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ustainable Playland Inc., the Ryebased nonprofit chosen to “reinvent” Playland, submitted its improvement plan outlining a to-do list of construction projects that would begin next year at the county-owned amusement park. the 80-page improvement plan includes the restoration and replacement of older rides and addition of new rides, but emphasizes an overall shift away from Playland as solely an amusement park. Ned McCormack, communications director for the Westchester County executive, said that has been a goal since the start of the process. “the ultimate thing is to change Playland from a 100-day amusement park to a 365-day destination for residents,” he said. County executive Robert P. Astorino came into office in 2010, openly seeking to change the

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provide unique and comprehensive informationsharing platforms. “We are thrilled to be partnered with Westfair and their leading regional business publications. The combination of their audience and content along with our online visitors, both area employers and job seekers, is a winning one we are looking forward to leveraging,” said David Lewis, founder, president and CEO of OperationsInc, as well as president and CEO of AllCountyJobs.com. Lewis will be writing a monthly column that will appear in the Business Journals.

LongTIME oSSInIng resident Keith Henderson can’t remember the last time he attended a job fair. The U.S. Army veteran had never been unemployed for more than a few months in the past 40 years. When he got laid off in November, he began searching for jobs the conventional way – by submitting his resume online and waiting to hear back from companies. He waited for nine months, but no jobs surfaced. Last week, Henderson decided to attend a job expo at Camp Smith in the town of Cortlandt. He

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Westchester – farm Country, usa The plots are small, but the trend is upward

BY CRYSTAL KANG ckang@westfairinc.com

hat would you do if you had an acre of land and $50,000? For Sleepy Hollow resident Deb Taft it was a no-brainer. She put it all down to start her farm, Mobius Fields, which has been operating in northern Westchester for four years. With 15 years of experience in agriculture, Taft knew that given a space to grow some crops, she could bring locally grown foods back to the county. She noted that not many farms would exist in the county today if not for the Westchester Land Trust matching landowners with farmers. “Most of us farmers in Westchester are necessarily small scale because land is so expensive and property taxes are so high,” Taft said. Through this matchmaking process, farmers can connect with landowners who agree to lend a plot of their land to run a farm. Each year, the land trust matches 10 farmers with landowners who have agreed to donate between a half-acre and 10 acres of their property to agriculture-related businesses. “We have a small land-linking program where we match farmers who wouldn’t have opportunities to purchase land in Westchester County because of development pressure and because land taxes are burdensome,” said Kate Sann, preservation associate at Westchester Land Trust. “We give them an opportunity to work with landowners who have protected property. And the idea is that they run small, sustainable farms.” Taft, who has been operating a smallscale farm in Waccabuc, gained another acre in Katonah this past year through the land trust. She newly added a community-supported component to her business, which gives her opportunities to speak with customers about the food she grows and distributes. “Farming is making a comeback in

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Westchester,” Taft said. “For small-scale growers, community-supported agriculture makes a lot of sense. Westchester has a good market – an educated and wealthy market – so it’s a great place to have a farm that allows people to learn more about healthy eating and buying locally grown foods.” Community-supported agriculture, or CSA, promotes a mutually beneficial relationship: Farmers have an opportunity to receive cash flow early in the season, and customers walk away with the guarantee they can pick up a box of fresh produce every week during the harvesting months. “A true CSA sells only the things the farmers grow,” said Erin Barnett, director of LocalHarvest, a national online resource provider for farmers. “As a customer, you buy a subscription and get the produce the farm is growing that season. As a farmer, you have to produce a succession of crops that gives you a nice full basket of a variety of things for your customers every week.” This year, Taft is working with 12 CSA members and rotating more than 30 crops throughout the year. She said CSAs will make up 50 percent of her revenue. Although CSA is one method of operating a farming business, most small-scale farmers in Westchester don’t rely solely on this model to generate revenue. Often it’s easier for farmers to produce a variety of crops they can sell at a farmers market because it alleviates the pressure of producing a certain quantity of crops each week, Taft said. “I don’t know any farmers who do CSAs exclusively in Westchester,” Taft said. “Seedswell in Mount Kisco does farm stands and CSAs. Hilltop Hanover in Yorktown Heights does a ‘you pick your own’ at the farm stands. So I think CSAs can make up a portion of your revenue, but not all of it.” Since this is Taft’s first year using the CSA model, she knew she didn’t want to throw all her vegetables in one basket. She plans to regularly drop off extra produce at a farmers market in Tarrytown to sustain her business and make a living. Other farms have been serving

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Westchester County for several decades and face slightly different challenges compared with small-scale farmers. Jean-Paul Courtens and Jody Bolluyt, owners and operators of Roxbury Farm in Columbia County, run their farm solely on the CSA model and drop off their produce at five sites in Westchester including Pace University in Pleasantville, Mount Kisco Child Care Center, Full Circle Family Center in White Plains, a synagogue in Armonk and a house in Katonah. Roxbury has been operating as a CSA since 1991. About 200 members signed up for the CSA in 1992 and by 1996 it had 650 members. Today, the farm has1,100 shareholders, about half from Westchester. Roxbury earns all of its revenue from CSAs and produces between 40 and 50 different crops year-round. “Half a million people get vegetables through the CSA nationwide,” Courtens said. “While some CSA farms are starting up, we’re seeing stagnation in the growth of CSA farms. They are slowing down because it’s not for everybody. You have to be capable of growing a lot of diverse crops.” CSA farmers also need a good business plan, seeds, a watering and fertilization system and a way to shelter the produce once they bring it out of the field, Barnett said. “This is the time of year when a lot of people who aren’t part of a CSA might be envious of their friends who are getting big boxes of vegetables every week,” Barnett said. Keeping track of every farm that uses a CSA is impossible, Barnett added. But farmers who want to market their CSAs have been using the LocalHarvest website. She noted the number of web users on the site grew from 4 million in 2007 to 7 million this year. “There are definitely a lot of young people interested in the CSA and sometimes you get entrepreneurs,” Barnett said. “Often times, they’re primarily interested in growing food and working outside. There are a significant number of people who come in as a career change and want to get into

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farming.” Farmers who operate a CSA become educators as well. At Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, the farm designates 100 shares for CSA members. Farm director Jack Algiere said when Stone Barns began in 2005, it ran a CSA on a small plot of land. Although CSAs gave customers access to locally grown produce, the model created redundancies for the center’s existing education programs. After discontinuing the CSA for a few years, Algiere decided to bring it back this year because he valued the dialogue it created between his customers and his farmers. “I want to get back into the CSA model because I wasn’t getting feedback from my customers,” Algiere said. “There’s a certain rush quality of standing in line and waiting to buy food. But with the CSA, there’s no waiting in line or cash exchange. From our perspective, it offers a more defined voice so members can share with us what their experience is, and we can educate them on food in the process.” Stone Barns sells its CSA shares for $700 a year, which means members receive at least $30 worth of food in their boxes each week – sometimes more. Stone Barns generates one-fourth of its annual revenue through CSAs, which allows farmers to buy more seeds and plow them back into the field after Stone Barns pays its 25 staff members. The 80-acre parcel includes 40 acres set aside for livestock, six acres for greenhouses and five acres for field crops. CSA members also can add fruits, flowers and herbs to their cart throughout the season when available as part of the CSA membership deal. Stone Barns also provides an open space for farmers who want to sell their produce every week at a local market. “Our focus at Stone Barns is to innovate and teach,” Algiere said. “CSA is a naturalistic approach to food citizenship. It gives farmers a better sense of what customers are looking for, and it gives customers a clear agricultural view of what produce farmers grow seasonally.”

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LDC approves $108M in bond financing for hospital BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

ressed to secure a contractor in the region’s resurgent construction market, White Plains Hospital officials are moving ahead one year early on the second phase of an estimated $75 million to $80 million renovation and expansion project at the 120-year-old hospital. An $18 million first phase of the project, which included infrastructure upgrades and renovations to antiquated operating rooms in the 292-bed facility, will be completed within a month, White Plains Hospital CEO Jon B. Schandler told Westchester County Local Development Corp. board members at their Sept. 9 meeting. The county LDC agreed to induce $108 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance the project. That will include $89 million for project costs and contingencies during a two-year construction period and $19 million to refinance existing debt, said Edward F. Leonard, the hospital’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Leonard said Cain Brothers & Co. L.L.C., the Manhattan-based investment banking firm serving the health care industry, will assist in private placement of the bonds. The

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hospital has had interest from banks in the project, he said. Jim Coleman, executive director of the county LDC, said the hospital will save about $3 million in financing costs through the county’s 2-year-old LDC compared with tax-exempt bonds issued by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York. Scheduled to break ground in November, the second-phase project will feature a sixstory, 39,000-square-foot addition to the hospital with a new entrance and lobby designed

by project architect Perkins Eastman with a glass-enclosed waiting-area atrium and café. Upper floors will house five operating rooms and 24 private rooms that will bring to 114 the number of private rooms for patients. A new radiology outpatient center will be added near the main entrance. The existing lobby will be demolished in the next month, Schandler said. “The faster we can get the new lobby open, the better off we’re going to be,” he said. Schandler said the completed project will

make 60 percent of patient rooms private, compared with 30 percent previously. All existing rooms will be renovated and a modern, computerized lounge for physicians will be added. The full project will add 51,000 square feet of space and renovate 14,000 square feet at the 2,100-employee hospital. Leonard estimated the project will add 400 permanent jobs at the expanded facility. The building project will create about 75 full-time construction jobs. Gilbane Building Co., headquartered in Providence, R.I., is the project contractor. Schandler said hospital officials moved up the expansion phase of its “The Time Is Now” project by a year out of concern that contractors might not be available because of the state’s new Tappan Zee Bridge construction and rebuilding in the region from Hurricane Sandy. Schandler said the “dramatic savings” from financing through the LDC and the “responsiveness and accessibility” of County Executive Robert P. Astorino’s administrative team “is what closed the deal and got this project rolling.” He said the nearly $3 million in savings over the next 30 years will be invested in patient support, life-saving technology and clinical training.

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Food bank leans on corporate volunteers BY CRYSTAL KANG ckang@westfairinc.com

he Food Bank for Westchester is marking Hunger Action Month through two events geared toward bringing the community closer together. The organization hosted its 14th annual Conference of Member Agencies Sept. 12, welcoming Rick Rakow, Food Bank for Westchester board chairman, and keynote speaker Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, who discussed improving the quality of soup kitchens, food pantries and other food distribution sites in the county. Professional development workshops focused on strategies to more effectively and efficiently feed their clients, Katie Carpenter, the food bank’s senior director of development, said. The food bank will also host the Southern Westchester Food and Wine Festival in Scarsdale on Sept. 22 to highlight volunteer activities for the community. These include corporate events such as the Golden Scoop competition, in which the company that packs the most amount of food in one hour wins a trophy. A breakfast sponsored by the food bank recognizes corporations’ good deeds and helps galvanize team support and company morale, Carpenter said. Corporate sponsorship and volunteerism has increased over the years at the food bank, which distributes more than 7 million pounds of food annually to 230 frontline hunger-relief programs. Last year, 1,818 corporate volunteers contributed 4,934 hours of community service to the Food Bank for Westchester. This year, 2,612 corporate volunteers contributed 6,919 hours, Carpenter said. Food centers that receive distributions from the agency see a growing need to draw volunteers not just from the community but through corporations as well. “Our local and regional partners recognize that hunger affects one in five Westchester residents,” Rakow said. “It could very well be affecting some of their own employees. With September being Hunger Action Month, we encourage businesses looking for a way to give back to reach out to us and see how you can help.” Last year, the food bank acquired a 32,000-square-foot warehouse in Elmsford, which allowed them to store more nonperishable goods and fresh produce as well as increase the volunteer capacity on site. Corporate sponsorships represented more than 15 percent of the donations the food bank received from June 2012 to this past

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War — From page 1

was pleasantly surprised to find 49 companies looking for military veterans like himself. With employment numbers stagnant in Westchester County and other parts of New York state, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and First Command partnered with the New York National Guard and state Department of Labor to host the third annual “Hiring Our Heroes” career expo Sept. 10, open only to military veterans. Among the prospective employees were war veterans who recently returned home from active duty and ones who have retired from the service years ago but haven’t found a full-time job since. Henderson fits into neither category of job seekers. He had been employed even after he ended his military service 45 years ago, working as a paint and hardware supply retailer and late as a plant distributor. But for the first time, he’s searching a lot longer than usual for a job that will help pay his bills. Fifty years ago, Henderson served as a missile section chief in the Army, traveling to Korea for his first two years and then being stationed in New Jersey, Colorado and Texas for the next three. After his discharge,

he worked as a salesman in the wholesale painting and hardware supply business for more than 20 years. But when K and N Supply went under, he found a new job as a plant distributor operating 30 greenhouses on a farm in Dutchess County for the next 20 years. He sold perennial plants to nurseries, homeowners and landscapers and since 1989 had stationed his delivery truck on Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains. After Henderson got laid off, he couldn’t find a company that would hire him for the first time in all those years of employment. When Henderson heard about the “Hiring Our Heroes” expo, he immediately knew he’d be there. As he walked up and down the rows of the 49 booths in his purple polo and black khakis, few companies piqued his interest. “A lot of them are financial companies,” Henderson said. “But I’m more of a manual labor kind of guy. I saw that Brickman Group is hiring grass cutters. And I looked at UPS for loading trucks. I think I can handle it since I used to carry 100-pound bags of rock salt every day when I used to work at K and N Supply.” With his mind set on expanding his job prospects, he said he would attend at least one other job fair before deciding to apply for a new job. He added that he wants to work

Partnership — From page 1

“Having covered local business news for more than 50 years, the Fairfield County Business Journal and the Westchester County Business Journal have garnered a good sense of some of the major employer and employee concerns throughout the decades,” said Dee DelBello, publisher of Westfair Communications. “Few have been as dramatic as the recent great recessioncaused jobs and employment decline, which, though five years old, still has the region rattled. That’s why partnering with WestchesterCountyJobs.com is very important to us. Its dynamic outreach and special programs for job seekers and those in need of employees are exactly part of what the journals are all about.” Lewis started OperationsInc 12 years ago and has grown it to become the largest human resources outsourcing and consulting firm in Connecticut with more than 700 clients. AllCountyJobs.com was started in 1999 and now includes 21 job boards along the Boston-Washington, D.C. corridor. Combined, Lewis said, “they reach over 120,000 monthly jobseekers along the East Coast.”

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The AllCountyJobs.com network of job boards are “powered by the leading job board software developer Madgex Ltd.,” Lewis said, which allows for “cutting-edge functionality for employers as well as job seekers.” In signing up with the job board, job seekers can: • Search and apply for the latest jobs from top employers. • Upload a resume and be noticed by a wide range of employers. • Receive job openings by email based on individual criteria. • Obtain expert career advice. In turn, the job board allows employers to customize their listings as well as identify “top talent via our Sure-match Resume Search Technology,” Lewis said.

Ronald Webster registers at the expo at Camp Smith.

for a national company so he can pay off his monthly mortgage and bills for his twobedroom townhouse without depending on his two daughters to support him. Other veterans have been unemployed since the economic downturn and have grown tired of bouncing around from one temporary job to the next. Ronald Webster from Montrose appeared in suit and tie with a messenger bag strapped over his shoulder and wrote his name on the sign-in sheet at the registration table before entering the job fair. Webster, a former military intelligence officer, said he wants to find a more stable job that will keep him stationed in one place. “Everything was fine until 2008 and 2009 when the economy took a nose dive,” said Webster, a Dartmouth College graduate. “I haven’t found a full-time job ever since. I was a substitute teacher for French and math all throughout the nation from Tucson, Arizona to Trenton, New Jersey. I’ve been a sales rep, a copier salesman and I taught at a boarding school, too.” Some Westchester County-based companies, including the Yonkers Police Department, Con Edison and Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, sent recruiters with active duty military service before to help ease the conversation for many prospective employees at the job fair. “I’m a veteran and I’m pushing to hire more veterans,” Jackie Stern, Northern Westchester Hospital recruiter, said. “We have between 30 and 50 people on our staff who are veterans. We have job openings for positions ranging from housekeepers to physicians and we’re hoping to get eager veterans because we know they’re dependable, they go with the flow and are very calm and steady.” Each of the companies received about 100

resumes prior to the job fair, said Terri Trapp, an investment principal at Primerica Inc. who represented her company at the expo. Others handed over their resumes as they walked in. Trapp said three people already interviewed for job positions at Primerica that day. “We have displays of success stories of former marines, snipers …,” Trapp said. “These are people who were on active duty and turned to the financial services. We put examples on the table, so people can see veterans that go into this line of work.” Primerica had 10 job openings at the career fair, including positions for management trainees, investment specialists and customer service. Trapp said there’s a strong possibility of hiring more veterans. “Sometimes the employers hire on the spot,” Kathryn Poynton, director of hiring fairs at the Chamber of Commerce Foundation, said. “When you hire a veteran, not only do you get someone with the skill sets you’re looking for, but you get a person who is dedicated and responsible. Jobs are looking to hire an employee who has hard work instilled in them.” Poynton said 49 employers is a strong turnout. They try to keep the job fairs smaller so veterans have a chance to have in-depth conversations and network as they job hunt. The Chamber of Commerce Foundation has held 600 job fairs since 2011 and has helped more than 20,200 veterans find jobs, Poynton said. Job seekers are encouraged to register with the Chamber of Commerce Foundation and upload their resumes online, which are distributed to employers who attend the career expos. The foundation holds job fairs several times throughout the year across the nation.

Playland — From page 1

operations of Playland, which routinely runs in the red and has seen declining attendance in recent years. Sustainable was formed for the sole purpose of bidding on management of Playland by some Rye residents looking to have a say over the fate of the park within their city’s borders. Sustainable seemed a long shot early in the process, but emerged as the winner out of 12 bidders with various ideas of what to do with the 85-year-old park on the Long Island Sound. the group was chosen to enter into a 10-year agreement in which Westchester would continue to own the property and Sustainable would invest $34 million in the park. the group’s bid sought to downsize the amusement park significantly and instead transform the parcel to a more passive function, but after pushback from the public, the group now plans to maintain the amusement park at roughly the same size as it is today. It has enlisted to run the amusements Central Amusements International L.L.C., the group that runs Luna Park and the Cyclone on Coney Island. the improvement plan calls for nearly $14 million to be spent over the first

seven years on rides, including those in the Kiddyland section, which will be among the first areas targeted for improvement. “Rides that spin, drop, swing and give the sensation of flying will be added,” the plan stated. Potential additions in Kiddyland and elsewhere in the park include 21 rides with names like happy Swing, Sky Chaser and Mini tea Cup. the plan also proposes the removal of 18 rides and attractions such as the Go Karts, himalaya and perhaps most visibly the miniature golf course near the park’s entrance. the plan said the fountain plaza, where the course is located, lacks a view of the sound due to the “dilapidated” golf course. “We propose to remove the miniature golf course entirely and restore the visual connection between the Amusement Zone and the Sound,” the improvement plan said. the marquee change proposed by Sustainable would be the addition of an $11.7 million new field zone, including a 95,000-square-foot indoor field house with two 100-by-200 feet soccer/lacrosse fields, six volleyball courts and four 15-by-75 feet batting cages. A multipurpose outdoor area will include two fields lined for soccer, lacrosse and football. the area would be operated by a new company, Playland Sports L.L.C. the existing ice casino, which has been

closed since hurricane Sandy last year, is viewed by Sustainable as a dependable, year-round revenue source. the group will invest $640,000 to upgrade the facilities, installing new rubber flooring in off-ice areas and improving lighting and sound systems.

“It shows we have professionals that are the best in the business now engaged in reinventing Playland for the 21st century,” he said. “We’re going forward in a very careful, but comprehensive way.” — Ned McCormack

Central Amusements would also build a 7,500-square-foot “water playground.” A new “aqua and beach zone” would see the installation of a bathhouse, beach, water deck and waterfront eateries. After a parking study showed the 3,199space parking lot was rarely at capacity,

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Choosing the right investment plan BY KENNETH A. HOROWITZ

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Simplified Employee Pension Individual Retirement Arrangement (SEP-IRA) or a Profit Sharing Plan (PSP): Which plan is right for your client or business? Both plans allow similar contribution limits, the lesser of 25 percent of compensation or $51,000 (indexed for 2013). However, differences exist in several aspects such as eligibility, vesting, design ability and other points discussed below. Business owners are often advised to go the route of SEPs for their simplistic design, low startup costs and ease of administration. An SEP is an individual retirement account or qualified annuity. All contributions are made directly to each participant’s account or IRA by the employer. A profitsharing plan (PSP) is a plan trust that holds all the plan assets also funded by the employer. For a newly established business with few employees, an SEP design is attractive since there are no plan documents to be filed with the IRS. Nor are there annual administration and IRS 5500 filings required. There are no reporting requirements with a one-person (or participant and spouse) PSP until assets exceed $250,000. An additional benefit of a SEP is being able to establish and fund plans up until the date the tax return is filed, including extensions. So for example, an SEP can be established and funded through October of the following year in which the deduction is taken. PSPs have the ability to be funded until extensions are filed. From a pure cost standpoint, SEPs may be more suitable in situations with a few employees. However, as a company grows and becomes more profitable and adds employees, the increased cost efficiencies from a more customized plan design can favor profit-sharing plans. These benefits can potentially outweigh the “simplicity” and convenience of the SEP design. The following compares several differences between the profit sharing and SEP plan design:

Maximize Contribution Both plans have similar funding formulas – the lesser of $51,000 or 25 percent of annual compensation (indexed for 2013). However, only a PSP allows for the inclusion of a 401k arrangement. With that comes an additional $5,500 contribution if participant is over age 50 resulting from a catch-up provision and annual contributions of $56,500 .

Permitted Disparity/Integration and 401K Design

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lower the required contribution an employer needs to fund for plan participants. SEPs allow for integration under section 408k (3)(d). However, it applies to all employees, owners included. Which means the maximum annual plan contribution will lower by $6,480 from $51,000 to $44,519 (5.7 percent of $113,700 tax wage base). Integration in a SEP actually penalizes highly compensated employees. Importantly, integration in a SEP reduces the maximum contribution for those employees who would otherwise receive a contribution of $51,000. There is no reduction in the maximum contribution in PSP due to integration. Permitted disparity in a PSP allows those earning more than the Social Security taxable wage base to receive a higher contribution rate than those employees earning below the taxable wage base. Moreover, the owner may continue to receive a contribution of $51,000 unlike the SEP. For example, an owner earning in excess of $255,000 may receive a contribution of $51,000 in the PSP at an employee cost of approximately 16.8 percent of employee compensation for those employees earning less than the taxable wage base. This is compared with a contribution rate of 20 percent of pay if the PSP did not have permitted disparity or integration. Further reduction in rank and file cost is possible from incorporating “new comparability” design to a profit sharing plan. This technique is not available in SEPs. New comparability is most effective when the demographics are such that the owners and or key people are older and earn more than the rest of the employees.

Adding 401(k) Design The ability to add a 401(k) feature to the PSP not only produces an opportunity to add $5,500 if over age 50, it can potentially lower employee costs. The actuary can now use lower a lesser funding formula needed to fund an owner’s maximum contribution because the first $17,500 ($23,000 if over 50) comes from salary deferrals of the 401(k ) component. As a result of funding part of the $51,000 from $17,500 means now the balance or $33,500 can come from profit-sharing cost. This lowers the percentage of pay rate from 20 percent to 13 percent used to calculate employee contributions. Incorporating “new comparability” can further drive employee allocation rate between 5 percent to 7 percent.

Individual Design SEPs do allow for integration, however, contributions are typically defined on a pro rata basis, meaning a uniform percentage of Investment, page 9

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pay formula for all participants. For example, if contribution owner A is 25 percent of pay, contributions for other plan participants would also be 25 percent of pay – that can be costly. However, a PSP structure allows for use of different percentages of pay rates as long as nondiscrimination testing 401(a) (4) is satisfied. One example is using new comparability to create different rate groups providing there are established reasonable job classifications. Here’s an example of how a business owner with employees can find it more advantageous to establish a Profit Sharing Plan/401(k) rather than a SEP. By adding the deferrals and catch-up contributions to a new comparability PSP, the business owner increases his maximum tax-deductible contribution by 118 percent, as illustrated below.

Part-time and Seasonable Employee Exclusion The eligibility rules are more liberal under SEPs. Both plans require minimum age of 21. However, required years service for SEPs can be as satisfied by working an hour, three of the prior five years, and earning a minimum annual salary of $550. This can allow many people to be included in a retirement plan that would otherwise not be the case under a profit sharing situation.

Additionally, employees have immediate investing on 100 percent of employer contributions. PSP structure on the other hand, may require a minimum 1,000 hours annually of service and one year of employment for eligibility. Employees are then vested on either a 3-year cliff or a 6-year graded gradual scale of 20 percent a year for five years of employer contributions. The nonvested amounts get refunded back to the plan and either allocated among participants based on the allocation formula under the plan, or they may be used to reduce future costs of the plan.

Last Day Requirement An employee may be required to be employed by the company for the last day of the year to be eligible for a contribution in a PSP, subject to nondiscrimination testing.

years. No doubt the vesting schedule will encourage employees to stay with the company. Additionally, an employee will forfeit part of the contributions should they leave before six years. As mentioned earlier, they may be required to be employed the last day of the year to eligible for a contribution. In a SEP, an employee can qualify for and vest for

the full contribution as soon as they satisfy the nominal income and hourly guidelines. Kenneth A. Horowitz is a registered representative and financial adviser of Park Avenue Securities L.L.C., doing business in Rye Brook as Integrated Benefit Consultants. He can be reached at (914) 288-8946.

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A MessAge froM concept: care We live in an era Where medical marvels are incessantly evolving allowing many of us to live longer lives. However, one must now ask the question, “What is the difference between being alive and living?” Hospitals, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, etc. all play a viable role in ensuring that a person’s health is optimized. At Concept: CARE, we take it one step further by offering the opportunity for a person to recover in their own homes calmed by comfortable and familiar surroundings. It is a known fact that a person is happiest at home and that happy people are healthier. With that in mind, Concept: CARE has established a set of standards for its staff that exceeds what is accepted as the norm. Our dedicated staff has chosen this line of work as a career and not just a job. Each staff member is required to be a certified home health aide from an approved NYS education program. Each HHA must have a minimum six months supervised “hands-on” experience, and submit to a background check. Even with that, each must pass a 70 question test in the area of health care within 30 minutes, thus demonstrating their knowledge and ability to think quickly under pressure. Each must provide four written references, two personal and two professional prior to

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even obtaining an interview. Upon hire, each staff member is “oriented” to the philosophies that have been established. All staff are supervised by an RN and the client care coordinators who work diligently together to ensure that the best “match” is made based on the client’s needs. Ongoing training for all staff is mandated per state regulation throughout the year. Each staff member is considered someone that we welcome into our own homes — very high criteria to consistently meet. Concept: CARE is an integral part of the health care system. Concept: CARE has established a professional network of providers from hospitals, physicians, assisted living and nursing facilities, and certified home health care agencies for Medicare interventions. Founded in 1993 by Carol Greenberg and Ellen Nash who combined their 40 plus years of experience in nursing home administration successfully filled their dream of making Concept: CARE a reality. Hundreds of satisfied clients and families attest to the exemplary care delivered. Concept: CARE is licensed by the New York State Department of Health, has received National Accreditation with commendation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care programs.

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WCBJ • September 16, 2013

No more drama in the workplace I cannot have drama in my office anymore. I mean slamming doors, not talking to people and holding grudges. One really valuable employee is creating a lot of disruption. I can’t let the person go – this one employee is too important to my company. But I also can’t ignore the problems the person is causing.

Thoughts of the Day: Setting the ground rules for acceptable and unacceptable behavior in an office is essential. When people misbehave, look at what’s causing the stress. No one is above the rules. When you put someone on notice, start looking for a replacement. Take a look at the impact this person’s behavior is having on everyone else in the company. My guess is it’s having a big impact, whether or not people are saying anything directly. Fixing this situation now is critical, as bad behavior over time only tends to get worse. Has this behavior been around for a long time or is it recent. If it’s recent, sit down for a

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chat to ask about what’s changed recently for this individual. If it’s longstanding, it’s time to change the rules of behavior – for this person and while you’re at it, to set the rules of what will, and will not be tolerated from everyone in the company. Establishing a standard of acceptable behavior makes it easier for you and all the rest of your managers to address conditions that stray out of bounds. Consider implementing these simple rules: • Courtesy and respect for everyone, by everyone, 100 percent. • Take time each day to tell others how much you appreciate their help. • Recognize good work publicly, as often as possible. • When providing correction, do it in private; don’t embarrass anyone publicly. • If it’s unclear who is in charge, or who should be in charge, call a meeting to discuss the situation, ask a manager to sit in to moderate the discussion. • No one lives above the rules. Some people have received less social grounding than others. Some people are poor observers of the impact they’re having on the

world around them. Make sure that this individual is aware of how his/her actions are being perceived. Cite specific examples. Ask this person to discuss what else could have been done, that would have been more appropriate. When someone acts out, it’s usually because of underlying problems. Where is the stress coming from for this person? Home? Work? Combination of the two? And what can you do about it, if anything? Time for a lengthy discussion. Keep it businesslike. You’re not a therapist. If there are personal issues, suggest the person seek professional help. Make it clear that behaviors have to change. After the meeting, if you’re so inclined, you may want to do some research on resources this person could tap into to get help, whether the issue calls for financial counseling, social interaction modification or personal coaching. Many times when people are under stress, they are least likely to seek out help and most confused about what to do next. It’s not your place to tell them what to do, but you can make suggestions. Make it clear that immediate behavior change is essential. Do put this person’s job on

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the line. You cannot risk losing the rest of your good employees because of one bad apple. Put the person on notice and create a written agreement around what has to change. Ask this person to sign the agreement, to acknowledge that it is understood. And stop hoping things will change: instead make plans in case they don’t. Post the job, interview candidates, line up two to three people who would be qualified to do the job. Having options will make it easier for you to hold this person accountable for making changes and will make the transition smoother if things don’t change. Andi Gray is president of Strategy Leaders Inc., strategyleaders.com, a business-consulting firm that specializes in helping small to midsize, privately held businesses achieve doubled revenues and tripled profits in repetitive growth cycles. Interested in learning how Strategy Leaders can help your business? Call now for a free consultation and diagnostic process: (877) 238-3535. Do you have a question for Andi? Please send it to her, via email at AskAndi@ StrategyLeaders.com. Visit AskAndi.com for an entire library of her articles.

Digital gaming business adds patent

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Drug developer exceeds financing target

ContraFect Corp., the Yonkers-based biotechnology company developing drug treatments for life-threatening infectious diseases, has raised $11.8 million in financing from privately placed convertible notes. Company officers had initially targeted $5 million in financing from the notes sale, which was oversubscribed. The funds will be used to develop ContraFect’s most advanced product, CF-301, a novel bacteria-infecting viral enzyme that targets staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, a blood-born infection that kills 30,000 people annually in the U.S. alone. Dr. Robert Nowinski, ContraFect’s founder and CEO, in a press release called the financing “critical” to further developing CF-301, “our paradigm-shifting, first-in-class drug for drug- resistant bacterial infections.” The Maxim Group L.L.C. in Manhattan was the company’s private placement agent. Founded five years ago in Manhattan, ContraFect in 2011 opened its Yonkers headquarters and laboratories at 28 Wells Ave. in the i.Park Hudson office and manufacturing complex.

MGT Capital Investments Inc. in Harrison has added its subsidiary’s newly acquired patent to its federal patent infringement lawsuit related to casino video games. The parent company announced that MGT Gaming Inc. recently received the patent directed to a gaming system in which a bonus game is played on an interactive display. MGT has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi claiming its patents on the bonus-game display were infringed by two games manufacturers and distributors in addition to casino operators including Caesars Entertainment Corp., MGM Resorts International Inc. and Penn National Gaming. “We are very pleased to add this new patent to our intellectual property assets,” Robert Ladd, MGT CEO and president, said in the announcement. “Our portfolio consists of quality, fundamental patents that we believe will strengthen our licensing efforts to the casino gaming industry.” MGT Capital Investments and its subsidiaries acquire, develop and monetize assets in the online and mobile gaming space.

SUNY Purchase named in “Best Colleges”

SUNY Purchase ranked as one of the top 10 public liberal arts colleges in the nation,

according to the U.S. News and World Report’s 2014 edition of “Best Colleges.” The book annually ranks institutions of higher education to help parents decide where to send their college-bound students. Earlier this year, Purchase was named in the 2014 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges” and The Princeton Review’s 2014 edition of its annual college guide “The Best 378 Colleges.” Purchase is one of two public institutions in New York to rank in the top tier of the 180 best liberal arts colleges in the country.

Business Council gets in the games

The Business Council of Westchester has partnered with House of Sports, the indoor sports complex in Ardsley, to launch the Business Council of Westchester Corporate Athletic Leagues. The leagues were formed to give industry professionals a chance to socialize with co-workers and network with peers while competing at indoor games, the partners said in a joint announcement. “This is the perfect opportunity for business professionals from all industry backgrounds to roll up their sleeves and have fun, while networking and enhancing their team-building skills,” said Marsha Gordon, Business Council president and CEO. Leagues are being formed for basketball and soccer at House of Sports, a

120,000-square-foot facility at 1 Elm St. in Ardsley. Games will be scheduled on Thursday evenings, Saturday mornings and Sunday mornings. Discounts are available for Business Council members and nonprofit companies. Players are encouraged to form teams with co-workers, but individual player registration is also welcome. Leagues will start at the end of this month or in early October. House of Sports staff will handle all registrations. Persons can register by phone by contacting league director Nick Ar-Bab at (914) 715-5173.

Fall ‘boot camp’ for entrepreneurs

SCORE Westchester this fall will present its Boot Camp for Start-Ups program designed for entrepreneurs who want to start or have recently launched a new business. An evening series of five interactive workshop sessions, the program will start Oct. 16 and continue on each of the following four Wednesdays. Sessions will be from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Greenburgh Town Hall at 177 Hillside Ave. A $40 registration fee covers all five workshops. Persons can register and learn more about topics covered in each workshop at SCORE Westchester’s website at www.scorewestchester.com. —John Golden, Crystal Kang

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Is it time to streamline your financial statements? By NORMAN G. GRILL

his past summer, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) released “Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities” (FRF for SMEs). The organization’s intent was to ease financial reporting for smaller, privately held, owner-managed companies not required to follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). This development isn’t for every business,

but it could benefit yours.

Just a suggestion The origins of the FRF for SMEs lie in the perceived need of business owners and other stakeholders for a more cost-effective way to generate consistent, reliable non-GAAP financial statements. Many small to midsize companies have seen their statements scrutinized and questioned in part because of how different their reporting methods are from those of GAAP-compliant entities. Using

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If your company has ever tried to conform to GAAP, or you’ve personally had some experience dealing with it, you know that the challenge of doing so is significant. GAAP includes complex, detailed and prescriptive standards and many, many disclosure requirements. That said, at the end of the day, the information provided to stakeholders is substantial. The FRF for SMEs, says the AICPA, delivers data in a much more streamlined format that will be less costly to owners of small to midsize businesses. It does so by focusing on the performance and creditworthiness of the subject company and its assets, liabilities and cash flows. Specific measures in play include: • Profitability • Liabilities • Cash flows and cash available • Assets to cover expenses. Like the literal framework of a house (albeit a modest, “simple” one), this one has several crossbeams and supports. For example, it uses historical cost as its measurement basis, allowing users to avoid complicated fair value measurements. It also doesn’t require complex accounting for derivatives, hedging activities or stock compensation. These simplifications tend to reduce book-to-tax differences, eliminating multiple adjustments. The FRF for SMEs allows much greater flexibility than GAAP in how the financial statement provider expresses relevant information to stakeholders based on those end users’ respective needs. It also makes clear that users may contact the

issuer for more information.

Ideal candidates Small to midsize businesses are clearly the targeted entities of the AICPA’s efforts. Yet because so many different types of companies may classify themselves as such, the organization didn’t want to get specific about who should adopt the FRF for SMEs. Instead, it set forth a few guidelines regarding “best fit” candidates. As mentioned, to adopt the FRF for SMEs, a company can’t be required to use GAAP-based financial statements – either literally or essentially. The FRF for SMEs is also not intended for nonprofits, public or soon-to-go-public companies or businesses with foreign operations. Again, the focus is on simplification, so ideal candidates will generally be businesses operating in industries that don’t call for complex financial transactions or highly specialized accounting guidance. And, typically, the companies that use it will have “owner-managers” – that is, one person or group of people who both own and run the business.

Likely appreciators You may be able to further determine whether the FRF for SMEs is right for your company based on who uses your financial statements. Specifically consider your lender (or prospective ones in your industry). If it doesn’t base loan decisions solely on your financial statements, but also looks at collateral or other evaluative metrics, the framework may not rub it the wrong way. Talk to your lender(s) before switching to the FRF for SMEs. And remind them that financial statements prepared using the framework can still be audited or reviewed by a CPA to provide added assurance. Simple solution, tough choice Until FASB modifies GAAP to meet the needs of small and midsize businesses, the AICPA’s FRF for SMEs offers qualifying private companies an immediate opportunity to streamline the often arduous task of generating financial statements. In doing so, you could save money and precious time. But this is not a decision to undertake lightly. Consult your financial advisers before making the call. Norm Grill is managing partner of Grill & Partners L.L.C, with offices in Fairfield and Darien, Conn. He can be reached at N.Grill@GRILL1.com.

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Better Homes & Gardens/Rand Realty 1 N. Broadway, Suite 120S, White Plains, NY 10601 328-0333 • randrealty.com

Matt Rand Rosemarie Glasel matt.rand@randrealty.com 2001 Jonathan Gumowitz Jonathan Gumowitz forsale@coldwellbanker.com 1985

Coldwell Banker Gumbo Realty 6 Broadway, Valhalla, NY 10595 682-2200 • cbgumbo.com

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Century 21 Schneider Realty 255 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY 10605 345-3550 • c21schneider.com

Dwyer Agency of Mahopac 579 Route 6, Mahopac, NY 10541 (845) 628-3555

Esther Ingber Realty 12 Keri Lane, New Hempstead, NY 10977 (845) 354-6060

Cathleen Smith 1906 Brad Schneider, Subomi Macaulay Sherry Schneider ofc@c21schneider.com 2004

829 Franklin Ave., Thornwood, NY 10594 (914) 769-9006 • gainsrealty.com

Grand Lux Realty Inc. 428 Main St., Armonk, NY 10504 (914) 273-9688 • grandluxrealty.com

Hegarty & Company Real Estate Inc. 166 Whisconier Road, Brookfield, CT 06804 (203) 775-8353 • hegartyrealestate.com

655 McLean Ave., Yonkers, NY 10705 (914) 376-1000 • hdrealtyny.com

27 Strawberry Hill Ave., Stamford, CT 06902 (203) 504-5005 • higginsgroup.com

Homerica Realty Services/Homerica Mortgage Corp. 235 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY 10605 (914) 946-7100 • homerica.com 4 Valley Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 (914) 337-0400 • houlihanlawrence.com

Independent Realty Group 499 Federal Road, Suite 20A, Brookfield, CT 06804 (203) 740-2452 • candlewoodlakeproperties.com

Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty 1946 Palmer Ave., Larchmont, NY 10538 (914) 834-0270 • juliabfee.com

Keller Williams NY Realty 120 Bloomingdale Road, Suite 101, White Plains, NY 10605 (914) 437-6100 • westchesterkw.com

39 King St., Chappaqua, NY 10514 (914) 238-2090 • northcountrysir.com

Prudential Centennial Realty 4 Chase Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 (914) 723-5225 • prudentialcentennial.com

Prudential Connecticut Realty 860 North Main Street Extension, Wallingford, CT 06492 (860) 571-7000 • prudentialct.com

Prudential Wykagyl/Rittenberg Realty

101 King St., Chappaqua, NY 10514 (914) 238-3988 • elliman.com

1299 North Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10804 (914) 632-9100 • pruwr.com

Realty Executives - Williams-Sykes Realty 266 Titusville Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 (845) 485-9960 • dutchesscountyhouses.com

Michael F. Levy Michael Levy michael.levy@grandluxrealty.com 2006

RE/MAX Benchmark Realty Group

John F. Hegarty John F. Hegarty jwilliams@hastingsrealestate.com 1949

Realty Seven Inc.

Bruce Lublin Georgia Kalayjian-Murphy gkm@homerica.com 1989 Stephen Meyers Cindy Landis clandis@houlihanlawrence.com 1888

Houlihan Lawrence Inc.

North Country Sotheby's International Realty

Esther Ingber Esther Ingber esthie4@optonline.net 1983

Jason Kinard Jason Kinard jkinard@higginsgroup.com 1998

Higgins Group Real Estate

1238 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510 (914) 762-2200 • homeman.net • sellingmyhomesucks.com • wlshomesearch.com

Prudential Douglas Elliman Westchester

Henry Djonbalaj Henry Djonbalaj henry@hdrealtyny.com 2001

Henry Djonbalaj Real Estate L.L.C.

Mark Seiden Real Estate Team

Kevin B. Dwyer Kevin B. Dwyer kevinbdwyer@msn.com 1927

Margaret McGean Connie DeFilippis gainsreality@optonline.net 1970

Gains Realty Inc.

Name, address, phone number Area code: Website

Ellen Cavallo Buccitti Ellen Cavallo Buccitti ellen@candlewoodlakeproperties.com 2005 Paul Breunich Jim Whittemore 1953 Justine Aiello Justine Aiello kwjustine@gmail.com 2006

100 Commerce Drive, Suite 105, New Windsor, NY 12553 (845) 565-0004 • remax-benchmark-ny.com

250 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897 (203) 762-5548 • realtyseven.com

Round Hill Partners 189 Mason St., Greenwich, CT 06830 (203) 861-0050 • roundhillpartners.com

Settlers & Traders Real Estate Co. 215 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06880 (203) 226-0000 • settlers.com

Stiefvater Real Estate Inc. 303 Wolfs Lane, Pelham, NY 10803 (914) 738-1133 • pelhamny.com

Thomas E. Griffith Realtors Inc. 226 Main St., Goshen, NY 10924 (845) 294-9333 • griffithrealtors.com

Westchester Real Estate Inc. 484 White Plains Road, Second floor, Eastchester, NY 10709 (914) 961-5510 • homesny.com

John J. Lease Realtors 5020 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY 12550 (845) 565-2800 • johnjleaserealtors.com

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Top local executive(s) Contact (bold) Email address Year company established Mark J. Seiden Amy Seiden info@homeman.net 2003 Michael Norton Michael Norton michael.norton@northcountrysir.com 2011 (under current ownership) Mark Nadler info@prucent.com 1981 Candace Adams Bob and Richelle Ward rward@prudentialct.com 1997 WND Gabe Pasquale 1968

Scott M. Cohen Gerri Patricello scohen@pruwr.com 1956 Matt Willliams realexec@mac.com 2002 Janet Delgado Vicki Moschiano remax@hvc.rr.com 1991 Peg Koellmer Owner/broker Peg Koellmer homes@realtyseven.com 1978

Renee Gallagher and Joanna Erb Mona Beerman info@roundhillpartners.com 1993 Michael Calise Sally Palmer sales@settlers.com 1976

Scott M. Stiefvater Marilyn M. Stiefvater 1974 Linda A. Clark Mary-Gray Griffith griffithrealtors@griffithrealtors.com 1970 Gail Fattizzi Gail Fattizzi info@homesny.com 2003 John Lease Ken Davies kendavies@johnjleaserealtors.com 1938

Ghy Manning Owner/broker info@vinwhit.com 1920

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Tennis entrepreneur aces design-build game BY JOHN GOLDEN jgolden@westfairinc.com

ohn A. “Lex” Kessler’s ties to tennis, both business and personal, are abundantly evident in his one-man office in North Salem. There’s the artful US Open poster that hangs in the lobby. There’s the hall of rackets – wall mountings that trace the evolution of the sporting weapon that Kessler watched Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams winningly wield at Forest Hills this month. In the owner’s inner sanctum at Indoor Courts of America, tennis ball cans are stacked in one corner near a wire basket brimming with official US Open balls. Kessler, a former chairman of the U.S. Tennis Association’s technical committee, built the ball-testing lab at the USTA’s Platinum Mile headquarters in Harrison. There’s the bright-orange collection of Wheaties boxes, the breakfast, or supplemental meal ticket, of box-cover champions like Pete Sampras, Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe and Andre Agassi. Beside his desk, there’s a framed signed photo of Agassi raising his racket in victory at the French Open. An autographed racket that Agassi carried in his bag that day overlays the portrait. Speaking of Arthur Ashe: Kessler’s ICA company designed and built the USTA’s $65 million, 12-court indoor facility at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens. It’s one of several construction projects for which Kessler’s ICA company has won awards from manufacturers, builders associations and the USTA in a career that spans 30 years and the miles that separate Westchester County, where Kessler resides in Somers, from ICA headquarters in Olathe, Kansas. The plaques line a hallway wall of the ICA East office in North Salem. This month, the 51-year-old Kessler added to his standing in the sports construction industry when the USTA recognized Sportime Randall’s Island, a city-owned public tennis facility in Manhattan that is home to the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, with its Outstanding Tennis Facility award. Kessler partnered as design-builder on the $19 million project with the facility’s operator, Long Island-based Sportime. Kessler expects that a current project of

his, an indoor tennis facility at Trump National Golf Club in Washington, D.C., will win the USTA award next year. It is the Trump company’s first indoor tennis facility. “I happen to be the only guy in the entire world who has made an adult career and living on just building these indoor tennis facilities,” said Kessler, who also is sole owner of Sports and Wellness L.L.C., which operates an indoor tennis club in Old Mystic, Conn., and a tennis and fitness club in Danbury. “We can do them anywhere in the world less expensively than a local guy.” He estimated that Indoor Courts of America has done about 500 design-build jobs, including about 50 new facilities. His list of completed projects in Westchester alone reads like a Yellow Pages directory of tennis clubs and indoor facilities available here. “New York’s the number-one indoor tennis market in the world,” he said. “Within about two hours of New York (City), there are over 300 indoor tennis facilities.” The nation’s next largest market for Kessler’s business, metropolitan Chicago, has about half that number. “I design-build,” he said. “That’s what I do. But I’m purely an entrepreneur. I’m not an architect. I’m not a designer. I’m not a construction manager.” “I’m closer and more connected to the client than an architect or engineer or contractor could ever be.” Working through the concept, design, budgeting, permitting and construction management stages of a facility renovation or new development, “I’m constantly viewing the process from the clients’ eyes,” he said. ICA’s fee is 10 percent of project cost. Growing up in suburban Kansas City, Kessler showed entrepreneurial skills at an early age. At 12, he started a neighborhood lawn and landscaping business with five employees. He got out of the business after

about two years. “When I could get my license, I went into house painting,” employing “about a dozen guys.” With savings from that, he bought his first house after moving out of his parents’ home at 17. The bank, though, would not close on his loan until he turned 18. “I had less than zero interest in being in school,” he said. A day job at a bank for which he received high school credits “was my ticket out of school. It was like a workrelease program.” He started but soon dropped out of a community college in Kansas. “I was bored to death,” said Kessler, whose wall of awards includes a plaque from Mensa, the international society of persons with high IQs. The entrepreneur went to work as a roving installer for the insulation business owned by his father, who had patented an insulation system. After three years, Kessler left to start his own installation business and add products from major manufacturers. “When the beer companies in the ’80s started temperature-controlling their warehouses, we went on a run,” he said. His company, Insulation Corp. of America, also renovated “a couple hundred” AMC movie theaters. “We had these different runs when we started working for owners rather than for general contractors.” Kessler’s specialty design-build company began in the early ’80s when he met the owner of indoor soccer teams in Kansas City and on Long Island. He traveled to New York to convert a tennis building into an indoor soccer field for the New York Cosmos in the short-lived North American Soccer league. While here, Kessler was hired to renovate a tennis club on Cape Cod that needed a ceiling replaced in the wake of a fire. “That’s what began the back and forth from new York and Kansas City, those two jobs,” he said. The entrepreneur decided to market

his services to other indoor tennis facilities. “Every job we did, we’d get like two more,” he recalled. “It was like mushrooms.” “There’s a magic about great insulated ceilings and tennis courts,” Kessler said. Recognizing that magic, in the early ’90s he patented a system for bouncing light off the ceilings his company insulated to cast more light for players on the face of an approaching ball. “Fast-forward 20, 30 years, we’re on our third-generation lighting system,” he said. With the advent of air conditioning in tennis facilities, he later patented a system for ventilating the cavity above the insulated ceiling in a Butler building to eliminate the roof’s solar heat load, which lowers air conditioning costs by about 75 percent, he said. With his businesses prospering, Kessler “semi-retired” at 40 and became a stay-athome single dad to his son and daughter. But the recession and lingering economic malaise and the bankruptcy of the two Connecticut clubs in which he was a partner sent him back to work. “I’m currently working 70 to 80 hours a week, and I will be for at least another year,” he said. “From 1990 until 2009, we had a nice run.” But design-build jobs slowed after lenders tightened commercial credit about five years ago. “That hasn’t changed. We’re getting some nice clients, but it’s not what we were doing 20 years ago. Now you have to be gold-plated to get in the indoor tennis business.” Kessler and his partners in Sport & Wellness L.L.C. in 2009 filed for bankruptcy protection for their Connecticut clubs, Mystic Indoor Tennis and Danbury Sport and Wellness. The company emerged from bankruptcy in 2010 with Kessler as sole owner. “After three years, this is the first year we’re in the black,” he said. “It was starting over from scratch. That was after being in business for 10 years.” The entrepreneur apparently hasn’t lost his touch since emerging from semi-retirement. From 2010 to this year, membership at the clubs has grown from about 300 to 1,255, he said. “We’re a success story in Danbury because of this three-year recovery,” Kessler said. WCBJ • September 16, 2013

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urricane Sandy picked up fish out of the Long Island Sound and dumped them into a pool on the Larchmont Yacht Club property. The storm of Oct. 29, 2012 also dropped pieces of trees and whole flaps of sod into the pool. The most damage the club got was near a long outdoor banquet area, where large planks of wood were snapped and pointing skyward, according to Sean Murphy, vice president and operations director at Murphy Brothers Contracting Inc. “It looked like someone took that and unzipped it,” he said. To repair the banquet

A view from outside of the newly renovated Quarterdeck. Photo by Denison Lourenco

area and adjacent building, the entire structure would need to be reworked and propped up temporarily to access underneath for flagstone and masonry work. “If we had a sky hook that would have been the best thing, but unfortunately that equipment doesn’t exist,” he said.

Murphy Brothers estimates 70 percent of its business is residential with 30 percent light commercial, mostly clubs like Larchmont. The targeted completion date for the work was the beginning of the 2013 outdoor season, April 14, an unmovable deadline in Murphy’s view. “With clubs, you have to

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open on the day,” he said. “You can’t tell 4,000 members, ‘We need another week, you can’t come here Memorial Day.’” Murphy Brothers did the repairs, met deadline and stayed on budget despite the intricacies of working at a century-old club with ancient wiring and piping and whose members respect the historical character of the structures. The company knows Larchmont Yacht well, having done several renovations over the years to structures such as the club’s Junior Jay building, bathhouses, and cabanas and suites. Each project is a bit of an adventure for the contractors as they bring renovations up to building code. During some recent work, Murphy Brothers opened up a panel and found “knob and tube” construction, an early and often dangerous system for electrical wiring where single wires ran and were twisted around copper arms. “We had never seen knob and tube before,” Murphy said. “We were ‘shocked’ to see them.” Unforeseen conditions in a historical structure could increase costs by as much as 5 to 10 percent, he noted. In older buildings, when codes and regulation were not as stringent, there are often patchwork fixes or a hodgepodge of systems developed out of necessity over the life of a structure. Making a structure modern, yet feeling classical, is a challenge itself. Perhaps the most challenging of the company’s work at the yacht club was its latest, the $1.5 million job to open the veranda called the Quarterdeck. The club was founded in 1880, with the outdoor banquet area the Pandemonium added in 1902 and the Quarterdeck built in the early 1900s. The deck had been enclosed with siding and single-pane windows in a 1950s renovation to make available for year-round use. The company had to dismantle the entire Quarterdeck and rock-chip against the 1880s building abutting it, thereby expanding the basement beneath for an updated kitchen. Workers then rebuilt the entire porch on the same footprint, adding new mechanicals, spray-foam insulation and new mahogany floors and ceilings. While working below the old Quarterdeck, workers found silverware that must have fallen through the cracks decades ago, according to Vincent Hackett, Murphy’s senior project manager. “The Quarterdeck was so old, it was being held up by tree Renovations, page 17

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trunks,” he said. Hackett said the group had the unique opportunity to make the structure “more traditional” by removing aspects of the renovation and having characteristics of the structure be consistent. For example, while temporarily removing support beams, Hackett decided it was best not to alter the structure drastically or even refinish or repaint. “I said we could clean these up but I don’t think we should,” he said. Capping off the new Quarterdeck are 180 feet of glass NanaWall doors, allowing for the space to transform from an enclosed area to an open veranda within an hour. The company also did a gut renovation to two adjacent club rooms and two kitchens. The kitchen piece involved orchestralike conducting by Hackett and the Murphy Brothers. The first kitchen to be renovated was on a floor above the other, which needed to remain operational even as pipes and wiring for the first kitchen had to be run through the lower structure. Hackett addressed this by working most with subcontractors when the kitchen was closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. “We’d come in there after the kitchen closed on Sunday and work for two days,” he said. As many as 30 or 40 people might be working on the kitchen at a given time including the chef whose input was as important as anyone involved. Next on the agenda for Larchmont Yacht will be a Murphy Brothers-led constructionrenovation of the tennis complex, complete with pro shop and bathrooms. And as far as further storm, the 11-acre property is more shored up for coastal flooding in extreme weather, a reality of work in the Sound Shore neighborhoods of Westchester. Work on Larchmont Yacht’s banquet hall left it better suited to withstand heavy-footed dancing. It used to be that when members and guests danced, the entire structure shook, sending ripples through beverages left on tables. Now, those beverages are ripplefree, Hackett said. “The joke is they will save a lot of money on wine,” he said.

energy projects with approximately $165 million in uncommitted agency funds. If approved by the state Public Service Commission, the initial capitalization will allow the state Green Bank to open for business and offer its initial financial products in early 2014, Cuomo said in an announcement. “As a public-private partnership, the Green Bank will implement a pioneering approach that strategically and efficiently uses limited state resources to drive investment into critical areas of the economy,” Cuomo said. “With this initiative, we will promote job growth and business development, improve resiliency and air quality, and lower costs for consumers while providing them with greater choices and value for their money.” State officials said the Green Bank will use a new market-oriented approach to

overcome market barriers that currently prevent the widespread flow of private capital into the clean energy economy. It will partner with private-sector lenders by providing financial products such as credit enhancement, loan loss reserves and loan bundling to support securitization and build secondary markets. Officials said those products will support economically viable projects that cannot currently access financing due to market barriers such as federal policy uncertainty, insufficient performance data and the lack of publicly traded capital markets for clean energy. The Green Bank launch will come at no extra cost to New York utility ratepayers. NYSERDA has petitioned to capitalize the bank by repurposing a portion of existing

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AA Catering Inc., et al. Filed by Palemon Diaz. Action: denial of overtime compensation claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Robert Walter Ottinger Jr. Filed Sept. 5. Case no. 13-06231.

The following petitions were filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains. Chapter 11 indicates the filer intends to submit a plan of reorganization to the court. Chapter 7 indicates a liquidation of assets.

A.B.C. Carpet & Home Inc., et al. Filed by Christopher E. Brown. Action: federal question other claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Nicole Joy Coward. Filed Sept. 5. Case no. 13-06251.

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Allerton Food Corp. Filed by John R. Durso, et al. Action: claim filed under the Employee Retirement GMG Capital Partners III Income Security Act of 1974. AtCompanion Fund L.P., 575 torney for plaintiff: Anusha RasLexington Ave., Suite 2890 alingam. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. New York City 10022. Chapter 11, 13-06218. voluntary. Attorney: Michael S. Fox. Filed Sept. 10. Case no. 13-12939. Allied Interstate L.L.C. Filed by Geraldine Pearson. Action: claim GMG Capital Partners III L.P., filed under the Fair Debt Collection 575 Lexington Ave., Suite 2890, Practices Act of 1978. Attorney for New York City 10022. Chapter 11, plaintiff: Craig Thor Kimmel. Filed voluntary. Attorney: Michael S. Fox. Sept. 5. Case no. 13-06238. Filed Sept. 10. Case no. 13-12937. Ambit Energy Holdings L.L.C., et al. Filed by Taurisha Simmons. White Plains Action: diversity account receivable claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Figz Realty L.L.C., 2419 Boston James Burkett McInturff III and Post Road, Larchmont 10538. Steven Lance Wittels. Filed Sept. 5. Chapter 11, voluntary. Attorney: Case no. 13-06240. Anne J. Penachio. White Plains. Filed Sept. 9. Case no. 13-23496. Benares Indian Restaurant L.L.C., et al. Filed by Andres Maldonado, et al. Action: Action: claim filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Attorney for Court Cases plaintiff: Michael Antonio Faillace. The following cases appear on the Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06264. docket of the U.S. District Court for the county of Westchester in White Cheryl Importing Ltd., et al. Filed Plains. by Matrix International Textile Inc. Action: copyright infringement 3841 Hardware Inc., et al. Filed by claim. Attorney for plaintiff: MiRamon Hidalgo. Action: denial of chael Douglas Steger. Filed Sept. 5. overtime compensation claim. At- Case no. 13-06237. torney for plaintiff: William Cafaro Sr. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06202. Cohen & Levy Development Group L.L.C., et al. Filed by Oscar Cruz. Action: claim filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Attorney for plaintiff: Michael AnItems appearing in the Westchester tonio Faillace. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. County Business Journal’s On The Re- 13-06263. cord 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: Bob Rozycki c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 3 Gannett Drive, Suite G7 White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3680

Courtesy Food Corp. Filed by John R. Durso, et al. Action: claim filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Attorney for plaintiff: Anusha Rasalingam. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06217. Decicco Family Markets Inc., et al. Filed by Hae Y. Chung. Action: civil rights claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Diane Hwakyung Lee. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06236.

Devonshire PGA Holdings L.L.C. Filed by HJSI Devonshire L.L.C. Action: diversity declaratory judgment claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Thomas Robert Califano and Spencer David Stiefel. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06186. Education Lab Architects L.L.C., et al. Filed by Andrew Janszky, et al. Action: diversity other contract claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Constantine G. Dimopoulos and Nicole Marie Dinos. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06289.

Getty Properties Corp., et al. Filed by White Plains Housing Authority. Action: real property tort to land claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Norman W. Bernstein. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06282. The Glitzy Crown Inc., et al. Filed by Rhinestone Jewelry Corp. Action: copyright infringement claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Thomas Kjellberg. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06200.

Gordo Trucking Corp. Filed by the Westchester Teamsters Local Egan Architectural Metal & Glass Union No. 456, et al. Action: claim Inc. Filed by the trustees of the Dis- filed under the Labor Management trict Council 9 Painting Industry Relations Act of 1947. Attorney for and Annuity Funds. Action: claim plaintiff: Giacchino James Russo. filed under the Labor Management Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06211. Relations Act of 1947. Attorney for plaintiff: Dana Lynne Henke. Filed Honey-Can-Do International Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06214. L.L.C. Filed by Polder Housewares Inc., et al. Action: trademark inEpic Products Inc. Filed by Go- fringement claim. Attorneys for dinger Silver Art Ltd. Action: patent plaintiff: Gregory Paul Gulia and infringement claim. Attorneys for Sarah Peyronnel. Filed Sept. 4. plaintiff: Lisa Ann Ferrari, Martin Case no. 13-06232. Brian Pavane and Edward Murray Weisz. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. Industrial and Commercial 13-06208. Bank of China Ltd. Filed by Tire Engineering & Distribution, L.L.C., Equinox Holdings Inc., et al. Filed et al. Action: diversity other conby Ronald Johnson, et al. Action: tract claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: claim filed under the Fair Labor Stephen Z. Starr and Vildan ErStandards Act of 1938. Attorney for turk Starr. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. plaintiff: Marc Andrew Rapaport. 13-06209. Filed Sept. 9. Case no. 13-06313. John Dormi & Sons Inc., et al. Expeditors International of Filed by Metropolitan Life InsurWashington Inc. Filed by Liberty ance Co. Action: claim filed under Mutual Insurance Co. Action: ad- the Employee Retirement Income miralty claim. Attorneys for plain- Security Act of 1974. Attorney for tiff: Martin F. Casey and Christo- plaintiff: Randi Faith Knepper. Filed pher M. Schierloh. Filed Sept. 4. Sept. 5. Case no. 13-06239. Case no. 13-06223. Juridica Investments Ltd. Filed by Finn Town Restaurant Corp., et S&T Oil Equipment & Machinery al. Filed by the trustees of the Na- Ltd., et al. Action: ward of arbitrational Retirement Fund. Action: tors, confirmation, jurisdiction claim filed under the Employee and proceeding claim. Attorney for Retirement Income Security Act plaintiff: Jason A. Nagi. Filed Sept. of 1974. Attorneys for plaintiff: 9. Case no. 13-06311. Stephanie Myers Bersak and David C. Sapp Jr. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. K-Mart Corp. Filed by Vita M. Fil13-06294. lie, et al. Action: notice of removal claim. Attorney for plaintiff: WilFoot Locker Inc. Filed by Eric Lee- liam Kevin Kerrigan Sr. Filed Sept. Hugh. Action: job discrimination 6. Case no. 13-06283. (employment) claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Barry David Haberman. KDH Defense Systems Inc. Filed Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06207. by the New York State Court Officers Association. Action: diversity Forever 21 Inc., et al. Filed by other contract claim. Attorney for Mara Hoffman Inc. Action: copy- plaintiff: Bruce Baron. Filed Sept. 4. right infringement claim. Attorney Case no. 13-06228. for plaintiff: Joseph Timothy Murray. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06277. Kolmar Laboratories Inc., et al. Filed by Margaret Macialek – Bavacqua. Action: diversity account receivable claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Thomas A. McKinney. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06281.

Laser Spine and Pain Institute L.L.C. Filed by Laser Spine Institute L.L.C. Action: claim filed under the Lanham Act of 1946. Attorneys for plaintiff: Laura-Michelle Horgan, Scott David Locke and Jonathan Brett Nelson. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06255.

Phoenician Capital L.L.C., et al. Filed by Maksat Arip. Action: application to have subpoena issued to person living in this district re: action in foreign country claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Jonathan I. Blackman. Filed Sept. 10. Case no. 13-00317.

Lucky›s Famous L.L.C., et al. Filed by Julio Serrano. Action: denial of overtime compensation claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Michael Antonio Faillace. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06261.

Prime Medical Billing and Management L.L.C., et al. Filed by Anesthesiology Consultants L.L.C., et al. Action: diversity fraud claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Robert Steven Iwrey. Filed Sept. 9. Case no. 13-06217.

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp. Filed by Arlene Cobb. Action: diversity personal injury claim. Attorney for plaintiff: Daniel James Thornburgh. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06225.

Schnipper Restaurant L.L.C., et al. Filed by Miguel Cisneros, et al. Action: claim filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Attorney for plaintiff: Michael Antonio Faillace. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. Mimedx Group Inc., et al. Filed by 13-06266. Thomas Lewis. Action: claim filed under the Securities Exchange Act Tanner Companies L.L.C. Filed by of 1934. Attorney for plaintiff: Phil- ENK International L.L.C. Action: lip C. Kim. Filed Sept. 9. Case no. trademark infringement claim. At13-06302. torneys for plaintiff: Jeffrey Mark Kaden, Jonathan Marc Purow and Mountain Farms Inc., et al. Filed Steven Stern. Filed Sept. 9. Case no. by Jorge Pabon, et al. Action: claim 13-06318. filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Attorney for W.W. Patenaude Sons Inc. Filed plaintiff: Michael Antonio Faillace. by the trustees of the District CounFiled Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06260. cil 9 Painting Industry Insurance and Annuity Funds. Action: claim MSC Mediterranean Shipping filed under the Labor Management Company S.A. Filed by Global Relations Act of 1947. Filed Sept. 4. 5000 Enterprise. Action: admiralty Case no. 13-06213. claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Veronica Mura and Veronica Mura. Waterscape Resort L.L.C. Filed Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06280. by Downtown Holdings L.L.C. Action: diversity other contract Mullins Cheese Inc., et al. Filed claim. Attorneys for plaintiff: Meby Ingredia Inc. Action: diversity gan Elizabeth Awerdick, Kathryn R. breach of contract claim. Attorney DeBord and William Jonas Hibshfor plaintiff: Eric Vaughn-Flam. er. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06206. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06201. Wrapido 8th Ave. Inc., et al. Filed Munoz Trucking Corp., et al. by Rodrigo Ramos. Action: denial Filed by Mount Vernon Fire Insur- of overtime compensation claim. ance Co. Action: diversity account Attorney for plaintiff: William receivable claim. Attorney for plain- Cafaro Sr. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. tiff: Steven Verveniotis. Filed Sept. 6. 13-06203. Case no. 13-06368. YAI Home Care Services Inc., et Pagis Realty L.L.C., et al. Filed by al. Filed by Fatumata Jallah. Action: Pablo Viexto. Action: claim filed job discrimination (employment) under the Fair Labor Standards claim. Attorney for plaintiff: LauAct of 1938. Attorney for plaintiff: rie Elene Morrison. Filed Sept. 5. William Cafaro Sr. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06235. Case no. 13-06205. Zim Intergrated Shipping SerPetrochina Company Ltd. Filed vices Ltd. Filed by Zurich Ameriby Sandy Hsu. Action: claim filed can Insurance Co. Action: federal under the Securities Exchange Act question other claim. Attorney for of 1934. Attorneys for plaintiff: plaintiff: James J. Ruddy. Filed Phillip C. Kim and Laurence Mat- Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06273. thew Rosen. Filed Sept. 6. Case no. 13-06274.

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NEWSMAKERS plus awards and events

Sean Hamrock

DAN ROONEY’S SPORTS BAR AT EMPIRE CITY CASINO in Yonkers was presented with the 2013 Best Live Music Award at a recent reception held by the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce. The restaurant opened in March as part of Empire City Casino’s $50 million expansion and has quickly become a favorite among diners, not only for its award winning cuisine – the Dan Rooney’s Burger was the pick of chef panelists at last year’s Greenwich Food & Wine Festival Burger Bash – but also for its unique live entertainment. Dan Rooney’s will expand its live music program, adding country music, Thursday nights to the entertainment lineup beginning Sept. 19. The popular dueling piano performances Friday and Saturday nights, which sparked the Best Live Music Award will continue from 9 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. on both nights. The Klash of the Keys Happy Hour specials continue from 9 to 11 p.m.

Sean Hamrock

SPORTS BAR AT EMPIRE CITY CASINO IS A WINNER

the College of New Rochelle HONORED THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE (CNR) has been recognized as a college of distinction by a website dedicated to honoring schools nationwide for their excellence in student-focused higher education.  “Schools designated as colleges of distinction create well-rounded graduates and are among the very best in the country,” said Tyson Schritter, executive editor of Colleges of Distinction. Colleges and universities are nominated for participation through high school counselors’ recommendations as well as research. Once nominated, the colleges are assessed using four distinctions: student engagement, quality of teaching, vibrancy of the college community and success of graduates. Schools featured on CollegesofDistinction.com must meet minimum standards in each category. In the category of student engagement, CNR stood out for its honors and study abroad programs, the internships and clinical placements students take part in and its tradition of serving others. The college has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Roll for the last four years and is noted for the variety of student activities on campus, including its NCAA Division III athletic teams, arts and cultural organizations and service and spiritual opportunities. CNR’s Living Learning Communities also contribute to the vibrancy of campus life.  The College of New Rochelle’s profile can be found on the Colleges of Distinction website, along with other dynamic college profiles and easy-to-use search tools for students, parents and counselors. “While each school is one of a kind, they all share a common theme: they are all a great place to get an education,” Schritter said.

CLINICAL NURSE RECEIVES AWARD SANTHAMMA VARGHESE, RN, a resident of White Plains and a member of the Bon Secours New York Health System’s Schervier Nursing Care Center (BSNY) staff, has received the prestigious eighth annual Joan Anne McHugh Nurse of Distinction award, sponsored by LeadingAge, an association of 6,000 not-for-profit organizations dedicated to making America a better place to grow old. Varghese has been with Schervier, which specializes in long-term and rehabilitation care in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, for more than 20 years and currently serves as the clinical nurse manager for short-term rehabilitation for the center’s orthopedic unit. The award recognizes aspiring leaders who provide excellent clinical care to their residents, while demonstrating leadership in long-term nursing and a commitment to the profession. “Santhamma is an extremely skilled nurse clinician, leading

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our interdisciplinary care team in monitoring residents’ plans of care from admission to discharge and wholeheartedly provides compassion and high-quality care,” said Olivia Babol-Ibe, director of nursing at Schervier. “She takes the time to individually meet with each resident and their families to proactively discuss and create a personalized care plan, based on what is best for each resident’s health and happiness. The unit’s very high resident satisfaction scores and quality indicators are indicative of her dedication and hard work.” Varghese was nominated by her leaders and peers at Schervier and selected by the award committee as this year’s recipient. She will receive a $1,000 award to be used for professional development opportunities, and will be recognized for her achievement at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting and Expo before 4,000 attendees in Dallas, from Oct. 27-30, and she will also be featured in the November/December issue of LeadingAge magazine. “Throughout my more than 30 years as a health care professional, I have worked with thousands of practitioners within a variety of disciplines, but without question, Santhamma is among the top 1 percent and is an exceptional health care

professional, embodying the ideals and mission of our organization by consistently providing good help to those in need,” added Carlos G. Beato, CEO of BSNY. “She consistently shows a level of dedication above and beyond the scope of her job and makes the time to advance her career and stay updated with the best nursing practices and trends through seeking a master’s degree in nursing, volunteering for leadership positions within several of our internal projects and initiatives, enrolling in training programs, and training her peers.” “Nursing is a challenging profession, but it is also incredibly rewarding and I am so proud to be nominated by my peers and recognized for my dedication in caring for our patients and residents,” Varghese said. “I am excited to have the opportunity to represent Schervier and our nursing program at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting and Expo and share our accomplishments with other likeminded nurses and care professionals. I’d like to extend my gratitude to my team, fellow nurses and my director of nursing at Bon Secours New York, Olivia Babol-Ibe, for their support and for helping me to achieve this accomplishment. God has secured this award for me.”

ChIef MARKetINg OffICeR NAMeD At CItRIN COOPeRMAN JILL JACobS joined Citrin Cooperman as chief marketing officer in its New York City office. Citrin has offices in White Plains and Norwalk, Conn., Livingston, N.J., and Philadelphia. Jacobs brings more than 20 years of experience in professional services and will lead the marketing and practice growth initiatives for the firm’s five offices. Prior to joining the firm, Jacobs was the marketing director at Berdon L.L.P., an accounting firm in New York City, where she developed strategic marketing plans for a variety of niche specialties, oversaw communications and managed the business development area. Previously, she was an international marketing consultant, guiding clients in expanding their business globally. “We are delighted to have Jill on board,” said Managing Partner Joel Cooperman. “her experience in developing and executing cohesive marketing strategies will be a key asset as the firm continues to grow and evolve.” Jacobs is on the advisory board of the Association for Accounting Marketing Metro NY Chapter and is active in several New York City community organizations, including Step Up Women’s Network. She holds an MBA in international management from the thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and Spanish from Binghamton University. Founded in 1979, Citrin Cooperman is an independent member firm of Moore Stephens International Ltd.

DATES SEPT

fIELDhoME-hoLy CoMfoRTER in Cortlandt Manor is holding its ninth annual Fall Festival Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. over the years, the festival has grown to include live entertainment; a classic car show; more than 50 arts, crafts and health vendors; more than 70 rafﬂe baskets; great food; and activities for kids. there is no charge for admission or parking. Wristbands for full access to the Kids’ Zone are $10 each. For more information contact Patti Lavan horvath at 739-2244 ext., 5501 or phorvath@fieldhome.com or visit FIELDHOME.com. huDSon RISIng 2013 RIVER TouR hEADS To oSSInIng in concert with Ossining’s Bicentennial Harbor Fest to celebrate a greener hudson River Valley with heritage ships, a farm feast with craft beers, live music, outdoor adventure activities, sustainable living and historic exhibits, a wooden boat show and a fireworks finale. this single-day festival takes place at ossining’s public ferry dock and harbor Square just north of the Metro-North train station from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. there is no general admission fee, however individual activities may have their own fees.

SEPT

CoPLAnD houSE 15Th AnnIVERSARy CELEbRATIon at 8 p.m. at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mount Kisco, featuring Cajun and hindustani folk music, Bluegrass, West African drumming, spirituals, minstrelsy and the hazy border between music and noise, which have inspired the dazzling new works on this wildly ranging program, most written for the music from Copland house ensemble. tickets are $50; call (914) 788.4659 for reservations.

SEPT

In ThE VoICE of ouR MoThERS – ThEATER EVEnT AT MARIAnDALE, its annual fundraiser, which this year features a five-actress play, “In the Voice of our Mothers,” performed at 3 p.m. at Mariandale in ossining. tickets for the show are $30. Profits will support Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center’s outreach programs serving the spiritual needs of the marginalized and underserved in our communities. Refreshments will be served. Reservations are highly recommended. Call (914) 941-4455, ext. 0, for more information or reservations or visit the mariandale.org.

CounTy ConVEnTIon PARADE AnD ChILI CooK-off, sponsored by Reliance engine & hose Company No. 1, a volunteer fire company within the Port Chester Fire Department, as a celebration of 190 years of service to the community this year. the fire service’s largest parade to date will start at 2 p.m. at Westchester and Bowman avenues and will end on Midland Avenue behind Strauss Paper Co., where the Chili Cook-off takes place. Participants will receive tokens for voting for the best chili in numerous categories. For more information, contact wbarnes@reliancepcfd.org or call (914) 396-9000.

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FACTS&FIGURES

Above $1 million

MOUNT VERNON, 421 Tecumseh Ave. Single-family residence; .13 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway P.C., (914) 636-8900, 145 355 Huguenot Inc., New Rochelle. Rail Side Properties L.L.C., White Huguenot St., Suite 401, New RoSeller: Jelson Realty Corp., New Plains. Seller: AKC 242 King L.L.C., chelle. Defendant: Esther Augustin. York City. Property: 355 Hugue- New York City. Property: 242 King Referee: Kevin Cohen. Sale: Sept. not St., New Rochelle. Amount: St., Rye. Amount: $835,000. Filed 30, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $340,389.34. Sept. 10. $355,000. Filed Sept. 4.

17 Dekalb L.L.C., Bronx. Seller: Bramare Town Homes L.L.C., White Plains. Property: 17-19 Dekalb Ave., White Plains Amount: $3.9 million. Filed Sept. 6.

66 Parkway Corp., Bronx. Seller: Michael Kanovitz, Chicago, Ill. Property: 66 Parkway South, Mount Vernon. Amount: $205,000. Filed Sept. 6.

Wit’s End Condominium, Dobbs Ferry. Seller: Kenneth Bunting, White Plains. Property: 2-14 Clinton Ave., D8, Greenburgh. Amount: $70,000. Filed Sept. 10.

Flowers Baking Company of Biddeford L.L.C., Thomasville, Ga. Seller: IBC Sales Corp., Kansas City, Mo. Property: 125 S. Central Ave., Greenburgh. Amount: $3.1 million. Filed Sept. 6.

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc. Seller: James Maisano, New Rochelle. Property: 29 Oakwood Ave., White Plains. Amount: $602,623. Filed Sept. 9.

Foreclosure Auctions

Zimmer Inc., et al. Filed by Mary Jane Lomanto. Action: diversity account receivable claim. Attorney for plaintiff: David Bagley Rheingold. Filed Sept. 4. Case no. 13-06234.

Deeds

Heathcote 259 Partners L.L.C., Scarsdale. Seller: Scarsdale Center L.L.C., Scarsdale. Property: 257259 Heathcote Road, Scarsdale. Amount: $2.5 million. Filed Sept. 5. Locust Walk L.L.C., East Hampton. Seller: Sam H. On, et al, Rye. Property: 740 Old Milton Road, Rye. Amount: $5.1 million. Filed Sept. 6. Monroe and Shore L.L.C., New York City. Seller: L. Scott Johnson, Red Hook. Property: 332 S. Bedford Road, Bedford. Amount: $5.6 million. Filed Sept. 9. One Walton Place L.L.C., Mount Vernon. Seller: Persico Realty Corp., Mount Vernon. Property: 1 Walton Place, Mount Vernon. Amount: $2 million. Filed Sept. 9.

235 Paine Avenue L.L.C., New Rochelle. Seller: Mark I. Cockburn, et al, New Rochelle. Property: 235 Paine Ave., New Rochelle. Amount: $750,000. Filed Sept. 4.

BEDFORD HILLS, 225 Railroad Citimortgage Inc. Seller: Max Di Ave. Warehouse; .65 acre. Plaintiff: Fabio, White Plains. Property: 8 Eastern Savings Bank. Plaintiff’s Florence Drive, Somers. Amount: attorney: Kriss & Feuerstein, (212) 661-2900, 360 Lexington Ave., No. $425,000. Filed Sept. 10. 1300, New York City. Defendant: D. D. & S. L.L.C. Referee: Matthew Combined Investments L.L.C., Spencer. Sale: Sept. 17, 9:30 a.m. Milton, Mass. Seller: Joyce A. Approximate lien: $1,201,857.75. Brown, Mount Vernon. Property: 410 S. 10th Ave., Mount Vernon. CROTON-ON-HUDSON, 27 Amount: $347,142. Filed Sept. 6. Woody Brook Lane. Single-family residence; 1.4 acre. Plaintiff: First Deutsche Bank National Trust National Bank of Arizona. PlainCo. Seller: David M. Rosoff, White tiff’s attorney: Knuckles, KomoPlains. Property: 3-1 Granada sinski & Elliot, (914) 345-3020, Crescent, Greenburgh. Amount: 565 Taxter Road, Suite 509, Elms$405,274. Filed Sept. 4. ford. Defendant: Bruce Lachapelle. Referee: Vincent Rippa. Sale: Sept. Deutsche Bank National Trust 17, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: Co. Seller: Jay Hashmall, White $685,739.62. Plains. Property: 31 S. 14th St., Mount Vernon. Amount: $172,500. MAMARONECK, 538 Jefferson Filed Sept. 6. Ave. Three-family dwelling; .46 acre. Plaintiff: Trustco Realty Corp. Federal National Mortgage Asso- Plaintiff’s attorney: Overton Russell ciation. Seller: Dawn Fields, Cort- Doerr & Donovan L.L.P., 19 Execulandt Manor. Property: 2202 Jacobs tive Park Drive, Clifton. Defendant: Hill Road, Cortlandt. Amount: Frank Grutteria. Referee: Sanjay Bhatt. Sale: Sept. 18, noon. Approx$227,723. Filed Sept. 10. imate lien: Not available.

SP HHF Sub Brook Avenue L.L.C., Atlanta, Ga. Seller: Acadia Pelham Manor L.L.C., White Plains. Property: 856-858 Pelham Parkway, Pelham. Amount: $11.8 Lake Osceola Realty Corp., Garmillion. Filed Sept. 10. rison. Seller: Sinapi Ceola Realty L.L.C., Yorktown. Property: 489 Weichert Relocation Resources E. Main St., Yorktown. Amount: Inc., Morris Plains, N.J. Seller: $950,000. Filed Sept. 10. Elaine M. Holoboff, Rye. Property: 88 Rye Road, Rye. Amount: $2.3 Leonardi and Son Construction million. Filed Sept. 5. Inc., Cortlandt Manor. Seller: Augustin Riva Jr., et al, New Windsor. Property: 1552 Wenonah Trail, Yorktown. Amount: $40,500. Filed Below $1 million Sept. 10. 18 Five Ponds Drive L.L.C., Waccabuc. Seller: Morris N. Simkin, Waccabuc. Property: 18 Five Ponds Drive, Lewisboro. Amount: $850,000. Filed Sept. 10. 20 Ossining L.L.C., White Plains. Seller: Golden Age Mortgage Corp., White Plains. Property: 20 Main St., Ossining. Amount: $215,000. Filed Sept. 10.

Pacific One Enterprises L.L.C., Short Hills, N.J. Seller: William Crockett, Mount Vernon. Property: 410 S. First Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $110,000. Filed Sept. 9.

Monahan Estates Inc., Peekskill. Seller: Clarence John Enos, et al, White Plains. Property: 1215 S. Division St., Peekskill. Amount: $70,000. Filed Sept. 6. MVP Realty Associates L.L.C., New York City. Seller: 3rd Street L.L.C., Bronx. Property: 202 S. Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon. Amount: $600,000. Filed Sept. 5.

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MOUNT VERNON, 213 S. Third Ave. Two-family dwelling; .06 acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosicki & Rosicki & Associates, (845) 8971600, 2 Summit Court, No. 301, Fishkill. Defendant: Samuel Garland. Referee: John Brophy. Sale: Sept. 18, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $483,005.99. MOUNT VERNON, 290 Summit Ave. Two-family dwelling; .12 acre. Plaintiff: One West Bank F.S.B. Plaintiff’s attorney: McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C., (914) 6368900, 145 Huguenot St., Suite 401, New Rochelle. Defendant: Neville McLaren. Referee: Helene Greenberg. Sale Sept. 30, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $706,277.84.

YONKERS, 32 Hunt Ave. Singlefamily residence; .16 acre. Plaintiff: Wells Fargo Bank National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy & Orlans, P.O. Box 540, Getzville. Defendant: Jose Soto. Referee: Ryan Karben. Sale: Sept. 12, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $354,305.90.

Commerce and Industry L.L.C., Dobbs Ferry. $1.3 million in favor of Republic Funding Group L.L.C., New York City. Filed Sept. 3.

YONKERS, 82 St. Andrews Place. Apartments; .18 acre. Plaintiff: 2647 NORTH SALEM, 92 Delancey Broadway Funding L.L.C. PlainRoad. Single-family residence; 3.52 tiff’s attorney: Harris Beach L.L.C., acre. Plaintiff: U.S. Bank National 333 Earl Ovington Blvd., UnionAssociation. Plaintiff’s attorney: dale. Defendant: 82 St. Andrews Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott L.L.C. Referee: Paul Noto. Sale: L.L.C., 10 Bank St., White Plains. Sept. 25, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: Defendant: Uriel Vegara. Ref- $2,010,686.66. eree: Joseph Goubeaud. Sale: Sept. 18, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: YONKERS, 100 Clinton Place. $806,537.83. Single-family residence; .25 acre. Plaintiff: Deutsche Bank National OSSINING, 24 Lincoln Place. Trust Co. Plaintiff’s attorney: Fein, Single-family residence; Lot size: Such & Crane, (973) 538-4700; 747 Not available. Plaintiff: Deutsche Chestnut Ridge Road, Suite 200, Bank National Trust Co. Plaintiff ‘s Chestnut Ridge. Defendant: Marva attorney: Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, Clarke. Referee: Henry Neale. Sale: (585) 247-9000, 250 Mile Crossing Sept. 16, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: Blvd., Suite 1, Rochester. Defen- $408,680.24. dant: Rafael Maguina. Referee: Michele Bermel. Sale: Sept. 16, 10 a.m. YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, 3700 Approximate lien: $349,866.57. Campbell Court. Single-family residence. Lot size: Not available. RYE BROOK, 7 Hawthorne Plaintiff: Nation Star Mortgage Ave. Single-family residence; .8 L.L.C. Plaintiff’s attorney: Knuckacre. Plaintiff: Hudson City Sav- les, Komosinski & Elliot, (914) 345ings Bank. Plaintiff’s attorney: 3020, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 509, Cohn & Roth, (516) 747-3030, Elmsford. Defendant: Olivia For100 E. Old Country Road, Mine- tune; Mark Alan Siesel. Sale: Sept. ola. Defendant: Salvatore Rigillo. 18, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: Referee: Robert Hufjay. Sale: Sept. $578,518.34. 17, 9:30 a.m. Approximate lien: $490,116.66.

Depot Square L.L.C., Yonkers. $3,548 in favor of Le Gourmet Francais Inc., Island Park. Filed Sept. 3.

TARRYTOWN, 34 Windle Park Drive. Condominium; Lot size: Not available. Plaintiff: Board of Managers of Whisper Hill Condominium. Plaintiff’s attorney: Smith Buss Jacobs, (914) 476-0600, 733 Yonkers Ave. Defendant: Jayne Vicelich. Referee: Andrew Philip Tureaud. Sale: Sept. 18, 10 a.m. Approximate lien: $16,072.28. YONKERS, 16 Sherwood Ave. Three-family dwelling; .1 acre. Plaintiff: Customers Bank. Plaintiff’s attorney: Murtha Cullina L.L.P. Defendant: Blule Real Estate Holding L.L.C. Referee: Michele Bermel. Sale: Sept. 16, 10:30 a.m. Approximate lien: Not available. YONKERS, 27 Spruce St. Threefamily dwelling; .05 acre. Plaintiff: HSBC Bank U.S.A. National Association. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gross Polowy & Orlans, P.O. Box 540, Getzville. Defendant: Hazem Ennabi. Referee: Darren DeUrso. Sale: Sept. 17, 9 a.m. Approximate lien: $283,209.28.

Judgments

D and P Private Label Carpets Inc., Mohegan Lake. $14,701 in favor of Shaw Industries Inc., Catersville, Ga. Filed Sept. 3.

Gabrielle Salman Modular Inc., Ardsley. $23,873 in favor of Bay Crane Service Inc., Long Island City. Filed Sept. 9. Juice and Java, Hartsdale. $7,112 in favor of Mand L Provisions Inc., Bronx. Filed Sept. 3. Meti Pizza Inc., Peekskill. $53,515 in favor of Ace Endico Corp., Brewster. Filed Aug. 30. PMS Mailing Company Inc., New Rochelle. $137,372 in favor of Signature Bank, New York City. Filed Aug. 30. Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations L.L.C., Greenwich, Conn. $31,635 in favor of IBM Corp., Armonk. Filed Sept. 6. TMI Contracting Corp., Mount Vernon. $34,769 in favor of XL Insurance, Exton, Pa. Filed Aug. 30.

Lis Pendens

All Day Services Inc., Yonkers. $142,000 in favor of the Workers’ The following filings indicated a legal Compensation Board of the State action has been initiated, the outof New York, Albany. Filed Oct. 3. come of which may affect the title to the property listed. Archer Meade Appraisals L.L.C., Port Chester. $112,000 in favor of Amankwaa, Akwasi, et al. Filed the Workers’ Compensation Board by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: of the State of New York, Albany. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Filed Oct. 3. secure $510,000 affecting property located at 50-52 N. 10th Ave., Mount Atro Detailing Inc., Croton-on- Vernon 10550. Filed May 16. Hudson. $8,000 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of Anderson, Antoinette, et al. the State of New York, Albany. Filed Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Oct. 3. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $177,823 afAudis Restaurant and Bar Inc., fecting property located at 126 Yonkers. $325,000 in favor of the Beechwood Ave., Mount Vernon Workers’ Compensation Board of 10553. Filed May 14. the State of New York, Albany. Filed Oct. 3. Austin, Scheeron, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Clean Fleet Fueling Inc., Pelham. Action: seeks to foreclose on a $18,286 in favor of Central Mutual mortgage to secure an unspecified Insurance Co., Vanvert, Ohio. Filed amount affecting property located at 551 S. Ninth Ave., Mount Vernon Sept. 4. 10550. Filed May 14. Coin Mint Ltd., White Plains. $73,200 in favor of the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, Albany. Filed Oct. 3.

Babel, Steven, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 175 Huguenot St., Unit 3101, New Rochelle 10801. Filed May 17. Beltran, Victoria, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $379,000 affecting property located at 482 Park Ave., Yonkers. Filed May 16. Bruton, Carey H., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located at 1 Scarsdale Road, Unit 411, Tuckahoe. Filed May 14. Candamil, Luis F., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $468,000 affecting property located at 64 Haseco Ave., Port Chester 10573. Filed May 14. Cespedes, Jose, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $412,000 affecting property located at 115 Young Ave., Yonkers 10710. Filed May 16. Contreras, Altagracia, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $418,500 affecting property located at 12 Teramar Way, White Plains 10607. Filed May 16. Cordero, Gregorio M., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $269,000 affecting property located at 572 Westbrook Drive, Cortlandt Manor. Filed May 16. Crawford, Pauline A., et al. Filed by BAC Home Loans Servicing L.P. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $340,000 affecting property located at 438 S. Sixth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed May 17. Cross, David, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 19 Plymouth Road, Chappaqua 10514. Filed May 14. Davis, Joseph E., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $488,722 affecting property located at 150 S. Sixth Ave., Mount Vernon 10550. Filed May 16.

Deleon, Eduardo B., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $420,000 affecting property located at 134 Battle Ave., White Plains 10606. Filed May 15. Eaton, Elizabeth, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $463,400 affecting property located at 49 High St., Katonah 10536. Filed May 14. Febbo, Anthony, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $482,388 affecting property located at 128 Chester Drive, Yonkers 10710. Filed May 15. Federico, Mauro, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $305,250 affecting property located at 113 Tate Ave., Buchanan 10511. Filed May 15. Fews, Steven, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $384,720 affecting property located at 60 Ferris Place, Ossining 10562. Filed May 15.

Kettenaker, Denise, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $137,000 affecting property located at 102 Mendham Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson 10706. Filed May 16. Leary, Valerie V., et al. Filed by PNC Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $215,000 affecting property located at 393 E. Fifth St., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed May 16. Leon, Regnel, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $328,341 affecting property located at 88-90 Clarendon Ave., Yonkers 10701. Filed May 16. Lopez, Ramiro, et al. Filed by The Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $136,500 affecting property located at 22 Grove St., Port Chester 10573. Filed May 17.

Sicat, John Alexander, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $260,000 affecting property located at 312 Watch Hill Road, Cortlandt Manor 10567. Filed May 17.

Wartburg Residential Community Inc., as owner. $8,633 as claimed by Thalle Industries Inc., Briarcliff Manor. Property: in Mount Vernon. Filed Sept. 3.

MJM Media Services, 1299 Palmer Ave., Larchmont 10538, c/o Michael J. McBride. Filed Aug. 14.

New Highland Oriental, 190 N. Highland Ave., Ossining 10562, c/o White Plains Project L.L.C., as Jiang Ai Xin. Filed Aug. 15. owner. $9,903 as claimed by Thalle Starke, George L. Jr., individually Industries Inc., Briarcliff Manor. PawTrekking, 49A Old Albany and as surviving joint tenant, et al. Property: in White Plains. Filed Post Road, Ossining 10562, c/o Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: Sept. 3. Karen Appleby. Filed Aug. 15. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $423,500 affecting property Pitched Right Seamless Gutters, located at 41 Rosedale Ave., New New Businesses P.O. Box 455, Mamaroneck 10543, Rochelle 10801. Filed May 16. c/o Joel Caraballo. Filed Aug. 15. This paper is not responsible for tyStewart-Ivanhoe, Maxine, as pographical errors contained in the PJM Pro Packers, 698 Yonkers co-administratrix of the estate of original filings. Ave., Suite 5B, Yonkers 10704, c/o Mavis Stewart, et al. Filed by OnePeter J. Matrigali. Filed Aug. 14. West Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $544,185 affecting property located Partnerships RLR Children on the Move, 110 at 330 S. Fifth Ave., Mount Vernon Seventh Ave., Mount Vernon 10550, 10550. Filed May 16. Refreshing Presence Cogic, 60 c/o Lorna Laborde. Filed Aug. 14. Gibson Ave., White Plains 10607, Stone, Rebecca A., et al. Filed by c/o Jerry Alford and Joan Alford. Sunshine Shoe Repair Shop, 291 JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Ac- Filed Aug. 15. S. Broadway, Yonkers 10705, c/o Jae tion: seeks to foreclose on a mortKwang Lee. Filed Aug. 14. gage to secure $309,000 affecting property located at 3 Still Court, Sole Proprietorships Ossining 10562. Filed May 16. Patents

Martinez, Marco A., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $417,000 affecting property located Williams, Paulette, et al. Filed by at 164 Poningo St., Port Chester Aurora Loan Services L.L.C. Action: 10573. Filed May 15. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $617,500 affecting property Gifford, Jennifer, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: Mossman, Garrett, et al. Filed located at 33 Duryea Ave., Mount seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to by HSBC Mortgage Corp. Action: Vernon 10550. Filed May 17. secure $323,400 affecting property seeks to foreclose on a mortgage located at 223 W. Second St., Mount to secure $180,000 affecting propVernon 10550. Filed May 17. erty located at 10 Springhill Road, North Salem 10560. Filed May 17. Mechanicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Liens Griffin, David, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: Nicoletti, Vincent, et al. Filed by 343 Bedford Realty L.L.C., as seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Emigrant Bank. Action: seeks to owner. $39,755 as claimed by DT secure an unspecified amount af- foreclose on a mortgage to secure Consulting Services Inc., Ulster fecting property located at 3 Mary- $455,000 affecting property located Park. Property: in Mount Kisco. land Drive, Armonk 10504. Filed at 34 Orchard St., Eastchester. Filed Filed Aug. 30. May 14. May 17. G and C Yonkers Realty L.L.C., Henry, Joy, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank Okpaku, Michael, et al. Filed by as owner. $47,420 as claimed by N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks Marjam Supply Co., Farmingdale. a mortgage to secure $265,600 af- to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Property: in Yonkers. Filed Sept. 3. fecting property located at 421 N. $250,000 affecting property located Broadway, Unit 19, Yonkers 10701. at 311 Primrose Ave., Mount Ver- Lane, Mark J., et al, as owner. Filed May 16. non 10552. Filed May 17. $5,984 as claimed by Zott Construction Inc., Stormville. Property: Holmes, Marguerite, as adminis- Samuels, Seymour, et al. Filed in Mamaroneck. Filed Sept. 3. tratrix of the estate of Ruth Kirton, by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Ac- seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Meeks, Margery, et al, as owner. tion: seeks to foreclose on a mort- secure $477,000 affecting property $10,396 as claimed by Putnam Engage to secure $48,749 affecting located at 2191 Crompond Road, gineering P.L.L.C., Putnam. Propproperty located at 67 Rockledge Yorktown Heights 10598. Filed erty: in Ossining. Filed Sept. 4. Road North, Apt. GR3, Yonkers May 16. 10708. Filed May 16. Parkview Station L.L.C., as ownSargiss, Frieda, et al. Filed by The er. $5,086 as claimed by Interstate Hunter, Charles W., et al. Filed Bank of New York Mellon Trust Fire and Safety Equipment, Harby Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: Company N.A. Action: seeks to rison. Property: in Mamaroneck. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage foreclose on a mortgage to secure Filed Sept. 5. to secure $125,000 affecting prop- $318,750 affecting property loerty located at 141 Beachwood cated at 10 Truesdale Place, Yonkers SBV Clisi Corp., as owner. $2,780 Ave., Mount Vernon 10553. Filed 10705. Filed May 17. as claimed by Robert Stanziale ArMay 14. chitect P.C., New Rochelle. PropShapolsky, Arthur, et al. Filed by erty: in Eastchester. Filed Sept. 4. Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $2.6 million affecting property located at 999 Tripp St., Mount Kisco 10549. Filed May 16.

A.P.E. Lucero Tile and Marble, The following patents were issued by 118 Washington St., Port Chester the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of10573, c/o Angel Pocendo Lucero fice in Washington, D.C. Ayavaca. Filed Aug. 14. Application programming interEgoo Center II, 29 Poplar St., Yon- face for managing time-sharing kers 10701, c/o Israel Ayala Morales. option address space. Patent Filed Aug. 15. no. 8,533,734 issued to Susan Z. Demkowicz, Rhinebeck; James M. Espinoza Foods, 9 Monterey Place, Hertzig, Tilson; Michael P. Kasper, Yonkers 10710, c/o Miguel A. Espi- Poughkeepsie; Harris M. Morgenstern, Poughkeepsie; and Gary S. noza. Filed Aug. 16. Puchkoff, Poughkeepsie. Assigned Exceptional Leaders, 99 Old to International Business MaTarrytown Road, White Plains chines Corp., Armonk. 10603, c/o Jacquelyn H. Young. Detecting and defending against Filed Aug. 14. man-in-the-middle attacks. PatExquisite Car Service, 384 Fox ent no. 8,533,821 issued to Jeffery L. Ave., Yonkers 10704, c/o Joseph Crume, Raleigh, N.C. Assigned to International Business Machines Hernandez. Filed Aug. 14. Corp., Armonk. Goode Cruises and Events, 305 Fourth St., Mamaroneck 10543, c/o Distributed messaging system supporting stateful subscripRobert C. Goode. Filed Aug. 15. tions. Patent no. 8,533,742 issued to Ginis Roman, Elmsford; and JL Artesanias Mexicanas Y Mas, Robert Evan Strom, Ridgefield, 91 E. Post Road, White Plains Conn. Assigned to International 10601, c/o Joaquin Lopez. Filed Business Machines Corp., ArAug. 14. monk. Lead On, 20 Hudson St., Hastings- Method and apparatus for ason-Hudson 10706, c/o Elena Papal- signing fractional processing iberios. Filed Aug. 14. nodes to work in a streamoriented computer system. PatLearning Beyond Limits, 310 ent no. 8,533,722 issued to Bansal Woodland Hills Road, White Plains Nikhil, Yorktown Heights; James R. 10603, c/o Filipp Nicolosi. Filed H. Challenger, Garrison; Lisa Karen Fleischer, Ossining; Kirsten Weale Aug. 15. Hildrum, Hawthorne; Richard P. King, Scarsdale; Deepak Rajan, MG Interior and Exterior, 1 Davis Fishkill; David Tao, Glen Burnie, Ave., Apt. 2, New Rochelle 10805, Md.; and Joel Leonard Wolf, Kac/o Marcio Carvalho. Filed Aug. 16. tonah. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

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FACTS&FIGURES Offloading work from one type to another type of processor based on the count of each type of service-call instructions in the work unit. Patent no. 8,533,720 issued to Wilton T. Byrum, San Jose, Calif; Cook Christopher, San Jose, Calif.; and Thomas A. Thackrey, San Jose, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Reserved write positions on install media. Patent no. 8,533,820 issued to Johnny Meng-Han Shieh, Austin, Texas. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk. Secure and usable authentication for health care information access. Patent no. 8,533,800 issued to Hongxia Jin, San Jose, Calif.; and Wang Qihua, San Jose, Calif. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Velez, David, as owner. Lender: Flagstar Bank F.S.B. Property: in Wappinger. Amount: $185,250. Filed Aug. 26.

Below $1 million

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: John M. Perone, Larchmont. Property: 20 Maplewood Davis, John Douglas, et al, Dan- Drive, Brewster 10509. Amount: bury, Conn, as owner. Lender: $411,407. Filed Aug. 28. Union Savings Bank. Property: in Southeast. Amount: $400,000. Filed Deutsche Bank National Trust Aug. 30. Co. Seller: Stanley Esposito, Pleasantville. Property: 45 Hillcrest Ave., Brewster 10509. Amount: Deeds $448,869. Filed Aug. 28. FDF Enterprises Inc., MiddleAbove $1 million town. Seller: Bruedan Corp., Goshen. Property: in Chester. The Lutheran Care Network Inc., Amount: $61,500. Filed Sept. 5. New Rochelle. Seller: Hudson Valley Senior Residence, Kingston. FDF Enterprises Inc., MiddleProperty: in Kingston. Amount: town. Seller: Bruedan Corp., $1.8 million. Filed Aug. 30. Goshen. Property: in Chester. Amount: $61,500. Filed Sept. 5.

Traitor tracing in a content protection system. Patent no. 8,533,849 issued to Hongxia Jin, Below $1 million San Jose, Calif.; and Serdar Pehlivanoglu, Kayseri, Turkey. Assigned to 330 Main Street Beacon L.L.C., International Business Machines Beacon. Seller: Rose M. Quinn, Corp., Armonk. Fishkill. Property: in Beacon. Amount: $370,000. Filed Sept. 5. Virtual machine management. Patent no. 8,533,715 issued to Lisa 5 Gidney Avenue L.L.C., NewSeacat DeLuca, San Francisco, Ca- burgh. Seller: Dariusz Bajsicki, et lif.; and Charles M. Kinard, Dur- al, Cold Spring. Property: in Newham, N.C. Assigned to Interna- burgh. Amount: $20,000. Filed tional Business Machines Corp., Sept. 9. Armonk. Virtual world subgroup determination and segmentation for performance scalability. Patent no. 8,533,733 issued to Kulvir S. Bhogal, Fort Worth, Texas; Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va.; James R. Kozloski, New Fairfield, Conn.; Brian M. O’Connell, Cary, N.C.; and Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Seller: Charles Edward Frankel, New Windsor. Property: 15 N. Main St., Harriman 10926. Amount: $309,965. Filed Sept. 9.

750 Orchard Properties L.L.C., Spring Valley. Seller: South Street Properties Corp., Spring Valley. Property: in Plattekill. Amount: $300,000. Filed Sept. 3.

FDF Enterprises Inc., Middletown. Seller: Ohio Realty L.L.C., Middletown. Property: in Mount Hope. Amount: $50,000. Filed Sept. 9. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Seller: Jo-Ann Cambareri, Tarrytown. Property: 33 Brayton Road, Carmel 10512. Amount: $362,245. Filed Sept. 3. Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Lisa Felicissimo, Monroe. Property: 374 W. Main St., Goshen 10924. Amount: $214,424. Filed Sept. 9. Federal National Mortgage Association. Seller: Patricia Cocchia, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Property: 16 Jansen Court, Walden 12586. Amount: $491,450. Filed Sept. 5.

Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, Lake Success. Seller: Gaetano Gizzo, West Harrison. Property: 134 Dykeman Road, Carmel. Amount: $380,231. Federal National Mortgage AsFiled Aug. 28. sociation. Seller: Paul C. Brite, Brookfield Relocation Inc., Newburgh. Property: 3 Rocky Lane, Scottsdale, Ariz. Seller: John J. New Windsor 12553. Amount: Mastrocinque, et al, Poughkeepsie. $240,630. Filed Sept. 9. Property: in LaGrange. Amount: Greenfield Resort L.L.C., Lake$275,000. Filed Sept. 4. wood, N.J. Seller: Ulster AcquisiChurch of St. Lawrence O’Toole, tion L.L.C., New York. Property: Brewster. Seller: Kim A. Vazquez, in Wawarsing. Amount: $490,000. Building Loans Brewster. Property: in Brewster. Filed Sept. 5. Amount: $250,000. Filed Sept. 5. Highridge Gardens Housing DeAbove $1 million CM Properties of Dutchess velopment Fund Company Inc., Inc., Red Hook. Seller: David H. Altamont. Seller: The Kearney ReHighridge Gardens L.P., as owner. Wheeler, Craryville. Property: in alty and Development Group Inc., Lender: Community Preservation Pine Plains. Amount: $45,000. Carmel. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Amount: $92,000. Filed Sept. 5. Corp. Property: in Poughkeepsie. Filed Sept. 4. Amount: $10.5 million. Filed Aug. 26. Debellis Construction Corp., Honey Do Men L.L.C., Mahopac. Sawco Project Development Brewster. Seller: Kathleen Sul- Seller: Carmel Teachers Federal Inc., Saugerties, as owner. Lender: livan, et al, Bowen Island, British Credit Union, Poughkeepsie. PropSawyer Savings Bank, Saugerties. Columbia, Canada. Property: in erty: in Carmel. Amount: $900,000. Property: 85 Market St., Saugerties. Carmel. Amount: $90,000. Filed Filed Aug. 30. Amount: $3.2 million. Filed Sept. 5. Sept. 5.

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Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York, Brandon, Fla. Seller: Laurie J. Ajemian, Kingston. Property: 69 Penstock Lane, Lake Katrine 12449. Amount: $187,547. Filed Sept. 5.

SBGT Properties L.L.C., New Windsor. Seller: John F. Glynn, Newburgh. Property: in New Windsor. Amount: $137,500. Filed Sept. 9.

Senga Inc., Middletown. Seller: J.C. Realty of New York Ltd., El- Karen J. Leslie, Middletown. Proplenville. Seller: Eileen Dickman, erty: in Mount Hope. Amount: Ellenville. Property: in Ellenville. $210,000. Filed Sept. 6. Amount: $165,500. Filed Sept. 3. T.D. Bank N.A. Seller: Maureen S. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Sell- Markey, et al, Brewster. Property: er: Maurice F. Fitzgerald, et al, Mon- 7 Fulton Drive, Brewster 10509. roe. Property: 61 Woodstock Road, Amount: $266,100. Filed Sept. 3. Monroe 10950. Amount: $320,000. Filed Sept. 3. Tam Enterprises Inc., New Hampton. Seller: Darlene Kerr, Kiwi Landco L.L.C., New York Goshen. Property: in Goshen. City. Seller: Camp Kiwi Inc., Ma- Amount: $145,646, Filed Sept. 6. hopac. Property: 825 Union Valley Road, Carmel. Amount: $310,000. The Casciaro Brothers Realty Filed Sept. 4. Company L.L.C., Kingston. Seller: 27 Market Street Saugerties NY KT Investors L.L.C., Spring Valley. L.L.C., Saugerties. Property: in SauSeller: Bernard Mittelman, Monroe. gerties. Amount: $285,000. Filed Property: in Kiryas Joel. Amount: Sept. 3. $140,000. Filed Sept. 5. The Village of Saugerties, SauLandvest Properties L.L.C., et al, gerties. Seller: Robert N. Stinemire, Wappingers Falls. Seller: Foreclo- Saugerties. Property: in Saugerties. sure Sales Inc., Yorktown Heights. Amount: $92,500. Filed Sept. 3. Property: in Wappingers Falls. Amount: $237,000. Filed Aug. 29. Walden Savings Bank, Montgomery. Seller: Keith E. Risdal, et al, Pine Leprechaun Ventures Ltd., Ulster Bush. Property: in Shawangunk. Park. Seller: Lona Bess Vining, Ul- Amount: $142,500. Filed Sept. 6. ster Park. Property: in Port Ewen. Amount: $60,000. Filed Aug. 30. Yannone Holdings Inc., New Windsor. Seller: Windsor EnterM and D Duncan Avenue prises Inc., New Windsor. PropL.L.C., Cornwall-on-Hudson. erty: in New Windsor. Amount: Seller: Wayne F. Quillin, Arling- $503,800. Filed Sept. 9. ton, Va. Property: 267 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson. Amount: $247,730. Filed Sept. 3.

Judgments

Occupations Inc., Middletown. Seller: Shirley K. Teal, et al, Pleasant A Blue Moon Investigation Inc., Valley. Property: in Pleasant Valley. Bloomington. $1,711 in favor of the New York State Department of Amount: $245,000. Filed Sept. 4. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 3. Old Temple Hill Rd L.L.C., Central Valley. Seller: Stewart’s Shops Corp., Saratoga Springs. Prop- A-K Paving Inc., Warwick. $637 erty: in New Windsor. Amount: in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, $462,500. Filed Sept. 4. Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Osceola Lake Entertainment L.L.C., Mount Kisco. Seller: Sar 1 Inc., Wayne, N.J. Property: in Wappingers Falls. Amount: $310,000. Filed Aug. 30.

Allstate Security Inc., Montgomery. $53,632 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27.

PNC Bank N.A. Seller: Thomas A. Gizzo, West Harrison. Property: in Carmel. Amount: $548,245. Filed Sept. 3.

Aqua Clean Car Wash Inc., Middletown. $8,495 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27.

Baking Made Fun Inc., Monroe. $500 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Construction and Security Installations Inc., Highland Mills. $257 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Consumer’s Discount Wines and Liquors Inc., Middletown. $106,482 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Cyl Realty Corp., Monroe. $329 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. DCA Contractors Inc., New Windsor. $2,745 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Design and Print of NY Inc., Monroe. $53 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Downtown Entertainment L.L.C., Middletown. $1,292 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Eclectic Designs Inc., Monroe. $2,133 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Ellenville Communication One Inc., Ellenville. $1,908 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 3. Elliott Brothers Inc., Middletown. $3,689 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Fine and Excellent All Window Treatment, Middletown. $905 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Four Seasons Insulators Inc., Newburgh. $2,503 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27.

Grand Entrance Systems Inc., Monroe. $1,170 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation Avanti Express Inc., Newburgh. and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Redder’s Realty L.L.C., Kingston. Seller: Edward C. O’Connor Jr., et $4,347 in favor of the Workers’ al, Rosendale. Property: in Kingston. Compensation Board of the State Grateful Pet Supplies, Warwick. of New York, Albany. Filed Aug. 30. Amount: $200,000. Filed Aug. 30. $416 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and FiBA Mirabella Corp., Saugerties. nance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Sawco Project Development Inc., Saugerties. Seller: Casa Mia $418 in favor of the New York State Inc., Highland. Property: in Lloyd. Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 3. Amount: $865,000. Filed Sept. 5.

Greenway Tree and Lawn Care Inc., New Windsor. $104 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27.

Orange County Agents-Life and Health Agency Inc., Middletown. $1,754 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Hydrodynamic Floor Sanitizing Inc., Newburgh. $440 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Pizza Palace Inc., Newburgh. $7,355 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

I and P Concrete Corp., Pine Bush. $4,374 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Pizzaciti Inc., d.b.a. Il Forno Pizzeria, Kingston. $4,549 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 3.

JB Grafix Custom Painting Inc., Newburgh. $1,338 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Politi Electric Inc., Newburgh. $100 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Primo’s Restaurant and Tavern JMLJ Inc., Harriman. $78,000 in Inc., Newburgh. $2,119 in favor of favor of the Workers’ Compensa- the New York State Department of tion Board of the State of New York, Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Albany. Filed Aug. 30. Aug. 28. Kiryas Joel Shoe Repair Corp., Monroe. $3,805 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Reyno Mexican Foods Inc., Newburgh. $313 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

KKL Pizza Inc., Middletown. $11,598 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Roberti Motor Cars Ltd., Kingston. $7,208 in favor of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 3.

Lighting Depot Inc., Monroe. $2,059 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

RWJM Group Inc., Middletown. $2,104 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

The Brick Warehouse Inc., Newburgh. $2,160 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27.

Albea, Christopher L., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $361,340 affecting property located at 8 Marion Drive, WapThe Rondout Music Lounge Ltd., pingers Falls 12590. Filed Aug. 23. Kingston. $10,810 in favor of the New York State Department of La- Alfano, Nancy, aka Nancy Vanbor Unemployment Insurance Di- gor, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. vision, Albany. Filed Sept. 3. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified TK Delivery Inc., Chester. $1,832 amount affecting property located in favor of the New York State De- at 31 Drew Lane, Carmel 10512. partment of Taxation and Finance, Filed Aug. 29. Albany. Filed Aug. 28. Arellanes, Conrado Reyes, et Two Chefs Professional Caterers al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage Inc., Monroe. $1,449 in favor of L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on the New York State Department of a mortgage to secure $186,000 afTaxation and Finance, Albany. Filed fecting property located at 33 Roosevelt Ave., Poughkeepsie 12601. Aug. 28. Filed Aug. 28. Uniform City U.S.A. Inc., Middletown. $2,119 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Arndt, John H., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 46 Christian Village of Washingtonville, Hill Road, Dover Plains 12522. Washingtonville. $2,548 in favor of Filed Aug. 22. the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Badian, Bart, et al. Filed by CiAug. 28. timortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure William Van Kleeck Contracting $77,000 affecting property located Inc., Saugerties. $1,959 in favor of at 20 Mitchell Ave., Poughkeepsie. the New York State Department of Filed Aug. 21. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Sept. 3. Barchella, John E., et al. Filed by Tuthill Finance L.P. Action: seeks to Youngsville Custom Kitchen and foreclose on a mortgage to secure Baths Inc., Middletown. $2,390 in $395,000 affecting property locatfavor of the New York State Depart- ed at 380 and 382 Little Smith St., ment of Taxation and Finance, Al- Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Aug. 21. bany. Filed Aug. 28.

Brailsford, Nadine, et al. Filed by Federal National Mortgage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 9 Helene Circle, Highland Mills 10930. Filed June 18. Briscoe, Diane M., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $263,900 affecting property located at 24 Favino Drive, Wallkill 12589. Filed June 17. Burgess, Kathy A., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $257,010 affecting property located at 5006 John Hancock Court, New Windsor 12553. Filed June 17. Cahill-Hirsch, Michele, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $214,270 affecting property located at 21 Highland Place, Beacon 12508. Filed Aug. 28. Candela, Loretta B., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $154,000 affecting property located at 1405 Kings Way, Carmel 10512. Filed Aug. 30. Carlaw, Evan, et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $111,000 affecting property located in Rhinebeck. Filed Aug. 26.

Catania, Joseph A. Jr., as guardian of the person and property Barton, Patricia S., et al. Filed of Jerome Welch, et al. Filed by by Deutsche Bank National Trust Rhinebeck Bank. Action: seeks to Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a foreclose on a mortgage to secure mortgage to secure $111,000 affect- an unspecified amount affecting ing property located at 18 Styves- property located in Pleasant Valley. tandt Drive, Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Aug. 28. Filed Aug. 27. Cheshire, Ginger, et al. Filed by Bernadel, Yves, aka Yves Volcy, et al. U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks foreclose on a mortgage to secure to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $153,600 affecting property located $207,000 affecting property located at at 7 and 8, aka 10 Main St., Spar24 Lexington Hill Drive, Unit 5, Har- rowbush 12780. Filed June 18. riman 10926. Filed June 17. Cliffside Property Management, Bletsas, Helen, et al. Filed by One- et al. Filed by M&T Bank. Action: Noutsis Enterprises Inc., Middle- Synergy of Spirit Inc., Middletown. $77 in favor of the New York town. $347 in favor of the New York Acevedo, Aura, et al. Filed by Ci- West Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to State Department of Taxation and State Department of Taxation and timortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure secure $506,250 affecting property foreclose on a mortgage to secure $214,400 affecting property located located at 475 Route 6, Mahopac Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28. Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28. $276,000 affecting property located at 163 Chambers St., Newburgh 10541. Filed Aug. 27. at 16 Center St., Brewster 10509. 12550. Filed June 14. Noyim Bakery Associates L.L.C., T and C’s Home Improvements, Filed Aug. 26. Collado, Joann M., et al. Filed by Monroe. $338 in favor of the New Monroe. $1,005 in favor of the New Bolobanic, Anselmo, et al. Filed Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks York State Department of Labor York State Department of Taxation Unemployment Insurance Divi- and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Adams, Timothy, et al. Filed by by JPMC Specialty Mortgage L.L.C. to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Household Finance Realty Corpo- Action: seeks to foreclose on a $227,234 affecting property located sion, Albany. Filed Aug. 30. ration of New York. Action: seeks to mortgage to secure an unspecified at 153 Wawayanda Ave., MiddleTaco Veloz L.L.C., Middletown. foreclose on a mortgage to secure amount affecting property located town 10940. Filed June 18. Onimbus Corp., Middletown. $6,265 in favor of the New York $52,520 affecting property located at 101 Brook Trail, Greenwood $3,665 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and at 19 Nevins St., Ellenville 12428. Lake 10925. Filed June 17. Colvin, Richard F., et al. Filed by State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 27. Filed Sept. 5. OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28. to foreclose on a mortgage to secure TCS Cleaning Services of NY $175,275 affecting property located Inc., Newburgh. $6,585 in favor of at 140 Hooker St., Kingston 12401. the New York State Department of Filed Sept. 5. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28. LKM Ltd., Cornwall-on-Hudson. $1,567 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28.

Sadeq’s Corner Deli, Newburgh. $1,357 in favor of the New York State Department of Taxation and Z and A Bohemian Enterprizes Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28. Inc., Kingston. $151 in favor of the New York State Department of Musialkiewicz Construction Scott Duffie Electric Inc., Walden. Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed Company Inc., Kingston. $8,050 $2,160 in favor of the New York Sept. 3. in favor of the New York State De- State Department of Taxation and partment of Taxation and Finance, Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28. Albany. Filed Sept. 3. Lis Pendens Select Furniture and Equipment Newburgh Sports Inc., New- Corp., Monroe. $3,499 in favor of burgh. $2,160 in favor of the New the New York State Department of The following filings indicated a legal York State Department of Taxation Taxation and Finance, Albany. Filed action has been initiated, the outcome of which may affect the title to and Finance, Albany. Filed Aug. 28. Aug. 28. the property listed.

Conklin, Gary R., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $153,015 affecting property located at 22 Tulip Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Sept. 4. Corrado, William, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 85 Fletcher St., Goshen 10924. Filed June 18. Craig, Merlinda K., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $162,000 affecting property located at 19 Hornbeck Ave., Port Jervis 12771. Filed June 18. Cutler, Dawn, et al. Filed by PennyMac Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $174,672 affecting property located at 14 Black Rock Trail, Port Jervis 12771. Filed June 17. D’Addone, Anthony, as executor of the estate of Lily D’Addone, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $315,000 affecting property located at 1490 Route 12, New Hampton 10958. Filed June 14. D’Esposito, Joseph, et al. Filed by Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $248,489 affecting property located at 21 Briarcliff Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Aug. 27. Defeno, Richard Jr., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $242,491 affecting property located at 28 Harvard Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed Aug. 26. Dejesus, Maria I., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $138,000 affecting property located at 336 Church St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Aug. 27. Deluca, Alana, as heir at law and next of kin of Arthur P. Deluca, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 5 Deluca Lane, Carmel 10512. Filed Aug. 29. Dies, Christopher A., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $85,000 affecting property located at 82 Patio Road, Middletown 10941. Filed June 17.

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FACTS&FIGURES Ellis, John P., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $389,000 affecting property located at 76 Highland Terrace, Newburgh 12550. Filed June 17.

Hall, Noel G., et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $168,000 affecting property located at 64 Forbus St., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Aug. 27.

Lappin, Craig, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 4 Heights Trail, Monroe 10950. Filed June 18.

Ercole, John F. Jr., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $150,000 affecting property located at 49 Eastwood Road, Brewster 10509. Filed Aug. 27.

Harman, Aaron, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $203,000 affecting property located at 390-392 Mansion St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Aug. 28.

Feliciano, Maritza, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $265,173 affecting property located at 19 Sharon Drive, Middletown 10941. Filed June 14.

Harrington, Jan, et al. Filed by the Bank of New York Mellon. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $364,000 affecting property located at 33 Pine Woods Road, Hyde Park 12538. Filed Aug. 22.

Fernandes, Luisa E., et al. Filed by BAC Home Loans Servicing L.P. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 14 Johns Road, Kerhonkson 12446. Filed Sept. 6.

Hartney, Eileen A., et al. Filed by Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $435,301 affecting property located at 135 Palmer Circle, Poughquag 12570. Filed Aug. 28.

Foley, Monica M., et al. Filed by Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $116,000 affecting property located at 705 Cherry Hill Drive, Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Aug. 21.

Johnson, Floyd C. Sr., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $165,550 affecting property located at 119 Johnston St., Newburgh 12550. Filed June 14.

Leight, James H., et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $247,000 affect- McCarthy, Ronald T. Jr., et al. ing property located at 10 Edgar St., Filed by Federal National MortPoughkeepsie 12803. Filed Aug. 21. gage Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure Lockie, Martin P., et al. Filed by $342,666 affecting property located ING Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks to at 4 Philipse Road, Carmel 10512. foreclose on a mortgage to secure Filed Sept. 4. $275,000 affecting property located at 55 Esselborne Road, Cold Spring McNeil, Michael, individually and 10516. Filed Sept. 5. as executor of the estate of Albert McNeil, et al. Filed by Deutsche Loehr, Paula, et al. Filed by Wells Bank National Trust Co. Action: Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to foreclose on a mortgage to secure secure $260,000 affecting property $140,000 affecting property located located at 6637 Route 82, Stanfordat 24 Oxford Road, New Windsor ville 12581. Filed Aug. 26. 12553. Filed June 14. Monroe Woodbury Jewish ComLombardo, Laura J., et al. Filed by munity Center Inc., et al. Filed by Extraco Banks N.A. Action: seeks Greater Hudson Bank N.A. Action: to foreclose on a mortgage to se- seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to cure $75,000 affecting property lo- secure $1.7 million affecting propcated at 11 Empire Drive, Patterson erty located at 660 Lakes Road, Monroe. Filed June 14. 12563. Filed Aug. 29.

Friberg, Michelle M., et al. Filed by PHH Mortgage Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $87,500 affecting property located at 64 Trafalgar Road, Unit 2, New Windsor 12553. Filed June 17. Friedman, Joanne, aka Joanne F. Degregory, et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 95 Sheldon Road, Wingdale 12594. Filed Aug. 23.

Jonasch, Carl R., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $232,500 affecting property located at 3455 Route 208, Hamptonburgh 10916. Filed June 18. Jones, Thomas Sr., et al. Filed by Walden Federal Savings and Loan Association. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $200,000 affecting property located at 30 Mine Road, Monroe 10950. Filed June 14.

Jordan, Nathalie, et al. Filed by Garcia, Gerardo P., et al. Filed by Citimortgage Inc. Action: seeks to Federal National Mortgage Associ- foreclose on a mortgage to secure ation. Action: seeks to foreclose on $247,558 affecting property loa mortgage to secure an unspecified cated at 77 Cherry Lane, Stormville amount affecting property located 12582. Filed Aug. 28. at 37 Townsend Ave., Newburgh 12550. Filed June 14. Kammarada, Robert J., et al. Filed by Sovereign Bank N.A. Action: Graham, Alginal A., et al. Filed by seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. secure $168,600 affecting property Action: seeks to foreclose on a mort- located at 8 Cortland Place, Midgage to secure $140,000 affecting dletown 10940. Filed June 18. property located at 221 Blake Road, Maybrook 12543. Filed June 14. Krainski, Kenneth D., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. AcGrove, Eric J., et al. Filed by Wells tion: seeks to foreclose on a mortFargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to gage to secure $133,052 affecting foreclose on a mortgage to secure property located at 122 N. Grand $328,000 affecting property located Ave., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed at 201 Jessup Road, Warwick 10990. Aug. 28. Filed June 14. Landau, Liba, et al. Filed by JPMHaight, Kellyanne, et al. Filed by organ Chase Bank N.A. Action: GMAC Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $194,241 affecting property secure $252,000 affecting property located at 28 Lexington Hills, Unit located at 651 Route 17M, Monroe 4, Harriman 10926. Filed June 18. 10950. Filed June 18.

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Lord, Karen E., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $263,600 affecting property located at 158 Gallows Hill Road, Garrison 10524. Filed Sept. 5. Lovitch, David, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $280,000 affecting property located at 18 Old Route 17K, Montgomery 12549. Filed June 14. Lulgjuraj, Gjoka, et al. Filed by HSBC Bank USA N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $525,000 affecting property located at 41 Town Line Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed Aug. 28. Luria, Ann, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $275,000 affecting property located at 42 Rockledge Drive, Brewster 10509. Filed Aug. 27. Madden, Evon, et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $148,400 affecting property located in Poughkeepsie. Filed Aug. 22. Materasso, Alex, et al. Filed by LPP Mortgage Ltd. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $300,000 affecting property located at 309 Church St., Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Sept. 4.

May, Janet, as administratrix of the estate of Alice M. Nealy and individually, et al. Filed by Household Finance Realty Corporation of New York. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $343,235 affecting property located at 8 Ritter Drive, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Aug. 22.

Quazi, Afsan, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $275,277 affecting property located at 7 Pond St., Poughkeepsie 12603. Filed Aug. 27.

Sloboda, John H., et al. Filed by Walden Savings Bank. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $146,200 affecting property located in Shawangunk. Filed Sept. 6.

Rattenni, Alfred, et al. Filed by Ocwen Loan Servicing L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $125,000 affecting property located at 107 Fair St., Carmel 10512. Filed Sept. 4.

Smith, Serina A., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $408,800 affecting property located at 114 Russell St., Cornwall-on-Hudson 12518. Filed June 14.

Reali, Angelique, et al. Filed by JPMC Specialty Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $138,000 affecting property located at 34 Hackensack Height Road, Wappingers Falls 12590. Filed Aug. 27.

Speranza, Frank L., et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 19 Lexington Hills, No. 3, Harriman 10926. Filed June 18.

Reilly, Nancy L., et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 188 Dahlia Drive, Mahopac 10541. Filed Aug. 26.

Spiegel, Annette, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $174,400 affecting property located at 44 Northway, Lake Peekskill 10537. Filed Sept. 4.

Rodriguez, Bernice, aka Bernice Suarez, et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting Morrison, Brad E., et al. Filed by property located at 15 Kings Drive, USB Assignment Corp. Action: Wallkill 12589. Filed June 14. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $95,000 affecting prop- RPG Development Inc., et al. erty located at 142 Glenmere Road, Filed by CIT Small Business LendChester 10918. Filed June 18. ing Corp. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $613,000 Muller, Michael J., et al. Filed by affecting property located at 97 JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Ac- Hunns Lake Road, Bangall 12506. tion: seeks to foreclose on a mort- Filed Aug. 23. gage to secure $146,206 affecting property located at 1018 Route Rumsey, Kenneth G., et al. Filed 211 West, Middletown 10940. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: June 17. seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $80,000 affecting property Nevel, Steven V., et al. Filed by located at 9 Cathy Court, Plattekill Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks 12568. Filed Sept. 6. to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $195,000 affecting property located Saavedra, Alexander, et al. Filed in Middletown. Filed June 14. by BAC Home Loans Servicing L.P. Action: seeks to foreclose on a Pepper, Ann, et al. Filed by Pen- mortgage to secure $318,000 affectnyMac Loan Services L.L.C. Action: ing property located at 184 Clove seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to Road, Blooming Grove 10914. Filed secure $90,000 affecting property June 18. located at 10 Summit Ave., Pawling 12564. Filed Aug. 23. Senatore, Robert J., et al. Filed by OneWest Bank F.S.B. Action: seeks Pierri, Michael J., et al. Filed by to foreclose on a mortgage to secure JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Ac- $184,000 affecting property located tion: seeks to foreclose on a mort- at 35 City Terrace N., Newburgh gage to secure $112,000 affecting 12550. Filed June 18. property located at 426 Third St., Newburgh 12550. Filed June 17. Sherwood, Sinikka, individually and as executrix of the estate of Posniak, Jacob L., et al. Filed by Alexander M. Cervone, et al. Filed JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to foreclose on a mortgage to secure secure $244,000 affecting property $234,000 affecting property located located at 137 Dahlia Drive, Ma- at 107 Talmadge St., Poughkeepsie. hopac 10541. Filed Aug. 28. Filed Aug. 27.

Spivak, Heidi, individually and on behalf of the estate of the late Rudolph M. Grotzer, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $505,875 affecting property located at 291 E. Fishkill Road, Hyde Park 12538. Filed Aug. 22. Stone, Marlinda Y., et al. Filed by Bank of America N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $226,840 affecting property located at 41 Garden St., Poughkeepsie 12601. Filed Aug. 21. Strickland, Eric T., et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 9 Starview Ave., Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Aug. 26. Thornton, Paul, et al. Filed by Nationstar Mortgage L.L.C. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $281,250 affecting property located at 422 Fair St., Patterson 12563. Filed Aug. 30. Treglia, John, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 18 Hasbrouck Road, Wallkill 12589. Filed Sept. 4. Usen, Moses M., et al. Filed by U.S. Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $458,550 affecting property located at 3031 Molly Pitcher Drive, New Windsor 12553. Filed June 17.

Valentin, Isabel, et al. Filed by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure an unspecified amount affecting property located at 3 San Antonio Circle, Monroe 10950. Filed June 18. Vazquez, Eulalio, et al. Filed by Metlife Home Loans. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $285,470 affecting property located at 104 Woodland Drive, Carmel 10512. Filed Aug. 28. Verra, Gandolfo, et al. Filed by Corporate America Family Credit Union. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $310,000 affecting property located at 326 Oscawana Lake Road, Putnam Valley 10579. Filed Aug. 30. Wellington, Thomas, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $216,000 affecting property located at 65 Smalley Corners Road, Carmel 10512. Filed Aug. 26. Wilms, Ann, aka Ann Howell, et al. Filed by Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $125,000 affecting property located at 23 Alden Road, Patterson 12563. Filed Aug. 27. Zerafa, Doris, et al. Filed by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. Action: seeks to foreclose on a mortgage to secure $296,887 affecting property located at 6 Horseshoe Road, Millbrook 12545. Filed Aug. 21.

Mechanic’s Liens

Partnerships

Calderon Geiger Contracting, 96 Belmont Ave., Middletown 10940, c/o Pedro Calderon and Theresa JDM Obsession, 114 Wisner Ave., Markle’s Handyman, 66 White Newburgh, c/o Sergio A. Rivera. House Road, Sundown 12740, Roberts. Filed May 25. Filed May 30. c/o Shawn Richard Markle. Filed Sept. 5. Classic Candies, 143 Joseph’s JKC Consulting Services, P.O. Drive, Saugerties 12477, c/o Kimberly A. Kelly and John Kelly IV. Box 696, Marlboro 12542, c/o John Mickel Avenue Auto II, 459 Route 17M, Middletown 10940, c/o Ted F. Panzella Jr. Filed Sept. 4. Filed Sept. 3. Roberson. Filed May 25. JMS, 2958 Route 28, Shokan 12481, D-W Landscaping, P.O. Box 1084, Highland 12528, c/o Douglas A. c/o Joel R. Silverman. Filed Sept. 3. Nikki Sits Pet Sitting, 571 Dewitt Mills Road, Kingston 12401, c/o NiDecker and Denise J. Decker. Filed Sept. 4. Kellys Landscaping, 303 Route 94 cole L. Schmidt. Filed Sept. 3. South, Warwick 10990, c/o Kevin Patricia Felice LPN, 357 W. Full Frontal Features, 12 Holiday Kelly. Filed May 29. O’Reilly St., Apt. 1409, Kingston Park Road, Newburgh, c/o Stephen 12401, c/o Patricia Felice. Filed A. Leach and Christopher T. Lueck. Sept. 6. Filed May 30.

Doing Business As Elite Fortune Inc., d.b.a. Elite Nail Spa, 1 Meadow Road, Suite 105, Florida 10921. Filed May 29.

Rougier’s Custom Photography, TwiZted Energy, 38 Old Indian P.O. Box 464, Port Ewen 12466, c/o Road, Milton 12547, c/o Jeffrey A. Tammy- Lynn M. Rougier. Filed Herbert. Filed Sept. 5. Sept. 6. Victor’s Electrics and ElectronRSGG, 120 Moores Hill Road, New ics, 56 Catskill View Circle, SauWindsor 12553, c/o Rahman I. Mu- gerties 12477, c/o Victor A. Segal. tawassim. Filed May 30. Filed Sept. 3. Steadi-Matt, 14 Enterprise Road, Walker Architecture, 59 Mill Hill New Paltz 12561, c/o Matthew L. Road, Woodstock 12498, c/o Lester Perez. Filed Sept. 3. R. Walker. Filed Sept. 3.

LB Trucking and Moving, 1100 Maggie Road, Newburgh 12550, c/o Eric Lane and Stephen Bouton. Filed May 25.

Sole Proprietorships Bdwy I Love, 18 Main St., Milton 12542, c/o Richard L. Rosen. Filed Sept. 3. Captain Schoonmaker’s Bed and Breakfast, 913 Route 213, High Falls 12440, c/o Robyn Sweetnam Smith. Filed Sept. 3. Castle Home Improvements, 42 South St., Highland Falls, c/o Michael Francis Buckley. Filed May 29.

VS Walden L.L.C., as owner. $55,000 as claimed by Classic Envi- Discount Apparel Printing, 29 ronmental Inc., Latham. Property: Knapp Ave., Middletown, c/o Jessica Culligan. Filed May 25. 78 Oak St., Walden. Filed Sept. 9.

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

Prime Chia, 23 Second St., No. 9, Tugboat Social, 53 Herman Drive, Gardiner 12525, c/o Ty B. Baldaeus. Marlboro 12542, c/o Courtney L. Bonfante. Filed Sept. 4. Filed Sept. 6.

Guiding Light Anger Management Specialists, 101 Hurley Ave., Kingston 12401, c/o Kerrianne M. Gardner-Dixit and Michelle Monarch. Filed Sept. 6.

Cestero, Maria, as owner. $585 as claimed by J and N Stafford Corp., Marlboro. Property: 11 Ulster Ter- DeGroodt Oil, 32 Seely St., Walden 12586, c/o Dennis A. DeGroodt Jr. race, Wallkill 12589. Filed Sept. 3. Filed May 29.

New Businesses

Fresh Kiz, P.O. Box 522, Otisville Krom’s Clean Out Services, 73 Pentagon Promotions, 184 The Farmer’s Friend, 64 Emmer10963, c/o Timothy Martin Irving. Towpath Road, Wawarsing 12489, Grange Road, Otisville 10963, c/o ick St., Kingston 12401, c/o Annmarie Mahoney. Filed Sept. 6. c/o Harry J. Krom II. Filed Sept. 3. Evon Tomlinson. Filed May 29. Filed May 29.

Dragline HVAC, 244 Heritage Lane, Monroe 10950, c/o Brian A. Restivo. Filed May 29. E and E Builders, 36 Belmont Ave., Middletown 10940, c/o Edward Christopher Loveridge. Filed May 30. E and E Construction, 610 Broadway, Apt. 140, Newburgh 12550, c/o Vanessa Valdez. Filed May 29.

Feed the Earth, 78 Lighthouse Drive, Saugerties 12477, c/o KrisWaheguru Sahir Ji Corp., d.b.a. tabelle E. McDermott. Filed Sept. 5. Big Discount Wine and Liquor, 152 Windsor Highway, New Windsor 12553. Filed May 29.

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