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Campaign donor loophole for LLCs survives

BY REECE ALVAREZ ralvarez@westfairinc.com

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espite mounting pressure from state legislators and good-government groups, the four-man state Board of Elections deadlocked this month on a decision to rescind a 19-year-old board opinion that has effectively allowed corporations to use multiple limited liability companies to circumvent political contribution limits.

Critics claim the loophole allows wealthy donors to corrupt the political process.

The board, which includes two Republicans and two Democrats, split along party lines in its vote.

“It’s disappointing that the Board of Elections missed this opportunity to close our state’s gaping LLC loophole,“

state Sen. Daniel Squadron and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh said in a joint statement following the April 16 decision. “The BOE instead chose to continue allowing unlimited sums of anonymous dollars to pervert the entire process.”

Both legislators have bills pending that would address the loophole, but gridlock in the Republican-led Senate has forced Squadron to use a procedural rule to force the bills to be considered in this legislative session.

Squadron’s bill would treat LLCs as corporations instead of individuals and close the LLC loophole so that “unlimited sums can no longer enter the political system without transparency or accountability.” The bill also lowers the contribution limit for corporations to $1,000 from its current limit of $5,000, accord» CAMPAIGN, page 6

Bespoke cheese PAGE 2 Cheese maker Alan Glustoff in his creamery aging room. Photo by John Golden

Indian Point — the film — draws a crowd to Manhattan’s Tribeca festival

BY COLLEEN WILSON cwilson@westfairinc.com

THE DOCUMENTARY FILM “INDIAN POINT” had its debut this month at the Tribeca Film Festival in a packed Beatrice Theatre at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

The movie explores the contentions surrounding Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan and scrutinizes the controversial nuclear plant on the Hudson River through a post-Fukushima

Daiichi lens — a nuclear power plant in Japan that exploded and leaked radioactive material following an earthquake and a tsunami in March 2011.

But Ivy Meeropol, who wrote and directed the film, said she began researching the more than 50-year-old nuclear power plant before the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

“I would go by on the train all the time,” she said at a questionand-answer session after the premiere. “I was very interested and

then Fukushima happened and it cemented the idea that this was an important story now.”

The film makes a concerted effort to unravel the complex layers surrounding Indian Point and the nation’s nuclear industry, using a variety of sources who provide multiple perspectives on various controversies.

At the national level, Gregory B. Jaczko, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is portrayed as someone who challenged the federal agency

after the incident in Japan.

The movie chronicles Jaczko’s nearly three-year tenure as chairman, painting him as a dissenting voice among the agency’s commissioners and someone who sought stricter standards for the commission. He ultimately resigned under pressure after complaints surfaced about his management style.

The film features a married couple with long knowledge of Indian Point, journalist Roger » TRIBECA, page 6

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n a sunny day in April, Alan Glustoff hustled between rooms and work stations in the new cheese factory that stands behind a dairy barn and an eyeriveting field of solar panels on a Goshen farm overlooking Orange County’s fertile Black Dirt Region. He talked to a visitor as he worked beside the farm’s recently hired young cheese maker from Michigan, removing wheels of cheese from molds for salting by hand, before driving to New Jersey to visit a distribution warehouse in Moonachie.

“This region is sort of food hub in many ways for the nation,” he said, and metropolitan New Jersey a prime distribution center for that hub. A major cheese company allows 5 Spoke Creamery, the farmstead cheese-making business co-owned

by Glustoff and his wife, Barbara, the use of warehouse space.

“Trucks don’t really want to come out here” for pick ups, said Glustoff, a former product developer and marketer in the corporate food industry — he helped develop Pudding Pops at the former General Foods in Tarrytown — who later owned an importexport food brokerage firm. “It’s the middle

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of nowhere.”

For several years the Glustoffs ran their artisanal-cheese making operation on leased land in Lancaster, Pa. Operations are being phased out there and transferred to the couple’s 75-acre farm on Pulaski Highway in Goshen. They use raw milk largely supplied by their herd of 35 grassfed Holsteins and Ayrshires to make a variety of cheeses of foreign and domestic origins.

The Glustoffs bought the farm, a roughly 60-mile drive from their home in Rye Brook, about 3½ years ago. “It had been sitting idle for about 20 years,” Glustoff said.

A developer planned a 21-home housing development on the site, but that project died in the wake of “the real estate bust” in

2008 and the property became available, he said.

“This region was once a heavy dairy region,” Glustoff said. “When I bought this farm, there were only two remaining dairy farms in Goshen.”

Though the regulatory environment for dairy producers is “tougher” in New York than in Pennsylvania, “Here I have more flexibility and freedom to do what I want,” he said. Not only is 5 Spoke Creamery making more variety of cheeses, “But we’re also close to New York City and Westchester and can bring people out” to sample products in the factory tasting room.

“The tasting room is really the heart and soul of an operation like this,” Glustoff Cheese, page 14

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Bedford woman leads pay discrimination suit against KPMG

BY COLLEEN WILSON cwilson@westfairinc.com

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t had been 18 years since Donna Kassman had looked for a job, and the search wasn’t going well for the veteran attorney.

Eventually she would abandon her search and start her own business in her Bedford home.

Kassman is a University of Michigan graduate who also has a law degree from Hofstra University. For nearly two decades she worked at a Big Four auditing firm in the tax and advisory division, and before that was a clerk for a Long Island judge.

Shadowing her, however, is her departure from her former employer, KPMG LLP, and a subsequent lawsuit that has become a nearly four-year legal battle with the firm.

Kassman filed a lawsuit in 2011 accusing KPMG of gender wage discrimination. Since that initial complaint, the case has grown into a collective and class-action lawsuit with three other plaintiffs and a collective of nearly 1,300 former and current female employees of KPMG. The women allege they were paid less than their male counterparts and are seeking $400 million in damages.

Kassman began her career as a clerk for a Nassau County Supreme Court judge in her native Long Island right out of law school.

When the judge retired, she decided to follow in her older sister’s footsteps and applied to a Big Four accounting firm.

She was hired by KPMG in 1993 as an attorney in the New York City office for the firm’s nonprofit group specializing in health care. Eventually she moved into the state and local tax group that later merged with the firm’s international tax practice, and that is where Kassman said she made her “home.”

Kassman considered herself the ideal working woman, someone who wanted to rise in the ranks.

And from 1993 to 2003 she did just that, following the traditional route from associate to senior associate to manager and then to senior manager. The next step after that, she said, would be tax managing director or partner.

“There was no part of me that said I was not going to be a partner at KPMG someday,” she said.

But Kassman never got to partner.

Instead, After 10 years with the company her salary was cut $20,000, she said.

Kassman’s first child was born in June

2003. At her salary review that September, her bosses told her they had decided to dock her pay because, according to Kassman’s original court complaint, she was paid “too much.”

In March 2004, soon after returning from maternity leave, Kassman’s boss, the partner she reported to, gave her a negative performance review that she said was baseless, according to the complaint.

Shortly after that, Kassman said, “I got what was called a performance improvement plan slapped on me,” a 60-day trial to increase and meet performance goals. “And I say it like that because there was never any discussion, never any warning, never any feedback that would lead me to believe my performance was anything less than satisfactory.”

Kassman said she had also decided to go part time when she returned from maternity leave, which she said was her strategy to survive at the company. “How do I go under the radar and give them all of me but make me a bargain basement, the best senior manager ever at the lowest cost that they would never consider losing me,” she said.

On a reduced schedule and for less pay as senior manager, Kassman said, she con-

tinued working as if she were full time and completed the same responsibilities.

According to court documents, in a 2008 nomination form for a Leadership Evaluation and Assistance Program that could lead to becoming partner or managing director, Kassman’s supervisors wrote, “Although she works a reduced hourly schedule, she has the same responsibilities as every other senior manager in the practice.”

“There was some acknowledgement on my part that my track would be a little slower,” Kassman said. “I wanted to be there and if it took me a little longer and I could have a family, I was going to make it work.”

The 2008 nomination form for LEAP was a sign, Kassman said, that her career was going to get back on track.

Instead, it accelerated on a downward spiral.

After successfully completing the LEAP program, Kassman said she was told in 2009 that she was next in line for promotion in her practice. Due to the economy, though, her superiors said, the promotion would not be in 2010, but she would remain the next in line.

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Kassman’s was promoted to the job she had been told she was in line for. Kassman said she later found out that she would not be considered for the promotion.

By October that year, her work environment had continued to deteriorate. Kassman claimed in court documents that colleagues had begun lodging “unfounded complaints” about her, which had not happened before in her 17-year tenure at the firm.

Kassman said she hesitates to use the word “resign,” but instead felt forced out of KPMG. She did ultimately quit her job.

“That was the end of my career,” she said.

“It just ended. KPMG professional one day, not the next. And it was honestly devastating.”

Kassman and her legal team at Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP filed her initial complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in June 2011, and by January 2012 they were filing a third complaint with three other plaintiffs.

In February 2013, Kassman and her team won in court the right to file class-wide claims, according to Sanford Heisler’s website. Last year her lawyers sent consent forms to nearly 9,000 past and present female employees at KPMG who could choose to join in the case by Jan. 31.

More than 1,000 former and current employees in KPMG’s tax and advisory services joined the collective legal action.

KPMG’s lawyers did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for the firm issued this statement: “Two facts about the claims made by the plaintiff speak louder than any others: more than 85 percent of those eligible to have joined this lawsuit chose not to do so; and almost 85 percent of the small number that did join are not current KPMG employees.

That is because the allegations that have been made are without merit, which KMPG confirmed after thoroughly and repeatedly reviewing the matter.”

Kassman now runs a tax consulting business, Kassman Consulting LLC, from her home office. She enjoys her clients, but the accounts are smaller than those she handled at KPMG and the work is not as steady as she’d like it to be. “I still feel challenged and in the game, but to a lesser extent,” she said.

As for the case, Kassman said she is “extremely hopeful” and hopes that it will be an impetus for change at KPMG and the industry as a whole.

“I think our message is successfully played out,” she said. “I think KPMG is hearing the message that there has to be changes and hopefully they are making significant changes.”

Report: Emergency preparedness lacking beyond 10 miles from Indian Point

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ost state and local municipalities within 50 miles of the nuclear power plant in Buchanan are not prepared for an emergency nuclear incident, according to findings in a report released earlier this month by the Disaster Accountability Project, a nonprofit watchdog organization.

However, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the two federal bodies that provide oversight in planning and responding to such events, only require state and local authorities within a 10-mile radius of a nuclear power plant to have emergency plans.

The counties that fall within 10 miles of Indian Point Energy Center are Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Orange counties, and they all provided emergency planning documents, the report found.

The additional areas that would be affected by a 50-mile rule are six counties in New York, all of New York City, nine counties in New Jersey, three cities in Connecticut and one county in Pennsylvania.

Of those 20 areas, 12 did not have emergency planning documents specific to possible radiological events at Indian Point, and the remaining eight did not respond.

Other items requested from the jurisdictions included brochures to inform individuals about how to respond to a nuclear emergency, real-time emergency information and instruction material and studies conducted on so-called shadow evacuators, or people who evacuate during an emergency after being told by authorities that it is not necessary.

DAP’s research was inspired by a Government Accountability Office report published in March 2013 that examined what is known by federal agencies, nuclear power plant licensees and state and local authorities about emergency preparedness near nuclear energy plants.

In summary, the GAO report found that it is unknown whether people outside of the 10-mile zone are aware of what to do if a nuclear emergency were to occur. While the NRC disagrees with that finding, the GAO recommended that the commission “obtain information on public awareness of radiological emergency preparedness for communities outside the 10-mile emergency planning zone.”

The DAP was created in 2007 and has published reports on relief responses to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and emergency preparedness in south Louisiana.

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NY job count, jobless rate hit benchmarks

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he New York State Department of Labor in its March jobs report touted a statewide unemployment rate that hit its lowest mark since August 2008 and a private sector job count that reached an all-time high.

In March, the state’s private sector job count increased by 8,600, or 0.1 percent, to 7,753,700, according to the Labor Department.

With a 0.1 percent gain in jobs from February to March, state growth is on par with the nation, which gained 129,000 private sector jobs in that period.

Statewide unemployment hit its lowest level in March since August 2008, according to preliminary figures. The jobless rate dropped to 5.7 percent, from 5.8 percent in February and 6.6 percent in March 2014.

New York City’s unemployment rate remained unchanged from February to March at 6.6 percent.

The state’s unemployment rate of 5.7 percent is just slightly above the nation’s rate of 5.5 percent but well below New York City’s unemployment rate of 6.6 percent.

However, private sector job growth in the

Westchester-Orange-Rockland labor market vices (24,500).

Professional and business services had grew by 1 percent from March 2014 to March 2015 with a gain of 5,500 jobs — significantly the second largest increase in jobs (32,000) between March 2014 and March 2015 — behind the rest of the state and nation.

During that same time frame, the state mostly in professional, scientific and technihas added 146,300 jobs and nationwide just cal services (22,300), especially computer systems design and related services (9,000), more than 3 million jobs have been added.

“While the regional job market contin- according to the Labor Department.

“We are seeing middle of the pack ued to expand, it is important to note that private sector job growth in the Hudson growth in Westchester-Orange-Rockland Valley continues to lag that of the state compared to the other MSAs (metropoli(+1.9 percent) and the nation (+2.6 percent),” tan statistical areas) in the state,” said Jim Johny Nelson, a labor market analyst with Brown, a labor market analyst with the Labor Department. “One of the issues the Labor Department, said in a statement.

However, Nelson noted the Westchester- has been affecting Westchester-OrangeRockland-Orange area has the second Rockland area is quite a few losses in what fastest growing private sector job growth amount to the blue collar sector, manufacturing wholesale trading are both declining (behind Kingston) in the Hudson Valley.

Since March 2014, private sector jobs and there is also some weakness in financial have grown most rapidly in metro areas services — so they are having something of such as New York City (3 percent) Kingston a drag there.”

Over the past 12 months, manufactur(2.2 percent) and the Utica-Rome region (2 ing lost more jobs (1,800) than any other percent).

By industry, the Labor Department said major industry sector in the state. Sector private educational and health services losses were centered in nondurable goods added the most jobs (50,000) of any major (2,000), especially apparel manufacturing industry sector over the past year, spe- (1,100) as well as natural resources and mincifically in health care and social assistance ing, which lost 200 jobs over the past year, (42,900), and ambulatory health care ser-T:10” according to the Labor Department.

Physical therapy company acquires Pleasantville clinic

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Professional Physical Therapy, based in Uniondale on Long Island, acquired Pleasantville Physical Therapy, owned by Ron Sweitzer. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“It became apparent that partnering with a larger organization that prides itself in outstanding patient care would be the critical next step for Pleasantville Physical Therapy,” Sweitzer said in a statement.

Professional Physical Therapy, founded in 1998, has locations in New York City, Long Island, Westchester County, Rockland County and northern New Jersey.

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ing to Squadron.

State election law currently places aggregate calendar year limits on the amount of political contributions that can be made by individuals and corporations to state candidates and committees. An individual may contribute up to a total of $150,000 in a calendar year. A corporation may contribute up to a total of $5,000 in a calendar year. Each affiliated or subsidiary corporation, if a separate legal entity, has its own limit, according to the 1996 opinion from the elections board.

Squadron and Kavanagh are not alone on their reform mission, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and a host of good-government groups have expressed their support for closing the loophole. Schneiderman said the board’s past “mistake” has “made a mockery of campaign finance rules.”

“The LLC Loophole is an exception that swallows the rule — allowing wealthy individuals to circumvent contribution caps and steer limitless dollars to favored campaigns,” he said. “The real world effect of the loophole is substantial.”

According to Squadron, limited liability companies may donate up to $60,800 to a statewide candidate in each election cycle.

LLC ownership is not disclosed under the current system, making it nearly impossible to track down contributions to their source.

Of all the money raised by state-level

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Witherspoon, who has been covering energy for 40 years at the Journal News and other publications, and Marilyn Elie, an environmental activist opposed to Indian Point. The audience mostly sees Witherspoon and Elie talk to the camera separately in their respective roles, but there are some interviews together where the two discuss how they navigate the issues as a couple.

Witherspoon speaks at length about the intricacies of the plant’s internal structure and its political history in the community, as well as raising the looming issue of what to do with used fuel that produces high-level radioactive waste.

While the federal government is long overdue in determining a use or permanent home for the spent fuel, plants like Indian Point have begun storing it in pools and dry casks onsite.

Elie represents the face of volunteer activists. She is seen organizing protests and

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candidates and party committees in New York, 14 percent is given by LLCs, three times the amount of small-level individual donors.

Between 2005 and 2013, LLCs contributed more than $40 million to New York candidates, parties and political action committees according to Squadron.

Three days before the BOE vote, a collection of good-government groups, including the Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause New York, League of Women Voters of New York State, Citizens Union, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and Reinvent Albany, in a letter to Cuomo urged him to pressure the BOE to close the loophole at its April 16 meeting.

“Since the board’s decision, individual large donors and corporations from New York and other states have taken full advantage of the LLC Loophole,” they wrote. “As the Moreland Commission discovered in 2013, one entity ‘utilized 25 separate LLCs and subsidiary entities to make 147 separate political contributions totaling more than $3.1 million since 2008.’ Further, because it is often unclear who controls an LLC, the loophole allows large contributors to conceal their identities.”

Cuomo has also been outspoken about the loophole, but his efforts to address it in legislation have been called into question because of his own close relationship with LLCs. Citing NYPIRG research, the Gotham Gazette reported that 20 percent of

Cuomo’s $35 million campaign chest in the November election came through the LLC loophole — particularly via Leonard Litwin, a Manhattan real estate developer who gave Cuomo more than $1 million for his reelection campaign.

As protesters demonstrated outside the recent BOE meeting with “Democracy is not for sale” signs, board members deadlocked on the issue.

“This is not a matter for an administrative agency, the state Board of Elections, to decide,” said Peter Kosinski, the board’s Republican co-chairman. “This is a matter for the state Legislature.”

Squadron said the reasoning behind the inaction was perverse considering it was the 1996 BOE decision that created the loophole.

Kosinksi was joined in the split vote by fellow Republican commissioner Gregory Peterson. Democrats Douglas Kellner, board co-chairman, and commissioner Andrew Spano, the former Westchester county executive, were in favor of addressing the issue.

Kosinski’s view that the matter should not be decided by a state agency was echoed in a letter to the board from Heather C. Briccetti, president and CEO of the Business Council of New York State Inc. Citing procedural and legal technicalities, Briccetti requested that the board deny any proposal that would reclassify LLCs as corporations.

“The Business Council’s letter was not tak-

ing a stand for or against, and our position is if individuals want to discuss this as part of the broader issue of campaign finance reform, we would be willing participants in that discussion,” said Business Council of New York State spokesman Zack Hutchins.

“As the law stands now, it is a viable mechanism for LLCs to donate to political campaigns,” he said.

At The Business Council of Westchester, “I haven’t heard any of our members who are concerned about this one way or the other,” said John Ravitz, executive vice president and chief operatinig officer of the county’s largest business membership group. “To ask a governing board that doesn’t have any legislative power to do this is far reaching.”

Ravitz formerly served as executive director of the New York City Board of Elections and represented a Manhattan district in the state Assembly.

“When I see resolutions that actually usurp the process it makes me a little uneasy,” he said. “I think it has to be done through a statutory change and not through the election board.”

In the wake of the board stalemate, Common Cause New York called on the governor and state legislators to close the loophole before the legislative session in Albany ends on June 17. “The finger-pointing must end, as it is clear that it is now the responsibility of our elected leaders to act,” the group said.

attending public meetings where she and others voice their concerns on the record in front of federal, state and local officials.

In a way, their relationship epitomizes the deep divisions over Indian Point — a point further evidenced by contrasting interviews between the plant’s employees and members of the environmental watchdog organization Riverkeeper.

Interviews with Phillip Musegaas, an attorney and former program director for Riverkeeper, and clips of activists chiming in at various public hearings serve to highlight the points that using nuclear power is an outdated technology and that Indian Point’s shutdown is wanted by members of the community and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

The opponents’ efforts have helped delay Indian Point’s 20-year federal license renewals for its two operating reactors, a process the plant’s owner, Entergy Corp., began in 2007.

The federal license renewals are contingent on Indian Point first securing a water quality certificate from the state Department of Conservation. The dispute between

Entergy and the state agency on that subject also is addressed in the film.

At issue is the plant’s daily use of 2.5 billion gallons of water from the Hudson for its cooling system, a process that sucks in millions of fish and larvae, especially in the summer months during spawning season.

Alternative cooling methods have been proposed and challenged at numerous public hearings, including shutting down the plant during the fish migration season, using a wedge-wire screen to keep fish out, and constructing two cooling towers.

The next public hearing is scheduled for Sept. 14, when the state will determine whether to throw out the mandatory shutdown option. As the regulatory process continues at the state level, Indian Point’s Unit 2 reactor has been running on an extended license since its expiration in 2013, and Unit 3’s license will be extended after it expires at the end of this year.

At the other end of the movie’s spectrum of opponents and supporters are longtime Indian Point employees Brian Vangor, a senior control room operator who has

worked at the plant for 35 years, and Jim Steets, a now-retired director of communications for Entergy.

Vangor is one of many who consider Indian Point home. He and other employees interviewed in the film discuss the scrutiny they face from the community and federal regulators and how they make every effort to live up to the expected standards. After all, they said in the film, it is their lives at stake and their families who live in the area as well.

Steets, during the post-film discussion, summed up the overarching view of many Indian Point defenders, that “the more you (know) about Indian Point, the better you feel about it.”

Jerry Nappi, an Entergy spokesman at Indian Point, said the plant’s participation in the film is part of the company’s commitment to transparency.

“We’re pleased that some of our people who work at the plant had an opportunity to talk about their commitment to safety and the high standards by which they operate the plant,” he said.

Buyer looks to revive failed Yonkers high-tech center

BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

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Yonkers real estate owner-manager and building contractor aims to attract top U.S. technology companies to a Nepperhan Avenue industrial building that the city of Yonkers and private owners in the last decade were unsuccessful in developing as a high-tech business center.

The Yonkers City Council this month approved the $7.5 million sale of 470 Nepperhan Ave. to Lewis Gjelaj. The four-story, 116,000-square-foot property formerly was occupied by the Purdue Frederick Co. and is part of the historic Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Mills complex.

Gjelaj said the building is about 80 percent vacant. The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency and Yonkers Fire Department have offices in the building.

A longtime owner of commercial and residential real estate in Westchester, Gjelaj is property manager at Gjelaj & Sons Inc. and has owned a construction company in Yonkers since 1974. The approved buyer, who has not yet closed with the city on the purchase, said he wants to renovate the building and “bring some real companies” like Google and Amazon as high-tech tenants.

“I believe this building was hidden,” Gjelaj said. “It’s an excellent location but I don’t think it was exposed to the Fortune 500” companies. “I think it’s an excellent spot. I’m very excited. I always thought Yonkers was a hidden suburb to the five boroughs and people pass right by it.”

Branded N-Valley by previous Yonkers economic development officials, the building was renovated and equipped as a hightech business incubator. In 2006 the building was acquired by National Resources, a Greenwich-based redeveloper of industrial properties, and renamed iPark N-Valley.

The Greenwich company also owns and operates iPark Hudson in the former Otis Elevator Co. factory complex in downtown Yonkers.

In 2008, the Academy for Medical Development and Collaboration, a Manhattan-based consortium of 26 New York medical schools, academic health centers and research institutions, announced plans to open a $10 million shared-use mouse facility for genomics research at iPark N-Valley. The project has not advanced.

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Mercy College unveils STEM Research Center

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Students show U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey their laptops in the STEM Research Lab at Mercy College. Photo by Danielle Brody

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s people gathered into Mercy College’s new STEM Research Center for its grand opening April 21, students were seated around a table, coding on laptops and talking to each other. One of the purposes of the lab, which was funded by a federal grant, is to foster collaboration among students.

“Students generally are more successful when they work together,” said the college’s president, Timothy Hall, in an interview. “We understand the world they’re going into is a world where they’ll have to work collaboratively.”

In 2011, the college in Dobbs Ferry was awarded a Department of Education

Title V grant of approximately $3.7 million over five years to support the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) center. Title V STEM grants provide Hispanic-Serving Institutions, defined as having at least a 25 percent Hispanic undergraduate population, with funding to improve the academic quality of STEM programs, faculty development and research opportunities in STEM fields.

The lab has four servers as well as 20 laptops and computers, and is open to students studying computer science, computer information systems, cybersecurity and mathematics. The room itself will allow for collaboration, peer mentoring, tutoring and undergraduate, graduate and faculty research, said Narasim Banavara, head of the college’s computer science and computer information systems programs.

Banavara said the Department of Education grant funded the hardware and software, which cost about $100,000, and the provost’s office and the dean’s office funded the $20,000 needed to install the equipment and renovate the room.

He said students can use the lab for realistic projects, like setting up two networks and having students attack each other to learn how to hack into and defend data. He said his goal is not just for students to pass, but for them to learn about and experience the class material.

“Students will actually learn better when they do some hands-on research,” he said.

U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, who attended the grand opening, helped secure the federal grant in 2011. She said the lab will help prepare students for jobs that exist today and jobs in the future. She said a few years ago, there were 2,500 unfilled health care and biotech jobs in the lower Hudson Valley; now there are about 5,000.

“There are many jobs out there that students can’t fill because they’re not adequately prepared,” she said. She said the lab will teach and encourage tomorrow’s innovators and inventors.

Robert Monteleone, a graduate student studying cybersecurity, is a peer mentor and tutor in the STEM lab. He said the lab fosters a strong relationship between students. He said a student he mentored was inspired to work harder to raise his grades.

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Sales up, prices flat, listings down in Westchester housing

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first-quarter rise in housing sales in Westchester and the lower Hudson Valley region has reduced the inventory of listed homes, although sale prices in Westchester have shown little change except in the luxury homes market.

The Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) reported 2,861 housing sales closed in the recently ended first quarter, a 12.1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2014. The association’s Hudson

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Gateway Multiple Listing Service tracks member brokers’ sales of single-family homes, condominiums, cooperative apartments and two- to four-unit multifamily buildings in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Orange counties.

In Westchester, there were 1,620 firstquarter sales across all housing categories, a 6.2 percent increase from a year ago.

The increased activity in the county was driven by closings on condos, which rose 36 percent from a year ago with 242 sales, and demand for two-family to four-family homes, which saw a 43 percent year-to-year

increase with 119 sales in the region.

Despite the rising demand in Westchester for condos, the median sale price for condos in the county dropped slightly from a year ago to $335,000. The first-quarter median sale price for a twoto four-family house rose 5.9 percent to $410,000.

Sales of single-family houses in Westchester were down about 1 percent from the first quarter of 2014. The median sale price of a single-family home in the county was unchanged from a year ago at $600,000.

The Elliman Report, Douglas Elliman Real Estate’s quarterly market analysis, said Westchester’s median sale price for a luxury home — one priced in the upper 10 percent of all single-family house sales — rose 5.4 percent from last year to $2,386,625. The Westchester market’s luxury price threshold slipped 1.4 percent in the first quarter to $1,600,000, Elliman reported.

Though fewer in number than the Westchester market, housing sales in the rest of the four-county region were marked by double-digit increases in the first quarter.

In Putnam County, 196 sales across all housing types represented a nearly 30 percent increase from a year ago. In Orange County, 618 sales were closed in the quarter, a nearly 24 percent increase. In Rockland, sales rose 13.6 percent, with 427 sales closed.

Market analysts said the brisk market activity has been felt in the region’s inventory of house listings. HGAR reported a 6.4 percent decrease in listings for the entire region, where 9,962 units were on the market at the close of the first quarter.

Westchester had the steepest drop in inventory, with 4,706 housing units listed at the start of April, down more than 10 percent from a year ago. Listings for singlefamily homes in the county were down 8 percent.

The lower inventory, however, did not drive up sale prices in the first quarter, analysts noted.

Fierce winter weather might have discouraged potential sellers from listing their properties, according to analysts at HGAR and Westchester Real Estate Inc. And sellers also might have been “more cautious about interpreting the economic environment” when deciding whether to list their homes and enter the market for a new home, HGAR’s analyst said.

Westchester Real Estate Inc., a consortium of independent real estate firms based in Eastchester, noted that buyer demand for housing is reportedly twice as high as the same time last year. But the brokers group cautioned sellers not to be “unrealistic” when pricing their homes.

“Homes that are selling are well priced, not overpriced, and are prepped to present favorably to buyers,” the consortium’s analyst said.

Despite buyers’ and sellers’ “nervousness” about committing to the housing market, said HGAR’s analyst, the lower Hudson Valley market “has made a good start for 2015 with high sales volume, stable prices and adequate if not ample inventory.”

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Region must compete for millennial homebuyers

t is the $64,000 question, to quote an old quiz show. Where will the millennials choose to settle? This year, that group — born from 1980 to 2000 — will replace the baby boomers as the nation’s largest living generation. Where these 70 million to 80 million people go will determine the rise or fall of the Westchester and Fairfield county economies.

In the last decade or so, the news has not been good. Large swaths of Westchester and Fairfield have witnessed a Pied Piper effect, in which their most exclusive communities such as Rye, Scarsdale, Pound Ridge, Darien and Weston have lost between 40 percent and 60 percent of their 25-to-34-year-old populations since 2000. However, that could change based on recent surveys of millennials’ preferences.

While the homeownership rate for those younger than 35 has fallen by 17 percent (from 43.1 percent to 35.8 percent) nationally since 2004, a 2014 survey

by Fannie Mae found that 90 percent of young renters were likely to buy in the future. And a survey released this year by the National Association of Home Builders found that 66 percent want to live in the suburbs, 24 percent in rural areas and only 10 percent desire to live in city centers.

Young homebuyers prefer a single-family detached home at a rate of 75 percent.

But before uncorking the champagne, Westchester and Fairfield counties need to consider that millennials can’t buy what they can’t afford, and our region faces stiff competition as the new homebuyers start to look beyond Brooklyn and upper Manhattan in search of more space in the suburbs. Westchester taxes remain the highest in the country due to structural problems that include the existence of 48 public school districts and 212 taxing jurisdictions, all duplicating services like police, fire, sanitation and maintenance.

The system of home rule makes development difficult, as the housing stock ages and communities find more and more excuses not to adapt to changing tastes.

For example, the median year built of a home in Westchester is 1955, when Eisenhower was president and teens wore bobby socks and poodle skirts. Nearly onethird (32 percent) of homes in Westchester were built before 1940, compared to 13 percent in Rockland County, 21 percent in Nassau County and 10 percent in Suffolk County. In contrast, the median year built in a growing suburb such as Travis County outside of Austin, Texas, is 1987, and only 3 percent of the homes were built before 1940.

While the charm of historic homes with distinctive architecture may compensate for the lack of modern amenities, the homes most millennials can afford are more likely to be the county’s split-levels and colonials built in the 1940s and ’50s that are drafty and just plain old.

And so, while the news on millennials’ home preferences holds promise for the long-term future of the suburbs, Westchester and Fairfield counties still

need to fix their structural deficiencies of lack of affordability and aging housing stock to compete.

Alexander Roberts is executive director of the fair housing group Community Innovations Inc., headquartered in White Plains. He examines demographics in Westchester County in a monthly column for the Business Journal. Contact him at aroberts@chigrants.org or 914-683-1010.

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THOUGHTS OF THE DAY: Excellent customer service has real value. Put someone who knows what they’re doing in charge and then make sure they do their homework.

Keep your eye on competitors and treat the good ones as co-opetitors. If you messed up, be genuine and solve it, but also know when to quit trying to please.

Ours is a service economy, and buyers don’t have to work hard to find alternatives.

Customers use customer service reviews as a deciding factor when looking to make a purchase. Make every customer feel special — presale, at time of sale and post-sale.

Make the buying experience as easy as possible; frustrated buyers will leave before completing their purchases. That’s lost opportunity, and lost trust. Those who have something to complain about most often won’t — leaving your company in the dark, unaware there’s a problem.

Convert every complaint into an opportunity to connect. People do business with people they trust. It’s the little things that count like asking how a customer would like to be addressed. Have reps give out their names and contact information before being asked.

Keep a log of complaints and resolutions. Use that to train new employees.

Teach them to keep their cool when under attack. Escalation and anger won’t solve problems. Patience, understanding and a cool head need to prevail.

Sending a customer away with incomplete information leaves your company vulnerable. People turn to the Internet for information, which makes it easy to look at other options. Ask a simple question on every interaction: Did that answer meet your needs, or do you need something more?

Be aware that even the most loyal of customers can leave. The effort to acquire new customers is estimated at 10 to 20 times that needed to maintain existing ones. Reduce the opportunity for loss.

One way to get customers to rave about your company is to look at services that customers complain about and do an honest assessment. If a competitor can do it better, maybe it’s a good opportunity to refer a customer to them. But make sure to look for competitors who will return the favor.

Not all customers are equal. Some like to complain — a lot. Steer clear of cus-

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No one ever wins by having a public fight with a customer.

Do your research; Google your company. Don’t get defensive. Grow from each experience. If your company was wrong, go above and beyond. If customers are talking to you, they’re indicating willingness to continue doing business. Win them back by being generous. Once things are fixed, encourage customer engagement about their experience on social media. Signal to the marketplace that your company stands behind what it sells.

Use feedback from customers to help design better products or services. What did the customer really want? Get information to your product or service design team.

Review it regularly for ideas on products or services to keep, modify and dump.

Do more than manage complaints. As a small business, customer service is one way you can stand out. In-depth knowledge of the company, its products and services, and even the personnel assigned to each customer will make your company seem more personal and relatable.

Set realistic expectations with customers in order to build trust. If you don’t have an answer, tell the truth. Estimate the time needed to do research. If you still don’t have an answer within the specified time, explain you’re still working on it and offer a new time frame. And then follow through.

Make it a mission to help every customer.

A bad situation handled well results in customer satisfaction and seven out of 10 times will ensure future business. Make relationships count by fighting to ensure every customer goes away satisfied.

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said. Keeping a European tradition, the Goshen cheese maker invites chefs to his tasting room, where lasting business relationships are forged over food and drink.

“We give chefs an opportunity to see how it’s made, get their input,” he said. “This is the kind of thing that a small artisanal cheese maker can offer, but the big companies like Kraft can’t deal directly with the chefs.”

The creamery’s acclaimed high-end restaurant clients include Per Se and Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan. On the retail side, 5 Spoke Creamery is sold at supermarkets and specialty stores in 40 states, including Whole Foods Market, Hannaford’s, Shop Rite, Fairway Market, Zabar’s, Adams Fairacre Farms in Newburgh, Bedford Cheese Shop, Murray’s Cheese and Earth Fare. “The specialty high-end organic-type stores, we’re in in a big way,” Glustoff said.

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tive, Barbara Glustoff does the creamery’s retail marketing and its advertising and social media. Her husband said the business has grown to the point where they are looking to hire a national sales manager.

The Glustoffs have invested more than $1.5 million in their farmland and buildings in Goshen, he said. Committed to sustainable agriculture, they have invested in renewable energy for the farm with a solar installation that Glustoff said cost between $160,000 and $170,000.

The 5 Spoke Creamery owners are pioneers in a new financing program in New York to spur energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements on commercial properties. It allows commercial owners to repay their project loans annually with their property taxes, much like charges that appear on tax bills for water and sewer districts.

Installed by Novel Approaches Solar Application LLC in Middletown, the farm’s 53-kilowatt solar field supplies all electricity for their farm residence and dairy and cheese-making operations and generates some surplus power for the Orange and Rockland Utilities power grid. It was the first project of the Energize NY Finance program and its Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing model. Launched in California in 2008, PACE financing programs have been authorized by 31 states.

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to work with 14 municipalities in northern Westchester County to reduce energy waste and create renewable energy sources.

Now a statewide organization with about two dozen municipalities identified as potential members, EIC completed its first PACE financing deal at the Glustoff farm in Orange County, the first county to join EIC. (Thielking said Westchester County is not eligible for membership because it does not have authority to impose tax liens on properties.)

First Niagara Bank has provided EIC a line of capital for warehouse financing for the commercial energy projects, Thielking said. EIC, which issues tax-free bonds for 5 Spoke and other future projects, will receive up to $75 million in permanent financing from Bank of America Merrill Lynch for the Energize NY Finance program.

“The PACE model is very attractive to private capital,” Thielking said. “I don’t think there will be any limit from that perspective.”

Financing for a clean energy project is limited to 10 percent of the appraised value of the commercial property, he noted. And the cost savings derived from the energy improvements must pay for the annual charge on an owner’s tax bill, he said.

Glustoff said Energize NY awarded a $71,000, five-year loan for the creamery’s pioneer project. With grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, “The payback is really only in a couple years” for the owners.

“It took over half a year to get it running,” Glustoff said of the solar installation.

“This is a big operation.”

ArtsWestchester honors 50, announces $5M challenge grant

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rtsWestchester has announced that an anonymous donor will match its fundraising efforts dollar for dollar — up to $5 million.

The announcement of the huge challenge grant was part of the White Plains-based arts council’s “50 For 50” Arts Award luncheon April 16 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Tarrytown, which honored 50 visual, literary and performing artists who have enriched the area. They each received a check for $1,000 and a Tiffany crystal votive in an event that had the feel of a graduation ceremony.

As befitted an artistic afternoon — one that included a performance by urban folk/ jazz singer-guitarist KJ Denhert and performance artist Marcy B. Freedman, both honorees — there was a playful tone. CBS 2 reporter Tony Aiello, who served as emcee, joked about arts patron Eugene Grant’s spiffy duds. ArtsWestchester CEO Janet T. Langsam and Deputy Westchester County Executive

Friedland founder back in CEO post THE CEO WHO LED A rebranding and technology upgrade and expanded business services at Friedland Realty Advisors during his one-year tenure at the commercial real estate firm has departed and been replaced by the firm’s founder.

The company announced that its founding chairman, Robert Friedland, will return to head day-to-day operations following the departure of Ayall Schanzer as president and CEO. Schanzer’s leaving “to pursue new adventures” was a mutual decision, according to the company.

“We wish Ayall well in his future endeavors,” Friedland said in the announcement.

A corporate growth and turnaround specialist, Schanzer joined what was then NAI Friedland Realty Inc. as president in March last year and was named CEO in July, replacing Anthony Lembeck, whom Friedland had promoted to CEO in 2010.

The 45-year-old company recently moved its headquarters from Yonkers to 440 Mamaroneck Ave. in Harrison, doubling its office space. Schanzer in February said the company, which plans to add four executive positions in the next year, was positioning itself to be “a dominant regional player” in the tristate area.

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Kevin Plunkett agreed that he is her “main squeeze” when it comes to cultural-government partnerships — unless, of course, County Executive Rob Astorino is around.

Robert Cerminaro, senior vice president of the tristate market for First Niagara bank, the luncheon’s title sponsor, added that he’d like to become Langsam’s main squeeze.

“Bring your checkbook,” Plunkett quipped from the dais.

Indeed, beyond the artistic flirtations and jocularity, there was a serious thread about the tension between art, a qualitative thing, and money, a quantitative one.

“Here’s the great irony,” Freedman said in her knowing performance piece. “The value of art in the age of money is to remind you of values that are not monetary at all.”

Yet another great irony, however, is that it does take some money to make art available

to more and more people.

“I would love your help in painting that larger canvas,” Langsam said.

“I would make a case that the arts are even more important in a world of stress,” said Yvonne Pollack, recipient, with her husband Leslie, of The Emily and Eugene Grant Arts Patron Award.

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County executives take jabs at obstructive state laws, taxes

BY DANIELLE BRODY dbrody@westfairinc.com

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ounty executives from Westchester, Putnam and Rockland agree that state government often impedes progress, pointing to the State Environmental Quality Review Act as a prime example.

Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino said the environmental law needs to be overhauled because the restrictive review delays new projects. SEQRA requires the approving governmental body to mitigate the environmental impacts of development proposals.

“It’s become a lawyer’s delight and has become a bludgeoning tool to stop anything and everything,” Astorino said at a leadership conference April 20 sponsored

by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress and held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Tarrytown.

He said often it is not worth it for developers to wait years and spend millions for the complex environmental review if their

project might not go anywhere.

Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell agreed with Astorino about SEQRA. “Sometimes people walk away from good projects.” She said counties could be more business-friendly by having someone available to help developers with the process.

Astorino said state and county agencies should have a time limit to give answers about projects. “It’s so open-ended you could have no answer for years.”

All executives also touched on the challenging makeup of Hudson Valley government, which has overlapping towns and jurisdictions.

“If we were recreating New York again we wouldn’t create it the way it was created,” Astorino said.

Towns should look for ways to combine services, he said, which would save money. He said the town of Ossining saved money by making a deal with the county to provide police services for four years.

Now they have joined with the village of Ossining.

He said this year’s county budget might

it claims there isn’t enough money or manpower to fix the roads. He said raising gas taxes is not an answer, especially because residents would fill up in neighboring New Jersey.

Odell said the mentality in New York is always to add another tax.

“The federal government wastes so much money,” Astorino said. “If they prioritized we could cut taxes left and right.”

He said in 2009, the stimulus bill allocated $40 million for social services for two years. When the funding ended and the county had to support the program, funds had to be taken away from other programs.

He said the recent Raise the Age movement, an initiative to raise the age of adult criminal responsibility in New York state from 16 to 18, was originally included in the budget.

It would cost about $40 million for new lawyers and probation officers.

“Nobody thought about that,” he said.

Day said Raise the Age sounds wonderful in theory, yet politicians should do a cost-benefit analysis. “Stop before you put something into policy,” he said.

be the most difficult he’s faced in six years.

He said he is looking at ways to cut items in the budget to avoid increasing taxes. “I’d rather squeeze county government more than I squeeze taxpayers and business.”

He said he wants to reorganize posts at the county Department of Correction since the population of prisoners has decreased, but the state won’t allow it, he said.

“We’re stuck trying to do things and being told no by the state.” County government is a “huge ATM” for the state, he said.

The other executives also agreed the state government contributes to the financial challenges faced by counties. Odell said the state is known to mishandle money, especially the recent nearly $6 billion windfall that came from legal settlements with financial institutions. She said most of the money was misdirected and not going toward remedying the state’s “deplorable” infrastructure.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day said money that should be going to highway funds is not going there. He said when he calls the Department of Transportation

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PILLER USA BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW FACILITY

INBRIEF FOURTH COMPANY JOINS BIOTECH INCUBATOR New York Medical College in Valhalla announced that it has added a health consumer product company as a client for its biotechnology incubator, BioInc@NYMC. The company, Four LLC, creates nutrition products intended to end food cravings — a function the company calls a new category in sustainable nutrition. The first of its products is expected to launch in 2016.

BioInc@NYMC was created in 2014 to house entrepreneurs and startups that aim to prevent and treat disease and disabilities.

Four LLC will be the fourth company accepted into the incubator, joining Conversion Energy Enterprises, a corporation that develops and prototypes laser products for medical applications; MB Group USA, a supplier of products derived from rare fruits for health purposes; and MOE Medical Devices LLC, a maker of cold electrical plasma therapeutics.

The incubator provides laboratories and offices at its 10,000-square-foot section of a building on the medical college’s campus.

Piller USA Inc., a maker of uninterruptible power supply systems, held a groundbreaking ceremony recently for the company’s new 24,000-square-foot light industrial and headquarters building on Wes Warren Drive in the town of Wallkill.

Piller USA has 40 employees in its existing Middletown headquarters at 45 Turner Drive and a total workforce of 77 employees, according to the Orange County Partnership, the nonprofit economic development group that announced the construction project. Partnership officials said the project will generate $2.8 million in capital investment and create about 84 construction jobs.

The developer of the two-story headquarters and light manufacturing and assembly plant, Retford Investments LLC, in February was approved for approximately $172,000 in sales and use tax exemptions for the project and a property tax abatement of $792,000 by the Orange County Industrial Development Agency.

Based in Germany, the Piller Group GmbH has more than 800 employees worldwide and operates in more than 50 countries.

The power systems manufacturer is a wholly owned subsidiary of a United Kingdom engineering group, Langley Holdings plc.

Partnership officials said Piller Inc.

entered Orange County in 1995 when it purchased KW Control Systems Inc. in the town of Wawayanda and relocated to its Middletown address in the town of Wallkill in 2004. The company’s name was changed to Piller USA Inc. in 2009.

“Orange County is privileged that Piller USA Inc. chose to remain in the county when other options existed,” said Maureen Halahan, president and CEO of the Orange County Partnership. “We applaud Dean Richards, Piller’s president and CEO, for his commitment to his employees, the town of Wallkill and Orange County.”

MASTERCARD, REGENERON LEADERS GO ON CUBAN TRADE MISSION Executives from two major corporate employers in Westchester were among the New York delegation of business and education leaders led by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on a trade mission to Cuba recently.

The delegation included Walt M. Macnee, vice chairman of MasterCard Worldwide Inc. in Purchase, and Dr. Leonard Schleifer, CEO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Greenburgh.

Macnee was to represent the state’s financial services industry in meetings with Cuban officials. Schleifer was one of three top executives on the trip from New York’s health, biotech and pharmaceutical industries.

Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall, chief medical offi-

cer and executive vice president at Pfizer Inc., also joined the trade mission. The pharmaceutical company is headquartered in Manhattan and operates a vaccines and biologics research site at Pearl River in Rockland County.

Cuomo in a statement on the eve of the trip said the trade mission delegates “will help ensure Empire State companies are at the front line as the door opens to a market that has been closed to U.S. enterprise for over half a century.” The industry leaders “will help form the foundation for a strong economic relationship between New York and Cuba as legal restrictions on trade are eased in the future.”

DENTIST PLEADS GUILTY IN MEDICAID FRAUD SCHEME A dentist from Pound Ridge pleaded guilty April 15 for his role in a $21 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving three Connecticut dental practices.

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U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, said Zamani failed to disclose on Medicaid provider applications for the three practices that Anusavice had an ownership interest in the businesses even though Zamani was aware of Anusavice’s criminal background.

The Connecticut Medicaid program reimbursed the dental practices nearly $21 million during the scheme.

Zamani is scheduled to be sentenced July 6. He faces a maximum term of three years in prison on a count of obstructing the administration of a federal health care program. In a settlement resolving civil matters, Zamani will pay $200,000 and give up his Hartford dental office as well as $1.9 million from Medicaid that had been suspended.

Anusavice was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in 2013 and was ordered to pay nearly $17 million in restitution, cash, back taxes and state fees, in addition to losing his Rhode Island home, yacht and Mercedes.

MANHATTANVILLE HIRES ALUMNA AS PROVOST Manhattanville College has appointed Lisa M. Dolling as provost and vice president for academic affairs. Dolling succeeds Gail M. Simmons, who will leave Manhattanville after five years for the provost’s post at Hofstra University.

Dolling, a Manhattanville alumna, will return to the college July 1 as provost and professor of philosophy. Currently, she is the dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, co-director of the Stevens Center for Science Writing and associate professor of philosophy.

“Words cannot adequately express how thrilled I am to return to Manhattanville College as provost, with the privilege of serving as academic leader for the community that I hold so dear,” Dolling said in a statement. “I am especially delighted to have the opportunity to give back to the institution that first inspired me to pursue an academic career and contributed so much to the person I have become.”

Dolling holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Manhattanville and two master’s degrees in philosophy, one from Fordham and the other from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also received her doctorate in philosophy.

She has taught philosophy at colleges including Manhattanville and Purchase College, and was a director at St. John’s University before going to Stevens. In a statement from the Manhattanville, Dolling is credited with expanding and establishing numerous programs at Stevens.

“She has already impressed our community with her many strengths, her energy, her enthusiasm and her personal warmth,” Manhattanville College President Jon C. Strauss said in a statement. “We now look forward to her building on our strong foun-

dation and leading us forward in the implementation of our new strategic plan.”

RIDGE HILL ACADEMY BACK IN SESSION The fifth session of Ridge Hill Academy, a program for Yonkers students to experience and learn about jobs in retail, started on April 14.

Forest City Ratner Cos., owner of Westchester’s Ridge Hill, has funded the six-week program since 2013 through a $100,000 grant to Yonkers Partners in Education, a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with Yonkers Public Schools to increase the number of students who complete a post-secondary program.

Through workshops at Ridge Hill, Yonkers public school students learn about careers in management and the retail industry, including restaurant management, retail operations, security and maintenance management, health care center management, public relations and marketing.

Students rotate among Ridge Hill’s retailers to learn about the educational paths needed to obtain entry-level positions.

They also work on job readiness and in skillbuilding workshops focused on resume writing, interviewing and workplace etiquette.

Each Ridge Hill Academy graduate is awarded a certificate upon completion of the program and has the opportunity to apply for summer internships and jobs at Ridge Hill.

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The awards, announced at the Teatown Lake Reservation in northern Westchester County, include a total of $516,810 in grants to the mid-Hudson Valley, the most out of all regions in the state, to help with farmland protection and increase tourism.

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he Northeast continues to see modest economic gains, according to the first-quarter 2015 economic analysis issued by Wells Fargo, with New York City and Boston bucking the “modest gains” tag.

“All nine states in the region have seen employment rise at a pace below the national average and many have not shared in the recent acceleration in growth seen nationwide,” Wells Fargo reported.

“Demographics play a large role in the region’s sub-par growth history,” the report said. “Population gains have also been lower than average for more than a half century and in 2014, they were less than a third of the national rate. While job growth and population gains have been slower than the rest of the nation, income growth has held up relatively well. The region’s higher costs of doing business tend to discourage lower value-added jobs.” Those jobs, in turn, result in stronger income growth.

According to Wells Fargo’s New York data: • The state’s economy continued to post consistent modest gains. Nonfarm employment grew 1.7 percent over the past 12 months. The New York City metro has seen employment rise at a 2.1 percent year-over-year pace in February, which has significantly outpaced the rest of the state. The strength in New York City reflects a growing preference by workers and businesses for large urban areas and the many amenities that are available there.

• Excluding New York City, employment in New York grew “a paltry 0.8 percent over the past year.” Government, information and manufacturing have been key areas of weakness. By contrast, hiring rose solidly in education and health services, in professional and business services and in construction.

• Single-family permits were flat again in 2014 and multifamily permits leveled off, “albeit at a much higher level.” Home sales have slowed, falling 2.8 percent year over year through February 2015. “Home prices have held up rather well,” rising 8.2 percent year over year in February, and have surpassed their prerecession peak.

• Stronger U.S. growth should support New York’s important financial services

sector. Persistent out-migration, slow population growth and a relatively older population will weigh on growth, however, which remains below its long-term trend.

A spokesperson said by email that, of all Northeast states, “Massachusetts and New York seem to be performing best.”

“Technology firms are a major contributor to New York’s stronger growth,” the spokesperson said. “The financial services sector has been a major growth driver in both New York and Connecticut.

Connecticut’s economic growth is impacted by negative population growth and the housing market.”

In Connecticut the report found: • Growth accelerated in the state toward the end of 2014. The state added jobs at a 1.6 percent year-over-year rate in February.

• Financial services employment represents 7.7 percent of overall Connecticut employment, while the industry accounts for only 5.7 percent of employment in the nation. Growth in the industry has lagged total employment in the nation, particularly in the southern parts of the state bordering New York. The state’s important insurance industry has fared slightly better, with employment essentially flat over the past year. Hedge funds and private equity firms remain a notable bright spot.

• Home prices have been “rather weak in Connecticut” and fell 0.9 percent year over year in February. Prices remain near cycle lows. New construction activity has lagged with the exception of multifamily housing, which has largely recovered.

Single-family home sales increased 2.4 percent year over year in December.

Continued gains in home sales would support prices and may soon stimulate construction activity.

• Population growth turned negative in 2014 with substantial migration out of the state. The state’s older population and higher cost of living tend to discourage younger people from moving into the state.

The report cited the presence of many national-caliber colleges and universities as an across-the-region boon for the Northeast, notably in the technology sector. But, “the region’s large financial sector has been slow to recover but has made steady gains since the financial crisis.

The industry is now even more centered in New York City and Boston, which has largely come at the expense of neighboring areas in New Jersey and Connecticut.”

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Hundreds of students throughout the Hudson Valley turned out for the 2015 Youth Summit where they learned valuable employment skills and advice for starting a successful career.

The event, held April 1 at the Crowne Plaza in White Plains, featured an array of distinguished speakers.

E.J. Carrion, co-founder of Student Success Agency, gave an entertaining and inspiring talk about setting goals, taking professional risks and learning the traits of successful people. “There’s no golden path. You need to have a vision of what you want your life to look like. When you don’t have vision, you don’t know how great you can be. When you have a vision, you find a way,” he told the audience.

The event also featured a presentation by brothers Michael and Marc Guberti, founders of the Teenager Entrepreneur, a company that educates and empowers teenagers on how to “package passions into profits.”

The free event was presented by the Business Council of Westchester, Westchester County, Putnam County and the Westchester-Putnam Workforce Investment Board. Sponsors included Montefiore, VeeKast, C.W. Brown, Gibbons Digital and Berkeley College.

The Youth Summit also featured an “Undercover Boss” who spent the day observing the youth participating in the program. At the end of the day the Undercover Boss selected one of the youth to work for her company. This year’s “Undercover Boss” was Allison Madison of Madison Approach Staffing of White Plains. She hired 17-year-old Mikala Bell of Mount Vernon.

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THELIST: HOTELS & CONFERENCE CENTERS

Hotels and Conference Centers

Westchester County and Region

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Ranked by number of guest rooms. Listed alphabetically in event of tie.

Name Address Area code: 914 unless otherwise noted Website

1

Hilton Westchester

2

Westchester Marriott

670 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 631-2200 • westchestermarriott.com

3

66 Hale Ave., White Plains 10601 682-0050 • cpwestchester.com

699 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook 10573 939-6300 • hilton.com

Crowne Plaza White Plains

Doral Arrowwood

4

975 Anderson Hill Road, Rye Brook 10573 939-5500 • doralarrowwood.com

Renaissance Westchester

5

80 W. Red Oak Lane, West Harrison 10604 694-5400 • renaissancewestchester.com

The Tarrytown House Estate and Conference Center

6

49 E. Sunnyside Lane, Tarrytown 10591 800-553-8118 • tarrytownestate.com

IBM Learning Center

7

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

Hyatt House - White Plains

8

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

9

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

Hampton Inn White Plains

The Ritz-Carlton, Westchester

10

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

Cambria Hotel & Suites White Plains Downtown

11

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

Radisson Hotel New Rochelle

12

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

13

68 Crystal Run Road, Middletown 10941 845-343-1473 • ihg.com

Holiday Inn - Middletown-Goshen Ramada

14

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

Royal Regency Hotel

15

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

Comfort Inn and Suites

16

20 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne 10532 592-8600 • comfortinn.com

Edith Macy Conference Center

17

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

Castle Hotel & Spa

18 Not Ranked

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

Crestview Conference Center*

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

Guest rooms/ Guest suites

Meeting rooms Square footage of meeting areas

Kai Fischer 2008/1981

445 NA

22 22,000

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

23 26,000

2

Meeting space, event-planning services

Steve Juscen Tony Inmari tonya.inmari@ihg.com 1987/2014

402 7

17 17,000

1

Function space to accommodate up to 800 people, enclosed parking lot, indoor pool, fitness facility, airport shuttle, downtown location adjacent shopping mall

Steve Mabus 2009/1983

367 7

33 33,000

3

Golf course and driving range, sports center, indoor and outdoor pool, business center

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

348 7

27 20,244

1

Concierge desk, business center, shoe-shine service

Joseph Santore jsantore@destinationhotels.com Ongoing/1964

212 1

30 30,000

1

Overlooking the Hudson River, concierge, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness club, conference facilities

182 0

31 14,700

1

Fitness center, baseball, tennis, volleyball, billiards, fireside bar

159 (all suites)

NA 1,288

0

Evening social, business and fitness centers

Monika Wojcik 2010/1946

156 0

3 2,800

1

Jeff Dziak Dana Cooper dana.cooper@ritzcarlton.com Opened 2007

Business center, fitness center, shuttle, Complimentary breakfast, 24-hour coffee, tea and hot chocolate, outdoor pool

146 38

7 12,000

3

Spa and salon, fitness center, indoor pool, business center, audiovisual services

Sean Meade smeadle@cswhiteplains.com 2014

130 suites

4 3,500

Rhonda Hausman Colby Brock rhausman2@aol.com 2011/1975

129 3

5 6,400

3

Business center, outdoor pool, fitness center

NA Renovated 2014

101 NA

1 3,500

0

Event space to accommodate 250 people, equipment rental available

Kiran Divanji Dhirubhai B. Patel 2006/2005

103 3

3 1,000

1

Fitness center, outdoor pool

Maria Troche 2014/1995

94 NA

1 11,000

1

Spa services, fitness center, meeting rooms, computer station

Emily Kirwin gm.ny618@choicehotels.com Opened 2000

85 14

2 957

0

Indoor pool, business center, audiovisual equipment available, fitness center

52 0

9 14,000

1

Meeting spaces, common area, lakeside dining packages, on-site conference planning, audiovisual technician, business services

31 6

4 More than 4,000

1

Meeting facility, business center, valet parking, outdoor seasonal pool, hiking trail, day spa

NA

6+ 12,000

0

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

General manager Contact Email address Hotel renovated/ Year established

David Leftwich ilcres@us.ibm.com 2006/1979 Anthony Damiano Kate Kelleher anthony.damiano@hyatt.com NA/2001

David Vogt Sherri Hoy shay@edithmacy.com 2015/1982 Gilbert Baeriswil events@castleonthehudson.com 2013/1996 John Hodgson Gina Vander Wheele answers@crestviewconference.or g 2014

Number of restaurants

Amenities and guest services

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Cambria Hotel & Suites White Plains Downtown

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Radisson Hotel New Rochelle

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68 Crystal Run Road, Middletown 10941 845-343-1473 • ihg.com

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Royal Regency Hotel

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Comfort Inn and Suites

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

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Law helps cut down on surprise medical bills

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new consumer protection law went into effect April 1 in New York — the Emergency Medical Services and Surprise Bills law — which protects patients from unexpected expenses related to out-ofnetwork and emergency medical services.

The legislation creates more transparency by requiring more disclosure of how much patients can expect to pay for medical care and about providers’ and facilities’ health plan participation.

What’s a surprise bill?

Patients have been surprised plenty in the past by unexpected medical bills and unreimbursed expenses. According to the state Department of Financial Services, surprise bills occur when services are performed by a nonparticipating (out-of-network) doctor at a participating hospital or ambulatory surgical center in the patient’s HMO or insurer’s network, or when a participating doctor refers an insured to a nonparticipating provider. The new law also protects all consumers from bills for emergency services. Full details about surprise bills, how to avoid them and how to dispute them are available at dfs.ny.gov.

The new law aims to eradicate these unexpected charges that arise in certain situations such as: 1. Services rendered by a nonparticipating physician at a participating hospital or ambulatory surgical center.

Situations include when a participating physician is unavailable, a nonparticipating physician renders services without the insured’s knowledge or unforeseen medical services arise at the time the health care services are rendered. It is not a surprise bill if you chose to receive services from a nonparticipating doctor instead of from an available participating doctor.

2. Services rendered by a nonparticipating provider without explicit acknowledgment and consent from the insured.

In this case, the services were referred by a participating physician to a nonparticipating provider; the insured patient did not give explicit written consent acknowledging this referral and the referral results in costs not covered by the health care plan.

3. Uninsured for services. A patient who is not an insured for services rendered by a physician at a hospital or ambulatory surgical center has not received all the disclosures required pursuant to Section 24 of the public health law in a timely manner.

Several provisions of the law affect health insurance plans.

• All health plans must hold patients harmless for emergency services (except for in-network cost-share). In essence, all emergency

services must be treated as in-network care.

• Plans that offer out-of-network coverage must make available one product that bases reimbursement on the “usual and customary” rate.

• Disclosure is required for nonemergency services from health plans, physicians, health care professionals and hospitals.

• An independent entity has been established to resolve disputes over physician fees and plan reimbursement for emergency and surprise bills.

New disclosures help avoid financial distress Hospitals and health care providers must include a lot of new information on their websites so the public has easy access to these disclosures.

For hospitals/facilities these include health plan participation; statements that inhospital physician services are not included in hospital charges (a common point of confusion) and that physicians/providers might not participate in the same plans as the hospital (another confusing issue); and an advisory to determine the practitioner’s plan participation in advance. Hospitals must post the contact information of the physician groups they contract with and instructions on how to contact them.

Medical providers must clearly state: • The names of their participating health plans (in writing or on the provider’s website and verbally when an appointment is scheduled); • The names of the physician’s hospital affiliations (same manner as above); • For nonemergency services, that the amount or estimated amount for the service is available upon request; and • Upon receipt of a request, the amount or estimated amount that will be billed — excepting any unforeseen medical circumstances that may arise when the services are provided (this information must be disclosed in writing).

• The name, practice name, address and phone number of any provider scheduled to perform anesthesiology, laboratory, pathology, radiology or assistant surgeon services in connection with care provided in the physician’s office or referred or coordinated by the physician for the patient; • Similarly, for patients scheduled either for hospital admission or outpatient hospital service, the name, practice name, address and phone number of any other physician whose services will be arranged by the physician and are scheduled at the time of the preadmission testing, registration or admission, or at the time the nonemergency services are scheduled; • Additionally, information as to how to

determine the health care plans in which the physician participates, and how to determine this in a timely manner.

There are many more stipulations now in place to protect consumers from unforeseen medical expenses. Anyone who receives a surprise bill for health care services and wants the services to be treated as in-network can fill out a New York State Out-ofNetwork Surprise Medical Bill Assignment of Benefits Form to dispute certain denied out-

of-network or emergency care reimbursements. You can also work with an independent medical insurance advocate to resolve insurance issues on your behalf and recoup medical reimbursements you are entitled to according to your health plan and the law.

Adria Gross is the founder and president of MedWise Insurance Advocacy, a division of MedWise Billing Inc., based in Monroe. She can be reached at 845-238-2532 or medwisebilling@optonline.net.

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n a statement this month announcing her appointment as director of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s New York district office, Beth Goldberg said her past in economic development and social work will make her a well-rounded leader of the SBA’s downstate efforts.

“As a business executive, I have a lifetime passion of creating and growing businesses here in New York City, and I look forward to leading the office to help others achieve their business dreams,” she said.

The announcement was made by SBA Region II Administrator Kellie LeDet, who referred to Goldberg as a “specialist in the field of economic development” and credited her as one of the architects of New York City’s economic development program.

“We are extremely fortunate to have a person of Beth Goldberg’s caliber and experience leading our New York district office,” LeDet said. “Beth brings with her a wealth of knowledge to this position and I am confident New York small-business owners and entrepreneurs will be well served by her team’s efforts.”

The SBA in its announcement recognized Goldberg for her business development firm, Auric Ventures Ltd. The company spearhead-

ed what the SBA called one of the largest and most successful industrial development projects in the past 60 years — the $200 million investment by Pratt Industries for its state-ofthe-art recycled paper mill in Staten Island.

Goldberg founded Auric Ventures in 1987 with a particular focus on facilitating the relationship between corporate America and government.

Prior to starting the firm, she served first as director of finance and development (1981-1982) and then as president and chief operating officer (1982-1987) of the Brooklyn Economic Development Corp., where she served as the lead consultant on economic development matters to the president of the borough of Brooklyn, the New York City mayor and the New York governor.

Goldberg earned a social work master’s degree in social planning, community organizing and not-for-profit management with a specialization in industrial social welfare from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science with a dual major in psychology and political science from Brooklyn College.

She is a fully licensed New York state real estate broker and holds National Association of Securities Dealers series 7 and 63 licenses — all of which will inform her new role at the SBA, she said.

“This job is about community outreach and relationship building. I believe my background in real estate and social

work and planning will help me to quickly develop these relationships and identify where the SBA can have the greatest impact throughout the district,” she said. “One of SBA’s many missions is helping those in underrepresented areas, and having the background to address social issues like financial literacy or credit repair will go a long way to develop and transform those markets into vibrant neighborhoods supported by small businesses.”

Goldberg is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the SBA’s financial and business development programs in New York City, Long Island and the downstate counties of Westchester, Duchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster.

Via phone, Goldberg said increasing the availability of loans and participation by lenders was her top priority.

“That is done through education and making them (lenders) aware of the needs of the business community as well as making the business community more knowledgeable about the underwriting criteria that these institutions have,” she said. “I am hoping to be able to open up more lending to businesses by forming a relationship with the banks and credit unions throughout the district. If we can provide good service to those institutions, hopefully that will make it easier for small businesses to get financing.”

She noted that in Westchester, the SBA’s

New York office approved 160 loans for a total of $66.1 million in fiscal year 2014 and 136 loans totaling $44.4 million in fiscal year 2013.

The SBA has already taken steps toward increased education, with the New York district participating in the SBA’s Emerging Leaders educational program for the first time this year, Goldberg said.

The program is an intensive business “boot camp” providing what could be considered a pre-master’s level education to spur sales and employment in small businesses “on the verge of getting to the next level,” said Harry Menta, a public affairs specialist with the SBA. Dollar Saving Discount Fuel Oil of Mount Vernon is one of 17 businesses chosen from more than a hundred applicants that will participate in the program this year.

“I think the small-business community could always use some help either in their educational services in marketing or structuring their business plans,” Goldberg said.

“I would like to take the foundation that we already have set in Westchester and build upon it by developing new relationships with civic leaders, business groups, associations and lenders to see how we can strive to do more in Westchester. Again, it’s all about being proactive and being out in the community and developing relationships and partnerships that will allow us to have a greater impact on the small-businesses community in Westchester County.”

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BY CHRIS JORDAN

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How higher interest rates will impact your finances

or many Westchester and Fairfield county preretirees, figuring out how to invest is hard enough. Balancing current needs, emergency funds, college and retirement can be overwhelming. But the recent drumbeat of higher interest rates has many investors asking, “What does this mean to me?” and “What should I be doing now with my money?”

While there are always many unknowns, it seems almost certain that higher rates are

on the horizon, and taking smart steps now can have a big impact on your finances.

So why are higher rates an issue and why all the bond-related headlines? Over the past 30 years or so interest rates have done nothing but decline. When that happens, the price of bonds goes up and everyone is happy. Spoiler alert: When rates inevitably go up, the value of investors’ existing bonds go down, creating some decidedly unhappy bondholders. Regardless of the

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number of articles or broadcasts, undoubtedly some will be genuinely surprised when their statements trickle in. Long gone are the “buy and hold” days of the ‘90s.

A common strategy to circumvent this challenge is to create a bond ladder. A bond ladder is a series of bonds that mature at different intervals such as every three, six, nine or 12 months. As rates rise, the maturing bonds can be reinvested at the new higher rate.

For longer-term investors, now is the time to revisit your bond funds and really know what you own. Many core bond funds focus on a narrow segment of the bond market often defined by the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. This approach worked well for years but could face tougher times ahead.

Incorporating a flexible bond fund now could be worth the time spent. These strategies differ by giving the managers the flexibility to seek opportunities or manage risk exposure by allocating across a wide range of instruments — credit qualities, durations and regions far beyond that of a basic core bond fund. Like all things these come in many different flavors, so be certain that your managers have serious capabilities in the flexible space.

For those with the right tolerance, highyield bonds could be worth a closer look.

The higher yield of these types of bonds may well compensate investors compared to lower-risk options. As always, moderation and common sense is the name of the game. Consider your 401(k) holdings to determine not only your asset mix but when you might be taking withdrawals.

Many company plans have come a long way toward giving investors more options and can include “target date” funds. These funds

tend to adjust your allocation as you get closer to needing your money. Typically the bond portion of the allocation is intended to diversify the risk associated with the stock portion.

So while the focus of higher rates tends to be on bonds, it’s important to look at other areas that could affect you. And not all is bleak. Rising interest rates mean that your conservative accounts like certificates of deposit and money markets will finally begin to pay you more for parking your money at the bank. After the 2008 stock market collapse, many still keep a larger percentage of cash than ever before. An emergency account is critical to any good financial plan but having too much in cash carries the risk of not earning enough.

Currently the real rates of certificates of deposit, once you factor in inflation and taxes, has been negative.

Finally, this might be your last shot to lock in your mortgage at truly bargain rates.

If you are thinking about buying a home or refinancing your mortgage, now is time.

Talk to a loan officer and crunch your numbers as this alone could be a windfall prior to rising rates.

The impact of the Fed raising rates has numerous implications but for many the focus is on their bond or fixed income portfolios. To better understand how your portfolio might react is the first step in taking control. By understanding your options now you can easily take steps to position yourself for changes ahead.

Chris Jordan is the CEO of LEXCO Wealth Management Inc., a registered investment advisory of 33 professionals managing more than $1.3 billion in client assets, based in Tarrytown. Call LEXCO at 914-468-8900.

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COURT CASES Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Shannon Alexander. Action: diversityproduct liability. Attorney: Lezzlie Elizabeth Hornsby. Filed: April 16.

Case no. 7:15-cv-02956-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Sara E. Bahat. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 20.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03040-CS.

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Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jessica T. Balogh. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03072-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Carolyn Ferrara. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Kimberly A. Dougherty and Alyson Louise Oliver. Filed: April 16. Case no.

7:15-cv-02949-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Krystal N. Bentley. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21. Case no. 7:15-cv-03120-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jessie Anne Furner and Guy Furner.

Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: John David Hurst.

Filed: April 16. Case no. 7:15-cv02947-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Nicole Bloor. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03096-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Field by Antoinette Gaines. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorney: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 21. Case no. 7:15-cv03095-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Rena Cash. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03113-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Karah Aliene Caudle. Action: diversitynotice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 21. Case no. 7:15-cv03083-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Melissa Nicole Craig. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv03158-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Adam Ejnik and Eric Ejnik. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorneys: Alyson Louise Oliver and Edward Anthony Wallace.

Filed: April 16. Case no. 7:15-cv02959-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Kendra Evans. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 22.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03160-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Kassandra Gomez. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv03157-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Lisa Dawn Harris. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steven Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv03149-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. Filed by Sharon Lynn Hoskison. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv03156-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Cherelle Johnson. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv03150-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Virginia Marie Kent. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 20. Case no. 7:15-cv03056-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Heba AlKhafaji. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorney: Kassem M. Dakhlallah. Filed: April 17. Case no. 7:14-cv-01977-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Cynthia Martin. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Timothy J. Becker, Rolf Fiebiger and Michael K. Johnson. Filed: April 17. Case no. 7:15-cv-02978-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Elise A. Martin. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03079-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Candida Mortenson. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 21. Case no. 7:15-cv03085-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Erica Parks. Action: diversity-product liability. Attorneys: Bobby J. Bell and Tyler C. Vail. Filed: April 16.

Case no. 7:15-cv-02925-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Danielle Perkins. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv-03153-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Brooke A. Quinn. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steven Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 20. Case no. 7:15-cv-03038-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Jessica S. Rice. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03114-CS.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Dorothy J. Schumacher. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv03151-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Meghan J. Searcy. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03071-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Amber Wagner. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 20. Case no. 7:15-cv-03050-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Olivia West. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 21.

Case no. 7:15-cv-03092-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Sarah Whitaker. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas. Filed: April 22. Case no. 7:15-cv-03164-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Bianca M. Williams. Action: diversity-personal injury. Attorneys: Jacqueline A. Olsen and J. Gordon Rudd Jr. Filed: April 17. Case no. 7:15-cv02979-CS. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by Alisha Wyatt. Action: diversity-medical malpractice. Attorneys: Tony Edwards, Jackqualyn Quinton and Sarah J. Showard. Filed: April 16. Case no. 7:15-cv-02961-CS.

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Robert M. Spano Plumbing & Heating Inc. Filed by Robert Royle. No action listed. Attorneys: Lloyd Robert Ambinder and Jeffrey Kevin Brown. Filed: April 15.

Case no. 7:15-cv-02899-KMK.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. Filed by April Joy Richardson. Action: diversity: notice of removal. Attorneys: Steve Michael Faries, David Paul Matthews and Rachal G. Rojas.

Filed: April 21. Case no. 7:15-cv03069-CS

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GOOD THINGS HAPPENING PWW’S THIRD ANNUAL EVENT

NYPA PRESIDENT ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF EPRI Gil C. Quiniones, president and CEO of the New York Power Authority, was elected chairman of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a national nonprofit devoted to research and

development in the electricity field.

Quiniones, who previously served as EPRI vice chairman, succeeds Denis P. O’Brien, CEO of Exelon Utilities. He is serving a fouryear term.

THE WESTCHESTER BANK APPOINTS FERNANDES

From left, Jenn Andrlik; Nancy Ward; Lisa Kaslyn, Prosper Communications; Jamie Imperati, PWW President; Anne Jordan Duffy; Jeanne Muchnick; and Danielle Netrosio, sales and catering manager, Ruth’s Chris Steak House.

Professional Women of Westchester’s (PWW) third annual meet-the-media event featuring 100 local entrepreneurs and professionals was held April 13 at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Tarrytown. Panelists

NYSID TO DEDICATE NEW BATTLE BUDDY CENTER

HVEDC WELCOMES GIORDANO

New York State Industries for the Disabled Inc. (NYSID) is dedicating its newest Battle Buddy Center at Valhalla-based Westchester Community College (WCC), in collaboration with AHRC New York City and American Maintenance, an organization committed to finding ways for people with disabilities to build full lives. The event takes place, April 28, 2 p.m., on the WCC campus, 75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla, in the Veterans Resource Lounge, Student Center Room 283.

Battle Buddy Centers are safe havens for veterans to socialize with fellow veterans and receive services they need.

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included Nancy Ward, morning anchorwoman for FIOS1 News Lower Hudson Valley; Jenn Andrlik, executive director, Westchester Home magazine; Jeanne Muchnick, features editor, Daily Voice; and Anne

Frank P. Giordano III, partner and shareholder of Middletownbased Judelson, Giordano & Siegal CPA PC, an accounting firm, has been named to the board of directors for Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. (HVEDC), an economic development agency for Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties. Giordano’s experience includes assisting new clients and startup businesses in implementing complete accounting packages, including hardware and software. He holds a bachelor’s in accounting and finance from Pace University.

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Jordan Duffy, associate publisher, Westfair Communications Inc. PWW is hosting its next event May 11 at Bistro Z in Tarrytown. For more information, visit professionalwomenofwestchester.com.

BALCHEM APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO New Hampton-based Balchem Corp. appointed Theodore (Ted) L. Harris as president and CEO and as a member of the Balchem board of directors, succeeding Dino A. Rossi, who remains chairman of the board.

Harris most recently served as senior vice president and president, Performance Materials of Ashland Inc., a specialty chemical company. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at FMC Corp., a chemical manufacturing company, where he served in a variety of senior level roles.

Yonkers-based The Westchester Bank appointed Paul Fernandes as vice president and branch manager of the White Plains branch on Mamaroneck Avenue. Fernandes has more than 20 years of retail banking experience. Prior to joining, he served as vice president, branch manager for Capital One in Eastchester and spent 10 years working for The Bank of New York in Westchester County.

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HRHCARE HEALTH CENTERS RECEIVE RECOGNITION Hudson River HealthCare (HRHCare), a nonprofit offering medical services for underserved communities throughout the Hudson Valley and Long Island, announced the HRHCare Center at Hudson, the HRHCare Livingston Street Health Center at Poughkeepsie, the HRHCare Maxine S. Postal Tri-Community Health Center at Amityville and the HRHCare Kraus Family Health Cen-

ter at Southampton have all received the National Committee for Quality Assurance Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition.

The highest PCMH ranking available, this recognition solidifies these four health centers, along with 18 other HRHCare Health Centers that have already achieved Level 3 PCMH recognition, as medical homes that emphasize care and communication.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DUTCHESS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Dutchess County Historical Society’s 2015 annual meeting is being held April 29, 5:30 p.m., at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center at the FDR Presidential Home and Library, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park. The meeting’s keynote address, “The Second Surrender:

Sherman’s 1865 Campaign in the Carolinas and the End of the Civil War,” is being delivered by Keith Altavilla, the Rowan Postdoctoral Fellow in Military History at the United States Military Academy at West Point and historian at Rowan Technology Solutions.

DATES MAY 6 MAY 8 MAY 9

HUDSON CHORALE, WESTCHESTER’S LARGEST CHORUS, is concluding its fifth season at the Irvington Middle/High School Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., with the second of a third-part series, American Voices, featuring composers and a full orchestra. Audience members are invited to a pre-concert talk by Michael Conley, 6:45 p.m. For more information, visit hudsonchorale.org.

MAY 13

MAY 1

BOSCOBEL IS FEATURING JAMES DOYLE, founder and principal for Doyle Herman Design Associates and Kathryn Herman, principal for Doyle Herman Design Associates for a discussion, titled “The Language of Landscape: Simplicity, Scale & Structure,” 6-8 p.m., 9D, Garrison. For more information, call 845-265-3638

NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL/WESTCHESTER DIVISION IS FEATURING “IDENTIFYING AND MANAGING OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER,” presented by Ashley Storrs, an attending psychiatrist at the hospital, 7-8:30 p.m., NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains. For more information, call 914-997-5779.

MAY 2

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CENTRAL WESTCHESTER IS HOSTING A TAG SALE, 8-9 a.m. for early bird admission and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for general admission, Wayside Cottage, 1039 Post Road, Scarsdale. For more information, visit jlcentralwestchester.org.

provide the highest-level medical and surgical evaluation and treatment for patients with complex epilepsy.

This marks the fifth year that White Plains Hospital has received this designation.

PURCHASE COLLEGE NAMED TOP GREEN COLLEGE Purchase-based Purchase College, SUNY was named as one of the nation’s top environmentallyresponsibly schools by “The Princeton Review Guide to 353 Green Colleges.” The Princeton Review chose the schools based on its

WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S (WCC) GATEWAY TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER IS HOSTING ITS ANNUAL GROW CONFERENCE, 7:45 a.m. registration, 8:15-9 a.m. discussion by Tom Deierlein, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m workshops, WCC’s Gateway Center, 75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla. For more information, call 914-606-5616. Björn and Co. are featuring “Forks, Corks & Cocktails,” a food and wine event 7:30 p.m. at LIFE: The Place to Be, 2 Lawrence St., Ardsley. For more information and to purchase ticks, visit bjornandcompany.com.

a heavy snowstorm in November.

The Edison Electric Institute, an industry peer group, also recognized Central Hudson this year with its emergency response award for restoration of electric service following the storm.

WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL EPILEPSY CENTER RECOGNIZED The National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) has recognized The Seizure Diagnostic Center at White Plains Hospital as a level four epilepsy center. Level four epilepsy centers have the expertise to

WARWICK VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS HOSTING “SPRINGTIME BUSINESS MIXER AT ALTEVA,” for networking opportunities, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 47 Main St., Warwick. For more information, email info@warwickcc.com.

NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL/WESTCHESTER DIVISION IS FEATURING “ASK THE EXPERT: UNDERSTANDING CHILD & ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR,” presented by Despina Hatziergati, the unit chief for the child inpatient unit at the hospital, 7-8:30 p.m., NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains. For more information, call 914-997-5779.

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CENTRAL HUDSON AWARDED FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE Fishkill-based Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. received the annual Headliner Award from the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce for restoring electric service and keeping residents informed following

THE ALLIED PROFESSIONALS OF THE FPA GREATER HUDSON VALLEY, THE WESTCHESTER CHAPTER OF THE NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY OF CPAS AND THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION are presenting Stacey Cohen, president and CEO of Co-Communications, as guest speaker of the organization’s first networking breakfast of 2015, 7:30-9:30 a.m., Doral Arrowwood, 975 Anderson Hill Road, Rye Brook. To register, call Amy Amodeo at 914-273-0777.

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Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty, a real estate firm with offices in Rye, Scarsdale, Larchmont and Bronxville, appointed Cindy Goodstein-Frazier as real estate agent in the firm’s Larchmont Brokerage. Goodstein previously served as a real estate agent for Corcoran Group Real Estate in Manhattan. She holds a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s in urban studies from Brown University.

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green guide, a compilation of the company’s 2014 survey of hundreds of four-year colleges concerning the schools’ commitments to the environment and sustainability. Of a possible 100 points, Purchase College received a green rating of 91.

BGCNW NAMES CEO Mount Kisco-based Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester (BGCNW) promoted Alyzza Ozer of Chappaqua as CEO. Previously serving as chief development officer for BGCNW, Ozer has played a role in identifying statistics regarding the club’s

impact. Prior to joining, Ozer served as senior vice president of resource development and community engagement of United Way of Westchester and Putnam and regional vice president of the Manhattan office of the American Cancer Society.

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FACTS & FIGURES Below $1 million

DEEDS

1017 Park Realty LLC, Peekskill. Seller: FCI Development LLC, Peekskill. Property: 1017 Park St., Peekskill. Amount: $385,000. Filed April 16.

Above $1 million 406 Walnut Street LLC, Great Neck. Seller: Kubasek Owners LLC, Larchmont. Property: 406 Walnut St., Yonkers. Amount: $17.5 million. Filed April 21.

153 SCH LLC. Seller: Doris Adams, Yonkers. Property: 153 School St., Yonkers. Amount: $35,000. Filed April 15.

45-51 Post Street LLC, Great Neck. Seller: Post Street Owners LLC, Larchmont. Property: 45-51 Post St., Yonkers. Amount: $5.9 million. Filed April 21.

357 Willett LLC, White Plains.

Seller: Rita M. Seufert, Greenwich, Conn. Property: 357-59 Willett Ave,, Rye. Amount: $450,000.

Filed April 20.

A and S Ohana LLC, White Plains. Seller: Renaissance Rental Partners LLC, White Plains.

Property: 5 Renaissance Square 16G, White Plains. Amount: $1.2 million. Filed April 16.

38 Hunter Street LLC, White Plains. Seller: Paula Smith Daniel, Greensboro, N.C. Property: 38 Hunter St., Ossining. Amount: $172,000. Filed April 16.

ELD Property Management LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: The Guidance Center of Westchester Inc., Mount Vernon. Property: 70 Grand St., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.4 million. Filed April 17.

45 N 10th Avenue Residence LLC, New York. Seller: Boys and Girls Club of Mount Vernon New York Inc., Mount Vernon.

Property: 45 N. 10th Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $100,000. Filed April 15.

Oliver Court Apartments LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: JAM 3 Property I LLC, Bedford.

Property: 106 Locust Hill Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $4.5 million.

Filed April 20.

95 Washington Ave LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Rosemarie DeMelia, et al, Mamaroneck. Property: 95 Washington Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $330,000.

Filed April 20.

Orienta Point 886 LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: 888 Orienta LLC, New York. Property: 886 Orienta Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed April 16.

Pelham Bay LLC, Mamaroneck.

Seller: Daniel S. Finger, White Plains. Property: 30 Terrace Park Lane, New Rochelle. Amount: $3 million. Filed April 16.

Rye Park LLC, Rye. Seller: Anthony Schorr, et al, Rye. Property: 411 Park Ave., Rye. Amount: $1.6 million. Filed April 17.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Kenneth L. Bunting, Dobbs Ferry. Property: 70 Ellwood Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $1.2 million.

Filed April 17.

Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., Morris Plains. N.J. Seller: Jean-Claude Deneuville, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 12 Premium Point, New Rochelle. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed April 20.

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City of Peekskill, Peekskill.

Seller: DMAC LLC, Peekskill.

Property: 324A Simpson Place, Peekskill. Amount: $100,000.

Filed April 15.

Cowbell Development Cox Avenue LLC, Bronxville. Seller: Robert Gerard Sullivan, Armonk.

Property: 98 Cox Ave., North Castle. Amount: $325,000. Filed April 16.

Cox Avenue Property LLC, Thornwood. Seller: Robert Gerard Sullivan, Armonk. Property: 94 Cox Ave., North Castle.

Amount: $325,000. Filed April 16.

Elk Homes Partners II LLP, Rye. Seller: Judie Eisenberg, Pelham. Property: 409 6th Ave., Pelham. Amount: $575,000. Filed April 15.

Envirogreen Associates Inc., Katonah. Seller: P. Daniel Hollis III, Mount Kisco. Property: 1833 E. Main St., Yorktown. Amount: $277,104. Filed April 15.

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Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Luis G. Gomez, Ossining. Property: 5 Sarah St., Ossining. Amount: $401,939.

Filed April 17.

Federal National Mortgage LLC. Seller: Clement S. Patti Jr., White Plains. Property: 535 S. 8th Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $350,445. Filed April 15.

Global Real Estate USA Inc., New York. Seller: David E. Conyers, et al, Harrison. Property: 12 Clifford Place, Harrison. Amount: $799,000. Filed April 17.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: W. Whitfield Wells, White Plains.

Property: 56 Vernon Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $707,323. Filed April 21.

LPP Mortgage Ltd. Seller: Clement Patti Jr., White Plains.

Property: 921 Constant Ave., Peekskill. Amount: $514,645.

Filed April 16.

Maggie Realty LLC, Valley Stream. Seller: Annette M. Coppola Thomas, Shelton, Conn.

Property: 164 Green Lane, Bedford. Amount: $165,000. Filed April 20.

Map Realty 333 LLC, New City.

Seller: UGC Foundation Inc., New Rochelle. Property: 333 Pelham Road, New Rochelle. Amount: $450,000. Filed April 15.

Nicholas Johnson Realty Inc., Eastchester. Seller: Peter Luongo, et al, West Harrison. Property: 149 Lincoln Ave., Harrison. Amount: $447,500. Filed April 20.

Orienta Point 888 LLC, Scarsdale. Seller: Morris Propp, et al, Jupiter, Fla. Property: 888 Orienta Ave., Mamaroneck. Amount: $166,667. Filed April 16.

Rylan West Realty Inc., Chappaqua. Seller: Interstate Sales Company, Byram, Conn.

Property: 621 Route 22, North Salem. Amount: $865,000. Filed April 20.

Sammy Properties Inc., New Rochelle. Seller: 301 South Fulton Corp., Mount Vernon. Property: 301 S. Fulton Ave., Mount Vernon.

Amount: $465,000. Filed April 16.

Sarles B1 LLC, New York. Seller: Allan S. Gordon, New York. Property: 10 Sarles St., New Castle.

Amount: $750,000. Filed April 21.

SGFH Realty Inc., New Rochelle. Seller: Willow Brook Development I LLC, Brookyn.

Property: 10 Lorraine Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $150,000. Filed April 15.

Spectacle Dual Holdings LLC, Tarrytown. Seller: William A. Hansen, et al, Tarrytown. Property: 18 Union Ave., Greenburgh.

Amount: $495,000. Filed April 21.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Carlos Pajuelo, White Plains.

Property: 3799 Mahopac St., Yorktown. Amount: $215,506.

Filed April 20.

JUDGMENTS E-Lionheart Associates LLC, White Plains. $7,590 in favor of Oxford Health Plans NY Inc., Minnetonka, Minn. Filed April 15.

Heathcote Construction Corp., Scarsdale. $11,301 in favor of Travelers Casualty Insurance Co., Richmond, Va. Filed April 17.

Maxx Properties, Harrison. $8,593 in favor of Sagamore Mechanical Services Inc., Westminster, Md. Filed April 17.

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

Arnstein, Michael A., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $357,000 affecting property at 47 Beechwood Terrace, Yonkers 10705.

Filed July 2.

Bolin, Howard A., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $201,985 affecting property at 33 Dunham Road, Hartsdale 10530. Filed July 1.

Brightly, Wayne, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 356 S. 5th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed July 3.

Didonato, John, as heir at law and next of kin of Rita Lanzadore, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 129 S. 11th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed July 2.

Dimarco, Joanne, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $199,156 affecting property at 279 1st St., Yonkers 10704.

Filed July 2.

Dvorak, Timothy D., et al.

Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $436,600 affecting property at 36 Lexington Drive, Croton on Hudson. Filed July 3.

Guerrero, Veronica, et al.

Filed by OneWest Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $760,000 affecting property in Mamaroneck.

Filed July 2.

Kry, Lars, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $354,900 affecting property at 51 Mitchell Ave., Yonkers 10701.

Filed July 3.

Lansch, Fannie, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $411,637 affecting property at 186 Elm St., Yonkers 10701.

Filed July 1.

Licursi, Frank P. Jr., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $411,277 affecting property at 144 Hilburn Road, Scarsdale 10583. Filed July 2.

Manno, Geraldine, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $343,000 affecting property at 33 Colin St., Yonkers 10701. Filed July 2.

McQuick, Olayinka R., et al.

Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $305,550 affecting property at 440 N. Broadway, apt. 8, Yonkers 10710.

Filed July 3.

Mead, Timothy, as heir to the estate of Margaret Mead, et al.

Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $166,000 affecting property at 2 Sand St., Millwood 10546. Filed July 2.

Mercado, Sylvia, et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 8 Evergreen Road, Cortlandt Manor 10567.

Filed July 2.

Palfy, Dennis F., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 9 Highland Ave., Dobbs Ferry 10522. Filed July 1.

Pauta, Segundo, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $533,250 affecting property at 27S Goodwin Ave., Elmsford 10523. Filed July 2.

Restrepo, Rocio, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $236,000 affecting property at 14 Washington Ave., Ossining 10562. Filed July 1.

Rondinelli, Joseph L., et al.

Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $457,000 affecting property at 202 Hanson Lane, New Rochelle 10804. Filed July 1.

Rubio, Hugo Jr., individually and as surviving joint tenant of Carmen Rivera, et al. Filed

by OneWest Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $133,250 affecting property in Yonkers. Filed July 2.

Sanchez, Zoila Y., et al. Filed

by BAC Home Loans Servicing LP. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $344,000 affecting property at 312 Walnut St., Peekskill 10566. Filed July 2.

Taylor, Michael, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $456,000 affecting property at 92 Rose Ave., Eastchester 10709. Filed July 1.

Wheeler, Robert, et al. Filed

by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $580,000 affecting property at 1 Deer park Drive, Amawalk. Filed July 1.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Edwards Funeral Home Inc., as owner. $60,325 as claimed by Collins Plumbing Corp. Property in Greenburgh. Filed April 17.

FACTS & FIGURES Hartsdale Development LLC, as owner. $28,240 as claimed by Men of Steel Rebar Fabricators.

Property in Greenburgh. Filed April 15.

Marinucci, Massimo, as owner. $1,176 as claimed by All-Pro Rooter Inc. Property in Lewisboro. Filed April 16.

McKinley, Dwayne, as owner. $44,700 as claimed by Tri-State Transfer Associates Inc., Bronx.

Property in Mount Vernon. Filed April 13.

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

Jolly Jack, 782 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers 10703, c/o Jacob S. Nasser. Filed March 19.

Lalo Landscape, 225 Webster Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Eduardo Aguilar. Filed March 18.

Little Angels Family Day Care, 377 N. Broadway, apt.

4A, Yonkers 10701, c/o Yesenia Horton. Filed March 19.

Mr. Thoroughgood’s Cheesecakes, 133 N. 6th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Kyle Thoroughgood. Filed March 18.

MVP New Management, 189 Elm St., Yonkers 10701, c/o Ivan Cruz Miranda. Filed March 18.

Partnerships

Own True Wellness, 117 Dehaven Drive, apt. 254, Yonkers 10703, c/o Barbara Bonomo.

Filed March 19.

ITHPP Consultants, 800 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook 10573, c/o Steven Randby and Philip Scott. Filed March 18.

Precision Landscaping, 246 Webster Ave., New Rochelle 10801, c/o Mayra Alejandra Pulido. Filed March 19.

Sole Proprietorships

Sleep Hollow Ink, 42 Hudson St., Sleepy Hollow 10591, c/o Krista Madsen. Filed March 18.

Angles Décor Hut, 24 S. 8th Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Angela Earlington. Filed March 18.

Bachuemedia, 4 Horton Lane, apt. A, Cortlandt Manor 10567, c/o Jose Alvarez. Filed March 18.

Custom Cold Brew, 220 Westchester Ave., Mount Vernon 10552, c/o Mario Sama. Filed March 19.

CuzhigHome Improvements, 15 Dobbs Ferry Road, White Plains 10607, c/o Wilson O. Carchipulla. Filed March 18.

Eva’s Golden Spoon Jamaican Restaurant and Jerk Center, 326 S. Columbus Ave., Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Eva Gidden.

Filed March 18.

Galan Carpentry, 74 Maple Ave., apt. 1, Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Vicente A. Gualan Zhunaula.

Filed March 18.

J.O. Home Improvements, 12 West Street Ext., apt. 1, Mount Kisco 10549, c/o Javier D. Ortega Martinez. Filed March 18.

JM Party Linens Rentals, 93 Wildey St., Tarrytown 10591, c/o Jheny Merchan. Filed March 19.

Stop Time Records, 399 N. Broadway, apt. 3BW, Yonkers 10701, c/o Matt Garrison. Filed March 18.

HUDSON VALLEY BUILDING LOANS Below $1 million Hudson Valley Contracting Group Inc., New Hampton, as owner. Lender: Libertyville Capital Group II LLC, Montgomery. Property: 62-64 S. Church St., Goshen. Amount: $150,000. Filed April 17.

DEEDS Above $1 million CVS Albany LLC, Woonsocket, R.I. Seller: Dominick Tiberio, et al, Tivoli. Property: 7568 N. Broadway, Red Hook 12571. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed April 16.

Echo Lake NY LLC, Petaluma, Calif. Seller: Concrete Properties LLC, Middletown. Property: 41 Echo Lake Road and Echo Lake Road, Goshen and Wawayanda. Amount: $6.2 million. Filed April 16.

Below $1 million 80 Springs LLC, Brooklyn.

Seller: Shmonie Corp., Brooklyn.

Property: 80 Seven Springs Road, Highland Mills 10930. Amount: $837,500. Filed April 16.

9 Fort Worth Place LLC, Brooklyn. Seller: George C. Hegarty, et al, Monroe. Property: in Blooming Grove. Amount: $161,000. Filed April 15.

Affinite Home Place LLC, Middletown. Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

Property: 2906 Whispering Hills Drive, Chester 10918. Amount: $138,500. Filed April 15.

Cornwall Park Townhouses LLC, et al, New York. Seller: Cornwall Park Townhouses LLC, New York. Property: 17 Brewster Road, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Amount: $7.3 million. Filed April 15.

Del Cid Real Estate LLC, Suffern. Seller: Sophia Michael, Kingston. Property: in Kingston.

Amount: $100,000. Filed April 15.

Delryn Development LLC, Scituate, Mass. Seller: Bank of America N.A. Property: 40 E. Forest Trail, Holmes 12531. Amount: $315,000. Filed April 15.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Melvin P. Spivak, Poughkeepsie. Property: 7 Orchard Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Amount: $400,000. Filed April 15.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Richard Riley.

Property in Monroe. Amount: $131,750. Filed April 15.

DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc. Seller: Kimberly A. Pezzo, Lloyd.

Property in Lloyd. Amount: $150,000. Filed April 16.

Duncan Road LLC, Saratoga Springs. Seller: Patrick Michael Hutchings, et al, San Antonio, Texas. Property in Beekman.

Amount: $260,000. Filed April 14.

Echo Lake NY LLC, Petaluma, Calif. Seller: Tetz Family LLC, Middletown. Property: 2832 Route 17M, Goshen. Amount: $735,000. Filed April 16.

Fannie Mae. Seller: J. Benjamin Gailey, Walden. Property: 28 Owens Drive, Highland Mills 10930.

Amount: $468,986. Filed April 17.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Chereese Council, New Windsor. Property: 251 Ruth Court, Middletown 10940.

Amount: $57,643. Filed April 16.

Al Twal LLC, Wappingers Falls.

Seller: Chester Herman Gordon, Poughkeepsie. Property: 23-25 Cottage St., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Amount: $46,000. Filed April 15.

Alex Properties LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Fakhouri Holdings LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Property: 40 Eastern Parkway, Poughkeepsie 12601. Amount: $70,000. Filed April 14.

Art:Optimism:Inc., New York.

Seller: The City of Newburgh, Newburgh. Property: 36 Carter St., Newburgh. Amount: $15,000.

Filed April 15.

BWBI LLC, Hopewell Junction.

Seller: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Property: 297 Walsh Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Amount: $144,000. Filed April 17.

Champion Properties Inc., Hyde Park. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 174 Cardinal Road, Hyde Park 12538. Amount: $81,000. Filed April 10.

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc. Seller: Juliana LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: 88 Highland Ave., Middletown 10940. Amount: $372,826. Filed April 15.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Juliana LoBiondo, Newburgh. Property: 11 Sanfordville Road, Warwick 10990.

Amount: $198,994. Filed April 15.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: John Bach Jr., Goshen. Property: 283½ E. Main St., Middletown 10940.

Amount: $115,514. Filed April 17.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Leslie A. Baum, Walden. Property: 532 Route 42, Sparrowbush 12780.

Amount: $199,322. Filed April 14.

Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Mark Specthrie, Middletown. Property: 12 Hudson View Terrace, Newburgh 12550. Amount: $213,601. Filed April 14.

Federal National Mortgage Corp. Seller: Robert Rossi, Ossining. Property: 649 Ulster Heights Road, Ellenville 12428. Amount: $176,600. Filed April 16.

PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY AND THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY ASSOCIATION (WCA) SEEK NOMINATIONS FOR THE ANNUAL

PURCHASE COLLEGE SCIENCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD to a Westchester-based scientist whose work has made a significant contribution to his/her business or industry • Scientific excellence • Business and science integration • Vision and innovation

• Social responsibility • Positive role model for future generation

Submit your outstanding scientist at www.purchase.edu/scienceaward by Friday, April 3rd, 2015. The award will be announced Tuesday, May 19th at WCA’s “Health Tech ’15: Fueling Innovation in Westchester” Conference at the Doubletree Hotel, Tarrytown.

PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS: Dr. John Eldridge, Profectus Biosciences; Dr. Judith Spitz, Verizon; Dr. David Valenzuela and Dr. Andrew Murphy, Regeneron; Dr. Andrew Blight, Acorda Therapeutics

Congregation Avnei Zedek, Monroe. Seller: 8 Carter Lane LLC, Monroe. Property: in Monroe. Amount: $260,000. Filed April 17.

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

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FACTS & FIGURES Flagstar Bank F.S.B. Seller: Robert W. Fink Jr., Goshen. Property: 108 McEwen St., Warwick 10990. Amount: $180,000. Filed April 15.

Ming Jin Realty Inc., Florida.

Seller: David Graves, et al, Pine Bush. Property: 16 S. Main St., Florida 10921. Amount: $488,000.

Filed April 17.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Edward Gurnee, et al, Newport News, Va. Property: 145 South St., Marlboro 12542. Amount: $186,233. Filed April 13.

Harriman 17M Corp., Monroe.

Seller: Harriman 63 LLC, Monroe.

Property: in Monroe. Amount: $106,800. Filed April 17.

NBC Properties LLC, Fair Lawn, N.J. Seller: North Plank Development Company LLC, Newburgh. Property: 142 Johnson St., Newburgh 12550. Amount: $39,000. Filed April 17.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Seller: Jack E. Schachner, Pleasant Valley. Property: 97 Rudd Pond Road, Millerton 12546. Amount: $195,500. Filed April 17.

HSBC Bank USA N.A. Seller: Michele Perez, et al, Pawling.

Property: 9 Washington Court, Pawling 12564. Amount: $183,000. Filed April 14.

OWB REO LLC, Pasadena, Calif.

Seller: Diane P. Foley, Wappingers Falls. Property: 62 W. Main St., Pawling 12564. Amount: $214,000. Filed April 16.

International Impact Associates LLC, Hyde Park.

Seller: Muller and McLean Inc., Hopewell Junction. Property in Hyde Park. Amount: $449,000.

Filed April 16.

Polite By Design LLC, Beacon.

Seller: Sylvia E. Olaker-Davis, Beacon. Property in Beacon.

Amount: $15,000. Filed April 16.

Jade Post LLC, Larchmont. Seller: Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. Property in East Fishkill. Amount: $80,000. Filed April 13.

Ray Spiak Inc., Florida. Seller: Lokam Realty LC, Middletown.

Property in Mount Hope.

Amount: $135,000. Filed April 14.

JAH LLC, Goshen. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Property: 31 Woodcrest Lane, Goshen 10924.

Amount: $239,000. Filed April 16.

Jefvin LLC, Poughkeepsie.

Seller: GMG Property LLC, Poughkeepsie. Property in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $35,000.

Filed April 16.

JJBR Partners LLC, Sloatsburg.

Seller: County of Orange, Goshen. Property in Highland Falls.

Amount: $20,000. Filed April 14.

Livingston Park Associates LLC, Hyde Park. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 83 Livingston St., Saugerties 12477. Amount: $39,156. Filed April 13.

Mid-County Development Corp., Middletown. Seller: James Barnett, et al, Bloomingburg.

Property: 75 Maltese Drive, Wallkill. Amount: $651,500. Filed April 17.

Mid-County Development Corp., Middletown. Seller: OM Venture Inc., Chester. Property: 1219 Dolsontown Road, Middletown. Amount: $393,300. Filed April 17.

Mike Spiak Inc., Florida. Seller: Lokam Realty LC, Middletown.

Property: in Mount Hope.

Amount: $180,000. Filed April 14.

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Shafer’s LLC, New York. Seller: Louis DeCarolis, et al, Red Hook.

Property in Red Hook. Amount: $525,000. Filed April 10.

Shiloh Business Enterprises LLC, Circleville. Seller: Fannie Mae. Property: 82 Hammond St., Port Jervis 12771. Amount: $35,000. Filed April 14.

Snoozepickle LLC, Hopewell Junction. Seller: Randy I. Pardell, Poughkeepsie. Property: 51 Kingwood Park, Poughkeepsie.

Amount: $855,000. Filed April 14.

The Bank of New York Mellon. Seller: Deborah WeismanEstis, New Windsor. Property: 40 Woodland Circle S., Monroe 10950. Amount: $128,659. Filed April 17.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Carla S. Wise, Goshen. Property: 35 S. Miller St., Newburgh 12550.

Amount: $306,609. Filed April 16.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Douglas Perkins, et al, Goshen. Property: 5 Chardavoyne Road, Warwick 10990. Amount: $334,400. Filed April 16.

U.S. Bank N.A. Seller: Laurence A. Clemente, Goshen. Property: 2109 Whispering Hills, Chester 10918. Amount: $266,707. Filed April 14.

U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Seller: Gerald A. Hoogmoed, et al, Goshen. Property: 55 Little York Road, Warwick 10990. Amount: $214,630. Filed April 16.

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Wetherole Realty LLC, New York. Seller: 10702 Winnikee Holdings LLC, New York. Property in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $37,000. Filed April 14.

Woodstock Musika LLC, New York. Seller: Mark Peritz, Woodstock. Property: 87 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock 12498. Amount: $440,000. Filed April 16.

Wren House LLC, Hyde Park.

Seller: Michael Ostrow, et al, Rhinebeck. Property: in Hyde Park. Amount: $75,000. Filed April 16.

Zucca AuDo LLC, Poughkeepsie. Seller: Ralph Joseph Merritt, Highland. Property: 14 N. Clover St., Poughkeepsie. Amount: $120,000. Filed April 16.

JUDGMENTS Amazin Express LLC, Saugerties. $1,164 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

Black Dog Industries LLC, Saugerties. $24,981 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed April 16.

Certified Marina LLC, Connelly. $6,536 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 16.

Fill-N-Shop Inc., Kingston. $89,896 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

Horvath Consulting Inc., Saugerties. $1,017 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

Infinite Builders and Contractors Company LLC, Highland. $204 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 16.

Jet Prefab LLC, Kingston. $9,500 in favor of Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed April 15.

LGSS Corp., Highland. $16,485 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

Sabor Latino Catering Corp., Middletown. $2,387 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Dec. 16.

Shamrock Equestrian LLC, Warwick. $3,373 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 16.

Sitework Estimating Services Inc., Monroe. $180 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Dec. 16.

MAJC LLC, d.b.a. Sun Kissed, Saugerties. $852 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

Storm King Ltd., New Windsor. $525 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 16.

Martelly Painting Inc., Bloomington. $5,713 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed April 16.

Superior Roofing of Ulster County Inc., Saugerties. $2,983 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

MCB Transportation Corp., Pine Bush. $601 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

Ultimate Auto Inc., Highland. $172 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

Metro Hardwood Floors Inc., Middletown. $1,009 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed Dec. 16.

Mina’s Kitchen 01 Corp., Monroe. $11,860 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 16.

Poverty Barn, New Paltz. $7,405 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 16.

Quisqueya Mini Market Corp., Kingston. $1,821 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed April 16.

Randazzo’s Italian Restaurant LLC, New Windsor. $6,074 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Dec. 16.

Rey Dell Pollo III Inc., Kingston. $4,517 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

RF Michel Enterprises Inc., d.b.a. Len-Rich Mobile Repairs, Gardiner. $2,684 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany.

Filed April 16.

Wests Ceramic Supply Inc., Highland. $2,109 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed April 13.

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

Alderfer, Douglas, et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $180,000 affecting property at 86 Eighmey Road, Woodstock 12498. Filed April 14.

Alford, Roy S. III, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $460,000 affecting property at 437 Nine Partners Road, Stanford 12514. Filed April 2.

Anjorin, Aladesanmi K., et al.

Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $204,000 affecting property at 603 Broadway, Newburgh 12550.

Filed Sept. 30.

Arango, Jorge L., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $216,000 affecting property at 13 Margaret Lane, Ellenville 12428. Filed April 17.

Arteaga, Ana, et al. Filed by Citifinancial Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $232,474 affecting property at 29 Yates Ave., Poughkeepsie.

Filed March 24.

Bart, Paul S., et al. Filed by Citizens Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,000 affecting property at 2313 Route 300, Shawangunk.

Filed April 16.

Barysh, David L., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $232,941 affecting property at 52 Longview Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 23.

Battista, Anthony, et al. Filed

by TEG Federal Credit Union.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $277,000 affecting property in Amenia.

Filed April 7.

Benjamin, Cynthia, et al.

Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $101,000 affecting property at 13 Plattkill Drive, Mount Marion 12456. Filed April 15.

Bennett, Jason, individually and on behalf of the estate of Sheila Bennett, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $232,500 affecting property at 47 Meyer Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 24.

Blasse, Nethelbert, et al.

Filed by Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,000 affecting property at 181 Mansion St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed April 7.

Bonaparte, Henry, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $205,800 affecting property at 105 Sutton Park Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 30.

FACTS & FIGURES Brandt-Chamberlain, Linda S., et al. Filed by First Niagara Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property at 118 Newkirk Ave., Kingston 12401.

Filed April 13.

Coughlin, Lisa A., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Financial Credit Services New York Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $99,840 affecting property at 18 Spring St., Chelsea 12512. Filed April 1.

Ettinger, Michael L., et al.

Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $1.5 million affecting property at 93 Mill Road, Rhinebeck 12572. Filed March 25.

Hagan, Daniel, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 32 Dooley Drive, Saugerties 12477. Filed April 17.

Knesnik, Kathy, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $317,500 affecting property at 34 Tina Lane, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed March 30.

Brokaw, Parris, et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property at 48 Rombout Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 23.

Davidson, Willie J. Sr., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $341,905 affecting property at 18 Mina Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed March 25.

Feldi, Tiffany R., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $352,000 affecting property at 7 Alan Road, Fishkill 12524. Filed April 3.

Koegler, May, et al. Filed by James B. Nutter and Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $505,875 affecting property at 17 Pilgrims Progress Road, Rhinebeck 12572. Filed March 23.

Delgado, Gloria M., et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $445,000 affecting property located at 19 Rita Lane, LaGrangeville 12540.

Filed March 24.

Ferrara, Eric J., et al. Filed

by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $107,560 affecting property located at 345 Church St., Poughkeepsie 12601.

Filed April 1.

Hanson, Andres, as heir at law and next of kin of Roberta P. Hildebrand, et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 178 Titusville Road, Poughkeepsie 12603.

Filed April 6.

Burlingame, Mark, et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 459 Shelley Hill Road, Stanfordville 12581.

Filed March 30.

Dichiaro, Phyllis, et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 250 Beechwood Ave., no. 7A, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 25.

Floyd, Gail, individually and as administratrix of the estate of Geneva H. Johnson, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $182,400 affecting property at 31 Peacock Lane, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 30.

Calder, Vicki, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $269,750 affecting property at 236 Carol Lane, Fishkill 12524.

Filed April 3.

Doherty, Kate, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $45,500 affecting property at 120 Kawlija Road, Denning 12725. Filed April 16.

Carevic, Amy M., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $326,857 affecting property at 254 Bedford Lane, Fishkill 12524. Filed April 1.

Duff y, John J., et al. Filed by Keybank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $70,000 affecting property at 88 Cambridge Drive, Red Hook 12571. Filed April 6.

Carpio, William, et al. Filed

by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $160,000 affecting property at 112 Cedar St., Kingston 12401. Filed April 16.

Duprey-Lesesne, Dianne, as administratrix and heir at law and next of kin of William Lesesne, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $217,500 affecting property at 2 Wood Lane, Beacon 12508. Filed March 30.

Bruno, Louis J., et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property at 22 Pine Ridge Road, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 6.

Conklin, Peggy, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 48 Plank Road, Napanoch 12458.

Filed April 14.

Cooper-Forbes, Lystra, et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $288,583 affecting property at 24 Bannister Lane, Wingdale 12594.

Filed April 6.

Cotto, Phillip, et al. Filed by Hudson City Savings Bank.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $521,700 affecting property at 244 Buttonwood Way, Hopewell Junction.

Filed March 25.

Dzuliashvili, Ariane, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $208,158 affecting property at 241 Pinehill Road, Pleasant Valley 12569. Filed April 1.

Ellyn, Maura, et al. Filed by MASTR Asset Backed Securities Trust 2005-AB1. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $80,000 affecting property at 52 Canal Road, High Falls 12440. Filed April 17.

Gabiger, Christopher S., et al.

Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $235,084 affecting property at 689 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 6.

Gramstad, Robert M., et al.

Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $224,500 affecting property at 13 Westwood Drive, Newburgh.

Filed Sept. 30.

Gregory, Damien M., et al.

Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $231,649 affecting property at 48 Kevin Heights, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 23.

Grispin, Keith, et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $142,000 affecting property at 326 Cricket Hill Road, Dover Plains 12522. Filed March 23.

Gulnick, Burton Jr., Ulster county commissioner of finance, as administrator of the estate of William C. Wiegert, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $193,500 affecting property at 16 Ora Place, Kingston 12401.

Filed April 14.

Harding, Christine, et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property at 40 Meadowbrook Lane, Wingdale 12594. Filed March 24.

Harmon, Kathleen, et al. Filed

by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $131,200 affecting property at 20 White Gate Drive, unit L, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed March 26.

Hasher, Kimberly P., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $188,000 affecting property at 11 Maple Lane, Westbrookville 12785. Filed Sept. 30.

Hendrickson, Keri-Lyn M., et al. Filed by CitiMortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 7 Linda Ann Drive, Wallkill 12589.

Filed April 16.

Hubbard, Sean E., et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $102,850 affecting property at 34 Spring St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 23.

Kapsa, Lillian E., individually and as surviving spouse of George E. Kapsa, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $375,000 affecting property at 10 Trow Blvd., Red Hook 12571. Filed March 23.

Kinkel, Jennifer, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $264,800 affecting property at 59 Julie Drive, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed March 31.

Lumpkin, Faith O., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $272,700 affecting property at 430 Third St., Newburgh 12550. Filed Sept. 30.

Lund, Deborah, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $455,000 affecting property at 3 Earlwood Park Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 31.

Kramer, David, et al. Filed by Green Tree Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $275,000 affecting property at 321 Mckinstry Road, Gardiner 12525. Filed April 17.

Macarthur, George Scott, et al. Filed by E*Trade Bank.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $147,250 affecting property at 23 Village Park Drive, Fishkill 12524. Filed March 24.

Kusins, Gilbert, et al. Filed by JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 419 Hillside Road, Monroe 10950.

Filed Sept. 30.

Marron, Eugene F., et al.

Filed by Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $245,945 affecting property at 112 Greenwood Drive, Beacon 12508. Filed March 24.

Lacourt, Gildo D., et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $270,655 affecting property at 2 Rosewood Lane, Wingdale 12594. Filed April 6.

Maselli, Dawn, et al. Filed

by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $353,000 affecting property at 21 Underhill Road, Poughquag 12570. Filed March 23.

Lauffer, John B., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $275,000 affecting property at 26 Trow Blvd., Red Hook 12571. Filed March 24.

McCray, Valerie S., et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $108,000 affecting property at 6 Whitegate Drive, apt. H, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Filed March 31.

Lazaros, Harry Jr., et al. Filed

by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property at 176 Overhill Road, Stormville 12582. Filed March 25.

Lee, George, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $292,000 affecting property at 132 Tompkins Road, LaGrangeville 12540. Filed April 7.

McIntosh, Gladys L., et al.

Filed by Urban Financial of America LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $142,500 affecting property at 24 Harrison St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed April 2.

Milczanoski, Annmarie, et al.

Filed by M&T Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $55,000 affecting property at 212 Quarry Road, Kingston 12401. Filed April 15.

Lewoc, Anthony M., et al.

Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $192,500 affecting property at 10 Fawn Road, Saugerties 12477. Filed April 17.

Miller, Mark H., et al. Filed

by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $367,979 affecting property at 8 Short Hill Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 6.

Lopez, Linda M., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $338,400 affecting property at 63 Cardinal Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 24.

Miller, Michael H., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $246,453 affecting property at 23 Schyler Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 23.

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FACTS & FIGURES Moyer, Kevin A., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $301,767 affecting property at 215 Roosevelt Road, Hyde Park 12538. Filed March 30.

Robertson, Mariyon, et al.

Filed by Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $435,002 affecting property at 5282 Route 82, Salt Point 12578.

Filed March 31.

Sheets, Robert Walter Jr., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $229,500 affecting property at 97 Lodge Road, Saugerties 12477. Filed April 15.

Negersmith, Nickita, et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $107,000 affecting property at 238 Hosner Mountain Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed March 30.

Rondinelli, Bruna F., et al.

Filed by Citibank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $319,500 affecting property at 468 S. Ohioville Road, New Paltz 12561. Filed April 13.

Smith, Kim E., et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $112,500 affecting property at 8 Hoffman Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed April 3.

Ovalles, Bienvenido, et al.

Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 20 Jackson Ave., Marlboro 12542.

Filed April 15.

Rose, Michael P., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $388,000 affecting property at 48 Palen Road, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed March 23.

Sneyd, Monica A., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $237,000 affecting property at 5 Blackthorn Loop, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed March 31.

Pagano, Janet L., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $252,000 affecting property at 1399 Route 82, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed March 31.

Patterson, Dolores, et al. Filed

by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,125 affecting property at 4 Dutchess Terrace, Beacon 12508. Filed April 1.

Rotar, Candid, et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $357,000 affecting property at 148 Cart Road, Dover Plains 12522. Filed March 27.

Sordi, Louis P., et al. Filed by Bayview Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $171,725 affecting property at 247 Osborne Hill Road, Fishkill 12524. Filed March 31.

Rothe, Richard J., et al. Filed

by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property at 1358 Route 212, Saugerties 12477. Filed April 16.

Stein, John J., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $212,000 affecting property at 5803 Chelsea Cove N., Hopewell Junction 12533.

Filed March 30.

Puhalski, John, et al. Filed by Mortgage Electronic Registration Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,535 affecting property at 98 Crum Elbow Road, Hyde Park 12538.

Filed April 7.

Rumpf, Jeffrey, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $324,800 affecting property at 8 Orbit Lane, Hopewell Junction 12533. Filed April 6.

Strong, Darlene D., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $194,930 affecting property in Poughkeepsie. Filed March 24.

Rahman, Zakiyah Abdur, et al. Filed by PennyMac Corp.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $196,100 affecting property at 276 Ingrassia Road, Middletown 10940. Filed Sept. 30.

Sawaked, Yousef I., et al. Filed

by West Coast Servicing Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 40 Bement Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 24.

Taylor, Laura M., et al. Filed

by Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $316,565 affecting property at 13 Dara Lane, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed April 3.

Relyea, Amanda L., et al. Filed

by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 19 Bella’s Way, Hyde Park 12601. Filed March 24.

Schwartzberg, Stuart, et al.

Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property at 20 Gerhard Court, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed March 31.

Terwilliger, James A., et al.

Filed by Keybank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $100,000 affecting property at 10 Old Highway 209, Stone Ridge 12484. Filed April 14.

Reynolds, David J., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $115,000 affecting property at 25 Balding Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed March 23.

Shaffer, Patricia A., individually and heir to the estate of Claude Shaffer Jr., et al. Filed

by U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $161,696 affecting property at 22 Willow Cross Road, Hyde Park 12538. Filed April 7.

Richter, Travis M., et al. Filed

by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $162,011 affecting property at 79 Grandview Ave., Kingston 12401. Filed April 13.

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The estate of Jack W. Elder, et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $60,000 affecting property at 85 Carmine Drive, no. C-3, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Filed April 6.

The Estate of Nazareth Flory Sr., et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,000 affecting property at 300 Ketchamtown road, unit c12, Wappingers Falls 12590.

Filed April 10.

The estate of William H. Rhoades, et al. Filed by Household Finance Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $209,479 affecting located in Poughkeepsie. Filed March 31.

Thomas, Widmarc, et al. Filed

by LaSalle Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $335,920 affecting property at 9 Jogee Road, Middletown 10940. Filed Sept. 30.

Tornatore, Andrea A., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $79,749 affecting property located at 5 Trotting Drive, Chester 10918.

Filed Sept. 30.

Townsend, Jason M., et al.

Filed by Ulster Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $282,000 affecting property at 1288 Route 9G, Hyde Park 12538. Filed March 24.

Unknown heirs at law of Tonia Parise, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $94,530 affecting property at 660 Lakewood Road, Pine Bush 12566. Filed April 17.

Urban Builders Inc., et al.

Filed by Eric Goldfine Serpt.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $325,000 affecting property at 121 Ackert Hook Road, Rhinebeck 12572.

Filed March 23.

Weiss, Ira, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $131,000 affecting property at 31 W. Pine Road and Route 9G, Staatsburg 12580. Filed April 7.

Wellington, Victoria M., et al.

Filed by Christiana Trust. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,000 affecting property at 147 Fulton St., Poughkeepsie. Filed March 27.

Wolensky, James M., et al.

Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $95,000 affecting property at 32 Greentree Drive N., Hyde Park 12538. Filed March 30.

Woolcock, Jacqueline, et al.

Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $157,916 affecting property at 14 Gray St., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed March 26.

Zuzunaga, Edwards, et al.

Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $340,000 affecting property at 28 Ervin Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed March 23.

MECHANIC’S LIENS 114 Hartley Road LLC, Goshen, as owner. $3,510 as claimed by BlueLine Rental LLC, New Windsor. Property: 114 Hartley Road, Goshen. Filed April 17.

Primestar Fund I TRS Inc., as owner. $600 as claimed by A+ Outdoors, Tivoli. Property: 18 Toms Way, Red Hook. Filed April 10.

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

Doing Business As 1795 Café Inc., d.b.a. Mama Theresa’s Café and Pizzeria, 1795 Route 32, suite 100, New Windsor 12553. Filed July 3.

Bilal Enterprise Inc., d.b.a.

Kwik Mart, 101A N. Main St., Florida 10921. Filed July 3.

Realtime Technology Group Inc., d.b.a. RTG Lighting, 680 Route 211 E., suite 3B, no. 341, Middletown 10941. Filed July 3.

Scotchtown Physical Therapy P.C., d.b.a. Chester Physical Therapy, 101 Brookside Ave., Chester 10918. Filed July 3.

The Blue Shoe Inc., d.b.a. Blue Services, 15 Prag Blvd., no. 111, Monroe 10950. Filed July 3.

Town of Wallkill Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc., d.b.a.

Town of Wallkill Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 22 Maltese Drive, Middletown 10940. Filed July 3.

Town of Wallkill Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc., d.b.a.

TOWVAC, 22 Maltese Drive, Middletown 10940. Filed July 3.

Sole Proprietorships American Needleworks, 10 North St., Middletown, c/o James A. Prather. Filed July 3.

Apples and Oranges, 316 Broadway, Port Ewen 12466, c/o Kristin Nastaszewski. Filed April 13.

Arkansas Tom’s Razorback BBQ, 31 Gristmill Road, Tillson 12486, c/o Thomas Edward Hogan Jr. Filed April 15.

Bird Bath, 26 Church St., Phoenicia 12464, c/o Barbara A. Mansfield. Filed April 16.

CIRIC Holdings, 26 Frederick Drive, Lake Katrine 12449, c/o John Ricci. Filed April 17.

CJC Beads and Bags, 624 Creekside Road, Kingston 12401, c/o Cathy Lewis Conlin. Filed April 13.

Classical Conversations of Pompton Plains, 276 Temple Hill Road, unit 106, New Windsor 12553, c/o Rachael Lewinson.

Filed July 1.

Cleantech of the Hudson Valley, 1439 Route 208, Wallkill 12589, c/o Peter A. Ingellis. Filed April 16.

Creatique Carpentry, 47 Black Hawk Trail, Gardiner 12525, c/o Christopher D. Moon. Filed April 13.

Denes G. Painting, 852 Albany Post Road, New Paltz 12561, c/o Denes Gutai. Filed April 13.

James W. Cannon, P.O. Box 153, West Park 12493, c/o James W. Cannon. Filed April 15.

JazzyBean, 1209 Meadowbrook Circle, New Paltz 12561, c/o Rachel E. Moreau. Filed April 16.

Keefe Hollow Outfitting Co., 1379 Sawkill Road, Kingston 12401, c/o Timothy W. Keefe.

Filed April 17.

Laser’s Edge, 34 Buckley St., Port Jervis 12771, c/o John D. Simonson. Filed July 2.

Mad Mike Technologies, 118 Sterling Place, Highland 12528, c/o Michael Zanck. Filed April 13.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: FETE BOITE, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/30/2015. 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, 63 2nd Street, Harrison, New York 10528, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #59886 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: FPT Consulting, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/24/14. Office location: Westchester County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 34 Waterview Drive, Ossining, NY 10562 #59888 3 TO 5 DESIGN & CONSULTING LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/6/15. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 538 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook, NY 10573. General Purposes. #59889 Notice of Formation of Jawdropper Innovations, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/12/15. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY design. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, United States Corporation Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59890 Notice of formation of: Start Med Life, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 1/27/15. Office location: Westchester Co. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1155 Warburton Ave, #4S Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful business activity #59891 Notice of Formation of Private Care Registered Professional Nursing, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/18/15. Office in Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC, c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose #59893 Notice of Formation of Gosling Media, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/3/15. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 12 Gene Place, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59895

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Notice of formation of CONEXIS MEDIA, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/14. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 9 Beck Ave Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: Any lawful Purpose #59896 AKKRO LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/5/15.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Poko Management, 225 Westchester Ave., Pt. Chester, NY 10573.

General Purposes. #598971 FAMILY WELLNESS PHYSICAL THERAPY LLC, a Prof. LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/06/2015. Office loc: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Vernon Drive, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: To Practice The Profession Of Physical Therapy. #59902 Notice of Formation of JOEBMW MOTORSPORT, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/3/15. 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, 20 Skywood Court, Yonkers, NY 10710. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59903 CHT 888 LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/12/15.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Greene Leins & Ryan, 100 Executive Blvd., Ste. 206, Ossining, NY 10562-2564.

General Purposes. #59904 Notice of Formation of A & G REALTY CONSULTANTS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/12/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water St. #204, White Plains, NY 10601.

Purpose: all lawful activities. #59905 Notice of Formation of 72 FAIRWAY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/17/14.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC,1111 Boston Post Rd, Rye, NY 10580. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59906 Notice of Formation of Spark Capital L.L.C. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/03/2015. 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, 14 Hudson View Way, Tarrytown, NY 10591. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59907

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Notice of Formation of 138 Fox Meadow LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/9/2015. NY Office location: WESTCHESTER County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to The LLC, 875 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 400, Mamaroneck, New York 10543. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #59908 Notice of formation of SALTEEN MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/30/15. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 42 Westminster Ct New Rochelle, NY 10801.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose #59909 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: NYC Maintenance Services, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/26/13. 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, 220 Pelham Road, Suite 6C, New Rochelle, NY 10805, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #59910 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MALABAR REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/22/2013. 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 theLLC served upon him is: LAGEN CHEMMALAKUZHIYIL JOSE The principal business address of the LLC is: 96 Oregon Road, Cortlandt Manor,NY-10567. Purpose: any lawful act or activity #59911 D & S HOMES DEVELOPMENT LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/17/15. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, c/o John DíAgostino, Member, 52 Wilgarth Rd., Bronxville, NY 10708. General purpose. #59912 Notice of Formation of Marc M. Coupey Law, PLLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/5/15. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at 441 Saw Mill River Rd., Millwood, NY 10546.

Purpose: practice of law. #59913

Notice of Formation of Nexcelerate, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 01/15/2015.

Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59914 Notice of Formation of Kache Beauty, LLC. Art of Org. filed with SSNY on 1/21/2015. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. As agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59915 Notice of Formation of Double Black Ventures, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/15. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom may be served. SSNYshall mail process to the LLC, 217 N. Highland Ave Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59916 Westchester Gardens Assisted Living Program, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/1/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, c/o Joshua Peckman, 2208 Rosemont St., N. Bellmore, NY 11710. General purpose. #59917 10 FLORENCE AVE, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/26/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Marc Castaldi, 32 High St., Rye, NY 10580. General purpose. #59918 Notice of Formation of Capital Cookhouse, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 3/18/14. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 7014 13th Ave, suite 202 Brooklyn,NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59920

by STORM LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/21/15.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 57 Tisdale Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583. General purpose. #59921 DIAMOND SOLAR VI, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/12/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 333 N. Bedford Rd., Ste. 145, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.

General purpose. #59922

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ñ COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER INDEX # 70704/13 FILED: 3/24/2015 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates Westchester County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated. OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff(s), against DORIS GASTON, KOWAN LYONS, unknown heirs at law of ARETHA LYONS and if they be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of who and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JOHN DOE #1 through JOHN DOE #12, the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, the United States Of America And New York State Department Of Taxation and Finance, Defendant(s).

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOU CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not serviced with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage bearing the date June 21, 2007, executed by ARETHA LYONS AND DORIS GASTON to BANK OF AMERICA to secure the sum of $251,500.00 and recorded in Document 472040432, in the Office of the CLERK of the County of WESTCHESTER on July 30, 2007, which mortgage was assigned to OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC., by assignment of mortgage which is dated June 21,2007, covering premises known as 19 Belknap Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10710-5403, (Section 3 Block 3145 and Lot 42.43). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Sam D. Walker, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed along with the supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester on March 19, 2015. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements hereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Yonkers, County of Westchester and State of New York. Section 3 Block 3145 and Lot 42.43 said premises known as 19 Belknap Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10710-5403. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly demanded: the entire principal balance of $249,760.93 to be immediately due and payable under the mortgage herein foreclosed, plus interest at the rate calculated in accordance with the provisions of the note from May 1, 2008, together with unpaid late charges in the amount of $332.19 that have accrued prior to this action as of April 9, 2013. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the tollfree helpline maintained by New York state Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Departmentís website at www.banking.state.ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to ìsaveî your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeownerís distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 301, Armonk, NY 10504 #59900

LEGAL NOTICES Gilstar Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 02/21/2013. Office located in Westchester Co. Secy. of State designated as agent upon which process may be served. Secy. of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him/her to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #59923 Notice of formation of SAHD, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/10/15. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 2 Winged Foot Dr Larchmont, NY 10538. Purpose: Any lawful purpose #59924 Notice of Formation of 175177 EAST 64TH STREET ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/15. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water Street #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59925

Notice of Formation of 175-177 EAST 64TH STREET HOLDING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water Street #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59926

Notice of Formation of 184 EAST 64TH STREET ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water Street #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59929

Notice of Formation of BLUESTONE 175-177 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water Street #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59927

Notice of Formation of CASIMIR OPERATIONS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/1/15. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 10 St. Casimir Ave., Yonkers, NY 10701.

Purpose: all lawful activities. #59930

Notice of Formation of 184 EAST 64TH STREET HOLDING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/7/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o THE LLC, 12 Water Street #204, White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: all lawful activities. #59928

Notice of formation of PLLC: RN Private Nursing Care, PLLC filed with SSNY on 3/2/15 Offc.

Loc: Westchester County SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o United States Corp Agents Inc. 7014 13th Ave Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228, Purpose: any lawful purpose, nursing. #59931

Notice of formation of DesignLab29 LLC Art. Of Org. filed with the Sectíy of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/17/2015. 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: 333 Mamaroneck Avenue, Unit 214, White Plains, NY 10605.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #59932 #realness by AlyMarie, LLC Art. of Org filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/13/2015. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been desig as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 68 Loring Ave., Yonkers, NY 10704.

Purpose: any lawful business activity. #59933 STEVE TIRSCH DISTRIBUTORS LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/25/15. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 153 Madison Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583. General purpose. #59934

LEAD THE LEASH LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/13/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Jamie Ianello, 1510 Henry Ave., Mamaroneck, NY 10543.

General purpose. #59935 1201 Pleasantville Road Restaurant Holding Group, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/25/15. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 15 Limestone Rd., Armonk, NY 10504. General purpose. #59936 PBI VENTURES LLC, a domestic LLC, by way of conversion from a general partnership f/k/a PB Investments filed with the SSNY on 1/28/15. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Cary Potkin, 13 Rolling Hills Ln., Harrison, NY 10528. General Purposes. #59937

Notice of Formation of Around Your Town Home Inspections,LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/03/2015. Office in Westchester Counnty. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Ad # 59887

Alexander Technique Bronxville, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/23/15. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 25 Deshon Ave., Bronxville, NY 10708. General purpose. #59938 Notice of Formation CCNA Realty LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY 4/14/15. Off. Loc.: Westchester Cnty. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o the LLC, 165 Wyndcliff Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: all lawful activities #59939

Sweet Nothings Foods, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 3/20/15 beginning 4/1/15 and perpetually existing. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Roni L. Jacobson, Esq., 5 Old House Lane, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Purpose: any lawful activity. Dana Jacobson, Organizer (signature), 1 City Place, #1909, White Plains, NY 10601, the business address Ad # 59901

Notice of Formation of Direct Care Carrier, LLC (ìLLCî) Art. Of Org filled with NY Secretary of State (ìSSNYî) on July 6, 2013 pursuant to Limited Liability Company law. Office Location: Westchester Country. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC shall be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to Sasha Guillaume, 134 Poningo St., Port Chester, NY 10573. Purpose: Any Lawful Activity. #59940

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NUISANCE FEES NO MORE NEW YORK AXES 57 IN STATE BUDGET

BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

Nuisance, be gone.

The state of New York this year will cease and desist from collecting 57 fees charged by various state agencies.

Applied to everything from lasers to ski tows to antique boilers to slot machines to commissaries serving migrant farm laborers, the so-called nuisance fees include a $10 charge to get one’s name on a cease-and-desist list to stop nuisance calls from real estate professionals.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo this month announced the repeal of the nuisance fees as part of the 2015-16 state budget. Businesses and individuals will save approximately $3 million annually, according to state officials.

“These nuisance fees created unnecessary red tape and placed an undue burden on businesses, while at the same time resulted in no significant revenues for the state,” Cuomo said in the announcement. “This action will eliminate unnecessary costs and paperwork, helping to allow these businesses to reinvest and grow in New York.”

Here is the complete list of fees repealed in the state budget adopted this month. Savings will begin in this fiscal year.

• Biennial Statement Filing Fee: A $9 filing fee collected at the time of filing corporate biennial information statements. The information will instead be included on the corporate tax return.

• Boiler Shop Survey Fee: A $600 regulatory fee charged every three years to boiler manufacturers and repairers upon submission to DOL of the required plan detailing their quality control system.

• Building Plans Exam Fee: A maximum $200 fee for property owners or contractors who submit plans to DOL for review and approval to build or alter a place of public assembly.

• Commissary Operator Permit Fee: A $40 fee for commissary operators who apply for a one-year permit to operate a commissary that serves migrant farm workers at the camp or processing plant where they are employed.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE Three fees will be repealed, saving New Yorkers $2.6 million annually.

• Apartment Information Vendor License Fee: A $400 annual fee charged for the licensure of apartment information vendors.

• Biennial Statement Filing Fee: A $9 filing fee collected at the time of filing biennial statement amendments.

• Day of Rest Easement Application Fee: A $40 fee for employers that apply for up to a one-year exemption from the day of rest statute, which requires employees be given one 24- hour period off from work in each calendar week.

• Defense Dispensation Fee: A $40 fee to defense contractors and canneries that apply for a dispensation from certain provisions of the Labor Law. • Farm Grower Permit Fee: A $40 fee to agriculture growers who apply for a one-year permit that allows the grower to employ more than five non-H2A migrant farm workers.

Application Fee: A $100 fee for manufacturers who apply for a one-year permit that allows the manufacturer to distribute unfinished material, such as clothing or jewelry, to employees for completion at their homes.

• Industrial Homework Certificates Homeworker Application Fee: A $25 fee to individuals who apply for a one-year permit to accept and perform industrial work in their homes.

• Laser Regulation Permit Fee: A $600 regulatory fee

charged every three years to organizations that operate lasers.

• Miniature Boiler Inspection Fee: A $50 fee to owners of miniature boilers that must be inspected annually.

• Professional Employer Organization Exemption Fee: A $250 annual fee to professional employer organizations that are already licensed in another state. The organization must have no office and less than 25 employees in New York to qualify for an exemption.

• Professional Employer Organization Initial Registration and Renewal Fees: A $1,000 initial registration fee to professional employer organizations to allow the leasing of employees to businesses in New York. An additional $500 renewal fee is charged annually.

• Scaffold Plan Examination Fee: A $1,000 regulatory

• Cease and Desist List License Fee: A $10 regulatory fee collected from people who wish to be added to the cease-and-desist list that prohibits real estate licensees from contacting or soliciting them.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR A total of 30 fees will be repealed, saving New Yorkers $243,000 annually.

• Antique Boiler Inspection Fees: Two $25 fees charged annually to the owners of antique steam engines and other boilers that must be inspected both internally and externally.

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• Farm Labor Contractor Permit Fee: A $200 fee for farm labor contractors that apply for a one-year permit to transport and provide non-H2A migrant farm workers to a grower.

• Industrial Homework Certificates Employer

fee to businesses for each required submission of detailed scaffold equipment plans that will be used to perform work on buildings taller than 75 feet.

• Ski Tows and Passenger Tramways Fees: A $50 ski tow and $100 ski lift regulatory fees are charged to ski areas and other passenger tramway operators at the time of the annual DOL inspection.

apply for a one-year written assurance from DOL that a subcontractor has complied with certain requirements of the Labor Law.

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD

• Slot Machine Repair License Fees: Two fees charged to approved apprenticeship training programs that possess slot machines for training purposes. These programs require a permit from DOL and pay a $500 fee per machine and an additional $100 fee per trainee every six months.

• Workplace Safety and Loss Certification Application Fee: A $1,000 fee to individuals who apply and are certified to conduct workplace safety and loss prevention consultations.

• Workplace Safety and Loss DOL Consultation Fee: A $350 fee charged to clients who receive a workplace safety and loss prevention consultation from DOL staff.

• Workplace Safety and Loss Incentive Application and Renewal Fees: A $100 regulatory fee to individuals or businesses who apply for certification as a workplace safety and loss prevention management specialist. The fee was assessed per program for a maximum of $300 per individual applicant. A $100 renewal application fee was charged per program every three years for a maximum of $300.

• Workplace Safety and Loss Recertification Application Fee: A $300 regulatory recertification fee charged every three years to individuals certified to conduct workplace safety and loss prevention consultations.

• Workplace Safety and Loss Specialist Certification and Recertification Fees: An $800 fee charged to individuals who receive certification as a workplace safety and loss prevention management specialist. A $600 recertification fee is charged every three years with $100 charged for each additional recertification.

• Written Assurances Fee: A $100 fee charged to apparel industry manufacturers or contractors when they

A total of 12 fees will be repealed, saving New Yorkers $95,000 annually.

• Chiropractic Arbitration Request Fee: A $5 fee paid by a service provider related to any chiropractic dispute or arbitration of a bill handled by the board.

• Claimant’s Representative License Fee: A $100 fee paid by individuals who are licensed with the WCB and represent claimants.

• Hospital Arbitration Request Fee: A $5 fee paid by a service provider related to any hospital dispute or arbitration of a bill.

• Medical Arbitration Request Fee: A $5 fee paid by a service provider for any medical dispute or arbitration of a bill.

• Medical Center Authorization License Fee: A $200 license fee for compensation medical bureaus operated by qualified physicians for the diagnosis and treatment of industrial injuries or illnesses.

• Medical/X-Ray Bureau Authorization License Fee: A $200 license fee paid by compensation medical bureaus operated by qualified physicians for the diagnosis and treatment of industrial injuries or illnesses.

• Podiatry Arbitration Request Fee: A $5 fee paid by a service provider related to any podiatry dispute or arbitration of a bill.

• Psychology Arbitration Request Fee: A $5 fee paid by a service provider related to any psychology dispute or arbitration of a bill.

• Publication Fee: A $5 regulatory fee for purchasing board publications.

• Self Insurer’s Representative License Fee: A $100 license fee paid by a third party administrator and/or selfinsured employer representing employers at board hearings.

• Subpoena Fee: A $15 regulatory fee for subpoenas to obtain board documents.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS Ten fees will be repealed, saving New Yorkers $40,000 annually.

• Commercial Feed License Fee: A $100 annual license fee collected from manufacturers of commercial feed.

• Commercial Feed Tonnage Fee: A 10 cents-per-ton license fee collected annually from commercial feed distributors was amended to establish a minimum reporting requirement. Commercial distributors will be relieved of the nuisance of paying a small annual fee when handling commercial feed of 100 tons or less per year.

• Farm Product Dealer’s License Fee: A $20 license fee collected annually from farm product dealers.

• Food Salvage Fee: A $100 license fee collected from food salvage dealers every two years.

• Liming Brands License Fee: A $40 license fee is collected from suppliers of liming materials every two years.

• Refrigerated Warehouse Fee: A $200 license fee collected from refrigerated warehouses every two years.

• Rendering Transportation Fee: An annual license fee collected from animal-remains transportation facilities.

The fee was $25 per service and $10 per vehicle.

• Rendering Plants Fee: A $100 annual license fee collected from operators of disposal plants and an inspection fee of $10 for each vehicle.

• Seed Potato Inspection Fee: A $34 annual regulatory fee for the inspection of both seed potato plants and seed potato tubers for the NY Seed Improvement Project.

• Soil and Plant Inoculants Fee: A biyearly $20 license fee for sellers of product brands that contain micro-organisms for inoculation purposes.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

• X-Ray Laboratory Authorization License Fee: A $5 license fee paid for a separate laboratory to engage in X-ray diagnosis or treatment of an injured worker.

One fee will be repealed, saving New Yorkers $40,000 annually.

• Intrastate Authority Application Fee: A one-time $50 fee paid by new trucking companies, movers, ambulette providers and charter bus operators.

Department of Environmental Conservation One fee will be repealed, saving New Yorkers $1,000 annually.

• Flood Control Permit Fee: A $25 regulatory fee for a permit to determine if an applicant’s activity will impair the operation and maintenance of flood control works.

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VISIONARY VACUUM? WHAT MAKES SOME AREAS DAZZLING AND OTHERS JUST PLAIN BORING? This Westfair program on development and real estate will reveal the obstacles to creativity in our local towns, villages and cities. Is there a vision vacuum among our elected and appointed officials or are fear, economics and regulations too overwhelming?

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