and women leav“More and more companies are realizing ing the company and wanted to learn what the value that diversity of thought and of the company could do to better serve its experience can bring,” Ziegler said. “Gender women employees.” or race should be less important than life Shortly afterward, Deloitte introduced experience, but all of those differences can flextime initiatives for all workers and be a good thing. It drives value and helps added public speaking and networking give rise to innovative solutions that you opportunities for its female employees. The might not otherwise bring to the table.” firm also instituted what Ziegler called a

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BY SHARON K. BRUNE

Foreign filing failure may result in large IRS penalty

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re you subject to IRS penalties of $10,000 or more — and don’t even know it?

Do you have a foreign bank account or other foreign asset? If you neglected to properly report such accounts or investments, you may be liable for civil and criminal penalties that start at $10,000, even if you don’t owe any taxes on that foreign money.

There is a laundry list of forms the IRS

may require from people who hold foreign bank accounts or other assets. Chief among them is the FinCEN Form 114, colloquially known as the FBAR (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). It has a fairly low threshold for reporting and requires not only direct account holders to report but also requires reporting by those with signature authority over foreign accounts and majority owners of business entities with foreign accounts, among others.

in short, you might think your account is too small or your connection to a foreign asset is too minimal to require reporting, but you may well be wrong.

Bank accounts aren’t the only assets that need to be reported. Various other forms address reporting investments in foreign businesses, receipt of bequests from foreign persons, ownership of foreign rental property, loans to a foreign party, to name but a few.

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Individuals aren’t the only ones required to file these reports. Some forms require business entities, trusts or estates to file as well, if there are involvements with foreign assets.

New for forms filed in 2017 is a change in the due date. Formerly required to be received by the U.S. Department of the Treasury by June 30, the revised receipt date is now April 15 with an automatic extension allowed to Oct. 15.

Hopefully no one will be shocked to learn that income from all sources, including foreign, is required to be reported on a tax return filed by a U.S. person or entity.

If you have overlooked filing any foreign reporting informational forms, getting “right” with the IRS will be less complicated if any income associated with foreign holdings was properly reported. The IRS is trying to encourage compliance, knowing that in many cases people were truly unaware of the requirements. There are disclosure programs and approaches that can allow you to get caught up and may mitigate some of the possible penalties associated with non-filing.

Note that there is no statute of limitations when it comes to forms that were not filed. The IRS can come looking for you well beyond the typical three-years statute of limitations normally associated with a routine Form 1040.

Burying your head in the sand and procrastinating will not make this problem go away. Better to get professional advice and take all necessary steps to comply with IRS requirements.

Sharon K. Brune is a certi�ied public accountant and partner at Beers, Hamerman, Cohen & Burger P.C., an accounting and business consulting �irm with of�ices in New Haven and Fair�ield. She can be reached at 203-7876527, ext.109, or sbrune@bhcbcpa.com.

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FACTS & FIGURES BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN Cardinal Sales Inc. 301 E. 58 St., New York 10022. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Andrew R. Gottesman.

Filed: Feb. 28. Case no. 17-10397-mkv.

Family Support Systems Unlimited Inc. 2530 Grand Concourse, New York 10458. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by William T. Martin. Filed: Feb. 24. Case no. 17-10397-mg.

RSSM CPA LLP. c/o Neil Sonenberg, 757 Third Ave., Sixth floor, New York 10017. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Maurice W. Heller. Filed: Feb. 22.

Case no. 17-10375-mew.

COURT CASES D-Mark Construction Corp. Filed by the trustees of District Council 9 Painting Industry Insurance and Annuity Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A. Attorney: Dana Lynne Henke. Filed: Feb. 24.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01398.

First Student Inc. Filed by Dorine R. Watkins. Action: diversity–notice of removal. Attorney: Leslie Marie DiBenedetto. Filed: Feb. 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01519.

Five Below Inc. Filed by Cardshark LLC. Action: patent infringement.

Attorney: Zachary David Silbersher. Filed: Feb. 22.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01330-NSR. Green Chimneys Children’s Services Inc. Filed by Charles Jones.

Action: job discrimination (unlawful employment practices). Attorney: Neal Brickman. Filed: Feb. 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01488.

Highridge Bagels Inc. et al. Filed

by Isidro Gutirrez. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Abdul Karim Hassan. Filed: Feb. 27.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01451.

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Hospi-tel Mfg Corp. Filed by the trustees of The National Retirement Fund. Action: E.R.I.S.A.– withdrawal liability. Attorneys: Jennifer Oh and David C. Sapp Jr. Filed: Feb. 23.

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International Fidelity Insurance Co. Filed by United States of America, for the use of Preferred Masonry Restoration Inc. Action: bonds of contractors of public buildings. Attorney: Laura Ashley Martin. Filed: Feb. 24.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01358-KMK.

ON THE RECORD

Christiana Trust. Seller: Frank Malara, White Plains. Property: 94 Greenville Road, Yonkers. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Feb. 23.

DP 72 LLC, Mount Kisco. Seller: Kellison Holdings LLC, Bedford Hills.

Property: 519 Bedford Road, Bedford.

Amount: $5 million. Filed Feb. 23.

Em Dash LLC, White Plains. Seller: Peter Melnick, New York City. Property: 70 Maple Ave., Bedford. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed Feb. 22.

Kohl’s Department Stores Inc. et al. Filed by Deirdre Vandunk.

Action: petition for removal – personal injury. Attorney: Michael Nathan Giacopelli. Filed: Feb. 27.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01419-CS.

Husrei Ritz LLC, Mount Kisco.

Seller: Wy Ateliers LLC, White Plains.

Property: 1 Renaissance Square, 10A, White Plains. Amount: $4.7 million.

Filed Feb. 22.

Mase Electric Inc. Filed Manual Nieves. Attorney: Fair bor Standards Act. Attorney: dul Karim Hassan. Filed: Feb. Case no. 7:17-cv-01506.

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Husrei Trump LLC, Mount Kisco.

Seller: Wy Group NR LLC, White Plains. Property: 175 Huguenot St., No.701, New Rochelle. Amount: $3.8 million. Filed Feb. 22.

MFT Holdings LLC. Filed by Broadway Equity Holdings LLC. Action: petition for removal – foreclosure.

Attorney: Arnold Mitchell Greene. Filed: Feb. 23.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01337.

Pond Venture LLC, Astoria. Seller: 67 Pond Road LLC, Yonkers. Property: 67 Pond Road, Yonkers. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed Feb. 27.

Sam’s East Inc. Filed by Rosalie Matos. Action: diversity: notice of removal. No attorney listed. Filed: Feb. 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01482.

Tequila Sunrise of Westchester Inc. Filed by Saul Sandoval. Action not listed. Attorney: Amanda Christine Bransford. Filed: Feb. 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01504.

Van Hasselt Auto Service. Filed

by Miss Jones LLC. Action: diversity-foreclosure. Attorney: Andrew Lawrence Jacobson. Filed: Feb. 27.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01450.

Wells Fargo Nation National Assoc. Filed by Cynthia Carssow Franklin. Action: motion for withdrawal of reference. Attorney: Linda Marie Tirelli. Filed: Feb. 24.

Case no. 7:17-cv-01416-NSR.

DEEDS Above $1 million 35-39 Kiscona Road LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Kiscona Properties LLC, et al, Pound Ridge. Property: 39 Kiscona Road, Mount Kisco. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Feb. 22.

43 Halstead Place Associates LLC, Rye. Seller: Mark J. Volow, et al, Rye. Property: 43 Halstead Place, Rye. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed Feb. 23.

Saw Mill River Hospitality LLC, Elmsford. Seller: LQ Prime Mezz LLC, Irving, Texas. Property: 540 Saw Mill River Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $9.5 million. Filed Feb. 28.

Youngman Holdings LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Theodore John O’Lear, et al, Scottsdale. Property: 99 Yonkers Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $1.2 million.

Filed Feb. 22.

Below $1 million 1 Nostrand Realty LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle. Property: 59 Leland Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $440,000. Filed Feb. 28.

207 Ashburton Avenue LLC, New York City. Seller: City of Yonkers. Property: 207 Ashburton Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $86,615. Filed Feb. 27.

43 Briar Lane Corp., Briarcliff Manor. Seller: Jo-Ann Cambareri, White Plains. Property: 43 Briar Lane, Cortlandt. Amount: $115,000. Filed Feb. 24.

9 Wallace Place LLC, Valley Cottage. Seller: Annette Schwab, Pleasantville. Property: 9 Wallace Place, White Plains. Amount: $475,000.

Filed Feb. 28.

98 Buxton Road LLC, Scarsdale.

Seller: Peter M. Tobeason, Bedford Hills. Property: 98 Buxton Road, Bedford. Amount: $895,000. Filed Feb. 22.

AVL Homes LLC, Riverdale. Seller: Natalia Symochko, et al, Yonkers.

Property: 69 Spruce St., Yonkers.

Amount: $750,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Joseph G. Goubeaud Jr., Mount Vernon. Property: 461 S. Eighth St., Mount Vernon. Amount: $529,721.

Filed Feb. 24.

SDF Capital LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Norma Sutherland, et al, Brooklyn.

Property: 479 Old Tarrytown Road, Greenburgh. Amount: $90,000. Filed Feb. 28.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Judith Reardon, Katonah.

Property: 25 Terrace Avenue North, Mount Vernon. Amount: $257,476.

Filed Feb. 22.

SJ Construction Management Corp., Yonkers. Seller: Florence Hannon, Wappingers Falls. Property: 96 Vineyard Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $100,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: John G. Molloy, Somers.

Property: 351 Dyckman St., Peekskill.

Amount: $334,866. Filed Feb. 23.

Spirelli Holding LLC, Shrub Oak. Seller: Gerardo Villani, et al, Thornwood. Property: 1010 E. Main St., Yorktown. Amount: $850,000. Filed Feb. 28.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Jo-Ann Cambareri, White Plains. Property: 1127 Cortlandt St., Peekskill. Amount: $198,771. Filed Feb. 24.

Global Real Estate USA Inc., New York City. Seller: Koichi Okada, New York City. Property: 45 Rose Ave., Harrison. Amount: $700,000. Filed Feb. 23.

Hudson Moon Properties LLC, Croton-on-Hudson. Seller: Michael Rhoher, Croton-on-Hudson. Property: 220 Half Moon Bay 220, Cortlandt.

Amount: $378,000. Filed Feb. 27.

JECD Corp., New Rochelle. Seller: Vito B. Mondelli, White Plains. Property: 5-7 Dusenbury Place, White Plains.

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

M and M Lincoln LLC, Monsey. Seller: Carol Lizzie Campbell, Peekskill.

Property: 1504 Lincoln Terrace, Peekskill. Amount: $76,000. Filed Feb. 23.

MORE Holdings LLC, Larchmont.

Seller: Mary V. Buckley, Larchmont.

Property: 15 Bayard St., Mamaroneck.

Amount: $785,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Northview Housing LLC, Peekskill.

Seller: Edward M. Trainor, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Property: 222 Northview Court, Peekskill. Amount: $300,000.

Filed Feb. 23.

NYC REO LLC, Whitestone. Seller: Edward Burt, et al, North Salem.

Property: 5 Morris Road, North Salem.

Amount: $458,237. Filed Feb. 22.

Palmer Farms Realty LLC, Larchmont. Seller: Patrick McEvily, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 25 Treno St., New Rochelle. Amount: $394,000.

Filed Feb. 23.

Poningo LLC, Port Chester. Seller: 26 Poningo Corp., Port Chester. Property: 26 Poningo St., Rye. Amount: $259,000. Filed Feb. 28.

Ramsumsush Inc., Chappaqua.

Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 101 S. Manor Drive, Greenburgh. Amount: $506,000. Filed Feb. 22.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Jeffrey M. Binder, White Plains.

Property: 90 Spring St., Lewisboro.

Amount: $613,230. Filed Feb. 23.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Judith Zerden, Scarsdale. Property: 31 Brendon Hill Road, Yonkers.

Amount: $576,109. Filed Feb. 22.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Pauline M. Galvin, Yonkers. Property: 127 Stanley Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $449,570. Filed Feb. 24.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Steven Feinstein, Rye Brook. Property: 109 Rolling Way, 5, Peekskill. Amount: $160,000. Filed Feb. 28.

Zappico Construction LLC, Hawthorne. Seller: Ira M. Padva, et al, New York City. Property: 6 Mohican Lane, Greenburgh. Amount: $200,000.

Filed Feb. 24.

FORECLOSURES CORTLANDT MANOR, 64 Valley View Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .24 acre. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association.

Plaintiff ’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: William Slade. Referee: Arlene Gold Wexler. Sale: March 6, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $607,985.29.

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KATONAH, 57 Oak Road. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .46 acre.

Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504.

Defendant: Steven Goldstein. Referee: Michael Khader. Sale: March 21, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $937,619.63.

MOHEGAN LAKE, 1478 Ivy Road.

Single-family residence; lot size: .5 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff ’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Tamara Coady. Referee: Stephanie Whidden.

Sale: March 15, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $545,274.08.

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ANONYMOUS FUNDING FOR HEALTH AIDE TRAINING

BROADVIEW EXEC NAMED TO LIST OF LEADERS

Lifting Up Westchester, a nonprofit which provides food and shelter to the homeless, said that an anonymous donor has given $19,000 to help fund the Home Health Aide (HHA) training classes it offers free at the White Plains Education and Training Center (WPETC). The grant was received through the Westchester Community Foundation.

Lifting Up Westchester has been offering free HHA training since 2009. Last year, through a partnership with the city of White Plains, classes were moved to WPETC at 303 Quarropas St. in the first building to be constructed as part of the redevelopment of the Winbrook housing project.

Broadview Networks, the communications and information technology services company in Rye Brook, announced that Donna Wenk, its senior vice president of agent channel has for the second year been named to a list of leading management personnel in the IT industry. The list is published by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, which provides news, advice and other material related to IT. Wenk oversees a 40-member team at Broadview. She said, “It has been my pleasure to develop partnerships crucial to achieving Broadview’s expansion nationwide.”

Students receive free training and books during the three-week, New York state-licensed course that combines classroom and hands-on education with clinical practice. Many of the students are low-income individuals. HHA certification provides the opportunity for beginning a career.

Isis Djata, director of the licensed agency Neighbors Home Care Services, says her organization offers jobs to all graduates. She added that those who decline have no trouble finding jobs at one of the county’s other home care agencies.

More information at cityofwhiteplains.com/ WPETC.

Donna Wenk

DODER NAMED HOULIHAN’S SCARSDALE MANAGER Real estate veteran Jeff Doder has been named manager of the Houlihan Lawrence office in Scarsdale. He’s been in real estate for 25 years, was managing director with Town Residential in Manhattan and also served as senior managing director at Corcoran’s Park Slope office. He succeeds Lewis Arlt, who recently retired.

Jim Gricar, general sales manager of Houlihan Lawrence, said, “His extensive knowledge of the New York market, combined with a decade of brokerage management success, will benefit our Scarsdale office tremendously.”

Doder said, “I look forward to collaborating with a smart, competitive group and continuing the legacy of Houlihan Lawrence’s top-producing office in Westchester.”

Jeff Doder

GOOD THINGS HAPPENING RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS JOIN MEDICAL PRACTICE Five radiation oncology specialists who have served in hospitals run by Health Quest have now joined the Health Quest Medical Practice.

They’ll be seeing patients at the practice’s offices in Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, Carmel and Kingston.

The doctors are Edward Farhangi, Thomas Mazzilli, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Robert Smith, and Camilo Torres.

A resident of Highland, Farhangi most recently served as the past president of the medical staff at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie.

Mazzilli lives in Cortlandt Manor and has been

the director of radiation oncology at Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel.

A native of Greece, Papadopoulos lives in LaGrangeville. He chaired the cancer committee at Vassar Brothers and Putnam Hospital Center for many years.

Smith, who is from Saugerties, served as the chief of the division of radiation oncology at Schenectady Radiation Oncology.

Torres, from Poughkeepsie, served as the chairman of the cancer program at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston.

JACOBSON JOINS WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL Jeffrey M. Jacobson has joined White Plains Hospital’s Physician Associates Division. He is a board certified plastic surgeon with an additional board certification in hand surgery. He will see patients at offices in Harrison and Armonk.

Jacobson received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering. He earned his medical degree from the State University of New York Stony Brook School of Medicine. He completed his plastic surgery residency at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., and completed an orthopedic hand surgery and microsurgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

LAND TRUST REACCREDITED

INSURANCE DUO PARTNERS WITH BNC Veteran insurance brokers Anita and Anthony Russo have announced their partnership with BNC Insurance Agency, a regional insurance brokerage.

“This new agreement with BNC Insurance significantly increases our ability to meet the diverse needs of our loyal clients with whom we have been working for the past 30 years,” said Anthony Russo, managing partner. “The team at BNC matches extremely well with our commitment to

outstanding customer service. We are very excited to be expanding our range of insurance and riskmanagement offerings through this partnership.”

Founded in 1997, BNC is headquartered at 90 S. Ridge St. in Rye Brook and is licensed in 23 states. It has more than 60 employees, including account executives, risk managers and other insurance-service professionals.

The Russos will continue to serve their existing clients with the support of BNC.

Allie, Libby, Charlotte and Jack Mac Kay pose at the entrance to Winnakee Nature Preserve.

The Winnakee Land Trust, headquartered in Rhinebeck, has announced its reaccreditation by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. It first received accreditation from the commission in 2011. The commission is a national

organization that independently verifies that a land trust meets quality standards through a review process.

Carl Meyer, president of the Winnakee board, said, “Our strength means more farmland, view sheds, wetlands, wildlife habitats and undisturbed natural areas will be protected forever, making the Mid-Hudson Valley an even greater place for us and our children.”

Winnakee protects more than 2,500 acres of local farmland and natural habitats from development and is working to permanently secure more. Winnakee provides public recreational opportunities at Drayton Grant Park at Burger Hill in Rhinebeck and Winnakee Nature Preserve and Arboretum in Hyde Park.

Funds to cover reaccreditation costs were donated

by Gail Hunt Reeke and George Reeke through the Hunt Family Foundation.

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CENTRAL LABOR BODY ADDRESSES ISSUES

BRATTON RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Thomas Carey and Anthony Scarpino

The Westchester-Putnam Counties AFL-CIO Central Labor Body said that it has been active so far in 2017 working with state legislators regarding the New York state budget and attending budget hearings. Its labor council hosted a social justice networking breakfast for labor, faith-based and community organizations. In addition, it hosted an event to discuss income inequality.

Officers and executive board members who will be serving through the end of 2019 were sworn in by Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino. They are: Thomas Carey, president, Florence McCue, secretary/treasurer, and vice presidents Louis Bousche, Jayne Cammisa, Anthony Castiglione, Bryan Doherty, Jim Edmiston, Joe Fontano, Marvin Holland, Diane Jaulus, Maria Kercado, Linda Lesnewski, William Lynn, Joe Mayhew, Richard McSpedon, Louis Picani, Brendan Sexton, Marty Sommer and John Staino.

MAHOPAC-CARMEL CHAMBER GIVES AWARDS

From left, Josh Sommers, William J. Bratton Jr. and Elizabeth Rowley, CFOS president and CEO.

The Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan Counties (CFOS) has given its 2017 Karen Minogue Award for Distinguished Service to William J. Bratton Jr., who has served on the organization’s board of directors since 2003.

In 2002, Bratton and his wife established the Michelle Renee Bratton Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of their late daughter who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11. This scholarship is awarded to a graduating student from Pine Bush High School, with preference given to a candidate who will attend a four-year SUNY college or university, is a member of the National Honor Society and a member of the women’s swimming and diving team and/or a member of chorus. The scholarship fund has awarded more than $37,000 to students since its inception. Bratton has served as the vice president of finance as well as vice president of distribution for CFOS. He and his wife, Mary, are both supporters of the organization’s President’s Circle.

The award was presented during the foundation’s annual volunteer appreciation event attended by more than 100 at the West Hills Country Club.

PLEASANTVILLE COMPANY WINS MARKETING AWARD From left, Michael Bothe, William Fitzgerald, Tom O’Leary and Rob Delucia

The Greater Mahopac-Carmel Chamber of Commerce held its annual Business Person of the Year dinner, attracting more than 100 people to the Putnam County Golf Course in Mahopac.

Thomas O’Leary of The UPS Store in Mahopac was awarded the title of 2016 Business Person of the Year.

Michael Bothe and William Fitzgerald of the Mahopac Flower Shop were awarded the title of 2016 Business People Meritorious. The shop has been in operation in downtown Mahopac for 27 years.

Robert Delucia of Local Boys Junk Removal in Mahopac was awarded the title of the 2016 Emerging Professional. The award goes to a business owner who has been in business for three years or less who encompasses passion in what they do and volunteerism in the community.

RLA Collective, a marketing agency in Pleasantville, has received the Holmes Report’s SABRE award for digital marketing/advertising. Robin Russo, founder and partner of RLA Collective, accepted the award at a ceremony in Chicago.

The Holmes Report is a print and online service for the public relations industry, providing news and other content designed to help public relations professionals.

RLA received the award for its campaign “Answering a Mom’s Cry for Help,” which was prepared for Colief Infant Digestive Aid, a dietary supplement which is added directly to an infant’s usual milk and may help ease colic-associated crying due to temporary lactose intolerance.

“I want to give credit to our client, Sigma Tau Health Science, and the RLA Collective teams who work together each day to push the boundaries of communications and marketing to deliver results that make a significant contribution, such as those recognized this year,” Russo said.

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE GROUP EXPANDS National law firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP in White Plains has expanded its medical malpractice group with the addition of a three-person team led by trial lawyer Michael Grady, partner, and includes Patricia Lacy and Siobhainin Funchion.

“Mike is a skilled, well-respected trial attorney with more than two decades of experience,” said John Flannery, regional managing partner of Wilson Elser’s White Plains office. “His team’s ability to manage and prevail in cases of all kinds will benefit not only our health care clients but also our clients across a number of other practices areas.”

Lacy has specialized in medical malpractice defense for more than 26 years, serving physicians, hospitals, medical practices and nursing and rehabilitation facilities.

In her work defending hospitals, nurses and physicians, Funchion is involved in all stages leading up to lawsuits and trials.

Michael Grady

Patricia Lacy

Siobhainin Funchion

WINE TASTING TO BENEFIT ARCHCARE ArchCare at Home has announced that its wine tasting fundraiser will be held April 26 at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Briarcliff Manor. The event takes place from 6 to 8 p.m.

This is the 9th annual Wines Around The World fundraiser. It features wines from Pernod Ricard USA, along with hors d’oeuvres, raffles and live music. Proceeds will help the charitable and community programs of ArchCare at Home.

ArchCare at Home formerly was known as Dominican Sisters Family Health Service. It’s a nonprofit home health agency providing familyfocused home care to persons in need, including the poor, marginalized and the elderly. The service area includes the Hudson Valley, Long Island and New York City.

To attend the event or for sponsorship opportunities, contact Karlynne Vazquez at kvazquez@dsfhs.org or 914-810-2561.

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FACTS MOUNT KISCO, 3 Allan Lane.

Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Emigrant Bank. Plaintiff’s attorney: Knuckles, Komosinski & Elliot, 914-345-3020; 565 Taxter Road, Suite 509, Elmsford 10523. Defendant: Mei Fang Lin. Referee: Robert Ryan. Sale: March 6, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $130,082.15.

SCARSDALE, 18 Butler Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .62 acre.

Plaintiff: Cruzan Realty Corp. LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, 212-808-0700; 875 Third Ave., New York 10022. Defendant: Robert Sholz. Referee: Peter Goldman. Sale: March 17, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $3,860,836.20.

MOUNT VERNON, 17 S. Bleeker St. Two-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: MTGLQ Investors LP. Plaintiff’s attorney: Knuckles, Komosinski & Elliot, 914-345-3020; 565 Taxter Road, Suite 509, Elmsford 10523.

Defendant: Leona Jones. Referee: Naomi Duler. Sale: March 20, 9 a.m.

Approximate lien: $430,987.71.

THORNWOOD, 104 Bainbridge Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .23 acre. Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Dorothy Mourouzis. Referee: Guy Parisi. Sale: March 15, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $501,565.73.

MOUNT VERNON, 60 Claremont Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .08 acre. Plaintiff: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Diana Finlay Evans.

Referee: Charles D’Agostino. Sale: March 15, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $277,573.91.

WHITE PLAINS, 21 Lake St. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Federal National Mortgage Association.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Gerald Holman. Referee: Risa Kass.

Sale: March 21, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $120,890.01.

MOUNT VERNON, 443 Union Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: James B. Nutter & Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Angela Willoughby. Referee: Dennis Krolian. Sale: March 8, 10 a.m.

Approximate lien: $388,744.38.

WHITE PLAINS, 47 General Health Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .11 acre. Plaintiff: Goshen Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504.

Defendant: Roberto Rolon. Referee: Jay Hashmall. Sale: March 14, 11 a.m.

Approximate lien: $512,797.23.

NEW ROCHELLE, 175 Huguenot St., Apt. 2303. Condominium, lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Buckley Madole, 732902-5399; 420 Lexington Ave., New York 10170. Defendant: Richard Mulhern. Referee: James Maisano. Sale: March 13, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $1,102,054.29.

PEEKSKILL, 1846 Carhart Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank Trust National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Stem & Eisenberg PC, 215-572-8111; 485 B Route 1 South, Iselin, N.J. 08830. Defendant: John Page. Referee: Todd Fishlin. Sale: March 13, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $316,345.38.

RYE, 11 Howard Place. Single-family residence; lot size: .15 acre. Plaintiff: Citizens Bank National Association.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Cooper Erving & Savage LLP, 518,449-3900; 30 N. Pearl St., Albany 11207. Defendant: Jeffrey Galperin. Referee: Joseph Maria. Sale: March 10, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $319,037.87.

SCARSDALE, 9 Colonial Road.

Single-family residence; lot size: .48 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914-636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Jisun Song. Referee: Joan Salwen. Sale: March 22, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $971,903.44.

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WHITE PLAINS, 55 Rathbun Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: HRB Mortgage Holding LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-9693100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore 11706.

Defendant: Calixto Nahius. Referee: Karl Scully. Sale: March 6, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $553,503.50.

WHITE PLAINS, 86 County Center Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .7 acre. Plaintiff: Aurora Loan Services LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Cross Blvd., Rochester 14624.

Defendant: Ana Rodriguez. Referee: Jay Hasmall. Sale: March 6, 10:30 a.m.

Approximate lien: $766,950.93.

YONKERS, 13 Della Court. Twofamily residence; lot size: .1 acre. Plaintiff: Everbank. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624.

Defendant: Donna Attili. Referee: Michael Khader. Sale: March 21, 9:45 a.m.

Approximate lien: $329,398.64.

YONKERS, 20 Pier St. Two-family residence; lot size: 25 x 101. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Carlos Delon. Referee: J. Henry Neale Jr. Sale: March 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $865,548.49.

YONKERS, 46 Prior Place. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .18 acre.

Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-8971600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Jessica Reis. Referee: Lynn Farrell. Sale: March 15, 1:30 p.m.

Approximate lien: $109,035.04.

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JUDGMENTS 4th Avenue Transport Inc., Staten Island. $181,529 in favor of Sprague Operating Resources LLC, Harrison.

Filed Feb. 24.

Augmate Corp., Dover Plains. $17,122 in favor of Trinet HR Corp., White Plains. Filed Feb. 24.

Burtis Construction Company Inc., Yonkers. $11,932 in favor of National Construction Rentals Inc., Pacoima, Calif. Filed Feb. 22.

Core Contracting of New York Inc., Mount Vernon. $65,555 in favor of Edward Ehrbar Inc., Yonkers. Filed Feb. 22.

Franchise Contractors LLC, Pelham. $4,932 in favor of SMG and Associates Inc., Stamford, Conn. Filed Feb. 21.

Great Day Family Child Care LLC, New Rochelle. $4,077 in favor of Welcome Wagon LLC, Coral Springs, Fla. Filed Feb. 23.

Keiko New York Inc., White Plains. $14,745 in favor of True World Foods New York LLC, Elizabeth, N.J. Filed Feb. 21.

Lanier Dental LLC, Pleasantville. $11,088 in favor of Mis Implants Technologies Inc., Fair Lawn, N.J. Filed Feb. 17.

Safe Tech Inc., White Plains. $3,120 in favor of Ferris Avenue LLC, White Plains. Filed Feb. 17.

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

Arrow Financial Services LLC, 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 818 Howard Ave., Mamaroneck 10543. Filed Oct. 8.

Casarella, Gina, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $712,500 affecting property located at 19 Academy St., Pleasantville 10570. Filed Oct. 8.

Catania, Michael J., et al. Filed by Live Well Financial Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 15 Diane Court, Katonah 10536. Filed Oct. 6.

Criollo, Jose, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $373,750 affecting property located at 18 N. Malcolm St., Ossining 10562.

Filed Oct. 6.

FIGURES Forsberg, Alfred, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $457,553 affecting property located at 82 Grassy Sprain Road, Yonkers 10710.

Filed Oct. 7.

Tardella, Andrew, et al. Filed by Countrywide Home Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 200 Cook Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed Oct. 9.

Hawkins, William G., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $30,000 affecting property located at 6 Tompkins Ave., Yonkers 10710. Filed Oct. 8.

Vedock, Eva M., et al. Filed by Emigrant Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 165 Grace Church St., Port Chester 10573. Filed Oct. 6.

Janojlic, Drago, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 38 Oslo Drive, Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed Oct. 9.

Wiggan, Shawn Nicholas, et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $194,000 affecting property located at 479 Van Cortlandt Park Ave., Yonkers. Filed Oct. 6.

Langone, Alfonso, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $245,000 affecting property located at 256 Dell Ave., Ossining 10562. Filed Oct. 6.

Latorre, Michael, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $496,000 affecting property located at 659 Ridgeway, White Plains 10605. Filed Oct. 6.

Lumiram Electric Corp., et al.

Filed by Sterling National Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $600,000 affecting property located at 810 Soundview Drive, Mamaroneck. Filed Oct. 9.

Maneepong, Thinawan, et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 67 Noble Ave., Bronxville 10708. Filed Oct. 7.

Mends, Augustus, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $414,000 affecting property located at 12 Maple Place, Yonkers 10704. Filed Oct. 7.

Murtha, Daniel C., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $499,995 affecting property located at 1 Robbie Road, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed Oct. 6.

Rivera, Jose, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $487,500 affecting property located at 9 Bayley Ave., Yonkers 10705. Filed Oct. 8.

Rizzo, Cosimo, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,305 affecting property located at 41 Hemlock Circle, Peekskill 10566.

Filed Oct. 7.

Slater, James, et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,000 affecting property located at 477 S. Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Oct. 9.

Wintz, Olivia, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $356,000 affecting property located at 346 Tecumsch Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed Oct. 8.

Zelenz, Mark J., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $516,000 affecting property located at 445 Old Post Road, Bedford 10506. Filed Oct. 9.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Aqua Club Inc., as owner. $36,763 as claimed by C2G Environmental Consultants LLC, Hawthorne. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Feb. 22.

Hampshire Recreation LLC, as owner. $19,345 as claimed by Sullivan Architecture PC, White Plains. Property: in Mamaroneck. Filed Feb. 24.

Petrosa, Melissa, et al, as owner. $8,940 as claimed by Feldman Lumber-US LBM LLC, Bronx. Property: in Mount Kisco. Filed Feb. 21.

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

Sole Proprietorships Ago Again Vintage, 6 Mount Morris Ave., Apt. 2, White Plains 10604, c/o Christina Barbara Cox. Filed April 5.

B and L Luxury Cleaning Service, 37 Bent Ave., Port Chester 10573, c/o Elisa Delpezo. Filed April 4.

Beautiful Health Acupuncture, 22 Crane Road, Scarsdale 10583, c/o Fideuna Morales. Filed April 4.

CD Landscape and Construction, 219 Decatur Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Cesar oswaldo Jadan. Filed April 4.

Cupcakes By Kocoa, 5 Whelan Place, No. 307, Yonkers 10703, c/o Neondru T. Navarro. Filed April 5.

Fierce Face Beauty Cosmetics, 12 Hudson View Terrace, Yonkers 10701, c/o Nicola James. Filed April 5.

J.V. Pools, 8 Beech Place, Valhalla 10595, c/o Jorge Villalobus Alonso.

Filed April 4.

Louis J. Zacchio Public Adjuster, 4 Orchard Place, Harrison 10528, c/o Louis J. Zacchio. Filed April 4.

Mixed Emotions Boutique, 111 Valentine Lane, Yonkers 10705, c/o Safiya Knight. Filed April 5.

Old Pro Home Inspections, 188 Round Hill Drive, Yonkers 10710, c/o Michael Laymon. Filed April 4.

Quinlan, Shannon, as owner. $35,092 as claimed by Action Construction Inc., Danbury, Conn. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed Feb. 22.

PM Motor Cars, 3199 Albany Post Road, Suite 149, Buchanan 10511, c/o Peter Mohabeer. Filed April 4.

Saber Dobbs Ferry LLC, as owner. $61,760 as claimed by Lano Electric Company Inc. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed Feb. 24.

Prosper and Able, 2 Wyndover Woods Lane, No. 22, White Plains 10603, c/o Jeferson Echeverria. Filed April 5.

Weinstein, Dani M., et al, as owner. $7,530 as claimed by Bright Electric Contractors Inc. Property: in Rye. Filed Feb. 24.

RMG Roofing Contractors Group, 636 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers 10710, c/o Ejaz Ahmed. Filed April 5.

Somers Nails, 5 Heritage Center, Somers 10589, c/o Ji Ping Pang. Filed April 4.

The Meatman, 6 Mount Etna Place, Apt. 3, New Rochelle 10805, c/o James Lott. Filed April 6.

TheCuff, 42 Greenwich Road, Bedford 10506, c/o Benjamin Frederick Brewster. Filed April 6.

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FACTS Village Suds, 627 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Donna Sturino. Filed April 4.

Westchester Essential Wellness, 630 Gramatan Ave., 4R, Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Marilyn R. Ridley. Filed April 5.

PATENTS Caching in storage clients. Patent no. 9,584,620 issued to Arun K. Iyengar, Yorktown Heights. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Callee centric location and presence-enabled voicemail using session initiated protocol enabled signaling for IP multimedia subsystem networks. Patent no.

9,584,667 issued to Pramodh D. Narayan, Naperville, Ill.; Sri Ramanathan, Lutz, Fla.; Matthew A. Terry, Celebration, Fla.; and Matthew B. Trevathan, Roswell, Ga. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Multichannel preferred device notification. Patent no. 9,585,119 issued to Darrell O. Bleakley, Raleigh, N.C.; Michael P. Etgen, Cary, N.C.; and Stephen J. Kenna, Cary, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Synchronizing two or more display devices to augment user experience. Patent no. 9,584,852 issued to Kulvir S. Bhogal, Fort Worth, Texas; Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, Mich.; Sheryl L. Comes, Denver, Colo.; Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va.; and Anne R. Sand, Cannon City, Colo. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Using graphical text analysis to facilitate communication between customers and customer service representatives. Patent no. 9,584,659 issued to Guillermo A. Cecchi, New York; James R. Kozloski, New Fairfield, Conn.; Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights; Irina Rish, Rye Brook; and Ajay K. Royyuru, Yorktown Heights. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Combining installed audiovisual sensors with ad-hoc mobile audiovisual sensors for smart meeting rooms. Patent no. 9,584,758 issued to Stanley Chen, New York; Kenneth W. Church, Croton-on-Hudson; Vaibhava Goel, Chappaqua; Lidia L. Mangu, New York; Etienne Marcheret, White Plains; Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Mount Kisco; Laurence P. Sansone, Beacon; Abhinav Sethy, Chappaqua; and Samuel Thomas, Elmsford. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million

Evaluating wireless network access connections via near field communications. Patent no.

9,584,953 issued to Gary D. Cudak, Creedmoor, N.C.; Christopher J. Hardee, Raleigh, N.C.; Randall C. Humes, Raleigh, N.C.; and Adam Roberts, Moncure, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

New Windsor Development Company LLC, et al, Livingston, N.J., as owner. Lender: Valley National Bank, Wayne, N.J. Property: in New Windsor.

Amount: $3 million. Filed Feb. 22.

Fabrication of positive pressureapplying latch mechanism. Patent no. 9,585,284 issued to Shawn Canfield, Poughkeepsie; Robert R. Genest, Poughkeepsie; Robert K. Mullady, Poughkeepsie; and Michael T. Peets, Staatsburg. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

UTA of KJ BC II Inc., Monroe, as owner. Lender: Northeast Community Bank, White Plains. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $13.4 million. Filed Feb. 22.

Hardware-level-generated interrupts indicating load-balancing status for a node in a virtualized computing environment. Patent no. 9,584,597 issued to Norman K. James, Liberty Hill, Texas; Benjamin C. Nowak, Austin, Texas; and Mark W. Vanderwiele, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Mobility-enhanced advertising on internet protocol television.

Patent no. 9,584,836 issued to Hongliang Fei, Millwood; Kin H. Lei, Union City, Calif.; Ming Li, New York; and Sambit Sahu, Hopewell Junction. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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Rougier, Pierre, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank. Property: in Milan. Amount: $1.9 million. Filed Feb. 22.

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Hardy II Corp., as owner. Lender: M and C of Dutchess Inc. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $150,000. Filed Feb. 22.

16 Owens LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Michael DeLeon, et al, Highland Mills.

Property: 16 Owens Drive, Woodbury.

Amount: $440,000. Filed Feb. 23.

Citi Financial Servicing LLC, Fishkill. Seller: Mark E. Wright, Beacon.

Property: 30 Nantucket Drive, Fishkill 12524. Amount: $172,000. Filed Feb. 21.

GELA Group LLC, Marlboro.

Seller: Sylvia G. Prezziosi, Marlboro.

Property: in Marlborough. Amount: $225,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Hernandez, Jose M., et al, as owner.

Lender: M&T Bank. Property: 289 Browns Road, Montgomery 12586.

Amount: $117,996. Filed Feb. 22.

24 Fulton Corp., Wappingers Falls.

Seller: David C. Eldredge, et al, Wappingers Falls. Property: 26 Fulton St., Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $91,500. Filed Feb. 23.

Classic R Enterprise LLC, Monroe.

Seller: Angelina Owen, Monroe. Property: 61 Gilbert St., Monroe. Amount: $475,000. Filed Feb. 27.

High Garden Holdings LLC, Pleasantville. Seller: John E. Bach Jr., Goshen. Property: 48 Jordan Lane, Middletown 10940. Amount: $82,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Impellizzeri, Anne E., Cold Spring, as owner. Lender: Rhinebeck Bank, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Philipstown. Amount: $519,750. Filed Feb. 10.

2954-2956 St Road 28 LLC, Phoenicia. Seller: Mark Adels, et al, Wilmington, N.C. Property: in Olive. Amount: $140,000. Filed Feb. 17.

Deluxe Construction Inc., Wappingers Falls. Seller: M&T Bank, Getzville. Property: 46 Wildwood Drive, Wappinger 12590. Amount: $174,000.

Filed Feb. 17.

Leonard Development LLC, Montgomery, as owner. Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II LLC, Montgomery. Property: 183 W. Searsville Road, Montgomery. Amount: $200,000. Filed Feb. 27.

3089 Route 22 Associates LLC, University Park, Fla. Seller: Richard Henke, Brewster. Property: 3089 Route 22, Patterson. Amount: $233,000. Filed Feb. 15.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Michael S. Blustein, Goshen.

Property: 34 Firehouse Road, Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $389,255. Filed Feb. 22.

Maples Homestead LLC, as owner.

Lender: NYBDC Local Development Corp. Property: in Rhinebeck.

Amount: $400,000. Filed Feb. 21.

66 North Street LTS LLC, Pine Bush. Seller: 66 North Street LLC, Gardiner. Property: in Crawford. Amount: $425,000. Filed Feb. 23.

DJ Allen Realty LLC, Connelly.

Seller: Louis R. Spina, et al, Kingston.

Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $182,500. Filed Feb. 22.

Napoli, Michael, et al, Montgomery, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 18 Quaker Hill Road, Marlborough 12547.

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

9 Lake St LLC, Monroe. Seller: Jules Properties LLC, Monroe. Property: 9 Lake St., Monroe 10950. Amount: $395,000. Filed Feb. 23.

Executive Inc., Middletown. Seller: Kenneth Schaffhauser, et al, Middletown. Property: in Middletown.

Amount: $100,000. Filed Feb. 22.

A-Class Management Inc., Carmel. Seller: Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C. Property: 35 Woodland Drive, Lake Carmel 10512.

Amount: $51,000. Filed Feb. 14.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Edward Bruno, Pine Bush. Property: 14 Woodridge Drive, Blooming Grove 10914. Amount: $361,624. Filed Feb. 27.

Absolute Valley Properties LLC, Putnam Valley. Seller: Beverly A. Franchville, Ocala, Fla. Property: 651 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $85,000. Filed Feb. 3.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Gregory McAdam, Walden. Property: 18 Random Road, Greenwood Lake 10925. Amount: $253,596. Filed Feb. 22.

Academic Federal Credit Union, Pleasantville. Seller: April Burka, et al, Kingston. Property: 121 Van Wagner Road, Poughkeepsie. Amount: $200,500. Filed Feb. 23.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: James Blanke, Middletown. Property: 29 High St., Unionville 10988. Amount: $461,461.

Filed Feb. 23.

Affordable Home Improvements, Wallkill. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $60,550. Filed Feb. 27.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Margaret A. Nicholson, Somers Property: 25 Rochambeau Road, Garrison 10524. Amount: $393,998. Filed Feb 14.

O’Donnell and Sons Inc., Fishkill, as owner. Lender: TEG Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Property: 101 Logan’s Way, Maybrook. Amount: $195,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Russell, Jerred M., et al, Wurtsboro, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Crawford. Amount: $300,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Svizzero, Adam, et al, Middletown, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Greenville. Amount: $315,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Weir, Kathleen M., Washingtonville, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in Wallkill. Amount: $77,222. Filed Feb. 23.

DEEDS Above $1 million

Below $1 million Asplund, Lars, et al, as owner.

Lender: Bank of Millbrook. Property: in Washington. Amount: $770,000.

Filed Feb. 21.

Cabrera, Jose L., et al, as owner.

Lender: M&T Bank. Property: 4 Manhatten Ave., Middletown 10940.

Amount: $44,500. Filed Feb. 22.

Freedom Builders Investors and Management LLC, Wallkill, as owner. Lender: Grand Coast Capital Fund 1 LLC, Hingham, Mass. Property: 39 Fletcher Drive, Newburgh. Amount: $141,000. Filed Feb. 28.

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Autumn Sky Development Company Inc., New Paltz. Seller: Orange Bank and Trust Co., Middletown.

Property: in Wawayanda. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed Feb. 24.

Iama LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Pelton Crossing LLC, Clifton, N.J. Property: in Warwick. Amount: $3 million. Filed Feb. 23.

Below $1 million 150 Valli Road LLC, Atlanti Beach.

Seller: Victor G. Owen, Venice, Fla. Property: in Esopus. Amount: $750,000. Filed Feb. 23.

APJ Enterprises of Newburgh LLC, New Windsor. Seller: Mo Properties LLC, Wallkill. Property: 58 Grove St., Newburgh. Amount: $25,500.

Filed Feb. 23.

Bow3ry Farm LLC. Seller: Louis Nowicki, et al. Property: 106 Station Road, Salisbury Mills. Amount: $350,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Brookfield Relocation Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz. Seller: Andrew K. Gordon, et al, Monroe. Property: in Monroe.

Amount: $453,125. Filed Feb. 27.

CN Direct Construction Inc., Bloomingburg. Seller: Kurt Grimm, et al, Pine Bush. Property: in Crawford.

Amount: $46,500. Filed Feb. 27.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Laureen E. Riggin, Westtown. Property: in Minisink. Amount: $427,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Scott Cunniffe, et al, Warwick. Property: 4 Merritt Place, Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $162,033.

Filed Feb. 24.

Fleet Property Management LLC, Middletown. Seller: Sharon Lyons, et al, Middletown. Property: in Wallkill.

Amount: $300,000. Filed Feb. 27.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: John E. Bach Jr., Goshen. Property: 9 Monument St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $130,020. Filed Feb. 22.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Kyle Barnett, Poughkeepsie. Property: 63 Riverview Drive, Fishkill 12524.

Amount: $356,500. Filed Feb. 22.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Robert W. Fink, Goshen. Property: 4 The Circle, Warwick 10990. Amount: $462,102. Filed Feb. 22.

Hudson Highlands Land Trust Inc., Garrison. Seller: Granite Mountain Peak LLC, Mystic, Conn. Property: in Putnam Valley. Amount: $450,000.

Filed Feb. 14.

Hudson Homestead Group LLC, Kingston. Seller: Joseph Krum, et al, Kingston. Property: in Kingston.

Amount: $30,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Hudson Valley Site Holdings Inc., Bedford. Seller: Adam S. Zahl, New City. Property: 110 Fox Run Lane, Unit 8B, Carmel 10512. Amount: $57,001.

Filed Feb. 22.

Ilahi Properties LLC, Pine Bush.

Seller: Alphonse Mercurio, Pine Bush.

Property: 26 Awosting Road, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $90,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Joe Allan Builders Inc., Wappingers Falls. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 16 Red Barn Lane, Middletown 10940. Amount: $80,100. Filed Feb. 22.

Laroe Partners LLC, Monroe. Seller: AllSave Development LLC, Montebello. Property: in Chester. Amount: $455,000. Filed Feb. 23.

Leonard Development LLC, Montgomery. Seller: Richard V. Sluszka, et al, Montgomery. Property: 183 W. Searsville Road, Montgomery 12549.

Amount: $90,000. Filed Feb. 27.

Flippin Crazy LLC, Kingston. Seller: HSBC Bank USA N.A. Property: 21 Oriole Drive, Woodstock 12498. Amount: $143,464. Filed Feb. 23.

Manor Properties Redevelopment LLC, Brewster. Seller: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Property: 10 Summit Road, Patterson 12563.

Amount: $78,000. Filed Feb. 10.

Freedom Mortgage Corp., McLean, Va. Seller: Joan C. Salwen, Scarsdale.

Property: 32 Vernon Drive, Carmel 10512. Amount: $92,430. Filed Feb. 3.

Maples Homestead LLC, Red Hook.

Seller: 108 Montgomery Street Associates, Rhinebeck. Property: in Rhinebeck. Amount: $699,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Fun Investment Homes LLC, Woodside. Seller: Alan Nisselson, New York City. Property: 25 Wyndclyffe Court, Rhinebeck. Amount: $120,500.

Filed Feb. 21.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Benjamin Greenwald, New Windsor. Property: 13 Lorelei Drive, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $308,661. Filed Feb. 23.

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FACTS MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Gordon B. Fine, Yorktown Heights. Property: 88 Chief Nimham Circle, Carmel 10512. Amount: $312,618. Filed Feb. 3.

Municipal Credit Union, New York City. Seller: Marco T. Palacios, Walden.

Property: 2 Rondack Road, Middletown 10941. Amount: $366,098. Filed Feb. 23.

New Rowhan Village Inc., Brooklyn. Seller: Margaret M. Petrick, Wappingers Falls. Property: 128 N. Fostertown Road, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $295,000. Filed Feb. 27.

North Front Properties LLC, Little Neck. Seller: David Tate, et al, Gardiner. Property: in New Paltz. Amount: $475,000. Filed Feb. 23.

Northern Enterprise NY LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Andrea Durgin Pawliczek, Montgomery. Property: 92 Lois Lane, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $136,500. Filed Feb. 22.

NRZ REO Inventory Corp., New York City. Seller: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Property: 1355 Route 212, Saugerties 12477. Amount: $213,333.

Filed Feb. 21.

NRZ REO IV Corp. Seller: Sharon L. Forrest, Poughkeepsie. Property: 53 Forbus St., Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $143,000. Filed Feb. 23.

NRZ REO V-2 Corp. Seller: Joseph Catania, Newburgh. Property: 52 Kirbytown Road, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $299,718. Filed Feb. 24.

NYC REO LLC, Whitestone. Seller: Peter A. Zabel, Mahopac. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $12,500. Filed Feb. 21.

Old Stockade Development LLC, Kingston. Seller: Tammy Briggs, Lake Katrine. Property: in Ulster. Amount: $80,000. Filed Feb. 21.

OWB REO LLC, Pasadena, Calif.

Seller: Jeffrey Albanese, Goshen. Property: 20 Benington Drive, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $712,727. Filed Feb. 23.

PHD IC LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: Jeffrey S. Battistoni, et al, Hyde Park.

Property: 13 Grand St., Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $117,500. Filed Feb. 22.

Primrose Ventures LLC, Goshen.

Seller: Alan L. Joseph, Goshen. Property: 8 Berwick Court, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $306,000.

Filed Feb. 27.

Raman Properties Inc., Saugerties.

Seller: 145 Ulster Avenue LLC, Monroe. Property: in Saugerties. Amount: $175,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Reed Family Properties LLC, Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 2 Oak Tree Drive, Cornwallon-Hudson 12518. Amount: $169,100.

Filed Feb. 22.

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Ridgeview Property Ventures LLC, Montgomery. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 97 First St., Walden 12586. Amount: $44,300.

Filed Feb. 27.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Randall V. Coffill, Port Jervis.

Property: 248 Derby Road, Middletown 10940. Amount: $766,211. Filed Feb. 27.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Patricia Ann Cocchia, Cornwall-on-Hudson . Property: 45 Sayer Road, Blooming Grove 10914.

Amount: $195,000. Filed Feb. 22.

S and J Group LLC, Monroe. Seller: Edward C. Bruno, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 67 Courtney Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $49,401. Filed Feb. 23.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Roland A. Bloomer, Newburgh.

Property: 23 Tobins Lane, Highland Mills 10928. Amount: $285,812. Filed Feb. 27.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Rachel Flanagan, Fishkill. Property: 36 Tamarack Hill Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $345,500. Filed Feb. 17.

Saber S Perry 29 LLC, Suffern.

Seller: 21st Mortgage Corp., Knoxville, Tenn. Property: 29 S. Perry St., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $25,000.

Filed Feb. 22.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Todd W. Carpenter, Poughkeepsie. Property: 9 Vista Drive, Poughkeepsie 125601. Amount: $455,000. Filed Feb. 21.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Theoni Stamos-Salotto, Hopewell Junction. Property: 1381 Route 44, Pleasant Valley. Amount: $151,000. Filed Feb. 22.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Seller: Citizens Bank N.A. Property: 3 Hidden View Drive, Montgomery. Amount: $150,500.

Filed Feb. 27.

U.S Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Dianne Braun Hanley, Katonah. Property: 10 Ann Place, Lake Peekskill 10537.

Amount: $318,302. Filed Feb. 15.

Wilmington Trust N.A. Seller: Ann Linda Adams, Brewster. Property: 6 Academy Road, Brewster 10509.

Amount: $232,610. Filed Feb. 16.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Daniel J. McCabe, Poughkeepsie. Property: 47 Fountain Place, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $274,000. Filed Feb. 17.

YMB Holdings LLC, Suffern. Seller: Philip E. Rock, Poughkeepsie. Property: in Hyde Park. Amount: $185,000.

Filed Feb. 22.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Seller: Gary A. Friedman, Armonk. Property: 39 Farm Lake Court, Southeast 10512. Amount: $410,800. Filed Feb. 16.

Shariff Real Estate LLC, Jamaica.

Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 111 Chambers St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $75,539. Filed Feb. 27.

Song Farm LLC, Long Beach. Seller: Cole-Hatchard Family LP, Stony Point.

Property: in Wawayanda. Amount: $113,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Star Fire Capital LLC, Pleasantville.

Seller: Edward C. Bruno, Pine Bush.

Property: 2190 Route 300, Wallkill 12589. Amount: $120,001. Filed Feb. 27.

State of New York Mortgage Agency, New York City. Seller: Jeffrey Albanese, Goshen. Property: 49 Tanager Road, Apt. 4905, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $59,100. Filed Feb. 23.

State of New York Mortgage Agency. Seller: John B. Swift, III, Goshen.

Property: 338 Route 211 West, Middletown 10940. Amount: $269,845. Filed Feb. 27.

Strategic Realty Fund LLC, San Jose, Calif. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon. Property: 37 Fleetwood Drive, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $74,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Structure Masters Ltd., Yonkers.

Seller: Sycamore Drive Realty Corp., Walden. Property: in Newburgh.

Amount: $35,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Struzzieri Properties Inc., Saugerties. Seller: Shirley M. Lane, et al, Saugerties. Property: in Saugerties.

Amount: $100,000. Filed Feb. 23.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Bruce D. Townsend, Walden.

Property: 19 Alfred Place, Walden 12586. Amount: $379,439. Filed Feb. 24.

The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Mark Specthrie, Middletown.

Property: 21 Sunrise Trail, Monroe 10950. Amount: $234,741. Filed Feb. 27.

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U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Alan L. Joseph, Goshen. Property: 46 Surrey Road, Chester 10918. Amount: $345,536. Filed Feb. 24.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Elizabeth Wang, Poughkeepsie. Property: 128 Bower Road, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Amount: $490,000. Filed Feb. 22.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Gary Elliot Eisenberg, New City. Property: 83 Center St., Highland Falls 10928.

Amount: $100,000. Filed Feb. 22.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: John J. Fallon, Walden. Property: 54 Brewster Drive, Middletown 10940. Amount: $272,125. Filed Feb. 23.

JUDGMENTS A Cut Above Family Tree LLC, Kingston. $10,134 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Allison Auto Glass, Eddyville. $747 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Awesome Cut Lawncare Inc., Hurley. $204 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Michele A. Pietrobono, Newburgh. Property: 14 Fifth Ave., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $218,486. Filed Feb. 24.

Aztlan Lawnscape Inc., Highland. $1,062 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 23.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Stewart Parks Glenn, Newburgh. Property: 4 Walnut Way, Highland Mills. Amount: $259,000. Filed Feb. 23.

C’s Pizzeria Corp., Kingston. $50 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Christine H. Williamson, Monroe. Property: 14 Poplar Trail, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $152,000. Filed Feb. 24.

Duffy’s at the Triangle Inn Inc., Kingston. $11,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Feb. 23.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Jack Schachner, Pleasant Valley. Property: 35 Millstream Court, Pawling. Amount: $320,000.

Filed Feb. 23.

Edo Sushi Inc., Port Ewen. $1,287 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Lelita R. Hewitt, Paris, Tenn. Property: 24-26 Dug Road, New Paltz 12561. Amount: $193,539. Filed Feb. 21.

Flourish Global Appliances Inc., New Windsor. $468 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed April 19.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Mark D. Stern, Goshen. Property: 17-1 Lexington Hills, Harriman. Amount: $110,000. Filed Feb. 23.

Good Grief Comics, Kingston. $508 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

JAC Enterprises, Kingston. $2,062 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Joma Café LLC, West Shokan. $1,004 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Kizuna Inc., Port Ewen. $2,988 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Feb. 21.

Upstate Concrete and Masonry Contracting Company Inc., Monroe. $2,436 in favor of the trustees of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, Newburgh. Filed Feb. 23.

W.E. Bryant’s Inc., Kingston. $4,030 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

LIS PENDENS

KMA7 Corp., Ellenville. $285 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

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

Lucky Star Internet Café Inc., Kingston. $18,500 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Feb. 23.

Anzalone, Cory, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $147,000 affecting property located at 27 Hillside Ave., New Windsor 12553. Filed Nov. 17.

MWJS Inc., Wallkill. $1,367 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Nevele Hotel LLC, Old Westbury. $155,480 in favor of the village of Ellenville. Filed Feb. 24.

Northeast REO Field Services Corp., Pine Bush. $44,670 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed April 19.

Patrise LLC, Tuxedo. $8,162 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed April 19.

PJSG LLC, Saugerties. $1,158 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor, Albany. Filed Feb. 22.

Reliant Business Solutions Inc., Chester. $1,287 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed April 19.

Reservoir Delicatessen and Dairy Inc., Shokan. $1,048 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor and the Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 23.

Rock Poppers Inc., Kingston. $677 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

TH Remodeling and Renovations Inc., New Windsor. $969 in favor of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division, Albany. Filed April 19.

The DiDonato Funeral Service Inc., Marlboro. $372 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Feb. 21.

Atrash, Zakareyya, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 29 Starview Ave., Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Feb. 6.

Baccale, Deborah A., et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $412,500 affecting property located at 74 Aqueduct Road, Garrison 10524. Filed Feb. 21.

Barnes, Donnette Henry, et al.

Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $129,425 affecting property located at 2 Eastman Terrace, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Feb. 22.

Battista, Diana T., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $139,200 affecting property located at 108 Ressique St., Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 3.

Blackwood, Neil, et al. Filed by Homestead Funding Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $368,207 affecting property located at 22 Spook Hill Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Feb. 20.

Bovino, Neil J., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $158,000 affecting property located at 29 Hickory St., Ellenville 12428.

Filed Feb. 22.

Carlin, William J. Jr., as administrator of the estate of Ann Trace, et al. Filed by PNMAC Mortgage Opportunity Fund Investors LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $270,000 affecting property located at 221 Maple Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Feb. 10.

FACTS Carlin Jr., William J., Putnam County commissioner of finance, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $184,000 affecting property located at 435 Union Valley Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Feb. 22.

Carrero, Carmen L., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $101,065 affecting property located at 33 Plattekill Ardonia Road, Plattekill 12568. Filed Feb. 23.

Cintron, Florence, et al. Filed by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $128,000 affecting property located in Poughkeepsie. Filed Feb. 17.

Clarke, Leopold, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $254,400 affecting property located at 17 Oxford Lane, Harriman 10926. Filed Nov. 17.

Cory, Renee, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $168,000 affecting property located at 34 Onteora Court, Shokan 12481. Filed Feb. 17.

Cullen, Scott, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $64,910 affecting property located at 41 Prospect St., Kingston 12401. Filed Feb. 24.

Cummings, Curtis E., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $192,850 affecting property located at 418 Frozen Ridge Road, Marlboro 12542. Filed Feb. 21.

Czech, Helene M., et al. Filed by Ditech Financial LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $230,000 affecting property located at 254 Creek Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed Feb. 16.

Diefenthaller, Debbie, et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,750 affecting property located at 44 Cross Road, Patterson 12563.

Filed Feb. 2.

Dixon, Clark L., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $172,400 affecting property located at 66 Jordan Lane, Unit 9-57, Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 17.

Doege, William L., et al. Filed

by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $195,000 affecting property located at 41 Yarwood Road, Walker Valley 12588. Filed Feb. 24.

Duncan, Tracie L., et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $167,400 affecting property located at 503 Fox Run Lane, Carmel 10512. Filed Feb. 22.

Ennis Margaret H., as co-executrix of the estate of Helen A. Emni, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,500 affecting property located at 41 Emerick Road, Saugerties 12477. Filed Feb. 23.

Ferziger, Rubin, as guardian of the property of Leo D. Blank, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $63,150 affecting property located at 2601 Gale Place, Unit 26A, Newburgh 12550.

Filed Nov. 17.

Gallo, Paul, as heir to the estate of Christopher P. Gallo, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $271,500 affecting property located at 41 Clifton Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed Feb. 24.

Gning, Papa, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $313,423 affecting property located at 22 Dorliss Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Filed Feb. 22.

Grattan, Peter I. Sr., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Financial Credit Services New York Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $422,611 affecting property located at 1 Hill Road, Washingtonville 10992.

Filed Nov. 17.

Gutierrez, Zulma, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $240,000 affecting property located at 23 Brewster Woods Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 22.

Hamilton, Alexander J., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $145,000 affecting property located at 58-60 Gill St., Kingston 12401. Filed Feb. 22.

Heymach, Fred R., et al. Filed by LoanDepot.com LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $358,058 affecting property located at 2 Watch Hill Road, Pawling 12564.

Filed Feb. 23.

Horton, Joshua H., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $201,048 affecting property located at 25 Garden St., Hyde Park 12538. Filed Feb. 22.

Jaeger, Robert G., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $253,500 affecting property located at 327 Academy Hill Road, Milan 12571. Filed Feb. 21.

Jeffcoat, Deron L., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $193,325 affecting property located at 3 White Rock Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Feb. 7.

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Joyce, Patrick, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $412,500 affecting property located at 73 Towners Road, Carmel 10512.

Filed Feb. 22.

Meyer, Robert J., et al. Filed by Christians Trust. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $204,750 affecting property located at 11 Garden Circle, Saugerties 12477.

Filed Feb. 17.

Kowalczik, Helen, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $225,000 affecting property located at 1110 Route 211 West, Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 17.

MLCJ Holdings Inc., et al. Filed by RCN Capital Funding LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 7 Ann St., Ellenville 12428. Filed Feb. 23.

Lando, Christian S., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $335,482 affecting property located at 97 Old Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 8.

Moore, Wayne, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $93,368 affecting property located at 5 Lothrop Lane, Tivoli 12583. Filed Feb. 21.

Lauria, Maurice, et al. Filed by Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $142,589 affecting property located at 279 Violet Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Feb. 21.

Narvaez, Edison, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $256,651 affecting property located at 41 Sheldon Road, Wingdale 12594.

Filed Feb. 16.

Lewis, James J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $195,000 affecting property located at 1425 Route 208, Wallkill 12589. Filed Feb. 17.

O’Malley, Patric, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 9 W. Belvedere St., Cold Spring 10516. Filed Feb. 13.

Lieberman, Adrienne K., et al.

Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $340,000 affecting property located at 23 Norfolk Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 7.

Little, Kevin G., et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $153,600 affecting property located at 5 Hennessey Place, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Feb. 21.

Maher, Jennifer A., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $556,000 affecting property located at 45 Upper Lake Road, Mahopac 10541. Filed Feb. 7.

Marcojohn, Michael, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 8 W. Dogwood Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Feb. 22.

Oles, Marie Louise, et al. Filed by Sovereign Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $290,000 affecting property located at 97 Bingham Road, Marlboro 12542.

Filed Feb. 23.

Orgen, John R., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,200 affecting property located at 370 Hosner Mountain, Stormville 12582. Filed Feb. 17.

Parks, Jason W., et al. Filed by Loancare. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $221,691 affecting property located at 185 Ledge Road, Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 17.

Perri, Angelina, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 1886 New Hackensack Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Feb. 15.

Mcaree, Anthony, et al. Filed by Citizens Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $353,800 affecting property located at 390 Derby Road, Middletown 10940. Filed Nov. 17.

Polakowski, Thomas E., et al.

Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $159,565 affecting property located at 11 E. Dogwood Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Feb. 23.

McDonald, Will, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,125 affecting property located at 71 Wilson St., Beacon 12508. Filed Feb. 22.

Postles, Don, et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $216,200 affecting property located at 10 State St., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Filed Feb. 16.

McGinley, Steven E., et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $290,000 affecting property located at 18 Van Dam Road, Hyde Park 12538.

Filed Feb. 21.

Public administrator of Dutchess County Heidi Seelbach as administrator of the estate of Elmars Jurjevics, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,125 affecting property located at 5 Thorndale Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Feb. 16.

Riojas, Lydia, et al. Filed by Arthur Goodman. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $40,000 affecting property located at 33 Hook Road, Rhinebeck 12572. Filed Feb. 17.

Rock, Herbert, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $225,000 affecting property located at 10 Old Plank Road, Sparrow Bush 12780. Filed Nov. 17.

Rose, Susan S., et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property located at 32 New St., Kingston 12401. Filed Feb. 23.

Rosenbergen, Raeann, et al. Filed

by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $185,000 affecting property located at 100 Gristmill Lane, Pawling 12564. Filed Feb. 15.

Valentine, Kendall J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $96,000 affecting property located at 8 Pine Hollow Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Feb. 16.

Vasi, Paul R., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $428,487 affecting property located at 506 Overlook Drive South, Mahopac 10541. Filed Feb. 15.

Vernieri, Michael R., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $135,000 affecting property located at 36 Sanfordville Road, Warwick 10990. Filed Nov. 17.

Vitarius, Jessica Jo, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located in Lloyd.

Filed Feb. 24.

Rosner, Robert S., individually and as surviving spouse of Ellen P. Keane, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $224,867 affecting property located at 6 Maple Brook Road, New Paltz 12561. Filed Feb. 21.

Vittone, Christopher M., et al.

Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $145,000 affecting property located at 199 Washington St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Feb. 22.

Ruoff-Hilgers, Melissa A., et al.

Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $284,893 affecting property located at 7376 Route 28, Shandaken 12480. Filed Feb. 23.

Waliszewski, Mariusz, et al. Filed

by Webster Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $209,000 affecting property located at 103 Livingston Road, Kent 10512.

Filed Feb. 22.

Sickler, Stephen J., et al. Filed by Rhinebeck Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 277 Richmond Parkway, Kingston 12401. Filed Feb. 24.

Watson, Frank A., et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,500 affecting property located at 460 Birch Hill Road, Patterson 12563.

Filed Feb. 13.

Staib, Thomas, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $215,000 affecting property located at 4 Big Elm Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Feb. 22.

Whalen, James J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $237,619 affecting property located at 24 Carol Drive, LaGrange 12603. Filed Feb. 20.

Szeller, Agnieszka, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $370,000 affecting property located at 26 Trout Place, Mahopac 10541. Filed Feb. 7.

Woods, Patrick M., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,500 affecting property located at 16 Cindy Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Feb. 21.

Tenchar, Joan, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $170,050 affecting property located at 172 Downs St., Kingston 12401. Filed Feb. 23.

MECHANIC’S LIENS

Tobin, Brian, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $197,100 affecting property located at 4 Treis Terrace, Saugerties 12477. Filed Feb. 24.

Valencia, Henry, et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $170,000 affecting property located at 219 Steven St., Napanoch 12458. Filed Feb. 22.

100-110 Crystal Run Road LLC, as owner. $23,859 as claimed by Triple R Development LLC, Liberty. Property: in Wallkill. Filed Feb. 21.

Beacon Main Real Estate Group LLC, as owner. $12,468 as claimed by Calculated Fire Protection Company Inc., Salt Point. Property: 424-428 Main St., Beacon. Filed Feb. 22.

Greater Hudson, et al, as owner. $100,500 as claimed by G and S Home Improvement, Port Chester.

Property: 424-428 Main St., Beacon.

Filed Feb. 22.

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FACTS Greater Hudson, et al, as owner. $2,325 as claimed by Giuseppe Fiore, Stamford. Property: 424-428 Main St., Beacon. Filed Feb. 22.

JCA Bridge LLC, New Hampton, as owner. $25,951 as claimed by America’s Cabinet Company of Indiana, Greenfield, Ind. Property: 600 Route 211 East, Wallkill 10941. Filed Feb. 27.

Lofts @ Beacon Falls LLC, as owner. $33,500 as claimed by Rene Diaz, Ellenville. Property: 40 Leonard St., Beacon. Filed Feb. 23.

NND Poughkeepsie LLC, as owner. $4,316 as claimed by Anan Elzogheir, Poughkeepsie. Property: 433 Violet Ave., Hyde Park. Filed Feb. 24.

Steup, Leslie, et al, as owner. $15,225 as claimed by Tri-State Mechanical Plumbing and Heating, Rock Hill. Property: in Rock Tavern.

Filed Feb. 27.

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

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Quality Woven Labels Inc., d.b.a.

Custom Woven Labels, 1760 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock 12498. Filed Feb. 22.

Aqua Blast High Pressure Water Cleaning, 18 Kimberly Drive, Campbell Hall, c/o Robert Welsh. Filed March 31.

Quality Woven Labels Inc., d.b.a.

New York Custom Labels, 1760 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock 12498.

Filed Feb. 22.

Avilan Auto Service, 31 Wye Road, Circleville 10919, c/o Sebastian Avilan.

Filed March 31.

Doing Business As CVD Materials Corp., d.b.a. Tantaline CVD, 1117 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties 12447. Filed Feb. 22.

CVD Materials Corp., d.b.a. Tantaline, 1117 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties 12447. Filed Feb. 22.

Makoto Lin Inc., d.b.a. Kodomo Hibachi and Asian Bistro, 340 Kings Mall Court, Kingston 12401.

Filed Feb. 22.

Ninetails Inc., d.b.a. Cash4Notes, 38 Main St., Phoenicia 12464. Filed Feb. 22.

Ninetails Inc., d.b.a. Refund Angels, 38 Main St., Phoenicia 12464.

Filed Feb. 22.

FIGURES

Partnerships Hurley Landscape, P.O. Box 77, Hurley 12443, c/o Andrew Zell and Richard Weaver. Filed Feb. 22.

Kessler Partnership, P.O. Box 2053, Newburgh 12550, c/o Shulem Kessler and Rivka Kessler. Filed March 31.

RS Property Management, 131 Viola St., Wallkill 12589, c/o Paul Rau and Jill Shea. Filed Feb. 22.

Sole Proprietorships Aklima Confort, 16 Bivona Lane, Unit 95, New Windsor 12553, c/o Jimmy Jesus Galarza. Filed March 31.

Good Buy Co., 6 Preshburg Blvd., Monroe 10950, c/o Joel Deutsch. Filed April 1.

SC Associates, 54 Charlie Spunhoke Road, Bearsville 12409, c/o Christopher M. Kadison. Filed Feb. 21.

Hiraeth Designs, 12 Cathy Jo Place, Accord 12404, c/o Marsley G. Holderman. Filed Feb. 21.

Starry Nights Studio, 1220 B Ulster Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o Juanita Hotchkiss. Filed Feb. 23.

Lil’ Sarah’s Shop, 420 Grand St., Newburgh 12550, c/o Sarah Kathleen Burke. Filed March 31.

Stella Gardens, 21 Bennett Ave., Saugerties 12477, c/o Benjamin Stella.

Filed Feb. 17.

Days Auto, P.O. Box 1053, Highland 12528, c/o John A. Zunno. Filed Feb. 22.

Marcy’s Studio, 110 Cotter Road, Highland 12528, c/o Marciene S. Koch.

Filed Feb. 23.

Stockade Investigations, 95 Orchard St., Kingston 12401, c/o Christopher T. Politylo. Filed Feb. 24.

Doctored Documents CFDE, 8 Hopkins Terrace, Goshen 10924, c/o Raymond K. Berweger. Filed March 31.

Maxtech Solutions, 4305 Route 209, Stone Ridge 12484, c/o Max H. Yolken-Schiff. Filed Feb. 24.

Sun Kissed Tanning Salon, 27 Market St., Saugerties 12477, c/o Antonia M. Holland. Filed Feb. 17.

Dynamic Prime and Co., 1 Nicklesburg Road, Unit 104, Monroe, c/o Elias Brach. Filed April 1.

McWilliams Plumbing and Heating, 8 Maple Ave., Harriman, c/o Eli McWilliams. Filed March 30.

Supreme Cleaning Services, 1796 Route 9W South, Milton 12547, c/o Marie J. Gilles. Filed Feb. 21.

Executive Media Communications, 3 Woodward Road, Slate Hill 10973, c/o Charisse Rose. Filed March 30.

Mike’s Outside the Box Handyman Repair, 38 Bundy Lane, West Hurley 12491, c/o Michael J. Vanleuvan. Filed Feb. 22.

Tranees, 39 Christmas Hill Road, Airmont 10952, c/o Joseph Dirnfield.

Filed March 31.

Golick Cleaning Services, 29-31 Anthony St., Middletown 10940, c/o Edith Marie Guzman Arce. Filed March 31.

Rooted in Love Farm and Garden, 84 Nelson Hoff Road, Saugerties 12477, c/o Julia L. Ehrnstrom. Filed Feb. 17.

Best Orchid’s, 45 Ogden St., Apt. A, Middletown 10940, c/o Angel Patricio Morocho Avila. Filed March 31.

Wawayanda, 18 Bona Venture Ave., Wallkill 12585, c/o Shawn David Winters. Filed Feb. 17.

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LEGAL NOTICES Willett Avenue LLC. Filed 1/03/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1025 Westchester Ave #320 White Plains, NY 10604 Purpose: all lawful #60944 Notice of Formation of Marisol Castro-Pecoraro, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, PLLC. filed with SSNY on 12/16/2016. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC, 360 South Broadway, Suite 22, Yonkers, NY 10705. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60945 Good Karma 818 LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/5/17. County: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to The LLC, 36 W. 44th St., Rm. 1000, New York, NY 10036. General Purpose. #60946 Notice of Formation of TEAM JMC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/1/16. 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 Moses & Singer, LLP, Attn: Daniel S. Rubin, Esq., 405 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10174-1299. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60947 West 12th LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/6/17. County: Westchester.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Staikidis, 4N003 Wild Rose Rd., St. Charles, IL 60174. General Purpose. #60948 Notice of Formation of 1554-1564 ROUTE 9 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: One New King Street, Suite 201, West Harrison, NY 10570.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60949 Notice of Formation of MUNAKATA ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 599 Midland Avenue #2-9, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60950 Notice of Formation of Stormsman, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/05/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Stormsman LLC, 7 Holland Ave, Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #60951 JEJR LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/17. County: Westchester.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to John M. Crane, P.C., 342 N. Main St., Port Chester, NY 10573.

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NomaĂ­s Restaurant LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/16. County: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Jose M. Palacios & Dilman N. Cardona, 222 Columbus Ave., Port Chester, NY 10573.

General Purpose. #60953 569 ACAD LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/19/17. County: Westchester.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Green & Cohen, P.C., 319 E. 91st St., Professional Suite, New York, NY 10128. General Purpose. #60954 M.P. Site Development LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 1/24/17. Off. in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 33 Bittersweet Ln., South Salem, NY 10509. Purpose: any lawful activity. #60955 Notice of Formation of Insler IRA LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/20/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 17 Newcomb Pl. White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60956 Notice of formation of ACCIPITER TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/27/16. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 945 Webster Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60958 210 Drake LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/25/17. County: Westchester.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to The LLC, 186 Seton Dr., New Rochelle, NY 10804. General Purpose. #60959 Notice of Formation of W23GLC Holding LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/20/17. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Giuseppe LoCascio PO Box 8027 WHITE PLAINS NY, 10602.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60960 HEADWAY PRACTICE SOLUTIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/23/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 422 Viewpoint Terrace, Peekskill, New York 10566, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #60961 Sawpit Smokehouse LLC. Filed 1/20/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1025 Westchester Ave #320 White Plains, NY 10604 Purpose: all lawful #60962 Poningo LLC. Filed 1/20/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1025 Westchester Ave #320 White Plains, NY 10604 Purpose: all lawful #60963

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Zinrock Resources L.P. App. for Auth. filed w/ SSNY 1/25/17. Cert of LP filed w/ SSDE 7/24/98 Off. Loc.: Westchester Co. SSNY shall mail process to the L.P., c/o National Realty & Development Corp., 3 Manhattanville Rd, Ste 202, Purchase, NY 10577. SSNY designated as agent of LP whom process may be served. Add. req. to be maintained in DE: c/o Incorporating Services, Ltd., 3500 S DuPont Hgwy, Dover, DE 19901.

The names and address of each general partner is available from the SSNY. Name & add. of the auth. officer in DE where copy of Arts. of Org. filed: Secretary of State, Federal and Loockerman Streets, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. #60964 Scargeor, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/30/17. County: Westchester.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Philip L. Borrelli, 171 Longview Ave., White Plains, NY 10605.

General Purpose. #60965 Notice of formation of SmartGarden, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/28/2016.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: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13 th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60966 Notice of Formation of Meno Consulting LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/28/16. 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, 1364 Spring Valley Rd. Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60967 Notice of Formation of L3GAZY FITNESS , LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/24/17. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to L3GAZY FITNESS, LLC , 48 S 9TH AVE, MT. VERNON, NY 10550.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60968 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: JAMES W MAXWELL LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/1/2017. Office location: Westchester County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 782 Sherman Avenue, Thornwood, NY 10594. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. #60970 Rdr Park Drive LLC. Filed 1/27/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water St #204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #60971 115 Kemeys Cove, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/1/16. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 7 Meadow Ln., Katonah, NY 10536.

General Purpose. #60972 Notice of Formation of 64 Hillside Ave. LLC Articles of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/22/2016. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 229 Wishing Brook Rd. New Rochelle, NY 10804. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #60974

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: R C TORRE AUTO LLC, .

Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/01/2017. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her to the company at RC Torre Auto LLC 215 Railroad Ave Bedford Hills, NY, 10507: Business location: 215 Railroad Ave , Bedford Hills, NY 10507 Purpose: any lawful. #60975 Notice of Formation of Whalebone Advisory, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 12/1/16. Office Location: 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 at 18 Wyndham Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. LLC purpose is any lawful act or activity. #60976 Notice of Formation of Roots & Boots, LLC. Art Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/9/16. 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, 61 Stratford Lane, Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60977 DGOLDCONSULTING, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/04/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 24 Larissa Lane; Thornwood, New York 10594, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #60978 Local Employees Tax and Accounting Service Letas, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 1/11/17.

Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: Corp Filings of NY, 90 State St, Ste 700 Office 40, Albany NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity #60981 Notice of Formation of Apex Caretaking Services, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/9/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Frank Antonucci, 26 Wood Creek Road, New Milford, CT 06776. Purpose: any lawful activity. #60982 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF: YouCreate LLC ART OF ORG. filed with SSNY on 2/13/17. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Caruso Pl, Armonk, NY 10504.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #60983 Lowerre Place LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/15/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 6 Sickles Ave., Ste. 206, New Rochelle, NY 10801. General Purpose #60984

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1299882 for beer & wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer & wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 531-533 Warburton Ave., Hasting On Hudson, NY 10706 for on premises consumption. Applicant: Sakura Maple Corp. DBA Sakura Garden Japanese Cuisine. #60985 Notice of Formation of Marlin Ventures, LLC Articles Of Org. Filed with SSNY on 1/19/17. The County within this state in which the limited liability company is to be located is Westchester. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Rental real estate #60986 Notice of Formation of Marlin Ventures 1, LLC Articles Of Org. Filed with SSNY on 1/31/17. The County within this state in which the limited liability company is to be located is Westchester. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Rental real estate #60987 43 Ridge LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/16. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 5600A Broadway, Bronx, NY 10463. General Purpose. #60988 Matlee Advisors LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/17/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Marc Sheinbaum, 24 Deerfield Rd., Chappaqua, NY 10514. General Purpose. #60989 TOPHER HORN LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 2/17/17. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY designated for service of process and shall mail to: 950 Main St #3, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: Any lawful activity #60990 Notice of Formation of Blue & May LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/7/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNYdesig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall may process to principal business location: 40 Old Lancaster rd, Sudbury, MA 01776. Purpose: any lawful activity #60991 Notice of Formation of D2BD Dare To Be Different, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/12/16. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to D2BD Dare To Be Different 40 E. Sidney Avenue Unit 14B, Mount Vernon, NY, 10550. Purpose: any lawful act or activity #60992 Notice of Formation of Premier Dog Walking of Pelham LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/02/16. 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, 511 Stellar Avenue Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #60993

Notice of Formation of INTEGRATED NUTRITION OF MOUNT KISCO PLLC, a domestic limited liability company. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/25/15. NY Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC at 495 E. Main Street, Mount Kisco, New York 10549. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. #60995 Notice of Formation of HOMESTYLE AT OCEAN GRILL LLC, a domestic LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/16/2017 Office location: 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, 185 Kisco Avenue, Ste 604, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. #60996 ROZZIFILM GALLERY, LLC Articles of Org. filed with the SSNY January 12, 2017 at 6:16 AM EST. Offc. Loc: Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Carlo Rosignoli, 6c Hillside Terrace, White Plains, NY 10601-1131. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #60998 Notice of Formation of Kliemann & Company, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/23/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Kristin A. Kliemann, 1 Hastings Landing, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #60999 Notice of Formation of SDA Professional, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 02/23/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 793 Palmer Road, 4E Bronxville, NY 10708. Purpose: any lawful activity. #61000

Notice of Formation of Core Chakra LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 2/17/17. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent for process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: c/o Core Chakra LLC, 23 Madison St., West Harrison, NY 10604.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #61005 Fidgetable LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 1/25/17. Off. in Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 395, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful activity. Ad # 60957 Homes for Sale by Claudia, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/13/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Homes for Sale by Claudia, LLC c/o US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, # 202, Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Ad # 60969 Notice of Formation of IDS SPORTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/3/17. 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 United Corporate Services, Inc., 10 Bank St., Ste. 560, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: any lawful activity. Ad # 60979 Name of LLC: Wispy Willow Photography LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 01/01/2017.

Princ. off. Loc.: Westchester Cty. Sec. of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Sec. of State shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Wispy Willow Photography LLC, 432 Manhattan Ave, Hawthorne, NY 10532 Attn: Kasey King-Petrellese Purpose: any lawful activity. Ad # 61006

DPB Realty Holding, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/10/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 350 Willett Ave., Rear Bldg., Port Chester, NY 10573. General Purpose. #61001 Notice of Formation of 13 Columbus, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/22/16. 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 566, NY 10536.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61002 Notice of Formation of Seminary Holdings, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/6/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave. Ste. 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61003 Notice of Formation of JLR Songs LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/10/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 17 Magnolia Rd. Scarsdale., NY 10583.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61004

STATE OF CONNECTICUT Superior Court at Stamford Docket: FA16-5016077 NOTICE TO: DANIEL ZEVALLOS. You are named as a defendant subject to the automatic orders in an application filed in the above named court seeking custody of children.

To respond to this application, you must appear at the court, 123 HOYT STREET, STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, on MARCH 15, 2017 at 9:30 A.M. This notice is published pursuant to an ORDER OF NOTICE dated 1/24/2017. attest: /s/ Jon Gallup Constable #60997

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CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY AND PUBLIC SERVICE SUCCESS More than 50 representatives of companies that support Volunteer New York! gathered for a networking reception which also was a celebration of the nonprofit, organization’s 67th birthday. The event took place on Feb. 15, and was hosted by TD Bank in Rye. Volunteer New York! helps companies in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam develop community outreach efforts that address vital issues. It arranges for employees to participate in volunteer programs which serve the community while helping to meet the employer’s responsibility goals.

The organization also invites participation in its own community service happenings such as the Volunteer Spirit Awards, the Martin Luther King Day of Service and the 9/11 Day of Service. It suggests that participation may help increase market visibility or enhance a company’s own branded community initiatives.

“Our community thrives because we have so many companies, both large and small, who want strong volunteer employee programs built into their corporate culture,” said Alisa H. Kesten, executive director of Volunteer New York!. She explained the event was “…a party to encourage our business supporters to get to know each other better, network, and recognize the value of working together and doing business with those who support volunteerism in our community.”

Photos by Paul Schneiderman.

1. Lisa Stewart and Felix Tapia.

2. Haina Just-Michael and Brittany Croci.

3. Monique Haygood and Joanne Taylor.

4. Sarp Kayalar and Lucas Zhengh.

5. Jane Solnick, and Adam Kintish.

6. Kristin Turco and Ellen Wilkinson.

7. Ed Forbes, George Troyano and Traci Bauer.

8. Sonia Montano, Jalissa Alvarez and Hazel Anchia.

9. Michael Welling and Marissa Weidner.

10. Michael Grossman and Bob Matluck.

11. Joseph Solimine Jr., Jeannine Foxx, Cindy Ostsrager and Markham F. Rollins III. 12. Ted Kesten and Lisa Pine.

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ABOVE THE BAR AWARDS 11TH ANNUAL COUNTYWIDE AWARDS PROGRAM RECOGNIZING OUTSTANDING WESTCHESTER ATTORNEYS

SAVE THE DATE | JUNE 8 KEYNOTE Westchester District Attorney SPEAKER Anthony Scarpino

PRESENTED BY: • CITRIN COOPERMAN • WESTCHESTER COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL • ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW

Visit westfaironline.com/abovethebar for the nominating process. Each nomination should consist of a minimum of 200 words based on the criteria provided. Please submit your nomination and a copy of the nominee’s CV no later than April 17.

A CALL FOR

NOMINATIONS Members of the Westchester business and legal communities are encouraged to nominate, pursuant to the criteria, one or more candidates for the following prestigious award categories: PACE SETTER AWARD: Candidate exemplifies overall excellence in professional and community work, prominence in the Westchester legal profession and fierce determination to being as good an attorney as possible. The highest award, the candidate must be well respected by peers and community.

MOST SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS AWARD: Candidate is dedicated to one or more causes in the community as an active member or leader and has a significant history of pro bono legal or government service, which warrant praise and recognition by peers and community.

LEADING LAND USE ATTORNEY: Candidate has dedicated his/her legal expertise in land use, including development and zoning matters, and distinguished him/ herself as a leading land use attorney.

LEADING MATRIMONIAL ATTORNEY: Candidate must be experienced in the field of complex matrimonial law while demonstrating successful outcomes for his/her clients here in Westchester County. In addition, he or she must be well-respected for his/her ethical representation of his/her clients.

MOST PROMISING PACE LAW SCHOOL STUDENT: Candidate, in his/her third year, who through passion and enthusiasm for the law, high scholastic achievement and initiative and involvement in school and community activities, will be a promising member of the legal profession.

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WITHOUT QUESTION WINNING THE ABOVE THE BAR AWARD IS ONE OF THE MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF MY LEGAL CAREER, BUT ITS MEANING IS FAR GREATER. IT CELEBRATES THE RULE OF LAW IN OUR PROFESSION AND IT RECOGNIZES ALL LAWYERS WHO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS.

PRESENTED BY

For more information or questions, call Rebecca Freeman at 914-358-0757 or email rfreeman@westfairinc.com.

Nominations close April 17

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Tejash V. Sanchala 2012 Above The Bar Award Recipient Leading Labor & Employment Attorney

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