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Developer of school for autistic youths settled with state

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massive, vacant building in Yorktown that once housed a Catholic seminary and a drug treatment center could become an expensive, private boarding school for autistic youths.

Michael C. Koffler, CEO of K3 Learning Inc., is asking the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency for more than $52.5 million in financial assistance to build Shrub Oak International School.

K3 is a Manhattan-based, for-profit holding company for specialty schools and services that has a recent record of regulatory troubles, including overpaid state reimbursements and underpaid taxes.

Koffler controls 127 acres at 3151 Stoney St. in the northern Westchester hamlet of Shrub Oak, where the Jesuits built Loyola Seminary in 1953 and where Phoenix House Academy treated teens for substance abuse until June 2015.

He has applied for $50 million in taxable industrial development revenue bonds, $1.8 million in sales tax exemptions and a $650,000 mortgage tax exemption. He is negotiating » SHRUB OAK, page 6

Macquarie makes bid to operate Westchester County Airport

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New York City-based infrastructure company is making its case to become the new manager and operator of the Westchester County Airport.

Macquarie Infrastructure Corp., which operates a variety of businesses including the storage

of bulk liquids and gas production and distribution, has responded to the county’s request for proposals to enter into 40-year public-private partnership.

“It’s a community’s decision as to how they handle their airport,” said, Clive Lowe, executive chairman of the Macquarie entity that would operate the airport.

“In the end, if the public-private partnership is the route they’ve

“We understand that market very well,” Lowe said, “but we also run small and major commercial service airports, so the blend of the two in effectively our backyard as a New York company makes this a very compelling opportunity for us.”

Macquarie also has ownership and management interests in eight airports worldwide, including the Brussels Airport, Copenhagen

Airport and Delhi Airport.

Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the company reported net income of $32.6 million in this year’s first quarter, up from $20.2 million during the same period last year. The company is also an affiliate of Macquarie Group Ltd., 13,500-employee, $145 billion global banking conglomerate. Headquartered in Sydney,

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Ossining entrepreneurs won’t gloss over this ex-partner’s deed

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he creators of Flickable lip glosses, a playful product line packaged in lollipop-like dispensers, are crying foul against a Canadian competitor and former partner whom they claim glossed over the niceties of patent and trademarks law with its Lolli Gloss line of lip glosses.

Flickable LLC of Ossining in July sued Factum Partners Inc. of Oakville, Ontario, for patent infringement in U.S. District Court in White Plains.

Flickable is the brainchild of husband and wife Kevin David and Catherine Banks.

The origin story goes back to 2008, when the couple was watching television in their Manhattan apartment and David flicked Banks. She told him to stop flicking. He replied, “But you are so flickable!”

The playful moment became the germ of an idea. David immediately thought of personal care products, he said in a telephone interview, and he eventually settled on the idea of a lollipop-like container for lip gloss.

All lip glosses look the same, he said.

They come in cylinders or wands or squeezable tubes. “The market doesn’t need another lip gloss. What it needs is innovation.

Something that says, 'I’m different. I’m not like everybody else,'” said David.

Their lollipop-like dispenser won an international package design award in 2014.

The couple worked with labs on a formula. The glosses had to be vegan, crueltyfree and gluten-free, David said. They had to provide moisture, softness, a hint of plumping, sparkle, shine and five scents and flavors. They could not be sticky or tacky. “It addresses every woman’s lips, needs and wants,” he said.

The couple, who moved to Ossining from Manhattan in need of more space for their growing three-basset-hound household, invested their savings in designs, molds, tooling and components. Matthew Mendenhall, a professional photographer, and his wife, Erin McMurray, an editorial stylist, from Los Angles, joined in the venture as minority partners.

Working from their Ossining home, they launched the product in the international professional market in 2015, charging salons and spas $18 per unit. David said the glosses were popular but the professional market was the wrong target. The growth opportunity is in the mass market, at $5 per unit, he said.

He said young women ages 16 to 20 are the “strike zone” but anyone with a youthful

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Kevin David and Catherine Banks won an international design award for their lip gloss packaging. Now the Ossining couple wants a U.S. court to award damages for a former partner’s patent and trademark infringement.

state of mind will buy the glosses.

“Someone who has just got out of the gym doesn’t want to eat dessert, but she wants a sweet treat for her lips that doesn’t add to her waistline” said the entrepreneur.

Manufacturing in New Jersey was too expensive, so last year Flickable partnered with the Canadian company, Factum, to find ways to reduce manufacturing costs, increase production and identify worldwide distributors.

Factum agreed to keep Flickable’s product information confidential, the lawsuit says, after which Flickable disclosed customer lists and manufacturing know-how.

David visited two Chinese factories to inspect samples. The work was of poor quality, according to the lawsuit. A plumping agent was missing from the gloss.

Flavors were not distinctive. Packaging was not completed. Flickable found another Chinese company to manufacture the glosses.

Last March, Flickable introduced its mass-market glosses at an international trade show in Bologna, Italy. It is aiming for a spring 2018 launch in the U.S. Flickable and Factum ended their affiliation on May 31, but Factum has refused to return Flickable’s confidential materials, according to the lawsuit. Less than a month after their arrangement collapsed, the Ossining couple discovered that Factum plans to bring out Lolli Gloss by the end of August.

The product similarities are striking.

Lolli Gloss features the same five colors, similar flavors and identical containers as the Flickable line. The Canadian company describes its glosses as cruelty-free and gluten-free and uses the same leaping bunny logo certifying that no animal tests were

used in developing the glosses. Marketing materials mimic Flickable’s design, including the use of the same model in the same pose.

Even the name "Lolli Gloss," the lawsuit says, was mentioned in an email a year ago from David to Factum’s founder and president, Tom Greenwood.

Flickable accuses Factum of breach of contract, trademark infringement, patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets.

Greenwood responded that Factum created, designed and manufactured the Lolli Gloss formula and container for the global market outside of the U.S. “Thus, Factum’s ex-U.S. activities are beyond the reach of any of Flickable’s false and misleading claims of global intellectual property infringement,” said the Canadian.

Flickable wants the court to stop Factum from selling glosses that could be confused with Flickable’s products. It is asking for damages up to $2 million for each type of counterfeit product.

Greenwood who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, said the company will vigorously defend itself. “It is extremely troubling when a company decides to use scare tactics on our partners,” he wrote.

So far, David said, Flickable has not turned a profit, but he thinks the company is about to take off. It has sold 450,000 units and he expects to ship 1.5 million units next year.

David and Banks plan to widen the range of colors and to introduce a lip balm and a lip glaze. That’s just a beginning, David said. The flickable concept can encompass any consumer product that is fun, colorful, fresh.

“It’s a lifestyle,” he said. “You’ve got to live flickable.”

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uBreakiFix brings its cracked-phone expertise to White Plains

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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he customers at uBreakiFix, which last month opened a new White Plains location, often have interesting stories to tell. They have walked in with iPhones that have been dropped from roller coasters, run over by cars and thrown across the room by children.

These types of technological mishaps drive customers to uBreakiFix, a fastgrowing technology repair franchise that has four Westchester locations with its latest launch at 64 Mamaroneck Ave. along White Plains' restaurant row. The company provides same-day repair for a number of electronics and is especially known for handling cracked screens on smart phones.

Seth Berkman, the franchisee for all four county locations, has a cracked-phone tale of his own. It’s how he got in the business. In 2012, the Cortlandt Manor resident was looking for a franchising opportunity, but he wasn't sure exactly what type of business to open. That same year, when on vacation in North Carolina, his wife dropped her

phone and it broke. While searching for a repair, they came across a uBreakiFix location nearby.

Founded in 2009, the company had grown to about 47 stores at that time, which is also when uBreakiFix first started franchising. After rave reviews from his wife, Berkman kept an eye on the company as it began expanding throughout the country.

“The guys that run the company, their values were the same as mine — you do a good job for the customer, it will pay off,” Berkman said.

In 2013, Berkman signed a deal to franchise with the company. In 2014, he opened uBreakiFix locations in Mount Kisco and Scarsdale. In 2016, he opened a location in New Rochelle. uBreakiFix, meanwhile, has grown to include more than 300 locations across the U.S. and Canada, with nearly 700 more in development, according to company literature. The Orlando-based company uses original manufacturers’ parts to repair phones, laptops and even gaming consoles.

Prices vary based on the product and repair it requires. A new screen on an iPhone 7, for example, costs $150.

Berkman also runs his own tech support firm called Berkman Tech and a related Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) company called BT Voice, both based in White Plains. Founding his own companies convinced him to seek the backing of a franchise for his next venture.

“I realized it would be great to have the back-end taken care of for me," he said. "So you can focus on operations and trying to move your mission forward without having to deal with web development, all the behind-the-scenes marketing. It’s draining and expensive.” uBreakiFix's tech-focused business model was a natural fit.

“I realized after looking at all different kinds (of franchises) that unless it was something in my core capabilities, I would be kind of lost,” Berkman said. “So this made sense. It’s an extension of what I do, what I understand.”

The stores are relatively low-cost for entrepreneurs to launch. Berkman said all his stores in Westchester have required between $100,000 and $175,000 in launch costs.

“It is way less expensive to open than any kind of food franchise," he said. "No

kitchen costs, any of that stuff."

The White Plains store is 700-squarefeet with a streamlined interior. There’s a small waiting room, a couple of racks showcasing phone cases and a front desk with two TV monitors mounted behind it. The repairs are done in a workspace in the back of the store. A typical location has between four and five employees, who are provided training on the repair work.

It's finding the right space that can be challenging, Berkman said. Stores typically are 800 to 1,000 square feet. They need to be located on main thoroughfares with good foot traffic. Preferably, Berkman added, they are near a stop light to help get noticed by people in cars. The best spots are also close to wireless carriers, which can refer customers with damaged phones to the repair shop down the street.

“Those spots are few and far between,” Berkman said.

The White Plains store checked off all those boxes. Verizon, Sprint, Cricket, AT&T and T-Mobile all have locations within walking distance. Meanwhile, the location along Mamaroneck Avenue near City Center will provide plenty of foot traffic.

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Cutting-edge treatment for scoliosis brings a surgeon and his patients magnetic results

BY KENDALL BENSCHE kbensche@westfairinc.com

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pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla is using a new technology-aided surgical procedure to spare young patients the pain, physiological risks and social setbacks of traditional treatment for scoliosis, a curvature of the spine that affects an estimated 6 million to 9 million people in the U.S., most of them children.

Dr. Damon DelBello, an attending orthopedic surgeon at Westchester Medical Center and the children’s hospital on the WMC campus, has introduced a less invasive procedure to correct the spinal condition that requires fewer surgeries and less exposure to anesthesia for children, minimizes the risk of infection and reduces anxiety in his patients.

In traditional treatment for pre-adolescents with early-onset scoliosis, surgeons insert “growing rods” in the patient that are attached to the spine with adjustable screws

above and below the spinal curve. As the child grows, surgeries are needed every six months to lengthen the rods.

At Maria Fareri, DelBello has made use of a medical device, Magnetic Expansion Control Rods, part of a magnetic-technology treatment system that spares growing children multiple follow-up invasive surgeries once the MAGEC rods are implanted. Instead, the magnetically controlled rods are lengthened every three months by the surgeon using an external remote controller.

“The end result of the two procedures is the same from a mechanical point of view, but from the patients’ point of view, they don't suffer the same physiological risks,” DelBello said. “I had several kids who were very upset and anxious about their traditional growth rods and when we changed them to the MAGEC rods the negative physiological effects ended.”

Reaching adolescence and skeletal maturity, patients receiving either the traditional or magnetic rod procedure typically undergo a spinal fusion surgery to perma-

Dr. Damon DelBello, pediatric surgeon at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, uses a magnetic control to painlessly adjust spinal rods in scoliosis patient Miguel Ramos, as Miguel’s mother, Grace, looks on.

nently correct the spine with a titanium rod.

The MAGEC spinal bracing system was approved three years ago by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in preadolescents with severe progressive spinal deformities. Newburgh resident Grace Ramos, whose 12-year-old son, Miguel, is

a patient of DelBello’s, said her family is “very blessed” that the new technology was approved for use and adopted by Miguel’s pediatric surgeon.

Ramos was in her 23rd week of pregnancy with Miguel when a sonogram led to a » » Scoliosis, page 18

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IN COURT

FAIR HOUSING GROUPS CLAIM RACIAL BIAS IN BEDFORD Two fair housing organizations have sued the town of Bedford for allegedly discriminating against African-Americans by creating barriers to housing.

The organizations claim that Bedford and its Blue Mountain Housing Development Corp. created a system of preferences that make it difficult for African-Americans to qualify for the town’s middle-income affordable housing. The lawsuit claims that the town and its housing agency are violating the federal Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Justice Center, a Long Island City civil rights organization, and Westchester Residential Opportunities, a housing counseling agency that serves the lower Hudson Valley, filed the lawsuit in federal court in White Plains on July 26.

In 2005, the town created a preference system for allocating middle-income dwellings. Middle income is defined as $84,877 for one person, for example, and $144,291 for a family of six.

The first of eight preferences is for Bedford employees and active members of the fire departments and ambulance service. Next are school employees, then town residents, nonresidents employed in town and parents and children of residents. The last preferences go to other residents of Westchester County, other people employed in the county and then “all others.”

The preferences perpetuate demographic patterns, according to the lawsuit. The 2010 Census put the town's population at 17,335.

About 86 percent was white and 5 percent was African-American. That minority population is artificially inflated because nearly half of the inmates at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility are African-Americans, according to the lawsuit.

Employee preferences favor white applicants, the lawsuit says, because most of the municipal and school employees are white. Only 1.4 percent of the professional staff in the public schools, for instance, were African-American last year, and the wages of nonprofessional school employees were too low to enable them to afford middle-income dwellings.

Residential preferences also favor white people, the lawsuit says, because only 2 to 3 percent of the town’s eligible households are occupied by African Americans.

The housing groups sent undercover “testers” to inquire about housing opportunities. One was African-American and one was white. Both presented themselves as nonresidents.

The African-American tester was told

that his wait could take several years, as an outsider, according to the lawsuit, and the white tester was told two to 10 years.

The housing groups are asking the court to require that middle-income housing be allocated by the application date and not by preferences.

Bedford Town Supervisor Chris Burdick said the town has not yet received the lawsuit but he defended its practices.

He said Bedford is a leader in affordable housing in the region. It has fully implemented federal Housing and Urban Development guidelines, including preferences. And it is "strongly committed to affirmatively furthering fair housing," he said.

COURT UPHOLDS RULING ON PERMIT FOR MAMARONECK COUNTRY CLUB A state appellate court has upheld a ruling that the village of Mamaroneck's zoning appeals board acted properly when it granted a special use permit to the Hampshire Country Club to run nonmember events.

Mamaroneck Coastal Environment Coalition, consists of four couples who live near the golf and tennis club, sued the board in 2014, claiming that it ignored evidence about traffic, parking, noise and safety problems at the club when it issued the permit.

A state Supreme Court judge in Westchester dismissed the lawsuit in 2015, finding that the zoning board had not abused its authority.

Four justices in the Second Appellate Division agreed last month. “Where substantial evidence exists,” they ruled, “a court may not substitute its own judgment for that of the board.”

The 216-acre property on Cove Road is owned by Hampshire Recreation LLC. It is operated by Hampshire Club Inc., a nonprofit organization, as required by village law. But Hampshire Club is a sham that operates for the benefit of the club’s investors, the coalition claimed.

The neighbors also contend that country clubs may only serve members and their guests. But Hampshire Country Club holds weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, golf events and galas for nonmembers. People attending these events, the coalition said, have damaged their properties, created excessive noise and traffic and caused parking and safety problems.

After the village cited the club for violations in 2013, Hampshire owners formed the nonprofit and applied for a special permit to hold nonmember events. The zoning board approved the permit.

The coalition accused the zoning board of acting capriciously and ignoring unrefuted evidence. They wanted the permit rescinded because it was issued to a sham nonprofit organization and because the board put no restrictions on noise and parking.

Supreme Court Justice Linda S. Jamieson rejected the coalition’s arguments in dismissing the case in 2015.

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Citrin Cooperman Corner Employee Retention Strategies for Driving Profitability

BY JEREMIAS RAMOS, CPA CITRIN COOPERMAN According to the Center for American Progress, job turnover on average costs a business roughly 20% of the departing employee’s wages/ salary.

The cost incurred also depends on the level of the JEREMIAS RAMOS position, as executive level turnover can, in some cases, cost as much as 213% of total remuneration. It could cost upwards of $320,000 per year to replace a senior executive earning $150,000 annually. Increased recruitment expenses, loss of productivity, loss of employee morale, and increased training expenses are just a few factors that contribute to this expense.

Companies are beginning to recognize the negative impacts of high turnover and are implementing retention strategies to combat this problem through a combination of corporate culture, team building activities, and employee engagement practices. However, the solution to turnover is sometimes quite simple and may not require the services of a consultant. Following a few of the strategies outlined below will lead to a better work environment, increase employee retention, and ultimately drive your company’s profitability.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management, 67% of employees said respectful treatment is very important, making it the top contributor to overall employee job satisfaction.

The research examined 43 distinct aspects of job satisfaction and 37 direct factors relating to overall employee engagement.

Compensation, job benefits, and job security ranked 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place, respectively, behind ‘respect for employees’.

Surprisingly, factors that are generally believed to directly relate to overall job satisfaction polled considerably lower. The ’work’ itself ranked 9th, while ‘corporate culture’ finished in 13th place. Other notable highlights included the rankings of teamwork between departments, variety of work, and a diverse work environment, which ranked 17th, 19th, and 22nd, respectively.

APPRECIATION IS KEY A recent survey by OfficeTeam revealed that more than two thirds of employees said they would likely leave their job if they did not feel appreciated. The lack of training, employee benefits, praise for a job well done, being passed up for promotions, and failing to understand employee needs all contribute to employees feeling under-appreciated.

Often, a sense of appreciation can be imparted by simply telling an employee they are appreciated. It doesn’t cost a company anything to say thank you. However, the cost of not saying anything could be damaging.

HAPPINESS AND PRODUCTIVITY An economist at the University of Warwick, who spearheaded a recent study about the correlation of mood and productivity, concluded that happiness led to a 12% spike in productivity, while unhappy workers proved 10% less productive. This equates to a 22% swing in productivity from happy employees to unhappy employees.

Relating this directly back to the Society for Human Resource Management’s study, lack of respect for employees could mean a 22% reduction in productivity. A 2013 Gallup Survey reported that unhappy workers cost U.S. businesses between $450 and $550 billion, annually.

PSYCHOLOGY Employee engagement and happiness comes down to psychology. The relationship between an employer and an employee is exactly that, a relationship. When one party in a relationship feels under-appreciated, that party often ends the relationship. While this works both ways, there are little things management can and should do to boost employee morale.

Other factors that contribute to a couple’s break-up can also serve as indicators for poor relationships: lack of communication, unfair treatment, frequent arguments, and lack of appreciation are just a few.

The research shows that relationships, whether between couples, or employees and employers, last longer and are more mutually beneficial when both parties are happy. More often than not, people spend more time at work than at home. For this reason, employers should work even harder to develop healthy professional relationships with their employees.

CONCLUSION The importance of maintaining healthy relationships with employees cannot be ignored. Compare how you treat employees to how you treat your best customer. If you treated your customers the same way you treated your employees, would you still be in business? If the answer is anything but yes, then odds are you are not tackling the root issue of employee turnover.

As accountants and business consultants, we work every day with business owners that practice these methods in order to sustain the longevity of their employees. These strategies are key contributors to a business’ success and is often an easy solution that can pay dividends for years to come.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeremias Ramos, CPA, MBA is a semisenior in Citrin Cooperman’s White Plains office. He can be reached at 914.949.2990 or at jramos@citrincooperman.com. Citrin Cooperman is a full-service accounting and consulting firm with 10 locations along the East Coast. Visit us at www. citrincooperman.com.

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Shrub Oak — » From page 1

for a payment in lieu of taxes agreement.

Koffler chose Shrub Oak after considering locations in New Jersey and Connecticut. He needs the government financial assistance, according to his IDA application, to offset, in part, the financial advantages of the out-ofstate sites.

There is great demand for such a school, he said in the application. Diagnoses of autism have increased threefold in the past decade, yet the capacity to serve this population has not increased much.

The dominating feature of the Stoney Street property is a 270,000-square-foot main building. The school plans to renovate the 1953 structure to include a dormitory, classrooms, gymnasium, auditorium, kitchen, dining room and offices.

An indoor swimming pool, livestock barn, equestrian barn and a helicopter pad will be built. Six houses and several outbuildings will be renovated.

The school’s website depicts a place where a customized curriculum, athletics and outdoor activities, technology and agricultural programs will prepare students for successful lives.

The annual payroll when the school is

Airport — » From page 1

Australia, the financial services company operates offices in 27 countries “What we’re hoping to do is sort of bring our national presence and our global credentials and our local presence to this opportunity, which we think is very exciting,” Lowe said.

Macquarie was one of a trio of companies that responded to the county’s RFP, according to the county’s communication director Ned McCormack.

Another of those bidders is Los Angelesbased Oaktree Capital Management LP, the company with which Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino had hoped to sign a 40-year lease agreement to operate the airport late last year.

Astorino announced in November a $140 million plan that would transfer management of the airport to Oaktree, asserting that the revenue-sharing lease would improve passenger experience, energize the local economy and strengthen environmental protections without increasing the airport’s footprint.

Some members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators balked at the administration’s plan, criticizing the lack of a competitive bid process and calling the deal a gimmick to balance an unbalanced budget.

In February, legislators chose to move forward with a search for a private operator for the airport and hired Frasca & Associates

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fully operational will be more than $58.8 million, or an average of $100,750 for 584 employees.

About 319 students will live there, from ages 14 to 22 or older. Tuition for boarders will be $254,000 a year, according to a statement by Koffler at an IDA meeting, or $300,000 according to the school’s website. Yearly tuition for day students will be $124,000. Shrub Oak School advises parents on its website to check if their local school district will reimburse them for the school’s services.

Most of the students will come from the New York region but the school also expects to enroll students from elsewhere in the U.S. and from other countries.

Koffler has 32 years of experience in building, managing and operating more than 60 private schools. He has served on several nonprofit boards, and in 2005 he endowed a professorship in autism at Pace University’s School of Education.

Two IDA officials asked him at a May 18 meeting about a state audit of his schools.

According to meeting minutes, he responded that the state comptroller had found an accounting error and a fine had been paid to the state attorney general’s office.

Koffler signed a settlement last October that describes improper reimbursement

practices and tax claims, based on audits and investigations by the state attorney general, comptroller and Department of Taxation and Finance.

Koffler and Sunshine Development School Inc. “submitted false reports” to the state Education Department, the settlement says, to claim reimbursements to which they were not entitled.

For example, Koffler created a complicated lease arrangement to pay rents, using a pass-through entity that performed no services but almost doubled the rents. The state paid more than $3.5 million to the entity, Bridan Realty III LLC, named for his sons Brian and Daniel.

The payments went into a bank account controlled by Koffler. Checks were issued for as much as $116,000 to Koffler, $2,500 a month to his sons, and for credit card payments, boat maintenance and Brian Koffler’s law school.

Koffler also reported business losses on his personal income tax return, the settlement says, and failed to report as income personal expenses the company paid on his behalf.

In 2006, his company reported a $12.3 million cash loan from Koffler, enabling him to claim a negative adjusted gross income.

The loan was not fully substantiated, according to the settlement, and there was no “rea-

son to believe that Michael Koffler had $12 million on hand to loan to his business.”

His companies deducted $1.6 million for personal expenses such as rental of a New York City apartment, payments to department and specialty stores and payments for a vacation home in Westhampton Beach.

The settlement requires Koffler and his wife, Lori, his sons Daniel and Brian and Sunshine Development School to pay the state $4.3 million.

The Kofflers disagree with many of the findings, the agreement says, and they deny violations of law but wish to settle the matter.

As of July, the Department of Taxation and Finance named Koffler and his wife to its list of the top 250 delinquent taxpayers. They owed nearly $1.6 million in personal income taxes, based on a lien filed in February that does not include subsequent payments or accrued penalties and interest.

The county IDA gave preliminary approval to the bond financing at its May meeting.

The bond obligations would be paid by the company and they would not be considered a government debt. A final resolution is scheduled for consideration at the IDA’s September meeting.

Shrub Oak says classes will begin in fall 2018.

LLC, a New York City-based transportation consulting firm that worked on the privatization of Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, to assist in the RFP process.

Bids were due on July 28, and as part of the process, Frasca & Associates rolled out a timeline that forecasts a public-private partnership in place by the end of this year.

“The county is really just shifting its role from sort of a manager of a current private entity who operates an outsourced contract to a landlord,” Lowe said. “They still own the airport. They still control the airport. They still have a say over its strategic direction, but what they’re doing is looking to harness the best global airport management practices that are out there to help them navigate the future.”

Macquarie has participated in seven publicprivate partnerships in North America, largely in the roads and transportation sector. Most recently, the company started construction earlier this year on the Goethals Bridge that connects Elizabeth, New Jersey to Staten Island.

With public-private partnerships, “It’s a very different proposition to a straight privatization,” said Jonathan Walbridge, managing director of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, the company that manages Macquarie. “The public counterparty does remain involved and they remain in control.”

The lease with the county specifies standards by which the airport must be operated and maintained throughout the duration of the lease, Walbridge added.

“That’s the county saying, ‘This is the bar and this is what you must do to be in compli-

ance, and if you’re not, you don’t remain the tenant,” he said.

The proposed public-private partnership is a product of a Federal Aviation Administration program that would allow money paid to the county by a private operator to be used for all county programs. Until now, any revenue generated by the airport could only be used at the airport.

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

“Airport management, in our experience, is about balance,” Lowe said. “It’s about managing a vital transportation community asset in the interest of all the stakeholders.”

With those stakeholders in mind, the company has made an effort to reach out to members of the community surrounding the airport.

“We’ve had several meetings with local villages and towns and various other community groups really to go on a listening tour to understand what people want from the airport, what they like about the airport, what the concerns are,” Lowe said. “I think that’s been very helpful for us in building a body of feedback.”

Much of that feedback has related to passenger and commercial traffic at the airport, along with environmental concerns.

“We’ve factored that into our thinking and into our response (to the RFP),” Lowe said. “We think there is an opportunity to

improve the airport in certain areas, address a lot of those concerns and then help the airport move in the direction that satisfies the needs of all those stakeholders.”

If chosen by the county, Macquarie would look to create working or collaborative groups with representatives from airlines, the general aviation community, elected officials and constituents “that would discuss areas of concern that we would use to sort of propose plans” and to “provide a regular forum for all these constituents and stakeholder,” Lowe said.

The 240 passenger-per-hour limit at the airport would remain in place, Lowe added, and the lease prohibits its new operator from expanding the airport’s footprint.

“We do see within those constraints opportunities to make a good thing better, and we’d be very excited to have this in our portfolio,” Lowe said. “There’s definitely a need to de-clutter the space and make it easier to process through to airside.”

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

“We’re not private equity, we’re not here for the short-term,” Walbridge said. “We’re not focused on the exit. We do intend to be here fully through the 40-year duration of the lease. It has been a 40-year business plan very much developed with the objectives of the county in mind.”

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Westchester County

Largest Office Parks

THE LIST: Office Parks

WESTCHESTER COUNTY

Ranked by square footage of parks and complexes with more than 175,000 square feet. Listed alphabetically in the event of a tie.

Name Address Area code: 914, unless otherwise noted Website

1 2

Total square footage of all buildings

Architect or architectural firm

Number of buildings

Year started to completion

RPW Group *

440 Mamaroneck Ave, Harrison 10528; 1133 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604; 2975 Westchester Ave., Purchase 10580; 760 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook 10573; 800 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook 10573; 399 Knollwood Road, White Plains 10603 285-1707 • rpwgroup.com

3.0 million

NA

6

1978, renovated 2008

1.5 million

Thomas J. Mannino

14

1967 - 1985

The Exchange

701, 707-711, 777, 925, 1025, White Plains 10604; 103-105, 106-110 Corporate Park Drive, West Harrison 10604; 2500, 2700 Westchester Ave., Purchase 10577 203-352-8903 • exchangeatwestchester.com • normandyrealty.com

Cross Westchester Executive Park

3 The Landmark at Eastview 4 Mid-Westchester Executive Park 5 South Westchester Executive Park 6 White Plains Plaza 7 The Summit 8 The Centre at Purchase 9 Westchester Financial Center 10 Reckson Executive Park 11 Monument Corporate Park 12 Taxter Corporate Park 13 1111 and 1129 Westchester Ave. 14 Armonk Business Park 15 We hired Rakow to help us find new space for our non-profit association.

Airport Campus 16 It was our first time leasing commercial space so we needed someone Tarrytown Corporate Center 17 who would guide us with care. Rakow Group is very professional and genuinely Ardsley Park Life Science Center 18 concerned about their client’s interests. Not only did they show us a range of Westchester Park Center 19appropriate space, but the rates and terms they negotiated exceed our expectations.

A truly great experience. We highly recommend Rakow.

Harrison Plaza 20 11, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 250 Clearbrook Road; 1-8 Westchester Plaza; 50, 77, 85, 300, 350, 399, 400, 500, 525 Executive Blvd., Elmsford 10523 592-4800 • mack-cali.com

1.3 million

Matthew J. Warshauer

25

1962 - 2002

765-771 and 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown 10591 593-4440 • biomedrealty.com

1.1 million

The Kling Partnership

5

1970 - 2008

1, 2, 4, 5-8, 10-12, 15-17 Skyline Drive; 200 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne 10532 592-4800 • mack-cali.com

761,127

Matthew J. Warshauer

13

1965-1999

1-3 Executive Blvd.; 4, 6 Executive Plaza, 100, 200 Corporate Boulevard South, 1, 3, 5, 7 Odell Plaza, Yonkers 10701 592-4800 • mack-cali.com

758,065

Matthew J. Warshauer Jerome B. Rockhill

11

1980 - 1990

1 N. Broadway and 445 Hamilton Ave., White Plains 10601 997-9167 • whiteplainsplaza.com • ivy-realty.com

712,131

Charles Luchman

2

1971, renovated 1993 and 2001

100, 200, 500 Summit Lake Drive, Valhalla 10595 872-4744 • slgreen.com

687,731

The Architects Collaborative

3

1986 - 1990

1-4 Manhattanville Road, Purchase 10577 212-481-1122 • 428-1447 • thecentreatpurchase.com • oconnorcp.com • gcomfort.com

676,490

Emery Roth & Sons PC Hooker/Siskind Associates

4

1983 - 1990

50 Main St. and 11 Martine Ave., White Plains 10606 592-4800 • mack-cali.com

570,000

Matthew J. Warshauer

2

1985-1987

1-6 International Drive, Rye Brook 10573 872-4743 • slgreen.com

544,069

Conseco DMJM

6

1983, renovated 1986, renovated 2015

333 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604 997-1542 • colliers.com

500,000

Philip Johnson (architect for renovation)

4

1956, renovated 2002

555, 565 and 570 Taxter Road, Elmsford 10523 610-980-7000 • keystonepropertygroup.com

428,838

The Eggars Group

3

1986 - 1988

1111 and 1129 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604 631-293-7800 • ashforth.com

366,000

Michael Harris Spector

2

1985 - 1986

80, 84, 111, 130, 200 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504 silveretterealty.com • 251-1415

302,000

Thomas J. Mannino Philip Franz The Philips Janson Group

5

1976 - 2007

113 King St., Armonk 10504 764- 1000 • airportcampusny.com • 113kingstreet.com/index-main.shtml

300,000

NA

2

1820, currently under renovation

560 and 580 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 517-7800 • rxrrealty.com

297,197

Matthew J. Warshauer

2

1974 - 1986

410, 420, 430 and 440 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley 10502 858-485-9840 • biomedrealty.com

258,040

NA

4

1955, renovated 2011

2 and 4 Westchester Park Drive, White Plains 10604 697-9500 • 212-674-2556 • heritagerealtyservices.com

240,000

Thomas J. Mannino

2

1982, renovated 2006-2011

440 Mamaroneck Ave., Harrison 10528 997-9167 • cushwake.com

238,000

The Eggars Group

1

1978

2

1968-1971, renovated 1998

Saxon Woods Corporate Center

Nancy Urbanowicz, Academy of Management

550 and 600 Mamaroneck Ave., Harrison 10528 997-9169 • celestialcapital.com/portfolio_saxonwoods.html

238,000

3000, 3010, 3020 and 3030 Westchester Ave., Purchase 10577 881-1096 • simdev.com

220,000

ARC Services LLC

4

Renovated 2014

2649 and 2651 Strang Blvd., Yorktown Heights 10598 642-9300 • ghpoffice.com

218,000

Papp Architect PC

2

1988

140 and 150 Grand St., White Plains 10601 872-4729 • westportcp.com

214,136

Matthew J. Warshauer Cardelli Design Group Inc.

2

1962 - 1990, renovated 2009 with additional renovations underway

200 and 220 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 610-980-7000 • mack-cali.com

187,300

Matthew J. Warshauer

2

1982-1984

115 and 117 Stevens Ave., Valhalla 10595 872-4744 • reckson.slgreen.com

126,000

Renato Severino Richard Hetzel

2

1983-1984

120,000

Amenta Emma

1

1986

Purchase Professional Park

Weisberg Castro Associates

21 Northern Westchester Executive Park 22 140 and 150 Grand Street 23 Talleyrand Office Park 24 Mount Pleasant Corporate Center We25 can make your search and negotiation for the ideal office, retail, industrial, medical space or building a lot easier and more successful throughout 26 Westchester County and surrounding areas.

RiverView at Purchase

287 Bowman Ave., Purchase 10577 253-9332 • riverviewatpurchase.com

This list is a sampling of office parks that are located in the region. If you would like to include your office park in our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com.

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Hillary Clinton will be the featured speaker at the Business Council of Westchester’s annual fall dinner.

Clinton, a Chappaqua resident and longtime Democratic Party leader, will be presented the business group’s Westchester Global Leadership Laureate Award at the event on Nov. 20 at the Hilton Westchester in Rye Brook “We are pleased to present Westchester’s own Hillary Rodham Clinton with this special award in recognition of her lifetime of achievement in New York, the nation and the world,’’ said Marsha Gordon, Business Council of Westchester president and CEO. Clinton has spent four decades in public service, including serving as U.S. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009; U.S. secretary of state from 2009 to 2013; and first lady in the White House during Bill Clinton’s presidency from 1993 to 2001. In 2016, Clinton became the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. She was defeated in the November election by Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.

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MARSH & MCLENNAN NAMES NEW OFFICERS Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, a White Plains-based insurance broker and risk management firm, has named Bill Jeatran as president and Christina Mott as the company’s chief operating officer. Both will report to David Eslick, chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan.

Jeatran, who succeeds Ben Allen as president, will focus on advancing the company’s strategic direction through acquisitions, client engagement, talent development and scaling best practices.

Jeatran previously served as CEO of Marsh & McLennan’s upper Midwest region. In 1986, he founded RJF Agencies Inc., an independent insurance agency in Minnesota, and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Marsh & McLennan in 2011.

“Having built his own successful business before most recently leading MMA’s largest region, the upper Midwest, Bill is the ideal executive to help develop MMA’s strategic priorities for the future,” Eslick said in the announcement.

Mott, who previously served as innovation leader of Marsh Global Risk &

Specialties, will be responsible for operational best practices, innovation, technology and digitization initiatives and product development. She previously served as director of solution development for Oliver Wyman, a New York Citybased management consulting firm.

“Given her background in innovation, strategy and operations, Christina will ensure that we execute on our ambitious plans to further expand on the MMA offering,” said Eslick.

“These appointments further demonstrate MMA’s growth and maturity,” he added. “By adding expertise from across the industry, we will further our ability to help our firms meet the increasingly complex needs of their clients.”

Marsh & McLennan was established in 2008 by its parent company, Marsh, to serve as a platform for the middle market

in the company’s insurance brokerage and risk management business.

$570K FROM EPA FOR NY BROWNFIELD CLEANUP

U.S. senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have secured about $570,000 in federal funding for New York’s Brownfield Cleanup Program, Gillibrand’s office recently announced.

The brownfield program, run by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, provides funding to help property owners and developers clean up and rebuild contaminated sites. The state agency is expected to use the $569,994 in funding from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to perform an inventory of the state’s brownfield sites, conduct assessments and enhance the public record system.

“By rebuilding these areas,” Gillibrand

said, “we are returning these sites to productive use that will help revitalize neighborhoods, attract new businesses, create new jobs and improve environmental conditions in the state.”

STARBUCKS IS CLOSING TEAVANA Starbucks has announced that its tea-driven subsidiary, Teavana, is closing all 379 of its stores by next spring.

The chain, which Starbucks acquired in 2012 for $620 million, still operates one store in Westchester, at Ridge Hill in Yonkers. Its store at The Westchester in White Plains already has been closed.

The coffee giant said that about 3,300 employees would lose their jobs but would be able to apply for positions at Starbucks stores. The company expects to create some 68,000 jobs in the next five years. There are 26,736 Starbucks locations in 75 countries.

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1-6 International Drive, Rye Brook 10573 872-4743 • slgreen.com

544,069

333 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604 997-1542 • colliers.com

500,000

Philip Johnson (architect for renovation)

4

1956, renovated 2002

555, 565 and 570 Taxter Road, Elmsford 10523 610-980-7000 • keystonepropertygroup.com

428,838

The Eggars Group

3

1986 - 1988

1111 and 1129 Westchester Ave., White Plains 10604 631-293-7800 • ashforth.com

366,000

Michael Harris Spector

2

1985 - 1986

80, 84, 111, 130, 200 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504 silveretterealty.com • 251-1415

302,000

Thomas J. Mannino Philip Franz The Philips Janson Group

5

1976 - 2007

113 King St., Armonk 10504 764- 1000 • airportcampusny.com • 113kingstreet.com/index-main.shtml

300,000

NA

2

1820, currently under renovation

297,197

Matthew J. Warshauer

2

1974 - 1986

410, 420, 430 and 440 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley 10502 858-485-9840 • biomedrealty.com

258,040

NA

4

1955, renovated 2011

2 and 4 Westchester Park Drive, White Plains 10604 697-9500 • 212-674-2556 • heritagerealtyservices.com

240,000

Thomas J. Mannino

2

1982, renovated 2006-2011

440 Mamaroneck Ave., Harrison 10528 997-9167 • cushwake.com

238,000

The Eggars Group

1

1978

550 and 600 Mamaroneck Ave., Harrison 10528 997-9169 • celestialcapital.com/portfolio_saxonwoods.html

238,000

Weisberg Castro Associates

2

1968-1971, renovated 1998

3000, 3010, 3020 and 3030 Westchester Ave., Purchase 10577 881-1096 • simdev.com

220,000

ARC Services LLC

4

Renovated 2014

2649 and 2651 Strang Blvd., Yorktown Heights 10598 642-9300 • ghpoffice.com

218,000

Papp Architect PC

2

1988

140 and 150 Grand St., White Plains 10601 872-4729 • westportcp.com

214,136

Matthew J. Warshauer Cardelli Design Group Inc.

2

1962 - 1990, renovated 2009 with additional renovations underway

187,300

Matthew J. Warshauer

2

1982-1984

126,000

Renato Severino Richard Hetzel

2

1983-1984

120,000

Amenta Emma

1

1986

Monument Corporate Park Taxter Corporate Park

1111 and 1129 Westchester Ave. Armonk Business Park Airport Campus

Tarrytown Corporate Center

560 and 580 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 517-7800 • rxrrealty.com

Ardsley Park Life Science Center Westchester Park Center Harrison Plaza

Saxon Woods Corporate Center Purchase Professional Park

Northern Westchester Executive Park 140 and 150 Grand Street Talleyrand Office Park

200 and 220 White Plains Road, Tarrytown 10591 610-980-7000 • mack-cali.com

Mount Pleasant Corporate Center

115 and 117 Stevens Ave., Valhalla 10595 872-4744 • reckson.slgreen.com

RiverView at Purchase

287 Bowman Ave., Purchase 10577 253-9332 • riverviewatpurchase.com

6

DMJM

renovated 2015

This list is a sampling of office parks that are located in the region. If you would like to include your office park in our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com.

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Communities across the country, including our own, were given a stake in the arts in America.

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profit and governmental arts organizations throughout the country. Of this NEA funding, over $750,000 went to New York State Council on the Arts. The state then matched these federal funds and awarded grants to 1,240 arts organizations in 215 communities across New York state, including, of course, Westchester.

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The arts are not only good for the soul but good for the economy, according to Americans for the Arts. They report that 4.8 million Americans work in arts and culture industries and that the arts generate $22.3 billion in federal state and local government revenue. In Westchester, 4,800 individuals work in the cultural industry and produce a $156 million economic impact.

Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand know that in New York, funding for the arts is essential. They both have supported the NEA and most recently, in January, they announced $712,500 in federal funds to the organization, allowing organizations to support residencies for artists, exhibitions, professional development and public engagement and outreach.

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Developed by aviation consulting firm DY Consultants, the master plan calls for a $462 million investment in a number of airport projects to be completed in a series of phases over the next 15 years. Those projects include the development of a new U.S. Customs building, additional parking areas and the construction of a new jet hangar.

“This document is a planning document,” said Dennis Yap, president of DY Consultants. “It’s not an engineering document. It’s not a construction document.”

During their presentation, officials from DY Consultants assured residents the proposal would not expand the airport, would respect the passenger cap of the terminal use agreement and was intended to “refresh the airport and enhance the passenger experience.”

But many of the more than 150 people in attendance were unconvinced and a number of them spoke out during the Garden Citybased company’s presentation, demanding to know how long the presentation would last before the public had a chance to speak, and to tell officials to “hurry up” with the presentation. At one point, Westchester County Public Works and Transportation Commissioner Vincent F. Kopicki threatened to end the hearing if the disruptions continued.

“Your plan ignores logic, it ignores the environment and it ignores the basic decency of providing honest services paid for by the taxpayers of this county,” said Jonathan Wang, chairman of Citizens for a Responsible County Airport. “You should be ashamed of your document and we will not stop fighting until your plan goes in the garbage where it belongs.”

Citizens criticized the master plan for failing to respect the airport’s passenger limit of 240 passengers per half hour and its overnight curfew.

“As this master plan should be a guide for future development in accordance with its vision, it seems wrong that the document anticipates increased air traffic and the need for facility expansion and additional gates,”

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Though Yap said any project suggested in the master plan would still need to go through an environmental review process prior to construction, residents questioned the plan’s impact on areas surrounding the airport, particularly the Kensico Reservoir.

“Environmental protection was barely an afterthought in DY’s plan,” Wang said.

The county paid DY Consultants $1.4

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The public hearing came on the eve of the due date with the county for bids for a private operator and manager of the airport.

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BENEFITING: YMCA of Central & Northern Westchester Join YMCA as it presents a great day of golf and good food and help raise funds for this annual campaign to make a difference.

TIME: 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

LOCATION: Knollwood Country Club, Elmsford TICKET PRICE: $375 per golfer, $100 per person for cocktail/dinner only; sponsorship opportunites available CONTACT: Stephanie Rooney at 287-2021 or visit www.ymca-cnw.org

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2017 JAZZ FEST

BENEFITING: ArtsWestchester Returning to the city of White Plains for its sixth year, the 2017 Jazz Fest promises to be a five-day celebration of jazz for music lovers of all ages. A partnership between ArtsWestchester, the city of White Plains and the White Plains BID, Jazz Fest has become a signature White Plains event of free and affordable jazz performances attracting jazz enthusiasts from throughout Westchester County and beyond.

TIME: Varies on event LOCATION: Downtown White Plains TICKET PRICE: $20 to $29 per ticket, other concerts are FREE CONTACT: Visit www.artswestchester.org/ programs/2017-jazz-fest

PARTNERS IN EDUCATION SEPT. YONKERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY GALA

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BENEFITING: Yonkers Partners in Education Yonkers Partners in Education will hold its 10th Anniversary Gala to support its work helping students in the Yonkers Public School District achieve the dream of college and career.

HONORING: David Westin TIME: 6 to 8:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Lyndhurst, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $300 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Anna Birrittella at 377-4882 or visit www.ypie.org/gala

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BENEFITING: New York Medical College Always a highly anticipated occasion for the NYMC community, this year’s event promises to be a fantastic gala. With the ongoing growth of the college and the ever-present excitement about the future, it is truly a time to celebrate. Once again the gala will honor members of the NYMC community for their outstanding contributions and their dedication and service to NYMC. Help celebrate their accomplishments by enjoying an evening of good food, music and friends.

HONOREES: Dr. Mark Hasten, Robert G. Lerner M.D., Robert J. Lifton M.D. ’48 and Ira Schwartz Ph.D. TIME: 5 to 9 p.m.

LOCATION: DoubleTree Hotel, Tarrytown TICKET PRICE: $700 per person, $350 for alumni; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111 or visit www.nymc.edu/foundersdinner

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Enjoy a day of golf and support the Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon in its mission to enable all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

HONORING: Mike Phillips and Joseph Roberto TIME: 10:30 a.m to 8 p.m.

LOCATION: Westchester Hills Golf Club, White Plains TICKET PRICE: $400 per golfer, $125 for dinner only; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Hospitality Resource Group at 761-7111 or Tricia@HRGinc.net

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BENEFITING: YWCA of White Plains and Central Westchester The event will feature female chefs and mixologists from Westchester County who will come together, for one night only, to cook for a cause.

TIME: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Activity Center, 515 North St., White Plains TICKET PRICE: $75 per person; sponsorship opportunities available CONTACT: The Event Department at 747-0519 or visit www.ywcawpcw.org/content/movers-andshakers

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BENEFITING: United Way of Westchester and Putnam Come join United Way to sample signature dishes from the region’s best restaurants. You can enjoy great wines and microbrew beers at the newly renovated Putnam County Golf Course.

TIME: 6 to 8 p.m.

LOCATION: Putnam County Golf Course, Mahopac TICKET PRICE: $60 per person CONTACT: Peter West at 997-6700 or visit www.uwwp.org/bestchefs.shtml

COCKTAIL RECEPTION

BENEFITING: Hospice of Westchester In celebration of the organization’s 25th anniversary, the annual fundraiser will feature special guest speaker Stone Philips, an Emmy Award-winning news anchor and correspondent and will honor Hospice of Westchester’s patients and their families and its exceptional, compassionate staff and volunteers. In Celebration will also celebrate the life of Anna L. Shereff.

TIME: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Westchester Country Club, Rye TICKET PRICE: $300 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Holly Benedict at 682-1484, ext. 122, or visit www.hospiceofwestchester.com

HEBREW AUTUMN SEPT. UNITED CELEBRATION

SUBMIT YOUR EVENT Westchester not-for-profit organizations are invited to promote their special events in “Planning Ahead.” To submit an event, visit www.HRGinc.net and click on “Planning Ahead” or for more information, please call 761-7111.

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BENEFITING: United Hebrew of New Rochelle Enjoy a spectacular autumn evening filled with cocktails, entertainment, gourmet food and good friends at United Hebrew’s 97th anniversary gala.

HONORING: Rosemary McLaughlin, senior vice president/group director, Signature Bank; United Hebrew Board of Directors; Harrison Edwards Inc.,Carolyn Mandelker, president, Bob Knight, executive vice president; and Sigma Care, accepted by Howard Hamilton, customer success manager TIME: 6 to 9:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Glen Island Harbour Club, New Rochelle TICKET PRICE: $400 per person; sponsorship and journal opportunities available CONTACT: Grace Ferri at 632-2804 or visit www.unitedhebrewgeriatric.org

SPOTLIGHT ORGANIZATION:

MARIA REGINA HIGH SCHOOL

Since its founding in 1957, Maria Regina High School has been a distinguished leader in education for young women, providing a rigorous learning environment and strong social and moral guidance in the Catholic tradition.

Celebrating 60 years of transforming and empowering the lives of young women, Maria Regina has tapped into the considerable capacity of its students for scholarship, service and spirit. Our graduates attend the best colleges and universities in the nation. This year, members of the Class of 2017 have received $34.7 million in academic scholarships.

Maria Regina girls are prepared for the future — college and beyond. The achievements of our outstanding alumnae are a testament to this statement and an endless source of inspiration for our current students.

This year, we celebrate our commitment to continue our “60 Years Strong” mission. Our Diamond Anniversary Gala will be held at the VIP Country Club in New Rochelle on Oct. 20. Award winning journalist and proud alumna Mary Calvi, will serve as the evening’s mistress of ceremonies. The honorees include the Sisters of Resurrection for all they have done to educate and enrich the lives of intelligent and talented Catholic girls for six decades. Also recognized will be David Pope of the Generoso Pope Foundation and Neil Clark, senior vice president for Fidelity National Title Insurance Co., for their outstanding leadership and support of Maria Regina High School.

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WHY GIVE? “As a 1975 graduate of Maria Regina High School, the four years I spent there prepared me well for my future and enabled me to develop into the woman I am both personally and spiritually.

My experience at this remarkable school led me to entrust the education of my two daughters to Maria Regina. Their high school experience empowered and inspired them to become strong, successful women as well. Maria Regina has shaped the future of thousands of girls and is an institution to be recognized as a stronghold of scholarship and a jewel in the community.”

LUANNE DIECCHIO Chairperson, MRHS Trustees

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Then and Now, Class of 1957 members and current day students.

NONPROFIT WESTCHESTER: NONPROFITS POWER THE VOTE

Joanna Straub Executive Director, Nonprofit Westchester

Westchester residents, like much of the country, vote at appallingly low rates.

Roughly half of the county’s residents are registered to vote and of those, only a third turn out and vote in off-year elections.

This means that important county decisions are being made by less than 20 percent of the population.

Nonprofits can be a key part of the solution. Recent studies show that nonprofits are trusted ambassadors for voter engagement. People are much more likely to vote when someone from a nonprofit organization they know encourages them.

Many of our members have signed on to actively encourage people to vote in 2017.

They’re helping people register, asking them to pledge to vote and sending them voting reminders.

To be crystal clear, this is not about partisan politics. No one is even hinting that people should vote for any particular party or candidate. The goal is to get people involved in the process, giving them a voice in their community.

To learn how to register to vote, when and where to vote or to join the effort, visit 914NonprofitsVote.org.

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

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NOMINATE A DOCTOR

IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES

ALL IN THE FAMILY: In recognition of husbands and wives, parents and children or siblings who work together in a practice or separately, dedicating their lives to make other lives better. NO LAND TOO FAR: In recognition of a doctor who donates his or her time and expertise to countries where medical care is either nonexistent or at barest minimum. CUTTING EDGE: In recognition of a doctor who spends endless hours working on research and clinical trials to save lives. CARING FOR ALL: In recognition of a doctor who turns no patient away, but rather devotes time and effort to philanthropic cases.

A UNIQUE AWARDS PROGRAM CELEBRATES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF PHYSICIANS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY JUDGED BY A PANEL TO BE THE MOST EXEMPLARY IN THE PROGRAM’S CATEGORIES. THIS PRESTIGIOUS FIFTH ANNUAL EVENT IS C0-PRESENTED

BY BROWN, GRUTTADARO, GAUJEAN, PRATO & SASTOW ATTORNEYS AT LAW; UBS MITCHELL WEALTHCARE AND THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY BUSINESS JOURNAL AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. Open to nominations from the public, this is an opportunity to recognize those physicians who make an impact each and every day on people’s lives.

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FEMALE TRAILBLAZER: In recognition of a female doctor who has made great strides in empowering other women to advocate for themselves and be aware of their specific medical needs. PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE: In recognition of a medical student who excels in his or her studies and will bring compassionate care and a fresh perspective to the medical profession. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: In recognition of a physician respected for a lifetime career in the medical profession.

To nominate, visit westfaironline.com/events or call Rebecca Freeman at 914-358-0757.

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Dialing a diagnosis MAJOR ACQUISITION BUILDS PURCHASE-BASED TELADOC

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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s smartphones spread and state regulations shift, telehealth has grown into a billion dollar industry, with millions of patients expected to contact a physician or medical professional through their phone or computer this year.

At the center of that is Purchase-based Teladoc, Inc., a publicly traded company that arrived early to the telehealth industry and now controls 75 percent of its market.

The company is looking to build on that growth. Teladoc in June announced a $440 million deal to acquire medical consultancy Best Doctors. The deal is expected to expand the company’s reach into new specialties and global markets.

GROWING FAST Patients used Teladoc’s platform to access more than 950,000 doctor’s visits in 2016, and the company expects to exceed 1.5 million visits this year. In two years, revenues have grown from $43.5 million in 2014 to $123.2 million last year, according to the company’s 2016 annual report.

During an interview at the company’s corporate headquarters at 2 Manhattanville Road in The Centre at Purchase office park, Teladoc president and CEO Jason Gorevic said the company certainly had an advantage by launching early in the industry. The company started in Texas in 2002 and went public in 2015, the first telehealth company to do so.

But more than that, Gorevic credited Teladoc’s success to a platform and model that saves clients money and that consumers have rated as easy to use.

“Consumers love us,” Gorevic said, citing internal customer satisfaction polling he said is above 95 percent.

“But that only gets you so far unless you add real value for your clients. In that case, that’s our employer health plan and provider plans. We deliver a very tangible, very strong return on investment for them, and so as a result we keep the clients that we have and we grow at a faster rate.”

Those clients include some of the country’s largest insurers, such as Aetna and Blue Shield of California. The list also includes 220 Fortune 1000 companies, including Bank of America, PepsiCo and General Mills. The company predicts it will have more than 20 million members by the end of the year.

Teladoc offers virtual doctor visits in general medicine, behavioral health, dermatology, sexual health and tobacco cessation. Through the Teladoc platform, members seeking care are connected within minutes, or by appointment, to a doctor licensed to operate in their state. Teladoc has a network of more than 3,000 boardcertified physicians and behavioral health professionals that see patients virtually.

Doctors and health care professionals are able to write prescriptions through the app. The co-pay per visit is typically set by insurers to be slightly lower than that of an in-person doctor’s appointment, company representatives said.

About three-fourths of all appointments originate on a mobile device, according to the company, but visits can be done through a computer or by phone as well as video chat.

Stephany Verstraete, Teladoc’s chief marketing officer, said the company’s focus is on finding whatever keeps a patient comfortable.

“Our biggest challenge is that behavior change,” Verstraete said. “Getting people not to say ‘I’m sick, I have to go the doctor.’

But saying, ‘I’m sick, what’s the best way for me to get care?’”

At its peak hour this year, Teladoc handled 503 requests for doctor consultations from around the country, about one visit every seven seconds.

About 100 people work in the company’s corporate office in Purchase. Teladoc launched the Westchester County headquarters after it appointed Gorevic CEO in 2009. A Rye resident, Gorevic had previously worked as an executive at Empire BlueCross BlueShield.

The company continues its presence in Texas as well. About 400 people work at its provider network operations cen-

From left: Teladoc Inc. COO and CFO Mark Hirschhorn; President and CEO Jason Gorevic; Chief Marketing Officer Stephany Verstraete and Chief Technology Officer Jeff Nadler. Photograph by Ryan Deffenbaugh.

ter in Lewisville, a Dallas suburb. Teladoc employed about 670 people total as of Dec. 31, 2016.

BEST DOCTORS ACQUISITION The company believes its acquisition of Best Doctors, with its global network of more than 50,000 medical experts, positions it to continue to lead the growing industry. Those 50,000 doctors are all peerrated as the top 5 percent in 400 different sub-specialties.

The deal is not the first acquisition for Teladoc. Last year, for example, the company spent $151 million to acquire HealthiestYou, a telehealth consumer engagement technology platform. But it is the company’s most significant purchase “by an order of magnitude,” Gorevic said.

“It’s probably three times larger in terms of the price tag. But I think more to the point, it really provides us with an unmatched set of capabilities.”

Best Doctors focuses on combining opinions from medical experts with data analytics to solve complex medical cases.

Combining that expertise with Teladoc’s platform allows Teladoc to cover what Gorevic described as the full healthcare pyramid. At the bottom of the pyramid, you have the lower cost, but more common conditions, such as a consultation for an upper respiratory infection. At the top of the pyramid, you have the less common but more expensive and complex conditions where Best Doctors provides expertise.

“The combination of the two really completes the spectrum for us,” Gorevic said.

“That enables us to offer a comprehensive platform.”

Best Doctors’ medical experts can review diagnoses for members of Teladoc’s

network and provide additional recommendations, particularly for uncommon and complex cases. In about 40 percent of cases, Best Doctors either changed or refined an original diagnosis. The company, founded in 1989, has reviewed more than 100,000 cases, and through adjustments, has created an average cost savings of $36,000 per case, according to data on its website.

The deal closed on July 17. Best Doctors will maintain its headquarters in Boston and operate as a department of Teladoc.

Gorevic said combining Best Doctors with the health care services Teladoc already provides, “opens up tremendous growth opportunities.” That includes internationally, where Best Doctors has already established partnerships.

The telehealth industry overall has been boosted in recent years as states have eased medical regulations to allow for it.

Insurers have also encouraged it as a way to save money by avoiding unnecessary inperson doctor visits. The Wall Street Journal reported last year that 15 million people received remote care in 2015, a number expected to have grown 30 percent in 2016.

Teladoc predicts the market can grow well beyond those early numbers. The company noted in its annual report that of the approximately 1.25 billion ambulatory care visits in U.S. each year, about a third, or 417 million, could be treated through telehealth.

“Telehealth has ubiquitous appeal,” Gorevic said. “Whether it’s rural areas, urban areas, north, south, east, west, we find that it gets equal attraction because it solves problems of access, cost and quality.

There just aren’t that many things in the health care system that address all three of those and are consumer friendly.”

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Health care company files Chapter 11 bankruptcy New England Orthotic and Prosthetic Systems, a Connecticut-based company that has New York locations in White Plains, Nanuet, Monroe, Poughkeepsie, and Port Jervis has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company operates in five states.

It is headquartered in Branford, Conn., and has four clinics in Fairfield County: Stamford, Danbury, Brookfield and Bridgeport.

According to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing, the company has less than 50 creditors, a book value of $19.3 million, which includes $11.8 million of intangible assets, and liabilities of approximately $17.3 million.

David Mahler, the company's president and CEO, told the New Haven Register that a Long Island-based orthotic and prosthetic retailer has acquired the company's debt with the goal of a merger that will be completed later this year. Mahler did not identify the retailer.

Mahler said Summer Street Partners, a private equity firm based in Buffalo, forced the bankruptcy filing because the firm “overextended us” during a May 2012 recapitalization. “That, along with some regulatory changes governing the industry, led us to make the Chapter 11 filing,” he said.

— Phil Hall

Psychological first aid training offered The Medical Reserve Corps of Dutchess County, part of a national network of public health volunteer groups, will offer training in the use of psychological first aid in response to traumatic events.

The training session is scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Dutchess County Department of Emergency Response office at 392 Creek Road in Poughkeepsie. The training is free and open to the public, though registration prior to the event is required.

Psychological first aid is designed to reduce symptoms of distress immediately following a disaster, terrorism event or other trauma, according to a notice from the Medical Reserve Corps. Amy Nitza, director of the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz, will lead the training.

“While all people will benefit from this program, it is especially vital training for first responders, emergency response personnel and other care and human service professionals,” said A. K. Vaidian, commissioner of the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health.

To register, contact Medical Reserve Corps Coordinator Joe Ryan at 845-4862493 or email jryan@dutchessny.gov.

— Ryan Deffenbaugh

Scoliosis — » From page 4

diagnosis of infantile scoliosis in her unborn child. Miguel in infancy wore a brace 23 hours a day to stop or slow the progression of the spinal curve, but it had little effect.

“The brace works for some kids with minor scoliosis, but when you have 40, 50 or 60 degrees of curvature, you need more than a brace to correct it,” his mother said.

“Miguel is very blessed that these new rods were available at the time that they were or else he would have been one of the children using the painful old procedure,” Ramos said. Dr. Delbello, she said, had his eye on the new procedure that had not yet been approved by the FDA and suggested the Ramos family wait until it became available.

“It pains me that there are children that have to endure painful extending procedures,” Miguel’s mother said. “Children under the old procedure have to go to the emergency room and go under anesthesia to extend the rods. The child is heavily medicated and has to stay over in the hospital one to two nights after each surgery. There is no attending school during this time and their lives are put on hold. Just as these children are feeling better again, they go back for another one.”

“Miguel sees Dr. DelBello every three months to extend the rods,” said Ramos.

“The beauty of these rods is that we schedule an office visit instead of a hospital visit, he is not under anesthesia and it's noninvasive.”

DelBello said his checkups for patients using the MAGEC rods “are six minutes, compared to an hour and a half procedure followed by an overnight stay with the traditional growth rods.”

The doctor and his just-turned-12 patient have formed a strong bond during those checkups and rod adjustments. “Miguel talks with Dr. DelBello about basketball, sailing and baseball as he turns on a magnetic device that takes 30 seconds to extend each side,” Grace Ramos said.

“I talk to children in a straightforward manner and in an adult way,” said DelBello. “I don't baby them in any way.

They get the same information their parents get. They understand more than we give them credit for.”

Miguel Ramos understands: “I am the luckiest scoliosis patient thanks to Dr. DelBello,” he said.

“We feel that although Miguel was born with scoliosis, our family is very blessed,” said Grace Ramos. “As a mother, I want it to be my mission to show every child with scoliosis these MAGEC rods.”

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Innovative Program Launched in Peekskill Helps Youth Get “READI” for the Workplace

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n July 12, the Westchester-Putnam Workforce Development Board (WPWDB), Peekskill Youth Bureau, Westchester Children’s Association (WCA), and Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce, officially launched the READI program in Peekskill, NY. READI represents the workplace attributes businesses look for in youth they hire: Respect, Enthusiasm, Articulate, Dependable, and Initiative. More than 40 youth who have already received the training were on hand to celebrate the community kick-off. Additional partners who were involved with bringing the curriculum to Peekskill include The Guidance Center of Westchester, Westhab, Inc., and Westchester Bank, which provided a grant to WCA to promote the program.

The interactive READI curriculum is taught over several weeks to students who are then better prepared to be employed over the summer at jobs where they can put their new skills into action. The Workforce-Development Board is working with various agencies to facilitate the hiring process, including the Westchester Business Council and the Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber of Commerce. “It is inspiring to see government, businesses, and youth programs collaborate to help young people prepare for their futures,” said Cora Greenberg, Executive Director of the Westchester Children’s Association.

“READI was developed based on feedback we received from employers,” stated Donnovan Beckford, Executive Director of WPWDB. “We went to work with our partners to determine how best to foster and develop the desired attributes, and today we are all very proud of the results. We have a curriculum and we have trained several instructors who are ready to deploy this resource across Peekskill, our counties, and beyond.”

“Providing our youth with the tools to make a positive entry into today’s workforce is an important, meaningful endeavor,” remarked Stephanie Weston, Vice President of The Westchester Bank. “The Westchester Bank is privileged to support READI, where helping launch new careers may well impact the development of our business leaders of tomorrow.”

The Peekskill pilot program represents the first kick-off of READI as it is rolled out across Westchester and Putnam counties. For more information about READI contact Allison Jones at (914) 813-6153 or via email at alw3@westchestergov.com.

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A gene-targeting cancer drug has its funding genesis in a Stamford nonprofit

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he development of an experimental gene-targeting therapy in cancer treatment that could be approved for the U.S. market this year was sparked in large part by the research funding support of a Stamford nonprofit.

The chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CART) drug, labeled tisagenlecleucel by its manufacturer, Novartis, in July was unanimously recommended for approval by the oncologic drugs advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. If the FDA grants final approval as expected this fall, it will be the first drug treatment targeting human genes approved for the U.S. market.

In Stamford, the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy since 2004 has provided a total of $1.8 million to Dr. Carl June at the University of Pennsylvania, the lead researcher in developing the CAR-T therapy. John E. Walter, president and CEO of the Stamford organization, said June’s work has helped to redefine perceptions of what gene therapy can accomplish.

“Oftentimes, gene therapy is perceived as taking the bad genes out and putting some good genes in,” Walter said. “In this case, a patient’s T-cells are being removed and reengineered with a virus and reintroduced in the body. With this genetic re-engineering, they become killer T-cells — they go in and go after and kill the cancer cells.”

“Cancer cells in your body multiply and don’t know how to die,” said Alliance for Gene Cancer Therapy Executive Director Margaret C. Cianci. “We have cells in our system all of the time that are growing and dying, but cancer cells don’t do that. This therapy is for supercharging your own immune system to recognize these cancer cells and kill them.”

If approved, the Novartis drug would mark a milestone achievement for the Alliance, whose creation in 2001 was driven by a tragic loss caused by cancer in its co-founders’ family. Edward Netter, chairman and CEO of Geneve Corp., a financial services holding company in Stamford, and his wife Barbara, a staff therapist at Pelham Family Services in Westchester County, lost their daughter-in-law, Kimberly Lawrence-Netter, to breast cancer.

Edward Netter died from cancer in 2011. His wife serves as the nonprofit’s honorary board chairwoman.

Walter, who served as CEO of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society before joining the Alliance in May 2016, noted that this organization differed from most because all of its raised funds are used solely to finance research. “Our administrative expenses are paid for by our

board and by the Netters,” he said, and the nonprofit’s four-person staff works out of Geneve Corp. headquarters. “One hundred percent of your contributions go to research.”

Since its founding, the Alliance has allocated approximately $29 million in grants to U.S. and Canadian projects. “These are grants to two different types of scientists,” said Cianci. “We started funding young investigators at assistant professor level who have just become independent. It is difficult for them to get funding, especially in an area as innovative as gene therapy, and the government doesn’t like to fund what they see as high-risk projects. We also fund clinical investigators, which included Dr. June.”

The Alliance puts out two requests for funding applications each year, which are judged through a peer-review process coordinated by a scientific advisory committee.

“There is always more research than there are dollars,” said Walter. “Invariably, we are leaving research on the table because we don’t have the dollars to fund those.”

The nonprofit itself receives funding through contributions from longtime donors and an annual fundraising event coordinated

by Swim Across America that is held in the Long Island Sound directly across from its offices. “That raises about $400,000 a year,” Walter said.

Dr. June’s Alliance-funded research was published in a medical journal in 2011 in a study of three patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, expressed interest in the results and paid the University of Pennsylvania $20 million to license the technology.

“Once we have survival data for these patients” in Novartis-sponsored clinical trials, “over time the FDA could consider using this as frontline treatment instead of highly toxic chemotherapy,” said Walter.

For Cianci, the Alliance’s mission is crucial in encouraging new generations of researchers to focus on cancer and gene therapy solutions, especially when federal funding is being threatened by budget cuts.

“If we don’t fund the young scientists, they are going to leave the field,” she warned. “We don’t want to lose some of these incredible minds. The average age for getting your first grant from the National Institute of Health is 42. What do you tell someone who just became a postdoctoral researcher and wants to have their own lab? How are they going to get funding?”

“One in four people could potentially get cancer in their lifetimes,” Cianci said. “And who hasn’t been touched by cancer in one way or another?”

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Revolutionary immunotherapy takes significant step with FDA

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oday is a very significant day in the progress toward cancer cures. An advisory committee of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously recommended approval of a revolutionary new treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) — an immunotherapy called CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor T-cell) immunotherapy.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society recognized the early promise of this new approach, which uses the body’s own immune system to find and kill cancer cells. In fact, since 1998 LLS has invested $21 million in the work of Dr. Carl June, of the University of Pennsylvania, who is credited with pioneering this therapy.

Children like Austin Schuetz are the reason why this therapy is so important.

In May 2011, when Kimberly Schuetz was starting to plan her son Austin’s third birthday, he was diagnosed with a highrisk form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Austin was immediately placed on a chemotherapy regimen.

However, when a routine blood test revealed that he relapsed in October 2012, their only option was a bone marrow transplant to save his life. After that transplant, his cancer came back for the third time in May 2013.

At 5 years old, Austin had been dealing with leukemia for the majority of his young life. His parents enrolled him into a clinical trial for a new immunotherapy treatment. It was their only hope.

The pioneering therapy was administered to Austin at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Today, at age 10, he is in remission.

Austin was treated with CAR T-cell immunotherapy, which has proven to be effective in other patients with certain types of leukemia and lymphoma. Dozens of adults and children near death are now in remission and some remain healthy up to five years after treatment.

Because we believe so strongly in immunotherapy, LLS has invested $2.5 million in a CAR T-cell immunotherapy developed by Kite Pharma, which is currently under review by the FDA to treat patients with relapsed/refractory nonHodgkin lymphoma.

The deadline for the FDA to decide on the Novartis treatment is Oct. 3, but today’s decision might accelerate the timing. The deadline for the Kite decision is

Nov. 29. We are hopeful that the FDA will approve both of these breakthroughs for the patients who need them.

This is a game-changer and this exciting development is just the beginning in understanding the best way to incorporate immunotherapy into blood cancer treatments.

Clinical trials for these therapies are ongoing. If you are a blood cancer patient or caregiver interested in enrolling in a clinical trial, you can contact our clinical trial support specialists at the LLS Information Resource Center at lls.org.

Dr. Gwen Nichols is the chief medical

officer of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, headquartered in Rye Brook. This article is a reprint of her blog post on the organization’s website that followed the FDA advisory committee’s July 12 recommendation of approval of the CAR-T immunotherapy.

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FACTS & FIGURES BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN Al Iman Plaza Inc. 2008 Westchester Ave., Bronx 10462. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Carlos Gonzalez. Filed: July 27. Case no.

17-12072-mg.

WHITE PLAINS Luca Gambardella Family Trust. 75 S. Broadway, Suite 467, White Plains 10601. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Luca Gambardella Family Trust. Filed: July 28. Case no. 17-23178-rdd.

COURT CASES Blue Moon Mexican Café LLC. Filed by Jacqueline Rojas, Adrian Lopez, Danielle Carpenter, Rosalia Calixto, Edwin Tlatelpa and Deysi Tlatelpa. Action: federal question – fair labor standards. No attorney listed. Filed: Aug. 1. Case no. 7:17-cv05825.

Blue Mountain Housing Development Corp. Filed by Fair Housing Justice Center Inc. et al.

Action: Fair Housing Act. Attorneys: Diane Lee Houk and Zoe Antonia Salzman. Filed: July 27. Case no.

7:17-cv-05664-KMK.

Clarke Dodge Asset Management LLC. Filed by Joseph V. DiMauro. Action: trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorney: Lisa M. Golden. Filed: June 26. Case no. 7:17-cv-05662-NSR. The Hanover Insurance Co. Filed by Red Pocket Inc. Action: declaratory judgment – insurance.

Attorney: Douglas J. Steinke. Filed: July 28. Case no. 7:17-cv-05670-KMK. The InterWire Group et al.

Filed by Laura Ragone. Action: job discrimination (unlawful employment practices). Attorney: Kenneth Andrew Goldberg. Filed: July 27.

Case no. 7:17-cv-05705-KMK. Lafayette Glass Co. Filed by the trustees of the District Council 9 Painting Industry Insurance and Annuity Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A.– civil enforcement of employee benefits. Attorney: Dana Lynne Henke. Filed: July 27. Case no.

7:17-cv-05699-NSR. New Rochelle Hot Bagel Inc. Filed by Isidro Gutierrez. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Abdul Karim Hassan. Filed: July 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-05752-NSR. New Rochelle Hotel Associates.

Filed by Staci Bondi, Maria Caparela and Jasmine Hernandez. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Jordan Alexander El-Hag. Filed: July 26. Case no. 7:17-cv-05681-KMK.

Case Paper Co. Inc. Filed

by Jennifer Rakoff. Action: job discrimination (unlawful employment practices). Attorney: Steven Thomas Sledzik. Filed: July 27. Case no. 7:17-cv-05667-NSR.

NSC Abatement Services Inc. Filed by Teobaldo Fabian. Action not listed. Attorney: Jacob Aronauer. Filed: Aug. 1. Case no.

7:17-cv-05815.

Citibank South Dakota National Association. Plaintiff: CIT Bank National Association. Action: federal question – breach of contract. Attorney: Adam Philip Briskin. Filed: Aug. 1. Case no. 7:17-cv-05811.

OCWEN Loan Servicing LLC et al. Filed by Victor Sarubbi. Action: petition for removal. Attorneys: Patrick Gallagher Broderick and Brian Scott Pantaleo. Filed: July 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-05658-CS.

Items appearing in the Westchester County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken.

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

SupportBuddy Inc. Filed by Tara Ramirez. Action: fraud and related activity in connection with computers. Attorney: Michael Robert Reese. Filed: July 31. Case no.

7:17-cv-05781.

DEEDS Above $1 million 29-31 South Second Ave LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: 29 South Second Avenue Corp., Mount Vernon.

Property: 29 S. Second Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $4.2 million. Filed July 25.

ON THE RECORD

727 Main Street New Roc LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Betty Shelton, New Rochelle. Property: 727 Main St., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed July 25.

CAMA Priority LLC, Scarsdale.

Seller: Gill 1995 Trust, Foster City, Calif. Property: 143 W. Main St., TH11, Greenburgh. Amount: $1.9 million.

Filed July 26.

Greenwich Riverview LLC, Pleasantville. Seller: G. Stephen Hoffman, et al, Wilmington, Del. Property: 193-203 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed July 26.

Innes Road Realty LLC, Bronxville. Seller: Charles Rich, et al, New York City. Property: 14 Innes Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.4 million.

Filed July 26.

Oamic Ingredients LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Whalen’s Moving and Storage Company Inc., Armonk.

Property: 6 Labriola Court, North Castle. Amount: $4.3 million. Filed July 24.

Port Chester Holdings LLC, et al, Spring Valley. Seller: Rye Central Associates LLC, White Plains. Property: 256 King St., Rye. Amount: $4.1 million. Filed July 25.

Below $1 million 105 Washington Ave LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: AP Palumbo 105 Inc., Amawalk. Property: 105 Washington Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $480,000. Filed July 28.

212 Croton Lake LLC, New York City. Seller: Michael Lynton, New York City. Property: 212 Croton Lake Road, Bedford. Amount: $838,000. Filed July 28.

Arbani Holdings LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Joyce A. Brown, Mount Vernon. Property: 85 Maple Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $301,000. Filed July 27.

C2GRE LLC, White Plains. Seller: Joseph A. Maria, White Plains.

Property: 232 Warren Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $309,500. Filed July 24.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Anthony D. Battaglia, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 192 Robert Drive, New Rochelle.

Amount: $830,000. Filed July 27.

Castle Walk Development LLC, Hartsdale. Seller: Scarsdale Larchmont Family LP, Rye. Property: 42 Crossway, Scarsdale. Amount: $796,000. Filed July 27.

Tapzee Realty LLC, Maspeth.

Seller: Manuel Bastos, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 47 Clinton St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed July 25.

Christiana Trust. Seller: Margaret A. Nicholson, Somers. Property: 8 Ogden Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $315,375. Filed July 24.

The Mark 95 LLC, New Rochelle.

Seller: John Varela, New Rochelle.

Property: 10 Cottage Place, New Rochelle. Amount: $1.5 million.

Filed July 26.

D. Realty LLC, Richmond Hill.

Seller: Darette R. Mills, Pomona.

Property: 157 Warburton Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $152,000. Filed July 25.

The Mark 95 LLC, New Rochelle.

Seller: Shalshawn Ltd., Naples, Fla. Property: 26 Garden St., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.5 million.

Filed July 27.

Davids Hill LLC, Bedford Hills.

Seller: McDuffie Holdings LLC, Bedford Hills. Property: 74 David’s Hill Road, Bedford. Amount: $750,000.

Filed July 24.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Christopher B. Meagher, White Plains. Property: 9 Threshing Rock Road, Pound Ridge.

Amount: $1.8 million. Filed July 28.

First Future Installers Corp., Yonkers. Seller: John A. Insinna, Yonkers. Property: 3 Elaine Terrace, Yonkers. Amount: $265,000. Filed July 28.

Zeidan Realty Corp., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Robert Porpora Realty Corp, Armonk. Property: 360 Main St., North Castle. Amount: $3 million. Filed July 24.

Golden AQ LLC, Hartsdale. Seller: Brian Walsh, Scarsdale. Property: 124 Aqueduct Drive, Greenburgh.

Amount: $730,000. Filed July 25.

Maple Avenue Realty Associates LLC, Bedford Corners. Seller: 11 Maple Avenue LLC, Armonk.

Property: 11 Maple Ave., North Castle. Amount: $725,000. Filed July 27.

Maple Avenue Realty Associates LLC, Bedford Corners. Seller: Boris Utko, Armonk. Property: 15 Maple, North Castle. Amount: $150,000. Filed July 28.

Triple M.C. Realty LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: Rosalia Licari, Wappingers Falls. Property: 2062 Saw Mill River Road, Yorktown.

Amount: $390,000. Filed July 27.

Moss Lane Corp., Yorktown.

Seller: Christopher Nyikos, et al, Somers. Property: 3150 Moss Lane, Yorktown. Amount: $645,000. Filed July 24.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Kevin L. Wright, Mahopac. Property: 11 Alice Road, North Salem. Amount: $282,000.

Filed July 27.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Andrew T. Kessel, Pleasantville. Property: 316 Washington Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $598,000. Filed July 25.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Azatyan Realty Inc., Little Neck. Property: 27 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $780,000. Filed July 27.

Oguido Inc., Yonkers. Seller: M and B Mount Vernon LLC, Mahopac. Property: 46 Mount Vernon Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $300,000. Filed July 24.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Festa Realty LLC, Congers. Property: 89 Maple St., Yonkers. Amount: $860,000. Filed July 27.

Old Republic National Title Insurance Co. Seller: Vivian W. Chang, et al, Pleasantville. Property: 158 Manville Road, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $935,000. Filed July 28.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Gontar Management LLC, New York. Property: 97 Maple St., Yonkers. Amount: $800,000. Filed July 27.

Orange Lake Development LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Stanislov Usov, Hartsdale. Property: 363 Long Hill Road East, Ossining. Amount: $950,000. Filed July 27.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Grace Natuzzi, et al, Yonkers. Property: 91 Maple St., Yonkers. Amount: $475,000. Filed July 27.

Otter Point Investors 222NW LLC, Tarrytown. Seller: Monks Realty Company Inc., Buchanan. Property: 222 N. Washington St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $600,000. Filed July 25.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Ruben Marte, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 35 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $745,000.

Filed July 27.

Peek 22 Holdings LLC, Briarcliff.

Seller: MJG Holdings LLC, Peekskill. Property: 22 N. Division St., Peekskill. Amount: $550,000. Filed July 24.

FORECLOSURES

Sirva Relocation Credit LLC. Seller: David Thomas Emanuelson, et al, Larchmont. Property: 24 Copley Road, Mamaroneck. Amount: $985,000. Filed July 26.

Sleepy Hollow Local Development Corp., Sleepy Hollow. Seller: Cliff Walk Sleepy Hollow LLC, Greenwich, Conn. Property: 193 Beekman Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $870,000. Filed July 26.

South 4th Avenue LLC, Great Neck. Seller: 6 South 4th Realty Inc., Valhalla. Property: 6 S. Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $600,000.

Filed July 27.

CROSS RIVER, 10 Adams Hill Road. Single-family residence; lot size: 1.27 acre. Plaintiff: Partners for Payment Relief De Il LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Margolin & Weinreb Law Group, 516-921-3838; 165 Eileen Way, Syosset 11791. Defendant: Dean Marrazzo. Referee: Thomas Cathcart. Sale: Aug. 21, 10:30 a.m.

Approximate lien: $47,426.23.

EASTCHESTER, 99 Waterside Close. Single-family residence; lot size: .05 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-9693100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore 11706.

Defendant: Jung Jim Kim. Referee: Kevin Wright. Sale: Aug. 21, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $644,999.35.

The Mark 95 LLC, New Rochelle.

Seller: Louis Monforte, New Rochelle. Property: 16 Cottage Place, New Rochelle. Amount: $400,000.

Filed July 26.

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GOOD THINGS

From left: Helen McVeigh, Faye Sfugaras, Diana MacLean and Melissa Lipovsky, all with TBG; Christine Silverstein, United Women of Rockland; Ann Byne, TBG; Brooke Malloy and Diana Wilkins, Rockland County Pride Center; and Laura Van Ham, TBG.

SHARING LOVE AND MONEY The Byne Group (TBG), a marketing agency in Suffern, has reported results of the “Share the Love” campaign it started in February to benefit nonprofits. Social media posts encouraged fans and followers to propose which nonprofits should receive contributions based on new business received by TBG.

GREEN THUMBS AT CPW

At TBG’s office in July, donations were made to United Women of Rockland and Rockland County Pride Center based on the new business TBG received during the four-month promotional period from Marist College, SUEZ, The Thayer Hotel, The Esplanade at Palisades, Historical Society of Rockland and the American

Watch Association.

“We are fortunate to work with so many nonprofits in the Hudson Valley and appreciate the community engagement and new client work that allowed us to pay it forward. We can’t wait to do it all over again in 2018,” said Melissa Lipovsky, vice president and creative director at TBG.

Jefferson University in Philadelphia. His residency was at Mount Sinai Saint Luke’s and Mount Sinai West, and he completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Jacobi Medical Center. He was elected chief of the Jacobi Medical Center Pulmonary Fellows Clinic.

Daniel Mohrer is a pediatrician who is practicing at both 210 Westchester Ave. and 1 Theall Road in Rye.

Mohrer received a bachelor of arts degree with a concentration in mathematics from Columbia College at Columbia University. Then, he became a full-time research associate in the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. He went on to earn his medical degree from New York Medical College and completed his pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

TWO JOIN WESTMED Two physicians have joined WESTMED Medical Group, the multispecialty medical group based in Purchase.

Ross E. Mazo, who specializes in pulmonary medicine and critical care, has his practice at 210 Westchester Ave., White Plains. He is board certified in internal and pulmonary medicine. Additionally, he has undergone training in advanced bronchoscopy and ultrasound.

Mazo received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas

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Cerebral Palsy of Westchester (CPW) hosted its annual “Celebration of Life” Julius Horsford Gardening Contest at The David G. Osterer Center in Rye Brook. Approximately 200 CPW clients are involved in gardening activities at CPW, with each of the 15 adult classrooms and six classrooms for children having its own garden bed.

CPW says that not only is the program fun, but it provides the children and adults with education, therapy and enjoyment of the outdoors as they plant and

grow flowers, vegetables and herbs and maintain them through the changing seasons. Judges evaluate the plants and flowers for measurable characteristics such as size and subjective things such as beauty.

While not every plant wins honors from the judges, every client receives a certificate for participating.

This year’s event was sponsored by TD Bank. In-kind donors included Amodio’s Nursery, Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, Floral Fashions and Rosedale Nurseries.

INVENTING A TV GAME SHOW Members of the committee planning the fall dinner to celebrate the 78th anniversary of the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce decided to invent a TV game show for the occasion. They’re going to transform the Warwick Valley Country Club into the set for “Let’s Ask Warwick,” a modified version of the classic game show “Jeopardy!”

The premiere is set for Nov. 18. Starring as master of ceremonies will be Warwick Town Supervisor Michael Sweeton.

Unlike a real quiz show, this event begins with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m.

A lottery will decide which 27 of the

guests at the event will be invited to participate as contestants. According to event chair Janine Dethmers, “We are hiring a production company to build a state-ofthe-art set that will include everything from game show podiums with buzzers, special effects lighting, music and sounds, to larger-than-life images on two giantsized video screens. Whether a game player or not, a great party is in store.”

This TV game show actually will be a like the real thing in at least one respect: there will be sponsors. For more information about sponsorships and tickets, call 845986-2720 or email info@warwickcc.org

HAPPENING From left: Karen Erickson, director, NY-PHVH Lindenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center; Eileen Peterson, the center’s assistant clinical nurse manager; A. Bonnie Corbett, NY-PHVH chief nursing office; Dr. Lawrence Koutchter, radiation oncologist at the cancer center; Maryann Torres, Curry Automotive; Brad R. Candullo, Curry Automotive; Stacey Petrower, president, NY-PHVH; and Dr. Martin Oster, oncologist, Columbia Doctors and NY-P Medical Group Hudson Valley.

HOSPITAL RECEIVES ‘LOVE PROMISE’ NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital has been chosen for the second year in a row to benefit from a campaign conducted by automobile manufacturer Subaru. The nationwide campaign invited Subaru’s customers to write a “care card,” which would be put into gift packages for cancer patients.

The text was to consist of a note of hope and inspiration. The gift package included a blan-

ket, in keeping with the theme of providing some comfort to the patients.

Curry Automotive’s Subaru dealerships and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Connecticut, Westchester and Hudson Valley selected NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital (NY-PHVH) as the local beneficiary of the “Subaru’s Love Promise” campaign.

The blankets and cards were delivered to NY-PHVH’s Cheryl R. Lindenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center in Cortlandt Manor for distribution to patients who are receiving chemotherapy and radiation oncology in the center. The donation also included lunch boxes with crayons and craft items for children who accompany their loved ones to the center while they are being treated.

FOUR AGENTS ON ‘TOP 1,000’ LIST Three agents with Houlihan Lawrence in Westchester and one in Greenwich, Connecticut, have been named to “The Thousand,” a listing of the top 1,000 real estate salespeople in the U.S. The list was compiled from data for 2016 by REAL Trends in connection with The Wall Street Journal.

REAL Trends is a privately held company

that publishes real estate news and data.

Ellen Mosher was ranked the number one real estate salesperson in Greenwich and the only Greenwich-based agent to make the list this year. She was ranked number 105 nationwide with $105,225,010 in sales volume.

In Larchmont, associate real estate broker Pollena Forsman closed

$100,065,833 in sales volume and ranked 124th nationwide.

Nancy Kennedy, an associate broker in Croton-on-Hudson, closed $90,215,865 in sales volume, placing her at number 153 on the list. Joan O’Meara, at Houlihan Lawrence in Rye, ranked 244th in the U.S. with $71,302,400 in sales volume during 2016.

THE WESTCHESTER BANK GETS HIGH RATING A trade publication for bankers, Independent Banker magazine, has named The Westchester Bank as one of the topproducing commercial lenders in the U.S. The bank has its headquarters at 12 Water St. in White Plains, with branches in White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Kisco, Mamaroneck

and Rye Brook.

The Westchester Bank was ranked fifth overall based on the highest dollarvalue percentage of loans to assets in 2016 among community bank commercial lenders with assets in excess of $500 million.

John M. Tolomer, the bank’s president and CEO, said, “Companies work with us because we understand the local landscape, listen to their needs and provide solutions to meet those goals.” He said the bank’s total assets now exceed $770 million.

DATES

From left: Wartburg President and CEO David J. Gentner; Devang M. Davé; and John Schaefer.

JAZZ EVENT RAISES $210K FOR WARTBURG Wartburg, the senior residential and health care services facility in Mount Vernon, recently hosted a gala celebrating arts and music at the Surf Club on the Sound in New Rochelle. Nearly 340 guests attended and the event attracted 40 sponsors, raising more than more than $210,000 for Wartburg. There was a performance by four-time Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan. John Schaefer from NPR’s “Soundcheck” was the emcee for the evening’s program.

During the event, The Village Lutheran Church and The Chapel School in Bronxville

were honored for being longtime spiritual care providers and partners to the community and Wartburg. Devang M. Davé, a specialist in geriatric medicine, was honored for the medical care he provides to residents of Wartburg’s Meadowview Assisted Living Residence. The Westchester chapter of The Links, Inc., was singled-out for its community service, including help offered to Wartburg residents living with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Also honored was The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function for its scientific research and developing more effective music therapy treatments.

HARVEY HONORED BY ELIZABETH SETON Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Marva Harvey received the second annual St. Elizabeth Seton Children’s Foundation’s CNA Mission Award in Recognition of Compassion in Action in Honor of Sr. Mary Kay Finneran S.C., during a ceremony held at the Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center in Yonkers on July 26.

State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assemblymember Shelley Mayer presented Harvey with proclamations from both the Senate and the Assembly to honor her accomplishments.

The foundation established the annual award to recognize to a CNA who demon-

strates, through his or her commitment and service to their residents and families, the mission of St. Elizabeth Seton.

The award’s namesake, Sr. Mary Kay Finneran S.C., has been a member of the Sisters of Charity of New York for 60 years.

She is coordinator for Elizabeth’s Place at Jewish Home LifeCare and is on the Global Poverty Task Force.

Harvey has served the Pediatric Center as a CNA since 1990. In accepting her award, Harvey said, “I’ve been here for 27 years and I’ll be here for another 27 if you’ll have me!”

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FACTS

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HARTSDALE, 11 Southway.

Single-family residence; lot size: .17 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Karen Naftelberg.

Referee: Kenneth Bunting. Sale: Aug. 8, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $949,998.91.

WHITE PLAINS, 3 Dennison St. Three-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Tonia Marbury. Referee: Barbara Lerman. Sale: Aug. 22, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $414,541.45.

Fred A. Cook Jr. Inc., Montrose. $5,571 in favor of Armstrong Madison and Chase Ltd., Ramsey, N.J. Filed July 28.

IRVINGINTON, 215 Harriman Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .32 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624.

Defendant: Milenka Banje. Referee: Albert Comachio. Sale: Aug. 8, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $708,518.35.

YONKERS, 23 Water Grant St., Apt. 2-0. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Christopher Barrett. Referee: Chuck Lesnick. Sale: Aug. 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $164,590.82.

Victoria’s Confections Inc., Yorktown Heights. $55,782 in favor of 380 Downing Drive LLC, Briarcliff Manor. Filed July 25.

MOUNT KISCO, 15 Saint Pauls Place. Single-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd, Rochester 14624. Defendant: Robert Clark. Referee: David Galeo. Sale: Aug. 1, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $463,838.03.

YONKERS, 30 Fortfield Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .11 acre. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Anthony Rose as heir to Ann Rose. Referee: Richard Strassfield. Sale: Aug. 8, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $113,830.84.

MOUNT VERNON, 213 Union Ave. Three-family residence; lot size: .08 acre. Plaintiff: TD Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Dunne Morris LLP, 212692-1000; 1540 Broadway, New York 10036. Defendant: Eliezer Mizrani. Referee: Frank Lombardi.

Sale: Aug. 11, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $344,717.87.

YONKERS, 54 Morningside Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive Armonk 10504. Defendant: Santos Lopez. Referee: Ian Spler.

Sale: Aug. 22, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $566,607.81.

MOUNT VERNON, 308 S. Fourth Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .1 acre. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Davidson, Fink, Cook, Kelly & Galbraith, 585-546,6448 or 585760-8218; 28 E. Main St., Suite 1700, Rochester 14614. Defendant: William Bishop. Referee: John Sarcone.

Sale: Aug. 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $634,680.62.

YONKERS, 84 Elliot Ave. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .05 acre.

Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Enrique Guzman.

Referee: Charmaine Miles. Sale: Aug. 14, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $736,860.82.

OSSINING, 14 Havell St. Twofamily residence; lot size: .11 acre.

Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-8971600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Jaime Faiella. Referee: Richard Grayson.

Sale: Aug. 9, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $332,716.47.

SHRUB OAK, 3370. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .4 acre.

Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Beatrice Ference Gray. Referee: Guy Parisi. Sale: Aug. 8, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $506,305.00.

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YONKERS, 87 McLean Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .03 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore 11706. Defendant: Flora Mejia. Referee: Eugene Grimes.

Sale: Aug. 14, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $623,808.70.

JUDGMENTS Briarcliff Auto Service LLC, Briarcliff. $6,125 in favor of Briarcliff Gasoline Inc., Briarcliff. Filed July 27.

Control Spec Electrical Systems Inc., Long Island City. $45,442 in favor of HH Benfield Electrical Supply and Benfield Control Systems Inc., White Plains. Filed July 26.

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GMH Contracting and Management Corp., Richmond Hills. $179,687 in favor of Delvi Realty Corp., Elmhurst. Filed July 24.

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

FIGURES FIA Card Services N.A., et al.

Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $99,250 affecting property located at 91 Villa at the Woods, Unit C104, Peekskill 10566. Filed July 13.

Gabriel, Michael, et al. Filed by Fareverse LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 27 Dell Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed July 14.

Heydendael, Arthur G., et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 1805 Spring Valley Road, Ossining 10562. Filed July 13.

Astorino, Ellen, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 2 Briar Lane, Crompond 10517. Filed July 17.

Marcelin, Ronald, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $270,549 affecting property located at 31 Morris St., New Rochelle 10801. Filed July 14.

Ballin, Winston, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $612,000 affecting property located at 506 Locust St., Mount Vernon 10552. Filed July 17.

McPherson, Delores M., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $132,000 affecting property located at 25 Carlton St., White Plains 10607. Filed July 13.

Brinney, Jacquelyn, et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $353,662 affecting property located at 164 and 166 Woodworth Ave., Yonkers 10701.

Filed July 13.

Miniaci, Rose Marie, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $560,000 affecting property located at 1060 Hunter Ave., Pelham Manor 10803.

Filed July 14.

Cochachi, Roly, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 7 Wyman St., Rye Brook 10573. Filed July 13.

Munn, Max, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $757,200 affecting property located at 35 Castle Heights, Tarrytown 10591. Filed July 18.

Cohn, Joel, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $166,800 affecting property located at 3414 Heyward St., Mohegan Lake 10547.

Filed July 18.

Paez, Caryl, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 70 Highridge Road, New Rochelle 10804. Filed July 18.

Cott, Kerstin, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $840,000 affecting property located at 55 Irving Place, New Rochelle 10801. Filed July 13.

Denardo, Joseph, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $740,000 affecting property located at 69 Maple St., Dobbs Ferry 10522. Filed July 13.

Pena, Magda, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $536,250 affecting property located at 50 Cottage Place, Tarrytown 10591.

Filed July 18.

Randazzo, Sam R., et al. Filed by Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $467,500 affecting property located at 228 West St., Mount Kisco 10549.

Filed July 13.

Rodriguez, Edna, et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $391,400 affecting property located at 451 E. Third St., Mount Vernon 10553.

Filed July 14.

Sare, Benyamin, et al. Filed by American Brokers Conduit. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $428,400 affecting property located at 405 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed July 17.

Stewart, Samuel H., et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $336,000 affecting property located at 13 N. Lawrence Ave., Elmsford 10523.

Filed July 14.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Bedford Green LLC, as owner. $9,033 as claimed by Yorktown Electric Inc., Yorktown Heights.

Property: in Bedford. Filed July 27.

County of Westchester Industrial, as owner. $41,590 as claimed

by Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler Company Inc., Tappan. Property: in White Plains. Filed July 25.

EK Triangle LLC, as owner. $2,254 as claimed by Yorktown Electric Inc., Yorktown Heights. Property: in Yorktown. Filed July 27.

Gjonmarkaj, Majlinda, et al, as owner. $2,969 as claimed by Moretti Services Inc., Scarsdale. Property: in Pound Ridge. Filed July 25.

KDS Developers Inc., as owner. $22,200 as claimed by C and F Consulting Engineering PC, White Plains. Property: in White Plains.

Filed July 26.

King, Harold C., as owner. $18,114 as claimed by National Lawn Sprinklers Inc., North White Plains.

Property: in White Plains. Filed July 26.

Shodan Property LLC, as owner. $14,700 ENP Construction LLC. Property: in Rye. Filed July 27.

Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc., as owner. $9,130 Yorktown Electric Inc., Yorktown Heights. Property: in Ossining. Filed July 27.

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

Doing Business As Comprehensive Security Protection Inc., d.b.a. IP Associates, 300 White Oak Lane, Scarsdale.

Filed June 27.

Sleepy Hollow Landscaping and Property Maintenance Inc., d.b.a. Sleepy Hollow Landscaping, 5 Park Ave., Tarrytown 10591.

Filed June 27.

The New York Reading Foundation Inc., d.b.a. NY Reads, 273 Columbus Ave., Tuckahoe 10707.

Filed June 27.

Partnerships Accessory Booth, 300 E. Prospect Ave., 3E, Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Yolanda Patrick and Melissa Irish.

Filed June 22.

Diversity Delivers, 28 Twin Fawn Lane, Pound Ridge 10576, c/o Susan A. Golenbock and Clinton W. Robinson. Filed June 27.

Sole Proprietorships Alexandra Kohl Design, 811 The Parkway, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Alexandra Kohl. Filed June 24.

Codefix Consulting, 223 Nelson Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Gary Hoffman. Filed June 22.

H2 Fruits Vegetables, 1 Von der Donck, Suite 411, Yonkers 10701, c/o Muzaffer Engin. Filed June 23.

I.G.H. Property Management Services, 159 E. Third St., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Melissa Thomas.

Filed June 27.

Kevstonvision, 18 Corner Ave., Apt. 1, Yonkers 10705, c/o Kevin Darryl McGill. Filed June 23.

L and E Transportation Car Service, 30 Davenport Ave., Apt. 1K, New Rochelle 10805, c/o Luis E. Zapata. Filed June 24.

L and L Safety Taxi, 1115 Cortlandt St., Peekskill 10566, c/o Luis R. Lalvay. Filed June 24.

Law Office of Dale M. Novak, 14 Dove Court, Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Dale M. Novak. Filed June 27.

Le Cordonnier Studio, 111 Maple St., Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Anthony B. Cady. Filed June 22.

Makeruckus Press, 223 Nelson Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Lysa D. Hoffman. Filed June 22.

Mema Organics, 44 S. Broadway, Apt. 3LS, White Plains 10601, c/o Jacqueline Pettiford. Filed June 23.

FACTS North Salem Notary, P.O. Box 1016, Croton Falls 10519, c/o Reginald Wilson. Filed June 23.

R Accessorize, 1 Ridge Hill Blvd., Yonkers 10710, c/o Sardar Wasiqur Rahman. Filed June 22.

ServiceMaster Restoration by Wills, P.O. Box 8126, White Plains 10602, c/o Steven R. Wills. Filed June 22.

Slava’s Classic Touch Barber Shop, 797A Yonkers Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Slava Shushakov. Filed June 22.

PATENTS Assigning shared catalogs to cache structures in a cluster computing system. Patent no.

9,723,097 issued to Eric J. Harris, Vail, Ariz.; Franklin E. McCune, Tucson, Ariz.; David C. Reed, Tucson, Ariz.; and Max D. Smith, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Data replication across servers.

Patent no. 9,723,077 issued to Matthew J. Anglin, Tucson, Ariz.; and Barry Fruchtman, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Freight vehicle monitoring using telecommunications data. Patent no. 9,723,454 issued to Ming Li, Yorktown Heights; Milind R. Naphade, Cupterino, Calif.; and Sambit Sahu, Hopewell Junction.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Playing a personalized prerecorded audio of a call recipient to the call recipient to authenticate a telephone caller. Patent no. 9,723,136 issued to Daniel T. Bajema, Lake Elsinore, Calif.; Jeffrey R. McCallum, Tucson, Ariz.; Thuan Q. Nguyen, Tucson, Ariz.; and Socheat Sou, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Perforated panel connection.

Patent no. 9,723,757 issued to Scott R. LaPree, Rochester, Minn.; Stephen P. Mroz, Rochester, Minn.; and Mark D. Pfeifer, Owatonna, Minn.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Public service awareness of crowd movement and concentration. Patent no. 9,723,452 issued to James Fletcher, Apex, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System to improve cluster-machine processing and associated methods. Patent no. 9,723,070 issued to David Paul Brelsford, Hyde Park; Waiman Chan, Poughkeepsie; Alexander Druyan, Brooklyn; and Joseph F. Skovira. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System and method for providing profile enhancement using scheduling information. Patent no. 9,723,128 issued to Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, Mich.; Brian D. Goodman, West Redding, Conn.; Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va.; and Johnnye R. L. Tamaru, Reston, Va. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Patent no. 9,723,430 issued to James E. Bostick, Cedar Park, Texas; John M. Ganci Jr., Cary, N.C.; Arvind Singh, Waukegan, Ill.; and Kimberly G. Starks, Nashville, Tenn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Water-assisted air cooling for a row of cabinets. Patent no.

9,723,760 issued to Shawn Hall, Pleasantville. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

HUDSON VALLEY BANKRUPTCIES MANHATTAN Al Iman Plaza Inc. 2008 Westchester Ave., Bronx 10462. Chapter 11, voluntary. Represented by Carlos Gonzalez. Filed: July 27. Case no.

17-12072-mg.

WHITE PLAINS Luca Gambardella Family Trust. 75 S. Broadway, Suite 467, White Plains 10601. Chapter 7, voluntary. Represented by Luca Gambardella Family Trust. Filed: July 28. Case no. 17-23178-rdd.

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COURT CASES Blue Moon Mexican Café LLC. Filed by Jacqueline Rojas, Adrian Lopez, Danielle Carpenter, Rosalia Calixto, Edwin Tlatelpa and Deysi Tlatelpa. Action: federal question ­– fair labor standards. No attorney listed. Filed: Aug. 1. Case no. 7:17-cv05825.

Blue Mountain Housing Development Corp. Filed by Fair Housing Justice Center Inc. et al.

Action: Fair Housing Act. Attorneys: Diane Lee Houk and Zoe Antonia Salzman. Filed: July 27. Case no.

7:17-cv-05664-KMK. Case Paper Co. Inc. Filed

by Jennifer Rakoff. Action: job discrimination (unlawful employment practices). Attorney: Steven Thomas Sledzik. Filed: July 27. Case no. 7:17-cv-05667-NSR. Citibank South Dakota National Association. Plaintiff: CIT Bank National Association. Action: federal question – breach of contract. Attorney: Adam Philip Briskin. Filed: Aug. 1. Case no. 7:17-cv-05811.

FIGURES NSC Abatement Services Inc. Filed by Teobaldo Fabian. Action not listed. Attorney: Jacob Aronauer. Filed: Aug. 1. Case no.

7:17-cv-05815.

The Mark 95 LLC, New Rochelle.

Seller: John Varela, New Rochelle.

Property: 10 Cottage Place, New Rochelle. Amount: $1.5 million.

Filed July 26.

Davids Hill LLC, Bedford Hills.

Seller: McDuffie Holdings LLC, Bedford Hills. Property: 74 David’s Hill Road, Bedford. Amount: $750,000.

Filed July 24.

OCWEN Loan Servicing LLC et al. Filed by Victor Sarubbi. Action: petition for removal. Attorneys: Patrick Gallagher Broderick and Brian Scott Pantaleo. Filed: July 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-05658-CS.

The Mark 95 LLC, New Rochelle.

Seller: Shalshawn Ltd., Naples, Fla. Property: 26 Garden St., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.5 million.

Filed July 27.

First Future Installers Corp., Yonkers. Seller: John A. Insinna, Yonkers. Property: 3 Elaine Terrace, Yonkers. Amount: $265,000. Filed July 28.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Christopher B. Meagher, White Plains. Property: 9 Threshing Rock Road, Pound Ridge.

Amount: $1.8 million. Filed July 28.

Golden AQ LLC, Hartsdale. Seller: Brian Walsh, Scarsdale. Property: 124 Aqueduct Drive, Greenburgh.

Amount: $730,000. Filed July 25.

SupportBuddy Inc. Filed by Tara Ramirez. Action: fraud and related activity in connection with computers. Attorney: Michael Robert Reese. Filed: July 31. Case no.

7:17-cv-05781.

DEEDS Above $1 million

Below $1 million

29-31 South Second Ave LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: 29 South Second Avenue Corp., Mount Vernon.

Property: 29 S. Second Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $4.2 million. Filed July 25.

105 Washington Ave LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: AP Palumbo 105 Inc., Amawalk. Property: 105 Washington Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $480,000. Filed July 28.

Clarke Dodge Asset Management LLC. Filed by Joseph V. DiMauro. Action: trademark infringement (Lanham Act). Attorney: Lisa M. Golden. Filed: June 26. Case no. 7:17-cv-05662-NSR.

727 Main Street New Roc LLC, Mount Vernon. Seller: Betty Shelton, New Rochelle. Property: 727 Main St., New Rochelle. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed July 25.

The Hanover Insurance Co. Filed by Red Pocket Inc. Action: declaratory judgment – insurance.

Attorney: Douglas J. Steinke. Filed: July 28. Case no. 7:17-cv-05670-KMK.

CAMA Priority LLC, Scarsdale.

Seller: Gill 1995 Trust, Foster City, Calif. Property: 143 W. Main St., TH11, Greenburgh. Amount: $1.9 million.

Filed July 26.

The InterWire Group et al.

Filed by Laura Ragone. Action: job discrimination (unlawful employment practices). Attorney: Kenneth Andrew Goldberg. Filed: July 27.

Case no. 7:17-cv-05705-KMK.

Greenwich Riverview LLC, Pleasantville. Seller: G. Stephen Hoffman, et al, Wilmington, Del. Property: 193-203 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains. Amount: $2.9 million. Filed July 26.

Lafayette Glass Co. Filed by the trustees of the District Council 9 Painting Industry Insurance and Annuity Funds. Action: E.R.I.S.A.– civil enforcement of employee benefits. Attorney: Dana Lynne Henke. Filed: July 27. Case no.

7:17-cv-05699-NSR.

Innes Road Realty LLC, Bronxville. Seller: Charles Rich, et al, New York City. Property: 14 Innes Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $1.4 million.

Filed July 26.

New Rochelle Hot Bagel Inc. Filed by Isidro Gutierrez. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Abdul Karim Hassan. Filed: July 28.

Case no. 7:17-cv-05752-NSR. New Rochelle Hotel Associates.

Filed by Staci Bondi, Maria Caparela and Jasmine Hernandez. Action: Fair Labor Standards Act. Attorney: Jordan Alexander El-Hag. Filed: July 26. Case no. 7:17-cv-05681-KMK.

Zeidan Realty Corp., Poughkeepsie. Seller: Robert Porpora Realty Corp, Armonk. Property: 360 Main St., North Castle. Amount: $3 million. Filed July 24.

Oamic Ingredients LLC, Yonkers.

Seller: Whalen’s Moving and Storage Company Inc., Armonk.

Property: 6 Labriola Court, North Castle. Amount: $4.3 million. Filed July 24.

Port Chester Holdings LLC, et al, Spring Valley. Seller: Rye Central Associates LLC, White Plains. Property: 256 King St., Rye. Amount: $4.1 million. Filed July 25.

Tapzee Realty LLC, Maspeth.

Seller: Manuel Bastos, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 47 Clinton St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed July 25.

212 Croton Lake LLC, New York City. Seller: Michael Lynton, New York City. Property: 212 Croton Lake Road, Bedford. Amount: $838,000. Filed July 28.

Arbani Holdings LLC, New Rochelle. Seller: Joyce A. Brown, Mount Vernon. Property: 85 Maple Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $301,000. Filed July 27.

C2GRE LLC, White Plains. Seller: Joseph A. Maria, White Plains.

Property: 232 Warren Ave., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $309,500. Filed July 24.

Cartus Financial Corp., Danbury, Conn. Seller: Anthony D. Battaglia, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 192 Robert Drive, New Rochelle.

Amount: $830,000. Filed July 27.

Castle Walk Development LLC, Hartsdale. Seller: Scarsdale Larchmont Family LP, Rye. Property: 42 Crossway, Scarsdale. Amount: $796,000. Filed July 27.

Christiana Trust. Seller: Margaret A. Nicholson, Somers. Property: 8 Ogden Ave., Cortlandt. Amount: $315,375. Filed July 24.

D. Realty LLC, Richmond Hill.

Seller: Darette R. Mills, Pomona.

Property: 157 Warburton Ave., Yonkers. Amount: $152,000. Filed July 25.

Maple Avenue Realty Associates LLC, Bedford Corners. Seller: 11 Maple Avenue LLC, Armonk.

Property: 11 Maple Ave., North Castle. Amount: $725,000. Filed July 27.

Maple Avenue Realty Associates LLC, Bedford Corners. Seller: Boris Utko, Armonk. Property: 15 Maple, North Castle. Amount: $150,000. Filed July 28.

Moss Lane Corp., Yorktown.

Seller: Christopher Nyikos, et al, Somers. Property: 3150 Moss Lane, Yorktown. Amount: $645,000. Filed July 24.

National Residential Nominee Services Inc. Seller: Andrew T. Kessel, Pleasantville. Property: 316 Washington Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $598,000. Filed July 25.

Oguido Inc., Yonkers. Seller: M and B Mount Vernon LLC, Mahopac. Property: 46 Mount Vernon Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $300,000. Filed July 24.

Old Republic National Title Insurance Co. Seller: Vivian W. Chang, et al, Pleasantville. Property: 158 Manville Road, Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $935,000. Filed July 28.

Orange Lake Development LLC, Newburgh. Seller: Stanislov Usov, Hartsdale. Property: 363 Long Hill Road East, Ossining. Amount: $950,000. Filed July 27.

Otter Point Investors 222NW LLC, Tarrytown. Seller: Monks Realty Company Inc., Buchanan. Property: 222 N. Washington St., Mount Pleasant. Amount: $600,000. Filed July 25.

Peek 22 Holdings LLC, Briarcliff.

Seller: MJG Holdings LLC, Peekskill. Property: 22 N. Division St., Peekskill. Amount: $550,000. Filed July 24.

Sirva Relocation Credit LLC. Seller: David Thomas Emanuelson, et al, Larchmont. Property: 24 Copley Road, Mamaroneck. Amount: $985,000. Filed July 26.

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FACTS Sleepy Hollow Local Development Corp., Sleepy Hollow. Seller: Cliff Walk Sleepy Hollow LLC, Greenwich, Conn. Property: 193 Beekman Ave., Mount Pleasant.

Amount: $870,000. Filed July 26.

South 4th Avenue LLC, Great Neck. Seller: 6 South 4th Realty Inc., Valhalla. Property: 6 S. Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $600,000.

Filed July 27.

The Mark 95 LLC, New Rochelle.

Seller: Louis Monforte, New Rochelle. Property: 16 Cottage Place, New Rochelle. Amount: $400,000.

Filed July 26.

Triple M.C. Realty LLC, Yorktown Heights. Seller: Rosalia Licari, Wappingers Falls. Property: 2062 Saw Mill River Road, Yorktown.

Amount: $390,000. Filed July 27.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Seller: Kevin L. Wright, Mahopac. Property: 11 Alice Road, North Salem. Amount: $282,000.

Filed July 27.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Azatyan Realty Inc., Little Neck. Property: 27 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $780,000. Filed July 27.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Festa Realty LLC, Congers. Property: 89 Maple St., Yonkers. Amount: $860,000. Filed July 27.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Gontar Management LLC, New York. Property: 97 Maple St., Yonkers. Amount: $800,000. Filed July 27.

FORECLOSURES CROSS RIVER, 10 Adams Hill Road. Single-family residence; lot size: 1.27 acre. Plaintiff: Partners for Payment Relief De Il LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Margolin & Weinreb Law Group, 516-921-3838; 165 Eileen Way, Syosset 11791. Defendant: Dean Marrazzo. Referee: Thomas Cathcart. Sale: Aug. 21, 10:30 a.m.

Approximate lien: $47,426.23.

EASTCHESTER, 99 Waterside Close. Single-family residence; lot size: .05 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-9693100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore 11706.

Defendant: Jung Jim Kim. Referee: Kevin Wright. Sale: Aug. 21, 11:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $644,999.35.

HARTSDALE, 11 Southway.

Single-family residence; lot size: .17 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Karen Naftelberg.

Referee: Kenneth Bunting. Sale: Aug. 8, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $949,998.91.

IRVINGINTON, 215 Harriman Road. Single-family residence; lot size: .32 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association.

Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624.

Defendant: Milenka Banje. Referee: Albert Comachio. Sale: Aug. 8, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $708,518.35.

MOUNT KISCO, 15 Saint Pauls Place. Single-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd, Rochester 14624. Defendant: Robert Clark. Referee: David Galeo. Sale: Aug. 1, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $463,838.03.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Grace Natuzzi, et al, Yonkers. Property: 91 Maple St., Yonkers. Amount: $475,000. Filed July 27.

Yonkers CF II Holdings LLC, Yonkers. Seller: Ruben Marte, Sleepy Hollow. Property: 35 Garfield St., Yonkers. Amount: $745,000.

Filed July 27.

MOUNT VERNON, 213 Union Ave. Three-family residence; lot size: .08 acre. Plaintiff: TD Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Dunne Morris LLP, 212692-1000; 1540 Broadway, New York 10036. Defendant: Eliezer Mizrani. Referee: Frank Lombardi.

Sale: Aug. 11, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $344,717.87.

MOUNT VERNON, 308 S. Fourth Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .1 acre. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Davidson, Fink, Cook, Kelly & Galbraith, 585-546,6448 or 585760-8218; 28 E. Main St., Suite 1700, Rochester 14614. Defendant: William Bishop. Referee: John Sarcone.

Sale: Aug. 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $634,680.62.

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OSSINING, 14 Havell St. Twofamily residence; lot size: .11 acre.

Plaintiff: Wilmington Savings Fund Society. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845-8971600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Jaime Faiella. Referee: Richard Grayson.

Sale: Aug. 9, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $332,716.47.

FIGURES YONKERS, 87 McLean Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .03 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, 631-969-3100; 53 Gibson St., Bay Shore 11706. Defendant: Flora Mejia. Referee: Eugene Grimes.

Sale: Aug. 14, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $623,808.70.

SHRUB OAK, 3370. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .4 acre.

Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy LLC, 716-204-1700; 1775 Wehrle Drive, Williamsville 14221. Defendant: Beatrice Ference Gray. Referee: Guy Parisi. Sale: Aug. 8, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $506,305.00.

Briarcliff Auto Service LLC, Briarcliff. $6,125 in favor of Briarcliff Gasoline Inc., Briarcliff. Filed July 27.

WHITE PLAINS, 3 Dennison St. Three-family residence; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank USA National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk 10504. Defendant: Tonia Marbury. Referee: Barbara Lerman. Sale: Aug. 22, 9:15 a.m. Approximate lien: $414,541.45.

Fred A. Cook Jr. Inc., Montrose. $5,571 in favor of Armstrong Madison and Chase Ltd., Ramsey, N.J. Filed July 28.

YONKERS, 23 Water Grant St., Apt. 2-0. Apartment; lot size: N/A. Plaintiff: JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Christopher Barrett. Referee: Chuck Lesnick. Sale: Aug. 14, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $164,590.82.

YONKERS, 30 Fortfield Ave. Single-family residence; lot size: .11 acre. Plaintiff: The Bank of New York Mellon. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, 845897-1600; 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill 11254. Defendant: Anthony Rose as heir to Ann Rose. Referee: Richard Strassfield. Sale: Aug. 8, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $113,830.84.

YONKERS, 54 Morningside Ave. Two-family residence; lot size: .06 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Leopold & Associates PLLC, 914-219-5787; 80 Business Park Drive Armonk 10504. Defendant: Santos Lopez. Referee: Ian Spler.

Sale: Aug. 22, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $566,607.81.

YONKERS, 84 Elliot Ave. Singlefamily residence; lot size: .05 acre.

Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, 877-759-1835; 175 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester 14624. Defendant: Enrique Guzman.

Referee: Charmaine Miles. Sale: Aug. 14, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $736,860.82.

JUDGMENTS

Control Spec Electrical Systems Inc., Long Island City. $45,442 in favor of HH Benfield Electrical Supply and Benfield Control Systems Inc., White Plains. Filed July 26.

GMH Contracting and Management Corp., Richmond Hills. $179,687 in favor of Delvi Realty Corp., Elmhurst. Filed July 24.

Victoria’s Confections Inc., Yorktown Heights. $55,782 in favor of 380 Downing Drive LLC, Briarcliff Manor. Filed July 25.

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

Astorino, Ellen, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 2 Briar Lane, Crompond 10517. Filed July 17.

Ballin, Winston, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $612,000 affecting property located at 506 Locust St., Mount Vernon 10552. Filed July 17.

Brinney, Jacquelyn, et al. Filed

by The Bank of New York Mellon.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $353,662 affecting property located at 164 and 166 Woodworth Ave., Yonkers 10701.

Filed July 13.

Cochachi, Roly, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $400,000 affecting property located at 7 Wyman St., Rye Brook 10573. Filed July 13.

Cohn, Joel, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association.

Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $166,800 affecting property located at 3414 Heyward St., Mohegan Lake 10547.

Filed July 18.

Pena, Magda, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $536,250 affecting property located at 50 Cottage Place, Tarrytown 10591.

Filed July 18.

Cott, Kerstin, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $840,000 affecting property located at 55 Irving Place, New Rochelle 10801. Filed July 13.

Randazzo, Sam R., et al. Filed by Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $467,500 affecting property located at 228 West St., Mount Kisco 10549.

Filed July 13.

Denardo, Joseph, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $740,000 affecting property located at 69 Maple St., Dobbs Ferry 10522. Filed July 13.

Rodriguez, Edna, et al. Filed

by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $391,400 affecting property located at 451 E. Third St., Mount Vernon 10553.

Filed July 14.

FIA Card Services N.A., et al.

Filed by Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $99,250 affecting property located at 91 Villa at the Woods, Unit C104, Peekskill 10566. Filed July 13.

Sare, Benyamin, et al. Filed by American Brokers Conduit. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $428,400 affecting property located at 405 Warwick Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed July 17.

Gabriel, Michael, et al. Filed by Fareverse LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 27 Dell Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed July 14.

Heydendael, Arthur G., et al.

Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 1805 Spring Valley Road, Ossining 10562. Filed July 13.

Marcelin, Ronald, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $270,549 affecting property located at 31 Morris St., New Rochelle 10801. Filed July 14.

McPherson, Delores M., et al.

Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $132,000 affecting property located at 25 Carlton St., White Plains 10607. Filed July 13.

Miniaci, Rose Marie, et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $560,000 affecting property located at 1060 Hunter Ave., Pelham Manor 10803.

Filed July 14.

Munn, Max, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $757,200 affecting property located at 35 Castle Heights, Tarrytown 10591. Filed July 18.

Paez, Caryl, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $250,000 affecting property located at 70 Highridge Road, New Rochelle 10804. Filed July 18.

Stewart, Samuel H., et al. Filed

by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $336,000 affecting property located at 13 N. Lawrence Ave., Elmsford 10523.

Filed July 14.

MECHANIC’S LIENS Bedford Green LLC, as owner. $9,033 as claimed by Yorktown Electric Inc., Yorktown Heights.

Property: in Bedford. Filed July 27.

County of Westchester Industrial, as owner. $41,590 as claimed

by Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler Company Inc., Tappan. Property: in White Plains. Filed July 25.

EK Triangle LLC, as owner. $2,254 as claimed by Yorktown Electric Inc., Yorktown Heights. Property: in Yorktown. Filed July 27.

Gjonmarkaj, Majlinda, et al, as owner. $2,969 as claimed by Moretti Services Inc., Scarsdale. Property: in Pound Ridge. Filed July 25.

KDS Developers Inc., as owner. $22,200 as claimed by C and F Consulting Engineering PC, White Plains. Property: in White Plains.

Filed July 26.

King, Harold C., as owner. $18,114 as claimed by National Lawn Sprinklers Inc., North White Plains.

Property: in White Plains. Filed July 26.

Shodan Property LLC, as owner. $14,700 ENP Construction LLC. Property: in Rye. Filed July 27.

FACTS Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc., as owner. $9,130 Yorktown Electric Inc., Yorktown Heights. Property: in Ossining. Filed July 27.

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

Partnerships Accessory Booth, 300 E. Prospect Ave., 3E, Mount Vernon 10553, c/o Yolanda Patrick and Melissa Irish.

Filed June 22.

Diversity Delivers, 28 Twin Fawn Lane, Pound Ridge 10576, c/o Susan A. Golenbock and Clinton W. Robinson. Filed June 27.

Doing Business As Sole Proprietorships Comprehensive Security Protection Inc., d.b.a. IP Associates, 300 White Oak Lane, Scarsdale.

Filed June 27.

Sleepy Hollow Landscaping and Property Maintenance Inc., d.b.a. Sleepy Hollow Landscaping, 5 Park Ave., Tarrytown 10591.

Filed June 27.

The New York Reading Foundation Inc., d.b.a. NY Reads, 273 Columbus Ave., Tuckahoe 10707.

Filed June 27.

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FIGURES

Kevstonvision, 18 Corner Ave., Apt. 1, Yonkers 10705, c/o Kevin Darryl McGill. Filed June 23.

R Accessorize, 1 Ridge Hill Blvd., Yonkers 10710, c/o Sardar Wasiqur Rahman. Filed June 22.

L and E Transportation Car Service, 30 Davenport Ave., Apt. 1K, New Rochelle 10805, c/o Luis E. Zapata. Filed June 24.

ServiceMaster Restoration by Wills, P.O. Box 8126, White Plains 10602, c/o Steven R. Wills. Filed June 22.

L and L Safety Taxi, 1115 Cortlandt St., Peekskill 10566, c/o Luis R. Lalvay. Filed June 24.

Slava’s Classic Touch Barber Shop, 797A Yonkers Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Slava Shushakov. Filed June 22.

Law Office of Dale M. Novak, 14 Dove Court, Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Dale M. Novak. Filed June 27.

Alexandra Kohl Design, 811 The Parkway, Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Alexandra Kohl. Filed June 24.

Le Cordonnier Studio, 111 Maple St., Croton-on-Hudson 10520, c/o Anthony B. Cady. Filed June 22.

Codefix Consulting, 223 Nelson Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Gary Hoffman. Filed June 22.

Makeruckus Press, 223 Nelson Ave., Peekskill 10566, c/o Lysa D. Hoffman. Filed June 22.

H2 Fruits Vegetables, 1 Von der Donck, Suite 411, Yonkers 10701, c/o Muzaffer Engin. Filed June 23.

Mema Organics, 44 S. Broadway, Apt. 3LS, White Plains 10601, c/o Jacqueline Pettiford. Filed June 23.

I.G.H. Property Management Services, 159 E. Third St., Mount Vernon 10550, c/o Melissa Thomas.

Filed June 27.

North Salem Notary, P.O. Box 1016, Croton Falls 10519, c/o Reginald Wilson. Filed June 23.

PATENTS Assigning shared catalogs to cache structures in a cluster computing system. Patent no.

9,723,097 issued to Eric J. Harris, Vail, Ariz.; Franklin E. McCune, Tucson, Ariz.; David C. Reed, Tucson, Ariz.; and Max D. Smith, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Data replication across servers.

Patent no. 9,723,077 issued to Matthew J. Anglin, Tucson, Ariz.; and Barry Fruchtman, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Freight vehicle monitoring using telecommunications data. Patent no. 9,723,454 issued to Ming Li, Yorktown Heights; Milind R. Naphade, Cupterino, Calif.; and Sambit Sahu, Hopewell Junction.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Playing a personalized prerecorded audio of a call recipient to the call recipient to authenticate a telephone caller. Patent no. 9,723,136 issued to Daniel T. Bajema, Lake Elsinore, Calif.; Jeffrey R. McCallum, Tucson, Ariz.; Thuan Q. Nguyen, Tucson, Ariz.; and Socheat Sou, Tucson, Ariz. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Perforated panel connection.

Patent no. 9,723,757 issued to Scott R. LaPree, Rochester, Minn.; Stephen P. Mroz, Rochester, Minn.; and Mark D. Pfeifer, Owatonna, Minn.

Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Public service awareness of crowd movement and concentration. Patent no. 9,723,452 issued to James Fletcher, Apex, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System to improve cluster-machine processing and associated methods. Patent no. 9,723,070 issued to David Paul Brelsford, Hyde Park; Waiman Chan, Poughkeepsie; Alexander Druyan, Brooklyn; and Joseph F. Skovira. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

System and method for providing profile enhancement using scheduling information. Patent no. 9,723,128 issued to Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, Mich.; Brian D. Goodman, West Redding, Conn.; Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va.; and Johnnye R. L. Tamaru, Reston, Va. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Patent no. 9,723,430 issued to James E. Bostick, Cedar Park, Texas; John M. Ganci Jr., Cary, N.C.; Arvind Singh, Waukegan, Ill.; and Kimberly G. Starks, Nashville, Tenn. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Water-assisted air cooling for a row of cabinets. Patent no.

9,723,760 issued to Shawn Hall, Pleasantville. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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LEGAL NOTICES Bernadette H Haley, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/23/17. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 100 Ardsley Ave. W., Ardsley on Hudson, NY 10503-0241. General Purpose. #61223

Glamsendivas LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/30/17. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 606 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck, NY 10543. General Purpose. #61236

HPN Tiger Aviators LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/21/17. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 213 Treetop Crescent, Rye Brook, NY 10573.

General Purpose. #61224

Notice of Formation of Harold Ehrlich, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY, Sect. 203, on 6/29/17. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 30 Anne Chambers Lane, Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61239

Notice of Formation of 1959 Foods LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/SSNY on 04/19/17. Office loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Robert H. Gonzalez, 5 John St,Ste 6, Tarrytown, NY 10591. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #61226 Notice of formation of Helpmatexpress.com, LLC. Art of Org. Filed with the ssny on 4/13/2017. Offc. Loc : Westchester Cty. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. desig as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shal mail process to the LLC, 7014 13th Ave., suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 #61228 B & B 119, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/27/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Eugene Buonanno, 10 Castle Heights Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591. General Purpose. #61230 Notice of Formation of L.E.C. Consulting Services, LLC. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/9/17.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 260 Lake Shore Drive, Pleasantville, NY, 10570. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61232 NOTICE OF FORMATION of Systems by Noctech, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 6/15/2017. Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail process to: Systems by Noctech, LLC, PO BOX 651 Yonkers, NY 10703.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #61233 20 Warburton LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/22/17. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 342 North Main St., Port Chester, NY 10573.

General Purpose. #61234 390 Grasslands Road LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/14/17. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 104 North Hampton Dr., White Plains, NY 10603. General Purpose. #61235

20 East Clinton, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/26/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 20 E. Clinton Ave., Irvington, NY 10533. General Purpose. #61240 Notice of Formation of Cooper 26, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/17/2017. 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. #61241 Notice of formation of Advance Elite Solution LLC. Articles of organization Filed with State of New York Department of State on 1/9/2014. Office Westchester Co. The Limited Liability Company designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 237 Main St, Apartment 2, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: General. #61242 Notice of Formation of Murphy Plumbing and Heating LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/6/17.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 6 Franklin Dr. Bedford Hills, NY 10507. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61243 L&R HOME REMODELING AND IMPROVEMENT, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State on 07/05/2017 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: 1004 Colony Dr, Hartsdale, NY, 10530 (the LLCís primary business location). LLC may engage in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed. #61245 PMacs Hospitality LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/24/2017. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 3 Interlaken Dr., Eastchester, NY 10709. General Purpose. #61246 Montrose Land, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/4/2017. Cty: Westchester.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 93 Montrose Station Rd., Montrose, NY 10548.

General Purpose. #61247

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Lokah LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/14/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process 8 Robin Hood Rd., Pound Ridge, NY 10576. General Purpose. #61265

Notice of Formation of Crow Media, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/23/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 160 Route 9a. Ossining, NY 10562. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61248

Notice of Formation of IMAGINARIO, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/11/2017. 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, 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61254

CHRISTINE ZENG INTERIORS LLC filed with the SSNY on 6/5/17.

Off loc: Westchester County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 107 Brambach Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 (primary business location) Purpose: any lawful #61249

Notice of Formation of ISPIRATO, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/11/2017. 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, 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61255

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PETBNB, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/30/2017. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 455 Tarrytown Rd #1012, White Plains, NY 10607, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity. #61250

Notice of Formation of 513519, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/14/2017. 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, 43 Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY 10803. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61256

Notice of Formation of KaneOrion LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/21/2017. Office Location: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom service of process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Brock Cvijanovich, P.O. Box 124, Chappaqua, NY 10514.

Purpose: any lawful activities. #61267

Notice of formation Domestic Limited Liability Company(LLC) of communicate4IMPACT, LLC Articles of Org. filed with NY Department of State on 07/07/21017.The LLC is located in Westchester County. Business location: 10 Robin Hill Road Scarsdale, NY 10583 Purpose of business of LLC is any lawful purpose. #61258

Notice of Formation of Lyfe Computing, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/29/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the United States Corporation Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brookly NY, 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61268

Notice of Formation of 52 CLARK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 186 Katonah Ave., Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61261

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOSHINKU, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/28/2017. Office loc: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail process to the principal business address: 46 Usonia Rd., Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: any lawful acts. #61271

Notice of Formation of 359 EAST 204TH STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/19/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: One New King St., Suite 201, West Harrison, NY 10604. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61262

Josh Provides Empowerment LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 7/17/17.

Off. in West. Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 125 Lake St, Apt 10DN, White Plains, NY 10604. Purpose: any lawful activity. #61272

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: 1510 Broadway LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on July 10, 2017. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 1510 Broadway LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #61251 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: 1510 Broadway Managers LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on July 10, 2017. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 1510 Broadway Managers LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #61252 Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (ìLLCî). Name: MacQuesten Broadway Partners LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (ìSSNYî) on July 10, 2017. N.Y. office location: Westchester County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to MacQuesten Broadway Partners LLC, c/o The MacQuesten Companies, 438 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100, Pelham, New York 10803. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. #61253

Notice of Formation of BLAST Strategic Solutions, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/27/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporate Filings of New York, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61263 Notice of Formation of Cuisine Inspired LLC, Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/17/2017. Offc.

Loc: Westchester Cty. 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, 803 Oakwood Road, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Purpose of LLC is any lawful business act or activity. #61264

Mouflon Holdings, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/7/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process Geist Schwarz & Jellinek, PLLC, 1 N. Lexington Ave., 11th Fl., White Plains, NY 10601. General Purpose. #61266

Busel LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 7/13/17. Off. in West. Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 39 Howard St, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. Purpose: any lawful activity. #61273 Lissy Carr Events LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 7/11/17. Off. in West. Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 151 Barton Rd, White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful activity. #61274 Notice of Formation of QUALITY MUSIQ PRODUCTION L.L.C. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNYon 07/11/2017. 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, 738 SOUTH STREET P.O. BOX 2691 PEEKSKILL, NY 10566. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61275

Case No. 17-D10194 Dept. I IN THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA IN AND FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY SUMMONS ANGELA BENCZE, Plaintiff, SUMMONS JOSEPH M. SCAPLEHORN, Defendant.

THE STATE OF NEVADA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff, ANGELA BENCZE, whose address is 3 Hathaway Lane, White Plains, NY 10605, an ANSWER to the Complaint which is herewith served upon you, within 20 days after service of this Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. In addition, you must file with Clerk of this Court, whose address is shown below, a formal written answer to the complaint. along with the appropriate filing fees, in accordance with the rules of the Court. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought to recover a judgment dissolving the contract of marriage existing between you and the Plaintiff: The filer certifies that this document does not contain the social security number of any person.

Dated this 19 day of June, 2017.

Clerk of Court

by K. WILFERT Deputy Clerk Ninth Judicial District Court P.O. Box218 Minden, NV 89423 Ad #61238

13 Woodside Ave LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/19/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process 557 Sherman Ave., Thornwood, NY 10594. General Purpose. #61276 150 Lake Avenue Yonkers LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/17.

Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process 100 S. Van Brunt St., Ste. 3, Englewood, NJ 07631. General Purpose #61277 3225 East Tremont Holding, LLC. Filed 3/3/15 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water Street Suite 204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61278 El Rosso Realty LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/17. Cty: Westchester. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process 1075 Central Park Ave., Ste. 205, Scarsdale, NY 10583-3232.

General Purpose. #61279 Notice of Formation of Petgadgets, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/12/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 11 Jefferson Rd, Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61280

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Gordon Ave Properties LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/18/2017. Office location: WESTCHESTER County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: P.O. Box 248 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 The principal business address of the LLC is: 132 Gordon Ave Sleepy Hollow NY Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61281 Notice of Formation of Treat Integrative Wellness, L.L.C. Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/7/17.

Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 204 Locust Avenue, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61282 Bill Orrico Enterprises LLC. Filed 7/25/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water Street Suite 204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61284 2800 Bruckner Associates LLC. Filed 7/18/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water Street Suite 204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61285 2800 Bruckner Holding LLC. Filed 7/18/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water Street Suite 204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61286

LEGAL NOTICES Docs Group LLC. Filed 7/18/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water Street Suite 204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61287 CMF Associates LLC. Filed 7/18/17 Office: Westchester Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 12 Water Street Suite 204, White Plains, NY 10601 Purpose: all lawful #61288 Notice of Formation of Climbing Wolf LLC Article of Organization filed with SSNY on 7/17/2017.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC on whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Climbing Wolf Craft Beer Bar 5 Anderson St. New Rochelle, NY 10805. Purpose: Any lawful business purpose. #61289 Notice of Formation of GREENTREE MAIN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/22/17. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Donna Z. Vaccari, 47 Wyndham Close, White Plains, NY 10605-2100. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61290 Notice of Formation of GREENTREE WEYMAN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/22/17. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Donna Z. Vaccari, 47 Wyndham Close, White Plains, NY 10605-2100. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61291 Notice of Formation of The Oak & Avery Group, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 2/16/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the The Kasarda Law Group, LLC, 300 Martine Avenue Suite C2C. White Plains., NY 10601. Purpose: any lawful purpose #61292 Notice of Formation of Kinsio Realty LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/19/17. Offc. Loc: Westchester Cty. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 180 S Broadway Suite 101A. White Plains., NY 10605. Purpose: any lawful purpose #61293 Notice of Formation of Ascencio, LLC Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/5/17. Offc. Loc: 25 Winthrop Ave, Yonkers, NY 10710. SSNY desig. as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 9900 Spectrum Drive, Austin,TX 78717. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #61294

Notice of Formation of 36 UPPER HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kenneth Nolan, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, 5 Bryant Park at 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61295 Notice of Formation of 80 UPPER HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kenneth Nolan, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, 5 Bryant Park at 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61296 Notice of Formation of 44-48 UPPER HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kenneth Nolan, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, 5 Bryant Park at 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61297 Notice of Formation of 100-148 GIRDLE RIDGE ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/17. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kenneth Nolan, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, 5 Bryant Park at 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61298 Notice of Formation of 53-61 UPPER HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kenneth Nolan, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, 5 Bryant Park at 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61299 Notice of Formation of POUND RIDGE WEST LANE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kenneth Nolan, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, 5 Bryant Park at 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61300 Notice of Formation of 68 UPPER HOOK ROAD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/20/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Kenneth Nolan, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, 5 Bryant Park at 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61301

Notice of Formation of 919 SECOND STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/24/17. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 55 Smith Avenue, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61302 Notice of Formation of CSTAR International LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/31/17. Office location: Westchester County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to CSTAR International LLC, 1 Shonnard Ter. Apt. 3F, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61303 NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2015 report for the year ending June 30, 2016, of The Michel David-Weill Foundation is available for inspection at its principal office, c/o Bruce Oberfest & Associates, P.O. Box 318, Chappaqua, New York 10514, during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication. The Foundationís principal manager is Michel David-Weill, 914-238-3800. #61304 NOTICE OF ANNUAL REPORT - Notice is hereby given that the 2015 report for the year ending August 31, 2016, of the Akindale Rehabilitation & Land Conservation Fund is available for inspection at its principal office, 287 King Street, Chappaqua, New York 10514, during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days after the date of this publication. The Foundationís principal manager is Bruce Oberfest, Trustee, 914-238-3800. #61305 Notice of Formation of Alpha Mama, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/7/17. Location: Westchester County, registered address 90 Orchard Ridge Rd Chappaqua, NY 10514. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Carter, Ledyard & Millburn LLP, 2 Wall Street NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. #61306 Notice of Formation of Renee Olsson Renovations, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/23/2017. 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, 8 Park Hill Lane, Larchmont, New York 10538. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. # 61229 Notice of Formation of AlgoExpert, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/10/17. Off.: Westchester County. SSNY, designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served, shall mail process to 2 Washington Sq., Ste.: 2D, Larchmont, NY 10538.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. # 61269

Index No.: 59257/2012.

Date Filed: 7/26/17.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Plaintiff designates Westchester County as the Place of Trial.

Designation of Venue is based upon the situs of the Subject Property.

Subject Property: 65 Clinton Ave, New Rochelle, New York 10801.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR HSI ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2006-OPT1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OPT1, Plaintiff, -againstJOSE L. AYALA, if living, and if dead, the respective heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignors, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and each and every person not specifically named who may be entitled to or claim to have any right, title or interest in the property described in the verified complaint; all of whom and whose names and places of residence unknown, and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by the Plaintiff, ET AL, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: 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 served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30( days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until sixty (60) days after service of the Summons; 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 YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $460,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Westchester on December 28, 2005, in Control No. 453490182, covering premises known as 65 Clinton Ave, New Rochelle, New York 10801 ñ SBL #: 5 ñ 1417 ñ 21.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendant and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises.

TO the Defendant JOSE L. AYALA, the foregoing Supplemental Summons with Notice is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Joan B. Lefkowitz, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Westchester, dated July 12, 2017.

Dated: July 20, 2017 New Rochelle, New York MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C. /s/_________________ Sonia J. Baez, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street, Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 914-636-8900 File # 560-1448 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW 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 office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the departmentís website at WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.US. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay your taxes in accordance with state and local law.

FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to "save" your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner's 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. #61283

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