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OAKTREE BIDS AGAIN TO MANAGE COUNTY AIRPORT

BY ALEESIA FORNI aforni@westfairinc.com Five months after striking a long-term lease agreement with the county executive, Oaktree Capital Management LP hopes the second time’s the charm for its proposal to manage the Westchester County Airport.

The Los Angeles-based investment firm has teamed up with another California company, Conor Capital, to form HPN Aviation Group. The newly created partnership plans to respond to a request for proposals (RFP)

Privatization, Take 2 This bird’s-eye view shows the county airport in foreground with White Plains in the background and New York City in the distance. Photo by John Bailey

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Private schools sound warnings as free state tuition plan becomes law

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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plan from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to provide free tuition for qualifying families at SUNY and CUNY colleges is set to start this fall, eliciting divergent views from private and state school presidents.

The new state Excelsior Scholarship program, approved

April 9 as part of the state’s 2018 budget, will cover the full cost of tuition at SUNY and CUNY universities as well as community colleges for students from families making $125,000 or less per year.

The plan makes New York the first state to offer free tuition at both its two- and four-year colleges and universities.

Belinda S. Miles, president of Westchester Community College, said that the Valhalla school,

along with community colleges statewide, is bracing for an influx of students. “The way I see it, the county’s most affordable college just got more affordable,” she said.

Miles added that the state program can help community colleges fill the demand for middle skill jobs, jobs that require more than a high school diploma but not a four-year degree.

Private not-for-profit colleges fear the influx of students to schools in the SUNY and CUNY systems could in return hurt their enrollment. Those concerns were highlighted in a report published in March by the Commission on Independent Colleges & Universities (CICU) in New York, a group that represents more than 100 private colleges and universi-

ties in the state. The report predicted that the plan could boost enrollment at New York’s public universities between 9 and 22 percent and decrease enrollment at private colleges and universities by between 7 and 15 percent.

“We’re very concerned that this new law takes a lot of choice out of the hands of students and their families in New York that they have previously had for many years and tilts the scale toward public institutions,” said Mercy College President Timothy L. Hall.

Robina C. Schepp, Pace University’s vice president for enrollment and placement, criticized the state’s program in an op-ed for Crain’s New York Business, saying it shuts out pri-

vate universities with proven records of maximizing graduate earning power.

“When free tuition comes at the expense of attending a school that may offer a better fit and superior career opportunities that lead to decades of higher earnings, it erases the very appeal of the Excelsior Scholarship,” Schepp wrote.

Private college presidents in New York had pushed for the state to instead fund an expansion of the state’s Tuition Assistance Program from a maximum contribution of $5,000 per student to $6,500, along with increasing the maximum annual household income level from $85,000 to $125,000 to qualify. » TUITION, page 19

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2016 WESTCHESTER FORECLOSURE FILINGS DROP, JUDGMENTS STAY HIGH Foreclosure actions filed in Westchester County dropped sharply in 2016 from previous years, while the number of court judgments against defaulted property owners last year was the third highest in the county in the last 10 years, according to Westchester County Clerk Timothy C. Idoni.

The 1,175 foreclosure judgments issued in Westchester in 2016 was only six fewer than in 2015, when the courts disposed of 409 more foreclosure cases than in 2014, as a logjam of mortgage financing and legal paperwork from the housing market crash began to be cleared by lenders. In 2012, by comparison, 208 foreclosure judgments were issued in the county.

A total of 1,412 foreclosure actions were started in Westchester last year, a 33 percent decrease from 2015. Foreclosure filings in 2009 reached an all-time high in Westchester of 3,123, but have steadily declined since 2013.

Idoni said 316 foreclosure actions were filed in the first quarter this year, a nearly 24 percent decrease from the first quarter of 2016. Judges issued 248 foreclosure judgments from January through March, according to the county clerk.

“The figures in filings are certainly encouraging,” Idoni said, “showing that fewer homeowners are entering foreclosure. The judgment side is still too high, but we hope to see a decrease in those through fewer filings and increased awareness of counseling and financial options.”

MOUNT VERNON HIRES INCLUDE OBAMA APPOINTEES The city of Mount Vernon has hired two former officials of the Department of Agriculture during the Obama administration to serve in development roles.

Mayor Richard Thomas announced the appointment of Stacey Brayboy as executive director of the Industrial Development Agency for $108,000 a year. She replaces Sean McIntyre who was hired in August after Thomas fired the previous director.

She was approved at a special meeting of the IDA on April 6, according to city spokeswoman Maria Donovan. The meeting was not posted on the city’s website.

Brayboy worked on Obama’s presidential transition team, according to her LinkedIn profile. She held several positions in the Department of Agriculture, including chief of staff for Food and Nutrition Services and then chief of staff

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for the agency’s financial officer.

Thomas named Elvis Cordova and his Statecraft Strategies LLC of Alexandria, Virginia, as a consultant for the Urban Renewal Agency, for $8,000 a month. He will help with grants and with issues such as compliance with federal laws, according to Donovan. He also held positions in the Department of Agriculture, including undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs.

Thomas has said previously that the IDA will be the city’s economic engine.

Eight months ago the agency had one employee, executive director Margaret Finlayson. Besides McIntyre and, Brayboy, the agency has hired Donovan as strategic director for $95,000 a year and Roberta James as business development director for $86,000 a year.

It also has hired two consultants: Daniel Macom, president of DJM Inc., to provide media services for $85 an hour and Michael R. Gianatasio of Universal Engineering Services for code enforcement for $150 an hour.

McIntyre, according to the announcement, remains on staff as transitional director. He declined to discuss the transition.

CORTLANDT STARTS FUND TO OFFSET INDIAN POINT LOSS With Indian Point Energy Center set to close by 2021, its host town, Cortlandt, will set aside some money to prepare for the tax hit.

Cortland Town Supervisor Linda D. Puglisi said that the town board approved a plan to place $100,000 each year into a separate reserve account to prepare for the plant’s closure in four years. The town will start saving the money this year and use funds from an annual fund balance or surplus, according to Puglisi’s notice.

Cortlandt will lose $900,000 per year in revenue without Indian Point, according to the town. That’s about 2 percent of its budget. Even harder hit will be the tax revenue for the village of Buchanan, where Indian Point is located. Buchanan is set to lose $3.5 million per year, a little less than half its annual budget. The Hendrick Hudson School District, meanwhile, could lose $23 million per year, about one-third of its annual budget.

Puglisi, Hendrick Hudson Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter and Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker are part of a task force convened by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that will examine and plan for the impact of Indian Point’s closing.

MOUNT VERNON URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY SUED OVER LOAN An Elmsford firm has sued the Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency for allegedly not honoring terms of a loan for a lowincome housing project.

In 2014, the Urban Renewal Agency

loaned $345,200 to Mt. Vernon Associates LP to help renovate the 76-unit Greencourt Apartments at 284 S. Columbus Ave. The agency agreed to subordinate its mortgage to any institutional mortgage on the property.

Mt. Vernon Associates then refinanced an underlying mortgage with KeyBank for nearly $3 million, and the URA granted primary loan status to the bank.

The KeyBank loan has matured and Mt. Vernon Associates has arranged for a new loan to refinance the KeyBank loan.

But the Urban Renewal Agency, according to the lawsuit filed on March 23 in state Supreme Court in White Plains, has not responded to several requests to subordinate its loan to a new mortgage.

Mt. Vernon Associates managing partner, John V. Saraceno, sent five emails to Maria Donovan, special assistant to Mayor Richard Thomas, and met with Danielle Scholar, deputy director of the Urban Renewal Agency, asking for the agreement.

So far, the lawsuit states, he has received no responses.

The KeyBank mortgage is in default and has incurred a 4 percent penalty.

“The current situation is untenable,” Saraceno’s attorney, Daniel D. Tartaglia, wrote in a March 21 letter to the agency. “Mt. Vernon Associates has and will continue to suffer irreparable injury if the subordination agreement is not signed immediately.”

Donovan said that the city does not comment on pending litigation.

Mt. Vernon Associates is asking the court to compel the Urban Renewal Agency to give it a subordination agreement.

SPRINT STORE TO OPEN IN PELHAM MANOR Wireless Lifestyle LLC will open a 2,000-square-foot Sprint store at Post Road Plaza in the village of Pelham Manor, according to Levin Management Corp., exclusive leasing and managing agent for the 268,000-square-foot shopping center.

Levin leasing representative Jordan Korris negotiated the long-term lease. Scott Meshil of Royal Properties in Bronxville represented the tenant.

Korris in a press release said the Sprint wireless communications store “represents a new category for Post Road Plaza and we are confident this tenant will provide an outstanding resource for both consumers and businesses in the community. We continue to enhance Post Road Plaza’s tenant mix with services and stores that reinforce its competitive market position.”

Post Road Plaza is anchored by a 75,000-square-foot Fairway Market and includes 13 other retail and restaurant tenants. Plaza management said only one 5,630-square-foot unit remains available for leasing.

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Increased sales sap housing stock in Hudson Valley

BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

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igh sales volume in the Hudson Valley region’s housing market has contributed to a markedly shrunken inventory, which lost about onefifth of its listings at the end of this year’s first quarter compared with a year ago.

The Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service, in its quarterly report for the four-county region served by Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors, said brokers reported 3,700 first-quarter closings in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Orange counties. That amounted to a 9 percent increase from the first quarter of 2016, with an additional 309 single-family houses, condominiums, co-operatives and two- to four-family dwellings sold.

Rockland County led the region with a 29.3 percent increase in first-quarter sales of all housing types. Sales of single-family homes in Rockland were up nearly 24 percent, with 444 houses sold. That number represents about 40 percent of the number of single-family homes sold in the first quarter across the Hudson River in Westchester.

Source: Hudson Gateway Multiple LIsting Service

The 1,092 single-family houses sold in Westchester was a 7.1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2016. Sales of all housing types in the county were up 4.4 percent, with 1,929 closings. First-quarter declines in condo sales — 261 units sold, down 6.8 percent — and two-to four-family houses — 132 sold, down 9 percent — were offset by a more than 10 percent jump in co-op sales, with 444 sold from January through March.

Sales-leading Rockland saw its first-

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quarter median sale price for a single-family house climb back above the $400,000 level to $425,000, up 6.5 percent increase from the first quarter of 2016. A 37 percent increase in first-quarter condominium sales in Rockland, where 118 condos were sold, was accompanied by a 10.7 percent rise in the median sale price of a condo, to $217,500.

In Westchester, the median sale price of a single-family house climbed back to

$600,000, where it stood in the first quarters of 2014 and 2015, after dropping 5.3 percent in the first quarter last year.

While Westchester condo sales dropped nearly 7 percent in the first quarter, the median sale price of the 261 units sold was $360,000, a 7.2 percent increase.

As the region’s real estate market this year has continued its five-year recovery, housing inventory has been depleted to levels that could create pressure for price increases, according to the housing report.

Yet though the four counties’ end-of-quarter inventory shank by 20.3 percent, “The effect on prices has been mixed.”

Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors CEO Richard Haggerty in his quarterly market analysis noted that not much has changed since last year in the local, state and national real estate markets. “Perhaps the only truly dark cloud on the horizon is the prospect of an overhaul of the nation’s tax code, which could severely injure the housing market — or maybe help it?”

“Either way,” he said, “that won’t happen until much later in the year. Otherwise, the HGAR real estate market is in excellent shape for continued high sales volume with manageable price increases in some sectors.”

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Ossining, opponents go another round over proposed village traffic circle

BY ALEESIA FORNI

a $500,000 bond to finance the construction of a roundabout at the intersection of Spring, Main, Brandreth streets and Central Avenue. Ossining Mayor Victoria Gearity has said that the traffic circle would provide safer flow for cars and crosswalks for pedestrians. The roundabout would replace the traditional intersection and traffic signals.

Opponents, however, have continually cited the traffic circle’s potential effects on safety, parking, traffic and economic development in downtown among their concerns.

The chamber of commerce filed a petition in March that sought a public vote on whether to defund the project’s previously approved bond, though the village rejected that petition, citing a number of reasons that many signatures were invalid.

During the April meeting at the Ossining Public Library, the village also laid out its

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ensions ran high at a recent community meeting in Ossining, where residents continued to voice their opposition to a plan proposed by village officials to construct a roundabout at a five-point intersection in the village’s downtown.

“To put a roundabout there would literally kill that intersection,” Gayle Marchica, president of the Greater Ossining Chamber of Commerce, said at the April 6 meeting.

“It will keep traffic moving, most definitely, and that’s not what we want. We want people walking. We want people spending money, because when you spend money in your own town, it’s a win-win situation.”

In February, village trustees approved

intention to assemble a working committee with the goal of crafting a plan of action for the redevelopment of downtown.

The committee will consist of 20 members appointed by the board, including residents and village officials. Those who wish to join the committee can do so by filling out an application online.

Some residents were concerned the village board would only appoint members to the committee who they believed shared their views, but village officials said they hoped to include a range of stakeholders in the group.

“Our intention is to make (the committee) as widespread and representative as possible, otherwise it’s not going to work,” village Trustee Rika Levin said.

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members on April 26.

Ninety days following the formation of the committee, village officials expect the working group to recommend a plan to the board. Gearity said that plan could include a request for proposals for developers for village-owned properties, enlisting the help of a consultant group or rejecting redevelopment and maintaining the status quo.

“Whether or not a roundabout is part of this, we’re going to find out the first week of May,” Gearity said, adding that at that point, “we’ll have numbers” regarding the expected cost of the roundabout.

The village plans to issue a request for proposals later this spring regarding the proposed changes to the downtown intersection. If the village moves forward with the roundabout, construction would last from June to August.

“If we don’t do all this administrative (work) upfront, the logistical work, we won’t be able to commence construction in June and construct the project over the summer,” interim Village Manager Paul Fraioli said.

Many village residents expressed concerns that village officials had already made the decision to move forward with construction of the roundabout no matter the outcome of the working group. Residents also questioned the timeline, saying that the village hopes to begin construction on the roundabout in June prior to the working group’s recommendation in late July. Others were concerned that the committee would be unable to come up with a plan in the three-month timeframe.

“This is not a good process. You’re putting a lot of pressure on this committee that is not yet formed. You’re putting a lot of pressure on the community,” resident John Van Steen said. “This is something that if you really want to go forward with thoughts of what to do with our downtown, you should take that (roundabout) part of the process off the table.”

Levin assured residents that the committee would not be charged with solving all of the village’s problems in 90 days.

“It is not to design the village,” she said of the committee’s task. “It’s a recommendation to move forward to helping the village board. It is not 90 days to come up with a plan for how the village will look.”

While many residents expressed their frustration with the village board leading up to the meeting, others remained hopeful.

“I also really do believe that we have to give this process a chance,” said Kaja Gam, owner of Kaja Gam Interior Architecture and Design at 127 Main St. “There is no decision made until a bid has been granted a contract, end of story.”

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Convicted lawyer Matthew Libous eager to practice law again

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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atthew T. Libous, who served six months in prison for cheating on his taxes in a case that also ensnared his father, the late Thomas M. Libous, a once powerful state senator, is getting closer to his goal of reapplying for a law license.

On April 5, a state Appellate Court suspended Matthew Libous’ law license for one year, but in making the discipline retroactive the court left open the possibility that he could reapply at any time.

“I’m very thankful for the ruling,” Libous said. “I’m grateful, I’m joyful, I’m excited about getting back into law. It looks like they’re giving me that chance, so I’m taking advantage of that opportunity.”

Libous quickly landed law jobs after he graduated from law school. He worked in the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and then the New York State Liquidation Bureau. In 2006, he was hired by Santangelo Randazzo & Mangone in Hawthorne.

It was his father, then Sen. Thomas Libous, who helped him get that job, eventually putting the family under a spotlight.

The Republican senator from Binghamton arranged the job in exchange for a promise to steer future business to the law firm, according to a 2014 federal indictment. And he arranged for an Albany lobbying firm to pay the law firm $50,000 a year to defray his son’s salary and to lease a Range Rover for his son.

The elder Libous was convicted in 2015 of making false statements to the FBI. U.S. District Court Judge Vincent L. Briccetti sentenced him to house arrest for six months, two years of probation and a $50,000 fine.

The senator, who had risen to deputy majority leader, resigned in his fourteenth term. He died of prostate cancer less than a year after his conviction.

A federal grand jury indicted Matthew Libous in 2014 on several tax charges.

The government said he failed to report income from his legal work. From 2008 to

2012, when he ran Wireless Construction Solutions, a Westchester company that installed cellular telephone towers, he had the company pay personal expenses.

According to the indictment, expenses included casino trips, vacations, gym memberships, an internet dating service, spa treatments, tanning salon visits, clothing, food and student loan debt.

In all, the government said he underreported his income by $338,250 from 2007 to 2011.

Briccetti found him guilty of three charges of subscribing to a false tax return, but found him not guilty of four charges. He sentenced him to six months at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix in New Jersey.

Just four days before his release on Jan. 29, 2016, the state Supreme Court Appellate Division suspended Libous’ law license for a year. The court authorized a disciplinary proceeding and appointed a special referee to report on the case.

On April 5, the Appellate Court accepted the referee’s report that Libous was guilty of professional misconduct.

The referee concluded that Libous had rehabilitated himself, was remorseful and would not make the same mistake twice.

The court suspended him from the practice of law for one year, but made the penalty retroactive to the January 2016 suspension. The suspension will continue until further order of the court.

Libous said it could take a year for him to get his license back.

When he applies for reinstatement, he must prove that he has not tried to practice law during his suspension, complied with other rules governing suspended attorneys and “otherwise properly conducted himself.”

Libous works with his church now, manages an upstate construction company and lives in New Jersey.

Prison is a “very dark place” he said, but the support he got from his wife, family and friends, and above all his relationship with Jesus, got him through the ordeal.

“I don’t feel like a day of my life was wasted,” he said. “It was very humbling, but it reminded me of the common thread we all have. We’re all human and we’re all fallible.”

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Business Journal wins first-place prize

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he Westchester County Business Journal and its sister publication, WAG magazine, recently were honored with Excellence Awards from the New York Press Association in its 2016 Better Newspaper Contest.

The Business Journal won first place in the highly competitive feature story category for Managing Editor John Golden’s profile last May of Dr. Peter S. Liebert, an octogenarian pediatric surgeon who, 52 years after his graduation from medical school, entered the MBA program at Iona

College and received his degree at a ceremony last spring with prospects of starting a new career in the health care industry.

Contest judges called it “an inspiring story and encouraging for those who are older and feel they have more to contribute.”

In the New York Press Association’s magazine division, WAG captured the thirdplace award. Judges lauded the monthly magazine as “very diverse, very informative” and an “excellent publication that is more a third first-place than a third placer in a very, very competitive category.”

Montreign Resort Casino to rebrand as Resorts World property

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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ontreign Resort Casino, a $1.2 billion resort under construction in Sullivan County, will rebrand itself as a Resorts World prop-

erty.

Montreign Operating Co. LLC, a subsidiary of the publicly traded Empire Resorts Inc., announced that it had entered into an agreement to use the Resorts World branding for its newest casino. Montreign Operating Co. will still operate the casino.

Resorts World is a joint venture compa-

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issued by the county earlier this month to operate the county-owned airport.

“This partnership reflects what we said we were going to do all along, form a local company and bring in highly qualified executives to professionally operate the airport,” said Thomas L. Bosco, the group’s executive chairman. “We are confident that we have pulled the right team together that understands the character of this airport, and we have the advantage.”

Oaktree has completed similar projects in Baltimore, Puerto Rico and London, and Bosco believes the company brings “the right talent and the right experience to the job,” while Conor Capital, which focuses on investing in transportation-related companies, is “a significant player in the industry, so the partnership makes sense.”

While declining to detail the company’s proposed bid, Bosco said HPN Aviation Group plans to keep in place the airport’s 240-per-half-hour passenger limit and added that a 40-year lease term “seems to be the sweet spot.”

Bosco, a former director of the aviation department for the Port Authority of

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ny of the Malaysian conglomerate Genting Berhad.

The Sullivan County casino in the town of Thompson is expected to open March 2018 and include an 18-story hotel, more than 100,000 square feet of casino floor space and 27,000 square feet of multipurpose meeting and entertainment space.

The license agreement grants Montreign rights to use the “Resorts World” and “Genting” branding in casino marketing, sales, management and operations. It also allows the branding to be used at the entertainment village and golf course that subsidiaries of Montreign are developing at the resort property, the company said in

the announcement.

The deal, according to an SEC filing by Empire Resorts, runs through 2027. Empire Resorts will pay “a low single-digit percentage of net revenue” to use the brand.

The deal will also allow Empire’s new casino to participate in the Genting Rewards Alliance loyalty program.

The Resorts World brand includes properties in Malaysia, Singapore, the Bahamas, Philippines, England, New York City and another under construction in Las Vegas.

Genting Berhad chairman and CEO Lim Kok Thay also is a beneficiary and controls Kien Huat Realty III Ltd., a majority shareholder in Empire Resorts.

“We believe branding our resort casino a Resorts World property will significantly enhance our ability to market the facility and attract visitors, which will provide regional, national and international exposure for Sullivan County and the Catskills region,’’ said Emanuel Pearlman, Empire Resort’s executive chairman of the board.

Empire Resorts was one of four companies in New York authorized in 2014 to build casinos by the state Gaming Commission. The company also owns and operates Monticello Casino and Raceway, a 45,000-square-foot video gaming machine and horse racing facility near the Montreign site.

New York and New Jersey, added that the company’s mission to improve service, support environmental initiatives and create a modern experience at the airport will set it apart from other bidders.

“We don’t have any specific information into who will be competition, but we expect that competition to be stiff,” he said.

About two dozen entities expressed interest in forming a public-private partnership to operate the airport prior to the RFP’s issuance on April 3, according to County Legislator MaryJane Shimsky, a Hastings-on-Hudson Democrat, though she added that it was too early to gauge serious interest.

“Unlike last time around, we must seek bidders in a fair and open bidding process,” said Legislator Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat. “If that means that the best thing for the taxpayer is no deal, then that is an outcome we should be pleased with.”

The RFP follows Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino’s November announcement of a $140 million plan that would transfer management of the airport to Oaktree. Astorino said the 40-year revenue-sharing lease would improve passenger experience, energize the local economy

and strengthen environmental protections without increasing the airport’s footprint.

Some members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators balked at the administration’s plan, criticizing the lack of a competitive bid process and calling the deal a gimmick to balance an unbalanced budget. The full lease agreement proposal was sent to the board following the public announcement of the deal and just days before Astorino was set to deliver legislators with the 2017 budget, one that included $15 million in revenue from the airport deal.

In February, legislators chose to move forward with a search for a private operator for the airport and hired Frasca & Associates LLC, a New York City-based transportationconsulting firm that worked on the privatization of Stewart International Airport, to assist in the RFP process.

If selected, the new firm would take over operation of the airport from AvPorts, the Dulles, Virginia-based company that has managed the airport since 1977. The county pays AvPorts about $1 million per year to manage the airport.

The county will be accepting proposals to the RFP until July 14. As part of the

process, Frasca & Associates rolled out a timeline that forecasts a public-private partnership in place by the end of 2017, though Shimsky said that may be a bit ambitious.

“Obviously there are a lot of factors because it’s a many-step process,” she said.

“I don’t know how realistic that is.”

The proposed public-private partnership is a product of a Federal Aviation Administration program that would allow money paid to the county by a private operator to be used for all county programs.

Until now, any revenue generated by the airport could only be used at the airport.

The partnership would attempt to reinvigorate an airport that has seen its passenger totals dwindle in recent years, falling to 1.5 million total passengers in 2015 from a high of nearly 2 million in 2010.

For Shimsky, who is chair of the infrastructure committee and a member of the RFP task force, ideal bidders would be able to find ways to maximize revenues without putting any further strains on a sensitive environmental area.

“We’re kind of in wait-and-see mode,” she said. “It’s kind of like you’ve sent out the invitations to your party and you’re waiting to see who shows up.”

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Catskill institutions team to grow and study hemp

IN THE VALLEY

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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UNY Sullivan will be the latest New York higher education institute to try its hand at growing and studying hemp.

The Loch Sheldrake community college recently received a permit from the state to join the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program, a state initiative that opened up 10 new permits to higher education institutes to grow and research industrial hemp. The college’s partner in the Catskills agricultural program will be The Center for Discovery in Monticello.

Hemp is often referred to as marijuana’s cousin. They’re varieties of the same plant, but hemp is bred to contain a much lower level of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. Industrial hemp can be useful for a wide variety of industries. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said the plant could create a billion-dollar industry in the state. A press release from his office in January said the stalk and seeds from hemp can be used in the production of clothing, building materials, fuel, paper and consumer products.

SUNY Sullivan will study two aspects of the plant, according to John “Jay” Quaintance, the school’s interim president.

The first part will look at how the school can use biodynamic growing methods on a particular strain of hemp. He described it as a “super-charged version” of organic growing.

Once the hemp has been harvested, the school’s chemistry department then can take over with part two of the study, examining both the amount and quality of cannabidiol that can be extracted from the plant.

“It’s a compound that seems to have some positive effect on reducing the number of seizures for people with various seizure disorders,” Quaintance said. “We’re not actually going to be doing any testing of that, but we are going to be looking at the amounts of that compound within the product grown under these conditions.”

SUNY Sullivan is partnering on the project with the The Center for Discovery, the largest employer in Sullivan County.

The private nonprofit provides services for people with physical and developmental disabilities “grounded in the land and our community of care and education,” as described on its website.

The Center for Discovery has more than 300 acres of farmland where it grows produce and raises animals using biodynamic techniques. The farms provide food for both the center and its residents.

John Conway, a spokesperson for The

Center for Discovery, said the center will focus on how biodynamic growing techniques can affect the quality of hemp grown.

The center’s goal, Conway said, “is to provide a biodynamic operation to grow as purely as possible the best hemp we can grow.”

The center is also interested in understanding how that quality can help medicinal uses of the product. “Growing hemp biodynamically, does that enhance the properties and make it more effective in seizures and other applications?” Conway said.

SUNY Sullivan’s and Binghamton University‘s entry into the program were

recelty announced by the governor.

Binghamton will also research cannabidiol and its potential in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

Cornell University and Morrisville State College were approved last year to take part in the program. Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is researching seeding equipment, while Morrisville is experimenting with fertilizers and potential uses for hemp.

In January, Cuomo pushed for legislation that would expand the New York hemp pilot program to authorize an unlimited number of

farms to work with the state to research industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity.

States were first authorized to launch hemp programs in 2014. The U.S. Farm Bill passed that year included a provision that allowed states to regulate and conduct research programs on industrialized hemp.

In the meantime, the state Department of Agriculture and Markets is still reviewing applications for the remaining six permits under the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program.

SUNY Sullivan and The Center for Discovery expect to launch the hemp study this spring.

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JA New York’s Lower Hudson Valley office is located in Tarrytown, NY. Q. What does JA do to prepare young people for success in work and life here in Lower Hudson Valley?

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Indian Point closing: A business man’s perspective

BY PHILIP G. MILLER

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am a long-term investor in real property in the city of Peekskill and the town of Cortlandt very concerned about the proposed “deal” to close the nuclear power plants that we have depended on these many years. First I would say that should the aging plants be retired at a future date as obsolete, I would personally recommend that a welcome choice would be to build another state of the art nuclear facility at the same location to maintain our evergrowing needs for continued power supply and the payment of the property tax that we are so dependent upon.

Of course the existing jobs would remain and the new construction giving the additional real jobs and the infusion of billions of dollars in the area. With immediate results Hopefully, too, the Pilot payments this time will be spread along more of the local area? The old plants too could become the repository for the spent fuel rods inside the containment domes. I don’t believe that any other alternative to the expansion of nuclear energy will come close to meeting our insatiable power requirements in a timely fashion.

As for our financial needs, the impact of the closing is unfounded and will prove unbearable to the local municipalities and the schools resulting in chaos here. Let’s face it, most of us even brush our teeth with an electric toothbrush and with electric cars the next generation of transportation offered to us. Where are we going to get all that power with an environmental benefit

in the time that is needed as a reasonable alternative, when we can’t keep up now?

I too, thank our County Executive Astorino and our Peekskill Mayor Catalina for exploring a legal appeal to stop the premature closing of the existing facilities at Indian Point. That is the enlightened and rational approach as far as many of us feel, to hopefully forestall the process as put forth behind the closed doors at the governor’s behest.

My properties in Peekskill are in sight of the plants and I would more than welcome the addition, and I would be happy to invest as I have put forth a residential building for the public, wishing to live on the river here, as many other investors have put forth similar plans. To many of us, a nuclear facility is more than welcome and not an objection here. I think a lot of our municipal authorities and school officials would agree.

Philip Miller is the developer of Highland Industrial Park and owner of 200 N. Water St. in Peekskill.

A solar farm at Indian Point?

BY PAUL FEINER

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n 2021 Indian Point will be shut down and the property won’t be used to supply power to residents of the Hudson Valley. I would like to suggest that New York, Westchester and local officials study and pursue the possibility of converting the soon to become abandoned property into a solar farm. Turning a brownfield into a bright field makes sense — not a lot of traffic. We could create green power and there would be no negative impacts. In addition, the cost of the cleanup would be much less expensive than any other use.

One of the reasons why I think this suggestion makes lots of sense is because any

other development option will take decades to implement. Who would want to live on land that once was used as a nuclear power plant? How many years or decades will it take to figure out a good use for the property? Westchester has faced other major closures over the years. The GM plant in Sleepy Hollow was vacant for 20 years before ambitious redevelopment plans moved forward.

The Hastings Anaconda plant closed in 1975 and has still not redeveloped.

There would be lots of support and excitement in the community to create a solar farm at Indian Point. I would welcome reactions to this suggestion. Please email me at pfeiner@greenburghny.com.

Paul Feiner is supervisor of the town of Greenburgh.

Astorino calls for lawsuit to stop Indian Point shutdown

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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estchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino plans to sue the state of New York to stop plans to shut down Indian Point Energy Center. Those plans, however, appear unlikely to gain much traction in the county Board of Legislators.

Astorino, a Republican, said the deal between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the environmental group Riverkeeper and the nuclear plant’s operator, Entergy Corp., to shut down the Buchanan plant’s two reactors by 2021 should have been given a full environmental review.

“Whether you are for nuclear power or against it, there is no debate that the public has a right to know about the impact of closing Indian Point before the deal was reached by three men in a room,” Astorino said.

Entergy, along with Cuomo and Riverkeeper, confirmed in January that the groups had reached a settlement to shut down Indian Point’s Unit 2 reactor by April 2020 and the Unit 3 reactor by April 2021.

Entergy blamed the closing on econom-

ic forces. Decreasing revenues from lower energy prices and increasing operating costs chipped away at the plant’s profitability, as it has for many nuclear plants around the country. New York’s Public Service Commission approved a controversial subsidy last year to help keep three nuclear plants upstate in business as they struggled with the same market forces.

But the company acknowledged that costs from a federal license renewal process that dragged on more than a decade factored into the decision as well. Legal challenges from the state and environmental groups such as Riverkeeper played a role in slowing that process.

Astorino was immediately critical of the deal. He called Cuomo’s claims that Indian Point’s 2,000 megawatts of production could be replaced in time “fake news.” The county executive also hosted town forums in Cortlandt to discuss ramifications of the plant’s closing.

The lawsuit would represent the first action Astorino has taken to try to halt the agreement. He’d like the courts to take a look at whether the agreement violates the State Environmental Quality Review Act. An environmental impact statement, Astorino said, could examine the finan-

cial toll of economic activity lost by the plant, the expected utility bill increases in Westchester and New York City and evaluate plans to replace the plant’s energy.

“It’s hard to imagine an event with a bigger environmental impact than closing a nuclear power plant just outside New York City,” Astorino said. “The only thing harder to imagine is closing a nuclear power plant just outside New York City without an environmental impact statement.”

The county executive was joined at the press conference in Peekskill on April 5 announcing the lawsuit by Buchanan Mayor Theresa Knickerbocker, Peekskill Mayor Frank Catalina, The Business Council of Westchester CEO Marsha Gordon and Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Deb Milone.

Hendrick Hudson School District Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter was also there, whose school district could lose 30 percent of its revenue with the closing of Indian Point.

The lawsuit may not get off the ground.

In a press conference April 6, County Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz said Astorino’s call for the board to authorize the lawsuit was a “good faith request,

but dead on arrival.”

He said there was no path for Astorino to receive the nine votes needed to approve a lawsuit from the county against the state.

“This raises hopes and really takes everybody’s eye off the ball,” Kaplowitz said. He said the county needed to “remain focused on a post-nuclear Indian Point and transitioning to something else.”

The board chairman said Entergy was closing the plant for economic reasons, and the county “can’t force, in a capitalist world, somebody to remain (an energy generator) if they are not willing to do that. It’s a business decision.”

An Entergy spokesperson said the company will “wait to see any details before responding.”

Astorino requested that the Board of Legislators approve the lawsuit at its May 8 meeting.

Cuomo last month announced a task force to examine employment and property tax impacts of the closing. The group includes Hendrick Hudson’s Hochreiter and Buchanan’s Knickerbocker, along with Cortlandt Town Supervisor Linda D. Puglisi; the Board of Legislators majority and minority leaders; state Sen. Terrence Murphy and Assemblywoman Sandy Galef.

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Yonkers medical practice files for bankruptcy

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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neurologist implicated in a $50 million health care fraud has filed for bankruptcy protection for his Yonkers medical practice.

Emad Soliman, president of Westchester Neurological Consultants PC, filed a Chapter 11 petition on March 31 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains.

The medical practice estimated it has assets of $50,000 or less and liabilities of $512,204.

Bankruptcy filings so far offer no explanation for the business’s financial difficulties, but the petition was filed just a month after then-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged Soliman, 47, of Mount Kisco, with conspiracy to commit health

care fraud and wire fraud.

The case centers on City Medical Associates P.C., a cardiology and neurology practice in Bayside, Queens, where Soliman worked part time from 2001 to 2004. The most serious allegations concern the clinic president, Asim Hameedi, and his employees.

Over a 12-year period, according to the government, the clinic defrauded Medicaid, Medicare and private health insurance companies out of more than $50 million.

The indictment states Hameedi and clinic employees misrepresented the medical conditions of patients to get insurance preauthorization for tests and procedures.

Claims were submitted for tests and procedures that were not done or were medically unnecessary, the government said.

Kickbacks were allegedly paid to primary care medical offices in exchange for referrals. And electronic health records at an

unnamed Long Island hospital were allegedly used to identify patients to recruit to the clinic.

The clinic was submitting a huge number of insurance claims, the government said, so to hide the unusual level of activity, claims for millions of dollars in medical services or products were submitted under the names of three doctors who did not work there.

Two of the doctors did not consent to the billings. But Soliman, the government said, knew that the clinic was submitting bills for neurological tests he did not perform, supervise or order.

In return, the clinic allegedly paid for Soliman’s health insurance from 2011 through 2015.

He also is accused of making a false statement to a federal agent about his health insurance coverage.

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Soliman entered a not guilty plea on March 1.

In response to a request for comment, a receptionist at his practice said, “Right now he’s not interested in speaking with anyone from the media.”

Day-to-day activities at Westchester Neurological Consultants have been disrupted for several weeks because the government seized computer hard drives and a server that contain patient records.

“Dozens of patients suffering illnesses such as Lou Gehrig’s disease, cluster migraine syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease are being denied access to medications

But Soliman, the government said, knew that the clinic was submitting bills for neurological tests he did not perform, supervise or order.

or medical treatment because their medical records are being withheld by the government,” the clinic’s attorney wrote to the court on March 30.

“Additionally, six doctors who practice at WNC and have no alleged involvement whatsoever in the City Medical indictment are being denied access to their patient medical records and are unable to treat their patients who suffer serious neurological illnesses.”

Soliman is also facing a civil lawsuit.

In 2015, Patricia A. Kelly of Manhattan filed a whistleblower lawsuit against City Medical Associates and Hameedi, in U.S. District Court. The government has intervened under the False Claims Act and added Soliman to the lawsuit.

The defendants are accused of presenting false claims for payment, use of false statements and unjust enrichment. The government is asking for treble damages and penalties for bills paid by the federal government.

Neither the criminal case nor the civil case names Soliman’s medical practice as a defendant.

In 2014, however, the U.S. Department of Labor sued Westchester Neurological and Soliman in federal court for minimum wage violations. He agreed to a $38,029 consent judgment for back pay and damages.

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General manager Contact Email address Hotel renovated/ Year established

Guest rooms/ Guest suites

Meeting rooms Square footage of meeting areas

Kai Fischer 2008/1981

445 NA

22 32,000

1

Meeting space, event-planning services, 28 breakout rooms, audiovisual equipment rental, business center, office rental, event space accommodations for up to 1,100 guests

Daniel Conte 2008/1981

439 5

21 26,676

2

Meeting space, event-planning services, copy and fax services and a full-service business center

NA Emily Gosewehr emily.gosewehr@ihg.com 1987/2014

402 7

17 17,000

1

Mike McNeill 2009/1983

367 7

33 33,000

3

NA Peter Maruzzella peter.maruzzella@marriott.com 2014/1977 hotel; 1905 Red Oak mansion

342 6

27 23,091

1

NA Ongoing/1964

212 1

30 30,000

1

David Leftwich 2006/1979

182 0

31 21,600

1

159 (all suites)

NA 1,288

0

Evening social, business and fitness centers

NA 2010/1946

156 0

3 2,800

0

Business center, audiovisual equipment rental, complimentary printing service, meeting rooms, photo-copying service

William Yahr Opened 2007

146 38

12 10,000

2

Network and internet printing, full-service business center and fax service

Miguel Rosario 2015

133 NA

NA 4,000

1

Planning and catering teams on site, complimentary wireless internet, standard audiovisual equipment, group rates available

130 suites

4 3,500

1 in hotel, 4 total in building

Business center, meeting and event planning, audiovisual equipment and presentation materials available

Colby Brock 2011/1975

129 3

5 6,400

1

Business center

Melody Lloyd Loretta Brooks 1970

118 NA

5 More than 6,000

1

Seating to accommodate between 12 and 275 guests; audiovisual equipment, including DVD player, LCD projector, lectern, microphone, modem lines, VCR and whiteboard

103

3

1

Business center; meeting rooms can accommodate 290 conference guests or 80 banquet guests

1

Audiovisual equipment available, 24-hour message, fax and copy service

0

Business center, audiovisual equipment available

Anthony Damiano anthony.damiano@hyatt.com NA/2001

Sean Meade smeadle@cswhiteplains.com 2014

15

Ramada Yonkers

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Royal Regency Hotel

165 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers 10710 476-6200 • royalregencyhotelny.com

Maria Pampafikos Bruni Figueroa 2014/1995

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20 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne 10532 592-8600 • choicehotels.com/new-york/hawthorne/

Comfort Inn & Suites

Emily Kirwin gm.ny618@choicehotels.com Opened 2000

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125 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers 10710 476-3800 • wyndhamhotels.com

Edith Macy Conference Center

Kiran Divanji 2006/2005

David Vogt

EXIT 43 OFF 1-841,500 DANBURY, CT 06811 94 1 NA 203-744-177611,000 85 14

2 957

Number of restaurants

Business amenities and guest services

Banquet facilities accommodate up to 700 guests, reception facilities accommodate up to 1,000 guests, sales and meeting professionals, business center and audiovisual department Meeting space includes 10 meeting rooms, 11 breakout rooms, an executive conference room, 174-seat amphitheater, two 50-seat amphitheaters and 13 small office rooms Concierge desk, full-service, business center, shoe-shine service, copy and fax service and secretarial service 24-hour resource center, concierge service, conference planner, business center, onside audiovisual professionals, classic board suites and modern, large conference rooms 13 breakout, 20 breakout rooms, 213-seat auditorium, business center, onsite information technology and audiovisual staff

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52 Sherri Hoy • Beautifully Appointed Guestrooms in the Legendary Ethan Allen Style 9 1 sound system and retractable screens, standard 550 Chappaqua Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510 Decorated 0 14,000 shay@edithmacy.com audiovisual equipment, white boards in all rooms 945-8000 • edithmacy.com • Two Ballrooms and Conference Rooms Which 2015/1982Can Accommodate 10-500 People NA Castle High-Speed Hotel & Spa WiFi Complimentary in All Guestrooms, Meeting • Upgraded 31and Public Spaces 4 1 Business center events@castleonthehudson.com 400 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown 10591 6 More than 4,000 2013/1996 631-1980Renovated • castlehotelandspa.com • 193 Newly Guestrooms Decorated in The Legendary Style of Ethan Allen John Hodgson • 24-Hour Business CenterCenter With Fax, Copy, Printing and Internet Capabilities Crestview Conference 6+ Chef on site for dining services, pre-meeting, Gina Vanderweele NA 0 440 W. Nyack Road, West Nyack 10994 12,000 planning assistance, business center answers@crestviewconference.org • State845-620-7207 of The Art Multimedia Capabilities • crestviewconference.org 2014 • Day Meeting Packages or Custom Pricing This list is a sampling of hotels and conference centers located in the region. If you would like to include your facility in our next list, • Dedicated, Professional Planner to Detail Event from Beginning To End please contact Danielle Renda Event at drenda@westfairinc.com.

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IBM Learning Center

20 Old Post Road, Armonk 10504 499-2000 • ibmlearningcenter.com

Hyatt House - White Plains

101 Corporate Park Drive, White Plains 10604 251-9700 • hyatthousewhiteplains.com

David Leftwich 2006/1979 Anthony Damiano anthony.damiano@hyatt.com NA/2001

182 0

31 21,600

1

13 breakout, 20 breakout rooms, 213-seat auditorium, business center, onsite information technology and audiovisual staff

159 (all suites)

NA 1,288

0

Evening social, business and fitness centers

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Business center, audiovisual equipment rental,AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY complimentary printing service, meeting rooms, photo-copying service

THE9LIST: Hotel & Conference Centers Hampton Inn White Plains/Tarrytown

200 W. Main St., Elmsford 10523 592-5680 • hamptoninn3.hilton.com

10 11 12 13 14

The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester

3 Renaissance Square, White Plains 10601 946-5500 • ritzcarlton.com/westchester

The Time Hotel Nyack

400 High Ave., Nyack 10960 845-675-8700 • thetimehotels.com

Cambria Hotel & Suites White Plains Downtown

250 Main St., White Plains 10601 681-0500 • cambriasuiteswhiteplains.com

Radisson New Rochelle

1 Radisson Plaza, New Rochelle 10801 576-3700 • radissonnewrochelle.com

Holiday Inn Mount Kisco

1 Holiday Inn Drive, Mount Kisco 10549 844-202-9707 • ihg.com

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156 0

William Yahr Opened 2007

146 38

12 10,000

2

Network and internet printing, full-service business center and fax service

Miguel Rosario 2015

133 NA

NA 4,000

1

Planning and catering teams on site, complimentary wireless internet, standard audiovisual equipment, group rates available

130 suites

4 3,500

1 in hotel, 4 total in building

Business center, meeting and event planning, audiovisual equipment and presentation materials available

Colby Brock 2011/1975

129 3

5 6,400

1

Business center

Melody Lloyd Loretta Brooks 1970

118 NA

5 More than 6,000

1

Seating to accommodate between 12 and 275 guests; audiovisual equipment, including DVD player, LCD projector, lectern, microphone, modem lines, VCR and whiteboard

Kiran Divanji 2006/2005

103 3

3 1,500

1

Business center; meeting rooms can accommodate 290 conference guests or 80 banquet guests

Sean Meade smeadle@cswhiteplains.com 2014

2,800

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Ramada Yonkers

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Royal Regency Hotel

165 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers 10710 476-6200 • royalregencyhotelny.com

Maria Pampafikos Bruni Figueroa 2014/1995

94 NA

1 11,000

1

Audiovisual equipment available, 24-hour message, fax and copy service

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20 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne 10532 592-8600 • choicehotels.com/new-york/hawthorne/

Comfort Inn & Suites

Emily Kirwin gm.ny618@choicehotels.com Opened 2000

85 14

2 957

0

Business center, audiovisual equipment available

52 0

9 14,000

1

Climate-controlled conference rooms, built-in sound system and retractable screens, standard audiovisual equipment, white boards in all rooms

31 6

4 More than 4,000

1

Business center

NA

6+ 12,000

0

Chef on site for dining services, pre-meeting, planning assistance, business center

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125 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers 10710 476-3800 • wyndhamhotels.com

Edith Macy Conference Center

550 Chappaqua Road, Briarcliff Manor 10510 945-8000 • edithmacy.com

Castle Hotel & Spa

400 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown 10591 631-1980 • castlehotelandspa.com

Crestview Conference Center

440 W. Nyack Road, West Nyack 10994 845-620-7207 • crestviewconference.org

David Vogt Sherri Hoy shay@edithmacy.com 2015/1982 NA events@castleonthehudson.com 2013/1996 John Hodgson Gina Vanderweele answers@crestviewconference.org 2014

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Education Nonprofit helps children find ‘Something Good’ in nature

BY ALEESIA FORNI aforni@westfairinc.com

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ith chalkboards and erasers seemingly a distant memory, many educators dream of classrooms stocked with touch screens, laptops for each student and an array of the latest high-tech equipment.

But for Barbara Sarbin, the best educational space can be found in your own backyard, with the great outdoors as your classroom and Mother Earth as your teacher.

“Our goal is to educate children both on how to live sustainably and in harmony with nature,” said Sarbin, director of educational programs of Ossining-based Something Good in the World.

Something Good in the World is a nonprofit organization that provides a number of farm-based educational programs focused on integrating learning and the outdoor environment.

“This is not a school, it is a school of thought,” Sarbin said. “These are supplemental programs.”

The organization offers a variety of these outdoor programs, from summer camps where students plant and harvest gardens to after-school classes that use allnatural materials to create pieces of artwork. Lessons on choosing healthy sweeteners involve taste testing and even tapping trees to collect sap and make maple syrup.

“It’s 100 percent hands-on,” she said.

“Everything we do is experiential.”

Something Good in the World calls Kitchawan Farm in Ossining its home, where the organization operates the Children’s Peaceful Garden, an outdoor play space where students plant and maintain a garden of their own creation. The garden also features a bee sanctuary, a pond and constructed wetlands and a chicken coop.

“Kitchawan Farm is very much a demonstration area for us,” she said.

The farm is also home to an EnviraPod, an off-grid mobile education trailer complete with solar panels, composting toilet and a rainwater catchment system that demonstrates how to live with a zero-carbon footprint indoors.

“It seemed like a disconnect to teach chil-

Barbara Sarbin and children.

dren all about how to farm organically outdoors, but live wastefully indoors,” she said.

The nonprofit works in partnership with a number of schools in Westchester County.

“There are children in need everywhere, not just from inner cities,” she said.

At Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School in Yorktown Heights, the organization gives its seventh-grade consumer science class a firsthand look at the origins of their food by traveling to gardens and farms.

“The teachers recognize the need to get them out in the field,” she said. “It can’t just be a video or a textbook or a test.”

Another program allows students from the Harlem Children’s Zone to travel to Glynwood Farm in Cold Spring to learn about the origins of animal products such as butter, cheese and wool. Something Good in the World also runs similar weekly or monthly programs for teenagers who live in area shelters.

“When we first start, a lot of the concepts are foreign or seem weird to them, but by the end, they are passionate about what’s possible,” she said.

Sarbin also runs supplemental educational programs for homeschoolers, which is one of the largest components of the organization.

“I’ve been working with homeschoolers since 1998, so they are now grown-ups,” she said. “The ones I started with are now out of college and in the field and many of them chose environmental directions for their work. That for me is a huge confirmation because that was their choice to do that.”

Sarbin started her work with experiential learning in nature in the late 1990s while she was employed as a naturalist at Teatown Lake Reservation in Ossining.

“Children always told me they think better in nature,” Sarbin said. “Any form of learning was enhanced by integrating it with experiential, hands-on activities in nature.”

In 2000, she created the first Children’s Peaceful Garden at Manitoga Nature Center in Garrison. The organization then moved its facilities to Hilltop Hanover Farm in 2005, where it operated as a Westchester County farm partner and ran public programs seven days per week for nearly a decade.

“We were really at the forefront of this movement and proud of that collaborative endeavor,” she said.

But when a new county administration changed its motives, Sarbin said the organization’s lease was not renewed.

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” she said. “What it did for us actually was really broaden everybody’s understanding of how many of these farms need support and how many of them have the same goals, and we could expose children to a much greater vision.”

Since then, programs have been hosted by area farms, including Hemlock Hill Farm in Cortlandt, Faraway Farm Alpacas in Yorktown Heights and Sugar Hill Farm in Pine Plains. The organization also enlists the help of educators, consultants and experts in various fields.

“Farmers are just delighted to take some time out of their day to show a child how to pull a carrot out of the ground,” Sarbin said.

The organization’s work has not gone unnoticed. Something Good in the World was recently awarded a grant by the Jane Goodall Institute and Sarbin was chosen as a volunteer consultant for the organization’s environmental and humanitarian youth program.

In her new role, Sarbin will assist educators nationwide in creating their own outdoor learning spaces, a task that recently took her to a low-performing school district in Hawaii.

“We are consulting with teachers around the country at the moment to help them with their challenges in their gardens,” she said, adding that some of these challenges include gangs, vandalism and bullying.

Sarbin said these outdoor experiences are essential for children because the future of the planet rests on their shoulders.

“They’re the future policy makers.

They’re the future voters. They are the people who will decide how things happen,” she said. “So if they learn at a very young age that there’s a great deal of power in how they think, or about tendencies that we have now and how we treat the environment and nature, then that will bode well for the future.”

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Iona and Beechmont neighbors clash over zoning

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

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ona College, founded in 1940, and Beechmont, an idyllic suburban enclave developed in 1902, have coexisted side by side for many years but are now uncomfortably close.

Tensions between the New Rochelle institutions surfaced at a public hearing on April 11 over the Catholic college’s desire to protect its ability to grow and Beechmont residents’ desire to preserve the character of their neighborhood.

Even the idea of a public hearing was in dispute.

The city called the hearing based on a false memorandum, according to Iona attorney Christopher Tumulty, that said Iona was interested in commenting on a recently amended zoning law. “Iona has no interest in commenting on Ordinance 91,” Tumulty said, because “the amendment is invalid.”

Beechmont residents are concerned about Iona’s plan to combine 11 lots in the neighborhood for possible future expansion. Combining lots could allow the college to build larger structures and make the streetscape appear less residential.

Under a 2001 law, Iona had to apply for a special permit to expand outside of the campus. Iona interpreted that to mean it did not need a special permit to expand within its existing boundaries.

The New Rochelle City Council

amended the law last year to require a special permit for any merger of lots by the college. A public hearing was held but, according to Iona, the notice misidentified and obscured the proposal and made no mention of Iona.

The new hearing cannot “cure that defect,” Tumulty said, and the issue must be addressed in court.

He was one of only two people who spoke for Iona. Fifteen residents and an attorney for the Beechmont Association spoke in support of the city’s efforts to regulate the college more closely.

“New Rochelle has bent over backward for Iona,” one resident said. “It’s time it bends over backward for the soul of the neighborhood.”

Nick Williams, who lives on Howard Parkway on the opposite side of Iona’s campus, said the city must protect neighborhoods around the campus by restricting Iona’s ability to combine properties.

Several residents implored the city and college to collaborate, as they have done in previous years.

“Both parties need to settle promptly,” said Lori Wekselblatt, of Beechmont Place.

“They need to start afresh.”

City officials have to be careful about what they say while the lawsuit is pending, said Mayor Noam Bramson, who lives on Pinebrook Boulevard in Beechmont.

But he said the city values constructive relations with its institutions and neighborhoods.

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ew York Medical College and Westchester Medical Center have reached a multiyear academic affiliation agreement, the medical college’s chancellor and CEO Dr. Edward C. Halperin recently announced in an alumni email.

For 14 years prior to the new deal, New York Medical College, part of the Touro College and University System, has partnered with Westchester Medical Center on short-term agreements that had to be renewed every few months. Halperin said he has sought to rectify that situation with a long-term deal since he arrived at the college in 2012.

The agreement, Halperin said, “formalizes our current working relationship, strengthens opportunities to work together to enrich our academic medicine programs and will improve clinical care and scientific research — now and in the future.”

Under the agreement, Westchester Medical Center will be a primary teaching site for the clinical education programs of New York Medical College and its Touroaffiliated programs. WMC also will facilitate the expansion of clinical teaching for New York Medical College and its affiliated programs to other hospitals in the WMCHealth Network, which includes 10 hospitals in the Hudson Valley.

Other provisions highlighted by Halperin include a plan for the hospital and college to work together to recruit clinical department chairs and residency program directors. The medical college will also be a primary provider for medical simulation services to Westchester Medical Center.

Westchester Medical Center will also provide financial support for the college’s academic programs, according to the letter, though the amount was not disclosed.

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Manhattanville College President Michael E. Geisler said students from lowerincome families could actually have even less opportunity to advance than their wealthier counterparts under the program.

While SUNY offers strong schools, he said, state schools alone cannot match the range of programs offered through both state and private schools.

“If this has the economic impact we are worried about — that a number of private schools might have to close — this will have a significant impact on the economy,” Geisler said. “But also over time...students from lowerand middle-income families will go to state schools and students coming from the upper one to five percent will go to the Harvards, Yales and Princetons. That will actually deepen the gap between the very high income and the middle and low income.”

HOW IT WORKS

The Excelsior Scholarship will pay whatever is left over after a student receives state and federal student aid dollars and scholarships.

The program will launch for the new college semester this fall. Families with gross household incomes of $100,000 annually or below will qualify immediately.

The income threshold increases to $110,000

in 2018 and to $125,000 in 2019. Cuomo’s office estimates the program will cost $163 million once fully phased in.

Estimates from Cuomo’s office say nearly 940,000 families are eligible for the program in the state. Projections from the state budget director, reported by the Buffalo News, predict about 32,000 students would benefit once the income cap reaches $125,000 in 2019.

The program does have some strings attached. Students must be enrolled in college full-time and maintain a passing grade point average. They also have to have lived in the state for more than a year. The scholarship applies only to undergraduate studies.

There is also the caveat that providing free tuition does not provide free college.

Tuition does not cover costs that come with annual fees, meal plans, books and housing.

The current tuition for SUNY four-year schools is $6,470 per academic year and $4,350 at two-year community colleges.

SUNY estimates the direct cost of attendance at one of its four-year schools is about $20,700 per academic year. That estimate includes tuition, room and board and annual fees. It does not factor book costs, which SUNY says average $1,340 per year. The new state budget sets aside $8 million to help offset book costs for SUNY and CUNY students.

Perhaps most controversial in the Excelsior Scholarship is a provision that requires graduates who received Excelsior

funding to remain in New York for a time equal to the length of the scholarship. If a student received state Excelsior funding for all four years he or she took to get a degree, that student must remain in New York for at least four more year after graduation. Otherwise, the scholarship converts into a loan.

Cuomo, who signed the Excelsior Scholarship bill into law on April 12, defended the provision in a recent conference call with newspaper editorial boards. “Why should New Yorkers pay for your college education and then you pick up and move to California?” he said.

WHAT’S NEXT

Before the scholarship program starts in the fall, Miles said Westchester Community College will assess its current course offerings at its main and satellite campuses to prepare for what it believes could be a large growth in enrollment.

“Do we need to add more to our fall schedule? We have to balance supply and demand,” Miles said. “We will need to look at additional faculty to teach more sections if that becomes the outcome, as we are anticipating.”

Geisler said Manhattanville will have to work to advertise the range of programs the school can provide, as well as how it can offer aid to help keep tuition competitive.

“We will also have to increasingly recruit out-of-state students, because they are not subject to the same measures,” Geisler said. “That means we will not be

serving as many New York state students as we have in the past.”

Hall said the Mercy College administration is working now with current and prospective students to show that tuition is already free for many qualifying students at Mercy. He said Mercy provides $20 million a year in financial aid.

“One of the things that we will think about is, how do we structure our financial aid?” Hall said. “Are there additional things we can do with our financial aid to make sure that students continue to receive value they chose Mercy College for in the first place?”

A spokesperson for SUNY Purchase College said the school was awaiting further details from the state on the program before commenting further, but provided the Business Journal a statement from school president Thomas J. Schwarz’s office.

“We’re supportive and excited about the governor’s initiative, which will increase access to higher education, help with retention and graduation and will relieve the burden of student debt,” the statement said. “We’re looking forward to receiving the details of how the program will work from HESC (Higher Education Services Corporation). We believe the Excelsior Scholarship will have an impact on a very large segment of our student population, but the extent of the impact depends on how the program will be implemented.”

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BY MOLLY NESS

Your Business|Workforce Connection

Career Pathways: Stacking Credentials for Success

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areer Pathways, administered through the Westchester-Putnam One Stop Career Center, is a program that helps participants progress in careers with increased earning opportunities by providing industry recognized credentials, certificates, licensures and degrees. Career Pathways is a series of organized steps with multiple Get on a Career Path that entry and exit points that may include several courses or Takes programs that link education Really You Somewhere and occupational training to subsequent Nurse Practioner employment through a continuum of eduRegistered Nurse cational and training instruction combined with intensive case-management, career Occupational Therapist readiness, career exploration, retention, and Licensed Practical Nurse follow up. Career Pathways is a commitCareer Occupational ment of up to two years.

Counseling Therapy Assistant What are the Benefits?

Medical Assistant There are numerous benefits for the Financial Support individual as well as the current or future Patient Care Technician employer: Nursing Assistant • Maximize employment opportunities Direct Support through enhanced credentials and Professional Home Health Aide awareness of career opportunities Skills Assessment • Potential of increased salary due to enhanced skills and credentials If you’re interested in getting on a Healthcare Career Path contact LaTasha Hamlett-Carver at lqha@westchestergov.com • 914-813-6088 • Direct support provided by Westchester-Putnam One Stop Career Coaches to assist with the individual’s transition between postsecondary education and employment • Alignment of credentials with employer’s needs • Understanding of real-world problem solving skills Who is Eligible?

An individual, 18 years or older, who falls under one or more of the following categories: dislocated worker, disadvantaged youth, displaced homemaker, formerly incarcerated individuals or those involved with the criminal justice system, eligible veterans and spouses of eligible veterans, public assistance recipients, and incumbent workers.

To be eligible, a participant must attend an orientation and then meet with a career coach to develop a career action plan. The individual commits to obtaining either part-time or full time employment while training for a credential, certificate, license or degree. Employment does not have to be in a field of study but the individual must be employed throughout the process. The participant commits to completing courses, classes and or programs requirement to successfully obtain industry recognized credentials.

How is it Paid For? The Workforce Development Board is committed to making exemptions from its $3,000 per year tuition subsidy limit for career pathways participants, to ensure each participant’s successful completion of the career pathways plan.

What industries are Supported?

The Westchester-Putnam One Stop Career Center currently supports individuals seeking credentials in healthcare, paralegal, biotech, advanced manufacturing, and information technology fields.

Contact LaTasha Hamlett-Carver, Ed.D. at lqha@westchestergov.com or call 914-995-6456 to learn more about the Career Pathway process.

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Though spelling instruction is by no means antiquated, our current instructional approaches are. Walk into any elementary school classroom today and you will find that the spelling instruction is largely similar to the spelling instruction of previous decades.

The most common spelling instruction in classrooms today is a rote memorization approach. Here students are given a list of words at the beginning of the week.

The culminating event is the weekly spelling test, in which the teacher dictates the words, students regurgitate them and are evaluated on their accuracy. Other common approaches include teaching the rules of spelling, like the common “I before e except after c.”

These multifaceted approaches are onesize-fits-all. In other words, all third graders take home the same list of words. Research shows that in third-grade classrooms, there is a huge range of spelling abilities. Yet in today’s most common spelling approaches, there is no room for differentiation.

Spelling instruction should be a central component in K-5 classrooms today, but

there are far more effective approaches.

Instead of rote memorization, our instructional time is far better spent with “word study,” an approach that integrates phonics, spelling and vocabulary instruction. It teaches students to closely examine words to discover patterns, regularities and conventions of our language. Word study promotes active engagement.

Moreover, word study integrates more than spelling alone; in this approach, students explore words by their spelling, meaning and grammar connections to improve their vocabularies and orthographic knowledge. A critical component of word study is that it is highly differentiated.

Teachers assess students to determine their level and tailor their instruction based on the individual levels of each child.

In word sorting activities, students compare, contrast and classify words as they compare words that do fit a pattern with those that don’t. Over a week of instruction, students have ample opportunities to write words, sort words and say the words — pronouncing words helps to cement the word’s phonology in our brains. An added incentive is sorting for speed, as students race their classmates or their teachers.

An essential component of word study instruction is making meaningful connections to authentic texts. Students should peruse their independent reading for words that fit their spelling patterns. Gone are memorized lists, instead replaced by critical examination of words and patterns that meet the diverse needs of each student.

Of equal importance to improving spelling instruction in today’s classroom is the professional development and coaching provided to teachers. Teachers need and deserve intensive time and support to explore word study curriculum and approaches with experts in the field.

Meaningful learning does not happen in a mere two-hour workshop, but requires ongoing modeling, coaching, feedback and observation. As we commit to effective spelling instruction for our children and meaningful teacher training, our spelling instruction becomes a beneficial model of progressive, developmentally appropriate, active learning.

Molly Ness is an associate professor of curriculum and teaching at Fordham University Graduate School of Education, which recently expanded to Fordham’s West Harrison campus. She can be reached at mness@fordham.edu.

Is Connecticut ready for free tuition at public colleges and universities?

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairinc.com

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n April 12, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Excelsior Scholarship program to introduce free tuition at the state’s two- and four-year public colleges and universities for students whose families have annual incomes up to $125,000. The plan will be phased in over three years, beginning this fall. The governor’s office forecasts that more than 940,000 families and individuals across the state will be eligible for participation. Students must be enrolled full-time, averaging 30 credits per year.

The concept of free tuition at public colleges and universities is not new — the colleges within the City University of New York system had free tuition until the 1976 New York City fiscal crisis. But concerns over rising student debt brought the idea back to public discussion during the 2016 presidential race, when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made free tuition at public colleges and universities a campaign promise. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton belatedly echoed that idea in her campaign, but the idea seemed to evaporate with Donald Trump’s election. However, Sanders recently introduced the College for All Act with the hope of putting his campaign proposal into practice. Connecticut Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal joined Sanders in the introduction of this measure.

“We need to revolutionize the way we think about higher education and ensure colleges share responsibility for the success of their graduates,” said Murphy. “At the same time, we should make sure that cost is not a barrier to a college degree, just as it isn’t a barrier to a high school degree.”

“At a time when college remains out of reach for far too many, this legislation would make college tuition-free for working families, reduce student debt and breathe new life into the American Dream,” said Blumenthal.

To date, Gov. Dannel Malloy has not sought to bring free tuition in Connecticut’s public colleges and universities. Among regional business leaders, there is the hope that the governor remains unenthused about the idea.

“When I last checked, the state of Connecticut was facing a terribly challenging deficit for the next two years,” said Mickey Herbert, president and CEO of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council. “I can’t see piling on that deficit by offering college kids a free ride. The business com-

munity would not support a program like that in Connecticut.”

Jack Condlin, president and CEO of the Stamford Chamber of Commerce and an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Connecticut’s Stamford campus, said the push for free tuition ignored the root of the problem. “The cost of education has skyrocketed,” he said. “No one even seems to focus on that. What is increasing so much at the universities that makes it so expensive today?”

Peter Gioia, vice president and economist at the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, said bringing free tuition to the state would signal a significant policy change. “Over the last 10 years, Connecticut increased tuition for all attendees, rather than cutting or giving free

tuition,” he said. “But you have to ask: is it better to spend your money that way, or to spend it in other areas or to give it back to taxpayers?”

In the event Gov. Malloy followed Gov. Cuomo’s lead, the effort would not carry bipartisan support. “When the government starts paying for things, it becomes much more expensive,” said J.R. Romano, chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party.

However, the concept is not without its supporters. Paul Steinmetz, director of public affairs and community relations at Western Connecticut State University, compared the idea with the post-World War II changes brought to higher education through the G.I. Bill, which gave veterans the financial ability to pursue college degrees. “A lot of smart people got access to

college who would not have otherwise,” he said. “As more students came in, there were more resources available – and more faculty if classes got too big.”

Nicholas Everdell, a former director of recruitment at Yale Law School and a consultant at Steinbrecher & Partners, a Westport-based firm that works with students preparing for college admissions, predicted the free tuition approach could benefit the academic environment. “This would create more diversity,” he said, noting that undergraduates would be able to consider continuing their studies in graduate school if they are not burdened by student loan debt. “The higher education law and business schools are already struggling with a student body that is not economically diverse.”

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294 Route 100 LLC, Uniondale. Seller: International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Property: 267 Route 100, Somers. Amount: $1.5 million.

Filed April 7.

AMCB Services Company NY LLC, Tarrytown. Seller: Maplewood Court Inc., Elmsford. Property: 97 Maple St., no. 7, Eastchester. Amount: $562,240.

Filed April 6.

Costco Wholesale Corp. Filed by Drande Dardha. Action: notice of removal. Attorney not listed. Filed: April 10. Case no. 7:17-cv-02571-NSR.

5 Kids LLC, Mamaroneck. Seller: Par Development Group LLC, Mount Vernon. Property: 3 Century Trail, Harrison. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed April 5.

BHNVN1 LLC, Bronx. Seller: Jeffrey M. Binder, White Plains. Property: 66 Bushey Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $366,000. Filed April 5.

Erie Insurance Company of New York. Filed by Abdallha Fawal. Action: breach of insurance contract. No attorney listed. Filed: April 6. Case no.

7:17-cv-02466-NSR.

611 West Hartsdale Ave LLC, New York City. Seller: LDC Properties LLC, White Plains. Property: 611 W. Hartsdale Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $5.7 million. Filed April 6.

M&N Automotive Inc. 3981 Boston Road, Bronx 10466. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Maria M. Malave.

Filed: April 5. Case no. 17-10907-smb.

HHH Acquisitions LLC. Filed by Shellion Findlay. Action: job discrimination (disability act). Attorney: Paul N. Cisternino. Filed: April 7. Case no.

7:17-cv-02245-NSR.

Greenappledae LLC, Bedford Hills.

Seller: Thomas J. McCrossan, et al, Bedford Hills. Property: 108 Narrows Road, Bedford. Amount: $4.3 million.

Filed April 8.

Trader Murphy Corp. 134 Hamilton Place, New York 10031. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Maria M. Malave. Filed: April 9. Case no. 1710955-smb.

Hudson Heart Associates PC. Filed

by Refuah Health Center Inc. Action: notice of removal. Attorneys: Gary Alan Zucker and Sharanya Mohan. Filed: April 11. Case no. 7:17-cv-02449-UA.

The Complex at Port Chester LLC, Greenwich, Conn. Seller: Steven Farrell, et al, New Fairfield, Conn. Property: 18 S. Main St., Rye. Amount: $1.1. million. Filed April 6.

Irving Kaplan & Associates. Filed

by Cynthia Stein. Action: 1692 Fair Debt Collection Act. Attorney: David Stein. Filed: April 7. Case no. 7:17-cv02519-NSR.

WF Master REO 2015-01 LLC, Oklahoma City, Okla. Seller: Francis D. Terrell, White Plains. Property: 30 Lundy Lane, Mount Pleasant. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed April 6.

BANKCUPTCIES MANHATTAN 733 Prospect Realty Service Corp.

733 Prospect Realty Service Corp. c/o Jose E. Suarez. 689 Prospect Ave., Bronx 10455. Chapter 11, voluntary.

Represented by Albert H. Barkey.

Filed: April 10. Case no. 17-10957-mkv.

Leor Department Store Inc. 66 W. Fordham Road, Bronx 10468. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Gabriel Del Virginia Esq. Filed: April 6. Case no. 17-10924-mg.

COURT CASES American Express Centurion Bank. Filed by Taryn Singer. Action: truth in lending. Attorneys: Brian Lewis Bromberg and Jonathan Robert Miller. Filed: April 10. Case no. 7:17-cv02507-VB. Civil Service Associates Inc., Local 1000 AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Rockland County Local 844, County of Rockland Unit 8350. Filed by Heather Bennett, William Bennett, Ann Cole-Hatchard, Laureen Connelly, Donna Delarm, Jill Donovan, Jean Freer, Stefanie Gaudelli, Eleanor Gold, Grace Henriquez, Marion Leavey, Margaret Mackey, Diane Reeves, Christina Sagaria, Erica Salerno, Andrew Schwartz, Carol Schuler, Antoinette White and Deborah Whittaker.

Action: 1983 Civil Rights Act. Attorney: Russell Gustavson Wheeler. Filed: April 10. Case no. 7:17-cv-02573-KMK.

Commissioner of Social Security.

Filed by German Curiel Pichardo.

Action: review of final decision of section HEW re: Social Security benefits.

No attorney listed. Filed: April 10. Case no. 7:17-cv-02510-NSR.

Je Fortin Inc. Filed by Sabrina Powell. Action: diversity action. Attorney not listed. Filed: April 10. Case no.

7:17-cv-02551-NSR. Meyers Transport Ltd. Filed by Robert Lavenburg. Action: diversity action. Attorney: Matthew David Valauri. Filed: April 10. Case no. 7:17-cv02556-NSR. New York State Veterans Home at Montrose. Patent no. Sharon Tatavitto. Action: job discrimination (unlawful employment practices). Attorney: Todd Jamie Krakower. Filed: April 11.

Case no. 7:17-cv-02580.

Weleda Inc. Filed by Russell Hughes.

Action: diversity-fraud. Attorney: Jason P. Sultzer. Filed: April 6. Case no.

7:17-cv-02494-CS.

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DEEDS Above $1 million 100 Mile Fund Sleepy Hollow LLC, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Seller: Deborah J. Piazza, et al, New York City.

Property: 85-87 Cortlandt St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $9.8 million. Filed April 7.

28 Stonehouse Road Realty LLC, Harrison. Seller: Paul Joseph Berlowitz, et al, Scarsdale. Property: 28 Stonehouse Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed April 7.

Below $1 million 125 South 12 Avenue LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Darrell Perez, Mount Vernon. Property: 125 S. 12th Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $75,000.

Filed April 7.

133 South Fifth Avenue Realty Corp., Yonkers. Seller: Horatio H. Jennings, Bronx. Property: 133 Fifth Avenue South, Mount Vernon. Amount: $250,000. Filed April 8.

1340 Main Street LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: Jose Morocho, Peekskill. Property: 121 Fremont St., Peekskill. Amount: $255,000. Filed April 7.

161 West Kingsbridge Road LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Property: 161 W. Kingsbridge Road, Mount Vernon. Amount: $227,064. Filed April 7.

224 Gramatan LLC, Ossining. Seller: Patrick Riggs, et al, Mount Vernon.

Property: 11 North St., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $220,000. Filed April 5.

Abraham 575 LLC, Great Neck.

Seller: Forever-M.R.S. Partners LLC, Mount Vernon. Property: 132 W. Second St., Mount Vernon. Amount: $270,000. Filed April 5.

Acqua Capital LLC, White Plains. Seller: Norvelle Street Moss, White Plains.

Property: 115 Battle Ave., White Plains.

Amount: $235,000. Filed April 6.

C2GRE LLC, White Plains. Seller: Joseph S. Pocchiari, New Rochelle.

Property: 3 Mildred Parkway, New Rochelle. Amount: $490,000. Filed April 8.

C2GRE LLC, White Plains. Seller: Michael Caraiani, et al, Somers. Property: 173 Route 202, Somers. Amount: $255,727. Filed April 8.

Capital One N.A. Seller: Dana R. Strickler, Bronx. Property: 123 Saxon Woods Road, White Plains. Amount: $410,405. Filed April 6.

Championship Drive Properties LLC, Bronx. Seller: B and Z Auto Enterprises LLC, Bronx. Property: 10 Championship Drive, Mamaroneck.

Amount: $411,036. Filed April 7.

CLC Foundation Inc., Mount Kisco.

Seller: Dorrette Pindling, Yonkers.

Property: 366 Midland Ave., Yonkers.

Amount: $560,000. Filed April 8.

DPB Realty Holding LLC, Rye Brook. Seller: Sophie T. Kancir, Port Chester. Property: 350 Willett Ave., Rye. Amount: $395,000. Filed April 6.

Erin Rentals Inc., Scarsdale. Seller: Raymond C. Varian, Yonkers. Property: 322 Edward Place, Yonkers.

Amount: $130,000. Filed April 5.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Jessica Bacal, Mount Kisco. Property: 17 Quincy Court, Lewisboro. Amount: $382,123. Filed April 5.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Anthony J. Pieragostini, Mount Kisco. Property: 1 Lawrence Ave., Bedford. Amount: $541,561. Filed April 5.

Garfield 25 LLC, New York City.

Seller: Prosperity 8 Real Estate LLC, White Plains. Property: 25 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $746,000. Filed April 6.

Gracemere Group LLC, Irvington.

Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 1 Emerald Woods, Greenburgh. Amount: $421,680. Filed April 7.

Green Zone Properties LLC, Williston Park. Seller: National Home Investors LLC, Vacaville, Calif. Property: 409 Union Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $150,500. Filed April 5.

Harlem Grove LLC, Bedford Corners. Seller: Business Development and Planning Company U.S. Inc., Wellington. Fla. Property: 47 Charles Road, Bedford. Amount: $800,000.

Filed April 6.

High Garden Holdings LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Joan Iacono, Bronxville. Property: 227 Northview Court, unit 21, Peekskill. Amount: $241,706. Filed April 5.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Ronald Vincent Zezima, New Rochelle. Property: 11 Jones Place, Yonkers. Amount: $128,947. Filed April 6.

May 69 Realty LLC, White Plains.

Seller: Robert Gianatasio, et al, White Plains. Property: 69 Bolton Ave., White Plains. Amount: $873,500.

Filed April 8.

MidFirst Bank. Seller: David G. Gallo, Armonk. Property: 65-4 Palisade Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $443,008.

Filed April 5.

National Residential Asset Corp., Coral Gables, Fla. Seller: Michael P. Amodio, White Plains. Property: 20 Gabriel Drive, Cortlandt. Amount: $418,465. Filed April 6.

National Residential Asset Corp., Greenwich, Conn. Seller: Andrew K. Brotmann, White Plains. Property: 543 Main St., New Rochelle. Amount: $269,896. Filed April 8.

North County Equities, Mohegan Lake. Seller: U.S. Bank N.A. Property: 102 Dorchester Drive, Yorktown.

Amount: $675,000. Filed April 5.

Stagg Construction LLC, Bronx.

Seller: Fred DiFranco, Yonkers. Property: 248 Crescent Place, Yonkers.

Amount: $350,000. Filed April 5.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Andre Starks, White Plains. Property: 98 S. Fulton Ave., A-101, Mount Vernon.

Amount: $362,667. Filed April 7.

Vark Street Realty LLC, Bronx.

Seller: 125 Vark Street LLC, Pound Ridge. Property: 125 Vark St., Yonkers.

Amount: $165,000. Filed April 8.

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Waccabuc Adventure LLC, South Salem. Seller: Ann McNamara, South Salem. Property: 4 Lakeview Road, Lewisboro. Amount: $300,000. Filed April 7.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Andrew Brotmann, White Plains. Property: 21 Drake Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $558,554.

Filed April 5.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Erica David, Mount Vernon. Property: 225 Union Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $220,023.

Filed April 8.

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NONPROFITS RECEIVE GRANTS FOR TECHNOLOGY

LINCOLN DEPOT MUSEUM IS OPENING

The Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation has given grants to two Hudson Valley nonprofits to help them increase their use of technological devices.

A grant of $4,540 will assist with the purchase of 10 iPads for use by students at the Anderson Center for Autism to integrate with the center’s new curriculum called the Unique Learning System. This new curriculum offers many new features to improve the educational service delivery and

The Lincoln Depot Museum’s 2017 season opens with an event April 22 and 23.

Themed “New York and the USS Monitor,” the weekend features artifacts added to the museum’s permanent collection, artifacts on loan and an exhibit highlighting the USS Monitor and its relationship to the Hudson Valley.

Saturday’s presentation, “John Flack Winslow and the Building of the USS Monitor” will be by Jason E. Schaaf, education supervisor for the Hudson River Valley Institute and adjunct professor at Marist College.

Sunday features a presentation by Robert E. Sheridan, who was part of the team that discovered the USS Monitor wreck off Cape Hatteras. He authored “Iron from the Deep; The Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor.”

Sheridan is a professor emeritus at Rutgers University; previously he was at the University of Delaware.

The museum opens at 1 p.m. and the presentations begin at 2 p.m. Admission is $10 per person; children 12

outcome measures for Anderson Center students.

A grant of $6,000 to the Mid-Hudson Workshop for the Disabled will enable the purchase and installation of three new computers that will be used to facilitate workforce training for people with physical and medical disabilities in Poughkeepsie. This technology will directly benefit MHW’s expansion of its fulfillment division, which has seen a growing demand for the services it offers.

A pin sold by the museum to raise funds.

and under and museum members are free. More information at lincolndepotmuseum.org or 914-402-4318.

GOOD THINGS HAPPENING HANDING OVER THE REINS AT GREEN CHIMNEYS ARTISTS GETTING READY FOR VISITORS RiverArts, the nonprofit which promotes arts programming and education in Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson and Irvington is staging its annual studio tour on Saturday and Sunday April 22 and 23 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For the first time, the tour is being extended into Tarrytown where group shows will be at Jazz Forum Arts 1 Dixon Lane and Brieff Studios, on the second floor of the Tarrytown Music Hall at 13 Main St. The public is invited to meet artists in their homes, studios and other venues, view their

artworks and learn about the creative process.

More than 80 artists are participating. RiverArts says brochures and maps detailing where to go and what to look for are being distributed at various public locations throughout the towns and by participating artists. A website, studiotour.riverarts.org, contains a page for each participating artist with a location map.

There are 18 artists new to this year’s tour.

There will be a group show for these artists at RiverArts’ office at 414 Warburton Ave. in Hastings-on-Hudson.

From left: Joe Whalen, Danny Blumberg of Rock Hill Farm and Edward Placke.

LAW JOURNAL READERS RATE SIGNATURE BANK The National Law Journal has selected Signature Bank for inclusion in its 2017 list of the nation’s best private banking services providers, based on a reader survey. The bank serves Westchester and Fairfield counties in addition to New York City and Long Island.

It says it focuses on serving the financial needs of privately owned businesses, their

owners and senior managers, who the bank says often find themselves underserved by the area’s larger financial institutions.

“The National Law Journal reader ranking … is a true testament to our abilities to cater to these types of professional services organizations,” said Joseph J. DePaolo, cofounder, president and chief executive officer at Signature Bank.

The idiom “handing over the reins of power” describes something corporate leaders and politicians sometimes are reluctant to do: welcome a new leader. Quite the opposite was the case at Green Chimneys, the agency located in Putnam County that provides special education and mental health services to youth. In fact, longtime Executive Director Joe Whalen literally passed the reins to his successor, Edward Placke, as memorialized in a photo taken while they were on a wagon drawn by Belgian draft horses Bill and Bob from Rock Hill Farm in Pawling.

The appointment of Placke as executive director

comes as Green Chimneys celebrates its 70th year. He most recently served as superintendent of the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District, comprised of four alternative schools for students in grades 7-12 who have struggled in their home school districts, BOCES or private schools.

Nearly 250 students ranging in age from 5 to 17 attend school at Green Chimneys and about 100 of those students live on the campus. The common thread for these children is that they face mental health issues such as depression, trauma and autism spectrum disorders.

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WJCS HONORS BENEROFE AND FREYER

From left: Bruce Freyer, Neil Sandler, Froma Benerofe, Alan Trager, Robert P. Astorino and Bernie Kimberg.

Front from left: Nick Williams, Andrew Rossi, William Hammel, Celine Rossi, Lou Iacopetta, Robert Fonte, Ciro Chechile and Frank Miceli. Back row from left: Seth Pinsky, William Hammel, Anup Misra, Mark Fonte, Luiz Aragon and Frank Chechile. Photo by Susan Nagib.

The New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce recently held its annual dinner dance at the Beckwith Pointe Club. Many on hand considered the event to be extra special, since it may have been one of the last major events held at the Davenport Avenue facility, which has been slated for redevelopment.

A 72-unit condominium project is planned with construction scheduled to begin this summer according to Purchase-based Zinrock Resources and National Realty & Development Corp.

About 200 were on hand as the chamber honored New Rochelle’s Commissioner of Development Luiz Aragon. Also honored were Seth Pinsky and Sean McLean of developer RDRXR, Frank and Ciro Chechile of CAC Realty, Mark, Robert, and William Fonte of TriFont Realty, Anup Misra and Stanley Conway of East & Hudson real estate, Megalith Capital Management, Ralph Rossi of RMA Development, Nick Williams, of St. Katherine LLP, Anthony and William Hammel of ELD Properties and Lou Iacopetta of Quintessential Land Development. Bob Marrone, the chamber’s executive director, was the evening’s emcee.

Elected officials attending included New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, Westchester County Legislator Jim Maisano, state Sen. George Latimer, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, Assemblyman Steve Otis, New Rochelle City Manager Chuck Strome and New Rochelle Councilmen Albert Tarantino and Ivar Hyden.

Rob Hayes, chamber vice president, said, “To see this many visionaries in one room, possibly meeting for the first time is exactly what the chamber wanted to achieve. Having them all in one room with one common goal – the advancement of New Rochelle.”

Chamber members who were TheSkyline Sponsors for the event included Cuddy & Feder LLP, PS & S Architecture & Engineering, The Radisson Hotel, Brock Development Corp. and NoMa Social.

CLEMENT JOINS SCENIC HUDSON BOARD Stephen M. Clement III has joined the board of directors of Scenic Hudson, a nonprofit that has created or enhanced more than 65 parks and historic sites and conserved nearly 40,000 acres in the Hudson Valley.

Clement retired last year after serving for 28 years as the headmaster of The Browning School, a preparatory school for boys in Manhattan.

Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan said, “We will benefit from his sophistication in nonprofit management, and his experience with teaching and motivating students will help Scenic Hudson engage more young people in enjoying the outdoors and helping to protect and enhance the Hudson Valley’s significant natural resources.”

Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) held its 2017 Gala on April 4 with 300 on hand at the Brae Burn Country Club in Purchase. Board members Froma Benerofe of Purchase and Bruce Freyer of Scarsdale were honored for their longstanding support of the agency and the Westchester community.

Benerofe has been a board member since 1983 and was a past president. She has served on almost all of the board’s committees. In 1998, she joined the WJCS Treatment Center for Trauma and Abuse as a clinician. She and husband, Andrew, have been active supporters of the arts in Westchester and advocates for Holocaust education and human rights.

Freyer became involved with WJCS in 1997 and he has chaired several committees for the organization. His career included service as a military chaplain in Vietnam and chaplain at Manhattanville College. His military service earned him the Army Commendation Medal and Bronze Star. He and his wife, Dana, founded the Global Partnership for Afghanistan, a nonprofit devoted to helping Afghans create viable and sustainable farm businesses that alleviate poverty, build sustainable livelihoods and promote economic development.

MURPHY BROTHERS HONORED FOR GROWTH

MAUTNER JOINS FIRM AS PARTNER Scott A. Mautner has joined Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin & Lever LLP as a partner in the law firm’s corporate department. The firm has offices in White Plains and Manhattan. Mautner had worked as the general counsel for a number of midmarket technology, media and telecom companies before founding his own law firm.

“Scott is a versatile attorney who has successfully represented clients in a variScott A. Mautner ety of circumstances, including sophisticated business transactions,” said founding partner Joel S. Lever.

Mautner is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.

WMC HEALTH APPOINTS CARRACCIO Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) has named Kevin Carraccio as its senior vice president for development. He will be charged with maximizing philanthropic support, particularly through major donors, corporations and foundations for the 10 hospitals in the WMCHealth network.

Carraccio, who lives in Port Chester, is experienced in health care philanthropy.

At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia he helped lead a campaign that netted Kevin Carraccio $476.5 million in total gifts and pledges, exceeding its goal more than a year ahead of schedule. He planned and executed a $220 million capital campaign for the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York.

When at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine he helped lead a $1 billion campaign to fund basic science and clinical research, facilities, medical education and patient care programs.

TEAMING UP AT KING GARDEN DESIGNS

From left: Sean and Chris Murphy.

Sean and Chris Murphy, owners of Murphy Brothers Contracting in Mamaroneck were honored by SmartCEO Media at its 2017 Future 50 Awards ceremony in Manhattan. Their company was among 60 selected as the fastest growing in the New York area.

The Murphy brothers began their general contracting business nearly 40 years ago, operating out of the basement of their parents’ home in Larchmont.

SmartCEO said its 2017 award winners collectively generate more than $3.48 billion in annual revenue and employ 10,984 people in New York.

Katherine Sadler has joined King Garden Designs Inc., in Hastings-on-Hudson, where she will be the managing director of operations. She joins her husband, Charles, at the company he founded in Irvington in 2012 and moved to Hastings last year.

The firm’s services include specialties such as garden design, installation and maintenance, wetland restoration planting, landscape lighting, tree preservation, and construction of landscape elements Katherine Sadler such as walls, terraces, pergolas and fountains.

Katherine Sadler had been assistant director of the Juilliard School’s Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and Entrepreneurship, and is pursuing a doctorate at Teachers College Columbia University.

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FACTS Zappico Real Estate Development LLC, Hawthorne. Seller: Ronald E. Gutfleish, et al, Briarcliff Manor. Property: 100 Judson Ave., Greenburgh.

Amount: $337,500. Filed April 8.

FORECLOSURES ELMSFORD, 13 N. French Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .11 acre.

Plaintiff: Ditech Financial LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Druckman & Sinel, 516876-0800; 242 Drexel Ave., Westbury 11590. Defendant: Edwin Sanchez.

Referee: Lorraine Corsa. Sale: May 2, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $524,760.48.

ELMSFORD, 32 N. Goodman Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .17 acre. Plaintiff: Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Stein, Weiner & Roth, 516-742-1212; 1 Old Country Road, Suite 113, Carle Place 11514. Defendant: Alex P. Zengin-Karaian. Referee: Peter Rosado. Sale: May 1, 2 p.m. Approximate lien: $608,682.85.

HARTSDALE, 40 S. Washington Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .25 acre. Plaintiff: Citibank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Jin Yang. Referee: David Gelfarb.

Sale: April 24, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $922,716.17.

MOHEGAN LAKE, 3192 Amelia Drive. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624.

Defendant: Kevin Fitzpatrick. Referee: Charles Lesnick. Sale: April 24, 10 a.m.

Approximate lien: $759,647.65.

MOUNT KISCO, 58 Laurelton Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .74 acre. Plaintiff: People’s United Bank. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman, 585-987-2800; 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester 14614. Defendant: Mark Britton. Referee: Julie Henrichs. Sale: April 17, 11 a.m.

Approximate lien: $334,373.32.

MOUNT VERNON, 130 E. First St. Bar; lot size: .03 acre. Plaintiff: Hampton Partners LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Robert D. Gelman PLLC, 718-3808980; 180-34 Union Turnpike, Fresh Meadows 11366. Defendant: Laveme Jones. Referee: Karl Scully. Sale: May 4, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $229,146.01.

MOUNT VERNON, 131 N. Seventh Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: Green Tree Servicing LLC. Plaintiff: RAS Boriskin, 516-280-7675; 900 Merchants Concourse, Westbury 11590. Defendant: James Vicino. Referee: Arlene Gold Wexler. Sale: May 5, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: N/A. MOUNT VERNON, 328 S. Second Ave. Three-family residence; lot size: .12 acre. Plaintiff: Federal National Mortgage Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Diana McNear. Referee: Andrew Brotmann.

Sale: May 3, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $413,977.47.

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NEW ROCHELLE, 40 Prospect St. Single-family residence; lot size: .22 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway PC, 914636-8900; 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle 10801. Defendant: Mahmood Raja. Referee: Dan Romano.

Sale: April 19, noon. Approximate lien: $497,125.16.

YONKERS, 94 Ridgeview Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .11 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 585-9872800; 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St., Rochester 14614. Defendant: Samuel Eromosele. Referee: Julia Henrichs. Sale: April 25, 2 p.m. Approximate lien: $519,515.82.

NEW ROCHELLE, 46 Dennis Drive. Single-family residence; lot size: .25 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Jeffrey DeMarco. Referee: Francis Malara.

Sale: April 25, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $766,797.09.

YONKERS, 257 Hoover Road.

Two-family residence; lot size; .07 acre. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore 11706.

PELHAM, 57 Seventh St. Two-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Countrywide Home Loans Inc. Plaintiff’s attorney: Berkman, Henoch, Peterson & Peddy, 516-222-6200; 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City 11530.

Defendant: Mary Ifill. Referee: Kenneth Bunting. Sale: April 24, 11 a.m.

Approximate lien: N/A. PLEASANTVILLE, 7 Vermilyea St. Two-family residence; lot size: .11 acre.

Plaintiff: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Rosaura Carmona. Referee: Bruce Bozeman.

Sale: April 17, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $622,185.93.

RYE BROOK, 2 Wilton Circle.

Single-family residence; lot size; .28 acre. Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14614.

Defendant: Andrew Wendel. Referee: Massimo Difablo. Sale: May 1, 9:30 a.m.

Approximate lien: $253,696.78.

SHRUB OAK, 3501 James St. Threefamily residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Domenica Brennan. Referee: Joseph Ruggerio.

Sale: April 24, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $501,387.62.

WHITE PLAINS, 80 Bolton Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Maria DeFrancesco. Referee: Christopher Meagher. Sale: April 21, 9:45 a.m. Approximate lien: $587,944.54.

WHITE PLAINS, 445 North St. Single-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: Hudson City Savings Bank.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Aldridge Pite LLP, 631-454-8059; 40 Marcus Drive, Melville 11747. Defendant: Dolores Pinto.

Referee: Robert Ryan. Sale: April 17, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $994,953.93.

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YONKERS, 1116 Warburton Ave. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-2041700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: public administrator of Westchester for the estate of John Marafino. Referee: Steven Accinelli. Sale: April 20, 11 a.m. Approximate lien: $157,174.24.

JUDGMENTS Singularity Painting, Tuckahoe. $7,352 in favor of Sherwin Williams Co., Bethlehem, Pa. Filed April 7.

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

Allen, Jay, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,185 affecting property located at 302 Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550.

Filed Nov. 6.

Altiery, Pedro, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Financial Credit Services New York Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $389,831 affecting property located at 42 N. High St., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Nov. 5.

Andonov, Georgi, et al. Filed by Ventures Trust 2013-I-H-R. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $419,040 affecting property located at 854 Constant Ave., Peekskill 10566. Filed Nov. 6.

Armand, Nelcida, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $328,000 affecting property located at 423 S. First Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Nov. 5.

Ayala, Salvador, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $640,000 affecting property located at 29 Clinton Ave., New Rochelle 10801. Filed Nov. 6.

FIGURES Calvelo, Carlos D., et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $472,000 affecting property located in Ossining.

Filed Nov. 4.

Cesta, Diane P., as executrix of the estate of Dorothy Cesta, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $660,000 affecting property located at 2 Lakeview Road, North Salem 10560. Filed Nov. 5.

Cury, Virginia L., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 496 Milton Road, Rye 10580. Filed Nov. 4.

Dolgetta, Heather, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $684,450 affecting property located at 108 Seminary Ave., Yonkers 10704.

Filed Nov. 6.

Gonsalves, Mark A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $127,800 affecting property located at 155 Villa at the Woods, Unit D-211, Peekskill 10566. Filed Nov. 6.

Hidalgo, Andres, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $424,541 affecting property located at 66 Maple St., White Plains 10603. Filed Nov. 4.

Hidalgo, David R., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $628,000 affecting property located at 9 Maple Way, Armonk 10504. Filed Nov. 4.

Lee, Jong Hyun, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $311,250 affecting property located at 25 Barker St., Apt. 610, Mount Kisco 10549. Filed Nov. 6.

Leontitsis, Demitrios, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $470,000 affecting property located at 188 Fisher Ave., White Plains 10606.

Filed Nov. 4.

Marsh, Verna, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $385,840 affecting property located at 109 S. 14th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Nov. 6.

Miller, John A., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,185 affecting property located at 4 Hillside Close, White Plains 10603.

Filed Nov. 6.

O’Mara, Fatima, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $333,700 affecting property located at 237 Catherine St., Unit 5, Buchanan 10511. Filed Nov. 4.

Quito, Ana M., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $581,249 affecting property located at 16 Maple Place, Ossining 10562. Filed Nov. 4.

Schepisi, Joseph, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $245,000 affecting property located at 130 Winfred Ave., Yonkers 10704.

Filed Nov. 5.

Tikhomirov, Aleksandr G., et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $368,000 affecting property located at 1536 Wenonah Trail, Mohegan Lake 109547.

Filed Nov. 4.

Whye, Raymond L., et al. Filed by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $424,000 affecting property located at 340 S. Second Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed Nov. 4.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Braddock, Jesse, et al, as owner. $94,465 as claimed by FP Construction LLC, Katonah. Property: in Bedford. Filed April 7.

Brooks Shopping Centers LLC, as owner. $82,500 as claimed by Sirak Construction Corp. Property: in Yonkers. Filed April 10.

Elojail, Rita, as owner. $23,337 as claimed by Royal Environmental Services Corp., Pelham. Property: in Harrison. Filed April 10.

Gates, Paul, as owner. $45,734 as claimed by Rivergreen Design Build Inc., Dobbs Ferry. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed April 5.

Gateway Kensington LLC, as owner. $103,662 as claimed by Titan Concrete Inc. Property: in Eastchester.

Filed April 10.

Joyce Rd Ena LLC, as owner. $37,500 as claimed by MJ Plumbing Contractor and Son Inc., New Rochelle. Property: in New Rochelle. Filed April 5.

Saber Dobbs Ferry LLC, as owner. $77,444 as claimed by Wall Cladding Systems LLC, Passaic, N.J. Property: in Greenburgh. Filed April 4.

Triple C Development Inc., as owner. $18,373 as claimed by Centimark Corp. Property: in Peekskill.

Filed April 7.

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

Sole Proprietorships Charging Bull Notary, 255 Huguenot St., Apt. 1814, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Adrian Gordon. Filed April 22.

Classy Journey Services, 1235 N. Ridge Road, Shrub Oak 10588, c/o Luisa F. Lopez. Filed April 25.

Express Maintenance Services, 1 Charles St., White Plains 10606, c/o Alfred J. Aguero. Filed April 22.

Hector M. Hidalgo IT Consultant, 57 Davis Ave., Apt. D, White Plains 10601, c/o Hector M. Hidalgo. Filed April 25.

LaurCore, 10 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown 10591, c/o Lauren Corrado. Filed April 25.

M4 Electrical Contraction, 12 Edgewood Road, Hartsdale 10530, c/o Thomas D. Charles. Filed April 25.

Matthews Consulting, 4701 Sunflower Court, Peekskill 10566, c/o Matthew Geraci. Filed April 25.

Minott Executive Limousine Car Service, P.O. Box 146, Yonkers 10710, c/o Carlton James Ninott. Filed April 25.

My Class Grades, 33 Runyon Ave., Yonkers 10710, c/o Nekia Williams.

Filed April 25.

Peta Captial, P.O. Box 295, Armonk 10504, c/o Yan Zhang. Filed April 25.

Priscilla’s Beauty Salon, 3 Denny St., Ossining 10562, c/o Priscilla Seminario. Filed April 22.

Richard Zuckerman CPA, P.O. Box 8, Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Richard Zuckerman. Filed April 22.

Simple Solutions Now, 33 Runyon Ave., Yonkers 10710, c/o Nekia Williams. Filed April 25.

Swift Tours, 41 S. 11th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Janice Swift. Filed April 25.

Tees Custom Expressions, 820 Post Road, Apt. 2B, Scarsdale 10583, c/o Tawanda Monique Samuel. Filed April 22.

The Wood Knot Workshop, 9 S. Shore Drive, South Salem 10590, c/o Beth Ann Moscone. Filed April 25.

FACTS Ultimate Design Group, 40 Memorial Highway, No. 26L, New Rochelle 10801, c/o Camille S. McDonald. Filed April 25.

White and Company General, 257 Summit Ave., Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Neville White, Jr. Filed April 25.

PATENTS Custom error page enabled via networked computing services.

Patent no. 9,621,688 issued to Mitchell D. Felton, Rochester, Minn.; and Brian E. Olson, Rochester, Minn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Drawer-level immersion-cooling with hinged, liquid-cooled heat sink. Patent no. 9,622,379 issued to Levi A. Campbell, Poughkeepsie; Milnes P. David, Fishkill; Dustin W. Demetriou, Poughkeepsie; Michael J. Ellsworth Jr., Poughkeepsie; Roger R. Schmidt, Poughkeepsie; and Robert E. Simons, Poughkeepsie. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Establishing social network connections. Patent no. 9,621,672 issued to Julie A. Kadashevich, Tyngsboro, Mass.; Jane B. Marcus, Medford, Mass.; Jessica L. Piziak, Ayer, Mass.; and Purvi K. Trivedi, Chelmsford, Mass.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Identifying a contact based on a voice-communication session.

Patent no. 9,621,698 issued to Jonathan F. Brunn, Logan, Utah; Jessica W. Forrester, Raleigh, N.C.; Stephen C. Hess, Durham, N.C.; and Jeffrey R. Hoy, Southern Pines, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Identifying a reset source and reason in a TCP session. Patent no.

9,621,686 issued to Gregory M. Callis, Morrisville, N.C.; David A. Herr, RTP, N.C.; and Mark W. McClintock, Raleigh, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Monitoring accesses to computer source code. Patent no. 9,621,677 issued to Lisa M. Bradley, Cary, N.C.; Christina R. Carlson, Chanhassen, Minn.; Andrew R. Freed, Cary, N.C.; and Roderick C. Henderson, Apex, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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Past location-based communication with mobile devices. Patent no. 9,622,043 issued to Kanak B. Agarwal, Austin, Texas; Patrick J. Bohrer, Austin, Texas; Ahmed Gheith, Austin, Texas; Michael D. Kistler, Austin, Texas; Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Austin, Texas; Brian L. White Eagle, Austin, Texas; and James Xenidis, Cedar Park, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Peer-to-peer networking through universal port connections. Patent no. 9,621,647 issued to Richard K. Errickson, Poughkeepsie; Thomas A. Gregg, Highland; and Kulwant M. Pandey, LaGrangeville. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Ranging scalable time stamp date synchronization. Patent no.

9,621,652 issued to Frank J. Castaneda, Raleigh, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

WiFi-fingerprint-based indoor localization map. Patent no. 9,622,047 issued to Yu Gu, Cedar Park, Texas; Inseok Hwang, Austin, Texas; Su Liu, Austin, Texas; and Yaoguang Wei, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

FIGURES HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Above $1 million High Hotels Ltd., Lancaster, Pa., as owner. Lender: S&T Bank, Lancaster, Pa. Property: in Wallkill. Amount: $4.2 million. Filed April 4.

Weber Projects III LLC, as owner.

Lender: Lakeland Bank. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $9 million. Filed April 7.

Below $1 million Ballincurry Builders Inc., Gardiner, as owner. Lender: Commercial Express Financial Services LLC, High Falls. Property: W. Saugerties Road, Woodstock 12477. Amount: $300,000.

Filed April 7.

Francois, Eric, et al, as owner.

Lender: Ulster Savings Bank. Property: in Clinton. Amount: $324,000.

Filed April 3.

Hoffmann, Michael, et al, as owner.

Lender: Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Property: in Clinton. Amount: $840,000. Filed April 4.

Larsen, Sayaka, et al, as owner.

Lender: Hometown Bank of the Hudson Valley, Walden. Property: 356 Dennytown Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Amount: $227,500. Filed April 4.

Muller, Amanda J., et al, as owner.

Lender: Jeff Bank. Property: 7 Mary St., Port Jervis. Amount: $75,000. Filed April 5.

Reimondo, Michael, et al, Woodstock, as owner. Lender: Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. Property: 37 Schoonmaker Lane, Woodstock 12498. Amount: $307,505. Filed April 7.

Strobel, Janice, New Windsor, as owner. Lender: Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Property: in New Windsor. Amount: $98,000. Filed April 10.

DEEDS Above $1 million Belowhen LLC, New York City. Seller: Quincey Tompkins Imhoff, Millbrook.

Property: in Washington. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed April 3.

DNI Properties LLC, Mahopac. Seller: Jolie Holdings LLC, White Plains.

Property: 559 Route 6, Mahopac.

Amount: $1.3 million. Filed April 4.

The Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Bear Mountain. Seller: Open Space Insitute Land Trust Inc., New York City. Property: in Tuxedo and Woodbury. Amount: $3.6 million.

Filed April 4.

Below $1 million 10 Noxon Street LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Property: 10 Noxon St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $25,000. Filed April 6.

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FACTS 151 Fawn Hill Road LLC, Highland Mills. Seller: A World Above LLC, Gardiner. Property: 151 Fawn Hill Road, Tuxedo Park. Amount: $40,000. Filed April 5.

1558 Main Street LLC, Pleasant Valley. Seller: C-Jon Enterprises Inc., Pleasant Valley. Property: 1558 Main St., Pleasant Valley. Amount: $250,000. Filed April 7.

18 North Avenue LLC, White Plains.

Seller: Donald H. Briggs, Millbrook.

Property: 18 North Ave., Millbrook.

Amount: $420,000. Filed April 7.

20 Matthews Street LLC, Goshen.

Seller: No Malo Occhio Corp., Goshen. Property: in Goshen. Amount: $275,000. Filed April 5.

225 East Main LLC, Warwick. Seller: HSBC Bank USA N.A. Property: in Port Jervis. Amount: $20,000. Filed April 7.

28 PHR PVNY LLC, Putnam Valley. Seller: Suzanne Elizabeth Bossert Putnam Valley. Property: 28 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley 10579.

Amount: $115,000. Filed March 24.

29 Mckinley LLC, Walden. Seller: CWI Landholdings LLC, Walden.

Property: 27 S. Montgomery St., Walden 12586. Amount: $100,000.

Filed April 5.

3401 Red Coat Inc., Staten Island.

Seller: Andrea Durgin Pawliczek, Montgomery. Property: 3401 Red Coat Drive, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $260,000. Filed April 5.

Authentic Home LLC, Montgomery. Seller: U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Property: 300 Highway 17K, Bloomingburg 10921. Amount: $51,000. Filed April 10.

Back Nine Properties Corp., LaGrangeville. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 45 Greentree Drive S., Hyde Park 12538.

Amount: $101,000. Filed April 6.

Bank of America N.A. Seller: Raju Sundaran, Walden. Property: 115 McGinnisberg Mountain Road, Chester 10918. Amount: $484,376. Filed April 6.

Bastion Holdings Group LLC, Jackson Heights. Seller: CSTI LLC, Kingston. Property: in Shandaken. Amount: $166,500. Filed April 3.

Bayview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables. Seller: Alan L. Joseph, Goshen. Property: 35 Cedar Lane, Unit 2, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $138,211. Filed April 4.

Bi Coastal Rehabbers LLC, Walden.

Seller: David Marcinak, Montgomery.

Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $89,500. Filed April 5.

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Blind Dog Studios LLC, Beacon.

Seller: Phoenix Refurbishing Inc., Beacon. Property: in Fishkill. Amount: $425,000. Filed March 31.

Fannie Mae. Seller: Jeffrey Albanese, Goshen. Property: 64 Thompson St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $370,000.

Filed April 5.

Blue Sward Holding Corp., Montgomery. Seller: W. Waught Holding Corp., Montgomery. Property: 222 Union St., Montgomery 12549.

Amount: $125,000. Filed April 10.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Donald Nichol, Walden.

Property: 1 Crestwood Trail, Monroe 10950. Amount: $125,788. Filed April 5.

Bona Ventura LLC, Wallkill. Seller: Idiverp Realty Corp., New Paltz.

Property: in Shawangunk. Amount: $305,000. Filed April 5.

Capital Estates Corp., Monroe. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 698 Goshen Turnpike, Circleville 10919. Amount: $134,536. Filed April 6.

Cherokee South Holdings LLC, Montgomery. Seller: 10 North Street Inc., Middletown. Property: 1012 North St., Middletown 10940.

Amount: $391,000. Filed April 7.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Michele Marte-Indzonka, Newburgh. Property: 5 Kenilworth Lane, Warwick 10990. Amount: $553,467.

Filed April 7.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Patricia Cocchia, Cornwallon-Hudson. Property: 3 Dogwood Drive, Middletown 10940. Amount: $286,562. Filed April 4.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Felix Kolchinsky, Chester. Property: 21 Heavenly Drive, Chester 10918. Amount: $271,000. Filed April 6.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Marcia Ann Jacobowitz, Walden. Property: 215 Toleman Road, Washingtonville 10992. Amount: $235,960. Filed April 5.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Donald G. Nichol, Walden. Property: 1301 Union Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $202,590.

Filed April 4.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: John Bilyck, et al, Yonkers. Property: 5 Crystal Court, Greenwood Lake 10925. Amount: $306,164.

Filed April 6.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Kelli M. O’Brien, Goshen. Property: 844 Bloomingburg Road, Wallkill 12721. Amount: $70,631.

Filed April 4.

FIGURES HRB Mortgage Holdings LLC, New York City. Seller: Maureen Fleming, Kent Lakes. Property: 26 Brittany Lane, Carmel 10512. Amount: $960,102. Filed March 24.

Menendez Inc., Floral Park. Seller: Lauren E. Accomando, et al, Newburgh. Property: 21 Bush Ave., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $38,000. Filed April 7.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Jaime Giannetta, Newburgh. Property: 33 Conklin St., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Amount: $259,500. Filed April 6.

MG 275 North Corp., Middletown. Seller: Anthony R. LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: 99 Watkins Ave., Middletown 10940. Amount: $128,001. Filed April 5.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Joan H. McCarthy, Fishkill. Property: 51 Martin Drive, Wappinger 12590. Amount: $246,000. Filed April 7.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Russell S. Damsky, et al, Coconut Creek, Fla. Property: 285 Circle Road, Pine Bush 12566. Amount: $178,928. Filed April 4.

Hudson Properties Holding Company Inc., White Plains. Seller: U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Property: 11 Capron St., Walden 12586. Amount: $53,500.

Filed April 4.

ITH Trading LLC, Monroe. Seller: State of New York Mortgage Agency, New York City. Property: 42 Vincent Drive, Middletown 10940. Amount: $110,000. Filed April 10.

JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Seller: Bruce A. Petito, Poughkeepsie. Property: 59 King George Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $382,500.

Filed April 5.

Double R Capital Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: David Ferenz, Poughkeepsie. Property: 2740 South Road, Apt. A-11, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $29,000. Filed April 7.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Kevin E. Farrelly, et al, Carmel. Property: in Kent. Amount: $283,846. Filed March 28.

Lake House Developments Corp., Bronx. Seller: John Lombardo, Monroe. Property: 15 Half Hollow Turn, Monroe 10950. Amount: $250,000.

Filed April 10.

Double R Capital Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Maura Ann Barrett, Poughkeepsie. Property: 41 Eileen Blvd., Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $54,000. Filed April 7.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Ned Kopald, Highland Falls. Property: 27 Hillside Drive, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $453,663. Filed April 10.

M and N Newburgh Development LLC, New York City. Seller: SOS Property Solutions LLC, Walden. Property: 164 First St., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $37,500. Filed April 7.

Double R Capital Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Tamara Izzo, et al, Poughkeepsie. Property: 2406 Cherry Hill Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $51,500. Filed April 6.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Richard B. Lent, et al, Millsboro, De. Property: in Lloyd.

Amount: $250,416. Filed April 5.

M-m2 RE Holdings 6 LLC, Salt Point. Seller: Jacqueline T. Martin, Poughkeepsie. Property: 9 N. Gilmore Blvd., Wappingers Falls 12590.

Amount: $41,000. Filed April 3.

DRTG Development LLC, Kingston.

Seller: Leonard H. Gokey, et al, Lyon Mountain. Property: in Kingston.

Amount: $60,000. Filed April 6.

Dutchess Point LLC, Beacon. Seller: Steve Kokoni, et al, Hopewell Junction.

Property: Route 9D, Beacon 12508.

Amount: $161,500. Filed March 31.

EZ Equipment Leasing LLC, Middletown. Seller: County of Orange, Goshen. Property: in Deerpark.

Amount: $10,000. Filed April 10.

Fannie Mae. Seller: Gary M. Schuster, Walden. Property: 90 Jacobs Road, Westtown 10998. Amount: $392,636.

Filed April 5.

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Finest Concerns LLC, Rhinebeck.

Seller: Cherie Zietz, Rhinebeck. Property: in Rhinebeck. Amount: $98,000.

Filed April 6.

Gatto Enterprises NY LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Evette Maria Smith, Elmira. Property: in Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $150,000. Filed April 3.

Harmony Inn LLC, Gardiner. Seller: Robert Hallen Grano, et al, Gardiner.

Property: in Gardiner. Amount: $270,000. Filed April 4.

Highway Displays Inc., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Dawn G. Kubik, et al, Brewster. Property: Route 22, Patterson 12653.

Amount: $15,000. Filed March 23.

M-m2 RE Holdings 7 LLC, Salt Point. Seller: Allan B. Rappleyea, Millbrook. Property: 66 Delafield St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $66,000. Filed April 3.

M-m2 RE Holdings 8 LLC, Salt Point. Seller: Donald D. Brown Jr., Poughkeepsie. Property: 42 LaGrange Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $79,500. Filed April 3.

M&T Bank, Getzville. Seller: Mary Zugibe Raleigh, Warwick. Property: 10 Noel Drive, Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $106,900. Filed April 5.

Mazel Properties LLC, Monroe.

Seller: PHR Funding LLC, Monroe.

Property: in Middletown. Amount: $480,000. Filed April 10.

Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Kingston. Seller: Mark D. Stern, Goshen. Property: in Goshen.

Amount: $575,000. Filed April 10.

Morgan Stanley Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-1XS. Seller: Robert L. Ostertag, Poughkeepsie. Property: 3569 Route 52, Stormville 12582. Amount: $184,500. Filed April 5.

Mortgage Equity Conversion Asset Trust 2011-1. Seller: Andrea Pawliczek, Montgomery. Property: 31 Greenwood Ave., Greenwood Lake 10925. Amount: $332,583. Filed April 5.

MOTM Inc., Hoboken, N.J. Seller: Christopher Keevins, et al, Mahopac. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $223,000. Filed April 4.

Northeastern Fish Hatchery Inc., Rhinebeck. Seller: One Kerr Road, Rhinebeck. Property: in Rhinebeck.

Amount: $80,000. Filed April 6.

Northern Enterprise NY LLC, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Seller: Denise Dougherty, Warwick. Property: 28 Horton Road, Washingtonville 10992.

Amount: $135,000. Filed April 7.

Oragom LLC, Washingtonville.

Seller: Gamma Realty Corp., Wallkill.

Property: in Newburgh. Amount: $570,000. Filed April 7.

Origin Properties LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Russell G. Oakes Sr., et al, Stone Ridge. Property: 706 Vly Road, Stone Ridge 12484. Amount: $275,000. Filed April 6.

OWB REO LLC, Pasadena, Calif.

Seller: Kelli Marie O’Brien, Goshen.

Property: 23 Courtland Place, Middletown 10940. Amount: $359,474. Filed April 5.

PGA Real Estate Solutions LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 4 Mountain Drive, Garrison 10524. Amount: $158,000. Filed April 5.

Mount Hebron Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: Joel Polatsek, Monroe. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $19,949. Filed April 10.

PGA Real Estate Solutions LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: U.S. ROF III Legal Title Trust 2015-1. Property: 12 Barrett Hill Road, Carmel. Amount: $127,500. Filed March 24.

Mount Hebron Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: Joel Polatsek, Monroe.

Property: in Monroe. Amount: $19,126.

Filed April 10.

Prof-20130M4 Legal Title Trust II. Seller: Paul Brite, Newburgh. Property: 239 Daniher Ave., New Windsor 12553. Amount: $334,262. Filed April 7.

Mount Hebron Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: Joel Polatsek, Monroe. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $20,929. Filed April 10.

Promac Holding LLC, Mahopac.

Seller: M and D Realty Holdings Inc., Middletown. Property: in Middletown.

Amount: $385,000. Filed April 5.

Mount Hebron Holdings LLC, Monroe. Seller: Joel Polatsek, Monroe. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $20,153. Filed April 10.

Retained Realty Inc., New York City. Seller: Sharon Marie Faulkner, Poughkeepsie. Property: 20 and 22 Riverview Circle, Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $330,000. Filed April 7.

MTGLQ Investors LP. Seller: Mark P. Cambareri, Pine Bush. Property: 414 Philo St., New Windsor 12553.

Amount: $240,976. Filed April 6.

Nationstar HECM Acquisition Trust 2016-1. Seller: Donald A. Brown, Poughkeepsie. Property: 44 Van Wyck Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Amount: $330,500. Filed April 4.

New Life Homes of Warwick Inc., Warwick. Seller: Frank Pedersen, Warwick. Property: 6 Crescent Ave., Warwick. Amount: $210,000. Filed April 7.

No Place Like Home Development Corp., Fishkill. Seller: Charles Seguine, et al, Fishkill. Property: Lot no. 8 Windsor Road, Fishkill 12524.

Amount: $125,000. Filed April 7.

Rymph Road Properties Ltd., Staatsburg. Seller: HSBC Bank USA N.A. Property: 570 N. Quaker Lane, Hyde Park. Amount: $47,500. Filed April 4.

Santander Bank N.A. Seller: Brian Andrews, Poughkeepsie. Property: 231 N. White Rock Road, Holmes 12531.

Amount: $333,000. Filed April 7.

Saugerties Property Holding LLC, Dewitt. Seller: Barry H. Rompella, et al, Saugerties. Property: in Saugerties.

Amount: $290,000. Filed April 7.

SMP Homes Inc., Carmel. Seller: Karen D. McCaffrey, Waccabuc.

Property: 291 Union Valley Road, Mahopac 10541. Amount: $100,000. Filed March 31.

FACTS The Bank of New York Mellon.

Seller: Sharon M. Faulkner, Poughkeepsie. Property: 766 Berkshire Road, Wingdale 12594. Amount: $479,500. Filed April 5.

Trade Farm Inc., New York City.

Seller: Samuel P. Brooke, Poughkeepsie. Property: in LaGrange. Amount: $400,000. Filed April 5.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Chester Gordon, Poughkeepsie. Property: 3322 Franklin Ave., Millbrook 12543.

Amount: $668,000. Filed April 7.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Denis S. Ryan, et al, Walden. Property: 62 Clover Ridge Road, Minisink 10998. Amount: $309,883. Filed April 6.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Edmon Panahon, et al, Montgomery. Property: 300 Van Amburgh Road, Montgomery 12549. Amount: $403,841. Filed April 6.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Warren Kemble, Goshen. Property: 2 Shaker Court, New Windsor 12553. Amount: $258,276. Filed April 10.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Kevin Costello, Wappingers Falls. Property: 51 Marian Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Amount: $275,500. Filed April 6.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Mark Specthrie, Middletown. Property: 15 Hornbeck Ave., Port Jervis 12771.

Amount: $32,000. Filed April 10.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Pamela B. Richardson, Carmel. Property: 111 Meadows Lane, Patterson 12563.

Amount: $190,000. Filed March 29.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Ryan Scott Karben, Pomona. Property: 76 Southside Drive, Monroe 10950.

Amount: $328,927. Filed April 10.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Stephen D. Donohue, Bardonia. Property: 8 Lexington Hill, Unit 3, Harriman 10950. Amount: $324,459. Filed April 5.

U.S. ROF III Legal Title Trust 21051. Seller: Dianne Braun Hanley, Katonah. Property: 12 Barrett Hill Road, Carmel 10512. Amount: $456,304.

Filed March 24.

V Mortgage REO 2 LLC, Greenville, S.C. Seller: Zachary D. Kelson, Monticello. Property: 49 Mayer Drive, Middletown 10940. Amount: $247,160.

Filed April 6.

Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Seller: Anthony LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: in Wallkill. Amount: $350,000. Filed April 5.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Davyd S. Ramirez, et al, Cold Springs. Property: 11 Valley Lane, Garrison 10524.

Amount: $231,892. Filed April 3.

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Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Edward T. Cabezal, et al, Walden. Property: 2 Mountain Ave., Warwick 10925.

Amount: $366,938. Filed April 6.

CC Niche Services, Saugerties. $980 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Floratron Corp., New Paltz. $6,153 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Liberty Security Services LLC, Woodstock. $407 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Lionel Marshall, et al, Goshen. Property: 475 Lower Road, Westtown 10998.

Amount: $246,972. Filed April 4.

Cota Paving Contractors LLC, Monroe. $16,419 in favor of Tetz Asphalt LLC, Middletown. Filed April 4.

Freight Runners Inc., Lake Katrine. $14,329 in favor of CS Trailer Rental LLC, Paulsboro, N.J. Filed April 4.

Mid Hudson Forest Products Inc., Pine Plains. $28,320 in favor of Bens Development Corp., Fort Lee, N.J. Filed April 5.

Cottage on the Hudson, Saugerties. $4,161 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Friends Gourmet Market Inc., Westtown. $136 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 27.

Creative Clay Concepts, Saugerties. $2,666 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Green Heat Inc., Stone Ridge. $514 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

DRD Drywall Corp., Highland. $1,119 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Highland Falls Deli and Grocery Inc., Highland Falls. $1,173 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 27.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Kyle William Barnett, Poughkeepsie. Property: 34 S. Grand Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $118,000. Filed April 4.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Pauline M. Galvin, Yonkers. Property: 31 Gilbert Lane, Putnam 10579. Amount: $372,992.

Filed April 4.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Winfield Whitted, et al, Poughkeepsie. Property: 86 Lent St., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $30,000.

Filed April 7.

Yenom Holdings LLC, et al, Poughkeepsie. Seller: 5 Gidney Ave LLC, Newburgh. Property: 5 Gidney Ave., Newburgh. Amount: $45,000. Filed April 6.

Evan Tangies K.J. Inc., Washingtonville. $63,184 in favor of Ginsberg’s Institutional Foods Inc., Hudson. Filed April 6.

Flanagan Realty Inc., Central Valley. $599 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 27.

Jamaica Choice Caribbean Cuisine Inc., New Paltz. $5,938 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

R.H.N. Collectables, Pine Bush. $162 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Rene’s Bistro Inc., Kingston. $4,821 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Scalia and Company LLC, Monroe. $16,429 in favor of RAS Mechanical Corp., Monroe. Filed April 7.

Ultimate Packers Inc., New Windsor. $45,000 in favor of Fee Realty LLC, Brooklyn. Filed April 7.

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

Accurso, Grace, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $475,000 affecting property located at 123 Gleneida Ridge Road, Carmel 10512. Filed April 4.

Altizio, Lynn J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $390,000 affecting property located at 261 Hill St., Mahopac 10541. Filed April 6.

Alvarado, Carmen Lydia, et al.

Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 15 Short St., Putnam Valley 10579. Filed April 6.

Bloss, Kathryn M., et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $152,000 affecting property located at 3 Locust Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed March 24.

YMB Holdings LLC, Suffern. Seller: Anapest Fallopia Holdings LLC, Tarrytown. Property: in Hyde Park.

Amount: $270,000. Filed April 7.

YMB Holdings LLC, Suffern. Seller: Ellem Holdings LLC, Tarrytown.

Property: in Hyde Park. Amount: $270,000. Filed April 7.

YMB Holdings LLC, Suffern. Seller: Glen S. Schwarze, Clinton Corners.

Property: in Hyde Park. Amount: $73,000. Filed April 7.

JUDGMENTS A.M.P. Inc., New Windsor. $968 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed April 27.

All Seasons Fuels Inc., Montgomery. $14,204 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 27.

American Fabrication Iron Works Inc., Unionville. $22,993 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed April 27.

Arturo’s of Kingston Inc., Kingston. $1,382 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

Bangs and Body Salon and Day Spa Corp., Lake Katrine. $23,439 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 4.

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Borrelli, Pat, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $245,688 affecting property located at 225 Oak Road W., Mahopac 10541. Filed March 31.

Conklin, Ruth J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $107,700 affecting property located at 256 Lime Ridge Road, Poughquag 12570. Filed March 30.

Greenberg, Kathleen, 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 20 Allison Drive, Monroe 10950. Filed Jan. 13.

Krupa, Phyllis, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $71,700 affecting property located at 3 E. Alpine Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed March 30.

Boyle, Keri, et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $170,000 affecting property located at 42 Smith Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed April 7.

Cruz, Carlos A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $95,848 affecting property located at 3 Pine View Road, Beacon 12508. Filed April 6.

Hadad, Barbara A., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 21 Overlin Road, Patterson 12563. Filed March 29.

Brogan, Sonja, et al. Filed by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 301 Drew Lane, Carmel 10512. Filed April 4.

Delia, Thomas, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $203,200 affecting property located at 16 Garden Court, Saugerties 12477.

Filed April 4.

La Grutta, Jeanette, individually and as surviving spouse of Thomas P. La Grutta, et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $388,000 affecting property located at 127 Purgatory Road, Campbell Hall 10916. Filed Jan. 13.

Bruno, Joseph, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $242,000 affecting property located at 27 Oak Pond Lane, Mahopac 10541.

Filed March 30.

Campanaro, Kevin M., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $217,500 affecting property located at 80 Dorn Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Filed March 30.

Cappiello, Robert L. Jr., et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $140,600 affecting property located at 238 Delaware St., Saugerties 12432. Filed April 6.

Cardoza, Angel L., et al. Filed by Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $338,636 affecting property located at 120 Overhill Road, Stormville 12582. Filed March 31.

Carlin, William J., commissioner of finance of Putnam County as administrator of the estate of Florence M. Coons, et al. Filed

by CIT Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $472,500 affecting property located at 15 Orchard St., Patterson 12563.

Filed March 24.

Castaneda, Yonathan, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $210,080 affecting property located at 14 Mulberry Lane, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 30.

Castellani, Linda F., et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $105,000 affecting property located at 692 Milton Turnpike, Plattekill 12528. Filed April 4.

Cohen, Ronald J., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.1 million affecting property located at 1 Orr Hatch Drive, Cornwall 12518. Filed Jan. 12.

Faircloth, Milton, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,000 affecting property located at 331 Mansion St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed April 4.

Fasanaro, John, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $232,000 affecting property located at 3 Minsis Lane, Greenwood Lake 10925. Filed Jan. 13.

Hayes, Scott M., et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $182,132 affecting property located at 63 Deerfield Road, Boiceville 12412. Filed April 7.

Hernandez, Ramon, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $175,750 affecting property located at 22 Ona Lane, New Windsor 12553.

Filed Jan. 13.

Howe, Dorothy T., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $278,884 affecting property located at 100 Maplewood Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed April 5.

Fogelquist, Shirley, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $155,000 affecting property located at 3305 Chelsea Cove Drive South, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed April 5.

Iniguez, Sany, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,530 affecting property located at 19 Delilah Lane, Wallkill 12589. Filed April 6.

Freda, Fiore A., et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $258,750 affecting property located at 706 Sprout Brook Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed March 23.

Jones, Charles H., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 31 Apple Lane, Westbrookville 12785. Filed Jan. 12.

Gabino, Victor, et al. Filed by Christiana Trust. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $256,500 affecting property located at 10 Colleen Lane, Wallkill 12589. Filed April 7.

Justo, Frank J., et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $40,000 affecting property located at 11 Penny Lane, Brewster 10509. Filed March 30.

Golembiewski, Karen A., et al. Filed by the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $95,000 affecting property located at 10 Glenn Round, Rock Tavern 12575.

Filed Jan. 12.

Kelly, Brian R., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $194,150 affecting property located at 303 State Highway 94 S., Warwick 10990. Filed Jan. 12.

Gordon, Anthony, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 72 Cold Spring Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed April 6.

Goring, Christopher, et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $208,000 affecting property located at 6 E. Dorset Lane, Hyde Park 12538. Filed April 5.

Kelly, Florence Z., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $302,421 affecting property located at 33 Avoncroft Lane, Unit 5403, Middletown 10940. Filed Jan. 12.

Kelly, Gregory, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $281,213 affecting property located at 27 Glenna Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed March 28.

Morgan, Douglas, as heir to the estate of Jay K. Morgan, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $70,000 affecting property located at 257 Old Pawling Road, Pawling 12564. Filed April 6.

O’Malley, Lisa M., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $362,790 affecting property located at 25 Charles Place, Mahopac 10541.

Filed March 24.

Lewis, James E., et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $236,241 affecting property located at 37 Pleasant Ave., Wallkill 12589. Filed April 5.

Perry, Adine J., individually and as administratrix of the estate of Doreen Perry, et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $172,000 affecting property located at 17 Tracy Road, New Paltz 12561. Filed April 5.

Lynn, Diane K., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $425,000 affecting property located at 125 Market Lane, Clinton Corners 12514. Filed March 30.

Pisani, Louis R., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 203 Burroughs Drive, West Park 12493. Filed April 7.

Malacarne, Vincent D., et al. Filed

by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $188,660 affecting property located at 30 Livonia Drive, Patterson 12563.

Filed April 3.

Pizzuti, Charlene, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $271,045 affecting property located at 104 Susan Drive, Poughquag 12570. Filed April 6.

Marconi, Christopher, et al. Filed

by Webster Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $480,000 affecting property located at 24 Hummingbird Lane, Garrison 10524. Filed April 5.

Marino, Thomas, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,200 affecting property located at 7 North St., Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed March 30.

Marma, Daniel J., et al. Filed by MTGLQ Investors LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 131 Cooper Drive, Verbank 12585. Filed April 5.

McArdle, Thomas M., et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $264,000 affecting property located at 119 Still Road, Poughquag 12570. Filed March 31.

Miller, Denise C., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $196,500 affecting property located at 415 Lattintown Road, Marlboro 12542. Filed April 4.

Mitchell, Alexander L., et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 296 Pinebrook Drive, Hyde Park 12538. Filed April 5.

Provenzano, Christopher, et al.

Filed by Caliber Home Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $484,000 affecting property located at 154 Weber Hill Road, Carmel 10512. Filed March 24.

Rossi, Leslie, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $198,000 affecting property located at 21 Trout Place, Mahopac 10541. Filed March 28.

Rossy, Nelson E., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $172,000 affecting property located at 1404 Brentwood Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed April 5.

Sassano, Michael A., et al. Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $429,429 affecting property located at 610 N. Lake Blvd., Mahopac 10541.

Filed April 3.

Senko, William, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $132,600 affecting property located at 321 Delaware St., Glasco 12432. Filed April 3.

Sloat, Glenn T., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $175,000 affecting property located at 618 Milltown Road, Brewster 10509.

Filed March 27.

Slonim, Norman, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $357,000 affecting property located at 37 Magnolia Lane, Warwick 10990.

Filed Jan. 12.

Staron, Frank, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $335,000 affecting property located at 55 Windwood Lane, Woodstock 12498. Filed April 3.

Storms, Jeffrey, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $176,175 affecting property located at 18 Geneva Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed March 28.

Struble, Craig D., et al. Filed by Wilmington Savings Fun Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $35,000 affecting property located at 121 Franklin St., Kingston 12401. Filed April 3.

Terrazola, Jose P., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $332,000 affecting property located at 2656 Liberty Ridge, New Windsor 12553. Filed Jan. 13.

Unknown heirs of the estate of Nancy J. McCormick, et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA NA. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,000 affecting property located at 56 Finger St., Saugerties 12477. Filed April 7.

Vasquez, Kathleen, et al. Filed

by Caliber Home Loans Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 12 Bunker Hill Road, Newburgh 12550. Filed Jan. 12.

Young, April J., et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $98,000 affecting property located at 19 Plattekill Drive, Mount Marion 12456. Filed April 5.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Freeman, Duane, et al, as owner. $13,050 as claimed by Douglas Chicas, Middletown. Property: 80 Knoell Road, Goshen. Filed April 4.

Goldberg, Robert, et al, as owner. $1,990 as claimed by Fairfield Insulation, Brewster. Property: 19 Kensington Drive, East Fishkill. Filed April 3.

Hagopian, Michael A., et al, Monroe, as owner. $5,403 as claimed by E. Tetz and Sons Inc., Middletown. Property: 30 Webb Farm Road, Monroe 10950. Filed April 7.

Hogan, Tess, as owner. $527 as claimed by F.H. Stickles and Son Inc., Livingston. Property: 314 Union Center Road, Ulster Park 12487. Filed April 7.

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FACTS Kingston Hunter St LP, as owner. $39,589 as claimed by Jacob Mason, Kingston. Property: 54 Hunter St., Kingston. Filed April 5.

Scarpitta, Dominick, as owner. $22,262 as claimed by New England Environmental Services Inc., Briarcliff. Property: 44 Route 311, Carmel.

Filed April 3.

Tedesco. Maria, Washingtonville, as owner. $31,174 as claimed by Peak Construction, Fishkill. Property: 67 Yorkshire Terrace, Washingtonville 10992. Filed April 6.

ESP Land Development Inc., d.b.a.

Certinspectors, 171 Vineyard Ave., Highland 12528. Filed May 2.

Fit Tech Services Inc., d.b.a. Prima Pizza, 252 Main St., Cornwall-onHudson 12518. Filed May 2.

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

Partnerships A and V Construction, 111 Linden Ave., Apt. 1, Middletown, c/o Angel Burgos and Olger Burgos. Filed May 2.

Harold Lloyd Inc., d.b.a. Trade Auto, 229 Walsh Ave., New Windsor 12553. Filed May 2.

Sole Proprietorships

Hudson Valley Accounting Service Inc., d.b.a. HV Accounting, 1108 Kings Highway, Suite 1, Chester 10918. Filed May 2.

209 Towing, 916 County Route 2, Accord 12404, c/o David C. Stokes. Filed April 6.

Kaz Goshen Plaza Diner Corp., d.b.a. Goshen Plaza Diner, 118 Clowes Ave., Goshen 10924. Filed May 2.

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M and W Entertainment Inc., d.b.a. Joker’s Comedy Club, 109 Brookside Ave., Chester 10918. Filed May 2.

Doing Business As

Anthony’s Towing, 3430 Route 9W, Highland 12528, c/o Alicia L. Tortarella. Filed April 5.

Backwoods Blends, 14 Frances Place, Tillson 12486, c/o Deana M. Krom. Filed April 5.

Barhams Carpentry, 11 Stanford Drive, Highland Mills, c/o Esperidon A. Barham. Filed May 2.

FIGURES Bel Services, 117 S. Chodikee Lake Road, Highland 12528, c/o Stephanie Janet Passante-Lucas. Filed April 4.

J. Ramirez Drywell Service, 237 Washington St., Newburgh 12550, c/o Juan Ramirez Marin. Filed May 2.

Diva’s Finger Licking Jamaican/ American, 180 Broadway, Newburgh, c/o Coyette Walker-Mitchell.

Filed May 2.

Lawn and Order, P.O. Box 2581, Kingston 12402, c/o Jesus M. Thorpe.

Filed April 7.

DoubleDz Sealcoating and Stripping, 302 Route 211, Wallkill, c/o Raymond Terwilleger. Filed May 2.

Eco Recovery Retreat, 86 Pancake Hollow Road, Highland 12528, c/o Richard R. Rozzi. Filed April 3.

Get it Done Construction Management, 230 Quaker St., Wallkill 12589, c/o Rebekah Ramos. Filed May 2.

Go 2 Guys Handyman and Remodeling Services, 234 Millbrook Ave., Hurley 12443, c/o Christopher Riggins. Filed April 7.

Melissa Lee Photography, 106 Piazza Road, Kerhonkson 12446, c/o Melissa Lee Zeko. Filed April 6.

Ommella, 46 Hudson St., Kingston 12401, c/o Annika Lindgren. Filed April 7.

Reliable Landscaping and Sealcoating, 599 Greenville Turnpike, Middletown 10940, c/o Vincent Roescher. Filed May 2.

Seamless Commercial Contracting Services, 19 Clover St., West Hurley 12491, c/o Brian Edward Rodrigues. Filed April 3.

Sono Go, P.O. Box 248, Plattekill 12568, c/o Murray H. Clarke, Jr. Filed April 7.

T and H Farm Products, 47 Lander St., Newburgh, c/o Althea Elizabeth Hutchinson. Filed May 2.

The Pickled Garden, 5 Friar Lane, Newburgh 12550, c/o Hasani Simmons. Filed May 2.

Veronica Fannin, 612 Band Camp Circle, Saugerties 12477, c/o Veronica Leigh Fannin. Filed April 5.

Rickey McDonald Ministries, 110 Center St., Apt. 102, Ellenville 12428, c/o Rickey E. McDonald. Filed April 5.

Royal Khaoz Band, 88 Prospect St., New Paltz 12561, c/o Kadhri A. Forgie.

Filed April 5.

Brothers Hometown Deli Inc., d.b.a. Hometown Deli, 2975 Route 6, Slate Hill 10973. Filed May 2.

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LEGAL NOTICES 70 Ellsworth Ave., LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/16/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 55 Halstead Ave., Harrison, NY 10528. General Purpose. #61007 Notice of Formation of Trinity Funeral Service, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/6/2017.

Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 23 East Second St. Mt. Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61009 JLH Landscape & Design, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/9/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to GianfrancescoĂ­s Accounting & Tax Services, Inc., 2452A Eastchester Rd., Bronx, NY 10469. General Purpose. #61010 Notice of Formation of AURA STYLE BAR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/1/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 191 King Street, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61012 Notice of Formation of CLOUDBANK CARRIAGE HOUSE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/27/17. 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 Shamberg Marwell Hollis et al, 55 Smith Avenue, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61013 Notice of Formation of Quantum Glass Products, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/14/17. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 800 Westchester Ave, Rye Brook, NY 10573. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61015 R&S Gramatan Property, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/27/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 180 Gramatan Ave., Mt. Vernon, NY 10550.

General Purpose. #61016 CRT-BC Solar, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/6/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 20 Lincoln Ave., Rye Brook, NY 10573. General Purpose. #61017

82 Union, LLC - Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State on February 2, 2010.

Office location: Westchester County. The Secretary of State is designated as the agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to LLC, 82 Union Ave, New Rochelle, New York 10801.

The purpose of such LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity #61018 MBI Partners LLC. Filed 2/7/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water St #204, White Plains, NY 10601: all lawful #61020 Celine Properties LLC. Filed 2/6/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 220 East Palisades Blvd, Palisades Park, NJ 07650. Purpose: all lawful #61021 937 Post Road Holding LLC. Filed 2/10/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water St #204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61022 Purchase Capital Partners LLC. Filed 2/14/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water St #204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61023 175 Main Street Of Mt. Kisco, LLC. Filed 2/15/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 16 Lawrence St, Mount Kisco, NY 10549 Purpose: all lawful #61024 Preferred Lawn Irrigation & Outdoor Services LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/9/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 311 Sherman Ave., Hawthorne, NY 10532. General Purpose. #61025 My Financial Possibilities LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 9/25/08.

Office Location: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: MJW Law 1846 E. Main St. Mohegan Lake, NY 10547 Purpose: all lawful. #61026 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PEEKSKILL HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on July 26, 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: Brendon Fitzgerald, 741 Shenandoah Ave., Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose: Any lawful acts. #61029 Verde Positivo International LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/15/17 Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Ricardo Vargas, 7 Brook Ln., Chappaqua, NY 10514.

General Purpose. #61031

MJC Funding, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/15/17 Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to c/o Matthew J. McGowan, Esq., 800 Westchester Ave., #608 South, Rye Brook, NY 10573. General Purpose. #61032 PULSEMD Westchester LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/10/16.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 900 Route 376, Ste. H, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590. General Purpose. #61033

Orchard Hill Organics LLC. Filed 2/24/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 316 E 59th St, New York, NY 10022 Purpose: all lawful #61042 937 Post Road Associates LLC. Filed 2/10/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water St #204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61043 719 Calhoun LLC. Filed 3/8/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 103 Leewood Dr. Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #61044

62 Webster Ave, 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 110 Ellsworth Ave., Harrison, NY 10528. General Purpose. #61034

John McDwyer Enterprises, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/13/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to John McDwyer, 1435 Rte. 55, Lagrangeville, NY 12540. General Purpose. #61045

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF The Zice Group. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/3/17. Office location: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: The Zice Group, 48 Van Cortlandt Pk. Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701 The principal business address of the LLC is: 48 Van Cortlandt Pk. Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701 Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61035

Notice of Formation of 296 COLUMBUS AVENUE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the 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: One New King Street, Suite 201, West Harrison, NY 10604. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61048

Notice of Formation of MH Landscape Design, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/10/2017. Office Location 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 MH Landscape Design, LLC, 44 Lawrence Avenue, Danbury, CT 06810. Purpose: Any Lawful purpose #61037 1404 Gillespie LLC. Filed 3/8/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 103 Leewood Dr. Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #61038 3011 Waterbury LLC. Filed 3/8/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 103 Leewood Dr. Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #61039 2898 Coddington LLC. Filed 3/8/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 103 Leewood Dr. Eastchester, NY 10709 Purpose: all lawful #61040 M.L Gastroenterology PLLC. Filed 2/2/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #700, Harrison, NY 10528 Purpose: all lawful #61041

Notice of Formation of POTTER AND PRUNE, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/1/17. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 503 Bedford Rd. Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 Purpose: and lawful purpose. #61049 MichaelĂ­s Painting, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/24/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 7 Rye Ridge Plaza, #155, Rye Brook, NY 10573.

General Purpose. #61050 Gould Chiropractic PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/23/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 125 Crescent Pl., Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Chiropractic. #61051 SZ Realty Holding LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 2/21/17. Off. in West. Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 118-21 Queens Blvd., Suite 418, Forest Hills, NY 11375.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #61053 SS Realty Holding and Management LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 2/24/17. Off. in West. Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 118-21 Queens Blvd., Suite 418, Forest Hills, NY 11375.

Purpose: any lawful activity. #61054

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF The Law Office of Dorcia Carrillo PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/04/2016.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him/her is: 29 Van Buren Ave. K7, Norwalk, CT 06850. The principal business address of the PLLC is: 50 Main St., Ste. 1000, White Plains, NY 10606. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #61055 APEX Personal Training LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 3/28/17.

Off. in West. Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Shkelzen Gecaj, 924 Route 35, Cross River, NY 10518. Purpose: any lawful activity. #61056 Notice of Formation of SunergeoNY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on March 20, 2017, with a formation date of March 17, 2017. Office location: Westchester County.

Secretary of State designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

Secretary of State shall mail process to the principal business address of the LLC: PO Box 238, Katonah, New York, 10536.

Purpose: engage in the rental of flexible office space and rental of computers and business services, as well as any lawful act or activity within the purposes for organization pursuant to the Limited Liability Company Law. #61057 Fivepeaks LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/9/17. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Geraldine Alfino, Esq., 18 Mianus Bluff Dr., Bedford, NY 10506. General Purpose. #61058 Scarsdale Acupuncture, PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/23/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 531 Central Park Ave., Ste. 304, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: Acupuncture. #61059 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Classico Cafe Inc to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 887 Midland Avenue Yonkers NY 10704. #61062 Notice is hereby given that an onpremise license, #TBA has been applied for by XGSB Restaurant Corp d/b/a Katonah Woods Kitchen & Bar to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 128 Bedford Road Katonah NY 10536. #61063

Notice is hereby given that an onpremise license, #TBA has been applied for by The American Bar and Restaurant LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment with one additional bar. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 25 Willett Avenue Port Chester NY 10573. #61064

Crimson Advantage, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/3/17.

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, 200 Veterans Rd, Building B, Suite 9, Yorktown Hts., NY 10598. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61072

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MISS PINK HEALTHY FOOD LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/4/17.

Offc loc: WESTCHESTER Cty. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC: 5 COLDEN AVE, WHITE PLAINS, NY, 10606. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61065

Living Artist Analytics, LLC. Date of filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 1/31/2017. The LLC is located in Westchester County.

United States Corporation Agents, Inc (7014 13th Avenue, STE 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228) has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which United States Corporation Agents, Inc shall mail a copy of any process against it served is to the principal business location at 3 Watson Street, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567.

Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #61075

LEGAL NURSE CONSULTANTS NETWORK LLC Art Of Org. Filed with SSNY on 12/06/16. 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, 16 Idlewood road, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61066 632 Mamaroneck Avenue LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/30/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 119 New St., Mamaroneck, NY 10543. General Purpose. #61067 Modern Townhouses, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/30/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 4225 Webster Ave., Bronx, NY 10470. General Purpose. #61068 Notice of Formation of Agent Ivy, LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/10/17. 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, 9 Lexington Dr., Croton on Hudson, NY 10520.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61069 Riverscape Consulting Services LLC. Date of filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State (SSNY) 3/14/17. The LLC is located in Westchester County.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against it served is to the principal business location at 95 Kent Avenue, Hastings-onHudson, NY 10706. Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful act or activity. #61070

TMD Construction JV 3 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/04/17.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 200 Business Park Dr, Ste 203, Armonk, NY 10504, which is the principle business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful activity. #61076 Notice of Formation of Lagrutta Designs, LLC. Filed w NY Sec. of State on 8/4/16. Office located in Westchester County. SSNY is designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: Kerri LaGrutta 125 Darling Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10804.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61078 Notice of Formation of 14 Hollow Ridge Road LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 1/4/17. Office Location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent for process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: c/o The LLC, 550 Franklin Ave., Mt. Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #61079 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF THE WOLF KIN LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/09/2017. Office loc: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: 5 Hemlock Hollow Place, Armonk, NY, 10504. Purpose: any lawful acts. #61080

Frances Motorsports Transport LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/13/2016. Office location: Westchester Cty. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 501 North Barry Ave #2-J, Mamaroneck, NY,10543 Purpose: any lawful. #61071

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LEGAL NOTICES Mayfair Housing LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on 4/05/17.

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: Mayfair Housing LLC, 901 Main Street, Peekskill, New York 10566, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61081 25 Evergreen Associates LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/9/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Peter D. Acciavatti, 39 Evergreen Ave., Rye, NY 10580. General Purpose. #61082 Law Offices of James C Freeman PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/1/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 111 Church St., White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: Law. Ad # 610019

Notice of formation of Daria Weitmann, PSY.D., PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/16.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 3 Westerly Rd, Apt. 301, Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: To practice the profession of Psychology. Ad # 61028 Notice of Formation of JJs Cookie House LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/2017. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNy designated agent upon whom process may be served against LLC to principal business address: JJs Cookie House: 28A Lawrence Drive, White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: any lawful act.

Ad # 61027

PORCH + HALL, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/9/17. 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, 7014 13TH Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn NY 11228 principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. Ad # 61046 2040 Madison LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/24/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 213 Lawrence St., Mt. Vernon, NY 10552. General Purpose. Ad #61077 Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Homestyle at Ocean Grill LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 95 Dearborn Avenue Rye NY 10580. Ad # 61083

SUMMONS, NOTICE AND BRIEF STATEMENT OF NATURE OF ACTION CONSUMER CREDIT TRANSACTION SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Index No. 58660-2016 FIRST NIAGARA BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -against- JANET G. VANDIVEER; SARAH ELIZABETH VANDIVEER, et al., Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANT(S): JANET G. VANDIVEER YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. Trial is desired in the County of WESTCHESTER. The basis of venue designated above is that the real property, which is the subject matter of this action, is located in the County of WESTCHESTER, New York. NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Summon and Complaint You are in danger of losing your home.

If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully.

You should immediately contact an attorney or local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. Source of Information and Assistance The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at to 1-800-342-3726 or visit the Departmentís website at www.dfs.ny.gov. Rights and Obligations YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local laws. Foreclosure rescue scams Be careful of people who approach you with offers to save your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeownerís distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Hon. Joan B. Lefkowitz, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on the 30th day of March, 2017 in White Plains, New York and to be duly entered in the WESTCHESTER County Clerk’s Office, in White Plains, New York. The Nature of this action pertains to a note and mortgage held by Plaintiff on real property owned by the above named defendants as specified in the complaint filed in this action. The above named defendants have failed to comply with the terms and provisions of the said mortgage and said instruments secured by said mortgage, by failing and omitting to pay the balance due and owing and the Plaintiff has commenced a foreclosure action. Plaintiff is seeking a judgment foreclosing its mortgage against the real property and premises which situates in the Town of Somers, County of Westchester and State of New York and is commonly known as 7 Cottonwood Drive, Mahopac, New York 10541 and all other relief as to the Court may seem just and equitable. DATED: March 31, 2017 SCHILLER, KNAPP, LEFKOWITZ & HERTZEL, LLP BY: WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiff 950 New Loudon Road Latham, New York 12110 Telephone: (518) 786-9069 #61073

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A celebration of diversity in the workplace

BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

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erry Mourouzis, who came to the U.S. from Indonesia and has Chinese ancestry, recalled for her White Plains audience an amusing instance of her culture’s language imported to a doctor’s office here. Mourouzis, payroll manager at Hiscox Inc. in White Plains who led the insurance company’s creation of an automated online system for its employee stock purchase program that now is used in 11 countries, was being honored with the Visionary Award at the inaugural Celebrating Diversity in Business event presented by the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals.

A visiting friend from Indonesia was feeling ill — “under the weather,” as one would say in American culture.

Accompanied by Mourouzis to a medical office, she was asked about her symptoms.

“The wind enters my body,” her ailing friend replied. It’s a common Indonesian expression when someone is not feeling well.

“That’s the beauty of diversity,” said Mourouzis. “To make the world so colorful.” The payroll manager was one of five finalists receiving awards at an evening program that recognized 40 “champions” of diversity in the workplace introduced by Geneive Brown Metzger, diversity partner of Westfair Communications, the Business Journals’ parent company.

Keynote speaker Sheryl Battles, vice president for communications and diversity strategy at Pitney Bowes Inc., said the corporate awards event for the first time in Westchester was “celebrating the power of differences to make a difference.”

Noting the fractious, anxiety-inducing state of public discourse over people’s differences, Battles cited a Chinese proverb: “In times of great crisis, some build bunkers and others build windmills.” With windmills, “You have to elevate and get a broader perspective of what is going on” and harness “the winds of change,” she said.

Battles praised the Oscar-nominated movie “Hidden Figures,” the story of three mathematically brilliant African-American women struggling to overcome segregation and discrimination in a high-achieving, predominantly white workforce in the early years of the NASA space program, as an example of “the power of diversity and inclusion to get you even to the moon.”

“When people are included, they own the outcome,” Battles said. Inclusion is “the X factor” in the success of corporations harnessing the power of diversity.

Reynold Alabre, a senior accountant and

From left, Brandalyn Williams, Nora Madonick, Michelle Hopson, Jonelle Ward, Lindsay Farrell, Dr. Marie O’Connor, Marcia MacNeill, Jacqueline Vazquez, Katie Banzhaf, Jennifer Ruoff, Jessica Grossarth, Sharon Rowe, Glenn Wu, Joan Grangenois-Thomas, Jorge Garcia, Danielle Gesualdi, Nelson Merchan, Christopher Oldi, Geneive Brown Metzger, Reynold Alabre, Sheryl Battles, Allison Madison, Sabrina HoSang Jordan, Jacqueline Hattar, Joshua Worby, Fannie Aleman, Agathe Likoba and Merry Mourouzis at the Celebrating Diversity in Business Awards Event. Photo by Sebastian Flores.

franchise owner at H&R Block in Bridgeport, won the Outstanding Entrepreneur Award.

Alabre, who launched his financial firm Rey Group as a college junior, credited diversity with landing him a job at a critical time when he struggled to find employment in his field.

Lindsay Farrell, winner of the Most Socially Conscious Award, is president and CEO of The Open Door Family Medical Centers headquartered in Ossining. “I got lucky,” she said, when discovering in the early 1980s the nonprofit organization serving low-income residents with improved access to health services.

Leading Open Door for 19 years after working 12 years there as operations director and director of development, Farrell said her life and work are in alignment. “It allows you to do your best work and to be a complete person,” she said.

Marie O’Connor, winner of the Most Promising Millennial Award, last year founded Nordic Cryotherapy in Eastchester, the first company providing cryotherapy treatment in Westchester for quicker physical recovery by athletes and overall health and wellness. A registered nurse with a doctoral degree in nursing practice, O’Connor said she launched the business while pursuing an MBA program at Mercy College that allows her to obtain her degree while running her business. She will graduate this spring.

Jennifer Ruoff was honored with the Standard-Bearer Award for her unpaid work as executive director of the Irvington Diversity Foundation, a nonprofit she helped create that is believed to be the first Westchester organization formed to work

with schools, police and the community to foster a community of inclusion.

In a time of divisive political ideology, “We can give the next generation a choice” by offering an ideology “where we treat others with dignity and respect,” Ruoff said.

She cited the logo of the Irvington foundation she leads: “We are all different together.”

The other 35 diversity champions are: Ntim Abrokwa, sales director, Alumnus Apparel LLC; Fannie Aleman, founder and CEO, MyQTB.com – International Bilingual Business Directory; Katie Banzhaf, executive director, STAR Inc., Lighting the Way; Tyneadrian Bledsoe, CEO, Delia of Behavioral Solutions NY, Inc.; Izora Ebron, associate executive director, Open Door Shelter Inc.; Delia Farquharson, concierge therapist, Executive Medical Solutions; Jorge Garcia, director of New England operations, A Plus Technology and Security Solutions; Danielle Gesualdi, assistant project manager, Skanska USA Building Inc.; Joan Grangenois-Thomas, principal, JGT Public Relations; Jessica Grossarth, partner, Pullman & Comley LLC; LaQuita Harris, employee relations manager, The WorkPlace; Wiley Harrison, president, Business of your Business, LLC; Jacqueline Hattar, partner, Wilson Elser; Michelle Hopson, principal. Hopson Consultancy, LLC; Sabrina HoSang Jordan, CEO, Caribbean Food Delights; Mona Lau, president, M Lau Advisors, LLC; Marcia MacNeill, financial service professional, New York Life Insurance Co. Allison Madison, president, Madison Approach Staffing, Inc. Nora Madonick, founder and CEO, Arch Street Communications, Inc.;

Jackqueline Mclean-Markes, dentist and owner, Mcleansmiles; Nelson Merchan, CEO, CLICROI LLC & CT SBDC, and business advisor at Small Business Development Center; Agathe Ngo Likoba, president and CEO, Likoba, LLC; Christopher Oldi, supervising attorney, Legal Services of the Hudson Valley; Nickay Piper, managing director, Piper & Co.; Sharon Rowe, CEO and founder, Eco-Bags Products, Inc.; Mecca Santana, vice president, diversity & community relations/Chief Diversity Officer, Westchester Medical Center Health Network; Jacqueline Vazquez, CEO and event planning specialist, Lifetime Events

by Jacqueline; Chanel Ward, associate director, diversity education and training, New York University Kimmel Center for University Life; Jonelle Ward, director of outreach, Alzheimer’s Association, Hudson Valley, New York Chapter; Brandalyn Williams, co-owner, WillYUM Spice, Inc., and makeup artist and owner, WillYUM Enterprises, Inc.;, Evena Williams, senior HR leader, Stamford Health; Desiree Wolfe, senior vice president, director of product management, Webster Bank; Larry Woodward, president and CEO, Graham Stanley Advertising; Joshua Worby, artistic and executive director, Westchester Philharmonic; and Glenn Wu, mortgage loan originator, Tompkins Financial Bank.

Celebrating Diversity in Business was sponsored by Greater Hudson Bank and Stamford Health. Diversity advocates for the event were Arch Street Communications, Caribbean Food Delights, PFK O’Connor Davies, Pullman & Comley LLC and Skanska.

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